A devil father and a royal mother (part 1)

Alice was elated. Many said that the experience of being a mother was a frightening thing, but she didn't think it was. Her Vitra was the cutest, smartest, most loving child she had ever seen. Her son's smiling face soothed her bitter heart with a force so great it almost overwhelmed her. When he was born, she didn't worry too much, even though she didn't cry. The boy radiated magic and vitality and his appearance while he slept was quite cute and peaceful.

The magic in him was almost too much. She could feel the magic quite easily after all her bloodline had a great affinity with the energy that made up the magic and she almost felt overwhelmed at times. The boy appeared to be her ley line of hers. Hell, Alice felt blessed with this because the boy's lack of control had saturated the mansion with energy and a natural ley line was forming little by little just below her land. It is expected that in a few years the house will have a lesser consciousness such as Hogwarts.

And to think that your son hardly came into the world...

She thought that maybe there were complications, as she had him alone, without the help of any mediwizard or the like. Add to that the effect of the curse that was cast on her while she was carrying her child and her hopes were almost nil. But there wasn't much choice. The woman could not simply allow someone entry into the mansion protected by ancient magic. It would be foolish. Mainly taking into account the threat lurking in the outside world. The snake-faced monster and his minions were out there, hunting her to erase her family's lineage. Her cousin seemed to insist on having her dead to take her possessions...

Lucius Malfoy was never to be trusted and after he teamed up with the Dark Lord Noseless he became even worse. Black magic wasn't the problem, but the bastard's personality associated with the tearing of various parts of his soul made him ridiculous for being so dark.

It is not even known if he can be considered alive. After all, a soul phylactery was a spell used by necromancers when they decide to become Lith. And a Lith was nothing more than a living dead. Not unlike zombies and some vampire subspecies.

I mean... count how many Horcruxes he created. The Slytherin Medallion, the Hufflepuff Cup, the Ravenclaw Diadem, the Gaunt family ring (aka stone of disguised resurrection), the diary of Tom Riddle, Nagini, and Harry Potter. A 50% tear on the first Horcrux. So another 50% of the remaining 50 make 25%. So 50% of those 25 leaves him with 12.5%... in the end, he barely has more than 1% of his original soul in his own body. His luck would be that Harry was a pseudo Horcrux rather than an actual Horcrux so the loss wasn't so crazy. But that explains Voldemort's insanity in his years.

It didn't help that the Noseless bastard liked to break the minds of his minions so that they ended up as mad as he was without splitting their souls. Bellatrix Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Bartô Crouch Jr... all these psychopathic and sick people were perfect examples of that.

She still remembered how she was taken by her grandfather (the former head of the house) to a special room at the Von Benno mansion in London to escape the attacking Death Eaters. Her home in England had been one of the safest known to man as her family specialized in Wards and wards, but it hadn't been enough to stop the invasion.

The room where her grandfather took her had a vanishing door connected to the house they lived in now. Her grandfather instructed her to destroy the door once he passed through it and she did so. It wasn't long before dozens of her family names began to erase one after another on the familiar tapestry, and the despair she felt at finding herself alone nearly choked her. All her family dead for not allying No Nose. All because he thought he had some stupid right to people.

At the time, his pregnancy prevented her from fighting. She had even taken to heavily nurturing her child with magic when the pregnancy was confirmed. It was a magical technique of her fame that heightened her children's affinity for magic. But even so, the pregnancy lasted 1 year and a half. Alice still wondered if it was due to the boy's father's lineage. Anyway, during her pregnancy, her magic was almost completely focused on her baby's nourishment. Even though she was the strongest in the family, all she could do was run away. Run for your life. Escape for your child's life. It didn't help that a degrading curse had been cast on her and all the rest of her magic was being used to fight the curse itself. She was good with curses but not even the most talented of wizards would be able to fight at the same time as she carried a baby in her womb, irrigated it with energy, and struggled with dark and debilitating magic.

About her son... Nobody expected that the demon summoning ritual would work. His family was known to be a dark family, but they didn't support Voldemort. So summoning demons was not something they disapproved of. Hence to see a demon resembling a human. An elegant human in a moderately modern black suit, green hair, and glowing eyes was an almost devastating combination for most women.

Alice could feel the power of this man and almost tried to convince her family to send him back where she came from. Only trust in her ancestral magic of fame prevented her from doing that, after all, who was her ancestor? The king of wisdom himself, Solomon. There was no chance of escape for the devil!

You see, the Von Benno family had always been associated with the Dark Arts because of some of their familiar spells, summoning demons being one of them. There was also the summoning of family members from other dimensions (underworld) as companions. His heritage of black magic was extensive and rich, even by today's standards. Many people say that the Black Library was the greatest collection of books in wizarding Britain, but that was a mistake. The Von Benno library was considerably larger. Only that no one had ever entered it before.

Demons were dangerous beings, according to the texts, and many precautions were needed. Mind magic, illusion magic, sex magic... these were just a few of the examples your ancestor gave about the abilities of demons and he was quite emphatic in keeping his part of the deal. In his words: "If you make a deal with a devil, remember never, under any circumstances, to go back on your word. There are nuances in a demonic contract that gives said demon possession of its existence if the agreement is broken. If that happens, your soul, body, and mind will no longer belong to you". She took that advice very seriously.

Ajuka Beelzebub.

That was the demon invoked. A mysterious demon has been summoned from the underworld to help strengthen the Von Benno house. Trapped in a circle and forced to make a deal to be released. Ironically, the demon was a Maou, one of the demon Kings of the underworld, but he still couldn't escape the magic circle derived from a book of Solomon, a human wizard with abilities to control demons as servants. Ability gave to him by the original Lucifer himself. Ajuka was perplexed to learn that there was a family in the human world that was able to contain and control the demons to some extent. Most demons of the underworld would try to erase this family from existence to prevent such blasphemy from occurring... and the most curious thing was that the family in question didn't know it, though, as their bloodline had only remnants of the great king's texts. and the lineage of it. But that was enough to seal the demon man effectively. Even the Kankara formula created by the demon king didn't work when he used it to try to escape.

So he had to accept the wizards' demands. One thing he hated. It was humiliating. The request was copulation. He should make an heir in the human. In his thoughts, he laughed at the request, as he was a demon, and demons were known to have one of the worst fertility rates in history, with rare exceptions being the Phoenix clan lady who had 4 children. Three men and one woman. Of course 2 of them haven't been born yet so so far there are no examples of fertile houses in the underworld. House Gremory, for example, had only Sirzechs as a son after a thousand years and the same with House Sitri and many other noble houses. Ajuka estimated that a demon having 4-5 children in its stupidly long life was the most its race could be capable of.

Ajuka was already over 1000 years old and yet she never had children. He was a healthy devil man so it was common to have sexual encounters. Still, he never had a single child. So he didn't care. The agreement mentioned that he should just have sex, not that he was obligated to get the said girl pregnant. The restraint created was also quite beneficial in cases of betrayal so after having a night of lust he would be released unharmed under the restraint of witch magic. The deal was a bargain in the man's opinion.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, since he had been craving an heir for some years now, for him, she got pregnant. A fertility ritual, blessed by magic, witnessed by the girl's family and indirectly agreed to by him in accepting the agreement sealed the ritual and guaranteed fertility not only to the female witch but to him as well, making such a situation possible. A coincidence, many would say. Of course, the demon was already back in his laboratory in the underworld, not even thinking about the situation he experienced while making the child. After the Boy was born, his lineage resonated and he knew the improbable became possible. Ajuka smiled slightly as she felt the bloodline vibrating and called her friends to share the good news.

Too bad for him, the house where the mother and son pair lived was protected by Wards who even he didn't understand how to breakthrough. That family of wizards descended from Solomon himself, it was no surprise to him that his defenses were so strong. Still, he has remained very close to the little boy since birth. He showed up at least once a month to watch the property from a distance.

"I wonder what he must look like…to be like me or like his mother? My lineage resonated so he must have a great affinity for demonic energy…" The man would think aloud at times when visiting his friend, Sirzechs who was not yet a father.

"Just go check it out for yourself and stop talking about it, lucky bastard!" the red-haired man irritated with mild anger at his friend.

"If I could I would have done it already... sigh... that family of wizards is problematic even after being annihilated."

"Just relax, Ajuka, you will eventually find your heir. Don't be in such a hurry." Falbium commented amused and lazy.

"But it pisses me off not being able to break through those barriers. They are more advanced than ours here in the underworld."

"I still don't understand how anyone of that man's bloodline is still alive today. Your son has a very rich heritage, doesn't he?" The Crimson Maou commented.

"From what you've told us his family has ways of containing and controlling demons," Falbium said with a yawn, but his eyes grew cold as he said it. He was a proud demon, after all, having humans able to bind his body and force him to obey was something he abhorred.

"I remember hearing something like that, Ajuka," Sirzechs asked.

"It was true. The magic used by the witches in question sealed my lineage in some way and forced me to come to terms with them. However, there were equal conditions for this to be possible as if they had to give me something in exchange for the agreement."

"What would that something be...?"

"Freedom and… an heir. For a moment while I was considering the agreement with the witches, a strange background sound whispered in my ear…suggesting that I had more to gain than to lose…"

That silenced the two friends who looked at each other with a little envy. Neither of them had been able to have children yet, and that was a kind of emotional scar that was hard to get over.

"Well, if he can use that human magic plus his broken bloodline, then he'll be a monster," Falbium commented amusedly. "Still, I'm worried about this family of his, Ajuka. Humans who can control us... this is a very dangerous thing."

"Yes, that's why I didn't announce your birth. He must grow strong before he gets the attention of the old farts and the old Maou faction." Ajuka sighed again realizing that he was sighing more now that he became a father. "I feel tense just wondering what I'll do if one of the Council bastards tries something on him that it's best to wait a few years before introducing him. Also, his mother and boy are the only survivors of the Von Benno family, so there's no need to worry. I plan to add his mother to my nobility just in case."

"I seriously agree with you, partner. The old farts will be a pain in the ass, but are you sure you'll be able to bring this woman to your nobility? You haven't even bothered with a nobility before."

"I'll just deal with it when the time comes, Falbium. She won't have a choice in the matter if she wants to have contact with our son. Otherwise, she'll just cut off your head." Ajuka said coldly.

"Cruel, huh?"

"We've been through wars, Falbium, who isn't cruel here?" Ajuka asked with disdain.

"Serafal?"

Sirzechs' question/answer silenced the group of friends temporarily. Even though it was strange and Serafal had sucked her hands of blood as much as they had, she still hadn't lost her inherent goodness. An envious sigh left Ajuka's mouth before changing the subject.

"I think I can convince her if I make a deal. Her family is forced by magic to fulfill the deals they make with demons."

"That settles things." Maou Asmodeus says with his head resting on the table sleepily.

Lazy!

"What do you think of a marriage contract between our houses?"

"I refuse. He will marry whoever he wants, Sirzechs, and that is not up for discussion. Besides, I don't remember the Gremory house having an heir besides you." Commented the Maou with green locks.

"That's because it's a secret. Mother is with advanced pregnancy already. 3 years. Maybe in a few more and I'll have a little brother or sister to pamper." Sirzechs commented happily. Demon pregnancies are considerably longer than human pregnancies. Add to that randomness, with many pregnant women spending decades waiting for their births and others just 5 or 6 years... anyway, a new life was coming to the Gremory family, that was cause for celebration.

But Sirzechs's animation... it was weird. Ajuka didn't know what to say about her friend. He was an idiot, wasn't he? I hope he's not a pedophile. That would be... disgusting.

It didn't take long for Ajuka to realize that the family of two seemed to have lost the other members and investigated the case. A civil war between wizards. He didn't deign to pay attention to it, even though he knew his son's relatives were caught in the war. It was not his responsibility to avenge these people. He should even consider killing the wizards himself for having coerced him into copulation with his clan chief. He just didn't do it because his deeds gave him an heir, but now that everyone is dead, he felt much more at ease. The situation in the wizarding world was quite intriguing and he liked to watch it sometimes to distract himself from laboratory work in the underworld.

"Hope I can see you soon…" Ajuka sighed saying, referring to the son he hasn't met yet.

"Well, my friend, I'm rooting for you."