Chapter 158
Tree branches whipped at her skin and brambles tore at her sheer lace nightgown, leaving stinging scratches in their wake but she ignored the sharp pulls as her heart raced with exertion as she sped through the forest keeping her wings tucked close to her back in an effort to make herself hidden. Yet she could still feel him. She could feel his darkness oozing across the earth, searching and searching for her and her heart stuttered as she remembered the stories of what happened when a Demon caught a Goddess. When a tendril of darkness shot out from behind a bush she quickly slapped it away, calling light to her fingertips to destroy the darkness and she pushed on further, faster. He would not catch her like this.
As she leapt over a fallen tree only to immediately slide under a very low branch, Elizabeth then had to roll to the side to dodge another sliver of darkness and a low curse left her mouth. She knew from all her forbidden reading as a teenager in the Goddess clan that the blood moons triggered mating seasons for Demons, and today of all fucking days she decided to go change her mind on letting her cat out for the night. Escanor would have been fine, Elizabeth thought with a huff, he was a fucking cat but she on the other hand was now being hunted by a Demon and one at a high level too. With a short grimace she recognised the clearing she was approaching, and Elizabeth grounded herself emotionally, rooting her soul in the vast oceans of power that resided inside her. She was the leader of the Goddess clan, she would not be taken lightly.
Fluffing out her wings and taking to the air, Elizabeth waited, hovering over the surface of the lake, her 4 sets of wings fluttering on the breeze with soft sweeps that disturbed the surface of the water as her eyes roved around the treeline and down the face of the mountain that walled it in. The area was beautiful she could admit that, the sound of the rushing waterfall calming to her ears but then her attention was pulled elsewhere as she felt the vast dark power that sucked her attention draw ever closer.
"So sweet," The voice of the demon growled across the clearing and Elizabeth tensed, ready and then she spotted him, strolling through the trees on a path parallel to the one she had taken as if the world waited for him. His blonde hair was an unruly mop on his head, sticking out in all directions but still not hiding the demon mark that graced his forehead. It was a sharp dark mark bleeding across his skin and forming a circle with several spikes bursting from it with a few spiky tendrils crossing over his right eye. He was swathed in darkness, the tendrils giving him a high collared waistcoat, black trousers and clawed feet but still leaving some of that hard flesh exposed. Her eyes lingered here as if noting the weakness and the darkness shifted peeling back slightly to expose more of his flesh as if taunting her. She knew this Demon, she frequently negotiated with him and she knew him to be stubborn and determined, especially when it came to getting what he wanted. Her night just grew ten time harder.
"Demon King Meliodas," Elizabeth uttered, her chin raised as she looked down on the haughty man.
"Supreme Deity Elizabeth," The demon responded, his voice human and restrained and Elizabeth glared at him.
"You know good and well I refuse that title," Elizabeth quipped, crossing her arms over her chest, then abandoning the movement when the demon leered at the ample cleavage she was showing through the gap in the sheer nightdress she usually wore to sleep in. Meliodas only grinned at her lecherously and she glared back at him. "So do you want to explain what you think you're doing chasing me through the forest?" Elizabeth asked sharply, her eyes following the Demon king as ink black wings sprouted from his back and he glided up to hover eye level with her across the clearing. The demon smirked at her at her question seeming to take his time to formulate an answer, his tongue wetting his lower lip as his eyes fixed on her chest and their movement as she used her wings to keep herself airborne.
"Your highness what night is it?" The demon eventually asked softly, and she rolled her eyes, the blood moon would be upon them in a short hour, but she kept calm.
"The night of the blood moon," Elizabeth answered shortly and Meliodas' smirk twisted into a full-blown salacious grin opposite her.
"And what occurs on the night of the blood moon?" Meliodas asked softly, his voice a low purr as his eyes continued to dance lecherously over her form. Elizabeth growled under her breath as she felt his eyes undressing her before she made the snap decision to allow her light to burst forth similar to his and coat her form, hiding her breasts and snaking down to protect her core but the demon opposite her grinned at her enjoying her discomfort.
"You demons seem fit to behave like a pack of dogs and couple all over the country," Elizabeth said primly and Meliodas grinned wider, his sharp canines becoming more evident in his mouth.
"Couple? My dear Goddess… I thought you had an heir?" Meliodas chuckled as he floated closer. Tensing her fists Elizabeth waited with gritted teeth, ready for his attack.
Demons and Goddesses had enjoyed 1000 years of peace under their rule, despite how often the Demon king liked to push the Goddess Queen.
"What's your point Demon?" Elizabeth growled and Meliodas snickered to himself as he came even closer to her until his breath was able to ghost across her skin and although she knew she should move Elizabeth was frozen, trapped in the natural magnetism that came with his power of darkness, her opposite.
"Demons don't couple my dear sweet Goddess" Meliodas breathed into her left ear before he circled around her to her right and leant close. "We fuck."
"Well then allow me to leave you to find a suitable demon to fuck like a dog in heat," Elizabeth snarled quietly, but her voice was without heat as she tried to convince her body to move. Meliodas laughed at her words, moving around to face her again.
"Oh, there's no need for that. I've already found my mate… I'll chase her all over the fucking country if I have to then best her in a battle for dominance…" He paused to let his words sink in and Elizabeth felt a shiver run from the top of her head to her toes and she raised an eyebrow at him as she tried to ignore the heat that was pooling in her stomach
"And then what?" Her voice was too breathy, too out of control, too much not like the queen she was and she wanted to slap herself but she was frozen in his presence
"Welllll… I'm going to fuck you until you scream loud enough to wake our parents from their restful slumbers," Meliodas finished, his voice rough with his demon soul as his tongue ghosted over an old scar in the juncture of her neck and shoulder and then his words registered in her brain and she forced herself into movement, flying back several metres to put some space between them, even as she felt herself grow slick at his words.
"Would you like a head start? I will start to hunt you at the beginning of the blood moon," Meliodas grinned, his black eyes amused as an arrogant smirk crossed his face.
"No demons left that will have you then your highness?" Elizabeth quipped, trying to gain back her footing. Meliodas only snickered and turned his back to her watching the moon in the sky.
"Demons are attracted to power. You're the only one who can match me," Meliodas uttered as the moon started to shift into place and Elizabeth knew she had seconds left if she was going to run again, but she refused, she'd already flown the length of Britannia and back avoiding him. He wasn't going to chase her anymore, he was going to fight and fuck her if she didn't stand her ground. Quietly they both watched the moon slide into place and when it did, casting a red glow over the kingdom, Meliodas the Demon King turned to face her, tendrils of his darkness snaking out around him as he smirked at her with canines that had lengthened as he gave his Demon more control.
"You should have run Goddess." Meliodas stated simply, then he shot forward.Elizabeth ducked under his outstretched arm, dodging his lightning fast movement as she let her Goddess powers free and Meliodas laughed as he missed, wheeling around to face her only to come at her again. This time when he tried to grab at her arm, Elizabeth blocked his hands, slapping them away with small bursts of light and spinning to throw a kick into his side that sent him careening into the surface of the mountain. Meliodas chuckled low to himself as he got to his feet slowly and jumped out of the crater he had made. Then he laughed louder to call his Goddess' attention.
"Is that how we're going to play my Goddess?" Meliodas called out and he heard Elizabeth growl under her breath. The sound excited him, the aggression calling to his rougher nature as he imagined conquering her.
"I'm not your goddess Meliodas!" Elizabeth shouted back only and he laughed again as he shot towards her.
This time when she dodged he moved with her and shot out a hand catching Elizabeth by the throat, squeezing and then throwing her towards the earth. It was with curious eyes that Meliodas watched her rapid descent. At the speed he'd thrown her, her wings would be useless unless she wanted to damage one and a smirk crossed his face when he realised he'd been right as more light emblazoned her form just as she smashed into several trees and skidded through the forest. Flipping to her feet as soon as she could she threw off the now ripped and tattered nightgown, using her light to encase her more solidly and Meliodas felt his Demon pout. He wanted to see her skin, the tantalising taste she'd given him earlier when she ran through the forest had been a sweet treat but now she was encased up to her neck in silvery white light and he growled. Granted, nothing was left to the imagination as skin tight as it was, but pout he did.
"What's the matter Demon? Had enough already?" The Goddess called and Meliodas grinned widely at her. With a push of power he moved to stand behind her as she blinked.
"Fuck no," Meliodas breathed in her ear and then he danced out of the way as a fistful of light swung towards him.
Their fight became aggressive again, both of them trading blows back and forth, neither gathering the upper hand until halfway through the blood moon when Meliodas felt his Demon shift, taking the forefront and pushing him to the side with anger at his inability to subdue his chosen mate and he threw the Goddess into the side of the mountain under the waterfall and followed after her. Elizabeth had encased herself in a golden cage of light, her breathing heavy and her chest heaving, drawing his attention there as he absentmindedly produced a demonic arc. With a short smirk he touched it to the gilded cage and watched as both dissolved, their warring magic cancelling each other out.
"What do you plan to do with me?" Elizabeth panted as she made to sit up. Seeing this Meliodas shook his head, crawling over her body in a flash and pressing her back to the floor of the cave they'd created behind the waterfall.
"I thought I told you that earlier Elizabeth," Meliodas breathed, dipping his nose to her neck and shoulder and skimming over the light there. It tingled against his skin softly, but it didn't harm him, couldn't harm him. Goddess magic was very specific in its function and if invoked to protect, that's all it could do.
Elizabeth arched against him and made to push him away to which he chuckled before catching both her wrists in lightning quick movements and anchoring them above her head. Shaking his head he let tendrils of his darkness snake down his wrists and encase his hands with the intent to trap hers against the rock. As soon as the dark touched her light they gasped, tingles spreading down both their wrists from where the opposite power had connected setting their nerves on fire as both magics winked out.
"Nah, ah, ah, Elizabeth," Meliodas breathed as he recovered, dipping his lips to that scar on her neck again as he called forth more darkness to encase her wrists and hold them where he wanted.
"M-Meliodas?" Elizabeth stammered her eyes wide, the goddess triskele shimmering gold in her blue orbs.
"Don't fight me," Meliodas growled as his eyes found hers and Elizabeth froze as she watched him. "I already told you what I plan to do to you My Goddess. I'm going to fuck you here, for the rest of the blood moon. You probably could have gotten away from me if you wanted, so clearly on some level you must want to know what the Demon mating season is like," Meliodas said conversationally as he let sat back on his haunches between her legs as darkness spread from his form. Watching her eyes he let the tendrils sneak down to hover over her light, watching her pant in anticipation or fear, whichever it was his Demon didn't particularly mind.
"Please…" Elizabeth breathed and Meliodas grinned, letting the tendrils touch her.
The effect was instantaneous. Elizabeth's voice rose in a high-pitched moan as her back arched, her fingers twisting into fists under his bonds and her thighs clasped his hips tightly as she writhed. His darkness had cancelled out her light and now Meliodas was able to gaze down on her pale supple skin watching the way her soft, pillowy breasts moved as her dusky pink nipples pebbled with arousal. Taking his time, he let his eyes rove over her form, down to the small patch of silver hair at the apex of her thighs and taking in the swollen, glistening sight of her lower lips.
"Did fighting me turn you on my Goddess?" Meliodas breathed, allowing his darkness to peel back from his body to his shoulders, exposing himself to her gaze just as her eyes opened. Big blue and orange eyes flickered down to watch his exposed erection bob against his stomach as he moved, and he relished the swallow he saw as her eyes became hooded. "All in good time my Goddess," Meliodas said with a soft grin as he raised his fingers to her jaw and began to glide them slowly down her body. A soft moan left Elizabeth's throat and she bit her lip to hide it something that his demon didn't like.
In a blink, Meliodas found himself leaning above her, one hand supporting himself while the other had caught her chin, his thumb resting on her lower lip, pulling it from her teeth roughly. "Don't," He warned, and Elizabeth's eyes widened slightly before he softened his grip, beating back the Demon. He wanted to enjoy this Goddess himself, not have his Demon take all the fun. "Let me hear you," Meliodas whispered into Elizabeth's ear as he let his hand trailed down her neck to one of her pebbled nipples. Pinching it gently he grinned into her neck as Elizabeth's back arched and a moan cut the air around them. Continuing to pinch and twist her nipple in a way that triggered delightful sounds from the Goddess, Meliodas moved down her body to take her other nipple in his mouth, flicking it with his tongue and pulling a deeper groan from the woman.
"Mmh, do you know how sweet your skin tastes Goddess?" Meliodas purred against her skin, one of her nipples still half in his mouth and Elizabeth shook her head as she watched him, moaning when he swapped sides. "I can't wait to taste more of you," Meliodas said softly before he began to kiss a path down her body. Elizabeth's legs slid shut with a whimper and Meliodas simply rose an eyebrow at her before he called more of his dark power to snake up her legs, wrapping around her ankles and calves and high up her thighs almost brushing their apex. Looking down on the Goddess tied up in his darkness he dropped a hand to his erection, his tongue running across his lower lip as he gave himself a few languid strokes and admired the way her flushed, creamy skin contrasted with his darkness. "Don't you want me to taste you?" Meliodas purred as he watched her eyes flicker to his hand.
"I…Meliodas…" Elizabeth stammered, and he silenced her as he knelt over her and placed a hand over her mouth.
"Will you let me taste you?" Meliodas purred, his voice taking that two-toned edge as his demon tried to take control. Elizabeth's eyes fluttered closed at the sound of his voice and he trailed his fingers down her thighs to her hips. Leaning over her he slowly lowered himself, smirking when she shyly made space for him in between her legs.
Kneeling over her as he was Meliodas groaned as he lowered himself and felt her hot, wet core graze his throbbing erection. The beautiful little gasp she made as his head pressed against her clit had him sliding his hips forward against her roughly as darkness exploded over his skin, his demon finally taking control. With a growl her slipped down her body and commanded the trails of darkness up her body to hold her in place as he licked her slit from bottom to top with his slightly longer tongue. The movement drew a keening sound from the Goddess beneath him and he felt her straining against his darkness as she became impossibly wetter. With a dark chuckle he lowered his mouth to her once more and began to feast on her sweet, tart taste with deliberate swipes of his tongue as his arousal spiked even higher.
As he began a pattern of circling her clit with his tongue then flicking it with the tip slowly before sucking it Elizabeth's hips gently began to move. He knew she was hiding her moans, he could hear the tiny whimpers that escaped her as her hips moved but her holding back only caused him to work harder and when he finally started to drag soft moans from the goddess, he slipped two fingers into her sopping core, relishing the squeal she made that swiftly gained volume and became a cry of pleasure as he curled his fingers against the soft spot inside her. Casting a quick glance upwards he realised Elizabeth's eyes were on him, a flush spreading beautifully down her body from her cheeks, flushing over her breasts and trailing off down her stomach. Her chest heaved as she panted under his ministrations and he watched her white teeth bite into her lip as if she was trying to hold herself together. With a knowing smirk he added a third finger into her pulsing core and Elizabeth shrieked his name, her head flying back to the floor as her arousal peaked, her body shaking as her core squeezed his fingers while her orgasm crashed down on her.Sitting back on his heels Meliodas withdrew his hand from her and let her body recover with a soft smile as he watched her. Her body felt like it was floating and had no intentions of ever coming down until eventually her shudders stopped and she was able to breathe deeply again. Opening her eyes she looked at the Demon in front of her. He looked pleased with himself, black eyes amused as he raised his hand to his mouth and slowly licked his fingers clean with a tongue lengthened by his Demon transformation. Elizabeth had always found Demon transformations interesting, the more powerful the Demon, the less they varied in appearance from a normal human being, but they were still slaves to certain traits and that long tongue was one of them. The other was the fact that they continued to look like an adolescent well into their thousands with the Demon king only just beginning to look like a young adult in his fourth millennia. As she watched his form waiting for his next move, Elizabeth noticed him tensing, his darkness growing over his shoulders as his aura became heavy, her eyes flickered through the water and she noticed the deep red colour that seemed to stain the waterfall. The moon was peaking.
"You're mine Goddess," Meliodas growled deep in his chest and Elizabeth gasped before she let her legs fall open where she'd closed her knees, knowing what he meant. This Demon was going to have her body one way or the next, fighting him now would do nothing but injure her.
Meliodas' eyes roved her form, his own body shaking slightly from the control required to keep him in place, then she felt his darkness spread down her wrist as gentle caresses before the darkness on her arms and legs lifted her and turned her to her towards the entrance to their cave facing the blood moon before setting her on her hands and knees and holding her still. Meliodas moved silently behind her and then with a grunt he thrust into her core tearing a scream of pleasure from her throat as the feeling of being exquisitely stretched hit her all at once. She was given but a moment to catch her breath before he moved, pulling out roughly and pounding back into her rapidly and the sounds of slapping flesh and moans overtook the sounds of the waterfall in that little cave as Meliodas forced pleasure on her body that she had no choice but to accept.
His thrusts became only more powerful with every moan of hers and she could feel the blood moon waning, pushing them towards an end she didn't even know if she had the ability to withstand.
"E-liz-abeth," Meliodas groaned in a broken cry before she felt him lean down across her back, his face nuzzling into the crook of her neck.
"Mel…Fuck please!" Elizabeth found herself begging, her fingernails scratching into the rock beneath her hands as Meliodas drove her to her orgasm, his broken name spilling over her lips as she floundered in her head to get her bearings. Her mind had stuttered to a halt long ago, her body moving on instinct as she threw her hips back against his, relishing the mixture of pain and pleasure that he gave her. Elizabeth could feel her core tightening and his length impossibly grew inside her as his fingers trailed down to her clit, his other hand roughly pinching one of her nipples as he palmed her breasts. With a single press against her engorged clit Elizabeth felt her muscles lock, back arching and legs shaking as euphoria rocked through her brain and her core clenched around him in short spasms.
"MELIODAS!" Elizabeth cried out as her breath came back to her. Behind her she felt Meliodas' teeth pierce the scar on her neck and a small shockwave of pleasure spread straight down to her core as she felt spurts of his seed explode inside her, his magic licking through her womb with it while he groaned into her skin, his tongue lapping at the blood that spilled.
Meliodas' release continued for what felt like an age as he held her hips to his, still pumping his essence into her before Elizabeth regained control of her body and broke his dark hold on her body with tiny explosions of light and Meliodas knelt back on his heels still holding her tightly, refusing to separate from her.
"…My Elizabeth, my love, my mate, my Goddess, my everything," Meliodas was mumbling into her neck as she felt his darkness flick across the scar and seal in his magic as he finally stilled inside her tight, sensitive core.
"You okay?" Elizabeth breathed, her fingers coming up to tangle in his sweaty locks as he rested his forehead on her shoulder.
"I told you to stay in the tavern, did I hurt you?" Meliodas gasped against her skin, still not meeting her eyes and Elizabeth scoffed.
"It's been a thousand years my love, I can take it when you go Demon on me don't worry," Elizabeth smirked as she turned her face to press a kiss to his temple.
"You've never had me on the blood moon before, hence why I told you to stay in the tavern," Meliodas breathed as Elizabeth wrapped his arms around her and gently guided them down to a soft cushion of light she summoned.
"I'm fine… Just rest my love," Elizabeth breathed, not feeling the least bit guilty as she snuggled her arse against him but didn't break the connection between them, holding his seed and his magic inside her for as long as his erection lasted for, not even daring to hope that this would be the time that she could give her love his heir.
Meliodas felt completely and utterly sated and the feeling was foreign to him after only one round. Normally he and Elizabeth would go a few rounds before this feeling fell on him but this time he was exhausted and even his demon was satisfied as he nuzzled into Elizabeth's hair with a sigh. Only as he moved her hair he realised a few of the strands had remnants of blood and he felt revulsion rock through him, although his demon didn't seem to care, adding to his self-revulsion.
"Are you sure I didn't hurt you earlier?" Meliodas asked roughly.
"Stop worrying love," Elizabeth muttered tiredly, her fingers stretching behind her to sooth down his face.
"Was this blood from when I threw you in here?" Meliodas persisted and he almost felt Elizabeth roll her eyes as she sighed heavily.
"Mel. You know I can take a beating just as much as you can. Don't worry. I'm perfectly fine," Elizabeth muttered again as she wriggled on his still hard dick. "Why are you still hard?" Elizabeth questioned as her voice caught from the action. Meliodas tried to keep his own noise in, but at the feel of her wet core wiggling around on his overly sensitive dick, his moan was released into her hair.
"Cause I mated you," Meliodas muttered quietly after a few seconds, his lips brushing the scar on her neck. At his touch the demon magic sealed in her skin flared to life, revealing Meliodas' demon mark in the creamy, white skin. When he removed his lips from her skin, the mark faded away to nothing and he felt satisfaction course through him. Now if a demon ever touched her, his mark would tell them exactly who this Goddess belonged to.
"You mated me?" Elizabeth asked, her voice a quiet breathy pant that had him involuntarily rocking his hips into her. With a slight twist Elizabeth turned enough so he could catch her lips with his and he kissed her tenderly, his fingers splaying across her jaw and neck and holding her in place.
"Yes," Meliodas muttered softly before he gently withdrew from her heat and slid back in in a slow movement. Elizabeth gasped into his mouth as her fingers tightened on his hair and Meliodas repeated the thrust, able to enjoy the feeling of his mate without his Demon fighting for control.
As his fingers wandered down the exquisite form of his goddess, he absentmindedly questioned why his Demon was so content to let him languidly take is mate at his own pace. With a jolt and a gasp he realised why as a pulse of diluted demon magic echoed back to his fingertips on their way down to toy with her clit.
"Meliodas?" Elizabeth questioned, her voice soft as she called his attention. Meliodas heard her but he was frozen in shock before he moved, pulling out from her and turning her gently onto her back to kneel above her, her legs bracketing his hips automatically. "Meliodas what's wrong?" Elizabeth questioned, her blue eyes shining as they roved over his face while he tried to find the words as his hearts grew in size uncomfortably.
After a few seconds Elizabeth raised her hand to run down his face, trying to jolt him out of whatever it was that had frozen him and then he moved, his Demon roaring to life happily as he intertwined his fingers with hers and pinned her hands to the floor. With a slight thrust forwards he sheathed himself in her molten core, his groan joined by Elizabeth's quiet whimper which he swallowed as he pressed his lips to hers. He kept his thrusts slow and deep, drawing delicious sounds from Elizabeth as he angled himself to brush her spot on every thrust.
"M-Meliodas," Elizabeth panted as her back arched while his teeth grazed over his demon mark on her neck.
"What do you want love?" Meliodas breathed, slowing down his thrusts with a smirk against her skin and drawing a frustrated whine from her lips.
"Please…" Elizabeth groaned as her hips tilted towards him, trying to get more friction and his smirk became a full blown grin as he released her hands and rested one forearm next to her head while his other hand hooked her leg over his hip securing her in place with his hand on her arse, holding her still with him deep inside her. "Nng please Meliodas," Elizabeth groaned as her nails scratched down his back. Meliodas only chuckled.
"Please what?"
"Please… I need you," Elizabeth groaned and Meliodas only bit lightly against the other side of her neck as he gyrated his hips and pulled a strangled gasp from her throat.
"Need me how?" Meliodas breathed and Elizabeth growled under her breath, the next second he was on his back, Elizabeth on top of him, her light encasing his wrists and holding him in place as she set a punishing pace riding him roughly.
Meliodas felt his brain stutter as the wet feeling of Elizabeth's sodden core encased him, her fingers raking through his sweaty hair as she dropped her forehead against his as her little pants and moans grew in volume, while she rocked mindlessly against him.
"Let me help," Meliodas stuttered and the light faded so he could wrap his arms around her waist. With a secure hold on her he began to thrust up into her quickly until Elizabeth was shaking, her core becoming impossibly tight until she fell to pieces above him, her core squeezing him tightly and dragging him over the edge with her as he spilled within her again.
Elizabeth was limp against him as the first rays of sunlight pierced their little cave and Meliodas trailed his fingers up her spine softly.
"I love you Elizabeth," Meliodas murmured before placing a kiss to her temple.
"I love you too Meliodas," He heard her whisper into the skin of his shoulder and he chuckled at her tiredness. With an experimental huff he let his darkness trail over her form softly, stopping when she tensed suddenly and sat up against him, her blue eyes wide.
"Yes?" Meliodas questioned softly.
"Am I finally pregnant again?" Elizabeth breathed, her eyes shining with unshed tears as she brushed her hair behind her ear and Meliodas gave her a mischievous smile.
"Based on how satisfied my Demon is and the diluted Demon magic I can feel from you I'd assume so… I wonder what our 900 plus year old son is going to say," Meliodas grinned. Tears fell from Elizabeth's eyes and she caught his cheeks in her hands and kissed him soundly.
"He'll probably tell us we're far too old to be having a second child," Elizabeth chuckled as they broke the kiss.
"As long as there is breath in my body we will never be too old," Meliodas smirked as Elizabeth shifted off him to snuggle into his side a blanket of light falling over them and warming him rapidly as his hand fell into place on her stomach.