The Majestic rising (Finished)

The Gift

TJ Pov:

I woke up by feeling someone touching my face, and hair. I opened my eyes, feeling Curt under my cheek, he was still sleeping so it was not him. The hand was Penelope playing with my hair. I grinned.

“Sorry for waking you”

She whispered. I smiled and shook my head. She continued to twist my curls around her finger.

“Could you help me TJ?”

Her saying my name was making butterflies appear. I nodded and she smiled.

“I have a hard time figuring out how I am to get out of this”

She gestured to the arms and legs around us, I giggled softly

“To get to there”

She said and pointed at the toilet. I nodded and helped her out of the arms and legs that had created a blanket over us. We both finished our business in the bathroom and decided to go down to the kitchen to get something to eat. She was starving and thirsty. She was walking as if she was floating. She was happy and that made me happy.

We got to the kitchen, food was already made and ready for us to take. She walked around looking at the weird stuff all around the table. We had a big variety of food considering our many different species. She had made a plate and was waiting for me to finish, she took coffee and we enjoyed the time we had together just the two of us.

“Would you mind telling me your story TJ? I already got Tyrus story”

She asked, but I was also not that fond of the idea of her hearing my story, it was hard to talk about and it was not as long as the others, me being the youngest until she came, made the whole story not as interesting as the others' story. I swallowed and she picked up on my uneasiness.

“You don't have to if you dont want to.”

I stiffened.

“It's not that I don't want too, more like I don't really have that much of a story to tell”

She looked at me confused about my choice of words, I sighed.

“Do you know anything about demons?”

She shook her head, I knew humans had a sort of understanding about demons I also knew that most of it was made up s**t. And I think she knew that most of the information she knew was not right once.

“I'm a demon, I don't really know what sort of demon. The others found me at an auction 50 years ago. An Auction that was selling antiques and other stuff. They did not know that there was a slave trading ring under the structure before Liam got a whiff of my scent. I don't remember anything before the slave ring. I actually think I was born there. But I don't really know. There were no paperwork on me just a slave brand. Liam, as I said, got a whiff of my scent from another guest that had been down to inspect if he wanted to buy me, he was considering it. I was told later by Curt who was with Liam, because Curt is the one into that old shit.”

I smiled to myself, she was listening and smiling when I said something slightly funny, other than that she was just listening and sipping her coffee.

“Anyway, Curt told me later that King had almost pulled the man's head off, because he could smell me on him. Liam took back control and went to the basement. There they found not just me but a few hundred other children kept to be sold off. Liam ripped the cage I was in to bits of pieces and hugged me into his chest for a good half hour before King had settled down and scented me. King will do that sometimes if he feels like you are not safe with our own scent, just so you know.”

I said to her, so she knew she would not be spared of King's possessiveness.

“After Liam was done hugging me, the others had arrived at the auction having the Hunters with them to shut down the whole ring. Curt had…. made sure that the slave traders was not in any way able to get away while I was being hugged. The Hunters also brought aid with them to take care of injuries. Anyway I was taken back here with Liam, he is also the one I got connected to first. After Liam it was Alex. I was estimated to be around 10 when they found me. It's still a child in Demon age so I was off limits for a while, but the others still treasured me and made sure I was okay with the skinship. Demons grow up fast, we go into something called a slumper, when we wake up from that slumber we have grown. We do it around 4 times before reaching adulthood. I did the last slumber after 1 year being here, and this is my final body. I think. That is my story”

I smiled at her, she got up, straddled me and hugged me into her chest.

“Thank you for telling me”

Her smile was so bright and so sincere that I could do nothing but bury my face into her chest. Smelling the scent of Alex from the shirt made me happy, she had not rejected him even though he was assuming she would after the first day. I was like that for a while, just breathing in their mixed scent, I could smell Curt and Ty too. but their scent was on her body in a different way. I realized I still had to show her the gift I made for her. I flinched back as I looked at her confused face, before I could say anything the others descended the stairs and yawned.

“Morning”

They said in unison. I was getting slightly pissed off, my gift was getting pushed to the side again, I was pouting a bit looking down annoyed when Penelope took my face in her hands and pulled it up to her.

“What was it you wanted to say?”

She said totally ignoring the others' greeting.

“I got you a gift”

I said softly, she lit up and smiled.

“What is it?”

She grinned at me, she was happy that I got her a gift, I was getting more excited about showing it to her now, I grabbed her legs so she would stay on me, I might me the smallest mate she had, but i'm still as strong as the others and I was still taller than her. I walked out the kitchen, the others were following us, they had yet to see it too. I had kept it for myself to surprise her and to apologize for hurting her. Remembering her getting hurt made me look down at her leg, there was a scar. I stopped walking and she saw that I was looking at her leg.

“It's okay”

“No it's not. I'm so sorry, I got angry and you got hurt. I'm so sorry. I'll do better. I'm a father now so I have to be better. The gift is also an apology”

I said, as I said it, I realized she might not see it as a good present, I got self conscious about my choice, maybe I was wrong, maybe she did not like it, or wanted something different or the color was wrong. I felt a hand on my shoulder that made me break my chain of thought.

“I think she is going to love it. Tiny”

Alex knew that I was having second thoughts, I nodded at him and decided to show her anyways, I could always do something else for her if this was not enough. We walked to the office and out to the door she had disapeard out of the last time. I put her down, but I did not let her go, I turned her so her back was to my chest, I opened the door and we walked out. My glamor spell had been active for a while.

“It's here”

I said and pointed at the grass in front of us, she looked confused at me, I was still considering not showing her but what the hell. I let the glamor spell go and as it lowered itself, the playground I had made for the kids came into sight. Penelope looked with stars in her eyes at the playground, I had studied the internet for what children wanted, but I did not know how old they were so this place filled the whole yard. From the statue of the Moon goddess to the side of the house. Trampolines, climbing towers, slides, goals, swings, obstacle courses, things that would turn really fast, it had everything and all things were in different sizes.

“Damn TJ this place is amaysing”

Gabe said behind me, they were all looking at my hard work, I had done it all by myself. The theme of the colors was that of the rainbow, everything was colored differently. Penelope was crying and I started freaking out, trying to pull back. I had hurt her again, but she turned and crashed her lips to mine, grabbing my head so she could steady herself. I kissed her back and as we got low on oxygen she put her forehead to mine.

“This is the best gift you could have ever given me”

She was still crying but smiling so brightly. I brushed off the tears.

“You did good Tiny. Better than any of us”

Alex was smiling and kissed the side of my head. Penelope was sniffling.

“You wanna be a dad?”

She asked, I was confused and looked down at the tiny person in my arms.

“We all are going to be their dad right?”

I asked, a little confused at her question, I looked behind me, the others were confused too, Ty shrugged his shoulders, he had absolutely no idea about what she was talking about either.

“I was not sure if you all wanted to be part of their lives”

She admitted, her voice getting lower and lower for each word she said, she was looking to the floor not wanting to see our faces. I scooted down, grabbing her hands. I was on my knees trying to look her in her eyes but they were closed. I grazed her cheek with my right hand cupping it. She opened her eyes with tears going down in a steady flow.

“We want all of you, all of your life, I would not have it any other way than with them here, for us to protect”

I said, she breathed unsteadily and she nodded. I grabbed her legs and she wrapped herself around me hugging me tightly. I breathed a sigh of relief.

“So you like the present?”

I said, she giggled into my neck and nodded.

“Yes I love it.” She kissed my neck and snuggled into it. We went back into the kitchen, she was still wrapped onto me, not by her choice, she had tried to get down but I was not ready yet. She had just stayed wrapped until we made it to the kitchen. I placed her on her own chair beside me, missing her touch, before I could get sad her legs swung over my legs. I looked at her. She was in her own chair but was having her legs resting on mine. I placed my hands on her thighs.

“You remember the scenting thing King does right?”

Liam stiffened in his seat, looking up from his plate of food. She nodded, she had seen Liam's reaction. I wanted to tell her what I meant but Liam took over.

“So, Lycans are very possessive creatures to their family. So when your children comes”

He swallowed, Penelope was shifting in her seat as if he was going to say he was going to eat them, I kissed her cheek for her to relax a bit.

“King would probably want to scent the children, so that they would be under our protection.”

He said in a voice that sounded as if he had given up. She smiled a bit.

“So you are going to hug them?”

She asked a bit cautiously. Liam changed position in his chair.

“Not quiet”

She looked at me like I had lied. I shook my head and smiled.

“So the scent is… emmmm. It's in King's body, with him pretty much hugging or rubbing his face onto them.”

He looked with caution up at her. She kissed my cheek and went over to Liam.

“Show me.”