Welcome to the final season of Black Devil! Thank you so much for your dedication to this story!  ***   ***   *** The air around Hades was thick with fog. Somewhere in the distance, a light shone but he could barely see it through the murkiness.Shivering, he sat up and reached for Doll. His no-fur had been right next to him when they'd fallen asleep. But Hades couldn't find him anywhere. Hades reached out further into the gloom. He wasn't finding anything. No sleeping no-fur but even more than that, there was nothing.He wasn't even sitting on a solid surface. There was just blank space for as far as his limbs could reach.He started crawling, but Hades couldn't be sure that he was even moving. Nothing changed. The light didn't get any closer, the fog was the same no matter which way he looked."Doll!" Hades called out but his voice seemed to be swallowed up by the fog.

Gripping Doll tightly to his chest, Hades looked around for the source of the voice. It was familiar and yet not. He couldn't quite place it but Hades wasn't about to let anything take Doll away from him again."You can fuck off. He's mine!" Hades called out to the fog that had settled in around the mating room. The walls were fading as it crept closer and closer."I don't understand what's happening, Hades." Doll sounded afraid but was clearly trying not to. "But I can feel the aura, and it wants to hurt us. I don't think you should provoke it.""Little late for that, cutie." The Black Throne laughed. "He's too proud to not provoke me. Isn't that right, Shadwell?"The first attempt of the black sand to infiltrate and control his body hit Hades like a truck."Don't call me that. No one uses that name anymore." Hades growled as his entire body went rigid trying to fight off the invasion.He recognized that energy even if the voice was new. He'd stolen this exact energy from King during

Though they'd traded the stolen rowboat for something more suited to long-distance sea travel, the boat was still too small for Agent's tastes. The Hare Nickel was everywhere he turned. He had no space to escape into his own thoughts and plots.Not for the first time since Nickel had fished him out of the ocean, Agent wished he had drowned. The emptiness he could feel at the other end of his Innehavre bond with King was a crushing weight, distracting him from what he needed to do. Agent laughed to himself at the irony. Missing King was making it next to impossible to finish the battle with the Orangelo that would allow him to have his lover back.On top of the emotional ache, Agent was plagued with physical ones as well. Every stitched and stapled bit of his half-tom, half-no-fur body was a tapestry of agony. Even dressed in winter clothing, wrapped in a thick blanket, and frequently cuddled by his Hare companion, Agent couldn't get warm. All of his powers, so recently awakened, were

Everyone who mattered to him was gone. Spitfire was alone.It wasn't that he didn't like Lexi and Jinx, but they weren't his mates. They were barely more than strangers. And the other two - Priest and Ink - that was complicated. Ink had been kind to him and Doll while they were on the ship. But his mate Priest had tried to drain their magick and sell them to Hares as breeding stock. Though Priest was Guru's brother and that made him uncle to some of the kits Spitfire carried, he wasn't sure if he wanted anything to do with him.Sitting by himself, watching the water pass by, was making him crazy. Especially as he had no idea where Guru was and their other mates Hades and Doll were trapped in a healing bubble. All three of them were out of his reach. He could only feel the impression of them on the fringes of his mind but touching their auras, feeling their presence was not possible.Looking around the boat, Spitfire saw that Lexi was asleep in a hammock and

It's time to go.A voice that sounded something like Jinx but wasn't quite right woke Hades up from his peaceful rest curled around Doll. Grumbling, the tom put his face under his arm, nuzzling down against the back of Doll's neck. He wasn't ready to wake up and no annoying Orangelo was going to make him.But there was another energy tugging on Hades's aura. It was a soft pull, distant and vague, but he worried it wouldn't stay that way. It was Spitfire, after all. That little beast was up to something and it was going to require Hades getting involved before he blew up anything important.Your time here is done.That voice again. Hades wanted to tell it right where to stick its annoying little sounds. He heaved a sigh. No matter what he wanted, the pull from Spitfire and the push from the weird voice-energy thing were working together to get him out of the space Jinx had stuck them in."Wake up, Doll." Hades wasn't going to disappear while his no-fur was sleeping. He needed to let hi