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Chapter 3: Welcome to Your New Home

The castle sounded so empty when Kylar and Vi walked in. The only thing that stopped their feet from reverberating on the hard marble floor was use of their Talent to muffle their footsteps and their years of training in the art of shadow walking. It had been one of the first things drilled into their heads and the key part to making a wetboy successful in making the deaders dead.

"It seems so empty in here. I can't believe that I haven't seen any staff or workers around here yet." Anytime that Kylar had been inside the other castle, whether on official business or he had a contract inside, there had always been an influx of workers.

"I know what you mean, it almost seems dead. And when it gets quiet like this it most certainly spells out a trap."

Vi started focus more on her surrounding and look to see if there was any possible crevices where someone could be hiding in wait. As soon as she thought it was clear, she spun around to the sound of a sword being drawn rather quickly and pulled out the dagger she always kept on her. The sound of steel against steel rang through the entrance hall.

"Ah what the hell! I nearly took off your head!" Vi's adrenaline had start pumping and it had started to control her actions with pure reflex. When she got started, there was very little that could stop her from either killing her deader or her attacker.

"Don't worry, it would not have happened. You were much to slow to be able to decapitate me." Durzo always had to put his words in a way that made it seem as though he was better than everyone else.

Vi then noticed that it was not Kylar, but Durzo had who had made the sound of drawing the sword. But if it had been Durzo then were the hell was Kylar? Vi looked around franticly to see if she catch even the slightest glimpse of him.

"Kylar, you can come out now. All the scawee bad guys are gone." Durzo couldn't miss the chance to pick on Kylar; Durzo had practically raised Kylar from his early childhood.

He had many mishaps with Kylar, but Kylar had always stood strong, even after all the brutal training sessions that his early apprenticeship had required.

"You are so full of yourself Durzo. And from my perspective I think Vi would have put a good dent in that thick head of yours. You are getting slower Durzo, old age not treat you as nicely as you thought it might be?" Durzo had to chuckle at that one, he had a feeling Kylar would notice that he had started to slow down.

"Oh I'm getting slow? Your first reaction was to activate the ka'kari and hide like an assassin in the corner of the room." In the middle of him speaking, he threw a knife in the opposite direction of where Kylar's voice had come from a few seconds ago."

"It seems that your hearing is going too old man. I haven't moved since you entered the room, you should have known where to bury that knife instead of haphazardly throwing it away." Once again Kylar's voice seemed to come from western corner, but he was talking as if he were still in the middle of the room. Then out of nowhere Kylar seemed to dissolve into existence, right where he had said he was, in the middle of the room, as if he had never left.

"You really ought to stop wasting all the knives that I sharpen; otherwise you will have to start taking care of your own weaponry again."

Kylar seemed to have a certain smugness about him. Vi was lost in all of this transaction but assumed that they were simply referring to the old days when Kylar was still Durzo's apprentice.

"Just come here you big baby." Durzo hugged Kylar fiercely, really showing Vi how close the two had become over the years. "Anyway I heard that you were moving into the castle and wanted to come welcome you myself." Durzo said after releasing Kylar from his hold.

"That was quite the welcome Durzo. Anyway how is the misses doing?" Durzo had finally decided to pursue his love life and confessed his love to the previous Sa'kagé, Gwinvere Kirena. As it turned out, she had the same feelings for him but both had been too scared to admit that they were on love with each other.

"Oh she's getting accustomed to the castle life. And to all the free time we have." Durzo replied with a wink. "I've given Nysos* quite the offering this month." He couldn't help messing with Kylar now that he seemed to be back to his former self. He was glad to see that the death hadn't affected him as deeply as everyone said it would.

"Damn it Durzo I did not need that image of you parading around having your way with your wife in my head."

Kylar's expression showed that he was completely repulsed at the thought of Durzo having sex every waking moment of the day. "Please tell me you at least confined your… your sexual relations to only your room." Kylar had a feeling he knew the answer but had to know if Durzo was as disgusting as he believed him to be.

"Well let's just say yes and no. If I were you I'd be careful on which room you choose. I'd like to say that I lost track of how many rooms it was after the sixth one, but we had multiple repeat sessions in some rooms. Who knows for sure if it actually was the sixth of just the third for the second time." Kylar had feared that the answer would be along those lines. He knew Durzo was trying to make up for lost time and it seemed as though Momma K, as Kylar still called her, could not help but agree with Durzo. He suddenly remembers that Vi was there when he heard her squeak in astonishment in response to Durzo's last statement. Realizing that she was still there caused a noticeable amount of color to rush to his cheeks.

"Sorry you had to hear the sex addict over there rant about how enjoyable his retirement has been. Not everyone can use every free moment to pleasure their dearest one."He walked over to her and encircled his arms around her waist.

Durzo raised his eyebrow at movement

but chose not to say anything at the moment.

He had a feeling that Vi had a lot to do with Kylar's healing.

Just at that moment Logan entered the room with his sword drawn and had started to prepare for the need to move quickly by bouncing on the soles of his feet when he actually looked at the situation.

"You ok there Logan? You seem a little tense." Kylar chuckled as his longest friend sheathed his sword while trying to hide his slight blush from assuming that there had been trouble.

"Uh yeah I'm fine. I just came to welcome you into the castle like a proper king and get you to your room." This would have been a fairly believable excuse, except for the fact that he was shirtless and his trousers were not secured correctly.

"Well I guess a thank you is in order, but you might want to fix your pants before we continue with this introduction. It seems although someone else wants to say hello." Both Logan and Vi blushed a nice cherry red and Kylar and Durzo both burst out laughing. "Oh gods, sorry Logan I just couldn't keep it in." He started to laugh harder with the play on words he had created. Logan could only blush further when he understood how Kylar's words related to his current situation. Kylar finally stopped laughing when

he received a swift kick to the back side and landed on the floor. "What the hell was that for?!" Kylar turned his to his attacker, which just so happened to be Vi.

"What do you mean 'what the hell was that for'? Logan looks as though he could burst any second his face is so red." Vi simply could not believe that such close friends would act this way towards each other.

"Logan would have done exactly the same thing if I were in his place." Kylar knew how bad Vi's temper could get and he tried to throw as much of it away from him as possible. His arse also hurt too much to actually give her a reason, which was better than acting like a five-year old.

"Is that true Logan?" Logan could see from the fire in her eyes that she expected the truth, and he planned on giving it to her hopefully to get calm her down a bit.

"I probably would have gone even farther than Kylar if he had been in this situation and I'm pretty sure Durzo would have joined in as well." He let out the breath he was holding when Vi seemed to deflate from her previous state.

"I guess I got a little carried away since I'm so used to people picking on others or just beating on them mercilessly." Vi hung her head in embarrassment and shame for the scene she had just caused.

"Vi don't worry about it we were just shocked that's all. You did no harm, well except you might have bruised something." Before Vi had a chance to respond Jenine came rushing into the main hall. Thankfully she had taken the time to be appropriately dressed.

"What was all the yelling about? Is everyone ok?" She seemed to be overly concerned about the situation.

"Everything's fine Jenine, Vi just got a little upset at us. Everybody seems ok, save for Kylar who may not be able to sit down for a few hours. Well now that all the welcoming committee is here, we can show Kylar and Vi to their new home. It's actually not too far from here." Logan and Jenine took the lead while Durzo followed behind the newest additions to the castle. They walked past the corridor that lead to the dinner hall and Kylar and Vi finally witnessed that there was in fact a massive amount of people living in the castle. Servants and cooks moved about all intend on making dinner spectacular. "And here we are, welcome to your new house." Logan pushed open to the door to reveal a room that rivaled the size of Kylar's previous house.

"Logan it's wonderful! I can't thank you enough for allowing us to stay here!" Vi rushed over to envelop him in a hug.

"Well it made no since for you to build your own when I have all these extra ones." Logan smiled at the prospect of having two of the best wetboys in the world live in close proximity to him.

It was at this point that Durzo popped his head in the room to look around. "Yup we definitely used this room a number of times. So be careful if you ever decide to fully investigate this room." Durzo winked at Kylar to make sure he got his point across.

"Um alright, well we will leave you two to get accustomed to your new living arrangements. Dinner will be a sundown. Make sure to be there on time, needless to say the cook doesn't appreciate it when people are late for his meals." Logan and Jenine left and made sure to bring Durzo along with them so he couldn't cause any more trouble.

After Vi was sure that all three of them had left, she decided that Kylar deserved a proper apology. He was already sitting on the bed with his legs out straight trying to relieve his sore butt. She sexily walked over to him and sat down in his lap. "Let's see if I can't get your mind off that cute butt of yours." She nearly purred. Kylar couldn't think of anything better. Actually he honestly couldn't think of anything at all at this point. It goes without saying, they were late for dinner that evening.

*Nysos is the god of blood, wine, and semen