Chapter 13: A Kingdom With Allie's; The Slave Trade Between Three Kingdoms.
"Okay Jessie you'll be working in the fields all day this will be your guide Charlotte Larsen", Charlotte was a strong looking woman wearing a black dress covered in dirt. She had long dirty hair and a pretty dirty face with large green eyes. ,
"Hello Jessie was it my name is Charlotte I will be going you what to do today", Sofia couldn't help but notice that Charlotte was standing a little off.
Once the woman left Sofia finally spoke up, "are you okay?"
Charlotte looked at the child and smiled, "I'm fine little one come with me please". Charlotte lead Sofia away but was limping as she did.
"Is your leg hurt ma'am?" Sofia asked.
"Yes but don't worry about me I'll push through the pain", Charlotte took Sofia to where they grew fruit. "Jessie i'm only gonna say this once you have a certain number of baskets you need to fill everyday, since your on blueberries you have to fill 25 baskets before mistress Olivia comes back".
"What will happen if I don't do that?" Charlotte only sighed.
"Just do your work and you won't find out, chances are you'll receive one slap per basket your missing as well as a trip to the punishment room", Sofia gulped as she remembered what happened to Jade. "Do you know to pick blueberries?"
"Yes ma'am I'll get started right away ma'am", Sofia got to work filling the baskets.
"Your doing well little one impressive work", Sofia turned around to see a woman standing there.
"Thank you miss", Sofia had already filled two baskets. "How long have you been a slave miss?"
"How long about 12 years I think, I was captured and sold here", the woman answered.
"Captures? What do you mean?" Sofia asked.
"I mean I was walking i'm my home Kingdom of frezenberg when three men abducted me", Sofia was shocked.
"Wait you mean this Kingdom will abduct people from other Kingdoms?" The woman nodded her head.
"Yes little one they do it in secret so the other Kingdoms don't find out", Sofia felt a tear rush down her face.
"That's horrible", she whispered.
The woman looked at Sofia and wrapped one arm around her, "i know it awful little one this Kingdom isn't fair they make the weak and poor work for them, try capture strong men and women to use in their slave trade".
"I thought that this was the last kingdom with slaves", the woman shook her head.
"No there are two more however they remain off the map", Sofia was shocked the woman left Sofia so she could complete her work.
"There are two more Kingdoms with slaves how is that even possible? How have they stayed off the map for this long? How come we didn't know about them? How-" a slap to face made Sofia comeback to reality.
"No slacking off!" A man raised his hand again and Sofia immediately went back to work. An hour later she had finished all 25 baskets.
"Done", Sofia wiped the sweat off her forehead.
"Impressive", Sofia turned around to see a guard standing there nodding his head. "25 baskets picked in only an hour, I like that I really do".
"Thank you sir", Sofia curtseyed.
The guard whistled and two young girls brought a cart, "Take these to the kitchen's. As for you i'll sneak you a piece of pie at dinner for you good work".
"Thank you sir", Sofia curtseyed again.
"Look at that so respectful and a hard worker if you keep that up this might not be so hard for you. Head over to the Apple trees and help out there I'll call to let them know you're coming, there right over there". The guard pointed towards a grove of tree.
Sofia made her way over to the tree she stopped and pulled out her transponder snail, "Yes who is this calling?"
"It's me Sofia Warlord Green i found something out that you might want to hear", Sofia told Lionheart everything that happened.
"What two more Kingdoms off the map, Sofia when you see Ruby and Jade give them that information!" Lionheart almost broke the transponder snail in his hand.
"Yes sir", Sofia hung up and went to the apple trees.
"Your here okay all I need you to do is organize these apples, there are always some bad looking apples so I want you to take them out and put them in this cart. Once it's full bring it to the kitchen under stand", Sofia nodded head.
Meanwhile with Ruby…
"Okay your job is very simple all you need your helping in the kitchen", Ruby nodded her head as a guard brought her into the kitchen. "Chef Ramsay I have a new helper for you", A white man came before Ruby he had white hair and brown eyes, he wore a regular chefs outfit.
"Follow me let's go!" Ramsay clapped his hands as he lead Ruby to a table where multiple children were cutting fruits and vegetables. "Alright do you know how to cut fruit and or vegetables?"
"Yes sir", Ruby gave Chef Ramsay a quick curtsey.
"What about cooking?"
"Basic things", said Ruby.
"Alright listen up everyone, I want all those vegetables cut perfectly, cooks on dinner duty tonight I want the beef cooked to a perfect medium rare, I then want those cut and put in the stew for dinner tonight!"
"Yes Chef!" the staff called back.
"Alright then those on lunch we have salmon I want those cooked perfectly so help me if I get one raw salmon I will snap!" Ramsay roared out.
"Yes sir!" The staff called back.
"Staff on desert we have the following apple pie and cherry pie I want those in 2 hours no more no less!"
"Yes chef!"
"Lastly we have a special order from our prized princess, chocolate covered Cherry", Ramsay turned towards Ruby. "When those cherries are ready I want you to deliver than to the princess".
"Yes chef", said Ruby.
"And once that is done I want you helping on lunch, Molly will show you how to perfectly make the salmon", Ramsay turned on his heels and left.
"Come on child!" Ruby turned to see a heavyset black woman motioning her over, Ruby came over as quick as she could. "Welcome young one I am one of our lead chefs here in this kitchen and today. All I want you to do is watch me and my daughter show you how it is done, my name is Molly but you will address me as Chef Molly".
"Yes chef I am here to serve", said Ruby.
After a quick 45 minutes Ruby was sent to deliver Princess Selena, who was happily playing in her room. "Finally my favorite", Selena clapped her hands and glee. "Set it down here slave", Selena ordered.
"Yes my Princess", Ruby quickly set the tray down and held her head down. "Is there anything else my princess".
"Yes", Selena walked forward and slapped Ruby, "who is your princess?"
It took everything in Ruby body not to hit that girl, "you are my princess forgive me if I was rude to you in anyway". Ruby bit her tongue as she kneeled down.
"I like you", Selena smiled as she clapped her hands and two servants came in. "John and Johnny I want this young slave as my personal servant!"
"Yes your highness", they answered.
"Right after her work is done I want her back in my room!" Selena went back to her toys and John and Johnny lead Ruby out the room.
"You are so screwed!" Johnny looked down at Ruby with a worried expression.
"How come", Ruby asked.
"You aren't the first slave Selena has had as her personal servant, the last 4 are in the hospital", said John.
"How come?" Ruby asked now getting worried.
"You do one thing wrong she will whip you herself", said John.
"And she shows no mercy", said Johnny.
"Also you better pray she doesn't find out your little secret", said Johnny.
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked.
Johnny and John reached into their pockets and pulled out two transponded snails, "we work for your father in the revolutionary army".
"So we aren't here alone", said Ruby.
"Ruby do you really think your father would allow his only daughter to head behind enemy lines without sending in backup", said John making sure to keep his voice down.
"That's good", said Ruby.
Ruby made her way back down to the kitchen and got to work on lunch after a while Sofia entered the kitchen pushing a cart of apples. Sofia walked past Ruby and slipped a folded piece of paper down her dress, before leaving. Ruby moved away and quickly read Sofia's note, her eyes grew big, "two more kingdoms have tradem and people are being abducted from their homes in other kingdoms!" Ruby quickly ripped up the note and hit it front sight, she quickly went back to her duties.
Meanwhile with Jade who had been taken to the fields to help with the animals, Jade was blushing heavily. After her punishment, she was given what was a called a punishment dress it was a dress that had the back cut out, so everyone could see her back and bruised bottom.
During her time with the animals, Jade had heard some very interesting news, the leaders of the other slave kingdoms were coming in three days for a huge slave trade. She had also learned that Energia had slaves catches in every known kingdom. She had also learned that the slave catchers didn't didn't target rich families only poor families that no one would notice was gone. She also learned that these slave catchers also worked as informants and told King Rafael what their strengths and weakness where. She also learned something that truly scared her, the slave catchers would actually go to orphans and adopt kids just to put them into slavery.
Once there duties were done they were sent back to their room, except for Ruby who was taken to Selena's room for a "playdate". Which consisted of letting Selena throw a ball at Ruby, kick her, slap her, read her stories, play dress up. When it was time for Selena to go to sleep she was lead back to her room. "I don't know how long I can take this", Ruby came in and collapsed in the small bed.
"Ruby what happened?" Sofia questioned.
"Selena is a brat", Ruby explained everything that happened to her during her playdate.
"Oh that sounds so bad, at least you didn't have you butt out for everyone to see", Jade snapped.
"Jade calm down", Sofia said trying to keep the peace.
At that moment a guard opened there door and dropped off dinner which consisted of a piece of bread, cheese, beef, and an apple. The guard also brought in a small piece of pie for sofia, "just like I promise", the guard quickly left the room.
"Here you two can have the pie you need it the most", said Sofia giving it to Jade and Ruby.
"No Sofia we aren't going to enjoy pie while you don't", said Jade.
The three girls split the piece of pie into thirds and shared it once that was done they went over all the evidence they had gathered against Energia. "What are we gonna do now", Ruby questioned.
"We have all the evidence we need on Energia but we aren't done yet", said Jade.
"You're right what we need to do is try and free all these slaves", Sofia said causing both Jade and Ruby to look at her shocked.
"Sofia how are the three of us gonna free as these people", said Ruby.
"Not alone but remember your dad as agents all of this castle with their help and a good plan we could pull this off", Sofia said.
"We need to do this fast, that slave trade thing is in 3 days we need to free these people and get them away from here", said Ruby.
"We also need information on the other 2 kingdoms involved", Jade added.
"Your right then how about this let's do a little spy work girls", Sofia smiled at her friends who nodded there heads. "I know that every castle has some sort of room inside that holds all documents if we can find that we can probably figure out who is in this slave trade".
"That's a good idea let's do it", said Jade.
"I'm in anything to free these people", said Ruby.
"Alright we act tomorrow night once our duties are done, Ruby spread the word to the others agents inside the castle to be on guard in case something goes wrong", said Sofia.
The girls all agreed on that and the next day they were prepared to find out what was happening here in Energia.
But across the world in a region known as death valley a large trumpet was heard, and from the shadows a man dressed in a black rope and black hat appeared.
Warlord Grim had awakened.
A/N: Alright if you do not know my name is Ashley and I have taken over writing for Clash of kingdoms. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please let me know what you think about the story as a whole.