The dragon's harem

Arad looked at Doma for a moment silently and then gasped, “Wait! Kali said that I should find the primordials, and the triplets of fate are one of them. Are you telling me you started a fight with them?”

“I didn’t start a fight. Fate got in my way, and those triplets said I can neither push nor walk around it. What did they expect me to do? Stop or turn around?” She shook her head, “So I searched for several years, studying the tapestry of fate through my clairvoyance, and eventually I found a way to escape fate, and I did just that.” She smiled with a proud face.

She then shook her head, “First, fate is fragile. It only took me escaping it to throw everyone into chaos. So the triplets of fate came looking for me. Not to kill me, but to put me back in my place in the tapestry of fate.”

Doma created a chair of black void and sat down. She lifted her hand, and the wine glass flew to her fingers. After swirling the wine for a bit, she took a sip. Her void body rippled.

“So… I killed myself. To fate, I already died ages ago. And now, I’m sharing your fate, as a part of your whole.” She then paused for a moment.

“A part of your fate is what I mean. Your fate is quite strange, even I can’t clearly see it. While everyone else’s fate is a thin string of light, yours is a strange shadowy haze. At least it’s thick enough to hide my fatelessness.” She sighed.

Sena extended her hand to the blond woman to get a refill of wine. “So, Doma, my sister in marriage or whatever we should call ourselves. Does that mean you’re the center of all the problems that have happened so far? Since you threw fate into chaos?”

Doma laughed. “Of course not, I’m a wild card, yes. But I didn’t cause all of those problems, at least not while fateless.” She leaned forward, looked at Arad, and then smiled. “Do you know what my fate was?”

“That I don’t.” Sena took a sip from her wine, “But what is it? Surprise me.”

“I was the main villain in Arad’s life. An obsessed lover who can’t get him, so I kept always trying to kill his wives to keep him for myself. Our fights were brutal, and many died at my hands.”

Doma gulped her whole glass. “I cursed Aella to only be able to eat meat and let Arad watch her slowly die of starvation and digestive problems. I cursed Mira’s child, so he turned into a monster and ate her from the inside out. Arad had to put the child down himself. I locked Claug in the core of a volcano and she slowly cooked alive until she died, all while I’m baiting Arad around so he won’t find out.”

Doma giggled, “And you, Sena, guess how I killed you.”

“You can’t kill me,” Sena replied with a calm face, and Doma burst out laughing.

“You’re right, I can’t, but Arad could. Remember Mira’s child disaster, I managed to frame you, and he killed you.”

Hearing that, Sena threw a glance at Arad and sighed, “I guess he could eventually kill me if he were motivated enough.”

Arad took a sip of his wine, “That didn’t happen, so it doesn’t matter. The question is, how did you break fate itself?”

“The goddess of Magic, Yog, or as we mortals know her, Lilia, the archmagus of the mage’s tower. She is omniscient. I had to make something that she didn’t know about, it was…” But at that moment, Yog appeared standing on the table.

“Hush, that part is something you aren’t supposed to say.” Everyone froze, especially Sena, who started sweating buckets. There was no time to hide the sinners she pulled out of hell.

Yog turned to Sena, “AH, don’t worry about them. I’m not telling anyone.” She already knew what Sena was thinking about.

“You always show up uninvited. Are you spying on us with magic or what?” Arad looked at her with a tired face, and Yog burst out laughing. She started floating and spinning in place.

“I don’t need to spy on anyone. I already know what will happen. Doma wasn’t joking when she said that I’m omniscient. But that’s all I have, knowledge of everything, even the forbidden one.”

Before Yog could century, Doma called her, “You knew I wasn’t going to say anything about it, so why show up. You don’t really need a reason, do you?”

“A reason? I’ve luckily got one today, and it’s quite important.” She sat and looked at Arad, “Cronos, the Titan Emperor of Time, and Vulkan, the Titan Empress of Space, were bitter enemies, but in secret, they were lovers. They spent the day trying to kill each other and spent the night in bed together.” She pointed at Arad, “With Cronos finally at peace, Vulkan is slowly losing her grasp on the world, and soon an abomination called Damnation will erase the Volcanic Titan kingdom from the map.”

She smiled, “Technically, this might be your fault, so I came to warn you.” She started disappearing, “AH, and by the way, Tina doesn’t have much longer to live.” And she disappeared.

“Wait, how long does she have?” Sadly, Arad’s words danced through the empty air, the damnable half-halfling was gone.

“Damn it,” Arad growled.

****

Back at the Storm Titan kingdom, Arad stopped midflight and hovered in the air, looking at the depth of the chasm. Tyal, who rode on his back, gasped, “ARAD! Monsters!”

One of the monsters looked like a giant salamander that grew wings. One was a humanoid ladybug, and the other was a wolf and a mosquito hybrid.

All of them were powerful, fast, and capable of flight. It took them only a second to take advantage of Arad’s momentary pause to coordinate an attack, aiming to kill Tyal first.

CLICK! But at that moment, they heard something click inside their heads, and then it clicked again. Soon, the clicking and clanging noise washed over their brains, drowning all thoughts and emotions in a flood of madness.

The three monsters fell dead, and the monsters surrounding Arad paused, looking at him in terror. Something was off.

Void Dragons are capable of communicating telepathically since the void of space has no air for sound to travel. When Arad received the news, his brain went into overdrive, trying to figure out a way to solve and finish the mess here and fly to the Volcanic Titan’s kingdom to kill Damnation. But what worried him more was Tina, and he had to use all of his intellect to try and guess how much time she had and why her soul would degrade so quickly.

The three monsters happened to brush against Arad’s raging psychic energy, causing their brains to be fried by the flood of thoughts. At that moment, Arad decided to end this war as quickly as possible.