CHAPTER SEVEN: THE BINDINGS THAT HOLD US TOGETHER
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Snippet Eight (2): The Struggles That Ensue
The Gheyos watch as their Alpha practically drags their Submissive, Beta, and Rheyo into the house. After a few slow minutes of waiting, Faidon motions to the rest to go into the house. "We'll be going to the basements for this. I'll explain exactly what will be happening down there." He grunts before turning to Alan. "Please guard our submissive while we bind our own circles." He says quietly. "We should be done near dinner, but if not, don't wait for us. We'll be done for the night by the time Alexia goes to bed."
"Erm, yes." Alan looks like he's refraining from saying anything. "I'll make your excuses if you don't come to dinner and try to make Rebecca do something that easily keeps."
Faidon grunts to himself, goes to the front door, and then motions the rest of the Gheyo to follow him. They do.
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"Since we have two full gheyo suites, and potentially two future jokers to bond to the Aces," Faidon says and then looks at Armin. "we need one dominant Ac-."
Armin snorts loudly, interrupting Faidon. "Oh yeah? Then why don't we start now?" He snaps and then suddenly switches to his were-leopard form. He transforms from a pale almond man to a black-coated leopard with dark orange rosettes and then loudly growls at Faidon. He turns away from the ground to go scent mark the wall with his sharp claws before speedily rotating around and pouncing on Faidon.
Faidon tries to shove the 100-pound leopard off and succeeds after a minute. "I see how it will be with you. Unfortunately for you," He says while pulling out his two Gladius shortswords. "I have trained with my uncle's military circle for the past 12 years. Now let's dance together, you and I." He tries to punch the leopard in the jaw with his offhand and misses so he stabs forward trying to get a gut shot. The sword manages to puncture the skin, but it doesn't seem to do much damage.
The leopard loudly screams and rakes Faidon down his chest. Faidon curses and tries to knock the claws from scratching him, but he misses and gets raked from his left pec to his right thigh. "You damn cat!" Faidon bellows before kicking Armin off of him. Faidon leaps on top of the leopard and is able to fully stab his offhand into the side. With his main sword, he holds it up to Armin's throat and snarls, "Change back and yield before our submissive gets to miss her second Ace while he goes to the hospital." The leopard angrily chuffs and tries to get himself out of the hold, but to no avail is unable to shift his body at all. Armin then taps twice with his right leg and waits for Faidon to get off. "You better not be faking, leopard." Armin shakes his head and then slowly changes back into his human form.
Armin spits out blood from the side of his mouth. He smiles before exclaiming, "I yield, Gheyo Ace Faidon. I assume you want to mark me? Choose wherever you wish, as long as you don't cover up my clan tattoo on my back. Boy, Lucas, you'll enjoy fighting him quite a bit. Be careful of my brother, he has quite a nasty little surprise for you."
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Faidon goes over and bites at Armin's right bicep. "Bite me wherever you wish Armin. We can complete our bond later after the fighting is done." After Faidon is done, Armin bites him on the lower forearm. Then the two different gheyo circles split and go to different floors.
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"Okay. There's only the two of us right now with the three others guarding the shoppers." Armin purrs at Tobias. "Do you want to submit without fighting or did you want the fight?" Armin laughs when Tobias brings out his dual scimitars. "Guess that's how it'll be then." He grabs out a long bastard sword and grips it with both hands.
"I refuse to let you bite me!" Tobias says before glaring at Armin. "You'll have to earn a bite over time for me if you want me to willingly bond with you." He leaps towards Armin with a loud yell.
Over the next few minutes the two battle it out with neither winning. Tobias laughs at Armin after he slices Armin on the leg and in return, Armin glares over at Tobias and retorts, "You'll soon wish you hadn't done that." He then loudly screams and knocks Tobias' main scimitar out of his hand. Tobias tries to riposte with his offhand, but that too gets knocked out and skids into a corner. Armin then lunges at him and forces him to his knees. "Yield!" Armin bellows.
Tobias sighs and then mutters, "I yield." Armin cuts him on his right pec and Tobias slices him on his elbow crease. "Let's go help the Pareyas guard the house while waiting for our wayward Queen. We can bond with him once dinner is done and Alexia is asleep." Armin nods and both of them go up the stairs. On their way through the gheyo areas, they hear three obviously feminine voices moaning loudly. Tobias laughs while saying, "Guess Evelyn, Elvira, and Carmael are bonding without fighting for their ranks."
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On the lowest level of the Gheyo floors, Faidon and Lucas stare at each other for a few minutes. "All right. With that little staring break over, let's get started." He pulls out his two gladius shortswords and spins them in circles waiting for Lucas to do something. Lucas walks a bit away and slowly changes into his leopard form. A 75-pound, pure-white leopard with icy blue rosettes emerges and quietly growls before leaping onto Faidon and scratching from his right shoulder down to his stomach. "Ah shit, I forgot you two were brothers." Faidon cries before trying to throw the leopard off him and cuts him from the tip of his left collarbone all the way down to his lower right hip. After He scratches the leopard's hide, he tries to back up to get some distance from Lucas that somehow had some water on the ground.
Unbeknownst to Faidon, the area with water was a trap for him set by Lucas. Once Faidon gets into the water and is stepping further in, Lucas flash-freezes the water into ice. In doing so, Faidon slips and falls straight onto his back while his head hits the ground with a sickening smack with all the breath getting forced out of his lungs. Lucas immediately turns back into human form and sprints over to his fallen Ace. "Ah shit!" Lucas says while healing his Ace up.
Both of them get startled by clapping from the doorway. "Nicely done Lucas!" Evelyn says while chuckling under her breath. "I'm so glad that my Princess forced me away so that I could witness this." She walks into the room while both Lucas and Faidon get up from the ground. "I do believe that Lucas won that little duel of yours." She looks over Lucas's body before continuing. "It looks like your marks have been sealed already, boys." She laughs before walking over to both of them. "But I'm willing to be a good consolation prize for the both of you. Just don't mark me anywhere near my three marks, and I'm content to let you mark wherever..."
The two look at each other and tug her between them. "Guess losing is less painful than I thought," Faidon says before kissing Evelyn on the lips.