All Into Ashes

\"Xakrius...\"

\"...\" Zealik just stood there, frozen. Xakrius? Who what why? He was confused, and things were bad enough. And now this.. this demon? He was obviously a demon, he had golden eyes, silver spiked hair silver furred ears and tail. Very beautiful he would say, but it was like a roses thorns, for he could tell this man was very evil.

\"Well don\'t I even get a hello?\" The older demon asked arrogently eyebrows furrowed, his hair, ears, and tail were such a bright silver, so pretty to look at. So pretty pretty pretty. Er, yeah. \"Such a pretty boy..\" He said thoughtfully, running a claw down Zealik\'s cheek. \"It\'d be a pity for that pretty face to get all, clawed up, no?\" He asked now drawing blood from Zealik\'s face which made him shiver with disgust. With pain. \"Now don\'t you want to say hello?\" The one obviously named Xakrius asked, giving a tender smile, yet that tenderness held evil.

\"..Hello.\" Zealik said, whimpering as he turned away, tears mixing with the blood on his stained cheeks, wanting more then anything to get away from this.. this evil man, get away from this aweful hellhole. Run away with Pae. That\'s what he wanted to do.

\"So you can speak.\" The older figure smirked slightly. \"Now now Zealik, there\'s no mean for alarm.\" he said, in a different tone.

How did he know his name? And that tone.. that tone. THat voice. \"You!\" Zealik gasped. \"..y-your were the one, in my head.. telling me to do things.\"

\"I can also take over your body, which I did. Ah those rabbits were delectable.\" Xakrius said with another small smirk. \"Smart boy aren\'t you? And you thought you were.. what\'s the term now.. \'koo-koo\'?\" He laughed coldly. \"Well you are.\" he quickly added after that, glaring. \"A crazy little boy who thinks he can get out of here, but you can\'t because you\'re weak, weak weak scum.\"

\"...\'m not weak.\" Zealik replied in a weak no. (Irony, eh?) He wasn\'t weak, well he was acting it now but he wasn\'t, and he WAS Going to get out of this place, he knew it. He had too.

\"You\'re reading too many fairy tales, boy. You\'re not getting out of here, and your prince in shatting armour sure isn\'t going to help.\" The silver haired one scoffed, twirling a long lock of hair in his fingers. It was obvious he could read Zealik\'s mind.

\"I AM SO!\" Zealik yelled, throwing an arm in an attempt to slash the older one, but the older one caught his arm, and threw it back, his claws now tightly around Zealik\'s neck.

\"Do you want to die EARLY, boy? Because you\'re sure as hell not goingto last here at all.\" He asked darkly, glaring coldly at him as he tightened his grip.

\"N-no! L-let me go!\" Zealik sniffled as he squirmed, he didn\'t want to die, but was this man right? Would Zealik die here? Is this how he would spend the rest of his life,..just waiting to die? Die? No..no matter what anyone said, he would get out. Tears still crawled down his face.

\"You cry boy, why?\" Xakrius demanded. \"Do I scare you? THink I\'ll KILL you?\" He asked mockingly, laughing very coldly at the weak little wimp.

\"\'...Just let me go!\" Zealik insisted, shaking his head and squirming biting his lip so he wouldn\'t cry anymore.

The king watched with interest, everything else bored him, his son whining, but this. This ..Xakrius. He could be a great Prince. But why wouldn\'t he be? That was why he put him in Zealik, let him stay there long enough to get his own idea of living.

\"Tell me, boy.\" the demon snarled, glaring down coldly at Zealik.

\"...You\'re hurting me! That\'s why I\'m scared!\" Zealik squeeked out, the older mans claws were dug so tightly into Zealik\'s wrists that he was starting to bleed.

\"Ah, so I am.\" Xakrius said, soft tone now in his voice. But it wasn\'t kind softness. No. It was the same evil kind. He brought his claws up and examined the blood. Licking his claws clean. \"Yum.\" He said simply, grinning hungrilly at Zealik.

Zealik quickly turned his head away, crying into his tail, he wanted all of this madness to just stop, stop right now. But he knew it wouldn\'t, he would rather be in his cell now, with Pae. Much rather then this.

\"Gotta be getting you back then hm? Xakrius, stay with me, Ramata, take Zealik back to his cell if you don\'t mind\" Quarez said smirking somewhat. Ah, a new prince, what a joy it woudl be.

\"Cmon, stupid.\" Ramata muttered crossly, dragging Zealik off by his collar and took him back to his cell, throwing him in there roughly, he was very angry as you could tell.

Pae was already in there, and rushed up to Zealik and frowned as he saw the blood, but he quickly healed them. \"You okay?\" He asked softly.

\"No..\" Zealik said, tear swollen and shook his head. He couldn\'t cry anymore now, all the tears were gone, there was no energy. What did he do to diserve such Karma? He was always told good things come to those who are good. Was being a half demon really that bad? It must have. Maybe they were right, maybe he was sinned.

\"...Zealik, I\'m sorry. I really really am.\" Pae said sympathetically. \"You don\'t diserve this, none of us do, it\'s them who are bad, tainted. We\'re just unlucky to get caught in it..\" He said slowly, putting his arms around Zealik and pulled him closert to him giving him a reasurring hug.

\"Dinner time.\" Soman grinned as he walked into the cell, a large plate of raw meat in his hand, he wasn\'t wearing a shirt though. Probably wanted to add sex into it, or something overly perverse. Because Soman, he was a formal man when it came to serious matters. But not wearing a shirt? There was bound to be trouble.

Zealik finally noticed that he was hungry all that stress and pain left him crying so loud he could not hear his own stomach growling. He anxiously crawled (he was too weak to stand up at the moment, with no food and all) over to Soman at a slow pace, but Soman, he was lying down on his back.Strange really.

\"Hungry? Then eat.\" Soman announced dryly as he smothered his chest in the raw meat. So that is what he was planning, making them eat off his chest. The sick sadistic bastard. But Zealik was too hungry, he still reached for a peice, but Soman stopped him. \"No no no. You can\'t use your hands, you must eat off of me.\" he said, that same maniac grin glued to hisface.

Pae didn\'t want to eat, sure he was hungry, but no, he wouldn\'t give in like that. But Zealik, he was starving, he slowly licked a peice of meat off of Soman\'s chest. Making Soman shudder with pure erotic pleasure, it was a turn on, this was. His sick little game. Zealik on the other hand whimpered, slowly chewing at the peice of meat, feeling very weak, he gave in. He was a weakling, and now this? He was sinned. \"I\'m not hungry anymore..\" Zealik announched solemnly, crawling over to Pae and cried softly into his shoulder, mumbling things about being weak, giving in and such.

\"Filth.\" Soman scoffed and stood up properly, scooping the rest of the meat off his chest and onto the plate, taking the plate away. He wasn\'t going to eat it, but neither would them, they didn\'t deserve it, not now anyway.

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\"AH! Bastard!\" Xakrius growled as he was thrown into the cell roughly by a couple of trolls. Bleh, trolls, he could have held them off if they weren\'t in such godamn groups. What 10 in a group? Wonder how many it takes to screw in a lightbulb.

\"I thought you would be perfect, but you weren\'t. You can\'t keep yourself from feeding off the fairy blood, you hunger for it too much.\" Quarez said idly, eyes narrowed at the blood sucking demon. Ramata on the other hand was smirking and making faces at Xakrius. No way he would take his position. Only RAMATA Himself could be prince, until he became king, then his lovely son would be prince. But he had to find some whore to impregnate.

\"Not my problem their blood is so..delicious.\" Xakrius said thoughtfully, licking the silver fairy blood from his fingers.And then laughed as they walked off. \"So what are you two bummed out about?\" He asked curiously. looking at Zealik and Pae.

\"....we don\'t like being here.\" Pae said sadly. Zealik didn\'t want to speak to this ..this beast. This beast who hurt him, and made Pae afraid of him.

\"..well then get out.\" Xakrius rolled his eyes and then muttered a chant under his breath and the cell door had melted. \"Go on, get.\" He said, waving his hands in a \'shoo\' motion.

Pae quickly stood up, Zealik cradled in his arms as he quickly walked out of the \'not-so-cell-door\' \"Uh thank you....?\" He said, then expecting a name.

\"Xakrius.\" He replied.

\"Yes, thank you Xakrius.\" Pae smiled and quickly ran off with Zealik, heading for the main door. They were going to get out, they were going to be free. Yet Zealik wondered why Xakrius was nice all of a sudden. It didn\'t matter, nothing else mattered but Pae, he was going to be with Pae.

The large door leading outside was opened, the sunlight crept onto both of their faces, they both grinned happily. They were out, they were free, they were going to be together forever.

...as soon as they find their way out of hte large forest.

* * * *

\"...Zealik, I can\'t make it..\" Pae frowned, as he sat down under a tree, he felt really ill. He hadn\'t eaten for a month. And he was weak now, and they were lost. He knew he wouldn\'t make it. \"Zea.. I\"m not going to make it..\" he chuckled ruefully.

\"Shh, don\'t say things like that..\" Zealik said, eyes swollen, he could cry again he could. Pae couldn\'t leave him, he promised he wouldn\'t! He sat down next to him on his knees. \"You\'re going to be okay Pae...\" He said.

\"No Zealik.\" Pae said shaking his head, coughing a bit. \"I\'m going to die, I\'m sorry Zealik. But remember..I love you..\" He whispered hoarsly and kissed Zealik on the lips, and then closed his eyes and leaned back, motionless.

\"P-pae?! No! No no no no no!\" Zealik repeated over and over, tears spread down his face, he was crying. \"NO!\" He yelled in angry tears. \"You promised.. your promised you wouldn\'t leave me!\" He said, crying as his lover was there. Dead.

\"Hey Yuka, look at the wimp cryin\' for his lova\'.\" A demon laughed mockingly, prodding his friend (Obviously Yuka) in the side with his elbow). The demon talking to Yuka was tall, long blond hair flowed down to his back, he was a wolf demon obviously, the tail and ears gave it off. He wasn\'t a dog demon though, Zealik could tell about these things being a dog demon himself.

\"Hah, yeah. What do you ttthink we ssshould do?\" Yuka replied in a small hissing tone, he was obviously a snake demon, shining green scales covering his body.

\"Leave me alone!\" Zealik cried, holding his head in his arms sobbing now, tears dripping onto his deceased lover\'s lap.

\"I say we burn \'m, the dead one. Then let the other suffer, that\'d be fun.\" The wolf demon replied. Grinning evillly at the thought, these demons were obviously trouble.

\"Ahh, excccelent idea, Tahjii.\" The scalled one grinned and snapped his fingers, Pae\'s dead corpse now ignited, burning there on the spot. The other two demons then walked away, laughing and joking about it.

Zealik\'s eyes grew wide, and he screamed, cried, cursed the gods for letting this happen. Hours on end he cried until the fire died. His lover\'s ashes now before him.

Chapter 5: End.