EP.197|History Of The Grail
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"Come on, let's go to bed, baby." Operetta whined, playing with the buttons on Hunter's shirt. "Somebody's needy tonight," Hunter muttered, taking another shot. "Pregnant demon mates get needy," Mal muttered, taking a sip of her beer.

"I'm not needy!" Operetta pouted, holding Hunter closer, "she's being mean...Hunter~she's being mean to me..."

"No, she's not, she's just saying the truth, my love." Hunter kissed her cheek. Operetta smirked, "baby," she unbuttoned his shirt, "I want you all to myself~"

"Op-Operetta!" Hunter stuttered, he smirked as well, "you know damn well I'm the one who does that." his hands cupped her breast "mine..."

"Alright," Mal rolled her eyes, "somebody's horny," Ben muttered. Hunter growled, "Say something, your highness?"

Ben rolled his eyes, "whatever, just make out." Ben looked around to see Jasper and Evie were nowhere to be seen. "Where are they?" Mal asked, as though he was reading her husband's mind.

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To answer her question, Jasper was with Evie in their room, celebrating their new marking.

"Baby, this is our fifth time doing it," Evie threw her head back, "don't you want to rest?"

Jasper heaved for air, "I guess...your right...I don't know what it is about you but you're just so irresistible." Jasper licked his lips.

"Oh, I know I'm beautiful, darling." Evie flipped her hair, Jasper chuckled, "but let's just take this time of peace and lay in each other's arms."

Evie smiled and snuggled close to her dragon, "I want my big, strong, dragon by me when I sleep..." Evie yawned, closing her eyes, listening to the sound of Jasper's fiery heart.

A small knock distracted them from their sleep, Jasper growled lowly, "go away..."

"I have a surprise for the both of you," Healer's voice cooed, "so but on some clothes and open the door."

Jasper sighed put on a shirt, Evie put on her robe and opened the door to see Healer and Raja. "Mama!" Raja cheered, hugging her mother.

"Raja! Oh, hun, I missed you!" Evie placed multiple kisses on her face. "How's Misty?" Jasper asked, sitting Raja down on the bed. "Amazing dad! They've opened a school in your honor, mama!" Raja smiled widely.

"Awe, they didn't have to that..." Evie played with her hair, blushing. Raja noticed the mark on her neck "so you finally mark her?" Raja smiled.

"Yep," Jasper wrapped her arms around Evie, "she's all mine."

Evie chuckled, kissing Jasper's cheek "you know Jasper was a dragon?"

"Mmhm," Raja nodded, "he told me the night before you and the VKs left Misty."

"Did you just tell everyone before you told me?" Evie raised her eyebrow. "Not everyone..." Jasper rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"I can't believe this!" Evie puffed up her cheeks, "I get your a dragon and all, but you could have told me sooner..."

Jasper chuckled and kissed her lips, "you know I'll always tell you first."

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Later on, that night, when the NPA was completely silent, everyone was either asleep or about to go to sleep, including our VKs.

"Let's rob a liquor store!" Freddie drunkenly slurred. "Freddie, we can't rob a liquor store." Zeref carried Freddie in his arms. "But Zeref!" Freddie whined, "I wanna rob a store!"

"Not tonight, darling," Zeref opened the door to their room, placing Freddie on their bed "let's go to sleep, you're really drunk."

"Nah! I'm fine~ come to bed, Zerzy!" Freddie pulled him down towards the bed, Zeref laughed and pulled Freddie in closer.

"Good night, my lovely mortal," Zeref kissed her lips. "Good night, my handsome god." Freddie yawned, snuggling in close, falling to sleep.

Once asleep, Zeref and Freddie stood with the rest of the VKs in a very dark space.

"Where the hell are we?" Ben tapped his foot on the floor to see the ripples that came from his foot turned a white color. "We're still asleep right?" Mal questioned, her water was purple

"Yeah," Carlos replied, the water ripples under his feet turned green, "I remember going to sleep."

"Then how are we all in the same dream?" CJ's ripples were pink. "Maybe we're not dreaming..." Operetta shrugged, her ripples were a light, almost cyan, blue.

"I swear if we got fucking kidnapped again!" Hunter growled, the water under him turning red. "No, we haven't been kidnapped, you idiot!" Jasper smacked him upside the head, the water under him was orange.

"Then where are we?" Zeref asked, picking up the yellow water under his feet. "And why is the water different colors?" Freddie asked, her water was lavender.

"Hey Carlos, our auras," Evie began, tapping her foot making the ripples a sapphire blue "what color do you see?"

"Which aura?" Carlos tilted his head. "What do you mean which aura, the magi one!" Hunter punched him playfully. "No, what I mean is that there are two aurae!" Carlos rubbed the spot Hunter punched.

"What?"

"I don't know, normally there should only be one aura per person, but now there's two!" Carlos sniffed her. "She's not pregnant," Carlos shrugged, "so I don't know."

"Is it like that for all of us?" Freddie asked. "Mmhm, except Operetta, she had four, herself, the twins two aurae, and the mysterious aura," Carlos explained.

"Uh, Evie..." Jasper began. "Yeah, baby?" Evie tilted her head. "What the hell is on your ankle?" Jasper pointed to her ankle. Evie looked down to see a sapphire tattoo surrounded by smaller sapphires.

"What the fuck?" Evie tried to rub it off but it didn't seem to be working. "You got one too Operetta." Hunter pointed out, Operetta looked through her handheld a compact mirror to see a snowflake tattoo on her right eye.

"You're one to talk! Look at your arm!" Operetta chuckled. Hunter looked to his arm to see the demons marks of swirls and twist appeared on his arm in a bright red.

"Hm, that's new," Hunter shrugged. "Aren't you worried?" Carlos asked. "No," Hunter yawned, "you should be though, you got a wolf paw print on your left pec."

"Wha?" Carlos looked down to see there was a green wolf paw print, "cool!" Carlos turned into his wolf form, he didn't know why but some part of him felt different.

Carlos scathed his nose, "somethings different..."

"What do you mean hun?" CJ crouched down beside him, subconsciously petting his fur. "Well for starts your chest cavity has a symbol on it.

It was a beautiful pink swirl mark with two swords making an X in the middle. "Oooh, pretty!" CJ smiled, running her fingers over the new addition to her body.

"Freddie, you got one too!" CJ cheered, Freddie looked at her left breast to see her medallion symbol with lavender flowers surrounding it. "Nice," Freddie nodded, she looked down to see Zeref leg had a lightning bolt on it.

"You got one too Jasper," Zeref pointed to Jasper's back shoulder to a flame tattoo. "Cool! I didn't know Dragons get tattoos like these too!" Jasper smiled.

"They don't," Mal rolled her eyes, "I still don't know why I have this." Mal moved over her hair to reveal two demon wings with fang marks in the middle.

"Also, why does Ben have a crown on his forehead?"

Ben looked into Operetta's mirror to see the small crown tattoo on his right forehead corner.

"Holy shit..." Ben cursed, he looked up from the mirror to see a person in the distance. Ben squinted "the hell is that?"

Ben ran towards the person, the VKs following him. Once reaching Ben, he saw two people in cloaks, one wore a black cloak and the other a white one.

A book appeared in front of Ben, Ben grabbed it, reading the title, "the history of the grail, he opened the book, gold dust surrounding the two cloaked figures.

"Long ago, when the world was still new, everyone looked for a leader, something or someone to believe in." Ben read, CJ ran her hands through the people, her hand going straight through them.

"And thus entered the holy grail," Ben fingers trailed over the page, "the grail was made from the golden scales of the Celestial dragon and we told to give it's users unspeakable powers."

The cloaked figures changed into a small town, villagers ran happily through the town.

Positioned on the peak of a grove, it wasn't built by a grove by accident, as it has body-enhancing properties, which is of great importance to the people of Tregoron and its success.

The township itself looks sublime. With its oak wood rooftops, red brick walls and frozen ponds have a whimsical atmosphere.

"Tregoron, a land of beauty and grace, was the first island to be blessed with the power of the grail." Ben read, the scene then changed to that of the villagers praying to the holy grail and the person in the white cloak holding it.

Ben let go of the book, "Jasper, keep reading," Ben ordered, passing the book to Jasper, walking closer to one of the villagers.

"No way..." Ben ran to the front of seeing Didi with two kids (hoods cloaked their faces) next to her, their heads down as they prayed to the grail. "What?" Ben held his head.

"Mama," the first kid got her attention, "why do we pray to the grail?"

"Because the grail has blessed us with beautiful powers. Without it, we wouldn't be the strong, magnificent, race we are today." Didi ruffled his cloak.

"But what if we don't pray?" the second kid questioned. "There are other ways to pay respects to the grail than praying, you can kiss the grail it's said if you kiss it'll boost your powers." Didi winked.

Ben smiled as he watched the two kids raced towards the grail to be the first to kiss it. The scene then changed to that of the recovery of light.

"For years, people from around the world visited Tregoron to witness the power of the grail, but after years of staying in Tregoron, it was given to the recovery of the light."

"Why do they look just like us?" CJ questioned, walking up to Sabrine. "It's like looking into a weirdly similar mirror." Hunter waved his hands in front of Arlin.

"These are the same people I see in my dreams..." Evie muttered. "You see them too?!" The VKs were shocked by their friends were all having the same problem.

"This one," Evie pointed to Sapphire, "her name's Sapphire, she was in love with inferno, she made these crystals...I don't know, me and her, we have these strong connections, some-sometimes I can hear her."

"The same thing has been happening with me," Zeref sighed, "this Zane guy has been popping into my head every night, honestly his relationship with Lyra reminded me of myself and Freddie..."

"I don't know what it is...but maybe we do have this connection with them..." Ben looked at Xander closely, Xander smiled at him.

"After the Recovery guarded the grail until their end, the grail was passed onto Heine Beastly." Jasper read Ben, snatched the book from him as the scene changed to the white-cloaked figure gave Heine the grail.

"I know you will protect this with your life," Swan smiled down at Heine. "Give it to my beautiful next generation..." Swan kissed Heine's forehead.

"Grandma Heine!" Ben ran out to hug Heine, "whos this?"

"This is my friend," Heine introduced, Swan, crouched down beside Ben. "Hello Ben," Swan ruffled his hair, "you don't know me, but after a couple of years, I'll be back."

"Why?"

"Because time works in a funny way, plus, you must meet the others first." Swan kissed his cheek, "goodbye, for now, my future king."

And just like that, the VKs woke up, Ben shot up, rubbing his eyes. "Mal! Mal! Mal! Wake up!" Ben shook her roughly, clutching her shoulders.

"What?" Mal yawned.

"I know where the grail is!"

~A/N~

GREAT WAY TO START BOOK #2 RIGHT?! That's right! We finally know the location of the grail! Welcome to book #2, my beautiful readers! Let's get this bread!