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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: 150 Years of Torment

Being Immortal is the worse blessing in a futile existence....

There isn't a single method of torture through which you cannot survive...

You can be stoned, hung, and burnt at the stake, all within the same day....

After 150 years of castration, a mans tormentors.... start to run out of ideas...

At first I feared hot iron, the cold blade and the fiery torch... but now they are no more than chores I must do to earn my supper

There are some days I even look forward to my daily does of inconsolable agony.

"Ohhh Torn limb from limb! That shouldn't take Long, I will have supper early tonight!" I caught myself thinking at one time.

As the chains fastened around my limbs, I felt my stomach growl and in a fit of Rage I screamed out.

"WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG! JUST KILL ME ALREADY GODDAMNIT!"

And it was at this moment I knew...

It is this repetition... This endless cycle of humiliation that is driving me to madness, and not the torture itself."

Bound and naked, The black haired prisoner gritted his teeth as the pale skinned woman put back on her clothes.

(Hundreds of Years ago)

"Alpha…" A pale woman said, stroking a his face. They laid naked on the mossy stones of an old cathedral.

"If we do this… I don't know what will happen, the legends say you may end up dying."

"Elise... To go from this world inside your beauty" Alpha said, kissing her neck.

She passionately moaned as he pressed himself into her strong. "Is a death I willingly choose."

"Yes!" Elise said shivering as Alpha stroked her. "We will give birth to the ultimate being! A being that will rule all of this world!"

(Back to present)

"I don't care how many years it takes" Elise said rubbing her stomach, "I will make my dream come true"

"And what of my dreams!" Alpha screamed "What of that!?"

"You gave up your dreams the day you betrayed me" The woman said, running her index finger down her cheek.

"I? Betrayed You!? Is that how you see this, you bitch!" The man screamed. He began shaking his chains in angst filling the corridors with the sound of rattling metal.

"It's not just how I see it, it's how the world sees it Alpha, but even through all of that, I still love you"

"You call this love? I'm glad we never got married, I knew your heart had no ha capacity for anything but blood!"

"Blood, yes, and also your sperm, and I'll be back tomorrow for my daily dose" Elise said smiling devilishly.

"Guards, have your way with him" She said exiting the room with a strut.

Two hideous looking creatures with weapons on their backs, strode into the room with a heavy clog in their footsteps.

The first, a purple goblin with two tusks coming out of either side of his mouth. The second a green skinned one with a pair of ears so large, the hair that covered them could be used as a rug.

The two creatures were tiny, maybe of five feet, nothing in comparison to the dashing 6'4 Alpha, but nevertheless, they carried their giant weapons with ease.

"Hehe, I never get tired of this," One of the guards said, drawing a giant spiked mallet.

They strode forward ready to deliver their punishment.

"ELISE!" Alpha screamed. There was a level of anguish in his voice that was beyond his normal venomous tone. For a moment, he sounded weak, as if he had finally had enough of this torture.

Just as she was about to exit she turned and looked back at him.

As their gaze met, for a moment in Elise's devilish red eyes, there was a moment of compassion.

"What is it?" She said returning to him. "Have you finally agreed to be with me?" She asked.

"Elise...." Alpha whispered. "I… I have a new dream now" He said softly, reaching out for her.

Love began to overtake Elise, she reached her hand out in a moment of innocent passion.

Yanking her to the ground with all his might, Alpha slammed Elise down to the floor fighting through his chains.

"MISTRESS!" The goblins squealed running in to save her.

As Alpha pinned her to the floor, Elise signaled for the goblins to fall back.

Alpha gritted his teeth like a wild wolf, and screamed at the top of his lungs into her face.

"My dream isn't to one day fuck you! It's to kill you! One day I will break from these chains and rip you apart with my bare hands! And as you struggle to pull yourself together, I will tear you apart again and again and again and again! Until your will diminishes and you no longer want to reform! All the while I will drink the vermouth like wine until you cry out the same way I did that night!"

(150 years ago)

"What is this madness!" A vampire cried as he entered a room with a group of knights behind him..

All across the grand hall of the vampire throne, bodies were bleeding and torn to shreds, leaving a trail of carcasses that led to a great beast in the middle of the hall.

"It's a werewolf!" The vampire cried. "And he's killed… The vampire queen!"

"Verrrrrrrrrrrrr!" The beast cried, shaking the walls of the hall.

"Kill the beast!" The vampire ordered his men.

(Back to present)

Elise covered her mouth like she was about to gag.

"Mistess!" The goblins cried

"Hmmh HA HAhHAH!" Elise laughed filling the halls with her amusement.

"You will never kill me" She said grabbing Alpha by the throat.

In an insane display of power she lifted him of the ground and slammed him back onto the seat he had been chained to before. Whipping her hands around his head she seamlessly wrapped a chain around his neck, suffocating him.

As Alpha motioned and fought for the ablity to breath, Elise ran her fingers through his hair, tenderly as he slowly began to pass out.

"Alpha, listen to me dear..." she said tenderly. "You are anb Alpha Wherewolf and I am a Monarch Vampire, of all the immortal things in this world we are the most perfect. I.. cannot kill you, and neither can you kill I, we are forever locked into this reality forever. Whether we fight, claw, hate or love we are stuck with each other eternally, so why shouldn't we choose to do the latter."

As Alpha drew his last breaths he croaked out some final words.

"I will not bow... An eternity of hatred, still will not quench my bloodlust! I will never love you again!"

"You have done well this first 150 years" Elise said smiling. "But I am sure of one thing, Hatred cannot last forever... Only love has that kind of power...The next 150 years will not be torture... No... I will place you in complete darkness, only then will you see clearly."

"What would I be able to see in the darkness You Witch!" Alpha squealed out.

"That in this world, I'm the only light you have." Elise laughed as Alpha slowly began to lose consciousness.

"No! YOU BITCH!!" HE cried.

"Heheheh HAHAHAHAHAH!" Her laugh was deep and rich with a sinister boom, almost as if her laugh was the lower octave of an organ, playing his final requiem.

"elise...." He whispered as he fell, the last thing he saw in his visoin were the outlines of her lusciously red lips, laughing to his demise

The gremlins closed in on alpha drawing their weapons.

As Alpha fell, Elise turned to her Goblins.

"Bring him to the darkest part of this tower, and place him in a room with no light."

"Yes Mistress!" They answered vigilantly

"And when he wakes" She said placing a finger on her lower lip. "Bring out the Orthrus"

Exiting, the tower, Elise made her way through the remainder of the prison venturing all the way to the gates before she noticed a strange shadow appearing on the floor behind her.

Rolling her eyes, she walked over to it, carefully inspecting its outline.

"You never could approach me directly could you? Vermin?"

As she spoke the shadow shuttered and began to stretch eerily across the floor. As it grew arms and legs an old man slowly rose from the ground hunching over a cane with a sniveling nose.

"My dear, Elise" He said dabbing his running nose "You are more beautiful than ever" he said bowing

"And you more terrifying." She said admiring his jaded teeth that were scattered across his mouth like splinters.

"To what do I owe this... unsightly presence" She answered coldly.

"You have been summoned to Aorta, the nations capitol for a meeting concerning the intruder, it seems he has made a second appearance in another major city." Vermin said

Elise blinked her eyes in disbelief, seemingly offput by Vermins statement

"The man in red... he has returned?" She said.

"Yes, and has disappeared without a trace, this time he broke into the vault of Vascalo, we are still trying to identify what it is that he took."

"I see" Elise said. "Then I shall leave for the capitol, but first there is a matter I must attend to, one could call it an affiar of the heart."

Far in the distance, a man in a red cloak opened a part in a secret cave. As he entered the secret spot, a silver sword glistened in the moonlight.

"I wonder" He said admiring the sword.

"Which of our pains is greater? 150 years of torment? Or 1500 years of vengencem, the man said curling his fists.

"Soon, the world of immortals will come to an end"