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 Buried Treasure

   by Ozmanga

   Chapter 6

   "Oh, Skull, that was simply wonderful.  You're a great lover with a
mighty cock," cooed Carmen.  And when I kill you, you murdering bastard,
I'll try to cut it off while you're still breathing.

   "That's better," said Skull as he stood up and wiped his softening cock
on the rag that had been her panties.  "You're a slow learner but you'll
get the message in the end.  You, Little Tart, get the fucking dildo and
make her happy again."

   Carmen groaned.  Mirabelle, her eyes red and puffy from crying, slowly
crossed the cabin and picked up the plastic phallus from the floor where
April had dropped it.  She returned to the mattress where Carmen lay on her
back.  April knelt by the dancer's head.  One hand caressed Carmen's left
breast the other held the riding crop.

   "Let me," said the accountant.  "She's a better cook than me.  And it is
my dildo."

   Snake nodded.  Night was closing in.  It was time they ate.  April
grabbed the instrument from Mirabelle who was relieved to be rid of it.

   "Roll over, Carmen," said April."Let's do it doggy fashion." She
whispered, "And I like to look at your back." Skull grunted his approval
and reached for the almost empty jar of rot-gut whisky.  He tipped the last
of the booze into his fruit jar.

   Carmen groaned as she turned over and drew her legs under her.  Carmen's
back was a mess of criss-crossed bloody ridges from the flogging Skull had
given her.  Earlier, at the destroyed mine entrance, she had adamantly
refused when he demanded that she should "fuck me back, whore.  Tell me how
good it is for you".  He beat her.  She remained frigid.  He beat her more
savagely.  She had only complied with his sick order when he switched his
tactics and threatened to beat Mirabelle to a pulp unless Carmen gave him
"a good time" while he fucked her on what he called "Max's grave".

   April inserted the plastic cock with unnecessary force into Carmen's
sore but well-lubricated cunt and started to pump it in and out.  Carmen
had been subjected to unremitting rape by Skull or one of his harem using
April's dildo since they had returned to the cabin.  After April had been
at the task for ten minutes or so, without Carmen uttering a sound, the
accountant bent over Carmen's crouching body.

   "This is what you wanted to do to me, isn't it?" April whispered adding
another cut of the whip to Carmen's already lacerated back.  "Beat me, fuck
me and then what?"

   "Guess," Carmen groaned.

   "I'll bet it was what you got the kid there to do.  Have me tongue your
pussy while your husband oops!  Sorry.  Your late husband buggered me."

   Carmen said nothing.

   "Answer me you bitch!" squealed April.  She hit Carmen with the crop
again and drove the dildo viciously deeper.

   "You're not hitting her hard enough," said Skull.  "Here, give me the
whip and I'll show you."

   April stood up and surrendered the riding crop to her master.  His cock
was already showing signs of resurrection.  He raised the whip above his
head and brought it crashing down across Carmen's muscular buttocks.  It
drew blood instantly.  Carmen sobbed involuntarily.  Skull grinned and hit
her again.

   "Fuck-toy reminded me.  Carmen, you told Maxie he'd never have your ass.
Well, that's true enough I guess.  But, sugarbuns, you're gonna offer your
tight little ring to me right now.  And while I'm digging in the ditch you
can explore Fuck-toy's cunt with your lips and tongue.  You understand?  If
you don't there'll be one less for supper."

   Carmen nodded.  She would not give the sadistic rapist the satisfaction
of begging him to stop her torment.  April sat down on the mattress, her
legs either side of Carmen's head and thrust her pussy into Carmen's face.
April smiled up at Skull as he pumped his cock yet again.  When he was
ready he nodded and she grabbed two fistfuls of Carmen's blonde hair and
roughly ground her puffy cunt into the widow's face.

   Skull left the dildo deep inside his victim as he knelt and squeezed his
growing erection into the dancer's fundament.

   *** Deafened and blinded Max slowly picked himself up off the floor of
the van.  He was dazed but otherwise unhurt.  The van had not been crushed.
He and Toni had been flattened by the over-pressure but the two remaining
money bags had broken their fall.  They were in total darkness.

   Toni had come scrambling out of the triangular shaped opening of the
approach tunnel.  The young man had been unsteady.  He had been sobbing
with terror and seemed to be bleeding from a head wound.  Max had reached
out for him and grabbed an arm.  Toni started to say something when the
gelignite exploded.  The lights went out.  Max and Toni were blown into the
back of the van as the roof of the horizontal shaft begin to crumble.  The
air was thick with dust.  The two trapped men choked and coughed in utter
darkness while the roof began raining rocks with growing ferocity.

   When the rumbling stopped Max found his torch and shone it's weak and
flickering beam out of the back of the van.  Through a thick cloud of dust
Max saw the shaft was completely blocked.  Max next examined Toni who was
dazed and bleeding from a gash to the head and multiple scrapes and
abrasions to his naked body.

   "You'll live," croaked Max.

   Toni shook his injured head.

   "For how long?" he said.  "We've been buried alive."

   *** "It won't work, April," said Carmen.

   The accountant had continued to fuck Carmen long after Skull had come
and gone to relieve himself.  Carmen had tongued her to a noisy orgasm
while Skull did his violent best to rupture the dancer's anal sphincter. 
Now April had Carmen to herself.  She had cuffed Carmen's hands behind her
back, forced the dildo into the opening vacated by Skull, and rammed her
fist into Carmen's pussy.

   "What won't work?" grunted the accountant.  Her breath reeked of bad
alcohol.

   "This pretense you're a sadistic bitch and therefore a fit and favored
companion for the tattooed man."

   "Who says I'm pretending?" she said.  "He likes me best.  He says the
kid's too soft and you're too hard.  He says I make the best the best
fuck-toy."

   "What's this, 'too hard, too soft'?  He's not sodding Goldilocks, April.
He's a cold-blooded killer.  He'll butcher all three of us before he leaves
in the morning.  If we let him."

   Mirabelle, who was serving supper, heard Carmen's prophecy and burst
into another round of weeping.

   "What are we going to do?" she wailed.

   "About what?" said Skull coming back into the hut.  He was carrying the
.22.  "What are you going to do about what?"

   "Max's bitch was making trouble.  She said you'd kill us all before we
leave tomorrow," said April.  She withdrew her hand from April's pussy and
slapped the dancer's cum-streaked face.

   "Well," said Skull.  "That just ain't true." He sat at the table and
sipped at the last of the moonshine.  "I'm gonna take one of you with me.
The other two can just stay here and get home the best they can.  Now let's
eat.  All that fucking's given me a real appetite and I've got some tidying
up to do at the mine."

   *** Max switched off the torch to save the batteries.  In the dark he
listened to Toni's garbled account of how Skull had made him carry the old
explosive in its tin box into the access tunnel and then tried to shoot the
young man.  The back of the van creaked and buckled slightly under the
weight of a loosened boulder.

   Max said, "You realize that dog-leg we had to dig saved our lives, kid.
If it hadn't been there the blast would have hit us much harder." Toni
sobbed.  He didn't sound happy.

   "Cheer up," said Max.  "You're not dead yet.  You gonna help me get out
of this place or you gonna sit here and blubber?"

   "We can't get out.  The tunnel is blocked."

   "Yeah.  The access tunnel is blocked and the shaft behind us is too. 
But the horizontal shaft we're in isn't blocked beyond the van.  That's the
way we'll go.  Forward."

   "Deeper into the mountain.  You're fucking crazy."

   "You got a better idea?"

   Toni didn't reply.  Max switched the torch on and climbed onto the
passenger's seat.  He took a grip on the steering wheel and kicked the
window out.  The little crystals of broken safety-glass glittered like
diamonds in the torch's faltering beam.  Through the broken window the
unblocked section of the mine shaft disappeared into blackness.

   ***

   After supper Skull secured Carmen and Mirabelle together with a length
of chain looped around their necks and padlocked in place.  He fastened the
tail of the chain to the beam above the mattress and told them to rest
while he and Fuck-toy went for an evening stroll.  April looked nervous as
Skull ushered her out of the door.  She told Skull she was cold and asked
if she could put a jumper over the thin shift he had permitted her to wear.
Skull refused.  He told her she'd soon warm up and pushed her out into the
fading light with the barrel of the rifle.

   "What's he going to do?  Is he going to kill her?" whispered Mirabelle.
She and Carmen stretched out on the mattress.  Carmen lay face down
favoring her lacerated back.

   "I wouldn't think so, kid," said Carmen.  "My guess is he'll keep us all
alive and kicking until morning.  He likes the idea of a harem and April's
attempts to play the sadistic bitch amuse him.  But he needs to get away
from this place cleanly with the money.  We three know too much for him to
safely leave any two of us here alive.  Better get some sleep now if you
can.  I reckon we are due for a wild night when Skull and April get back."

   "Why?" said Mirabelle.

   "Because tomorrow he won't know where his next fuck is coming from so
he'll indulge himself with the three of us tonight.  Also April is trying
to convince him he's her soul-mate so as to be the one he has said he will
take with him.  She'll do any nasty thing he tells her to.  He'll get a big
kick out of her disappointment before he kills her."

   "You could be wrong."

   "You'd better hope so, kid.  But I don't think so."

   *** Max said, "You hear that water?"

   Toni nodded his head, unseen in the darkness.  The sound of falling
water was not loud but he could hear it.  The two men had picked their way
carefully along the horizontal shaft of the old mine.  Every now and then
it was necessary to shift rock and rubble so they could progress deeper
into the workings.

   "It's coming from the roof up ahead"

   "We won't die of thirst then," Toni croaked, making an effort to sound
unafraid.

   "Maybe it comes from the ventilation shaft the old man had drilled. 
That's why the air is fairly fresh."

   "And we won't suffocate either," said Toni.

   *** When Skull and April returned to the cabin they were both naked and
wet.  April was carrying their few clothes.

   "Had to clean up after our little exercise," said Skull as he toweled
himself down.  "So we stopped off at the pool for a dip." April said
nothing but shivered as she copied the rapist and used a towel to dry
herself.  Carmen thought the accountant looked more frightened than at any
time since her abduction.

   "What have you two been up to?" said Carmen.

   "It's a surprise.  You'll see in the morning," said Skull.  He
unfastened the chain that secured Mirabelle and Carmen.  "Fuck-toy is
feeling the cold.  You two warm her up.  I want all three of you hot to
fuck tonight.  Pity we finished the moonshine.  It helped some."

   Mirabelle coughed and then said, in a quiet voice, "There's a bottle of
Bushmills and some stuff under the driver's seat of the Toyota.  Behind the
panel.  Hidden.  I'll get it for you if you like." She gave Carmen a
meaningful stare.

   "Well, fuck me!" exclaimed Skull.  "The little bitch does more than cry
and sulk.  That's a friendly offer, Little Tart, but I had better come with
you in case you thought to run off."

   Mirabelle was no poker player.  She let her disappointment show.

   "If I find you are lying "

   "I'm not," she said.

   "Fuck-toy look after our dancing partner." said Skull.  He wrapped the
towel around his waist.  He reattached the chain around Carmen's neck and
over the beam so she was standing on the mattress.  "We won't be long." he
said pushing the dark-skinned young woman in front of him.  "What sort of
'stuff'?" he said.

   Mirabelle shook her head.  "Dunno," she mumbled, "Toni said it was
coke." At the mention of her boyfriend's name she began to weep again.

   As soon as Skull and Mirabelle were out of the cabin Carmen tried to
persuade April to let her go.  She could see that the woman was terrified
and tried to reason with her.

   "Look, if we run off into the night he won't be able to find us and he
won't waste time looking for us tomorrow morning.  It's what the kid wants
us to do."

   April said nothing.

   "Christ, April, if only one of us gets away he won't dare to touch the
other two.  He'll just go and we can try to get help to open the mine.  Max
could be alive in there."

   April shook her head.  "I'm sorry," she said.  She reached for the
riding crop.  "It's what he told me to do." *** The torch's weak beam
showed Max and Toni that they were standing in a large chamber with stepped
sides.  The water was issuing in a steady thin stream from a rectangular
opening on the side of the chamber about 12 feet from the top step.  The
water drained through a fissure in the floor of the cave-like excavation.
There was a pile of rubble under the high point of the roof

   "What is this?" said Toni.

   "I think the old man called it a 'stope'," said Max.  He pointed the
beam at the aperture.  "That's the ventilation shaft.  It's smaller than I
remembered.  But it is our only chance of getting out of here."

   "It looks blocked," said Toni.  "And narrow."

   "The water is flowing fairly freely.  If we can get into the shaft we
might be able to clear it as we go.  It doesn't go straight up.  The old
man would have dug it at an angle."

   "So how do we get to the opening?  It's too high and we don't have a
ladder," said Toni sounding desperate.

   "First, we raise the floor," said Max.  He began moving a rock from the
pile under the dome to the wall under the ventilation shaft aperture. 
"Come on, get moving, unless you've something better to do." *** Carmen's
prediction of what the women would endure during the night was accurate. 
Fueled by whiskey and cocaine Skull became more demanding and savage than
he had ever been before.  None of his three women were spared his cruel
attentions.  They were raped and humiliated singly and together.  He made
them fist and use the dildo on each other.  Any woman who did not express
her gratitude and sheer delight at being fucked or fisted, sodomized or
made to perform oral sex to Skull's satisfaction was beaten.  When he
eventually tired of the game he chained the three exhausted women together
and to the beam above the mattress.  Unfortunately for them he retained
enough sense to put the padlock-keys out of their reach before he collapsed
into a deep, drug-induced, sleep.

   *** When Max and Toni had built a platform of debris high enough to
Max's satisfaction, he had Toni stand with his back to the wall and make a
"stirrup" with his hands.  The stirrup of interlinked fingers was held
above the young man's groin.  Lightly, for a big man, Max ran, put one foot
in the stirrup the other on Toni's shoulder and sprang for the
barely-illuminated opening of the ventilation shaft.  He went in up to his
waist with his arms extended and, after a desperate slipping search in the
slime and mud, found a narrowband of metal that served as a hand hold.  The
shaft had been a metal duct he guessed.  It sloped upwards at an angle of
about forty-five degrees.  It was too narrow for Max to turn around.

   "Kid," he yelled.  "Can you reach my legs?"

   He felt Toni's hand slap his foot and heard a wail of despair as the
young man jumped in the dark but failed to catch and hold on.

   "Don't leave me," screamed Toni.

   "Don't panic.  Get on the pile of rocks, reach up, and face the wall. 
I'll get you out of there in a minute or so.  Just wait."

   ***

   The three women stood hip deep in a trench.  The trench that April and
Skull had dug the night before.  The digging had been easy in the disturbed
earth near the ruined mine entrance.  The morning sun was just beginning to
warm their naked bodies.  A shovel was stuck into the loose excavated
material ready for use.  The women were shivering, their hair was tangled
and gummy with bodily fluids.  All three showed signs of having been raped
and beaten, Carmen most of all.  Their wrists were chained behind them. 
Skull stood above the trio.  He was holding Toni's rifle loosely in his
right hand.

   "Time for me to go," he said.  His voice was harsh and his eyes
red-rimmed after the excesses of the previous night.  "I'm thinking I'll
take one of you with me.  Who would like to come with me and over four
million dollars?"

   No one spoke.  Mirabelle sobbed quietly.

   "Not you, kid.  You've been a good fuck but I can't abide your weeping."

   "Carmen?"

   "Get fucked, psycho!"

   " Nah.  Couldn't trust you not to cut my balls off while I slept.  How
about you Fuck-toy.  You want to live?"

   April nodded.

   "Yeah.  Fuck-toy You'd do anything for me wouldn't you?" said Skull.

   "Yes, Skull, anything.  You know that," gasped April eagerly.

   "Okay.  Get up here."

   April scrambled out of the trench with difficulty.  Skull pulled her to
her feet and unlocked the chain securing her wrists.  She stood by his
side, panting.  He grinned at her and operated the bolt of the rifle.  He
pushed the weapon into April's hands.

   "It's cocked and the safety catch is off," said Skull.  "Shoot them. 
Between the eyes.  Get as close as you want.  The kid first."

   April hesitated, her eyes wide with shock at what she was being told to
do.

   "Get a fucking move on," snarled the rapist.

   April slowly tucked the butt of the rifle into her shoulder and sighted
along the barrel.  Her finger curled around the trigger.  Then she swung
the rifle until it was pointed at Skull's head.

   "No," she said.  "I won't do it.  I won't kill them."

   "But you'd kill me?" said Skull.  He looked calm despite April's threat.

   "If I have to.  Just go.  Leave us."

   Skull laughed his nastiest laugh and moved towards the armed woman. 
April squeezed the trigger.

   The rifle gave a slight click as the firing pin pecked the empty
chamber.

   Skull took the rifle from April's frozen grasp and hit her with the
butt. She fell and he kicked the sobbing blonde into the trench where she
lay at the feet of Carmen and Mirabelle.  He took a loaded magazine from
his pocket and changed it for the empty one.  He operated the bolt.  This
time a round slid into the chamber.

   "You stupid bitch," he said to April.  "Did you really think I'd trust
you with a loaded gun?"

   As Skull raised the weapon he heard a loud, savage, yell from behind him
and felt a blow to the base of his neck.  It was the last thing he felt.

   Max, bloody, muddy and slime-streaked, stood over the body.  He had a
sharp faceted rock in his right hand.  There was blood on the rock.  He was
staggering with exhaustion, trouserless and barefoot.  Carmen looked up at
him from the trench with an expression of joy and disbelief.  Toni, naked
and equally filthy limped down the hill towards them.

   "How " she began.

   "Later," he replied.

   ***

   Max buried Skull's body in the trench while Toni unchained the women and
explained how he and Max had escaped from the tattooed man's treachery.

   "The worst time was when Max got inside the ventilation shaft and left
me standing in the dark," he said.  "He couldn't turn around and I couldn't
get a hold on his feet and legs.  Then he managed to take his boots off,
pulled his jeans down and draped one leg down the wall.  I nearly pulled
him out of the hole in the wall but in the end we were both worming our way
up the shaft.  He saved my life."

   It took a while for the five survivors to recover and to decide what to
do.  They agreed early in their discussions not to notify the police or
other authorities.

   Max was angry that Carmen had been so violently abused by April.  He
thought April should be punished by being left behind when they departed.
Carmen insisted that the accountant had never wanted to go treasure hunting
and had redeemed herself when she risked shooting Skull.  Carmen suggested
Max and she employ her in her professional capacity.

   "What do you and I know about how to manage four million dollars in used
notes?" said Carmen and Max was forced to agree.  Besides, she thought, an
experienced fuck-toy will make an attractive partner for 'the Lady with the
Lash' on stage or just for fun.  Carmen agreed.

   Before Max, Carmen and a very subdued April drove off the following day,
Max sold the hut to Toni for a dollar.  He had earlier given him and
Mirabelle several thousand dollars "compensation".  When Carmen said she
thought they had been mean with the young couple Max replied that there was
still half a million dollars in the mine and Toni knew how to get to what
was left of the buried treasure.

   End