8 Chapter 7: Kysael- Waking Up (1/2)

Chapter 7: Kysael-Waking Up

****TRIGGER WARNING:::: This chapter contains r a p e, forced abortion, forced impregnation, and other dark themes. Please be advised before reading. Thanks****

\tWhen I awoke again, I was cold, and it was dark.

\tI did a quick sense over of my body, and I was startled to find that I was naked. Otherwise, I seemed to be alright.

\tI pushed down my initial panic, and forced myself to remain calm. I had to find out where I was. I began to calculate my surroundings.

\tI could feel a hard, stone floor underneath me. My stomach was somewhat crampy, and my body felt tight. But that was more than likely from the stress of what I had endured, I could only suspect.

\tMy eyes adjusted to the darkness quickly, and I saw a small sliver of light coming from in front of me, at the floor.

\tI assumed that I was in a closet, of sorts.

\tI began to grow nervous. What had happened to me while I was unconscious?

\tI took a quick inventory of my body. Nothing seemed to be misplaced or out of order...I didn't necessarily hurt anywhere... So if he hadn't hurt me, why was I here…?

\tI decided to chance it. ”H-hello?” I called.

\tI immediately heard a response.

\tFootsteps approached the door, and I quickly got to my feet.

\tAs soon as the door was opened, I bound out of it and to the opposite side of the room, my body pressing against the locked door to what I assumed was a hallway.

\tMy eyes flew to inspect the room I was in.

\tIt was a bedchamber, white and red in color. It must be his room, I suspected.

\tA quaking young Ork girl held up her hands in surrender. ”P-p-p-p-please, miss! Please don't h-hurt me! I'm j-just a servant!”

\tI stood out of my offensive position. ”Who are you? Where am I? Who is the man who captured me and where is he? SPEAK!” I shouted in my war tone, and she jolted, sweat running down her cheek as her body jerked with barely contained sobs of fear.

\t”I-I am Urix, you are in the royal palace in Barrenwilds city! The man who captured you is my master, the Darkelf Prince Mafrien! He's getting things prepared!”

\t”Getting things prepared for what?”

\t”For your stay here!” She cried.

\t”Where are my clothes? Answer me!”

\tShe jolted again, and I thought that she would soil herself.

\t”I burned them,” I heard his sultry voice say as he sauntered into the room. ”Urix, go and run her a bath.”

\tAs Urix scurried out the door, he shut it and locked it.

\tI got into a fighting position and he laughed at me. ”What's so funny?” I asked.

\t”That you still think that you can fight your way out of this. You cannot stop me.”

\tI leaped onto the bed and used the springs in it to force my body to leap harder and faster at him, doing a roundhouse kick mid-air toward his head.

\tHe laughed as he caught my foot with ease just before it could connect with his face, and then he slung me with force to crash into the wall behind his bed before my battered body fell onto his bed. It hurt much more than it should have, and I was startled by the lack of strength that I had. What was going on?

\tWhy did I feel so… weak?

\tHe moved with inconceivable speed and locked shackles around my wrists and ankles, connecting to chains that were tied and locked around each of the four bed posts, so that my bare body was stretched and I was not able to move.

\t”If you continue to fight me, you will never see your homeland or your precious Dragon again,” he sneered. ”This is your last warning. Submit and get to go free, or fight and be forever imprisoned. It is your choice, girl.”

\tMy eyes burned with tears as I forced my body to go limp.

\t”That's a good little hybrid,” he said in a disgustingly soothing voice.

\t”Please don't do this! I am newly married! I don't want to be ruined for my husband.” I pleaded, but he ignored me altogether. I knew that I was not pure, but I had only just lost my virginity. Dragon deserved his bride to be only his, and I wasn't prepared to with this dark man. His hands began roaming freely over my body, and I stayed perfectly still with my eyes closed. I ignored him and tried to go to a happy place in my mind.

\t”You must be wondering, why you feel so much weaker than you usually would, are you not?”

\tI stayed silent, meeting his eyes. He grinned, a sick looking smile that made my skin crawl.

\t”You must surely have more awareness of your body than this. Have you truly not sensed it yet? I have already smelled it on you.”

\tI didn't understand, and I shook my head. He rolled his eyes.

\t”More proof of how weak you truly are,” he spat. ”You consummated your marriage yesterday. Your body has already begun to grow soft, your senses slightly dulled and your body less able to absorb injury and impact. Think of the only reason that this could be, stupid girl!”

\tThe realization hit me hard. I had conceived! At the end of our consummation, Dragon had… well, he had released, hadn't he…? It had been his first time with a woman in almost a century, we had both been so lost in our pleasures with one another that... he hadn't pulled out of me to release himself, as we had planned. He had been too lost to the feeling of me. We had not intended to have children for a while, and yet... and yet here it was. It didn't even have a heartbeat yet, but I could feel it forming in my womb.

\tFear spiked through my heart. Why would he be bringing this up? Worry struck through me for my barely conceived child.

\t”What… what are you going to do?” I whispered.

\tHe ignored me, pulling my legs apart.

\tI was shocked when he began laughing a dark, dangerously comical laugh. ”Oh, you are even clean down here!” He crowed as he inspected my privates, and my face felt as if it were on fire. ”You were expecting someone to be down here, although to be fair, I suppose it wasn't my handsome self. How odd, I am unused to finding a woman bare skinned here.” He crawled back up my body, a vicious grin on his face.

\tI closed my eyes and winced, cringing when I felt his tongue lick into me. His tongue felt almost like a cat's tongue, rigid and rough, uncomfortable. I shuddered against the discomfort. I remembered my oral intimacy with Kelose, he had not really had much exploration of my nether regions. I had been the one to be more giving to him that night... and Dragon had been a bit more thorough, though we hadn't taken a lot of time for that because the king was waiting for us to seal our union. But this... I didn't have to dwell on the feeling long, however.

\tI was even more shocked when he pressed his thick lips against mine, and I opened my eyes to see his.

\tBlood red eyes met mine. They were a deep, liquid blood color.

\tThat, combined with his solid white hair, black eyebrows, was a stark contrast against his dark gray skin.

\tHe grinned a feral smile at me as his hand went to my lower back, and he began chanting something in a dark tongue that I could not understand.

\tImmediately, a searing, blinding pain burned into the base of my spine, all the way through to the deepest recesses of my abdomen, and I felt a stabbing jolt shoot through my heart. I cried out in a gasp of unrestrained pain.

\tHis smile grew as he continued, and I yelped out in unexpected agony when his nether regions ripped mine open as he forced his way into my body.

\tI felt tears run down my quenched-up face, and a sudden rush of what smelled like my own blood pooled at where his body was joined inside of mine.

\tHe gave my battered and abused body no time to adjust as he surged into me, and I groaned as more and more blood seeped out of me into the sheets. This was nothing like when Dragon and I had consummated our marriage. This did not feel good. This was not soft and warm and filled with heat and pleasurable burning. This was nothing but agonizing pain.

\tI smelled the slightest difference in the blood, and angry, raging heartbreak rushed through me as I realized what he had just done.

\tMine and Dragon's newly conceived child was gone.

\tHe laughed as I thrashed uncontrollably, hysteric breaths ripping from my throat as I tried to contain myself.

\tAfter a while, his pace increased and then I screamed, muffled only by his lips on mine, as I felt something expand inside of me, unnatural, stabbing into me on the inside.

\tI struggled to move away from him, away from the shock of pain.

\t”I am locked, girl. Do not move or you risk slicing your insides. Once I am unlocked, I will remove myself.”

\t”W-what does that mean? What is locking?” I asked through clenched teeth.

\t”Oh,” he laughed. ”Oh, you'll find out soon enough.”

\tAnd then I, once again, fell into a blissful unconsciousness.

\tI had no idea how long I had been here. But I continued to have faith that someone would come to rescue me...right?

\tRight?

\tOver an immeasurable amount of time, Prince Mafrien continued to use and abuse my body as I came in and out of unconsciousness.

\tAs more time passed, I felt a nagging and discouraging thought tug at my heart.

\tNo one was coming for me.

\tI gurgled incoherently as he shoved his phallus down my throat, and despite that I vomited on him multiple times he continued on anyway.

\tNo one was coming for me.

\tI felt my body convulse in time with sharp thrusts.

\tNo one was coming for me.

\tI sobbed as he cut off my long, beautiful hair full of years of time and upkeep and memories, up to my jaw line simply because I wasn't behaving well enough.

\tNo one was coming for me.

\tI cried tears as I drank the blood of the young ork servant girl whose throat he had sliced open to feed me and I fed on her until she was dead with the strength of my hunger and thirst.

\tNO ONE WAS COMING FOR ME.

\tI had all but given up hope when another young ork girl came in and unchained me, dressing me in white clothing that barely covered my private areas.

\tI gave her a questioning look.

\t”Only the royal family of Barrenwilds is permitted to wear white.”

\tConfusion entered my thoughts. Mafrien stepped into the room, and rested a hand over my belly, and grinned.

\tThen, he lifted my body up after putting a bag over my head, and carried me out of the room.

\tMy head spun from the force the speed he was using pushed against my broken body, and finally, he set me down on my feet and pulled the sack off of my head.

\tHe pulled me to him, and pressed his lips harshly into mine.

\tHis blood red gaze pierced through me.

\tAnd then, he placed his white, hooded cloak over my nearly naked body.

\tAnd then my body slammed into the cold, hardness of iron bars as he threw me inside of a cage that hung from the bottom of a cliff.

\tI startled, and I was just too slow to make it to the entrance before he shut the door and locked it.

\tWhat was Mafrien doing?

\tWhy was he just leaving me here?

\tI had been locked to his bed or in his closet since he had brought me here.

\tHe gave me a glance. ”You cannot escape from this cage so don't waste your energy trying to get out. You will be freed shortly. But know this... You will return to me someday, Kysael.”

\tAs if he was nothing but smoke, he vanished into the nothingness of the night, and I shivered as a cold wind blew. Cold, so cold...

\tThen, I fell into darkness.

\tSomething startled me awake sometime later, and I jerkily looked around for what had gotten me out of my sleep.

\tI looked, and honed in with my ears to pay attention to the surrounding area.

\tAnd then I heard it.

\tIn the distance, four riders were approaching.

\tWho were they?

\tWhat would they do to me? What if he had sold me into slavery and these were my new owners?

\tPanic rushed through me as I thrashed, getting away from the door of the cage. I was way above the ground, but I knew that something strange was going on for Mafrien to just simply leave me here.

\tAnd what had he said? That I would return to him someday?

\tThat didn't leave a good feeling in my gut.

\tI was still in dazed confusion, disoriented, when I heard a shriek from a drake of some sort in the distance-a wyvern, from the sound of it.

\tI startled once more, whirling my eyes around to search for the beast. That couldn't be good news. But if it was between slavers or a wyvern, I think I would rather the wyvern. At least then I might be able to talk my way out of the danger. I knew already that slavers wouldn't listen, and I was injured and weak. I wouldn't be able to fight anyone. At least if a wyvern was coming, if it decided to kill me, it would be fast.

\tI looked through the bars and I saw the creature in the distance. I saw a deep, purple glowing arising from the ground, but I didn't pay any mind to it and kept my eyes clenched shut.

\tI could hear an eerily familiar voice speaking in some tongue that I could not understand, and then I felt the cage be grabbed and I could hear metal screeching.

\tI gasped, releasing a panicked sound that wasn't quite a scream but wasn't quite a groan, either.

\tAnd suddenly the air was forced out of my lungs as the cage was lowered with frightening speed to the ground, and I cried out in fear.

\tThe wyvern was going to eat me! It wasn't even going to have a conversation with me. Maybe this wyvern had already known I was here. Maybe he was getting rid of me for Mafrien.

\tSurely, after all my torture and Mafrien's promise to let me go home, he had lied and he was going to leave me as an offering to this wyvern, wasn't he?

\tSoon I felt my body being pulled out when the riders got to me and I felt my body pulled into a strong, shaking pair of arms as I heard the great flaps of wings go off into the distance before I could no longer hear it. Wait....

\tWhat?

\tWhy arms? What about the wyvern? I know that it didn't just come to set me free, right?

\tI focused on the arms that held me.

\tOn instinct, I fought against them, my brain not registering that I had reached safety.

\t”Kysael!” His voice pulled me back to reality, and I went limp.

\tMy attention focused. ”D-Dragon?” I didn't understand what had happened, my eyes had been tightly shut the entire time. What was happening? How had Dragon gotten here?

\tHis hold tightened. ”Oh, Kysael! I was so worried!” His voice finally registered completely in my mind...And then I jumped up into his arms, and his arms wrapped tightly around me, hugging my body tightly to him, my feet off of the ground. ”That's right,” he whispered. ”You're safe. I have you now. You are alright. I'm here to take you home.” He set me down to the ground again after a moment, and I reluctantly let him go.

\tI looked around to see the other riders.

\tDrakul was there, as was Vintice of the Ridgestone clan, who I remembered from many tales during my youth depicting him as a fantastic swordsman, but that wasn't too surprising considering that he was Havengrove city's blacksmith.

\tOf course, he would more than likely be skilled in the art.

\tBut my attention was caught and lingered on a pair of bright golden eyes in a handsome face covered in traditional Woodelf Assassin War Paint, a face that I would always recognize from the depths of my very soul.

\tKelose.

\tI nodded softly to him, acknowledging his presence, and he smiled sadly at me.

\tDragon looked me over. ”Are you alright? Are you injured? Do you need medical attention?”

\tI nodded, and he lifted into his arms, and set me onto his moose before mounting behind me, and we rode with haste to get out of this dreadful place.

\tWe rode in the direction of home, far to the northwest.

\t”How did you know where to find me?” I asked, my voice cracking.

\t”Your father,” Drakul answered, and confused shock hit me.

\t”My father?”

\t”Yes,” Dragon said. ”The Wraith that you encountered in the forest was telling the truth, after all. He did know who your father was. He bit you so that he could take your blood back to the Wraith city and show it to your father. Your father came two nights after the war, and demanded that we take him to you. I led him to our home, but you were gone. He told me that there was a Darkelf's scent inside your room as well, and that both of your scents led off in the direction of Barrenwilds. So, I threw together a small rescue team, and we came straight here.”

\t”How long have I been gone? I was taken the same night as the war.”

\t”It has been twelve days since the war,” Drakul said softly.

\tI looked at Dragon. ”Why didn't you come to check on me before then? I was kidnapped from our own home and you didn't notice for two days?”

\t”You had killed someone for the very first time, Kysael. And honestly, I was feeling so unlike myself, that I knew that you would want me to stay away. You had told me that you would come to me on your own. I thought that you would want space. You have before, after all. And when your father came looking for you, we found your room empty.”

\tI nodded. ”You're right. I would have wanted you to stay away, because you were acting strangely...and I would have wanted space. I'm sorry, I've just...” I shook. ”I've just...”

\tHe hugged me with one arm. ”At least you're still alive.”

\t”So, what was my father like?” I asked, changing the subject.

\tHe hesitated before he softly laughed. ”Oh, what you would expect any other Wraith to be like. Black hair, blue eyes, blue markings.... they were the same shape and color as yours, and he told us what he knew of your mother. As soon as he told us her name, we knew that he was telling us the truth.”

\t”I see. So, who is he?”

\tHe hesitated. ”How much do you know about the Wraiths, Kysael?”

\tI thought for a moment. ”They feed on blood and raw flesh. They all have black hair and blue eyes and markings to identify which clan they are from, each clan marking a different shade of blue. The darker the markings, the more powerful the clan. They are ruled by an ancient king, named Ekabat.”

\t”Does the name 'Moserre' ring any bells?” Dragon asked me, and I felt Kelose tense up, gaping at me from his mount.

\t”He is the crowned prince of the Wraiths, but what does that have to do with-”

\t”Do you know the Wraith marking for the royal clan?” Drakul interjected.

\tI shook my head slowly. ”What does that have to do with me?”

\t”Kysael, the marking of the Royal Wraith clan is a royal blue, upside down crown.” Dragon said softly. He pulled out a mirror. ”What is your marking?”

\t”I don't need a mirror, Dragon, I know that it's.... it's a.....” I took the mirror anyway, just to confirm it to myself. I looked at my face. ”A royal blue, upside down crown...!” I met his eyes. ”No...”

\tHe nodded, a sly grin on his face. ”You are the daughter of the crowned Prince of the Wraiths, Prince Moserre.”

\t”That has to be some mistake!” I said. ”Mother was raped, aren't royal people supposed to be above such lowly acts?” I couldn't accept this. \t

\tI was Wraith Royalty? All this time, I had been so degraded and so mistreated and I could have been royalty if only I'd known about my father? Had my mother known who he was? Had she known all along that I was the son of a prince?

\t”You mean to tell me that my mother was executed after giving birth to the daughter of a prince? No. You have to be lying!” I shouted.

\t”Your mother and brother and Garin were on their way back from another city,” Drakul began.

\t”Stop it,” I whispered. I knew where he was going with this, and I didn't want to hear it aloud. I'd already heard it once before, and that was more than my heart could bear.

\t”A party of Wraiths came upon their campsite, and Garin fled-”

\t”Please-” I begged.

\t”And all your mother had to offer in exchange for her son's life and her own was her body-”

\t”I said STOP!” I snarled, my blood pumping furiously through my veins.

\tHe sighed, running a hand over his long, red hair. ”You need to accept who you are, lassie. Your father raped your mother in exchange for saving them from being killed. And nine months later, your mother gave birth to you.”

\t”So, I turned out just like her, then.”

\tDrakul looked away, a hard expression on his wise face. Dragon's grip on me got tighter. Kelose readjusted his position on his elk, a standard mode of transport in the mountains. His eyes continued to worryingly glance over at me.

\t”So....I was right, after all.” Kelose said finally.

\t”What do you mean?” I asked.