Chapter 29: Cell
Dropped to the floor
"Here they are your Grace, the filthy bitches that you asked for."
"Ah…thank you Roebuck." The "Grace" replied, getting up from his seat and walking over to us. I placed his hand on Steph's chin and tilted her head upward to look at him. "And who is this beautiful creature?"
"I don't really know Your Grace she was with the girl. Well to tell you the truth Sir we did not know which one was which."
"I see…" And he walked over to me and tilted my chin up as well. I spit in his face, and he back handed me. "That should teach you some manners!" He shouted. "Take them away!" And we were pulled to our feet and dragged down the hall to a cold and damp cell. There we were thrown in and locked up.
"Oh great what the hell do we do now!" I cried.
"Shut up bitch" on of the men shouted, hitting the door.
"I am thinking Nicolle that is no need to worry." Steph whispered.
"Worry. Worry! What do mean by not worrying? We have no idea where the hell we are and that is some man that has a plot to do something to us…"
"We must wait it out."
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During the battle Shido, Waldron, and The Goblin King fought side by side. They were the strongest of them all. The Ansels were being defeated but not by much. The King's courageous crew was being weakened and could not fight much longer. The new leader of the Ansels who took over from Fallon, Anton had something up his leave that the King did not know about.
The battle was ongoing into long hours of the night up into the early morning. The King's men were now beyond help. They could do nothing. And when Anton cask the weakening spell, all hope was lost, those whose strength was gone died, leaving about 50 men including the King Waldron and Shido to fight for themselves.
"There is not much else to do."
"Sure there is we have our strength that we can use. All three of us…we can do it."
"No Shido it is not like that. We have to give in."
"But after all this time, the preparation…Nicolle…everything…you are just going to give all that up! I will not…"
"Waldron Learn your place, we will rest now, and fight again another day."
The battles that went on in the Underground went on for long periods of time, with breaks in between. So The King thought that it would be best to stop now and regain strength for the next fight. As appose to continuing and never being able to heal.
"But…"
"Shut up Waldron." Shido ordered. "It is what he wants to do then we will do it."
"Thank you Shido." The King stated, watching Waldron turning and storming off."
The Goblin King sent a servant with a white flag to go and speak with another servant from the other side. This was the way to tell the leader from the other side that they wanted to negotiate. Anton agreed and rode down to the Goblin King who was standing in the middle of his now ruined castle.
"Look I think it would be a good idea to rest now. I look at my men and at yours as well. They are in dire need of rest. And of course I never expected you to use a sleeping spell on my men."
"You should now that Ansel family by now. You should now that we are full of surprises."
"Yes I guess that is fair. But do you agree?"
"Indeed…if that is what you would like to do then we shall take a break but we fight again in a week…the dawn first three suns. And I will not discuss that further."
"Agreed" The King stated and they shook hands. The King stood there watching Anton riding off into the distance to tell his men to head back. He then turned to look at Shido who was nowhere is sight. Nicolle! He thought and ran down the path that would have led him to my chamber.
He ran in and saw that I was not there. He then ran into the wash chamber to look in there too, but saw no sign of me. He then conjured a crystal and looked inside to see of my whereabouts. Inside the crystal he saw darkness and could hear too voices. He recognized that one of them was mine and the other was Steph's.
So he searched the area harder and saw two men standing outside the door way laughing and throwing stuff through it. He recognized the men and grew furious. Running through the ruins he waved his hands in front of himself which cause the walls and floors to reconstruct just before he could step on it. Once he reached the outside of the castle, it was fully renewed, standing tall and looking over the Labyrinth.
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"Hello ladies, eat your grub." The man laughed filling two metal bowls with a stew like substance that would make anyone want to vomit. "Come on now eat up… I know you'll like it, comes straight from my ass." He smirked wickedly before being pushed to the wall. We thought it was going to be Shido or the King coming to save us. But we were mistaken. The door to the cell opened and the man that we saw sitting on the chair walked in. He took the spoon from Steph's hand and threw it to the floor.
"Please my dear you do not have to eat that. You will have to excuse them they are just trying to have fun." He stated looking to the slobs in the corner outside the cell. They cleared their throats and looked away. "Come I would like you to have dinner with me tonight. I know that you have been looked in this cell for a while and I am sure that you would like to get out."
"Yes I would, but I am not going with out Nicolle."
"Well you do not have that option. Either you come with me or you sit here and eat this shit! It is up to you." He shrugged stepping away. Steph looked to me and frowned.
"I am not going to go with out you Nicolle."
"No you must be hungry I want you to go. Who knows maybe he will let you go…get help if you do." I stated in elfish that I learned from her. She only taught me a few words, but I was able to come out with it.
"There see she wants you to come with me too, she is a smart girl take her advice." The man replied, though he did not know what I said in Elfish which I was thankful for."
"Very well then." And she hugged me and walked out of the cell looking at me as she left."
"Be careful." I whispered.
"You too." She motioned with her mouth but no actual words came out. But I knew what she said.
"You will like what I have prepared for dinner I know."
"Oh really." Steph stated unconvinced.
"Yes, and it sounds as though you doubt my words." He commented shocked. Steph did not say anything. They got to the dinning area and he pulled Steph's seat out. Steph walked up to the seat and sat down, placing the napkin in her lap. The man took a seat at the other end of the table, looked at Steph and then stood up again. He walked over to Steph and asked her,
"Would you mind it, if I sat here instead?" He questioned putting his hand on the back of the chair next to Steph.
"It is your place you do as you want it is not up to me to decide." Steph rolled her eyes.
"Very well then," and he sat down beside her. "You know Steph, I think that you are quite beautiful…and I enjoy your company very much. I sense that you enjoy mine too." He stated, taking his finger and trailing just above her breast. Steph pushed his hand away and stood up. He stood up immediately after and grabbed her arm, pulling her closer to him. He forced a kiss onto her lips and began groping her breasts. Steph tried to get away, and as she turned the force of her turn and the grip of his hand on her gown tore it down the side. He wrapped his hand around her waist and pushed her against the table, he attempted to spread her legs apart and just then…Shido and the King ran in.
"Get off her!" Shido yelled, grabbing his arm and pulling him away from her. He then grabbed his sword and placed it just under his Adam's apple. The man stepped back till he was leaning up against the wall. The King grabbed Steph and asked if she was okay. She nodded her head yes.
"Can you take me to Nicolle, is she okay?"
"Yes she is fine, well so I think…come on this way." And she started running to a door. The Goblin King looked to Shido.
"Don't worry I'm fine, me and my friend Typos are going to have some fun…aren't we?" And the Goblin King followed Steph down the hall.
I was in the cell and I suddenly saw the two men thrown across the room. They charged back at the figure and were thrown again. Suddenly Steph was standing in front of the door shaking it as hard as she could.
"Steph…what is going on?"
"The King and Shido are here, and we are getting out. Your Highness the door is locked I can't get it opened." Steph cried turning to see the King walking over to the door. He walked over, his expression was serious. He looked so good; this was one of those times that I was grateful I knew him. He said nothing, but just swung the door open. I grinned and ran into his arms. He stood shocked, but put his arms around me anyway, and kissed the top of my head; that only made me hug him more tightly, as I started to cry.
"Come on we should go back to Shido." Steph stated. I let go of the King and smiled to her. The King agreed and put his hand on my lower back walking by my side. Steph lead the way. And when we got back to the room where Shido was he was yelling at the man."
"Who is the one that you are taking orders from? Who is it? Answer me!" The man just whimpered.
"Leave him alone Shido it is okay. Come on Shido…let him go." The King stated, walking up to Shido and placing his hand on his arm.
"Do you know what he could have done to Steph?"! Shido yelled.
"Yes I do, now come on let's get these ladies out of here." And he started walking with us to the door way. Shido looked to Steph and then took the blade of his sword, running it across the man's neck. It slit it up, causing to blood to spill from his jugular vein onto the floor. Shido took a little vile and filled it with the man's blood, closed the cap and restrung it around his neck, before running to catch up with the rest of us.
