Witness

“Sand?”

He felt tired. Simon's eyes opened to see particles dancing in the wind beneath a strange colored sky of gold, purple, magenta, and peach. It was sunset, and an early dusk of black clouds in his peripheral was growing ominously.

The wind twirled and dance as he raised his right hand from the course powder, watching as they fell victim to gravity or the gusts that continued to buffet him. Thunder rumbled in the distance. Slowly, his knees and left arm rose with the rest of his body from the sand. Simon could feel more of the sand in his hair and sticking to the back of his pajama shirt.

“This feels…strange…”

He sat up while the wind continued to whip over the sand dune and into his back. He could hear a voice in the distance.

It was haunting, and soft, but coming from where the sky was darkest, from a strange light of different bright colors beyond the next dune. He managed to stand, stumbling when his bare feet sunk down into the coarse ground.

Simon turned and shook his head, squinting through the sand as he headed towards the sound, the haunting voice now sounded like music.

The closer he found himself drawn to the music, the more he could make out what sounded like an all female choir.

The wind picked up up, whipping sand into his face, and he instinctively moved his arms in front of his head to protect himself. The auburn-haired genie Master struggled against the wind and incline; **** to claw at the sand dune in front as he was sure the voices were now close enough to see over the ridge.

The whipping of the sand stopped at the top of the dune while lightning crashed and lit up the dark clouds above. A white light, shining like a star drew his eyes, dancing in the air in the distance towards the darkness.

Simon felt something twist in the pit of his stomach.

He could see them. In the blackness three silhouettes -each with different shapes - hidden behind a veil of shadow and smoke, revealed only by the flashes of lightning and energy that seemed to thicken the very air around them.

_Simon could see five other figures standing seemingly to oppose them, the first, _a lone figure on the ground, with four women around them. The central figure's face and body were covered by dark robes and a protective hood. They were standing on a platform of some kind that had been buried underneath the sand dunes. In the corners of the platform four fires were lit - each billowing different colors;

Amber, Ruby, Silver, and Jade.

The light and colors now revealed the source of the sounds that had drawn the boy to witness such a gathering.

The singing wasn’t singing at all, but moans. The pleasurable moans of the four female figures levitating in the air above the hooded one.

Simon’s hazel eyes widened as he watched them fall into line one-by-one. The flames attached themselves to the Hooded One’s body, and turned to glimmers of light.

Those weren’t flames, Simon now realized.

They were lamps.

A genie's lamp. Each one holding and binding one of the four sisters that moved ahead of the hooded one.

Which meant all four of them were genies. The same as Jess.

Which meant that figure below him was…

Simon’s train of thought was broken by the sound of metal banging against another kind of metal.

The sound was loud enough that its shockwave was visible and rippled against the sand below and up the dune in all directions. The frequency loud enough it **** the auburn-haired young man to cower and cover his ears out of instinct.

Lights and symbols began to gather around the the Master of the four. It began surrounding them in magical energy as the cloaked figure held up a staff in the air. They slammed it down onto the metal of the platform. The energy taking form to create a circle of dim flame around the Hooded One, who then motioned to his genies with his staff as a bright white light shimmered at the smoke in front of them all.

The smoke and dark energy in front began to move and churn rapidly now, the three figures within it watching on impassively.

Simon stared, transfixed in silence as a large smoke fist appeared from the black depths to the first of the three. The gauntlet of smoke opening and revealing a set of two figures of its own that fell to the sand in front of the genies with carelessness and lack of forethought.

The second dark figure, in the center, now lost to the black ash cloud, summoned a bolt of lightning that landed into the ground in front of the ruby red genie-revealing another feminine figure who moaned out loudly as she fell to her knees.

The last of the shadowy three on the Right simply flicked its fingers from the shadows, allowing another genie to emerge, her feminine and naked form strutting out from the smoke with disdainful confidence.

Unlike their more colorful counterparts these four feminine figures looked far more exposed than those they faced.

The Amber Genie, wore what looked to be the garb of a Bedouin tribe, wrapped in white scarves and cut-off robes that matched the amber color of the flame, her darker skin standing out among the paler skins of her sisters.

Across from her, her opponent wore nothing but brass shackles on her naked form, around her neck, her ankles, her wrists, and waist, with chains dangling from each of them. The Brass Genie.

The Ruby Genie looked the most like what Simon had expected when he thought of a female genie before Jessica. A red veil of sheer fabric and adorned with gold that glistened in the distance, the outfit of the stereotypical harem or belly dancer revealed underneath the whipping of the wind.

Her opponent was moaning out in ecstasy as she struggled crawling on her hands as her legs began to merge and transform into the green scaled, thick, coppery tail of a cobra. The now half-serpent genie slithering to stand up its torso, smacking the sand with her tail as she hissed loudly. The Serpent Genie.

The Silver Genie appeared more to be a warrior than any of her compatriots or counterparts. She carried a sword and banged it on a silver shield, letting out a war cry toward her opponent. An Ancient-Grecco helmet covering her face and near-white hair, the rest of her body clad like she was ready for battle, with two spears strapped to the back of her silver breastplate and the leather skirt sliding upward as she crouched into a fighting stance.

Her opponent seemed the most unique from the others, as her lightning blue hair danced in the wind, struggling to her feet as she flipped her head upward, letting out a singing moan as electricity crackled around her and from her.

The Jade genie seemed the most out of place of all her kind. Her appearance was that as a Geisha, a silk robe that barely covered the genie’s rear, a large sash and bow tied to her back as she wore her black shimmering hair in an intricate bun, holding a fan in front of her face.

The genie in front of her turned a pale ashen white, her skin cracking and beginning to burn as she moaned and cried out, her hair lifting upward and burning into a fire, her skin turning black like charcoal.

The eight genies squared off, seemingly moving into position to pair off, the opposing sides of four versus four between the hooded figure and the three in shadow.

The calm that had existed among them all, like the eye of a hurricane, vanished almost as quickly. A shadowy hand from left-most shadow was followed by a low-howling whisper that echoed across the dunes, making the enemy genie cry out in their own wave of ecstasy.

The four all moved to attack the four sisters.

The hooded one-standing on the platform-slammed their metal staff once more, calling their own genies to action in response.

From the Amber, Ruby, Silver and Jade sisters, loud cries of ecstasy and moans rippled through the landscape; reaching as far as Simon’s sand covered feet. He held his arms up to his face again as the sand buffered him; dropping prone so he could watch the action taking place in the distance.

The Serpent attacker missed her target when the Ruby Red genie danced and flipped away from her tail with an incredible display of acrobatics.

She followed it up with another performance, seemingly like that of a belly dancer in mid-air, summoning a large flame mandala that appeared from her back. Landing on her one foot, another wheel of fire circled around the Ruby Genie's waist.

A wave of fire burst forth from her arms and shot towards the Serpent Genie-who while attempting to dodge-was stabbed in the tail by a large silver spear from the Silver Genie charging in on the right.

The blonde warrior coated in silver, thrusting her shield in front of her and her sister as she slid to block a cascade of lightning bolts being directed at the Ruby Genie.

They didn’t have long to protect themselves as a cry from the Amber Bedouin called out to her three sisters.

She jumped from the ground, using the Silver Sister's shield to dodge a series of long brass chains that followed her. The chains following under the Amber Genie in the sand. Their trails burrowing a path beneath her as she flew and began leaping into the air to avoid them.

Simon watched as the chains breached the sand as strange claws attached to their ends sought to spear themselves into the dodging genie.

The Ruby Sister, seeing this tactic, leapt from the ground and the protection behind her Silver sister, slamming a burst of fire into the burrowing trails beneath them, turning the sand to glass.

The Ashen Genie, watching as the Jade sister danced in the circling winds above her, turned her focus to the Fiery dancer form of the Ruby Sister.

A geyser of magma erupting beneath the sand and turning another portion of the desert to glass. The Ashen Genie using her volcanic form to spill the burning earth at the Four Sister's feet.

The Silver Genie moved from her position, carrying an object in her hand that appeared to be a sword, stabbing it into the lower body of the stricken Serpent Genie.

Simon could only watch as the tail of the half-human, half-snake spasmed until shedding from the body completely. Then, watching the scaled-skinned Serpent Genie burrow themselves into the sand to escape, clutching their lower regions hissing out a loud cry.

The Silver Sister moaned loudly to gain the young man's attention again. A pair of angelic white wings sprouting from her back, allowing her to twirl upward into the black sky, dodging a volley of energy and lightning directed above her. The Lightning Sister using the dark and black clouds as cover above them.

The Jade Sister continued dancing and spinning in the air. A pale green light appearing in the sky as she drew symbols in the air around her. The genie began directing them with her fan as she whipped them into the wind and around the Ashen Genie. The Jade Genie moaned while striking a pose. The result causing a geyser of water erupting from the sand beneath the more Volcanic opponent. The contact between the water and pool of fiery magma causing the battlefield to be coated in a thick, sweaty, humid layer of steam.

Unfortunately, the Jade Sister had little to celebrate as the Lightning genie struck her in the back with a bolt of energy that caused its victim to cry out in a moan. The Sister falling to the sand below as the energy kept continuing to surge through her body from the point of entry.

The Amber Sister took attention again; stripping a long sleeve covering her arm to reveal her skin was clad in tiny golden coins. All of them breaking away and dancing in the air around her as she slid against the sand and glass. Her arms extending outward and sending them towards the steaming figure of the Ashen Genie who was still recovering.

It looked to be a fruitless attack, as the golden coins simply melted against the lower region of the volcanic rock that protected the genie’s skin. However the fire of the Ashen Genie soon died out as she began screaming out in pleasurable but unwanted moans that caused the rocks to crumble off her flesh. In doing so, revealing the liquid gold that had entered through the poor creature’s vaginal lips and ass, forcing her arms to cover and try desperately to pull the solidifying gold from her skin. The Amber Genie motioning and directing her hands along her own body as the gold soon covered the naked flesh of the Ashen Genie's breasts and gagged her mouth, a phantom thrust causing the poor creature to fall over and curl into a ball in the sand.

To the left side of the fight, Simon watched as the Serpent genie reemerged next to the Brass Genie as she remained attached to the ground with her chains. The young man witnessing as the Snake-Sister struggled having her sister pull the silver object from her own pussy, watching as she stumbled forward and tried to regain her bearings.

A dark chuckle echoed from the Black Veil as the Left figure directed and motioned it toward its colleagues.

A bone-chilling growl emerging from the far right side as the smoke and black veil parted to reveal the central shadowy figure unleashing a blackened and cold whip from its arm and making repeated contact with the fallen genie. The poor Ashen Genie, curled and unable to move from the melted gold that assaulted her body, began screaming out in pain as its master inflicted torment for its failure.

The whip wrapped around the poor genie's abdomen and slammed her repeatedly into the sand for her failure. The whip splitting into five tails and clasping themselves to the Ashen Sister, pulling her arms and legs behind her body as she was slammed face first into the sand again. No remorse. No pity.

The Dark Figure that inflicted such torment cast an aura that made Simon’s stomach churn, his knees buckle even as he was laying on the ground. It made him feel like throwing up from the sight of it.

It was also unbelievably cruel. Only when they had finished unleashing their anger did it hold up a brass object, pulling the formerly-Ashen genie back to it in a plume of charcoal-colored smoke.

The figure yelled out loudly at its counterparts, directing them towards the Hooded One who remained standing on the platform without taking a scratch.

The Left and Center Figures, the only two remaining behind the black veil, motioned and whipped out their hands again, causing the three remaining genie on the field to cry out and moan louder than ever.

Simon stumbled trying to get back on his feet as he felt the ground quake. The young man watching from his safe distance as a large and dark wave of sand rolling forth like a tidal wave and erupting outward towards the lone figure on the platform. The sand crashed into it, but two implosions underneath the dunes began revealing the next phase of this battle.

Two massive creatures now emerged from the sand.

One, looked like that of a Sandworm from many of the tales, books, and movies Simon had seen or read.

The other had a harden carapace, and 8 massive legs as it towered over them all. It was a monster. One that, even in its normal form, caused people to cringe at the sight of it. Simon watched as the massive desert camel spider continued lumbering its way toward the lone figure on the platform, intent on sating its hunger.

The Hooded One directed their staff, a loud moan coming from the Jade sister kneeling on the ground, and whipped the staff around their body, slamming it into the platform once again.

Simon saw the sand behind the Hooded One rising and taking the form of a Golem. Its body made of sand and stone, appearing from the dunes to meet the spider and worm. With its hulking humanoid form, its massive fist crashed down into the arachnid, slamming and coating it in sand. At that same moment, the Ruby Genie appeared again, screaming out into the air. The genie dancing above and then breathing fire from the sky. The attack turning the sand to glass upon its carapace earned a shrieking cry from the beast as the Camel Spider felt the heat upon it.

The Amber and Jade sisters joined together against the other. Both twirling and spinning as they wrapped their fabrics around the massive sandworm. As they jumped from its sides they then hardened the massive scarves into a blade, slashing the beast as it cried out and fell to pieces and transformed into a column of sand.

But as it seemed to be a turning of the tide, the blow was struck.

A flash of lightning appearing and struck the platform from the sky. The discharge shooting outwards in multiple directions. The Hooded One taking their staff and directing the shot back from where it came.

Two loud painful screams crying out from the sky above. Then followed by another series of flashes and thunder as the battle between the Lightning Genie and Silver Genie had continued uninterrupted during the events on the ground.

The dark veil of clouds breaking open briefly as the twin forms of the Silver Sister and Lightning Genie fell and crashed together out of the sky.

Simon watched as the feathers burned off as the Silver Genie crashed. Her wings had been singed and lost completely, as was her shield and helmet.

The Lightning Genie remained active, writhing and moaning out as electric discharge gathered around her. Her body kneeling, blue hair sticking upward, as she screamed towards the sky.

The Silver Genie let out a loud shriek as her body was suddenly lifted off the ground and left dangling in the air. She had been taken from underneath by the chains and objects of the Brass Genie.

The Silver Sister's armor was stripped from her body, leaving it naked as one of the chains shot directly into her asshole. Then another clasping around her neck, two more around her wrists, two around her ankles, stretching her out as her body began to slump over, failing to struggle and moaning out helplessly for aid.

The Serpent Genie reemerged from the sand underneath her. Her hands holding the Silver Sister’s object that she had been struck with earlier. The Serpent leapt up into the air thrusting and returning the object into it’s owner’s pussy. The sudden sexual intrusion making the poor genie dangling in the air moan out and cry until no longer able to take it. Her body screaming out in ecstasy and slumping over after one last shriek and cry.

The genie's body disappeared into a silver stream and cloud of smoke that made its way back to the lit lamp on the Hooded One’s body.

The lamp ripped away from the Hooded One, and began to hovering and levitating in the air. Finally, making its way toward the Center Figure hidden behind the dark veil, to the distress and helpless distraught of the remaining three sisters.

“NO!” the Jade genie cried out in horror.

The Serpent Genie awaited the lamp that hovered towards it, only to be met by the flaming kick and fury of the Ruby Sister knocking her away. No longer able to reach the lamp, the Serpent turned back to her Master behind the veil for aid in claiming their prize.

A stern silence was met when red lightning pulsed through the dark cloud.

A black chain of energy shot forth from the darkness to claim the Silver sister's lamp.

_The three sisters remaining began to scream out, first in horror then in _ecstasy. Their bodies glowing as they screamed out in pleasure.

Simon had seen something like this. When he had Jessica imbue the Amulet for Kevin, but that was almost like the flash from a Camera's Flashbulb.

This was far larger. Which mean it was the use of a very powerful wish.

His eyes widened, watching the scene playing out in front of him. The chain never made contact with the lamp, instead being diverted.

The Hooded One had taken action from the platform, unveiling an object in their hands as they slammed the staff behind themselves for balance. During the wish, they had begun holding something forward in the direction of the Central Figure.

The Dark one's chain flew through the air and crashed directly into the object held in the Hooded One’s hand.

The shockwave nearly knocked Simon off the dune, causing him to grip back down on the sand for dear life. It was as if a vortex or some kind of rift had been opened out of the air. His hazel eyes squinted and then opened at the sight of the Hooded One withstanding black and red charged energies clashing and colliding into each other. Simon watched in silence as the energies and strange flames gathered to the Hooded One as a loud howl could be heard from the Central Figure.

The dark veil collapsing in front of them and disappearing.

The young man continued to watch in awe as black flames, red electrical discharges, haunting and powerful energy began to be absorbed and collected by the Hooded One. The resulting siphon creating a strange form of floating energy behind the Master's back. Like a power conduit, the veil for the central figure disappeared completely now, showing another dark and hooded figure, smaller and more slender in stature than his brother to his right.

Simon could hear even from far away as they growled loudly. The Dark figure attempting to regain his footing as the energy bond between them and the Hooded One on the platform continued to hold the strange object ahead keeping their connection. The Master of the Four Sisters now attacking his opponent with his artifact-until either they or it-could no longer take it.

However, just as quickly as it had managed to accomplish so very much, Simon watched as the object shattered in the Hooded One’s hand. The metal flying high into the air from the discharge of strange energy before bursting apart and landing across the dunes in pieces.

The young man saw a glint of light bounce off the strange fragments in the sky. One of them suddenly crashing itself into the sand in front of Simon.

‘What?’ he thought in stunned silence.

He reached out and touched it, expecting to be burned, but instead felt something ice-cold. Simon stood up, holding the object he had picked from the sand with his fingers as he recognized the shape.

A Seal of Solomon, or at least half of one before the circle was broken. Made completely of metal.

This was…

A booming series of dark and thunderous noises echoed out across the desert as the two flanking shadowy figures broke their silence to laugh and cackle at their brother in the center. The left figure dropping his veil to reveal a giant among all of them, two large fiery hands holding onto his knees. Both the Left and the Right Masters laughing at the expense of their increasingly weak looking brother. A moment of mockery for him.

The Dark Central Figure, was clearly not as amused, yelling out in a fit of rage as his arms directed out to both the Lightning and Serpent Genies again towards the Hooded One on the platform.

The Ruby, Amber, and Jade sisters stumbled and scrambled to rush to their Master’s aide as the Lightning and Serpent genies snapped to attention and began targeting the figure directly with their attacks. The Hooded One kneeling on their staff, trying to recover from the attempted defense he had made.

The Silver Genie's lamp flew off and landed in the arms of the Dark Figure standing in the Center, focused on the battle before him and his brothers.

The fiery Ruby Sister wasting no time, jumping in front of the two opponents that targeted her Master. Both Lightning and Serpents joined together to send her flying with a large surge of electrical magic and physical strength.

So hard in fact, that Simon’s eyes widened when the red genie made impact only a few feet in front of him.

The Amber and Jade genies found themselves held up as the Chain genie emerged from her position and shot her brass all around them into a field of flailing obstacles that streamed out from the sand.

The Hooded One was now left without protection.

Done for.

Without warning, and catching all off guard in that moment, something arose to defend the Hooded One at the last possible second.

A large fire of purple and ghostly flames shot the two attacking genie back from the Hooded One, the sound of a loud growl escaping from it, echoing like a large breed of cat.

Did the Hooded One do that?

Simon looked down again curiously as he could now see the Ruby Sister's appearance up close.

She had dark chestnut hair and tan skin, an hourglass figure, and shapely tone. Her clothes hid nothing despite their cover, the red sheer thin enough to see her nipples of her large breasts and bare crotch fully. The Genie looked to be no older than her early twenties, as her eyes opened to reveal the same color as her clothes.

Much as Jessica’s Emerald eyes matched the stone of the ring, this Ruby Sister’s matched the gems on her body.

Her eyes widened as she turned around off guard, Simon’s eyes widening at a realization.

'Can she…see me?'

The Hooded One suddenly yelled out towards the Ruby Sister, who looked back at her Master as she felt a wave of pleasure roll over her. Her eyes fluttering and lips trembling. Simon watched as she suddenly looked at him in the eye and held out her hand, speaking in another tongue he had not heard before, but his new abilities immediately understood.

“BEGONE!”

He felt himself thrown from the desert and into a vortex that crashed him back into infinite darkness.

Simon shot up out of bed nearly ready to scream out, his shirt soaked with sweat, his brow clearly drenched as he tried to regain control of his breathing.

He could still feel the images flashing in his brain as the sight from his dream remained stuck in his mind.

That was the most vivid and craziest experience he had sleeping in his life, and he had some strange dreams before.

Not like this.

He continued to try and get a hold of his breathing, his body not cooperating as his stress and anxiety levels remained through the roof.

The Hooded One with the Four Sister, the four separate genie, and the other four they confronted.

And the three who commanded those genie.

The Hooded One was human, they had to be. Which meant those three...the ones who took the Silver Sister...

The ones who could cast themselves behind the black clouds and wicked impulses that churned his stomach. Simon realized in one instance what they could only be.

Them. It had to be Them.

It was only then that Simon registered two different things wrong with his bed that hadn’t been as he slept. His heart went into over drive as he looked to see piles of sand on his arms and in his bed. His fingers feeling the touch of something else.

His right hand reached up slowly with his eyes locking onto the object being clenched in his fingers.

The broken metal ring and the seal that it had once been.

That was no fucking dream.