by Eric Vall
The monster now had a few bright yellow spots of blood on his enormous, scaly body, and it was clear he was both hurting and incredibly pissed off. He roared in agony as he glared at me with those blazing yellow eyes, and he raised his tail again to strike out at us with one more blast.
I successfully deflected the blow again, and when the subsequent cloud of poison was dissolved once more by my whirlpool, our advantage became apparent.
Suddenly, as if he’d read my mind, the huge eel blasted a huge stream of what looked like yellow fire out through his nostrils. I was now about twenty yards away from the beast now, with the princesses still behind me, and I assumed the fire had to be magical in nature since we were submerged in water. The flames didn’t come quite close enough to hit me, but I could feel their heat in the water.
“Shit, he’s doing something new!” I screamed, and Cienna froze time for the four of us. Then I turned around so I could look at my wives, and I continued to speak. “Quick, let’s move as far away from him as we can. We need to figure something out, because I can tell I’m hurting him, but he’s just so fucking big. Not to mention he’s now breathing fire.”
I stared over at the giant eel, who was frozen in the water. It was the first time I’d had a chance to look at him when he wasn’t attacking me, and I was transfixed for a moment. His mouth was open in a roar, and I could see his teeth for the first time, which were each at least two feet long and had points like needles.
“What a monster. What kind of crazy person would want an eel as a pet?” I shuddered for a moment before I turned back to my wives.
“We think we have a plan, Joe,” Jessamine informed me as we swam quickly away from the giant black creature, and I was curious to hear what my wives had come up with.
“Lay it on me,” I panted, and I glanced over my shoulder to make sure Morgar was still frozen.
“I was wishing I could sing again, to see if it would entrance Morgar,” Ariana began to explain, “and then Jessamine had an idea.”
“I’ve been feeling so strong since the latest ritual, I thought I could do something with my illusion magic,” my dark-haired wife explained. “Since I heard Eudora sing, I thought I might be able to mimic her voice to hypnotize Morgar, like how I mimicked that soldier’s voice when we rescued Cienna. So, we tried it very softly, and it worked!”
“Wow,” I said, “I didn’t know you could sing.”
“Oh, Joe,” Jess chuckled. “All princesses can sing!”
“There’s only one problem, though,” Ariana told me with a serious expression. “We can’t prevent the singing from entrancing you, too, and I’ve heard the effect is stronger when you, well, when you love someone.”
“I think we have to try it anyway!” I called back to the red-haired princess, but then I noticed Cienna had her eyes squeezed shut and her fists clenched.
“Get ready to move,” the blonde said in a strained voice, and as time unfroze, the roar of the sea seemed louder than ever.
We’d managed to swim another twenty or so yards away from Morgar in the opposite direction of the palace, and he looked around in confusion for a moment. When he caught sight of us, though, he snorted out another huge blast of yellow flames, which incinerated a nearby reef this time.
“That’s the mermaid nursery!” Ariana screamed out in response to the destruction, and her face contorted with rage. “We can’t let him get away with this!”
“Hang in there, Ariana,” Cienna replied in her strongest voice. “We are going to make that slimy fucker pay!!”
I saw Morgar’s huge body trying to make its way toward us, but he seemed to be struggling to make it through the current. His movements were almost sluggish, and I could tell from the way he was roaring that it was pissing him off. Nonetheless, the giant eel was nowhere near close enough to reach us at the moment, so we seemed to have time on our side.
“While he’s so far away, let’s try the singing idea,” I suggested. “Maybe it won’t affect me somehow…”
“Okay, here I go,” Jessamine said, and she looked down and concentrated for a moment before she opened her mouth to sing.
It was like the time I’d heard Eudora steal the redhead’s voice, but a million times more beautiful. The angelic vibrato seemed to harmonize with a choir of bells mixed with perfectly-strummed guitar chords, and I felt myself getting completely lost in the sound again.
“Joe!”
Someone was shaking my arm, and I realized Jessamine had stopped singing. Cienna had grabbed hold of me to help bring me out of my trance, and there was no doubt the music had affected me deeply again.
“That may have been… unsuccessful,” the blonde said with a frown. “You were definitely lost there.”
“Uh, yeah, okay,” I said as I shook my head to clear my thoughts a little more. “Did anything happen to Morgar?”
“No, not from this far away,” Jessamine sighed. “But I’m not sure he could hear me.”
“Yeah, I think we’re gonna have to get a little closer to see what happens,” I said now that I was fully able to focus again. “Cienna, you’re going to play a big role in this.”
“Of course.” The blonde nodded. “At the very least, it’s still easy for me to cast the time magic on me and you, Joe, so we can continue to help our other wives while they’re frozen.”
“And Joe, I assume Genie’s Wrath is really going to be the thing that finishes him off,” Ariana mused. “So, what are we going to do about you? Even if Morgar is hypnotized by Jessamine’s singing, we’re still going to need you to attack him.”
“Okay, here’s what we’re going to do,” I decided. “We’re going to swim closer to Morgar, as awful as that sounds. Jessamine, do you think you could make us invisible again so we can sneak up on him?”
“Yes, I’m definitely strong enough right now,” my dark-haired wife replied.
“I’m going to try to resist the siren song, but Cienna, you’re on guard to freeze time if anything goes wrong. Either we swim away as fast as we can, or, if we do hypnotize him, I’m gonna figure out how to kill his ass.”
“Yes, hero, this sounds like a good plan,” Jessamine told me, and I felt boosted by her confidence. “Just tell me when you want me to make us invisible, and I’ll do it.”
“Let’s get about halfway there, so we’re still out of his swimming range, and then you can cast it,” I explained. “I want to make sure it lasts as long as we need it to. Can you still sing while we’re invisible?”
“It would mean I’m casting two spells at one time, but I’m feeling really strong right now, Joe,” my beautiful black-haired wife said with a nod. It made sense to me that Jessamine was getting stronger and stronger since we’d been together the longest, but I was still impressed by her skills.
“Ready, everyone?” Cienna reached out for one of my hands so we could all make a chain again, and I gripped Genie’s Wrath in the other.
“And… swim!” I shouted.
“Okay, Joe!” Ariana replied, and I was glad she trusted me.
We began swimming toward Morgar, who hadn’t made much progress in our direction. I wasn’t sure if the gigantic serpent was just too huge to move quickly, or both big and dumb, but it seemed to be working to our advantage. When we had closed about half the distance between us, I called out to my raven-haired wife.
“Jessamine, you’re on!” I shouted. “And let’s try to stay behind him!”
When I looked down again, my body and sword had disappeared, but I could still feel Cienna’s hand gripping my own. I led the women closer and closer to the huge sea snake’s body and tried to ignore the growing feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. I knew we’d manage to beat him with the combination of the princesses’ magic and Genie’s Wrath, but his size made him more than a little intimidating.
Finally, we made it to about five yards behind Morgar’s head. The eel had started to sniff around, but he didn’t seem close to finding us.
“Are you ready, Joe?”
I could hear Ariana ask me from a couple feet away. “Why don’t you try to plug your ears and see if that helps?”
“Okay, but that means putting Genie’s Wrath away…” I trailed off for a moment before I started to think aloud again. “I want to have my sword in hand in case there’s a surprise attack… just don’t forget me, Cienna.”
“Don’t worry, Joe,” my blonde wife reassured me from my left. “I’ve never let you down before, and I’m not going to now.”
“I trust you with my life,” I told my wives. “All of you. Just like you can trust me with yours.”
“We know, Joe,” Jessamine reassured me. “We can do this!”
So, I put Genie’s Wrath back into its sheath, let go of Cienna’s hand, and put a finger in both ears.
I could still hear Jessamine start to sing, but it was much quieter this time around. My head started to buzz with the same sparks I had felt during the ritual, but I was still able to watch Morgar. I struggled a little, and my eyes wanted to close so I could drift off to the sound of the incredible song, but I jammed my fingers into my ears even tighter to resist.
And then, suddenly, Morgar seemed to drift downward back toward the ground.
“Cienna, freeze everything but us,” I instructed her, and when the sea went silent around me and the blonde, my brain started to clear. I wasn’t sure if it was because I couldn’t hear Jessamine’s voice or if it was due to time being stopped, but it was nice to begin to have my thoughts back.
“I think it might be working, Joe!” Cienna exclaimed, and we watched as Morgar’s giant body slumped even closer to the sea floor. Instead of holding himself erect in the water, his serpentine mass continued to droop into a squiggly form, and sand billowed up into the water around him.
As everything flashed into focus, I suddenly realized I had a clear shot at the back of Morgar, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to take it. So, I pulled Genie’s Wrath out from my belt and pointed it down at the top of the huge serpent’s shiny black head.
“Hyaaaa!” I shouted as I channeled my inner Link again.
Then I felt a giant rush flow through the top of my head and down into my arm, and as I held out my sword, a huge blast of purple lightning shot out and entered Morgar’s skull, and I could see faint purple sparks drift out the other side of his body. He crumpled down even further toward the seafloor, and I looked at Cienna.
“Do you think he’s dead?” I asked. “Could it really be that simple?”
“It looks pretty promising!” Cienna glanced up at me with a grin. “I’m not sure we’re going to be able to tell with time frozen, though.”
“Well, then, unfreeze it,” I told her, and I grinned back. “We have to find out sometime.”
As soon as Cienna made time start again, all I could hear was the incredible sound of Jessamine still singing. Her melody made me want to do nothing else but follow her to the ends of the earth, and my eyes started to close.
“Jessamine, I think you can stop now!” I heard Ariana yell from what seemed like very far away.
When all I could hear was the waves again, I rubbed my eyes and tried my hardest to focus on what Morgar was doing. I could now see the giant serpent was lying on the ground and barely twitching, and my eyes widened into a stare.
“I think you got him, Joe!” Ariana exclaimed, and she swam over, threw her arms around me, and planted a giant kiss on my lips. “You promised you would help our kingdom, and you did it. I truly know now how much I love you.”
“I love you, too.” I scratched my head sheepishly and tried to think of the perfect thing to say, but the first thing that came into my mind popped out of my mouth. “Want to swim down there and stab that fucker in the face?”
“Yeah, I really do,” the mermaid laughed out loud. “Come on, everyone, we’re going to go get my vengeance on this motherfucker.”
We swam down toward the seabed and around Morgar’s front, and we could see the serpent was barely alive. Genie’s Wrath had blown a giant hole in his front, and his bright yellow blood filled the water in a fishy-smelling cloud. The only sign of life was that his bright yellow eyes still emitted a tiny glow, and they blinked at us in one last furious gaze.
“Morgar!” Ariana screamed, and I could tell she was enraged. “You’ve terrorized and murdered my people, and our babies, and you were trying to bring down my palace and kill me… and my new family. Fuck you, and fuck Eudora! If you were going to live, I’d have you pass along the message, but unfortunately this is it for you.”
In one swift move, my red-haired wife brandished her trident and stabbed it into the approximate location of Morgar’s heart. The eel gave a pathetic screech, and the glow in his eyes faded until they looked like nothing more than giant orbs of dingy yellow glass.
Ariana yanked out her weapon and stared down at it. It was coated in the monster’s sticky yellow blood, and she shook it off into the water with a glazed look in her eyes. Then her shoulders began to shake in fierce sobs, and the three of us all rushed over to put our arms around her.
“It’s going to be okay,” Jessamine said in a soft, soothing voice.
“He’s been hurting us for so long,” Ariana cried as she laid her head against my chest. “I can’t believe you killed him for me, Joe!”
“Well, technically I think you finished him off,” I said with a smile, and I stroked her hand. “Let’s go back to the palace and get you cleaned off.”
“Sounds like a plan, Joe!” Jessamine chirped. “Because you know what we’re going to do, Ariana?”
“What?” the redhead sniffled.
“We’re going to go finish our night of sleep,” Jessamine began with a broad grin, “and then, after we rest, the four of us are going to have the best party ever!”
Chapter 15
Cienna, Jessamine, and I assisted the still-shaking Ariana back up to her chamber and led her through the door. The room was full of water again, though, so I turned to the red-haired mermaid. “Ariana, I think we need to put you to bed, but would you mind draining the room first?” I asked. “I want to lie in bed with you and hold you again.”
“Y-Yes,” the redhead said, and she still had a catch in her voice, but I could tell she was starting to calm down when her aqua eyes found mine. “We really did get Morgar, didn’t we?”
“We sure did,” Cienna replied with a grin. “You kicked his ass!”
“I… kicked his ass,” Ariana echoed, and now a weak smile spread across her face, too. “I’m so tired, though. I’ll get the room ready right now so we can sleep some more.”
My red-haired wife ensured the door was bolted and released the switch on the grate, and the water drained out of her chamber the same way it had last time. She dried it out again with her magic, but the act seemed to drain her. Ariana was so shaky her knees buckled, and she almost collapsed.
“It’s okay, I’ve got you,” I murmured as I went over, picked her up in my arms, and set her down in the middle of her large, warm bed.
“Thank you, Joe,” Ariana whispered, but her eyes were already fluttering shut.
Jessamine and Cienna joined us, and the four of us settled in against one another. I wanted to look over the princesses tonight, so I waited until I could hear their breaths become soft and even before I let myself drift off to sleep.
When I woke up, I suspected it was fairly late in the morning since I felt so rested. I was a little sore, but it only served to remind me of last night’s battle success. So, I stretched out my arms and legs along the length of the mattress, and I felt better than I had in a long time.
Both Jessamine and Cienna were still asleep beside me, but Ariana was up and sitting on one of her sofas with a book in her hand. When she saw me sit up in bed, she rushed over and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
“Come over and sit with me, Joe,” the mermaid whispered. “I want to talk, but I don’t want to wake up my sister-wives.”
When she said the last word, a huge smile appeared on her face, and
I could tell she was thrilled to be in our family now.
I extricated myself from the other two princesses and headed back over to the couch with her. I sat down first, and I couldn’t believe it when the mermaid immediately placed herself on my lap and started kissing me. It seemed like the redhead had some newfound confidence, and I liked it.
“Good morning,” I whispered between kisses. “It’s nice to see you, too.”
“I had so much fun when we made love,” Ariana murmured, and I could tell she could feel my typical morning hard-on, because she giggled. “I hope we get to do it again soon.”
“We could make that happen,” I teased as I ran one hand up over her bikini clad breast and pulled a strand of her long, red hair with the other. She smelled deliciously salty, and I licked her neck to taste her.
“I wish we could,” Ariana breathed into my ear, “but I’ve requested an audience with Marinus for this morning. I’ll make it up to you later, though.”
“Damnit,” I chuckled and pulled back. “Fine, later. But you better mean it.”
“Promise.” Arianna flashed me a toothy grin, and then she glanced at the two women still asleep on the bed. “Do you think Cienna and Jessamine will mind if we wake them up? I know Marinus would like to see all of us.”
“No, of course not,” I reassured her. “They’re always ready to take care of important business.”
So, we both went over to the bed and called our other wives’ names softly. They each quickly began to stir, and my cock throbbed as I watched them stretch their perfect bodies out like cats along the bed. Ariana had gotten me all worked up, and I couldn’t wait to find out what she’d planned for me later on.
“Jessamine, Cienna, we need to go talk to Marinus,” I said softly.
Jessamine sat up and yawned, and she poked Cienna in her side.
“Did you hear that?” the raven-haired beauty asked. “We need to get up now.”
“I heard, I heard,” the blonde grumbled, but then she fluttered open her sapphire blue eyes and grinned. “It’s celebration day, and I’m ready to start.”
