Levi shrugged, “Allies, it’s what we do.”

  As they came into sight, I assigned a sword each to the glowing assholes, but didn’t give the word to attack yet. This was going to be messy. Worse, I was still hard from having to stop nailing my Elena mid-coitus. Violent fighting while hard felt really awkward and wrong in my brain, but I supposed Bonnie’s special training that morning had gotten me accustomed to the idea.

  I pushed that out of my head, as I gave the word and the sword blades all took off for their target.

  At almost the exact same time the four helicopters shot off two missiles each, and it was a bit of a shock when four sheets of lightning appeared to block them, and destroyed them, even as Levi launched five lightning bolts and five Empusa fell out of the sky.

  The son of Zeus was a badass, which was a bit startling, because he came off a bit too calm and peaceful the rest of the time.

  Flaming arrows left Caroline’s bow in a blur, which exploded as they impaled the soldiers in tactical gear. At the same time, Elena sent water up into the air, and started to kill monsters. The water made its way into their mouths, and once inside as a conduit for her magic the monsters were ripped apart by their own body’s water.

  Simultaneously to that and quite eerily, Shannon’s shadows just seemed to kill them with a touch, and I assumed she was teleporting their hearts out of their bodies, or something. Our sixty monsters were also up there in the mix, fighting and clawing at their enemies, even though they were outnumbered a hundred and sixty to sixty, those numbers were changing fast under the assault.

  Lastly, the first two helicopters went up in loud booming explosions under Maggie’s magic.

  Bonnie of course was using air magic, to contain and slow three of Apollo’s brats, and my sword blades were bashing through their shields.

  We were kicking ass, but the enemy wasn’t just standing there letting us kill them.

  We were hit with small weapons fire, dodging powerful sunbeams of destruction from the dodging and flying brats. We were also being hit hard by steel tipped feathers, balls of fire, and then there were the rushing monsters all trying to overwhelm and overrun our position and kill us.

  I grimaced as the first three of Apollo’s brats died. I’d been at eighty five percent at the start of the battle, and I was now at fifty two percent. I was guessing three percent of that was from taking bullet fire as well as steel tipped feathers, not to mention the armor dodging. Which meant it was taking a full ten percent of my power for my swords to beat past the brat’s shields while holding them together.

  The math was no good, I had fifty two percent power left and there were seven brats remaining. That meant I could take five in total, and it was almost guaranteed that would drop to four quickly, as I’d lose at least another three percent to incidental attacks for the rest of the battle.

  “Levi, can you hit the ones that Bonnie is slowing with a single bolt each, I need help with their shields or I’m going to run out of power before this over.”

  Levi grunted, and the next attack hit those three and two more Empusa, and my swords broke through and impaled their hearts. Six down, four to go, and I had forty eight percent power left. His lightning must hit really fucking hard.

  The second set of helicopters went up in a blaze, and it was only a few seconds later when Maggie ended the small arms fire. The point was almost moot anyway, since the fourteen support assholes were already dead thanks to Caroline’s wicked explosive arrows. The only remaining soldiers of Ares was his demigod sons and they pulled swords and ran forward.

  I assigned enemy monsters to two of my swords, and then assigned the other four to double up with the four chasing the last four brats of Apollo.

  The battleground was completely crazy. My ears were ringing from the explosions, and my heart was pounding. On the good side, at least I wasn’t sporting a chubby anymore.

  I almost laughed, when Janice lunged toward one of Ares’ sons who was closing in, but it was a feint. Ares’ kid swung his sword to block, but Janice gracefully spun out of the way, kicked out his knee, and then sent her sword through the back of his neck as he fell forward from being unbalanced with a broken knee. His head went flying, one swing one kill.

  The other son of Ares fought the four mated monsters. His and Caroline’s mates fought differently than the other monsters, with more style and elegance, and less crazy suicidal tactics. No doubt orders, and a lot of training to keep his mates safer in battle were responsible for that. Regardless, the man had obviously not fought monsters that fought with subtlety and strong teamwork before, and they tore him to pieces in short order. Sure, they’d been shielded by me, but they hadn’t taken a hit on their armor.

  Most of our monster army were dead save a handful, and there were only about twenty monsters and five Empusa left on the other side. I shuddered to think what we would’ve done without them distracting and killing almost half the enemy army. Regardless, the only demigods left on the field for the enemy’s side was the four brats shooting exploding light and plasma beams from their hands, and three of them were moving slowly and being hacked at by two of my swords, while the last was crazily dodging the two swords at his unencumbered speed.

  Levi grunted and shot the dodging one with lightning, much like their attacks it was hard to dodge something moving at the speed of light. He hit the bastard hard, like five of his normal attacks in one giant bolt, and the bastard lost his shield and fried in midair, cooked and dead before he fell to the ground.

  Damn. I was going to get a complex, as my swords were still fighting through the last three assholes’ shields.

  I got why he switched targets, Shannon and Elena finished off the last of those monsters and Empusas over the next ten seconds or so.

  My swords finally broke through and finished it. I was at something like eight percent power, but there was nothing left of the enemy. None of us had died, save almost all our monsters, which I felt a little guilty about, but monsters wanted to go out fighting in glory. Otherwise they wouldn’t fight like berserkers with no thought for survival.

  Only Levi’s and Caroline’s mates seemed to be different, they had love and family to live for.

  Or so it seemed to me, but maybe I was just bullshitting myself to salve my conscience. The fight was the one order they’d taken from my ladies without even one of the monsters glaring about it. They’d all looked excited. Regardless, it was only two air nymphs that landed after the battle, with their silver beaks and steel tipped feathered wings.

  Levi sighed, “That was ugly, hopefully it backs them off.”

  I nodded in agreement.

  He asked, “What are you going to do with the nymphs?”

  I shrugged, “No idea. We won’t keep them. I’m sure Maggie knows where we can send them.”

  Levi said, “I’ll take care of them.”

  I nodded, not sure why he cared, but I didn’t care enough to argue about it. I winced as he blasted both of them onto their asses, and then told them they were his now.

  “Thanks, again.”

  Caroline replied, “Anytime, I’m sure you’ll pay it back one day.”

  I nodded.

  Shannon took our allies and the two monsters home.

  Maggie asked curiously, “Think he’s going to take them as mates?”

  I shrugged, “Isn’t seven enough? Who knows? I think he just has empathy for them. Not a big surprise, given how much he loves his mates.”

  I pulled Bonnie to me and held her. She looked a little sick at heart, so I gave her a firm swat which made her blush and smile.

  “Can you ask Aphrodite to sue for peace on our behalf, I’ve had enough of them.”

  Bonnie nodded, “I’ll do it now,” and she closed her eyes and bowed her head.

  Shannon popped in, and her shadows started to make everything disappear. The helicopter wreckage, and almost two hundred and fifty dead bodies of monsters, demigods, humans, witches, and Empusa.

  “Well, that’s damned handy.”

  Shannon shot me a grin over her shoulder.

  I beckoned Maggie over with a crooking finger, and she came over with a cute smile on her face. I swatted her ass, and said firmly, “Go make us lunch, something with pasta.”

  Maggie kissed me softly, and then said, “Yes, sir,” in a warm breathy seductive tone of voice that blew my mind. She was so hot as I watched her walk away.

  Elena asked, “Isn’t it a little early for lunch?”

  I nodded, “We need a break after this shit. I’m sick of killing our enemies. We’re going to L.A. Elena and I have a couple of authors to wrangle, but that won’t take more than an hour. Then we’re going to spend all afternoon on the beach.”

  Elena smirked, “You just want to ogle us in bikinis.”

  I nodded easily, “That’s definitely a large part of the appeal, yes. Hell, maybe we’ll take the boat out so I can have my wicked way with you all whenever I feel overwhelmed.”

  Elena snickered.

  I winked.

  “Levi seems more powerful than I am,” I noted. I was also happy to note my voice didn’t sound butt hurt about it.

  Elena said, “Electricity, modern technology. If he was using his power for it, like you use your power to shape souls and hold them together through impacts, he’d have been as low in power as you are after the battle. But he doesn’t have to use his power to create electricity, and it costs much less power for him to just absorb it and control it from the electrical grid.”

  “Oh, that explains it, still cool as hell. I wonder if I could do something like that. Use real blades, and just have the souls drive them. Then the real steel would take the impacts and the hard soul center wouldn’t take more power from me than what it takes to move. Armor and shield too.”

  Elena snickered.

  “Just a thought,” I defended.

  Bonnie raised and shook her head, “A brilliant one. Maybe not the full-sized armor, but for the blades and shield you could make them hollow and fill in with a single soul of pure steel to do the flying. But keep your armor as is, the way you do it now, because that would take too long to put on if we got in a fight. Those are already cheap, because they dodge most strikes anyway.”

  Elena nodded, “True, I shouldn’t have teased you about that, it is a good idea. Once Shannon touches them, she can summon them from storage no matter where we are, if we’re attacked, in few seconds. Any of us could keep them sharp and strong with magic.”

  That sounded like a plan. Sure, I was deadly enough already, but every little bit counted. Being hit and hitting was really my greatest weakness, soul dodging armor took care of the first part, but real weapons driven by souls would take care of the latter. I’d still have limitations, but the bottleneck there would move significantly. I’d be able to fight for hours without using all my power to do so, unless I was so outclassed the armor kept taking hits.

  “What’d Love say, love?”

  Bonnie grinned, “She told me she would, and she’ll let me know tonight what they say. She also said to tell you that you should let me suck your dick more.”

  Elena cackled, “Lying slut.”

  Bonnie giggled, “It was worth a shot.”

  I shook my head in bemusement, and then pulled Shannon to me for a long kiss. She beamed at me as I kept my arms around her and Bonnie as we headed toward the back door. Thanks to Shannon’s power the yard looked like a battle hadn’t even taken place, save where the ground was a little torn up by explosions.

  “Where’d you send it all.”

  Shannon giggled, “I found a convenient dump site when I realized I could send things wherever I wanted as long as I’ve been there before. It’s the same place I send hearts, when I kill enemies. An active volcano.”

  I chuckled, of course. The ultimate burial site. Even the helicopters would be melted into just more magma given enough time, and of people there’d be nothing left, not even bones.

  Chapter Eleven

  The rocking of the boat and the brine scent of the pacific was relaxing, as was the cool ocean breeze leaching away some of the heat of the early afternoon sun. My mates were a hell of a distraction, all of them laying out on the foredeck on towels, in nothing but bikinis as they relaxed and tanned under the sun.

  Maggie looked sinfully sweet in a pink bikini that just made her faux innocent face and sexy lush body drive me even crazier with the opposing instincts to cherish and ravish. Elena looked sinfully seductive in a bright red barely there micro-bikini on her hot body and her exotically sensual and seductively beautiful face. Bonnie was my leggy golden blonde beauty, and she looked amazingly enthralling in a white bikini that revealed most of her D cup breasts and a bottom that looked more like a thong than a bikini bottom. She also had a huge wet spot that was easily apparent as the thin white material stuck to and outlined her sexy camel toe. Lastly, the lushly sumptuous and spellbinding beauty of my midnight haired Shannon was almost unreal in the black micro-bikini. Her proud double D cups, tight little waist, and juicy heart shaped ass constantly drew the eyes.

  They all did, I’d been half hard the whole time, and it was obvious my watching wasn’t just getting Bonnie wet. They were all wet for me, it was just harder to tell on the darker colors. Although not that much harder, given the bright shining sunlight.

  The mission was a success, and Nine Muses Publications now had seven authors, as Marjorie Wilkinson and Lester Holbrook signed up for the full package. Ten percent of their royalties for advertising, publishing, and editing, as well as professionally done book covers.

  Shannon got up and stretched teasingly for my enjoyment, before walking over and bending over to retrieve a bottle of water from the cooler. She gasped as I grabbed her, and then pulled her onto my lap and my aching cock.

  “Hi.”

  She smirked, “Hi there yourself. Enjoying the view?”

  “Overwhelmed is more like.”

  She wiggled and turned, until the length of my cock was nestled between her ass cheeks through my bathing suit.

  “Overwhelmed huh?” she asked, as she squeezed her ass cheeks around me, and then wiggled, giving me a teasing ass job that felt amazing. It was damned good to relax, we’d all needed the day off, our work would wait.

  Needless to say perhaps, I was fully hard in seconds as she wanked me off with her supple and juicy ass cheeks.

  “It’s been two days, and as crazy as this will sound that’s long enough for me.”

  She grinned as she twisted around and craned her neck for a soft lingering kiss.

  “Long enough for what?”

  I replied as I caressed her cheek softly, “I’m already half in love with you, and I want you to become my true mate tomorrow and give me a baby.”

  She looked stunned, then she softened and leaned back against me, “I’d like that, Jack. It’s a little terrifying, but you make me feel invincible and swept away at the same time.”

  She leaned forward a little, and she fished me out as she pulled her micro-bikini to the side, and then let out a deep sigh as she sat on it and took it inside of her body.

  “Damn, your fat cock belongs in my pussy,” she gasped, as she started to work it in her body with soft grinds and bounces.

  “I can’t argue with that, clearly your pussy belongs to my cock.”

  I reached around her and started to squeeze her breasts, as she rode me reverse cowboy. It wasn’t my favorite position, I’d have preferred to look into her eyes, but it was clear she was showing off for my other mates by facing them. Her huge double D and delightfully rounded breasts bouncing wildly for them as she worked her tight sex up and down my cock, all for their viewing pleasure.

  It was somewhat of a thrill for me as well, watching the lust and desire in my other three mates’ eyes, not to mention Shannon’s juicy ass, tight little asshole, and the way her pussy engulfed my cock time and time again. It got even hotter, when my mates started to watch obviously, and Bonnie started to tease Elena and Maggie with her fingers from the middle, while both Elena and Maggie started to play with Bonnie’s pussy and tits.

  Just another Wednesday, outside of the half day off and the boat on the Pacific that is.

  I said, “They’ll share it with us, watch our vows, give their own, and watch me take you and impregnate you.”

  Shannon gasped, and I had to grip her breasts tightly or she’d have fallen right off, as she convulsed wildly around my cock.

  I grinned, “You like that? You’re a wicked exhibitionist, gorgeous?”

  Shannon whimpered as I worked her from below, and I rolled her nipples roughly with my fingertips.

  “Yes.”

  “Cum for me again, now!” I demanded, “Show our mates you’re a shamelessly wicked nymph that belongs to my cock!”

  She cried out, “Fuck, Jack!” she keened in pleasure, and that was it for me. She was way too beautiful, stunningly so, and her body was all sumptuous and sinfully delightful curves. Not to mention the pure physical pleasure of her snug and powerfully milking sex.

  My cock filled her, and the hottest thing about it was that triggered my other three mates, who all came on the tips of each other’s fingers with loud shameless cries of ecstasy.

  I pulled her against me, as we fell from the height of bliss, and kissed the side of her neck gently.

  She said, “I can’t wait. Why wait until tomorrow?”

  I grinned, “Because I want it to happen in our bedroom, and on our bed. Not on our boat. I suppose we could do it tonight, during our fivesome time. I can’t wait either.”

  She moaned softly as she got up, and turned to kiss me lingeringly, “Perfect, tonight then, I’ll belong to all of you and we’ll start our family together.”

  Yeah, she didn’t look at all freaked out, or like it was crazy. On the contrary, her throaty voice was full of strong feelings and tinged with excitement and longing both.

  I was right there with her, which was crazy, but I’d been a part of my new world for almost seven weeks. I was used to crazy.

  I patted her ass, “Let Maggie feast on our mixed pleasure before her tongue falls out, and also send Bonnie over here to clean me up and get me ready for Elena. Tell Bonnie if she’s a good baby and does what she’s told, I’ll let her blow me anytime she wants, no matter the circumstances, once.”