In the dark recesses of his mind, the corners of his heart.
Vincent always felt this way; the curse just brought it to the front of his mind, making him unable to hide it. He realised that the strange curse-like feeling did not cause strange feelings; his desire was amplified, which caused him to ravage Ravena with such intense passion. Rather...
"I know..."
"Don't be so glum since you've to spit your goo in my womb; I'll never betray you." Ravena said with a vulgar joke, her hand stroking his arm, "I just want to see what you can do because I know that girl would follow you even into the deepest depths of the abyss... I would...." Her words stopped as she looked towards the east, with a bitter smile, before muttering the ending.
"I would also follow you... but who would wait for them to come home..." Her hands rubbed her stomach with a faint but motherly smile as she darted forward; it must have been some movement skill, as her feet stopped touching the ground as if running on the air itself, with small ripples forming with each step.
Vincent saw her lips moving, but the words she spoke this time were out of his hearing range.
"Mel'Zeth..."
The strange glow disappeared from her eyes as she ran up a nearby hill and turned right before leaping over the top, landing on her feet and spreading her arms wide before diving down into the forest below.
"Vincent, follow me!"
Ravena entered the deep woods, her skin glowing with power, her hair shimmering, and her muscles flexing as her entire body became more powerful than the average human.
'She's faster than my mother!?' Vincent thought as he followed close behind, his eyes on her back as he tried to keep up with her speed, using both his wings and the full power of his legs to keep up with her; they must have travelled more than 10 miles from the town by now, in a few minutes!
She made a left turn, her hair fluttering in the wind as she continued to run, disappearing from Vincent's sight entirely.
"Ravena!?"
She reappeared from the wooded area, her feet stepping onto a large rock as she stood still, smiling.
"There's no need to worry; we are safe now. Or rather..."
Brrrrrrr!
The loud sound of several horns, the stomping of steel boots and the clashing of armour filled Vincent's ears as his red eyes darted away from his mother/lover's body as they widened at the sight.
"We found them..." Ravena looked down at them, her eyes filled with a ferocious glow; there were more than two hundred at least, swords, spears, bows, hammers, and endless amounts of warriors moving slowly towards their town; a small village in the distance was burning while goblin females lay on the ground, defiled in all forms before death.
Crack!
Ravena clenched her hands tightly, the force exuded by her body cracking the rock they stood upon, now around 60 metres above the human warriors.
Her eyes seemed a little misty as she watched the burning village before turning to Vincent, looking at him not as the mother Ravena moments ago, but to him; she looked younger, like a young woman, as Mel'Zeth's image floated across his eyes, matching her perfectly when she saw familiar faces being killed in the first town and villages they passed.
"I can not kill them all." Her horse voice was slow and filled with anger.
"That's why, Vincent... My son.... my lover..... please...."
"Show me, show me your true form! Let me believe you can protect Mel'Zeth from those that might discover your true identity! Or forever let her go!"
Vincent looked into her eyes; the words felt like a plea with multiple meanings.
As a mother
As a warrior
As a woman
"Promise me; you won't be disgusted... Even... Even my women haven't seen my true form... Nor have I! It fear's me... to even release a portion of it!"
Ravena stepped forward, her arms wrapping around his back, as she began to perform an oath.
"I swear upon the mother of earth and fertility, Ravena of the Mel tribe, no matter what happens or changes. She will always feel adoration for the man of her daughter, the man of her loins, the father of her unborn child and her future partner. Lest the daemonic fog strikes her down!"
A strange runic pattern began to form on her chest, an oval with the words she swore written in the goblin tongue, rotating around the image of a withered but strong tree. This wasn't anything special, but a tribal oath that each tribe could swear; if she broke the oath, Ravena would be cursed, banished from her tribe and become a castaway goblin, slowly deforming and becoming like the dungeon goblins who had no minds of their own.
Her forehead touched his chest, and he noticed she was filled with sticky sweat, both hands pressed against his bronze muscular chest, "please, show me; I will accept all of you as my youngest child's father."
'What!?' The last words almost caused him to be stunned, wasn't he supposed to have low fertility!? First Silvari, now Ravena!
A strange feeling began to blossom in his chest; it was strong and wrapped the anger, hatred and lust in its strong arms like a huge tree. The tree used them as its fuel, like a fertiliser; as his mind became clearer, it was not a physical change.... more of a psychological change, the hints and thoughts he wanted to deny.
'I will be a father?'
'Will my daughters be safe in this world?'
'Why am I holding back like a human?'
'I love my mother; why not take her? there is no blood, and I am no ordinary man!'
Suddenly, it was like Vincent's mind was opened; all the thoughts of holding himself back, keeping himself within the binds of a mortal human suddenly shattered, as the metaphoric stone dam in his mind cracked, crumbling as the true "Vincent" began to surface with a raging storm and brutal tsunami.
Vincent's hands cupped Ravena's cheeks, lifting her face as his eyes now a dark golden colour alternating between crimson and gold like a swirling fluid, slit pupils fixated on her face, the marching humans just about to pass them, still, a few minutes left.
"Ravena, you are my woman. I forbid you from sleeping with other males in the future. If you need sex, come to me, or I will kill all three of you."
Her body trembled as she looked up towards him, two pairs of golden eyes meeting, as she felt the gravitational pressure around him increasing, this was not a threat, but his oath. In honesty, she never thought of being with another man after experiencing his domination; if it weren't for her daughter using a high potion, she would still be in bed like a crushed frog, mumbling while unconscious.
"I swear...."
"Good." His hands stroked her head, a gentle and soothing rub, his pressure growing each second.
Vincent lifted her body, her butt perched on his forearm snugly, as if her ass was made to sit there, leaning against his bicep, until he placed her on another rock, higher and with a good vantage point of the battle and area.
"Then watch."
"Watch the true form of your family's future husband."
His words indicated his plans for her and all the Mel' goblin women. To goblins sharing a man within a family was not bad but something they yearned for and desired, and this top-class male, offered himself! The sheer arrogance and confidence didn't make Mel'Ravena pout or feel disgusted; instead, her eyes began to show delight with a wide smile across her face.
"Don't get hurt... many girls await your return!" She said, as suddenly his entire body began to swell, covered in a dark purple aura as Ravena got a private seat to Vincent's first ever full transformation.
Vincent shook his head, with no plans to get hurt.
"Stand back, my cute goblin mother. I will show you all you wish and more, don't cry when I destroy your body with my endless lust and hunger."
The feelings inside his chest had reached a boiling point, that annoying curse that strengthened these feelings and desires. Why did he keep them inside his chest and not try to push forward?
'I'm tired of holding back...'