User blog:ExdeathsBagel/The Streets Painted A Dark Shade (WWYD by SpyCrab64)

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My eyes shoot open from a dreamless slumber as I turn to see analog clock mounted on the peeling dry wall. It’s 6:45 A.M, I sigh, wishing I hadn’t gotten up so early, as it was my day off. Once, such a prospect would’ve excited me, but nearly 10 years ago, when I was just becoming an arrogant teenager, our state was taken over by the HDOC, not too surprising considering it was one of the few independent territories in a sea of ones under the HDOC.

Like a group of ravenous beast surrounding a single small quarry, our attackers came from all around us and without warning. Public parks, pools, movie theaters, stores, even our very futures were pounced upon and ravenously consumed, stripped bare leaving only the bare bones of what the HDOC provided. I had moved out from my family’s home not entirely by choice, but by orders from the HDOC that family’s send their oldest son to the city for work, mostly developing weapons to fight the seemingly never ending war with the HMPA.

At least I wasn’t alone, as the loud snoring of my friends graced my ears. My two human friends, Ted and Josh, were on one end of the room on their respective mattresses, while on the other end were my mamono friends Jessica, a Dullahan, and Harmony, a Lamia.

After lying in bed for about an hour, fruitlessly trying to get back to sleep, I decided to get ready for the morning. My attempt to creep out of my bed and to the bathroom was foiled as soon as my feet touched the floor, and the tail of Harmony.

She let out a yelp, sharply recoiling her tail and bumping into the few other pieces of furniture we owned in the process. Josh and Ted shot up, their snoring instantly ceasing as trails of droll seemed to tether their heads to the mattress. Jessica as the last to shoot up, her head falling off in the process.

As her head fell from the body, and her control over it ending, the stump leaked out scant traces of spirit energy as it seemed to turn to me and charge. Fortunately, Harmony quickly wrapped her tail around the Dullahan’s legs to stop in its track, though its arms still reached desperately towards me.

“Thank you.” Jessica said as Harmony placed her head back on the body, regaining control.

“Of course, though you should really consider wearing something to prevent that from happening, that’s the third time this week.” Harmony said.

Jessica shook her head, “It’s normally not necessary, besides, wearing something like a scarf or a turtle neck feels suffocating to me.”

“And we all know the second time wasn’t an accident.” Ted joked, only to be shot a menacing glare from Jessica.

Josh yawned loudly, “Whatever, so, who was our alarm clock this morning?”

First Harmony’s eyes, then all other turned to me, “Sorry, I was trying to not get you all up.” I say sheepishly.

Josh tsked, “Thomas, waking us all up on our off day this early, not cool man. Guess who’s making breakfast this morning?”

“The only guy who can make breakfast? Unless you consider whipping up a bowl of cereal and milk takes any effort.” Jessica chuckles at my joke.

“That’s right.” Josh says as he gets out of bed, “In the meantime, I’m gonna use the bathroom.”

Jessica quickly shot up, only to look sheepishly down at her sheets until we heard a toilet flush. Josh opened the door again and nodded, and Jessica couldn’t have slithered in fast enough.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Try not to use all the hot water this time.” Ted said as the door closed behind them. After a few moments of silence and contemplation, he took some clothes, put his shoes on, and headed to the door, “I’m gonna go see Rachael, I’ll be back in about an hour.” He closed the door before Jessica and I could say goodbye.

<p class="MsoNormal">Love and its bodily urges can be very demanding at times. Being part of the HDOC, mamono and human relationships were strictly monitored and controlled, as the HDOC was a group of nations that despised mamonos. Those who weren’t as lucky as Jessica, Harmony, or Rachael were simply enslaved, or killed. If they were lucky, they were banned, meaning they had a chance to be saved by the HMPA, a group of nations that supported human and mamono relationships.

<p class="MsoNormal">Intimate relationships were second only to treachery and were punished by execution or banishment to lands were chances of survival were next to none unless HMPA managed to save you. Still, as with Harmony and Josh’s moans muffled only by the running water, or Ted meeting Rachael during a morning jog and staying for breakfast, people found a way.

<p class="MsoNormal">That only left Jessica and I. Jessica had come from Australia, her tan skin in stark contrast to the bluish pale white ones normally attributing her race, though her white hair and black sclera were clear enough indicators as to what she was. We did not know her reason for joining us in our apartment, only claiming the HDOC sent her here, yet we did not press, and accepted her into our circle with open arms. When it was clear Harmony, and childhood friend of Josh, Ted, and I, had developed feelings for Josh, and Ted found a friend with benefits it he form of Rachael, I figured I was the one left out. I had developed feeling for Jessica sure during our time together, but I was worried they weren’t reciprocated.

<p class="MsoNormal">Jessica proved me wrong, though, as her body showed three morning now, through the looks she gave me at times, and as of recently, as she bought a set of pajamas that were transparent enough to leave little to the imagination and moved her bed a little closer to mine. Despise this I could tell both of us feared acting on our feelings, sure we kissed, groped if we were lucky to have some privacy, but bottled our passionate feelings within.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You just gonna stare at me, or you gonna make breakfast?” Jessica asked, snapping me out my thoughts.

<p class="MsoNormal">I cleared my head, “Yeah sorry. And I wasn’t staring at you, I was just lost in my thoughts.” I said before getting out of bed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sure you were.” she said with a smile as she looked down, noticing my excitement.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sorry.” I said, blushing.

<p class="MsoNormal">That’s when Jessica pushed me back down on the bed and straddled me, “Enough apologies, I feel the same way you do.” She began to kiss me passionately “Why don’t we finally act on it? My body craves spirit energy, I crave you, and if my head fall outside I’d rather not get caught doing it with some random man, but with you.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I point behind her to the window showing outside, showing the street below and a group of building across the street. Curtains weren’t allowed, and any attempt to cover ones windows was met with a swift raid by an HDOC enforcement platoon that, even if nothing was found, the tenants of that room were imprisoned or worse.

<p class="MsoNormal">Yet Jessica was not deterred, “Let them watch, I’m not scared anymore.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The shower water suddenly turned off, “Josh and Harmony are coming out.” I say as soon as I can after a flurry of kisses.

<p class="MsoNormal">Jessica gave me a coy smile, “Let them watch. Those lovebirds steal the bathroom for themselves almost every morning anyway, I say we take the bedroom living room for ourselves.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I take a deep breath to clear my lust hazed head, and gently get up, “I’m sorry Jessica, but I don’t want you hurt. This is hard for me too, I’m sorry.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I was afraid Jessica would start shouting at me, most manonos that are denied expression of their passions tended to become very upset. Jessica however, gave me a sad smile and sighed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I don’t know how you do it, but by God I’m grateful for it.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You aren’t mad?” I ask.

<p class="MsoNormal">“At you? No. I’m mad at the HDOC for taking me out of my homeland, for placing me here in this cold, bland, city, and for preventing me from expressing my feelings with the man I love.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“T-thanks.” I stutter out. I always became flustered when she expressed her feelings to me.

<p class="MsoNormal">Jessica chuckled, “Don’t feel too honored, I had a string of lovers back in Australia. But unlike them,” She kissed me one last time, “I’ve loved you for more than a night. Now, let me help you make breakfast. I think we might even have a few strips of bacon left.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You don’t want to save those for a special occasion?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think resisting our urges for a morning is occasion enough. Besides, I need at least some piece of meat in my mouth.” She said with a wink, I simply smiled and rolled my eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony and Josh stepped out of the bathroom a few minutes later, both with satisfied looks on their faces and Harmony clinging to Josh, neither really attempting to hide their activities, not that it really bothered us anymore.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You two done stealing all the hot water?” Jessica asked as she put her eggs in the pan.

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, “Sorry, but-you know- we were really getting into it and-”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Please spare me the details, Harmony, I’d rather keep my appetite today.” Jessica joked. Harmony playfully punched her in the arm.

<p class="MsoNormal">Josh walked up to me and noticed the bacon on the skillet, “Shit, bacon and eggs? What’s the occasion?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Another day of celibacy in room where three other people can get their rocks off almost daily.” Jessica said. I had more or less accepted Josh and Harmony’s and Ted’s daily romps, but Jessica, being a mamono with a sex drive high enough to put most men to shame, had less tolerance of it.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sorry.” Josh said guiltily and Harmony looked down, “Uh, look, how about we let you guys use the bathroom? We’ll make breakfast.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think the people monitoring our water usage would be pretty suspicious at that, even with the four of us. We’ve already received two visits from enforcement officers that wiped our bathroom down for any traces of…you know.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony sighed, “Then you guys can use the bathroom tomorrow. I think Josh and I can hold back for a day.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m not sure about Josh.” I say smiling.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Shut it.” Josh said, giving me a playful punch to the shoulder. “The only reason you’ve held back for so long is because you’re a virgin. You have no idea how good it feels.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I rolled my eyes, “I swear you’d put a Raiju to shame somedays you know?”

<p class="MsoNormal">As Jessica and I continued to make breakfast while Josh and Harmony sat on the couch to turn on the TV to find whatever pro-HDOC news channel they could stomach, Jessica put her hand in mine and squeezed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I had no idea you were a virgin.” She said with a smile.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Do I look like the type of guy that gets laid daily?” I asked.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Maybe not daily, but not once? Sheesh no wonder you’re so good at keeping your feelings in check.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well I’m also worried about you and all our safety.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jessica chuckled, “Well aren’t you so chivalrous. I just wanted you to know that tomorrow morning, I’ll be sure to educate you.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Breakfast began shortly after, with Ted being absent, no doubt enjoying breakfast in bed with Rachael. An hour later, we heard a knock on the door. Cautiously peering through the viewing hole, Josh reported it was Ted, with his girlfriend Rachael, a Raiju, in tow. We all relaxed as he stepped in.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You made it here okay?” I ask.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah, had a run in with some enforcement officers though.” Ted said as they step in, “Had to tell them we were brother and sister to avoid any suspicion.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“How the hell did that work out?” Josh ask.

<p class="MsoNormal">Ted smirked and pulled out his ID card while Rachael did the same, our eyes widened as they showed they shared the same last name.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Pretty sweet huh? Now Ted and I can walk the streets together without getting jumped by some stupid enforcement officers.” Rachael said with a smirk like Ted’s. “And if they still try to jump us,” Her hands sparked with electricity, “I’ll just zap their balls. HDOC hates human-mamono relationships, but can’t touch us if we say we’re related. Sure some call our ‘parents’ monster fuckers, but who cares?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You think we could get license like that?” Harmony asked, a gleam in her eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal">Ted gave her a smile, “Of course, granted this is still a new thing, and my dealer’s a bit skittish. So we’ll have to wait till tomorrow.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony looked bummed, but Josh gave her a quick peck on the cheek. “Sounds good. We were planning on doing something different tomorrow anyway. Now, let’s just watch the TV, who knows, they might show a good old movie tonight if we get lucky.”

<p class="MsoNormal">We all get comfortable, sitting on beds or the sofa and flip through the five channels we have. Four of the five are news stations almost constantly spewing pro-HDOC propaganda and anti-HMPA propaganda, with the only thing really differentiating them is how colorful their language gets concerning the HMPA.

<p class="MsoNormal">The fifth channel however, was archived movies and shows decades ago before the HDOC took over. Still, even some of those shows decades before held some anti-mamono views within them, and it was those that we got. Still, it was better than the news, yet Harmony, Jessica, and Racheal still got annoyed when the villain of a show or movie was revealed to be a mamono, and a human had to strike her down, going on about how only human males and females could exist together in varying degrees of subtlety.

<p class="MsoNormal">It was when Josh flipped back to a news station out of curiosity did Ted shoot up with a smirk on his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Holy shit, they’re talking about the IDs!” Ted said with a smirk.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And how’s that a good thing?” Josh asked in annoyance. Ted shushed him as we payed close attention to the news reporter.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And alas, these filthy animals have no only dug their way into our once clean society, but now in a rare spark of cunning from their otherwise inferior brains they seek to worm their ways into your families.” The reporter says with a grimace, “Fellow human citizens, if a mamono claims to be a part of your family, and you know they are not, do not disgrace your family, report them to the nearest enforcement officer.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony threw a piece of cereal at the TV, “Fucking bitch.” She said in disgust.

<p class="MsoNormal">Ted sighed, “Well, that kinda put a damper on things, sorry everyone.” He turned to Josh, “You mind if Racheal stays for the night?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“As long as you can get us some of those IDs, you think they’re still good now?” Josh asked.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah, unless you intend to rat Harmony out or start getting really friendly with your ‘sister’ in public.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Josh gaged, “Nope, hell the thought of that will keep us normal if we go outside. Yeah, Rachael can stay, just let us get some sleep. Well, time to get some rest I suppose.”

<p class="MsoNormal">We all begin to head to our respective beds, Ted lets Racheal borrow his while he says he’ll take the sofa.

<p class="MsoNormal">“See you in the morning.” Jessica says to me with a kiss before heading to her side of the room.

<p class="MsoNormal">Before we all even get into our beds however, a sudden chorus of shouting breaks out form outside. We all cautiously approach the window and see what it is. A crowd, an angry one marching from our left side carrying makeshift weapons and molotovs. From the right, marches an armed police force, looking far more armed and dangerous.

<p class="MsoNormal">They simply stare at each other mere yards from each other, we all duck under the window to quietly discuss what to do when a bang erupts, followed by shouts, glass shattering and guns firing.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!” Ted mutters under his breath as he begins to hyper ventilate.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Pull yourself together, man!” Rachael quickly takes him by the shoulders.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Any ideas?” Josh says as he turns to us.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I say we hunker down and just wait it out, use the sofa to barricade the door and our mattresses to barricade the windows.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">A stray bullet suddenly breaks out window and lodges up in the ceiling about. The shouting becomes far more audible, and our noses are met with the smell of things burning thanks to the molotovs.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah, if you want to get up and cover our windows be our guest.” Josh says.

<p class="MsoNormal">We then hear something far worse than the screaming, glass breaking, or the bullets. It was the sound of our door below being kicked in, police shouting for us to come out.

<p class="MsoNormal">Harmony wraps herself tightly and protectively around Josh, “Uh, Harmony it’s getting hard to breath.” Josh strains.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Deal with it! Like hell am I letting them get to you!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-Harmony if we just tell them we aren’t involved maybe-”

<p class="MsoNormal">“No,” Rachael says as she pulls a near catatonic Ted close to her, “You guys haven’t heard? These fuckers get frisky during raids. Either they’ll kill us or just banish us to some gods forsaken land to die for the sake of impressing their senior officers.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jessica suddenly gripped my arm and pulled me to the bathroom, slamming and locking the door behind her. Before I could say anything she pulled me into a passionate kiss.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Jessica, what are you doing?” I say as she pulls my clothes off.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You heard what Rachael said, and those guys are breaking in. Thomas, please, this is our only chance. Before we pass on, I want to show you how much I love you!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I-I” I was at a loss for words.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s okay. No doubt Harmony and Rachael are doing the same, please, if we’re going out I want it to be in each other’s arms.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I wouldn’t get another chance to respond as I felt out door get kicked open, followed by a scream from Harmony. The door behind me was suddenly broken with a kick, and its weight was only added by the weight of the officer who quickly ran into the bathroom.

<p class="MsoNormal">Before Jessica could fully materialize her scythe, the butt of the officer’s gun met her face with a sickening sound. As her head came off her body continued materializing the scythe only to be met with another swing, this time to the gut. The body doubled over as Jessica cried out in pain, by this point I felt the door being raised slightly and another officer pull me out from under. Before I could say anything, he struck me with his gun, rendering me unconscious.

<p class="MsoNormal">   I awoke to sound of a helicopter, a loud one, and a biting cold. When my vision cleared I saw Jessica in front of me, her worried expression only slightly relieved. Her voice was horribly muffled as she tried to speak with me, and at first I thought I had somehow gone deaf, but seeing her and my friends strapped into chairs, I realized we were in a helicopter.

<p class="MsoNormal">Worse still, I realized the biting cold was coming from outside, a cold, artic wasteland, made only more inhospitable by the dark, starless sky above.

<p class="MsoNormal">“This is your stop, get out, or we shoot!” A voice over the intercom shouted as the doors to our left and right opened. Two armed men came charging in from behind me as our restraints were released, waving guns in our faces and shouting over the chopper for us to get out.

<p class="MsoNormal">We quickly obeyed and stepped out into the cold waste, our simple clothes moments before the raid providing us the only shelter from the elements, and we weren’t wearing any shoes at the time. The cold only worsened as the copper took off at amazing speeds.

<p class="MsoNormal">We all noted Harmony had it worse out of all of us, and with the exception of Josh who was holding her, crying about how sorry he was, wordlessly agreed to each carry a part of snake half and began walking. We simply choose one direction, and silently prayed we would rescued.

<p class="MsoNormal">Beneath the howling winds and crunching of snow from our bare feet, I heard Josh continue to cry to Harmony, and Ted and Rachael shouting at each other. Amidst this chilling madness and despair a sound brought relief to my ears, it was Jessica.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m sorry.” She said.

<p class="MsoNormal">“For what?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“For not letting you experience it. I wanted to show my love.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s okay.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tears fell down her face a she let out a sad chuckle, only for her tears quickly become frozen, “Damnit I’m not sure rather to love or hate you right now.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know how long we walked, time seemed to cease to be in this frozen wasteland. The only sensation that felt like the passing of time was our stumbling in the snow. It started with me, then Ted began to stumble, then Rachael, then Jessica, and finally Josh.

<p class="MsoNormal">We collapsed as Harmony fell into the snow, the only indicator she was alive was mere whimper that escaped her lips as she hit the snow. Josh scrambled to her and held her close, Ted and Rachael did the same, and I weakly managed to make it to Jessica.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Thomas.” Jessica said weakly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s okay, Jessica.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Thomas.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’ll be okay, Jessica.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Thomas, above.” She weakly said.

<p class="MsoNormal">I used the last of my strength to look up, and saw a beautiful aurora borealis.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Beautiful.” Jessica said weakly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah.” I say as I felt my eyes grow heavy. Before what I assumed was the last time I would close my eyes, I heard something over the howling wind and Jessica’s shallow breathing.

<p class="MsoNormal">The sound of beeping and a sudden commotion caused me to stir, I was in some sort of hospital at first assuming it to be part of the HDOC. Yet the first voice that I heard relieved me of those fears.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s okay sir, you’re in Alaska, part of the HMPA territory.” A voice, presumably a nurse told me.

<p class="MsoNormal">Even more so to my relief, was the next voice I recognized, Jessica’s. I felt her hand tightly grab mine, “It’ll be okay now. Everyone’s made it out, even Harmony. It’s all gonna be okay now.”