Warning: torture (possibly some confusing parts, its late at night and I haven't had much sleep this past week (sorry))
Disclaimer: don't own, some names of places I have made up, others I have herd somewhere
Thank you to all those who have review. you have really encouraged me to write this fic more. I was planning on alternating between this story and Club Ravine, but because so many people review, I decided to put the other story on hold for a little (don't worry those who are reading it, I will finish it) and work on this one some more. I hope I haven't destroyed this chapter too much and I hope you like it as well! if not, it will try to redeem myself with the next chapter.
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Chapter 2: The Escape
The castle loomed ahead, drawing ever nearer. Duo, who was sitting right across from his new purchase, keep an admiring gaze focused on the slave. He turned his head slightly to see the large outline of the castle on the hill.
"Your new home Heero." He said, turning back to study his slave once more. Heero, who had been staring out the window for the whole trip, made no acknowledgment as to having herd Duo.
The castle was huge. Much bigger than the castle Heero came from. There were five towers, four on the corners and one in the middle, which was by far the largest and tallest. The castle was surrounded by a moat, with a draw bridge.
When the carriage had reached the castle gate it stopped to let its passengers off. Duo did not let just anybody cross the bridge into the castle's courtyard. The guard who had been sitting in the front with the driver paid the mad before making his way to the back to help his master and superiors out of the carriage. Duo gratefully accepted the help, but Wufei politely declined to withhold his honor. The guard who had been sitting next to Heero grabbed a hold of his right forearm and brought him to the door, where the second guard grabbed hold of Heero's left forearm and helped pull him out of the carriage. Once on the ground the guards did no loosen their hold on him, but instead tightened their grip, just to make sure nothing happened. Though it seemed their efforts were wasted since Heero had stopped squirming a minute after the carriage had left the port, and was now walking idly between the guards to the castle.
"Bring him to my rooms" Duo told the guards, "I will be up shortly, I just have to stop by the King and Queen"
"Yes, Sir" the guards replied together, and led Heero in the opposite direction of Duo.
The castle's court yard was huge. The front of it was mostly a dirt area, used to park carriages and horses. The Stables were on the left side of the courtyard. The dirt road followed around the perimeter of the courtyard. Carriages and horses were stopped along the way.
The middle of the courtyard held a large water fountain which was surrounded but hundreds of different colored flowers, all of different hights and sizes. It was absolutely beautiful. The center of the fountain contained a Unicorn, with the water coming out of its horn.
The guards led Heero to the far side of the courtyard and entered a side door. They entered into a huge hall, lined with pictures of royalty. A large plush couch lined the far wall with a glass coffee table in front of it. Little ornaments decorated the room, each housed on some surface or hanging by the window, letting light shine through them, creating rainbows on the walls.
The walked through a door directly in front of them and found themselves in what looked like a study. A Large mahogany desk sat in the middle of the room with a stack of papers in a little off to the side on it. A picture frame sat on the right corner of the desk and a feather and ink set sat by the far edge of the middle. Two old style leather chairs sat opposite the desk, with a third bigger one being the one behind the desk. Books lined the walls from the floor to the ceiling. a large picture window was set behind the desk, giving a wonderful view of a lake. The study had a cozy yet dark and stuffy feeling to it.
The trio made their way yet again through another door, this time to their left. This item they entered a bed chamber. A huge king size bed sat against the far wall with sheen drapes drawn around it, heavier satin drapes were tied off at the four posts of the bed. Another picture window lined the wall across from the bed, also giving a marvelous view of the lake. A fire place was set on the wall the door they had just walked through was on. Two large, fat armchairs sat in front of it with a woolly rug in front of the hearth. The guards led Heero over to a clasp in the wall on the opposite side of the bed and attached his chain to it. Locking it in place. Without a word they turned and left the room, leaving Heero to look over his surroundings.
Duo was true to his word, it couldn't have been more than five minutes before he entered his bed chamber. However he entered an empty room. Startled Duo looked around. He walked over to the wall that Heero was supposed to be chained to and discovered the collar still attached to the chain connected to the wall. However, Heero's neck was not in it. In fact, Heero was no where to be found in the room, nor in any part of Duo's rooms. He immediately notified his guard that his new slave had escaped and ordered everyone to start looking for him.
During the search for the slave Duo ran into Wufei.
"Wufei, I want you to go to Glembogle and find out everything you can about Heero. I want to know why he was banished and sold by the king himself. He must have been somebody, or done something huge to have that kind of attention."
"Yes, sir."
"Go now" Duo said, answering Wufei's unasked question, "there are enough people searching for him, he's still in the castle, we'll find him.
"As you wish, my lord." and with that he walked to the weapons room to gather the needed supplies and to appoint the guards he would need to accompany him on this mission.
Meanwhile, eight hours later, Duo was sitting in his study, looking out the picture window when somebody rapidly knocked on his door.
"Come in" he said, not turning around to see the new comer.
"My lord, we have found the boy." This got Duo's attention, he quickly swiveled the chair around to look at his slave and his slaves escort.
"Where was he?"
"He was in a broom closet in the basement."
"The basement?" said Duo, raising an eyebrow, "How did he get all the way down there without anyone noticing him?"
"I do not know, my lord. We found him because we herd the door close. When we opened it we found him huddling in the corner."
"Well thank you for returning him, Williams" Duo stood from his seat, picking something round off his desk and walked over to Heero. "Because you escaped so easily from your old collar I have decided to give you this new one. It is made from Dragon's skin. Only I can take it off of you. It is enchanted to prevent you from picking it, and it is also a very good locator." Duo pulled something out of the pocket in his robe, "This thing here tells me where you are. See? it says 'Duo's study.' Oh, and I should probably also mention that if you do anything that disappoints me I can just press this little button and it can tighten, making it harder for you to breath, I'm sure." said Duo pointing to a little blue button on the thing he pulled out of his pocket, "And this one," he said pointing to the red one, "will produce spikes, which will stick into you neck, which I'm sure is also rather uncomftorable. now, you know how you can prevent me from doing either of these things to you?" Heero didn't say anything, "Don't piss me off. You follow my orders and I won't have any reason to do it. But alas, you have already upset me. Along with a punishment, I will try at least one of these out on you tonight. hmm...which one should I do?" Duo looked up, placed the hand that wasn't holding the gadget to his chin and began to tap his foot in order to give the impression that he was thinking.
"I think I'll start with this one" he said pressing the red button. As soon as his finger released the button thousand of tiny spikes began to slide out of the collar and press into Heero's neck.
"Oh, this is fun! but I don't see any blood! maybe we should make the collar tighter." he said as he pressed the blue button. Again, the instant he lifted his finger from the button the collar started to tighten. The spikes dug deeper into Heero's neck, prickling the skin. "No, not good enough" Duo pressed the blue bottom again. The spikes drove in deeper. Heero's neck was on fire, but he would not show any signs of pain or discomfort. He could feel the moistness of his blood on his neck now starting to slide down.
"Oh, what do we have here?" Duo said stepping forward. "Look at that. it's such a pretty color." he said, reaching a finger out to tough the warm blood seeping out from the collar and then placing the finger in his mouth. "mmm...so good. I can't wait to really taste you" Duo said in a deep whisper, giving Heero a sly smirk, sending a slight, unnoticed shiver down Heero's back.
"Well, don't think that was your only punishment. Oh no. you have much more in store my friend. Much more." Duo took his arm and led him to a door in the corner. Through the door was a dark, stone walled room with all sorts of gadgets lining the walls.
"Its a good thing the only thing you guys wear is a loin cloth. Saves time taking your clothes off, and prevents them from getting stuck in the wounds" As Duo was saying this he was chaining Heero's arms over his head and his feet to the floor in the center of the room. Once Duo was sure that Heero wasn't going anywhere he walked over to the wall to pick out the 'tools' he was going to use. The first thing he picked was an old whip, crusted with old, dried blood. He walked back behind Heero, standing a few feet away.
As he lifted his right hand which was holding the whip he said, "I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I will," and brought his hand down, allowing the whip to make contact with the slaves smooth back. The whip hadn't even gone the whole way down before it was lifted up again and brought back down upon his back. Repeatedly Duo lifted the whip only to have it come crashing down moments later. But no matter how many times, or how hard, Heero made no outward show as to feeling any pain. Blood was running steadily down his back by the time Duo had finished with the whip. Duo was panting lightly from the force he had used to deliver the blows to heero's back, but he didn't seem to notice it as he dropped the whip where he stood, walked to the other wall and picked up some ammonia and rubbing alcohol.
"Well we should probably clean your back a little, shouldn't we?" he asked as he unscrewed the two tops and poured the two liquids into another container together. Then Duo took an old cloth hanging on a hook, drenched it in the mixture and pressed it onto the bleeding back. Soon the container was a mixture of blood, alcohol and ammonia, but still Heero hadn't made a sound. Duo was becoming very angry now. Never before had anyone lasted this long. They usually at least cringed or shook when the whip had hit them for the 20th time!
"I have one last thing for you tonight, my sweet." Duo picked something round off the floor a few feet away and walking in from of Heero so he could see what it was.
"See this? this is a nice little waist band." The 'waist band' as Duo called it, looked just like a large collar with spikes. "This is another thing you will get the privilege of wearing." said Duo, walking closer to Heero and opening the band. He closed it around Heero's mid-section right under the breast bone. The spikes dug into the skin, drawing more blood. Heero was starting to feel a little dizzy from the blood loss, but was determined not to show it.
Once Duo was done securing the 'waist band' to Heero he stepped back to admire his handy work. "Now, you might want to keep in mind that moving around will really hurt with those spikes in you. so if you want that thing to come off, behave, and you are not allowed to leave my rooms unless with me. you are my personal slave. There is no reason why you should need to leave the rooms anyway. Understood?" Heero did nothing, "Good, I'm glad we understand each other."
Duo unchained Heero's hands and ankles helped him into his bed chamber even though heero tried to brush him off. Once in the bed chamber Duo chained Heero back to the wall and walked over to the bed where he changed into his night shirt and got under the heavy covers.
Heero curled himself into a little ball and squished himself into the corner to try and keep himself warm since he had no blanket and the cool autumn air was entering the room through the open window.
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alright thats it for this chapter. sorry it took a while to get out, i wanted to get it out sooner, but work took up my time and prevented me from working on it. if everything goes as planned, i should have the next chapter up. hopefully, by the end of this week.
thanx again to all those who have reviewed!!!!!!!!! and to everyone else reading this, please R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: don't own, some names of places I have made up, others I have herd somewhere
Thank you to all those who have review. you have really encouraged me to write this fic more. I was planning on alternating between this story and Club Ravine, but because so many people review, I decided to put the other story on hold for a little (don't worry those who are reading it, I will finish it) and work on this one some more. I hope I haven't destroyed this chapter too much and I hope you like it as well! if not, it will try to redeem myself with the next chapter.
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Chapter 2: The Escape
The castle loomed ahead, drawing ever nearer. Duo, who was sitting right across from his new purchase, keep an admiring gaze focused on the slave. He turned his head slightly to see the large outline of the castle on the hill.
"Your new home Heero." He said, turning back to study his slave once more. Heero, who had been staring out the window for the whole trip, made no acknowledgment as to having herd Duo.
The castle was huge. Much bigger than the castle Heero came from. There were five towers, four on the corners and one in the middle, which was by far the largest and tallest. The castle was surrounded by a moat, with a draw bridge.
When the carriage had reached the castle gate it stopped to let its passengers off. Duo did not let just anybody cross the bridge into the castle's courtyard. The guard who had been sitting in the front with the driver paid the mad before making his way to the back to help his master and superiors out of the carriage. Duo gratefully accepted the help, but Wufei politely declined to withhold his honor. The guard who had been sitting next to Heero grabbed a hold of his right forearm and brought him to the door, where the second guard grabbed hold of Heero's left forearm and helped pull him out of the carriage. Once on the ground the guards did no loosen their hold on him, but instead tightened their grip, just to make sure nothing happened. Though it seemed their efforts were wasted since Heero had stopped squirming a minute after the carriage had left the port, and was now walking idly between the guards to the castle.
"Bring him to my rooms" Duo told the guards, "I will be up shortly, I just have to stop by the King and Queen"
"Yes, Sir" the guards replied together, and led Heero in the opposite direction of Duo.
The castle's court yard was huge. The front of it was mostly a dirt area, used to park carriages and horses. The Stables were on the left side of the courtyard. The dirt road followed around the perimeter of the courtyard. Carriages and horses were stopped along the way.
The middle of the courtyard held a large water fountain which was surrounded but hundreds of different colored flowers, all of different hights and sizes. It was absolutely beautiful. The center of the fountain contained a Unicorn, with the water coming out of its horn.
The guards led Heero to the far side of the courtyard and entered a side door. They entered into a huge hall, lined with pictures of royalty. A large plush couch lined the far wall with a glass coffee table in front of it. Little ornaments decorated the room, each housed on some surface or hanging by the window, letting light shine through them, creating rainbows on the walls.
The walked through a door directly in front of them and found themselves in what looked like a study. A Large mahogany desk sat in the middle of the room with a stack of papers in a little off to the side on it. A picture frame sat on the right corner of the desk and a feather and ink set sat by the far edge of the middle. Two old style leather chairs sat opposite the desk, with a third bigger one being the one behind the desk. Books lined the walls from the floor to the ceiling. a large picture window was set behind the desk, giving a wonderful view of a lake. The study had a cozy yet dark and stuffy feeling to it.
The trio made their way yet again through another door, this time to their left. This item they entered a bed chamber. A huge king size bed sat against the far wall with sheen drapes drawn around it, heavier satin drapes were tied off at the four posts of the bed. Another picture window lined the wall across from the bed, also giving a marvelous view of the lake. A fire place was set on the wall the door they had just walked through was on. Two large, fat armchairs sat in front of it with a woolly rug in front of the hearth. The guards led Heero over to a clasp in the wall on the opposite side of the bed and attached his chain to it. Locking it in place. Without a word they turned and left the room, leaving Heero to look over his surroundings.
Duo was true to his word, it couldn't have been more than five minutes before he entered his bed chamber. However he entered an empty room. Startled Duo looked around. He walked over to the wall that Heero was supposed to be chained to and discovered the collar still attached to the chain connected to the wall. However, Heero's neck was not in it. In fact, Heero was no where to be found in the room, nor in any part of Duo's rooms. He immediately notified his guard that his new slave had escaped and ordered everyone to start looking for him.
During the search for the slave Duo ran into Wufei.
"Wufei, I want you to go to Glembogle and find out everything you can about Heero. I want to know why he was banished and sold by the king himself. He must have been somebody, or done something huge to have that kind of attention."
"Yes, sir."
"Go now" Duo said, answering Wufei's unasked question, "there are enough people searching for him, he's still in the castle, we'll find him.
"As you wish, my lord." and with that he walked to the weapons room to gather the needed supplies and to appoint the guards he would need to accompany him on this mission.
Meanwhile, eight hours later, Duo was sitting in his study, looking out the picture window when somebody rapidly knocked on his door.
"Come in" he said, not turning around to see the new comer.
"My lord, we have found the boy." This got Duo's attention, he quickly swiveled the chair around to look at his slave and his slaves escort.
"Where was he?"
"He was in a broom closet in the basement."
"The basement?" said Duo, raising an eyebrow, "How did he get all the way down there without anyone noticing him?"
"I do not know, my lord. We found him because we herd the door close. When we opened it we found him huddling in the corner."
"Well thank you for returning him, Williams" Duo stood from his seat, picking something round off his desk and walked over to Heero. "Because you escaped so easily from your old collar I have decided to give you this new one. It is made from Dragon's skin. Only I can take it off of you. It is enchanted to prevent you from picking it, and it is also a very good locator." Duo pulled something out of the pocket in his robe, "This thing here tells me where you are. See? it says 'Duo's study.' Oh, and I should probably also mention that if you do anything that disappoints me I can just press this little button and it can tighten, making it harder for you to breath, I'm sure." said Duo pointing to a little blue button on the thing he pulled out of his pocket, "And this one," he said pointing to the red one, "will produce spikes, which will stick into you neck, which I'm sure is also rather uncomftorable. now, you know how you can prevent me from doing either of these things to you?" Heero didn't say anything, "Don't piss me off. You follow my orders and I won't have any reason to do it. But alas, you have already upset me. Along with a punishment, I will try at least one of these out on you tonight. hmm...which one should I do?" Duo looked up, placed the hand that wasn't holding the gadget to his chin and began to tap his foot in order to give the impression that he was thinking.
"I think I'll start with this one" he said pressing the red button. As soon as his finger released the button thousand of tiny spikes began to slide out of the collar and press into Heero's neck.
"Oh, this is fun! but I don't see any blood! maybe we should make the collar tighter." he said as he pressed the blue button. Again, the instant he lifted his finger from the button the collar started to tighten. The spikes dug deeper into Heero's neck, prickling the skin. "No, not good enough" Duo pressed the blue bottom again. The spikes drove in deeper. Heero's neck was on fire, but he would not show any signs of pain or discomfort. He could feel the moistness of his blood on his neck now starting to slide down.
"Oh, what do we have here?" Duo said stepping forward. "Look at that. it's such a pretty color." he said, reaching a finger out to tough the warm blood seeping out from the collar and then placing the finger in his mouth. "mmm...so good. I can't wait to really taste you" Duo said in a deep whisper, giving Heero a sly smirk, sending a slight, unnoticed shiver down Heero's back.
"Well, don't think that was your only punishment. Oh no. you have much more in store my friend. Much more." Duo took his arm and led him to a door in the corner. Through the door was a dark, stone walled room with all sorts of gadgets lining the walls.
"Its a good thing the only thing you guys wear is a loin cloth. Saves time taking your clothes off, and prevents them from getting stuck in the wounds" As Duo was saying this he was chaining Heero's arms over his head and his feet to the floor in the center of the room. Once Duo was sure that Heero wasn't going anywhere he walked over to the wall to pick out the 'tools' he was going to use. The first thing he picked was an old whip, crusted with old, dried blood. He walked back behind Heero, standing a few feet away.
As he lifted his right hand which was holding the whip he said, "I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I will," and brought his hand down, allowing the whip to make contact with the slaves smooth back. The whip hadn't even gone the whole way down before it was lifted up again and brought back down upon his back. Repeatedly Duo lifted the whip only to have it come crashing down moments later. But no matter how many times, or how hard, Heero made no outward show as to feeling any pain. Blood was running steadily down his back by the time Duo had finished with the whip. Duo was panting lightly from the force he had used to deliver the blows to heero's back, but he didn't seem to notice it as he dropped the whip where he stood, walked to the other wall and picked up some ammonia and rubbing alcohol.
"Well we should probably clean your back a little, shouldn't we?" he asked as he unscrewed the two tops and poured the two liquids into another container together. Then Duo took an old cloth hanging on a hook, drenched it in the mixture and pressed it onto the bleeding back. Soon the container was a mixture of blood, alcohol and ammonia, but still Heero hadn't made a sound. Duo was becoming very angry now. Never before had anyone lasted this long. They usually at least cringed or shook when the whip had hit them for the 20th time!
"I have one last thing for you tonight, my sweet." Duo picked something round off the floor a few feet away and walking in from of Heero so he could see what it was.
"See this? this is a nice little waist band." The 'waist band' as Duo called it, looked just like a large collar with spikes. "This is another thing you will get the privilege of wearing." said Duo, walking closer to Heero and opening the band. He closed it around Heero's mid-section right under the breast bone. The spikes dug into the skin, drawing more blood. Heero was starting to feel a little dizzy from the blood loss, but was determined not to show it.
Once Duo was done securing the 'waist band' to Heero he stepped back to admire his handy work. "Now, you might want to keep in mind that moving around will really hurt with those spikes in you. so if you want that thing to come off, behave, and you are not allowed to leave my rooms unless with me. you are my personal slave. There is no reason why you should need to leave the rooms anyway. Understood?" Heero did nothing, "Good, I'm glad we understand each other."
Duo unchained Heero's hands and ankles helped him into his bed chamber even though heero tried to brush him off. Once in the bed chamber Duo chained Heero back to the wall and walked over to the bed where he changed into his night shirt and got under the heavy covers.
Heero curled himself into a little ball and squished himself into the corner to try and keep himself warm since he had no blanket and the cool autumn air was entering the room through the open window.
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alright thats it for this chapter. sorry it took a while to get out, i wanted to get it out sooner, but work took up my time and prevented me from working on it. if everything goes as planned, i should have the next chapter up. hopefully, by the end of this week.
thanx again to all those who have reviewed!!!!!!!!! and to everyone else reading this, please R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!