The dragon's harem

“Our Queen!” Serba cried, bowing down as did all the beastmen who could see her or hear his voice. This was the undying, eternal gem of the beast lands, a crystal shard of power and eternal glory, one of the last remaining Fenrirs, and a nine-tailed one at that. Her power could rival the gods, yet she remains here in the mortal world for her people, protecting their existence, traditions, and freedom from being robbed by stray divines.

While any god or a demi-god can freely advertise and preach his religion across the world, that wasn’t possible in the beast lands due to her presence. Only a select few gods could boast of influencing the beast people, and all those gods had to get Hati’s approval.

The beast people had just heard of the desert’s fallacy where a god fought a kingdom- destroying dragon, their great battle flattened mountains and almost crippled the kingdom, spreading terror across the whole world, that dragon was even dubbed the god eater as he ate that stray god. Such catastrophes shall never befall the beast kingdom, its people can live in peace, certain that they won’t be squashed by such meaningless clashes of the divines. “Aron?” Hati said with a smile, her lips curling back like a cat, “What a funny name. Who came up with it?” She tilted her head.

“You can’t insult who came up with it, that’s all that should matter to you.” Arad replied, glaring down at her with magic slowly building up around his body.

From the faint rays of light coming down from the sun, seven women clad in white robes, their faces hidden behind semi-transparent veils of magic, came flying in, pointing spears at Arad’s neck, surrounding him in the blink of an eye.

“Insolent bastard! You don’t bow to the queen?!” One of them roared, the magic leaving her body was strong enough to make everyone feel sick, their stomachs turned, and they couldn’t even breathe properly.

Arad slowly leaned forward, it seemed as if he was about to bow, and even the guards felt strange seeing him actually about to obey. But…he instead took a bite of the tip of the spear of the woman who yelled at him, munching the steel like it was a biscuit.

The woman froze in place as Arad slowly pulled the spear out of her hand, and munched on it like candy. “Three tails? Does that have something to do with your strength?” He looked at the woman’s butt, “Don’t even bother, you three are making your mother look bad.”

“Our tails are indeed a signal of strength.” Hati replied with a gentle voice, “They are my daughters as you said, I hope you won’t be smacking them around for acting a bit rude.” “Why would I?” Arad replied with a smile, “Good daughters, brought their guest a snack. Wished it was tea instead of steel and wood, but it’ll do.” The deep voice, the gentle smile on his face, the massive size of his body, and the tilted head glaring down at the daughters who guarded their mother with their lives. “At least teach them to return kindness… with kindness.” His gaze shifted to Hati. Last time when she came to visit him in his castle on Zephyr’s matter, he had given them a respectable welcome, only served the finest food and tea that he could find, greeting him like this now, seemed a bit too rude.

“We can talk at ease in my mansion.” Hati looked toward Serba with a smile, “Please entertain the human guests. Provide them with the best that you can offer, I’ll tend to the princess and her guard.” She opened her fan, “And…heal that fool Zank.” With her fingers, she made a cutting motion with finger scissors.

“What?” Serba looked at her with a confused face.

“Don’t make me spell it out for you.” She kept opening and closing her finger scissors. The gentle smile on her face puzzled Serba who stared at her blankly.

Arad turned toward Serba, “She wants him castrated.” Hati wasn’t making any effort to hide her thoughts, and as a void dragon, he could clearly hear them…no…Arad paused for a second and held his face, “You really…” He realized that she made him hear her inner voice so he could speak for her, and he did that without a second thought, she played him well.

Giving everyone an innocent smile, Hati closed her eyes and tilted her head with a gentle smile grin, “Send them to me later. I’ve sent him a letter to tell him to avoid Aron and his companion, but he seems to have ignored it. This is his punishment.”

“As your order! Our queen!” Serba bowed deeply, “I shall carry that out…” He looked at her, and his eyes slowly shifted toward Zank’s unconscious body in the forest. “But, may I ask something?”

“As at your own risk.” She opened her fan and covered her face, only leaving her glowing eyes staring at him.

“Won’t it be possible to give him several years in prison instead? I know the gravity of what he did, but permanent damage is just…” Serba looked at her.

“Didn’t expect you to speak for him, but you’re right. This is the eternal beast lands; don’t you think eternal damage is quite fitting? It’ll not harm him alone, but the countless generations that could come from him, for all eternity, this mistake would haunt his blood.” She replied with a slow voice, weighing every word as she looked at Serba, and the lions watching, “But…I’m not an unfair queen. This punishment isn’t intended to be permanent.” Hati closed her fan, “I’ll give them back if he cools his head down. He started this whole mess for being too horny, isn’t that what happened?” She smacked her palm with her fan, “I’m taking out the root of the problem, hoping this would help create a more eternal solution by teaching that fool Zank his own limits.” She giggled, “I’ll give them back if I found him to have turned a new leaf. If not, he can forget about getting them back.”

“An eternal punishment until you say otherwise. I understand, I’ll do as you wish.” Serba stood, “Zara! Help me out!” He called back.

“Why me? I’m your guest!” Zara growled, “Fine someone else.”

“Come just help me carry him back. I’ll take care of the rest!” Serba waved his arm at Zara. Zara was indeed one of the strongest people standing there, besides Arad.

“Little boy Zara.” Hati looked at him, and Zara froze in place, “How is Maria doing? This loud boy here didn’t annoy her, did he?” She shifted her gaze at Arad.

“What?” Zara looked at the queen, baffled at how she had addressed him out of nowhere. “No, my wife is doing fine…Your Majesty, you know my name?”

“I do, I know all the of my people’s names. And I don’t forget, my memory is eternal. Even if time were to end, my will shall outlast it.” She lifted her fan and smacked Arad on the head, “I’m glad, you’ve been a good boy.”

Arad immediately turned around and swung a fist at her face, but he missed and they both returned to being standing in place. ^Doma! Did you activate your Domain on your own?^ He

gasped.

^{Don’t start a fight with her! Mira and the rest would get caught in your fight. Don’t make me remind you of that.}^

Hati lifted her fan to hit him but then stopped. She pulled it down to her face and opened it again to cover her face. “I guess I went too far…” She giggled; her eyes looked at Arad from behind her fan. “I almost touched your husband.” She was pretending to look at Mira, but her gaze was fixated on Arad.

^{Fuck off! Sly Fenrir! I’ll curse your entire land to the plague and watch your people writhe in pain.}^ Doma’s will crackled inside Arad’s head, ^{Arad, this bitch is eternal. She remembers what happened in the erased time. She probably sensed our fight with Matilda’s mother. My domain is useless against her thanks to her eternal nature.}^

^Really? She can remember that time, but that doesn’t mean she could act in it, or could she?^ ƒreewebɳovel.com

^{I don’t know. But she’s like Korah, but time a hundred and with some change. And I don’t want to stun you further but look closer at her tails. }^ Doma growled.

Arad took a look and his eyes opened wide, eight of the tails were mere illusions. It was so potent of an illusion that it managed to trick his void eyes and he wouldn’t have noticed if Doma didn’t point it out. ^She’s a hundred times stronger than Korah, with just one tail of her nine tails?!^ Arad gasped, Korah was indeed a lesser god, but she’s supposed to be a mortal, right… no, it won’t make sense for a mortal to be eternal.

^{Think again…That’s one, out of eighteen tails. Don’t forget her sister who lives inside her like I’m living inside you. No wonder the gods can’t claim a piece of the beast’s lands, she’s literally guarding the place and keeping them at bay.^

“Little boy Aron…” Hati giggled, “I’m married, you know? You can’t keep googling your eyes over my rear.” She stared at him with a smug smile and quickly glanced at Mira.

Arad pointed at Hati’s tails, “They look fluffy and soft, can I touch them?” He asked.

“Me too!” Mira said with a large smile on her face.

“No…” She replied.