Hellhound: Prince of Fire (7 page)

Chapter Eight

Welcome the C
hange

I felt his hands slide around to the front of me and downward. I reached up and slipped my arms around his neck, careful to not hurt him because now
, with vampire blood mingling with my own, I had the strength of ten Hellhounds if not more. I had only fed of Dorin, as my consciousness failed and I knew that death would be upon me. I had taken the only chance that I could.

I turned quickly to face Gunner
. As I moved him back, he almost stumbled as I fought to control everything in me to simply knock him down and take advantage of him in the worst of ways. I had known of lust, but not in this way. This was completely new and called out to every inch of me to devour him. I wanted him. My pussy hummed as the urge surged through me. I could think of nothing else and for the moment my lust for him outweighed anything else in the world. He fell back on the bed as I crawled up on him in a flash and then straddled him. He moaned as my knees tightened at his sides and I applied some pressure against his already swelling erection. I wanted to rip every inch of clothing from him and as the thought settled in my brain I tore his shirt open without hardly any effort at all. He grinned up at me and almost enjoyed the fact that I was not weak in anyway. In fact, this was the first time that I had completely embraced a new power given to me. Becoming a Hellhound was a slow journey, but this, this was instantaneous. My strength was even surprising myself.

“I want you,
” I said as I half growled and Gunner smiled up at me.

“I can tell.”

“Good,” I said as I sat up and jerked him up with me. Dorin stepped up the Gunner’s bedroom door and raised his hand to knock as he heard me growl and Gunner cried out. He then busted into the room and we both looked up from the other side of the bed as I had accidently knocked us onto the floor.

“I am sorry.
I thought…”

I stood up and my shirt was open exposing my breasts. I then covered them up.

“Yes?” I said and Dorin held up a hand to me as Gunner rose from the floor with his shirt torn open and hair a mess. Dorin grinned at him and shook his head.

“If you survive this
, I will see you in the training room.”

“I will be fine.” Gunner said as he glanced at me and I stepped towards Dorin.

“Can I stay?” I asked him as his approval seemed needed. He stepped up to me.

“You do not answer to me and it will pass. You are not 100% vampire so your need to please me will fade.”

“To please you?” Gunner asked and Dorin looked at him.

“I am her maker, her master. It is only going to be natural for her to feel as if she needs to ask me before she does anything right now.”

“Well that is strange.”

“Not
so much. If you understood vampires instead of only knowing me and asking nothing of it, then you would have known.”

“What I know is you changed her.”

I stepped towards him and touched Gunner’s arm.

“I asked him to.
I was dying and so was he. He saved my life.”

Gunner relaxed and then looked back to Dorin.

“Is it too much to ask…” Dorin nodded and then left the room, pulling the door behind him. “I do apologize I thought she was eating you.”

The door closed and I looked at Gunner and grinned.

Dorin leaned against it and closed his eyes as the noise coming from the other side of it bothered him more than it should. He walked down the hallway and away from us as quickly as he could.

“I may,
” I said as he looked me over.

“You can try.”

I lunged at him and knocked him to the floor, as our lips met, my tongue quickly slipping inside and toying with him. He moaned at my lips and it caused me to tense up as he flipped me over and I felt the hard wood to my back. He looked down on me and then leaned in, without urgency and gently kissed me. I growled and ran my fingernails up his back, cutting into his flesh and he hissed. I stopped, knowing I was damaging him but not meaning to.

“I am sorry,
” I said as I tried to calm down.

“Let me love you,” h
e whispered to me and I relaxed my fingers as he gently kissed me again and then moved to my neck. I closed my eyes and could hear his blood flowing in his veins. It sounded like a lullaby and almost placed me in a trance. I arched my back as his teeth grazed the skin on my neck.

“Bite me,
” I said to him and he paused and then opened his mouth up, biting into my neck. I pulled my legs up as the sensation set my senses on fire.

“Harder,
” I said as he increased the pressure.

“Harder!” I screamed as he stopped and looked at me.

“Halo, I am not a vampire. I am a Hound.”

I nodded and touched his face, pulling him to me and kissing him again as he let his weight rest against me. I reached down between us and took his erect cock
in my hand and started to stroke him as he moaned in my mouth. I opened my red eyes as I watched his strained expression and his eyes remained closed.

“Look at me,
” I whispered to him as he opened his eyes and saw the pupils of my eyes red in color. He parted his lips as I continued to stroke him.

“Can you love me as I am now?” I asked him and he nodded to me as I continued to stroke his cock up and down, twisting my hand around it as I did so.

“Fuck me,” I said to him and he reached down and stopped me from pleasing him.

“I want to make love to you Halo.”

I nodded to him as he placed a hand under the small of my back and arched it. He slid his cock into me easily as I hissed and reached above me. I dug my sharpened nails into the wood and he grinned at me as my teeth elongated inside of my mouth. I closed my lips and he shook his head ‘no’, so I parted my lips as he thrust forward and I took the entire length of him, pleased that he was not wanting me to hide my teeth.

“Gunner,
” I said as he thrust again and again, getting into a rhythm and pressing me harder and harder against the floor. I dug my nails in deeper and then swung them to my sides and broke the floorboards beside us as he pulled me up quickly and away from the hole in the floor. Ari stopped and looked up at the hole and shook his head as Finna pushed him on. He sat on his knees as I wrapped my legs around him and rose up as his hands rested on my sides. He closed his eyes and leaned in, placing his lips to my erect nipple and sucked on it, biting before his lips fully left me. I hissed and looked down at him. He looked up and I kissed him, trying to be careful, but my sharpened fang barely cut into his lip and the blood hit my tongue and my hold on him tightened. He moaned as I moved quicker, my hips rotating against him and bringing him closer to orgasm. I wrapped my hands into his blue hair and wound it in my fingers as we started to come together, right there on the floor, splintered wood all around us and my fangs fully extended and fighting the urge to drink his blood.

He slowed as my pussy tightened on his cock. His moaning making me moan right along with him. His head rested against my chest as his body tensed up and I fought my overwhelming need to bite him. He looked up at me and then turned his head, exposing his neck to me and I started to
breathe harder and harder as he submitted to me.

“You can have me.” He whispered.

I bit into his neck and drank his blood, as slowly as I could as my orgasm rose in me and brought on his own. He cried out as I had never heard him do before and Dorin covered his ears and sank into the shadows.

****

I sat at the table and stared at my cup. It was filled with blood and Dorin said nothing as Gunner entered with a scratch to his face and visible bruising to both of his arms. He sat down and looked at me and then at Dorin, who I could not read. He sipped on his drink and so I took a drink too. Knowing that I had to drink some blood, I could not completely deny it. I had fought all night not to bite Gunner again after the first time and it was torturous. Gunner had faired pretty well considering I fucked him about 10 times until he finally fell asleep. I had slept some, but not much. I know vampires do not so much sleep as they simply rest from time to time. I had actually fallen asleep and my dreams had consisted of nothing but rivers of blood and fire. The only thing I could be grateful for was my lack of panic about Jet. I had not even mentioned him to Gunner yet, but I knew that I had too.

“I want t
o talk about my son,” I said as Finna and Ari entered the room and stopped. I looked up at them and Ari took his eyes from mine which was odd. I know I look different now, but no more so than that of Dorin. Perhaps he needs time to accept me as I am now. I know he will have to.

“I agree,
” Dorin said as my eyes left Ari and went to his.

“I want him back.”

“Halo,” Gunner said as he leaned up in his chair and looked at me with compassion. I looked at him and tilted my head.

“His name is Jet.”

Gunner sighed and looked down at his hands.

“She named him, excellent,
” Ari said as both he and Finna took a seat at the table and stared at me.

“Of course I named him, he is my son.”

“He is a hurricane, a death bringer.”

I stood up and knocked my cup over and I watched the blood slowly move across the table. I placed my fingers in it and pulled them to my mouth. Sucking on them and closing my eyes until I realized I was not
alone. I pulled my fingers away from my mouth and sat back down as Ari stared at me and so did Finna. Dorin simply drank from his cup and Gunner looked away. I sighed and then decided to speak again.

“He is a child.”

Gunner looked up at me.

“He will not be
for long. He will grow to be a man and once he is full grown he will have the power to wreck this world and everything in it.”

I shook my head ‘no’. “I don’
t believe that he would do that. He would not hurt me.”

Ari slammed his fist on the table.

“Maybe not you, since you are its Mother, but it will lay waste to this entire world and make it as it is in hell.”

I stood up and slammed my fist, cracking the table and the hairlin
e fracture ran across the wood. It stopped as Ari raised his hands from it just in time.

“He is a boy
, not an “it. He lives and breathes and is a part of me.”

“Which part of you? The Hellhound
, or the human?” I looked up as I smelled him before I saw him. A man stood there in the doorway dressed in all black and I started to move at the speed of light towards him, but Dorin caught me in a flash and held me still as this man looked me over.

“So this is Halo? I see she is adjusting well to being undead.”

“Vampire,” I said as I struggled to break free from Dorin. Dorin leaned into my ear.

“Calm down,
” he whispered to me and my struggling slowed. His words almost a drug to me. He released me as I stared at the man before me.

“Who are you, besides a dog?” I asked hi
m and he smiled, his teeth elongated. But unlike my own, he had 2 to each side of his front teeth that had lengthened a bit shorted than my own.

“I am Jack, pack leader of the wolves. We prefer wolf, not dog. I would guess you could appreciate that
, blood sucker.” I moved towards him and Dorin spun me away from him and pointed at me.

“Go and eat
in the forest. Then collect yourself and rejoin us.”

I sighed an
d looked at Gunner as he had his arms crossed on his chest.

“Fine.”  I left the ro
om as if I had been scolded.

Dorin turned to Jack and extended his hand to him. Jack took it
without hesitation.

“I have never been this close to a master without a plan to kill him.”

“I have never been this close to a wolf without making a meal of him,” Dorin replied as Jack began to laugh and so did he.

Chapter Nine

Goodbyes

I fed in the forest
as Dorin had told me to do. I had run a deer down and eaten it like some barbaric caveman. At least I felt that way, but as I hunted it down something in me felt like it ignited. I had never felt so alive in my life, not as a human or even when I became a Hellhound and the branding had settled deep into my flesh. I sat very still and licked the blood from my hands. I suddenly felt a presence and stood up in a flash as I saw Dorin standing there in the clearing. I rubbed my hands on my pants and looked down at the deer. I felt no shame and it bothered me. I had been careful to not torture the beast. In fact, I had attacked it so quickly it felt nothing and death was swift. Even with that, I knew I should feel more than I did. I could only hope this part would pass.

“Do you feel better?” he asked me and
I nodded to him as I wished I could suddenly wash the blood off of me and just return to being normal. The presence of that wolf in the house had set me off and my anger was uncontrollable.

“Why did I want to kill him Dorin? I cannot be like that. I am built to hunt and kill
demons and those who attack us. He was not there to do any harm to us.”

He stepped out of the shadows and into the light. I looked up and could see some of the sunlight breaking through the trees overhead and had to be glad that it was just a myth about all of that with vampires. Truth was
, the sun helped us heal, as it does all things, so the fact that we mostly hunted at night gave me even more respect for Dorin as I knew he was at a greater risk when he did it. We cannot really help it though. Demons mostly come at night anyway, mostly.

“I need you do something for me Halo.”

I stared at him as the sun broke across his face and he closed his eyes, enjoying it as if he had never had enough of it.

He then opened his eyes and looked at me.

“I need you to kill me.”

I shook my head and the world tilted s
lightly as the words floated from his mouth and into the air around me.

“What…no, what do you mean?”

Dorin took a step towards me and his expression was calm.

“You will never be free of me Halo. I made you and you belong to me. Our bond can only be broken with my death. I know this to be true as I had no free will of my own until I killed Vlad and it was then that I truly strengthened and became who I am today
. I had to fight with everything I had to kill him. It should be easier for you since you are also a Hound.”

He held up his palm and stared at the mended skin on it minus the pentagram that once adorned it.

“Even if the elevator had not been destroyed, I am of no use to the Hounds any longer and now I am a true distraction to you and you cannot defeat Lucifer and his son with me in the way. It cannot be done. So I need for you kill me and take back what I gave to you. You will be your own master, as I am my own and I never intended to have anyone bow to me.”

“I did this Dorin, not you. T
his is my fault.”

He looked at me and smiled.

“Halo, don’t be upset. I have lived for so long now and my love has come and gone. I have experienced it all and I only gave you this life because without me, you would be gone. I did it on my own, knowing what would have to be done.”

“I can’t, I just can’t. I love you Dorin.”

He looked at me and watched me very closely. His hesitation was unsettling. Then he lunged at me and I had to twist to knock him out of the way. He slid to a stop and dug his hand deep into the earth as he turned and stood back up. His expression telling me that he was going to test me on every level I did not want to be tested on.

“Dorin
, please…stop.”

“Halo, I swear to you, if you do not kill me
, I will kill you.”

“Dorin?” I said as he started to chase me through the forest. I dodged tree limbs and jumped dying logs as he gained on me. My speed was unbelievable
, but his was tried and true, seeing he had been a vampire for much longer than I had. Finally I saw a cliff and stopped at the edge, teetering and watching rock fall far below me. I turned as Dorin ran up and stopped, staring at me like an animal would his prey. I held my hands up and shook my head.

“I get it now, I do. You came to Hell on a suicide run and I am so fucking sorry that Lucifer did not kill you like you wanted. But do not expect me to have your death on my hands.”

He ignored me and continued on.

“You have to kill me now, while your strength is at its height. If you wait too long, you will never be able to kill me Halo.”

“Dorin, I need for you to listen to me. I am not 100% vampire and you cannot be sure that I will always feel this way for you. You said it would pass. You said that.”

“I did, but it won’t. A bond between master and made is forever and you need to be strong if you stand a chance at all. I cannot have your death on my hands too. I can’t …I, I love you,” he said as I sucked in my breath and looked him over.

“You love me as a friend loves another friend, I get that!”

He shook his head ‘no’. “I don’t. It is not that way Halo. It is more.”

I stood up straight and watched at the sun broke through the clouds over us.  The light came streaming down and hit him, lighting him up. He then rushed me and I did as any instinctive creature would. I reached out and spun on one foot,
extending my hand. He grabbed it and held it, pulling it to his throat as my nails sliced into him and cut his flesh wide open. He cried out as he placed a hand to his throat and fell past me, over the cliff and out of site. I dropped to my knees as I stared over the edge and his name echoed from my lips and across the countryside.

****

Lucifer stared at Jet as he watched the fire rolling out side of the window. He stepped up next to him and placed a hand to his shoulder and Jet looked up at him. He now had reached what a human would consider the age of 14. He looked more like me than I could have ever imagined, his eyes shifting from red to black, but settling on green.

“Is Mom coming back?” he asked and Lucifer tilted his head and then moved his hair from his eyes.

“Your Mother is not like us. You have to understand that you have a destiny that she may not be able to a part of.”

“I don’t understand,” h
e said as he looked back to the fire and it lit up his eyes not unlike it did Lucifer’s.

“It is not always for us to understand
why things are the way they are It is for us to accept them and become stronger.”

“But I want her here with us. W
hy can’t she just be here?” Jet asked and Lucifer turned him to look at him.

“I u
nderstand that you care for her. It is natural for you to feel a bond with her. But you have to push her from your mind and focus on the task at hand.”

Jet turned from the window and walked to the chair. He turned and sat down, looking up at Lucifer with Halo’s eyes.

“Will I see her again?” he asked and Lucifer nodded to him.

“I do think you will and I cannot promise that she will not be angry with you.”

Jet leaned back in the chair and relaxed a little bit.

“I know but I
wish it wasn’t that way Father,” he said as Lucifer grinned and walked towards him, happy to hear Jet call him that.

“Listen my son. W
hat you are destined for is bigger than your Mother, or this place or even me.”

Jet looked at him and smiled. “When do I get to see earth?” he asked and Lucifer paused and then walked to
a large cabinet along the wall. He opened it up and many weapons hung inside of it. He turned with a sword in his hand and the light of the fire played off of the metal. Jet stood up and walked towards him as Lucifer stopped staring at it and flipped it, holding the hilt of it towards him. Jet took it and held it up as he stared at the etching on the metal. It did not feel heavy at all in his hands.

“What do the symbols mean?”
he asked as Lucifer watched him very closely.

“It is your name in every language ever known.”

“It says Jet?” he asked.

“No, my son. Y
our true name is Cain.”

****

I sat alone in the atrium and stared at the dying vegetation all around me. I felt as if this may be my fate, to be forever stuck with the dead and dying. Dorin had done something I could never forgive him for, but he was right. As soon as he fell, I started to feel like myself again. Only now I have more strength. The memory of him falling invaded my mind, him holding his neck as I reached out to him and then I stood up as the scent of dog wafted through the room.

“Jack,
” I said, before I even turned.

“Halo, those senses will come in handy just as we need them.”

I turned to look at him and he was gone. I then heard his voice above me and I looked up and saw him come to a stop, his black shadow tracing behind him like smoke.

“I am not in the fucking mood to play.”

“I am not playing with you. You need to know how to track me. I do know you have not dealt with my kind yet.”

I sat back down and stared at the ground as he narrowed his eyes and returned to the bottom level. He stopped a few feet from me as I
continued to ignore him.

“Gunner sent me here.
I did not mean to upset you.”

I wiped a black tear
from my eye and shook my head as I looked at my hand and saw it. Of course my blood will never be red again. I pushed myself up and turned to walk away from him.

“I know it is your son we hunt.”

I stopped and turned back to him. “I am not hunting my son. I plan to free him from Hell.”

“You do not know what he is
, do you?”

I stepped towards him. “I know he is my flesh and blood.”

“He will reach maturity and he will kill you, as he would any other.”

I shook my head and looked around th
e atrium. “I don’t believe that. He would not do that.”

“Don’t be foolish,” h
e said to me and I flashed to him and lifted him up by his shirt. He dangled in the air before me until I heard Gunner’s voice behind me.

“Halo, please.” I sighed and then lowered Jack to the ground. He straightened his shirt and then tilted his head as he looked me over.

“Where is Dorin?” I looked down and then Gunner walked up next to me.

“He…he came to me in the forest and then…”

“Then what?” Gunner asked as Jack continued to stare at me. I turned to Gunner and tried to remain calm, but it was hard, even in my calmer state as a vampire.

“He attacked me and I killed him.”

“What?” Gunner asked me as his expression changed from soft to hard in seconds.

“He forced me to do
it. He said he would always be my master, and that I was weak with him and he attacked me and I ….he fell over the cliff and he is gone. He is gone Gunner and it is because of me.” I buried my face in his chest as I sobbed. Jack looked down and then back into Gunners eyes. Gunner’s jaw tensed up as Jack left us standing there in the atrium as I continued to cry. I felt his hands on my back, but he suddenly felt distant to me as if he may not believe me. I stepped back from him and looked him over.

“He made me Gunner. He did.”

“Halo, how did this happen? How could this possibly be?”

“He came to me. I had fed in the forest
on a deer. He told me that he would always be my master and that it weakened me. He said with him, we would be defeated and I told him no. I told him I would not do that and then he chased me down like an enemy. He made me Gunner, he made me do it. In fact, it was an accident. I simply extended my hand and he took it and forced it to his own throat.”

Gunner looked down as if he was processing all of it. Dorin had been with him much longer than I had and I could not even imagine ev
erything they had seen together. He was as much a friend to him as he was to me.

“We will tell Finna and Ari that he le
ft. We will not speak of this again.”

“Gunner…he said he loved me.”

Gunner sighed and then rubbed his neck. He stepped up to me and placed a hand to my face.

“I believe you. I do Halo
but we cannot speak of this again. He left us and that is what Ari and Finna will be told.”

I nodded as I had no choice.

“It is time to prepare for battle. You need to be ready because Lucifer will soon rise with his army of demons and his son at his side.”

“My son,
” I said and Gunner turned and walked away from me as I if I had not said anything at all.

Chapter Ten

Hunter’s Blood