Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Sugar RUSH ❯ Prelude 2 Enchantment pt 2 ( Chapter 16 )

Hello I know it may seem that this is taking some time to get to the actual wedding, but please rest assured that the last wedding upload will arrive tomorrow. Oh and be prepared for a few surprises…

 

Sugar Rush 16

 

As the sun graced the tallest Arcadian tower Lord D placed a hand on his son's shoulder and gently nudged him awake. D opened his eyes and blinked up into his fathers face, “I thought that if I awakened you now and you got your morning sickness out of the way, we could spend all day getting you ready.” Lord D explained the reasoning behind the early wake up. “How do you feel?”

D pouted and weakly rubbed his stomach. Lord D arranged D flat on his back and began to massage his stomach as cramps began to wrack his small frame. “Should I go get Leon?” JJ asked worried as beads of sweat broke out of D's forehead.

“No, as a matter of fact, I have to ask you to leave, quickly before the sun fully rises, the only males allowed near him from now till the ceremony will be myself and my father.” Lord D said without looking up at JJ. He was focused solely on his son's discomfort. JJ nodded and left the room in a hurry, not wanting Lord D upset with him for disturbing whatever cultural tradition he was observing.

D tried to relax and concentrate on his father's hands…and yet…It just wasn't Leon. “Come on then, quickly,” Lord D stood and pulled D to his feet and rushed him to the bathroom. A knock sounded at the door, Andy grumbled and opened one eye, she had slept beside D last night to the disgruntlement of her husband.

“Oophuehnue,” she mumbled and flopped her hand towards the door. The door opened to admit Alera.

“So sorry to wake you highness,” Alera said puzzled to find the princess here and not D. She listened and heard the sound of D retching in the bathroom, “ah, nervous?”

“Ummm, no…Pregnant,” Andy said and looked to where Sofu was entering the room followed by several young women carrying D's wedding ensemble over their arms.

“Oh, yeah, right, humans and humanoids tend to be ill during the gestation period.” Alera said with a nod of understanding.

“Well we can't all lay eggs,” Andy said and grumbled as she rubbed her tummy which chose that moment to let her know that she was hungry.

“Only the lower castes lay eggs my lady,” Alera said, “I will one day carry a child, and have to deliver it in much the same fashion that you will, but the child will share a closer genetic link with me through fire and so my body will not treat it like a foreign agent.” Alera grinned smugly; she always enjoyed teasing the princess.

“Why are you here exactly?” Andy asked and began to pile a plate high with food from the steaming buffet table.

“Oh, right,” Alera looked up when D and Lord D left the bathroom. D having rinsed his mouth and Lord D, looking none too steady himself, rushing to make D a cup of gentian tea. “Last night Leon arranged that I was to deliver this to you,” Alera held out the bag she had been carrying that Andy noted for the first time. “Happy Valentines Day,” Alera winked and blew a kiss at D before she tossed her glorious mane of silver, white and blue tinted hair and left the room. As she was leaving the door opened and several princesses, along with Jill, Diana, Carol and her majesty Queen Victoria herself strolled into the room giggling and chattering.

“Aren't you going to stay and join us?” Andy asked perplexed as Alera left.

“I'm on security today; the king was explicit in his orders. No one without an invitation is getting in and those who do have one are to be strictly checked over.” Alera explained. The king had expressly warned that they were to be on top vigilance, for D's safety during the ceremony. Alera wondered why, but knew better than to question her king's orders.

 

Break

 

Jhaymes stood outside the door of the breakfast room where the men had gathered and frowned. D thought this was funny, having him deliver this particular package. Leon opened the door and stared down at the young man that had so rudely manhandled D last night. “Happy Valentines Day,” Jhaymes grumbled, he shoved the bag and package at Leon before he marched away.

Leon grinned before he entered the room and sat down where the guys were being served breakfast. He looked into the bag and found diamond cufflinks, a new pair of shoes and a small velvet box containing a pinky ring that matched the cufflinks. “Wow!” Leon looked up to see Ryo and Dee behind him. “D sure knows how to get the good stuff, first a Rolex for Christmas and now this,” Dee said and grinned. Leon blushed and moved on to the box. Inside were over a dozen extra large strawberries dipped in chocolate.

“D made those,” Ryo said with a bit of awed surprise. “I wondered what he was doing yesterday before we left the shop.” Ryo would have said more, but his eyes rounded, “Oh, right, you are the man he loves.”

“Try that again in English, I know he loves me, so what is the significance of the strawberries and chocolate?” Leon said puzzled by Ryo's sudden bright smile.

“It is just an old custom where…”Ryo paused before he said girls… but he figured D could be considered both now, at least until he delivered his child. “ah well it is when,” Ryo blushed, “When girls give chocolate to the guys they like or are in love with or married to, if the chocolate is handmade it is just that much more loving, not only did he make the milk chocolate, he also hand dipped each strawberry.” Ryo said looking away from Dee who plainly remembered getting chocolates this morning.

“My chocolate wasn't hand made,” Dee grumbled

“I don't know how to make it, ask Leon for some of his,” Ryo said and went to wake Bikky who still slept quite oblivious that another day had started.

 

Break

 

D sat in the large opulent tub at mid day and relaxed as his father washed his hair. “I want you to be prepared for anything, for a few moments today you will not be bound to anyone, in that moment you are most vulnerable to an attempt to take you by force.” Lord D said and ran his hands through the mass of silky hair that flowed into the softly scented water. Lord D found D staring at him and smiled. “I can no longer count each rib you possess.” Lord D looked his son over, “You are not so frighteningly thin anymore, and I had become worried, despite father telling me you were fine.” D smiled and shifted in the cooling water as it warmed itself around him.

“How long do I stay in here?” D asked worried that his skin would begin to wrinkle.

“Until I tell you to get out,” Sofu said and entered the bathroom. He placed oils into the water along with what looked like several baskets worth of flower petals. Sofu took a large spoon and stirred the water.

“Ha, D soup,” Andy said when she peeked into the bathroom.

“My lady, we are to be allowed time to prepare my son for his new role in life,” Lord D chastised gently. Andy pouted and went back across the room to enjoy the lunch that was being laid out. She had come to let them know that lunch had arrived and found it amusing to see Lord D stirring the bathwater.

“My new role in life?” D questioned and sat up paying closer attention.

“Relax,” Lord D said and pushed him back into the water. “Nothing much to stress over, it is pretty much the role you have filled these many months.” Lord D said and blushed. “No one in our family has ever had this particular conversation before simply because we traditionally have sons and well… While it is not unlikely that a male will take a male human as a lover, it is very unlikely that they will join their lives this way.”

“Why is this a problem?” D asked and stood when his grandfather took his hand and pulled him from the tub wrapping him in a towel that resembled a small blanket, so completely did it encompass D's small frame.

“It's not exactly a problem,” Sofu explained and indicated that D should sit on his bed. Sofu handed D a vial of oil that he was to massage into his skin. “Usually when a Kami chooses to join with a mortal in this way, if something should happen, the family can revoke the contract. In this case both your father and I are releasing our hold on you and if something should go wrong, we can't interfere. Only upon his death will Leon be free of his contract.”

“I have no qualms, should the need arise, to see the contract ended early by my own hand.” Lord D vowed and began to brush D's hair dry.

“You are talking about ending Leon's life. Why would you do such a thing?” D said the horror in his voice plain to hear, “What are you talking about? What could go wrong that you would need to cancel the contract?”

“Humans have been known, when they come to be in possession,” Lord D sneered at the word, “of one such as a Kami, to treat them like slaves, violence is often the result.” Lord D looked guiltily away from his son as he remembered his own violence that he had visited upon his son.

“Oh father, Leon would never…” D began.

“They all say that in the beginning and yet all too common is the family of the Kami left with no choice but to cancel the contract. There have even been deaths,” Lord D said and waited for D to finish with the oil before he handed him a pair of pristine white pants. After D had put them on Lord D took his hands but could not look into is eyes. “Humph, for all we know the contract could only be in existence for another eight months at best,” Lord D said bitterly. “Promise me child,” Lord D said urgently, “ you will speak to me immediately if there is ever a need…” Lord D folded his arms and stood near a window gazing at the snow below,.

“Of course,” D promised sadly and sat on the bed again reaching for the white shoes with diamonds sprayed across the tops.

“Now when the time comes for the contract to end, you will automatically return to the care of your family and your child will remain in our care as well…” Sofu paused as he noted the tears coursing silently down D's face. “I know it is difficult to think of such times, and yet is it necessary to understand beforehand all that will take place. In the event that your child chooses to remain a Kami, he will be primarily in your care, should you become deceased he will go to your father and then unto me. I know you are wondering why I do not have a guardian, well I am beyond the age where such is needed and I have garnered powers to protect myself that you have not lived long enough to even understand.”

“Wait, so you are still under guardianship?” D asked his father whose cheeks pinkened and he refused to answer his son's probing gaze.

“Should he find himself in trouble I will find him, it is how I found you two all those years ago, and how I found him recently, Prince Deipyros found my abode empty I had already reached the shop by the time he returned tired, you were being brought home, and it is well that the Arcadians handled Hama- I would not have tried to kill him, I want him alive and in my possession, he will pay for what he did to my son, my grand son and for what he tried to do to you.” D gulped at the fire that entered his Grandfathers eyes. “Come, the rest of you ensemble is waiting,” Sofu said on a suddenly lighter note. He left the room quite unaware that he had left his son and his grand son in a state of awe.

 

To-Be-Continued