The Pleasures of Hell 03.053

~~Day 78~~

~~Mia~~

She was tired. She was young, had done all-nighters before, and had survived them without caffeine. This wasn't the same. No matter how many times she shook her face, slapped herself, pinched herself, the drain of exhaustion pulled at her, made her nauseous, made her eyelids heavy, and blurred the edges of her vision.

It wasn't just her. The angels, the demons, even poor Cerby walked with heavy bodies, and her poor pup teetered left and right.

"Uneventful," Romakus said. "And here I was, sure we'd get ambushed."

"Morning twilight," Yosepha said. Little wings no longer so little, she stretched them out, flapped them, scooped up a fresh handful of black guts, and smeared them on her white feathers. It made Mia want to cry, each time. "Another four or five days, and I will be fully healed."

"Good," Romakus said. "I only wanted you for your wings."

The angel smiled and hit Romakus's closer wing with her own. Splat. Black guts hit each other. It would have been so damn cute if not for the grossness.

Mia rode Kas's back, and each hour that went by was a struggle. For a while she'd tried walking, but even though the muck in the maze trenches wasn't deep, each step had been tough. Getting innards and bile between the toes stopped being the concern, and collapsing from the exhaustion of pulling her feet out of a few inches of mud with each step, became it instead. She got back on Kas's back and accepted her uselessness.

"We are lucky," Julisa said. "Where are the hellbeasts?"

Mia raised a hand, lasted two seconds, and grabbed Kas's back spikes again.

"We even know what kind of hellbeasts hunt inside the Maze?" Mia asked, looking up. They'd zigzagged through a lot of different paths over the past ten hours, always taking turns that took them closer to Angel's Spine, but the Maze was a royal bitch. It guided them away from their goal as often as toward. To make things worse, no matter how many paths they went down, the smog still burned overhead.

It really was like those videos she'd seen of people fleeing forest fires. Smoke that hung low, heavy, and instead of being solid black, it glowed with the flame below.

"Crawlers hunt here," Julisa said. "Vinicius?"

The titan grumbled. "Sercano."

Everyone turned and looked at him, staring. Mia triple blinked. She did not want to run into one of those giant dragons in here.

"What?" Romakus asked. "I've never heard of sercano in the Maze." A pinch of surprise ran across his face, but it vanished quick. Putting on a brave face, but Mia saw it. For just a second, he'd looked nervous.

Vin shrugged. "It happens."

"A long time ago," Kas said.

"You know?" Mia asked.

But her bodyguard shook his head. "If they hunted here recently, Vicente would have been more careful."

"A foolish hope," Noah said.

Romakus raised a wing. "Much as I hate to agree with the asshole angel, he's got a point, Kas. Vicente is a reckless shit."

Mia winced. If Vicente were the careful sort, he wouldn't have jumped down on them. If Vicente were the careful sort, he probably wouldn't be in the Black Valley at all, considering how much it hated anyone with hooves.

Kas shrugged and walked on. If the man had an ego to bruise, Mia couldn't see it.

"Anything else?" Mia asked. Of course, demons would wait until it was an immediate danger before bothering to explain anything.

"No goorts," Romakus said. "Maybe a pack of irka. Giant rats." He looked back and winked at her. "It's probably the worst way to go, getting gnawed to death by a pack of rats." Eep.

Yosepha hit him, with a fist instead of her wing, and nodded at Mia. Mia smiled back.

"The largest concern," Romakus said, "if we don't run into a sercano, is probably wurms."

Of course. Wurms. With a U. Wuuurms.

"Vin killed one of those," she said. "Not long after we first met."

"Alessio and her bailiffs are a larger concern," Kas said. "They are looking for us. They know the Maze. We do not."

Right. It was easy to think everyone else in the Maze, surrounded by giant bone walls, screaming remnants by the tens--hundreds of thousands, were also lost. But if Alessio and her bailiffs had spent the time to map it out, they'd know faster ways to get around. Worse, they could climb the walls, if they were willing to deal with the remnants, but Mia's crew couldn't risk it. The walls pierced the smog, and that meant the angels above would see them.

"Think they stayed up all night, too?" she asked.

Julisa shrugged. "Possibly. It depends. Do they think eating you is worth the pain?" She gestured back at the rising fire clouds. "They did not fear Vinicius's power before. They do now." Smiling, she set her hungry gaze on Vinicius and licked her fangs.

Mia peeked back. In the past, Vin would have shrugged off Julisa's blatant attempts to get on the ragarin's good side. Now, Vinicius returned the tetrad's look with a quiet rumble and the barest hint of a smile.

Mia squeezed Kas's spikes and brushed away dumb thoughts.

Minutes went by, then hours. Weight pulled Mia forward, and Kas succumbed as well, now walking on all fours. She leaned more forward, got a couple spikes in the gut, and sat back up. This was like trying to stay awake in school during integral calculus when running on two hours of sleep.

Cerberus walked ahead, glancing back every so often with one or two heads, one always pointed at Mia. She smiled at him. Did he know how to read human expressions, or demon expressions at that? If he was born knowing some Hellian words, maybe?

"Cerb, come," she said. Her precious boy came, walked beside Kas, and her heart jumped. So smart already! And either he recognized the nickname, or he just went with the tone of her voice. Probably the latter, but that didn't change that her boy was the smartest hellbeast in all of Hell.

A very tired boy. He tripped, all three chins went down, and he whined and pushed his freshly drenched snouts up from the muck.

"I'm sorry, Cerberus," she said, pouting down at him with an exaggerated expression. "I know. I'm tired, too." The fire and smog behind them had grown wider, but not any closer. By sheer luck, they'd put some distance between them and the fire. "Soon. We'll sleep soon."

Cerberus pouted. The poor puppy couldn't understand anything that complex. No dog could. But he marched along, tail dragging on the ground. It was thicker and longer than most dog tails; it had to be to hold all those spikes. And usually he kept it off the ground and wagged slowly behind him, because he was happy, or because it helped him with balance. But now his tail made a tiny trail in the muck that vanished seconds later in its constant, gentle flow, and his three heads hung in front of him.

"I could fly up," Noah asked. "Should I risk a peek at what awaits for us above?"

"Nah," Romakus said. "After what happened with Vicente and those angels, we know what's up. They're circling the fire, looking for us, but they also know we'll be hard to find in this Maze, buried by smog and muck." He scooped up a fresh batch of remnant guts, dumped it on his back, and idly twirled intestines with his fingers, like a kid playing with string. "They've probably set up most of their forces at the border. There are lots of tunnels in Angel's Spine, some within eyeshot of the Maze. At best, we walk through some valleys, reach a tunnel, and find Livian and the others. At worse, Mia calls another firestorm, kills a thousand angels, probably a couple thousand demons, and then we go into the tunnels and have a party."

Noah and Mia glared up at the asshole, and Yosepha whacked him with her wing.

Romakus shrugged, raised his wings, distracted Yosepha with them, and promptly whipped her ass with his tail. She didn't squeak, but she did hop in place.

Mia groaned. "Does anyone have any idea how we'll find James?" And Adron and Azreal and Livian, and Faust and his boys, and Yulia and her unnamed brute friend, and Silvina the tiger lady she'd only ever spoken to once. If any of them died, she'd feel absolutely awful. Every day she put mental effort into not having a panic attack thinking about them.

"I have been thinking about that, actually," Romakus said. "Mia, you say you can hear the music? Hear whatever strange noise or vibration or whatever, that can move Hell?"

"Move Hell and make spire auras, yes." Though, calling them spire auras didn't really make sense, if spires were just making the same auras Mia was. Hell auras? "You... don't want me to send Cerberus looking for them, do you? Because he can hear the music?"

"That thought had occurred to me, but he'll just get himself killed. I was thinking something more drastic. If you do something big enough, James will hear it, even from miles away, right?"

"I... I don't know about miles. Maybe? How drastic?"

"A firesto--"

"I'm not making another firestorm! Besides, he could just see it, then!"

Romakus chuckled, slowed down, and walked beside her and Kas.

"I know. But is there some way you could do something with the music that someone could hear from far away?"

"I don't know. Maybe? What's Angel's Spine like?"

A dark, almost creepy grin ran across the asshole's face.

"Angel's Spine is aptly named. You saw it in your vision, didn't you? Colossal mountains, as far as the eye can see in all directions, rolling waves of strange white flesh. Wherever you go, you find flesh. The tunnels we will hide in are where flesh meets rock. Feathers the size of buildings are scattered everywhere. Bones as big as what we saw in the main Trench, bones bigger than this"--he gestured at the bone wall beside them--"decorate and punctuation the land. And blood. Oh, the blood!" He flared his wings. "A glorious sight! It's been decades since I last saw it. I'm excited."

Mia whined and buried her eyes in her palms. "More gore and blood?"

"Not like this." Romakus scooped up some remnant guts and flicked them aside. "No remnants grow on Angel's Spine, at least not from the white flesh and feathers. Beneath the top level of rock, down in the tunnels where the -- supposedly -- archangel blood flows unending, remnants can be found. But above ground, Angel's Spine has no remnants to speak of. It's quiet."

"That... kinda sounds nice, actually. Not the fact an entire province is covered in the dead bodies of archangels. What the fuck is that? How does that even work? Is it even true?"

Yosepha sighed and shrugged. "We have no way to know for certain, but what Romakus says of the landscape is true. It matches your vision, does it not?"

"It does." And that was awful. Absolutely awful.

No wonder its real name was Heaven's Tears.

More rumbles pushed through the trench, the shallow muck, and the smog-filled air. Mia glanced back at the usual source of angry rumblings, but Vin looked around for the source, too. Not him.

Muck erupted, splattered in all directions, and the crew fell back. Kas reared, Mia held on, and Cerberus bolted backward out of the splash zone. Smart enough to get out of the way, smart enough to not run off too far, he stayed a ways back, growling and barking. But his noises disappeared under the thunder crash of something pushing up from the ground.

Mia knew it the moment she saw it. A wurm. Of course.

Three heads burrowed up from the ground, sent rock scattering along with the muck, and all three whipped their heads left and right. They had to be a couple meters thick each, and little centipede legs dotted the underside of their long, snake-like bodies. But their heads were alligator heads, with tiny eyes that borderline disappeared against the massive silhouette of the colossal creatures.

One slammed its belly down, and it charged, immense body wriggling left and right like a snake pushing on sand. Its legs helped, sharp barbs that pushed through the muck and gripped the rock underneath. And it aimed its alligator snout at the closest target: Noah.

The angel punched the creature in the face. It roared, pulled back, but the other wurms did the same as the other before. They crashed their bodies onto the trench muck and pushed forward, slithering fast. Their dark red bodies pushed muck aside, buried nearby remnants in shallow waves, and what Mia had thought were slow tunnel crawlers bolted for the crew like charging alligators.

"Back!" Noah said, looking at the crew behind him. "Get back!"

If Noah summoned his armor now, away from all the chaos of the spreading fire, while angels were probably circling in the smog above, the chance they'd be spotted was high. But if the creatures kept making so much noise, thrashing and shrieking, they'd summon attention, too.

And Mia wasn't sure if she could move a pebble right now, let alone summon a spike to skewer them.

Julisa chuckled, drew her four swords, and without so much as a word, she tossed two of them blade first in the mud. They landed hard and stuck up straight; she didn't give a flying shit if she dulled them.

She ran straight at the first wurm, dove into the air, and brought both her remaining swords down on its head. Either she was too weak or the wurm was too strong, and her swords bounced off, cutting only shallow gashes on the giant alligator head. The beast snapped forward, less like an alligator and more like a snake, a ridiculous speed propelled by its curling and curving body. It got teeth around Julisa's leg, and she screamed.

Romakus ran forward just behind her, and drove his huge sword up into the bottom of the creature's mouth. Sharp or not, he put enough strength into the thrust the sword swank up through the flesh, and blood gushed. The creature screamed, opened its mouth as it thrashed, and Julisa flew to the side. Remnants cushioned the impact, and she fell a dozen meters back to the ground onto more muck. And somehow she held on to her two swords.

The other two swords were scooped up. Noah and Yosepha grabbed them, dove past Julisa, and with a single flap of their wings, launched themselves high into the air, above the snapping mouths of the wurms, past them, and onto their backs. They didn't use only gravity, but flapped their wings and flew straight down, swords pointed ahead of them. Even Yosepha and her smaller wings were strong enough to send her high, and the two mikalim came down like a couple of warrior missiles. They moved in unison, like it was a formation they'd used a million times before.

Mia hopped off Kas, and the shark dinosaur marched forward. Romakus worked his sword up through the underside of the first creature's jaw, while the other two creatures both had angels on their backs struggling to push blunt swords through the nigh black skin on their spines.

Kas tackled the closest creature, the one with Noah on its back, and he sank his teeth and claws into the creature's softer underside. Ripping, tearing, blood everywhere. It was less a fight, and more a predator ripping into large prey. He bit into the creature like a dinosaur, tore off chunks with his mouth, and got his feet involved, grabbing and tearing with his foot claws.

But the one Yosepha was on recovered, aimed its eyes at Mia, and struck. She froze. Cerberus froze. The thing was too big, too wide, too gigantic, like some sort of dinosaur snake as thick as she was tall. Her reflexes had no answer. And when she struck the strings, her aching fingers and empty stomach created only a muted note. She couldn't defend herself.

Vin charged past her, tackled the creature's head, and got all four hands between its snapping jaws. He roared straight into the much larger creature's much larger head, and pulled. Pull became push as he got his body between its spreading jaws, until he jammed a foot down on the giant wurm's tongue, and pushed up with all four hands.

Mia should have looked away. She didn't. The muscles and skin tore, something cracked, and the jaw broke and ripped. The creature screamed and pulled back, and Vin held on. Giant as the wurm was, it couldn't lift the child of the Old Ones up with only its head, not easily, not from that angle. Vin tore, shredded meat, ripped off bone, teeth, and reached deeper. It took time for him to rip the throat apart from the inside out until the creature finally stopped moving, and Mia eventually covered her ears to block out the screams.

Romakus's kill wasn't going so well. The wurm lifted its head free of the stabbing blade, turned, dove over the body of its dying friend, and aimed at Noah.

"Noah!" Mia screamed.

Kas was busy, still tearing into his kill. Romakus had fallen back when the wurm freed itself. Julisa was still getting up, leg bleeding. Yosepha was busy. Cerberus stood beside Mia, barking and growling.

Vin pulled himself out of the dead wurm's mouth, stood on its back, and threw himself at the diving wurm. The impact was absurd, something straight out of American football, shoulder to head, and the wurm went down, bending back on itself.

Noah stood, soaked in blood from a geyser of crimson squirting from the wurm's back. He stood up, looked at Vin, at the wurm that'd nearly eaten him, and threw himself at the creature, too. Another hard flap of his wings sent him at the wurm, sword first, and Vin got his four arms around its neck.

Noah plunged the sword in through the eye up to the hilt. The creature spasmed and fell.

The third one fell, too, neck falling onto Kas's body. He pushed himself out from under it, and snarled down at the dead creature. Blood drenched him more than anyone.

"Large... wurm," he said between pants. Soaked from horn to tail, he stepped back and wiped the blood from his flat shark head, but it was no good. Too much crimson everywhere.

"And it hunts outside of twilight," Julisa said. "Three of them together at that! Wurms do not hunt together!"

Mia ran to Julisa and examined her leg. "You okay? That looks pretty bad."

"I will be fine." Julisa pushed herself up with her two free hands, other two still holding her swords, and hissed. For all her stubbornness, her leg didn't agree with her, and she sank against the wall of remnants. Mia looked away in time to avoid seeing remnants die to her claws.

"You won't be fine. That's bleeding badly."

"I will be fine!" She pushed herself up on a shaky legs, walked between the giant creatures, hooked her two swords with her higher hands, and held out her two lower hands. "My swords."

Noah and Yosepha joined her, gave her back her swords, and both nodded. A deep nod. Almost a bow. That was borderline respectful, and Mia almost said something. Nope, don't call it out. If people in the crew were finding ways to get along without knowing they were doing it, that was perfect.

And speaking of people getting along, Mia risked a peek at Noah, a smile, and looked past him to Vin. The titan stood on the back of the wurm he'd helped Noah kill, and he stood tall, claws dripping at his sides, and his dragon eyes aimed down at the monstrous corpse. Proud, maybe? He looked satisfied, at least.

Vin walked down the corpse, hopped off, joined the crew, and gave Noah a quiet snort. No, wait, that was a snort, and an up-nod. Men rarely played the subtext game, and she admired them for that. But there were plenty of subtexts to an up-nod, and they were usually good!

Noah met the titan's eyes, and for once, he didn't glare. Okay, they were getting along, kinda, sorta. If there was one way to get men to get along, it was putting them on the same side of a fight.

"Let's go," Romakus said. "The remnants are covering our noise, but you never know. They found us once. They'll find us again."

"Agreed," Yosepha said. "Let's go. When evening twilight comes, we can rest."

Romakus hooked his sword on his back. "Yeah, probably, unless they get on our ass. And with hellbeasts hunting in odd hours, who the fuck knows what we'll run into until then."

"Then we go," Julisa said, and she walked. Somehow. Bitch, she was, but she had the will to ignore her pain and walk what had to be anther five or ten miles in a shallow swamp on a bleeding leg.

"Vin," Mia said. "You..." She smiled up at him and patted his leg. "You really saved me, back there."

"The wurm had to be killed."

She held her grin. It was true, but Vin didn't have to go about it the way he did. Hell, if he'd waited just a couple seconds, that wurm would have killed Mia and he would have been free. He'd saved her, and it wasn't the first time. So she grinned up at him and scrunched her nose chipmunk style; that's what David called it.

Vin snorted at her, looked past her at Noah, and sighed. Noah was smiling, too. Not nearly as impressively as Mia's immaculate, awesome, powerful smiles, but it was a smile. Did he like the fact Vin was probably upset with his own actions, or was he proud of Vin? The former, definitely.

Everyone got back into formation. Cerberus snarled at the wurms, swiped at them, and chewed on their skin, but couldn't get through the harder stuff on their backs. Once the crew was past the giant creatures, he chased after them, tail wagging. He lasted a whole five seconds before he succumbed to exhaustion, and the rest of them weren't far behind.

The jolt of combat had woken them up, but now it was gone, and everyone was feeling it. From walking with some speed, to walking like they were dragging weights, especially Julisa. Her tail eventually dragged behind her, and her arms hung at her sides. Vin did the same, and Romakus and Kas weren't much better off.

Back on Kas's back, Mia patted the man's shoulder. "You want me to walk?"

"You weigh less than a gremla. It's fine."

"Not true!" She flexed her arm. Not exactly a big arm, but despite being only five feet tall, she'd worked hard to build muscle. She was fit, damn it! Fit meant some muscle mass, mostly in the legs and ass. She was a lean, mean, fighting machine.

Kas chuckled. Mia beamed. Getting a laugh from Kas was the ultimate prize.

"You're all weak," Vin said, and he marched forward, sparing a quick glance for Julisa and Mia. "I will lead."

"By all means," Romakus said, complete with a theatrical bow.

Kas slowed down, and he, Mia, and Cerberus took the back. Everyone else walked in the middle, following the big demon. Maybe Mia's grin had been too much? Had she defeated Vin and pissed him off?

Kas reached up and gestured for Mia to lean in close. She did.

"You infuriate the ragarin."

Mia slumped and shook Kas's head by the horns. "Don't tell me that!"

Kas shrugged and gestured again. She leaned in again.

"He likes you." He spoke so damn softly, she had to press her chest to his shoulder and get her ear up to his snout to hear him.

"He... what?"

Kas chuckled again. Twice in one day.

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Sleep felt amazing. It felt doubly amazing to do it on a full stomach.

It was the middle of the night, and Mia looked around inside her little cave. Romakus slept, Yosepha on his lap, leaning back against him. The muck had faded, and her now glorious, beautiful, amazing white wings were almost fully grown again, thanks to frequent nights with a belly full of quality forbidden fruit.

Julisa slept not too far from Noah, also asleep. If the bitch could grin while sleeping, she would have, with an eye for the angel who'd shown off his skills and power. He'd literally punched a wurm, and compared to Julisa, he was small. The first time Mia had met Noah, he'd shot a beam of holy light at her from above, and Vin had had to run along a rock trench to not get fried. He was powerful.

Kas slept against the wall, Cerberus near him. Poor Cerb. The journey had been harder on him than anyone, and now he didn't just sleep, he was knocked out. She wanted to go to him, cuddle with him, pet him, but he was out like a light and he needed sleep more than any of them.

Only Mia and Vin were awake.

She got up, smiled down at her forbidden tree, plucked a fruit, and walked up to Vin.

"Eat," she said.

"I did eat."

"I know, but you should eat more."

He rumbled. At least he kept the noise quiet. Cerberus would probably sleep through a hellquake right now, but the others would wake if they made too much noise. Talking quietly was fine, though.

"I am full."

"You sure?"

He nodded, barely.

"Good." She set the fruit heart down by the tree and rejoined the big dumbass. "You got hurt."

He glanced down at the gashes on his shoulders where the wurm's teeth had hit him, made the tiniest shrug she'd ever seen, and said nothing.

Mia gulped and glanced back at Kas. Did Kas lie to her? No. It wasn't like she knew Kas well, but she knew him well enough. The demon didn't have a lying bone in his body.

Okay. She could do this. She could do this. She wanted to do this. But it was scary! Vin was scary, and she could never read him right. Other demons were volatile, angry, mean, violent, bloodthirsty, and Vin had all those traits. But sometimes he was nice. Sometimes he protected her when he didn't have to. Sometimes he was even kind of gentle. A little.

She swallowed her fear and came closer, between his giant thighs and up to his crotch. Male demons didn't have any genitalia when they weren't aroused, and she was thankful.

A quiet rumble worked through him, and he glanced down at her. A glance. Either he really didn't give a shit about her -- not likely after what happened earlier -- or he was trying to ignore her.

She dug through her guts for some strength. What would he do? What would he say?

Hands quivering, she slid her fingers along her naked collar, under her shoulder straps, and let the flimsy dress fall. A skimpy, red piece of silk that barely covered her body at all, didn't even have underwear, but she'd gotten so used to it. Now, her tiny breasts were exposed, her pale skin and its freckles, her small, pink nipples. Not a hair on her short, petite body below the neck. She was proud of her fit body, her developed butt, her strong legs, but all that pride meant shit in front of a demon.

She stood naked in front of Vin except for her sandals, and she forced herself to keep her arms down. She'd fucked this man before. She'd sucked his cock before. But there was something about... presenting herself to him like this that made her feel naked for the first time.

Vin tilted his head. "What are you--"

"I want you to... fuck me." She gulped, leaned forward, and climbed the titan. It wasn't the first time she'd stood on his two thighs and faced him, her hands on his chest. And standing on his legs still wasn't enough to bring her up to eye-level with the giant.

He rumbled. With her hands on his chest, the vibration flowed straight into her.

"Why?"

"Why?" She leaned in closer, got under his chin, and put her elbows against his chest. "You don't want to fuck me?"

His quiet rumble turned into a quiet growl. But he said nothing. He didn't need to. Bits of black faded from his dark red skin, and other parts grew more and more red. Maybe he didn't want to fuck her, but that didn't mean he wasn't aroused by her.

"Look," she said. "I told you we'd fuck again, right? And if you stopped being such an asshole all the time, we could fuck a lot more. But you... After what you told me, I thought you hated me."

She waited, hoping for the perfect 'I don't hate you' line that would have melted her like butter on a pan.

She didn't get it. Of course she didn't get it. The asshole growled at her, a little louder, and she froze.

"You infuriate me," he said, four arms at his sides, not touching her.

She lowered her head. "I'm sorry." She pushed herself off him, stepped off his legs, and walked away. Fuck. Soul destroyed, she--

Claws wrapped her, pulled her back, and she bit down the reflex to squeak. His grip was gigantic, and he used all four hands on her, turned her, and her body disappeared behind his palms and fingers.

"You make me... livid." He brought her in closer.

She squirmed in his grip, and the demon lifted her closer and closer. Struggling was pointless, but at least he couldn't hurt her, not with the leash protecting her. But that didn't change that her face was now inches from a demon's teeth and his dragon-y, demon-y skull and snout.

"You," he continued. "You... You distract me."

"I'm sorry! I didn't--"

"You..." He lowered her. For a moment, she thought he was going to let her go and brush her off. But something large and warm pressed against her butt, and she squeaked. No hiding the sound that time. "You trouble me." He lowered her down and down, her legs spread over his thighs, and he brought her butt down to the ground. All so he could get her low enough to hold her horizontal and slip her body under his hardening cocks.

~~♥♥♥~~

She gulped again and stared at the two massive shafts now resting on her belly. Vin rumbled, deeper, and let go of her body with three hands. He only needed one, and he kept it wrapped around her waist as he pulled her back up toward him, but kept her ass and legs snug against him. Her bare, smooth pussy rubbed against where his testicles met his cock, and she quivered as the heat of his body tingled her clitoris.

"I should devour you," he said. "I should consume you."

"What? B-B-But--nng!" She shuddered. Vin drew her up and closer, sat her up straight, and used her body, her pelvis, her pussy to pin his cocks against his stomach.

Two cocks, trapped between her and him. Absurdly massive, the hard, veined girths rubbed against her, or rather, he rubbed her against them. Why a colossal titan had two cocks, she didn't know, but they were usually stacked on each other, one above the other, but with Vin holding her pelvis to his lower abdomen, her body nudged them side by side. One was squashed against her right thigh. The other was squashed by her pussy, and its thickness spread her tiny lips. And Vin kept nudging her up and down a few inches, rubbing her clitoris against the heat of his skin.

"I want to devour you. Eat you. I want to taste your blood and flesh."

Oh god. She squirmed a little harder.

"You... You can't."

"I can't."

"And, um, you wouldn't, right? Even if I didn't have the leash?"

He growled all the more, and lifted her higher until her tiny lips, hidden by her swelling pussy, rubbed against the underside of his lower cock's head. He kept her there, purposefully angling her pelvis into him, and practically ground her clit against his cock. All she could do was look up at his hungry face, and shrink, like prey, like a helpless little bunny hiding in tall grass. She squeezed on his fingers circling her waist, but her legs went limp, spread around his titanic waist, and despite her fidgeting, he never stopped rubbing her body on his. Like she was a toy.

"Vin, you... You wouldn't actually eat me, right?"

He stared down at her, dragon eyes locked on hers.

"Vin?"

Right hand wrapped around her, his upper left hand reached out and combed a couple huge claws through her long red hair. It was almost a tender motion, and it would have turned her into clay in his palms if it hadn't been for all the devour-threatening going on.

He lowered her, dragged her pussy along his cock's underside, sank her down until her ass was between his thighs, and his two cocks lay on her body. His giant testicles pressed against her butt cheeks, and he pulled her snug so her pussy rubbed against where they met the underside of his bottom cock. Again, he ground her poor clitoris against him, pulled her deep, and his two cocks rested on her tiny belly.

She was so small. So damn small compared to him. His cocks reached her ribs. A little past them. If her body wasn't so strange, he'd have killed her the first time they'd fucked; or rather, Julisa would have, pushing her down on his cock, the bitch.

She found the strength to speak somehow. "I don't think you'd eat me."

He snorted, pulled her up again, used her to pin his two cocks to his abs, and casually worked her up and down. Each slow stroke sent sparks out from her swollen clit into her thighs.

"I would."

"No you wouldn't."

He frowned at her, as much as a dragon snout could frown, pulled her higher, and used her pussy to coat the underside of his cock in her juices. She'd gotten so wet, so damn fast. Trembling and growing hotter by the second, Mia's pussy spread around him, and Vin made sure to squash her petite slit against his girth. Up and down, up and down, he was too rough, and she whimpered as her swollen pussy ached.

"G-Gentle, please."

He slowed down, and that was a little scary. Vin never listened to her unless he was planning to make her pay for it.

He brought her wet slit up to the head of his lower cock, grabbed it with one of his many hands, and pointed it up.

"H-Hey, wait. You're... You haven't..." He hadn't used his tongue on her yet. Hadn't stretched her yet. Hadn't--

"Vinicius." Someone else's voice. Mia sat up straight, wiggled in Vin's grip, and twisted, looking around. But Vin had her pussy pressing straight down on his cock, and she sucked in a breath as each movement rubbed the fat head up against her spreading little hole. If he let her go, she'd fall straight onto him.

Julisa chuckled, sat beside Vin, and cozied up against him. "Come now. If you really wanted to rape the girl, you could at least prepare her first."

"He's not... He's... Don't use that word so casually." Mia folded her arms across her chest, lasted two seconds, and squeaked and grabbed Vin's fingers as he again ground her pussy on his glans. Some drops of her juices trickled down his length.

"Oh? This was your idea? Your aura is suppressed."

"I'm suppressing it because I wanted a little private time with Vin!" Half whispering, half yelling, was an art.

Julisa rolled her eyes, and undressed. Armor wasn't the easiest thing to slide off, especially with a wounded leg, but she managed, and she crawled between Vin's legs and knelt between them, behind Mia.

"Delectable," the tetrad said, and she set three hands on Mia's body, namely her ass.

"Hey! I didn't say you could--"

Vin lowered her. Mia bit down a squeak, peeked back to make sure no one else woke up, and glared daggers at the titan. But Vin wasn't listening to her, or even looking at her eyes. His dragon eyes were locked on her pussy, the little wet thing spreading more and more as it struggled to fit his glans. It hadn't, yet, Vin only having pushed her down an inch, but that was enough to have stretched her pussy as wide as it could go. Or at least, that's what it felt like.

He pulled her down a little further, and she sucked in a hard breath as her lips slipped around the base edge of the head of his cock. Tension released, she sank further onto him, and the demon filled her up to her depths in seconds. She stared down at her belly, at the growing bulge pushing up from underneath her pubic bone, and how the bastard's giant cock dripped with her juices.

It'd be so much easier to act indignant about this sorta stuff if her body didn't get so damn wet at the drop of a hat.

Vin pulled her down more. Julisa helped. The tetrad got in close, close enough she loomed over Mia's back, and she rested her breasts on Mia's shoulders. Two hands found Mia's hips, the other two snuck around her and reached between her legs, and the bitch gently caressed Mia's aching clit.

Mia whimpered and melted. It'd been a while since they'd had sex, and she missed it. She really fucking missed it. She melted back against Julisa's body, and watched the damn woman massage her clitoris, while the bulge on her belly pushed higher and higher. With how tiny her little waist was, and how thick Vin's girth was, the bulge wasn't some subtle thing. It was huge, a clear distension along her once flat tummy, and as the demon pulled down on her, his fat glans gently pressed against her deepspot, and stretched her pussy inward.

Each inch dragged sweet pressure along her g-spot. The deeper he got, the harder it was to breathe from the rising pleasure of being so full, and the damn bastard literally filling her up so much her insides were struggling. But they'd done this dance before. She knew he'd want to get every inch inside her, stretch her until she thought she might pop, and she had to force her body to relax. Easier said than done with Julisa giving her clit a full-body deep massage.

Vin rumbled, dragon eyes locked on her pussy. He worked her deeper and deeper, taking his sweet time, thank god, but she knew if she begged him for a moment to rest, to let her breathe, he wouldn't give it to her. So she said nothing, grabbed Julisa's wrists, and held on as the bastard pulled her down, and down, and down.

Her ass molded snug to his pelvis. Her swollen pussy and little lips pressed to the base of his cock. And the bulge pushing out from her belly reached up until it almost reached between her breasts.

"I am glad you are fucking again," Julisa said. "I had missed this."

"Missed?" Mia asked. "What--" She gasped, and watched the tetrad tease claws and fingertips down the bulge with her two upper hands, while her two lower hands relentlessly assaulted Mia's clit. Any break she gave Mia was only so she could catch Mia off guard when she resumed.

And she was so damn fucking good at it, too. It made it hard to hate her.

"Your body is clearly special, as was James's. Look at this." She pressed on the bulge, teased her fingers up and down the distension, at the subtle groves highlighting the shape of Vin's cock, and down further. With an evil little chuckle, she pressed her fingers on Mia's belly above her pubic bone, pressed in and down, and squashed Mia's g-spot against the cock already stretching her pussy taut.

Mia whined.

Vin growled, and both Mia and Julisa froze. Was he going to defend her from the bitch's attack? Of course not. Leaning back against the cave wall like he was watching the game on TV, Vin set his two lower hands on her thighs, trapping her, but his two higher hands took his second cock sitting free on his abs, and lifted it.

"Pleasure me," he said.

Julisa purred. "I--"

"You pleasure the unmarked. The unmarked pleasures me." Vin took Mia's hands and guided them to his second cock. "Use your hands, and your mouth."

Mia gulped. "But, I... I..." Could she even bend that way?

She squeezed the colossal thing with her tiny hands. How something this thick was currently inside her pussy, she had no idea. But Julisa said James could grow his cock to crazy sizes, so apparently, all unmarked had unusual bodies.

It was a little different when on the receiving end, though! Sighing, she squeezed the hot meat between her hands. It took two hands to fully circle the damn thing.

She brought it up to her body, pressed it to her skin, and whimpered. Warm, leaking pre-cum that was a bit more than just warm trickled down onto her sternum.

"Mouth," Vinicius said. "Use it."

She frowned at him, but after a few seconds of some scary glaring from the titan, she leaned forward. Bending her back and leaning forward was not easy, forcing the cock inside her to bend with her, and she whimpered. She held the second cock up straight, aimed it at her mouth, leaned forward more, and craned her neck down.

Her lips found the swollen head of his cock, and she kissed it. It was the first sexual thing she'd ever done to Vinicius, not long after she met him. Back then, he'd been helpless, and she'd found him terrifying. He was only slightly less terrifying now. There was no space left inside her. She could barely breathe, especially with Julisa forever stroking her clit, sending almost painful sparks of pleasure into her thighs and ass. And it only got worse as Mia worked her hands up and down Vin's girth.

He sighed pleasure, a heavy rumble that flowed through him straight into her, and he set his two higher hands on the ground, two lower hands still holding her legs.

Either he was backed up, or she'd done a better job writhing on his cock than she'd realized, because the demon's whole body flexed, abs turning to sheer rock, and his grip on her legs tightened. His cocks pulsed, and she almost let his second cock go as it fought against her grip. She lifted her head, but Vin put a hand in her hair, and pushed her head back down until her lips again encompassed the tip of his glans.

He came, poured his cum into her, and another rumble worked through him. Tingling vibrations filled her, and she whimpered onto his cock as she tried to lift her head. He was holding her down, holding her, trapping her, as he pumped cum into her body, and forced her to drink him at the same time.

She lifted her gaze enough to look past his stomach and chest to his dragon eyes, both locked on her, both glaring like a hungry beast. She shivered, body tingling, and kissed his cock. Hands squeezing, she worked them up and down his length, drew more waves of thick, white cum to her mouth, and she let it fill her cheeks and squirt out from between her lips. Some of it she swallowed down. Most of it fell over her hands, flowed back down over Vin's cock, and pooled between her thighs snug against his waist and pelvis.

And through it all, he pumped cum into her pussy. It was hot, almost as hot as a hot shower, and it tingled as it stretched her, fought for room inside her, before inevitably getting pushed out to join the growing pool of cum trapped where her ass and thighs met the demon's pelvis. She milked him with her hands, kissed the tip of his glans and dragged her wet lips around it, and whenever she found a spot he liked, the ragarin rumbled. There was something delightful about that, about getting a sound out of him, about knowing that she'd done something he really liked, that sent tingles through her chest entirely separate from the others.

And Julisa took advantage. She stroked Mia's clit harder, grabbed her hips, and rocked her back and forth. It was too much. Mia wriggled under Vin's grip, desperate to get her head up so she could say something, but Vin didn't let. He held his own cock, kept it where it was, and kept her head where it was, content to pour his cum straight into her mouth, while Julisa got rougher with her, rocked her faster, and massaged her clit and her entire stretched pussy.

The sharp sparks from her clit, combined with the growing heat of the cock inside her, rubbing and pressing against her depths, were too much. Mia mewled straight onto Vin's cock, and came.

Her grip on her aura vanished. As the pleasure sparks shot down through her thighs into her toes, and made her lungs clench and pant between shallow breaths, the aura spread. It was automatic, parts of her subconscious plucking the strings entirely on their own, and she couldn't stop them, not while the pleasure sparks tingled up through her chest and back down to her legs.

"Stop," she said, and grabbed Julisa's hands as she shook. "Stop." Thank god Vin finally let her up.

"Oh my," Julisa said. She let Mia's clit go, slid her hands up Mia's belly, and pressed on the bulge and the waves on her stomach where Vin's cum fought for space. "This body of yours is so delightful."

"It's... um..."

"Kasimiro," Vin said. "She annoys me. Fuck her."

Julisa and Mia both sat up straight, and looked behind them. Mia had to lean to the side to see around the tetrad, but sure enough, there was Kas, body red, aroused, with giant cock hanging underneath him.

Whatever had happened to Vin and Kas, whatever weird moment they'd had together back when they were escaping Xela, they'd shared something with each other. And that was enough, apparently, for Kas to do what Vin wanted, grab Julisa by the shoulders, and put her on her knees beside Vin.

Julisa was taller than Kas, but Kas was bigger than Julisa.

"How dare you? I am--"

She tried to turn around, but he didn't let her. His arms were so damn huge, and he used them, pinned Julisa on her knees and hands, pressed down on her back, and pinned her chest to the floor. He opened his mouth wide and jammed his tongue into her. And because it was Kas, he clearly had a preference. He forced his long tongue into the woman's wriggling ass, and he was not gentle.

"You... How dare you think... you can..." Julisa tried to push herself up, failed, and melted into the floor as the sarkarin worked his tongue around inside her. It was a long tongue, Mia knew that from experience, longer than his cock, and he wasted no time getting all of it into the tetrad. It was probably wriggling around in her guts.

The more Julisa wriggled and squirmed, a ten-foot-tall demoness at the mercy of a hulking beast holding her down and eating her ass, the more Mia could do nothing to stop her aura from filling the cave. Part of her wanted to feel jealous, but seeing her bodyguard force his tongue into the queen bitch and pull grunts and moans out of her was so delicious. When Vin dominated Julisa, he was rough-and-tumble about it. Kas was a little more controlled, a little more reserved.

Kas had done that to Mia, the first time he'd ever fucked her, with Adron and Zel. He'd forced that tongue into her, too, and had her wriggle around on it and... and make all the noises Julisa was making. Decadent noises.

"If you get any louder," someone said, a guy. Romakus. "You'll wake the pup."

Mia covered her mouth and looked around. Yosepha walked up to her, straight up to her and beside Vinicius, opposite of Kas and Julisa, and set her glare on him.

"Vinicius, you better have not--"

"It was my idea," Mia said. "I um..." She gestured back at Cerberus, fast asleep, then at Vincius in front of her, the titan between her legs. No need to gesture at the cock lying across Vin's abs, or the one inside Mia, bulging her belly out.

Embarrassment whiplash. Getting into orgies with the demons was one thing, but there were two angels in the cave with them this time.

Romakus squatted behind Yosepha, set his claws on her shoulders, and pulled her toga off. Completely off, down to her ankles. Her eyes snapped open and she spun, but Romakus just grinned down at her, turned her again so she did a 360 with her own momentum, and faced her body toward Mia. He lowered his claws again, and pulled her loincloth off, too, revealing her perfectly hairless little slit.

Angels weren't supposed to get embarrassed, but Yosepha looked down at her own naked body, and scrunched up her nose in that classic angry-embarrassed way Mia had probably done a hundred times in her life.

"Romakus," Yosepha said. "You--"

Whether it was Mia's aura driving him, or just the fact they hadn't fucked in days, Romakus didn't listen to his girl. He knelt down facing Mia, winked at her, and shoved Yosepha. The angel stumbled forward, fell on her hands on Vin's side, but not to her knees. Romakus grabbed her thighs, kept her ass up in the air, and did the same thing as Kas. He leaned in, buried his face in Yosepha's large, perfect ass, and forced his tongue into it.

Yosepha's eyes opened wider, and from a whole one foot away, looked at Mia. Mia looked at her. So close. Yosepha's mouth opened, a little moan escaped her, and another, and all the while, she kept her eyes locked with Mia's. Obsidian eyes that matched her dark skin perfectly.

Julisa flopped onto Vin's chest. Mia squeaked, sat up straight, finally tore her eyes away from the angel beside her, and stared at Julisa as the tetrad melted onto Vin's chest. Between growls and groans, Julisa looked back at Mia, smiled at her, and closed her eyes as a hard shudder pulsed through her.

Kas grabbed Julisa's hips, and sank his cock into her ass. The dinosaur quietly growled down at his prey, leaned over her, leaned toward Mia, and nudged his snout into her neck.

Mia shivered. "You're... just gonna do whatever Vin wants now?"

He grinned, as much as a demon with a short dinosaur snout could grin, and licked Mia's neck and cheek. She quivered. With a vibrating rumble that could have come out of a giant crocodile, he grabbed Julisa's horns, guided her closer to Mia and Yosepha, pinned her down over Vin's abs, and kept her there. One hand snug on her hip, the other wrapped claws around her huge horns, lifted her head, and brought it to Mia.

Kas, being playful? What had happened?

Julisa grinned at Mia as she came closer. Her head was literally twice as tall as Mia's, twice as wide, and when she kissed Mia, the difference in the size of their lips was not subtle. Mia froze. Kissing Julisa, because Kas was making her. Julisa grinned into the kiss, lowered her head, nudged noses with her, and kissed her again. Mia didn't pull away.

"I do oh so love to hate you," Julisa said.

"I... I um..."

Julisa groaned again and turned over. More like flopped over, Kas more than strong enough to turn the tall woman onto her back so her torso lay across Vin's abs, and her head craned out of the way so she didn't stab Yosepha with her horns. She adjusted, got Vin's second cock out from under her arm, and pushed it up against Mia's stomach.

Kas behind Julisa, aiming Julisa straight onto Vin's chest. And Romakus behind Yosepha, aiming Yosepha straight onto Vin's chest. A dogpile. It was a giant dogpile.

Yosepha came closer. Was pushed closer. Romakus got on his knees behind his girl, set his massive cock along her huge butt, and just like with Kas and Julisa, he slowly pushed his cock into his girl's ass. Gently at first, he sank the giant thing balls deep into her, ground into her so her huge ass molded to his pelvis, and then he fucked her. Hard thrusts, deep thrusts, each sinking every inch of his length into her, each making her ass ripple, cheeks swinging back and forth between slapping his pelvis, and sliding toward her lower back.

Two girls, lying across Vin's giant chest and stomach, right in front of Mia, and both were getting fucked in the ass.

"Your aura," Yosepha said. "It's... It's..."

"Sorry! I'm sorry. I lost control, and... I didn't think--" She squeaked. Not loudly, thank god, but she squeaked, brought her hands up, covered her mouth, and squeaked again as Vin ground her on his cock. He only had one hand holding her now, the one Yosepha was leaning over, but it was more than enough to work Mia on his cock like a toy.

There was too much motion. Who was where? Whose arm was that? At least everyone was color coded, Julisa with red skin, Yosepha with dark brown, and Mia as pale as a sheet, with freckles.

Chuckling, Julisa rolled onto her side and faced Yosepha and Mia. Kas straddled her leg, held the other over his shoulder, and continued to fuck her, each thrust earning a small bulge on the huge demon's belly. On her side, her heavy breasts pulled down with gravity, upper one squashing the lower one against Vin's abs, and Kas's thrusting forced them to flow back and forth across her chest like water balloons.

The new position gave her the angle to grab Vin's cock, and stroke it while smiling up at Mia.

"You look surprised, Mia," she said between her grunts.

"I--" Another squeak. Talking was too hard with Vin bouncing her stretched pussy on his cock, each inch dragging along her drenched insides. Pressure, on everything, filling her, opening her up.

"Did this angel give you the impression she is pure?" Between her moans, Julisa chuckled, reached out, and took Yosepha's closer hand. Yosepha tried to pull away, but Julisa pulled her closer again, not so gently. The angel fell, lay across Vin's arm, and Julisa leaned up to her. And kissed her.

Mia could do nothing but stare. Somewhere along the line of watching the queen bitch violate everyone's personal boundaries, someone had put Mia's two hands back around Vin's second cock. No, wait, Mia had done that, without even realizing. As Vin bounced her harder, her hands moved on their own, squeezed and stroked his cock, and her insides clenched for all they were worth, as if they could stop the second massive phallus from pushing up against her boiling insides.

Maybe it was the aura. Maybe it was just because demons and angels didn't have that spark humans did. Whatever the reason, the boundaries between 'sexually acceptable behavior' didn't seem to exist for them. Yosepha didn't know Vin, had never touched Vin, didn't like Vin, but she blinked down at the giant arm she half lay on, at Vin's body, and at Vin's second cock. She liked what she saw.

Julisa guided her hand and set it on Vin's length. Mia froze. Another hand, a very human-looking hand, around Vin's cock, overlapping Mia's fingers. But Julisa didn't stop there. She outright pushed Yosepha toward Mia, and the angel had to catch Mia's shoulder to not collapse on her. With an evil chuckle, Julisa slid closer, still on her side on Vin's abs, and she got her claws around Vin's cock, too.

Vin chuckled, just as evil as Julisa's, but much deeper, more like a rolling rumble. Borderline purring, he bounced Mia on his cock harder than he should have, and Mia covered her mouth with one hand. Stroking Vin's cock while getting fucked up to her lungs was too hard, but Julisa kept her fingers around Mia's, locking them in place.

Both demon and angel got to watch Mia cum from only inches away. She squirmed, wriggled, covered her breasts with her free hand, but it didn't matter. Every bit of her was on display, and instead, she covered her face as the electric tingles pulsed through her.

Yosepha pulled Mia's hand down and smiled at her.

"That aura... is strong," the angel said. She stretched her wings, folded them snug to her back, and arched her spine, showing off the curves of her warrior body and her large, firm ass jiggling behind her. "It's only grown stronger since that time in the caves."

"Sorry! Sorry. Sor... ry..." Mia's mouth fell open, and she watched, frozen, as Yosepha fucked Romakus. One hand still on Vin's cock, Yosepha looked down at it with hungry eyes, stroked it with Julisa and Mia's fingers, and met Romakus's thrusts. Her moans grew, her eyes melted, and she leaned in toward Mia.

Cheek on Mia's shoulder, the angel came.

This aura was a menace. Mia had gotten so good at keeping it under control, but now, it was turning everyone around her into mindless sex slaves! And every attempt Mia made to squash the vibrating strings did nothing. She wasn't strong enough to stop them.

Nah, that wasn't it. She just didn't want to stop them.

Mia nudged foreheads with Yosepha and felt her cum, felt her shudders, felt her muscles twitch, and felt the breeze from her wings struggling to hold still. Julisa came right behind her. The demon had a lot more control when she came, but she still shuddered and groaned, lifted her head, and aimed an evil grin at Kas as her tail slithered.

"And here I thought you'd only ever touch the unmarked, Kasimiro."

Kas snorted and pulled out of the tetrad. A trail of cum followed, long heavy strands of white that oozed out of the girl's ass. And with another grin Kas normally never wore, he abandoned Julisa, and came up behind Mia.

"Kas?" Mia asked. "What're you--"

The giant dinosaur set his eyeless gaze on her back, took his cock, and laid it on her ass. He wasn't as big as Vin, but that didn't change that he was utterly huge, his cock resting along the crack of her ass and reaching up past her lower back. He lowered it, set the cum-soaked glans against her asshole, and rubbed it against her clenching skin.

She should have seen this coming, but never did she think Kas and Vin had started to get along. Surely big, angry, tough demons like them would fight each other instead of share her, right? She whimpered and stared down over her shoulder at the massive cock Kas pressed against her asshole, and slowly eased into her.

Kas wrapped a hand around her throat, pulled her up so her head pressed against his stomach, and he gently sank every inch of his girth into her. Head pinned, she couldn't look down to see, but from the way Yosepha and Julisa were staring, Mia's belly must have been growing even more. It felt like it. The only reason she hadn't exploded was both demons' cocks were flesh, and pliable enough they molded to fit the grooves and curves of her depths. She could feel it, feel Kas ease his cock past where he should have stopped, and very slowly keep going until he was penetrating her guts.

"My... god..." Yosepha said.

"Language, dear angel," Julisa said. She got on her knees beside Vin, rested her four hands on his abs, and casually grabbed and stroked his second cock. But it was Mia she stared at, eyes locked on Mia's belly. "Mmmmm." She touched Mia's body, Mia's breasts, her hard nipples, and lowered her hand down the bulge until she found Mia's clitoris again.

Kas pushed in until his pelvis met Mia's ass, and just like with Romakus and Yosepha, he got in there tight, snug, so Mia's cheeks molded to the shape of his steel body. He let go of her neck, leaving her to lean forward, lean against Yosepha, and gasp and squeak. No room left inside her. Everything full. She could barely breathe.

And Kas fucked her. Not hard like Romakus and Yosepha, though. He knew she couldn't handle something as rough as those two right now, but he wasn't especially gentle, either. She squeaked, covered her mouth, squeaked some more, and looked up at Kas looming over her. He growled. No eyes made reading him a pain, but he was throwing out some aggressive vibes, and his snout was pointed at Vinicius.

Vin snorted at the sarkarin. Kas snorted back. Vin growled. Kas growled louder, stomach vibrating straight into Mia's back. Vin sat up straighter, half knocked Yosepha and Julisa off, and towered over Mia. But Kas wasn't sitting, he was squatting above Mia, and the angle meant he got to stay eye-to-eye with the titan.

Vin reached for him. Kas knocked the arm away and snarled back. Vin sat up straighter, leaned in closer, and returned Kas's growl from directly above Mia's head. Their bodies twisted and shifted, and Mia felt it all, each flex of their muscles causing the two cocks filling her to move with them. And as the two demons got more and more aggressive with each other, they got closer, and closer.

"Boys!" Mia said, half turned, and pressed out both hands, one for Vin and one for Kas. "Boys! Don't... fight."

Vin's rumble was beyond deep, a heavy bass sound that made her teeth buzz in her skull. So forward, his stomach almost touched her shoulder, and Kas's already was. She was trapped between two slabs of rock muscle.

Kas growled back and shoved Vin with one hand. He wasn't the gentle. The titan fell back, pushed back up with two hands, and again reached for Kas with his two others.

"Boys!" she half yelled, half whispered. "Come on. Get along. Please?" Weren't these two getting along these days? What happened? Jealousy? How could they be jealous if they were both fucking her?

Because they weren't jealous. They were hungry. The growling wasn't an argument about two guys wanting the girl. It was a hunger battle between two predators fighting over a meal. And she was trapped in the middle of it, literally, with both men filling her, stretching her, and their growls and snarls vibrated through them straight up into her.

She faced Vin, pushed on his chest with both hands, and pushed her ass back into Kas. Moving a single inch was trouble, but she managed, and she quivered as the two cocks slid against her squeezing insides. Delicious friction against her wet walls, against her boiling skin, against her everything. She drew her ass forward, pushed it into Vin, and back again at Kas.

"Don't... fight." Between her mewls, she reached back, caressed Kas's chest, and Vin's as well. Not enough. She reached down, took Vin's second cock, lay the cum-soaked girth against her bulging belly, and stroked it with her hands from tip to base. "Don't fight. I'll take care of both of you. Okay?"

Vin rumbled, but it softened as he watched her stroke his cock. Slowly, he lay back, eyes locked on her and his cum coating her skin. Julisa cozied back onto his chest, and Yosepha again rested her hands on his abs. Both looked between the two hungry demons and Mia, a little startled, and from what Mia could see, more turned on. Mia worked her hips back and forth and stroked Vin's cock, but it was too damn much, and she let the second cock go. It flopped on his abs, landed with a heavy splat on his cum-drenched muscles, and she whimpered as she stared down at it, no longer moving. Too much. Too hard.

Kas took her hips and fucked her again, harder this time, and the moment she fell forward, Vin took her waist and held her down. She couldn't move, couldn't turn or twist, could only sit there on Vin's cock while Kas sank every inch of his cock into her guts, ground himself into her so her ass molded snug to his body, before fucking her more.

"Animals," Yosepha said, half frowning, half staring. Eyes locked on Mia's body, she reached out and ran her hand down Mia's skin, her belly bulge, up to her tiny breasts and their swollen nipples, and back down her stomach. "You look... ready to burst."

Mia tried to speak. No good. Squeaks and whimpers were all that came out.

With her usual evil chuckle, Julisa snuggled onto Vin's abs, took his second cock, and engulfed half the massive thing in her mouth and throat. She had to arch her back to get the angle right, but she managed, if only because demon cocks were thick, long, but malleable enough to bend slightly.

Cock in her throat, she winked at Mia, took Yosepha's hand with one of her many own, and guided it down Mia's body, down to her thighs, and onto her poor, aching clit.

Yosepha, body shaking as Romakus happily fucked her ass, looked Mia in the eyes, and caressed her clitoris. The badass warrior woman's face melted, and she quivered, eyes locked on Mia, as she rubbed, stroked, and massaged Mia's pussy. With cum soaking it all, Yosepha's massaging touch rubbed it into her skin, massaged it into her pussy, and Mia drifted off into lala land.

Mia grabbed her wrist and collapsed forward, but Kas held her shoulder and forced her to sit up. She came, writhed on the two cocks fighting for space inside her, and thank god Yosepha let her clit be as it grew intensely sensitive. But Kas did no such thing. He fucked her through her orgasm, forced weak gasps out of her as she fought for air, and it wasn't long before he pumped cum into her. Only when a third gush of his cum poured into her guts did he slow his thrusts.

But that didn't mean he stopped cumming or pulled out. He ground his pelvis into her ass, and she managed a quick peek back. It really was a nice ass, big and firm compared to her small body, and it looked great squashed and molded to his body. She managed that thought for a few seconds before Vin lifted her, and bounced her on his cock.

"Vin! Slow... d-down..."

He didn't last long. More cum pumped into her pussy, flooded her, but Vin's cock filled her pussy to its limit. The cum poured out of her, borderline squirted, heavy waves of thick white that flowed out and got trapped where her thighs pressed to Vin's waist. And through it all, Kas was still in her guts, pouring more cum into her.

Julisa lifted her head, and another wave of cum joined the mess from her mouth. Claws around Vin's cock, she casually stroked it, set her cheek on Vin's chest, and watched Mia squirm.

"How lucky," Julisa said, "to be fought over. How--"

Romakus pushed Yosepha forward. The angel groaned, fell onto her chest and stomach across Vin's abs, and Romakus pinned her there. No one moved. Everyone watched. Yosepha had the body of an angel, a perfect body, a tiny little waist, toned curves, and a huge, firm ass. No one could help but watch it ripple back and forth with each of Romakus's thrusts, until the angel was again moaning. Cum poured out from her ass, splashed over Romakus's pelvis, but he didn't stop.

It wasn't long before Kas started again, and Mia stayed upright. Anything to keep watching Yosepha.

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The sex went on for a while longer. Everyone was backed up, craving it, and Mia's aura refused to let up even when she got tired and sore. Kas and Vin got into a few more tiffs, growling at each other, and Mia played referee for them, while they literally both fucked her at the same time. It was a little strange, and very hot. Something about two demons fighting over her like angry animals, while simultaneously fucking her, was so primal, she couldn't help but enjoy it. So big and strong, hard and muscular, grunting and growling, pushing and shoving and snarling, all with her trapped between them and their cocks stretching her insides.

Julisa cozied up against Vin's side. He didn't mind. Maybe it was post-orgasm contentment, but the giant let her get between his arms and chest, and she traced his abs with her claws.

"Next time, Mia," she said. "You should take both of Vin's cocks inside you."

Mia sat on the floor between Vin's legs, Kas behind her, squatting over her, and cock finally disappearing back into his body.

"I... I might literally just pop if I do that," she said.

Julisa shrugged. "I am sure your special body will adapt."

"And if it doesn't?"

"You die. Surely that is worth the attempt?"

Mia facepalmed, but spotted Yosepha in the corner of her eye. The angel stood up and looked past her to the other side of the cave.

"Sorry, Noah. Mia's aura got the better of me. Of us."

Noah! Shit! Mia spun.

Noah sat in the back beside the sleeping puppy and rolled his eyes. He'd resisted her aura. Holy shit.

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~~Day 79~~

~~David~~

Demons could be sneaky when they wanted to be. The sky burned fire, usually cast a red-tinted or amber-tinted light between rays of normal light, and Hell always had a million shadows nearby, either from trees or giant monuments or mountains. Demons were dark red, some parts redder or darker than others, and they were damn good at finding shadows to blend into. They blended in.

David glanced back. Somehow the group of followers had grown to a hundred, a mix of demons and humans, mostly succubi, incubi, and their betrayers. No one with wings. A few brutes, a few vrats, and a couple borjins. Borjins, minotaurs, were damn rare, as big as brutes, with some monstrous spikes on their back, a couple forward-pointing horns like Caera's, and a long, thick tail, too. But David had tried to talk to them, and both had been as conversational as rocks. Builders, the other demons called them, with skin almost as dark as brutes, and happy to do nothing but lift and move heavy things.

They had plenty of weapons, but it was clear they weren't demons from the Grave Valley or Death's Grip. Less scars. If they got into a fight, they wouldn't be as useful as the demons David was used to dealing with, especially because most of them were volas.

But there were a hundred of them, betrayers included, maybe more. And they were following him.

Why the fuck were they following him? Sure, he had special powers, and he'd proved it a couple times now, but that didn't mean he could lead anyone. And from the way some of them looked at him, he had a sneaking suspicion they weren't just following him for a chance to get back to the Scar. Either they wanted an opportunity to eat him, or maybe eat Moriah, or they were legitimately curious about what an unmarked might do. If an unmarked girl in the Navameere Fields was amassing an army and making an ally of a spire ruler, maybe he'd end up doing the same?

He didn't want to do that. Spotlight? No thanks. A quiet journey full of sex and no violence fit him much better, thank you very much. Not that he had a problem with being in the spotlight, but not like this. If he proved everyone wrong about a miscellaneous fact at school, he practically basked in the glory of victory. But there was no responsibility with that, no one looking to him, expecting him to deal with their problems. From the look some demons gave him, and especially a lot of the souls, they were hoping for exactly that.

That had to be it. He was unmarked and in Hell, and they were hoping for a way they could become unmarked, too.

He couldn't help them. They were damned, and it was their own fault. And on top of that, they'd made their damnation so much worse by accepting the betrayer's curse. 666 deaths, and for some of them, that was over fifty fold more deaths than their original number. How stupid could you be?

Faced with death and terror, he'd have probably done the same thing.

Caera returned from the edge of the forest, and from the look on her face, he already knew what she was going to say.

"Angels," she said. "Lots of them. They're super high, but if I can see them, I'm sure they could see me if I left the forest."

"They would," Moriah said. "Without fog"--she gestured around at the lack thereof--"and the protection of a canopy or tunnels, angels would spot us easily. It would take far too many holy warriors to scour all of Hell, but a small border? We... must deal with them."

Laoko sighed, shook her head, and gestured up at the thorny branches.

"I can think of no way past them that isn't violent."

"Agreed," Jes said, wings snug to her back.

Sighing louder than Laoko, Daoka leaned against a tree and clicked.

"Fight!" Lasca said. The Las marched in a small circle, one with no thorny branches. "Fight! Fight!"

Tacharius joined them. "Uh, what? You marched all this way to... fight the angels? I thought you had a plan to get past them?"

"I do have a plan," David said. "I just don't want to use it."

"Plan? What, fight?" The incubus got ahead of them and held out his hands like a barrier. "There's, what, a thousand angels up there? Last I checked, angels are strong. They're strong, right?" He gestured to Moriah. Moriah nodded. "See? Strong! How strong?"

"As strong as a tetrad," Moriah said, and she gestured around. "Stronger, if we have room to maneuver."

Laoko smiled and winked at the angel.

"And there's a thousand of them!?" Tacharius threw up his hands and spun in a circle. If the situation weren't so dire, David would have laughed. He'd done the same gestures before. "And you want to fight them?"

"I don't want to," David said. "But if they try and stop me, I will."

"And you can defeat them?"

David shrugged. "If they came at me straight on? Probably not."

"Then... what're you going to do?"

David took a deep breath. He'd eaten plenty, and while he could never feel full for some reason, he felt good. Ready to summon his armor, his staff, and fight. It was the last thing he wanted to do.

David faced the girls. "What do you think? If we try and enter the canyon, we get dive-bombed."

"Worse," Moriah said. "The mikalim will unleash beams of holy light from above, and the gabriem will unleash their arrows. It would not be a battle. It would be a slaughter. We could not fight back unless you use your abilities to the most extreme."

And she was right. No matter how skilled the girls were, they couldn't do anything as long as the angels stayed above and exploited their 'heavenly privilege' of flight. Even if David brought them to the ground somehow, it'd only take ten angels to beat David and the crew. A thousand? A straight-up battle was not an option.

He had to think differently. He had to think bigger. Mia had created a firestorm and killed hundreds of angels and even more demons. A last option. But what else could he do?

Moriah stepped forward, past the group, and walked to the edge of the forest.

Laoko grabbed her wing and yanked her back. "What are you doing?"

In the past, Moriah would have yanked her wing free, spun, and confronted Laoko, maybe even shove her. This Moriah let her head hang and did nothing.

"I am going to speak to them."

"What?"

"I am going to speak to them. They deserve to know what happened to my retinue, those that died to the rider. And... And they deserve to know that I have betrayed them. That I have joined the unmarked on his quest."

Betray? David touched Laoko's hand. She let go, and he stepped around in front of Moriah.

"You know that's not what happened, Moriah."

"Is it not? I have lost friends because of you, because of the orders of the council, because of this misunderstanding. I have done terrible things."

"Terrible things? What?"

She shook her head, put a hand on David's shoulder, and smiled down at him with her red eyes. What was it about hidden sadness that could make a face so heartbreakingly beautiful?

"My sin reaches further than you know."

"What? Moriah, what're you--"

She gently pushed him back, and again walked to the edge of the forest.

"Hide yourselves," she said. "I will speak with them."

Acelina didn't hesitate. She herded the Las back to join the group and Timaeus, and Laoko, sighing and shaking her head, joined them. Even Caera, sat beside David, stared up at Moriah and watched her. And let her go.

Jes didn't. The gargoyle dashed forward, grabbed Moriah's wing, and turned her around.

"You bitch."

"What?"

"You bitch, Moriah! The fuck is this, some kind of ritual suicide? You... what's the phrase, David? Throwing yourself on your sword?"

"Yes."

"Yeah!" Jes shoved her. Equal heights, equal builds, wings included. "You don't get to just die, Moriah, not after all the pain you've caused us. You dumbass bitch. You're stuck in it with us. We're trying to save the fucking world, and you're helping us!"

David winced and glanced at Tacharius. The incubus's mouth fell open. Well, they knew the general gist of the plan now.

Moriah's wing drooped, but she held Jes's gaze.

"Jesk--"

"Don't. Don't give me some stupid bullshit. You're stuck in this shit with the rest of us."

David glanced back at the others. Laoko had a subtle grin on. Acelina had no expression, of course. The Las were confused. Caera was confused. Daoka frowned, came up beside David, and set her eyeless glare on the angel.

Again, the angel sighed, and she gently pushed Jes back. "This is something I have to do, Jeskura. If the Heavenly Islands know that a Third Rank of Azoryev will go against the council, then maybe some angels can be convinced."

Jes shook her head. "David can--"

"David must stay here. If this does not work, at least I will have created an opportunity for David to strike the angels while they are distracted."

Silence fell on them all.

"You can't be serious," David said. "You... You want me to strike first?"

"That depends on how this encounter goes. But it must happen, David. I must speak with them."

"Why now?" Jes asked. "You could have gone before! You could have--"

"This is the moment, gorgala. This is where the indecision meets decision. This is where I will challenge the faith and duty of my peers."

"So, what? You want an epic showdown?"

"Epic is... a word for it, I suppose." Moriah stepped back, offered them a small smile, and turned. "It must happen, and here, I think they will see the truth of my words."

Timaeus stepped up from the crowd of followers. They parted for him, some ducking behind trees to get out of his way, but a couple incubi and male betrayers followed him. He'd been making friends.

"And if something goes wrong? If the angels strike you down?"

Moriah frowned at him, but it didn't last. Truth dragged her down, her eyes softened, and she looked at the ground.

"Then David can use my death as the signal to start his war."

David waved a hand. "I don't want a war! I don't--"

Moriah turned and ran off. Laoko chased after her, heavy body rumbling the ground with her hooves, but Moriah summoned her armor, and Laoko stopped and covered her eyes against the gold light. Hissing, she stepped back and looked to David.

"Stop her!"

David blinked up at her. Everyone with eyes blinked up at her. Why did Laoko care so much?

He didn't get to ask. Everyone hid behind trees, found shadows, stopped moving, and disappeared at the edge of the Amisius Forest, as Moriah stepped into view of the burning sky above.

It didn't take long. A single angel with only one wing, the other still a stubby, tiny thing, was still an angel with beautiful white wings and gold and silver armor. She was radiant. She was beautiful. And no one could not see her.

Angels descended. David and his girls peeked from around toppled trees, giant rocks, and other shadowy crevices. There was still a little fog in the forest, and plenty of shadows, enough he was reasonably sure they wouldn't be spotted. The followers in the back didn't even get close to the forest edge, and all backed up the moment Moriah had made it clear what she was about to do. But David crept closer, crawled on his belly on the gravel and around the thorny branches, and listened.

Wings. Hundreds. A thousand. Angels in armor, angels wielding weapons, angels with faces hidden in the shadow of their helmets descended in a flowing wave of movement. Once they got close to the ground, they slowed and hovered, changed into a giant pyramid formation with point down, and descended until the point reached Moriah. A single angel hovered in front of her inches above the ground, a man, someone wearing absurdly massive armor, with a spear in one hand and a giant shield in the other. A rapholem.

"Moriah," the man said, and his voice boomed. "You live. Thank the Heavens."

"I live," she said, and flared out her one wing. "My retinue did not. The rider interfered and destroyed my wing. I heal, slowly."

"The rider." Wings out and weapon pointed down, the rapholem landed and looked over Moriah's shoulder. "There is movement behind you."

Well. Fuck. Angel eyes were something else.

"Yes, there is. Demons that have followed me. I have... I have to speak my case."

"Your case?"

Moriah sucked in a breath and didn't so much as glance back.

"I have... been helping the unmarked, Saar."

The angel froze. His wings froze. His quartz eyes stared ahead, piercing the shadow of his helmet, locked onto the angel in front of him.

"Moriah, after what happened..."

"I know, Saar. I made a grave mistake."

"Mistake!?" The angel flared his wings, stepped back, and pointed his spear at her. "You killed Galon, a gabriem of Avinoam! You have no idea the chaos you have unleashed, Moriah! Angels argue. Angels fight. Angels disagree and resist each other for the first time since the First War, and now you say you have betrayed your own cause!?"

Moriah killed Galon? David sucked in a quiet breath and looked at Laoko, but the tetrad's normally calm face was glaring death straight into Moriah's back.