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I motioned for Cupid to follow me. We eventually reached the main dining room and I spotted Nyxra. A sudden smile blossomed on her face as she saw me as well. We made our way to each other and I was about to pull her into a hug when Cupid stepped between us.

Cupid obnoxiously checked Nyxra out from head to toe and then spoke to her. “You are a beauty the likes of which these poor eyes have never seen. I would worship the very ground you walk on for all eternity if I could merely get a single kiss,” said Cupid as he kneeled down before Nyxra.

“I see your lips moving but all I hear is ‘blah blah blah turn me into a small brown newt’,” replied Nyxra as she removed a black wand from her pocket and gave it a wave.

While still on the ground, Cupid scuttled backwards across the stone floor.

“Geez, you could have just said no.”

I grinned. I had missed her. We quickly kissed and I told her of my plans to go see my parents and Bob. Then I introduced Cupid, who had finally gotten to his feet and stood a few feet behind me.

“Nyxra, this is Cupid. The weakest of all the gods that I have ever met.”

“Hey!”

“Cupid, this is the lovely Nyxra, my girlfriend, and the world’s best turner of losers into newts.”

Nyxra decided it was easier to just ignore Cupid.

“Bob is currently out on a mission for the school. He has been studying golem making and it turns out he is rather good at it. He is also helping the school shore up their magical defenses, but he needed to take a trip to gather supplies. One of the smaller schools of magic happens to have a book he thinks will be rather beneficial to his studies, so he is stopping by to study it.”

I was rather impressed by Bob and glad he found a field besides necromancy. I was sad that I missed him. I hadn’t seen him in so long, but we were close enough friends that no matter the time between visits, our friendship wouldn’t wane.

I noticed someone else I hadn’t seen in a while.

“Edward!” I yelled and waved him over. He was standing around drinking and talking with a group of monsters. A centaur, a banshee, and a few other monsters trailed behind him as he headed over to us. They had heard about me and decided to keep a safe distance behind Edward. I had racked up a rather impressive body count of monsters. I decided it was best to ignore them.

“Cupid, this is Edward. Edward, this is the God of Love, Cupid.”

They shook hands.

“How do you two know each other?” asked Cupid.

“He enslaved me,” I said in a nonchalant voice.

“Don’t exaggerate, it wasn’t that bad,” replied Edward. He took a drink out of the wine glass he was holding.

“Fine, he just tied me up a little,” I winked.

Edward choked on the wine he was drinking and started to splutter as wine went down the wrong way.

“STOP THAT! THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE WRONG IMPRESSION OF ME!” yelled Edward, extremely embarrassed.

Cupid couldn’t help but smile.

“What are you doing here?” asked Edward. “It’s been awhile.”

“I just came back home because I got hungry. There isn’t anything good to eat in Cupid’s little god land. I’m just so hungry I could even eat a horse,” I said with an evil grin as I looked over at the group of monsters behind Edward.

The Centaur looked rather worried. I thought I could see him sweating.

Edward rolled his eyes. “Don’t bully others. You have no idea how difficult it is to get monsters to travel to the human realm after word of all the monster deaths you caused. Did you have to kill them all so viciously?”

“Humans and monsters only respect power.”

Edward nodded. As a Rask he knew better than anyone the power of fear. If you were weak you would be devoured. It was truly survival of the fittest in the world of monsters.

We continued to chat politely and eventually Edward excused himself. I was still rather happy with Edward. He had kept his word and thanks to him, the truce between the monster and human world had gone smoothly. According to Nyxra, trade was even flourishing between the worlds.

Despite enjoying the reunion, I was anxious to leave and see my parents.

“Would you like to meet my parents?” I asked Nyxra point blank.

She had never met them and this was kind of a big deal asking her to meet them. I felt bad not being able to see her much over the last few years and I was rather grateful she hadn’t dumped me. I knew it would be a good idea to spend all my time here with her, but I also needed to check in on my parents. A lot had happened since I had seen them last, and even though I had contacted them a few times over the years, it just wasn’t the same as seeing them face to face.

Nyxra blushed a little. I didn’t know she could do that. She hadn’t been prepared for my question. Meeting your boyfriend’s parents is a big step after all.

“Sure, I would love to,” she replied with a smile.

We enjoyed the rest of our evening together. We couldn’t take our eyes off of each other. I forgot Cupid was even there until I heard him snoring in the corner. Some bodyguard he was.

We went back to her room later and packed a few things. She didn’t need much, mainly some extra clothes and her cat. We found the cat, along with Crowley, curled up sleeping on Nyxra’s pillow. After she was ready, I once again wrapped us in shadows, including Cupid, and we reappeared on my parent’s door steps.

It was a nice and rather large brick house. My parents also had cats and Nyxra’s familiar took off to play with them. She may be a demon cat, but she