9 comments/ 22092 views/ 40 favorites My Naga King By: Reddestiny921 (It took a while a long while before I could think of something a little more interesting than my last story. There is no sex in this first chapter.) .... Many stories begin with an angry demon, who lives in a dark and dirty cave, who probably can't control him or herself. He or she may have no shame, or may be hideous with extra additions that would be seen as deformities among humans. There is probably even an orgy going on at the same time among other things. However, my story is not entirely like that it's true the emotions of demons are far more passionate than most humans because they aren't raised to be shy or to told 'tone it down'. However most demons have been alive for centuries and of course longer than that in most cases, they aren't unevolved animals...well most of them aren't. I suppose now would be a good time to start actually telling the story... .. As cliché as it may sound it really did begin with a normal night, it was Halloween and tonight instead of handing out candy I would be going to a party. Most my friends and family lived in New York, so a Halloween party to me sounds far more fun than it would to someone who had a more suburban home. I was going as a nurse, my sister seemed to think the costume would work for me. The pale pink scrub top was made from nylon and stretched over my C-cup breasts nicely and ended just above my pierced navel. Which held a bejeweled syringe, the bottom was made the same material and ended mid thigh, with a nurse cap the costume was complete. I added black stockings and a matching garter belt the thong was pulled up high to be seen out of the top of my skirt. I brushed my blond hair over my shoulder and grabbed my pink pumps and I was ready to go. Being dubbed the "nicest" in my group of friends use to annoy me in high school since I always wanted to fit in with the "cool" kids who we all know weren't always so nice. Now at twenty-two it was fine, every year no matter where I went I carried a few bags of candy. The party was at Stacy's, and she was close enough to walk I just ignored the mothers who sneered at me for giving out candy. Their expressions made it clear they were only jealous, I giggled hearing one little girl ask her mother why my chest was bigger than her mother's was. When I finally reached the apartment I almost didn't go in, I could see how many people she had jammed into her place and sighed. I could handle crowds, but it's gets really irritating really fast when every superhero claims it would "help their mission" if they could slap your ass. Sucking it up I went to get buzzed in anyways, I smiled when a slutty clown came to lead the way. However, my friend Monica made the floppy, thigh highs and brightly striped minidress look good. She grinned. "Hey Cass, looking hot did Juniper pick that out for you?" I smiled as we made our way to the party, I didn't really have to answer it was obvious. When we handed out candy last year I had a sensible Lady Liberty costume. Juniper swore she would never let me pick out a costume again. I smiled at the guests I was familiar with, or those who had told me what they would be going as. I spotted two other nurses but I had the sluttiest costume, and for an adult Halloween party that meant I was the best dressed one. ... Two white Russians, and a figuratively red ass later I went out on the balcony to get some air. I looked up as a gladiator came out to join me, Patrick was an ex I managed to stay on good terms with for the most part. Pretty good looking with an expensive hair cut and a mouth that could talk you out of all your clothes in a few minutes; he was quite the catch. I eyed the bottle in his hand and his chuckle made me look up at him. "Relax Cass, I'm late this is only my first beer." I shrugged. "What's up?" "Just wanted to know if I could get a check up." I rolled my eyes and he chuckled again. "OK I'm sorry that was bad, how about dinner instead?" "Patrick..." "Just as friends." He added. A crash inside saved me from having to answer, we walked back in and tried to see over the sea of backs to find out what happened. "What the fuck are you doing?!" At the sound of Stacy's voice I sighed and dropped down to my knees to try peering through the parted legs instead. "What happened?" I sighed and looked at Patrick. "Some dude knocked the keg off the glass stand." "And who had the bright idea to put it on a glass stand?" "Who knows." I crawled between the legs grateful for my time in gymnastics and cheer, coming through the other side I saw a man dressed like an alien and a group of old school monsters that were about to beat him down. I pushed between them and stood in front of him. "Hey leave him alone." "He spilled the beer." "So? You always claim you're so rich and amazing, so why don't you take your amazing wallet and get some more?" Stacy stepped between me and the group, the slutty cat had her claws directed at me though, some friend. "Cass, your dumb ass friend is ruining my party." "He's not my friend, and no one is ruining your party." "Just take him and leave while I try to fix this." I frowned but helped him stand she touched my arm. "Just stop being a goodie goodie and let them kick his ass." "I'm not going to let your idiot friends beat up someone for a little spilled beer." She didn't like that answer but I didn't care, I was raised better than that, I tugged him out of the apartment not even batting an eyelash when the door was slammed behind me. It didn't take long to realize whoever this was, was beyond drunk. He probably wouldn't even remember anything in the morning. I cursed, I was going to have to take him to my apartment, normally no matter how nice I may be I would think twice before take a drunken stranger home. He wasn't trying to feel me up so I over looked that little fact. .. The next morning I woke up and heard the vacuum running, I pushed myself up and slid out of the covers. I looked out my bedroom door and raised an eyebrow, my apartment was cleaner than it ever had been. I could pick up after myself just fine, but it looked like I had one a free cleaning from a complete neat freak. I walked further into the scarcely decorated room and saw the man I saved cleaning up. I didn't have to wait long to get his attention he turned off the vacuum cleaner and turned around then smiled. He was an older man, but handsome none the less with really the prettiest blue eyes I'd ever seen and the nicest smile. "Oh good morning, allow me to properly introduce myself, I'm Harold Grenfel and you, young miss?" I stared at him before I shook my head and remembered the few manners I hadn't lost while growing up. "Morning, um I'm Cass...Aarons." "It's nice to meet you, I have cleaned everything but your bedroom and made breakfast for you. I will apologize for last night but I felt an apology wasn't enough." "You remember?" "Quite, please come sit before it gets cold." True to his word he had made breakfast, a plate of Belgian waffles sat next to a pot of oatmeal, fresh fruit, bacon, sausage, cinnamon rolls and eggs sat on my table. "Also I made coffee, how do you take it?" "Um...usually lots of cream and sugar...but I think I'll skip the sugar with all the calories I'm about to ingest." He smiled brightly. "Nonsense, you're such a lovely creature every curve is perfectly proportioned to your body you could stand to gain a few pounds if I may say." My mouth had fallen open right then. "Before you try and get in my pants, why don't you come eat with me, I don't eat this much on even special occasions." He made a face as he set my cup of coffee down. "I don't normally eat with the head of a house young miss." "Oh please I insist, and please call me Cass." He didn't seem comfortable but eventually made a second cup of coffee and sat down across from me. I had been expecting maybe a 'thank you' or even just a 'see you around' but to wake up to this was so much nicer. "So...Harold, you don't seem like the type to go to festive keg parties, what were you doing there last night?" He sighed. "I went as a guest with a mutual friend, and I heard he had left while I was in the bathroom due to an emergency. Next thing I know someone is passing me an odd tasting drink and the world won't stop spinning." I made a face. "You were drugged." "I would say so, I've had beer before and it has never tasted quite like that." I smiled. "Well at least nothing else bad happened to you." He shrugged, his cooking was delicious as if he'd been specially trained for it, I could feed a room full of picky eaters but I'm not sure anything I've ever made ever tasted like this. I told him so and he smiled and thanked me. "So, do you know how to get home from here?" "I do." "Where do you live?" "In my master's castle." I stared at him. "Master?" "Yes the head of the house, King Zeos." "King?" He nodded again, I wondered if he was pulling my leg but he seemed pretty serious. "Should you come to need employment he is always looking for new maids." He reached in his jacket and pulled out a phone to show me pictures, it was a massive stone castle, surrounded by a thick forest. Though on a cellphone I couldn't make out much else. I handed it back to him I hadn't seen anything like that here, though my job at the corner bakery was taking me no where fast. He smiled. "You're welcome to accompany me if you are skeptical, it's a lot more modern inside though." I don't know if it was the lasting effects from the booze last night, the fact that he'd given me such a nice morning, or honest curiosity but in the end I went with him. ... Of course by the time we left the streets were packed but he assured me that walking was for the best. It was a bit chilly but nothing I wasn't use to, I tugged my jacket over my sweater just a little more. The noises of the city surrounded us for a short time before they got quieter, I looked around as the tall buildings melted into smaller structures. City smoke faded as the air became clearer. I stopped but he grabbed my hand. "Not getting cold feet are you?" I looked at him then my eyes widened, his gray hair was now coppery red, his skin looked as though it had lost thirty years, even his clothes had changed. He was wearing the nicest black suit I'd ever seen, it was silk and cotton and clung to body that seemed to have doubled in muscle. "Harold?" He smiled wider and pulled me toward a little booth I screamed when an over sized, human sized gecko came into view. I jumped behind Harold who only chuckled in response. "Uh...hey Harry, who is your little friend?" "This is Cassandra, saved me from a beating I'd earned while drunk." The gecko smiled. "Cass, this is Phil, he won't hurt you." "Unless you're secretly a cricket, then you're lunch." I frowned and he laughed. "Sorry, it's a little demon gecko humor welcome." I nodded toward him but stared at Harold. "Did he just say demon?" "Well of course, you were wondering how my appearance changed weren't you?" Phil jumped on the counter and spread his arms out. "This is the demon half of the world, take a good look." I turned around, it looked like I'd just stepped into a fairy tale perfect grass, clear blue water and a large supply of animals. Small but livable farm huts, but it was also modern, cars were driving around, there were stop lights, a few people...erm demons even had cell phones. Harold smiled. "Demons tend to take only what they like from the humans, but it's a bit nicer here with all this fresh air." "You still have cars." "But we don't use oil for gas." "What do you use?" "A type of solution made from water and tree sap, how about a tour?" I ran my freshly manicured nails over my arm quickly at the feeling of pain I nodded he lead me away from the booth and down the sidewalk. For the most part the people seemed human but I started to spot more of them with more demonic qualities. "Harold!" I turned and a saw a curvy, green eyed, blond beauty running over she was wearing a tight black leather dress and had a jacket pulled over it. She stopped to catch her breath then stared at me. "Who is this?" "A prospective maid." She relaxed, as if she had thought I was trying to get with Harold she smiled then, he introduced us her name was Camilla, and she was his wife. "The master was looking for you, but if you were scouting for more help he won't be mad at you." He rolled his eyes. "I'm not afraid of him, I once changed his diapers, young whippersnapper that he is." She giggled and I walked with them to the castle, in person I could see the rose garden surrounding the front. When we walked inside there were other men and women of various shapes, sizes, and every color under the Sun dressed in their uniforms. An octopus demon slithered over, I moved behind Harold. Camilla pushed me away from the odd creature and we moved through the house that was richly decorated in velvet, gold, and marble. Then headed up the grand staircase before going past more art, the entire castle was much like a piece of art itself. Even the televisions and phones were decorated, we stopped in front of a pair of large double doors and Harold appeared next to us. I hadn't even noticed he'd been following so closely. Harold knocked three times then pushed open one of the doors, to the right was a large canopy bed, the stand didn't have a gap like normal beds it was also gold. Silk drapes hung from the canopy, we walked in and Camilla moved to open the drapes. Inside there was a man moving to sit up against the pillows. He wasn't wearing a shirt and his upper body was built like a champion swimmers. He had gold bangles on his biceps, and a decorative dragon tattoo running up the left side. His skin was tanned, again like a swimmers, his hair was long really long and completely black. Even from where I stood I could see his hazel eyes were slit like a snake's and were rimmed with red, like a sunset. He had a small goatee but that was the most I made of his face I noticed there was also a large snake in his bed as well. It was black, but nothing like I'd ever seen, rubies were running along both sides silver swirls made designs on the scales and the tip of the tail seemed to fade to silver. Only when he slid out of bed did I see that he was the snake, I remember him introducing himself as King Zeos before screaming again but fainting soon after. I'm not sure why I was so calm earlier but perhaps the pot had just boiled over and I was at my limit of all things not quite human. ... "Lady Cassandra?" I groaned and opened my eyes until my eyes focused on Camilla's face, she smiled slightly. "Are you alright?" "I think so...." She helped me sit up the room was beautifully decorated in purple, white, and black, instead of gold, the bed sat on marble. My eyes scanned the room any little girl would be thrilled to have while going through a princess phase. Something about the room suggested it wasn't intended for a child though. "Is....this your room?" "No, this is your room, whenever you would like to use it." I stared at her. "My room?" She nodded. "Yes, his majesty picked it out thinking it would be to your liking, if he was wrong I can tell him for you." I shook my head. "It's beautiful...but why do I need a room....especially one as lavish as this one." "You're his mate to be." Apparently my expression held confusion or a mix of emotions because she smiled. "Shall I elaborate?" "If you would that would be great." "You were born to the humans but you are destined to be his, no other will ever fill his future place in your life." "What....no, I just met him, just found out about demon kind, and now he wants to marry me?" She giggled. "But of course not, he wants to court you." "And I get no say in this?" "Well of course you do, he won't harm you, or force himself on you." I crossed my arms and laid back to stare at the wall. "He also would like to apologize for startling you." I looked at her. "He doesn't have to...it's been a long day...I need to go to work though." "I don't know if that would be wise, you did faint, your blood pressure could still be high you need to rest." I frowned, I didn't want to rest I wanted to get up and move but then again I did feel light headed at the time. "Are you hungry? And if so would you like to dine with his majesty?" I almost said 'no' but then felt confused as to why I wanted to see him. "I don't know...I mean I came here for employment...unless Harold knew who I was and that was just a way to get me here?" She smirked. "Well, he isn't the head butler for nothing." She grabbed my hand and pointed at my bicep the outline of a rose glowed there, but I'd never had that mark before, for all I knew it could have been put there while I was out cold. "You can see it because you're on this side, but usually it will only be visible to our kind, demons. Of course his majesty will change you when you make the decision to be with him." "This....is too much to take in right now..." She frowned. "...But I'll take a nap and eat later." I added. That made her smile, she reminded me of younger version of my mother she got up and bowed before leaving the room. My Naga King Ch. 02 (I would just like to thank everyone for their kind comments, when I saw the story was accepted and five comments I was worried that I would have a lot of negative feedback. I mean I know not everyone will like everything I put out, but some people take their rudeness too far. I will try my best to keep the story interesting I hope you all continue to enjoy it.) .... When I finally woke up I could see a beautiful sunset waiting to be viewed outside, I felt a little better but still shaken. I think reasonably so, it's not everyday that you are told you are intended for a demon king. I scanned the room and found my purse sitting on the vanity, the little thing seemed so plain when surrounded by so much....perfection. Grabbing it I saw that I had missed several calls, most of them from my sister I knew she'd give me hell for ignoring her. It didn't matter if it was out of my control or not she would whine anyways. I called my mother instead. "Hello?" "Hi mom." "Cassie! Hang on sweetheart.....sir I'm sorry about this she just called me....thank you have a good night. Cassandra Melody Aarons where the hell have you been? We have been worried sick about you!" I sighed. "Well I left the party and went home." "Monica called and said that she had been in the bathroom and didn't even see who you left with. Then Stacy called all upset and wanting to apologize because she was drunk and Patrick told her how she went off on you last night. Then they called again after they went to check on you and said you were gone." I started playing with the various bottles of perfume and lotion that sat on the vanity, my mother could go on for hours. I understood that she was worried, and I appreciated that she cared but I couldn't make her feel better if I couldn't get a word in. When she finally stopped talking for more than a couple seconds I cleared my throat. I made sure to tell her where I was and how I ended up there. I stared at the phone after she stayed silent. "Mom?" "I want you to come see me, you aren't safe there." "You're not concerned in the least? You're not even going to ask me if I'm on drugs?" "I know there is more to the world than what we see on a daily basis dear." "You know? What do you mean you know?" "Dear we can talk about this until I'm blue in the face, but not until you are safely here and away from that monster." "Zeos is not a monster." "You don't know him." "That's true but you always told me not to judge someone before I give them a chance if possible." My mother sighed. "Yes, you always were my good daughter, taking my lessons to heart but he's not a regular man." Well of course, most regular men end in two legs and have normal eyes among other things. "Mom I know that." "Then you should hurry home, have someone bring you." "Why can't you just tell me what you know? I don't like you being so secretive." "We can talk when your safe and not before then, if you want to stay I can't force you to do anything else however I can't protect you if you choose that and it blows up in your face." She hung up and I frowned remembering all the people who told me 'curiosity killed the cat'. I stared at my closed door knowing what was somewhere on the other side. I picked up the brush and fixed my hair. 'I wonder if they also know that satisfaction brought it back?' ... I pushed open the door and looked around the hallway, the plush and velvety carpet greeting my feet with comfort made me feel a little bad about wearing my shoes. I took out my phone and took a few pictures of the hallway in case I got lost. I took a left and looked at the various suit of armors that were posed as if guarding the individual portraits between them. The first portrait was of a beautiful woman adorned with a revealing white skirt that showed some of her purple and white jeweled tail. Her top was made of diamonds and sapphires and the golden crown that rested on top of her blond head was cut in a mix of swirls. "Empress Gabriellana." Her bright green and black eyes seemed to be watching me. Next to her was a picture of man that appeared to be Zeos at first glance but I knew it wasn't him. The hair of the man in the portrait ended in blood red tips, and his tail was completely black from what I could see with little sapphires decorating it, he had Zeos's eyes but less facial hair. "Emperor Constantinos....these must be his parents..." "They are." I jumped and turned to see Camilla standing there. "How did you find me?" "I followed the scent of your perfume, apple is a good scent for you." I stared at her for a bit before I smiled, the other portraits were just as beautiful, I was beginning to feel out of place. I've always been told I was pretty but some of these women were absolutely stunning. "If you would like to keep looking around my lady I can accompany you." "You don't have to, I'm sure you have more important things to do than show me around." I raised an eyebrow when she smiled at that. "It is nice to welcome a future queen who cares about others, however keeping you safe is more important than anything else." I just shook my head. "OK, but don't call me 'my lady' Cass is fine." Again I was given that same uncomfortable look that Harold gave me when I told him he could eat with me. "Uh let's just keep moving." She nodded and followed behind me as she talked about whatever piece of art that caught my attention. She explained that the naga were cousins to the dragons and enjoyed surrounding themselves with beauty and great riches. Adding in that naga were males and lamia were female she also pointed out that it was unlikely to meet a pompous naga. They tended to be more loving and less violent than their older cousins. "Can I ask you something?" "Of course." "You said keeping me safe was important....am I in danger here?" She shook her head. "Not quite, but you had such a taxing morning here I was concerned if I left you alone you could possibly collapse again. You're scent is still new if you were unconscious somewhere unattended it would be difficult to find you without knowing where you started." I nodded. "About the naga...and lamia, you said they were cousins to the dragon, so what....um hmm never mind." She grinned. "You're trying to ask about characteristics?" "That's it." "Naga and lamia as you may have noticed are several times smaller than dragons, they are sort of like.....evolutions of the dragon. The royals and the rich have more dragon in them than a peasant would." "So they have a social ladder." "Precisely, his majesty and his family are at the top, politicians and basic rich are immediately after. The royal group has three forms they can shift between, the first is everyday use. The second is when they are threatened or in danger, they have two legs, the tail grows spikes and their fangs and claws extend. The final form is for battle, they appear much like they do for their second form, however their entire body is covered in impenetrable scales. They also grow wings and spikes grow all the way up both sides of their bodies." I tried to picture those beautiful creatures ready for battle, maybe mom saw that somehow and she's just scared. I wondered when she could have been near any of them, I shook my head I could try and try but there was no point trying to figure it out on my own. "Lady Cass?" I smiled noticing that she was compromising and looked at her. "You do not need to fear his majesty, royals are raised to respect and honor their life mates, I assure you he would sever his own tail before he so much as bumped into you." I toyed with a lock of hair it did make it better to hear that. "Might I had, that they are very sexual creatures and his majesty has been alone for a while now, he may not be interested in g-rated courting." We stopped at a pair of double doors and she pushed it open to reveal the most impressive library I'd ever seen. "How old is he?" "His birthday is on the 15th of December, he will be five hundred this year." She laughed and I just knew she was laughing at my widened eyes, and to think Harold called him a whippersnapper. "So Harold is..." "Put it this way, we've been a couple for four hundred years, so while my husband is younger than the Emperor he's still older than dirt." I laughed. "What are you two?" "Shifters, perhaps if you decide to spend more time here you will get to see what we can shift into." My grumbling stomach prevented me from asking anything more, Camilla refused to let me go without eating any longer than I had. .... We went back the way we came and I could smell that dinner was also waiting for me, we stopped at the grand staircase and went down before turning and going through another set of double doors to get to the dining room. As I expected it was just as beautiful as the rest of castle there were diamond chandeliers above the enormous table, he did have a large family. Camilla mentioned that they didn't all live together, I wondered how often he entertained such a large group. There were two tables that seemed to sit at least fifty people each and the table cloths were blood red. There were other, smaller tables set around them. It became clear the most decorative and center tables were for the head family. Camilla led me to one of them and I admired the various roses and candelabras that rested on the tables. It was overwhelming, but at the same time to be able to eat in a work of art must be nice. She pulled out a chair to the right of the head of the table and motioned for me to sit, soon I noticed that Zeos had come down. I glanced up, in the light he was even more gorgeous he was wearing a heavy black silk pirate-like shirt with a leather belt around his waist. His hair was pulled into a messy pony tail and he even wore a cape, I blushed and stared down at the china instead. I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up there was worry dancing about in his fiery gaze. I swallowed. "Are you feeling alright?" "Just fine..." I frowned as he moved to sit down, that squeak was not my voice, at least I hope it wasn't my voice. "My la...." I watched Camilla nudge her husband and whisper something to him. "I mean...Lady Cass it's nice to see you have recovered." I smiled. "For dinner this evening, we have an assortment of sea food, served with a side of surloin steak, fresh garlic rolls, a garden salad and a wine of your choosing. Would you like to hear the dessert menu as well?" I shook my head thinking about how much I would need to exercise to get all the calories off, especially when the various servants brought in all of that food. Those were not sides I'd be as big as a house eating like this on a daily basis. "I hope you are not worrying about your waist line Lady Cass, you slept through lunch after all." I huffed and looked up as Zeos frowned. "I do hope you won't skip any other meals while you're here." He seemed to have mastered that fatherly tone that most men gain when their worried about their significant others, I played it safe and didn't comment. ... After dinner, and a white chocolate lava cake for dessert, I found myself sitting in the rose garden behind the castle with Zeos. I looked at him when he slipped a de-thorned white rose in my hair. "I don't want to pressure you but about my request to court you, have you considered it?" I knew my libido was getting the better of me, but nodded, the knowledge that a demon who looked like that would be completely devoted to you would sound nice to a lot of women. "Do you need more time?" I shook my head. "I think...if you can continue to be a complete gentleman then I would...love for you to court me." He smiled and I looked at the ground, I hadn't known him that long and I didn't want to just ignore my worried mother but he had had quite a bit of time to harm me and he hadn't. That was reason enough to give him some sort of chance. "Excellent, could you present your neck?" "What for?" "I need to give you a little prick with one of my fangs, so it will be clear that you are being courted by me and are not to be touched by another." That sounded as if I was going to be able to leave. "I can leave?" He smiled a little wider. "Well of course you can, I want you to become my wife, not my prisoner but I will also ask that you remain here this night at least." I tilted my head and he bent next to me, I could feel both of his fangs on my neck but as he said he only used one of them to mark me. I moaned when he pulled back and licked the mark carefully. It burned for a few seconds then cooled quickly, I decided to blame him for the actions that followed. I turned my head and pressed my lips against his, he slipped an arm around my waist as he kissed me back and deepened the kiss easily. He tasted like cinnamon and honey, I knew I would lose but fought for dominance just to taste him a little longer. I moaned as his larger tongue massaged mine, and wrapped my arms around his neck. His moan was completely masculine and suited him well, hearing it also sent a few spikes of pleasure to my nether lips. He moved me into his lap and he finally broke the kiss to let me breathe and kissed along my neck. I panted and blinked, I had never had a kiss like that maybe his tongue was just as magical as everything else. He moved me again so he could rest on top of me, normally being out in the open where anyone could walk over and see us would unnerve me. This time I let it slide, it was far too erotic. He pulled up my sweater and ran his tongue over my nipples before sucking gently and leaving a trail of love bites over them. I never thought razor sharp fangs could be so gentle. I could feel his erection pressed against my pussy and rubbed against it instinctively. He moved and I stared at him. "I will not take you tonight pet, I will claim you when you trust me." My eyes widened as he leaned closer his breath was warm against my ear. "But I promise to send you to bed well sated." I moaned and he slid down to pull my bottoms off I whimpered and let him spread my legs then he parted my lips with his fingers and ran his tongue over my entrance. He easily found my clit and licked and teased it like he had done to my nipples. I arched and moaned his name, he seemed to like that. He moved his tongue quickly then slowed down even his teasing felt good, I frowned when he held my hips in place preventing me from bucking. I forgave him when he slid his tongue inside and the ridges on his tongue massaged me completely. I couldn't last long, I hadn't had sex like my friends had my family was almost abnormally fertile. Juniper had always been careful but I didn't have the nerve that she did. The sensation was completely new, I wasn't shy thanks many porn filled nights when my parents just assumed I was busy and that's why I wasn't answering the phone. I came nice and hard but he continued as if tasting divinity, I'd be lying if I said I only came once before he finally let me go. ... He had to carry me to his bedroom because my legs were weak, I was wide awake, and wanted to return the favor. His self control was admirable but demon or not he was still male he must want relief as well. I told him so, he didn't want to push me but I told him I was fine and eventually he gave in. He moved the shirt and exposed why he had been hesitant, he had two cocks, they were both thick and reasonably long. I blushed but lust made the little bit of modesty I had left fade away. I grabbed both of them in the same hand, they were hard as rock but smooth, I stroked them together. Like I mentioned I hadn't had practice but it didn't seem like he really minded, I liked that I could make him moan. I only stroked and lightly pumped until I saw him arch. Then I let go of the higher cock and licked the trail of pre-cum, it was sweet, as if he had an impressive sweet tooth. I licked the shaft up and down a few times before moving to take his head and as much of his shaft as I could into my mouth. I heard his moan come out like a gasp as if I caught him by surprise, he was careful not to buck so I wouldn't choke. I pumped the other one, as I got in a rhythm I started to pump the second cock in time with my bobbing head. Since I couldn't look up to see his face I used his moans to gauge what he liked best. I swirled my tongue around the head as if I was eating a large bite proof frozen treat. Soon he was shooting stream after stream of hot cum down my throat and all over my face and hand. I swallowed, before he could recover I moved to switch and gave the other cock the same treatment. I admit I'm proud to say I had managed to tire him out. ... The next morning the cell phone woke me up, I fumbled for it before I tugged it under the heavy blanket with me to answer it. "Hello?" "Hey it's Monica, are you still going shopping with us today?" I sat up and wiped the sleep out of my eyes. "Yeah I'm coming, sorry I just slept in." "Oh no problem, see you later OK?" "Bye." I hung up and got up before I noticed that Zeos was awake. "If you're leaving we could at least bathe together." I smiled slightly. "OK." I figured I shouldn't tell too many more people about Zeos or his world but I wondered what I could tell my friends. My Naga King Ch. 03 (Thanks to those who commented and gave that last chapter some love, I was having a bad morning and that was nice to see. You now get to meet the main female antagonist as well as learn a bit more about Zeos. Sorry no real adult content this is a fluffy, fun type chapter.) ... He led me to his bathroom, his tub was very large like the size of an average community pool. He moved to turn a few knobs and several little doors opened from various parts of the tub to quickly fill it with hot and scented water. He got in and I slid in after him purposely going under. Whatever was in that water started immediately working out kinks I didn't even know I had. All too soon his tail was wrapped around me and he was holding me above the water. I didn't realize I had been close to drowning, perhaps the relaxing effect was a bit too strong he pulled me against his chest. "Make sure not to do that any time you're alone in here." "I'll keep that in mind..." He kissed my forehead before there was a knock to the door he looked up and the door was thrown open before someone jumped in the water. Zeos was startled and his tail sent me under. I hid in the corner as he thrashed, I cursed seeing a pair of slim female legs as the person swam up to him. I wasn't under the water long before he came to retrieve me. He patted my back as I coughed up the water, then I brushed my hair out of my eyes and my gaze met the pale skinned, large breasted, black haired bitch who could have gotten me killed. She even had the nerve to glare at me. "Zeos, who is this?" Before he could answer I did. "None of your damn business, get out of here!" She glared at me even more, but a deadly growl from Zeos got her to leave the tub at least I'm not sure why but her presence and bold attitude really pissed me off. I slapped his chest. "You make a habit of courting one woman when you already have one on the side?" "It's not..." I splashed water in his face to get him to let me go and stormed out tugging on his robe as I went. I needed to get ready to go anyways. ... After pulling on jeans and tee shirt I grabbed my things and went downstairs to ask Harold to walk me to the gate. I saw the woman from earlier sitting on the window sill, my anger flared but I ignored her. "Madam wait." I looked up seeing Camilla trying to catch up with me. "I have to go, I'm meeting my friends and I'm running late." "About this morning..." "This scrawny girl is the one Zeos wants, what does she have that I don't?" Camilla sent a dirty look toward her. "Nevia that's enough, you will respect the future queen." She crossed her arms, I couldn't tell what kind of demon she was but she was taller than me and scantily dressed. "She doesn't even look good enough to be the tramp on the side how could she be queen?" Oh she's that type of girl, that would explain my instant dislike of her, I walked over punched her square in the jaw; I took satisfaction in watching her hit the floor. My father insisted that I needed to take boxing lessons before I was allowed to move out, I'll have to thank him later. I turned on my heel and stomped toward the door, the closest servant hurried to open the door for me. I could hear Camilla's heels as she followed after me, when we reached the gate Phil smiled and waved I returned the gesture and continued walking. My anger melted into annoyance as the familiar streets returned to view. I slowed down and Camilla caught up to me. "Lady Cass..." "You can't call me that here." "Miss. Cass then? By the way, I am acting as your body guard, since Harold had some work for his majesty this morning..." Oh he had work? And here I was thinking he was just smart enough to leave an angry woman alone. I sighed and allowed her to call me that, I liked her but she was still more stubborn than I was. "And you left without breakfast." "We'll get something at the mall." She shook her head as we hurried to catch a taxi. ... When we arrived I saw Monica, Stacy, and my sister Juniper she sort of looked like me except she had our father's red hair and was curvier. She waved then cocked her head and turned toward the others, I knew she was wondering who Camilla was. Who I just noticed was now wearing black jeans a black top and a trench coat. She'd also covered her eyes with a pair of sunglasses. She must take her role as body guard very seriously. "Hey sis, who is this?" Camilla cocked her head. "You have a sister?" I nodded. "You guys this is Camilla, Camilla this is Monica, Stacy, and my older sister Juniper." They shook hands, Juniper asked her what was with all the black. "You look like a secret agent." "I'm here as Miss. Cass's body guard." We walked inside and headed to the food court then Monica giggled. "Miss? Cassie did you get a rich boyfriend or something?" "Oh was it that guy from the party?" Stacy asked "Uh no, that was Harold, he's Camilla's husband." They eyed Camilla, they'd only seen him in that odd costume and it was weird that a babe like Camilla would be with an alien. They'd flip if they saw how he really looked, I didn't know how to describe my relationship with Zeos. I suppose he was sort of my boyfriend, since I was letting him court me. Then again, they wouldn't understand that I had not only just met him but also labeled him as mine. "Uh....Mr. Valentine is quite fond of Miss. Cass and he is happy that he is finally her boyfriend he's been waiting for her to accept his offer for several years." I held back a laugh, the way she said it made it seem less odd Juniper nudged me. "You had a man waiting for you and you didn't even introduce him to the family?" "We were just friends.....wait his last name is Valentine?" Camilla nodded. "Oh yes he tends to use his father's last name for business, Valentine is his mother's maiden name I'll remind him to apologize for the confusion." I smiled, she was quick although Zeos Valentine did have a ring to it, I wondered if that really was his last name. Camilla reached into her purse. "Now that Mr. Valentine is Miss. Cass's other half he wanted to show off a little bit if that was alright." "How so?" Juniper asked. She pulled out four master platinum cards. "By paying for this afternoon's shopping trip." My friends squealed, as she handed them each a card I huffed, I knew he was trying to get on my good side again. "I don't need his money..." Camilla pressed the card in my hand. "If you don't take it I should let you know he ordered me to follow your eye sight and buy any and everything that catches your attention." "Why...." Juniper tugged on my arm. "Don't question him, if a rich boyfriend wants to give you a taste of the good life then you let him. Besides you've known him forever he must be nervous that you'll decide to leave him." "Isn't that sweet?" Monica cooed. "Let's not stomp on his kind offer, I vote we shop till we can't shop anymore!" Stacy said. They gave me puppy dog eyes and I sighed. "Enjoy yourselves..." They cheered and dragged me all over the mall. .... We stopped a few hours later at a nice restaurant with all of our bags against the wall, I only bought a couple of things but I had a sneaking suspicion that Camilla had gone behind my back and purchased more. "Oh today was so nice, you should make sure to give your boyfriend a real nice 'thank you' for us." Stacy said. I sighed. "No thanks....hey Camilla what's the deal with Nevia?" "She's known Mr. Valentine since he was very young." "Oh nice I'm competing with a child hood friend." Camilla shook her head. "Miss. Cass, Nevia is a slut and has tried everything to get in his pants, if she hasn't succeeded in all the time she's known him then she sure as hell won't with you around." Stacy laughed. "Yeah the childhood girl friends only get the guy in cheesy movies, relax." I smiled, even though she didn't know how old he was Stacy had a point, Nevia had had quite a bit of time to seduce him I was clearly annoyed for nothing. "I feel a little guilty over punching her." "You punched her?" Juniper asked. "The whore jumped in the tub with us and tried to crawl all over him." "What a skank." Monica said. "That's my girl, mark your territory." Juniper said with a laugh. ... We parted ways, and Camilla and I went to get a taxi to go to my apartment, I had work tomorrow and didn't want to be late. We were outside a jewelry store and a nice silver watch caught my attention. It was sized for a male but decorative vines and leaves were etched into the metal. I took out my own credit card to purchase it, thinking it would look nice on Zeos's wrist. Camilla noticed I had a gift wrapped box and smiled. We made it to my place and Camilla frowned, I heard her mumbling something about it not being fancy enough. "Hey stop that, this is my first apartment I like it." "Sorry, his majesty would want you somewhere safer, but it's very nice." "Does it really matter?" "Of course." "But he's just courting me, I'm not that important." "Yes you are." I shook my head seeing no point in arguing with her. "I'll prepare dinner, would you like your bath now or after?" I shook my head. "No no, you are not my servant." "If you would prefer another..." "No, stop it, I just want to order pizza and talk with you like I did all day." She cocked her head and smiled. "So I'm off duty then?" "If I say you are will you stop acting like a servant?" She nodded. "Then you're off duty." She laughed at me and reached in her purse to retrieve another card to order pizza with. .... The next morning I saw she back in servant mode, she had even found my uniform and pressed it. It was a simple pair of black skinny jeans and a button up, my bath was waiting and as expected she was setting the table when I walked in the kitchen. I ordered her to eat with me just because I knew she had to do what I said. She gave me an odd look but eventually caved in. "Lady Cass, do you only have work planned for today?" "I think so, why?" "His majesty would like to see you later." "At the castle?" "No at his office." I stared at her. "He works here?" "Of course, he's an oil tycoon as far as the humans are concerned, not to mention the money we use in the demon realm is hard to come by in the human realm he's sold a few artifacts here." "So he has a human form then?" "Sort of, just like the dragons could use magic he and every member of his family can as well, he uses it to his advantage." I glanced at the box I had picked out for him wondering if he would even like something he could easily get himself. She tapped my hand and I glanced at her. "His majesty will love anything you personally picked out for him, everyone likes to receive gifts from someone they love." I smiled at her, just like my mother, I could see we would be really good friends now if I could just get her to switch off her servant mode more often. ... Leta, the elderly woman who owned the bakery was excited to find out I had a man in my life. She was old fashioned and always tried to set me up with the younger male customers. I watched her force a slice of white chocolate cheesecake on Camilla then she went on to say that she was too skinny and any friend of mine should take good care of their birthing hips. After work Leta gave Camilla some cupcakes and gave me some cookies for Zeos, Camilla kept patting her stomach. "Do I really seem to skinny to have children?" I smiled. "Not at all, she says that about every fit woman she sees, she's like everyone's adopted and doting grandmother." Camilla smiled. "You've surrounded yourself with a lovely group of people Lady Cass." I stuck my tongue out at her and we made our way to Zeos's company, Jet Corp was a small business but made a lot of money. The positions were hard to get but those that rose above the rest had great medical benefits, insurance, retirement plans, and of course a chance to win a free hotel stay over the allotted vacation time slot each year. Camilla walked over to the chrome desk and spoke to a woman who looked much like a politician's wife. Prim and proper with a smile only plastic surgery could make, that didn't make me like her any less I only wondered how old she really was. "Marg this is Miss. Cass, she is the president's new girl friend." "Oh my let me have a look at you, what a cutie, nice to meet you Miss. Cass I'm Marg the receptionist you don't have to sign in just say hi when you come to visit." I shook her hand, it was like she was Leta's older sister who could have taken ballet instead of tennis or basketball; you know the girly-girl type. We went to the elevator and Camilla gave me a copy of the key that I could use in the elevator to take me straight to Zeos's office. I admit I swooned a little when I saw him, he was wearing a simple black suit with a red button up and silk tie. His hair was neater but a few strands framed his face, I was a sucker for a well dressed man. He made that suit look so good, I got closer and saw his eyes were blue he looked up and smiled at me wearily. "Hello Cassandra...you're looking lovely today." "You don't have to walk on egg shells, I'm not mad anymore." He relaxed a little and pulled me closer to hug me, his spicy cologne was going to be the death of me he smelled really nice. "About what happened with Nevia..." "Nope, don't worry about it she isn't my concern, I just got off work and had to bring you something." He cocked his head. "Oh?" I handed him the box of cookies and smiled, Camilla cleared her throat after he thanked me and I sighed. "What?" "What about your gift? Didn't you have it engraved?" I huffed and reached into my purse to pull out the watch, this must be how other women feel when they try to give their rich husbands gifts. It feels so cheap, he is used to much finer things than my savings account can provide. He smiled. "You didn't have to get me anything." "Maybe I just wanted to spend my own money." I lied. He smiled wider and opened it, he took the watch out of the box and ran his thumb over his name on the back. I was expecting a simple thank you but he pulled me close and kissed me like his life depended on it. "Thank you, it's perfect." "Oh...what...ever it's not like you couldn't have gotten it yourself...." He put it on and stroked my cheek. "It's not the price that makes a gift worth while, it's the thought, and the fact that you were thinking about me even when you were so far away makes me even happier." I made a face but smiled at him anyways. It was nice to feel so appreciated. My Naga King Ch. 04 (I'm so glad to see the story is still being enjoyed, thanks so much to everyone for the nice comments. In reference to wanting longer chapters, I hope you enjoy the length of this chapter and all upcoming chapters. Enjoy the drama.) .... Camilla escorted me out of the building and asked if I was returning to the castle. "I think I'll go home." "Are you sure? Nevia should be gone by now....or you could always knock her down a few more pegs." I smiled. "No I'll just go home, why don't you go up and tell Zeos where I live." Camilla was hesitant to leave me alone. "I'll be fine, I'll even wait right here for you to get back." She sighed. "Very well Lady Cass, I'll be just a moment." She walked back in and I leaned against the wall and checked my phone for messages by the time I noticed a sweet smell in the air the world was already going black. .. "Cassie, hey Cassie wake up." I groaned, deep down I knew that voice but the heavy cloud of sleep was interfering with the way it sounded. "Sorry, I didn't mean to use so much I'll get you some water." The blob of color left my line of vision, I blinked repeatedly and tried to stretch only to find that I couldn't. I tried to pull my arms toward me but they were held back. As my mind cleared more I registered that I was tied to a bed. I started to panic, then my captor came back into the room. My gaze narrowed. "What the fuck is this Patrick? Are you out of your mind?" He smiled. "You said you wanted me to be creative when I wanted to see you." "Yeah, when we were dating, let me go!" He ignored me and poured the room temperature water down my throat, I coughed and he set the cup on the bed side table. "Where....are...we?" "This is my new apartment, we broke up before you saw it." "Well, it's very nice, why don't you untie me so you can give me a tour." He only smiled. "But I have a better idea." "What could be better than giving your sweet friend a tour of your place?" "Being your master of course." "Excuse me?" He moved off the bed and grabbed a whip and candle from under it I swallowed nervously. "Uh sweetie I'm not really into bondage...and S&M type stuff." "That's the best part, you don't have to be, it will be just like when we were dating." "I wasn't into that when we were dating either." "Not the point, it's time to rekindle our love." He lit the candle and set it down then took a pair of scissors to my clothes, he sighed slightly and ran a hand from my breast to my stomach and down my leg. "You have such a nice body, I'm actually glad you only stripped for me it makes me really appreciate this night." My eyes widened, surely he didn't plan to have his way with me. "Are you drunk? You don't think straight when your drunk, remember when you punched that cop and stole his squad car?" He laughed. "Oh yeah, and you stuck up for me in court so I got off with a short sentence and community service...good times good good times." I sighed and glanced around. "Where's my purse and my phone?" "Both are in the kitchen on the counter where you left them, don't you remember?" I cursed, I could still smell what had to be the chloroform he used so I couldn't tell from scent how drunk he was, he was an odd drunk. Sometimes he was unpredictable and sometimes he was just stupid, I could see this was one of those unpredictable times. I heard my phone ring. "Pat, why don't you be a dear and get my phone for me?" "Do I have to?" I frowned at the child like tone. "Yes you have to, whats wrong with you?" "I don't know, you're the one who dumped me I always thought you were perfect." I watched him closely, it was clear booze wasn't the only thing he'd had, Patrick wasn't an asshole generally but he also wasn't 'the nice guy' if he was calling me perfect in any way then something else was in his system. I felt the panic rising even faster in my chest. "Pat please go get my phone." He sighed and got up when he grabbed it he answered it in front of me. "Hello?" "...Who is this?" "This is Patrick, who the hell are you?" "My name is Camilla, where is Miss. Cass?" "My Cass doesn't know any Camilla, is this a prank?" I struggled against my binds. "Camilla help! Come find me, follow the scent of chloroform!" "Miss. Cass? What have you done to her?! She better..." He hung up and threw my phone out the window, then glared at me I pouted. "Hey look at this...you always liked my pout didn't you?" He blew out the candle. "Of course, but it was cuter when I was the cause of it." He tipped the candle over and I watched the drops of wax fall. ... A loud bang startled me awake, I winced wondering when I had passed out I looked up and slowly the image of Zeos prepared for battle came into view. He was slamming Patrick into the wall repeatedly. It was a fierce sight, Patrick was pale with fear. It looked like Camilla had just finished untying me she had slipped her trench coat around my shoulders. "You should know better than to do this to any woman, it's unfortunate that you took the one woman you aren't even good enough to look at." Though I could understand what he was saying Zeo's voice was feral, as if he was right on the edge of madness. He slammed Patrick against the wall again. "Any last words?" he snarled. "Zeos don't kill him!" His head whipped around so fast I was sure anyone else would have gotten whiplash, Camilla stroked my hair. "Highness you're awake." I smiled weakly at her, my body was throbbing but the most important part, my heated center had been left untouched. In fact I could feel that my panties were still in tact. "You were taken, and severely wounded and you want me to spare him?" I winced as he snapped at me but stood my ground. "Everything will heal....can't you tell he didn't rape me? You scared him shitless that's enough." Zeos growled, I was a little afraid to look in the mirror with the way he was looking at me but I was still sure Patrick didn't do enough damage to deserve to be ripped to shreds. "Zeos please..." "You care for this man?" His accusing tone sliced through my heart as if I'd been caught cheating. "Sort of..." His gaze narrowed and he pulled the bloody mess that was Patrick away from the wall and threw him on the bed in front of me then crossed his arms. "It's time to go." "What...?" He walked over and picked both myself and Camila up then flew out the window I knew he was mad at me for sticking up for my abductor but it just felt wrong to sit and watch . I was pretty sure he would forgive me when he cooled off but if I had said nothing I never would have forgiven myself. .. When we arrived all of the servants freaked out and hurried to get out of his way, he set Camilla down and continued upstairs I heard Harold asking what happened just before we turned the corner. He carried me to the bed and set me down before he grabbed the mirror and set it in front of me. I looked when I heard a low growl coming from him, I looked horrible. There were various bruises in different shapes and sizes all over my legs, arms, and stomach, the wax had left small burns on my sensitive skin. My lip was split and I had the beginnings of a black eye, probably from when he lost control of the whip. He moved the mirror then mumbled something about getting the doctor before he left. I tried to stretch and winced I got up and grabbed the hand mirror so I could use it to see if he had untied me at any point while I was out and done more damage. I winced seeing that he had carved 'Patrick's property' just under my left butt cheek, Zeos was bound to be even more pissed when he saw that. .. The doctor was another female, she was beautiful and her skin was a pale blue color, she had large pale pink eyes and short black hair. Her name was Livia and she was water nymph. She carefully cleaned the cuts then rubbed a sweet smalling salve over them and the bruises. I winced as the smaller cuts started to heal at a faster rate than possible on a human, some of the bruises faded but others simply shrunk in size. She cursed. "What is it?" Zeos asked. "Highness has a wound that is fairly deep on the back of her thigh, it will scar her so long as she is human." I covered my ears not wanting to hear that creepy noise coming from him when he saw what she meant. After a bit of tirade he left the room, Livia patted my shoulder. "You must be very tired, can you stay awake long enough to eat something Highness?" I stared at her. "Yes...but don't call me that..." "Oh but I must, I have nothing but respect for his majesty and I couldn't bear to show his beloved anything less than what I show him." "Why do you respect him so much?" She smiled. "When myself and many of my family members became deathly ill from pollution in the human realm his majesty had a special canyon made and filled it with pure water for us to commute to. Thanks to him I can still carry young." I couldn't help but smile, I was terrified to go talk to him while he held that grisly form but to hear about a deed like that softened my fear. "You think he'll forgive me?" She cocked her head. "For what Highness?" "This." She looked at me like I had sprouted tentacles and told her I was actually her great great great grandmother. She had a very pretty face as I pointed out, but it was quite a look. "Highness....surely you don't blame yourself for this?" "Well...yeah I should have been paying more attention." "Is it also the fault of the woman who was raped just because she didn't hear the attacker coming?" "No..." "Dear Highness, his majesty is not angry with you, he is upset that he was unable to protect you." "But I also asked him not to kill my abductor." "He thinks this man is competition for your heart and is worried that he would lose you to someone who would inflict such damage on you." I was afraid she would say something like that, it kind of made me feel guilty she patted my shoulder again. "Don't fret, he just feels since he has spent so much time with the humans that he should have been able to find you, so he thinks it's his punishment." "That's ridiculous, maybe I should go talk to him." "I'll tell him to come in here, since you are human that salve only works to clean up your appearance you'll still be in pain for a couple of days." I nodded, she got up and bowed before leaving the room, only to be replaced by Harold. "Lady Cass..." "It's not Camilla's fault either I'm the one who told her to leave, I clearly was not in danger until after she was gone." He eyed me for a minute then smiled Camilla glanced at me from behind him I smiled at her and she sniffed. "....Although, I am hungry, if you pass Zeos on the way ask him to come eat in here with me." Camilla smiled then nodded and ran out of the room, Harold bowed before he also left the room. When Zeos came in he was in his naga form he seemed hesitant to come closer, I pouted until he gave in and sat next to me. I took his hand and he looked at me. "You should know, I have no interest in Patrick." "Then why..." I shook my head to stop him. "Sometimes, a king should show mercy even if he himself questions it." "...." "Sort of like, most everyone gets one type thing." "Most everyone?" "Some people are just on the wrong path, and some people are truly evil, as a king it will be helpful to tell the difference. I stook up for him because I knew he was drunk and under the influence of some type of drug." "...Then he wouldn't have abducted you and caused bodily harm if he had a clear mind?" I nodded, he seemed to relax a little I grabbed his bicep and even though my body protested I pulled myself up to kiss him. He slid his arms around me and kissed me back carefully. "Thank you for saving me." He smiled then. "But of course, I'll always come for you." Just then a few trays were carried in for dinner, I sat in his lap and made him feed me, this seemed to amuse him. .... The next morning I was awakened by my cellphone again, I picked it up. "Hello?" "Cassandra I want you to come see me, your sister told me about your rich boyfriend, I thought you were with that weird demon fellow but that doesn't sound like him." "You were sure he was a problem before.." "Mistaken identity." "You actually know more than one demon?" She huffed. "That's not the point, just come see me." She hung up and I set the phone on the bedside table I winced and sighed, she was not going to be happy to see that I was injured. I glanced at the vanity and saw my lip was healing but I still had a black eye and a bruise on my cheek. Can't cover that up with make up, I glanced at the bed and noticed Zeos was gone. I grabbed my robe and left the room to look for him. I inwardly cursed hearing Nevia's voice. "Oh boo hoo so she couldn't protect herself, big deal, you said you would come to the party with me." "Nevia, I do not care if you dislike my future bride you know she is already more important, I'm not going anywhere with you. I want to see that she is safe but even if she wasn't injured I still wouldn't want to be away from her." I walked down the steps and smirked seeing she had a bit of a bruise on her cheek I slid my arms around his waist and she glared at me. Zeos made a sort of purring noise and moved to wrap an arm around my shoulders before kissing my forehead. "Good morning pet, you must have slept well if the medicine had enough time to loosen you up so much." "Morning, yes I slept just fine, oh Nevia I didn't see you there, good morning." I could hear Camilla snickering behind me, when I looked over she pretended that she was merely clearing her throat. "Oh she looks fine, come to the party." "I believe, my mate said he wasn't interested, but I'm sure he will be willing to repeat it for you." Zeos's arm tightened around me slightly, Camilla started snickering again and Nevia was already red in the face but she sighed. "Well why don't you both come then...?" "To what?" "A party at my home, Zeos..." "His majesty." I corrected. She frowned. "I've known him a lot longer than you have tramp." I tightened my hold on his waist so he wouldn't go after her throat like he wanted to. "Yes you have, but if I'm going to be his queen I don't approve of you acting so friendly with him. After all, only a slut would jump into the tub of a naked man who was spoken for, you must not have been raised with proper manners but I promise you that that isn't a good habit to have." By then the room was filled with attempts to stifle laughter, Zeos even relaxed next to me I smiled at her sweetly. "Oh Camilla?" "Yes Lady Cass?" "My mother would like for me to visit, would you be a dear and pick out one of my sundresses for me?" She giggled again. "Yes Lady Cass." Nevia frowned, then turned on her heel and walked toward the door she stopped and looked at me. "Yes?" "You get points for standing your ground, perhaps your not as weak as I thought." I smiled. "How kind of you to say, have a good day." She left and Zeos bent to kiss me deeply, he smiled warmly. "That was the first time you referred to me as your mate." I smiled at him. "It won't be the last." "I have some meetings here to attend to, but both Harold and Camilla will accompany you to your mother's house." I nodded, it was for the best I really needed to get my mother prepared for meeting him. ... We drove to my mother and father's penthouse, my father was heavy set and balding with gray hair. He was always just the sweetest man and regularly played Santa at my favorite mall. He was standing outside and gave an odd look to the car until Harold got out and opened the door for me. I jumped out and hugged him he laughed and hugged me back. "There's my princess, it's so nice to see you." "Hi daddy." His smile immediately faded when I pulled away and he saw the bruises. "Who hit you?!" "Excuse me sir my name is Harold and this is my wife Camilla Mr. Valentine instructed us to guard Miss. Cass more closely after she was attacked by a purse snatcher. Mr. Valentine went after him and made sure he understood never to lay his hands on her or any other woman again." My dad relaxed and let out his jolly chortle then shook their hands. "Well it makes me feel better to know you got a man who can 'watch' you all the time, my name is Frank come on in and meet Haley. Baby girl I have some ice packs you can put on that eye of yours." I nodded and we followed him in I waved at his doorman, Ricky, who had known my parents since before I was born. As always the simple apartment with a white and brown scheme was spotless and filled with the scent of my mother's home made brownies. Like I expected, she flipped when she saw my face but was just as pleased as dad to know I was being guarded. We sat in the living room and my mom grilled me over Zeos but Camilla said that his name, to the other humans anyways, was Zane. .. "My he sounds like quite the character." my mom said. "Juni told us about his generous gift, he must really like you to want to gain the trust of your gal pals." dad said. Harold smiled. "Oh yes, Mr. Valentine is completely captivated by Miss. Cass he often says he doesn't know what he would do without her." I blushed as my mother cooed. "He sounds so sweet, you should have brought him." "I'll bring him next time he had some business to take care of." "Oh of course, just call us when he's free and we'll have dinner." Camilla took out a planner and scanned the pages. "He is free at the end of the month." My mom smiled. "Oh is he free for Thanksgiving?" "Yes ma'am." "Sweetheart invite him to Thanksgiving dinner." I sighed, I could just see it now, she would be pushing plate after plate on him thinking he was too skinny "Alright I'll just call his secretary and make sure he doesn't make plans for that day." "Thank you." She smiled, I relaxed. "By the way, Juni called and said they found Patrick in a drugged stupor babbling nonsense." dad said. I rubbed the back of my neck nervously. "Oh?" "Yes, and his parents are sending him to a hospital that doubles as a rehab facility, when he's allowed to have visitors we'll let you know." I nodded, Camilla sort of gave me a dirty look, she didn't want me putting myself in danger I pretended I didn't see it. ... Afterwards they took me to work, Leta told me to stay later so she could make me a triple layer cake to "boost my recovery". She was excited to meet Camilla's husband then on my break asked me why I hadn't brought my man around. Camilla seemed to think that was funny. ...... On Thanksgiving Zeos used his human form and wore a simple black suit with a green button up underneath. My black eye was mostly gone but the rest of my face was back to normal. I curled my hair and pulled on white tights. a black skirt, and a cream colored sweater. Camilla fretted over what to wear but finally settled on a simple black dress to match Harold's suit. Then we left to get there as soon as possible. . When we arrived my plump aunt Kate was there with her husband Steven, then my other aunt on my mother's side Lisa showed up with her new girlfriend Marissa. Also my brother Eric, who looked like a male version of me most of the time came with his wife Gina. I introduced everyone and we sat at the table, my mother always had everything ready to go before the first guest arrived she wanted to get right to eating and conversation. Eric gave me a look like he intended to give Zeos a hard time, it was just the three of us and I was the baby of the family. Eric was a photographer and was busy most of the time but he made an effort to call for birthdays and visit on major holidays. My Naga King Ch. 04 "Hey mom, where's June bug?" Eric asked "Oh she couldn't make it." my mom said sadly. "What? Why not?" "I don't know, she sounded like she caught the flu, she says 'hello' though." I made a note to call her and check on her, it wasn't like her to miss Thanksgiving, she was just as thin as me but that girl could put away a ton of food. .. "So, Zane, was it?" I glanced at Eric, Zeos nodded. "How did you meet my baby sister anyways?" "She met Harold first actually, he introduced us." "Oh really? Have you ever seen what a shot gun looks like?" "Eric!" He hushed me. "Cause you will if you hurt a single hair on her head." Zeos smiled. "I wouldn't dream of it, she's the most important part of my life." That seemed to be enough for Eric. "Good man." Gina punched him. "Be nice." "That was nice." he said. The light tension in the room finally faded as the men talked to Zeos about business, I tuned out slightly and poked at my plate. My mother patted my hand. "Dear make sure you eat more, you look so skinny." "Mom.." I groaned. "You do, how are you going to keep a well dressed man like that if you lose all of your bounce?" The conversation stopped and the room was filled with laughter instead, I blushed and compromised by getting more potatoes. ... After we declared Thanksgiving to be over for us I hugged my family members and left with my brother and sister with Zeos, Camilla, and Harold behind us. "OK sis, make sure you text me, I don't hear from you as much." I hugged Eric again and smiled at him. "I will." I gave Gina a peck on the cheek. "We'll make plans for the next time you're off." He nodded. "And kick June bug's butt for not being her, no excuses are accepted for missing family time." I laughed and he turned to shake everyone's hand. "Really though, it was nice meeting all of you, just take good care of my sister and we won't have any problems." I stuck my tongue out at him as they laughed, we went to our separate cars and parted ways. ... I was a little tired after all of that food but when I sat on the bed sleep was the furthest from my mind. "Hey Zeos?" "Yes?" "Thanks again for coming, it meant a lot to me." He turned and smiled at me. "Anything for you love, it was nice to meet your family." I tugged off my boots. "Who is June bug?" "That's my older sister, I guess you'll meet her another time, I'll have to call her tomorrow and check on her." He nodded. "Oh Zeos will you take a bath with me?" He turned to me and smiled. "You don't really have to ask I would love to." I got up and took off my tights and skirt then my sweater, that left me in my leopard print thong and matching bra. The bra was a little too small but I had kept it for nights like these, we'd really only had heavy petting but now I wanted more. He was down to his pants before I walked over and stood in front of him. He placed his hands on my waist and pulled me close to kiss me.This time I only fought for dominance for a little while before moving to bite on his neck. Something I had learned was that he had a few different weak spots, his neck being a close second to his back. His back was sensitive because of the extra nerves he had there connected to his wings. It didn't take much teasing from my tongue and soft nibbles before I could feel him hardening against my thigh. He growled slightly against my ear and raised his hand to rip off my bra. He shook it in my eye sight. "Why must you torment me with these tiny things, what is their purpose?" he asked huskily. "Their purpose is to torment you." He smirked and dropped it to the ground before ripping my thong off. "What about this?" "That is also intended to torment you, isn't it a fun piece of cloth?" He dropped it, then switched to his naga form, his tail easily tore through his pants I backed out of his hold and watched as the second cock hardened to copy it's twin. Satisfied I turned to go into the bathroom, careful to shake my hips suggestively not that I needed to but it was fun anyways. I turned on the water and waited for the tub to fill up, he slid in the tub then I sat by the edge and flashed my shaven pussy at him. I ran my fingers over my clit and my nether lips then smiled slightly. "Want to watch?" He swallowed nervously, I took that as a 'yes' and scooted back against the wall and spread my legs wider. Slowly I slid one finger in and use the other hand to tease and pinch my clit, his eyes drifted all over but always went back to the main event. It sent shivers throughout my body to put on a show and have him watch with a different type of hunger in his eyes. Before long my pussy was nice and wet and I moaned for him, he licked his lips then I took my hand off my clit and squeezed and pinched my left nipple before moving to the right one. I arched a little and allowed two more fingers to join the first one, my juices acted as high quality lubricant and made it easy. I massaged one of my breasts as I moaned and arched for him more. I could see it was getting difficult for him to stay in his seat I took my hand off my breast and wiggled my finger in a 'come hither' motion. He obeyed and slid out of the water and over to me he made me take my fingers out and licked them clean before letting his tongue take their place. I moaned louder feeling his tongue slide inside and twirl to taste all around his tongue made quick work of pushing me over the edge before he grabbed me by the waist and moved us into a standing position. He kissed me and I moaned at his taste mixing with mine. He bit and sucked on my neck before I could feeling his higher cock moving against my center and pressed against it. He groaned a little when the two heats mixed I slid my hand between us and grabbed his cocks holding them in place. He gave me a heated look. "Do you trust me?" "Yes...." I moaned. "Are you sure? Even magic cannot give your virginity back." "I'm sure....now fuck me by choice or I'll impale myself onto you." He growled and bit my neck again, it was clear he had a fetish. I moaned feeling his fangs on me, never thought being bitten would turn me on as much as it was in that moment. He pushed my hand away and slid the higher cock in my pussy slowly, he bit on my neck to distract me, it stung a little but he was gentle. "Oh....your pussy feels as though it was specially made for me." I moaned and wrapped my arms around his shoulders. "Maybe it was....take what's yours." He gripped my waist and slid the rest of the way, the pain almost instantly faded as I was filled completely. I wrapped my other leg around his waist and he began moving, I stopped him. "What about...the other one?" "I don't think...you will be able to handle two in one entrance." "Don't you know girls.....have more than one entrance down there?" He raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?.." "Yes now move it or I'll shoot you." He laughed slightly and reached behind me to push the lower cock in my back door, I could tell it stretched a little so it could reach. The sting was a little stronger but it was worth it when it was in place. He braced one hand against the wall and used his other arm to stable me as he moved his hips and thrusted in and out slowly. I moaned in his ear and threw my head back, both cocks were already teasing those hidden sweet spots they tell you about in magazines and it felt delicious. He started panting, and picked up the speed, I knew he wasn't ready to cum yet and road his cocks in a way that I would match his speed. "Ah.....so tight...and hot call my name love.." he moaned against my ear. "Ah....Zeos.....Zeos...Zeos..." "I've waited....so long for this....you...tell me if you...want to stop." My eyes widened. "Are....you....out of...your mind?...I don't want to stop....fuck me harder!" He complied and then kissed me deeply I kissed him back and tightened my hold around his neck. We pulled apart for air and the ability for speech was lost as the room was filled with moans and gasps of passion. Soon though. he twirled me around while continuing to thrust. My legs felt like jello but stood straight on the floor as I braced myself against the wall. One of his hands held my waist while he bent over me to massage one of breasts, I made some noise that was probably 'harder' or 'faster'. I wasn't really sure and didn't really care. After some time I could feel my orgasm approaching, and knew from the sound of his panting that he was getting close as well. He picked up the speed and I could now feel his cocks working on my sweet spots instead of teasing them. I groaned, he clearly wanted me to cum first but even in my delirious state I wanted us to cum together. I tightened my pussy walls and rectal passage but soon he braced his arm against the wall and claws penetrated the tiles. I screamed his name as my orgasm sent waves of pleasure all throughout my body, he shot several streams inside of me and some of it was already over flowing and sliding down my thighs to the floor. I groaned when he moved us to a doggy style position on the floor never once separating us, then began to repeat the performance. ... After moving to the tub we had to drain the water and refill it again to finally get to bathing. I was spent and sat in his lap with my head resting on his shoulder, sort of like a rag doll. His panting had finally stopped and he stroked my hair he had slid out of me and we were just soaking quietly. When we made it to bed I was pretty sure I was out before him. ... The next morning I rolled over and burrowed further in Zeos's embrace to avoid the stream of light coming in from the windows. The light throbbing I felt was a pleasant reminder of the night before, the soak immediately after had prevented the normal aching most virgins would feel during the morning after. "Lady Cass?" I groaned. "Lady Cass?" Without turning or opening my eyes I answered. "Yeah Camilla?" "Are you feeling alright?" I opened my eyes and tilted my head to look at her. "Yes...why?" "I'm certain the whole kingdom heard you two, I'm merely checking to see if you're injured." I blinked then felt my face heat up way past a simple blush. "....I'm fine." "Livia would like to give you a little check up, it'll only take a couple of minutes, sometimes nagas can get a little carried away the first night." I asked her to give me his robe to hide my embarrassment, and slid out of his hold, he barely moved I still felt pride knowing I'd tired him out. Yay me. .. I sat on the black examination table and Livia walked in and beamed at me, I blushed again. "Can we speed this up?" I groaned. She giggled and had me lie back to inspect the damage. .. When she finished I sat back up and crossed my legs. "So is everything fine down there then?" "Indeed, now that you're officially mated you will start changing." I cocked my head. "What?" She glanced at me. "Lamia and naga are born in large eggs, your human body will not be able to support any children. When you received the final bite from his majesty the problem was corrected, once you are completely converted then you two can start a family, or wait it's up to you." I glanced at my legs trying to imagine a long pretty tail in their place. "So I'll be half lamia then?" "No, his majesty is royalty and has the power to completely shift you from human to lamia....but as you know you'll still have access to your human form so you don't have to give up your human friends and family or anything." I nodded slowly, but I was more concerned about trying to explain why my parent's grandbabies had tails. I mean I know my mother knew about demons in some way, but it seemed like my dad was in the dark and the rest of the family....I wasn't so sure about. "How long will the change take?" "Anywhere from a few weeks to a few months from now, depends on how many times he bit you. Each bite injects a bit of the serum that causes the change." "I lost count." She giggled. "In that case, you could be changed around Christmas or even the first of the year, more naga than you may think have taken human mates. It varies but by sometime today you should start having small changes." "Like what?" "Your five senses will increase rapidly, you'll become more empathic, maybe tomorrow you'll start to hear snippets of certain humans minds, you'll be able to hide your scent and move faster." "All that in just a short time?" "His majesty comes from a powerful family." I nodded and thought about it it was pretty cool to imagine, then looked up as Zeos appeared in the doorway in his spare robe. "Is everything OK?" "Just great Majesty, you can take Highness back to your room if you'd like." He nodded and thanked her before walking over and picking me up I kissed his cheek. "Morning." "Good morning love." ... He didn't have any plans and I was off so we stayed in bed, he hugged my waist and nuzzled my cheek. I ran my fingers through his hair and stared at the ceiling, there was a knock on the door and then Harold came in. "Good morning your majesty, Lady Cass." "Hi Harold." Zeos only flicked the tip of his tail in his direction. "Your majesty, the Empress called and Camilla informed her of your mating." He groaned. "Are my parents coming?" "Yes later this afternoon, as well as your two older siblings, their mates and your younger siblings." He sighed and nodded Harold bowed before leaving us alone, from the portraits I remember his brother Valerion looked like their father but his hair was in a single braid and his tail was black with black pearls. His wife Canabella had short blond hair with pink highlights, green eyes and a light tan. Her tail was white and held mini diamonds, his sister Beatra could pass as their mother's twin but her hair was a darker shade of blond and her tail was black and purple covered in topaz. Beatra's husband Nico had blue eyes and was a little darker than Canabella and kept his dark brown hair short but it was long enough for a ponytail. His tail was all red but held pearls along the sides. His younger brother Tobias has short black hair and his father's eyes, he appeared to be sixteen years old but he was roughly forty. His tail wasn't fully mature and was a solid black, the youngest, his sister Linella was twenty years old. Of course that meant she was like an eight year old. She had curly blond hair and had her mother's eyes her tail wasn't mature either and was a solid pink. "Not happy to see your family?" "No I am, I just wished they would come another day I wanted to spend all my time with you today." I smiled and kissed his lips. "Its OK, we can have our day another time." He nodded and smiled slightly. .. By the time we were dressed, Linella let herself in and jumped on Zeos. "Big brother!" He smiled slightly and hugged her before setting her down. "Hello Lilly." "Where's this woman I heard about?" I pushed my hair behind my ear and he glanced at me she frowned. "She's awfully plain looking." I sighed, and reminded myself that she was just a child and I shouldn't get offended...at least not yet anyways. Zeos frowned. "That is my future queen, be respectful." She huffed and introduced herself, I smiled at her. "Nice to meet you Linella." We walked downstairs and the rest of his family greeted him, he hugged them then introduced me. His mother ran over to hug me. "Oh it's so nice to meet you, welcome to the fold my dear, call me Gabbie." His father dropped an arm around my shoulder. "And tell me every time he upsets you....I'll kick his ass." I laughed and smiled at them. ... We sat at the table and lunch was brought out, I couldn't believe how much food I would be consuming while still maintaining my figure. As I was now, my appetite was a lot smaller, Beatra (Bebe) asked about my life. Canabella (Ella) asked if I would give her some recipes after I talked about the bakery. Nico and Valerion were very laid back, I was glad I didn't get a threat from them like Eric had bestowed on Zeos. Tobias was fairly shy and didn't say much. Zeos told them about Thanksgiving dinner and his parents were pleased to hear that I came from a loving family, soon Lilly's voice filled the room. "So are you going to start exercising before you marry my brother?" she asked. Of course that struck my sensitive ego but I smiled anyways. "Of course." "Good cause fat lamias don't last long." "Lilly!" Gabbie started. She shrugged. "Well they don't." Constantinos rubbed his temples. "Lilly, be nice to her, you'll scare her off." I smiled and shook my head. "Oh it's OK, I'm not going anywhere." I focused on my plate as the conversation shifted again I could feel Lilly staring at me and I looked up. "Yes?" "You mind if I take Zeos for the day? I don't get to see him as often since you took his free time." I cocked my head. "Um sure." She turned her gaze to Zeos. "I want to go see Nevia." Zeos frowned. "That's out of the question, if you want to do something with me it will be something that Cassandra likes too." She frowned. "But Nevia misses you, I saw her a week ago and she said you guys don't hang out anymore." "I am not a child, I only need to spend recreational time with one woman." "Lilly that's enough." Gabbie said. She sighed. "I didn't do anything, I just don't see how she's better than Nevia." "Because she is his life mate, Nevia is just a friend." Gabbie said. "But big brother I thought you loved Nevia, did you forget or did you just throw her away for this one?" "Where do you get this information from?" Zeos snapped. She turned her gaze to me. "You know, if that's what he did he'll do the same thing to you, you aren't good enough." That dug at me, I knew she was just a child and most children could be cruel but that was exactly why it bothered me. If a child didn't think I was good enough then was I really? I didn't care if it was ridiculous to anyone else or not but I still felt hurt. "Lilly!" "Well won't he? None of you married humans, how do you know the pull you told me about is strong enough to keep them together? I mean look at her, Nevia's like a supermodel and she's like the assistant to the assistant." "Lilly, we didn't raise any of you to love for looks." "I'm not saying you did, but if Nevia backed off and acted more like a lady couldn't he be swayed to loving her again?" I got up then and Zeos grabbed my wrist. "Babe, ignore her, she's going out of her way to be bratty today." "Oh she's just a child it doesn't bother me, I just remembered I had to go to in to work late today ." I snatched my hand out of his grasp and walked out the front door, I wondered if maybe I was being silly or if it was because of what he injected me with. It didn't feel like when I'd been the enemy of another boyfriend's younger sibling. I felt like I had already screwed up because part of his family didn't approve. I couldn't explain this feeling to anyone who wasn't in my shoes, but I didn't want to come between him and any part of his family. ... It wasn't long before I found myself in the kitchen of Leta's bakery focusing all of my attention on cupcakes. I'd been in there a few hours without interruption before she peeked in the room. "Is everything OK?" I turned and smiled at her. "Yeah just fine, I just felt like baking and wanted to do it where nothing would go to waste." Leta gave me an odd look but eventually accepted that, she was big on not wasting food and appreciated that I shared the thought. My phone rang and I picked it up. My Naga King Ch. 04 "Hello?" "Lady Cass, where did you run off to?" "I'm fine Camilla." "No don't hang up, just tell me where you are so I can meet you there." "I don't want you to come, I'm frustrated and I don't know why." "It's the serum, I don't know where that attitude came from, the little princess is never like that." "Maybe she had a bad run in with humans." "Maybe, but that's no excuse, she was raised not to place judgment based on the actions of one part of a large group of people." "I don't know, I just feel silly." "It's not your fault, all humans respond differently to the change, just because you're sweet and caring on your own doesn't make you a bad person for being more sensitive while changing." "...I still don't want you to come." "Lady Cass, either way I have to come find you, his majesty is livid and just wants to see if you're alright." "Would he really just..." "My Lady do not even finish that sentence, that is not how the bond works, he never had feelings for Nevia. They were childhood friends yes, but even the demon community has a friend zone." "...Hmm." "I'll have to come looking for you." "No you won't, I just want to work in peace, I'm not going to be alone I'm going out with the girls." She huffed. "I'll be back at my apartment at eleven, you can meet me then." I said good bye and hung up after she agreed. .... I dusted off the pink sweater and skinny jeans I wore after work and got a taxi to take me to the Italian restaurant I was meeting my friends at. Zeos let them keep the cards, despite his expensive tastes he didn't really spend his money as often as you would think. He actually had a separate bank account attached to the cards, but no matter how much my girls loved to shop they didn't go crazy with the money he gave them. I still hadn't introduced them to him face to face, they conned me into having a conference call with him but that was it. I waved at Monica, Stacy was on the phone but waved when she noticed me. "Where's your body guard?" "Gave her the day off." She nodded and went back to her call. "Hey Monica did you check on Juniper? I forgot to." "She didn't want to come." I sighed. "Is something wrong?" "She must still be sick." Monica eyed me. "When did she get sick?" "Thanksgiving." "She wasn't sick then and didn't sound sick when I talked to her earlier, she even called Stacy and went out with her on Thanksgiving. I would have gone but I was already with my family by then." I frowned as we walked in and were taken to a table. "I'm sorry Cass, she told me your parents were sick and they didn't have dinner plans so she wanted to do something else." Stacy said. "It's OK Stace, she probably got in a fight with Eric and didn't want to have tension at the dinner table." We ordered and talked quietly. "So how's your man?" Monica asked. "Just fine, speaking of men how are you two doing in love?" They gave me a weird look. "Uh well, Owen asked me out." Stacy said. Owen had been the basketball star at our highschool, Stacy had had her eye on him for years. "Oh that's great, and you Monica?" "Well..." "Tell her Monica." She tugged on her hair. "Christine wanted to go out, we're trying to be a couple." I smiled. "You switched teams huh?" She shrugged then blushed. "Yeah I suppose so." "Oh you guys, we should go on a triple date." Stacy said I played with my salad then Monica sighed. "Did you guys get in a fight?" "Did he hurt you? Do I need to go all karate on his ass?" Stacy added. "No no, I met his family today, and it was over whelming." "How?" "His mother, sister, sister, their so stunning, I felt so inadequate." I left out a few things but they didn't need to be concerned about a somewhat bratty little princess. Monica rubbed my back. "Hey it's OK, we'll just go look at some sexy sleep wear and you'll feel better." Stacy toyed with her phone then grinned. "And I have just the place." I shook my head. "No more sexy stuff, he ripped my favorite thong and bra set." "Did you guys finally bump uglies?!" I shushed Stacy and Monica giggled. "Yes, just in the bathroom though, against the wall, on the floor and in the tub." They squealed. "Girlie give us the deets right now." Monica said. "Well for starters....uh.....have you heard about those people who come into the world sorta mutated?" "Like what...with extra arms and stuff?" "No I mean sexually." "Oh like those dudes that are born with two fully functioning cocks and have three nuts?" Stacy asked. "Yeah." "What about them?" "He's one of them." They screamed so loud a few people turned to look at us, they quieted and called me the luckiest girl on the face of the planet. Then threatened to scream again if I didn't give them details. By the time we left the restaurant I was as red as a tomato, and once we had done some shopping and ended at the food court to get dessert I still hadn't regained my color. ... Around ten I parted ways with my friends and headed for my apartment I took out my phone and called Juniper. "Hello?" "Hey..." She hung up quickly, I stopped and stared at the phone then called her again I got the same response then gave up and got a taxi to go check on her. I had a feeling Camilla would be mad at me but she would forgive me when I explained why I was late. .. I paid my fare and waved at her elderly doorman before going up to her apartment, I knocked and rung the door bell. She answered and gave me the dirtiest look she ever had. "Hey June, what's wrong?" "What do you care you fucking slut?" "Woah, what's that about?" "You have a rich boyfriend but you had to go after mine, some sister you are." "I haven't gone after anyone." "Oh bullshit, Patrick told me how you came on to him." My gaze narrowed. "Excuse me?" "Yeah and thanks to you his parents locked him up and no one can visit or call him because it might 'interfere his recovery'." "Look I don't know what he told you, but I didn't go after him and I didn't even know you two were dating." "And I didn't tell you because he said you still wanted him and he knew you wouldn't let me have him, I can't believe he was right. Leave me alone slut." She slammed the door, I knocked on the door again. "Just go back to your sugar daddy bitch I don't have time for you." I sniffed and stepped back then left her building, what is with me and sisters today? I decided to walk home. It hurt that she was picking his side over mine, what had he done that turned her against me so easily? Dumb jerk. I couldn't wait for him to recover so I could beat him down and put him back in the hospital. My sister and I were so close she was my best friend before Monica and Stacy and just like that I was her enemy. I'd give her a few days to calm then I would try again, there was no way I was losing my sister to asshole like that. I wiped my eyes and sniffed. What a nice day this turned out to be. Camilla wasn't mad she was worried to see I was crying but I didn't want to talk about it, I just wanted to be sad for a few hours then move on. ... Ten days passed by quickly, I knew Zeo's birthday was coming up but I didn't know what to get him. I hadn't seen him since I left that afternoon, I told Camilla I didn't want to see him yet and she didn't question me. My sister was still giving me the silent treatment. "Um Miss. Cass?" I looked up. "Yes?" "Nevia's parents are throwing a birthday party for his majesty." "Great I'm sure he'll have fun." "He would want to see you." "I don't know what to get him." "Oh is that what you're fretting over? I told you, he'd love anything from you." "But I don't want to just give him anything....I want to give him something....special." She smiled. "Well you could take the jewelry route again." I stared at her. "Make something yourself, there are tons of shops you could look around in for supplies." "What could I even give him?" "A necklace perhaps....or earrings naga men have a natural fascination with shiny objects." I laughed a little. "I could try." The phone rang and Camilla picked it up. "Miss. Cass his majesty is asking when you'll return." "He called to ask?" "No Harold is calling on his behalf he's lost without you and feels your pain and frustration even from this distance. He's worried about you." "I'll come back after I get a suitable gift." Camilla nodded and told Harold. ... On the night of the party, I was determined to out do Nevia, as it turns out she was a lamia but she wasn't from the same batch as Zeo's family. Her tail was pink and purple but didn't have any jewels. Her parents, Empress Latina and Emperor Glace also had duo colored tails, her pretty redheaded mother had a white and yellow tail while her father had a blue and green tail. The party was being held at a different castle that was made with white stone so it looked really pretty in the moonlight. I had actually gotten a little a taller and my chest had gotten a little bigger my hair was even longer and my skin had gotten paler. Camilla helped me pick out a long blue evening dress and matching heels. The straps of the dress tied around my neck and my shoulders were visible then disappeared under see through sleeves that fanned out around my arms. I had made a little silver sword and stained the blade so it would appear to be on fire then placed the charm on black chain. Two little flame charms hung on either side of the sword, that wasn't all, it was connected to heavy velvety black cape. I remembered the first time I saw him in a cape he looked so charming, I wanted to give him one that I had made. It was embroidered with flames. We were showing up a little late on account of I was nervous and almost decided not to come. Then I yelled at myself and told myself that I had to be there for his five hundredth birthday and every birthday after that. I had almost wrapped the cape then decided I would carry it in instead so I could put it on for him. We walked in the blue and white schemed castle and saw the large crowd. Zeos was dancing with Nevia who looked gorgeous in her pink dress as much as I hated to admit it. Zeos was wearing a silver wrap like top with his favorite leather belt, to my delight he wasn't wearing a cape or at least had taken it off when he arrived. He looked so handsome, I realized then how much I missed him Camilla frowned. "Whore, you look so much better than she does your highness." I giggled. Before the music ended Zeos let go of Nevia, I thought something was wrong until he walked toward me Camilla moved behind me to stop me from backing away. He stopped in front of me, before he could move to put his arms around my waist I slipped the cape over his shoulders and clasped the lock into place. "Happy birthday my love." I wrapped my arms around him and kissed him, ignoring the crowd he kissed me right back. .. Later in the evening Gabbie shoved Lilly in my direction, Constantinos crossed his arms. "Now tell her what you have to say young lady." She sighed. "Sorry I guess." "Linella Margell-Diamond Valentine." Gabbie said. I smiled as she reminded me of my mother. "Ugh fine, sorry that you still aren't good enough." "You know what, I'm sorry too." She cocked her head. "I'm sorry you didn't get your way, but I stayed far away and he still doesn't want Nevia, so even if you don't like me you'll have to get over it because I'm here to stay." His family cheered, he slipped his arms around me protectively. "Don't ever leave me like that again." I smiled and twisted my head to kiss his cheek. "I wouldn't dream of it." * (Sorry I know that wasn't too long but you got a good bit from this chapter right? I'll try to make the next one longer.) My Naga King Ch. 05 (And I promise I haven't been ignoring that people want to know how the mother knows about Zeos, well you're in luck cause it's in this chapter. Again sorry about the wait I had a case of writer's block and unfortunately you may be able to tell when you read this chapter the next one should be better. Finally, I know a lot of you are also wondering what's going to happen with Juniper, you'll see more of her in this chapter. Enjoy the bit of drama. This chapter is a little short.) .... After the party was over I was glad to return to the castle and received a very warm welcome from the servants. After we got to our bedroom I sat at the vanity to remove my jewelry I had missed being in here with Zeos. "What have you been up to the past few days?" He asked. I glanced at him. "Oh nothing special I hung out with Monica and Stacy, they managed to get me to tell them about our first night together. As embarrassing as it was when I think back now, I rather liked bragging." I smiled when he stopped behind me and slid his arms around my shoulders. "Oh is that a fact?" "I'd say so." He nuzzled my cheek and I kissed him I moaned when he deepened the kiss. I was sort of glad to be a little sex deprived. A little bit of hard fucking before bed was even better than hot chocolate before bed. He pulled me up and helped me slip out of my dress. Underneath I was only wearing black stockings with a matching garter belt and thong. He ran his hands over my sides and ripped off my thong, he was already nice and hard. I dropped to my knees and ran my tongue over his cocks, I blinked, my tongue had definitely gotten longer. I grinned and continued to lick around them making sure to go slower near the slit, I heard him groan. I traced the veins on his cocks with my tongue, I wanted to make up for lost time and this seemed like the best way to do it. I alternated between sucking on his first and second head. He bent over and rested his hands on the vanity as he started panting. I began to deep throat his first cock and quickly pumped the other one, he soon tensed and shot a few streams down my throat and all over my breasts. After I repeated the action we moved the to bathroom. .... After a clean up in the bathroom, he took me to bed he laid on his back and I lowered myself on to his cocks. I moaned as they penetrated me at the same time, I could almost feel my body wordlessly threatening to cum right then to punish me for lost time. I clenched my walls around his cocks and bounced up and down. His hands rested on my hips and I could feel him moving his hips with mine. Pleasure zipped throughout my pussy and up my spine, I moaned his name and bent forward to rest my hands on his chest. I felt my pussy lips getting slicker just from listening to him, I couldn't help but wonder if other women got off on sharing pleasure with their men like this. He rolled us over so he was on top and my lower half was mostly in the air as he worked his magic over and over again. I clawed at his back just before cumming with him, he didn't let me rest though he continued and we repeated this several times throughout the night. .... The next morning as soon as I heard my phone ring I swore to myself that I would get a new one. I picked it up and saw that it was Bebe. "Hello?" "Morning sis." she said cheerfully. I smiled. "Morning, what's up?" "I called because I wanted to know if you wanted to go out for breakfast and shopping with my mom, Ella and Lilly." I wasn't so sure I wanted to spend time with Lilly this early in the morning but I agreed anyways. "Great, meet you at the front door in an hour and don't worry about my brother, the guys will go do something later in the afternoon." "OK, I'll go get ready." We hung up and I pushed on Zeos's tail to get out of the loose wrap he had me in, the room was a lot colder without it. I kissed his forehead and hurried to shower and get dressed, I put on black leggings and a white knit dress that ended at my thighs. I'm not sure why but getting dressed in the morning was more fun with a lover to appreciate it. I went down stairs after combing my hair. I saw Camilla leave her room she smiled at me. "Morning Camilla, are you coming too?" I hoped I didn't sound to hopeful, the rest of the females in Zeos's family did actually like me, but still it's like high school all over again. Being the new girl in a group of pretty cheerleaders without a more familiar face is unnerving. "Yes Lady Cass." she said with a smile. Our heels clicked in unison as we hurried to the steps to get to the door before the doorbell was pressed and they woke up Harold and Zeos. .. We ended up a little restaurant and even this early my group was the center of the attention, they were all wearing jeans or dresses and looked like super models. We ordered and waited for our drinks. "I'm glad you could come out with us Cass I wasn't sure you would accept after the last time." Gabbie said. I smiled. "Oh we're all family we have to get over all the little bumps we pass." She smiled, I hoped when I had the same number of kids I would look as good as she does. "Your scent is changing nicely, have you been toying with your powers?" Ella said. "Not yet I haven't." Gabbie squealed. "Then today you'll get a chance to." "Around all of the normal humans?" I asked. "Oh yes, it's best to learn to control your powers around humans right from the start." Bebe said. I toyed with the end of my pony tail, the lights flickered and Bebe grabbed my hand. "Producing an electric charge? How cool is that?" My eyes widened. "Was that me?" "Oh yes, try again." Ella said. I ran my fingers through my hair and the lights on the wall glowed brightly before every bulb shattered. I let go of my hair and watched the little strings of electricity flickering between my fingers before they stopped. Most of the girls clapped, I shivered as a tingle went up my spine. "That was like an...old fashioned superhero movie discovery." Ella laughed. "That's your defense, all royal naga and lamia have one power that is for defending the family and for causing lots of damage." "Oh it wasn't that big a deal, you have a long way to go." Lilly said. I rolled my eyes. "Or perhaps the little princess is just jealous since she also produces an electric charge, and can't control it very well." Camilla said. "Shut it." We laughed and she huffed before ignoring us. "What about you guys?" I asked. "Valerion and Zeos can produce fire like our ancestors, Nico can manipulate sound, Ella can shape water into weapons, Tobias and I can control plant life. Back in the old days poison coated vines were a popular defense." Bebe said. "Wow....Gabbie what about you and Constantinos?" "We can do everything our children can, that's why no one could challenge our kingdom." She giggled almost evilly. I smiled, I made a mental note to be really careful around water and large groups of people. .. After we ate we went to the mall, I saw that it was a bad idea, Juniper was there with Stacy. "Oh Cass!" I smiled and waved before Stacy walked over. "Who are your new friends?" She asked. I introduced everyone and she smiled then glanced over to where Juniper was standing. "So what's up with you and June? She flipped out over the phone about your fight but I'm use to her over reacting so why don't you give me your side." "She's mad at me for what happened with Patrick." I said. "....But that has nothing to do with you." "Will you tell her that?" She sighed. "Oh it's so nice to see the whore queen of New York out with her slutty plastic minions" I stepped between them and my sister before one of them took her head off. "Juniper you don't even know them." I snapped. "June that was mean, you should apologize not to mention you don't even know them" Stacy added. Juniper glared at her then focused her attention on me. "I don't need to know them, skanks of a feather flock together." "Are you aware one of them is a child?" Stacy asked her. "Skank in training." "You're being really immature if you have a problem with me then deal with it, but you leave my friends alone." I said through gritted teeth. Juniper laughed. "Oh is the whore queen going to defend her subjects now? You've become very sure of yourself since you became a rich man's fuck toy." I heard the hushed growling behind me. "This has nothing to do with Zeos." Her gaze narrowed. "Zeos? I only know of one Zeos and his last name is Valentine." she said. "It is Valentine, in case you forgot, it's his mother's maiden name." I said. She held up her phone that had a picture of Zeos in his human form. "If this is the man you're talking about his last name isn't Valentine." I raised an eyebrow. "How do you even know him?" "None of your business, people like you and people like him deserve each other." she snapped.. "Just get lost OK?" "Is that the best you can do?" Juniper asked. Stacy grabbed her arm. "Come on June let's go, this is not the time to be fighting." She snatched her arm out of Stacy's hold and kept her place, I sighed. "Juniper get a hold of yourself, we were best friends, don't you love your sister anymore?" I said. She punched me in the jaw, I spat the blood on the floor but didn't bother to hit back, despite the fact that she was out of line I refused to sink to her level. "Guess I got my answer, see you later Stace, we can't stand here all day." I said. We walked past them and I rubbed my jaw, she always had had a ton of power behind her punches. I was familiar with it from our child hood fights. "You're just going to let her get away with that? That isn't the way of a lamia queen, don't you want to know how she knows my brother?" Lilly said. I did want to know but right now it wasn't like I would be getting any information from her. "I have to handle situations like that in ways that work for me." I said. "Or maybe you're scared of her, it's not good to show weakness." she added. I ignored her. "Lilly, even though I'm disappointed that I have to say it at all, I'm going to say this once, you should know better than to keep running your mouth." Gabbie said sharply. "But mother..." "That's enough Lilly, all of us must handle the battles we claim as our own in the way we see fit, you will understand when you're older." Bebe said. Lilly was quiet the rest of the time, which was great because I already had a headache and we left the mall it was a full blown migraine. ... I was glad when the castle came into view. "Should we have Livia check out your jaw?" "No, I'm fine." I thanked the girls for inviting me and went upstairs to fix my hair, I knew they would be staying for dinner. I let my hair down and started to comb it just as my phone buzzed, I picked it up. "Hello?" "You lied to us!" my mother yelled. I blinked. "What are you talking about?" "You know full well what I'm talking about young lady." she said angrily. "No I don't, can we talk later? I had a fight with June..." "I know, she called me and told me that that was Zeos that you brought in my house and called him a different name, but a snake is still a snake even if you call it a worm." "Mom you were acting like you knew Zeos, I thought you had already met him, Zane is just the name for his human form." "No I've never met him Juniper always said she wanted him to be a surprise for when they decided to move their relationship further. There was no point in him meeting the family if he wasn't there to stay. I've heard the stories, Juniper says he was terrible and evil, abusive, he tried to kill her and she barely escaped with her life." I swallowed nervously, I would have to talk to Zeos about that, I had seen Juniper over react just like Stacy had and that didn't sound like Zeos. "Look I'm not even going to punish you, he's lying to you, he didn't even tell you his real last name." she added. "Mother listen, you don't know the whole story he uses his mother's maiden name all of the kids do, the father's last name is tied to business..." Instead of listening she yelled at me again. "So now you're calling your sister a whore because she was 'business' to him?" "Mom you're being as unreasonable as Juni..." "Don't you dare call me unreasonable, I'm trying to help you and you're being an idiot who is only thinking with her womanly parts. We raised you better than that!" She hung up before I could say anything else, frustrated I called my brother, Eric listened to me then promised to go smooth things over with mom. Of course not before complaining that she always has let Juniper manipulate her. We hung up and I rubbed my temples, I jumped and started to fall off my seat after noticing Zeos was standing next to me. He quickly grabbed me with his tail and pulled me back up. "What's wrong?" he asked. "It doesn't matter, how do you know my sister?" "We talked on the phone when you introduced us." confusion clouded his features. "No before that." "That was the first time I met your sister." "She had a picture of you on her phone." I sighed seeing he was drawing a blank. "The picture is of you in your human form, she said she knows you by another last name that I'm assuming is your father's last name." He was quiet for a minute. "Does she have a nickname?" "June....June bug....Junie..." "Middle name?" "Genevieve." He sighed. "That's the name I know her by, I thought she sounded familiar over the static...." There was a knock but he told whoever it was that we had some things to discuss and wouldn't be coming down. "Are you afraid of me now?" he asked. I could hear the frustration in his words. "Should I be?" "I abused your sister, treated her like complete trash and nearly killed her." His scent changed, it was strong like the scent of lemon it burned my nose, I cocked my head and rubbed my nose. "Can you tell I'm lying to you?" he asked. "Well...you certainly didn't have the scent of citrus hanging around you before you said that." He crossed his arms and the scent slowly faded. "I can tell...I think." "Here's something to remember, your sense of smell is no where near as strong as mine is. While you're changing you'll smell whatever will hit you the hardest when someone is lying to you and their in the same room. As all of your senses increase you'll be able to tell from the sound of someone's voice and words you see that have been written by another." "So what really happened?" He sat on the bed and ran his hands through his hair. "Will you listen?" "Of course....I want to know why Juniper has so much hate for you." "I met your sister at a charity event, I believe she said your brother was the one who had a ticket but he couldn't come and sent her in his place. I was introduced as Zane Alexander and I told her to call me Zeos." He began. I stayed silent. "We met each other plenty of times and ended up dating as you already know." I felt jealousy hanging out in the back of my mind. "You know how busy I get, but she had a lot of free time and eventually got tired of the random times we could meet and demanded to know why I was so secretive. So I told her that I came from royalty and had many duties to attend to. You're sister didn't have a reason to believe me right off the bat and went snooping around. Of course you know she didn't find any connections linking me to any human royal family. I had kept her away from the kingdom I never could trust her completely she isn't like you. In fact, no one here knows about my time with her.When I finally told her I wasn't human she laughed and asked me to stop joking around." "And you showed her your demon form?" I asked. "On accident." "On accident?" "Remember the hideous beast you saw when that bastard abducted you?" "Yeah." "That's what she saw, she invited me over and when I got there we drank...a lot and under the influence, a naga is very easy to startle. I did show her my fangs but I never caused any harm. I left her there and made my way back here, I didn't hear from her for several months. She didn't go to the papers, there weren't any stories about me anywhere and not a single picture I thought we were done." "Then what happened?" "She called me and asked if I would come over for dinner which was fine but after we ate she asked me to change her but I refused." "Why?" "You didn't see the look I got when she saw my final form, if she couldn't handle that then there was no way she could handle living with my kind or other species like us." I bit my lip. "So she had a tantrum when she couldn't have her way and that's it?" He shrugged. "Exactly." he said. "I wonder how she got mom on her side." "Is your mother normally naive and easy to scare?" "Yep." "You have your answer then." I sighed. "I guess we weren't as close as I thought, she never told me about you." "I know, I never would have gotten a chance to tell you the truth if she had." he said. I sat in his lap and he slipped his arms around my waist. "I'm sorry I doubted you." "It's fine, if I were you I'd be scared too after hearing that my boyfriend almost killed a member of my family" "That's no excuse, I should have known when I questioned my mother's words that something wasn't right." He smiled then. "Something told me that she was lying in some way but I had to talk to you about it....I wanted to know for sure..I love you." "I love you too." He meant to kiss me gently I know this, but he touched the injured part of my jaw and I flinched then sighed knowing I would have to tell him why. Obviously, he wasn't very happy to hear about it. ..... A few days later I walked into the bathroom to get ready for work and screamed, Zeos hurried out of the bed to see what the problem was. My hair was longer and now platinum blond instead of the dirty blond shade I had gone to bed with. My eyes were a light shade of gray and were now slit like Zeos's were I was even a little taller. "Lamia looks good on you." I stared at him. "I'm changed now?" "Almost, I have been biting you more often..." "Zeos I have to go to work..." "And you can wear the wig and contacts I bought for you so no one would notice how different your appearance is." I smiled and he stroked my cheek. "I didn't think your beauty could increase any further." I rolled my eyes and blushed but the smile remained in place I turned to the side and examined my reflection. "Are my breasts bigger?" "Just a bit." he said huskily. I laughed then, now I could tell by scent that he was getting aroused, it was a fairly sweet smell. I was going to have to make sure he didn't bite me again especially considering that I couldn't tell Leta it was because I had grown a tail. .. I left without Camilla and told her I would call her when I was ready to come home, I was getting better at controlling my defensive powers but walking too close with someone generated a lot of static and my hair would stand on end. My mother wasn't speaking to me, I hadn't heard from Juniper either, but Eric had Gina and our father on my side. I hated that the family was divided but it wasn't like I could beat some sense into my mother and sister, they had to be willing to listen or we wouldn't get anywhere. My mouth fell open when I arrived at the bakery, there was debris everywhere as if someone had purposely driven through the store. I ran in and saw that the place had been completely trashed 'Cunt', 'bitch', 'whore' among other things were spray painted on the walls. The display case was in pieces, the kitchen couldn't be used, the money was there but someone had broken into the cash register to burn most of it. I heard footsteps behind me and turned around, it was Leta. I ran over to hug her. My Naga King Ch. 05 "Oh Leta I'm so sorry." She smiled but it didn't reach her eyes. "It's not your fault precious, some people just do mean things to get their jollies." she said sadly. "I think it is my fault, my sister and I have been having a fight..." Leta stopped me. "If that's the case then it really really isn't your fault, that girl has always been a spoiled brat and I always wondered how the same parents who made one good daughter could go so wrong with another." "I'll pay for this." She shook her head. "No I was getting too old to own my own shop anyways." "But Leta..." "No, whether it was your sister or even someone else, to do this much damage....I just don't think this will be a one time thing. It's not worth it." .. I walked her home then called Marg and asked her how Zeos's office building was doing. "Oh it's just peachy, we got a new group of janitors and it's just sparkling like someone picked it up and dipped it in a jar of polish." I smiled and thanked her then I let her get back to work, Juniper may hate Zeos but clearly her current grudge is with me. I was furious that she had gone after poor Leta, what a fucking idiot what if Leta had been there to see it and had gotten hurt. Frustrated I went to my sister's place. I'm not sure how long I banged on the door before it was opened but I punched her as soon as she opened the door. She hit the carpet and I sat on top of her to prevent her from getting up. "You stupid bitch I know you had something to do with what happened to Leta's bakery!" "Oh so what if I did, what are you going to do about it?" I punched her again. "You've taken everything from me, I figured I should get a chance to take something from you." she said. "Just because you think I stole Patrick from you doesn't excuse what you did." "It's more than that." she mumbled. "Oh really? What are we talking about? Could it be the fact that I got the apartment you wanted, the fact that I was hired by Leta, maybe it's that hand bag I bought with my graduation money...or maybe it goes back to that Halloween when I got to be the fairy princess cause I fit into the costume and you didn't. Well what is it?" She glared at me. "Everything." I frowned. "We're still getting nowhere." "And we won't get anywhere until you realize what you did, accept it, and apologize." she said. I rolled my eyes and got up then walked into the hallway. "Stay away from my friends." I said. She only gave me a stupid lopsided grin, I just shook my head and left her building I wondered if she had always been this way and I was just too blind to see it. My Naga King Ch. 06 (Thank you to everyone! Now about why Cass is Zeos's mate, I wasn't going to do anything special with that because I couldn't for the life of me figure out what to do. That is, until this little idea popped into my head, I hope you like this little twist. Also I must have gone insane trying to figure out some math for this chapter, you'll see what I mean later, but I finally figured it out. Also, why do I love having bratty sisters and fucked up moms? Well because I like to take more than one angle on my stories. If you keep reading, you will see different twists in all three bratty sister/fucked up mom themed stories. That's all I'm going to say though :)) ..... Not too long after the incident with my sister, I went to Livia who was going to test my blood to see how the change was coming. I was still frustrated but would play it off, I just wanted to put it all behind me. I made a mental note to send some flowers to Leta, with a little help from me she had shaved off a bit of the earnings each day for her life savings; so I knew she would be OK. Still, I wanted her to know I was thinking of her. After the test Livia came in looking concerned. "What's wrong?" "The master's venom is no longer working on you for some reason, I'll have to wait for it to evaporate so I can test your blood alone to see what the problem is." I swallowed nervously, she patted my hand. "Don't worry, I would have seen it if you had a disease or something, it could just be that your body is done changing but the lamia half of you is still growing." she said. I nodded. "So, how long will that take?" "Oh a week or so after New Years." she replied. I stretched then cocked my head. "Wouldn't Zeos be able to tell by scent?" "Not at this crucial moment, while you're stuck in 'mid-change' only his scent will come off of you and if he thought something was wrong with his own body he would have known days ago..or sooner. Though maybe there is nothing wrong at all, remember, this is something that varies perhaps the bit of human left in you is fighting the change and it will only take a bit more time before you change completely." I nodded again and asked her not to tell Zeos, I felt fine so if I remained this way there was no reason for him to worry. .... The last few days seem to fly by and all of a sudden in December 31st there had been lots of preparation for the New Year's party. There was also a large guest list, I was suppose to meet more of Zeos's family friends. Nevia had been coming by but instead of stalking Zeos she came to spend time with me. She even told me she had found a new man, well Alexen wasn't new, he had known her just as long as Zeos and had been too shy to admit his feelings for her. I was happy for her, it was like Zeos had only been a friend and she needed to be away from him for that to click in her mind. At first glance, Alexen appears to have short black and gold hair, but if you get close you can see a single braid that ended by the middle of his gold tail. He's fairly pale with blue gray eyes, I thought they would make really pretty children some day. Tobias seemed to move past his shyness and had come to see me fairly often, he was so sweet I was beginning to think he had taken all the good manners and left the bratty ones to his younger sister. It was early and I hadn't eaten yet, Zeos had left to look over some of his paperwork one final time he didn't want to start the new year off on the wrong foot. I looked up when there was a knock to the door and then it was opened. It was Lilly. "Your brother isn't back yet." "I know I'm looking for you." she said. I cocked my head. "Everyone else is busy so I figured this would be a good time to talk,can I come in?" she asked. I waved her in and she closed the door she moved over to the vanity where I was sitting and stopped in front of me. "What do you want to talk about?" I asked. "I just wanted to apologize on my own so you would know that no one put me up to this, I gave you a hard time and probably still will but I know you make my brother happy and that's all that matters." I stared at her in surprise to think I was just thinking how bratty she is, I smiled. "What brought this on?" "Well the year is starting over and I don't want to have this feud I started going on forever so I figured we could end it now." She held up a credit card. "Also, as a peace offering, I would like to take you out to breakfast that will really show you I mean no harm." I wondered if I should let a child take me out to eat, but I had to remind myself that despite her normal child-like attitude she was still more mature than any human child I had ever known. "I don't know, how about we split the bill?" I offered. She smiled. "Kay, let's go, I told Camilla and Harold we were leaving so they are staying behind to work on the preparations for the party." I nodded and got up to get dressed. ... We went to a restaurant I had yet to visit with the family, it was a tiny diner with a fifties theme. She acted strange, but in a good way, I thought it was nice that she went out of her way to prove her sudden change of heart. The customers were complete strangers she didn't have to put on an act for them. After that I decided to reciprocate the peace offering with a little shopping. There were a few family owned business that were open so we went and looked for dresses. She found this dress with a sleeveless and strapless leather top and the silk skirt that went down to about my thigh. Obviously this wasn't for her, she had me wear it out the store over my jeans, when we got back, via taxi, she wanted to show me something. I followed her to the cellar doors near the stables and we walked inside. The cellar was fairly large, well really large considering how far it spread under the castle. There was a lot of things being stored down here, I turned to ask her what she wanted to show me in here and that's about when I felt strong pain in my head and the world faded from view. ......... I groaned and slowly opened my eyes I recovered faster thanks to Zeos's venom, but my vision was still blurry. I looked around and saw that it was completely dark, my eyes adjusted until I could make out my surroundings. I was still in the cellar and it appeared as though cement had been used to block the window. I felt around for my purse but when I found it only my ID was inside. I pressed the light button on my watch and saw that it was around seven. I felt around more thinking I had dropped some things and found a sheet of paper, it took a while but my eyes adjusted again so I could read it. (Dear Cassandra, It has come to my attention that you really aren't suitable for my brother, I mean come on, why would I change so soon for someone like you? You should have known I was playing you, but I'll give you a little bit of an excuse since I heard Livia telling you that brother's venom wasn't working. It was a long shot, but like I hoped you couldn't tell I was lying. I knew the human blood still in you would make you weak in the morning, anyway, I locked you down there and will come get you in the morning. You probably know by now that I kept everyone just busy enough by destroying decorations and other things so they wouldn't notice that you left before putting on your perfume. Clever aren't I? "Oh could you not wear perfume, it burns my nose" I can't believe you fell for that haha. Love, Lilly P.S. the room your in was made soundproof so it wouldn't disturb the horses when people were inside. I also put a few fire crackers around the doors, and did you notice the doors are metal? With powers like ours you should know that panic plus electricity plus metal and fire crackers don't mix well. So stay put and behave.) I cursed and took back everything nice I ever said or thought about her, she just took brat to a whole new level. Though, I was stuck I sighed and looked around Zeos would forgive me for missing the party when I told him what happened. I found a group of paintings resting by the wall and pulled the sheet off of them to see what the subjects were. They were really faded but I made out a pretty red head in one picture, I couldn't really tell if she was smiling or not but she seemed familiar. The name had been scratched off, I wondered what she did to piss off Zeos I just knew he had had a part in damaging her portrait. I pushed it aside and saw another portrait, it looked like claws had run through it, the name had been torn off. I could make out a woman with really curly hair and pale skin but it was mostly faded around the claw marks. I found another one, of a couple, I could see a man with dark brown or black hair, and a woman with blond hair but again the paintings were partially damaged. That bothered me, I re-covered them and wondered if it was a family. Who could have pissed Zeos off that much? I hoped I would never meet them. I sat down and told myself to remain calm so I could try and reach out to someone mentally, this place was giving me the creeps and I wanted to leave. It was no use though, the room was so large but I felt like the walls were closing in on me. I had never had problems with claustrophobia before. Then again, I had never been so trapped in my life, yeah she was clever alright. I sniffed and pulled my knees to my chest while I rested my head on them. Rocking back and forth I only wanted to go home, my home, but it didn't seem I would be at any time soon. ... I must have dozed off because when I woke up it was bright in the room, as if Lilly had just opened the door and left me to sleep. It was also warm...no it was more than warm, it was hot, I opened my eyes and screamed. I was surrounded by fire, it hadn't reached where I sat but it was getting close. I coughed as the smoke started to fill my nose and lungs, and something was burning in the fire that shouldn't be. The smell was strong and my eyes started to water, all too soon I was gasping for air I tried to rub the tears out of my eyes but I couldn't get over that smell. My vision was failing, I couldn't see where to move to to avoid the flames that were moving closer and closer. The constricting top was heating up fast I ripped it off and tried to back away from the flames. As the room spun and it got hotter and hotter I noticed something was off....the cellar....didn't have carpet I passed out just as the thought appeared. .......... "Cassandra?" I coughed and my throat felt like I had swallowed a bag of play sand, I could breathe but barely. I didn't know who was talking to me, I didn't want to open my eyes, or maybe I just couldn't who really knows. "Cassandra can you hear me?" I coughed again and opened my eyes, my vision was still blurry but again I recovered pretty fast. The blob of white shaped into a male doctor I stared at him for a while he was older and balding, his pale blue eyes were covered by thick glasses and he had a bushy gray mustache. "Ah, good afternoon, you seemed to be going in and out of consciousness for a while so I came in to see if I could help." he said. "......" I tried to speak but only coughed. What the hell had been burning in that fire? "Hang on, let me get you some water." He handed me a glass and pressed the button on my bed to make it sit up, as I downed a few glasses he introduced himself as Dr. Raymond. He told me that most of my neighbors were out of town but someone did notice the flames in my apartment, obviously, and called the fire department. I was lucky to be alive, he said, I frowned then. My apartment? When the hell did I get to my apartment? I thought about it and remembered saying I wanted to go to my home. Did I really teleport? That would be really cool when I had recovered and had gotten some answers. Who had set my apartment on fire? "We found a note partially burnt next to you from a...Lilly and it didn't sound too friendly so the cops went to check over the area, they found that the fire had been set on purpose. A large amount of chemicals and charred remains of lumber were found. This Lilly, must have been trying to get rid of you." he said seriously. She was a brat but I know she had nothing to do with this. "No, it wasn't Lilly." "How can you be sure?" "Because she locked me in.....my boyfriend's, her older brother, basement when I found a way out I went to my apartment because I forgot some things for our New Year's party. I remember someone hitting me on the head and I woke up surrounded by flames, Lilly is eight she probably thinks I'm still in the basement." I lied. He believed me of course, and laughed a little. "Well I'll make sure to explain that to the cops, sounds like one of those typical 'little sister hates the new girlfriend things'. However if she isn't responsible for this, do you have any idea who would want to kill you?" I sighed. "I don't know I don't have any proof..." "We'll let the cops deal with that, tell me." "I've been fighting with my sister, she blamed me for her boyfriend being placed in a mental ward, she even admitted to destroying my employer's bakery because she was mad at me." He frowned. "Oh yes, I saw that on the news, Leta's husband has been a friend of mine for a while now, I'll tell the cops right now....guess it's not the best way to start but happy new year." "Happy new year..." I said. He left the room and I glanced at the clock on the bedside table, it was a little after noon, some New Years this turned out to be. When he returned I asked him if anyone came to see me. "No, this was kept out of the news and the cops watched your room, they were concerned about someone going out of their way to end your life. We have your file pulled up so we called your parents. Dial nine on the room phone if you want to call anyone else, I need to go set up some tests for you." I nodded and he left, I reached for the phone but stopped myself, the party must have gone on to well after sun up, they would probably all be asleep. I sighed and rested against the pillows. Not too long later a nurse came in to do blood work I wondered if she would notice something odd about my blood. I hoped not. .... After that I was taken down to another floor for a few other tests, of course I was fine, when I was taken back to my room my father, brother, sister, my aunt and uncle and even my mother were waiting for me. I was only surprised to see my mom because of the silent treatment she had been giving me. They hugged and kissed me while I continuously assured them that I was fine. Dr. Raymond came in the room and chatted with my parents a bit before he opened the folder in his hands. "So, you're fine and that's great, you know what else is great? You're going to be a mother." I paled and touched my stomach, Livia told me I couldn't carry Zeos's children as a human.I really needed to get to the castle and get the correct information. I started to feel panicked again I put on a smile as my family congratulated me. Mom didn't seem too happy but I expected that, she wouldn't want a demon in the family. "Oh have they called Zane?" Gina asked. Mom shook her head. "Oh no I don't want her to be abused while she's expecting." My jaw dropped, I can't belive she said that in front of the doctor he'd over react. "Zane doesn't abuse me." I said. "Dear you're exhausted you could have died, you don't know what you're saying." I glared at her. "I have body guards that he paid for." I added. "Yes we all know that, but where were they?" she asked. "They..." I could see already that Dr. Raymond wasn't about to let Zeos near me while I was in the hospital. Even though it wasn't true a good doctor wouldn't just overlook accusations of abuse especially when a pregnant woman was involved. .... When I was finally left alone it was getting darker, I picked up the phone and called Camilla. "Hello?" "Camilla...." I didn't get to say anymore before she started crying, she was mostly upset that she couldn't find my scent. After she started sniffing I told her about how I got out of the cellar, she explained that since I hadn't walked I hadn't left a scent trail for them to find. I knew I had been coated in ash and then put in a sterile environment. The mix of scents from the early guests had covered the area, Lilly was too clever for her own good. She asked me where I was and I really didn't want to tell her because I knew she would freak all over again. "Lady Cass?" I gave in and as if on cue she flipped, she was yelling in another language but I didn't recognize it so I think it was demon made. I don't know what she said but I did hear her calling Harold in the background. I told her the guards wouldn't let Zeos up and she scoffed. "While his majesty won't hurt a human, they can not keep a demon king from his mate we will see you soon." She hung up before I could say anything else, I couldn't help but smirk a bit. ..... I woke up and instead of a pillow my head was resting against a familiar, toned chest, I tried to look up but his chin was firmly placed on the top of my head. I could feel he was shaking slightly as if he'd only just calmed down. He held me carefully and one of his hands was resting on my stomach. "Zeos." He jumped slightly like I caught him off guard, he stared at me, his eyes were blood shot I smiled at him and stroked his cheek. He crushed his lips to mine, and we stayed like that until I needed to breath. "Sorry about the party..." He actually glared at me. "Do you honestly think I care more about some stupid gathering than your safety?" he sounded more hurt than angry. "No but it..." He kissed me again, his way of telling me to shut the hell up. "Not that it matters but I canceled it as soon as Lilly said you weren't coming." he said with a sigh. I smiled again he was still frowning as he focused on my face. "To think I could have lost you last night and wouldn't have known about it....and our child." "Oh the doctor told you?" "No, Lilly went off about how I needed someone who could change completely, and then I made her tell me what Livia told you. The only time that happens is when the body of a woman is strong enough to carry a child from my race." "But I thought I couldn't have your child while I was human..." "That only applies to non-royal nagas that don't have the power to completely shift their mates from human to lamia." "Why didn't you tell me that before?" I asked. "I wanted you to focus on your change and not constantly worry that you weren't acceptable because you hadn't made the change yet. That was what a cousin of mine went through with his mate, I didn't want you to be upset over something that doesn't matter. You're perfect for me." I bit on my lip and blushed lightly he nuzzled my cheek. "When the baby is born the remaining venom in your blood stream will overpower the last bit of human in you." he added. I relaxed against him, he said this doesn't happen that often and he was sure the only reason he couldn't tell I was pregnant was because I didn't release the pheromones that lamia did when they were expecting; naturally because I'm not quite there yet. He flipped off the men that had tried to stand in his way and carried me out of the hospital. .... Lilly was in serious trouble when we arrived at the castle, Zeos told her to sit in the living room and wait for him. Good, give her hell, he set me down on the bed and kissed my forehead while gently stroking my stomach. When he pulled away he left the room and was replaced by Livia and Tobias. While Livia looked me over Tobias sat with me on the bed I smiled at him and patted his head. "....Are you OK?" he asked. My Naga King Ch. 06 "I'm fine." He toyed with the end of his tail, I remember from the little I knew about naga children was that that was a nervous habit. "Hey." I said. He glanced at me. "I'm fine sweetheart, just tired and hungry." He eyed me for a moment before nodding, I held out my arms and he wrapped his arms around my neck and his tail around my waist as we hugged. Livia smiled, he unwrapped his tail from around me but stayed close while she pressed around on my stomach. When she found the small lump, that was the egg, she smiled again. "Everything seems just fine." "I'm guessing I'll be....laying the egg like I would have a human baby?" She giggled. "Oh no, the egg will be fairly large, it will be a C-section, and then the egg or eggs will finish growing for a month outside the womb until its time to hatch." I was a bit relieved to hear that, I didn't want to squeeze out something most likely larger than a watermelon. "So did the doctor tell you who I thought may have started the fire?" She shook her head. "My sister." She frowned. "Well the master won't be happy to hear that." "I know but I also know there isn't much point in trying to hide that information." She nodded and left the room, I glanced at Tobias as he moved away from me. "So, miss me?" He nodded and I smiled. "I swear, you and Lilly or so different, she hates me to the core but you've never shown the same feeling." He patted my arm with a smile. "Hey, have you been in the cellar?" I asked. "Yes I have." "Do you know who those people are in the damaged paintings?" He toyed with his tail again. "Uh.....Zeos told me not to tell you." he said softly. "Why?" "He said you would be upset." "Did he kill those people?" Tobias raised an eyebrow and shook his head. "So tell me who they are." "The blond was his love, the couple were her parents and the red head was the psycho who killed the blond." he said. "The red head also destroyed her portrait while everyone was busy at her funeral." I frowned. "Why?" "She wanted to be with....Zeos and he only had eyes for the other one, he cried a lot after she passed away." "How did she kill her?" "That depends, do you want the whole story? Zeos didn't tell me until I was eighteen I was three when it happened. I wished so much that he was lying to me..." he said the last part sadly. I wondered how important this woman was. "Tell me the whole story." "The red head was named Matilda, she was a succubus and had met Zeos when he was much younger. He saw her as a friend, but never could get himself to feel for her what she felt for him. She tried harder and harder to win his affections, she was a bit crazy then and only got worse. At one point he asked Nevia to pretend to be his mate just to get rid of Matilda. She seemed fine and stayed away for a while. One night he went to visit a family friend and met a human couple that had recently befriended them Lord Frederick and Lady Crystal...they brought their daughter Serenity with them. Zeos said each demon species handles finding a mate differently, they were born for each other, he said he would have given his life just to have her smile at only him." When he paused I couldn't help but feel a bit jealous, I know I shouldn't but it was there anyways. "They only spent time together at parties for a while before he asked her father if he could properly court her. Of course Lord Frederick was thrilled to know his daughter had caught Zeos's eye and gave his blessings. Of course you can probably guess what happened." "Matilda saw them together?" He nodded. "She cornered Nevia and found out about them pretending to have a relationship, Matilda must have counted Nevia as an equal because she didn't care when she thought they were together. She was livid over the fact that she had lost Zeos to a human, but no matter what she did she couldn't tear them apart, before long they had already.....um...gotten intimate and she was expecting his child. He watched over her constantly because he hadn't bitten her that much and wasn't sure if she could handle carrying a child of his. She turned out to be perfectly safe and had a son. Now while naga and lamia alike always cherish all of their children, a first born son was always a good sign. She still had bouts of weakness, and would sometimes faint as his venom worked through her to change her bit by bit. She didn't want to marry Zeos while she was feeling so weak she wanted to be at her best when they walked down the aisle. He would let her have anything she wanted and waited for two years, she seemed fine then. Instead of the venom changing her she had worked it out of her system. They planned to get married but they never got to finish the ceremony. As soon as the priest asked her if she would take Zeos as her husband she collapsed. Livia thought she would recover and had her sleep in the infirmary so she could keep an eye on her, the poison used was the product of black magic and acid it had eaten away at her in just a few hours. Matilda waited for the family after the funeral and asked Zeos if he was happy that she removed the problem." I covered my mouth, I couldn't imagine losing someone like that. "Why does he keep Matilda's portrait?" "Because succubi can be reborn, if she comes back he can show that to the guards." I looked at my hands, he couldn't have forgotten Serenity, I bet he still thought of her but I knew I couldn't change that. I didn't want to be a replacement though, I shook my head and looked at him. "Where's their son?" "He's around, he never could forget his mother and all the times Zeos cried over her death, he would have liked to see his father smiling as often as he does now." I smiled and Tobias stopped talking just as the door opened, he held his finger to his lips in a shushing motion. I didn't say a word as he hugged Zeos before leaving the room. .... The next morning I woke up without the help of my phone, then realized I never got it back from Lilly. I sighed. "What's wrong?" I jumped a bit and turned to look at Zeos. "Lilly still has my phone." I said. "No she doesn't, I got it back from her." "Did anyone call?" "No I took the battery out." I rolled my eyes. "You can have it back after you rest more." I was about to argue when the door was thrown open and a familiar woman jumped in our bed. "Dammit Nevia!" She hugged me, I never thought we would be in this position I patted her back. "I'm alive...now please let me breathe." She laughed and released her death grip. "But I was worried about you." "Nevia you don't even like me." "I do so." "Why the change of heart?" "Because I'm just that wonderful, now I understand congratulations are in order?" I smiled at her and she squealed, I find it funny she's practically a different person, I suppose I would have to send Alexen some chocolate for that. Nevia got off of me and left the room while we bathed and got ready for the day. Zeos eyed me. "What?" I asked. "What's bothering you?" "Nothing." "You smell like cinnamon when you lie." he said flatly. "It's nothing, I just feel bad." "Over what?" "Let's not talk about it." "Cassandra." I toyed with my hair. "I don't want you to be sad." He stared at me, I moved to leave and he grabbed my arm, I thought about the bedroom door and faded from his hold only to reappear at the door. I left the room before he could stop me. .... Breakfast was awkward to say the least, I asked Tobias if he would take a walk with me in the garden to get out of the room. He agreed and we left the table, well I left and dragged him with me. "Did you and Zeos have a fight?" "No." "I'm sorry." "Why?" "I upset you, I shouldn't have told you anything." I bopped him on the head. "That's not the problem, I had a nightmare about her death...." "You did?" "I did, it was so vivid." I glanced up as a vine came out of the grass and held out a daisy for me, I glanced at Tobias who smiled slightly. I smiled back and pushed my hair out of the way so the vine could rest the flower on my ear. I kissed his forehead and patted his shoulder. "You were close to her weren't you?" He nodded. "Babies from our race don't forget like human babies do." "What was she like?" "Amazing." I smiled. "That doesn't tell me much." "She was beautiful, had a very nice singing voice, she was always warm, and funny, she could cook and dance....was an artist and always tried to help people in anyway she could. The whole family loved her." I bit my lip. "What did she look like exactly?" "She was blond but that's all I remember, race you to the orchard." "Hey wait..." My words fell to the wind as he bounded off, I shook my head and chased after him I was faster now but couldn't catch up to him. We reached the orchard but he kept going past it and toward a greenhouse I hadn't originally noticed. It was covered in vines as if it hadn't been used in some time. As he got close the vines moved and the doors opened, I walked in and stared at all the dead plants and flowers that must have once been beautiful. The smell was as if they still lived, the air was sweet. He smiled at me. "This was her greenhouse." he said. I walked over to one of the tables and touched one of the decorative pots, the plant shook a little then stood up slowly as the color returned. It was a blue rose, I stared at him. "That wasn't me." he said. He smiled. "I don't have any control over plants." "Clearly you do." I moved my hand away and the rose stood, it was beautiful I frowned. "I shouldn't be in here, Zeos would be mad if he saw me in here." "No he wouldn't." "Yes he would, this belonged to his beloved after all." Tobias smiled. "You are his beloved now." I shook my head, this just didn't feel right, it's like when a man becomes a widow and uses his late wife's ring as the wedding ring for his new wife. I wasn't sure why either, my head started pounding. "The scent is too strong in here, maybe I should...go." "We could go horse back riding." "So I can ride her horse?" "No, Sakura died a few years ago." he said. I sighed. "Come on, if the smell is too strong then you need fresh air." I walked out with him and the vines closed the door again, as we walked to the stables I wanted to see her grave and I wasn't sure why. I took a black horse, named Anamarie and he got on a brown horse named Thunder. He rode down the path behind the castle the greenery was even more beautiful. He picked up the speed until we were galloping, turning corner after corner until I glanced behind and could barely see the castle through the trees. We passed by a few towns people who waved at us, we waved back but kept the same speed. We didn't stop until we reached a large meadow, it seemed among the rainbow of color that every flower in existence had been planted here. I cocked my head, he went up a tree and helped me up after him. I glanced at the flowers and my eyes widened, the flowers had been planted in a way that they would show a picture of her face. ".....How....could he love someone so much, and still be with someone else?" He nudged me. "Look again." I scanned it again and realized that...the picture looked like I did now. "...." "Speechless?" he asked. I stared at him. "Did your.....brother change my appearance according to what he wanted?...am I just a replacement?" He squeezed my hand. "You changed on your own, back to the way you use to look." "I am not Serenity..." "A naga only gets one mate." My head started pounding, Tobias helped me down the tree and I rested against the tree trunk. "Are you telling me...the truth?" "Of course I am, Zeos wanted you to remember on your own but it didn't seem like anything was clicking into place. Look, I know seeing is believing, you want to open that coffin and see the body?" "No I don't it's not...in there...is it?" He shook his head, I felt dizzy then jumped as my phone rang, I picked it up and answered. "Nice to hear your voice again, love." I dropped the phone as soon my brain registered who's voice that was. (....I do love a fun cliffhanger, I'm sure several of you will notice a few holes here and there but they'll get filled in as we go along. There are also a few more twists coming :P) My Naga King Ch. 07 (*Insert evil chuckle* I honestly am sorry, but it seemed like one of those spots that a cliffhanger should be placed. I'm glad the chapter was enjoyed. If it makes it better I had some problems with chapter six mostly because I needed to go back and cover my bases so that the chapter would work. Anyways I hope you enjoy this update.:D) .......... I stared at the phone silently, then the voice spoke again. "Don't tell me you don't remember me." "Of course I remember you...hard to forget a man crazy enough to abduct a person and force them into creepy bondage games." He chuckled. "Oh you do remember me love that's great, your mother was worried about you after all, she wanted me to check on you." Patrick said. "Leave me alone Patrick this isn't the time, why don't you go hang out with your girlfriend?" "Oh my, are you jealous? Don't be, I only have eyes for you." I frowned and ignored him. "Patrick I'm dealing with a lot of stuff right now and one of them is wondering why and how you got out the mental ward." "Easy, good behaviour and I wanted to see you I'll let you go, you do sound tired, good bye love." He hung up and I frowned then looked at Tobias. "Who is Patrick?" he asked. "A weirdo that I want you to stay away from." He nodded then stood up and held out his hand, I knew what he wanted and shook my head. "No, I already guessed that her body wasn't in there." "But you're still in denial, come on." I bit my lip and sighed then grabbed his hand and he pulled me up, we walked to the center of the field. He waved his hand and several of the flowers died in the shape of the coffin. He waved his hand again and the dirt shook and bounced until the coffin was uncovered. I peeked over at it when he jumped in the grave to open the lid, inside there was a beautiful powder blue evening dress from long ago that looked as if it was untouched by time. A single blue rose was resting were the evening gloves were placed, Tobias reached by the pillow and pulled out a simple black string that held a pink tear shaped gem. He tossed it to me and when I touched it I felt woozy..... {{"My dearest Serenity, it is always a pleasure to be in your company." Zeos said. I....or rather Serenity laughed. "My lord you say that every time we're together." she said. Zeos did look a little younger, his hair was shorter but still he was the same handsome man I was use to. "It is true though." She smiled. "I have brought you a little something." "A gift? Whatever for?" "I just felt like giving you a token of my affection." he said. She sighed. "I suppose just one would be alright." He slipped the necklace around her neck and she stroked the gem. "Oh it's beautiful....thank you." He smiled. "Anything for you."}} I rubbed my head as the scene faded and my eyes began to focus on Tobias, he cocked his head. "Remembering something?" "Just....when Zeos gave this to Serenity." "He gave it to you." "Oh no he didn't, that wasn't me, I don't speak anywhere near as proper as she did." "Well in that time you were raised as a proper old fashioned princess, the humans that live in this realm have not moved forward like those that you grew up around. In fact none of the humans that live here even know that there is another part of the world, they never did." I frowned. "...." "If I was lying to you, you know you would be able to smell it." he said. "I know......oh my head." He helped me stand and we walked back to the horses I glanced behind us and the flowers quickly grew back to recover the grave...well what was left of it anyways. ....... When we returned to the stables Zeos was waiting for us, my head throbbed but I carefully got off the horse. "Where did you go?" he asked. Tobias only looked at him and he sighed. "Tobias..." "Her memory is coming back." was all he said before he walked passed us. Zeos pulled me against him. "What do you remember?" I held up the necklace he took it from me and put it on for me before we walked inside. "Why didn't you tell me anything?" I asked. I rubbed my head as it pounded more. "I wanted to avoid the pain you're in now you wouldn't have headaches if you remembered on your own, I'll have Livia bring you some medicine." We walked upstairs and toward our bedroom. "That's it?" "That's it." he said. "Zeos....wait does everyone know?" "They do now, some of them thought I was an exception and had two mates, then your appearance changed." When I sat in bed he left the room to talk to Livia I glanced at my phone and decided to try to call my mother once again I was surprised when she picked up. "Yes?" "Mom..." "What do you want? I'm busy." "Mom stop being difficult I want to talk to you." "About? Because if it's about that bastard child of yours I'm not interested." "He isn't a bastard child." I snapped. "It's a boy?" I made a face and shook my head, I had to remember she didn't know about the son I apparently already had. "I don't know, you know those old wives tales....if you're on top its a girl on bottom it's a boy I was on bottom." "You know it could just as easily be a girl." "Yeah I know." "Well if that's it..." "Mom, are you really going to turn on me like Juniper did? I'm your daughter too." "No currently you're my problem, how embarrassing to have a whore for a child spreading your legs before you have a ring." Ouch, that hurt. "You don't know the whole story..." "Don't need to." She hung up and I sighed I looked up as Livia came in with medicine. "Livia....where is our son?" I asked. "You don't remember yet?" she asked in confusion. "No..." "Then I won't tell you." "But Livia." "He is safe, just rest it'll all come back to you in time." I sighed and took the medicine then downed a glass of water to wash the horrid taste out of my mouth. She patted my arm gently and left the room, I laid down as I started to feel exhausted, talk about a fast acting sleep aid. My migraine was gone sometime before or after I fell asleep I'm not really sure. .... {{ I rolled over and over and glanced at Zeos I moved to sit up and stared at him, it was just like earlier. Well it was sort of like earlier, everything was dark blue and he still looked how he did just before he brought me inside. I turned and stared, there was a woman standing next to the bed, the woman looked like me. However her hair was unbelievably curly and her skin was nice and rosy but in a way that she had been pampered her entire life. She wore a simple white sleeping gown, I turned toward Zeos and watched him shift but he didn't move to wake up. I looked back at the woman. "Serenity?" She smiled. "But of course." When I heard her voice her lips didn't move, but mine did, I frowned. "OK I get it....I'm denial and this is your way of showing me that I am a modern version of you." She giggled, again the noise came from me, she backed up and I finally noticed that she was transparent. I got out of bed and slipped on the slippers waiting on the floor. "Why do I suddenly feel like I'm in a bad 'Twilight Zone' episode? This is too weird." She cocked her head. "You are mated to and expecting the child of a naga king, you have you're own powers that are slowly getting stronger, and the face you have known for your entire life just reverted back to it's original state. Yet, you think this is weird?" I made a face as she laughed, she did have a point I sighed. "OK fair enough, I'm assuming you have a memory to show me?" She shook her head. "If it was a memory, you would be looking out of your eyes and I wouldn't be here, I'm here as a guide that your subconscious came up with to help you remember who you are. When you are at the point that you will remember something, you won't see me and the color will return to normal just like earlier." I sighed and nodded. "Are you ready?" I nodded again and followed her out of the room, everything was cold, but it wasn't too bad. I glanced around as we walked toward the grand staircase, we went downstairs and toward the kitchen. I whimpered as my head throbbed just as she said, she faded and the colors changed. Nevia was sitting on the counter, she looked different her hair was shorter but she was still wearing one of her flashy dresses. I wish I knew when this happened exactly, but it's just a memory not like I can ask her. She glanced at me. "Morning Serenity." she said cheerfully. "Good morning." "You look a little pale, why don't we have some tea?" "I'd love to." It was weird hearing my voice come out so proper, I turned and we walked into the living room. I remembered I was wearing my pajamas and looked down, I paused, I was wearing a pale green dress as if I stepped right out of fairy tale. I sat down and remembered how Tobias had told me that the humans in this realm never moved forward I wondered if somewhere among the well dressed demon royalty if there were still small human kingdoms, I guess I would have to find out. I reached up to stroke the gem, Nevia smiled. "You know, Zeos agonized over what to pick out for you, I'll make sure to tell him how much you like the necklace." I smiled at her. "He's always so sweet, my mother is looking forward to the wedding." I knew she couldn't see it, but I frowned, this is just before the wedding, maybe I should be trying to remember something else. My head throbbed and the scene faded, I looked up as Serenity reappeared. "Is that all I get to see?" "For now, we were dead about fifteen years, it's hard to unearth all those memories in one sitting, a lot of them should come back on their own without you having to go to sleep." "Fifteen years? Really?....Do you know who our son is?" I suppose it was weird to refer to her and myself as two different people but right now it felt like we were from different planets. "If you go back to the bedroom you'll be able to see that." I got up and followed her back upstairs, I felt dizzy as I got closer and closed my eyes to focus, when I opened them again I was laying in bed. Zeos walked in and was holding a baby wrapped in a white blanket. He sat down next to me , he looked so happy I smiled as he handed the baby to me. "He's beautiful." he said. "He has your eyes." I said. "Thankfully he doesn't have my personality, mother says I cried a lot and it was as if each cry was trying to destroy the castle, he's fairly quiet." I laughed. "What should we name him?" I asked. "Anything you want." "How about....." I groaned as the scene faded.}} ..... I sat up and rubbed my head, the sun was shining brightly, Camilla had just opened the curtains she wheeled the breakfast cart to the bed and smiled at me. "You slept well Lady Cass." it was more of a statement. "I suppose so...." She handed me a cup of coffee and I noticed Zeos wasn't in bed. "What time is it?" "Noon." I sighed. "I understand you are beginning to remember things." she said. "Hardly...I remember being friends with Nevia, and meeting my son." "That's still a lot." I glanced at her. "Is that why Nevia kind of gave me hard time? Because she thought I was replacing her friend?" Camilla nodded. "You two were very close, I'm not sure how you met, but she was always very fond of you." That explained her personality shift, but I would still send Alexen some candy for keeping her busy. "Camilla I woke up just before I heard my son's name, who is he?" She cocked her head. "You weren't told?" "No Livia said it would come back to me...Zeos didn't want to make my headache worse." "Uh well." "I was gone for fifteen years, our son was already three so if he's still alive he was eighteen when I was born again I guess...." "And do you remember what the baby looked like?" "Yeah....just like his father..." I grimaced as my head throbbed again well I suppose that should have been obvious. "Tobias is our son isn't he?......that's why he sounds so uncomfortable when he uses Zeos's name....he must hate me for forgetting him." Camilla set the tray on my lap patted my shoulder. "That couldn't be further from the truth, but I suppose he would be upset if he was the only one you forgot." I picked at my food, I felt terrible, but it just didn't click as soon as it should have. "Don't be upset sweetie, as you work on your powers your memories should come back in time. Just take it easy." I sighed. "Can you go get him?" "He's rather protective of you, he won't come if you haven't eaten yet and trust me he'll know because I'll tell him." "Why is that?" "He's just like his father." she said simply. She bowed and left me alone with my thoughts. ........ When I was done eating I heard a knock and Tobias let himself in, I set the tray on the night stand and patted the spot on the bed next to me. He walked over and I pulled him close for a hug and stroked his hair gently. "Your mother is sorry she forgot you son." He smiled slightly. "It's OK.... but just this once so don't make it into a habit." I laughed and kissed the top of his head. "You tried to spare me the migraines." I said softly. "Tried and failed but at least you don't have to live them." "Why were you so shy when I first came here?" "I was trying not to call you mom, I didn't want you to think I disliked grandmother and was replacing her with you...you know?" "That makes sense....is that why Lilly hates me so much? She's just mad that I forgot everyone?" Tobias shrugged. "Actually I'm not sure about that, she's half my age remember? She doesn't know as much as I do." I sighed. "Well alright." "What's the matter?" he asked. I glanced at him. "Nothing I suppose, my mother just refuses to accept Zeos and the new baby and I know she won't accept you. Is there going to be sibling rivalry between you and the baby? You know, like jealousy over who was here first." He frowned. "Why would I be jealous of the baby? Are human children like that?" "A lot of them are.....and you are half human." "Not anymore I'm not, grandpa gave me some of his venom when I was a baby, dad wanted me to grow up exactly as a demon child would." I nodded, I still felt bad it must be hard to be the child of someone with amnesia. "Why won't she accept us?" "Because you're not human." "So? We will still be part of the family...." I ruffled his hair. "My dear, some humans just never grow up." He rolled his eyes at the thought and smiled at me, Zeos walked in, he held a similar smile to the one he had when Tobias was born. Zeos hugged his...our son before Tobias left the room. I wondered if all demon children had a sixth sense for when their parents wanted to be alone. He stroked my cheek. "I knew it wouldn't take long for you to remember him, you were such a good mother." "For the time I had with him you mean, I feel cheated I would love for Matilda to come back so I could catch her by surprise and could snap her skinny little neck." He smirked. "Now you're thinking like a lamia queen." I winked and moved on my knees. "I think we should plan some family time....for just the four of us later in the week." "And for today?" "Today I want to spend some quality time with you." I sat in his lap he slid his arms around my waist. "You know, I could impregnate you more than once...it's sort of how naga work." I kissed his cheek and thought of our son. "The more the merrier." He laid back on the bed and we kissed passionately. "Wait a minute why did we only have one child then?" "I was afraid to sleep with you again, I was already worried about having our first." ....... A couple of hours later we spent time with Tobias, the way I never got to, I was determined to spend most of the evening and early morning with Zeos. However, I wasn't about to forget that I had a child who loved me. After a few more hours it seemed like Tobias was getting tired, that was when I asked Harold and Camilla to keep an eye on him while Zeos and I went out. I put my hair in a decorative bun and dressed in a simple dark blue evening dress. He was wearing a black and white designer suit. My head throbbed a bit while I got dressed, I distinctly remember dressing up numerous times just for Zeos. He set a small box on the vanity before he moved to straighten his tie, the box looked like it had seen better days. I opened it and saw a pair of star shaped sapphire earrings. As I stroked the jewel I felt like I should know these, they sparkled as if they had been recently cleaned. "I had these made for you after a few months of courting you." The throbbing in my head faded slightly as I tried to remember when he gave them to me, shaking my head I put them on. He leaned over. "You look beautiful, we should go so we can get to the restaurant and claim our reservations." "You made reservations?" "Of course I did, I suppose I didn't have to." "No no, you should always make reservations, even when you only have to flash a smile to get a table." He smirked and I got up to follow him downstairs, I stopped myself before I told Camilla to make sure Tobias was in bed before midnight. .......... We went to an expensive looking restaurant, the color scheme was black and gold when we arrived the host took us to our table. I glanced at the well dressed tables and then over to the booths that had thin shimmery curtains decorating them. We took a small booth and set our coats on the other seat. The centerpiece was a mix of fake black roses and fake gold leaves with a single candle being held in the center of the two. It smelled like vanilla, like a body wash, not overpowering but strong enough to be in the air. The waiter took our drink orders and when he left Zeos slipped an arm around my shoulders. I leaned against him then looked up. "Zeos are there still royal human families by our home?" "Yes there are and yes they are very much like what you would read about in a human school, except there isn't a worry over the plague and no one goes around burning everyone who looks suspicious. They know full well that demons and other non-human species exist and accept that so they can live happy lives with their families." I nodded, they were lucky, demonic protection and no nasty plague spreading rats or fleas to worry about. "But they have seen you guys drive cars and use cellphones haven't they?" "Yes and they have access to those too, they think it is demon technology." "Why not tell them what humans came up with?" "Because the demons have improved on a lot of the human technology you are use to, for example our television programs can be designed to fit the viewer. More commercials, less commercials, news on so many channels, favorite programs for each individual person so there is technically, always something on. Except the only thing we pay for is the television set everything else comes with it." I frowned, now why couldn't humans do that without charging an arm and a leg for everything. "That's just how a lot of humans are." he said. I smiled, the waiter set down our drinks and took our meal orders. .... A little while into eating, I started to feel strange, I frowned until I noticed Zeos was smirking at me. "What?" "Feeling aroused my love?" I blushed, is that this was? I shivered when his hand rested on my thigh. "Zeos don't...we're in public." He slid his hand up the slit in my dress and continued until he pressed against my pussy through my panties. I shivered again. "What was that? I didn't hear you." "Zeos...." I spread my legs slightly. My Naga King Ch. 07 "What's wrong with me?" "You're expecting, next to me, and we're hidden from view." "I turned on because I'm sitting next to you?" "Remember that your body is partially turned, you're already pregnant so you're in your fertile period, we only have one child so naturally you should want more." I bit my lip as he slid two fingers past my panties and right between my lips he pulled me on his lap with his other hand. "W...ait...we'll be seen." He opened the curtain and everyone was asleep, I raised an eyebrow as he closed the curtain. "It's a pheromone that naga can release, you never know when your beloved mate will need to be...taken care of. It doesn't cause harm, they just sleep until we're done and remember nothing when they wake up." I didn't get to say anything more as he kissed me and started moving his fingers inside me, it felt sort like my pussy had been engulfed in fire...in a most pleasurable way. Giving in I arched, he yanked off my panties and pushed my dress up to rest around my waist. He sat me on the table and started twirling his tongue all over my lips and my clit. I panted. "P.....people.....ea...t on this table...dammit!" He looked at me like he was confused. "But I am eating." My face turned red as he returned to licking me, I moaned and arched against his mouth he gently held me in place as he nibbled on my clit. I wouldn't last much longer, sexually, his tongue was quickly becoming my favorite part of him. With one last lick I came and fell back on the table. He climbed on top of me and pulled the top of my dress down and pushed my bra up. He squeezed and tweaked my nipples and watched my reaction. "One of your most beautiful moments....is when your arching under my touch." I huffed. "Stop...teasing me..." He bent down to lick and suck on my nipples until I suppose they were hard enough for him. He nibbled on my neck leaving hickey after hickey before moving to kiss me deeply. As our tongues were lost in battle I slid one of my hands between us and unzipped his pants. He pulled away long enough to take his hard cocks out, I don't know what came over me but I moved so I was on my hands and knees with my ass facing him. "Fuck me...please..." He didn't say anything he simply slid in both entrances at once and bent over me, in his human form he normally had one cock. However he could make the second one appear with little effort. He filled me completely and waited only a few seconds before he started thrusting in and out. I gripped the table cloth as he picked up the speed, I screamed his name and moaned. I suppose it didn't really matter where we were fucking we could burn the table before we left. I squeezed my walls around him so I could feel every inch as it slid in and out of me, I felt like I was getting close and he backed up and pulled me with him. He held up my legs and I bounced on his lap like rag doll in a sex induced coma. I listened to his moaning and reached up to pinch my nipples since he couldn't. He started to go faster and soon I was screaming his name louder as we came nice and hard. I fell forward a bit on the table so I could catch my breath, his panting slowed to a steady breathing and we just sat like that. I loved how he stayed hard because he was still inside me. I squeezed my walls around him and he slid his arms around my waist to pull me back against him. "Time for round two?" he asked. "I think so..." ...... After a couple more times.... We did set fire to the table after cleaning up and gave the waiter a big tip, the owner was going to give us a free meal but we paid because after all it was our fault the fire started. We got in the limo and the driver took us to the park, after knocking out the witnesses once again we ended up by the large fountain. Completely naked we got in and I rested my hands against the fish shaped statue and he pushed inside me. I gripped the statue as he thrusted nice and quick. He raised one of my legs and wrapped his arm around it to keep me steady. I moaned and looked down at the water, I could see the reflection of his cock going in and out of my pussy. It would look like an odd pose to anyone who couldn't move their cocks like he could. I dragged my nails on the statue I don't know how long he kept going before his panting told me he would be cumming soon. I arched and clenched my walls around him one more time before he shot his normal amount of streams inside. He slid out and I slid down to my knees as I relaxed, I turned on my knees and grabbed his cocks to lick them clean. He groaned and rested his hand against the statue, I massaged his sac gently as I slid my tongue around his heads and shafts. When he was was clean I continued tracing the veins with my tongue and licked and sucked on the heads daring him to cum again. I massaged what couldn't fit in my mouth I think I heard him whimper, I did like how he got more sensitive with every release. It was just too much fun to tease him, out of nowhere he shot twin streams at me, he pulled away after he was spent and I waited for him to hand me the handkerchief in my purse so I could clean up. I yawned as the fire in my pussy finally disappeared, now I was spent, I managed to get dressed on my own but he had to carry me back to the limo. ........ The next morning I woke up and realized I hadn't had a dream, I moved to sit up and glanced at Zeos who was sound asleep. His hair was a mess and and his lips were parted as if he passed out as soon as he reached the pillow. I grinned, I wondered if I would be able to tire him the rest of our lives. That would really make my ego jump up and dance, I pushed my self up and walked to the bathroom to clean up. I heard him shift but he didn't make a move to wake up. I giggled and filled the tub. ........ After I was dressed I glanced over at Zeos, he moved and reached for the clock he set it down and rolled over so he could see me. "Hey sleeping beauty." "Hey yourself..." he mumbled. Despite the way he normally acted, he was much like a single coin, heads he was a morning person tails he hated everyone and wanted to stay in bed until the sun went back down. "Babe don't you have a meeting today?" "Probably...." I rolled my eyes and walked over to kiss him on the forehead, I ran a brush through my hair and left him to fight with himself on whether or not he had a meeting and if he gave enough of a damn to actually go. I walked downstairs and winced as my head started throbbing. I moved off the steps and looked around, I turned toward the hall that led to the library and walked down it. Stopping at the library I looked around, I felt the pain in my head increase step by step until I stopped by a particular row of books and the room's set up changed. {{ I was looking for a specific book but I don't know what the title is I picked up a green book and it was soon snatched out of my hand. I frowned, I just knew it was Matilda, she was voluptuous and almost scantily dressed, like most succubi. She had on a liberal amount of make up and honestly looked a bit scary with that much on her pale face. "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm trying to find that book, it's for a variety of demonic plants." I said. "Oh really, looks like you found it." "Can I have that back please?" She ripped the small book in half and used her razor sharp claws to ruin the rest, what a bitch of course I felt the angry tears I had even spilled in modern times creeping up in my eyes. "Oops, I'm such a klutz." "That was not very kind of you...." "Who cares you, like your little greenhouse out back, is just a temporary addition to the castle." I frowned. "I don't understand why you dislike me so much." "Because you don't belong here." she said simply. I crossed my arms. "Although I suppose as a surrogate you're useful, when the baby is born I'll make sure he or she knows that I'm the mother and you are just a piece of trash in the way." I walked passed her and I felt her grab my shoulder. "You'll never be good enough, I hope you understand that."}} "Lady Cass....Lady Cass?" I shook my head as the scene faded and I was met with the face of Harold. "Y...yes?" "Are you alright?" he asked. "I'm just fine....just remembering something..." "What was it?" "Matilda....she destroyed a book I was looking for...on demonic plants." He frowned. "I wonder why you didn't say anything." I looked at him. "What?" "You never said she was giving you a hard time, you let her stay here on occasion and tried to be kind." I cocked my head, so even in the past I was the 'too nice' type. "Anyways, you look a bit pale, why don't you come rest in the living room?" "Yeah OK..." I followed him out of the library and back to the living room, Tobias was playing chess with his grandfather. "Check." "Already?" Constantinos asked. "Grandfather you keep zoning out." "Hmm, must be Gabbie's fault." "Grandfather?" "Yes?" "That's gross." He laughed, I walked over and sat on the couch by them, they smiled at me. "Morning mom, did you sleep OK?" Tobias asked. "Morning you two, I slept fine, I think." "I know dad didn't want to get up, Camilla had to pour coffee on the bed." I laughed. "Does she do that often?" "Sometimes, when you weren't here and he wouldn't get up, she would have one of the maids do it he actually is really hard to wake up." I smiled, I jumped as a pair of arms were thrown around my shoulders, I smiled again when I saw that it was Gabbie. "My dear we have to go out and do something this week, just the two of us." "OK, what did you have in mind?" "Manicures." "Don't do it, she'll keep you at the salon all day for treatments you'll never want again." She punched her husband in the arm and I shook my head. "Sounds fun, I don't mind trying 'once in a lifetime' treatments." Satisfied, Gabbie stuck her tongue out at him, Ella and Valerion had returned to their home, and soon after Bebe and Nico had returned to theirs as well taking Lilly with them. It was nice to have a bit of peace in place of Lilly, I had a feeling I was never going to win her over. ...... Later in the day Zeos returned from work and we had dinner before his parents left, I wished I could introduce Tobias to both of my parents. I guess I could introduce him to the part of my family that was speaking to me, I still didn't want anything to do with Juniper though. ..... I thought it was morning when my phone vibrated on it's stand but when I opened my eyes I saw that it was dark. I picked it up and held it to my ear. "Hello?" "Cass?" I sat up. "Monica?" "Cass can you come to my apartment, it's important....and come alone." "Wait Monica...." I heard shuffling as if the phone was snatched out of her hand. "If I were you, I'd do what she asked." I paled hearing Patrick's voice and whispered 'OK'. ...... It was easy enough to sneak out of the castle, I just borrowed Zeos's keys and took his Corvette. I drove away from the castle quickly and hoped Phil wouldn't notice me, I took a left as soon as the streets were lined with large buildings and headed for Monica's apartment. I hoped she was OK. I pulled into the twenty four hour parking garage and went inside her building and up the stairs to her apartment. I knocked on the door as soon as I got there, I didn't hear anything for a while before the door was opened. Monica opened the door and looked terrified, mascara ran down her cheeks as she sobbed. She stepped to the side and my eyes widened, Stacy was laying on the ground a single bullet hole in her forehead. I walked inside and Monica closed the door behind me. I swallowed as a gun was pressed against my head. "Don't be afraid love, I'm merely here to talk....Stacy didn't want to talk so I had to put her down, am I going to have to put you down too?" "No...." I whispered as the tears fell. He shoved me to the couch and took out his other gun and pointed it at Monica. "You know I'll shoot you in a heartbeat, now be a good girl and play along." Monica sniffed and nodded. "Go get some drinks, didn't your mother teach you to have better manners? Staring at your guest like she has two heads, shame on you." She moved slowly toward the kitchen and he moved to sit next to me. "So love, miss me? I don't have to ask, of course you missed me tell me." He pressed the gun to my temple. "I missed you....every day." "Aww that's sweet doll face I missed you too." I bit my lip, Monica set the tray of ice tea down and hurried to answer the door as someone else knocked on it. Juniper walked in and glanced at Stacy. "What the fuck babe? I told you to kill Monica, I needed Stacy to help me move." "Sorry...you know I can't tell the difference between them never could." She rolled her eyes and sat on the couch. "Oh came to save your bestie huh? Aren't you a good good friend?" "What's wrong with you, you moron? He just killed our best friend.....and you don't even care." Juniper shrugged. "More where she came from, Monica if you want to keep that pretty little brain of yours in tact I would suggest coming over here and rubbing my shoulders." Juniper said. Who is this fucking bitch, where is my sister? They had to be two different people, Juniper just doesn't act this way. She's fucked up a lot lately, but even after all of that, to just brush off Stacy's death like it didn't matter, this couldn't be Juniper...could it? "Listen here Cass, I had a lot of time to think, that's what you do in mental wards and what not, and I realized I wanted to start a family with you. Juniper here tells me that you got a donor." Patrick said. I bit my lip and glanced at Juniper. "You were mad at me....over him....now you don't care that he wants a family with me and not you?" Juniper glanced down then back at me. "Oh please, do you see this amazing body? I don't want to fuck it up with kids." I swallowed, in my state of panic my powers were gone I couldn't even reach out mentally, I couldn't do anything except sit there and hope we would get help. "That's enough bitch, sit on the ground." Monica moved to sit on the floor and said nothing, this time when the door was knocked on Juniper got up to get it. "Why hello there sweetie, come on in." I turned and even though my eyes widened I wasn't that surprised, Lilly walked in she smiled at Juniper and walked over to sit on the table in front of me. "Lilly...." She backhanded me and extra strength or not that sent waves of pain through that side of my face. "I didn't ask you to talk darling." I glared at her, she had the nerve to smile and bat her eyelashes at me then she glanced at Patrick. "I don't think I like her having any friends near here it gives her a false sense of security, get rid of that one." Monica panicked and got up to run into the bedroom since Juniper was blocking the door, Juniper sighed and took Patrick's gun to follow her. I sobbed as I heard several shots, Lilly stood up and walked over to the hall. "Oh Juniper can you be a dear and get a whole bunch of her blood so we can rub it all over Cassandra? I would hate for it to be too easy to track her down." Soon, Juniper walked over with a cup and small paintbrush I felt Patrick handcuff my wrists while she painted on my clothes. Patrick handcuffed my ankles and then they moved and sat on the couch next to me. Lilly smirked. "Oh do you have something to say? You may speak." I swallowed. "Why are you doing this?....What do you want?" "Well I don't want to see you hanging around Zeos, I know Nevia is taken but I'm sure I could find someone to replace you since he refuses his real love." I swallowed as she backhanded me again and again and again, my head throbbed until I was practically seeing stars. I looked at her and spit the blood on the carpet. ".....You.....you're not Lilly..." "Lilly doesn't really exist so no I guess not." "Matilda......" She smiled. "Oh something like that but not quite." She backhanded me again. "....Who....?" Lilly smiled. "Oh you wouldn't know me even if I told you who I was, we never met." I bit my split lip. ".....Never?...." "Right, I'm not the child everyone thinks I am, my species, at least the powerful members anyways, also double as parasites, we're basically extinct but I'm still here. Before I killed myself I waited for little Gabbie to get pregnant with a little girl and I caused a sort of spiritual miscarriage and rested right in her womb. I wanted to get close so I could wait for you to come back, because I knew you would be born again since you're tied to Zeos. I intended to kill you before you met him, but decided I wanted him to suffer and played the role of bratty sister so he had time to get close to you again. I even hid my precious daughter in another family so she would be reborn with giving him a chance to kill her for taking his precious human away." she spat the word human like it burned her. "....Matilda's your daughter." "Oh now you've got it thank goodness you aren't a complete moron." I glanced at Juniper then back at Lilly who smiled at her, I watched the child like appearance fade into a ugly female demon. She was reddish-brown, with damaged bat wings and a set of tusks coming out of her mouth, her fangs were jagged and yellow. Her eyes were completely white and she was bald except for the short side bang that rested on her head. "OK so I promised Patrick here he could have you, and Juniper will take your place with Zeos." "I.....but Juniper...what about Patrick?" "I'll come back to him when he's done taking care of your stupid ass, I don't want to waste time around a pregnant brat. This way I can show Zeos what he could have had." "...And how do you plan to trick Zeos..?" Lilly yanked out a chunk of my hair and set it on fire, the fire was purple she handed it to Juniper who cut some of her hair and Lilly set fire to that too. Patrick stapled it to my arm, I screamed as it burned my skin. I closed my eyes, when it stopped I opened them and blinked away the painful tears. My mouth fell open, I was staring at myself, I looked down and I was now in Juniper's body. "No no no, he'll know you aren't pregnant." Lilly, or whoever the hell she is splashed a green potion on Juniper. "When consumed this little potion can end a pregnancy, he will smell it and he'll merely think that you were kidnapped and had this forced on you. I'll work out the other details later, I have a lot of little tricks but I just love playing games, this one should end well." She punched me and I only heard her tell Patrick to take me away before I passed out. (Evil, evil, evil aren't I? Well remember the story isn't over yet but it's getting close to it, I just freaked your mind didn't I? See you in the next chapter :P) My Naga King Ending (I have to really thank everyone who stayed with me this long, if you didn't read my comment on the chapter before this I'm warning you one final time now. As the author I hate this ending but I couldn't wrap my head around any of my other ideas. I was a little optimistic about the last chapter just because of the bit of sex I didn't like anything else. There is a little epilogue after the large page break if you want to read that.) .......... I groaned as I came to I was lying in a plain white room. I moved to get up and my legs felt like jello, I fell forward as soon as I did. I felt a shiver up my spine, it was as if they had injected me with muscle relaxers while I was unconscious. I heard laughter coming from behind the main door I crawled toward it, it wasn't like I was stupid enough to try and use the window in my state. I reached the door and saw the flickering of the television from the other side. I backed away and rolled on the carpet to conduct a bit of electricity. The light quickly flickered and went out, I sat up and soon the door opened it was my mother. "Oh I see you're awake." She walked out and I cocked my head, oh I see you're awake? That's all she had to say to me? She came back in with a wheelchair and helped me into it. "The little potion we gave you should keep you mostly helpless and I wouldn't continue to use that little power of yours." Of course I had to agree with her, the wheelchair was uncomfortable and all metal, even the seat had been removed. She wheeled me into the living room and stopped by the couch. Some stupid sitcom was on the television, I tried to reach Zeos and was hit with a wave of pain. It wasn't something was very good at to begin with but I had never messed up like this. My mother clicked her tongue as if disapproving. "Tsk tsk tsk, didn't I tell you that the potion would keep you helpless? You should learn to listen." "What's wrong with you?" I asked. "Oh I'm mostly bitter." "Because I upset your precious Juniper? In case you don't know the whole story she isn't really your daughter." "I know that, but she has been like one." I stared at her. "You knew?" "Of course, ever since she came into this world I knew." She set a cup of tea on the side table next to me, I crossed my arms. "Would you prefer something else?" "Yes, information." "Like?" "If you knew Juniper wasn't your daughter why did you keep her?" "I had to, it wasn't like I was getting another one not to mention I know you aren't really my daughter either." I bit my lip. "Now sit there and be quiet my show is on." I rolled my eyes. ........... For and hour or so I tried to wriggle my legs, I did feel pain from trying to overwork them but that was a good sign. I glanced over at my mother, if you could call her that, and cleared my throat she only looked over when a commercial came on. "How long are you expecting to keep me here?" "Until the baby is born, do you need something to eat? Or perhaps you have to go to the bathroom." I shuddered, I didn't want anything that involved needing her assistance. "No...where's dad?" She smiled, I swallowed nervously. "What did you do to him?" "Use your imagination." I frowned. "Dad! Dad! Where are you!?" She cursed and got up. "Fine I'll go get him." She got off the couch and walked back toward the room I had come from, she returned with my dad. He 'looked' at me with eye sockets, as if he was just a vessel I swallowed. "Your friend needed a little something to return to her other form, this is all that is left." I swallowed thickly, it appeared that my tears couldn't even come I think they were afraid too. She sat him down on the ground and patted his head like he was a dog he 'stared' into space with a blank look on his face. "You're a monster." "Oh I'm no monster, a monster would have happily killed you and your little bastard as soon as she was alone with you. Juni wants your baby though so I'll play nice." "How......how could you say that to your own daughter?" She sat back down and grinned. "I couldn't, but you aren't my daughter so it's nice and easy." I sniffed and stared at what was left of the only father I remembered, he twisted his head as he noticed I was staring. I looked away. "What are you keeping him alive for?...Is he alive?" "Something like that, more of a ghoul, their so obedient." "You know more than you're letting on...." She smiled. "But of course." "So you know Juniper is Matilda and she's just trying to get back at me?" She smiled a little wider. "I'm afraid you have the wrong information." I raised an eyebrow. "Will you stop playing games with me? Just tell me." "It's rather obvious." I stared at her for some time then it slowly clicked. "Matilda..." She clapped her hands. "Oh bravo took you long enough." I swallowed. "You knew who Zeos was?" "Not at first, I have always had trouble using my powers this body just isn't strong enough." "Why don't you just use your other form like your mother can?" "Because I'm unable to, that's where your baby comes in." "This whole thing is going in circles." She rolled her eyes. "I'll spell it out for you, I'm just using Juniper, she's nice and young we can get her lactating and when the brat is eighteen mother can put my soul inside it." "And if it's a boy?" "Sweetie you've spent an awful lot of time around demons, you should know that the gender doesn't matter to a demon." She crossed her arms. "Anything else, or can I watch my show in peace?" I sighed and got quiet. ........ Sometime later I felt the sharp tingling sensation that told me that my legs were trying to wake up. I looked down and saw that what was left of my modern day father had made a couple of incisions on each leg. Instead of bleeding something purple was dribbling out, I squeeze his shoulder gently, he smiled slightly. I glanced over at the couch and noticed we were alone. "Where is she?" I whispered. He twisted his head toward the hallway. "Can you find a phone?" He shook his head I made a face. "If I found a phone, would it work?" He shook his head again I sighed, I still couldn't reach Zeos or anyone else, I didn't even know what else Lily was up to. He laid down and moved as if he was playing dead, she walked back in and stretched. "Oh you're awake." I was beginning to hate that sentence. "Yes.." "Well you need to eat, my body needs to be in good condition when it comes into the world." I shook my head, she walked into the kitchen and came out with a small brown case. She opened it and showed me a mix of syringes. "Either you can eat or I can help you, trust me, as much as I detest you I won't harm you while you carry Zeos's child. After all, having a bit of his DNA in me would help me with my 'stunted growth'." I frowned and only nodded, I think a lot of people would given the choice. She closed the case. "Good girl." She walked back in the kitchen to make something, I sighed then bit my lip. "Where are Gina and Eric?" "Busy." "Did you do something to them?" "Not a bit, I might need them later." "Are you really this heartless?" She walked into view and smiled at me. "But of course, humans don't mean anything to me." "But this body, and Eric's came from you." "No they came from my human body, I feel nothing for you guys, deal with it." She walked back into the kitchen, I looked around for her purse, no matter what she did to my phone or the house phone I knew she would never cut her own self off. I glanced down and watched my dad crawl toward the front door. I smiled, that was where Matilda had always kept her purse. I wondered if I could keep her occupied. "Hey Matilda, you say you want a healthy body, what are you making?" "Steak and potatoes." "What about a salad....and a health shake packed with vitamins?" She didn't say anything at first. "Fine but you better eat everything." "Oh I will." I waited for him to come back, I winced as I felt my legs wake up more, soon I saw him come back into view with her phone in his mouth. I took it from him and put it on silent before slipping it in my bra. I thanked him and he went back to playing dead, I just had to play along until dinner was over. ....... I stayed in bed until I heard the television get turned off, I slid my legs out of bed and moved them a little. I could feel the stinging from the cuts but as long as I could walk I didn't care. I found dad's old golf clubs in the closet, Matilda was fairly careless. I walked out and went toward her bedroom, she was sound asleep I walked in grabbed a pillow. I looked behind me toward the door where dad was 'staring' at me. I bit my lip until it bled and dropped the pillow on her face when she didn't stir I sat on it. She struggled and tried to fight me I gripped the bed as she shook and struggled I refused to budge. It took some time but she finally stopped moving, I slipped off the bed and took off the pillow. I stared at her for a bit before I tried to reach out again, I whimpered as the pain shot through my head. I felt a shiver run up my spine and turned around. She was laying on her side, I backed away, she had definitely been laying on her back. I turned and ran out of the room and out of the penthouse. I frowned, the hallway was different, very different. {Nice try doll.} I shook my head as I heard her, I picked a direction and bolted I wasn't even building up electricity. I turned at least four corners before I ended up right where I started she was leaning against the doorframe. "You're welcome to try again." she said. "What did you do?" "Nothing, mother made this in case Juniper fucks up and gets found out, it's a magical maze, there are about fifty thousand incorrect routes, twelve routes that get you close and one route to get all the way out." I frowned. "Why are you doing this?" "Did you forget already?" "No I mean, why me? You could do anything to get what you want....but you picked this, why?" She grinned. "Because I hate you." I sighed, she smiled. "If it would make you feel better you can keep trying I'll wait for you." I backed away from her and took another route, each time I ended right where I started, feeling frustrated I stopped in a hallway and slid down to the floor. I wiped my eyes, Lily seemed to covered all of her bases. I suppose I could eventually find the route I needed, but by then for all I know Lily probably would have changed it around. I pulled my knees to my chest and rested my head on them. .......... I don't know how long I sat there until I noticed someone tapping on my shoulder, I raised my head and saw my father. He nodded toward one of the plain silver doors I'd already tried. I shook my head. "No, I already took that one." He crawled toward it and pushed the door open, I looked over and my mouth fell open there was a type of fire escape I hadn't seen on the wall. I got up and walked over he gave me a boost and I opened the latch. After I climbed in I turned and reached down to squeeze his shoulder again. He smiled and waved before he disintegrated in my grasp, I swallowed my sobs as I washed the dust fade, I turned and crawled out. I saw that it was an air vent. ........ When I finally reached the end I pushed the thin screen out of the way and ignored the rats as I climbed out. I was in the alley, now I understood why he had played dead she would have finished him off herself if she thought he could help me find the way out. I felt dizzy, I hoped that was the potion working it's way out of my system. I ran out of the alley way and took out my phone. I frowned as I realized what else that damn thing did, I couldn't remember anyone's cell number. I scrolled through the contacts, Gina's number had not been deleted. I pressed the call button and kept running, it took a bit before I heard her voice. "Stay where you are I'm coming." I stopped and stared at the phone as she hung up, I sat on the bus stop and looked around, I suppose I should wonder how she knew where I was but long before I reached this point I should have stopped questioning so much. I felt a chill up my spine and got up thinking Matilda had found me. I relaxed seeing Leta, then frowned I had no reason to fear her as far as I know, why did I feel so off? "Hello dear, I'm just out for an evening walk, what about you?" "....Same." She smiled and I backed away from her. "Leta it's late you should go home and get some rest." "Care to walk an old woman home?" I looked around. "I uh...I have to wait for someone." "Really?" She stepped toward me and my eyes widened as her looks faded into the bitch from the past. "Surprise." I swallowed. "There are two of you?" "Just one actually, it's actually a fun story would you like to hear the short version?" I only stared at her. "It's not polite to stare dear." She held up her hand and it glowed purple, It became clear while 'mom' couldn't use her powers. "By that look on your face I'm betting you're figuring things out." "....I think." "It's quite simple, this body is aging while my soul remains the same, I broke off a little bit of myself so I would have a body to return to if I died of old age before you met Zeos. Then mother mentioned that it would be good to have a bit of Zeos's powers in me so here we are. Mother wanted to play with him and I figured that would be OK, it's a shame you couldn't stay with Patrick I rather liked you, I would have even spared you. Of course mother was right when she said you wouldn't be able to resist Zeos." My head throbbed but I didn't dare shut my eyes I focused on her, she flexed her claws at me. "Now, why don't you come along, you'll catch your death out here and you have something that I need." I shook my head, she frowned, but it wasn't as if she was mad more like she was thinking of the best way to attack me. I backed up and she faded I ducked when she got close and stunned her with an old fashioned headbutt before I bolted. I turned a corner and she appeared in front of me. Sliding to a stop and ran the other way, we danced like this for a few blocks before I saw an abandoned building. It had partially burned years ago, I knew it was unstable then again it seemed safer than being outside. Why weren't there any people around to help? I sighed and ran inside, I rested under the destroyed steps as the dizziness got worse. "Oh little Cassie dearie, this dust is really bad for you in your state." I stood up and she appeared in front of me. "Feeling dizzy yet?" I shoved her out of the way and ran in the opposite direction, my head was starting to throb once again. I finally noticed the odd smell in the air it was like an expensive French perfume. It was obvious where it was coming from and I knew it was the cause of my dizziness. ........ I had managed to avoid Matilda for awhile before I could no longer control my legs, I crawled away from her. The bitch thought my current state was hilarious and had stopped a few steps behind me several times because she couldn't stop laughing. I couldn't believe that I had thought to defend her at all. I laid on the floor as my body got as heavy as it could, she stepped over me and smirked. "All tuckered out?" I wanted to break her nose so bad, all I could manage was a little glare she wasn't intimidated in the least. "Oh, cat got your tongue?" "Fu....ck....y..ou." She grinned. "Such language, pretty girls like you should watch their mouths." I frowned. "Well I'm going to pick you up now, so don't struggle I'd hate to drop you." She reached for me and I mentally hurled every insult I could manage to think of, anyone could imagine my delight when she fell backwards. I thought I had done something but I heard noise coming. I was lifted up off of the ground then the scene faded. ............ I opened my eyes and saw that I was in a large maroo and black bedroom, I swallowed, my eyes drifted over to the bedroom door and Gina walked in. "Hey sleeping beauty." I stared at her as she dropped on the bed next to me. "Don't freak out, I don't have anything to do with that psycho we left behind." I tried to form words but was still unable to. "Don't worry the poison will fade and you'll be good as new." I raised an eyebrow, she smiled and her looks faded my eyes widened, Lady Crystal, mom. She stroked my forehead. "I had a feeling you'd recognize me quick enough, we brought souvenirs from Hawaii." I made a face. "I'm sure you have questions, let me see if I can clear up the obvious ones, when you were about to get married Zeos gave us a vial of his venom so we could be there for you, we only took a little and saved the rest. When you died your father and I took the very same poison Matilda gave you so we could come back when you did. Since we took so little venom the most we're good for is that little fading trick and of course knocking out cocky succubi parasites. We took the rest of his venom and it's slowly working but it's enough to keep you safe. Is that a good start?" I swallowed and nodded, my head throbbed, she grabbed the glass on the nightstand. "Here open your mouth, it's just water." I did as I was told, it burned but I'd get over it, my real mother helped me sit up and hugged me. "It's so good to see you again, your father is at Zeos's castle helping to remove the little bitch who took your body." She paused. "And he took Matilda with him, she shouldn't have been so careless, she used her powers a lot in that old human body, she was nice and weak after playing chase the mouse with you." I rubbed my head and shook it slightly. "Don't worry dear, this time I think she'll be easier to handle." I screamed as the hair from earlier caught fire it burnt to a crisp she moved and I could see my reflection in the mirror. I was glad to be staring back at myself she smiled. "We didn't know where you were at first, then you turned twenty two, remember when you met Harold at the party? The mutual friend who invited him was your father, he figured if he left you there with Harold that you two would meet, guess fathers really do know best." I found myself smiling and cocked my head she smiled. "Of course mothers know best too, just depends on which parent gets to make which decision." She winked. ............................................................................................................................................... I closed the note book and smiled at my five year old daughter Minda, I of course had to omit all the 'romantic' details and swear words but she seemed to get enough. Minda looked like her brother but had very familiar blond hair. "Is that really it?" she asked. "That's really it." "Well what did daddy do to the mean witch?" "She's chained up in the dungeon, we don't want to kill her on the off chance she tries to get in the family again." "Did you chain her up with mommy?" "Oh no, we don't want them having time to plot anything." She grinned, I picked her up and set her on the counter next to a bunch of white roses, my memories had been coming back quickly over the past few years. I looked up as Zeos walked in. "There you two are, what have you been doing out here?" "Mommy told me how you met and stuff." Zeos kissed the top of her head. "I was waiting for her to ask you about that." I kissed him and smiled. "You say that like it's unavoidable." "Jackson asked when he was seven, Gia asked a year later and Tobias only had to ask about the end." He placed his hand on my swollen stomach. My Naga King Ending "Maybe this one won't care." I stuck my tongue out at him. "The story isn't that bad dear." "Oh yes it is, we had absolutely no peace, and I would still love to beat some sense into those two taking up space in our dungeon." I stroked his cheek. "Yes I know." After watering the flowers I picked up Midna and walked with Zeos back into the castle, Jackson looked just like me and Gia had her father's looks. I was hoping the next one would look like a mix of the two of us like Midna did. Even though Lilly still lives I took a lot of pleasure out of seeing her black and blue when I was safely returned to the castle. The vessel, 'my human mother' was killed, she had been my mother for a long time and in the end I gave her a proper burial. I kept a picture of my human father on my vanity, I still missed him he protected me my whole life until the end of his after all. I watched Gia play with my niece Elliana, she looked like Bebe, next to her was my nephew Carson and he looked just like his dad, Ella was jealous. I set Midna down and glanced out the window, Tobias was showing Jackson how to properly ride a horse. Jackson followed his older brother everywhere like a lost puppy. Tobias never complains, he has no problem humoring any of his younger siblings. Constantinos and Gabbie were focusing on filling their home with more children one room at a time. Bebe poked my stomach. "I swear you two get it on like rabbits in heat try and wait a month until after this one comes before you get knocked up again." I huffed. "You say that like it's my fault." I said. "It is your fault I'm innocent in this whole thing." Zeos said. I elbowed him in the stomach. "You're far from innocent pervert." He kissed my cheek, I smiled slightly life is good.......for now. ( I decided not to drag it on, trust me I know it's terrible and I suppose I could have done several things differently. So if it makes you feel better, I might do an alternate ending type story when I get a better idea. All in all, it at least could have been worse right? I'd give myself half a star for at least finishing it. Although if you liked any of this, I'm glad to hear it :D.)