The severed head felt so heavy in my grasp as I clung to it in the backseat and waited for Poison to take his share of the kills by tearing apart and devouring the pieces.
The head bled through the cover almost immediately, turning the fabric under my fingers into a swampy mess, while I watched the snake unhinge his jaw and force down the mutilated body parts greedily.
When he was finally satisfied with his pickings, the heater was blasted once more, which didn't help. It only made the swamp in my hands tacky and warm. I didn't want to be reminded of what I cradled in my lap.
I wasn't going to unwrap it either. I already had the spinal cord dangling between my legs; I didn't need to see more of what terrifying things I knew were underneath.
Poison made sure to keep me engaged in conversation to avoid me passing judgment on him. His flicking tongue got all the dripping blood off his mouth and fingers as he talked and laughed with Tooth driving along.
The guy was terrifying. The way his staring eyes and blood speckled fangs protruded out with each laugh only forced my head down to his jacket and try not to breathe in the stinging air coating to my lungs.
I watched both of them cover the car up and even let them accompany me inside the Base so Tooth could keep an eye out for whoever the Second person was that they were so nervous about.
I was just glad I was going to get rid of this gross head. It was warmed up from the heater of the car and my own sweat.
It was absolutely vile between by fingers. I wanted to just go back to my own room and dump the jacket in a sink of hot water so I could take a long shower.
Poison even stood beside me when I dumped the head on his desk and watched him order Poison himself to unveal the contents.
I handed over the folder so I didn't need to look at it, and spent my time either looking down at my feet or up at the other trophies above the desk.
This guy sure had a fascination with heads. This one was far too mangled to be of use to him or to be mounted beside other beasts far more magnificent.
I felt a harsh nudge in my side and looked over to see Poison beside me with his bloodied jacket, darting his eyes to Blood Eagle who stood behind his desk, waiting.
"Thank him" Poison snapped under his breath.
"Oh!" I gasped out at the realization I had missed something "thank you."
"Sir" Poison jabbed.
"Sir" I added quickly and dropped my eyes from his knowing smirk at me.
He could read my thoughts too.
Was he listening to me right now?
"Dismissed" he chuckled with a lazy wave of his hand.
Poison grabbed my arm to lead me to the door and make sure I went through first so he could hand me his jacket.
"Next time you are in there, focus on a point on the back wall" he spoke with a flick of his tongue "it's rude not to look at the leader. You could get yourself into trouble for not listening to him."
He had caught that too. I nodded in embrassment.
"And sing a song in your head" he added when I glanced back up at his dipping face "if you don't want him to know anything, just focus on that."
I frowned now at the smiling snake.
"What don't you want him to know?"
He just blew out a breath and tapped the jacket I held.
"Remember...."
"Hot water, no flowers" I rolled my eyes back "I've got it. I'll bring it to you later."
He was trying to distract me from my own question.
Poison was pleased with this. He pointed a claw to the human side of the Base, somewhere towards the end of this level.
"I'm down there when you come by" he gestured and went to move before he paused "just make sure to have it done before night. That's the best time to go hunting."
Hunting.
Great.
I forced a smile and quickly followed the floor around to my door. It was opposite the leader's office in the middle, but there was no way to cut around it. It just stopped at the door and that was it.
I had to walk all the way around the outside just to get somewhere only a few meters away.
What a joke.
Who designed this place anyway?
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The door had no lock. Not even one of those push ones integrated into the knob.
What? How was I meant to keep people out then?
I scanned the room but found nothing of use. I couldn't even create a wedge under the door itself with anything here.
Seems like upstairs was the safest place to be. I could drag a chair down to wedge under the door knob, but I didn't know how that even worked.
I'd only seen it in shows. And putting the top of a chair against a smooth knob was sure to do nothing.
I'd have to block off the top of the stairs then. Protect myself better now that I knew what to expect.
I climbed them, thinking of how I could make it work.
It was a wonder I hadn't received any intruders yet.
"About time."
Ah, fuck.
There he was. My damn intruder.
Solonine sat at my table lazily, reading over a folder and it's contents he had spread out. He held a black pen in his hand that he was scratching names across his Mission with. I could see the ink stained across one of his fingers.
I ignored him and went to the kitchen sink to shove in the plug and throw the jacket into, drowning it in scalding water.
I couldn't hear him if he had anything to say that way. He was just background noise that my hearing-aid dimmed for what was closer.
The blessings of being partially deaf.
But, he waited, didn't he? Waited until I could hear his disgusting voice purr at me when I went to check the door to the bathroom.
No lock here either.
I needed a shower desperately. But having him here wasn't going to make that possible. I know he'd like nothing more than to rape me again when I was at my most vulnerable.
I shot him a glare when his cheesy grin tracked me to the sink and made me very aware of my own body when I bent over to rummage under the kitchen sink for detergent for the bubbled jacket.
I did find something but wasn't sure of the scent. I couldn't pick up on it at all. It was like beach sand and coastal trees. I did pick up something creamy, but was confused if it was meant to be flowers.
That man's livelihood depended on this one decision.
I turned to Solonine and dumped the unmarked box down on his papers.
"Does this have flowers in it?"
"Flowers?" he snorted but picked it up to take a sniff and rub his nose "it's got frangipani's."
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Hot water it was then.
"Are you really washing the snake's clothes for him?" he jeered as I straightened back up "got some kind of thing going on between you now?"
"Because I'm being kind?" I scoffed at his stupid face "yeah, then! And after I scrub the blood from his jacket, I'll go over and suck his dick as a thank you!"
Solonine didn't like my humour. He took it too seriously and only leant back on his chair without taking his eyes off me.
"I'm going to dinner with another one tonight!" I rubbed it in smugly "so perhaps that means I want to fuck him too? Not everything is done because I want to sleep with someone, you idiot!"
"Well, if you thought i was anything bad, try three days with the snake. You'll be wishing you were back with me instead."
"I'M NOT SLEEPING WITH HIM!"
But, still, three days?
What kind of damn monsters did they keep around here?
"If you take that jacket back, that's where you are ending up" Solonine jabbed a finger at me, collecting up his paperwork "and I'm not going to let that happen."
How chivalrous.
Did he think he owned me?
I wasn't going to fight with him. I needed a damn shower and it was clear he wasn't going anywhere.
I was just going to have to take that risk and stay alert.
I rushed for the bathroom to close the door firmly behind me. Yanking out my hearing-aid, I twisted the taps on in the shower as quick as I could so I could strip before Solonine realised what I was doing. 102Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Kn5ro4O3q
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As soon as I got in, I saw the door open and his head poke around the door frame so his eyes could run themselves over me. 102Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeckeHaCWbQ
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I felt dirty already just watching him take in all of me, knowing I couldn't do a thing.
He took his place on the closed toilet before reaching over to grab my hearing-aid from the sink and fiddling with it.
Finally, his disgusting gaze was off me.
"So, you can't hear anything with this out?" he pondered, flapping the mould on the end before turning it around to open the battery compartment.
"I can still hear, just more clearer. It doesn't completely fix my hearing but just amplifies things so I can understand them."
"So, louder?" he kept his eyes on the hearing-aid.
I agreed and kept scrubbing myself.
I saw Solonine cup his hands and press his ear to them when loud squealing came from between his fingers.
The way he was so curious about it did make me let my guard down. Seeing him play with it like it was a new thing to discover made him look sweet and playful.
I knew what he really was like.
He watched me towel off and change, flipping my hearing-aid around in his hand until he held it out for me to take when I finished ruffling up my hair.
Our fingers touched only for a moment, but that was even too long between us. He felt gritty and gross, like there was gravel underneath my fingers and through his warm skin.
There was nothing pleasant about this guy. The way he watched me with so much focus, the way his lip curled at the side into a smirk, even the way he let me leave first so he could follow behind me like an animal prowling after its prey.
I kept my back facing the wall behind me and saw him pass to collect and rearrange his papers.
Preparing to leave?
Thank fuck.
I felt like I could breathe again when the folder was closed and he slid it to the edge of the table.
But he didn't pick it up. Why wasn't he picking it up?
"So, you are still set on going to his room tonight?"
I glanced to the sink that was now dyed red with blood. I couldn't even see the jumper bubbling in it.
"I can do what i want without you deciding for me" I snapped back and drained the water so i could fill the sink again "there is nothing between us, so i don't even know why you keep showing up here!"
There was silence. The running water made me painfully oblivious to what was happening behind me. I shut it off quickly and turned to see Solonine back at the table.
"You aren't going anywhere" he snapped back to me. He was beside the table, at the edge closest to me. His papers were stacked, but he wasn't taking them.
He had that look in his eyes again too. All life was gone. It was cold and predatory.
No.
I darted from the sink when he pounced for me. His hands hit the water while mine slipped along the table to send the papers flying outwards.
He wasn't distracted by them when he barrelled through them. His only focus was me.
I felt the wall smash into my shoulder when i slipped against it and used the slope to push me down the stairs to the door i yanked open and held closed behind me.
I heard thundering feet on the other side until it ended with a bang on the other side of the door. I threw my weight behind keeping it closed, but he easily staggered me in one quick jerk on the other side.
I ran with nothing to keep him from me. I saw others walking along the level stopping to either step out of my way or clumsily try to move aside.
"GET BACK HERE!" Solonine roared out behind me. His voice echoed off the walls and shook the fear through me.
My heart was racing. I could taste blood on my breath and feel my skin run cold along my legs that desperately pumped to try and keep me away from that monster.
I had to get out of here. But where? Where was safe enough from him?
He found me in that damn forest in the dark. He could find me anywhere in this closed area that was brightly lit.
He was a predator. He was going to find me wherever i went, and that thrilled him. The whole chase was a game to him. He could easily tear from his skin and catch me, but he wasn't.
He wanted to toy with me first. Make me feel like there was no way out but to accept my fate back with him.
"FUCK YOU!" I screamed back at him. I shoved another observing Soul into his path to slow him down.
He squeezed around them instead of just pushing them out of the way. The next person dawdling in his way got the same treatment when i skidded down the stairs and darted around more people while he threw himself off the edge to avoid the choked stairs i had battled through.
He had a thing with skin contact. Because he thought he was higher than them, or something else?
He had no problems with touching me; the fucking sicko.
Where was i going to go now?
I could head for that huge ramp and try and get outside. Or i could try and hide in one of these rooms and hope for the best?
"GET BACK HERE!"
The rooms! I wouldn't make it to the ramp on the other side of this Base. I needed to put something between us.
My eyes found the circles of blood on the spaced doors and made me do something completely idiotic.
There was something about them these people feared. They avoided the circles and the people behind them. Surely, someone higher than them would share the same fear?
I had no other choice. I only knew what laid behind one of the doors that i darted for.
I could hear his shoes stomping on the ground behind me when i tore open the door, checked on him powering down the level towards me, and threw myself inside.
The first thing that hit me was the stench of blood. It made the air thick and coated my lungs and throat. I felt like i was swallowing it through each terrified pant sawing through me.
The whole room was decimated. The stairs were a pile of debris piled up to the upper floor above. I could see an obvious track through it that was carpeted with old blood that had congealed and turned into a lumpy black mess under the fresh coating on top.
The second thing was the two monsters aware of my intrusion into their home. One eyed me from its corner downstairs amongst a little pile of bones it was organising; its split and bowed irises darting to the second growling from its place above me.
They were both the same. The one in the corner was filled with fear while the one above me was brimming with rage.
Only muscle and bone twisted the bodies of these monsters and rippled at every movement. All skin had been torn straight off them to leave them exposed to their surroundings. Their insides were nowhere to be seen; probably nestled within the messes on either side of me.
Two bent arms planted on each side of their hulking bodies, pushed forward to accommodate the second pair wedged in behind them. Two legs supported the elongated body at the back. It was protected with a bone plate each side of the flank. More bone pierced through the body to tower above the spine and on either side of the rib-cage. Their long, pointed snouts were protected by bone armour and those piercing red eyes.
I darted for the monster in the corner. It immediately saw me coming and backed up, trying to avoid me. The one from the upper floor fell down from the edge to snap at me sliding myself behind the beast before the door opened.
Both tore their focus on me to train it on Solonine and his curious onlookers behind him outside. Solonine's eyes hardened on the first monster snarling at him, before locking onto the one unknowingly shielding me. I slapped my hands around my panting breaths, and slid down the corner of the wall to try and hide myself better. I could see straight through the many limbs of the monster, and knew Solonine could see me here too.
"Ru" Solonine warned the first monster blocking his path "i'm only here for the Soul behind Hunt. Fucking move out of the way, or i'll make you."
It looked over to me and snorted.
"Make me then" it shook itself as blood splattered from its jaw and eyes "you aren't going anywhere in here."
A new sound startled me. It came from upstairs, sounding like thunder racing across the floorboards. I heard a voice gasp out and the ramp of debris creak in response to weight being placed on it.
"What's this about? Do you need us for another Mission?"
That was Oxalis's voice. It was the same demanding tone i had received from him. But there was caution when the feet carefully edged down the ramp towards Solonine. He wasn't scared of him; only wary. They knew each other.
"The Fresh Meat" he jerked a thumb to me "he's hiding out here."
Oxalis's red eyes burned through me when they snapped to me instantly. He stormed over, the monster in front of me moving out of the way to give him a clear path to me and my arm he snatched up to yank me out.
"NO!" I squealed out and tried to find something other than the air to snatch onto "he's going to rape me! You can't let him do that!"
Ox said nothing. I kicked out at him and smashed a heel into his shin so i could scramble back into the corner. The monster that had been standing in front of me turned on me now, snarling and snapping when Oxalis gritted his teeth to fight the pain.
He stormed towards me again and grabbed my legs this time to drag me down towards Solonine while i tried to grab at the floor or the furniture just out of reach to avoid my steady path back to his greedy face waiting there.
"Just drain the damn life from him next time" Oxalis growled to Solonine when he threw me down at Solonine's feet and smashed his heel into my fingers when i tried to make my retreat again "I'm not in charge of your pets, Solo. You are very fucking lucky Ruin respects you."
My bones felt like they had swollen inside my skin. My knuckles had been replaced with rocks that stabbed painful fire through to my nails that dug in their beds.
I couldn't move them. They burned and only made the impact drill deeper when i cradled my hands as Nightshade's hoisted me up to my feet and held me at the back of my throat, digging in each nail to make sure i knew he was serious about keeping me there.
"Please" i whimpered to Oxalis who only glared at me.
"Just remind Ruin who keeps you looked after around here" Solonine hissed under his breath to Oxalis now "or you might find yourself in a red folder situation next time."
"I will" Oxalis lowered his eyes and nodded before closing his door slowly.
"You" Solonine smirked to me, holding my head down now so i was cowered under his grip "you gave me a good run but i caught you, again."
"You didn't catch shit!" I bit back and jammed my elbow into his side that he didn't even react to. He just laughed and brought his own fist into my stomach to throw my breath from me.
The force had me gasping desperately for it while my legs buckled beneath me from the shock of it all piercing through me and my churning stomach. I had never been punched like that before. Hell, i had never felt what it was like to be punched. The worst thing i had faced was some fuming customer and their bitter words. Nothing physical, ever.
But now, i was being thrown around like i was some sort of punching bag. In here, people talked with their fists rather than words.
I could feel my throat closing up when Solonine steered me back towards the stairs leading back up to the top level. His grip was tight, but not to the point of strangulation. There was something else going on here.
Solonine liked the sound of me struggling to breathe. He hoisted me up onto his shoulder when it felt like the bones in my legs had turned to jelly trying to support two rods in the middle of them.
I wheezed and rattled on Solonine's shoulder as he took me away from the exits and my own room. He marched with me down to his room instead, only a few down from the little ramp leading to the office.
I saw him close the door behind him and jam a stopper under the door. He carried me up the stairs, tapping my arse with his hand cheekily before he entered his upstairs area and laid me down on the couch he had planted on the wall between the bedroom and bathroom doors.
It smelled musty and stale up here. I could smell the sex on the couch he placed me on before going to the bedroom to place a pillow under my head.
I could only lay there, gasping for air, when he sat on the edge of the couch down by my feet.
"Oh, right" he muttered just before i was granted a deep breath that i choked on. Spit dribbled from my mouth that i wiped as each stale breath wriggled up my nose and along my throat.
It even tasted foul.
"Fuck you!" i kicked his side and went to squirm away until his hand around my leg dragged me back towards him "you did something to me!"
"I only borrowed some of your energy" he replied simply, his fingers making my skin crawl when he ran it up my leg "i can take it away again if you like?"
"W-who wants that?!" I choked out, clamping my mouth shut when he climbed onto the couch and planted both hands on either side of me. He hovered above me, his eyes wondering over me when i frowned back at him and tried to push him off.
It was like trying to move brick. Even when i jammed my knees into his gut to try and lift him, he just re-positioned so that he was sitting directly on my groin and his hands gripped my wrists.
My legs couldn't kick him off. My fingers couldn't claw free. My trembling lips couldn't even purse together log enough to try and spit at him.
I was helpless under his weight. He wanted me here, but i only wanted the freedom i squirmed for.
"You aren't going anywhere tonight" he purred down to me "i told you this. We had our fun, but i caught you."
"It's not fun!" I snapped up at him, peering over at the opening to the staircase frantically "HELP! S-SOMEONE!"
"Baby Bird" he muttered when he leant down to nip at my neck that made me scream out and cry "I'm being gentle."
"L-let me g-go!" i sobbed up to his stern face, trying to pull against his grip that forced my hands back down into the couch "p-please!"
"So you can run off to some snake or demon of the dark?" his voice grew dark and his face soured at the words "I tracked you. I caught you. You are mine."
"I'm not!" i pushed against him and tried to buck him off "HELP ME!"
"You can't have us broken again!" he snarled now as the divide down his face started to show itself and he struggled to kick off his pants "I'm only doing my job! Don't you understand that?"
I squeezed my eyes shut at the first glimpse of red peeling from the middle of his face. I had seen the way his face turned and peeled itself inside-out as the true monster hiding underneath made its way out.
Seeing something that looked and sounded like a human suddenly turn into something from a nightmare that wore the skin like some fucking suit was honestly terrifying. Knowing that i had a monster forcing itself onto me to claim me as its own trophy only made everything inside me buck and jolt to save whatever i had left.
It knew i was in danger and was going to do anything to keep me safe.
I forced my eyes open and screamed out as loud as i could beside the face clicking over the side of my throat. Instantly, one hand forced itself over my mouth to silence me while the other two worked on sliding down my pants.
Nothing i was doing was stopping the monster. It ran its lumpy tongue around the front of my throat to leave its saliva there. Once my pants were free, it dug around my undies to slide those from me too, clicking triumphantly.
Please, no! Not again! Not like this!
I felt its dripping cock probe at my arse like it had the first time. It painted my left cheek before finding where it needed to be, and plunging in.
I screamed out when it did. It wavered under my muffled cries when fire shot through me and devoured my arse that it quickly pulled itself from.
I felt its body convulse against mine and felt the splattering of slime dripping from its cock. It pumped the ooze from it to try and make it easier to enter me a second time.
It dug deeper and wedged through me with its new tactic. I felt it bury itself inside me, twitching as it searched and slipped free to repeat the same procedure.
It was testing me. It kept its back legs clawed into mine to stop me from snapping my legs shut or trying to injure it in such a delicate position.
I felt the lubed cock ram straight through me after its cautious probing. It slid back but didn't retract, sliding effortlessly through me instead.
I hated how easy it was for it. The monster's tongue flicked out over my collarbone when it ripped its head from mine to check its surroundings while still pumping through me.
I felt its desperation match mine. I struggled for freedom while it demanded control over me, tightening and restricting its own movement within me.
It's hand squeezed around my mouth when it bowed under the pressure building inside me. The monster growled when i tried again to try and tear myself from its grip locked around my arms and legs.
It pressed its head to my chest and gritted its teeth when i felt the pressure explode within me. The heat from the monster shot through me, being jammed and forced further in with each convulsion that tore through it.
It released its grip on me and gave me the chance to struggle free. The heat oozed onto the couch when i jerked underneath it and dragged myself only a few inches before a force restrained me.
The monster stood over me, all arms and legs planted either side of me. The force locking us together was from its cock still buried within me, pulsing.
Just like the first time too.
I tore against it, only to be dragged back by the monster when hot pain shot from my arse again and it snarled in response. It checked the staircase and fixed its cold gaze on me. I stayed quiet, whimpering.
I knew what had happened the first time we had been torn apart. And i couldn't scream for help since every time i did it silenced me. Running was no longer an option. I would have to wait it out before i could escape.
It laid itself over me to shield my body. It's skin was warm on mine but still gave me goosebumps. It shuddered and gripped the couch around me when it quivered and reacted to unexpected waves being pumped through me. They were short, like muscle contractions that came and went unexpectedly.
Each time i tried to pull myself free, it snarled and lashed out with cries of pain from us both. It sounded like it didn't want to be in such a compromising position that had us so exposed and open to anyone helping free me again. I couldn't leave while we were bound together like this, and it couldn't keep its attention divided between mating me and protecting itself from intruders.
A few hours i'd have to suffer with this monster, then i could make my escape again.
And this time, i wasn't going to trick myself into staying.
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