Blessed by Night

Chapter 149  Food & Sex Are All A Living Nightmare Needs

In the largest castle that was the furthest away from Malachi and the group, there was a man sitting in a very lavish throne room. He was unnaturally handsome and regal, with a soft tanned complexion and a muscular body lying underneath a blood red robe that matched the color of his long hair. It appeared as though he was sleeping, as his arms were folded neatly across his chest and his head remained locked in a slouching position.

There seemed to be absolutely nothing capable of waking this otherworldly man from his deeply needed slumber. And then a chill ran through the air out of nowhere, and his violet irises flashed open. The vampire blinked his eyes several times, believing that he may have been mistaken and double checked continuously to be sure, but it proved to be the same every time. "Why... is one of them here now..?" The vampire exploded into a hazy bloody mist as he vacated the confines of his throne room, rushing to find the source of his panic. - Nôv(el)B\\jnn

When the first piece of Malachi's eggshell fell to the ground, the pressure that was released from it's confines was utterly deplorable. Even though the humans who'd come through the gate with him were several yards behind him, their minds could not handle the burden that his power placed upon them. One by one, they all started dropping like flies onto the ground, without even catching a single glimpse of the creature that was putting them there. The only ones who remained upright and conscious were Bianca and Luna. Perhaps due to their special relationship with the one responsible, they were completely immune to any negative effects caused by his hatching, other than a mounting amount of concern. Whatever this was... it was so negative, so hateful that it couldn't be the man that they loved desperately. But upon searching deeply, they realized that it was indeed him. And it broke their hearts to see him like this. The final pieces of eggshell finally fell away, and a hybrid between a nightmare and a man was revealed. Standing up at its full height, it was at an unfair 7'2. Surprisingly, there was real life flesh on it's body, and not a cheep imitation like before. The skin on the monster was entirely black, with cracks running through it that resembled bright purple tattoos of some ancient language. Like in his avatar state, he had no eyes, ears, or nose. He had only a mouth of serrated teeth that hung open as a testament to the practically endless hunger it had inside. Black claws as long as kitchen knives hung out of his finger tips, looking sharp enough to cut through anything. His dreadlocks floated above his head of their own volition, making it seem like he was back in outer space with no gravity. But the most unnerving thing about this creature by far were it's tails. Well... if you can even call them that. There were four of them, each as thick as a telephone pole and five feet in length. But the size was not what made them unnerving, it was the fact that the ends contained the heads of what appeared to be snakes. They were clearly alive and just as hungry as their main body, as their forked tongues flickered in and out of their mouths as they searched desperately for a meal. And to their delight, they found it easily! Waiting behind them was an entire smorgasbord of delicious morsels that were lying on the ground like they were just begging to be eaten!!

This was only his first day alive, and yet he was already the happiest that he had ever been!!

He took one step out of his broken eggshell and reappeared in the center of the mass of sleeping bodies. His sights were set on the sleeping Enzo who had fallen asleep face first in the dirt. The nightmare grabbed the sleeping man by the back of his neck and lifted him so that they were eye level. He opened his mouth wide enough to chomp half of his face off in a single bite, when he felt a strange voice enter his mind. It was female, mature, and very desperate. He paused to think of where he could have possibly heard this voice before, but he couldn't think of anything. And why was she calling him her son? What was a son??

Did she mean that big annoying thing in the sky???

The nightmare took one of his long claws and stabbed himself in the side of the head. It literally began to scratch it's own rubbery brain in the hopes of jogging it's memory but it proved to be to no avail. ...Oh well, time to eat! Just as the nightmare's tails prepared to bite through Enzo's armor like crystallized sugar, he received another dinner interruption. "Wait!!" A small pair of arms threw themselves around his waist, uncaring of the monstrous serpent-like appendages coming out of his lower back. Like a scene out of a horror film, the nightmare turned it's head around an entire 180 degrees and looked down at it's assailant. There were two female humans behind it. Both of them had water running from their eyes and seemed to be in a state of panic. He could not taste any fear from them, but there was a lot of distress and worry. For some reason, he did not like the flavor of those things very much at all. The female that had glued herself to him had brown skin, and she had big doe eyes like pools of gold that slightly mesmerized him. "Malachi baby, I-I need you to put Mr. Enzo down calm down, okay? We... we're going to go for a little walk or something...!" By this point, Bianca would have said anything to get her boyfriend to calm down. She didn't have any real plan or thought process behind this decision, but she knew that they had to stop him from literally taking a bite out of a famous guild master. Luna also stepped forward and placed one of her hands on his warm back. "Please listen to us, darling. We just want you to hurry and be yourself again... I know that you can feel how much we love you, so please just come with us..." "..."

The creature remained motionless as it's vision flickered back and forth between the two girls. He thought they were weird. He didn't understand why their faces were leaking or why he liked it when they touched him, but the sensations were in his mind all the same. Dropping the human to the ground, he turned around and squatted so that he could be eye level with the two of them. The longer he looked at them, the more he started to feel really funny inside. It was rather different from his feeling of hunger, as it came from significantly lower and filled his body with warmth instead of irritation. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Two of his serpent tails slithered out, and used their long pink tongues to lick the water running down the faces of the girls. They shivered a bit, but they did not pull away. They truly were not scared of him. His tails shared the taste of the girls' tears with him, and it was as if a light switch was finally flipped in his brain. "Kyaaa!"

"W-Wait..!" Before either of the girls knew what was happening, the creature had pushed them onto the ground and loomed his body over them. Neither of them knew what was happening, but a rather large tent in his ruined pants quickly gave Luna some inclination. "Y-You must be joking..! Here??" "What?? What is he joking about?!" Bianca had yet to see the rather prominent hard on that was mere seconds away from bursting out of his pants. Luna pointed down shyly, and Bianca's eyes nearly leapt out of her skull. "W-We can't have our first time like this..! If it'll help you calm down then just use Luna!" said Bianca. "Why're you offering me up on a silver platter?!" She cried. "He belongs to both of us, so we should share the responsibility if anything!" "He will literally destroy my pussy!" "You have A-rank healing, you can practically grow a new one!" Luna reminded. "I know it's not ideal but if this can help him in any way then we have to try!"

Bianca gulped nervously as she looked up at the monster breathing heavily above her. She knew that this experience was likely going to hurt like hell, as she was a virgin and Malachi was even bigger than normal. He wasn't going to be in any kind of state to be gentle with her, and she was likely going to be getting around in a wheelchair after this. And yet if it meant that Malachi might come back to normal, she thought it might be worth it. "I... really hope everyone stays asleep.."

"..As do I." Their minds made up, the two girls dropped their hands to the waistbands of their pants and started to pull them off. They had only just began undressing when there was a whooshing sound heard above them, and the pressure within the air increased tenfold. The nightmare, Bianca, and Luna all looked up into the sky and found a man floating there silently. He hadn't even done anything but shown up, and the girls were already on the verge of pissing themselves. The vampire sovereign locked his gaze firmly onto the monster hovering above the two women. He honestly had no idea what he was looking at. This thing felt so much like one of those creatures... and yet it wasn't one. Or was it? He had only ever seen three, but none of them came this small or had this humanoid of a figure. "Perhaps you are a baby..? Or a runt of the litter?" He wondered aloud. The nightmare stood up off the ground and stared up at this new intruder who had appeared. He was only mildly bothered that his breeding time was interrupted, as he was significantly more excited by another fact. This one was strong! And because he was strong he was full of magic! And because he was full of magic he would be fucking delicious!!

The hunger that he had forgotten about with the arrival of the girls was now back with a vengeance. Somehow, the vampire sovereign recognized that he was being looked at as prey and a frown formed on his face. "Your kind promised us that-" Crackle. In a flash of black lightning, the nightmare disappeared from his place on the ground and reappeared in the air behind the boss. Because he was caught off guard, the vampire was completely unprepared as two of the nightmare's serpentine tails bit into his shoulder blades.