MHOS Part 39: Wrath Lake

I pull into the park in Wrath and make my way to the Gazebo where I see Alastor smoking and drinking a coffee. "Good morning" I say. Alastor looks at his pocket watch "Yes, it must have been, it's 11am" I roll my eyes.

"We never discussed a time Alastor, we said every lake once & I have been speeding through them at one a day when your last guy took 3, so calm the fuck down." Alastor stands to stare at me face to face his eyes glowing red, his smile hostile, making me wish I hadn't just told him to calm down, made me wish I hadn't swore, but it's too late, he's challenging me.

"Would you like to go for a swim today instead? Because I can go home, I have plenty of things I could be doing" I state refusing to let him see my fear. He looks back and forth into both my eyes as I refuse to back down. His smile becomes amused and he steps aside allowing me to step into the lake as he settles back down on the picnic table to await my return.

I walk into the lake, slow. On the outside I appear confident and ready for anything, on the inside, if I could crumble in fear at that moment.. I would.. I will wait until I am in the safety of the waters below. I dive in and find life, there are people everywhere, it's beautiful. People fighting, a lively underwater Bodega filled with all the best in waterproof weaponry, and as I swam further in I saw the homes.. caves, Same as all the others..

Except I noticed something I haven't before.. a hidden waterway off in the corner.. I swim over to investigate it. There was an abandoned fortress, by an active volcano. I swim over immediately and spend an hour just touring the place, volcanic fallout has created a deadly looking architecture along the outside. There are corridors that narrow as they progress, perfect for herding prey. There's a mirror on the center of the floor in the basement, when I touched it, resonance began to echo through the waters, it scared me, but excited me too.. A place that is designed for Sirens! Large, gorgeous, deadly.

Mine.

I head back to the flats and down to the express tunnels to find it busy as well and that's when I begin to sing.. Slowly making my way from the transit way to the mud holes.. luring every other creature with me into a passionate frenzy. I give into the sexual energy as I slide my body through the crowd, searching face, after face, body after passionate body. The target is nowhere to be found. I look at my watch. Alastor is waiting. It's time to go.

I swim up to the surface to give Alastor my report. He observes the bites and hickeys all over my body and says "Successful search?" I reply "And some well earned foreplay for the hunt tonight, but no target." He asks, "Plans?" I look at him and smile and before I can say it he cuts me off and says "Brash" and we chuckle as we walk along the path back to Gary.

As we get closer to Gary we can hear fighting in the alleyway half way back to the car and I stop. "Dinner time?" I ask Alastors smile grows in sheer predatory delight and says "I'm starved" as we both head down the Alleyway eagerly anticipating the hunt ahead.

"I fucking love Wrath" I say as I run into a large crowd of people already fighting and grab my first victim. As I rip his throat out with my teeth and devour it, I watch the light fade from his eyes and I let his body slide to the ground cackling. Alastor amused by my unadulterated joy, joins me on another killing spree. Blood is flying, people are screaming, and out of nowhere a large, heavy figure leaps into my back pinning me to the ground with his sheer size and weight.

I slide onto my back to face him as he remains straddled on top of me and I begin giggling maniacally at him. He tries to attack me when Alastor grabs him by the head and drags him off me, digging his claws into the person's skull as they scream and I get back up off the ground to join back in on the fun. I grab the man by the legs as Alastor walks away and start pulling. Alastor looks down at my hand, then down at my face & smiles back at me as he begins to pull in the opposite direction, we laugh in our evil game of tug of war until the body finally snaps and we both fly backwards howling laughing.

Alastor tries to wipe the tears of laughter streaming down my face, but his hand is covered in blood. When he realizes he's making my face worse not better we laugh harder about it as I crawl across the ground and rip the heart from the man we just tore in half and offer Alastor the first bite as I sit on the ground. Alastor stops laughing, he looks down at the heart, still warm, still bleeding. He holds my hands in his as he lowers the heart to my face and together, sitting cheek to cheek, we devour every.. last.. bite.

I'm heated, my chest is heaving, Fighting? Check. Food? Check. Then I look up at Alastor licking the blood off his thumb, I reach for his face and before I can touch him beep beep beep Alastors eyes sober, he reaches for my hand and pulls me upright.

And suddenly the spell is broken.

What the fuck Ella? I ask myself in my head.

"Peaches is waiting." Alastor says factually. "I will see you tomorrow in Murdertropolis."

I walk away confused and grateful for his restraint & head back to Peaches place to forget tonight ever happened. And when she fades, I head home.

Alone.

To Gary's.