Chapter 2: Strife

The young Deviljho glares around once the vampire teleports them to an unknown castle. He coughs a bit, more blood ejecting form his smashed lungs. The vampire notices.

"Oh my, I'm incredibly sorry. I forgot to heal your wounds."

He smacks her hands away.

"I'm fine. I don't need the help of mamono."

"But-"

"I said I don't need it!"

She pulls back her hands, and they continue to walk. Well, Totum has a very obvious limp, so he was doing more of a hobble towards their objective. Two large doors. Sileena knocks. A voice calls out from inside.

"Come in!"

She pushes the doors open. They enter and see many more lilim sitting at a long table the one at the head was taller, bustier and definitely had a more powerful scent. Totum growls, ready to fight.

"So this is the child of my best friend. Totum, is it?"

"So you know name. Ok, totally not ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CREEPY!!"

"My what a tongue you have."

"Thanks. Better yell profanities at you."

"Hey! Stop insulting our mother!"

"Shut up whore!"

It was a complete uproar. Lilim yelling at the Deviljho, him not responding. Finally, the Demon Lord slams her hands on the table, instantly silencing everyone.

"Everyone clam down! I know you are angry he insulted me, but I am often insulted. And to be fair, he has suffered a lot due to you all."

The lilim look down in shame. Totum just huffs, before he suddenly starts to cough heavily, regurgitating even more blood. He collapses to his knees, still coughing up blood. He pants heavily, staring at the blood on his two fingered hand. He then loses consciousness, barely hearing the Demon Lords cry for a medic.

Timeskip

Totum slowly opens his eyes, though everything is blurry. He blinks several times, trying to clear the haze in his eyes. He pushes himself up, and snarls as bolts of pain scream in his chest. He looks around, and notice he's in a very extravagant room. He hoists his legs over the side of the bed, and stands up. He starts to walk to the door, until a voice speaks from behind him.

"So your awake."

He screams and jumps. He turns around to see who is talking to him. A incredibly buxom woman smiling at him. She smiles wider and places a hand on his cheek.

"A male Deviljho specimen after so long! I'm so glad that you've recovered well."

"Don't touch me Dark Mage!"

He swats her hand away.

"Oh? You can tell what I am?"

"Yes. You have a more human smell, just a musk of a couple in the middle of sex mixed in."

"That's an odd description."

"You're all a odd race."

"Fair point."

Totum winces as he stretches. He growls as he rubs his chest and sides. Then he turns to the Dark Mage.

"So why am I here? Shouldn't I be in a healer room?"

"Yes... it's that your mother and sisters begged for the Demon Lord to give you a very comfy bed. But we did not expect your change."

"What?"

She raises a mirror, and Totum stares in surprise. His bottom fangs had turned a bloody red, and were larger and longer. He turns and sees that his spikes on his back are no the same color and also much larger.

"We know call you a Starving Deviljho, a new variant of the base species."

"Starving? I'm not starving. Unless you count my years living in Lescatie, but otherwise I ate well."

"Oh no not starved like that. Starved of affection."

Totum stops dead, blinking.

"We know you've had a hard time finding a proper family. You lost your father due to Lescatie's cruelty, lost your mother and sister figures to Druella and our corrupting magic. And for that..."

The Mage bows.

"I am truly sorry... I was Druella's teacher, long ago. I never wanted her turn out like this."

"And what about my mother?"

"Right. She's waiting for you, along with your sisters. Follow me."

They exit the room, and they walk through several corridors, all the while passing many mamono who gave Totum the stink eye, but he would just glare right back. Finally, they arrive at a pair of massive double doors. They fly open when they approach. There, he sees a group of woman laughing and chatting. They stop when they hear the doors close.

"Totum!"

      The women all leap him, despite that he's much smaller than them.

"Oh shi-!"

Squish!

Poor Totum is crushed under the weight of the sobbing Deviljho women.

"Oh, you're just as little as I remember! You were so cute back then! *sniff* I'm so sorry! We should have come to get you, but Lescatie was too strong at the time, and you could have been hurt!"

Totum smiles. For the first time since his time being here. He slowly squirms his way out, before giving his mother a genuine hug.

"How have you all been?"

"We've been fine. We're a nomadic species, so we travel a lot. But for so many people to try and chain you down. I will kill those heroes as soon as I see them."

"Please don't. Only the lilim Druella please."

"Druella?! That's the Lilim who did it?! Why I outta kill that little slut!"

"What's your beef with her?"

"She tried to bed your father when I was pregnant with these two."

She points to the two Deviljho girls who smiles and wave at their brother.

"So that bitch, who tired to make into a weapon for her cause, also tried to bed my father? I'm gonna slap that bitch so hard the next slutty children she has will feel it for the rest of their days."

"I like you. You have your father's temper and magic."

"What do you mean?"

"Your father's magic allowed him to grow stronger with every battle fought. Psychological and Mental changes also applied to this."

"So that's why I've changed so much."

She nods. But suddenly the doors open. They all turn and spot whom they despise the most. Druella walks in haughtily followed by her posse.

"So here is that little brat. Sitting with his family of whores."

"If anyone here's a whore, it's you and your posse."

"Hmph! And maybe your father would still be alive if he had married me."

     Silence, then a furious roar as Totum charges her, dragon element coursing through his body and it forms horns on his head and small wings on his back.

      He stabs the horns into her gut, twists, lifts her up into the air before slamming her down again. He then stomps on all of her limbs, shattering them, before grabbing her shoulder with her mouth and repeatedly slamming her into the ground.

      He then throws her into a wall, and slams his foot into her gut, causing her to cough up blood. He then slams her face with his tail, now covered in much deadlier spikes. He admires her mangled body and face, before the energy dissipates and he turns away. He stops and glances back at her posse, who are too terrified to move.

"Don't ever fucking come near me again. Especially you. C'mon mom, let's go."

        He points at Sasha and Mersé. He then turns and walks away, his sisters and mother all following suit, sending disgusted glares at them as they left. Sasha reaches out slightly, before pulling back her hand, falling to her knees, tears starting to stream down her face as medics picked up the battered Druella.

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