Into the fields of Summer - 104. Voices from Beyond

After my unexpected energy outburst, I felt tired, incredibly tired which is something unusual for me. “I’m sleepy,” I said, as Victor crawled into the bed with me. My uncle and Yal had already left the room a few minutes ago, when the situation calmed down and they felt I was somehow stable and feeling better.

“Go ahead and sleep. I’ll keep you company,” Victor said, as he slowly brushed my hair with his hand. My boyfriend’s touch has always been comforting and this time was no different, every time our skin made contact, I felt his soothing presence and care for me. God, I love this man!

“What if I have an outburst again,” I said with concern in my voice. I certainly was not looking forward to trading in my Kumhaktas for a demon version of it.

“Do you still feel unwell?” Victor asked.

“No, just sleepy,”

“Then sleep. We’ll work things out in the morning, what’s important now is that you’re able to rest.”

I wanted to argue, but I knew he was right. I was definitely tired, and as much as I wanted to look deeper into what just happened, I could barely lift a finger or stay conscious. It did not take long for me to fall asleep.

I was afraid that somehow Yonthar would visit me again in my dreams, but to my relief nothing, no dreams at all. Next time I opened my eyes, sunlight was already peering through the curtains while Victor was spooning me. Oh, how I relish his touch, I can never get enough of it. Despite being a vampire, Victor’s actually pretty warm.

I spent several more minutes enjoying the bed but nature won over and I had to take my morning piss. Victor only mumbled a bit as I made a dash for the toilet.

When I got back from the toilet, Victor was already waking up.

“Good morning,” I said, smiling as my boyfriend yawned and stretched on the bed.

“Mornin’ you feel better?” Victor asked as he rubbed his eyes.

“Yeah, refreshed and more energetic,” I replied, with a smile as I joined Victor on the bed. I laid on my stomach and propped my chin on my hand and looked at my handsome boyfriend.

“What?” Victor asked, with a confused expression.

“You’re handsome,” I grinned at him.

“I know,” he smugly replied.

“Cocky much?”

“Last time I checked you loved my cock,” he retorted.

“That’s not what I meant,” I replied, slightly scandalized with this playful banter.

“So, you don’t want my cock?”

“Hey! I didn’t say that,” I protested. Then to prove my point, let’s just say I gave my boyfriend one hell of a good morning blowjob.

—

Dad, Etalos and Nomir were already eating breakfast when Victor and I joined them.

“You doing okay Chris?” My dad asked.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I replied.

“We felt it last night you know. Wanted to make a dash for your room but your uncle stopped us,” dad said, as he took a bite of his toast.

“Probably for the best you didn’t see me last night. I was a mess,” I replied, slightly embarrassed at what happened.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” Nomir asked.

“Yeah, very much so, I plan to go to the Tower and realm today to look into it.”

At that point My uncle, Yal, Kalron, and Jetan walked in to join us.

They all checked on me and I reassured them, I was feeling better.

“Guys, relax, Chris is back to his old self, so back to his old self that he gave me a...”

“Victooor!” I said as I put both my hands on my boyfriend’s mouth. I was beet red and everyone else couldn’t help but laugh.

“See... he’s back to his old energetic self, not that I’m complaining,” Victor said as he winked at me. Seriously, when did this become acceptable over breakfast? But at least dad was laughing and yeah, I did give Victor one of my best Chris Supreme BJs.

“Okay lovebirds, TMI,” my uncle said, as he struggled to hold in his laughter.

I collected myself and then asked Kalron, “So, did the energy scanners capture anything last night?”

“Actually Chris, yes, the results were rather surprising.”

“Surprising or more of another world record broken?” Yal teased.

“What... what did the scanners say?” I asked.

“Your little outburst last night, not only sent our scanners in Greensburg haywire, even scanners as far as New York and Atlanta were able to detect it,” Yal replied.

“Am sorry what?”

“No one got hurt right?”

“No one got hurt, whatever happened last night was more of an energy earthquake of some sort, nothing physical,” my uncle replied as he calmly ate his food.

“Why are you so calm about this?” I asked as I was starting to panic.

“Chris, it’s you we are talking about. In the months I’ve known you, I’ve come to learn to think that anything’s possible, whenever a new record is broken, I’m less flabbergasted and more curious, then we can sort things out as we look deeper,” my uncle replied.

“That’s after the initial shock of course, no matter how calm you try to be, it’s always a shock at first,” Yal added as he gave a light chuckle.

“It can’t always be that surprising,” I complained.

They all exchanged glances that told me otherwise.

—-

After breakfast, I decided to work on the portal to the realm. I meditated in one of the spare rooms in my wing of the house. I collected my thoughts and went deep into my mind. Information regarding the realm and the barrier came flooding in, I added some things I’ve read in the scrolls and books, with the information Patri gave me.

I tugged on my chains and they loosened enough for me to have access to a larger amount of energy. I then reached out with my mind to the spare room in the palace where Patri wanted the portal to be, then I concentrated on the floor in front of me. Slowly, but surely a circular slab of stone materialized in front of me. The stone was gray and smooth, barely 4 feet across, just enough for two or three people to fit at any given time.

The room was abuzz with energy and I could feel that the stone was directly connected to its counterpart on the other side. I infused it with my energy, so anyone using the portal will only need to tug on their magic to activate it rather than pour energy into the stones as they would in a normal portal. I can’t have my friends unnecessarily waste their energy.

To make sure that no unwanted entity can use this portal, I cast recognition spells and embedded them in the portal, with this, only friends and family can use it.

After more than half an hour of crafting the portal, I was done!

Just before lunch I pulled my uncle and Etalos with me to what is now the portal room.

“What’s this?” My uncle asked.

“It’s the portal duh,” I replied.

“Wait what?”

“Chris, did you just make a portal in less than an hour?” Etalos asked.

“Sure, I did, was it supposed to be shorter?” I asked curiously, I was starting to think that my abilities were getting rusty.

“No no, the portals we have in the realm took almost a month!” My uncle replied.

“Oh, uhm, well this is smaller so surely this one is easier to make, right?”

“Uh Huh,” my uncle shook his head in disbelief.

“Wanna try it out?” I asked with excitement in my voice. I was definitely proud of this portal.

“Sure, how do we activate it?”

“Just pour some of your energy on it then that should take you to the palace. Let’s have Etalos try it.”

“Chris, I’m barely a silver, I can’t possibly open a portal alone,” Etalos replied with a hint of resignation in his voice.

“None sense, this is our portal, I made sure anyone of us can use it, even dad or Leo,” I almost smugly replied as I repeatedly raised a single eyebrow at them.

“Seriously?” Etalos replied as his eyes widened in near shock but more of excitement at the thought of being able to open a portal on his own.

“Definitely serious, trust me on this, this is our special portal, with this I won’t have to ferry all of you across the barrier.”

“Then come on now Etalos, try it,” my uncle said as he lightly pushed my assistant towards the stone.

We all gathered inside the stone and with after taking a deep breath, Etalos said, “Here goes nothing,”

The transition to the realm was almost instant and after being surrounded by a bright flash of light and mild tingling on the skin, we found ourselves in the palace.

“Wow,” Etalos said as we stepped off the stone into the portal room in the palace.

“Well done Chris,” My uncle said.

“See, seamless,” I proudly retorted.

“A smoother experience than the normal portals, it’s as if there’s no resistance at all,” my uncle proudly noted.

“Well duh, I designed it to be that way.”

“Chris, those required major alterations in the barrier,” my uncle said.

“Not much really, just a snip here and there and vwalla, portal ala Haldruin”

“Here’s another one for the books,” my uncle muttered shaking his head as we exited the room.

It was almost midnight in the realm due to the time difference so the palace was quiet. My uncle headed to his office to check on his ministry while Etalos went to ours, weirdly enough I’ve never set foot in my office in the realm. With my two companions busy with their own errands, I decided to visit the palace library.

The library was large and eerily quiet, but then again, the tower was very much like this as well. I used the digital catalogue to check on Tashik magic and ancient spells and surprisingly enough there were a few books available on those topics.

I finished skimming through 3 books within an hour but I discovered nothing of note. Oh well, I guess I should try the tower for this.

—-

We made it back to Greensburg at 1pm for a late lunch, after which I showed Dad, Yal, Nomir, Kalron, and Jetan how to use the portal. To see their reactions on using the portal was priceless, they were all so giddy and excited. My dad couldn’t believe it when he activated the portal with ease. He described it as just a light tingle on his magic and then the portal just opened for him. I can’t wait to show this to Victor, Leo, and August.

My friends did not wait to put the portal to good use. The portal room was busy for the rest of the day as various memos and orders were exchanged between the two worlds.

Late evening, I went to the realm with Victor and my uncle to visit Patri.

“I heard you’ve finished the portal,” Patri said from behind his desk.

“Faster than expected father,” my uncle noted.

“Well, this certainly will make it easier for us to coordinate our operations,” Patri noted.

“Patri, there’s something else we want to talk to you about,” I said.

“What is it?”

“Well, I kind of had an episode last night,” I sullenly remarked.

“Episode?”

“Chris gave off waves upon waves of energy sir, he was in a different state of sorts while it was happening,” Victor noted.

“What do you mean?”

“Kalron’s scanners as far as New York and Atlanta even detected it, it was some sort of energy earthquake,” My uncle added.

“Are you okay Chris? Was this another Kumhakta? I thought the chains had taken care of those,” my grandfather said, as he stood from his chair. He approached me and tilted my face as if to inspect me.

“I’m fine Patri, maybe another scan?” I said shrugging my shoulders.

“I’ll call Sarad to have it arranged,” Patri replied after a few more light touches on my arms and face.

Changing topics, Patri asked my uncle, “Any updates on the demon threat?”

“None so far, they’ve been quiet since Yonthar perished.”

“There’s another thing I’m worried about sir,” Victor said.

“What is it Victor?”

“The Blood Army, they’ve been awfully quiet ever since the Gustav incident, even our agents and intelligence officers are surprised with their lack of activity,” Victor said with a worried expression on his face.

“Has our network discovered anything about this?”

“None so far father, our information aligns with that of the VHC’s,” My uncle replied.

“Victor, has there been other times that the Blood Army has been like this?”

“Yes, but not this quiet, there have always been low level attacks in rural vampire or sometimes even human and werewolf establishment at least once a week even on their most quiet moments, but this time, nothing. Even the vampire syndicates have toned down their activities,” Victor said with clear frustration and confusion in his voice.

“Can we assume they’ve been wiped out? If I remember correctly, Gustav was easily able to infiltrate their ranks and killed one of their founders, Agatha,” I asked.

“So, a demon wipeout of the Blood Army?” My uncle asked.

“But where are the bodies? Surely there should be hundreds if not a few thousand members of the Blood Army, right? With the syndicates included there should even be more,” Patri said.

“Could they have been turned into Anami? That would be a problem,” Victor said as he crossed his arms and mull things over.

“Another general then?” My uncle asked.

“Chris, when you invaded the female demon’s mind, did you gather any intel or hint regarding the Blood Army or syndicates?”

“Nothing that would point towards this,” I grimly replied.

—-

Victor stayed with me for the night. He didn’t want to risk me being alone in case I have another episode, at least until we get the scan again with Sarad. We were supposed to have the scan earlier but the Master Healer and Zenfar felt that the equipment was not yet up to the task.

I fell asleep beside Victor as my boyfriend was busy handling VHC affairs on his laptop. Being a councilor certainly made him busier compared to his days as a governor or maybe it’s just due to this demon crisis.

I was alone in the middle of a grassy field again, I was lucid enough to know that I was dreaming. The wind felt cold against my skin and the rusting of the leaves and grass made it all seem real. I looked around and and reached out with my energy only to realize that I was with someone.

The bright blue sky and the fresh breeze of the cold air made me feel at ease. I felt no threat from whomever that was watching me.

“Hello?” I called out.

Silence.

“Yonthar?” I loudly asked.

Silence.

“Uhm... someone else out there? Hello?”

“Hello, young prince,” a calm and soothing voice of a woman replied.

“Please show yourself,” I said.

“It’s not time,” replied a man’s voice.

“When will the time be?” I asked.

“You’ll know,” the woman replied.

“Who are you?”

Silence

“What are you?”

“There...” a younger man’s voice replied.

“I’m confused,” I almost desperately replied.

“We’ve been there,” a younger woman’s voice echoed in the air.

“Huh?”

“Soon,” the older man replied, as his voice rumbled through the otherwise quiet field.

As the dream faded away, I heard the quiet rustling of chains from beyond.

—-

I was greeted by piercing green eyes intently looking at me when I woke up.

“What are you looking at?” I asked Victor.

“You, you seemed to have been having quite a nice dream,” he mused.

“Hmm,”

“You were drooling,” Victor lightly laughed.

“I do not drool!”

Victor cupped my face with his left hand and used his thumb to wipe off some liquid I refuse to call saliva from the corners of my lips.

“See?” He replied with a raised eyebrow.

I could only huff in response.

“It’s good to know that even a prince drools in his sleep,” Victor teased as he put his thumb on his mouth and sucked on it.

“Victor... that’s gross,” I remarked.

“We’ve done other liquids, and besides how is this any different from kissing you?” Victor replied with a grin.

*groan* point taken.

“So, what were you dreaming of? Do you remember?”

“Voices,” I somberly replied.

“Voices?”

“Yeah, just voices.”

“Yonthar?”

“No, different, I don’t know. I’m even more confused now,”

“Something we should worry about?”

“I don’t think so, I didn’t feel like they meant me any harm.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah, they said it wasn’t time,”

“Time for what?”

“I don’t know.”

“You’re certainly a man of mystery, aren’t you?”

“Too much mystery for my liking,” I replied.

“Come on, breakfast,” Victor said, he roused from the bed.

—-

Tuesday morning was mainly spent with me studying for my upcoming matriculation test. Dad was with Etalos to learn more Air magic while My uncle, Yal, and Jetan went back to the realm to deal with their ministerial duties. Nomir was busy coordinating with his vampire and werewolf counterparts while Kalron spent most of his time coordinating our intelligence effort. My boyfriend on the other hand spent his day with Henry as they worked on Henry’s transition into being the vampire OIC for Virginia.

“The snow’s getting worse,” dad said as he observed the snowfall from the kitchen window.

“Are we expecting a blizzard?” I asked.

“Nothing like that mentioned in the news,” dad replied.

“I hope this isn’t one of those Arctic blast I’ve heard you mention before,” Etalos said. With his statement, I remembered how the realm did not have any such things.

“Don’t worry about it Etalos, if it comes to that it will just be for a night or two,” I said.

“That’s scary,” Etalos meekly replied. Oh, is my assistant precious or what? He’s too cute for his own good! I gotta find him a boyfriend!

After lunch, I went to the Tower to see if it had anything about my recent dreams. I found myself in one of the deeper levels of the tower, how many stories underground? That I don’t know.

I reached out to the tower with my magic and started speaking to it, “Uhm hello? I need your help again.”

Silence. Though what did I expect? If the tower started to speak, I would have been scared shitless.

I tried to recall both the dreams I had in the recent nights and tried to convey it to the tower with my magic.

After several seconds, I felt a tug in my senses and I was drawn into a series of shelves.

I could only hope that the three books in front of me will be of help with whatever dilemma I’m faced with.

Flipping through the pages of the first book, I found it empty. Ha! Can’t fool me now, I know how to deal with this, I thought to myself. I poured energy into the book but nothing.

I tried the second book and just like the first one it was blank, the third book wasn’t any different. No matter the amount of energy I poured into the books, not a single letter appeared!

I was about to give up and just staled the books on top of each other. In frustration I let out a loud groan and in anger, slight outburst of energy that may or may have not shook the tower’s walls.

To my amazement the books started glowing and then out of instinct I let out another burst of energy but this time directing most of it to the books. I could only hope the realm’s sensors would not go haywire as I’m sure I’m pouring in a Platinum’s worth of energy into the stack of books.

I could feel the air vibrate as the entire floor was awash with energy. The books continued to glow and then they started to fuse!

“What the...” I muttered to myself.

The book in front of me looked new and was bound in white leather with gold and silver inscriptions along its spine.

“Evalta par Shazag” It read in an ancient elvish dialect.

‘What’s this supposed to mean?’ I asked myself, this dialect is reminiscent but slightly different from the elvish I know and the ancient elvish I’ve encountered before.

“What now Tower?” I asked out loud.

Silence, as expected.

Skimming through the pages, I realize that I’m unable to understand the book! *groan

I thought of pouring more energy into the book in hope of maybe the letters would rearrange themselves but nope, didn’t work.

“Fuuuck!”

Frustrated and in resignation, I left the tower with the book in tow.

—-
After Dinner, I asked Kalron to give me an update on the events of the day. He informed me that there weren’t any suspicious movements across the cities we’ve been monitoring.

“That’s a good thing, right?” I asked.

“Gives us more time to prepare,” he replied.

“How’s the training of the agents?”

“It’s in full swing and the WCC and VHC sent more agents to join the effort.”

“Is the New York facility large enough?”

“For now, it is.”

“How about its security?”

“It’s well protected, we’ve had several of our agents cast protective spells around it.”

“Let me know if I there’s anything I can do to help.”

“Of course, Chris.”

“We should look into opening more training facilities. I’ll talk to Patri and my uncle about that. Do you think the WCC or the VHC has a large enough compound to host such a large retinue?”

“We know of several facilities.”

“Great! I’ll make that happen then.”

—-

It’s refreshing to see my other uncle and Matra again. Finally, they’re back from the provinces.

“I missed both of you!” I said as I hugged each of them.

“We missed you too,” Matra said as she returned my hug.

“We’ve heard you’ve had quite the adventure,” My uncle said as he hugged me.

“That’s quite the understatement uncle.”

“Haha! I bet it is.”

Patri, Matra, and both my uncles were present to see me get scanned by Zenfar and Sarad again.

“We’ve made the necessary upgrades. Hopefully it’s enough to capture the most minute changes in Chris’ abilities,” Zenfar said.

“I’m not sure if there’s anything else we can do if this scan fails,” Sarad added.

I entered the tube and spent several minutes inside it. The faces of Zenfar and Sarad were hard to read. They just exchanged glances as the data streamed through the screens in front of them.

“So, anything significant?” Patri asked a few minutes after I walked out of the tube.

“I don’t even know where to begin Your Majesty,” Zenfar sighed in response.

“Is it bad?” I squeaked.

“We don’t think so,” Master Healer Sarad replied.

“You don’t think so?” Matra asked in a concerned manner.

“What do you mean by that Sarad?” Patri added, his voice concerned yet anxious at the same time.

Sarad and Zenfar exchanged looks and after a moment or two, Zenfar spoke, “Sir, Chris’ energy signature changed again,”

“Huh?” Patri remarked.

“Wait... energy signature? Not energy level?” Uncle Rehanmir clarified.

“Yes, your highness.”

“Then why didn’t the alarms go off again?”

“It’s not demon energy that triggered the change.”

“So, Yonthar’s energy is no longer in me?” I asked.

“It’s still there sir, but something else was added into the mix, several actually”

“Come again?” I asked.

“Multiple elvish signatures have been added sir, but observing the data it seems they’re all being integrated to yours, if we scanned you next week instead of today, there’s a high chance we wouldn’t have captured this.”

“I’m assimilating these unknown energies?”

“Yes.”

“What else do we know of these energy signatures?” Matra asked.

“Aside from them being elvish in nature, we know they’re all something that’s dissimilar to anything we have in the census.”

“And that means?” Matra clarified.

“It’s old, very old in fact.”

—-

“So how was your scan? Sorry I couldn’t join you.” Victor said as he crawled into the bed with me.

“Confusing,” I replied as I laid my head on Victor’s bare chest.

“Care to explain?”

“Are you sure you want to hear? It’s more questions than answers I’m afraid.”

My boyfriend chuckled, “what’s new with that?”

“Fair enough,” I replied lightly laughing as well.

I explained to Victor what the results were and he did his best to appear not so surprised.

“So, wait? Are you saying there are multiple beings inside of you?”

“I don’t know Victor. Sarad and Zenfar are not confident that the scan would be able to ascertain that theory.”

“Well at least you’re assimilating them into you right?”

“Yeah, even Yonthar’s is slowly being diluted they said. Maybe that’s why I’m less grumpy now.”

“Oh yeah, grumpy you is scary.”

“Not that scary.”

“Say that to the demons you vaporized. That certainly gave me quite the scare.”

“So... you afraid of me?” I asked.

“Should I be?”

“Maybe...” I said with a mischievous grin.

“Oh no, I know that look!”

I moved so fast Victor wasn’t able to stop me from riding the erect cock he was hiding underneath the sheets.

—-

“I’m still here,” came from a sinister looking version of myself.

“Yonthar?”

“No matter how much you try to absorb me, my essence will remain, you cannot erase me,” he smugly replied.

“Wrong!” a thunderous voice interjected. It came from all directions I couldn’t decipher where it was coming from.

“What are you doing Chris? Who’s out there? It should just be the both of us in here!”

“Light will erase what is dark. With absolute and eternal light, even shadows disappear,” came from another female’s voice. It was firm yet soothing at the same time.

Yonthar’s eyes blew wide open as if he realized something. His eyes shined bright purple as he struggled to move from his spot.

“No no... this can’t be happening! You’re all just a myth!” He screamed.

“What are you saying Yonthar?” I asked in awe and shock as I watched him squirm.

“You don’t even know do you?” Yonthar replied, his eyes in panic and all his movements spoke of terror and desperation.

“What’s happening Yonthar?”

And before the demon could reply, I was pulled out of the dream.

—-

I was gasping for air when I woke up.

“Chris? Are you okay?” Victor asked.

“Yeah, just a nightmare I think”

“Chris, we know your dreams aren’t just dreams right? Those could be visions.” Victor said as he felt my forehead with his hand to check if I had a fever.

“Fuck, I can barely remember what it was about, but I know Yonthar was there, and voices, ugh shit shit, I’ve lost it. The more I try to remember the more I forget!”

“Chris, take it easy. I’ll get you some water okay?”

“Thanks, Victor.”

After drinking some water and Victor’s soothing touch, I was able to go back to sleep. No more nightmares or visions this time around.

God, what did I dream about? I just feel it was important but I couldn’t help but have the memory of it fall out of my grasp.

—-

“You feeling better?” Victor asked as we ate breakfast together. For a change we decided to eat at the Diner. It’s been so long since I last visited the place.

“Yeah, way better. Where’s Nomir and Etalos they should be here soon!” I complained, I invited the two elves to join us at the diner.

“Remember, it was you that asked them to do those errands first you know?”

“Yeah, I almost forgot.”

“What were those errands about anyway?”

“Leo’s birthday is coming up!” I said.

“Wait what? And you did not tell me about this? Does August even know?!”

“Of course, he does, well I think he does.”

“When is Leo’s birthday?”

“This Saturday.”

Victor pulled out his phone and dialed August’s number.

“August, what are your plans for Leo’s birthday. He’s turning 18 you know.”

I could hear a panic stricken werewolf on the other side of the phone. I couldn’t quite understand what he was trying to say but I did hear several expletives.

“August, it’s this Saturday, get your sorry ass back in Greensburg by then!” Victor said as he ended the call.

“I guess that means he doesn’t know?” I chuckled.

“I can’t believe he doesn’t know Leo’s birthday. Werewolves...” Victor said in an accusatory manner.

“And my birthday is when?” I asked Victor with a slightly raised eyebrow.

“September...” Victor said as he tried to avoid my gaze.

“September when?”

“September uhm... “

I felt a slight nudge in my mental shields, “No cheating Victor, you know my mental shields are stronger than yours,”

“I swear I know. It just slipped okay?” Victor said in a rather defensive manner as he crossed his arms.

“As if you know mine,” Victor accused.

“Is that a dare Victor Meyer?” I said as I tilted my head as if to challenge my boyfriend to dare me.

“No...”

“I thought so,” I smirked back at him.

“At least I know the month!” He defended himself.

“Do you know that forgetting a prince’s birthday is a punishable offense?”

“And what would the punishment be?” Victor dared to ask.

I shot him a mental image of me draining his balls. Hmm... a long day of sucking and fucking should satiate a miffed royal’s cravings. Gosh am I a horny boy or what? I’d like to think this is still some lingering effect from the Ascension, or maybe just maybe I’m as horny as I seem to be.