***The Infernal Plane of Lust***

***Amon***

We tumbled onto a soft surface, landing softly with Isa on top of me. With my hands no longer stuck to the pillar, I could finally move again. Of course, I used the opportunity immediately and took control of the situation by holding onto Isabella's shoulders. Then I rolled us around until I had her firmly pinned beneath me.

I looked around, finding that we were on an extra-large mattress in some mirror-like room, for the lack of a better term. Upon closer inspection, I realized that only some of the room's surfaces were reflective. Other parts of the walls looked like they were made out of warped glass, distorting the view of the outside world.

Each of these 'windows' was marked with the name of a female, supposedly the succubus which the given statue represented. It took me a moment to realize that this must be the inside of the stairway's succubus pillar.

I frowned when I saw the warped figures of Khorne and Ebandon walking down the stairway, none the wiser that they had been about to run into an embarrassing scene.

“What is this place?” I asked in wonder, realizing that the pillar itself wasn't a marvel at all! It also wasn't some enchanted sculpture, but a pocket dimension that had been carefully crafted to look like a pillar!

No wonder that I had sensed no magic. The enchantment matrix that shaped the pillar was probably located somewhere else, though I still couldn’t explain how I got stuck.

“A crafty little trap to snatch men off the stairway,” Isabella explained and reached for my trousers, sliding her hands into them. “My big sister, Danielle, made it for all of us, and many other things in the castle. Art is her thing, but she doesn't sculpt just stone, you know. Mundane materials, diamonds, magic, it makes no difference to her. A few thousand years of experience allowed Danielle to try a great many things.”

I grunted when the touchy female beneath me grabbed me shamelessly. “Isabella, I don't think that we should-”

“But you promised,” she whined while clinging to me, hooking her legs around my ankles. “Are you really going to deny a succubus who has you by the balls?”

“Ahem,” I grunted, trying to ignore her fingers. Though I was forced to admit that she had an argument there. “I admit that you are doing a great job down there.”

That, and I wasn't particularly keen on testing the Infernum since she had made a promise out of saving me the embarrassment of getting caught.

I groaned when her hands skillfully stroked me to full attention.

“You have no clue how long I have been waiting for this,” she cooed while she opened my pants. “How about you being on top this time? I want you to ravish me until I can no longer form a coherent thought!”

This still didn't seem like a bright idea, but having the object of my desires spread-eagled beneath me was just too much. I bent down and kissed her neck while I tried to open the shirt she wore.

That only caused her to growl and rip the fabric open herself, baring herself to me.

I bent down and caught one of her nipples in my mouth while she freed me. Then she used her legs to pull me closer, accompanied by the tearing of more cloth when she dealt with her own garments.

When I touched her entrance with my tip I intended to tease her for as long as I was still capable of reason. Instead, she tried to impale herself on me, but I held her hips tightly with both hands.

Isa just hugged my head to her chest and hissed. “Just fuck me now, damn it! I can't wait anymore!”

Pushing forward, I entered her, hissing when I encountered some sort of obstruction halfway inside her. “You are too tight! This isn't how I remember it.”

“Just do it!” She urged and started gyrating her hips tantalizingly. “It's a special time, so you have to be a little more forceful!” And she didn't keep it just at that, because I also felt her opening the connection we shared. At least her side of it, leaving her completely unguarded.

That was something she had never done when she taught me mental control and trained my mind’s fortitude through our connection.

Unsure what to make of this offer, I explored along our bond. She had taken down all of her safeguards, leaving her mind and soul well completely at my mercy. Remembering our time in the woods, I opened my side of the connection until our minds merged, leaving me with a feeling of complete unity.

I groaned and started slow, but quickened my pace when I realized that I wasn't hurting her. She slowly loosened up as we found our rhythm, allowing me to get in deeper.

“Oh, yes. Yes, summon your wings for me!” She moaned and shuddered, and when I obliged, she summoned her own to hook them with mine in order to allow me more leverage.

I totally lost it, infuriated that I couldn't get all the way into her. My hips moved on their own while I hugged her as tightly as possible without hurting her.

Then Isa screamed in ecstasy and shuddered against me. That stupid obstruction finally loosened and allowed me to push through and all the way inside her while her tunnel felt as if it had a life of its own. It moved and rippled like I was pushing endlessly into her. The sensation was just too much.

“I can't hold it!” I hissed and came with her while my loins felt like they were on fire. Every time she twitched, she teased another shot out of me.

When it was finally over I felt empty, but still as hard as stone.

Isabella was a happily blubbering mess beneath me. Even through our connection, I couldn't get a single coherent thought out of her. Her mind had totally shut down and turned inward to a place that I couldn't reach even through the connection which she had so openly shared with me.

I winced and tried to pull out, fearing that I had broken her. But her pussy held my dick so tight that I could only push back and forth a little. It felt unreal, and I wondered how that was possible. My movements caused her to spasm once more around me.

“Fuuck!” I groaned at the sensation and tried to deny myself, but there was no helping it. Isabella had been on my mind ever since that time in the forest and now that I had her I just couldn't back out. I couldn't. So I forcibly disentangled us and flipped her around. Clinging to her from behind, I went at it again and again until my mind drowned in the haze of my desire.

Waking up from my sexual frenzy was a slow and unpleasant process.

First, I realized that it was too bright. I covered my eyes, wishing that someone would switch off the lights. Secondly, I had a seriously bad taste in my mouth. Like, rotten meat bad. And my balls, my back, and my head hurt. I honestly couldn't decide which was worse.

I finally managed to open my eyes, just to find myself still inside the pillar. Isabella was sleeping and snoring slightly, her limbs thoroughly entangled with mine while she snuggled against my chest.

A brief moment of fear caused me to check on my soul well, but the link between us was closed again, and surprisingly enough, I didn't find a single soul missing.

This disturbed my naturally distrusting self.

Was it truly possible that Isabella was serious in her proposal? That she genuinely wanted to be with me? For us to be partners? Like what? Like a pair of mortal lovers? She just forwent the chance to suck on someone who had several million souls in storage after killing a titan.

That couldn't be normal behaviour for a succubus.

Having been born in a hatchery, I had problems to fathom the concept of her desire.

The closest comparison to what she wanted from me that I could relate to was the relationship with my party. They were the closest thing to a family a demon could have, though even that would be stretching our relationship. At the end of the day, they were still my minions. I would care for them as much as a leader could in our shared desire for power. But...

Then it struck me.

My people! We had to get out of the castle before the infernal Storm Season began!

I quickly tried to disentangle myself from my lover, but Isa clung to me in her sleep like a drowning man his life-raft.

“Hmm. No,” she grumbled. “Mine, all mine. You cannot have him! He is mine!” And then she suddenly squeezed me with enough force to make my ribs creak, going so far as to use her wings in order to envelop us in a cocoon.

“Shhh...” I tried to calm her. “Nobody is going anywhere. I am here. But you have to let me go.”

“No wanna...” she sighed, but she calmed down a little, allowing me to unwrap myself.

Then I tried to steal myself away, only to find out that the infuriating female was holding onto my tail!

I tried to pull it away without alerting her, but she held onto it. I admit that I had half a mind to stay with her in the castle when she pushed the tip of my tail between her boobs as if she was trying to give me a boobjob!

It was tempting to repeat the night... but then I remembered everything and imagined a whole season of that, six mortal years in total.

My balls already felt like two shrivelled, dried raisins. Even if she left me all my souls, I would die for sure! I licked my lips, trying to think of something that wouldn't wake her up. Then I leaned closer and whispered softly, “Isa?”

“Hmm?” she grumbled but didn't open her eyes.

“Do you want to go again?”

She frowned in her sleep, but then she smiled wickedly. “Sure...”

“But I would like to do you from behind.”

“Mh...” She moaned, but she let go of my tail and rolled over, raising her butt in the air!

The opportunity was sooo tempting, but I resisted and quickly snatched her tail, plugging her up with it!

Then I beat a hasty retreat while my succubus lover was busy with her own tail. I took what was left of my clothes and stumbled against the pillar's glass-like wall. Thankfully, the spacial enchantments ejected me automatically.

I soon found myself walking quickly and dressed in a half-decent state along the central corridor towards the castle's courtyard. The castle looked like Khorne's men had the party of their lives throughout the night, but I encountered nobody.

The castle seemed abandoned and empty, making me wonder where everyone was.

It came to me that the already big castle had probably space for many more people than it looked from the outside. The succubus pillar had turned out to be a hidden room. Who said that this millennia-old structure couldn't be as convoluted and stuffed with spacial pockets as Irkos itself?

My escape wasn't really planned out, but I hoped that my people were waiting for me at the entrance. Which sadly turned out not to be the case.

In fact, nobody aside from Felicia was in the courtyard. The succubus sat next to the entrance and was sorting what looked like seeds by size and colour. Some were fist-sized, while others only as large as an eyeball.

Since she was apparently ignoring me, I went directly to the castle's gate.

“I wouldn't do that.” Her voice made me stop.

“Do what?” I asked, but reached for the gate anyway.

“Go outside?” she replied questioningly and looked up.

I followed her eyes towards the sky and froze.

The castle's walls were high and surrounded the entire courtyard, so I hadn't noticed that Lust's violet sky was no longer there.

It took several long seconds for me to process what I was seeing. A pinkish barrier was spanning over the entire courtyard like a dome, and beyond it was a storm. What looked like shards of ice pelted the barrier in a relentless assault, occasionally interrupted by much larger ones that caused the barrier to ripple and waver.

I jumped when a rock the size of myself skittered across the dome.

“The Storm Season has begun,” Felicia stated the obvious. “I am afraid that all of our visitors have to stay with us for the season.”

Why was it that she sounded totally unapologetic?

Anyway, just to be sure, I reached for the gate and used all my might to pull it open. Doing so was hard, but possible. It felt like I was trying to open the lid of a pot that had under-pressure.

As soon as I had the door open just the tiniest gap, shards of ice were flung into the courtyard like from a sand spray machine. If I hadn't been using internal mana manipulation at the moment, it would have peeled the skin off my hand in moments.

Nonetheless, the casual leather clothes I was wearing didn’t fare so well. The sleeve of my shirt was ripped to shreds in a moment and my trousers received countless needle-sized holes on my left leg.

I let the door go with a curse on my lips and it flung shut with the slurp of sucking air. Then I turned to Felicia. “Did my companions leave in time?”

The gatekeeper looked up from her seeds and pursed her lips. “I don't know which ones exactly your companions are, but nobody left. I was watching the gate all night.”

I wasn't entirely sure whether that was a good or a bad thing.

“Oh, what's with the long face?” She dropped her seeds and sidled up to me. “Do you want to have some fun? It gets boring if you have to play gatekeeper, but Mother said that I am not allowed to leave until she says I can. It’s like torture when there are so many males in the castle and all of my sisters get some while I have to stay here.” Felicia grumbled. “There is really no point in watching the gate during the Storm Season.”

“Sorry.” I scratched my chest, unsure of what to say. The last thing I wanted to do right off the bat was to offend our hosts when we were indeed caught inside the castle. Honesty was probably the best for now. “I am really spent at the moment.”

Felicia sniffed at my chest, which was awkward. “Oh, I can smell that. How often did you do our little Isa?”

“Until my hips wouldn't work anymore.” Again, I opted for the truth, freaked out that the woman had smelled who I had spent the night with!

She looked at me with a strange sort of affection. “You should probably go into the gatehouse and shower.” And then she grinned. “Or all of us will know by the evening. You are so lucky that as the gatekeeper, I am the one who can keep secrets.”

I felt the muscles in my face twitch involuntarily, but I allowed myself to be showed towards a shower.

Once I was done and freshly clothed, I left the small cubicle next to the gate to which Felicia had shown me to. Upon stepping out, I found that the succubus gatekeepers had multiplied until I recognized Jada.

“Jada, did you see the others?”

Isabella's sister turned to me and smiled. “So there you are! Your people were searching for you the entire night. They had half the mind of leaving you behind while they went back to Irkos, but Jebril convinced them to stick with you.”

Then she mockingly shifted her voice towards Jebril's chirpy tone. “We can't abandon someone who led us to success and riches. Do you have any idea how it is out there during the Storm Season? I don't know about you, but I will take my chance with the succubi.”

“Ah, sweet, innocent, little Jebril,” I muttered. “I would commend her for her loyalty if getting caught inside a magical blizzard with dozens of succubi hadn't been a phenomenally bad idea.”

Felica covered her mouth in order to hide a smile. “We are not that bad. At least not all of us.”

Jada rolled her eyes. “It’s not like I would have allowed my Shaxy baby to leave anyway. And, what have you been up to, Amon?”

I looked towards Felicia and the succubus gave me a secretive smile.

“It sounds too stupid,” I lied shamelessly. “But I got lost staring in one of those mind-bending artworks. Took me the entire night to wrangle myself together enough to get out.”

Felicia gave me a thumbs-up behind Jada's back like some co-conspirator.

“And nobody found you?” Jada replied exasperatedly. “I don't know whether I should call you lucky that none of my sisters stumbled over you, or unlucky for getting caught in one of Danielle's works.”

“Oh, if I had found him alone and lacking for company, I would have made sure that he spent his night with something more fun than art,” Felicia affirmed.

“Like sorting seeds?” I cleared my throat, wondering whether all the succubi would aim for my nether region. And what would Isabella do if she had to share?

Felicia looked at the piles of seeds and waved her hand. “Oh, nono. Those can wait until next season. Normally, it isn't even necessary to plant them, but bringing them out at the season's end helps to regrow the various carnivorous plants around the castle. It's an additional protective layer for us.”

Jada sighed. “That's our Felicia. The succubus with the green horns. Anyway…”

She hooked arms with me before I could protest. “I heard that Mother gave you a quick tour, but I doubt that she showed you the interesting stuff!”