Fake Fan Fiction ❯ The Demon's Den ❯ chapter eight ( Chapter 8 )

The Demon's Den

By: Enzeru

Disclaimer: I don't own Fake, If I did I wouldn't have all these mountains of bills to pay.

 

Warnings: See previous chapters.

 

Pairings: Dee X Ryo and others appearing throughout the chapters

 

AN. Thanx my absolutely wonderful betas Yaoinut and Silver Blue for editing this chapter.

 

Warning. Some torture in this chapter.

There will be some medieval equipment used in this chapter. I have added links to pages with explanations and pictures after the story for those who don't know what the things are.

 

 

Chapter eight.

 

 

The dreaded Saturday had arrived and Ryo wasn't feeling to well. He dreaded what this night would bring and wasn't looking forward to an entire evening with Rose. Luckily Diana would be there and that comforted Ryo slightly.

 

Ryo dressed in dark blue jeans with a black leather belt, he also put on a skin-tight black polo shirt. On several occasions during his walk, he thought about the chances of getting away if he took Bikky and ran. But he knew they where slim to none.

 

Rose had too great an influence in the higher ranks of the vampire, werewolf and demonic community.

 

Ryo got to the club and went inside, he felt the usual glare form the bouncer on his back as he entered. He didn't care. He was to used to it. He walked towards the VIP door when J.J. interrupted him.

 

“Hey freak! Master told me to tell you to meet him and Diana outside the VIP room. They'll be there waiting for you.” JJ looked annoyed, no doubt because he had gotten direct orders to tell Ryo this.

 

J.J. turned and went back to his bar and Ryo felt nauseated, he hadn't expected this. Normally if he had to go to a dinner with Rose they would have it in Rose's penthouse. But since they where going to be in the VIP room, he knew what Rose was after. He wanted Ryo to give in to his instincts and play.

 

Ryo walked through the door into the hallway that led up to all apartments and down to the cellar floor (or VIP room as it was more commonly known as). In truth none of the names were its true name. It was nothing short of a medieval torture chamber. He reached the stairs and walked down. At the foot of the stairs stood Rose and Diana waiting for him.

 

“Good evening my sweet Randy. I'm so glad you could join us.” He drawled sweetly and embraced Ryo.

 

`As if I had a choice in the matter.' Ryo thought as Diana giggled and hugged him when Rose let him go.

 

“So now shall we go? I have arranged for the lower cellar to be ours alone.” Rose opened the door to the big hall that was the first stage in the cellars. There were actually floors below ground and that where illegally dug out, so they weren't shown on any blueprints of the building.

 

There was this first floor which was pretty much one great room that looked exactly like an old medieval torture chamber, complete with the stony walls and smell of dirt in the closed in air, not to mention all the equipment everywhere.

 

All around was a collection of strange contraptions that should only belong in horror movies or museums. There was harnesses hanging from the roof in some places and on one wall hung all the minor equipment.

 

This room was the common place for VIP's to bring their guests. There were also several minor cells along two of the walls to the VIP's to use as they may. Some kept their guests there for nights to prolong their fun, others kept one there while they played with another if they brought more than one. And some just wanted privacy while played. They had to pay to use the cells since there wasn't enough for everyone.

 

When Ryo and the others entered the room Ryo's nose and ears where at once assaulted by the smell of old as well as fresh blood and the screams from the VIP's guests currently entertaining down there. Rose closed the big door after they where inside. Both cellar planes were soundproofed obviously. They needn't get any uninvited guests due to the noise down there.

 

What went on in this room always made Ryo cringe. This room was in fact built to look like a torture chamber. Rose had designed it himself and it was supposedly a replica of said part of his home hundreds of years ago. The devices in there were awful and they reeked of old blood and gore.

 

The room was big enough for about 50 vampires with guest to play without it being crowded. They walked into the room, Rose stopped to talk to a regular about something or another. Ryo looked to his left where a piercing scream was now heard.

 

He saw a woman strapped up on a ladder rack (1) and had been stretched so her shoulders must have been dislocated; she was completely naked and had many bruises over her abdomen and lower regions. A male Vampire was standing in front of her with a glowing red, burning hot spider (2) in his hands and he placed the spider over her one naked breast. The woman screamed and tears flowed down her cheeks.

 

But the sound she made when the man pressed the spider shut over her breast was too horrible to even begin to describe. Ryo could see the terror in her wide eyes as her breast was torn and burned. She met his eyes and he swore she silently begged him to kill her.

 

Ryo looked away as the Vampire who had torn her breast, put the spider down just to lick of the blood pouring out of the fresh wound. Ryo didn't se but still heard her, her voice weak and hoarse now as she cried out in pain. Ryo couldn't understand the need to torture and molest people that most vampires and all werewolves did.

 

Ryo knew that he had yet to fall into complete bloodlust and therefor didn't know what feelings would get stirred within him when that happened. That was also the biggest reason as to why he hated this place. The smell of all this blood and the sounds of humans screaming could drive even the strongest willed vampire into bloodlust in a moment of weakness. Ryo swore to not stoop to the utter cruelty of their level. He could never live with himself if he did this to people just to feed himself.

 

Off course he knew that killing overall was wrong but he had to do it to live, whether he liked it or not. He was a predator after all; he lived of the lives of others.

 

He noticed how Rose and Diana started walking again and he followed them to the end of the room where there was yet another staircase. This lead to the second cellar level that was divided into two parts, one part was like the upper level a place for playing, only this place was exclusive for Rose and his underlings. The second part and slightly smaller in size was used by the different councils out there who rented the space for punishment of those who didn't obey their laws.

 

They walked down there and went into the big main room. This looked a lot like the room upstairs but this place was surprisingly cleaner. Rose wanted some tidiness around him so all his underlings knew that they had to keep this place cleaned up.

 

“Ah here we are. Diana would you bring out the humans and strap them to the wall so that we can see them.” Rose wanted to see what taste Diana went for this time. And not surprising she had gotten three teenage boys for their meal this evening. They couldn't be more than eighteen anyone of them. Ryo could see they where also drugged, barely able to walk by themselves.

 

Ryo saw Rose eye the boys and he had a satisfied look in his eyes, Diana walked up to him and put her arms around his neck. He drew her into a deep passionate kiss. That ended very soon.

 

“So Berkley! You're satisfied with my choice tonight I see.” Diana Giggled and Ryo looked away, he didn't feel it appropriate to behave like that in a situation like this.

 

“Randy what do you think of my prey tonight? You like them? I can assure you their blood tastes wonderful and they will fully satisfy us, well maybe not on all levels.” She swung her arms loosely around his neck and winked at him, he felt a hand on his ass and someone standing close behind him.

 

Now this worried him tremendously. What exactly where they doing?

 

“Umm, I…I think one of the boys are waking up.” He said with a hint of panic in his voice.

 

“Well then, Let's enjoy ourselves then. Randy I must ask you, will you comply with my wish this night and play?”

 

“If you are truly giving me a choice in the matter then my answer is no. I can't do it. It's cruel and animalistic. Not even a butcher tortures his cattle before killing them.” Ryo looked at Rose who obviously did not like his answer, Rose almost snarled in his displeasure. Ryo really did not like that.

 

“Well then I'll respect your opinion and let you have your way, if you can resist that is.” The look on Rose's face sent cold shivers down Ryo's spine. He looked into Ryo's eyes with firm determination.

 

“You are to stay here and watch Diana while she plays. You are not allowed to turn away or leave the room, nor are you to interfere or try to stop her. I will personally see to it that you stay and watch. If you can do that and not go into blood lust I will let you do as you please with your boy there.” Rose pointed to one of the boys.

 

“I always love an audience.” Diana purred.

 

`Shit, I really don't want to do this. What will happen if I go into bloodlust? Will I loose myself and become a sadistic animal, who wants nothing more than to torture and kill humans only for my own satisfaction? No I have to stay strong, think of Bikky I can't fail him, and how about Dee? Wait what about Dee? Now I'm down that road again.'

 

“However, if you fail I have a request of you that you are not to deny me.” Rose closed in on Ryo and looked him deep in the eyes.

 

“You are to have a private all-night dinner with me, where we will have some private playtime down here and hopefully up in my apartment.” Rose leaned in and stroked Ryo's cheek with his clawed hand. His mouth so close to Ryo's ear that he felt the hot breath caress his ear. Rose whispered.

 

 

“Isn't it about time you and I became an us? I could make you feel so good, just let me show you how good it can be.” Ryo felt angry and frustrated. He jerked his head away from Rose and scowled at him.

 

“Please sir. You know I'm not interested in you like that and you have promised me to not make me do anything I don't want to.” The angry look Ryo received was one that could freeze a raging fire.

 

“Yes I have given you my word but even I have an end to my patience. Ultimately I am your master, your maker. I'm starting to get tired of your free spirit. My patience is wearing thin and I'm getting tired of all complaints I get for spoiling you.” Diana came and laid a hand on his shoulder to calm him. He had begun shouting and Ryo looked scared.

 

“Please Berks, calm down. Let's see if he makes this test first.” She turned back to choose what equipment to use. Rose calmed down and looked at a very nervous Ryo.

 

“I'm sorry, I didn`t mean to yell at you. I'm a little high strung with that werewolf on the rampage and all. So you know then what happens if you fail this test, but if you do actually make it, you are free to leave here after you feed to have your two weeks off. I will expect you back at work on the Monday two weeks from now.”

 

“Yes sir, I understand Sir.” Ryo nodded.

 

“But know that I'll be doing my very best to makeit passed this test.” Rose nodded and they both turned to Diana who stood putting fire in the big fireplace at the wall. She had chosen her tools and she honestly looked quite insane at the moment.

 

Her eyes glowed and she was grinning like mad. She was enjoying this very much. He loved Diana as a dear friend but she had the very sadistic, animalistic need for torturing others that he was trying to avoid awakening in himself. As she had put it one time when he asked why she did it.

 

oxoFlashback oXo

Diana P.O.V

 

 

Well even I had been young once. Actually I was a lot like you, Innocent and naïve, all cute traits but not very handy. If you feel regret for killing long enough you will go insane. I almost got there, maybe I even passed the point.”

 

“Would you tell me Diana? Help me understand this if I possibly can.” Ryo had said.

 

You need to know this was many, many years ago. Before Rose got his stature as a vampire master. He was my friend and mentor. He made me in order to save me. I was poor and my parents had already given their lives to the plague. I was basically lying on my deathbed.

 

I had never thought about the fact that he never visited during the days and he never became sick even once during all the years that we knew each other. Neither had I realised that he wasn't ageing. Not until that night when I was 20 years old.

 

My parents introduced us when I was only five years old. He was an old friend of my fathers and he was very nice to me. I liked him a lot. But when I was lying on the brink of death I suddenly saw him coming in to my room. He looked terrified.”

 

“ 'Dee-Dee, My god. I thought I was too late. I saw your parents and…' I interrupted what he was going to say, I babbled.”

 

“ `Yes I saw them to. They left earlier tonight. But now they are calling for me. I have to go…*COUGH* Sorry `bout that.' I had coughed up blood and some got on him. I saw the terror in his eyes and also the tears threatening to fall.

 

He grasped my hands and kissed them tenderly.

 

“ `Dee-Dee, If I could save you would you let me? I have the power to give you a life without illness and disease, an eternal life by my side. I would protect you from the evil in the world and we can keep each other company.' I couldn't really hear what he said. But I could hear the words `help me' and that he would `protect me.'

 

So without knowing what I asked for I said.

 

“ `Yes Berkley, Please save me let me be by your side as your friend for life.' Then I really don't know what happened. Basically he turned me and once I realised what he had turned me into I was furious. I told him I would never take a life.

 

“The first few months he had to force-feed me. It was hell for some time. I wanted to die, so I tried to starve that's why he force-fed me. He would not allow me to die now and said, he had made a promise and intended to keep it.

 

“Somehow his protective nature made me wake up from my suicidal state slowly but steady. However I still suffered regret when taking a life and it was driving me mad. I had only felt the pain of taking the life and still led my immortal life with my human emotions.

 

“Already at this time he enjoyed to play with his food. Once when he thought I was asleep he had gone out to feed. I woke up and went to find him. What I saw sent me into hysterics. Rose had a woman hanging by her tied hands from a tree. He had whipped her and cut her amongst other things.

 

“I was horrified and ran off. Rose caught up with me and tried to make me understand, but I didn't want to listen. After that night we really didn't speak much. What I had witnessed was horrible but some part of me wondered how a thing like that could make you feel good.

 

“It wasn't until we where living at an inn in a European village and on this one night Rose had gone out hunting that I learned the truth. I was going out to get some water from the well, when two men from the village attacked me. They tried to rape me but while I struggled they taunted me calling me weak, dirty and they even called me a harlot. Something in me snapped that night; I really didn't want to seem weak when I knew I was stronger than they were.

 

“Their blood covered the ground and was all over me as well. Somehow in the middle of it all, a feeling of power came over me. I felt invincible and the adrenaline rush was incredible. When their bodies lay at my feet like stones I felt the need for something more, but I just didn't know what.

 

“That was until I heard a voice behind me.

 

“ `Dee-Dee, that was incredible! How do you feel?” He walked closer to me and stood right in front of me looking into my eyes.

 

“ `I feel, oh I don't know how to describe it. I feel, strong and superior. I feel alive again. And there is something more, but I don't know what.' Rose knew what it was I felt. It was lust and my first encounter with the need. He leaned closer, his hand on my hips and his face to my face.

 

“ `I know, It feels amazing,' He started nuzzling my neck, licking and kissing. The feeling got stronger.

 

“ `Exhilarating,' He continued and came up and kissed me on the lips.

 

“ `You feel a tingle in your stomach' He deepened the kiss. I couldn't help but moan. Whatever was happening it was good.

 

“ `And a faint throbbing right here.' He said and put his hand… well you know. And that night I had my first sexual encounter. And it was wild. We did it in the middle of the bloodied ground; I was surprised no one heard everything happening, well that would be Rose. Having already disposed of everyone at the inn.

 

“Before that night nothing sexual of any kind had happened between us. I'll admit I was in love with him for along time and he loves me but not in a romantic lets get married kind of way. We are good together and have promised to stay by each other's side forever.

 

“After that night my regrets of killing disappeared, I had accepted my faith and learned to enjoy it. So you see Randy, the feeling you get from blood lust and playing is amazing. It's like nothing else. You need to learn to like it, to love it in order to survive. That's all there is to it.

 

oxo End flashback oXo

 

She had said he had to learn to love to kill but he just wouldn't believe that, there had to be some way to keep yourself intact. He didn't believe that you had to torture humans in order to experience a sexual high and to satisfy your thirst. If that were the key, Ryo would rather go celibate for the rest of eternity. Besides it was human lives they fed of and they deserved some amount of respect.

 

“Are you ready boys? I have this all planned.” Diana seemed like an entirely different person. Her eyes where narrowed and had a red tint to them. She stood there waiting for her audience to turn to her.

 

“Yes Dee-Dee we are ready. Now let's enjoy the show Randy.” Rose stood behind Ryo and held his arms around his waist as a way of holding him there. He did this to help make sure to keep Ryo locked into place. He wanted Ryo to fail so he didn't hold on overly hard, that way it would be possible for Ryo to turn away and fail the test.

 

And besides Rose would not loose this chance to be this near Ryo. He was sure that Ryo would fail and that he would finally have a chance to make him his.

 

Ryo focused on Diana and the boy was tied at a Strappado (3). Instead of tying his wrists behind his back she tied them in the front and pulled at the rope so the boys arms where raised over his head and he stood on his toes. She tied the end of the rope to a hook on the wall.

 

She stood on front of the boy and turned to a table at her side to pull out the first toy of the night. One might think that in this day and age a gag-ball would be kept to use to keep him quiet, but this room was a medieval one so she picked up a Scold's Bridle (4) from the table.

 

It was the simple kind, with four metal bands crossing over the head and the band going over the face split up into a triangle where the nose would be. It was still a painful thing due to the spiked tongue piece. As if tat was not enough she stood by the fire with a burning stick in hand and she heated the tongue piece with the fire.

 

Ryo swallowed and watched as she closed in on the boy who still had not fully woken up from the drugged buzz he had been in. Well that thing was sure to wake him. Ryo steeled himself for the screaming about to begin.

 

“Now watch closely and enjoy the ride. Trust me if you let yourself go you will experience one of the greatest thrills there are.” Rose whispered in Ryo's ear and stood pressing their bodies together from behind.

 

The scream that was heard from the boy as the heated spiked tongue piece settled in his mouth was horrible, not loud mind you but heartbreaking. The device had done it's job by keeping the screaming hushed.

 

Now Diana could begin her fun with her audience ready and the other two boys back in the cell. She smiled at the boy who cried out of pain already. Ryo felt like crying to but he wanted to hold it in.

 

How was he to do this? Could he avoid turning into that? He had to try, for Bikky and for Dee. He had to focus on the good in his life and those two seemed to be it. Yes, Dee was a good thing, If he got out of this test with success he would call Dee and agree to go with him

to the game.

 

`Yes focus on that and I will make this, I swear.'

 

 

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Thank you my lovely reviewers. KawaiiYasha, Seke, Cfox, ColeridgeFan, Saigh, AngelofTheo, TimeFlys, Sumblink2, Jadehex.

 

I really love your reviews.

 

AN. Well here's next chapter. Took forever to write. I'm truly sorry for that.

And I had to do some research for this chapter in order to make it as realistic as possible

 

Well at the moment I'm working my ass off. I have been working for 13 days with only one day off and still have three more days to go before I get a whole two days off.

Well It's summer time in sweden and I am part of the summerstaff, wich means I don't get vacation, instead I work for all others getting vacation. It sucks but I get money for it.

Well I hope you enbjoyed this chapter as well, next time see if Ryo can handle himself all the way….

 

Here are the links to pages describing the different things used in this chapter.

 

1- The Ladder rack. http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/torture/ladderrack.html

2- The spider. http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/torture/spider.html

3- The Strappado. http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/torture/strappado.html

4- The Scold's Bridle. http://www.torture-museum.com/branks.htm

 

Until next time, don't forget to review…

 

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