My Personal Demon Ch. 2
My Personal Demon
Chapter 2: The Hunted
'Hey Jake... My roommate wants to meet you before she approves of you'
'What is she, your mom XD'
'Very funny, just come on over to the Collin Complex, Apartment 43'
'Okay, I'll be there around 4, I have to go shopping before I run out of food'
'Okay, bring your guitar :)'
'Yes Milady'
He put his phone in his lap and brought the music back up, heavy metal angering everyone that pulled up alongside his '69 Dodge Charger, painted black with ghost flames along the sides. He liked doing this to the people on the road because everyone on the road in New York was rude as self immortalizing.
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I knocked on the door and waited patiently with a large grin on my face. A girl with brown hair and almost half my size answered the door. She smiled as she looked me over.
"Well, to what do I owe the pleasure handsome?" She said... great, someone who was flirting with me... not what I wanted unless it was someone else.
"Lustel asked me to come over so her roommate could meet me?" I said in a rather bland voice.
"You must be Jake" She said a little angry as she closed the door and I heard the locks coming undone, "Come on in"
The minute I closed the door I felt arms wrap around me, "Well hello there beautiful"
The phone came in front of me showing what she had typed, "Thank you so much for coming"
"No problem" My tone had drastically changed, "So, what do you want me to do to make her approve?"
"I was thinking play Forever by Papa Roach, then transform to prove that I wasn't lying about you having a big secret as well"
"Okay... well, first off, yes, my name's Jake" I said as I started walking down the hallway while holding Lustel's hand.
"I'm Karren, so let's see who you are and if you deserve to date my best friend"
"How old are you?" I looked at Lustel as she sat down beside me.
"1,000... us Dullahan's actually live a long time"
"Wow, you don't look a day over 20" I smiled as I pulled my guitar out and looked at her, "I dedicate this song to general purpose"
I started out with some light picking to get into a good rhythm before switching to a mixture of strumming and picking before I brought my voice into it. I could see the flames grow low though, a sign I've noticed means calm, but the calmer she get's the bigger but less aggressive they get. As they grew, they would get to the point of surrounding me.
"Through the brightest hour, of my darkest day... I realize, what is wrong with me. Can't get over you. Can't get through to you. It's been a helter-skelter, romance from the start. Take these memories, that are haunting me. Of a paper man cut into shreds.... By his own pair of scissors. He'll never forgive her, he'll never forgive her." I went into the chorus with an abrupt power chord, "Because days, come and go. But my feelings for you are forever. Because days, come and go. But my feelings for you are forever."
I could feel her hand run along my back, and I could feel the flames starting grow. But the song was too short... it was over before she would surround us with them. When I finished though, I had Karren won over, but I had Lustel won over even more so as she seemed asleep on my shoulder.
"Now the transformation that you both call it" Karren said as she looked at Lustel who sat up and got to her feet.
"Which one, I have two... half human, full demon" I said as I looked up at her.
"Which one got her covered in fur last night"
They both got to see the horrific sight of my bones crunching and remodeling themselves as I went from human to feral form. The blue flames dance about as I groaned and growled through the pain, but soon I standing before them as a Demonic wolf. I looked at Lustel who happily jumped on my back with a large hug.
"You can get on too" I said as I looked at Karren, "Just don't pull my damn hair"
"Okay" She said as she got on behind Lustel, giggling at the slight vibration of my breathing, a small growl escaping me as she let her feet fall and they slammed into my sides, "What's wrong, can't take the weight?"
"No, you let your feet fall and kicked me in the sides" I growled a little more than talk that time.
"Sorry" She said.
Lustel was ignoring us though, she had her arms around me tightly, stroking my chest. I felt the blush under my fur as Karren got off, Lustel relunctantly following her, but getting a surprise as I laid down, my tail wrapping around her and pulling her down with me, lying on top of me. I smiled as she laid her head on my chest and ran her fingers through my fur.
"Now I know why a dog likes getting a pet" I chuckled softly, sounded more like a choked growl with my current voice.
"Uh, guys, we have a problem" Karren said.
"What?" I asked as I looked at her.
"The cops have your bike Lustel, and S.W.A.T. is getting ready to storm the complex"
"Is there a way up to the roof?" I asked as Lustel got to her feet and ran into a room, coming out with the helmet I gave her on.
"Yes, just down the hall is the fire escape, they won't be on that yet, the ladder is lowered so they would have to get a folding latter or just come through the stairs"
"Get on Lustel, I'll get you out, we can get your bike back later" I said as Karren went out the door to get the larger window open for me to slip through in this giant form.
Once we were on the roof she was looking around, pulling her phone out but soon putting it back as I suddenly started running acrossed the roof and jumped to the next building, the impact jarring her but I showed no signs of me slowing. I went further and jumped the five stories to the ground where I gave her time to recover before I took off down the street as fast as I could through the allies. I was taking her as far away as I could. But somebody gave us away as I heard sirens, growing closer and closer from all around. I pumped as much energy into my paws as I could, the blue flames sprouting as I ran faster than I thought possible. I knew I was outrunning cars as The sirens were no longer detectable by my ears anymore.
"Don't worry, I'll take us to the beach, we can hide out and let things settled down for a while" I said as I started walking, letting my energy return before I started running again, I knew we were safe, but they would be searching high and low for us for a while.
"Why do you keep sticking your neck out for me... I can't die, and I can defend myself"
"I can't die either, so why let you take the bullet" I said as I looked over my shoulder, "Besides, a woman shouldn't ever have to fight on her own"
"Spare me the classic gentleman crap please" This shocked me in ways it shouldn't have, "I have every right to defend myself if need be"
"Yes, but I was there to save you, so why not just let me" I said as I stopped walking, "If you have a secret power as well, why make things worse for yourself by revealing that as well"
She didn't answer me as she just laid down on my back and shivered. I knew this was a hard fact, but she was already wanted... why make it worse on herself. I'm sure she could feel me thinking this, she was the first person that could understand what I was going through in a way, so why let her get hurt, she might not be able to die through conventional methods... but everyone has a number that just needs to been drawn.
"I'm not saying you shouldn't do anything... you're just the first person to actually understand me... I don't want to see anything happen to you" I said as I started waking again, "I hope you understand"
"I do... I just.... You shouldn't have to stick your neck out for me either"
"What if we stick our necks out at the same time" I said as an idea popped into my head.
"What do you mean?"
"What if we start cleaning up everything that's wrong with this city?" I said as I looked at her, "Just the two of us... we could do more than a cop can ever do"
"I don't know... will it really change anything?"
"Yes... for the normal people, for the rest of us, it won't change, we'll just be chased even more" I said as I looked over my shoulder at her again, this time with a large smile, "But we'd be using our secrets for something good"
"I still don't know Jake"
"Well... we can hide... we can let them chase us.... Or we can give them a reason to fear and chase us"
She fell silent as my paws hit sand... a soft crunch from my sheer weight. The beach was beautiful on this fine day, a gentle breeze turning my fur into gentle black flames. I could my form slowly fading though, so letting her ride on me was not an option for a while.
"Okay, time to get off.... I can't hold this form for much longer" I said softly, feeling her slide from my back as I slowly shrunk to my half way form. This was unique only to me because I was half human, "Sorry... full form needs energy because I'm half human, not full demon"
I fell to one knee in my normal demon form, panting hard from said exertion. I couldn't feel any part of my body from having stayed in that form for so long.
"Are you okay Jake?" She kneeled down beside me.
"Yeah, just need to let everything catch up and re-adjust" I said as I sat down, reverting to human form, "Haven't been in that form for that long before"
She rubbed my back, wrapping her legs around my hips. I chuckled as I caught her hand on my side and brought it around to kiss her knuckle. She pressed against my back and wrapped both arms around me as her hands started tracing the muscles of my chest. A song came to me... I wasn't really sure what song but I started singing regardless. I could feel her melting against me during it... maybe my voice was another one of my abilities. I could lull people into a different state by singing... I wouldn't use it if it was... the other side of me hoped that it was just Lustel feeling a deeper connection to me when she heard me singing. I didn't really want to find out... it would contribute to the always interested factor list.
"When do you think things will calm down enough for us to go back into town?"
"I don't know... we'll go to my apartment here in a little bit since I'm so close to the edge of the city" I said as I looked out across the water, "I can get my guitar and car when I take home"
"Okay"
"Sorry today was being such a drag"
"It's okay, it wasn't your fault"
"I know... but things could have went a little better" I said as I wrapped my arms around her legs and got to my feet and started walking towards town.
"True... but things didn't exactly go great for you either"
"Things did to go good for me, we ended up all the way out here by ourselves" I smiled as I tickled the bottom of her foot, "Ain't nothing better than that"
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"Home sweet home" I said as I snuck in through the back door of her apartment building, "See, and we had no trouble getting here"
"Oh shut up cutie"
"What, I did say I was gonna tell you I told you so" I chuckled as she dropped from my back and I walked up stairs with her, "Now, let's see what your roomie thinks of me after carrying you off like that"
"I don't care what she thinks, I'm gonna date you if I damn well please, I'm 977 years older than her"
I couldn't help it as I burst out with laughter, squeezing her hand slightly, "So a old lady wants to date a young man like me... I don't quite know if I'm ready to date a cougar"
She slapped my arm playfully. I smiled as we came to her door and she just walked in, pulling me in with her. I laughed as I saw Karren sitting there with a tub of ice cream in her lap, an expression of utter relief on her face.
"What's up buttercup?" I asked as she got to her feet and an up to us, hugging us almost tight enough to break ribs.
"I was so worried you two wouldn't make it back alive" She said rapidly.
"Calm down, damn" I joked, "You act like we're mortal or something"
"You might be, Lustel's not"
"I'm immortal" I said with a smile, "Probably more so than her"
"Is that a challenge Jake"
"Till death do we part" I winked at her, "So, do you approve or do I have to knock some sense into you"
"I approve, only because of your last action, not because of what we made you do just to prove to me that you were telling the truth" Karren said as she walked away and picked up my guitar case and held it out to me, "She told me you were a student and tomorrow is a school day so get the hell out of our apartment"
"Jeeze, why so bossy" I said as I started walking to the door again, Lustel walking with me, "I had fun today, we gotta do that again sometime"
"Don't worry, it'll happen more often as we start really getting into the couple roll"
"I'm certain" I smiled as I pulled her hand up and kissed it, "Till next time Mi'lady"
"Bye Jake" I walked out the door as she typed again, but she wasn't going to hit speak anyway, "I might accidently have fallen in love with you already"
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The next few days were absolutely brutal on my nerves. People were staring at me, whispering as I passed by, and a few pointing at me as if they knew something about me that made them hate me. A few of the guys that normally didn't mess with me were calling me a freak and making fun of me for reasons that never even made sense.
'I hate this... everyone is looking at me, whispering, and trying to bully me'
'Just ignore them Jake, you're fine'
'I know I'm fine but what the hell, I haven't done anything to them... they didn't even know that attack was me'
'I'm sorry... how about you meet me at the park tonight and I'll help you push them out of your head'
'Thanks babe, I need it'
I smiled as I slipped my phone in my pocket before walking into my next class, my signature western duds on. I'm sorry... when you grow up wearing these kind of clothes, it's hard to quit wearing these clothes. You grew up wearing them, you feel comfortable in them, sure I wear T-shirts and jeans, but that technically still counts as western cuz they fit just right, they show a little muscle through them, my jeans don't suffocate my legs and rear, they don't fall so low that they show my rear, and the bunch just a little at the bottom before you see that I'm wearing black or brown cowboy boots. I own a lot of cowboy boots, fancy ones for dates and dances, scuffed up brown ones that were my working boots, a nice pair of every day black boots, a air of everyt day brown, my old rodeo boots, and I have a pair of sneakers for jogging. But I've seen worse in New York, a lot of wanna-be cowboys dressing in fringed leather shirts and jackets, jeans that were too tight, and bright, mock leather boots that no sane person on earth would wear. So I knew they weren't poking fun at me because of my attire.
"Ah, Mr.Cutter, I heard that you were seen at the same place the S.W.A.T. team stormed yesterday" Professor McGregor said as I took my seat, "Did that have anything to do with you?"
"No, I was there to see an old friend that flew in to see his sister" I said as I sat down and began pulling out my class essentials, "Me and him used to buddy around in the rodeo before I moved out here"
"Oh, you used to ride in the rodeo, what did you do, rope, clown, sorting?"
"No sir, I was a bull and bronc rider primarily, every once in a while I'd step up on a saddle and do some bull dogging" I answered as I looked at him, "Now quit prying at my personal life and teach, that's what you get paid to do"
The class laughed as I sat back and opened my notebook and study book. I was having a bad day because of the whispering and staring, so I was already in a bad mood. The only thing running for me that day was Lustel, who I had just pretty dubbed her my girlfriend, the best girlfriend in the world.
"Alright class, today we're starting a new chapter, since you've all done so well in class, like I promised, we're going to focus on some Japanese mythology"
Yup, you probably would have never guessed it, I study mythology. I'm not that bad by the way... some people see a guy like me and don't expect me to be working on my third year in mythology classes. I seem to excel in Celtic Mythology, that's how I knew what a dullahan was when Lustel told me she was one. Dullahan is not a single being but an entire species, I would say according to folklore but I can't cuz I happen to be dating a dullahan. What interests me though is that I haven't seen her with her head, dullahans carry their heads with them.
'Hey, Lustel?'
'What's up cutie?'
'If you're a dullahan, how come I never see you with your head?'
'Right, well, I actually don't let people see it, I keep it in my room hidden'
'Do you think I'll ever get to see it?'
'I think you will sooner or later, don't worry babe, I wouldn't hide something like from you... you've seen my body, you make that dirty I will hit you, but sooner or later you're gonna have to see my head so don't worry about it'
'I'm not worried, I was just asking babe :)'
'Okay, is everything going all right with your class?'
'Yeah, I'm in my mythology class as we speak, this is my final class for the day'
'Mythology? You never told me you studied mythology!'
'Yeah, I take mythology class, linguistics class, and an archeology class'
'Wow... my boyfriend is smarter than I thought.... Don't get me wrong, I knew you were smart, I just didn't know you were that smart'
'Shut up DX'
':P'
'I'll see you tonight'
I chuckled inwardly as I sat there and listened to McGregor give the usual boring introduction speech. I didn't need it, I'd already done a little dabbing in the Japanese folklore obviously, I told Lustel I was an Ookamiyasha, I studied up on demons when I found out I was half. His introduction speeches usually lasted about the entire class so I just put my notebook and stuff up ahead of time.
"Why did you put your things away Mr. Cutter?"
"Because your introduction speeches always last the entire class and have no need for notes... plus I've already done a little digging into Japanese Folklore" I said flatly, "For instance, Ookamiyasha, the wolf demon, as it's believed to be, not Demon wolf, that would be yasha ookami"
"Hmm, sounds more like you've delved into language, not folklore"
"Ookamiyasha is a wolf demon, often seen in the folklore from Japans darker times. Don't get me wrong, it's still told these days, but this started back then when they actually believed these things were real. Sure, they were scared of Samurai and Ninja, but what can kill a demon, not a whole lot if you're a mortal man, so they spread these legends all across, but one thing stood out, was it real or not. I believe it started back when the Japanese wolf was still in existence, a Japanese wolf having been killed for its fur and not being blessed or laid to rest properly became the spirit known as Ookamiyasha. They came back because they were seeking vengeance, which entitles the demon part" I looked at him, knowing I was blowing smoke out my rear, I studied demons, not the back story of a single demon.
"Hmmm... that's an interesting theory Jake, well done" Mr. McGregor said as he seemed to start ignoring me.
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"Hey there my sweetness" I said as Lustel sat on the bench beside me, wearing a black summer dress this go around, "How was your day?"
"Horrible, the cops are looking all over for me... I was chased 10 times while trying to deliver a single damn package"
"I'm sorry" I said as I pulled her against me and looked down at her, "How can I help you forget about it?"
"I could use a shoulder massage" She said as she sat up.
I turned my entire body towards her and pulled her into my lap, "Just relax and unwind, let me take care of all your problems okay"
She did exactly that as my hands came to her shoulders and I started working the knots out, making her shiver and convulse in the pleasure of pressure release. She suddenly came back against me, my hands slipping forward and onto her chest... cupping her beautiful breasts.
"I think you should go to a full body with hands that magical"
I nearly swallowed my tongue at that sentence, "I know we haven't been dating for very long but... I wanna be with you a little more than we are now"
"As you wish Lustel" I said as I picked her up in my arms and carried her to my car.
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As soon as we got through the door, we lost our clothes. I picked her beautiful body up and carried her to the bedroom, laying her on the bed as she typed on her phone.
"Take it slow... I'm new at this" She said before placing the phone on the night stand before laying there for me to admire.
"Just relax okay... I'll be as slow as possible" I smiled as I started rubbing her stomach with a feather light touch.
She reached out and grabbed her phone, "May I make one more request?"
"Of course mi'lady"
"Can you... please change to your other form?"
I smiled as the blue flames started crawling over my skin again. She seemed to get excited as I hovered over her in this werewolf like state, bending to kiss at her neck before moving down to her breasts, my hands running along her hips and tickling at her thighs. She started shivering as my long and rough tongue danced over her hard nipples while a hand came up and started to massage her other breast. I caught her nipple in my mouth and sucked for a few seconds before moving to the other. I was nervous, I didn't want to move to fast or move to slow... and I didn't want to disappoint her. I wanted to give her a magical first time... something she wouldn't be ashamed of.
"Is it okay if I see it?" I asked as I brought my head up.
Her hands came up to my shoulder and gently pushed me down her body. I let my tongue lull out and the tip drag across her stomach before she spread her legs. It was like a pink rose... beautiful to me in ways you couldn't imagine.
"It's beautiful" I said as I reached out and tickled the outer labia with my fur.
She shivered as I teased her, bringing my lips to her inner thigh and kissing along it. It was a magical thing, feeling her react to my slightest touch. I didn't want it to end.
End Chapter 2