MHOS Part 23: A Sirens song

It's a quiet drive to Husks place, but as we drive he places his hand on my thigh as he stares out the window. Neither of us are sure of how Alastor is going to react, but we are pretty sure it won't be good. We are mentally preparing ourselves for the pointed looks and pointed questions.

The plan is to find a new place to hunt today, but I think I will go home and study my own Lore.. I am tired of learning as I go. I walk over to Peaches place and check on her, but as I arrive I see her coming out of her old house. I park and go back for her and she grabs me by the arm and says "Time to go" as she drags me into her new house closing & locking the door behind her.

"What's going on?" I ask as she goes on about her day as normal. "That is where I bring the men's souls when I drag them to hell. Because it was where I kept respawning I made it my home, but because it's where the men spawn when I drag them to hell I usually run & hide, leaving them to open their eyes alone, and they usually take my belongings and leave to get their bearings."

Suddenly her empty home and owning next to nothing made a lot of sense. I am glad I got her out of that house. We enter her home and I see she got to redecorating the kitchen after she was done with the bathroom. She's really turning this house into a home.

"Hey" I say as I hold my arm out for her. She settle in my arms and asks "Yeah?" I spin her away from me to face the kitchen and I say "Good job." And kiss her on the temple. She hugs my arms and asks "How did the super secret meeting with Husk go?!?" As she peels out of my arms and climbs onto the counter. Not wanting to talk about it I slide between her thighs, kiss her neck and ask, "Is that what you really want to be talking about right now?"

She kisses me back and says "Okay, how did the sex club go?" And a flash of Husk saying "The feelings are real?" And I walk away from Peaches before I even realize it's a reaction to the question.

"That bad huh?" She asks not actually pressing for anything further. "Well what are your plans for today?" She changes the topic. "Studying" I say finally and she says "Oh! Can it be at the tavern? Over a burger? And can I come too?" I sigh and the smile vanishes from her face. "Oh." She says. She doesn't know what is going on, but she knows enough to not like it.

"Okay well what CAN we do or talk about today?" She says.. I reply "Well.. after studying I plan on practicing some of my new skills.. I've never sung during a hunt before." Her smile returns and she says "Okay! That sounds fun! Are we going to the lake to try there?!?" And I freeze thinking about Husk being grateful I don't practice at the lake and saying nothing, she rolls her eyes and walks away saying "I give up, have fun doing nothing and going no where without me."

She enters the room again and her eyes are glowing white.. I know she's angry, but I have never seen her do that before and it makes me proud.. Just as I think about saying "Oh baby, congrats!" Over how adorably evil she looks, she barks "Get Out! This is me kicking you out!"

I nod raise my hands in the air, back away, and walk back over to Husks to pick up Gary when Alastor pops up behind me. "I'm not taking your precious Husker from you Alastor, I'm picking up my car and going hunting." I say exasperated as I get in. "Hunting you say?" As Alastor invites himself along, materializing in my passenger seat for the ride.

I know I should be scared of him, but at this moment the only thing I am feeling is irritated. "You're not ACTUALLY coming with me.." I say as I take my hand off the ignition and he says "Why wouldn't I want to hunt with you? Husker has. Perhaps you could teach me a thing or two."

I head down the road until we come to a wooded area & I walk into the woods as Alastor follows, then it hits me.. Never let a man take you into the woods.. that's how I fucking died.. and here I am.. in the woods.. alone with Alastor..

Fuck.

I look back at Alastor and he gestures for me to begin hunting.. I say "I was planning on practicing my Siren Song today." And Alastor's face unchanging gestures for me to begin hunting.. again. I stand and stare back for a moment.. then pull the bowtie out of my hair and fix it on my forearm. As Alastor watches with a sinister look of amusement across his face.

I close my eyes to stop the panic that comes with him not being phased by my siren song and my mind goes blank.. I start to sing "Come to me my love, you're already mine, swim with me tonight, come in the waters fine" I dance and sway and hum the tune as purple begins coming out of the ground beneath my feet and musical notes begin floating though the air.. the wind begins to pick up, my hair and dress begin to dance and flow and my voice changes.. and for the first time I hear my siren song three tones of harmony, it sounds beautiful and dangerous and amazing.

I open my eyes and I am floating through the air, my hair longer, with purple strands extending past my regular blues and greens.. tentacle like, but with bladed fins going down the sides of them.. my talons tripled in size, the purple glow at my feet became waves of musical notes as I hummed the tune over and over.. I looked over at Alastor and his antlers grew as big as his smile. Only.. it wasn't scary this time..

Just as I started to feel comfortable alone with Alastor, men came out of the woods.. glowing purple eyes fading the moment they saw me. I looked at Alastor and smiled asking "So are you in?" his face went full demon and he said "Let the hunt begin"

It's vicious and it's bloody as Alastor stabs multiple men with his tentacles laughing maniacally.. I continue singing as I dance through the crowd slicing them with my bladed fins and feeling the blood splatter all over me.. it's so freeing. Alastor flings a man through the air and laughs hardily as he goes flying and watches me as I leap on a runner.

I flip the runner over to face me and I am so caught up in the moment I press his head to the ground and kiss him hard as I slide my talons into his chest and rip out his heart. I closed my eyes and took a bite. My taste buds come to life, it's pure intoxication. The world ceases to exist as I stood up and spun, humming to myself as I chewed the delicious flesh still warm and dripping.

"You're a cannibal." Alastor says as he stops killing and approaches me. That shakes me out of my own little world. I stop singing, I stop spinning, and remember he's there. I drop the heart like a stolen cookie and look up at him waiting for whatever bad is about to happen. He closes the distance between us quickly and I close my eyes and brace myself for impact.

I did it to myself.. again.. I went with another man to the woods.. and it was going to be the way I died.. again.. I guess I will literally.. never.. learn..

I feel a finger raising my chin and my eyes fly open and I make direct eye contact with Alastor as he traces his finger up to my lip. He examines the blood on his finger for a moment before licking it off and looking back at me with an evil delight in his eye. He turned back around and began killing again, I join him relieved that despite him being a scary man, he was a surprisingly fantastic hunting partner!

We turn our kills into competition laughing and applauding every new and inventive death we came up with. All the way down Chaos & back up Predators Alley until we stood in front of the tavern. I'm out of breath and I am starving we have been killing for hours. And as if Alastor could read my mind he grabbed a half dead man trying to discreetly crawl away, plopped him between the two of us on a picnic table outside the tavern and he took the heart out of that man's chest and offered me the first bite.

I placed my hands opposite his and raised the heart to my mouth and bite.. It's so fucking delicious, asI chew and get lost in the sensations. Just as I go to take another bite Alastor leans in to take one as well and I feel his cheek graze mine. His teeth sink in and he moans at the deliciousness of it all and I can feel his breath on my cheek. Trying to ignore how intimate it felt I slurp blood up from an exposed chamber and Alastor opens his eyes at the sound.

When I finish slurping he raises the heart to his face, licks some stray blood off my finger that was threatening to drip onto the table below, before burying his face back in the heart and my brain on fire, screaming "What the fuck just happened?!?"

Before I can panic Alastor feeds me another bite of the heart before finishing the last bite himself and just when I think it was him being caught up in the blood lust of it all and wanting to move past it, he slides his bloody thumb into my mouth and orders me to suck. I swallow the flesh down that is still in my mouth and suck the blood off his thumb and as he slides it back out of my mouth he says "Good girl" in a voice I don't recognize and my heart is pounding in my ears. He shakes his head like he's snapping back to reality, stands up and he walks into the tavern, leaving me alone in the carnage.