Monster Unleashed: Blood Moon Academy Book 3

by Demi Dumond

  The closer we got to the double doors, the more alert I was. Ivy was on edge too; I could sense it.

  “I’m not sure yet,” she answered. We quickly made our way to the double doors and then hopped carefully over and around the still pooling water of the broken fountain.

  Now that we were out in the courtyard, I felt fully exposed. A quick look around revealed we were alone, at least.

  I gestured for her to lead the way, hoping she’d lead us deep into the woods, or at least around the corner of the building where we weren’t quite so conspicuous.

  Ivy took four or five steps forward and then stopped, causing me to walk into her from behind.

  “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing, we’re here,” she said.

  “What do you mean we’re here?” I asked.

  She pointed at the patch of grass between her feet. “I think it’s buried. Down there.”

  I turned and stared at the walls of windows overlooking the courtyard. We had no choice but to dig up what the Headmaster wanted to remain hidden. And we were going to have to do it in plain sight.

  31

  Keira

  “Now what?” Ian asked, shuffling his weight from one foot to the other.

  I had no answer for him. I could have laughed out loud now, in hindsight about sneaking in here thinking we had avoided the monsters. I had been expecting monsters the whole time we were down on this level and they were all here just waiting for us.

  The monsters were every color of the rainbow. Some had tentacles, others had jagged teeth and scales. Purple, yellow, sickly green that matched the carpet, even one that matched the walls. It was all kinds of wrong.

  The rock vibrated gently, like it was prompting me to action. “I’m thinking. Don’t rush me,” I whispered.

  That caused Malachai to frown at me. “Who are you talking to?”

  “The rock wants us to keep going,” I said in response.

  “The rock wants us to just wade through all the monsters and hope for the best?” Rafe asked.

  “Apparently,” I answered. For now, the monsters were kind of giving us our space, but I had no idea how long that would continue.

  “Should I shift?” Rafe asked. I could tell he was getting jumpy. So was I.

  “Not yet,” I answered. I figured if it came to that we were probably all toast anyway. We were vastly outnumbered. Holding my breath, I tiptoed forward.

  One of the monsters stepped forward and inclined its head toward me. Then something wet hit me on the arm. Ugh. I looked down at the gross slime green loogey or whatever it was. “Careful, this one’s a spitter.”

  The part of my arm where the spit landed got hot. “Ow.” I moved my tee shirt sleeve up to get a better look and hoped I wasn’t having some sort of monster spit allergic reaction. How the hell would one even treat that sort of thing?

  Then the heat subsided and something else took its place. A thundering pulse between my legs.

  All of my cares started melting away, and then began to feel distant. I tried to concentrate, but I wasn’t even sure why I was here.

  I looked around at the monsters, and they didn’t seem frightening or threatening anymore.

  More monsters approached and spit on Ian and Rafe too. They looked grossed out and tried to wipe the sticky wet substance off of their skin, but I knew it was too late. I knew because I understood the monsters now. Did I understand them because they spit on me?

  I looked over at Ian and Rafe. Oh, god. They were so hot. My eyes went straight to the bulging biceps on Rafe and then to the rock-hard thighs of Ian. How had I not noticed how freaking hot those two were before? I didn’t remember why I was here, the only thing I knew was that I wanted these two guys more than I had ever wanted anything in my life. I couldn’t think of anything else other than blind, raging lust.

  The monsters seemed to back off when I gave in to my lust. Weird. Were they reading my mind?

  Rafe’s brown eyes shined in the light. I stared at them and his pupils were huge. Ian looked the same. I giggled for a minute until they both looked up at me with blind lust on their red-flushed faces.

  I wondered if my eyes looked like theirs did. “Hey, are my pupils huge?”

  That’s when I heard a low, rumbling, repeated chant begin from the crowd of monsters. I didn’t understand the words they were saying, but the intensity of what they wanted grew inside of me like an idea. In fact, the whole thing could have been only in my head. I wasn’t sure of anything anymore. But the only thing I could concentrate on now, was the growing bulge in the pants of the two hot guys I was with.

  Rafe was the first to reach down and grab the bottom of his tee shirt, lifting it up just enough to show me the lower six pack of his abs. He was teasing me. Or was he teasing all of us? The monsters went wild. Why were they going wild?

  The chants erupted into cheering when the monsters saw skin. The whole situation was so odd, but I couldn’t concentrate on what the monsters were doing or saying anymore, I was busy hoping Rafe would take it off. All of it. Right now.

  He chose that moment to pull his tee shirt off and throw it on the ground. I groaned out loud. I wanted to run to him and lick his chest and make my way down his body. My eyes went where my tongue wanted to go and I saw that he was as excited and turned on by all of this as I was.

  A different chant started up. Again, I didn’t understand the language, but I did get the idea of what they wanted. It was Ian’s clothes on the floor.

  “Yes!” I said in response to the monsters, out loud. It was the best idea I had ever heard inside my head.

  Instead of his shirt, Ian took off his pants first. I almost came seeing his hard cock spring free of his jeans, corralled only by his tidy whiteys. Instead of slowing down, the chants of the monsters intensified, until they were the only thing I could hear in my head, the only impulse I could feel. They wanted me to suck Ian’s cock.

  They wanted it and they were chanting for it. And I had to admit it was the thing I wanted to do most of all in the world anyway. It was like all the blood in my body was pooling between the racing heartbeat of lust between my legs.

  I dropped to my knees in front of Ian, grabbing his dick through the fabric of his underwear. Then, I pulled them down for him. He stepped out of them as he stared down at my position in front of him.

  Then he grabbed my head, pulling it to his hard, throbbing member. I breathed on his dick gently, trying my best to drive him wild. It was working.

  In one slick movement, he thrust into my mouth. The monster crowd went wild.

  I grabbed onto the tight ass cheeks and licked and sucked him until I heard a third chant. I stood up and turned around to face them. I knew this chant was for me. They wanted me naked as well.

  Ian shed the rest of his clothes. Rafe was shirtless, but as soon as I looked over at him, he shed his pants as well. Both of the men were now completely naked and eyeing me like a hungry lion eyes a vulnerable antelope.

  I took a step back. Rafe took a step forward, leaning down and pulling me into a kiss. His hand grabbed my ass through my jeans, slowly caressing me in time with his kiss. I came in my jeans and moaned into his mouth.

  Instead of slowing down, his other hand went to my breasts, pulling my bra down and rolling my nipples through my tee shirt.

  The chant picked up again. It was intoxicating and I was powerless to fight it.

  With a deliciously evil smirk, Rafe pulled my shirt off and a second later my bra was off as well, to the delight of the shrieking monsters.

  Rafe dove in with his lips sucking and nipping on one nipple while caressing and pinching the other. He was already sending me over the edge again.

  Behind me, I could feel Ian unzip my jeans. I felt the cool of the breeze as seconds later he pulled them down. His hand went to my soaking wet panties. He teased me mercilessly in front of everyone.

  And then, just a few seconds later, he ripped them off.

  Rafe continued working my nipples
now and his tongue had taken possession of my mouth.

  With a thrill and another moan, I felt Ian’s fingers enter my hot, wet, naked pussy from behind. I thrust backward against Ian’s fingers while the combination of pleasure and pain had me writhing in ecstasy against both of them at the same time.

  Then Rafe slapped Ian’s hand away from me. I pouted, begging for more. He dropped to his knees and buried his tongue in my sweet spot. As soon as his tongue claimed me, I couldn’t take it anymore. I screamed and wriggled and came in front of Rafe and Ian and all of the monsters while Ian held me in place by my breasts and held me firm for whatever Rafe wanted to do to me.

  After I came. Ian pushed me onto all fours, with my ass exposed and up in the air. He knelt down and thrust inside me, causing me to scream in pleasure as he pounded me. I pushed down on the floor, trying to stabilize myself from his massive thrusts.

  Rafe knelt before me. His massive frame was tall enough that kneeling, his cock was at the level of my mouth. I opened wide for his giant dick and then the three of us got in a rhythm.

  The shrieks and chants of the monsters rose to a crescendo level. I couldn’t think about anything except Rafe in my mouth and Ian in my pussy.

  Then I heard a door slam. It broke me out of my trance. Oh shit. That was new. It was Ivy, of all people. What was she doing here?

  “What the fuck?” Ivy asked when she saw what was going on. Then she pointed across the room. “The box that you guys came in here for is literally right there.”

  I pulled myself out of my own fantasy fuck just enough to follow with my eyes where her finger was pointing. Across the room, by itself, sat a small green box. “Huh,” I said, confused, “has that thing been here this whole time?”

  “I’ll do it myself,” she said. With a wary eye toward the monsters, she sprinted across the room and grabbed the box. Then she sprinted back while the three of us quickly pulled our clothes back on.

  “Let’s go!” Ivy yelled. “You guys have been down here an hour and a half. I was starting to worry.”

  “It’s not our fault,” I said. “The monsters spit on us. And then chanted and egged us on and stuff.” I grabbed my head, which was throbbing in pain now.

  “Sure,” Ivy said. “But in the meantime, Malachai and I got the box we were supposed to get. And we did it without having group sex in front of a bunch of pervert monsters.”

  “Yeah, yeah. Did you really say it’s been an hour and a half?”

  “Yes,” she hissed, holding the door open for us and waving us through with her arms.

  “Dude,” Rafe said as he eyeballed me and elbowed Ian, “I’m totally getting her number.”

  “They’re already forgetting me,” I said to Ivy.

  “Knock it off you two,” she said. “It’s Keira. Use your magic already.”

  Rafe and Ian shook their heads and then blinked.

  “Oh yeah,” Rafe said. “We’re trying to stop the Headmaster from killing us all.”

  “Yes, that,” I answered as we all filed out of the door and slammed it. I heard howls and growls of anger. Their entertainment was leaving the building. “We’d better hurry, I think they’re mad now.”

  We sprinted back down the dark hallways like our lives depended on it. I didn’t look back when I heard them all spill out of the room they were in. I didn’t look back when we turned down the last hallway, and I didn’t slow down even a little as I climbed the stairs with a shriek. I knew they were right behind us.

  Once we were all upstairs, I breathed a sigh of relief. Turns out the relief was short lived though.

  Ivy turned to me. “We have to hurry. The deadline is no longer the end of school day. The Headmaster is on to us.”

  “How did that happen?” I asked. “I thought you got your box without incident.”

  “I said we did it without having sex in front of a bunch of pervy monsters. I never said it went without incident.”

  “Wait, what?” Malachai asked, his eyebrows scrunching up with a mix of surprise and confusion.

  “Don’t ask,” Ivy and I told him in unison.

  “It’s way better if you don’t ask,” I repeated.

  “Okay, what are we dealing with now?” Rafe asked.

  Ivy turned to me. “Like I said, we went straight for the box. We found it right away and dug it up. Except we got caught.”

  I raised my eyebrow at her.

  “Well, the object was buried in the middle of the courtyard. There was no place for Malachai and I to hide. Obviously, the Headmaster put it there to keep an eye on it in case anything ever went sideways. Well, now he knows it’s going sideways.”

  Ivy was leading us quickly down the hallways now back toward our dorm room and the last stone. I was still confused as to what had gone wrong. As far as I could see, there were no weird bats roaming around and no crazy alarms.

  “What exactly happened?” I asked, still confused.

  “Well, the Headmaster figured out what we were doing and sent a bunch of guards. I dug up the box while Malachai took out the guards. Or should I say, took them apart with his flaming sword. The guards that survived were a little angry. If you get any company from now on, they’re not going to be in a very good mood.”

  Now that we were inside of our dorm room, I ran to the window to look. Rafe and Ian were right behind me.

  Sure enough, down in the courtyard was a brown patch of earth, a dark spot in a sea of perfect grass where Ivy had dug up the box. Surrounding that spot were trails of red.

  Ivy peered out the window next to me. “Oh, at least they took the body parts away. It was gross.”

  I went to check on Malachai. “Are you okay?”

  He grinned down at me. “I’m fine. It wasn’t my body parts spread all over the courtyard.”

  “We’re going to have to be more careful since the guards are on the lookout,” Ivy said.

  “And since the Headmaster already knows what we’re looking for, they don’t need to come to us. They know we’ll come to them.”

  I glanced at the last two stones on my nightstand and put the box we had gotten on the lower level next to the one that Ivy and Malachai had collected. “I guess we shouldn’t keep them waiting, then.”

  32

  Keira

  Once out into the hallway, Malachai and I walked next to each other while the others went ahead since Ivy now had the rock. As the healer in the group, she seemed to be the most sensitive to its magic.

  Malachai turned to me. “Hey, what was Ivy talking about earlier? The thing about the pervy monsters?”

  “We were under some weird enchantment, Rafe. It wasn’t our fault.” My eyes flew up to his. I needed to know if he was mad or not. The moment our eyes met, I felt better. He smiled down at me and squeezed my hand.

  “I want you to know that I’m okay. Well, not okay, exactly. But all I want is you. If those knuckleheads come in the deal, then I guess that’s okay.”

  Was he being serious? I wondered what the hell had happened after I got taken by the Headmaster for Malachai, Ian, and Rafe to be getting along the way they were. “What happened to you guys? Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad that everybody is getting along now. And I love you. I just feel like I missed something.”

  Malachai stopped walking to face me. “I saw that they were willing to do whatever it takes to make sure you’re okay. They were even willing to put themselves in mortal danger. That’s how I feel, and when I saw them willing to do the same. Well, let’s just say that I respect it. Especially Tor.”

  Malachai turned and started walking again, and I kept pace. At the mention of Tor, I felt awful. “Hey, was he okay? How did that all happen?”

  “We had no choice. Professor Kiln tried to blow in the door, but nothing worked. It was literally our only idea to get you out of that room. And hey, it worked.”

  “Tor told me he never wanted to be a dragon again.”

  “He did it to save you. And Professor Kiln helped me with the spell to turn
Tor back into a dragon, so we have to help her pop this time bubble. That was the deal.”

  I nodded. “It was a good deal, too. It’s the only way that we all go free. Do you trust her?”

  We were approaching the classroom area of the academy where there was a major intersection in the hallway. Rafe peeked around the corner, then he cursed and made a face.

  “What?” I mouthed at him.

  “Guards,” he mouthed back. We waited a moment, all of our backs to the wall and then Rafe checked around the corner again. “It’s clear.”

  We followed him around the corner. Now we were getting to the classroom part of the academy. Students milled in the hallways between classes, talking and laughing like everything was just fine.

  Like a dragon hadn’t had to free me from a kill room with the Headmaster yesterday morning. It felt so odd.

  In any case, it was perfect timing getting here now. One because the guards had passed, and two because even if there were, it was easier to blend in with all of the other students around. The bell rang and the students dutifully filed out of the hallways to where they needed to be, leaving us out in the hall by ourselves.

  Ivy came and stood next to me, holding out the rock. It buzzed loud enough for the rest of us to hear. We were close. And I didn’t like at all where we were close to. “Damn it.”

  Rafe cocked his head at me. “What is it?”

  I just pointed at the door.

  “No way. You’ve got to be kidding me.”

  “Nope,” I answered, “that’s what the rock says. Like it or not.” The final rock had led us straight to Professor Smythe’s classroom.

  “Well, he’s in there right now. Teaching. How the hell are we supposed to get in there and find what we need?” Malachai asked.

  I shrugged. “I guess we have to wait a couple of hours and hope he goes to lunch.”

  “What do we do now?”

  “I guess it’s time to use the last magic rock. With any luck at all we can find that item before lunch and then sneak into Smythe’s classroom.”