When Morgan yelled, everyone flooded into our room. I quickly used my magic to clothe us. We watched in awe as they took on a human form. They stood around four feet tall. Their skin still had a glow to it and their eyes burned with determination and mischief. Amira fell to her knees.
Vlad told us, “She is honoring them as they are her ancestors.”
“Hello, I am Eva and I am glad that you found us.”
They both approach so we hop out of bed. The woman with wavy golden hair and emerald eyes was the first to speak, “I am Aurora.”
Then muscular man with dark sandy blonde hair and amber eyes said, “I am Ergon.”
Eric squats down to look them in the eyes, “I saw glimpses of where you were kept and that Raven drained a wolf boy named Tyler.”
“I had a sickening feeling that she would do it but I couldn't stay to help. I had to get my mate of out there and find you all,” Ergon said sadly.
“How did you get free?”
They told us of how Aurora was nearly obliterated but was saved by an earthquake and how Ergon was filled with added light allowing him to tear off the dampening collar.
I grin, “I think I know where it came from,” I look between my mates and me and then at Cass and Katie. I walk over to them and pull their shirts aside revealing their marks. “These are permanent marks, not temporary ones. My mates and I let go of everything. We caused the earthquake, but you both brought forth the light.”
Katie gasped, “Did the bed go there too?”
Bewildered, Vincent asks, “Bed? What bed?”
She bites her lip, “The hairdryer wasn't the only thing that had an accident.”
Aurora laughs, “Gotta love the power from the beginning of love eternal.”
Cass sighs, “We hadn't even mated yet. The bed disappeared while you all were gone earlier. The mating was likely while you all crushed that chair over there.”
Sam scratches his head, “I don't remember it breaking.”
Vincent shrugs, “Maybe it did after I ported us to the bed.”
Vlad throws his hands up, “Stop for a minute here. We didn't bring back lost beings this time. We freed some and Eva talked to her father too.”
Elena’s eyes bug out, “You talked to our father.”
“Yes, in the In-between and I can whenever I want to now as well.”
“Can I?” Elena asks.
“I don't think so because he said that only I could walk where others must sacrifice.” Outside of our window near the woods, a cloud of darkness formed. It wasn't like what Raven spread. It was different and it felt alive too. I walked over and put my hand on the cool glass, “Enter.”
Sam bellows, “Eva!”
“It's alright, my father's scent is on him.”
Soon the swirling mass of darkness entered the bedroom and began to take shape.
A very handsome man with tanned skin, a square jaw, long black hair, and piercing eyes wearing a finely tailored suit said in a deep sultry voice, “That he did.”
Vlad yelled, “Fuck!” as he buried his hands in his hair.
Vincent chuckles, “Oh this is even better than it being one of his stepfathers.”
Eric asks him, “How so?”
Vincent smirks, “Because Bael is the demon he swindled.”
Bael eyes the Black brothers, “And that is one thing that we must discuss.”
I look between them, “He is the Bael that you gave some smuck's soul to?”
Morgan gasps, “What?”
“Morgan, Vlad wanted more power and didn't realize what he already possessed. He took the soul of a horrible person and masqueraded it as his own to Bael.”
Morgan climbs up Vlad. “You and your brother give me and witches like me shiit about possibly selling our souls to demons and you sold a soul to a Demon King. For that, I should crawl into your pants and claw out your cock and balls!” she hissed.
Bael darkly chuckles, “Now that is a willing compromise.”
I put my hands up, “You all can torture him later.”
Bael walks over to me and he runs his hand through my hair and down my body, “You embody your mother but when I look into your eyes and soul, I see your father.”
“Can other demons?”
Bael shakes his head, “No, the will only see a glimpse of darkness and assume that because you still possess some light that you're a gray witch.”
Katie beams, “Like me.”
Aurora giggles, “She's adorable. I like her.”
Cass wraps his arms around Katie, “She's mine so I fully agree.”
Bael chuckles as he walks over to Cassius, “You have very little darkness in you. I do see bits of death though. Pushin is definitely your father.”
He went over to Elena, “Now you have darkness. I see a bit of Mormo but I also see something else.”
“What?”
Bael looks in Elena’s eyes and then at me, “Bits of the moon. Your mother was likely touched by Selene or one of her children.”
My mother created hers so that in addition to having the same father further solidifies how we are bound.
Agnes says, “They are the triad of fate.”
Bael nods, “Yes, they are. However, Eva holds the keys right now.”
“My children, my father told me but I already suspected since one is Guinevere.”
Bael looks at Sam, “A Fall can only bring light.”
Amira flutters her wings, “What I told them. They have to let the light win.”
Bael smirks, “Not always.”
Amira scoffs, “So says the demon.”
Bael’s smirk grows, “That he does.”
Bael walks over toward Vincent, “He is bringing a Triton.” He walks over to Eric next, “That little pink dragon he brought forth is a drakaina and the daughter you both made is Tiamet.”
Disbelieving, Eric asks, “My daughter is the mother of dragons?”
Bael nods, “Yes, and your Cupcake is the first dragon shifter too.”
Cupcake heard her name and started to fly around. Morgan and Agnes both shook their butts ready to pounce.
“Oh no, not again,” I said as I grabbed Morgan and Katie grabbed Agnes.
Katie looked at the cats, “Friend, not food.”
Vincent chuckles, “The pussies are in trouble again.”
Vlad jokes, “How burnt or wet will they get is the real question.”
Katie glares at them, “Don't even start with the pussy jokes again or I will make sure that there are plenty of cats in your pants.”
I laugh and Cass growls. I raised my eyebrow at him, “Not easy controlling the Haze now, is it?”
Cassius replies, “Stuff it, sis.”
Vlad laughs, “Already did and plan to later too.”
Cassius scrunches his nose, “Ewww.”
Bael chuckles, “He is too much like his father.”
Gabriel nods, “l agree but he has potential.”
Bael asks Gabe, “Are you back to having full use of your Seraph abilities?”
Gabriel says, “Nearly. Once I can, I will bring our old friend home.”
Cassius says, “My father.”
Gabriel nods, “Yes, Cass your father.”
I look between Bael and Gabe, “Just how do you know each other?”
Bael chuckles as he looks at Vlad. He asks him, “Do you wish to tell her how your child is an Unseelie or should I?”
“First, what is an Unseelie?”
Bael explains, “They can be male or female and possess the ability to change genders based on who their mate or mates are. They were made shortly before Levi was. They possess great magic because they are fallen angels. Your son became Cerberus and once guarded the gates of Hades.”
“Morgan, you said that my children would be light and that I couldn't bring back evil.“
Morgan says, “Your son isn't evil. He made sure it stayed in the Underworld. He's a guardian. But how?” She looks between Vlad and Bael, “Impossible!”
Vlad exclaims, “Fuck! Fuck! Triple fuck!”
Vincent looks at him and asks, “Brother, what the hell did you do?”
Bael smirks, “Hell is just it.”
“I don't understand.”
Sam nods, “I am lost too, Snow White.”
Bael comes over and sits beside me. I feel an odd current and it is very similar to Vlad's. I take Vlad's hand and look into his eyes. As I do, the current from Bael intensifies too. “Please tell me that you didn't give him a part of your soul.”
Vlad takes in a breath, “I told you everything.”
“It doesn't feel that way. There's something between you both.”
Bael looks at me with interest, “Care to guess, Eva?”
Elena asks, “What's going on?”
Venus explains, “Batboy and Pyro are likely to go ballistic,” as she goes over to Eric and Sam, “Darkness is what binds them. They must accept it because that's part of why Bael is here.”
"There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, an exquisite mystical experience." -Bernard Malamud. “Oh, my fucking god!”