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We've restored the Capital city which is now named Fel Haven. I've taken the role of Overlord and my wives are my council along with my three sons. My two daughters Yuna and Slitherine have opened a new Spa here and my other daughter Olivia is learning more and more about human technology, she's managed to take some of my ideas and concepts and make them reality, like pens and other gadgets that improve the quality of life here.

I've refrained from marking any new demons except those in my army, where civilians now have a choice to join my army or not.

For now though I'm standing on a balcony with my arms wrapped around Desire's waist looking over the city. Things are finally starting to calm down after Val'hades death, demons are happy, slavery is being stomped out and peace is spreading throughout the lands. It's like I was meant to be here, that's a creepy thought that I was meant to be killed just so I could be sent here by a dying vengeful demon... sounded better in my head.

Slitherana is out with Arachne having a day out at our daughters Spa while my sons are out celebrating a successful raid on a demonlord who refused to join our new nation and threatened to take it all for himself.

"So, what are you going to do for our anniversary next week?" Desire asks me with a giggle as her tail wraps around my right leg.

"Hmmm, it's that time again? Well, I'm not sure, how about a little vacation out to the hot springs?" I ask her.

Before she could reply, we both start glowing with a white light making me frown and hold onto Desire tightly. "Damien? What's happening?" she asks with a worried tone.

"I don't know, just don't let go," I reply and she holds onto my arms.

The light gets brighter and brighter until it's too bright to keep our eyes open anymore.

"He's surging! Quickly, get an inhibitor ring now!" I hear a female voice shout out and the light then dies down.

I open my eyes to the sight of incuponies and succuponies sitting in rows of seats with clipboards and quills in their hands. Except these people don't have the same features as the ones I know, these ones have no wings, a single horn on their foreheads, no fangs and different varieties of brightly coloured fur.

"Where are we?" Desire asks me which makes everyone in the room look at us with wide eyes, but their expressions are what put me on edge, fear.

"I don't know, but take my rifle," I tell her and she quickly gets behind me and pulls my rifle out of its holster on my back.

"Demons!" one of the women yells out and panic fills the room.

A small light blue boy is staring up at me just a few feet away with a silver ring on his horn. "Whoa..." he mutters with wide eyes and a dropped jaw.

I hear the sounds of heavy footsteps outside the only door in the room and I frown. I quickly draw my pistol with my left hand and aim it at the door. "Desire, if things go south I want you to blast out the window and we'll take off from there," I tell her as I think of an escape plan should things turn hostile.

"Okay," she replies and pulls the hammer on the rifle back.

The door opens and four men run in pointing spears at us. "Halt demons! You will surrender now or you will be put down!" one of them orders us.

The energy I'm picking up from these men is pathetic and hardly a threat to me. I chuckle coldly and form my scythe in my right hand. "I don't think you understand who you are up against. I am Overlord Damien Jackson of Tartarus, and you stand no hope against me, so if you wish to continue drawing breath, you will back off before I rip out your souls," I threaten them back.

"Overlord? He's the Overlord of Tartarus!? Quickly! Warn the Princesses! This is a code black I repeat a code black!" one of them orders another making him run out quickly. The remaining three look like they're starting to sweat.

"Now then..." I say tapping my scythe on the floor. "Where are we and who brought us here?" I ask them with narrowed eyes.

"Stay silent, demon. You'll wait right there for the Princesses to arrive to deal with you," the middle one replies looking more confident than he sounds.

Like I'm going to do as they tell me. "Desire, please blow out the window, we're leaving," I tell her and she nodded. She gathers her energy in her left hand and sends out a blast that blows the closest window out.

The people in the room yelp or scream as the sound of glass shattering rings out through the room. The men in golden armour with spears rush at us and thrust their spears at me. I dodge two but the third pierces my gut, making me grunt and aim my pistol right at his head.

"Bad choice," I remark and blow a hole through his forehead.

The people scream and the boy just stares in fear as the man I shot drops to the floor unmoving. Huh, he ain't healing or moving... did I kill him? That's pretty pathetic for a demon, are they even demons? I rip out the spear in my gut and toss it aside before huffing and follow Desire out the window.

We take to the air and I'm blinded by the bright light in the sky, wait... is that a sun? I marvel at the blue skies and white fluffy looking clouds which I haven't seen in decades. "Damien! Stop staring and let's go!" Desire yells at me and I snap out of my stupor.

I take off towards what looks like a cliff edge but something blasts me in my right shoulder knocking me out of the air and into a building below. "Ow... mother fucker..." I mumble and pull myself out of the rubble and fly out of the hole in the roof.

I look around and see a tall white woman with flowing aurora like hair, a very long horn, large feathered wings, wearing golden armour and holding a large maul with a sun shaped ball on the end. She's surrounded by soldiers with feathered wings as well.

"You shall not escape demon, for harming my ponies you shall be destroyed," she tells me with a heated glare.

I scoff and fly up to her level. "I only killed him because he attacked first, and it was one of your people that brought us here against our will. Unless you want more bloodshed, you will stand down and let us leave," I warn her and grip my scythe and pistol tightly.

"You dare threaten me? I've faced Overlord Tirek over a thousand years ago and sealed him while stripping him of his power back into Tartarus. I'm sure a weaker demon than him calling himself Overlord will prove no trouble at all," she replies and raises her maul preparing to attack.

I frown at her comment of being weak. I did not take over Tartarus by being weak! I aim my pistol at her and fire a shot at her head, surprisingly the shot ricochets off her helmet but the force of the hit whips her head back and disorientates her, making her fall out of the sky dazed.

I charge at her with my scythe at the ready but winged men and women intercept me and try to impale me with spears. Desire starts shooting with my rifle killing six of the soldiers before she's out of ammo. I swing my scythe slicing through a soldier's armour like butter and cutting him in two, his soul is sucked out and I turn to another attacking me. I blast him point blank with a gout of darkfire incinerating him instantly.

"Foolish creatures, you're in over your heads! But continue fighting if you must! I can do this all day!" I yell at them as my bloodlust rises getting them to at least back off but not run.

"Damien! I need more ammo!" Desire yells at me and I quickly toss her my rifle ammo pouch. While she reloads I slowly back up towards her.

"We're going into the Shadow Realm, hold onto my back and don't let go," I tell her quietly. She quickly holsters my rifle on my back and hugs me tightly.

The white woman has gotten back up and I smirk at her. "I'm warning you now woman, follow me and I will kill you," I threaten her and before she could say or do anything, we slip into the Shadow Realm tinting the world in dark grey colours.

I watch as they try looking around for us which just makes me grin wider. "Can we go now? You know I hate this place," Desire asks me in barely a whisper as this place muffles or even blocks most sound. She watches a wraith go by who gives us a quick glance before heading off on its way.

"Sure, I saw a large forest to the south, should be a good place to hide until we figure out where we are and how to get home," I reply and fly towards said forest at high speed.

After a couple of minutes I land just on the outskirts of the forest near a small rustic looking town. I exit the Shadow Realm and the world regains its colour. For the first time in a long while I see green grass and trees again. I kneel down and run my left hand through it and smile.

"You can do that later, we really need to go before they find us again," Desire tells me and takes my rifle again.

I sigh as she's right, while that white woman may have been confident, she also had the energy of a demonlord to back it up.

I stand back up and look into the forest. "Alright, I saw a ruin to the left. We can hide there while we figure out where we are, and if we have to I can go to that town and try to get some answers," I reply. We both ready our weapons and head into the dark foreboding forest.

After a few minutes of walking I hear a caw of a bird and look up to a tree branch to see a rather large black bird. 'I recognise that bird... was it called a crow or a raven?' I think to myself as the bird just stares at us.

The bird then surprises me by flying down and landing on the end of my scythe's haft, it then tilts its head and caws at me.

"Huh. Haven't seen one of you in ages... then are we on Earth?" I wonder to myself, but that can’t be right as there wasn’t any humans here.

The bird then hops over and lands on my left shoulder while still staring at me. "What do you want? I got nothing on me that you could want," I tell it and it just perches itself there.

"I think he likes you," Desire says with a giggle.

"Hmmm, well if he wants to tag along then I don't mind. I've never had a pet before and at least this one is black," I reply with a chuckle.

We continue through the forest as apart from the raven all other wildlife seems to be avoiding us. That's going to be a pain when we'll need to hunt for food. After a good twenty minutes of walking we hear the sounds of snarling followed by a woman's scream, so we rush towards it and find a yellow woman with light pink hair, feathered wings and a torn light green dress on the ground wounded badly where a large feline creature, who I think looks like a deformed lion is about to bite into the panicking woman's neck.

Desire reacts quickly and shoots the creature in the heart making it cry out in pain before staggering back and collapsing.

We walk over and I check the woman to find she's lost a lot of blood and is barely breathing. "Such a shame, she's very pretty. Too bad there's nothing we can do for her," Desire says with a sigh before reloading a new bullet.

The yellow woman's eyes barely open and she looks up at me in both fear and pleading for help while her breathing is very shallow. I frown and look at my left hand, can my demonic energy heal her like it can for other demons? But I don't even know if these people are demons or not. Well I got nothing to lose from trying at least, she'll die at this rate either way.

I place my hand over her heart and begin to pour my energy into her, at first she screams in pain but after a few seconds a few of her features change. Her ears grow longer and have tufts of fur on the ends, the feathers on her wings fall off and is replaced with bat like membranes, next her teeth turn more like a succupony's and her eyes turn red and cat like. Her wounds at least are closing and once they're all healed the woman passes out.

"Wow, she almost looks like a succupony now," Desire comments poking the unconscious woman in the chest a few times.

"Yeah, pretty strange but at least she'll live," I reply. I then pick the woman up and sling her over my right shoulder.

"Okay, questions; why are you carrying her and why did you save her?" she asks me.

"One; I can't leave her out here to be eaten or killed just after healing her. Second; despite her being afraid she didn't want to die," I reply and look back at the beast. "Bring that with us, we'll see if we can cook it up later," I tell my wife and she sighs.

"Sure you get the pretty mare and I get the stinky beast..." she grumbles. I think she only wants to carry this woman so she can grope her... I'm sure of it.

We continue our journey towards the ruins as the night approaches and we finally reach the decrepit gates. "Nice place," Desire comments looking around.

"Was is more like it, it'll do for now until we plan our next move, maybe this woman will tell us where we are and what way Tartarus is," I reply and enter the ruin.

Desire is looking around like an excited child while I find a good place to set up camp. I gather up broken pieces of furniture and make a small fire pit while Desire dumps the beast nearby. I then start to skin the beast, but a wail of someone in despair echoes throughout the ruins.

"The buck was that?" Desire asks and raises my rifle up, aiming further into the ruin.

"I don't know, but stay here and watch over her," I tell her and point to the still unconscious woman. "And no groping or molesting unless she allows it, understood?" I then warn her, the last female demon we took as a prisoner Desire molested her until she told us what we wanted to know.

"Argh, fine... but only if she lets me," she huffs and crosses her arms.

I chuckle and raise my scythe and light my left hand in darkfire before walking deeper into the ruin.

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