I've been dreading and craving for this day for 995 years, I'm both loathing and overjoyed with what is about to happen. I've been through it twice, but this time is different, this time I'll have to be careful, I'm not going alone, and I'm not going just to learn about them, I'm going on a mission, one that I'm the leader of it. A mission I'm disgusted by and that I don't want to do, I really don't, so much that I'm wondering if I should run away just so I won't have to do it.
My parents wouldn't be able to come after me, after all the Emperor and the Empress, as well as the Queen-Mistresses are unable to cross the veil while being in power, because the Underworld begs for someone to rule it, and once the crown is in your head, you are imprisoned in there. So, if I ran, what the hell would they do? Nothing, because their hands would be tied.
In fact, that would actually be the solution to my problems.
One, I really do not feel like doing this mission at all, at the least not to the end of it, not to cause what my parents want me to cause. Two, I am, unfortunately, the Crowned Princess, so, if I come back, they will pass the Crown to me, and I'll be damned for good, and it won't be good at all. Three, I am forcefully engaged to my only full-blooded brother who is more than a millennial younger than me, and who I love but am utterly disgusted by.
Arkhan Theon, or just Khan like we call him, is my baby brother, the only brother I have, my only full-blooded sibling, he looks nothing like me because I look nothing like our parents, thank Tartarus for that, and though he plays around mockingly with me, he also doesn't want to marry me. Hell, he is in love with our half-sister Kara Chlóe, the fourth out of the eight of us, who's madly in love with him. For all I know, they could he mates.
I wouldn't know, since I have no idea what they feel, in a way of intensity, for each other, plus the fact that demons are almost numb to the mating bond, we could be mated to someone near us, and we wouldn't know. That's a difference between us and the races above, they are extremely sensitive to it, especially the fae, and they would know just by touching skin to skin, which is bizarre if you ask me. So, yes, they could be mates, we wouldn't know.
I'm the oldest out of the eight of us, at 2969, I'm considerably older than all the others, the youngest of us having just turned 1001 years old, Nara, who's a sweetheart. You could consider me quite the protective older sister, I love all of them, and I've seen them growing from the time they were born and on. Well, I did loose Nara's first 5 years, because I was in the surface in my second wandering, but I caught up later, and now she's my baby and she's always around me.
Hah, they all are always around me, sometimes I feel like I'm their mother or something. Our father, Emperor Balthazar Clethiinthiallorr, married seven she-demons, but only because my mom suggested it, so he would widen the bloodline and some shit. My mom is Empress Davika Clethiinthiallorr, and she's my dad full-blooded younger sister by 5 years, which is, well... disgusting, if you ask me.
My grandparents, which I never met, had engaged my dad to someone else, they were against him making his baby sister his Empress and having children with her, which is very understandable. However, my parents got pissy and killed them so they could be together, had them not, I doubt they would have become Emperor and Empress when they did, which I don't know when it was, because they never talk about dates with us. Funny or not, I don't even know their age, they get sensible about it.
Moral of the story, to avoid any disorder from the Royal Houses for his union with my mom, my mom had the idea to make dad marry the daughter of each Royal House, and make them his Queen-Mistresses, as well as have children with them, for the royals contentment and to widen the bloodline. Either way, they planned in making me their Heiress and marry me to my brother.
Wait, I know it's disgusting, but there's a reason.
Not reasoning with them, because I also disagree.
The reason is: bloodline purity. There was an ancient demon tradition between Imperials and Royals to marry into their own family, to straighten and cut the branches, and to keep the blood clean. And all the children of those unions were said to be extremely powerful in a catastrophic level, which is indeed the case with me, but I don't know about Khan.
Maybe I'm just abnormal, because I'm surreally stronger than everyone in here, and he is kind of... not strong as I was at his age. Again, it could be that it's a legend that only works with the firstborns or something like that, it would make sense. Or maybe it would only count if they only had children together, or if Khan had come right after me, and not at the same time as Kara.
First dad married my mom, obviously, and somewhere along the way, they had me, and here I am, yay. Then, dad married Hasira Daardendriann and had Iara Lavinia C. Daardendriann with her 636 years after I was born, next he married Jesrinn Haammerwingg and had Jara Violet C. Haammerwingg with her 156 years after Nia. Valthyra Kinxaakasendakorr became his 4th wife next and he impregnated her with Kara and my mom with Khan at the same time, they were born in the same day, Khan 10 hours earlier than Kara, both 422 years after Vi was born.
He made Lorarina Ophinshtalajiirr is 5th wife next and with her he had Lara Stella C. Ophinshtalajiirr, 211 years after Khan and Kara were born. The 6th wife was Naya Sheestendeliathh, whom he married and had Mara Rose C. Sheestendeliathh, 322 years after Ella. Lastly, he married the Princess of the 6th and last Royal House remaining, Zovra Tuurnorothh, and with her he had my baby sister Nara Minerva C. Tuurnorothh, 221 years after Rose.