{Guldisa Deveros}

She was watching her daughter give birth. The room was warm, clean and perfect what they needed. Her heart swelled with the thought of her family growing. They had lost that Alex person, but she was being given a grandchild. Her daughter had her new arm tattooed to be deep red. She claimed that it was a mark of the man she had loved. She had claimed that the people in that town had killed him and cut off his manhood. Truely the people in those back water towns needed to be brought under heel to bring their savagery to an end. It was fitting that their leader was named Savage. In a month they would be able to take over smaller towns around them and from there they would roll over the lords and ladies around them. Each town would add to their power. Her daughter screamed and she turned back in time to see a small bloody child be forced out. The midwife held and started to clean the child.

"My Lady, it is a girl." Guldias beamed knowing that this one would be a strong woman to lead their family into the future. Her daughter kept screaming and pushing. A second child joined the first being cleaned and wrapped up. She held her two granddaughters delighting in the feeling of new life being brought into this world.

"Mother, may I name one?" Her daughter asked. Guldias nodded and handed one of the children to her. She started feeding it and smiled at the child. "Hello there Alexia." It seemed fitting, like one more thing bonding her to the man she had lost. Once the other one was clean, she held it to her mother, and she latched on to a nipple like her sister.

"What do you want to name the other?" Guldias asked her daughter.

"Amanda." she had picked names of wanderers to match the father these girls would never meet. It seemed fitting. She stroked her daughter's hair as she fed the next generation. It warmed her heart. "Mother, they will rule this world and put all beasts in their proper place." The two hugged in the warm clean room.

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{Demon Lady Gorlonda}

She walked around her throne room in her demon form. She was larger than most dragons with long horns, spikes and bat like wings. Four strong arms dug into the stone as she walked as her back legs stomped on hoof like feet. It made the castle shake in the most satisfying way. The humans had been acting strange and she wanted to know why. The Knights they used to stand equal to demons had been working better as of late. She hated this. What was causing them to change? They had barely held their own over the past thousand years. Now all of a sudden, they were getting better, using new weapons. Right now, they were just using them to fight each other so she and her army had to defend their lands. She clawed at the floor, leaving satisfying marks on the floor. Her obsidian throne was lit by streams of lava that gave the room a delightful glow. She loved being in this form as being this big tended to scare others. At nearly fifty feet high and looking like a demonic dragon, but one that could easily flatten a town, she towered over everything. One of her guards came in.

"Demon Lord, we have found what the humans are using to upset the balance." She loomed over her guard who wet his pants. It made her happy scaring them like this. If they fear you, they don't fight you.

"Tell me."

"There may be a captured demon lord on their side." She shifted to her humanoid form and still stood a head taller than him. Long horns reaching up, long whip like tail slashing the air behind her and long bat like wings folded around her like a cape.

"New demon lord you say. Tell me everything." She sat on her throne and crossed her long legs looking at her tan skin and blood red sharp nails. Her guard approached and started to explain everything to her. She listened closely as she tended to the two hands on her right side, using the two on her left. "And where can I find this Demon Lord Savage?" she asked looking at her guard with glowing green eyes. He cowered and stepped back.

"We are still hunting for him my lady."

"Come back when you have more information." She said coldly.

"I do have a seeing crystal of him." he held out an orb to her and she looked into it closely. Inside was a small thin man dressed in a wolf mask. Clearly the mask was used to hide his demon features. Something twisted inside her and her heart beat faster. It had been so long since the last male demon lord. She wanted him for herself before the others found out about him.

"This man will be mine." She said placing the orb on a rod letting the image be displayed across the wall.

END OF BOOK 2.