He kept walking, as silently as he could. Through her help Kael was once again able to escape from hovering eyes. He was sure he was on the right track as the memories he got from Xirius began flowing in slowly. At times he would go in the wrong direction but could easily retrace his steps. All he had was a lit candle which he got from the iron worker's shop swiftly before he left. The candle didn't have much time till it was burnt out, and the wax was slowly and painfully melting on his fingers. But Kael didn't care. Saving the children were his top priority. The watchmen could do whatever they wanted with him after he was done.
......................
"Ahhhh.....ahhhh" went Mylo's screams as one of the brute men kept going back and forth into him. All the other children could do was stand and watch. Kael was made to sit on the floor separately from the children, in his own space. All he could do was sit down and watch.
The nine year old sat and watched as the men violated the children. This happened almost on a daily basis.
Xirius had personally come to pick Kael up himself from his house. He had always longed for the prized mind reader. He made Kael sit and watch his parents become dinner for the screechers who Xirius had invited as guests. Since then, the seer had become nothing more than their property.
"You know I love it every time I release into you Mylo..." He said licking his lips as he tossed to almost dead, half naked boy across to where the rest of the children were.
The man cleaned up his meat and tucked it back into his trousers as he zipped it up.
They were all somewhere, underground a huge abandoned house, and they had lanterns lighting up the place.
"We have a customer!" One of the men shouted as he came down the stairs with Xirius and an odd looking lady.
"Burgan...I hope you haven't been...mm mm...again?" Xirius asked, using his eyes to point to something below the Burgan's belt.
"The one certainly looks maimed..." Their customer pointed out as she firmly picked up Mylo by the neck. Mylo didn't even have the strength left to struggle.
"Ewww...." She said in disgust as she noticed white liquid streaming from Mylo's buttocks.
"You humans certainly have no respect for commodity..."
Kael could already tell from where he was sitting, she was a vampire. She quickly turned her gaze to Kael, unthoughfully dropping Mylo to the ground as she approached him.
"Why have you singled this out Xirius" She inquired, happy to have seen a somewhat beautiful fruit.
"No..." Xirius said, blocking her "He's mine" Xirius said defensively.
Though Xirius himself never participated in violating the children, he allowed his men to, and often times found it amusing when he watched his men doing it whenever he felt he had the time. Only very few women were part of Xirius' little trafficking ring. But they were often used for lookouts and seldom came down to the basement.
"What then would you have me choose.... Xirius?" She asked, slightly annoyed.
"You don't always have energizing kids"
"You could pick up anyone of your choice so p...."
Before Xirius could finish his statement, she swiftly caught Xirius' face between and tried to squeeze it. Almost immediately, Xirius' men pulled out daggers and swords and pointed it to her neck or upper back.
"I apologize...for losing my composure..." She said, letting go of Xirius and resuming her arrogant smile.
"Keep them down..." Xirius said, motioning his men to let down their weapons.
"Since one might not be enough..." She said putting her hand into her small furry leather
bag and bring out a stack notes. A single note was worth about a hundred Kredits in coins.
"....I'll have those two" She said pointing to two girls.
They struggled as they were being pulled away from the rest of the children. No child ever taken came back. It was simply the end of the road. The men took small needles, made like fishing hooks and dug it deep into the side of their necks and waited for them to slowly pass out. They then put them into sacks and carried them outside.
"I've been meaning to ask...how did y'all start becoming so active in the day?"
Xirius asked, referring to the vampire's.
"Apparently they higher ups found a way to restore the magic that prevents us from burning in the sun..." She replied, showing him a glistening ring. It had little engravings on them.
"And please, keep the goods coming..." She said as she climbed the stairs. "These two will probably last for about two weeks!"
Kael sat there in misery. He could see all the dirt in the minds of their captors. Only one of the female henchmen seemed to show them any kindness and she was the one most restricted from seeing the children.
Night quickly, and the children quickly knew what was coming. The place they were was totally abandoned and settlements were distances away from them, so there screams meant nothing.
One of the female henchmen came down the stairs, couldn't care less about the other men's businesses with their victims and went straight for Kael.
Kael's face was absolutely horrified when he saw Kyvia. He hadn't seen her for days and he silently prayed to never see her face again.
"My boy...my boy" She said as he grabbed his face and forcibly kissed him multiple times.
Apparently, Xirius didn't allow the men to go near Kael, fearing they would utterly destroy his priced possession. But most times he would allow the women to relieve their stress with him, since he seemed the brightest of the children and since the women seemed gentler to him than the men.
"Please don't struggle now...You know how much I love you Kael" She said as she picked up a rope from the corner and tied him up.
Then she started slapping him repeatedly as laughed.
"Oh don't cry....I didn't mean to hurt you. You can read my mind and tell how much I love you"
Yes he could. He could definitely read her mind, and he knew that if she was allowed to do everything she had in mind for him, he wouldn't live to tell the next day.
Kael looked at her with all the anger in his soul as tears streamed down from his eyes. She strongly pinned him down and began licking the tears off his face.
"I can't take it anymore!" She yelled laughing hysterically. Even the men sometimes were afraid of Kyvia.
She then forcibly pulled away Kael's trousers as he kicked and cried. And Xirius was just sitting there.....doing nothing.
"Get it up..." She kept flicking it over and over before she began voraciously licked it thoroughly. She then opened her shirt and forced her chests into Kael's mouth and didn't care if he bit them or not. The harder the better.
Kael sword on his dead parents he would kill each and every single one of them if he could.
She used used her middle finger and repeatedly shoved it in and out of his behind over and over till it had blisters. She took it out and kept licking her finger, savouring the taste and seemingly enjoying it. Kael's nights were a living nightmare or something even worse.
The very next day, the children were bound hand and foot and tossed into their caravans. They were getting relocated since they had used Kael's gifts to completely loot the entire house.
The children were all sore from last night's saga, though luckily, not all of them were maimed.
Kael had a piece of cloth over one eye which served as a bandage. After Kyvia had released on him, she slapped him so hard in his left eye that he got a black eye. How Xirius got customers for a moving business, no one knows. Every week they would get a child or two and every week they would sell a child or two. Kael however, was never sold. He was used to detect if their buyers planned to kill them or dupe them of their money.
Their customers were mostly vampires, witches who need organs for sacrifice or few people who wanted human dolls for their own amusement.
Kael lived liked this for about five years with Xirius, and Kyvia was the least of his worries. His abilities started expanding as grew older but he never mentioned any of it to Xirius. He was alive, but devoid of life. He would spend most nights watching his friends get molested, or he getting molested himself.
"Looks like we'll stay here for a while..." He told his men his men as they entered a compound with a large mansion. Some men from the mansion came and carried the children in. The children all had cloths covering their faces.
It was in a place close to Heidenfeld. Xirius and his men entered the mansion after the children were taken into the basement.
As they sat waiting, a man who looked like he was in his twenties came slowly walking down the stairs. He was blonde, his eyes had a tint of red and his apparels were white.
"Xirius, good to see you....I hope they're all intact"
"Yes of course sir" Xirius' voice was a bit shaky. He prevented any of his henchmen from laying their hands on the children for about five days. He had received a letter from a mysterious owl giving him a location and telling him he wanted to buy all the children. Every. Single. One.
"Did you bring the seer?" He asked as he sipped his wine from his glass.
"Yes..."
"You do very honest work. I know he was valuable to you so I'll pay three times the amount I'll pay for the rest hm"
"Sure. Absolutely" replied Xirius. "Kind sir..." He continued, prostrating a little.
"If...if I may ask...what is your name sir?..."
"Oh...my apologies..." He replied, placing his hand over his chest.
"I forgot to introduce myself in my letter. My name....is Viktor. Vancourd."
"As in..."
"Yes. That Vancourd" He replied as he skin went pale.
Xirius had heard all about him. The great Vancourd, the chronic narcissist. Aside from his vast wealth and influence he was a prime vampire. Although very few prime vampires existed, they were the most powerful class of vampires in existence. They could easily conceal they horrific features and had the ability to walk under the sun unscathed, without physical or mystical assistance.
"I'm sitting in the presence of greatness" Said Xirius as he made to kneel before him. But Viktor prevented him from doing it.
They spent a good number of minutes talking and exchanging money.
As they were still speaking, three people all dressed in black clashed down from the roof and began killing every person in the room. Other black hooded people jumped in from the windows.
"This is what I get for double crossing...." He whispered to himself as he drew out his dagger to kill their opposition.
Viktor immediately began levitating much to everyone's surprise and began catching the intruders mid air and smashing them to the ground. But he slowly began noticing that the bodyhe just splattered on the ground began to piece itself back together. His intruders were vampires!
One of them quickly jumped from the stairs railings and stabbed Viktor from the back and through the heart. But he laughed and pulled him from behind and tore him into two, with the sword still in his chest. He then looked around from the air.
"This reeks of Colter!"