Demonic

Ed got home from spring break... Ed dreaded having to confront his parents about losing almost everything on the trip.His phone included.

But the front door was ajar. Fear traveled up his spine.

Fear ripped into him. "Mom?Dad?" 

"That thing is not our child." Ed heard raised voices.

Dad shot back "It is a piece of our child, We knew someday there was a chance of something over there taking him. He's always been attracted to it.

regardless you will not harm our child." His step-father stated.

"I'd like to see you try to stop me." Ed froze with such a dark voice.

"Not even you can take us both on, not here." 

"Leave and do not return." Mom's voice was artic cold.

"I'll see you soon and next time you won't have the protection of your home." The dark voice spat.

Ed was angry.... and confused he felt something bubbling up inside him... and at the same time from... else where.

No one threatened his family. 

No one.

Ed waited.  His momentary surprise.

If Ed had a brother this would be it. Dressed in a suit he looked like a professional. Except for an unsheathed blade in his hand. The man's eyes widened momentarily.

There was a slurck!

The disgusting sound of a blade piercing flesh and scrapping against bone.

The sound of certain death.

Ed looked down. There was blood everywhere.

His blood.

The man had calmly ran him through. "Hello brother's shadow." The man smiled.

"Ugh." Ed had never seen this man before.... But at the same time... he did. He had.

Ed looked him in the eye and spat blood in his face. The man calmly wiped it off. There was a look of surprise as he faded away. A part of him beckoned from that side. It was the most he could do.

It took the last of his swiftly fading strength to send him to the other side. Ed slid down the wall. Ed heard movement coming from the study.

"Edmund!"  His mother cried  out in horror as he slid down the wall.

Ed was smiling. The otherside wouldn't like him one bit.He could still see the ghostly visage of his brother howling at him with impotent rage and surprise.

He had done it once before as scared teen when someone broke in one late night.

"Maria? Maria are you hurt?" He asked his step-mother. She was still trying to staunch the bleeding.He was going all blurry.

"He's going into shock." His stepdad walked into view. Everything went fuzzy.

"Edmund, hold on. The paramedics are on the way." His step-dad helped "I think he'll be livid even if we don't let the fetch die Maria."

"I'm not afraid Maria." Ed was calm his step-mother's tear stained visage as she took his hand. "We promised to keep you safe" She whispered.

He could hear the sirens in the distance.

"I love you.... both." Ed managed to grunt out he could feel his organs failing.

and  it was all was going dark... His brother was still in between places. 

He made sure the man was looking at him and then.

He gave the man the finger with a smile on his lips. 

His nerveless arm dropped.

Ed knew no more.

With that defiant smile still on his lips...

Ned awoke in agony and he fell off the bed. Twitching.

It was worse than kidney stones. "Holy mother of balls." he grunted out as he curled up. But already the pain was receding. He stayed curled up until the pain vanished.

He shivered as he felt cold marble. He tried to recall but it was all jumbled up.

Ned hesitantly got up. He had been here before?

White marble and red velvet. His head ached and his brow itched. He scratched it offhandedly. Some of it came back.

"Son of a bitch." He was right back where he started. What did Mr.Wayland say? The Velvet Rooms.

He was going to smash through the nearest window.... And as he looked around there weren't any.

The cold marble made him uncomfortable as he was again... completely naked.

The beings here seemed to enjoy stripping him more than anything.

He stretched to get the blood flowing. He moved and felt something shift on is neck.Immediately his hands went to his neck. He wasn't into this kinda thing. He tried handcuffs once or three times. But his nimble fingers went around what felt like a metal collar. There was no clasp. His heart sped up as his fingers dashed around the entire things. It was a solid piece with a ring at the back and the front.

He got out of here once. He could do so again. He looked for an exit.... There wasn't one.

He struggled to recall. It was painful but he closed his eyes. How did he get here.

"Guido." That was his name. He remembered a city in a bone dry place that rained fire.

"Yes, My pet?"

Ned jumped. As the massive stout man looked at him with wry amusement. Ned had assumed the table with Mr.Wayland made Guido seem big... No.

He was huge. His suit was filled out by that massive barrel chest. Ned had assumed he was just big boned no... Guido had the heaviest build he had ever seen.

"You make me blush little pet." Guido teased with obvious amusement as Ned stared.

"Ned glared "What do you want?" Ned demanded.

It was a little fuzzy but he was sure he didn't like Guido.

"You wound me little pet." Ned bared his teeth in the only socially acceptable way, he grinned. He was no one's pet. He had left relationships with those that mistook his affectionate nature as submission...

"A grevious wound indeed." Ned stated.

Guido chortled loudly." You're are a feisty one aren't you?" Ned didn't know why but for some reason he didn't want this being's praise.

"So who gave you that intricate tattoo?" Guido asked his meaty finger pointing to his five pointed red flower upon his breast.

Ned went silent for a bit. "A kind man. After I escaped here. He brought me back to full health." Ned stated simply his voice unexpectedly soft. Guido looked at him strangely. 

"What was his name?" Guido asked. "Raune." Guido laughed looked at Ned and laughed louder his barrel chest heaving with boisterous heaving. Ned's face flushed. He hadn't meant to be so obvious that he... well....

Something fragile bloomed in regards to Raune. A part of him wished he never left his side. He should have stayed.

"I never though I'd see the day when my property would already love another." Guido stated, Ned's face flushed and he tried to to form a rebuttal. But the words strangly died in his throat. Puppy love was absurd.

Guido cleared his throat his voice still full of that insufferable amusement.

"Well when you see him ask him to take you to his grove." Guido stated. Ned blinked "you know Raune?" Ned perked up and Guido noticed with a smile.

"Perhaps, But that's for me to know. Now then-" A chain erupted like angry serpent from the bed's headboard and before Ned could do more than jumped back in surprise it connected and fused into one piece with his collar ring.

Guido continued as the chain suddenly contraced dropping Ned to his knees.

"We'll discuss your debt my little pet." Ned had been caught completely off guard. 

"My name is Ned." Ned glared he was no one's pet. Guido continued as if he hadn't been interrupted.  

"Your name ,nay your identity and very existance is mine to decide until my debt is paid." Ned saw the trap now. This whole conversation was one.

"I have no money."  

Ned didn't have any money. He was a college student for crying out loud.

Guido smiled like a shark. "You don't have a choice in the matter. I'm afraid, I spent a fortune on expenses to get you back to full health and I will have complete reimbursement. One way or another." With that ominous pharse a couple more links of chains vanished and Ned was dragged closer to the bed.

  Ned choked from the sudden pull as the chain shrank. Guido hummed

"Oh?, you don't like that? Kiss your leash and it'll stop." Guido hummed.  

Ned thrashed as he was brought even closer to the bed. "Fuck you." Ned rasped.

"Hmm... Maybe later but that was the wrong answer." Guido snapped his fingers and suddenly Ned smacked head first into one of the bed posts as more than half of the chain's length vanished. 

  Ned was dazed and he reluctantly got to his knees as he hesitantly pressed his lips to his chain.  

Guido clapped obnoxiously.

"You learn well." Ned clutched his head. "Ah, You don't need an education to know that pain hurts."

Ned grunted out in pain still very much in pain.  

Guido picked him up and dumped him on the bed.

Ned didn't resist much. His eyes still watering.  

Ned felt Guido grab his wrist.

There was a click and Ned froze. Guido pressed something against his other wrist. There was another click.  

Ned tried to lash out with his foot but Guido caught both and then there were a final two clicks in rapid sucession around his ankles. Seamless manacles from what he saw.  

"You'll have plenty of opportunity to pay your debt... In my harem" Ned froze.  

Guido clapped his hands and a door appeared with a pop and then with an ominious creak...

It swung wide open.  

Ned couldn't see much but he could hear movement.  

"Your fellow playmates  have waited long enough to meet you."  

Guido smiled demonically. Ned paled as his hands shot  up behind his head and his legs wrenched apart by sudden chains.

He was completely exposed.

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