All Into Ashes

The small boy known as Zealik; once sleeping; opened his eyes slowly. He was in a bed, and he had clothes on. Wait! Maybe this was all a dream! Excitingly he got up, but frowned, this wasn\'t his room, these weren\'t his clothes, this wasn\'t even his bed. Where was he? What had happened? So many questions lurked his mind. He peeked outside his window and looked down at the town, it wasn\'t Akyris, his hometown. It was..somewhere else, he just wanted to know where.

\"Oh, you\'re up...\" A small boy who was sitting on a bed next to him spoke up quietly, green orbs looking at him curiously, his voice was young, maybe a few years younger then Zealik. The boy had long black hair, and he had a small dragon tail. \"Madame Plunne will be pleased.\"

\"Wh-what? Wait! Who are you? Where Am I? How did I get here? What happened?\" Zealik asked impatiently, looking very nervous. \"And who\'s Madame Plunne?\"

\"Hehe, slow down...\" the boy chuckled weakly, putting his hands in a gesture for Zealik to remain calm. \"I\'m Daku, this is an orphanage, you were found lying in the forest, Madame Plunne assumed you were hurt, and had no home, she\'s the owner of the Orphanage.\" he said slowly. \"I\'ve been watching you sleep, she wanted me to make sure you were okay and not..dead, you had some burns, but I healed them.\" He said with somewhat of a bright grin.

\"Burn?...Fire..No...it happened..it really happened!\" Zealik proclaimed, head in his hands as he cried, it seemed like a nightmare, he couldn\'t believe it was real; but it was! His family was gone, his love was gone, everything.

\"H-hey! Don\'t cry...\" Daku frowned quickly going over to him. \"I lost someone special to me too..\" the boy said quietly. \"I know what it\'s like..\" he said reasurringly.

Zealik sniffled and wiped his eyes. \"I-I\'m sorry..\" he said, sad sympathy in his tone. \"How long have you been here?\" he asked softly.

\"A few years..no on really wants a kid whos a freak with a dragon tail..\" Daku said sadly, all the other orphans had made fun of him because he was a \'freak\'. Stupid tail.

\"I\'d adopt you, y\'know...if I could.\" Zealik smiled ruefully, tears already dried on his face. It had only been half of a day, and already he had lived hell. Maybe he would get adopted by someone nice, what were his odds, were they with him or not?

\"Thanks.\" Daku said with a small smile, maybe they could be friends, then he wouldn\'t care who made fun of him, seeing as they would probably make fun of Zealik too.

\"Welcome...\" Zealik said with a weak chuckle, he then blinked at his stomach growling, which made Daku giggle.

\"You hungry? We\'re having lunch in a couple minutes.\" Daku said, stiffling his giggles, it was funny, but not terribly funny, poor guy probably hadn\'t eaten. They didn\'t know how long he was out there.

Zealik nodded slowly. \"Very hungry..\" he said with another weak chuckle. He hadn\'t gotten to eat last night, nor this morning, he was surprised he had the nerve to eat, he was hungry, but maybe he wouldn\'t be able to.

\"Don\'t worry. It\'s almost time to eat.\" Daku said reasurringly, and then just sat there and talked more with Zealik, they talked about their familes, interests, Zealik brought up the love topic, but Daku wasn\'t into the whole thing, he was still young.

\"Luuuuuuunch~\" A womans voice sang as she walked down the hall. You could here the running foot steps of anxtous orphans dying of hunger for food. Zealik ran as well, following Daku.

\"Now after lunch you should all bathe, it\'s almost time for the fosters to come in and adopt you.\" Madame Plunne cooed, leaving the children to the table with their food.

\"LOOK! It\'s another freak!\" one of the kids yelled, pointing an accusing finger at Zealik.

\"And he has a tail too!\" another laughed, pulling hard at Zealiks tail, making him jump up and yelp.

\"And stupid dog ears!\" Yet another teased, flicking carelessly at Zealiks ears, making him howl with pain, his ears were sensitive, they had to be to have such keen hearing.


\"Oww! Leave me alone!\" Zealik whimpered, shaking them off and quickly scurrying to his table, eating his food quickly so he could just get away from them. He quickly ate his sandwich and potatoes and then ran off to the showers. Letting the water caress down his body softly, as if washing his troubles away, but soon he would remember the pain, the horror of it all, but for now he could relax. He washed his hair and rinsed it, drying himself off and putting on a new set of clothes, black shirt and grey pants, then he combed his hair, he would want to look nice for whomever was going to adopt him, right?

He went back into his room and sat down on the bed, legs curled up to his chest and he hugged them tightly.

\"..oh you want a demon? Well we have too, actually. The other is missing, but I\'ll show you him, he\'s very nice and polite, we found him today.\" Madame Plunnes voice could be heard and she opened the door to Zealiks room, a tall man, maybe in his thirties wearing a very fine purple velvet, very exsquisite and fancy, royalty maybe? He had fangs though, was he a demon? Or a vampire? But vampires couldn\'t be out durring the day, maybe this one was special, or just not a vampire at all, he didn\'t look very nice, you could see the evil gleem in his golden eyes, the snarl in his fangs. He had long dark brown hair, wavy like. It went clear down to his shoulderblades. \"Hm, I guess hes suitable, better then the rest of these brats, I\'ll take him.\" The man decided, walking over to Zealik and tapped him on the shoulder with a cane, very sharply mind you. \"Get up, boy.\" he demanded.

\'Y-yes sir.\" Zealik stammered quickly, getting up with speed, not wanting to anger such a scary man. \"C-can I say goodbye to my friend first?\" he asked weakly as they walked down the hall.

\"Hm, ...\" The older man pretended to think. \"No.\" he simply smirked. \"We have a lot to catch up on, Zealik.\" he said. \"Got to get you new clothes, show you you\'re new room, buncha stuff.\" The older man said firmly.

\"How\'d you-\"

\"How could I not know? I\'m King Of The Demon Empire, I know everything about every single demon, I have to.\" he said simply, evil smile curling onto his lips.

\"So..dad..\" Zealik stopped, getting a very indeed cold glare from the man. \"F-father?\" Yet another cold glare was shot at him.

\"Boy, you shall call me Sire, and that is all, I am not your father by blood, just because I adopted you doesn\'t give you the right to get attatched and such.\" The man said with a small hiss, talking slow they must have been doing because they were already outside the Orphanage, a carriage was waiting outside for them. The man stepped in and motioned Zealik to get in as well. \"I am King Quarez.\" he finally said. Zealik was about to speak- but was interupted. \"I already know you\'re name, boy. So just be quiet and obey.\" he snapped. It was kind of mean how he called him boy when he knew his name, nor how he didn\'t let him call him father, he had lost his, and it could never be replaced.

Zealik nodded sadly, not really wanting to say anything else, in fear of getting in trouble.


\"So you\'re gay huh?\" The man couldn\'t help but chuckle. \"Lost your boyfriend, hm. Maybe Soman would have a little fun with you.\" he decided with a dark chuckle.

Zealik froze, what did he mean by that, someone having fun with him? What was he going to do? And why? Why would he diserve whatever would happen.

\"Well, aren\'t you going to say something boy?\" The man glared coldly at him, ice cold killing glare, would frighten the mightiest heroes, his golden orbs narrowed as he hissed.

\"I-I was told not to speak!\" Zealik said quickly, then was slapped sharply in the face by the man.

\"Trick question boy, you were right, you were not to speak, I was just testing. More the less you aren\'t to speak unless spoken to or asked a question.\" The man decided, nodding slowly.

Zealik just wanted to ask \'Well why did you hit me if I was adressed?\' BUt he didn\'t want to take the risk of getting hit again, his cheek was already bleeding and had claw marks from where he was slapped, well, was it a scratch now?

\"We\'re here.\" THe man announced and stepped out of the charriot, impatiently tapping his cane on the ground for Zealik to get out, which he did quickly, he didn\'t want to get hurt again. \"Time to meet the family and get you a room.\" he said with another evil small smile and walked down the hall way of the Empire, the floor had a luxurious red carpet with golden tassles on the end, there were numerous paintings, vases, and tapestries as they walked down it, they finally interesected with another hallway, and went up a flight of stairs and he knocked on the first door. \"Ramata? Come out please, meet you\'re new brother.\" he said.

The door was then open, quite huffily mind you, stood inside the doorway was a tall male, looking to be in his sixteens, although he looked physically that, he was much much older. Long spiked pure red hair rested at the top of his head, although it wasn\'t very tidy, he was probably sleeping and just got up, you could tell by the hair and the yawning. His red eyes looked at the small boy before him with a dull glare. \"He\'s not my brother, unless Mum had him; which I doubt he did. He isn\'t. So what\'s he here for, to replace Niko?\" He asked with a curious grin.

\"Mhmm.\" The man nodded, turning to Zealik. \"You were brought here to serve, not to be given a home, you shall do as my son, Ramata, wishes, any retorting or backtalking and you shall be punished, understood?\" He asked, tapping the cane on the ground to get his attention.

\"....\" Zealik didn\'t know what to say, so he nodded slowly. Him, a slave? Why him? What did he do to diserve this? Hell, he wished to be back at the orphanage, with Daku, then maybe things would be better, no, they would be better.

\"Good, get him dressed and show him his room and then go take him to meet Johnathan, understand Ramata?\" The man asked his son.

\"Yes Quarez-\" Ramata stopped and caught himself. \"Father.\" he replaced his fathers name, in which he didn\'t wish to be called by, he bowed apologetically and Quarez nodded, walking off. \"Now..what to have you wear..\" Ramata pondered thoughtfully, turning to Zealik, then grabing his arm and yanking him into the room and throwing him onto the bed, then went into his closet.\"They might be a tad big, but they\'ll work.\" Ramata shrugged uncaring. Tossing Zealik a pair of grey pants and a burgendy colored vest, although leaving him no shirt underneath. \"Change.\" Ramata ordered, just standing there, not really giving a damn about privacy.

Zealik nodded, feeling very emberassed as he changed in front of someone, and that someone wasn\'t even his lover, no this was a cold dark young man. He could tell, yknow?

\"Hmm, somethings missing..\" The red head pondered thoughtfully, going into his drawer and pulling out a leather collar with a silver tag, snapping it on Zealiks neck, which made him scared, it felt like a snake had just choked him. \"There.\" Ramata grinned. \"Now let\'s see..., beg.\" He said simply. \"I can sense the human blood in you, therefor you are a half demon, a filthy half demon, a demon who should be given no respect, so beg.\" He said, lip curling up to form a smirk.

\"....b-beg for what?\" Zealik asked quietly, trembling with fear, everyone so far had picked on him, and his bets were that Johnathan wasn\'t going to be so friendly.

\"Forgiveness, for me not to hurt you? Just beg, cower, and whimper, like the mutt you are.\" he laughed coldly, it was such a fun deed to make those cower before him, making him feel powerful, and he should feel powerful shouldn\'t he? For he is Prince, he diserves to be it, and it meaning smirky and powerful, then yes.

\"..please, don\'t hurt me..\" Zealik said quietly, head down and whimpering, he was scared, he didn\'t want to be beaten, or punished, he was wrong.

The Prince had pulled him up by his hair, eye to eye and glared at him. \"That should be \'Don\'t hurt me, Master.\' Don\'t make me do all the work...unless of course you want me to punish you..\" He said, fingers clicking and a small flame appeared before Zealiks eyes. \"Scared?\" he smirked, he had that , demon instinct showing someones fear.


Zealik froze, and stared blankly into the flames. The fire..it must have given him pyrophobia, he just stared blankly, seeing the images of his brother dying, the body of his dead boyfriend, everything burning, over and over. He cried, squirming away. \"Please, Master! Stop it!\" he cried.

Satisifed, The Prince threw him against the wall and Zealik fell onto the bed, sobbing into a pillow, which made the princes brows furrow.

\"You dare taint my bed with your weak tears?\" he snarled. \"Do you want me to bring back the fire?\" he asked in an acid tone, red eyes glaring coldly, much colder then the father had done.

\"No!\" Zealik practically screamed, covering his eyes and cowering. \"I\'m sorry Master, I\"m sorry, please!\" He whimpered.

\"Cmon, we\'re going to go see Johnathan.\" Ramata decided, pulling Zealik up to his feet by dragging him up by his collar. \"Follow.\" he ordered and walked out the door, going down the hallway again.

\"Johnathan, Father wanted me to introduce you to the new....servant.\" Ramata decided to use that word. THe door opened slowly and a tall figure appeared, dressed in grey, along with grey hair and grey eyes, you\'d think the grey would make him look sad, but he wasn\'t. He looked about nineteen, give or take a few years, he wasn\'t immortal, or demon, just mortal. He didn\'t get any traits from his father, his mother was mortal, so he and Ramata were half brothers.

\"..Dammit Ramata, what\'d you do? He looks like he had the shit scared out of him.\" Johnathan frowned, feeling sympathetic for the boy, he wasn\'t any cruel as his brother. \"Leave him here, you can get him tommorow.\"

\"No hes mine! Father gave him to me to replace Niko!\" Ramata growled. Bastard, he couldn\'t take his new servant away from him, he\'d go tell, yeah.


\"Are you that lazy that you can\'t survive a day without a servant?\" Johanthan asked. \"Oh! So sorry, You can\'t do anything by yourself.\" Johnathan said, dripping in sarcasm. \"You couldn\'t go a week without a servant.\" he laughed.

\"Grrrrr! Just..shuttup! SHUT UP!\" Ramata growled storming off angrilly, he could get Zealik later. It\'s not like this day would matter, and he could go without him for a day.

\"Heh, he gets pissed too easily.\" Johnathan chuckled shaking his head. \"So, what\'s your name?\" he asked with a reasurring smile.

\"Z-Zealik..\' he stammered out weakly. Still shaken up from Ramata.

\"That\'s a nice name.\" Johnathan smiled, turning to let Zealik in. \"How rude, you should be able to come in, if you want.\" he smiled and led Zealik in, the walls were grey, and the bed was grey, wonder what Johnathans favorite color was hm?

\"Cmon, sit down.\" Johnathan said sitting on the bed and patting to his side for Zealik to sit down.

Zealik slowly walked over and sat next to his brother, or Johnathan. Maybe he shouldn\'t consider him his brother, that might make him mad.

\"Let\'s get this off..\" Johnathan smiled, taking off the leather collar from Zealiks neck, stupid Ramata, always claiming everything.

\"Th-thanks, Johnathan.\" Zealik said with a weak smile, sighing and hanging his head sadly.

\"What\'s wrong?\" Johnathan asked curiously, putting a reasurring arm around the boy. \"Something troubling you?\"

\"...my family is dead, my love is dead, and I\'m here supposed to be a slave? Yeah, nothings wrong.\" Zealik said in sad sarcasm.

\"Oh, you\'re love died, I\'m sorry, was she nice?\" he asked softly.

Zealik frowned and looked down again. \"I-it wasn\'t a girl..\" he said slowly.

\"Oh, hm.\" Johnathan nodded, understanding. Then out of nowhere he kissed Zealik softly on the cheek.

\"..what was that for?\" Zealik asked, turning to him and blushing.

\"Because you\'re cute, and you don\'t diserve this...but mostly because your\'e cute.\" Johnathan said with a weak chuckle. \"But don\'t worry, I won\'t let Ramata hurt you, I\'ll try my best.\" He smiled ruefully, not knowing if he could help or not.

\"..thanks.\" Zealik sighed, resting his head on Johnathans shoulder. Feeling much relieved, maybe living here his whole life wouldn\'t be so bad. \"I was supposed to get my room tonight, ..but..\" he didn\'t know how to say it.

\"You\'re scared to be alone?\" Johnathan smiled. \"That\'s okay, you can stay in my room. I wont\' mind.\" Johnathan smiled.

\"Thanks, Johnathan.\" Zealik smiled. \"I think I\'d like to rest now..\" he said quietly.

\"Me too.\" Johnathan chuckled, pulling Zealik into his lap and put his arms around him. \"It\'s already late, let\'s go to bed then. \"he smiled. Cradling Zealik in his arms (which was easy Zealik not being that old, or that heavy) and put him under the blankets and crawled in with him. Zealik cuddled closely to Johnathan, hugging him. \"Night, Johnathan..\" he yawned, nuzzling his head on his shoulder, and falling asleep lovingly.

\"Night Zealik.\" Johnathan smiled. Hugging him closely.

Both slept for hours, but one didn\'t sleep very long, Johnathan awoke at some knocking on the window and got up, leaving Zealik in the bed. \"Hey Rita..iLok.\" Johnathan smiled at his two friends, the girl had long red hair and brown eyes, and the boy adressed as iLok had short black hair. But they had fangs, and wings, they were vampires.

\"Hey Johnathan.\" Rita said with a fanged smile. \"Ready to go out again?\"

\"Oh, whos this?\" iLok asked curiously, pointing at Zealik.

\"New brother.\" Johnathan grinned. \"Now lets go out, while you guys can.\" he smiled, meaning they could only be out until sunrise.

\"Mkay.\" iLok grinned, flying outside the window, Johnathan jumped out of the window and onto the ground with much accuracy, you know what they say, practice makes perfect. \"So a walk I\'m guessing?\" he smiled.

\"Eh, only for you two, I\'m going out on my own, you two have fun, but don\'t fuck each other too hard. \" Rita teased, then giggled, and flew off.

iLok grinned somewhat. \"Too bad hards the fun way to do it..\" he grinned and then pushed Johnathan against a tree, licking at his neck and tugging at the skin with his fangs teasingly. \"Lets have a little fun...hm?\"

\"nnnnhh..\" Johnathan nodded and moaned loudly. And iLok moved down, unbuttoning Johnathans shirt and licking down his chest, biting here and there and making him moan louder, he then unbuttoned his pants and engulfed Johnathans stiff member and started to move up and down his shaft.

Johnathan bit his lip, gripping into the trees bark tightly, panting, trying not to scream in delight, in pleasure, after a few minutes Johnathan couldn\'t hold it in, and shot his seed into iLoks mouth, which he swallowed happily, and moved up again, kissing Johnathan passionantly on the lips, traces of seed still on his tongue and he kissed him passionantly. He then bit at Johnathans neck again, but this time he made blood come out, which he licked up greedily, yet with the sweet taste he hadn\'t eaten in a while, he continued sucking Johnathans blood out.

\"Nnnh, iLok, w-what are you doing?\" Johnathan frowned, squirming, but he was held tight, getting weaker and weaker as his blood was drained dry.

iLok, being satisfied of enough blood dropped Johnathan to the ground, then relizing what he had done, cursed under his breath. \"Shit..shit...damn hell fuck..\" he growled, panicking, he had just murdered his best friend, wait, there was a way.

He bit at his own wrist, making his own blood flow out and stuffed it in Johnathans mouth, forcing it down his throat. \"...sorry Johnathan. \" he frowned, and flew away, leaving Johnathan there. Soon Johnathan awoke, and growled with pain, his back was stinging, and bleeding, as well as his finger tips, and his mouth hurt, he was in the process of growing wings, claws, fangs even! He was turning into a vampire, like iLok and Rita.

\"Nnh..ugh..damn..tired..hungry..\" Johnathan groaned as he stumbled himself up, rubbing his eyes. He felt a lot of things, he felt tired, weak, and he was hungry, for blood, his mind was already rushing with anger, evil, and much things he had never thought before. He flew back to his room of the empire, barely even noticing he was flying. He got into the room and grinned somewhat as he looked at Zealik lying there, so peaceful, vunerable, and full of blood. Sweet ..blood. why had he had the sudden craving? Didn\'t matter, all he cared about was getting..a few bites and drinks. He walked over to the be and grabbed Zealiks wrists quickly tying them to the end of the bed with a hankerchief, he tied the knot tight, so only the sharpest knife could break it.

\"Mmm? Johnathan? What are you doing?\" Zealik yawned, attempting to rubbing his eyes, but noticed they didn\'t come; they were tied. \"Johnathan, could you unti-\" He was cut off by a deep kiss, not a passionant one, a deep and rough one, his new fangs biting down hard on Zealiks bottom lip, producing blood that he sucked out.

Zealik tried struggling, but found it hard too, he had just woken up, he was tired, and scared. Why was Johnathan doing these things to him? He had been so nice, and now this? \"Don\'t struggle.\" Johnathan ordered, walking over to the top of the table and picked up the collar, putting it back on Zealik. \"There, mine you are.\" He smirked. He ripped off Zealiks shirt and clawed down his chest, licking up drop by drop of blood that was dripping and oozing out. He wanted to scream, Zealik did, but now he noticed that another hankerchief was gagging him, tears slid down his face sadly, he thought he was going to enjoy it with Johnathan, but now..now he was making his life a living hell.

\"Now..I will make you mine, Zealik.\" Johnathan said with a small smirk, walking over to the same counter and getting a bottle of lotion and walked over to Zealik, unzipping his pants and grinned. An evil grin that would make you wonder, but Zealik feared this, he was going to....rape him? No.. he couldn\'t! Not the friendly Johnathan he knew, but something happened, something made him more,..mad? Evil? Smirky?

Johnathan poured some lotion onto his fingers and stuck them in Zealiks entrance, moving them around some to lube him properly, Johnathan then slipped off his pants, applying some lotion to his stiff member. He then hovered over Zealik, throwing Zealiks legs over his shoulders, he didn\'t bother to ask if Zealik was ready, he didn\'t care, he pushed his member deeply into Zealiks entrance, ravishing him fastly with quick movements, not even caring if Zealik enjoyed it, he looked at Zealik as he raped him, tears in his eyes which made him laugh. He continued for not so many minutes, then at one time he was about to release himself, he pulled out of Zealik and shot his seed onto Zealiks chest. Leaving him bloody and filthy, he hissed as the sun was about to rise and quickly flew off, he would stay here no more, not here with, filthy demons. He flew off far, but he would soon find his destination.

Zealik layed there, eyes wide and horrified, he couldn\'t move, he..was too weak to move, he was raped. He was raped, by the nicest person he had seen. At least hes gone though. Zealik weakly clawed off the hankerchief binding his wrists and took the gag out of his mouth, he just curled up into a ball and cried, tears splattering onto the bloodstained sheets. He would rest, while he could, then go ask Ramata for his room in the afternoon. So he went to sleep now, so many fears and nightmares ocurring in his mind. He cried in his sleep, but no one would hear him, he was now truelly filthy, and no one listens to scum.