The Knights of Damascus

By Clay Ferrill

Gay Erotica. Seven stories of seven special men, genetically perfected soldiers of the caliphate. Set in the Middle East in various cities, each of the Knights of Damascus performs their assigned functions and they all enjoy what they do immensely.

WARNING: Strong Muslim religious context. I rise up against the religion itself for interpreting the Quran in a manner the condones that cruel, brutal, and senseless behavior of executing homosexuals just for being homosexual. Muslim readers, be guarded and careful, please, as this book may likely be banned in your home country. Peace be upon you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clay Ferrill
• Release date: Jul 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463901564

Clay Ferrill

The novels and short stories I have published on this platform are gay male erotica. My novels provide a more in depth view of the characters I construct and I only hope you, the reader, feel I do those characters justice by defining them as more than simply sexual objects. I've strived to add deeper and broader character dimension as I weave them into the storyline.My short stories are commonly called "bang-boy" books because they get right down to the nitty gritty and often spontaneity of consensual sex between men in various scenarios. Other readers have described them as just short enough to get them excited and worked up and in that way, very much like the former fiction stories published in the gay men's magazines of yesteryear.WARNING: If you live in or visit any countries where homosexuality is illegal, download my work at your own risk. Please take extra care and may peace always be with you.

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The Knights of Damascus

by Clay Ferrill

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This is a work of fiction. Names of characters are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead, or to any actual real-world events is purely coincidental. All copyrighted and trademarked names, businesses, and products mentioned in this book remain the property of their perspective owners. The author is in no way attempting to claim any such ownership by their use. No infringement is intended.

Content Warning

This story contains adult language and material, including homosexual discussions and overtones, including references to both heterosexual and homosexual activities in a Muslim religion context. As such, this book is not recommended for minors, those who do not wish to read such material, or if it is illegal for you to own a copy.

If it is illegal for you to own a copy, you assume all risks, liabilities and/or penalties that result from downloading the book.

Please, I beg of you, if you live in a country that condones or practices the execution of homosexuals simply for being a homosexual, be vigilant and very careful.

Peace be upon you.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Disclaimer

Content Warning

Prologue

Chapter 1 – Akmal, Most Complete

Chapter 2 – Brahim, Father of Multitude

Chapter 3 – Dharah, Most Excellent

Chapter 4 – Basil, Most Merciful

Chapter 5 – Zaabit, Most Clever

Chapter 6 – Tasmeem, Most Powerful

Chapter 7 – Mahan, Most Lethal

Epilogue

Prologue

The start of the Second [Christian] Crusade, formed December 27, 1144 A.D. in response to demands from Pope Eugene III and Bernard of Clairvaux, was led by Louis VII of France and King Conrad III of Germany. Recruiting the best warriors and soldiers from neighboring European countries, their amassing forces included Boleslaw IV the Curly, Vladislaus II of Bohemia, as well as King Frederick of Swabia, who would later become Emperor Frederick I.

Their Christian mission was to kill all non-believers of the Christian faith, by vow, with impunity, and by any means necessary. The more lethal of them were called The Knights of Damascus and they bore these crests on tunic, battle shield and sword, to distinguish themselves as Knights of the crusade. Though the Second Crusade would ultimately fail, this multitude of soldiers in massive moving armies raped and pillaged their way through the countries of the Byzantine Empire, arriving in Constantinople in October of 1147. They continued their raping and pillaging across Anatolia and the other counties of the Byzantine Empire, eventually making Damascus their primary target as they slaughtered Muslims by the hundreds who did not willingly convert to Christianity. With ruthless impunity.

At the Council of Acre in June of 1147, called with the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, it was the most spectacular meeting of the Cour in its existence. The council’s members included Conrad, Otto, Henry II Duke of Austria, future Emperor Frederick I, then Prince William V of England, Marquess of Montferrat representing the Holy Roman Empire, Louis VII of France, King Thierry of Alsace, King Baldwin of Jerusalem and his Queen Melisende. The Council of Acre persuaded both kings’ Louis and Conrad to attack Damascus and the then-ruling Burid dynasty, Muslim in faith. The crusade would lead ultimately to failure, but as the amassed armies advanced, they continued raping and pillaging. As was later discovered, they had left innumerable bastard children in their wake. Those of the Muslim faith of the day viewed this as the polluting of their honored bloodlines. The Muslim faith of today still do believe this to be truth.

The Council of the Knights of Damascus still exists to this day as well, and remains as closely aligned with both The Vatican and other believers of the Christian faith, all non-Muslim. The Vatican seats all members in current times, making up the majority of council positions. They meet in secret and are largely charged with highly specific campaigns that vary by action and method and remain unwaveringly loyal to the overarching mission of combating the spread of the Muslim faith. The individual councilor’s mission remains unchanged. To kill all non-believers of the true Christian faith, by vow and with impunity, and by any means necessary.

Centuries later, in 2021, human cloning is becoming more prevalent in medically-mandated interventions, for the wealthiest only, and still remains largely secret because of its religious implications. Laws governing human cloning science have been quietly enacted around the world at a very slow pace, a much slower pace than the cloning sciences technologies have advanced. Most of the laws enacted allow human cloning for medical purposes only, but the laws remain too vague in defining the considered human life in those laws as no older in age than an embryo. To replace the severed arm of an adult with their exact DNA match in a replacement limb, that limb must be grown. A justifiable medical intervention, and therefore, allowed by laws of most nations now in current day. It is therefore legal to gestate human clones into adulthood form.

The cloning industry is booming quietly in the background, unnoticed by most all, but as with every successful industry comes a dark and often seedy underbelly. The creation of human clones for other, non-medically-mandated interventions and purposes is spreading, and because it is not just illegal but immoral, it has developed a very strong and thriving black market. It is now possible not just to create a human clone embryo to be carried and gestated as a normal human would be, in the womb of a human female, but also now possible to advance gestation and clone aging rapidly, during artificial gestation in three key stages. Human clones can now exist beyond fetus or newborn. They can be born to consciousness as adult human beings. These laboratories with gestation facilities are commonly referred to as clone farms. In vats of genetically-advanced amniotic fluids and nutrient submersions, human clone blanks grow in placental sacks comprised of genetically edited membrane, and fed gene replication serums and growth stimulants. They can now be grown to any age thinkable.

Over the centuries, Muslim religion factions have separated as new countries have formed. The world of today refers to them collectively as The Middle East. Over the centuries they have not forgotten the Second Crusade, specifically because of the pollution of their ancestral bloodlines. Today, those countries have united in jihad against the Holy Roman Council and have stolen back the name they rightfully earned from that historical battle in Damascus they fought and won. The Christians were defeated then. The Christians will be defeated now again and into eternity, praise be to Allah. These are the true Knights of Damascus.

With dependable regularity these various countries and some potentates, formulate elaborate plans and schemes to reclaim their ancestral heritage without spilling a drop of blood in the battle. They do not gather in councils or train soldiers. At this, the dawn of human cloning science, geneticist scientists have successfully edited genes harvested from DNA specimens of Egyptian Pharaohs, from the great and powerful corpses of Sultans and Kings - their true Muslim ancestors. Regardless of their mission or appearance, the Knights of Damascus are tools used to cleanse the bloodlines of the Christian genetic pollution and return the world’s population to the image of the One True Allah. Therefore, the battle is now being fought in laboratories.

I recount the stories and campaigns of seven such Knights serving this purpose, human male clones, whom revive the once sullied name and form The Knights of Damascus. Do not be mistaken or misled. These are true human beings living among us today. Their genes were specifically engineered with the physical traits of the true middle eastern, man and woman, to supplant and edit-out the polluted westerner from their bloodlines with dominant gene strains inserted into existing bloodlines to insure their bloodlines can never be polluted again. Ever. Their genes essentially overwrite all other genes when they propagate and will for endless generations of such propagation.

Akmal, the first selected to build the Army of Seven, Knights of Damascus, genetically perfect in every way, is an excellent example of how the battle is being fought. The propagation of a royal house’s bloodline, cleansed for the first time of all outside genetic influences, to produce a son and heir as the purified heir, a true Muslim generation for the royal house. Jihad!

Chapter 1 – Akmal, Most Complete – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Is it not human nature itself to want a long life? To pose that question to the common man, most of whom are at their core fraught with the confines, limitations and implications of religious dogma and those relentlessly ensuing and dizzying complications, always and without fail; the answer to that question is meaningless to that common man. So why ask the question? Humans are programmed and nurtured that way from birth. To want and strive for long life. I am fully aware and awake as such a man, now, but I do not possess the confines of a religious conscience. I don’t have a past fraught with such complications to have formed one.

If you were a perfect specimen of human male, tall, muscularly defined, well endowed … beautiful in every way conceivable, sexually arousing to most anyone by design and of course, all accomplished invisibly by self-controlled pheromone emissions before, during and after an interaction. You will want me sexually if I want you to want me that way. Man or woman, it makes no difference. This is the only thing I can control in my life. The only thing I control. This is my power to control.

For me, sadly you might think because of the way I look and without knowing the person of me, that I deserve a long life simply because of the way I look and how I make you feel. This is equally empty and utterly pointless. I do not mean to show contempt for the expected reaction when one first sees me or gets close enough to be influenced by the pheromones I emit. I control first reactions and I adore being adored, I assume also by design. I do not do this to myself, you see. I am simply a puppet wearing a human suit. Others, many others, control my versions, each referred to as a ‘rendering’, because various physical appearance alterations can be made by most any genetic designer while I gestate before birth.

For that very reason, that I am designed for a purpose and not conceived from love, I do not long or strive for a long life. I understand that my short life is borrowed. Borrowed as much from the bank of human moral decency as it is from physical trait upon physical trait and so on and so on, until my design is finished.

I am a human male clone. Created, gestated and born as an adult in a laboratory. Genetically edited, physical characteristics augmented, eye color and skin tone chosen, physical strength, aggressiveness or docility … all of it, chosen by others. What you see when you look at me may appear as perfection in human form, but it is fleeting. What you see if you ordered me will be flawless and exactly what you wanted me to be. If ever even brought to a conscious state, that is. If it is my makers will, in a medically-induced coma and never gaining consciousness at all, my life will be long enough for all organs, limbs, bones and tissues to be surgically harvested. The last thing always taken during the long harvest is the beating heart. The life will then end before the seventh day of life is lived. But make no mistake. If I wake, I am a man. If I wake, I have a soul. If I wake, I have feelings. If I wake, as I am now, I believe in the almighty Allah.

For this rendering, my specific genetic formulae, of which there is literally infinite supply, someone somewhere is always keeping track, or one would assume. I do not really care. This time I have been specifically created to fulfill a set of carefully timed tasks in what I now know to be a hostile and volatile environment. I am not to be an organ farm. I am to be a man. A man capable of love and nurture. A man with feelings and desires. I can easily kill with impunity if ordered to do so, but I cannot and will not hate. My readings have taught me that there is never enough time for that in my short life and nor will I make room for hate in what I believe to be my very human soul.

In most cases I will start where the last rendering stopped at the end of his seventh day, viewing and listening to an hourly log detailing daily activity with significant events during those days leading each life day like the headlines of human newspapers. Adjustments to mission. We almost always have the feeling that too much is left out during that upload of information and the key factual details of our shared existence, which is problematic for continued renderings beyond a third, because we are often caught by surprise. This usually works out because most of those unknowns and surprises are the details of sexual encounters, which are banned from being written down or otherwise recorded, for religious reasons I do not understand fully. These religious reasons are societal, and therefore, not included in my education. The three most current renderings automatically update with more as deemed necessary to the mission. All at the control of others.

This education usually takes 3-4 hours to accomplish at the beginning of the first day of life if one is steady to task and attentively observes, listens and absorbs with intent. Seven day lives are not that much time to retell. No visual images are made available. If we have specific questions we can expand the information to explore meanings more deeply, but I preferred to allow the steady cadence of the information to flow over me and envelope me. Otherwise, it is all just words narrated by others, with carefully concluded answers to any presumed questions to promote adherence to the mission. This time I was provided with no recall update and can then conclude I am the first of my succession. I have trained and I have learned. I am here to breed. I am Akmal, Most Complete.

In my native language of Arabic my name, Akmal, means ‘most complete’. His Highness always calls me ‘Akmal, Most Complete’. I read voraciously when alone and I am alone for twenty hours every day I am alive. I do not sleep much during that 20 hours. Because I thirst for knowledge, which I also assume to be true human nature, I seek to understand the world around me. Human beings are curious beings though I have only interacted with two. I can only read what has been left for me so I read the Quran, praise be to Prophet Muhammed. I have asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for others, nearing the end of the tome, to his complete delight. He said he would have delivered, ‘a great and vast collection of novels’ translated into Arabic from the ‘languages of the west’ as he phrased it; from the language of English, I believe, is what he meant.

This evening I am anxious and impatient. I showered earlier but today has been so hot. I am drenched in perspiration again. The air here in my rooms is conditioned to cool for my comfort, but I prefer the windows open to the outside world so I might hear the occasional sounds made by other humans nearby. I leave them open and the conditioning turned off for that reason. The tiled floors remain cool to the touch regardless of the high heat of the desert day, so I often take off my soft muslin house thobe and lay my naked body on the floor against the tile to