Serrated Love's Deceit

Bonus Chapter 2: Battle Royale

I roll my eyes. "If she doesn't want to go home right now she doesn't have to she's an adult, you don't own her." I say.

"Actually, I do own her and the guards around me. My family is one of the families that owns this planet. You are an extraterrestrial that has trespassed on my turf. You need to really be careful how you talk to me. Her parents sold her to my family when they couldn't pay extra fees for renting the farm land we stole from them. Is it really stealing if they don't read the fine print?" He asks and chuckles.

I jump up and stumble back to the dance floor. I do not have time for their drama. I have enough personal drama to fill infinities. "How dare you walk away from me and not apologize for your rude comment? If you don't know how to bow down to me, you can get out of this bar! Guard kick her out!" He yells.

A pair of muscular arms with dragon ink all over them, wraps themselves around my waist and lifts me in the air. He walks me outside and slams me onto sandy gravel outside the bar. I stumble to my feet and barely stand up right. "I'll get all of you back. This isn't over! Once I'm not drunk anymore you all will rue the day you treated me like this." I say and fall back to the ground. I call my wardrobe, crawl inside of it, and slam the door behind me.
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I have one of my phantoms stalk their group. Especially the guard that threw me on to the gravel. I sit on my throne and smile as one of my phantoms tells me where the guard is now. "So, he's going to the mating arena. I guess I have to visit that place again for some fun." I say and walk through a brown portal door that leads to that arena.

I enter the mating games but I am not looking for a mate this time. I change my clothes into a silvery white cloak with a short dark romper underneath. I keep my hood on and watch him enter the ring. I bang the bars surrounding the ring. "Oh, Ash sees someone she likes? She wants to wrestle him? If he loses he's not a love interest and if he wins mating is possible. Typically Ash goes for stronger suitors, maybe it's something she likes about this buff reptilianoid guy." The announcer says. I smile and whip my hood off as soon as I get in the ring.

The bell rings and I let him run at me. At the last minute, I dodge his tackle and jump on his back. I pull a whip out of my artillery belt and wrap it around his neck. He falls backward and I jump off of him before he lands. I jump in the air above the ring and I whip the whip around twice. An  electric field surrounds us now. I pull out a dagger and drag it down his back. He howls. I stretch out my phantom arms and turn them into spiked plant vines that hold his limbs to the ring floor. I pull my dagger out once more and use the thick handle bottom to beat him in the head until he goes unconscious.

The bell rings and my first husband floats down to the ring. "Ash, we need to talk... Whoever is coordinating these games know that if you let my wife participate in mating games again, I will destroy this dome and this whole dimension. She is married! She doesn't need to participate in mating games!" My husband yells.

A tiger shift-er that I was romantically involved with a long time ago in another lifetime came up to us on the ring. "Ishi- I mean Ash. Why are you and your husband making a ruckus in my ring?" He asks me. I look at the floor and my husband digs his hand into the tiger shift-er's chest and pulls the dagger off of my hip and slits his throat. "Ash and her husband are now forever banned from the mating ring games." The announcer says. I roll my eyes and call my wardrobe.

My husband slams the door shut behind us. "The reptilianoids want you off the battlefield. You can't go to their turf." He says while following closely behind me. "I'm standing up for myself they threatened and attacked me first. I was partying at a bar and this reptilianoid couple pulls me into their relationship drama. Then they had the audacity to kick me out of the bar. The lady's husband had that brawny guard throw me onto gravel. It scratched my knees and elbows! What about me and my pain? I deserve to get them back." I say.

"I'm getting too many complaints about it from them. I will handle them. Me and my team are fighting against them right now. If you have any unresolved issues with them, you tell me. I'm your husband. It's my job to protect you and our family. When others see you they see an extension of me and vice versa. If we were fighting enemies anywhere and nowhere was off-limits, what precedent would that set? I want my future daughters to not be warriors used to battle but be happy wives that don't have to worry about that. After Cynthia has passed on... I realized the only way to have more docile daughters is to make an environment for their mother to be docile in. Children follow examples not words. I want to do it right this time."
I roll my eyes and sigh.

"I will try to be more docile after I get this couple back."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"I'm going with you."

"I don't have their exact location right now."

I smile up at him. He lifts me into his arms and sits us in one of the thrones. He kisses my forehead. Then he rubs my back.
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After one of my phantoms find the  couple of interest. I lace my cursed blade dagger with my blood. I make copies of the cursed blade and give it to all of my green phantoms. If I can't be on the battlefield directly, I will do it indirectly.

I give them the order to stab every greedy reptilanoid and their zombie drones, that are no longer human, they encounter. I make a new phantom and tie his being off separately from my green goo that he has been formed from. I attach a void soul to the body and collect many rogue voids wandering out in many galaxies through portals. I collect them in the phantom I created to harness their power. The phantom creates a realm in his belly surrounded by the voids we collect. Every reptilianoid that is stabbed and all of their zombie followers accompany them in that dimension.

If they succeed with getting out of the dimension the voids will rip them apart and spit them in  different parts of their energy into the other galaxies the voids come from. I equip the original dagger and go to the motel the annoying couple are staying in. I give the worker at the counter many gold coins to let me "clean" their motel room in my fake maid clothes. The worker gives me a copy of the room's key. I leave the cart outside near the next room. I enter the room. I close the door behind me. Then I hide under the master bed. They come back inside with their pool garb on. Once they relax on the master bed, I pull myself from underneath the bed and point the blade at them. I tell one of my phantoms to bring my husband to the motel. I release my thorny vines and it ties them to the bed.

"You two thought I wouldn't come back? You told my husband that I'm the problem when you two tried to bully me? Wow!" I say and laugh.
"You're unhinged! When we get free, I will tell your husband. He needs to keep you away from everyone." He yells.

I laugh and when my husband portals in. I jump on the rude man and place the cursed dagger to his throat. "I deserve an apology, don't you think?" I ask. He chuckles. My husband pulls me off of him. "Ash stop. Everyone antagonizing my wife needs to stop too or I will have to take further action." My husband says.

"Your wife wants my husband to say sorry for nothing. He didn't do anything that requires him to apologize." The ditzy lady says. I narrow my eyes at her and tighten the thorn vines around their wrists and and ankles. "You and your wife are pathetic. We will defeat all of you. Do you know who my family is?" He asks.

I put the cursed dagger behind my back and created another thorny vine with my phantom arm. It grabs the handle of the dagger and slithers along the floor until it reaches the bed. It slides the dagger deeply and swiftly across their throats. The red blood sprays our faces. "Ash... You truly are my wife. I see what I have made you become and I will protect you better so that you will not think you must take these matters in your hands anymore. I don't want our future daughters to become like this. Ash, we have to improve and be better individuals for our children." My husband says and water wells up on his lower lids. His glum look saddens me. My husband is right we need to be better individuals for our children.