Standing tall and proud in the middle of the ruined city of Voyagerinda is the legendary tree of the oldest living Goddess Cartilliannae, who is known to be mysterious and flirtatious. Its glowing lights pierce through the tiny tears that were made by the former King Alvis, the ruler of Voyagerinda that conquer the lands of the Southeast Island of Wen Aleazdan. The muscular vine that surrounds the tree symbolizes the prosperity of the kingdom and its leaves represent its people.
The trunk that holds the head and the leaves represent the strong wisdom and beautiful structures of the kingdom that is built with stone and swords from the bereaved heroes of the fallen kingdom. The roots that serve to be the base of the whole tree represent the other kings that died to protect the kingdom from the other kings that try to conquer the kingdom of Voyagerinda.
The water that sprouts on the leaves of the large tree represent the tears of the people who cried during the war and after the war. Their tears represent all the fallen soldiers that no one cared about saving. Meryanha stares blankly at the tree as it engulfs both Jethro and Alviary. The other Angel Gods try to reach for them but were stopped by Belevathan than has a sad smile on her face.
The Angel Gods pull their hands away and walk back to their formation and look at their Queen who is having her own dilemma of not knowing what to do next.
Salthifer sighs and lands on the tiled ground as he stares at the glowing tree as the light dims and runs out. He walks to his sister who has been rumbling unknown words since Jethro and Alviary got sucked up to the large tree. "They'll get passed through it just believe in those two. Cartilliannae can't hurt them, especially the titan," Salthifer said, reassuring their safety as they clean up everything and watch the Sluaghs' bodies rot away along with the clean winds.
They went back to their ship without the two love birds and sailed away from the ruin Kingdom and went back to the island in hopes that Jethro and Alviary would be safe inside the tree.
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Keres pants as he watches his father's head rolls down the ground and stops as it looks at them with a glistening tear and a helpless smile. It was both creepy and disgusting that the young Prince looks away from it. He can't believe that he killed his father in an instant. Agus's body dissolves into thin air and his minions suddenly stop and fall down to the ground like fallen statues.
Everyone stops and Larius immediately reports back to Salthifer about the things that had happened to the island as he looks at Keres who is having his existential crisis of what to do now, that his father had died. The young prince stares back at his mate and smiles as tears uncontrollably brimming down his face.
Larius hugs him as his sword clangs along the rocky surface of the island. The people of Biringan watch the Sluagh Prince cries his eyes out after killing his cold-blooded father.
The people of Biringan help the other creatures in cleaning up the island and looks for more debris or ruins that could create greater damage to the children that play around the island. Larius brought Keres back to their room so he could get rest after his fight against his father who gave him no choice of retaliation.
It took a greater toll on Keres' body, mind, and soul but Larius knows that he could get back up again. He was about to go out of the room when he felt pain in his chest. He looks at it in case of some bruises but he did not see anything.
He felt the pain again and looks back at where Keres is and sees that he is also in deep pain. He closes the door and went to Keres as he brushes his luscious hair and caresses his freckled cheeks. "Are you okay?" Larius asks as he stares at Keres' crimson eyes that are dilating with love and lust. "I will be. I just need some time, will you accompany me?" Keres asks his mate who only leans forward and kisses him on his lips.
The kiss started sweetly and filled with love that turns into something a bit rough and hungry. Larius straddles his legs over Keres' torso and leans for a rougher kiss. He moans as the kiss goes deeper and deeper. Keres rest his head on the bed rest as he pulls Larius towards him and chuckles.
"You look beautiful, my mate," Keres said and smiles as he kisses him again and again and again. The pain in Larius' chest that he felt moments ago has been long gone as he cuddles with his mate for the rest of his earthly life.
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Alviary woke up with pains in every inch of his body. He looks around the place that he lands on and sees that he lands on Jethro's massive and muscular chest. He groans as he tries standing up and wakes up Jethro who is sleeping peacefully underneath him.
He stands up and removes all the dust from the humongous vines that wrapped around him and kicks Jethro's leg to wake him up. The kick did wake Jethro up but he just stares at Alviary with a loving expression, admiring the beauty in front of him as Alviary looks so elegant and enchanting that the titan just has the feeling of wanting to jump on him at that instant because Alviary is looking at him with lust in his eyes and his body is indeed inviting him to get on with it.
Jethro was about to jump on him when a hug vine wrapped around him and Alviary as it separates the two from each other before a voice suddenly called out their names. They both turned their heads to the source of the voice and watches as the figure reveals herself from the shadows.
Alviary gasps as he sees the one behind the figure. She is a Seelie Queen that wears the vines that wear small enough to fit her dress. Her hair is white as snow and her skin as pale as a new sheet of blank paper. What are most fantastic about her is her headpiece that represents all the goodness that you can find in nature. She is indeed the mysterious oldest Goddess of Sage, Cartilliannae.
Alviary immediately bows to her and Jethro did so, too. She smiles at them and asks them to stand up. "Welcome to my kingdom," she said softly with her voice a little pitch higher than Meryanha but not a bit lower than Sartilliane.
Jethro nods and looks at Alviary who is looking away from him. This hurts him but he just chooses to ignore it. Cartilliannae clears her throat that made Jethro looked her way as he looks at him intently. Alviary is still looking away from them as his cheeks flush bright red that he becomes more embarrassing that the Seelie Queen had seen their flirty antics.
"I forced you to enter the portal to my kingdom for a challenge, and you only have three days to complete it," she said, instructing them as she walks in the longest gate that the two had ever seen. They were still apart from each other and being carried by humongous vines that were supported by trees that surround her kingdom.
Jethro is still wondering as to why Alviary won't look his way but when he sees that his face is flushed red, he realizes that the queen might have seen the sudden display of affection with lust that they did earlier. He, himself, has felt the shame and embarrassment of getting caught in the middle of lusting over a living God. He looks away from Alviary and heard a tiny chuckle from the Seelie Queen. "I hope you would fulfill this challenge as it requires a lot of patience and trust especially now that you are fully mated, Alviary," she said with her tone filled with seriousness and a little hint of tease.
Alviary sighs in defeat and stares at her pouting that Jethro finds cute but not wanting to distract the Queen from her speech so he tries to behave himself before he could jump off to Alviary and mate him in front of the Seelie Queen. As she clears her throat and looks at the two whose cheeks were still blushing from their own antics. She smiles and announces something Alviary would be impossible since he was mated to a titan who only thinks of sex and nothing but sex.
Jethro sighs in frustration as he whines away his worry of not being able to touch or feel Alviary for the next three days of their stay in her kingdom. He looks at the queen with pure hate and disgust that she could do such a thing to a titan like him. The Seelie Queen only chuckles and Alviary cusses,
"Shit."