The Knightmare Saga Pt 1: Home is Where the Heart Is
By Kevin
Chapter 1
Crimson Nightmares
I'm still breathing. I still have a little bit of life left in me. Like my body, it's all dangling from this wooden poll where I have been crucified. I could still feel the arrows deep in my wrists. Barbed wires were tied around my ankles.
I'm completely naked, but my blood, my wounds, and my sweat are the only things clothing my body.
And then when I open my eyes to see I'm still alive, I see him laughing like a madman…a madman who was now killing his own creation.
He wanted more. He wanted to see me suffer terribly a thousand times over. You could see it in his face.
And then I feel fire beneath my bare feet. The air around me becomes hot, and choking that it feels like the smoke of the fire his strangling my neck.
I'm suffocating. I don't know if I can make it out alive this time. But then I can hear their voices, and when I open my eyes again I can see them over the hills. They are shouting at me to survive, to save them. And then I see her face.
My beautiful angel. My beautiful….Ebony.
She's crying, her arms reaching out to me, her voice screaming my name.
But I can't hear her or them anymore as everything starts to become blurry. And the fires consume my body.
I want to cry out in pain, but then I felt there was no pain. The hot flames were giving me strength.
Like a black hole in space, my body sucked up the fire inside. I free myself, and I start killing them all. I don't even stop to let any of them retreat. They are my enemies. They are my enemies because they hurt my friends. My family. They are my enemies because they heard my precious love.
I feel myself grab the pole that I was crucified on, and I use it as a weapon with strength that could only be titled as "inhuman."
And then as I take a swing with that pole, the pole itself turns into a battle axe, double-bladed. I cut through a few of my enemies, and then the axe grasped in both my bruised, cut, and bleeding hands changes into two weapons. My twin swords.
And now I'm chopping through them all like pudding. And then I come to him, the madman, and again my weapons change. I'm holding a broadsword, something I had seen the character Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movie carry.
The tip of my sword plunges through the madman's chest, just as I see a sword of his own coming at my head…
…and the nightmare ends when I feel my body being shaken. My eyes open just as fast as I lean up in bed.
I look down to see the hand still on my sweat covered chest, then turned to the owner of that hand and sigh in relief when I see who it is.
"I really miss Jay. At least he's quiet when he sleeps." Ebony joked. If I was a normal person, I would've take offensive of her irony. But I wasn't, so I didn't. I just grinned with a raised eyebrow. "But I would miss you."
"I know you would." she returned with a more seductive grin, and our lips pressed into a passionate kiss. God her lips tasted so sweet! But as always, all good things must come to an end as she pulled away and rested herself on her elbow while looking up at me.
She's no longer on the prowl for love-making. This time she's more concerned about me. I could just tell.
"Was it that dream again?" she asked with genuine concern. I run my hand over my face and through my jet black hair with a white strip in the front.
"Yeah." I told her as I leaned back.
I had been having these nightmares for so long as I can remember. Probably since the time I walked away from Zoot and the Locos.
I felt Ebony leave the bed suddenly, walking nude up to the closet, while I just watched her nicely round buttocks. But then I noticed the scar on her back. A scar that nobody but only I and Zoot had seen. Zoot had seen it because he was the one responsible for giving it to her.
I wondered if Jay ever noticed it before when he and Ebony slept together.
Ebony put on her silk black nightgown and a robe.
"Getting dress already?" I ask her as I turn to the clock on the wall. "It's only 5:38 in the morning."
"Yeah well, that dream of yours is a better alarm clock than that alarm clock itself." She froze suddenly and quickly turn to me with a apologetic smile. "I'm sorry. I…"
"It's ok, sweetheart." I reassure her with soft tone and a warm smile. Something I've never been used too.
She started to head out the room. "I'll go get us some breakfast in bed, okay?" she smiled. That was usually what I do every morning for her.
I start to get up to remind her, but she made sure I was laying down. "Now be good," then she took my hand and ran it along her breasts. "And you might get desert early."
With that, she got back up and headed to the café of the Phoenix Mall. Home of the Mallrats, and Ebony was a Mallrat.
As was my little sister, Trudy, my niece Brady, and my soon to be brother-in-law Jay, Ebony's ex.
I got out of bed and headed to the bathroom in the room. I poured on some cool water and splashed it into my face. I looked at myself in the mirror, and felt surprise that I actually realized I had a reflection.
It wasn't always like this.
My name is Zell. But everyone in this tribe world knows me as the warrior, Knightmare. I was once the bodyguard of Zoot, but then I was banished after he discovered I was having an affair with his woman at the time. I tried to persuade Ebony into coming with me, to start a new life together. But the power was more on her mind than love, and she chose power and chaos over me.
I wanted to challenge Zoot for her. I wanted to kill him, but he was already dead. Besides, I could never bring myself to kill him. Before the virus, he was my friend like Bray was. The only reason why I never harmed him was that he was the father of my niece.
I looked back at myself in the mirror. I was 6 foot tall. Masculine for my age. Some considered calling me Colossus after the X-Men comic book character. I would rather prefer Knightmare anyways.
I stared back into my dark blue eyes. I see them turn red, like as if I have the eyes of a demon. Maybe I am, for I had seen far too much carnage to consider that Hell was my shelter.
I turn of the sink and dry my face off as I had back into the room, where there Ebony is already waiting with a tray of breakfast and a rose in a glass vase in her arms.
"I thought I told you to stay in bed." she gave me a look.
I shrugged my shoulders. "I told you I was fine." I sit on the edge of the bed. I hear her set the tray down, then she sits by me and places my head against her chest. And we're holding each other. I can't remember a time when I felt so complete.
I wait a few moments to enjoy this moment, smelling the sweet vanilla scent of her dark skin. And then I speak.
"So, whose pissed at me this time?" I ask her.
I hear her giggle. "Same old, same old. I met Trudy and Ellie in the café." She pulled away from me, looking down into my eyes. "You know, I think Salene might be in love with you."
I look at her surprise. I had only known the redhead for awhile. Trudy had told me about her losing her boyfriend, Pride. An eco from the Gaians. I never expected her to have any feelings for me like that, especially since it was a few months since Pride had been gone.
"Last time, you told me that Amber liked me." I smirk to her. Ebony grins as I feel her arms around me pull me closer to her. "What woman wouldn't want my little man-beast?"
"Forget them all. All I want is you, love." I kiss her head, and this time it's me who holds her close.
I can feel her listening to my heart beating. It was beating pretty fast from what I felt. Sometimes she would get concerned about that, but after awhile she had gotten use to it.
I started to think about the other Mallrats. I was not one of them. Oh yeah…the vote to see if I stay or not was today.
Well, I might as well pack my bags. From what I know so far they don't trust me, and the little ones think I'll cut off their toes at night.
Okay, so that part was made up by Ebony. It was cute though.
I look up at the cloak and sigh. I might as well go and get some work done. I kiss Ebony's temple again and get up to get dressed. My clothes are just an old black vest, worn out black jeans, black army boots, and a black leather jacket. I sheathed my short swords under my sleeves. They always came in handy.
"I'll meet you back here later today. I told Amber I would be going with Jay to the Hotel to check some things out." Ebony informed me as she adjusted my jacket.
I look at her surprised to here that she's actually going somewhere with her ex. She notices and laughs it off. "Come on, baby. You know I love you."
"I love you too." I whisper, and then we kiss again. This kiss deepens by both of us as the sparkling sensation of our tongues caressing each other's becomes more craving.
But we have to pull away. "Have a nice day at work." she said like a caring house wife. I just gave her an odd look.
"Doesn't suit me well, eh?" "Nope." I laughed and kissed her again before heading out. I had a lot of things on my mind right now. And one of them is if I would be accepted by the Mallrats.
By Kevin
Chapter 1
Crimson Nightmares
I'm still breathing. I still have a little bit of life left in me. Like my body, it's all dangling from this wooden poll where I have been crucified. I could still feel the arrows deep in my wrists. Barbed wires were tied around my ankles.
I'm completely naked, but my blood, my wounds, and my sweat are the only things clothing my body.
And then when I open my eyes to see I'm still alive, I see him laughing like a madman…a madman who was now killing his own creation.
He wanted more. He wanted to see me suffer terribly a thousand times over. You could see it in his face.
And then I feel fire beneath my bare feet. The air around me becomes hot, and choking that it feels like the smoke of the fire his strangling my neck.
I'm suffocating. I don't know if I can make it out alive this time. But then I can hear their voices, and when I open my eyes again I can see them over the hills. They are shouting at me to survive, to save them. And then I see her face.
My beautiful angel. My beautiful….Ebony.
She's crying, her arms reaching out to me, her voice screaming my name.
But I can't hear her or them anymore as everything starts to become blurry. And the fires consume my body.
I want to cry out in pain, but then I felt there was no pain. The hot flames were giving me strength.
Like a black hole in space, my body sucked up the fire inside. I free myself, and I start killing them all. I don't even stop to let any of them retreat. They are my enemies. They are my enemies because they hurt my friends. My family. They are my enemies because they heard my precious love.
I feel myself grab the pole that I was crucified on, and I use it as a weapon with strength that could only be titled as "inhuman."
And then as I take a swing with that pole, the pole itself turns into a battle axe, double-bladed. I cut through a few of my enemies, and then the axe grasped in both my bruised, cut, and bleeding hands changes into two weapons. My twin swords.
And now I'm chopping through them all like pudding. And then I come to him, the madman, and again my weapons change. I'm holding a broadsword, something I had seen the character Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movie carry.
The tip of my sword plunges through the madman's chest, just as I see a sword of his own coming at my head…
…and the nightmare ends when I feel my body being shaken. My eyes open just as fast as I lean up in bed.
I look down to see the hand still on my sweat covered chest, then turned to the owner of that hand and sigh in relief when I see who it is.
"I really miss Jay. At least he's quiet when he sleeps." Ebony joked. If I was a normal person, I would've take offensive of her irony. But I wasn't, so I didn't. I just grinned with a raised eyebrow. "But I would miss you."
"I know you would." she returned with a more seductive grin, and our lips pressed into a passionate kiss. God her lips tasted so sweet! But as always, all good things must come to an end as she pulled away and rested herself on her elbow while looking up at me.
She's no longer on the prowl for love-making. This time she's more concerned about me. I could just tell.
"Was it that dream again?" she asked with genuine concern. I run my hand over my face and through my jet black hair with a white strip in the front.
"Yeah." I told her as I leaned back.
I had been having these nightmares for so long as I can remember. Probably since the time I walked away from Zoot and the Locos.
I felt Ebony leave the bed suddenly, walking nude up to the closet, while I just watched her nicely round buttocks. But then I noticed the scar on her back. A scar that nobody but only I and Zoot had seen. Zoot had seen it because he was the one responsible for giving it to her.
I wondered if Jay ever noticed it before when he and Ebony slept together.
Ebony put on her silk black nightgown and a robe.
"Getting dress already?" I ask her as I turn to the clock on the wall. "It's only 5:38 in the morning."
"Yeah well, that dream of yours is a better alarm clock than that alarm clock itself." She froze suddenly and quickly turn to me with a apologetic smile. "I'm sorry. I…"
"It's ok, sweetheart." I reassure her with soft tone and a warm smile. Something I've never been used too.
She started to head out the room. "I'll go get us some breakfast in bed, okay?" she smiled. That was usually what I do every morning for her.
I start to get up to remind her, but she made sure I was laying down. "Now be good," then she took my hand and ran it along her breasts. "And you might get desert early."
With that, she got back up and headed to the café of the Phoenix Mall. Home of the Mallrats, and Ebony was a Mallrat.
As was my little sister, Trudy, my niece Brady, and my soon to be brother-in-law Jay, Ebony's ex.
I got out of bed and headed to the bathroom in the room. I poured on some cool water and splashed it into my face. I looked at myself in the mirror, and felt surprise that I actually realized I had a reflection.
It wasn't always like this.
My name is Zell. But everyone in this tribe world knows me as the warrior, Knightmare. I was once the bodyguard of Zoot, but then I was banished after he discovered I was having an affair with his woman at the time. I tried to persuade Ebony into coming with me, to start a new life together. But the power was more on her mind than love, and she chose power and chaos over me.
I wanted to challenge Zoot for her. I wanted to kill him, but he was already dead. Besides, I could never bring myself to kill him. Before the virus, he was my friend like Bray was. The only reason why I never harmed him was that he was the father of my niece.
I looked back at myself in the mirror. I was 6 foot tall. Masculine for my age. Some considered calling me Colossus after the X-Men comic book character. I would rather prefer Knightmare anyways.
I stared back into my dark blue eyes. I see them turn red, like as if I have the eyes of a demon. Maybe I am, for I had seen far too much carnage to consider that Hell was my shelter.
I turn of the sink and dry my face off as I had back into the room, where there Ebony is already waiting with a tray of breakfast and a rose in a glass vase in her arms.
"I thought I told you to stay in bed." she gave me a look.
I shrugged my shoulders. "I told you I was fine." I sit on the edge of the bed. I hear her set the tray down, then she sits by me and places my head against her chest. And we're holding each other. I can't remember a time when I felt so complete.
I wait a few moments to enjoy this moment, smelling the sweet vanilla scent of her dark skin. And then I speak.
"So, whose pissed at me this time?" I ask her.
I hear her giggle. "Same old, same old. I met Trudy and Ellie in the café." She pulled away from me, looking down into my eyes. "You know, I think Salene might be in love with you."
I look at her surprise. I had only known the redhead for awhile. Trudy had told me about her losing her boyfriend, Pride. An eco from the Gaians. I never expected her to have any feelings for me like that, especially since it was a few months since Pride had been gone.
"Last time, you told me that Amber liked me." I smirk to her. Ebony grins as I feel her arms around me pull me closer to her. "What woman wouldn't want my little man-beast?"
"Forget them all. All I want is you, love." I kiss her head, and this time it's me who holds her close.
I can feel her listening to my heart beating. It was beating pretty fast from what I felt. Sometimes she would get concerned about that, but after awhile she had gotten use to it.
I started to think about the other Mallrats. I was not one of them. Oh yeah…the vote to see if I stay or not was today.
Well, I might as well pack my bags. From what I know so far they don't trust me, and the little ones think I'll cut off their toes at night.
Okay, so that part was made up by Ebony. It was cute though.
I look up at the cloak and sigh. I might as well go and get some work done. I kiss Ebony's temple again and get up to get dressed. My clothes are just an old black vest, worn out black jeans, black army boots, and a black leather jacket. I sheathed my short swords under my sleeves. They always came in handy.
"I'll meet you back here later today. I told Amber I would be going with Jay to the Hotel to check some things out." Ebony informed me as she adjusted my jacket.
I look at her surprised to here that she's actually going somewhere with her ex. She notices and laughs it off. "Come on, baby. You know I love you."
"I love you too." I whisper, and then we kiss again. This kiss deepens by both of us as the sparkling sensation of our tongues caressing each other's becomes more craving.
But we have to pull away. "Have a nice day at work." she said like a caring house wife. I just gave her an odd look.
"Doesn't suit me well, eh?" "Nope." I laughed and kissed her again before heading out. I had a lot of things on my mind right now. And one of them is if I would be accepted by the Mallrats.