Reawakening [Open]

[dantieduurden]

As Levithan ended there kiss he looked at the area all around them and its natural beauty. " What would you think about building a home here. You have already seen a dragon can get to it, and very few would be foolish enough to bother you here in the spine of the world, they would instead use magic to converse with you more then likely." Leviathan smiled at her as he waited to see what she said.

As he waited though he carried her over to a small tree and helped her out of her robe saying only that he wanted her to have dry clothes afterwords. And once the robe was off he walked with her into the mouth of the waterfall into a small cave complex. " Hidden from unwanted eyes, and yet open enough for me to fly around and see the sky. And the best part is there are plenty of places for you to decorate." Leviathan said as he let her look at the cave entrance. Sure it may not have been much at the moment, but if they worked together they would be able to get it up and running.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo stared at the demon after their kiss. Her red eyes roamed to either side at the scene around them. "A home? Here?" So far away? It could be as liberating as confining. Secluded from others, kept company by the demon. Dangerous in more ways than one. She would need to venture out to the city often on business, though. Leviathan would know that if she were a Rider. At least she shouldn't need to be too concerned about being cut off.

"Leviathan," she put on a smile for him, putting aside her thoughts, "I have yet to become a Rider. Your confidence in me, however, is appreciated." If she didn't become a Rider? As she gazed into his eyes she feared where that would lead. It was dangerous enough allowing his presence, but to be so intimate with a demon... if she lost her dream of being a Rider? Very dangerous.

No, she would endure.

As Leviathan carried her over to the side, she slowly disrobed as he had asked. When he mentioned he wanted them to remain dry she could all ready anticipate their next move. The air sent shivers across her flesh as she stood out in the open, naked.

After they'd passed through the water, Ishiyo was surprised to find a cave waiting for them there. Now how long had Leviathan known of this place? "Decorate?" The Elf turned to look up at her curiously. "Just hang a few things up, or were you thinking we could shape the stone to our needs?" With a pre-existing network for caves, however, small, they could certainly make an interesting retreat behind the waterfall. It'd take a good deal of magic just to keep the place lit, though; unless they used torches, which would take a good deal of materials. "It does have potential," she agreed, not able to fault the spirit behind the idea. Truthfully, however, Ishiyo'd never considered doing something like this before.

[dantieduurden]

" Yes home here. We would have all we need from the land." Leviathan smiled as he looked over the surroundings. It was a beautiful place and should make an elf comfortable, yet sh did not seem convinced yet that it was such a great idea. " Where else do you expect to have the privacy of me in your bed without being intruded on daily? You really do not think the riders would approve of one of there order sleeping with a demon now do you." Leviathan stated confident she would see the thought behind what he said.

" You killed a shade on your own." Leviathan said as if that were more than enough reason to have confidence in her. " How many story's are there of people killing shades on there own and surviving." Leviathan asked her knowing the answer but wanting her to see that there was no doubt she would become one if she choose to.

" Both." Leviathan said with a confused look of his own. " Why would we decorate a plain cave, and why would we make something our own without decorating it." Leviathan said in a questioning voice. " Do you mortals not find fun in making something your own. I thought you elves prided yourself on your artwork." Leviathan said to her as he took a clawed hand to the wall and took a very precise out of it and then when the rock came away and he lit it with his inner flames so that they could see better.

Truthfully he believed it would be something easy to do and that it would build her trust up for him, them doing something together.And not only that but they would be building something that would be lasting for generations upon generations. Maybe it would even outlast the riders. Leviathan enjoyed hat last thought as he looked at Ishiyo, him and her building something together that outlasted everything. " So what do you think Ishiyo, shall you work along side me to make a home for us, or shall you let rumors stop you from what your heart desires. Shall you listen to society, or shall you listen to yourself. Elves are known for their individuality, I hope you are the same."

[mriswith]

Ishiyo glanced over to the side at the demon as he echoed the obvious; no, the Riders would not "understand" how she was being sexually intimate with a demon. She didn't understand it. Why remain an important question she wasn't all together comfortable with looking for an answer either; it would inevitably be revealed, though, she couldn't see how something like this would just happen without a reason. Well, she could just be mentally unbalanced, but Ishiyo would like to think there was more to it than that.

When he brought up slaying the Shade, the Elven Mercenary drew her eyes away and stared into the reaches of the proposed homestead. "I had the advantage," Ishiyo breathed in defense of managing to lop the fiend's head off. How many people knew a Shade was coming and could stage a trap for them? Of those few how many possessed a spell capable of holding them long enough for the blow? That hadn't been any simple paralysis spell either. There were some benefits to residing in the Citadel for seventy-five years, if you applied yourself properly.

Actually, she hadn't told Leviathan--because she hadn't trusted him, and it no longer seemed relevant--but Ishiyo had needed the Shade to put its might on display (the fire storm) in order for the spell to work. Leviathan had been in the same ring, though further from Ishiyo at the time, but since he wasn't drawing more than a sliver of his power since conjuring his throne the spell had simply ignored him; it would have ignored the Shade, too, if it'd kept using "parlor tricks"--elementary, though powerful, spells. So, despite her victory there'd been a very real chance of being killed first; if the Shade hadn't wanted her to suffer it could have slammed its might directly into her and the paralysis spell might have reacted too slowly.

She drew in a deep breath as Leviathan tried goading her into a favorable response. Ishiyo didn't see why he felt like he had to convince her; was he wondering if she'd choose now, of all moments, to discard it all and walk away?

Metaphorically, there was a storm brewing before her. She could look in either direction and still not see where the tempest's wall ended. The winds whipped about her body and brushed strands of hair across her face. One step after another she was walking closer to the black wall of turbulent air churning up the ground. As much as Ishiyo knew she should turn around, she couldn't bring herself to do it. It seemed she would arrive to the calm at the center of the storm, or be lost in darkness. This was not how she expected to learn her own strength by how well she weathered the new challenges set in her path.

Her eyelids fell over her eyes and rose again before she turned to face Leviathan. Suddenly aware of the cooler air of the cave, chilled by the rushing water, Ishiyo stepped closer to the fiend to feel his warmth again. "I follow what I believe is right, Leviathan, not whether society agrees," she replied evenly, wondering if he understood that was how she'd always been. Why be a Rider if you were almost universally hated or looked upon with suspicion outside of Ilirea? Because she'd always felt it was right. Maybe she was wrong. Maybe they had Shade allies, like Leviathan suggested, but she believed she was right and would follow that course.

Wrapping her arms about him, the Elf drew closer. "It is a beautiful place, Leviathan. I wonder," she tipped her head back to look up at him, "how long have you known about it? Has any one else been here recently?" Did anyone live nearby? Did monsters, creatures, beasts, or spirits? Where, exactly, in the mountains were they?

[dantieduurden]

" An advantage against a shade is only equaling the field from there years of magic." Leviathan said as if pushing her argument off to the side. She may have thought she had the advantage, but in fact the shade could have still very easily won.

" That shall do." Leviathan stated as he let his wings drape around her body to keep her warm. " If I did not know better I would say you just like being so close to me." Leviathan laughed as he looked into her eyes. " And no no one else knows about this place anymore that is among the living." Leviathan said as she felt her arms around him. " And no I was not the one that killed them, it would have served no purpose to do so. And I have known about this place since the riders used it to kill those that they could not bring to heel to them. I'm sure you have heard the fairy tales about the magical armor that no one could be killed in." Leviathan said as the light he had made in the wall illuminated some of the cave before them.

With a small smile Leviathan asked Ishiyo, " Would you like to play a game?"

[mriswith]

Ishiyo felt the fiend's wings drape over naked flesh, silently marveling at the alien comfort it brought. Even the way Leviathan had pleasured her earlier had been...unique from any of the few she'd been with before. There'd been two. Elves. Being with them was nothing like the demon she pressed herself against now. Strange how she almost worried about the fiend losing interest; if they did turn on one another she doubted there'd ever be a replacement for Leviathan. It was a "miracle" she'd found one as receptive or interested as he was at all; though she hadn't met any of the others, she really couldn't imagine they were all as--dignified?--as he was.

What he said about the cave she filed away for later. Leviathan said Riders had been involved, but they didn't know of the place's existence? It must be lost in history. Perhaps there were still historical records back in Ilirea she could find later.

"Game?" The Elf's brow furrowed, not entirely sure what connotation "game" took for a fiend. "As long as you tell me the rules before it begins, or I might unknowingly break them and reduce the enjoyment you would have from it." Assuming there were rules.

[dantieduurden]

Leviathan loved how responsive Ishiyo was to him when his wings wrapped around her body. No fear was in her, only happiness and content for the situation. To Leviathan it seemed that she actually enjoyed his touch, which only human women had enjoyed up till this point. No elf women had ever enjoyed his touch, never mind his presence. The human women had given their body's to him thinking that the would bare a child that they could use, but never did Leviathan let a child be spawned from such unions knowing full and well what could happen if it were to pass. And not only that, but he had never been attracted enough to any of the mortals to even think about sharing his superior blood with them and tainting it to create such a monstrosity. But now, that might have changed with Ishiyo, she was in his appeal and it took a lot for him to not ravage her now. The fact that she trusted him so much not to was mostly do to why he had not.

As Ishiyo responded to his question he couldn't help but let a small smile escape from his maw as his eyes fell down to her red ones. " Why it's easy, I hide in here and you try to find me." Leviathan smiled as his hands laid against her body, his claws tracing designs in her skin. Not deep enough to draw blood, just hard enough to let it be a pleasant sensation in his mind.

" I promise you will enjoy the reward if you win my sweet elf succubus." Leviathan promised as he kissed her forehead. " One question of your choosing I shall answer for you for nothing in return. " Leviathan hoped she would take the challenge, he wanted to test her abilities more fully then the shade had for him. And there was no better way then for him to do so himself. So with that in mind and his hands now cupping her buttocks h lifted her up from her butt and wrapped her legs around his waist just a little ways above himself. Looking down on her red eyes he kissed her once again deep and passionately and asked her. " So what is your choice, we can always finish what we started earlier instead." Leviathan said letting her naked body fall down his body until it came to a halt on top of his most awaken part of his body. " Its your choice." Leviathan said raising her up off of it once again so she could choose without thinking he would force himself on her.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo continued to cling to the fiend as his claws were drawn across her flesh. Her eyes lidded at the firm pressure gliding wherever Leviathan chose. She'd never had one of those intimate with her be so...direct. Still, there was something to be said about a romantic union; could Leviathan ever be so gentle? Maybe she'd get him to try some day. It was only fair.

After he promised an answer to any question in reward for winning, her red eyes rose to gaze into his own once more. What question could she ask? It'd have to be meaningful, but one Leviathan could answer with an equally sought-after response. There wouldn't be a great deal of time to think about it either; she doubted he'd wait for her to decide when she won. There was still some measure of impatience in him, despite how gentle he was acting.

When he lifted her off her feet, Ishiyo wrapped her arms about the Infernal's neck as he held her aloft. Leviathan was certainly passionate about his physical desires. To think how he hadn't been interested when they first met; one night and a few spats later he was kissing and touching her almost every chance he got.

Maybe it was the mortal danger. After all, she'd spent the last twenty years avoiding Shades, but taking on dangerous assignments in Ilirea or outside of it. Learning to wield magic growing up hadn't been without its risks either; especially private lessons that might not have been entirely within the scope of her current tutoring. Ishiyo had always been anxious to grow up and become a strong Rider.

Leviathan's lips parted before he lowered her slowly down to his waist. Ishiyo's red eyes widened at the sensation. The last time they'd come this close... "I thought you were against that," Ishiyo replied, gazing into his eyes to try and figure out if something had changed. Leviathan had been reluctant back in the city for her own safety. What he'd managed to do, instead, had been pleasantly surprising. Still, it wasn't shocking to learn the demon would like something reciprocated or mutual.

"Not going to give me any hints how you will hide?" The Mercenary smiled, wondering if Leviathan was going to use magic to linger out of sight. She couldn't expect him to just find a remote place to keep his head down--he was, after all, ten feet tall with wings. "You will, at least, stay in this physical dimension?" The fiend was trying not to lay any rules down as far as she could tell, but that wasn't very sporting. Ishiyo could end up seriously injured if she tried slipping onto other levels of existence randomly to find him--to say nothing of how exhausting that would be.

[dantieduurden]

" No." Leviathan said calmly. " I said i was against taking what I wanted without permission, nothing about showing you what you are missing. And I said you would not like it that much, but from what I have seen you just may. Though it is not what any mortal is used to by far, it is much more." Leviathan said with an appeased smile on his face. She was starting to get flustered and he quite enjoyed it. " Are you afraid of the big demon and his manhood now." Leviathan laughed as he lifted her up so that she was eye level with him. He knew she was not but he liked being able to look over her whole body without strain.

" I will stay in this dimension." Leviathan said kindly to her as he shifted all her weight into one of his hands and then with the other cupped her heat. " But are you sure you rather play that game and not dance with me, you know how much pleasure I gave you before." Leviathan said as he let his finger slide down her. " But if you must know I shall hide any way I have to to make sure your job is as hard as possible. I can't go making things easy on you, you will get lazy then. " Leviathan said with a kiss to her forehead. " We can't have you getting lazy now,, if you do I'll have to do all the work and you ll have no choice but to be in my bed." And with that leviathan waited, one hand fitting her but in his hand which he held her p with, and the other on the exact opposite side cupping her.

He wanted to make her squirm in his grasp and beg for him to please her, but he knew it would not be so easy with her, no it would be much harder then that she was not easy like the human hors. She was strong and independent.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo grunted softly. Fair enough, though Leviathan hadn't been too eager before; he'd held back. Surprisingly his lust had grown in just a few hours. Another emotion she could probably never sate no matter what she agreed to do for him. Being a demon must be incredibly painful; eternally devouring that which tempts you the most, getting pleasure from it, yet the burning need for more never waning. Was it real, or simply what they were taught to feel? Did they hunger for it like a Human or Elf did food?

"Maybe I would," she replied with a coy smile. "My large demon would be pleased to know I might need to use a little magic so it can last longer?" Give his physical size you could guess that part of his anatomy might be larger than normal--it would certainly be awkward otherwise--and feeling it through his very sparse amount of clothing confirmed it. Ishiyo wondered of all the women he'd taken to bed how many of them survived, let alone ever shared it twice. Couldn't expect him to pretend to his more Elven-like self either--that'd be insulting. On the other hand, complimenting him on it and suggesting she couldn't possibly... well that should stroke his ego.

The Elf blinked, wondering what the fiend was doing when he moved her into one hand. She didn't need to ask or think about the reason when she found them front and back rather than side to side on her body. Her heart rate quickened and she drew in a quick breath at the touch. Too late to find the physical intrusion repulsive or unwanted, however. Well, she could tell him what to go down with that hand, but Leviathan had yet to piss her off. If anything the fiend was doing all he could to ensure she stayed in the mood.

Ishiyo exercised her restraint to keep from giving in to the fiend's desires. Surrendering might please him for a moment, but once it faded there'd no longer be any interest. No, he wanted her to resist. She wanted her to resist. Part of her wanted to get out of there even if it was too late--just run.

"Lazy? Leviathan, I have never been lazy my entire life. You should tempt me with becoming stronger," Ishiyo replied before giving the beast a broad smile. "Very well. After the game, maybe I should find a way to repay you for the trouble." Wouldn't want Leviathan to think she wasn't interested, because she was. No matter how wrong it had to be, there was something inside Ishiyo eager to accept this tryst.

[dantieduurden]

As Ishiyo spoke her words his mind swam with ideas that he could not push away, dark things that would make any normal person cringe, yet he knew it would not scare her. No she would bask in it just as much as he. You shall be mine, and once you are no one shall ever please you, just like no one has ever been able to please me before you and Pele. The thought of Pele had the exact opposite emotion she wanted though, where Ishiyo accepted him, Pele hated him with a passion and when she got to annoyed with him would make sure he would leave. Ishiyo seemed to never want him to leave, for him to be all her own as he wanted her to be his own.

" But then it shall not be the whole experience." Leviathan said to Ishiyo as he looked into her blood red pools of intelligence, " The magic would make you not able to enjoy me, and that I could not have, because if you were to pass out I would have to stay like I was until you awoke. And well I would not advice having me in you for all that time, you would be very sore when you awoke." Leviathan said as he continued to keep an even passes, not moving so fast that she would be mad at him and tell him to stop, but instead slowly and steady, moving up and down her with his finger gently, and when he heard the breath escape from her lips he knew he as making her happy and so continued to do so.

As Ishiyo told him to tempt her with strength Leviathan laughed. " Would you like me to tempt you with your version of strength or mine. I do not believe I could give you much more of my kind of power. " Leviathan pureed to her telling her he found her more then intelligent. " I can promise you many things, power is not one though." Leviathan said as he laid kiss upon kiss down upon her. " I could kiss you for centuries, for example. I could raise you an army, I could even get you a dragon egg. But making you more intelligent would be impossible my sweet little Ishiyo." Leviathan said as he let a finger slide in. but just as he did she accepted the challenge. " Very well." Leviathan said as he let her slide out of his arms and onto the floor beneath them. " I hope to see you soon, but know you shall be facing your fears in this cavern and not me." And with that Leviathan vanished into thin air, teleporting deep into the bowls of the cave. The game had begun.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo focused on controlling her heart rate and breathing as much as she could. Leviathan's touch made her flush and the cool air nipped all the stronger at the naked flesh furthest from his hands cradling her lower body. She couldn't take her eyes off him, either, even as he shamelessly tried stoking the desires and lust within that she kept so carefully controlled. Her chest rose and fell as Ishiyo balled her hands together to keep them from doing anything that would strike the match around so much fuel.

Leviathan seemed to think she was well versed in his own talents as his lips began raining over her body. Surprisingly, she was beginning to wonder. Flashes of that night long ago, the nameless darkness that'd fallen over her Sister's house, danced before her mind as Leviathan continued his sexual assault. These were different moments. Ripping and tearing the blood from the two female figures present flashed by surprisingly fast--those were the memories she always saw. Instead, now she focused on what immediately followed. A depth-less chill touched her. Ishiyo, at the time, had thought her heart had stopped. On instinct she'd whirled and struck the altar used in the vile act of conjuring the dark spirits for the Shade. The black atmosphere lifted from the room almost immediately, but there'd been something...

Then Leviathan went further with her in his hands. Ishiyo's eyes widened as she was brought back into the moment. She clenched her teeth together and swallowed the mixture of emotion that'd wanted to burst forth.

Just that quickly he let her down as though nothing had happened, and Leviathan vanished with a few unsatisfactory words.

Ishiyo slowly began moving deeper into the cave while putting the sensations Leviathan had raised in her aside as best she could. Focus, she hissed at herself. The demon could be anywhere and he hadn't said what would happen if she failed to find him, or how she could fail. No matter, she thought, one way or another she'd win; because that's what she did.

Reaching out with a light touch of magic, the Elf probed the surrounding to see if finding him would be more of a child's game. Leviathan hadn't said anything about not using magic; though it was unlikely he'd make it so easy. Where would the fun be?

[dantieduurden]

Leviathan laughed as she tried sensing him with her magic and quickly assaulted her mind with his own, letting her nightmares flood from his mind. " I warned you this would not be easy, and I shall not go easy on you." And just as quickly as the attack had come, Leviathan vanished, once again becoming part of the surrounding rocks.

As he danced around letting his magic create illusions of her fears that he had seen he also threw in one of her desire for him and one with a child that was a mixture of demon and elf, he wanted to see her reactions. And then he buried himself in the deepest part of the cave and summoned his bed and laid down on it, making all around him seem like you were entering hell. He wanted her to believe this was an illusion as well and so he stripped himself laying bare on the bed waiting for her to arrive.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo gasped and staggered as a loud of spirits screamed through the cave straight for her. She brought up a hand to fend them off, but them crashed into her before she could bring her hand up. As soon as she lowered it and found the spirits gone a mirror image of herself stood several feet away looking at her with an foreign glint to her eyes and her lips peeled back in a grin.

Leviathan's voice cut through the darkness, however, and the visage of Ishiyo as a Shade vanished back into the shadows.

She sucked in a breath and clenched her teeth shut once more. What game was this? They'd played this game before! If he was hungry why didn't he just say so, she seethed as she forged ahead.

The others were frightful, of course, but expected now that she knew the face of the game. When the unexpected appeared, however, it gave her pause. Ishiyo drew back watching another image of herself pawing, touching, and kissing Leviathan shamelessly. Was this... a new fear? Afraid she would be broken by the fiend and end up some sort of immortal sex slave? She had reservations, but fear...?

The brief encounter left her uncertain in this game, wondering whether Leviathan had managed to pull out new fears or if there was more to it. There wasn't time to think about it and the demon wouldn't answer even if she asked. One at a time, she told herself, and she'd see it through to the end. No matter how painful she'd win.

Leviathan's next trick left her staring speechless and as still as a statue. A demon child? That could happen? What... what would it grow up to become? Was it something Leviathan wanted? He could turn her into a tool for its creation. Her thoughts were getting too far ahead of themselves. Ishiyo steeled herself and pressed on without saying anything. If the fiend thought she'd be all romantic about it he really would be deluding himself. Talk about hitting her from the side; the Elven woman hadn't even gotten that far in her own reflections on Leviathan or what she was doing with him.

Everything seemed to stretch forever in the darkness of the cave. How much more was she going to have to endure? It figures the fiend would be getting the most enjoyment out of this game.

At last Ishiyo stopped at the threshold to the chamber dressed as a hall with Leviathan sprawled over a bed. Naked. The Elf's red eyes widened seeing him without what very little he normally wore. This... was a fear?

Her eyes narrowed suddenly and slipped from one side to the next. This wasn't a fear. There was no carbon copy of herself enacting or participating in the image set before her. It was just Leviathan naked on a bed. How could this, alone, be a fear? They'd all ready been in bed together and all he wore was a loincloth. She'd felt his 'package' through that loincloth just a short while ago. No... this room was different.

Piercing the air between her and the fiend, the Elf stalked closer to the bed. She didn't stop when she approached; instead she planted a hand on the edge of the bed and leaped on to it. Ishiyo landed on the demon's chest and looked down at him with fire in her eyes. "Remember, Incubus, you cannot make me any more intelligent." she said, repeating his earlier statement regarding what power he could tempt her with. Well done illusion, but she saw through the context.

[dantieduurden]

" And why would you call me an incubus?" Leviathan asked her. " I do not wish you dead, nor do I wish for you to be my slave, if I wanted that it would already be so. I think you have failed your test Ishiyo." Leviathan said as he let his wings engulf her naked body once more. Why did she always think the worst. Sure he was a demon but that did not mean he would follow what stories were told about them. Slowly and carefully he let his hand pull her body down flat two his. " Are you telling me you do not fear us being together, of a child happening from such an encounter if we were ever to peruse our feelings. That you are not afraid of becoming a shade. Look inside yourself and know I did not fed from you. I want you to conquer your fears not have them abolished." Leviathan said letting his chest sink in as he let a breath of air out.

Next thing to happen Leviathan pushed all his weight so that he forced her underneath him and with a demonic snarl he said with venom in his voice as he covered her body with his own cutting off all escape for her as he pinned her hands above her head with one of his and with his other began letting his hands roam her face. " Is this what you think of me." Leviathan all but screamed at her, his rage getting the best of him. " Someone who only wants to posses you as a thing." Leviathan let out a dangerous growl as he spread her legs with his own. " Maybe I should be what you fear then saying everything I try to do nice for you you think I'm being cruel and evil." Leviathan said before getting off of the bed and throwing his fist through the stone wall, as he did this the walls began to change to his home plane in hell. Two his home.

" Come now don't be shy see what it is I do. See my evil." Leviathan said as a field of people being whipped passed by them, next there was a court room. " Look this is all those that had a silver tongue and escaped the riders laws." Leviathan said as a person was flayed alive on the stand. " Are you happy with what you see." Leviathan growled at the woman still in his bed. He was no longer happy, but instead furious and was happy to be in his own realm with her so that she could see what it meant to be evil. " Come on how about I let you spend a day with all of them, maybe then you shall have a reason to fear me, or at least understand me." Leviathan said as he went back over to the bed and not so gently grabbed her hands. " Would you like that Ishiyo. You said you did not want to fight, and I try to help you and you decide to fight me."

[mriswith]

The Elf began to frown before Leviathan thrust their bodies together again. She craned her head up to look at the fiend as he continued to speak, listening to what he said without trying to interrupt.

Then the beast threw her to the bed and pressed her into the sheets with a snarl. With a grunt she rolled her head so she could stare into his eyes. The edge returned to the red rings of her eyes; her heart pounded, but her thoughts were orderly and as sharp as the glint in her eyes. When he pinned her hands above her head the edge sharpened. When he screamed in her face the edge sharpened. When he forced her legs apart the edge sharpened. Ishiyo didn't struggle, but her body was tense and ready to move the moment the demon's guard fell. Still she remained silent.

He bound off to strike the wall and change the venue of their "talk." Ishiyo tightened the muscles in her abdomen and lifted her upper body from the bed where he'd left her. She pulled her legs up so she could kneel and watch the fiend snarl and snap as he went. Wasn't long before he needed the more personal touch again. His clawed fingers seized her wrists. Their eyes met.

Lightning cracked over to one side, from the ceiling of their momentary cave dwelling down to the floor, and vanished. The light flashed in her eyes. The lust and strange mirth Leviathan had stirred earlier had turned black with her own rage at his treatment.

Unlike Leviathan her voice was soft, and carefully enunciated so her words weren't misunderstood, "I agreed to let you feed off my emotions. I invited you to stay in my bed. I let you touch my body not just to please me, but you. You invade my mind and bring out my irrational fears, then you scream and rage and let loose the very core of your Hellish host on me?" Two more bolts of lightning cracked. "What do you think I am?" Ishiyo shouted, not restraining her emotions, but letting them slam into the fiend that so merrily had done the same to her mere seconds ago.

"I barely know what demons are from what you tell me. I barely know who you are, with your immortal life in this realm or the next. Why should I not consider what could happen? Why should I be the fool and disregard instinctual warnings? I would not do it for another Elf, why should I do it for you?" Ishiyo knew his raw power out weighed her own, but that same patient suffering and interesting that allowed her to so readily accept Leviathan had turned on him; whatever it was it would not let her sit by and be taken advantage of.

[dantieduurden]

Leviathan loved the reaction he received from her and to show he meant business he grabbed one of the bolts of lighting that fell from the sky and made it dissipate in his hand. " And I did not do stuff for you." She had brought out the demon inside of him and it was not often he himself was as frustrated as he was.

" It means you should not listen to what others tell you. " Leviathan glowered getting into her face once more, not once did he fed off of her instead he just stood there. " I told you what I meant to do for you and what I would do for you then you question my intentions." Leviathan let his own lighting bolt lose and it shattered the floor open. " A elf can lie, I have sworn to you in the ancient tongue already that I would not meaning I can not lie to you and yet you doubt the words I say. You think of me as a monster that only lusts for pillaging and killing yet have I not shown you I have not. You have slept with me as you yourself said, if I wished to do those things why would I have been so gentle with you."

Leviathan now was sitting on the bed his body pressed against hers wings wrapping around them. " If I wanted you Ishiyo." Leviathan said looking to his eyes in a calm voice, " I would just take you. I want you to want me as much as I want you." Leviathan said letting out his breath. " There is a major difference. " And with that he let his hands go back to her back and began massaging it. " We both agreed not to fight, trust me then." Leviathan said with a smile as he continued to give her a back rub. " And this is no illusion Ishiyo you are in hell." Leviathan said as he went and kissed her on her forehead.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo blinked and then lay against Leviathan's rock-hard chest. The electrifying current running through the air faded as she reached up with her freed hands to feel the broad chest; her head didn't take up nearly as much space as it would on an Elf. "Leviathan," her voice was soft again as the blood raging through her body had slowed more or less to normal once more, "I do not know what to feel around you. Everything I know about demons I learned about in the Citadel. Now you suddenly appear and..." She let out a slow breath, calming down from a rage she'd never felt before. The closest had been... after killing that Shade, when they fought then.

"I do not know what is happening," Ishiyo sighed before raising her eyes to look at him. "I never thought about being with a demon before. Never been with any one or any thing that was not an Elf. I was taught demons were cruel and dangerous. Do not try to tell me otherwise," a faint smile tried to creep back onto her lips, "but you can help me understand when you become cruel or dangerous. There is so much you need to help me understand, and obviously things I need to teach you."

Her eyes fell then to glance to the side, considering what he'd said about Hell. After a moment she looked up at the fiendish creature holding her in his arms as a lover. "I will weep later." This was no illusion? That did frighten her, but like the fears back in the cave--save the one regarding the Shade--she didn't let it control her. Why shouldn't she be afraid of being in Hell? Being afraid wasn't a sin. Cowering or being locked in place because of your fear... that was the crime.

She'd weep later... because despite what she'd seen in the world she'd never seen something on this scale. Ishiyo had never been old enough to go to war when she was being trained, and since that time she'd never had a chance to join a military unit. Sadly, this scene might help steel her for what she could see as a Rider. "Leviathan?" The Elf looked up at the Demon, "Why do people suffer in Hell? Is it 'justice,' or does it serve a purpose here?"

[dantieduurden]

The mighty balor looked down at Ishiyo who was now laying her head against his chest, her hand running against it. The sensations brought a new fire to his body, like the one from before and a cold calm once again ca,e over him as he heard her whisper his name. " Yes Akra Ishiyo." Leviathan said looking into her red eye with his own demonic eyes that knew only pain and hate. " And now you see that not all the riders say is the truth." Leviathan finished for her as he held her close in his arms. " As I have said to many before, beware the silver tongue. In this case it is the silver palm. " Leviathan said with a kiss.

" I know what I need to about you mortals." Leviathan said with a faint smile. " Some of you exceed the pack, but most of you fall behind the leader." Leviathan said painfully. " Its only a matter of time before you have to choose what you want, because they wil find out. I am not the easiest thing to hide, and I will not hide from a fight. As for when I
m dangerous and cruel, it's when I have to be or when I
m protecting my broad. All those who serve me expect my protection over them, its why so many lesser demons follow me, because if anyone bothers them they know I shall get the person back." Leviathan said explaining to her what she had asked.

" Most suffer because they can not escape there own minds. If you were sent to war and ordered to kill any human and you followed them orders to a t would you not think you did not deserve to rest in peace that you had to earn your way." Leviathan said as he laid down on the bed letting her decide where she wanted to be saying there was more then enough room for her anywhere on the bed that she did not need to lie on top of him. And thick warm blankets to cover her nude body from his eyes if she so desired.

" This place is a place of punishment for those who have committed wrongs and all are punished for what they did indivualdity. Though there are fields of whipping post, dose not mean all get the same. Do you understand what I am saying?" Leviathan asked her as he turned his demonic head towards her small elf one. " Can you tell me what makes you appeased by seeing me. What attracts you to me." Leviathan counte5red back at her for she had asked him a question.

[mriswith]

Ishiyo curled up on the right side of Leviathan's chest, letting her right hand lay over his hard muscles. She tried not to think about what was happening around them, or the sounds. Just being in Hell felt difference. Could an Elf really be in Hell? Must just be another dimension. Curious, though, if there were one could there be two? This 'Heaven' some Humans spoke about? It would be strange that the Humans would know something about the fundamentals of the universe that Elves did not, however. Very, very strange. If circumstances were different the Elven woman might think about studying the realm further and in detail.

"I understand, but," a faint frown surfaced, not truly understanding, "eternal punishment cannot fit their crime. Well," Ishiyo looked up at the beast beneath her, "unless that was part of an agreement you made with them. I cannot say I agree, but if they agreed knowing what it meant," then she couldn't fault Hell for carrying out its end of the deal.

The Elf shifted against him, wondering if anyone else could see them from where they'd appeared. She'd let Leviathan see her naked, but she didn't need any other demons leering from afar and pining about "someday" having her company; protected by Leviathan or not, if they tried touching her she'd find a way to bring them to their knees.

"You understand what I was saying earlier?" She asked, wanting to make sure after they'd both been distracted briefly by the very nature of Leviathan's home. "Do not look to what my fears are. Fear is irrational. As long as I remain in control of my fear it will not control me." Ishiyo really hoped the demon would talk to her about things instead of playing fear games. How was she suppose to respond to a half-demon baby? Excited? Happy? She hadn't even thought about having a pure Elven baby yet. She was too young and the life she had led too dangerous. Didn't seem either factor would dissuade Leviathan though. All the same, taking care of a child would take a lot of time; especially if it had special demonic needs. Wasn't like she could expect the Riders to take it to the Citadel for training like an Elven one.