The Dar Icon

Anna was driving to the Christmas cottage in Winter's Pass for a family get together with her sister Leslie and brother in law Dan. Anna smiled at her reflection. She had short cropped brown hair and hazel eyes that were very warm and expressive. It had been a horrible year for Anna working in the service industry and after quitting her new job two weeks in, Anna needed a break.

The Christmas music was canned and flavorless but Anna didn't care she was tired to the bone of working and making other people happy. She needed some Christmas cheer and family time. The Christmas cottage was perfect in every way and so off she went and three hours later she pulled into the winding drive in Winter's Pass Minnesota.

Pulling in the first thing Anna noticed was the power was off and no decorations were up yet. No worries, thought Anna, they could decorate later when Leslie and Dan arrived. The cottage had always felt warm and inviting but today the windows were dark and foreboding. The wind cut straight through her warm clothes to the bone with an icy bitter chill.

Picking up her suitcase Anna walked to the heavy wooden door with the brass knocker that was shaped like a lion.

Opening the door with the key and going in felt like a major accomplishment. On the rug in the entryway was a beautiful old piece of iconography which Anna opened, and there where the blessed mother should be was a shadowy figure with red eyes and a black shawl. Dropping the old icon Anna walked into the kitchen and began turning the lights on and then using her cell called Leslie, seeing she'd texted and called 12 times.

"What's up Les?" Anna asked when she finally got her on the phone.

"We're stuck in Denver and there's a huge blizzard. None of the flights are going through and we won't make it to Winter's Pass for another 36 hours because the pilot walked out along with the crew." Leslie sobbed into the phone.

"Look it will be ok, we'll celebrate when you get here and everything will be fine." Anna soothed wondering why she'd ended up arriving first.

Hanging up the phone Anna walked into the kitchen and noticed that there was only canned food and not anything fresh. Ok fine she could manage on that and the heat and lights were on but a blizzard meant needing to ensure enough wood for fires.

Outside the wind blew and Anna hurried to the woodshed and it was stocked perfectly. Ok well the grounds men had managed that.

Back in the cottage Anna went to her room and set it up. That night after eating soup and beans Anna fell into a restless sleep dreaming of the icon and that she heard her whispers in the house. When Anna woke up she was naked and standing in front of the window and outside the blizzard raged. The windows shook with the storm's utter fury and Anna looking out saw nothing but a white haze. Yet in the distance she thought she saw two red glowing orbs.

The next day Anna put the old Christmas things out and the tree up with all the decorations. Driving into town was impossible because the roads were closed and the nearest town was 8 miles away. The ornaments were old and handmade from the old country and not all of them made Anna smile. The angel was creepy and on closer inspection had red eyes and golden horns.

"Next year I'm buying new ornaments and e-baying all of you." Anna said looking at the angel collection and the other ornaments that somehow didn't quite leave her with warmth or joy. The Krampus and Santa were made of wood and hand painted. Santa was fine but the Krampus doll had a diabolical look in its glass eyes.

"Yeah no." Anna said as she stuffed the Krampus in a box and placed it down in the bottom of the ornament box.

The icons of the blessed saints were next and Anna lined them up but they were not warm glowing figures of faith that Anna remembered.

Anna thought back to Grandma Hestus and her gnarled hands and beak nose and hawk-like eyes and her smiling at her when she was a child. "Oh you like the icons, well they aren't toys. They reflect the Old Faith and must be handled with care."

The red eyed woman with the black shawl was going back in the ornament box next to the Krampus, the horned angel icon with fangs wasn't going on display either, and the dragon with a bloody crown was going too...yeppers back in the old ornament box.

The only icon that Anna decided to display was that of a golden haired man with a chest that Adonis would envy, a giant sword, but his eyes were closed.

Yep that one was going on display next to her bedside table and how desperate was she that she would soak her panties over an old icon of a man? Pretty desperate and in need of a boyfriend or maybe just a battery operated boyfriend.

That night Anna's dreams were of him with his smoking hot body kissing and stroking her soft face as he whispered in a strange language that Anna couldn't understand.

Waking up Anna saw the blizzard still had not let up and there she stood at the window but down the drive she saw two red eyes looking at her and a chill went down her spine.

Going back to bed Anna pulled the covers up to her chin and her eyes were drawn to the icon and there he was hot as ever but his eyes which were closed earlier were open. Two blood red glowing orbs were looking right at her. Yeah maybe I should have just put you back in the ornament box too, thought Anna.

The next day the blizzard let up and Anna noticed there were strange looking tracks around the cottage. A man or an animal had made those tracks and the tires to her car were slashed. Going back into the house Anna checked her landline and found it didn't work and her phone had no bars to get service either.

Going to her room to rest Anna looked at the bed and curled up in it. Yeah something was definitely wrong and then her eyes landed on the icon. He was completely naked and his penis very much erect. Anna's fingers itched to touch her suddenly dripping slit but yeah she had more control than that....closing her eyes she imagined riding his hard thick rod...and missed the smile that appeared on his too handsome face.

I somehow doubt that Grandma Hestus would spend hours in prayer holding an icon of a hot naked man. Walking to the bathroom Anna stripped her clothes off and ran a hot shower and began to touch herself shyly at first and then more daringly rubbing between her dripping slip and hungry clit, trying to bring herself to pleasure as the hot steam filled the entire bathroom away from his eyes. Like a thick molten drug lust filled her veins and Anna rode her own fingers in bed for hours till she fell asleep that night, Christmas Eve.

An hour before midnight Anna woke standing in the huge bay window of the living room completely naked and looking outside. Dark shapes moved past the window and some had horns and looked like huge hairy wild animals. Anna shivered as the things moved past and became more human-like.

Till there in the open surrounded by trees and snow stood the man from the icon. Looking into his dark red eyes Anna was transfixed. He was gorgeous in the moonlight, a model of male perfection but then opening his mouth an unearthly noise came out and the echoes ripped through the trees.

Anna's pulse quickened and before she knew it she was standing at the door. Then Anna began to open the door to him and the other things that walked that night. The wind blew in and then a blinding gust of snow and Anna couldn't see but felt a horde rush past her into the house. The lights flickered out and then she felt him holding her in his arms. As his mouth descended on hers a firestorm of lust rose in her blood and something inside of her from her heart slipped up and out of her body into his mouth. If she didn't know she'd wonder if maybe he'd taken her heart and soul. She wanted and would die of wanting him and only him with his hot touch and her nipples beaded into pebbles. Only he could satisfy and fill her with his huge thick cock. It would be heaven and he slowly pushed inside of her, filling her to the brim so very gentle at first. Then as she came on his thick hard cock she felt him up the tempo and rode her melting body relentlessly. His warm dark seed filled her depths as she cried out in endless pleasure. So hard had she come that she saw stars and felt her heart hiccup at the pleasure....time seemed like it stopped in his arms.

Crying out, Anna begged him to stay and as the midnight hour chimed on the ancient grandfather clock he smiled a dark smile but his mouth was a black abyss. Looking up Anna saw the sky bright red as the Christmas star filled the sky and she called out "Don't leave me." Looking back to where her lover had been standing she noticed he was gone. Inside everything was destroyed and winter's chill had left its fingerprints inside the house.

Grandma Hestus' words rang in her mind "Be glad that it is Christmas girl for now is a Season of Light to Banish the Dark and the Evil that walked in the Darkness before the light of the Christmas Day. Don't let the darkness enter you like a seed; it grows until you belong to that darkness."

That day was Christmas and after Anna cleaned the entire wintery mess she collapsed into bed. Leslie and Dan arrived four hours later with a Christmas dinner and Anna put the whole mess behind her.

"Oh Dan read us a passage I think hearing that might help?" Leslie wheedled and then Dan began as Leslie softly cried.

"In the season of darkness a light came into the world for unto us a child is born."

Dinner was alright and Anna drank some eggnog, non-alcoholic because Dan didn't buy alcohol due to his faith. Yet neither Dan nor Leslie really acknowledged her...going to bed early was best. Anna felt like they hadn't seen her or spoken to her she felt so invisible to them.

Anna retreated to her room and sat down on her bed...the icon which she'd not been thinking about was closed. Carefully Anna opened the icon and to her shock the man in the icon was still there, looking smug and satisfied. In his arms was a woman that looked just like Anna with a silver collar around her neck and she cradled a large baby.

Anna nearly dropped the icon and when she turned around lifting her hand to her neck. A thick silver collar wrapped tightly around her throat. Looking up there he was and a smile on his face as he wrapped her in his arms claiming her body and soul for that seed had taken root.

A Christmas bride and baby soon both to be his.

"I just don't know what became of Anna." Leslie whispered to Dan as she looked at the icon of the Blessed Mother and Saint Luke. The beautiful icons warmed her heart as she sat thinking about her lost sister yet one of the 13 icons was missing too.

"I am not sure where she went Les but the mess in the cottage and the tracks suggest an animal got in, maybe a bear." the sheriff said as he looked around the cottage. The Christmas dinner had been quietly eaten because Leslie and Dan had picked it up in town on the way in while the sheriff and his men looked for Anna. "You need to go now back into town." the sheriff said herding the crying couple out the door.

Leslie and Dan couldn't stay with Anna gone, it was also a police investigation and so away they went to Winter Pass Lodge and despite all the searches and the posters online and throughout the area nobody ever heard of Anna again.