#OCKiss2026 Day 4: Wedding
Part of the @ockissweek event from Feb. 9-15th, featuring Xinya and Yu-Qi from The God-Dragon’s Wife <- Day 3 – Day 5 -> Contains: high fantasy, dragon kissing Tips are appreciated!
It wasn’t the wedding Xinya thought she would have. A royal one, to befit her station, with a grand ceremony and an even grander celebration. Her own mother’s wedding festivities had lasted a week, spilling out from the palace through the city streets. She thought she wanted a wedding like that, one during the summer floods so she and her people could dance in the holy waters of the river.
Instead, it was the dead of winter. Powdery white snow shimmered in the triplet moonlight, covering up what had once been a bloodied field of battle. Laying it all to rest.
Xinya stood at the base of the mountains, tangled hair falling in curtains around her face and shoulders, limping from her wounds. Yu-Qi stood at her side, massive draconic head lowered in the dirt next to her. The impossibility of her true body disappearing behind the curve of the mountain, such that Xinya and her fellow mortals wouldn’t go mad trying to comprehend the enormity of it.
“It’s finished,” Xinya murmured into the night. Her breath made clouds of the air.
Silvery white nostrils blew storm clouds of hot smoke. Yu-Qi rumbled in her throat, like thunder. “It is,” she agreed.
“My people are safe, all I asked of you.”
“Perhaps not as soon as you would like.”
“But they are safe. And now…” Xinya placed a delicate hand on the scales of her brow. “My offer stands. You may have of me whatever you wish.”
Yu-Qi rumbled again, softly. “It is the same wish.”
“You would have me for a wife?”
“There is nothing I would rather have, little queen.”
Xinya remembered the day she had accidentally summoned Yu-Qi to her side. A simple prayer made in earnest desperation, true passion for the safety of her people, enough to call a God-Dragon to her side. At first, she’d be terrified. To be in debt to a deity—married to one. What would it mean to be a God-Dragon’s wife?
Many days and many nights had passed since that day. She was proud to say she already knew.
Xinya ached to her knees, leaning heavily on the sturdy snout of her beloved. Now face-to-eye with Yu-Qi, she smiled brilliantly into the moonlit depths of her iris.
“I grant you my hand and my love,” she said, “with all the honor of my name, and the devotion in my heart.”
She pressed her lips to the corner of that great and powerful eye, smoothing down scales with her fingers. In a blink, they were both gone. In the place of a dragon, Xinya held a familiar, impossibly warm woman in her arms, and her cold cheeks were cradled in soft palms. Yu-Qi kissed her deeply with all the love any person, or any dragon, could hope to give.