Chapter 3: The Ageless Moon (ALT BERS Chapter 41 Ending)

The Shepherd stopped in front of her, but Velvet pretended not to notice. An insurmountable feeling of remorse filled his soul, whipping his mind to no end. Avernus couldn't reverse time, but he wanted to make that future a reality. To give back Velvet her second chance and, to the world, a precious woman back.

"I know why you must go through with it, but there are sins that must be cleansed…", he spoke, trying to sound like his usual self and hiding his sadness. Little did he know, the feeling was mutual. Velvet couldn't bring herself to look the man in the eye.

Did he have a grave plan to save them all? Definitely.

Did he consider his own safety? Most likely, no.

Velvet was eating at herself from the inside again.

Suddenly, Avernus kneeled on one knee like a knight. Velvet gasped in surprise and slowly raised her head to see his bright face.

"They say that the first step for Shepherds to absolve sins is to seek forgiveness in our hearts…", Avernus said, his eyes starting to get glossy. He bit his lips, "Velvet…", Avernus swallowed a knot in his throat and hastily bowed his head.

"I ask for your forgiveness!", his voice cracked in sorrow. Velvet's eyes widened, tracking a single tear streaking his cheeks and falling on the ground.

"For the life that has been taken from you, I beg your forgiveness. For what the world for it did to you-"

Abruptly, among the burst of his emotions, Velvet's finger raised his chin. Avernus was silenced. Her face sailing closer until Velvet's breath could cool his tears. She interrupted him with a fresh and sweet kiss. Velvet's eyes slowly glimpsed his face and took it all in. All the manliness, along with the emotions that ran wild. For her, nothing seemed more precious and wanting.

His green orbs were clinging to her radiant flames. His body felt weightless as he felt himself falling on the large sofa beside Velvet. The crimson moon was rising behind her. Then everything ceased, even time, for their tenderness to warm each other one last time before the apocalypse.

"If this is all a crazy dream, please don't wake me up.", Avernus whispered.

Velvet climbed on top of him. She put away her comb, her hands brushing against his chest all the way to his face.

"What if it's a nightmare?", she muttered, capturing his soft lips with hers.

Avernus touched her, his hands slowly going around her waist.

Their lips parted with a pop. "I'll take this nightmare any day to a world where I'm not with you.", Avernus murmured, his hands sliding over the curve of her butt and up her back, pulling up and tugging her shower robes, revealing more of her skin. "Let me make you happy. I want to see your smile again.", he pleaded in an alluring whisper, his emerald eyes hanging into her ambers. "Be my moon, cleave my darkness."

The Lord of Calamity slowly went for another taste. His words washed away any doubts. Velvet's eyes fluttered shut as a dream of Avernus, naked and wanting, formed in her mind. Her fantasy flared up, and his surprising touches drove her wild with ecstasy.

Among the feelings of guilt and revenge, the flood of her desires for love sank all of them beneath. Velvet opened her eyes, rocking her hips into his just a bit to fire up the Shepherd. "Do you think loving me is a sin?", Velvet asked.

Avernus opened his eyes too and raised on his back. "If it is, then I'm beyond redemption."

That's just what she wanted to hear.

He curled his fingers over the sides of her robe, pulling it off gently. Velvet let herself loose in the feeling of being stripped down by Avernus. His presence calmed her nerves. He nibbled at the pulse point on her neck. Velvet's stomach muscles trembled as the smooth fabric of her robe brushed against it, feeling the air grazing her skin. Her breathing got shallow, and she pressed her hips into Avernus. The Shepherd brushed more light kisses over her neck until Velvet took the crumpled clothes herself and did the rest, tugging her rob as her young breasts bounced at the touch of cloth over her puckered pink nipples and her long hair sailed smoothly through it until it was laying on the ground.

The Shepherd took a deep breath, gawking and praising the perfect body of his lover. His glance was of love and worship. "You're amazing, my mistress."

Velvet placed a finger under his chin, tipping it up to enjoy those yearning emerald eyes.

Avernus resumed his kissing on her shoulders, his hands sensually exploring her sides and back. Velvet's skin was still warm from her bath, delicious and fresh as he began to taste it with his tongue.

Velvet bit her lip and slid her hands into his hair, pressing him against her shoulders. Her hands started to squeeze him uncontrollably. Velvet was unbelievably turned on by him, even more so than before when they first made love. Those gallant gestures and those tears that he offered to her were all she needed to believe.

Velvet's hands slid down from the back of his head to his neck, but she immediately opened her eyes as she felt the cloth of his rob, stopping her from exploring his skin. Velvet pulled herself back, her fingers curling in his bathrobe. She dragged them violently, a slight sound of tearing was heard. Velvet was becoming anxious; she needed that feeling, that touch of their bodies rubbing against another. A malicious grin formed on her face as she enjoyed undressing her man.

Velvet watched with wimpled eyes. His member swayed around, and her breathing hitching as new spots of his skin exposed. Velvet slid further on his hip to feel it like a hot iron under her body. Her mouth began to water, watching his stiff muscles flexing in the soft light of the room while she hauled the garb away.

From their last love session, she etched the feeling of his skin over her nipples that directly led to her arousal. Her hands cupped over his face and they went for a heated kiss. The hottest one yet. They kept it slow, more tender than before. They both wanted this night to last for them to be remembered for a long time. Velvet's hands roamed the strong muscles of his back, and he slid towards her chest.

Velvet breathed a crying moan in his mouth, her hand clinging to his back as he fondled her soft breasts.

"You feel so good.", Avernus said, whiffing at her neck, "Soft and smooth."

Velvet moved up for him to reach his mouth level and ran a nipple across his lips. She offered them to him like the bounteous gifts they were and he accepted them. The moment she had waited for has arrived. Avernus began licking her hardened nipple and his teeth nibbling her delicate skin.

Velvet clutched his back. She was burning inside and out, aching. Her private parts were throbbing over his heat, and her hips were moving on their own. Then, she felt his hands slowly moving down. Avernus clawed her butt cheeks gently at first, squeezing and massaging them. A burst of ecstasy rippled all over her body. Velvet surrendered to his lovemaking, putting all her trust in the son of Claudin.

Avernus parted from the first nipple, sensitive and bruised, and mercilessly tasted the other. Velvet let out a strangled moan, and her body shivered, hugging his head and kissing his golden hair. This was the cue for the Shepherd. He laid Velvet on the couch. "Open your legs.", Avernus demanded, and Velvet obeyed. He resumed his play around her breasts, but he made a new move. The other hand glided down her bare legs. Velvet gasped as Avernus fondled her private spot. His fingers stroked her wet folds, teasing her. He circled around her clit, his fingers sliding moistly on the edge of her entrance.

"More…", Velvet whimpered and widened her legs, her back rubbing over the red fabric of the sofa. She was unable to hold back any longer.

Avernus pulled himself up to kiss her again. He slipped two fingers deep inside Velvet and fingered her. The squelching sounds of her soaked privates rivaled her constant moaning. Avernus moved his mouth away, watching her gasping and sinking into a deep bliss.

"You're wet and warm inside.", he purred, "Do you want me to do more?"

"Yes!"

Avernus chuckled, "This time, I don't think you can stand."

"I don't care… Just do it… More !"

Reality shattered around Velvet as Avernus curled his fingers, finding her perfect spot inside. An orgasm rippled through her body, leaving her trembling and shaking.

Velvet's eyes fluttered open, and she saw Avernus bringing his fingers to his lips. Velvet gasped loudly as he licked her essence from his digits. "You're perfect.", he whispered softly, "And you taste delicious, like a freshly picked summer fruit."

Velvet's cheeks heated up. She was sure Avernus was a poet and a romantic. She hoped that he would not settle for a small taste. Butterflies swarmed her as Avernus pressed kisses around her chest, teasing her skin to her bottom.

Avernus pushed her legs apart, and she bucked, his mouth wet and fiery on her core. Like her breast, he was fierce. This time, sucking it and circling his slippery tongue around over and over again. The waves of ecstasy flooded her. Suddenly, Avernus slid a finger inside her again. She dug her head into the coach's cushions and discharged her womanly juices until she whimpered a release, shuddering, and leaving spots all over the couch from those which Avernus' tongue couldn't catch.

"Oh, Avernus…", Velvet moaned, still squirming. He quickly went again for her breast, his lips wrapping around her nipple, sucking gently. Avernus maintained his momentum. After all, the Lord of Calamity wouldn't settle for anything less.

"Yes… Please !". Velvet wanted more and more of him. His touch, his kisses, his tongue, and his love.

Avernus pulled himself up. "I want you, Velvet. Forever.", he muttered, prompting Velvet to open her eyes. "Please… Let me have you, my love."

Velvet felt his manhood pressing into her, pulsating lightly.

"Take me…", Velvet breathed, and Avernus pushed his tip into her soaking wet entrance. She touched and stroked his head, pushing it slightly down. Avernus bit one of her nipples as he slid inside her, and Velvet reflexively threw her legs over his hips. "You feel so good…", Avernus moaned, "So tight." He thrusts slightly, making Velvet whine in pleasure. He was big enough to fill her.

Avernus was warm and hard inside her, and she loved the way he felt. "You are… mine.", she whispered, focusing on a gorgeous man pleasuring her body and fulfilling her desires.

"And you are too, my love.", Avernus whimpered and returned to tend to her breasts, licking and biting them. Avernus sucked violently on her hardened buds, sending bolts of ecstasy pulsing inside of her. "That's it, push it more… Please… Let me feel you.", Velvet said, licking her lips. Avernus groaned in the delight of the friction. He pushed his warm, thick cock gently inside her.

Avernus slowly stilled and pulled out of her. Velvet breathy opened her eyes in question. He knew what Velvet wanted to do and she read it in his eyes and as he rolled and lied down beside her. Velvet gently moved on top of him. She pushed off his chest and, in a slow rhythm, slid up and down his thighs.

Avernus' hands moved to support her weight and grabbed her hips as they thrust up and down. He watched her calm face. Her eyes closed, lost in a dream and her body, breasts bouncing up and down. The red moon framed behind her over the window.

"Shine my world, goddess.", he whispered.

Always a gentleman. Velvet couldn't predict that one day, she would meet the son of the fabled Claudin Asgard at the world's end. Everyone spewed harsh words throughout the day; Lord of Calamity, daemon lord. Maybe she was all of them. But in his eyes, Avernus was seeing something else: The reason to live and the reason to fight.

Her nerves tingled. His voice played in her head like a colorful music piece, " My love, my goddess, my moon… ", Avernus was the only one who was permitted to say those and no one else. Velvet's uncontrollable thirst for his lips ran wild. He was inside her and Velvet suddenly desired his soft lips. The taste of his flesh was something her senses could distinguish from nothingness. Velvet cupped his cheeks and plundered a sudden kiss on his lips. She bit them a little and he moaned under her mouth. Her tongue slowly found its way inside and touched its counterpart and they danced around each other. Avernus obliged and kissed Velvet's tongue in return. She raved in the tunnel of pure love and bliss. His entire being was giving her love and care at the same time.

Velvet leaned in and lied over his body, their legs pressing together and wiggling against each other. Now she could feel every inch of his body. Velvet noticed his eyes ogled her bouncy breasts. With a smile, she lowered herself more and hovered them above his face, dipping them down and offering them to him. Avernus moved his hands from her waist to her breasts and mouthed them with an insatiable thirst. Velvet sailed naked in the seas of bliss once again. His hot cock pleasing her inside, and his mouth and hands doing the outside.

This night was special. She wanted to be taken yet again. Velvet stopped and laid on her back once again, letting Avernus move on top of her. He thrusts in her once more.

Velvet wrapped her arms over his shoulder and bit his pulsing neck, malevolence seeping from under her bandages. The mist burned Avernus' skin. He hissed in pain. Velvet gasped, pulling her left arm away. Avernus immediately opened his eyes and gazed at her. "Don't…", he said, "Don't hold back."

Velvet's heart escaped a beat. Avernus lowered his face closer to her. "I want all of you. Your love, your malevolence… Everything .", He muttered mouth to mouth. Velvet inhaling his breath.

Velvet swallowed and moaned in ecstasy. Avernus, a man of virtue, accepting her for what she was. The soft cloth on her arm began to part.

"Let it go.", Avernus commanded silently, but Velvet resisted. She feared that the malevolence would hurt his body. Avernus kissed and nibbled her lower lip. "You can let go… I want my Velvet."

She struggled to hold her urges at bay. After all, Lailah warned her of the hazardous side effects of malevolence. Avernus pushed deep inside her, his manhood angeling up, touching in all the right places. Velvet cried in pleasure, squirming helplessly, but the bandages didn't come off. Avernus nudged her legs open before reaching down and kneading her aching breasts, fondling and pinching them even more. "Give me my Velvet!"

Avernus reduced her resistance to nothing. She let out a whimpering moan as her hand throbbed and transformed into the reddish claws that, up until that time, already devoured countless daemons.

His lips curved to a satisfying grin. "Flawless…", Avernus praised. The queen of the night revealed herself in her true form: Terrible, yet beautiful. Deadly, yet life-giving at the same time, making love under the blood moon.

Velvet gazed into his eyes again, "You feel so amazing.", he muttered and pushed forward deep again. His skin began to shine with sweat. Velvet was getting wetter with every gentle thrust. Velvet was extremely turned on by all her fantasies coming true about her first love, their forbidden affair, and what they were doing so close to others. Velvet's hand and claw gripped his back, but no corruption burned his skin, they were just nails digging and fingers pressing hard enough to bruise. She could be herself, without fear, without holding back. Avernus was delightful under her demonic hand.

Velvet wrapped her legs over his waist and pushed her hips against his. She knew that both of them were close to the climax. "Oh, Avernus. Give me all of it…", Velvet moaned as she remembered the warm feeling from the last time Avernus made love to her. It was messy, but that fulfilled her sense of belonging. Avernus entrusted his love and seed to her and she had something of him within herself. Sweat glistened Avernus' muscles under the moon and he pushed forward once, then twice, and stilled. Velvet ogled his face; Avernus frowned with closed eyes and moaned as he ravaged her nethers, lost in the raging torrent of love, lust, and care with Velvet locking her legs over his hip, feeling it throbbing and pulsating around her walls. Avernus was ready to give her what Velvet desired.

Like an opportunist pirate, Velvet quickly took his lips for a final passionate kiss. The heat of his body and his breath were all mingled, becoming one with hers. For Avernus, that was all it took for him to lose it. His resistance was gone, finally letting go of all that pent up love deep inside her womb. They both pressured their mouths as Velvet took in the last act, her breath pausing, taking stream after stream of warm treasure that entered and filled her moistened insides. At the same time as his manly moans, Velvet cried out her release, howling a moan toward the tall ceiling of the bathhouse as the sensation washed over her in a long wave. Her entire body squirmed and trembled around Avernus' sweaty body as her intake was complete.

Avernus collapsed almost immediately beside Velvet. Their bodies were worn out. Velvet felt Avernus slip out of her with a whimper.

"Are you okay? How do you feel?", Avernus asked breathy, brushing, and tucking a strand of her silky dark hair behind her ear.

Those burning eyes flared with a satisfying flame. "The best.", she muttered, smiling and wrapping her arms around him, pulling Avernus to herself until his face was buried in her cleavage. Velvet caressed him with her daemon hand. Now without the bandages, she could feel and even taste his soft skin under it; it was all that she secretly wanted. Velvet could be herself around the man from the far continent that slowly stole her heart during the last few months of tragedy, death, and misery.

"We should go. The rest are…", Avernus began to mumble, but suddenly, Velvet squeezed the Shepherd in a hug, shushing him. If they could, Velvet would force him into a second… no, a few more rounds until Avernus was completely dry.

His vain struggle meant nothing against the Lord of Calamity's tight embrace and he couldn't ask for better pillows to rest his head in between.

"We have time…", Velvet whispered, comforting him and kissing his forehead as he instantly fell asleep in her embrace and in the place that he now belongs. For eternity.

Velvet raised her eyes and gazed at the blood moon that was rising up, turning the white snow red.

On that same night three years ago, a Shepherd took away everything that she held dear. Now, another, gave her something else; a love that accepted her for what she was. Or maybe even more, a second chance at life and a reason to live, that Velvet thought was impossible to pursue.

A wandering lion that fell for a wolf and, in the end, became one.

She was the moon, and he was the sun. The yin to her yang.

Velvet smiled and lowered her lips to his ears. She could finally say it.

"I love you."