“Ares,” Lucifer said, annoyed. “Less melodrama please.”
“I need to get this off my chest,” Ares grated. “I have one more thing to say: Zeus is a tyrant. Back to business. I warned you that you’d be mine alone and I would come to collect you. I warned you to behave and gave you a chance in Hell, yet you still went ahead and fucked the demigods, regardless of my feelings. You stink of them even now, so I’m going to have to scrub their scent off your little pussy—”
New power pulsed in me.
It was now or never.
My half-formed Living Flame sundered the enemies’ dark spells inside me and blasted out of me. I shrugged off Lucifer’s purple chains.
“You two old cunts bore me,” I said.
Lucifer and Ares widened their eyes incredulously, as did Loki, looking over their shoulders at me.
The Living Flame—the Flame of Rainbows infused by powers of ice, storm, death, and lightning—dashed toward my enemies.
“What the fuck?” Ares shouted.
“Impossible!” Lucifer hissed.
The devil’s hellfire and the god’s Glory, the combined powers that had once held me captive and rendered me helpless in the Ever Realm, crashed into my flame with the force of a hurricane.
Ice and fire storms, death light, and lightning gifted by my mates through our mating bond hissed, ready to peel off to attack the enemies and defend me.
No. I called and leashed the powers.We attack as one. Together, we’re stronger.
My new powers growled, but obeyed me and infused back into my Flame of Rainbows, strengthening it.
“All this time that little whore has been holding out on us,” Ares cursed.
Loki giggled in vicious joy as my rampaging flame broke through our foes’ defenses and caged them.
For the first time, I saw fear in my enemies’ eyes.
Lucifer and Ares bellowed and tossed all they had at my wild flame to snuff it out, but their powers only fueled it. It seemed that the Living Flame grew stronger when attacked, but I knew that it couldn’t take down Lucifer and Ares before it reached its full power.
“Loki!” I roared. “Now!”
A thin trace of my flame reached him and broke his chains.
The dark prince roared with me, the powers of Hell and rage bursting out of him. He threw up his hands and tore the portal open behind me—the one-way ticket to the Void.
“What the hell are you doing, Loki?” Lucifer growled.
Even as King of Deception and Lies, he had never learned that his son had the power to open the portal. Not even the devil possessed the ability to shift worlds. He’d taken great powers from my mother, but she hadn’t let him take them all.
Lucifer and Ares, trying to break through and escape, attacked my flame with their might as it flashed with lightning, death light, ice magic, and firestorm. My flame flickered but still held for the moment. I zoomed in toward them. One grab and I’d take them to the bowels of the Void with me.
Once in the Void, they’d be done—trapped there with me, suffering the wrath of the Titans. I didn’t even want to think about how long the Titans had been imprisoned there and how angry they would be.
I shuddered for both Ares’s and Lucifer’s sakes.
Lucifer darted behind Ares and shoved him toward me as I hurried toward them. I grabbed the war god, and Lucifer used the momentum to steal one of Ares’s powers. With it, he phased out of the barrier of my flame.
Ares howled in a black rage.
“Feel good being betrayed like that, dick?” I asked. He’d betrayed my demigods and Earth just the same. “You’re a tad slower than Lucifer,” I added, rubbing salt into his injury.
Ares rammed his fist, which could dent steel, into my chest. Pain blossomed in me, but I held on and flew backward until I’d passed through the threshold of the Void.