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Of Courts and Courting

Traveling beyond enemy borders is no easy feat no matter who you are. It takes some finesse and knowledge and maybe even a generous amount of luck. And if you're trying not to be found? Doubly tricky! But Hild managed. After all, her love life was on the line.

Since their botched wedding, Hild and Krichevskoy went about life much the same way they did before, only now the tensions between their two clans of demons was focused primarily on a third threat: the monsters and lesser demons who had risen up much earlier than anticipated thanks to Hild's secret meddling. And while that meant Hild and Krichevskoy no longer had to get married, it seemed she had less and less time to even spend time with him out of her own free will. War councils and spell preparations, magic training and scouting missions...really, all she wanted to do was sneak away and spend time with...

Pausing under a tree in the forest lining this border of Krichevskoy's kingdom, the cloaked Hild paused and grinned to herself, swept up in the memory of their last encounter. He'd actually kissed her back, which was more than he'd ever done before. Hands to her cheeks, one of the most powerful demons in the universe squirmed in bashfulness as she recalled the event, oblivious to her surroundings.

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She lifted one hand, curled into a fist, over her heart in an effort to stop its racing. When she spoke, her voice trembled with the effort to remain composed. "H-How do you know...you have forgotten everything. And even if that were true, I still needed there to be not a...a shred of doubt."

Hild shut her eyes against the warring emotions of hope and doubt inside her heart. "The next time we are to be together, I will only have it for love. No other reason."

"No, but I am slowly remembering, and I know the feelings attached to those memories," he said, standing and moving to her side. He reached for her hand. "But I understand. That was unfair to ask of you."

She met his hand halfway, tentatively allowing him to take her hand. "I... I had hoped to...avoid this conversation while you were recovering. It feels like exploiting you in your moment of weakness." She reached up with her free hand to toy with her earring nervously.

"How strange. I usually have no qualms against such things..."

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Krichevskoy huffed. "I would not say I'm completely weak. Even if my memories are fuzzy at best, I should think I have enough sense to not be taken full advantage of," he said, eyebrow raising a fraction.

"But... if you will forgive a amnesiac man his assumptions, I can only assume this change of manner is due to the love you mentioned before."

"Of course it is..." Hild sighed, and suddenly she turned to embrace him, her face pressed against his chest. Her voice was sullen and muffled. "I try so hard not to get swept up by you, but you always manage to pull me along anyway. Why do I always have such an annoying taste in men...?"

Krichevskoy wrapped his arms around her and smiled faintly. "I cannot help but feel the romantic mood has faded somewhat with that statement," he said. His voice became soft. "But... I suppose we will just have to rebuild that again."

Hild lifted her face slowly up towards his, lips parted. "Yes...I suppose we will." Hands pressed against his chest, she could feel his heart beating. Or was that her heart, racing in her ears? Slowly, her eyes drifted closed in silent invitation for him to kiss her.

"Hillllld-samaaaaa!"

With a sudden crash, Mara exploded into the room from the window. Tripping over her own cape, she rolled several feet before finally crunching into a wall, leaving a Mara-shaped imprint.

Edited 2012-12-30 01:40 (UTC)

His lips less than a centimeter away from hers, Krichevskoy's eyes shot open at the sudden interruption, and when it became clear that the interruption was, specifically a person, his eyes lit up a bright white and the air crackled with energy.

He didn't say anything, unless one counted the high-pitched, angry whine escaping from his throat as such.

Hild peeled Mara off the wall and into a sleeper hold, the grind of bones and popping of joints adding to Vyers' wordless frustration. "Ah, Ma-chan~♥" she said through clenched teeth as Mara desperately attempted to tap out. The demon girl was turning all sorts of shades of purple. "You've become so bold, daring to interrupt such a good mood. How shall I punish you this time?"

"Th --ghk-- no...! Not...it! Hild-sama! Dark...!"

Hild dropped Mara to the floor, a snarl on her face. "What? Speak quickly."

Mara, on her hands and knees on the floor, rubbed her throat with a wince. "I-It's the Netherworld...!" She slanted a glance to Krichevskoy, sneering. "This snake's Dark Assembly is in session! I overheard some of the demons at the dimensional gate saying it was about war."

Hild's eyes snapped to Krichevskoy's as Mara continued.

"War with us!"

Krichevskoy's anger slowly began to fade, replaced with an expression of confusion and worry. "What...?" Could they do that without him? "Who... Who authorized that?"

He shook his head. Obviously it was the Dark Assembly, but... Krichevskoy paced back and forth, wracking his brain to try and remember how the Dark Assembly worked. "Senators... Visiting senators... Bribery..." he muttered frantically under his breath, a hand to his head. He stopped. Anyone could put a bill forth. They just had to win over the senators or be stronger than them. He didn't dare ask where they would get an army. From what Hild had told him, there were plenty who would gladly go into battle.

"Whoever it was who proposed that bill must have been waiting for this moment."

As Hild was stunned into silence, Mara took the opportunity to attack. "You were waiting for this moment, you mean!" She shot to her feet, stalking towards Krichevskoy. "All this time, you've been playing around with Hild-sama's pure, maidenly heart, to let down her guard!"

A dark aura emanated from Mara, her red eyes fierce...and filled with unshed tears. "I won't forgive you, snake! You don't know how hard it is to be the one on top, always alone and always with a knife at your throat!" Energy gathered in Mara's hands as she prepared for battle. "I will protect Hild-sama's heart! Prepare to gerk -- !"

Mara suddenly crumpled to the floor, a rather large bump on the back of her head. Hild stood over her, one hand up in a karate chop motion. "Ahhh, shut up, you're so noisy!" She then stepped over the unconscious Mara towards Krichevskoy.

"We'll need to get you back at your castle quickly. If they need to be persuaded by force..." She grinned. "Well, I can be very persuasive."

Krichevskoy rubbed the back of his head with a frustrated growl. "I will 'persuade' them if need be. I doubt that it would help our situation if the party they wish to go to war with was the one to stop the bill. They would only begin to wonder. I think I will be able to bluff my way through any questions they may have." He looked over to the mass of documents on the table. "If we have time I can look over those beforehand. Perhaps I might be able to find some sort of precedent..."

He took to pacing again, growing more and more agitated as time went on. "They must have planned this!" If he could only figure out who "they" were!

"I had thought a common enemy would been enough to stall any coups," Hild sighed, lifting Mara and depositing her on the bed with surprising gentleness. "But it seems my reconnaissance of your senate has been lacking. I apologize for my failure."

She straightened from the bed and took the more relevant papers off the table, pushing them into Krichevskoy's hands. "Read and educate yourself. I have just the thing for transportation."

Holding her hand out, palm down, Hild stood in the center of the room. A dark hole formed under her hand on the floor, stretching wider. After a few seconds, a bladed edge rose, followed by a long shaft, ending in a wide, mechanical apparatus. It almost appeared like a completely mechanical broom.

"Dragon Flame Death Heart," Hild intoned with a smirk. "You'll be getting two passengers today.

Krichevskoy stopped and stared for a moment at the device, but with a quick shake of his head he was refocused. He was beginning to get used to these strange turns of magic from the other demon, it seemed. Fumbling at first, Krichevskoy managed to shove the spare documents into a dimensional pocket, leaving one out for him to start pouring over for the trip.

"How fast will it go?" he asked, also silently noting the lack of seats. This didn't look like it was going to be a very comfortable ride to say the least.

"i am the fastest broom in all of hell, thank you" came the robotic voice of the device. Hild chuckled, patting the broom...though it honestly looked more like a vacuum cleaner.

"Heart-chan has won 8 consecutive broom races in my realm! Worry not, darling. We'll get there faster than you could even read that first page." She hopped on, looking as witchy as one would expect, and waved Krichevskoy over.

"Come on, then~ We have a war to stop!"

Edited 2012-12-30 04:28 (UTC)

"It talks?" Krichevskoy thought to himself, glancing back at the broom a few times more before taking a seat behind Hild and trying to come up with a way to balance on the broom while reading the book he still held in his hand.

"Ah~ You'll have to wrap at least one arm around me, darling," Hild said, leaning flirtatiously back against him and batting her eyes. "I wouldn't want you to fall."

"This demon is male," the broom chimed in.

Hild blinked, looking down at the broom in her hands. "Eh? Yes?"

"I suggest he ride side-saddle to prevent pain to his --"

The rest of the broom's sentence was drowned out by Hild's laughter.

Krichevskoy went an odd combination of pale and red, stammering out a few series of sentences before reluctantly changing his seating and wrapping an arm around Hild's waist. "I am beginning to have my doubts about this," he muttered, holding the book open and burying his face into it.

Hild snickered, but thankfully let the matter drop. Casting a final, affectionate look to Mara on the bed, she kicked off into the air. The broom hummed with power, stirring the air around them. Then they shot out through the open window and out into the sky.

It was more awkward with two people on the broom, but Hild was an expert racer and the broom worked with her as if an extension of her body. The speed was not as fast as she would have liked, and she could sense the broom's desire to go faster, but it was important Krichevskoy get as caught up as he could.

His memories were returning, yes, but he was not fully back to normal. He needed more rest, he needed more time, but their enemies wouldn't hold back any longer. And while she, as always, would give her support, it would ultimately be up to him to douse these flames before they spread.

She smiled as they flew through the sky.

It was a good thing she had so much faith in him.

Unfortunately for Hild, it seemed fate had different plans for their trip.

While Krichevskoy managed to get partially through the book, eventually his grip slipped. The book flew from his hand and smacked him in the head, leaving him hanging upside down from the broom by his legs, unconscious for the majority of the trip.

"Well, here we are, darling...! Your triumphant return to -- ah."

Not only was he hanging upside down, their trip had also been over rivers of lava, through rocky ravines and dark woods. Leaves and soot marred his appearance, as he had quite literally been dragged back home.

Dismissing her broom back to her realm, Hild lifted Krichevskoy and lightly slapped his face a bit. "Ooooi. Krichevskoy? Wake up, darling, it's time for school~"

Krichevskoy groaned and reached up to wave her hand away. "Mother, I do not wish to learn archery..." he murmured, and blearily opened his eyes. Confused, he frowned. That was not his mother, that was Hild.

"Are we there? ...Why does something smell like it's burning?"

For an answer, she licked her thumb and forefinger and pinched the cuff of his sleeve, snuffing out a small flame. "We can't have you arrive like this. You'll hardly command the respect of your assembly! It pains me to be reduced to this, but..."

Hild arranged her arms in a spellcasting pose with a confident smile. "I'll become your fairy godmother tonight!" She then gestured at Krichevskoy, surrounding him in light.

His minor wounds were healed, his hair combed and even more lustrous. His clothes got a make over. For a final touch, she blew him a kiss, adding some of her power to his in order to re-energize him.

Edited 2012-12-30 05:50 (UTC)

Suddenly much more awake, Krichevskoy stood up and looked down at himself. Somehow he got the feeling that his species of demons were unable to use such wonderful magic. "Thank you," he said, the last of his bleariness fading away.

He turned, stared up at the castle, and tried to swallow down his nervousness. He didn't feel prepared, but as long as he could still persuade by force, he hoped everything would be all right. The Overlord was said to be the strongest in the Netherworld, so he should have a fighting chance.

"I should head in. I imagine they will be calling the Assembly to session at any moment." He balled his hands into fists and relaxed them again.

She watched his back in silence. A lithe, elegant looking man, his shoulders did not seem strong enough to bear the weight placed on them. But she knew, more than most, the true meaning of strength.

Krichevskoy was vain, often foolish, and so often delegated to comedic relief, but under all of that, there was the heart of a king and the soul of true nobility. Even without his memories, the essence of who he was still shone through. He was always, and forever, a king.

Hild stepped up behind him, placing her hand on his shoulder to turn him towards her. "I cannot join you, but I will be here waiting for you." Always, hung the unspoken word between them.

She then pressed her lips to his in a passionate kiss, all her love and belief in him infused in the act. After a few seconds, she stepped away and gave him a bright grin.

"Win this one for us, will you? I'd hate for us to go to war~♥"

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