Chapter 2

Eloise

...It could have been better...

"Such boney young lass..."

  I turned and saw a young lady who was laying in her cage, her back was turned to us.

  "To skinny to feed on.."  D. She said her words as if she was telling a story. Her voice was all cracked up and dreary.

   I slowly tried to roll to her cage, only to be met with a growl which halted me on my tracks.

"Stay in your cage..." She warned. I then retracted and got to my cage which I was chained to. The girls that had surrounded me soon dispersed and continued their business.

   I laid on my side, trying to distract the sizzling pain and biting cold by resting. If I died then so be it.

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  The sound of my breathing was the only thing I heard as I slowly walked back to the ruined temple. It was strange how I was able to escape the auction house. I didn't remember how I escaped nor how I knew the way back. 

   I slowly sauntered to the entrance of the of the temple. The place was silent and eerie. It was almost dark. I should've hear voices what's there was none. something was amiss. As I got inside, I almost choked with what I saw.

   Bodies... bodies of the people I knew. Bodies of everyone I ever loved... the stench of blood was pungent and nauseating. My heart bled as I saw their dismembered bodies.

   I badly wanted to cry but not a single tear fell from my eyes. as I wallowed in sorrow, a voice came from behind me.

"Eloise... Save me."

What was that?

  I slowly turned round but there was no one else, only piles of morbid dead bodies. The voice wasn't unfamiliar but it was soft and almost cautious, like a child's.

I tried to talk but the words were stuck to me. I couldn't speak again. It was then realization dawned on me.

That was my voice...

"Eloise... Help!"

I let my senses lead me. The voice was getting farther and farther away from me, my uneasy steps Brooke into a run. I ran faster as my legs could take me, but the voice was getting father and farther.

   "Eloise..."

   It was gone, I tried to talk, but my voice was stolen. My knees dropped to the earthy forest floor. I had lost everything. My family, my clan... And now my voice.

   "AAAAAHHH!!!!!!!"

I woke up very frightened. The fire torch in the room was mildly Illuminating the cell. It was a nightmare. All the girls had woken up by my screams. They turned to look at me in astonishment and... fear.

    Soon, a deep angry voice bellowed from the door, sending cold shivers down everyone's spine.

   "worthless maggots!!!"  I looked to the door to see a pair of icy glowing blue eyes by the barred opening in the door. The iron door flung open and in came a huge frightening figure. It was a Domineer.

    Domineers (vampires) where usually much taller and larger than any normal sized human. He slowly walked in with a scary looking baton and a strong leather whip.

    The panic-stricken girls held their breath in fear of being martyred. The Domineer slowly passed each cage, inspecting closely, his heightened supernatural senses ready to give out any faults or flaws.

    My cage was at the last and. Slowly panic rose Within in me and my heart began beating faster.

  Unfortunately, the big bad vampire heard it. He came directly to my cage and banged it hard, sending shockwaves to my brain.

"Scrawny, filthy little rat! When I first saw you, I knew you were something else..."

     He unlocked the cage and dragged me out. My clothes were still wet from the assault and was now being made to mop the filthy dungeon floor.  I was foolishly gawping at him with wide eyes.

   "You can't even seem to beg?! You must be really something!"

    He violently toast me to the floor, and before I knew it, a painful whip landed on my back, scattering blood. I screamed in excruciating pain, but not a single tear fell from my cheek nor a word from my lips.

    This angered the vampire more as he mercilessly whipped my bloody beaten body without the conscience that I was still a little child.

   The other girls were watching in horror as I was being lacerated and beaten without a word. This continued till my body was bloodied in red. As he saw the numerous marks on my body, he was satisfied.

  "To feed on you would be loathsome, but this... This will be the treatment suitable for you."

    He straightened his clothes and left. I was lifeless in the middle of my own pool of blood. I couldn't move for fear of agonizing pain.  The rest of the girls retired and slept of, but I didn't, in fear of having to scream again.

   I tried to cry but I couldn't. I had seen too many terrible, terrible things. Thinking about all that I had lost, I couldn't wish for anything else than to pass away from this terrible life.

Hours passed and soon, the door was open, waking every up. The girls were  unchained and then chained to the ankles, and then being hauled out. I was covered and dried blood and wounds. I couldn't walk, so I crawled in pain.

    We were dragged out to a section of the building which was covered in white tile, Forced to get rid of our own clothing and stand before them. Before I knew what was going on, we were hosed with warm water from the tip of our head to the base of our toes.

   It was painful as the wounds on my body was being washed by the water along with the dried blood, dirt and scabs opening the wounds that had just began healing, bringing out blood. They were washing us up.

   That was seem like ages, we were made it to dry ourselves up and wear grey shorts garbs which stopped right below our knees. As we walked out which chained connected to our legs, we saw our male counterparts, they had on garbs with white shorts, all were young.

They let us a place which many Domineers  were working. They took our samples, tests, pictures, everything about us.

   After they were done, they assigned numbers to each and every one of us, these numbers were to be stamped on our garbs like prisoners.

I looked down and saw the figures: 65076

   Immediately after they were finished, we were led to a section of the auction-house  which was opened for a number of vampires on seats. I saw many faces, faces I forever remembered.

  The woman I was sold out to, who's name I later found out was named mistress Almut Bade was present to auction us for bidding.

    It was then I realized that all of us that we presents in that dungeon were human rogues of different bands. In time, I looked up to see that some of us were already bidded and sold.

   As our time was over, and we left the place, I also discovered that humans weren't the only ones on the lists.

   Elves, wingless fairies, trolls, and very rarely, nymphs. Some things never once thoughts existed were now in view. It was all because of the blood war...

   No wonder the vampires were called the Domineers.

  As they were done with the overall auctioning, we were led to where every creature captured fed. we were made to sit down on the seat reserved for human rogues and we're served with stale bread and weevil infested bean porridge.

    I looked up and saw that everyone were digging on their grub like they weren't going to get any in the future, we weren't served with spoon or any cutlery apart from a tray with the stale bread and porridge, and everyone else ate with their hands.

   Other creatures were also served, but their food was worse, probably due to the fact that they weren't food for Domineers. I took a little bite of the bread and almost vomited in disgust. It was cold and wet,very unsavory.

  "Eat, or you'll get eaten..."

   I heard a familiar voice, it was that lady in her cage. I  slowly turned and saw her beside me. Her full face was now in view. She had red hair with green eyes and freckles which were scattered across her cheeks to her nose bridge.

  To be continued...

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