Nico and the Masked Twink
Added 2021-07-31 16:49:52 +0000 UTC(This story actually started off as a role-play collab with an online friend of mine that I eventually took, edited, and turned into a full-on story which I gave to my friend as a gift. My friend wanted it to remain private, but I ultimately decided the story was too good to just let sit on my computer, so I re-edited it and changed the names so my friend can retain their privacy and you all can still enjoy all this raunchy tale. Hope You Like It!)
Fresh-faced and full of ambition, young Nico Suzuki was a newcomer to the rough and raunchy world of Global Sex-Fighting, but he had been a fan of it for quite a few years now, and now that he was nineteen the young feline fighter was ready to give it his all and make a name for himself. Nico stretches in the ring as he patiently waits for his opponent to arrive. The restless crowd cheers in anxious anticipation. Nico did not have long to wait however for soon his opponent, the world-famous self-loving actor-model, "The Masked Twink" struts his way out into the arena putting on a boisterous display for the audience. The Twink wears an obnoxiously bright pair of glossy blue satin shorts that glisten and sparkle under the stadium lights like a sign on Broadway.
He throws up his arms as he comes to the base of the ring taking in the cheers of the crowd. The rowdy show-boating model then heaves himself over the ropes and into the ring laughing and whooping like a wild man. Nico watches his opponent's senseless show-boating with a look of disinterest; giving off a long yawn as he waits for his competitor to finish flexing his ego. After several minutes of vulgar ego-tripping, MT takes the time to finally acknowledge his opponent. The Masked Twink walks over to Nico smiling with a cheeky grin. He pauses for a moment to kiss both of his biceps before he says with a smirk,
"What up, pussycat?! Are you here to dance...or are you just standing there hoping for an autograph?"
Nico doesn't utter a word though. He merely waits for the starting bell to ring before he promptly jumps up and knees the Masked Twink right square in the chin. MT is startled and taken aback by the pain at first, but he soon finds himself more bemused as he starts to rub his chin before he gives off a hard chuckle.
"Ha! Ha! Feisty, huh? Not bad for a kid! Let's see what else you got!" the Twink says with a pervy grin.
Nico cracked his knuckles and took a defensive stance, staying light on his feet as he circled the Masked Twink. After a minute or two, the Masked Twink and Nico spring at each other meeting one another in a mighty Test of Strength. The two men lock their fingers together as both try to force the other down onto their knees. There is a bit of a struggle, but before too long Nico starts going down. The Masked Twink smiles as he sees the cat-boy fight to keep his knee from touching the mat. MT then says,
"Don't think I'm going to go easy on you just 'cause you're a kid. In fact..."
Suddenly, the Twink throws all his weight and strength against Nico throwing the cat-tailed fighter off his balance and onto the mat. Instantly, the Masked Twink is on top of Nico pinning him down.
"I'm going to show you why little kids shouldn't play with the Big Boys!"
Nico blushes heavily, finding himself pinned down he begins to struggle against the Masked Twink's grip. Whatever he had planned for him he was not going to achieve it, and to that effect Nico soon began kneeing the Twink in the side; bashing his tender ribs with his kneecap. MT quickly rolled off to the side allowing Nico to jump up to his feet. The two men almost immediately resume circling each other as MT gives off a smug grin and says,
"You're a tough little fucker, aren't you?"
"What did you call me?!" Nico says with a growl.
The cat-boy then charges forward lunging at his masked opponent with the speed of a panther knocking the wind out of him. The force of Nico's attack knocks both fighters back onto the mat. Nico tries to pin MT to the mat, but the Twink pushes his opponent back onto the mat and quickly traps his legs in a Figure 4 leglock, and immediately begins putting on the pressure.
"You'd better give it up now kid, or else you're going to leave this match with one hell of a limp!" MT shouts to Nico.
"Shit!" Nico cries in pain.
At first it seems the Twink has him at his mercy, but Nico is resourceful and uses his tail to break himself free; fishing it up MT's shorts to tickle his taint. The feeling of having the crack of his ass assaulted by a fuzzy tip sends a sharp chill shooting up MT's spine loosening his hold enough for Nico to break free. The cat-boy then bounds forward to straddle the Masked Twink's waist pinning both of his arms down beneath his knees. Following that, Nico then grabs both sides of the Twink's thrashing head and stuffs his crotch deep into the arrogant model's face to suffocate him.
"Dinner Time!" Nico shouts with a playful smirk.
Blushed and slightly embarrassed, MT suffers this humiliation for a couple of minutes before he suddenly kicks up his legs, catching Nico's head between his calves, and throws him off onto the mat. Before the cat-eared fighter can completely recover, MT quickly gets up and seizes Nico in a full nelson from behind. The Masked Twink stretches the barely-legal cat-boy out in the hold until he cries out from the strain.
"So you want to fight dirty, huh? Well, no more Mr. Nice Guy then, kid! Time To Bring The Pain!! YARAGGH!!"
The Masked Twink continues to stretch Nico out in that vicious full nelson; practically pulling every muscle in his young back as the furry fighter struggles against it more and more.
"I told you! Little punks like you shouldn't FUCK with the Big Boys! Now say that you give, twerp! It's the only way you're getting out of this! Give me the first round or I'll break your fuckin' back!!" The Masked Twink growled.
True to his word, MT pulls up harder and harder against Nico's back and shoulders. The force is so great the young fighter can barely breathe. Nico growls heavily, he knows he needs to get out fast so he reluctantly taps out giving the Masked Twink the first round win. With a boastful laugh, the Masked Twink heaves the young fighter off to the side tossing him down to the mat like a sack of potatoes.
"HAAA! Take that chump! Face-down on the mat just like it should be!" MT says with an arrogant smile as he gives Nico's tight ass a light kick with his foot before strutting off to flex to the crowd.
Once he's recovered his breath, Nico gets up and takes his stance. He is furious at his cocky opponent and is now surging with a second wind. The bell rings again and as soon as it does Nico charges at MT taking them both down to the mat where he proceeds to apply a Figure-4 Lock to his opponent's leg.
"ARGH! You Little Fuck! Just wait till I get out of this! You're a dead man, punk!" the Masked Twink growls with rage.
But despite his opponent's growing fury, young Nico did not let up. Instead he begins to twist MT's ankle while rubbing his cock with his foot. The Masked Twink groans under the pain, but he is not intent on being defeated so easily. With his hands still free MT seizes hold of Nico's cheeky foot as it rubs against his bulge and decides to return the favor; giving his cat-eared adversary a mean twist of his ankle in retaliation.
"No Footsy, Fuzzy!" MT snaps.
"OW!!" Nico screeches as he yanks his foot away.
Kicking his foot back down with ball-crunching force, Nico pins MT's hands down on top of his own crotch forcing him to grope himself with his own hands.
"I know I'm a hot piece of ass, but quit touching yourself, you horny freak!" Nico says in a mocking tone.
MT's mind races furiously trying to think of a way out of his current predicament all while he continues to struggle and strain against Nico's wicked hold.
"This little shitter is better than I thought, but I'll be damned if I'm losing to a fuckin' kid!" MT thinks to himself as he tries to pull his hands free.
But Nico wouldn't let his grip loosen for a moment. After a minute or two he looks to MT and says,
"You know, the longer you let this happen, the more embarrassing pictures your precious fans are gonna capture!"
MT growls and bares his teeth as the pain and humiliation continue to rise. Seeing no other way out the prideful twink finally yells.
"Alright! FUCK!! I Give!"
Nico smiles as he lets MT go, sitting up against the turnbuckle with a prideful grin. Despite the prior pain he had just endured, the Masked Twink is quick to recover. It was mainly his pride which was hurt more than his body, and now the cocky model was madder than ever. The two young fighters meet once again in the middle of the ring and lock fingers in a Test of Strength, but this time MT cheap-shots Nico with a quick jab in the gut followed after by a judo-flip which sends the cat-eared fighter onto his back slamming him against the mat with a deafening THUD! Nico is greatly winded by this, but otherwise unhurt. However before he can get back up to his feet the Masked Twink kicks him over onto his stomach and immediately traps the young cat-boy in a devastating Boston Crab; pulling up on both of his legs as his ass applies fierce pressure to Nico's back.
Sweat pours down from their faces as both men grunt and groan loudly at the top of their lungs; MT growls in fury as Nico shouts in pain. Nico screams helplessly, trapped by his older opponent, as they grunt and sweat like wild beasts. Nico strains every muscle in his body as he attempts to pull his legs free, but MT's grip is unrelenting and to pile on the misery the Twink begins grinding his buttocks harder and harder into Nico's backside as though he were making sweet love to his ass; dry-humping his booty as he pulled back even harder on his legs. Eventually, after more than a minute caught in this horrible hold, Nico could finally take no more and loudly screamed submission whilst fiercely tapping the mat in pain.
The Masked Twink smiles a spiteful grin as the sweat rains down off his gleaming hot body.
"That's Right, Bitch!" MT sneers as he lets Nico's feet drop to the mat.
Nico lays there moaning in pain. He reaches up to feel his back, but before too long MT kicks him over onto his back and plants his foot down onto his chest. Boastfully, the Masked Twink flexes his sweat-glazed muscles as he shows off to the crowd. He looks down at Nico, still wincing from the pain, and says,
"That's two for me, kiddo. One more to go before I send you crying back home to mamma."
MT reaches down to help Nico up to his feet in a surprising act of genuine sportsmanship, but as soon as the starting bell rings again the Masked Twink's pretend kindness instantly reverts back to mean-spirited competition as he swings Nico around and hurls him into the nearby turnbuckle. Poor Nico hardly has a moment to take a breath before the Masked Twink jumps in on him and begins violently wailing on his meek little abs with a lengthy barrage of vicious gut-punches; this followed up with a playful kiss and a light slap across the face to add insult to injury. It takes a moment for Nico to come to but once he finally does a look of fury is painted all across his face.
"Come on, ya freaky little furry! Come take your best shot!" the Masked Twink taunts as he playful humps the air at Nico.
Angrily, Nico tries to throw a punch straight for the Masked Twink's face, but the cocky model glides out of the way pushing Nico down to the mat as he rushes by. Before Nico can react to getting the wind knocked out of his sails once again, the Masked Twink comes over to him and begins aggressively stomping his foot down on top of the small of Nico's back leaving the battered cat-boy even more dazed.
Still groggy from the onslaught, Nico hardly notices as MT not-so-gently begins stripping his boxing shorts off from his body. With his bare bottom now visible for all the world to see, Nico starts trying to crawl away over to the ropes as MT pulls off his shorts too before approaching him with a pervy smile. Hauling Nico up off the mat, the Masked Twink immediately catches him once more in another full nelson. Nico hisses in anger, mad at letting himself get caught in the same hold more than once. In his mind, he swears he will not give in this time, but the Twink has no intention of forcing a submission out of him just yet. Instead, much to Nico's dismay, the Twink starts forcibly parading him around the ring while still firmly caught in the full nelson playfully dry-humping and grinding his big black dick against Nico's tight ass like they were playing a cheeky game of foreplay. It instantly becomes clear to Nico, that the Twink is actively trying to humiliate him now...and is unfortunately succeeding.
MT finally releases Nico pushing him across the ring into the ropes. Nico recovers quickly and rushes at the Twink in a rage. The two fighters meet yet again in the middle of the ring catching each other in another fearsome Test of Strength, Nico tries to kick out MT's knee, but the Twink powers through it and returns the favor delivering a nasty belt right up between Nico's legs. The blow sends the young furry down to his knees where MT playfully shoves him onto his back with his foot. With Nico once more down on the mat, the Masked Twink proceeds to stomp him repeatedly in the abs leaving a dazed and panting Nico lying battered and helpless as the crowd continues to applaud.
After a minute or two, Nico finally gets enough strength back to attempt to sit up, but MT quickly descends down upon him pinning his felid competitor in a reverse schoolboy. Taking up both of Nico's legs, the Twink stretches them back over the cat-boy's head so that his legs and arms are now pinned underneath him as he sits atop his opponent trapping him in a terrible face-sitting spladle. Since both fighters are now naked, Nico finds this hold particularly unpleasant as his face is now planted deep inside his opponent's taut round ass.
"Yeah, there you go, Nic! Have a good long taste of my chocolate cake!" MT boasts shifting all of his weight back over on top of Nico's face.
Nico groans from underneath as he suffers helplessly in the Masked Twink's humiliating hold. Both of his arms and his legs are pinned beneath MT's legs and his head is caught right under his opponent's full meaty ass cheeks which smother his face as the Twink playfully begins to gyrate his hips forcing Nico's lips to makeout with his crack and taint, and with his arms and legs painfully pinned beneath the weight of his competitor Nico's bare ass and balls are fully exposed and vulnerable as the Masked Twink stares down at them; eyeing them with a malicious intent.
"Time's come to end this, newbie! Let's see how much of this you can take before I have you screaming for mercy."
Nico's mind races furiously! He knows what's coming before the first blow is even landed. With a childlike mirth, MT begins playfully slapping Nico's light peach-colored ass; smacking his cheeks like they were a pair of fleshy bongos. Nico whines and hisses from underneath, but the Twink's massive bubble butt stifles his cries to the point of muffled yelling.
"What's that?! Did you say something? You might want to speak up 'cause I can't hear you at all." MT laughs before continuing to spank Nico's tight ass.
The spanking goes on with ceaseless vigor until Nico's ass is red as an apple. Nico wanted the pain to stop. He wanted to get free, but he still refused to give in. This was his first match in the big league and he didn't want to go out like a jobber. He tried to force all of his strength into throwing his opponent off him, but it was no use. MT's lean muscular body was too heavy for him to heave in this position. Desperate to escape, he then thinks to use his tail to distract his opponent and throw off his concentration. Nico shoots his tail up and tries to slap MT in the face with it, but the Masked Twink grabs his tail and gives it a twisting squeeze.
"Not this time, you Fuzzy Fuck!"
MT forcefully wraps Nico's tail around his wrist a couple times and gives him one more stern slap right down over the crack of his ass. That one hurts a lot more than the rest and actually causes Nico's eyes to water for a bit. Things are not looking good for Nico and they're about to get worse.
With a perverted smile, MT leans his head down and starts to spit his wet saliva all over Nico's cock 'n' balls and the crack of his ass. Nico growls in a rage, but from his current position there is nothing he can do. MT keeps spitting his wet spit down on top of Nico's nether regions until his entire crotch glistens like polished chrome under the overhead lights. Like the dirty pervert that he is, the Masked Twink wastes no time grabbing the shaft of Nico's slicked up dick and begins stroking it firmly as he resumes grinding his ass into the cat-boy's face. Between the feeling of having his dick stroked and the taste of his opponent's sweaty ass gliding down his tongue, Nico's head is left swimming in a volatile mix of anger and ecstasy. In the midst of this all, the Twink goes on to take two fingers of his other hand and begins gently fingering Nico's hole; digging his fingers in and out while taking a moment every now and again to spread open his hole as far as the boy's virgin sphincter would go. With his hole held agape the Twink paused for a moment to spit a few globs of gooey saliva dead-center into Nico's moist quivering anus. The feeling it gave sent a tingling shutter racing throughout every nerve of Nico's whole body. A part of him wanted to get up and kick MT's ass all over the mat for the next several hours...but most of him just wanted to blow his load VERY, very badly.
After several minutes of being forcibly stroked, the veins in Nico's cock are to the point of popping as his dick is so raging hard---IT'S TREMBLING! It has practically turned pink from all the blood that's now surging through it bringing him closer to orgasm. His cock, once wet with the spit from MT's mouth, is now slick with the precum that's been copiously oozing from the tip of his quivering dick. It's dripping all the way down across his stomach and chest and has completely coated the shaft of his cock and the palm and fingers of the Twink's lecherous hand. Nico is just mere seconds away from blowing his load all over himself and MT when suddenly a gut-wrenching pain shoots all throughout his body transforming his erotic ecstasy into total and complete agony.
MT, that dirty-fighting bastard, had intentionally driven Nico to the edge of orgasm just to land the mother of all cheap-shots straight into the young fighter's tender young balls that are still left fully exposed and vulnerable by the face-sitting spladle the Masked Twink has held him prisoner under for the last 10 minutes.
"You like that, you little Pussy-Bitch?! You didn't really think I was going to let you cum, did you? Now I'm really going to end this shit, Right Here and Now!!"
And without saying another word the Masked Twink grabs a whole handful of Nico's hairless nut-sack and begins to press down and squeeze with monstrous force. Salty tears flood from Nico's eyes as the pain overwhelms him. With his face full of ass, he could barely manage to breathe before, but now all the air is launched from his lungs as the terrible Twink continues to brutalize his sweet tender grapes.
"You're going to give to me or I'm going to neuter you Right Here In The Ring! NOW GIVE!!!"
A half-hearted "NEVER!!" is all that can escape from Nico's lips, but that is not the response the Masked Twink was looking for. Angrily, the masked fighter cups Nico's balls and starts to squeeze them even harder between the force of both his hands. The pain is unbearable, but rather than give to this asshole Nico begins straining and fighting with all his might in a last ditch attempt to throw his opponent off him.
"QUIT DAMMIT!!! Your Nuts Can't Stand Much More Of This!" The Masked Twink shouts, but still Nico struggles defiantly.
Having had enough, MT reels back with all his might and delivers a devastating punch right into the middle of Nico's sack catching both of the cat-boy's balls under the full driving force of his fist. The punch hits so hard it echoes through the air and sends a shockwave of pain flooding back over Nico; through every atom of his body, all the way up into the back of his brain.
"GIVE!!!!!" MT roars as he delivers another equally powerful punch to the exact same spot.
With the pain now being far more than he can bare, Nico's pride and resolve are finally broken just mere moments before his nuts are. He turns his head so MT's ass is no longer covering his mouth and screams as loud as he can,
"ALRIGHT! I GIVE!! I GIVE!!!!"
MT jumps off him and triumphantly flexes his muscles in a boastful manner as he sneers down at his opponent with a mocking show of pride.
"Fuck Yeah!" MT gloats strutting around the beaten cat-boy like a barnyard cock.
"Rragh! Fuck You!" Nico meekly whimpers as he lays in the middle of the mat cradling his sack.
"It's funny you should say that." MT says smiling down at him.
The masked fighter helps the furry-twink back up to his feet only to throw him up against the ropes. Nico is exhausted and still winded from the brutal assault on his balls, and offers little resistance as MT strings him up in the ropes. Naked and vulnerable, Nico stands tied up with his upper torso hanging out over the side of the ring.
"You didn't forget what kind of match this is, did ya?! No-Holds-Barred, Freestyle, Winner-Take-All! I won, so now I'm taking that tight noob booty all the way down to Grind Town!"
Nico grits his teeth as he feels the Twink's monster cock press hard against the sweaty sphincter of his ass. The Masked Twink leans in and whispers in his twitching ear,
"Welcome to the wonderful world of Sex-Fighting, kitten."
Nico growls as MT gives him a playful kiss on the cheek, then before he can take another breath he feels the sharp pain of the Masked Twink's thick cock lodging itself deep inside of his tender tight ass with vigorous force. Nico's eyes open wide as his cries ring out through the arena. The sweat rains down from every pore of their glistening bodies as MT continues to plow Nico's sweet nubile hole like a wild animal in heat. Nico struggles as he moans, occasionally gasping for air as the feeling of having his prostate rammed takes his breath away. He soon becomes weak in the knees and would surely have fallen over if the ringside ropes weren't holding him in place. As his groans and his whimpers echo throughout the arena the crowd in the stands goes wild; cheering louder and louder with every great thrust of the Masked Twink's hips.
"Remember all those embarrassing pictures you mentioned earlier? Who's embarrassed now, you Jobber-Fuck! Can't wait to see all the pics and gifs of this that are gonna flood the web after tonight! Great start to your new career...I'm happy to break you IN!" the Masked Twink says with another great thrust.
Every thrust drives deeper and deeper into Nico's anus pressing harder and harder against his youthful prostate such to the point that it nearly sends his entire body into convulsions.
"Yeah! Take It, Kitty!" MT says with increasing pelvic speed "Make me look like a chump in front of my fans, huh? Well, turnabout's fair play, bitch! Let everybody see that cute loser face!"
Harder and faster MT picks up the pace drilling the humbled cat-boy's ass with feral vigor. The sound of their sweat glazed flesh slapping against each other echoes loudly through the air as a misty spray of salty sweat is kicked up after every wet sticky smack. Nico bites his lip and growls beneath his breath as MT pulls a handful of his hair and slaps his ass so hard it leaves a reddened hand-print. Rivers of sweat glide across every corner of his body. Several drops find their way into both of his eyes causing them to burn. Never before has Nico's body been put through such abuse...but the pain strangely seems to stimulate a forbidden sense of pleasure he'd only ever fantasized before. His glistening cock was once again hard as a rock and fully erect; bobbing up and down to the rhythm of MT's primal penetration.
"Ha-ha! You like that? You like that?! FUCKIN' TAKE IT!!" MT laughs with a childish grin.
The feeling now emanating from within Nico's loins was intense and it was growing in that intensity threefold for every single second he could feel MT's cock pounding away at his prostate. It was like a hellish inferno raging inside his loins engulfing every single inch of his quaking nether regions. He was close and this time the Masked Twink had no intention of quelling his orgasmic fever.
Nico's moans grow louder as his every breath draws deeper. The pressure which had been building inside starts to travel upward through his trembling shaft, now shimmering under the bright lights of the arena. Long dribbles of precum have been sloshing and splashing all over the place as it ceaselessly continues to bubble and trickle down from the tip of his hot-pink bobbing bellend. Nico is once again caught in a mix of conflicting emotions. He fights to hold back the urge to release for fear of further humiliation, but the feelings surging from his glands pushes him more and more past the brink of raw carnal bliss. However soon the conflict raging in his mind fades to irrelevance. The point of no return has been passed and the limits of his nubile manhood are breached leading the flood of orgasmic ecstasy to finally seize hold over his young mind. Against all of his conscious will and physical resistance Nico fires his load like a great cannon shooting white-hot fire across the land. The virile cat twink cums the hardest he had ever cum in his entire life. It was like a geyser of semen spraying far out pass the edge of the ring. Nico's cumshot was so intense that it fired several globules straight out into the front row; money-shooting a couple of ecstatic cheering spectators clean in the face. Nico's eyes nearly roll back into his head as the final drops of semen forcibly leave his body; along with nearly all his waking consciousness. The young cat-boy had come so hard he was almost ready to pass out from the exhaustion.
Seeing how wiped out his opponent has become, the Masked Twink pulls out of him to steady him and untie him from the ropes. After freeing Nico from the ropes, MT pulls the winded furry close so that their noses touch and their sweat-coated chests press hard against one another.
"Kiss me, Kitty!" The Twink says as he pulls Nico into a passionate lip-lock.
After thoroughly massaging the cat-boy's uvula with his tongue, MT spins Nico around and pushes him down to the mat onto his back with a thud. At this point, Nico is too far gone to even lift his head and just lays there moaning as he desperately tries to catch his breath. He doesn't even flinch when the Masked Twink flops down over him straddling his sleek slender body with his fully engorged monster pointing directly at his face.
"You look thirsty...does the little kitty want some milk?"
Nico watches, almost in a trance-like state as the Masked Twink begins to stroke his giant cock mere inches from his lips. The feeling of climax builds until Nico can see it in the Twink's face. MT's face contorts as the pressure finally peaks and with a deep bellowing groan the Twink fires several milky jet-streams of cum right smack into Nico's face. The copious outpouring of semen splatters and paints the cat-twink's face and chest in puddles and splotches of sticky white fluid that's surprisingly warm to the touch as it runs and settles across the curves and contours of Nico's sweat-glazed body. As his heart continues to race from the ordeal he had just experienced, Nico's whole head is still caught in the blur of it all, and continues to swim and throb trying to take it all in as the Masked Twink rises to his feet standing tall over his fallen competition. The Twink throws his arms up into the air which excites a surge of manic applause from the sex-crazy crowd.
Young Nico lays there sprawled out upon the mat moaning like a hungover bum. The young fighter had lost his first fight, but the pain of defeat was nothing compared to the mix of emotions he was feeling right now. He had been beaten, mocked, stripped, and humiliated---fucked like a slut in front of a packed stadium of deviant onlookers; drilled up the ass until he came uncontrollably, then thrown down and creamed on by his cocky competitor who now stands over him whooping and bragging like a frat boy. The humility he was feeling now was beyond words...but what is this strange feeling that's growing in the back of his head...what is this craving? Why does he want more?
"Welcome to the big leagues, kid." MT says looking down at Nico.
The Masked Twink takes a card he had picked up from the corner of the ring (a memento he always stashes there before every match). He flings the card down on top of Nico's semen-stained chest.
"Give me a call when you're ready for a real workout." MT says giving Nico a wink.
And with that the Masked Twink turns and starts to walk out of the ring. Nico cannot help but sneak a long trailing gaze at his tight ass as he struts away. The longer he stares the more the blood surges from his head to his flaccid dick causing it to stir to life once again.