Chapter 185: The Land of Eternal Night

- One Month Later.

In a dark but lavish bedroom, a mother and son pairing could be seen sharing a rather heartwarming moment.

Sitting on the bed was a woman whose beauty was beyond compare, with a physique that was literally divine.

With skin containing all of the darkness and stars in the sky, some would say that she was equally as frightening as she was captivating.

She wore a sleek black dress with a cut on the side that traveled all the way up to her upper thigh like a stairway to heaven.

She absentmindedly tapped her heeled foot on the ground as she hummed a soft tune in a long dead dialect, as if this moment were the most blissful she'd had in eons.

All of her focus lied on the young man sitting on the floor between her legs.

His skin that was once much darker and healthier now had a slightly ashen hue after spending so long in this realm that was devoid of sunlight.

It softened his facial features, and gave him more of a cold and unapproachable air that was slightly mystifying.

The young man looked every bit like the child of a powerful greek god, wearing a sleeveless black shirt that barely covered his chiseled abdomen.

Golden bands adorned his biceps, wrists, and even his belt loop; as this was the one bit of color that his mother and women insisted looked the best on him.

Even now, she joyously threaded in small threads of gold into the ends of his hair after several days of relentless begging.

And again, judging by how happy she seemed, this too filled her with a great joy.

After all, greeks weren't exactly known for their subtlety.

*In chthonian* "You still haven't said anything."

The woman smiled as she felt her heart swell with pride.

When her son asked her to teach him the language, she was hardly expecting him to take to it so well.

Now, it was the only way that he spoke to her whenever they were alone.

"Said anything about what, my dear boy?"

"About if you think I'm doing the right thing. Staying down here... hiding like this."

"You aren't hiding. Hiding implies that you have the spine of a coward, and you are the furthest thing from."

"Ma...."

The woman bit her lip as if she were wrestling with her own tongue and she temporarily stopped the process of adorning his hair.

"I... was trying to avoid saying anything because I do not want my own personal beliefs to influence your decisions, but..."

Nyx suddenly bent over and hugged Malachi from behind; letting her head rest on his shoulders.

"I think... that right now there exists no other place that I would rather have you. Those humans... they are disgusting ungrateful aberrations who would dare to turn their weapons against you who has only ever thought to protect them from the moment you got your powers.

To hell with them. Let them survive the coming threat on their own if they think themselves able. The night is eternal, my son. We are eternal. In this realm alone, you and your wives can stay and live safe lives, allowing the earth to survive or perish on it's own.

You were always the best of them, but they couldn't see that. So since they couldn't appreciate you, I would selfishly ask all of you to stay here, in my love... forever."

"Ha. I knew you had something to say about it."

"I did, but now that you asked me of your own volition I can voice my true feelings guilt free."

Malachi opened his eyes and their crystallized violet color set the area in front of him aglow.

He placed a hand on his mother's arm like he was holding her tightly and rested his head against hers.

When they were supposed to be sleeping, Malachi could hardly keep his hands off of her.

Standing below Luna was the vampire who'd turned her, Nadine.

Currently, she was coaching her fledgling vampire on the ins and outs of using her wings to fly instead of her telekinetic abilities.

"That's it, you've got it! You're finally not falling anymore!"

"D-Don't jinx me or you'll break my concentration!"

"So maybe we do need more practice after all..."

When the girls heard Malachi come in, they paused their lesson and stared at him like he was a slab of meat.

Luna seemed to shake off her jitters fairly quickly, and flew directly into Malachi's arms like she'd been doing it for years.

"You... look... delectable~"

"Literally or sexually?" He asked.

"Yes."

Luna kissed Mal possessively and they temporarily forgot where they were; with her new insatiable libido taking over.

"Ahem!"

*Continued kissing.*

"I said AHEM!"

"..."

"Oh you motherfuckers want to play deaf, huh?" Nadine rolled up her sleeves and strode right up to the loving couple with a dastardly plan in mind.

Drawing her hand back, she smacked Luna on the behind so hard that the sound reverberated off the walls.

Luna let out a noise that was a cross between a yelp and moan as she pulled her lips away from Mal's and looked at Nadine angrily.

"What was that for?!"

"You were both being rude. Especially you."

Nadine glared at Malachi pointedly and he felt himself get a bit hot under the collar.

Truthfully, he had been avoiding her ever since they'd been here, but that was only because he didn't really have any idea what to say to her.

At the end of the day he knew what she wanted to hear from him, but he didn't know if he could just say things to her that he didn't know to be true.

But at the very least... maybe it was time he stopped running from her and talk things out.

"Nadine... Let's talk a bit later, yea? Just you and I."

It took a minute for his words to fully sink in, and then she looked as joyful as a child on Christmas morning.

But eventually, she remembered that he'd been ignoring her for the better end of a month and she resumed her natural poker face.

"Hmph! I guess I can make the time..."

Malachi chuckled as the door opened behind him again, and his instructor strode in.

Bianca smiled like a mad scientist as she held up a book that was almost as thick ass the ass in her jeans.

"Alright, who's ready to study some thermodynamics!?"