Jason nodded, “You’re right, I just want to make sure we don’t go too far. Hera is allied with your father after all, and if she’s willing to call in a favor or generate one on her side she could come at us with a lot more than two demigoddesses and a dozen monsters. Athena as well.”

  Janice scowled, “Don’t say her name, for the gods’ sake. My mystical wards are good, but nothing she can’t look past if we use her name.”

  Caroline said, “It’s a good plan, and I’m all for attacking again tomorrow if they don’t hit us before then. Contingencies?”

  Janice replied, “If things turn against us then we’ll retreat. We can’t count on Lillian making the same mistake the Empusa did. They’ll probably target Levi from all directions. We’ll have to adjust if they do it differently, they might ignore him and try to defend Lillian and Hazel, if they decide we’re the greatest threats. In that case Jason can join whoever is most pressed, and Levi will take out the monsters attacking us. That might even be better for us, because all the monsters will be in his same line of sight, and he can take out two or three every two seconds.

  “I think that’s enough. We’ll keep it simple and react fluidly. We’re all experienced except for Levi, and as we saw earlier today, he has good natural instincts in battle.”

  Jason said, “What now?”

  Janice nodded, “I get started on dinner, with whoever wants to help me.”

  I smiled, with nine of us she’d have to cook for forty normal humans. I was starving myself, after the battle and the sex.

  Nicole volunteered, and she gave Ginny a lingering kiss before slipping off her lap, which had my cock digging into Janice’s tight ass. I let her go reluctantly as she stood up as well.

  “Someone set the table. We’ll have to use the dining room tonight.”

  Yeah, lap sitting wouldn’t work for actual eating.

  Dawn and Ginny both moved to take care of that.

  Jason said shortly, “Shower,” and left the room.

  It was both surprising and nice when Aurora actually got up from her chair to claim Janice’s old spot on my lap, and it was just the four of us being lazy and still at the table, including Caroline and Bree. Bree was adorable, and they both looked extremely content and comfortable with their new potential mate. Of course, they might as well be called full mates, since they could never knock each other up which is what made it official.

  Aurora was soft, lush, and felt fantastic in my arms. She was also still in that kittenish clingy mood after wild and nasty foursome we’d had not a half hour ago.

  Caroline and I took that quiet moment together as the rest worked on dinner, to exchange contact details. The cute and lithe light blonde was my very first ally in my new world, not counting my mates I mean. It was a significant thing for me, though in typical guy fashion I acted like it was no big deal and just made sense.

  I mean, I felt honored by it. She was lesbian and held no physical attraction for me. Which meant that it had nothing to do with sex, attraction, but was all about respect, trust, mutual integrity and similar morals. I had similar connections to my mates of course, but that was all blurred by our physically and emotionally intimate entanglements. I suppose I took pride in it.

  The house was full of mates and allies, and our spirits were high. No battle was guaranteed, but we had a good plan, and I was confident in all their skills and powers. I had no doubt Dawn and Aurora would be fierce in stopping the monsters from overwhelming me too fast for my power to deal with them, and Janice and Nicole would make a fierce fighting force. Hazel was wickedly strong, but our ally Caroline was even stronger, and would have a venomous snake woman watching her back.

  The goddess twerked her hips wildly taking in my cock several times a second, with a look of intense concentration and transcendent pleasure on her face. She wasn’t often the aggressor in our sex life which was part of my worship of her. Usually she was only aggressive as a reward. This wasn’t worship at all, she was joyfully screwing my brains out to give me pleasure, and I was completely lost in the heavenly sensations of her perfect body working me hard. Her lovely C cups were bouncing wildly each time she slammed her body home on my cock, but it was the look of lustful excitement, pleasure, and love in her eyes that held me transfixed.

  “My goddess!” as I felt the euphoria rush into me like a tornado touching ground, and I lost myself in the blissful ecstasy of filling my goddess’s womb with the offering of my rapturous pleasure.

  She went with me, and her sensually warm paradise milked me hard, as she came undone wildly around me with a sharp cry. Hearing my name on her lips as she rose into the heights of pleasure was a thrill in a way I couldn’t possibly adequately express. The love, pleasure, and beauty of that keening voice, the voice of the goddess I worshipped, cumming for me.

  I’d heard it before of course, many times all night long, but it never failed to bring me to awe.

  She smiled widely as she came down, and she kissed me softly on the lips with a purr of satisfaction and bright blue eyes looked down on me with pride and affection as she broke it.

  “That turned me on so much today, what you did for my ally’s champion. The muses are very pleased with you as well, Caroline hasn’t had it easy with love.”

  “It was my pleasure, which is a little weird I think.”

  She giggled.

  I said, “You know what I mean. But it seems like this blessing could be used to serve you, not just as a radar and lure for me. I don’t know how often it’ll come up, but I figured why not spread the joy, and she certainly deserves it.”

  Aphrodite smiled even wider, “I do know. Men aren’t that good at it so most don’t bother, and some haven’t the empathy or desire to even try. At least without my blessing, but you also have a generous heart, an unselfish heart, and that is all you, Levi. As Ginny pointed out, you may have started out as a favor for your father, but honestly I’m not sure I could’ve picked a better Champion if I tried. More than worth the risks and complications.”

  “I love you, my goddess.”

  I think it was the first time I’d said it out loud, though she’d known a long time by hearing my worshipful thoughts the last seven nights. It was almost impossible to believe it’d only been a week since my sexy goddess had walked into that hole in the wall bar, only to set my life spinning off its axis.

  She grinned, and then leaned down to kiss my neck softly, and whispered, “I already knew that, but as I told you once before, dear Levi. A girl does like to hear compliments and endearments. I love you too, my champion, more than you know. Time to wake, be careful.”

  Then I woke up with Janice shaking my arm, and everyone scrambled off the bed and started to get dressed as shouts of alarm woke the rest of the house.

  Our enemy had arrived.

  Chapter Fourteen

  I’d estimate it took at least two minutes for dressing and getting to the back door, and the enemy hadn’t breached yet. We’d talked about this scenario. If the enemy was wary of the house being trapped and spelled, which it was. It was likely they’d circled the house to catch us coming out with Lillian and Hazel watching the front and back door with monster support, and then maybe a few more monsters watching the side of the house windows just in case.

  I was also completely charged up before I reached the door. There was no point in waiting, this wasn’t training after all, and it’d save me a second when I saw my first targets.

  Point being, we all knew what to do as Janice and Caroline went out the back door first, quickly followed by their support, Nicole and Bree respectively.

  Next was me and Jonas, with Ginny, Dawn, and Aurora right behind us. The first thing I saw was Caroline rushing forward at Hazel, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Janice and Nicole already rounding the house as that must’ve meant Lillian was out front.

  If I hadn’t known the plan I might’ve panicked then, at those two facing both Lillian and goodness knows how many monsters at the same time. But I did know the plan, so I formed a conduit at three of the six monsters, the three moving to cut off Caroline, and let loose with lightning as I turned to the right and ran like my ass was on fire.

  I sensed more than saw Jason cut two of their throats while Caroline got the third on her way toward Hazel. Jason of course, was fast, much faster than I was even with lightning coursing through my body. By the time I made it to my assigned position, about a hundred feet out in the field next to the house, I still had line of sight on Hazel. While at the same time, I also at that point had line of sight of Lillian and her six monsters.

  It was my first time seeing the bitch, and she was as hot as all the other demigoddesses, and monsters for that matter. She had bright golden blonde hair about five shades lighter than the goddess, and gray eyes. She also had a perfect body. I mean perfect, the ideal measurements, thirty-six C, twenty-four, thirty-six. Not quite as perfect in proportion as the goddess was, but she came closer to it than any other woman I’d ever met, demigoddess or human, or monster for that matter.

  She was in armor and wielding two swords, and I spent my next three shots of lightning to thin out her support as my Janice gave her shit and tried to draw her closer to me, closer to that side of the house, even as she was honestly trying very hard to put the bitch down. Which wasn’t easy, because she kept having to take a step back to knock back one of the attacking monsters.

  My fierce Nicole was helping of course, but they were outnumbered, and she couldn’t completely shield Janice from the others.

  My twins changed into winged lionesses and looked damned fierce, as Jason practically blurred and put down the three that I’d just knocked out. I was pulling lightning as I watched Lillian’s sword explode in fire time and time again, while my Janice blocked with her Escrima sticks and sent the fire off to the side with her mystical energy. I knew Nicole was helping there too, because the fierce fires were going out way too quickly for it to be natural.

  Things seemed to be going to plan, almost too well as both were being lured toward me and away from the cover of the house, and I turned my head away to finish off the last three monsters supporting Hazel. The conduits started to form, when I heard Dawn release an explosive and enraged lion roar… a split second before I felt a sharp pinch in my back, and Jason’s sword tip exploded out of my chest covered in dark red blood.

  He must’ve missed the heart, because it was still pounding from the fight and adrenaline, but he must’ve hit a lung because my body seized and jerked as blood flew from my mouth. At the same time, I put almost all the electricity in me into that sword by pure reflex, there was no need for a conduit, it was touching me after all, from being run through.

  I’d estimated five shots with my lightning to take down most decent level monsters or demigods, but I’d just shoved five times that into Jason’s sword. The asshole exploded away from me, and I actually felt the head of it roll off of him as he was instantly barbequed from the inside out. The traitorous prick was dead, and I was bleeding out from a lung wound, coughing up blood. It was almost impossible to breathe, and I heard both Aurora’s and Dawn’s panicked roars as I passed out.

  It was terrifying as the world faded from around me, and that fear was not just for me. I’d just left my two allies and five mates to face six monsters and two very powerful demigoddesses alone. Close to the same odds, if Dawn and Aurora had been willing to leave me there alone and bleeding out to join the others, and I knew they wouldn’t do that.

  Soft touches on my chest, neck, and shoulders, as my head laid on the delightful softness of my goddess’s breasts. She was sitting back against the headboard, with me resting back into her arms.

  I felt like I should be panicking. I was unconscious and most likely dying, but I couldn’t help how I felt there. Her heady scent, her seductive presence, her soft loving touch, and even her soft slow breaths all calmed me to a level I couldn’t fight. Hell, maybe I was dead.

  “Not dead yet, and I thought I told you to be careful.”

  I laughed, “Sorry, my goddess.”

  She sighed, “Our world is full of betrayals, and Nike is on my shit list for a long time for this. Fucking bitch.”

  I was surprised at venomous strength of her anger, and her intense gentleness as she caressed me and held me in her arms.

  “Do you know why?”

  She said, “Nike tried to explain and justify his betrayal of Janice to Hestia, and after Hestia told her she was an idiot she passed it onto me. It was the monster mission, though Jason was already wary of you before that because of being born of Zeus. Jason saw your rage at the way they were being held and controlled, and he also overheard that conversation you held with your three monster mates in the living room. Plus, he saw how much you loved them.

  “He jumped to conclusions, thought you were self-righteous and preparing and planning some kind of monster rescue rebellion, which would throw our world on its ear. The little shit called Hazel, told her your tactics, and promised that he’d turn on you mid-battle, in return for the others being spared at proof of death.”

  I snorted, “Why didn’t he just kill me, why deal with them at all?”

  She snickered, “The spells on the house of course, and your allies. He might’ve been able to take you unawares, but he never would’ve escaped that house alive before your mates tore him into pieces. He needed them all distracted so he could escape after running you through the heart.”

  “He missed.”

  She sighed, “Only because of Aurora, although she couldn’t completely stop him. He was too fast for her, but she fouled his aim by an inch or two when she got in his way.”

  “Well, he died for his stupid and incorrect assumptions. If he’d bothered to ask, I’d have explained why doing anything like that would be pointless, make me more enemies, and simply add more monster victims to the world. All to what? Make a few handfuls of monster lives better? Plus, you have no need of them. Don’t get me wrong, I feel for them and want to fix it, but some things can’t be fixed, at least not with a sword. Maybe I should give out free advice on more humane monster handling that would be even more effective, maybe they’ll even listen.”

  She chuckled, “Tell me, and I’ll pass it on to those gods who hold such things.”

  I was surprised she didn’t know, but I supposed she only heard my worshipful thoughts, and thoughts related to pleasure, love, fertility, or beauty. To her mantle.

  I passed on the idea I’d come up with during that conversation.

  Then I said, “Although, they would make some pretty good models. That fits in with beauty doesn’t it?”

  She knew I was teasing of course. I wasn’t going to steal monsters and gain more enemies merely to open a modelling agency to pay for my new monster army.

  I was also a bit worried about my Janice. She’d take Jason’s defection the worst, since he’d been her ally. Then again, she probably wasn’t a stranger to betrayal and assholes. That’s why she’d built up that bitch persona to hide her true warm and welcoming kinky self. So that assholes wouldn’t take advantage of her deepest need and desire.

  She chuckled warmly, “That’s almost tempting, outside of the gaining more enemies thing. Regardless, I’ll pass it on, it resonates like a sound idea. Likely your enemy and Ares will ignore it, since they enjoy cruelty too much to care. Although Athena is my enemy, she’s also wise enough to accept good advice, even from an enemy. Perhaps Artemis will listen as well, although she only has a few monsters as part of her hunt, and they’re already better treated. Your father and his brothers could go either way, they can get stubborn about tradition and the way things are. Poseidon’s water monsters on the other hand are also different, not as bloodthirsty and more independent, they already aren’t whipped or caged.”

  She simply kissed the top of my head, and love and pleasure suffused my body and soul.

  “I think you’re about to wake up. You can apologize for your failure later, with your tongue on my ass and pussy.”

  I smiled, “I’ll be sure to make my apology extremely long, and quite eloquent, my goddess.”

  She giggled naughtily, “I’m looking forward to it, my champion.”

  Goddess, her voice could melt butter in a blizzard, and it was the second time she called me my champion so possessively and lovingly, and it sent a shiver down my spine, in a good way. I was hers, utterly.

  That shiver changed to pain, as I woke up. It was soft and warm under me, and I could feel the breeze against my body, and Janice’s warm hands on my back as her magic flowed into my wound. My chest felt like it was split in two, and my heart started to beat faster from the pain and consciousness.

  Janice said firmly, “Don’t move. Beside your wound not being fully healed yet, we’re astride Aurora at about a thousand feet. Ginny and Caroline are on Dawn, and the latter is discouraging pursuit with her bow. Bree is wrapped tightly around Nicole’s front, and she’s flying right next to us. It was close, Aurora and Nicole were hurt but not badly, and we managed to disengage and retreat before you bled out, but it was too damned close. Another thirty seconds even my healing magic wouldn’t have been enough.

  “That bastard is lucky you killed him instantly, if it’d been me that caught him, he’d have lived far longer before I let him die,” she said in dark tone of voice I’d never heard from her before.

  I cleared my throat, and then discovered the explanations I’d gotten from the goddess would have to wait for later. I couldn’t talk at all, it hurt too much, and came out as barely a whisper when I tried.

  Aurora’s wings were gorgeous, but far too small to aerodynamically lift her eight hundred pounds of muscle, bone, and claw, much less the extra three hundred or so that Janice and I made up together. There had to be some kind of power or magic involved in their flight.

  “What’s wrong,” I managed to get out, then started to breath hard through the pain.

  Janice sighed and kept pumping her magic into me, “My house is gone, as is the Dojo. The stupid bitch set everything on fire in a frustrated rage as soon as we escaped her reach. Only four of her remaining monsters had wings, and after Caroline took two down with just two arrows, one shot each, the other two abandoned the chase quickly.”