The Princess And The Demon

Henry eyed the creature with a dropped jaw, The....thing was standing protectively infront of him, the creature gave him a glance over it shoulder with those terrifying eyes of his and what looked like a smirk? on his face

"Close that up, You don't know what might get in there" The creature said in his deep animalistic voice, it was hard to recognize the words in the middle of the growls, but Henry did recognize, not just the words, but the voice...

"My lord..." Andrea screamed feeling both happy and relieved , unlike anyone else in the castle she knew who this moster was, she was able to recognize her lord, mostly because he mind linked her few minutes ago asking where were they, she briefed him with all the details since he went missing and told him their exact location.

"Eren..?! " Henry whispered, still not believing this creature is the shadow lord who stayed behind them in the sea.

"Surprise surprise..." Eren said sarcastically, Henry looked at him in disbelief, wondering if it was really the shadow lord or just another tricky illusion...

"You...look different" Henry said still eyeing the creature in front of him, standing on ten feet high, his body was much larger and bulkier than last time, covered entirely in a black fur with a silver shine, it was remarkably shiny it looked mistakenly wet, his hands were twice as large with longer sharper dark claws dripping with liquid darkness, what used to look like a wolf face was missing the big snout and had instead a flat cut with big holes as his nostrils, his mouth was an exposed set of big canines that went from ear to ear, his ears similar to a bat's, only much longer and bigger even if they were not very noticeable considering the black horns right above them, not to mention the massive black lether wings...

"We have no time, You have no time, I'll handle things here, you go to her" Eren spoke urgently, unlike everyone else, he was able to see the silver haired man who was cutting their throats earlier, He must be a God, Eren thought, his thoughts drifting back to a very beautiful silver haired girl whom he missed so very much...

"But..."

"No buts, trust me when i say this, Henry, nothing will matter if she's gone, not the differences, not the disagreements, not the anger, Nothing, what ever it is, Work it out with her before it is too late, because once it is, nothing in the world can ease the pain of regret, This....is something i know very well..."

"But she used my friends as scapegoats... "

"Just like you did with me you mean?!" Eren gave Henry a pointed look, hoping to knock some sense into him, he didn't know why was he doing so, he just, felt compelled to do so, to avoid another heartbreak even if it wasn't his heart breaking, or maybe he actually stopped looking at the two morons as enemies and instead saw them as potential friends, something really changed while he was deep in the ocean, he smurked at the thought...

"I'll handle things here, You are kind of useless anyway... now Go" Eren growled his last words before charging toward something invisible, he collided with some mass and rolled with it on the ground, growling ferociously, he was moving so fast it was hard to keep up but Henry's keen eyes saw what he was doing... he was trying to keep the invisible attacker away from the huge tub, but why? what was in.... Henry's eyes widened at the sudden realisation, this was not a tub but the creation energy's shrine, their basic goal, it was right there and this invisible thing was trying to protect it, or get it...

Henry thought for a while, taking a deep breath he gave the army his last order, seeing the nod given by Eren he knew it was right, he entrusted this last mission to his soldiers before running out of the castle and back into the forest...

The army stayed still for a while, watching as the monster who claimed to be the shadow lord fought against something they couldn't see, they had to wait for his signal to move, Not many understood why did the human king left, nor what was the shadow lord fighting, or how did he change to what he was now? what ever that was...Last time they saw him he was a big wolf man but not this big and strong nor have he had wings, did something happen when he was left behind?!

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Eren bit on a shivering Estonilla's neck, she g.r.o.a.n.e.d in ecstasy and pain, feeling slowly drained, she thought it was the violence of her o.r.g.a.s.m but in fact, it was the demon on top of her s.u.c.k.i.n.g her blood dry and feeding on her soul...

Blood was the essence of life, Demons usually fed on blood when they didn't want to kill the prey, a sufficient amount of it would be enough to reduce their hunger without killing anyone, of course it couldn't be compared to a full meal of a pure soul and it fresh blood which came with the cost of killing the prey...

This wasn't a prey he wanted to keep alive, Eren thought while crazily s.u.c.k.i.n.g the woman's blood, he never kept his preys alive anyway, he was after power and not mere survival, the only exception, was non other than his fair lady, Sara...

By the time Estonilla realized what happened to her it was already too late, she gasped as life left her limb body, she didn't say anything, her empty eyes didn't help reveal anything either, but Eren didn't need any now that he had all her blood inside him, all her soul and soul energy seeping into his cells, all of her creation energy which was fighting inside him with his natural dark one, but most importantly, he had all of her memories...