Angel of Darkness
Chapter 63: Back to work.

After dealing with the envoy, we said our goodbyes to the Minotaurs and headed back home. Twilight is currently resting in our cabin while Desire is nestled up next to me on a lounging chair.

She's swirling a finger on my chest and looking at me with half lidded eyes. "Just so you know, when we get back, you're knocking me up again," she tells me in a lustful tone.

My only response is to smile, snake my hand to her ass, and give a firm squeeze. She moans and drapes her leg over mine and snuggles into my neck, while being careful not to impale me with her horn.

For a few hours nothing of interest happens, until a loud roar echoes throughout the sky. I lean up and Desire groans unhappily as I look around.

"REPORT!" I yell out as I get up.

"REPORTING! DRAGON SIGHTED STARBOARD SIDE, ESTIMATED TEN MILES AWAY!" A lookout replies where I look over the railing and see a big dragon heading toward us.

I frown as I start issuing commands. "HALT THE SHIP! READY THE CANNONS! SNIPERS TAKE AIM! I'LL GO SEE WHAT IT WANTS AND IF IT'S HOSTILE WE KILL IT!"

A round of affirmatives shout out as the crew scramble to fulfill my orders. I start stretching as Desire gets up and walks beside me. "So what's the plan?" she asks me.

I hum and shrug. "Simple, ask what it wants, if it's hostile we kill and harvest it. If friendly? Maybe have a chat and then be on our way," I reply and start hopping on the spot.

"Hmmm, I am getting hungry and that dragon we had when we first got here was tasty..." she says and her gut gurgles.

I chuckle and grin. "We'll see," I simply say as I'm given a flare gun kit with three different coloured flares; red, green, and blue which I tuck into my coat.

Selene comes out and asks what's going on, so after a quick recap she says. "It would appear to be a rogue dragon, any dragon not living in Draconis are considered exiled or lone hunters. Killing them here would not result in retaliation from the Dragonlord at least."

"Hmmm, good to know," I reply and take off toward the dragon.

As I get closer and closer, I see its colours are green scales with tan belly scales. Four backward pointing horns adorn their head and two fin-like ears on the sides. Their tail has six spikes on the end and they seem to have a few battle scars over their body.

After a good five minutes I finally reach them. I stop and hover in place where the dragon also stops and glares at me.

In a deep male tone he speaks. "What are you doing in my territory," he demands calmly.

Well, points for not going instantly hostile. "Just passing through from Minos to Equestria, we didn't even know you were here to be honest," I reply.

He looks from me to my ship, then back to me. "And what is that?" he asks, pointing to said ship.

"It's my airship that we use for long distance travel and cargo transport," I reply. Makes sense since I doubt he's seen anything like it before.

He narrows his eyes and grins at me. "Then you shall pay a toll for passing through my territory," he tells me greedily while licking his lips.

I now have an unamused expression and sigh, and those points are taken back. "How about no, my turn, you leave now before I skin your hide, eat your corpse, and take your soul," I threaten him and summon Thanatos. "By the way, you wouldn't be the first dragon I've eaten before," I warn him.

He growls and I can just see his pride not taking that threat very well. "You dare threaten me!? You pathetic little bug! I will roast and eat you alive!" he says angrily and I've just had enough of this.

I rummage through my coat and find what I was looking for, the flare gun with a red flare and load it. Aiming up, I pull the trigger and the flare flies up, surprising the Dragon.

"What was that!?" he demands.

I just grin as I hear gunfire and the ship fire its cannons, the sound of the whistling cannonballs soar past me, slamming right into the dragon while bullets hit him in the face, blinding him as both eyes are shot out.

I pretend to cringe as I see his left arm break from one hit, another hits his stomach, and a third impacts right on his right cheek, the other two shots missed by mere inches. The gunners have got some good aim from that distance.

The dragon roars out in pain as he spirals down to the ground. I tuck in my wings and dive down after him until I'm right behind him and swing my scythe into his back.

Another roar as Thanatos is trying to pull out his soul, but it seems the lizard is resisting, that's a first. I create a blade of solid shadow and start shanking him in the kidneys over and over until his soul finally gets pulled out.

I quickly pull Thanatos out and take off before the corpse slams into the ground. Now with the little skirmish over, I pull out the green flare and fire it up, signaling the ship to come over.

After a good ten minutes the ship lands and the crew begin their task of butchering the dragon. Selene has asked for two of his horns, as weapons made from a dragon's horns are quite durable and retain a sharp edge for a long while.

I agree and the team have made several bolts of dragon hide, many slabs of meat wrapped up and stored away with preservation spells, bones and loose scales cleaned and placed into the ship's cargo hold.

Selene sighs and speaks up. "Shame we do not know the location of his lair, his hoard will be lost until it is randomly discovered."

"Oh is that all?" I hold up Thanatos and allow him some power to manifest. "Thanatos, search the dragon soul's memories for the location of his lair," I ask him.

"Yes, my Lord," he replies and after a minute, I see images appear in my mind, a valley, and a cave on a mountain side nearby.

"Well done, you can do whatever you want to the dragon's soul," I tell him, getting a nod in reply as he fades away.

I dismiss my scythe and look at the crew. "All aboard! We will be heading out to claim a hoard!" I shout out, getting excited cheers.

"That's handy," Selene comments with surprise.

I shrug as we head back on deck. "I sometimes keep forgetting Thanatos can do that, and I rarely need to do so. It also doesn't always work as it depends on the willpower of the soul as well," I reply.

I take the wheel and fly us to the lair which takes about thirty minutes. We arrive, enter, and nothing much happens. It's similar to the other dragon I killed with a pile of gold and gems, just less furniture. We loot the gold and are careful with anything silver. We bury any skeletons of minotaurs and other races we find, then make our way back to Equestria. I've given about a third of the hoard to Selene and she's also found a few minotaur treasures she will send back to Onyx later.

We land at Canterlot after a week of travel and offload Selene's spoils. Once she and the Equestrian envoy are back in the castle, we say our goodbyes and take off back to the town which has progressed nicely in the two weeks we were gone.

"Alright! Unload the gold and store it in the town treasury! Get the silver prepped for transport back to Tartarus and securely stored! Get the dragon meat ready for a feast! And send the dragon hide, bones, and scales to the blacksmith to see what it can be used for!" I start giving out orders.

Desire yawns and stretches as she gets off the ship and hugs me from behind. "Well that was fun, but we need to go back as I have no doubt paperwork has piled up, and you. Need. To... breed~ me," she tells me seductively.

I sigh and rub my face. "I know, go get Twilight and ask her what she wants to do, stay here and visit her family, or come back with us," I ask her. She hums and kisses my cheek before walking back onto the ship to find our purple lover.

"Damian! You're back!" I hear Mel ask as she walks over to me. I notice a dark red male succupony with short white hair about her age walking next to her and looking nervous.

She gives me a quick hug and asks how our trip was. "It turned out well, won over the minotaurs, pissed off the gryphons, killed a dragon, and got a lot of treasure. How are you?" I surmise and ask.

She blinks a few times and shakes her head. "Sounded like an adventure, but I'd like to introduce you to Crimson Skies," she says and gestures to the nervous succupony.

"I take it from how nervous he is, you either went lust hungry and he helped you, or he's your new boyfriend?" I ask calmly while glancing at the now slightly shaking Crimson Skies.

She looks at Crimson and sighs as she hugs him. "I told you it'll be fine, now stop shaking," she tells him. Seems she's the dominant of the two.

I chuckle and wave my hand dismissively. "I'm sure dating the sister of your boss would make anyone nervous. As long as he's treating you right then I'm okay with it. At least you found someone to help you take care of things and like him," I say and look around.

No sign of Pinkie around but I have no doubt she'd appear if I called out to her. More housing is built, some shops ranging from convenience stores, an Inn, weapon store, butcher, and... there's already a sex toy shop up and running. I mentally shrug and focus back on the now calmed down succupony who is hugging Mel back.

"Well, nice to see you having a good time here, but I need to head back to Tartarus and the paperwork waiting for me," I tell my sister.

She lets go of Crimson and looks at me. "Yeah, I suppose running a nation has its boring parts, I'll let you know if I need anything. But I need to get back to my bar as well," she replies and tugs on Crimson's hand. "I'll meet you tonight after work," she tells him and walks off.

"Okay!" he calls out to her.

I smirk as I quietly walk up behind him and give him a gentle but firm pat on the shoulder and hold my hand there. He goes rigid and stops breathing.

I chuckle and pat his shoulder. "Relax, I'm not gonna do anything to ya. Just treat her well and never hurt her, then we'll get along swimmingly. What's your job here by the way?" I ask him.

He finally breathes a sigh of relief and salutes me. "I'm part of the recon squad that was assigned to explore the surrounding forest, my Lord," he replies.

I nod in understanding. "I see, anything interesting found while I was away?" I ask him. Seems like he's finally losing tension.

"Actually yes, we found an odd really big tree that's just covered in magic and it seems from the magic experts opinion that it may very well be the heart of this forest," he replies.

I rub my chin in thought. "Interesting, continue observing it and if it becomes a threat, contact me immediately and contain the tree and anything else it could be using. Kill it if you can't," I tell him, getting a salute. "Dismissed," I then say.

He nods. "Yes, my Lord!" he simply says and flies off.

I wait for a few minutes where I see Desire with Twilight walking over.

A smile works its way onto my face as Twilight gives me a quick hug and kiss before backing up. "Desire's told me you're heading back to Tartarus for work, but I'd like to stay here for a couple of days to see my parents. Then I'll make my way back to Tartarus myself and meet up with you. Should give you and Desire enough alone time to make a baby while I'm gone," she says and comments with a sly smirk.

I raise an eyebrow at her trying to talk dirty. "Oh? You sure you don't want to be there to watch? I'm sure Slitherana would like to join in as well," I tease her and lean down to her ear. "Just imagine, Desire on the bed, you on top of her, me leaning on you as I'm breeding her, and Slitherana wrapped around all three of us as we rub against each other in a hot sweaty mess," I tell her in a deep husky tone.

Her face instantly blushes red, her legs are lightly rubbing against each other, and her breathing gets heavier.

Desire moans at the description and giggles. "I think she likes that idea!" she says and before Twilight can voice her opinion, Desire just picks her up bridal style and heads for the portal. "We're making it happen!" she says in excitement, leaving Twilight blushing harder and sputtering gibberish.

I just laugh as do a few other nearby demons and follow them both to the portal.

Twilight is back in her lab with Olivia and calmed down for now. Desire has gone off to prepare for her breeding tonight while I'm in my office looking over piled up papers and forms.

Seems a few Archdemons want to pledge their loyalty after hearing about what I did to Tirek and his Archdemon followers. I'll have to set aside time to meet with them and see if they're being sincere or just trying to kiss my ass.

"Hmmm?" I'm looking at a request to set up a racing track outside the city. I guess someone saw the dune buggy I test drove and wants to offer a deal of making a race course and thirty percent of the profits goes to the treasury.

Sounds like a fun idea but it'll be awhile until we start production of dune buggies as Olivia is still fine tuning the prototype. I place it in the pile for setting up a meeting with the petitioner and move onto the next.

Godon knocks on the door and enters with a report on the finances which I think him for. He simply nods and leaves.

After a quick read through I move onto the next form... Huh, well ain't this a rib tickler. This fucker is demanding I hand over over the throne to them or suffer his wrath... A Horgan Killjoy? Never heard of them before. I look over the paper and there's nothing else, just that one demand. I throw it in the bin and set it on fire with a bit of darkfire.

For the next few hours I sift through a good forty percent of the paperwork before calling it a day and head to bed as I'm pretty sure I'll have plenty to satisfy my appetite tonight.

I greet the staff on the way and reach my room. With a firm push I open the doors and head to the bedroom.

With a confidant push I open the door and what greets me is the exact scene I described to Twilight and Desire.

Both succponies are on the bed hugging each other while Slitherana is wrapped around them both. All naked.

"Bout time you showed up, I can only kiss this mare for so long before I go find you myself!" Desire says and I see Twilight looking back at me with an extremely lustful expression and saliva dripping from her mouth.

I just grin, walk over while stripping down and climb onto the bed.

Author's Note

I'm back and we hit the 200k words with this chapter.