Chapter 104 - No Ordinary Demon

Damon King, or rather the Demon King, studied Zi Mei contemplatively. Then he shrugged and grinned widely at her. 

"Nah…don't think you are pregnant," he said. "So, you are safe from any adverse effects due to my proximity," he said. 

"What adverse effects?" Zi Mei asked, still trying to absorb the fact that the Demon King has been following her around and she didn't even know that! 

The car stopped at that opportune moment. Damon King did not reply her but opened the car door and jumped out instead. Jessica did the same, except she didn't jump out, she slide out regally. Zi Mei followed her out and the car zoomed off. All three of them are in front of her house. Thorin was no where in sight. 

"Thorin is not…."Zi Mei started to say but her front door opened and there he was, his tall broad-shouldered figure filling the doorway. She gaped at him. How did he get in? She didn't give him her house key. 

Thorin's expression darkened when he saw Damon King standing there with them. 

"What is he doing here?" he asked Jessica, his tone annoyed.

"He wishes to have a meeting with you," Jessica replied. 

"Come on, lover boy, lets talk serious business, you ran away before I could even introduce myself the other time," Damon said cheekily. He walked casually over to Thorin at the doorway while Zi Mei and Jessica followed behind.

Thorin's face is now thunderous. It looked like he was about to explode. Or murder Damon King. Or both. He glared coldly at Damon. 

"Hey, let me in," Damon said. 

"No," Thorin said. His eyes glinted dangerously. "I knew I sensed something different about you, how did you mask your demon self from me?" he asked coldly.

"You seriously want to talk out here where everyone in this neighbourhood could hear us?" Damon asked. He seemed unperturbed by Thorin's cold fury. In fact, he looked like he is here on a social visit. 

"Thorin, we should talk inside," Jessica said reasonably. 

"Yes, Thorin, lets go inside," Zi Mei agreed. She looked around. A neighbour is walking by and blatantly staring at them curiously. 

"This is your house Lil Zi, I can't let the likes of him enter and smear it with his negative energy," Thorin said quietly. He glared at Damon who is now standing face-to-face with him. 

"Come on, lover boy, you should know by now I am no ordinary demon," he said, his tone now slightly steely. He reached out to grab Thorin's shoulder but the dragon was fast, he shifted and Damon found himself flung to the ground with Thorin's foot on his chest. 

Damon's eyes glowed red and he snarled before swiftly getting out of Thorin's foot to stand before him yet again. 

"Look here dragon, I am not here to pick a fight," he hissed at Thorin. "If not for me, more of your kind would have been dead in that unnecessary war," he added. 

"It's true Thorin, please, let's go in and talk," Jessica interjected. 

Zi Mei, amazed by both the dragon and the demon's speed, didn't want them to create a spectacle for her neighbours to watch. Who knows what other humans see…they could be thinking they are watching two men fight over her. Ugh. She will never live it down. 

"Jessica said it's fine, let's go inside," Zi Mei said. 

Surely Jessica can't be wrong. Besides, Damon King can't harm her with two dragons there with her, right? She went up to Thorin and grabbed his arm. "Come on, lets go inside and sort it out without everyone in this street watching and listening," she dragged him inside. 

Surprisingly, Thorin relented but not before he threw a warning look at Damon King. "You harm her and you are dead," he told the Demon King. 

Damon rolled his eyes and let out a long-suffering sigh. "If I wanted to harm her, I would have done so a few days ago," he retorted as he followed them inside with Jessica bringing up the rear. Jessica closed the door and locked it before all of them headed inside to her living room near the skylight. 

Damon King immediately went to her lounge chair and jumped on it, leaning on it and stretching as if he has had a long tiring day. Thorin merely stood there with Zi Mei still holding on to his arm. Jessica chose an armchair and sat down. Z

i Mei released his arm but Thorin's hand came up and held her hands on his arm firmly. "Keep it here," he muttered to her quietly. She blushed and tried to cool her over excited beating heart. 

'Shush you stupid heart' she told her heart inside. 'This is not the time for this!' She tried to concentrate on Thorin, Damon and Jessica. The tension between Thorin and Damon is thick as they glared at each other. 

"Don't get yourself comfortable, say what you need to say and leave," Thorin was telling Damon. Damon sat up and gestured to the sofa. 

"Please, sit down and talk like a professional, will you? I don't want to get a creak on my neck," Damon said. 

Thorin reluctantly went to the sofa, pulling Zi Mei along. He sat down and she sat next to him. She tried to pull her hand loose but he linked his hand with hers and held it firmly, resting their linked hands between them. Damon looked at their linked hands and chuckled.

"Always the lover boy eh," he remarked. "No wonder you are so smitten with him," he grinned at Zi Mei. Zi Mei blushed again. 

"Cut the nonsense. What do you want demon?" Thorin asked. 

"Ahem. Demon King. I am not a mere demon," Damon corrected him. Thorin was surprised. He looked at Jessica for confirmation and she nodded. He quickly schooled his expression into his usual cold arrogance. 

"It doesn't matter. You are still a demon," he said. 

"Sigh. Jessica. Didn't you tell him I was the one who saved everyone in that frigging unnecessary war?" Damon asked. 

Thorin looked at Jessica. Before she could say anything, Damon continued. 

"Okay, okay, let me tell you what happened. You were seriously injured so you left to lick your wounds somewhere, some other dragons came to continue the fight, someone finally told me what was happening so I went back and I stopped my demons from completely destroying all your dragons," he said. "So, TL:DR, demons start war, dragons losing, Demon King stopped war," 

Zi Mei's head is spinning. Was this the so-called war that Thorin got injured in? Were demons more powerful than dragons? How could dragons be losing to demons? 

"Don't flatter yourself Demon King, we would have won without you but a lot of your demons would have been destroyed and captured," Jessica said. 

"Are you sure about that? I remember arriving to a rather sad scene of dying dragons in the demon realm," Damon said. "In fact…"

"We would have won the war, you demons started the war so what do you want now?" Thorin interrupted. 

Damon studied Jessica and Thorin's expressions. He shrugged. 

"Fine, lets just say you dragons would have won, you did capture a lot of my demons," he conceded. "Which brings me to the reason for this meeting. Do you happen to have Dorian with you?" 

"Who may that be?" Thorin asked. 

"You know, the demon that tried to eat her," Damon gestured to Zi Mei. Zi Mei gasped. Did he mean the demon that looked like Darren? 

"I remember I clearly sent him back to your realm, his powers properly docked," Thorin said, frowning. 

"Well, then, he must have gotten away. Dammit." Damon cursed. "He was the one who started the whole demon revolution in an attempt to destroy you dragons so that they can take over the human realm," 

Thorin regarded him, a look of disbelief on his face. "I don't believe you, they would not have acted without your orders, do not try to lie to me!" 

This time Damon did look slightly guilty. "It was partially my fault, I left Dorian in charge while I went on a holiday in the other realms…I mean, have you been to the fox realm? Talk about foxy ladies," he smiled dreamily then looked at Thorin's annoyed face and cleared his throat. 

"But I digress. You see, Dorian was in charge for a long time…a couple decades in human time I  think…and it got into his head that he wanted to play with the humans but you dragons are such stickler for the laws of the elements so he decided to wage war instead," 

"Play with humans??? What??? Are we toys???! " Zi Mei exclaimed. 

Darren held up his hands. "Hey, not me, it was Dorian, I have the highest respect for all beings, humans, foxes, dragons…" he turned back to Thorin.

"Come on, before all this, have you ever had trouble from me? Not the stray demon or so, I mean orders from me? Heck, I've never given any orders pertaining to apocalypse, zombie invasion or violence against other beings," Damon said. 

He grinned at Zi Mei. "I love how humans have such beautiful art, I even dabble a bit in it, ask her,"

But Zi Mei was distracted by the mention of zombies. 

"Are you saying zombies are real too?" she asked.