'Don't you fucking dare go near Lucy again. If you do, I'll replace the whole lot of you!' Max's voice boomed into David's consciousness sounding like he was in the cave with him and his eyes shot open. Fine, if he couldn't fuck with Lucy, he would fuck with the man himself, but first he'd fuck with Michael again. Max wasn't going to control David anymore, not completely anyways. He dropped down, surprised the boys weren't woken by Max's voice and he shot out of his cave, still with the twisted gut from seeing Star and Michael kiss the night before. He looked over at Star, all serene and innocent in sleep and his need to prove his ownership and control over her took over him again. He would remind her a million times in a million different ways nightly if that's what it took for her to submit to him forever. He had risked too much for her to have her just be taken away by some mortal fucker that Max has a passing interest in. He approached her and saw her eyes moving beneath her lids, she was in REM sleep and she was dreaming. She suddenly rolled onto her back and her leg was exposed from under her light shawl which surrounded her and he looked at her creamy pale skin. He couldn't help himself and he ran his fingers along her thigh and she felt so smooth and soft that he slid his hand a little further up and despite still being asleep, she moved her leg sideways a bit, exposing more flesh to him. He looked up at her face to see her part her lips and he kept sliding his hand up and found the folds of her pussy and felt she was wet, giving him a twinge in his groin. He found her clit and slowly began to massage it with his fingertip as he watched her for any sign of her awakening and he heard a slight moan and she slowly opened her auburn eyes. She gasped a little as those eyes stared straight into his and there they stayed as he slid his fingers down and inside her then halfway out and back in deeper.
'Expecting someone else?' He asked her. He didn't blink as he continued to finger her and he smiled as she began to buck her hips against his hand, eventually closing her eyes again and he was flooded with satisfaction over the confirmation he had her. She reopened her eyes and he thought he saw a flash of humility before he bought her to a wordless, body shaking orgasm which left her clutching his arm as she pulsated. He had maintained his cool demeanour the whole time and she now looked at him, her face a mixture of confusion and submissiveness while he was filled with the superiority he'd desired and he withdrew his hand.
'Who do you belong to?' He asked her and she looked away from him. 'Who do you belong to Star?' He repeated in a more domineering tone of voice making her answer him.
'You David. I belong to you.' She said, still a little out of breath.
'Yeah you do. Don't you ever forget it.' He smiled down at her. 'Now, I want you to kill Michael. Tonight. He will be your first. Say it.' She didn't respond to him and kept her eyes averted so he quickly shoved his hand around her throat. 'Say it!' He repeated and he saw the fear in her eyes when she finally looked up at him.
'He will be my first.' She said almost inaudibly and he released his grasp and stroked her cheek.
'You'll do as I say Star. If you think you lost everything when I killed your father and brother that will pale in comparison to what I'll take from you if you don't do it this time. I'm sick of this shit Star.' He stood and walked off just as Marko and Paul came out.
'What's going on?' Paul asked yawning and Dwayne appeared pulling out two cigarettes and throwing one at David.
'We're going to go stir some more shit Paul.' David smiled before lighting his stick.
'Yeah,' Paul nodded, 'my favourite past time.' Paul's eyes lit up with the thought.
'Stay here.' He turned his head and demanded of Star, who was now sitting on her bed looking sullen and didn't answer him, then he led the boys out of the cave.
'Where are we going?' Marko enquired as they dropped out of the sky next to their bikes.
'We're going to visit our new recruit.' David answered, his voice flat.
'You OK?' Dwayne asked him referring to last night, his intuition picking up on David's discomfort.
'I'm fine.' David lied as he got on his bike. As much as he wanted to be, he wasn't fine with what was going on. Nowhere near it and the only thing that was going to make him feel better was to get some of his frustration out on the two who were the cause of his distress. 'Rancho Palos Verdes. Marko, lead the way.' David said kick-starting his bike to life.
They arrived about half an hour later and pulled up just down from the house. There were no cars in the driveway, only Michael's bike which was parked out the front. He was home alone. 'Right boys.' David revved up his bike and flicked his light on high beam as he roared up the drive and the boys all followed his lead. They laughed and taunted Michael the same way they had on the bridge while they rode their bikes back and forth and whipped the winds up around the house. Michael's silhouette appeared in the window along with a smaller person's and he was peering through the blinds. David also permeated Michael's brain and repeated his name over and over again, laughing at him. David could feel his fear and got the confirmation he'd gotten to Michael and as quickly as the boys had appeared, they disappeared and left the property silent.
'Woo! He was shit scared!' Paul made the other boys laugh and the mood almost lightened. Fucking with Michael's head had made David feel better, he knew his methods of retribution were limited because of Max but what he'd done, coupled with the effects of the blood on Michael, had to have Michael's head exploding as to what was happening to him and he was sure to seek Star out for some sort of explanation and probably comfort. David was slightly conflicted about that but Star was going to have to be with Michael in order to kill him. He was done with Michael and he put both him and Star out of his head and began thinking of his next move.
'Come on, we're going into town.' David said pulling away and riding the forty minutes into the main district of Santa Carla, he needed a prop for what he had in mind next.
'Are we really doing this?' Paul said standing on the sidewalk. Marko smiled at his brother as David and Dwayne got off their bikes.
'You're a pussy.' Dwayne said walking past him and Marko laughed again as he turned to walk inside the store after him. Paul was funny, nothing phased him, like absolutely nothing, except for Max. He was more confident around him when David was there because David took all the heat but the thought of Max confronting him alone made him feel decidedly uncomfortable.
'What are we looking for?' Marko asked as they made their way down an isle filled with fairy and angel costumes.
'Something that will mess with his head, that will make him feel like he's being watched and that someone knows.' David wandered further down. 'Something that will fuck him off.'
'What about this? We'll put Star in this and we'll send her off to meet him.' Paul held up a sexy Nun's Halloween outfit and both David and Marko turned around to look at him stony faced.
'I said fuck him off not fuck me off. I'm fucked off enough as it is.' Dwayne pulled the dress out of Paul's hands and chucked it back on the shelf. They turned into the next isle and were surrounded by the dark Halloween costumes. The Grim Reapers sickles, ghosts sheets and vampire capes and David slowed down. This was the shit he was looking for and his eyes roamed over the fake blood and plastic fangs and he creased his eye brows. If only the people who wore this shit knew what it was really like to be a killer. Paul threw a kite with a vampire bat on the back of it at Marko but Marko dodged it and David caught it and looked at it. 'This is perfect.' David said holding onto it and he strode out the door. The guy behind the counter stood up to stop him but one look from Marko had him sitting back down and staying quiet and the boys all left the store. They jumped back on their bikes and rode to Max's apartment but Max wasn't there so they went down to stalk Max's video store but found the place was dark and all locked up and David got annoyed. It was late and there were only a few places Max would be, he was very much a creature of habit and David knew all too well his haunts. He also knew Max was opening a store up in Los Gatos and he hoped he wasn't up there. He thought about where else Max could be, he could be hunting or he could be… Suddenly he knew where Max was. He rode out to the peninsula and parked down the road from the entrance to the last house closest to the cliff face. 'This is the house of Max's first victims in Santa Carla. He told me he never occupied a house of a victim.' David said without any provocation. They saw a pair of headlights coming up the hill and they disappeared out of sight and watched Max's red corvette drive past them. 'Apparently he lied.' He added as he watched Max pull up outside the gate, open it up and begin to walk down the long path. 'Paul, go throw it at him.' David told him and they all looked at Paul.
'Like fuck!' Paul was incredulous that David had even asked him to do such a thing.
'Now!' David demanded and Paul took it and flew off and within a few seconds the kite had collided with Max's head. Max looked around suspiciously before Marko quickly killed the power to the street lamps and the others all fired up their engines, flicked their lights on high beam and did exactly as they'd done at Michael's house.
'David!' Max's voice could just be heard in his head above the roar of their engines. 'David! Cut it out!' Max growled and David led the boys away down the dirt path. 'David! What the fuck are you doing?! Get back here!' Max continued in his head but David sped up and ignored him He rode straight to Grapes, another wave of satisfaction washing over him. Now he just needed to get out of it and release some other urges he had and he would call it a night.
'What ya got Paul?' David asked him just after they entered the dark club. It was about an hour before closing and most of the remaining patrons were wasted already so they weren't overly discreet about taking whatever Paul had on him.
'What do you want? The shelves are stocked.' Paul popped a pill in his mouth smiling. Dwayne held out his hand and Paul dropped one in his palm while Marko and David looked at each other.
'Yeah, alright.' David said and he was handed his dose and finally Marko took his. The talent was still strong and the boys had their pick of beauties swaying and gyrating in front of them. It didn't take long for Paul and Dwayne to draw girls like magnets to them and before David knew it, Dwayne disappeared out the door with a curly haired blonde in a tight leather mini skirt and he'd lost sight of Paul then, as he scowered the room, he saw someone he recognised and he nudged Marko's arm but Marko had already spotted her. Maria was there with her friends, she hadn't seen them yet but David could feel Marko's excitement and he looked at him. 'Go.' He told him and Marko got up, he didn't need to be told twice. He pushed his chair back and moved away from the table. 'Be careful.' David told him and Marko smiled at him then walked up behind Maria and grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up to a delighted squeal from the girl. David sat there scanning the rest of the room and began to contemplate a cigarette, when he saw a girl with long dark wavy hair standing side on to him in the back of the room. She wore a long dark skirt and a black jacket and David got up and swiftly walked over towards her. What the fuck was Star doing here?! He got closer and she turned to look at him and it was then he realised it wasn't Star. He had to do a double take to confirm it though because this girl looked like she was her twin only she wasn't quite as facially delicate.
'Hi.' She said to him and she smiled a smile that didn't belong on his Star.
'Hello.' He said and instantly he could tell there was interest from her by the way she was looking at him.
'I've seen you here before, do you come here often?' She asked him and the question threw him a little. He was going to have to stop coming here.
'No, not often.' He answered her. 'You?'
'Yeah, almost every weekend during summer.' During summer. She wasn't a local. Perfect.
'I was just going outside for a cigarette. Coming?' He asked her, plying her with his influence, not that he needed to. She gave him a look that was pure Star and he almost got goose bumps and he knew he'd found his victim for the night. He could feel the urge to take out all his frustrations both sexual and otherwise on the girl as if she was Star herself and he led her outside, seeing Marko working his magic on Maria as he walked out. They walked down into the dodgiest part of town and he could tell she was nervous as she talked mindless small talk while she walked beside him, but it all meant nothing to him, she spoke far more than Star ever did and she was almost annoying which worked for him. Physically, she was attractive and it made him want to fuck her but personality wise, she was doing his head in and he was more than ready to kill her, if only just to shut her up. He turned down into the dry docks that were void of both people and lights but full of empty boats and she suddenly stopped talking. He kept walking, willing her to follow him and he stopped behind a large launch and beside a large shed.
'What are we doing here?' She asked looking at the boats name where the paint was peeling off then she looked at him.
'Cigarette remember?' He said holding up his cigarette, putting it in his mouth and climbing up onto the boat, then he leaned over and lifted her up with him. He sat and listened to her blabber on about her friends and whether she was going to go back to school or get a job and all the while he looked around the boat for anything he wanted to take with him and he spotted a large bed inside the main cabin. He continued to smoke his stick while she barely paused for a breath then once he was done, he flicked his butt over the side onto the gravel and he looked at her. She finally stopped speaking and looked back at him and she looked like his Star again and he realised he didn't want her. He didn't want to fuck her, he had his own Star waiting for him at his cave who was more beautiful, didn't talk his ear off, knew what he was and accepted him for it. He sat there for a minute then he thought, fuck it, and he grabbed her hand and pulled her into the cabin and fucked her. It was a rough and brutal fuck, probably too rough for her but he didn't care. It was just what he needed and when he was done, he got dressed and coaxed her outside, morphing and instantly lifting her airborne before she even knew what had happened. He had his hand over her mouth and dragged a clawed hand down her chest and the sweet smell of her blood had him reeling. He took a deep breath and tore his fangs into her jugular and drank mouthfuls of her fresh blood before practically ripping her head off and discarding her inside a vat of liquid fiberglass inside the shed. He headed back around to the nightclub which had now closed and found Dwayne and Paul on the ground next to their bikes laughing together.
'Hey! Here he is!' Paul called out.
'Where's Marko?' David asked striding towards them.
'Don't know, thought he was with you.' Paul answered and Dwayne looked up at his brother.
'He's with Maria isn't he?' Dwayne asked and David nodded making both of the wasters on the ground laugh, which wasn't hard in their state. They were fucked.
'Where the fuck are you?' David projected to Marko but he got no response. 'Marko!'
'Yep,' Marko said, 'coming.' Then within ten minutes Marko appeared from around the corner, a smile the size of the Golden Gate Bridge upon his face.
'Oh yeah!' Paul hit Dwayne's arm. 'He got in! He finally popped his cherry!' Paul and Dwayne fell about laughing and a sly grin slid across David's face.
'About fucking time dude!' Dwayne added.
'Shut up.' Marko told them.
'Come on boys.' David said mounting his bike and they rode off to their bush carpark and they flew from where they parked because the sun was mere minutes away from rising. They shot into the cave, one after the other, with David coming up the rear and the boys continued on out the back to their sleeping quarters, except when David flew past Star's bed, he thought he saw someone lying on her bed with her and he stopped. Had she done it? Was it Michael? A surge of excitement hit him and he came back to check but his dead heart stopped when he saw Michael, not lying dead next to her rather he was in bed spooning her, both of them naked, their clothes strewn all over the floor. The rage he felt was excruciating and his hands were shaking he wanted to react so badly. She hadn't killed him like he'd told her to, she'd fucked him instead and he actually felt sick. This shit had gone on long enough and he really didn't give a shit about Max and what he wanted anymore. He involuntarily let out a low growl and Michael stirred at the sound. David shot out the back with a screech and a flap of his jacket, the sun was up and he was tired. Tomorrow. Tomorrow he would deal with both Michael and Star.