A Quest I can't refuse

Walking back home as the elements blew in our faces, I felt a nice cold breeze across my face, blowing my hair back, and it felt really nice with the warm air.

I looked around to the bright red lights around other sex shops here and then looked over to chatter of prostitutes on break talking with other workers.

I then looked to the back of my sister's heads as I was walking behind the 5 of them and we were going home, the girls crowded around Rika and as they looked so very close I smiled as I was glad it was all over with.

With a joyous giggle as I thought something nice to myself, I then came to sigh as I thought back to this year so far, it had its ups and downs, but it's... Alright.

"This year wasn't the best, but it's a start..."

Yeah, a start to a new beginning, my new beginning.

And thinking back to this year, recapping the lot of it, I remember that it was actually pact with events, not all of which were good but I can't say all were bad... Ish.

"I wonder if the past me's would be proud of me?"

"Silfey..."

"Hiro..."

I was reborn as both of you, you two gave me life even though I would still have considered myself more of the other one rather than having been part of Hiro.

"Aster..."

But now I'm Aster, and neither of them two.

And my story started with me being born, I can't really believe that on that same day I was thrown into money issues, to which I tried working off for Mari and me.

But at the same time if her and Hiro didn't have money issues, I would have never have met Lex, sure I might not have discovered that secret part of Tina...

But it would have shown one day, maybe...

And if I never met Lex I wouldn't have this family.

And if I'm being honest, I wouldn't give it up for the world, sure, they're not perfect, but family isn't either.

Though I still can't believe I couldn't even make it past the first month after being reborn without getting my butt kidnapped... Those 1 to 2 months were Dark.

They were my darkest times, and I guess I was able to learn a few life lessons from it too, but I still wish I hadn't been captured, if I ever meet those men...

The men who captured me...

I'm taking their souls...

But asides from that, after the slave thing, my 3rd out of 4 months alive in this world was crazy too, I met this ginger girl who was a tempting friend, a nice friend I actually made, I think named Kyo?

There was the tournament, the other Aster.

I met Angels once?

I don't think I'm going to actually look for romance for a while though, from now on till I can find better help and maybe actually fall in love this time, and not go obsessed with an evil captivator. I may just keep working here at the brothel and look for. . .

Geeze it's so embarrassing and slutty to think about.

I might just try to have sex friends so I can eat.

And I might even see if I can work on doing something with that crazy orc girl, I don't like her but she likes me and since she's an orc and she's strong, I guess, I can see if I can munch on her occasionally without hurting her health, that's my main issue with a real single relationship actually, I thought about it...

And maybe a poly relationship is best for me.

Like this semi love triangle I'm in.

I'm thinking of only coming into the equation when I'm hungry, after that, I'll just try working on a friendly relationship with them.

And as for my pet... Dark Candy...

Yeah, I'm keeping my pet, after all, I have a few to a lot of reasons to why I want her close to me, and sure the sex was great, let's be honest, she's one of the only few bodies I'm actively craving not just for food.

But she's a great source of Dark-Negitive energies.

Plus she's a Necromancer...

Meaning if I can keep a hold on her she won't be able to actively hurt others, since let's be honest, even I got this out of Lex and it's confirmed their all very evil...

I'd rather keep her with me than alone with her own.

Forget about her for now though, that's all I have on her, let's see, Tina? I might just avoid her for as long as possible, she's pretty crazy, like Yandere crazy.

I got rid of her and I'm going to keep it that way...

Ursula can have her... Actually she didn't tell her that I was alive?... Wait? Are the two of them still seeing each other, I'm going to have to ask Ursula.

Also the Ursula situation, we haven't spoke, like at all, and I feel like she's giving me space, which I like, but I feel like at the same time it would be best to listen to Kasumi and try and patch things up, just a bit.

I'll try to speak to her tomorrow or when we aren't busy with work or anything and it can just be between us.

Also, I better start working on the sticky spider spit?

I have until early to mid-October to develop somethin.

But then again I've gotten a good handle on my Mana, so I might be able to use it and develop something quicky. I'm hoping I have enough time though.

But I feel like if I spend at least an hour working on it a day, I can develop something with trial and error in what could be a whole month if not a little more.

Also, I have to go to school eventually.

Lex knows I haven't gone yet...

And I just know he's going to pester me about it.

Ugh, I should just go and stop complaining.

I might... Nope, never mind.

I don't wanna make friends.

And I don't wanna be seen.

Imma try and make an ugly avatar to use which draws little attention to me, especially because I know what this world's system can be like and it's absolute shit.

It's just terrible...

No, it's horrifying even...

Also, I'm going to backtrack because...

Wait a second I still would have met Lex if the two of them didn't have money issues? It's because of Peter and Tina that I meet that honey stand incubus!

I seriously didn't need Mari at all.

That girl has caused nothing but suffering.

She's also the only one who's only ever hurt me.

At least hurt me purely, like that's all she ever does?

Ugh! I hate that bitch!

. . . . . Meanwhile . . . . .

"Anyway. You have to admit the only reason we found Rika was because of Aster. You get what I'm saying?"

Kasumi said in a low voice to the girls as they were all talking and smothering Rika, but this was brought up when one of them said they couldn't believe they found her and got her back along with Nara.

"No, we could have found her without him"

Sora said sour about it, even if that might not have been the truth she was just unwilling to accept it.

"Sure we might have, after she'd of been ra*ed or worse, sorry, but our chances were very unlikely"

Iris said getting them all to silence as she had a point in all this but none of them had even considered it.

"I'm just glad Aster was keen on searching from the start, we all saw how determined he was to find Lady Catherine, him and Lexy, the both of them didn't care for anything else but finding her and me..."

Rika said but even though she only saw what came around her, Ursula butted in on the matter and said.

"Aster might not like us but he would have came for any one of us if we were kidnapped, and when you along with Lady Catherine were kidnapped it was seriously his top priority, he became even more obsessed with it than Lex was and he barely..." Ursula

"He barely even knows any of us..."

"I'm pretty sure he dislikes us..."

She said getting confused and perplexed over it?

But then Kasumi playfully smack her shoulder and then said with this high-spirited excitement.

"Did you see what happened earlier today when him and that boy rushed out of the brothel after one of Catherine's workers said Lady Catherine was kidnapped! Wait I mean she was kidnapped by the Litch? He and that boy rushed out of there and shot into the air summoning a literal red dragon to charge that monster, it was the coolest thing ever!!" Kasumi

She said not able to forget what happened, she couldn't believe it even after seeing it before her eyes, but when thinking back to it and recalling how real it actually was, she saw it as nothing other than badass!

"Your kidding right? You literally just mixed in both a red dragon and a Litch into the same sentence, how is he still alive? I'm calling that a bluff, also where was I?"

Rika couldn't believe any of this but then they all said.

"Bruh, you've already been kidnapped" Kasumi

"Also, Lex chased after him after we found that out"

"Yeah, he probably got to Aster in time" Iris

"But we're not lying, he went to fight the Hoctus"

"Norika You should have seen it too!" Ursula

"The red dragon left a huge cloud of smoke!"

"If you look south you can still see some!"

"Tsk, what they're all saying is true, sadly..." Sora

"Also when he found out you were in danger he brough back some witch to track your location, which I can only presume he threatened into doing for you"

Hearing all this from Sora's mouth especially as she really hated Aster, she almost couldn't believe any of it and she turned her head looking behind her.

She looked at that short Demon named Aster who had his hands stained red, and she remembers when seeing him in the warehouse that they looked drenched and dried, and then there was black all over him along with these strange and awful scents, now looking at him she couldn't believe it, but he actually went on the assault for both her and Lady Catherine.

That's what she assumed at least.

And as he was walking, looking off to the elements all around him, she stopped walking and he didn't seem to notice as he kept walking to the girls.

The girls all stopped and looked back at him too.

When he walked up to them and then finally noticed, by the time he did and he saw them all looking at him he was going to ask why they were doing that when he was suddenly embraced by Rika in a full hearty hug.

"Thank you... Aster..."

Surprising the living shit out of him.

She suddenly felt him tremble and she sensed dread.

She sensed it from him for a mere moment before one of his hands came around touching her shoulder, and then he began to say as he half-hugged her back.

"I didn't do anything, it was all them, big sis"

He said bullshitting through his teeth and she knew it.

The others heard him and as they did they said nothin.

"Just next time, please keep an eye out and be safer"

He told her before stepping back and away where he then went to move both hands back and smile, but as he did that, she noticed something crucial about him.

That look in his gaze, they looked relieved but at the same time, they were full to the brim with pain...

It had her thinking of everything about him and she...

She understood everything in the moment now...

And she couldn't believe he risked it all for strangers.

But then she was aghast as he walked around her and right past them, saying as he walked past them.

"But hey, we're family aren't we? Hopefully, there won't be a next time, and if there is, we'll be quicker okay"

"Anyways, I'm pretty tired, so, chow sisters"

He said walking past all of them and yet they hadn't a clue what was going on in his head, but what was actually going through his head was simple.

He was just exhausted.

Oh and that shred of dread back there, you can say he might not have felt the same way after murdering somebody and then getting comforted...

At least like that, it felt wrong to him.

And he feared what he might and could have done.

But now as he walks away clearing his head, he goes back home and into the brothel a while after, wanting to do nothing else but go in and go to sleep.

But as he opens his door...

. . . . .Meanwhile. . . . .

Hearing a voice, "Hiro..." as I'm walking into my room, I don't even get a chance to let go of the door handle before turning my head left of me to see people...

It was a boy and a girl, man and woman, and looking at them as they both sat on my bed, I looked away from the boy and to the girl who looked like me.

Mari, seeing that tanned woman with the same looks as me just a different body and sex, I was stunned, how did she find me, why is she in my room here?

And looking to the man, he looked familiar but not?

But as I stood there stunned not moving or uttering a word as I felt like my heart stopped, suddenly she got up and with a few hurrying steps she grabbed me...

Hugging me tightly against her chest as I stood at her boobs level and she grabbed and hugged me hard as I didn't move a muscle. What the hell is happening?

"You bastard motherfucker! I thought you died!!!"

But then as she suddenly said that [–Shapeshift–] my transformation broke as a mix of emotions overcame me and my hair turned into strings of liquid and burning fire, my finger tips charged black.

And my eyes turned a blood dark red.

But that wasn't all because [–suppress–] because it all broke then and there, everything went spiriling out of control and as they both felt my presence...

My Powers...

Her tight grip losened and she froze up, and he who had laughed happily when she came over turned still.

Wrath overfilled me...

How dare she just show up...

Especially after what she had done...

There was a reason why I wanted to kill her...

"Asmodeus, remember when I promised you that one day that I'd take everyone you ever loved from you..." I said out loud to myself and...

And for them to hear me clearly.

"And yet today I saved one of them, but now... I'm going to take one of your bloods away from you"

Shoving her and breaking out of her arms, she broke off easily and as I saw her shocked and dreadful face sensing all of what I was, a demon, a monster, and right now I'm wrath itself, I balled my hand into a fist.

And kicking the ground punched her in the face and not even an millisecond later, I swing my fist, back handing her with that same fist and knocking her down flat onto her ass with these 2 strikes.

"ASTER WAIT!!!"

But as the man shot up screaming that, Demonic energy shot out from around me and acting like hungry dogs, I leaped over and went to kill her.

But just as I had and my fut reached so close to hittin her forehead, something grabbed me, it was a large mass of slime and as it was that man, he grabbed me with his flesh tuned slime and then with the next second going by he forced me against the wall.

"Aster what the hell was that!"

But as I looked at the man with murderous intent.

His form shifted and formed a smaller body as more mass of slime encaged me onto the wall keeping me there and making me unable to move a single part.

And that bastard turned into noneother than Zim.

And seeing him, I yelled.

"Why do you keep getting in my way!"

And he yelled back.

"Because you're going to kill your sister!"

"Then let me kill her!"

"What the fuck?! No!"

"She's not my sister! She's an evil monster!"

"Wait?... No she's not, I'm not an idiot!"

"You sure about that! You dumb slime"

"Hey... That hurts... Aster..."

"Kill yourself you pathetic use of slime!!!"

Taken back by that, she got up.

"Why are you so keen on killing her"

"Look at the slave marks on me and answer them both for yourself you dumb witted stupid motherfucker!!!"

Mari got up and as she balled her fist as she grabbed her face, she then losened her hand and grabbed her arm as she walked over and Infront of me as I wanted nothing more than to get out of this and rip her apart, and as she got Infront of me, she then said.

"I must have caused you a lot of suffering didn't I–"

"Bro... Kill yourself" I said cutting her off.

And she was taken back as I said that with a straight face looking deep into her eyes trying to use hypnosis.

"Little brother... Did I hurt you that bad..."

And yet it didn't work and I clicked my tongue and she walked closer to me, but as she did I tried smacking her with my head head and that got her to step back.

"Don't ever call me that whore! I'm not your brother!"

And she looked away, "Yeah, you're not Hiro..."

"Now your catching on, so just shut up and die without resisting because I swear on my life I'll kill you one these days and killing me won't stop your death!"

But then she slapped me.

"You're right, you're only half of my idiot brother"

And as she did and said that, I growled at her.

But then slime covered my mouth.

He must have knew I was going to use my sorcery.

And as I was muted and captured, I looked killingly.

And doing that she then crossed her arms an spoke.

"This is an order, since your my bother we do have a mission you and I, and even though your not really him you're still a Natsu Sorcerer and needed for this~"

This bitch is evil, she needs to be killed, like now...

Before I end up stuck with her as her slave...

"You are to meet me at the southernmost gate of Rosa Marine to travel with me to the fallen city of Kantaku"

"We have a mission to escort one of our bright forge clan members back to Nefumia, but you know, oh, well you don't know? So basically the bright forge Natsu's only ever listen to other Natsu's and that's where we come in and since we're escorts we also need to protect them from danger here and back okay~"

"So none of this demon crap either, chill with it"

"To he honest it's creepy, and supposed to be not this"

"You're supposed to be a proud sorcerer, act like it"

"I'll also use a spell to turn you back into Hiro"

"I know you don't like this form, no need for a thanks"

"Oh yeah, from now on your forbidden from harming me, also I want you to keep it chill on showing how much you hate me as well, we'll be with someone"

"When we're done with the mission, we'll talk"

"At least, we'll talk when I get you back home"

"Living in a place like this must suck?"

"Who wants to live at a disgusting brothel? Eww~"

"Hahaha, anyways, I'm glad your safe Hiro"

"Or do you like being called Azer now?"

"No wait it was Aster~ Silly me~"

"Anyways, I'm glad your still alive little bro, from what we heard from the clan and from what I saw in that horrid illusion you put us through, we all saw you and that Demon that was possessing you die, so I'm just glad that it wasn't actually real and your really alive"

"Even though you might not be happy to see me I really am happy to see you, though I wish I found out sooner because you wouldn't be living here and probably in a bad situation like this hahaha, sucks to be you for our separation though, don't worry, big sis will make it all okay now that she's back together with you, got it"

Is... Is she fucking crazy???...

What the hell is she talking about???...

"And since your not actually my little brother, I guess this time we can have a better relationship than the last one we had together, because your still half him"

"Hahaha I've been talking for a while now, anyways, your probably still very mad at me so I don't think taking you back now is very wise? I hope you can stand one more night here at this nasty brothel, then all you have to do is come with me on the mission and everything will go back to how it was, no, it'll be better this time~"

"Anyways, I'm going to go now, goodnight little bro"

Waving by and walking out of the room, both me and Zim has this most bazaar look on our faces as we had no fucking clue what the hell all of that was, but then he looked to me and confusingly said.

"See? Uh... I guess you're the only one mad at her, she's uh... Not mad back? Well, anyways, you did say you would take the punishment and this is it okay?"

Letting me go, fell down to my knees as I was way too shocked to get back up, and he just slowly walked away and before he left, "Sorry about that too..."

And he left leaving me so fucking bewildered...

"What the fuck is happening?"

But then I fell down to my side as I wasn't getting off the floor, I'm sleeping down here tonight, but rolling onto my back I was still shocked, "Why is this happening?"

"I seriously just need to move out of this Kingdom"

"Fuckin hell..."