I awoke in total darkness and confusion. My breaths came out hot and short as I tried to grasp what was happening around me. I tried moving my arms but it seemed my whole body was bound with metallic chains. It was then that I felt the rough cloth covering my eyes and I realized I must have been blindfolded. The noise I created while struggling to break free caused a commotion in the room I was being held in.
"Hey the bitch is waking up what should we do Lady Luna?" I could sense there were at least two people in the room so I decided to listen and not struggle. Another voice spoke up, a woman's this time, and she seemed pretty agitated.
"You idiot don't tell them just yet! I want to play around with the little slut for the moment." The woman's cruel laughter rang throughout the room and I felt my body tense for what might happen.
Someone rudely grabbed my hair and pulled me up to knees as the woman, I presumed, yanked the blindfold off of me. I moaned as I slumped back to the ground and was completely disoriented by the swirling images before me. With my head pounding I saw the distorted figures of a slender and tall woman standing next to a man who reached just below her shoulders. He hid behind her while I looked up to see her smiling with a glint in her eyes. She strode right up to me until we were face to face and I inched back not knowing what she would do when suddenly she grabbed my face and punched me on my cheek. I yelped out in pain and surprise but she only seemed to be egged on by that. She then took out a slender dagger and traced it along my cheek ever so slightly drawing blood. I could only glare at her through hooded eyes and not retaliate seeing as how I was completely bound from my wrists to my feet in heavy chain mill, and being abnormally strong was not something I held in my arsenal.
Through gritted teeth I steed the woman straight in the eyes as I spoke, "What do you want with me and why are you torturing me for sport?!" The woman who the simpering male had called Lady Luna considered my words for a while before answering slowly.
"You don't seem all that powerful to me, I don't see why they put me in charge of someone as lowly as-"
And thats when I head-butted the bitch right in the nose, Lady Luna reared back with a wail of pain and surprise and glared at me with a hand flying to her nose. I was so satisfied with myself I barely felt the pounding sensation in my head. The coward of a man came flying over to Lady Luna's side fidgeting and wondering if she was okay
"Mistress Luna of the Night I really think we should tell someone, tell Master Lockewood, that the Poison Princess is-"
"Shut up you incompetent baboon!" Lady Luna thundered.
After a few beats she looked back to me with a large smile twisting itself upon her face showing all of her teeth and what looked like two, elongated canines. Which was just my luck to piss off the bitch, but, honestly, I kept telling myself she started it as she came stalking towards where I lay on the filthy ground. Just before she could strike me again, a commotion came from behind the wooden door and half a beat later it flew open smashing into the stone wall behind it, with a towering man rushing in. Behind him strode two men and a woman wearing the same dark cloaks from before.
Never breaking stride, the tall red headed man took the Lady Luna by her collar and seemed about to inflict harm upon her, to my secret delight. (I honestly was really starting to hate this Mistress of the Night) The man spoke with a booming voice and I realized that his face was familiar form the circle right before I was captured.
"I gave you strict and precise orders to only watch and be wary of the creature! Not to touch or engage with her at all, and look!" The man briefly broke eye contact with the woman to flick his wrist in my direction.
"It seems she has already gotten the best of you already!" The woman could only stare at him with a bewildered and scared gaze until he wretched her to the floor in disgust.
Finally he looked over my way and a second later walked over to where I could finally sit myself up. I began to wonder what in the hell I had gotten myself into; if that bitch of a woman was scared of him, then who would he be to me?
He crouched down in front of me and ever so lightly put his hand over where Lady Luna had cut me and I winced at the not yet healed wound.
"Everyone out... NOW" This man who I now had a hunch was Lockewood since he seemed to be the one giving orders. Swiftly the coward left Luna still on the ground and out the door whimpering. Although the rest were much harder to get rid of, the woman pleaded with her Master to not be alone with the 'she devil' which, to my benefit, did I not outright snort and cackle at her choice term. And the two men only gave the annoyed woman and Lockewood a knowing glance before giving me a disgusted sneer as they made their leave, dragging the woman out with them. Lastly Lady Luna dragged up her hunched over body, still holding on to her nose, which I noticed was delightfully gushing blood. If looks could kill Lady Luna would have me dead in an instant as she sulkily made her leave.
Watching this process unfold did not alert me to any immediate danger but as I realized Lockewood's heavy stare upon my face, I wondered if I would ever see the sun again and if this man with his beautiful face, would kill me now. I stared back into his emerald green eyes and noticed the light freckles splayed underneath his orange stubble.
Lockewood then did something which would boggle me till the end of time, he took out a set of keys from inside his suits pocket and freed me from all my heavy chains. As he gently helped me to my feet, I wondered as t what kind of new torture is this, suspense?
He turned around and left me staring at his back agape, I could tell he was smug with himself at the result of confounding me but I couldn't understand as to why he cared.
"I've heard from my spies that you call yourself Annabelle, correct?" I quickly closed my mouth and became tense again with the thought of him knowing anything intimate about me. I found my voice and replied with a simple yes knowing that the man who stood before me was very, very dangerous.
He clasped his hands behind his back and turned back to where I still stood and waited for what he would say next.
"You see I have been watching for you for some time and I have come to know you dearly as Little Belle. And I have but one request from you, my Little Belle," He paused for dramatic effect and then continued.
"I'm going to need you to trust me please and marry me."
And that was it, I now knew I was inclosed with a crazy man, because there was no way in the seven shades of Hell that I would ever marry this man. I mean what in the Hells for?! Something in my gut told me that something wasn't right and I distantly wished I could be back on the camp and in the tent, with Death...
"And why should I marry you...?" I questioned him with a cock of my head.
He slightly bowed his head for a moment as if in thought and then raised it back up with the most grave face I had ever seen.
"Because Little Belle, the Politia are coming. And they only go with one thought, to kill."
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Okay so up top is a suggested song to listen to and the picture is what the Lady Luna looks like :-)
Sorry to leave you with a cliff hanger but I will try to be updating more often like every week (possibly every monday!)
Enjoy and Have a Great Summer
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Fantasy{ C O M P L E T E D } I stand still with my breath coming out in short gasps. I wonder if what I was about to do, what we were about to do, if God was watching. And as His hand traced my shoulder lower until like a feather he touched the middle of m...
