"Lost souls that have been bounded, will never be found by the eyes of hell, as they have found a home to go to when the night has fallen."
- A record from the Book of Good and Evil
***
It was still the late afternoon, the watch on his left hand reads 5:50 PM. Master Raven was seating on his chair in his office. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and his brown eyes gleaming on the wads of cash under his table. "Ah, business is doing good. I'm sure boss will be delighted to see this cash!"
His 'supplier' will arrive today and he knows that she wants a good show after she made her transaction with him. Of course, he is not going to let her in his office. Who knows what that b*tch will do once she saw this wads of cash under his table. So he decided to open the VVVIP room for her and have her entertainer in there. The big boss will not visit tonight anyway so he won't know that someone else has used the room.
Master Raven contemplated on who is he going to choose as the entertainer. He opened one of the drawers on his left and got out all of the pictures of his beautiful men. She has a lot of favorite from these, but he is thinking that she saw all of his entertainers already and she might have gotten tired of them. He accidentally saw the picture of the boy that he recently got. He is hesitating to put the fresh blood on the line since he is new. But as he stared on the face of the newbie that he hired yesterday, he felt lust surging on his blood stream. "This guy is very obedient, like he is trained..." Then he imagined his small, naked body while laying down. Cuffs are connected on the poles of the bed, restricting his hands and feet. He imagined the beautiful face of this young, obedient boy sprawled out before him and his dull blue eyes casted down..."Ah, well trained to be a submissive." He imagined that he is holding a whip with little feathers on the end and slowly...very slowly making it travel from his neck, down to his hard on...'I wonder what does it look like.'
And like a cold water, a thought suddenly came to his mind. Because when he read the resume yesterday, it says that he was 18. Just how old was he when he indulged in extreme activities? He remembered his 13-year old daughter who is under the custody of her mother. 'I hope she is doing well.' He thought.
Getting his imagination involved further on this boy arouses his lust and fatherly emotion at the same time. "Tsk tsk tsk. Bad for business."
***
"That's bullsh*t. Just tell me the truth Alex. I know what I saw." His mother said with fear and accusatory tone.
Alex woke up earlier than the set alarm because his mother suddenly barged in. The two spirits that were sleeping on the floor, Emily and Asher, woke up from their slumber as well. Apparently, she barged in and asked him to explain to her why did she saw the water pitcher from the fridge this morning, pouring a glass of water by itself, and how come the glass of water went up stairs to his room. Alex answered that she is hallucinating.
"Well Mom, why do you sound so mad about what you saw? What about it?" He replied to her statement a while ago. Alex could understand why would his mother sound scared. But what he couldn't understand is the accusatory tone that she is using right now to speak to him.
His mother went to his bed and sat down, "Son. Are you summoning evil in our house? I know pitchers wont just pour water on the glass. Are they here now?" She said as she looked around his room.
Alex could feel the hostility towards him from his own mother. He ruffled his hair fiercely in an attempt to hold on to his patience. How dare she accuse them of being evil! "Yes, mom. They are here. But they are not evil."
She grabbed him on his arms and started shaking him violently. Her eyes are as big as saucers now and she looked crazed. She is starting to feel creeped out because of his answer. She looked around his room,"How can you say that they are not evil?! Send them out the house now! I do not welcome those entities in here!"
His hair strand-width patience has snapped. Alex stood up abruptly and shook off her hands from him. With full anger in his voice, he said, "Don't you ever call them that! Because the spirits in this house are not evil! They are more human than you have ever been to me!"
He went to his door and gestured for her to go out, "And by the way, I decide from now on who stays here. And right now, I want you to get out of my room!"
She was shocked, nevertheless. But she stood up anyway and left the room. The door was slammed against her figure. 'What have I raised this whole time?' She asked herself.
"Sire, should we leave?" Emily asked cautiously.
Alex slammed his fist on the door when he heard her question. Asher has smacked her head and whispered, "Can you shut up for now and read the atmosphere! It is your fault that she found out!"
Emily felt bad. Because in her panic last night of what was happening to him, she forgot to be discreet when pouring the water to the glass for him.
"What is the time right now?"
Emily immediately scrambled to find his phone and read the time. "Sire, time is 18:10. twenty-minutes earlier than your alarm."
Alex has decided to just prepare for his shift tonight and leave the house early.
***
When they were in the bus, his bad mood slightly reduced. He talked to the two, wondering spirits with him and made it clear that no one is leaving the house.
The moment they got down, he said, "I have decided that you are under my protection from now on. You will be with me for as long as I live." These words of him, not just made them swell with happiness, but he bound the two souls with him. The tongue that speaks are powerful enough. He is not aware that he officially offered a home for the two spirits that were wondering for a long time.
Emily and Asher smiled as they look at each other. "Home." She mouthed to him.
"Are you aware, sire, you just offered yourself to be our home?" Emily said as she floated in front of Alex. She hopes that this topic will divert his attention away from what happened back in his house.
Alex was dumbfounded, "Huh?"
Asher walked next to his master and explained further, "When you told us that we will be with you for as long as you live, you have bounded us to your soul and offered your presence to be our home. We are no longer a wondering spirit, sire. We are now your familiars, or servants. You can use us in anyway you want. Though we are not sure if we can properly protect you physically."
"Oh, familiars. Isn't that the famous servants of the gods?"
The two of them stared at each other. "Well, we still believed that you are a god from your previous life." Asher said as he saw two silver strings from their master's right middle finger, connected to them.
'because according to that book, only gods can tie the strings of loyalty to their familiars.' He thought.
Alex laughed because he still cant believe that he was a god from his previous life. He still didn't have enough proof. "But I am glad that you have found your home." He smiled.
***
They arrived in Night Kiss bar at exactly 20:45. just right in time for his shift that will start at 21:00.
Alex reported in to work immediately and started his night in the bar. Like the other night, guests started pouring in already and the three of them started to get lost in the rhythm of the bar. Everything was going smoothly. Alex will remember the orders from the room that he was assigned to, Asher will put the orders for him from the touch screen, and Emily, from time to time, visits them and checks on them. Asher has refrained her from getting his job beside the master so she is just wondering around the first floor, sometimes sipping the drinks of the customers, but she is asking around the other wondering spirits for more information about the VVVIP room. So far, the spirits that she has asked are not aware of the VVVIP room because they have never stayed in this place. It is so crowded and loud all night, no spirit would want to stay in this place.
Until she has come across this one spirit that was sitting on one of the stools in bar corner from the first floor. He is wearing the same uniform as the other waiters and this spirit is watching the bartender who is currently mixing the drinks. Only few humans are on this side as most of them were on the dance floor.
The lights are dark. Neon lights are flashing and a few spot lights. The DJ is mixing loud and upbeat music. If Emily is alive, she would have felt the bass that are ringing in her ears. The smell of sweat and perfume are mixing together. But with all this chaos in the first floor, she can see the lifeless eyes of the wondering spirit. So she sat down beside him and about to start a conversation when she noticed that the spirit was so still and serene and thought, 'was this how I was, before I met my sire?'
She cleared her throat and asked, "Who was that man to you?"
The nameless, wondering spirit slowly turned his head to her. "The man that I once loved." Then he resumed in his activity before she asked a question.
She is waiting for more explanation from him so that they can start a topic but she realized, 'Ah, normal spirits that has no home like them, don't care about conversations.' So she decided to forget the small talk and ask away. "Are you aware about that VVVIP room?"
The spirit slowly turned his head towards her once more and answered. "Yes."
"Do you know what was in there?"
"Yes."
Emily sat up straight. "So, why cant we enter the room? What was in there?"
The spirit stared at her for a while before answering, "You have to be invited." He stared on the silver string that was tied to her left, middle finger. "Or in your case, at least your master has to be invited to go in. It has a barrier spell where the spirits are not allowed to enter. As to what was in there, I have brought it to my grave, so I cant tell you."
She went to the second floor to look for her master and tell the things that she found out. But she saw that every one was busy. When Asher found her, he told her that Alex went on a toilet break. While waiting, she told him the things that she learned from the wondering spirit.
"But we were told yesterday that master is not allowed to go in since he is a newbie! We cant just ask master to ask someone else to invite him inside!"
"How about that suspicious Ned?" She said.
"I don't know Emily. We should ask sire later on."
"Speaking of sire. What was he doing in his toilet break" She asked.
Asher stared at her with an are-you-serious look,"I don't know. Don't ask me."
"But how long has it been since he went to the toilet? Did he get lost?"
The two stared on each other's eyes for a while before they started floating and passing through the walls of the bar to get to their master immediately. They followed the silver string that was tied on their left, middle finger and the two were led to the third floor, and their master is inside the VVVIP room. They both thought that their master was invited in but at the moment that they tried to get past the walls of the room, they felt their astral body being slammed against it's walls.
"Why cant't we go in?! Our sire is inside this room! I thought we can go in as long as he is invited! Did that stupid spirit lied to me?!" Emily said as she rubbed her nose gently. Now that she is officially, no longer a wondering spirit, she felt the pain on her nose, like how the humans would feel if someone smashed their faces on the wall.
Asher ignored the pain that he is feeling and touched the walls and door of the VVVIP room. He can only think of one possible reason why they cant go in. "Our master was not invited in this room. It's possible that something happened in his toilet break for him to be unconscious and brought unwillingly in here."
***
When Alex became conscious once more, he can't open his eyes.
It feels like something was tied tightly over his eyes and his hands were restricted by a cuff on both poles of what feels like a bed. He tried to move his feet but it was also he same with his feet. He can't move it because of the cuffs. He is sprawled out on the bed. He can feel the air all over his body. That is when he realized that he is naked. Sprawled out naked on the bed.
This information that he found out froze his bones and made him stop moving. Memories of the guest room in his house came back. He was also naked and sprawled out on the bed before and the two women came in. The same music before was playing right now. 'This is her favorite music.' He thought. Piano Sonata No.14...
He had a flashback when he was just 11-years old. Back then, there were no covers on his eyes. He was just told to stare straight ahead. He remembered her slim fingers, tapping in tune of the music that was playing. "Do you know the title of this music?" She asked as she tapped her fingers all over his body. The scent of tobacco is around. He can hear her breathing. He can also feel that there is someone else in the room aside from them. watching silently. It was her female companion.
He did not answer because no one told him to answer. The woman continued tapping on his body. From his chest, her fingers are now going down to his previously still developing private area, then down to his legs. Her fingers lingered longer on his navel. "Answer me." She said.
"I do not know the answer, mistress." He said in a low voice.
She hummed. "This is called Moonlight sonata...Piano sonata no.14. I love going to the beat of this music." She stood up and reached for a whip. He felt the beads of the whip traveling from his neck and circling his nipples slowly, like the beat of the music that he was hearing.
He was brought back in reality when he heard her voice saying, "remove the cover in his eyes. He can't see. So there is no need for that."
The notes are now getting strong and heavy. He felt someone removing the cover from his eyes and the shift on the left side of the bed. Her cold fingers on his face are gently guiding him to face her. The scent of perfume mixed with tobacco and cannabis is getting closer to him. "Yes, that is right, look ahead. Don't move an inch."
Alex has failed to sense his surroundings. He failed to feel that aside from the woman, master Raven is also inside, sitting in one of the chairs from the right. He also failed to feel that beyond the long mirror on the wall from his left, is an empty room, where the 'big guy' usually stays. Inside the hidden room, there is a pentagram drawn on the floor and a long, standing mirror in the middle. This is a portal connected to elsewhere.
Master Raven felt surprised. Because it was a revelation to know that this boy that he lusts over, was blind. He certainly didn't act like one.
The woman was delighted with her effects on the boy. As a reward, she kissed him passionately. Alex automatically responded. He met her tongue that was inside his mouth. He remembered, if he did not meet her tongue, he would be whipped. He accidentally moved his eyes away from her direction and this slight movement, was not missed by her. She got away from him and hit him with the whip. "How dare you to look away from me!"
His muscles started shaking but he is trying to not move. If he made another movement, she will hit him once more. He tried to calm his heart and quench the fear inside. She should not see him breaking down. If she did...
His train of thought was cut off because he felt her hands on his neck. She was strangling him! He was struggling to breathe when he heard her say, "You have made me lost my concentration! He felt his hard on being enveloped by her warm insides. She is riding him. "I will not let you come tonight as your punishment."
He is on the verge of losing his consciousness when she loosened her grip to his neck. Then when he is about to come, she would stop and strangle him once more. This repeated for a while and this feels like hell to him. Tears are forming in his eyes, 'Somebody...save me...' He thought.
His skin felt numb. He cant feel the beads of whips going down over and over against his stomach. 'Mom...help me...mom...' He silently asked.
Tears are now flowing down his dull, blue eyes. This is his hell. The hell that he endured for a decade. 'Why...why did this happen? What have I done...' He asked no one.
Just when he is about to give up, He heard the door being slammed against the wall. Asher and Emily asked for the king's help once more. This time, the king did not hesitate because when he learned that Alex is in one of his owned property, he used the portal in the empty room of the VVVIP to get to him as fast as he can. He knows how nasty this bar can get.
But it made him so furious to see the state that he was in. Blood slowly started to boil inside him...
Sprawled naked on the bed. A woman is on top of him and the man whom he assigned as manager of this bar was seating, like he is watching a film. Red, angry marks of whip are visible on his pale skin. His silver hair is disheveled, his cheeks are streaked with tears, his dull blue eyes are wild looking.
The veins on the king's temple started to bulge and his red eyes glowed blue. He shouted in full anger, "GET AWAY FROM HIM!"