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Behind Blue Eyes
The nauseating smell of burning ozone, rancid bodies, and sorrow clung to the fresh evening wind. Warning the prison occupants of the oncoming darkness that would entomb them inside their cells of death.
“Boy.” The hoarsely choked word seemed exotic, in this place of bereavement. “Nightfall is coming.”
Watery blue eyes blinked up from the curled position that the owner had been sleeping in only moments before. Nightfall was not a time for rest, instead one must stay ever alert till the sun painted the cell walls again.
“Lad, get up.” Whimpers slipped from the malnourished man-child, pulling himself into a tighter ball. His blue eyes squeezed shut, trying to shut out the desolate cell. Sometimes it would be your only sanity, ignoring the magical encrusted void. “Boy.”
“Please.” He sniveled, looking through his lashes up at the man shackled across the cell. Body withered showing chest bones outlined by skin, muscles eaten away by months of starvation. His arms covered with blood, rashes, and disease that scared the young man to look at. “I don’t want to.”
“BOY!” The man hissed, the chains rattling loudly in the lair of stillness. His eyes blinking wildly, trying to fight the ache of the slipping sun. Retracting from the cell with unnatural speed. “Get the stick.”
The last of the sun dripped from the cell, leaving nothing but shadows. Each dancing with wicked plans, aiming for their latest torment. Screams split through the air, making the curled boy quiver in terror. It was not a uncommon sound, but never failed to shake the bravest souls. “No.” Defiance intermingled with denial in his voice, even as the chill turned bitter within the cell.
“Son, the change is going to be upon me soon, and the beast will need to feed.” Nightfall was only moments away at best, leaving them in a limbo of seconds.
“No…no.”
Loud clanks of metal made quake run down the boy’s spine. The last change had damaged the chains, the bolts were not going to hold tonight. The night they both had dreaded, leaving his only protection a branch that was nearly rotted away with time. “Boy, get the stick before the change takes me.”
“I…I can’t.”
“Boy…please.” Tears slipped down his cheeks, feeling the first ripple of change. It had grown more painful, more torturous then the last. He would be lucky if he survived the transformation back this time, but he would not wish it if the chains gave way. The beast would not care about the young man; he would not know that he has been the only reason it was able to survive.
“I’m scared.” Breathed the boy into the darkness, tears slipping from every word. “What if you try to k…kill me?”
“I can hold it back till you get the stick, but once the beast is free…” A scream of agony cut off any further instructions, making the boy scurry into the corner of the cell. His back pushed against the wall, till his shoulder blades throbbed from the digging cement blocks.
The pale white light of the moon sliced through the darkness, illuminating the two occupants. Shackled body hanging limping, looking more dead then alive. The other, trying his best to become one of the dancing shadows.
“Get the stick.” Whimpered the man, before convulsing forward. Ribs jutted out till the boy wondered if the paper thin flesh would shred from the pressure. The soft sound of cement crumbling, and strained breathing mixed together like a odd old melody. “Please.”
Blue eyes flickered to the other end of the cell, where the blacken two foot stick sat half covered by dirt. “I…I…” The shackled man was too far gone, his body jerking wildly. His mind probably half gone from the pain.
The moonlight filtered in, till it glowed off the silver cuffs, strangely polished in the filth. The pale skin of the man sparkling within it, before bubbling into life. “AHHH!” Watching in fascinated horror the boy saw the beast forming within the weaken chains. “AHHH!”
The werewolf body was not thick with muscles as it had been, instead it had thinned to wiry limbs. It’s fur was stripped away in large clumps, leaving mounds of sores to puss thick yellow goo. A predators glare captured in its eyes; nose sniffing the air.
His body pulsed, pushing off the wall; knowing that it could be loose soon. If it used the last of Lupin’s strength, then it would rip his throat out before the dawn. He bundled the last of his courage, trying his best not to ignore the watchful eyes. To not watch the billowing clouds of warm breath fluttering from the beast in quick pants.
It growled quietly, making his stomach clench with alarm. He pushed his body flush against the opposite wall, trying to keep distance from it‘s ripping claws. “GRRR!” The creature yanked wildly at its bounds, making the boy jump forward to clutch onto the stick. Fingers digging into the stick till it creaked from the force.
“Lupin.” He whispered, feeling terror from the very man who had protected him from the hands of Voldist. Taking beatings with hands, creatures, and magic for him.
Drool foamed on it’s muzzle, dripping down into the dirt clumped chest fur. Eyes glowing in the moon’s shine in a eerie blue hue. No longer was the man within him, but the curse that had entrenched it self into Lupin’s soul.
If the wall gave away, he would be forced to hurt, or even kill the man who had become his only family. Something that would of given him pleasure nearly four years ago, but now only sent tremors of sickness through him. He would not survive without him. Never again would he breath air untainted with pain, or heartache. Instead he would be forever stuck within a purgatory; roaming the halls with his damaged soul just like the others. Entombed within shadows, till his very soul dissolved into the pain of nothingness.
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