The Traitor's Son Chapters 70-71
By Zelamir, adapted by Pueros

This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY

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Herewith are the next chapters of the saga of Marius, son of the traitor, Sejanus. The original story was by Zelamir but, with the author's permission, has been adapted and rewritten for Nialos by Pueros.

The rewrite conforms to Pueros' own style and the text has been substantially expanded, with significant additions and changes also made to subplots. For example, recent chapters, including these episodes, are all the work of the adapter. However, the main thread of Zelamir's original story has been maintained, namely what ultimately happens to young Marius.

Pueros hopes that his rewrite does Zelamir's original story justice!
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Chapter LXX

A dais had again been set up in the middle of the boy brothel's entertainment area for the latest punishment spectacle, this time starring the scared Marius and Narcissus, who were as customarily introduced to the scene by Fabius. Once more, the hour chosen for the event was when the 'House of Ganymede' was most busy.

Marius and Narcissus were attired in just the normal minuscule black thongs, with the latter boy unusually not sporting makeup. Fabius and Felicia clearly did not want the imminent entertainment spoilt through a young face made to look ridiculous by tears causing the kohl rimming eyes to run.

The lack of makeup also enabled the genuine fear and anguish in the eyes of both Marius and Narcissus to be more noticeable, which the majority of brothel patrons liked to see. Facial expressions of immense trepidation and excruciation on boys were what the many sadists amongst the clientele most enjoyed.

Despite his dread, Marius noticed in horror that Maccius was again present, sharing as normal a large couch with Scyrax. The boy immediately wondered whether the evil youth would be the client who would soon be punishing him and Narcissus.

Maccius certainly fitted Felicia's brief portrait of the relevant client, not least when the evil youth had tortured Marius with a needle. She had described today's privileged customer as possessing "a rather discerning and refined streak of cruelty in his character!"

Maccius would certainly have thoroughly enjoyed receiving the honour of supervising the chastisement of Marius and Narcissus. However, the evil youth had not been afforded the opportunity to do so. Felicia had instead chosen an old crony of hers, who was a regular client and good payer. She liked to reward such customers with the occasional treat that did not go to auction and she had known that he would like her idea for punishing this particular pair of boys, as well as paying reasonably well for the privilege.

Marius was relieved when, after announcing to client cheering that the two scared boys now on the dais were to be physically punished, Fabius invited the customer concerned to advance to the platform to supervise the deed. The boy's assuagement was felt despite the fact that the brothel-owner had on this occasion actually announced the crime for which the two young prostitutes had been accused and condemned.

The announcement caused much loud ribald hilarity amongst the clientele, as well as the faces of Marius and Narcissus to blush vividly in embarrassment. The pervading amusement also helped to quell any disappointment amongst the customers relating to the fact that the right to supervise the imminent punishment was not to be auctioned. This situation was additionally assisted by the disclosure of who would do the deed because the man concerned was popular amongst his peers, not least because of his renowned hospitality in paying the brothel bills of the many sycophants who sought his company.

Marius' relief stemmed from the fact that the client chosen to punish him and Narcissus looked rather old and fragile, someone who was now physically incapable of wielding the likes of a cane or whip too harshly. The boy therefore began to hope that the imminent penance might not be too painful, which was an observation shared by his co-penitent.

The old man, whose hair was silvery white, could only walk slowly to the dais, which appeared to confirm to Marius that he might be incapable of beating him harshly. However, conversely, the boy did notice, as he came gradually closer, that the client did have the same sort of wicked look in his eyes as was often borne by the evil Maccius.

The old man eventually climbed gingerly onto the dais and Fabius gracefully stepped aside to allow the client literally to take centre stage. The aged customer subsequently proved that he had much more strength in his voice than was apparently possessed by his frail frame.

"Ah, young Narcissus, it's truly sad that it befalls me to punish you," the old man initially smirkingly commented loudly so that the intrigued watching clientele could overhear, and whilst glancing at the unhappy boy concerned, "because we've had so many joyous times together over recent years!" The aged customer's remark, uttered with clear sarcasm in the highly cultured accent of the Roman patrician class, was met with further knowing laughter emerging from the many observers of the scene.

Marius also immediately realised what the old man meant by the phrase 'many joyous times together over recent years' in relation to a boy prostitute of long standing in the 'House of Ganymede'. Most of the brothel's patrons would undoubtedly have enjoyed the highly attractive Narcissus at some time or other.

Marius additionally correctly judged that the old man did not really consider supervising Narcissus' imminent punishment to be sad. The aged customer was instead clearly relishing the opportunity.

The old man subsequently turned towards Marius, whilst still displaying his smirk. "I believe that your name is Cycnus," the aged customer then advised, "but I don't think we've met before. Alas, my body is wearing rapidly and no longer needs as much sexual enjoyment as it once did. Nor is it very capable these days of garnering such pleasure for otherwise I'm sure that I'd have spent a lot of time by now with such a pretty boy as you!" More knowing laughter emerged from the spectators in reaction to these latest remarks but it was of a softer and more sympathetic tone than previously.

"Now, naughty boys," the old man next ordered, as his brief opening comments ended, "enough of idle chat because we don't want to keep the watching clientele waiting too long for action. Instead, remove those thongs of yours. I want you both completely naked for your imminent punishment."

On hearing this order, the watching Maccius suggested to Scyrax "I bet Marius reveals an erection when he removes his thong. The little whore's cock definitely likes the prospect and actuality of pain. The brat's penis remained rock-hard throughout my torturing of him with a needle, including when I pierced his scrotum."

"I told the brat earlier," Maccius informed Scyrax, "that his cock's reaction to his torture would give us both an insight into his inherent character. Well, when I eventually left him, untied but still sobbing, his penis was still hard. I therefore told him that he was a sluttish masochist who deserved a Master who would inflict extreme pain on him regularly, someone like me in fact!"

"But you'd eventually kill him, dearest," Scyrax commented, "and that would be a waste of such a pretty boy, whom Felicia tells me has become a very competent whore." "Yes, I probably would finally cause the slut's death," Maccius admitted nonchalantly in reply, "but with such a masochist I'm sure that we'd both have such a lovely time reaching that denouement that I'm sure we'd both consider the exercise worthwhile!"

"I don't believe Marius would agree, dearest," Scyrax responded, "regardless of his cock's reaction to pain. Such a phenomenon is, after all, not unusual. You know that many of the boys of my household, whom I'm compelled to beat in order to ensure discipline, become hard in the process, with some even ejaculating and so earning extra punishment for their perversion. Crucified criminals and escaped slaves also generally become erect and often cum whilst nailed to the cross!"

"But young Marius is such an exceptionally delightful specimen of boyhood," the wicked Maccius announced, "which is something that I'd take great pleasure in destroying. Perhaps, when the brat's finally served his purpose here, you might buy him back cheaply from Fabius and Felicia for me so that I can do just that. You know that I'd be very very very grateful to you if you did that!" The evil youth revealed what he meant by his last comment when he adjusted his position on the couch in order to kiss Scyrax unashamedly in a comprehensive and lingering manner.

For his own mental state when next considering his future, Marius was fortunate that he could not overhear Scyrax's eventual positive reply to Maccius' suggestion. The boy was instead simultaneously concentrating his mind on the present and lowering and stepping out of his thong.

The shamed Marius subsequently proved Maccius' penile conjecture to be correct when he subsequently revealed a little cock that was apparently standing proudly erect and masochistically looking forward to his imminent humiliating and painful public punishment.

Chapter LXXI

The naked Marius was lying face-down on his straw mattress in the brothel dormitory. The boy's face was besmirched by dried tears and his rosy lips could not help but still emit an occasional muted whimper because his bare bottom continued to hurt so much.

Marius' bare bottom was covered in striped bruises of various darkening hues after his curvaceous buttocks had been the recent recipients of a harsh, accurate and comprehensive beating. The boy was not consoled by the fact that the person who had delivered the flogging with a hard leather crop was similarly suffering next to him.

The old man had not beaten Marius and Narcissus himself because the boys had actually proved correct in their assumption that he was no longer physically capably of flogging them severely. The aged customer had instead supervised them in hitting each other but not before he had first encouraged them to masturbate each other to orgasm, much to the further delight of the many spectators.

"As you like masturbating each other so much, boys," the old man had announced, which was actually incorrect because the original activity between them had been one-way, "you can do so now but with your Master's permission and in front of us all." "The last to orgasm," the aged customer had subsequently added to please the other clientele even more, "will endure extra chastisement. However, that doesn't mean that you can under-perform in respect of rubbing the other's cock because I'll notice and your punishment will increase still further!"

By now Marius and Narcissus had already shed their minuscule thongs as commanded to stand completely naked on the dais, with their hands at their sides, fully knowing that hiding their genitals from view was forbidden. In instinctive reaction to the old man's latest instruction, they subsequently could not prevent their eyes immediately straying to the other boy's groin and the subject of their imminent challenge.

Marius' cock had remained unruly and erect. However, Narcissus' originally flaccid penis was also perversely now beginning to grow in apparent eager anticipation at being imminently masturbated.

"Stand close to each other and grip the other's cock!" the old man next instructed not long afterwards. After the deeply humiliated Marius and Narcissus had reluctantly complied, the aged customer then ordered "Rub!"

Both Marius and Narcissus immediately obeyed with proficiency, being wary of the threat of extra punishment if they proved indolent in their task. The resultant effect was temporarily but powerfully and rather quickly to change the boys' perspective of their current predicament.

Despite accompanying raucous laughter and ribald commentary from the spectators, the boys' immense shame at their public nudity and indulgence in mutual masturbation, plus their intense fear of an imminent beating, were rapidly overwhelmed by the lovely experience of swiftly approaching climax. Another pulsing orgasmic darkness soon again descended on Marius' young mind, just as he felt ejaculate splash onto his nude form. The younger boy did not see Narcissus actually spurt his semen because by now he had closed his eyes in acute ecstasy, nor did he hear the loud cheering and obscene remarks from the watching crowd because he was mentally too preoccupied with his sadly too brief pleasure.

Marius' mind did, however, eventually recover from the highly enjoyable sexual high achieved to discover that his hand had instinctively released Narcissus' ecstatic cock in order to grip his own. The older boy had also done the same.

Marius additionally heard the old man advise the spectators "Well, although Cycnus didn't cum, presumably because he's too young, his cockhead did ooze some clear fluid at about the same time as Narcissus ejaculated rather copiously. The boys' other reactions suggested simultaneous orgasms, so I declare a draw!"

Marius and Narcissus naturally hoped that climaxing simultaneously would earn no extra chastisement. However, the boys' aspirations were quickly dashed with the old man's next announcement.

The old man announced "We were intending that each boy would flog the other's bottom alternately twelve times with the hard leather crop now held in Fabius' hands, with the loser in the masturbation race earning another dozen." This declaration immediately tempted both Marius and Narcissus to glance at their master, who was indeed now carrying the mentioned implement, which had been well used over the years, having beaten many young prostitutes, mainly at clients' hands.

"However," the old man continued to the consternation of Marius and Narcissus, "as the masturbation race was tied, we'll divide the extra punishment in two. Both boys will therefore receive eighteen blows of the crop across their bare bottoms from each other." "If either of them inflicts a weak or inaccurate hit in my judgement," the aged customer worryingly added, "he'll have to repeat the strike and receive an extra one himself."

"I have a gold coin," the old man went on to inform, "which I shall now toss. If the obverse side with the Emperor's head is later uppermost, I decree that Cycnus will receive the first blow. However, if the reverse wins, Narcissus will receive the privilege!" The younger boy was not to know at the time but his current fate being linked to Tiberius was premonitory.

As the coin subsequently flew into the air, Marius' now very troubled mind did not really care what side of the gold coin would be uppermost when the money landed back into the old man's palm. The boy's mental processes were instead only focused on the fact that his bottom was to be imminently badly beaten again, on this occasion six more times than Scyrax had permitted Maccius.

Marius remembered the acute agony caused to his body by Maccius' cruel beating and was certainly not looking forward to an even longer repetition. The boy also wondered how, amidst his flogging at Narcissus' hands and the resultant excruciation, he could manage to inflict similar on the older boy with the necessary force and accuracy required to avoid further punishment.

Marius sincerely believed that such a feat was beyond him. The boy therefore worried that his own torment could prove endless.

"Ah, our illustrious Emperor Tiberius peers back at me," the old man next announced after completely the tossing of his gold coin, "and therefore Cycnus will first receive a blow from the crop across his cute bottom." Facing towards the nominated initial young victim, the aged customer subsequently commanded "So, boy, assume the necessary position. Turn round, place your feet wide apart and bend over to grab either your shins or ankles, whichever of those appears to provide you with the better stability."

"Stability will be important, Cycnus," the old man went on to advise, "because, if you lose your balance and fall in reaction to a blow from the crop, you'll receive another. The same will happen if you do not then stand up, turn to face Narcissus and thank him for the hit, whilst simultaneously enumerating the strike."

"Let me give you an example," the old man helpfully continued, "of what I mean, Cycnus. After each blow successfully endured, you will stand to turn to face the other boy and say to him, before receiving the crop from him, 'Thank for the first hit, Narcissus!'"

"You will then accept the crop, Cycnus," the old man concluded, "and Narcissus will adopt your former bent-over posture to receive his just punishment in accordance with the same rules. Now, do you both understand what is required?"

The old man then glanced from boy to boy to await his answer. Both Marius and Narcissus managed in reply to squeak a nervous "Yes... Sir!"

"Then Cycnus," the old man finally commanded, "adopt the necessary position." Marius reluctantly complied to the accompaniment of chortling from the spectators. Despite his trepidation, the boy recognised from experience that Maccius' chuckling had been the loudest.

As Marius later recovered in pain in the brothel dormitory, he thankfully recalled that he had somehow failed to keep his balance only in respect of two early blows from the crop, which had been rather effectively handled by Narcissus, despite the 14 year-old's own anguish. Fear had also helped to ensure that the younger boy, despite his personal mounting excruciation and tears, reciprocated quite forcefully and accurately, in line with the areas of the buttocks suggested as targets by the old man.

Marius was also just penalised three times because the old man was dissatisfied with certain blows that the younger boy had delivered on the older's bottom. He therefore only received a trio of extra hits for such alleged incompetence. However, Narcissus, of course, suffered likewise because the original strikes to his increasingly anguished buttocks had to be repeated.

Narcissus fortunately proved more competent at retaining positional stability and delivering blows, perhaps because he was maturer, being three years older, and more accustomed to being beaten. He was not penalised at all for losing balance and he and Marius were only punished extra for one hit that dissatisfied the old man.

Consequently, Marius' bottom received 24 blows from the crop, whilst Narcissus' was hit 22 times. The younger boy's punishment therefore did not thankfully prove endless but nevertheless the number of strokes inflicted were twice as many as delivered by Maccius in Scyrax's house.

One difference on this occasion was, of course, that Marius was not imminently being sent to the slave market for hopefully lucrative sale. This time, the boy's buttocks could be damaged more severely for the profitable entertainment of the patrons of the 'House of Ganymede', as he would be allowed more time to recover and anyway did not have to be repaired fully before returning to duty. Many clients liked sodomising the bottom of a young prostitute, which was still bearing the fading stripes of a recent comprehensive beating.

In his current agony, Marius had been largely oblivious to the spectators' resumed raucous laughter and ribald commentary, as well as cruel cheering, that lasted throughout the entertainment, which he and Narcissus were providing for the brothel's crowd of watching clients. His lack of observation had continued when he and the older boy were later returned by the escorting Felicia to their dormitory, in a very slow and rather dizzily staggering manner.

Marius was therefore spared the shame of hearing Maccius loudly sneer to Scyrax "Look, despite his earlier orgasm, the little slut's erection has returned during his flogging. What a true whore!"

Felicia had subsequently commanded the two still agonised and tearstained boys to lie face-down on adjacent straw mattresses, whilst she applied effective and expensive herbal salve to their colourfully very sore and bruised bottoms. She considered the cost of the remedy to be worthwhile if such ointment, as it usually did, enabled her young prostitutes to return to productive duty more quickly.

As Narcissus recuperated on his mattress, he appreciated that he had occasionally received similar bad beatings in the past. Such sad experiences were simply part of the life of a young prostitute in the 'House of Ganymede'. However, he had never been required previously to flog another boy simultaneously.

Narcissus' secret sadistic ambition had, of course, been to beat another boy someday. However, his recent experience, which had proved very humiliating and painful for both himself and Marius, or 'Cycnus' as he knew the younger boy, was not what he had in mind. He had found the experience most distressfully unpleasant.

The hours passed in the dormitory and Marius and Narcissus continued to recuperate face-down on their straw mattresses. Whilst doing so, they began to whisper to each other between bouts of fitful sleep, which were usually interrupted by yet more painful pangs affecting their nude bodies, disturbing nightmares featuring their recent punishment or the noises inherent in a still busy brothel.

For the trouble that Narcissus had caused, he felt obliged to offer to Marius his apologies, which were accepted. The boys subsequently talked a lot about their feelings whilst punishing each other and realised that, despite the age differential, they had virtually experienced the same emotions of humiliation, shame and pain. They also recalled that they had reacted similarly too, with loud anguished yelps as blows had hit, which interrupted ongoing sobs and tears.

"I should have shown more bravery than you, though, Cycnus," Narcissus once commented during this whispered conversation, "because I'm older and more accustomed to being humiliated and punished. I instead acted cowardly!"

"No you didn't, Narcissus," Marius maturely retorted, "because no one can become accustomed to such humiliations and punishments. You're just human like me and will in such circumstances react in the same way!"

Narcissus was somehow comforted by Marius' words. However, such succour did not last for long, although not because of the pain still searing his body.

Narcissus' returned discomfort was caused by the smirking Major Domo, who suddenly appeared in the dormitory and made straight for the recuperating pair. The man subsequently looked down at the older boy.

"The offer of your body in return for remaining silent about what you and Cycnus were up to was tempting, Narcissus" the Major Domo then told the older boy, "but I felt on reflection that I could not betray our Mistress' trust and so I informed on you. However, you're now only suffering the first result. The second is that, because of your lack of self-discipline, Felicia is reconsidering your continued presence in the 'House of Ganymede'. She's thinking of soon selling you on to a lower-class brothel for whatever price she can achieve."

"The third, Narcissus," the Major Domo added, "is that she's rewarded me for my loyalty in informing on you, despite your tempting offer, by allowing me to have you whenever I want whilst you're still here. After you've recovered from your beating and before you're eventually sold, you can therefore look forward to pleasuring me regularly!"

Having delivered this alarming message, the Major Domo left the dormitory with as much suddenness as he had arrived and soon afterwards Marius heard sobbing return to the normally very pretty face of a now inconsolable Narcissus.

(To be continued)