The Deadly Spell

Prologue 1.1 (do not read this)

》》the prologue 1.2 is the real start...

Her life started when a loud clinging sound woke her up. When she first opened her eyes she knew that she didn't have a memory to hold on.

Escaping at this point wasn't a good idea she thought to herself.

She slumped down on her cage where beside three more cages are covered by a red cloth. She tried to take a peak from the other cages, harder when there's a 3'4 height creature with pointy ears and red eyes that look like glaring at you whenever they stare. Hobgoblin, she thought but she never knew how she knew about them by just looking at them.

".....hate"

She frowned when she didn't understand what the other hobgoblin said except word hate. She took a grasp of the bar in the cage she imprisoned on and take a good look at what the hobgoblins are doing. But gasp when a sudden hobgoblin glaring at her and pinch her shoulder with a spear making her wince, she tried to jerk away but was stopped by another bar because the cage was so small.

"What do you think you doing scum, what are looking at huh," the hobgoblin said in a rough voice. The girl who doesn't know her name lower her head scared what this ugly creature may do to her if she talks back or even looks at the creature in their red eyes.

"Tch" last sound he made before he goes back with the others whose busy chit chatting with others about the news outside this forest.

She heard some discussion they have been telling to each other, on how the Trinity is planning on how curing the epidemic disease that surrounding this world for 8 years, she also heard that they planning on sacrificing us for the deities to give them some redemption.

She freaked out about the sacrificing part because she doesn't want to die without knowing her true identity and life, what could life she has in the past and loved ones she left and lose, she started thinking of the scenarios of how her life could be and will be if she survives, but she thought she makes a foolish decision on not fighting back for her freedom and now wanted to live even longer.

"I want to remember" she whispers and closing her eyes to fight down her tears to come out. She wipes the tears from her both cheeks and sighs thinking a plan for her to escape but her mind is completely blank, she almost loses hope when she hears a sound coming from the cage beside hers.

"psst, can you hear me, lady," a female voice said behind the cloth.

She nodded but whisper back when she remember that they cannot see her "I hear you"

"Good because we have a plan to escape, are you with us," she said

"I'm in" she replied and determined to escape.

"Good here's the plan"

They told her the plan and take an action after, they clearly instructed what she had to do. But she still hesitant about what might happen if it didn't go according to plan and failed, for a girl who hadn't had a name she cannot be the optimistic person in this kind of situation.

Their plan is so usual and mostly used in movies or books, that she hardly knows what it means. All words are foreign to her but she managed to understand single phrases they spoke, like her mind, is hardwired with the knowledge that she didn't remember how and when she learned it.

A bite to took her back from consciousness, curious at the little insects whose sucking her blood, she carefully takes the little sucker from her olive skin and placed gently outside the cage.

"Don't do that again, sucking someone's blood without their permission is a bad and irresponsible thing to do, you understand little thing?" she said while the insects just fly away but with a hint of understanding

"Tsk she's soft-hearted Yvonne, how would she be the one who frees us from this cursed cage," Christine said came out of nowhere when she saw that warming scene of the poor insects flew away.

"Trust me, Christine, I know what I'm doing and stop complaining" Yvonne replied and go back from staring at the tree beside her cage.

The girl who hadn't had a name on thought how they get captured, she just saw them after the hobgoblins taken out the cloth from their cages. Her first impression to Christine is right off the bat, when she first saw her intense emerald green eyes, thin pink lips that always tightly closed but when she talks you instantly crawled away from her, small button nose that twitches every time she's getting angry or knowing your lying and slender body that can throw you in one punch. That's how she sees her scary and the leadership type of woman. Wondered what kind of creature she is?

While Yvonne is the opposite, sweet gentle blue sapphire eyes, thick pump lips that always gave you an encouraging smile, a pointed nose, and lean but strong-willed woman, they are the exact opposite to each other, the girl thought to herself.

The girl who hadn't had a name knows that it's been 3 hours after they meet but she had a feeling that her descriptions of their personalities are fact.

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(The girl who didn't have a name PoV)

I waited until sundown to make a move, waiting for the small creatures to fall asleep, Yvonne said I need to talk to one who keeps the keys and slipped my fingers without it knowing that I got hold to the key. Sounds easy but difficult to act, if I don't have any topic to start the conversation to the creature.

I called the hodgoblin who is drinking from his wooden cup, yellow liquids flow to his ragged clothes that looked like been patch careless. I psst him and look to me frowning but approach me.

"What do you want peasant?" he asked and throw the cup to my cage, I flinched to his harsh behavior

I cough "Can I ask you something?" I said. The hobgoblin thinks for seconds before nodding. I sigh in relief scratching my nose in nervousness.

"I don't have a recollection on what is this place and what kind are you, can you explain to me please sir," I said with pitying voice and politely delivery. The hobgoblin looked pleased to me so he nodded again and sit down to the muddy ground.

"Okay, I'll tell you because you are showing respect to your superior" he pleasingly said and crossed his arms to his chest held his head high. I nodded enthusiastically with a smile lying to him that I think of him as a superior, which is not.

"Thank you, mister" I encourage more his ego.

"So this place is called Archaine, where 9 kinds lived one is my kind, of course, the hobgoblins" he explained

"What are hobgoblins?"

"The mages called us a mischievous goblins, but we have more than being mischief we can battle unlike the gnome who only think of the treasures that the mages tell them to keep safe, but we are superior to all kinds not just because of our perfect appearances but we are useful to her" he said proudly but I started to think of his ego being high level.

But I already got the keys while he's talking how great their kind which I lie. I smiled and thanks to the hobgoblin.

"Thank you for telling me about this world" but so much more to learn to this information I gather.

'I'm glad I could fill you in about this world, but what kind of creature are you again?" he asked getting curious to the bloodline where I came.

I want to know too.

"Don't know, I forgot to remember"

"Ahh your right, I forgot"

"But who is her?"

"Oh her she just the one who cast the cur-" he stopped in mid-sentence and look at me with annoyance "Shut up you're so noisy"

I frowned at the sudden change of personality but move it aside because I will escape together with Yvonne and Christine, they just needed the right time to escape tomorrow.

Tomorrow it is.

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Thank you for reading. sorry for some grammatical errors my English still sucks and hadn't yet improved. Please vote and comment if you think it still needed more to make the story better. Thanks again :)