"Not in a million years, missy, you're a keeper." Someone snarled at her, twisting her arm. She yelped in pain.
"Get your filthy hands off my daemon you mother-"
"Ah, ah, ah, bad language will not be tolerated here, Miss Amemorai." A cold, deep voice said from behind her. She felt the breath rush out of her. It was Moromoru.
He stroked the side of her cheek and chuckled to himself. "I've been waiting a long time for your's and Emily's capture, my dear. This is a great pleasure, having you here with me. Now, we will take you back to my castle, but not with knocking you out first. I must say a few words of… shall we say, advice?"
"Why should I listen to you?" Madison snarled. Liyreck tried to break free.
Moromoru's expression changed to a sinister smile. "Oh, you'll listen. You see, the consequences of disobeying me are very, and I emphasize that, dangerous for your sake. You and Emily will be a great help to what I have in store for this world."
Madison was hit hard over the head with something and with a little "Oh!" everything went black.
She awoke lying on silk sheets on a massive round bed. She quickly looked around her, her clothes were still on, and Liyreck was watching her.
"'Bout time you woke up, I was getting worried." Liyreck said, snuggling beside her.
"Nah, I'd never leave ya, Liyreck." She said, stroking his orange fur.
"Good. Now, I've been prowling around the room, trying to find a way out. I think maybe we can get through the window, theres a little balcony off there, maybe we can jump, I can try and shift, but you know, it's getting harder for me- What are you doing?" He looked at Madison.
"Um, Liyreck, he didn't lock the door." Madison said with a giggle.
"Well, yes, we could always use the door…" He grumbled.
Liyreck and Madison walked around the castle looking in every door trying to find Emily and Dorotuvo. There were doors leading to nowhere, and once or twice a door that just dropped off. The uses for all the doors she could find, she left her imagination answer why they were there. She soon found the floor that there were bedrooms on, so she went around looking in all of them, staring in wonder at how magnificent some of them were. She found one that had a fountain in the middle of the room that was shooting out wine, another with many bathtubs, and a third that was full of amazing cushions of all colors.
"Em! Where are you?" she called out.
"Well, its no use calling out, she'll never hear you behind all these doors. You might as well keep opening them." Liyreck told her.
"Well she could."
"I doubt it."
"Quiet."
They walked in silence for a while, opening more doors, finding more wonderful rooms, but no Emily. Finally, they found a huge door, similar to hers, that looked promising.
Madison knocked on the door and called out, "Em, are you in here?" she got a muffled reply. "We found her!" She opened the door.
"Maddy, you don't how glad I am to see you. We tried looking for you, but all we got was all these doors leading to nowhere."
"Yeah, we did too," she said. "By the way, what was Nicolas like?"
"Oh, he was so handsome, and so charming. He knew all the right things to say to me, and made me feel wonderful!" she told her.
"Oh, your so lucky! Father hasn't found a suitor for-"
"Girls, don't you think we should be finding a way out of this castle, instead of talking about suitors?" Dorotuvo interrupted.
"Oh, fine. Yes, I suppose we should. What did you guys find while trying to look for Doro and me?"
"Not much. Rooms that dropped off, and rooms leading into really dark hallways. Kind of spooky. Some of the other rooms where really spectacular though, we saw this one with a fountain of wine, and another with all these pretty cushions-"
"You getting side-tracked again, Madison." Liyreck scolded her.
The girls and their daemons left Emily's room and started down the long hallway. Turn right, turn left, a right, left, left.
"This is getting us nowhere." Emily said after about a half an hour.
"Wait, I see someone up ahead. Hey- HEY YOU!" Madison yelled. The person came towards her.
"Can I help you ladies?" It was a woman.
"Yes, we're trying to find … the entrance! We're waiting for someone."
"Oh, well take a right, then go down the stairs, take a left, then go down those stairs. There's the entrance!"
"Thanks, and if we see you again, my name is Emily."
"Okay, I'm Denise. See ya around, girls." She waved, and turned to go.
Madison and Emily took Denise's instructions and made it to the Entrance Hall. What awaited them was not the path to freedom, but a path towards hell.
"I was wondering when you girls would get here." Said the same cold, deep voice Madison heard while being attacked. "You girls are so predictable. That's why I left your rooms unlocked, I knew you'd try and escape. Now, for your punishment… I think I shall have to take you upstairs to the dining hall… serving food to my servants of course. But not in those beautiful dresses, no, we'll save those for another occasion. You will be wearing these." He pulled out two of the skimpiest dresses Emily and Madison had ever seen.
"We'll look like fricken' prostitutes!" Madison exclaimed.
"Ah, ah the language Miss Amemorai." He said, the smirk on his face broadening. "Now, I will have my guards take you up to the dining chamber and put on these uniforms. I expect you to be present within 15 minutes." He turned and left.
"Here goes our dignity, Maddy." Emily said as the guard took her arm and led her upstairs.
"We're gonna get him for this Em, I swear we will. I refuse to wear this outfit!" The guard hit her across the head.
"I think it's best to wear the dress Mad, I mean if he knocks you out, theres no telling what he could do to you."
"Where are the knights in shining armor when you need them?"
They got to the top of the stairs and were pushed into separate rooms to change. The came out, pulling their dresses down so they wouldn't show as much skin, but it didn't do any good. If they pulled it down, it showed more uptop, and if they pulled it up, it showed more around the bottom.
"I think I'll just pull mine down, I think I'd rather have cleavage than half my ass showing." Emily said through gritted teeth.
"Come on, let's get this over with."
Emily and Madison walked into the dining hall, and as soon as they entered there were hoots and hollers and wolf whistles. Emily felt her face going red. "Well come one, let's get the food and get this shit over with…" she grumbled.
Half an hour later, they headed back up to their rooms, walking very delicately as their posteriors were aching from all the pinching and slapping.
"See ya in the morning, if I don't die first…" Madison said.
"Bye… Come on Dorotuvo, change into something that can carry me. I can't walk another step." He changed into a leopard and carried Emily back to her room.
"Man, I don't think I could do another day of that. I'm having a bath." She walked over to the bathroom and turned on the tap, letting the warm water run over her fingers. She sank in when the tub was full, and relaxed as the water soothed her sore body.