Lyan
As soon as I felt the pressure in my mouth I snapped my head around to where the hand had pressed me and saw a demon towering over me.
" Do you want to have fun?" The demon's voice was soft and low, as if he didn't want to alert anyone nearby.
I looked him in the eyes and recognized him.
I took his hand away from my mouth and murmured.
" Ruan?"
Ruan just smiled and sat on my bed, making the tray fall and spill all my food all over the bed, staining it different colors.
" My food!" I complained, but instead of trying to comfort me, or even look ashamed Ruan just sprawled himself all over my bed, avoiding the spill.
" What are you doing here?" I asked while crossing my arms.
" I just wanted to confirm something"
I raised my eyebrow, asking for an explanation without opening my mouth, while all of the sudden the wall bended inwards with a brutal strength and shards of black marble were sent flying all over the room, hitting all the toys and walls and breaking everything, but despite me been standing in the middle of the room with no protection whatsoever I was left unharmed and stunned in the middle of the disaster as Ashmoder entered through the broken wall and launched at Ruan.
The moment Ashmoder grabbed Ruan he dragged him through the floor while Ruan smiled at me, looking smug. I didn't know what he had wanted when he had suddenly entered my room, but he had seemed to get it.
I watched as my dad grabbed Ruan's red horns and pulled them, walking towards the wall. He sent me one last glance before the wall fixed itself and everything was quiet again.
" Weird" I muttered, but I forgot all about it as soon as I saw the food tray in the middle of the bed, intact. I almost broke down crying. I had food. I was so happy I could jump. I had thought I would have to go hungry, but I wouldn't. I smiled as I approached the bed.
"Dear food here I come"
Getting into bed without sending all the food flying was difficult and it took me over twenty minutes to get it right, but when I finally did and reached the tray I couldn't have felt happier. The food was just the same one as yesterday's dinner, but with an addition. It also had the mysterious green stew from this morning.
I smiled thinking about how dad would've gone to the kitchen and begged the cook to make the stew. It was things like this that made me think he was a good dad.
After eating everything I went to sleep with a smile on my face and a satisfied tummy.
Ruan
Messing with Ashmoder was really fun, and it had gotten way easier since the princess had come. All I needed to do was get close to her and no matter what I was trying to do he would lash out and take my bait. He was jealous as fuck.
I didn't know what he thought I could do to the kid, I wasn't mad enough to go out with a literal child, I saw her more like a little niece, but it was fun seeing his veins bulge and his muscles strain as he held himself back from murdering me in front of the princess, not that he would ever kill me. He needed me.
I was one of the three commanding generals that kept Jinasia working even when he went away to wage war against the humans or the opposing demons. He couldn't kill me without risking everything going down.
Ashmoder dragged me all over the castle, making sure to hit all the bumps so that I'd hurt as much as possible.
He didn't speak to me as he pulled on my horns, which hurt like a bitch if I was been honest, and dragged me to the dungeons, where he would hit me a little bit and then let me go with a warning not to get close to the princess, warning I wouldn't heed.
" My King" From my left the wall parted and Els came out, looking dishelved and tired. I could understand her. Since the King had found his daughter in the desert he had stopped doing all the paperwork, so now we, the three commanders, were the ones in charge of training, making sure everyone got their money and paperwork.
I hadn't slept for a week and Els was even worse off. I could at least slack off during training and run away to take a nap, but Els was in charge of the rookies and they needed constant attention.
Ashmoder turned to look at Els with a murderous expression. At his gaze Els shifted uncomfortably but stood still. We all knew Ashmoder had an awful temper, but he wouldn't kill us, or that was what I was betting on.
" Yes, Els?" Ashmoder asked in his sweetest voice, the one that I had only ever heard him use when he was going to gut an enemy or when he was with his daughter.
The moment his daughter was mentioned his gaze would shift and his voice would get sweeter. He clearly liked her. He had spent all the night yesterday telling me how great his daughter was and how special she was. He was a doting dad.
" You still have to review all these documents" Els's arms were filled with papers to the brim. All paperwork that Ashmoder had pushed back since the princess was found and pushed into us, but there was some paperwork that needed his seal and personal approval.
Those were the documents that Els was holding in her hands right now. If he had to do all the paperwork we did he would be dead. Come to think of it he had always managed all the paperwork before the princess had come. I gained a new appreciation of Ashmoder's work. I had no fucking idea how he had managed to review all those documents, sleep, train and still talk to us. He wasn't the demon King for nothing, he was a fucking monster.
Ashmoder looked at the documents on Els's hands with hatred and held onto my horns stronger, which sent shivers down my spine and made an unexpected moan scape from my lips. Ashmoder looked at me weird but instantly refocused his attention back to Els. He always did that. He never looked at me, not that I cared. I was a grown demon, I just wanted him to look at me and akwnoledge me for once.
" Can't you do it?" Ashmoder asked, clearly annoyed.
" No, I can't. I need your personal approval and seal"
Ashmoder sighed so loudly that he must've waken up all the demons living in that sector and shifted his attention between the documents and me for a few times before he sighed again and let go of my horns.
He dropped to the ground and crouched near me, placing his mouth just a few inches away from my ear, with no contact, but close enough that I could feel him breath.
" Don't you dare approach my daughter" He whispered.
I never wanted his daughter. I just thought she was a cute baby and wanted his attention, and the princess was the best way to get it. I wouldn't be stopping any time soon, but intead of saying that, which would just end one way, with me in the dungeon, I just nodded.
" Here are the documents. Good luck" Els dropped all the documents to the floor in front of Ashmoder and left with a smile on her lips as I heard her whisper I'll finally sleep.
Ashmoder begrudgingly took the documents from the floor and walked up to his study, where Els had been trapped all day reviewing documents and where Ashmoder had been just a few minutes ago before he had sensed me on his daughter's room and had come running like a man possessed.
Once the door closed behind Ashmoder I got back up and silently returned to the princess's room, where I opened the wall with demonic power.
The princess stirred on her bed as soon as I entered, she had good instincts, and moved even more as I got closer to her bed.
When I sat on it and lightly touched her on the shoulder she jolted awake, sending a killer glare my way. I had only a few minutes until Ashmoder would come running looking for my head, so I had to make the best out of those few minutes. Luckily I already had a plan.
" What are you doing here?" The princess crossed her arms over her chest protectively, as if I could see under her nightgown, which I could but had no interest in doing.
" Do you want to go outside and have some fun?" I cut down the pleasantries. There was no time for them. Ashmoder would come pounding on the door any second now and by when he did I had to be far away with the princess.
That way he'd have to come look for me. He would only do it because I had the princess, but still a victory was still a victory.
The princess hesitated for a few seconds before she extended her pale hand my way. I grabbed it as lightly as I could, humans were weaklings, and cast my power around myself, shrouding us both in it.
One second we were in the castle and the next one we were outside, in a corner of my favorite strip club in the middle of the city. A strip club with protections so strong that even Ashmoder would have a hard time tracking us down unless he was literally a few feet away from us.
As soon as the room came into view I could see a few male strippers on the poles, moving and shaking their bodies in provocative ways. My mouth started watering just seeing them and my body reacted. I wanted to get a room with one of them.
I looked to my right and saw the princess. I had her, I couldn't go into the room. I pouted and looked at her, her red hair shining under the chandelier and her green eyes closed as hard as she could, her hands over her red, burning face.
" Don't you like what you see? Do you swing the other way? If you do, I won't judge" I smiled even though I knew she couldn't see me.
Her face got even more red and she did a little embarrassed sound, moving away from me.
This wasn't what I had planned, my plan was to let her have some fun while I waited for Ashmoder to came find us, but it wasn't so bad. Teasing her was definitely fun.
" Or maybe you're into older guys" I whispered into her ear.
" I don't like any of your kind!" The princess all but shouted.
All the demons that hadn't been looking at us already turned to stare, but as soon as their eyes met mine they looked away, suddenly very interested in their drinks. Being the second in command had it's perks after all.
" That's such a pity" I whispered again after glaring at a few patrons " because I like yours"
The princess opened her eyes for a second to glare at me and then ran away from me, hiding her face behind her hands.
As soon as I processed what had happened I ran after her. My plan needed her to make sense.
I ran through the whole club but didn't feel her power, which was weird, the protections only worked outside, not inside, and her power was very distinctive, it was just like Ashmoder's. That was probably the reason why everyone had accepted her as the princess so easily.
When I did a few laps and still couldn't feel her I began to panic. Where could an ignorant girl could've gone to?
I asked everyone in the club if they had seen her, but all of the demons I asked just said no and went back to doing their own stuff while they looked at me from the corner of their eyes.
Fuck!! I pulled on my hair as I stepped outside, trying to feel her power. If I didn't find her before Ashmoder did, or if she got hurt I was fucked, and not in the mild way I liked. I was fucked in the I was dead kind of way.
" Princess, this isn't fun!" I ran while I screamed all over the city, searching for the only person that could avoid my execution.
Teasing her hadn't been my greatest idea ever. Lesson learned. I just hoped I could find her unharmed in time.