22. Magic

22

MAGIC

A s Quinn, Lucca, and I come together, kissing in the torchlit darkness beneath the dome of Night the Vampire Council has sealed us in, I feel the true resonance of our hearts. A beautiful sensation opens in us now that we’ve decided to go out fighting, and rightness fills me.

As my own innermost power from the House of Shadow Truth rings through me like a bell, Quinn and Lucca feel it. They shiver, eros heightening between us as Quinn’s dark eyes shine like ancient stars and Lucca’s gleam bright in the darkness.

Fire surges around us within the dome. Made of Quinn’s red-gold darkfire, Lucca’s diamond-sapphire rainbows, and my dark, oil-slick rainbows with their flashes of gold and silver, that firelight careens around us now as we realize we can still raise our own magics inside this barrier.

Though the Music has been outwardly stripped from us by the Vampire Council tethering their barrier to ancient Vampire relics far beneath the earth, it hasn’t been stripped from inside us. I feel that Music blossom tenfold now, then a hundredfold, as we hold each other and kiss.

Our Music is only being shared through our bonds and bodies, just like what happened inside the still-point. Still, that sensation feels so very good as I’m rung like an ancient chorus of bells between my lovers, that I shiver with a mighty sensation in the night. Quinn and Lucca do also, as I realize we’re all feeling this.

A resonance we’ve never even come close to matching before.

“Gods… do you feel that?” Lucca says as we move together, swaying like we’re dancing. It’s as if that sensation doesn’t just move this deep Music inside us, but moves our very souls, playing us like the oldest instruments of the cosmos.

As Quinn growls a deep sound now, it’s Fae, wicked, and wild, all at once. Lucca echoes it, as I do, as well.

The three of us drawing tighter in our circle, ready to do this.

“I want you, Ariana…” Quinn growls at my ear now as that Music floods us, moving us and making our bodies dance. As he steps to my back, snarling low with passion in my ear now, his oh-so-soft lips whisper over my neck.

As he wraps his powerful arms around me, I’m suddenly reminded of that evening long ago in the waterfall grotto, when we first felt this massive music of the Night move between us. This is so much more now, however, as Night and Light, and all vibrational harmonies of the Music go ringing through us.

Lucca has stepped to my front, grinding against me possessively now as Quinn massages my waist with his strong hands.

And there is nowhere else I’d rather be.

“I want you, too… both of you.” I breathe hard now as I reach up and back, seizing Quinn’s short hair. I also reach up before me, pinning Lucca close by the neck.

As Lucca growls, he hauls one of my legs up over his hip, placing me in a wide straddle between them with one leg on the ground like we did earlier, when both men fucked me at once.

I moan, loving it as Lucca stretches me wide. Though we have yet to shed any clothing, all our tactical gear still on from when we went hunting Staphylogenes’ heart, Quinn grips my breasts hard now in his iron fingers, massaging them decadently. Lucca presses himself into me, hard and thick where he strains against the confines of his pants. I groan as he rubs himself against me with only our fabric in-between.

Quinn rubbing his iron and silk length up against my ass.

“I want to do something we’ve never tried before.” Quinn growls low in my ear now, as both men work themselves against me in our still-clothed state.

“Yes?” I am breathless at the dark promise in Quinn’s voice, though my question is more like consent already at whatever he’s thinking.

And he knows it.

“I want to fuck you at the same time Lucca does,” Quinn says with a rakish smile at my ear now, as he gently kisses my neck.

“We’ve already done that.” I turn my head to look at him, though a deep thrust from Lucca makes me gasp and arch, pressing against him like we’re already fucking as Quinn holds me.

“I want to fuck you inside … at the same time Lucca does.” Quinn gives a disastrous chuckle now as he massages my waist. Slipping a hand down, he unbuckles my belt, then unzips my pants. Easing a hand in, he chuckles more as he finds me already wet from the heat careening through us, plus this incredible new internal Music we’re experiencing.

Sliding a finger in, then two, he works me as I slowly fuck his hand. I’m gasping already, willing and wet as he takes me. Lucca presses his groin against our finger-fucking, making sure we do it right. We find a rhythm, though Quinn does nothing but finger-fuck me.

I love it; I’m shaking and wet already, needing them to just throw me down and finish it.

Though I sense we’ll be doing so much more tonight, as this new Music cascades all through us.

“What Quinn’s saying,” Lucca translates now, “is that he wants to fuck you at the same time I do, Ariana. In the same hole. You get it?”

“Oh. Oh!” I blink, even as Quinn pushes deep inside me now, flicking my cervix lightly but insistently with his fingertips. It makes me buck and gasp in their arms, as Lucca opens his pants now, ripping open his cobalt silk underwear to press his hot, full cock against my skin as Quinn works me. It makes little mewls escape me, thrusting against both of them now for pure pleasure as Quinn takes me.

And our seething, unified magic roars beneath our dome in the night.

I feel the Societas Sanguinis come to true attention then. Though they don’t understand our power, they know something is going on; somehow, I feel them mind-call someone from the Council to us now.

As they stand alert for whatever we’re doing, three Vampires from the Council portal in, standing around us in the torchlit darkness. Cowled, I can’t see their faces, only feel their energy as they watch us, me heaving and thrusting with power and sex as Quinn and Lucca hold me trapped between them, ready to do so much more.

As Quinn flicks faster inside me, just this side of pain but with so much pleasure, Lucca growls and heaves me up into his arms. Quinn takes his fingers out quickly, then shreds my clothing and weapons off with his preternaturally powerful hands.

I don’t know when Lucca and Quinn also shredded their gear away, but we’re all completely naked now, ready for this.

As Lucca finds me and thrusts into me—deep.

I cry out as our new internal Music surges in the night, making my Dark Fae power explode all around me now, wild. But it’s glorious as Quinn’s and Lucca’s power joins in, our combined might seething in a hurricane of unified dark, light, rainbows, and fire throughout the dome that contains it.

I feel more than see the Societas take an involuntary step back from us now, as our power rages in the night. The Council Masters wave them back in. They resume their stance around us.

Though with less fortitude than before.

Lucca fucks me hard now, my legs wrapped around him like a monkey as he holds me aloft by both hands on my waist. He’s viciously strong, our sex furious, pounding, and effortless as he roars out his darkest pleasure in the night and his bright rainbows surge with midnight blue cobalt.

Quinn is right behind me, urging us on with his own darkness as his massive wings of darkfire curl all around Lucca and me now, thrusting us into one another as we fuck. It’s like a sea of fiery midnight is fucking with us, pushing us into one another, over and over.

Until Quinn steps in, sliding his hand in along my so-slick nethers.

And slipping one finger in.

I gasp as Lucca’s cock is joined by Quinn’s finger inside me. It stretches me in the most delicious way, as I buck and writhe harder from the sheer sensation of it.

Quinn doesn’t stop there, but pushes another finger in, now that he knows I’m wet enough. I’m supple, open by the power of Lucca’s taking and our joined magics careening through us as our new internal Music pushes it.

As Quinn suddenly heaves me up off Lucca and into his own arms, slanting me down upon his own iron-hard, silken cock, I’m ready for it. Quinn is unforgiving muscle and velvet as he hammers into me now—and I stretch so wide upon him even as I clench and cry out to enjoy it.

But my lovers aren’t done, even as I come so powerfully close to orgasm. They know the right way to pleasure a woman, together in their most diabolical duo; Lucca cinches close to my back now, gripping me by the throat and making me surrender back upon him as Quinn hefts me up with his hands under my ass, spreading me wide as he fucks me mercilessly.

It’s hard, fast, and everything I want as I scream, throbbing so hard with the need to release. Quinn and Lucca still aren’t done, however, as that vast, incredible song of our lovemaking soars up so high inside me now, I think it’s going to come singing out the top of my throat.

But Lucca is gripping me by the throat, Quinn by the ass as he fucks me. Just when I don’t think it could get any better, Quinn falls down into the trickiest squat ever, hauling me up atop him as he falls back upon the grass.

Lucca comes down with us; as Quinn crushes me to him, heaving his hips up, Lucca falls to my back. Lucca thrusts two fingers inside me now, opening me wide.

Then presses close to my back—thrusting himself up deep inside me with Quinn.

I’ve never been penetrated by two men at once in the same hole. I scream as they take me; but it’s so good as I’m opened so impossibly wide for their pleasure.

It’s my pleasure, also, as my power spikes in the night. My careening, dark-light rainbows roar from me as my auric wings blast wide. So do Quinn’s and Lucca’s, our internal Music blazing all through us.

And suddenly, the Music bursts from me—spilling up out of my throat.

I never knew I could sing like this, as the Music explodes from me, unable to be contained by my physical body anymore. As Quinn and Lucca both fuck me now, finding a hard pounding that perfectly matches each other as they thrust up inside me in a one-two rhythm, I dance between them.

I roil, and weave, and twist as I sing, because I can’t fuck anymore. I’m creating with the vast power of the Music now; with whatever kind of Music we’re making between the three of us as we all sing now with unearthly, angelic voices in the night.

As both my Dark Fae Masters take me, Music careens from us, borne of our voices since the rest of it was silenced beneath the dome. This creation is not, however; I feel it hit Staphylogenes’ heart now as it issues from our throats, making the heart resonate now with the most powerful sound I’ve ever heard.

As the heart gives a towering beat, then another and another, that sound thunders out, hitting the dome far above. I feel more than hear massive cracks devour the earth all around us with each beat of the heart, this Music, and our lovemaking, as their combined resonance bursts the ancient Vampire relics to which the dome was bound, deep beneath the ground.

I hear it like a thundering chorus as their shattering pummels the night. It’s like a thousand cannons going off all around us—except they’re deep beneath the ground, lost in ancient catacombs and buried ruins from generations of Vampires, Fae, and Dark Fae fighting.

This area has been hotly contested territory ever since the Fall; I feel all the Vampire, Dark Fae, and even Fae relics shatter all around us now as this new Music seethes through us, amplified a hundredfold by our voices resonating with Staphylogenes’ heart.

The Vampire Council tethered their magic to those relics, thinking them infallible; I feel it as a terrible death-knell goes off inside their organization, coupled by a shriek of horror from the three that stand near us.

As the basis of their power is exploded in the night—by us.

Power cuts off with a snap as all those ancient relics beneath the earth are broken. Horror like I’ve never felt from the Vampire Council rushes in, as they seethe for some way to get ahold of us once again.

But Quinn, Lucca, and I are too bright now, as our power scorches them like diamonds in a hot desert sand. The three Council members near us are blazed to nothing but ash as a magnificent light from our new Music surges all through us.

And both Lucca and Quinn push up into me at the same time—and we come, and come, and come.

The Music rages from us now as it careens outward in the night, fully manifest at last. I feel it take the Societas Sanguinis members around us, filling their empty vessels with something beautiful as it raises a new harmonic inside them.

That power sweeps through Rome, blistering all those bound to the Night. Some Vampires die in our hurricane of light as it goes off all around us like a supernova now, though most are simply taken by it.

Devoured, they’re awakened to a new era as our ideals of peace, love, and cooperation flood them. Awakened, they beam with a new light in the darkness, though they will always be Vampires and we cannot change that.

But like the Vampire Revenants we awakened, our call takes them and they come alive to it. Dead hearts beat and thunder; living minds are opened as eyes fly wide in shock. As Quinn, Lucca, and I fall to the grass, shaking and laughing, we feel the entirety of Rome’s city-center awakened to our might. All except the Vampire Council themselves, and their most stalwart warriors.

Who buzz like a hornet’s nest now—coming for us.

We don’t have a moment to lose, as Quinn sends a quick thought to the United Haven of Florence—to rise up and fight. No one is ready for this; none knew it was coming.

Yet, I feel Devi, Curio, Alleno, my parents, and all the others rush up from their beds or a meal, or whatever they were doing tonight, leaping for weapons and coming to us.

Our power has beamed like a star in the night; it creates a kind of massive portal system now as all our people rush through, coming to us. Even the three returned Vampire Revenants are with them, pouring in as colored black smoke to join us.

As the Vampire Council themselves portal in all around, plus their yet-loyal hordes.

Ready to fight.

Brutal battle erupts then, all around us. Quinn, Lucca, and I are up fast from the ground, though that incredible, unified Music still blazes through us, making us like dark stars as we take up our Faeanic spears now, leaping into the fight.

I don’t even care that I’m fighting buck-ass naked as I battle and strike with Quinn and Lucca in a furious trio. Faeanic sigils, even Ascendant ones, cascade from me like burning rainbows as I cast them unendingly with my spear and my free hand, and Quinn and Lucca do the same.

We battle—Fae, Vampire, and Dark Fae alike—for what we believe in, as that powerful Music ascends all through us. It makes towering phrases of Ascendant’s Sigils in the night, over and over, roaring with the Music all around us as we fight.

Through it all, Staphylogenes’ heart rings with its own tremendous Music, aiding us. Foes are hammered back, though a sea of incredible darkness surrounds us from the tens of thousands still loyal to the Vampire Council.

And the Vampire Council themselves—furious that we’ve fucked them.

In the very center of Rome, their most forbidden stronghold.