A Pit of Vipers

A PIT OF VIPERS 

By Amaris Laurent and Justin Conley

A PIT OF VIPERS

By

Amaris Laurent and Justin Conley

Copyright

Red Harem Press 2015

Published by

Red Harem Press

PROLOGUE: THE END OF AN AGE

Eirene Pierce and her date left from the market in the town of Tessalon, south of Pasarica, with some fruits, vegetables, and meats to prepare for their own dinner with some friends. Since the peace had been made, Eirene was able to walk wherever she wanted. No one bothered to touch her.

In her new car, she opened the door for her date. Then, she put some of the groceries on the back of the car and inside the trunk. Finally, she entered the driver side of the car.

I can't wait for this, Eirene said. When we get home, I’m going to lick you until you cum in my mouth a thousand times.

Her date, an olive-skinned female named Maria, smiled a cat-like smile from ear and ear. Then, Maria gave her a kiss on the lips. What started as a peck on the lips, ended in a passionate embrace between two lovers who found each other by going the same path!

Not known to the couple, another car drove to the side of it. Just as soon as Eirene turned to see them, the windows came down and three women poked their faces and bodies out with Parthian guns. Eirene noticed that they were wearing Rose Cross uniforms. They fired off and Eirene immediately covered Maria. Every bullet fired into the car and into Eirene's body and they did not stop until their bullets were empty.

They drove away quickly as bystanders continue to hide to make sure they did not catch a Parthian shot.

Inside the car, Maria screamed to top of her lungs for help as Eirene's dead body continue to leak blood from all her wounds. No one came to her rescue. They knew that whoever killed Eirene Pierce had a reason to do it, which could only mean one thing.

The Nightshade Caliphate was once again at war with itself.

Rose Cross soldiers from the north went to Tessalon to investigate and find any evidence linked to the killers; more to protect the north than trying to appease the Caliphate in the south.

In the end, there was nothing to link. There were no witnesses, even though there were eyes that saw the entire action take place. The only information they were able to find was how many shots Eirene Pierce caught before she breathed her last.

Twenty-five wounds.

Twenty-five wounds killed one of the leading members of the Nightshade Caliphate.

And it was those twenty-five wounds that started a new violent chapter in the history of the universe’s most female-dominated planet...

****

Kate Ardashir started throwing all sorts of objects across her office in Kunyasa with Sophia in the room watching it all unfold.

WHO DID THIS TO HER? Kate asked Sophia.

Sophia just put her head down. I wish I know. I mean this is Eirene we're talking about here. She had plenty of enemies. Although they said that the Rose Cross did it.

And why would Carmen do that? That makes no sense.

Sophia gestured in bewilderment.

It was here that Ciprina Nichols arrived through the door.

Where have you been? Kate blurted at Ciprina, looking hazy and confused. She turned back to Sophia. How is it that I leave the planet for just a few days and one of my advisors is killed?

Sophia turned to Ciprina and Ciprina stared at Kate.

Make that your mission. Find her killer and bring me her head!

Sophia and Ciprina left the office and Kate lounged back in her chair. Not only was her advisor and friend Eirene Pierce dead, but she had to find a way to explain why the south was already sinking in chaos.

****

Ciprina met someone at the abandoned home that once belong to Theodora Barrowpine and the sight of a massacre of cadets trying to overthrow the establishment.

When she arrived, she gave Ciprina a kiss on both cheeks.

We did it! We did that bitch good. She's not coming back from that.

Ciprina grinned at her great comrade and closest confidant Katia Barcega, who once upon a time led the Brown Suns into a massacre while trying to claim the island of Maridiso. Since then, she had been in hiding, waiting for the chance to show her face again.

Then, Ciprina got in contact with her and from there, the two kept a correspondence with each other, only meeting face to face twice.

The second time was when she gave her a mission.

Finish Eirene Pierce once and for all.

Katia did as she was told. She and a couple of Brown Suns planed the ultimate assassination plot. They decided to disguise themselves as Rose Cross soldiers and catch Eirene when she was vulnerable.

Katia found the opportunity when Eirene decided to make her home in Tessalon. After that, it was her job to find the perfect opportunity. When she found it, she made it public for all to see.

Disguise ourselves as Rose Cross soldiers was the percent twist, Katia said. She didn't see it coming at all. She was shocked as hell. They're going to think that the bitch Carmen ordered it.

Ciprina nodded her head in agreement.

We're so close, Ciprina said.

Yes! So close. Katia agreed.

There's just one more thing that needs to be done.

Katia chuckled. I can't wait. Bring it to me. What is it?

Then, in a swift reaction, Ciprina took out her Parthian pistol and pulled the trigger at close range. The bullet hit Katia in the eye. Katia fell instantly on the ground.

After, she hit the ground, Ciprina shot her twice more to seal the deal.

Then, she took out a cell and made a call. Hey, it's me. I need your help.

Ciprina waited as she stared at the dead body of what was once her best friend. But she knew at the end of it all, the only thing that mattered was what had always mattered to her.

Power.

Then, minutes later, other Brown Suns members arrived to greet Ciprina. Seeing Katia’s dead body, they knew what needed to be done.

Watching them take Katia’s body away got the next part of the plan underway, Ciprina took a deep breath and shook her head wildly. After a trying time thinking and anticipating it, her own words were becoming more and more realistic.

She was close. She was very close...

****

Ciprina appeared before Kate in her office as she was talking to Sophia. Sophia noticed that Ciprina's arm was wrapped as if she injured it.

There's something that you should see, Ciprina said as Kate was listening to Sophia.

Ciprina guided them to the front entrance of the Kunyasa Temple. There, several women encircled around a dead body. Kate shoved some of them out of the way.

What is this? Kate asked those around her.

It was then that Ciprina presented Kate with a letter. This was on her.

Kate read the letter to herself:

For my mistress. For Eirene.

They signed the letter: 25.

Twenty-five? Who are they?

Ciprina viewed the body. I think it means she has twenty-five wounds on her. I read somewhere that was the same amount of wounds on Eirene when she was killed.

Sophia went to the body and took a closer look. Wait a second! I know who this is. She went to Kate. This is Katia Barcega. This was the one Eirene was looking for when she was in Maridiso.

Kate licked her lips. She looked back at the letter. Someone wanted to let me know that they're around.

We have to find them, Sophia said.

What for? Ciprina interjected.

Sophia stood in shock. Before she could comment, Kate put her hand on Sophia’s shoulder.

If this bitch killed Eirene, then I don't care who did it. Cut off her hands and her head. Throw the rest of her body into the Vulva Ocean. The name Katia Barcega will never be spoken in my presence again. Anyone that does will meet the same fate as her.

Kate left the group. Sophia put her head down, but Ciprina, not wasting another moment, took out a knife and went for Katia's hands. All Sophia could see was how eager Ciprina's eyes were in doing the deed.

Nevertheless, the other women around breathed calmly as Eirene Pierce's murder was solved as far as Kate Ardashir was concerned, and all was right again with the Nightshade Caliphate...

****

As the year 160 EY was winding down to the end, the nation of Pizda saw an old generation of elders die off and a new generation taking its place.

The Festival of Meridian proved a success despite a gruesome ending with Theodora Barrowpine's murder. Those that participated and got seeds planted into their bodies watch them bear fruit as babies were being born near the end of 160 EY to welcome the next generation.

In total, four hundred babies were born throughout the mainland with a record of a few miscarriages. Out of the four hundred, 3/4 of those babies were females.

High Priestess Carmen Marquez brought her first child to Pizda on the last month of 160 EY with daughter Carina. There was a secret as to how it came about since she never participated in the festivities. But in the end, it did not matter. As far as they were concerned, Carmen fulfilled her sacred duty and have something to show for it in a new heir.

Meanwhile, Caliph Kate Ardashir never bore any children and chose not to. Instead, she made two bold moves. One, she changed her name from Kate to Kiria, in turn renouncing her ties to her family and her past life. Saving her younger sister’s life and sending her to Lustifan to take her vows as a nun was the last act she ever made as Kate Derse. Second, she took a vow of celibacy, relinquishing anything remotely surrounding passion and love. Her duty was to the Caliphate and nothing else.

Her second-in-commands had better luck as Sophia Brant bore a daughter, Lyria. At the same time, Ciprina finally bore her daughter, naming her Rebecca in honor of her lover Cameron Nichols’ mother to give her some closure for her not having a father to share in the experience.

Throughout the many births, the last vestige of Pizda’s past died.

Arius Barrowpine, the only son of Theodora Barrowpine, succumbed to a sudden heart attack and died; his mother’s dreams of him becoming Pope of Eden dying with him. Only a few knew of his death, but by this point, he became an afterthought. There were rumors that the High Priestess of Pizda had him poisoned, but it turned out later to be false.

Most of the Avarice Academy cadets, who were the toast of the planet at first, became interlopers once the festival ended. Failing in gaining a foothold in Pizda, their internal petty rivalries continued. With no leader standing out to bring the men together, most of the men ended up handling some of their affairs violently. Luckily, no Pizdiana was caught in the crossfire.

Then, as a final nail to the coffin, due to embracing Lustifarian Orthodoxy, Carmen Marquez held an ecumenical council to officially end the Festival of Meridian. With an unanimous vote, the event that made Pizda exist as a nation, became a mere footnote to never come back to the surface again.

Thus ended the legacy of the Meridian Age and the beginning of the Lustifarian Age…

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (161-176 EY)

Sitting on her throne, Carmen Marquez entertained her guests with answering their questions and accepting their favors. It was in the moments like this that Carmen shined.

Six years into her reign as High Priestess of Pizda, she managed to dodge bullets and barriers to make Pizda more powerful than ever.

The one most proud of her was her six-year-old daughter Carina Marquez, who watched this action and salivating with every word and action her mother made.

She would remember playing on the throne trying to impersonate her mother and her friends playing her loyal servants.

Nothing beat the real thing.

From her advisors to the common Pizdiana, Carmen conversed and gave clear and precise answers to every question. Coming a long way from being a naïve girl following her mother behind to becoming a leader and mother in her own right, her six years saw the greatest changes to Pizda.

All of it started on the day Carmen's greatest gift came into the world.

Carina Carrie Marquez was born in 160 EY in Pasarica. At this point, she had a decent childhood, but there was always controversy before and during her life that she never knew. Mostly rumors, Carina took it in like any child would and followed whatever her mother told her was the truth.

One of those rumors centered on her father. Some said it was an Eden White Knight. Some even say that Carmen had fallen in love with a demon hunter on the planet Lustifan when she left to gain favor from the Fairy Godmother.

Luckily, there were other matters around Pizda to worry about, so as far as all were concerned, Carina's father met an untimely death. But Carina never lacked in the parental department. If her mother was busy, she had an array of surrogates to give her the ropes on everything Pizdiana in the hopes that one day, Carina would take on the title when her mother passed on to the next life.

Those second mothers included a majority of Carmen Marquez's circle: Sara Bryant, General of Pizda's new army, the Radiant Hearts; scribe Tang Shinn; Countess Natalie Raiford, a brown-skinned elf from Irvana; Elizabeth Byers, Ambassador of Pizda in Eden and Caliphate matters; and in a twist, Kiria Ardashir, caliph of the Nightshade Caliphate, who worked with Carmen in a power-sharing agreement.

In turn, through the connections, Carina made friends with their daughters: Cindi Shinn, Tang Shinn’s daughter; Enerlisa Lizzie Byers, Elizabeth's daughter; and Nicole Raiford, daughter of Natalie Raiford. 

These five little girls were the future according to their mothers. For the moment, all they wanted to do as little girls was play with their dolls and talk about snotty Eden boys. 

Meanwhile, for those next six years of Carina's life, her mother was extremely busy as she had to attend to matters in and out of Pizda. Mostly outside events would take up more and more of Carmen's time and Carina would find future solace in her surrogate mothers, her friends, and protecting her younger brother Irenaeus.

Her childhood was safe and enjoyable in the Meridian Palace while everything else around her folded back and forth depending on either events outside Pizda or some ambitious contender within.

It started in those first six years of Carmen's reign...

****

The first six years of a new partnership started with a bang.

It was around the time Eirene Pierce, one of the advisors of the Nightshade Caliphate, was murdered by former Brown Suns soldier Katia Barcega. The death was said to be based on simple revenge for Eirene's attack on the island of Maridiso, which took down a majority of rebel Brown Suns.

This was supposed to end the matter and entering 161 EY, this was considered the case. Going into 162 EY, the seeds of Katia Barcega's rebellion began to grow.

It was around the same time the Universal Caliphate was going through its own set of problems. Their rivalry with the Eden Empire escalated when a new planet has been discovered and both galactic empires wanted a piece of it. Bahram Ardashir saw himself coming back and forth to Pizda to make sure his affairs there were secured.

Kiria Ardashir kept the Nightshade Caliphate under control while appointing new officers into the ranks. For a while, Kiria kept the Caliphate in check.

Then came one night in the year 163 EY. One party changed everything. Once again, the setting was in the town of Tessalon.

During the years after Carmen Marquez took power, Pizda received some visitors into their planet: white rabbits and black hares from Ostara. Some came to Pizda on vacation and others came for work.

Mostly, female brown hares who wanted to escape the schism brewing on their planet.

They found that work with the Nightshade Caliphate, as they were always looking for more soldiers and workers. After a while, they got suck into their machinations.

Including the latest machination: the renewed rivalry between Sophia Brant and Ciprina Nichols.

Sophia never trusted Ciprina, but she kept her mouth shut about it to Kiria. However, the new friends they made with the sexy and slutty brown hares had no problem reawakening the rivalry; in part because of their own hostilities they brought with them from Ostara.

At a club called Naoki Akimoto, a friend of Ciprina Nichols, got into a scuffle with one of Sophia's lieutenants named Morgana Bain. The result ended in a shootout in which Akimoto shot Morgana in the shoulder. Akimoto ended up escaping from the mishap. In Ostara, both females were a part of rival brothels, which there were no love loss.

Rival brothels in Ostara meant nothing