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2024-10-29 19:42:56“What did you call me? “I asked, too busy trying not to moan from the pain in my open wounds to try to sound less aggressive.
The man got up from his knees, and again I felt that lethal power around, that time disturbing me, leaving my mind enuverted. Maybe I was suffering from a shock with so much blood running between my hands that I brought to my abdomen, or maybe it was really because of him. That somehow that feeling of increasing danger in my blood was caused by his presence.Maybe he noticed this, because he made an effort to smile, made an effort to look pleasant and not very threatening. Perfectly white Teeth appeared between the beautiful lips, and I found myself almost opening a smile also by pure instinct or obeying a command that he didn't even have to verbalize. I ended up stopping in the middle of the act with a wide eye, and I realized that there was really power exhaling from that man. Enough power to convince me that he was not dangerous, and this seemed to awaken each of my senses.“Majesty “he repeated slowly, although his eyes ran quickly through my body, semi-seating when he noticed my injured stomach. “Why isn't it healing?”It took me a while to understand.“Why should I be healing?””The man blinked, inspired the smell “my smell -, momentarily widening his eyes. I was on alert the moment he knelt again, leveling our height. I kept sitting on the floor, my legs stretched out and my arms in front of my belly, even with my knees shaking and an absurd feeling of urgency asking me to stand up before all that power seduced me for good.That was it then, I realized.I was being seduced in some very immediate way. By the words, the beautiful face, and that false feeling that he wouldn't hurt me. Deep down, I really believed in all that theater. He was holding back, whether not to scare me or because he thought it was fun to play with his victims, I still didn't know.I didn't like the way he approached, touching me without asking for any permission to do so. But I couldn't help but pull the hem of my shirt and reveal the grooves of claws that opened the skin with protruding folds on my belly.He cursed and I swore I felt my leg shudder in a new earthquake, or maybe I shuddered because he was dangerously close and my body dangerously stretched below him. It was definitely something about him that made me truly uncomfortable.“If you're some kind of doctor, you can keep touching me... “I grunted, trying to sound threatening, but I failed. “If not, I suggest you stop. “Something was making me too light, too sleepy.”“As arrogant as the last time we saw each other “he said, and a fascinating glow colored his dark eyes, but that quickly disappeared as the man got up and stretched out his hand. “Let's go. Everyone is waiting for you.”I watched my hand and cast a debauched look at the man, wondering if he really expected me to be able to get up. When he just waited, with his wide hand a few centimeters from my face, I hit his fist and shouted:“And how the hell do you expect me to go anywhere to meet someone after having suffered an accident, and being attacked by a horrible animal? I don't even know if you really exist or if this is not a hallucination because of the accident. “Your face showed no sign of confusion, so I added: “I'm bleeding, creature!”“And it shouldn't be “he said harshly, as if it were obvious. “Use your cure, and let's leave before another Furshay appears. This human blood of yours is stirring and converting even my power. Imagine what you can't do with monsters so desperate to prove it.”All right. Nothing else made any sense, so I made an effort to breathe and not scream.“Young man... I mean... sir... “I started stumbling over the words, as he stared at me and that discomfort threatened to shake me again. It had something to do with his look, I realized, those dark eyes that seemed to demand a supreme truth. “I have no idea what's going on. I had an accident on the road just behind the forest, found a crack in a rock and crossed it, so I ended up stopping here with that creature behind me. I don't know who I am, I don't know how I got to have that accident, and I swear by Go... I swear by Go... Shit. I swear I have no idea who you and the others are. And I'm bleeding and I need a doctor because I can't heal myself, if that's what you and the others who expect me know how to do. And as strange as my calm seems, I swear by... I swear I'm not calm and I'm one step away from crying and screaming, mainly because this wound, “I indicated my belly. “It hurts like hell.”The man rubbed a point between his eyebrows, seeming to contain some pain.“So you managed to return, but you can't remember where you stopped.”I blinked, trying to decipher between the lines, to understand if it could be a question. I searched in some corner of my mind, in some corner of that soul in pieces that had conjured him up there, begging a prince of hell to save me. Although I knew what to call him, I couldn't say why. I couldn't remember how I even knew him. And pain “a sentimental and old pain “pierced those black eyes.I made an effort to get up and ignore the shiver on the back of my neck when I noticed those black eyes moving to accompany, I made an effort so that that tremor below us did not overwoverw me and that he did not realize that I knew, but did not understand why all that was happening. All because I really didn't remember. I didn't feel any feeling that it had ever been my reality. That monsters like Furshay were part of any world I inhabited. And this conclusion was enough for me to decide to put it out.“Right, this is getting weirder and weirder. “I took a deep breath to regain control, and that weird tingling sensation in my body disappeared. I waved my hand dirty with blood before I started moving away to the opposite side of the man. “You know what? Enough. Nice to meet you, but I'm going out.”I didn't take more than three steps through the green grass until I heard the man following in my footsteps. All that steel of the armor popping as he walked behind me. I was sure I would have nightmares about that sound. And with that terrible smell of the dead creature that still hovered in the air.“I can't let you go back to the human world, Your Majesty.”Related chapters
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I turned around, coming face to face “literally face “with the armor he wore. I had to take a step back, cursing while massaging my sore nose, so I could face the stranger. Even with a step taken, he was too close, and my whole body was disturbed. Could he feel my thoughts taking me to glimpses of the body that was under that armor? I cursed again, cursing the thought. What the hell was going on there?“Do you really want to make me believe that I have some kind of kingdom with animals of that kind roaming freely around the world?”“Not any kind of kingdom “he shrugged. “And you are, without a doubt, the queen of our world.”I laughed, even without any humor.“Nice joke, partner. That's enough. I want to go back. “I hit lightly on the chest of your armor, trying to sound friendly, and my whole body shuddered at the brief contact. Bufei, turning around to continue going to where I was sure it had been the place where the portal opened.”“It's closed now.”“Then open it! “I screamed.“I
Protected by the Devil 06
"In our... world... Her name has always been Arianna. "Said Vraxlon, looking over his shoulder as a rock deformity gracefully descended on the side of that cliff, where the only sound beyond our voices was the tinir of his sword trapped on the side of the body, above all that steel of the armor. “I think that after five centuries being remembered of him, you ended up clinging, even though you had.”Unlike him, I was practically slipping and sliding over the rocks, silently cursing him for choosing to go down to the river by the most difficult and steep path. All the curses ended up getting stuck in my head as I struggled not to stumble and fall on the hard and smooth stone wall. My ankles twisted at every hole I fell or every stumbled stone, no matter how great my effort was to follow the great man in front of me, trying at all costs not to put myself in danger for the third time in a short space of hours."What about my kingdom in this world? Is it really as great as you made it seem
Protected by the Devil 07
For a moment, I dared to wonder if Vraxlon's brute force did not resemble any spiritual force I had, because I still felt that thing lurking over my shoulders and waiting for an order to attack. I ended up wondering who could be strong enough to take me to the ruins for five centuries, and it was an almost impossible mission not to shudder out of fear.Fear. I was afraid. And I felt pain in that fragile and human body as I was taken to walk and jump between the stones. And I certainly felt sad for having accepted so easily to get into that unknown world in search of answers. So, how could I even be someone like him? How could I fight on an equal footing with someone like him, whose arrogance and brutality were so many that they didn't even deign to recognize any threat in the three-headed monster that attacked me. As if Vraxlon were the very creature to be feared. Or... as if I were the creature to fear.As we moved away from the cliff and walked along the rocky slope of that insipid
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I might not remember that life, or any other, but I wouldn't be as naive as he thought. I felt my intuition falter between trusting and doubting, and I decided to learn his game, I decided to let myself be taken and learn what was needed, so that when the time came, I could choose my own game. I just hoped he wouldn't have the power to read minds, or I'd be in bad shape."This is our impasse, Your Majesty," he said lowering his tone of voice, and I wondered if the creatures inside the river would be reporting the whole conversation to anyone. "You've never returned as vulnerable as you are now.”Vulnerable, not weak. Because whoever went inside the river, I already knew too much about my lack of powers. I was smart to be careful with the following words, looking all the time into the waters, hoping to see some creature beyond the shadows of the night.Before talking again, it gave me a knot in my stomach to think about what that curious and attentively hearing monster that followed us
Protected by the Devil 09
A scream sounded, a dark voice and even colder than the one the nun had used. A scream that called by my name, the name of that ancient soul and belonging to another world. And I followed that voice, desperately trying to find it again, to reach it in the middle of the darkness and the noises that ran through that madness that my head had become. The dream dissipated, the darkness retracted, and a caress was made against my face somewhere far away.Open your eyes. Now!I obeyed.Vraxlon watched me, holding my forearms so tightly that when he let go, I had to avoid moaning in pain. I observed beyond him, we were no longer sailing, although we were still inside the boat. I had to swallow dry twice until I found my voice, until I felt that my mind and soul were interconnected again.“Are we there? "I whispered with a hoarse voice, because I didn't want him to speak first.I didn't want you to ask, because I wouldn't have answers and I didn't know why I had almost urinated in fear in that
Protected by the Devil 10
My dog, it seemed, was another one of those monstrous creatures of the worst nightmares of an emotional writer. A dog the height of a mountain, with three angry heads on the black and hairy neck, with legs larger than two cars and a rabö that did not equal any size I could resemble. The amber eyes like those of a panther watched me, and the muzzle of the middle head sniffed, inspiring my smell. Whatever made sense, the huge teeth appeared in the three wide mouths, and Cerberus growled like a hungry creature, getting so close that I almost peed."Oh, no! No way! "I grumbled, trying to deviate from the immense language that stretched towards me, greater than any dimension of languages in the world. I managed to deviate from the first tongue, only to bump into the other one that extended and hit my whole body with a puff of putrid breath and dense saliva, as the three heads of the dogs nodded in consent as to my identity. Maybe they could see my soul shining like Vraxlon. I doubted very
Protected by the Devil 11
I tried to undress, leaving the sneakers filthy on the polished white stone floor, and soon my intimate clothes also went to the floor before I let the water massage my body like wet and skillful fingers. I would not doubt that they were ghost fingers, considering that every joint in my body moaned with thanks.I took a liquid soap with the smell of musk and sandalwood that spread on my body with a fragrance that referred to cleanliness and freshness, and only stopped rubbing myself when all the dirt, sweat and drool had been a sad and distant memory.The camera was covered with white smoke when I finished the shower, and I got a little fright when I bothered to look in the mirror. But it wasn't my naked and rung-haired image that scared me. It was that, through the dense smoke of the hot bath, I saw in my reflection the unmistakable silhouette of a man. It was made by a darkness unlike anything I could have seen in my life, a purplish darkness, like an entire galaxy. No features, no
Protected by the Devil 12
At that moment, missing a single row of chairs to sneak to the door, I stared at the man, and noticed that I did not feel so affected by knowing that he deserved it, that he was there for having been refused at the gates of paradise and having descended with a single passage to hell, where he would pay for his cruelty in life. I found myself thinking if there was no justice in any way.If the worst of punishments was not, ironically, a necessary good to punish those who thought they would never be caught. He had preferred death, chosen to take his own life so as not to have to rot in a prison. Not knowing that I already had a place dedicated to him in hell.What made me think that all that audience was a simple event to observe human despair. In fact, there were hooded creatures that gathered in a group in the chairs on the left, and that leaned from time to time as the sinner cried, as a kind of spiral smoke flew towards them, as if they were really being fed by that repentant soul.
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However, hours after we were satisfied for the second time in a short period of time, it occurred to me that Vraxlon was not telling the truth. That that strange prophecy that Kleyphon had mentioned was the cause of those ominous forebodings that I felt, and of the constant feeling that I should say goodbye all the time to those I esteemed. That no one but me could see Miguel's silhouette because it was a part of the story written for me that no one could know yet.I had the growing feeling that even my most banal choices "or even the most important ones like giving that sword as a gift to Vraxlon" were a repetitive sequence of past actions. And that every time I was faced with making another decision, that feeling of Deja Vu assailed me, as an alert for me not to choose that path.However, everything would be easier if I knew very clearly about the steps I should or should not take. Not least because, when I chose to act, it led me to some destination already lived. When I decided to
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Octavius absent-mindedly began to open and close his hand, testing the powers in his own blood. I didn't want the effect to be more than missing a spark of power, but I knew that if they paid a little attention, they would have noticed. Octavius finally turned his gaze to me, and even if he was angry, even if the presence of Vraxlon so close to me awakened in him his worst side, there was a very beautiful kind of pride on his face."I didn't do anything with your magic.”"Liar," Heynna growned, still stuck in the same place. "I miss much of my power. What did you steal from us for?”"I don't need the magic of any of you. I have more than enough now "I drew with a little way of mouth. "I just connected your powers to mine.”"What does that mean? "Tennebris asked, sounding so peaceful that no one would say that the voice belonged to the sin of wrath.But it was Vraxlon who responded, realizing the sly look I sent towards him, knowing that he was the only one who really understood my act
Protected by the Devil 66
When we finally left the bathroom, my hair was already completely goosebumps from so long under the water, and Vraxlon had a malicious little smile on his face that didn't go away for a long time. When we returned to the room, however, we returned to reality when our clothes were waiting, raised in the air, and, as if the castle could predict my actions before I spoke, I could see that each dress contained enough pomp to demonstrate that we were going to a very important event.Vraxlon put on the black pants that the castle erected towards him, and buttoned the dress shirt up to an inch below his chest, leaving the muscles above visible to any curious person. By pure magic, his hair dried and was combed, before his prince's crown descended gently on his head.While watching the castle spoil him with his care, I was also being pampered. My hair was combed and dry, falling around my arms with soft ripples. A tiara slid gently around my hair, clinging to my forehead like a tangles of thi
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"I should better choose the words to talk to a queen, Kleyphon " I said with clenched teeth.The archangel frowned, but the wide smile remained unwavering."I will never understand why in hell you have the habit of delegating high positions, if everyone continues to be flour from the same bag," he mocked, and gently shook an object he had in his hands. It looked like a glowing rope. I got tense. "But if you prefer so, come on, your majesty, your presence is requested before the Creator.”"I'm not going anywhere," I rustled, getting up from a jump.Kleyphon undid his smile. Even if there was something about him that inspired kindness and empathy, I knew that the longer it took to get out of there, the more obstacles would come my way. The black cloud in the sky was descending faster and faster. He noticed when I looked outside, and when my breathing failed because of fear. I didn't expect that Vraxlon could create the portal back, not when I already knew that the archangels could keep
Protected by the Devil 64
"Did I fall in love with someone? "I asked.Miguel nodded, and a glow of remorse lit up in his violet eyes."So, even if I was assigned to protect a specific human throughout each century, nothing could get out of my head the idea that, despite the soul made of all evil and rot, there was something different about you. There was a feeling. You were made of two of the most powerful demonic beings in the world, but still, you were able to have your own emotions. "He stretched out his hand between us, and took one more step until he was close enough for the tip of his nail to touch the pendant of my necklace. "And overnight, I found myself not complying with the greatest and most absolute rule in my world. Obey my creator. Because I created feelings for you. Not for his human part, for the soul that was underneath. And then... I knew that fate had strange plans for us.”"You chose to protect me, even though you are no longer my guardian "I said gently."I realized very early that I would
Protected by the Devil 63
"They made me see you and Octavius," I replied.A glow of malice ran through the dark irises of Vraxlon.“At the same time? "He asked."At the same time," I replied, feeling suddenly embarrassed."And how was it? "He wanted to know, walking slowly towards me. "Did you like it?”"I thought... "I staggered, because right at that very moment he caught up with me and deposited a kiss under my ear, at a point that I didn't even know could cause me so many goosebumps. “I thought it was interesting... You said something about me not having to choose, because I could have both.”"Is it really? "He purred, turning around for me and pushing my hair away to have free access to my neck. “Would you like to have it with us tonight, Your Majesty? As my thank you gift for the wonderful sensations we shared throughout the week.”I frowned lightly, but I didn't have enough strength for anything else, because Vraxlon began to slide his big hand around what the towel didn't cover, my arms, my lap, my nec
Protected by the Devil 62
No one objected when I changed our route and mixed with the humans who passed by with full bags and expressions of pure fascination with the streets adorned with flags stuck in a string. And when we approached a small cabin with stools, in which a polaroid camera was positioned at one end, I was quite surprised that none of my companions refused to take a picture. We were a wreck, Faye and I with cuts in the faces of the fight against four female demons, Vraxlon and Tennebris with the face of someone who hadn't slept for days. Even so, I paid some coins for the photo and kept it carefully in my pocket.Our insured stop was in a stall with Latin foods that were too spicy. My companions ate with such satisfaction that I refused not to finish my dried meat and pepper burrito. However, my human stomach and already unaccustomed to the strong spices of hell seemed to reject the idea of such discordant and hot spices, and I spent mäl from that moment until when we left for the beach.On the
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My head hurt, and I had the feeling that something vital and important was being pulled from me, coming from the bottom of my stomach and coming out of my mouth in clouds while I was kissed. Someone hit hard against my face, and the vision of the two men flickered, disappearing and appearing. Another slap hit me, and the pain was greater than the sensations that involved my body, so I was startled and blindly pushed whoever was around me.The salon was replaced by the cell at the police station, and Vraxlon and Octavius were replaced by the two big women who from the moment I entered the cell were crazy to start a fight. At that moment they were moving away and shaking their arms to regain their balance after my pushes, apparently they were the ones I was kissing. I made a sound of vomiting and bent over, trying to keep the feeling of their lips away from my mouth."Don't you dare use this rotten magic on me," I growled, extremely upset.The four women laughed in unison. That's all I
Protected by the Devil 60
Faye walked away, with her pink hair sliding gently away from my shoulders, so I watched the women, to the same extent as they watched me. Two of them were very tall, in the style of volleyball players and had male traits, despite the long and stuck hair, and the tight clothes. The other two were short, and had delicate features... An almost supernatural beauty. The necklace on my chest sparked, and all four of them followed with their eyes."Is that a precious jewel? "Asked one of the big ones.I denied it with my head and covered the light of the necklace with my hand."Family inheritance. Cheap stuff.”"Hmm... "murmured the other, throwing a look full of meanings at the big one.“Margareth, why don’t you keep telling me about your crime? "He asked Faye with false animation, sitting back in one of the bunk beds that the two smaller prey occupied."Oh, I just drank a little bit, and they invented that it was bringing risks to others and to me," said the little woman, snorting away fr
