Book 3: Chapter 45
A/N: My boyfriend is in the hospital. He makes stones, but the issue is that his nephrostomy tube got caught on the door… and at 8am Wednesday, he almost ripped that bitch out by accident. That’s a tube that goes into your kidneys(with a long needle) to bypass the urinary tract. He has two stones, one in each kidney and an infection with it. He’s stable, and in downtown Memphis, the best place to be sick, but of course I’m still gonna worry. Ironic that I’m working on this chapter tonight. Writing is part of my therapy, and this is the first time in a LONG time that I enjoy the chapters I’m throwing down. His first surgery is supposed to be at 6am to fix the port and stent, and I think July 9th is surgery 2 of many…
Tiffany
I sat in the hospital room with him, but only after I made sure Yellow Diamond was also secure… My people may not be there but the little pargreese are. It wouldn’t be right for them to die after they’d just gotten peace.
It also wouldn’t have been right to allow Velimier’s people to be killed or ambushed due to my negligence. The barrier there was secure. It was too far into the jungle, and more importantly… since it was uninhabited, they might not have found it. The Night Father’s touch was Just placed on the land not too long ago after years of inactivity…..
That may change when we live there. After all… Dark Witches tend to mar the land with our magics. Things tend to stop growing well in the form of crops, as Bounty’s blessings are not given, and to be fair that much magic saturated in the land to make a barrier strong enough to ward off the Church makes it hard too… The crop farm and human farm are set to be underground within its own bubble, so the soil there can be used with grow lights and water.
I know the Horned One may not *like* farm meat, but that’s all we can get… The Realm King has made *very* specific laws regarding just snatching up random people off the street…
“Where’s my mate?” Asked Zayde in the oldest Witch we knew, the original tongue.
Lord Haru was with him…. He didn’t die… but he must have been somewhere in the spirit world lost….Good thing we have many friends in Low places.
“I brought him back ma-Doctor.” Bowed Haru.
That was the Master…
Everyone around me froze, but I felt like I’d seen that trick before. Even Haru was frozen there in fear, as if he worried he would be punished.
“Well shit.” Grumbled the Horned One. “I suppose you can be *one more fucking person to know* he put his hand to his forehead. “I thought I did a good job too.”
“Master… I will keep your secret. I won’t ruin your fun Father.” I said with a bowed head and a light smile…. He was *terrifying* with the aura he naturally carries… but his gentle pet of my head still reminded me of the ‘doctor’ he pretended to be.
“I’ll have you know that I *actually* went to EVERY version of Harvurd Medical School, as well as Stanfurd if only for the fact that it’s nearly impossible to get in, even as the mother fucking Horned One.” He complained.
“I didn’t think you took this so seriously.” I mumbled, and he puffed his chest proudly.
“You know Arviel has angels on the board of admissions? Bullshit. Absolutely bullshit. I was given poor marks at the *slightest* mistake, which actually made it more fun. I have trained this mortal body thousands upon thousands of times to understand how mortals tick. I honestly don’t care about the saving part… The success is what I’m chasing. I figure you’d ask that too.”
“…. That’s …. really impressive sir… I’ll ask now because I know I won’t get another chance… But… Did you *actually* study, or you just knew everything?” I asked.
“I actually stuffed myself in this mortal visage you see here and studied like a mortal. I even had to eat, sleep, and other human functions. I developed many skills doing so…. Also, it was fun to see Arviel’s attempts to ruin my fun.” He chuckled. “I’m restarting time again. I don’t like doing it, so if you call me master like that bum, I’m getting you both.” He glared at Haru. His eyes went wide… so he heard.
He didn’t necessarily say it in a threatening way… but a threat from someone like the Horned One in any shape was *not* good.
“You both need to lighten up.” ‘Doctor’ Sampson huffed snapping his fingers. “You suffered a lot of internal damage from the artifacts coated in unicorn horn dust.” He said to Zayde.
“Doctor… I cannot express how thankful I am… Encounters with powdered unicorn horn if often fatal, but I’m sure you’re well versed if you could save me.” He coughed after he laughed a bit. “Oh that… really hurts….”
The Horned One chuckled. “It will for a few days. Don’t do *anything* magical for at least today. That includes even using the teleportation pads you’re all so fond of.”
“Awe Shit. Let me die.” He dramatically pretended to faint, and the Horned One laughed so hard he held his stomach.
Haru was absolutely mortified with me.
“Don’t joke like that!” I said getting up and hugging his neck.
“I’m just messin’ ‘round Tiffany. I only said it to get a giggle out of you. You look more worse for ware than me.” He said gently holding my chin, and we pressed foreheads. “I love you beyond the bond… I loved you before it…”
“I do to. I suppose I can get Typhen to fly you to our room.” I said mostly thinking out loud.
“…Oddly enough…. I think I want to be down here. I’m so sore, his rough flaps would be too much.” Said Zayde.
The Horned One rummaged around in his mobile doctor’s bag. I knew it was a magical storage, as he went inside. I wondered how big that room was in there, but I wouldn’t ask. It would likely be some nearly infinite space… or some other ridiculous overpowered nonsense.
He was in there 30 minutes, and came out with something that smelled delicious, though sulfurous. ‘Doctor’ Sampson came out with a vile of black liquid…. It had a red glow to it.
“This energy is hard to get…. But I’ll give it to you for a price.” He grinned. “You both know what this is, I assume.”
I did… that was raw demonic energy… I don’t think I’d ever seen so much… That much power at once would either kill him, or make him strong enough to challenge an Old One…
Zayde drooled, and needed a rag to wipe his mouth…. It smelled as good as prime ribs on the 5th of July….
“No thank you doctor… I know something like that was *hard* to get… The Price will be Too High.” Said Zayde. “The only way to extract that much raw… unfiltered energy from a demon would be to throw them in the pit…or slay them yourself and suck it out like a vampire….”
“I ask for a little of your time. Only a few years. You’re immortal, so am I so long as I make deals from time to time.” The Horned One grinned. “Why not shake hands and be healed?”
“I won’t steal the time I have with my mate… Plus… I *AM* immortal, I can even be revived if I’m fresh enough…., but if I trade years with you, it will give me an expiration date… I *can’t* risk that.” Said Zayde. “Nice try though.”
“Eh, I had to try. Your bill’s been emailed to you.” Said the Horned One vanishing, and Haru clapped.
“Denying such a gift?!” Laughed Haru. “I am proud you denied temptation, though I would have preferred you took it…. You’d have been twice as strong as your father with *that* much power… Layers, you’d likely be half as strong as me… I’d say just a step down from Lord Gulteer…but stronger than his wife.”
-----Zayde------
“That strength would mean nothing if I didn’t earn it, and even LESS if it takes me from my mate.” Said Zayde. “Do you have a mate? Do you understand how much it would pain my mate to see me die from some bullshit like a timer?”
“I don’t, though I would not willingly part with my 10 wives. They have given me many quality sons…. Possibly if it meant that I ruled all the behimoths, or a layer…or worked directly under one of the masters… Such an honor would be understood… Any would take that.”
“He’s right.” Said Aptherraam. He was in a human shape, butt-ass naked in the corner… He had a mouse.
“Put that outside!” Tiffany shouted…. I mean he’s a cat… He probably saw it while shifted into said housecat form, since he held it so tightly as a man.
“But-” he complained, but she didn’t want to hear it.
“No buts! We aren’t’ at home!” yelled Tiffany…
But I wondered why that thing wasn’t a ball of guts by the way he held it… Also, the screaming it did was off…
“But mistress, it’s a spy!” He shouted. Aptherraam squeezed it tight. “Transform you little shit. I will not be punished because you’re shit at your job, but good at faking!” he shook the mouse.
[Eat a bag of seal dicks!] said the mouse biting him, but he didn’t let go.
“Nice Try!” shouted Aptherraam.
“Good work. I didn’t notice such a small, insignificant demon.” Said Haru.
[Ah!] Squeaked the mouse.
“Shift.” Commanded Haru, and he compelled the demon without knowing his name.
Now there was a naked red man about 4 feet tall held by the throat…. My mate’s demon didn’t even let him go during his transformation. Impressive.
My hands still shook from the smell of so much energy… I felt like a magic addict…. I felt like if I was strong enough to, I would have jumped out this bed and drank it until my body burned from the inside out…
That was RAW energy… pure, uncut…as if it were from the master himself… Fuck I wanted it… I wanted it so bad, but I can’t trade my life away for temporary power.
“Talk Lesser Demon or you’ll be ripped apart, then we’ll follow your soul thread to your master.” I hissed.
“Good thinking.” Said Tiffany.
“Thank you.” I said not letting her know that I made that idea up on the spot. “Put a barrier around him to prevent his master from blowing him up.” I said as my mate was already on it… we thought alike on this one.
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