Announcement:

If I may briefly state here, if you are curious as to the other measurements, from said wiki for the rest of the franchise characters related to Lucifer for this chapter, it is easily searched on Google as The Seven Mortal Sins, also known as Sin: The 7 Deadly Sins (sin 七つの大罪, Shin: Nanatsu no Taizai), and hope that helps. And all the cast for them sounds like their English Voice Actors.

(Fixed or Adjusted on 9/22/2022)


The Holiday Arc: The Hidden Threat for Helena Revealed, and Helena's True Mother is a God?! The Holidays and Unfortunate Outcomes and Adventures Afoot!


December 24th. A few days later (2014 true time):

Helena bleary woke up with her being in confusion at first before recalling the night before and with her soon grimacing in small moments of pain as she glanced down to her left side of her bed to see little Delphi, to amuse her, and saw she was lightly purring in her sleep.

Helena indeed was suffering from whatever drug her soulmate and sister (Daphne and Hermione) extracted from her, but she was also having pain-like moments now and then from finding out a few things that would paralyze her, were in it, alongside particles of wrought iron.

As she was informed, Helena was taking it easy as her recovery was slowly speeding up to the point that she would be able to move normally again in a few or so days, instead of two weeks.

As far as she knew, from waking up from her third nap of what she guessed was in the afternoon, everyone was currently doing their tasks within the castle and her beloved child has been sticking to her like glue at times from their Mother-Daughter Bond acting into question.

Helena, however, hid a groan though at feeling the call of nature, and her legs were asleep once again, as it was either her legs or her arms.

I won't get used to this, the dragon girl thought to herself before blinking at seeing a seal on the floor near her bed, and then was covering her eyes as it was suddenly glowing before seeing to her confusion, a wrapped gift.

It was wrapped in dark purple paper mostly with a black fancy ribbon with snake decals on it, and there was a fancy card attached to it as well, and with it showing the infinity symbol as the main image.

Perplexed by this unexpected development, Helena hesitantly got up in a slight struggle and gently grabbed it before hearing her door being knocked, as she gently plopped on the foot of her bed.

"Come in," Helena tells whoever was on the other side of the door, and was relieved it was Bean and Luci was riding on her shoulders.

"Hey, Hel…" Bean went to greet her before noticing her spot as Luci himself, hopped down with ease and was looking over the sigil that soon vanished when he touched it, near Helena's bedside, "Nightmares again?"

Helena sighed and nodded as she glanced at her daughter for a brief moment before gazing back at her cousin, and softly tells Bean in honesty to secretly concern her with brushing her hair out of her eyes to see true tiredness and more in them, and feeling a few fluctuations of her heart and some pinpricks from it as well, "Yes and more… I can barely walk right now as it seems my legs are asleep."

Helena jumped slightly and both she and Bean gazed at Luci jabbing her legs to prove she couldn't hardly feel it as she gave a sheepish glance to her cousin, and with him nodding before stating to both of them, "Yep. Seems like she has to be walked with today."

It was then they both noticed the obvious present to make Helena blink at Bean's question to her as she began to see into who sent it the way they did, "Is that yours?"

"Ya as it appeared out of nowhere." Helena replied while showing her being perplexed by what the card she was reading, expressed, before blinking at the end who sent it, and then exclaimed in utter surprise as she decided to open the gift, and made both Luci and Bean gaze at each other in shared equal surprise, as well as Luci, snatched the card to read it himself, "It's from my Egg Donor Mother… She wanted to send my gift early I guess since she is coming tonight with a few more gifts, to what she claimed… Pilfered from places."

Once the gift was fully opened, she was mystified at seeing, also astonishing Bean, and from reading the letter to have Luci recognize who sent the gift and hid a slight gulp, at seeing a gemstone ear clasp with her birthstone in the shape of a single lightning bolt on them.

Helena eventually sweatdropped as she almost dropped it as her arms were soon jittery and twitching to the point she gave Bean a 'Help' look, and her cousin simply shook her head wordlessly before aiding Helena in getting her new gift on her right ear, blinked, and made Helena touched them soon after her arms stopped twitching, "When did you gain small pointed ears?"

Helena shrugged wordlessly before eventually, after almost several minutes later, Bean helped her walk as Luci was on Delphi's shoulders, and quietly played a guessing game with her as they were walking to the throne room.

Bean shrugged her shoulders though when Kisara, by Albedo's hesitantly agreement to look before resumed decorating a very large pine tree she got in the middle of the night and decorated it herself with whatever the castle had for, well, decorating, and easily gave weighted relief to Helena in mixed understanding.

"So, besides later tonight… What's the plan for today?" Helena asked once she saw her uncle and step-aunt enter with Derrick, and admired the tree itself to be rather impressed, with him.

"Not much more than dealing with whatever the folks in town have to offer, and maybe having everything just for today at a small discount for shop owners," Zøg told his Ex-Wife's Niece to which she tilted her head to understand that and was soon amused of her child using Luci's tail to whack Elfo a few times on the hand, to try and not nab her chocolate chip cookies at a nearby table.


From the few moments of time in the castle, they realized that Delphi was advanced slightly for her age, especially her food intake and more, to which was why she had lessons and other things for her when able, to explain things to you, everyone and the readers... Anyways, off track.


"That is oddly nice of you, King Zøg," Hermione admits from overhearing him as she and Maribelle enter the room with some wrapped gifts to place under the tree before almost tripping over herself by his words with a shrugged response, "Nah, I tend to triple the charges later on after New Years from how much drinkin' goes on. More pocket for the kingdom, hehe."

Helena merely rolled her eyes alongside Bean at that as Kisara via her orders, placed her onto a spare chair closely and stood next to her, and Albedo on the other side with them all being perplexed at watching Delphi hiccup once she devoured too many cookies, and gapped at witnessing her magic easily conjured a bizarre vortex that felt off, and what came out of it soon went right to the spare food in absolute hunger, enlightening a giggle from the child that was clueless to what she did.

It was around the size of a large leopard, but it was with no fur but thicker, charcoal-blackened skin, a living-like skull-based face of a demonic ram with glowing blue eyes, and sometimes when it moved, it left a shadowy mist as they easily saw. It also has spiked shoulders and around the backside as well that's close to a foot long and looks sharp. The beast also has four, three-clawed feet under the rib-cage area, claw-like represented blackened colored bones that appear not fully sharp. Lastly, the creature has a slender yet curled tail.

"Get that- Get that whatever it is, outta here!" King Zøg exclaimed randomly after watching the creature was not only destroying things at the buffet table and consuming it, but was scratching up the floor by accident as the vortex closed up and another appeared on a bountiful isle far away from Dreamland, and let's say… Delphi may have made unforeseen consequences for, in terms, "Second Chances" for several parties and leave it at that.

A few knights came out of the room and impressed Helena and a select few, while a few others were flabbergasted, and her daughter giggled as they watched in mere moments of things occurring too quickly.

Firstly, the unknown beast gobbled in one quick swallow the spare turkey near it, then it jumped unexpectedly into the air and did an amazing three-sixty degree turn by barrel rolling its body before pouncing on the startled knights, and made nearly everyone sweatdrop at watching the beast easily sending them away by the use of its tail, or even ramming right into them before devouring some of their weapons.

They were then tense as it eyed Delphi, and despite being weak-bodied at this moment, Helena struggled as they watched the beast head over to her daughter, paused, sniffed her, and made half of those in the room face fault at unexpectedly licking her face in greeting with a forked dark-blue tongue, and blinked as Helena yelped as it poofed before landing on top of the girl herself as she landed onto her back.

Albedo was instantly held back by Kisara with shared gazes of disbelief as the beast simply sat on her like a lap dog and was soon making her laugh as it was licking her face constantly.

Despite Bean enjoying her father's flabbergasted face and seeing the depressed knights that soon got a berating from the King of Dreamland, she came over with Luci soon climbing as she walked and he sat on her left shoulder blade before stiffening at watching the creature sharply turn to her with an unexpected yet lowly echoed growl belonging to a cat… Until it blinked with giving her cousin a perplexed look as Helena managed to stop the threatening growl at least from bopping it on the nose.

Helena was helped up as the beast let out a whine at her from doing that, before perking up to see the beast was somewhat safe from Delphi "Popping" from her previous spot and onto its back, as they watched whatever race of a creature it was, reluctantly playing "Horse" with her.

"Ok, where the hell did that thing came from?" Hermione for once cursed to make Helena blink as it was rare for her sister to curse at all, and nearly sweatdropped as she enlarged her hidden expandable book of 'Knowledgeable Beasts by Mr. KAP' and frantically tried to search the creature up with her apprentice skimming over her flipping pages, as Helena shrugged and made them all blink by the name she instantly gave it, by sheer instinct of sorts as it flowed into her mind via the collar, and both her weapon and ring were amused by this too from what she sensed, "Not sure. But it seems that Valioc is at least tamed compared to the other creatures I faced from Hogwarts."

"That makes me want to know what you have faced then, as you have yet to tell me," a female voice spoke to notice it was Lightning carrying more presents to place under the tree while sharing an equally mixed gaze of being perplexed by the beast playing with Helena's daughter, and wanting to be informed… Despite getting used to the chaos of the Dreamland Kingdom.

Helena shrugged before seeing The Shouter gradually come into the area as he declared loudly to even have Helena be rather perplexed like the others, then, "A strange monument has come out of nowhere and is looking ominous within the Courtyard… Come along."

The Shouter then coerced them to follow him, and with Delphi being watched by Hermione and Daphne as once they were at the courtyard, and with Valioc standing near Helena with aid by walking from the beast as if in a way of protection, they were amazed.

The monument that The Announcer told them was large enough or even similar to the one gateway Helena and Co. went into long ago as an empty hole, and yet it appears demonic-looking with it being mainly a gothic-styled structure, and matching runes on the sides as well.

"Ok… Who brought in the decoration that's creepy as Hel?" Bean comments to no one while holding the urge to sweatdrop like Luci was at seeing Elfo hid behind her like a child, and Helena was already over to the structure and inspect it all over with the new aid of Albedo keeping her steady, and held back a the unexpected urge to groan from seeing it was indeed something similar to the gateway she and those that originally came with her, ventured into as she replied to mainly her cousin's curiosity, "It's sorta similar to the gateway I and my company came through I told you about, but way, way different."

"Is it dimensional travel different, or world travel different?" Luci spoke up with Bean and nearly everyone except an understanding Albedo, who gave him weird stares before he just shrugged and responded in slightly mixed defense, and wanting to know more about the structure, "Just saying it's likely related to that."

"Ok…" Bean expressed to herself before they all see Helena begin touching runes she, and secretly both Albedo and Luci, were the only ones to notice before they were all blasted back into their behinds from witnessing a greenish vortex immediately shown… And a female came out of it as once she did, she was casually stretching.

The female mentioned has waist-length purple hair with a side ponytail on the right side of her head, two tiny horns curled upward on both sides of her head, and widely-slitted darker red-colored eyes. She was also 5'1 and wore a white shirt tied on the right side. She has blue-striped arm-warmers, an ornate silver belt-black panty hybrid, blue-striped thigh-high leg-warmers, and lastly, silver-knuckled fingerless gloves and black strapped steel-toed boots. Her figure, however, was average with hints of curves to her large bust for her image, and she carried like a Teddy Bear, a strange item: A legless winged big-eared black-and-blue-striped demon in a gas mask, a toy, of sorts.

"Hmmm!" The female gently grunted out after finishing a final stretch that detailed she did have a bust before speaking in minor coincidence, to Brittany Lauda, after blinking a few times at noticing them, then, "Oh! Seems like I came from the Traveling Demolisk early." As she said this, it sank into the ground within moments, as if it wasn't there before.

Seeing their stares and secretly intrigued by the two demons she saw, shrugged to herself and told them in a way to irritate The King of Dreamland, then, "It's something only those powerful know about."

With Oona keeping The King at bay to hear him grumble, Helena indeed facepalm as her daughter popped into existence right in front of the female she blinked a few times, and heard the equal shouts of 'Not again' from Hermione and Daphne alongside crashes within the castle, and was silent for a few moments… Until she glomped Delphi and ignored Helena's unexpected and protective growl to make the others wary by her eyes glowing at the female, and her daughter only giggling and seeing her wings twitching a few times to show she was currently excited by the unexpected attention.

Helena snapped out of it though from a minor slap to the face by Kisara to amuse Albedo at her dumbstruck stare at her briefly before turning to gaze at her uncle as the female, despite her size, easily held her daughter by her left hip by King Zøg's firm question with a finger, and the female rolling her eyes as if she heard this before, "Ok Lady! Who the hell are you, and why did you bring this… Structure- Well, former structure, to my castle?"

"Ease off, Old Fart," the female began to make him stutter the mentioned word to amuse Bean and the others as she continued with her eyes glowing briefly in tiny irritation at him, "I was invited alongside my other fellows to this land for the holiday… Despite the timeframe being less desired then I like. Especially since My Senpai is supposed to be…" she blinked at just realizing something as she glanced around the area to make Helena figure who she was talking about, alongside the two demons, "She isn't here yet? I truly must've come here early."

"Are you one of my Mater's sisters?" Helena decided to ask before Zøg could blurt out any profanity or words, make everyone blink or stare at her for to which the female equally blinked in small surprise with the mentioned girl herself, secretly showing hidden brief envy in her eyes at her figure compared to hers, and nodded with a half-true smile at instantly realizing who she was, "Yup. I am… Helena, right?"

Helena nodded with the supposed stuffed demon standing and mumbling to itself as the female came over with her reluctantly holding her free hand out and discreetly suppressed a smile at Delphi giggling to shake the Child of Lucifer's hand, and made King Zøg and Oona briefly pale and unseen by all, Odval was inwardly praying to himself, "So we meet. The name is Leviathan: Demon Lord of Envy for Lucifer-Sama's part of her Hell Sector."

Helena shook Leviathan's hand reluctantly before she ducked like nearly everyone else from a throwing axe nearly cutting her head off, and looked upwards to the voice of another female that merely smirked right at her as the axe dismissed itself, and with the voice similar to Dawn M. Bennett, "So your reflexes are up to par… I like that in a person to maybe spar with." She summoned a weapon that she leaned on to make Albedo wary alongside Luci at her, and the aura she gave briefly before it dismissed itself.

She is around 6'0 in height having waist-length crimson hair and two long horns on the sides of her head curling toward the center and then pointing straight upwards, purple-slitted round yet widely-narrow eyes, and a delicate-pointed face. She wears a long red flowing cape, a red bra that covered her large breasts, a red thong panty, ornate red gauntlets, black gloves, ornate black thigh-high high-heeled boots covered by red pieces of armor with black and red metal ankle-wings on the sides of her boots. Her weapon, as mentioned, is a huge red spear-ax hybrid that is even taller than her.

"Satan! You could have cut our heads off!" Leviathan shouts out in an exclamation and pointed her free hand at her, as Delphi gazed at the stuck weapon in innocent curiosity, and this only made the Demoness Lord of Wrath and The Gate Protector of her Hell Sector just wordlessly grin wider before jumping, doing a flexible three-sixty degree free fall before perfectly landing on her feet alongside a minor thumping sound of her weapon as she responded to instantly irate the Demon Lord of Envy as she gently let Delphi down, and said child toddled to Helena, "If I wanted them all dead, I would have done a perfect aim instead of mere tossing, especially at you for pulling that prank and sending me out of warp to a random location."

Helena and Bean shared a 'WTF' gaze right at Satan than to amuse a select few others presently before easily with a few shakes, picked up her daughter as Leviathan picked up her servant after, as Delphi only grinned innocently at it by its glare at her.

"So by the way you acted, your Wrath then?" Helena decided to guess before anyone else could as Satan laughed for a few moments before grinning in a way, she was right, "Yep. And I will not back down from a challenge at all."

This made Helena now share a mirth-like gleam with her cousin to have Albedo give her Mate a look of amusement by what she guessed alongside Luci, and Elfo merely clueless about what was going on between the two until Luci whispered what it was, and he simply shrugged.

"Yo guys! I got those barrels you requested!" Tess shouted aloud with easily carrying at least four large barrels in each of her arms to get a glint from Satan at how strong the giant might be before she blinked at her equally, and held back a worded retort of what she saw from her.

Tess was given a giant-based house that Helena and her company aided in making at the outskirts near the castle grounds outside, by the insistence of Helena and Bean together as Tess, in an odd coincidence, was declared the new hired help for construction or other purposes to Dreamland itself, alongside being the new weaponsmith… Let's say he didn't make it after encountering odd Mermaids and leave it at that.

"Just set them down near the cart, Tess," Helena told her friend to which the giantess nodded and gave her a look briefly for later about the two others as eventually, they all were in the throne room with a small group of people and themselves having a small holiday party of sorts, and with Helena sitting next to Lucifer as she gently held Delphi as her daughter was munching on a candied apple, and with the room itself was decorated from the shared ideas of Helena and Bean of both X-Mas, and a Carnival.

"So how bad are the others?" Helena asked with her being amused at watching Bean was out drinking Satan, Luci was chatting with Albedo and Leviathan over something, and with also seeing Elfo supporting Bean, and even Hermione and the others were either eating or enjoying themselves with her waving now and then to them, and Valioc was resting near her feet.

"Not truly bad at times, and I was informed they would be rather late to the festival this land has." Lucifer admitted to her child in mind before perplexing her as she appeared to be contemplating and she asked her then curiously, "What is it?"

Before she could reply, the area rumbled slightly to see her Mater sigh and declared as she got up, and Helena was startled and figured by the small silence of shock from the guards at watching from the open window, a strange demonic vehicle that was big enough to hold at least twenty or so people, arrived, with it resembling mostly to a tank-like SUV in gothic and demonic style, and demonic-looking headlights with demon runes on the sides, arrived from a vortex. "Seems Belial did decide to bring her purchased Hellicar to this event to try and be a show-off and adjusted her gate to do so."

"They're in that thing, Mater?" Helena questioned, and aided by her, to see it in surprise as Lucifer nodded and saw the side door lower itself as several females were shown to be leaving it with each one carrying a wrapped gift of sorts, and they vanished before appearing within the room itself, and Valioc glanced for a few moments and yawned before going back to sleep at sensing they're not a threat.

The first was appearing to be a developing preteen female with a single spiral horn in the middle of her forehead reminiscent of an alicorn, as well as small black wings sprouting from her shoulders, which she can retract to hide. She has green eyes and long blue-black hair was done in hip-length twintails and chin-length bangs. She wears a silver metal collar around her neck which has a long metal chain leash wrapped around her body to her feet. She also wears a black and green blouse with a chest window and a green fairy skirt with a white maid's apron over it, white thigh-high stockings, and matching black-and-green gloves and shoes.

This was Beelzebub or otherwise known as the Demon Lord of Gluttony, a demon known for her overindulgence and loves of meat.

The next female demon has a semi-animalistic appearance, with goat ears, light-tan skin, short white hair with a butt-length rat-tail, two green-and-yellow horns going straight up on her forehead, and a huge black-and-yellow striped tail ending in a three-fingered purple claw at the end. Her claw is prehensile and can be used as well as her hands. She also wore a big white long-sleeved shirt buttoned only at the navel, white thong panties, white slouch socks, and a pair of white earrings. She has a white rose-shaped tattoo between the top of her breasts. She also has a black or grey bow ribbon tied around her neck along with a little bell. She has three black straps around the uppermost portion of her thighs and a single black strap around the uppermost portion of her arms. She seems to be carrying with her a stone jug of sake on a blue string.

This is Belphegor and she is the Demon Lord of Sloth, known for being lazy or unwilling at times yet can contest others in strategy with ease, despite her looks.

The third female demon is a voluptuous young woman with the largest breast size among all the demon lords, along with waist-length blonde hair with two huge curled horns pointing downwards, from the back and top and center of her head adorned with an ornate headband. She has a pair of red and black wings sprouting from the small of her back, which acts like a half-skirt, along with her actual half-skirt which looks like her wings, to cover her butt, and she can retract her wings to hide them. She wears an ornate black sleeveless top with a neck guard and a large breast window, and a black thong panty with a heart logo. On her arms, she wears ornate fingerless opera gloves, and on her legs, she wears ornate thigh-high flat-heeled boots. Like other demons, she also has a heart/spade-tipped tail, which she can also retract to hide, but she rarely shows it for some reason.

This was Mammon and she is the Demon Lord of Greed, known for her great attainment of wealth through different means, and better to find great deals with anything else. Her followers say that she has the most perfect body proportions among her fellow demons, especially in her large breasts.

The last besides seeing Maria come out with a help of several imps with presents was someone Lucifer secretly glared at as despite what she said to her child, she was pacified rivals to this demon being the former Demon Lord of Pride, and has been for a while, considered the Demon Lord of Vanity, also known as Vainglory.

The demon or otherwise Belial, that is, her appearance embodies imbalance, beginning with her eyes, which have heterochromia: Her right eye is yellow and her left eye is red. Her silvery-bluish shoulder-length hair covers her right ear and exposes her left ear. She has two horns curling upwards on the sides of her head, but they are unequal in ratio, as her right horn is very large and her left horn is very small. Belial wears very little clothing, sporting an elaborate piece of asymmetrical blue armor on her shoulders with flames sprouting from it, which covers her nipples. She wears a black lace stringless panty covering her crotch and black lace knee guards and stockings on her legs. She wears ballet shoes on her feet (with her right shoe colored pink and her left shoe colored red) and fingerless gloves on her hands (with her right glove colored black and her left glove colored purple). Lastly, she wears silver, thin-rimmed glasses that match the color of her hair.

"You alright, Mater?" Helena quickly asked in concern to make Lucifer blink to herself and shook her head, and assured the dragon girl then, "Yes. I am fine, My Child. I just hope with us all gathering here on the surface, that we will not cause attraction to anyone else."

Helena raised a brow as she instantly caught Delphi with a small wince at how speedy her child was and took the offered cookie from her before the duo smiled at her child as she ran back to her nanny to color some more.

"She is a blessing as well, My Filia. No doubt she will be powerful as her mother before me," Lucifer decided to admit to making Helena gaze at her in small surprise before showing a small smile of being appraised at that as several hours later, they were all at the courtyard and hoisting the village with playing games, after all the presents were placed under the tree in the throne room beforehand, that Helena got to know the other Demon Lords, and with rare moments of her current family as well at times.

With Maria, she got to know more by even touching her step-mother's stomach at feeling her future unborn sibling kick a few times and even talking about some things they had in common.

With Satan, she told her with the others secretly eavesdropping and with stares to Lucifer at her tales in Hogwarts as it seems they were not informed at all and gained a mutual respect with her wanting a spare with the dragon girl when she was all well and strong again.

With Leviathan, she managed to exchange some ideas for maybe toy lines she was thinking of making, and also played a few games with her and her family that she ignored King Zøg's complaints for, as he was always found when they did the Royal Game: Hide and Go Slap.

With Mammon, she managed to finally get a chance to show what her wealth was, privately that is, and Helena suggested things she took to heart and also she gave her a dress that her birth mother commissioned was too big yet just right for the demon lord herself, as an introductory gift.

With Belphegor, she discussed some things that interested the demon lord herself despite acting lazy, and even played some games like chess or others for at least twenty minutes exactly and even stunned her she won half the time, and tied with each other with Bean making bets with the others alongside Luci, of paid gambling to the castle staff and others, and even impressed the Demon Lord of Sloth with gifting her some books she has yet to read, as an early gift as well.

With Beelzebub, she managed to stun the rest of the Demon Lords and her medieval kin at out-eating the Demon of Gluttony in an eating contest in the third to last castle game with leftover meats they had alongside mutton, and even gave her interesting recipe ideas to try out when she returns for her food as she plans to make a restaurant eventually… Though, doesn't mean that Tess and the knights were complaining as they were the ones to go out first.

When she was with Belial, she was worried as Lucifer was with her at the time as they did a stare-off for a few minutes, but she also got along with the demoness as well and found out she was one of several demons that was older and was allowed to call her by her true name… Much to Lucifer's shock and Belial's smirk at that. She even earned even more respect for not only dealing with Delphi's bruises she got by playing with both Luci and Elfo of the game, chase but secretly observing her other actions as well.

The King and Queen were reluctant about them, but after time they got to know them as well, alongside the others being impressed by some minor actions Bean and the other two caused, secretly.

As we get back to our current placement as of now within the courtyard as the staff was prepping things inside the castle, King Zøg stated loudly in proclaiming to the residents of Dreamland with all the Demon Lords standing by the sides and observing it quietly discussing things to themselves as Helena, Bean, Elfo and Luci alongside Maria, was at the royal throne seats once again with the Half-Elf and Lesser Demon side-by-side to Bean's seat, and Maria sitting in Helena's as she wanted to stand, and her girls and hired was with Delphi at preparing something. "I proclaim the Holiday Festival to begin fully! Let's get things started folks!"

Everyone cheered in moments to perplex Helena as she saw Bean shrug as if this was common, as the crowd began to have a lot of chaotic fun, and more as they played the offered stalls or games they continued playing with Holiday-Based prizes.

"Hey, Hel," Bean made Helena blink as she turned to her cousin, as Elfo and Luci to amuse them, were playing the drinking games and Elfo fell on himself in moments as Luci kept going, "What is it Bean?"

"Seems like meeting with the demons was a success… But it makes me wonder when your other mother might show up?" Bean started to make Helena ponder that as well before they left the villagers as they ate with the Demon Lords of Sector B, to follow them back into the castle and the throne room.

Helena and the others figured as to why as it seems they get to open one of many gifts under the tree early for tonight, and despite her uncle wanting to make a complaint about the changeup, Bean sighed with Tess acting as a referee, to amuse the female demons, as not causing problems between him and Lucifer as she suggested that they bestow their gifts to Helena, firstly.

Helena was feeling awkward at first as she didn't want to stop the original tradition her uncle and they had for some time but sighed with her soon blinking as just as they placed their boxed gifts at her feet at her throne provided, Delphi showed up with her girls as they sat at the extra table provided within the large room as the little girl sat on her lap.

Each Demon Lord came up, one by one, with a said gift in their hands as despite getting to know her recently, they were rather unsure in honesty of how she would be and more, and were rather skeptical about her… And now, they wanted to protect her and those who she is with or without reason, and would try and get time to hang out with her more as they too, got to know some of her girls and what she deemed as siblings to her.

Helena received an interesting black tinted gemstone from Mammon around the size of a baseball and was shaped as a circular pentagon all around.

She then got a refilling candy box from Beelzebub, a strange-looking blackened key with an ivory loop from Satan to which she didn't see the shocked stares at said Demon of Wrath.

Then she got another box from within the wrapped gift box by Leviathan that she started to open after they were gone, and from Belphegor was a black leather book of sorts with a green gemmed eye on the cover.

From Belial, she got a strange majestic yet gothic mirror with another gift in the same box as that of a black teardrop seed.

Helena wondered what these gifts were, but it was nothing compared to what Lucifer decided to do to truly shock her fellow demons, her wife, and even the Royals of Dreamland, as Bean's friends just came in time to witness this alongside the girls Helena knew.

Lucifer bent the knee in front of the girl who she considers her daughter after the years of witnessing things before being cut off then, and declared loud enough with secretive emotion in her voice as she gazed up to her child, at the end of her words, "I, Lucifer of both Fallen Archangel and Demon Lord of Pride, hereby announce that I fully claim Helena, the mortal before me, as mine officially and tonight, to perform the ritual to make it so."

Before anyone or even Helena could comment, they all froze with Delphi hugging her mother as the ground began to soon unexpectedly rumble and shake with hints of minor dust falling from the ceiling, and looked near the entrance / exit of the room as glowing red sigils appeared and materialized at the said spot.

The Demon Lords that Helena and a select for noticed, appears wary of sorts or even cautious as the sigil became brighter and brighter as time went, preventing anyone to come in or out of the area, and Bean and her friends alongside family out of the way things looked, reluctantly hid behind their thrones as the unforeseen wind picked up, and thankfully not causing damage within the room yet Elfo and Luci went flying to a wall before everyone had to close their eyes by the large and unexpected flash of red that was even seen outside of the windows.

Of course, the villagers and others didn't notice as they were too busy with their things from the courtyard and town.

Lightning saw this but was repulsed by an unexpected barrier by the double doors the castle has to enter from the courtyard, and was worried for Helena and the others.

When the flash died down, Lucifer was the only one to give the individual a state of being annoyed as she was over by Maria and comforting her, and was stunned about the person's appearance, and the reason she calmed down was that Xal'atath informed her she recognized that minor outburst of energy the person let out, and to be patient, and felt both the ring and collar tremble slightly as if they were afraid.

The entity took on the appearance of a cute young girl or preteen with long black hair down to her hips, dull-gray wide-delicate eyes, and an oval face. Her ears differ from a normal human's as they have pointed tips, although her long black hair also makes this feature difficult to notice. Her dark gray eyes also have reptilian, slitted pupils. She wore, however, a provocative black gothic lolita dress that exposed her breasts, albeit with black cross-shaped tape covering her nipples, and went well with her slim yet decent figure with a large AA-Cup-sized chest.

Everyone but the Demon Lords and even Luci was wide-eyed from the words that spoke loud enough to hear the name of the soon smirking entity from Lucifer firmly stating it, "Ophis."


To pause this, I like Ophis closer to a mother or lover to my mains at times, and in some developing chapters for new fics.

Do note I will also be placing different girls in them as well for pairings, and with that out of the way, let's continue.


The entity, Ophis, simply smirked with a neutral look on her face at them in mere seconds and with them soon witnessing in more minor flashes, several black and white gothic gifts with another being a small ivory chest with a sideways-eight strange sigil on the lid, in her hands.

Ophis then calmly walked with slight echoing steps from the sheer silence of the throne room itself, and with Lucifer giving a wordless signal as more imps were summoned and began to place whatever wrapped gifts the entity herself brought, to be placed with some struggles under the tree to amuse Luci, despite the situation, and gave a neutral glance at Lucifer herself before observing Helena.

Bean and her friends, alongside those that came with Helena and even met, noticed the somewhat face-like resemblance between both Ophis and Helena, the eye structures of sorts alongside the shine of their hair they both had as Helena herself held her child to which Ophis indeed took quick and brief shape notice with mixed eyes at this, but kept gazing at her for several moments before shocking the Demon Lords and even Lucifer herself, as she kneeled and placed the chest in front of Helena.

Helena glanced at her Mater to which Lucifer gave a short nod as she carefully gave her child to her before hesitantly picking up the chest itself, and was rather perplexed by the obsidian chess pieces with each head representing a different type of dragon, instead of the normal way for regular or even wand chest pieces, and placed it down to her right side with being able to hold back a small wince of discomfort by doing that, and questions gratefully to the female she learned only recently was Ophis, then, with not noticing both Hermione and Kisara facepalm at themselves, at the same time, "Thanks I guess?"

Ophis didn't say anything except she got up, ignored the slight sign of flinching from touching Helena's face and gazed at her for a few moments, and started to widen everyone but Lucifer's eyes at her calm words, in which is the same actress for English, "So you are my child? From the mortal named Lily Evans?"

Seeing Helena was speechless with mixed emotional eyes, Ophis blinked for once feeling a slight bit of amusement, and Helena and the others gapped as Delphi didn't mind her as the entity didn't grunt from the unexpected weight of her teleporting into her hold, much to Lucifer's brief annoyance, and later on, Helena was with the duo alongside Bean, out of forced reluctance as the others were setting up something, in her chambers, and Delphi being watched by the demonic nanny in the fountain area.

It was awkwardness between both Lucifer and Ophis as by the vibe it gave off, the two had a history together, from sharing wordless looks with Bean on that and back, before blinking at Lucifer with Ophis slowly blinked in a way, it appears like she didn't know that, "I managed to get a hold of the Goblin Bank in your true-time, My Filia, and both your pack sisters: Natasha and Merida, are well… But if things proceed as they have been, they may have to make a backup plan to come to this time."

"What do you mean?" Helena states worriedly and caused Lucifer to sigh with rubbing the back of her head, "Since you left it has been difficult as the Non-Magical Mortals have rediscovered the truth of the existence of monsters that only a select few others kept in a secretive sense, from what a few of my followers informed me of. Aliens and even the Gods as well."

"So Aliens exist also?" Bean decided to state and ignored the firm yet still thinking glare from Ophis, and Helena was just as surprised yet felt in her gut a bad feeling of this, "Yes. And they have also been secretly living amongst humans as well, or even their own disclosed cities they strived in," Lucifer answered her.

Before either Bean, due to her curiosity, or even Helena for her worrying concerns about those she left behind in the present timeline could discuss even further, everyone hung onto something like the ground and the land of the very kingdom shook for at least a few minutes to have King Zøg, in a comedic sense, had the Royal Punch get tossed into him as he was near the buffet table, and became drenched.

"This was my best outfit." King Zøg complaints to himself before the rumble happened once again, and Helena was perplexed and wide-eyed as from the crashing of the ceiling above and everyone taking cover but her, Bean, Ophis, and Lucifer, a blade nearly cut her in two if it wasn't for the Demoness Archangel Lord of Pride herself blocking said weapon from the unknown female before them, and struggling in place.

She is around average height with long flowing brown or brunette-based hair up to her behind with slight bangs up front, a cute yet delicate face with orangish-red wide eyes. She is slender yet curved a bit with decently large breasts and has decently supple thighs and a decent perky backside. At times when or as her true Angel self, she has angelic wings of pure white from the center and close to the near-ended tips, being bright-red (at times, they are pure white).

Her main outfit, however, is a high general hat that is mainly red with black and yellow accents, and an unusual crest in the center. She also wore a matching uniform with mainly yellow accents and buttons, alongside her uniform's collar being black-lined, and yellowish general tassels around her shoulders. Under that, she wore a plain pleated skirt with black lined accents that exposed her cleavage and was short up to her upper thigh, and her skirt was easily exposed with the upper part of the uniform being unbuttoned. She also wore black thigh-high leggings up to mid-thigh, lastly, she wore basic white high-tied and tall general combat boots that have high heels, up to seven or so inches of her leggings.

Lucifer growled out as the other demonesses kept everyone else back with Leviathan's toy projecting a force field around the tree and presents to not get harmed by this unfortunately placed outcome, with narrowed eyes filled with utter hate, "Michael."

The woman, Michael, was shoved back by Lucifer herself and did a perfect 360-degree angle within the air before landing on her feet and her blade (same from the franchise) in front of her for an instant guard or strike as she firmly declared back, "Fallen Angel Lucifer."

"Protect the two as she's mine." Lucifer requested Ophis with a glance before she and Michael were soon clashing their weapons against each other in a battle.

Ophis was irked by this but kept both Helena and Bean from leaving their spots by her stare as they were forced to watch as the two females kept clashing with their weapons and sending minor rumbles of the ground itself, as not known to them in the way, way, way deepest part of the underground of the castle… There was a long forgotten tomb of sorts within a futuristic and once worshiped obsidian-made temple that was turned into a prison.

The chained coffin was wiggling and more within as a cloaked figure was there, and saw how weak the chains were becoming after so many years of waiting, and being brought back by the energy the specific person way, way, above sent into them.

With minor energy as reluctantly tasked, sent the energy right into the ethereal iron links, and one-by-one, they disintegrated until, without warning, the lid smacked a random runed wall of warning and the individual saw what was inside… There were at least twenty Sealed Orbs within it.


To briefly explain them, everyone, they are Orb-Based Prisons for those that are truly guilty, falsely accused, or even innocent individuals or groups in a single item itself, and these particular ones may have said individuals from alternative or other realities.

They were stolen though and placed to where said entity was supposed to be sealed so long ago, from someone of importance.

Anyways, let's resume now, shall we?


The person began nabbing all of them with them dropping one purplish-looking orb with a floating heart gemstone inside without realizing it as it, by some enchantment of sorts, began rolling out and into the hands of another watching the resurrected cloaked individual move away and with clawed tipped hands, deciding to head to the surface as well with an idea in mind.

Meanwhile, back within the main room, both Lucifer and Michael kept their assault on one another to a minimum for the past thirty or so minutes with both women panting in place and their weapons aimed at each other.

Hermione and those smarter realized the rumbling was somewhat caused by a mix of the two attacks, and something else as five minutes ago, they ceased.

Helena, however, decided enough was enough as she saw her Mater clash with the strange woman once more, and Ophis sensing the mood she gave off, smirked and quickly baffled Bean and the others by allowing her to go to them and with the dragon girl summoning her weapon, and impressing her child even more, with her emotions aiding her movements alongside her power.

Just as the two women were about to clash once more with killing intent, Helena stunned them as she got between both of their weapons with those aware at beholding this, saw the minor mixed aura of dark and light briefly shown around her frame as she firmly said with her not noticing the intrigue and worry between them both at the minor amounts of power she unknowingly used up on, "Enough."

Michael was stunned by Lucifer telling Helena then in a voice that was mixed with being soft to her, yet harsh at the woman herself, and with the dragon girl only holding her firm looks to her Mater, by the term she used at the teen, "My Filia. Please get out of the way so I can deal with this interloper of an Angel."

"Your Filia?! You didn't have children last I knew!" Michael exclaimed loudly in utter shock and ignored Lucifer's quiet growl at the insult Michael instantly shut up by from the glaring face Helena gave her then, and told them both as if she was telling children to behave or other, "She is My Mater along with the recent, by my cousin… This is Yuletide and I don't want any fighting. No matter if you're bitter enemies or not… Am I clear?"

In the end, everyone except for both Ophis and her child shivered at her voice turning dark and with oddly seeing a shadowy figure of sorts behind her that even Xal'atath shivered from, and in another place, a woman sneezed at from going after one of her inn's inhabitants and rules.

Both women glared at each other before sheathing their weapons in their holsters out of reluctance to make them all see the weakened yet pleasing look, as Lucifer quickly caught her child with soft eyes that Michael was perplexed by, but kept her tongue in cheek after they settled things, the two were reluctantly at a secluded spot with per orders by Helena, Albedo wordlessly keeping the peace of sorts, and observing everyone enjoying themselves once again, and even decorating vanilla and chocolate shaped cookies that Helena gave the cooks for as a recipe.

Helena even was helping her child with her sitting down to do so, alongside trying to do decorating with Ophis as her mates understood she was trying to bond with her real mother, and had plans for her later tonight or later on, after Lucifer's gifted idea.

The others were acting as themselves, however.

"She does have a backbone…" Michael admitted to Lucifer to surprise the Demon Lord as she just shrugged before making Michael ponder from gazing at Helena by sight alone, as she looked familiar to the Angel, but kept the Fallen Angel Demon's words to mind, "True. She has faced many hardships and more than you can ever imagine."

The duo blinked as Valioc shortly came over and sniffed the two before going after the Pig Prince in a game of chase, and blinked at Michael's next choice for words at admitting to seeing the creature, and inwardly face palmed to herself, mentally, at not recognizing it, "That Soul Eater is a surprise for this time and place, as it seems to have become an unexpected familiar for your… Child." In the end, the female Angel's words were reluctant yet accepting.

"True. I do sense she may have more when times occur, but she has a long way to go to prepare herself for the events ahead." Lucifer states without realizing that Michael blinked and soon gazed at Helena, then Ophis, and briefly pales at realizing who not only the dragon girl teenager was, but the entity she and Maria were aiding to even startle her again of witnessing a small smile on the entity's face.

Michael decided to keep this to herself as she crossed her arms from her leaning against the stone wall near Lucifer, and made the Demon Lord raise an eyebrow by the Angel's question to her then, and instantly realized that her former friend knew who she was, "Does she know of her task at hand, at all?"

"She knows she's under some prophetic tellings, but no, she doesn't truly know as I was even forbidden to tell via the Godly Laws that whomever her surrogate birth mother made a deal with, agreed upon unless she finds out herself… She had already passed some tests from Hades informing me a while back." Lucifer admits to making Michal sigh as she knew that she too, has counterparts in title and one of which, she knew would not be pleased with this news, "All those that are involved could only prepare her for said outcomes. Even though I have to make a deal with her weapons trainer I bestowed my eventual child."

Michael shifted her gaze to Lightning and saw her past in moments, and those she guessed were linked with and made Lucifer inwardly alert by what Michael admits then as she was preparing to leave at this point, "I was sent here to deal with something else that may have awakened by whatever is causing problems for both our sectors. It seems that it has not yet decided to show itself, as your 'Mountain' is still kept at bay, while our 'Sealed Temple' is still intact."

"So someone is after…" Lucifer said in hinted worry without revealing it, and the leader of the Seven Virtues of her sector to the Demon Lords version of hell's opposite only gave a wordless nod of a yes, "With no doubts. Even though we despise each other, at some point, an unexpected outcome may cause us to call a truce to our forces. The two entities sealed off will eventually break free, no doubt upon that, Fallen Lucifer… But if they are freed, we need to be considered to gaze at the other sealed locations as they are two of the thirteenth seals. Whomever it might be has vengeance or worse set out for the lives of both supernatural and mortal."

Lucifer had brief moments of recollection of what they are, especially since the two places held two unfortunate possessing souls that were in them, long, long ago.

They were brought out of their thoughts from awkward moments of silence to each other as Michael was about to leave, by Delphi coming over with a smile on her face as she gave the two a cookie before doing another small teleport to land on top of Tess and giving her one.

"That child is of interest, to be certain." Michael admits to awkwardly eating her given devil-shaped cookie and Lucifer her angelic one, as they both got chocolate, "Indeed… I would fear what might occur if Helena ever faces the loss of those she cherishes or worse, as knowing she is their child, and soon to be adopted by blood to me…" Lucifer for once in her long life shivered at what might occur.

Michael did as well, and everyone except Lucifer not paying attention to them, summoned a golden door with her name on it, "I agree to the child's terms of a truce during holidays… But after, it is an open game."

Lucifer nodded as the female Angel left, and knowing she might tell her group of what she learned, decided to head over to her child and elected to help decorate more of the thousand or so cookies that, by her sneezing mishap, brought into existence from a meager twenty cookies made.

It was later on in the day they all were feasting and ignored the appetite Helena and a select few others had as they all enjoyed themselves, especially Ophis for once in a very long time, and even tried a chocolate cheesecake dessert that her offspring offered, as she let Maria sit next to her with knowing well that she would be seeing these demons more often than those she met, alongside one she considers her as a younger brother, despite calling him at times, big brother.

Alana and her parents arrived in time for the feast and were discussing things with King Zøg and Queen Oona and with the princess and one of Helena's girls herself, chatted with the others with her looking at Helena now and then as they feasted.

After that, Helena and some of those within voted and discussed that they each can open one present before tomorrow.

Hermione of course got a new and unusual book, and Daphne, a promise ring from Helena.

Albedo got a new necklace commissioned by said dragon girl teen that was an upside-down silver cross with her birthstone embedded in the center.

Kisara got a promise ring as well from Helena, like Daphne's was based on her birthstone, alongside Alana being given a white diamond necklace in a mix of mithril and silver metals and the pendant the gemstone rested in being in the shape of a star.

Bean got a new bracelet from Helena that was decent at least with runes of protection around it and matched the ring she got early from her cousin.

Oona got a customized Wizard Chess Set based on knights and monsters from Helena, as King Zøg was embarrassed as he got underwear from his wife.

Derick got a new stuffed animal resembling a green lizard of sorts from Bean, and that was suggested as a forgiving gift by Helena of course.

Everyone else got interesting gifts as well, especially Ophis from being the only one as a gift by Helena made from her shredded scales from her wings, as suggested by Kisara in case her true mother was like the Nothing Drake herself.

It was mainly a scaled and crushed gemstone-infused bracelet that the duo made together during the few moments of free time they had, with the Blue-Eyes herself doing the gem crushing with ease of ruby, sapphire, and mix of black diamonds and green emeralds.

It was then that Helena noticed the one other present for her was in the pile and it was in a black box of sorts, and despite the urge to open it, she decided she had enough openings for tonight and saw Alana was by herself in her plain elven dress with copper vined stitched accents and didn't realize she tinted before she came over from thinking about things.

"Hey… So, how do you like the girls so far?" Helena decided to start as this was the only chance to try and get to know the elf princess.

Alana smiled softly at her as she gently swirled the cup of wine that was offered moments before by a castle servant, and responded gently back, "They're nice and accepting, especially since they said you were an equal lover to them all."

Helena tinted without realizing that, with seeing Bean and Co. was tricked by her child to play a game with her, as the only one she has slept with was Daphne, and has yet to attempt to do so with the other girls due to her ongoing fears based on that, and still treated them equally.

"I do love all my girls, as some I am still getting used to, and I wanted to make a good impression with your parents at least during your stay." Helena then informed her to make Alana roll her orbs to see she successfully succeeded at getting a minor laugh from the teenaged dragon girl herself by her own words of being amused, and irked, about them, "They are mainly focused on politics and more from the kingdoms of elves then me at times, so that one time you caught me at the one pond I bath in was one of my spare freedom times."

"Yes, and I liked how you told me what you thought Elfo was before we told you what we thought he was," Helena admits as they both laughed and didn't see Albedo and Helena's few girls glanced and hid being envying yet understood by the earlier talk that their soulmate wanted to know more about the new girl tonight, and until she's gone a few days later, but shared faraway glinting eyes at each other by the plan for tonight as well.

"True… I also have to tell you something that I found out about our delay to get here." Alana states as she told her what went down, and made the dragon girl herself somewhat worried to which she kept to herself.

Turns out they were halfway to the Kingdom of Dreamland until they were stopped by a strange-looking and dark beast her parents refused to inform her about, and yet, it was sent off by a small group who was chasing it already and at least escorted them to the open point to where it would be declared safe, and went after the beast itself… Alana didn't get a good look, but she couldn't ignore that unearthly roar it had.

"At least you are here and kicking," Helena reassured Alana to relax the elf girl at this as she nodded while sipping her wine, and soon chatted about themselves for the next hour before Helena was called to deal with her child's mischief with Valioc.

"She does care about us." A female voice caused Alana to jump only slightly and turned to see it was Daphne herself with her sipping her wine gently, and gave a brief apologizing gaze for doing so.

"She seems like someone who would have herself in front of others then let them fight for her." Alana admitted to only observing the Greengrass Heiress sighed with a nod, sat down next to her, and ignored The King shouting at Helena to get her pet under control as he was trying to go after his turkey, "She would do that without a second thought as she has been through a lot before we even came here, and more so before you joined our lovely group."

Alana had a feeling by Daphne's words she wouldn't like what she would be told eventually, but she soon chatted with Daphne as with both Albedo and Kisara, they were the only quiet ones despite standing on a wall next to each other, until Albedo decided to speak to the dragon shifter, "So it seems another girl joins us? That would make things interesting once we get a chance for a full group."

Kisara only gave her a stare to that before deflating Albedo's look of being perverse to then sighing, and wordlessly agreeing with the dragon, "Yet she isn't fully and mentally capable of handling us all as of yet, as fears drive her away to commit such acts for us, like your thinking."

"True… If only I was present back then, I would have dealt with those that did that to her." Albedo declared darkly with Kisara wordlessly agreeing to that, gave Albedo a cooked fish as she had several on a plate, and devoured one wholly and they both continued to observe everyone.

Hermione and Marabelle, aka Mop Girl was browsing through the Neko's new book before they were interrupted by Sorcerio as it seemed like he had a question for them, and he did. "Perchance you two are studying as teacher and student at this moment, in a secretive sense?"

"Not this time. We're just browsing through this book before we head to our rooms for the night." Hermione informed him with her words being subtle as of late, the old wizard has been nagging mainly her and Marabelle for several days about what she's been teaching her actual first student, and him in a secretive sense, envying them due to not noticing the potential of Mop Girl at all.

"Alright… I'll just head to my study before turning in as well for the night," Sorcerio tells them as he leaves and the duo relaxes before going back to the book some more, with Marabelle being intrigued by some passages within the pages.

With Helena, outside and in the courtyard, she was letting her mother-to-be and her mate (Maria) be with themselves for the moment as she let Meg take Delphi to her room for bed and her Familiar going with them, to hang out with her biological mother.

They both were silent for the last seven or so minutes until Ophis glanced at Helena as she asked her softly and observed the teen gazing at the clear sky, ignoring the festive vibe inside the castle, and the teen herself had millions of thoughts roaming her mind that within her, her weapon knew, but her soft question had meaning to it, "Why weren't you there?"

Ophis was silent for a moment and understood what her only offspring was asking, and decided to confess as she was soon gazing at the sky and didn't notice Helena gazed at her then in shock and other mixed emotions, of her confession, "I was kept from you after being informed by a former servant of mine… Being told you were slain at birth. The servant fled my domain after I found out by the power you were exhibiting, and would have been slain by my own hands for betraying me… I was sidetracked for years with half of my powers."

Ophis gazed at her child as she told the best she could for the next half-hour, and not realizing Lucifer, aka, Lucina, was listening in alongside her rival as in turn, another half-hour or so later, Helena confessed to Ophis from trusting her of her hardships.

Ophis for once in long periods of gaining some emotions held back what she felt about what she learned, but from reasons of what she knew from learning from those she befriended and allied with, she knew then to harm innocent lives and the guilty.

"Seems we both had rough lives." Helena decided to state to Ophis as the Nothing Drake simply nodded once in soft agreement before showing hints of amused orbs from gazing at her passively by her curious question then, as it was just them now, "Are you always a girl, or a boy, from you telling me?"

"I can be either gender, but as of late, I prefer to be a female. So termly… I'm not either gender but neutral." Ophis explained calmly to get the teen to nod her head before sneezing and made the Nothing Drake slowly blink at beholding in both hands a glass of warm hot chocolate with rainbow marshmallows in beer mugs.

"Sorry about that. Whenever I sneeze it's-" Ophis held up a hand as she was sipping her conjured beverage and blinked at how splendid it tasted before informing her calmly with hints of amusement as minor fond memories briefly showed from her hazed orbs, for a moment, "As in the beginning, I too exhibited your sneezes as in years… I gained control of my powers and no longer had that issue."

"That does get me to wonder, are you a shifter like My Blue?" Helena curiously asked her to once again have amusement in the eyes of the Ouroboros Dragon, and knew by her questions she asked from their stories to each other, she wanted to know more about her, and made Helena blink from learning this, "I was born not as a Drake Shifter, but as I am."

It was here after they chugged their drinks easily down and devoured the mugs from realizing it was butter beer chocolate, she poked and touched Helena's wings and more to be rather impressed, by making Helena gaze at them and to her by her confessed words, "It seems you can be both or as whatever form your soul and more has… Perhaps fearful of your enemies encouraged your wrath, if so."

"What do you mean by that… Mom?" Helena perplexedly asked her with testing waters to only sigh by the wistful yet calm words Ophis gave her, as they stood up from the steps, and secretly pleased the Nothing Drake by the title she bestowed her, "That is what you must find out for yourself."

Helena didn't notice the state from Lucina/Lucifer to Ophis that the Nothing Drake caught and did a small nod later, from seeing the Demon Lord wanting to speak to her without Helena around, and soon, everyone enjoyed their time before eventually heading to their rooms, except Helena was lead hours later by Daphne to the Secret Rock, they dubbed as, and blinked at seeing Kisara and Albedo was also there.

Before she could ask what was going on, she stiffened from Daphne giving her a look as the other two gently kissed her cheek, and informs her then as they led her to the bed, "We are aware of how you feel about those activities and decided that perhaps simple cuddling and whatever else would start to aid you out of it… Even though I enjoyed our time, that was the only time."

Helena frowned inwardly as indeed she only had sex with Daphne the one time, but she didn't realize she was avoiding them at that point at all- She was brought out of her thoughts from her kissing her lips for a moment and had foreheads touching and the other two each holding Helena's hands by seeing eye-to-eye, her honesty, "I and the others can wait as long as you can. We figured from all the training and whatnot, and what you recently went through, you deserve one night at least to truly relax before your adoption tomorrow."

Helena held soft eyes at them, but was curious as before she could ask, Albedo answered for her gently with a gentle touch to her cheek, "Alana wanted to come but the guards were strict about her not leaving her guest chambers until her royal parents are sure of her being safe here, within your Uncle's Kingdom."

"Yes, as some types of elves are strict to their rulings, and some are not or more." Kisara added with Helena pondering it for later as they grabbed her from going weak kneed and admitting, to half-amuse them then, "I may have overdid it earlier today."

The trio soon led her to the large bed and cuddled at least for the rest of the night.


Meanwhile, with Lucifer on the shingles of the same roofing she was previously with her soon-to-be daughter, she was with Ophis as it was awkward between them.

It was Lucifer who decided to sigh firstly, and looked to the entity before her, "I know you are her true mother, and Lily Potter being her blood-based surrogate, but I truly desire her to be mine as well… And with your help, I can do so."

Ophis easily stood like Lucifer was on the rooftop as she had her arms behind her with eyes calculating what the Demon Lord was speaking about, and didn't seem bothered but did stun her by the female's calmed answer, "Only for her… I was informed about how you tried to aid her in her time until she arrived in this backwards altered place. I have done this type of work only once when I was male, out of a favor… There are consequences of dying if it is interrupted between those involved with what you're planning." Ophis paused before asking calmly in a firm tone, "You found out from those two, didn't you?"

"Guilt of the deniability, but yes, Primordial of Nothing." Lucifer only admits as a short statement to get a wordless nod from Ophis as she then spoke with her rarely showing emotion within her voice, "I truly don't want this to occur, but if it's for her… Then so be it, as at a point, I will possibly escort her to my domain for a visitation."

"Seems we agree on that and more, and if something tries to interfere…" Lucifer trailed with watch Ophis' orbs glowing briefly in wordless agreement, "It will be handled as well."

Ophis then summoned a sigil-based vortex to briefly perplex Lucifer for a few moments before an understanding was within her orbs as she sensed the altered fabric of reality from within, "I have yet to bestow my gift to her and from within this realm… An opportunity to do so. I will be back as swiftly as I can, and once I am back, the ritual will be performed."

Ophis left then and made Lucifer sigh as she summoned her wings, and flapped them a few times before gliding back to the castle grounds and going inside.

Hidden behind a castle pillar and overhearing the two's brief talk, a hidden person was there before they chuckled and vanished away.