Aztecs 9

By Pueros

Chapter 9 – Dawn

(Aztec Empire, New Year’s Day 1521)

Just after dawn on the first day of 1521, Juan and Tezozo redressed in their loincloths and began their walk east to try to return to their peoples. The red sky that morning should have given them a warning about what might come. However, the exhilarated youngsters had both thoroughly enjoyed their lovemaking and simply looked forward to making safe progress and to a restitution of similar pleasurable passions that night. Unfortunately their ambitions were to be thwarted.

Their route took the boys towards dense woodland, which they would have to traverse in order to reach their destinations. The going through the compact trees and shrubbery was slow and difficult, especially in the warm humidity prevalent at this clime despite the fact that it was winter. The bodies of both lads quickly displayed a number of scratches as a result of contact with branches that formed the main barrier to their progress. However, at about noon, the two friends eventually emerged into a large clearing, through the centre of which ran a stream. They sat at the water’s edge to drink and rest their weary limbs. Both soon succumbed to slumber, which was to prove a potentially fatal mistake.

Juan and Tezozo were reawakened by the indelicate prod of feet in their sides. When the boys opened their eyes, they found that they were surrounded by twenty Aztec soldiers. Several pressed spears against the lads’ beautiful bodies.

Communications within the Aztec Empire were quick and efficient, often using relays of fast runners to pass important messages, and it had not taken too long to place the whole army on the alert for the evil impostor deities, easily recognised from their dress and unusual features. This particular company of warriors was not looking for the fugitives as it was considered that the boys would be much further east. They were instead scouring the forest for runaway slaves from their local permanent army encampment. The slaves were now quickly forgotten as far more important miscreants had been located.

Juan and Tezozo were hauled to their feet by their hair and quickly found their hands tied behind them and their necks linked by rope, about two paces in length, with the young Spaniard in front. Another similar length of rope was held by the officer leading the company of soldiers, who was to lead the impostor gods through the forest to the army camp, closely attended by the others. All expected to be lent the boys’ gorgeous bodies sometime in the near future to play with as a customary reward for their recapture. They were not to be disappointed.

It was late afternoon when the party emerged from the forest to see the big encampment stockade nearby, located here to intimidate the conquered local non-Aztec populace. The commander was delighted at the detainment of the false deities and immediately despatched a messenger to the capital to appraise the Emperor and High Priest of the good news. Meanwhile, the young prisoners were stripped of the sacred clothing and adornments that were no longer justified and tied naked, in a sitting position, to stakes in the centre of a large piece of open ground in the middle of the camp, where they were to remain, heavily guarded, overnight. The boys received no food but were allowed some water as they had to be kept alive to enjoy the delights of being subjected to horrific penal sacrifice in Tenochtitlan.

A substantial column of soldiers, including the twenty who had come across the sleeping youngsters, left for the capital at dawn the next day, charged with escorting Juan and Tezozo safely to the capital. The necks of the bound boys were now connected by a heavy wooden pole, which added greater stress to the journey, already very demeaning, given their inherent prudery, because of their nudity. The military formation passed through a number of villages with people lining the through roads to watch. The fact that the boys frequently exhibited erections at such times during the two-day trip caused them further shame, especially when their plight induced much titillation amongst the bystanders, the giggles from the young girls being the most humiliating.

The Aztecs were undoubtedly world record holders for human sacrifices, not only in number but also in variety. The greatest volume had been killed in 1487, in the reign of Ahuitzotl, to inaugurate the main temple. The Emperor, with two allied rulers and leading officials, and accompanied by many priests, led an interminably long parade of captives, duly painted and feathered. The line of victims stretched along the principal causeways into Tenochtitlan, watched by huge throngs, boosted by the people of neighbouring communities invited to attend or die, with no-one exempt. The sacrifices took four days to complete. When the Emperor and his royal colleagues eventually tired of gashing open the offerings’ breasts to extract their hearts, the priests assumed the duty.

The Aztecs counted in units of twenty, with their largest unit of quantity being a ‘xiquipilli’, illustrated by a little bag of cacao beans and representing 20x20x20 or 8000. This was the number of human hearts secured for the gods during the bloodbath in honour of the temple’s opening.

Nevertheless, the Aztecs did not particularly want to cause suffering by dragging out the deaths of their sacrificial victims. Instead, they were usually despatched to paradise with well-practised swift efficiency. However, a rare exception was to be made for Juan and Tezozo.

It had been many years since some penal sacrifices had occurred, when a few rebellious chieftains had suffered the terrible fate, and the High Priest had to study the relevant sacred codex to reacquaint himself with what should happen. Having secured approval from Cuauhtemou for his proposals, the High Priest initiated the necessary preparations, which included locating an elderly priest who had officiated at the chieftains’ successful demise and who was given the responsibility of ensuring that the latest victims were kept alive until their scheduled ends.

Juan and Tezozo were to take ten days to die. On the first day of formal ceremonial, the naked boys would be taken to a specially constructed platform in the middle of the huge square in front of the main temple. The stage had three wooden stakes. The older Juan would be bound spreadeagled between the left and middle posts and his younger companion between the middle and right, both facing the temple. Many hide buckets would be placed around the platform and the capital’s populace would be invited to bring containers of their own urine to fill the pails, which priests would then use to swill the people’s displeasure over the young friends’ nude bodies.

The first real agony was planned for the second day when Juan and Tezozo would be returned to the platform, from which they would not now be removed until they died eight days later, to be comprehensively flogged all over their bodies, including their genitalia. They would then have their ball sacs bound extremely tightly with leather cord to cut off the blood supply. Over several excruciating hours, their scrotums would discolour darkly and their testicles would finally expire.

Day three would see the castrated boys have their tongues and all of their teeth extracted. Day four would bring the loss of their fingers and toes and day five their ears and noses. On day six, their emasculated genitalia would be cut off whilst the next two days would see the same happen to their legs and arms, after which their torsos would be suspended from the outer stakes by their hair. The victims would be allowed to keep their eyes up to this point so that they could see the horrors being inflicted on them but this generous allowance would be terminated on the penultimate day of their lives. All wounds, except those to the insides of the mouth, would be carefully cauterised to prevent too much blood loss.

Juan and Tezozo’s deaths would come on day ten after their agonised torsos were flayed, the wooden frame of the drums, for which their skin was to be used, having already been constructed. The exposed hearts would then be removed from the barely recognisable shapes that represented still-living young male humans to end their dreadful torments.

Many people lined the thoroughfares of Tenochtitlan to see the nude evil demons return just before dusk to the capital. Most booed or shouted insults. It was therefore something of a relief when the boys found themselves sitting, backs against a wall, in a cold damp cell in the bowels of the main temple, their hands chained to the stone above and ankles bound tightly. The terrified youngsters had not eaten since their recapture and were famished but no-one was going to waste food on them.

The four young nullified acolytes, who had tended to the boys when they had been considered divine, arrived in the cell next morning. Carefully supervised by several priests, the eunuchs washed the chilled starving impostor gods, bodies covered in goosepimples, with water from buckets so that they would be clean to pay their dues to their twenty captors. The two friends were then led to a larger nearby cell where the soldiers, themselves naked, awaited their arrival, as did two waist-high fence-like structures, each consisting of two vertical posts connected by short horizontal poles. The lads were bent over the poles and their hands and feet bound to the bottom of the posts, presenting their anal and oral orifices nicely to provide the warriors with their dividends.

Both boys soon felt the first eager erections press against their tight sphincters. 14 years old Juan had already had his rectum invaded by Cuauhtemou’s large rampant member. The pain that he was about to experience through being sodomised by another adult was therefore not quite as intense as that endured by 13 years old Tezozo, who had only felt his friend’s smaller penis inside him. However, both lads wanted to cry aloud when the soldiers’ pushed hard to overcome the natural resistance of the anal openings to gain entrance but their efforts were muted by outflanking military cockheads that simultaneously attacked their mouths.

The twenty soldiers had fortified their sexual desires with strong aphrodisiacs so that they could gain maximum pleasure from their reward, being determined to enjoy both orifices of both boys. Their objective was achieved within a few hours, by which time their sobbing agonised victims displayed copious amounts of semen on their chins and inside legs, the latter mixed with blood. The traumatised tearful lads, mouths and anuses bruised and hurting acutely, were then released and returned to their prison to await the first sacrificial rite, scheduled for the next day.

The four carefully supervised young nullified acolytes arrived in the cell next morning to wash the false deities again so that they would be clean to receive further evidence of the people’s disgust. The evil boys, orifices still very sore, were subsequently escorted out of the temple and through huge crowds in the main square to the platform to be soaked in urine continuously for several hours. They were then left displayed to receive more of the populace’s verbal opprobrium until dusk, when they were returned for the last time to their cell.

The four young nullified eunuchs arrived at the following dawn. The two young demons were to be re-cleansed yet again before leaving the cell and temple, never to return, to enjoy instead public flagellation and castration, followed over subsequent days by slow bodily dismemberment. It was the 6th of January by the Christian calendar.

(To be continued in chapter 10 – ‘Epiphany’)