1. Prologue
The Underworld the ever night plains, the place where the nightmares and monsters from the human mind live, in a monarchical society the Underworld runs smoothly but a crisis is near as the successor of the throne refuses to take his place.
It all started when the king had a daughter, she was born between the relationship of the king of the Underworld, a shadow being, and the alpha werewolf from one of the most known group of werewolves, their daughter was named Gashid, she had white and black hair, and a red eye and the other silver, this made her really different as such characteristics were rare in the Underworld.
But the most striking characteristic is that she had both male and female characteristics, the so called hermaphrodite, that made the king a bit uncomfortable but that wouldn’t stop him from loving his daughter, well they decided that she was a daughter, so they raised her like that.
Years passed and the princess didn’t show many problems but when she reached 10 years she started to behave weirdly, she sometimes would say she was a boy and behaved as one, other times she said she was a girl and acted shyly, such behavior was making the king worry so he decided to call someone that knew from this kind of conditions, Doctor S. was the one he called, no one really knew his name he only said to call him Doctor S. no one understood why but he was a great doctor so no one really worried about it.
“So Doctor what is wrong with her”
“Nothing that you can change, in about one week a human mage shall come here that mage will release your daughter true self”
These words made the king even more worried, what was the Doctor referring to when he said her true self, the king had no idea what this could mean but he was worried so he ordered everyone on the Underworld to be careful with a human mage.
One week had passed and still no signs of any human mage could have the Doctor S. be wrong, these thoughts passed on the king’s head until a knight comes to inform him about the human.
“My king there was a report of a human entering the south district, seems like he says he was sent to see the king’s daughter, what shall we do”
“Bring him to me, I shall find out what he wants to do to my daughter”
“As you wish my king”
The Knight came back one hour later bringing the human
“What is your name human and what do you want with my daughter”
“My name is Andreja I am a human mage and I received a vision telling me that the princess of the Underworld would need my help to reveal her true self”
“Her true self what do you mean by that”
“I do not know the vision was blurry and I could only understand what kind of magic I should use on her and what she looked like”
“I will let you see her but if you do anything bad to her you shall be executed”
“I wouldn’t think of disgracing the princess of the Underworld”
They both go to the princess room so the human can reveal the true self of the princess, when they reach the room the king knocks
“Gashid dear there is someone here to see you”
They got no answer so the king entered the room to see her hiding under her blankets.
“Go away I don’t want to see him, the voice told me that he was bad”
“But dear he will make you become your true self”
Suddenly the human pushes the king away and takes the coves of reveling Gashid on her pajamas looking scared at him, he grabs her arm and pulls her near looking into her eyes
“I will reveal your true self you will finally have your own body, Zashid and Gaphid that shall be your names from now on”
He touches her face and a rune he had on his hand shines blue, a flash of light appears and when it is gone both the human and Gashid are gone and instead of them a boy and a girl seemingly the same age as Gashid appear, the boy had red eyes, medium black hair, and a face that didn’t look pleased, the girl had silver eyes, white long hair and a face that showed fear.
2. Zashid
I could see the king my father in front of me looking confused and he had reason too his daughter now turned into two different persons, well a it seems that my "sister" is also confused so I decided to use the information I had and explain the situation
"Father you must be confused so let me explain, that human, that mage, what he did was nothing more than take the two persons living inside Gashid and give them their own body, and you Gaphid my sister, you were one with me but that's no more, we now have our own body"
I thought that would be enough to explain the situation, but both still showed confusion and Gaphid was blushing for some reason, my father quickly shaped out of the confusion and said to me
"Well if both of you are happy then that's good, and Zashid you are now my son so you will take care of the throne once the time comes, and Gaphid I will get a good prince to marry you"
This is wrong find a good prince for her to marry she obviously didn't like the idea so for some reason a spark of anger ignited on me and the wish to protect her came to my mind
"I will not accept that if I become the King then she has to become my Queen"
Only seconds after I realized what I had said and I started blushing, my father didn't seem happy with my decision and spoke in an angry tone
"I cannot approve of that, if you insist in having her be your Queen, then I have to take the rights to succeed me from you.”
“If you do that the Underworld will not have a King, what will you do about that.”
“Simple, you shall get the 5 relics and open a portal to the human world and find your brother.”
This last affirmation confused me greatly brother what do you mean and the human world what would my brother that I didn’t know of be doing in such a place
“B-brother, what do you mean I don’t have a brother, and the human world even if I do have one what would have be doing on the human world.”
“Your brother was weak, he wasn’t able to use his powers they were sealed, so we sent him to the human world as he was too weak to survive here, we got him a family and he now lives happily, but, now it’s time to wake him up with your blood he shall awaken and you will bring him here to be the next King, as for you I will give you the Infinite Castle, the old shack at the North of Shadow Town.”
“Weak, well I understand that but why didn’t you tell us about him before?”
“You may not realize it but once you knew about him you would try and meet him.”
“Well I would certainly be curious but if you said I couldn’t I wouldn’t try to.”
“Well we decided it was the best to hide it from you, until you reached the age or something like this happened.”
I see they decided that for our best I have to respect that, still I can’t accept he wanting to force Gaphid into a marriage, she has been quite quiet though, I should ask her what she thinks about this, turning around I see she isn’t anywhere to be seen, where has she gone, this girl only gets me problems.
“Father it seems Gaphid disappeared I shall now leave and look for her we will get our things ready and we will depart to the Infinite Castle.”
“Very well I wish you luck.”
As he says this I leave to look for Gaphid that seems to have decided to get away from our discussion, she is rather shy this might be a problem.
I look on all rooms but still I don’t find her where could she be, this is going to be a problem, maybe she is there, I shall look in the garden I believe that’s one of the places she finds calming.
I was right, when I reached the garden there she was sleeping near some big trees, as I thought she would be sleeping she really is lazy, but, she is really cute while sleeping, her ears wave with the wind and her fluffy tail covers her body so she doesn’t get cold, it’s quite a beautiful sight to see, no it’s not time for that I have to wake her up and tell her what happened, I go near her and try waking her up but I fail, she really sleeps a lot and is hard to wake up, well only one way to do it, I go to the kitchen grab a cup of water and pour the water onto her waking her up.
“W-what h-happened?”
“You ran away from our discussion with our father and then you came here and fell asleep.”
“D-did I fall asleep on a place like this again, I should be careful, what did he say got out midway after you ….” She suddenly stopped talking and blushed looking away from my face, it’s really hard to understand what she is thinking.
“After I what?”
“N-noting forget about it, w-what did he say?”
“Well he said we have to get the 5 relics and get our brother from the human world, it seems he was too weak to live in here so they sent him to a human family but now if we give him our blood his real powers will awaken and he will be able to be the King instead of me.”
“Another brother I didn’t know about it.”
“Yes it seems to prevent us from trying to search for him they hid the truth.”
“I see well then we have to find him it seems like a fun adventure.”
“Yes it does, also we now will have our own house he gave us the Infinite Castle.”
“Wait that Infinite Castle, that’s really amazing.”
“Yes it is now we should go get our things packed up to leave.”
“Yes let’s go then but you don’t have much right all things we have are mostly my clothes, there shouldn’t be much clothes fitting boys as father never let us wear anything less than a dress when we were one.”
“Well we can go to the Shadow Town and buy some.”
“Yes let me chose some good clothes for you.”
“Ok I will let you help, now let’s go we have a lot to do.”
“Yes.”
We got up and went to our room packing up all her stuff and I went to talk with my father one last time.
“Father I will surely succeed.”
“Yes I believe in you my son, now here take the key to the Infinite Castle.”
As he says that he extends his hand and gives me a silver colored key that looks very old but isn’t even a bit rusty.
“So this is the key to our new home.”
“Yes take good care of it.”
“I will, now I shall depart.”
He waved at me from his throne as I left and looked like he said something but I couldn’t hear it.
After we left we went to shadow town and as promised I let Gaphid help choosing clothes for me but it was a mistake.
“What about this cute pink t-shirt it would fit you just fine.”
“Gaph what did I say about pink t-shirts I don’t want the I don’t like pink.”
I take a black t-shirt and show her.
“This is what I like, and this is what we will be taking.”
“I also like black but I think you should get something more colorful.”
“Nope I like this one so I will take it.”
“Ok then.”
Her face didn’t seem that pleased but what could I do I didn’t like that pink t-shirts she chose for me. For some reason we ended up buying more clothes for her than for me that only bought some jeans and t-shirts.
After the shopping we started walking North to our final destination that day our new home the Infinite Castle, the Infinite Castle looks just like an old shack from the outside, and though everyone can get in only the ones with the key would see it’s real form, an endless white room waiting to be filled, also whoever had the key could also fill it with whatever he wanted as the Castle would give form to its owner imagination, to make it simple if I imagined a tv appearing in front of me it would appear.
Having lost myself in though I almost bumped right into a tree but someone saved me from it, pulling me to the side as I ended up falling on top of her.
“Hey I save you and you are already trying to rape me.”
“S-sorry.”
I say that as awkwardly get of her, she looked like a child and was wearing a Goth-loli dress, but I could obviously see she wasn’t a child she was a vampire, her cold red eyes and her fangs were unmistakable.
She looked up to me and spoke with a sweet voice.
“I am Astaroth, your father appointed me as your maid, so I will be going with you.”
“Maid I see he got even that, can I also ask you, you are a vampire right.”
“Yes I am but don’t ask me for my age.”
“Well ok I guess I can agree with that, and then shall we go we are almost there.”
“Yes I will be flying there and will be waiting for you inside.”
As she says that giant bat wings appear on her back, and she flies up, she is lucky she has her own wings we still can fly but I know we will be able to use our shadows someday to be able to fly.
There was nothing more we could do so we just continued to walk till we reached the house, finally we are home.
3. Gaphid
Suddenly I could see my father looking surprised in front of me and a boy at my side I didn't really know who he was but I could feel he was someone special to me.
Before anything else happened he got up and spoke to me and my father.
"Father you must be confused so let me explain, that human, that mage, what he did was nothing more than take the two persons living inside Gashid and give them their own body, and you Gaphid my beloved sister, you were one with me but that's no more, we now have our own body but don’t worry we will be together anyway."
These words made me feel hot and embarrassed, and still confused but my father quickly answered him as if he understood all.
"Well if both of you are happy then that's good, and Zashid you are now my son so you will take care of the throne once the time comes, and Gaphid I will get a good prince to marry you"
A prince to marry me, wait no why did you decide I had to marry someone you chose, I should be the one deciding right?
But Zashid got angry and spoke up.
"I will not accept that if I become the King then she has to become my Queen and we will live together forever."
W-what are you saying Zashid y-your Q-queen, live together f-forever.
I started blushing I guess these words affected me, so I had decided to leave the room before I turned into a tomato from all this red on my face.
I walked down the castle wall but it was strangely empty, as no one was here and I had nothing to do I went to my favorite place to sleep, but the place wasn’t empty as always, an angel, an female angel was there on the pound naked, was she taking a bath, I decided to get close but as I am really shy I couldn’t force myself to move my mouth and ask her what she was doing, but that wasn’t needed as she turned around showing me all her naked body and told me her reasons.
"Could you be the owner of this castle, I am sorry to be bathing upon this pound without your permission but I seem to have fallen and landed here I also seemed to have hurt my wing so I used this pound it seems it has healing priorities I will leave once I am cured.”
“D-don't worry about that it's not my castle I it's my dad's.”
“I see well then you must be a princess nice to meet you I am Uriel, the princess of angels.”
“P-princess of angels w-why is the princess of angels here?”
“Well I am still a immature princess so when I tried flying on the unprotected area I ended up losing control and I fell here.”
“That’s how you hurt your wing, here let me help.”
Using the power I had as the daughter of the king of shadows I created some dark bandages and entering the pound I applied them to her.
“Thanks that will help I always thought that shadows were bad seems that I was wrong there are good ones.”
“Bad, why would we be bad?”
“Well you are creatures of darkness and my father days you are all scum that would do all kind of bad actions, he says you even kill for pleasure.”
“What we are not like that.”
“I know that you aren't but can't be sure about all others.”
“I assure you none of us are like what your father thinks of us, we would not hurt anyone like that without a reason, and we wouldn’t do bad things, we aren’t bad, we just live in the darkness.”
“Ok ok I will believe you, thanks for the help I should leave now my father will be worried.”
“Ok good bye.”
She waves at me and she flaps her wings awkwardly lifting herself on the air and leaving.
I was tired I just met a angel even more the angel princess, so I just sat near a tree and slept until I was waked up by Zashid and a cup of water to my face.
“W-what happened?”
“You ran away from our discussion with our father and then you came here and fell asleep.”
“D-did I fall asleep on a place like this again, I should be careful, what did he say got out midway after you ….”
I stopped there it was too embarrassing to say t-that he wanted me to be his Queen
“After I what?”
“N-noting forget about it, w-what did he say?”
“Well he said we have to get the 5 relics and get our brother from the human world, it seems he was too weak to live in here so they sent him to a human family but now if we give him our blood his real powers will awaken and he will be able to be the King instead of me.”
“Another brother I didn’t know about it.”
“Yes it seems to prevent us from trying to search for him they hid the truth.”
“I see well then we have to find him it seems like a fun adventure.”
“Yes it does, also we now will have our own house he gave us the Infinite Castle.”
“Wait that Infinite Castle, that’s really amazing.”
“Yes it is now we should go get our things packed up to leave.”
“Yes let’s go then but you don’t have much right all things we have are mostly my clothes, there shouldn’t be much clothes fitting boys as father never let us wear anything less than a dress when we were one.”
“Well we can go to the Shadow Town and buy some.”
“Yes let me chose some good clothes for you.”
“Ok I will let you help, now let’s go we have a lot to do.”
“Yes.”
We got up and I went to get my things while Zash went to see our father once more and then we met at the front door and walked down to the Shadow Town to buy some clothes.
Picking up a cute pink t-shirt I asked him.
“What about this cute pink t-shirt it would fit you just fine.”
“Gaph what did I say about pink t-shirts I don’t want the I don’t like pink.”
I really like it but he picks up a black one and says
“This is what I like, and this is what we will be taking.”
“I also like black but I think you should get something more colorful.”
“Nope I like this one so I will take it.”
“Ok then.”
He really likes black he could put a bit of color with it too but well that’s how he is.
After finishing our shopping we walked North in direction to our new home the Infinite Castle, while we walked Zash almost went against a tree but someone pulled him, it was a Goth-loli girl, he fell on top of her, she did it on purpose she saw he was distracted and used this chance to attack him, is she going to rape him, I have to stop her, though before I could do anything they started to talk.
“Hey I save you and you are already trying to rape me.”
“S-sorry.”
I was right she wanted to rape him, but Zash got up and she presented herself.
“I am Astaroth, your father appointed me as your maid, so I will be going with you.”
“Maid I see he got even that, can I also ask you, you are a vampire right.”
“Yes I am but don’t ask me for my age.”
“Well ok I guess I can agree with that, and then shall we go we are almost there.”
“Yes I will be flying there and will be waiting for you inside.”
So she is only our new maid I was scared for a bit I guess that there is nothing to worry about.
She opened her wings and went ahead as she said so we just walked a bit more until we reached it the Infinite Castle our new home.
4. The Infinite Castle
We had finally reached our first destination the place we would call home from now on as we already though it was a completely white space with nothing inside but there was a problem.
"Hoy Astaroth why wont it work, here in the Infinite Castle we should be able to make anything we want appear but why is it I am shouting I want a sofa and nothing happens?"
"It's not like that you have to imagine it appearing you must be able to use shadows right, as master told me it's essentially the same you have to imagine what you want."
"So if I want a sofa I need to imagine a sofa appearing ?"
"Yes"
Arguing about how to make a sofa appear was Astaroth Bathory, the maid sent by my father to help us and Zashid my brother.
"It still doesn't work you tricked me."
"No you are just not able to imagine complex things like a sofa."
"Since when is a sofa complex."
"At least it's to complex for your head."
The way this is going soon it will turn into a fight, so I decide to help, using my imagination I imagine a sofa appearing near Zashid and it suddenly appears.
"There that should be enough right Zash?"
"Oh yes thanks you my sister seems I am not able to grasp the way to do it yet."
"Well at least your sister seems to have talent, now you…"
"What is that supposed to mean you midget vampire."
"M-midget vampire, y-you, you will pay for that I don't care if master said I should take care of you I will make sure you pay."
"Astaroth please calm down, you too Zash, we only now got here can we at least get the house ready for someone live before fighting?"
"Tsh Ok Ok let's do it then what do it then seems I can't create anything so how do you want me to help"
"Doesn't look like you can do much so just stay there and watch me"
As I said that I brought to my mind the image of a medieval looking entrance hall with only a coffee table and a big sofa to keep things simple, then I created a entrance to the right that would have the kitchen and dining Hall, right front of the main door roughly 100 in front I created a opening without a door that would lead to what I like to call the infinity corridor, a as the name says infinite corridor that stretches to the right with an infinity number of door, to the right the rooms, bathrooms, and other types of rooms needed for day to day living, to the left the are all types of rooms like the canvas room, or the library, as for behind what is the left seen from the entrance there are stairs leading to the basement.
"That looks good, simple but good."
"Thanks."
"So can I kill the midget vampire already."
"No you can't Astaroth is supposed to take care of us not fight us."
"Exactly you ungrateful child, my master asked me to take care of you but have me the freedom to decide what to do with you, so if I decide you should die, that's easy will happen."
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