A strange feeling of exhaustion and cold suddenly awakened Alm and Bruno’s consciousness. Upon opening their eyes, they found themselves in total darkness, surrounded by a silent sense of strangeness.
They quickly assessed the situation, internally analyzing it. ’I feel a heart and blood flowing. We’re not something very strange this time,’ Bruno commented in relief. But in the next second, he realized he raised a flag.
Feeling the cold ground they were lying on, Alm moved his body, sensing his muscles and limbs. ’This is not human... I see no size difference between legs and arms... it seems like we’re something that walks on four legs,’ he calmly analyzed.
Bruno nodded, turning from side to side, unable to see anything. It seemed like they had returned to being mortals. Then he commented lightly, ’From the weakness and cold we’re feeling, we have no cultivation. And I still taste a bitter taste in my mouth...’
Alm heard the last part and sensed something wrong; he felt nothing in his mouth. Before mentioning that, they both turned to a place that suddenly lit up. It was an entrance, and a figure holding a torch entered, approaching and illuminating the environment. Glancing sideways, it was clear that they were inside a cave.
As the figure approached, they realized it was a humanoid being of average stature, but it had two horns, two black wings, and a pointed and heavy tail. As it got closer, they noticed its feminine curves and felt the mortal Yin on the skin; it was a Demoness. Her eyes flickered and exuded relief, then she spoke.
"You finally woke up, my lovelies." A subtle smile appeared on her face. "I knew that bitch’s beastly poison wouldn’t overcome your abyssal bloodline."
She took steps forward. "Now, just look at you two with that lost look in the darkness. So cute!"
Alm and Bruno listened carefully, trying to assess the situation they were in. They noticed something off with her words: ’You two?’. However, she continued quickly.
"Ah, you guys have that ’where the hell are we?’ look! The poison must have caused some side effects... well, don’t worry. After eating and resting, everything should be fine, my darlings." She then approached, stopping very close to them and reached out her hand, looking with extreme anticipation.
Seconds passed, and Alm and Bruno became increasingly confused. This Demoness clearly didn’t pose a threat... but what was she expecting? Both wondered.
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Her eyebrows furrowed, and then she spoke. "You must be good boys, and give me your paw now! Don’t pretend you don’t understand me!"
’Is this some kind of demonic language? Are we slaves to some weirdo?’ Bruno commented, then felt a gnashing of teeth next to him and turned around, startled not to have felt someone approaching.
’What the hell!’
Bruno was mentally shocked, seeing a head that seemed to be from a demonic canine beast. But, looking into its eyes, he clearly felt Alm’s feelings of strangeness flowing equally, and they both realized. They were in a two-headed body... after looking at themselves, they noticed the body was that of a demonic beast, and both were controlling a head separately.
Still a little stunned, the Demoness spoke a bit angrily. "You proud bastards. Be a good little doggie and obey!"
Suddenly, they felt a painful warmth spread around their necks. One head looked at the other in astonishment, and they realized. They were collars! They were the little doggies of a demoness!
’This is ridiculous!’ They both said simultaneously.
"OBEY!"
The Demoness shouted. Then, they woke up feeling a visceral pain flowing through their new body and gravity pulling them violently.
Boomp!
Both heads hit the ground violently along with their bodies right after. All bones cracked, and muscles contorted; that was a body without cultivation and was brutally injured. But in that same instant, a frenetic feeling surged in their veins, and their eyes lit up in a bloody red. A familiar sensation of a subtle bloodline sprouted in them; in a second, all the pain in their bodies disappeared. At the same time, that bloodline seemed to completely fade away.
"Good boy. Your Demonic Cerberus bloodline is thin, and you only have two heads, but it’s still powerful." The Demoness spoke in a cheerful whisper. "Now... give me your paw!"
Alm and Bruno felt the collar release them, and the body rose as if nothing had happened. Their eyes saw again that hand extended in front, and an immediate urge to kill arose in both of them.
’I never thought I’d become a dog, but I’m always open to new experiences. I’ll bite the neck, and you bite the leg so she won’t run!’ Alm mentally spoke bloodthirsty.
At this moment, Bruno looked into the Demoness’s eyes, which were trembling slightly. Despite her face showing hardness and anger on the surface, something about her seemed off. ’She... she doesn’t seem to be doing this out of malice...’
’Doesn’t matter.’ Alm retorted immediately.
’We’re in a quest. Calm down, idiot! If we were put in this body as her dog, there must be something.’ Bruno quickly said, taking a step back with the body so that Alm couldn’t bite immediately.
’Do you want to humiliate us by pretending to be a demon bitch’s dog?!’ Alm commented furiously.
’We lost a lot of points last time because you killed without hesitation. She really seems to want our well-being. If you don’t want to do it, just stay quiet, and... I’ll do it!’ Bruno said seriously, but internally, he wanted to cry. Pretending to be a dog felt like an unprecedented humiliation.
It all lasted for five seconds, and the Demoness was already starting to think about how to punish her disobedient little dog. He had to be firmly disciplined and trained. But she smiled internally when she saw a trembling paw rise in her direction... and the faces of both heads seemed to contort as if experiencing indescribable hellish torture.
The furry paw, larger than her hand, touched her palm for two seconds and suddenly withdrew as if it had already done more than it should. The Demoness’s face completely crumbled seeing this, and a light and refreshing laughter echoed in that cave. Alm and Bruno looked at her in astonishment and saw that Demoness change as if she were a simple woman, without any malice. Both felt that, even though she was a demon, there was no evil in her.
Alm snorted after a second, and Bruno nodded, satisfied with the quick and right decision he had made. After a minute, the Demoness waved, and a mountain larger than the Cerberus appeared in front of them, large pieces of something that looked like black and rotten flesh.
The two heads looked at that and immediately felt a strange disgust, but in the next second, an insatiable hunger sprouted in them, and the body moved before the head could reason. Then, they both bit and swallowed it as if it were the most precious thing in the world.
"Good boys! Good obedient little dogs are rewarded." The Demoness spoke, and Alm and Bruno felt like a deadly blade pierced their chests in humiliation, but they couldn’t stop eating that strange black thing.
In a few minutes, they finished everything. Finally, the feminine voice that seemed sarcastic in their ears sounded like a dagger in their hearts. "Here are the little bones for you. And, as an extra reward, no training today."
A pile of bones appeared in front of them. Following that, the Demoness turned, leaving the cave slowly. They watched her tail wag strangely from side to side like a happy dog. She placed the torch at the door, illuminating the place, and left, closing the entrance.
’Look, we even got a few bones as a reward!’ Bruno commented, nervously laughing... or crying... it was hard to tell...