Waking up was a pain. My head was aching badly and my entire body was still feeling heavy. I opened my eyes and found that my vision was blurry.
When I saw where Ellie and I were at, I snapped fully awake. We were locked in some sort of cellar. My heart jumped into my throat.
My eyes drifted to where Ellie was; she was still unconscious on the floor. I shook her awake as hard as I could. "Ellie! Ellie, wake up!" I whisper, still shaking her.
My attempts worked as she stirred and groaned. She sits up slowly with her head in her hands. "Enid? Whe… Where are we?" she asked drowsily.
Before I could answer, the sound of chopping stopped me. We turned to look at what was making that sound. We sit up and take a closer look.
There was someone chopping some meat. When we see him cutting a human arm, I feel my stomach turn. We both gasp softly and scoot away from the door. These fuckers were cannibals… We're we their next meal? We're they saving us for later?
I grabbed Ellie's hand and squeezed hard. She squeezed back. The man stopped chopping and turned around to look at Ellie and I.
He saw the disgusted look on our faces before walking off. The butcher was James, David's friend. When he had left, Ellie jumped up and walked to the gate.
She grabs it and begins to shake it with a grunt. I get up to help her. The gate was locked. Neither of us were small enough to squeeze underneath the door.
"How're you two feeling?" David asked, bringing in a tray of food. Looking at him made my blood boil. I backed up a little bit.
"Super." Ellie sarcastically says. "No thanks to you." I spat, giving him a disgusted look. He then slides the tray underneath the door.
"You two should eat." he tells us, "I know you two are hungry. Been out for quite some time." Ellie and I glared at him through the cage. "What is this?" I ask, not trusting him.
"It's deer." he answered. Ellie looks at it for a second before looking back at David. "With some human helping on the side?" Ellie asked, glancing over at the body behind him.
"No. No, I promise it's just the deer meat." he said, giving us a strange smile. "You're a fucking animal." Ellie spat. We kneel down in front of the tray and begin to eat off of it.
We were so hungry that we didn't care if it was deer or even mice. "Well that's quick to judgment," he says, kneeling down to his knees, "Considering you two and your friend killed how many men?" I shake my head and look at him. "They gave us no choice." I say to him.
"And you think we have a choice? Is that it?" he asks, shaking his head, "You kill to survive and so do we. We have to take care of our own by any means necessary." After a few bites, I wipe my mouth and look at him. "So what's your plan? Are you gonna chop us up into tiny pieces?" Ellie asked sternly.
David only chuckles at this before looking up. "I'd rather not." he says, "Please tell me your names." He stared into our eyes for a minute. My eyes narrow in anger and I shove the tray back to the other side.
"You're so full of shit." I growl, standing back up with Ellie. We hold onto the bars gently. "On the contrary, I've been quite honest with the two of you." he said, setting the tray aside.
"Now I think it's your turn. It's how I'm gonna convince the others." he says, standing back up. I stared at him with a confused look on my face. "Convince them of what?" Ellie asked, confused also.
"That you two can come around. You have heart. You're loyal to each other." he replies, getting closer to us, "And you two are special." He placed his hand on our hands.
My heart jumped into my throat from how nervous I was feeling. It was then we knew what this man's intentions were. Ellie and I look at each other for a minute.
Ellie had slowly put her hand on top of David's. She then quickly grabs his fingers and bends it back all of the way, causing him to double over with a yell. She tries grabbing the keys that were attached to his pants, only to get grabbed by her wrist. David pulls her into the cell door three times.
"You bastard!" I shout in anger. I jumped at him and attacked him but he grabbed me by my wrist and pulled me into the door with a hard slam. Severe pain ran through my head, causing me to clench my teeth and squeeze my eyes shut.
I hear my heartbeat throb in the back of my head, rendering me stunned for a minute. I fell on my ass, feeling blood drip from my head and nose. When the wave of pain ended, I came to Ellie's aid.
"You stupid little girls! You're making this more difficult than it needs to be. What am I supposed to tell the others now?" David growled, holding his broken fingers. "Ellie and Enid." Ellie said, wiping her bloody nose. He turned to look at us, "What?"
"Tell them that Ellie and Enid are the little girls, who fucking kicked your ass!" I say, sneering at him. He looked down for a moment before saying, "How did she put it? Tiny pieces? See you in the morning, Ellie and Enid." He then leaves the room.
After he left, Ellie sat up. "Are you okay, Ellie?" I asked in concern. "My fucking nose…" she groaned, holding her nose, "What about you?"
"That fucker gave me a throbbing headache…" I say, still feeling my heartbeat throbbing at the back of my head, "Do you have any idea of how we're gonna get out of here?" "Agh… No. But we're getting out of here in one piece." she replied. That made me feel a little better.
I grinned warmly at her as I wiped the blood from my nose. Right now, all I wanted to do was to get some sleep with Ellie to get this thing off my mind.