by Dante Steel
“You don’t want to know,” Nicoletta said stiffly.
“I think I do.”
Olivia shook her head.
“Seriously? You’re going to start to keep secrets from me now? Unbelievable.” Gary shook his head. “This entire stunt was stupid and pointless. Now, Elena’s hurting. Did you forget about her mom dying recently? She’s not in the best of places right now. She doesn’t need shit from you!”
“You know what I don’t need?” Olivia snapped. “You to be all judgmental.”
Gary barely had time to react as she rushed him and flew up high in the air, carrying him with her. She tried to punch him, but he blocked the blow.
“I’m not going to fight you,” he said.
“Why? Because I’m a girl?”
“Because this is ridiculous.”
Her elbow connected with his jaw. Her eyes widened in shock.
“If you’re trying to provoke me, it won’t work,” he told her.
“You don’t understand,” she said, her green eyes flashing. “I can’t just be a flier. What am I supposed to do? Just have rocks bash into werewolves’ heads?”
“If it works, why not?”
She stopped flying them upward but wouldn’t look at him. “I want to be stronger. I need to be stronger.”
“Where is this coming from? You’re plenty strong.”
“I’m not. Look at all of the superheroes who can fly. Storm can control the weather. Rogue has superhuman strength and a slew of other abilities. Everyone who has flight has something else to help them out because honestly, flying isn’t that big and bad of an ability!”
Gary considered. “How fast can you fly?”
“I don’t know.”
“We can race.” He grinned.
She sighed. “I fail to see how a race will help.”
“Practice, right?”
“I need to practice more than just flying,” she said. “I need to hone my skills so I can kill.”
“You’re worried about Smaug.”
“I’m worried for all of you! All four of you.”
“Three,” Gary said automatically.
Olivia raised her eyebrows. “Uh, there are four humans in the game who I care about.”
“Oh, right,” he said, feeling both sheepish and jealous.
“Come on.” He telekinetically flew away from her. “You can’t catch me.”
“Who’s the one being ridiculous?” she called.
“You’ll never catch up!” He flew even faster.
Gary might’ve heard her curse him, but he wasn’t sure. When he figured she might be catching up, he quickly turned around.
“The hell?” she complained.
Gary grinned and kept on flying, turning in a tight circle and spiraling upward. The air inside the circle grew hot, and he could almost see it. Without warning, he dropped closer to the ground and continued to spiral upward again, dragging up grass and soil and pebbles from the ground.
Yes, this was working!
He must’ve slowed down in his excitement over their forming a tornado, and Olivia slammed into him a little too hard. Gary couldn’t regain control, and he got sucked up into their tornado.
Great. This was just perfect. This whole thing was wonderful.
Not.
Chapter Thirteen
Gary was spinning around so fast that he couldn’t see straight. Trying to concentrate only made him more nauseous so he shut his eyes tight. A few of the pebbles brushed against him, but it was the swift wind that was the issue.
“I’m sorry!” he thought he heard Olivia say.
He tried to fly out of the tornado, but the winds were too strong. The funnel was dancing along the ground now, no longer trapped in one spot by their flying around it.
Think, Gary, think!
The center of the tornado. The wind shouldn’t be there.
Although it felt like he was hardly moving, Gary tried to worm his way toward the center, head first then an arm, his torso, a leg, and the rest of him. Now freed, he zoomed upward until he reached above the funnel and rushed toward Olivia. He claimed her under his power, Elena and Nicoletta too, and brought them back toward the rooftop of the tavern. Without their fueling and adding wind and strength to the funnel, it dissipated entirely by the time he landed on the roof, pinning Olivia beneath him.
“You have power,” he said, breathless.
“I don’t know if I can create a tornado all by myself, though,” she said. She bit her lower lip.
“You have power,” he repeated. She needed to believe him.
Suddenly, she laughed. “Power over you, clearly,” she said, rubbing her pelvis against him and wrapping her legs tightly around him.
He groaned. “Don’t you dare tease me,” he said, grinding back. Fuck, he was hard.
Footsteps rushed over. He glanced up to see Nicoletta and Elena. Both looked a little worn and worried. Thoughts of what they had agreed to, what they had wanted to do before Yuna had interrupted him had Gary groaning.
“We’re supposed to be training,” Olivia said, still rubbing against him.
“We can train,” he said.
“Sexually?” Olivia winked.
“Please.”
"What happened out there?" Elena asked.
“We saw the tornado,” Nicoletta said.
“We created it,” Olivia said.
“And you tackled me into it,” he added dryly. “I knew it would go too far.”
“Hey, you clearly wanted to make that tornado!”
“Yes, but right now, I’m more worried about a volcano erupting.”
Nicoletta groaned. “Really? That was terrible.”
Gary shrugged. “We can’t all be as witty as Olivia.”
Elena crossed over and hugged him. “That was dangerous and reckless.”
“I’m fine,” he protested.
Nicoletta came over and draped an arm around his back. “I guess we did take things a little too far.”
“Can we take them even farther?” he asked, rubbing against Olivia harder.
To his dismay, Olivia somehow wiggled out from underneath him the second she unwrapped her legs. He stood awkwardly.
Olivia ignored him and faced the other girls. “Shall we?” she asked with a wink.
Nicoletta responded by beginning to strip. That was all the incentive Gary needed, and he was bare-ass naked before even Nicoletta was. Elena slowly undressed. Olivia pointed at herself and then at Elena, and the New Yorker nodded. Gary couldn’t remember ever being more excited as he watched Olivia help Elena undress.
“Can I help return the favor?” Gary asked.
Olivia first ran a finger across Elena’s nipple before turning to him. Gary hesitated, watching Elena’s facial expression to make sure she was all right. Considering, her hand went to that nipple to play with it, she definitely seemed to be.
Gary took his time undressing Olivia. After he eased her leotard down her long legs, she stepped out of it and kicked the clothes aside. She stretched and then grabbed her boobs.
“No,” he said, gently easing her hands aside.
He took a nipple into his mouth, sucking it, gently biting it, and motioned for the other girls to come over. Immediately, he recognized Elena’s hand as she guided his right hand to touch her breast. Nicoletta came around to the other side and brought his free hand to her pussy. She was dripping wet.
Olivia laughed. “Can you handle us all?”
Dazed, Gary could only nod.
With a mischievous grin, Olivia reached down. The moment she touched his cock, Gary groaned. Fuck. The pressure built up from his ball and exploded out of him. His cum shot out and landed on her flat stomach.
“Already?” Olivia asked.
“Oh, that doesn’t matter,” Elena said. “Don’t worry. He can go more than once in a go.”
Gary shrugged, trying not to be embarrassed or to brag. “I’m still ready,” he said.
And he was. He was still every b
it as hard as he was before. Elena was right. He had come twice inside of her during one long love-making session.
“If you’re sure…” Olivia turned around and lowered herself onto all fours. She wiggled her ass. “I haven’t had anal in a long while.”
He gulped. He had always wanted to try anal.
“I’ll go slow,” he said, hoping he didn’t sound like a novice.
Lube. Crap. Weren’t you supposed to use a lot of lube with anal? It wasn’t as if there was KY Jelly here for him to buy.
He stopped fingering Nicoletta, which gave him an idea. Olivia was just as wet, and he kneeled down slowly, Elena following suit so he could continue to play with her nipple. Feeling empowered, Gary tried to smear some of her juices, and some of Nicoletta’s too, where he needed to go.
Just then, Elena jerked back slightly, almost out of reach of his hand.
“Guys, look! A woolly mammoth!”
Gary definitely did not look. Was that enough lubrication? He did not want his first time with Olivia to be painful. She deserved it to be as satisfying as possible.
Suddenly, his other hand wasn’t teasing a nipple anymore. He glanced over to see Elena dressing.
“Are you serious?” he groaned, this time not from anticipating pleasure.
“I’ll be back really quick. Don’t worry. You can continue.” She gave him a quick kiss and rushed over to the side of the building. “It’s only two stories,” she muttered before jumping. A loud thud sounded, and she called up, “I’m okay!”
“She’s crazy,” Olivia said.
“She really is.” Nicoletta came around to Gary’s back and began to massage his shoulders.
Screw it. Olivia seemed wet enough, and he would go slow. He rubbed his tip against her slick opening.
“Are you ready?” he asked her.
“Surprise me,” she said.
“All right.” He had planned on counting, but now, he hesitated, not wanting her to anticipate when he would finally enter her. Another few seconds and—
A shout sounded from nearby.
Gary stilled and glanced over his shoulder. Nicoletta walked over to the edge of the rooftop.
“Was that Elena?” he asked.
“I think so.” Nicoletta shielded her eyes from the sun. “I hate to say this, but it looks like she’s in trouble.”
“Fuck,” Gary and Olivia said at the same time.
Nicoletta rushed to get dressed, and Olivia moved to stand, but Gary touched her hip.
“Wait a second,” he murmured in her ear, leaning over her.
She stilled, and he shoved two fingers inside of her pussy.
“You aren’t going to make me come that quickly,” she said. “We don’t have time for this.”
Beyond frustrated, he shoved another finger inside of her and rubbed his thumb against her clit.
But he pulled away almost immediately. Without a word, he helped her dress and then threw on his own superhero attire. Olivia locked arms with Nicoletta, and the three of them flew over to where Elena was fighting the woolly mammoth.
The creature was massive. A towering, lumbering beast, but Elena’s punches and kicks weren’t fazing it. As they landed, Elena climbed up its hairy leg and started to punch the back of its head. Its tail was long enough that it seemed to hardly touch her, yet she flew off and nearly slammed into a different tree whose trunk groaned and partially split from the force of the impact.
Nicoletta rolled her neck from side to side and cracked her knuckles. “Don’t worry, guys. I got this.”
She formed two large fireballs and threw them in quick succession straight on at the woolly mammoth. The creature blinked, lifted its trunk, and blew out the balls of fire. In fact, the air gust was so powerful that it forced Nicoletta back.
Olivia glanced at Nicoletta. They nodded, and Olivia took them both to the skies. Nicoletta rained down fire from above, but the woolly mammoth merely tilted back its massive head and doused the fireballs out and then snorted a blast that had the two girls flying sky high. Nicoletta started to fall, and Olivia had to dash to get her. The two landed near Elena, who was staggering to her feet.
Gary prepared to fight. “My turn, woolly asshole.”
As Gary telekinetically latched onto the tree Elena had lifted, the woolly mammoth lunged forward far quicker than he would’ve thought possible. Gary took flight, still wrangling with the tree, but the shifter’s trunk wrapped around him and slammed him to the ground hard enough to make Gary see specks of light floating in front of his face.
Well, shit. It wasn’t as if he thought that the woolly mammoth would be a pushover, but this was getting to be ridiculous.
“Olivia,” Gary tried to call out, but the woolly mammoth slammed him back down again. This time, the back of his head connected with a rock. His vision darkened.
Nicoletta threw more fireballs at the shifter. Gary could only tell because he felt the heat of the incoming flames. The stench of burning hairs filled his nose, and Gary coughed.
But this shifter was intelligent. Despite its size, the woolly mammoth rolled over onto its side, rolling back and forth and putting out the flames all the while still holding onto Gary with its trunk. He could hardly breathe.
Somehow moving with ease, the shifter righted itself back onto its four legs. The ground shook.
“Grab its trunk and try to fly toward the tavern,” Elena shouted. She sounded nearby.
Gary tried to process what she said. He couldn’t grab onto the trunk. His arms were pinned to his side. Even so, he did try to fly toward the tavern.
“Lower,” Nicoletta said.
Uh? Oh, he was aiming for the roof. Gary tried to fly again, although he didn’t see the point. He wasn’t going to be able to drag the massive creature anywhere.
But then he felt resistance against him. Was the woolly mammoth digging in its heels? No. Through the four hairy legs, Gary could just spy Elena, who was tugging on the shifter’s tail.
Really? They were what, trying to rip it apart? Like that was going to happen. Yes, Elena was ridiculously strong, but that was asking for the impossible.
But then, Olivia came over and tried to add her flying power hold to Gary, and Nicoletta began to throw more and more fireballs. The woolly mammoth was too busy with Gary, Olivia, and Elena to be able to do anything. Its trunk was tied up so it couldn't blow out the fire and the same with its tail.
Not surprisingly, the shifter tried to roll over again, but Gary and the other two refused to let him. On and on, the fire burned, and finally, the wooly mammoth stopped resisting them. Its trunk unfurled around Gary, and he collapsed to the ground, severing the connection and hold he had on the shifter to pull and distract it.
Not that that mattered. The woolly mammoth was dead.
Chapter Fourteen
Gary stood. Blood rushed through him. His first step had him collapsing to the ground. He had lost his balance, and his head didn’t feel right. His stomach was nauseous.
“Are you all right?” Olivia asked, hovering above him.
“Need…”
“If you say mouth-to-mouth, I will slap you with my wings,” she growled.
Gary opened his mouth, but no words came out. All he wanted to do was sleep. Preferably without this headache.
Dimly, he could hear Elena talk, but he couldn’t make out the words. Something sickeningly sweet crossed his lips, and he forced himself to drink even though his eyes were closed. After a few moments, he felt much better.
“What happened?” he asked.
“The woolly mammoth is dead.” Elena gestured to the still-burning carcass behind them. “Hey, Olivia, can you please generate enough wind to stop the spread of the fire? You’ll have to be careful to not fan the flames.”
“Put it out? Why?”
“Because I asked nicely.” Elena beamed.
“It’s not like you can take a selfie with it,” Olivia said.
“I know, but…” Elena walked back over and tentativel
y touched one of its tusks, the only part of its body not up in flames. She quickly moved away from the dead beast. It was probably too hot to stand there for long.
Nicoletta came over and helped Gary to his feet. “That looked like you took some serious lumps.”
“I’m fine,” he said. “I do think I had a concussion, but my symptoms are already gone.”
“Good.”
He grinned. “Now that this distraction is over…” He glanced back toward the tavern.
But Olivia was flying high, trying to generate enough wind power to blow out the flames.
Not only that, but Elena seemed so keen on the dead shifter.
As for Nicoletta, she had turned back toward the tree Elena had almost destroyed and was clearly trying to use that heavy blast again.
He stood and ran a hand through his hair. “You haven’t been able to yet, huh.”
“No. Maybe I need more adrenaline flowing.”
"Possibly, but weren't you afraid of that thing?"
“Nah, I was attacking it from afar. Don’t worry. I’m fine.”
“You are indeed.”
She rolled her eyes, but her smile was all he cared about.
“Hey, do you think you could draw the fire away?” he asked.
“Want me to speed things up, huh?” She laughed. “So impatient.”
“Can you blame me? Come on. I’m a guy.”
“Oh, I know you are.”
He grinned. “You do know better than most.”
“Sleeping with you once does not make you or me an expert on each other’s bodies.”
“Hey, now. We’ve made love a lot more than just once.”
"I see you don't deny the expert part."
“I do agree with Olivia on practice to some extent. It does make perfect, right?” he murmured.
“I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect when it comes to lovemaking.”
“I will prove you wrong.”
“Oh, yeah?” Nicoletta laughed and brushed her hair back. “You really do have an ego the size of Texas.”
“You know me. So egotistical.”
She just smirked.
“Ah…” He tried to recall his original point and ignore his erection. “Do you think you can draw the fire back to wherever it was before you made it?”