Defiant Destiny Ch. 03

Cyrea happily returned the kiss, putting all of her love into it.

"I'm thrilled you're adjusting to your demonic nature so quickly, my love. It would only hold you back if you let a silly notion like monogamy keep you from claiming other succubi," she stated matter-of-factly.

Now this made me break the kiss and stare at her wide eyed. That was actually a thing? I thought my demon was just being overly horny when he urged me to claim that other succubus earlier today. I was still staring at Cyrea when the elevator doors slid to a close. She just smiled and pressed the button for the doors to open, ushering me into the corridor.

"Claiming other succubi?" I managed to express. "What... Why?" I looked at her dumbfounded. Granted, the demonic part of me was again overly excited to claim more succubi, but my human side couldn't believe Cyrea - of all people! - suggested it.

Cyrea merely looked at me with a surprised look on her face.

"Well of course, silly!" she exclaimed. "The more succubi you claim, the more powerful you'll become. You already became very powerful after claiming me, and that will replicate after each succubus you claim."

She kindly gave me a moment to digest, then continued.

"Alexis briefly told me of your plans with your night club. If you want to defy both God and the Devil, you'll need all the power you can get."

She looked at me earnestly.

"You're serious!" I exclaimed, surprised, and a little louder than intended.

Cyrea giggled sweetly.

"It's fine my love. We are soulmates. What we share goes so much deeper than a regular bond between a Master and his succubus. I know I will always have a special place in your heart, regardless of any others you will claim. Besides, succubi love to share, Dante. It's in our nature..." she added with a sexy wink.

In my baffled state of mind I had failed to notice Alexis's presence approaching the door. He slowly opened it with an investigating look, but when he saw us in his corridor his face split into that customary grin of his.

"Dante! Cyrea!" he called out in greeting, walking towards us with his arms open. "I was wondering what all the noise was. It's so good to see you again!" he called out to us.

Seeing Alexis's grin on his face was a bigger relief than I could have imagined. He looked healthy, and it was good to see my friend had regained his strength. Temporarily forgetting the bomb Cyrea had just dropped on me, I walked up to him and hugged him in greeting, patting him on his back.

"It's good to see you too, my friend," I mumbled into his shoulder.

I could feel Alexis chuckle against my chest.

"You've become strong, Dante. You're practically crushing me," he said, releasing me from his hug, still wearing that grin. Alexis paused and looked into my eyes. A frown slowly formed on his face.

"Curious..." he mumbled. "I know Cyrea's soul merged with yours, I saw your markings, but I still cannot see your soul..."

He craned his neck forward, bringing his face a mere two inches from mine and squinted his eyes. He kept looking deeply into mine and stayed like that for several long lasting, awkward seconds.

"Nope. Nothing... Not even a demonic aura or scent on you. How remarkable! If I didn't know any better I'd swear you were still fully human," he chirped, delighted.

Alexis stood pondering, when his eyes glided to Cyrea and a warm smile came to his face. "Cyrea! My apologies for not welcoming you!" Alexis lifted his arms to greet Cyrea with a hug, but suddenly halted and looked at me to see my reaction.

Cyrea giggled and enclosed herself in his arms.

"Oh, he's fine with it," she smiled, winking at me.

Alexis hugged Cyrea tightly and placed a fond kiss on top of her head.

"I'm sorry my dear, but that mate of yours distracted me for a moment. Please, come in!" he gestured, leading the way into his apartment.

Cyrea giggled and mumbled something in the lines of me distracting her often as well.

Upon entering Alexis's apartment we were greeted by an amazing view of the city. Large panes of glass took up the entire southern side of the apartment, letting the sun shine in with abundance and providing us with a spectacular view of the city skyline.

"Wow! You can even see the desert from up here!" Cyrea marveled and ran up towards the glass to gawk at the view.

I handed over the bag of sweets to Alexis.

"We got you a thank you present for helping us out during my transformation," I said, inclining my head as a way of saying thanks. Alexis returned my nod with a smile, took the bag and looked inside.

His face shone like he had just won the lottery.

"Very sweet of you. Thanks!" He opened a bag and dove right in as he went into the kitchen to grab a bowl for the liquorice. I followed him while Cyrea was still cooing at the view.

Alexis started opening and closing kitchen cabinets, looking for a bowl large enough to fit all of the liquorice.

"Just because I cannot see your soul or aura, doesn't mean nothing happened, right?" he asked curiously, briefly peeking from a cabinet while still rummaging around for a bowl.

I leaned on the bar that was attached to his kitchen and grinned.

"Oh, I transformed all right. I'd say I'm a proper demon now," I replied with a chuckle.

Alexis abruptly halted his search and stared at me with large eyes, an excited grin starting to form on his lips.

"Really? Already?" he said breathlessly and turned around to face me - the elusive bowl being no longer of interest to him. I nodded, and his smile exploded on his face while his eyes scoured my body for demonic signs, but finding none. He sighed with impatient frustration and looked at me again.

"Could you ...show me?"

I laughed at his eagerness. He looked like a small child who'd just been told Santa Claus was in the next room.

"Sure," I chuckled and took off my shirt. Alexis arched an eyebrow in surprise. I grinned while focusing on the pool of power in my chest and slowly let it flow through me. I kept watching Alexis, feeling my eyes turn to black, knowing he could see my red irises. A soft gasp escaped his mouth as he stared back at me. I let more power flow through me and felt my claws beginning to extend. Closing my eyes I focused on unfurling my wings. I hadn't used them much, so this bit still required a bit more concentration to pull off. Within moments I felt the skin on my back bulge and burn slightly, and finally it split open for my wings to surface. I opened my eyes while I stretched them, being careful not to hit anything.

I looked at Alexis and couldn't help but chuckle. He had dropped the bag of liquorice he was holding and stared at me with his mouth agape. His eyes kept going to and from my wings, claws and eyes.

I felt Cyrea come up behind me and lifted my wing so she could duck underneath and join us. She smiled at what she saw and pressed herself against my side, leaning in to give my scar a quick lick. I looked at her and growled with a smile.

"Behave, my little minx. We're guests here..."

Cyrea just looked at me with a pout.

"But you're so sexy like this..." she mumbled.

It seemed Alexis had awakened from his reverie.

"I take it your bond is fully functional too," he chuckled as he guessed correctly at us having a private talk. I folded back my wings and let my body take on its human traits again.

"Yes, it is. I'm sorry about that. We'll try not to talk privately when we're around you. It's not polite," I responded while I put my shirt back on.

"Oh, don't you worry about it!" he laughed, waving his hands dismissively. "I'm just immensely relieved that you're both fine. And dammit Dante! You came out of this very well! Very well! I am thoroughly impressed! The wings are a pleasant surprise," he laughed, pointing towards my back with a bit of liquorice. "That happened after I left?" he guessed.

Cyrea was quick to answer him.

"Yes! They sprouted during our battle!" she quipped, bouncing up and down in excitement - the memory of our battle putting her in high spirits.

Poor Alexis... Again his mouth fell open in amazement.

"You battled?" he squeaked.

Cyrea eagerly nodded and I just smiled in confirmation. My mate began recounting our battle to Alexis in a very animated way, making all kinds of hand gestures, claw sweeps and swooshing sounds for dramatic effect. I had to say, my succubus was an excellent storyteller and she had Alexis hanging at her lips. He was drinking it all in, empathizing with "ooph"-s and "ouch"-es at the painful bits. He even roared when Cyrea described the moment my wings sprouted.

As entertaining and immersive Cyrea's story was, I did feel the need to stop her when she started recounting about how gloriously I dominated her sexually after the battle. No need for Alexis to hear everything that happened...

Alexis chuckled and looked at me proudly, the disbelief no longer present on his face.

"You know, Dante, the day we met in the supermarket you immediately intrigued me. I was curious about you, despite not really trusting the fact that you could see my aura."

His customary grin reappeared on his face. "I gave you the benefit of the doubt that day, and look at you now! At us! We've come so far already! The first steps in defying the deities have been taken," he declared strongly.

Suddenly, his smile faltered and I saw him suppressing a sigh.

"I've been meaning to tell you, but so far I've had zero luck with finding a good candidate to travel to Hell to find the Valkyrie... If we would know where to look for her in the first place - it seems that sorceress has gone through extensive effort to hide herself..."

He sighed anyway and resorted to picking up the liquorice he dropped earlier.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be the bearer of better news... I wanted to tell you when I came over just after you had claimed Cyrea and, well, this is the first time we've spoken since..." he mumbled.

I bent down to help him gather the strewn about candy when I heard an ever so soft "Oh..." coming from behind me. Alexis didn't seem to notice and was nibbling off a bit of candy that had stuck to the palm of his hand. I peeked behind me to see a blushing Cyrea with an abnormally high heart beat to go with the drama that was the spilled candy on the floor.

With a few efficient swipes all the candy was stowed back in the bag and I stood up to look at my mate with a slight frown on my face - she seemed nervous or ...caught?

"What's wrong?" I asked her, watching her cheeks burn brighter.

"I've been meaning to tell you something..." she began with a nervous smile, her eyes shifting between evading my glance, then Alexis's, "It's just that so much happened since Dante's transformation, and we've been a bit preoccupied lately, and..." she drawled, grabbing a lock of hair and fidgeting with it.

My frown deepened at hearing this textbook prelude to a confession, and judging by her nervousness I wasn't sure if I was going to like it.

My fidgeting mate cleared her throat.

"I uhm... I seem to have developed a new ability since Dante claimed me... I can Dream Walk now..." she mumbled.

It was a good thing the bag of liquorice sat safely on the top of the counter, because judging from Alexis's reaction, no doubt the bag would have succumbed to gravity again - he was utterly stunned. I, on the other hand, was utterly confused.

"Come again?" I asked.

Cyrea turned to me with that adorable, yet guilty-looking blush on her cheeks.

"Well, since we mated I can do things in my dreams. I can go and visit places or people - I mean, I'm actually there when that happens - I can touch, interact, feel, everything during those dreams," she tried to explain, looking at me with a shy look on her face.

Now I fully understood Alexis's surprised reaction - my eyebrows were well on their way to reaching my hairline upon hearing this equally surprising and amazing news.

"It happened somewhat by accident the first few times, and I haven't really mastered it yet, but uhm... Yes, I can Dream Walk," she concluded with a small, yet proud smile.

I chuckled in astonishment and gathered Cyrea in my embrace, holding her tightly and placing a loving kiss on her hair.

"I didn't know you could do this, my love. I'm impressed!" I told her, letting my fingers slide through her hair. Cyrea snuggled her head against my chest, her heartbeat calming down in my embrace.

My mate giggled.

"I didn't know either... Eir said that it was your soul that gave me this ability after you claimed me," she mumbled against my chest.

I placed another kiss upon her hair.

"Who's Eir?" I wondered.

Cyrea's heartbeat shot up again and I felt her cheeks burn against my chest.

"Yes... Well... That's what I forgot to tell you ever since it happened... When I visited her, Eir called herself the Valkyrie. I've uhh... I ended up chatting with her, and she was actually rather interested in meeting you, Dante," Cyrea mumbled and cautiously glanced up at me.

My surprised gasp mixed in with a rather loud chuckle.

"You forgot to tell me? Us? You forgot to tell us you happened to have talked to the one person we desperately need for this deviant plan of ours and that she was interested in meeting me?" I grinned, watching Cyrea's cheeks burn red hot.

My embarrassed mate whined softly and poked my skin with her fingers.

"Yes, well, at first I wasn't even sure you would survive your transformation at all, and afterwards you have been rather diligently distracting me, Dante! So, like I said - we've been ...preoccupied lately,' she mumbled, resting her forehead against my chest with a thump, barring us from seeing her embarrassed blush.

My loud laughter made Cyrea's head shake against my chest. I turned her face towards mine and smothered my final chuckle in our kiss.

"I won't apologize for distracting you so often, because you are simply too irresistible for me, my love. And... I do believe you also loved every second of it," I told her privately, my smile widening as I felt my mate giggle into our kiss.

"Oh, it is most definitely mutual, my love," Cyrea grinned her reply mentally.

The rhythmic sounds of pacing footsteps and accompanying chewing sounds reached my ears. I broke the kiss with my still blushing mate and looked over to see Alexis pace his kitchen, deep in thought. A long piece of liquorice was lodged between his lips, wagging from side to side like a dog's tail as he played with it using his tongue.

"Dream Walking is such a rare gift... So incredibly rare..." he mumbled, avidly sucking on the candy, "And so incredibly convenient..."

Alexis halted mid-step, yanked the piece of liquorice out of his mouth and pointed it at us - the wet bit had lost most of its rigidity and sagged down significantly, wobbling as Alexis fiercely shook the candy in our direction.

"This is destiny's doing, my friends!" he said strongly, pointing the candy at us with ferocity, its soggy ending flapping all over the place. "We are on the right path!"

The wet, mushy bit of the liquorice was deftly returned to Alexis's tongue as he continued pacing, his frown focused, his eyes darting all over the place.

After a few steps he once again removed the candy from his mouth.

"We'll need to get in contact with her again and try to arrange some sort of meeting," he said and looked intently at Cyrea and pointed the floppy candy at her, "And by we I mean you. Do you think you can reach out to her again during your dreams?" he asked, shoving the entire thing in his mouth and began munching on it with great gusto.

Cyrea disentangled herself from my embrace. She looked unsure, though determined.

"I hope... Both times when I saw her in my dreams I didn't willingly visit her. It just ...happened. But, I'll do my best. I'm sure I'll figure out how to reach her," she stated.

I couldn't help but pull Cyrea close to me. What a wonderful mate she was, and how convenient that she developed this ability after our mating - it was exactly what we needed. I was slowly starting to believe in destiny...

***

We stayed at Alexis's for a while, catching up, discussing Cyrea's Dream Walking activities and devising the best ways to convince the Valkyrie to come to Earth. It started getting dark outside and Alexis's stomach was growling, so we excused ourselves, leaving him to prepare his dinner.

We said our goodbyes at his front door and entered the little hallway to take the elevator down. When Alexis's front door closed behind us I let out a relieved sigh and looked at my gorgeous mate. I still found it unbelievable how my life had changed over these past few weeks. I'd only been mated to Cyrea for two weeks or so, but I could not imagine my life being any other way. I smiled at her and pulled her close for a deep kiss while we waited for the elevator to arrive.

Cyrea gave in to the kiss and draped her arms across my neck.

"Well, well, to what do I owe this pleasure?" she purred, raking her tongue along my teeth.

I smiled into the kiss. "For entering my life and changing it completely in such a wonderful, wicked way..."

Cyrea cooed and hugged me closer, rubbing her body against mine.

I listened to the elevator approach and my interest peaked when I felt a somewhat familiar presence inside of it. I think it was Layla - the succubus I met during my first talk with Alexis in the park. I was still human back then. Damn, it felt like such a long time ago.

The doors pinged open and presented us with a freshly fucked Layla. She had finished adjusting her short skintight dress and began combing through her wavy, brown hair with her fingers as she appeared in our view. The smell of sex was easy for my sensitive nose to pick up and I recognised the scent of one of the doormen on her. Her brown eyes glided to mine and her luscious lips turned into a lecherous smile when she recognized me. I felt her lust beginning to rekindle when she must have remembered my promise to fuck her next time we'd meet.

Before I had a chance to say anything, Cyrea squealed and bounced into the elevator, hugging Layla closely.

"Layla! It's been too long!" my mate cheered and hugged the other succubus close, engaging her mouth in a hot, wet kiss. Layla greeted Cyrea with an excited moan, muffled by Cyrea's lips, their etheric tails curling around each other. Their hands glided over each other's curves and the sounds of happy mewling and wet kissing filled the elevator.

The ladies seemed to have forgotten all about me, but I couldn't care less. I just stood there in the hallway with a shit eating grin on my face.

What. A. View.

The elevator doors started closing, snapping me out of my reverie. I quickly entered the elevator and was utterly content leaning back against the wall and enjoying watching the two succubi reacquaint themselves in a very intimate way. My demon had woken up and was avidly watching the scene in front of me, paying special attention to the unclaimed succubus.

Cyrea broke the kiss and with a big smile on her face she asked Layla, "Sister, it has been too long! I am so happy to see you. How long have you been on Earth?"

Layla still held Cyrea close, and answered her with a corresponding smile.

"Oh, I can't remember exactly, but man, I wish I managed to come here sooner. This place is fucking amazing! Feeding from humans is so much easier than feeding from demons." Her smile turned lecherous. "And feeding from angels is the best! Their lust tastes so fucking good!"

This woman just seemed to blurt out whatever was on her mind with no reservations whatsoever.

Cyrea started giggling. "I know!" she replied, all giddy. They were like two schoolgirls comparing which boy in their class was the best kisser.