That evening as Kane and Alpha were indulging themselves in this world's
pleasures inside of the taverns, the door crashed open and a man came crashing in.
The tavern’s mood dropped to zero instantly upon seeing the man. He was cut up
and bleeding everywhere. He managed another few steps and fell over, probably out
of exhaustion. One of the tavern maids came running up to him and another two
customers stood up and helped her put the man on the chair, slapping his face to
wake him up.
‘’What has happened to you?’’ one of the men asked when the torn up fellow
woke a few moments later. The poor soul started to cry and hit himself, tearing at his
hair and the two men had to restrain him in order to protect him from his own actions.
‘’They have them!’’ he yelled out, crying. ‘’They have our women and
daughters! They even killed most of the women and children!’’ the crying and yelling
kept on going.
‘’Who has done what to where?’’ one of the men dared to ask.
‘’Ithice. They burned it down to rubble and killed all the men and older folk
outright, then they raped and pillaged what they could. My dear girl, they have her.
Someone has to go help her! I beg of you!’’ the man pleaded. The two men just
shook their heads and murmured something. In the meanwhile, the tavern owner had
come out of his room and was standing at the counter, looking over the whole crowd,
spotting Kane and walked over to him with heavy footsteps, adding to the effect.
‘’Mister Kane, we all know your courage, strength and fierceness. Is there any
way we could convince you to check out this man’s story and verify it. If it is so, we
need to do something about it! Immediately the whole room was staring at him, hope
in their eyes. Kane just went on eating as well as did Alpha, downing the roast goat
he ate. What seemed an eternity, the food was gone and Kane looked up.
‘’Sure’’ he answered as he stood up, all eyes on him. Kane walked over to the
crying man and kneeled beside him and whispered in his ear. ‘’What do you want me
to do to the bandits?’’ The man looked over at him, incredulously as if he was saying
he was a monster and was going to eat him.
‘’Kill them all?’’ the man whispered back. Kane nodded and said
‘’Consider it done’’ and walked out of the tavern, not even paying his food bill.
He knew it would be awaiting him so no need to walk back in and ashame himself
after the cool exit he just made.
Outside Alpha looked up at him and asked
‘’How do we proceed?’
‘’Ithice is some fifty kilometres to the southwest. It is a small town in between
bigger ones where travelers usually spend the night, rest or just get food and be on
their way. In other words, the perfect target for bandits. We go sleep for a few hours
and then we run. I have decent stamina so i think i could run the stretch within a few
hours’’ Kane replied in strides as they walked towards a small house to the side of
the bigger buildings all around it.
‘’I don’t need any rest’’ Alpha said and Kane snapped back at him
‘’But i do. I’m just a human being, wolf!’’ Immediately he was sorry at the
rebuke but he kept his quiet. He opened the door to his home and strode in, leaving
the door wide open for Alpha to join him inside. Alpha just did so and closed the door
behind him with a flick of his long tail. Kane turned on some candles and sat down on
his bed, staring at the wolf. He was magnificent. He was black as the night, red eyes
gleaming in the dark. Snow white paws which looked somehow strange, more like
hoofs. His whole body was muscled ending with a white tail. What a strange sight to
behold, he was sure. There was something noble about the creature, but Kane
thought better of it than to talk now. ‘’We talk tomorrow during our trip. Get some rest,
even if you don’t need it. In approximately four hours wake me up. Can you do that?’’
he asked Alpha who just snorted and curled up on the floor beside the door.
As Kane and Alpha were walking down the road, Kane was telling Alpha about
his past, well, more like sending thoughts over, but it was easier and better that way
they had figured out. People might think he was crazy, or well, crazier than he
already was. Alpha was listening patiently, only howling softly whenever something
sad or painful was said. It was as if they were two parts of a single whole.
‘’So our lifes goal is to assassinate the king?’’ he asked.
‘’I guess so. He is the biggest fault my parents left me as an orphan. I was
forced to fend for myself my whole life, the past 20 years’’. He drooped his head a bit
and howled again as if in pain as well. Kane’s soul felt burdened as well in a weird
way. It was such a long time ago, but it still hurt whenever he thought about it. All his
life he had been a loner, and now suddenly he had a companion, a friend.
Some running and more time later they arrived at Ithice, or at least where
Kane thought it would be. Instead of a village he heard the sound of a waterfall. ‘’Let
us go take a bath’’ Kane said anxiously, starting to walk faster. Alpha jogged after
him, catching up easily. As they arrived at the riverside they were stunned by its
beauty. A small waterfall was pouring down into the river. Chiseled rock and plants,
trees and flowers and wildlife all living in harmony at the same spot.
A two meter fish jumped out of the water and back in, leaving droplets in the
air, falling down after the fish. It was as a sight out of a fairytale. Both Alpha and
Kane were gazing at the sheer beauty, their jaws dropping almost to the floor. Before
long Kane was naked and rand headfirst into the water, Alpha on his tail, longing for
the big fish he had just seen pop up. The water felt almost divine. Exactly the right
temperature, not too cold nor to warm. Kane swam towards the middle where he saw
some bubbles coming out to the surface and dove down to see what was coming up.
There was hot water coming out of a big gap in a rock and the hot water mixed with
the cold coming down from waterfall to create this heaven on earth, or rather, in
water.
‘’I could make a fortune with this’’ Kane said out loud. Alpha laughed mentally
and Kane laughed with him, liking the sound of Alphas laughter. It sounded so
innocent, but when Kane looked at him, shivers ran down his spine. He was huge,
and he didn’t even want to imagine what Alpha was capable of doing to him if he
wanted.
‘’No need to worry, Kane. I am your slave, i am part of you. I will never harm
you’’ he said. Shocked, Kane looked up at him. Alphas face was one of bewildered
amusement, to a certain extent.
‘’U can read minds now too?’’ Kane murmured inwardly.
‘’Why yes. Did i not mention this before?’’ he said with a grin.
‘’Somehow it slipped your mind, i guess’’ Kane said . Not that it mattered
much, even easier. Just think about it and he knows. How practical. ‘’How about
catching some fish, Alpha’’ Kane said. Immediately he dove and disappeared under
water. Few moments later he appeared with what looked like the big two meter fish
from earlier, clenched between his teeth. ‘’Now that is what i call a catch!’’ Kane
yelled in joy.
Kane swam towards the shore and walked up towards where he left his
clothes, deciding not to put anything on before he dried as the weather was
something you could only wish for. He walked around, gathering firewood. As he bent
over to gather a few bigger branches, taking them in his arms, there was this
gorgeous angel standing in front of him when he stood up again. She was standing
there, innocently, staring at Kane’s body. He had forgotten he had nothing on, but
didn’t seem to mind much as he regained his posture. She was a gorgeous brunette,
with big round eyes, the colour of a dark abyss. I saw myself drown in her eyes just
before she looked away. She was slim and seemed to have a rather fit physique. Her
large breasts were showing through the white, wet shirt she had on. Beside it, she
just had a ribbon around her neck, the rest of her body in plain view for all to enjoy.
At that instant, Alpha joined me and as she saw him, she gasped at the sight of him
and tried to turn around and run off, but tripped over a large branch, face planting into
the muddy ground, her bare ass mooning at the world. She pulled herself up,
covering her bare lower part, but did a poor job at it. Kane couldn’t help himself but
get aroused and it showed. He was as hard as a flag pole, pointing up at the sun.
She screamed her lungs out as Kane was just standing there like that, with a big wolf
standing beside him, looking at her like she was dinner.
‘’May i be of service, madam?’’ Kane mused. She was struggling to reply,
trying to catch her breath. He could see her breathing more and more heavily,
struggling to even stand up. Kane moved a few steps closer to her, with a smirk on
his face. Easy prey, a gift from the gods, he didn’t care either way. ‘’Oh God, how i
loved women’’ Kane thought to himself, already imagining himself on top of that
lovely looking creature. What he especially loved, were godly creatures like her. She
was perfect, even good enough to be his wife, he thought to himself.. She moved a
step backwards and tripped over a branch, laying flat on her back, one leg bent and
up the other moved to the side. Between her legs was a cave of pleasure which
needed to be explored. The sight of her womanhood was aroused Kane even more.
She wanted to scream, Kane could see it in her eyes, but she did not dare to. She
was too afraid what would happen to her. Kane loved every moment of it.
‘’What the hell are you staring at, creep!’’ the girl yelled. Her long hair was
moving in waves as if crashing upon a cliff. Kane had taken a lot of women back
in Homitage, but not one of them made him even want anything more than raw sex.
‘’I am looking at you’’ kane replied to the girl, innocently. ‘’You look like
someone i should meet in a fancy place, take out for dinner and talk to. O and no
need to scream, i am not going to do anything to you unless you try to do something
like stabbing me with that little knife you are holding there. She flinched and released
her hold on the knife she thought she had so perfectly hidden.
As Kane was observing the pretty girl, Alpha sent him a mental note that
something was wrong, something felt off. Suddenly a dozen of arrows flew Kane’s
way, all pinpointing his head. That is as far as they got, more or less. Due to Alphas
warning, kane had summoned his two swords and with a whirling motion he cut the
arrows up in mid-air. There in the trees were a dozen bandits, bows drawn, aiming at
him, again.
‘’I will give you one more chance to kill me, or i will come up there and kill all of
you, one by one. Or would you rather i kill this fine young lady here?’’ Kane yelled out
at the men hanging from the trees.
‘’We can not leave her to die here!’’ one voice said.
‘’If we do not run right away, we wont get away alive ourselves!’’ another said.
‘’Let’s beg him for mercy!’’ a third yelled.
‘’Mercy, no, you shall not have it. What would other people think of me if i let
these ruffians get away’’ Kane said more to himself than the others present. Instead
of indulging himself with the bait, he did the only other logical thing, kill them.
Kane rushed towards where the voices were coming from and climbed up the
tree one was sitting on, using his blades to propel him upwards and keep his
balance. As he got up to a thick branch one of the archers was sitting on, Kane just
smiled, spread his arms apart and brought the swords together, cutting him in three
pieces, his head hit the ground first, then the upper torso and then his lower body.
Blood was everywhere, combined with guts that got entangled in the
branches. Kane’s blades glowed red immediately, as if excited from all the blood it
just had absorbed. ‘’What a strange sensation? Why is this happening? It never
happend when i killed monsters’’ Kane thought to himself. He stood still for a
moment, thinking about it. Never before had his blades become excited when
drawing blood until now. What had happened to him during the greptodon fight. First
Alpha, then the swords and now this.
Using the opening Kane gave them, the others loosed another volley of
arrows, only about ten came his way this time. He cut the arrows apart again with two
slashes and leapt towards the other tree another archer was sitting on. He landed
with his blade piercing through the mans thigh, taking out a part of his body when the
blade exit the other side, blood gushed out of his mouth and wounds. He was dead
immediately. He dropped close to the other victim to the ground some ten meter
below, with a loud thunk. An evil smirk grew on Kane’s face. He was laughing now,
ecstatically. The rush of a kill, the power over life and death, choosing who dies and
how. He liked it every single moment of the ride. Alpha came running up to Kane a
few moments later and barked at him.
‘’Stop doing this, Master. Please! Why are you enjoying in slaughtering normal
humans?’’ he begged.
‘’Normal people? They just tried to kill us, Alpha.’’ Kane replied angrily.
‘’Yes they did, but in your current state, you are on par with a small army!
Does that make killing them right?! Just because you can?’’ he yelled back at Kane.
He just stood there, motionless, lost in Alphas words, trying to grasp the meaning
and the feelings Alpha projected into him.
‘’Yes, this is not like me. I would never kill for fun, would i? I have never
enjoyed taking a humans life, only monsters, and that is because i needed the
money! What the hell is happening to me?’’ Before Kane could even think, he just
yelled out to them.
‘’Drop your weapons, belongings and any riches u have and run the fuck away
without looking back. The woman stays with me. Try anything funny or be near
enough within the next few minutes and you will die’’ Kane said and jumped down,
landing beside Alpha. The bandits lowered themselves one by one from the trees,
walking over and dropping their weapons in front of Kane and Alpha, anything they
had of value and food and drinks. ‘’Thank you, my friend’’ Kane said to Alpha,
rubbing his forehead. ‘’Without your words earlier, i probably would have just
massacred them all, just for fun, just because i could’’. He looked out onto the group,
running from him with all haste and shook his head. ‘’Weaklings’’.
When Kane looked around for the girl, she was standing behind a big log,
hugging it as forcefully as she could, probably hoping to be invisible or some other
childish thing. When Kane approached her she screamed as if being startled in the
middle of the night by a robber.
‘’You, how do you see me?!’’ she demanded. Kane looked over at Alpha and
then back to her, his head flowing with confusion.
‘’Why wouldn’t i see you, woman? You are standing right in front of me’’ he
said and laughed. Her face went pale and then she fainted, Kane barely catching her
on time. Damn, he was still naked, and so was she almost. He laid her down gently
and used the firewood from earlier to start a fire, put on his clothes and took the fish
Alpha caught earlier and sliced it up, cleaning it from scales and anything
unnecessary.
The fishes great aroma woke the girl up some time later, and she screamed
again, seeing him sitting next to her. He shot her a lustful glance and she flinched.
‘’You wouldn’t dare!’’ Alpha yelled again. ‘’Master, do not do it, i beg of you’’.
‘’Alpha… you are starting to be a nuisance’’ Kane said with a menacing tone.
‘’If i wanted to do anything to her, i would have done so already, with or without your
approval’’ Kane said. Hearing his words the girls tension released itself slowly,
though she was still on guard.
‘’Why the hell did this have to happen to me’’ she murmured.
‘’What was that?’’ K asked. He didn’t quite get what she said so he asked her
to say it again.
‘’I have never hurt anyone!’’ she yelled out suddenly. ‘’They made me do this.
They have my little brother, i had to. They said they will kill him and the other girls
and kids unless i did this for them!’’ she said and started to sob uncontrollably. I
turned around again to look at her. She sounded sincere, so Kane decided to believe
her.
‘’Who were those men?’’ Kane asked.
‘’Bandits who raided Ithice a few weeks ago. They pillaged and burned and
raped. They killed anyone not pretty or young enough. They are using my brother as
one of the cooks in their hideout, and us girls they drag out to random places, making
us approach strangers half naked, tied up or wounded, depending on the group’s.
You are my fourth time already’’ she said and started crying again. ‘’I will give you my
body, willingly, if you save my brother. Or at least kill him to make his suffering stop!’’
she begged as she threw herself at kane’s feet. He bowed down and took her by her
arms, pulling her up again. Her face was a mess of mud and tears, anguish and pain.
Something inside Kane just broke and he agreed to.
‘’Alright, i will free or kill him. Alpha, search and destroy’’.