Husband of the Goblin Tribe

~~** Interlude | The Monster’s Lair **~~

“GwaHaHah! How wonderful… my delicious Ruby has come to visit me!”

Standing before Ruby in an infinite emptiness was a large and powerful goblin she had only ever seen once before, on a night when a large group of Orcs dared to cross into the Bloodmaw’s Domain. The large, green-skinned goblin walked over to her, resting a fully clawed hand right on top of her head.

“Did Husband become a goblin again?”

“In here, I am always a goblin. Does seeing me as a goblin upset you?”

Ruby shook her head, happy to be together with Husband no matter whether he looked like a human or a goblin.

“Where are we now? I only closed my eyes for a moment and now we’re somewhere strange!”

“We are in the place that connects all the Bloodmaw who have ever lived that possess the Origin Blood of the Creator.”

“Huh? Ruby doesn’t understand. Old One never mentioned such a place.”

“Old One knows much, but there also much that she doesn’t know. Right now, there is a far more important thing that we need to take care of.”

“What thing?”

“We need to rebuild your Vessel.”

“Why?”

“Because the one you had before can no longer support the mighty power you will come to possess. If we don’t rebuild it properly, you won’t grow stronger as a goblin. You don’t want to stay a strong-one forever, do you, Ruby?”

“Gwooh! Does that mean Husband was right? Ruby had a really strong Blood Fury?”

“Yes. You are about to begin having one, which is why I brought you here now, in the moment before it starts. It seems that my Human side… has finally done something useful for a change.”

“You mean making Ruby into an adult goblin?”

“Yes.”

“Ruby was happy, too. Becoming an adult goblin was really fun!”

“And there will be many more fun things for you experience in the future as well. But for now, shall we begin this Ceremonyof Blood and make you more?”

Ruby nodded wholeheartedly.

The Goblin form of Ark Wyze—which Ruby often heard Husband call The Monster—sat down, scooping Ruby up easily with one arm and deposited her in his lap, facing away from him—both staring into the endless void of this dislocated space. He then extended one hand and a duplicate form of Ruby manifested directly in front of them.

“Gwoah! Who’s that goblin?”

“That was you as you once were. Since Ruby is no longer a strong-one, the first thing she needs to do is shed the weaknesses she had and change her form into that of a mighty adult goblin.”

“Gwooo! Ruby wants to be a strong goblin!”

“I knew you would. I also know that you are a greedy goblin, and so does Ark. That is why he gave you a little… present. It is going to help us make you much stronger than you should have been allowed to become from only your first Blood Fury.”

“What present?”

“Our big-seed. With it, we can manipulate the Origin Blood a bit easier and build you a far better Vessel. I have done this already with your big sister, Diana Artemis.”

“You did?”

“I did. Unfortunately, the time I had to available to rebuild her Vessel into what it is now was limited, but I still did my best to bring out as much of her inner hunter as I could. She is terrifying to fight, is she not?”

Ruby nodded.

“Diana is crazy strong! Will I be as strong as she is after my Blood Fury?”

“Perhaps… but not in the same way. Diana’s Blessing is to be the strongest Guardian among all of the Bloodmaw to have ever existed. Your blessing is different, but also one that both of your Makers wished for you to have.”

“What is Ruby’s blessing?”

“The blessing of magic—specifically the element of Fire. We are going to draw it out of your old Vessel, make it stronger, then add it back into your new Vessel. The flame that once merely listened to you will now fully become a part of you and will be commanded by you from now on—Watch!”

A magical Rune of Fire was pulled from the center of the duplicate Ruby’s body and floated towards the original who was sitting on her goblin Husband’s lap. She reached out and captured it with both hands before opening them and staring at it.

“Is this Ruby’s Fire?”

“That it is.”

“What do we do with it now?” she asked.

Goblin Ark brought his own hand next to one of hers and manifested an extremely ornate Fire Rune that Ruby immediately sensed was powerful. So powerful that she was hesitant to touch it.

“Go ahead and take it. Combine this Fire Rune with the one you are holding.”

The confidence she had in her Husband, whether Goblin or Human, that he would never purposely do her any harm led Ruby to do as she was told, and reach for the Fire Rune. A sense of unparalleled excitement and magical energy flooded her body as she took hold of it.

“Gwoooooh!”

“That’s right. Now… you need to focus your mind and press them together in order to combine them completely. Do not be afraid, I know you can do this.”

Ruby brought her two hands together, each holding a Rune, and as her hands closed together, pressing them together and combining them, she felt an intense wave of heat emanating outwards, trying to pry her hands apart by force, not wanting to be contained.

“Did I do it right?”

“Open your hands, and we shall see.”

Ruby did so, and the Fire Runes she held had combined into a single one, which now appeared to be not only the color of the fires she had seen in Dara’s Forge underneath Goblinhome, but also appeared to be ablaze itself.

“It is no less beautiful and powerful as you will one day be. Now, we shall send it back into your Vessel so that it is the foundation of your new power.”

“Okay!”

Ruby focused and willed the new, powerful Fire Rune back towards the duplicate form of her body. It entered inside of her Vessel and she watched as the duplicate form began to change in both expected and unexpected ways.

“What’s happening?”

Ruby watched as her skin tone that originally was greenish but with enough of a distinct reddish tint to show her affinity for the Fire element had now completely turned into the color of fire, with smoldering oranges and yellows mixing together with dark reds. Her arms and legs also grew longer, her toes and fingers sharper, and her rust-colored hair had burst into a mane of pure fire!

“Husband… should Ruby be on fire like that?”

“You have become one with the Fire Rune. Those flames will not hurt you anymore. You are now the master of them, and they will obey your will without fail.”

Ruby, mesmerized for a moment by the form of her new burning Vessel, suddenly understood what her goblin Husband’s words meant.

“Is there anything else we need to do, Husband?”

“Yes, just one last thing… you must join together with your new Vessel. Once you do, you will return to Ark and begin your Blood Fury.”

“Oh… is… Husband going to be in any danger? If I’m on fire, won’t he get burned?”

“Do not worry. I reside deep inside of Ark and will not let any harm come to either of you.”

Goblin Ark grabbed Ruby by the waist and lifted her up off of his lap, setting her down gently on her feet.

“It is time.”

“Husband… when I have another Blood Fury, will you help me become stronger next time as well?”

“I will be watching and waiting patiently for that day, no matter how many moons it may take.”

“Okay, I’m ready to go back.”

“Good. Always remember to be proud of what you are. A True Bloodmaw! That is the Goblin Way.”

“…Is… Husband… Are you… Proud of Ruby?”

“Of all that I have made, Ruby shall always burn the brightest in my eyes.”

Ruby’s mouth split wide in grin of absolute self-confidence. She then walked towards the form of her new Vessel, stepping into it and beginning the process of merging into her new form, everything that she just experienced… was as if it never happened at all. No memory of this would remain, nor did it need to.

This was simply the way of things and the Mystery itself of the Blood Fury, one of the Ceremonies of Blood given to the beloved children of the Creator.

Goblin Ark stood up and grinned himself as he watched another one of his progenies grow.

It would be a simple matter for him to take over the Human-like body of Ark once more, but Goblin Ark felt no need to do so. He had done all he needed to do for now, and it was much more purposeful to empower his children in this way, hidden deep away within the Origin Blood, and deep within Ark, remaining every bit the Monster that he just so happened to actually be…

~~** Ark Wyze**~~

I felt it coming. I felt it coming while she and I were coming. It… all came together in a single moment, when, in the span of a single breath… we detonated together.

I don’t recall doing so, but right before Ruby exploded, I felt my body… change. I was fearful, a cold chill reverberating through my body as the temperature in my room ramped up far beyond anything which could be considered safe. I had become the Monster—in form only—once again, and it was that alone which probably saved my life.

Glace, who was doing her best to ventilate the excess heat from within my bedroom into the greater space of the breeding room, watched on as the two of us, now clad in flames, continued to burn passionately amidst the now charred straw that once made up my bed.

The walls of my room were scorched, but none of that mattered. I understood what was happening right now. Ruby’s Vessel had shattered and right now, she was fully primal. The only thing stopping her from possibly tearing me apart was that we were connected. At an instinctual level, she desired more to mate with me, even if it would not produce a strong-one, than to devour me.

That was all the saving grace I needed.

Glace didn’t interfere with what was happening. She simply watched as I enacted a violent mating press as deep as I could into Ruby. I felt it. I felt the Monster inside of me stir, but it didn’t come forward. And I hated that it didn’t. This… Lust. This desire to oppress and redirect her instinct to hunt and claim and even kill and devour that which she wanted the most… was all mine. Was… Human Ark’s… will.

A familiar itchiness which felt like a small swarm of sugar ants nibbling away at the soft gray sponginess of my brain instructed me on what needed to be done.

I slid my arms underneath her back and rocked backwards, pulling her on top of me in a straddling position, then I quickly sat as upright as I could, extending my legs out and grabbing the back of her hair which had burst into flames when I ejaculated into her earlier.

I pushed the back of her head towards my left shoulder and while we continued to mate like feral beasts, I felt her mouth part and her teeth sink deeply into my goblin flesh.

I… am reminded of a moment not too long ago, shortly after the incident with Berry after Selene Hecate came into the world. Berry was a complete and total wreck, fearful of hurting me. She also… desperately craved me, all of me, my blood and my seed. When we mated then, I felt a sensation similar to a vortex deep inside of her seeking to drain me of my vitality.

No matter how hot Ruby became, neither the heat nor the flames which touched me directly caused me any injury. I could already feel some kind of incredibly potent mana flowing through her, and I, perhaps foolishly, did with her as I had often done with Vera. Even more recently with Prima in an effort to help her understand the flow of Mana within the body, injected my own directly, as I was inside of her.

Her response to my magical contribution was to shake her hips as violently as she could. I followed suit and once more found myself easily blasting more of my unholy goblin seed into her catastrophically molten womb. At that moment, I felt her entire body give out and collapse against my chest. All I could think to do was hold her carefully and rock back and forth, easing her down from the throes of pleasure and magical intoxication.

“Gwah?”

Glace, perhaps understanding, was asking me in her own way if I was alright.

“I’m fine. But what now? I don’t think she’s… all here.”

“Gwah.”

Twisting my neck slightly to take stock of Glace, she was gesturing at me to pick up Ruby and come outside. From where she was pointing, I believe she wanted me to carry her to the bath.

Though it took a bit of effort to stand up while carefully cradling Ruby in my arms who still had her teeth buried into my shoulder, I somehow managed it and exited my bedroom. By now, there were already many other goblins who had appeared in the breeding room, since there is no way a detonation within Goblinhome would ever go unnoticed.

Still, Glace handled them for me while I carefully stepped into the already warm bath water. Ruby’s body, upon entering, already began to ramp up the temperature at an alarming pace. Maybe I thought the water would cool her down, but I certainly didn’t think that I would now risk becoming soup stock in my own bath.

Glace’s intentions only became clear when I felt the water temperature start to plummet.

Glace’s tiny hands plunged into the water and through the use of her magic, much stronger than my own, she began to cool the water as best as she could. I had to respect what I considered to be a herculean effort on her part. She wasn’t just cooling the water, since she was also actively battling the passive Fire Mana practically deluging out of Ruby. Find the newest release on NoveI-Fire.ɴet

Thankfully, the raging inferno that Ruby became mid-coitus was somehow contained, and a series of Gwahs which I needed no further context to understand were clearly a barrage of swearing and curses had been unleashed in rapid succession by my runty daughter until she was no longer just blue-tinted in the face.

Sitting down on the stone bench which lined the interior wall of the pool, I carefully scooped up some of the much cooler bath water and began to pour it over the rest of her body which wasn’t submerged. Her hair which had been ablaze was now extinguished, revealing once more her hair that was now transformed into a reddish-orange in color.

Those among the first to respond and come into the breeding room were Vera and Dara, as well as Berry and Diana. Naturally, having an unhealthy level of concern for me, Diana approached and dared to sit down on the lip of the pool, carefully plunging her feet into the magically chilled water.

“Husband, what happened?”

“Uh… it’s a bit of a long story, but… Ruby’s… an adult goblin now, I guess… and she’s about to start her Blood Fury… if she hasn’t already…”

“Husband thinks Ruby is old enough to become an adult goblin?”

“Ah… no. Not really, but… there… was a reason… a good enough reason, I guess… for me to… agree.”

“Does Husband not want to tell Diana Artemis?”

“No… it’s not that. I… just… don’t want you to misunderstand and become angry at me.”

“What is there for Diana Artemis to misunderstand?”

“W-well, um… what happened with Magpie, for starters.”

“Husband worried what Diana Artemis thinks by choosing to make Ruby an adult goblin when not making Magpie one when she demanded?”

“Yeah, that’s pretty much… why.”

“Husband says there is a good reason for making Ruby an adult goblin?”

I nodded slightly.

“Then that is all that matters.”

I had reached out with my right hand to place it on her leg and squeeze it to thank her quietly for her understanding, but before my hand could touch her leg, she had practically teleported from where she was just sitting, to standing somewhere behind me.

“Husband… Ruby will be big hungry when she wakes up. Diana Artemis will go hunt something good for her to eat during Blood Fury.”

“S-sure. I appreciate it… Diana…”

I got no reply. I don’t even know if she heard me speak. I stared at my outstretched arm and wondered if I somehow obtained a case of the goblin cooties?

Berry came close to me, but at a certain distance had hesitated to come closer.

“Husband…”

“Did… I do something to upset her after all?”

Berry only shook her head.

“Berry can feel big heat coming from Husband.”

“Big heat?”

“Berry thinks if Husband any more hot, he will become the fire-meat he loves to eat so much.”

It wasn’t that I was putting it out of my mind or anything, but I seriously didn’t even notice that my own body was actively matching the same insanely high body temperature that Ruby was putting out. It really was a mystery that I hadn’t somehow triggered some kind of physiological meltdown of my nervous system or who knows what?

What immediately followed were two intense days of eating, fucking, and explaining. I’d like to romanticize the first two, but it just wasn’t possible. Ruby ran hot the entire time, and until she could control how hot she burned, I had to remain in my goblin form anytime I was near her. Diana, true to her word, brought us something delicious to eat. Ruby, unable to properly control her body’s heat, wound up cooking whatever bit of meat she touched. Frustrated, but also ravenous, she gave up caring whether it was cooked or bloody and just ATE.

The explaining part was a bit more simplistic. Glace had come by during one of my short cooling-off periods from Ruby, and the two of us tried to work through what had happened, and what was happening, noting the changes that Ruby’s body and Mana were undergoing.

Diana, however, as Bloodmaw as she was…, as Bloodmaw as she desired to be…, understood love. But not… Human love. Oh, she understood what human love was supposed to be. She listened intently when I taught her about it. But what Diana possessed towards me… was something entirely new, entirely different, and… entirely dangerous.

Diana Artemis had a Goblin’s love for me.

She wasn’t upset that I denied Magpie her chance to become an adult goblin back then. She wasn’t upset that I didn’t deny Ruby her chance to become an adult goblin right now.

What she was upset about was exactly what Glace and I had conspired to do with Ruby. To try and unleash the full potential of a Blood Fury. To trust in the process and bring about the strongest possible result. Something she innately understood that she had to do, yet had received endless pushback from me, to the point that she had to do it herself… had to rape me… had to prove that she alone was worthy of my big-seed no matter what I thought, because in her mind, I wasn’t some kind of conflicted man and father in a life-or-death situation. I was the pinnacle of strength. I was both the source and the pillar of her strength, and I had foolishly denied what she knew was the rightful path of the strong that she should have been allowed to take from the very beginning.

Coaxing her wasn’t difficult.

But it was painful.

No single goblin can own me. If there is a single law within the Bloodmaw Tribe, it is that, and that alone, which cannot be violated.

But there is no rule which says that I cannot be marked.

And so, giving in to my daughter-wife, who has more than earned her right to do whatever she wants with me on the merit of being someone I consider to be genuinely just and fair, and an overall a good person compared to anyone I’ve ever known, civilized or otherwise, I submitted to her.

I let her mark me.

I let her… devour me.

I let her do everything she desired until she was satisfied.

And then I asked her kindly when she was done to drag me back to my room at the breeding pit, because as much as I love her, I still had my job to do as a father and now Husband to Ruby as well…

Like it or not, I am the Husband of the Goblin Tribe, and my work is never ending.