A Brief Moment of Insanity Ch. 06

"Could he be a mage too," I stammered aloud. "Was that why they had given me this god damn uniform? Oh you filthy fuckers, you need a mage to handle a mage. God damn you all to fucking hell!"

"I have run the numbers based off what I have been able to glean about the entities on the black side of the board. Many of the cultists that follow the Great Old Ones were mages of great power. They were able to open gates to other dimensions and even other worlds entirely. I think you are correct. The archaeologist is a magician of some kind. I have tracked his movements and over the last few years there have been some unexplained deaths in the cities he has visited. He was never questioned since the women apparently died in their sleep."

"Okay, that is just plain creepy. Pull up the reports and see what you can find. That can't be a coincidence."

Now it made sense. Loki was leveling the playing field by giving me the uniform and sending Max to give me the Althan crystal. Then I paused and let the logic work to its final conclusion. If red and black had mages it only made sense that the other two did as well. I would have to delve into the background of the other pawns and see what threat, if any, they posed to my family and me. Normally I slept on long flights like this but not this time. I was way too wired with thoughts of Hong Kong as well as the archaeologist.

The jet refueled in Hawaii and after a brief layover I was back in the air. By the time we landed in Hong Kong I was tired and jittery from a mixture of energy drinks and soda. I was eager to get this business done and settled. Uncle Chang met me at the airport with an entire entourage of his closest relatives. Chang was a spritely man in his early sixties. He was of average height with long silvery white hair that fell to his belly and mid back. He was a little portly but moved with an agility that was surprising for his age and robust figure. He was always smiling and reminded me of the laughing Buddha. But behind the smile there were mannerisms that hinted that all was not well. It was the nervous ticks that told me he was happy to help but feared the backlash that might ensue.

The stretch limo was packed with people. I had changed from my uniform into an expensive suit including a tie. I hated ties. While Uncle Chang sat opposite me he had two of his most attractive nieces sitting on either side of me. Jeannie became my life saver and interpreter. She flashed subtitles in front of anyone as they spoke so I could get the gist of what they were saying. She even provided me with phonetic dialogue to give the impression I was at least trying to be civilized.

"Your Mandarin is appalling Primarch and we all appreciate your attempt," Uncle Chang said at last. "Everyone here is quite fluent in English."

"I am sorry for butchering your language Uncle." I replied and we all enjoyed a good laugh. "Please forgive me but I need to get some sleep, I wasn't able to relax on the plane. After that I would like to sit down and discuss business."

"A very wise thing to admit your limitations Primarch," Uncle replied. "As for relaxing I am sure Ling and Ting can help you um unwind."

"We would be honored to help," they said in perfect unison.

I looked at one and then the other. I was so damn tired I didn't realize they were twins. Their dresses, hair and makeup were different and that had thrown me off. The drive to Uncle's estate took about a half hour and I was eager for bed. The sprawling estate was gorgeously lit in the traditional paper lanterns and according to Jeannie it dated back to the colonial era. There were armed guards everywhere. Apparently the Tong and the Triad were still quite prevalent even after mainland China had taken Hong Kong back.

Ling and Ting took me to my room. A third girl carried my bags. Once in the huge bedroom all three helped me get undressed. When they saw the Great Seal on my chest they fell to the floor prostrate before me. They were shaking with fear. I knelt down and took each of them by hand and brought them back up. I told them there was nothing to fear from me. I was hardly displeased with their conduct so far. They finished disrobing me and the twins followed suit. The third girl opened my first bag and put my clothing away. She tried to open the second bag but I told her it was locked for good reason. That was enough for her to set it in the closet and left it alone. She took my suit to have it pressed.

Ling pulled the silk sheets from the bed and patted the mattress. The bed was not dissimilar to a Japanese futon except with one huge difference, the elaborately carved cage surrounding the bed. The four walls of the cage was the work of artists and the panels depicted the wealth and prosperity of the lord of the manor. I climbed into bed and the twins flanked me. They were stunningly gorgeous and chosen no doubt for their looks and consummate skills. I just wish I wasn't so damn tired.

"I should have slept on the damn flight over," I cursed and the twins giggled.

"There will be plenty of time for play tomorrow Master," they said in twin speech. "We aren't going anywhere."

I closed my eyes and felt them as their warm bodies snuggled close. Despite caffeine and other stimulants I was asleep in no time at all. I had placed Jeannie on guard mode just in case. The dreams rose up out of the stygian abyss and drug me down screaming. The blasted landscape of the dead world was all too familiar. It was the same place I had visited the night I had rescued Bian. The black sand dunes were everywhere. They were only broken by the cyclopean stones strewn across the landscape like some dead god's forgotten toys. The sand shifted under my weight as I explored the blasted ruins.

"Where the hell am I?" I asked as I looked up to see the alien constellations above me. "What the holy hell is that?"

There in the north eastern quadrant of the sky was a scarlet ribbon of stellar clouds. They seemed to be moving in a slow lumbering motion across the heavens. I squinted and could see that there was movement within the ribbon. The blood stained nebulae that stretched lightyears across boiled and swirled as if it were alive.

"It is a tear," Jeannie said. "It is mentioned in the Keystone. It is a tear in the very fabric of space-time. The ancients called it the Eye of Terror. It is said that all evil and all calamities come from that terrible place."

I shivered and lowered my gaze to the ground. I felt drawn in a particular direction. In dream fashion a few steps took me vast distances to the ruined hulk of a black step pyramid. The skull designs were quite prominent as was another sign, a sign I knew all too well. That mark it is the same as the brand on the back of Bian's neck. The verdant hell glow erupted from the heart of that place. It vomited out from the top of the structure and spilled its sickly radiance everywhere.

"The Thanatons are hungry... The Thanatons are waking..."

I screamed as I woke and felt the gentle but forceful hands of Ting and Ling. I was covered in sweat and they looked alarmed when I opened my eyes. I was gasping for breath and they soothed me with gentle touches and light kisses.

"It was just a dream," Ting purred.

"Just a nasty old dream," Ling mewed.

"Let us make you forget it," they said as one.

One of the twins straddled my belly and kissed my nipples. The other tugged the covers aside and cried out as she wrapped her fist around my morning wood. As the twin on my belly gently rocked her hips and ground her coin slot pussy against my stomach her sister began to lick and suck my erection. I looked up at the eager girl with her sun kissed skin, dark nipples and perky breasts. She licked and nipped at my sensitive skin. Her twin had half my cock down her throat and was gently massaging my balls in her free hand.

"I suspect you've done this before," I moaned.

"Uh huh," Ting said from above me. "We prefer this to that stuffy old office of Uncle's."

"Yes-yes... much prefer going down on a huge cock like yours Master," Ling purred. "So damn big sister, I don't know if it will fit."

"It will fit," Ting growled. "It must fit! My pussy is so wet and in need of a good fucking yes-yes."

"Shit, I think my cock just hit bottom," I cried out as Ling succeeded in deep throating me.

"Yes-yes, Master's cock all the way down sister's throat now," Ting said as she looked over her shoulder. "You must be a good Master and reward her with much cum soon."

Ting turned around and continued grinding her wet pussy against my belly. I felt a hand wrap around the base of my cock and begin stroking. They switched to Mandarin and thanks to Jeannie I was able to understand what they were saying.

"Don't be just a greedy bitch Ling, I am the older sister. I will fuck him first!" Ting snapped at her twin.

Ling didn't reply. She was too busy pushing me over the edge. I howled as the little cocksucker swallowed my load. I was panting again but this time I was okay about it. I felt Ling lift her head from my cock.

"Fine, but he will split you in two," Ling continued in Mandarin. "I told you he had a massive cock. Even for a round eye he is hung like a horse."

"Good god," Ting said as she lifted up her hips and lined up her slot to the head of my dick. "Here goes nothing... UNNNNNNN oh god you were right... so fucking big!"

I felt the ultra-tight cunt slowly wrap around me as her hips sank down. Ting cursed until I was hilted inside of her. I am sorry Willow but damn her pussy was the tightest I had ever had. Ting was breathing in quick short gasps now.

"Need any help," I asked and Ting looked over her shoulder and she shook her head.

She began to move very slowly. It took her a good thirty seconds to lift her hips up so that just the tip was inside of her. Her body was shaking and then she simply dropped down. She cried out as she came. I could feel her orgasm from the mental shout she let out. I growled and lost patience. I rolled her onto her knees and took charge. Ling went pale and I grabbed her sister's hips and began thrusting. Jeannie couldn't keep up as poor Ting begged me to stop.

"Oh shut up and take it already," I said as I hammered her hard and fast. "Tightest pussy ever..."

"Is he going to do that to me," Ling asked in Mandarin.

"UNNNNN god I hope so," Ting cried out. "I am coming again... he is tearing me apart... oh god... I think I am in love...!!"

I pummeled poor Ting until she literally passed out after her fourth climax. I eased out of her and had to chase Ling down. I caught her at the door, turned her around and lifted her off her feet. I pressed her back against the wall of the room and eased into her cunt nice and slow. Like her sister she protested but it was useless, I was going to fuck her until I was satisfied. Her pussy was as tight as her sister's. I moved slowly at first but once again I lost patience and began slamming into her from below. Ling's eyes rolled up in her head as orgasm after orgasm crashed over her petite body.

"I... can't take any more..." Ling whimpered as my cock swelled inside of her. "UNNNNN... fill my pussy with your cum Master!"

I cried out as I shot my load into poor Ling. When I could breathe I lay Ling next to Ting and looked around for a shower or bath or something. I found a pair of comfy looking black silk trousers and slipped them on. I went out into the hall and looked for a place to wash up. I heard voices and went in that direction. I ended up in the kitchen. The cooks were preparing the morning meal. The girls cried out when they saw me and with Jeannie's help I asked for directions to where I could bathe. One of the male cooks grinned and led me to the bath house attached to the eastern wing of the estate. It wasn't very far from the room I had slept in.

The bath consisted of two parts. The first was used to actually soap up and wash off the dirt or in this case bodily fluids and sweat. The second was for soaking and easing tension. I was just finishing washing up when Uncle Chang walked in. He seemed confused and asked about Ting and Ling. I told him that they were resting after our little morning exercise. He laughed as he washed up. I slipped into the sunken pool and let the heat work its magic. My uncle joined me a little while later.

"Your advice has netted me quite the profit in so short a time. I do not know how to thank you." He said after an appropriate length of silence.

"I only need one thing from you Uncle," I said and his eyebrows rose in curiosity. "Do not take any of your cousin's phone calls in the next say seventy two hours."

"It will be as you say Primarch," he replied. "He and I haven't always seen eye to eye but he has been ill as of late so I would plead a certain amount of leniency."

"Ill, he is only twenty three," I said. "His last doctor's visit he was healthy as a horse."

"Speaking of a horse," the twins said as they entered the bath. "Uncle, can we entertain you two?"

"Girls, this is hardly the time," he said and then he saw that look. "Fine, but behave yourselves, the Primarch and I are discussing business."

"Thank you Uncle!" They said as they washed up and slipped into the pool with us.

"That may be, but the last two weeks he has been weak and lethargic." Chang continued as if the twins had never entered.

"I am going to need a few bodyguards," I said. "Just in case things get ugly..."

"I will assign my best to watch over you," he replied smiling.

We dried off and got dressed. I liked the wardrobe I was offered waiting in my room. It was traditional Chinese shirt and pants with the Great Seal woven into the shirt's design. As the family ate the twins were never far from my sides. I think this amused Chang to no end. I took the locked suitcase with me as the limo pulled up and the driver opened the door and the twins plopped into the back with me. I stared at the open door but then the driver closed it and we were off. I looked at Ling and then Ting and made a quizzical face.

"You are Uncle's best?" I asked and they smiled.

They explained as we drove. The twins had always shown an inherent connection and the Master Assassin trained them to utilize this gift. Once they were old enough they had been protecting Chang from any and all threats. They had never failed. I was impressed as all hell and told them so. When I asked about the Master Assassin they clammed up and changed the subject. I respected their silence. Besides by the time they had given me their back story we had arrived at Cousin Tsun's compound.

The high walls were crawling with guards and mirrored Chang's paranoia perfectly. The reinforced steel door was guarded by two very impressive specimens. The limo stopped and the twins exited first. The rapid exchange in Mandarin was loud, crass and downright awesome to hear. Ting offered to disembowel the larger of the two guards when I got out of the limo. While seven guards both above and below trained automatic weapons on us I held up my hand.

"Everybody, calm the fuck down," I said and the silence fell. "My name is Warren Harrower. I am here to see my cousin."

"We had no warning of your arrival," the closest guard said his color going pale.

"I know, now be a good man and let me in," I said.

There was a loud metallic click as the mag-lock released on the main door and it swung outward. The twins entered first and I followed being flanked by four guards from the interior compound. The two outer guards returned to their post. My cousin Tsun met me at the massive double doors that let into the estate. The bright red doors swung open and he and a lady friend of his greeted me.

"Primarch," he said bowing very low. "Welcome to my humble home. What brings you?"

I paused and took in his pale continence and Chang had been right, he looked like hell. I couldn't help but stare at the woman at his side. She was a jaw dropper and that was no fucking lie. If I were to rank her on physical perfection she was a notch below Loki. She blew the twins stunning looks out of the water. I looked back at Tsun and with Jeannie's help scanned him from head to foot. He was deathly ill.

"Cousin, let us go inside so that you can sit down. I didn't realize how sick you were." I said and he smiled.

"You are as gracious as rumors say," he replied.

The once young and virile young man had been reduced to a pale husk. I kept looking at the girl by his side. Who the hell was she and what was her part in all of this? Paranoid I brushed her surface thoughts and didn't like what I found. I delved deeper and she knew something was wrong but I doubted she understood the nature of the intrusion. The more I experienced the less I liked this woman.

"So who is this lovely creature," I said choosing my words carefully now that Tsun was seated and able to rest.

"This is... my wife," Tsun said gasping for air.

"No its not," I replied and the woman, Shu by name, narrowed her eyes at me. "She couldn't be. I never received your request to marry her."

"That is true," Tsun replied. "I assumed since you were, well, occidental that you wouldn't hold to such stringent traditions."

'Thallium poisoning,' Jeannie whispered in my mind. 'If he is to survive he will need immediate treatment.'

'Get me a doctor, one that Chang trusts and get him here NOW,' I sent and she complied.

"Call the magistrate," I ordered. "As far as I am concerned this marriage is null and void."

"You can't," Shu shouted breaking protocol and tradition. "We love each other."

I walked over to her and locked eyes. Her entire life story was mine to know and while I pitied what she had endured, murdering my cousin was not going to pass without punishment. I turned to face Tsun and he appeared genuinely sorrowful. But he wouldn't go against me on this, he knew better.

"I want this woman stripped and in cuffs," I ordered.

"Cousin please, I knew I made a mistake but..." he said and he stopped since he couldn't breathe.

"I am doing this because I care about you Tsun," I replied as Ting and Ling stripped Shu and handcuffed her hands behind her. "I am not going to allow an assassin to harm one of the Family."

"Assassin," Tsun gasped and looked at her. "Shu tell him this is a mistake."

"She has been feeding you Thallium," I said and Shu's eyes widened in shock. "That is bad enough but I came to Hong Kong on business. I was going to strip you of your lands and bank accounts Tsun but now I know the real villain's identity."

"I don't understand," he wheezed. "What villain? Why are you really here?"

"I discovered that someone in the Family had been connected directly to a slavery ring. I thought you were the Silver King cousin. But now I understand that it has been your dear sweet wife the entire time. She has been undermining your position from within. I am sorry."

"You are insane," Shu cried out. "You have no proof of any of this."

I stood silently staring at Shu. The minutes ticked by and she nervously shifted in the twin's grasp. The double doors opened and the doctor and magistrate arrived at the same moment. The doctor began treating Tsun for heavy metal poisoning as they prepared to take him to a private clinic for the rest of his treatment. The magistrate stood and observed what transpired next. As Tsun was wheeled away on a stretcher and into an ambulance I faced down the Silver King.

"Actually I do have proof," I said and listed off one of the many bank account numbers that could be directly tied to the sale of women brought in from Europe and the Middle East. "I have used your password and funneled all your proceeds into Family accounts. If Tsun survives I will give him a good portion of those moneys as compensation. The rest will go to the families you've destroyed."

I told the magistrate to annul the marriage and I would be taking her into my custody for punishment. He nodded and stared at the naked Shu and shook his head. He told me I would have the paperwork in a few days. I scanned the minds of the entire complex and found those loyal to Shu and had the guards take them into custody. I would let them deal with the others however they saw fit. I stood in front of this impossibly gorgeous sociopath and smiled. I had expected a man. She really had fooled so many for so long. Ting handed me the sealed case and I held it up for Shu to see.