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Lord of the Red Lady

Christina was smiling at me despite I told her not to. I was embarrassed by the fact she watched while Amelia an me forged into a couple. Not just watched she enjoyed way more than she should have. Amelia was too exhausted to say a thing she just laid next by me, purring and smiling like she would have been the happiest big cat of the world. Maybe she was.

“That is not a good idea.” I told her when she offered herself for the next round.

“Why not?” She was playing with me that was obvious.

“First. You are smaller. I don’t think it is even possible. Second. I love her and not you.” I explained but she just laughed.

“Come on! I’m turned on!”

“I won’t do it!” I was angry with her but we were interrupted. Thanks to all the spirits I was in my pants already.

“Christina, I’m glad you are awake.” It was a lioness. The biggest I have ever seen. She was strong and fearful as she emerged from the darkness without a sound. Her eyes were reddish not yellow or amber like. Her fur was tinted with black stains and she was walking like a hunting predator… like a daemon.

“Alverta!” The little lioness was happy to see her and she was the only one in the room. Amelia was ready to jump, ready to protect me despite the fact she was still panting heavily. “I’m glad you came. I’m fine and Susan told me I will have only a few scars.” She told her little story while they rubbed their heads to each other. I lost the thread somewhere.

“Ehm… Who are you?” I could stand without a word so far. She looked at me and I was gasping for air. That eye she had, it was demonic indeed. Amelia started to growl next by me.

“He is protected.” She said while her voice was more than threatening.

“By you? I could eat you both. Which one of you will be the first?” She showed her teeth. Her fangs were spiked and symbols were engraved in them. ‘Who the hell is she?’

“By me.” Christina sat up and yowled in pain at the next second. “My arm!”

“Hush little sister of mine. You are young. You have to drink more from the Gift of the Red Lady before you can tell me what to do. Sleep now and be a good cub.” She turned to her and laid her back to the bed. It was confusing and even shocking to see that daemon tending someone with love. ‘Maybe she isn’t that beast like. She has feelings like us.’ I thought but the next glance she shot at me destroyed that thought. She was up to something I could swore. ‘I will keep an eye on her.’

She walked out from the room without making any noise and she disappeared in the darkness. The last thing was her red-yellow flashing eyes when she looked back at me. Then nothing. I was there only with Amelia and Christina and I felt I must protect them. But why? Why me? Didn’t matter. The most important question was: how?

***

When the sun was up I was too. I did not sleep much though I was tired because of the events of the evening. Not just the Living Darkness, then a Daemonic Lioness but that short intimate moment with Amelia also drained me.

“What is the Red Lady?” I asked Efran as he visited me on that morning. He was surprised and maybe even shocked for a second.

“Where have you heard that name?” He sat next by the bed and cooked his head. Since yesterday he looked at me like I could do something interesting at the next moment. Like I was a miracle or a grave danger. I did not know but it made me nervous. ‘I’m just me. A man without memory. And strange things happening around me.’ I must find out why.

I thought a short walk around the city will help me clear my head. Not that if it wasn’t empty already but the events followed my steps happened to fast so I needed some time to digest. Maybe I can see something that will coax out more memory fragments so I can put them together and find the answer to my questions. Amelia was left behind with his brother, they had to do something for Efran. So I was alone with my thoughts.

The city was big with lots of green as they planted trees and bushes everywhere they could. Like they just occupied the forest and put houses on every empty spots. The roads were more like paths and sometimes they weren’t big enough for two next by each other. Sometimes they were wide like a river.

The residents were mostly Lions but I saw many Humans too. For example, I stopped at the smithy and watched how a strong and muscular man forged knives meanwhile a lion used the bellows. Also there were human kids in a park kicking a leather ball and from the edge lions shouted them and cheered them. They were living in proper harmony. But I sensed something. Something bad… like a storm coming but I didn’t know from where. Everyone in the city was in danger… imminent danger but I did not know why.

As I quickly turned around I saw something. Someone was hiding in an alleyway so I walked to it and looked for the person. It was a lion.

“Who are you? Why are you spying on me?” I asked him. He was hiding in a bush so I could only see his eyes and his nose. It was full with scars.

“You are an anomaly.” He said on a strange accent. I could barely understand. “You are not here. Not there. Nowhere and Everywhere.” He was almost chanting it. “You are nothing, still you are something.”

“What?” I was confused.

“The man who can’t remember, can be remembered. The man who has nothing can save everything.” He finished and hid deeper into the bush.

“I don’t understand you. Who are you?” I leaned into the bush but he vanished. Then I saw something at the end of the alleyway a group of lions were playing with a terrified human. He was a young man who was covering something with a blanket. I thought it isn’t my business and was about to call the guards when a lion interrupted them. It was a huge male and his fur was completely black like the darkness. Only small white spots disrupted the entire blackness and as he moved, sometimes they disappeared and reappeared. Like the night who eat stars and then spit them out. It was mesmerizing and not in the good meaning. He emitted something that made my stomach ache. And panic started to emerge its head. Then I saw the shadows had deepened and the Darkness started to sneak out from it.

The black lion knocked the man from its feet with a punch and the blanket had fallen with him. It was a kid underneath. Not more than ten years old, shaking in fear.

“He will do.” The lion said in terrible deep voice and the others had grabbed the kid. I caught myself on running towards them though I had no idea what could I do against five lions. But before I reached them the black lion turned to my direction. His eyes were red like blood and he smiled with unusually longer fangs. He just stomped the ground and I fell from my feet. When I looked up they disappeared and the shadows were only shadows.

“What the hell was that?” I whispered as I slowly stood up. How could a lion do something like that? Was he a lion at all? I did not know but maybe I found that danger I looked for. Now I have to figure out how to stop him.

***

Efran told me that there was nearly fifty human or lion disappearing in the past few weeks. The guards were working on it but they had no idea who or why. That group of unknown lions were also good in hiding and they always kidnaped persons without or with lack of social connections. Efran also told me that he suspects a sect as there were painting on the houses near the disappearances.

“What kind of sect?” I asked and he showed me a symbol. In a circle there was something like water but it was red. From the red water there was a harpoon and a fang emerging. I knew I saw that symbol somewhere but I couldn’t remember.

“The red water is blood, isn’t it?” I asked.

“Some of the guards calling it the Blood Cult.” He shook his head. “But only rumors and gossips, nothing evident.”

“I saw them kidnaping a kid and his father on bare sunlight in the middle of the city and no one saw it except me.” I was shouting at him but I knew it wasn’t his fault.

“You are right. No one saw it… hm… except the Nameless Hero.” He whispered the end. That was the second time he called me Nameless Hero. As I did not know my name it wasn’t bothering me. At least a name though not the best. Efran then walked to his bookshelf and grabbed a book. But he did not take it just grabbed on it.

“Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t.” He was thinking. “You know I just remembered I heard something about that Red Lady when I was only a cub.”

“What? If you want to divert the topic, it’s a weak try.” I folded my arms.

“Just listen. The Red Lady means the Blood. There was a sect long time ago and they called themselves as the Children of the Red Lady. They believed if they drink enough blood and they bath in it, they can achieve immortality and power over everything.”

“The Red Lady? That lioness…. Alverta also mentioned it. Maybe she is also a member of that sect. She was frightening.” I said with feelings.

“Yes she is a member.” He answered and I drop my jaw.

“You knew it? But… I don’t understand.”

“I knew something is not good in the city. I knew there must be a group of fanatics somewhere. So I asked Alverta to integrate herself into that group. She was quite successful but according to her past it isn’t a big surprise.”

“So she is a spy.” I concluded. “How can you trust her?”

“She is my daughter.” He answered and there was a moment of silence. There wasn’t any noise except our breathing and the sounds of the street behind the windows. The moment had passed and I did nothing but staring at him with the question in my eyes. ‘That can’t be.’ So Christina also his daughter as they are sisters. I was confused and shocked.

“I… my head is splitting.” I massaged my forehead, since I can remember a thing there is too much information around me that I had to process. Was my life the same before? I was thinking just to clear my conscious.

“Alverta isn’t bad. She just rough but you can trust her with your life.” He said

“She is the Executioner and the Interrogator. Amelia told me she used to torture, mutilate and kill humans and lions too.” I sat down in a corner and collapsed into myself.

“She has strong desire to kill and torture. But if she says you are in safe, then she will protect you till her last breath.” It didn’t make any sense for me but I trusted Efran.

***

The night caught me in the paws of Amelia. Susan released me from her reach and told me I was fine to go and live my life. Which was the thing made me afraid. I did not know what should I do. I did not have a house, job, goals despite the Sect I must stop. But stopping Sects doesn’t not pay too well. So I had to find a work and a place to live.

“You can live with me.” Amelia offered in an instant so I got a pack of cloths and moved in. She lived in the border of the city and had a good view to the mountains in the distance. It was small wooden house with a big garden. Two rooms and a kitchen. The living room was the biggest with only a lowered desk and a few pillows around it.

“it is nice.” I admitted after she walked me through. She was in love with beaches and with snowy mountains as there were at least a thousand little or bigger painting on the walls in every room. Some was small like my palm; others were big as a window.

“Nice pictures.” I marked for the record.

“I would like to swim in the ocean one day. And I would like to dance in the snowfall. I have never seen snow before.” She admitted and looked a little ashamed. I could have done anything to cheer her up. So I hugged and kissed her neck.

She kissed me back on my shoulder, then one thing followed other and we were at the bed. My clothes were on the floor as I undressed quickly and just dropped them away. She hugged my hip and pulled me closer to her mouth.

I was inside of her mouth with my full length and she was munching on my cock. It was an odd view but a fantastic feeling. Odd because she was a full grown predator with ability to hurt me badly with her teeth and claws, but a fantastic feeling as she knew how to cause pleasure and not pain. She admitted me that she liked to suckle on my cock maybe a little more than having sex with me. It was strange but I would do whatever she asks as I loved her.

She closed her eyes and just suckled and suckled till my legs were weak and I had to pat on her head to realize I was still there and about to collapse.

“Go into the bed.” She said with mouthful and without releasing me for a second she led me to the bed and I laid, legs spread open. She grabbed my hips again and laid to my groin.

In the next minute I was fighting with the pleasure as I did not want to end it too soon. She just suckled on my cock, tongue guiding the full length up and down while she tried to coax the milk from it. Eyes closed and she seemed to forget the world around. I could feel her incisors sometimes when she swallowed back a big one and tightened the grip on my base but I knew it was the safest place on the world. Inside her mouth I wasn’t in danger.

“I will come if you continue.” I said and she opened her eyes but I wasn’t sure she understood my words. It was like she just woke up from sleeping. She was just staring at me unreadable and fastened her sucking movements. It was too much and I came in an instant.

She swallowed every single drop but she wasn’t about to stop there. She needed more male milk to ease her hunger but I wasn’t able to produce more. The pleasure was too much, I felt my hip muscles tense and this spasm went through my spine and hit my head hard. I gasped for air and begged for mercy as she just kept sucking on me.

“Stop!” I cried as the pleasure became painful. I thought there isn’t such thing as too much in case of sexual pleasure but she proven there is. The Human body is designed to achieve a fix amount of this kind of stimulation and when it reaches its top the body will beg you to stop it and it will do everything to make you do it now, make the owner understand; no more. So your brain will convert the pleasure to pain.

Fortunately, she stopped and released my already soft member. I think it was soft since minutes but she did not care, she just sucked. And she would have continued till the end of the time. I collapsed back into the bed and learned how to breathe again. My heart was pumping so fast I could feel it on my ribcage like it was a bird trying to escape from the trap.

“I assume we won’t have sex.” She said and smiled at me from a few inches. I did not realize she moved. I was used in the every meaning of the word.

“I’m surprised I’m still alive so no; We won’t have sex as I’m not capable of it.” I breathed heavily. “I’m not capable of move either.” I admitted.

“So if I want to eat you. You won’t move.” She concluded.

“Enjoy your meal” I sighed. She stood above me and tried to look threateningly, bared teeth and growling like a beast. I knew she was just playing. Then she slowly lowered her head to my neck and opened her mouth. I could feel the fangs pressing against my skin. Then she just licked my neck.

“Sleep now. You will need your strength for the evening event.” Then as she saw I have no idea what she was talking about she added. “The Evening of the Seven Stars. There will be meat and wine and music and dancing. You must come with me. It will be fantastic.” She licked my neck again and laid next by me. I was fast asleep in the next minute. She drained me.

***

The Evening of the Seven Stars was a huge event according to the fact they decorated the streets and houses with flowers and colored threads. Every Human and Lion wore colorful cloths and everyone has a small lamp. It was the festival of the colors and light.

There was a huge empty space where musicians played some song and everybody was dancing and singing with them. I saw lion males grabbing human females and lionesses with human males. They seemed to be happy. The perfect city for everyone, they could have write this motto with huge letters.

Amelia led me to a smaller clearing with at least fifty people. There wasn’t dancing but a guy holding a guitar and tuning it. Others were just sitting and chatting around a huge bonfire, forming groups. I stepped to a big desk with foods and drinks on it. After what Amelia did with me I needed to refill my body… for the next time at least. So I grabbed a cup, poured some wine in it and sat next to her with some fried meat on my other hand.

The hours just passed and I caught myself on enjoying the company of a strange maned lion and his girlfriend a tawny lioness. My eyes went wide when they told me they have another friend a human female and they use to have sex with her too.

“You kidding me! Threesome?” I asked.

“Yes. But of course not every time. Hallie has needs every day…” he licked the lioness’s ear.” …but she let me fill my needs once in a while with humans too. And Mary is a curious woman who let me.” He admitted.

“Which is better? Lionesses or human females?” I asked suddenly and tried to act like it did not surprised me that I even opened my mouth.

“It’s different.” He laughed. “Could you tell me which is better? Human females or a lioness?” He dropped me back and I did not know how to answer. As far as I know Amelia was my first and only. Fortunately, before I could have form my thoughts into sentences Amelia saved me as she asked me to have a dance.

Hours later everyone was exhausted and only a few musicians were playing songs. The chatting was more muffled as many were sleeping or just lying on the pillows. I was in a dark corner with Amelia and we were experimenting with kissing. I know it sounds strange but she never did it with a human and it was new to me as well. Not the mention the differences of our bodies.

“Well, it was better.” I admitted after a hundred tries. She was too vehement with her tongue at the first few times and made me choke on it. Then she was too afraid to use it again.

“Good. Let me grab some drink and we can continue.” She offered and licked my forehead, then she went. I just watched as she disappeared among the others and I was smiling. She was the best thing in my life and I knew I would do anything to keep her safe and sound.

But I had not much time to think it through as the shadows came alive again and I jumped up from the corner. The next thing was a hit on my head and I lost my conscious.

***

I was waking up in a dark room and only a bonfire lighted up the scene. It was a barn full with chains and torture devices. A big tub dug into the ground was full with something red… it was blood and organs like a horrific soup. They made a tub of blood! I tried to move but my hands were bind to a wood pole behind me. I was trapped and as I counted, with at least twelve lions. Only lions and no humans at all.

They were watching me from the opposite side of the bonfire. Wearing white and red robe which covered their entire body except their head. Next by me was another human chained to a pole but he was dead. Where his throat should have been there was only a huge wound. They tore his throat open and let his blood flow into the tube. He was the father of that kid I saw before. What they did to the kind? How many humans and lions were killed by them? I was fighting with my rope which was a little loosened already.

“You think you can stop me?” A voice came from nowhere. It was the Black Lion. “You couldn’t and you are here to give it a try again? I don’t think so.” He laughed while I managed to unbound my rope. So I was free but it was an advantage I kept for the right moment.

“What are you talking about? Do you know me?” I was delaying the obvious execution till I figure out my escape plan. He just slowly walked to me from the opposite side of the bonfire. Slowly like he had all the time in the world. Well, I was the food here so maybe he was right.

“Of course I know you; Inventor!” He kept a little pause. Inventor? I was thinking and an image came to my mind. I was handling some machine which bent the space around another device. It did not make any sense. “I know you because I fought with you before but you escaped. This time you won’t!” He walked to me and I found a way. If I can reach the door I can close it from the other side. Then I will run like hell till find someone. As I decided I saw Alverta amongst the lions. She was looking at me like she was about to say something but she didn’t. Then she made a small movement with her paw like she was tearing a bind. Could that be that she was who loosened my ropes at the first place? Maybe Efran was right about her.

“I don’t know what are you talking about!” I shouted to the Black Lion.

“Oh. You are telling me the truth. Maybe that little head injury of yours erased your memories but if you look into my eyes you will recognize me. I need you to recognize me before I split open your stomach and eat your heart.”

“Who the hell are you?” I shouted as he was one step away from me. I looked into his eyes but I couldn’t see a thing. I knew I saw him before… before my accident but I didn’t recall where.

“I’m the Darkness. I’m the Night Who Eat Stars. And I will be your death. Inventor.” He leaned closer so I could smell his breath and I can feel his whiskers on my face. That was the time my hand found a log behind me so I hit him and jumped to the door.

I was fast enough so I reached but it was closed. So much about my plan! ‘Think, you moron!’ I scolded myself. I saw the lions were not moving. They let their leader finish me. How nice of them! So I had to fight with a huge and deadly lion who has teeth, claws and much more body mass than me. As I was calculating my chances I had to face the truth: I was a dead my walking.

“You will regret this.” He whispered and inhaled a heavy one. The shadows deepened and they started to move around the bonfire. He was who controlled the Darkness! He tried to kill me in the Healer’s Building!

“I’m already regretting!” I cried and found something. There was a pile of bones next by him. If I’m lucky and fast, I can grab a spiky one. At least I would have a weapon to defend myself. I lunged forward and he reacted in an instant; he jumped towards me, claws bared. We met halfway but he was faster and caught my right forearm with his teeth. I felt the tearing pain as he bit down hard. Muscles broke away, bones crushed into powder and with a quick jerk, my entire forearm came free. Blood was gushing as I grabbed the snag.

Then something strange happened. The air started to vibrate and the whole room whirled around twice meanwhile the pain had vanished. I was there again at the door, without a scratch. ‘What the hell happened?’ I was thinking still shocked. Like the time had been reversed and as I could saw I was the only one who noticed.

“Die now Inventor!” The Black Lion shouted and lunged forward. I did the same but learning from the previous events I made another move to the left side so I evaded the deadly jaws. He managed to claw my side but it wasn’t deadly.

My plan worked like a charm as I landed next by the bones. Barely had time to grab on a rib and he was already above me. So I stabbed in his neck while he clawed my chest. I stabbed and stabbed and stabbed on various places from his neck to his stomach, till my palm started to ache like hell. I couldn’t see because of the blood on my face and suddenly the rib slipped out of my hand. He collapsed next by me and did not move anymore. I was panting heavily and I knew there was another twenty lions in the room. If I’m lucky they will kill me quickly. Strange but the Darkness was still there and I could feel its waiting. It was waiting for me.

I was injured badly as he clawed me multiple times but the shock and the rush in my blood made me able to stood up. I was soaking in blood and I could feel it flowing down on my body. Mostly his blood but there should have been a good amount of mine too. The lions were watching me with pure surprise. I just killed their leader and I bathed in his blood.

“You killed the Lord of the Red Lady!” Alverta stood closer and shouted not just for me. As I was standing there and idea came.

“I’m the Darkness!” I shouted and took a step closer. The shadows were vibrating in joy. I could feel it. “I’m the Night Who Eat Stars!” Took another step. The shadows followed my movements like they were highlighting my words. “I’m the Lord of the Red Lady!” I rose my arms so they could see as the blood was dripping from it. In their eyes there were only fear. “I’m the Inventor! Fear me!” I filled my words with feelings so they could hear it I’m not just joking. I meant every single word. The darkness engulfed the bonfire and then vanished. I heard a weak voice behind me which told only one word; Master. I tried to not freak out. If it will stop the killings and the torturing I will become their leader, master whatever If I have to. I will become their walking nightmare if it won’t be enough.

Alverta stood closer and she was smiling. It was an evil smile but I could saw something else in it; Proud. She was proud of me because I killed the Black Lion. Oh hell what Efran will do with me once it is over!

***

The Healer’s Building. I could call it my home as I spent more time there than somewhere else. While Susan was patching me up and was shaking her head in disbelief at every wound, Amelia came to me with Efran, Harvey, Alverta and another twelve lion and human I have never seen before. They all wore leather armor like the City Guards.

“I’m in a big trouble, I guess.” I sighed, Amelia just rubbed her head to my back carefully. It meant the world for me. I would like to hug her and kiss her till the end of the times.

“You killed the Lord of the Red Lady.” Alverta said. “And you became the Lord of the Red Lady.” She smiled like it was a joke or something.

“I’m not… I’m just me. I just saved my life. But I’m glad I could stop the Sect too.” I took a deep breath and hissed in pain. My side was still hurting.

“Don’t move. You will ruin your stiches.” Susan warned me again.

“You are the Nameless Hero. Of course you did what you did. By killing that Monster, you saved maybe hundreds or more.” Efran seemed to be proud too. It was insane that I couldn’t even remember my own name and the Lions were proud of me somehow. All right, I saved many by stopping that monster indeed. Also I saved Christina who was his daughter. But despite these I wasn’t a heroic type.

The Darkness was my next huge question. It called me Master and it did with joy. It was like a reunion, like that monster stole it from me. But it did not make any sense. How could I be the Master of the Darkness? It was a bad title and I was sure I was the good guy not the bad. The Black Lion called me Inventor and sure I had good ideas but it was far from inventing things or building incredible machines. ‘Which can bend the time and space.’ I was thinking.

“The time. It behaved strange.” I spoke out loudly. Efran just cooked his head and stepped closer.

“Strange like?” He asked

“Like it was reversing itself so I could undo a bad move.”

“Bend the Calm of Eternity.” He whispered maybe just to himself. “There are a few tales or legends about priests can control the time itself. They say they can Bend the Calm of Eternity which means they can Bend the Time.”

“I’m not a priest.” I said.

“You don’t know. Maybe you are just forgot it.” He had the point I admitted. But I did not feel myself priest-like. I will add to the list of the things I don’t know. It is an enormous list already.

After Susan finished her job she made me swore not to move till the next morning. I asked if Amelia can stay with me and she said; sure, just don’t do anything naughty. I was freaked out by the fact she knew that we had sex in that bed a day ago. Amelia just spilled some oil to the fire as she promised she will do the ‘moving part’ this time. Susan laughed hard and made a remark about the amount of blood left in my body. I wished I could reverse the time again and fight with that Black Lion over and over, instead of listening the chit-chat about my ability to have sex after blood loss. It was embarrassing.

Efran gave me a book and he insisted I should read it through while I’m bed-chained. He also told me that book was about me and my future. On the cover there was a huge golden dragon. The title was:

The Eye of Omniscience