Chapter 13

Leo grumbled. "I can't believe someone is willing to marry her after what I did. I claimed her! That wench! I bet she didn't tell him. That must be it. She's still mine..."

Cherry looked over at her fiancée. Cherry had hair, long and full like Avalon's but she dyed it black. Her and Avalon were identical twins, but Cherry was much different. She wore evil-looking clothes, her makeup harsh but sexy. She wore a black dress that was a tight leather corset in the top, and full black tulle on the bottom. Her black hair was up in two spiked buns, with red roses around them.

"I thought you loved me." Cherry pouted.

"I do love you. You're going to be my queen, aren't you? I asked for your hand because I love you... You do know that I love you, right?"

"I don't know anymore." She crossed her arms in front of her chest. "You love my sister. You can't love two women at once."

"I hate your sister. I thought that I loved her, but now I know that I never did. I just want her to be miserable, like she made me all of those years."

"I don't want her love life to be miserable! I love her! You know I don't hate Avalon, otherwise I wouldn't go to her wedding. I didn't go to Daisy's when she got married because I do not like Daisy. I wish your obsession with my sister would go away. If you don't stop it, I'm going to leave you forever, and you'll never have an heir to your throne. I want my sister to be married, I want her to have a king that loves her, and treats her well. She deserves one. Don't do anything to alter their love. I mean it."

"My lovely little demon, I won't allow you to leave me. I love you too much. I won't hurt their marriage. I am still going to tell her groom about her and I before they are wed. If he loves her, he will stay around."

"I agree, and I will allow you to tell him, in fact, I insist that you do. But please, when you go to see him, don't start a fight! I don't want either of you hurt. That man she's marrying is very strong. I hate to say it, but he's your equal, maybe even stronger and faster than you are! "

"I promise." He smiled, and gestured for her to approach him as he sat on his mahogany throne, carved of spikes and the dark star spirits. "Sit on my lap, darling."

She blushed a bit, and she sat on his knees.

"You never need to worry about my love for you." He kissed her cheek lightly. "And as for you saying that your sister's husband is stronger, you know that's a lie."

"I don't know. I'm worried that he might kill you..." She whispered. "You aren't invincible to a light star spirit guardian. You know that."

"I do know that. But I am the dark star spirit priest..."

"And I am your guardian."

"I outrank him, he would never harm me. He can't do it. Now, your sister could kill me if she became fast and strong enough. We are the same rank." He informed her.

"I know you're the same rank, my king. She would never kill my husband. But, she might still hurt you if you make her angry enough."

"I don't think she has it in her to be angry."

"Oh yes, she does. You don't know her well enough."

"I know her pretty well." He insisted.

"Just because of that... that doesn't mean that you know her well. I've been her sister for the last nineteen years."

"Yes, but you didn't know her until less than two years ago." He announced, as he put his arm around her waist.

"So? I still know her better than you do. We confide in one another." She put her arms around his neck.

"So you can get dirt on her, and tell me, right my love?" He hugged her tightly.

"She's my sister, and I'm trustable. I would never endanger Ava and I's bond." Cherry struggled to be free of his grasp. He wouldn't let go his embrace.

"But you would endanger mine and yours?" He let her free. She hopped off his lap. She was supposed to be at her hotel in toad town. Avalon would be there in a half an hour.

"I never said that! Now darling, you and Avalon's little feud... she doesn't tell me things financial wise, or about her armies. We talk about or love life, personal matters... "

"Oh, so nothing I would be interested in?" He announced.

"No, not really anything you would want or need to know." Cherry put on her shiny leather stiletto heels. "I have to go now. I'll see you at Avalon's wedding."

"I'll see you there, darling."

He couldn't wait to see Avalon's reaction when she discovered that Cherry was marrying him. She might faint! Imagine, fainting at her own wedding, making herself a joke in front of all of her townsfolk. Leo wasn't going to hurt Link and Avalon's love life, or so he promised Cherry. Though he did love his soon-to-be queen, he still couldn't resist a bit of tampering.

"I promised her I wouldn't affect their love life, and I don't think that impregnating Avalon would affect it. Link will never know the baby isn't his." He said to one of the spikeys that clung to the side of his throne. Though the spikey couldn't talk, it knew what the evil king had said.

"I think he would notice, when he and his queen are both blond with fair skin, and the baby pops out with black hair and brown eyes. Ha, that would be a laugh!!"

Leo's sister walked in the room.

"Shut up, Alexandria... I never asked you."

Leo's sister was twenty-four. She had olive skin, and chin length hair that was sparkling silver. She was a magician, and wore the classic female attire for the kingdom, a kneelengh tulle skirt of dark blue, and a tube top of silver, with dangling blue and gold beads. On her ankles and wrists she wore lovely swirled jewelry of gold, and in her hair a pair of matching clips. She also wore golden slippers.

"You shut up, and stop with all of this. I'm not going to put up with your childish ways any longer. I could zap you into oblivion, if I so desired." She rubbed her hands together, and smiled at him.

"You're just jealous because I am marrying a beautiful woman and I own another in the neighboring kingdom." He was of course referring to Avalon.

"You don't own that girl. Nobody owns her. She is the daughter of a star spirit. You will try, and fail, over and over until you implode upon yourself. And if you did own her, why would you let her marry?"

"I do own her. I am letting that man borrow her for breeding purposes."

"I thought that was what you wanted her for." She smirked. "You know, there is a legend, that only a man who is equal or greater than a star priestess can give her a child. That would be either you, Link, or Geno. Since Geno is married already, and Avalon would never allow you to touch her, that means Link will be the father of her child."

"She will let me touch her, you will see. She is allowed one pregnancy, and if I succeed, the dark star spirits will be so proud of me, they will make me the next star spirit, and my beautiful bride Cherry will be my second in command."

"You know that Cherry won't stand for that. She will leave you. Do you love your bride more, or the idea of being a god?"

He thought for a moment. "I love Cherry much more."

"Then forget your silly plans. If I had a girlfriend as precious as Cherry I would never give her up. I've been looking, you know."

Leo nodded. "Yes, I know."