Thank you again for staying with me and reading another chapter of The Guardian. The usual disclaimers apply if you do not know what they are then go back and read the other chapters first since it is not nice to start a story in its middle.
The Guardian Fall to Light
As I lay there with darkness surrounding me I prayed and hoped that he would come to save me before that beast decided to take me again. I knew that I would not survive another session with it. Before they moved him to another cage I had told Brandon that Arkail would come for us but he just laughed and asked why would he care enough to risk his neck for us. And even if he did what made me think that he would have any better lick saving us than I had had saving him. I don't know why but I knew he would I just hoped he would be in time.
All the sudden there was an ear splitting scream and a bright flash of white light. The people in my cage jumped back causing me to hit my head on the bars behind me and pass out. I have a vague memory of Brandon arguing with someone and then being picked up and carried. Before I totally blacked out again I remember hearing Arkail's voice telling Brandon that I would be ok and for some reason I wanted to yell I told you so at Brandon. As I fell into the darkness I knew I would be all right because my angel had come for me and was taking me to his palace of light.
As I returned to consciousness I was aware of being in a soft bed that smelled like lavender. I still hurt all over and at first was scared because I was not sure if this was some trick being played on me by that monster or not. Then all my fears disappeared as I heard his voice.
It sounded like he was praying to something. I heard him pray " Lord above and Lady below I beseech you not to take him away from me this time. I ask you to please allow me to feel his love and know that he will be by my side even if it will only be for a fleeting moment in comparison to what I will live. Give me these moments of happiness as a reward for my long years of service. Let me not be alone for a while. As it be above so be it below. So mote it be."
Did I just hear him right? Did he just pray to something to let me be a part of his life? Then I felt him kiss my forehead. I was shocked. It was true he did love me.
I then heard him say " Caleb I love you and you had better not leave me. I have been alone long enough already. You are the bright light that I need to dispel the darkness that is my life. Come back to me and stay with me always."
As I felt him put his head down and fall asleep I was shocked wordless at what I had just heard. All I could do was open my eyes and look over at him as he sat in a chair asleep with his head on the bed. I could not believe how beautiful he looked lying there. I knew then that even though there was much about him that was a mystery to me that I wanted to spend my life with him.
I lay back and closed my eyes thinking back on all the events that had brought me to where I was today. I came from a good family not a rich one but we had what we needed. I was the middle child of three boys and my father and mother were both high school teachers. I had known that I was gay from the time I was about 12 and all the other boys started noticing girls and I was noticing the boys. I had had a couple of boyfriends in middle school but then I n\met the guy that I thought was the one I wanted to be with always.
I was 15 at the time and he was 19. We met at a beach party that my older brother threw and ended up hitting it right off. After the party we started going out together. About six months after we started dating he decided to move to Texas. I begged him to take me with him as I thought I would surely die if he left me. After arguing about it for two weeks he finally agreed to let me come. The day we left I told my parents I was not feeling well and stayed home from school. After everyone left I packed some of my clothes and took all the money I had saved up and called him. He came and picked me up and off to Texas we headed.
We had a blast on the way there. We took our time driving and stayed in hotels at night. It was a cheap hotel off the beach in Gulfport MS called The Alamo Plaza that I finally lost my virginity. It was painful and I did not enjoy it at all. James told me it would feel better as I got use to it. After he was done I asked if I could do him but he no because he did not let anyone do that. This was my first time and afterwards in my mind I had always imagined us cuddling and talking to the wee hours of the morning. But apparently that was not to be because he rolled over and went to sleep.
I lay there unsatisfied and with my illusions of love shattered. I should have realized then that James did not love me and was just using me. The next morning we got up and headed to Dallas. Thankfully we drove all the way there without stopping. Once in Dallas he found us a small apartment on the bad side of town. We spent the next couple of months growing apart as on the rare occasions he came home all he wanted to do was fuck me and then he would roll over and fall asleep. Never once in all those times did he ever do anything to get me off all he worried about was himself.
I was having to use all the money I made working odd jobs to keep the bills paid and food in the apartment while he went out every night and partied. What finally brought me back to my senses was when I saw him and another guy sitting outside a restaurant making out. Seeing this was the last straw for me and instead of going up and making a scene by confronting him I ran back to the apartment and cried myself to sleep as I realized how blind I had been. You know they are correct when they say love is blind because my love for James blinded me from seeing how badly he was using me.
I decided that night that as soon as I got some money saved I was out of there. I did not know where I was going to go yet I just knew I had to get away. Over the next week I saved up every penny I made and then on the night I decided to leave I waited till he fell asleep and took all the money from his wallet. Altogether I ended up with about $800. Over the week I had decided that I was going to head to San Antonio. I had talked to several people I knew and it seemed like a good place to go. I went down to the bus station and bought a ticket on the next bus heading there.
Over the next few days I realized that I would not be able to find a place to stay except for on the streets. I also found out that finding odd jobs like I had in Dallas was impossible. I ended up having to turn to panhandling to get money to survive. There were several shelters in the area I could have gone to but they wanted to preach to you and have you go to therapy sessions and stuff. They were always trying to get you to tell them why you ran away and where you were from so that they could get you back home. Thankfully spring had just started so I did not have to worry about the cold just finding someplace hidden and dry to sleep. A couple of weeks later I was walking around Travis Park when I noticed a younger teen who was probably about 14 sitting on one of the cannons crying. I decided to walk over to him and see what was wrong.
After asking him what was up he told me that some of the older boys had beat him up and stole all the money he had managed to get. He also told me that he had not eaten in a couple of days so I decided that since I had had a good hay and managed to get about 20 dollars already that I would take him down to McDonalds with me and get him something to eat. When we got there he ordered three double cheese burgers and two spicy chicken sandwiches and ate them all in the time it took me to eat two double cheeseburgers.
After we were done eating we went for a walk along the River Walk and he told me his name was Adam and about how he had ended up on the streets. After spending the afternoon with him I decided he was cool and asked him if he wanted to stay with me and the two of us team up and help each other. He was just about jumping for joy when he heard this so I took that for a yes and showed him where I had been staying for the last week. I had found an old film studio right outside downtown. I showed him how to slip between it and the lawyer's office next to and open a window I had found unlocked before. When I had found the place I noticed a room that did not have any windows so I had gone out and bought a lantern so we were able to sit in there talking and playing cards. We could faintly hear music coming from the gay bar across the street so it was not that bad. This pretty much set the pattern for the next few weeks until we found the third member of our group.
Adam and I were on our way back to our place when just before stepping on the bridge over I-35 we heard a moan. Looking down over the side of the concrete embankment we saw a kid about our age laying down there beaten and bruised. The two of us climbed down to him and see if there was anything we could do. Apparently he had had an argument with his John and the guy had beaten him and left him for dead. We helped him to his feet and took him back to where we were staying. Once there we cleaned him up as well as we could and then put him on one of the air mattresses that we had found to rest and heal.
It took him a week to get better and during that time we never left him by himself. I would go out and get money in the mornings and then in the afternoon bring back food and anything else we needed that we could afford. Not much happened from then until I met Arkail. The three of our lives had pretty fallen into a pattern of struggling to survive and dreaming of our futures and what we would do when we were finally old enough to actually live on our own.
It was about six months after I had run away from home that I first met Arkail. I was sitting in the park contemplating committing suicide when I first saw him. For the last couple of weeks I had been falling into darkness, as life seemed to be futile. I mean why did I give up my nice life at home to have to struggle everyday just to survive. But then he walked up and something about him caused me to start falling back towards the light. I did not say much to him but it was just something about him that told me everything would be ok. Over the next couple of weeks I noticed that I saw him walking around downtown a lot so I figured that his family must live there somewhere.
At night I started to dream about him and me being a couple but knew it would never happen because once he found out that I was a street kid he would not want anything else to do with me. Until the day that I first went out to lunch with him I wondered what he was truly like. Then after a few weeks of talking to him at lunch he asked me to help him move some furniture around. About a week before this Brandon had disappeared and I had been asking around trying to find out what had happened to him. It was the night before Arkail invited me over to his house that I apparently asked the wrong people because they beat the shit out of me and told me to forget about my friend. Once I got to Arkail's he offered to let me use his shower and there was no way I could turn down the chance of a hot shower.
As I got undressed in the bathroom I noticed the soaps and shampoos and smelled them all thinking of how much they reminded me of Arkail. Everything was scented lavender and just the smell of it relaxed me. I turned the shower on as hot as I could stand it. As I soaped up my body I could not help but think about the fact that this was were Arkail showered and the thought of his nude body caused the obvious reaction from my body. I figured that since I had some privacy I might as well take care of it and as my hands traveled over my body I let my mind wonder over a fantasy of mine with Arkail.
The two of us were in a bedroom with me laying on a bed and him standing next to it. He slowly gets onto the bed and starts to kiss me passionately. He rolls over to where he is laying on top of me as he continues to kiss me and examine the inside of my mouth with his tongue. He starts to grind his hips into mine causing our hardness to press together through our clothes. As he continues to kiss me he starts to move down my body kissing and sucking on my neck. He then lifts me up so he can pull my shirt over my head and continue his ministrations down my neck to my chest where he takes one of my nipples into his mouth sucking and nibbling on it causing bolts of pleasure to shoot through my body. He then continues down my chest to my stomach placing butterfly kisses the whole way. As he reaches my pants he unbuckles and unzips them using only his teeth. Then sitting up he grabs them by the bottoms and pulls the off of me leaving me laying there in nothing but my boxer briefs. He then lays down on top of me again and resumes exploring my mouth with his tongue. Wanting to feel his skin against mine I roll us over so that I am on top of him. I sit up as I am impatient to see him in all his glory and pull his shirt over his head and then reach down and unbuckle and unzip his pants felling the hardness underneath. Then I grab his pants and boxers both by their waistbands and pull them off. As he is freed from his boxers his member snaps up hitting his stomach and leaving a puddle of pre-cum behind in his belly button. I sit back for a minute and admire his beauty for a moment before attacking his belly button and licking up the sweet nectar it contains. Just the thought of its taste causes me to cum into my hand in the shower. What is funny is that I never get past that point in the fantasy. I always end up blowing right then.
After the shower I helped Arkail move the stuff out of the bedroom and ended up staying the night in the guest bedroom. The next day even though I had promised to meet Arkail for lunch I knew I would not as I needed to act on the information I had gotten two days before. I went to the greyhound station and purchased a ticket for New Braunfels. Once in New Braunfels I had to walk out to the caverns. When I finally arrived at them I was caught after about 15 min of searching. They took me down to the caves and put me into a cage. I will not go into the details of what happened to me down there because needless to say it was horrible. So this brings us back to where we began and I still did not know what to do about Arkail.
Arkail lifting his head from the bed and looking at me brought me out of my thoughts. As I looked into his eyes all I could do was tell him that I loved him. Before he could respond I reached up and pulled him down into a passionate kiss. At first he did not kiss back making me think that maybe I was wrong but then his shock wore off and he kissed me back passionately. I tried to pull him down on top of me just like in my fantasies but as his weight started to press on me I gasped in pain. Arkail immediately Jerked up and looked at me worried that he had hurt me but it had just been his weight pressing on my bruised body and the pain was fading already. Sensing my need to be close to him he crawled into the bed next to me and placed my head on his shoulder. We lay there for a while just enjoying the closeness of one another and before long fell asleep.
Several hours later I was awaken from my comfortable slumber by the sound of giggling. Looking up I saw Adam and Brandon standing in the doorway. I picked up a pillow telling them to scram and leave us in peace. After they left I lay there thinking about all the questions I had. The first thing I needed to do was talk to Arkail about the guys moving in with as I knew I could not leave them on the streets and I could not think of not being with Arkail. After about 15 min of laying there nature's call got the best of me and I had to carefully untangle myself from Arkail and got to the restroom. Once I had taken care of that I decided to go to the living room and have a talk with Brandon and Adam.
The two of them where sitting on the couch playing video games when I walked in. Sitting down next to them I asked them how they felt about the way things had been going on. They both agreed that since they had gotten to Arkail's that they had been enjoying themselves. Before I could ask them anything else Arkail walked into the room and said that there were a few things he needed to talk to us about. He first said that we all three were welcome to stay in his apartment with him as long as we wanted with no strings attached but that before we decided there were some things about him we needed to know.
He started by telling us that he was older than he looked, much older. He explained that there were unusual circumstances that came into play that kept him from aging past the age of 16 physically. He said he thought it would be best to explain who and what he was before he told us exactly how old he was. So he told us the story about how he because a Guardian and the things he had went through before hand that had pushed him into doing it. The thing was that he did not just tell us the story he actually showed us his memories of it and it was like we were living through them ourselves. Once he had finished he explained that these things had happened a little over 2,000 years before so he guessed that made him about 2,000 years old. He explain that with the commitment to the Goddess he had made he was granted special training and abilities in the mystic arts. That also with the position came the gift of immortality. He then explained that he was tired of being alone and wanted to train the three of us to become Guardians and then see if the Lady would accept us into the fold. After telling us all this he decided that we needed to talk this over amongst ourselves and decide what we wanted to do.
After he left the room the first to speak was Brandon saying " Talk about dropping a bombshell on ya and then just walking away like this was something that happened everyday. I mean how many people can say that they know someone who was born before Christ and then have them offer to give you a chance at immortality."
I just looked at them and told them that my decision was already made and that I was planning on staying with Arkail and if that was for the rest of time then so much the better. At least it would give us plenty of time to explore all the possible ways of making love. I decided that I would let the two of them talk amongst themselves and decide I just hoped they made the decision to stay with us. I walked to the kitchen and got a drink before heading out onto the balcony to watch the night sky. Looking at the stars I decided that maybe all the suffering was worth it after all because it was what had brought me to were I was now and that I thought I could deal with things as long as I was with Arkail. Eventually I dozed off out there while watching the stars and daydreaming about Arkail and my future life with him.
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