Curse or Gift
Part 7
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It was the first thing he saw when the two got to the beach and something far worse than just the weapon of nature.
Bodies, bodies that have been greatly ripped apart by seemly the sharp rocks of the dragon lands are protected by.
Bloodstained the white sand of the beach.
During Jack's time in the military he hadn't seen much fighting but this?
This was something ripped out of a gore-filled horror movie.
Snapping out of it Jack then went to the beach where the ones from the wrecked ship were in pain with screams echoing through the beach.
Griffins...
Many of them.
All with an injury or holding an injured calling out for help.
"I need help over here!" That voice.
Jack turned his head to rush over to see none other than an old 'friend' of his dragging a knocked-out Griffin to shore.
"Gilda?"
The griffin raised its head.
"What the- Jack why are you here-?" She stopped upon seeing Jack's new form. "The buck happened to you?"
"Doesn't matter what happened?" Gilda spoke up.
"What does it look like?! Our ship got capped-sized when we were forced to bring her down from the sky because of that storm that came in out of nowhere!" Jack blinked in confusion.
"Storm?"
"Yeah, the storm you dweeb! It was a damn hurricane!" Gilda shouted.
"Gilda... their wasn't a storm," Jack told her confused.
"Yeah, there bucking was! We wouldn't have brought the ship down if there wasn't!" Gilda barked.
"Gilda there wasn't a storm last night," Jack told her. "Trust me I would know,"
"What you're saying I'm lying!?"
"No. I'm saying the storm didn't hit here," Glida glared at him.
"That storm was huge! How did it not hit here!?" Gilda asked as Jack shrugged.
"I-"
Nali then popped up from his leather-hoodie jacket's hood as Gilda glared.
"YOU!"
She then lunged forward to grab Nali as Jack smacked her hand from his new companion.
"Whoa there Gilda! What's your beef with Nali?" Jack asked as Gilda pointed.
"That little mice-mucher has been nothing but trouble when it stool away on our ship! It's been leaving little surprises in the powder room!"
Jack laughed.
"What? Nali needs to use the restroom too... so what if she stool away be glad not only did she hunt the rats on your ship but she's the reason why we are here in the first palace," Jack said petting Nali as she smiled.
Gilda glared.
"I'm not going to thank it,"
"Her... Nali is her,"
"Her! Whatever still not going to say anything," Glida said going to her friend.
"Ahh don't listen to the mean griffin," Jack smiled as Nali rubbed her head against Jack's 'cheek'.
"Just help me damn it!" Gilda spoke.
"Right," Jack then got down and began to help Gilda out.
"A storm?" Ember questioned while Jack nodded whipping the blood off his hands with a wet cloth. "There was no storm,"
"That's what I told them it's very unlikely since a storm like this causing a griffin ship to crash has to be a powerful ass storm," Jack spoke while Ember held her chin before looking up.
"You think they are lying to us?"
Jack shooked his head.
"I know Gilda for a while now and she's anything but a liar when it comes to something this serious. She 'cares' for her fellow griffins in her own way," Jack informed the dragon lord.
"What can cause a storm to just appear and vanish like that?"
"Sounds like texas," Ember stared at him. "Sorry I miss saying that joke,"
Ember still held a unamused look on her face.
"To be honest I've heard weirder shit and besides the fact if you told me I would be a nightwalker over night I wouldn't believe you," Jack said. "So a storm just coming out of the blue then disappearing just as fast doesn't surprise me in the slightest this is the land of magic we are talking about,"
Ember shook her head.
"The sea and skies around the dragon lands don't have magic in them everything here is natural,"
"Oh... shit..."
The dragon lord gave a nod while the two looked at the dragons helping out the griffins.
"Do you think this could be that storm king guy you told me about?" Ember asked.
"The storm king? Ember the dude was a self absorbed ego maniac he was anything but smart even if he did pull something like this off he couldn't have... because he's dead," Jack turned to Ember. "Hell my 'friends', tempest, spike, and myself watch him get his ass shattered into a million pieces. On top of that Celestia locked away every fragment of the stormking across the country I highly doubt he's alive,"
Nali began to rub herself against Jack's leg as he sat on the rock reaching down to pet her.
"Then again he could be alive the thing about villains no matter how hard you knock them down they always somehow pop back up stronger than before," Jack let Nali climb his arm to his back where she rested herself like a scarf.
Ember huffed.
"If the storm king is 'alive' they need to know," Jack looked down as he let Nali playfully bit his finger.
"Go ahead they need to know anyways," Jack then turned to her. "But I don't want to see them if they do come here,"
"Of course I'll make sure of that," Ember watched him get up before walking forward, she stopped him. "Jack,"
Turning his head towards her she looked at him.
"You know I'm here for you right?" The nightwalker smiled patting her hand.
"I know," Letting him go Nali's tail touched ember's hand.
'Don't worry I'll keep him safe,'
(Jack's house)
Nali sat on the table licking up some milk while Jack held a book from his bag: 'the space wolves codex' of course it was outdated slightly but it was still good to re-read the rules.
'Damn... Spike and I were planning on making our own model,'
Tapping his hand on the salamander's codex he then lowered the book.
'Did they ever make a Carcharodon codex? They had the one model though but Majorkill made a better one and more sized to scale...'
He chuckled to himself.
'Having actual DREADNOUGHT ARMOR in his own armor damn I really can't image a marine being that flipping big!'
Flipping the page to ulric the slayer he smiled.
"Rawr?" Nali was on his arm now causing him to smile.
"You finish Nali?" Looking to see her empty bowl of milk. "Seems so,"
*Pffff*
The cat then stuck her tongue at him causing him to smile.
"Man if we had cats like you back home," He placed his hand on her chin beginning to scratch it.
Purring came from Nali while he kept on reading the codex, but Nali had other plans.
*Plop*
Dropping herself on his arm he looked at her.
"Really?"
On her back she looked at him.
"Really now?"
Tilting her head like: 'I don't know what your talking about' caused him to roll his eyes.
"Cats... need all the attention in the world,"
He then closed the book before letting her grab his hand before giving bunny kicks and playfully nawing at it.
"Though I'm surprised a cat like you would be with a werewolf like me,"
Nali didn't answer but played with his hand some more, watching the cat play with his hand make him smile but something was on his mind.
What did cause that storm?
Was the storm king really back?
If so did he try to give a message saying that he was back and out for blood?
That would be worrying.
He spent most of the day helping the griffins at the beach and his fur was still stained with blood slightly of the those poor souls but...
Gilda was barely scratched.
Did she?
No should couldn't...
Sure she was a bit of a bitch but she couldn't do anything like that to her own people, he knew her.
Then again he though he knew the elements too.
Looking up at the night sky he sighed.
'I'm over thinking things Gilda couldn't cause a damn storm like that she can't use magic!'
...
...
...
Nali stopped playing with his hand while perking her ears up before turning towards the doorway.
"What is it?" Jack asked.
Then he felt it...
A sense of familiarity causing him to turn to the doorway.
Pushing himself up from the chair, Nali dropped from the table to the floor walking to the door way before turning to Jack expecting him to follow her.
He felt himself being pull forward while he followed Nali out the house into the path way to the lake.
Then the sound of song filled his ears.
A song he didn't know but was oddly drawn to it.
It sounded like a old tune as if he heard it before and knew it was older than any song he knew but he couldn't understand the voice.
The voice was like a siren but it lacked the sense of doom like those sirens who would drown sailors before eating them.
This song was like something deep in his blood pulling him forward.
Green threads of light surround the lake with a short cloud of mist over it but he could see a tall being standing there.
Far taller than he was or even Celestia who was the tallest person he knew.
From what she looked like it was a dragonness who was surrounded by threads of green light with symbols on them.
The siren of this song then stopped singing and turned to him.

Jack froze upon seeing the dragonness before closing his eyes.
What he was seeing couldn't be real because it was too impossible to be real.
Yes his entire new life was just that: impossible.
A little more impossible wouldn't hurt.
Opening them again he saw the familiar being standing in the lake.
"I've finally lost it," Jack whispered to himself.
The tall being walked over to him water dripping from her form while walking over to him.
"Is their something wrong of the form I picked?" The dragonness asked.
"You... picked?"
"Forgive me for I did looked around in your mind," Jack froze holding his head.
"YOU DID WHAT!"
The tall being held out her hand.
"Claim down. Claim down. I only looked at a form was applying to you and found one I liked so-"
"YOU LOOKED INTO MY MIND WITHOUT CONSENT!" Jack felt his blood run cold knowing that she could have the power to look though his act of being stupid about the my little pony world while looking into some deep dark secerts that was embressing to say the least.
"Jack! Calm down," Her voice boomed causing the werewolf to just that while whimpering like a dog slightly. "Alright... look I'm sorry that I looked into your mind but it was only so I could pick this form. You are familiar with this form correct?"
Jack nodded.
"What... are you?" This caused the dragonness to smile.
"What I am has no name for I have gone by many titles and many names none that you know of... though I was once called 'the mare of the lake' by mistake of another," The dragonness placed her hand on her chest. "I'm not the mare of the lake mind you it was a mistake for the form I had taken was similar to that legend,"
"The mare of the lake? Really?" The dragonness nodded.
"Your lady of the lake is quite similar,"
"Wait I though you..."
"Going to one's mind isn't a easy way to describe it but most memories are like books some where weathered and turned to dust while others remain bright and golden," She gave a sly smile. "Don't worry your other memories are locked behind great metal doors. Those I cannot enter without your permission so don't worry your secerts are safe in your mind still,"
"Oh thank god," Jack gave a sigh of relief. "But I got to ask... who are you?"
The dragon looked down at him.
"I believe the form you called this was Agape correct?"
"Umm... yeah but-"
"Than that shall be my name while I'm bounded to you," 'Agape smiled with pride her arms on her hips.
"Wait... 'bounded'?" Jack asked.
"Of course your blood is now that of the great wolf and those who are the chosen am I to be bound and serve," Agape smiled holding her hands. "Thank it as one of those Isekai you always read,"
"Again ask first before going into my mind," Jack told Agape. "It's not safe in there,"
Agape gave a chuckle before speaking.
"Please your might be twisted but it's not dangerous," Agape then frowned. "But it is to you,"
"Don't I know that... besides that why are you bounded to me... I mean don't you need some form of contract or something?"
Agape did not.
"Well I'm not fully bounded to you... yet. We do need a contract of binding to make it official but you see once the elements burned you basically are a suitable partner for me because-"
"So your using me to because I am immune to the elements which will make you immune as well?" Jack asked with a unamused looked on his face.
"No! No! You are the prefect partner matieral because well... since your immortal and cannot be harmed by the elements well let's say I found a fellow kindred," Agape stated blushing slightly.
"What?"
"See the elements were used on me once upon time by faust a LONG time ago and well it didn't work she tired everything in her power to slay me because of what I am," Agape hung her head. "I was just scared and was still trying to find out what I was and no one was there to help me for my entire life I was alone. Unable to form a bound and have a phsycal form so I just existed there but no one or nothing saw me,"
Jack listened to her tale.
"I could hear and see everything around me but no one could hear or see me! I was like a ghost but I knew that I wasn't dead and those few who did see me like faust though I was a monster," Agape looked up at him. "Then I saw you arrive and I might have um... watched you,"
"That's not creapy at all,"
"Hey your world has those glasses with the red and blue lense that could monsters that-"
"That's not real alright those were basically creepy stories I enjoyed... well sometimes," Jack began to wounder how much she knew of him.
"Like that tabletop series you like? I watched you and spike that young drake you are friends with talk about make your own models," Agape smiled.
"Wow you've been with me since day one?"
She nodded when Jack then turned to Nali who looked at him before looking at the cat then to the dragon and the cat again then back to Agape.
"The day I saw you yesterday when waking up because I'm guessing that was you... did you bring Nali to my home?" Jack asked as Agape looked down at the cat.
"Cats have... some way of sensing the powers around me so I guess? Honestly I never saw Nali till yesterday when she was walking to your home," Agape knelt down and placed her hand to pat the white cat who smiled at her touch. "So soft..."
Jack looked at Agape wounding what to do... she was not fully bound to him from what she told him but it sounded like she been alone her entire life forced to watch those around her live their lives while not noticing her once. He never meet Faust but from what he knew from Celestia and Luna it was two different takes so he didn't know who to believe and from what Agape told him it sounded like Pre-main six ponies but worse.
He felt sorry for the dragonness, knowing he too hated being alone the feeling was worse back on earth.
The werewolf sighed.
"So this pact," Agape and Nali looked up. "What does it do besides making us partners?"
"Well we would be bond by loyalty and trust and share each others magic while able to have a connection that will never be broken," Agape hummed. "It's like that venom character you like,"
"Oh so like bonding without me well... wearing you?" Agape nodded.
"Huh... neat well I'm kinda not fully out there with the idea," Agape gave a sad look. "BUT! What your life sounds like is a different kind of hell,"
Her eyes sparkled as she hugged him.
"OH THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" Jack was grabbed by the taller woman's arms. "I can finally be able to talk with people!"
'Well... this isn't what those big vampire mommy simps were going for but it's a tall dragon hugging me maybe-'
ACK!
'SHOULD HAVE SAW THIS COMING!'
Agape was hugging him now too tightly.
"A-a-agape air," Upon hearing him she let him go.
"I'm sorry!" The dragonness spoke in a worried voice.
"It's fine don't worry it was your first hug right?" Jack asked while she nodded.
"I can see why everyone I see likes them!" Agape smiled.
"Alright do I need to sigh something for our pact or..." She grabbed his hand causing him to blink but yip when she bit down on his palm lick up his blood.
'IS SHE ACTUALLY A VAMPIRE!?'
He watched while she bit her hand and before placed her hand on his bloodied hand before blushing.
"Um...you alright Agape?" Jack asked.
"Don't get mad at this next part alright?" Confused he did see the next part until she was right on him.
...
...
...
Turning red he began to overheat over from Agape kissing him.
Breaking the kiss she blushed.
"Sorry it was the final part of the pact," Jack blinked before looking at her while their ring fingers on right hands began to glow with a... ring?
When the light died there was no ring but a patch of their finger had watch could be described as a ring tattoo around the base of their ring finger. Agape's was the color of Jack's fur being black while Jack's own tattoo was pink on both seemly matched in design of the tribal like pattern of the tattoo.
Holding his right hand he looked at the dark pink tattoo before looking to Agape who looked at hers squealing, Jack didn't mind the color and found Agape's reaction adorable for the ring...
Wait...
Ring...
Kiss...
Pact...
No, no he shouldn't that that besides she would have told him if it was like that.
Though he did blush slightly knowing he kissed a girl.
Nali meowed as Agape picked her up with the long arms she had while the cat was being held to her chest.
"Oh man I have so much I want to do! Where to start? Oh so many things to do where to start?"
Jack held out his hands.
"How about we wait till morning to start your I'm guessing LONG list," Jack asked while Agape smiled.
"Sleep? That's one of the things I want to do!" Jack blinked.
"Wait you never slept before?"
She shook her head.
"I never had a actual body," Agape told him causing him to blink.
"Damn,"
"Can we sleep?" The dragonness asked.
"Um... sure my bed would be big enough for you if you curled up. I'll be able to crash on the couch and-"
(later)
"Then again I should have seen this coming," Agape smiled giving a hum while holding Jack like he was a teddy bear. "Why am I not surprise,"
He then turned up to the tall dragon.
'Well at least I can finally feel what its like to sleep with someone," Jack watched as Nali got on the bed her cheeks puffed jeailous.
"Come here Nali," Jack smiled while the cat looked at him before walking over to him but moving past his arms to his neck and decided...
This is my spot you will just have to deal with it.
"Fair enough,"
Jack closed his eyes while Agape opened hers with a smile.
'Thank you,'
Author's Note
As promised another chapter for this good story of mine now I need to work on the SW one if you don't mind maybe returning another one once I figure out how to do it justice but that will not be for a while.
As for why Agape is in the story well that's the thing it's not really Agape just a being who took the dragon's form after poking around in Jack's mind which...
Eh...
Most people don't like it if someone were to go around in one's mind.
Right now I need some money for food...
God, I'm starving.
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