The Spawn of Hate (19 page)

I thought about what Josef said as I walked back to my room. At least I knew I wasn’t a wizard. What really bothered me is what was going to happen if I could still bear their touch after two weeks, would I be kept here like Josef. I walked back to my room and shut the door. It was still morning but at least I was alone with no one in the room. It felt kind of weird knowing cameras were most likely
watching my every move. You know how difficult it is to go through life as a teen and I can’t even masturbate in peace for fear of what that might get me. I turned on the TV. And like all of the TV’s in this place, only Armed Forces Network played. No local news or commercials. It might as well not be TV at all. The rest of my day went by uneventfully; they fed me and made me go to sleep early that night. Here they claim I am pampered and I cannot even stay up pass nine.

CHAPTER
25

Doce
Cinco

I woke up around 3am the next morning, or should I say I was shaken awake 3 am the next morning. I woke up starry eyed staring directly into the face of the vampire I now knew as Anastasia. I guess I was to slow getting up since she scooped me up in her arms brought me over to tub and gently lowered me in.

              “Wait a minute, can I at least get undressed?” I said suddenly wide awake. “And can you turn around while I’m doing it?”

             
“No and no.” She said smiling at me. “When I was human I remember boys being nowhere near as shy as you. I appreciate the male body better than most, and it is exciting to actually be able to view and touch one without him going into convulsions and defecating on himself. No hurry and get undressed before I get you undressed.”

             
I sighed and just turned around and took off my now wet sweat pants. I settled into the water and started sponging myself when Anastasia took the sponge from me.

             
“Just sit back and relax, I can do that for you.”

             
“I don’t want you to do it for me, I can do it myself.”

             
“Your body when I woke you up seemed like you want me to do it for you and it doesn’t seem like anything has changed.”

             
Damn those mornings as a teen. “My body is retarded, now can you hand me my sponge back.”

             
“I think you misunderstand me Cory.” She said now looking into my eyes with an icy glare. “I am in charge, not you. Your job is to be pampered and well taken care because of the tasks you are to perform. Your energy cannot be wasted performing menial tasks. Your job is not to be stressed. The only way I know to take the stress out of you is to beat it out of you, something I am fairly good at.”

             
I just gulped as she continued washing me.

             
“That’s better Cory. See we can be a good team, since I am guessing you are going to see a lot of Annova, Vikonika and myself since her majesty only wants the best watching you and Josef. So are you happy to be going back to school to see that filthy mongrel and that horrid creation?”

             
“Why do you hate them so much? They have never done anything to you.”

             
“Never done anything to us? Why do you think our numbers are so low as to resort to basically raping people? Don’t answer that because I will tell you why. Once we lived in harmony with the Lycans. We had a mutual agreement, they could hunt where ever and whenever outside our villages and we wouldn’t turn them in. In return for keeping their secret and the blood thirsty mob off of our back they basically were our servants and our right hand. We didn’t much fancy fighting and they lived for it. One day or so I hear, this happened way before I was born a lycan bit a female that was trying to steal a chicken. That female turned out to be a werewolf who transformed and slaughtered the Lycan. Like anyone facing an attack we sent our Lycans after the thing. That female killed a dozen lycans before she was finally killed herself. It turns out she was some type of pack leader or something and the next day we were overrun with the things. They have had it out for us ever since. We instantly saw through the so called peace they called in Waco. When all those deaths were counted, only long time members who were tired of fighting got killed. The new bitches they have are all blood thirsty and ready to kill. We have it on good authority it was them who told about our meetings in Waco.”

             
She seemed to be getting angry as she was talking as she now was scrubbing the skin off of me. If I didn’t know better it looked like she was going to cry. I thought back and I don’t think I have ever seen one cry before. Sure I have seen them outraged and even sad, I just never saw one cry. I don’t know what got into me, but I reached over and gave her a hug. She held me tight for a bit and when she let go I threw some foam from the bathtub on her shirt.

             
“I have already taken a bath, what did you do that for?” She asked me wiping her shirt. I picked up another big handful of soap foam and launched it at her head. The look on her face when looked at me was enough to make Ben Stein crack a smile. I laughed out loud. Before I knew it she was in the bathtub with me splashing around trying to make me eat the soap. For a moment I forgot about my situation until Irina came in.

             
“It’s nice to see you getting along instead of brooding Cory. Brandon will be here shortly to do your hair.”

             
Anastasia bolted out of the tub towards the door I shared with Josef. I could see her get into a stance like she was ready to tear up anyone who came through the door.

             
“Who is Brandon?” I say looking at Irina.

             
“Brandon is Josef’s friend I am sure you have met.” Irina spoke as she walked towards Anastasia. “I am sure you heard about his history before his coming to live here. Anastasia here gave birth to Viktor and Ivan, the vampire on record to have twins. Brandon killed them both and set a trap for me. His torment at Josef’s twisted and sick mind is worse than we can ever do to him since it is likely we will him him quickly even if not meaning to. Tasia will kill Brandon on site so he stays with Josef. I don’t have to deal with Josef’s sour mood when I visit and an enemy gets his just desserts. “

             
Irina then whispered something in Anastasia’s ear and put her arm around her they walked out of the room together. I then heard a soft knock on the door leading to Josef’s bedroom. I opened the door and let Brandon in. He had done terrible things but for some reason I could not help but feel sorry for the guy. I closed the door behind him, figuring he could at least relax with me.

             
He got the hair clippers ready and I sat down in my chair. I halfway thought about telling him I am not getting a haircut but two things stopped me. 1) They would make me anyway. 2) Brandon might be hurt. My Mom always taught me there is only one judge and he already died for our sins. He started cutting my hair when I decided to have a conversation with him.

             
“So why did you do it?” I asked still staring forward as he cut my hair.

             
“Do what?”

             
“Why did you kill her kids? Why did you attack this place?”

             
“I was stupid looking to be somebody. I’m somebody alright, I’m somebody’s bitch. I wish I could change places with you.”

             
“With me?” I said confused. “Why in the hell would you want to be in my shoes? I have been hit painfully since I have been here, my parents have been threatened and I am supposed to be violated in a few days, something they rub in my face at every turn. Why in the hell would you want to be me?”

             
“Because I wouldn’t be in there with him. I am the only person he has control over. Everything they do to him, he does to me. Every single day I am raped and I have to pretend to enjoy it. Josef beats me whenever he is angry until he is tired. I would love for my existence to be pampered, instead I do all the pampering with constant threats to my well being. I have to please Josef and you get to have sex with women all day.”

             
“They are not women.” I state with probably more hatred then I mean to. “I do not want to be here. If my death would end it, I would kill as many as possible until I die. I was told my parents would be killed and my limbs amputated and I would still be here. More than my life depends on my decision.”

             
Brandon cut the rest of my hair in silence. Suddenly a speaker went off in my room, I could recognize Vikonika’s voice.

             
“Cory please tell that human to get back to his cage. I am coming in there and I would hate to disobey our Queen by rendering him limb from limb. He has until the count of three before this door opens.”

             
Brandon bolted to the door. Unfortunately the door was locked. He started banging on it as my front door started opening. Josef answered just as Vikonika stepped through the threshold. Brandon bolted in the room and slammed the door behind him. I felt sorry for him, but he did bring it upon himself. I thought if I really had to stay here I would do something he had been too scared to do, end his suffering. I hadn’t yet killed anyone, but I wouldn’t want an existence like his.

             
“Cory it is time to brush your teeth and finish getting you dressed.”

             
“If I said I could handle it myself, would you even consider it?”

             
“Nope, not at all.” Vikonika said as she grabbed my toothbrush and sat me down. She started brushing my teeth while speaking to me.

             
“Cory we need to inspect you at least once a day to see to your wellbeing. As I am sure everybody has told you before your job is to relax and get your mind off of things. I am making you an excellent breakfast when you return from gym. I normally only have Josef to cook for, and he purposely doesn’t eat any of my food and only eats ramen. He gets away with it most of time but once a month he gets a physical to make sure he isn’t trying to slowly kill himself. I would not care if that pet of his only eats his own excretement . Females as you know don’t eat at all so that leaves you. I was quite a cook back when I was human, at least I like to think so.”

             
After she finished with my grooming she got me dressed. I was just happy to finally have underwear again, something she told me not to get used to. We then went to the front of the building where Irina was waiting for me.

             
“You had better act like you are having the time of your life without a care in the world.” Irina said looking me dead in the face.

             
“Why should I?” I replied not letting her stare me down.

             
“If you don’t follow my orders, our experiment will be moved up to today. Do what I say and I’ll let you keep your precious virginity for a couple of days longer.”

             
I walked to the park with the vampires. They had made some type of diamond formation while walking and made sure they kept me in the middle. When we got to the park I saw Fairplay was already there and the Principal was now at her side. He stared at me a bit and shook his head. Someone elbowed me in the back. I smiled at him and waved. We got into our little formation as Fairplay began to speak.

             
“As you know the picking for the teams was supposed to be yesterday. I told the principal I need one more test. It is not enough to think we have the right people, we have to know it. Overnight we went from one of the toughest schools to one of the weakest. I am going to make sure that perception changes. Today we are playing capture the president again. This will determine who makes it and who doesn’t. Vampires, pick one among you who will be President. Too all you Vampires and wolves, failure to attack your own kind will disqualify you from either team. This is the big league ladies, prove you are up to the task.”

             
Irina then notified Fairplay that I was going to be the president. I was hoping I would be because I had a few tricks up my sleeve this time. Last time I was going off of luck alone. This time I was a master of illusions, while I couldn’t hurt anyone I was close too, I could definitely level the playing field.