Darkness

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Darkness        Chapter 73     Embrace

Well it feels like something got in the way

And maybe I had something to do with it

There’s no much that I can say

But there sure is something I’ve got to prove to you

I told you that I tried, and you said I lied

Like I had something to sell.

Come on wait a minute

You think I ‘ve been in this for a little while

Oh now come on baby please

I’ve been on my knees for long time

So come on, give it to me

Just give it to me…  […Love and forgiveness]

Give It to me, by 3 Doors Down

[My addition to fit story, Darkness to Key]

Before the Queen of the Dwarves could get the elf and wizard together, Darkness all at once came to his feet and charged over and carefully not to let his bare sword come anywhere near her he lifted the tiny woman and carefully set her back down on her feet just out of his way.  Then with a desperate groan of distress  Darkness let his unsheathed sword drop from his hand, as if it was worthless and unimportant thing, and it fell to the floor with a loud ringing crash and he drop to his knees beside Keylyn and took the fallen injured elf up in a gentle embrace and held him tenderly against his armored chest.  

The sudden movement and the sound of the falling sword made the hurting elf flinch and cry out in distress as his violet and purple eye lifted in alarm and he stared up in confusion at the individual that held him tightly. There was something familiar about the man, who held him, but Key knew immediately he was not the Vampire lord El’llissinor, who had so recently hurt him. But his fuzzy dim tormented memory told the boy that this man too had hurt him in the past, and abandons him to his fate to suffer and die; yet no name came to him. Pain and confusion made it difficult for Keylyn to think clearly, his memory faded in and out for he was experiencing so much  physical agony and barely rational rage. He cried out frightfully and weakly in a whisper, “Who are you? What do you want from me?” When the man reached out to touch his face and brush the fine pale silver and violet hair from falling in his eyes, the elf cringed away in terror from the man and shrieked out loudly, “ Don’t touch me… please don’t… hurt me anymore… I can’t bear it, whoever you are, I beg you for mercy!

“Key my love, don’t you recognize me, I am here to rescue and take you home! Cried the wizard in desperation, and Keylyn’s eyes saw a single lone tear run down the man’s white handsome cheek.

“Home! But I don’t have a home. No one wants me, better you just let me die right here so I can be free…forever…from the awful hurting. Once I had friends for a little while, but I guess they …    forgot all about me… no one wants me back for now, surely, for I’ve become a most thoroughly vilely defiled” The little elf groaned weakly gritting his teeth as he whispered the words through his  pain …  his violet eyes seemed to fade and grow dim displaying his shame and humiliation.  

“Please remember me Key, Come Surely You remember me Seer’ Reign the terrible and evil cruel bastard… that used and treated you like shit, while hiding behind his many ruthless sick games and acts, until, that is, he fell head over heals completely in love with you my sweet lovely elf, in spit of my evil habits”

“ Dar…k…k… ness,” The elf said brokenly gasping out in a dry breathless choking whisper as if suddenly he remembered.  “Cold cruel Darkness is it really you? At first I thought you would come to save and rescue me, but day after day past and you never came. I waited and waited. But there was not a single sign of you. I decided you didn’t think I was worth the trouble of being rescued and you purposely forgot about me. Why did it take you so long to get here?  Then all at once a stressed Keylyn begin to cough frantically repeatedly as his dry gasping throat refused to work for he needed water badly in order to talk.

Just at that point somehow Feles, managed to pull and wiggle his way forcefully out of the snug embrace of his demon lover, who endeavored to hold him and he charged forward carrying a water skin.  “Please Darkness, Keylyn needs water before he passes out from thirst, can’t you see?” Then the red head kneeled down and endeavor to poor some of the water down the boy’s parched throat. Darkness saw more of the water run down one side of the boy’s chin than actually reaching his mouth.  “Shit… Fe your missing his mouth, give it to me and with that the wizard snatched the water skin forcefully from the young thief and careful positioned it so the skin’s nozzle was inserted inside the elf’s  weak coughing gasping mouth at a sharp angle, unfortunate this caused the water to run out much too fast into elf boy’s throat causing him to choke and sputter. 

“Damn-it Darkness are you trying to drown him, go a little slower or he will be ill!” Shouted a pissed off Fe, as tried to grab the water skin back, resulting a small tug of war between Darkness and Feles.

After drinking some refreshing water Keylyn’s violet eyes started brighten with awareness and memory and he was starting finally to revive and feel slowly better, for to the dwarf queen’s previous potion had started to kick in and he even got some of his strength back, as well as his memory, although he was still a little giddy from blood loss, he let out a brief frustrated giggle and managed to tug the water skin away from  his feuding helpers. And he brought it back to his own mouth and then proceeded to drink every last drop of water until the skin was empty and then he even weakly but politely demand more.

Instantly, one of the Dwarf Cross bowmen nearby kindly leaned down and offered his own skin to the still prone elf held in Darkness’ embrace.  A fleeting look of shock came on little elf’s face for he never met a dwarf before, which made him start to wonder went on while he remained the most tormented and unhappy guest in El’llissinor’s fortress.

After drinking most of the second water skin too, Keylyn quickly handed the skin back to its dwarf owner with a nod of thanks. Abruptly the elf felt a sudden a warm surge of energy and strength like a magical wave swept over him, and he rapidly pulled himself up sharply up and away from Darkness’ embrace and managed to stand up shakily on his own feet. All the while the fingers of Key’s small right hand clung tightly like a fierce claw to the front of Darkness’ leather armor, for the wizard came to his feet right along side him, at same time retrieving his fallen sword and re-sheathing it.  Darkness felt a brightly glowing pair of incensed violet eyes with fiery burning scarlet flecks stared straight at him. Directly the pair of eye focused resentfully and petulantly right into the wizard's face demanded an answer. “Why did it take you so very fucking long to get here and save me from that filthy blood-sucking monster? Don’t you want me anymore My Lord of Darkness? Perhaps I am too soiled …and debauched a thing, in your eyes for you to want me back?”

At Keylyn distressing question, instantly a stunned Darkness, lowered his head concealing his dark eyes and momentarily he refused look up into his lover face, as he grew unnaturally silent.  This time Seer’ Reign didn’t  have any wise ass remarks to make, for once he was too overwhelmed with guilt and regret that he had so cruelly let his little elf lover down, thus allowing him to be used and hurt. 

“Damn you to hell, Darkness you bastard! You owe me, at least, the truthful answer… now… for I loved you and thought you loved me… once… I even forgave you, all your mistreated of me for your so-called magical reasons, as well as for the many sick perverse games you played with my mind and my body for your own gratification!  Yet, like a stupid foolish slut that I am, I still fell deeply in love with you anyway!” Keylyn’s cry of fury suddenly became a sob and then a series of sobs and then he appeared to loose control completely, for the fingers clutching wizard’s armored chest became a fist, which was joined by a second fist and they proceed to hammer repeatedly without let up until the continuous rage driven fury of the elf resulted in an exchange of large red glowing sparks that appeared, as wild random magic was released and discharged between the two wizards. 

Surprisingly, Seer’ Reign the wizard known as Darkness made no effort to free himself from his little elf’s fury, but stood his ground completely accepting the abuse as if he deserved it. Only when the magic discharge started get even stronger and more extreme did Darkness start to worry, for he feared Keylyn would exhaust himself to the point of collapse, because of his previous blood lose and injuries.

“Hush-hush sweet Keylyn! Please stop this your hurting yourself now even more than me,  even though I suppose I deserves it for not rescuing you sooner. Truth is boy we had difficulty finding a way in to the fortress to save you, and I will take the blame for it if I must.  No matter how hard we tried to find a way to you, only with the help of Dwarves at the last did we actually find a way inside the mountain, which lead in turn into the fortress.  Damn-it Keylyn I do care about you, and I still want you back for I love you and I discovered that I couldn’t do with out you!   I am not really sure that such a dark heartless creature like myself is worthy of you…yet no one is more to blame for what happen to you than me… I should have protected you better… I have so much to prove to you, and make amends for… that at the present I don’t know where to start. Key Please hate me for now, if you must, my beautiful little one, just don’t give up on me… not just yet, I’ll try so very hard to change for you. ”

Ooooo

Before Keylyn even had a chance to respond, all at once came the startling clamor of battle cries as their sword waving elfin enemies, charged forward suddenly, appearing out of nowhere, but in truth actually it was from the archway at the rear of the chamber. The attackers ran directly toward the vigilant blockade of skilled Dwarf crossbow men that stood between them and the main rescue party. The dwarfs speedily sent their sharp vicious sharp iron bolts or small dart like arrows instantly directly into the body of armored attacker taking down most of shrieking attacker almost immediately, but still more and more elves came charging through the archway behind them.

Darkness with a vicious haste grabbed hold of the angry and weak injured Keylyn and dragged him over and pushed him into the arms of the big red headed demon. Drakk without a word or a delay took protective possession of him. Feles, who was nearby, also placed his body close by and protectively draped one arm over Key’s shoulders to help hold him up and steady him, while at the same time the boy drew his sword and dropped into a defensive stance in front his injured friend. 

“Protect him for me, I need to help them,” Shouted the wildly growling cursing wizard drawing his sword and running forward to intercept a few of the attackers who some how managed to get by the blockade of tiny archers. With a furious swipe of his sword he took out the first Elf attackers and headed on toward the second one.  The second wasn’t as easy to take out, for he was better swordsman and not surprised like the first elf. so Darkness needed to focus on this fight and nothing else.  It took Darkness three or four major swipes before he was able to gut the man with single thrust in belly through his broken armor and cause him to trip over his bloody entrails as he fell to the ground and died.

Momentarily the attack slowed just long enough, giving Darkness time to sheath his sword and carefully conjure up two swirling massive balls of bright violent energy. When the next wave of attackers came through the archway he had positioned himself in front the crossbow men and just waited. His action permitted the dwarfs to take a quick breathe and carefully reload their crossbows. This time the wizard barely gave their enemy assailant any time to brandish their long swords in their face, for he quickly took out the majority of the charging Elves using both fireballs one after the other until  a good number of charred furiously burning corpses remained littering the floor directly just inside archway, which conveniently acted as a fiery barriers to slow any further attacker who might dare come through the arch after them.   Abruptly the attack came to a grinding halt for it appeared, all their recent enemies were quite died or dying, and this made the harshly panting and breathless Darkness quite satisfied and pleased, and after such a successful fight strangely it always made him a bit horny, with a disturbing  nervous urge to rub his hard twitching member despite the rude impropriety. 

But instead, to celebrate he took a good drink from his nearly empty water skin that hung from his belt, as he started to put it back on his belt, he remember Key, and turned worriedly and looked back to where he left him with Drakk and Feles.

Blood lose made Keylyn weak and shaky, and he continued to tightly cling to both Drakk and Feles for dear life. But Darkness was just happy that the boy still lived and mentally he quickly thanked the Goddess for her mercy.  He noted that his redheaded companions the big demon and his lover Fe, both carried a bloodied sword in the opposite hand that wasn’t holding on to Key. And he noted too that there were several Elves lying dead at their feet.  So they both must have fought and protected Key and themselfs too.  Drakk seemed to be his usual calm normal stoic self after a fight like always, but Feles had a stressed sick expression on his face, as if he didn’t know whether he was going to cry or spew, apparently tears won out this time for as the wizard got closer he saw tears running down Feles’ face and then a soft sob came from his mouth. Surprisingly, he saw Keylyn feebly reached out and wiped some of Fe’s tears away and whispered something quietly in his ear that Darkness was unable to hear. Next Key planted a quick tender kiss on the crying little whore’s wet cheek. 

Instantly an uncomfortable wave of jealousy fleeted through Darkness’ mind at the brief intimate encounter between the two youths and he cursed himself for being so selfish and weak. After all the boys were just friends, and nothing more, were they not?  Darkness realized that he wanted Key to touch him and kiss him like that, and not the damned pretty Feles. The pretty red-headed slut who, if he was honest with himself he lusted after too much for his own good, for he wanted to fuck him even more now, than the previous time when he had so foully abused and beat him, and despite the undenyable fact that now Feles undoubtedly belong to Drakk.

Not being a total bastard, Darkness decided was going to take a lot work on his part, if he wanted to succeed … he might even fail… because truth be told he was a horny creature who liked sex a lot and he enjoyed the idea having both his own cake Key, and eating Drakk’s cake the slutty little Fe on the side... too!  At one time he would have simple suggested they trade off for a single night of pleasure just simply to remove the wanton urge and most likely the agreeable demon would have be down for the trade. Of course a small four-way orgy would be nice an even better too. He just wasn’t sure anymore now, that Drakk would go along with such a request. Their relationship had changed; the demon didn’t always agree with him now, and he seemed much too close to his new little lover.  But even if he did managed to get Keylyn to forgive him and get him back in his bed when he was feeling better and healthy. Something told Darkness his righteous pretty purple haired elf would have a major tizzy fit, and refuse his demands and then be angry with him for merely considering such a twisted trade, let alone the four-way. Key might even try to set his magic on him.  Or plain out just try and leave him for good, for merely bringing it up. The likelihood was... not one chance in hell for it to ever happen…so he better quickly resolve himself to the fact now!

“Lord Darkness don’t you think its about time we continue, and you stop day dreaming about such nastyl lustful activities?  More elves could be coming our way any minute. We need to advance and find the master of fortress, and destroy him quickly, as you promised we’d do! Or have you decided just to leave now forget your promise because you found your Keylyn!’” Said the cranky annoying most unpredictable mind-reading little Dwarf Queen, her large eye stared up at him with disgust, distrust, and disappointment…. Her sword held out before her dangerously bare and yet blood soaked. So it was apparent she had killed too, yet her eyes ruthlessly displayed no sign of remorse.

“Little Queen, I may be a bastard in to many different ways to mention. You helped get us here in time to save Keylyn, so I wont go back out on my word to you.  I will most certainly will follow our previous plans to rid this fortress of its evil Master and your husbands killer, no mater what…. And I promise it on my life and on my word for what its worth.”

“Then give your little elf the second cure potion you carry it will make him stronger and able to endure and make sure he drinks a lot more water. for it will replace the blood he lost. Then we need to get out of this section and further up into the top floors of this Keep, so we can deal with this vampire elf beast for the final time… and only when he’s dead and gone… will my revenge be complete.  Now go do as I bid you, Wizard we have no time to loiter here. ”

“Yes Dwarf Queen as you command.”  He rapidly fished the small bottle from his waist pouch and hurried over to Keylyn. He felt the elf boys violet eye’s coldly watching him intently, but was unable tell what he was thinking.  Did he still hate and despise him for not saving him soon enough. It was if the boy was trying to torment him with his silence and his lack of expression. In a way he even preferred the boy’s terrible anger to this. Taking off the tiny lid of potion he handed the tiny bottle to boy, and the boy reached out gently and took it from him and down it quickly without expression. Darkness started to pull his hand back, when suddenly the boy reached out with his now empty hand and gripped the wizard's hand tightly, and then the tiny slender bruised, ravaged hand, with its torn fingers began to stroke his palm and then slowly Key tugged the wizard hand even closer to him, all at once a pink plump pair of soft lips pressed a tiny gently kiss again his palm. Before freeing his hand. Darkness was so close to the boy now he could see every bruise, scratch, and wounds on his pretty face, even one corner of his mouth was torn and a tiny trail of dried blood curved its way down over his small pointed chin.

“ Oh Key, I am so sorry, I know I let you down, Its my fault, please drink more water with your potion now its supposed to help you heal faster and replace your blood, unfortunate my water is nearly depleted and I ‘v very little to give you. ”  Seer’ Reign was in so much distress at seeing the state his elf was in, he had difficulty keep his head up for he was feeling very guilty again!

“ Don’t worry Darkness I have a full skin of water and I will make sure he drinks enough of it.  Said a still slightly hoarse Feles from his recent bout of tears and then disturbingly the pretty redhead smiled at the wizard and gently patted the wizard on the shoulder as if to comfort him, which made the wizard’s loin give a sudden wanton throbbing twitch.  By the goddess he was truly a hopeless bastard, could he ever change his ways, at the present there was some doubt in his worried mind.

“Come Darkness escort me, lets leave this floor and continue onward and upward, for we must fulfill our mission and destroy the evil one. Its now never.  And you others follow after us, as quickly as you can with Keylyn! ” With that tiny queen grabbed hold of Darkness’ hand tightly and pulled him along with her and they started ascend up to the next level using wide ramp going up to the next corridor. In wordless silence the dark wizard followed her for he found himself slipping quickly into a deeper dark depression that caused his head to ache and throb and his stomach to hurt, just at the mere thought of having to confronting his old master and nemesis, for it brought back so many terrible memories that he had tried so long to forget.