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It all started with me taking a nice quiet walk in the open valley near a park, perfect weather of 73 degrees, wind blowing softly in my face, and the sweet melody of birds singing in the trees, I've never felt more relaxed. What I didn't know however, was that I was strangely being followed, although he was minding his own business at first he just so happened to spot me resting on the grass, he swooped down to hide in the trees as a few birds flew off when he landed on a branch. The sudden sound of the birds flying off in the distance, and the slight noise of rustling tree branches caught my attention, staring off into the distance closely to see if there was something or someone there, but the mysterious figure stood perfectly still, after a few minutes of close examination I returned to what I was doing. The figure then climbed down the tree and hide in the bushes waiting for me to get up and walk again, a few short minutes later I finally got up and walked around some more with the mysterious figure following me.
When I got to a creek that looked peaceful and quiet, that's when I couldn't help but to see if there was anyone behind me or felt like I was being followed, once again I didn't see anything or anyone but the shadowy figure was still there hiding behind a tree, slightly peering around to see if I was still there. Once I turned my attention to the quiet forest, the figure did something subtle enough to get my attention so that I wasn't too startled or frightened, darting toward the opposite side of the trees so that the bushes would rustle vigorously, got my attention once again and this time I went over to investigate, as I carefully looked through the bushes I found...something, something pitch black and to my right I could see fire, blue fire, and yet none of the bushes were catching fire from it.
"What the?" I whispered rather confused having no idea what this was.
Then slowly rising from the bushes was a tall, black, blue flaming haired figure wearing a black and red cloak, piercing cyan eyes, sharp fangs, standing at the height of 6'4", and a piercing voice when he finally spoke to me.
"Hello lovely."
"Uhhh h-hi." I felt both aroused and slightly terrified by him, but mostly interested.
"Oh don't be frightened, my dear, I won't hurt you nor will I take your essence." He said with a friendly smile, and then he held out his hand to show he meant no harm.
"Ummmm mind me asking why you're here, and who you are?"
"Oh yes of course, where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Demongo...Demongo the Soul Collector. And I have come to merely join you in your peaceful little walk or whatever it is you like to do out here, that is if you don't mind me joining you."
"Oh, uhhhmmmm...well yeah I guess.."
"Awww it's okay, no need to be nervous, my apologies if I startled you."
"No no it's okay, I actually could use a little company."
Showing a friendly smile to him as I took his hand and having him lead the way, the two of us ended up having a lovely time together, and started a friendly conversation as we walked. After a while it ended up getting dark and told Demongo I had to get back home, and surprisingly he kindly offered to take me home, seeing how much of a gentleman he was I gave him a sweet hug and kindly said yes. Slightly taken aback by my hug but smiled all the same, Demongo hugged me back warmly then swept me off my feet and used his levitation power to fly me home. When we got there he carefully set me down and I thanked him for taking me home, once again I gave him a sweet gentle hug, and he did the same before he flew off into the night sky and I went inside to settle in for the night.
The next day after finishing breakfast I went back out for another lovely walk in the park, however I wasn't expecting to see Demongo. Smiling he waved over at me, I smiled slightly awkward and waved back then went over to say 'hello'. Sitting next to him he caressed my cheek with his index claw in a very cute manner, then he handed me an unexpected gift.
"Here, this is for you."
It was a diamond skull about the size of a pool ball and although I liked it I didn't know exactly why he'd give me a skull, probably not to extract my soul essence so he could add me to his collection, but maybe it was something he wanted me to treasure. I smiled and thanked him for the gift, he smiled back and told me why he gave it to me, first of all he made it himself, second thing he wanted me to remember is that the next time I think of him the skull will glow. I wasn't sure if this was just a ruse just so he could collect my soul, or if it ends up being something I never would have thought of, but I took it anyway and placed my head on his shoulder sweetly. His cheeks turned dark blue with his eyes widening in surprise, looking down at me he flashed a soft smile with his eyes half closed then closed them completely as he nuzzled my head with his cheek. I stifled a giggle and I looked up at him as he wrapped his arm around me, we stayed like this for a number of minutes before we finally got up and walked around for another hour or two, then it started getting dark.
"Welp, once again spent the whole day in the park but that's alright I really enjoyed your company a second time." I smiled.
"Yes I did too, I'm glad you enjoy having me around." Demongo gave me a side hug whilst rubbing my shoulder in a friendly manner, which really made me smile.
"Gosh it's too bad I have go back home so soon."
"Well...you don't have to, how about I treat you to dinner?"
"Oh...wow, really? Wow Demongo you are such a gentleman, you didn't have to do that."
"Hehehehe well I wanted to." Demongo picked me up again and carried me to a very special place for dinner, a restaurant that wasn't too expensive or cheap but had fair prices. "So what do you think?"
I nodded as I looked around, "Hmmm, this is a nice place, you come here often?"
"Mmmmm, yeah once in a while." He said picking up the menu and browsing through it, I looked through mine as well. "So, what have you been up to lately? Done anything exciting?"
"Nah, mostly the same routine of work and what I do at home, but once in a while I walk to the mall or to the park, where we first met." I grinned there.
"Hehehehe yeah." Demongo giggled, then the waitress came to take our orders, we made our decisions, and talked some more about ourselves while waited for our food to arrive. Before I could say anything I heard a small chiming noise coming from my pocket, I reached inside and remembered the diamond skull Demongo gave me today, it was slightly glowing though I wasn't sure what that meant, but then I remembered what Demongo said about me thinking about him, even though I'm already here sitting right in front of him, unless I'm missing something and what he meant by "think of him" is something I'm not quite getting, or maybe he doesn't feel quite ready to reveal why he gave me that skull in the first place.
"Ooooh you're skull is glowing, that's good cause that means you just might be......oh uhhhh I mean.... Ahehehe you know what nevermind." Demongo was blushing hard in a way he felt embarrassed, but I was curious.
"Oh come on, you can tell me. I mean if this thing doesn't collect memories or souls or whatever it does, then what does it do?" Before he could speak the food finally arrived, Demongo remained quiet for a while as he began to dig in, I took a moment of silence as well as I dug into my food. After a long pause of silence and as I was just about done with my meal the question still lingered in my mind. "So, what does the skull actually do?"
Demongo still didn't say anything, but I can understand if he wasn't ready to tell me yet, and either because he didn't want to hurt me, embarrass himself in front of me, or too shy to explain why.
"I...I.....I don't know, I feel like I don't want to tell you just yet, my dear." Demongo was really blushing a deep blue, seeing that I didn't want to push it I took his hand and spoke softly to him.
"It's okay, sweetie, you don't have to tell me yet, forgive me that I pushed you about it a little."
With a soft smile he placed his free hand over mine that was on top of his hand. "Thank you, you're very sweet."
As we smiled at each other he moved closer to me and placed his hand that was currently on mine around my shoulder, and I lay my head on his shoulder lovingly and Demongo blushed again. Once we finished our dinner, he paid for both of us and refused me to help him out with the pay, I giggled and sneaked an extra tip anyway, then as we exited the building we walked around a little while longer, the two of us held hands as we walked. Afterwords he brought me back home, thanking him again for taking me out, we embraced as our sweet friendly hug turned into a passionate hug, having me rub his back and him stroking my head with his claws running through my hair. I then looked up at him a warm smile on his face, placing a sweet kiss on my cheek, and his face once again turning deep blue before turning his head away in a very bashful way, only for him to smile extremely wide and then I heard it again, the chiming sound, the skull was glowing again. I wondered, could it be that the skull might have a connection with Demongo. Because the skull seemed to be glowing rapidly like a heartbeat...if I'm thinking this correctly, Demongo may have given his heart to me?
"Demongo.....is this diamond skull, your heart?"
Demongo's smile suddenly disappeared and turned into a expression of slight embarrassment, he figured he couldn't keep it a secret and reluctantly nodded. I was a bit shocked knowing that I didn't want anything to happen to it.
"But-"
"But why you ask? I need to know if you were power sensitive, or possibly a soul mate, now please don't get upset I'm trying my best not to sound or act like I was desperate but... I couldn't help it, the moment I laid eyes on you I thought you were the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."
Just listening to him confess his feelings for me made me tear up almost,"I have a confession to make too, Demongo, but the moment I met you in person I already knew who you were to be honest. I was just wanted to be polite and let you introduce yourself, but yes I already knew who you were and the reason I was both interested and slightly frightened by you is because not knowing what to say to someone you've been dying to meet, just made me nervous in an excited way." Demongo was slightly surprised that I already knew about him, but admired that I was one of his beloved fans and flashed a sweet smile.
"Ha ha ha ha well now that we got that off of our chests, I can honestly say I feel much better." Demongo and I giggled and hugged again sweetly.
"Hehehehe well I'm glad you feel better after confessing your feelings towards me."
"Aye, and I'm happy that you got your confession out there too, it's always good to have a sweet loyal fan around." He then gave me a sweet kiss on the forehead. "Well I guess I'll be seeing you tomorrow, my dear...oh and by the way, I didn't catch your name."
"Oh yes, I'm sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Leia nice to finally meet you, Demongo." He and I smiled bright as we shook hands as a friendly greeting.
"Leia, that's a beautiful name." Here, Demongo held my hand gracefully and kissed it like a gentleman, making me blush.
"Awwww thanks."
"Hehehehe you're welcome...Leia, sweet Leia."
He kissed me on the head again passionately before he left, our hands slipping out as he left to return to his home. I watched him fly off in the distance before teleporting in a cloud of smoke, and smiled as I went back inside.