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Counter Earth Chronicles - Fallen Empire

Chapter 58: The Demons' Slaves (My Place In This World Part II)

"Whoa, I am exhausted." I said putting down the mop and bucket. "I can't believe we cleaned all of Torture Tower!"

"Yuppers!" The female orangutan next to me cheerfully exclaimed. "It helps, when you have help!"

"And you did this every day all by yourself?" I asked the former Ghost Hunter.

"Well day is a very subjective term." Flo responded.

"Well, right- there is no such thing as days, nights, weekends or even time here." I said looking around at the room we had just cleaned. It was completely barren.

"I wonder what Diamantopoulous, err master has planned for this room?" The naked orangutan asked.

"Most likely something very nasty." I replied. "Don't forget the recent influx of spirits into this realm from what happened on the other side."

"Progress slaves?" Our task master said walking through the door.

Flo and I dropped to our knees with our heads bowed as Diamantopoulous' subordinate, walked around inspecting our work.

"All complete sir." I said addressing the being from who looked like a panther beastial. But of course I knew better. One of Diamantopoulous' forms was that of a wolf. His true form was too much for the eyes.

The dungeon?" The panther creature asked.

"Swept and dusted." Flo replied.

"The torture room?"

"Cleansed and bleached." I answered.

"The whipping chamber?"

"Scrubbed." The orangutan responded.

"The soul stretcher?"

"Shined and polished sir." I acknowledged.

"The pantry?"

"Organized and tidied." The slave girl said.

"The corridors?"

"Mopped sir." Flo and I said in unison.

The minion walked around the room running his paw over a lone pedestal in the center, before checking the corners, baseboards, walls and floor.

"Acceptable." He said. "The two of you didn't pass out this time either."

I couldn't help but take a quick peek from my submissive position. The panther creature did resemble a very muscular beastial with distinctive features- a jewel on his forehead and a smaller one on his chin it complemented the golden collar around his neck, the earrings he was wearing and the braid that held the small ponytail behind his head.

"Thank you taskmaster." Flo said.

"Thank you taskmaster." I repeated.

"Diamantopoulous wants to see the both of you. Return to the throne room." He said walking out.

I looked at Flo and she at me.

(Did we do something wrong?) I thought as we put away our supplies and made our way back up the tower.

On the top floor was the throne room and sitting on the throne sat the wolf demon the ruler of the realm of fire and magma.

"You requested us master?" The naked slave girl said as we entered.

The dark wolf had been in conversation with two minions off to his immediate right. One of them was the tall muscular panther from before the second minion standing next to him was another panther smaller in stature compared to the first. But similar looking- black hair red eyes, translucent vest and a similar jewel on his forehead. Three small beaded earrings in each ear and a smaller necklace around his neck.

The wolf demon motioned us to approach. Flo and I made our way to his ornate throne and kneeled submissively.

"My subordinate tells me that you two work well together." The dark being started.

"You betcha! We were friends on the other side." The orangutan female said cheerfully.

"Speaking out of turn as usual." Diamantopoulous snorted.

"Yes master. Sorry master." The slave girl said.

"Well unfortunately for you I am breaking up the team." The demon wolf said looking at me.

"Master?!" I said looking up at him.

"You slave are being reassigned to the Twisted Towers." The dark wolf said casually.

"But... but master!" I exclaimed looking at the two panthers.

"I suppose you are going to plead with me now?" The demon wolf said leaning to the side of his throne looking rather bored.

"Master why me?! Am I not productive?!"

"No you give 120% of yourself to all your tasks." Diamantopoulous said.

"Am I not submissive?" I pleaded.

"No."

"Obedient?"

"No." The wolf said looking at his claws.

"Do I have a sharp tongue?"

"If you did slave I would have separated you from it." The wolf demon said redirecting his attention to me as his guests snickered.

"Then why?!" I asked alarmed.

"Very well, compared to miss Fuller you are rather depressed and despondent, I guess that came about after I broke you." The wolf demon said.

"The female mortal is rather cheerful sir." The larger of the panther- minions stated.

"All the time." The smaller of the two said.

Flo looked up at the dark wolf and then back down to the ground as he said that.

"Yes she is. But if you really must know slave, it came down to your modesty." Diamantopoulous said staring at me.

"My modesty?" I asked.

"I do not allow my slaves to wear clothing." The dark wolf said.

"I am not wearing anything master everything is out there for all to see." I said smiling.

"He has a long butt." One of the panthers said.

(No, that doesn't sound right. All who have seen it before said it was cute!)

"Now it is. But not always." He said grinning darkly at me. "Don't think I don't know slave."

And there was more snickering from the panthers.

"What do you mean master?"

(Is it getting warm in here?!)

"I know about the fundoshi you hid near the dungeons. You wear it when performing your tasks; when you think no one is looking you naughty slave."

*gasp*

"I am sorry master."

"Are you now? Or just sorry you got caught? Hmm...." Diamantopoulous said taunting me.

"How long is his reassignment master?" Flo asked.

"Oh, half an eternity. He is to begin at once." One of the panther creatures said.

"No this can't be!" I said my eyes tearing up.

"Oh yes, very yes!" The dark wolf said.

"Look he is crying!" The taller and more muscular of the two panthers exclaimed.

I was shattered. I hugged the orangutan female as my sentence was announced.

"Cheer up Alex up- it won't be forever." She said hugging me back.

"The last time I checked mortals' life spans fell a little short of that." The smaller of the two minions said as they broke our hug.

*yoink*

The two panther like creatures were all over me in a instant. The smaller one started examining my arms and legs while the second one was looking at my muscle tone.

"Hmm... his penis, testicles and rump are lighter in color and tone than the rest of him." The larger panther said.

"Yes, he has been covering them in secret." The smaller panther said.

"Well that ends of now!" The muscular panther said.

(Ulp.)

"Scrawny." The smaller minion said continuing his inspection.

"Yes, but he is hard worker." The larger one said.

"Good we will work him 140% then." The smaller panther said as a collar was placed around my neck and then two leashes were attached- one for each panther.

I dropped my head as I was lead away from my friend and the wolf demon.

"Halon what is so special about Diamantopoulous' mortals?" The smaller of the two panther creatures said as we exited Torture Tower and entered the wilderness outside.

"You haven't heard the story Celon?" The larger of the two asked.

"Only rumors."

It was quite warm in the realm of fire and magma. I could understand why the wolf demon didn't allow Flo and myself to wear clothing. Despite that, I just didn't like walking around with my genitals and bottom on display for everyone to see.

"Well he and the female sacrificed themselves to save some friends of theirs that entered the realm illegally a while back um, the Shadow Chasers. The two proposed that if Diamantopoulous let the paranormal trio go. They would serve him the rest of their lives loyally and faithfully." Halon said to his brother.

"Oh yeah I remember now. The dirty little secret is the boss didn't let any of them go- he has the other three in storage somewhere." Celon said turning toward me with a wicked smile on his face.

(Wait, that isn't how the story went!)

"You weren't supposed hear about that until just near the end of your existence." Halon snickered.

"Yes masters." I said humbly.

"I see Halon loyalty is a very valuable commodity especially with the shifting allegiances around here." Celon admitted.

"Exactly, despite whatever happens- they will still serve their overseer." Halon said to his brother.

"But if Mortimer had indeed killed the boss, the female mortal would have joined him soon afterwards." The smaller panther added.

"That is the problem if you back the wrong side." The larger of the two stated. "Looks like we have gone as far as we can go on the ground little slave."

I looked at the cliff we had walked to from Torture Tower. It was overlooking a deep canyon. I immediately drew back. Falling over the edge was indeed certain death.

"Aw he is scared." Celon said caressing my face against his. Then ran his paw to my groin lewdly feeling my bladder.

I was startled as to why the panther creature was checking to see if I needed to pee. I would soon find out why.

"I don't like heights masters." I gasped.

"Too bad for you!!!" Halon said.

I watched as the two panther brothers transformed into grey demons large teeth emerged from their jaws, horns sprouted from their heads, sharp claws jutted out from their paws, pointed ears from their earlobes and wings from their backs. I stumbled backward falling on my butt as the two laughed.

The panther demons were indeed scary looking, but they paled in comparison to Diamantopoulous. But it makes sense; they were lesser demons compared to him.

"To your feet mortal." Celon said pulling me up.

Halon removed my collar then stepped behind hugging me tight.

"Oh no not that!" I shrieked.

"Oh yes! Yes that!" Halon said.

*Woosh*

He leapt off of the cliff carrying me over the canyon. I was so starteled and terrified if my bladder had been full, I would have urinated.

We traveled for a time in the air over ravines, over hills, desert and finally arriving at a seven twisted, tilting and leaning towers along a coastline that was being buffeted by a angry sea of reddish water.

"Here we our mortal your new home." Celon said as we landed.

Halon took care not to drop me.

"My." I said looking at the skulls that littered the shore.

"Twisted Towers." Halon said.

"Seven towers for you to clean." Celon said. "I wouldn't swim in the sea, it is acid."

"Diamantopoulous made you overseers of this area of his realm." I said as I was lead inside the nearest tilting tower.

"He has above average intelligence for a mortal brother." Celon said to Halon.

The two lesser demons walked me around the interior showing me the torture room, stretching room, the lava dipping pool, pantry, punishment room, creature room and their throne room at the very top of the structure.

"Well little slave?" Celon asked.

"What about the other six towers?" I asked.

"Identical to this one except for the throne room." Celon said.

"This place was built because of the abundance of spirits entering the realm." Halon added.

"So many to torment and torture!!!" The smaller panther demon said.

"And I am to clean this place bottom to top?" I said to my new masters.

"No. This place and the six others." They said sitting down on their thrones.

"Until your very last breath or half an eternity whichever comes first." Halon snickered.

"We we leave it to you as to how to reach the other towers." Celon snickered.

"Yes my masters." I said tearing up.

"Now don't be sad. We do have a gift for you." The smaller of the panther demons said extending his claw.

"For me?!"

"For you." Celon said.

It was a white loincloth. I took it from his paw and placed it around my waist. It had a large front and rear flap. Just enough to hide my boy parts and long butt from view.

"Thank you sirs." I said kneeling.

That was when the garment was set aflame and burnt into nothingness singeing my genital hair and rump hair which set the two lesser demons laughing hysterically.

More of the same, just a different location and now two masters to serve. It was going to be a long eternity indeed.

Sometime later....

"Hmm...." The humanoid looking red jell creature said inspecting the torture tools room.

"But sir it is as you wanted! Sparkling clean." I said to my new taskmaster.

"I like it, but I don't love it. Do it again!" He responded.

(UGH!!!)

"Yes sir."

The jell reverted from a humanoid form back into a gelatinous red puddle on the floor of the room as I started re-polishing all of the tools the creatures in the tower used to torture spirits one by one and there were many of them. It took me a long, long time to accomplish this task the first time. I wasn't looking forward to doing it again and I had six more towers waiting to be cleaned as well.

When I had finished the jell followed me around as I continued my labors- mopping the halls, dusting the tapestries, wiping down the torture equipment and the like. All the while watching me to make sure I was doing it right.

Toward the center of the seventh tower there was a room which contained shower stalls for cleaning up. I scrubbed and mopped each noticing how similar it looked to shower stalls in my realm.

"Would you like to try it out?" The jell asked smirking. "You are looking kind of dirty."

I placed my mop and bucket down, aimed the shower head toward the rear of the stall just in case the water was too cold when it came out and then turned the handle.

*FWOOSH*

It was a good thing I did, because what came out was not water but fire singeing a tuft of my hair. My task master lost it as I extinguished the flame. I never seen a jell laugh so hard.

"You are very gullible slave!" He snickered.

(I get it realm of fire and magma so what was I expecting to come out of the showers? Well it could have been water from that acid sea.)

My task master continued snickering as I made my way up the tower finishing at the top.

"Phew finished!"

"No you are not slave!" Opening the door to the throne room.

(What did he mean by that?)

I entered finding the panther demons on their respective thrones. I kneeled collapsing a their foot-paws exhausted.

"Get up lazy mortal! You are not done until we say you are done!" Celon said angrily.

"Um, I cleaned the seven towers completely. What more is there to do?!"

I would soon be sorry that I made that statement as Halon put his left foot-paw on me pinning me to the floor.

"Celon and myself have decided to give you additional responsibilities slave."

"Additional responsibilities?" I asked as the foot-paw lifted off my back and then was placed in front of me.

I spent the remaining time grooming the two demon brothers; starting with their claws.

My final labors were to sharpen Celon and Halon's claws and teeth, brush their fur and shine the jewels and horns on their foreheads. When I finished, I collapsed at the base of their thrones from extreme exhaustion.

"Acceptable." Halon said to my task master.

"Just like the female mortal, he gave 120%" Celon said rubbing my side.

"And completely loyal." Halon added. "But let's work him 20% harder next time."

"And have him tend to your underlings?" The red jell said smiling.

"Very well." Celon said petting me.

(OH NO NOT THAT!)

"You are ours to do with what we like, as we like, when we like. Do not forget your place mortal." Halon said repositioning me so that I was seated kneeling towards them.

"Quite devious of you brother."

"Why do you say that?" Celon asked.

"Some of our subordinates have some interesting grooming habits which should prove quite challenging to our little mortal."

"You are quite right brother."

My masters allowed me to rest at their foot-paws knowing I would need to be bright-eyed and bushy tailed for whatever else they had scheduled for me next.

Since there was no such thing as day or night or time where I was- it was hard to gauge when I was supposed to start my rounds. But the appearance of my task master was a big hint.

Even more time later....

I was performing my labors which would be sometime days or weeks, I am not sure. Anyway, I observed what looked like a fighting area composed of a soft spongy octagonal symbol in the middle of the room and stone floor surrounding it.

"I never noticed this room before." I said to the red jell.

"Halon and Celon had this built recently. They use this to blow off steam every now and again." My task master said as we enter the room.

"Why?" I asked.

"Diamantopoulous made them co-regents of this area of the realm and he expects much from the two of them. That obviously can be very stressful at times."

"Halon! You got this now finish him!" Celon shouted to his brother who threw a large looking dark fire lizard thingie straight up in the air, smashed it with his elbow, let his victim pass him on the way down before landing on him with all of his weight.

*ERFF!!!*

The lizard wheezed as he was trounced... hard.

(Whoa! Halon is strong- very strong.)

"NEXT!" The muscular panther demon said looking around as his victim crawled away.

To his disappointment he saw no further challengers only his brother, their slave (me) and his task manager.

"How about you?" Halon said looking at me.

"I decline respectfully master." I said meekly as I was levitated from the door of the gym into the ring by unknown forces.

"Why not?" He grinned at me demonically.

"Master there is absolutely no way! You are much too strong and way too powerful!" I blurted.

"The mortal speaks the truth Halon." Celon said from the sidelines.

"Then let this be a test to see how our slave reacts in unbelievable circumstances and an impossible situations! Prepare yourself mortal!" Halon said marching toward me with a wicked smirk.

"Halon." His brother warned.

I looked at the bulk and muscle marching toward me. Those wings, the horns, the sharp teeth and claws!

(What do I do?!)

I kept stepping backward away from him off of the spongy floor to the stone floor hands raised in front of me. He was right in front of me in no time flat. The panther demon leaned forward, looked me right in the eyes and....

*GRROOOOAR!!!!!*

I not sure what happened next, I either fell backwards of fainted. I think it was the latter- my head making contact with the stone floor.

"Uh oh you did it now sirs." The red jell commented. "I don't think a head was supposed to bounce like that."

"Get up mortal!" Halon said kneeling at my side.

"If he wasn't broken before, he is very broken now." Celon said looking at the blood dripping down from the back of my head.

"You did what?!" Diamantopoulous said when he heard.

"The mortal is injured sir." Halon said to the floating image of his superior within their throne room.

"You two have always played too rough with your toys." The wolf demon said chastising his subordinates. "Mortals have limits- they are not like us. You can tease, torture and torment them but only to a point- cross it and this happens."

"How long do they take to recover sir?" Celon asked.

"A long time." The dark wolf said. "Remember that a healthy slave is a productive slave. Until he recovers you best find someone else for his labors."

"Yes sir." The demon brothers said respectfully.

I was taken to one of the torture chambers at the base of one of the seven towers interrupting a session with one of Celon and Halon's underlings- a purple teardrop shaped looking plant creature with no eyes only a large mouth and stems which served as limbs. Those extensions were firing seeds at a female who was hanging from a hook on the far wall of a room.

"What is this?" The plant creature asked as my task manager carried me into the chamber.

"An accident, fix it." The jell ordered the purple walking plant. "Celon and Halon will want a update later."

"I wound and injure only. I know nothing about healing!" The plant protested.

"It looks like he is suffering from a head injury." The hanging female at the far wall said.

"How do you know that?"

"I was a healer when I was alive." The spirit said.

"I am listening ghost." The plant said.

"He is suffering from a concussion." The spirit said. "You will need to follow my instructions exactly."

Sometime later I came to hearing two female voices off to my left.

"And that is how you treat those types of injuries."

That voice sounded familiar. I casually glanced at the purple plant creature conversing with spirit she was supposed to be tormenting. The she spirit looked quite familiar- Green eyes, tan fur that had been singed, small frame, petite breasts, brown tail tuft, and a leonine face.

Wait! I knew this female!

"Lea?!"

As whatever I was experiencing ended I realized that there was a alternate life/alternate reality out there where Flo and I entered the realm of fire and magma not to save my mistress, the Ghost Hunters or Steven Cheetah but only the Shadow Chasers, we failed and were both working as slaves of the demons there.

That was the first alternate life/ alternate reality that was less pleasant than the previous ones I had experienced during my time as a Other. Was it related to what I am experiencing in this reality? What really sucked was that, I could see parallels with it and my servitude under ONE.

I came to inside my box cage deep within my mind. After the ass reaming I received from the entity, I had been powered down and imprisoned. Well somehow, I had opened the cage on my own, but I could not see outside my body.

Demona was there looking at me. She like me had been placed in a offline state.

"Demona." I said to the she monster.

Little man. She said rather abruptly.

"You were keeping me company?"

We all were. Your rebuke was rather severe.

"Who is we?"

Me in here and Tina and Gia out there.

"How bad was it?" I asked.

Everyone heard you and Pang.

"Yeah about that, ONE was not happy with the results of my monster hunt." I replied.

_Yes, the master rewards failure as much as success. _

"In other words do not disappoint the synoptic again." I said reading her statement.

Yes.

"Demona could you do something for me? I was thinking about reaching out to some friends but haven't been able to."

And you would like us to help you with that task?

I nodded.

The harpy agreed. Since becoming an Other I have had a extremely difficult time sending and receiving messages in the between. I used Domona as a channel or conduit to reach out to some of those I had lost during the fall of the empire.

(I really should have done this a while ago.)

Alex? A hot lioness said appearing next to Demona and myself.

I smiled the moment her image appeared.

"Lea!"

To Be Continued....