Sulphur-Eyed Devil
By Azimuth J. Moore
1: A Midday Synod
A sacch'rine stream from barrow sprung
Atop a frost-cloaked land between
The icy drink sates only tongues
Of those unloved by slumb'ring queen
Theirs was a world in which badness strived at all turns against joy-- where man-hating xenoforms chattered at the barricaded walls of city homes, where blasphemers tainted cathedrals with their worship of pain, where the rough were held up by the caring hand and the kind spurned by it. Amidst these terror-tainted godlands, Zoe's smile was a sanctuary. Bright as the sun-sprinkled seas, as bountiful as summertime, that smile suffused every beat of Cassander's heart.
Once awash in thoughts of Zoe's graceful fingers intertwined with his, of kisses on her dark-brown cheeks by twilight, Cassander's mind was troubled by those same visions, but seen from afar. He couldn't eat this morning.
Magistra Nuha beckoned her students from the edges of the meditation field, to bear witness to today's examination fight. Pure and pretty Zoe, starshine amidst this dark world, was to test her skill in lust combat, against a wretched beast of a man.
Much was said about Qora. It was rumored that his mother was a dire lion, and like a lion, his long black hair signaled his masculinity. There were whispers that even honored magistras of the academy fed him berries from a platter. Even feared Nemesis, unmerciful valedictoria and reviler of all things male, wore a heart-shaped pendant in his honor.
It seemed it was only Cassander who saw what Qora was; just a man. A rough man, who with his cunning braid of smirks and lies-- or with arcane device-- had persuaded women to see his way, to worship at his ugly, pale, oversized dick like simpering dogs. It was a fate he would not let befall Zoe.
Her rich brown skin glistened in the hot noontide, as she came to him, bearing her gauntlets. "Help me arm-- would you, friend?" she said as sweetly as harpsong. Her leotard clung to her body like an embrace, betraying every slender curve, the supple dips in her hip, the modestness of her breasts. Appreciating her rightly was beyond the means of devils like Qora.
"Of course," he said, swallowing his nerves.
"Thank you so much," she beamed, and presented her arm.
He had practiced a hundred times to put on the clawed gauntlets she wore into battle, but the closeness of her arm, the aroma of her wavy black locks, did not fade from him for days.
"This is nerve-wracking isn't it?" she giggled. "Soon, we'll have to prove ourselves against the world. Go out into the city in search of our fortunes. It seems right to cherish these last few months of practice, before we advance."
"I feel the same way," Cassander said as he timidly clasped the buckles. He indulged in every brush of his fingers against her flesh, but his heart beat hollower every second. The fight approached; he was running out of time. If he earned her love, here and now, he could stop this affront to her dignity. She could have reason to withdraw, to know an expression of true love and not rough falsehoods, and Qora wouldn't have a chance to defile her with his mangy touch.
The words formed in his chest. An ode to her beauty-- of how her skin reminded him of the eventide ocean lit only by the skipping glow of the ancient clocktower; of her happy dance, the envy of every of the reveling hillside maidens; of her kinky hair unmarred by the bitter coastal wind. He declared, within, his eternal love, since their oldest days together.
He tried to pry them out, to speak for himself finally, but his poems all died in his dry throat. When he hesitated on the final clasp, she gave him a curious glance. "What's wrong?"
Faster than he could muster his real reply, a blank one came out. "Nothing," he choked, and tied her pauldron finally to her arming leotard.
"If you're sure," she said with a look of unconditional compassion. He always felt comfortable beneath that brown gaze, but here it just burned away his courage. She left, to take her place in the ring; it felt like a knife being dragged out from his chest.
2: Council of Devils
In drunken worship losers cry
Each illused a special fate
That from fell barrow she would rise
And he, not them, would be her mate
"Do try to put on a good show," Nemesis said with a venomous cadence. Her shiny black hair hung in high bunches; she held a notebook and quill in sharp blackened fingers. "I will be most upset if my reputation is tarnished because of your poor performance." She spoke to Qora, but her acid glare fell on a timid underclassman, who seemed to cum her panties just from being near enough to him to tie his rerebrace.
As she finished with his arms, Qora stretched them to his fingers, like a house cat. "I'm not going to let you spoil my day, Nemesis. The sun is out and the breeze is cool, I get to swing my sword at a hot bitch. The makings of a great afternoon."
"I will submit to nothing less than perfection, Qora, and if you are less than perfect, then I will spoil the rest of your life." Behind her words was an alien sort of hatred, as though violence bubbled up from her throat.
The underclassman hastily tied Qora's cuisses, her face swollen with blush, her arousal wafting into the shadow of his mighty twenty-inch cock. Though her face was darkened by its size, he could see her clench her lip, trying not to let on that she was smelling his swinging, macehead balls. Qora looked on with sympathy as she held back an embarrassed orgasm; Nemesis had no such warmth.
When she finished, Nemesis was quick to dismiss her from her kneeling position; firmly but not to hurt, she kicked her with a black stiletto heel. "Thank you for your assistance, whelp. I hope you appreciate how I arranged this perverse fantasy of yours. Now go."
"Yes, valedictoria; thank you, Qora, sir," she whimpered, and went in nervous haste back to the academy main, bowing as she went.
"Instead of worrying about me, you should do something about the other students." He ran his red-painted gauntlets down his slender chest, wiping away the frenetic and slutty kisses Nemesis left on him yesterday. "They treat you like an omen; they worry you'll flay them for sucking my dick."
"Speak not of my cruelty, Qora. I know you're excited to crush poor Cassander's dreams."
"Why not take joy in the inevitable?" he posited, as he shared a laugh with Zoe from across the fighting fields, who with a sky-wide smile gestured a finger across her neck. He snapped his grinning teeth back at her. "You know me truly, Nemesis-- that's why I cum in your pussy."
"Amusing. Control that huge dick of yours this time-- I'm still combing jizz out of my hair."
"That was on purpose."
3: War of Unwanted Justice