CHAPTER 186

"-and technically, ball lightning is it's own event, so—" Quetzalli was cut off again as Dana grabbed her by the hand and pulled her onto her feet.

"I think we've got a power source," Dana said. "I'll take care of the spirits, but it'll take some time. Once we're out of here, the...the spirits will come for you again." It was now getting hard to concentrate.

"Oh, don't worry about the spirits," Lily said. "I can handle them. I eat souls, remember?"

Dana nodded, then left Lily and Beth behind. As they ran toward the greenhouse, spirits tried to block them, but Quetzalli moved ahead and zapped a few. In her freshly fed state, Dana easily tore through them, letting a cry of rage that sent the ghosts running. Though they were ethereal in nature, they had still been regular men and women once, and she assumed were still prone to fear.

Once inside the greenhouse, Dana let out a few ragged breaths as she opened the case with the drones inside. There were four of them, and she pulled out their manual controls and frowned. She didn't have time for a pre-programmed flight path, and definitely didn't want Quetzalli to touch the controls for fear of shorting them out.

"Fuck it," she muttered, then thought about how the controls worked. The drones could do a pre-programmed flight, but when controlled manually, would try to return to the controller if they started to go out of range. With a flash of inspiration, she looked around on the ground and found a stick she could wedge into the joystick. After flying the first drone up about twenty feet, she flew it out over the jungle, then wedged the control stick in place. The drone drifted away from them, then shuddered when it reached the edge of its range and tried to return. Once it regained its connection, it turned around and tried to fly away again.

Satisfied that her plan worked, she repeated the process with the other three drones, then fell to her knees, gasping for air. The whole world felt hot, and she took a few deep breaths, trying to regain control.

"I imagine they won't appreciate that," Quetzalli muttered, her eyes looking out over the darkness. Moonlight streamed through her silver hair, making her look like an angel surrounded by a holy aura. "I thought you knew about the thunderbirds."

Dana slid her arms around Quetzalli's waist, then moved her hands up to cup the dragon's breasts. "I know this isn't the time or place for this," she said, her hands squeezing the soft, fleshy mounds beneath her fingers. "But maybe if we hurry..."

Quetzalli chuckled. "Everything feels so exciting right now. I bet we have a few minutes before it gets here." She turned and kissed Dana, sending a jolt through her body. "Besides, I could use a bit of a charge myself."

Dana groaned, then melted into Quetzalli's arms, allowing her hands to roam down the dragon's back and across her buttocks. They fell to the ground together and became a tangle of arms and legs as the drones buzzed in the distance. Dazzling streamers of electricity created an aura around Quetzalli's horn that illuminated the ground around them, and Dana lost herself in the dragon's flesh.

The frenzied race for an orgasm was interrupted only once by the distant rumbling of thunder.

"Do you really think she knows what she's doing?" Beth asked Lily as the spirits closed in.

"I absolutely do." She winked, then grabbed Beth by her arms and flew them up to the roof. She landed on the undamaged turret and let Beth go. "But I told a bit of a fib. Yes, I do eat souls, but it requires sex. Can't bone a spirit."

"Mike would say that's because you aren't trying hard enough."

Lily laughed. "You'd think so, but Romeo has more style than that. I can't keep those spirits off your back, so remind me what we need to do so I can do it."

Beth pointed at the gate to the Underworld. "I think Cerberus can take out the Jabberwock, but it's just Yuki and Abella taking it on." As if on cue, the Jabberwock was laid out over the roof again, and it scrambled back toward the front yard, its claws shredding the roof. Metal beams were being exposed now, and Beth was fairly certain she could see into somebody's bedroom. "I was hoping we could get Sulyvahn to help Cerberus escape, but he's trapped out front. He's the only one who can hurt the spirits."

"Well, fuck me sideways, then. Guess it's time to improvise." Lily popped her knuckles and then launched herself into the fray. At first, Beth thought Lily was going to attack the Jabberwock, but she instead flew to Yuki first and shouted something that Beth couldn't hear. The kitsune nodded, then summoned ice all along the roof that clamped down on the Jabberwock, pinning it in place.

Puzzled at this development, Beth's confusion deepened when Lily moved next to Abella, gesticulating wildly and then pointing at her tail. Abella's features changed from anger to shock, then embarrassment. Her cheeks were dark as she bent over and pulled her heavy tail to the side.

Lily's tail entered Abella's pussy, then pumped in and out for a few moments before withdrawing. Beth slid against the turret until she was sitting, then pinched herself to make sure that she wasn't dreaming. What on earth was Lily up to?

Lily blew the gargoyle a kiss, and then leapt into the sky, now headed for Beth.

Abella let out a warcry, and when she charged the Jabberwock this time, her dark eyes glittered with light as she slammed into the beast hard enough to break the ice trapping it apart. She wrapped her tail around the Jabberwock's throat like a hook and yanked hard enough that the beast toppled over and was dragged across the roof, tearing away shingles to reveal bare wood beneath. They fell together into the back garden, and the Jabberwock landed on its back, smashing into the flowerpots that had been set around Naia's fountain and shattering the ice that clogged it.