Nightmares Should Really Stay in the Fade
Chapter 2: Captured!
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"Please come in."
"Ah, a cordial invitation is most kind. How refreshing." Annabelle gasped. Fenris stood up, despite his still healing wound, and searched for anything he could use as a weapon.
"Fenris…"
Fenris glared at the door, ignoring Annabelle, and leaving her to figure out who the voice belonged to. It belonged to a man Fenris hoped never to see again, but that would be in a perfect world.
The door opened. In stepped a well-dressed Tevinter Magister, half a dozen bodyguards at his side.
"Shit." Belle mumbled.
"Don't scream. Whomever comes to you aid if you do will die." Said the Magister.
Belle's heart raced,and her life flashed before her eyes as three guards pointed their crossbows at her and the other three at Fenris.
Fenris glared at his former master, fire in his eyes. "You will not hurt her." He snarled.
"Oh, I will do as I please with this pretty thing. I think I shall call her Goldie and keep her for myself. Would you like that, my Little Wolf?" sneered the magister, grabbing Belle's arm and lifting her up off the bed.
She looked him square in the eye, her unbroken spirit evident in her voice as she growled, "You will pay for this, Danarius."
"Ah, so my pet has spoken of me, yes, Goldie?"
"My name's Annabelle, you sodding pig!"
The magister slapped her hard across the face, causing a reaction from Fenris, who, elf though he was, sprang upon his former master like a wolf as he had called, causing three of the crossbowmen to fire, all missing, thankfully for Fenris.
Annabelle shook off the Magister's grasp and kicked him hard in the stomach. As she brought her leg back to kick again, however, the magister grabbed her foot and pulled her to the ground. He forced her into submission, binding her hands tightly behind her back and gagging her.
Fenris was backed into a corner by the crossbowmen, and Danarius forced Belle to her feet by pulling her arm.
"Now, now, my Pet, is this really worth wasting a pretty girl's life over? Come with me now, and she will be allowed to live. What do you say, hm?"
Fenris knew if he didn't surrender now, any hope of escape with both of their lives would be lost.
"I will come with you if you promise not to hurt her."
"If she behaves, and you behave, I promise no harm shall come to Goldie."
"I would be foolish to resist." Fenris said, bowing his head and allowing his hands to be bound with Lyrium infused shackles, attached to a fiery leash held by Danarius.
"Nooooo!" Annabelle managed through the gag, only to be shoved forward by Danarius.
Danarius cast a spell which made Belle and Fenris's heads spin, and within moments for so it seemed, they were aboard a ship, all standing exactly how they had been inside Hawke's mansion, only they were standing on a glyph of teleportation aboard the ship.
Annabelle and her beloved were unceremoniously shoved into a small cage, meant to house Mabari war hounds. Fenris's chains were removed and he immediately untied Annabelle and took off the gag. She clung to his shoulder, trying not to cry because she realized they were not alone. One of the body guards approached the cage cautiously. He took off his helm, revealing himself to be a fairly aged elf.
Fenris paid no heed, instead he retreated to a far corner of their confinement like a caged animal whose spirit was broken, Belle glaring at the elf angrily.
"You would do this to a fellow elf? You are pathetic, and you have committed the worst kind of betrayal." Belle commented angrily to the bodyguard.
"But I have done only what is in my best interest, human." He took off a leather gauntlet to reveal many scars on his wrist and lower arm.
Fenris glared at him with wide eyes. "So he used you for blood rituals? Does that mean-"
"I am bound by servitude as you are, young one. It won't be long now before I make the final sacrifice."
said the bodyguard.
"So you're a slave as well? Emma ir abelas." Said Belle, bowing her head and stroking Fenris's hand.
"You speak Dalish? But you are a human….you should not even be a slave unless you committed a crime in Tevinter."
"I learned from a friend." She said, smiling weakly as she thought of Merrill, who had taught her some basics in the elven language. "And apparently I have. But all I did was fall in love."
Fenris scooted closer to the bars of the cage, now more interested in conversation. "With a fugitive slave. Sheltering me was a crime punishable by death…or life as a slave, in Belle's case."
"I am sorry to hear of such things." Said the guard. "My name is Darius. You may see my daughter, she's on board somewhere serving Mistress Hadriana. Her name is Orana."
"Hadriana." Fenris repeated. "I do not look forward t seeing her again…"
And Fenris didn't have to wait long…
Epicness to be continued…
A/N: Darius is Orana's "papa" as mentioned in the game. Things don't look good right now….But they will only get worse. It has a happy ending I promise!
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