Endangered Love - Chapter 8
#8 of Endangered Love
Endangered Love
Chapter 8: Embrace the Madness
By: Mirron Tenshi
Josh and Matthew were snuggling in Josh's changing room. After a nice session of hot passion, the rottweiler had finally pulled is rump up, after Matthew's knot had shrunk down. The shepard chuckled as his boyfriend got up of his lap and sat back down.
"Hope I didn't break anything." Josh stuck his tongue out and licked the others cheek.
"Just my streak; it's been like 50 guys since I last had my ass fucked." Matthew giggled as Josh slid right beside him.
"You know, Josh. I still have to show you MY dance." The rottie snickered and chuckled.
"I just can't wait."
"Josh, I wanna say, you are the very best friend I've ever had. I mean that." Matthew cuddled with Josh and smiled. Then, the shepard's phone started to ring from inside his discarded pants. He groaned before getting up and fishing it out of his pocket and bring it to his ear. "Hello? This is Matthew." It was Brandon.
"Matthew! Get your ass over to Josh's house! It looks like someone went on a slaughtering spree!"
"Wait, what? What do mean??"
"Just get over there! I think it's some of Starkerse's men. I didn't stick around to see who, but-"
"Ok, I understand. Thanks, Brandon." Matthew hung up and started at his pants.
"Matthew? Is something wrong?" Josh asked.
"Trouble. At your house," Matthew answered bluntly, "Alot of dead bodies out front. We need to go, now."
"Hah shit." Josh said as he shot up and quickly got dressed and before he even knew it, they were driving to his house.
Within minutes, they were pulling into the driveway. The rottweiler got up and looked to see that there were indeed a lot of corpses on the grass. He gasped as he looked onto the details of the onslaught; whoever did all of this was not shy in taking a peek underneath the skin of these men. "Oh my god . . ." He stood there in total shock as he held Matthew, who was less shocked at the carnage and was more curious as to where they all had came from. The blood had flooded and stained the grass, glimmering in the moonlight.
Matthew took a closer look, and noticed the each one of the dead bodies had the pale yellow clothes, half-cut masks, and smiley faces stitched onto the clothing.
"Matthew . . . Do you know who these guys are?" Josh uttered. After a few more minutes, an eerie giggle could be heard from everywhere.
"Well well well! Little, maddy, Mattie! It's been aaaages!" The voice rang. Matthew's eyes widened.
"Wait . . . I know that voice . . ."
"I haven't seen YOU since your front-rooow seat to your baby brother's death, hehahahaha!" The voice was slightly goofy, it rose and lowered with a manic flavor to it.
"Um . . . Matthew, who is this?" Josh said, feeling more creeped out by the disembodied voice.
"Stay on your guard." Matthew ordered to his boyfriend, "I DO know him. It's Crow; he leads some of Starkerse's men." The voice cackled out loud.
"Deary deary ME! He DOES remember dear old Crow! My heart is simply melting in my gut!"
"At least it would if you HAD one!" A loud squeak shot into the atmosphere. Both canines flinched and clutched their ears.
"Now my feewings are hurted!! How could you be so-"
"Shut it Crow! Why are you here?! Are you on Starkerse's orders?! Or are you here for revenge for when I killed your men at Happy Pike?!"
The voice went into a fit of loud, crazy giggles as a black silhouette flew from out of the tree on Josh's yard. Large, bat wings on either side of the figure, gliding down until the chuckling fur touched the ground, where he crouched down, with his wings shrouding around him before folding back against his arms.
Matthew bent over, pulled out a gun from a holster on his left leg. The bat's head lifted up, a wide, malevolent grin slapped on his face in 2 seconds as Matthew cocked the gun.
"Die!"
*SWIPE* *BANG!*
In a blink of an eye, the dark, crouched vampire bat had his right arm raised and held across him, the long blades on his fingers still damp with blood. Matthew's gun pointed at the sky, the hole of his pistol steaming. The German shepard blinked from his arms jerking to the upper side. With his paws still clutching his weapon, the neck of the firearm fell to the ground in three slices.
"Ghehehehehehehe . . ." The bat giggled again, "I'll bet Starkerse misses me. Hehehehehehehehe . . ." As Matthew scowled and threw the halved pistol away, Josh spoke up.
"Wait, 'Misses' you?" Crow pointed a finger blade at the rottie.
"I said 'Misses me'!" He shot out in a quick shout.
"I- I know what you meant-"
"SAID!"
"Whatever! What exactly do you MEAN?! Aren't you with him? You like, manage his victims or whatever for his snuff films and-"
"SNUFF FILMS?!" The deranged bat stood up with his head back, letting out more of his unnerving laughter. "Do you have ANY idea what THOSE are???"
Josh was half afraid to answer. "U-Um, S-Snuff is um . . . A sexual kink for death or killing, right?"
"CORRECT! Correct!" Crow replied as he pointed both his index finger blades at Josh, "Starkerse! He doesn't incorporate sex with death! IT GOES BEYOND THAT!" For some reason, the bat didn't seem to bother with volume control on his voice.
Matthew glared at him and crossed his arms. "If Starkerse doesn't do snuff films, how come everyone I killed was naked?" He blinked and leaned back when the bat's face was RIGHT up against his own. Crow's eyes way wide open and were milky white, indicating that he was totally blind.
"I ain't gonna lie to you," He said in a hushed tone, "He's a little sick in the noggin." Matthew took a swing at him, but Crow just swooped up and swam though the air, and then landed on one of the dead bodies, crouching down.
"Do you see these uh . . . Dead weights?" He couldn't help but snicker, "These are the newer Zanez gang members. Hah!" He took a sharp claw and slashed at the corpse's throat. Josh cringed and looked away and covered his muzzle when he saw this as the blood poured from the neck. "The Zanez gang ain't what it used to be. But YYOOOUU wouldn't know that!" The bat then zoomed up close to Matthew's face once again. "The ones YOU slaughtered were much more fit with madness and corrupt insanity! Truly delicious with ripe These poor slobs are just one level above 'Suicidal Emo'. Truly a disgrace!" He whiled around over another one of the butchered thug, planting his feet blades right through its head. He then posed in a heroic fashion, "Why, when I was the leader of the Zanez," He started dramatically, "Everything was-"
"Wait, wait wait wait!" Josh interrupted. "'When I WAS'?" The bat turned his head back at the rottweiler.
"HEEEY! NEVER interrupt story time! And by the way, I said I was the leader, not you, Rottie!" Josh groaned in aggrivation.
"Good fuck, are you kidding me with this?"
"NOOO!" The bat crossed his arms and looked his head away, "I never joke! Except when I do, and then I-"
"LOOK!" Matthew said, getting frustrated too, "Why are you here?" The bat looked at them and grinned.
"To g-" He took a step, but his foot was held back, his foot knives still in the dead head. "I'm here on-" Crow yanked again, but his bloody blades just tore up the messed up face, "In order-" He started to mumble angrily as he tried to get his blades free.
"Oh god . . ." Josh said as he held his stomach, watching the corpse's face get torn up and dissected. Finally, the bat threw the lifeless, bloody heap off his foot, and then leaped up onto the roof of the house.
"I'M here to protect your happy home~"
"What?"
"How are we supposed to believe you?"
"Because I said so." Said a steady voice from right next to the rottweiler. Josh yelped and whirled around to see Platinum had appeared out of nowhere.
"Pla-Platinum!" He panted and calmed down, "What . . . What do you mean." The white lion then turned his head.
"Crow is our ally."
"What do you mean he's our ally?" Matthew asked, giving Platinum a quizzical look.
"Exactly what I said."
"Look, can we just, talk inside?" Platinum nodded as he, Josh and Matthew went into his house. The rottweiler then turned back onto the deranged bat"Oh and . . . Um-"
"Crow, Rottie-Boy!"
"Yes, Crow. Um, this mess is gonna get cleaned up, right?"
"You don't like it? Have you even SSSEEN your lawn lately?! In my personal opinion, the blood and flesh only serves as an improvement!" Crow cackled manically.
"Just get this cleaned up, will you? The last thing I need is to have the neighbors thinking I'm some kind psycho."
"Right you are! That position has already been filled! Hehehehehehehehe!" He laughed more as he flew around to and fro in the air.
"Crow IS our ally." Platinum repeated, sitting on the chair, with the shepard and rottweiler on the couch. "He USED to work for Starkerse, as the leader of the gang known as the Zanesz."
"But wait," Matthew said, "All this time, I thought Starkerse only worked in the Snuff business, what does he want with a gang for?"
"Snuff is only his fetish, Matthew. It's not his business; even if he did make copies of those videos, the money he would make from them is nothing compared to his regular pennence. The truth is that he is one of the largest, most powerful crime lords in America's dark underworld."
"Lord? Underworld? What do you mean?" Josh asked.
"Stealing, piracy, the blackmarket, illegal engineering. On the otherside of the regular nation we live in, there's where people bend the rules, Joshua. It's not an alternate dimension, it's reality." Josh nodded.
"So what, does Starkerse have, like, other gangs?"
"You COULD say that; he does have more than one gang. Starkerse definitely is infamous among gang lords, he's almost an urban legend to half of them in fact. But that is just the surface; he is very well connected, and has enough money to hire out anyone."
"Ok . . ." Matthew nodded, "But what made Crow want to leave Starkerse?" There was a few clicks at the window. Both canines gasped as they saw the mad bat, crouched on the windowsill.
"OoH ooh ooh!" He raised his left hand up, supporting his arm with his left like a kid in class. "Me! MEMEMEMEME! I know this one! I KNOW THIS ONE!"
"Get back to the clean up, Crow." The insane black mammal looked fakely sad, his lower lip swelled as his large ears dropped.
"Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaasssseee???"
"They need their sleep, Crow, and you don't exactly help with that." The bat swooped in and stooped onto the chair Platinum was sitting in, crouching above him.
"Ah, c'mon! Please, Platty?? I'll be your best buddy!"
The feline crossed his arms and his leg as he sat back. "Don't make me get you diagnosed and medicated." Platinum casually said. Crow meeped before he swam right out the window, giggling and snickering outside.
"Anyway, as I was saying, as you can see, Crow isn't the most stable one among furs. I'll spare you the gothic novel of his life and just say he's good at what he is and what he does."
"I HAD IT PUBLISHED AND EVERYTHING! HAHAHA!" Crow yelled from outside.
"Dr Phil is just a call away, Crow!" Platinum called back, prompting a shriek and laugh from out there. "Moving on. Starkerse saw the value of a group of people who are out of their minds. However, he needed someone who could be bought, is the craziest mind in the whole world, yet is able to be stable enough to cooperate with."
"So how did he buy Crow?"
"Not with money. Crow has one interest-"
"MADNESS!!"
"Clear thoughts!" Platinum called out.
"DON'T YOU DARE!" Crow shouted back.
"As Crow just interepted, Crow only cares about insanity. So in return for his leadership of the Zanez, Starkerse promised Crow all the madness he could want. However,"
"He couldn't deliver." Matthew answered.
"No, he could not. Or more like, he WOULD not. Starkerse has many methods of which to turn a person crazy, but he couldn't risk Crow going so mad as to turn against him or go rogue. Ironically enough, after 5 years of his services, Crow finally quit being Starkerse's Zanez Leader. Now, as you well know, Matthew, Starkerse does not like to have his underlings run out on him alive."
"So he had him killed . . ." Platinum blinked.
"Matthew, does he LOOK dead?"
"I know, but . . . Why is he still alive?"
"Simple. Crow survived."
"IT WAS A FUN GAME!" The bat yelled from outside again, "FIRST IT WAS TAG! THEN HIDE-AND-GO-KILL! THEN I PLAYED POSSUM!" Platinum nodded.
"He faked his death. Though, now that he's your guard, it won't take long for Starkerse to-" His ear twitched as he heard some hard giggles, "Scratch that, he knows he's still alive."
"Wait. If Starkerse wouldn't give Crow what he wants, how come he's working for you?" Matthew asked. Platinum raised his paw and wagged his finger.
"That's the first thing with me, Matthew. No one works FOR me, they work WITH me. I don't have bosses or employees or underlings. I have allies. As for why Crow would work for me? Weeeell," He then tapped his finger on his head, "I use my head for that."
". . . You hit him with it?" Josh said. Matthew smirked and snickered.
"No. Psychology, Joshua." Now Josh couldn't help but snirk.
"Pfff, I'm sorry, but a guy like Crow? I find it very hard to imagine that psychology would be of any help."
"You'd be surprised, Joshua. Or do you think that psychology is just for mental help?"
"So what, you give him madness by what, giving him riddles to solve?" The lion shrugged.
"Sort of. I found Crow, half dead and cursing himself, Starkerse, the world. He said all he wanted was bottomless insanity. So I said, 'And what would you do once you're completely mad?' He didn't have an answer. He just starred at the sky. I explained to him, 'Once you become crazy beyond reason, who are you then? Where were you before? WHO were you then? What did you enjoy doing?' He never thought of madness like that before. Suddenly, he was terrified. He knew he was already more than half crazy, and suddenly the idea of losing himself was horrific."
"So how did he side with you?" Platinum give a small smile.
"Remember: There is madness in fear.
"Fear has the capability of leading to insanity. After I said that, Crow was in mixture of joy and paranoia. It was madness that he had always wanted, but he was terrified with losing everything. He even spazzed out enough to attack me."
"NO HARD FEELINGS I HOPE, DEAR CHAP!!" Crow yelled from outside.
"Anyway, after I defended myself, he felt a rush of endorphins. The fear that I suggested to him gave him a new excitement," The white lion chuckled, "He begged me for more. I've told him on more than one occasion that I hardly know how to do that, yet he insists that I'm rather good at it. I keep telling him that I don't mean all the threats I make-"
"I'M NOT LISTENING! LALALALALALALA!" Then Matthew cut in.
"But won't the whole 'Fear is crazyness' thing run out? If it does, what will he do then?"
"I asked him that. He said Shock Therapy usually works."
"Wait, what?"
"You know, I'm not entirely sure myself. I have seen him chewing on tin foil wrapped around electricity lines from time to time." Josh sighed.
"I dunno. We you sure guarding our house with a bat like him is really the best thing?"
"I admit my methods are sometimes unorthodox, Joshua. But that is how I am. It's how I work, it's how I've been able to get this far in my existence."
"Well," Matthew said, "If you think it's best, Platinum- Ah!"
Out of nowhere, the shepard's neck was hit with what looked like a black dart. He dropped in seconds.
Josh gasped as Matthew dropped. "Matthew! Are you-" He gasped as a sharp pain hit his neck. In a moment, he felt himself grow heavy before he blacked out.
Platinum stood up, "What?" A black dart shot at his neck to. In a few seconds, he sighed as he took the dart out of his neck. He examined the dark point. "Looks I'm going to sleep in tomorrow morning."
From outside, a small blur shot right at the crouching bat, but he then stopped it by catching it between his teeth.
"Sneaking on a bat? Sounds like a crazy attempt" He said before spiting out the dart. "I should've known you weren't a pedestrian. Cradling a gun like that. Hmhmhmhmhmhm!" He opened his wings and jumped up. With his ultra hearing, he heard the clicking ad padding of a laying figure holding a rifle in a far off tree.
"Northeast, in a tall tree." Crow giggled as he sensed Platinum right next to him.
"Lets go."