Below Ground: Chapter 3 - The Lion, The Warlock

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Below Ground: Chapter 3 - The Lion, The Warlock (MF,cons,oral,fant)

by Dark Genesis (dante_dd@hotmail.com)

Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Leelee Sobieski, Claire Forlani, Amber Benson, Britney Spears

"Back when we had left for this journey, it had all been about getting a famous writer to direct one of her plays. I thought that it would be fun to travel around this island that some unfortunate ones, myself and Michelle included, had mysteriously got into. After all kinds of weird things, thieves, snakes and way too many sweaty miners, we had ended up at the northern lands of this island, where suddenly our traveling companion, a very cute warlock by the name of Cain had been almost forced into going to the woods near the town of Chloros to kill the warlock residing there. According to the queen of Chloros and her advisor, Claire, killing Morsus, the warlock would stop the rapid growth of the forest, therefore saving all the people of the north... pretty lame I tell you, just when I thought I was getting some connection to the guy, he just gets sent into battle like there was some higher power wanting us to stay apart. And now Morsus had kidnapped Claire and was probably torturing her in his hut deep in the woods. What to do now was up to Michelle, she's the leader after all."

"I don't believe this, first Cain gets sent off and now Claire gets kidnapped? We're never going to get to the east like this..." Whined Michelle.

"... Would you shut up? I'm trying to get some sleep..."

"Yeah-yeah, I know. But think about it, will you? Everything that could delay us has happened, that just pisses me off, you know?"

"You know what pisses me off, Michelle? You!"

"Come on, you're just a little angry with your boyfriend riding to his death and all that, but seriously, wow!"

Leelee sat up in her bed. "Why the hell are you talking to me like this? And why are you calling him my boyfriend?"

"Oh, right. You're just friends, yup."

"... Besides, what's it to you if we're more than friends, huh? You would know too, since you're the one who's spent more time with him anyway..." Leelee laid back on the bed.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Remember? When I was unconscious in the dwelling of the dwarves? God knows what you two were doing there while I was out of it..."

Obviously Leelee had said that with more humor than what Michelle took it, Leelee would kill her if she'd find out that she had slept with Cain.

"... Good night!" Michelle quickly pulled the blanket over her ears and continued her sleep.

As they were sleeping, the party of six soldiers and one warlock were heading to the hut of Morsus, through the black path burned by the ball of fire that Cain had conjured up. The path was long but straight, it didn't take them that long to get to the hut made of stone, covered in vines. All the soldiers backed away a bit as the door to the hut opened by itself, but Cain wasn't shocked, it was more of an invitation than a 'get out'.

"If you're not feeling up to this, I can take care of this by myself." He said to the soldiers calmly. As he didn't get an answer he expected them to be running a mile back by now, but out of curiosity, he turned around. "... Wow, I didn't see that coming."

The trees had grown back in a second right after they had entered the place where the hut was, and now in front of Cain, stood the skeletons of the former pride and glory of the army of Chloros. This wasn't a shocker either, a little odd maybe, but still predictable. Cain entered the hut, closing the wooden door behind him.

"You don't need to do that, I could have gotten that for you..." Groaned the man covered in rags, throwing some wood into the fireplace.

"You're Morsus, I presume."

The man faced Cain and walked up to him, staring at him with yellow eyes, almost emitting light. "Yes I am, and you are Cain, the son of the late Master Sagitar. He was indeed a powerful warlock."

He walked to the door next to the fireplace and as he opened it, a bright light Cain had never seen shone through. "Please, step into my garden. You are perfectly safe." Cain walked through the door, ending up at a beautiful park-like place. "I apologize about those soldiers outside, but I couldn't bear have them in my house. You know how it is with people who want to kill you and having them in the same room without anything between you."

"What makes you think that I wouldn't kill you?" Asked Cain as they walked deeper into the garden. "I am positive that you are more interested in what I can tell you, once we arrive at our destination, I will explain it to you."

"Explain what?"

"Everything, Cain. Everything."

As Cain was getting deeper and deeper into the warlock's dark and sinister world, at the other side of the mountain things were starting to look up.

"Missing stairs, missing steps, invisible... things? I'm officially thinking that this is going straight to hell." Moaned Britney, trying to keep up with the rest of the group that was attempting to climb the smooth surface of the mountain, hoping to run into the stairway leading them up into the temple of air.

"Have a little faith, will you? You're gonna infect us with your discouraging pessimism, Brit, and if that happens, we're all going to be broke, without a job and very VERY angry at the guy who's making us climb this piece of rock!" Yelled the bartender, overwhelmed with the frustration of searching for something that might not even exist, sure it had helped that Britney, his only friend he had in Calculus had joined them in this quest, but it wasn't enough. They needed to find something, and fast. Suddenly the head of the party, a disturbingly lively young man stopped and started feeling the surface of the mountain.

"... Ah, yes... now I feel it, yes... really? Hohoho..." The sounds he was making seemed more like something that was trying get out of a pool of mud, but the bartender could make out what he was saying, having been with the guy for a couple of days.

"Please tell me you found something..." He puffed as he struck a pick into the rock to stop him from sliding down.

"Yes, I found something. Very interesting I would say too, this might be it." The man grinned as he fondled the specific spot on the mountain. Britney climbed up to them, relieved that they had finally gotten some results, but as the bartender had guessed, there was something too good here.

"There's a crack here, see?"

Both Britney and the bartender leaned in toward the spot, trying to find the spot the guy was talking about. "What is it? Is it like a button or something, or maybe a keyhole that opens the staircase somewhere?" Panted Britney, starting to catch her breath. They had climbed for a very long while now, and were about half-way from the temple of water. Too bad the stairs could be anywhere, even a small hint where they were would help out a lot, but no. The group had to settle for the smart head of their leader, like in this case too.

"No, not a keyhole or a button. I think it's... yes, it's a mark left by a pick of some kind."

Stupidity wasn't really measured by anything around there, but sometimes they just couldn't help themselves, of course ensuring themselves first about what had happened just now.

"Dude, listen for a sec... you didn't by any chance hit your pick into that same spot, did you?"

"... Ah, yes I did! Silly me, this is just a mark left by my pick, should we turn back now?"

Sliding down the mountain, using the picks to slow down, Britney and the bartender decided that they were better off without their current leader, so...

"Funny, wasn't it? We just climbed almost half-way to the temple and we found nothing, weird isn't it... hello?"

As the guy noticed that the bartender and Britney were long gone with their horses and equipment, he felt that he was at his best alone too, but still, he wasn't the intellect by himself either...

"So, stairs not found up there... maybe I'll find the stairs... down there?"

He started digging into the sand with his bare hands, giggling by himself about something very stupid only he could understand. But many great things in all worlds happen by accident, and this man was a whirlwind of them.

Britney wasn't too satisfied with the decision of leaving him like that, they had taken some of his stuff too as they had left him to continue his search alone. "Do you think he'll be OK?"

"No, he'll probably end up like one of those skeletons in the abandoned mines near Calculus... you know, dead. But don't worry, I've got a perfect plan."

He managed to catch Britney's attention with the confidence in his voice. "Really? Care to tell me what?"

"Well, all the crackpots from the southern lands are searching for the stairs from the south, and from what I can tell, the eastern people haven't got the time to look for the stairs from their side, with the war and all..."

"Good thinking, but there's just one problem. How are we gonna get there? We're headed toward the front line." Pondered Britney, stopping her horse on the side of the mountain.

"Like climbing much?"

In the depths of a cave, near the town of Rowanbranch in the eastern lands, a woman of great magical powers took a look into her crystal. The jewel illuminated the whole damp cavern, revealing the great lion in the corner of the cave, staring at the crystal on the pedestal, situated in the middle of the room. The crystal started radiating a green light, creating an image of a beautiful garden in a place away from the isle, seeing two warlocks, conversing of times past and times to come, one of them filled with anger and cunning, while the other one confused and the feeling of betrayal. What the warlock was telling the other, she could not hear, but the noble animal in the corner, it could hear it. The woman saw the words of the twisted man in the lion's eyes, she waved her hands around the jewel once again and the glow changed from green to blue, giving her an image of the grievous girl, weeping in the tower of Chloros, feeling guilty about everything that had happened. A tear ran down the lion's face, and it's eyes were filled with sadness, this one was too innocent to feel such emotions. Although the woman hadn't met these people before, she felt the same things in her heart as she wiped the image away from the crystal. But there was one more to reach with the power of the jewel, she didn't even need to wave her hands as the strong pink glow filled the room with all feelings of good, accompanied by feelings that she wouldn't want to feel. The lion and the woman saw in the jewel, a girl looking out of a window in the bedroom of a castle. Desire of something she could never have was the one that caught one's eye, it wasn't anything that could be achieved and ironically, it was the only thing that would make her complete. The glow faded away and the cave darkened once again. "... Oh, Cyrus. Hear my call..."

The sun had been up for a quite a while now, Michelle had packed her things as soon as she had woken up, along with Leelee's too, she obviously wasn't in the mood to go anywhere, but if Cain had failed, this would be the last place they'd want to be. The queen had arranged a guide to escort them to the entrance to the mountains of the east, while Michelle was very grateful of this, Leelee hadn't said a word, just gone on her way and she was nowhere to be found, almost.

"Ready to go?" Asked Michelle as she entered the tower Claire had disappeared from, she walked to Leelee who was kneeled down in front of the window, leaning out of it and sobbing quietly. At first, Michelle thought it was just the fact that Cain hadn't come back yet, but as she looked out of the window, she found that the path burned down by the fire, was no longer there. Only the mighty trees were there now, and the hut of Morsus wasn't in sight.

"They said that... it's been like that ever since last night. The queen said that it means nothing, but... something's happened to him, I know it."

Michelle kneeled down next to her and wiped the tears off Leelee's face with her hand. "You know, that kind of mourning just makes it worse. You're right, I know Cain much better than you do, and I know something that you don't."

Leelee turned to Michelle. "Like what?"

"That he'll do anything to get out of there alive. He's got way too much to give up now, he's just started to understand what he is, what he can do, and what he wants to do. And on top of that, she's got these gorgeous two babes waiting for him to come back, who can resist that?"

Leelee let out a small laugh and wiped the remains of tears off her face. "You WERE talking about us, right?"

"Excuse me, ladies!" At that second, a rather clumsy looking short man entered the tower. "I'm sorry to hurry you, but her majesty insists that we leave immediately. After I've escorted you to the border, I have some official business with the mayor of Picea."

"You're our guide? Ever left the castle before?" It was completely appropriate to ask such a degrading question, since he was aware of what danger they would be facing on the way there.

"Umm, no actually. But I am completely aware of the areas since I've studied the maps of these parts very closely, I could lead you to the border blindfolded."

"No need for that, just get us through the forest and to the entrance to the mountains, that's all we need, thanks."

Leelee and Michelle got up, giving the forest one last look before heading down to their room to pick up their things. Although their guide, Dok was his name, wasn't that experienced in traveling, he was very aware of everything that could happen and what chances were for certain things to happen, in other words he was a theory of relativity waiting to happen, it was good that after surviving a lot of things, they didn't need to rely on their guide for guard.

As time passed in the outside world, behind the hut of the warlock, things were getting more interesting for Cain than he could have ever imagined.

"That's how your father was, in the old days. If he was here now, he'd support me fully with my plan to fill the whole continent with plants and trees, I hope what I've explained to you has given you a new perspective of things, Cain." Morsus stopped as he reached a fountain in the middle of the garden, the pure water was gushing out of the statue, made by the old race, ikarians. It looked like a human with wings, a life size statue to remember who humans used to be... Cain knew that now, Morsus had explained the whole history of this place to him.

"... I have been here too long, I should return..."

Cain was about to leave, but suddenly she noticed that there was no exit. "Here, time is of no relevance... you can leave whenever you wish... yesterday, a week ago, or maybe in a year? What you don't understand is that time doesn't exist in this place, it's like you and me, Cain. It's magic." Morsus washed his hands in the fountain, but the dirt in his hands wasn't coming off. "For years I have traveled through different ages, finding out what really has happened to our race and the others as well. It was us who lost their wings because we wanted to, the other races destroyed themselves, while we just gave up our only chance of true life in the real world."

"... The real world?"

Morsus let out a sigh and started removing the rags on his head, revealing his pale blue skin to Cain, giving him a glimpse of what true power does. "The real world isn't down there, it is up there with the humans. It took me all my life to figure that out, but now I know... we weren't meant to be here. This was the place for the other races and because of us, they were destroyed."

Cain was still too confused about his talk about the real world that he wasn't that sane in his head as Morsus kept explaining more. "We were put down here, and the ikarians thought they were supposed to be like that too. So they gave up their wings, the instruments that could have gotten them up into the real world where the giant sphere of light illuminates and warms the entire world with it's divine light! You have seen them, haven't you? The different people that are walking among us, plotting to get back up there and telling everyone about this place... Chloros is full of them! This whole continent is full of those ignorant fools who think they have a chance of getting back. Once I'm done with this isle of yours, I'll move on to the next one, where there's more of their kind and destroy their wishes of the better world that they were torn away from, Cain! Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Morsus walked up to the young warlock and held his head up, looking at him with those faintly glowing eyes. "You know who I'm talking about! These two you've been traveling with, are the real humans, Cain. You don't belong with them, you are an ikarian, just like me, Kya and all the rest of the good people on this island! Cain! Listen to me!"

Suddenly the whole garden withered away, all things in sight disappeared and left Cain and Morsus into a dark void. Cain collapsed on his knees, holding his head and trying to make some sense of what Morsus was saying. He knew he spoke the truth, things that no one but Michelle and Leelee knew about, strange words, things he didn't know existed, up there?

"... Yes, Cain. Think hard, I know what you want to do now, you want to return to your precious, don't you?"

Cain tried to get up but something was keeping him down. A red radiance began to appear around Morsus as he pulled someone from the emptiness to them. "Here, Cain! Witness the product of the real world."

Morsus let Claire fall next to Cain, her clothes torn and face dirty. "... Cain, snap out of it..." She moaned and tried to get up, but the power holding Cain down was strong enough for them both. "Tell them, my dear Claire. What are you? Where do you come from?" Morsus pointed his fingers toward her, lifting her up in the air, making her go into a calm trance. Cain lifted his head up to see what was happening. "Tell me, my dear... where do you come from?" The warlock grinned as the power guiding his actions went through her, giving her no choice but to answer.

"... I come from a far away place... up there... it's not like this..."

Cain started to get it through his head, there was something above them. A different world, where Michelle, Leelee and Claire had come from, and there were others, and only not on this island... not on this continent.

"Why are you here? Tell me!" Yelled Morsus with anger and enthusiasm, making Claire shiver with every word he uttered.

"I do not wish to be here... but I'm still here and I can't leave... I want to go home..." She groaned with agony as her trance started to fade away, making her feel extreme pain.

"... Let her go, Morsus..." Cain calmly got up and walked to the warlock, who was surprised he could even get up.

"How did you do that? No man or ikarian can resist my power, there's no one who can stand up against me!"

Cain uttered a few words in Kerubian and Claire fell down, and as her body touched the ground, the void around them disappeared, leaving them back in the timeless garden, Claire helpless on the ground, Cain standing up to the so called warlock. "You do not wish to fight me, warlock. I am much stronger than you think."

Morsus knew, even in his evil wisdom that it wasn't Cain talking now. "... Impressive... very impressive indeed." He started circling around the body of the warlock, flowing through the energy from some other source. "How could someone play with the sands of time if not in this garden, eh? There must be some thing even I do not know, then... who are you?"

"Leave now, warlock, or you will fell the same pain you have inflicted upon your enemies."

"Ah, a witch, yes? I've never met a witch as powerful as you before, would you like to meet up, I have some professional subjects to discuss..."

"One last time, Morsus. Leave the northern lands and never come back!"

As the man laughed at the threats of the body controlled by a witch of great power, Claire got up and pulled her dagger on him. "Cain? Are you OK?"

"... Cain is not here, Claire." It wasn't Cain talking, it was someone else.

Suddenly Morsus started to convulse, something lifting him high into the air and making him groan of unbearable pain he had made the people of the isle suffer. His body started revolving in the air, Claire could see the thousands of knives stabbing his body all over, the blood started flowing on the ground and the garden began to wither again. The cries of Morsus weren't heard by anyone but Claire and Cain, his body was now completely unrecognizable. As the revolving of pain stopped, Morsus fell on the ground, breathing heavily and his body covered in wounds. The sight was disgusting and the smell was even more horrible, Claire and Cain left the warlock into the garden and found their way back to the hut, where they closed the door behind them and sealed it tightly, making sure the warlock wasn't leaving the garden in that shape, and since time didn't pass there, he could only get worse. As Claire dragged the last piece of furniture in front of the door to the garden, Cain woke up from the state he was in. He fell on the floor, shivering with cold sweat covering his body, Claire rushed to him to make sure he was going to make it.

"Cain! Cain, stay with me here! Can you hear me?"

Cain could utter only a few words, but it was enough for Claire to know that he was going to be fine. She didn't know what had gotten control of him in the garden, but it had saved their lives, and the forest... Claire got a blanket from the floor and set it under the warlock's head, after this she got up and slowly opened the door outside, only to find...

"... No."

The trees were still there, swaying in the wind and making their escape impossible. There wasn't much to be done now, she needed to make sure Cain would recover his strength so he could get them out of the woods. Claire returned to the hut, not having any idea how long Cain was going to be like this... they couldn't go back to Morsus, and the forest was too thick to walk through. No way out...

Two days passed by, without food or water, Claire and Cain kept struggling for their lives inside the small cabin. Cain wasn't getting much stronger, the power that had controlled him had drained him of all his energy, and there wasn't much to do to replenish it. Cain kept thinking what Leelee and Michelle were doing right now... they had probably reached the eastern lands by now and were speaking to Lady LaDermot at that very moment. He couldn't be there, that was his biggest regret...

"Don't blame yourself, you hear me? This wasn't your decision, remember that."

"... Yes it was. I could have gone with Michelle and Leelee... and just ignored your cry for help. But I couldn't do that, it's not who I am."

"You did good if you ask me. You got rid of Morsus for good, the forest seems to have stopped growing now. You saved Chloros, Cain. Think about it."

"Yeah, with the cost of dying in the same hut where the vile forest got started from. Die in the same place with Morsus..."

"We're not going to die, you'll get better and get us out of here, remember?"

"... I can't and you know it... I'll never get strong enough without food or water, if we stay here we'll starve to death. I can't go anywhere, but you can still make it, you can fit through those bushes and make it back to Chloros without me. If you make it back here in time, you might just save me."

"... No, it's impossible. It takes days to travel through that forest. I've never seen anything like it in my whole life..."

"Well, then we're both going to die... besides, even if we could survive, I'm not sure if I could face my friends ever again... what Morsus said, I know to be true. As do you."

Claire looked at him sadly and laid down next to him. "You can face me, can't you?"

Cain didn't say anything. He just emptily stared at the door leading to the garden, now barricaded with a table, some chairs and a desk... yeah, Morsus wasn't getting out. He had restored the honor of warlocks, even though with an unknown power, he had restored it. This was the proudest moment of his life, realizing his victory over him. A gentle smile rose upon his face, seeing this, Claire knew that he was going to be OK. She took the weak warlock into her arms and leaned against the wall behind them. As they fell asleep peacefully, the gentle breeze running through the isle suddenly disappeared. The temple of air went silent and once again the flow of water was heard from the temple beneath it. The water started flowing it's old path down to the people of the isle, saving the lives of many people in villages almost destroyed by the drought. The stairs leading to the temple of air became visible, letting the people enter the sought building. There was something else... the ground seemed to be moving. The whole island was slowly moving in the ocean of magma. The people didn't believe it at first, but then they noticed the small things... the feeling of slight swaying of the isle. Indeed they were moving, but to where and why? Was it that there might be another temple somewhere? As the temple of water had stopped blessing the people with water, the temple of air had given them a gentle breeze to aid them in their doings. Was it time for earth to move? And what would happen when it was time for fire, was the bigger question.

"... Do you feel that?" Asked Cain, sitting up against the wall as Claire rushed back into the hut.

"Yes, the island is moving... I can hear the water again and the wind has calmed down. Life has returned to us, Cain. A small creek runs near the hut. I need a container of some kind..." She went through the drawers in the desk but didn't find anything.

"Here..." Cain took off his cloak and ripped it apart, forming a bowl. "This is waterproof, you should be able to carry the water in this." He gave the cloak to her and laid back on the floor, not that moved about the fact that they had water now. Claire didn't take it that lightly, she drank herself full from the creek and carried a bunch of water to Cain.

"Thirsty?" Smiled Claire, even in a situation like this, a little humor was appropriate.

"... Just give me the damn thing..."

He tried to take a hold of the cloak but ended up almost pouring the water on the floor, he was too weak to hold up the bowl. "Here, let me..." Claire took the cloak and held it up before Cain's face. "Does life get any embarrassing than this?"

"Trust me, it does."

Regardless of the situation, Cain drank the water, slowly. Claire had to hold the cloak for a long while, but she didn't mind. It was nice, taking care of someone else for a change, ever since she had gotten to the isle, she had to stake everything she had on herself to survive, and now here she was. "Want more? I can go get some more if you're still thirsty."

"No, I'm fine... you don't have to do this, you know. I'm pretty much strong enough to crawl to the creek by myself now. Think what I'll do tomorrow, we might me out of here by the end of the week."

"... A week?" Claire just noticed something she should have noticed a long time ago. On the surface, time is measured by the rotation of Earth around the sun. How would anyone down here know about days, weeks, months or years? "What's the matter? You look kind of broody."

"... It's nothing... I just thought about something."

Claire shook her head to clear such thoughts out of her mind and gave Cain a smile, moistening his face with the wet cloak. His face had looked so worn out for the last two days, now that it was back to it's best, it wouldn't hurt to wash it, would it? "You should consider washing up every day after this, I don't want to see or smell this again."

"Don't worry, I'm pretty far away from the miners in Calculus and Unda. Do your words mean that we'll cross paths again?"

"... Maybe. Just maybe... no one can predict the future."

As Claire was wiping the warlock's face, he gave her a look, a look not easily forgotten in this place. She didn't exactly know how to respond to that, or how to react for that matter. Maybe it was the look, maybe it was something else, but as Claire finished washing Cain's face, she gave him a soft kiss on the forehead.

His strength somewhat recovered, Cain took her initiative forward, pulling Claire against himself and starting to kiss her. They laid there kissing each other for some time, their tongues hungrily exploring each others mouths, letting their saliva mix up between them, the man's hands started undressing Claire of her clothes, easily sliding off the cloak from her and pulling her shirt up, revealing that braless chest of hers. Claire moved up, giving Cain the view of his life, she felt the warlock's tongue starting to softly lick her hardened nipples, while his hands went down her back, sliding inside her pants, rubbing hard against her buttocks. He slowly slid the leather pants off her and felt the heat in her grow, pushed Claire away from him and almost ripped his own clothes off, Claire set herself above the man, spreading her legs wide and guiding Cain's cock to her swollen lips.

As Claire slowly sat on his cock, Cain felt himself almost going into a trance, maybe it was the lack of nutrition or something else, but suddenly he got enough energy to start pushing himself into her. Claire grinned as the tip of his cock sank into her tight cunt, it's walls were almost like trying to push the thing out of her, but Cain bucked his hips up, sinking the whole shaft into her, making Claire moan as she felt it deep inside her horny pussy. The woman closed her eyes as she started moving her hips back and forth, rocking on Cain's dick, making it rub her all over in her, the wet walls of her hot twat were pushing themselves against the cock, making the warlock gasp of sexual tension. Cain put his hands on Claire's firm breasts, starting to massage them against her, she put her arms around him and started rocking even faster, as Cain kept bucking himself up with every ounce of strength left in him, sinking his hard meat into Claire's tight cunt that had been begging for a good fuck for a long time. The warlock grinned, closing his eyes and pumping himself into her vigorously, making her whine and squeal in his lap. But as Cain opened his eyes, he saw Leelee in front of him, smiling at him looking cute as usual, the breasts he was rubbing weren't Claire's, but Leelee's, and the cunt he was pounding... feeling even hotter and wetter. "Cain... do it to me..." He heard Leelee's voice inside his head, begging him to take care of her, giving him even more strength, his pounding became even more intense, ravaging himself into the girl, making her whine and almost cry in his lap, her skin waving with every push he gave her and her cunt getting wetter every time he slid inside her. He pressed his forehead hard against Leelee's chest, and finally he felt the girl's juices spreading on him, but as he once again looked up, he saw Michelle, gasping and looking satisfied.

"Fuck me, Cain... fuck my pussy..."

Now he was pushing his dick inside that virginal cunt of Michelle's, her brown pubic hair was rubbing against him and the cunt he was fucking was getting tighter and tighter, younger and younger... Cain pulled the girl hard against himself and kissed her lips passionately, the young girl's squealing quickly turned into the moaning of Claire, her eyes soaked by tears and her pussy wetter than ever.

"Oh God, I've never felt like that... fuck me Cain..." Claire moaned, begging for more.

Cain ignored the hallucinations he was having and took a strong hold of Claire, and knocked her over on the floor, jumping on top of her and setting her legs on his shoulders, pushing himself once again into her wet cunt, that almost sucked his dick inside. Violently he started pounding himself into her pussy, making Claire feel it deep inside her. Her whole body shivered as the meat sank as far as it could go, rubbing against the walls of her cunt hornily, his balls slapped against her buttocks and his hands were kneading Claire's beautiful breasts, making the star moan under him.

He started feeling like he was getting near to the end, he put the last of his strength into those last pushes, sinking the tip of his cock deep into Claire and shooting the load of semen deep inside her. Cain didn't have the strength to get up anymore, and neither did Claire, so they quietly decided to stay there until they could move again.

The next day, the two woke up to some sounds coming from outside. This was bad, since both of them were completely naked, what would happen if someone would walk in on them? Or maybe it was Morsus, who had found a way out of the garden, that would be even worse. "Come on, get dressed..." Whispered Claire, putting her clothes on in haste, this was more difficult on Cain, who was still a bit weak about spending three days on his back, on a floor of stone too. But both got dressed in time, surprisingly they heard a knock from the door as Claire was pulling Cain up. "I can stand... but I can't walk... open the door."

Claire armed herself with the dagger and slowly walked to the door, waiting for something to jump on her as she opened the door. She wasn't that far from the truth.

"Claire? You're alive!"

Both of them were surprised to see Michelle and Leelee walk through the doorway and seeing Cain in the situation he was in. "Oh my God... what happened?" Leelee darted straight to him to see if he was alright while Michelle made sure Claire was fine too. "Morsus... is he dead?" Claire hesitated for a second, but gave Michelle a small nod as a reply. Cain didn't oppose in not telling them the truth, since it would only disturb their minds on their way to the east, which reminded him...

"Weren't you guys going east?"

"Yeah, we were. Until miss-goody-two-shoes here struck our guide in the head with a very large stick. It was scary, you should have seen her." Smiled Michelle, kind of proud of Leelee in the back of her head, she had finally gotten some sense into that girl.

"I couldn't leave. Not without knowing that you were alright, you're a big part of the team."

Claire gave Cain a sad look, saying with her eyes that there was nothing after. Cain smiled at Leelee and tried to fight off many things in his head. Was this going to continue? Would he keep betraying Leelee like this or would he be able to keep himself away from these things. Maybe it was something about that they weren't really together, or the feeling he had about her from the beginning... that she didn't belong here and they didn't belong together. So far he had been attracted to the other women from the real world, but just in one thing deals... he didn't want her to become one too.

"What is it? You're so deep in thought..."

"... I'm just tired. Why don't we go back to Chloros to rest?"

"Yes, maybe we should continue in a few days, just to make sure that Cain gets enough rest." Thought Michelle.

"I'll be fine tomorrow if I get something to eat and plenty of sleep."

"Can-do."

It took a while to carry Cain back to Chloros, but it was worth it. There they were greeted by the royal escort to the palace, where all of them got enough food to go straight to sleep afterwards. Claire did have some business with the queen, who had suggested something Claire wasn't going to accept.

"Dok is trained for this mission, it's good for him to go on to the world, to see more places and experience something else than books, your highness."

"Yes, but now the situation has changed. Now the party consist of the two girls and the warlock that saved all of north, we can't let anything happen to them, that is why I think you are the best person for this assignment."

"Your majesty... I just can't, I don't think it's a good idea..."

Kya gave Claire a suspicious look and got up from her throne. Claire tried to avoid the queen's eyes, but failed. "Claire, let's forget that I'm the queen for a second here... why won't you go?" The queen kept staring at the woman covered by the dark blue coat, trying to look away from her.

"... You know why, Kya..."

"I thought so. But what you told me earlier you said that you weren't going to fall in love here?"

"There's a difference between love and passion, you don't know it yet, but some day, you will. I can't go with Cain, Leelee and Michelle, as much as I'd like to, I can't. It would break Leelee's heart if she'd find out what Cain has done."

"... You're wrong, I do know something about passion. But I think it's something about this warlock that's the problem, not you. Don't punish yourself for falling for something like that."

Claire didn't reply to her, but turned her back and walked away, leaving the queen into the throne room by herself. So, Dok kept as the guide for the group, although many people objected, including Dok. That blow in the head wasn't exactly the best thing to do to your guide when he's trying to navigate through a forest. Although the forest wasn't that thick in the spot they tried to go through, Dok managed to hold them up for some time, but in this time, they had decided to go back for Cain, not to let him do anything like this alone ever again. Through the night, Claire pondered over her problem, blaming herself about everything that had happened in the cabin. But still, was it possible that the queen was right? Was it actually Cain that had caused that attraction for a moment and just went where the tracks took him... yeah, she wasn't going to see him ever again. She didn't know the answer and she was too afraid to find out. The next morning, the party left Chloros, heading toward the mountains in the east, guided by the faint-hearted Dok, now too afraid to even give Leelee a look of any kind, even after she had explained what happened, he wasn't that sure about her intentions. After going through the damp forest, they reached the great plains of the north, up on a hill they could see a few villages and farmers working in the fields. The wind hadn't completely stopped, a small breath of air swept through the north, making the grain wave in the wind. Cain still hadn't told them about what Morsus had said, he was going to find out everything from his companion's mouth, he'd just need to make her want to tell the truth.

"You can see the mountains there, past the fields of Gorim. I'll leave you to the entrance to the mountain of Crows, after that you're on your own." Explained the guide, examining the map at the same time, while walking down the hill with the rest of the party.

"Mountain of Crows... near the mountain there should be the main building of the council of Kerubia. They are the very best and honored of all warlocks." Noted Cain.

"You've got a big chance of joining now, you defeated the evil warlock who was about to destroy the north. They'll let you in on the council for sure and then you can invite us to all kinds of secret meetings, right?" Smiled Leelee, but Cain wasn't that enthusiastic about the whole subject, the council wasn't what Leelee thought it was.

"The council of Kerubia consists of warlocks over the age of 200. They don't keep any secret meetings because officially the council doesn't exist. The warlocks in it are immortal and their power is beyond any of our comprehension."

"So... where is this building?" Asked Michelle.

"How should I know? That's why I stated 'near' and not the actual location. It's supposed to be somewhere near the town of Rowanbranch, the smallest of all the towns in all of east, the council is lead by a witch who is rumored to have enough power to destroy this whole island."

"A witch? Finally, I thought this was a man's world too..." Leelee's sentence was cut short by the push Michelle gave her, this wasn't the time to be talking about some world up there, above the ceiling of rock. "Too? What does that mean, Leelee?" It caught the suspicious Cain's attention immediately, but it wasn't that hard to come up with a stupid excuse for that kind of statement. "You know, in the south and west. Dirty male miners, stuff like that." Michelle corrected Leelee's error quickly and almost perfectly, Cain wasn't going to stop with his suspicions. "Funny... I thought that in Ferumi the women were always first, with all the acting and other non-physical jobs."

"Ferumi is different, after we left there, all we've seen is men who are always on top of things, women degraded and nothing done about it. And why would Bosco have sent a warlock instead of a witch, huh? Tell me that?"

"Because there's only one witch in this world, in the council of Kerubia."

"My point made, off we go!" Exclaimed Michelle, speeding up with Leelee, nearing the village just a few minutes away.

Meanwhile in the most southern parts of the east, the newly formed group, searching for the stairs, had finally the steps in front of them. But both the singer and the bartender were too exhausted to climb up.

"Too bad... that now we've found it... and we'll die of ammonia or something... but I was right, wasn't I?" Huffed the bartender, Britney nodding at him tiredly. The almost transparent stairs were identical to the ones leading to the temple of water, now the tired explorers used them to rest until they were strong enough to climb up, and if what their old leader had said, grant them three wishes... the first one gets it?

"Wait a minute... the three wishes you were talking about..." Panted Britney.

"Yeah, the first one to enter the temple gets them... the god of air is supposed to... Britney?"

It wasn't that shocking that the bartender was now looking at Britney's taillights, running up the stairs like a madman. He had no other choice but to run after her, he wasn't about to give up on the wishes now that he was this close. "Britney, stop now and I'll give you one wish, I have ways of making you stop!" He yelled at her, slowly catching up on her.

"No way, dude! I'm getting my three wishes and you aren't getting shit!"

The persistent bartender plunged up the stairs, getting a strong hold of Britney's legs, knocking Britney over. "Let go of me, right now!" She kicked and kicked but the guy just wouldn't let go. "Wait a sec! Let's just think this through like normal adults, OK?"

She stopped kicking and the bartender let go of her legs. "Now, we rest here for five minutes... and then when I say 'go', we run. The first one up top, gets the wishes, got it?"

"... Fair enough."

After a few hours of rest, the group heading to the east were a bit disappointed in their guide. "I say we go on without him." Suggested Michelle.

"Come on, guys! He's just tired and he's used to sleeping most of the day in the palace, cut him some slack, will you?" Cain opposed, of course. He was curious what they would have to say about that. Maybe they didn't want any more from this world to join their team.

"You're right, Cain. He is tired, and that's why we should go on without him. He's seen enough for this trip and he can make it back to the castle by himself, can't he? So, let us be on our way to the entrance of the mountain."

Cain wasn't sure what to say to Leelee's suggestion, opposing might hurt her and that was the last thing he wanted to do now. "... Fine. We go now, but at least leave him a message so he'll know what happened."

"Already did that, I knew you'd say yes." Leelee smiled at him, leading the trio out of the small village, leaving their at times useful guide to sleep at the inn. It didn't take long to reach the entrance to the mountain of Crows, the gates were open without any guard, letting anyone pass into the east. Not many dared to go through the mountains because of the council of Kerubia and some other vicious beasts living in the mountains.

They walked the paths of the mountains, fighting off beasts of many kind. Giant hawks, bears, gigantic snakes, all the things only possible in a world like this, as Michelle defended the unarmed Leelee with her dagger stolen from the thief, Cain conjured up the powers of magic, making some enemies run away and some run into their own destruction. Cain got more experience as a warlock and Michelle learned how to fight just by wounding the opponent and driving it away. Leelee's knowledge of some martial arts came in handy, leaving Cain once again stunned, this must have been something learned in the real world, he thought. It took time, and some sleepless nights to travel through the mountains, but finally they made it to the village of Rowanbranch, where they received a warm welcome by some of the fans of the soap that had made Michelle and Leelee famous.

"We just love everything you've done to the show!"

"Thanks. Thanks a lot, you wouldn't by any chance happen to know where Lady LaDermot resides?"

"Oh no, sweetie! If we knew, we'd be over there right now, suggesting what would happen in the show next. Oh! You probably know where she lives, don't you? I've heard rumors about Rufio leaving the show, it would just KILL me! Please tell her not to cut Rufio out, please?"

"Uh... yeah, I'll let her know..."

Michelle hardly got away from the hyped-up woman, almost stopping her from entering the inn. What would she do if she heard that they were stopping the whole show if she'd die if Rufio got cut out? Insane fans are a star's worst enemy.

"More of those and I'll hang myself..." Mumbled Michelle.

"Don't worry about it, once the finale is done with they'll forget about us in no time. After that we'll be forced to look for jobs that don't involve acting as much as flirting around in very little amount of clothes."

"Don't remind me... I don't want to end up like that, if my career ends here I'll be just like Lady LaDermot. Come up with a new idea of a soap and start writing it anonymously." Planned Michelle, she had thought about the idea of becoming a writer in this place too, but waking up near Ferumi, she had pretty much no other choice but to become an actress. Cain joined them in the table after booking the rooms for the night, the bar they were sitting in was built into the inn and was very different from any they had been in. There weren't any rowdy miners or drunken husbands who were angry at their wives, but normal people, sitting quietly and drinking ale.

"This is more disturbing than relaxing, I haven't seen a bar like this anywhere. I'm constantly waiting for some ten feet tall orc to grab us and throw us to that ravine down there." The village was next to a huge ravine, anyone who fell down there wouldn't survive, even with magic. Cain had tried to ask around about the council, but the people of the village didn't seem to know anything about it.

"So, we made it to the east, finally. Now what do we do?" Asked Leelee.

"... We find Lady LaDermot, that's what we do."

"How? She could be anywhere, couldn't she? Are we gonna go through every village in these parts to find her? I don't think we'll last that long, we can't keep fighting against those beasts out there, eventually we'll lose."

She was right, who knew where the woman lived, she might live in a cave if she wanted to, and they couldn't ask around for a woman of her description, for it would risk her identity. If the council of Kerubia truly exists, they would definitely know where the lady resides. "Ask the council, they must know in their great wisdom where someone like her would live." Suggested Cain. It wasn't a bad idea, but where was the council? "How many long ways around must we take? Will we ever find her? Here's a comfort: maybe she's already dead! We can't know for sure, can we?"

"All the ways we must, Leelee. You're never going to find your way home if you don't go by the path beneath you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"... It means that Ferumi is at the end of this path, but if you're not going to walk it..."

That wasn't exactly what Cain had meant, but he wasn't going to say it to their faces, he needed them to admit it. "Fine, so we find the council of Kerubia first. We seem to be the only people who know about it, so how are we gonna start looking?" Asked Michelle. "I don't know, but if anyone hasn't seen them around, it must be that they're hiding."

"No shit, how's that helping us?"

"How could anyone hide in a village of this size? There's no way a council of seven members could walk around without being noticed, so... we should search outside the village."

"Yeah, that'll help. Think about this for a second, Cain. These mountains are almost unclimbable, and these warlocks can probably teleport. So they could be inside a hollow mountain where no regular person could enter, am I right?" Michelle was right, only a warlock could find the council, so Leelee and herself weren't going to be of any help, Cain needed to find them by himself.

"Fine, I'll let you know when I find something." The warlock got up from the table and walked outside.

"... Michelle, I think he knows something." Whispered Leelee, seeing Cain still outside the inn, now walking away.

"What could he know? Sure, maybe Claire let out a few frogs from her mouth while they were trapped in that cabin, that's why she didn't want to see us before we left Chloros. He doesn't know everything, he wouldn't have gone with us if he knew."

Leelee nodded and looked into the ravine, opening just next to the window of the bar. While Leelee and Michelle had to avoid hysterical fans all day before going to sleep, Cain was trying to locate the building where the council meets up. It occurred to him that it might not be a visible building after all, but like Michelle had suggested, inside a mountain... somewhere where people didn't go, some place they didn't know existed... it was a bit too obvious, but things like that were easily ignored. As Cain approached the deep ravine, he felt dizzy and almost fell in. No wonder people didn't look there much, and that's why they hadn't noticed the entrance made of wood just in range of Cain's eyes, the perfect place to make a secret hide. Cain rushed into Michelle and Leelee's room, finding that they were both asleep, which was bad, because he was getting very impatient. He quickly wrote down a note of the location of the entrance and set it on the desk. Cain was sure as he floated down the ravine, that the power that had controlled him in the timeless garden, was from the witch that ran the council. He wanted to know why she did it, and maybe find out an answer to his other question. The warlock set himself down to the wooden mine-like entrance and walked into the darkness, not knowing what was inside. After walking a while in the dark tunnel, he started hearing something... it was like water, splashing against rocks at the dwelling of the dwarves, but a bit different.

He found himself in a large cavern, as he looked down he saw a pool of magma steaming below him, flowing around a giant high-built altar in the middle of the cavern. The bridge leading to it was rather narrow and hard to walk, he kept thinking that it might fall down, feeling that it was quite shabby. The wood was almost on fire because of the magma down there, but it endured the heat, like it always had. The altar Cain stepped into was full of markings, some of them he could recognize, some he didn't, but what he could tell, this was a place where the leaders of the four races had gathered at some point in time, the pedestals with statues next to them proved it, with the elves, a pedestal of water, the dwarves, the pedestal of earth, the orcs, the pedestal of fire and finally ikarians, pedestal of air. Each pedestal had markings of the powers of the element, water, earth and air were faintly glowing. They must be connected to the temples somehow...

"You are right, they are the pedestals of the elements." Cain heard a gentle female voice in his head.

"... Who are you?"

"I am the one who you think I am, you come here seeking answers, do you not?"

"Yes, I do. Do you have them?"

"Difficult to say, I must hear your questions first."

Suddenly another bridge appeared in front of Cain, leading to the opposite end of the cavern, where a passage opened. "Step forward and we'll see what of your questions I can answer."

Cain didn't think twice, he walked down the wider wooden bridge, feeling like it was just made, and just for his feet. As he entered the passage, it faded away along with the bridge. Cain arrived into a giant room, statues almost covering all the walls, immortal artifacts of all the races that exist, above and below. I the middle there was a round table, in it were sitting six elderly men with long gray beards, waiting for Cain to step forward. There was a sphere on the table, revolving around in it's blue, white and brownish colors. Cain walked to the table to look at the sphere more closely... inside the sphere a smaller yellow sphere with a few brown dots was staying completely still, he started to understand what Morsus was talking about.

"That's why you came here, isn't it?" Now he could hear the female voice in his ears, not just in his head. He lifted his eyes from the sphere to see the witch that was supposed to be so powerful... instead of a wrinkled old lady, he saw a young blonde woman, standing at the other end of the table. They looked at each other for a while without saying anything, the council of warlocks exploring the young warlock's mind. "There aren't any excuses for the ones who arrive from the outer layer, they just happened to get here."

"... You're one of them, aren't you?"

The young woman smiled and walked around the table to him. "Are you afraid of the outer world, Cain? You shouldn't be..."

"Morsus said that it was the real world, that this one is just a shadow of the one above us."

"Morsus won't be bothering you or anyone else ever again, he stays in the timeless garden, where he belongs, and he can't get out." The woman took a chair out of nothingness and instructed Cain to sit down.

"I think it's time for you to understand, like the warlocks present have done. This is the reason they haven't left this cave for some time now, and the reason they don't wish to. Are you ready for everything?"

Cain nodded and the woman waved her hands in a circular pattern, uttering magical spells under her breath. The sphere on the table rose up into the air and started revolving faster and faster, growing into the size of a human. Sudden bursts around the surface of the sphere started appearing, a cloud of smoke rising up and vanishing, leaving only a black mark on the surface. In time more of these marks began appearing, in some places, the blue began to cover the brown, transforming the sphere into nothing but a blue globe. Then the blue started to fade out, it's color thinned down, starting to reveal the scorched earth beneath it, leaving the surface completely out of life, and finally the surface withered away, leaving only the core, the yellow sphere floating in the air. The sun gave the ocean of magma it's warm welcome to the world outside the rotting Earth, a world free of eternal evil. The sphere grew larger again, giving Cain a good look at the whole island he was now standing in.

"... I can see Ferumi... Calculus..."

"Everything?"

"Yeah... everything."

The sphere transformed back into it's previous form. "That is the future, some day you will see sunlight. You don't know what it is, but you'll live to see it."

Cain looked worn out, he had just seen something that could destroy the whole island and everything the people on it believed in. Suddenly the life he had lived seemed rather meaningless, if there was something out there, so full of life, destroying itself by the minute... it was horrible. Cain got up from his chair and looked around. "Is there any place I can lie down?" The woman guided him through another passage, leading to a normal looking bedroom. "Rest here, when you feel strong again, we'll discuss the other questions in your mind." The passage vanished as the woman walked out. Cain laid down on the bed, thinking of what he had just seen. "... Amber, huh?"

After many hours, Leelee and Michelle were starting to wake up. It wasn't a big surprise for Michelle that Cain had found the entrance, but it was more of a problem of getting there for her. "Any suggestions on how to get down that ravine?"

"Don't know... maybe we should use a rope of some kind, or we could just fly there with our broomsticks. My money's on number one."

"No need to be sarcastic here, I'm just saying that there might be alternate methods on lowering down there, that's all."

"Really? Like what?"

In a few minutes they were standing at the edge of the ravine, looking down the steep wall. "You're not serious about this, are you?" Asked Leelee.

"Look, this wall isn't that sheer, we might just make it if we're accurate enough."

"Yeah, but this thing right here, it's got a lot higher mortality rate than a rope." She held up a wide board of wood.

"Of course we'll use a rope, are you nuts? Well just calculate the distance to the entrance... and tie the rope on our waists and slide down with the boards, simple."

Of course it was much more dangerous than just lowering down with the rope, but it was much faster and way too dangerous to pass. They tied the ropes into a nearby rock, this time into a rock that wasn't going to fall down with them and set the boards at the edge of the ravine.

"I never thought I'd be doing something like this, not even here."

"Stop whining and yell REALLY loud!"

Michelle pushed Leelee down the wall of the ravine, sliding down behind her. The boards almost broke into pieces, but luckily the walls were smooth enough to glide down on. The rope gave them a rough pull as the boards fell into the abyss, leaving the two hanging just a few inches from the floor of the entrance.

"Ouch, I think the rope just broke my spine..." Whined Leelee, trying to swing herself deeper into the tunnel, just to make sure she wouldn't fall down.

"If it's something it's your internal organs that just got squished by the enormous pressure... damn that hurt!" Michelle dug up her dagger and cut her rope, dropping her into the entrance. "... No, everything's intact. No bones ruptured and no internal bleeding... I hope."

"Who cares? Get me down from here! Now!"

Meanwhile deeper in the mines, Cain was waking up from his deep sleep he had on the sheets of the witch. "What did you dream?" He heard the voice again, and as he opened his eyes, he saw the witch in front of him. "I dreamt... a big forest, full of animals and different plants. Then a big fire comes along and destroys it all, and in the end, the forest is destroyed."

"It's your mind, reflecting what you heard yesterday. The forest is the representation of the Earth, the animals are the peaceful beings that live there, without any sinister or vile thoughts... the fire, you know."

"... Humans. I get it... aren't we who have been born here ikarians?"

"Some... but in other places, other continents, humans have started to breed and are starting to adapt into where they were forced to live in, just like up there, a long time ago."

"Is it good or bad?"

"... I don't know. Even I don't know that, it's too far away to be seen." The woman got up from the bed and conjured up a door, ready to walk through it.

"You're a human... Amber, is it?"

The woman stopped and the door vanished. "That's what I got, anyway. Was I right?" Asked Cain, trying to get some answers out of the witch.

"Yeah... you were right." She turned around to reply to his look. "I thought so... for some reason you were so open last night. I don't think you're like that always, am I right?"

Amber walked back to him and sat down on the bed next to the warlock. "No... I don't know if you know this already, but... I've been following you for some time now. Mostly because of Michelle, I'm afraid she's going to get into trouble."

"Oh, she has. She's a whole bunch of trouble by herself, there's nothing you can do to keep her away from herself." Smiled Cain.

"I knew her... in the outer world. Somehow she's made it this far in this place, and that worries me. She might not be so lucky next time something dangerous happens. And I trust that you'll be there to look after her, Cain... I trust you."

It didn't take a witch to figure out that Cain wasn't who he thought he was, there was something about him that made everyone snap. Was it the blood of the powerful warlock, or the powers he had received in the dwelling... Amber leaned down to give him a soft kiss, leading to another kiss, a much more passionate one.

"Amber..."

She stopped kissing him just to hear what he had to say, intending to go further. "The last time I did this... something happened. I'm not sure it was very healthy either, but I'm trying to stay away from things like this."

"... Things like what?" Smiled Amber, lowering herself down along Cain's body. Cain felt her hand going into her pants and felt them lowering as his cock kept getting harder as a result of Amber's fondling. Cain didn't even notice as his head started circling around while the young woman touched his dick with her lips. The tongue of the witch moved up and down his hardening shaft as she looked up at the man under her control. As his full length sank into Amber's warm mouth, Cain grabbed her head and started moving it up and down. Her lips were firmly attached to him as her head kept making him groan and shiver, her tongue circling around the thing in her mouth and wetting it all over. Cain kept pulling Amber's head against his crotch, feeling his dick sinking deeper and deeper into her throat, at times she'd pull away and start stroking it slowly, smiling at him wickedly, just for the heck of it. Cain would have done anything to make her continue what she was doing.

Amber sank the cock as deep as she could get it in her throat, Cain moaned at the pleasure of feeling the warm and slippery walls of her gullet. She started furiously sucking the shaft as hard as she could suck, making sure that Cain was letting out every single moan of pleasure he had in him, as she removed the cock from her throat and let out a small cough, she hungrily licked her lips, and making sure that Cain saw it. She started moving her tongue on the very tip of the veiny shaft, softly pushing it against his manhood and letting her saliva cover it completely. As Cain looked down, he expected seeing someone else right about now, but no. It was still Amber, and she was going to stay that way, maybe it had been just a one time thing with Claire and the hallucinations, but he sure was feeling like he had felt in that hut right now...

"That's it baby... lick it."

Her passion over him was getting stronger, it made her want to make him moan even more, which she was doing a great job already. Her tongue could be mistaken for a snake of some kind, based on how skillfully it moved on Cain's cock. She stopped teasing him and took a good hold of the shaft with her hand and took the tip into her mouth, starting to both her head and hand up and down. The slurping noise she was making made Cain almost rip the sheets apart as he was enjoying Amber's dedication to her colleagues, the saliva was running down his dick like from a fountain, she let it cover all of her own personal lollipop and then kept stroking and sucking it, not knowing how little away Cain was from cumming.

"Amber... do you feel it? I'm gonna cum soon... don't stop..." Moaned Cain, squeezing the sheets as hard as he could. Amber took it out of her mouth and stroked it from tip to root. "You gonna cum? You wanna cum in my mouth?" Gasped the witch, waiting for the shaft to shoot out it's sweet load. As Cain grinned just before his orgasm, Amber took the tip into her mouth, stroking the shaft as hard as she could, resulting in major pressure and leading to the fact that every single drop of sperm shot right into her throat, and the young woman didn't even gag. Whatever was left in him, Amber sucked into her mouth and swallowed it with the most of it.

As the feeling of sensuality left their bodies, an image of someone fighting their of lives on the altar flashed in their minds. They rushed from the bedroom, through the hall of the council to the cave of magma, where they saw Michelle and Leelee, fighting off a dragon. The beast had escaped the magma as the last temple had activated, and the fire had started to burn twice the hotter than it had before. Amber conjured up the bridge and they dashed toward the altar, with the risk of dropping down into the magma. As they reached the altar, Amber uttered a spell and a large cloud of rain appeared above the dragon, forcing it back into the magma with heavy rain. Both Michelle and Leelee had survived without any fatal injuries, but Michelle wasn't nearly as shocked about the dragon as she was about Amber.

"Amber?"

She gave him a warm smile and opened her arms for Michelle's embrace, old friends meeting in a place like this... they were more than happy. They left the altar and went straight into the hall of the council, now empty since the warlocks had gone about their business. It wasn't weird enough to find someone you knew in this situation, but now she had saved their lives too.

"I can't believe that you're really here! How did you end up here? And a witch too?" Amber had explained to them that Cain knew everything about the outer world, and that they were here for an unknown reason, making it free for them to talk.

"I found myself near an old shrine devoted for the worshipping of the god of fire, I was there in a very bad time, since six of the finest warlocks in this world happened to be there as well. Of course they branded be a witch right after they had seen me come out of thin air, and took me in. I learned about Kerubian and all the stuff a witch has to learn, and since being the only female who has used magic, they immediately put me in charge of their council that had existed for a very long time."

"How long did it take to learn this stuff?" Asked Leelee.

"... About 60 years."

That wasn't very good news, that would mean that she was around 85 for her age. "Wha--? How the...?"

"You've been here only for a short time, but soon you'll notice that you won't age anymore. Sooner or later someone will notice that and you'll be branded as witches too."

"That's impossible... this can't be happening..." Both Leelee and Michelle were out of their minds. They wouldn't grow any older from this? What else did that mean?

"You might notice that some things remain, your hair for instance keeps growing, if you get a wound it'll heal in time... but in other physical ways, you won't age."

"There's something I need to ask you..." Muttered Cain. "... Was it you inside me in the timeless garden?"

"Yes. My powers and the power of the lion, it was the only way you could have defeated Morsus. It was easy to let the power into your body, since your blood is strong in the ways of magic, but don't go on a task like that if you think you'll lose."

Cain nodded and looked at Leelee, still shocked about everything that was going on. "So... goodbye face lift, eternal youth in front of us, right?" Michelle tried to smile, but she would be trapped like that forever, there was no way she could smile sincerely yet.

"We came here looking for someone, a writer by the alias of Lady LaDermot. We thought that someone in the council would know her whereabouts."

"Yes, I know where she resides. I can show you on the map."

Amber conjured up a map of the east and spread it on the table. She showed them the exact spot of her house in the town of Freez, it was in the part where many warlocks lived, the perfect place to stay away from public, since not many warlocks were interested in a soap like the on she was writing.

It would take time, but they would get used to the idea of living forever... just time.