Succubus Lord 6, page 26
part #6 of Succubus Lord Series
The brunette succubus grunted with frustration as she tried to keep the devil worm pinned down, but it was no use. There was a soft rumble as Vermis’ body raised back up into view, and the bodies of the glowing orange Shades tumbled off helplessly.
“Wohoooo!” Ira’s sub half exclaimed with glee as she sprouted her wings and took to the sky.
The succubus made it a point to be as loud as possible to attract the attention of the worm, who turned to face her with his half-missing maw. As she approached the creature, the sub called forth her flaming whip and began to crack it through the sleet-filled air like a madwoman.
Vermis responded with a guttural growl that shook the entire landscape, and then he charged headfirst at his new opponent. Several of Tris’ enchanted Shades clamored up his body, but none of them had the strength or the numbers to bring the devil worm down again. He opened the three remaining lips of his mouth, and his razor-sharp teeth glared in the little bit of light we had in the Third Circle.
Ira’s sub covered herself with the golden flame of healing as she passed into the worm’s mouth. He snapped his jaws shut around the succubus, and we all held our breath in anticipation.
“We need to keep him distracted,” I ordered the rest of my friends. “Todd, you wanna go be a fly on the wall?”
“Do I ever!” Todd giggled and engulfed himself in black Hellfire. “Da-da-da-da-da, SuperTodd!”
The imp floated up into the air, extended his fist out above his head like a superhero, and shot off toward the angry Vermis. As he flew through the air, his cloak flapped behind him like a cape, and I was sure he was loving every second of this.
“I guess I’ll join him, as well,” Ira’s Dom said with a shrug, and then she sprouted her large bat wings and flew up into the sky. “You two take care of things from down here, okay?”
“That’s just what I was thinking.” I grinned as I summoned yellow Hellfire into my hands.
I glanced over at Tris, who had not released her necromancy spell. “I guess I’m gonna have to get my hands dirty after all,” she sighed and pulled two pistols out of her thigh-high holsters. “At least I can do it from a distance.”
I launched a handful of throwing stars at the beast at the same time that Tris began to unload a hailstorm of bullets in its direction. Our projectiles smashed into the creature and riddled it with holes that were little more than pinpricks to a demon of his size. Todd and Ira’s Dom zipped around Vermis’ head as he lurched at the swarming attackers and tried to snatch them up in his jaws.
Suddenly, Vermis’ entire body went rigid, and he let out a painful whimper that echoed across the landscape. His body started to twitch violently, and for a moment, I thought victory was imminent.
We weren’t that lucky.
Vermis’ whimper turned into a full-on bellow of rage, and he began to quicken his pace as he snapped his jaws at my two friends. Todd and Ira’s Dom were still able to dodge the strikes, but his teeth were getting closer and closer with each attack.
If I didn’t do something quick, they were gonna join the sub in the belly of the beast.
“Keep shooting,” I commanded Tris as I surveyed the surroundings for anything I could use as a makeshift weapon.
Save for the mountains of slush and tormented Shades, there was nothing as far as the eye could see. Fuck it, that would have to do for now.
I summoned green Hellfire into my hands and aimed at a few of the Shades that were closest to our position. Their bodies were engulfed with the emerald flames as I lifted them up into the air. Then, I hauled my hand back behind me, brought it forward, and launched the cluster of bodies at Vermis.
The second the Shades were within striking distance, the demon worm lashed out and grabbed one in his jaws. He made a ghastly sound as he growled and shook the body violently, and then he tossed it up into the air, opened his mouth, and gulped it down his gullet.
“Eat this, worm-boy!” Todd yelled as he tossed a dozen small fireballs directly down into the demon’s throat.
Vermis yelped with pain and retracted his head away in a panic. Before he could reorient himself, Todd and the Dom launched another assault. Ira’s Dom half swooped down and swatted the worm’s head with her morning star. At the same time, Todd began to fly around his target in circles, unleashing wave after wave of fireballs as he flew.
The devil worm now seemed to be completely disoriented, and he snapped at the air as he tried to retaliate. Finally, he went completely still, and the sound of his gurgling intestines reverberated across the slushy environment.
Ira’s sub, still covered with glowing golden Hellfire, burst forth from the creature’s lower body. She was covered from head to toe with blood, guts, and stomach acid, but she still wore a wide grin on her face. The succubus zipped over to Tris and I and fluttered down to the ground gracefully.
“What a rush!” she said with a happy shudder. “Can I do it again?”
“If that worked, you won’t have to.” I nodded to the demon worm, who now had a gaping hole in his gut.
Vermis groaned in agony and began to retreat from the battle. He inched backward slowly, wounded, but still very much alive. As he slithered away, the devil worm dragged a large streak of blood behind his body.
“He’s headed back to his hidey-hole, bro!” Todd called out as he flew back over.
“Fuck!” Ira’s Dom spat. “If he makes it back down there, we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hell to beat him.”
“That’s a terrible analogy, Crazy Eyes,” Todd said sarcastically. “It’s colder than my ex’s heart here.”
“Could you teleport him back to us?” Tris suggested. “Then we could try to finish him off, and we wouldn’t have to waste any energy chasing after him.”
As I watched Vermis slink away, an idea began to form in my head. “What if we don’t have to chase him?” I asked aloud. “You said the portal to the Third Circle is down in his cave, right?”
“I believe so,” the Dom explained, “but it’s pitch-black down there, and Vermis knows the paths through these caves like the back of his hand. Going down there would be suicide.”
“Then we destroy the caverns,” I said as I clenched my fists and summoned green Hellfire into my hands.
“Bro, I hope you’re not thinking of doing anything stupid … ” Todd warned.
“I hope he is!” the sub giggled.
“Do you trust me?” I asked my friends as I cast a human-sized portal of green in front of us.
“Of course,” both Iras said at once.
“Till the end, dude,” Tris added.
I looked up at Todd, and the imp nodded in agreement. “Bro, if I didn’t trust you by now, I woulda found a different roommate a looonnggg time ago,” he laughed. “Let’s get dangerous.”
“Follow my lead,” I commanded, and then all four of my friends stepped through the portal.
I took a deep breath and followed them into the abyss. My body became weightless as I momentarily traveled through space and time, and then all five of us reappeared directly at the edge of Vermis’ cave.
The devil worm was still hundreds of feet away, but he was approaching rapidly.
I turned to my friends and motioned for them to enter the cavern.
“Damn it,” Todd sighed. “I knew it was gonna be something crazy.”
“Just get in there!” I pleaded.
The three succubi looked at me with fear in their eyes, but then they jumped into the cavern. Todd raised his hands into the air like a gymnast, somersaulted forward, and disappeared into the darkness. Vermis was close enough now that I could hear the sound of the slushy ground quaking under his body.
Without looking back, I stepped off the ledge and fell down into the opening. As I fell, I lit up my hand with red Hellfire so I could see where the fuck I was going. The mouth of the cavern was gargantuan to accommodate for the demon’s size, but I could just make out the jagged, oozing walls of the cavern around me. My trajectory continued, and I could feel my body falling faster and faster by the second. Even worse, I could now see the bottom of the cave down below, and it was approaching at breakneck speed. I instinctively wrapped my entire body in green Hellfire, caught myself in midair, and slowed my descent down to a survivable speed. My feet smacked into the hard ground of the cave, and I tumbled forward onto the rocky floor. A sharp pain shot through my entire being as I smashed into the ground, but I was able to reorient myself and stand to my feet.
Every bone in my body might be aching, but I was still alive. At least, for now.
Up above, I heard the ground tremble as the opening of the cave was covered by Vermis’ shadow. I could no longer see the devil worm, but I was sure he could see me, and I was sure he was out for blood.
Exactly like I’d planned.
“Bro!” Todd’s voice called out from my left. “Over here!”
I spun around and dashed toward the sound of the imp’s voice. Todd’s tiny fist was glowing red with Hellfire, and it acted as a beacon in the darkness of the cavern. Once I got closer, I pointed further into the tunnel.
“Run!” I demanded. “If we want this plan to work, we have to be deep in these caverns.”
“He really is crazy,” Ira’s Dom whistled. “Mama like.”
The five of us continued down the caverns, running as fast as our feet would take us. We kept running for a solid ten minutes, and I was starting to get exhausted. However, the adrenaline of knowing that there was a giant, killer devil worm somewhere behind us made for one hell of a motivation. Finally, we came to a screeching halt just above another massive chasm.
“I--I think my sides are gonna explode,” Tris panted and placed her hands on her knees.
“This plan better be worth it, bro,” Todd added. “I always knew I’d die after being forced to exercise.”
“Nobody’s gonna die,” I promised my friends. “I--”
“Jacob, look!” Ira’s Dom exclaimed and pointed down into the chasm. “All seven of the tunnels lead to this one spot. And this one down here is only a few dozen feet deep. I think this is it.”
“The portal to the Fourth Circle,” I gasped. “But why isn’t it open?”
As if the universe were answering my question, the tunnel behind us began to shake.
“That’d be why,” the Dom sighed. “The portal can’t be opened as long as its guardian is alive.”
I clenched my fist and stepped in front of my friends. “Then we’re just going to have to kill this fucker, now won’t we?” I growled. “You three go stand where the portal will open. I’ll handle Vermis.”
“Jacob--” Tris protested.
“Just go!” I commanded and turned back toward the devil worm.
Vermis’ outline was still far down the tunnel, but I knew it wouldn’t take him long to close the gap between us. I stepped forward, away from my friends and into the massive underground passage, and prepared for the final showdown.
The creature let out a loud, shrieking roar, and I instinctively shot back with my own angry scream. The sounds of our rage echoed off the walls of the cavern, and then the creature’s figure began to zip forward with the speed of a cheetah.
I was getting real tired of this shit. I was tired of fighting through the Circles of Hell, beating the shit out of all of these demon fuckers that we’d already killed, traveling through terrible terrain filled with death traps galore. Vermis was the only thing standing between us and our final destination, and I was going to fucking make him pay for it.
My hands began to glow with brilliant bronze Hellfire. I allowed all of the power in my being to flow into my spell, and once it was fully charged, I slammed both my fists down into the ground in front of me. The entire cave began to shudder from the might of my judgement, and chunks of rock began to collapse from the ceiling. I felt the energy surging through me as I pulled up one of my fists and created a quick purple barrier around my body. I tried to balance my spells so I still had enough power to protect myself, but every other ounce of energy in my body went into my bronze Hellfire.
Vermis was now only a few hundred feet away from me, and he opened his deadly jaws wide, ready to gulp me down like a quick snack. I screamed a scream of primal rage as I intensified my judgement spell, and it felt like a magnitude seven earthquake was now reverberating through the cave. Just before the ugly fucker’s jaws reached my position, the roof of the cavern collapsed down on his head. He screeched in agony as his body was crushed by the weight of the falling rocks, and then the place went unnervingly silent.
This was it, I only had one shot to escape. The cave-in had hopefully killed Vermis, and it would definitely kill me if I was more than a few feet off with my calculations. I kept my protective spell around my body, but I began to think about this whole situation, and just how disgusted it made me feel. I thought about the nasty-ass worm that had tried to kill us, and about how none of us would be going through this right now if it wasn’t for that fucker Azazel. I felt the green Hellfire engulf my body, and I tried my damndest to picture the spot in the cave where the portal was located. My body went weightless as it was teleported, and then I reappeared where my mind had instructed it to go.
For a half-second, I was too scared to open my eyes. I forced myself to pry them open, looked down, and sighed with relief. Below me was another, larger green portal. It was like a thousand-ton weight was lifted off my chest as I fell down, through the portal, and into the Fourth Circle.
Then there was lush green grass. I landed onto the soft, dewy ground with a dull thud, and then I quickly rolled over and looked around for my friends. Ira’s two halves were both sitting atop a small tree stump, and they both looked like they were about to pass out from exhaustion. Meanwhile Tris and Todd were both laying on their backs, spread-eagle, moving their arms and legs up and down.
“Grass angels, Jakey!” Todd cackled. “Come over here and celebrate! We made it out of that slushy hellhole!”
I looked around and realized the Toddster was right. The landscape around us was pristine, grassy, and mountainous. There were flowers and trees all around, and off in the distance I could see a few structures in the shape of a cathedral. I fell back down onto my face and let out the loudest laugh I think I’d ever laughed.
I couldn’t believe it. We had done it.
Vermis was dead, and the first three Circles of Hell were now behind us. Once I composed myself, I stood to my feet and sauntered over to Ira’s halves.
“That was pretty ballsy of you,” the Dom cooed. “Trying to sacrifice yourself like that. Vermis would have ripped you to pieces.”
“What are you talking about?” I responded coyly. “I definitely knew what I was doing. The situation was totally under control.”
“Oh, totally,” the succubus shot back knowingly.
I sat down on the stump between the two halves of Ira and wrapped my arms tenderly around both of them. The sun was just setting off behind the mountains in the distance, and I wondered how such an evil place could hold such beauty. Then I looked over at the two halves of the succubus and realized it didn’t fucking matter.
I had an entire arsenal of powers at my disposal, six beautiful women who would literally go to Hell and back for me, and my best friend in the whole world at my side. No matter what came next, no matter what the Fourth Circle of Hell had in store for us, we’d face it together, and we would be victorious.
The next stop? Azazel.
And I was going to destroy him.
End Book 6
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