"What'd you say, freak?" I hear a harsh voice to my right. I turn to look at him and am met by the back end of some sort of pole to my cheek. I flinch and glare at the man.

"Do that again I DARE you!" He smiles and I see him touch some sort of glowing rock on his wrist, causing me to be floored to the ground from some sort of shock. Heat and pain spread throughout my body as I try to catch my breath. A few seconds later and it stops with the man laughing wildly to himself.

"An't so scary without all that rock on ye now are ye?" I look down and see a small pile of dirty slowly blowing away. Second skin. My dream seems to replay through my head and I let out an audible breath.

"Where are we going?" The man touches the crystal again and again i'm left being shocked to the floor of my cage. He takes his hand off and it stops. I feel like I should kill this man.

"You don't ask questions, freak! You're property of his majesty-" A commanding feminine voice causes the man to hault mid sentence.

"DO NOT FINISH THAT SENTENCE!" The guard's eyes widen and he salutes the oncoming female rider. She's sporting robes of some sort, but my attention is brought to her sleek, beautifully pale face with light saphire like eyes that are hidden behind thick lashes. Her beauty leaves me wanting, but once I realize who I'm staring at. My eyebrows furrow and my mouth goes into a thin line. She turns her horse and rides alongside my cage, replacing the guard.

"Ahh, you're awake." I squint at her and cross my arms.

"Yes and your alive. How, unfortunate." A smile appears on her face.

"You're strong. If you hadn't been in that berserk state I would have been torn to shreds by you. But, alas your there and I'm here." This. Bitch. I want to rip her off that damn horse and slam her pretty little head into this cage. Another shock comes from the collar that causes me to wince with pain. She begins to laugh.

"Ha-haha! No bad thoughts about your captors or my little friend there-" She points to the collar on my neck. "-will just keep zapping you." No bad thoughts? Hmm, what about sarcastic ones? I feel another zap and I click my tonque. She raises an eyebrow in my direction and stares at me.

"You're not a quick learner." She smirks and begins to trot her horse around the carriage carrying me, almost like shes taunting me. I swear to whatever god or gods or deity that exists in this fucking hellhole of a world that I will have my way when i'm out of this FUCKING CAGE. I feel my heart beating rapidly and my breathing begins to quicken as my muscles tense up.

"Oooh, you're quite handsome with out all that rock. That short mussied up brown hair, with those dangerous green eyes that seem to be glaring at me to those bulging pectorals , you're quite the looker. You'd make one hell of a consort and I bet any woman would be happy to see those abs put to good work." An almost animalstic snarl escapes my mouth and I whip my head to stare at her. This causes her horse to buck and almost throw her off. Once she has it settled she glares at me.

"I'm not some damn show pony. You want some male eye candy go somewhere else." I wave her away and sit my legs in a more comfortable, pretzel styled position.

"Show pony? Apt. More breeding mare, but show pony will do for now." Her remark catches me off guard.

"You can't be serious?" She laughs.

"Hahaha-ha! Deadly serious. You're all slaves and those of you that don't serve a combat role will be put to work. Depending on a few things that work could be menial jobs or it could be things such as a consort. All depends on to whom you're sold." I rub my head. I realy fucking hate slavery. My carriage begins to slow down and I notice we're nearing some sort of fort or castle. I turn to the witch beside me and see she's smiling.

"This is where we depart ways, but don't worry, we'll be seeing eachother shortly." She gives me a fake pouting face and trots off with a laugh. Yep, I'm going to kill that witch. Soon we're in some sort of tunnel that leads to an open courtyard. As soon as the last carriage is in I look back and see that a massive stone gate has slammed down where the tunnel was and I frown. A few more minutes later and the guards have the carriages opened and are ushering out it's inhabitants. Let's have some fun.

I see about 5-6 guards per cage, but when they get to mine there is at least twenty. I smile and begin laughing. I see this causes the guards to slowly tense up and point their weapons in my direction. Swords, spears, bows? How medieval.

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"Go unlock it!" A guard pushes another one infront and the man slowly walks towards the cage shaking. He manges to get to the cage, but fumbles with the keys and looks at me.

"Boo." i jump forward and the man drops the keys and falls back. I quickly, dexteriously catch the keys and bring them into my cage. In that moment the collar activates and begins shocking me, but I resist and slowly try each key on the collar until one fits. I twist the key and the collar drops to the bottom of my cage with a thud. Finally! I slowly unlock the other chains and the door to my cage. I jump down and begin stretching.

"Alright let's fucking party!"

"STOP THAT MAN! ARCHERS SHOOT TO KILL!"

I hear another commanding feminine voice yell from a distance. I see a couple of bolts shoot in my direction and swiftly dodge them as I run towards the group of knights. The group seems to get into some sort of formation like a shield wall and I smile. Breaking into a dead sprint I run up the shields, jumping off the top, grabbing onto the wall and swing myself over the butresses. On top of the wall I see an archer arming his crossbow and I rush him. He drops his crossbow and goes for the sword at his side. Smart, but too slow. I use my entire weight and momentum and push into his hilt, keeping his sword in it's sheethe. We wrestle for a bit before I decide to headbutt him in the nose. A satsifying crack is heard and he drops to his kness clenching his nose. I follow up with a kick to the side of his head and he falls to the ground with a clank and a thump. I pull out the short-sword and quickly prepare myself for the oncoming soldiers.

"GET HIM! DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!"The female voice roars in anger.

I look over the wall and see it's an incredibly steep drop into some sort of moat. Quickly thinking I hoist up the unconcious man and lift him over the wall and grab onto his belt, using his weight to pull me over. We quickly meet the ground, but I use his body to soak up most of the hit as we smack the rockface and tumble into the water. I shoot up for air and begin swimming to the other side.

Not a moment later I feel a sharp pain in my leg and surmise that I've been hit by an arrow. I cringe at the pain, but the adrenaline high I'm currently on blocks most of it out. I reach the otherside of the small moat and hoist myself on the rocks. In the distance I can hear the gears of the gate opening along with a lot of shouting.

Not waisting a moment I scale the small rockface and shoot up and over the last bit, landing on solid ground. Not wanting to get shot again I bob and weave as more bolts and arrows whiz past me. I feel a few more ticks as arrows enter my body. Wincing and feeling incredibly hot, I continue sprinting toward the thick forest that surrounds this place. I hide behind a tree and begin panting breaths. I hear a few clicks and the sudden beat of a bunch of hooves.

"Great, now i've got the cavalry after me." I suck in air and sprint more into the forest, heading for the thickest parts. Not really paying attention to where I'm heading as this way is away from the many knights. The loud clomping of hooves behind me has me worried, but I dare not look back.

"There he is! Get him!"

I hear the men whip their horses harder and harder. Quickly scanning the forest I suddenly adjust my path, causing me to slide in the foliage and almost lose my footing. I manage to get myself right and head towards the sound of water.

"HE'S HEADED TOWARD THE FALLS! DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!"

I smile and brace myself for the jump that I'm making. I hear the roaring of a waterfall as a thought appears in my brain. I don't know how deep this waterfall drops. I feel a part of myself begin to hesitate. Ignore that, it's either the falls or you become a breeding mare. I see the edge of the forest and I leep off the edge as far as I can. I look down and my heart sinks. That's a long drop. I suddenly plummit down and hear the sound of a horse screeching. Oh this is going to hurt like a BITCH. Trying to lesson the pain I whip the sword in my hand into the water bellow me in the hopes that it breaks the surface tension of the water, allowing me better access. I hit the water with very hard smack. I push myself up from the water as I eagerly and desperately suck in air.

Treading water, I tilt my head and see that the soldiers are staring at me from the top of that cliff. I can barely see them as i realize that that is a VERY large drop. I swallow a lump in my throat and let myself get dragged by the current of the river. After a few minutes of drifting down the river I slowly manage to swim my way to the edge of the ever increasing river and flop on the edge. My body now finally able to relax, begins to feel the pain of the arrows imbeded in my flesh and the pain my lungs have been through in the last stretches of my day. I examine each arrow as I figure out how to deal with them.

Two in my leg, calf and thigh. One in my shoulder and one in my forearm. Calf and forearm are through and through, but the thigh and shoulder isn't. The through and through's I can push the rest of the arrow through and patch the wound. The other two are going to need some sort of rudimentary surgery orrrr. I brace myself for what i've thought of and grab the arrow in my shoulder. I take in a few quick breaths trying to hype myself up. Alright on three.

"One. Two annnnd-" With all my strength I push the arrow the rest of the way through my shoulder, but making sure that there is still enough wood to block the wound.

"-Three." Wincing and taking in a breath I snap the arrow head and shaft of this arrow. One down, two to go. Looking toward the other two arrows I snap the barb and shaft on those as well, but leave the one in my thigh alone. Don't wanna nic something and bleed out even faster. I sigh and scootch my way over to a tree, pressing my back to it and slowly, but surely manage to stand up. Fuck yeah, now I just need to get out of these damned woods. I let out a sigh and begin painfully hobbling my way through the forest. A thought suddenly enters my head.

"A mare is a female horse. Wouldn't I be a stallion?" I laugh to myself. God I've got a long way to go and I don't even know where i'm going!