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Warriors
Beneath the fat, worm-riddled moon, the tribe of the Bear gathers in
the killing circle. Their faces are smeared with ash and the blood of last
night’s boar, bones strung around necks like amulets, cocks swinging
free, every muscle puckered with cold. The wind hisses through the thorns,
flensing all the men. Tonight, there is no feast. There is only the taste of fear and the
promise of war. Dan sits on a boulder at the edge of the ring, his legs spread wide,
thighs furred and bruised. He stares into the fire, chewing the tendon from a
finger bone, eyes full of murder. Next to him squats Kren.
Every warrior receives a second name after he kills another warrior in battle
or duel. Kren is called Azendu,
Black Ass, for the thatch of darkness sprouting from his crack and the way he
sits, half-crouched, like a bear about to shit in the woods. His arms are
banded in scars, and he is built like the bull that humps all the cows
through winter. Dan is called is Kalzbras, Big
Cock, because his cock is like a bull's and his vigor is inexhaustible. Across the ring, the other men keep their distance. They know the
rivalry between these two—some say it is kinship, others that it is
only hunger for death, or cock, or both. But tonight all their grudges are
turned to the Boar tribe, the enemy that breeds like rats in the east and
marches closer every day. The soothsayers have spoken. In one or two dawns, the Boars will
descend upon them, led by King Gard, whose cock is rumored to be so thick he
once killed a wolf by fucking its throat. The Bear tribe will be slaughtered,
every man and boy gutted and left for crows, unless the Moon God, Loar, takes pity and throws the balance. King Anregren steps into the ring, shrouded
in wolfskin. He looks older than death, but his
body is solid, the veins in his forearms raised like roots. When he speaks,
his voice comes from a place so deep it shakes the stones. “Tonight we
ask the Moon for its favor. Tomorrow we spill the blood of our enemies. All
of us will die. But the question is, will we die like men, or like
Boars?” The answer is a roar. Some of the younger warriors jab their cocks in
the air, howling and spitting, but the older ones just grit their teeth and
pound fists against chests. “Summon the bastard,” Anregren
says, and all heads turn to the priest. The high priest of Loar is a grotesque
thing—old, stooped, his scalp tattooed with circles and dicks and
teeth. He wears no clothes; his body is a map of self-inflicted scars and
burn marks. In one hand he carries the ritual blade; in the other, the sack
of bones. He hobbles to the center, slits his palm, and squeezes blood over the
fire. The flames pop, turning blue. He begins to chant, not in any tongue the
men recognize, but in the hoarse, lisping whine that is the language of the
dead. Dan feels his balls tighten. There is something in the air—a
thickness, like blood in water. The priest throws in the bones and the fire hisses louder. Shadows
wriggle up the sides of the pit, twisting into shapes: men with cocks for
heads, women with teeth where their cunts should be, monsters that chew the
stars. Anregren watches, face
unreadable. “What does the Moon say?” he grinds. The priest’s eyes roll back until only the whites show. “Loar will open the way for us. The Boars will fall. But
there is a price.” He points a shaking finger at the circle.
“When the Boar King dies, the Bear who slays him must be given to Loar. His heart, his cock, his seed, his spirit.” A hush falls over the circle. Dan feels a jolt of pleasure in his gut.
Azendu bares his teeth, and his cock visibly jumps. The priest’s voice comes again, thick with prophecy: “The
one who takes the Boar King’s life will become Loar’s
bride. He will be fucked by the Moon for all eternity.” Silence, then raucous laughter. The youngest warriors hoot, mocking.
“Who’d want that fate? Fucking the king, then getting fucked by a
ghost!” Dan stands, stretching. “Better to be Loar’s
slut than die like a worm,” he spits. “Maybe you’ll get the chance, Kalzbras,”
says Azendu, using Dan’s war name. Big Dick.
“You’re always first to stick your cock in trouble.” Dan grins. “Only if you’re second, Black Ass.” They glare at each other, but it is good-natured, a contest of manhood
and destiny. Around them, the tension breaks. Some men boast about how
they’ll take Gard’s head; others speculate on what it would be
like to be fucked by a god. Anregren silences them
with a raised hand. “Tomorrow we march. The Moon will guide us. And
when the Boar King falls, we honor the pact.” The priest slices his own chest and lets the blood drip onto the fire.
“Whoever is chosen,” he says, “must submit. No weeping. No
running.” Dan and Azendu look at each other, and in
the firelight, neither looks away. Tonight, there is no feast. But in the darkness, hunger grows. At dawn the valley is an open wound, raw and reeking. Fog clots in the
hollows, slick as afterbirth. The Bear tribe gathers on the rise, bare-assed
and hungover, hair crusted with blood and sweat, blades already wet.
Somewhere below, the Boars are massing, torches bobbing like angry fireflies. Dan grinds the toe of his boot into a dead man’s teeth, savoring
the crunch. Beside him, Azendu hums a war tune
through broken lips. All around, the Bears ready themselves—some
jerking their cocks for luck, others carving runes in the dirt, a few gnawing
at hunks of raw horseflesh. The signal comes. A single howl, shrill and mean, like a wolf with its
guts pulled out. Dan runs first, calves flexing, balls swinging. Azendu
paces him, heavier but just as fast. Behind them the Bear tribe pours down
the slope, thirty brutes with murder in their veins, blades and hammers
raised. The Boars meet them head-on. There’s no art to it—just the
blunt physics of bone and metal. Men ram into each other, grappling, gouging,
biting. Swords rip open bellies, spilling hot intestines onto frozen grass.
Skulls split, teeth scatter, eyes pop from their sockets. The noise is thick
as honey, a grunting, gasping music. Dan loses himself in the slaughter. He grabs a Boar by the beard,
yanks his head back, and carves his throat open with a single swipe. Blood
arcs. Another Boar swings at Dan’s face; the blade nicks his cheek, and
Dan feels the cut but barely cares. He kicks the Boar in the kneecap,
dropping him, then crushes his windpipe with a bare fist. Azendu fights dirtier.
He breaks a jaw with an elbow, then stuffs his own fist into the man’s
mouth and rips out a handful of teeth. He laughs, black hair matted to his
head. When a Boar leaps at his back, Azendu reaches
behind, grabs the man’s balls, and tears them off. He shoves the sack
in the dying man’s mouth and leaves him writhing. Soon the ground is too slick to run; Dan slips and lands on a pile of
corpses, but rolls with it, stabbing upward through a Boar’s ribs. The
Boar pisses himself as he dies, warm urine soaking Dan’s thigh. Dan
grins, shoves the corpse off, and keeps moving. By midmorning, the fight is over for most. Bears stomp the wounded
into paste, drag the captured aside for later. The snow is packed down with
blood, shit, and brain matter. Only at the far edge of the clearing does the
battle still burn: here King Gard and his last three brutes have holed up
behind a wall of their own dead, blades drawn. Azendu sees them first.
“King’s ours!” he bellows. Dan wipes snot and blood from his face. “You want to split him,
or fuck him first?” “Fuck you,” says Azendu,
grinning. The two of them crash into the barricade. One of the Boar brutes
swings a hammer at Azendu’s head; Azendu ducks, catches the man around the waist, and suplexes him onto a tree stump. The man’s spine
snaps with a sound like splitting firewood. Azendu
bashes in his face for good measure, then turns to help Dan. But Dan’s already busy. The second brute lunges with a spear,
grazing Dan’s thigh. Dan doesn’t slow—he grabs the spear,
pulls the man in close, and bites his nose clean off. The man screams, drops
the spear. Dan jabs the butt of it through the man’s eye socket, shoves
him down, and stomps on his head until it explodes. Now it’s just Gard and one brute left. Gard is huge, even
compared to Dan and Azendu. His beard drips with
grease and clotted blood; his arms are as thick as a man’s thigh. He
doesn’t speak, just grinds his teeth and lifts his axe. The last Boar brute charges Azendu, but
it’s suicide. Azendu sidesteps, grabs him by
the neck, and headbutts him so hard the scalp
splits. He throws the limp body at Gard’s feet. Gard kicks the corpse aside. “Bears!” he spits.
“Come and die, then.” Dan and Azendu circle him, fangs bared. Gard swings first. Dan ducks under the axe and rakes his own blade
across Gard’s thigh, opening a flap of skin. Azendu
closes in from behind, tries to get him in a bear hug, but Gard whips around
and elbows Azendu in the temple. Azendu staggers; Dan takes the opening, drives his sword
into Gard’s gut. Gard grunts, but doesn’t go down. He swings again, catches Dan
on the shoulder. The bone cracks, but Dan just laughs, shoves his sword
deeper, twists. Gard knees him in the balls, but Dan, fueled by agony and
pride, bites Gard’s ear and tears half of it away. Azendu regains his
balance, picks up a fallen axe, and brings it down on Gard’s shoulder.
The blade bites deep, pinning Gard’s arm to his side. Gard drops his
own axe, roars, and tries to pull free, but Azendu
plants a foot on Gard’s back and wrenches the axe down, slicing through
collarbone and lung. Gard coughs blood, turns to face Dan, and for a moment it’s just
the two of them, blood brothers in death. Dan spits out the ear, grins, and stabs Gard three times in the belly,
each thrust slower and deeper than the last. Gard sinks to his knees. Dan
stands over him, panting, cock already hard. “You lost,” Dan says. “Now you get fucked like a
real man.” He grabs Gard by the hair, shoves him face-first into the muck, and
yanks down his pants. Gard’s ass is hairy, full of scars, the crack
flecked with shit. Dan spits in his hand, greases his cock, and pushes in,
slow but relentless. Gard howls, tries to claw the ground, but Azendu holds him down. Dan fucks Gard hard, slamming his hips, driving the shame in deep.
Other Bears gather, jeering and cheering, some stroking themselves at the
sight. Dan lasts a long time, savoring it, letting the pain and pride mix in
his veins. When he cums, he pulls out, spurting all over Gard’s back
and ass. “Moon’s watching,” Dan grunts. He flips Gard over,
takes his knife, and slices Gard’s cock and balls clean off. Gard is
too far gone to scream, just shudders as Dan shoves the bleeding dick and
sack into his mouth. Dan squats over Gard’s ruined face and pisses on him, hot and
yellow. Gard gurgles, then goes limp. Dan takes his blade, draws it across Gard’s throat, and lifts
the head free. He holds it high, blood pouring down his arm, and howls to the
sky. The Boars are finished. The Bears circle their champion, chanting his
name, cocks out and fists raised. Azendu watches Dan, and
his eyes are full of something wild, something hungry. Dan just laughs, smearing blood across his chest. “Who’s
next?” he shouts. “Or are you all too scared to fight a real
man?” The Bears howl, stomping corpses into the muck, the air thick with
blood and victory and the rankest joy. Above, the Moon gleams, sated—for now. Night settles like a bruise on the valley, and the moon is a yellowed
tooth, jagged behind greasy clouds. Where the blood of the day froze in
sheets and spattered the snow, now the Bear tribe piles bonfires and laughs
and howls and wrestles in the reek of victory. The feast is not for women, not for the old or the yet-unblooded. This is a ritual for fighters, for the
cock-driven and the dead-eyed, for men who know they’ll never see old
age. The enclosure is a ring of sharpened stakes, a pen where the
tribe’s best go to eat, drink, and fuck until the sun boils them awake.
In the center, the five Boar prisoners kneel, arms bound, heads down and
cocks shriveled in the cold. Dan is first to strip off his furs, tossing them at a boy who scurries
away with a grin. His body is a map of new wounds—cuts down his chest,
a bite mark on his shoulder, bruises flowering along his thighs. His cock is
still half-hard from the battle, the shaft mottled with dried blood and
flecks of shit from Gard’s ruined asshole. Azendu sheds his own
skins, standing naked and massive, arms crossed, hair bristling on his chest
and belly and down his arms. His eyes never leave Dan, not for a second. Not
even when two younger warriors rush up, already drunk, and try to shove him
into the mud for a laugh. Azendu just shrugs them
off, steps over their bodies as they tumble, and watches Dan as a starving
wolf watches the last living deer. The first jug of beer makes its rounds, passed from mouth to mouth. It
tastes of smoke and rot, the way real beer should. Warriors gather close,
comparing scars and blows, flexing arms and belching, some even pissing on
the ground to claim their corner of the pen. The prisoners are kept on their
knees, shoulders hunched, eyes wild, awaiting their turn on the spit. Dan circles the Boars, grinning, his big dick swinging. He squats in
front of the tallest, a strong man, and seizes him by the jaw. “You
look thirsty, piglet.” The man looks at Dan, says nothing. Dan spits in his face and shoves
his thumb in the man’s mouth, working it in deep. “Warm him up, Kren,” Dan shouts. Azendu steps forward,
looming. “They won’t last long. They’re all holes and
fear.” “We’ll see about that,” says Dan. He stands, pivots, and slaps his cock against the man’s lips.
The other warriors jeer, some stroking themselves already, some shoving each
other for a better view. Dan pushes the man down, pries his mouth open, and
stuffs his cock inside. “Fucking hell,” says a nearby warrior, gaping at
Dan’s girth. “He’s gonna choke on
it.” “That’s the point,” says Azendu,
arms folded, gaze glued to the spectacle. Dan rams his hips, working his cock down the Boar’s throat. The
man gags and sputters, eyes bulging. Dan holds his head firm, pulling it back
and forth in time with his thrusts. The noises are awful—wet, choking
sounds, Dan’s grunts, the hoots of the onlookers. When Dan pulls out,
the man coughs up strings of spit and vomit. “Your turn, Kren,” Dan says,
voice rough with triumph. Azendu walks over,
shoves Dan aside, and grabs the next prisoner by the hair. This one is older,
scars across his nose and cheek. Azendu spits in
the man’s face, then squats behind him and starts working his own cock
hard. “He’s not gonna go easy,”
says Dan, voice low and edged with admiration. Azendu lines up and
rams in with one brutal thrust. The Boar howls, but the sound is muffled by Azendu’s fist stuffed in his mouth. Azendu grabs the man’s hips and plows him, each
movement jerky, angry. Some of the Bears start stroking themselves, watching,
a few pissing on the ground or on the prisoners’ backs. Another jug of beer appears, and hands pass it to Dan. He takes a swig,
then pours a stream over the prisoner’s head. “Drink up,
piglet,” he says, then resumes face-fucking, harder and rougher. The other warriors are not to be left out. They fight over the next
prisoners, arguing, wrestling, biting. The two youngest Bears each grab a
Boar and try to see who can break him first. One Bear rips his
prisoner’s ear off with his teeth and swallows it; the other jams three
fingers into his captive’s ass and twists until the man screams. The
rest of the tribe eggs them on, cocks out, fists pumping, a few already
jerking to the show. Dan fucks the first prisoner to the hilt, holds him there, and waits
for the man to pass out. When the body slumps, Dan pulls out, wipes his dick
on the man’s face, and moves to the next. “Not much of a fighter,”
he says, disappointed. Azendu finishes with
his own, roars his climax, and pulls out, leaving the Boar gaping and
bleeding. He stomps the man’s head into the dirt, then looks at Dan,
eyes blazing. “You think you’re the Moon’s chosen,” Azendu says. “But you’re just a cock with
legs.” Dan laughs, chest heaving, and grabs the third Boar, pinning him to
the ground. “A cock with legs is all I need.” He mounts the man from behind, drives in, and fucks him with long,
deep strokes. The man bucks and thrashes, but Dan holds him down, shoving his
face in the filth. As the night goes on, the ring devolves. Warriors piss on the
prisoners, on each other, on the flames. Some roll in the mud, wrestling for
sport; others jerk off and spray their loads on the backs of the captives.
The air is thick with sweat, smoke, and the copper stink of blood. Dan works his way through all five prisoners, one after the other,
never losing his edge. The last is the oldest, a man who doesn’t even
scream, just grits his teeth and stares straight ahead as Dan fucks him raw. When Dan is done, he stands, dick drooping, and wipes his face.
“Time for the end,” he says, and gestures to Azendu. Azendu steps up, grabs
the first prisoner (still alive, barely), and wraps an arm around his neck.
He fucks him as he chokes him, squeezing tighter with each thrust. The man
flails, legs kicking, then falls limp. Azendu cums,
pulls out, and throws the body onto the fire. The rest of the tribe follows suit. Each warrior fucks a captive, then
strangles him, or snaps his neck, or crushes his skull. The corpses are
heaped in a pile and set alight. The tribe dances around the flames, dicks
wagging, chanting the names of the dead. Dan stands beside Azendu, shoulder to
shoulder, cocks out and hands slick with blood. They say nothing, just watch
the fire, the air around them thick with heat and smoke and the promise of
more violence to come. Later, when the fires die down and the beer is gone, the tribe drifts
away to their huts. Dan lingers, staring at the embers, lost in thought. Azendu follows him,
silent as a shadow. In his hut, Azendu lies awake, unable to
sleep. His cock is hard, aching. He thinks of Dan, of the battle, of the
moment Dan killed Gard and took his head. He remembers the way Dan’s
cock looked buried in Gard’s ass, the way Dan pissed on Gard’s
ruined face, the way the tribe worshipped Dan like a god. Azendu wraps his hand
around his cock and strokes it, slow and hard, replaying the memory. He wants
Dan to kill him, fuck him, humiliate him, devour him. He wants to be the
sacrifice, to die like Gard, to have his own head on a stick outside the hut. He jerks harder, faster, gritting his teeth to keep from moaning. When
he cums, he bites his hand, taste of blood in his mouth, and thinks only of
Dan. He does not sleep, even when the moon sets. He just lies there, cock
raw, mind burning, waiting for the end. Morning comes slow and ugly. The village is a slurry of piss and
melting snow, the stink of beer and burnt flesh hanging in the air. Most of
the warriors snore through dawn, sprawled on dirt floors or tangled in furs,
hands still clutching empty jugs or cocks gone limp in sleep. Azendu wakes before the
rest, dick hard and aching from dreams he can’t remember. He sits up,
wipes spit and crust from his mouth, and stumbles outside, naked as a
newborn. In the warriors’ quarter, no one bothers with clothes unless
it’s freezing or there’s a raid. Azendu
likes it this way—skin open to the sky, scars and hair and meat for all
to see. He stands in front of his hut, blinking at the day. The poles are the
first thing he sees: a forest of stumps, each capped with a dead man’s
head. Fourteen old skulls, their flesh long since boiled off, stare with
hollow sockets. Four new ones from yesterday, faces still bloated, lips
chewed away by dogs and crows. Every one of them has a cock and balls stuffed
in the mouth, stretched wide and stiff with the frost. Azendu feels a flicker
of pride, seeing the trophies lined up. He runs a finger over a jawbone, then
spits on it. His cock twitches. He turns to the fresh heads, picks two at
random, and lets out a slow, steaming piss onto their scalps. The stream runs
over their ruined faces, drips from the dicks jutting out between dead lips. Every morning, the men piss on the heads. Sometimes, if the mood
strikes, they shit on them too. It’s tradition—remind the enemy,
even in death, who is the better man. After a week, they strip the heads,
boil them, and mount the clean skulls on new sticks, always outside the hut
of the killer. Azendu finishes, shakes
the last drops onto the frozen earth, and grins. He feels alive, more than
any other time. His balls hang heavy, swinging between his thighs as he
walks. He heads for Dan’s hut. It isn’t far. Already he can see
the heads on Dan’s poles—more than Azendu’s,
and one is special: Gard, the Boar King, face still twisted in pain and rage,
his own cock and balls wedged in his mouth like a gag. Dan is up early, too. He stands outside, naked, legs apart, hand on
his half-hard dick. He’s pissing on Gard’s head, slow and
deliberate, watching the yellow river wash through Gard’s hair and down
his brow. The piss puddles in the eyes and seeps along the cock stuffed in
the gaping mouth. Azendu stops and
watches. The sight makes his own cock pulse with fresh blood. Dan looks over, grins, and aims the last arc of piss straight at Azendu’s feet. “Morning, Black Ass,” he says, voice rough with sleep and
beer. Azendu snorts.
“Morning, Big Cock. I see you’re giving the King his due.” Dan shrugs, stretches his arms, muscles bulging. “He earned it.
I’ll make him drink it every morning until he rots away.” Azendu steps closer.
“You fucked him good yesterday. Never seen a man take it like
that.” Dan spits, wipes the tip of his cock, and shakes it. “He
deserved worse. You want a turn?” Azendu laughs, but
there’s a tightness in his throat. He walks to Gard’s head,
stares into the hollow, piss-filled eyes, and wonders what it would feel like
to have Dan fuck him the way he fucked Gard. Dan’s eyes are on him, waiting. Azendu’s dick is hard
again. Dan just grins wider, teeth white in the morning light. The two of them stand in silence, naked, surrounded by heads and old
bones, the air crackling between them. Somewhere, a dog howls. The sun creeps higher. Blood thaws in the
snow. Today is for living, for dying. For fucking or fighting—maybe
both. Azendu knows it. So
does Dan. They wait, together, for the next thing to break. Dan stretches, cracks his neck, and leans against the post where
Gard’s head is mounted. His piss has frozen in streaks down the
King’s face, glinting in the pale morning sun. Azendu
stands a few steps away, still hard from the vision of Dan’s bare body. “Can’t sleep, Black Ass?” says Dan, picking at his
teeth with a shard of bone. Azendu shrugs. “Too
much beer. Or too much noise from the pen.” He glances at Dan’s
cock, then at Gard’s ruined face. “You always up this early,
pissing on the dead?” Dan grins, wipes a trickle from the head of his dick. “Some of
them need reminding they lost. Or maybe I just like showing off.” He
cocks his head at Azendu. “You come to stare
at my cock, or you just jealous?” Azendu grins back, but
his jaw is tight. “Maybe both. I counted—seven men you killed
yesterday. Some say it’s a record. Even for you.” Dan snorts. “They were slow. Or maybe I just wanted it
more.” Azendu looks at the
line of heads, at the dicks stuffed in mouths. “Those
seven—better death than most. Killed by the best. It’s an
honor.” Dan laughs, low and bitter. “You think they saw it as an honor?
I saw the look on Gard’s face when I stuck it in. He’d rather die
a thousand times than take my cock, even after he’d lost.” Azendu’s chest heaves.
“Still better than dying forgotten. Or from an illness.” Dan glances over. “You want to go out like Gard, then? Piss
yourself, get fucked, lose your balls?” Azendu doesn’t
answer right away. He watches the steam rising from the heads, feels the cold
air cut across his skin, sees Dan’s body, powerful and relaxed. After a moment, he says, “If it was you who killed me—maybe
I’d want it.” Dan raises his eyebrows, mock surprise. “Never thought you for a
whore.” Azendu shrugs, but his
hands are fists. “We all end up dead, Kalzbras.
Some get remembered. Some just rot.” Dan is quiet for a bit, chewing on the thought. “You want to be
remembered, you gotta do something worth
remembering. Dying in bed is for the weak.” Azendu swallows, voice
low. “When you killed Gard, I wished I was him.” Dan barks a laugh. “You’re serious? You want me to stab
you, fuck you, cut off your balls and piss down your throat?” Azendu looks down, then
up, eyes fierce. “Yes.” For the first time, Dan is speechless. He lets out a slow breath. “Never took you for a coward.
There’s no shame in dying, but asking for it? I thought you’d
want to go down fighting.” Azendu’s lips twist into
a snarl. “I do want to fight. But I want to lose. To you.” Dan paces, eyes never leaving Azendu’s
face. “We could duel. Here and now. Winner does what he wants with the
loser.” Azendu nods.
“That’s what I want.” Dan shakes his head, but he’s smiling. “You’re
fucked up, Black Ass.” Azendu bares his teeth.
“So are you, Kalzbras. But you’re the
best.” Dan spits on the ground, then ducks into his hut. He comes back with
two daggers, the blades chipped but sharp enough to split a man’s
tongue. He tosses one to Azendu, who catches it in
the air. Dan sets his feet in the slush, dagger raised. “No whining. No
mercy. You fight like a man, or I’ll gut you slow.” Azendu squares off,
naked, muscles flexed, cock at half-mast. Dan grins, eyes alight. “Ready, Black Ass?” Azendu grins back, lips
pulled tight over his teeth. “Ready.” Their world shrinks to the space between them. Azendu’s
fingers tighten on the hilt, and for the first time in his life, he feels
utterly alive. He can’t wait to lose. The morning is knife-cold, the air so clean it cuts the lungs. Dan and
Azendu face each other, bare feet rooted in the
slush. The village is silent, everyone asleep or hungover, and the only
witnesses are the rows of skulls and the ghosts of the men who once wore
them. No one to see, no one to stop them. Azendu circles, dagger
raised, but he’s already flagging. He wants this—wants the pain,
wants to die, wants Dan inside him more than he wants to live. The thought is
dizzying, makes his knees weak. He feints, half-hearted, and Dan catches the
hesitation. “Fight, you fucker,” Dan spits, voice edged with
disappointment and glee. “You said you wanted to die by my hand. Make
me work for it.” Azendu shakes his head,
lowers his blade. “I’m not a warrior now. I’m just a slut.
Yours.” Dan laughs, low and hungry. “I should kill you just for the
shame.” Azendu drops the
dagger, closes the distance, kneels. “Do it, Dan. Make it hurt.” Dan doesn’t hesitate. He rams the
dagger into Azendu’s belly, once, twice, three
times, all low and cruel. The pain is white-hot; Azendu
sees stars, feels his insides go molten. He sags,
blood gushing down his thighs. Dan pushes him down, rolls him onto his stomach, and straddles him. He
pulls Azendu’s hips up, lines up his
cock—still hard, always hard—and spits on it, then slams it in. Azendu screams, but it’s more ecstasy than agony. Dan fucks him deep, not gentle, hips slamming, balls slapping Azendu’s ass. Blood leaks from the wounds and from
the torn skin, mingling with the shit and cum and piss already smeared across
Azendu’s hole. Dan fucks harder, faster, until he’s howling, rutting like a
beast. Azendu can’t stop
himself—he’s cumming, thick and hot, spilling onto the ground,
even as his guts spill out from the gashes. Dan pulls out and stands, cock smeared with blood and shit. He grabs Azendu by the hair and drags him to his knees. “Clean it,” Dan orders, shoving the filthy cock into Azendu’s mouth. Azendu licks and sucks,
tasting his own blood and shit. He gags, but he doesn’t stop. He wants
it all. Dan jerks his head back. “Look at you. Is this what you
wanted?” Azendu nods, mouth
still full. Dan laughs and kicks him to the ground. He grabs the blade and saws at
Azendu’s cock and balls, slicing them off
with one rough, ragged stroke. Azendu chokes, eyes
wide, but the pain is distant now. Dan shoves the severed meat into Azendu’s
mouth, jamming it between his lips. Dan kneels over him, forces his jaws open, and spits. “Swallow,
you useless shit.” Azendu tries. Blood
runs down his chin. He’s dying now, can feel it—the world getting
small and red and cold. Dan pisses on his face, then takes the knife and saws through Azendu’s neck. It’s a slow job, the blade
dull, but Dan is patient. He saws through flesh, gristle, windpipe, bone, and
when the head comes free, he holds it up for the sun to see. Dan mounts the head on the tallest pole, right next to Gard’s,
the mouth packed full with cock and balls. He stands back, breath steaming, admires his work. Later, when the other warriors wake and wander outside, they find
before the pole, pissing on Azendu’s severed
head. Flies already swarm, drawn to the fresh gore. Dan grins at the gawkers. “He begged for it,” he says,
voice full of savage pride. “Begged for every inch.” He jerks off, spraying cum onto the skull, marking it as his own. The other warriors watch, some disgusted, some jealous. Azendu’s body is left for
the wolves, as is the law for those who die without a fight. Dan licks his lips, still tasting the metallic tang of blood and
glory. He is the last, the strongest, the chosen of the Moon. And soon, it will be his turn. A week passes. The skulls grow cleaner on their posts, but the memory
of slaughter is fresh and hot in every throat. The Moon God’s time
comes at the new moon, the blackest night, when the air itself feels sharp as
knives and the men walk naked, howling, in anticipation. Dan is the offering. He knows it. The priest knows it. Even the
children, hiding behind their mothers, know it. It’s the law, and
it’s the only kind of justice Dan understands. He spends the day drunk and raw, fucking and fighting with whoever
wants to say goodbye or test their luck. He doesn’t lose a single bout.
By nightfall, his body is painted with new bruises and semen stains, some
his, some gifted from others in tribute. At sundown, the warriors bind Dan’s hands behind his back with
strips of skin cut from the last Boar prisoners. They parade him to the
altar—a rough slab of granite at the edge of the woods, caked in old
blood and flecked with teeth from sacrifices past. The priest is waiting, naked except for the silver circlet around his
neck. In his hands he holds the instrument of offering: a silver cock, longer
and thicker than any living man, its shaft engraved with spirals and fanged
mouths. The tribe forms a circle, every man at attention, cocks out, fists
raised. They chant Dan’s name, the word becoming an animal noise, a
sound that vibrates in every spine. Dan is forced onto the altar, chest pressed to cold stone, ass in the
air. His own cock is hard, jutting below him. He breathes deep, savoring the
stink of blood and fear. The priest spits in his hand, greases the silver cock, and presses it
against Dan’s hole. Even Dan flinches at the cold metal, but he bites
his lip, refuses to make a sound. The priest drives the cock in, slow and relentless. Dan’s
sphincter splits; blood trickles down his thighs, pooling at his knees. The
pain is pure, like being stabbed with a red-hot poker. Dan howls, and the
tribe howls with him. The priest fucks Dan with the silver, working it deeper with every
thrust, tearing him open, making him a true bride for the Moon. Even as he’s split, Dan’s own cock drools pre-cum onto the
rock. He is in agony, but it’s the kind he was born for. After a dozen strokes, the priest pulls out, flips Dan onto his back,
and lines up the dagger. He chants a prayer to Loar, the words liquid
and obscene. Then he plunges the blade into Dan’s chest, just below the
sternum. Dan gasps, eyes wide. The priest draws the blade down, splitting
Dan’s belly open to the base of his cock. Intestines bulge and slither onto the stone, steaming in the night. The priest lifts Dan’s cock, still hard, and slices it off with
a quick, practiced motion. The warriors scream approval, a chorus of roaring, rutting beasts. The priest holds Dan’s severed dick aloft, then stuffs it into
Dan’s slack mouth. Dan is still alive, barely. He stares at the moon, glassy-eyed, and
smiles around his own cock. Blood bubbles from his lips. The priest stands him up—his guts hanging, blood sluicing over
his thighs—and shoves him off the altar, face down. The wolves come first. They tear at Dan’s ass, feasting on the
flesh, eating their fill while he’s still breathing. Dan thrashes once,
twice, then goes limp. The Moon God is sated. In the days after, the tribe celebrates, devouring what’s left
of the beer and burning Dan’s hut in his honor. The poles with the
heads—Gard, Azendu, the rest—are set
ablaze, the skulls popping in the heat, the smell rich and greasy. But something odd happens when the fire reaches Azendu’s
pole. A black flame whips up from the mouth, and Azendu’s
head glows, eyes burning with hate. The smoke gathers in a knot, then flies
into the woods, howling. The priest claims it’s a bad omen, that Azendu’s
spirit isn’t at rest. They hear things, after that. Strange cries in the marsh. Bones found
gnawed in the morning. Men who wander off for a piss and never come back,
only their empty skins left behind. Dan’s skull is polished and mounted at the center of the
village, crowned with silver, a constant reminder of loyalty and strength. But Azendu’s ghost lingers. Some
nights, they see his shape near the edge of the forest, beckoning, his cockless crotch wet with spectral blood. He lures men
into the bog, strangles them, fucks them with invisible cocks, leaves them to
rot. After the third or fourth time, the tribe begs the priest to banish Azendu’s spirit. The priest makes a new offering to Loar,
this time a jar of wolf’s blood and a lock of Dan’s old hair. That night, the ghost of Dan returns. He finds Azendu’s shade in the swamp,
writhing and hungry, sucking the souls of dead men. Dan’s spirit is bigger, harder, coated in iron and silver. They fight. Azendu tries to bite, to claw,
to tear. Dan rips him in half, fucks the ghostly wound, then smashes the
skull until it dissolves in a haze of shit and moonlight. He jerks off on the spot where Azendu died,
and when the spectral cum hits the earth, the marsh boils and is still. From then on, the tribe is left in peace. Dan’s skull gleams under every moon. The warriors piss on it
every morning, and sometimes, when the wind is right, it smells like victory,
and a little like blood. The Moon God is pleased. The men of the Bear tribe sleep easy. There is no afterlife for men like Azendu.
But for Dan, there is always another night. |