Empress's Endgame (Book 5 and final of the Death Incanate Saga) Read online

  “I wasn’t expecting such a lecture.” Tohka admitted.

  “That is the way Granny is. She won’t stop teaching till every point is made. Guess it comes with age. Whatever hers is.” Megdline scowled menacingly at her former pupil. Going back he said “Well, Wife,” He looked at Tohka. “I think I’m now finally able to join the table rather than sit and talk.”

  “Really?” Now the nurturer truly got excited. “You are finally hungry for the first time since escaping?”

  “My hunger really has come back. All this talk about how good your cooking is has made it start gnawing.” He patted his flat abdomen. “I haven’t forgotten this feeling since my ascension. It certainly isn’t telling me I’m thirsty.”

  “Wonderful!” She skipped over and stood on the ball of her feet to give a quick kiss for more than tasting her favorite sweet flavor. “Call Brooke and the family home. We will all be having an evening meal. You won’t regret it.”

  As she was walking into the kitchen Meeka called from the table “Babe,” she loved that endearment and Tohka stopped. “Can you also mash some fresh banana and mango for Ananna.”

  “You know I will. We’d spoil our daughter if Brooke wasn’t our woman.”

  “She’s already spoiled. Aren’t you!” Meeka sang before blowing raspberries on the baby’s chunky belly. “Yes, you are!” Ananna squealed delightfully, putting a smile on everyone’s face.

  Rattling and clanging exited the kitchen as Tohka figuratively rolled up her sleeves after washing her hands and got right to work. She overheard her man telling their woman dinner would be extra special and to be home in a few hours.

  “Wow!” Cage voiced as soon as the flavors exploded on his tongue. The finely sliced pasta was perfectly cooked to perfection and coated properly with seasoned tomato sauce made from chopped, fresh tomatoes and seasoned with salt, different peppers and other ingredients. Sweet wine was brought in thanks to Megdline since his wine barrels hadn’t had time to properly mature and this meal wouldn’t be complimented with vodka, whiskey, moonshine or mead. He swallowed the first meal since escaping the dreaded Deep and what a meal it was. “You guys weren’t kidding! Tohka, this is terrific!”

  She out of everyone felt wondrous at such a compliment. Then her jaw dropped as he looked down and started shoveling as fast as humanly possible.

  The table had a good chuckle and before even asking for seconds Tohka gladly served a second helping and another thick slice of flat bread.

  Towards the end he began to slow down and leaned back to say “Everything you’ve ever made always smelled good, but damn girl, you can cook better than me.”

  “Told you.” Meeka piped as she speared a meatball on her plate and popped it in her mouth. Being the only vegetarian in the house, Cage was the only one who didn’t partake of the meatballs, but compared to the rest of the tribe, his family ate much less flesh.

  Frill though seemed to enjoy eating this meal as instead of being a finicky feline who ate slow and meticulous, his furry face was nearly buried and covered in sauce. Likely to lick himself clean and enjoy doing it. Cage thought absently.

  Sean and Rena ate almost as heartily as most of their athletic parents. Megdline ate slowest, but also couldn’t stop.

  “I’m so happy you like it. I’ve never made pasta before Megdline here told me how it’s made. It was good busy work.” Tohka said.

  “My gut can’t handle anymore.” He said.

  “Dad, Tohka Mother’s food always tastes this good.” Sean stated and Rena bobbed her head because she looked like a chipmunk chewing with full cheeks. Before the meal Sean told how they found the horse while his sister spoke of swimming with loggerhead turtles. They both had an especially good day.

  “Want dessert, Love?” Tohka asked.

  “Can’t. Too full.” He groaned while leaning into the back of the chair at the table’s head. “Feels like I won’t need to eat for another month after this.”

  “Megdline, thank you for bringing the wine. It is very good.” Brooke said as she sipped from her clear glass.

  “My pleasure, but remember, you are all mages now. Too much drink will hinder your needed concentration to use your mana.” She lectured.

  “Anyone want dessert? Cage Love taught me how to make something for you especially, Meeka Love.”

  “What did you two conspire this time?” The two in question smiled while he went to the freezer and returned with a popsicle tray.

  “A promise I haven’t forgotten about.” He extracted the treats with a clear bluish coloring. “We all know you love salty and sweet things, but you’ve never had anything like this.” She took the stem and licked it tentatively before showing surprise. “Sea-salt ice cream.”

  “This is delicious, Loves!” Meeka promised as he passed everyone one, even taking one for himself to enjoy.

  “Remember, the longer you hold it the more pain you will feel. It will be gradual and barely noticeable. Study till it gets too much. I’ve programmed it to go up to the worst pain I’ve ever felt. When I was paralyzed I spent three years with it constantly as a companion and drive to kill those who betrayed me and my team on Earth. When it glows red like it is now, it means you’ve reached what I’ve lived with.” He held out a small ball of glass he made, resting in his palm. “It will draw power from whoever touches it since it isn’t a genuine gem.”

  Meeka asked hesitantly “Do you want us to touch it right now?”

  “I believe he does. But beware. Pain spells are only as strong as the caster has experienced. And I can already tell I’d pass out on contact if I hold it longer than a minute.” Megdline believed. “Just touching it, he is feeling that pain. You told me you saw how pain affects the mind…” while she spoke the pair looked as they had earlier that morning, at his brain, and knew he was feeling its effects, but overcame it to look as if nothing escaped outward.

  “Together, Love.” Tohka decided and they threaded their fingers together.

  As one they barely managed to set one finger on the object before screaming and pulled away, hopping around while clutching their burning hand. It felt on fire, only worse and without visual damage. Seeing this, Brooke reached over and laid a finger down and realized immediately not even she had ever experienced such torture to also join her sister-mates in their cursing. It took more than a minute to calm down the nerves and stop cursing. Thankfully the children were all outside playing on his equipment out back and couldn’t hear their mothers.

  “Don’t worry, no actual harm was done.” The more versed sorceress said. “That spell only tricks the mind into feeling pain. Brooke, as a mother, you’ve grown a higher tolerance as it showed when you held on for a full second before letting go.”

  “IT FUCKING HURT!” Brooke shouted one last time before sitting down and wiping her brow. “Cage Love, you say you lived with that amount of pain for three years?”

  “Every moment of every day. Even sleeping I felt it.” As he lightly tossed it, the reddish color vanished and became perfectly clear. “And that is all you have to do to reset the pain. Touch it now.”

  This time all three did so, after Megdline nodded all was okay. They blinked as it just felt like a pinprick. Nothing like the raw agony as before. Brooke plucked it out of his grasp and looked closely. “My mate’s will not suffer alone. Love, make two more…”

  “No,” Tohka said and took it into her possession with a slight wince. “one is enough. We can all touch it together since our man has already done this. One will be good. No cheating or altering his spells. It will be good competition to have one… and we can sit together. Besides we’ll need Meeka to help us understand works we do not know or can read yet.”

  “Makes sense.” The former priestess admitted. “We will work till our children go to sleep and then change pain for pleasure by milking our man dry with our flowers.”

  “We agree completely!” Meeka said with a wink.

  A tingle of magic had all on alert as they all felt the sensa
tion as a dark reddish orb appeared in the room and waited. They all recognized the color, but waited to speak till Cage sent magic too and before them appeared on a magical window, Cage spoke under his breath and the image altered into a dark skinned young man with a chipmunk perched on his shoulder. “Hello Lord Cage and Ladies, Meeka, Brooke, Tohka and Megdline.”

  Each returned the nineteen year old wizard’s greeting. After, Cage said “Leon, Colby, how did it go?”

  Leon, the gray robed first class wizard, smiled. “Lord Cage, I’ve finally completed your list. For all of your very own books in anatomy, healing and defensive spells cost you three thousand gold since some materials are sensitive if taken from Twilight, but your access credentials allowed this. In total there are forty books. All I’ve checked over for spells to find none, but you are free to check as well.”

  “Already planned on it.” The warlock admitted.

  The young wizard went on. “As for your own crystals, I submitted your symbol of infinity and each of the five hundred silver piece sized gems has been implanted without degrading the highest quality, flawless crystals. The total of that transaction came to thirty two thousand gold. And again, you will be required to sign your name to the document stating you are now the rightful owner over every individual coin size crystal. When would you prefer the packages sent?”

  “Before that, how much money remains in my account?”

  Colby the chipmunk squeaked “A hundred and fourteen thousand, nine hundred and six gold, four silver and three copper.”

  “Good, that balance means you’ve not overstepped me. As a reward, take out a five gold withdraw for your bonus.”

  “Thank you, My Lord.” They said and made a quick bow.

  In an instant, a second sight mirror appeared next to Leon’s. In it flew a beige dragon general of the Vlaran Mountains. She blinked and slowed her flight as he said “I’ve got an incoming package. Tell all the soldiers to create a ten second opening so it can arrive.” He said, since every griffin cub hatched last week all the soldier dragons always patiently circling them erected spells preventing teleporting anywhere near their position by over what would take them a half a day to fly.

  She roared and spoke quickly. A second roar had Cage saying “Now, Leon. Send it.”

  By the eighth second, an orb up by the room’s ceiling came on yellow, telling magic was used to bring something in. By the tenth, dragon spells were reapplied.

  Leon severed his connection as his boss did before stepping into a black sphere, disappeared and several seconds later returned to right where he stood, but with two heavy bags clutched in his strong hands. He dropped them. “Already checked, no residual magic or tracers are on anything other than a fading absorption from being Jumped.”

  As he sat down everything, Meeka held out her hand and a quick search had him handing over a thick and illustrated book on anatomy. She and the other women sat down together and learned all the while holding onto the glass ball together.

  He counted everything the moment he plucked them out from the skull pillars so he grabbed the letter, made sure all was in order, signed it and sent it back to Leon’s hands.

  “Five gold for two days work?” Megdline asked.

  “Hey, the kid is a hard worker whenever I need him. Even for you, two days is really short to accomplish all this. Your aids aren’t half as fast.”

  “Maybe I should start emulating you. A few extra coins might be just the incentive I need to get them to rush orders.” She smirked while leaning back and resting alone on the large sofa.

  Chapter 2

  Brooke allowed the door to their room to slide silently shut behind her to see her beloveds rubbing their arms still while speaking in low whispers. She put an end to that right quick. “Our daughters are all asleep. Sean though is reading your thick adventure book, Cage love.”

  “He’ll be out like a light soon if he’s that desperate at this hour.” He replied.

  Brooke crawled into bed, gained a firm fistful of sheet and threw it off before grinning. “After all that pain, I want rough pleasure, Love.”

  “I’m not sure that would be wise fo…”

  Cage could not complete his sentence as it seemed Brooke’s words flipped a switch in the other two. The lingering sensation of pain in the mind seemed to have vanished in their eyes. Tohka was the one to silence him as she shoved him back and threw a leg over his stomach and leaned down to passionately take full control of his lips. Since her binding to their reptilian friends, her saliva had taken on a delicate sweetness like honeydew. Her lips parted his and her tongue coaxed his to join in her raging need. Her fingers wrapped around his head and gripped his thick head of brown hair while her waist length mane of curly tendrils made a curtain that made them seem alone. He could feel her nipples hardening against his chest and he responded by making her moan by grabbing her soft hips and massaging them.

  Only, she wasn’t alone.

  He felt Meeka grab his manhood and her lips slide down from head to halfway down his shaft without gagging. His groan barely preceded his lance hardening as she pulled back and off with a loud smack of suction. Skillful hands stroked slowly at first as her wet tongue worked him to her liking. It was slow at first, but as he firmed, she stroked faster and her head bobbed harder.

  Meanwhile, Brooke multitasked while stroking her own pleasure bud while using her magic to finally get what she had wanted all day. She watched in her mind as his lance was flooded with blood, but was highly surprised to find the muscles in it relax as the immenseness made her flower also swell in want. It wasn’t expected as she assumed the muscles would firm there like all others. Then she watched as Meeka got to her feet and pressed her breasts on Tohka’s back before grabbing him and put her already aroused flower over and squatted down in one all consuming move. Meeka cried out as her body shook and Brooke knew deep down she found it the most erotic experience in her life. She knew how good his too big of a lance stretched her completely and made her quake, seeing Meeka take him and her reaction atop the orgasmic cry of pleasure was something new and wonderful. Her heart somehow pounded harder and she followed along as Meeka lifted herself up and as she slid down, he thrust up to match her move for move without disrupting his need for Tohka. Then as Meeka called “CAGE!” as a second tremor rocked her tone body she saw his hand gesture to come over. Brooke complied and his skills as a lover prove himself again as his thick fingers dove straight for her flower and began hooking while his thumb flicked her bud. She also had a quake almost as soon as those thick fingers knew just what to do and she knew he couldn’t see in the conventional way as Tohka’s hair blocked him from doing so. He simply knew she was there without using even the slightest magic other than what he was amazing at.

  Ten minutes later Brooke and Tohka sensed his grunt which they knew would precede his release and slowed down enough to sense it as Meeka came again, but this time they mentally saw him spill seed into the womb he impaled constantly. It was so much in it, as Meeka pulled herself off, some white drips landed on the bed.

  His lance wasn’t vacant long as Tohka leaned back and stuffed him in and twisted without releasing his head and turned him around so that she was beneath. As they knew only their man capable, after release he remained perpetually hard. Her legs locked around his waist as she screamed “Great Spirits!”

  “You were amazing, Love.” Brooke said in a husky tone as she crawled between Meeka’s legs. “What you did was so beautiful I cannot begin to express.”

  Between breaths of euphoria Meeka leaned forward and kissed her woman. “I cannot wait to see yours. I tried to use magic, but just as soon as I sat on him I could think nothing else. Let me taste you.” Meeka rolled her beloved over and kissed her collar bone, moved to kiss and graze her teeth on perfect breasts and worked her way down between Brooke’s legs to begin licking and sucking on the wonderful flower. In moments she felt Brooke tense before shaking while she kept Meeka’s head between her thighs and continue till sh
e was spent before pulling her back on top and enjoyed the sugary taste mixed with sex.

  Again they watched Cage’s firm backside thrust with manly, primal dominance a woman craves. Then he fully sheathed himself in another release that had Tohka’s locked legs separate and shake. He pulled away and Meeka took the opportunity to dive right where he vacated to kiss her woman while Brooke grinned and turned over and raised herself on her knees and didn’t need to worry about waiting as he slid fully in one move that had her seeing stars. Her arms gave out and didn’t mind as he felt to have dove deeper and she rocked back to match thrust for thrust. During her fifth shout to the spirits in ten minutes both her women came over to add their skills on her. Tohka slid under while Meeka kissed her way down the perspired copper spine.

  Cage loosed in Brooke at last and the three spent the rest of their awake hours learning each other’s bodies while doing their favorite activity, one he was always willing to oblige satisfying. Tohka though succumbed to sleep first as her abilities weren’t as mature as her sister-mates.

  “Morning, Daku!” Cage called out as he and his mates landed in an opening inside the aviary. They all stepped down in the early dawn hours where the sun barely peeked over the horizon. Behind the large, circular wall much remained dark. Mox raised his neck off the wall’s top and gave a grunt of acknowledgement when Brooke called out to him. All of them carried their weapons at the ready since already all the cubs were awake and looking at them. Most sat perched on the bubble-like stone roofs of their nests, as predators naturally do to pounce on unsuspecting prey from above. Three hundred and ninety four shelters have been made, separated by one wall down the middle to keep those already spirit mated from mating. The dividing wall had a single gap at one end where Daku’s larger nest could keep an eye on everyone at all times. Around the larger open spaces were what could only be described as a playground, just made of stone and shaped like mini castles with slides, swings and a seesaw.