Author's Note:
If you've read "
Thy Flesh, Consumed
Part 1
", and you're joining me again for the second part of this arc, "
Thy Flesh, Consumed,
Part II
", welcome back. If you're joining me for the first time, I encourage you to read "
Demon Flesh
" and "
Thy Flesh, Consumed,
Part I
" first. My thanks again to
Ikema
for asking more great questions and to everyone who's supported what I've come to affectionately call "
The Il Malvagio Chronicles
".
Enjoy! --
EH
Thy Flesh, Consumed
(Part II)
A dark shadow flowed through the cracks of old brick and bled out into the dimness of the rain-slicked, city street. It followed the scent of sex and blood, and even though the rain began to fall harder, it couldn't wash away the demonic note of brimstone that hung in the air.
The shadow blinked out for a moment and materialized above a man who writhed on top of a smashed hood of a car. His eyes were wide and unseeing as his swollen cock bulged between his legs. He gasped and howled as he furiously stroked it, but there was no release for his unnatural need.
She's been here too...
Dark veins coursed across his chest and started to spider-web across his handsome face. His nails lengthened into demonic claws and fangs began to grow in.
…
and he's been tainted.
Pale, slender hands with black talons emerged from the shadow to caress the hapless human beneath.
Such a waste to have fallen to a Succubus. You must be purified…
Soft, ashen lips brushed the top of the man's forehead and he shrieked as an archaic symbol carved itself in his flesh. He burst into black fire and for a moment, the shadowy creature hovered, its hands still caressing his face.
"Thou shalt not suffer demon-spawned to live…" it murmured.
There was a sharp crack and the man who was once Alex had his neck snapped. Another swift twist severed his head and dark red bled out. His body quietly burned in the dark fire as the shadow creature drifted away. It settled near patches of ash where blackened bones jutted up from the pavement.
Lilith tried the lesser Rite, but she failed.
Pale fingers traced the ground and flickers of ghostly images of Succubi going up in flames played out as though it had just happened.
Master's blood-lock rejected her—they couldn't be born out of her will. Not this time.
The creature looked back at the burning body on the car's hood.
But she can still create incubi…
Living shadow anxiously pulsed around the creature as it rose. There was something else, something unsettling. Paccio was near
,
but the feeling of the connection was faint and somehow
wrong.
"Master?" it murmured.
The shade followed that unsettling feeling and disappeared into the night.
****
Lilith slowly advanced on Nathan like a predator. Her decaying lips twisted into a sickening parody of a sexy smile as she gestured for him to come to her. His chest still burned and he saw the crimson line that bound him to the
Il Malvagio.
"You can't escape destiny, scion of Paccio." Lilith chuckled as she bared her claws. "But if you won't come willingly, well--"
Lilith seized Nathan with inhuman speed and threw him against a wall. He tried to catch his breath, tried to breathe but all the air was gone from his lungs as Lilith descended on him.
Nathan gagged at the smell of sweet rot that wafted from the demoness as she leaned in for an unholy kiss. Her lips fastened onto Nathan's and he felt her tongue slither past his. Agonizing arousal started to build in him as the cold fire of her kiss started to flow through him.
"Surrender your body to me…" she hissed. "Let me in!"
Nathan's fingers curled against the broken wall behind him as he fought his growing erection.
If I come, he
thought dimly.
If I come, It's over…
With every kiss, Nathan felt something cold from deep, flow from him into her. His legs were starting to weaken and he could barely stand.
"Not even Paccio's ilk can resist me," Lilith purred in between kisses as she easily tore into Nathan's pants. "You're so very hard—why don't you make it easy on yourself and come?"
Nathan forced his eyes opened and he struggled against Lilith. Out of the corner of his eye he still saw the
Il Malvagio
floating in the background.
The book—I have to get the book!
"Squirm for me, lovely!" Lilith laughed as she pumped Nathan's cock. "You're so close…"
Nathan felt himself fading as orgasm threatened to overwhelm him. His eyes rolled and he felt a terrible crushing in his chest as Nona tried to pry her way inside him.
"I can't," he panted. "Can't… hold on."
Neither Lilith nor Nathan saw the shade slip across the ceiling and silently pour down behind the demoness. Nathan watched a pale, bloody hand suddenly punch through Lilith, crush his sternum and squirm in his chest. A soundless scream clawed in his throat as a chain was wrenched out and through Lilith. She shrieked as spikes blossomed on the chain and tore through her.
"Asiya," Lilith muttered as she tottered on her feet and tried to heal the hole in her. "Come to watch me kill your charge again?"
Asiya's crimson eyes narrowed hatefully as she started to swing the chain again
"Paccio screamed so beautifully for me…and he
liked
it."
Asiya's face twisted at the memory of what Lilith had done to her master and the spiked chain shot out. Lilith barely dodged and she brushed the scratch with the back of her hand.
"Abomination!" Asiya said as the chain snapped back.
"No more than you, sister…" Lilith chuckled.
Nathan forced himself to his feet, and tried to ignore his aching cock. He stumbled past Lilith and Asiya and snagged the
Il Malvagio
out of the air. He screamed when he felt something bite into his calf, and dropped the book.
The shriveled man-thing that crawled out from beneath the pillows gnawed at him. It laughed, its mouth full of blood, and Nathan kicked it away. He watched as its back began to bulge and tear. Bloody, black wings pushed through its flesh... The newly born incubus' wings fluttered and little droplets of blood spattered on the walls. He grinned at Nathan and wiped blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Shit…" Nathan muttered.
A strong hand shot out and seized his throat. Nathan gurgled as the incubus lifted him. He stared into abyssal eyes of ungodly beauty, and those eyes stared back, mocking him.
"Thy flesh for the Mistress…" it growled seductively, and threw Nathan down.
Nathan's eyes went out of focus. The hole the chain tore in him hadn't fully closed and he watched his blood slowly seeped out towards the
Il Malvagio.
Out of the corner of her eye, Asiya saw Nathan's blood inch closer…
"Get up!" She yelled at Nathan.
Nathan struggled to reach it and slipped on his own blood. Asiya saw the slick red on his hand. She went to kick the
Il Malvagio
away, but Lilith blind-sided her and cut deep furrows into the side of her beautiful face with her claws.
"Get the book!" Lilith hissed at the incubus.
Asiya swung the razor chain again. It crushed Lilith's ribs, and drove her away from Nathan
"This time, there'll be no prison for you," she said as her cheek started to close. "and my master will--."
Asiya abruptly looked over her shoulder. She saw the incubus reach for the
Il Malvagio
. She smelled the blood, Nathan's blood on him.
"Don't let him touch it!"
Nathan lunged towards him and the incubus smashed a forearm into his face. He reeled as blood poured out of his nose. The incubus triumphantly took hold of the
Il Malvagio
and it burst into dark, crimson flame. His malevolent grin twisted in pain as his flesh blistered up his arm. A cancerous darkness ate at the book where the blood touched it.
"The blood-lock!" Asiya hissed. "It's--"
The
Il Malvagio
vomited a column of dark fire, and tore a hole in the ceiling of the apartment. Nathan was blown out an apartment window; gouts of dark flame and glass trailed behind. He stared up, wide eyed, as he fell. The sky boiled like a lake of hell, writhing and burning with unholy beasts and deathly spirits.
Is this…
Nathan thought as he careened towards the pavement.
Is how I die?
Chunks of brimstone streamed past him… and a pale hand. His face twisted in pain as claws dug into him and pulled him up into darkness.
***
The city burned against a blackened sky and the moon turned to blood. Brimstone set alight anything it didn't smash and bloodthirsty creatures roamed. None of these things touched Nathan as his eyes slowly opened. In the distance he thought he heard gunfire and screams…
Where… am I?