Blessed by Night

Chapter 83  No Longer Human?

"Luna tried to take you to the hospital but... apparently Nyx appeared in front of her and told her that such a thing wasn't necessary. " Sei explained. "What? Why not?" As a response, Sei looked like she was having a hard time figuring out what to say. "Honey... that form you took... how much can you recall about it?"

"Not a lot for real... I just know that I was crazy powerful."

"Well, yes... but that form also seems to have killed you in a sense."

"Say what now?"

Sei tried her best to recall Luna's explanation that was filled with terms that she didn't understand. "Well, basically in that state you were something like like sentient darkness and energy and because of that your physical body was completely destroyed...

Apparently after you returned to normal you were still only a layer of skin over that swirling mass that Luna described... over the past few days you literally have been regrowing your flesh and bones." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ N(o)vᴇl(ꜰ)ire.nᴇt

Malachi already felt like his head was going to explode, but a sudden voice that he was all too familiar with nearly caused him to leap out of his skin. "That's right, isn't that cool?"

"KYAAA!!"

"WHAT THE HELL!?"

Nyx had appeared as she always did, silently and wearing a beautiful and radiant smile.

She was sitting casually in a chair in the corner of the room, wearing her usual black dress with no shoes. "Fufufu~ The two of you should be more aware of your surroundings. This is why Serana has almost caught you two in the middle of your intimacy so many times before."

""Ah...""

The couple looked at each other briefly before making a silent vow to be more careful in the future. "Anyway, this is what it means to accept me as your mother, Mal. The power at your disposal is truly great, but I must also warn you of something."

Nyx's tone became uncharacteristically serious, and Malachi knew that whatever warning she was about to give was a stern one. "If you use that form too much, you will cease to be human."

Tears fell form both of their eyes as they shrugged off their clothes and embraced each other like it was the very first time.

"So I don't want you to let me interfere in your decision. You do whatever you feel is best so that you can protect us."

As always, Sei's words were incredibly genuine and seemed to hit Malachi directly in the heart. As he pulled her in for a kiss, he realized that there was no way he could ever live without experiencing the sensation of these lips at any point in his life. Tears fell form both of their eyes as they shrugged off their clothes and embraced each other like it was the very first time.

Or the very last.

-

In the morning, Mal got up despite Sei clinging onto his arm in her sleep. He wanted to stay in bed with her and spend the entire day intertwined, but after last night he felt like he had to do something with himself or risk going insane. Since he was technically still in the middle of working on a project, he texted Anna and asked where he should meet her today and received an almost immediate response. After he ensured her that he was fine to be out, she texted him the address of the music shop where she worked and told him to meet her at 10.

He got dressed in a simple outfit of black sweats, a compression shirt and slides before he prepared to leave his house. Serana seemed to have left already to work on her own project, and didn't seem to be aware that Mal was awake yet. 'She sure did leave me a lot of messages to read when I woke up though..' He thought as he looked at his phone. Not just her, but his sister and practically everyone from immortal moon had wished him a speedy recovery. It made him remember the girls that were wounded alongside him, and he silently decided to go and visit them before the day was over.

Opening the door to his apartment, he was surprised when he found the very beautiful Luna Autumn standing outside looking flustered. "Luna?"

"H-Hello!" She said politely. Mal could not help but notice that her cheeks were unusually pink. And judging from the way she was constantly avoiding his gaze, he concluded that she did not expect him to be awake.

"I'm glad you're okay... you have no idea how worried I was..."

"Sorry to scare you." He said with a helpless smile. "You know I'm the type who has to make things interesting."

"Fufufu~ Yes, I do."

It seemed like his attempt to break the ice had been somewhat successful as Luna no longer seemed to be as tense as before.

Now that she was more relaxed, she was able to tell him about the gala that she was throwing for the guild and a few special guests. After raiding that last dungeon the value of immortal moon shot up tremendously and they were now one of the top 5 richest guilds in the entire world. As such, Luna was in quite the celebratory mood. "You're free to bring dates of course, I'm sure that Sei will be delighted to... Oh?" Suddenly, Luna came closer to Malachi and stared hard at the diamond shaped mark on his forehead. "No wonder we couldn't find the beast egg... when did you fuse with it?" "I'm not too sure." Mal said honestly as he tried not to peep down Luna's shirt. "When I woke up that mark was just there but I don't feel any different." "You won't notice anything until your beast actually hatches but who knows when that will be. Nonetheless it seems like you've got your hands on a great treasure." For some reason, Mal found Luna's bright pink eyes to be particularly beautiful this morning, and he felt like it would be easy to get lost in them. "Yea...I really do." Luna suddenly became aware of just how close she'd gotten to Mal, and she was reminded of the last time they were close together like this.

"Mal... do you remember what you said to me in the dungeon?"