Lance Hayward
Fury and horror beat in my heart as Bella screamed, her arm missing. The Gizzamuluke had eaten it.
The golden lance formed in my hand. My wife's blood spilled down my thighs as I rose to my feet and faced the monster. The green eyes fixed on me. It grinned at me, delighting in what it had done to my wife.
I slammed the golden lance into the creature before it could jump back. The Gizzamuluke snarled in pain as I pinned it to the floor. It thrashed there, legs kicking. It tried to slash at me. I formed a second lance and slammed into the beast's throat.
"So delicious," the Gizzamuluke growled. It stared up at me, such delight in its eyes. It licked its mouth, its tongue long and slimy. "Your wife's flesh. I knew she would be so tasty."
I formed a third lance and slammed it through its head. Bella whimpered behind me. Christ, she lost her arm. She must be bleeding badly. Before I could turn, though, Cali burst into the room, her purple eyes almost glowing.
"The Seductress is free!" she shouted.
"What?" he roared, fury beating through me. "How can she be free? Aunt Nancy is with her. They're patrolling the manor."
Cali held up a red garter. "Nancy Heres is dead."
The words struck me. My aunt was dead.
"So is Velma White," Cali said and held up a gray garter. "Just now."
My dean? "Fuck, she's on a patrol with Lily, Ji-Woo, and..." I swallowed. "My daughter Rose."
"Go," Bella whimpered, clutching her arm.
I leaped over the staked Gizzamuluke. If Dean White just died, then other Imprisoned were free. I burst into the hallway and shouted, "Someone get in here and heal my wife! I need maids! The mansion is in danger! The Imprisoned are being freed!"
***
Maria Hayward
I burst into Lance's room and gasped at the Gizzamuluke staked to the ground. Bella was beyond, her face so pale. Blood soaked her thighs. The smell of crimson filled the air. I moved to her when I realized she... She was missing an arm.
I wanted to cry, but I had to help her. I unlaced my bodice and pulled out my breasts. I knelt beside her, ignoring the slathering pants of the Gizzamuluke. With three lances thrust through its body, it still salivated over us.
I offered my nipple to Bella. She latched on and suckled hard.
I groaned as my life-giving milk healed her. The creature smacked his lips and stared at us with hunger. I ignored the disgusting thing as Bella nursed. The blood from her arm slowed. Stopped. I watched her stump, hoping her new arm would regrow, but...
The skin spread over the stump. In moments, it looked like she had lost her arm years ago. She kept gulping down my milk, the color returning to her face. She retained her strength and the blood she lost. She replenished it all.
Then she ripped her mouth off my nipple and rose to her feet.
"What?" I gasped as she jumped over the Gizzamuluke.
"I have to protect my husband!" she cried and ran off one-armed."
***
Lance Hayward
I burst out of the safety into the darkness, a golden lance in hand. Before the Gizzamuluke's painting lay blood and scraps of lace. All that was left of Aunt Nancy. The pain tore at my heart, but I had maids in danger, including my own daughter.
Maids shouted behind me. I listened for noise as I reached the top of the stairs. Fire flashed down on the first floor. I raced down toward them, my lance throwing back the night. I flew down to the first floor as fast as I could.
At the base of the stairs, Dean White's body lay in a pool of blood, her throat torn out. The garter on her thigh was missing. Fire exploded from my right, illuminating a woman standing down the corridor. She glanced back at me. She had blood about her round mouth like a lamprey's. She wore a pink dress.
Lady Smiles.
She winked at me and ran down the corridor. She dodged a blast of fire from Ji-Woo. Lily stepped up and thrust out a shield of stone. Lady Smiles crashed into it. She bit into the shield, tearing through it. Leaning against the wall was Rose, clutching her side.
She bled.
"Master-Daddy," she whimpered.
I ran down the corridor and thrust my lance at Lady Smiles. She spun around and opened her mouth. She swallowed my lance. I gasped in horror. She had some endless void in her. I could see it in her. She crashed her teeth down on the golden lance and snapped it in half.
I snarled as pain ran up my arm.
I formed another lance as she faced me. Fire slammed down into her back. Her dress burst into flames. She lunged at me anyways, her mouth opening wide to swallow me. That disgusting void that lurked down her maw wanted to swallow me.
I slammed the butt of my lance into her face. She crashed into the wall and bounced down on the ground. I rammed my lance into her back, pinning her in place. My maids shouted. Screams echoed from above.
"There are more Imprisoned free," Cali said.
"Shit," I snarled.
"Rose!" Angela, my eldest daughter, cried. She ran up naked save for her bronze garter. She reached her sister and offered a nipple.
Rose latched on and breastfed from her sister. I heard shouts coming from the stairs down the hall. They led up to the second floor. I ran down it, shouts behind me. How many had the Seductress freed? Fury beat in my heart.
Two of my maids were dead. Aunt Nancy... Her naughty smile filled my mind. My hands clenched tight about my spear as I reached the second-floor stairs and ran up them too at a time. These damned monsters wouldn't allow me to have any joy.