Xarius
Light came out of both our hands, burning us up from the inside. It was the most unbelievable form of pleasure. I knew we would never be able to experience the same feeling ever again, the feeling of being filled with magic. Of getting our magic. How had I survived without it? The light lit us both up from within, showing our magic swirling around inside us. We were now connected through our bodies, our magic, our souls.
The light erupted, andwe both moaned in pleasure as we came together. We were finally the men we were born to be. Powerful mages. Leaders.
I took in Niam’s exhausted body, his face covered with sweat, his eyes dazed, but it was his smile that took my breath away. It was the smile of contentment. Of happiness. I was sure I gave him the same smile in return, finally having everything I’d ever dreamed of. Magic and my soulmatch.
“How are you feeling? I asked, rubbing his sides. He was still sitting on my lap, my softening cock slowly easing out of him. I could feel his release on my stomach, marking me as his. It was a heady feeling. Being claimed but also getting to claim. I couldn’t wait to do it again.
He sighed and smiled down at me. “I feel amazing.” He leaned down and kissed me, making my cock slip out completely. I didn’t even care about the sheets as I felt my release following my cock. “Can you feel it, too?” he asked eagerly, like a child about to go out and play in the snow.
“I can,” I replied, pulling him down so he lay flat on me, squeezing him tight. My man. My bonded. “We probably won’t know howmuch magic we’ve got until tomorrow.” Magic needed recharging and having it unlocked likely meant it had to build before we could truly use it.”
“I figured the same. I had a friend who got hers when she turned eleven. She had to wait a few days before she felt like hers had reached its peak,” he explained, moving to the side so we lay facing each other. I was glad to hear he’d at least had friends before he turned fourteen. It seemed like the letter had ruined everything for him.
“I think it’s best that we don’t use it until we’re somewhere secluded. Just in case.” I really didn’t want to cause any trouble and I feared people wouldn’t take it kindly if we used magic out in the open.
“I agree. Maybe we need to camp out in the forest until we learn how to control it? We have the van so the bears can’t eat us.” I knew he was trying to tease me about it, but I could literally feel his unease as he spoke about the bears. I frowned, trying to see if I could feel him again, like his emotions were my own. A rush of happiness, excitement, fear, and the most amazing feeling ever, love, all hit me, and I knew instinctively they were Niam’s emotions. I figured it was a bonded thing between soulmatched pairs, so I tried to send loveback to him, and he responded by showing me even more love in his emotions.
He gasped. “Are you doing that?”
“I think I am,” I grinned, kissing his nose. “Can you feel my emotions, too?”
“What, no? I just felt so much love all of a sudden, it took over everything. It felt amazing.”
“Wait, you can’t sense my emotions at all?” He shook his head. “Hmm, try focusing on me and see if that works.”
He looked at my body in concentration and I screamed. The worst kind of pain ever imagined rained through my body. I couldn’t even explain what would be more painful. I would rather get punched in the nuts, but that was where my pain expertise ended.
“Xari!” he sat up and cupped my chin, worry filling his expression. I could sense his feelings, guilt, worry, fear, love. So much love.
The pain subsided as soon as I cried out, but it wasn’t completely gone until now. “It’s over,” I panted, touching my chest to see if I was still intact or if the pain was because a living thing had torn me to pieces from the inside out. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary so I took in a calming breath.
“I’m so sorry,”Niam sobbed, tears trailing down his chin. “I think it was my magic, but I wasn’t trying to hurt you, I promise! I was just trying to do what you’d done with the emotions.” I knew he was telling me the truth. Again I could sense everything he felt.
“I think,” I began, still using calming breaths to relax my body, “That we’ve got other magic than elemental magic.”
“Shit! Why didn’t I think of that?!” he exclaimed and got up from the bed, cum leaking down his thighs as he paced in front of it. “The classes from school taught us that some mages were born with special abilities, too, but it was extremely rare for that to happen. People who could speak with animals, control animals, control other mages, and so on.” I remembered a little about that, but I hadn’t been in school in many, many years, so the details were a little fuzzy.
“So, I can feel the emotions of others, or at least yours, and you can make someone hurt worse than they’ve ever been hurt before.” He nodded, as a look of guilt took over his features from again being reminded that he’d hurt me. “Wow, gotta say, I’m mad jealous.” He burst out laughing and I could feel his emotions were filled with amusement, relief, and again so much love.
“I’m sorry I can hurt people,” he winced, getting back on the bed to sit beside me. I wasn’t planning on moving anytime soon. The adrenaline rush I went through when the pain hit had left me feeling exhausted beyond belief.
“It’s okay. You can protect me if people are mean to me,” I said, giving him my best smile. “And I’ll pay you back by telling you if anyone is lying to you.”
“Wait, you’d be able to tell if someone lied?” I hadn’t even thought about how we could use that going forward, but of course Niam would see the potential in my magic. “I, um, I believe I could. Like a lie detector I could sense you truly didn’t want to hurt me.”
“That’s amazing!” he cheered and I couldn’t help but share his enthusiasm. “That’ll make our job so much easier when we have to find the others!”
“How?” I questioned.
“Well, for starters, we would be able to know that they told us the truth and if they believed us when we tell them our story. You can literally read them and control the conversation so we can sway them faster.”
“I’m so luckyto be bonded to the smartest man alive.” I could tell by his emotions that he loved that. It was then that I realized I’d gotten the best power I could ever ask for. Forever I would be able to know what made my bonded happy and what in turn made him sad. I had the literal power to make sure he would be happy forever. It was the greatest gift I’d ever received, other than my bonded, of course. My power made it easier to ensure Niam’s happiness and that would be the best use of my magic I could ever have.
“I try,” he replied, blushing prettily as he said it. “I um, I think I need to tell Jerry I quit tomorrow, before we leave to learn how to control our magic. He deserves to know I’m leaving.” I could feel that made him sad, and that these people meant something to him.
“You don’t have to say goodbye to them forever, baby. Remember we can return here when we’re done—Oh.”
