Heroes Fall
by: DieselJester / AlexClayton
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Author Notes: This story has been Inspired by a combination of Hiblli3D's Knight Elyane art and stories, Seeds of Chaos, and Viper RSR.
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CHAPTER 1:
Lady Alexa, daughter of House Colet and a Paladine Knight of the Realm, woke up with a throbbing headache. She winced and moaned as she tried to sit up off of the floor, a simple task that was made harder as she found out that her wrists were bound behind her back in a cross-cuff fashion. She shook her head to get her bearings, her long golden hair that was matted in places with sweat flying every which way. As her head cleared, she found out that she had another problem; she was totally naked save for an iron collar that had been fastened around her neck.
Not good...
she thought as she looked around at the dark cell that she was in. It was hard stone on three sides with wrought iron bars with a prison gate making up the fourth wall. The cell was comfortably warm, which implied that she was near a hot spring, a warm river, geothermal activity, a volcano, or it was simply magically heated. The only light that she could discern were the torches on the corridor outside the cell. Whatever the source of heat, she was thankful for that little detail as she wouldn't freeze to death. There was a small cot on the wall behind her, opposite the cell door, and a small hole, too small to crawl through, recessed in the floor of one corner of the 3-meter cubed cell. She didn't need a map or instructions to determine what that hole was to be used for.
She got to her feet to pace the cell and to stretch out her aching legs. How long had she been down here for? For that matter, how'd she even get down here to begin with? The last thing she remembered was storming the mountain castle of the traitorous Lord Dreven Sephant with her fellow knights. They'd even made it to his throne room, ready to arrest his smug looking ass just sitting there like he didn't have a care in the world. She recalled that his hand reached for something by his throne, a gaudy wooden chair that was more plush and more ornate than the king's own seat. It was a lever of some sorts. It opened panels within the walls, and she saw a flash of green, a spell launched at her perhaps, before her memory of the event went fuzzy and black after that.
After a while she got tired of pacing and simply sat cross-legged on the cot. There wasn't much of anything else to do. She closed her eyes and took some deep, calming breaths, sure that if a guard or a jailer walked by that they'd get a good look at the rise and fall of her full breasts and her charms displayed through the thatch of brown hair between her wide-open thighs. She didn't care. She'd been naked in the company of men both platonically and intimately. She wasn't ashamed of her nudity. At the same time, she focused on just listening to what was going on around her; the crackle of torchlight, the shuffle of people in cells next to hers, the cries of other women down the corridor, and the shouts of outrage of men further down. This was occasionally punctuated with the sudden, anguished cry of pain before going silent.
More time passed in the dark cell before she heard something else going on down the line of cells. She heard people... lots of people... men's voices... talking amongst themselves and talking to her fellow prisoners. There was some talking, too low for her to hear. Then there was the telltale sound of more women screaming or crying out in protest or horror. Alexa got up off of her cot and moved to the bars, pressing her face between two of them and trying to crane her neck to look down the corridor to her right to see what was going on. She caught a glimpse of eight men going in and out of the cells in pairs. What bothered her were the lecherous grins on their faces and their own half naked bodies save for barbaric looking loincloths and boots.
Two of them, big muscular guys, one of whom was bald with a brown goatee and the other who was slightly shorter, clean shaven, and had shaggy black hair, came to her cell. Alexa instinctively moved back to her cot to stay out of their way, watching them warily. The shorter black-haired man opened the cell with his skeleton key and the two of them walked in. The larger, bald headed man was lugging a huge barrel of water and a ladle. He set it down with a thud and dipped the ladle. "Kneel and receive water," the bald-headed man commanded gruffly.
Alexa arched an eyebrow at the offered drink, subconsciously licking and smacking her lips. She wanted to refuse but she didn't know how long she'd be down here or when the next drink, if any, would come. The black-haired man gave her the most insincere smile she'd ever seen. "Come now, Lady Alexa," he said smoothly, "you do not want to die of thirst in this place, do you? And believe me, this place will dry you out quickly. Please, do not make us force you." Alexa weighed the pros and cons and figured that if they wanted to kill her, as she suspected that they'd already done with some of the other prisoners, they would've done so already. She walked over to them and opened her mouth expectantly. The black-haired man gave her a knowing look with that damnable smile still on his face. "On your knees," he reminded her. When she just glared at him, he glowered at her. "You've been doing so well so far, Lady Alexa, it would be inconsiderate to mar an otherwise perfect record now."
Groaning inwardly and seeing no other alternative, Alexa swallowed her pride and slowly dropped to her knees, opening her mouth again. Dying of thirst would not do her any good. Black-haired man ran a hand through her golden hair, making her flinch away from his touch. "Good girl," he said as Baldy put the edge of the ladle to her lips and tipped it. Alexa greedily drank it down, savoring the cool, albeit a bit bitter, water and not caring if some of it dripped to splash the tops of her breasts. Either because she was cooperating or simply the fact that they wanted to keep her hydrated, she got a second and a third scoop of water to drink down. She struggled to drink it all down and more water slushed from the corners of her mouth to run down her chest in rivulets. Her nipples hardened by being teased by the cooler liquid touching them.
"Good," Black-haired man said with glee. "Now we can proceed to pleasure," he said, undoing his loincloth to let it drop to the floor. He stepped forward towards her and brought his hardening cock up to her face. Alexa shied away from it, but he was ready for it; this time instead of petting her, he grabbed her hair, making her cry out in pain. "Don't be stupid, girlie, you had your chance to play soldier and you lost. Your little insurrection at your proper lord and liege is at an end."
Alexa gasped as she looked up at him, jerking her head away from his cock. The way he said 'insurrection' and 'lord and liege' jarred her memory. It was Lord Victor Blankly, one of Lord Sephant's many cronies. That's why he knew her name when he first came into her cell. She didn't recognize him without his normal black clothes and equally black armor that they all normally wore, fancying themselves a black legion of sorts. "You're the traitors!" she exclaimed. "You're the ones who were rebelling against King Randal's rule!" Then the memories of that last battle before she was knocked out came rushing back and now she couldn't shut up to save her life. "You sided with orcs... you... you slime!" she sputtered, unable to comprehend how any human could do such a thing. "You were losing in your uprising and so you sided with evil demons, you traitor!"
To her surprise, they didn't run her through with their boot knives right then and there. Instead, they laughed at her. "Do you know what the difference between a Patriot and a Traitor is, Lady Alexa?" he asked. "The difference is who wins. Your army fell right into King Sephant's trap and was decimated. The counterattack is going on in his capital as we speak. Face it; you have lost."