I will strive beyond this cursed bloodline!

“RAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!” Her mistress was getting worse by the day.

 

She continued thrashing and trying to break walls using her head. Today was a particularly bad day.

 

“Lady Beatrice, do we…need to do anything about that?” One of her valkyries asked as she materialized; she didn’t have a fully formed body just yet.

 

“Not yet.” Another voice answered before she could, it was Lady Aura. One of the most advanced Minions under the banner of their Shadow Mistress. “She can still hang in there, right Elizabeth?”

 

One who had no respect or seemed to act like a servant, instead she acted more like a peer than a servant. If not because their Shadow Mistress seemed to feel guilt towards this [Minion]...

 

“Please continue monitoring Mother.” She said to the valkyrie, she had started nurturing them in earnest after Mistress first night [Trapped] here, she had come here by the way of tapping into her Prana, and hadn’t found a way to teleport away. “Call me in case something happens to her…and also monitor Lady Rena.”

 

She had needed to be extra specific with her orders, the valkyries were supposed to be an order to serve under her. A set of fourteen minions nurtured to work as an independent force from the shadow armada.

 

Those that would be the last line of defense…Those who should have stood with Elizabeth, ready to serve her.

 

“I HUNGER!” But now? Elizabeth was losing herself, “GIVE ME MEAT! WOMEN! GET ME A MATE!”

 

She was losing herself to her draconic half, and as soon as her bloodline started getting out of control, Nyxfyre went into slumber with her, resting at the [Core] of the [Shadow Haven].

 

Even if he hadn’t he would probably approve of these changes, most minions did.

 

Most took this as a natural development, they would serve their Mistress no matter what. She…wasn’t like that.

 

“Restrain her.” Her orders made every single Minion stop moving, “Did I not make myself clear? RESTRAINT HER!”

 

With her scream, she flared her Mana and her [Authority]. She was the second in command; no one could supersede her Authority so long as Nyxfyre slumbered.

 

“!” Every single Minion threw itself at Elizabeth turning into chains made of shadows that tried to prevent her from moving.

 

“GRRRR!!!” And Elizabeth fought back, tried to control the shadows, a single flick of Beatrice’s mana was enough to destroy the construct she had tried to make.

 

“Wow, not pulling any punches are we?” Aura asked at the side as she brought a bucket of popcorn while enjoying the spectacle.

 

“Are you not going to stop me? If you voiced your opinion the other minions may not obey me.” Beatrice still didn’t understand this one. “Aren’t you angry at me? For disrespecting Elizabeth like this? I am treating her like a rabid animal.”

 

“I do not care for what you do.” Aura answered, “I am a loyal minion, so long Elizabeth respects my freedom I will work for her, be it as a rabid animal, a bimbo or…a True Dragon.”

 

Aura was like this. She acted aloof as if she knew something, but Beatrice didn’t understand her at all. She acted and followed Elizabeth’s orders, sometimes before their Mistress even uttered the orders.

 

“She will be angry when she returns to herself,” Beatrice said. As the minions worked overtime to stop Elizabeth from hurting herself, some brought what food they could steal from Zaanam. They fed Elizabeth as if she were an animal, without caring about how she looked while they did that.

 

“If she returns to humanity,” Aura said with a smirk, “As it looks, I think she will be a full-blown Dragon the next time she wakes up.”

 

That was impossible, “That will not happen, Elizabeth will never allow herself to turn into that.” Beatrice was sure, a dragon would care not for human relationships or love.

 

Elizabeth’s love for Mother was strong, that would allow her to return to normality, that would allow her to come back and heal Mother.

 

“She will return, she will then heal Mother and Lady Rena. And we will have a happy life.” Beatrice was sure of this.

 

“Even when you used Elizabeth’s minions to treat her like a rabid animal?” Aura asked, turning to look at her, those purple eyes that seemed as if they held a whole universe in them. “Even though you are prioritizing healing Rossaline over Rena or even trying to help Elizabeth?”

 

“I…Healing Mother faster will mean that we can help Lady Rena and Elizabeth!” Beatrice stammered, she…she hadn’t done that! She hadn’t prioritized Mother over anyone else!

 

It was just logical!

 

Emotions hadn’t been part of her planning!

 

“Sure, whatever. I am a normal Maid, it is not my place to decide the priorities here Lady Valkyre.” Aura said laughing, “No, that is your work isn’t? Yours and….that Minion that died, Sebastian right?”

 

“....Sebastian…” Beatrice said remembering her companion, the only other Minion that could ever have more power over this place than her. “...If he was here….”

 

Would he help her? No.

 

Sebastian’s role was to manage Elizabeth’s shadows.

 

While Beatrice's role was to administer and control the minions.

 

If he was here he could control this place and make sure not a single minion could step on the [Shadow Haven], if he deemed Elizabeth’s claims more important, he could make sure Elizabeth had free access to Mother.

 

“Mistress…” Beatrice walked towards Elizabeth, only for her to growl at her, “....please….return soon…I…. I don’t want to continue this line of thought.”

 

She… didn’t want to have to pick one, to decide whether she would prioritize Elizabeth or Rossaline, to choose between her Mistress or her Mother…

 

She…. she didn’t want to have to pick one between her Mom…and her progenitor.

 

She was only a minion, a Valkyrie…she… was only a little girl.

 

“Stay strong, Lady Valkyrie.” Aura said as she kneeled in front of her with a handkerchief and dried her tears, “This is just starting, after all.”

 

The maid said mysteriously as she teleported away.

 

Leaving Beatrice wondering about the nature of her own self, she was a Minion, a construct made out of shadows with a [Soul] used to kickstart her sense of self, she was aware that her [Soul] had been of someone important or influential, for it had allowed her to form an [Ego].

 

She had decided to throw away that life, unlike Sebastian, who took it and decided to move into the normal circle of transmigration. She envied him sometimes, he fulfilled his mission and moved on, unlike her that couldn’t do the same. She was too attached to her Mom, she wanted to create a family with her.

 

To be loved and embraced by her…to make Elizabeth acknowledge her.

 

“GRRRR!” Instead she was being glared by Elizabeth…No… She was being glared by the Dragon within her bloodline.

 

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First month, second week.

 

“MORE MEAT! MORE! GIVE ME ALL! WOMEN OF ALL AGES!” Elizabeth had stopped hurting herself and was also more…vocal. “You shortie! Come and feed me!”

 

She was also more…uncontrolled.

 

She had started undressing, she had started to eat raw meat, she had started to… please herself using all kind of things, from minions to… phallic objects, both physical and made from shadows.

 

“Purple one! Come here! Feed me my drink!” She had also started to call upon Aura more and more. “I need my drink!”

 

Aura teleported to the room and sighed as she saw the mess that Elizab…no, that this Dragon had made.

 

“Really? Can’t you even clean yourself, at least?” Aura acted as if nothing, she walked towards Elizabeth as if this was the same one, her demeanour never changed, not once as all of this happened. “So? What do you want today blondie? Water? Wine? Beer? Soda?”

 

She teleported all of those around herself, orbiting the drinks around.

 

The Dragon smirked as she eyed Aura up and down. “I want milk. You have two of those milkers, right?”

 

This Dragon was turning quite crass, but even so, Aura didn’t hesitate for a second. Instead, she laughed.

 

“Milk huh, sorry Mistress, but these don’t produce Milk just yet, you would need to plant a seed within me first.” And said so while unbuttoning her blouse, she took off her bra and showed her bare chest, “You are welcome to check if you don’t believe me.”

 

“Hahahaha, this is how a good mate should be!” The Dragon laughed and pulled Aura to her, Beatrice had hoped she would do something. ANYTHING to make Aura angry, disgusted, whatever.

 

But instead, the Dragon just laughed as Aura poured a glass of orange juice for the Dragon.

 

“What’s the matter shorty? Did you want some Milk, too? You can try, but this girl said she doesn’t have any. Or we can try on your momma too. Where is she?” The Dragon DARED to say that?!?!?

 

TO HER?!?!?

 

TO THE ONE THAT WAS MAKING ALL THAT WAS POSSIBLE JUST SO HER STUPID PARTY DIDN’T HURT MOTHER?!?! THE WOMAN WHO SHE ALLEGEDLY LOVED WITH ALL HER HEART?!?!?

 

*SNAP*

 

“Sorry Mistress… I… Need to go and take a walk… “ Beatrice tried her best to keep her tone even, “These Minions will help you…”

 

And summoned a batch of Shadow Scouts

 

“BAH! These don’t even have a real body!” The Dragon said while she grabbed Aura by one of her breasts, “I need a couple of handles to grab!”

 

Aura instead of being weirded out as she had hoped only laughed and got some grapes for the Dragon. “Here Mistress, you need more of these so you can leave my lemons in peace.” And started feeding her those.

 

Aura turned to look at her and very carefully shook her head, just enough so that Beatrice could notice it.

 

“Lemons?!?!? Hah! Good one, these feel more like apples, or perhaps pears? You should be proud for what you have! These are just the right size for my hands!” The Dragon laughed as it spoke.

 

Beatrice ran.

 

She ran away. She couldn’t.

 

That whore dared to fondle other women in front of Mother?!?!?

 

While she was fighting for her life even!

 

She was being poisoned! She was going to die!

 

She would die…Mother…was going to die…. because that bitch couldn’t be bothered to care.

 

And…no one could help her…

 

Nyxfyre would celebrate the awakening of the dragon bloodline. He only cared for Elizabeth’s rise to power, and her mana was not only getting more dense, but also powerful. Her Authority grew with each day.

 

Soon Beatrice would not even be able to use her powers witouth a direct permission…

 

Soon the [Shadow Dragons] would stop being mere [Shadows] and would start turning into real ones… That bitch kept speaking about mates after all, she had no doubt that if a magical girl could impregnate another human girl, then a dragon would be able to do the same.

 

Beatrice was running out of time.

 

“Mom….” Her Mother was running out of time… “...what….what should I do…Do I … Do I really need to?”

 

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Second Month.

 

“MOVE SHORTIE! I AM GETTING TIRED OF ONLY STARING, I WANT TO TASTE THEM!” The bitch lizard brain was getting harder to control.

 

“No!” But even so, Beatrice was doing her best.

 

“Why not?!?!?!?” But this bitch lizard was not having any of it.

 

“Stay away from Mom!” Beatrice screamed as shadow spears materialized on the floor and shot up, forming a defense around the two cylinders.

 

This bitch in heat wanted to take Mom away from the cylinder, the only thing keeping her alive. She had gotten the idea stuck in her lizard brain after staring at Mom for a week straight without blinking.

 

She was no longer fondling Aura anymore, and had never tried to do the same to her, instead had just stared at Mom and Lady Rena. At first Beatrice had thought this was a good sign.

 

Perhaps Elizabeth was finally coming to the surface, perhaps she would finally awake and dispel this nigthmare. Perhaps she could return to her normal schedule…

 

Mom would wake up, praise her for a good work, Lady Rena would nod and wait for a kiss from Mom too, perhaps…perhaps Beatrice would tell them all that had happened while they sleept. And they would decide to go different ways.

 

Away from Elizabeth, away from this madness…Beatrice would be sad, she wasn’t able to leave. If she cut the link that joined her to the [Shadow Haven], she would die after all.

 

Unlike Aura she was not [Alive].

 

But instead?

 

“I have been staring at that puny human for a month now, I want to taste! If she is on my domain it means she is mine shorty.” This goddamned lizard bitch got horny imagining Mom naked.

 

“NO IS NO!” And she was having a hard time keeping her at bay, she still had some control over the [Shadow Haven], thanks to Elizabeth always leaving the management to her, it was thanks to the lazy nature of this lizard bitch that she could do this.

 

“Perhaps you need sleep instead Mistress?” Aura suddenly materialized behind the bitch with a blanket, “You haven’t slept in a month after all, besides Lady Rossaline and Lady Rena can’t move or react at the moment, surely playing with a body that doesn’t react will not be fun.”

 

Aura had not changed her approach even now, Beatrice had hoped that after being neglected for a month would make her angry, and perhaps turn her into an ally. But instead the maid had acted as if nothing.

 

As if Elizabeth hadn’t acted like Aura was one of her mates. As if this whore hadn’t done anything new. Even though Aura had claimed that she didn’t love Elizabeth…She still let herself be kissed, fondled, toyed, and when everything was said and done. Thrown away like a used rag.

 

“You may be right purple one.” The lizard bitch said while glaring at Beatrice, “We will speak about this, hatchling.”

 

What? Hatchling?!?!?!?

 

Just because she was short didn’t mean that she was a hatchling!!

 

HOW DARE SHE!

 

“Hah!” The lizard bitch even laughed at her!

 

“Let it go Lady Beatrice.” Aura said, teleporting to her side and placing her dirty hand on her, “You aren’t speaking to Elizabeth, you need to be aware of that.”

 

What?

 

“You claimed that you didn’t love Elizabeth and still let yourself be kissed by that bitch.” Beatrice snarled back.

 

“Oh….you kiss your mother with that mouth?” Aura smirked, then turned to look back and grimaced. “Right, sorry. Bad timing… As to answer your statement, I do not love Elizabeth. I confirmed it when I let her take advantage of me. I wanted to make sure before I did this.”

 

Beatrice almost flared the dwindling power she had over the [Shadow Haven] to swat Aura, only to stare wide eyed at what the purple haired girl was handing her.

 

Eggs…

 

Dragon Eggs…

 

Shadow Dragon Eggs….

 

“...how…?” Beatrice asked. She had seen these, of course. As one of the main sub-administrators of the [Shadow Haven], she had access to the count of Shadow Dragons that could hatch; she knew there were a billion Shadow dragons waiting to be born.

 

The shadow armada was almost innumerable. And yet this sleazy who—-this….good fellow was handing her fourteen of these…as if nothing?

 

“I got Elizabeth to give me these in exchange for her sucking on my breasts a couple of days ago while you were having that aneurism when she tried to get off by fucking one of Lady Rossaline’s feeding tubes.” Aura answered with a shrug, “I asked for fourteen scales, each one willingly given, and each bathed in a drop of her bloodline.”

 

The Lizard bitch was growing more dragon-like with each passing weak, nowadays she didn’t use clothes at all, her body covered in scales that she could retract at a whim.

 

“So you…” Beatrice asked as she made sure each Shadow Dragon Egg was what she thought it would be.

 

“I nurtured them using Elizabeth’s Prana, grew them using the shadows of this place…and made them vessels ready to hatch…as long as the correct Minion is provided…Be it a single one that goes through the rebirth fourteen times, earning more power with each one…” Aura said, staring at her with those eyes that seemed to hide more knowledge than any minion should have. “...Or by offering fourteen minions to create a new order at the service of the one that wakes them up…”

 

Aura was offering her a way to earn power, just enough power to sever her link to Elizabeth, enough power to try and get Mom away from this place…

 

Seek a safe place to try and heal her…Perhaps if they got far away enough she could even…wake her up…

 

“Yes…I can help you with that.” Aura spoke as if she knew what Beatrice had thought…As if she was a devil…No…

 

This was precisely how Mom had been tempted before by [The World]. Aura was acting exactly as how [The World] had acted.

 

So, was Beatrice experiencing the same thing Mom had?

 

She….

 

“...No…thank you Aura…But no…Even if I managed to wake up Mom she would be sad…She would try to look for Elizabeth, even if we took Lady Rena…They would still try to return to Elizabeth…” Beatrice sighed hopelessly,…she really wanted to take this out. Instead, looking at the fourteen shadow eggs, she felt despair at the lost hope.

 

Before she may have used them to empower more minions, to serve loyaly to Elizabeth. But now? What was even the point?

 

They would die.

 

The lizard bitch would either use them as fuel for a new batch of Dragons or as amusement. There was no hope, not anymore. Perhaps she should just unplug Mom and make the lizard bitch kill them both?

 

“You can also awaken the fourteen shadow minions as your servants.” Aura whispered the machinations of a devil, “They will take their power from the [Shadow Haven] yes, but they will be loyal first to you…Second to who you deign worthy, and at the end to the owner of this place. For a [Dragon Hatchling] does not care for who their progenitor is, but only cares for who they are bound to.”

 

….Was… Was Aura encouraging her to make a revolution?

 

Beatrice turned to look at Aura only to find herself alone in the middle of the Shadow Spire's basement. Fourteen Shadow Valkyries and fourteen Shadow dragon eggs were standing around her.

 

She hadn’t been able to nurture the Valkyrie order fast enough to be useful…But now? Just now…she may have some hope to hold longer….