Chapter Three:

Due to the very large amount of time that the Cheshire Cat has been an extinct species, until the recent intervention of Lilith Potter through the use of her Rude Awakening Pieces, the knowledge of the natural magical abilities of the species had been lost for a very long time to the clutches of time. As a result, the first Cheshire Cat in the last few millennia, Luna Lovegood, had to learn just what she was capable of on her own.

During the first few days after her reincarnation from a human witch into a Cheshire Cat/Devil-hybrid, she had found herself suddenly appearing in locations that she simply wished to be in. Apparently, Cheshire Cats had the power to be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, an extremely powerful form of teleportation, the only limitation/limiter being their own will and sense of desire. Simply put, if a Cheshire Cat wanted to be somewhere, they could simply appear there unless they didn't want to. And Luna had been abusing her newfound power to be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously to sneak into Lilith's dorm and bed, without clothes, at night and share a bed with her king. And considering that neither one of them really cared about sharing a bed with each other, in the nude, they simply continued to do so. Considering that the two girls involved were genuinely enjoying the sensation that was the touch of each other's skin and physical affection. The affection between the two girls has been developing from the affection akin to the kind shared between a pair of sisters into the kind of shared between a pair of lovers over the course of the remainder of the school year, even if they aren't willing to go beyond sleeping together in the most literal sense just yet.

In fact all three members of the Peerage has stated amongst each other that they didn't mind a threefold relationship between each other, though they did all agree that they wouldn't indulge in any sexual activity unless both (or all three) of the involved parties were willing. They did however agree that they wouldn't get the Genitalia-potion involved until the youngest member of the little harem was at least legally recognized as adults, and that whoever ingested it would use protection until everyone involved deemed themselves ready for the responsibility of parenthood. It didn't however mean that the little harem wasn't willing to engage in the safer kind of sexual activity, lesbian sex.

Anyway, it had been a bit over a week since the king of the British Peerage, Lilith Potter, met her cousin, Rias Gremory. The fact the Devil/Reaper-hybrid had been been spending the nights she's been in Japan sharing her bed with either her queen, bishop or both of them pretty much every night, didn't go unnoticed by anyone in the mostly Japanese Peerage. While sharing a bed on occasion wasn't uncommon among Peerages, the rather frequent amount of times the British Peerage did so was quite worrying to Rias and the rest of her Peerage. Though considering that they didn't show the supposed symptoms of having sex at breakfast, it was somewhat relieving knowing that they were only sleeping together in the most literal interpretation of the phrase.

Rias felt more than a little disturbed by the explanation Hermione gave her. The redhead's cousin had been having a very disturbing amount of nightmares recently and the most effective method of not only getting rid of the nightmares but also making her king calm down was physical affection and comfort. Rias decided to confront her cousin about the nightmares during a session of what Lilith called amateur spellcrafting. The Devil/Reaper-hybrid had just completed her very first spell of her own creation. While the spell could technically speaking be used by anyone who could perform feats of magic, the intended method of casting the spell was through the magic of the wizarding world. And the spell that Lilith had created was given the very appropriate name of the Bone-Destruction Curse. Its mechanics were simple, effective and probably very painful. It fired a magical projectile that completely shattered the bones of whatever limb it hit. The most terrifying thing about the curse was that it could shatter a bone in the leg or arm just as easily the rib cage, spine or skull.

Rias couldn't suppress the shiver of horror at the sight of seeing her cousin shatter one of the several samples of actual bones with her newly invented curse. The fact that she had already done so with the other samples indicated that she wasn't just testing her curse at this point but also, if Rias had to take a guess, venting out her frustrations she had built up over the years. Maybe not the healthiest method of venting out one's frustrations and pent up anger, magically breaking bones, but at least she was getting it out of her system. One Lilith got tired enough, which was sort of humorously enough just as she shattered the last bone, Rias found her safe enough to talk to again.

"Feeling better Lilith?" Asked Rias, somewhat rhetorically, as she emerged from the spot she had been taking cover (hiding) behind since the seventh bone, which was when Lilith had started to intentionally overpower her curse, a desk.

"*pant**pant* more or less." Exclaimed Lilith in a satisfied, but clearly exhausted, tone, while panting. She had a rather worrying amount tearing in her clothes and a few minor cuts, obviously caused by the bone shards that she sent flying in pretty much every available direction due to her overpowering her Bone-Destruction Curse, causing the bones to shatter more violently (basically explode). "I'd say that it was a very successful, and frankly quite fun, series of tests. What were you doing behind that desk anyway Rias?"

"Well… you did start making bones explode after the seventh one, so I simply… hit the deck, so to speak." Rias' rather blunt deadpan caused her cousin to blush in embarrassment.

"Uhm, oops? Sorry."

"Meh. Hakuna Matata."

"…what?"

"Hakuna Matata. It means no worries."

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Please don't start singing."

"What?"

"Please don't tell me that you haven't heard of the Lion King."

"Oh! I loved that movie as a kid. I honestly found Timon and Pumba very funny!"

"Same here!" At that the two devils just broke down into a fit of laughter, with the younger one ending up on the floor clutching her sides where she eventually fell asleep due to both physical and magical exhaustion. Rias simply just shook her head and picked up her cousin and carried her over to the couch, that surprisingly hadn't been harmed at all, where she let her cousin lie down and sleep, using her own lap as a pillow for her cousin. And it was to this sight that the other members of Lilith's Peerage walked in upon, but they quickly left once Rias made a hush-gesture before shooing them away, silently telling them that she would take care of her cousin. The two devils remained like this for about an hour before Lilith woke up from her unexpected nap.

"No nightmares this time Lilith?" Asked Rias suddenly.

"Eeeep!" Shouted Lilith in surprise, only to calm down as she realized it was just Rias. "How do you even know about that?"

"I asked Hermione." Answered Rias calmly as she observed her collect her clothes and starting to put them back on with a sweatdrop (and yes! Lilith had stripped herself down to nothing after only ten minutes in her sleep). Rias would probably never admit it out of pride, but she was slightly impressed by her cousin's ability to strip herself down to nothing and how fast she was capable of doing it, in her sleep. "I'm might not know much about whatever problems occurring in the wizarding world, but if there's anything I'm sure of it is that I'm a Gremory, and for us, family is important. And a cousin having, what I assume, magically induced nightmares is definitely worrying." At that, the Devil/Reaper-hybrid, who had managed to get her underwear on, just sat down on the couch and for a while just stared at her cousin. Not sure if what she had done made things better or worse, Rias simply gave her cousin a hug, with Lilith's head ending up resting on Rias larger chest. This action finally broke the waterworks and Lilith started crying. "There there. We can talk about it once you've finished." Exclaimed Rias comfortingly as she continued hugging her crying cousin while occasionally giving her a pat on either her back or head. Eventually, Lilith stopped crying and she more or less confessed that her nightmares might have be caused by a link she unwilling shared with the infamous wizard known as Lord Voldemort, a name that had made itself known even in the supernatural world.

Apparently the dark wizard had been making pacts the Devils of the organization known as the Khaos Brigade, assassinating various figures that were important to the various pantheons in exchange for power, earning himself a spot on pretty much every single pantheon's blacklist. In fact, pretty much every single pantheon has put a bounty on the dark wizard's head. It was probably one of the few things that all of the pantheons ever agreed upon, even some of the more neutral factions of the supernatural world had a bone to pick with the dark wizard. The most notable one being the Hades and the Reapers. Apparently Voldemort had used a rather nasty method that had been banned to escape the clutches of death, and Hades was pissed because of it. With the knowledge that a multi-pantheon criminal was responsible for not only her cousin's misery and the death of her aunt, Rias got understandably angry and vowed to her cousin that she would assist when possible and would gladly disintegrate Voldemort if necessary, but would try to restrain herself to simply maiming him in order to give Lilith the satisfaction of killing him, since he was responsible for the hell Lilith had suffered.