The church bells were beginning to ring to a bridal chorus. The morning sunlight shone through stained glass windows to wash away the last remnants of night.
Leon was standing alone in the nave of a church. The first light poured through the stained glass windows, fine rays of sunlight slipping between the colors and settling across the flower petals that lined the pews.
Is this...another dream for one of the girls?
White flowers stood in rows along the aisle, their stems tied carefully to the pews. Soft petals that caught the warmth of the sunlight every so often, their delicate colors glowing beneath the rays to the sound of wedding music.
My healing must be working against the effect. She wants me as an ultimate pillow, but I don't think even that's possible. When this is all done, there's likely going to be a limit to how often she can feed on me.
The fog around Leon's mind cleared even faster than before. His healing was adapting to the repeating effect, creating a growing temporary resistance, just as it did for fire or Valeria's hemotoxin saliva.
"Hehe! Please rise for the bride!"
Leon turned around to the sound of Celestine's voice, giggling and cheerful as she announced her own arrival
"Celestine!"
Leon's eyes widened the moment he saw her. In true wedding fashion, she wore a gown of pure white. A sweetheart neckline leaving her shoulders and arms bare except for delicate scalloped wisps of transparent fabric around her upper arms.
The fitted bodice held her chest like a glass and flowed down into a graceful A-line silhouette. Over the A-line silhouette, another transparent layer of white lace gathered at her waist and spilled downward into a ball gown skirt. A mix of two different silhouette styles, allowing for both to be seen at once.
Yet what caught Leon's eyes the most, was that her ram like succubus horns were gone.
"Why are you starting so much? I'm already blushing enough. Now let's hurry, I've been waiting so long for this!"
Celestine grabbed his hand and began pulling him down the pews to the altar.
"Everything is so perfect! And you look amazing too!"
"Thank you!..."
...wait, don't get sucked in Leon! Maria sent everyone to their own blissful dream. We did Rika already, now this is clearly Celestine's dream.
Leon thought began to put the pieces in place.
Damn it. I had to reject Rika's date and now Celestine's wedding. Maria is trying to make me and the girls too happy to leave but still! I'm going to make her run laps after for this!
Celestine finally stopped pulling once they had arrived at the altar. The white flowers in her were starting to get crushed as she pressed herself as close to Leon as possible.
"Do you, Leon, take me, Celestine, to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
"I..."
Leon cut himself off.
"Hey... Celestine..."
Before he could finish speaking, the world around him began to tear. Like a computer screen ripping under strain. The church warped and shifted into something else.
The white marble walls turned to black brick. Sunlight flickering though stained glass vanished, replaced by the glow of burning flames. The white fabrics hanging overhead from the rafters hardened into metal chains.
What's happening!?
Leon was no longer standing at the altar. Instead he was on a massive bed, straddling Celestine in her massive succubus form as she laid below him.
He had felt her in her succubus form but this was Leon's first time seeing her like this. She was almost twice his height, her ram horn double in size as they spun into a second spiral. Tiny bat wings protruded from her lower back along with a heart tipped tail. Her curves surpassed Valeria's as they defied the limits of anatomy.
Her wedding dress had transformed into a perverse and revealing imitation of a bridal gown. The pure white silk was now an almost latex black. The bodice now dropped to a plunging neckline that revealed her stomach, barely held up by the once scalloped wisps that now warped her upper arms as leather straps..
The graceful silhouette now cut out above her hips. The transparent layer of lace now a black shadowy ball gown. Ripped pantyhose drew the eyes to the gaps in the corrupted and sinful gown.
"Do you, Leon, take me, Celestine, to be your sinfully owned property?"
OH GOD! Don't say yes! Don't say yes!... This isn't just Human Celestine's dream. It's her succubus dream as well!
"...Leon?"
The world tore again and Leon found himself back in the Church.
He caught his breath as Celestine looked at him with confused eyes
"... In the real world, one day, I will!"
"What are you talking about!? Are, are you making up some excuse? Do you not want me?"
"I do, but...."
The world tore again.
"Then ravish me!"
"Not yet!"
"Am I too much for you?"
"No. You're perfect."
The world tore again.
"Then marry me!"
"I will one day."
"But not now? Because I'm a monster?"
"Because you ask me to wait"
"What?!... Why... Why would I do that?"
"Because I'll be there for you. For better, for worse, for human, for succubus, in heaven and in hell. With all that I am, and all that I have, I give you my love."
The two words started to collide with each other.
"You'll love me?"
"You'll own me?"
"I already do."
"Even as I am?" / "Even as I am?"
Leon dropped to one knee. / Leon rose to one knee.
"We never did the whole proposal process. Still Celestine, will you marry me?"
"Yes / Yes"
The worlds joined as one.
The church had returned. The hellish fire now burned on holy candles. The metal chains rang along in harmony with the bells.
Celestine stood before him in the human form of a succubus. Her wedding dress, a slightly less revealing pure white silk version of the corrupt succubus gown.
"I better be first wife! And we better be each other's first!"
Leon stood up and squeezed her hands.
"Human or succubus, you are still such a princess. My princess."
He began to feel himself dissolved once again.
"Looks like this dream is coming to an end. I need to go wake up the others next."
"... Before you go... Kiss me..."
"If I did, I'd do a lot more than just kiss you, especially since we'd technically be married in here. I'll kiss you so much once we get out of this dream. I promise!"
"Saying stuff like that, I'm holding back enough as it is!... Alright fine. Go! Save everyone and be my hero!"