{Ron}

When I started coming to, I felt like I had a three-hundred-pound rock dropped on me. The last thing I remembered was sent flying off a rooftop and then I transformed into my true self. I transformed into Prince Silver.

"Are you okay Ron?" I heard Asher say.

I opened my eyes and looked around. I saw I was in a hotel room. One bed, a Tv was in front of the bed, the classic hotel room setup. I looked at Asher. "Why are you calling me Ron? Aren't we still on a mission?"

He nodded. "Yeah we are but we're in a hotel room so I think it's okay to call you Ron and it's okay for you to call me Asher again."

I tried to sit up but when I did, I had a splitting headache. I immediately laid back down.

Asher frowned. "What's wrong?"

I groaned. "My head hurts. Why are we in a hotel room?"

"We stopped here after you passed out," Asher responded. "For some reason, Dr. Crow's agents retreated after that. So you want to tell me why you ran out of steam after you transformed into Prince Silver? I thought Diamonds were supposed to be stronger than that."

"Yeah, that's what I thought," I said. I sighed and then felt the tears well up in my eyes. "I didn't just transform into Prince Silver…"

Asher tilted his head. "Huh?"

"I transformed into my true self," I replied. "I am Prince Silver."

Asher blinked. He didn't say anything. He just sat there staring at me in shock. I can understand that this is quite a change of events to process. "I know this is hard for you to process, but the key that Patty gave you is to help you transform into your true self."

Asher gulped and looked down at his key that was around his neck on a necklace. "So you mean… My name is Prince Purple? But my twin brother had the same name on his key! How the fuck does that make any sense?"

I shrugged. "I have no idea. Do you guys have different middle names?"

Asher nodded. "Yes we do, my middle name is Prism. Ararav's middle name is Shine."

"So maybe they would call you Prince Purple Prism?" I said.

"But when I hit what you call puberty," said Asher, "does that mean I'll get those stupid fangs and have to eat raw meat?"

"Yes, unfortunately…" I responded. I gave him a sad look and rolled over so I didn't face him. I didn't have the heart to look at him.

He put a hand on my shoulder and I rolled over to face him. "I'm… I'm sorry." I sobbed.

He shook his head and pulled me into his arms. "There's no need to be sorry. If that's who I am then that's who I am. I just need to work on accepting it. Just like you are working on accepting who you really are. Maybe if I accept it before it happens then my transformation will go much smoother?"

"I don't know," I said, still sobbing. By this time I was sobbing so hard that my voice cracked. "I don't know what to do! This is stupid! It's so stupid!"

Asher started to rub my back trying his best to comfort me. "It's okay Ron. Oh by the way, did you see that woman who came out of nowhere she looked like Abigail but had on different clothing before you passed out by chance?"

That stopped my crying spell and I wiped the tears from my eyes. "Yeah, I did see her before I passed out! I heard her shout the word 'LightSaber' and shortly after that I passed out."

Asher smiled. "Yeah, it was a 'LightSaber' alright. More like a LightNuke instead!"

"Huh?" I said.

"Oh yeah," Asher explained, "after you passed out Dr. Crow's agents retreated for whatever the reason. The strange woman's 'LightSaber' pretty much killed whatever agents that were stupid enough to stay behind."

"Did she tell you her name?" I asked.

Asher shook his head. "Nope! She just killed Dr. Crow's agents and disappeared. But after she left there was a dog standing where she had been. It was a beagle to be exact. It looked absolutely adorable too! I went to chase after it but it was gone in the blink of an eye."

"Huh, interesting," I said. The fact that a woman dressed as Abigail but her outfit was different color made me wonder if that was Abigail. Abigail before she got changed into Princess Black. "Maybe since that woman was dressed as Abigail, maybe just maybe…"

Asher raised his right eyebrow. "Maybe what?"

"I wonder if that woman was Abigail!" I said.

"What do you mean?" Asher asked.

"What I mean is the woman dressed in the clothes that looks like Princess Black was Abigail before she changed into her true self," I said, trying my best to explain things. I was fumbling with the explanation. My mind was reeling from the possible explanation. "I wonder though the dog you saw after the woman disappeared was a way to transport her to wherever we were to help us out?"

"Maybe," said Asher, "that might be plausible but we don't have enough information to know if that's true. We'll have to talk to Wrinkler about this first thing in the morning."

I nodded. Then my stomach growled. "Great, now I have to figure out how to get some raw meat to eat."

Asher looked up at the ceiling thoughtfully. "Hmm, actually I think we're in luck! There is a small grocery store downstairs. Maybe we can get some raw meat from there? I don't know, I'll have to see."

"Why just you? Can't I go and get it myself?" I asked.

Asher shook his head. "Nope!"

I rolled my eyes, "Let me guess, you don't want me to do anything stupid right?"

"Yup!" Asher replied with a small smile.

"I don't need a babysitter you know!" I snapped, "It's not like I'm going to run off to complete this mission by myself." I sighed, "Fine then if you're so worried-" I stopped to look around the room to see that there were no windows and no way for me to escape if I wanted to. "Then you just leave me in the room and take both hotel keys with you and go get the meat yourself. I won't be able to run off since there are no windows here."

Asher smiled. "Works for me! Actually, I asked for a room with no windows just in case."

I rolled my eyes again. "Oooof course you did."

"I'll be back in a moment and don't even think about using the door stopper to make the door stay open," Asher said.

I groaned. "Yes, Mr. Warden. I'll be a good boy. I promise."

Asher snorted and then he reached and kissed me. He broke the kiss and I smiled. "You know what? I still can't believe that you were using the excuse of chasing after Abigail as a cover for your feelings for me."

"Yeah I know," Asher said. "Okay, then I'm going. I'll be back before you know it. After you eat then you can bite me and after that…"

I chuckled. "Sex? Yeah of course you would be horny after seeing me transform into my true self."

Asher smiled and then he got up and left the room making sure the door was locked so that I wouldn't escape. At first, I laughed at that. But then I figured since I don't have much to do anyway that I would take a nap until Asher got back.

* * *

When I fell asleep strangely enough, I found myself in the limbo connection that Abigail and I shared before she got brainwashed and transformed into Princess Black.

"Hello?" I heard a voice say, "Is anyone there?"

I smiled when I turned and saw her. Even though she wasn't the Abigail that I knew, it still brought me joy just to see her.

Princess Black gave me a look of confusion when she saw me. "Uh, who are you? And what the hell is this place?"

"My name's Ron," I replied, "or you might also know me as Prince Silver."

Princess Black paused. "Wait, Prince Silver? You don't look like Prince Silver."

I looked down when I saw my key glowing and the next thing I knew, I was transformed into Prince Silver. Princess Black gasped. "It is you! Where are you? Dr. Crow's been-"

I shook my head. "Nope, it's not happening Princess. I'm not going anywhere with Dr. Crow if I got something to say about it. The only way I might get captured by him is by me doing something stupid to save you."

Princess Black tilted her head. "Huh? I don't understand. Save me? I don't think I need to be saved. I mean sure Dr. Crow takes me against my will on a regular basis but he is giving me a roof over my head. I don't know what it is but for some reason, I just want to stay with him even though I know it's possibly wrong…"

I sighed, "This is going to be hard to explain but, you've been brainwashed."

Princess Black blinked. "Say what now?"

I stood there in silence for a little bit trying to figure out how to explain what she had been put under. "Okay, um Dr. Crow has technology that can distort your view of reality. He's made you think that you are something that you are not. Do you remember being called the name Abigail by chance?"

Princess Black's eyes went wide and she backed away from me. "Please don't say that name."

I raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"Because that's not my name!" Princess Black growled. "And it gives me a headache when someone says it."

My left eye twitched when I heard that. The fact that Dr. Crow would go that far to keep her under his control was just maddening. "That's the name you went by before Dr. Crow went and messed with your brain."

I felt that strange sensation in the back of my head and I knew the limbo connection was getting ready to break.

Princess Black sighed, "Yeah I feel that strange sensation in my head too. I guess this is goodbye for now?"

I nodded. "Mhm. Until next time Princess."

With that, the connection broke and then I woke up.

* * *

"Well, it's about damn time you woke up!" I heard Asher exclaim. I looked over at him and rubbed the sleepiness out of my eyes. I yawned and stretched. "How long asleep?"

"Almost a full hour," said Asher, "I didn't want to wake you. You just look so cute sleeping! But it was kind of annoying because you haven't eaten or bitten anyone yet."

Asher pouted and I cracked up at it. "Aww, that's cute."

"Anyway," said Asher, "I put the food I got in the small fridge we have over there."

I looked over when he pointed to a small fridge that we had sitting right underneath the counter where the coffee pot was. "Thanks. Did you get any food for yourself?"

Asher sighed. "Yes, I did."

I frowned. "What's wrong?"

"I… I got my fangs today." Asher said. He opened his mouth to show me that he had fangs. "Yeah this isn't going to be any fun is it?"

"Nope," I replied, "it's not. But on the bright side, this might make sex more interesting."

Asher smirked. "Oh yeah, that's right! After you bite me that's when the sex happens."

I snorted. "Well duh!" I looked over at the fridge again. "I guess it's time for us to eat now. I'm hungry anyway. The sooner you get your first meal eaten the better. Don't worry you'll get used to it."

Asher swallowed and I don't blame him. I didn't like my first meal of raw meat either. Asher grabbed a couple of plastic plates that he had brought with the meat. He gagged when he pulled the meat out of the fridge and divided the food up into two meals. He sat down next to me. "Well here goes…"

I wanted to laugh when Asher took his first bite of raw meat. Once he started eating he had no problem gobbling the food down as fast as he could. He either liked it or he was just trying to get it over with because he ate so fast. I followed suit and ate my meal.

I snorted when Asher burped. "That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be."

"Yeah I felt the same way about my first meal of raw meat," I said.

Asher collected the empty plates and sat back down on the bed next to me. He pulled me onto his lap. He bit my neck and I moaned because it turned me on a bit.

"Here," He said, holding out his arm to motion for me to bite it.

I bit him and it's safe to say Asher and I were horny at this point. The funny thing about having sex with Asher is that he doesn't like penetrating anyone but doesn't mind if I do it to him. I made him lay on his back and climbed on top of him. I straddled him and started taking his clothes while he was in the process of taking mine off. Soon we were both naked and I started to thrust into him.

He kept moaning as I started to faster on him because he kept begging me to. He also wanted me to keep biting him while I thrust into him. I also kept kissing him because I didn't want him to start screaming while we were having sex.

Strangely enough, we both climaxed at the same time. I got off Asher and snuggled up to him as he held me in his arms.

"Wow you're good in bed," Asher said.

Then there was a knock on the door. It was Wrinkler. "Asher and Ron are you two in there?"

"Yes Wrinkler," I said, "we're in here." I turned to Asher. "Do you want to get the door or should I?"

Asher replied. "I'll get it. But I think we should get dressed before we let him in."

"It's okay Wrinkler, we'll be there in a moment," I said. Asher and I quickly got dressed and Asher answered the door.

Wrinkler had a smirk on his face. "I don't want to know what you two were doing. Anyway, we need to sit down and talk about things before we make our next move. Oh and even though we're still on mission we don't want to make it clear that we're DA's. So we should just call each other by our real names."

Asher nodded. "Okay, we can go to the lobby, and don't worry we already ate." He sighed. "I got my fangs today so we both had to eat raw meat."

Wrinkler paused. "Oh. Okay, meet me down at the cafe before we head out."

"Okay then," Asher said.

* * *

Once we went downstairs we met up with Wrinkler at the cafe. He was sitting at a table reading a book. What the book was about I had no idea and at the moment I really didn't care. He looked up at us and smiled. "Hey guys, don't mind me, I already ate before you two got here. It took you long enough. Although it kind of makes sense because you guys have to eat raw meat and it's kind of hard to hide that from people. On the bright side, you won't gain a whole lot of weight from your diet now."

I raised an eyebrow. "Huh? What do you mean by that?"

"Well your daily diet is nothing but meat for the most part," answered Wrinkler, "and after you bite someone that activates your digestive system. That actually also activates your…" He cleared his throat. "Mating instincts, combine those things, basically your weight will continue to maintain itself."

"Oh," I said. Then my eyes went wide. "Oh… So that's why that happens after I bite someone!"

Wrinkler chuckled. "Why what happens? No, no don't tell me. I'm guessing you get horny after you bite someone?"

I felt my cheeks get hot so I looked away. I looked back at Wrinkler and scowled again when he started laughing, "I didn't know you were gay Ron! I thought you were with Abigail?"

I gave a nervous laugh, "Yes I'm still with her. Um, actually I talked to her in that limbo connection again."

Asher paused. "Wait what? You talked to her again? Then that means…"

"She was transformed as Princess Black when I saw her," I said. "I explained to her what Dr. Crow did to her and she told me that she wanted to stay with him even though he sexually assaults her on a daily basis and she knows it's wrong to stay with him. Before she got transformed into Princess Black, she told me that I could sleep with someone else just as long as I come back to her at the end of the day. I told her to do the same thing. She refused at first but I pretty much commanded her to. Not to mention she's already got her wolf form and soon it's safe Asher and I will get it too."

Asher's went wide as saucers. "Wait? Wolf form? You mean to tell me that Diamonds are werewolves?"

Wrinkler shook his head. "No that's not what that is. It's a form that Diamonds can use in combat when they pass puberty. And yes you'll still have to eat meat even after you pass puberty."

"So when are we going to get this 'wolf form'?" I asked.

"Well," responded Wrinkler, "every Diamond is different. If Abigail who is now Princess Black already has hers then it stands to reason that she'll pass puberty a lot quicker than anyone else. Which makes sense because she was the next in line for the throne."

I gasped. "Seriously?"

Wrinkler nodded. "Mhm… The last time I talked to Patty about it, before the Diamond planet got destroyed she was considering stepping down from the throne and Dr. Crow was considering the same thing for whatever the reason. Although there are no rules saying when a King or Queen has to step down from the throne. Most of the time when a King or Queen gets up there in age that's when they think about retiring. Even Abigail's biological father was getting ready to step down. That's why they wanted you to marry her. It was going to happen whether you wanted it to happen or not. It just so happens that you two fell in love. Which makes the arrangement perfect.

"A lot of times the children of the ruler tend to pass puberty pretty quickly that's why Abigail passing puberty so fast makes sense.

"But since there isn't a kingdom to rule over it stands to reason that Patty would've just given Abigail the highest position she could in the Diamond Division."

"And what position would that be?" I asked.

Wrinkler shrugged. "I don't know you'll have to ask Patty about that."

"Oh," I said.

"So," said Asher, "what do we do now?"

"That's a good question," Wrinkler replied. He tilted his head looking like he was thinking about something. "Well at the moment I know for a fact that Dr. Crow's agents will come looking for us. So we shouldn't stay here for too long. I say we leave today and go somewhere else to lay low for a bit."

"Okay," I said, "so where should we head to now?"

"I say we go from town to town around the general area of where we know Shaw Castle is," Asher suggested. "If we stay on the move then Dr. Crow's agents shouldn't be able to catch up with us."

I nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me."

Wrinkler nodded in agreement. "Works for me too."

So with that, we checked out of our rooms and headed out so Dr. Crow's agents wouldn't be able to find us so easily.