Myths and Gargoyles Jamie Hawke (i read a book .TXT) 📖

in the way that I’d never wanted to see my friend’s hairy chode, but there it was, dangling balls and all, as he bent over, a witch standing behind him fingering his ass.

“Dude,” I said, transforming back to myself.

Chris was bent over on his knees and forearms, but turned enough to look back at us and grimace before yelping once more. It was only then that I saw the witch was giving him a reach around, too.

“Can you give me like… thirty seconds?” Chris said.

The witch looked at us, down at Chris, then back to us, frozen, unsure what to do.

“No, we can’t,” Sharon said, brushing past me and grimacing at the sight. “And you, Hekate—right? What the fuck?”

“You’ve returned…” the witch Hekate still hadn’t removed her hands, and Chris sighed in annoyance. “We thought we’d lost you.”

“I was tracking this one down,” Sharon said, motioning to me. “Now I’m back and find you’re… doing whatever you’re doing to this prisoner?”

“Hekate,” I said, thoughtfully. “Where do I know that name?”

The witch beamed, tilting her wide-brimmed witch hat, finger still in his ass as she said, “Pleasure.”

“Made famous by Shakespeare, like Puck-er-Pucky,” Sharon said, and that triggered it.

“And Greek mythology,” I said, excited. “Weren’t you the goddess of ghosts and necromancy?”

“Among other things,” Hekate said, grinning, finally pulling her hand away from Chris—much to his annoyance—to offer for me to shake. It was in this moment that I finally got a good glimpse of her as the light reflected to show her face. Dark, black eyes, skin a marble white with an almost unnatural smoothness. She wore a tight black and red dress, and a wide-brimmed, pointy hat. She was gorgeous and I felt this was a step up for Chris, ignoring the evil witch part. My gaze returned to her hand and I couldn’t help but remember where her hands had just been.

“No offense, but I’ll wait until you wash.”

She shrugged, and wiped both hands together with a blue flash of magic, winked, and said, “Clean as can be.”

“Seriously, after the way I went down on you,” Chris said, standing with his erection in full view, no shame, “I don’t even get to finish?”

“What’s going on here?” I asked.

“I convinced Hekate here to give up her evil ways,” Chris said with a laugh. “Shit, man, this role playing is intense! I mean, after they ‘abducted’ me, we came back here and she was my guard and well, one thing led to another.”

Sharon eyed Hekate. “This is for real?”

“It might be,” Hekate replied, taking a step back and raising her hands, eyeballing Sharon. “Are you going to try and stop us?”

“Actually, we came to save my friend,” I replied, gesturing to Chris. “If he’d cover himself up, that is.”

Hekate grinned at the sight of Chris nude, and Sharon turned toward me, chuckling. “Not how I expected this part of the mission to go.”

“Clearly you don’t know Chris,” I replied, jokingly.

He just smiled, finally pulling up his underwear and pants, and said, “So what’s the plan? How you busting me out of here?”

“I don’t suppose you remembered to block the others out, did you?” Hekate asked, suddenly going even more pale.

“I’m not a witch,” Sharon replied. “Don’t have blocking spells.”

“Well then.” Hekate turned to the door and moved her hands, throwing up an invisible barrier just as a fireball hit it. “Time to vacate the premises.”

“Can’t you just make a portal?” I asked.

“Not while my magic’s focused on them,” Hekate replied.

“We make a run for it,” Sharon suggested. “Jack, sound the alarm.”

“Hit ‘em on both sides,” I said, nodding and wondering if I was ready yet, if Excalibur would help me in the fight somehow. “I like that.”

“Now.” She moved for the doorway as Hekate lowered the barrier, and then we were plowing through, Sharon and I roaring and attacking the witches while Hekate sent blasts of fire their way.

Shades popped up around the witches in their defense, and I tore through them, happy to get the prana from taking them out. Any extra power I could get before taking on Arthur and Morganna was more than welcome, and I was glad to see that I leveled up to four, along with getting an Ichor point.

More shouting and crashing sounded ahead, and then we saw bursts of light and a chunk of stone golem go flying, and Red and other two were there, fighting their way toward us. More Legends flashed in through portals, attacking and spreading Shades, and one yelled about alerting Morganna.

Red made a move to attack Hekate, but Chris threw himself in the way. “She’s with me!”

“A topic I’m sure they’d very much like to hear more about,” I said, gesturing my teammates onward. “But we need to keep moving.”

“We have to get out of here before they call her in!” Hekate said, throwing flames at a flying monkey. “When I say go, go!”

“Who the fuck is this?” Red asked, but I just shook my head.

“Our best bet,” Sharon answered for me, and then the portal was open and they all piled in while I went for more Shades.

“Now!” Hekate said, but I saw that Red was cutting through Shades too, the only other one of us left.

I grabbed her around the waist, pulled, and leaped into the portal.

29

Bursts of black light shot out as the portal faded behind us, and then it was gone. We found ourselves at the outskirts of the community college, the roar of the freeway not far off below. At least the location they had chosen was at the bottom of a hill that was cut off from view by what looked like a groundskeeper’s shed, so nobody had seen us magically appear. Though, I supposed that if they had, we would’ve somehow made it look like we’d been there the whole time or something.

Elisa stared after the portal for a moment before turning to Chris.

“Explain.”

“Allow me,” Hekate said, but then pursed her lips in thought. Finally, she turned back to him. “Actually,