Netherhiem 02
It was nighttime at the suburbs of Atlus city.
At the house of one Jeffery Collins. The elder beaver worked at a local child care centre, and today was not his day. First they get a bunch of kids that ever since they arrived 2 months ago were nothing but trouble, then this morning: a pair of goons barge in and take those kids back to their perverted faggot of a father, almost killing his college and long time friend in the process.
He was fuming, but he couldn't do anything against a pair of tank built mercenaries.
He arrived back home to his wife and kids. A beaver wife and three kids, 2 girls and a boy, who was his pride and joy. Since he got his kid to take law as a profession he was perfect, good grades, never got in trouble and what he loved most, never talked back.
But today, he didn't care for anything, he was all too happy to give the kids over, but what those guys did was definitely illegal, they couldn't just barge in and take them without court permission, which he was sure they didn't get.
That night he came back home yelling and cursing at everything and everyone, even hitting his wife and slapping one of his daughters who were there for crying, he was angry to the point that he slept on the couch, watched a few movies before falling asleep.
A few minutes later he woke up feeling too hot for comfort. He opened his eyes slowly, to find a dark red sky above, he sat up quickly scared of his sudden surroundings. He looked around a little, he found himself in what seemed to be an empty battle ground.
"Hehehehehe"
He winced before turning around to the source of the ominous chuckle.
He found a demonic figure sitting on a throne made of flesh and bones, with withered and dead skin as fabric. The figure, a male of sorts, was actually a demon, long horns shaped like a ram's, skeletal body, with his ribcage appearing on the outside of his chest, acting as armor. He held a long staff, with a feathered skull at the top and three sharp spear heads at the bottom lined to shape a claw.
A demonic voice addressed him, "Why are you so surprised? This is where you belong after all" He slowly swiped his hand to his surroundings.
Belong here!? No this can't be right, he was an avid believer, he stood by his fellow followers of god, he prayed, he thanked god for everything and anything. He just can't be here!!
The demon stood from his throne, walking slowly towards the scared- horrified beaver "Oh don't worry, this is not hell itself, this is just a portion of what you should expect"
The demon grabbed the beaver's chin softly lifting his face up to meet his devilish glare, his eyes like to specs of red light in a black hole, piercing right through your soul, looking at your very essence. Or that's what Jeffery thought at least.
"You think that just because you were a strong believer in god that you are welcome into heaven?" He suddenly grabbed the beaver by the throat and threw him a few feet away, "WELL THINK AGAIN!!!!!"
Jeffery tried to get on his feet, but the demon appeared right in front of him grabbing his whole face, those thin long fingers capable touching if not for his neck. "You manipulated everyone to your liking, did you know that your son never wanted to study law? No, he wanted to be a doctor, a far more noble profession than a lawyer, but his fear of you is what's holding him back"
The demon released his head, letting him fall to the floor, before he could respond, "And then there is your job. How many innocent families have you destroyed just for your pay check, how many kids have you ripped away from their loving parents arms, and before you say anything I'm talking about the good families" the beaver closed his mouth "Remember last month, that otter high school student, he had two loving fathers, they provided him with everything he wanted, a perfect school, a magnificent life, love and care" The demon turned and the scenery around them changed to the same suburbs he lived in, a few blocks away from the beaver's house.
*BAM* "Matthew!"
They looked at the half broken door, the beaver and two officers holding a middle aged male couple, a cat and a wolf, as the beaver dragged a kicking and screaming otter boy, who looked to be almost 14.
"Then you came, with the police, clogging their ears with false truth, and covering their logic thought with forged evidence of child abuse, making them the perfect pawns to do your dirty work" he turned to face the terrified man, the scenery changing again to show a house from the neighboring suburbs "You didn't stop there, you had to destroy the kid completely for your sick pleasure, you put him with a catholic family and even had the nerve to ask the father to 'whip the kid into shape', and whip him he did, the boy was strong, but he soon broke under the pressure" Jeffery remained silent not even knowing what to say, he grabbed his head in both hands, he didn't want to remember but the demon continued "the old hag of a mother blamed him for every little thing missing or broken, the father hit him, spanked and caned him every chance he got, also for no reason, their two imps for sons bullied him just for shits and giggles" ....Stop..... " his school mates bullied him, his friends abandoned him" ....please....no...."his former parents weren't allowed near him, your work of course" .....stop it....shut up..." he couldn't handle it any more, the hate, the pain, the pressure" ....be quiet....no more...."he turned to the only method of salvation" , "NO!!!!".
The beaver shot his head up straight to find himself in a dark room, the demon was not there.
*BANG*
He froze.
He turned around slowly.
Before seeing a pair of feet dangling in the air.
He dared to look up.
Till he could see the otter boy's dead blank face, hanging from the ceiling with a tight rope around his neck.
He held his head in his hands again roughly, screaming his lungs out, before everything fell to darkness.
A single head light flicked open, revealing the kneeling destroyed form of the beaver, crying and sobbing softly.
The demon walked around him slowly "He just couldn't handle it anymore, so he just did the next best thing, although a gun would have been easier and quicker, but even with his dying breath he held hope that someone would care enough to stop him.....but alas, he died.....broken, destroyed.....and alone"
The demon started clapping softly, "Bravo Mr. Collins, bravo indeed"
The beaver lifted is head only to gaze at the otter boy's face and dead blank eyes, "That's one less queer for the society to worry about"
Jeffery then suddenly began falling.
But before he hit the bottom "Now...it's your turn to feel the loss of a loved one....you could simply call it...poetic justice"
He shot up, falling from the couch he was sleeping in, sweat covering his clothes, back home to safety.
He then remembered the demon's words.
He dashed towards his room, his wife was softly snoring.
His daughters' room, both accounted for.
Finally, with a sense of slight relief, he opened his son's door, he saw small figure below the covers. He sighed in relief, but just before he closed his door, the demon's words haunted him clearly this time. He went back into the room, grabbed the covers.
No reaction, that really worried him since his son was a light sleeper, the softest movement and the lowest sounds woke him up.
He threw the covers away.
A pair of small pillows tied with a rope lay in his son's place, he felt the cold night wind blowing at him, he looked to find the window wide open.
One week later.
It was a Friday afternoon, schools letting the students go, the sun becoming less harsh.
And at the Loneblood's house, A light furred fox with black, short and smooth hair, sat at the lounge, looking at a torn piece of a newspaper with a certain article.
It showed a picture of a 14 year old otter, and the mug shots of a family, that article said that the otter committed suicide at their house, them being his foster family at the time, and that investigation led the police to the conclusion of the involvement of bullying and abuse, heavy and ruthless bullying and abuse.
The article ended with the notification that said 'that both parents were forced to pay a heavy compensation to a homosexual male couple, since the wolf was actually the biological father of the otter, also since closer inspection proved that there were no evidence of child abuse, and the evidence presented to the then police chief were forged, both catholic parents face 4 years in prison, with their parenting rights stripped upon their release, and the boys faced 2 years in juvenile prison with community service'.
The fox looked at the article "monsters" disgust was evident in his voice.
"Still looking at this old thing bro?" he looked at the door, another light colored fox walked over to him, he had blonde hair instead of his brother- twin brother and both had light green eyes, wearing tank tops and sweat pants.
He smiled before folding the piece of paper, throwing it at the table in front of him "I just can't believe how people can be such monsters, and to children who can't even defend themselves, I know that feeling very well John, and I never liked it"
John scooted over to his brother, putting his arms around and pulling him close "I know Vinnie, but look at us now, both our patience was rewarded, and with grandpa's blessing" He landed a small peck on his twin's cheek and winked at him "Besides, now we are both married to a wonderful guy"
Just then the door opened revealing a very tired looking Hydrus, he wore his traditional black glasses, a cane that had a cobra's head for a handle, a long white silver and gold trimmed coat, with an emblem of a snarling wolf, facing sideways.
Speak of the devil, both brothers thought.
He gave a loud and long yawn before he saw the twins looking at him with amused smiles "Hi sweeties, had a good morning I hope"
Vinnie was the one who answered "Yes honey, the library was almost empty today, must be the weekend effect"
"Sure is" Hydrus replied before releasing another long yawn, "Man I'm beat, should go soak up in the pool"
Their pool was located behind the house, with glass doors separating the pool area from the house, it was big, and with a press of a button. Voila you have a hot spring.
Before leaving he noticed the piece of paper on the table, "Vincent you have to let go, me and the mayor dealt with it remember"
It was true, the mayor's family and the Loneblood family were friends, him and Hydrus knew each other for a long time.
Only a handful of people outside of both families knew how close to each other they were.
Vincent looked down, his ears laid flat on his skull, "I know Hyde, but I can't just get it out of my head, I know it was depressing, but I wish we could have done something for the poor kid sooner"
"I know sweet heart, but the news simply reached us a little too late" He smiled and spread his arms, Vincent just walked over to him accepting the hug, "How about you join me in the pool?" He proposed breaking off the hug.
"Sure babe, we'll join you later" John called behind him as the door closed.
A few minutes later, both brothers found a book in the miniature library of the lounge and were reading peacefully.
Before loud laughter, forced them to break their focus on their books.
A tall rat with a leather jacket, blue jeans, snake bite piercings and two industrial ones on his ears came into the lounge followed by the children of this family, also laughing loudly.
"Hey Jo and Vinnie, how are ya today" He asked with a almost painfully wide smile.
Vincent closed his book, "Fine Victor, looks like you had fun with the kids"
The little dragon, Gideon perked up, "Sure did, uncle Victor is awesome"
"Awww, just stop you guys, you're making me blush", that roused a laugh out of everyone, "Who wants to watch some War Sports" all the kids, even Kevin agreed and raced towards the actual living room of the house.
"You still let them watch that stuff?" Vincent asked him with a hint of disapproval.
"Don't look at me, they liked watching that stuff before I joined the family"
Courtesy of Hydrus no doubt, were the fox's thoughts
"Uncle Vic quick, it's the semi-finals between the Bone Grinders and the Howlers"
The rats eyes bugged out, "No way, coming right out boys" and he dashed right out of the lounge.
At the same time.
A black Hummer car parked at the entrance of the house.
The passengers exited the vehicle, appearing to be the employees of the child care centre Alex and Stewart, followed by three others, one was a tiger wearing a brown and black spandex with an emblem with a diamond inside a circle on his chest, another was a fox with a blue and purple spandex and a utility belt fastened on his waist and goggle on his eyes, with the emblem of a group of atoms, on the belt, the last one, a wolf wearing white yellow and silver spandex, with a small cape, silver knee and elbow pads, and the emblem of a star encasing a small thunder bolt on his chest.
They were three of the heroes protecting the city of Atlus: Ground Basher the tiger with the power to control the earth.
Professor Atom the fox with an incredible mind.
And finally, Star Bolt the wolf with the power of electricity and light.
Star Bolt is the current leader of their organization that trained budding superheroes and teach them to do the right thing with their powers: the S.H.A (Super Hero Alliance).
Although, the S.H.A is not the only super organization.
Another was rivaling and actually beating the S.H.A, that was the White Aurora organization, lead by no other than Hydrus Loneblood himself.
The group ascended the stairs, as Alex turned to the trio "Thank you so much for agreeing to come with us, the police were ignoring us ever since the incident last month, specially the new chief"
"No problem, we're here to help" Star Bolt replied, 'although it will be more difficult now that he is back' he thought to himself
They reached the door, with Stewart knocking lightly but firmly.
The door slightly cracked open revealing half the face of Masamune, the wolf servant of the Lonebloods.
Stewart was the one who spoke first, "Good afternoon we were hoping to speak to-"
*SLAM*
The door slammed loudly and quite rudely at their faces.
A few minutes later, the door opened again, this time fully, revealing the full form of the eye-patched wolf, "The master has agreed to see you"
"AAWWW HELL NO"
The group turned to see a small car sitting behind the furious form of Jim the raccoon.
He ran up to the group pushing Alex back, who was thankfully caught by Basher, "You.. are not coming in, you're not going to take our boys this time, you did the last time because Hydrus wasn't here you cowards!!" he yelled at them, as Masamune's hand landed on his shoulder in an attempt to calm him down, "They are guests despite their past actions master Jim"
The raccoon just shrugged the hand off, and went stomping inside, with the buff wolf following behind him, looking a little worried.
The group followed them inside.
The entrance was almost spacious circle, with two hallways separated by a wall in between.
"Master Jim please calm down"
"No not until they leave one way or another, the even have the nerve to get the Alliance involved, but I'll show them"
The group followed the voices to the left hallway.
They found the wolf and raccoon arguing, with a phone speaker in Jim's hand.
"Excuse me" Alex called to the arguing duo, "But I thought Mr. Loneblood was here, so why call him"
"I'm not calling Hydrus, I'm calling mayor Mynx"
The super trio twitched a little, their Alliance are one of the handful that know about the Loneblood's connection to the mayor, and any bad report about them from the Lonebloods spelled there doom, it only takes one call, and his number is being dialled now.
Star walked over to them slowly, "Let's not be hasty now, no need to involve a busy man like the mayor, we only came here to talk"
"Ohhh no, I'm not falling for that" he was now only three numbers away.
"Look just put the phone down and let's talk"
Two numbers
"I have nothing to say to them, but you" he pointed the speaker at the heroes "I never expected you to fall so low like this, and to think I had some respect for your organization, and especially you Star Bolt" that really hurt.
One number
Just as he was about to dial it, a hand softly grabbed the speaker.
Hydrus held the phone, he changed to a tank top and dark blue sweat pants, along with what looked like cloth straps on his shoulders after his time at the pool.
Jim tried reaching for the speaker but to no avail.
Hydrus just put a hand softly on his husband's shoulder, "Calm down babe, let's see what they want first, then you can plot their demise, okay?"
Jim just crossed his arms and pouted.
Hydrus continued "Besides, it's mommy's turn" he turned around revealing the baby raccoon: Caleb giggling and reaching for his mommy.
Jim's anger just poofed out of him as he reached to unfasten his baby and held him in his arms, cooing and tickling the little raccoon as he walked away.
The super trio sighed heavily with relief at the very close call, without anyone noticing.
Hydrus looked back to them, "Sorry for that, he is very protective of the kids, overprotective doesn't even cover it" he turned and walked leading them deeper into the house, "Shall we?"
He led the group to the lounge, and instructed the wolf servant to bring some tea and snacks for the group.
The hero trio walked behind the two child centre employees.
Only to be blocked by Hydrus, "If you have separate business with me Star, then wait your turn" he went inside and closed the doors"
The lounging trio now sat alone, with Hydrus propping his head on his hands held by the cane, "So" he began "How may I be of service to you?"
The two employees tried to swallow their nerves, they both knew that the Loneblood family and especially Hydrus had some high influence in the city, but they didn't know from which side, and they weren't about to test that either.
It was Alex who gathered enough courage to speak, "We were wonder if you can tell us, what is your exact relationship with the boys"
His smile faded slightly, but was still evident, "I believe I'm their father"
"But you do realize that this house has very bad influences to them and their innocence"
His smile faded slightly more, giving a neutral expression, but she continued.
"If you love them then you really should give them to us, we know that we can find a better place for them"
"You mean like Matthew?" that shut her up, and his smile returned looking more like a maniacal grin than a smile.
"Yes, even though I was away on a business trip, I knew all about that incident". He leaned back crossing a leg over the other, and his cane in his lap, crossing his fingers together, "Tell me, how did it feel, did it feel that you accomplished something, did you do your favour to society, hmm?"
No reply from either guest.
He chuckled lightly, "Poor Matthew, he had a lifetime ahead of him, it's a shame he wasn't prepared for what happened, not like he would have guessed, what with the perfect life he had"
Still no reply, both were looking away with absolute shame written clearly on their faces.
After the incident their friend Jeffrey told them of what he did, and all three agreed to feign ignorance, it saved them from court and prison, but it didn't save their reputation, now other child care and social service agencies attack them day in day out demanding they release the remaining children they had into their custody.
"Or was what you did out of personal desire?" That got their attention, "Alex Hillton, born with the defect of infertility, not being able to have kids of your own turned you to work for a child care centre, all those beautiful children, reminding you of the son or daughter that you couldn't have" His smile faded completely now "Or better said: don't deserve"
"What!? How dare you say that, I deserve to have a child as much as a queer faggot like you" she yelled at him fuming. Bingo.
His smile returned, with a clear hint of mischief, "Not when that desire..turn into obsession" She looked at him stunned her anger now turned to fear "Yes I know, you were obsessed to the point that you actually paid someone to destroy a family, or bribed a family to return the kid to you, after an amount of time of course"
She looked terrified now, it was all true, she remembered a time that she bribed an acquaintance of hers to ruin the marriage of her neighbors, those two had a cute 9 year old cat for a son, she wanted a kid like him. No, no she wanted _him,_the couple started falling out and the family was torn apart, the wife out of the pain of her husband's cheating, killed herself with a gun, and the husband out of anger for her loss started venting it out on the kid.
Until this angel,miraculously appeared and rescued the poor child, carrying him away from his abusive father and into her warm embrace.
"Is it true?" she turned slowly, now tears falling from her eyes, and looked at the horrified expression of Stewart, she shook her head, "No, no it's a lie" she almost yelled the last part.
The sarcastic voice of their host addressed her again, "Oh? Is it now?" in his hand rests a voice recorder, he pressed play.
"Come on, you'll love it" It was her voice "you get to have a hunk of a man and recording the whole thing so that you won't forget the packing stud" if Alex wasn't scared before, she was horrified now "What if he didn't like to be filmed?" her friend seemed to have a slightly decent side to her "Don't worry, here's a little advice, just give him a few drinks and he'll be yours, believe me, I've seen him, he can't hold his drinks" How did he record all this!?, was her frantic thought as all three listened carefully "Well if you say so" "Great just let me give you his number, now remember, you delete his number after you have your fun and all will be A-Okay" and she gave her the number, every digit clear and memorable.
*click* And the recording stopped
And all was silent.
"How could you!?" her wolf friend- now probably former friend- whispered "How could you do this to a happy family, how could you do this to the kid!?"
She didn't reply, she couldn't reply, she just held her face in her hands and wept.
"Don't act like you're an angel yourself" The mocking voice of Hydrus scolded with sarcasm.
What!? "What do you mean?" fear now should slightly in his eyes.
Their host made a show of examining his nails, "As I recall, you my friend, have a certain liking to kids" He fixed him with a mocking side glance "preferably, 15 and under"
The wolf stammered, trying to find the proper reply, just as the door opened and Sylvester came in with a small batch folder.
"What's that?"
Hydrus looked at him, "Your results" he smiled and gave him one of the folders.
Deciding against retorting to his joke, Stewart took the folder and examined its contents. His eyes widened and he began frantically going through what seemed to be medical reports, "What are these!?"
The papers were reports of DNA tests, showing that his appeared in faint traces inside the bodies of a few children, and matched his with a one baby.
"Like I said: these are your results" His smile now turned from happy fun filled, to downright sadistic. "You're very lucky that every one of those poor parents went to a hospital run by yours truly, to examine the kids"
He grabbed a folder himself, now evident that all folders held copies of the same report, "Stewart Ashton, at the age of 18, was suspected to be a molester/pervert/rapist who targeted children aged from 9-13, but charges were forced to drop due to lack of evidence" He looked up at the horrified expression of the wolf before continuing "You had a habit of lusting after small helpless children, especially boys, you even kidnapped one and kept him with you, successfully traumatizing the poor pup for life. You even had the guts to try and murder his parents, so that he would have no choice but to stay with you, and be your little, um...what did you call him again? Ah yes: your little dolly, even went as far as dressing him like a girl"
The wolf now looked like he would piss himself.
"After a while you began surfing the net for some certain types of porn, then later turning to snuff porn, enjoying the real life pain inflicted upon the helpless children, all being filmed by real amateurs who were very confident in their hiding and escaping abilities"
He uncrossed his legs and leaned forward again, "Tell me, who is the 'pervert' now?"
"NO!!" the wolf yelled standing up "You will not take Jeanne from me"
Alex who was silent this whole time, perked at the last part, "Who is Jeanne?"
The wolf twitched with horror. Jackpot.
"I see that John- oops, sorry- Jeanne is still living with you, now that both parents died in a car accident two years ago"
The wolf now slumped down and was openly crying and shaking, "She is my perfect little angel, my pretty china doll"
He looked up at Hydrus before jumping and kneeling beside him, "Please, you have to let me keep her, she is all I have in this world...please, I beg you"
Hydrus chuckled softly, removing his glasses.
Both now could see his eyes.
Dark, black voids surrounding a bright blue iris and a feral shaped pupil.
Hydrus tapped his chin with a finger looking to be in thought, "Hmmm.... I might be persuaded.."
The wolf still kneeling grabbed his pants slightly pulling on them, "Please anything, I'll do anything, just please, let her stay with me"
"Okay, how about this, I will not only let you keep your pretty 'china doll' I'll even help you to gain full custody of hi- sorry- her" he then looked at the porcupine lady, "and you, I already visited your friend, and confronted her with the very same recording, and I'm ready for her to testify against you in court" that really horrified her "but I'll cut you some slack..both of you" he lifted a finger, "on one condition"
Both gulped waiting for the condition, "On second thought make that three" and he now lifted three fingers, "First: you stay away from me and my family. Second: you resign from your job. And third: you give the remaining kids over to a child care agency that is owned by a friend of mine, who I will give you her contact information and even contact myself upon agreement"
The two nodded furiously not even giving it any thought.
He stood up from his place, grabbing the folders and recorder, "perfect, I'll contact my friend and ask her to call you at a later date, and you Mr. Ashton can come over to my office at the organization and we'll talk law and custody there"
Both nodded again and left the lounge along with him.
They went to the doors leaving the big house.
They found the super trio sitting at the stairs, they stood up and regarded the employees and host, "Everything okay?" Star Bolt asked as they followed the two down the stairs.
Alex looked back with a slight worry in her face, "Y-yeah, everything is good" Stewart remained silent.
Ground Basher looked back at Hydrus' smiling face eyeing him suspiciously before getting in the car and driving off.
The man of the house went back into the house closing the doors behind him.
As he entered the hallway leading to the living room, he found Sylvester waiting for him, "Are you really going to keep them safe sir?". Hydrus turned his head to him, with evil glee in his smile and eyes, "Of course not, but we'll play the helping friends for now" He stopped in his tracks, his smile faded to a frown, with anger and hate glowing in his eyes, "No one messes with the Loneblood family"
He felt Sylvester pressing his body on his back, holding him in a back hug, "If you want, I can help you relax. Besides, your powers are showing" Hydrus looked at himself, his shadow was fluctuating and his powers were slightly escaping his body. He calmed himself down enough to calm his powers and shadow.
Hydrus himself was a one of the great protectors of the city, his fans called him: Night Shade, a warlock themed master of darkness and shadow manipulation.
Although the Alliance were the first to appear in the city, the White Aurora, led by Hydrus' grandfather back then, took almost all the fame and fans from the Alliance. When Night Shade took the stage, he became one of the leading mascots of heroism representing the city, right besides Star Bolt.
"You know I could use some R&R" he turned and held Sylvester in his arms, with a lewd grin on his face.
"It will be my honour and pleasure master" And Hydrus led him to his room.
At one of the local police stations.
The police chief, Andrew Sanders, a tall german shepard sat at his desk looking over some papers. His uniform hugging his buff fame tightly, even threatening to tear if he even thought of flexing.
He had a spiked collar resting on his desk at one side.
A knock came on the door, "Come in", his gruff deep voice sounded. An elderly looking beaver couple with worried looks on their faces, it was Jeffery and his wife, "Did you find him?" was the weary question. "Not yet I'm afraid" He was still looking at his papers, his precinct was the one in charge of finding Jeffery's lost son, no one knows if he either ran away or was kidnapped. Although regarding the beaver and his reputation Sanders was betting on the former option "We are doing all we can, we will find him I promise"
The beaver couple just nodded in defeat, and left the office, just as his phone rang. He picked it up taking the call, "Sanders here", a light and calm replied to him, "Did you find the boy yet?"
"No sir, not yet"
"Good"
"Sir? If you mind me asking? Why don't we just get the boy? We know where he is"
"The master's orders, and you will follow them if you know what's good for you"
*click* the call ended
Sanders rested his phone on the table and held his face in his palms.
At the Loneblood's mansion
Sylvester left Hydrus' room limping slightly back to his room.
His room was slightly smaller than his master's family's. A desk with a mirror laid in front of the bed, and a wardrobe beside the bed facing it.
He regarded himself in the mirror, his body was slightly fit with a flat stomach. But what was his best feature- according to Hydrus- was that he didn't have a front package, yes he was a C-boi, although he wasn't born like this, his master changed him after he joined his stable of slaves.
Yes the Netherbeasts are slave traders, but they only enslave those who provoke them, insult them, or who even dare try and take them out of the picture.
Sylvester's people were one of those who foolishly tried to.
He came from another world, were magic ruled and science had a slight unnoticed influence.
His world was weary of the Netherbeasts, thinking them to be demonic forces bent on their destruction, so they built a portal that led to the Nether Realm, the home of the Netherbeasts.
They dared to launch a full force attack.
Big mistake.
They failed miserably, the demons had stronger magic and more advanced science,they never stood a chance to begin with.
Most died in the futile battle, others captured and sold as slaves.
Angered by such an attempt, the Netherbeastian Overlord, king of all beasts, launched an attack of his own, taking the young wolf's world, village by village, town by town, city by city, and kingdom by kingdom.
Until only one month later, nothing remained of that world but fairy tales and memory.
All of its kings, enslaved and humiliated by the Overlord, keeping them as his pets, and to add salt to injury, he walked throughout the kingdoms, flaunting his 'pets' forcing them to crawl on their hands and knees like ferals, even raping them, taking them deep and hard, right in front of their former subjects.
All to distil fear and despair in the people, as if to tell them 'that they have no chance against the Beasts'.
The world itself and most of the people were spared, but literally three-quarters of the whole world's population were captured and sold to inter-dimensional slavers or kept as pets, just like what the Overlord did with the kings of that forgotten world.
Sylvester himself was given to Hydrus at a young age as a birthday present, but unlike the rest of the Beasts he met so far, his current master was kind and fair to him from the beginning, even after he took his masculinity he still loved his master. All the more when the master's cum was seeping from his front and behind.
A smile was plastered on his face e as he went to the shower, reluctantly to clean himself from his master's essence.
It was close to midnight.
Hydrus was walking around the house making sure everyone was asleep, he first checked his kids' rooms one by one, after making sure all were sleeping soundly, he decided to check on his husbands/mates. A bonus of being a Netherbeast, besides having god-like powers and influence: was that all males- or dominant males- can have as many mates as he wants, but with a maximum of twenty.
He checked on of the rooms, it had a Mexican had, with the name Raymond plastered on its ridges. He checked inside only to remember that his vampire bat husband was visiting his family in Mexico.
He then checked a room with a dumbbell sign, Lexington's room. The big guy was sprawled all over the covers, snoring loudly.
Another room had a party hat sign, his hyena husband, Terrance Andrews, but he was with another husband of Hydrus' ,a cross-dressing fox named Lucian Sears, along with some friends in Hawaii.
The twin foxes room had a Gemini sign, both shared the same bed, with John mostly spooning to Vincent.
Victor's had a burning tire sign, and the room was a total mess, with him sleeping side was on the bed, him almost slipping off.
After making sure all his family were asleep he made his way towards a long hallway, with glass walls and roof. With the moon shining on him, he walked to a small hut, separated from them main house by this specific hallway, making it the only way to reach it is though there.
He arrived and pulled out a special key, with a bat-like design to it.
Inserting the key in the lock and turning it, opening the door with an ominous click.
The door opened to reveal long stairs leading down. After closing the door, he walked down the stairs forming a very wide spiral, with an ominous faint glow emanating from deep below.
He arrived at the bottom.
The place looked like an alchemist's lab, books resting on many shelves on both sides, a table with chemical equipment laying on it with a few books of what looked like potion recipes, with a big cauldron laying in the middle.
On one side of the walls lay four weird containers, one shaped like an Egyptian coffin with the face of Anubis, Egyptian messenger of the dead.
Beside it on the left, lay a small cocoon shaped container.
on it's right, lay a original dracula coffin with silver bat designs on it's corners
Beside them on the far right both lay a straight rectangular metal container.... and a huge Jack-in-the-box!?
He walked past all of those and made way to the desk, picking up a recipe book and read the page it was opened on, "you do know that hate using such potions" he turned his head to gaze at a slim weasel, who wore a black leather thong, a cross belt harness, leather fingerless gloves, and belts tightly lining on his hands and legs, going from the bottom reaching his elbows and knees.
The potion recipe Hydrus mentioned was a mind control potion, it was perfect for taming a pet without the hassle of training. It's only flaw is that the drinker of the potion will follow the orders of the first person they look at.
The weasel bowed to him, "I'm very sorry master, I just wanted to-"
"Put the poor guy out of his misery?"
The servant remained silent.
"Nobu, Alucard, Jack, Sekt, Andro"
All the containers and coffins began shaking.
The cocoon burst open, revealing an insectoid creature with golden scales, his head shaped like a helmet and his bottom lip splitting in two in a horrid shriek, two long sickle like hands raised above two normal sized fingered ones: Sekt
The Egyptian coffin opened slowly, revealing an anubian jackal, with a a gold and blue helmet, his hair dark brown colored fashioned in dreadlocks showing at the bottom of the helmet, a gold and blue Egyptian neck brace, covering most the top of his chest, an Egyptian skirt also gold and blue, was made from a strange metal, shining in the light, and a pair of leg and arm braces, his attire showing more of his heavily built body, with pecs, biceps, abs and all other muscle flexing naturally, with a long staff held in one hand: Nobu
The other coffin revealed a topless similarly buff bright grey wolf with crimson red eyes, his sclera being black like his masters, arm and leg braces made of silver and a black metal, shaped in a vampiric design, a silver and black metal belt holding a dark crimson, long and tattered cloth covering his lower body, long canines and rows of sharp teeth shining brightly in the light, showed with his evil grin: Alucard
The metal container opened with a steamy hiss revealing a canine, shiba inu, cyborg, his body connected to countless wires and tubes, he was slightly less buff than the jackal and wolf, but his metal build compensate for it, his arms below the elbows and legs below the knees were metal and machines, but the rest of his body was slightly organic: Andro
The Jack-in-the-box opened loudly with cartoonish *BOING* and some confetti, a black and white fox jumped and somersaulted his way towards Hydrus, laughing and giggling like a mad man all the while, he was slim with a faint hint of muscle on his arms and flat stomach. He wore a medieval jesters clothes, but only the baggy pants showing his topless body which was like his costume, black and white, the two colors splitting right in the middle, and also black and white jester hat with long tendrils and bells jingling happily: Jack
Hydrus pulled Jack's hat off and ruffled his hair, before putting the hat back on, then turning to the others.
The group behind him were his royal guard chosen by his great-grandfather, except for Alucard, Nobu and Jack who he chose personally.
Nobu was the one to address him first, "Is everything to your liking master?"
"Yes Nobu" he turned around and walked deeper into the 'basement' "Did our guest talk yet?"
"Not yet your majesty, but I promise you he will talk" Sekt replied angrily with determination.
"No need for promises, because I will make him talk myself"
Alucard turned to Andro whispering, "I wish the master would make me scream...I'll give him all the satisfaction he desires" That got him a dirty look and a hiss from Sekt.
They reached a double-door with a medieval design, Alucard opened it to reveal what could only be a dungeon, with big cells holding a few people inside, furs and humans all looking disheveled, thin and weak, stared at him with a hope of mercy.
And he loved it.
Hydrus would take a few prisoners from the battles he joined along his Netherbeastian family, and some criminals he found in this world, locking them up, and enjoys breaking them, painfully and slowly, savouring there despair and agony.
A few more steps revealed another door, leading to what he would call playroom, and to others, chamber of nightmares, because that what it was, rows upon rows of torture devices, and table with different shapes and sizes to hold the poor fools, while Hydrus had his fun.
In the room was a figure dangling from the ceiling with a pair of chains his feet inches from the ground and a table filled with a few devices of eternal torment laid beside it.
Upon getting closer, Hydrus looked up at the familiar face of a kangaroo.
Commander Jenkins.
Hydrus regarded him with a sadistic look on his face, "So commander? I really hope my friends here made your stay with us more...enjoyable"
Jenkins was begging and pleading to be released, but his voice was muffled by a ball gag, and his eyes covered with a cloth that was wet with blood and tears. His whole body bloodied with scars, holes, burn marks and other marks, results of countless methods of torment, with his body, upon closer inspection was dangling by two hooks, piercing his skin and holding him up, barley missing his shoulder blades.
Hydrus picked up a thorny whip, playing with it a little, "You know it would have been easier for you if you have talked earlier, although I enjoyed beating the info I wanted out of you, literally" The whip in his hands slashed through the air carving Jenkins' body with a fresh scar.
'MMMPPHHHMM'
A skeletal tail with a spear tip appeared behind him as he laughed manically "But now, This is just for shits and giggles"
The door behind the group closed, sparing the prisoners from the sight of their inevitable turn.