19 years ago. Princess Ruby was delivered by the nurse maid. Her mother died during childbirth. Her father was away on important kingly business. The nurse maid looked down upon the Princess who would not stop crying. She sobbed and rolled back and forth. She felt so much pain. Her mother was gone.

  The maid sighed sadly at the little one before breaking into song. Her voice is soft and soothing. The song was a lullaby Her mother had sung to her as a child. Now she would sing it to Ruby…

  The first verse caused the Princess to pause, after a moment the crying had stopped. By the end Princess Ruby, shining in name. Smiled that day, and never cried again.

  “So… you were basically sung the same lullaby I was!” Alia exclaimed excitedly as Sapphire finished telling her night time story. I rolled my eyes and shook my head. I remembered that disaster. It was the first time I had slept with Ruby that I had heard it sung.

  Ruby herself hummed it the entire time we were fucking. To make matters worse, she would randomly stop and wait for a high note in the stupid thing to let me finish. That woman.. My eyes twitched and I walked over to hug Alia.

  Alia looked puzzled as I suddenly pulled her into a hug. I let go a moment later and looked at Sapphire. “I hope you understand, that is false. There is no knight in shining armor. No Hero to save you. You are your own damn person! I am not here to do your dirty work!”

  Despite my words, Sapphire just looked at me dreamily as she responded. “Of course Hero! I do my own dirty work! The Hero only handles the important things! The song was always silly. Everyone knows The Hero does not have time for everyone. You are far too important! Anyone who truly believes The Hero would take the time to notice them is delusional of the highest order!”

  I sighed heavily and looked at Alia, who was nodding sagely like Sapphire had just said the most honest thing ever. I looked outside the casino floor to the water ceiling. The eyes had not appeared. I suppose what Sapphire said was less a lie, and more so her belief.

  It had been around three or so hours since that lizard guy had left. I had explored a good portion of the city. It was like a ship in a glass bottle, except it was a whole city. I expected Alia or Sapphire to be amazed by the technology. It was full of arcade game consoles, Lan cafes, bowling lanes, even a few fast food joints.

  Whenever I went near an area, a lizardman would appear and just.. Give us what we wanted without money or questions. I had thought it a trap, but when Alia took a coney and ate it before walking away. I had checked around and no yellow eyes had appeared. Nothing cost anything.

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  It made me question what could actually be stolen if everything was free… I paused and took a bite of the hot dog. I hadn’t had a chili cheese coney in… so long. I savored the taste as Alia told her story.

  “My father was a great general and an even greater man!” She started cheerfully. Standing on top of one of the arcade cabinets, which was impressive, I didn’t know how she got up there, she continued with glee. “The very day I was born, my daddy burned an entire peasant village to the ground! He took many slaves, one of them became my nursing maid!”

  I coughed on the chili cheese coney. Alia paused and looked over at me annoyed. “Do you mind? I am mid story!” I held up a hand until I could stop coughing and asked “What?!”

  She looked at me like I was missing a brain. “I said that the day I was born, my daddy burned down a village and took slaves. One of those slaves ended up being my nurse maid!”

  I stared at her in disbelief. “But.. wait.. What about your mother?!”

  She looked at me somberly. “Sadly, mother was not cut out to be fathers husband, he had her executed for dereliction of duty. She was sadly a failure. But do not worry, where my mother failed, I have succeeded!” By the end she was shining with happiness.

  “Your.. father.. Killed your mother?” I asked in stunned silence. Alia’s response was just to nod happily.

  “It was truly a sad day indeed, but that is why it is important to serve your general! Anyways, back to my story!” She jumped down from the arcade and landed into a role. She summoned her bubble pistol and held it out like she was aiming it forward.

  “By the time a full light cycle had passed, I was already fighting enemies twice my level! My father was so proud! He told me that one day, If I was good enough, the Hero would defeat me in combat, hold me down, and I might even have his child!”

  I tried my very best not to gag at the thought of a father telling his daughter that her end goal is benign raped by another man. She continued on cheerfully. “Of course, I never believed such lies!” For a moment, my heart rose.. Then she continued. “Obviously, The Hero would never bother with me. Or so I thought!”

  “One day, only, as Hero would call it, an iteration ago. Something amazing happened! Hero defeated me in an epic duel over the recliner of judgment. It was a glorious battle, I was on the edge of my wits the entire time!”

  I coughed hard and sputtered out “You still had over 500 health and had killed me over thirty times!” She looked at me puzzled.

  “Well, obviously, I had to have enough health left to be useful in bed!” She snapped angrily. I stared in disbelief, she once again ignored me and continued her story.

  “Anyways, after I managed to fight the Hero off, by the skin of my teeth no less! He returned and fired at me from across a minefield.” She was now rolling around, pretending to shoot all around like our fight had been this epic clash.

  “You mean the minefield of vibrating destruction?!” Sapphire gasped in shock and amazement.

  Alia stood tall. “The very one! Hero passed it multiple times to fight me on the grand location of destiny. Eventually, he became smart and lured me across the minefield to face him near his fortress!”

  Sapphire stood, her hand covered her mouth, the other her heart. “Then.. Then what!?” She asked excitedly like a giddy school girl.

  Alia looked smug and said. “Hero used a new power I had never seen before. His power was amazing and deadly. A simple touch, and my entire view was rewritten! I was his from that point on, mind and body.”

  Sapphire moaned in pure ecstasy and a puddle of water flooded from her dress. I lifted my feet off the ground. Knowing Sapphire, that was not just water. “As expected of the Hero, even our enemies bow to his greatness!” She said between quivering lips. Her body was vibrating more than the land mines had.

  I finished my coney and genuinely considered just leaving. This was nowhere near the first time I had heard a Princess gush over me. Ruby was notorious for this. Melissa was somehow worse and she wasn’t even a princess.

  I never had sex with Melissa, but I can guarantee she tried hundreds of times… in one iteration. That doll was… I shivered. Ruby I could handle, Melissa was… Melissa. Sapphire I used to just avoid. Alia’s story was as weirdly erotic and creepy as everyone else’s.

  Hers just leaned slightly more erotic. Maybe it was the way she danced around the room and pointed her guns making pew pew sounds. She truly was so pretty.

  “Anyways, that is how Hero dominated me and I became his first wife!” Alia finished cheerily before looking at me with a blush.

  She was also psychotic, then again everyone in this place was… I looked down at my hands and sighed quietly..