Chapter 75: The Primordial Eidolon (1) [Bonus}

Tyler looked at her with a gentle smile. "I think that’s a discussion we need to have with everyone. I’d tell you tomorrow if you wanted that, but this whole vampiric prince thing is real. What do you think?"

"I think we should bring Nyx in now before we go one more round before sleep." She grinned.

"Sure, what about Amanda and Kass, though?"

"Hm. Fair. We don’t keep secrets. I’ll text them and go have a ladies meeting if that’s ok with you?"

"Well I kind of want to be there too... I mean this is all of our lives we’re talking about."

"Ok. That’s completely understandable babe. As much as I don’t really agree with you hearing about our wedding preparations, you should at least know the date and if it’s acceptable with the vampiric royalty. I’ll meet you half way. I think we should be able to plan the wedding as a group of ladies with our families and fill you in along the way."

Tyler thought about it for a moment. He wanted to be there with them, every step of the way, but he wasn’t from this world. He didn’t understand the cultures of marriage and he remembered his feelings when he found out men had multiple wives. This should be something they could do if that’s what they wanted.

He smiled. "Of course. Thank you for working it out with me. I love that we don’t fight or argue and are able to talk things out and not have big misunderstandings."

"I love you Tyler. Thank you!" Sophie said excitedly, grabbing her phone and texting the ladies group chat.

"Love you too babe!" He said while his familiars were congratulating him.

"Wedding planning in 10 minutes. Tyler gets to know the date and we need Nyx’s opinion on everything as he would become a prince, correct?"

"..." Amanda was typing.

"..." Kass same.

"Yes, he would become a prince. Why is Tyler going to be there, though?" - Nyxara.

"Because we met halfway. He wanted to help us plan but I told him this should be our thing and he agreed, so I said he could know the date and we had to find out more from you first anyway."

"Why is Tyler going to be there? Shouldn’t it just be us? Oh, sorry. Just saw Nyx’s text. Aw, he’s sweet!" -Kass

"I honestly don’t care because my family won’t show up anyway. When I told them they didn’t even believe me, so whatever. Glad you two worked it out. This prince thing is interesting." - Amanda.

Tyler sat calmly listening to the clicks of her cell phone, wishing he had someone to tell or talk to other than his familiars, who already congratulated him and knew it was going to happen. He’d like to also meet with Bahamut and Asura, but every time that happened, some strange blessing occurred and he wasn’t so sure he wanted another one of those right now.

’Wonder how soon. July? That’d be nice. Maybe October?’ He thought while patiently tapping his foot.

Sophie giggled. "You ran your hand through your hair. Relax babe. It’s customary for the females to arrange the marriage when there is more than one bride. Did your parents not tell you about that?"

"Your intuition...I swear it blows my mind every time. No, they always assumed I’d just have one wife, where we would both be involved in the planning."

"Aw, yet here you are, standing before me as my future husband when I also thought I’d be marrying someone all to myself. Funny how life works out sometimes isn’t it? I guess your lame joke really landed. You did run into me for a reason." She smiled. She wasn’t being rude about the lame joke, rather playful.

The things she once believed were not possible about him were a distant memory. She found out the truth when he met her parents and it would make sense he didn’t understand the other traditions.

*****

Kass, Nyx and Amanda all sat in their cute pajamas on the couch together anxiously awaiting for Tyler and Sophie to come out.

"Well you two obviously didn’t just have a ton of sex," Nyx chuckled.

"Hot damn Sophie you smell like sex too! I want some now." Kass joked. "Teasing, my head is still spinning from last night in all the right ways."

"You both are silly. So what’s up mister. What’s with the sudden "let’s have a wedding date?"

"I need to ensure that in the event I pass away, all of you are taken care of. It’s that simple. I love you all it’s going to happen anyway and if I’m being honest it seems like this Apocalypse is going to happen so I’d rather have a happy wedding than a shotgun one."

"Well, I am willing to make you my prince next month. It is customary to have a formal wedding for the princess of the Atwood throne in the first month of the year. That way, the people have the entire year to accept the new prince and get to know him and what he’s about. If that’s too soon for all of you, we will have to wait for next year."

"Fine with me." Kass shrugged. "Does it really matter at this point? We all know it’s a done deal. Whitmore, Rask, he’s taking care of us. Now get out of here Tyler!"

Sophie laughed. "So what’s our order Nyxara?"

"I think it should be the order you met him. I think that’s the most romantic way to do it."

"That wouldn’t be an issue with your kingdom?"

"No, not at all. They’d have to accept you all as nobles and eventual royal council members. It’d be good for you to get to know my family on a deeper level."

"Wait, this all happens at once?!" Tyler exclaimed. "This can’t be real...we don’t get our day?!"

"Yes we get our own day, silly. The same day. We’re all your equal partners, remember?" Sophie said while grabbing his hand.

"Nyxara, it’s late, but what’s the process for you?"

"I just have to tell my Uncle I’m getting married and everything will be taken care of for us. Your families are all welcomed, our dresses will be created and each of us walks down the aisle with someone to represent us. It will likely be on the 21st day, as I turn 21 on the 31st."

"What if you were over 30?!" Amanda gasped.

Nyx laughed. "Doesn’t work that way. I’d have an arranged marriage no later than 29. Who will represent you Amanda?"

"So plan on January 21st?" Tyler smiled. "I like that. Are you ok Amanda? I love you sweetheart."

She smiled then frowned. She didn’t have an answer. She hated that her family had exactly zero percent chance of coming to her wedding day. Even as a noble.

"I will be the one to escort Amanda."

"Woah." Amanda gasped.

"No way." Kass covered her mouth.

"Is it really him?!" Nyx asked with a giant smile.

"Wow Ash. Why the hell don’t you ever use this form?!" Tyler admired his favorite and first familiar.

"I told you, it’s uncomfortable. I’m an old man!"