Chapter 53 Lucian
Iliterally ran straight to Sage stark naked with conditioner in my hair and I was still too late.
Sage was gone and the locker room reeked of ozone.
A few people in my class had figured out who they were and were coming into their magic.
Professor Adamastus encouraged us to use what we had in his class, but don’t kill anyone.
I had enhanced everything now, and I had to stay alive by feeding off the magic in people’s blood. I knew what everyone’s magic smelled like who had used it in front of me. I’d been to Lola and Radames’s crime scenes.
This wasn’t them. Whoever did this had some kind of weather power and they knew how to portal because I could hear two heartbeats frantically beating in here when I arrived and then they were gone.
Everyone loved Sage and as far as I knew, Lola and Radames weren’t in killing moods anymore because they finally figured out what they were doing wasn’t working. And this wasn’t them.
Liam and Khalid came running in behind me, also naked and covered in soap. Liam had managed to grab his switchblade, which he was waving around like a maniac. He was wild enough to take someone’s eye out by accident and angry enough to stab me again like this was my fault.
I took a step away from him. I had no problem biting him again if he came at me with that knife, but I drew the line when his dick was out.
“Where is she?” Liam demanded.
“Someone locked her in and whoever it was can portal. I saw them carry her through it after I broke the door down but it closed up behind him and I couldn’t follow through it.
It’s not Radames. It stinks of ozone in here.
The outline of the profile is different from his.
Whoever it was is bigger than him. He’s huge. ”
I was analyzing everything I remembered when I entered this room. It wasn’t just the scent. The light from the portal just gave me a silhouette of the man who took her, but the man was massive.
“You’re right. It smells like a storm in here, but nothing is wet. If that fucker has some kind of lightning power and electrocuted her, I’ll kill him.”
“Do we think Ivar maybe hulked out, saved her, and she’s back in her dorm room?”
“No. There were only two people in here and Ivar has that man bun. It wasn’t Ivar.”
“Excuse me,” Liam said, marching out of the locker room naked.
Khalid shifted and followed. Fuck me. I didn’t want to follow naked, but someone had kidnapped Sage, so it was an emergency. I know I wasn’t the only one reaching out to her through our bond. She wasn’t answering, which meant she was unconscious.
Someone would pay for that.
“Where are we going?” I demanded.
“There’s only two people who’d want to take Sage. We can’t let on that we know Radames is with Lola since she hasn’t told me, so we are going to see her.”
“Wouldn’t her familiars be able to find her?” Khalid asked.
“Khalid said—”
“I know. Since we’re bonded now, I can hear him when he’s shifted.”
“Neat trick. If you’ve seen three crows, have them contact me. Please and thank you!” Liam hollered.
“I haven’t seen any crows,” Lena said. “Can you keep it down?”
She was napping on a blanket in the sun, covered in mud. I wrinkled my nose. I didn’t particularly care that she was usually in her pajamas and half asleep, but I took offense at sleeping in filth.
“I wasn’t talking to you. Why are you out here?”
“Are you kidding me? How are you even upright after running in the mud? I’m working up the energy to make it to the showers.”
Gross.
“You see anyone lurking around the women’s’ locker room?” Liam asked.
“Just you.”
“He can portal. Whoever it was probably got to our showers first, got clean, and then portalled to the women’s locker room,” I said.
We kept moving through campus and ran straight into Professor Theron.
Yeah, I really didn’t want to get caught with my dick out in front of the reincarnation of Artemis.
I covered my junk because there was literally nothing else to do here.
Liam put his hands on his hips and practically swung his pierced cock at her.
I hope she at least acknowledged I tried to cover up when she was deciding how to curse us.
She just rolled her eyes and snapped her fingers. We were dry, completely devoid of soap and conditioner, and we had clothes on.
“I assume you had a good reason for the nudity given you didn’t even rinse off, so I’m going to ask what it is instead of just reacting.”
“Some pervert locked Sage in the women’s locker room and portalled off with her before Lucian could get in. She called for help through our bond and said someone stole her clothes, so she’s also naked,” Liam said.
“It smelled like ozone when I got there, but only the showers were wet,” I said.
“Sounds like lightning. There were a couple gods with that power, but none that I know are here. The reincarnation of Hera is a junior, so it’s possible Zeus is here in a new life.
Sometimes, the new Hera wanted nothing to do with the new Zeus and often times, the reincarnation of Zeus thinks they are owed something because Zeus was one of the God kings. ”
“Well, the bastard better not think he’s owed Sage!”
“Regroup and think for a minute. The only students with Greek heritage that don’t know who they were are in your class. I’m honestly shocked Lena hasn’t figured it out because it’s glaringly obvious she’s Aergia, the personification of Sloth and Laziness.
“If the new Zeus is a freshman and they portalled off with Sage, then someone taught him how to portal. Morgana is the only lower classman who can portal, and she’s also the only one here who is capable of teaching it to anyone else as it’s very complicated.
If you get it wrong, you could end up at the bottom of the ocean, bisected by the portal or a wall.
Morgana asked permission to teach her mates, and it was given because she was already ahead of the curve when she got here.
None of the upperclassmen who have mastered portalling would risk it, but a lowerclassman who was awake and hiding it would. ”
“I was actually heading that way to ask her because I thought we had an understanding,” Liam growled.
“With your cock out?”
“Pants couldn’t wait. It was an emergency.”
“Have Morgana teach you the spell to summon and remove clothes in case you have any new emergencies arise in the shower. Especially since we all know it was you that summoned the birds against Blaize Vossen for showing people his penis without their consent. Yes, he’s sent those to professors, too. ”
“You’re welcome. And thanks for the clothes. I actually don’t want Lola anywhere near my junk, but there was no time.”
I didn’t want anyone but Sage seeing me naked, but here we were. Professor Theron opened a portal for us and told us she last saw Lola hanging out in the common room.
Liam made a beeline for her as soon as he saw her.
She was sitting off to herself since no one wanted anything to do with her except that wedgie kid after everyone found out she was manipulating them.
The wedgie kid was noticeably absent. He was large enough to fight back with his fists when Liam was breaking his nose or Elliot and Petros were stringing him up by his boxers and never did.
He was also large enough to be the one I saw taking Sage.
“So, Sage got kidnapped from the locker room and you’re the only person here she doesn’t get along with. I thought we had an understanding,” Liam purred.
“She’s not kidnapped. I borrowed her as an insurance policy to motivate you to actually help me. You’ll get her back unharmed after you keep your promise.”
“That wasn’t the deal, Lola.”
“It is now.”
“I won’t help you unless you give her back.”
“Then you won’t exactly get her back unharmed. You’re underestimating exactly how much I want this.”
We had a day before Winter Solstice when our window was open. We needed Sage for the prophecy and I didn’t want Lola, Radames, or Edmund anywhere near her.
I knew they’d have no problem hurting her if we tried anything. Radames and Lola would be there to get their answers from Liam, but Edward would stay behind to hurt Sage at any hint we were betraying them.
We had magic, our bond, and her familiars. Hopefully, we could find her before then.