Forced into Fantasy

Chapter 12 - Reunited

Ivy;

The carriage ride takes such a long time. I manage to fall asleep throughout the duration of it and am only woken as we pull up at our secretive destination.

I have no idea of how long we've been travelling since falling asleep, or of where we are now but what I am certain of is that I am far from Adomis' castle... and Adomis.

My heart sinks at the last part, though I don't yet know why.

Suddenly the carriage door opens outwards and the first soldier who kidnapped me is standing there, nodding towards the second soldier across from me.

With a nod of his head, the one in the carriage stands and leans across to grab me.

I panic and go into fight or flight mode. Wherever we are now I'm not getting out of this carriage with them. They'll have to drag me out of here kicking and screaming! 

I'll take these fuckers with me!

"Mmmph!" my words are nothing but muffled sounds.

My legs kick wildly in the closest soldier's direction as I continuously grunt from beneath the gag meant to silence me.

I try screaming but it only comes out as a muffled moan, hardly loud enough for anyone to hear it and come to my aid.

The soldier in the carriage, I'll call him B1, grits his teeth together as he tries reaching for me amidst my wild kicks. His gloved hands try desperately to dodge the majority of my kicks, some manage to graze him.

The soldier standing outside the carriage, yeah he's B2, begins to grow impatient and lets out a sigh as he rolls his eyes.

"Come on, just grab her already Damion!" he commands his companion accidentally revealing the bastard's name.

"We don't have time for this! We're already late!"

'Late? Late for what?'

So now I know B1's name is Damion. Good to know...

Eventually after I put up one hell of a fight Damion manages to grab a hold of my right leg and quickly pulls me off of the carriage seat, my back hitting the floor of the carriage hard along with my arms which are tied behind me.

I grunt loudly as pain shoots up through my back.

"Mmph..."

"Careful man, try not to hurt her too much!" B2 warns as the two of them begin pulling me out of the carriage by my upper arms.

"If she'd... just... stop fucking struggling!" Damion snaps at me with frustration.

Once I am placed with my feet on the damp grassy floor beneath me they then proceed to pull me along between the two of them, into where the large trees surrounding us are at their tallest and thickest.

They loom overhead as if eerily watching as we head toward a large open clearing right in the centre of all of the trees that I can only assume are part of a large forest.

It's night and this place is far too dark to see anything clearly enough to make any kind of identification.

I wonder if we are in the forest neighbouring Adomis' castle; the one I saw when trying to escape his clutches when I first arrived here.

As we step in through the treeline I am stunned to see a large village standing before me, with several dozen houses made of wood and other various wooden buildings much larger located in the centre.