I know this chapter is short, but the upcoming chapter will make up for it, when it is ready to post. Still working on this and my other developing chapters to when I get a chance, due to moving as mentioned in my profile or this story.

(Fixed or Adjusted on 9/23/2022)


December 25th (with it being still 2014 true time), in the late morning:

Helena was getting washed up within the tub room once again, as she was relaxed and unsure as to what was to come, even as her girls and family, and friends, were taking care of the mess they made from opening presents, and with the teen dragon girl herself slightly smiling at soon recalling how happy everyone was, alongside her child from arriving before dawn back to the castle to do so.

Happy in their own way, that is.

Though her thoughts turned once again to the upcoming ritual and to what might happen if it didn't work, and more worrisome thoughts from who would take care of her child, and many other things popped into her mind, and felt the soothing or trying gentle pulses of waves from her ring, collar, and her weapon at times from that.

Helena sighed as she scrubbed herself within the tub while trying to clean her body thoroughly and winced at the slight pain of her back, as of late without telling the others, it was getting harder and harder to dismiss her wings and soon shook her one hand of it shifting and back to its humane self.

Xal'atath was laying on the side and near the tub and was merely silent as, privately, the weapon was using the enchanted soap Helena was using to clean herself off as well by what she can do as an enchanted weapon, as Helena had been keeping her closer in particular areas due to her growing wariness and stress, not known to the others, except to the dagger weapon herself.

"You shouldn't worry about what is to occur, as I feel you may survive whatever this type of ritual is." Xal'atath assured the teenager to which she paused from scrubbing her genderhood, lastly, with a brief tint of her going half-hard as she tried to get out of the tub herself, "I know, Xal. But I'm worried by what both Mater and Mom told me about the low chance of not living from it, and remembering my unusual cursed luck at times…" Helena shivered to herself as in heaven, James was being whacked by his own deceased mother at not finding the cure to the family curse at all.

Ophis didn't reject being called either Mom or Mother, as she understood in partial terms to the shared situation of "Mater" being more appointed to Lucifer or Lucina herself.

Helena paused and glanced down in being irked from seeing that the slightly exposed air caused her to be fully hard, and she chose to ignore it as she was soon wiping herself down, and didn't see the aware eye of her weapon at recognizing the new ailment as it did return to normal after she was dressed, but Helena hid the urge to grab her chest of feeling her heart fluctuating with pinpricks alongside a harsh pump or two before it stopped those sensations.

Once she gently picked up her weapon and placed her in the new sheath that matched her weapon's pleased position to her right hip, she began to talk to Xal'atath then, heading to her chambers, and everyone ignoring her doing so as she passed, from knowing at least her dagger was a sentient weapon and it was somewhat normal around this period, "So you think I should wait or just go straight to it, Xal?"

"Truthfully, I would have been hesitant if I had my mortal form. But you truly believe that you are not fully prepared for the outcome, then you can choose to not go through with it… However," here Xal'atath began to try and assure Helena as she paused midstep and glanced to her weapon, who seemingly appeared to be thinking with her eye closed, but in truth, was hiding a brief moment of time with her answer, "If you truly prepared for what is to come, and knowing how much you care for the demoness herself as a motherly figure, then you should progress through it with, despite fears, to truly become the daughter to her. I for sure can tell she also wants this, despite her concealed feelings due to her being a Sectional Ruler of the Netherworld or Hell, in terms."

Helena nodded with the weapon, noticing she had already made her choice as she came into her room, and blinked at gazing at the one gift she hid from all the other gifts she got, was once again on her bed, and it was that very gift from yesterday for her that had no name.

She sighed and placed Xal'atath down as the weapon eventually decided, unless it was necessary, to dismiss herself and her sheath into her wielder's Inner Sanctuary, and picked it up before sitting on the edge of her bed.

Helena gently shook it for once, and guessed the inside was cushioned and decided to open it at last… And was rather perplexed after removing cloth at beholding it was a purplish glass sphere around the size of a baseball and held a barely seen floating heart-based gem of sorts.

Not known to her while she was gone, the rest of the unusual gemstones she obtained or other, were sucked into the object, secretly, especially the ones in her unique storage chest, and was magically placed into said bed.

"Hello Miss," a voice that caused Helena to make the teenager jump, and Xal'atath to appear amused with her glinted eye and ignore the teen dragon girl's glare at realizing it was Alison, as she was sitting in a spare chair closeby with her sitting decently, and was smiling.

"Hey Alison… It has been a while. How are you doing as a Halfa now?" Helena asked as a while back, she and Hermione may have caused a potion accident that made it that Alison was no longer dead yet still half-alive, and knew that somewhere in their own books the Nekotama has, there was an answer for what occurred.

"My folks are accepting of my status at best, My Lady- I mean Helena. I found out I can't age though, and I'm going to at least figure out if I can get to specific ages from going into some Afterlife Realms by what we discovered before I wanted to venture." Alison gently informed her to get the teen to nod, and being curious to see she causes Alison to tint at her words, "You want to be seen as an adult or something, don't you?"

"Yes. I just want to be able to go between the ages though, and be able to choose… There has to be a brew I could discover beyond Dreamland for whatever race I became, as those healed Hellhound Scars did do something to me." Alison admits before making Helena and Xal'atath be impressed by seeing she managed to actually conjure Hellhound-Based Fire within her hands and dismiss it, with ease.

Yes, to mention, she was brought back but her scars were still visible on her body and skin gained a natural lighter tan color to it and her screla, however, was pitch-black and her pupils a dim amber color to further bring out her original eye color, and wore a traveling outfit that was basic in colors yet decent to show her midsection, arms, and upper thighs.

"To harness one's power like you have, does make things interesting for your future, Little One." The dagger admits to the Halfling Child and made Alison blink to her with gazing at her hands for a moment, sighed, and got up while looking like a ghost as she was full solid while as a person, when sitting, "I will probably have to send souvenirs to Delphi, when I can…. Can you tell her I will try to write?"

Helena understood as she was rather surprised by how well at times Alison and her child got along, and gave a warm gentle nod with still holding that sphere, and waved to the leaving child and knowing she's going on her own adventure.

She pockets the sphere in moments as her chamber door was knocked, and stating for them to come in, saw it was Alana with her mother.

Her mother was closer to Alana in looks, but she had blonde hair compared to her child's with hints of gray in them, and wore a fancier royal dress in silver and blue colors compared to her child's emerald green and black accented version, and had a bone-white gemstone crown in rare blue diamonds up to five, with the middle being a star.

Helena straightened up after realizing this to amuse her newest girl and soulmate, as her elfen mother merely smiled at her, and was the one to ask then, "Not to be of pardon, but may we come inside?"

Noticing things by Alana's glance briefly at her, Helena nodded wordlessly to see the pleased gleam by the mother herself as they came in and sat down in the two spare chairs closeby the teen, and stated to raise an eyebrow at mainly her, "My husband and I have heard that you are not from the time presented, correct?"

"Yes, that's correct." Helena replied with her mentally wondering where she was going with this, and made her blink back a look at Alana as she looked wary, as she then asked with a hint of something then to her, "Then you shall know that our kind of elves require that you arrange an eventual marriage, despite the issues of you being Niniel's (My Daughter's) Soulmate. Our people are in relation to the ancient race of the Sindarin, but open yet still strict of being their different kind of elves. It is also tradition and accustomed in order to further your desires for one another."

"Truthfully, Lady Marizia," Helena began to get the Royal Elf Mother her full attention, and even stunning them by her confession, "I plan to get to know my girls a bit more before I commit to said acts. I do though let them choose if they want to do more, as mentally… I am not prepared yet as yes, I have done it once with My Other: The Greengrass Heiress, for my time. But that was it."

"That is good news… Interesting news in truth, but I have great hopes you will be a swell person to Niniel and bless us with my craving for grandchildren in the future." Alana's mother told Helena gently to make both females tint to that, as she got up and dismissed herself.

Once she was gone, Helena and Alana sighed at the same time with Helena soon understanding as the elf princess herself brushed some stray hair away from her face, "My parents are rather strict yet kind, despite their manners at times. She was mainly sent by Nin Adar (My Father) to make sure your intended address was truthful for your time and others."

Helena, despite being irked about having issues of trust to Alana's father: King Frazilo, she decided to go with her new bonded girl by soul, and not by the natural means as of yet, and began small talk with her.

Daphne was the only one that was official by what Lucifer explained in private, in some standards of explaining things, she officially claimed her as, secretly, Daphne has a marking she has yet to show from that very night that appeared once they were fully done and satisfied, and it was placed in a way they would, within the magic society within their time, was marked by a succubi and leave it at that.

Anyways, ten minutes later, Helena and Alana blinked dumbly at seeing within the kitchen, both Luci and Elfo were eating to what appeared to be cube chunks of cheese in a competition of sorts, with her seeing Bean drinking her glog casually with leaning on one of the banisters, and then took noticed of the two.

"Let me guess: They wanted to out-eat each other over stinky cheeses?" Helena guessed with Bean nodding to her with a slight gesture with her mug a wordless 'Yes', "Elfo actually suggested it as he told Luci 'I can out eat you in cheese anyday', and he wouldn't have that to not be challenged."

Elfo then burped disgustingly after eating his last bite and with Luci trying to not barf as the Halfa grinned cheekily from seeing Luci fell onto his back and groaned, and Elfo stated smugly to the demon, "I win."

"(Bleh) You did beat me," Luci agreed while withholding the urge to puke, and shook in place as his belly deflated back to normal unlike Elfo, until he burped once again.

Helena shook her head at her friends antics before asking to them, and making the three ponder a bit by her question and secretly stunning the elf princess at the nickname she accidentally let out, "Do you guys maybe have an idea to where myself and My Alu Tarien (Water Princess in Tel'Quessir) could maybe have some alone time for a few hours?"

"Well… There is that one spot I read about in Dream Castle by John McGomeric, recently." Elfo decided to say something before the other two, and made Bean blink at the Half-Elf in minor surprise as she questioned him, "Someone already made a book again about the castle?"

"Yes… But besides that, there is a spring of sorts near the castle I managed to read and also find, Hel." Elfo told Bean before informing Helena as later on with Bean and Co. going to do something else without telling her, as it's for some surprise when someone pulled them to the side earlier that day for, with Helena's other girls agreeing with her idea to bind more with the new Soul-Sister, they came upon said place in which was magnificent to lay their eyes on.

The small spring pond looked old yet natural with very rare and unusual trees that looked enchanted with the fruit they bore, and the clearing had few benches that looked to have been placed a few years ago, as there were no signs of rust. There was also something about the area that felt relaxing of sorts, and they did see a sign that was recently made labeled this location as the, "Relaxing Springs: The best place for a date or to soothe your head." Alana read aloud.

This made Helena blink to her girl, and asked curiously to see she amused the elf princess, as they sat at the closet bench to the spring itself, "You can read their signs? I'm still learning how to."

Alana was amused by Helena's words as they took the time to relax and be themselves, and talked for a few hours before they turned and nearly got sent into the waters by Valioc with her child on top, and giggling happily as they passed by with Meg still pursuing the duo, and made the elf and dragon girl glance at each other in amusement.

Helena did tint by the large gurgle she caused by her stomach, and amused Alana as they eventually met with her other girls and dined with each other and everyone else for the Festive Lunch, and even caused her to nearly forget the ritual… Until it was time.

By sheer support and suggestions by the Demon Lords themselves, we're sitting on recently made wooden benches that were done by demonic labor, and with Delphi not present alongside Meg, for innocent reasons.

Ophis was here as she planned to bestow her few gifts meant for missing her child's previous birthdays, and doing the finishing touches on the barren ground set up for what was planned. And with it being mixed with ingredients not worth the heart to mention as it was costly, and runes and unusual sigils placed onto specific parts and with things Helena herself might question, but would rather not as well.

Though she amused both her mothers with her shakily standing not of fright, but knew she was getting better at walking from her recovery, asked with seeing her currently wearing a gown with nothing at all underneath, by her soft complaint, "Why do I have to be nude under this?"

Helena blanched and sighed then by the calm response Ophis gave her then with finishing up what sigil she was working on within the last spot, and placed a bowl of what appeared to be phoenix feathers down from one of thirteen spots within the circled placement, in silvery chalk, "It is to not destroy the clothing of the intended."

Seeing her gaze as Lucifer positioned her to the center that held her name in several languages, the Demon Angel of Pride gave her a look from seeing Helena was nervous, "Are you sure you are ready to do this?"

Helena was in truth, scared as to what will occur, and despite everyone telling her it will be alright, she was mixed and as from all she had been through, she soon appeared determined and told her Mater assuredly to even see relief in the Demonic Angel's orbs at her, alongside in a secretive manner, Ophis, "I am. Despite being Mom's only child, I also want to be yours, officially."

Lucifer nodded with eyeing the area where the others Helena knew, was sitting and chatting as they waited, and some watching on expecting things, and gazed back to her child as she hugged her for a moment before letting go, and walking backwards to the one empty bowl as she gazed wordlessly at Ophis.

"Mater?!" Helena exclaimed to be shocked as she saw her Soon-To-Be Mother purposely had a hand over the bowl, and slit her wrist with a odd dagger before showing to her child to half-relieve and making her irked at being partially pranked as the dagger absorbed quite a bit of blood from it, and also at the same time, healed the wound as she deposited the amount within the bowl before tossing it and with the weapon being stuck on a faraway rock, "It is part of it, My Filia."

Lucifer then turned to Ophis as she asked her in a way, she was trying to remain calm yet her words held another meaning to it the Nothing Drake understood as she was checking things once more, "Are you sure this will work?"

"Indeed it will… It has been years since I have done this or another. This being one of three true ways to adopt and keep blood as by blood." Ophis calmly informed her which made Helena gulped to this, and sighed before she shrugged and winced at feeling and ignored her heart fluttering in a secretively bad way once again, and got both of her Mothers to nod, "Well… Let's bloody do this."

In the stands, the Demon Lords and those that knew Helena were mixed as well, especially Helena's soulmates as they had a bad feeling about this too, and the chances of what would happen if it went wrong.

Though not known to everyone, a cloaked individual who was sent by someone via payment, was hiding in plain sight and was using a odd tracking device that was matched for the dragon girl and those related, and hid a cruel smirk from sensing something easier to nab within the castle, and quietly left to get it.

Helena was still nervous, but braved it out as both Lucifer and Ophis nodded as she took a deep breath, and let it out as they began to chant and the items, and the rune work, began to cross-glow with golden, crimson, and dark-like light colors perfectly combined as they did so. "Oblationes oblatas duas in unum tribue benedictiones. Sanguinem tuum excita in utroque, et quasi unum confunde. Reserare quod intendit adhuc consequi, et omnia perficere. Benedictiones in oblationibus latenter positas accipite, et ad successum promovendum, quibuscumque subsidiis destinatis ut filia Sanguinis Matris voluntarie oblata sit, et adhuc sit ipsa! (By the offerings presented, bestow the blessings of two into one. Awaken thy blood in both, and merge as one. Unlock to which the intended has yet to achieve, and make things perfect for everything. Receive the blessings secretly placed in the offerings, and to further the success, bestow whatever means for the intendeds survival to be Daughter to the Willing Mother of Blood offered, and still be herself!)"

Helena as they chanted with everyone safe from a barrier setup the duo made beforehand, was glowing a mixed aura from way before to make Hermione and everyone else nervous, before it expanded and spread all around the entire inner circle she was in and withheld screaming, her heart thumping harshly with Xal'atath being blocked from interfering, as even the weather began to shift and change.

Her eyes then began to glow with her soon screaming as once that occurred, all the items and even Lucifer's blood became a misty-based ash to easily go right into her with the aura becoming slightly denser and still able to see the teenager herself.

As both Lucifer and Ophis continued to chant the same words over and over again, they were the only ones to see a brief glimpse of something unexpected arrive from a non-passing vortex appearing underneath the soon free-floating teen, and going right into the teen's full midsection to form an unexpected forced seal of sorts in golden kanji before that faded, as the gown was disintegrated from the ritual itself.

Her body began to convulse with everyone worried as unexpected changes began to occur to the teen, with them being surprisingly unexpected within mere moments once the last of the mist went into Helena.

Her body grew in height to be now around six feet or so tall (6'2) and her body becoming that of a bodybuilder with gentle curves, with decently muscular and still slender arms and legs as well as they had tiny amounts of softness to them to be decently supple, and her behind a bit perky and a little more rounded. Her back is soon toned and arched to help show off her figure, despite her waistline becoming slightly tucked and a delicate u-shape after that, and if she ever walks or runs, to innocently make her bust jiggle always and have a sensual sway and grace upon her movements, with her appearance looking closer to eighteen or nineteen then.

Soon after that, she painfully gained another set of smaller wings that were half of her current, and increased her power only slightly and with her body being very flexible, slightly stronger, and more agile than ever before.

Her eyes burned as she continued to transform, as they were changed into demonic, dark blue colored cat eyes with a burst of lighter blue around the pupils, and natural bloodshot colored sclera alongside hints of her original eye color around the outer border of the iris itself.

Her heart heavily pumped as thankfully those that were younger was not there, witnessed her bust grow and grow until they stopped at large H-Cups with her nipples becoming inverted with puffy areola, and by sheer luck her back would support them or past several sizes at least, if that was to occur.

Her formerly flaccid penis also soon began to grow in length and size to be twelve inches long with wrist-based thickness of girth, and looked to be draconian of sorts for the tip and the rest humane, and her ballsack soon slightly droops with soon growing and being the size of half-cantaloupes before they both slowly shrunk from a dry splurt to be six inches and four, and golfball-size to make it a bit harder to hide it now. Her womanhood, however, plumped up slightly with being plush to the touch.

She held her sides as to astonish them, and made them wince with knowing the barrier prevented them to leave until done, saw her feet crack and reshape themselves into velociraptor-based feet and soft padding while matching her skin tone, and the claws being dark ivory, much like her clawed tips on her hands as they both reshaped to become fused draconian-based succubi fingers and hands, and the scales went up to an inch or so past her elbows with them being blackened with fiery-based lines swirling around them, and leading to her shoulders as at the end, they were tribal-based hazardous flames in a tattooed way.

As she held the urge to scream, two lower sets of equally sized arms burst forth from underneath her arms for a "4-Arms Scenario" and with her body indeed producing blood, but healed within moments as the outburst became dusty ash of sorts that went easily away from the increased wind that picked up, and the sky in moments was darkening with hints of major flashes of lightning within, and they held the same runes that went from the sides to go well with the other's that formed.

Her teeth became sharper with her fangs being still cute but longer, and her tongue as she soon did scream upwards with an energy beam of the purest light came forth with the lightning hitting it and went to the heavens and beyond, became slightly longer and forced to be forked at the tip, and on her cheeks were gradually showing lightning-bolt based markings up to three, formed in a light purplish hue, like tiger markings.

Despite all this, from anyone's future POV, she still looked like a goddess for figure, but was slightly and decently buffed to improve that fact.

Anyway, Lucina and Ophis, alongside everyone holding on to their seat placements and spots by the energy bursts that kept appearing in non-harming waves, like a small nuke, kept bursting from Helena as she kept screaming for a few moments more until the beam stopped, and she rolled her eyes with both parents catching her before she hit the ground.

As they did so, the runes faded to non-existence, and the barriers dropped with Daphne conjuring up the blanket from her soulmate's comatose body, seeing she was alright, but would not awaken, and in her room.

After placing her down in bed with her girls checking things, Hermione went with her apprentice to the tower to find out why Helena appeared as she did from the adoption ritual the two female entities performed, alongside Sorcerio for once aiding them.

The Demon Lords and Ophis was discussing things amongst themselves, as Daphne agreed to stay with Helena alongside Kisara and with them thankfully hearing the teen herself faintly asked for her daughter, and softy looked at the half-aware teen dragon girl to know she wanted to make sure she was ok, and by her new looks before she passed out again.

Everyone else, however, was handling things as usual with Bean promising to get a large keg of ale of sorts from the festive season at the bar, for her cousin to at least celebrate her adoption, and both Elfo, Luci, and Tess going with as the giantess herself had to check her wares before returning.

Helena before her arrival to her room, however, was given a drought by Ophis to further her recovery rate to make it an hour or so, to be better, and her outfit back on her with not only it, but everything else, being further enchanted to adjust to her body by any means… Especially since she grew a slender and matching skin dragon tail once she was placed into bed as near the ends, it was striped in the same purple color as her cheek markings, and the tip being oddly cherry-red.

"She is stable for now, as she will probably need to retrain herself and more again to get used to things." Kisara said to Daphne with her raising an eyebrow from noticing the tint from her touching Helena's tail as she tucked it into the bed as well, and asked, "That's the first time I ever seen you actually blush."

"Since she has a tail, it is customary for permission to allow myself to even touch it, as tails are meant for not only defense at times, but of kinship in more ways than you would know." Kisara admitted to the blonde teen to which she only blinked at the dragon girl with her about to ask what she meant before they stiffened with Albedo looking angrily for some reason until she informed them, with revealing Meg was her imp self and warily waving within a demon jar with injuries on her person, and quickly filled them with dread, with warily glancing at Helena and back, "Delphi was taken again."


Within the mountains several miles out from Dreamland borders, at this point and time:

"I have come to collect my bounty." The person said in a rich voice with a hint of British as it was a man who looked similar to Joe to know he might be related to the man, but younger around his twenties and has black and crimson blended hair, and a more attractive face, and wearing mainly gothic and black/silver leather bandit outfits you would possibly see in Game of Thrones for professional thieves, as he easily carried Delphi.

The child was tied up securely, and was also gagged with ignoring her letting out tears from her eyes and whimpering.

The same cloaked figure from a while back came out, alongside the armored male, from the darkness of the cave entrance with a few Dullahan-like gothic and black metallic armored entities with glowing amber-based eye holes and with those very symbols on their chest plates that the imps had, as guards, looked half-pleased by this situation.

The young man frowned as he was soon berated by the knight, and with a finger pointed at him as the other man was gazing at the child with calculating eyes, "You fool! Taking that Child out of their sectioned land is pointless as she isn't as powerful as intended!"

"I had to grab this brat from a yellow-eyed demon spawn as her nanny, and more trouble with traps placed in the halls leading to this runt's room. I want what was owed." The young man firmly declared with shaking the whimpering little girl as a point, before purposely dropping her next to him and the two monster guards looking ready to grab their weapons at the tense situation… Until the cloaked man raised a pale hand up to dismiss this action.

He then spoke with an idealized gleam to his eyes, to get the two's attention, with hearing sounds of minor explosions deep within, "I believe we can work this unexpected situation to our advantage."

He then tossed a large coin bag filled with real golden coins to make the young man smirk, and bowed with parting before stating who he was as well, "Pleasure doing business as the Great Darius Joe, must part ways… I hope you have a great day with whatever you plan to do."

Once the young man was out of sight, the armored man ignored the whimpering child as he questioned the cloaked male then, and giving the signal for the two monsters to gather the little girl and take her away into the modified cave system itself, "Are you sure, Lord Serpens, that was wise?"

"It was. The Child would be bait for the main course, and hoping for a countermeasure and in case things take a sour note… Make sure you and your creatures are ready for how powerful I sense the Potter Child has become, and more tuned to the secrets of this land and others. She already allowed us into that spot from before, so we will need to lead her astray for the next closeby." Lord Serpens informed the knight as a secretive order as he only gave a firm nod to him and left back into the cave to prepare.

The Dark Lord himself chuckled darkly to himself with a brief glowing of his serpentine amber eyes, "Indeed, and I too will hope to have a chance to test her myself if he fails." He then held a small box to which he then placed it back under his cloak, and walked calmly into the cave as a barrier was then erected around the entrance.