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## Darkmoon Pact: The Elven Prince and the Mercenary Player
>Prince Ares of the elves bears the Moon God's curse: beneath moonlight, he transforms into a woman.
>The mercenary Eileen intercepts a secret letter revealing a plot to expose the prince's true form at the full moon festival.
>She could have turned away, but while on patrol, she witnesses Ares in a moment of magical vulnerability.
>When an assassin's poisoned arrow splits the night air, Eileen inexplicably throws herself before the prince.
>Moonlight soaks into her wound, awakening a hidden draconic power—
>On the festival dais, with silver hair cascading like a waterfall, Eileen becomes the Shadowmoon Cult's meticulously crafted "decoy prince."
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Twilight seeped into Twilight City like spilled ink. Pale blue elven spires pierced the darkening sky, their tips crowned with massive moon crystals that glowed faintly as fireflies. The air hung thick with tension, a blend of sulfur from the dwarven forges and the crisp scent of elven gardens, mingling into a strange, strained atmosphere. Tonight was the Silvermoon Festival, a gathering of all races under the Twilight Council—and the eye of an approaching storm.
Eileen Ironstar rested a hand on the hilt of her standard-issue longsword. The cold metal seeped through her thin leather glove, briefly anchoring her scattered thoughts. Hidden in the shadow of a patrol tower on the palace's outer edge, her sharp gaze swept over the bustling main square below. Human vendors hawked alchemical fireworks; dwarven smiths displayed runic armor; elven nobles lingered with aloof grace beneath flower-laden arches, robes fluttering. On the surface, revelry reigned. The festival's clamor nearly drowned out the fragmented whispers still clinging to her ears.
"Full moon… throne… true form… will fall…" The rasping voice echoed, belonging to the Shadowmoon cultist whose neck she'd snapped in a dark alley. A sweat-dampened, blurred-edge scrap of parchment now burned against her innermost layer like a brand. The cult would strike tonight, targeting Crown Prince Ares Moonwhisper—the bearer of the lunar curse that turned him female under pure moonlight. Exposure would shatter the Twilight Council's fragile alliance and plunge the continent into war.
Her eyes instinctively sought the heart of the palace complex, where the heavily warded tower named "Moonsleep" pierced the sky. Ares was there—the storm's center, a piece too heavy yet unavoidable in her own plan. She needed leverage, a fulcrum to shift the Twilight Council's balance of power. Get close to him, earn trust, even… use him. That was why she'd infiltrated the Silverlight Knights, rising to captain. A half-blood exile with forbidden dragon blood in her veins needed every vine to cling to, even thorny ones.
"Captain Eileen!" A gravelly shout shattered her thoughts. The hulking form of Grim, her half-orc comrade, shoved past elven attendants adjusting festival banners like a moving hillock. He lumbered to the tower base, clutching a near-crushed ale mug. "Shift change! Those pointy-eared rangers finally moved! Another whiff of their leaf-scent and my nose'd rot from the sulfur!" He bared his tusks in a grin, shoving the mug at a pale-faced elven page.
Eileen's lips twitched imperceptibly. Grim was her anchor—a battle-forged ally from mercenary days, pure brute force, her only respite in this city of elven intrigue. "Mind your nose, Grim. Patrol expands tonight—full palace perimeter, including the East Wing's 'Shadowcloak Walk.' The Council elders value their hides." Her voice was low, cool, but her gaze slid past Grim's bulk to the shadowed area eastward, choked with towering yews and twisted vines. The cultist's dying words had pointed there.
Grim thumped his leather-clad chest with a muffled boom. "Relax! Any shadow-rats, Grim'll split 'em like kindling!" He leaned closer, ale-breath warm, voice dropping. "Boss, you really think those lunatics'll come? For the pretty elf-boy's… uh…" His thick finger jabbed skyward, then sketched a vague curve in the air.
Eileen's stare sharpened. Grim clamped his mouth shut, abashedly rubbing a tusk. Ares's curse was an absolute taboo, unspoken even among elves. She shook her head minutely and descended the spiral stairs, boots tapping cold stone. Grim scratched his head, hefted his near-man-sized battle-axe, and followed like a mobile fortress.
Silverlight plate gleamed coldly in the fading dusk. Eileen led her squad—Grim, two grizzled human veterans, and a taciturn dwarven runesmith—along the palace's ivy-choked walls. Elven architecture soared, elegant and intricate, great arched windows draped with star-flowered vines, the air faintly sweet with calming incense. But beneath the beauty, Eileen's senses prickled. Too quiet. Even the canopy's nightbirds were silent. Only the wind sighed through vines and stonework.
As they neared the Shadowcloak Walk's arched entrance, a sharp pulse of energy stabbed Eileen's awareness. Close! She halted instantly, fist raised. Behind her, Grim and the runesmith froze, weapons whispering free. The veterans fanned out, eyes probing the gloom.
The energy felt chaotic—wild, icy, yet threaded with an odd, moon-pure clarity. Not from the expected enemy direction, but… deeper within the walk.
Magical backlash! And this signature… Eileen gestured Grim and the dwarf to hold, then ghosted along the wall toward the disturbance. Her boots made no sound on the crushed white pebbles.
Rounding a cluster of unnervingly radiant, blue-glowing nightbloom roses, she entered a hidden courtyard. A dry, moss-crusted fountain stood in the center. And curled in its shadow, back to her, was a figure trembling in agony.
Shattered moonlight fell upon him. He wore the ornate silver-blue livery of a high-ranking Silverlight officer. The "Moon and Sword" insignia of the crown prince glimmered faintly on his pauldron. Prince Ares Moonwhisper! But his state was dire. His usually immaculate silver hair clung sweat-drenched to his brow. His body shuddered uncontrollably, long fingers clawing white-knuckled at the cold stone beneath him. Guttural, suppressed groans—like a wounded beast—escaped his throat. Chaotic magic lashed outward from him, whipping fallen leaves into spirals, warping the very air.
Eileen froze at the courtyard's vine-choked entrance, stone-still. An unforeseen variable, shattering all calculations. Reason screamed: Leave! Now! The Shadowmoon threat was imminent. Interference could unravel everything, even expose her. His vulnerability was the perfect, unsuspicious excuse. She saw the arch of his spine, a line of power now terrifyingly fragile.
She should turn and vanish into the dark.
Yet, as her foot shifted, Ares convulsed violently. A choked, utterly broken sound tore from him—a sound of pure despair and agony. It pierced Eileen's layers of calculation like an icy needle. Images exploded unbidden: childhood exile, the suffocating mud, cold stares branding her an outcast, the terrifying, untamable heat within her… the bone-deep loneliness of being unraveled by the world.
Her knuckles whitened on her sword, metal biting into her palm. Go? Or…?
Instinct moved her faster than thought. Silently, she ripped off her necklace—a plain-looking thing with a dull metal shard, a dwarven "Focus Sigil" to dampen chaotic energies. She crossed the courtyard like a silent gale. As Ares writhed, lost to pain and oblivious, she pressed the cold sigil against his heaving chest, through the fine fabric onto burning skin.
"Hrk—!" Ares jolted as if branded. His unfocused silver-grey eyes snapped wide, blazing with feral pain, violated fury, and a thread of maddened, cornered-killer intent. He saw her—Eileen Ironstar. The newly promoted human captain. A subordinate he'd scarcely noted, perhaps even dismissed with racial disdain. She dared touch him! Now, of all times!
Wild magic surged toward the contact point, a torrent seeking to shred the insolent human! Eileen felt the annihilating power roar beneath her fingers, freezing the blood in her veins. Death's scent filled her nostrils. Yet her gaze held steady, fierce. Her hand on the sigil was bedrock-firm, forcing her own meager but stubborn power into the tiny artifact.
Humm—!
A low, clear chime resonated from the sigil, rippling out like a stone cast into chaos. The raging torrent slammed against an unseen dam. Still furious, but the self-destructive madness eased—a sliver of respite, ice dropped into boiling water.
The killing intent in Ares's eyes faltered, replaced by shock and pain-fueled confusion. He gasped, sweat tracing his jawline, dripping onto Eileen's hand—hot. He stared into her eyes. Not elven silver or green, but deep, near-black brown. Calm as the deepest night before a storm. No fear, no flattery. Only icy focus and… something else, fathomless and complex.
Time froze in the perilous contact. Only their ragged breaths and the sigil's hum against the wild magic filled the taut silence.
Then!
A shrieking whine ripped through the air from the courtyard's high wall! Faster than sight, a smear of venomous green light lanced down—aimed at Ares's unprotected back!
Poison bolt! Shadowmoon!
Eileen's pupils shrank to pinpricks. Plan, calculation, survival—all burned away in adrenaline-fueled instinct. Her body moved before her mind. The hand on Ares's chest didn't push away—it shoved, pivoting her body! She spun from his front to his back, becoming a living shield!
Thunk!
A sickening, wet crunch of metal biting flesh and bone echoed horribly in the quiet. Impact slammed Eileen forward. Numbing agony, then searing fire erupted between her shoulder blades. A short bolt, dripping vile green, quivered deep in her left shoulder blade!
"Gah—!" Eileen grunted, vision blackening, the taste of copper flooding her mouth. Pain buckled her knees, but her legs locked, bracing between the assassin and the prince, who was whirling around, shock dawning.
"AMBUSH! GRIM!" Her scream, warped by agony, tore through the stillness.
"ROOOAAR—!!!" Grim's answering bellow shook the vines. His axe cleaved air with ruinous force, aimed at dark shapes emerging on the high wall!
Chaos erupted! The runesmith's chant rose, an earthen shield snapping around Eileen and Ares. The veterans' blades flashed, meeting cultists lunging from shadows.
Eileen ignored the searing pain and creeping toxin-dizziness, drawing her sword, tip fixed on the wall. Her movements lagged, but her eyes were colder, sharper than ever. That archer's still there!
Then—a new horror.
From the main square, a deafening boom! A searing beam of concentrated magic lanced skyward! Its apex struck the Moonsleep Tower's crown—the massive moon crystal, inexplicably dimmed!
Huuuummm—!
Like a colossal engine forced awake, the crystal flared with blinding, dead-white light—cold, lifeless, hungering! This twisted, amplified moonlight, guided by profane will, tore through the festival night! Not falling straight, but bent—a blade of divine wrath aimed with annihilating precision at the Silvermoon Festival's main dais! Where, by decree, Prince Ares Moonwhisper should stand!
Not just assassination! Exposure! Before the entire Council! That was the true endgame! The courtyard attack was mere misdirection!
Eileen's blood froze. The dais! Ares should be there! If he's exposed… Her gaze snapped to him. The prince understood. His face blanched, fear stark in his silver-grey eyes. His magic surged again; the sigil's hum turned shrill.
Can't let him go! Can't!
The thought struck like lightning. Stop him? How? An empty dais hit by that light would only fuel the cult's "divine judgment" lie! Someone must be there! A "prince" must face that light!
Time stretched and snapped. Grim's roars, the runesmith's chants, cultists' death cries, distant screams—all blurred into noise. Eileen saw only the descending beam and the terror in Ares's eyes.
No time!
Madness seized her. Her body moved.
"My Prince!" she rasped, voice raw with command. Before his stunned eyes, Eileen wrenched the bolt from her shoulder! Blood fountained, staining half her silver armor. Agony whited out her vision; she bit her lip, blood filling her mouth.
As blood sprayed and pain tore her soul, a slumbering power deep within her blood—dragon blood, long suppressed—erupted! Golden light, like molten metal, blazed from the wound, crawling up her neck, over her face! An ancient, imperious aura, smelling of scorched worlds, exploded outward!
Ares, closest, staggered back, eyes wide with utter disbelief. Grim's roar choked off, axe frozen mid-swing, gaze locked on the golden light. The runesmith's chant died.
Eileen had no time for their shock. The dragon blood raged within her, agonizing, empowering. It needed an outlet! A target!
Her eyes locked on the falling beam. NOW!
Using the bolt's agony and the dragon blood's surge, Eileen kicked off! Stone shattered! She became a golden streak, hurtling toward the dais! Each step cracked flagstones! Blood gushed from her shoulder, trailing a crimson line, instantly vaporized by golden flames into bloody mist.
"EILEEN!!" Grim's horror-stricken roar followed.
Ares's outstretched hand hung frozen, his gaze locked on the suicidal figure charging into oblivion.
Too late!
As Eileen, like a moth into flame, lunged onto the dais's apex—
BOOOOM—!!!
The profane, icy-white pillar of moonlight consumed her.
Time stopped.
The entire city, thousands of upturned faces, froze.
The cold light struck the enchanted white stone like a god's hammer. The dais vaporized at its touch. A shockwave blasted outward, shredding banners, decorations, hurling nearby onlookers back. Screams drowned in the roar.
The core was pure annihilation.
Yet, within that lifeless glare, a stubborn, fierce red-gold light flared!
Eileen vanished within the beam. But inside, a different power raged against it! Her dragon blood, enraged by the corrupted "lunar" energy, roared from its primordial soul!
"ROOOOOAAAR—!!!"
The bellow—low, immense, draconic—detonated not in ears, but in the minds of every witness! Thousands clutched their heads, consciousness blanked by the sheer, apex-predator pressure.
On the dais, the profane light writhed! Golden dragon fire surged within it like lava, clashing, annihilating, fusing with the icy moonlight!
Hiss-crackle-ZZAP!
The pillar became a monstrosity—dead white boiling with molten gold, frigid depths holdi