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Title: After Dark
Rating: 18
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Band: Mejibray
Pairing: Koichi x MiA
Summary: The sun protects us, a shining beacon that has kept the darkness at bay. Evil fears it, for the light is their weakness and they shun it. Even the sun can't protect me now, nothing can. Except perhaps for the man I know only as 'Koichi'.
Author's Note: New chapters every Monday and Friday. (I may post early due to having no access to a computer on the posting day).
Previous Chapters:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
New Chapter:
Chapter Ten
As ordered I walked behind Koichi, watching the floor but taking the occasional glance at our surroundings. Behind me walked Meto and Tsuzuku, the later looking nervous as we headed downstairs. They're to judge his fate this night, even Koichi no longer had a say in anything that happened to him. It scared me to know that Koichi was no longer in charge.
The vampires were gathered in one of the function rooms, the kind of place where you may have an office party or maybe even a wedding. I felt sick as I see humans among them, passed along as their blood was tasted by one vampire after another. All of these humans are male. Where are the women? I wanted to ask, but knew better than to utter a word. My questions were forgotten as I witnessed a man in the middle of the room, been raped by a vampire in both his ass and mouth. He didn't fight, this man was broken beyond repair.
At the far end of the room, the king was sat on the centre of a lush sofa. He had the end of two leads in his hand which were connected to a man and a woman, both of which were kneeling at his feet in clothes that show even more skin than my own. The king liker both genders? I hadn't even considered this, knowing that he had fathered children with at least three different women.
To his right sat Yuuki, sexily positioned on a chair with a blond man, around my own age, sat on the floor at his feet. He was covered up about as much as I was, far more than anyone else in the room, though I worried about the way the long skirt hung so dangerously low on his hips. The companion's head was rested against Yuuki's thigh, as the vampire gently stroked his hair and watched over his subjects without emotion.
Koichi took his position on the king's left, spreading his legs so that I could sit between them. As intimate as the position might seem, he was doing his very best to protect me. At least I believed that. After Tsuzuku's gift I was starting to have doubts about everything Koichi had ever done. Had I been trained to behave exactly as Koichi wished me to, all along? Had we only remained in his home, so he could complete this training before brining me here? If so, I was here too soon.
The king called order, and his subjects went silent. All feeding and other activities came to the end, and the humans who had been among them were lead out of the room or made to wait at the back. All humans, except those who belonged to the royal family of course. I glanced over at Yuuki's companion, who caught my eye and gave me a smile before running his hand up Yuuki's leg. I was to follow his lead, I remembered, but his behaviour seemed entirely inappropriate. At a loss I stayed as I was, which was as safe as any other decision I could have made.
The king gave a speech about how pleased he was that his son had returned before giving some orders to a variety of vampires. The orders were mundane enough to bore me, so I soon stopped listening.
“Which brings us to the attempted escape of one of our breeders,” the king continued. A human woman was dragged before him. Her hands were handcuffed behind her back, and she had a gag in her mouth, but I could see defiance in her eyes. She was also pregnant, as were all the females I guessed. If the men worked, and provided vampires with a small amount of food, new men were needed to replace the men that were lost. To be born into a place like this, it was hardly worth thinking about. “Yuuki, why don't you do the honours?”
“Thank you, your highness,” Yuuki replied as he got up and approached the woman without emotion. “She's a first time offender, three lashes?”
“Four,” the king corrected, “She fought back.”
“As you will,” Yuuki replied. Accepting a whip from a nearby vampire and waiting for the woman's guards to strip away the top she had been wearing and refasten her hands in front of her body. The whip lashed through the air, carrying out her punishment quickly, before the bored vampire returned to his own waiting human. His lack of emotion spoke volumes.
“For you, the lashing would be ten times that of a woman,” Koichi warned me, clearly not minding that his father was listening, “You have no life growing inside you. A man's value here is limited. Remember that.”
“I will,” I promised, flinching at the kings watching eyes. Those two words had been two too many for his liking.
“Oh you will, Princess,” Koichi snarled at me, his pet name turned into a slur.
“You call him 'Princess'?” Alden asked, “Why don't you explain to our people why you have installed such an honour to a human, whilst scorning the attentions of the beautiful vampires among us?”
“MiA is such a manly man,” Koichi explained slyly, “You know the type, loves sports and scared of losing his fragile masculinity. He mocked me, as such men are prone to do. So I threw him down and made him my woman. There's no worse fear for such a men, than the enjoyment of a man's cock deep inside them. I call him princess, to remind him that he's nothing but my little bitch.”
“A worthy name indeed,” Yuuki commented, studying Koichi and I both. He knew that Koichi was lying. Had I given my sexuality away to him while he held me captured? I had found him sexy as hell, and still did, he must have picked up on that. What was Yuuki's game? Why wasn't he calling his brother out as a liar? “But enough of such matters. My brother has far greater news, would you like to share?”
“Naturally,” Koichi replied, spinning the story of how he had captured Tsuzuku into exactly what the vampires wanted to hear. From his telling he had never once been in danger, or saved by myself. Applause rang out as Tsuzuku was brought before them, growing into silence as they realised he was human no more.
“Who did this?” King Alden demanded. “Why should the worse kind of vermin, be granted with vampire grace?”
“I did, your highness,” Meto spoke up. The king looked about ready to stake him on the spot, but Koichi quickly declared it had been under his orders.
“Why? What were you thinking?” Alden asked. With a smile Koichi got up and whispered into the king's ear. “So Tsuzuku, you are on our side now?”
“Yes, your highness,” Tsuzuku replied, bowing low. The room was full of liars, I thought, as Koichi sat back down as he had been before. The king waited for a moment before declaring a test of Tsuzuku's loyalty. A woman was dragged into the room, fighting her vampire captures every step of the way.
“If you are with us,” the king stated, “You will not hesitate from taking this vermin woman. Would you?”
“No, your highness,” Tsuzuku replied. Yet he hesitated before approaching the woman. She had been part of his rebellion, I could see the angry betrayed look she gave him moments before Tsuzuku drank her blood.
“As my son needs no bodyguard here, you will be responsible for training him,” the king ordered Meto. “Business is over, time for the duels.”
The duels reminded me of gladiator fights in a Roman coliseum. Vampires, or humans would enter the ring to fight each other, or a variety of angry animals. It was barbaric cruelty and I was forced to watch. From time to time I watched Yuuki's companion instead. He barely reacted to the cruelty, and was soon pulled onto Yuuki's lap where the vampire fed from him in favour of watching the duels. Like Koichi he drank carefully, piercing the skin and licking the spilt blood away with his tongue. So elegant, especially as that night I had witnessed so many vampires drink like animals. Even the king, having dragged his male companion onto the sofa, dug his teeth in and seemed to take pleasure in the human's suffering. Like the man being raped, his humans were broken, but Yuuki's still had the spark of life.
“Are you not drinking?” Alden asked Koichi towards the end of the duels.
“I drank from him yesterday,” Koichi answered, “He needs time to replenish his blood. He seems a little pale, don't you think?”
“No,” the king declared. “Come here, Princess.” I have never been given an order, that I wanted to refuse as much as that one, but I forced myself to obey. I hated the way he used Koichi's name for me as a true insult, hated the way he saw me as nothing but meat. Even so I allowed him to remove my collar and push my hair away from my neck. Was he going to bite me? I was so scared, but I'd forgotten that I belonged to Koichi. Even the king didn't play with his son's toys. Satisfied that Koichi had clearly been drinking from me, I was sent back to his side. This time I was pulled into Koichi's lap, where I sat for the remaining duels.
“Can my Zero spend some time with Princess?” Yuuki asked, as the duels came to an end. He said my name without either scorn or affection, merely it was the word he used to refer to myself. “You know how I feel about pet's spending time with their own kind.”
“Why Princess?” Koichi asked, “Why not any of the others?”
“Well he's new, and father's pets bore him,” Yuuki answered. “What are you afraid of dear brother? Princess is straight by your telling, and Zero is well trained.”
“Nothing,” Koichi replied. He looked at me, but can't ask how I feel about this arrangement in from of his brother.
“Right then,” Yuuki announced. His disagreement with Koichi seemed to be over, I noted as I'm led back to the hallway where my room is located. Instead of my usual room, I'm taken next door to a very similar, but far more personal set of rooms. Here I'm left, with a man I know only as 'Zero', and some food and drinks to calm our thirst and hunger.
“Koichi is a liar,” Zero remarked, having given the vampires time to get out of earshot.
“I don't know what you're talking about,” I replied, enjoying the food too much. The vampires may have fed, but I haven't eaten anything since yesterday.
“Or perhaps it's you?” Zero asked, “Either way, you're not straight. I saw you're profile on Infinity Match.”
“Please, don't tell anyone,” I beged. “Especially not Yuuki.”
“Yuuki already knows,” Zero informed me, “He's the one who asked me to find a partner for Koichi in the first place.”
“What are you saying?” I demanded. “What is Yuuki playing at?”
“Relax, nobody is in danger,” Zero reassured me, “Does Koichi hurt you?”
“That's none of your concern,” I snapped. What is Yuuki going to do with this information? Blackmail Koichi perhaps? Convince him to hand me over? He had already shown he was interested. I couldn't imagine anything worse than belonging to Yuuki, who had so casually whipped a man mere hours before. Surprisingly Zero seemed relatively well in his company. His room was well decorated and full of personal belongings.
“Do you fear him?” Zero asked, “We can help you if you do.”
“Yuuki is some kind of saviour now?” I demanded.
“Yes!” Zero answered, much to my surprise. “He protects me, protects us all. Did you notice when he was whipping that woman, how he drew no blood? He's gentle and kind, but has to fake cruelty to survive. We're all survivors here.”
I wanted to storm across the hall, grab my book on Stockholm Syndrome, and hit him over the head with it. If anyone was suffering the condition, it was him, but to his benefit the door was locked.
“I don't need saving,” I informed him. He seemed to believe me, or at least didn't push the mater any more.
“I was Yuuki's before,” Zero confessed, “For three years now, in fact. Things were better then, not like this.”
“What it was like, being a vampire's companion?” I asked.
“Good,” he said, surprising me with his wishful smile, “Don't look so shocked. I was allowed to work and see friends and family, with his permission of course. Often he came with me, but about once a week I was allowed to go out alone. He was a very possessive boyfriend, so much so that people worried about me at first, but we were happy so they left us alone in the end.”
“And he asked you to find a man for his brother?” I prompted.
“Koichi was very specific,” Zero recalled, “He wanted a blond, type O blood, no older than 25 and 'sexy as hell' to use his words. He rejected so many men that I thought he'd never settle, but then I found you. MiA, I'm so sorry, any pain you suffer is all my fault.”
“There's no need for guilt, because of him I'm alive,” I reassured him. I give him a hug. “Really, I'm no worse off than you are.”
“If that changes, show me this symbol,” Zero orders, moving his thumb and index finger into a circle. “I'll get you out. I promise.”
“A zero,” I remark, “But that's not your real name, is it?”
“No, it's Rito,” my new friend answered, “A Zero is the perfect circle of love that protects me from the evil you've seen here. Yuuki's blessing on me, in replace of a slur. Just like 'Princess' is a pet name, isn't it?”
Rating: 18
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Band: Mejibray
Pairing: Koichi x MiA
Summary: The sun protects us, a shining beacon that has kept the darkness at bay. Evil fears it, for the light is their weakness and they shun it. Even the sun can't protect me now, nothing can. Except perhaps for the man I know only as 'Koichi'.
Author's Note: New chapters every Monday and Friday. (I may post early due to having no access to a computer on the posting day).
Previous Chapters:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
New Chapter:
Chapter Ten
As ordered I walked behind Koichi, watching the floor but taking the occasional glance at our surroundings. Behind me walked Meto and Tsuzuku, the later looking nervous as we headed downstairs. They're to judge his fate this night, even Koichi no longer had a say in anything that happened to him. It scared me to know that Koichi was no longer in charge.
The vampires were gathered in one of the function rooms, the kind of place where you may have an office party or maybe even a wedding. I felt sick as I see humans among them, passed along as their blood was tasted by one vampire after another. All of these humans are male. Where are the women? I wanted to ask, but knew better than to utter a word. My questions were forgotten as I witnessed a man in the middle of the room, been raped by a vampire in both his ass and mouth. He didn't fight, this man was broken beyond repair.
At the far end of the room, the king was sat on the centre of a lush sofa. He had the end of two leads in his hand which were connected to a man and a woman, both of which were kneeling at his feet in clothes that show even more skin than my own. The king liker both genders? I hadn't even considered this, knowing that he had fathered children with at least three different women.
To his right sat Yuuki, sexily positioned on a chair with a blond man, around my own age, sat on the floor at his feet. He was covered up about as much as I was, far more than anyone else in the room, though I worried about the way the long skirt hung so dangerously low on his hips. The companion's head was rested against Yuuki's thigh, as the vampire gently stroked his hair and watched over his subjects without emotion.
Koichi took his position on the king's left, spreading his legs so that I could sit between them. As intimate as the position might seem, he was doing his very best to protect me. At least I believed that. After Tsuzuku's gift I was starting to have doubts about everything Koichi had ever done. Had I been trained to behave exactly as Koichi wished me to, all along? Had we only remained in his home, so he could complete this training before brining me here? If so, I was here too soon.
The king called order, and his subjects went silent. All feeding and other activities came to the end, and the humans who had been among them were lead out of the room or made to wait at the back. All humans, except those who belonged to the royal family of course. I glanced over at Yuuki's companion, who caught my eye and gave me a smile before running his hand up Yuuki's leg. I was to follow his lead, I remembered, but his behaviour seemed entirely inappropriate. At a loss I stayed as I was, which was as safe as any other decision I could have made.
The king gave a speech about how pleased he was that his son had returned before giving some orders to a variety of vampires. The orders were mundane enough to bore me, so I soon stopped listening.
“Which brings us to the attempted escape of one of our breeders,” the king continued. A human woman was dragged before him. Her hands were handcuffed behind her back, and she had a gag in her mouth, but I could see defiance in her eyes. She was also pregnant, as were all the females I guessed. If the men worked, and provided vampires with a small amount of food, new men were needed to replace the men that were lost. To be born into a place like this, it was hardly worth thinking about. “Yuuki, why don't you do the honours?”
“Thank you, your highness,” Yuuki replied as he got up and approached the woman without emotion. “She's a first time offender, three lashes?”
“Four,” the king corrected, “She fought back.”
“As you will,” Yuuki replied. Accepting a whip from a nearby vampire and waiting for the woman's guards to strip away the top she had been wearing and refasten her hands in front of her body. The whip lashed through the air, carrying out her punishment quickly, before the bored vampire returned to his own waiting human. His lack of emotion spoke volumes.
“For you, the lashing would be ten times that of a woman,” Koichi warned me, clearly not minding that his father was listening, “You have no life growing inside you. A man's value here is limited. Remember that.”
“I will,” I promised, flinching at the kings watching eyes. Those two words had been two too many for his liking.
“Oh you will, Princess,” Koichi snarled at me, his pet name turned into a slur.
“You call him 'Princess'?” Alden asked, “Why don't you explain to our people why you have installed such an honour to a human, whilst scorning the attentions of the beautiful vampires among us?”
“MiA is such a manly man,” Koichi explained slyly, “You know the type, loves sports and scared of losing his fragile masculinity. He mocked me, as such men are prone to do. So I threw him down and made him my woman. There's no worse fear for such a men, than the enjoyment of a man's cock deep inside them. I call him princess, to remind him that he's nothing but my little bitch.”
“A worthy name indeed,” Yuuki commented, studying Koichi and I both. He knew that Koichi was lying. Had I given my sexuality away to him while he held me captured? I had found him sexy as hell, and still did, he must have picked up on that. What was Yuuki's game? Why wasn't he calling his brother out as a liar? “But enough of such matters. My brother has far greater news, would you like to share?”
“Naturally,” Koichi replied, spinning the story of how he had captured Tsuzuku into exactly what the vampires wanted to hear. From his telling he had never once been in danger, or saved by myself. Applause rang out as Tsuzuku was brought before them, growing into silence as they realised he was human no more.
“Who did this?” King Alden demanded. “Why should the worse kind of vermin, be granted with vampire grace?”
“I did, your highness,” Meto spoke up. The king looked about ready to stake him on the spot, but Koichi quickly declared it had been under his orders.
“Why? What were you thinking?” Alden asked. With a smile Koichi got up and whispered into the king's ear. “So Tsuzuku, you are on our side now?”
“Yes, your highness,” Tsuzuku replied, bowing low. The room was full of liars, I thought, as Koichi sat back down as he had been before. The king waited for a moment before declaring a test of Tsuzuku's loyalty. A woman was dragged into the room, fighting her vampire captures every step of the way.
“If you are with us,” the king stated, “You will not hesitate from taking this vermin woman. Would you?”
“No, your highness,” Tsuzuku replied. Yet he hesitated before approaching the woman. She had been part of his rebellion, I could see the angry betrayed look she gave him moments before Tsuzuku drank her blood.
“As my son needs no bodyguard here, you will be responsible for training him,” the king ordered Meto. “Business is over, time for the duels.”
The duels reminded me of gladiator fights in a Roman coliseum. Vampires, or humans would enter the ring to fight each other, or a variety of angry animals. It was barbaric cruelty and I was forced to watch. From time to time I watched Yuuki's companion instead. He barely reacted to the cruelty, and was soon pulled onto Yuuki's lap where the vampire fed from him in favour of watching the duels. Like Koichi he drank carefully, piercing the skin and licking the spilt blood away with his tongue. So elegant, especially as that night I had witnessed so many vampires drink like animals. Even the king, having dragged his male companion onto the sofa, dug his teeth in and seemed to take pleasure in the human's suffering. Like the man being raped, his humans were broken, but Yuuki's still had the spark of life.
“Are you not drinking?” Alden asked Koichi towards the end of the duels.
“I drank from him yesterday,” Koichi answered, “He needs time to replenish his blood. He seems a little pale, don't you think?”
“No,” the king declared. “Come here, Princess.” I have never been given an order, that I wanted to refuse as much as that one, but I forced myself to obey. I hated the way he used Koichi's name for me as a true insult, hated the way he saw me as nothing but meat. Even so I allowed him to remove my collar and push my hair away from my neck. Was he going to bite me? I was so scared, but I'd forgotten that I belonged to Koichi. Even the king didn't play with his son's toys. Satisfied that Koichi had clearly been drinking from me, I was sent back to his side. This time I was pulled into Koichi's lap, where I sat for the remaining duels.
“Can my Zero spend some time with Princess?” Yuuki asked, as the duels came to an end. He said my name without either scorn or affection, merely it was the word he used to refer to myself. “You know how I feel about pet's spending time with their own kind.”
“Why Princess?” Koichi asked, “Why not any of the others?”
“Well he's new, and father's pets bore him,” Yuuki answered. “What are you afraid of dear brother? Princess is straight by your telling, and Zero is well trained.”
“Nothing,” Koichi replied. He looked at me, but can't ask how I feel about this arrangement in from of his brother.
“Right then,” Yuuki announced. His disagreement with Koichi seemed to be over, I noted as I'm led back to the hallway where my room is located. Instead of my usual room, I'm taken next door to a very similar, but far more personal set of rooms. Here I'm left, with a man I know only as 'Zero', and some food and drinks to calm our thirst and hunger.
“Koichi is a liar,” Zero remarked, having given the vampires time to get out of earshot.
“I don't know what you're talking about,” I replied, enjoying the food too much. The vampires may have fed, but I haven't eaten anything since yesterday.
“Or perhaps it's you?” Zero asked, “Either way, you're not straight. I saw you're profile on Infinity Match.”
“Please, don't tell anyone,” I beged. “Especially not Yuuki.”
“Yuuki already knows,” Zero informed me, “He's the one who asked me to find a partner for Koichi in the first place.”
“What are you saying?” I demanded. “What is Yuuki playing at?”
“Relax, nobody is in danger,” Zero reassured me, “Does Koichi hurt you?”
“That's none of your concern,” I snapped. What is Yuuki going to do with this information? Blackmail Koichi perhaps? Convince him to hand me over? He had already shown he was interested. I couldn't imagine anything worse than belonging to Yuuki, who had so casually whipped a man mere hours before. Surprisingly Zero seemed relatively well in his company. His room was well decorated and full of personal belongings.
“Do you fear him?” Zero asked, “We can help you if you do.”
“Yuuki is some kind of saviour now?” I demanded.
“Yes!” Zero answered, much to my surprise. “He protects me, protects us all. Did you notice when he was whipping that woman, how he drew no blood? He's gentle and kind, but has to fake cruelty to survive. We're all survivors here.”
I wanted to storm across the hall, grab my book on Stockholm Syndrome, and hit him over the head with it. If anyone was suffering the condition, it was him, but to his benefit the door was locked.
“I don't need saving,” I informed him. He seemed to believe me, or at least didn't push the mater any more.
“I was Yuuki's before,” Zero confessed, “For three years now, in fact. Things were better then, not like this.”
“What it was like, being a vampire's companion?” I asked.
“Good,” he said, surprising me with his wishful smile, “Don't look so shocked. I was allowed to work and see friends and family, with his permission of course. Often he came with me, but about once a week I was allowed to go out alone. He was a very possessive boyfriend, so much so that people worried about me at first, but we were happy so they left us alone in the end.”
“And he asked you to find a man for his brother?” I prompted.
“Koichi was very specific,” Zero recalled, “He wanted a blond, type O blood, no older than 25 and 'sexy as hell' to use his words. He rejected so many men that I thought he'd never settle, but then I found you. MiA, I'm so sorry, any pain you suffer is all my fault.”
“There's no need for guilt, because of him I'm alive,” I reassured him. I give him a hug. “Really, I'm no worse off than you are.”
“If that changes, show me this symbol,” Zero orders, moving his thumb and index finger into a circle. “I'll get you out. I promise.”
“A zero,” I remark, “But that's not your real name, is it?”
“No, it's Rito,” my new friend answered, “A Zero is the perfect circle of love that protects me from the evil you've seen here. Yuuki's blessing on me, in replace of a slur. Just like 'Princess' is a pet name, isn't it?”