Fucking Magic - A Potion Problem Ch. 09

Nowhere for the nightmare to come from but the night sky. It was a nightmare too! It came down far to the edge of the light but still visible enough to see it was not human, not... anything. It's liquid shadow body flowed towards the injured woman, somehow maintaining the shape of a biped but still being alien beyond belief.

"No!" I mouthed, somehow stopping myself from saying aloud what the cop had. Instinct had him drawing his gun. To do so he had to get rid of the first aid kit, it hit with the hinge side down, tossed forward not as a distraction but to clear his hand as he braced the right hand with the left. "Step away from the woman!"

Jack tried to fix it in his head, see the darkness that was man shaped, but not in anyway you could describe, as some kind of sick serial killer. Drawn in by the accident, the woman started writhing in pain well ahead of the dark man's arrival. It didn't reach for her so much as pour over her, she thrashed all the more. He couldn't pull the trigger because she was right there, even though he heard her pain.

He called out to it again, this time his scream of authority caught it's attention. The monstrous face twisted up from the woman to him, hissing. It was like a wolf and a goat and nothing like them at the same time. It's liquid and shadowy form hid it for a second, but Jack let out a cry as he realized that it had started to charge! On all fours!

He fell backwards, gun dropping from his hands, luckily it didn't go off. The bigger and better bit of luck was a sixteen wheeler with lights like an angel come from heaven came around the corner that the woman had lost control going around. The creature screamed and it... Blasted up into the sky. It looked like the light almost pushed it apart. But he could hear it above, it flapped but in a thick liquidy way. Like mud falling off a boot.

By then he had his back against his car, his only thought was that it was up there still! He had two or three seconds, it was enough. Enough for somebody trained to think quickly in crisis situations. The way it had reacted to the light... He hurried started flicking all of his on, there was plenty on his SUV. Getting the last on right on time! It poured down to the asphalt just a foot from his fender, feet from him! It shied away from his lights, hesitated just long enough at his flashing strobes. Was about to leap when he found his searchlight mounted just below the side mirror, aimed and flipped it on. The scream of rage continued this time into the sky as he tilted his light up, chased it away.

It was gone. Maybe thirty seconds of interaction but it was enough. Too much! It freaked me out! But I knew there was magic, I was (basically) magic. My face had been changed by it, my body. My cock! I was throwing out world record ejaculations three or more times a day. There was devices that put me inside the brain of anybody I wanted. There were deer people. So... It was only logical that there were... Night Demons. Monsters who fed on pain. That logic helped, but it still freaked me out. There was evil in this world, more than just what lived in the hearts of humans.

More thoughts ran through my head, my eyes, quickly.

They had reviewed his car and body cam footage, not that he had told them what he had seen. He saw a shadowy blotch, where the creature had been, but nobody else noticed it. He got teased a little for jumping back and falling over but he said he had seen a cougar, only it was just off camera. They believed him but still teased him, he could take that, he teased others about shit they did, but he knew better. He knew it had not been a cougar, it had not been a splotch. The woman had mumbled over and over about Death wanting her. Like capital D Death, the person in the black cloak, skull for a face, and sickle.

I took it from him.

All the nightmares and jumping at shadows that followed. They all lined up and came with it. It... It wasn't nothing, I hoped I would not be waking from nightmares like he had. That I wouldn't be reaching for my hip, as he did for his flashlight, every time he saw an unexplained shadow. I left a warning, a hint of an idea that if he ever saw living darkness that light would kill it. It felt dangerous to do otherwise.

"You okay?" Miss Soder asked, maybe it was the police lights going off that caused her to open her eyes.

"Yeah." Deer and Darkness. Good and Bad. "Okay."

"You look all pale."

"Did you see how much that pussy of yours made me cum?" She looked then, although it wasn't as solid as it had been at first landing, and most of what was inside her was soaking into the cushion.

"Sorry, not sorry." She said with a fucking cute smile!

"You might be in the next few weeks, because I'm not going to get sick of you." Her eyes started to move towards the shiny metal thing coming out of my palm, but they glazed over before she could focus.

As I plugged into her.

I was greedy. I could have given them their happily ever after right then. Okay, maybe not ever after but a decent enough shot at it, because he seemed a good guy. I'd been in his head so he couldn't have hidden being a monster... A human monster from me. They seemed like a good fit. I implanted the same memory as I had with him, in her. Like him her brain helped. She saw him check her out, hoped he would ask her out or give her a number or take hers. But he was professional. After he pulled away she saw me jog by, her delight at being flirted with and appreciated for the first time (that she had been aware of) in a while fueled her to throw herself at me.

It would happen after the New Year. That was when she would see him again because that was when he would go find her. It would be a little stalkery but he would figure out a way that wasn't too creepy. And he could, with that years old evil out of him, finally feel something besides worry and impending doom.

I was about to leave when I felt it. The tingle in her nose, the smell of me. I was not sweaty and gross to her. I had not been sweaty when I saw her at her house, but the smell had been there. It was nice to her, woodsy and manly. It had lingered and each time it had caught her attention she had thought of me. There had been hints of it when she pulled up beside me. When I'd gotten in the car it had been... Intoxicating. She thought herself a chicken, never in a million years would she have said anything like she did. Offer me what she did, but she had because I'd permeated her. Tantalized her, without even realizing it.

Was that another effect of the ring? Or something else? More to think on and not enough information to really come to any solid conclusion.

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Note from the author

I struggled with this part for a while, I didn't really notice it when I wrote it but I "introduce" two magical things in one chapter. Both of them are a little flavor to the universe and I tried to think how to limit it to one, but introduce it later. I couldn't. The other reason for the delay were the complaints got me down. The good and the bad of putting things out one chapter at a time is instant feedback. I'm not a great author, I know that, but sometimes it feels like I'm really missing the mark by how the reactions pile up towards negative or confusion. And for the millionth time, finding an editor is not easy. I've found that it's impossible, I flaked on a couple a long time ago and since then nobody is able to roll with me from subject matter to subject matter. Most just don't even answer my requests, so I've given up. If you want to complain, do it for me. Otherwise... I'm doing my best for the price I'm being paid. (I.E. free)

I've decided that this is the story. I am pretty sure I said in the beginning that it was going to go weird places, and it is. Maybe at the end I'll go back through it and edit it to make it more cohesive, because some of the comments have been constructive. But as for the main plot line... It isn't boning mom and aunt the entire time. It's a fantasy story, it's gonna be fantastical.

-The Guy from Defluer