The third installment of the Trio Legacy Series. Lucifer still has Nyx as his captive, Hermes under his thumb, and the entire supernatural community on edge as they try to find where he is hiding. JoJo, Jacob, and Alexander are drowning without their mate. Nathan is stagnant, unable to move on beyond trying to find a way to get to Nyx. Ryder, Nate's youngest brother has gotten his wolf, powerful and unruly, three years before he was supposed to. With war looming at any moment, these hurting and scattered wolves have to get themselves together long enough to save themselves and the rest of the world.
View MoreIt’s been two months. Two months since we left Valhalla. Two months since we ran away with our tail between our legs. Two months since I found my mate. Two months since this shit should have been done.
And what do I have to show for it? A semi comatose mate that basically had to restart her entire goddess making process when we moved from Valhalla to the Underworld. A rowdy and often undisciplined army that has been on ice for two months. Traitors and defectors on all sides. And the worst case of blue balls that I’ve had my entire life.
To say that I’m a bit on edge is the biggest understatement of the millenia.
The worst part of all of this by far is the fact that Valhalla ran on a timeline outside of the human’s timeline on Earth. It was faster. But the Underworld runs under the same timeline as Earth’s.
So yeah, two months to get Nyx back to where she was when we left. That would have taken two weeks in Valhalla. But in the Underworld, it’s fucking two damned months!
It doesn’t help that I’ve imprinted on her so much that I can’t fuck anyone other than her without causing both of us extreme pain. I could handle it. Pain often adds to my pleasure. But her transition to goddess-hood can’t. And I can’t fuck her until we perform the ritual. Needless to say, she’s been giving me a lot of semi-alert head.
And while there is something alluring about taking what you want whether your partner is alert and awake or not, a bit of movement on her part would be really helpful.
At the same time, I’m having to deal with gods, warriors, and demons who literally cause chaos. I mean, that’s what they were made to be. Doesn’t fucking help when I need them to follow instructions though. Hades is running ragged trying to get them to leave his realm alone.
At the same time, how do I get my generals, who just want to completely destroy everything, to get on with the fucking game plan? Adro, an evil African deity, wants to bring back child sacrifice. Apophis, the Egyptian god of destruction and disorder, just wants to start setting off earthquakes. Nergal, the god of chaos from Mesopotamia, has this complicated plan where he wants to pull a number out of a hat and throw a dart at a map and kill that number of people in that place. I mean, with the way that he’s explaining shit, I understand why he is the god of chaos cause it makes no fucking sense.
They all specifically want to do what they are the god of, which, ok, tracks. But come on people. They have literally been alive since the beginning of their civilizations. Have you learned absolutely nothing? Cause this shit is killing me.
After barbequing one, two, or ten minor deities and sending their spirits to Tartarus, I’ve come to realize that I can only have a few gods in my council and then I need to work with some of the underlyings as my generals. They’re used to taking instruction, but they also have experience and opinions that are actually helpful. I just send the gods to do random shit tasks and make it sound like it’s important to get them out my hair.
You would think that being the most eval, most powerful being on the fucking planet that those around me would understand not to fucking double cross me.
Hermes didn’t get that message and I had to threaten his mates.
Loki didn’t get the message and I sacrificed his son Fenrir to the mutts, broom riders, and flying bitches.
Those two are the only ones that have turned up as actual traitors. But there have been several defectors. Meaning those gods that have just seemed to disappear. There is no sign that they are working with our enemies. They’ve just fucked off. Gods like Anansi, Kokopelli, and Sun Wukong have disappeared, presumably somewhere in the Underworld. Though, with all the shit that Hades has had to deal with, we can’t find them. Persephone, as fucking hot as she is, is not someone that I trust. I’d fuck her if I could, but that’s as far as I trust her.
Speaking of fucking, I need some head. And more engaged than what I’ve been getting.
Hermes meets me in Nyx and my room, which used to be Hades and Persephone’s bedroom. I find that I can’t stay away from her for too long. I have to sleep with her every night. It’s…disconcerting.
It’s not the intense need that a wolf would feel. I know that. I’ve been able to feel that deity that’s been here since the literal beginning of time, I’ve made it so I’ve experienced everything that there is to offer.
I didn’t like the intensity that the wolves feel. It’s messy and all encompassing. You feel like you can’t live without the other person. It gets in the way of things. Everything that I wanted to get done depended on making sure that person was with me.
I entered into a matebond with a random she-wolf. She wasn’t anything special. Beautiful. Subservient. Easy to control. Decent in bed. Better after I’d taught her some things. Easily corruptible. She definitely learned to enjoy the finer temptations, along with some of the most debased, vile, and naughty things that really get my engine going.
But the need for her was too damn much. I killed her after a few decades and I honestly never felt better.
But this need for Nyx is different. It’s not this overwhelming, all-encompassing need for her. It’s more like an itch in the back of my mind. Something random will remind me of her. I’ll feel the desire to spend some time with her. Or to eat something that I know that she loves or read a book that she mentioned or read.
I don’t need to be with her, but I want to. I like her.
It’s almost worse than what happened with the she-wolf I was with.
Because I miss her.
I push those thoughts away as I walk to our bedroom. Hermes is waiting for me outside the door.
“My lord,” he says, bowing his head.
“Is everything ready?” I ask brushing past him into the room.
“Yes, my lord,” he says. As we walk into the room, he waves his hands and several pieces of equipment appear. A cauldron that has some kind of medicinal steam pouring out of it right beside her head on the pillow. Stethoscopes, syringes, and some kind of enchanted magnifying glasses.
“Please lay beside our lady on the bed,” Hermes tells me.
I climb onto the bed beside Nyx, unable to stop myself from stroking her cheek and leaning down to kiss her on the forehead. I would be embarrassed of my actions if I didn’t see the look of jealousy on Hermes’ face. He hasn’t seen his mates in the entire two months that he’s been here. I’ve kept this god on lock down.
Cause he’s a cagey bastard and I can’t give him a chance to fuck me over.
One way to do that is to keep him away from his mates. It keeps him off balance and going a bit out of his mind so he can’t plan against me.
But his power with medicine will help us wake Nyx out of her comatose state.
Now I lay down beside my mate, ready for her to wake up. “What now?”
“Pull her so that her head is on your chest. I’m going to pull the blanket over the two of you and I need you to get both of you naked. You have to be touching skin to skin,” Hermes tells us.
As we quickly arrange ourselves, Hermes pulls a huge funnel and places it over the cauldron to funnel the steam towards my mate and I. Then he pulls some curtains around us.
“You have to let the steam pool around the two of you. Once it’s a thick cloud, I can cast the spell and she’ll wake up,” Hermes tells me.
I eye him suspiciously. “You do know what will happen if anything about this ritual isn’t on the up and up.”
“Yes, my lord. I would not do anything to hurt you or your mate.” Hermes doesn’t need to say the last part “Not until I get my mates back.” It’s why he’s still here and not on Earth. Any hope of seeing his mates and I know Nyx would be in trouble.
It takes about 30 minutes. Honestly, I become a little drowsy. But I love the feeling of my mate in my arms. Smelling her hair. Feeling the comforting weight of her on my chest. Hearing her deep breaths. It feels good.
“My lord? I’m going to start the spell now,” Hermes says.
Excitement wakes me up. My mate will be awake soon.
Hermes words, said in Ancient Greek, flow over us.
It doesn’t take long, but it feels like the world changes from one second to the next. From her eyes being closed to them fluttering open so that I see her beautiful brown eyes on me.
“Hello, my love,” I whisper to her.
So much pain. Those fucking angels! They killed my mate. They killed MY CHILD! And then they tried to kill me. I had enough power left within me in order teleport away from them to the edge of Tartarus. But I was bleeding heavily from a wound that eviscerated my stomach and just missed my heart. Otherwise, I would have died right then and there. I used all the power that I had left to make my way through the cyclopses, the hydra, the river of fire. And then I make my way down the labyrinthine walkways, looking for my first love. Only she will have the power to heal me. Only she will have the power to bring me back to what I was before. I don’t know how long it took for me to get to her. How much blood flowed from my body. How much pain I felt. How low I had to get. I laid on the ground, covered in dirt, dehydrated, and weak. And then I feel someone push me with their foot.
It’s so hard to believe that the war is over. All of that build up and fear for just one, admittedly epic, fight? I guess I just never realized how much war is about waiting for something to happen. Hermes says that it’s really like that, but it’s still hard to believe. The angels are all up in a tither worried that they haven’t been able to find evidence of Lucifer’s body being gone. We haven’t heard anything from their god, so I’m assuming that he’s not worried about it. I mean, it’s been two weeks and nothing. Gabriel has even come to Jacob and said that he can start the process of detaching from the Christian god and giving up his powers. Though, halfway through Gabriel’s instructions on how to do that, Michael showed up and basically begged Jacob to remain a Throne for another six months. Just in case Lucifer came back. After meeting with Maeve, Dougal, and Win, the results were mixed. Maeve hated being a Throne.
A parent should never have to bury their child. Ever. Even though Nyx wasn’t of our blood or even of our species, she was just as much our child as Jared, Summer, and Chris. Even though she was only with us for a less than a year, she was our pup. And this is the worst pain that I’ve ever experienced, aside from the pain of losing Charlie. I stand with Kayla, Brandon, Jared, Summer, Rowen, Chris, and Esteban. Little Lilianna sits on Chris’s lap, the two year old not understanding what is happening. Neither do the triplets, Nixon, Natalie, and Nolan. Each are sitting with the parent that they seem to gravitate to the most: Nixon with her little hands trying to wipe the tears from Kayla’s face, Natalie in my arms and giving me hugs and kisses to try to comfort me, and Nolan sitting stoically in Brandon’s arms though he has his hands wraps around his father’s fingers. No, our pups don’t know what has happened, but they know that something is wrong. Nathan stands on Kayla’s othe
I immediately know when Lucifer has been slain. We all do. There’s a power in the air that just dissipates. It’s there one second and then it’s gone. And then the enemy either surrender or run away, dropping their weapons as they go. Oh, there are a few die hard proponents of what Lucifer was trying to do, but they don’t last long. They are quickly overrun by fae, witches, wolves, shifters, supernaturals, or angels. Within an hour of Lucifer’s death, all of the fighting is done and the medics have flooded the field. Gods and goddesses either heal right there on the field or teleport those that need immediate medical attention to the surgery tents. Arya and I quickly turn to the Elite and pups’ mates, and our friends. “Summer! Jared!” Arya says, looking up from healing a nasty bite to Tomas’s leg that is already showing signs of infection. “Here!” Summer shouts out in a pained voice. I turn to see
All three of us see the Morning star leaving the palace and stepping onto the field with the angels and we know that time is running out. We have to hurry and get to Nyx and sever her bond with Lucifer so that he is weak enough for them to kill him. No one else seems to be guarding the castle, at lest not on our side. I can see that demons and gods are getting into ranks and preparing to get onto the battlefield. The problem is, they’re too slow. The angels are already hear. They have breached the walls that surround the castle, their armor and very skin gleaming, their swords and battle axe’s, and spears coated in the multiple colors of blood that each of these evil beings possess. “We need to get inside while they’re all occupied,” Rowen says as we run towards the gates. “And before anyone comes in as reinforcements.” “Anyone see how to get the gates open?” Alexander says, his eyes rapidly taking in the structure in front of us.
The second that we make our way through the gate into the Underworld, we’re all ready to start fighting. I mean, that’s the logical thing to do, right? Problem is, we seem to have gone into a gate where there are minimal guards. Like, this gate seems to have been forgotten completely. There's two there and they were taken out by the blast that opened the gate. Either we got really fucking lucky. Or we’ve walked into a trap. Angels pour into the hole behind us, creating a perimeter to keep us safe from behind. No, they won’t be able to stop Lucifer, but they are cannon fodder that will slow him down. Yeah, that sounds really fucking shitty to say it like that, but they knew the score when they were assigned to the role. It is what it is. From the gate, I can see Hades’s palace, where Lucifer and his new queen, Nyx, have been staying since they were kicked out of Valhalla. We’re coming in about five miles to the south and three miles above the palace. The gate is in
It is killing me to wait here with the gods while my mates are all in three different spots right now. I’m so agitated and distracted by this fact that my winged shoes are making me float about a foot off of the ground. Josefina is with her parents, fighting near the front lines. What I hate is that she doesn’t have any powers to fight with. She’s just got her strength and skills as a warrior and a wolf. Thank fuck that the wolves take fighting seriously, so she has a ton of skill. But that only helps me feel just a little bit of relief. She is definitely the mate that I’m most worried about. But then there’s Alexander. He and his twin are escorting Nathan to get to Nyx so that he can kill her and the child in her stomach. Hecate had told us that Nyx is in labor starting this morning. So they have to get to her quickly. Of course, that means finding the right time to get past the enemy army ahead of the rest of our allies and then fight whoever Lucifer has guarding the
The contractions had been happening off and on for the past two days. “Braxton-Hicks,” Persephone assured me. “It’s just your body’s way of getting ready for birth. It can happen for a long time before you actually go into labor. I really wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.” But I knew better. I could feel this evil thing’s elation as it could feel me preparing for birth. It had been tossing and turning in my stomach, moving into position for birth. So when I woke in the wee hours of the morning today, feeling strong achy bands of pressure all around my stomach. I let out a wheezy, breathy screams as the feeling took my breath away. I had been laying on my left side, my head pillowed on Lucifer’s arm, his other arm keeping me pulled into him. When I had woken in pain, it woke him up as well. “What’s wrong? What’s happening?” Lucifer asks, his eyes are wide, but his voice is laced with aggression and protectiveness. He had moved over top of me, caging me against t
The screeching sound that comes from above us sounds like a combination between the howl of a wolf, the cry of some kind of bird of prey, and a woman’s scream. We look up and there are seven of these…things. They have the body of a woman, looking heavily pregnant and near giving birth, talons for feet and wings like a giant eagle, and the head of an enormous rabid jackal. But the belly is actually full of the babies and men that they’ve eaten. They are wearing what looks like a skull bikini, a skull covering each breast and her vulva. It’s fucking weird and looks very uncomfortable. In their hands, each carries one knife made of fire and another made of ice. The Lamashtu. The seven aspects of the Mesapotamian Goddess of evil. Think Hecate, but in seven different bodies instead of sharing the same body. And when I say that she was evil, I mean EVIL. Evil just for evil’s sake. One of the few goddesses in all of the various pantheons who didn’t have a reason to be evil. S
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