It had started out as a tumble to the ground, but laying on top of Quaraun's soft, feminine, fleshy curves was more then GhoulSpawn could bear.

Quaraun's annoyance at being on the floor was quickly shattered by the intense hunger of GhoulSpawn's kisses. His kiss was urgent and exploratory. Quaraun was shocked by his own eager response to the touch of his lips.

The thought of cheating on Unicorn had never crossed his mind, but just now being this close to GhoulSpawn sent reason out of his head. Though Unicorn had pointed out the attraction several times, Quaraun remained in denial over his ever growing lust for the young Sun Elf.

Quaraun wasn't given any time to think about his actions, he merely responded to the pleasurable sensations he felt as GhoulSpawn's touch sent shivers down his spine. There was the delicious feel of excitement. Of first-contact. Of naughty thrills. Quaraun was suddenly filled with the overwhelming desire for GhoulSpawn to fuck him.

Quaraun moaned as he felt the Sun Elf's hard cock pressing into his groin. Quaraun pressed closer to GhoulSpawn in response. The two Elves were instantly lost in the passion of kisses and embrace. As quickly as it started though, GhoulSpawn suddenly broke it off and clambered fearfully to get quickly off of the sultery, lust filled Necromancer.

"I'm so sorry," GhoulSpawn whispered as he stood up and looked around for a place to escape. Then ran off towards the door.

"No!" Quaraun cried out, pointing a finger towards the door.

GhoulSpawn stopped and stood terror stricken, staring at the blank space on the wall before him. The door was gone. Vanished as if it had never been there. He looked around the room. All the windows and the other door were gone as well. Panic rose in his throat as his heart rate quickened. He became terrified of what the Necromancer would do to him.

Quaraun slowly pushed himself up. The fall had dazed him and he was not quite steady enough to stand quickly.

"I'm sorry," GhoulSpawn said again, this time with great difficulty. Fear welled up inside of him. He was trembling so bad, he thought he would faint.

Quaraun stood, still dazed, now leaning against the table.

"Why are trying to run away," Quaraun asked.

"I'm sorry."

"You've said that. I heard you the first two times. Why are you sorry?"

"I didn't mean to... I shouldn't have... I'm sorry... I..."

"Breath, GhoulSpawn. Stop hyperventilating. I'm not gonna hurt you."

"The doors..."

"You were trying to run away and I'm physically too small and too weak to stop you."

"I shouldn't done that."

"Fall on me?"

"No... not..."

"Yeah, I know what you meant. You want to fuck me."

"I don't... I..."

"You want to fuck me. I know what I felt."

"I'm sorry."

Quaraun walked over the stand directly in front of GhoulSpawn.

"You don't have anything to be sorry about."

"Please let me go."

"I want to know what just happened."

"I... uhm..."

"You like me quite a lot."

Quaraun eyes never wavered, staring directly into GhoulSpawn's, as he reached out, took hold of the Sun Elf's hand, then placed it over his groin, allowing GhoulSpawn to feel Quaraun's warm erection on the palm of his hand.

"You can finish what you started, GhoulSpawn. I don't mind."

"I shouldn't."

GhoulSpawn pulled his hand away and averted his eyes from Quaraun's gaze.

"I really don't mind."

"I don't... I like women. You're male. You don't look it, but you are."

"You can make love to me, the same way you would a woman. I'm used to receiving male lovers that way."

"You're with Unicorn."

"I'm a High Elf. I'm not monogamous, GhoulSpawn. I do not object to having multiple lovers."

"What about Unicorn?"

"What about him?"

"He's so violent."

"I like him violent. It thrills me. He's bold and dominate. You're the complete opposite. You're quiet and shy and gentle. I love the contrast between the two of you."

"You've been with him a long time. I don't want to come between you."

"I want both of you."

"I shouldn't have kissed you."

"He's also undead. And you're very much alive. It's been a long time since I've had the warm flesh of a living lover pressing against me. I've been wanting you for quite some time."

Quaraun stood up on his tiptoes to reach GhoulSpawn and kiss him on the lips. Lips to lips. Flexing and yielding. GhoulSpawn did not resist the High Elf's advances. He could not hide his attraction to Quaraun. Their lips touching, parting, and touching again. It was timeless and beautiful and amazing. He wanted so desperately to make love to the Moon Elf. Feeling Quaraun's growing desire made it difficult for GhoulSpawn to resist. Quaraun involuntarily mewed. A tiny expression of happiness.

In stark contrast to Unicorn's harsh forcefulness, GhoulSpawn was gentle and loving.

"Yi fucking pink penguins!"

GhoulSpawn immediately let go of Quaraun at the sound of Unicorn's voice.

"Ya got an explanation for this?" Unicorn asked as he stared angrily down at the two Elves.

"We fell down the stairs," Quaraun said simply, pushing GhoulSpawn off of him and acting as though nothing had been going on between them.

"Un ya forgot to get back up, I see. Of course de stairs is over dair."

"Well, you can help me up now."

Quaraun stretched out his hand and waited for Unicorn to help him to his feet. And completely ignored the fact that he and GhoulSpawn were no longer anywhere near the stairs they had originally tumbled down. Unicorn was glaring at GhoulSpawn, who was sitting beside Quaraun trembling in fear and looking as though he was about to piss his pants. Quaraun snapped his fingers to get Unicorn's attention. The Phooka turned to Quaraun.

"Help me up," Quaraun commanded.

Unicorn grabbed the Elf's wrist and jerked him up violently, then slammed him very hard back into the wall, holding him up off the ground. Quaraun squealed in pain as his back made contact with the wood. Fear filled his eyes. He had not expected Unicorn's violent reaction.

"Unicorn, please," Quaraun begged. "Nothing happened."

"Ya has strange definition of nothingness."

"Unicorn..."

"No. I saw everything." The Phooka leaned in, gripping one hand tightly around the Elf's throat, pressing his lips to the Elf's ear and whispered. "I saw more then ya t'ink. I saw ya fall. I saw ya get back up. I saw ya seduce de half-Elf un pull him down on top of ya. I saw him try to get away un ya not let him. Nothing happened only because ya did nae have time before I stopped it. We is soul bound. Did ya forget that? I know every t'ing that happens to ya body. I feel what ya feel. I know when ya horny. Und ya been waiting to get alone with him ever since ya first saw him. Ya t'ink I did nae know that?"

"I wasn't..."

"Ya was. I does nay like being cheated on. Ya knows dat. Ya knows what happened to de Elves before ya."

"You ate them. It's why they call you the Elf Eater."

"No one cheats on me," the angry Faerie snarled as he tightened his grip on Quaraun's throat.

"Unicorn please..."

"How far would ya have gone if had I nae stopped ya?"

"I'm sorry..."

"No ya not."

The Elf Eater squeezed his hand, cutting off Quaraun's ability to speak, choking the poor frightened Elf who was only now beginning to realize how truly angry Unicorn was.

"Ya just saying that cause ya no want me to rip ya throat out. Ya get alone with him again and ya'll whore yarself out to his all over again. Just like the trashy little slut ya are."

Unicorn tightened his grip more, blood trickled through his fingers as his razor sharp claws sliced through the Elf's flesh like butter. Quaraun's feet were no longer touching the ground. Terror filled him as his chest tightened from lack of air.

Franticly Quaraun clawed at Unicorn's arm trying to release the fingers that were strangling him. The Lich Lord's eyes glowed blue as his illusionary flesh stripped away, replaced by the boney blue crystal skeleton that was his true form. Though a Necromancer able to control the dead, Quaraun had been taken by surprise by Unicorn's reaction and not been prepared to fight back.

The Lich continued to tighten it's death grip on the wizard's throat until he felt Quaraun's body begin the seize. Only then did Gwallmaiic let go, knowing that if he did not, the Elf would die. Quaraun fell to the floor, sprawling on the ground, choking, wheezing, and gasping as his chest heaved to his lungs' desperate attempt to suck in air.

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The Lich turned to GhoulSpawn who was frozen in terror. The eyeless sockets of the glowing skull glared at him. He had never seen the Lich's true form before.

"I let ya off dis once, because ya dids nae know what him be like. Him a slut of a whore. Him went after ya soon as him knew ya gets excited over him. But now ya know. What I is. Him already tolds ya, but like everyone else, yis did nay believe him. Ya dids no take him serious. Him never tell lie. Him always speak truth. Yi just like no good Humans. Laugh at his clothes un ignore hims words. I Lich, just like him said. Un now ya knows. How I got me name. What I do to a lover who cheats on me. Him is far from the first Elven lover I had. Ya'll have nae second chance. Do somet'ing like dis again un I kill ya both."

The Lich vanished, taking with him every last drop of warmth in the room. Ice crystals formed over everything as a glaze of ice swept across the walls.

Mallac entered the room just then. The Human stood for a moment looking around at the frigid room. His breath hung frosty in the frozen air. Then he saw the two Elves, both still on the floor. Once clearly wounded and the other too terrified to move. He ran forward to help them.

"Are you alright?" He asked running to Quaraun. "What happened?"

Quaraun was too weak to talk. He was still trying to breath properly.

"This is a Lich's frost," one of the other soldiers said as the rest of Mallac's men entered the room.

"There's a Lich in the area!" Another Human shouted.

Fear filled the hearts of the Humans as they began to realize the danger they were in.

Unicorn entered the room along with the soldiers, and was now back in his deceptively small and harmless looking Human form. He lovingly took Quaraun in his arms, cradling him, purring soothingly, kissing the wounds on his neck, licking the blood from the wounds, and acting as though nothing had happened between them at all.

The soldiers began scattering about looking for any signs of the Lich. GhoulSpawn sat silently watching Unicorn's gentle care of the injured Necromancer.

The Necromancer he had just injured.

A Necromancer who clearly did not have as much control over Liches as HellBorne had said he did. This was not the first time GhoulSpawn had felt like the Lich had control of the Necromancer instead of the other way around, but it was the first time he'd seen without a doubt that when push came to shove the Lich was far more powerful than the Necromancer. GhoulSpawn wanted to run, but he was too scared to move.

GhoulSpawn stared at Unicorn. His heart pounded in his chest.

Quaraun had told GhoulSpawn that Unicorn was a Lich. He'd said it many times. Somehow GhoulSpawn had not really believed it.

Quaraun had said Unicorn was really, King Gwallmaiic, Elf Eater of Pepper Valley, but he hadn't really believed that either. Quaraun was, after all, insane, wasn't he? But Unicorn had changed. The tiny, Human like form had melted away into the distinctive blue crystal bones of a Frost Lich.

Did the stories not say, that King Gwallmaiic, the evil Necromantic Lich King, was a Frost Lich?

No one ever paid much attention to anything Quaraun said. No one took him seriously. Why would they? He was wearing a pink dress, his floor length hair tied up in twin pigtails. A twinkling silver tiara on his head. Every one knew to look at him, the man was insane. Every one said it didn't they? People mocked him and teased him and dubbed him Quaraun the Insane, so why would they believe anything he said. He always talked of Liches. No one ever believed him.

GhoulSpawn was beginning to see the error of the logic of the masses. Quaraun was not insane. Eccentric, yes, but insane? No. Far from it. His bitterness and animosity towards Humans, was nothing more then his frustration at constantly being ridiculed for the way he looked and no one believing a word he said or taking him seriously, because they were too busy judging him for his outlandish cloths.

"It's no where, Sir," one of the soldiers said to Mallac.

"You!" Mallac shouted to GhoulSpawn. "Did you see it?"

"What?" GhoulSpawn somehow managed to whisper.

"The Lich. Did you see it? What did it look like? Where did it go?"

GhoulSpawn stared at Unicorn. The Phooka was glaring angrily at him, a low threatening, growl rumbled under his breath. GhoulSpawn looked back up at Mallac and shook his head.

"No," he whispered, still too frightened to find his voice.

GhoulSpawn knew Quaraun had told Mallac that Unicorn was a Lich. He had been there when Quaraun had said it. More than once. Like everyone else, Mallac had been quick to pass Quaraun off as insane because of his fashion sense, and had not believed him, when the transvestite Elf had pointed to the Phooka and said - "He's a Lich". This was obvious now, by Mallac's seeing the evidence of a Lich's presence, and completely ignoring the fact that Unicorn was the very person Quaraun had said was a Lich.

"You were right," Mallac said to Quaraun and Unicorn. "Some one's building a Lich and now it's here. We must find it."

Mallac barked orders to his men as the Humans tumbled out into the streets to search for the beast that was sitting right in front of their noses.

GhoulSpawn was seeing now, first hand, how easily the rumours about Quaraun had been started and spread. No one listened to anything he said. They were too busy laughing at how he dressed. And now, when the words he had previously said, had come to pass, no one even remembered the words he'd said. This fact shed new light on the depression and loneliness Quaraun lived with, the intense sadness of knowing no matter what he said, no one would listen, because no one could accept with any seriousness a man in a dress.

With the Humans gone, Unicorn helped Quaraun back to his feet and guided him back to the tavern. GhoulSpawn followed them, though he wasn't sure why. He was too scared to do anything else.

Quaraun passed out before reaching the tavern, and Unicorn carried him from that point.

When Unicorn had Quaraun tucked in bed, and was sitting on the bed beside him, GhoulSpawn broke the long silence that had stood between them.

"Is he gonna be alright?"

Unicorn looked back at GhoulSpawn who was hanging back near the door looking as though he'd run at any second.

"Him is fine. Him need rest."

"He's unconscious."

"Aye. Him need rest."

"You tried to kill him."

"No. I merely scared him."

"He's unconscious."

"I poisoned him."

"Poisoned?"

"Me claws un me fangs, dey be venomous. I poison Elf so dey feel no pain while I eat them. It puts dem into deep sleep."

"You hurt him."

"I know. Un now I takes cares of him. Him High Elf. Sleep helps him heal."

"Why help him after you've hurt him?"

"I love him. I does nae want to lose him. Not to death. Nor to you."

"I'm sorry. I should go."

"No. Ya stay."

"Why?"

"Him likes ya. Un him will t'inks I ate ya if ya is nae here when him wakes up."

"You really are the Elf Eater aren't you?"

"Leader of de Lich Lords, King Gwallmaiic, Elf Eater of Pepper Valley. Aye. Dat would me."

"You're a Lich."

"Ya knew that."

"I don't think I believed it."

There was silence again.

"Why are with him?"

"I done tolds ya. I love him."

"But he's an Elf."

"Aye."

"And you eat Elves."

"Aye."

"I'm an Elf."

"Ya is."

"Are you going to kill me?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Him likes ya. Him t'inks of ya as a friend. He does nay have any dose. Not since BeLuna un Bullgaar died."

"I don't understand you."

"What to understand?"

"A few minutes ago you were threatening to kill both of us."

"Un few moments gone yi was t'reatening ta fuck him. Yi not now."

"People think he controls the Liches. He doesn't, does he? You control him."

"No. But him could, if him wanted to. Him could easily defeating me iffy him were to fought back. Him does be much more powerful then I be. Him could control every dead t'ing him wishing. He does chooses not to. Him does nay abuse powers him is possesses. He is no greedy for power or riches or any worldly t'ing. Him does simply want to be loved. Hims greatest desire is simply to love un be loved in return. He peaceful un non violent. Him does no fight un refuses to defend himself when is attacked. Him knows how great of power him possesses. Him knows how dangerous him does can be to every one 'round him. Di'Jinn are dead. Turned to ash, by words 'I wish'. Moon Elves all is dead. Frozen into solid blocks o ice, by de words 'I wish'. Pixies are dead. Turned to jellied piles of blood, by de words 'I wish'. De Sun Elves is dead. All save ya. They bodies burned to char, from inside out, by de words 'I wish'. He is being fully aware o how dangerous him does be. He distances himself from populated areas, be wandering hermit, terrified of for to enter any village we passes, for fear him will accidently say words 'I wish' un lay it to waste without ever meaning to. He really is world most powerful wizard, but it power him does nae know how to control un he lives in mortal fear of it un refuses to use it willingly. Him could has control me if him wanted to. Him choose not to."

"Why didn't you kill me back there?"

"Because him likes ya. Un he asked me not to, back at Witch Pond."

"You hurt him."

"Aye. Un nows I help him."

"You wouldn't hurt him like that if you loved him."

Unicorn got up off the bed and approached GhoulSpawn, placing his hands on the wall to either side of the half-Elf, trapping him.

"Love is nae easy for me. I is nae like ya Elves. I is what most would call a monster. To ya Elves, I is predator. Higher up on food chain then ya is being. It is me nature to kill Elves. It me natural instinct to tear ya throat out un feast on ya flesh. It is with great difficulty dat I restrain meself un does nae eat de both of ya. I lust for taste of Elf flesh. I has killed millions of de Elves. It is nothing to me to kill millions more. But ya two I does nae kill. Because I does very much love him un him sees ya as his friend. And apparently he wants ya for a lover now as well."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen."

"I knows it. Un it be why no kills ya. I saw him pull ya down on top of him un ya try to get away."

"I don't trust you."

"As well ya should not. I does nae trust meself. Yis a tasty Northern Elf. It with great difficulty I does nae eat ya."

"You're dangerous."

Unicorn stepped back away from the half-Elf.

"Aye. We Phookas is top of the food chain. Yis our food. It be difficult for me to be in this town. It is filled with Humans, ripe to eat. I feel nothing for them. I help Quaraun to help them, only because it keep Quaraun happy. Him sad, lonely Elf. Helping Humans make him happy. But if de Humans turn on him, I will have no trouble to kill every last one o them."

"Why him? You've killed so many Elves. Why not him?"

"He saw for me what I is and loved me any ways."

"You're a vile monster. A feral undead beast."

"Aye."

"ZooLock told me a story. Is it true?"

"What is story?"

"The Moon Elves caught him in bed with another male, a non-Elf, a Faerie, and tortured him for it. Used him as bait to try to catch you. You killed them and rescued him."

"T'is true. I were also de male Fae him were bedding with. ZooLock would have ya t'inks we is together because of that incident. We was together before it."

"But that doesn't answer my question."

"Being?"

"Why him? You eat Elves. Why do you not eat him?"

"Him not Elf. Him Thullid."

"Do you not eat Thullids?"

"No. I eats Thullids too. But not him. Him Sacred Pink Jelly Fish. Him Elder Brain. Him not know it, but him is. Him ancient Demon. I worship him. And now I fuck him. He is a god un he sleeps in my bed. Not yars."

GhoulSpawn slid down to the floor and pulled his knees up against his chest. He was scared of the Lich and wanted to run away, but he didn't really have any place to go to other then HellBorne and he didn't want to go there even less then he wanted to be here, and he was worried about Quaraun. The Elf had been injured and now was passed out.

Unicorn stood and watch the frightened Sun Elf.

"How old is ya?"

GhoulSpawn looked up, not certain the creature was talking to him.

"Ya not yet a hundred years old are ya?"

GhoulSpawn shook his head. He was not sure why the Phooka suddenly wanted to know his age.

"That why ya look so yang. Ya is yang. Yar just a wee lil pup. Ya not even an adult yet. Quaraun's old enough to be ya grandsire. Did ya know that? Him not as yang as he looks. Him de Necromancer what made me a Lich un I died three hundred years ago."

Unicorn continued to watch the young half-Elf, now realizing GhoulSpawn was still an adolescent, and to other Elves, still considered an Elfling. Though in the eyes of Humans he looked like an adult, in the eyes of Elves, GhoulSpawn was still only a child.

Unicorn felt less threatened by the welp now that he realized how young he was. GhoulSpawn was tall, quite a bit taller than either Quaraun or Unicorn. This had caused Unicorn to think the half-Elf was older than he was.

Unicorn bent down, grabbed GhoulSpawn by the elbow and pulled him up. The startled half-Elf cried out from fright and tried to get away, but the Lich's iron grip held tight.

"Stop being a nervous Nelly, I ain't gonna hurt ya."

Without another word, Unicorn dragged GhoulSpawn to the bed and shoved him on to it beside Quaraun.

"Ya stay there. I can keep an eye on ya better."

Unicorn sat on the foot of the bed and watched the two Elves, one injured and unconscious and the other hyperventilating and trembling with fright.

GhoulSpawn watched Unicorn waiting for the Phooka to pounce on him, but the beast remained still and silent. An hour or more passed before GhoulSpawn finally relaxed and moved out of the position Unicorn had tossed him in. Seeing Unicorn's anger seemed to have subsided, GhoulSpawn gently moved closer the Quaraun, nuzzling against him, hugging him, closing his eyes and going to sleep.

Unicorn watched the two Elves sleep together. It did not anger him to see them like this. Curled up together like this was innocent and non sexual. He had no problem with the two Elves touching and being close. It was the intense sexual passion that had risen up between them, that had angered the Phooka. Quaraun had an exotic enthral beauty to him, that caused every one they meet to have a sexual attraction to him. Usually however, Quaraun didn't bat an eye at the constant sexual advances he received from men and women, Elves and Humans alike. But GhoulSpawn was different.

Quaraun was highly aroused by the young Sun Elf and started flirting with GhoulSpawn every time he was around. Quaraun was lusting after GhoulSpawn something fierce and was making no attempt to hide his intense desire to be fucked by the golden haired half-Elf.

The two Elves had seemed to have an instant connection. A closeness that defied explanation, as though they had been friends and lovers for decades. Unicorn found himself feeling very jealous, and very threatened by this unexplainable connection the two High Elves had for each other.

It was many hours later when Quaraun woke up again. He was surprised to find GhoulSpawn asleep beside him and Unicorn sitting on the bottom of the bed watching them.

"You let him sleep with me?"

"Aye."

"Why?"

"I does nae want ya fucking with him. I did nae says ya could no be friends with him."

"I want him to stay with us."

"I know."