“Get out of here now!!” Those words echo in the back of my head. I don’t know who he was, but I’ll need to thank him once I get out this forest, but first I need to warn the town about the orcs.

“I found her!!” I turn around to see an orc was pointing at me.

How….how did they find me so fast?! I quickly turn around and ran as fast as I could. I need to get to out this forest, they’ll stop chasing me if get close to a human settlement.

“Where do you think you’re going?!” An orc jumps right in front of me completely cutting off my path. Seeing an orc appear right in front of me I tried to stop and change directions, but the orc quickly wraps his arm around me to stop me from moving.

“I got her!” The orc said as he toss me onto his shoulder.

“NOOO!! Let go of me!!” I punch the orc in the back repeatedly, hoping he’ll drop me.

“Sorry I can’t do that. You’re our property now, and it’s your job to entertain us.”

“Nooo...this got to be a bad dream.” I close my eyes as tight as I could hoping that somehow I’ll wake up from this nightmare.

“I’m afraid it’s not, once we get back you got a lot of work to….” The orc suddenly stop talking. I not sure why, I was too afraid to open my eyes and see myself getting drag back to that hellhole, until a random thought pop into my head, with if this is actually a dream and I just now woke up? With that positive thought in my head, I slowly open my eyes to see that I was still in the orc’s arm. I would’ve lost all hope if I didn’t see a blonde headed kid standing in front of me.

I would’ve thought this kid was my hero if he didn’t looked as terrified as I was. I panic once I saw there was blood getting all over the kid’s white uniform, until I notice that the blood wasn’t coming from him. I look down and saw the kid had impale the orc in the back. The kid yank his sword out from the orc’s back, which cause him to fall to the ground with me still on his shoulder.

As I was struggling to get from underneath the orc, the kid offering me his hand to help pull me put.

“Sorry about that miss, are you alright?”

“I’m fine, thank you for saving me.” After dusting myself off, I look up to see the kid was actually a noble. His blue eyes and expensive looking uniform gave it away I stare at the noble trying to figure out why someone like him was doing in this dangerous area.

“Miss, have seen a female swordsman or a male archer around here?”

“A male archer…” The voice I heard when I was attack started to ring in the back of my head.

“No I haven’t seen them, but I’m sure they’re around here somewhere.”

“You bastard!!” I turn around to see an orc was running straight after us.

“Get behind me!!” The noble pushes me back with his shield. “I’ll take care of this.

Unfortunately, I didn’t gain any confidents from the noble’s bold declaration. Since his entire body was shaking in fear from the approaching orc.

As both of us waited for the orc to attack, the orc suddenly stop moving. Taking a few more small steps, the orc falls to the ground. When he hit the ground, I notice an arrow was sticking out from his head.

“Aaron…” The noble mutter to himself. “Aaron! Where are you?!”

“Keep it down.” A kid wielding a bow walks from behind a tree.

“Aaron!!’ The noble happily runs up to the archer. Seeing as these two save my life, I decided it be best if I stick around with them.

“Aaron, I’m seriously glad to see you.” The smile on the noble face slowly disappear when he started to look around.

“Hey, where’s Anna?”

“…” The archer tighten his grip on his bow while looking away from the noble. “My sis been capture…”

Chapter 23

The Great Escape

How did I get in this mess? I was just telling Aaron not to play hero, and yet here I am doing the exact same thing he did just so I can save his life. I swear once I get out of here I’m going to kick his ass.

“Move!”

“I’m going, I’m going!” I take a look behind me to see that the orc that was pushing me had my sword, and if that wasn’t bad enough, my hands are tied down by chains that stops me from using magic. Well I can see they’re not taking any chances with me.

“Keep moving!!” The orc pushes me forward into a cave. From the looks of it this where they probably keep their prisoners.

As we walk deeper into the cave I notice a lot of orcs were gazing at me weirdly. A cold shiver runs down my spine. I shouldn’t be surprise, I knew the reason why they capture me, but still being stare at like this is really, really uncomfortable.

“It’s too late for regret now lady, you manage to piss Cain off, I doubt this will end well for you?”

“Who’s Cain, is that supposed to be your chief?”

“That’s none of your business, now keep walking!”

Well you told me he’s piss off with me, so I think it is my business. I guess should be concern about this guy named Cain, but actually I’m more curios than anything else. Orcs are hot-blooded warriors. They’ll fight and kill each other over anything you can think of. So seeing these many orcs working together must mean this Cain guy got a lot of charisma or he’s somehow scaring the orcs into working together.

Also holy shit this cave is big, we’ve been walking for quite some time and we still haven’t reach the end. Seeing all these torches on the wall tells me these orc must’ve been camping here for quite some time.

Finally reaching what seem like the end of the cave, we enter what I’m guessing is the orc’s sleeping area. Sitting in the middle of the room was an orc that had small marks of war paint on his face and upper torso.

“Is she the one that free the captive?”

“Yes, I also believe she was one that killed our men at the ambush point.”

“….” The marked orc walks over to us. As he got closer I started to realize why everyone was following him. Not only was bigger than the other orcs but he had an intimidating aura surrounding him. Due to our huge height difference, I had to look up just to see his face.

“You except me to believe this little girl is the one going around killing my men?”

“If you find it so hard to believe, why don’t you give me my sword back and I’ll reenact what I did to your men to you.”

“Pretending to be tough huh? That won’t last long. Put her with the other prisoners, tomorrow she’ll be entertaining the men.”

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“Welcome to your new home.” The orc open a door to a huge room. The orc pushes me into the room before I could investigate it.

“You should rest up, you’re going to have a long day tomorrow.” The orc gives me a creepy smile before shutting the door.

Looks like I need to break out of here by tonight, before I end up like a…. never mind, I’m not even going to make an analogy on this. The less I think about it, the better.

Hearing whispers behind me, I turn around to see a group of woman were huddle together looking at me. I guess tightly grouping is their way of comforting each other. Ignoring the women pitiful stares, I walk to the other end of the room and sat down.

Well at least I was able to find all the missing people so I guess that’s something, now all I need to do is find a way to get out of here. First thing first, I need to get rid of these chains.  I frantically move my arms around hoping I could break free from the chains.

Damn I can’t stand this weak body. And what make this situation even more frustrating is that these chains aren’t even a problem. Yea stops me from using my body magic, but it doesn’t stop me from using “my” magic.

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I can easily rust these chains to dust with my power. But it’s kind of hard to do it with all these people staring at me.

“Whatcha you doing?” I look up to see a little girl with pointy ears and fiery red hair was staring at me curiously.

The girl wore a short sleeve red dress that match her hair with black mini ruffles going around the edge of the dress.

I could immediately tell this girl was different from the other prisoners, I mean besides the fact she’s an elf. Unlike the other prisoner this girl outfit wasn’t torn or ripped anywhere, which means the orc hasn’t touch her. I guess because she looks underage, although I wouldn’t be surprise if she was a hundred years old, even though she looks twelve. Also besides me, she was only one who hands were tied with chains.

“Nothing.”

“Really? It looks to me like you’re trying to break out of those chains. Don’t bother, that’s the first thing I tried to do when I got here, and as you can see…” The elf rattles the chains on her hands by shaking her arms.

“I see…”

“So, what’s your name?” The elf drops to the ground next to me.

“Anna, you?”

“Claire.”

“Tell me Claire, what’s an elf like you doing here?”

“Well after hearing all these rumors about these disappearance, I decided to investigate. And well… they took me by surprise when I was searching a body.”

Did… did she actually fall for that dead body trap. And here I was thinking all elves were extremely intelligent.

“Wow…”  For some reason, Claire was staring at me like she was memorized.

“What?”

“Anna, are you human?”

“Yea, why you ask.”

“Not trying to sound mean, but you don’t seem like one….. Are you sure?” Claire crawls closer to me, bringing her face dangerously close to mines.

“Yes I’m sure.” I push Claire away from me. “Jeez, wasn’t curiosity the main reason why you were capture?”

“Probably. So tell me Anna, how did you get capture? Those chains on your hands tells me the orcs considers you dangerous. Which means you must be strong right?”

This girls and her endless questions. I look to see Claire was impatiently waiting for my response.

“I got capture on purpose.”

“...Anna do you have a thing for orcs?”

“What? No. I got capture on purpose so I could save you guys.”

“How do you plan on doing that with those chains on?”

“I got a little trick that can break these chains, but unfortunately I need to be alone to do it.”

“Can’t you do it right now? I want to see it.”

“Listen, do you want to get out of here, or do you want to stay here and become the mother of bunch of ugly kids?”

“…Well if you really need to be alone I guess you can ask to go to the bathroom. Although there will be an orc supervising you.”

“Sounds perfect to me.” I jump to my feet and head for the door.

“You’re going now?”

“Yup, the faster I get out of here the better.”

“Wait.” Claire jumps to her to feet and towards me. I swear if she ask me another question I’m going to head butt her.

“If you’re really capable of breaking these chains, can you retrieve my staff for me? I’ll help you in any way I can if you do.

“Yea I’ll get it for you.” Having the elf help me out will definitely make getting out of here a lot easier.

I walk up to the door and roughly kick it so I could alert someone nearby.  I didn’t look behind me, but I could tell that the women were gazing at me weirdly. They’re probably wondering why I’m trying to get an orcs attention.

“Hey open up!” I roughly kick the door few more times.

“What!” The orc bust the door open and looks down at me with a menacing glare.

“I have to use the bathroom.”

“Bathroom?” The orc looked at me confusingly. Slowly, the confuse look on his face transform into a smile that told me I should probably run.

“Sure, I’ll escort you there.”

“W-wait…”  One of the girls started to speak, but before she could finish her sentence the orc pick me up and slam the door.

“Hey, I can walk on my own you know.”

“I know, but since you have to go, its best I carry you so we can get their faster.”

“That’s nice and all, but I rather walk on my own two feet.”

“Listen, you really don’t have a say in this, either I carry you or you back to the room use the bathroom there your choice.”

“Fine, fine I get it.” As the orc was carrying me, I notice we were heading outside, which was a big surprise to me. I was expecting him to take me to some dark room and tell me that this were their bathroom. But I guess they don’t want their cave which they sleep smelling like pee. Orcs are surprisingly hygienic, who knew?”

Once we got outside the orc started to act weird. He would occasionally stop and look around like he was checking to see if anyone was spying on us. Then whenever other orcs were walking by he would quickly hide behind a tree. This whole situation made me feel like toy that he didn’t want to show to his friends.

“I think this is a good spot. The orc lightly toss me to the ground. “Now let’s get rid of those clothes.”

“Woah wait second there pal.” I quickly back away from him.  “I only need to use the bathroom, I don’t need to strip to that.”

“Did you honestly think I brought you out here just so you can use the bathroom?” The orc gave me another creepy smile. “I brought you out here so I can have some fun before you become everyone else plaything tomorrow.”

Well that explains why he was sneaking around. He didn’t want to “share” me with anyone. Oh well, this works perfectly for me. Since there no one else around I can do this…

I lightly tap the ground with my foot which cause a bunch of roots to break out of the ground underneath the orc.

“W-what?!” The roots tightly wrap themselves around orc and suspends him in midair.

“Calm down, I’m not going to kill you, yet.” I concentrate the corruption that was seeping out my body into the chains until they turn to dust.

“W-what the hell are…” One of the roots wraps itself around the orcs mouth.

“Now, this is the part where I torture you until you tell me everything I want.”

“….” The orc wiggle his body around desperately trying break free from the roots.

“Don’t worry, I won’t do that, mostly because I’m running out of time. So instead of asking you, you’re just going to show me.”

Black aura surrounds my hand as I raise it up. The orc tremble in fear as I brought my hand closer to his face.

“Don’t worry, this won’t hurt a bit.”

A/N: Man this chapter was kind of tough. I was going to go into details about why this chapter was hard for me, but i figure none of you came here to hear me bitch. So instead I want to talk about the comments.

I just want you guys to know i do read the comments and I take in everything you guys say. I mostly don't reply back because well, i'm an incredibly shy person. Most of the time I really don't know what to write. I just thought i tell you that, i don't ignore comments I accept everything even criticism. So... yea just thought you guys should know  

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