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“There are no more tears to cry,
I heard you beggin’ for life.
Runnin’ out of medicine,
You’re worse than you’ve ever been.”
Illuga couldn’t comprehend how a Knight of Favonius could stand to endure such an enormous amount of Abyss, and keep on living without falling into insanity,
The Lohen he sees before him is glowing, literally glowing a dark, disgusting purple. Black, abyssal fluid sticks to him like tar, disregarding anything except for its host. The men beside him, both the knights from the 5th Company and his own squad watch as Lohen struggles.
His laughter, usually free and playful, if a little dangerous is now anything but. The cackles that arise from his figure are maniacal, insane, ungrounded and absolutely ringing in everyone’s ears. His back bends backwards from the force of them.
“This is…” Illuga has never seen such a thing before.
The talks they’ve had, about a vice-captain in the knights being susceptible to the abyss but just as valuable to make up for it, circulating around camp long before now. Seeing it in person though… it's unbelievable.
Eyes that usually only have a bit of red in them glow dangerously, now fully red with a purple tinge instead of the blue that is supposed to be there.
“Lohen..!”
Illuga can’t believe it. He genuinely can’t believe his eyes.
“Ah aaah,
Screamin’ for me baby-
Ah aaah,
Like you’re gonna die-
Ah aaah,”
A garbled sound, a distorted version of a name that has long since stood in opposition to the being saying it-
“Lightkeeper…”
It comes out low and dangerous, with a growl no human being should be capable of producing. Lohen’s body contorts, falling even more backwards, though the weightlessness of the new power invading his body keeps him from dropping to the ground.
Hands cover his eyes, and only through the cracks does the red and purple show through. Stretched wide open, with a crazed grin pulling the knight’s mouth unnaturally, this is the very picture of the abyss inhabiting a human vessel.
“Poison on the inside,
I can be your antidote tonight...”
Illuga gets at most half a second before the abyss laden creature comes lunging at him.
Surprisingly, only him, making absolutely sure it does not touch any of the other people around. Like it’s avoiding anything it deems unworthy of fighting.
Lohen’s transformed, blackened hands swipe left and right while Illuga dodges with slight difficulty. The fighting style reminds him of when Lohen is without any other restraints holding him back, going all out. The many times Illuga has had the displeasure of seeing the man’s hands pierce right though the chests of wilderness hunters and exiles.
As he’s dodging, his eyes stay firmly on the crazed Lohen.
He’s unable to recognise him. And Illuga's heart stings.
Then his resolution firms, and he fights back at full strength, swinging at Lohen with a newfound fury. How dare this man, who promised him all there is, leave him so soon?
To succumb to the abyss before they can do it together in battle?
“Everyone! Leave this to me!” Illuga yells out, parrying a particularly strong swipe from Lohen, the metal and claw clinging in the air as they meet one another again and again. Their attention never strays from each other.
The steps the others take relieve him for a little while, allowing him to relax his posture enough to bait the crazed Lohen into a mistake the real one would never make. He dodges, turning to the side and letting Lohen lunge at the ground instead, unable to change his trajectory in time.
The jostling makes the pill Illuga’s saving for later burst in his mouth.
He'll need to improvise.
Lohen tries to curl into a ball, so he could roll on the ground instead of faceplanting. It never happens though, as the second the moment allows, Illuga’s hand holding his lanterns, additionally charged with enough Geo energy to make the God of Geo whistle impressed, gets slammed down against the back of Lohen’s neck.
A little pulse of energy and a rattle of his lantern accompany the animalistic growl Lohen makes, showing that the attack had a great effect. Though he still recovers quickly with the aid of the abyss, the open wound spilling red and purple liquid stains the knight’s clothes, eroding the fabric.
“Ah aaah,
Screamin’ for me baby-
Ah aaah,
Like you’re gonna die-
Ah aaah,
Poison on the inside,
I can be your antidote tonight!”
The second the now monstrous, even physically with the strange abyssal glow and his veins becoming visibly purple from the corrosion, Lohen tries to lunge at Illuga again, the Lightkeeper strikes once more.
He grabs the wrist of the hand that shoots out, trying to impale his face, and he can't help hissing from the corrosion burning the skin of his cheek as the nails graze him, even with his lantern and Geo protecting him.
It’s potent.
That just affirms Illuga’s resolve even more, bringing the out of control vice-captain close, so close their noses nearly touch and he feels Lohen freeze. From actual confusion of his newfound beastly instincts or the recognition of the one who can rid him of them, Illuga has no clue.
“I can play the doctor,
I can cure your disease-”
Then, their mouths touch. A forbidden kiss, but the only solution Illuga could come up with at that moment.
Power stored within his lantern that he twists in his hand shines down on Lohen’s back, his Geo Vision anchoring them both in place, together.
“If you were a sinner,
I could make you believe-”
Abyssal tentacles slither against Illuga, trying to restrain him just as he is restraining Illuga, to then push him away. He lets the light of his lantern shine down on them, making them disintegrate. Pushing his mouth further again Lohen’s soft lips is difficult, with the man not cooperating.
Baring his teeth, growling, trying to escape the pain of the lantern and the elemental energy.
Illuga’s mouth shines with kuuvahki energy, from the mandragora he often eats and made sure to eat before coming here. His tongue and mouth glow a faint yellow, mixing with the Geo he’d been using to fortify his body so Lohen’s might doesn’t crush him.
“Lay you down like 1, 2, 3,
Eyes roll back in ecstasy-”
Illuga presses further. They’re still standing, but the ruckus causes them to fall to the ground, and Illuga gasps as his back meets it dead on. Not letting up though, his arms wrap against Lohen pressing them together and as close as possible.
Moans fill the air, though only from Illuga. His lip had gotten nicked by Lohen’s sharp canine, pressing into Illuga’s own with every movement they made.
Fighting against the abyss or not, Lohen’s body responds in kind. Maybe purely on muscle memory, perhaps not. It’s clear the kuuvahki burns him, but a satisfied, animalistic moan lets Illuga know masochistic tendencies stay even after corruption.
Illuga can feel the tongue invading his mouth, reaching far deeper than anyone should during a kiss. Spit spills over the side of his mouth, dribbling down his chin and neck.
It feels good, it feels so good when Lohen pushes him further, beyong his limits, even if the circumstances now are different.
Illuga thinks there might be something wrong with him, for enjoying this, but then Lohen’s thigh presses into his crotch and the whine he makes leaves his mind blank.
“I can smell your sickness,
I can cure ya,
Cure your disease…”
Pills hiding behind his gums have long since burst, spreading across his tongue, and in turn, Lohen’s.
The abyss fights against it, against alchemy and the kuuvahki, even the mandragora in Illuga's mouth. They all combine into a medicine made specifically for this scenario, specifically for Lohen, who goes berserk in periods if unchecked.
Claws dig into Illuga’s chest, and he can’t help the mewl that leaves him when they slice through the fabric of his sweater, dragging against the softness of his chest and leaving behind an angry red trail.
Lohen’s kissing gets more forceful as the abyssal fog surrounding him fades, licking into Illuga’s mouth for more of that medicine.
“You’re so tortured when you sleep,
Plagued with all your memories.
You reach out and no one’s there,
Like a god without a prayer-!”
“Mine.”
Lohen speaks, directly into the Lightkeeper’s mouth. Said man’s hand trembles, his lantern nearly slipping from his grip from his shuddering.
Almost reverently, the knight’s hands slip up and down Illuga’s body, groping and touching wherever possible. It’s always like this when Lohen is coming down from possession, the leftover adrenaline making him pent-up and needing to release it in a way that isn’t fighting.
The hardness against Illuga’s leg twitches when he moans, pecs fitting perfectly into Lohen’s hands.
They’re still wrapped up in each other, knowing the abyssal corrosion hasn’t fully dissipated. Continuing their activities is best, and they do so eagerly. Bites, hickeys and spit gleam against Illuga’s neck as Lohen moves from his chin to his chest, ripping the sweater along the way with a claw.
Every bit of exposed skin gets a bite, a mark, something to signify that Lohen was here, to satisfy the leftover abyssal urge to own the man under him and corrupt him.
“You look so beautiful… my Illuga.”
“Haah-”
“Answer.”
“Yes- Mmh… Yours-!”
Mumbled words get interrupted when Lohen’s hand travels further down to squeeze Illuga’s ass.
“Ah aaah,
Screamin’ for me baby-
Ah aaah,
Like you’re gonna die-
Ah aaah,
Poison on the inside,
I can be your antidote tonight…”
And his face follows, leaving Illuga’s breaths to steam out into the cold air. Moans and whimpers no longer muffled by another mouth fill the space between them, their little bubble.
The second Lohen places his mouth onto Illuga, the Lightkeeper’s muscles contract, only kept apart by the knight’s arms. His tongue, still elongated and covered with spit from their kissing, slides across Illuga’s perineum and hole, leaving behind a slight sting of corrosion.
Illuga only whimpers, pain making the pleasure even more intense.
“Fuck, Lohen-!”
Said man makes no move to answer, instead slowly teasing that tongue deeper into his partner, sucking on the edges of Illuga's hole with his lips. The purple glow stains Illuga’s glistening skin, eating away at all the protections of kuuvahki and Geo like the snake in the garden of Eden at away at Lilith's sanity.
Lohen would rather say that Illuga’s body is the original sin, the forbidden pleasure, rather than that snake. Truly, who wouldn’t want a piece of this man, writhing on the ground and getting corrupted by someone such as himself?
“Ah aaah,
Screamin’ for me baby-
Ah aaah,
Like you’re gonna die-
Ah aaah,
Poison on the inside,
I can be your antidote tonight!”
Lohen isn’t particularly devoted nor religious, but Illuga’s body might just be the heaven the church speaks of.
"Lohen... Lohen, please, just- ah-!"
Pliant beneath him, whines sounding like prayers, whispering Lohen’s name and begging for redemption, Lohen feels as though he’s become God.
What need does a man like him have for the power of the abyss, if Illuga already worships him as powerful enough to chant his name, to ask for salvation?
“I can play the doctor,
I can cure your disease-
If you were a sinner,
I could make you believe-”
“Oh my- God, Lohen!”
The pleasure slowly builds up, it builds and stacks and becomes as large as Illuga himself, knotting at the base of his belly. Tight and ready to burst, to overwhelm him and bring him closer to the end of this fantasy.
His shaky hand, just barely holding the lanterns, grabs at Lohen’s hair and tugs, to signal, to do anything so Lohen would look up as he-
Waves hit him the second Lohen’s red eyes, now with blue shining through and no purple clouding it look u at him, with his lips glistening and mouth turned up into a sly smile, daring him to cum just from his mouth.
What else can Illuga do but obey?
“Lay you down like 1, 2, 3,
Eyes roll back in ecstasy-
I can smell your sickness,
I can cure ya,
Cure your disease…”
Air settles around them as the last wisps of the abyss whittle out, getting blown away with the wind and dissipating along it.
Illuga’s harsh breathing sounds as he can finally stop using his vision, brain absolutely ringing from needing to use both kuuvahki and Geo at once, along with bearing the effects of the medicine specifically made for Lohen.
It bursting in his mouth wasn’t the plan, but it worked out in the end. He has no energy anymore though, as keeping up his concentration on it while also getting eaten out by a man whose features had become sinful and perfect for it.
Lohen gets up from his place between Illuga's legs, the last of the abyssal modifications receeding, leaving behind just a man.
“Bring me your desire I can cure your disease,
If you were a sinner I could make you believe,
Lay you down like 1, 2, 3,
Eyes roll back in ecstasy-
I know all your secrets,
I can cure ya,
Cure your disease!”
Blue-red eyes shine with leftover adrenaline, intensity not dulling at all.
A very ravenous man.
Perhaps the abyss had finally been cured, gotten rid of and diminished to amounts Lohen would never have to care about again…
But that hunger, carnal want and desire of Illuga, would never give until he’s offered himself to him.
“I can smell your sickness,
I can cure ya,
Cure your disease!”