Sirens of Faldion: The Final Bond

by Anya Merchant

“…Kai?” Selene’s voice came from upstairs. Kai found the nearest staircase and hurried toward it.

  “Selene!” he called again. There was no answering reply. He picked the door that seemed closest to where her voice had come from initially and pushed it open.

  Selene was on the other side of the room, still wearing the same rags Kai had last seen her in. She was still shackled, still helpless, and more downtrodden than he’d ever seen her before in the time that they’d know each other.

  There was just enough light in the room to illuminate her face, the cut across her forehead, and the swollen, purple bruise across one of her cheeks. And her eyes, soft and brown, and now lacking any of the spark and vitality that she’d cultivated in herself under their old master.

  “You came back to me.” Terrion’s voice reached Kai a split second before the edge of his knife pressed against his throat, near hard enough to cut flesh. “Saves me the trouble of tracking you down.”

  CHAPTER 19

  Kai’s entire body tensed up, readying itself to strike like a coiled snake. He felt Terrion wiggle the blade slightly against his neck, warning him off that course of action.

  “Oh, you are a fool, boy,” said Terrion. “A pathetic little sand haired fool. A Meridian without the ripping sense to know his place.”

  “You’re a bastard,” growled Kai. He flashed his eyes toward Selene, and where she lay chained in the back of the room. Her face was empty, her soul beaten, and she gave no sign of being able to help him in any way.

  “And you’re a slave,” said Terrion. “Oh, if you had any idea how angry I was when the bird arrived with news of your escape. I spent hours thinking about how I’d kill you, how I’d lay you alive, and how I’d make her watch.”

  Selene let out a tiny whimper. Kai reached a hand out toward her, only to have Terrion grab one of his fingers and give it a hard twist, almost breaking it.

  “No, I think I’ll keep you alive now,” said Terrion. “I want to see how you fair when I show you how me and your little girlfriend here have been getting along.”

  “You ripping bastard!” Kai let out a snarl and tried to twist, ignoring the pain and potential of the knife against his neck. Terrion seized him by the hair and bared his neck, preparing to give the killing slash if need be.

  And then, quite suddenly, Sky was in the room with them. Kai could only see her out of the corner of his vision, but she slammed forward into Terrion from the side, knocking him to the floor. Kai coughed and fell forward, a small trickle of blood running down from a shallow scrape the knife had opened up on his neck.

  Terrion tried to scramble to his feet, but Sky was faster, and maybe even stronger than he was. She broke his knife hand with a vicious stomp, cast the blade out a nearby window, and smirked at him.

  “You don’t even know what you’re doing,” she said. “You’re too pathetic, too self-absorbed to realize when you’re staring death in the face.”

  “You bitch!” snarled Terrion. Sky punched him in the face, her arm flashing into a blur and breaking his noise soundly.

  “If I had the time, I’d torture you to death,” she whispered. “It’s men like you that are the most fun. All of the bravado and arrogance melts away, and you’re left with something real, something honest.”

  Terrion made a noise that was a mixture of pain, and unbelievably, fear. Kai was already up and moving, pulling the key ring from Terrion’s belt and trying key after key in Selene’s lock.

  “Come on,” he muttered. “Come on!”

  Selene wouldn’t look at him. She kept her gaze aimed downward, at the floor. Kai felt a pain in his heart, and almost wanted to cry. He tried another key, and finally found the right one, the shackles opening and releasing her.

  “Selene,” said Kai. “Selene, can you walk?”

  She didn’t nod or react to having been spoken to, but slowly rose to her feet. Kai put his arm under her shoulder and helped her move across the room.

  “Kai!” shouted Sky. “We’re going to have to go out the front!”

  “Alright! I’m-”

  The sound of animal paws thundering against the building’s floor gave them a half second of warning before Terrion’s bound beast, a massive wolf, crashed into the room. Terrion let out a furious snarl that the wolf mirrored, and then Kai felt the creature slam into him and Selene, knocking them both apart.

  “Selene!” he shouted. Sky rushed forward, moving between Kai and the wolf, though her eyes flickered with fear as she faced off against it. Kai tried to move around the wolf to get to Selene, but Terrion, his nose still releasing a torrent of blood, managed to reach her first.

  “Stop or the girl gets it!” shouted Terrion.

  Kai let out a wordless yell and charged forward. He barely perceived another of Terrion’s guards stepping into the doorway, bow held in hand. The shaft ripped loose a half second later, headed directly toward him.

  Sky slammed into him from the side, simultaneously triggering a void transfer. Time seemed to slow to a crawl, and Kai turned in just such a way as to see the arrow heading directly toward his chest. It was a killing shot, if not for the glow that flashed around him, and the twisting, inside out sensation that beat it out by a split second.

  He was floating again. Multicolored lights and thick fog surrounded him, as though he hovered at the intersection of a rainbow and a cloud, surrounded by an innumerable variety of fireflies. Kai screamed Selene’s name, but the sound came out strangely, turning in on itself immediately and refusing to carry.

  He saw Sky floating a few feet away, reaching her hand out toward him. Kai managed to calm his emotions enough to do the logical thing, and reach for her. They had just started to drift closer together when a noise shook the very air around them.

  The apparition he’d seen before, on his first trip through the void, was moving toward him, fast. The various colored firefly lights stuck to its giant, femininely shaped body, pulled in by magic or some other force. Kai looked over toward Sky and saw a look of terror on her face. Her hand shook as she reached for him, a little more desperate than she’d been before.

  A beautiful, perfectly seductive laugh rang out through the air. The apparition’s hand reached Kai before Sky’s did, wrapping warm, ethereal fingers around him, each the size of Kai’s arm. The apparition pulled him up and away from Sky, turning him around so he was looking into its face.

  The lights stuck to the apparition’s cheeks, forehead, neck, even its breasts. All of them suddenly pulsed in unison, and Kai felt an intense blast of emotion, of lust and euphoria too strong to feel good.

  “You’re powerful, for one so little,” cooed the apparition. The words were loud enough to make Kai fear for the integrity of his ear drums, but the laws that governed such things appeared to be different in the void.

  The lights pulsed bright again and Kai screamed, feeling his body snap to arousal as though a lever had been pushed. He saw the apparition as it was before him, a thing of power, but of beauty and seduction as well. He felt his own sanity as a tangible thing, and felt it slipping away as the apparition’s power washed over him.

  “Oh,” whispered the apparition. “Where are my manners? This must be quite the experience for you.”

  The lights pulsed again. Kai almost wanted to sob. It was too much, the pleasure sharp and edged, the sensations tickling over his body feeling like a molestation of his soul. Sky was flying toward the apparition’s hand in a desperate bid to knock Kai loose. He watched as the apparition raised its free hand, touched it to its lips, and then blew Sky a kiss, throwing her back a distance that must have been close to a mile, by standard measurement.

  “Let’s go somewhere more comfortable, shall we?” The apparition pursed its lips at Kai, and then moved forward, stepping through a tear in the fabric of the void itself and taking him with it.

  CHAPTER 20

  “There. This should be more comfortable for you.”

  Kai slowly opened his eyes. He was no longer in the void,
or at least the section of it that Sky had introduced him to. He was lying in the center of an ancient outdoor amphitheater, with rows of white marble seating rising up and forming an enclosure around him. The sky overhead was blue and full of fluffy clouds, and the sun was out, solidly announcing that the apparition had not brought him back to the physical realm, or at least not back to Faldion.

  “Where am I?” Kai muttered.

  He turned in a full circle, sweeping his eyes across his surroundings. Standing a half dozen yards away from him was a young woman with reddish blonde hair and petite features. She wore a loose white dress, sleeveless and cut low in the front. Her feet were bare, and she was smiling at him.

  “You’re here,” said the woman. “With me.”

  She took a few slow steps forward, exuding a sense of calm and warmth. A gentle breeze blew, and her dress blew in the wind, causing it to fly up and reveal tantalizing glimpses of leg and thigh.

  “Who are you?” asked Kai.

  “Azalea,” said the woman.

  Kai shook his head, frowning at her. She took another step toward him, and suddenly he found that he couldn’t take his eyes off her.

  “What are you?” Kai shook his head, feeling a kernel of fear crystalize inside his chest, despite the emotional force of the woman’s will pushing down on him, trying to subdue him into relaxation.

  “I’m a deity,” she said, a small, amused smile playing across her lips. “I represent the forces of love, lust, pleasure and desire.”

  Kai could only stare at her, his mouth hanging open in disbelief. He took a step back, feeling a chill run up his spine. Azalea closed in on him, her smile growing with each step she took.

  “I can’t be here,” said Kai. “I was… in the middle of something. Of saving someone, someone that I care about.”

  The details were fuzzy, probably an effect of the deity’s aura. He forced himself to think, and remembered Selene, the beauty of her smile, the kindness she’d shown him throughout the time they’d known each other. Azalea let out a shudder of pleasure and licked her lips.

  “Oh, you are a wonderful find, indeed,” she said, softly. “You love her, don’t you?”

  “What?” Kai shook his head. He wanted to sprint away from the deity, but knew without needing to be told that he’d be unable to escape from her on his own. He was in her realm, existing under her rules. There would be no leaving unless she allowed it.

  “You’re so full of emotion,” whispered Azalea. “I need to feel it. I need to feel you.”

  She took several more steps forward, putting herself within arm’s length of Kai. The sight of her, even fully clothed, was erotic in a way that nothing he’d experienced in his life ever before had been. He felt himself growing hard from the sight of her, his heart pounding in his chest, his body shouting for him to pull her in closer.

  “Here.” Azalea reached out and took Kai’s hands into hers. She lifted them up slowly, placing them onto her breasts. They were small, coming to a point at the nipple in the center.

  Kai tried to pull back, instinctively knowing that something was wrong with the situation. She wanted something from him, perhaps the same spirit essence that Sky needed for her abilities. Kai tried to pull his hands back, and instead, found himself groping her soft chest and stepping in closer to her, unable to stop it from happening.

  “It’s so nice here, isn’t it?” whispered Azalea. “Sunny, with just the right amount of breeze.”

  She leaned her face forward, letting her breath tickle Kai’s neck. One of her hands slid across Kai’s tunic and down to his trousers. He felt her palm slide across his hardness and let out a moan of pure lust.

  Azalea represented an intrinsic element of feminine nature. She was young, girlish in appearance, everything about her suggesting an eager fertility, open to being taken and enjoyed. She inched closer to Kai and began to plant soft, youthful kisses on his cheek and neck, slowly letting her lips slide across to meet his.

  Kai kissed her back. She tasted like sweet fruit and freshwater, and a tremor of sexual energy flowed out of him and into her. Azalea pulled back suddenly, letting out a soft moan, and then pushed herself more tightly against him, lifting up one of her legs to grind her crotch into his.

  “…No,” Kai mumbled. “This is… bad.”

  “It is bad,” Azalea whispered. “It’s so bad, and so wrong.”

  She reached down to the bottom hem of her dress and pulled it up and over her head. Azalea was entirely naked underneath, and Kai drank in the sight of her small breasts, her slim waist, the curve of her butt and her flawless, nude skin.

  Kai’s clothes came next, and despite himself, he didn’t fight her as she stripped them off him. In seconds, he stood as naked as she did, gritting his teeth and using every ounce of willpower he had to resist what she was offering. He knew at a deep, intrinsic level that giving in would mean the end of him, perhaps not immediately, but over time.

  Azalea pushed her naked body against him and kissed him, letting her tongue lance out against his as their embrace deepened. Kai was grinding his erect cock into her stomach, wanting nothing more than to pin her against the ground and give her the hard lesson that so many young women are secretly eager to learn.

  He reminded himself that she was no young girl, no human, even. It made no difference to his body. It didn’t change how soft she felt against him, how hot the lips of her cunt felt as they rubbed up the length of his thigh. It didn’t change how tiny she was, and how easy it would be for him to lift her into the air and find the right angle for mutual pleasure.

  Azalea reached her hand down and wrapped her fingers around his cock. Kai let out a gasp. It was as though she’d taken him by the soul of his masculinity, seized the part of his being that allowed him to love and lust. She gave it a slow, soft stroke, letting her thumb run across the head of Kai’s cock and driving him wild with desire.

  “Time works differently here,” she whispered. “Whether it takes me minutes to seduce you, or years, it changes nothing. We will be together here, undisturbed, enjoying each other, experiencing the true depths of forbidden pleasure.”

  “Ugh…” Kai couldn’t make his mouth form words beyond simple moans and noises of pleasure. He felt the girl moving her hand faster along his cock, squeezing and caressing it with unbelievable softness. He was within seconds of blowing his load, and she stopped as though she could sense exactly what he was feeling.

  “Wouldn’t you rather put it inside me?” Azalea stepped up on her tippy toes, bringing herself up high enough to let her cunt briefly brush over Kai’s cock. “Or perhaps like this?”

  She turned around and leaned forward, letting her hands hang behind her, for him to grab if he so wanted. Kai’s entire body screamed with desire, and only through drawing from every sliver of discipline in his being was he able to hold himself back from going wild.

  “My lips…” whispered Azalea, as she dropped down to her knees. “You would like how they feel, I think.”

  Kai couldn’t stop what happened next, and truthfully, he did not want to. Azalea flashed her girlish green eyes up at him and then planted a soft kiss on the tip of his erection. It sent a burst of pure, intoxicating pleasure through Kai’s crotch and into the rest of his body, and his knees almost buckled from the intensity of it.

  Azalea giggled, the sound of it like a beautiful, high pitched bell. She extended her tongue forward, holding it out a half inch away from the head of Kai’s cock. She didn’t move, waiting for him to come to her, forcing him to give in if the encounter were to continue.

  Kai kept his body tense, fighting a losing battle to keep himself still, to keep from giving in. His hips moved forward as though pulled by a separate force, sliding his cock along the girl deity’s tongue, into her mouth. She immediately began to suck and Kai felt a cry of pleasure escape him.

  He forced himself to lean back, away from her, falling to the white stone of the amphitheater’s floor underneath them. His fall was slower than i
t should have been, floating him down onto his back instead of giving him the crash landing he’d hoped would snap him back to his senses.

  Azalea began crawling forward as soon as Kai touched down. She planted kiss after kiss, sliding herself in between his legs, letting her lips trace their way up to his cock. With the final kiss, she took his erection into her mouth, and then even further than that.

  Kai reached out desperately, shouting in pleasure as the tiny deity girl let his cock slip into her the sweet depths of her throat. She showed no apparent discomfort at the act, and in fact, her mouth and throat massaged Kai in a way that went beyond what any human should have been capable of.

  The pleasure inside of him was like an out of control wildfire, like the flowing magma he’d seen the Fire Chosen’s spirit siren direct. Kai slid his hands into Azalea’s hair and began to pump his hips up, thrusting into her. She made tiny pleased noises each time he moved, as though she was somehow taking sexual pleasure from having him fuck her face.

  It was sex of a kind that felt more like a drug than a physical act. Azalea seemed to draw from every bit of arousal Kai had ever experienced in his life, feeding it back to him as she sucked lustfully on his erection and gave him pleasure with her lips and mouth.

  He was on the brink, close enough to an orgasm to have nearly crossed the point of no return, when Azalea pulled back. Kai felt disappointment flood through him, but only for a moment.

  She slid herself up, straddling him, and carefully lowered himself onto his cock. As soon as the tip of his erection was inside of her, any semblance of self-control remaining within Kai vanished in a puff of lust and desire and raw, physical need.

  He set his hands on her buttocks and pulled her down onto his cock roughly. Azalea let out a cry of ecstasy, falling into rhythm, following Kai’s lead as he bounced her up and down on his cock. Her body slapped down on his, echoing off the walls of the amphitheater in the distance.

  Kai flipped her underneath him on the hard stone and gave her a passionate kiss as he began thrusting from the top. Her legs wrapped around him so tightly that he feared something might snap, but it was only a side consideration as he pounded the desire deity senseless.