Sensation

Chapter 21

"You know what to do."

The gruff voice of an old man beside the burly man said to him. The burly man nods and steps towards a young man who's filled with cuts on his body. His clothes are torn and caked with dried blood.

He was tightly tied on a chair and his head is covered by sackcloth. His head bent forward, indicating that he's currently unconscious.

"S-stop... please stop." A girl whispers behind the man in charge.

The old man only chuckled. "We will once you tell us what we were asking for." The old man said emotionless eyes look straight at her.

The crying girl shakes her head. "I don't know... please stop. Please."

Her eyes glued to the unconscious young man woken up by the pain of his stabbed arm. His scream made her shut her eyes tightly. The drugs making her unable to grip her armrest, to relieve the tension in her.

She felt numb, she doesn't even know if the situation she's in is a dream or reality. All she knew is that this old man is the Head Councilor and that they are doomed.

"N-no... NO!"

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"Hey... watcha doing over there?"

Jasper's voice startled her that she almost fell off. Jasper's quick reflex had helped her not to as he pulls her up.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to shock you." he sheepishly apologizes.

Giving him my best smile and just waved my hand to dismiss it.

"So... what were you doing?"

"I wanted to try and walk on my own this time... turns out that I'm still a baby-- well I feel like I am one," telling him honestly.

He laughs, tapping my shoulder gently.

"Don't worry, baby~chan! You're in good hands. These two rich daddies will take care of you very well that you won't like to become an adult too soon!" Jasper jokes.

Diane shakes her head at the awful 'daddy' joke. As she shakes off his hand and plops on the bed, she looks at him straight in the eyes and holds a hand up.

"Hold it right there and just stop." She pauses. "Stop it, get some help..." Diane said the last sentence with a poker face and a gentle voice.

Jasper's face was so comical she couldn't contain her laughter anymore and just laughs hard in front of his face.

His face morphed into that of a wounded puppy making her laugh more.

"What's happening here?" Lindon asks, stopping at the still-open door.

The trolley he's been pushing is full of food, like a feast... but a gory feast.

"What's the occasion?" Diane asks once she saw them.

"What? It's Halloween, I thought that since we haven't been to the occasion last year then we have to go all out this year." Lindo reply.

"Okay?" Then she pause, "Did you made all of these?" She asks again, seeing the semi-realistic food with "blood" and anatomical parts of the human on the plates.

"Yeah," they reply at the same time. Smiling proudly about their achievement.

"Impressive."

Diane watches the cousins do their thing. One is fixing a table in front of her along with three chairs with his magic while the other one pulling in and out the same trolley filled with other foods and drinks. 

Once everything was done, all three of them sat down on the chair. Turns out that the table is small for all of the food to be on it so some plates are levitating beside them.

"...can we even finish these?" Diane asks.

"No worries," Lindon said.

"Yeah, he can finish them in no time." Jasper 

"I'm not a pig like you so don't put me and your voracious appetite into one category." Lindon sassed.

"Hey!" was all Jasper could say, pouting as he shoves a spoonful of food into his mouth.

Their interaction always makes Diane entertained and so without any word she takes a bite into her food... making her spit them in seconds.

"Are you okay?" Jasper asks. 

Both cousins look at her with concern as she keeps on wiping her tongue with her napkin.

"What the..." Diane said flabbergasted and her eyes kept looking on at the food on her plate. "Is that red thing real blood?" 

"Yeah..." Lindon said. "It's actually deer's blood and the meat is raw venison."

Diane looks back at Lindon... who is drinking at his wine glass that 'magically' appeared. He looked suddenly different but he's still... him.

Pale skin, his jet black hair now has ash color in their roots, reddish lips and, eyes.

He saw her watching him intently and then gave a toothy smile. Diane's eyes went wide as she sees his incisors suddenly elongates.

She then hears growling sounds somewhere and she immediately remembers Jasper. She immediately turns her head to the other side and gasps loudly.

There on the other side of the table is an unknown animal... or person. Growling and attacking the raw meat voraciously like it tasted meat for the very first time. She can feel her mouth dropped to the floor as she watches 'Jasper' eat with his new furry body, nails turned into claws, mouth into a long snout, and ears are now on top of his head. 

"Isn't this fun, dear?" Lindon asks, drinking his obvious venison blood wine drink. "Now eat, the food tastes exceptionally exquisite isn't it?"

Diane now feels unsafe and unsure of what to do. In a panic, she tried to run but then her legs gave out and she can't move. She forgot that they were like a baby, weak, and unexplainable as to why.

"Ah!" She cried as her arm tried to cushion her fall. making her elbows hurt in the process and she felt like it got a bruise.

Her sudden cry alerted 'Jasper', his head snaps directly at her. Seeing his eyes, wild and feral like a wild dog. He growls menacingly at her. His open mouth showed bits of the raw meat and blood in between and all over his mouth as strings of saliva dribbles everywhere.

"Careful... you don't want to agitate him now don't we?" Lindon said in a calm voice. 

His palm opens in front of him and a weird light shots straight unto 'Jasper'. The now dog-like person wailed once it touches him, electrocuting him without any mercy. 'Jasper' falls down the floor still wailing, while Lindon has now sported a satisfying smile on his lips.

His head turns back to her, eyes full of mischief.

"Now, what to do with you?" He asks, showing a full smile with his blood-stained teeth and long incisors showing.

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~THE END

HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN