On our way to the capital, the griffin that was previously following us is back, and there are passengers on its back. We are too far away for me to see who they are. Dysis turns around and lets loose a lightning bolt at the griffin. The griffin falls a bit but then quickly recovers as if it were healed. One of the people on its back shoots a fireball at us, and Dysis barely gets out of its path. Barely burning her fur where it grazed her. We continued our dogfight, going back and forth, and after a few hits being exchanged, we gravitated to the ground while I continued to heal Dysis when she got hit. We get closer for combat on the ground, and I now see that the main passenger is Tristan, and the other person has a slave collar on. I assume that the slave has healing magic and is the one healing the griffin.
Once we are close enough to converse, he says with venom in his voice, "I won't let you deliver that immortal lily, Ariela. Bring me that flower. Otherwise, I will kill your disgusting succubus lover." I reach into my bag and approach him while holding a lily, "Just take it, then, Tristan. I will brave Storm Mountain as many times as necessary to make Lysara my bride." Tristan takes the flower from my grasp with one hand, securing it in his bag, and the other forcefully grabs me by the wrist and exclaims victoriously, "I finally have you, my queen!" He pulls me in close and whispers in my ear, "I will lock you up until you learn to love me as I love you." I forget I am strong in this moment, completely overwhelmed and frozen, shivering in fear. I can help but recall that terrible night. Lysara gets her whips, and she grabs him and pulls him very forcefully to the ground and holds him down, letting go of me in the process. The slave is making no moves to help and seems apathetic. Lysara responds furiously, "She is MY QUEEN!" While holding him down with the whips, she whips him with extra whips.
She looks so majestic right now.
She has since gotten off Dysis and is using her whips to suspend herself in the air as if she is floating. Tristan is screaming, "GODDESS DAMN IT! Stop whipping me! Fucking loser, get your ass over here and heal me!" The slave winces in pain, then starts moving to Tristan seemingly very against his will. Lysara says authoritatively, "I will only stop if you vow on your soul's honor to the goddess herself that you will let me marry Ari." The slave heals Tristan, and he growls, "Never! I will never consent to such terms!" He summons a fireball and throws it in a nearby body of water, causing a bunch of steam to obscure our vision. When the cloud disappeared, they were gone.
It takes us 2 additional days of traveling to reach the capital. We get dropped off a ways out of the capital, so Dysis doesn't freak people out. We probably need to get her fitted with official gear so people don't think she is wild, so it would set their hearts at ease. We can do that when we have the time here. We need to clear our names first. We walk through the capital and head straight for the palace. When we arrived, the guards immediately recognized Lysara and they let us in. Sky is staying in the sky for now until we call him to a window when we get our arrangements here at the castle. We are let in and they make us wait in the drawing room. A bunny girl maid comes in and brings us tea. As I pick up my teacup, I say, "Thank you." She bows out of the way and goes to the side of the room, waiting.
It has been a while, probably 20 minutes or so, while we are sipping tea, when King Salenar and Queen Elinesha come into the drawing room, and we get up to bow as a show of respect. King Salenar waves at us to dismiss formalities and says, "Lysara, I am glad you are back home." He says, but doesn't go for a hug, but instead sits down where we are having tea. Then the bunny girl proceeds to pour him a cup of tea, unprompted. Queen Elinesha then says with sparkles in her eyes, "So, Ari, can you show me that immortal lily? I have been bursting with excitement to see one in person." I reach into my bag and pull one of the flowers out. Queen Elinesha gasps in awe when she sees it, "That flower is so beautiful." King Salenar says as he picks up the flower for examination, "Hmmmm. Yes, this seems to be a genuine article. Before we discuss marriage, though, there is an incident with you two from back in Perdita that needs to be addressed first. They called us demanding we return both of you to pay for your crimes for poisoning the king and queen." I replied, feeling my chest tighten at the false allegations, "We are innocent of those charges, your majesty. We informed them when it happened that we had no motive for the crime, and they wouldn't listen. We only desired to get married. I even healed the king and queen, so I am not sure why they are still suspecting us."
King Salenar then says, "Well, they said they saw something strange as you were escaping, like you could jump as high as a demon and could jump on a griffin's back straight from the ground." I sigh, and then I remove my ring and out myself, "That is because I am not quite human anymore. I became a vampire so I could spend forever with Lysara." King Salenar then says as he sips his tea with his noble elegance, "Hmm. I see. That is no problem for us here in Patala, and I personally prefer my daughter to be married to one of our kind. However, there might be some complications with the peace treaty with Perdita. You aren't human anymore, so it isn't a union of a human and a demon, but a demon and a demon now. We will have to come clean with Perdita about your status so we can go forward from here."
Queen Elinesha then closes her eyes elegantly sipping tea. After her sip of tea, she chimes in, speaking that soothing and slightly seductive tone like I heard from our previous talks, "Don't worry, we won't sacrifice you to Perdita. We know you didn't poison them." She looks at me and continues, "Ari, you don't have to worry about wearing your disguise artifact here. We do not care about your blood here." When she says that, I go ahead and put the ring in my bag. Lysara smirks at me and says, "I think I like that color on you better, boo. It looks good with your tan skin." She says this as she leans in for a kiss. I giggle while kissing her again, "Good, because it is natural now." She kisses me one more time, and Queen Elinesha asks while flickering her tail in hopeful anticipation, "Are you sure you won't lend me Ari for a night?" Without hesitation, we both say firmly in unison, "NO." Queen Elinesha starts pouting again while doing a pout wiggle with her tail, without losing her elegant posture from drinking tea, "No fun." King Salenar then says after placing his teacup down, "Let's go to the comm room so we can call Perdita to get things moving." I nod and we follow to the comms room.
In the comms room, we are waiting for Perdita's comm agent to return with the king and queen. When they enter the room, they see us and seem a bit disappointed. King Victor then says, "Ari and Lysara. What do you have to say for yourselves? Why did you try to poison us?" I replied while I clutch my chest that tightens at these false allegations, "Your majesty, we are innocent. We have no reason to want to kill either of you. The only thing we desire is to be married, and you being alive is the best way for us to achieve that. We need you for the treaty, so there is no way we would try to kill you. That would destroy our future of happiness. I even healed you, your majesty, and also her majesty the queen, but no one seemed to believe us. So we had no choice but to run away."
King Victor sighs while wearing a slightly confused expression as if he is processing information, "Hmmm. That sounds very logical. You have done so much for the kingdom of Perdita, and it does seem out of character for you to do something like this. Someone must be trying to frame you both and prevent your marriage if that is the case." Lysara chimes in, "The only ones in Perdita that don't want us married are her parents and your perverted son. Also, there must be separatists in Perdita too who also want to keep the status quo like here in Patala. I wouldn't be surprised if a human faction took action to prevent this wedding by falsely accusing both of us as an excuse to terminate the treaty." I then ask, "Do we have to treat this as a peace treaty? Can't we take it off the table now? As you can see, I am obviously no longer human. We only desire to get married. Though we also desire peace between our two countries, we don't mind keeping the same status quo if it means we can be together." I say as I run my fingers through my platinum blonde hair.
King Victor then says, "Yes, we heard a rumor about how you jumped on top of a griffin from the ground during your escape. After I saw your hair, I immediately knew you now have vampire blood in your veins. You still were a human born in our territory, and though you may not currently be one, your relationship started when you were a human, correct?" I nodded, "Yes, your majesty. I was a human when we fell in love." King Victor then says, "That is enough for me for this peace treaty. Others might be opposed since you are technically a demon now. Those individuals will probably try to fight, saying that there shouldn't be a peace treaty for two demons getting married. Going forward, we will have many hurdles." King Salenar then chimes in, "We will need to have some more talks about the treaty before we continue with the wedding. Ari's current status as a vampire changes things on some of the finer points. We probably should end our talk here for today so we can gather our thoughts on both sides before reconvening." With that, the call ends.
Not exactly a surprise since Anton was hoping for this. Maybe I should have held off on becoming a vampire? No, then I wouldn't have been able to hold onto Dysis to get the flower in the first place. I should not start regretting taking this blood when I did. If I hadn't taken this blood when I did, Lysara and Leo would both probably be dead now. I am thankful for this power and my ability to protect those I love. King Salenar says in that neutral emotionless kingly tone of his, "Our maid here will take you to the suite you will be staying in while you are in our castle." Queen Elinesha then asks me, "What about your familiars?" I replied while shaking my head, "I only have two with me during this visit. The one sharing our room will be my bluebird friend, Sky. The other is my griffin friend, Dysis. You won't have to worry about her, though." She then asks, "Does Sky need anything?" I replied, "Just bread or fruit at meals, and he will be just fine. Thank you for asking, Your Highness." She then responds, "You're welcome. I just want to be a good host to my future daughter-in-law." She says this with a smile and her tail flickers in a happy manner.
The bunny maid shows us to our suite, and I ask before she leaves, "I didn't catch your name. My name is Ari." She replies, curtsying, "Adoni." I replied with a smile, "That is such a lovely name. Thank you so much for showing us to our room." She nods and says, "Ring the bell if you need me." Then she takes her exit. We get in the room, and I open the window immediately and whistle for Sky. I leave the window cracked for him, and I pour him some water to drink since he must be thirsty. He comes in and starts drinking immediately, and I pet while he hydrates.
Lysara then asks, "So, how do you like my room?" I look around, and it is quite large. Her bed is quite huge too. I thought I had a big bed back at home, but this bed seems fit for a king. There are two sofas, a coffee table between them, a table with four chairs, and a door which looks to be a closet. I go up to the door and open it, and her closet is the size of my room. I say in awe with my mouth open in amazement, "Wow, your closet is HUGE. It is quite literally the size of my room back home." Lysara comes up behind me and wraps her arms around me and says, "Being a princess does have its perks sometimes." She says as she kisses my neck. I say, "Your room seems fitting for a king." Lysara giggles and kisses my neck again, "You should see his room. It is much larger and more luxurious than mine. Actually, on second thought, don't. I don't want you in anyone else's private chambers except mine." She nibbles my earlobe, and I gasp a sexually aroused gasp that is full of excitement and a hint of surprise. I turn and kiss her on the lips, then I ask Lysara, "So I have been meaning to ask, are you going to tell your family about your magic?" Lysara then goes to sit on the bed and says, "I am not quite sure. I can't hide it forever, yet I know they will probably not let us leave this castle once they know. If my father learned of my magic, he would probably want me to become the next demon king."
I grab her hands supportively, "Do whatever you want, and I will support you 100 percent. If you want to hide it as long as you can, I will help you. If you want to tell them, I will stick by your side here in this castle for the rest of my days, even if that is for several millennia. Anywhere is home as long as you are by my side." I say as I squeeze her hand. She squeezes her hand in response and says, "I think I will sleep on it." I ask her, feeling particularly naughty, "Sooo, what do you think of not sleeping right now?" I say as I go in to kiss her. She giggles her naughty giggle, and naughty flicker of her tail, and kisses me back.
She takes my shirt off slowly as if on purpose to sexually frustrate me while her tail mischievously flickers. Then my pants. Then my brassiere. Then my panties. The only thing I am wearing right now is my collar. I paw at her clothes, "Your turn." I say, then I start pulling her clothes off and doing the same thing she did to me. I go just as slowly to build up her frustrations, too. After removing her clothes, she pushes me onto the bed. I pout in frustration, "Bad Lysara. You have to go first." Lysara does a naughty giggle, "Soooo, what are you going to do to me? Are you going to tie me up and blindfold me, then clamp my nipples with the chain? Pulling the chain every time I moan?"
Understanding my instructions, I go to her bag and pull out the anti-eavesdropping tool, and Lysara says while wearing such a sexy, naughty face, licking her lips, "Leave it off. I want everyone to know I am yours and you are mine." I pull out the soft cuffs and the chain, nipple clamps, and the blindfold. I decide I am going to chain her up first and blindfold her before pulling anything else out of her bag. I want it to be a surprise. I put the blindfold on her first, then the cuffs, followed by attaching the chain to the headboard of the bed. I then put on the nipple clamps, and she gasps from the surprise that is followed by a very sexy and naughty smirk.
I then go back to the bag and see what kinds of toys we have. We have a lot of toys. We have some anal beads I don't think we have tried on her yet so I pull those out and I also pull out the strap and I get that larger dildo with the bumps that she used on me the other day along with lube. I set those aside for now, and I climb on top of her and I start kissing her and licking her delicately all over. She is squirming a bit in sexual anticipation while trying not to let any moans escape. Once she gets nice and sexually frustrated, I grab the anal beads and lube and lube them up well. I lift her hips with one hand and insert the beads delicately with my other hand. One at a time. Until all of the beads are inside Lysara, and all that is left is the small strap to pull them out safely.
She is making a very sexy face right now. I put on the strap with the larger dildo, and I lube it up and go between her legs, and I lick her. She lets out a moan, so I pull the chain. I licked her again, and she stifled a moan, so I didn't get to pull the chain again. I think the first one caught her by surprise. She is squirming from trying to hold back her moans, and since she is being so good, I decide to reward her. I stop licking her and I position the dildo between her legs, and I slowly put it in so she can acclimate to its size. This is the first time I've used this one on her, so I want to be extra careful she has time to adjust. Once I get it all the way in, I hold it there, and I lean forward and kiss Lysara. She lets out a moan when I kiss her, and I reach down and pull the chain, and she moans again.
I do a naughty giggle similar to hers, and I start pumping my hips and pulling the chain. Lysara yells in a lewd voice, "Punish me harder, Ari!" I pull a little harder on the chain and start pumping into her more roughly, and she yells, "Yes, Ari, YES!" She screams in ecstasy when she orgasms, and I continue to pull the chain and pump into her with the same intensity throughout her orgasm for the usual follow-through to milk every last wave out just like she taught me to.
When she is done, I pull out and unchain, unbind, and remove the blind fold from Lysara. She is breathing very heavily, trying to catch her breath. She looks at me wearing the strap-on and she smiles, "You look so sexy wearing that. No matter how many times I see you wearing it." She moans while touching her naked body, "It just does things to me." She pauses a moment while looking at me, "So, I have been meaning to ask. Do you ever miss wearing your binder and pretending to be a man?" I put my hand on my hip while thinking, "Yes. I do miss it. I strangely felt safer back then when people thought I was a man." Lysara then asks, "So… Do you identify as she/her pronouns or they/them?" I ask, truly perplexed, "What are they/them? I don't understand how someone could be plural."
Lysara giggles, "It isn't as much as you being plural. It is the term for those who some days feel more feminine while on others feel more masculine. It allows for freedom of gender expression." I replied, "Ohhhh. Then I guess I am they/them if you describe it like that." Lysara then says, "That is good to know. I will be sure to refer to you with those pronouns in the future. Here in Patala, we embrace gender and sexual fluidity. Some races can even change their gender on command, like fairies, for instance. Most fairies prefer they/them pronouns because of that ability of theirs." I replied while going over to Lysara to kiss her, "Wow. I learned two things today." Lysara purrs and raises her eyebrows briefly flirtatiously, "I can keep teaching you if you are going to keep kissing me." I replied with another kiss, "I'll keep kissing you even if you don't teach me a single thing." Lysara moans then says, "Keep talking like that and I won't want to leave this bed." Then she kisses me again.
We stayed in bed having sex until our stomachs told us it was time to stop at dinner time. We put on robes and call in Adoni and request dinner. Obviously, making sure it has something with garlic and a small loaf of bread for Sky. After Adoni leaves to work on dinner, I roll over to Lysara and ask, "So, can I see your research laboratory?" Lysara chuckles, "You make it sound so much more sophisticated than it actually is. It is a mess in there, but you are most welcome in my mess. Why don't I take you in the morning? I want to look over my work to see what exactly went wrong with my calculations for the destination of my latest experiment. I want to go after we eat, but I know the moment I walk in there, I will jump into my work and won't want to go to bed." I reach over and drag my fingers across her bare arm and say warmly, "Yes, please take care of my future wife." She pulls me in for a kiss, and we stay here, dragging my fingers across her skin until Adoni gets back with food.