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The alley stank of fear and iron.

Alastor felt the demon's flesh between his fangs before his brain processed what was happening. Hot blood dripped down his chin, mixing with the reddish gloom of the neon light filtering in from above. The victim—an effeminate Omega in torn clothes—whimpered beneath him, his eyes full of tears.

The scent of him, like chocolate bonbons, too sweet, hit Alastor like a punch to the throat.

Sweet. Cloying and above all, nauseating.

And then everything fell apart.

His body convulsed in a violent spasm, as if someone had connected his nerves directly to a thunderstorm. The heat he'd been ignoring for weeks—that constant fever he'd attributed to negotiations, turf wars, consolidating his power—became liquid fire beneath his skin. His bones cracked. His antlers grew, twisting toward the sky like the roots of a damned tree. The static that normally adorned his presence became a deafening roar.

No. No, no, no.

He tried to cling to something—consciousness, his elegant and controlled form, the smile that never left his face—but it was like trying to hold water with bare fingers. His shadow writhed, expanded, became monstrous. His clothes tore against the surge of muscle that grew with every second.

When he regained full awareness—for barely a second, a fraction—he saw his own hands. Claws black as obsidian. Elongated, twisted arms, worthy of a deer that had fallen into a toxic abyss. His full demonic form towered over the alley, brushing against the electrical cables hanging from the buildings.

The dying Omega screamed. Someone else on the main street screamed. And those screams—high, piercing—cut through his skull like blades.

Everything was too loud.

His alpha brain, that primal instinct he'd kept locked away for decades of forced civilization thanks to suppressants, roared with approval, wanted: Hunt. Crush and Destroy.

But then, amid the cacophony of urban stenches—gasoline, death, sweat, fear—another smell reached his mind.

Electric and Sparkling

And beneath, so faint it might almost be lost, something sweet. Almonds. A delicate, familiar trace that made his chest vibrate with a sound he hadn't heard in... since when? He couldn't remember.

A rumble. Low and uncontrollable.

His body moved before he made a conscious decision. Enormous hooves hit the asphalt with an impact that shook everything. The alley was left behind. The Omega was left behind. Nothing mattered except that scent.

Omega. His Omega.

The static around him distorted the neon signs as Alastor tore through the streets of Pentagram like a living storm. Lesser demons fled at the sight of him; the smarter ones didn't wait to see what shadow was covering the streetlamps. A car crashed into a pole when its driver saw him pass.

Alastor noticed none of it.

His nose sniffed the air desperately. Searching for the ozone trail that grew stronger the closer he got to the Vee Tower. That monstrosity of glass and screens towering over the district like a necrotic thumb against the red sky.

Vox.

The name ignited something in his chest. Rage. Desire. Hunger. All mixed, indistinguishable. He'd been busy for months—negotiations, territories, restoring his mansion— He hadn't noticed the constant heat. He hadn't noticed he was sleeping until noon. He hadn't noticed his hunts were becoming bloodier, slower, more anxious.

He hadn't noticed his routine had been signaling for a week.

And now he wanted Vox. His electric scent and sweet nuts. It was the only thing he could think of.

When his form stopped in front of the Vee Tower, the giant screens covering the building flickered. Some showed his own reflected image.

Other screens showed the Vees, Valentino and Velvette, then a single image of Vox.

There he was. That arrogant face, but so pretty, his sharp teeth in a superior smile from some old broadcast. And Alastor roared.

"Come here. Come here now."

His claws dug into the main entrance glass, gouging the surface as if it were wet paper. Alarms began to blare. The static intensified into a shriek that shattered the lower-floor windows.

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The glass shattered before Vox could even lift his head.

The quarterly audience report he'd been reviewing flew through the air, its pages scattering like paper butterflies among shards of glass and seething static. The tremor that had shaken the tower mere seconds ago was now a distant echo compared to what stood before him.

That thing that stood before him.

"What the fuck...?"

The words died on his tongue.

Alastor filled the entire broken frame of the window. Not the smiling, red-suited Alastor who paraded through the hotel as if he owned it. No. This was... this was something else. Enormous. His antlers scraped the ceiling of the office, curved and twisted. His body had elongated, disproportionate, a nightmare of limbs and living darkness that filled the room with the smell of moss and blood. His smile wasn't a smile—it was a row of teeth that wouldn't stop moving, grinding, smiling in every direction.

But it was his eyes that froze Vox.

Big and Bright. Red as beacons in a storm. There was nothing human in them—no calculated mockery, no playful gleam that Alastor used to provoke him at every encounter. This was hunger. This was an alpha so consumed by his instincts.

"Al?"

Vox rose from his chair in a clumsy motion, the wheels scraping against the floor. His fingers blindly searched for an alarm button, something. But his brain refused to cooperate. His eyes wouldn't move away from the enormous figure before him.

He stepped back once. Then again.

"Shit, shit, shit," he whispered, more to himself than to the creature now moving toward him with terrifying slowness, enjoying the panic emanating from its prey. "Al, this isn't funny, okay? This isn't..."

A hand caught him.

He didn't feel it coming. A black claw, as big as his torso, closed its fingers around his body with an ease that made him feel insignificant. As if he were plastic or cardboard. As if he were a toy. The fingers adjusted around his waist, squeezing just enough to make his bones protest.

"ALASTOR!" the shout came out distorted with panic "PUT ME DOWN, DAMN IT!"

The creature didn't obey. Didn't blink. Just brought him closer.

Vox felt the heat before anything else. Then the breath, dense, heavy with that metallic smell of blood and something more primal. And then Alastor's nose pressed against his neck.

Right where his skin met the screen. Right where his scent was most intense.

Vox froze.

The world shrank to that single point of contact. Alastor's nose moved slowly, sniffing, pressing, searching. Vox felt each inhalation like an electrical shock. Alastor's lips parted and then his tongue emerged.

So wet. Hot and terrifyingly giant.

Vox squeaked.

The lick traveled from the base of his neck, climbing until it reached the edge of his screen, leaving a slimy trail that glowed under the red alarm light. His entire body tensed, his hands gripping the fingers holding him, scratching without strength, without purpose.

"Stop!" his voice sounded hysterical, even to his own ears "Alastor, stop right now, I order you!"

But Alastor wasn't listening. Or he was listening and didn't care. His red eyes gleamed with something Vox quickly recognized—possession, lust, need—and his growl rumbled in Vox's chest like a faulty engine.

Below, far below, the screams had multiplied.

Vox caught a glimpse of the chaos in the streets. People fleeing. Some lower employees running in circles aimlessly. And in the middle of the disorder, two familiar figures looked upward with expressions he'd never seen on them before.

Valentino was rigid, holding a cigarette that never reached his mouth. His eyes were fixed on Vox, on how Alastor held him, on the tongue still moving lazily over his neck. His jaw trembled.

"Why does that fucking deer have his ugly claws on my Voxy?!" Valentino's voice came out too high-pitched and irritated, his pupils contracted to pinpricks "Hey! Hey. Let him go right now or I swear I'll..."

Alastor turned his head.

The growl that escaped his throat wasn't a sound. It was a wave. A wave of pure static that made the air vibrate, that fogged the tower's screens, that hit Valentino and Velvette like they'd been struck by a truck. Vox watched as both were flung backward and landed in a pile of rubble several blocks away.

And then Alastor moved his claw, adjusting Vox against his chest with a tenderness that wasn't tender at all. A black blanket began to cover them, shadows rising from the ground like liquid snakes.

"Wait," Vox said, suddenly aware he was losing control of something he hadn't even known was at risk. "Wait, Al, where are you taking us? What are you...?"

He didn't finish the question.

The shadows swallowed them whole.

The journey lasted barely seconds. Vox couldn't tell. Everything was static and cold and hot and confusing.

When he could see again, he was no longer in the tower.

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The swamp smelled of moss and of stagnant water

Alastor—the Beast, because there was no other way to name what occupied the space between the twisted trees—exhaled slowly. His claw opened, and Vox fell to the soft ground with a wet thud and an electronic gasp of indignation.

"Hey!"

Before he could finish, Alastor sat down.

Eight feet of deer demon, static, and nightmare collapsed onto the mud with a slump that made the nearby roots tremble. His hind legs folded beneath him, his front claws rested limply at his sides, and his head tilted slightly to one side.

Like a dog observing a new toy.

His tail moved. Once, then again. A slow, almost lazy wag that swept through the moss and kicked up small clouds of glowing spores.

Vox blinked from the ground.

"What...?" his hands sought support in the mud, his digital fingers sinking into the damp earth "What are you doing?"

Alastor's tail wagged faster.

He didn't respond with words. His red eyes, huge and bright like moons on that deformed face, fixed on Vox with an intensity that needed no translation. The message was clear:

Run.

Vox frowned, seeing the gleam in those wild eyes.

"No."

The tail stopped.

Alastor's eyes narrowed.

"No," Vox repeated, standing up with a clumsy movement, shaking the mud from his soaked clothes. "I'm not doing this. I'm not your toy, do you understand me? I'm... I'm an Overlord, I'm the fucking technology of Pentagram, I'm not going to..."

Alastor lunged.

There was no warning. No prior muscle tension. One second he was sitting, head tilted with that expression Vox hated (that expression so similar to the usual smile Alastor wore when he found something pathetic), and the next he was already on top of him.

The impact was gentle for something of that size. More of a controlled collapse than an attack. Vox found himself on his back against the soft ground, with Alastor's enormous head pressing against his chest, and his tongue, hot and wet, licking from his collarbone to the edge of his screen in one slow motion.

"Stop!" Vox's shout came out high-pitched, distorted, with shame "Alastor, fuck!"

His screen flushed with a blush.

Not from anger. From something worse. Something his sensors registered as facial heat. The blush spread across his face like a wildfire, and Alastor saw it, smelled it, and his tail began to move again.

Slow and Satisfied.

Again, that movement said.

"This isn't funny," Vox snorted, trying to push that enormous head away from him. His hands sank into the coarse fur of Alastor's neck and he pushed with all his strength.

Alastor didn't move a single millimeter.

Instead, he slid downward. His enormous head shifted from Vox's chest to his abdomen, and there it stayed, resting all its weight with absolute confidence. And then, from somewhere deep in his throat, a sound emerged.

Vox froze.

That wasn't a purr. Purrs were soft, domestic, things for cats and satisfied omegas. This was... this was the sound of a broken engine. The rumble of a freight train passing too close. This was a growl that vibrated at a frequency that made Vox's bones tremble and left him breathless.

And Alastor was smiling.

He felt it more than saw it. The curve of his lips against Vox's abdomen, teeth barely grazing the fabric of his shirt. His tail thumped against the ground with a cheerful rhythm, splattering mud in every direction.

Vox closed his big, bright eyes and took a deep breath.

This isn't happening.

When he opened them again, Alastor was still there. On top of him. Purring-growling. His shirt soaked with saliva.

"You know what?" Vox said, his voice trembling. "I'm not doing this. I'm leaving. And you stay here playing at being... at being whatever the hell you're doing."

He pushed harder. This time Alastor let himself be moved, barely enough for Vox to slide out from under him and stand up. His legs trembled as he took two steps back.

Alastor didn't move. He just turned his head to follow his trajectory, his ears pointing toward him like antennas.

His tail wouldn't stop moving.

Vox scanned his surroundings, his eyes adjusting to the greenish gloom of the swamp. And he found a branch.

It wasn't a weapon. It was a twisted stick, barely thicker than his arm, covered in glowing mushrooms. But it was something. Vox grabbed it with both hands and waved it in front of him like a sword.

"Don't come near me!" his voice rose an octave, and he hated every note of it "Alastor, I'm serious! Don't come near me or I'll... I'll electrocute you!"

Alastor lunged.

It was faster this time. More playful. Vox felt the wind and screamed, spinning on his heels to run.

He ran.

He ran between the twisted trees, jumping over roots, dodging puddles of black water. His boots slipped and sank, but it didn't matter. Panic drove him. The sound of Alastor moving behind him drove him.

Vox reached a clearing. He saw a fallen tree. He thought—for one stupid, desperate second—that he could hide behind it.

But Alastor was already there.

The Beast didn't catch him with claws this time. He lunged, yes, but not to catch him. To envelop him. His enormous body arched over Vox, his front paws landing on either side of him, his head lowering until his red eyes were face to face with the bright screen.

Vox was trapped. Not by weight, not by force. By presence.

And Alastor tilted his head again, as if asking: See? Isn't this fun?

Vox was about to shout at him—about to say something hurtful, something cruel, something that would restore the natural order—when he felt the cold.

His pants. First his legs, then his waist. A sharp tug, the sound of fabric tearing like paper, and suddenly the swamp air was kissing his skin directly.

Vox looked down.

Alastor held the remains of his clothes between his claws, the pieces hanging like surrender flags. His smile widened to an impossible point, and his eyes gleamed.

Not like beacons.

Like something hungry.

"What the fuck?!" Vox tried to cover himself, but his hands couldn't reach everything that was now exposed. His screen ignited in a furious blush, betraying more than he wanted to show "Do you know how expensive this is!?"

Alastor dropped the rags.

And licked him again.

Directly on the neck. Directly on that spot where the skin was thinnest, where his scent was strongest. The hot, rough tongue traveled across every available inch, from the base of his neck to where his shoulder began, and Vox felt every centimeter of his body ignite as if someone had connected his power source directly to the sun.

"Stop!" he shouted, but his knees gave way.

And Alastor purred-growled against his skin, his tail wagging frenetically now, thumping against the ground, thumping against the trees, so happy.

The hunt was over.

And Alastor had won.

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The mist had begun to dissipate.

Not entirely—never entirely in that cursed swamp—but enough for light to filter through the twisted trees. A greenish, sickly light that tinted everything in underwater tones.

Vox had stopped fighting long ago.

Now he lay there, stretched out on the moss and rotting leaves, with Alastor's body covering him like a heavy, warm blanket. The deer's enormous head rested on his abdomen, the snout pressed against his skin, the purring vibrating through his body like liquid electricity.

But Vox was no longer trembling.

Something had changed in the last few minutes. Something he couldn't explain. Perhaps the exhaustion. Perhaps the hypnotic repetition of the caresses. Perhaps the fact that, for the first time in hours, Alastor wasn't trying to devour him or hurt him. Just... keep him there.

Vox opened his eyes.

And for the first time, he truly looked.

Alastor was... enormous. Words fell short. His body filled the entire visual field: shoulders wide as boulders, antlers branching toward the sky like dead trees, black fur gleaming with reddish reflections under the swamp light. Every muscle stood out beneath that layer of darkness, tense and powerful, as if even at rest the beast was ready to devour worlds.

He was terrifying.

Any sane demon would have fled at the sight of that silhouette against the mist. Any Overlord with half a brain would have activated all their defense systems and prayed to survive.

But Vox did none of that.

Because, in the midst of all that horror, Alastor was still beautiful.

It wasn't a conventional beauty. It never had been. It was the beauty of a predator at the top of the food chain. The elegance of something that doesn't need to hide because nothing can threaten it. Absolute power made flesh and bone and fur and smile.

That smile.

Vox had seen it thousands of times. On drunken nights, at meetings, in confrontations, in the moments just before Alastor tore someone apart. But it had always been directed at others. At his victims. At his rivals. At the audience.

Never at him. Not in a long time.

Now it was.

Alastor looked at him with those red, bright, liquid eyes, and smiled. It wasn't the mocking smile he always wore, the one that preceded a stab. It was... soft. Open. As if, in this bestial state, Alastor had lost the ability to hide what he felt.

And what he felt, as he looked at Vox, was something that made his tail move slowly through the mud.

"Shit," Vox whispered, and his voice no longer trembled.

Alastor tilted his head. A silent question.

Vox raised both hands.

They no longer trembled. His fingers, still sparking with small residual discharges from his escape attempts, reached out toward the deer's enormous head. They held it. Caressed it. His palms sank into the fur, feeling the warmth it radiated, the life pulsing beneath the surface.

And then, Vox gently pulled him downward.

Not to push him away. To bring him closer.

His arms wrapped around Alastor's enormous neck—as much as they could, which wasn't much—and hugged him. His chest felt the coarse fur. His screen brushed against the antlers. His face buried itself in the scent of burnt and damp forest.

"You caused a lot of trouble to come find me," Vox said against Alastor's fur.

His voice was low. Tired. But there was no reproach. It was a statement. A fact. As if he were saying here you are and here I am and this is what it is.

Alastor went still.

For a moment, Vox thought he had broken something. That the gesture was too soft, too fragile for a beast that knew only instinct.

Then he felt the purr.

It wasn't the vibrating growl from before. It was deeper. Slower. A sound that seemed to come from the deepest part of his chest and expand throughout the swamp. The mist swirled around them. The black water trembled in small concentric circles.

And Alastor stuck out his tongue.

Vox held his breath. He expected the lick. Expected that warm, wet sensation on his neck, his chest, somewhere he wasn't ready to receive it.

But Alastor didn't lick.

He lowered his enormous head.

Slowly. With a delicacy that seemed impossible for something that size. The snout approached Vox's face. The warm breath—scented with moss, blood, and storm—bathed his screen.

And then, the tongue came out again.

It wasn't a lick.

It was a kiss.

The enormous, warm, wet tongue touched Vox's lips. Not with violence. Not with the devouring urgency from before. Gently. As if asking. As if waiting for permission.

Vox felt his screen heat up. Felt small flashes race across the edge of his face. His internal fans sped up, but not from fear.

From something else. Something he didn't need to name.

"This is ridiculous," he whispered against Alastor's tongue.

The beast responded with a low whine. A sound that wasn't a growl or a purr. It was... longing.

Vox closed his eyes.

This should be disgusting. The tongue was enormous, too big for his mouth. It was wet, hot, and had probably licked things no conscious being should imagine.

But it wasn't.

It was exciting.

Vox felt his body respond in ways he hadn't anticipated. His hands clung to Alastor's fur. His fingers tangled in the antlers. His mouth opened slightly, just a little, just enough to accept the kiss.

Alastor's tongue entered.

It wasn't deep. Wasn't aggressive. It was a brush, a wet caress against his lips, a metallic taste of blood, sweet, of electricity and something that could only be described as Alastor. Like home.

The word echoed in Vox's mind like a short circuit.

No. It couldn't be. Not after everything that had happened between them. Not after the insults, the fights, the years of rivalry.

But Alastor's tongue brushed his lips again, and this time Vox responded.

His own tongue came out to meet the beast's. A tiny touch compared to Alastor's immensity. A spark against a wildfire.

Alastor purred so loudly the ground shook.

His tail wagged frantically now, sweeping through the mud, stirring the mist. His enormous body sank further onto Vox, not to crush him, but to merge with him. To get closer and closer.

The kiss grew deeper.

Vox didn't know exactly when it had stopped being a shy brush and become something more. Something that consumed him from within, that made his veins heat up and his fans whir in protest. Alastor's tongue was enormous, yes, but he had learned to receive it. To meet it. To play.

Their tongues touched.

Vox's, small and bright. Alastor's, huge, wet, covered in papillae that scraped gently against the surface of his mouth. He shouldn't feel pleasure like this. He wasn't designed for it.

But he did.

A moan escaped his lips. Low and broken. Trapped between Alastor's tongue and his own throat.

"Mmh..."

Alastor responded with a purr that vibrated directly in Vox's mouth. The beast pressed deeper, seeking more depth, more taste, more of that electricity crackling on Vox's tongue.

Vox clung to the antlers.

His fingers tangled in the branches, pulling, drawing closer, wordlessly begging not to stop. His back arched slightly against the moss. His pelvis lifted without thinking, seeking contact, seeking something his body seemed to need urgently.

Then Alastor pulled back.

"No..." Vox gasped, lips shiny with saliva, his screen showing an intense blush at the edges. "Don't stop..."

But Alastor wasn't stopping.

He was only going lower.

His enormous head moved downward. The warm snout traveled across Vox's screen, his neck. The tongue came out again and licked slowly, deliciously slowly, from the base of his throat to the hollow of his collarbone.

Vox moaned again.

"Alastor..."

The name came out like a plea. Like something he didn't want to say but couldn't help.

The beast continued descending.

He licked his chest. His sternum. Every centimeter of skin that had been exposed when his clothes were reduced to shreds. The enormous tongue covered everything in its path, leaving a warm trail that cooled too quickly, that made Vox want more.

"Ah... ah..."

His gasps grew faster. His hips moved on their own, seeking, rubbing against the air, against Alastor's fur, against anything that offered friction.

And then Alastor reached his abdomen.

The beast pressed his snout there. Sniffed. Inhaled deeply, as if the scent emanating from Vox was the most addictive drug he'd tasted in centuries. A low growl rumbled in his chest, and then his tongue came out again.

He licked his belly.

From navel to waist. From waist to the start of his pelvis. Vox felt the wet tongue travel across every muscle, every nerve ending he didn't know he had.

"This is... this is..."

He couldn't finish the sentence.

Because Alastor went lower and Vox, for the first time, realized his current state.

He was naked. Vulnerable and Open.

And Alastor looked at him.

Those red eyes gleamed with something that wasn't just lust. It was hunger. But not the hunger to devour. The hunger to taste. To take his time. To know every corner of this body he'd spent years wanting to possess in other ways.

Vox should have felt humiliated.

He should have wanted to cover himself, flee, erase this moment from his mind.

But he did none of that.

"Look at me carefully," he whispered, defiant despite everything. "I don't want you to forget this."

Alastor smiled. And then his face sank between Vox's thighs.

The contact was immediate. Overwhelming.

Alastor's nose brushed directly against his clit. That small sensitive protrusion, that center of pleasure Vox had ignored for months because he didn't have time, because he'd been wallowing in self-pity.

His entire body shook.

"Ah!"

A scream. Not a moan. An authentic, ragged cry that came from deep in his throat. His back arched violently, lifting his hips off the ground, offering more, begging for more without his mouth being able to form the words.

Alastor's nose moved. Rubbed. Pressed right where he was most sensitive, where the nerves concentrated in a bundle of signals that saturated his senses.

"Oh shit... oh shit, oh shit..." Vox couldn't stop talking, the words came out on their own, fragmented, useless. "Alastor..."

The beast purred.

The sound vibrated directly against his sex, and Vox saw stars. Literally. His screen displayed an explosion of white pixels, a processing error that had never happened before.

"Too much..." he cried, but his hands, instead of pushing Alastor away, clung to his head. His fingers sank into the fur, pulling, squeezing, holding. "Don't stop... don't you dare stop..."

Alastor didn't stop.

His nose continued rubbing, exploring, learning every reaction of this body trembling beneath his. Every time Vox moaned louder, the beast pressed harder. Every time his hips lifted, Alastor followed. It was a dance. A reverse hunt where the prey surrendered willingly.

And then the tongue came out.

Not a quick lick. Not a shy brush. Alastor's enormous tongue—wide, long, covered in scraping papillae—passed completely over Vox's cunt.

From front to back. From his clit, past the wet entrance, to further back, to where his body became even more sensitive.

"Aaah!"

The moan was so sharp he feared he'd lose his voice in that moment. Vox arched so much that only his shoulders and the tips of his toes touched the ground. His belly tensed. His thighs opened wider and closed around Alastor's head, trapping him there, making sure he couldn't escape.

Vox's eyes gleamed.

"Alastor... Alastor, please..." he didn't know what he was asking for. More. Yes. But also to never stop. To stay there forever, with his enormous tongue pressed against his cunt, licking, licking, licking. "I can't... I'm going to..."

Alastor's tongue moved again.

Another complete pass. Slower this time. More deliberate. As if the beast wanted to taste every millimeter, every fold, every drop of the moisture Vox was producing without understanding how.

The purring intensified.

Vox's hands, still clinging to Alastor's head, trembled. His fingers moved without control, stroking the fur, the antlers, the ears that twitched with pleasure.

"There... right there..." he gasped, and his voice was barely a whisper now, broken by pleasure. "Right there... don't stop..."

Alastor obeyed.

His tongue stayed still, pressed against Vox's most sensitive spot. And then it vibrated. The purr, that deep growl coming from his core, concentrated in his tongue. Vibrated directly against Vox's clit, against his entrance, against his entire being.

The orgasm hit Vox like lightning.

There was no warning. No slow build. It was a wall of pleasure that completely knocked him down, that made his back arch to the breaking point, that made his legs clamp tightly around Alastor's head, that turned his screams into static, into white silence, into the total absence of thought.

His screen went dark for a second. A flicker. A forced reboot.

And when it lit up again, he was crying.

It wasn't sadness. It was... too much. Everything was too much. The pleasure, the contact, the feeling of being devoured without dying.

"Alastor," he whispered, and his name was a complete prayer. "Alastor..."

The beast lifted his head.

His snout gleamed, covered in Vox's moisture. His red eyes were brighter than ever, and his smile... his smile was so wide it seemed to split his face in two.

He licked his own lips.

Tasted.

And then crawled upward, toward Vox's face, and kissed him again.

Vox tasted himself on Alastor's tongue. Sweet and electric. He moaned against the beast's mouth, his hands rising to cling again to his antlers, and sank into the kiss as if it were the last thing he'd ever do.

When they finally parted, both were panting.

"You're a monster," Vox said, without strength, without venom.

Alastor purred.

His tail moved slowly now, satisfied. His eyes grew heavy, closing. His enormous body settled over Vox, covering him completely, protecting him from the mist and the cold and the rest of the world.

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Vox could barely catch his breath.

His chest rose and fell with ragged gasps, internal fans whining at maximum effort. His face still flickered, trying to focus, remnants of the orgasm that had completely undone him. His hands trembled on Alastor's fur, gripping the antlers as if they were the only real thing in a world that had become blurry and liquid.

"Wait..." he whispered, without strength. "Give me a second..."

But Alastor didn't wait.

He never waited. Patience wasn't something the bestial form knew. Instinct was stronger, older, hungrier. And his instinct told him only one thing: more.

Vox felt the enormous claws grip him by the hips. Before he could protest, his body was turned, flipped as if he weighed nothing, as if he were a ragdoll in the hands of a titan.

"Alastor!"

His voice came out high, startled. His hands released the antlers and searched for support in the moss or anything that would anchor him. He ended up on his knees, or rather on his forearms, with his hips lifted by the claws holding him aloft.

The position was vulnerable. Very vulnerable.

He felt the heat behind him. The rough fur brushing the backs of his thighs. The hot breath against his nape, agitated, heavy with that scent of burnt forest and storm. And then he felt it.

Alastor's cock.

It was enormous. Vox knew it before seeing it, before it even touched his skin. He felt it rubbing against the outside of his thigh, thick, hot, with a texture that wasn't completely smooth, with small bumps, ridges, something that seemed designed by nature itself to grip.

"Wait," Vox said, and this time his voice truly trembled. "Wait, Alastor, no... you're not going to..."

The beast ignored him.

The enormous cock slid forward, finding the way on its own. It brushed the outside of his cunt—still soaked, still sensitive from the previous orgasm—and Vox felt his entire body tense in anticipation.

"It won't fit," he gasped, trying to pull his hips away, but the claws held him firm. "Alastor, please, it won't..."

Alastor pushed.

It wasn't gentle. It wasn't slow. It was a single movement, a single penetration that filled Vox completely all at once. The enormous head of his cock—swollen, hot, too large—forced its way through the wet entrance and sank all the way in.

Vox screamed.

It was a torn, ragged scream that came from deep in his chest. His fingers dug into the moss, tearing up earth. His back arched, not backward but forward, as if trying to escape that overwhelming sensation.

"It's too much!" he howled, static distorting his words. "It's TOO big, Alastor!"

The beast responded with a growl.

It wasn't an angry growl. It was a growl of possession. Of satisfaction. Finally. Finally.

The claws on his hips adjusted, finding a firmer grip. And then Alastor lifted him.

Vox felt his body rise a few centimeters—barely anything, but enough for the enormous cock to withdraw slightly—and then fall again. A bounce. Slow at first. Controlled.

"Ah... ahhh!"

The sound that escaped his lips was a sob. Because it hurt. It hurt too much. It was too big, too thick, and each movement stretched his internal walls to the limit. Small pangs of discomfort traveled through his abdomen, mixing with something else.

But then Alastor repeated the movement.

And again.

And again.

The rhythm grew faster. The bounces higher. The enormous cock sank into him to the hilt with each fall, filling him completely, erasing any empty space inside his body. Vox felt every centimeter, every bump, every beat of the beast inside him.

The pain began to change.

It didn't disappear entirely—impossible, with that size—but something else began to grow alongside it. A warmth rising from his cunt, expanding into his belly, his chest, his throat. A deep, primal pleasure that enveloped him like the swamp mist.

"Oh... oh, fuck," Vox gasped, and his voice was no longer a scream. It was a moan. Long, trembling, needy.

Drool began to fall from his lips.

He didn't know exactly when he'd started drooling. Didn't know when his eyes had filled with tears. He only knew he couldn't stop sobbing, that each of Alastor's thrusts tore a sound from his mouth, a mix of pleasure and surrender.

"Slower..." he managed to articulate between moans, voice broken. "Please... slower..."

But Alastor didn't slow down.

Quite the opposite.

The beast leaned his enormous head forward, bringing his snout to Vox's nape. Hot breath bathed his skin, and then lips pressed against that vulnerable area.

And then he spoke.

It wasn't Alastor's voice. Not the Radio Demon's voice, clear and modulated and always mocking. It was something more primitive, more guttural, more instinctual. A vibration that seemed to come from the shadows themselves.

"Mine," he murmured against his nape.

Vox shuddered completely.

"Mine," the beast repeated, and this time the word was a growl that sounded like a promise and a threat in equal measure. "My Omega."

Vox's tears fell faster. His hands, still gripping the moss, trembled so much they could barely hold him. His entire body was a map of sensations: the dull pain mixed with growing pleasure, the overwhelming size inside him, Alastor's voice murmuring those words against his nape.

"My Omega."

"Alastor..." he sobbed, and he didn't know if he was asking him to stop or continue.

The beast found his sweet spot.

It was sudden. A change of angle, a slightly different thrust, and suddenly the enormous cock hit something inside Vox that made his vision go white. A spot. A place. That place he'd never found on his own.

"There!" he screamed, his back arching violently. "There, Alastor, there!"

The deer growled with satisfaction.

And didn't stop.

Didn't slow down or change the angle. Kept hitting that exact spot with each thrust, over and over, without mercy, without rest. Pleasure built in Vox's belly like electricity in a capacitor, growing and growing until he thought he would explode.

"Slower... slower, please..." he moaned between sobs, drooling onto the moss. "I can't... I'm going to..."

The beast ignored his pleas.

But did something more.

Alastor stretched his enormous neck, twisting his spine in a way that seemed impossible, until his face was beside Vox's. Those red eyes, bright and wild, looked directly at Vox's screen.

And saw the tears.

Tears streaming down his face. Static trembling at the edges of his screen. The broken, open, vulnerable expression Vox had never shown anyone.

Alastor purred.

It was a deep, vibrating sound, full of satisfaction. As if seeing Vox cry was exactly what he had wanted from the beginning. As if those tears were the clearest proof that the Omega was his.

"Mine," he murmured again, and this time the word was a purred whisper against Vox's screen.

His enormous tongue came out.

He licked Vox's face. Collected the tears, tasting them, absorbing them. The rough tongue traveled along the edge of his screen, cleaning the moisture, and then passed over his lips.

Vox whimpered.

The sound was high, almost childlike. A mix of overwhelming pleasure and unexpected tenderness. His hands released the moss and clung to Alastor's enormous head again.

He turned his face.

Sought Alastor's lips. Found them. And sank into a kiss as wet, as desperate, as needy as the first.

"Don't stop," he whispered against his mouth, contradicting everything he'd asked before. "Please... don't stop..."

Alastor smiled widely against his lips.

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Vox had lost all sense of time.

He didn't know if minutes or hours had passed. He didn't know if the swamp was still there, with its twisted trees and eternal mist, or if the entire world had been reduced to this: the moss beneath his knees, the claws on his hips, the enormous heat filling him inside, leaving no room for anything else.

He was panting.

His chest rose and fell like a broken bellows; each breath was an effort. His internal fans had gone into emergency mode long ago, emitting high-pitched beeps that mixed with his own moans. His body trembled, uncontrollable spasms coursing through his limbs like electric shocks.

He was electricity, and yet Alastor had reduced him to this: a pile of ragged sighs and overloaded circuits.

His tongue was hanging out.

It dangled from his lips, limp and trembling. Small spasms shook him every time his body remembered the orgasm that had just torn through him—the last orgasm, though he'd lost count of how many there had been. Six, or maybe eight.

That last one had been electric.

Alastor hadn't even blinked.

The beast was still there, behind him, inside him. His enormous cock still filled him, but something had changed. The base had swollen. The knot. That knot that omegas knew about in theory but Vox had never experienced firsthand, because he'd never let himself, because he'd never trusted anyone enough, because there had never been an alpha who...

Well. Now there was.

The knot was so swollen that staying connected was inevitable. Every time Vox tried to move, he felt the pressure increase, felt the walls of his cunt stretch even more to accommodate that enormous bulge anchoring him to Alastor.

His belly was swollen.

Vox noticed it when, between gasps, he managed to look down. His stomach visibly bulged. It wasn't an exaggeration. It wasn't his imagination. Alastor had filled him so much, had come inside him so many times, that his body couldn't contain it all.

"Oh, shit..." he whispered, his voice a shadow of what it had been.

He tried to sit up a little, to brace on his forearms instead of just his hands. The movement made his pelvis tense, made him squeeze the knot unintentionally, and a sharp moan escaped his lips.

"Don't... don't do that," he told himself.

His body squeezed again. Voluntarily this time. Because no matter how exhausted he was, no matter how overstimulated to the point of pain, he couldn't help wanting to feel that knot. That connection. That sensation of being completely full.

Alastor purred behind him.

The sound vibrated through their joined bodies, and Vox felt the vibration travel through the enormous cock, through the knot, through the sensitive walls of his cunt. He moaned again, a broken sound that turned into a hiccup when his insides contracted uncontrollably.

Sobs shook him.

He wasn't fully crying. But he was sobbing. Each sob made his whole body tremble, and each tremor made him squeeze the knot, and each squeeze tore out another moan, and it was an infinite cycle he couldn't escape.

He was too sensitive.

That was the word. Too sensitive. Each of Alastor's breaths moved his cock millimeters inside him. Each purr vibrated directly against his sweet spot. Each beat of Alastor's heart transmitted through the knot like a second pulse.

He was on the edge again.

It couldn't be. Not after everything that had come out of him. Not after all the orgasms he'd already had. His body couldn't want more.

But it did.

Of course it did. His cunt kept squeezing around the knot, hungry, insatiable. That word echoed in his head like a curse and a blessing at the same time.

Vox's eyes began to close.

He didn't want to. There was something terrifying about closing his eyes here, in this swamp, in the arms of a beast that could devour him when it finished playing with him. But his eyelids were heavy, and fatigue was a dark blanket descending over his consciousness.

"No... not yet," he murmured, but his words were barely a thread of voice.

Then Alastor moved.

It wasn't a big movement. Just a slight push of his hips, a readjustment of his position. But his enormous cock sank millimeters deeper into Vox, and the knot pressed against something already at its limit, and Vox let out a noise that was half moan of pleasure, half muffled protest.

"No, Al... I can't take any more..."

The beast ignored him.

Alastor leaned his enormous head forward and licked Vox's nape. The hot, rough tongue traveled over the skin, tasting the residual electricity, the moisture, the fear and pleasure mixed together. And as he licked, his hips pushed again.

Deeper.

Right to where Vox could no longer bear it.

"Al!"

The orgasm hit him like a freight train.

There was no build-up. No warning. Just a wave of pleasure so intense it erased every thought, every sensation except that. His back arched violently, his head threw back, his mouth opened in a silent scream.

His tongue came out again, drooling once more onto the moss.

His cunt contracted around the knot in uncontrollable spasms, and Vox felt Alastor come again inside him, adding more heat, more liquid, more fullness to an abdomen that could no longer contain any more.

And then everything went blurry.

The edges of his screen flickered. The swamp lights became green and black smudges. The weight of his own body faded, as if someone had turned off gravity.

His consciousness slipped away like sand between fingers. He tried to cling to something—the moss, anything—but his hands no longer responded. His fingers hung limp at the sides of his body.

"Mine."

The word came from very far away. Or maybe from very close. From his nape, where Alastor's tongue kept licking. From inside, where the knot kept pulsing. From everywhere.

Mine.

Vox smiled.

It wasn't a conscious smile. It wasn't a decision. It was just a curve at the corner of his lips, a final spasm before his screen went completely dark.

Yes, Yours.

Darkness claimed him.

But even in unconsciousness, even as his body collapsed onto the moss like a puppet with its strings cut, his cunt kept squeezing around the knot.

Clinging.

Not letting go. He didn't want to let go.

Alastor watched him from above. Saw Vox's screen go gray, saw his eyes close, saw his breathing become slow and deep. The deer tilted his head, ears swiveling forward, and for a moment he seemed confused.

Then he licked Vox's nape one more time.

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Alastor did not sleep.

He rarely needed rest, much less when his Omega was unconscious and vulnerable in his claws. But he wasn't alert, not exactly. He didn't feel the need to be. The swamp was his territory, and anything that dared approach would be devoured before it could emit a single warning cry.

No. Alastor wasn't watching.

He was enjoying.

His enormous body was curled around Vox like a dark serpent, covering him completely. The beast's head rested just behind the Omega's nape, his massive snout pressed against the skin that still held the sweet scent of recent orgasms. His long arms wrapped around Vox's torso, keeping him pressed against his chest. Trapping him, making sure he couldn't move a single centimeter.

But it was the tail, perhaps, that most betrayed his mood.

It moved lazily. Back and forth. A slow, hypnotic sway that seemed to follow the rhythm of his own purring. The tip of the tail traced circles in the air, in the mist, as if writing something invisible.

Content.

That was the word. Alastor was content.

His inner alpha—that ancient, hungry voice that normally only knew how to demand and take and devour—was unusually calm. It didn't roar. Didn't growl. Didn't ask for more. It simply... writhed. Stretched. Settled into the beast's chest like a lazy cat in front of a fireplace.

Because his Omega was full.

So full.

Alastor could feel it. Every time Vox breathed, his abdomen moved slightly against the arm that held him. And that abdomen was swollen with him. With his seed. With everything he had poured into his Omega during those endless hours of mating.

The knot was still there.

It hadn't fully deflated. His knot always took time to retract, especially when the mating had been successful. Alastor felt how Vox's walls continued to squeeze around him, even in unconsciousness. Small, involuntary spasms that happened whenever the Omega's body remembered it was full.

Still squeezing.

The inner alpha writhed with pleasure.

Still wanting to hold it in.

Alastor purred louder, and the vibration traveled through his chest, through his arms, through Vox's body. The Omega whimpered in his sleep and his cunt contracted again around the knot in response.

Perfect.

The beast closed his eyes, not from sleep, but from satisfaction. His primitive mind reviewed the events of the past few hours, recording every detail, every moment. The scent of Vox when he arrived at the tower. The taste of his neck when he licked him for the first time. The way his body opened to receive him, to accept him. The screams. The moans. The tears.

And above all, the final moment.

That instant when Alastor had felt Vox's body change. How it softened. How it opened. Not just physically. Something deeper. Something his inner alpha recognized because it was etched in his genes, in his instincts, in the deepest part of his being.

Creation.

The pups.

Alastor couldn't know for certain, not yet. There was no way to confirm until the weeks passed and Vox's belly began to grow visibly. But his instinct knew. He felt it in his bones. In his blood. In the way his knot had throbbed inside Vox, emptying itself over and over, making sure no corner was left unfilled.

Success.

The purring intensified, growing deeper, more resonant. Not a sound that could be heard with ears, more like a vibration felt in the chest and throat. The mist swirled around him, as if responding to his call.

Alastor tightened his arms around Vox.

Not with violence. With possession. With the absolute certainty that his Omega wasn't going anywhere. Not ever again. He might wake up, might scream, might kick and threaten to fry him with electricity. But at the end of the day, at the end of every day, Vox would be here. In his arms. In his swamp. In his life.

The inner alpha stretched lazily inside him.

He would protect his Omega while he slept.

Alastor lifted his head slightly and looked around. The swamp was calm. The trees still leaned. The mist remained thick. No threats. No intruders. But that didn't mean they couldn't come.

His ears tensed, swiveling in every direction, picking up every sound. The distant splash of some fish in the water. The creak of a branch hundreds of meters away. Vox's slow, deep breathing.

No one.

No one will come near.

His tail stopped moving lazily and coiled around Vox's legs, adding another layer of protection. His arms tensed slightly, creating a cage of muscle and fur around his Omega. His enormous body curved even more, enveloping Vox completely, hiding him from the mist, from the shadows, from the world.

Mine.

My Omega.

My pups.

Alastor rested his snout against Vox's nape again. He inhaled deeply that electric, sweet scent, mixed with his own and with something new, something he couldn't yet identify but that made his heart beat faster. He exhaled slowly, bathing the soft skin with his warm breath.

And began to lick.

Not only with lust, but with tenderness. His enormous tongue traveled over Vox's nape again and again, cleaning the moisture, the dried saliva, the remnants of sweat. A grooming. A ritual. Something alphas did to soothe their omegas, to tell them you are safe, I am here, I will not let you go.

Vox moved slightly in his sleep.

A small whimper escaped his lips, and his body relaxed even more—if that was possible—sinking against Alastor's chest, seeking more warmth.

Alastor smiled.

That enormous, tooth-filled smile that should be terrifying. But in the dimness of the swamp, with his Omega curled up in his arms, that smile seemed almost... soft.

He finally closed his eyes.

He didn't need to sleep, but he could rest. He could stay here, in this moment, with this warmth, with this scent, with this peace he had never felt before. His inner alpha had finally calmed, satisfied for the first time in a long while.

The knot was still inside Vox.

Still throbbing. Still filling him. Still ensuring that creation continued, that the seed found its place, that the pups began to form in that swollen, warm belly.

Alastor purred once more, and if his Omega didn't get pregnant that night, they had a whole week to keep trying. He smiled sleepily at the wonderful thought.