BXBX NOVEL Chapter 59 59 - Blood
Beside her, a young blacksmith was swinging a green spear. It pierced the heads of any demons that tried to approach her beloved.
'I've seen them both around here before, so she was the princess...'
Nyx recognized that couple easily. Once, they sat in Mama Holga's tavern and talked for several hours. On that occasion, the princess' beauty was already striking, but her clothes were completely different from now.
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Shaking her head, Nyx reminded herself that she needed to have focus.
'I hope you two are lucky, may your love protect you from the evil I have created.
Moving forward with speed, Nyx was approaching the smoke origin that was flying up into the heavens. Around the pillar of black smoke that flew into the sky was a crater of fire that spewed a black goo outwards. That black goo was forming the lower demons, each time a greater number of those creatures appeared.
Nyx heard a cry of pain, again, a familiar voice. The girl activated her wings and flew as fast as she could, flying between the houses and across the streets. Quickly, she found something she wished she had never seen.
Lux was leaning against a wall. She was spitting blood, her eyes seemed to be almost colorless already, the elf was near the end of her life.
The succubus knelt down near the elf, there were no lesser demons around anymore.
"Y-you are here Nyx... T-the princess was so beautiful... I really wanted to be like her" The elf's voice was weak now, her blood was flowing through her mouth.
There was a complete hole in the elf's belly, a lower demon had pierced it completely from one side to the other. The girl's internal organs were leaking out. With tears on her face, Lux gave a smile as she looked at her friend.
Extending her arm, the elf removed the cap that covered her friend's head.
"I-I always knew that you had a little secret" she said, smiling. The girl's teeth were covered with blood. Tears streamed down Nyx's eyes, she wasn't going to let that happen.
Taking a deep breath, the succubus brought her own arm close to her mouth. Biting down as hard as she could, she pierced her own flesh with her teeth. Nyx's demonic blood began to flow out, running down her hands.
Laying the elf down, the succubus then poured some of her blood into the wounds and into her friend's mouth. Nyx's demon blood was burning the elf's skin, a small gray smoke rising with each drop that fell inside the girl's body. Nyx put her hand over the elf's mouth.
"Swallow" she said.
With difficulty, Lux's throat moved. Nyx's burning blood ran down her throat, and suddenly, the elf's body began to burn. The girl's eyes were glowing a purple color, as her wounds gradually healed. Two horns appeared on top of the girl's head. The horns were the same as Nyx's. To save their friend's life, the two girls made a pact.
A gigantic amount of demonic energy surged with that. Attracting the lower demons nearby. Lux's eyes returned to their normal color, and looking at her friend with a visibly confused face, she asked what was happening.
"I-I am healed?"
"I'm sorry, I couldn't let you die. Activate your wings and fly away from here. I need to handle this myself," Nyx ordered with a smile. The two exchanged glances, until the elf nodded. Lux materialized two wings and flew out of there, the feeling of mastering those wings was almost instinctive.
Lux flew towards the forest that was at the beginning of the village. With ease, she reached that place safely. Mama Holga was waiting with some of the girls from the tavern.
"What happened to you?" Mama Holga replied.
"I don't know... I was about to die, but Nyx gave me some of her blood and I was healed in moments"
"So that girl was a demon..." Holga's face was confused, it was the first time in decades that she had lost her smile. That woman's face was apprehensive and worried, like the times when she explored through dungeons. Pulling out a piece of cloth, she hid Lux's head and horns.
"Now you'll need to live like Nyx, we can't let the rest of the villagers see you like this. Those horns were your salvation, but now you are cursed with the trouble they bring" Holga's voice was strangely serious.
The girls in Mama's tavern were not afraid of Lux. They all just kept coming closer, some crying, some afraid. And as a group, they hugged each other like a family.
Maria, the youngest of them all, asked in a voice trembling with fear and sadness, "will we ever love to see Sister Nyx again?"
All the girls began to cry, as did Mama Holga herself. A hand appeared on top of that child's head, it was the hand of Helenna, her blood sister.
"We still have to look for our other friends, they are still somewhere. We just have to wait, someday fate will bring us together again.
The worst part of this whole story was that this family would have accepted with fondness the real identity and history of Nyx, but this was now just useless information lost to time. The village of Crystaldrift was rebuilt, and the whole story was forgotten.
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A crack of fire appeared below Nyx's feet. The black goo that came out took on a humanoid form of a body that looked like an orc with horns.
"Rhok'tharaz... Why did you come here?"
"You know the answer, girl, we all know the answer! Your father sent me here.
"I'm not one of you"
"You can't hide your essence forever.
Taking a deep breath, Nyx just nodded.
"I can go with you, but get your army out of here"
"Hahaha! You have weakened, queen of darkness"
After the events of that day, Nyx never returned to Crystaldrif. It took the girl 374 days before she was able to escape again from the lower world to the human realm.
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