Before I leave the ruins I clean out the guards bodies that are starting to smell bad after being left out all night. Once piled outside and far enough away from the castle, I then head out with my revolver to find something for breakfast, I fly over the ravine with an old rope bridge and start stalking through the woods.

So far I hear nothing and feel no presence of animals nearby, can they feel or sense me coming? I frown as I shift into the Shadow Realm, take to the air and fly above the canopy. I can't sense anything while in here but I'm hoping to see some large animal moving about that won't notice me coming.

After a good eleven or so minutes I spot what looks like a chicken's head poking out of a bush. 'Bingo.' I dive, tuck in my wings and drop down to it.

Once I land I step out of the Shadow Realm which startles it, its eyes then glow and I feel a slight tingle in the back of my head. 'Huh, reminds me of Medusa's stone gaze ability,' I think to myself. I then raise my revolver and shoot the chicken right between the eyes.

I raise an eyebrow as it flops out of the bush with a strange long and large scaled body. "I'm pretty sure I remember chickens don't look like that..." I mutter to myself and lift it up by its green scaled tail. "Eh, as long as it tastes like chicken I won't complain."

With a firm grip on our breakfast, I head off back to the Castle and land at the entrance. I walk in and find Desire and Luna talking to each other on the bed.

"...and then he slammed so hard, I couldn't feel my legs for days after!" Desire tells Luna with a dreamy expression.

Luna for her part is blushing like she's on fire. "We see..." she replies looking uncomfortable and then glances at me.

Desire follows her gaze and smiles at me. "Darling! How could you leave me like that without our morning fun!?" she asks me with a pout and crosses her arms. Luna sputters out nonsense while her blush intensifies.

"Desire, we may not have much time to play about anymore, we need to find a way back home before one of the other demonlords try to take over. Though I have faith in our sons to keep Slitherana and our daughters safe," I scold her, she should know when it's time to have fun and time to be serious by now. "Not to mention we may have a vengeful alicorn after us as well, I'd rather not let her catch us with our pants down, literally."

She huffs and turns her head away. "Well I still need my dose of lust from you," she tells me and gets up.

I shake my head and smile as she sways her hips over to me. "Fine fine, but I need to cook this chicken and then we need to get moving," I reply and she latches onto my face and kisses me deeply with a moan as she feeds.

I can see Luna is uncomfortable with our display so I break our kiss and desire whines. "Come on, just a bit more?" she begs me with wide soul crushing eyes.

"No," I firmly tell her making her sigh.

"Fiiiine, but I expect some extra before bed tonight," she replies and heads out the door.

I turn to the still blushing Luna and smile at her. "Sorry about that, she at least has better control than she used to have, otherwise we'd still be on the bed right now," I tell her and follow my wife out the room.

Luna remains silent and follows behind me while keeping her gaze on the floor.

We reach the room where we were attacked by Celestia and I set up the fire pit and begin preparing the chicken for breakfast. Noctis then flies in and lands on my shoulder while eyeing up the carcass.

After a few minutes of silence where Desire is brushing her hair with a brush she took from Luna's room, Luna finally speaks up. "How didst thou manage to slay a cockatrice without turning to stone?" she asks me.

"Cockatrice? I thought it was a mutant chicken..." I reply and frown at the dead creature. "Well I was looking for anything large and this was the only thing I found, it tried to turn me to stone so I just shot it and brought it back... it's edible right? No venom or such?" I ask Luna.

"While they hast nary any venom or poison, we dost not know of their flavour," she replies.

"Well, as my mother used to say, try everything at least once," I say and pull out its innards and toss them aside. Noctis jumps off my shoulder and starts eating the organs.

"So, Luna, have you ever been in a relationship before?" Desire suddenly asks Luna outta nowhere.

"We... we hast not, we had barely any time to ourselves running the kingdom alongside our sister. Finding a mate twas not on our mind at the time," she replies and sighs.

"Aw, so you got no dirty or kinky stories to share?" Desire asks with a pout.

Luna blushes again and I frown at my wife. "Desire, stop teasing her or so help me no sex for a month!" I tell my wife off like a naughty child.

She looks at me with wide eyes and then snarls. "You wouldn't dare!" she yells in anger.

"Oh I dare, you're letting your libido get out of hand again, if it's getting that bad we can find a nice secluded spot once we get away and I'll fuck you senseless, but until then keep yourself under control," I tell her with a glare and she surrenders with a pout.

"Fine," she replies and I sigh.

"Ye both hast an interesting dynamic..." Luna comments as she looks between us.

"Yeah well, she's a nymphomaniac with an insatiable lust, but I love her all the same," I reply getting a smile and giggle out of Desire.

I light the fire and slowly turn the cockatrice around on a spit above the fire.

"So how far is the gryphon border from here?" I ask Luna to pass the time.

"From what we last recall, tis about four days travel on hoof to the port then a week's travel via sea vessel across the ocean," she replies and floats beside me. "May we please have more magic to restore more of our body?" she asks me with a hopeful smile.

I chuckle and raise my left hand which I then coat in my shadow energy. She again places her cheek on my palm and starts absorbing my energy.

Her biceps start to form and her stomach begins to form as well, I also notice a pair of bat or demonic like wings start to sprout from her shoulder blades which only forms half way before stopping.

I pull my hand away as she took a good third of my energy and I want to make sure I keep quite a bit for a fight if needed. "There you go, I can give you more later tonight," I tell her and she smiles.

"We thank thee, Sir Damien," she replies and examines her new body parts, but she gasps at the sight of her half formed wings. "What hast happened to our wings!? They should be feathered! Not draconic!" she shouts out in alarm.

I frown and hum in thought. "Perhaps my demonic energy is altering you like it did to Fluttershy," I theorise and scratch my goatee.

She looks slightly upset but sighs and shakes her head. "We suppose this is acceptable if it means we canst have a body again..." she says with a sad frown.

"Oh lighten up, being a demon isn't all that bad, we're immune to disease and heal quite quickly compared to the creatures of this world," Desire says trying to cheer her up. "Besides, I think they look sexy on you," she then says with lidded eyes while fluttering her own leathery wings at Luna.

"Desire..." I warn her and she groans.

Luna just looks back at the half formed wings and sighs. "We see, that doth seems like useful benefits..." she says and looks back at me.

"If you're worried about what others will think then don't worry about it, I think you look great as you are, though we may need to find you some clothes soon," I tell her getting a small smile from her.

"We thank thee for the encouragement," she says as I cut a piece of breakfast off and taste it. 'What do you know? It does taste like chicken.' "Well, breakfast is served," I announce and Desire quickly breaks off a leg and bites into it.

"I've just had a thought, it's going to be confusing calling you and your other half the same name, and since your other half is known to the world as Luna, maybe you should get a new name?" I suggest to Luna.

"But tis our name! We canst not just change who we are," she says sadly, clearly not liking the idea.

"Well how about this, where I came from Luna was another word for moon, there's many more and Selene is one. So why not name yourself as Selene Nocturne, twin sister to Luna?" I offer her.

She hums in thought as she mulls the idea around in her head. At least she hasn't rejected the idea yet. "We... we suppose tis a good name..." she says and looks between me and Desire. "Very well, from hence forth we shalt be known as Selene Nocturne, Princess of Dreams," she tells us with her head raised proudly.

"Princess of Dreams?" I ask her with a raised brow.

"Verily, our other half shalt remain the Princess of the Night, whilst we shall claim the title of Princess of Dreams," she replies with a smile.

Good to see her cheering up at least. "Alright, let's finish up here and then get going. I don't want to hang around for the guards to arrive and throw themselves at me in vain," I say and take another bite of my breakfast.

After breakfast is finished, we head outside and stretch our limbs. "So, Selene. The gryphon kingdom is west wasn't it?" I ask her to clarify. Noctis is back on my shoulder and is looking around the courtyard.

"Verily," she replies with a nod.

"So how are you going to fly? I know you can float but that doesn't look very fast, and your wings aren't complete just yet," I ask her.

She hums in thought before turning her body fully into mist which makes me yelp as she engulfs my body and I feel her phasing into me.

'Thou canst carry us until our body is whole again,' Selene tells me in my head.

"That's so hot, though I'd rather you be the one inside me, my love," Desire says with a creepy smile.

'Damn she's really getting out of hand...' I think to myself and worry that Desire won't be able to contain herself much longer, ever since I gave her that power boost her libido and sex drive shot up as well.

'Mayhap we should find a location so thou may cool her down, she is acting as if she is in heat,' Selene comments in my head.

'You can hear my thoughts?' I ask her surprised with wide eyes.

'Verily, so we ask thee to keep thy thoughts from straying into the... more risqué criteria,' she tells me.

I sigh and roll my eyes. "Come on, let's just get going," I say and take off with Desire and Noctis flying beside me.

I follow Selene's directions as we fly west over the forest. I glance back to the town and notice a lot of guards in the streets before we lose sight of the town.

Not much happens over the next fourteen hours as we leave the forest behind us into a large grassy plain with a few trees around the area and a lake to the right. We stopped to fish at the lake where we had a quick lunch before we continued onward.

'Sir Damien?' Selene says getting my attention.

'Yes, Selene?' I answer her.

'What art those weapons thou carry? We hast never seen such weapons other than bows before our banishment,' she asks me.

'They're ranged weapons called firearms or guns of my own design, a team of my brightest imps and goblins helped me mass produce them for my army,' I reply as we come up towards some mountains.

'Thy whole army is armed with these weapons!?' she asks me with worry.

'Most of it, if you're worried that I might invade here then don't worry, unless your sister attacks us first Equestria has nothing to worry about from me,' I reply and spot a cave on the cliff face of the snow capped mountain that Selene said is called Frost Wind Peak.

Selene remains silent as we approach the cave and we land near the entrance. I look around and it's not very big, just a small cavern with a tunnel leading further in. I start shivering due to the cold temperature at this altitude, dammit, I'm so used to the heat of Tartarus that I feel like I'm going to freeze to death here. The sun has started setting and I'm tired from flying for hours non stop.

I quickly go out and gather some dead wood from nearby trees and return to start a fire, once going I sigh and sit beside the flames as Desire cuddles up beside me also feeling the cold despite her fur. Selene then exits my body and hovers nearby.

"Well, day one was uneventful I think, at least Celestia didn't send anyone after us," I say as Desire starts nuzzling me and feeds off my affection for her.

"Yeah, next time I see that whorse I'm going to plant my hoof so far up her cunt she'll never have foals again... damn nag almost broke my right horn off when she slammed me into the stone floor," Desire says angrily and rubs said horn lightly.

"After the beating I gave her she'll think twice before harming you again," I tell her and she hums happily.

"I've said this before, but I'm so lucky I found you in the wastes all those decades ago," she tells me and sighs with content.

"I could say the same, I would have died if you didn't find me. I guess we we're just meant to be together," I reply with a chuckle.

The sun begins to set as the moon starts to rise on the horizon. I look at Selene to see her with a sad expression. "Selene? Are you alright?" I ask her.

"Huh?" she mumbles and looks at me. "We art fine... tis just we canst feel our moon rising but our other half is guiding her across the stars... we feel so out of touch with the world and our night... though we suppose tis no longer our night," she replies with a far off look as she stares out the cave entrance.

I share a glance with Desire and she gets up and walks over to Selene where she then gives her a hug. "It'll be fine. Even if you can't stay here, you're welcome to come with us to Tartarus, it's not as bad as you think it is thanks to Damien," she says trying to cheer her up again.

Why do I get the feeling Desire just wants to take her home like a pet?

A loud snore or growl echoes throughout the cave making Desire yelp and Noctis to fly out the cave in fright. I turn towards the tunnel at the back of the cave and see a light glow near the back.

We're not alone in here.

And Gilda appears in the next Chapter :)

Now, does Damien save her and keep her as a gryphon, or will he turn her into a harpy now or later?

What would you like to see more?