I stood naked in front of everyone with smoke coiling up around me, the scent of burning pubes hanging in the air while my sisters exchanged a smile of satisfaction, and I exhaled out in relief, sure that had stopped it. Even as Tyler bounced in his seat and angled his Atlas down at my dick, I knew there were worse fates than this.
Xavier was laughing his ass off beside him and as my gaze locked on him, I saw the truth. I saw him placing a potion in my coffee, so I knew it was him. I knew what he’d done. And as his eyes fell on me, his laughter fell away, because he knew I’d realised it too.
“XAVIER”！ I roared in anger, taking one step toward him, but then the pubes exploded back into action, seemingly spurred on by the fire that had stolen them away as they grew so fast, I was lost within them in moments, the weight of them pressing me down as I fell on my ass and I heard desks screeching everywhere as the pubes forced them back.
“Ah – run! The pubes are coming for us!” Caleb cried and the sound of footsteps racing for the door carried to me.
“Sorry, Gabriel!” Tory cried as they abandoned me.
“I’m coming!” Orio’s voice reached me and the sound of something swinging and slashing reached me before Orion appeared, cutting his way through the forest of pubes which must have filled the whole room now. His face was strained as he fought to get to me with the sun steel blade in his hand, the pubes driving him back time and again as he gritted his teeth and battled his way towards me. “Hang on, Noxy. I’m almost there.”
I reached for him in desperation, the pubes pushing me down time and again so I kept losing sight of him, but my warrior of a friend kept fighting his way towards me, braving the sea of my pubes which tickled his face and got in his mouth.
He spluttered and powered on, cutting his way towards me until his hand reached for mine and I latched hold of it tightly.
“Don’t let go,” I begged, like Rose trying to cling to Jack at the end of Titanic. But we all knew how that had turned out.
“I won’t. I’ve got you,” he promised, as he tried to pull me from the pubes which were trying to carry him away on a tide, his hand squeezing as he dragged me towards him.
But the tide was too strong and he was being forced backwards as he held out a potion with his other hand, offering it to me. I reached out with my free hand to grab it, but the pubes formed a wall I couldn’t get through.
“Orio!” I cried.
“Noxy!” he called in return as his hand started slipping out of mine.
He fought his way forward once more, the potion now bobbing along on a gust of air he cast, bringing it to my lips.
“Open your mouth,” he commanded and I tipped my head back, doing as he asked. But as Orion flipped it upside down with his air magic, the cursed pubes intervened, knocking it to one side and the potion spilled into my eye instead, the liquid stinging like a motherfucker.
“Ahh!” I wailed, the burning intensifying.
I could feel Orion’s hand slipping further from my grip and I held onto his fingers with all I had.
“Don’t let go,” I growled again, squinting out into the pubes as my eyes burned and I hunted for him.
His face appeared through the pubes once more, his eyes full of apology as he shook his head.
“I’m so sorry, Noxy.” His fingers slipped from my grasp and my friend was swallowed away into the black forest of pubes like a monster had drawn him into its depths.
I shouted after him in desperation as the pubes thickened so much that I was plunged into darkness. And only one thought remained with me there.
Xavier Acrux is going to pay.
I cantered down the corridors in my Fae form with a neigh of victory as Sofia ran at my side, pink glitter cascading from her blonde hair as she smiled.
“You really did that?” she laughed.
“Yeah, and he’s gonna freaking kill me when he gets out of there,” I said with a snort of laughter.
“You’re so funny, Xavier,” she said with a wide grin.
“Oh yeah?” My chest puffed up as we turned another corner and slowed to a halt. We were both breathless as we hid in the dark and adrenaline was coursing through my veins.
“How did you do it?”
“It was all about distraction,” I said with a shrug. “I got someone else to make the potion, then I left the opportunity to chance.”
“That’s genius.” She smiled, her eyes dipping to my mouth and suddenly I was moving toward her, aching for her as I slid my hand into her hair and pressed her back against the wall.