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Dead People Aren't Toys - 3 (MF, inc, nc, mc)
by The Synthetic Divine (SyntheticDivine@aol.com)

***

AUTHOR NOTES: For those of you who've been waiting, 
I've now completed the third and final part of the 
story. And it only took me just over a week since I 
completed the second part too, which is fairly 
impressive for me at least. Though admittedly this part 
is a fair bit shorter then the other two were, so that 
was a contributing factor. 

In the time between the posting of this and when I'll 
eventually manage to post the first part of my third 
story, I could always use more feedback to serve as 
inspiration of a sort and to potentially speed up the 
pace at which I write. Those who care to can send me an 
e-mail at SyntheticDivine@aol.com to offer their 
opinions, but once more make sure to use "Dead People 
Aren't Toys" as the topic, or I might confuse it for 
spam and delete it.

It is highly suggested that Parts 1 and 2 of this story 
be read before this one, to avoid confusion. Especially 
since there's no sex in this the third part, just the 
conclusion to the plot built by the first two, which 
possess the brunt of the sex. 

Although technically I suppose there is a very slightly 
sexual situation in this the third one, it could also 
be said that it's not really a sexual situation at all 
so, you can decide the semantics for yourself. Because 
the sex resides in the first and second parts, and the 
warnings on the perversities contained in the story are 
in the notes of the first part, there's no point for my 
repeating them here.

I will also reveal at this point that the next three 
stories I'm going to be writing are already in 
planning. The next two will be "Fear The Void Below" 
and "Bible Black", and yes I borrowed the name for the 
second of those two from the hentai series by the same 
name, though the base similarities between the two will 
only be extremely slight, for the most part I just 
liked the name. 

The fifth story, which I haven't decided on a name for 
yet, will actually be a story that acts as a 
continuation of all four stories that came before. 
Carrying characters from all four stories, and 
beginning with the Leon and Max continuation I said 
might occur at the end of "The Cycle of Corruption". 

I figured those of you who've read all four stories by 
that point might enjoy that. That could still be a 
distance away though so for now we'll just concentrate 
on "Fear The Void Below" which I'll be starting work on 
soon. Until then, enjoy Part 3 of this story, which I 
present to you now.

***

Dead People Aren't Toys: Part 3


Seth was halfway home when he sensed Thade's presence. 
He couldn't explain how he sensed it. He could just 
feel the ghost near him. It was kind of like the 
feeling of being watched, only amplified several times 
over. Seth nervously kept driving, worried that any 
second the blissful state was going to come over him, 
but it never did. After a minute or so though, a voice 
finally echoed in his head.

'So you met a freak.' The words flowed like thoughts 
through his head, and he knew quite well they didn't 
come from him. 'You had to know I'd find out the next 
time I looked into your mind, Seth. Do you really think 
it'll make a difference? Do you really think he can 
save you? Because he can't, I promise you that.'

"So what he said was true then." Seth murmured to the 
open air, Thade's comments pretty much confirming it in 
his own mind. "About freaks. About the ritual. About 
everything. It's all true."

There was a long pause, and then. 'Yeah, it's true.' 
The words echoed through his head. 'I'm going to become 
a god, Seth. And not Shawn, nor you, nor anyone else is 
going to stop that.'

"A Shadow Mind... Is not a god." Seth said, though he 
wasn't entirely sure of it himself. Still, from what 
Shawn had said it seemed to be accurate.

'What is a god, if not a supremely powerful being?' The 
voice whispered in his head. 'Perhaps I won't be all-
powerful, but I'll be as close as this world ever gets 
to a god.'

"Even though you know you'll become hunted by all the 
other True Mind things? Shawn made it seem like you 
wouldn't have a very long life expectancy. It'd just be 
a question of how many people you'd manage to take with 
you." Seth stated.

'I'll survive, I'll find a way. I've worked too hard 
for this to let anything take it away from me. Besides, 
you should worry more about yourself right now.' The 
words echoed in his head.

Again Seth felt the worry that any second Thade might 
take control, but just the same he kept his voice calm 
as he spoke. "Why?"

There was a soft laugh in his head. 'Why Seth, my boy.. 
Once I've gotten what I want, what reason do you think 
I'll have to keep anyone else in the group alive?' the 
words carried a tinge of amusement as they passed 
through his mind.

It was at that moment that something really weird 
happened. It was just as Seth was really focusing on 
Thade's words that he suddenly felt it. Like he was 
touching a second mind, in a way that was both similar 
and quite different from how Thade had touched Mandy's 
mind in his dream. He could see a thought that had been 
floating on the surface. An image. He only caught a 
glimpse of it for a split second but it was enough to 
make his blood run cold. 

Then almost as soon as he'd seen it he felt his touch 
on the other mind forcefully snap. It was like mentally 
being thrown backwards, and for a second he felt a 
surge of disorientation sweep through him, but just as 
quickly it was gone. He could however feel a sudden 
palpable rage exuding around him.

'STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!' the words pounded into his head 
so strongly that he actually winced, and just like that 
he suddenly felt Thade's presence vanish. The image 
he'd seen though, the thought that had been passing 
across Thade's mind.. He had to get to Mandy, and 
quickly. She was the only one who'd know where they 
needed to go.

***

Mandy was sitting in the car next to him. Seth had just 
picked her up and they'd left the house a minute 
before. As it turned out, Jake's house wasn't all that 
far from theirs. It had only taken him a minute to 
convince her of the importance of their heading over to 
Jake's, even though he'd been unwilling to tell her 
why.

"So you haven't spoken to him in days?" Seth asked his 
little sister as he pressed on the gas, determined to 
get there as quickly as possible.

"No, not since just after we used the board. I called 
his house a few times, but I always got the answering 
machine. Why, Seth? What the hell is going on?" She 
asked for perhaps the half-dozenth time.

"You'll find out when we get there." He told her yet 
again, not wanting to reveal to her what he'd seen. At 
least, not until he was sure it was actually true.

"Did something happen to Jake? You have to tell me." 
she demanded.

"I don't know." He told her. It was true enough until 
he was sure.

"You have to know something. You wouldn't be doing this 
just out of the blue." She said, and he couldn't really 
refute her logic.

"Let's just say I have a suspicion.." Seth said, but 
when she went to open her mouth again he cut her off. 
"And don't ask me what it is. We're only a couple 
minutes out, you can wait 'till we get there." She just 
gave him a look that he couldn't really read and fell 
into silence.

It only took a couple minutes more before they were 
pulling into what Mandy confirmed to be Jake's 
driveway. "Stay here, I'll be back in a minute." He 
told her as he opened the door of his car and climbed 
out.

"Fuck that." She responded vehemently as she exited the 
car on the other side. "There is no way you're making 
me wait in the car after you kept telling me I'd find 
out when we got here."

Seth was about to say something sharp back but he could 
tell from the look on her face that it wouldn't do him 
any good. So with a deep breath he just turned and 
walked towards the front door of the house, Mandy hot 
on his heels. On reaching it, he just lifted his hand 
and delivered a few sharp knocks, strongly hoping 
someone would answer the door and lay his worries to 
rest. 

When about half a minute passed with no response, 
though, he grasped the doorknob and tried turning it. 
It was unlocked. Slowly he pushed the door open, and 
the stench that hit him at that moment made him have to 
swallow hard to avoid vomiting.

"What's that smell?" Mandy asked from behind him, her 
voice barely more then a whisper.

Glancing back, he saw her clenching her fingers over 
her nose to try and block it out. "Mandy, stay here." 
He told her, his voice firm this time. When she looked 
about to object, he went on. "Please, for once, just 
trust me. I promise you I'll tell you everything as 
soon as I get back. But whatever you do you cannot 
enter this house. Please. Just stay here, ok?" she 
hesitated for several seconds, but finally gave a short 
if reluctant nod.

Slowly stepping inside the door, he turned left down 
the only available hallway, careful not to touch 
anything as he moved. The smell was nearly choking him 
with every step he took, but he did his best to bear it 
as much as he could. Passing through a kitchen, he 
stepped off through a doorway on the right side of the 
room and into a living room. 

It was here that he came face to face with the image 
he'd seen in Thade's mind, only it wasn't quite the 
same. The image in Thade's memory had come from after 
it had just happened, and it had been days at the very 
least since then. The stench of decay was even more 
overwhelming here, but Seth couldn't turn away from the 
sight before him.

Two adult corpses sat right beside each other on the 
couch. Seth could only assume they'd been Jake's 
parents. From what he could see, it looked like they'd 
both been stabbed to death. But they'd have to have 
been dragged to the couch and positioned where they 
were, as Seth could not envision a situation where 
they'd have both wound up in those positions during or 
immediately after the stabbing itself. Besides, there 
were no large pools of congealed blood on or around the 
couch itself. Jake's body was hanging from a hook in 
the ceiling. 

Seth wasn't sure what the hook had originally been 
intended for, but a rope had been tied around it and 
the other end had been fixed around Jake's neck. A 
knife was laying on the floor beneath him, and it at 
least actually did have congealed blood on it. The 
bodies had been decomposing long enough to attract 
flies. And perhaps other things, but Seth wasn't 
inclined to move in for a closer look, the bodies were 
gruesome enough even from a distance. Already he was 
having to keep a firm grip on himself to suppress the 
urge to vomit that kept trying to surface.

It was clear enough what had happened. Thade had taken 
control of Jake, forced him to kill his parents, and 
then forced him to kill himself. From the look of the 
bodies it might even have happened before Thade first 
took control of Karen, the one night. Gazing at Jake's 
body, Seth couldn't help but morbidly wonder if the 
blissful state had lasted even while he was 
suffocating. 

Slowly, Seth turned, once more careful not to touch 
anything as he walked out. He wasn't sure they could 
call the police just yet, and he didn't want to leave 
fingerprints on anything until they could. If the 
police got involved now, members of the group could 
wind up being closely watched for the next two or three 
days, and that could in and of itself ruin any chance 
they might have of stopping Thade.

Passing through the open front door, Seth saw Mandy 
standing a few feet away, waiting for him. Carefully he 
grabbed the doorknob and drew the front door closed 
behind him, grasping Mandy by the shoulder and guiding 
her a few yards away to take several long deep breaths 
of the fresh air beyond. It was an unbelievable relief 
to clear of the smell of decay from his lungs, though 
there seemed to be a residual sort of after-smell in 
his head that he was having a hard time shaking. Mandy 
was just staring at him, waiting, so finally after 
several more breaths he turned his focus to her.

"Mandy..." He started, then paused. He wasn't quite 
sure how to tell her. From the look in her eyes already 
he could see the fear, the worry. With everything she'd 
already had to deal with with Thade, she shouldn't have 
to go through something like this. Just the same, he 
couldn't bring himself to lie to her about it. "Jake... 
He's dead, Mandy.. I'm sorry." He said very softly.

For several long seconds she just stared at him. He 
could see her trembling ever so slightly, and the tears 
beginning to form in her eyes. "No." She finally just 
whispered, shaking her head firmly, even as the tears 
began to spill down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry..." Seth repeated, wrapping his arms around 
his sister and pulling her in tightly against him. 
"Thade did it, I'm sure of it.. Both Jake and his 
parents... It's not a pretty sight. That's why I didn't 
want you to see." He told her, his sister just pressing 
her face against his chest as she cried, not resisting 
his holding her. He wanted to tell her something 
comforting. 

He wanted to say that somehow Thade would pay for doing 
it, that he wouldn't get away with it, but he couldn't. 
He couldn't promise her anything of the sort. He 
couldn't tell her that they were all going to get 
through this without anyone else getting hurt, either. 
He did finally think of something he could say, though. 
"I don't think he suffered." He murmured softly. It 
wasn't much, but at least it was something.

"I just thought he was mad." Mandy said in a choked 
voice, the tears still streaking her cheeks. "I just 
thought he didn't want to talk to me because of what 
happened, that he'd get over it after a little while. I 
never thought he might be... That Thade might have..." 
She just let out a choked sob, clinging to him as she 
pressed her face to his chest.

"I know, I never thought of it either." Seth whispered, 
gently stroking his sister's back in a comforting 
manner. For a couple moments more she just cried, 
occasionally letting out a little sob but for the most 
part remaining silent in her grief. Finally though she 
pulled out of his arms, her face still showing a deep 
depression, but at least her tears had come to a stop. 

He waited for her to say something but she just stood 
there, staring at the ground. "Here." He murmured 
softly, gently taking her by the upper arm and guiding 
her over to the passenger side door of the car, opening 
it for her and helping her in before closing it behind 
her. Walking around to the driver's side, he slipped 
into the car himself.

He'd just slid the key into the ignition when a surge 
of disorientation swept over him. For a second he could 
feel Thade, even though he didn't feel like he was 
anywhere near them. And then suddenly things went dark.

***

Seth was in Karen's room, hovering near her bed. Once 
more he had to say hovering, because he neither made 
contact with the floor nor was he floating. Almost 
instantly he realized he had to be seeing through 
Thade's eyes again. Or, whatever it was Thade saw 
through, since he didn't really have eyes anymore.

'Seth. Just in time.' The voice whispered in his head. 
And it was only then that he actually realized what he 
was seeing. Sara was naked, tied to the bed, and 
gagged. Without even looking he could somehow tell from 
contact with Thade that Lily was also naked, gagged, 
and tied to the chair behind him, where Seth had first 
been on the night they'd used the ouija board. Karen 
however was fully clothed, kneeling on the bed next to 
Sara. Seth could feel Thade's fingers in her mind. This 
couldn't be though. He'd just been at the house to pick 
up Mandy maybe ten minutes before. He didn't think 
Thade could've managed all this in less time then that 
unless.. Lily and Sara had already been in Karen's room 
when he'd picked Mandy up.

'Precisely.' Thade's words echoed in his mind, and 
there was a soft laugh. It was then that he noticed 
Karen's stereo was on. A CD was actually playing this 
time, he recognized it as one of Karen's that he'd 
heard her play before. It was the Deftones, set to the 
song "MX". Seth could feel Thade's amusement. 'Good 
music to die by, don't you think?'

Karen's right hand was lightly stroking Sara's bare 
stomach, but her left hand was closed around the handle 
of a kitchen knife. He could see the fear in Sara's 
eyes, and he could hear muffled sounds coming from 
behind the gag. She was obviously trying to say 
something to her friend, but Karen wasn't listening. 
Thade wouldn't let her listen. 

Karen's right hand slid down between Sara's thighs, her 
fingers lightly playing over the lips of the girl's 
pussy. The muffled noises from behind the gag became 
louder and more insistent as the clothed girl pressed a 
finger into the bound one's exposed cunt, but Karen 
just ignored her.

Carefully sliding her finger back and forth for a 
couple short strokes inside the older girl's pussy and 
then drawing it smoothly back out, Karen brought the 
finger up and very lightly drew it along the edge of 
the blade. Then, with a smile, she began to lean in. At 
that instant Seth felt his eyes snap open.

***

"Seth? Seth!" A voice was calling to him as he came to, 
his head was against the steering wheel and there was a 
hand on his shoulder, shaking him. Slowly lifting 
himself, he glanced over to find Mandy staring at him. 
"You.. You must've passed out." She said softly as she 
watched him. "For a second I thought you were.. I 
thought.." She said, her voice quavering. She looked 
ready to cry again.

"I'm sorry." He told her, almost impulsively. He didn't 
want to see her break down again, but at the moment 
they didn't really have time to deal with it, there 
were more pressing matters at hand. "Mandy, was Karen 
home when I got to the house to get you?" he asked his 
little sister as he grabbed the keys, still in the 
ignition, and started the car.

"Yeah. Lily and Sara got there a little ago and they 
were all up in her room.." Mandy said, worry seemingly 
etched into her features. "Why?" She said, the 
quavering note once more back.

"Don't worry, nothing's happened yet, I don't think. 
But we need to get back there, fast." He told the girl 
as he kicked the car into gear and slammed on the gas.

It only took a few minutes to get back to the house, 
and almost instantly he was out of the car, rushing 
towards the front door. He could hear Mandy in pursuit, 
but he didn't wait for her, instead just flinging the 
door open and charging up the stairs that waited just 
inside. 

Karen's room was near the front of the second floor 
hall, so when he reached the top of the stairs he only 
had to take a few more steps to reach her door, which 
was already standing open. The sight inside nearly 
drove him to his knees. Very slowly he took a few steps 
inside the room, and faintly he heard Mandy arrive 
behind him, heard her gasp.

In the chair, Lily's throat had been cut. Her chest was 
covered in blood, though the very top of it was 
obscured by her head hanging forward. It made it tough 
to see the wound itself, but it was still visible if 
you looked from the right angle.

On the bed, several long deep cuts had been slashed 
across Sara's chest and stomach before the knife had 
been buried into her chest. Seth felt his stomach 
churn.. It had only been a few minutes, but they were 
both dead. Both dead. Seth could feel himself starting 
to lose it. He wanted to throw up, to scream, to beat 
his fists against a wall until they were bloody, to 
tear something apart, anything to get what he was 
seeing out of his head. He couldn't handle this. Not 
this.

Just then he felt him. Thade. He'd just started to 
pinpoint the source of the feeling when he heard the 
gunshot. Immediately he spun towards the sound, but 
even as he was turning a second shot rang out, and a 
third. Seth could see Karen standing in the doorway, 
the gun that had been at Lily's house resting in her 
hands. And then he noticed the red that was suddenly 
blossoming over the front of Mandy's shirt. Mandy just 
looked down at it, and then back up at him. She seemed 
to try to say something, she staggered forward a step, 
but just like that she was suddenly collapsing. He 
lunged forward just in time to catch her in his arms.

Horrified, he stared down into her eyes, watched his 
sister die. It only took a few seconds before she was 
completely still. And suddenly he couldn't think, he 
could barely breathe. It was like a steel band was 
being tightened around his chest. He just couldn't stop 
staring at her eyes, which were wide open even in 
death. 

Thade's presence suddenly vanished, but it didn't 
penetrate, neither did the sudden sounds of Karen 
vomiting just outside the room. He suddenly found 
himself clutching Mandy's body against him, rocking 
slowly back and forth. The squeezing feeling in his 
chest only seemed to grow tighter, and still he 
couldn't think.

He couldn't have said how much time passed before Karen 
suddenly stumbled up and knelt beside him, wiping her 
mouth with the back of one hand, anguish in her eyes. 
He didn't even really notice her until she reached out 
and started to pull Mandy away from him. Then he looked 
at her, stared, even as he let her draw Mandy's body 
out of his arms and into hers. 

She started crying as she held her little sister, and 
that was when pain suddenly rose up in him, and thought 
came back. But he no longer wanted to punch anything, 
no longer wanted to rip into anything. It was like all 
the life had been taken out of him. All the fight. He 
just sat there, staring at them, drowning in the pain 
that felt ready to consume him.

Over the next couple minutes he just sat, unable to 
look away. A couple times Karen's tears started to 
slow, but each time she took one look at Mandy's body 
and just broke into sobs again. He could feel tears of 
his own building behind his eyes, but he couldn't shed 
them, not yet. Because something had occured to him. 
"We have to get out of here, now." He whispered, taking 
one last look at Mandy's body even though it hurt like 
hell before grabbing Karen by the shoulders and trying 
to pull her away. She just made a wordless noise of 
grief and seemed to hold onto her sister's body even 
harder.

"Karen, if he was willing to kill this many of us off 
at once, it must be because he's almost ready to take 
what he wants. It means he no longer had any use for 
them, or for any of the rest of us who can't give him 
what he wants." Seth told her, not having time to 
explain everything Shawn had told him. "If we don't get 
someplace safe, he could come back any minute to kill 
one or both of us." 

He didn't mention the fact that he didn't know of any 
place safe, the only hope he could come up with at the 
moment was for them to head over to Shawn's and pray 
that he'd managed to come up with something. The 
possibility of Shawn killing them to keep Thade away 
didn't matter much anymore. If they didn't get help 
soon Thade was going to kill them all anyways, he'd 
shown that much. "We have to go now. Please." He said 
as he once more tried to pull his sister backwards, a 
bit more firmly this time. Slowly she let Mandy's body 
slide from between her arms, tears still rolling down 
her cheeks.

Grabbing firm hold of her, Seth guided her out of the 
room as quickly as he could, though they had to 
sidestep around a pool of her vomit before starting 
down the steps. "We have to call Julian. He needs to go 
with us, we can pick him up on the way." Seth said as 
they neared the bottom.

"Wait..." Karen suddenly managed in a choked voice, 
grabbing his arm with one hand. "While... While he was 
still controlling me, Thade made me call Julian, just 
after you and Mandy left.. He should already be on his 
way over.. In fact, he should be here by now..." She 
said, the last bit spoken in a near-whisper.

They looked at each other for a few seconds, then they 
heard it. A sudden very loud crash accompanied by the 
sound of splintering metal. Almost as if in answer to 
their words. "Julian." Seth said softly, before 
bursting into motion. He'd only gotten a couple steps 
toward the door though when Thade struck. 

This time Seth could feel Thade's fingers in his head, 
unlike the times before, and it was like five thin 
icepicks being driven straight into his brain. The next 
thing he knew he was on the ground. He could hear 
himself screaming, but he wasn't conciously aware of 
doing it.

He could see Karen writhing on the floor not far from 
him. The feelings in his head, it was a sensation 
beyond pain. Like having a dentist's drill slowly 
working it's way into his skull. He could feel his body 
jerking, and his mind couldn't seem to focus on 
anything but the sensation in his head. The feeling 
went on and on for what seemed like an eternity, but 
was probably only thirty seconds, maybe even less. 
Finally it was just suddenly gone, leaving him 
collapsed on the floor, gasping.

It actually took him a little while before he could 
manage to start climbing to his feet. While the fingers 
were gone from his mind, there was a lingering sort of 
phantom after-feel, like the feeling had been so weird 
that he couldn't entirely get rid of it. "What the hell 
was that?" Karen asked in an unsteady tone. He would've 
said Thade had been trying for a real possession, 
except that he wasn't possessed, and it had happened to 
Karen to. He couldn't really think of any other 
explanation for it.

All of a sudden the world around him seemed to take on 
a very faint grey tinge. It was like he could see it 
and he couldn't see it, like it was faintly outlining 
the world, but was only visible on the very border of 
his vision and he had to strive to pinpoint what it 
was. He was just starting to try and figure out why he 
was seeing it when the front door opened. Julian 
stepped in, wearing a worried look. With the tiniest 
smile of relief, Karen suddenly moved to hug the boy. 
Seth felt it just as the boy smiled back at Karen. 
Thade. It was radiating more strongly from Julian's 
body then he'd ever felt it. He'd just opened his mouth 
to shout a warning to her, when the boy suddenly moved.

The motion was too fast for Seth to catch but what he 
did see was Julian's, or should he now say Thade's, 
fist suddenly erupting out of his sister's back. It was 
covered in her blood. Thade lifted his arm, and his 
sister was lifted with it, impaled on the forearm 
itself. Her eyes were wide and her mouth was open, but 
no words escaped her, just these horrible sounds that 
rocked Seth to the core.

As an indescribable surge of rage built inside him, 
Seth just ran at him. He didn't care if he died, 
anymore. As soon as he started to move Thade's head 
shifted towards him, and the boy suddenly flung his arm 
to the side in an incredibly quick motion. Karen's body 
went flying into a nearby wall, so hard that she 
actually crashed through and out the other side, 
leaving a hole in the wall. Seth knew deep down that it 
had to have taken a hell of a lot of force to drive 
Karen's body so cleanly through that hard a surface, 
and the force of the impact alone probably would've 
been enough to kill her. But this only made his rage 
burn all the hotter.

As he charged the last couple steps Thade simply stood 
there, watching him. He started to swing his fist 
towards the boy's head, as hard as he could, but once 
more Thade moved. This time, like the first, it was too 
fast for him to follow. One second his fist was halfway 
to making contact, the next he was flying through the 
air, passing through a doorway to crash to the ground 
halfway across the living room adjacent to the 
entrance.

He could see Thade through the doorway, still standing 
in the entrance, but then in the next second the boy 
was suddenly beside him, staring down at him. Seth 
started to get back up to strike at him again when he 
suddenly felt... Something wrapping around his arms and 
legs, holding him down. Quickly glancing from side to 
side, Seth was astonished to discover what looked 
like.. Shadows, clearly extending themselves from the 
ground to grip his limbs in place, and they felt quite 
tangible. He tried pulling with all his might, but the 
shadowy appendages held him firmly to the ground, as 
hard and unbending as steel.

Slowly Thade dropped to one knee beside him, looking 
down at his face. There wasn't much light, but Seth 
could still see something that shocked him. Before 
Thade possessed him Julian's eyes had always been a 
dark color. Dark brown maybe, Seth had never really 
studied them closely enough to be sure. Now though, 
they had become blue. A deep, clear blue. And Seth was 
almost certain that it wasn't the result of contacts.

"I've finally done it Seth. I have what I want." Thade 
breathed the words down at him.

"Go to hell." Seth spat the words in as venomous a tone 
as he could manage. He was no longer trying to struggle 
against the shadows, he'd realized there was no point, 
but his rage hadn't lessened any.

"Afraid I can't do that. There are much bigger things 
in store for me, Seth. Much bigger. And much bigger 
things for you as well. You're going to serve me, Seth. 
The forming of the touch in you showed all the 
potential I needed to see. In only a short period of 
time I can make you a freak in truth. Just being around 
me long enough should be enough to deepen the touch in 
you. And once you're a freak, I can give you more power 
then you could ever have dreamed you might possess. 
I'll be able to amplify the power of any freak that 
serves me, but the link between us will allow me to 
magnify yours so much more so then the others. I'll be 
able to make you strong enough to serve as my right 
hand." Thade murmured softly.

This was actually enough to draw a laught out of Seth, 
dire as his situation was at the moment. "I'd sooner 
die first, and you know it. It doesn't matter what you 
offer me. The moment you killed Mandy and Karen, you 
ensured that I would never serve you. Never."

"You don't know how wrong you are." Thade told him, 
almost conversationally. "I knew you'd be resistant, 
Seth. But all I need is time. You see, through that 
link, I'll be able to replay your sister's deaths for 
you over and over again in your mind. With your 
feelings at seeing them die as fresh as if it were the 
first time all over again. And I'll do it again, and 
again, until you'll be the one begging to be sent to 
some kind of hell just to get away from it. 

"And physical pain... Well, you couldn't begin to 
imagine the kind of pain I can inflict with but the 
smallest brush of a fingertip against your skin, now. 
Though trust me, you'll soon know it all too well." 

At this point Thade paused, tilting his head in until 
his face was only a few inches away from Seth's.

"I'm going to break you, Seth." Thade told him calmly, 
coldly. "Physically, mentally, and emotionally. I'm 
going to break you over and over again until there's 
nothing left of you but the things I want there." Thade 
continued, his blue eyes carrying the same cold 
intensity he'd seen in the eyes of the boy in his dream 
days before. "And in time, I promise you.. I give you 
my word on it.. You will be mine. In body..." Thade 
told him, before once more he finally smiled. A cold 
smile. "And mind."

END

(And so ends the third and final part of the story. I'm 
going to take a short break before starting in on "Fear 
The Void Below" but I'm pretty sure I'll have the first 
part of it posted at a much quicker pace then the first 
part of this story was posted in relation to "The Cycle 
of Corruption", so hopefully you readers won't have to 
wait too long. The only question now is what I'll wind 
up writing after the third, fourth, and fifth stories 
are complete. But I have a few ideas in mind. Until 
later, dear readers.)

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This story was written as an adult fantasy. The author
does not condone the described behavior in real life.

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