Hello again. Yes this is tha anoying bit that I put here before the story. Skip it if you like. My apologies to everyone who waited patiently for this chapter. Thanks to a wonderful thing call life, I was unable to finish and post this untill now. I will spare you the ugly details. If you are under 18 I wouldnt get caught reading this this cause its illegal. just have to make sure you know. Anyways, here is the last chapter of the story. Enjoy.
Into the Darkness: Chapter 6
Rustys whole world changed in an instant. He felt his last mental wall crumble and braced himself. The Darkness swirled in his mind. Without warning there was a bright flash as the small glow burst into a prismatic light show. The Darkness let out a scream of hatred and frustration as it was forced back further and further by the expanding sphere of Light. Before long it was in a full retreat from Rusty's mind as the Light spread throughout, cleansing everything it tainted part it could find. Augustus shot his eyes open when he didn't feel the change he expected and only saw Rusty staring back at him with glowing green eyes and a very pissed off look on his face.
"What the h...." He was cut of sharply by the sound of breaking chains. Rusty wasted no time and shoved Augustus with both hands. Augustus was sent flying across the room and into the wall. Rusty slammed his hands into the wall behind him with enough force to launch him to his feet and breaking the remaining chains. Augustus groggily got back onto his feet and tried to figure a way out this situation, he decided to try reason.
"Rusty you can't hurt me. I thought you loved me..." Rusty had face that showed nothing but anger and righteous vengeance.
"You are not the August I fell in love with. You killed him you dark bastard! I know he can't come back. But I wont let him live like this." And with that he began walking towards Augustus. The Dark Augustus wasn't stupid and quickly bolted from the room, only his shirt flapping behind him. Rusty gave chase immediately, the tatters of his clothes falling away quickly.
Rusty paid little attention to his surroundings focusing only on catching the "fake" Augustus. He only noticed that they were in some kind of underground cave after dodging a few outcroppings of rock. Augustus had no clue on how to get out of the caves and was running blindly until he ran into a circular room with no other exit, except for a long journey up into some kind of pipe system. Augustus spun around to find Rusty leaning on the wall by the entrance with crossed arms.
"So what are you going to do now Demon?"
"Looks like I don't have much choice. I can let you kill me, or I can have the satisfaction of killing you and then being killed by the Masters for killing you."
"So what's your choice, Demon?" Augustus didn't even blink before launching a wave of dark energy at his former friend. Rusty jumped clean over it, flying a good distance into the air, and planted a bare foot into Augustus' jaw knocking him down. Augustus quickly jumped back to his feet, blocked the second kick sent his way, and countered swiftly with a fist into Rusty's gut. Rusty stumbled backwards and paused. The stared at each other again, both trying to determine the others next attack.
Rusty went back on the offensive quickly sending another kick to Augustus' midsection. Augustus sidestepped and open handed him dead in the chin. Rusty flipped and landed on his front. He was stunned but managed to respond quickly by grabbing Augustus' legs and lifting with all his strength. Augustus did a full flip before hitting the ground. Both jumped back up to their feet. And faced each other again. Rusty took some time to dust himself off in spite.
Augustus sent another energy wave at Rusty, but this time Rusty was too close to dodge and was forced to raise a shield of energy to block it. The force of the blow sent him sliding into a wall hard enough so that several pipes fell from above and landed in between them. Rusty let out a horrid yell and retaliated with a wave of his own. Augustus also blocked with a shield and was pushed into a wall, causing more destruction in the area. The battle became more and more intense. Soon both parties were bleeding from minor cuts and scratches. Both breathing quite heavily. They were so evenly matched that neither could gain a clear advantage over the other. The faced off about ten feet apart from each other.
"Give up Rusty. You aren't strong enough to beat me." Rusty pointed to a large gash on Augustus chest that was still bleeding and barely covered by the now tattered shirt he wore.
"You will fall eventually. I don't care. I can wait."
"Oh can you? I don't think so."
"And why is that?"
"Cause you woke my new Masters." And with that Augustus pointed upwards into the remaining pipes. They appeared to be one creature until Rusty determined they were only intertwined. Rusty saw two figures which were partially covered in the shadows and sitting on the pipes. They were both obviously male and either wearing something quite scant or nothing at all. Rusty was neither impressed nor intimidated.
"You two are next."
"I hardly think you are in any condition to be making idle threats Rusty." Rusty recognized the voice instantly. James.
"Oh its you James. Geeze, I was going to be afraid for a moment." Rusty mad sure his voice was dripping with sarcasm during that statment. "I should kill you now for what you did to Augustus."
"Oh I'm sorry. Did we take your lover boy away from you? You can still be with him you know."
"And you know that will never happen. I would rather die again first." James let out a light but evil sounding chuckle.
"That can be arranged." James leapt at Rusty with blinding speed. Rusty didn't even have time to blink before he felt a foot in his chest, a pain in his wrists and the ground against the back of his head. He shook his head and looked around. He saw James standing a few feet away with Augustus beside him. He was right about his apparel at least. James was only wearing a black loincloth allowing all of his toned muscles to show. At first glace you wouldn't think he was a high school student. They were both smiling and James had some blood dripping from his fingers. Rusty checked his wrists and had to choke back a scream. He was bleeding quite badly from the new wounds in his arms. They were abnormally large and were also covered in an unidentifiable black substance. The pain was incredible. Rusty jumped up to his feet but staggered and fell right back down.
"Is something wrong Rusty?" All three of the dark minions started to laugh as Rusty could feel his strength slip away.
"You are not even worth my time anymore. I don't care about you. I just want your soul. I can wait however long it takes. Maybe this time I will just get you while you are still a kid. That way I don't have to deal with this anymore." For a second, Rusty stopped to wonder just how old James really was. The increasing pain brought him quickly back to his present situation. James jumped back up to the pipes, making it look as easy as climbing a staircase, and re positioned himself with the other figure. The two of them kissed for a moment before James spoke again. "What do you think John? Should we keep trying or just wait till next time around, again?"
"I don't know. I am getting sick of trying to search for him over and over and then letting him go again." John looked over the naked and prone figure of Rusty on the ground. "And it would be a pain to put this body to waist. This is one of the better ones he has had." The two of them went into a discussion as Augustus kneeled down next to Rusty. He had a smug 'I told you so' look on his face. Rusty could only look blankly at him as he tried to stay conscious. Augustus began to run a hand on Rusty' groin lightly.
"If only you had listened. If you had just gone where I wanted to take you. You wouldn't be here in trouble right now. We would be together, for all time. But you and your pride. Now look at you. Your fate is in their hands."
"Well if we do it like that, we don't really need his lover boy do we?" James thought about John's idea.
"You are right. We could have him all for ourselves. If nothing else we could drain a nice amount of energy from him daily. And we wouldn't have to use that energy on 'lover boy' over there." James smiled as he spoke.
"Then we are agreed. So who gets to kill Romeo?"
"You haven't killed anyone for a while so why don't you go ahead." John gave James a very long kiss.
"Thanks."
John separated himself from James, jumped down from the pipes, and landed so that he was behind Augustus. John was a rather tall person. About six feet and nine inches. But he wasn't like most tall people in the fact that he had enough mass to justify his stature. Despite his teen like features he was a walking example of physical fitness and perfection. The person everyone always sees in the gym and thinks 'I will look like that if I work out enough'. He wasn't body builder size, but toned enough so that you could see the power his muscles held, much like a swimmer or runner. He had a few scars here and there, obviously battle scars. There was a large one on his neck that was partially covered by the silver hair that lightly brushed his shoulders as he walked up to the to teens on the ground. The small amount of light in the room shimmered on the thin layer of sweat that covered his body that was devoid of all hair. He too was also wearing a black loincloth. Augustus promptly moved out of the way and bowed.
"What are we going to do now Master?"
"We are going to try a different method. You on the other hand, are no longer required." John spoke with quite a relaxed, business as usual tone that was very unsettling to both Rusty and Augustus.
"What? But master, I can do anything you ask of me. I am..." He was cut of by johns more powerful voice.
"Another mouth to feed energy to and an extra weight that doesn't produce much." His tone was becoming much more firm.
"But Master I am..." Augustus was once again cut off.
"Finished!" John snatched Augustus up by his neck, lifting him with ease. The difference in size making Augustus seem like a small pre-teen in comparison. Augustus grabbed John's wrist and fought to break free with little success. John reached out with his other hand and cupped Augustus' balls and squeezing them gently. "Too bad, you were fun to toy with." James pulled the smaller one close and gave him a dangerously rough kiss that drew blood from Augustus' lip. John then looked down at the barely conscious Rusty. "But James and I plan on upgrading to the better model. He should be even better than you. Besides, this plan on getting him has to work, one-way or the other. Sorry. Ooops, never mind. I am not sorry." An anger flared in Augustus as his protective feelings somehow resurfaced, his eyes flashing for a brief moment. John either didn't notice or didn't care. Rusty also became protective. He somehow managed to draw up enough strength to speak.
"If you hurt him any more I swear I will..." Rusty was silenced by a swift kick to his kidneys and John's voice.
"You will do nothing but sit there and watch helplessly!" John turned him around in mid air and held him suspended at in a full nelson. "I was just going to kill you. But I decided that just killing you would be boring. So I think I will make this interesting." The swelling behind the loincloth was almost instant, like watching a plant grow in time-lapse. The loose fabric was roughly shoved aside to reveal an impressive monument to testosterone.
All Rusty was capable of was focusing his energy to keep himself alive and to numb the pain as he watched his former friend skewered by John like a Sunday rotisserie. He saw every muscle in Augustus' body clench and contort with pain. John kept his casual attitude despite the fact he was holding Augustus in mid air by arm strength alone. His movements started at a slow pace, taking his time. John wanted to make sure that his prey felt all 10 inches. Augustus was practically a Picasso. His body straining at the pain, struggling to free himself. While at the same time his face betrayed the pleasure he was feeling. He couldn't help it; the Darkness had thoroughly corrupted and twisted his senses. He was feeling pain, but not like a normal human. At one point the pain would shift to an almost euphoric feeling and then swing right back into a nerve splitting sensation
After warming himself up, John had bored quickly. Plain old sex was just never enough for him. He released Augustus' arms from the nelson, gripped both his wrists with one hand, and held him with his arms fully extended straight up. A ring of Dark energy wrapped itself around his wrists and held Augustus suspended in mid air. With his hands now free, John gripped Augustus by the hips and increased the speed of his thrusts. He leaned forward to whisper in Augustus' ear.
"By the time I am done, you will wish I could kill you twice." About this point all Augustus could respond with was a twitch. And without further pause, John started to lay totally into Augustus, as fast and as hard as he could. A scream shout out of Augustus' throat as he felt his life force being ripped from his body. Rusty watched with gritted teeth and teary eyes, wishing he had the strength to move. John sensed the emotions coming from Rusty and looked down at him.
"Awww. What's wrong? Felling left out?" Rusty responded glare and a pained growl. "I know, I know. It's a nice piece of ass isn't it? Oh wait, that's right. You don't know. And you will never get the chance. Too bad. James liked it almost as much as I do."
John shifted slightly so that Augustus was directly facing Rusty. The expressions on Augustus' face a distorted mix of pleasure and pain. Horrifying to Rusty was the fact that he saw more pleasure than pain. He knew it couldn't be helped, but he hated it all the same. His eyes were drawn away from his friends face and downwards when he noticed John had gripped the hardened penis jutting out from Augustus' groin. An aura of blackness surrounded the assailant's hand for but a second and then it was gone. John felt his orgasm approaching and spoke between heavy gasps.
"To bad...this is...the closest...you will get...to having...him..." And with those words it was finished. John had drawn enough life out of Augustus to kill him, and with clenched teeth, John emptied himself into the smaller teen. Augustus had his back arched into what had to be a damaging curve, his muscles twitching due to a lack of strength to flex fully. A large spray of cum spewed forth from his dick, its volume enhanced by John's powers. And thanks to the placement of John's hand, the blasts hit Rusty dead in the face. It took at least seven spurts before the flow subsided to normal levels. John paused only to smile at Rusty before removing himself from Augustus and removing the restraint on his wrists. He tossed the Augustus' still cumming body so that it lay parallel to Rusty.
"Damn that was good. But I hate wasting good ass." John chuckled as he leapt up into the pipes to sit on the lap of James. James gave a quick kiss to his lover before turning his attention to Rusty.
"Oooops. Poor Rus, no more Gus. Listen Rusty. Here is how it is going to be. You have two choices. First, the foolish choice would be to try and fight us. And in that case you will watch the same show happen to a random student from your school, or teacher if I am in the mood, every day you resist. And I will make sure to tell them that it's your fault. And if for some reason we can't dig up a person, then we'll just torture you so bad that pain becomes synonymous with breathing for you. Or, you have the smart choice. You can just accept your fate, join us, and be happy for once in your life. Get what you want out of your life. And then if you die, you get to join the winning side of the War. Your call buddy. I'll give you a sec to think about that." James went back to John; lust gripping his heart yet again as the two began to make out the world was going to end.
Rusty didn't even have the strength to cry. He just stared at his lost friend. He knew they had actually spared Augustus from what he thought was a fate worse than death. In fact, he was planning on killing Augustus himself. So why did he feel such a great loss? Maybe it finally hit him that his friend was gone for good. He contemplated which was worse. Loosing a friend to death, or loosing a friend that you would see every day for the rest of your life and knowing that same friend plotted against you. He knew this was a better path and accepted the loss. So imagine his surprise when Augustus moved.
Rusty would have jumped, if he had the strength. Augustus turned his head to look Rusty in the face. Not only was he still alive, his eyes were green again. Rusty couldn't figure it out. He had about a hundred questions to ask, but didn't have the strength to speak anymore. Augustus, empathic as always, answered his question anyway in a quiet hushed tone.
"I know you are shocked. You can thank Nic later. But I don't have much time. This body wont survive, no matter what. So I must be brief. I have just enough energy left to restore you. The wounds on your arm are not as bad as they seem. They are merely sealing your strength. I wont give you the text book movie "Get them back for me" speech. I will only say this. You are mostly free from the Darkness' influence now. It still can sway you, just like any other human. But the choices you make are your own now. Don't let my death stop you. Go and live your life, be a teenager while you still can. This isn't the end. Death is never an end, only another beginning. I will see you when the fates cross our paths again. And I will always love you." As the last words left Augustus, his eyes closed for the last time, Rusty could feel the wounds on his arm stop hurting and begin to seal slowly. Rusty quietly chuckled to himself as he thought about how many dying monologues his friend seemed to have in him. Unaware as to what caused that thought, Rusty took on his serious demeanor, closed his eyes, and prepared himself.
"So Rus. What do you..." James looked down to see what he thought was a sleeping Rusty. "Great.... I wanted him to stay awake! Would you go wake him please?"
John jumped down yet again, walked over to Rusty and prodded him with a foot. No response. He nudged him again, harder this time. The nudge caused an arm to shift into his view, and he saw the distinct lack of the power restraints.
"Hey James..." Too late. He could say no more when a foot caught him in the chest, freeing the air with which he meant to speak. John staggered back several feet clutching his chest while at the same time Rusty was jumping to his feet. By the time John could look up, all he got to see was a very pissed off Rusty charging him. Rusty shoulder blocked the larger teen, hitting with enough power to lift him off the ground and ran him full force into a rock wall. The impact caused a thunderous noise and a mess of pipes to dislodged themselves. James, who was also caught by surprise at Rusty's action, fell along with the pipe he was sitting on. Steam exploded from openings broken in the rock with a loud hissing noise. The whole area seemed to have exploded into pure chaos. Blood spewed forth from John's mouth. Rusty took a few steps back; red wisps of energy radiating from his naked body. The room continued to shake as he spoke.
"Hey asshole." John looked up. "Payback's a bitch" Rusty exploded into a fury of attacks upon the weakened target. He administered a beating so harsh even the most battle hardened warrior would have flinched just by watching. By the time James hit the ground, John was lying in a pool of blood expanding from his head with several limbs bent at angles not accessible through normal joint movement. Rusty spun to face an obviously startled James. Rusty gave him a stare that would cause a charging rhino to reconsider its action.
"You are next James."
"Fine, take the hard way. I'll just kick your ass again."
Rusty started walking at James. James backed up a few steps before throwing a bolt of Dark energy at Rusty. The enraged teen knocked it clean out of the air with his bare hand. James tried another bolt, with more energy focused into it, and met with the same results. Changing his tactics he ran straight at Rusty bringing his hand back to strike. Rusty caught his fist inches from his own face, twisted James arm around behind his back, and started running. With little delay, James quickly had his face planted into a rock wall. One of his arms held behind his back, the other held against the wall.
"Well James, isn't this an unusual turn of events. Now look who is in trouble? Is this how you like it? No way to escape, totally vulnerable to the desires of your captor? Huh?! Are these the feelings you enjoy inflicting on whoever you find attractive that day?!" James felt a definite pressure moving in between his buttcheeks. "How would you like to feel that? How about I suck the life from you?!" James only laughed.
"Go ahead. Come one. You know you want to. Just like me you would relish every sensation. You would love it. Cause just like me your soul was borne in Darkness. No matter if you work for the Light or us you will always have a dark soul. Why do you think they want you on their side so bad? They stole you from us. Even though you really belong with us. So come on! Fuck me! I'll love it! I'll do anything to get you back!" Rusty let him fall to the ground as he made a decision to end this. No more fighting. No more killing. No more powers. None of it. He wanted out.
"You are finished James. Done. I am done. I am done with this war! Leave me out of it! If you try to interfere in my life ever again, I will kill you where you stand. I wont think about it. I won't even pause to consider. If you bump into me on accident, you die. Am I understood!?!?" James only got onto his knees and looked up into Rusty's face. "Good." Rusty grabbed his head and slammed it into a wall knocking James out. The energy stopped radiating from Rusty as he began to calm down. The steam stopped and the noise soon ceased as well.
Rusty walked over to Augustus' body, picked it up, and carried it over his shoulder as he left the room. He followed the rock corridor back the way he came, past the holding cell where he was kept. He followed it for what seemed like a long time till at last he felt outside air blowing into him. He took hallways that the air came from till he came across a door on his left side. He knew it wasn't the way out but it was the only door he had come across. He set his friend down and cautiously opened the door. Inside was obviously a torture room. It was also obviously the room they had changed Augustus in. Rusty came to this conclusion thanks to several signs. There was a table designed to hold a person down. There were various implements scattered about on tables and on the floor. Some of these could be identified others could not. Some were of an obviously sexual nature. But the big kicker, was the white trench coat that was laying in a corner. Rusty took this to mean they had a preliminary session with Augustus before he woke up in his cell. 'Why didn't you tell me August?'
Rusty walked into the room. He was careful to avoid anything sharp as he made his way to the coat and picked it up. Surprisingly, it was still clean. He left the room without a second glance and wrapped the coat around his friend before picking him up again. After about 5 minutes more of walking he found his way outside. He was standing in the middle of a forest, somewhere in the mountains. 'Where the hell am I?' was his only thought. He realized now that the only way home was to use some of his abilities. There was no way he could explain to who ever found him why he was naked in the mountains carrying a dead body that had severe damage to its posterior. And that is only if he found someone before he starved to death or was killed by some animals. He focused his energy and within a few seconds, he disappeared in a flash of light.
He buried Augustus two days later. There was no funeral service, no family, and no friends. There wasn't even a graveyard. Instead Rusty buried his friend on his own property in a wooded section next to his wing of the house. The spot he had picked out was right next to a lake. It was the same spot they were standing at when Augustus first told Rusty about his dream and then "forgot". He paid for the coffin and headstone with cash and had it done as fast as possible. The stone was a pre-made design, but it fit so well that Rusty couldn't think of anything better. It was a statue of a typical angel holding a sword standing on a large rock. There was no name and no date. But Rusty did put an inscription on it.
'True Warriors are never born, True Saviors are never forgotten, True Friends never die.'
He knelt in front of the grave holding back his tears. He just kept repeating in his head, 'Death is never an end'. It took him a second before he spoke out loud.
"I guess they were wrong August. Not all warriors die alone. A part of me died with you. But it is thanks to you that the rest of me can continue to live. And Fates willing, we will cross paths again some day."
Rusty kissed his hand and placed the kiss on the white rock. He then stood, turned and walked back to his house, and his new life, with the white trench coat he wore flapping in the gentle breeze of dusk.
For anyone who remembers the vote, I cant tell you what the results were. I will only say that it was close and the differance was one vote. In light of that, I tried to make everyone as happy with the ending as I could. Let me know what you think of it by emailing me at DivineGlow@aol.com. And also be on the look out for my next story in a few days.