Dan's Inferno, Book IV: Vengeance

by Jan Stryvant

  Looking back up at Wrath, he suddenly had an idea.

  "Why are you smiling at me like that?" Wrath said, suddenly a little nervous.

  Grinning widely, he opened a tap into Wrath's power as he had earlier with Aella so he could use her displacement abilities.

  "Because I'm going to love you into a coma!" Dan said, seizing her wrist, and he dragged her on top of his naked body.

  "Wait! What?" Wrath exclaimed. Dan grabbed her head and laid an incredibly passionate kiss on her as he rolled over on top of her and pinned her to the bed.

  "Don't worry, it's all in the name of science!" he teased and, ripping her shirt off, he immediately started in on those wonderful tits of hers.

  "Dan! What are you…" she started, but suddenly she felt it, he was in her mind! Reaching down, she undid her pants as she slipped into his head, as she had so many other times before while they'd had sex. She didn't know how he was doing it, only that he was, and dammit if she didn't want to be fucked unconscious by him like he'd done with Aella.

  Dan heard her thoughts and all but purred as he redoubled his efforts. Wrath was his first love, and he was definitely going to show her, once and for all, how much she meant to him by loving every inch of her body in ways she'd never been loved before!

  "I don't think we're going to get any planning done tonight." Olivia sighed as she came down to the dining room where Lofn and Fawn were waiting.

  "Why's that?" Lofn asked.

  "Because whatever he did to Aella, he's now doing to Wrath," Olivia said with a sudden grin. "I mean, really, it's impressive. It's even worse than when you use your tail on him, Lofn."

  "How can it be better than that?" Fawn asked.

  "Because he's all but turning Wrath into a ball of furry putty! I mean, we all know how much she's into him, but now? Wow. I just can't wait until it's my turn!"

  "How do you know you'll even get a turn?" Fawn asked.

  "Because he glanced at me and told me I was next!" Olivia snickered.

  "Dammit, I wanted to be next!" Fawn said, pouting.

  "This is Dan we're talking about; I'm sure he'll get to you soon enough!"

  "I wonder if this has anything to do with Aella teaching him how to use her displacement abilities?" Lofn asked with a thoughtful expression on her face.

  "If it does, that girl has been holding out on us!" Fawn said with a frown.

  Lofn shook her head, then smiled. "More likely our Daniel discovered something we've all overlooked and is now using it ruthlessly to our advantage."

  "And now I can't wait even more," Fawn complained, shaking her head.

  Morning Sun

  Dan sat at the table in the kitchen, eating breakfast about as fast as Marion could cook it and set it in front of him. He was famished. The girls may have had dinner—well, maybe not Aella, who was sitting next to him and destroying a stack of pancakes—but he hadn't eaten since lunch, and he'd gotten little in the way of sleep last night. The sun had just started to rise when he'd finished up with Lofn a little over an hour ago. The scent of breakfast cooking was pretty much the only thing that could have gotten him out of bed.

  Wrath came into the kitchen, yawning and stretching. Unlike Aella, who'd grabbed a pair of shorts, Wrath wasn't wearing a stitch of clothing. Dragging a chair over, she sat down beside him, then plopped her head onto his shoulder and purred loudly.

  He turned, gave her a kiss on the top of her head, and went back to eating. Aella still had one of her tentacles curled around his hips.

  "What the hell got into you last night, my most favorite half-breed human who can fuck the ever-loving daylights out of his little red cat-demon whenever he wants to?" Wrath asked with a chuckle, causing Aella to snort and almost choke on her food.

  "I figured out how to read your minds during sex," Dan said with a grin between forkfuls of food.

  "Obviously. I think Fawn is planning to get Lofn to sting you next time so you actually leave us in a coma!"

  "Oh? Is she awake already?"

  "Hardly," Wrath said with a smile and kissed the side of his face. "I just know how that little sheep of ours thinks."

  "And if she doesn't, you'll be sure to suggest it to her, right?" Aella teased.

  "Hells yeah! That was wonderful. I told you he was worth it, didn't I?"

  Aella nodded. "That you did. I think I can finally forgive you for that time in Isleton."

  Dan couldn't miss the smile on Wrath's face when Aella said that.

  "So, love of our lives, how did you manage to do what you're not supposed to be able to do?"

  "What, read your minds?" he asked.

  Wrath gave a small nod. "Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but demons aren't supposed to be able to read each other's minds during sex. Just human ones."

  "I was still attached to Aella's power when we had sex yesterday, and suddenly, there it was."

  "Why were you attached to her power?"

  "He needed to be in order to use my abilities," Aella said.

  "Ah. Okay."

  Dan smiled, setting his fork down, and leaned back in the chair. "So I decided to try it with you, and sure enough, it worked."

  "Oh did it ever, lover-boy," Wrath said with a sigh and smiled again, then rubbed the side of her face into his. " I think I'm going to eat something, then, as much as I'd like to drag you back upstairs and do it all over again, I think we have an attack we need to plan out."

  "What about the others?"

  "I think it's safe to say it's going to be a few hours before they show up," Aella said with a smile, setting her own fork down, leaning over, kissing the side of his face, and rubbing her cheek against his.

  Marion set a plate of food down in front of Wrath, then turned to Dan.

  "So you really are demons, aren't you? I'm not just hallucinating."

  "I'm only half-demon—ok, technically, I think I'm pretty much all demon when it comes to the parts that count—" Dan said to her, "but yeah, the girls are all full-blooded demons, and Boris is a hellhound, if he hasn't told you already.

  "Course I didn't know I was part demon until after we'd met you."

  "But you knew about her?" she asked, motioning towards Wrath.

  Dan nodded. "I knew what she was when we first met."

  "Weren't you scared? I mean, when Boris first started talking to me, I thought I was going crazy or something."

  Dan chuckled and shook his head. "I was too overwhelmed by how lovely she was and how pissed I was to be afraid of her," he said and gave Wrath, who was now eating, a hug.

  Marion nodded slowly. "I was a little worried because of everything that was going on with Boris. I mean, he took complete control of my life, and he wasn't at all shy about anything…but," Marion blushed a bright red, "but darn if he didn't make things—my life, everything—better."

  "Hellhounds can be like that, after they've served their penance," Wrath said between bites.

  "Penance?" Marion asked.

  "Boris obviously wasn't a good person in his last life, and his punishment was to become a hellhound. Most, when they've paid their debt, go on to reincarnation. But some…" Wrath shrugged. "Some decide to become—I guess you'd call them 'free agents'—and stay as what they've become. You got lucky; you got one of the better ones."

  Marion smiled. "Oh, yes, I definitely got one of the better ones!"

  She picked up Dan's empty plate as Dan got up.

  "I'm gonna shower, then I guess we can meet in the den and start making plans.

  Aella started to get up too, but Wrath snagged her tail and pulled her over.

  "Don't, or we'll all end up in bed again," Wrath chided Aella, who blushed, then took the seat beside Wrath and snuggled up against her.

  Wrath snuggled back, still eating. Dan had to smile. Wrath and Aella were blatant about their affection for each other. Olivia and Fawn also often showed their fondness for one another as well, but they usually didn't do it in public. Olivia was actually the more restrained one. Fawn was a
slut when it came to attention and affection and was more than happy to hang off of you and show her affections publicly.

  Lofn, of course, was the most restrained of all, but after last night, he figured a lot of that had to do with her history as Hana. That when she'd been Hana, she'd erected a lot of walls to hide her emotions from others, pretending she didn't have any of the softer ones. While those walls might finally be coming down so many years later, he suspected changes like that were never easy.

  Dan sat at the table in the den, with Aella on his left and Wrath on his right. There was a large pad on the table, and they were drawing out what they remembered of Weson's place from the last time they'd been there.

  "We really need a whiteboard." Aella sighed.

  "We really need something bigger than a pad of paper," Dan replied.

  "Yeah, who knew we'd need all this stuff, right?" Wrath agreed.

  "So, what's the basic plan?"

  "I think a lot of that is going to depend on how many people we get."

  "What happened at the Zoo?" Dan asked, looking to Aella.

  "Oh, right! Forgot all about that," she said with a bit of a leer.

  "I wonder why?" Wrath said with an exaggerated sigh.

  Aella laughed. "There's a lot of interest. There're a lot of people out there with scores to settle against Weson, and not having to pay for the right to live here and do business? Oh, yeah, they loved that!"

  "How many?"

  "Almost fifty, as of yesterday."

  "Damn, that's pretty good," Wrath said, looking surprised. "I was hoping for like, twenty."

  "I wonder how many people Takett will bring?" Dan mused. "Or Royce, for that matter."

  "I just wonder how useful your friend's dad is going to be. From the sound of it, he's not much on combat."

  Dan shrugged. "Hard to say, but if he can tie up one of Weson's people, that's worth it right there, I'd guess."

  "What are you all up to?" Olivia asked, coming into the room. Putting her arms around Dan's neck from behind, she kissed him on the top of the head, then leaned into him, pressing her breasts into the back of his head.

  "What we were supposed to do last night," Wrath said.

  "Oh, I don't know, I think what we did last night was so much more fun!"

  Dan grinned and reached around behind him to pat Olivia on the ass.

  "You won't hear me complaining!" Wrath said with a laugh.

  Olivia nodded and rubbed her hands up and down Dan's chest a few times as she pressed into the back of his chair. "Doesn't Fawn have a computer here somewhere with a screen attached to it you can use?"

  "Probably, but isn't she still passed out in bed?" Dan asked.

  "I'll go wake her up," Olivia said. "Then I think I'll get some food." She sighed for a moment. "As soon as I can stop touching you."

  Both Aella and Wrath snickered.

  "You know, it just isn't fair," Olivia complained.

  "Oh? Why not?"

  "Because I'm a needy, greedy wolf-bitch, that's why not!" Olivia said with another sigh, leaning over and kissing him on the side of the neck and pressing her head against his for a moment. "Last night was amazing for all of us, I know. I think I finally found something to write a song about."

  "A song?" Dan said, blushing a little.

  "Finally!" Olivia crowed. "I made him blush! Oh, the twenty-nine! That was almost as good as sex!"

  "Seriously?" Aella asked.

  Olivia snickered. "Okay, no, it wasn't even close. But still, finally."

  "Go wake Fawn and get something to eat," Dan said and patted her on her naked butt.

  "Umm-hmm…"

  "Now, where were we?"

  Five minutes later, a nude Fawn came dancing into the room, vaulted over the back of the chair while twisting in the air, landed lightly in Dan's lap, and engaged in serious amounts of lip-lock.

  "Yes, I love you, but we're trying to plan a battle here?" Dan said with a smile when she finally came up for air.

  "Why aren't you using my computer?" Fawn asked.

  "Because we don't know where it is or how it works?" Wrath said.

  "Oh!" Fawn said and smiled. "Right!" Then she wrapped her arms around Dan and hugged him.

  "Do you think you could show it to us?" Wrath asked after it became apparent that Fawn wasn't going to move.

  "Do I have to?"

  "Yes, Fawn," Dan said. "You have to. And no, I'm not going to screw you in the chair right now, otherwise none of us are going to get anything done today."

  "I can't help it. While I thought the sex was good before, last night was really something special. I mean, you were in our heads, and you didn't run away screaming!"

  "Why would I do that?"

  "Weeeelllll, maybe not from me, but I'm sure those two have enough stuff to make anybody panic!" Fawn teased, grinning.

  "Oh, really now?" Aella growled, looking over at Fawn.

  "This from my little sheep who has vivid fantasies about me swallowing her, feet first, while she's going down on me?" Dan asked.

  For the first time ever, Dan saw Fawn blush, deep enough that she almost matched Wrath's fur.

  "ItsintheofficeupstairsfollowmeI'llsetituprightnow!" Fawn quickly babbled and launched herself out of the chair, over his head, and zipped out of the room.

  "Sure are a lot of red faces going around today," Aella said with a snicker.

  "Fortunately for me, mine's always red," Wrath replied with a snicker of her own. "But honestly, she thought we didn't know about that fantasy?"

  "Oh, it gets worse, a lot worse," Dan said with a grin.

  "Oooh! Gonna share?" Wrath and Aella both asked together.

  "Actually, I was thinking maybe we could act out some of the safer ones. But not until after I've taken care of a few of yours…" Dan replied with a smirk of his own as he got up to follow Fawn.

  "Good thing I embrace all my kinks!" Wrath said, getting up as well, and Aella looked a little embarrassed.

  Moving upstairs to the bedroom Fawn had turned into her office, they saw a large monitor mounted on the wall, upon which she'd displayed a picture of Weson's place she'd taken using her drone, back before their last attack on it.

  Olivia came up and joined them with a large plate of food, and Fawn zipped off to get her own. Olivia parked herself in a chair next to him after politely asking Wrath to move. Dan was surprised Wrath didn't complain, she just sat next to Aella. Olivia then leaned into him like Wrath had done at the kitchen table as she ate.

  "Sorry, but I just really need to touch you right now, and I thought sitting in your lap might be a bit distracting."

  "I'm just surprised how much you're all affected by it," Dan said. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying the affection. I love you all so much that just touching you makes me happy."

  "You have to understand, no one has ever been in our heads before," Olivia told him.

  "Yeah, but you were all in my head—constantly, I might add—and it didn't have this effect on me."

  "Dan, the most amazing thing about being in your head was seeing how much you cared, how much you wanted us, needed us, loved us, day after day, constantly, no matter what, and now…" She shivered up against him.

  "Now?" he prompted.

  "You went into our heads, saw everything there, and used it to love us even more."

  Dan frowned. "Why wouldn't I?"

  "You wouldn't do anything else," Lofn said, all but dancing into the room and looking quite radiant, "and we're all happy because you saw the core of us, the truth of us, each of us. You saw all the bad, the dark, the hidden…and all you did was love us all the more because of it."

  She leaned around the side of the chair and kissed him, all but wrapping herself around him. After a minute she squirmed into his lap, wrapped herself around him, put her head on his shoulder, and got comfy. He realized he now had a lapful of sexy, completely nude succubus, doing nothing more than cuddling up against him.

  If sh
e'd been a cat, he was sure she'd be purring now.

  "Wow, I think you broke her, Dan!" Olivia whispered loudly and then grinned.

  "Yes, I think it's safe to say Daniel broke me, and I don't think I ever want to be fixed," Lofn said in a husky voice. "In all my life, no one has ever done that to me. Last night would make an incubus jealous."

  Dan smiled and cuddled her close; he'd never felt Lofn so relaxed before. She was generating contentment, and he suspected he wasn't the only one in the room who was feeling it, either.

  "Okay, I'm ready!" Fawn said, coming back into the room. Apparently she'd showered and dressed, for the small amount of clothing Fawn often considered to be 'dressed'.

  "Damn, what happened to Lofn?" Fawn said with a grin. "Did somebody finally fall in love?"

  "I think you have a point," Lofn replied contentedly.

  "She always does," the others replied and laughed.

  Dan kissed Lofn on the side of her face, then looked back at the display. "So? How are we doing this?"

  Wrath looked over at Aella. "Two-pronged attack?"

  Aella nodded. "I think so."

  "How's that?" Fawn asked, walking over to stand behind Olivia and rubbing her shoulders.

  "We have the magic users and the demons encircle the place and attack it," Aella said.

  "Okay, and what do we do?"

  "We land on the roof and work our way down from there," Wrath said. "They won't expect it."

  "They won't?"

  Both Aella and Wrath shook their heads. "Most humans, and even most demons, only think in two dimensions," Wrath told her. "Plus, they'll already be engaged with the people surrounding the place. They can't stop fighting them or they'll be overwhelmed. As there's only six of us, they'll figure we're not too big a threat. Not at first, at least."

  "Don't forget, Weson's got that golem," Olivia said.

  "We haven't," Aella replied. "We'll have to get something specifically to deal with it."

  "Sounds like a trip to Aureate's place might be in order," Dan said.

  "You need to add a couple of demons to our group," Lofn said softly.

  "What for?" Wrath asked.

  "So when Daniel eats Weson, they see it and know he's really a demon. That he's a sobek. They won't tell the humans, because they'd never believe them anyway, and while they might be concerned about me, they'll fear a sobek."