I am going to tell you of a legend of a child, but first I must tell you the fore-story.
This story tells of two races that existed to be sworn enemies, these enemies were the succubi and the grim reapers. The succubi were lust thirsty demons that lured any man with their sexual instincts and killed them in the most gruesome ways you could imagine and worse.
And then there are the grim reapers. The grim reapers were those in the darkness seeking and killing those who have strayed from the path of the light, they are mainly the bane of the succubi's existence. The grim reapers have always been the slayers of these wild and feral creatures of demonic existence, even if they didn't mean harm to anyone. The grim reapers drove the succubi into hiding and in turn made the succubi hate them even more than they already did.
However, there was one succubus that wanted nothing but to live a happy life, her name was Cupid. A calm, gentle woman with deep ocean blue eyes, raven black hair, she had a light tan, and just like the other succubi, black demon wings similar to a bat's, and long, skinny black tail.
Cupid didn't care for killing humans and using them to fulfill her sexual desires, this causes her to question her own existence as a succubus, and despise herself because the other succubi despised her for who she was and her decision of loving instead of killing, tending to make her bottle up her feelings and becoming much more antisocial. She was always different from other succubi. Kind and soft. Don't confuse this kindness for weakness as she could still handle herself in a fight and brutally kill if necessary, she just didn't want to. She had always been a failure to her species and they despised her for it. Specifically, one nasty-looking succubus who she and her hunting crew would bully cupid for being such a "weak sap" she would say. If there was any person she would unleash her killer instincts upon it would be her, If it were up to her, they would just disappear and never return.
She would rather take a stroll through the forest and enjoy life at its greatest instead of raping and killing it.
"It's ok, I should have been paying more attention." the man said with a calm tone.
"Are you a grim reaper?" Cupid asked while shaking immensely. "Yes I am, why do you ask?" The strange man asked slightly more calmly.
"If you're a grim reaper then surely you must know that I'm a succubus, right?" "yes, I know that. By the way, my name is Azael. What's yours"
Cupid just stared at him like he was crazy, but was also slightly surprised at his non-murderous attitude she normally gets from everyone around her. "Um, I'm Cupid, nice to meet you Azael. But I still question why you didn't attack me as soon as you saw me?" Azael looked down in slight sadness.
"I try to look for the good in people even if it's a succubus like you." Cupid was taken aback by his answer, and she began to feel warm inside. All of a sudden it had started to rain and drenched the two.
"We should probably get out of here," Azael stated briefly before he grew a dragon's wings and tail, somewhat like her own, and boosted himself up into the air. The wind from Azael's boost had thrown Cupid back onto the ground and she sat there stunned at his new transformation. "Shall we meet back here tomorrow?" Azael yelled while still hovering in the air. "Yeah, let's do that." Azael gave Cupid one last thumbs up before flying off into the distance.
Cupid got up and walked back to her home, as she got home she was completely oblivious to everyone's stares as she was walking past them.
"What's with her?" one said, "who cares." Replied another as Cupid passed by them totally ignoring their stares of hatred and disgust.
As Cupid got back to her room she dived into her bed and screamed with happiness. "I think I have finally found what true happiness is." Cupid had swiftly fallen asleep eagerly awaiting the next day.
The next morning, Cupid had woken up with a groan and lazily fell out of bed. "Ugh I hate mornings." she had gotten up to do her morning duties of getting ready for the day. Once she was finished she made breakfast and headed out to do whatever it was that the unaverage succubus does. Once she was done headed out into the field where she and Azael first met.
"Azael, are you here?" Cupid called out as she saw a patch of grass that was broken down as if someone were laying in it. "Azael?" she called again and heard a slight noise that she couldn't make out "is that you?" when Cupid got to the broken patch of grass she saw Azael lying down taking a nap. "You lazy bum. somehow I just knew you would be snoozing down here." Cupid bent down poked at his cheek lightly to wake him up. "Wha... where am I?" Azael looked up to see Cupid standing over him. "you're with me silly" "oh, ha, I should have known I would doze off like that. I'm sorry Cupid."
"it's ok, I might have done the same thing." Cupid smiled lightly at Azael. "so, this might come off as rude, but what are you exactly? I saw you spread wings and a tail yesterday which made me want to ask."
"oh no, it's not rude at all. I did kinda spring that on you pretty fast didn't I? Anyway, I am a dragon hybrid. I never knew my mother and father so I guess that makes me the only one. But anyway, I have the many abilities of both a dragon and a grim reaper, and I guarantee there are more abilities that I have yet to discover." Azael kept explaining to Cupid what he was as she listened very closely, she didn't want to miss anything about him. After a lot of explaining the sun had finally begun to set.
"It's getting late. We should probably go before people start wondering where we have gone." Azael stated bluntly. "Yeah, your probably right. It's just that I don't wanna leave you yet." Cupid admitted to Azael, and he was stunned as he felt the same way about her. "I know, I don't wanna leave either, but staying too long could result in search parties, and we don't need anyone finding out our secret, do we?" "I guess you're right, people won't be too happy if they found grim reaper and a succubus together." "you can say that again, but I think it's time for us to part ways for now." as they both got up Cupid felt a little disheartened as she said her goodbyes to Azael and parted ways. "Why do I feel so sad? I know I can just go and see him tomorrow, so what's wrong. Is it because... no, I couldn't feel that way, could I? Cupid tried to decipher her feeling for Azael but always refused the answer, but never pushed it away.
Ever since then Cupid and Azael had been seeing each other every day ever since then and every time she saw him, her feeling grew even stronger until it was finally time.
1 MONTH LATER
Cupid had woken up ready for this day. Today was the day she was gonna admit herself to Azael. It was time to stop running away from her feelings and finally commit. After getting ready for the day as always, she flew as fast as she could to the field they first met in. when she got there, Azael was nowhere to be seen. " Azael? Where are you?" Cupid shouted a few more times but to no avail. "BOO!!!!" "AHHHHHH!!!!" Azael had popped out of nowhere and scared the living daylights out of her. "Hah got you again." "ugh, you are such a pain. I can't stand you sometimes." "you're just mad cause you haven't gotten any sharper to my little stunts." Cupid turned away and gave him the silent treatment for a few minutes as Azael tried to get her to let up. "Fine, two can play that game." Azael fell on the ground and did his damnedest to not look back to see if she had given up. After a few minutes, Cupid finally spoke. " Azael, I need to talk to you about something." Cupid finally said with an off-putting tone. "Yeah, what is it." Azael was scared for a moment since he himself also had something to admit. "Well, we have been seeing each other for quite a while now, and..." Cupid was stopped by Azael. "Actually, let me go first." he wanted to say what he wanted but he was afraid it would ruin what they already had. "Listen, close your eyes." "uhh ok." Cupid was confused but did so anyway. "Now why did." she was interrupted by a kiss on her lips. They stayed like that for what felt like an eternity before Azael broke off. "I. I don't know what to say." she smiled lightly as she started crying tears of joy. "Wait I'm sorry I didn't mean to." Azael was greeted by another kiss but from cupid. "I can't tell you how long I've been dreaming of this moment." Cupid was still crying over her happiness for Azael loving her back. "I wish we could stay like this forever." Cupid set her head in Azael's chest, feeling his heartbeat and how powerful his soul was. It was comforting to her. "Maybe we can stay like this forever," Azael said to her. "What do you mean? We can't go near a house in a village because our clans are enemies." "We don't have to, we could build our own house. In this very field, and it's hidden in the grass so we won't be discovered by anyone." Cupid perked up when she heard Azael's idea and she screamed with joy. "That's a wonderful idea, then we really could stay here together. We could be here where no one would judge us for who we are or what legends say we are supposed to be." Both Cupid and Azael loved the idea of being free to be who they wanted to be. "All right, then it's set. We start constructing tomorrow?" "yeah tomorrow sounds good." they both stood up and embraced one last time before turning in opposite directions. "Tonight will be the final night we sleep in the land in which we used to call home. Soon we will start a new chapter in our lives. A chapter in which we get to write, just you and me. Until tomorrow, my love." they both said in unison as they spread their wing and took flight. They had finally gone to their homeland for the final night they would spend apart.
The next morning they met in the field ready to get to work. It wasn't hard to build and didn't take too long due to their unnatural strength. Once they were finished they went down back to their old houses and grabbed their belongings and moved them into their new home, then they went to a nearby village and bought some household items. Once they got home, they decorated the house to the best of their imagination. The sun had finally set and the two had sat on the top of their newly built house. "Isn't it beautiful, Azael? We now have a home we can live together. We are now a happy little family." "that is true but there is one more thing." Cupid was confused by Azael's words as she wondered what it was he was talking about. "What do you mean, we have everything we need, what more could we have?" cupid waited for an answer from Azael as he turned away slightly. "I want you to close your eyes for a moment." "Okay, they're closed, what now?" "Alright, you can open them." she opened her eyes to see a beautiful gold ring with a tiny green emerald at the top. Azael took her hand and placed the ring on her finger. "This, this is beautiful." she couldn't fathom her excitement for the ring and kissed Azael with great love. "I love you so much Azael, thank you." "I love you too, now let's get inside and go to sleep in our brand new home." the two floated off the roof and into the wooden cabin they made together and went off to bed.
5 MONTH LATER
It was now the winter season and the two lovers were sitting in their home enjoying their lives. Azael went over to the fireplace and lit it with his flame breath. "Azael, do you feel like our love had been a little small?" cupid said as she sat up and leaned on his chest. "Yeah, a little bit. I feel like there is something else that's supposed to be here, but is just missing." cupid could feel his heart pounding as he said that. She liked to feel his demonic heartbeat against his chest. "Well, I think it's time." "Time? Time for what?" Azael pondered on what she meant for a second. "Boy, you really are clueless aren't you? I mean I think it's time for us to take the next step in our lives." Azael was stunned when he finally got the point cupid was making. "Wait, you mean?" "yes, I want a child. Is that wrong?" cupid awaited an answer for her beloved husband as he had an almost disappointed look on his face, at least that's what she thought. "Do you really not like..." cupid was interrupted by a kiss from Azael. "I think that's a wonderful idea. We can have our tiny little family bloom into much more." Azael kissed her once again as they gave each other all of their love that night.
The next morning the cupid had slept in as Azael left the house to go get some groceries. "Ahh, it's good to get some fresh air every now and then. Although it's cold as hell, I don't know how people live with this." Azael released his wings and tail as he flew to the nearest city to get what he needed. When he was within about a half a mile radius he decided to walk so he wouldn't scare anyone. However, unbeknownst to him there was someone from the shadow watching him and following him with every move being silent. Azael pulled out a grocery list and headed to the nearest store. He took about an hour to get what he needed because of a lack of knowledge in the market, but he managed. He found his way to a secluded area in the forest he originally landed in and stretched out his wings and tail for a little bit. "Good to see you're doing well, Demon." azael got up and searched the area for the person who said that and saw a figure hiding up in a tree. "Who are you and why did you follow me?" Azael asked with force as the figure jumped out of the tree and landed behind him. It was a woman, slightly larger than cupid in height and much larger in width but not unattractively large. "What do you want from me, can't you see I have groceries? Oh and also you're really not trying to hide the fact that you're a succubus, are you?" Azael's cocky attitude was starting to piss the broad off. "Don't get cocky, boy I can kill you in an instant!" the succubus summoned two of her minions to her side ready to fight. Azael stood up to the succubi like they were nothing to him. He put his claws to his palm and sliced his skin wide open, using blood magic, he Morphed his blood into a duel ended scythe. A magic barrier had arisen, preventing anyone from entering or exiting. At last for what seconds seemed like hours, the four finally dashed at each other at speeds unseeable to the naked eye. Azael went for the two weaker succubi first and saved the leader for last knowing full well that trying to deal with the leader first would cause problems. With increased speeds, Azael sliced the two minions in half, their bodies had turned into a black abyss and imploded on themselves, leaving the soul behind and nothing else. Finally, the real battle had started as the final succubus made her move. Azael was however too fast for her, she flew at Azael with great speeds but got shot down as Azael smacked her out of the sky, making her Corrine straight into the ground making a crater in her wake. Azael went for the killing blow by diving down into the crater and stabbing the succubus, but the dust from the crater was too thick and he couldn't see where he was. Finally, the succubus had the advantage as she rapidly attacked from the cloud of dust. Azael was thrown on his knees from the massive barrage of attacks he was receiving. Azael got up and spun his scythe creating a mini twister to blow away the dust before the succubus could attack again. At last, Azael was free of blindness and saw the succubus from a mile away, but dashing at him with great speeds. With a great burst of energy, Azael slowed time nearly to a stop giving him just enough time to react. During that time of slowness, he managed to get a critical blow by slicing her in half. The battle was finally over as the succubus flashed dark and her body imploded in on herself leaving her soul behind. Azael collected the souls as the magic barrier lowered itself allowing Azael to leave. He got his groceries from the tree branch he set them on and left back to the house. Azael walked in the door to find a very angry cupid. "Where were you!" cupid screamed. "I'm sorry I had to go get some groceries we emptied out the fridge a lot faster than I thought," Azael replied as cupid finally calmed down as it was a valid answer because of the grocery bags in his hands. "Well." she sighed "couldn't you at least waited for me to wake up before you left?" cupid asked. "I could've but you look so peaceful So I didn't disturb you. Azael said. Cupid couldn't stay mad at him because of his sweetness. "You're so thoughtful it's dangerous." cupid smiled and hugged him when she felt something warm and wet on his clothes "Eww what is that on your clothes." cupid took off her shirt as whatever was in Azael was now on her. Azael was confused as to what was on him that he didn't notice so he also took his shirt off revealing cuts and scrapes all over his body. "Oh my god! What happened to you?" cupid freaked out about Azael being injured. "Let's just say I ran into one of your friends while I was out." Azael said rather mundanely. "Oh no, they found you? Did you?..." cupid interrupted herself. "She wasn't gonna walk away with both of us still alive." Azael said. "I'm sorry." That was all cupid could say when she started crying. "Woah, what's wrong?" azael was struck and cupid started crying out of nowhere. "I'm sorry, you're getting hurt because of my people and our history. Sometimes I wonder how and why we fight." cupid cried out. "God, you're right. How did this even start." Azael said while getting out the bandages. "here, let me bandage you up." cupid offered as he agreed. Cupid started bandaging him up and putting medicines all over his body to help him heal. After a few minutes he was fully bandaged up and cupid was lying down on top of him listening to his heartbeat like she has done many times before.
After a few days, cupid and azael started to camouflage the house in falling snow to hide them from passing enemies they didn't want to encounter. And then they went to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. "Azael, we want a child, but we haven't even thought of a name yet. Cupid pointed out as she was sipping her hot cocoa.
"It's true, we haven't even given our child a name yet. What are we doing with ourselves?" Azael said jokingly. "So what should our kid's name be?"
They both sat there for a while with no good names coming off the top of their heads. "How about Soren, Soren the Dragon Hybrid. Soren is a name that stands for freedom, and I want him or her to have nothing stand in their way, or at least that's what I want it to mean." Azael said.
"My god, that's such a beautiful name, and he has both of us inside their body and heart, so they truly will be a hybrid." cupid started crying with tears of joy when she heard that name.
NEARLY 9 MONTHS LATER - SEPTEMBER, THE NEXT YEAR
The day had finally come, the day that baby Soren was born. After the delivery had happened, the two held their beautiful child wrapped in a blue blanket. The baby turned out to be a boy, and now with the new member, they were finally a family. Azael walked into the house and set groceries onto the table and walked over to cupid who was holding a sleeping Soren and kissed him on the forehead and kissed cupid on the lips.
"He is a beautiful child isn't he?" Azael took Soren from Cupid. "Yes, and he is our beautiful baby that we created together." cupid said as he hugged and kissed azael. "Cupid," Azael called. "Yes, what is it?" cupid replied.
Azael stared at Soren while he was sleeping. "It's time," he said. Cupid was confused as to what Azael was talking about. He put a finger to Soren's heart and a radiant blue aura had started to surround Soren. A green glow was draining from Azael down to his finger and into Soren's body and soul, Cupid finally knew what he was doing and started to do the same except cupid had a pink glow around her finger and a blue aura around Soren. The ritual was complete and Soren's eyes had changed colors, the left one green, and the right one pink. His eyes had opened during the process but thankfully for them, he didn't wake up, surprisingly.
2 YEARS LATER
It had been 2 years since Soren was born and Cupid and Azael have been doing their best to raise him to the best of their abilities. Soren's powers have yet to show so he still looked like a normal human with abnormal strength and multi-colored eyes. "This is odd, should Soren's power be this dormant still?" Azael said with concern. "We have yet to see any sign of his power other than brute strength and it's starting to worry me." "maybe we need to just wait for his powers to activate on their own, he does have both of us in his blood so both of his incubus, half-dragon, and grim reaper powers are conflicting with each other we have to give them time to settle in and give him control," Cupid explained to Azael. "I guess we just have to wait and see what happens," Azael said as he put down Baby Soren to play for a little while.
Just as Baby Soren was sat down, he ran off to the kitchen to find something entertaining to do. He made his way to a little doorway from the living room into the kitchen, he climbed up onto the table where one of his little tiny trucks were located and knocked it down onto the floor without hesitation and it made a loud thud against the floor. "It's ok, I didn't wanna play with that anyway." Baby Soren thought to himself. He got down off the table to go play something else. "hmmm what do I wanna do today?" he thought as he got down off the table and crawled over an apple that had fallen on the floor. "Ooohhhh I'm hungry now, mama says I'm 2 years old but I don't really understand what that means yet. She has also been feeding me food instead of milk lately so I guess this big red ball will do right." Baby Soren thought just before he was about to take a bite of the apple just before Cupid came in, pick him up, and took the apple away. "No no no, you can't have that apple, that nasty and has lots of germs," Cupid said just as she took the apple from him, fed him a fresh strawberry, and set him in the crib for night time.
"What are we gonna do Azael? We have been killing succubus after succubus. Especially since one of them lived to tell the tale that we are lovers and now we are considered traitors amongst our kind." just as Cupid finished talking, a ground-shaking explosion could be heard outside. As the explosion was going off cupid had grabbed Baby Soren and fled to the outside of their house that was now falling apart around them. They got outside to see that there was an army of succubi attacking their home. Azael had summoned his dual-edged scythe ready to keep his family safe at all costs. "No Azael, you take Soren and find a safe place for him," Cupid ordered. "Are you sure you'll be okay on your own until I get back?" Azael asked worriedly. "Don't worry, I'll be just fine" Cupid then summoned a Masamune from a demonic void, the sword was about 3 meters long with a dark blade, a gold handguard, and a black hilt with a red strap wrapped around it. Azael took Soren and flew off to the reaper camp a few miles south of where their home was. A few of the succubi tried to follow after him but we're too late at Cupid had raised a magic barrier to keep them from leaving the fight. "We will kill you traitor." said the leader as the rest of the succubi got into their battle forms, with their nails growing long and razor-sharp and wings and tails growing out of their bodies. Cupid had waited patiently with a cocky expression on her face. "Are you done yet or am I interrupting you?" Cupid taunted as the succubus leader laughed a little. "Silence traitor, how about you fight us with the power you were born with and stop using that flimsy little sword of yours." "oh don't you worry about that, I think I'll be just fine." And with that the battle had kicked off, a small group of succubi stepped up to challenge Cupid first. They dashed toward her only to find a blade slicing through them like a hot knife through butter. They were all a bit flustered at how fast she had dealt with them. Cupid may have been she and very distant, but she was powerful, more powerful than anyone could have imagined. The succubi all charged at her and she just kept cutting them down one by one. Seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours as the fight drove on. Cupid's strength was unbelievable, but even she had her limits and she was reaching it fast.
Meanwhile with Azael and Baby Soren. Azael flew as fast as he could to his old home back at the grim reaper camp and with it just insight he landed in front of the chief's hut. He walked in to see the chief and his master sitting in the middle of the room meditating. "Master." That was all he could say before he was interrupted. "So my boy, you have fallen in love, congratulations my boy. But you have fallen in love with our most wretched enemy." Azael had turned away in embarrassment. "Yes master, I have. But I have a favor to ask of you and the tribe." Azael was once again stopped by the chief. "Yes, you wouldn't have come if you didn't need our help, but please enlighten this old man on why you need us." Azael explained the situation to the master quickly but didn't spare any details. It took some time but he managed.
"So, you want us to take your son in, even though he is an offspring of you and a succubus, an enemy to us. You know once you go back to your wife to help her fight there is no turning back, even you have your limits Azael, you will surely die during that battle." Azael finally looked back to his master and stood. "I know master we cannot win but we can still save our son's life." the master chief looked up at Baby Soren and then back to Azael. "You want us to take care of your hybrid child? And help him grow until he is ready to leave but to not give him any notes about his powers? My my what a bold request, but you show promise so we will take him in." Azael's smile grew wide and he got down on his hands and knees. "Thank you so much, master." His thanking was stopped one last time by the master. However, because of this brash request, he will receive no tender love and care. He will grow to be a hard worker for us and in return, he will be able to stay with us. Agreed?" Azael nodded as he gave his child one last hug. "Here, give this to Soren when you think the time is right. It's a gift to help him later." Azael threw a blue stone to the chief. He looked at it and nodded one last time before Azael left.
Cupid was getting tired as the succubi kept attacking at full force. To finally end it the entire army flew into a circle and created a huge fireball out of magic. It took a minute so cupid could kill a few more. The giant fireball was ready to fire and cupid could barely move at that point. The fireball was fired and cupid could feel time slowing as her life had flashed before her eyes.
Just as Cupid thought her life was over the fireball made contact as it exploded, but she didn't feel pain or her body being blown apart, all she felt was a gust of wind. She opened her eyes to see azael had blocked the fireball with little to no effort and was now standing with a hand to her. "Looks like I made it just in time for the party." Azael said as he picked up his wife and hugged her. They were blinded by a cloud of smoke from the explosion and they were completely hidden from view. While they had time, Azael healed cupid's wounds and restored her energy with some healing magic. "Is Soren safe?" that was all she wanted to know. "Yes, my brothers are keeping him safe until he is ready for his own adventures." Those words lifted a giant weight off her shoulders. "Azael, are you ready for the fight of our lives?" "Yeah, I'm ready."
The smoke finally cleared revealing the two lovers. "IMPOSSIBLE, HOW ARE YOU ALIVE." The leader of the succubus army was furious to see them still and well. "What does it take to finally kill your cretins?" "I don't know, maybe you can't kill us." Azael said with a cocky attitude which pissed off the succubus. "KILL THEM!!!" The leader ordered all the succubi to charge at them and pinned them to the ground but to no avail as an explosion of surging power came from Azael, blasting them everywhere. He summoned his scythe while cupid summoned her sword and they both challenged them one last time.
The fight ran on for hours as succubus after succubus fell. They couldn't keep it up for much longer though as they were taking a lot of damage and getting weaker in the process. No matter how many they killed more just kept replacing them.
Eventually, Cupid and azael had no energy left and they collapsed to exhaustion, and to finish the fight, the leader had stabbed them in the back with her weaponized nails. She knew they wouldn't be dead so she ordered to chain them up and to have a sacrifice ritual ready.
Later the two demon lovers woke up to being strapped to a huge pole unable to move, they knew it was the end for them. "How, does it feel being chained up like real traitors, you scum?" the leader said with a mocking tone but neither of them said anything. "Fine then, be that way you will soon meet your end anyway." Cupid and Azael were then lifted high into the air and revealed to a large crowd of different demons of sorts. "So we are being sacrificed as if we were in a witch trial? Seems kinda unoriginal if you ask me." Azael said, trying to keep his fear hidden. "I wonder how my witch cousin is doing." Cupid started crying about how unfair life was being to them, all they wanted was love and it only brought war. A fire was lit underneath them and the platform was dropped leaving Azael and cupid hanging above the fire. "Any last words traitors?" the leader asked, giving them a little bit of pity. Azael looked up and spoke. "Yes, I have 2 requests. What is your name?" this question was odd but she answered it anyway. "My name is... of no importance to you. Your second request?" "if you ever find my son, please give him this," he said as he scooted a white crystal with a faint glow out of his pocket. Ageha picked up the crystal and stared into it for a while. "yes, I will give it to him, if he can live long enough to take it from me." Ageha walked away and signaled for the sacrifice to start. The fire had erupted and started to burn them. The fires of hell had completely consumed them and their skin was burning up and they managed to squeeze out there. "Soren, we love you." they both said in unison as they burnt to a crisp while their souls were being sucked into a portal to the hell they were sent to. And that was the end of their journey, yet the start of a new one.