C L (First Version-Complete)

12: Why now?

Pain teaches a living being to fear. It teaches someone to strive for pleasure and to avoid any stimulus that could cause internal and external torment.

Though it may seem something that should be avoided, I was drowned in it and made to live in one with it. I know no pain for I feel no pain. I am not dumb to it but I am numb to it.

"When you become insensible to pain, you have no reason to achieve pleasure. Pain and pleasure go hand-in-hand. I will provide you all the pain in the world until you surpass even the most stolid person."

Slade's grasped on my neck tightened as he cut the oxygen away from my lungs. I can feel his sharp nails digging into my skin as he leaned me against the rough and bulky walls of the cave. My feet didn't reach the ground. My shirt lie helplessly on the floor and Slade bit and suck on my skin like he was devouring animal meat for dinner.

I remembered him in the back of my mind. He seemed so kind and nice. The way his voice sounded was so gentle that it caressed my hearing.  I followed him everywhere. He puts on a smile for others to see but when he looks at me, his frown was as heavy as Fenris' weight.

I do not know his name. He was a complete mystery to me yet all the sides of his personality unfolded in my eyes.

I looked at Slade and his dark hair turned into white and his tanned skin turned glowing white. All I knew was that he was old yet his physical features were young. His red eyes stared fondly at me and his smirk in which I have grown accustomed to whenever he had a plan with me formed on his pale lips.

"Let's start our lesson now Your highness. Why don't we go to my bedroom for tonight? I'm sure you're excited for what you'll learn."

I looked at the face of my old trainer. I was feeling weak from the strangulation I was experiencing but I knew that if I don't answer him now he will be displeased. He threatened me that if I don't obey him, my purity will be lost and I will never be worthy of possessing life.

I coughed and tried my best to speak. Even when I know that he was long gone, a teacher will always be a teacher. Their life may have ended but the teachings that they have bestowed upon their students will live on. "Ye-yes...s-sir," I wheezed.

The huge boulder that blocked the entrance was suddenly crushed to bits as my lungs were abruptly filled with oxygen when Slade released his hold on me. The whole cave was filled with a mist of dust. I closed my eyes and breathed in and out slowly and deeply to compensate for the breathless moments. The dust filled air cleared and a man who looked like Slade entered. His shirtless torso was sheathed with a thin sheet of sweat. He jumped to one tall rubble to another until he reached the both of us. I looked between him and Slade and observed how the one eye of the Slade look-alike change from the color yellow to the color blue.

He eyed me for a long time. There were twists in his expressions. He had shock, bitterness, anger and confusion. Slade stood in front of me and I watched as the newcomer raise his hand and landed a firm and loud slap.

"How...how could you do this Slade?" He questioned. He formed a firm fist with his hand and then landed a strong blow on Slade's face followed by a powerful kick that sent Slade to hit his back against the wall. "Why are you so selfish?! Why do you hurt others for pleasure? I didn't raise you that way. Why are you becoming like otousan?!" He snarled with such intensity in his voice. "You're a damn pain ever since we were kids!" He added. This time, his voice was much deeper and huskier like a beast who knew how to speak fluently.

Slade scoffed. "I'm always a pain. I'm the irresponsible twin. I'm the good-for-nothing one. Otousan and Okaasan favor you more and everyone hates me. Nothing is new." He recovered from the pummeling that his brother gave him and stood straight. "Why? Are you upset that I didn't tell you about our mate before touching him? You shouldn't take interest anymore. You have a lover already and you made love with her. I don't doubt that you made her pregnant already. I can do whatever I want with him now that you're out of the picture."