All Into Ashes

Hazle orbs blinked slowly open, and a gasp appeared on the young ones face, he was covered in blood, even on his mouth traces of blood, it wasn\'t his blood, demon blood was sour, and it didn\'t taste sour, but it didn\'t taste good at all. He looked to the side and saw Pae looking at him, he looked scared, why was he scared? Why were golden eyes looking at him with fear? Zealik wasn\'t scary. Was he? A lot of things had happened, he\'d been raped twice in a matter of days, treated like scum, and he had voices in his head, was he going insane? \"Pae?....\" He asked in a soft tone.

\"N-no! Don\'t hurt me!\" Pae yelped covering his face with his hands. He didn\'t want to be hurt by Zealik, just like he hurt those animals, or so he thought it was Zealik.

Zealik still wondered. Why was he acting like this? What the hell happened? \"Pae what\'s wrong?\" he asked again. \'He\'s afraid of you because you\'re a demon..\' that same voice hissed into his mind. \"Nnnh, stop.\" Zealik urged.

\"..you.. killed it..\" Pae said, shivering as he pointed to a corpse of a dead little rabbit that was lying in the cell, the organs were splattered against the floor, blood was everywhere, mostly on Zealik.

\"I-I didn\'t do it! I swear!\" Zealik said quickly, shivering himself. \'Yes you did..\' the voice whispered in his mind. \"No no no!\" he cried, holding his head.

\"Z-Zealik?\" Pae said shakily, moving slowly over to him, but not terribly wanting to get close so he wouldnt\' be torn to shreads as Zealik did to the small innocent rabbit was.

\"The voices, it won\'t stop!\" Zealik cried, angrilly tugging at his hair, from the scene he looked like a maniac,a crazy person just like Soman, but he wasn\'t crazy there were voices!...weren\'t there?

\"Zealik..I think you need help.\" Pae said, eyes glazed with concern. Finally letting himself get close enough to Zealik and put a reasurring arm around him, he got blood on him, but right now he didn\'t care.

\"I\'m not crazy..I\'m not..\" Zealik said, crying into Pae\'s shoulder the tears hurt as the left his swollen eyes. Why was he hearing voices, he could have sworn they were there, maybe they weren\'t, maybe he was crazy. Perhaps the prince was right and he was filth, dirt.

\"Shh, I know I know.\" Pae said reasurringly, hugging Zealik tightly.

\"Gross, bloody fag filth.\" The Prince scoffed arrogently muttering a \'Tch\' under his breath. \"Well I guess you DO need baths, god knows how much blood you all are covered in.\" he said idly and opened the cell door.

Pae picked up Zealik and cradled him in his arms, following the Prince to the showers, or wherever they were supposed to bathe. Ramata had taken them outside to a small pond, it was gaurded by trolls to prevent them from escaping.

Zealik was put down on the side of the pond and he took off his clothes, going into the pond, blushing as Pae followed him, bare as well. \"Pae.. it wasn\'t me..\" Zealik said shakily.

\"Sh, I know I know..\" Pae said reasurringly, arms wrapped around Zealik\'s neck and he kissed him softly on the lips, brushing against his lips lovingly, making Zealik moan softly.

When the kiss was broken Zealik cried, cried into Paes shoulder.

\"Zealik, what\'s wrong?\" He asked, alarmed, what was with the sudden crying?

\"..you\'re going to go Pae, everyone I love dies.\" the hanyou cried, holding onto Pae dearly, it was obvious. Sektor was gone. Johnathan had turned bad. And soon Pae would suffer, all because of this.. curse Zealik seemed to have, like a jinx?

\"Shhh I\'m not going to leave you Zealik, I love you too much.\" Pae whispered, kissing him softly on the lips again, not knowing how else to show he cared.

Zealik nodded slowly, now blushing, and rested his head on Pae\'s shoulder, not wanting to cry, and not wanting Pae to leave, and he wanted everything else to go away. Soman, The voices, Ramata. \"Pae..you don\'t think I\'m crazy do you?\" He asked softly.

\"No, Zea, I know you\'re not crazy.\" he said softly, kissing him on the cheek. \"But I\'m crazy for you.\" he chuckled softly, helping Zealik clean himself. He was already clean, just needed to get blood off his arms. \"There, guess we\'re both done.\" he smiled softly.

\"Mhmm.\" Zealik smiled softly, getting out of the pond and changing his clothes, feeling uncomfterble with all the trolls staring at him and all. He blushed again, watching Pae get dressed and looked down in the pond. \"Wish we were free.\" he said softly.

\"Mhmm, someday we\'ll get out, just have to trust and have faith.\" Pae said reasurringly, wrapping his arm around Zealik. \"Let\'s take a nap.\" he whispered. \"Trolls are too stupid to know.\" He said, snuggling against him.

Zealik nodded, falling asleep soundly.

* * * *

\"Get up get up!\" The Prince growled annoyed, kicking Zealika s he was sleeping. Not really giving a damn, he was pissed right now, stupid father. \"Father wants to see you again.\"

A small whimper escaped Zealik\'s lips as he got up, Pae still putting his arms around him, glaring coldly at Ramata, who mearly shrugged and dragged Zealik away.

Zealik still whimpered, wanting to go back with Pae. But he couldn\'t as Ramta\'s tight grip was on his wrist, dragging him into the main throne room.

Probably wants to make him prince. Ramata though angrilly. Bastard, only I can be prince!

\"Ah, Ramata, I see you brought the boy.\" The man smirked, his long red-brown hair curled over his shoulder and he motioned for Ramata to bring Zealik up to him, he grabbed Zealik by his chin and inspected his eyes. \"You\'ve been hearing voices, hm?\" He asked, but didn\'t wait for an answer. \"Well then, let\'s see how strong it\'s gotten.\" A wave of dark blue magic swirled around Zealik, he felt a hot white pain inside of him, like he was splitting in two, and he was, not physically, another side of him was there, because when the magic stopped, beside him was a twin of him, only difference was this male was taller, and his hair was a beautiful silver hair, and slit golden eyes like a cat, his fangs,claws, and his tail were much larger then Zealik\'s.

\"Hello.\" The new figure said, sadistic grin on his face. \"I\'m Xakrius..\"

Chapter 4: End.