Hell’s Consort

Newest Chapter for Highest Tier (October 2021)

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Archdemon Empress Luna

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Sylvain's loud voice rattled everyone in the Council, "What is  that by the window?" 

All of their heads turned towards the direction Sylvain's finger had pointed.

He had gestured at the far horizon just above their line of sight from where they stood at the Council Room.

The Council Room was placed at such a high elevation in the Summer Palace.

The lovely quilt of red, orange, gold, and brown sweeping through the Fall Courts had abruptly turned upside down when everyone's eyes rested on it.

Earlier, these towering trees had blossomed like flame foliage as they raised their branches like hands reaching towards the clear blue skies.

In the blink of an eye, everything had shifted. The vibrant colors of Autumn were replaced by the black heavens.

At first glance, Luna didn't understand what Sylvain was talking about because she couldn't see anything.

Her furrowed brows had raised to her hairline in shock when she finally saw it after focusing hard and using her Archdemon sight.

Apollyon's hand clasped her hips tightly, but his strength didn't reach the point where he would break her.

Luna's fingers rested on Apollyon's stiff abdominal muscles, slowly clutching the soft woolen fabric of his borrowed clothes in dread as if they had this agreement to hold on to each other.

Luna felt paranoia ate at the corners of her mind when she didn't realize that these flying creatures obscured by clouds were monsters the first time she had set her eyes on them. What was happening to her?

And what about the others?

Did they quickly recognize their true forms too?

How about Apollyon?

His husband appeared stunned as he stared at the horizon.

Luna was about to ask if they had seen the same thing, but she got startled when Apollyon turned his head towards her without saying anything.

He must have heard her in their mind link, but he didn't attempt to discuss this in their thoughts.

His Prussian Blue eyes boring into her were hopeful as if she held the answers that everyone couldn't solve at that moment.

Well, it was unfortunate that she was as clueless as anyone else.

Streaks of bold lightning came out of nowhere which lit the charcoal sky in a wispy silver, followed by a crack of thunder.

Luna swore she had seen a winged serpent with golden feathers, an extended body, and a scorpion-ic tail,  emerging and returning from the thick, dark clouds as it moved like a gigantic wave.

At the same time, harpy eagles with wings made of fire and an extra head and beak on their abdomen surrounded it.

The lightning seemed to flash from the eagles' beaks which illuminated the winged serpent's path in the darkness, and the rolling of thunder came from its fiery wings. 

From out-of-nowhere, she heard ringing in her ears before her vision of her surroundings faded into black. It unsettled her, making her feel blind, but she chose to calm down and relax.

She knew she was protected because she could still feel the singe of energy between her and her husband.

Luna unconsciously fell into a hypnotic trance as she stood there in a daze, completely ignoring what was happening in the present.

Her soul seemed to be catapulted out of her body without actually leaving it as her mind traveled beyond the barriers of the Fall Courts.

It gave her a clear look at their enemies.

She could see the rest of the demons trailing behind these colossal monsters in her mind's eye as if she was having a daydream.

"Wife. I can't feel the mind link anymore." Apollyon's husky voice whispering in her ear sent a hot bolt of awareness in the present, and it distracted her. 

"Apollyon, wait. I can see the enemies clearly." Luna murmured as she shut her eyelids tight so that she wouldn't get lost while the demons hadn't detected her presence yet.

The demons had empty eye sockets, and their heads appeared to be a hybrid skeleton of a deformed wolf and a salamander.

Their red scales were full of boils and sores, aiming to bring fatal diseases in the Fae Realm to increase Death's reap.

Famine followed disease in its wake, and then, as the different Realms collide, the war would come after it.

Of course, Luna knew.

Luna was relieved that these demons couldn't enter the Fall Courts quite yet.

These evil monsters hovered within half a mile from the peak of the tallest structure in the Fall Courts, the Summer Palace, because of the barriers and sentries in place created by Queen Morgan, protecting the entire Kingdom from sinister invaders. 

Well, the Faerie Realm might think they were just a bunch of monsters with reversed feet, but they were demons.

Luxen's demonic legion had arrived in the Autumn Courts.

Luna floated with the rest of these demons as she advanced closer to the winged serpent to observe.

"Describe them for us, Empress." Luna heard Queen Morgan say.

Luna opened her mouth to describe these monsters in detail, but no words came out.

She pursed her lips and confessed, "I can't.  I can't seem to bring the words out of my mouth but I see them." She grimaced when she tried again and failed. "Something is preventing me from telling you in this instant."

"Don't force yourself to tell us, Empress." Jora said urgently. "Stay calm and tell us after you spy on the enemies and return here." 

"Wife." Apollyon growled. "Whatever you are doing, you have to stop." 

"The Empress had unlocked her ability to soul travel and this isn't the first time she had done this."  Klotho informed her husband. "She got her abilities under control even if it was so sudden."

  This was also the reason that this experience thrilled Luna. It was true that she had done this before but not while she was wide awake. She was either dreaming or unlocking someone's memories.

"You have to trust  your mate, Vampire King." Lachesis seconded.

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