by Harry Nix
Nia moved her hand and Alex slid an inch or two into Juno, letting out a small moan as he did so. He saw Juno's eyes widened and then go half lidded.
“More, little witch?” Nia asked.
“Oh goddess, yes,” Juno said.
Nia moved again and Alex slid a little further into Juno, the witch lifting a legs up as she was pinned beneath him.
The urge to start was almost overwhelming. Alex want to grab her, to fling her around the bed, to drive into her over and again but something was holding him back in this moment. Nia was in control. The first wife, introducing him to his second.
There was no worry or concern about this. No human part of him that said it was wrong. That calmness at the centre of him accepted that this was true and right.
Nia moved closer to Alex and nuzzled at his ear before kissing down the side of his face. They held their like that for maybe thirty seconds, him halfway into Juno, Nia's hand around him while she kissed him.
“Begin now my love,” Nia whispered.
She let go as Alex plunged into Juno. The witch let out a groan and there was a surge of magic through the room, not the golden kind but again deep red. Not like fire but more like flesh.
Alex pulled back, almost all the way and then plunged into Juno again. The witch squealed and then moaned, the sounds driving him crazy and it wasn't long before she was curled up beneath him as he pounded away. At some point Nia moved around to place herself above Juno's mouth again, this time facing away, her perfect butt sticking up. It was a slightly awkward position, but Alex made the best of it, licking down between the cheeks of her perfect bubble butt into her pussy. The moment wasn't to last though. Between the sounds of the two moaning girls and the liquid heat, Alex soon felt the magic swirling again matching the sensations from his own body. He let out a roar that shook the windows as he came, pouring himself into Juno, the little witch screaming in return. She clenched around him and the moment stretched out, the magic around them surging with nowhere to go, arcing itself to pick up objects around the room. The wooden chair tipped over and a pen on the desk was lifted by glimmering red sparks and flung across the room.
Eventually, Alex half collapsed, pulling himself off Juno and laying beside he, gasping like he'd just run a marathon. Alex ended up in the middle of the bed with Nia on one side and Juno on the other, lightly running their hands up and down his body, feeling the hard muscles that had grown since he'd become a werewolf.
“You’re nice and calm. Now you’re not going to freeze the room again,” Nia finally said to Juno.
Juno let out a contented sigh. “Actually, if that's the reward every time I freeze the room, I think it's gonna happen quite a lot,” she said.
Alex felt himself slipping towards sleep, the comforting contentment rolling over him in waves, but then he felt Nia move across his body, sliding across the leg and then coming to sit over his abdomen, placing a hand on his chest.
“And what do you think you're doing? There is no rest for the wicked you know,” she said. His body had responded before he could think and Nia had a smile on her face as she slid back on to him. Alex groaned at the sensation of heat again. Nia didn't waste any time, quickly rocking a hips back and forth, using her hands to hold herself in place as she jolted against him. Soon, Juno sat up and after giving Alex a passionate kiss turned to face Nia, positioning herself over his mouth.
He eagerly dove in, licking as best he could has Juno rocked against him. Sometimes he caught a glimpse of Nia as Juno moved up and down, riding him for all she was worth. Round two stretched out a little longer, the magic connecting them slowly building, flickering into existence around the room. This time it was Alex who tipped first, letting out a muffled groan as he came, Nia bucking her hips against him. Juno quickly followed. Alex heard something crash in the next room but he was too far gone to care much about it.
This time the three of them ended up exhausted, Juno collapsing to the mattress on one side and Nia on the other. Both girls placed a possessive leg over him on each side and had a hand on his chest.
Alex’s mind was spinning, but the comfort and certainty of it all meant that he didn't speak. Juno gave a sigh as she slipped into sleep beside him and he heard Nia do the same. The wave of sleep seemed to rise up from his feet, filling his muscles, rushing up his chest before finally burying him in a comforting and warm black.
16
Alex awoke when he heard a shower start somewhere in the house. Juno was still beside him, half awake and gradually coming to. Alex had shifted back to his human form as he’d slept. Feeling slightly cold, he pulled the sheet up over himself and Juno, who woke up properly. She ran her fingers down his chest.
“That certainly one way to pay for services,” she murmured.
“So that was the deal you and Nia worked out? I need to sell my body?”
“Oh don't worry, even though I've received partial payment I’ll still train you in magic,” Juno said with a smile.
Alex reached out and ran his fingers down her arm. Her blonde hair was messed up, curling down to her collarbone.
Although before he had been filled with absolute confidence that this was right and true, now he was back in his human form there were parts of him that was slightly out of agreement.
The fact that Nia was nearby having a shower while he laid in bed with another girl was first on the list.
Years ago, Alex had had a girlfriend for a few months who’d been the epitome of overly attached and possibly crazy. She'd screamed at him in the street one day because they'd bumped into a girl he’d known in college and Alex had talked to her for all of two minutes. That was also not coincidentally the same day Alex broke up with the crazy girl.
He’d later realized he'd been in a pattern with her that had developed in the short time they’d been together. She'd already started pushing him to cut himself off from his friends, or to not go out to parties or events and to stay away from everyone except her.
Now it seemed he was in the completely opposite situation. He had Nia, his mate or wife, who it seemed all too happy to introduce him to Juno... and then sleep together.
“That was some pretty amazing sex magic, too,” Juno said.
“Was that those red sparkles? Why weren’t they golden, like the first time I slept with Nia? “
Juno stretched, a movement Alex quickly found herself absorbed in, then pulled the sheet up to cover herself when she realized he was definitely wasn't going to be paying attention to what she was saying.
“Sex magic is about intimacy and connection, and of course the fucking,” she explained. “It came out just now because there was an intimate connection between me, you and Nia. We can draw on it and cast different spells that we might otherwise have not been able to cast. Sex magic is incredibly powerful and it's also a lot of fun,”
“So there are different magics?”
“Okay, we’ll make this one of the first lessons, in addition to those spells I already taught you. There's really only one magic, source magic that surrounds us and is within us at all times. But there are different ways to draw it out. Some mages and witches use sex to power and influence their magic and that allows them to cast different spells. Some draw on more elemental forces, like fire and wind and air and earth. Others who cast death magic end up as necromancers and others dance in the forest itself accessing wildness. It's all magic, but pulled through something and leads to different outcomes. So here is the first lesson: you must be careful about what spells you cast and what magics you use. If you focus on fire magic soon you will find yourself entranced by the flames. You will find yourself enamored with them and if you go too far in that direction you will find yourself weakened to its opposite, such as cold or water. If you find yourself diving into sex magic which I do hope you do, you may find yourself enraptured with it. And of course, if you insist on bringing back the dead soon you will find that is all you care about.”
Alex laid back on the bed and looked up at the ce
iling. It seemed every time he learned something it tipped what he thought he knew upside down.
“So what about Know Thyself and Analyze?”
“They're utilitarian spells using utilitarian magic. You can cast a lot of that. But yes, eventually, if that's what you stick with, it will affect you. There's even an entire enclave of mages who focus on that – The Earls. They're very concerned about knowledge and results, which can be good, but also not very much concerned about people,” Juno said.
Alex watched as Juno got out of bed, standing before him completely nude. His body start to respond, which Juno noticed even though he was covered by a sheet.
“Maybe later Mr. Wolf but first come with me quickly and I'll show you something. This is lesson number two,” Juno said.
With that she quickly left the room. Alex had no choice but to get out of bed and follow her, an entirely enjoyable experience watching that little bubble butt walking down the corridor.
They went through the kitchen to a basement door that went downstairs to what appeared to be an entire story underneath the ground floor. It wasn't gloomy under the house but well lit and artfully furnished. Juno led Alex to large room where the floor was covered in thick cushions. Against the far wall stood four tall metallic cylinders that must've been six-foot long at least, Alex guessed, and were covered in ornate carvings. They were bolted into the wall itself, connected at top and bottom and slowly rotating like a spinning wheel.
“There are wards on the house and these power them. If you and Nia are going to live here with me for now, you’re going to have to come down every now and again and give some of your magical energy to the batteries.”
Alex walked closer but refrained from reaching out a hand to touch them. For all he knew they were live, like electrical wires, and he might kill himself.
“So how do these wards work?” he asked.
“Some are passive, waiting in case someone breaks in, but there are active ones as well. You could definitely turn your phone and laptop back on within the walls of the house without being tracked. The GPS isn’t going to work, which makes looking up maps hard, but there is definitely no way some mage is going to drone-strike you.”
“Do they often drone-strike people?”
“It's never happened before, but then I've never seen a three-story building blown up either,” Juno said with a shrug.
“Is it safe for me to cast Analyze on these?” he asked.
“Sure, go ahead, although you’re probably not going to learn much at first,” Juno said.
Alex cast Analyze on one of the cylinders and found Juno was right. The cylinder was labeled battery #3. The accompanying text said duh, it's a battery. Alex looked at Juno after he read that.
“I see you've written your own explanation. So how do these work? Do you know how to make a battery?” he asked, wondering if he could one day create one himself.
Juno crossed her arms, which pushed up her impressive breasts and Alex temporarily lost his focus.
“No, I don't know how to make a battery, hardly anyone does. These ones have been in the house for an extremely long time and only thanks to the position that my grandmother held amongst the witches way back in the day. There are other magical batteries around that you can buy but they’re very expensive and they can be quite dangerous if they're not well made. These are reservoirs of magical energy. If they get damaged or something breaks they can explode.”
Alex cast Analyze on another one of the batteries but it simply returned the same information as the first one.
“So what you’re going to do is cast Analyze four times on the same battery and then you’re going to merge those spells to increase its power. Watch me now,” Juno said.
She touched him on the arm and he watched as she cast Analyze four times in a row, the code quickly flowing on the green screen that appeared above her. To him it looked like a web browser now with tabs across the top. As he watched, Juno brought her hands together like she was squeezing them. He saw the drain on her magic rise. Finally, the tabs joined one by one until finally there was only one remaining, titled Analyze 4x. Alex couldn't see the result, though, as that was only visible to Juno.
“Your turn,” Juno said.
Alex looked back at battery #3 and, copying Juno, cast Analyze four times in a row. Although he’d watched her and felt connected to a magic he wasn't quite sure how to merge the spells but he figured he just treat it like a computer. He reached out and grabbed one tab dragging across to sit on top of another. In his body he felt the pull of magic. It was difficult to join the spells, like lifting a heavy weight.
“Just keep breathing and push,” Juno said.
It was a little disconcerting her standing there completely buck naked as he tried to cast a spell but he managed to get his focus back onto them and did as she instructed, taking a long, slow breath. Eventually two of the tabs merged and then he did again until he was only down to two tabs, each titled Analyze 2x.
Joining them seemed to take forever. It was twice as hard and he struggled to get them to merge, his mana was dropping rapidly as the spells pulled on him. Feeling sweat dripping down his face he let out a breath as finally one tab merged onto the other and he was left with the single Analyze 4x.
He looked at the cylinder. This time instead of just saying battery #3 with Juno's bit of sarcastic text, a stream of information filled the screen. There was information about the materials the cylinder was made of – gold, iron and copper and various other metals and components. There was weight and temperature. One entry immediately jumped out to Alex.
Active Spells: 128
Alex turned to Juno. “There are actually a hundred and twenty-eight spells running on the battery? What are they?”
Juno stepped closer and then suddenly spun one of the cylinders, showing Alex it was safe to touch. It whirred like a roulette wheel before finally slowing.
“All kinds of things. Something to strengthen the metal, something to hold the spell in place, something to vent heat in case there's a problem with it. I mean, you could hit one of these with a baseball bat and it probably wouldn't explode thanks to the spells. I wouldn’t recommend it, but you could. But don’t. But you could,” Juno said.
Alex went back to looking at the battery. As he watched, the number one-hundred and twenty-eight highlighted so he reached out and tapped it. The moment he did, he felt an enormous strain on his magic, almost reducing it to zero. He knocked the breath out of him, as though someone had punched him directly in the stomach. Juno’s eyes widened alarm. She took a step forward and grabbed Alex, who was swaying on his feet.
“The hell was that?” she asked. He felt his arm go warm. He realized she was pushing magic his way, refilling him even as the Analyze 4x spell pulled more magic out of him. After a moment the drain stopped and a screen opened up in front of them had the numbers one to one-twenty-eight running down the side. Every entry was filled with ????.
As Alex watched, one or two flickered becoming links he could click on.
“I think I just worked out how to analyze what spells are on the cylinder. I have a list but it’s just full of question marks and I'm kinda afraid to click on any of them,” he said.
“Definitely don't do that. We'll start small, like really small, like a ring with only one or two spells on it small,” Juno said.
Alex scrolled through the list wistfully, wishing he could click on one of the entries and see what it was. He reluctantly closed it and also the Analyze 4x spell. Immediately his mana began to refill and he began to feel better.
“Right that's enough for now Big Bad. Time to go upstairs and have a shower,” Juno said as they walked out.
He saw her shaking her head at him.
“What's that for?” he asked.
“I really don't get you. What you did just then seeing all the spells – that's incredibly advanced, yet again what happened? You pulled it right out of your butt. This is your butt and out comes those endless handkerchief
s like a magician pulls out of his sleeve,” Juno said, making graphic hand movements.
“Well, maybe it's because I'm a werewolf mage. It seems obvious to me that if you can see spells you must be able to somehow see all the spells and all parts and copy them or make your own too,” Alex said.
“It took me until I was fourteen to be able to properly analyze the spells on my magical bracelet. It took a couple years after that before I was able to break them down, and as you say make versions of them so I could use them myself. Enchanting is incredibly complex and dangerous and you come swanning in here with your butt and those handkerchiefs,” Juno said, giving him a swat on the backside. They reached upstairs just as Juno swatted him again and found Nia in the kitchen dressed only in her underwear with a towel around her head.
“Hey no fair, I’d like to swat that butt too,” she said.
Juno walked over and gave Nia a kiss on the lips. Alex felt a moment of hesitation. This was something he had never experienced before but then both girls turned to him and waved him over. He kissed Nia and then Juno, the three of them standing close together.
“We’re going to go to the shower and I know you just got out but do you want to come back?” Juno asked.
“Hell yes,” Nia said and grabbed both their hands to drag them off to the shower.
“Are you ready for round three?” Juno said to Alex as they were pulled along behind Nia.
“Hell yes,” Alex said with a grin.
17
The rest of the day was a blur of sex and food and sleep. After the shower Alex didn't even have a chance to put clothes on before Juno and Nia pulled him back into the bedroom for another round.
From then on the rest of the day was much the same. He had one successful attempt to get dressed and then after that they were eating in the kitchen before Nia made a joke, Juno gave him a look and soon the three of them were on the sofa.