The Woes of the Demon King
Chapter 14 The meeting
Jaune stood out in front of his castle dressed more formal that he normally would. He stood in black formal pants and a white button up shirt with a black vest over top of it and a tie. It had been a week since Jaune had been attacked by that Adam fellow. He was still a little on edge about the situation especially seeing as Ozpin had left Adam his demonic sword, Wilt. That wasn't smart, but Jaune knew he was just being paranoid about the sword. At least he hoped he was seeing as the sword was still dangerous for him to deal with. In that week Jaune had gone about dealing with the princess' and Ren.
He had chosen not to tell Blake about Adam so not to worry her. He felt if she knew Adam had attacked she would blame herself. He didn't want that so he didn't tell her about him. After dealing with that he had done his best to prepare everyone for when Cinder was to come. It wasn't easy especially with Ruby and Yang seeing as they questioned him constantly about Cinder.
It really wasn't a difficult thing to talk about but Jaune had little information seeing as he only met Cinder once. Still Ruby and Yang didn't accept that. He didn't know what to tell them so instead he just dodged their questions so he didn't have to deal with them. Weiss on the other had been easier to deal with seeing as she understood his situation. She herself had been in an arranged marriage after all. Ren was also easy to handle seeing as he didn't act like royalty. He acted very calm and was very accommodating, even though he didn't have to be. Nora, well Jaune didn't know what to say for Nora or how to deal with her, so he left her to Ren. So with all that taken care of, he only had one problem now, and that was the irritating collar of his shirt. He pulled at the collar of his shirt only for Ozpin to walk up behind him smacking his hand away from his collar. "Stop that." Jaune glared at Ozpin for smacking him.
"Screw you!" Ozpin just shook his head at Jaune's anger. "You know I hate wearing ties, these things are just nooses!" Ozpin just stared blandly at Jaune. He sighed shaking his head disapprovingly.
"Jaune, this isn't about the tie. You're just nervous about meeting with Cinder again." Jaune opened his mouth to argue before closing his mouth and letting his head droop sadly.
"Is it that obvious?" Jaune asked slowly running a hand through his hair as Ozpin nodded at him.
"Yes, because you've never complained about wearing a tie before." Jaune had to nod at Ozpin's words. "Tell me, why are you so nervous? You've never been so nervous before."
Jaune just turned away from Ozpin rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm afraid what she might do when she learns about the princesses. Also, if she already knows I'm afraid of the schemes she might come up with." Jaune paused before groaning as he saw the criticizing stare Ozpin gave him. "Oh god, I'm letting the rumors about her get to me!"
Ozpin just rolled his eyes at Jaune before clapping him on the shoulder. "Jaune, you have no idea how idiotic you can be." Jaune just groaned at this.
"I am sorry, but Cinder kind of scares me. The last and first time we met she asked me if I would rule the world with her." Ozpin watched Jaune throw his hands over head in frustration. Ozpin quickly smacked Jaune in the back of the head calming him down a little.
"Jaune, please tell me you're joking?" Ozpin asked only for Jaune to sigh in frustration. "Jaune, you don't really think you have only met Cin…"
Ozpin began only for a loud roar to sound out. Jaune and Ozpin both slowly turned to look up into the sky. They saw the giant form of a dragon slowly descending through from the sky. The dragon was huge with large sweeping wings that reflected the red suns light brilliantly. The dragon had a large, strong body with four legs and a long neck that had gold scales running down towards its chest. The dragon's head was thin with a long pointed snout and long black horns making its head look like a trident. The magnificent beast slowly came to a halt little over 8 feet above Jaune and Ozpin before falling to the ground with a heavy crash sending a blast of red dust and dirt into the air around it. Jaune just stared at the sight of the dragon letting out a small cough from the dust before letting white energy form around his hand as he slashed it out creating a gust of wind before him quickly dispelling all the dust from view.
With that the dragon was fully visible before him and Ozpin. Jaune slowly looked back to Ozpin. "What were you saying before the dragon showed up?" Jaune asked only for Ozpin to wave off the question.
"Don't worry about that now, just stand ready. You have to properly greet your fiancé." Jaune just frowned at Ozpin before shaking his head and straightening himself up watching the dragon slowly lower its body to the ground as on its back was looked like a small carriage. The carriage's door opened up to reveal darkness, as a pair of burning golden eyes shown within. The eyes pupils were slits before shifting to a normal shape. Then another pair of eyes appeared, these eyes had slit pupils as well only instead of being gold, they were a bright blue. The blue eyes seemed to flash as Jaune locked his sight with them. In that instant there was a white flash that came from within the dark carriage flying towards Jaune like a speeding arrow.
In an instant Jaune quickly extended his arms and caught what came at him smiling happily as he spun around. Ozpin just stood to the side watching with the faintest of a smile on his lips. The sound of giggling broke the silence as Jaune looked down to see the deep white hair of a small girl clinging to him rubbing her face into his stomach. The young girl didn't look older than 13 years old with long flowing white hair. The girl was wearing a pale blue sun dress. The only thing about the girl that really stood out were small white dragon wings on her back that slowly faded away leaving blue wing like tattoo markings on her back. Jaune just smiled at the girl as she looked up to him. "Hey Liz, how are you?"
Jaune asked patting her head as she smiled and squeezed him into another hug. "Jaune I missed you so much!" Liz exclaimed into his stomach. Jaune had missed Liz seeing as he hadn't seen her in several years. Liz may have looked like a normal girl but she was in fact a baby dragon. She was actually the baby dragon to the dragon Jaune had killed 30 years ago, at the time Liz was a new born so when the goblins grabbed her she didn't have time to imprint on her actual mother. Instead she imprinted on Jaune when he pulled her out of the bag the goblins put her in. Then Jaune had to kill her mother, and ended up taking its heart. But that was a story for another day. He smiled at her patting her head lightly before the sound of someone clearing their throat drew his attention. He turned to see a beautiful young woman with shoulder length jet black hair that covered her left eye some. The woman was beautiful with an hourglass figure. She was wearing a long red dress with a golden design running along its rim and was cut open on the right side exposing her leg some showing of its smooth peerless skin with a soft milk white color. Jaune held his smile, but it faltered slightly as a slightly worried look crossed Jaune's face for a second before he pulled Liz from him and faced the woman. "Well Cinder, it's good to see you again. I must say you are as lovely as ever."
Jaune slid a hand down his vest smoothing out some wrinkles from Liz's hug as Cinder slowly stepped from the back of the dragon as a staircase of flames appeared for her to walk down. Cinder made a show of her decent down the flame stairs making sure Jaune got a good look at her long leg smiling sultrily at him. Jaune kept a good front not even blushing, but on the inside he chided himself for staring at her legs. Once she was finally stepped down from the stairs she walked right up towards Jaune coming up before him with her sultry smile never once fading.
"Jaune, how good to see you. I'm sorry for visiting on such a short notice, but I've been hearing some troublesome things about kidnapped princesses." Jaune just cocked a brow at her words questionably. Inside though he just cursed to himself knowing that that was why she had come. "Now, I had always thought you wanted to have peace with the humans. So to hear you had kidnapped them to be your brides or even your mistress' is very worry some for me. I had thought that I would be enough for you. But if you do need mistress' I will allow it so long as I approve of the princess' you choose."
Cinder stepped close to Jaune holding her hand to his chest her sultry smile seeming to grow as she came right up to his face her lips brushing his cheek as she came up to his ear and whispered. "Now, why don't we go meet these princess'. I would really like to see your taste in women." Cinder made sure to kiss his cheek, as the corner of her lips touched his ever so slightly before pulling away and sauntering off towards the castle swaying her hips for Jaune. Jaune just shook his head as Ozpin walked up beside him while Liz just stood smiling at him.
"I see why she scares you so much." Jaune just groaned at Ozpin before rubbing a hand down face. "It's a shame she changed so much from when she was young. I will admit she became a beautiful woman but her personality is nothing like the sweet young girl your father wanted you to marry." Jaune looked to Ozpin questionably only for Cinder to call to them telling them to hurry up or she would leave them behind. Jaune quickly moved to follow after Cinder, Liz right beside him as Ozpin moved slowly behind them.
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Nebula stood looking over a map of Anima. Along it where several drawings of beasts and monsters. Alongside the pictures of monsters, there were towns and some strange swirls that indicated portals to the demon realm. "Alright girls we are right here." Nebula pointed at a town on the map called Edge. "The portal we're going to is right here." Nebula pointed at a black swirl on the map that wasn't too far from the village they were in. Octavia looked over Nebula's shoulder at the map spinning one of her short swords in hand absently.
"That won't be a long trek, but the question I have is where we'll end up in the demon realm?" Dew and Gwen nodded at her wanting to know the same thing. Nebula just smiled at them before pulling a map from underneath the one she had up and presented it to the girls.
"This, girls, is where we will appear." Nebula said pointing at the map. The map she had pulled out was a map of the demon realm. Where she pointed to was another swirling drawing right in the same area as a large castle. Nebula's team stared in surprise before looking up to her for answers. "You see girls the Li family happened to have mapped the demon world. Thankfully for us they also know where the portal will take us. Now this portal will drop us off close to the Demon King's castle, so it shouldn't be too long of a trek."
Nebula's team nodded with a smile before they all began talking about what they were going to do.
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When they entered the castle Cinder came to the throne room where she walked up beside Jaune's own throne as the maids quickly set up a smaller throne next to his for Cinder. She waved the maids off before sitting down on the throne looking out over the large room like she was already the queen. "How's the view?"
Cinder looked to Jaune as Liz ran up to Cinder before sitting up in her lap. Cinder didn't seem to care as she just wrapped her arms around Liz's waist looking to Jaune. "Yes, I admit the thought of sitting beside you to look upon our masses from here makes the view quite nice." Cinder waved for Jaune to sit next to her in his throne. He walked up before her setting his hands on the arms of her throne leaning close to her face.
"As much as I would like to I want to get some things cleared up first. And sitting here in the throne room doesn't feel right. If you remember from the last time you were here, I prefer my Garden to this room." Jaune pulled back from her as she tried to lean into his face. She shot him a slight glare before a small smile formed on her lips.
"Alright, if you wish for us to change location I can't argue." Cinder slowly stood setting Liz down walking with her and Jaune to the garden. It didn't take long as they all entered into the Garden and Liz quickly let her wings reappear flying up into the blood oak taking a spot on the top of the tree. Cinder walked up to the tree sliding her hand along the trunk with a reminiscing kind of look on her face. "So why did you want to talk here?"
Cinder turned to Jaune as he looked out over the garden at the walls. There was a large cut along the wall stretching out along it. Cinder looked back to Jaune questionably before turning to her. "The reason I brought you hear is because I like being here more than I do the throne room. When I'm in the throne room surrounded by the pictures of my dead predecessors I tend to feel like they're just waiting for me to join them. Especially the ones who didn't like my family." Cinder nodded at his words waiting for him to continue. "And the second reason is to talk about the princesses."
This peeked Cinder's interests as she cocked a brow questionably. "Really now, what do you have to say about them?" Cinder asked tilting her head to the side looking Jaune up and down. He just reached a hand up rubbing the back of his neck with a slightly contemplative look before sighing.
"I need to tell you that I didn't actually kidnap the princesses." The moment Jaune said this he saw Cinder's eyes widen into shock as she went to ask questions only for him to hold a hand up stopping her. "Let me finish." Cinder closed her mouth and let Jaune continue. "So, like I was saying. I didn't kidnap the princesses. That was Ozpin being a pain in the ass. He happened to send out the goblins to collect princesses. I have also had the princesses contact their families to keep things from breaking out into war."
Cinder just stared in surprise at Jaune while Liz sat in the tree looking at something on the trunk. "You mean to say you had no intention of using the princesses for yourself?" Cinder asked getting a nod from Jaune.
"That is correct. Look, I don't know why you came here or what you want from the princesses but if you really want to meet them you need to give me a good reason." Cinder was surprised by this letting up a small hum before turning to look up the blood oak at Liz.
"I see, well I must say I am surprised. I had thought you had changed your standing with how you view humans." Jaune didn't like the way that sounded. He crossed his arms cocking a brow, waiting for Cinder to continue. "I thought maybe you were going to kidnap the princesses in hopes of showing the other Demon Kings that you had begun to wish for war. What else were we to think when we heard about the princesses being kidnapped?"
Jaune couldn't argue with that; he had already known something like this would happen. Still it didn't change the worry Jaune had now for when other demon lords will show up. While Cinder was cryptic at the best of times, she was at least easy to understand. She wanted power, at least from what Jaune had seen of her. So that made her motives easy to understand. "So you believed the same thing. I'm surprised you would try and hide that with saying you were worried about me picking a mistress."
Jaune waved a hand to the side only for Cinder to shoot him a sharp glare. She regretted that as Jaune's eyes hardened and she quickly turned away. She was no threat to him and she knew it. She cleared her throat before sliding a hand down her dress smoothing out none existent wrinkles. "I am sorry but your words offended me."
Jaune cocked a brow again. 'Only because it was true.' Jaune thought as Cinder faced him again.
"I was worried about you picking a mistress. I am to be your queen after all." Cinder walked up towards him slowly reaching a hand out to touch his chest. "I am a woman, so how do you think I would feel if I found out you favored some mistress far more than I." She slowly leaned into him coming up to try and kiss him only for the doors to the garden come flying up as a heavy thump sounded out. Jaune turned away from Cinder catching her curse from the corner of his eye before she turned glaring at the garden's entrance. In a pile at the door was, Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake. The four quickly pushed themselves to their feet while Weiss stepped forward dusting herself off.
"Apologues, for the interruption but Ruby and Yang were trying to eavesdrop on your conversation. I had tried to stop them… " Weiss said quickly only for Ruby and Yang to shout at the same time.
"What?!"
The two sisters quickly reached out pulling Weiss behind them. "That isn't true Jaune, Weiss was also trying to eavesdrop!" Ruby shouted only to wince when she realized she just admitted to eavesdropping. Blake just face palmed behind them, probably having been eavesdropping just like them. The four girls began to argue pointing blame at the other while Jaune groaned in frustration rubbing a hand over his face.
"So these are the princesses." Jaune turned to Cinder as she stared at the girls. She looked unimpressed by them and Jaune couldn't blame her. Considering the girls had entered in such an abrupt manner it was obvious Cinder had a very low opinion of them at this point. She stepped forward as a small flame danced in-between her fingers. "They should be punished for their rudeness."
Jaune quickly gripped her arm pulling her back towards him. She winced turning to him as he glared at her. "Leave them be." Cinder flinched staring in shock as his eyes burning a bright blue. "I will deal with them; if you dare to harm them believe me when I say you will regret it."
Jaune spat the last words before letting Cinder go taking a deep breath to calm himself down. Cinder nodded at him the flames in her hand having faded long ago. "I am sorry; you did say they were your guests so it's rude of me to raise my hand against them." Cinder quickly conceded before looking to the princesses as they finished their argument before turning to Jaune and Cinder. "Well, I guess seeing as they're here, why don't you introduce me to them."
Cinder stepped forward towards the girls watching them closely. Jaune just sighed in frustration before fixing a light glare on the girls that told them he would deal with them later. He looked back to Cinder just as she came up before Weiss. 'Oh, this is going to be a long day.' Jaune thought tiredly before coming up behind Cinder to introduce all the girls.
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