Captured

Penny

I woke up groggily, my uncomfortable sleep doing nothing to abate my exhaustion. I sleepily tried to stand up, but only made it to a sort of crouch before I flopped onto my face. What the fuck? Why was I tied up? The fall stunned me awake, and I thrashed around in my bonds, trying to escape the ropes that tied me up.

"You're not getting out of those." A flat voice came from above me. I rolled onto my back, and saw a terrifying sight. A cum-stained blonde woman, covered in goblin markings and staring down at me menacingly. She was a little shorter than me, blue lines running up her limbs and body, swirling on her tits before ending on her nipples, and twelve tally marks on her inner thighs. Her skin was tan and kind of ashen from what was probably months if not years of being bred.

"Who are you? Let me go!" I shouted, trying to crawl into a sitting position. Her gaze bore into me as she studied me while I struggled against her bonds.

"I ask the questions here, now what's your name?" She said tensely, seeming on edge. I glared at her defiantly, keeping my mouth shut. Rule number one of being a ruler. Never negotiate with criminals. And I wasn't giving her anything.

"A quiet one huh? That's fine, I can make your friend squeal loud enough for the both of you. Your flaming bitch was a pain to put down, but turns out fire can't burn through chains." She walked to the other end of the room and dragged over Alice, bound in chains, with a metal ball in her mouth. She roughly threw her next to me and I looked over in concern. Alice nodded at me reassuringly and we both glared at our captor. She pulled an axe out of somewhere and brandished it, waving it through the air in some weird method of intimidation. The sun reflected off of it, shining into my eyes as she waved it around.

"So, now that I have both of you lovebirds here, I think you'll be more than happy to answer my questions. Anytime one of you stays silent, the other gets a cut." She clapped her hands in excitement before standing behind Alice, axe situated above her ear. "Now then brunette, what's your name?"

Alright, guess I'm negotiating now.

I answered without hesitation, "Penny."

She moved over behind me, and placed the axe on my shoulder, the blade digging into the skin, but not cutting me open yet. "And your name?"

"Mmph!"

"Silly me, I forgot to remove your gag." She slashed at Alice's cheek and I gasped, but she didn't cut her. She sliced through the chain keeping the gag in my girlfriend's mouth and Alice spit it out.

Hmm, she was good with that axe.

"My name's Alice."

"So, Penny and Alice, what are you two doing here in this forest, dressed like hookers and sleeping in a goblin cave?"

"We got ambushed, and killed the goblins. And now we're lost." Alice replied. "And now you're free from their slavery."

"No shit you killed the goblins. There were two hundred of the bastards. There's no way the two of you killed them all, even with your pyromancy."

Wait, she called it pyromancy. Nobody calls it that unless they're mages or nobles. Most people just call it fire magic. Huh, so she's sophisticated. Maybe a mercenary hired to defend a nearby town?

"Well, it wasn't just us. We were escorting a noblewoman with about forty guards. We got separated during the fight. You're welcome by the way. You can thank us by letting us go" Alice said sarcastically, shaking her chains for emphasis. Our captor looked up, lost in thought as she mulled over the information we had given. Based on the fact that it looked like daytime, and no goblins had returned, we probably did kill all of them. She walked away and started pacing, back and forth in front of us as she thought about what to do with us. I was sitting on a rock that poked into my ass, and shifted to try to get into a more comfortable position. An axe thudded into the wall next to me, missing me by inches, and I froze, petrified by fear.

"Don't move. I'm not done with you yet." She said, before walking back to us. She opened her mouth, ready to ask another question but snapped her head to the cave entrance instead. "Shit. You guys lied. They're on the way back."

"What?! How can you tell?!" I asked her in panic.

"Their smell, its disgustingly strong." She sighed, before standing up. "But, there's no way in hell I'm letting them breed me again. I'm going to either win, or end myself like I should have last year. You two should run before they get here. There's a tunnel in the back."

I could smell the stench of the goblins now, an overpoweringly musky smell that was tinted with sweat, smoke, and mildew. The woman cut our ropes and chains to free us, and then motioned to our swords laying on the ground nearby. She walked towards the entrance of the cave, wielding twin axes as she waited. We quickly grabbed our weapons, but as we started to leave towards the tunnel, both of us hesitated. Neither of us felt good about leaving her behind, even if she did hold us hostage and threaten to **** us. She'd been enslaved for a year, and letting her die here alone felt cruel.

"We can't leave her here." I whispered, and Alice sighed, looking back and forth between our salvation and our captor. She looked down, before looking back at me, resolve in her eyes.

"I'm back at full mana, so we can fight. Close quarters limit their numbers and they're probably exhausted too. We probably killed at least forty or fifty of them, and your guards would definitely have taken at least five each." She said thoughtfully, before looking at me confidently "We can win this."