The dragon's harem

Zephyr staggered, feeling all power escaping from her body. She felt light, lighter than she had ever been before. Her vision blurred for a second, and her wings gave up, calling on too much power right after her slumber had made her quite lethargic.

Thud! She fell into Gaia’s hands, the large, muscular woman stared at her with a wide smile, “Welcome back, pretty girl.” She looked at her for a few seconds, “Lost a few pounds? Dieting for a man? Never invited me to a wedding.”

Zephyr barely managed to lift her hand and knocked on Gaia’s chest with her trembling fist. “Knock it off… I’m just… starving.”

It was then that Rilyeh slowly emerged from the sea, and only her eyes peered up from the calm waves. Her eyes looked at Zephyr, “I’ve got… fish.”

Nar immediately threw the water spirit queen a sharp glare, “Fish? Just fish? Do you know how much she eats?” She then looked at the mountain, “Wait, I’ll go drag a few titans.”

From the surface of the sea, several whales and massive horrors were pulled from the depths of the sea, all still alive and trying to run away, but the spirit queen levitated them in large bubbles of clear water.

Nar stared back at her with an open mouth, lingered for a second, and was about to bolt away to find something else. It was then that Gaia grabbed her, “Come on, no need to rush it. Earth’s bounty is always plentiful.” Her eyes shifted toward the creatures of the sea that Rilyeh pulled out.

“Rilyeh brought them, and you cook.” She then flew down with Zephyr and landed on the shore. The moment her brown toes landed on the ground, a massive stone Grove emerged. The large stone obelisks replaced the trees and stood like walls; in the middle of it all, a massive hearth erupted.

Nar flew into the hearth and ignited it, and soon Gaia started cutting the whales into large pieces as Rilyeh salted them with the sea salt. Quality would’ve mattered, but what Zephyr needed now was quantity.

While most spirits drew all of their power from nature itself and didn’t need to eat a lot to survive, Zephyr was the opposite. She gained a lot of her power from her dominion over the wind, but that was merely a small fraction of her might. That might have come from deep within her, and so her body needed a lot of sustenance.

In the past, she had decided to starve herself to tame her own power. She didn’t want her father’s cursed wind to start blowing across the world and cause many disasters; she also never wanted her mother’s abominable lignage to see the light of day. It was not like she hated her mother; in fact, she loved her too much. Not many people knew of her mother’s nature, and so she and her father wanted that to remain a secret.

But there was something that Zephyr still didn’t tell anyone about. It was about the prison cube; something about it had gone horribly wrong. She just didn’t have time until now that the abominations were dead, and she lay on the cold stone to rest.

“What year is it? In spirit.” Zephyr asked, and Gaia looked at her, “God, that’s an ancient calendar…” Gaia scratched the back of her head. “4457, I guess, been a few months since I looked at it.”

Zephyr sighed, “Good…good…” She looked at the sky with a pale face. “At least we avoided that.”

“Wait…” Gaia stared at her, “What year did you think it was?”

Zephyr looked at her, “I’ve spent over ten thousand years in that damned cube, I lost count after that. Time flows differently, and I suspect that it was made to kill whatever was inside before someone could help them.”

Gaia looked at her with a pale face, the stone beneath her skin almost cracking, “You sure of that? I know I barely care, but even I know of Vars’s folly, which happened right on my left bum.” She smacked her butt, “That pretty boy with white hair and blue eyes, he was trapped in the cube and go out, fine.”

“Gojo is a void dragon… they can escape the cube on their own, it is not a surprise that the cube’s time can’t chain them either.” Zephyr replied with a hoarse voice, “All other beings aren’t so lucky, especially me… and my abominable blood.” She looked at her, “That thing, that cube is a weapon made to chain and kill abominations.”

Soon, the food was ready, and Zephyr gorged herself on the whales. Five hours later, she had finished nine of them without counting the other massive squids and monsters of the deep that Rilyeh pulled out. While anyone would’ve been horrified and puzzled by where this small fairy was putting all of that food in, the queens knew that she could just digest food that fast.

Rilyeh looked at the countless bones left behind the stone Grove with a sad face, “Rest in peace.” And then flew back to talk with Zephyr. She gave her a sharp glare, “So… I take it you only survived thanks to leaving your crown outside?”

Zephy looked at the water spirit queen with a passive face and then nodded, “Of course, my soul is bound to it. But to be honest, I wasn’t thinking about that when I gave her the crown.”

The only one who could understand her reasoning was Nar. She looked at her and then grimaced, “You gave the crown of a spirit queen to a mortal. You know, we should’ve killed her. Why did you trust us?”

Zephyr looked at her with a smile, “Why ask when you know the answer?” She then took a deep breath, “Out of everyone, you’re the most likely to take action, Nar. But… I know you’ll never harm her; in fact, you’ll make sure she stays alive until I come back.”

Nar looked away. “That’s in the past…” She growled and waved her hand at the hearth, almost melting the stones. “For now! Eat!”

Zephyr looked at her with a smile and then finished eating. Another hour passed quietly, and soon Zephyr, accompanied by the other spirits, teleported back to Hati’s mansion to check on what happened there.

Gojo had lost the fight against the abomination, but his expansion and efforts had managed to cripple almost all of them which allowed Kayden and Kali to kill them without causing much damage to the kingdom below.

Arad, on the other hand, was locked inside the mountain itself, where he now slumbered. While his wives were still worried about him, they knew he would be fine. Zephyr, on the other hand, had a lot to deal with, especially with Aella.