The Lesser Evil
By: B4ndlss
Well, I never thought I would get back to this story, but here I am doing so :)
I honestly have no idea where I am going with story, seeing how I cannot find my outlines, maps and other visual aids, and what not. So please bear with me -.-
Also Merry Christmas to you all, Or Happy Hanukkah, or Happy Quanza (Hope I spelled that correctly) :)
With a groan Amorigas opened her eyes to find herself bound up, on the floor in an orc tent. She looked around frantically to find Lyu in a chair several feet away, blood flowing slowly down her face and pooling in her lap. "Lyu? Lyu? Are you ok? Please tell me that you are ok" Amorigas pleaded, with no result. Frightened for her long time friend she tried to free herself, but to no avail. Frustrated Amorigas looked away from her wounded, possibly dead friend, finding an orc with a knife in his hand, blood on its blade.
Sun entered the tent as another orc, darker in skin color barged in and began demanding something from the orc already within the tent. The report lasted for less that a few seconds, from the body language the orcs have gained nothing useful from Lyu, or what Amorigas assumed to be Lyu, being the only other Night Elf in the tent. The new orc pointed at Lyu yelling something in his barbaric tongue. The lighter orc walker over to Amorigas and picked her up with ease, causing Amorigas to realize in all humiliation, that she was without her armor, stripped down to her undergarments. The orc set Amorigas down onto a chair that was connected to Lyu's chair, but facing the other way. A few moments later Amorigas was tied to the chair and wasn't able to move.
"Ami..." Breathed Lyu. Her voice was ragged and dead, but at least Amorigas knew that she was alive, for the moment. "Ami... I don't know... I don't, what they're saying." Amorigas knew what Lyu was trying to say, but it was difficult to hear with Lyu's voice so quiet. Before Ami could reply, the lighter colored orc ran his fist into the side of Lyu's skull, causing the previous wounds to bleed faster. The orc yelled something at Lyu, but got no answer, and again the orc brought his fist into Lyu's skull. This time though, Lyu began to cough up blood, which rolled down her blue skin, causing a collage of red and blue. Amorigas cringed each time Lyu was hit, fearing that her fate was to be the same.
The orc didn't yell at Amorigas, oh no after Lyu's failure to cooperate, it seemed that it would try a different tactic. A tactic that Amorigas hoped would not be painful, but she knew that her hopes would be dashed quickly; and they were. Amorigas watched as the orc pulled out two metal rods from a furnace that she failed to notice earlier. Each of the metal rods were white hot at the tips; pain already began to float across Ami's body as the rods got closer. Ami, in shear fear and desperation began to plead with the orc, promising him that she would tell them everything and anything as long as he didn't do what he was planning to her. The orc flew into a rage at her begging. He placed one of the white hot tips into Ami's left palm. Tears poured from Ami's face as she tried to bite back a scream. The orc smiled at her attempt to hold the pain in check. He lifted the rod off of her palm and placed the other one in her right palm. Again Ami held back her want to scream, but the pain was unbearable and tears strolled freely from eyes.
The orc laughed and decided to up the ante's, he placed the first rod where Ami's neck connected with her shoulder, while keeping the second rod in her right hand. Ami could no longer hold off screaming. Ami began to shake in pain, pleading for the orc to stop, but again to no avail. The orc, as if feeding off of her screams twisted the first rod so it broke the skin at the neck. As more screams ensued the orc continued her torture until she passed out from the pain. With Ami passed out, the orc laughed and put the rods back into the fire and took his seat near the entrance of the tent, waiting for Ami to wake up again.
Eventually Ami did wake up, but it was long after her wounds stopped bleeding and the blood that covered her skin dried. She noticed the orc was standing in front of her, with an eerie smile on his face. He reached down and grabbed her head, forcing it still, and with the other hand brought out a white hot branding iron. Ami tried to shake free but, it was futile and she and the orc knew it. The orc waited for Ami to stop struggling before bringing the iron to her forehead. Ami's tears began to flow again, but fortunately for her, she didn't scream, not because she held herself together, but because she physically couldn't scream.
Lyu on the other side of the chair knew that she was next for the branding, she saw him put the branding iron in the furnace, she knew what was going to happen, and when it did, she would not fight it. Lyu was branded right after Amorigas, tears fell like Ami's, but unlike Ami; Lyu screamed as if her heart was being ripped out, and for all it mattered, it was.