The Demon King
The above is what Kat looks like with her supposed normal appearance, hair and eyes wise. Yes, it's Rosario + Vampire, great show by the way.
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We walk up to the double doors, the same ones that the two guards I threw down the hallway are. The same two guards are there and they back away from me as much as possible. They give me weary looks and open the doors.
The others look at them in both awe and fright. The guards cower over us by a good 100 feet, it doesn't surprise me that they're scared.
"How in the world...?" Erwin mumbles nervously.
"Right this way..." both guards say and usher us into the room.
I walk in with my head held high while the guys and Hans cautiously follow behind. There waiting for us on his throne is my father with an unreadable expression. Once we finally make it to the middle of the room, in front of him, he speaks.
"So, how long were you gonna try to hide them from me?"
"I wasn't really trying to hide them from you, I just didn't get around to telling you," I reply.
"Huh... I see," he says obviously not believing me. "Well, they can't stay here for much longer. There are a lot of bad demons here and you know what could happen if they get a hold of them."
Meaning eating their souls.
"Yes, I understand that, but that won't happen until their brother heals. He was bit profusely by a hellhound. He has yet to come to."
You can hear a slight whimper from behind coming from the two brothers.
"I see. I'm very disappointed in you."
"I understand, Father. I have broken a major rule. I will except my punishment."
"After all this is through you will have a very strict training schedule."
Damn... I knew what that meant. It means I'm gonna be training nonstop for a week straight. No food, water, bathroom breaks, or sleep. In this case it might be longer since this is the primary rule... Don't let humans see you using your powers unless otherwise indicated meaning when a demon has a deal with a human for their soul. You may think this is a harsh punishment but try doing it for 2 months straight, that sucked. This punishment isn't as harsh as it should be, I don't know why he's being so restrained. If I was some lame low rank demon I would've probably of been sentenced to death or some other kind of harsh punishment.
"Yes, sir."
"And Prince Lucas?"
Lucas jumps somewhat and walks up to stand next to me. "Yes, sir?"
"Don't think you'll be getting out of this either. You're to blame just as much."
"Yes, sir," Lucas says and bows.
"You will have your punishment later. Too bad, next time I saw you I was hoping to see you in battle but with your injury that doesn't look like it's going to happen."
"Yes, I was really looking forward to it."
"As was I." He turns to me. "What are you going to do about the hellhounds?"
"I didn't know I had to do something with the hellhounds."
"You must go and finish them off. Both you and Prince Lucas after he heals."
Lucas and I both bow. "Yes, Your Majesty," we both say.
"Good," my father says and turns towards the group of humans, eyeing them. "Huh... Well..." He looks at me as if he's contemplating whether or not to ask me. "...Are you going to introduce me?"
"Huh?!" I exclaim completely shocked, and, seemingly I'm not the only one because Hans and Lucas have similar reactions.
"To these humans," Father finishes.
(Is he seriously gonna let this all go at that simple punishment? He's not going to kill them or something!? Has he gone soft?)
"U-uh, sure," I say after a long pause. I point to each in order. "Shane, Johnny, Zack, Tony, Tyler, and Erwin."
Not knowing what to do they panic and just bow.
"It's a p-pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty," Johnny says nervously.
My father laughs his deep throated laugh that echoes throughout the room and looks at me. "Interesting group of humans you've been involved with."
I knew he meant that as a insult. They're probably wimpy in his eyes.
"They listen well," I say jokingly.
"As it seems or they would all be dead by now," Father says.
"True," Erwin and Zack say.
"Without her we would've died from starvation or something," Johnny says. "She told us the directions for what to do in a situation like that."
"Is that so?" Father says looking at me somewhat impressed.
"Seems like her princess training has really paid off," Hans says impressed more with himself than me.
"Seems so," Father says with a nod. "I've been informed that you have finished your training for today, how did you do?"
"It was incredibly easy."
"I heard." He looks at Hans. "Hans! What is the meaning of these simple tests?"
"Well, she hasn't trained in a long time so I wanted to give her a refresher before I gave her the real thing," Hans says weaseling his way out of trouble, like the smart little shit he is.
"So tomorrow will be her actual level, correct?"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Hans says with a bow.
"Good, I'm glad that that's settled," Father says.
There's a long, awkward pause before I interrupt it. "Well, I'm gonna go check in on Jason. Prince Lucas you come as well to take some medication." I turn, grabbing Lucas' hand, and walk towards the doors. "Hans, take them to wherever they please, besides the infirmary."
"Yes, Princess," Hans says.
"Tonight, let's all eat dinner together," Father speaks on my way out.
"Will do!" I call back and exit the throne room. We continue down the hall.
"Can't you just open a portal?" Lucas asks me.
I mentally smack myself. "Yeah, sometimes I forget," I say snapping my fingers.
We walk through the portal and out to the other side, now in the infirmary.
Lucas snickers. "For a princess you sure can be clueless."
"And that's coming from the untrained prince," I retaliate.
"True," he admits defeatedly.
"Ah, hello, Prince and Princess. Come to check on the human?" the doctor asks.
"Yes, and Prince Lucas needs his medication."
"As you wish," he says and leaves to the walk in closet of medication.
I walk over to Jason and sigh. "He needs to have blood put into him since he's lost so much. Lucas don't watch if you don't wanna see me cut myself."
"Wait, why would you cut yourself?"
"Were you not listening when I was teaching you? I can heal in every possible way. I'm the highest possible rank in healing. I'm going to cut myself to provide more blood for his body. My blood is the best possible solution for him to survive."
"Well, what would happen?"
"The healing factor in my blood should help him heal somewhat faster. Of course there are side effects."
"Like?"
"Like temporary powers."
"Uh-oh."
"Yeah," I say and release a claw, cutting my arm. I lean my arm over his wounds and let my blood drip over top, being just enough to completely cover every spot.
"That's it?"
"No, this is just for a little back up." I grab a bag to fill with blood and insert a needle into one of the veins in my arm. "This process may take a while."
"So... What do we do till then?"
I relax in a nearby chair and close my eyes, leaning against the back of the seat. "We can chat?"
"About what?"
"I don't know, whatever?"
"Well, do you know what the punishment your father gave us is?"
"For a whole week straight with no food, water, bathroom breaks, or sleep we will train. It could be longer since it is a big rule buster."
"Are you serious!?"
"No," I say leaning back more into the chair.
"That's inhuman!"
"We're inhuman," I respond.
"Well... Still! That's like child abuse!"
"Hey, we're lucky. Other demons or angels would have been sentenced to death."
He gulps. "Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"Then I guess we are lucky..."
"Thank God for being royalty!" I say.
"You can say that again."
"Well even if they tried to kill me I would never officially be dead. I mean I can regenerate."
"Really?" he questions.
"Yeah, when I began training I actually got my arm hacked off. Let me tell you it hurt like hell. Three days later my arm was back. I swear it was the weirdest site to see watching your arm regrowing."
"Okay, ewww! Gross, I don't even want to imagine!"
"Yeah, you really don't."
"Hmm, well, tell me more stories about your training."
"Well, there was this one time that I got a little too bumptious showing off my strength. I was holding a large stack of boulders and I continuously told Hans to add more boulders to the top. Eventually, after the 4,o48th boulder, I couldn't hold anymore and they all fell on me," I say with my eyes still closed.
Lucas laughs. "I can imagine the whole thing! Your face would be hysterical!"
"You wouldn't be able to lift that much."
"Oh yeah?"
"I lifted over 2 million pounds!"
"Damn! No way!" he shouts with disbelief.
"Well, each boulder was about 500 pounds..."
"You didn't use physical strength, did you?"
"Of course I did. I physically lifted about 2,200 of the boulders. The rest were telekinetic."
"Ah, of course, so basically you didn't."
"Lifting things telekinetically is so much harder than physically lifting."
"Sure."
"I'd like to see you try," I pout.
"K, fine, you win."
"Good."
I hear the doctor return and hand Lucas a bottle of pills. "Two a day."
"Yes, thank you," Lucas responds.
I sense the doctor look towards me. "What in the world are you doing?"
"Jason needs blood, so I'm donating some."
"You know the outcome if humans have demon blood injected into their bloodstream!"
"Well then it's a good thing I'm not completely demon, isn't it?" I say with a closed-eyed mischievous grin.
"The results still apply."
"Yes, I know, but they're temporary, so it's not a big deal."
"That varies."
"Yes, I know," I confirm.
"Good."
About an hour or so passes of Lucas and I talking and in that time the bag filled up. I open my eyes and fix everything up so that the blood is now going into Jason.
"Do you think he'll make it?" Lucas asks.
"If he doesn't I'm gonna be in some deep shit from Tyler and Tony," I say. "I'm 50/50 right now, it could go either way."
"I know what you mean."
"My blood will either help him or not do anything at all. You know since nobody can heal a hellhound bite."
"Yeah," he says.
"All we can do is pray, well, that won't really work either... Then we just have to be patient," I say and stand up. "We should get going and begin to get ready for dinner." I turn to the doctor. "Call me if his current state changes, even if it's a small movement."
"Yes, Princess."
"Prince Lucas, let's go." I snap open a portal to where the others are. After we step through do they notice our presence.
"Ah, you've returned," Johnny says. "How's Jason?"
"He looks a lot better, but I can't promise anything, not yet."
"When will you know?" Tyler asks.
I look him hard in the eyes. "When he moves."
...
Dinner comes before we know it and we all sit down at the large table. We are all just waiting on my father's arrival. After a few minutes a portal appears from the corner of the room and my father walks through.
"Sorry, were you all waiting for me?" he asks.
"Indeed we have," I reply.
"My apologies, I wasn't planning to be so late the meeting ran a little late. Now, how about we begin to eat."
I make a gesture to bring out dinner to a nearby maid and she rushes into the kitchen. Not a second later the food was being brought out.
"Finally..." Shane mumbles.
At the end of the table sits my father and me to his right. Across from me, to the left of my father, was Lucas. To my right was Johnny then Zack then Erwin. On Lucas' left is Shane then Tony then Tyler.
----------------Father
----------Me| ---------|Lucas
-----Johnny| ---------|Shane
--------Zack| ---------|Tony
-------Erwin| ---------|Tyler
{[(My attempt^^^)]}
The food is served to us with the help of the maids asking what we want and placing whatever it may be on our plates.
"So Katima," my father says grabbing my attention. "How was the hellhound bit human?"
I scoff knowing he was gonna bring this up. If he plans to have them turn against me so I will never interact with them again he is mistaken. "Color seems to be returning to his face."
"That's good. I hope for the best," he lies.
I scowl and take a bite of mashed potatoes. "What an honor..." I grumble sarcastically.
"Is everything okay?" Father asks already knowing why I'm like this.
"Oh nothing's wrong! Everything is just perfectly fine!" I lie through my teeth.
"Good," he replies with a smirk only I could see.
There's a long silence before someone interrupts it.
"S-so," Johnny says unsure of what to say.
"Father, what was the purpose of you wanting to eat with us?" I ask.
"Can I not just eat with my beautiful baby girl, her friends, and fiancée?"
"No, not unless there's a reason, which there probably is," I say crossing my arms.
He sighs. "Looks like you caught me...-"
"I knew it!"
"-I wanted to ask Prince Lucas when he would want to start training."
"Wha-!?"
"Yeah, you left before I could ask."
(What's he playing at?)
"Well, I figured after my injury is healed..." Lucas says trying to cut the tension.
(I'm going to have to put a protection spell on all of them...Or a 'I own this human and you cannot touch them' spell would be another way to put it... Or for short 'My human'...)
"That sounds like a good choice," Father says with a mischievous glance my way.
I pout, puckering my lips out like a child not getting what they want. (I will find out what you're planning!)
~~~
Once dinner ends we all head back to my room, change into pjs, and are now all sitting on our beds. In this case Lucas doesn't have a bed yet, so he's on mine. It's completely silent.
I give a sigh. "Look everyone. My father is a demon no matter if he's the king or my father, meaning, he still will do things demons do, for example hurt you."
"But?!" Johnny exclaims.
"Which is why I need you to cooperate in what I'm about to tell you to do."
"And that would be?" Erwin asks.
"Stand in a line together, besides Lucas." They all regrettably get up from the beds and stand in a line. I get off mine too and walk up to the person on the end closest to me, Zack. "Now this may hurt a bit..."
"What?" Zack says warily.
"You're too tall bend down as if I'm telling you a secret." He does as told and I vampire bite into the back of his neck.
"Oww!" Zack yells and clasps his neck after I remove myself. His eyes are wide along with the rest of them.
"W-what did you just do?!" Shane yells.
"Why are you doing this?!" Tyler shouts.
"Like I said, to protect you."
"More like drink our blood like a vampire!" Shane shrieks.
"Gross! Do you know how nasty large amounts of blood tastes? Eww! No, I'm not drinking his blood."
"But you have?"
"Well, I can't say I haven't... I went through a phase. Father said it was a normal thing." I shake my head at the painful past. "Anyway, not the point! I'm not drinking his blood!"
"Then what are you doing?" Tyler asks.
"I'm putting a protection spell, a mark, on you that can't be broken unless the demon is stronger than me."
"So your father can't override it?" Erwin asks.
"Didn't I tell you that I'm stronger than my father? No, he can't beat my power."
"Yeah, I think you mentioned that," Johnny says.
"Anyways, who's next?" I say looking at the person next to Zack, which of course was Johnny. "Ready?"
"No," he states and hesitantly lowers his neck to my level. I bite. "Oww!"
I continue down the line and we get through the 'owws' that follow. Then I reach the last person, Tony.
He looks up at me with eyes full of despair.
"It's gonna be over before you know it," I say and give him a smile.
"Okay," he says. He gives a forced smile back and he runs into my arms crying. I hug him back while biting his neck. He cries out and burrows into my neck. We slump to the floor.
"I'm so sorry..." Something comes over me and I sob a little myself. "I'm so so sorry... It's all my fault... Sorry..." I hug him to me closer. "I'm so sorry. I couldn't protect everyone and him..."
Suddenly I feel another person wrap their arms around me. I look to find Tyler crying as well. Then more and more arms wrap around us until everyone joins in.
"I-I'm sorry..." Tyler weeps. "I know you are just trying to protect us from being hurt or scarred for life. It's just so hard!"
I sniffle. "I know..."
"I think it'd be best if we all went to bed now," Lucas says.
"I agree..." I snap my fingers then everyone slumps against me, excluding Lucas.
"What did you do?"
I stand up and levitate everyone into their beds and tuck them all in. I wipe away all the tears on Tony and Tyler's face while trying to wipe all of mine away. My tears don't seem to stop, every time I wipe one away more come. I crawl into my own bed while continuously wiping away the tears.
"I-I... p-put them t-to sleep..."
Suddenly arms are wrapped around me and I'm brought into someone's chest. I look up.
"It's okay. I'm here to take all your worries away..." Lucas says and strokes my hair comfortably. "Let it all go..."
(Lucas...)
Then even more tears threatened to spill themselves, if the tears flowing before weren't already enough. Then before I know it I'm fast asleep.
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