***WARNING–GRAPHIC SCENE AHEAD***___This maybe uncomfortable for some readers. There are important details to the story within this chapter but if you are uncomfortable with themes such as RAPE, GORE and ABUSE, please skip. You have been warned___****
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He found them in the gentle flowing part of the river plowing into the girl like it was their last day in this realm and with the rage he had it might as well be.
They heard him approach, but did not slow their movements. “Wasn't us.” Quinton said between thrusts.
Terrance brought his mouth you the girl's ear. “That's right. We haven't let you get a single sound out, have we kitten?” Terrance asked rhetorically. The girl barely looked conscious, brown hair slick with water, her small body sandwiched between them both, immobile except from the force of their thrusts. She did not utter even a small sound as if to punctuate their point.
“The scream came from the other side.” Terrance continued, gesturing to the other end of the river with his chin. In the direction of the other cabins.
“Sounded like Jhaar's work.” he added before moaning.
Lucky bastards. And they knew it.
Sakaer stomped all the way to the other end of the river and through the sparse row of cabins making his presence and his anger known. The message was clear, he was going to kill.
Jhaar's scent lead him to one of the furthest cabins, one almost as densely covered by trees as his was. It was not just Jhaar's scent around the cabin, the metallic tang of blood and the smell of meat hung thickly in the air. Almost obscenely.
The window was doused in blood and splattered with bits of flesh. Sakaer threw the door open to find Jhaar in his demon form, blackish purple skin stretched over gangly limbs and jutting spikes with the limp lower half a boy slowly going down his hatch. Jhaar had always been a glutton. He had not even recognized his presence while he was busy eating the boy. Jagged twelve inch teeth spread over a mouth as long as a broomstick sank into the body with a deafening squelch and crunch. An arm and a lower jaw lay in a corner of the cabin.
The boy could not have been more than eleven or twelve. Probably strayed from a campsite or Jhaar lured him away. Whichever one it was they were both dead. The boy and Jhaar.
He grabbed Jhaar by his stick like neck, only then did the gluttonous demon recognize his presence. Sakaer wondered what kind of fowl luck he had had to have Jhaar's charm in his stash. If any demon was useless, it was him. Nothing but bottom of the barrel. No wonder Carmilla had his in the drawer.
Master? the stupid deviant tried to say through a mouth full of human. He only succeeded at spraying Sakaer in blood, guys and putrid breath which only served to increase Sakaer's anger. “This is for running my plans.” he seethed.
He did not even wait to hear Jhaar's weak explanation or pleads for mercy. He saved them both the trouble by reaching into his chest and pulling out his squealing heart and crushing it in his hands.
He let the body drop to the bloody floor and walked out. Other demons lurked outside, waiting for their own feast.
“Archand!” Sakaer called.
Archand, a blonde demon walked out from the demons gathered. He was one of the oldest, younger than Sakaer but enduring enough to be on his council. Archand knelt at his feet. “Yes, Master.”
“The ritual will take place after tomorrow. Have everything prepared by then.” Sakaer instructed.
“As you wish Master.” Archand responded.
Sakaer turned away from Archand and faced the rest. Restlessness in each and every one of their eyes. “Eat.”
They did not need telling twice. They stormed into the cabin and did as they liked.
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What the hell was going on with her? Was her first thought when she found herself all tangled up in Sakaer. That was before he forced his shirt on her, well not really forced since she gladly took it, bundled her in a coat and took her to his cabin's basement. Rita had never known a cabin to have a basement, even if they were they sure as hell would not have cells and chains in them.
He tried to kiss her again and she slapped him. Years of practice on freaks and creeps like Theo had made it into a reflex. It proved to be a mistake.
His eyes turned silver, then black and he started stalking her, to make matters worse there was no where to go, he was blocking the only exit. “You will not let me touch you. You will not let me kiss you. But you would let the fucking mutt do whatever he wanted with you and your body!”
Rita continued to back away. She could not tell if the drop in temperature was because of the cold or Sakaer's anger. “W-w-what are y-you t-talking about?” she stuttered.
She did not know why but the question only seemed to anger him more. “You want me to say his name? Fine! I am talking about that damn mutt Princeton! Samuel Princeton!” he boomed.
Momentary shock took her over, followed by the now very familiar feeling of confusion. What did Samuel have go do with any of this?
“He has been with you in more ways than I already have! He has your body, your heart and even you mind!”
What the hell was he saying?! Who the ell was he talking about?!
“I don't know what you are talking about. You are talking a man I have detested for three years! To top it off, he is my boss for God sake!”
She watched him cringe at the word ‘God’ and launch himself forward, a scream tore through her lips. Her back met the wall effectively cornering her between him and its dusty surface. Arms above her head, she felt more than heard the wall take on damage from his hands. “I do not believe you. If not, you would love me!” he screamed hysterically.
“How can I love you when I barely know you?” she hurled back in his face.
There was silence on his end while he stared at her with eyes that resembled twin pits of darkness. Rita's fear rolled in like waves. she gulped. He was going to kill her now for sure. But before that happened she had to get some answers.
Cold sweat dripped down her back and her body trembled in fear. “Why did you kidnap me?” she asked from quivering lips.
“Well aren't you upfront” he mused. His voice had taken another dive, bringing forth a sound that sent fear to her very core. “I wanted to keep you safe.” he answered.
His answer struck her and almost made her forget her initial fear though her racing heart reminded her of it insistently. “So you don't want to kill me?”
“No.” he replied and licked his teeth.
Rita was not so sure about that. Especially not now when his teeth had transformed into razors.
More than anything she just wanted to shut it but she pressed on. “How do you even know me?”
“Newspapers, those momentary gossip columns before they ideally disappeared.” he replied still staring back at her. He was not even blinking. Why was he entertaining her questions?
“So you decided to just uproot me from my life based on a couple of sentences and a few pictures?” she asked incredulously.
“No, I'm not that superficial.” he replied. “I would have killed you by now if that was the case. You make me clean. Happy.” he confessed.
Made him feel clean and happy? “We met a few weeks ago, we hardly saw each other.” she stated.
“We met much earlier than that. Though I doubt you would remember.”
Rita's eyes widened. “When?” she asked disbelieving. He had his arms around her and his face nuzzling her neck before she knew what was going on.
Her breath caught in her throat and her wave of fear graduated to a tsunami. “More than a year ago.” he said against her neck.
“What?”
“It was at a party a year and ten months ago. I slept with you.” Sakaer confessed. “After that, I could not stop. I would see you whenever I could just to be near you. I thought I just needed to fuck you out of my system but it did not work. No matter how many times I did.” Undulated shock seized her body eliminating the fear that had threatened to drown her. What he was saying could not be true. “You were on my mind every single day.”
She would have remembered if that was true. She would have....
“When I found that video of you and that mutt I was furious. I practically went insane when I found out just how many people had their hands on it. I even went against the one who turned me! Against Carmilla!”
“What video?” she asked, but he had not heard her. No , he ignored her. She tried to get him to look at her face back or at least tried to, he would not let her move. He continued his rant despite her question and her protests. “I went against her, I broke free from her for you!”
Rita asked again but he ignored her again and panic at her. “I have a sizeable section of hell and the nether realm out for my head because I wanted to be with you!”
“But you do not even care.” He brought his face out of her neck and looked at her. The abyss was gone, replaced by silver in irises the size of peas. “But you will though. Once the ritual is done you will have no choice but to love me and be by my side.”
The tsunami of fear returned. “W-what rit-ritual are you talking about?”
Sakaer just gave her a full toothed smile and licked her face with a tongue the length of her own arm before he viciously threw her into the cell. Rita fell roughly on her side, effectively knocking the wind out of her along with a scream. She scrambled up when she heard the door slam shut and lock.
Sakaer watched her from outside the cell, eyes glowing with madness. “I guess since everything has been ruined for now, I might as well tell you.” he said.
The next thing she knew he was at the bars closest to her. She yelped and scrambled away. The gleeful look on his face told her he was enjoying this. He brought his face close to the bars, the words that came out of his mouth had her eyes widening till she was sure they would fall out of her head. “I am going to turn you into a demon. Just like me. We will start clean, fresh and we can travel the world together just like you always wanted, just like you always dreamed of.”
Those were his last words to her before he walked out, still in his briefs. And that was hours ago. Had she really been that oblivious? That stupid? Hot tears would have spilled from her eyes if she had not run out of them more than an hour ago. She should have just moved out of the city when she had the chance. Now look.