Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 1010

Chapter 1010: Testing Envy

They gave him a ring of everything they had.

Aria lifted two meters off the grass on a soft column of moonlight, ankles crossed, serene. Luna summoned the Stormblade with a crack and started cutting the air into pieces for practice. Bastet planted her bare feet and let the ground under them press, a weight the grass bent under.

Nyx floated the tea tray she had carried down from the veranda, cups and all, because she had not wanted to leave it behind. Alexandra raised a small gold dome over herself and waited inside it looking like she wanted to apologize to the maples in advance.

Calypso simply hefted the axe, and it buzzed in her grip.

"Ready, Darling!"

"Big Brother," Alice chimed from the halo, out loud so everyone could hear it, "I’m putting a thread on that lantern and keeping it there. If mine goes out, I’ll say so."

A hair of golden light drew itself from the halo to the nearest lantern and hung there, steady.

’Okay.’

Kaiden breathed in, and the lawn went cold.

Aria dropped.

The moonlight under her went out like a lamp, and she fell the full two meters. "Ah! No! Kai!!!" She was panicking before she even hit the grass. If his cold could reach her, she could not stand beside him in a fight.

Calypso, nearest, dropped the axe and caught her out of the air in both arms with a grunt.

Luna’s Stormblade fizzled out mid-swing, and she went stumbling through the empty cut with a yelp.

Bastet’s weight lifted off the grass under her feet. She looked down, and her ears went flat, because the ground had stopped listening to her.

Nyx’s hold on the tea tray failed from under it. The tray hit the lawn, and most of the cups on it broke.

Alexandra’s dome popped like a soap bubble. The buzz died out of the axe at Calypso’s feet, because the buzz had been her Carnage.

Alice’s thread on the lantern never flickered.

Kaiden let the cold go the instant Aria fell, and the stance was gone before Calypso finished catching her. The lawn came back warm.

"You turned me off!" Luna was already back on her feet, pointing the empty hand at him. "I felt it go out like somebody pulled the plug! It felt worse than when my vibrator shit the bed mid sess."

"Keep those details to yourself, gremlin."

"Bwahaha! It got my Carnage!" Calypso boomed, Aria still in her arms. "Darling, my axe went quiet, and it got the moon, look at her!"

"I’m fine, Caly, thank you. You can put me down." Aria’s feet found the grass, and she smoothed her hair and gave Kaiden a look that was mostly pout. "You dropped your moon, Kai. What do you have to say about that?"

"I brought my moon closer so I could hug her," Kaiden replied.

"...Okay, that was smooth." Aria bit her lip. "But I’m still mad! You’re pushing me away..."

"I’m pushing none of you away," Kaiden decreed. "Nobody’s hurt?"

Nobody was hurt. Alexandra was kneeling over the tea tray with her lap full of porcelain, and the look she gave him said she had been right about the garden.

"Huh," Nyx said, arms folded, looking at the wreck of her tray. "So that’s what it’s like from the other side. I’ve done that to a hundred things and never once been the thing."

"Right." Kaiden rolled his shoulders. "Let’s do it again. This time you know it’s coming. See if you can resist."

The cold came again, and this time the ring was braced for it.

Aria’s moonlight guttered under her and held. She sank a hand’s width and stopped there, lips pressed thin, still in the air.

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