Darkness

Darkness Chapter 63





Dawn’s Early Light



Even though their progress had been very slow, Feles and the weakened Darkness had almost made it back to the Inn, just as the sun rose over the horizon. All at one a tall shadowy figure charged toward them in the dim morning light in a very threatening manner. Fe quickly but gently let go of Darkness allowing him to drop slowly to his knees down on to the partially frozen dirty street. Fe hurriedly drew his new short sword, because his eight daggers were wrapped in a rag of clothing from one of his victims and tied to his belt, because they were just too clotted with dried blood and gore to be much good in a fight at the moment. The redhead stood sideways in a defensive position in front of the injured and alcohol soaked wizard and prepared to meet the hastily closing attacker.



The huge charging figure suddenly came to abrupt stop only several feet from them, and a loud familiar voice cried out angrily in their direction, “About fucking time you two showed up I woke and found you both gone, I was starting to get anxious about both of you being missing at once. Would one of you care to explain to me why my sensitive demon nose tells me that one of you stinks of blood, and the other reeks strongly of both alcohol and blood … I am only surprised that you both don’t smell of wild raging sex as well… knowing your proclivities Seer’ Reign and Fe’s profession.”



It was Drakk; obviously the scarlet haired demon was worried, and more than a little pissed, for his red eyes with their cat-like pupils burned furiously bright in the early morning light. It appeared Fe had some explaining to do to pacify his lover.



“My dear darling Drakk, you missed all the fun I was about to be robbed and raped by six foul nasty men, when you little lover came to my rescue and saved me by killing all of my six attackers with dozens of shiny little daggers one right after another, in such a phenomenal display of accuracy…you should been there to see it.” Said a madly delirious laughing Darkness his voice once more slurred and run together with drink, which was very odd to Fe, for before, the wizard seemed to be definitely sober from the pain of his wounds and the cold air. Perhaps he had a relapse from the massive quantity of strong drink he previously consumed, or was he just play-acting to sooth the temper of the big demon, but for whatever reason Fe couldn’t tell the difference. But the real question was could Drakk tell the difference that Seer’ Reign was acting… that is if he was?



Drakk knelt down beside the wizard, and whispered quietly, but Feles managed to hear it anyway. “My Lord Seer’ Reign, I don’t like you, when you drink this much, your not your normally rational self, thankfully you only get rarely this drunk …only when the need to numb a terrible grief overwhelms you.” Then the demon picked Darkness up along with his weapons in his arms like a child and carried him back toward the Inn with Fe following closely behind them in silence, but not before Fe heard one last low comment from the wizard, which was followed by a calm complacent, sigh.



“Hush now Drakk, you know I don’t usually drink this much because it interferes with my other pleasures and I find certain of these passions much too satisfying to give up, just for the numbing sake of strong drink.”







Ooooo



It took Darkness, even with the help of several healing potions, several days to recover from his bout of wild drinking, as well as from the cruel beating and almost rape at the hands of the six men. That redheaded Feles had managed to miraculously kill with his knives in order to save him. During his recovery the wizard grew even more moody, dark, and taciturn with little to say to anyone, accept the occasional cruelly mocking insult to Feles, which seemed to upset the big half-demon Drakk more than it did Feles, who for some reason refused to retaliated or strike back at cruel bastard of a wizard that showed him little or no kindness. But instead during those few days, Feles let the demon care for Darkness, while he managed to find various assorted and undefined reasons to stay away from their room until late into the night or until the other two were sound asleep… only then did he return and sleep… and then even one day he even rose before the others and disappeared before they woke only to come back at dinner time that following evening. Feles sat quietly eating a meal with them, while purposely offering no explanation of where he went, and what he was doing when he was away. Darkness assumed the worse, and the next day he made sure he told the worried demon what he thought.



“Drakk I fear you’re lovely redheaded whore is out there selling his ass and his other assets in order to fill his coffers, so what do you think he gets for a blowjob these days?” Said a laughing irritating Darkness, as he leaned comfortably back against the headboard of his pallet.



“Please My Lord shut up, I don’t believe he would do such a terrible thing to me and betray me in such a fashion.”



“Truly my big gentle demon you can be such an innocent at times, once a whore always a whore! You know my past and I should know because I have been there in his shoes. He’s like me, he has the appetite and the need for it.”



“Damn-it Seer’ Reign he’s not you… my filthy disgusting father never gave you… or me a choice, he just took us both us over and over, until our innocent childhood blood flowed and we screamed under him.”



“Drakk that's where you and me are different, you never liked it, but there were times when I did, and I didn’t want him stop what he did to me and I actually begged and demanded more.”



“Seer’ Reign you were exceptional pretty as a child, he played with you and manipulated your mind too and forced you to like it, almost as much as he used your body. Why then did you take me and escape from him then, if you liked being his pet and plaything so much?”



“Because I saw he was slowly killing you and you were his offspring, I knew then he wouldn’t be above killing me too, if I suddenly refused him or if my magick dared somehow to compete with his, when I looked into his vicious deviate eyes, after a while I saw both our deaths written before me… it was flee then… or die.”



“Please, My Lord, I will have nightmares, if we continue to discuss our past and him!”



“Are we really able to mentally and psychically able to confront “him” NOW as adults? I wonder even to save my poor little Keylyn or what will be mentally left of him, after your father gets a hold of him? The very thought makes me ill and I lust for more alcohol to numb and drive away the very visions from my mind of what he might do to my lovely dear little elf!”



Suddenly the door to their room swings open and Feles glades gracefully into the room his cloak flaring around him, with great big grin on his lovely feminine face, as if he didn’t have a problem in world. Darkness studied him from head to toe and then quickly he took a deep breath his nostrils flaring wide to take in Feles intimate scent, which was surprisingly of flowers and spice not what he expected and then he called out.



“So my pretty smiling Feles the gratification business must be good and profitable, but I am surprised you don’t reek like a busy bordello, you must have visited a bath house recently as well before returning here, is that true?”



“My Lord of Darkness, I don’t know what the fuck your talking about, I know only that I found information and a way through the mountains that will take us to where we want to go to save Keylyn, or perhaps my lord you have given up and changed your mind about wanting to save the little elf. Because now you think it might be just too fucking hard and too much trouble, and you’d much rather spend all your time lying around soaking up drink after drink. If you aren’t interested anymore in saving him, I suppose I will just have to go alone, if I must, unless Drakk, my love, you would care to join me in the endeavor too?



A thoroughly startled Darkness responded to Feles words and implications as if he had been harshly slapped in the face, for in part they sort of reflected his own thoughts whether he liked it or not… and for once he was just too stunned to speak or come up with a wiseass reply and that made the smiling Feles smile even harder for finally the redhead had the last word and the great ruthless bastard of a wizard didn’t. At that minute the wizard hated the beautiful little whore with all his might and he wanted to hurt him and strike him down and wipe that smug grin from his delicate fine boned face or pull on that shiny auburn red hair till his golden eyes grew wet with tears and he screamed…. Or… would he simply be satisfied with fucking him stupid until the boy begged for him to stop!



Ooooo



So several days later they all were back in saddle, headed down a rugged narrow trail through a mountain pass. The weather grew colder and nastier as they and the day worn on. They were pelted with freezing rain and snow the deeper into the mountain they went. Earlier when they started off, Darkness loudly and mockingly called to the demon “Drakk, Keep your little cock-sucker of a lover far away from me, or I might accidentally in my drunken state cause him to fall to his death…down a deep ravine and that would be a terrible shame for you, you would be alone again.” The truth was Darkness hadn’t taken a single drink after they brought him back to their room at the inn, even though he was still in a worried desperate state of mind to still want it. The foolish annoying pretty little whore actually thought he alone could confront that high vampire elf overlord, and come out on top, when both he and demon weren’t sure they could deal with him… it was so ridiculously humorous… while at the same time it was pathetically sad. The Boy Feles had know idea what he was dealing with…he would be fucked and drained in matter of minutes and thrown to the buzzards and the overlord would not even be left breathing hard when he was done.



Drakk shook his head at two companions constant bickering, but stayed between them just in case. He needed them both, and they needed each other, but they never seemed to acknowledge that fact.



By late afternoon, the weather got even worse and they were force to a snails pace for heavy snow practically blinded them. The three had to get down off their horses and lead them on slowly on foot, but at least being closer to the ground it allowed them seek out shelter. All at once the narrow trail got even narrower and then they came to a point where a landslide had caused a huge monstrous slab of rock reached out over the trail leaving an area that looked barely big or high enough for them to pass through with the horses. Drakk took it on himself to push forward and investigate, pushed the reigns of his horse into Feles hands. The cold, wet, and shivering redhead took possession of his lover’s horse without a word and stood in the weather listening to the windy snowstorm howl around him like the hounds of hells were after him. And to make things worse his stomach began to growl in chorus with the wind for he hadn’t broke his fast since dawn and he was weak and famished. Through the falling dense nearly opaque whiteness and howling wind he heard footsteps crunching through the hard snow toward him. He knew it wasn’t Drakk returning for the footsteps were much lighter, so it was most likely that cruel dark bastard coming over to harass him for his own sick amusement again. Feles unconsciously rested his hand on the hilt of his favorite throwing knife, clean and ready on his hip, but made no effort to back away it was just too much trouble to move in the painfully freezing air. A soft muffled chuckle came through the falling whiteness and reached Feles’ practically frozen ears and a gloved hand reached out possessively and rested on his left shoulders and then came that annoying leering voice followed by a laugh that showed him little or no mercy.



“Well pretty, Feles, lovely day isn’t it…. are you having fun yet, certainly this is quite different from your usual warm sedentary positions on your back or being frequently bent over something, though I do suppose your ass hurts just as much from long distance horseback riding, as it does from constant penetration from servicing client after client.”



“My Lord Seer’ Reign, Why do you find it necessary to crudely mock me constantly. Why do you hate me so? Even after I saved you from those men, you show me no mercy or respect and treat me like something rotten stuck to your boot. Certainly I deserve some compassion from you!” Feles asked in quiet pleading voice.



Darkness moved closer to Feles for warm and whispered with a quiet giggle against his ear, while allowing his warm heated breath to blow against the boy’s neck.



“Boy compassion is for sissies and I find it a delightfully distracting to torment you for fun, it makes me forget my own problems. I am not called Darkness for nothing and I am really an all around bastard… so why do expect any different behavior from me?”



“I suppose, for change, it would just be nice!”



“Sorry Kiddo… ‘Nice’ is not in my vocabulary, but it is odd, I though you were strong enough to take my mocking humor and give back as good as you get… you certainly you can’t deny the whore you truly are, and the lifestyle you previously lived now can you?”



“No I can’t, but perhaps, I’d like to change or give up what I am, and become something else or something better, if only you’d let me My Lord!”



“Feles, I hate to disappoint you, you can’t run away completely from your past … a part of you will always remain a whore, even if you wear a fancy mask or a rich cloak of so-called normalness and uprightness… the needy greedy wanton will be still hiding somewhere in your dark nature, waiting to come out at the least opportune time…. And believe me I know how it works”



“Then I somehow Darkness I must learn to keep a leash on my dark side and not indulge it, like you do yours, wont I… My Lord?”



Ooooo



Several minutes later Feles and Darkness watched as Drakk stamped loudly out of the swirling whiteness, shaking the snow off his cloak and boots and grinning in satisfaction for he succeeded in finding them a safe refuge out of the cold.



“Please don’t tell me you two are at your irritating bickering again, If you keep this the fuck up, I am going to knock you both out cold on your asses, respectively, and then carry you into the large cave I found, a cave big enough to keep both us and the horses out of weather with enough dry windfall of kindling and brush inside it to make a huge fire that will burn and last for days. And best of all I can enjoy it in silence, since both of you will be unconscious. So both of you shut up or else! Not another nasty word to each other and following me now and bring the horses. Feles and Darkness stared back at each grinning like naughty children while sticking their tongues out at the unaware demon’s back. Then they promptly follow after Drakk in silence.