Chapter 5
“You need to fight off the snakes, and I’ll focus on the Urn,” I said as I carefully watched the slithering fuckers head toward us.
There looked to be hundreds of snakes, but it was difficult to count them from the way they constantly ducked underneath the sand. I was the only one who could touch the rocks, so I relied on my coven to keep the beady-eyed beasts away from me as I retrieved the final artifact.
“Let me at them,” Akira growled. “I’ll rip them in two and watch as their headless bodies squirm around on the ground.”
“Make me proud.” I smirked.
The witches kept a close eye on the snakes, and when the serpents were a few feet away from us, my women began to attack.
I heard various shouts and commands as the witches threw everything they had toward the snakes, and I did my best to ignore the incoming threat as I turned my attention back toward the rocks. I had to think of a way to get the Urn, but apart from the two rocks, I saw no other clue as to where the Urn could have been hidden.
“Oh, fuck,” Faye groaned, which caused me to instantly turn around.
“How are we ever going to get past them?” Astrid asked.
Every time someone shot at a snake, instead of the snake dying, the number of serpents would increase by at least ten. That had to be the artifact’s enchantment, and I already knew it was going to be far more difficult than our previous challenge.
Then Astrid shot at another snake, and two more took its place.
“Will you stop doing that?” Akira shouted. “We now have twice the number than we did before!”
“I’m sorry, I’m just trying to find a fucking way out of this!” Astrid replied.
But that was my job.
I had to find a way out of this, but I also needed to find the Urn before it was too late.
I thought through the riddle once more and tried to pick up on any words that stood out to me. I’d already solved the mystery of two minds together working as one, but there had to be more to it than that. The riddle mentioned something about going to where the sand is thick, and there it will be done.
We’d already found the thick sand, but what was I missing?
Then I glanced around the rocks, and I noticed something odd about the snakes. They were headed for the witches and struck whenever they were close enough, but instead of crowding around us, the snakes had congregated to my right.
“Look,” I said as I motioned toward the reptiles. “Have you noticed how they don’t leave that area?”
“Shit, I hadn’t even thought of that,” Della muttered. “I was so busy trying to stop the fuckers from multiplying.”
“Put your wands down, let’s see what they do,” I said.
We lowered our weapons, but even then, the snakes never moved closer. It was almost like they were stopping us from reaching the dunes behind them, and they’d been instructed not to move from that one spot.
“The Urn isn’t here,” I muttered as it all became clear to me.
The snakes were here to protect the Urn, and to stop other people from getting to it, so if the Urn was under these rocks, the snakes would have tried to come closer.
“What?” Faye asked. “What do you mean it’s not here?”
“I think it’s over there,” I said as I pointed behind the snakes. “We’ll need to cross their path in order to get to the Urn.”
“Well, fuck,” Astrid sighed. “I thought we were getting somewhere for a second.”
“And we are,” I replied. “We just need to be a bit more thorough.”
All of a sudden, a thick, black shadow swooped overhead, and I caught the sight of Alexander’s red eyes as he circled the sky.
Look out below! the wolverine bellowed with a deep chuckle.
Then Alexander soared over the sea of snakes, and he scooped one of them out from the sand like how an eagle caught a fish. The snake hissed and twisted his body around Alexander’s paws, but the wolverine had his claws dug into the snake’s head, which stopped the reptile from biting or striking.
As Alexander played with his victim, I targeted the beasts that remained in the sand.
“Conligo,” I said in a firm voice.
The snakes instantly stopped squirming, and they became as still as statues. The binding hex wasn’t going to keep them still for long, but it also wasn’t making them respawn multiples, so it gave me just enough time to get to the other side.
I ran as quickly as I could through the sea of snakes, and just as I reached the mound of sand behind them, the serpents began to twitch and move again.
“Do whatever you can to stop them!” I shouted over to my women. “I’ll search for the Urn while you keep them at bay!”
The piercing sound of the snakes’ hisses and screams filled my ears, but now that I was on the new sand dune, I had to work out where to locate the Urn.
“Go to where the sand is thick…” I muttered under my breath.
The sand was up to my knees, so it was deep all around me, which meant either the Urn was hidden somewhere around me, or the riddle meant something else. Perhaps it was the texture, rather than the overall amount of sand that mattered.
There was a difference between dry and wet sand, and there was definitely a thicker consistency when the sand was damp, but that didn’t seem to help my situation. Maybe I had to dampen the sand myself, but without knowing where, it could have taken me days to find the right spot.
I looked back at the snakes and noticed the witches were doing a terrific job at distracting them, so I left them to it and continued to search. I glanced across the horizon, I peered down at my feet, and I looked from left to right as I tried to get an idea of where to go.
But then, as I peered off into the distance once again, I noticed something shimmering across the surface of the sand. It was the same damn mirage that had infiltrated my head this entire time, but this time it looked clearer, and something about the mirage made it seem as though it held more life and body.
Almost like it was real, and not just a figment of my imagination.
The shimmer held shades of blue and orange, which could have just been a reflection from the sky, but it looked like a pool of water across the surface of the sand, and something in me told me to go over there. It was the clearest mirage so far, and I felt like it was something I shouldn’t avoid.
I couldn’t work out how far away the mirage was, or if I’d ever reach it, but I began to run toward it and hoped for the best. My feet slipped through the thin grains of sand, but I kept my core strong and forced myself to keep going. The echoes from the fight behind me were still strong in the air, and it felt like a driving force to keep moving, no matter how far I had to travel.
I had to retrieve this Urn, and I wasn’t going to stop until the object was safely in my hands.
I continued to run for at least five minutes, and the mirage appeared to get further away every time I took a new step, but just as I was about to give up, I noticed the change in the terrain. I no longer slipped and fell through the sand, and instead it appeared firmer beneath my feet. Then I looked down and noticed the sand was a dark brown in color, instead of yellow and gold like the rest of the ground around me.
I frowned as I crouched down and pressed my hand against the sand. It wasn’t damp, but it also wasn’t dry, and it was more like a strange combination between the two. I dug my fingers into the sand to create a ball in my palm, and I realized I had the right spot.
The Urn was here somewhere, and I just had to find it.
I took a few steps back so I could take in the solid ground, and then I reached for my wand and aimed it directly into the center of the sand.
“Vos,” I commanded.
I’d once used this spell to part soil around a grave and reveal the corpse underneath, so I assumed it would have the same impact with the Urn.
As I’d expected, the sand began to crumble and fall away, and the ground shook beneath me as the spell took hold. Mounds of thick, compacted sand formed around the sides, and then a hole appeared in the center.
A blue and silver domed lid then appeared from inside the crater-like hole, and the more I held the spell against the sand, the more the object revealed itself. The Urn of Annihilation was right there in front of me, and all I had to do was hold the incantation until the entire object lifted from the ground.
The majority of the Urn was a beautiful, cobalt-blue in color, and with intricate silver details that ran around the base and the top of the lid. The silver details held the same markings I’d seen on the Inscriptions, so I figured the other artifacts held the same thing, and it was those markings together that caused the great destruction.
Time seemed to tick by so slowly, but once the Urn was high in the air, I dropped the spell, and the artifact carefully lowered to the ground. Then I went to grab it with both hands, but just as my fingers were centimeters away from the Urn, a bolt of lightning shot from the Urn and zapped my hands.
“Argh, fuck!” I groaned as the pain raced through my bones.
It felt like the same protection block that had been placed around the rocks, but now I was also affected. I knew I needed to break the block somehow, and until the hex had been lifted, there was no way anyone could get their hands on the artifact.
“Circa obstructionum conteram in vobis,” I demanded with my wand aimed straight at the Urn.
A red light shot from the wand, and it created a wall around the entire object. My wand vibrated in my hand, but I kept the spell there, no matter how hard the blockage tried to fight back.
Beads of sweat fell down my back and across my forehead, and at one point I closed my eyes as I put all my energy into the spell.
“Come on!” I cried out.
It felt like there was a brick wall between myself and the Urn, but my spell slowly chipped away at the wall the longer I held it there.
“Cole?” A familiar voice came from somewhere around me. “Master, you’ve done it!”
I opened my eyes to see Akira and Della had joined me, but Astrid and Faye weren’t with them.
“Where are the others?” I asked as I strained against the force of the Urn.
“We’ve managed to trap half the snakes, so Astrid and Faye are doing the same to the second half,” Akira explained. “What’s going on here?”
“We need to break the block around the Urn,” I grunted. “Do whatever you can to break it.”
Akira and Della repeated the same spell once I repeated it for them, and the red light around the Urn grew darker as the witches’ forces attacked it. I sensed the pressure on my side ease up, and Akira and Della sighed and groaned as they firmly held onto the Urn.
Something about this didn’t add up, and the levels of difficulty had changed ever since we’d arrived in Goshotha. It had gone from being pretty straightforward, to challenging, and that spiral then continued until this very point. I couldn’t work out what it was, or why I felt that way, but something definitely didn’t add up.
I’d focus on that once we had the Urn in our protection, but I was sure to take note of every change that occurred between now and when we arrived back at Scholomance.
“I can’t… hold it!” Akira groaned.
“Yes, you can,” I urged. “If we don’t break the blockage, then we won’t get the Urn.”
“Come on, Akira,” Della encouraged, and the Edrian witch was red in the face as she strained to hold the incantation. “You can’t drop the spell now.”
I could feel the block loosening, but if either one of the women dropped their spell, then the block would intensify again, and we would have been back to square one.
Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Astrid and Faye running toward us. They must have trapped the last of the snakes, and as they ran, I noticed Damien sprinting beside them, and Alexander soared through the air. The witches’ strength was just what we needed, and they couldn’t have arrived at a better time.
“We need to break the hold that’s on the Urn,” I said as the women came closer. “Aim at the artifact and say ‘circa obstructionum conteram in vobis’. Okay?”
“Absolutely, my lord, whatever we can do to help,” Astrid replied as she held her wand steady in one hand.
“Yeah, and you might want to do that quickly…” Della said as she pointed behind me. “I don’t think our traps were strong enough.”
Then I turned around to see the snakes were headed in our direction once again.
“Fuck!” I roared. “Go, now!”
Then the two women shouted the spell in unison.
It was a race against time, and from the speed of the snakes, our timer was going to run out very quickly. The ground was shaking, but from the sheer number of serpents, the deep rumble was heard all around us. There looked to be at least fifty meters between us and the snakes, but the Urn was still refusing to budge.
I noticed the relief on Akira’s face as the weight was lifted from our shoulders, but the black-haired witch kept the spell firmly held against the Urn.
The snakes drew closer, and the vibrations from the ground rattled my bones, but I used everything I had to break the hold around the artifact.
“The snakes are seconds away, master,” Astrid said with fear in her voice.
“Then you need to be stronger,” I urged. “Come on! We can do this!”
I spotted the terrifying eyes that poked free above the sand, and I noticed the razor-sharp fangs as the snakes opened their mouths. Astrid was right, we were moments away from being attacked.
But then something changed.
I noticed the change in color first, and how the red glow around the Urn had changed to a light pink. Then I saw how the light expanded, and it moved further away from the Urn. Finally, with an almighty bang, the light exploded like tiny fireworks in the sky, and it took a second for me to realize what had happened.
Then the ground settled, the snakes disappeared, and like with the mountain, it almost appeared as if nothing had happened. The threat was gone, but the Urn was still in sight.
The artifact hovered in the air, but the red light vanished, and I dropped my wand as the spell was removed. I didn’t know if I was able to touch the artifact now, but there was only one way to find out.
I took small, even steps toward the Urn, but no one said a word, and I could have heard the faintest sound in the distance. Once I was within touching distance of the artifact, I held out both hands and gently pressed my fingertips against the blue, ceramic pot.
Not a single jolt of electricity was felt.
The biggest grin crossed my face as I realized we’d broken the spell, and the artifact was ours to take with us.
“Yes!” Astrid cheered.
“Fuck you, Elder Lord!” Faye added. “Good luck getting the artifacts now!”
Akira and Della laughed hysterically, and I couldn’t help but laugh along with them as I brought the Urn to my chest. So much power hid inside a single, ceramic ornament, and now the power was all ours.
I carefully slipped it inside the bag along with the Inscriptions, and as I turned my head to glance at my group, I noticed the looks of pure awe that crossed their faces.
“Dark One, you did it.” Della smiled. “You broke the charm.”
“I knew you could, but it was still incredible to witness,” Astrid said with the same expression.
“Mmm… fuck,” Akira sighed as she came over toward me. “I couldn’t take my eyes off you the entire time. I just wanted to lick the sweat off your bulging muscles.”
“Is that right?” I winked.
“I couldn’t concentrate on anything else,” she said as she ran her nails across my chest.
“Neither could I,” Faye purred. “I don’t know what came over me, but I couldn’t look away from you.”
My body instantly reacted to their innocent, yet sinful expressions. My cock hardened against the zipper of my shorts, and the dark look in their eyes told me my women felt the same way.
“You said you don’t know what came over you,” I said as I slowly dropped the bag to the ground. “But… perhaps I could?”
“Oooh, shit,” Della sighed.
“I’d love nothing more than for you to cum over me,” Faye added as she played with the knot of her skirt.
“But only if you do it to me, too.” Della smirked, and then she dropped her bikini top to the sand.
“Is this what you want?” I asked Akira and Astrid as I unbuttoned my shorts.
“Yessss,” Akira moaned. “Fuck, I want it so baaaad.”
“Please, my lord, I need to feel you,” Astrid pleaded as she began to unbutton my shirt.
“Then I shall grant you your wish,” I said.
But first I wanted to make things a little more comfortable for everyone. Della had already mentioned getting sand in unwanted places, so with that in mind, I snapped my fingers, and a white tent fell from the sky. The tent was fully pitched, like my cock, and it came with a selection of soft blankets inside.
“Is that better?” I winked.
Della and Faye had already stripped off their bikinis, and they crawled inside the tent as naked as the day they were born. My cock hardened at the sheer sight of my glorious women, and I couldn’t wait to pound my length into each and every one of them.
“Astrid, join the others and pleasure yourself,” I said as I pointed at the ground. “Akira, you’re first.”
“Oh, thank you, Dark One.” Akira grinned.
I briefly gave some thought about which position I preferred, and then I laid down on my back as I watched Akira quickly remove her bikini. I didn’t need to tell her what to do, so as Akira straddled my thighs, I tugged on my hard dick to prepare it for what was about to happen.
I let out an almighty roar as Akira slowly lowered herself onto my cock, and I felt her walls adjust to my size as I forced myself in further. The adrenaline from the day’s events had created a monster inside of me, and I knew it wasn’t going to be long before I filled Akira’s body with my seed.
Astrid, Della, and Faye had obeyed my commands, and they pleasured themselves and each other as Akira allowed her feral instincts to take control. Her small breasts bounced, and her deep groans filled the entire area around us. Anyone in the vicinity would have heard the effect I had on these women, and I wanted someone to come along, just so they could see what I did to these four magnificent witches.
“Shiiiit, master!” Akira cried out as she quickened her movements. “Yes, fuck, right there!”
I kept my hands firmly on her thighs, and I sensed Akira’s muscles contract every time she bounced on my cock.
“I can’t wait to have this child, and then you can plant a second seed in my womb,” Akira said as the speed of her movements increased. “And then again… and again… and again!”
“I’ll always give you a child, for as long as your body allows it,” I replied.
“Does this please you, Dark Lord?” she asked as her hands roamed across her breasts. “Does it please you that I’m one of the first to bear your children?”
“Very much so,” I grunted. “Fuck, you feel so good.”
“Mmmm, I really need to cummmmm,” Akira moaned. “I don’t know how I’ll ever manage to keep going.”
“You must,” I ordered. “You cannot cum until I tell you otherwise.”
Akira continued to let out animalistic sounds as I brought her closer and closer toward her release, and although the monster inside of me was about to erupt, I couldn’t allow it to happen just yet.
Akira’s wild and erratic movements increased, and at one point she arched her back as she grasped a hold of her black hair with both hands. Her walls tightened around my cock every time she dropped down onto me, and it only made me more desperate to release.
I reached my breaking point about five minutes later, and no matter how hard I tried to hold on, I could no longer keep the monster at bay.
“Cum for me, Akira,” I ordered. “Coat my cock with your juices.”
“Aaargh, fuck!” the witch yelled as she found her release.
Akira’s pussy spasmed around me, and her body relaxed as I filled her to the brim with my seed. I held her tight against me as our orgasms shook our bodies, and I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest as my breaths came out in deep, labored pants.
Akira’s tunnel tensed and squeezed around my length once more, but then she slowly lifted off me as she adjusted her position. Wetness dribbled down my inner thighs, and the scent of sex was thick in the air, but that was only going to get stronger.
Once Akira had found the energy to move, she rolled over onto the blankets while I chose which woman I’d fuck next.
“Della,” I said as I stood up from the ground. “Present your pussy for me.”
“Yes, my lord,” she whispered.
Della moved her hands from between her legs, and then she sat up on all fours so her ass faced me. I stroked the curves of her ass with one hand, and I tugged on my cock with the other. I was already hard, and I needed her badly, so once I’d positioned myself at Della’s entrance, I forced myself inside.
“Mmm, fuck!” she cried out as her body lurched forward.
I kept a good hold of Della’s thighs to keep her in place, and I slammed into her pussy with long, hard thrusts. Her tunnel was so warm, and it blissfully squeezed my cock as I moved out and in again. Then I felt a trail of sweat roll down the center of my back, and I knew it was from a mix of both the heat of the sun and the heat of my body as I fucked Della with everything I had.
“Damn, you feel so good,” I groaned. “I could spend my entire day fucking you and filling you up.”
“Please do, master,” Della said as she rocked back into me. “All we want to do is please you and bear your children, and… urgh, you feel… fuck!”
I noticed how Della tried to steady herself, but the light sand made it incredibly difficult to hold herself upright. And at one point, Della threw her head back as her hands grabbed fistfuls of the soft fabric.
“Hold yourself there,” I commanded. “Don’t you dare fall.”
“Of course not, my lord,” she whispered. “Nothing could pull myself away from you right now.”
The sound of my skin slapping against hers ran through my ears, and it was mixed with the pleasurable moans and groans that came from the women beside me. I knew Faye and Astrid were close to reaching their climaxes, but they were well-aware they weren’t allowed to cum before I told them so.
I winced my eyes closed as I forced through the sudden urge to explode, but the more Della’s tight pussy squeezed against my cock, the harder it became to control my actions. Della purred like a cat as she arched her back, and her skin glistened in the bright sunlight streaming in through the tent entrance.
“Oooh, my lord!” she gasped as I pushed in harder. “Your cock feels sooo good, I can’t handle it! Please! Please, let me cum.”
The monster reared his head once again, and the coil tightened inside of me.
“You may cum on the count of three,” I said with a dark voice. “One… two… three!”
Our bodies reacted in sync with each other, and as I filled Della with my hot cream, her juices gushed over my cock. My breaths came out in deep, even pants, and my chest rose and fell as I managed to regain my energy and controlled my breathing. Then Della’s knees gave out as I slipped free from her pussy, and the witch braced herself against the sand as she fell.
“Shit,” she panted. “That was… I have no words except… thank you. I hope my womb is now filled with your child.”
“Me, too.” I laughed along with Della, and I couldn’t help but feel smug as I noticed my creamy essence dripping out of her swollen pussy lips.
Then it was Astrid’s turn, and I stared directly into her eyes as I pounded her body with my cock while she wrapped her slim, yet toned legs around my back to hold me as close to her as possible. After Astrid was filled to the brim with my seed, I moved onto Faye, and she rode me just like Akira had done. The redhead nestled her knees against the blankets to keep herself upright, and she trailed her hands down my stomach as her body ebbed and flowed in a steady pace.
“I can’t control myself when I’m around you, master,” she growled. “The things I want to do to you…”
“Please, feel free.” I grinned.
Faye let out a cat-like roar as she increased her pace, and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was the pregnancy that had caused these crazed movements, or if it was the aftermath of the recent events.
Either way, I wasn’t going to complain.
“Fuck, my lord…” Faye panted. “I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to have your child inside me. It feels like the most incredible gift.”
“And it will happen again,” I said as I gripped onto her thighs. “As soon as you’ve given birth to this baby, I’ll plant another seed in your womb.”
“Ohhh, yes!” Faye said as she arched her back. “Fuck, right there!”
I did exactly as she asked, and I fucked Faye until her legs began to tremble, and she coated my cock with her juices.
Then I took each woman again, and I spent an uncountable amount of time with each one. Despite the constant heat that battered my body, I quickly recovered every time I poured my seed into their bodies, over and over again.
Unfortunately, we had to return to Scholomance with the Inscriptions and the Urn, but I was sure to relive these scenes as soon as the time allowed.
As the women put their clothes back on and rubbed the sand off various parts of their bodies, I gathered Alexander and Damien, and then I slipped the bag of artifacts back over my shoulders.
Once everyone was ready, I gathered us into a circle, and with the clicking of my fingers, the purple mist formed around us all and sent us spiraling through the vortex.