Chapter 01.5: The Lover (Not-Porn)

A long time ago the one who would become the void maiden had met someone who was at the end of her rope, at her lowest point, not sure if she wanted to continue on living anymore. But then she met a random person on the street, a simple greeting and question about some inconsequential topic evolved in a conversation about the fairness of the world, the nature of humanity and the hope that is vested in the future.

The future void maiden shared their deeply held beliefs in honestly, fairness, logic and empathy, about how they thought the world was cruel, that the world was illogical, filled with rules that made no sense, that people fought each other for no good reason and that the only thing that kept them going was the hope that things might be better in the future. That when you remove the sources of conflict, that when you enable people to understand each other that the world might become a better place.

The future maiden did not have a particularly difficult life or even many real wants or dreams. They just could not accept that the world should not be the way it is that there is so much potential being wasted and so much pain created for so little. They did not accept it and lived by their norms and values, they was not a world changing person or even the only one who thought like this but they just did their part followed their hart used their mind and in their own little way make the world a better place.

Then the conversation was over and the future void maiden thanked their conversation partner for listening and apologised for their rambling but then whishing the other well moved on. Not finding anything particularly special about the conversation except being happy for having found someone who listened to their beliefs for a while.

Unknown to the future void maiden the one she talked with was actually a void maiden herself having had a very bad time in the last few months, losing her last few friends and teammates to the abyss and star maidens she had taught about just suiting up, grabbing every bomb, or explosive and other weapon she could and just making as suicidal run at the goddess who had betrayed her so many years ago and just kinking the bitch in the head going out in a blaze of glory. But that would change nothing, she was powerful but she could not really do any lasting damage to the bitch and the only good thing that would come form it would be a brief moment of satisfaction before she was vaporised.

No she would take the advice of the stranger and just continue on for a while seeing where all of it was going, trying to find the hope the strange vested in the future.

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So she continued on living, fighting on sticking to her norms and values, sometimes helping out other void maidens or star maidens but often times returning to the little backwards magic poor planet where she met the stranger. Watching from a distance or disguising herself and approaching the stranger once more for short conversations trying to recapture the happiness she felt back in her past when life was so simple and she had her friends and family.

So it continued as her feelings grew for the stranger it became a kind of obsession, she wanted the stranger to like her like she liked them. But as a void maiden she had needs and secretes, she knew what the stranger valued what they required in love and it was honesty and trust, a relationship build under the strain of her double life would not work and she would only hurt the stranger and herself, she did not know if she could that that, she did not know what she would do if the stranger rejected her.

So she searched for a solution but was unable to find one for a very long time and as her obsession grew she became more **** and had started to think on more **** methods. But one day the solution to her problem just fell into her lap, the stranger had the potential to become a star maiden or a void maiden and if that happens and she plays her cards right then she could be with the stranger.

She began to prepare, arranging the conditions so that the stranger would trigger her potential and be picked up by the entity and not the goddess making sure that the goddess can not poison the stranger against her and others trough her lies and half-truths. She put powerful monitoring spells on the stranger so she could watch as the stranger would make her decisions and best prepare and be in the perfect position to be with her desired person.

It came to be that one day her preparations where complete and as the stranger was whisked away she waited with bated breath to see what choices the stranger would make. Over the long time that the stranger spent asking questions, thinking and selecting their choices she noticed how the stranger had decided to base almost the entirety of their power on the monster suit essentially forming a symbiotic bond between the two. Two entities, their minds connected, dependent on each other and at the same time complementing each other.

She understood what the stranger was doing, they where creating something they would be able to love and commit to without the fear that one day that trust was broken or that they would not be able to understand each other. The stranger was creating the basis of their lover.

As first she was apprehensive and saw this as a challenge and envied the monster suit which the stranger would most likely come to love. With such strong bonds that they might as well be chains between them it would almost be inevitable. But then apprehension turned to elation as she had an epiphany, she had once heard of a technique which would transform or merge a star maiden or void maiden with an abyssal parasite as a last-ditch effort when no other solution to safe them was possible.

She could use this technique and merge with the newly born monster suit supplanting its consciousness with her far older and more experienced mind. She immediately went to her old and dusty home she had not been to in a long time and started digging trough her things to find the book she had found the technique in. With some magic it did not take long and she soon found the technique. It would be dangerous and expensive to perform and she had a limited amount of time to do it before the stranger finished their transformation into a void maiden.

She immediately gathered all the useful and valuable things form her old home in a storage device and went off to get the ingredients.

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She had burned trough a lot of her funds and had received quite a few dangerous wounds but only a day later she was finished, had gathered what she needed and now had the potion prepared. The Stranger had now been undergoing their transformation for a bit less than a multiverse standard day and would most likely still be going for a few more days yet which suited her perfectly. She scried ahead to the temple the stranger was undergoing their transformation. Sensing no one she cast the best concealment spells she knew on herself and plane walked over to the temple.

She waited a few moments when she arrived but when no one came she concluded that her concealment must have worked and moved to the edge of the familiar dark pool. Within the pool was the stranger and all the abyss parasites including the monster suit. She dispelled her clothes and popped the cork of the potion flask and in one go without any doubt or hesitation she drank the potion.

When she finished she dispelled the vail as well looked into the pool with her scrying eyes and when she saw the monster suit jumped in powering trough the dark pool in the pursuit of her goal. The dark pool fought her as it detected her intrusion but she was prepared and lashing out pushed it back reaching the monster suit before the dark pool could put up any more defences. As she touched the monster suit she punched her Xes trough herself and into it starting a cycle drawing it into her and pushing herself into it.

After a short time her mind and the just born mind of the monster suit touched and she pounced swallowing the mind and merging and subsuming it into her own. This is when they became one entity and as the merging of their minds finished her body and that of the monster suit started to draw into one another as well.

She had succeeded, she could already feel the dormant mind of the stranger as they transformed into a void maiden. They where connected now, by a bond stronger than almost any oath, but now suddenly when presented with the opportunity to bind them even more than that she hesitated for a moment on whether she should bind the stranger to her more essentially making a one sided slavery contract with them forever binding them to her will making sure that they would never be able to turn her away.

She did not hesitate long using all her _Xes _she cast her binding magic breaking through the simple and weak innate defences of the stranger that where still building she created a one sided contract binding her love to her will forever setting the conditions that they will never realize that the contract exist unless she wants is and that only on the moment that they and her share a bond of true mutual unconditional love that the contract will equalize and they would be bound in a pact of equals. But until such a time she would hold the stranger in her grasp, she would use her power sparingly or not at all she promised herself unless in most dire need. But another side of her mind, the obsessive, possessive and absolutely love obsessed part of her mind overflowed with happiness, she had obtained her love.