"Azure! What are you doing come on." A low hum of a females voice rang through the air jolting Azazel from his daze. He leaned forward only to be met with? Water? All around him. He was in a clear pool that looked cut into ivory and topaz boulders. He looked down only to realize he was wearing white and black gold garbs lung low on his narrow hips. Then that voice rang out again as he turned hearing the splash of water.
"Azure?" A small white haired female with violet eyes greeted his gaze. Her body lithe only full around her bust and the curve of her hips that curved evenly into sharply long legs. Her image was intoxicating. Her chest laid bare save for a low slung chain of black scales that moved in a v between the valley of her bosom. Hung around her hips was the same white and black gold garment that had slits up to the round fullness of her hips. She had tied either side together as it flowers to heavily in the pool around them.
" are you ok azure? Is something amiss?" Her tone was not worrisome but had a hint of anxiety. Azazel was awe struck as he spoke.
"No I just had a strange dream?" He said quizzically. She looked down at him tilting her head before letting out a laugh that filled the air with moisture and honey.
"A dream you say." She choked up her face creased with her laughter. "So you angles have dreams now? Gods help us what ever could it have been." She continued to snicker wading into the water deeper and deeper.
"No you're right it couldn't have been a dream of course." He moved closer pulling her in by her hand before picking her up. Her legs wrapping around his hips as he began to chuckle. " Azure you're so worrisome and always so pawing? Do you have any shame being so ancient and wise." Her jab felt critical as he let out a half hearted ha at her words his face carried a lopsided grin.
"Ah my sweet Vixen how your words do bite. How could I feel shame when a bounty of good fortune has collapsed into my arms so willingly and haughty none the less." He jabbed back earning a a flick to his shoulder.
"You're not funny Azure." She seemed to pout in displeasure. He grabbed her hand with his free one clasping it to his cheek before nuzzling into it.
"You can't stay here Azazel" a deafening echo shook his thoughts. The once warm pool turned to a sludge brown liquid thick and warm around him. The women in his arms was gray her eyes hazy with anguish as her tears turned to blood. Vines writhed beneath her skin some pushing out to wrap around her in an almost protective way.
Azazel looked ahead to the being infront of him. A hollow hole devoid of light or dark in the suggestive shape of a large humanoid creature stepped to the edge of the pool. A crown of wild thorns wrapping around its head and wrists as black oozed from it slowly enveloping the ground.
"You are no longer welcome in this land" it said before Azazel felt and unnatural tearing pain in his shoulders. He moved forward and let out an agonizing cry before all of his bones began to shift to the surface in small patches a his knuckles were first then the hinged
bones of his shouldered ripped through his flesh. Bones that kept forming from his ribs and out of his back six on each side ripping him apart from the inside out. His screams felt hollow as he flinched taking notice of the hollow creature before him in all its terror.
"You have forsaken me for the last time my child." The void stated abjectly. " you have chosen to turn away from me and your siblings and take part in an unholy act against me with your brothers. You are no longer welcome among us and shall be cast down to the very humans you despise and further to suffer the sins of all souls you will now wield."
As his agony increased he felt a weight at his back when six strong wings enveloped him and the female in his lap gasped out from the vines her hand shooting forward to hold his cheek once more. "Azure." She gasped in pain. He grasped her hands wrapping her in an embrace that made his sense quake in the reprieve she brought. Then he felt her go slack the vines around her withering and draping all around as an ember light emanated through the blood seeping out of fractured skin. Her soul drifted from her abdomen lighting the skin underneath before its light came aglow peering out of her open aguish stricken mouth.
Azazels eyes stared on in horror as his beautiful vixen crumpled in on herself her bones snapping and her body melding into the pool of sledge around him. He grappled at the pool viciously looking for her crazed in pain. " You never cease to disappoint me Azazel." The hollow echo said while Beckoning the soul into its void before azazel could do anything more than kneel before the void as if to beg for forgiveness. " Gods please. Give her back. Gods please have mercy on her!" He bellowed the exposed bones twitching as his muscles grew taught in his pleas.
"You who forsakes me asks for mercy after all that I've bestowed upon you. My beautiful wise and arrogant child. You laid with this creature in my sky's and had nothing but sympathy for those who'd betray me." The void spoke eloquently. " You will carry every soul and every sin on your body. But you will never taste this soul of this Suiko. You will live and eternity as a child in decay and bare the agony every waxing of the moon." It bellowed out before its void swallowed the ember light whole.
Azazel woke with a fright as Isabella shook him violently. "Sire!sire! Please come back something is wrong something is terribly wrong!" She screamed. He shook his head eye wide in shock. He looked at Isabella and nodded before rising to his full stature. Only then did he notice the bones in his knuckles jutting out like barbs. Isabella gasped " sire its not the maiden moon yet why are you .." She trailed off. " Theirs no time for that sire the crops they're dying and all the children have turned grey and are barely hanging on. Sire we have to do something people are getting more and more scared thinking the gods have forsaken them."
Azazel bit back a hollow laugh. " No they haven't. Go tell all the servants to come with some knights and bring all the ailing children to the edge of the inner walls of this castle." He commanded and swiftly turned to the female in his bed who was barely breathing now. He moved towards her pulling her into his embrace feeling that unusual tug in his chest. Something about having her close made his mind ease. He turned to the door shaking off his thoughts before exiting into a grim and bare hallway. Foot steps echoing off the walls. The bones of his shoulders began to pierce through his shirt. He knew if he didn't hurry he could end up killing all these children and once again be the cause of war and slaughter.
he looked down at the creature in his arms as the female in his dreams face seemed to favor in this creatures features. He was in awe at ever pore of her even with an unbeating heart and long years being a husk of his once familiarly normal living life he felt something inside him move and it wasn't the demon he bit back every maiden moon it was deeper.
He finally reached the outside opening into a wild yet tame open patch of the castles side garden. He stepped closer covering the creature in his robes before clicking his tongue. All his soldiers stood in a formation around the small forms of children of all ages the oldest looking a meek 17 while the youngest being close to newborns being held stead fast in their weeping mothers arms.
They all saluted with a deafening clank of metal and the stepped back while waiting for further commands. " Listen and listen well all of you and I just may be able to save your children as well as your fields." He bellowed sternly fighting the urge to slaughter them with all his might as his eyes blue showed a shimmer of black creeping in the the corners of his eyes with every step.