Chapter 12 Ren's Resurrection
I ran through the tunnels towards Ratede, bypassed the Dhampir Guards entirely using [Tunneling] to forge myself a little shortcut to the vampire city. I had gained 750 jars of Troll blood from the earlier Troll hunt, which left me about 250 jars short of the goal.
The original plan had been to make use of some Troll captives to cover the difference but the plan had to be changed. Troll subjects were simply too valuable and too unique to simply sell, they would be excellent as the tanks of my own army. I'd need more power behind me in order to crush Henry & the Church of Helios beneath my feet.
The vampire city was relatively quiet with only a few vampires roaming the streets on unknowable errands. Most vampires would stay indoors during daylight hours due to the instinctual urge not to venture far from their lairs during the day. Even deep underground, there was always the risk of hostile earth mages to rip away the protection of the intervening earth to expose them to punishing sunlight.
I went to the apothecary & sold all the Troll corpses I had in exchange for fresh troll blood. I sold 2500 Troll bodies to the merchant & he gave me 250 vials of Troll blood in exchange. I had just enough Troll blood to cover the price to resurrect Ren.
I visited the Blood Priest, who asked me to present Ren's body & his phylactery. I settled both on the ground next to each other.
The Blood Priest chanted & the thimble full of blood flowed from the blood phylactery over to Ren's severed head, gathering over and around his neck, forming a bloody necklace. It glittered briefly before bloody tentacles stretched out from Ren's neck, reaching out to his body.
The tentacles grew bloody claws and dug into his chest, bringing the neck & body forcibly back together. The blood seeped into Ren's chest, stitching the severed neck together with the body, several seconds later there was not a hint that Ren's head & body were ever separated. The Blood Priest slapped Ren's chest vigorously & Ren started breathing, heart beating, eyes still closed.
I waited for Ren to wake up but nothing happened for a very long time. The priest looked confused.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, he should have already awoken."
I kissed Ren, it worked for Disney princesses, maybe it'd work for exiled vampire princes.
And it worked...
Ren's eyes opened wide.
Then things rapidly went south.
Ren's eyes opened wide, and turned blood red and he lunged at me.
The priest ran away with a "I'm going to get the High Priest."
I was a little busy trying to keep Ren from eating me to respond, I gripped his neck roughly while batting his claws away from. "Ren settle down. It's me, Derek. You're safe."
I looked into Ren's eyes and there was nothing of Ren, he was a wild animal, a horror movie zombie, a mindless undead.
I had no idea what was going on, resurrection was a normal every day thing in this world. Natives made use of it all the time with no issue, admittedly only the ones with money or power. This was bizarre, this wasn't a B grade horror movie where someone would bring back their dead loved one to end up with a mindless zombie instead. Right?
This wasn't some sick joke was it?
Ren had become very thin. I didn't know what was wrong with him but at least his cock seemed normal. He had one hell of a morning erection. I had a brief chuckle. Maybe he woke up on the wrong side of the coffin.
My attempts at gallows humor aside. I needed to figure out what to do to settle Ren down. I pulled out a bottle of Tim's blood from my spatial inventory. Maybe Ren was just REALLY hangry. Maybe some blood would snap him out of this mindless frenzy.
His claws that reached out to me stopped & grabbed at the jar instead. I gave it to him and backed off a few steps as Ren drank greedily, finishing the jar off in seconds, before throwing it on the ground. The stone jar shattered like glass, making a bloody mess on the floor.
He looked at me and it killed me that there was no recognition of me in his gaze.
"Ren, are you in there ?"
Ren growled at me, mouth opening wide, displaying his sharp fangs, his arms spread wide, showing off his thin frame & hard cock. His knees lowered & he looked like he was about to pounce.
"Fuck this shit."
I used [Bind] on Ren's body, the vines wrapping around his legs, thorns digging into his flesh. Ren howled.
I walked the short distance to him & when I got close he tried to bite me. I grabbed his throat. "Bad Ren. If you don't behave you're going to get punished." I thwacked his hard cock with the back of my free hand.
Ren whimpered like a whipped dog.
My heart broke. Ren's body was mostly fine, his mind seemed to be gone though. More beast than man. So I'd have to treat him like an animal & tame him with a bit of the old carrot & stick routine.
I licked the blood off his chin & he tried to snap at me. I grabbed his cock and he stilled...
I stroked his cock, softly, gently & he groaned & he thrust into my hand.
When [Bind] faded I waited to see whether Ren would try to attack me again.
Instead he opened his mouth & panted with his tongue out.
I gave him more of Tim's blood. Ren was thirsty apparently.
He humped my thigh in doggy gratitude as I pat his head & fed him bottle after bottle of Tim's blood.
I sighed. My lover had been reduced to a frisky puppy.
I hugged him and cried a little, confused & lost. Ren's humping distracted me. Maybe I could jog his memories a different way.
I took a grip of his cock & he stilled. I lowered myself to my knees & started sucking his cock.
The familiar grip of Ren's hands on the back of my head as he fucked my throat, comforted me with it's normality.
I looked up at him and his eyes were closed in a familiar gratified way.
A wave of relief washed over me, I could work with this. This was normal and familiar. Ren fucked my face like this practically every day.
A minute later he stopped just when the thrusting had reached a fever pitch.
Ren grunted but he hadn't cum.
I looked up and Ren pointed at the ground & grunted.
I laughed, Ren's mind might be gone but his body remembered.
I unequipped my clothes and assumed the position.
A brief moment later, Ren's wet cock was pressed against my hole & with a forceful thrust was shoved all the way inside.
His hands settled on my hips & his cock drove into me in steady familiar rhythms.
Of course that's when Lord Ratede & the Blood Priest walked in
The blood Priest looked confused while Lord Ratede rubbed at his crotch with an amused smile.
"I can explain." I said, meanwhile my zombie boyfriend continued fucking me in front of his dad undeterred. Hell his hips started moving faster, driving his cock in deeper & harder. I involuntarily moaned and my cock throbbed as Ren's cock jabbed at my prostate over & over again.