Until death?

by Andur

  “I understand. Though I still would have liked to know the motivation behind everything.” I give her a wry smile.

  “Everything in due time will be known.” She pats my head while she dissolves into light.

  Nicosar sighs and gives us a sad look. “She is a fine woman for sure. It's a shame that I am too young for her. I never would have imagined to being told something like that in my age.” He presses out a tear from his left eye. Then he walks off into the direction of two bunny girls which seem familiar to me.

  “Did the geezer just cry?” Celes asks me with a shocked voice while pinching her own cheek.

  “I honestly don't get him.” I don't want to know what's going on inside Nicosar's brain. I turn away to stuff myself with some nice food from the buffet.

  “Don't eat too much, I have a little present for you later” -Celes

  After another hour, the party comes to an end and everyone leaves. Saying our goodbye didn't take that long at least. When the last of our friends left, Celes took me by the hand and led me to her room.

  “Ehm, Celes? What do we need from your room?” I ask while she opens the door and pushes me inside. Now I realize that we sneaked off, while our parents were still talking to their friends... isn't that a little unfriendly?

  Now that I get a closer look at Celes's private room, I realize that it is quite spacious. There is a big bed, a couch with a table and multiple chairs and a writing table. It still doesn't feel cramped.

  Celes pulls me to the couch and pushes me onto it. “Wait here, I will get the present!” She runs off into her bathroom. Oh.... now I understand........ the wedding night. I am sure she has such an item on her list. Whoa! Now I remember! There is such an event! I saw it a few years ago on her list!

  So she will come back in some kind of negligee to turn me on and twist my head? Not with me! It's time to teleport out of... hmmm... chocolate? I become aware of a box filled with chocolate on the table.

  Before I know it, I grabbed a piece and ate it. Hmmmmmmm. Delicious! It tastes so familiar. Exactly like the chocolate I always got from.... ah …. no. No! This memory! It has to be wrong! But it's the same taste! I take another piece. And another one!

  It's the same chocolate I got from her back then in that other life! It's handmade and it's the best! Mmmm! I take a fourth piece to savour the taste.

  Suddenly a shiver rushes down my spine and I feel something getting very stiff. Ahhh.... what's wrong with me? I pride myself in having complete control over my instincts. I try to get control over my erection, but nothing works.

  I even imagine Nicosar naked on the bed. It doesn't work Fuuuck! What's going on?

  “Haha. It seems the mouse took the cheese.” Celes leaves the bathroom, wearing a really dangerous outfit! More like she is wearing almost nothing.

  She is just wearing a red lingerie, which matches her hair. It almost shows the really interesting parts of her body, but also hides them at the same time.

  Brainfreeze! Again damn it!

  “Cheese?” I look at the next piece of chocolate in my hand and drop it, as I make the connection! “You poisoned me!”

  “I would never poison my husband.” She walks over to me while shaking her hips in an arousing way. “I just made this chocolate for this special occasion. You see, it's a little pepped up with a really strong aphrodisiac.” She whispers into my ear.

  My eyes wander over her body, while another shiver shakes me. She is a genuine witch after all! “Then why does it start to hurt down there?” I can barely control myself and my voice shivers a little.

  “I already told you that it's really strong. I asked Tanja for something that would turn the coldest guy into a wild beast.” She sits down on my lap and traces her finger over my chest, which sends another shiver through my body. “She said that this is used to interrogate prisoners. It's possible to go insane if you aren't able to release yourself somehow.”

  Hoh, so she really intends to go all the way? I look at my hand which is trembling slightly. “You do know, that this feels like I could get a heart attack at any moment, right?” I wonder if it just feels like I am sweating? Is this room really this hot?!

  “I know of an easy way to solve the problem.” She takes a piece of chocolate from the table and uses it as lipstick. Then she puts her hands around my head and starts to move in a way which almost drives me mad. “Weren't you the one, who once said that the guys who live their lives as pure perverts are right? Isn't it better to take what you can get for free?” She whispers into my ear again.

  Her tail suddenly touches me in a few places, while she licks over the chocolate on her lips and smiles provokingly at me.

  OooOOO Shit! I can't take this any more! I grab her arms and lock them behind her back. “Ouch!” She lets out a small complaint. “I think you have underestimated the effectiveness of this drug!” I take another piece of chocolate from the table and put it into my mouth. Then I press my lips onto hers and give her a deep kiss to give her a good taste of her own medicine.

  Somehow, everything is spinning while I stand up and throw her onto the bed. “Kyaaa!” And jump onto her.

  46 - The day after..... ?

  ….. Ow! My head hurts! I don't want to wake up. And it's hard to breathe! What's this soft thing in my face? I grab it and push, but something wraps around me.

  “Mmmmm!Mhhmmm!” Somehow I am able fight myself free. But a naked Celes doesn't let go while she is entangled around me. “Body pillow.. don't move....” She is talking in her sleep.

  Hah? How did I get here? Is this Celes's room? A that's right! Yesterday was that had horrible marriage! And then... and then... Damn it! I've been had!

  Ah, though if I remember right the night wasn't bad at all. “Celes let me go. We have to get up.” I twist her earlobe to wake her up.

  “Mh.. don't wanna. Let us sleep for the rest of the day....” She mumbles half asleep. I take a look at the clock. Ugh! It's already 7 pm! Whatever she put into that chocolate, it knocked us out for a whole day!

  I grumble, but then I have a great idea. “Teleport!” We reappear in the air above a certain lake. I brace myself for the impact!

  *SPLASH!*

  “KYAAA! Gurrrgle....”

  Woohoo! Cold! I start swimming as soon as I am freed from my shackles and start laughing. “What was that for!?” Celes glares at me.

  “That was for drugging me.” I glare at Celes. “You want to eat that chocolate again tonight?” She grins at me. “No way in hell! I would rather start buying chocolate by myself!” I hate it to loose control over myself.

  “Good luck with that. You won't have much success with it.” She swims closer and grabs my hand with a triumphant smile.

  “Why?”

  “Because I am the only one in this world who knows how to make that special chocolate.”

  “...”

  I guess this world isn't a chocolate paradise. It's true that I never came across any chocolate until Celes started to give it to me. And apparently everything was handmade.... I wince at the thought.

  “Can you teleport us back into my bathroom. I wouldn't like to get my bed wet.” She smiles at me. I am glad that this water is cold like hell.

  I pull her closer and teleport us back. Though I missed the bathtub. I guess a little water on the floor isn't a problem since the whole room is tiled.

  Celes walks a bit awkward to the basin and takes her ring out of a small box. “Heal!” She immediately casts healing onto herself. “Ahhh.. That feels much better!” Then she throws an accusing look at me. “I thought I wouldn't live through the night. Couldn't you have been a little gentler?”

  “Who drugged me with something that would turn the coldest guy into a wild beast.” I raise an eyebrow and Celes puffs up her cheeks.

  “At least the drug seems to work on girls too. I have to talk to Tanja about this...” I leave Celes to talking to herself and get dressed.

  A few minutes later I am sitting in the kitchen, where I plund
er the leftovers from the buffet. Rose is giving me a dirty smile.

  I choose to ignore it, but a few minutes later Celes joins us and Rose can't hold back her curiosity. “How was the night?”

  “Enslavement!” “Pain!”

  Rose is taken aback but not defeated. “Oh, I heard that the first time can be rough in some cases. But I am sure it will get better if you keep the ball up in the air!”

  She nods and smiles, while she gives another plate of leftovers to Celes. After a few minutes of silent eating, she snatches the fork, which Celes had put down.

  A small stick-like magic-device appears in her hand and she presses it against the fork. “kukuku...” Then she storms outside, while yelling. “The family just got bigger!”

  I almost choke on a small fruit when I hear that and Celes has a predatory grin on her face, while she looks at me.

  “Pregnancy test?” I ask and Celes nods at me. Haah. I give up. It's fate. The door opens and the whole family storms inside to congratulate us.

  Somehow I am a little confused. Why is everyone on cloud nine because of this? This isn't a miracle? That's what happens when you bed a girl without protection!

  But after a little explanation about this worlds crazy biology I understand their happiness. Apparently the royal bloodline isn't blessed with many children. I guess there has to be some kind of drawback for having the benefits of superhuman strength and a greater mana pool.

  Mother and father had tried to get children for at least two years, until my dead siblings were born. When they died, mother had almost given up on a child. It almost never happened in recorded history that a queen would have children twice.

  So mother treated me like a present from heaven when she got me. I guess she wasn't so far off....

  But Celes seems to be a bit down. Apparently she hadn't heard about this particular blood-trait of ours until now.

  “B.. But I wanted to have at least three childreeen...” She starts to cry and hugs me. OMG! What to do? I pat her head and try to console her while Ireth and Katrine look at her with a sympathic expression. “D..Don't worry. It worked for you on the first try. So either you just won the lottery, or your stupid chocolate had a strange side effect.”

  She goes stiff and suddenly starts to laugh. “I AM SO STUPID! This world has such amazing healers. I got overtaken in the believe that they are much better than me. But if I think about it, each of their achievements is accomplished through magic. They have no idea how the body really works at all. There wasn't a basic class like biology too.”

  “I guess it's pretty useless to research scientific biology for every human species on this world. There are hundreds of different bloodlines. Not to mention the mixed breeds.” I talk to myself. Everyone, who started to work in that direction would be dead before he could accomplish anything of value for the world.

  So only finding out why the speed-type muscles of the people with the elf-trait worked, wouldn't be of much interest to anyone else.

  “Angrod, you can build me the equipment to start biology research?” Celes eyes sparkle at me. “Uhm, I guess? If you tell me what you need for biology research? I am a techno-freak, I have almost no clue about medicine and biology besides magical applications?”

  “First I need a really good microscope! Then incubation ovens, temperature baths, centrifuges, spectrophotometres, PCR instrumentation, high resolution imaging devices, electrophoresis systems, micropulser electroporators and something for chromatography would be a good start!” -Celes

  My eyes become rounder and rounder as the list grows. “Could... Could it be you were some kind of doctor in a previous life?”

  Celes takes a proud stance. “Hear me unworthy! Before you stands someone with hundreds degrees in biology, medicine and molecular science.”

  Huh!? Could I be that my wife is actually pretty smart!? I mean, I knew that she IS smart, but she is smarter than I thought? Why did she never tell?

  I get grabbed by the hand. “To your laboratory! Now! I have to explain the devices I need from you. I am sure you wouldn't be able to fulfil my needs otherwise.”

  “Uh!? Sure?” I teleport us and start to listen to Celes's explanation. I am sure that my automatic factory can produce everything she wants to have.

  But I am still a little bothered. It feels more like she is going to start a cloning farm than a research lab. And at the end of the day her personal lab looks like a high danger bio-hazard research lab out of a movie!

  I hope I didn't destroy the world by giving her those toys.

  The next day I am lying in my bed and think about the current situation of my life. If I am honest to myself.... it could be worse? And I am actually a little mad that there is still that affair with Tjenemit looming over us like the sword of Damocles.

  Suddenly the door flies open, Celes storms inside and slams it shut. *Klick* She locked it! I have given up to lock my room long ago. She would take down the whole palace, while kicking the door.

  She hops onto the bed. In her hand is a piece of chocolate. “Eat that!”

  “No? I won't eat suspicious food you are giving me any more?” Last time I almost had a heart attack because of you!

  “It took me the whole day to analyse my body and I found no problem. So the problem must lie at the male side of our bloodline!” She grabs my jaw and forces it open. In terms of strength she is still above me.

  Then she shoves the chocolate into my mouth.

  “Mmm!” She force feeds the stuff to me. “What was that?” I ask as soon as I get some air again. A needle appears in her hand. *Stab* “Ow!”.

  “That was just a little stimulant to get your body to produce some needed pheromones. I took some blood samples from Arthur and Nicosar, so I think that if I get your body to produce the right pheromones everything is okay.” She takes a blood sample.

  “I am not some lab-rat!” -Me

  “But you are the one who gave me the idea! If I find the problem we could have a whole bunch of kids!” She nods at me. “I was a little afraid that you wouldn't be willing to do your duty. You know... hermit and all. But when you did this and that to me, I realized that you didn't loose your touch!”

  “Is that so?” I grab her hand and take the needle and the tube with blood.

  “But I think it's not so bad if you have to do a little work for children. If you put so much effort into it, we will have to take care of a whole football-team.” I kiss her.

  I guess I will take everything while the food is still hot.

  47 - My daily life?

  So much has happened since our marriage. It has been a few months and Celes is hiding herself in her new lab. Though she never forgets to pester me. I myself decided to join the university and earn a degree.

  Although I never visit a course, I already took quite a few tests. It's no problem with my knowledge and status. After I interrogate the teacher about the knowledge they expect from me, I either take the test right away or read the needed book.

  I have the opinion that a king should have the according educational status. Of course I have the education and knowledge anyway. But that's not known to the public.

  Of course I wouldn't care about anyone else's opinion if it would affect only me. But by now I have a family to take care of. Our parents, Celes and the kid! What kind of bad example would I be if it became known that the king of the world didn't even try to visit a university!

  Wouldn't the child get the stupid impression that knowledge isn't important? Anyway, I want to be a good example.