Author's Note: This is a work of fiction, exploring taboo fantasies, not an endorsement of behavior, sexual or otherwise, in real life. Remember: Keep it Safe, Sane, and Consensual!
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The horses trotted as they pulled the carriage through the dark forest. Over the sound of stomping hooves and clattering wheels, the sounds of the women inside chattering away could be heard.
"Oh, your Highness, are you sure it was a good idea to travel without an escort? They say these woods are infested with orcs..." The buxom blonde servant did her best to stare out the nearest window of the carriage while also trying to keep from being seen through it. Her simple but well-crafted dress clung to her curves as she shivered in fear.
Beside her, a regal looking brunette in a purple silk dress and a wine cloak chortles. "Relax, Courtney. My father's men gave them a good thrashing a few months ago, they'd be foolish to threaten a carriage traveling on the Royal Road. Besides, we have an escort. We brought Liz!"
Seated on the other side, a tall redhead leans forward and reaches for her own curtain, peering intensely into the darkness as if daring danger to reveal itself to her. The swinging light of the lantern hanging from the ceiling glints off of the rich polished leather of a bracer.
"Princess Maria, you know I would slaughter every filthy orc in the Royal Forest for you, but I really do wish you had agreed to a full escort on this trip. Even with the importance of discretion, there are still threats lurking in these woods that we know nothing about."
Maria grinned at her armored companion. Dame Elizabeth had lived in the castle with her for their entire lives, training in the arts of chivalry and combat to become one of the most famous knights of the realm. What the beautiful knight lacked in years of experience she more than made up for with fierce determination and proud stubbornness, never backing down from a fight if it meant leaving another helpless.
"Now, Liz, we couldn't risk anyone learning about this meeting. The more of my father's men who know of it, the more likely word will leak out. The capital is full of spies, you know. It is of the utmost importance that nobody learns where we are going until we arrive in Seacrest to deliver this message to my uncle."
Elizabeth bit back on the question she wanted to ask. She knew better than to ask the Princess to share more than she wanted to when it came to matters of state. Beyond the rules of propriety that applied to a knight in service to the Crown, Maria was also notoriously well-guarded when it came to keeping secrets. Elizabeth doubted an entire orc hunting party would be able to get Maria to share the details of the message. Not that they'd ever get the chance to try with Dame Elizabeth standing between them and the Princess.
Courtney, despite knowing the Princess just as long as Elizabeth had, did not know better. "Princess, what is so important that the Queen has us riding down such a worn out road through such cursed woods in the middle of the night?!" Elizabeth tried not to roll her eyes. The Princess's faith in her abilities was flattering, for certain, but her duty to protect Maria would be far easier to fulfill if the Princess ever listened to her counsel in matters of her safety. The redheaded knight sighed as she glared through the window to avoid glaring at Maria.
Courtney screamed as something landed on top of the carriage. The driver gave a short cry, silenced abruptly as he fell past Elizabeth's window and landed limply in the road. As Elizabeth jumped from her seat and reached for the door, the horses could be heard whinnying as they slowed suddenly. Sparing a look over her shoulder, the knight shouted an order at the Princess.
"Stay in the carriage!"
Dame Elizabeth threw the door open and suddenly saw a party of tall broad-chested orcs in leather armor approaching from the side of the road. Remembering the driver, she looked up just in time to see another orc on the roof throwing a lasso at her. She grabbed it before it could ensnare her, and pulled back hard. The orc tipped forward and fell from the roof, hitting the road like a sack of rocks.
There was no time to gloat, as the other enemies were upon the knight. The first orc to reach her was rewarded with a dagger driven into his gut, and the second one hesitated just long enough for her to get her sword free of its scabbard. Behind her she could hear one of the other women slam the carriage door shut as she slashed outward with the sword.
The orcs had stories of the warrior woman with the fiery hair. She did not know it, but she was held in very high regard by the orcs for her fighting prowess and her beauty. The orcs intended to pay her the highest compliment, in their own way.
Maria watched the fight with a gleam in her eye. Liz was like lightning, moving almost too swift to follow and striking without warning. The tall and powerful orcs could barely move fast enough to hit her, and their attacks mostly glanced off of her armor as she slipped out of the way again and again, her own quick strikes wounding or felling one great fiend after another.
The only problem was, she could only be on one side of the carriage at a time. Courtney shrieked as the door on her side was torn free and the buxom blonde was suddenly dragged out into the road with a desperate wail. The Princess stared wide-eyed as her servant's bodice was torn open, her full breasts spilling out into the orcs grasping hands. Elizabeth foolishly turned to look at the carriage when she heard Courtney's cry, and this was the distraction one of the orc warriors needed to bash the back of her leg with a club, sending the tall knight to the ground with a curse as her knee folded under her.
The orcs wasted no time in pinning Elizabeth to the ground, although she thrashed about fearsomely. Her sword was pried from her fingers and tossed aside and her arms twisted about behind her. As she looked up into the carriage, she saw the Princess looking back and forth at her and Courtney, as if trying to decide which visage was more terrible. She growled in protest as she felt the orcs' thick fingers pulling at the straps holding her armor onto her athletic body, and groaned in dismay as she felt the reassuring weight of the leather and metal plates fall free from her and clatter to the ground.
Courtney was carried to Elizabeth's side, just out of reach, calling for help and begging for mercy as the rest of her dress was torn free and tossed aside. An orc towered over her and grabbed her blonde locks, yanking her head back before tipping a flask to her lips. A bright-colored concoction spilled into her mouth, some of it splattering across her face and down her chest, and the servant girl coughed and gasped as she was forced to swallow the strange potion.
As Elizabeth and Maria watched, Courtney's cries soon ceased, replaced by husky panting and desperate moans as she struggled to maintain control of herself.
"Your Highness... Liz... please help... I feel so... so... nnnnoh!"
She was cut off as the orc twisted one of her nipples, and the sound she made suggested far more pleasure than pain. Elizabeth's eyes went wide as she realized what the potion had done, and she turned to look to her Princess, who stared at her handmaiden's predicament with wide eyes and blushing face. The knight turned to the closest orc and spit at him defiantly.
"Let her go! You harm either of them and I'll tear you animals apart with my bare hands!" As she struggled helplessly against the orcs' grasp, she felt a sharp dagger drag lightly down her back as her tunic was slashed open. Courtney cried out again as she was rolled onto her back, her delicate skin scraping against the uneven dirt road.
