Page 34 of Chaos Demons

He’d been out cold after Ramsey had brutalized him, but with my healing, he looked good as new now.

Harmonia’s gaze grew unfocused and her expression pensive.

“I think I’m beginning to understand things,” she whispered, then spoke louder. “Nari, daemon of corpses, empowered by Samhain, has raised an army of the dead… of, what did you call them? Zompires? And they’re swarming over the city in the east. Ramsey, you tried to face these… ah… zompires, but… they overwhelmed you because your chaos was out of control. Is that right?”

He nodded, and I sensed shame rolling off him. He hadn’t been able to control himself… My mind suddenly clicked. That’s why he’d come here so out of control, to be with me… because… I helped to calm his chaos…?

Oh!

The realization hit me like a three-foot dildo.

Harmonia caught onto that as well. “So, you came here to quell your chaos by being with Ana.” She turned to Fen. “And you… you felt the destruction, which threatened to unleash your beast, but you also came here to tame your wolf… with Ana.”

Fen nodded.

“And… judging by the looks of the place.” Harmonia looked around at the smashed walls and broken furniture. “You both arrived and fought each other… But then…?” She looked at me, uncertain.

I filled in the blank. “I… ah… asserted myself and got them both to focus on me, instead of each other. That was after Ramsey had nearly killed Grey, and I’d had to heal him. Ramsey and Fen then… ah… well, I think you can guess at the next bit.”

Harmonia looked at the puddle of effluent around the three of us. “Ah… yeah.”

Something else clicked in my mind in that instant. “Fuck! We didn’t use a condom.” I slammed my fist into the floor. “I swear, Ramsey. If I have your kid, you’re taking the little daemon.”

Very uncharacteristically, the huge man blushed.

“Ah…yeah,” he murmured, palming the back of his neck. “I guess I deserve that. And… ah sorry, I was a little out of control.”

“A little?” I scoffed. “You were a fucking freight train, barreling out of the mountains with no brakes when you entered my tunnel.”

Ramsey choke-coughed, eyes bulging at that metaphor.

Harmonia did her best to stifle a laugh.

Apparently not wishing to be one-upped, Fen asked, “And what was I?”

Fuck, now I needed to come up with a second tunnel metaphor? “You were… ah…” Oh! I had it. “You were a savage beast, rampaging through the wilderness, charging deep into your den to seek solace and respite. A den that is sort of… between two hills and—”

“We get the point,” Harmonia cut me off… thankfully because I’d gone just a bit too far with that metaphor.

Still, Fen was smiling.

“I… think I’m caught up,” Grey muttered. “What now?”

“We should get dressed and… I guess we go fight these zompires?” I said.

I didn’t really think I’d be the one to go… Except I was a super-powered being now. Shouldn’t I be helping humanity if I could?

“No,” Harmonia said.

“To which part?” I asked. “Getting dressed or fighting the zompires?”

“Getting dressed,” she said, which surprised me. I hadn’t thought that was what she’d meant. She looked around at all of us, her gaze stopping on Ramsey. “I can still feel your chaos. It’s better than it was, but you’re far from containing it, aren’t you?”

He grunted with a nod.

Harmonia leveled her gaze on Fen. “And your beast can still feel the destruction, can’t it? If you go as you are, you’ll lose control too.”

Then she turned to Grey. “And you… cousin. How’s your void? If you can’t control it, you’ll have no chance out there.”

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