The God Key

Chapter Ten:

Demon Underground.

They found Iva in the white room, tears of pleasure staining her cheeks, and a blush on her skin from the powerful thrusts of Hoagie's cock. She trembled lightly, trying to calm the quaking between her legs from her sore sex. The former members of the KND thought she had been crying, her disheveled state a result of a broken heart. Turning her red face away from them was all she could do to conceal her laughter.

"Iva," Nigel started, "We need to go to base."

She put her best angry expression on turned to face him, "Let's go."

"Iva…" Kuki's words fell on deaf ears as Iva pushed past them out into the chaos of the house. She led them through the kitchen to a secret door in one of the over-stocked pantries. The door opened to a servant's passage that went under the house outside the grounds. This passage was created by servants so they could escape the house when Hoagie went into one of his fits, or smuggle supplies and food out. They followed her off the grounds for nearly a mile as the passage turned into a narrow tunnel forcing them to first stope and finally crawl through lays of muck and filth before Iva finally pushed opened a metal grate, emptying them into the sewage system.

The smell hit them first, the rank and decrepit stench of decay and rot. An odor so foul, which smelled like broken dreams of the city's residents themselves. Abby was the first to vomit being the one closest to Iva, then each one followed suit until they found themselves surrounded by waste and standing in their own.

"Breath through your mouth, it gets easier." Iva said calmly as she emerged from the tunnel and stretched.

"No one comes down here," she continued, "No one but the servants. This is the way I used to taxi information to you, get people out of the mansion," she paused, "See Wally."

They continued to move through the sewer tunnels, so close to each other that exhaled breaths were inhaled by someone else. Eventually the sewer system became suffocating hot, and the sweat dripped down their faces. Abby was the first the strip out of her shirt, deciding that it was a small price to pay when faced with over-heating. Nigel, snuck glances at her body as his eye adjusted to the dim maintenance lighting in the tunnels. Even in all of this filth, she still managed to look pristine and practically glowed.

Iva felt along the wall, pretending she still couldn't see. Passing every few minutes to count her steps before carefully, moving down the corridor.

"Nigel, what's our next step" Iva asked, leading them deeper into the darkness.

"I don't know, but we need to base."

"How many operatives are left?" Iva asked innocently.

"About fifty, but hopefully our recruitment efforts were successful."

"Weapons?"

"Fully stoked," Nigel hesitated. "Iva, you were there when we raided that supply warehouse, are you feeling alright?"

"Never better." She countered, "Just making conversation, trying my best to do everything in my power not to strangle Kuki." She stopped moving, "So forgiving me if I'm being annoying." She started forward again, "Besides, Abby as far as I know, doesn't know anything about our organization."

"Iva I'm sorry." Kuki apologized again.

"Forget it." She turned and reached for Nigel groping the air clumsily for Nigel's hand. "Just keep talking Nigel, just keep talking." The hint of sadness in her voice was enough to make Kuki move back as far as she could from her former friend.

"We're pulling all of our forces to one central location to gather and regroup. I'm thinking we need to launch a full assault while he is weak. If we can topple the power structure, maybe we can get the people to rebel."

"That's a good idea." Abby spoke up, "But you said you knew what The Compound is. What do we do with that?"

"I have an idea." Nigel started.

"Iva," Wally spoke up. "I'm sorry. I am so sorry. It was a mistake." He glanced at Kuki. "I'm sorry."

Nigel moved to Iva and moved to touch her shoulder; Iva pulled back and stared at him. "Don't touch me."

They continued forward, the mucky cavern feeling smaller and smaller, and the air seemed to be getting thicker by the moment. It was then Nigel started to notice they were on a slope, going further into the molding earth. "Iva where are we going"

"To the base. I'd take you the easy way but the tunnels that way are infested with rats. I've been going to long way around for months now. At the end of this tunnel, is a ladder, it goes up to a manhole cover that's a block from main base."

Nigel couldn't figure out his unease, something still felt off, but he couldn't quite place it. The tunnel under hid feet gave way to dirt and soon they were sliding over the loose gravel. Abby lost her footing and tipped backward knocking Nigel over and he toppled Wally, who fell back on Kuki. The daisy chain of disaster sat silent for a moment before they all burst out laughing. They laughed for several minutes while Iva glared at them in disbelief.

Nigel pulled Abby into a cuddle and held her there while she caught her breath. "I love you." He said suddenly.

"I love you too."

He looked at Wally and Kuki, "I'm so sorry to both of you. Wally I had no right to keep Kuki a secret, and Kuki." He paused, his tongue suddenly feeling several sizes too big. "I can't imagine what you endured. It was wrong."

Wally softened slightly, "I accept your apology but I don't forgive you." He offered Nigel his hand. They shook hands carefully.

"Are we done here? With the hand shaking and the feelings?" Iva snapped, "Can we go now?"

Wally finally lost it, "Goddamn it Iva I'm sorry. I'm sorry I hurt you, I don't expect you to forgive me, but can you stop acting like it doesn't matter. I loved you, I will always love you. But I've loved Kuki since I was a kid."

"Who cares?" Iva nearly screamed at Wally. "I don't. I really don't. You and Kuki can fuck all you want. I'm done with you!"

"Iva, your eyes are watering." Nigel said suddenly.

For the first time everyone noticed the obvious. Iva was blind, she kept her pupils closed at all times, but now they were open, her pupils moving from each suspicious face to another. She could see, her pupils were clear as church bells on a wedding day.

"Iva?" Wally asked his voice rising in alarm.

She began to laugh then, her voice sounding raspy and ragged. "Well the gist is up." She sang doubling over in laughter. "Hoagie is gonna be pissed."

A sound came, a rumbling, a growling as the stones around them began to creak and groan in protest. A wave of power erupted off Iva blowing them all backward into the walls. Her laughter continued, become less joyous and more evil by the second. Nigel noticed first, her hands, fingers licking the open air, writhing away from her body like snakes. He gasped.

"No." he said, "No, no, no." he kept repeated as she began to transform.

Her once delicate fingers split open as her bones grew and pushed out of her hands like claws, the arm its self elongated, morphed knuckles dragging the ground. Next her spine extended, body growing twice its length and her once coveted hair fell out of her head in a single wash of red silk. She looked up, face still as gorgeous as it had ever been, as she continued to grow and shape.

"What the fuck?" Abby screamed the first to scramble to her feet and pull her gun.

"Polydust!" Nigel screamed, "She took polydust. She switched sides!"

"Iva." Kuki moved toward her, "Stop this."

"You did this arrogant bitch!" Iva screamed, "You did all of this. Stealing my man, my love!"

"I didn't know!"

"You knew whore, you always knew. I saw the way you looked at me with pity, I didn't have eyes and I could still tell you thought you were better than me. You're holier-than-thou attitude, thinking you were some sort of forlorn angel. You megalomaniac bitch!"

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry won't cut it."

Wally stepped forward and leveled a gun to her head, "don't make me do it."

"You'll kill me?"

"You haven't got the balls little man. I don't know why I even loved you, you're weak. Hoagie is strong, Hoagie is power!"

He shot her.

There wasn't much blood. Iva's eyes rolled up into her malformed head as she sank to her knees and slumped forward into herself. She breathed one last ragged breath before her hideous body convulsed once, and she was gone.

"How could you?" Kuki cried dropping to Iva's body, "How could you?"

"It had to be done." Wally murmured, tears in his eyes. "I saved her."

"We should go." Nigel moved through the sewer pulling Abby gently by her hand. Wally followed and last Kuki stood, casting one last look at Iva's form.

"I'm sorry." She moved away.

Iva's body lay still until they were out of hearing range when she stood, her body melding into her usual form. She took the small listening device out of her bra and whispered into it.

"Did you catch all that my Love."

Hoagie's voice was clear as a bell in the small bud in her ear, "Yes, I did."

Hoagie dropped another polydust into his mouth and grinner, "The fun starts in a few hours."

"Can I go kill them now?" he voice was staticy from the headphones on his ears.

"How long until the passage leads them to the ladder?"

"An hour if they run." She paused, "Probably longer, Nigel may not believe my directions."

"I'll see you there in an hour Love."

"Can I kill them now?" she almost whined. "Please Master, let me rip her skin off."

He laughed, the need in her voice making his cock tingle with delight.

"No, I was to see their faces when they see my surprise. Follow and report back."

Iva nodded, noticing a rat lapping at the puddle of her blood around her. She smiled, her body shrinking to its size before she skittered off toward her prey.

Author's note: I'm back! Gonna be honest, I didn't feel like doing too much heavy editing. Please forgive any grammatical mistakes.