Chapter 183 - 2.63 The Highly Anticipated Wedding
Xander and Diana walked hand in hand through the mansion’s beautiful back garden. It didn’t change much over the years, the beautiful fountain in the middle had a few birds drinking water from it, chirping happily just ahead of the beautiful flowers and the stone walkway Sora walked with Brie five years earlier to propose.
’It’s so beautiful and peaceful back here,’ Diana thought while admiring everything.
Xander tried everything he could not to look Diana’s direction, making her feel slightly uncomfortable.
"Are you avoiding me because earlier? What’s going on Xander?" she asked nervously.
"I’m just trying to not see the colors in your head. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel like I was avoiding your beautiful face," he said while turning toward her and smiling.
’Damnit. She’s mixed up with happiness, love, sadness, nerves and confusion. At least the confusion and sadness are fading away since I looked at her, but I didn’t want to know what she was feeling.’
Diana blushed. "Oh, why don’t you just ask Athena for a mental block like you did for me?"
"I love you." Xander quickly blurted and turned away, closing his eyes, nervously awaiting a response.
"I love you too!" Diana said excitedly. "Does closing your eyes block your ability?"
"No, but it was worth a shot. I’m glad you feel the same way!"
He noticed how pink and green her head was, imagining his looked exactly the same.
"Sorry for turning away like that, I just wanted to hear it and I distracted myself enough to not see the colors when I heard it. I’m such a weirdo!" Xander laughed while he hugged her.
"It’s ok Xander, we can be weirdos together. Let’s go watch Sasha and Levi get married!"
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Levi’s wedding area was created by Celeste and his family on a small lakeshore, beautifully woven into the forest area on the outskirts of Haven. Sasha didn’t want a large wedding, so only the Ashwood and Valencia family heads came. She felt bad about not allowing her vampire siblings to join the festivities, but with Diana’s vision, everyone was on high alert.
Sasha sat in the back tent with Faye and Camilla doing her hair and makeup. She wanted to surprise Levi and change her hair to her natural silver color and thankfully, Faye had skill she could use while giving her a nice haircut.
Her parents smiled, they couldn’t remember the last time they saw Sasha with her hair without highlights.
She wore an eloquent smaller, compact dress so she didn’t have to walk, "lugging the thing around."
"What about your makeup dear, what would you like us to do with it?" Camilla asked sweetly.
"I’m not sure, do whatever you think will look good. I really just want to marry him and celebrate with everyone afterwards. I’m glad we didn’t have to go through that whole elven initiation like Sora and Brie did, no offense Faye." Sasha said while shrugging.
"None taken and Tiamat’s soul’s shattered so not much we can do about that now. Who do you think is going to show up to see Sora?" Sera asked while holding Iris, who snored a bit in her sleep.
"Let’s not talk about that. Levi’s sword probably told him, Sora probably already figured out, how are you holding up Eris... you look like you’re really nervous, sweetheart." Brie said while using some of her elven relaxation magic on her.
"I just know they now know I’m alive. I can sense it, it’s creepy."
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"Finally Hades, what the fuck took you so long?" The masked god demanded.
"Remember who you report to asshole. What the hell is so damn important to bring me here? My wife is pissed."
"Look," Lord X said while pointing at a screen that showed Eris stepping out of an armored limousine.
"Wait, what the fuck? HOW? FUCKING ATHENA THAT STUPID FUCKING BITCH! WE’RE GOING TO KILL THEM ALL FUCK IT!"
"Calm down Hades. You don’t think they want us all to show up at this wedding right now? Why else would they show her?"
"Then make sure the bitch is dealt with, send [inaudible], I’m going to go myself if it’s not dealt with in 2 hours."
’And he’s already gone. What the fuck is his problem lately?’
"I guess I have no other choice, I have to send him." Lord X said while summoning someone.
"You summoned me?"
"Levi and Sasha’s wedding. Take the princes. Cause a scene, kill as many as you can."
"You’re not my Lord. I’ll take care of it." the figure snapped away angrily.
"I swear he’s a pain in my ass. Why would Hades tell me to send him?"
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The ceremony finally began with Soren walking Sasha to the altar. The minister started talking, and Sora was waiting on stage, as the best man, waiting for the moment it was going to happen.
’At least they look very beautiful. Well, where the fuck is he?’ Sora thought, carefully scanning the crowd. ’It’s not like he’s easy to miss.’
Everyone cheered for Emma and Emery as they held hands and were joint ring bearers.
"Levi Steele, do you have anything you’d like to say to Ms. Valencia?"
"Sasha, I was literally willing to duel someone who was going to kick my ass just so that I could spend the rest of my life with you. I know you don’t want some big love speech, but I want you to know that you’re worth every second of my time and not a day goes by where I’m not glad I ran into the three of you on that fateful night. I love you very much and hopefully one day you’ll bless me with a child. If not, it’s ok, but I just would like to see a little pink eyed vampiric uthra running around. You mean everything to me and I hope you know I will be by your side for as long as I can live. One day, I’d like to move where you suggested and just have our family with us. Nothing would make me more happy than just to stop all this war and fighting just to grow old with you. I’ll love you with every ounce of my soul until the day I pass on from this world."
He grabbed the ring Emery sprinted up to him. Levi immediately slid it on her finger, winking at her.
’That was an amazing speech.’ Lucious thought. Everyone clapped and cheered for Levi, and Sasha was crying.
An audible "aw" echoed in the area, as not even Diana saw a vision of Sasha crying at her wedding. She rarely showed any signs of emotion, unless she was alone with a select few and everyone knew that about her.
"Sasha Valencia, do you have anything you’d like to say to Mr. Steele?"
"Thanks for making me cry in front of everyone, asshole!" she said while wiping her tears away. Everyone laughed and Brie used her vampiric control to help her relax.
’She’ll never have to know.’ she thought.
"I’m kidding. You make me laugh, you make me happy, and there’s no one else I’d rather spend the rest of my life with. You might have a giant sword that sends you messages and talks to you, but because it commands you, it’s the only thing you’ve ever had to hide from me on the rarest of occasions. You and your entire family carry a heavy burden but you always put me first and when I thought I lost you all those years ago, I knew I couldn’t live a happy life without you. You’re the most honest person I know and you literally have the best deception skill in the entire Universe. I love you so much, and yes, I would love to see a little pink eyed Uthra boy run around and play with all the other kids in our party or end all this fighting and move somewhere where it could just be us. When you pass away, I’ll be right behind you in Paradise so don’t ever worry about not having to be away from me. I love you so much and I can’t believe I won’t be a Valencia anymore. Sorry dad, but Levi stole my heart."
Soren smiled and gave her a big thumbs up, which made her smile.
Levi noticed she was going to cry again, so he swooped in and kissed her passionately. Everyone erupted and cheered, and as Sasha was sliding the ring from Emma on Levi’s finger, that’s when Sora saw him standing in the back, waiting.
"Well Pride, it’s been awhile. What the fuck are you doing here?" Sora asked calmly.
