Time's Mistress

Beloved children and parents

The three siblings approached the door and paused. Sae was in the front and turned to look at Iris with a soft smile. "The children have been down since you disappeared, but I'm sure that you will lift their spirits and them, yours. It will be a wonderful reunion for you all." He opened the glass door, and the smell of fresh flowers and crisp air entered the room. It was a whole other world on the other side of the door. Iris stepped through and let her eyes take in the beauty around her.

She felt her heart swell for some reason, and her nerves picked up. There was a river running through the meadow that she stood in front of. In the distance, she could hear the sound of a waterfall with the wind singing to her. There were trees four times taller than her building, naturally shaded areas. The brushes bloomed with flowers of different colors all around them. She looked at her siblings in shock.

"How is this place possible? The world outside is nothing but waste and destruction. Yet, in this place, it is pure and untouched by it. How is that possible?" She questioned as tears started to make their way to her eyes.

"To be honest, we don't know Iris. You were the one to create this place when you were small. We just know that one day you were crying and saying how you couldn't take how the world was in ruins, and a few days later, we found this in your room." Sae said in amazement. "Every time I come here, it never fails to amaze me. I have no idea how you did this. I used to question you constantly about it, but you never revealed anything. All you ever did was smile to me and say that it's like the first Eden. Just like the garden the gods created in the beginning."

"Even now, after all of these years, everything remains how you left it. No one has entered this room besides the three of us. You never allowed anyone else. Even mom and dad don't know that this place exists." Cassidy added on to her surprise.

"How is that even possible? This is right in the castle. How did they not know that this is here and it's in their own castle?"

"You forbid them from your room. And as long as you've been gone, we have made sure to keep that in place. This is the place that they could never really enter. And they follow it because you are more powerful than they are. They just never say it. But dad especially is afraid of you and what you can do."

"But I don't understand. I would have to have the power of the gods to do something like this. Do I have magic in my body? It doesn't feel like it. But I mean, I feel like I'm not me until I recover my memories." She sighed, looking at her siblings in distress. There is so much happening, and she doesn't understand any of it. Before she could further question her siblings about this, they heard a rustling noise from the bushes. The leaves and branches parted, revealing something she thought that she would never see; an animal.

Its fur was black as midnight, matching her hair in color, its golden eyes paused on her. The paws pressed into the grass under its feet as the creature froze, bearing its eyes into hers. Iris felt a spark run through her body as she stared at it. The tears sitting under her eyelids started to well over as her heart dropped. She felt the love flowing between her and the creature. A name raced across her mind in an instant as a distant memory resurfaced.

It was her picking up this lonely and hurt baby wolf in her arms in the middle of a bloody battlefield. She remembers talking to it, telling it that everything would be fine now. That she would be here and always take care of it. She remembers fusing some of her life-force into its little broken body to heal it and expand its lifespan. And the memory was gone in a flash. She sunk down to her butt in the dew laced grass and held her arms open to the giant wolf.

"Lucifer," she whispered as the wolf finally made its way over to her. "Lucky Lucifer," she said softly again as the wolf rubbed himself against her before throwing itself on top of her. Her tears fell and fell as she cried in happiness. One small memory returned, and it was one that proved very near and dear to her soul. She heard the wolf let off a low growl of content and happiness. In the background, her sister and brother looked on in happiness as they watched.

Just looking at Lucifer had jogged a memory, it seems. It was promising, and they couldn't wait for the last of her children to find her. There was a noise from above them in the trees.

Iris looked up in time just to catch a fur ball that landed in her arms. She saw its white lined ears perk up. The red orangish fur shone in the sunlight. But the creature flipped over, revealing a black belly. Its black beady eyes looked up at her as its ringed orange and black tail moved back and forth. She looked at this ball of fur, and her heart swelled even bigger looking at it. It was a red panda.

A pain flashed in her hand as she remembered the first time that she met this guy. He was also injured and a baby. He had fallen out of a burned tree on her while she had been walking back to the kingdom. The creature out of fright had bitten her hand before she was able to calm it down. After that, he followed her everywhere. Eventually, she also infused some of her life-force with the creature to give it a longer lifespan. His name also appeared across her mind as she began to hug both of the creatures closely. He was Genesis. Lucifer and Genesis were her two boys, and she missed them extremely.

She pulled back and looked at them. Her eyes flashed a different color for a moment and then returned to normal. The animals eyes also did the same before becoming normal. That was something new that the siblings had never seen before. Things were becoming quite difficult. It seemed that more and more mystery was emerging each day. She looked over at her siblings.

"I remember them both guys. I remember both of my boys now." Tears were falling freely down her face with a happy smile. She turned back to her animals and shoved her face into their furs. "I'm so sorry that I was gone for so long, but I'm back, and I'm not going anywhere again."

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Iris had taken dinner in her room and spent time with the animals and in that secret garden the rest of the day. By the time the sun fell, she was exhausted. Her body and head ached with all of the new information. She laid down in bed with the moonlight falling in from the window on the ceiling that she hadn't noticed earlier. Both animals were cuddled up to her and sleeping peacefully. She smiled down at them as her eyes finally started to flutter closed.

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She felt eyes on her as she opened her own. The silk sheet pooled at her waist, revealing her naked upper body. She rolled her eyes as she looked down, hearing a chuckle coming from her right.

"Why is it that every time I come to you, I am naked? Can't I at least have some form of undergarments on or something?" The chuckle was next to her ear then.

"You appear as you desire. If you desired to wear clothes, then you would have them." Iris shivered as the breath ghosted over her ear. It sent goosebumps down her arms. "But personally, I would rather have you bare and pure like you are before me." She felt a hand ghost up her side. The cool skin setting her body ablaze. Before she knew what was happening, she was pinned down on her back, with that beautiful pale face over her. Her hair fell like a curtain around them. "Did you miss me, my love?" She whispered before planting her lips on top of Iris's own. Iris moaned at the sensations running through her body just from being held down and the kiss that was turning more and more passionate.

Iris bit down on her lover's lip gently, and the woman moaned, letting Iris take the chance to explore her lover's mouth. Even if she was the one being held down, she was still in control of this situation. She smirked when the grip on her wrists loosened. One of her lovers' hands moved down to massage her breasts, teasing the n*****s and making her knees go weak. One of her hands got out of the grip, and Iris dug it into her lovers hair. She tangled her fingers in the silky strands. The coolness of her lovers body making the fire inside of hers grow hotter. The cool, soft lips left hers and traveled to her neck as the hands on her lovers began exploring her body. Iris, too, began to explore the body of her lover. She felt every silky line of the ruins across her body. The robe that her lover had been previously wearing was now lost somewhere on the floor as the dim lighting danced across their bodies.

"Damn baby, you really missed me," Iris said as her lover bit on a particularly sensitive area of her neck. She ran her fingertips on her back, digging hard whenever her lover hit a sensitive spot.

"You have no idea how much I crave your presence when you are gone from my side." She said as one of her hands slid down to her belly than lower still. Iris gasped at the sudden cool touch before moaning. "I long to do this all day, every day to you." The dark lord smiled as her hand found the entrance to her goal. Just before she could enter to get to her prize, she was suddenly flipped over and now laying on her back. The sheet of the bed was thrown down, twisted up in her feet.

"You must remember my love, you are not the one in control here. And you have to earn that prize that you desire so badly." Iris whispered in her ear before biting down on it. She licked the shell of her lord's ear, earning a soft moan as she traveled down. She left her breathless with a kiss before moving to her neck. She nibbled on the spot between her neck and shoulder.

"You know my love, I recall that you marked me here not very long ago. And it shows in the real world. It even burns when I get close to another person." She bit down hard then before soothing it over with a kiss. "It's not fair that you marked me, and yet you have no mark. I feel that I may need to change that, even if I have to do it every time I see you." Her lover moaned and wrapped her arms around Iris's back to pull her closer. Her voice was husky and deep when she spoke.

" That is the hottest thing that you have ever said to me. See if you can, my goddess." She felt Iris unconsciously rock against her, and she moaned. Iris heard the moan and smirked before moving as before. She rocked her hips just slightly to make her lover notice. It caused her passion to rise and her pulse to race. She knew that she wanted her and that she wanted more of what was to come if they continued this.

"I'm sorry, my love, but I just can't manage to control myself anymore. I need to mark you and make you mind as well." She felt the atmosphere of the room change as a strange charged sensation filled it. It was heavy, and pressure engulfed them in its blanket. Iris felt a new type of energy enter her body as the urge to bite her lover made its way to the forefront of her mind. She had to do it.

She looked at her lover before giving her a breath stopping kiss, then grabbed her chin and forced it to the side. She licked down her neck to where she would go. She felt her lover under her gasp and slowly started to try to move her hips to meet hers. The feeling of them together was otherworldly at this moment in time. She let her hand slide down between them and started to circle the bundle of nerves as she rocked her hips. In one quick move, she bit down hard on her lover's neck and felt energy moving between them. They both gasped at the pleasure flowing through them. Iris released her neck and noticed her lovers nails digging into her back. It was probably enough to make her bleed.

"Close the wound, my love, or it won't heal properly," she heard the husky low voice of her lover.

"How do I do that?"

"Seal it with your tongue, then your lips." Iris raised her eyebrow, but did as was asked of her. As her lips pressed into the newly forming mark, she felt a pulse go through her body. She froze and looked down at her.

"What was that?" Iris asked, regaining her breath.

"You have completed some of the mating ritual. You belong to me, and I belong to you. But not fully, not yet." Iris felt a rush of desire go through her at the words.

Suddenly, she felt herself getting flipped over, and binds were suddenly on her wrists that connected to the headboard. She looked up to the pale face of her love. "You have awoken something in me that I can't control, and I must have you, all of you, until I am satisfied." Lust filled her eyes with a mischievous glint.

"You will only have all of me after I have all of you. No sooner, my love." Iris smirked at her. "Do you wish for us to finish what we started? I will stay longer than normal if I have to." She saw an evil smirk on her lover's face.

"Don't say that, I will keep you here tied up for the rest of time if I have to."

"I dare you to try," Iris said with a smile. She bucked her hips upwards with a smile, causing her love to narrow her eyes. She was playing with fire and she loved it. The things that she saw in her mind to do to this woman. She would never be able to do everything that she wanted. She felt a hand around her neck and a mouth on her mound. Her lover looked up with lust filled eyes.

"Your challenge is fully accepted." She went back to work on Iris's body, making her moan.

**A later time, same night***

"Oh my God, baby, please harder," Iris nearly screamed later in the night. "Release these f*****g cuffs, I need to use my hands." Iris said to her lover. She chuckled against her thigh before making them disappear altogether. She instantly felt hands tangled into her hair as Iris pushed her face deeper into her. Her fingers were working her magic while her mouth added to the experience. Before she realized it happened, Iris had flipped them over and was riding her face and fingers, nearly choking her. God, how she loved that. She was screaming by the time she was finishing, spilling juices over her face. Iris looked down at her with lustful eyes before working her way down her body. But she was a lot less patient and more rough in her movements to get to her goal. The dark lord was screaming in pleasure by her release. Yet Iris wasn't satisfied. Her and her lover went another few rounds, even moving to the chair in the corner. At one point, Iris had her lover pinned against the wall while she pumped into her until she couldn't stand.

After all of the activities, they laid in bed, drained of energy for the moment.

"You know, I had an interesting day today also." She chuckled. "Not quite as fun as here but entertaining nonetheless."

"What happened today, my love," she asked, rubbing gentle patterns on Iris's belly.

"I met my parents. My mother seems like a more docile woman, while my father is very stubborn and strong headed. I found out that he was the reason that I was engaged to that man. Because he refused to hand over his throne to me without a husband." She shrugged. "We argued because I told him that I will never marry that man unless he wants me to kill him." She heard a chuckle from behind her, and her lover's hold tightened.

"I would never allow such a thing to happen. No one will touch you but me. You are mine, Iris, and it will always be so, even when you recover your memories."

"That also reminds me, I have children, two of them." When she heard silence and felt the woman behind her tense, she smiled. "Well, I call them my children, but really, they are two animals that I saved. I love them so much that I even shared some of my lifespan with them somehow. And somehow, apparently, I have created a pure and beautiful garden in my room that no one knows about besides me and my siblings."

"Well, you have also had a big heart, even for animals. So I shouldn't be surprised. What are their names?"

"Lucifer and Genesis."

Her love begins to laugh then. "You definitely know how to pick names, my love. Both are names of the gods."

Iris shrugged her shoulders. "Lucifer is a big black wolf, and Genesis is a red panda." Those are also animals of the gods the Lord thought. They are named after very specific gods. "So that means that technically, if I'm their parent, then you are too. So, we have children." The lord laughed again.

"I see that you have jumped the gun in that department, love." She kissed Iris's shoulder. "I can not wait to meet them."

"But, that brings another question to my mind." Iris turned to look at her love. "If you have been waiting for me all of this time, were we having these encounters before I got captured?" She saw the woman tense slightly and then sighed. She looked at her in the eyes and decided on complete honesty.

"We didn't not have our encounters until you woke up. But that is because, when I was sealed away in this relam, it came at a cost to me as another punishment. Not only am I trapped here, but I also go into stages of hibernation to keep me from getting too strong. My long sleep causes me to weaken, and when I'm awake, I slowly regain my power until I fall asleep again. It's a never-ending cycle until the seal is broken. So this time, I woke up right after they had put you to sleep in that tank."

"Oh, I see. But if that's the case, then how do you know that it's me that you've been waiting for all of this time?"

"Only the one destined to break the seal can enter this realm. Only the one that is destined to be mine can enter here. That person is one in the same. But you will remember later, but we have met before, many times my love."

"It sounds kinda strange if you ask me." The lord shrugged. "It feels as if my time with you is up, my love. I have forced myself to stay here as long as I could. But I will return." The lord hurriedly pushed their lips together before Iris faded away completely.

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Iris awoke with her sister sitting in a chair next to her bed, reading a book. What was she doing here? Was it late morning already? She went to move and groaned lowly. Her body felt heavy and was sore, every where. It felt like she had been wrestling all night. Her sister looked at her when she groaned.

"Iris," she nearly shouted. "You're finally awake. I'll have to let Sae know. " Iris looked at her strangely, but she couldn't speak because of how dry her throat felt.

"Water, please, " she whispered in a scratchy tone. Cassidy grabbed the water glass from the bedside table and gave it to her. She swallowed it down greedily. Now, she felt like she could speak. Iris went to sit up but struggled with her sore, heavy body. Cassidy helped her in a flash.

"What do you mean that you'll have to let Sae know that I'm awake? I barely went to bed a few hours ago." Cassidy shook her head in response.

"Iris, you've been asleep for three days now." We got worried and sent a doctor to check on you. He said that you were in a self-induced coma and that you would have to come out of it when you were ready. He said that it is probably from all of the stress and trauma that you've been through since you've woken up. So your mind's way to deal with it was this coma. So we just had to wait it out until you woke up again. I mean, at least this time, if you fell asleep for a long period of time, then you're home, so at least we could take care of you." Iris nodded.

Really, she had just forced herself to stay in that place with her lover for much longer than normal. She had a theory about how this was working. Her body was always physically affected by that woman, but her body never left, physically. So she believed that somehow, her soul was traveling from her body to that realm where she got a new body. But everything that happened to that body happened to this body. Her mark on her neck was enough proof of that. Speaking of her mark, she had to ask her sister a question.

"Cass, is there a mark on my neck that's different from the rest?"

She saw Cass lean over her and inspect her neck. "Actually, yes, there is. It goes down to your shoulder and, at the highest, almost reaches your ear." It's gotten bigger; that's all that Iris could think about. That was until she moved her legs, and pain sprang up between her thighs. What had happened between her and that woman was definitely real. The coma and this pain were enough to prove that. That means that they are both marked. She really was hers as she belonged to Iris now. She needed to find out what that meant and where this tree was and how to break the seal once she found it. She needed to talk to her friend at the gate entrance.