"Ban...." Meliodas poked Ban's face, early in the morning, his emerald eyes shine with energy and light. Making Mel's face glow up more than it already does.

Ban woke up with his half asleep eyes just barely open. "...What time is it...?" He yawned and groaned out the words, his exhaustion can't compare to watching Meliodas and keeping away from that bastard, Duke.

"I don't know, maybe 5:00? I can go check..."

Ban notices that Mel was straddling him, just right above his clothed length. Mel's fundament is teasing the guy, enough to turn him on so easily. Mel's face is so beautiful to Ban, making Ban's hand reach out to Mel and cup his soft, squishy cheek.

"Nah, you don't need to check, where you are now in completely fine for me, could you stay there for a bit?" His hand slides down to Mel's waist, then hips and thighs sensually squeezing them. Feeling the soft skin and the tiny, blonde hair follicles starting to stand as goosebumps.

"Anything for you~" Meliodas teased in a sly tone. Then moved to the side swiftly to lay next to Ban looking up at him. Mel's right leg goes over Ban's torso including his right hand on his chest. Ban only replied with a sigh of the loss of friction between him and Meliodas.

Mel chuckled, holding on to Ban lightly, then purred. "I'm not all submissive..." He starts. "I enjoy to be in the lead too, you can't expect me to always obey~"

Ban chuckles, shifting his body to face Meliodas. He reached in for a small kiss on the cheek, and Mel shifted to kiss Ban's lips. Ban backfired to slip down to kiss and nibble Mel's neck and jaw, wrapping his hand on the waist of Mel pulling him closer.

"So what did you want to say this early in the morning?" Ban whispers in a harmonious way.

"I want to explore this place I found that only I, and now you, know of. Just the two of us? We could play a little game..."

"So you want to go to an unknown part of land----"

"Forest..."

Ban looks deep into those curious green eyes.

"We'll talk there, it's about......." Mel starts. "It's important, but I want it to be a surprise! You'll see." His voice descended, as his confidence clearly shriveled by the looks of his eyes.

Ban caught this little... shyness Meliodas was showing? If Ban had to guess, they have been in a relationship for at least a month, maybe more. Never has Mel looked so embarrassed to say anything, or being honest.

"Now get up, lazy bum! We have some adventuring to do!" Meliodas sat up on the bed, and Ban followed. Both getting dressed in comfortable clothes.

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The moment they started to walk out the door, Ban caught a glimpse of Duke leaned against the tavern wall. Acting all chill and completely "normal"

Bullshit, even Ban knows full well his twin is never a good sign, he's been like that since the beginning of childhood. They never had swell memories, so Ban tries to forget them. He was about to start a new life with Meliodas, but Duke just had to show up and destroy his spirit of any hope of finding love.

Before Ban could go any further in his thought he felt Mel's hand holding his. And a vibration of a purr on his arm, where Meliodas leaned his body against of, for comfort. It was soothing and calming to him. Making his mind go and focus on Mel.

"Don't focus on him..." Mel starts. "It's just about us, and our future plans"

Ban heart flies with bliss pounding so loudly he was sure that his chest was going to explode. If only he could carry Mel in his arms walking away with him forever on, but he holds the bags of clothes and the supplies for the adventure they were going to do. Ban sees by the looks of it, that this sounds pretty important to Meliodas waking up this early in the morning.

It was just the two of them... Ban and Meliodas.....

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"What an interesting pair...." Duke mumbled under his breath. "You're almost close brother.... To the point where you won't let that demon go from your grasp."

He looked out the tavern window, watch the two slowly fade into the sunrise, where there was a forest a few miles up ahead. He's had his suspicion of the demon and it's whereabouts, making his mind go to places that he never thought imaginable. If there's anything he knows, it's that his brother Ban is possessive when it comes to his greed.

"Snatch, your weak magic power....tsk... Hard to believe we're even related...." His voice smoothly mumbles rubbish, as his index finger revolving on the window screen feeling the roughness of the material. Must be how hard and cold Dukes heart must be....

"Oh Meliodas, how precious you must be to my brother.... How protective you must be with your future first born to be Ban's...... Oh, but what if it was my child...?"

"You wouldn't forgive yourself would you...? Would you think that the child would be not yours if it were mine, contained by your slick, soft, smooth body. Stretched out to hold the child in your stomach...." He starts, stopping his hand from circling, after seeing the now gone couple from his sight. "What if it was me to pin you down and hold you down spread before me, you thinking it was my brother, and I was the one to get a taste of those thighs and to feel your warm insides clenching and screaming under me. My weight practically crushing your brittle bones, and going so deep inside you, you won't just have one child you might have twins...... Such a sight to behold~"

"It won't be for long Ban, Mel will trip and fall into my hands without you expecting it....."

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"Ban! Come on slowpoke! I'll race ya!" Meliodas yelps with excitement and pure passion as he gets into a sprinting formation and so does Ban, after he placed down the camp supplies.

"Ready..." Mel says.

"Go!" Ban sprints out of the blue, already running to the imaginary finish line Meliodas has made up.

"No fair!" Meliodas sprinted, looking like he just teleported to the human eye, to the finish line. Leaving Ban just milliseconds to finally reach the finish of their mini race.

Ban started to argue about not using their unnatural physical power, but Mel continues to deny any cheating on the race. Saying that, that speed is his his average running.

"Best out of three?" Meliodas says as he couldn't take Ban calling him out on cheating. So maybe he'll beat him fair and square this round. Ban said sure back to Mel, while going to grab the camp supplies and follow Mel to the next spot to race and compare speed into.

"Ban, are you sure you don't want me carrying at least one bag? I have the strength to carry a simple bag if you'd just ask me and I'll carry one..." His sincere voice makes Ban's adrenaline increase, and it was like he felt inhumanly strong with just the stare of Meliodas and his emerald eyes.

"No I'm fine, you're what keeps me strong and makes me feel alive~" The way his tone smoothly bolds out the word "alive" and Mel's mind had gone to thoughts that shouldn't be said out loud in crowd or in front of unknown people. Dirty thoughts. Meliodas's belly starts to heat just thinking about having a child with Ban, but he needs to tell him his real objective in this forest. To meet the bargaining mage...

The mage can help him to store a child for nine months and be able to give the child the nutrition while it's developing. Though it's a hell of a process to even have such abilities to carry life. For a week, an hour or two after the spell is cast upon the one that want to have the ability of being pregnant, they have to go through pain everyday, feeling their stomach develop a womb, for the child shall grow from. Within the womb will form the uterus and the other properties to have a child, even the last detail to a small egg and room for fertilizer.

This process sounds simple put into words, but knowing the full detail could take the mage hours to explain and giving the warnings to such complexity spells.

After the week of the womb creating itself slowly, and now complete. The couple will have a total of nine months and a half, using the half month to make the baby and fertilize the egg.

And there's one more catch... Creating a life from a male body, even a demon, could cost a fortune. The mage only ask one request from each race they meet, wanting a wish granted. And that's youthful magic cast on them, so they look younger and can live many years longer, possibly thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. If they don't have the youthful magic that'll make them young, and you make a deal with them anyway. Another exchange is the same thing, but they take your years away by however long to split your life in half.

It hurts to see people risk so much for half their life taken away, it's like a heart broken in half. But Ban and Meliodas are basically immortal and will both stay young for however long and live for whatever amount of year to come. Meliodas for once thanks his father for his curse, out of a pity way, not in a heartfelt way.

"Mel! Ready for race number three! I'll be sure to win this time!!" Ban's cheerful voice blocks out all the bad, or dirty thoughts. Looking at how blissful he was with him. Meliodas looks at him so softly with cute thoughts such as knowing he lucky to have a man like him in his life. A blissful, heartfelt, lovable, lustful,  respectful, loyal, and trustworthy man in front of his eyes. And Mel wants to be the same to him, just for him only to make him feel special, cause he is. Even if it means to give up secrets that might harm their relationship. It's for the best....

"Yes! I'm ready for round three!" Meliodas pops his self contained bubble around him, to listen to Ban's joyful words. The race was by a fogged up stream of blue water, with the clearly soggy mud below it. The fresh green grass smell and the small breeze going perfectly well with the humid, cool air.

That was until------

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"What? I can't see anything, why's is my vision black?" Meliodas could not feel, hear, see, or smell anything. A non existent world he's in he thought, full of nothing.

"Hello there..." A voice, too similar to Ban's. "I hope your comfortable with the situation you're in..."

"Duke..."

"Bingo~  you're good at games, wanna play a game?" His voice was taunting and absolutely disgusting to Mel. He just wanted this personal time to be just between him and Ban for just a face to face moment together.

"Yeah, I have a game, go jump into the pits of Hell where you belong! Now where am I!?" He couldn't hear his voice.... But he sure as hell knew what he was saying.

"Don't worry, you're in the same world, but blind.... depth... Ect."
He starts. "But let me get to the point of why I followed Ban and you. You're mostly the reason cause I'm planning a special event just for us two to enjoy..."

"There's no event that involves you in my schedule, nor is there time to be with you, I have important business...."

"Important baby making, I'm guessing, or are you not at that part...? Or are you just about to go to that greedy mage..." His tone sounds so proud of himself for knowing about this.

"Bastard... What the hell do you know!?"

"Oh nothing... Just that I will be the one to making you have a child with me before Ban can even lay a hand on you..."

Meliodas felt his eyes bulging with shock and disturbing disgust crawling up his spine "...Y-y-you!! DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TOUCH ME!!!!!" His throat vibrates with the insane rage that slowly rises. "YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF------"

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Meliodas was able to have all his senses back, but he found himself deep in the forest. The fog was so thick to even try to squint to see through it would be helpless. And a thick layer of mud he stands on, it was like a swamp like feeling.

Has he walked this deep into the woods, while trying to fight off that bastard, Duke?

"Ban....?" Meliodas said as he waited for a response. Was this the game he was playing at?

"Ban." He said little louder, and his heart starts to pound. Great, a demon panicking cause it's lost in an unknown part of a forest, great going me.... Mel thought.

"Ban! Where are you? Answer me! Please!" Still no response.

How far has he gone into the woods, if he is even still in the forest, he might as well be at a swamp for all he knows. His eyes starts to get blurry with how humid the air it, and how much fog there is.

"Ban!!" His voice echos. He knows that he hasn't seen many threes near by, must mean they aren't in a swamp. Lucky for him, he's still in the forest they started at but in a complete different area.

"O-oh God...." Meliodas whispers to himself, then practically screams out his next words. "Ban!!!!"

Meliodas walks backwards in a quick hurry, and bumps into something. A human.... A tall figure...

He swiftly turns in a quick motion, and he saw.....

He saw....

Duke...

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