WARNING********WARNING********WARNING THE FOLOWING STORY CONTAINS NO SEX BUT IS A STORY CONTAINING FURRIES, IF YOU FIND THIS OFFENSIVE THEN DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER ALSO IF YOU ARE A MINOR DO NOT CONTINUE. IF HOWEVER THIS SUBJECT IS TO YOUR LIKING THEN PLEASE.....ENJOY! WARNING********WARNING********WARNING 'Wolfstar VI: Kel's Plight' By Gorfydyd Sionnach The banging of the door was the last thing Kel heard before the silence that followed, silence, absolute silence. What was most un-nerving to Kel was that his footfalls, though normally exquisitely quiet, were now silent, as was his voice as he called out. 'What is this place?' he thought to himself 'I can't hear anything, I really don't like this! I do have a mission though so I must go on.' Kel appeared to be in what looked like a huge garden, it looked beautiful, but this was just part of its trap, this was the 'garden of lost words'. The garden of lost words was one of three dangerous arenas required to be traversed to bring back the Great Giver, the other two are 'The labyrinth' and 'Caged madness'. Two waterfalls enter the garden to both the right and left of the entrance, the turbulent water flows towards the centre of the garden form both sides, eventually flowing down stone drainage covers either side of a central podium. 'Hmmmm...that looks like where I need to go' thought Kel. Kel walked silently towards the podium, as he got closer he saw something was lying on top of it, a bowl. Kel moved closer to the podium, the silently turbulent water making him nervous, he could see that the bowl contained a white liquid, 'This must be it', he thought. As he reached out his paw for the bowl something in the corner of his eye caught his attention, there had been an inaudible but quite visible splash off to his right. Kel stared at the water and saw another splash, then another, they were getting closer...something was there...coming to get him. 'An invisible enemy in a silent world, I really am in trouble!' thought Kel. Quickly he turned and began to run away from the approaching splashes. Soon the splashes stopped...the thing was out of the water, he now had no clue as to where it was so Kel just kept running. Suddenly Kel fell over, he looked to see what he had tripped on...but saw nothing, it was then that he felt a clawed hand on him, and saw only darkness. When Kel woke up the most obvious thing was the loud noise of screaming, "I can hear!" he shouted, the sound of his voice startling him a little. "Yes you can" said a voice "But you'll wish you were back in the Silent world!" Kel looked to his right and saw a rotweiler looking at him, a cape about his body. "JACE?" The dog smiled "Yes Kel...it's me." Kel wrapped his arms around his friend, crying "Oh Gods...I thought you were dead...we all did...how, how did you end up here?" Jace had a tear in his eye too "Do you remember that night 10 years ago...when we were 12, when me, Hargh and Wert went to the temple?" Kel looked at Jace "Yes...I remember I chickened out and wouldn't go with you" Jace laughed a little "Yeah...you were a fraidy-cat...we all laughed at you...but now I wish we had all been like you! Then maybe Wert would still be alive!" Jace's smile faided as he finished. "Wert's dead?...but if you made it to here then surely you all went in separate doors...how do you know he is dead?" asked Kel. Jace pointed to the centre of the garden...a garden now black and rotten, dark vines twisted about grotesque statues depicting torturous scenes, upon these grew black flowers, sounds of screams erupted from them...and in the centre of it all there stood a tall dark creature, so black that only its shape could be seen, "He showed me!" "Wha..wha..what is it?" stammered Kel after he got over the sight of the creature. "He is known as 'The Keeper'. I was the first to enter his grasp...you are the second, now he will do just as his name suggests...he will keep us...forever!" At this point Jace broke down and began to weep openly. "I'm so glad to see you Kel...I would have gone mad...I’m surprised it hasn't happened already...the things he has done to me." Kel became angered at this..."What things? What has this creature done to you?" Jace moved away from Kel, and opened his cape. Around Jace's neck was a studded collar, the studs pointed both out from the leather and into his neck, below that Kel could see that one of Jace's nipples was pierced, a chain with a weight hung from it, there were slash marks all over his body, wounds that appeared as though they had been produced but a few seconds ago, though it was possible to see that these were old marks, some older than others. He noticed 2 cuts on Jace's paws, these seemed precise, lastly Jace's genitals...a tight band almost cut the circulation from his balls, and worst of all Jace's shaft was wrapped with what appeared to be razor wire, hundreds of small cuts were over the length of his cock, many of them fresh, a single tear fell onto it as Kel stared. "Oh Jace...I'm here now...I won't let that monster touch you again...I promise!" "I'm going to get you out of here...together maybe we can escape!" said Kel. "No, it isn't as simple as that." said Jace. "I can't leave...these cuts on my paws, he implanted me with something, he can control my actions, he didn't have to do the other things to me...he made me do them to myself!" Kel was taken aback..."My Gods, he made you do it to yourself, I'll kill him! I don't care how big he is, I’m gona tear him limb from limb!" "Shhhh...you will wake him, if you do then he will do the same to you as he did to me...you are lucky that he did not implant you as soon as he had captured you." whispered Jace, looking about anxiously. Kel thought back a minute. "What actually happened when he touched me Jace, where are we?" Jace put his cloak about him again and looked at Kel. "You are...where you were before." Kel looked puzzled "But this isn't the garden I was in, that one was beautiful, this one is grotesque!" Jace smiled a little, "Oh really? This is the same garden I can assure you, but this is how it truly looks and sounds, don't you see the waterfall, the podium in the centre, the..." Kel interrupted "The podium! we are in the same garden, and that bowl on the podium, what does it contain?" Jace's face dropped, "It contains nothing...it used to contain the combined seeds, but the keeper drank it, so now there is no hope of escape." Kel's face lit up for a second. "Has he drunk from the bowl recently?" Jace frowned "No...why would he...wait now I understand...you got in here so there must be combined seed in there once again, if he drinks it it is over, we must get that seed!" "Your in no state for this Jace, I’ll do it, but where do we go once we have the seed?" asked Kel "The waterfall...behind it is a secret cave, the exit is there." said Jace. "OK Jace...you go and wait by the exit, If I wake this guy up we will need as big a head start as possible." With this he hugged Jace again, careful not to do it too tight, the thought of Jace's torment causing him to anger again...but he suppresses it. "I'll see you there my friend." said Jace, a little hope in his eyes. Jace walked slowly to the waterfall and passed under the falling waters, Kel smiled and moved towards the podium, and the beast that stood beside it. Kel's footfalls were barely audible as he approached the bowl atop the podium, he looked in the bowl and saw the white liquid, it was still there. Kel reached out and very carefully lifted the bowl, the slight scrapping noise caused the Keeper to stir a little, Kel froze...the keeper returned to his sleep. Kel now had the bowl, he stepped down from the podium and hurried towards the waterfall, his impatience got the better of him though and one paw slipped and made a large splash in the water. Instantly the Keeper was awake, his blazing red eyes upon Kel. Kel forgot all about staying quiet and ran as fast as he could through the turbulent water and through the waterfall, once behind the water he could no longer see the Keeper but knew he wouldn't be far behind, as he reached the end of the cave he could see a funnel, next to which was a door, in front of which was Jace, a bow and arrow held at the ready...pointed at Kel. "YOU FOOL! I CONTROLL THIS MORTAL, AS I WOULD HAVE CONTROLLED YOU...NOW I DO NOT WISH TO...I WISH FOR YOU TO DIE!" the voice came from Jace's muzzle, but it wasn't Jace speaking. Jace pulled back the arrow ready to fire, but Kel's lightning reactions enabled him to dive to the side, desperately trying to keep the bowl upright. Three things happened at once, Kel dived, Jace fired, and the Keeper rounded the bend, the arrow piercing his throat, where Kel's head should have been. The Keeper made no sound, the bright light of his eyes faded, he fell to the ground, but never touched it, he was gone. Jace too fell to the floor, the wounds in his paws opening to release 2 discs which fell and made a dull thudding noise on the floor, his wounds on his body which seemed to constantly bleed, healed in a mater of seconds, he was free. "Kel...I'm...I'm free." Jace laughed out loud and removed the wire from his shaft, the collar from his neck and balls, and lastly the piercing to his nipple...which healed as soon as the metal left it. Kel left the bowl on the floor and ran to Jace, crying. "Were leaving this place and I'm never going to loose sight of you again...I love you Jace. Jace kissed him on the muzzle, "I love you too Kel!" Kel broke the kiss..."Now lets get out here." he said smiling, he picked up the bowl and poured it into the funnel, the seed drained into a vial which he then placed in the door which swung open. He placed his arm around Jace and they walked through the doorway, retrieving the vial on the way, the door shut behind them, they would never see the garden again. Kel looked to his left and saw Tar...he called out to him but Tar wasn't listening, Kel followed Tar's eyes... what he saw, he couldn't believe. Wolfstar VII: Caged Madness coming soon