Sacrificed
NSFW/MDNI. Non/dubcon. Sylus-coded dragon lord. Yandere, possessive, monster. 18+. 3.8k words ish. You're sent as a sacrificial bride to the dragon lord who terrorises your village. Shame you aren't much of the sacrificial type.
It was darker than human blood.
Viscous, from what you could tell in the dim, cavernous light. So dark it looked almost like ink. You watched it run in a slow rivulet along his cheekbone and drip to his bare shoulders. It ran between the scales there and disappeared. You breathed the parched, hot air in so tightly your lungs burned.
Your hand still outstretched from when you threw the dagger.
Laughter, raw and pitched, bubbled up in your throat. It died as a low, strangled sound escaped instead.
He turned towards you gradually. His weight reverberated across the stones, the click of clawed feet made your guts clench. It was dark enough that you only caught a glimpse of that mockingly human face â nobody looked like that, like a statue brought to life. Scales brushed the sides of his neck.
You bolted by then. Tried to, anyway. Gulping air. Agony ripped through your bare feet as your soles slapped against the uneven rocks.
It happened so quickly you didnât even scream. The entire world lurched as your lower half was crushed.
Your legs flexed underneath him. You thrummed with something that had no place to go, writhed and screamed against a warm wall of muscle. The torchlight silhouetted him as he pinned your throat with one giant hand.
Something scaly brushed your leg, and you stopped breathing.
Your lips moved noiselessly around the old words as you stared in the dark and braced yourself. You knew this was a possibility. A probability, but it hadnât seemed to real as when you wheezed, heartbeat thumping like a bird against your ribcage, the sharp claws choked around your neck. The dry, earthen air was still as your eyes adjusted to the dark. Slowly, so slowly.
Blood red eyes bored into yours. You met them. They were inhuman, vertical like a snakeâs.
Did Horace look into those same eyes?
Did he beg for life? Or was he silent?
Did he think of you at the end, like you were thinking of him?
âYou threw a dagger at me.â His voice was deep like the grindstone of Hell. âWhy?â
You had rehearsed the words for weeks in your head. But when it came to it, your mind was blank. âYou killed him.â You whispered. Hot tears cut through the soot on your cheeks.
You poured all the dull tightness in your chest into her final glare before you wedged your eyes shut.
That gentle smile that felt like sunshine on her skin. Placid blue eyes, like the lakeside. His sandy blonde hair across his forehead. Your hands curled at your sides as though you could feel the silken strands through your fingers again.
I love you, you mouthed with wet eyes.
There was thick silence.
Then a sharp claw pressed tightly against her neck. Your eyes flew open. His black slit pupils widened slightly in the darkness.
âIâve killed many,â The growl made her back go rigid, âOf who do you speak?â
The silence is broken only by your shallow, ragged breaths. His claw traced your neck and goosebumps erupted in its wake.
âMy fiancĂ©,â you spat the word around shallow, ragged breaths. You tried your legs again, but they had gone numb. You closed your eyes more tightly, but just as the warmth of his image came into focus- Â
âAnd he bid you avenge him,â his rumbling voice went on. The smile that peeked through the darkness was all teeth. You choked as the claw pressed against your throat and forced her bleary gaze on his.
âNo,â you cut in, voice bone-thin. âHe would never-â your voice broke into a sob. â-Ever ask that of me,â you finished between breaths.
The claw went still. Long hair, the colour of molten silver, fell across your face as he leaned towards you. You grimaced as he inhaled deeply, tilting his head slightly.
âYouâre not lying.â His voice was coloured with something you couldnât identify. Lilted in a way that made you want to hide yourself.
Yet you couldnât tear your gaze away from the cut on his cheek.
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You nudged yourself against the edge and kicked a few pebbles.
You watched them â small, round, insignificant â as they danced and dropped off the sheer cliff. They disappeared into specks halfway down, but your eyes trained on where they might have gone, swallowed up by the thick forests below.
You stared into the abyss of trees and set your jaw. Lifted your foot, clad in a golden sandal.Â
Then your eyes traced the vein of dirt path that led towards the village â tiny from here, but youâd know it even in the dark - and in the end you took a careful step back.
âTrying to fly, little one?â
You stiffened as his footsteps thundered behind you.
âI could take you in my arms,â He offered. Behind him, his dark, leathery wings unfurled slightly. You swallowed as you watched the light trace through the web of veins at the very edges. âWould that please you?â There was that usual mocking in his voice, but something about his words made you pause.
You considered it for half a moment, then tossed your head. âNothing would please me less.â You shot back, curling your lip at him.
He snorted â you realised it was sort of half a laugh, and his red eyes roamed over you. Lingered at the places your ruined tunic showed bare skin.
âCome,â a clawed hand engulfed your arm. âI have something for you.â
There was a rancid smell in the air when you re-entered the cave. Your heart pounded as you noticed something that was vaguely human-shaped glisten in a pile of blood and ash.
You turned away and emptied your stomach, retching loudly. The dragon lord scanned the others sharply. He didnât grimace at your sick. Didnât seem to register it at all.
âYou eat little,â he said simply. âThese men will prepare your meals for you.â
From the ones that were alive, two of them still wore torn livery. One was young enough to be Horaceâs brother. You pushed forward and searched his face, grabbing his chin. He seized up, scarcely breathing, eyes trained on the ground. You let him go without a flicker of recognition. Had he ripped an entire entourage from the path?
âOh, gods,â you moaned. It reeked of piss and sick and something sour that churned your gut. âGods â you-â
His face fell. It was only then you realised he had been watching you. He clutched a chalice from a shiny pile and hurled it so hard at one of the men, it splintered with a warped clang as it hit the rock.
âYou never like my offerings.â His eyes were bright as rubies as he glared at you. Like a child to a misbehaving pet.
Offerings? Is that what they were? You bit back your reply when you saw the strange intensity on his face.
Behind them, the entourage stared with wide eyes. Some men wept openly, their sobs echoing in the cavern.
âLet them go,â you managed. Levelling a narrow-eyed glare at him. âNothing would please me more than that.â You couldnât help the mocking edge to your voice.
Later, youâd wish you could snatch the words back.
You still heard their screams when you lay in the crushing grip of the dragonâs arms. They echoed in your mind like on a loop â raw and animal before they dropped into nothing below.
His warm breath fanned over the back of your neck, but you felt as cold as a corpse.
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When he first took you, you werenât sure why you had expected anything different.
Maybe because of how it had been with Horace.
Horace first took you in the meadow behind his fatherâs farm. Laid you softly among the bluebells, the river gurgling alongside them, and the grass had tickled you neck as he unwrapped you slowly, like a present. âIâll go slow,â his had whispered, blue eyes wide and blown. Warm, as he traced light circles on your thighs. âTell me if it hurts, okay? Promise me you will.â
And you had nodded, your fingers already twisting around his trousers as you lied sweetly. âI will. I promise.â
You had pressed your lips closed even as it had pinched, because you knew if you said something he would stop. So, you hiked your legs around his waist and pulled him in, rolling and panting as he lavished that smile on you. He was so timid, so achingly slow, you had to angle your hips to get any real friction at all. Anchoring yourself on the grass above your head, ripping the flowers to bits as you felt his cock finally rub your walls, barely enough to kindle your pleasure. You remember how breathless you were, how keen the pinch in your core as you grinded into him so hard he winced.
The dragon lord did not wince.
There wasnât any warning when he first took you. One moment you were crouched in a corner of his lair, in the tattered remains of your sacrificial dress. You turned the rabbit on the spit and listened to the soft hiss as fat fell into the flames. You heard the click of his claws on the stone floor, and you half turned to see his silhouette waiting by the entrance. You couldnât see his expression in the firelight.
âYes?â You called out, and your own voice was the only thing that echoed back to you. Thatâs when you heard his breathing, deep and ragged.
Then you were crushed beneath him. Face buried into the lush rug, so deep you could taste it. Cold air tickled your back as he ripped the rest of your dress from you, so easily, as you gasped and tried to wriggle free. You could smell whatever oils heâd lathered himself in from where he his hand clutched the back of your collar, his claws brushing your ears. He pulled your arms straight and you hissed, mind racing as he forced your back arched tight, ass pressed flush against his hips as he pushed into you in one slow movement. The stretch burned so much, it made you gasp, somewhere between a breath and a sob.
Your walls throbbed against the ridges on his cock. You made a wheezed, choked noise. He began to move, slowly, and your hand tried to shoot out, grasping for purchase. He waited until he had pinned you there, his weight crushing you, before he went completely still. You throbbed around every bump â was it scaled, oh Gods, was it? â
âMove,â he growls in your ear, and it takes you a moment to decipher what heâs saying. Then the metal bites into your throat and you jerk your hips back, pathetically. His laugh is rich and dark as wine when he starts to roll his hips into you. Your mouth fell open, silent as heat bloomed up and down your cunt.
âYou thought you could hide your heat from me,â He grunted, pulling taut on the golden collar, the chain swinging erratically with each powerful thrust. A moan dribbled from your throat as your hands twitched, pinned underneath you. âDid you?â
You tried to angle your legs open, pushing your ass up higher to meet him as he began to rock steadily in and out of you. He slowed until he was almost immobile, but you twitched around him as his tip pressed insistently into your entrance.
âOpen up,â Warmth tickled the shell of your ear. The sound of his voice made you jolt. It was husky and raw. Breathless.
You braced yourself, then gasped as he pushed it in, ignite, white hot. He was saying something else, but you barely heard him above the way your blood rushed to your ears. You were getting slicker, you realised faintly, as he lifted himself out with a grunt â your legs quivered with exertion, and you tried to scoot forward â then he slammed into you to the hilt. You winced, expecting pain, but a delicious tremor shot down your walls. That spot. You writhed, tossing your head restlessly, clutching the bristles of the rug hard between your fingertips as his cock nudged it again and again and again. A ridge snagged that spot and the shiver that rolled through you was so intense, you squeezed your eyes shut until it hurt. Something wet and soft on your neck made you jolt, clenching deliciously around him, and itâs only through the answering moan on your neck that you realised it was his tongue.
He thrusted into you steadily, until you were babbling into the rug, weeping from the intensity. A tension from where your plush ass met his hips, and then a sudden emptiness. He pulls out so abruptly it made you wince. You collapsed forward, heart pounding, capable only of a tremulous moan. The sudden emptiness ached. Then a hot dribble coating your back.
âIf my seed took root, the child might kill you,â he mumbled, voice low as he gathered you up. He sounded almost affectionate. The scales on his thighs were hot against your cheek. He held you there, wings outstretched over you both like a tent. His tongue lapped at your tears as you tried to lift yourself with shaking arms. âAnd I want you alive.â
â©âË.ââŸââșââ§
How many nights had it been?
You lay there, spent, waiting for your breathing to slow again. You hobbled to the decanter that rested in a pile of silver â enough riches for you to buy the kingdom twice over, and you barely glanced at it now - and shook it unsteadily. It still had a few good swigs. Enough to get you through a few more nights, anyway. You stiffened as you felt his tail, scaly and warm, wrap around your calf.
âPoor thing,â he purred, lounging back on the silken throws. He rarely covered himself in anything but jewels and now was no exception. A slick sheen of sweat covered his body. âI forget youâve only lain with mortals.â
You laughed unsteadily into your drink. Enjoyed the burn down your throat, tilting your head back as it went through your chest and you felt it in your belly. âI wish it had stayed that way.â
The temperature plummeted.
He stirred. His powerful bulk sat upright.
âWhat is your meaning?â His voice was soft, but you knew better.
You tried to keep your mouth clamped shut. But you canât. You turned to face him, calmly.
âIâd trade a lifetime with you for just one more night with him,â you said, low and deliberate. You raised the decanter in mock salute.
Something cracked on his face, then hardened. Like magma reforming the earth.
Your breath sucked out of you when he caught you by the throat. Held your chin between his claws so hard it felt like he was scraping your jawbone. The decanter smashed to the floor, and you felt the rest of the wine coat your bare legs.
âYou provoke me.â The words were thick. Your feet dangled below as you tried to brush the floor with her toes.
âLet,â you choked out. You scratched madly at his hands. âLet - go. Let ââ
âI should slay you,â he growled. You had never heard his voice like this.
âThen-â You wheezed, glowering even as your chest burned. âWhy - donât - ?â
âBecause you want it.â He snarled. He let you drop to the floor suddenly. Pain shot through your hands, your knees. He released your throat and you coughed, sucking in choppy breaths. Your head was still swimming when he braced his huge arms on either side of your hips, pinning your wrists to the ground. The ruined wine soaked your palms. Â He crawled towards you slowly, hand gripping and squeezing painfully. You tried to smother that little drop in your stomach as you heard the jewels hung round his neck clink together. He pressed down until you opened your legs, until his mouth was directly over your slit, hot breath fanning over your goosebumped skin.
His long, forked tongue licked your skin. On the top of your thighs. Ghosting over your folds. Kitten licks that made you squirm. Every single nerve seemed to hold its breath along with you as his ruby eyes brazenly studied your sex. Silver brows are knitted together as he leaned forward and gave your nub an experimental flick of his tongue.
A noise escaped your throat.
His eyes met yours, and you watched the candlelight reflected in them. Saw the challenge glinting in them as he pushed the hot, wet muscle hard against you.
Your eyes rolled back as you felt it, the way each side of his tongue curled, like two instead of one. He lavished your clit, and you strained and flexed your legs, but his shoulders pinned you to the rug beneath. Your core was coiling tighter and tighter as he lapped his tongue, going deeper, harder, each time a moan slipped from your lips. His nose buried deep, eyes still fixed on you, sucking and kissing you, hard, in a way that made you brace.
You tried to shut your eyes but a sharp pinch on your wrists made them fly open again. He was mumbling something into your cunt, but the deep reverberations went straight through you and made your thighs clench. You didn't know when you lost control of your voice, but your breathing went shallow and you were only capable of whimpers.
You jerked your hips up right as his tongue slid teasingly around where you needed it most, and something lit up in his eyes that made your stomach flutter.
When his tongue lavished over you again, he dragged it in slow, hard circles, each tip overlapping, until your toes curled and your head threw back and you tightened your thighs so hard around his face you heard his breathing change. You came while still rutting messily into his lips with what little purchase you had.
When he sat up, he licked your essence off his lips, and he stared at you like it was the first time he had ever seen you.
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Sometimes the dragon lord wished he did remember who your fiancé was.
He wished he would have gutted him groin to sternum.
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The next evening, you didnât wait tucked under silks, half hiding and half hoping.
You shoved his shoulders down, breathing hard as you tried to keep your nerve. You didnât wear
He smiled with serpentine focus from underneath you. His eyes as bright as embers as you lowered yourself with trembling legs.
Youâre soaked, but his cock still catches â those damn ridges, fleshen dents that made your eyes flutter as you watched yourself stretch over them. You set your jaw and wriggle desperately until your thighs are barely kissing his muscular ones. You exhale shallowly, pushing down with the tips of your fingers to steady yourself. Gods, he was so big.
âVery good,â he purrs, and your eyes flashed as you shifted your hips. You gasped as your thighs began to quiver, eyes darting down to watch yourself sink further on him. There was a deep burn as you felt the ridges on your walls. The preparation you had done beforehand had made you wet, but not quite enough.
âBe quiet,â you gasp out. You were out of breath just trying to keep your balance. Hatefully digging your blunt fingernails into his scales. Ignoring the pain that bloomed on your fingertips. You twitched when he was halfway inside you. Those red eyes seemed to burn through you, through your performance, so you grit your teeth and stared at the scales that ran down his chest as you began to move. It was jerky and awkward at first, until you found the rhythm.
Your core tightened. You stifled a moan as you felt that persistent fucking ridge inside you, rubbing you clumsily from your lopsided thrusts. It was low and hot and made your fingernails curl against his hard skin. The sound of your panting was interupted by a soft, throaty groan. Your eyes snapped to meet his. His head was resting against the pillow and those ember eyes half lidded, looking drunk on you. His attention made the back of your neck prickle. You braced your fingertips on his hips and tried to ignore how good it was starting to feel as his cock nudged and curled deep inside.
The moans slipped out without you realising it. It was getting easier, slicker, and soon you were forcing your screaming thighs ever-more open, moving up and down and squeezing your eyes shut. So big - but you were ready, now. Your lips curled in a snarl as you tried to rock harder, faster, against him. His hands traced up your hips and settled on your waist. You tried to pry them off, but then his hips rolled up to meet yours, and all you could focus on were the stars behind your eyes as you felt him bottom out inside of you.
You didnât reach for Horace that time.
You didnât think at all.
â©âË.ââŸââșââ§
After the first few times, you stopped scanning the crowd for his family.
The cluster of villagers stared at your nakedness, but you kept your gaze high. Bored, as you felt the heat of the dragon lordâs chest at your back. Nestled atop his powerful thighs, his hand idly brushing your chest. Your neck and wrists were choked with gold, jewels of every colour and size dangling along your naval. You regarded the baskets of offerings set before you without comment. Piled with fruits. Cut raw meat set in fine pewter bowls, the blood pooled at the bottom. A boy with dirty, bare feet crouched beside the baskets and fanned the flies away, not meeting your eyes.
A whole seasonâs harvest.
âNext time,â your voice was clipped. âIt will be double.â
The village elders exchanged a glance. The murmurs of the crowd began, slowly as they bowed, descended.
Something inside you left with them.
â©âË.ââŸââșââ§
Thousands of stars winked down at you in the cool night air.
 When you reached for him, eyes closed, you frowned. Was his hair always that pale? Did his eyes always look like churning tides?
He isnât smiling anymore.
Your chest tightened. Was this what dying felt like? When you forced your eyes open again, the dragon lord was there. His inhuman beauty regarding you patiently, a smile curving his lips.
âCan you remember how he smells?â His voice curled in your ear, dark and velvet. You stiffened as his big hands roamed over her. He laughs, the vibrations low and rich against her skin. âHas your love extinguished so quickly?â
âI donât love you.â You hissed. The words felt hollow, and it made your nails dig into his skin. You angled your neck without thinking. âIâll never love you.â
He stilled against you. âLove,â he murmured, as he dragged his teeth over the throb of your pulse. You felt his smile against your skin. âWhat use have I for love?â






