Severing Sanguine: A Companion Book to The Fallocaust Series Book 2 (62 page)

And like lemmings, as soon as one got up the others followed. Soon every man, and some of the women, were running outside, then moments later the sounds of fighting.

I exited the pub to see several men holding back the three patrons who had been trying to escape.

The three men struggled, giving me angry looks. I knew just by looking at them that they were a part of Valen’s groupies. All dressed in bright colours, flaunting dyed hair and arrogant attitudes.

“Who the fuck are you?” one of them said as he tried to yank his arm free. “Who the fuck do you even think you fucking are? Valen will fucking kill you.”

I unscrewed the bottle of alcohol, a silver full moon on the black label. I dumped it over the man’s head and onto the other two’s heads as well. A string of curse words and threats fell from their mouths but the men holding them back didn’t ease their grip.

“The next time Valen comes into this bar…” I said, raising my voice. The cold, dead night air seemed to amplify my words even better than the inside of the building. “Tell him that if he ever rapes another man again. I will burn him alive, and I will fuck his smoking corpse. You tell Valentine Dekker… that Sami Fallon said this.”

“Sami Fallon?” one of them snorted. He looked at me, pretty little thing with dyed blue hair and badly shaped eyebrows. “The college kid who screams at himself? Who got his ass kicked at Red King and at Alegria? You don’t learn do you? He’ll rape you into a bloody, shredded heap.”

I smirked and held my hand up to his cheek. He jerked it away with a sneer. Yes, he certainly was pretty. I wonder what he would look like with a few more colours on his face.

So I smiled, and then I gently patted his cheek. “Then I accept his challenge.”

A puff of blue and purple fire erupted from my hand and quickly swept its flames through the man’s face. He screamed, a high-pitched, desperate shriek that tickled and caressed the insides of my ears. Immediately the men holding him dropped him, just as I turned around and swept the other two’s faces with my hands, leaving a trail of beautiful blue flames behind me like my hand was a paintbrush.

The entire street erupted into chaos, the three young men screaming and shrieking for their lives, and the ones watching the spectacle giving out cries of shock and fear. I left them all behind me as I walked down the dimly-lit street; the cold, crisp night cooling my burning face underneath the clown mask.

The Chaos Of A Damaged Mind

“You need to work now?” Nero commented airily, a blue-embered cigarette in one hand and a pipe in the other. He was laying on Elish’s bed, naked and exposed, as his blond brother laid beside him with a laptop balanced on his stomach.

“Yes, I’ve already wasted enough time this evening,” Elish said curtly. He glanced up as Garrett walked out of the bathroom wearing a shining silk robe. “Put that away, it’s mine.”

“I think I look spiffy,” Garrett said evening out the crimson folds. “Do kids still say spiffy? Rio made fun of me for saying spiffy last week.”

“Not for about three hundred years,” Elish mumbled, typing something into his laptop. “I’m sure if you say it during a few speeches you can bring it back.”

Elish held onto the laptop as Garrett jumped onto the bed, landing on his side and bouncing several times before falling still. Elish rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Stay still. I need to get these stupid budgets set by tonight or else no one is getting funding this year.”

Nero snorted beside him. He leaned his head onto Elish’s shoulder, and as soon as Garrett saw what Nero was doing he did the same. Both brothers watched Elish typing on the laptop, punching numbers into a long complicated grid.

“Let’s play Insanaquarium instead!” Garrett said after several minutes of silence. “Come on! It’s a fun game.”

“No,” Elish said irritably.

Nero chuckled and put a hand on Elish’s waist, before, with a coy smile, he started to move it down to Elish’s groin. “We made you cum like five times and you’re still so cranky. What about one more? Come on. I’ll take the front, Gare and his talented tongue can take the back.”

Elish shook his head. “I’d rather the both of you just go to sleep so I can get my work done. If you’re appetites aren’t satiated you can go and harass my sengil.”

“Loren?” Nero snorted. “The reason you’ve been summoning both of us so often is because you’ve been breaking that poor kid’s backside. You really miss Silas that much?”

“It’s not often he’s gone for this long,” Elish replied. He brought up the aquarium game and shifted the laptop over so Garrett could play on it. “It’s strange not having him around. He’s the patriarch of the family after all.”

“I don't miss him,” Garrett said darkly. “He can be gone for five more months. I will never forgive him for killing Tom. I loved Tom.”

“You love every sengil you have,” Elish said, raising his shoulder in a futile attempt to get Nero to lift his chin up off of it, though he was unsuccessful. “Now you’ll have to wait years to get a new one. We have too many chimeras and not enough sengils to go around.”

Garrett made a noise and shook his head. “We should just start enslaving the second generation. Felix has been a complete rude and arrogant ass since he’s reached puberty. I thought it would fade in time but he’s getting worse. Not to mention Valen and Ludo – oh don’t get me started on Ludo.”

Then Garrett smiled. “At least Sanguine is doing well, though your plans for him and Jack didn’t seem to work out.”

“He sucks at matchmaking, eh?” Nero chuckled. “Come here, Sanguine. Come here, Jack. Okay, now if I put you two unstable fucks together surely you’ll fall in love and I can have Kingy all to myself.”

“Mmhm,” Elish said.

“Oh don’t play us for retards it’s fucking obvious that’s what you’re trying to do. Didn’t work out too well, eh?” Nero continued through a string of laughter. “You should’ve at least tried to wait until Sanguine stopped talking to himself and gouging holes in his skin before you tried to steer him away from Silas and towards Jack.”

A silence fell on the room like someone had draped them with a thick blanket, the only sound coming from the beeps and chirps of the laptop.

“We’re your brothers, man. You can admit it,” Nero said aloofly, shaking Elish’s thigh with his hand. “Everyone knows you love Silas.”

“Silas is only treating Sanguine so kindly because he feels guilty,” Elish said, there was an edge to his voice that threatened to cut the very air in half. “I was merely making sure he wasn’t confusing his guilt for infatuation.”

Both Nero and Garrett exchanged amused looks, but it was Garrett who spoke their mutual thoughts aloud. “
Merely
making sure Silas did exactly what you wanted?”

Elish was silent, and at his silence Garrett and Nero laughed some more. Then, at the same time, they kissed Elish’s cheek, making the blond chimera’s face scrunch in annoyance.

“The sengil usually goes to sleep after relations.”

“Crying probably,” Nero quipped. “Well, you might’ve lost out on hooking Sanguine up with Jack but at least you got the puppy out from under the bed. He is doing pretty well considering what Jasper was doing to him.”

Garrett’s smile immediately turned into a frown. “That poor boy. Can you imagine? He was Drake’s age when he took him to that basement. It’s just awful, no wonder Silas feels so guilty. Especially after you had him only months before, Nero.”

Nero’s smile also disappeared as well. He sighed and put his arms behind his head. “Don’t fucking get me started. I’m still pissed off about it. I fucking had him. I had him and Silas just said… fuck it.”

“Silas had no emotional attachment to the boy,” Elish responded, his voice getting slightly defensive. “If Sanguine seemed to be doing well, why would Silas change his mind? If anything it’s your fault for taking him to the house near Melchai.”

“Hey!” Nero said angrily. He rolled over onto his side and pointed his pipe at Elish. “The fucking town was about to raid his little home base and they would’ve killed him. Sure I put him near Jasper but it was either that or death. It wasn’t like I knew he was there.”

Elish shook his head, beside him Garrett raised his head up from Elish’s shoulder.

“I sometimes think the poor boy would’ve been better off dead. He’s so miserable and lost. I just want to hug him to death.”

“Sanguine’s a chimera,” Elish said. “He’ll be fine as long as people stop sabotaging his progress.”

“But he’s been doing well in college right?” Garrett said.

Elish nodded. “He is doing well, yes. A good student and he is doing extra to try and make up for starting in the middle of a semester. He’s quiet, unlike most of the others.”

Nero sighed, and sparked a lighter he had laid next to him. He lit the pipe and started drawing into his lungs the burning hot contents. He held it in and passed it to Garrett before retracting Elish’s sheets away from his bottom half.

Nero gently blew the smoke onto Elish’s exposed penis before taking it into his mouth and giving the head a lick.

Elish momentarily shut his eyes. “Haven’t you had enough?”

“One more… you know I pass out pretty quickly after I do ciovi, just give me one more to help the sandman.”

“If you must…” Elish heard the laptop close beside him and Garrett setting it on the side table. Not too soon after Garrett started kissing Elish’s chest.

Nero stretched out backwards on the bed and with a curl of his finger he motioned Garrett over. Garrett grinned and grabbed Nero’s thigh and eased his leg back and put his mouth over the brute chimera’s dick. Then, with a moan from Garrett’s lips, he felt Elish’s fingers start to ease themselves into his backside.

Nero ran his tongue along the base of Elish’s dick, and roughly grabbed onto Garrett’s hair before slowly thrusting his hips into his brother’s mouth. “You know I got Sanguine’s first handjob. Did I ever tell you that story?”

“Several times,” Elish murmured before he himself pushed Nero’s mouth back down over his stiff member. But as soon as he let go Nero slowly retracted his mouth, before he broke the seal with a pop.

“His cock was so hard. I knew if I even brushed a hand against it it would’ve cum right then and there. It was rock-fucking-solid, so swollen, and the precum… oh man,” Nero groaned before giving the head a generous lick with his tongue. He stroked it a few times before flicking his tongue against the head. “I tell you… so close. So – fucking– close, my body twitched to jump on him because I knew…” Nero let out a gasp as Garrett inserted three fingers at once into his ass. He grabbed onto his knee and pulled his leg back to give Garrett more room. “I knew as soon as he felt my mouth he wouldn’t let me…
ah
… stop.”

“You should’ve fucked him,” Elish said opening one eye. His fingers still moving in and out of Garrett, though during the conversation another finger had found its way inside of him. “You have my permission… no, you have my urging. Fuck him, let him fuck you, taunt him with fifteen-year-old boys still pure. I don’t care. Just don’t let him be a virgin when Silas wakes up.”

Nero groaned and glanced up at Elish. “You devious fuck. You’re going to pit my want, nay, my
need
to see that boy cum for the first time against the fact that I know you only want me to spoil him so Silas can’t get to him first?”

“Yes, I am,” Elish said closing his eyes again. His fingertips were starting to dig into Nero’s neck. “You have the king’s permission. Didn’t you say he called you upset earlier? You can play best friend supporter. Hell, I’ll even let you drug him.”

“Fuck, you get so fucking kinky when you’re getting laid. Jesus fuck, don’t you just love Elish in bed, Gare? I love his naughty mouth.” Nero grinned. “And tomorrow morning he’s gonna be the same ol’ cold-hearted, stick-up-the-ass asshole we love.”

“Just shut up and finish,” was Elish’s response.

Several minutes in, as the intensity grew, all three of them heard a faint knocking on the entrance to Elish’s apartment. Nero raised his head but Elish immediately shoved his face back into his groin. With a faint grunt and a push of his hips he started to cum into Nero’s suctioned mouth. Immediately Nero groaned, and Elish opened his eyes to see cum spurting from Nero’s own cock, being caught in Garrett’s mouth. Elish’s hand slid down and he batted Garrett’s hand away as he rapidly drew him to his peak.

“Who could that even be?” Elish said with a furrowed brow, moving his hand away from Garrett as the chimera started to reach his peak. He checked his wrist watch. “It’s three in the morning.”

“Perhaps one of the second generation wants to join in the party?” Nero panted, his brow flushed and glistening with sweat. “I’m getting kind of tired though…
fuck
. I barely shot at all, I’m outta cum.”

“Master Elish?” a sleepy voice suddenly called; the sengil knocked lightly on the door. “It’s Lady Ellis.”

The three of them froze, and immediately Elish closed the laptop lid. All of them got up off of the bed, and without waiting to be commanded of it, Garrett took off the red robe and handed it to Elish. He grabbed an older cream-coloured robe instead.

“I need all three of you out here now,” Ellis’s voice called from the living room. “This is important… very important.”

“So important it can’t wait until morning? Jesus christ, sissy,” Nero said with a grunt, sliding his tan cargo pants over his underwear. Though that was dressed enough for Nero. He opened the bedroom door and walked out, Elish and Garrett following.

“Of everyone in the family it has to be the Boner Killer,” Nero said with a huff. “Seriously,
anyone
else and I would’ve been happy. It just had to be the one without a dick.”

Though the brute chimera paused when he saw the serious expression on his sister’s face. He glanced to each side, at Elish in his silk red robe and Garrett in the cream-coloured one, and back to Ellis. “What happened…?” Nero said slowly.

“Sanguine torched his apartment tonight…”

The silence that descended on the room was immediately broken by Nero’s vicious swearing.

Ellis continued, “He then went to Popkin’s demanding for anyone who knows Valen to come forward. Three of Valen’s friends were found and restrained… then he lit them on fire and now – and now we have no idea where he is.”

“Valentine?” Garrett said surprised. “Why him?”

“We talked to Kirrel and he says it’s because of Valen bullying Jack. Valen got Sanguine into his apartment and apparently Sanguine almost got himself killed. I’m not sure what happened tonight but Sanguine snapped it seems,” Ellis said. “The apartment’s couch and chair need to be replaced and the walls and carpet touched up but besides that the sengils can clean it.”

Ellis shifted her weight; her face holding a great deal of stress. “He was wearing a clown mask, Elish. And he was holding that half-rotten bear. His face was covered at least. No one knows it was a chimera.” She shook her head. “I think – I think we’re losing him again. It sounds like he’s completely gone off the deep end. I don’t know what happened but something made him snap.”

“What about the cat?” Elish suddenly asked. Everyone gave Elish a confused look, obviously not expecting Elish’s first question to be about the state of an animal.

“Sanguine’s mental state depends on whether he saved the cat before he left,” Elish said coldly, looking annoyed at their confused looks. “If he left the cat to die… we have an even bigger problem. If the cat is with him, it means he hasn’t completely lost himself.”

“Funny you should ask…” Ellis glanced behind her. “You can come in, Kass.”

Everyone’s attention turned to the ajar door leading to Elish’s hallway. A moment later an extremely nervous-looking young man, with an oval-shaped face and short brown hair came in holding a messenger bag.