MIRROR, MIRROR
Warning: This story contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised.
I repeat: Reader Discretion Is Advised.
This does not start out as a Caskett story. Does it end as one? You tell me.
This story does have some sexual content.
It does contain a fair amount of violence and death. There are no major or minor character deaths of any kind.
This is an alternate reality story. Not the world you are expecting.
One Chapter Only in four parts
Part one
"Two affairs, a loveless marriage. It's sad a man had to die because all the people involved were too scared to say what they really felt. That's not how anyone should be living," Roy said to Kate.
"Yes, it is sad." Kate could see the similarity between this case and how she was leading her life. She was apprehensive to say how she felt. And she regretted it deeply.
After Roy walked away, Rick showed up and told her, "Hey, I gotta run. I gotta drive Alexis to Princeton. Tell everyone I'll see them after the summer." But there was a look on Kate's face that he couldn't figure out. "What?"
"Nothing." The precinct was not the place to tell him.
"Okay. …I'll see you." Rick walked away. He really hadn't yet decided if he even wanted to come back. She had made up her mind to date Demming. Was going away with him for a week out on some beach house that was probably a glorified outhouse. She had even lied to his face about it.
No sooner than Castle was gone when she spotted Demming walking through the bullpen with someone. Like he was suddenly a homicide detective instead of a detective in Robbery.
WAIT! Castle had said after summer. There was a going away party for him. They were trying to keep it a secret. Maybe it was too much of a secret. "He's not coming back," Kate told herself. So she went to her desk, gathered up her weapon and everything else she needed including the jacket off her chair, and hurried to the elevator. She needed to catch Castle before he just up and left her.
She needed to talk to him. If she waited till after the summer she would lose her nerve to tell him anything.
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"It's about time, Dad." Alexis was standing there waiting for him. "Go get dressed. We have all summer for this." Alexis had made sure she had finished her classes and aced everyone of them as usual. She didn't even arrange for a summer event like she used to do. But that was then, this was now.
"I see you're all dressed." Rick looked her over. She was wearing her bracers, her vest, and had an amulet at her neckline. Her bag was tied to her belt, her backpack, and she was wearing her boots. They looked a little big for her, but that was just how they were made. She had her goggles around her neck ready to be lifted up to cover her eyes. She was wearing her cloak, her necklace that hung down and held now six little red balls. He had used one last time. Her rope was wrapped around her backpack, and she had her rapier at her side. That was when he spotted her two rings. He presumed she was wearing the shirt meant for her. Her backpack, like his own, was also meant for them.
"Just waiting on you. I assume we're going to use that lead we got from last time?" Alexis asked. He might have thought up something else instead.
"That's the plan if you're still up for it," Rick said on his way to his bedroom to get suited up.
"I'm looking forward to it, actually. I'm only sorry you waited till I was fifteen, almost sixteen before you brought this up," Alexis told him again.
"We talked about this, Alexis. I thought you were too young. Maybe I should have known better, and I didn't even use it for what we're doing now. It was just a quick trip to look around and then leave," Rick told her again patiently. "Did you pack your compact?"
"SHIT!" Alexis raced up the stairs, flew into her bedroom, and then bathroom so she could find it and put it in her backpack. Whatever she wanted that was in her backpack would always be on top.
They were walking around with honest-to-goodness magical items. Not illusions, but real magic. Granted, they didn't have any of these things when they had first started doing this. However, they had done this enough times that they both had the necessary number of items and a bit more.
They even knew of more powerful magic items that were out there. They just didn't have the skill to risk going where those might be. They weren't that good. Not yet.
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Rick had just made it to the doorway into his bedroom when there was a knock on his door. It couldn't be his mother. She was off on one of her plays. This one was actually a short tour. He doubted it was Gina. She would just call and yell at him. Though if she was really angry with him she would show up to yell at him. But she had her chapters, so it couldn't be that. He didn't think he had any deliveries coming. But it might be one for Alexis. So he opened the door.
"Beckett!?" What was she doing here? She should be getting ready for her week-long date on a beach with Demming, her boyfriend of choice. "What are you doing here?"
"May I come in?" Kate asked since she didn't want to talk to him in the doorway or hallway.
"Um, sure." Rick stepped aside and let her in. She could talk and then leave, and he and Alexis could start their Adventure.
"Castle, I need to say this, so try not to interrupt me. I know I don't let on what I'm thinking. I keep everything to myself and don't talk to people that I should be talking to. You're no exception.
"I lied because you worry me. I told myself that I didn't want to get hurt again after my mom died. You asked me to come to the Hamptons with you, but that worried me, so I said no. But I want to say yes, Castle. I do want to come.
"I want to find out about you. Find out something about me. And there's one thing that might scare you," Kate said.
Alexis started down the stairs but came to a stop after a couple of steps. She hadn't heard the door, and she saw Detective Beckett standing close to her dad. "Detective Beckett?"
Hearing that, Kate looked up and saw Alexis, but she was very different. She was wearing some really weird stuff. The colors were a little off and didn't match very well. They were worse than what Martha usually wore. She even had a sword on her hip.
"Castle… What's going on?" Kate was interested in an explanation. This was the start of summer vacation. Granted, New York City had a sudden cold front from Canada blowing in, but it would be gone soon, and the city would warm up. And it definitely wasn't Halloween.
"Beckett, Alexis and I have something planned." Rick didn't dare try and explain.
"And that's why she has a sword and all that other stuff?" Kate asked incredulously. "Even a backpack, I think?" Kate didn't know what to think. Maybe a party somewhere. But what kind of party required all that stuff?
"She isn't going to understand," Alexis warned her dad, hoping he would just send her away.
Kate turned her focus back on Castle. "Understand? I already don't understand. You said you had to take Alexis to Princeton. I would understand if Princeton was doing something medieval or if there was one of those reenactment groups. You said you weren't coming back until after summer."
"Maybe you should go back and get ready for your week-long trip to his little beach house. You wanted it bad enough to lie to me when you didn't have to." Rick lashed out at her since she needed to leave so he could get suited up, and they could start their Adventure.
"I'm not going anywhere with Tom. I want to go to the Hamptons with you. I want to find out," Kate told him.
Alexis was sort of following, but she was pretty sure Detective Beckett didn't understand just what she was asking for, and why had her dad tried to get her to come to the Hamptons with him. He wasn't going to the Hamptons. They were going on this Adventure. "DAD!?" Now she had her own questions.
"You caught me. We're not going to the Hamptons. I'm not going to the Hamptons," Rick admitted.
"She really isn't going to understand," Alexis warned him again.
"Understand what? You're not going to the Hamptons? But you said you wouldn't be back till the fall," Kate mentioned.
"What is it you want, Beckett?" If she wasn't going with Demming, then what was she doing?
Kate glanced up at Alexis who was still standing there before looking back at Castle. "I'm trying to find out… I want to find out if there is… Can there be something between us? I'm asking you for a date." Kate was still a coward. That wasn't what she was trying to find out, but she had to start somewhere.
"A date?" Rick had been hoping for something like that for weeks, months really, and she was asking NOW?
"Yeah, a date. I want to find out if there can be something. A week in the Hamptons might tell me that. But if you're not going…" Her voice trailed off. It left her wondering just what was going on?
"How open-minded are you, Detective?" Alexis inquired.
Rick shook his head and responded before Kate could. "She's not. Doesn't believe in Santa Claus, Ghosts, Zombies, Aliens, Demons, you name it."
"Well, I wouldn't say that exactly." Kate actually did believe in one of those things. It was why she wanted to date him, to find out if she could trust him.
"Where we're going is dangerous, Dad, and she's not prepared." Maybe when they had done it the first time but not this trip.
"Dangerous?" Kate looked at Castle and then up at Alexis. Now she put two plus two together and got ARMED ALEXIS. With all that other stuff added in. "What's dangerous? I am a cop, you know."
"She is armed," Rick pointed out. "Wait right here. I'm going to get suited up," he told her and Alexis on the way to his bedroom.
Rick was gone and Alexis came down the stairs to join Kate. Now Kate had a chance to really look her over; Alexis had a lot of things she had never seen before.
"Open-minded, huh?" Alexis doubted it.
"A little, yes. I'm a cop, and I deal in concrete. I need evidence that the prosecutor can use to get a conviction. Castle's ideas might on occasion provide a lead, but most of what he comes up with can't be used in court," Kate explained.
"Seeing is believing?" Alexis offered.
"Something like that," Kate agreed.
Her dad was off getting suited up. It was just if this Adventure took too long she was going to learn something no one else knew save for her grandmother. Thankfully, she was keeping their secret. "Get ready to see something then."
Kate didn't understand that comment, but she waited for Castle to come back. And when he finally did he was dressed a lot like Alexis was.
He had a bigger sword at his side, a composite long bow, a leather quiver with arrows in it attached to large wide belt with the head of a lion on the front, big black boots, a cape, a backpack, and other things. "Castle?" She knew Rick and Alexis loved each other deeply and separating them was impossible, but what was going on here?
"Follow us, Beckett." Rick stopped momentarily and then turned and went toward his study where she and his daughter joined him.
Kate found him standing next to a very tall, and a somewhat narrow, ornate mirror. It had a very interesting carving along the edges, and it was a full length mirror.
"I found this mirror by accident and got it to work by research and accident. Alexis and I have been using it for a few years now. It's a doorway. If you can get it to work, it can open up on a totally different realm of existence. It's where we got all this stuff." Rick gestured to himself and Alexis.
"Doorway?" It looked like a mirror to her.
"Our first place is pretty much safe, and I have my compact to get us back again. It means delaying for a day, though," Alexis said.
"Get ready for a shock, Beckett," Rick advised her. He touched sections of the mirror and said words she didn't recognize. Suddenly the mirror's reflection was gone and replaced with something else entirely.
Rick held out his hand to her, "Take it," and he waited for Kate to grasp his hand. She found Alexis taking her other hand and ended up being pulled through the mirror.
Kate looked around and realized they were on a dirt road and rather high up with rocks even higher on either side of her.
It was time, so Rick broke it to her. "Down there is a city. They don't have electricity, no running water. They get around by riding horses or on wagons. However, what it does have are real Elves, real Dwarves, real Orcs, and around here are a lot more races.
"What they also have is a lot of magic. Actual magic and not the illusions like back home. This land is called Faerûn. We've learned that it is vast. Land, oceans, islands, mountains, and deserts. In addition to a vast number of races, it also has what we call monsters. Even real Dragons and other things."
It was hard to see from here, but the buildings looked like mostly wood. Though perhaps a few were made from stones. All of the buildings were behind a stone wall and she even saw a gate. Outside of the wall were smaller buildings and lots of farmland.
"Where are we?" Kate spun to look behind her, but she didn't see a mirror to get back.
"The mirror is still open," Alexis reassured her. "We think if someone shows up in the loft and enters the mirror, they'll end up where we go. We get back by using a makeup compact that I brought with me. Though any mirror will work, so long as you use the right words," the young woman explained.
"We're not staying here. We're here just to show you. Pumpkin?" Rick was ready to go back. It would take hours to reach the city. There was a small town behind them in the mountain, but even it was a couple of hours from here.
Alexis took out her compact and opened it. "Take my hand." Alexis held out her hand that Kate finally took and Castle took her other hand. Then Alexis used her thumb to touch the mirror, said something Kate didn't catch. Suddenly, they were in Castle's study again.
"WOW!" Kate had to admit that seeing and doing made it real. "You two have been doing that?"
"Every summer or times when Alexis is out of school like Christmas, on occasion. We can't stay there that long for Christmas, so usually just summer," Rick said.
"I was fifteen years old the first time. A couple of years past puberty, so I knew who I was." Alexis didn't say WHAT I WAS. That was a secret.
"And you got all this stuff?" Kate gestured at Castle.
"We got a little bit on that first trip. Most of this came later. Magic." Rick touched his vest. "Magic, magic, magic, magic, and a lot of what I'm wearing, and Alexis is wearing. Each thing does something different. Invisible armor, for example, and my backpack is bigger on the inside." Rick pulled an arrow out of his quiver and handed it to her. "Magic. With my bow, it has a chance at killing someone or something with just one strike. Doesn't usually, but I might get lucky."
Kate examined it, but it looked different. The feathers were actual feathers, the tip wasn't metal and looked more like bone maybe, and the shaft was wood, not aluminum. She handed it back. "So, you're not coming back until fall and not going to the Hamptons?" Her plan was to spend time with him in the Hamptons so she could learn if she could trust him. To like him.
Rick shook his head. "No. We got a lead on something last summer, and we plan to check it out. It might be dangerous, but we happen to be dangerous too."
Alexis pulled out her rapier. "It's called a rapier, but for me it's a foil. Dad and I have been fencing since I was thirteen or fourteen?" Alexis looked at her dad to see if he knew. "That practice came in very handy. My necklace. Pull one of these red balls, throw it, and whatever it hits makes it explode into a large fireball. The bigger the ball, the bigger the fireball," Alexis explained as she handed her rapier to Kate to look over.
"How long?" Kate queried because she was coming up with an idea.
"We never know. Our first time it lasted a couple of weeks, I think. That summer we did three maybe." Rick looked at Alexis for confirmation and she nodded. "This one might take a week, a month, or all summer. Kind of hoping not all summer. That will cause other problems." He wasn't ready to talk about that.
Kate knew she had asked for a week off, but if they didn't come back in a week… "When are you leaving, and may I come?" Kate still wanted to learn if she could trust Castle. She liked him, but could she more than like him? She couldn't do that if she wasn't around him and not at work. She had planned on dates, but this might work.
"We're going to Vaasa. Something about Cult of the Dragon. It's believed to be a Cult who allies with Evil Dragons to promote the rule of Dragons over everyone," Alexis said. "There may be a chance to see and perhaps battle a real Dragon. How big and how old, we have no idea."
"A real Dragon? Like large Dragon that breathes fire?" If that was true it did sound extremely dangerous.
"Perhaps, though we've learned that a few breathe something other than fire. Lightning bolts and gas are possible," Alexis informed her.
Kate sighed. That did sound dangerous. Except she knew something they didn't. Maybe that would help her if she had to prove it and show it. "May I still come?"
"We can't leave now until tomorrow. We need to let the mirror recharge for twenty-four hours. It will remain active till we come back, however long that is. We just can't use it there and back again so soon," Rick clarified. "If you really want to come with us, buy a backpack and fill it with what you want to bring with you. Think a month or more, so your one week vacation isn't going to work. Buy a bigger belt, tie pouches to the belt. Put your police officer belt back on."
"Twenty-four hours?" Kate had a lot to do to be ready for this Adventure.
"Twenty-four hours from this moment, yes," Rick confirmed.
"So you're letting me come? I get that it might be dangerous. But you'll be there." That was what Kate wanted out of this.
Rick looked at his daughter. "Twenty-four hours, Detective, and be ready. Food, canteen of water, whatever you think you need for a month, minimum," Alexis advised.
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Kate was gone, and those two were still standing just inside the front door. "Is this a good idea, Dad? We have skills she doesn't, and if we're gone a month, we're both going to need to find someone to give us cum. Anyone," Alexis cautioned him.
"I know. I just don't know why she's so willing to dump Demming. She seemed so infatuated with him. Practically making out on the stairs. Now she wants to date me?" He didn't understand that.
"She better not scare easily, and yes, I know she's a cop." Alexis rolled her eyes. "If we can get into Vaasa first we might need to buy her a few things. Some kind of sword. Or a weapon of some sort for close range."
"It might not be magical, but we can find her something. Masterwork, preferably," Rick agreed easily. "We might as well get out of all this. We should go out and get cum tomorrow morning before Beckett shows up." Rick watched Alexis nod. They needed all the time they could get.
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Kate was in a local REI* on 303 Lafayette Street. It was here that she walked around gathering items. She was thinking she needed a lot, so she picked and chose and left it on a counter where the salesman standing there watched it for her.
Long johns, camouflage clothing, boots, socks. It was called a hip pack, but it was a big one. A mummy sleeping bag, bungee cords, a tiny tent that barely fit her sleeping bag, a water bottle, tablets to purify the water, matches and container to hold them to keep them dry, a camping knife that had a hollow hilt that held matches, a fishing line. A Swiss Army knife was next. The lightest raincoat she could find.
She already had panties, sports bras, and gloves she could use. Next up came protein bars after leaving REI and going home first.
Come morning, she told Captain Montgomery that she was going on an extended unpaid leave. It was a family matter, and no, she couldn't get out of it.
From here she got Javi to check her out an AR-15 and four spare clips while she got spare clips for her Glock. With her old police officer's belt, she left her shield behind and added her cuffs. She also attached pouches to her belt and her harness that went over her shoulders and was snapped into place.
Recreational Equipment, Inc.
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Rick answered the door and saw Kate standing there in a light coat that was open to reveal what she was wearing. Mostly he saw she had an AR-15 on her hip. "You aren't messing around, are you?" Rick was actually a little impressed.
"You said it might be dangerous and used the word dragon. I'm still not sure dragons exist, but I'm not taking chances." Kate smiled at him.
"Come on in, we have two hours, still." Rick let her enter the loft. "Alexis, Beckett's here." That had her walking down the stairs and she raised both eyebrows at what she saw.
"Where we're going they don't have guns, so there isn't going to be any ammunition to purchase," Alexis cautioned.
"I have one clip in each weapon and four spare clips for each. So long as I'm careful, it should last for a while. I'm not looking forward to the paperwork if I lose either of these." She was betting they would take it out of her pay after Roy took it out of her hide. "And I have a hunting knife and Swiss Army knife."
"Food, water, spare clothing, spare socks?" Rick questioned her and saw her smile back at him. "Sounds like you're prepared. I hope you know what you're doing." He knew it wasn't going to be a walk in the park.
"Me, too." Mostly, Kate meant she might need to tell both of them her secret before this whole thing was over.
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Kate was ready, and Rick and Alexis were all suited up yet again. "Where are we going?" Kate inquired.
"The area is called Vaasa," Rick answered. "Since it's summer here we're anticipating that it will be summer there as well. We never actually end up in a town. We have to walk to one. What we need is to find you a better close in weapon. Maybe a short sword. Easy to carry and easy to use. You might run out of ammunition faster than you think."
Kate had her AR-15 over her shoulder. She drew in a deep breath then took Alexis's hand, and Castle's hand, and watched him press areas of the mirror while saying something she still didn't understand. That was followed by him touching the mirror. Suddenly, they were outside with a small town in the distance.
It was daylight, but the sun would set in a few hours. It only took a couple of hours of walking to enter the town.
"What is he?" Kate asked quietly. She didn't point, but she didn't think she had to.
"Half-Orc. Not the smartest race you'll meet, but he is strong. Most aren't a problem," Alexis whispered.
Kate soon had her short sword and found a way to attach it to her police belt under her raincoat.
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They had ended up in the house of Thusk Mharmuil who claimed to be a wizard. It was him, his apprentice Menzel, and a human woman named Katelyn, so that meant all of them were human.
They learn the Cult had taken her parents, and her mother had sent her running into the woods to escape. She had gotten away, but she was convinced that her parents were captured because she couldn't find their bodies after they had left.
The wizard offered to pay them two hundred gold pieces each if they took the girl and found her parents. And in addition, to find out all they can on this Dragon Cult. They would be paid half now and half two weeks later. Rick wasn't thrilled to take the girl who looked younger than Alexis, but she did know the way.
They spent the night and left with Katelyn in the morning. "The road is called Dead Man's Walk. I don't know why. My home is up this road.
Three light horses with saddles and tack cost them seventy-five gold pieces each, though because of Rick's weight, he needed a heavy horse which cost two hundred gold pieces. Then they needed saddle bags and oats for the horses. They could also munch on grasses along the way.
"You've done this before," Kate commented since they had that much gold and more already and watched as Alexis smiled back at her.
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They were far outside of town when suddenly two stout Orcs with rings in their noses stepped out into the road about ten or so yards away. They were wearing rusty chain mail and steel helmets and were armed with black pikes and swords.
"Okay, dat's fur enuf! Drop yer stuff, and ye won't get stuck. We's here to take ye in, uh, so ye can join us. No trouble, now! Be quick, drop stuff!" one of the Orcs told them. The group could hear the rustle of brush to each side and soon saw eight more Orcs with rings in their noses on each side. All of those had bows with arrows at the ready.
"We can take them," Katelyn declared softly.
Rick knew they could, but he didn't want Beckett or Katelyn hurt. Kate didn't have any armor, and Katelyn was wearing leather. Rick looked at his daughter, spurred his horse forward, and drew his sword. Alexis was right with him.
That had Kate jumping off her horse and bringing her AR-15 around. She pulled back the slide, dropped to one knee, aimed, and fired.
Katelyn jumped off her horse, pulled out a weapon, and charged the Orcs on her side.
Rick stormed past the Orcs partially hidden on his left, and just as he began to pass the Orc with the mouth, he jumped off and landed on him and started to grapple; soon he heard the Orc's neck snap.
Alexis shifted into her Succubus form. She flew off her horse and landed on the Orc next to him, kissed him and kept kissing him, and then dropped him.
Rick was getting arrows from his left, so he shifted into his Incubus form, flew over to them, and came out swinging. Alexis spun, saw three with bows on her side and someone carrying a club, so she yanked a red ball off of her necklace, threw it, and watched it explode into a fireball, killing all of them.
Kate was doing fine till someone put an arrow in her right arm. "Damn, that hurts!" she hissed. She turned to face those three and fired one round each. It was all she needed since she knew she was an excellent shot.
Katelyn was busy swinging away at these four and since all they had in hand were bows, they were getting sliced pretty easily.
But just then, Alexis spotted something, and it was not good news. "DAD!"She got ready to pull a bigger red ball from her neck but waited for now.
Rick turned and saw what had his daughter's attention. "OH, HELL!" It was a damn Black Dragon. It was his very first. So he dropped his sword and pulled his bow around. Then he took an arrow out of the quiver, knocked it, and fired as it advanced on Alexis. He watched as his arrow hit, and the Dragon fell. It was dead. "I'll be damned! It worked for once." Rick was a little shocked. Pulling himself together, he looked around and caught sight of three Orcs running for their lives, so he lined up one shot, let his arrow fly, and that Orc dropped, but the other two got away.
Rick and Alexis quickly shifted back to human since no one knew about them. Their shirts and pants were specially made to handle them suddenly having wings and a tail.
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Rick was using a dagger to dig what was left of the wooden shaft and arrowhead out of Kate's arm while she gritted her teeth from the pain. "Here, drink this. It'll heal your wound." Rick handed her a little vial. "It's safe." He watched her drink it, and then she handed him back his empty vial. She ran her hand over that spot and was amazed to find her skin was perfectly smooth.
"Magic," Rick told her, "you'll get used to it."
"You okay?" Alexis was with Katelyn.
"I'm fine." Then Katelyn made her aware of something. "See the Dragon claw grasping a crown symbol? Cult members."
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"What is this thing?" Kate was standing next to the others and looking over the Black Dragon.
"A Black Dragon, he looks young, very young," Katelyn remarked. What she wasn't willing to tell anyone just yet was that she was also a Dragon. She was a juvenile Steel Dragon using her Polymorph Self ability to hide in human form.
"My bow actually worked this time. Doesn't happen nearly often enough," Rick commented.
Kate took out her clip and looked it over and checked how many rounds this clip still had. Satisfied, she slapped it back in place and put it over her shoulder.
"I've never seen magic like what you have," Katelyn told Kate. It was impressive, but it was very loud.
A quick search showed that these Orcs didn't have anything useful for any of them, save for Katelyn. She took one of the bows and a quiver of arrows and made sure the quiver was full. Now she had a ranged weapon.
All of them got back on their horses. Kate was glad none of them had bolted due to the sound of her weapon. The police didn't have silencers. Only bad guys used those.
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Kate and Katelyn soon learned that Alexis had a tent that could easily sleep four people. It had been her cloak, and now it was a tent. It was even very comfortable inside. It maintained a constant temperature and humidity level. The horses were hobbled, so they didn't run and held in place in a grassy area.
Kate gave one of her power bars to Katelyn but didn't eat one herself. In fact she noticed that only Katelyn was eating or drinking anything at all. It was interesting, but she said nothing for now.
Only Katelyn didn't have a sleeping bag, so she slept on the floor but didn't complain.
The next morning they gave the horses a touch of grain, made sure they were watered, and got back on the road. They soon caught a whiff of a strong, vile odor. As they came around a bend they could see an astonishing sight: the carrion remains of a decomposed Dragon suspended in the trees. The tops of the trees poked through the upper portion of the Dragon's body as if it fell from the sky and was impaled. Vultures and crows were feasting on it. It appeared to be greenish-white in color. One of the trees it was impaled on had a symbol etched into it. "Dragon Cult," Katelyn said.
"I thought the point of the Dragon Cult was to worship Dragons, not kill them?" Alexis didn't understand.
"Combat with someone and lost," Rick suggested. "It's been here a while for it to look like that and stink this much."
They got back on the road until it was time to stop again. Weary, they ate and went back in Alexis's tent for the night.
Come morning, they got back on the road after making sure the horses had water.
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Rick stopped them when they came over a little rise. In the distance they could all see a berm with poles sticking out of the ground. However, most of the poles were broken or simply gone.
Alexis put her goggles on. "Small town long ago destroyed by the look of it. I can make out one building that appears mostly undamaged while another is missing its roof but otherwise intact. Ten destroyed buildings on this side," Alexis detailed and kept looking.
"Moortown, it was attacked and destroyed by Orcs long ago. My parents' home is beyond this," Katelyn revealed.
Alexis alerted all of them. "I've got one large Red Dragon resting inside the remains of the closest southernmost building with no roof. I've also got an Orc on an upper landing in front of a door of the intact building. His armor and shield look to be made from greenish-white scales.
"One more Orc at the building with no roof," Alexis added. "OH, FUCK! I've got a Troll walking the outer wall on the inside. Not what we need." She resumed looking for anything else.
"Troll? Like Troll?" Kate questioned. Just seeing a Dead Dragon told her that she was actually living this.
"The only way to kill a Troll is to burn it. It can heal far too fast from any other damage. My weapon is Frost, not fire," Rick explained.
"We kill them," Katelyn growled. Just knowing that there was a Red Dragon had her blood boiling.
"We need a plan. I'm guessing the Orc in front of the door of the good building is barracks for more. We have two main problems. The Red Dragon and that Troll."
"OH, FUCK! I've got another Troll patrolling the outer wall on the inside. SHIT! Two Trolls and a Red Dragon. Can it get any worse?" Alexis kept looking to see if anyone moved and to where.
"SERIOUSLY? BITE ME! I've got a third Troll now doing the same thing." Alexis lowered her goggles to look at her dad. "I know I like this, but this is insane."
"Leave the Dragon to me. I can handle it." Katelyn was hoping she could handle it anyway.
Rick looked at her in disbelief. "Say that again?"
"I can handle it," Katelyn repeated. "You three can worry about everything else." Even if she died trying, she was taking on that cursed Red Dragon.
"O-K-A-Y." Rick wasn't so sure, but he would watch her just in case. "I'll take the Orc at the door." He looked at his daughter. "You think you can handle the Trolls?"
Alexis played with one of the red balls on her necklace. "I'd like to get them all in one place, if I can. Otherwise, killing three of them is going to be a real challenge."
"They'll respond to an attack, right? What if that Orc in the center was attacked out in the open? That might draw them in. Let me worry about how I get there and back out again," Kate said.
"Are you sure?" Rick was worried. She didn't have any of the magical items that they did.
"I can do this." She knew some of her clothes had to come off first, or she would ruin them permanently. "I'm thinking I leave first. I need time to reach him."
"Alright." Now Rick was trying to figure out how to watch her, watch Katelyn, and kill his target.
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Kate was taking off a lot of her clothes with her horse between her and everyone else. "Kate, what are you doing?" He was seeing clothes being discarded.
"Just focus on what you need to do," Kate called back to him as she stuck a spare clip for her AR-15 into her panties. She took off running after shifting, jumped, and pumped her wings hard to gain some altitude.
"DAD!" Alexis's eyes opened wide as she watched a nearly naked Succubus fly across the sky carrying an AR-15.
Rick's mouth fell open. "I'll. Be. Damned. She's a…" Rick wasn't sure he believed it even if he was seeing it.
"I'm next," Katelyn declared. She didn't have as far to fly, but she was betting she was faster. Now Rick and Alexis let their mouths drop open as Katelyn shifted into a Dragon. A little small and young-looking but still a Dragon. She was kind of silver in color, something neither of them had ever heard of.
Now they watched her run, and jump, and flap her wings furiously to get off the ground.
"This is crazy, Dad." Their little Adventure was fast turning into something else.
"Better get going, Pumpkin. I'll be right behind you." Rick watched her shift into her Succubus form, then she ran, jumped, and beat her wings to fly skyward.
Rick looked at where he wanted to go, and he pulled out his sword and activated his boots. In an instant he was standing about two feet from his Orc and thrust his sword into his gut, killing him instantly.
Sadly, the Orc Kate was after saw her and began blowing on his whistle, waking literally everyone up including the Red Dragon. But just as the Red Dragon woke up, he had a Steel Dragon land on him, forcing him into the ground, and felt his neck being bitten.
Kate landed a short ways away, lined up her weapon on the Orc with a whistle in his mouth, and she fired two quick rounds that killed him. However, she instantly sighted more trouble.
"BABY RED Dragons!?" There were three of them. "FUCK!" Kate used a finger to switch to full auto, pulled the trigger, and swept the area.
Rick had the door opening on him and spied an Orc not wearing much of anything. He did have a long sword in hand, but unfortunately for him Rick was faster and got in the first blow.
Alexis landed on the roof and looked around. The silver-skinned Dragon was still on top of the Red Dragon. She saw that Kate was firing on full auto and shooting three baby Red Dragons, and glimpsed the first Troll headed for Kate.
Katelyn was shaking her head for all she was worth, her teeth sunk deep into the Red Dragon's neck. She was doing her best to rip it open since she had the high ground for now.
Kate came up empty and dropped her empty clip. She grabbed her spare out of her panties, slapped it in and pulled the slide back, and went back to firing on full auto.
Rick's adversary swung at him followed by turning to run. That gave Rick the chance to take a few swings at his back and took off after the Orc after ripping open his back with his blade.
"KATE! RUN!"She had two Trolls that were getting a little close for comfort.
Hearing Alexis's warning, Kate turned and ran; she jumped as high as she could and soared into the sky. It was only the two Trolls, but Alexis couldn't let them separate. So she yanked a red ball from her necklace, threw it, and watched as the pair was engulfed in a fire ball. They both looked a little singed but were still alive, so she pulled off another one and threw it.
Rick pumped his wings to gain a little extra speed, and found it was enough to reach the Orc just as he reached a door, swung, and dropped him. That had him turning and running back outside.
Katelyn was still using her weight to keep the Red Dragon down on the ground while she shook her head for all she was worth. She was tasting blood, so she was getting somewhere.
Kate was finally in the air and was flying around to see where she should go next. That was when she noticed Alexis standing on the roof. But she had wings, a tail, and horns. JUST. LIKE. HERS! "NO FUCKING WAY!" What she wanted to do was land next to her and ask her what the hell was going on, but they still had three Trolls and one Red Dragon that she could spot. What was in the building Alexis was on, she didn't know. And she also didn't see Castle.
Then all of a sudden Castle came out the door, leapt into the air, and flew away. "WHAT THE SHIT!?" Now Kate forgot everything else and chased after Castle. She wanted to know what the hell was going on around her. Just as a third fireball erupted.
Rick, with Kate hot on his heels, was flying over Katelyn and the Red Dragon, and while he wanted to help, there really wasn't much of a place to land. However, he saw two Trolls on the ground while number three was running for the Red Dragon and Katelyn, so he dove down at the Troll. He reached into his backpack, pulled out a clay bottle, threw it, and hit the Troll. Rick watched it break open on him spreading oil all over his body.
"KATELYN, RUN!"Alexis yelled at her. Except Katelyn wasn't interested in anything else but killing this Red Dragon, so she stayed right where she was.
That forced Rick to land close to the Troll and engage in hand-to-hand combat with his sword. Kate was right behind him, but she'd left her sword behind. Instead, she raised her AR-15 and waited for an opening before firing a single shot.
The Red Dragon wasn't moving any longer, but Katelyn wouldn't be satisfied until his head came off. She carried on biting and swinging her head, doing the most damage she could possibly manage. She had even more blood in her mouth now.
Kate fired one more round and the next pull of the trigger showed she was out of ammunition and out of clips since she only had the one spare on her.
Kate watched as Rick dropped the Troll and then continued swinging on his body till he stopped and reached into his backpack. He pulled out a clay pot, threw it at the Troll and watched it shatter against his body. What to Kate looked like oil covered the area, including him.
"Run, Kate." Rick ran past her, jumped into the air, and beat his wings, followed by Kate.
"FIREBALL!" Rick was instantly rewarded with another one. Only with all that oil the Troll just kept on burning.
Eventually, Rick landed and found Kate right next to him. "You have wings, a tail, and horns. What the hell is going on, Castle? Alexis is a Succubus!" Kate pointed at the roof, but she didn't look to see if the redhead was still up there.
"ME!? What about you? You're a Succubus. Just when did that happen?" Rick queried.
"You first, Castle. I want to know what the fuck is going on here?" Kate would explain later. She wanted answers. Now!
"Alexis is a Succubus, and I'm an Incubus. We're both Demons." Rick grinned at her. "And those are some really nice tits, Beckett."
"Stop being a jackass, Castle. If I wasn't naked I would have ruined my clothes. Now answer my question." Kate still wanted answers.
Rick shifted back to human first. "I changed to an Incubus the second I reached puberty. Alexis did the same, only she's a Succubus. And yourself?"
"The same. Mom helped me through it. My dad's a human though. And I don't know if he knows or not. I don't bring it up, and he hasn't either." With that, Kate shifted back to human so she could pull her panties back up into place.
"Your mother was a Succubus, yet someone stabbed her and killed her?" Rick had a problem with that.
"Yeah, I didn't understand that either, but she was." One more reason for her death to affect her so much. "An Incubus." Kate shook her head, still trying to wrap her mind around that.
A little later the four of them walked over and stood there watching the Troll burn to make sure he didn't get up, which sadly, was possible. Kate was dressed again and had put a fresh clip in her AR-15, so it was at the ready.
Rick looked at Katelyn who was back to human. "Dragon, huh?"
"Juvenile Steel Dragon. I hate Evil Dragons. The Dragon Cult took my parents. I don't want to know what they're doing to them." Katelyn feared what was happening to them.
"Spread out, let's search this place. We need everything they have. Three Orcs, three baby Red Dragons, and one full-grown Red Dragon. So where is everyone else?" Rick wondered aloud.
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"The longsword is magic as is the ring. The scroll that I can't read, the six foot by nine foot rug is magical, that rod, that scroll that I also can't read, and that jar. That's it." Alexis told them.
(Rod of resurrection with 11 charges, scroll with cure critical wounds and cure disease, jar of Keothtome's ointment, carpet of flying, +1 longsword that is +2 against Good creatures, +2 Ring of Protection and they find his spell books telling them he was a Wizard with a longsword which didn't make sense)
They did find a something very interesting. It was a scroll that didn't have a spell on it.
Marlaxit, you are entrusted with the care of our beloved Flameshot and the three children of Wyndfire and Snizzler. While we are gone to Sulasspryn, ensure that nothing happens to them. Our negotiations should be completed swiftly, and we will return no later than 19 Flamerule. If we do not return by then, send a messenger to Castle Perilous to warn them that the Zhentarim have betrayed us. But if all goes well, ensure that the Ring-noses are well prepared to start immediate action because our invasion will start soon after.
Probolar – keeper of the secret hoard – Moortown Garrison
"I love a mystery!" Rick was ready to either keep going or maybe put up the tent and question Beckett further about her being a Succubus.
"This is 16 Flamerule," Katelyn said, looking at them. It meant they had just three days. "Glister is at least two days away. Another two days from Glister to Sulasspryn. Sulasspryn is about one day away from here. I grew up around here," Katelyn explained. "We must stop them. I'll do it alone if I have to."
Rick looked at Alexis. "I'm in," Alexis said to both of them. Now Rick was looking at Kate.
"You two have been doing this all this time? This is insane, you know. It does explain why you don't listen to me though." Kate really didn't see a choice. "I'm in, but I only have two clips for my AR-15 left. After that I'm down to my Glock," Kate warned them.
"So where are the Zhentarim located? We need to get going if it's one day away." Rick waited patiently for Katelyn to reply.
"Sulasspryn. And thank you. I'll find a way to repay you for everything. Maybe my parents know of something." Katelyn didn't know what she would do without them except get herself killed trying.
"First things first. I want to read that note again." Kate took it from Alexis and read it out loud. "Do you see anything in this note, because I do."
"The Cult doesn't trust these Zhentarim, and warn Marlaxit about the possibility of the Zhentarim betraying them. You're thinking we can use that somehow. The problem is getting close enough to talk to them and get them on our side," Rick pointed out.
"That's what I'm reading. Might not know till we get there though," Kate said, thankful that Castle was still thinking what she was. They were somehow pretty good at that.
"Do we take the horses or fly?" Alexis inquired.
Katelyn piped up. "I fly at eighty."
"I fly at sixty at the most," Alexis revealed.
Kate shrugged. "I don't actually know, but I'm willing to guess the same as Alexis."
Rick spoke up. "Sixty for me as well, and I think the horses can travel at fifty, but if we push them all day we'll run them into the ground."
"Kill them?" Alexis shook her head. She didn't want to do that. Killing bad guys she didn't have a problem with. But a horse was an innocent animal and didn't deserve that.
The horses had their saddles and tack removed and were let lose to go where they wanted.
"You know where we're going, Katelyn. Though I suggest you let Kate ride you so she can keep her clothes on and carry all of her gear." Rick waited for her response.
"Ride a Dragon!?" Kate gaped at Castle with her mouth hanging open.
"I agree. I'll be careful. Just don't kiss me," Katelyn joked with her.
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It took them the rest of the day to reach the cliffs that were two feet away from the ruins of Sulasspryn. It turned out to be a coastal town long since destroyed and in even worse shape than Moortown. This town was just small piles of junk.
There were large boulders between them and the town along with a short gorge filled with more boulders, and there were rocks everywhere. Just past the town was sand and ocean.
"The meeting takes place tomorrow if we're on time and they haven't already had their meeting and left. Tent, please, Pumpkin," Rick asked. "We need to be rested for tomorrow."
That had the four of them in the tent trying to get some rest. "Any ideas, you two?" Alexis questioned her dad and Kate.
"The Cult doesn't trust them, so how can we use that to our advantage?" Rick tried to think. "You have shape change. Meaning Kate does as well, even if she hasn't tried it. If you two can get close enough, you can hurl insults and start a fight between the two groups," Rick suggested.
"I can, though I don't use it much. Mom told me of other things. She told me I can go Ethereal, so if I go deep enough they won't even see me." Kate waited for them to say something.
"Excellent idea!" Alexis approved of that. "Fly down Ethereal and use shape change to hurl insults. Then when the fighting starts we can go Ethereal again and watch but not get hit." Alexis smiled from ear to ear.
"I can do that. We can hurl insults from both sides, maybe. Katelyn?" Rick waited for her to reply.
"I can't go Ethereal, but I can swim and breathe water as a Dragon. I also have shape change," Katelyn said.
"We come in from the land, and you can come in from the sea. I like it! Just don't do anything until one side wins. It's then that we can decide what to do next," Rick told her.
Katelyn chose to sleep over there to get more room. "I could use my summon Demon skill." Rick's brow creased. "It will summon a Tanar'ri. Haven't done that yet, so I don't know what it can do." Then he grinned. "Once one side wins we can make a mess of things."
"I can do that same thing which means Kate can as well," Alexis noted.
"I can!? Mom didn't tell me that." Kate had no idea she could do that. "What if they win? Do they attack us?" She watched them both shake their heads, so that answered that. "I guess I can try."
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They had just come out of the tent when Kate spied what had to be Cult members, three of them. So the four of them silently moved farther out in the boulders and kept a lookout for intruders. But that wasn't what all of them were looking at.
The Cult was comprised of two people in robes and three clad in armor, but it was the two large Black Dragons and the two Large Red Dragons that had their attention.
Rick cursed under his breath when he saw the Dragons. "This is bad, Pumpkin, really bad."
"No shit, Dad. These guys are powerful. Red Dragon and three Trolls, and now this." This was beyond bad.
They watched as a triple-oared ship rowed up the coast and anchored just off shore. It used four longboats to take people from the ship to shore.
"Change of plans. Katelyn, I want you to fly in Dragon form way out to sea and swim in unnoticed. Climb up and shape change, and fire one of the ballistae or one of the catapults I can see on its deck.
"Go now. We'll give you time to reach the ship." Rick watched her run off, shift into her Dragon form, and fly far north before turning out to sea. And then she dove down into the water. For her it was a good thing the Black Dragons were on land since she knew they could breathe water like she could.
Rick glanced over at Kate. "Better strip now," he told her. "Go Ethereal and let's start flying. I want us to be down there hiding and listening."
"And listen to how negotiations are going and use that to hurl insults." Kate understood and started taking off her clothes. It was a bit embarrassing, but she had been naked in front of complete strangers before in college for an Art Class. It was just this was Castle and Alexis.
"Let's get started." Alexis went Ethereal and left the ground.
"Ladies first." Rick let her go next and watched her vanish. Hopefully she took off flying. Once he was Ethereal he could spot them and know exactly where they were.
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They landed behind a row of Zhentarim in black armor. There were thirty of them with four leaders out in front. They didn't know just how many were still on the ship, but Rick and Kate were guessing about the same number.
The Cult had two, three soldiers, and those four Dragons.
They were almost all men, so Rick hurled the first insult. "These are the ugliest serpents I have ever seen. And they smell bad too! How can you stand them?" he yelled.
One of the Cult leaders instantly demanded an apology and all four Dragons hissed their hatred of being insulted, hearing someone say that they were ugly and smelled bad.
Rick did it again. "Besides, in a real fight Dragons are nothing more than BABIES!"
Kate tried to lower her voice to sound like a man. "Fall upon the disbelievers. Slay them all now!"
"TREACHERY! KILL THEM ALL!" a Cult leader yelled, and the fight was on.
While they were all fighting, Rick, Kate, and Alexis stood there watching since they couldn't be seen or hit. Then a ballista bolt came flying in and actually hit a Red Dragon which screamed its anger at being attacked and injured.
A moment later another ballista bolt flew in but missed everything. It was followed by two large boulders that had one hit the same Red Dragon. After that a rain of arrows mostly missed everything.
Unfortunately for the Zhentarim, the other side had two Red Dragons and two Black Dragons. Each took turns breathing on the Zhentarim when they could and not hit the Cult leaders. That decimated a large section of the thirty warriors.
"That went fast," Rick commented and watched as two more ballista bolts came flying in. The same Red Dragon was unlucky as now he had two ballista bolts poking out of his body and he was bleeding all over the place. Then in came another wave of arrows that did a little better this time. But not by much.
That was followed by two large boulders that missed everything. "Katelyn made it," Kate murmured since she was betting that first one had to have been her.
However, she was seeing the Zhentarim falling like dead flies. There was one good note to this fight. Both Cult leaders were dead as was one of the Cult fighters. But those Dragons were killing everyone.
"SUMMON NOW!" Rick bellowed because all of the Zhentarim soldiers and leaders were all dead. That only left what was on the ship.
Just like that two Tanar'ri showed up and immediately attacked the Red Dragon that had two ballista bolts in its body. One Marilith that had the body of a snake, human upper portion and six arms each holding a scimitar. The other was a Balor. He looked a little like a Minotaur with large bat wings, a whip in one hand, and a sword in the other. The Balor was no fool, so he hit the very same Red Dragon and made it bleed profusely.
A moment later, and a second Balor showed up and killed that same Red Dragon.
"I DID IT!" Kate didn't think she could do it. Now there were two of those whatever it was.
One of the Black Dragons ran away and launched itself into the sky. But it didn't stay away. It had plans to make a strafing run and breathe a line of acid on one of those three.
The Marilith was the closest, so she got swung at a lot, and both Dragons tried to bite her. Some of it actually did hit her. However, the Black Dragon was close enough and got hit all six times by her. Her since she had tits.
One Baylor ran, sprang into the air, and took off after the Black Dragon. The other Balor whipped and struck with his blade, and had the Black Dragon bleeding pretty heavily.
The flying Black Dragon took a run at the Marilith and breathed a line of acid that hit her and one of the Balors. It seemed to do a great deal of damage to the Marilith but not so much the Balor.
Katelyn was just watching as the crew reloaded both ballistae and the catapults. What she really wanted to do was change into her Dragon form and attack the Red Dragon. She hated Red Dragons with a passion. She just didn't know what these new things were, so she waited and watched what happened.
The flying Baylor realized he couldn't catch the flying Black Dragon, and that only pissed him off even more. He followed the Black Dragon out over the ship that shot arrows at both of them. So he landed on the ship and took out his anger on everyone.
Katelyn quickly jumped overboard and began swimming as a human for now.
Rick, Kate, and Alexis watched as the Marilith and the Baylor ganged up on the Black Dragon and killed it.
"I'm never summoning a Demon ever again. Write that down," Rick told the others.
"What have we gotten ourselves into? Those three better not stay here after they kill everyone." Alexis was reasonably certain these Dragons didn't stand a chance.
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Katelyn was a Steel Dragon out swimming in the ocean and headed toward where she had started this. Rick, Kate, and Alexis had watched the Marilith die and up and vanish. That left both Balors who hunted down the last Black Dragon and killed it, followed by vanishing themselves in a puff of smoke.
"I'll be damned. I just wanted one side to win, and that one to just go away." Rick didn't believe it.
"I'm never summoning anything ever again, Castle," Kate vowed. "Those things are killers." Rick silently agreed with her.
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"His two rings are magic, also his bracers and his wand," Alexis said to them and moved to the next dead body. "All twenty arrows on this body." Alexis moved on, but there was nothing else.
After searching the ship since it was still here and pretty much undamaged, they found a chest with fifteen hundred platinum pieces, fifteen pieces of jewelry worth one thousand gold pieces each, twenty gems at one hundred gold pieces each, and thirteen potion vials that were all magical.
From the bodies they gathered a total of eighteen platinum pieces, one hundred eighty gold pieces, and two hundred twenty-five silver pieces.
Rick cleared his throat, and then he said, "Katelyn, all the coins, jewelry, and gems are yours. We can't find your parents, so you deserve this."
"Friends, what my mother and father said was true. The bravery of humankind is beyond measure. You have helped me avenge the deaths of my parents, whose heads most likely hang from the poles on the edge of this terrible place. I'm going back to where I started this. I will fly as a Dragon. I will also keep your secret," Katelyn vowed. "I just never heard of good Demons before." She accepted their hugs and kisses and changed into her Dragon. Then she swallowed all the coins, jewelry, and gems, and took off.
"So what do we do now?" Kate questioned Rick and Alexis.
"Go home." Alexis reached into her backpack and pulled out her compact that held a mirror. "Hold hands." Alexis reached out a hand to Kate and Castle took Kate's other hand.
In an instant she found herself with these two back in his study. "That was just four days. I asked for three weeks off with my one week of paid vacation." Kate still had time off work.
Rick grinned at her. "You want to come on the next one? We have a lead on another Adventure."
"I need ammunition," Kate told them.
"YES! We have converted her." Rick could taste victory. "First we need to go to Waterdeep and have all that magic stuff identified. Maybe it's all yours, if it will help you. If not, we'll sell it for more coin and buy something else."
(+3 ring of protection, wand of fire, +3 bracers of armor, twenty +1 arrows)
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Kate was nervous. She was standing in his bathroom, naked in her Succubus form. She knew he was in the bedroom, likely in bed, and possibly just as naked. If she did this, there might be no going back.
She stepped out and saw him lying on his back on the bed; he was naked and an Incubus. She knew she needed male cum to live. She just didn't know what he needed. It couldn't possibly be the same, could it?
Kate put both hands over her mouth. All she really saw was his Cock. It was magnificent just to look at. It was also impossibly large. He was going to split her in two with that thing! But she so wanted to get her hands on it, and lick it, and do her best to get it to go down her throat.
Kate wasn't sure just how long they'd had sex, but it was a lot longer than she had ever done before. Castle had also given her more orgasms than she'd had for months, combined in just this one time.
Then he had fucked her, and she still didn't believe that his massive Cock had fit inside her. She even felt his cum fill her completely. There was so much of it. That was followed by her giving him a blowjob, and she got to taste herself on his Cock. She couldn't get it to go down her throat which was a first for her. Then she discovered what he tasted like. He wasn't salty, or bitter, or any combination of those like she was expecting. Instead, he tasted amazing.
Rick now was on his back. She was resting on him, her face on his chest, with his magnificent Cock still inside her. Kate lifted her head. "Is sex always like this?"
He smiled a lazy smile. "Nope… Better. I'm an Incubus. It's my job to make sure the woman I make love to experiences the most pleasure I can give her. I'm only just getting started. Wait till I give you a breast orgasm. I'm even hoping for an orgasm without ever even touching you."
"Oh, God!" Kate pressed her face against his chest. Then she lifted up. "I want my date first. Then we can go on this next Adventure. I just don't have a lot of vacation time to do this very often. So where are we going next?"
Rick arched an eyebrow. "It's a surprise."
"You do know I hate surprises?" Kate reminded him. "Rick! Where are we going?" Kate reached and took hold of his ear. "Better tell me."
Instead of an answer she felt him lift his ass off the bed, forcing his Cock deeper inside her which had her moaning in pleasure. God, but she loved his Cock.
"Tell me." Kate was ready to twist his ear when he lifted up and kissed her and then began fucking her while under her.
Oh, she hated him! But she was also falling in love with him. He was an Incubus and knew her secret. She could allow herself to fall in love with him now.
While Rick and Kate were making love, Alexis was out fucking a stranger to get the cum she needed. Back where they'd had the big fight, two large Red Dragons and three large Green Dragons each carrying a Cult member arrived. But they were stunned to realize they were too late. They found dead Cult members, two dead Black Dragons, and two dead Red Dragons.
They also came upon a lot of dead Zhentarim soldiers including the ones on the ship. "We will have our revenge. They will pay for this transgression. We will kill them all." He vowed to take his revenge and saw heads nodding in agreement.
At Moortown, what they found was even worse. A dead Red Dragon and three dead baby Red Dragons. They were too angry to think straight. The Zhentarim were behind all of this based on finding the others dead first.
They weren't Kate Beckett, the Homicide Detective or her partner, Richard Castle. So they only saw the Zhentarim doing all of this.
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Alexis Castle
+3 Ring of Protection
+3 Bracers of Armor
Rapier of Unerring Detection (This rapier has a curved blade and a hand guard of delicate golden filigree. This deadly weapon can find hidden enemies and pierce the protective magic that veils their true locations. When you wield a rapier of unerring detection, it functions as a +1 Ghost Touch rapier.
Relic Power: if you have established the proper divine connection, a rapier of unerring direction automatically ignores all miss chances, whether they stem from concealment, blink, displacement, or some other source.)
+3 Vest of Resistance
+3 Amulet of Natural Armor
Bag of Holding Type three (weighs just thirty-five pounds but can hold up to one thousand pounds of weight and has one hundred fifty cubic feet of space inside)
Belt of Many Pockets (sixty-four mini pockets that worked just like the bag of holding only hold smaller amounts)
Heward's Handy Haversack (bigger on the inside, what you want is always on top)
Boots of the Mountain King (full movement over rocky, and rough terrain and stoneskin)
Cloak of Shelter (four person tent as leomunds secure shelter)
Eye's of the Eagle (vastly increase your ability to see and spot things not normally seen)
Necklace of Fireballs Type V
Rope of Climbing (it will go up and wrap around anything on command and then release)
Wand of Detect Magic (thirty-three charges left)
Richard Castle
Belt of Holy Might (+2 armor, +4 strength, magic circle against evil, word of recall)
Moon Cloak (cloak of resistance plus levitation and water walk)
Moon Bracers (bracers of armor plus one dimension door per day)
Hewards Handy Haversack
Quiver of Ehlonna (Holds sixty arrows and ten javelins)
+3 Ring of Protection
Ring of Regeneration (Heal wounds slowly and grow a limb if one is cut off while wearing the ring, not after losing a limb)
Bag of Holding Type II (weighs twenty-five pounds, holds up to five hundred pounds, seventy cubic feet inside)
Boots of Teleportation (teleport instantly to a location you know clearly any distance)
Cloak of Displacement, Major (sixty percent chance of being missed)
Daern's Instant Fortress (it creates a three floor fortress with locked doors that no one can enter but you can shoot arrows or cast spells out of)
Bow of the Solars (+3 bow that turns every arrow into an arrow of slaying)
+3 Frost Brand Longsword (extra cold damage)