Freedom

The King leant forwards and watched us for a while longer, that sexy half smile on his face. Kirisan and I didn’t move, we just watched him, unsure of his intentions.

‘Get dressed!’ he barked, breaking the awkward silence. We moved and dressed as fast as our post orgasm trembling bodies would allow. We stood in the cell facing him, he unlocked the bars and motioned for us to follow. We exchanged glances and did so.

‘Where are we going?’ I tried to ask, Kirisan grabbed my hand and shook his head with wide eyes, telling me not to speak.

‘You’ve nothing to worry about my dear’ the King replied.

‘Where are you taking them?!’ a booming voice called, a woman’s voice followed by thumping footsteps. I peeked around the King to see a fuming Queen stamping her way towards us. ‘What do you think you’re doing with them?’ she asked him, trying to square up to him, but he was too tall for her to look menacing.

‘I’m setting them free’ he said casually and walked past her, we followed as she glared.

‘After what they did?’ she continued, following us the stairs and out of the dungeon.

‘Yep’ said the King, he was really pissing her off now.

‘I am the Queen, these are MY prisoners, I want an example made of them, I WANT THEM KILLED!’ she roared.

‘Luna’ said the King softly and quietly ‘I don’t give a fuck what YOU want, I am the King, what I say goes, you are only hear to satisfy the union with the western continents, now you have been my Queen for centuries and if you wish to continue living I’d shut the fuck up before I kill you’.

He looked at her with warning eyes and at first she looked shocked, then angered. The King sighed, she wasn’t going to back down.

‘My father sent me here to stop a war’ she whispered to him ‘I had to partner you to bring peace to both lands, you think I want to be here?’

‘Then go home’ The King said simply. ‘We were winning the war, you were offered to me because you were all the King had left, I accepted because you were his most prized possession, I put up with you out of respect for him. You are not a Queen to my people but my prize and you will act as such, or I will send you back in a box’ his tone was cool but he wasn’t messing about. Luna glared at us all and walked off in huff.

‘One day, one day I am going to rip her bleeding head off’ he said under his breath, and then shot a glance as us, he laughed at how bewildered we looked. ‘Come on you two’ and we followed him out of the dungeon, out of the palace, all the way to the torii gate. Daemons had gathered to see the King, some trying to give him tributes, some even offering their daughters to him.

‘My bitch, I mean Queen would conquer all of the lands given the power, but that is boring, I wouldn’t know what to do with the world, I have enough on just sorting this place out’ he out stretched his arms, we looked down on the valley and palace of the Oni King. ‘There was a war with western continents, we were winning and the King knelt before me and offered his daughter to save his people. She was very young at the time and I saw it pained him, but he put his people before himself and I respected that. There are tensions between the continents, but we all live in a state of peace. The human realm is completely different, they’re always killing each other’ he huffed.

‘You two are a good match, and your ferocity in the viewing room’ he looked at me ‘to save this incubus of whom you knew little about reminded me of what is important. I will release my succubus and concubines to live freely, the Queen’s treatment of them is wrong’. He looked over his kingdom.

‘Go now into the human realm and spread daemon kind among them, they are a young species and will not notice that you’re different if you’re careful’. He turned to us, a proud look on his face. ‘You are special’ he said to me, turning to Kirisan ‘Treasure her for she set you free’ Kiriyama nodded. ‘Live your life and have fun’ he laughed, ‘if you have offspring you are welcome to birth them here, or in the human realm, just make damn sure its safe’.

‘I don’t think I’ll be having any more any time soon’ I said to him at which he laughed.

‘You are forever connected to me, Miyuki, you are the mother of some of my children’ his eyes were warm and I thought of him differently when he said this, I had birthed his offspring, I had not thought myself a mother.

‘Miyuki?’ I asked.

‘Your name’ he said ‘It means, roughly, ‘beautiful snow’, and you are beautiful, especially in this snowy landscape. Your surname shall be Yamamura, it means ‘mountain village’ which is appropriate, it is where you took the life force of your first human’. He nodded, the name sitting well with him. ‘You still have much to learn and Kiriyama here will aid you’.

‘I won’t disappoint you Your Highness’ he bowed and the King smiled.

‘Now go! Be gone! I’ve got a lot of work to do and maybe a Queen to squash’, he added with a smirk. We bowed to him and walked through the torii gate hand in hand into the human realm, into an uncertain future but one where we would be free.

Kiriyama turned to me ‘So, where to first?’ he asked.

I looked down at the cabin where I had met the human, and then down to the snowy mountain village. He followed my gaze and took my hand, I lent on his shoulder as we descended down the hill to the cabin, our new home, for now.

My name is Miyuki Yamamura and this is just the beginning of my story.