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Faust
Or The Devil in Me
And it has been seven years for our 'happy' couple. Faust has been assaulting his Fiend, other fiends look at him and make him uncomfortable, you know the usual. Brave and he became one that night. Complete pleasure, complete devotion. But his time is up let's see how this goes.
"Seven years to the day." I hear my fiend say one morning.
Brave looks at him strange. I blink.
"I have waited in such anticipation for this day. The day that you are finally, finally mine. I hoped you enjoyed his kiss, his touch, his love because you'll never see him again." My Fiend continues.
I laugh openly and brave begins to get scared.
"You can't make me anything!" I laugh.
He doesn't smirk at that like I had suspected. The swirl he came from opens.
"I assure you Dr. Faust I can. Come with me and I will close the door behind us. We can stay in my palace forever. I am afraid I am intoxicated by the smell of your sweat. Even since I laid eyes on ou, you've been judging me. I wanted to control you, to own you. I want to tame that fiery soul that threatens my heart. I took all the abuse for seven years, I granted the only wish you ever wished. Do I not deserve payment? I make you happy don't I?" He rants.
"Alright I'll go with you." I say.
"Thank you."
Brave looks hocked at this. As he pulls me into the swirl I laugh and shove him in. He glares at me with yellow prying eyes that burn into the very depths of my soul, where he should not be prying. Where he should not be. He smirks again and gestures to a black book. I realize slowly that he was threatening me. If I don't go with him he'll use that book. The fool! He doesn't even know how to read! How could he…
"Is set you free from your rusty iron chains and let you go by the sound of the clock ticking away. I will open doors across all the nations in the world to set you free and all the others. I give you this, fiends of this and all worlds as the ultimate peace offering you deserve in return for your eternal loyalty." He chants.
I panic. He let every fiend in this world and the next go! I grab the still shocked Brave and run to my car. I see Yu grin as a rusty collar around his neck collapses. He runs inside and as we drive off I hear a scream. We rush into the town center and the sight is quite a horrific one. There are bodies strew in the streets even though it's bright sunlight it feel dark. I see a much larger portal just in front of town. The fiends are dragging people in. Aku has her hands buried in the mayor's skin while he's grabbing on to the street screaming no. The regal red head is laughing as he spins the twins around.
"Don't worry Leo, Luna we can stay together. My big brother is a very important man and he'll make sure you stay safe. Just come with me your parents they don't love you, they don't care! We can play together forever!" He cheers.
The twins give him a nervous look as he laughs again and guides them to the swirl. He leads them in and laughs again waving at me. I remember what my Fiend said about churches. We run off to the church and slam the gates behind us and Brave begins to cry in terror. I hold his hand as we walk in. The priest points to the centre of the chapel. I look around and see Aporia, Bruno, Antony, the man racing with the racer fiend, a man I do not know and Jack.
"Oh great you two are still around!" He says enthusiastically.
Before I can ask why he's alive. I hear a rap on the church doors. The priest opens them and I see the spiky blonde fiend staring back.
"Paradox. Please let him in! He's a good fiend!" Aporia pleads.
"We can't, what if he isn't?" The man I do not recognize suggests.
"HE IS!" The larger man growls.
"Jean we ought to get out before Andore hurts himself trying to get in." The blonde says.
The man named Jean takes his friend outside and they slam the doors behind themselves.
"I invite you in." Aporia says while we're all distracted by the racer and Jean.
Paradox's smile goes past his face. It extends like a white thing against the gray wall of the chapel. He laughs. Everyone runs out as he extends a gloved hand to Aporia. Aporia smiles back and walks into a small swirl as the fiend hums something.
We run until we end up back at the village center. Primo takes his sword out of a body and glides over to the mechanic twins. Bruno stands without an expression and Antony laughs hysterically. Primo reaches out for their hands and grabs them dragging the two brothers over the large swirl. He shoves them through and climbs in himself, his red eyes burning into me as they disappear. I watch as Yu drags jack in as the poor man screams. I ignore him. The next to go are the racer and Jean as the walk briskly with the fiend named Andore talking about how nice the other world is. God those fools are walking straight into Hell! And after them Amnael, the library fiend laughs pulling in a small brunette boy while the boy's parents scream for him to stop. The winged fiend comes next.
"We ought to go know Brave before someone else puts their hands on you." The fiend mentions.
"WHAT!? IS THIS YOUR FIEND?!" I shout.
"Yes, I'm sorry I have to go with him." Brave replies and puts his hand against the fiend's.
The two of them run off to the swirl. I lay back ignoring the blood I'm in. I let it seep into my skin as more chaos happens, more screaming people getting dragged off. I hear slashing footsteps as a silver scent comes to me. It's the blood it smells very metallic.
"I'm here to make you mine." My Fiend says in a hushed voice.
He lifts me up effortlessly and whisks me away to the swirl. I close my eyes for a bit and enjoy the sensations of this experience.
I awaken in a deep red castle with the smell of silver permeating my form again. I look around and see I'm in a cell. In front of me is Jack, Aporia and the mayor. It must be the mayor's blood because his fingernails had been peeled off. In my cell there is a woman with long blonde tresses and Bruno. They wake up shortly and look just as scared I must feel. I look to the right of Jack's cell and see Antony and the twins Leo and Luna. To the left is a woman with short blue hair, the racer and Jean. I watch as two fiends show up. I slam my eyes shut scared at what I might see. I peek to see the fiends' true forms and nothing is actually different about them. Primo has a metal eyepiece in his right eye and the regal red head was wearing an eye patch on the opposite one. The red head was wearing a pair of white tights and pointy blue shoes with a shower curtain covering the rest. Primo was wearing thigh-high boots and had two metal horns poking out from the top of his head. Primo opens the door with Antony in and smirks pressing his sword against the man's chin for a second before grabbing him and pulling him to my cell door.
"Hello Bruno, the tables are turned now. I am not yours, you are mine. I hope you enjoy your stay!" he smiles.
The red head takes the twins out of the already opened door and cackles, ushering them into out of my vision.
"You and Antony are coming with me." Primo says with a hysterical laugh. He reaches in and pulls the other Vizor twin out taking them wherever the red head took the other twins.
The next fiend to show is the racer fiend Andore, he is wearing just as strange clothing as the other fiends, a blue and yellow skin-tight suit. He opens the door that the racer and Jean are in.
"Sorry you had to wait guys! Come on!" He says with a smile.
He walks them out with a huge smile on his face.
The next fiends are Yu, Aku and Paradox. With them a broad fiend with a scar running down one side of his face comes. Yu opens Jack's cell door and drags him off while the man screams and cries. Aku lifts the mayor up by his tie and he spits in her face. She rips out his tongue. I can see him faint as she drags him off like he's nothing. He was such a noble, if angry, man. Paradox is dressed completely different. He is wearing a tight shirt with a ribcage outline. He is trying to wear a coat but it only covers the bottom half of his body. On his chest are two large spikes and one his arms, spiked gloves. He even has spiked boots and spiked eyebrows! He walks over to Aporia and shakes the large man awake his hands searching for the larger man's. Aporia almost completely overshadows him. Paradox holds what I assume to be his lover's hand as they too walk away. The fiend with the scar walks over to the blue-haired woman and gives her a strange smile as they walk off without holding hands or hurting each other. Guess they're friends. Stupid girl making friends with a fiend!
After them the orange-haired imp and a female fiend in spectacles in a hooded shirt and skirt come. My breath hitches as I see Brave being taken the imp walks over to my cell.
"The Granter of Wishes will have a fit if we bring him you know." He says.
"I don't care." Brave argues.
"I hope you aware that I'll be crucified for this."The imp mentions.
"W-what?"
"Ah so you didn't know…"
"If there is a chance that you may die then perhaps it isn't right."
"We don't need him, you don't need his love. We can be together as we are. Not a single soul has to venture to where we are, we can stay here forever in this castle. I will entrap you." The imp begins to convince.
"Alright." The boy says.
They trail off and Brave seems less, desirable. I watch as the hooded fiend grabs the blonde haired woman in my cell.
"Come on Sherry, I killed the men that killed your parents you owe me!" She screams with her nails digging into the woman.
The woman grabs onto me and screams. I slap her off and her pupils dilate in her apparent betrayal. The fiend laughs and kisses her pulling her off as she scratches at the floor screeching. Her fingernails turn red with the blood she's using to drag herself back. She disappears out of my vision as the screaming gets fainter and fainter.
I hear a strange set of footsteps as Yu and Primo show up and open my cell door.
"You're the man that free us."Yu speaks at last.
"He's nothing impressive! I am far more attractive! And intelligent! And strong!" Primo spits.
"Ah but The Granter of Wishes demands that he come to his room so silence your filthy mouth Primo." Yu deadpans.
"I won't go." I say.
"I'm sorry I can't here you, speak up dirty HUMAN!"Primo yells with a tinny laugh.
"I WON'T GO!" I scream.
He and Yu exchange glances and laugh again. They pull me up and Yu grabs on to my shoulder as Primo places the blade of his sword against my back. I walk down the line of cells. Children, women, other men, they all lay in their cages. I did this didn't I? Refusing to pay the price. I feel a certain bile rise in my mouth as I see in one change lays a man with such similar features to Yu but unlike the priest he has no mask. I see this is Yu's father and the priest his brother. The silly child must have wished for…
"Infinite knowledge." Yu finishes for me.
"I was going to say immortality. How could you do this to your family?"
He remains silent and Primo digs the sword into my back. Two fiends open the man's cage, one as pale as the moon and the other golden everywhere like the sun.
"Ah it took you long enough." The man says.
"I suppose it did." The moon fiend replies.
The sun fiend holds the man up and carries him off. The man takes a lingering look at his son and smiles. I ignore them all. I will defeat my Fiend and return home.
When we leave the holding cells we walk into a lavishly furnished room covered in toys. The red head boy is sitting with Leo and Luna playing.
"THANK YOU!" He exclaims hugging Primo.
"I can't deny you anything little brother." Primo says with a lopsided smile. He kicks me in the back and hurries me out the room. We walk past rooms with fiends holding their captives. The mayor was having his eyes gauged out by Aku. Aporia and Paradox were asleep in each other's arms. Jean and Breo were playing cards with Andore. The man I assume to be Yu's father was screaming at the moon and sun fiends with tears in his eyes. The mechanic twins were chained to the bed. The blue haired woman was slapping the fiend that had her around. The hooded fiend was forcing the blonde woman to play the violin. I did not see Brave.
We walk into a great hall and I get chained to the chair with rusty chains. I pass out under the combined stares of these fiends. When I awaken all the fiends are here, well all the ones I've seen. They were sitting all around the table. Glares and paranoia being spread and across from me a mirror image was seen. A man with purple eyes but the opposite pigmentation. He wasn't wearing anything too special. But the thing that caught my eye was the long jacket he wore. He looked at me and cried. Yu came over and held him whispering fiendish things in his ear. I watch as he looks at me with hate and betrayal.
"Why do you hate me? Hate me enough to doom the entire world." He murmurs, accent gone and voice hoarse.
"I don't." I answer.
'Liar." He says.
All eyes are on a door that just opened. A pair of yellow eyes come first. Silver hair so long that all the women in the world would have found envy. A toothy grin comes next. Then long arms with long fingers push against the door frame. And long legs walk out. The man smirks at me. The reason why I know it's a man is that we all know this man. My Fiend is wearing a skin tight suit with a face with yellow eyes on the front.
"I warned you. You broke our deal. And so let's all have a hand for the man that doomed the world Dragan Faust." He says.
And Jack snarls at me, the mechanic twins by Primo's side glare and the mayor make a strange noise in his throat. All eyes, fiendish and mortal, are on me as my Fiend glides over. His hands seek my chin and he lifts it up and kisses me and I grow scared.
"I hope you all enjoy your mortal pets." He says after a while.
He grabs my collar and carts me off through a few more empty rooms. My Fiend walks me into the most lavish room of all. The carpets are red. The curtains, the walls, the ceiling, all red. He takes me over to a canopy bed and sits me down with a smirk.
"You don't know how long I've been waiting for this, for you." He whispers.
His hands fumble with my buttons and runs his hands up and down my chest and stomach. I ignore him. His hands reach for my belt and he screws around with that for a bit. Next him unbuttons and unzips my pants. When he slides them down I realize this is all real. His hands reach for my boxers and he starts to pull them down. I slap him across the face. It immediately makes a red mark appear on his face. He responds my shoving me down and trailing kisses down my face, down my chest, my stomach to, to…
"Call me master." He breathes.
I scream inside.
"You are forever." He smirks.
"Yes master."
And I feel him everywhere. I understand why Aporia was so eager to let Paradox in. Fiends are marvelous at this. When he finishes and heads off to take a shower. I quickly get dressed. I run across the castle with a slam after every step. I hear a whistle type thing and people, or fiends, scrambling about. I do not stop. I run much too fast and trip over a book that some idiot left in the middle of the room. The book is black and is now covered in the blood that erupted out of my nose as I fell. I drag myself to the portal to my world as a feel a foot plant itself against my back. I hear a voice with the slightest tinge of an accent.
"Did you honestly think Yu was the only fiend in my house?" Jack insults.
And with that I feel long fingers on long hands on long arms lift me up and the last sight I see as I am removed is Jack. The last thing I hear before I get that cursed rusted iron chain around my neck is this…
"Goodbye dearling."