The Free Cities were falling one after another. Our armies had suffered a crushing defeat months ago and our male population was decimated. Each city was trying to defend itself with little garrison they had left, but the invaders forces were overwhelming.
We had been a peace-loving nation and were completely unprepared for the invasion. We assumed the barbarians would not dare to attack us, but they proved to be vicious, ruthless and fearless. Our men could not oppose them, since even appearance of the enemy inspired fear in hearts of our males, rather puny and short in stature. The invaders were large, imposing, their prowess perfected in countless battles they trained for since childhood. Rumors were circulating about the barbaric practices of the invaders: soldiers were allowed to keep lands and properties that they could seize. Women were enslaved, and made to service the invading army while the males were mostly executed. We kept hearing horrors of women being forced to pleasure the barbarian army day and night.
On that ill-fated evening, my younger sister Jia and I were at home. According to the latest news, the enemy was still far away, besieging a different city but we had gathered our belongings and provisions, just in case. We had a small rowboat we could take to escape and try to hide in the woods on the outskirts of the city.
We've both been married for almost a year now. After marrying our betrothed on the same day, we have since lived next to each other in a conjoined two--story mansion. Each family had plenty of room since our husbands were wealthy, but on that night, we were together, grieving together for our country.
We were both young, and shared a lot our looks, blessed with supple curves and delicate features. Despite having large breasts and round, soft buttocks we were not heavy. We were told we would be beautiful mothers. I had golden brown hair, and while my sister boasted a rich, chestnut hue. She had large hazel eyes contrasting with my dark green.
Our husbands did not appreciate our youth and allure, often disappearing for whole nights attending parties' of wealthy citizens. We've tried to conceive the entire time, and we were left feeling barren, still childless after a year of marriage.
A week ago, both of them were drafted in the city guard. To our dismay, they could not bribe their way this time. Both of them were somewhere in the city, so close and yet so far away. We planned to try meet them during their time off duty to conceive. We waited for them at home, to perform our duty to Gods, adorned in small tunics, showing off our curves and promising a lot of pleasure. But the fate decided otherwise.
It happened suddenly, without any warning. I watched through the window as the city walls were suddenly aflame, and people in the streets were running in panic. We listened to the screams and wails of both men and women. Trumpets announcing the ruthless invaders were blazing with no respite.
My sister started crying, and I ran to garbed the supplies. Our servants had been gone for the last few weeks since we could no longer afford them, so I was dragging heavy bags by myself.
As we were preparing to leave through the back door, loud cracking sound echoed through the house. The main entrance door was smashed in, splinters scattering in every direction.
Soldiers flew into the house like a whirlwind. We dropped the bags and rushed to the backdoor but the barbarians did not waste any time and caught us within a moment to reach us. We were still dressed in loose white tunics, innocent and defenseless.
Soldier yanked me and my sister, all of them exuding raw strength and danger, stinking of sweat and blood. As I got slumped over the shoulder, I saw the man holding my sister reach under her tunic and roughly squeezed her soft ass, making her scream. Something primal tingled inside my gut as I felt rough, hairy hands feeling up my smooth porcelain skin. I'd never felt so small.
"Celine!" Jia cried for my help, but I was in the same position as her, slumped over a shoulder of a tall invader.
The soldiers carelessly threw us down. They were grinning and devouring us with their eyes like wolfs, whose skins they were wearing. Hungry giants. I saw how their apparently large manhoods stirred under animal skins and I clutched my sobbing sister close. We were terrified to see people who were subjugating us up close.
But before we experienced the horrific fate so many other women of all ages were meeting right now in the streets, the largest one of them stepped forwarded and growled something in their scary tongue, earning a coarse laughter from his warriors. We looked up at him with tears.
The commander was in his late 30s, with ragged, ferocious visage. Even compared to his warriors, his physique was outstanding, and he was probably twice the size of our husbands. Raw muscle was showing among the furs. He was the only one wearing metal helmet, no doubt a sing of a higher rank. Untamed black hair cascaded down his broad shoulders, His dark eyes reflected flames of the torches in the room.
"I will take house," he growled in our tongue, but adding a previously unheard harsh note to the words "And all inside."
His soldiers grinned and one by one left the house, joining the chaos outside, no doubt to add more destruction. The conqueror removed his helmet and placed it on the table. He walked up to us, a huge dark figure, and grabbed us both by the hair and the base of our scalp. We squealed in pain as he forced us to our feet.
"I show," he said as his dragged me and my sister to the balcony, our tunics unraveling and dropping to the ground leaving us naked. "See what we do to your city and your race."
Awful sounds that I heard from outside were now put into a picture, burning into my mind forever. Clouds of smoke were rising to the skies as the city was aflame. In the streets I saw the carnage as dozens of bodies were laying in the dirt, and to my horror I saw heads on spikes carried by the invaders, with helmets of city watch.
My sister stopped crying and just watched with horror at the scene unfolding on the small city plaza we used to walk together.