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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Enchantment: Chapter 2: Spells and Surprises
Romance: Yubel x Juudai x Johan
Word Count: chapter: 1,671||story: 3,362
Genre: Romance, SupernaturalRated: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, section I, #12, a multichap with exactly 10 chapters; Written for the Valentine's to White Day Advent, day 24, write about a brainwashing/trickery.
Summary: On Johan's wedding day, he goes for a breath of fresh air in the forest, and encounters a creature he's never seen before. He will still marry this day. But not who he expected. For who would expect to marry the King of the Fae?

Johan blinked once, twice, and a third time as he stared at the winged unicorn he still remained mounted on. Slowly he reached down and pinched his wrist as hard as he could, closing his eyes, then opening them.

Everything around him remained just as it was. He swallowed slowly.

"Did you just… say something?" He tried not to think about some of what had been said. He'd think about fae kings another time.

"Of course I did." The pegasus turned his head upward to look at Johan. "Didn't you hear me?"

Johan swallowed one more time. "I didn't know - " He hadn't known that pegasi could talk. He hadn't known they'd even existed until now.

The pegasus chuckled a little. "You can get down, you know. You're safe here. No one will harm you. They'd be more likely to attack His Majesty than you."

That got another blink out of Johan. "Why?" Surely it would be worse to attack a king than someone little more than a peasant, wouldn't it?

"Because if they attack me, I'll just kill them," a voice came from behind him and Johan froze where he stood. "But if someone attacks you, I can do so much worse."

Johan didn't want to look around. The voice was familiar, in all the ways that a voice never should be, and he knew he'd never heard it before in his entire life. He stared as long-fingered hands rested on his where they remained entwined in Sapphire Pegasus's mane and began to tug him downward.

"Come, beloved," the voice spoke again. "You have a great deal to get ready for."

Johan found his legs and body moving without instructions from his mind as he slipped off the unicorn. "I need to go home," he said, "they're waiting for me. I'm going to be married."

"Of course you are." Those hands remained wrapped around his own as Johan set foot on the ground. "But not to who they think." Dark amusement twisted through the words and one of the hands released Johan to trace down his cheek and slowly turn Johan's head to the side.

The first thing Johan thought when he saw the king of the fae was how beautiful his eyes were. Golden as the sun they gleamed, with faint flecks of brown in their deepest depths. His features were carved by the hand of an artist, sharp shadows and warm curves combining to form a most intriguing whole.

"You're as beautiful up close as you were at a distance," the king murmured, keeping a grip on Johan's chin as he did. "Just as we hoped."

Johan blinked, trying to get his mind to work coherently and not having a very easy time of it. "What do you mean?" He wasn't certain exactly what parts of what the king said he referred to. Probably all of it.

"You'll find out." The king glanced over Johan's shoulder to Sapphire Pegasus. "Inform the others. The wedding will take place at sunset tonight and I expect all of you there."

Sapphire Pegasus bowed his head and moved out of sight. Johan started to reach for him, but the king kept him from going too far.

"You'll see him again, and the others," the king promised, turning Johan back to him and looking him up and down once more with a burning hunger in his gaze. "Until then you have other tasks to take care of."

Johan tried again to think clearly. "What are you talking about? My wedding's to be at noon, not sunset." He felt so stupid just saying it. But it was true, regardless.

The king smiled, a dangerous slice of a look across his features. "All fae royal weddings take place at sunset. Did you expect mine to be any different?"

At that, Johan shook his head and gave the king a sharp glare of his very own. "You expect me to skip my wedding to be a guest at yours?"

"Of course not!" The king laughed, shaking his head at that. He still kept one of Johan's hands held tight in his, the one where the silver birthmark gleamed. "I expect you to skip that wedding to take part in ours!"

In all of his life, Johan hadn't ever been caught by surprise like this. He tried to pull his hand away, but the king didn't allow that. Instead, he held on even tighter.

"Oh, Johan. I know you don't know. You should have, but your parents refused to tell you about me." The king's other hand, with just the faintest trace of sharp nails Johan realized, brushed through Johan's hair, and the king smiled at him. It was a very beautiful smile, but one that sent chills through him nevertheless. "You've always been betrothed to me, since the day you were born."

"What?" Johan had never uttered a flatter word in his entire life.

Still the king kept hold of him. "They never said a word, I know. I wanted them to, but they tried to take you away from us."

Johan tried harder to pull away but the king's grip refused to lighten up. "Could you say something that makes sense?" He wanted out of here! He wanted to go home, whether or not he married!

"I have been. You simply don't understand me." The king stared at him, golden eyes glimmering with thoughts and power that made Johan tremble. "When your mother was still carrying you, she grew very ill. Your father, in fear for her life, used an old spell to call me in order to heal her. But the price he offered was his most precious treasure." The king smiled again, and this time Johan saw pointed teeth. Not just incisors, but all of them.

He focused on the words in an attempt to ignore those teeth. He really didn't want to see them getting anywhere near him. "Father's a gem merchant. He's had lots of precious treasures."

The king's hand rested warm against the side of Johan's cheek, without any warning whatsoever. Johan tried to pull away and couldn't once more. The king tugged him closer instead.

"The least of the gemstones in my palace is a thousand times more valuable than the greatest jewel your father has ever seen or will ever seen," the king murmured, staring into Johan's eyes once again. The longer he did, the less like moving Johan found himself feeling. "The most precious treasure in his life at that point was his unborn child. I saved your mother's life and your life is mine because of that."

Again his hand closed on Johan's chin and pulled him so close that Johan could feel the warmth of his body. Slowly the king's hand slid around to grip the back of Johan's head and tugged him close enough to rest his lips on Johan's.

Despite having been engaged to Eileen for years, Johan had never had a kiss before. His parents and hers always watched every moment they spent together. The king's lips, on the other hand, were warm and passionate and very, very skilled, his tongue sliding against Johan's lips and pressing past them to touch onto Johan's tongue.

"Juudai!" The voice cracked sharply and Johan could not have been more grateful as the king released him. "Don't rush. Sunset will come soon enough."

Johan's cheeks scorched red as he turned toward the strange voice, wanting to say thank you. The words died on his tongue as he saw a tall creature standing there, one that unlike the fae king, very clearly wasn't human in more than the most basic outline. Two arms, two legs, one head, and two broadly spread wings made up the creature's form, along with three eyes, all three of which were different colors.

"We've waited a long time," the king said, and Johan realized he was almost pouting. "And he tastes good."

"I'm sure he does." The creature gave Johan a look that was as predatory in its own way as how the king looked at him. "But we will wait until tonight."

Johan had no idea of why, but he wasn't going to argue about this. He tried his best to steady himself and smiled at the newcomer. "I'm Johan Andersen. And you are?"

The other's lip curled briefly before looking back at the king. "He'll need a few lessons beforehand, unless you want him to insult someone." Then the stranger looked to Johan again. "You may call me Yubel. And don't give your name to anyone else. Juudai and I know it already but no one else needs to hear it from you."

"I can fix that." The king, Juudai, traced a design across Johan's lips without warning. Johan blinked, feeling a strange sensation as if threads bound across there.

"What did you do?" He didn't think he liked it. Something was off here.

Don't fool yourself. There are a lot of things wrong here. He didn't think he could count them all, at least not right now.

Juudai smiled, stealing one more kiss before he answered. "A geas. You can't speak your name to anyone without my permission now. It will protect you until tomorrow morning."

Johan gave him a very suspicious look. "What happens tomorrow morning?" Was it just a time sort of thing? He didn't know much about magic, let alone fae magic, but he'd heard stories about spells with time limits, and sunrise seemed the usual kind of thing.

The king chuckled. "By tomorrow morning, your name will be different, and you'll know not to give it to anyone anyway. Not to mention, tomorrow morning will be after our wedding night."

Johan's lips worked, but nothing at all came out of them save a tiny squeak. Juudai chuckled a little.

"Have someone take him to the library. I'll send Misawa to educate him," Juudai ordered. Johan didn't say a word. All he could do was stare, and wonder if he'd ever see his home again.

To Be Continued