Unwilling Servitude 4

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Banished

After almost a day, Skana began to wonder why Umbra didn't return already and flayed her alive as she told her. She savored the moment of peace but staring at old stone walls and dusty pottery became boring really fast. "I wonder how her fight against this Auronus went..." Her thoughts were interrupted by a familiar sound. A chime ringing.

Before Skana could even realize what happened, the room became flooded with a very familiar explosion of light.

Auronus appeared in the crypt out of nowhere, holding his spear again in a challenging posture. As the explosion of light began to discharge and dissipate he spoke with his metallic voice. "Did you really think you can escape the warlord of dawn?!" Skana jumped on her legs and tried to draw her palefire greatsword. There is nowhere to run. She has to fight.

Auronus didn't let her draw her weapon when he pulled Skana towards him with a gesture of his armored arm.

Skana tried to keep her balance but realized that she was pulled towards Auronus when her feet lifted off the ground.

"What sorcery is this?!" She yelled.

Auronus catched her at the neck with his armored hand. "Your presence is an insult to Meridias life giving energies. Thus you shall cease to exist and i will see to that!"

Skana tried to free herself from Auronus' iron grip, without success. She argumented. "By what right do you decide who gets to live and who doesn't?!"

"By right and decree of Meridia." Auronus replied dry. Skana intended to throw another argument at him but Auronus was through with his words. It was as if he simply changed the hand holding Skanas neck, a motion so fast that she didn't even fell from the height he was holding her. His giant spear pierced through Skanas throat.

She tried to say something but could only bring out a death-rattle.

Skana felt the magic emanating from the spear surging through her body. Magic designed to destroy undead.

She felt her body disintegrating. Panic overcame her. "Is this really the end? I don't want to go yet!"

The magic spread through her body. She wanted to cry, knowing that she will die for sure here. But no tear would leave her undead body.

"Someone, something, please.. help me! I don't want to die!"

Auronus eyed the dying woman, impaled on his spear. "Cease to exist and leave this plane."

Skanas thoughts began to slow. "No....i don't.....want...."

All that was left ot Skana was a skeleton with long hair, hair that will rot in a few weeks, matching the state of her body.

"Wake her up, wake her up, wake her up!" Yelled an impatient hoarse and morbid sounding voice.

The voice recieved a reply in a very deep, echoing almost unreal sounding voice. "Shut your jaw, Uthrang or i will shut it for you."

A third deep almost bestial voice spoke in a commading tone. "Wake up, Slave, i don't intend to have this conference for eternity."

Skana obeyed, or rather, her body did, but her senses came to life along with it. "Ugh.. my head. Where am i? And why am i naked?!"

"Yes, yes, yes yes yes yes!" Sounded the hoarse voice behind her. When she looked up, she saw directly into a skeletal face.

Skana tried to blend the frantic idiot behind her out, whoever that was and spoke to the lich infront of her. "Is this a dream? Or am i in the land of the dead? This isn't Sovngarde isn't it?"

The Lich took word with his echoing deep voice, seemingly coming out of nowhere. "No girl, this isn't Sovngarde. I brought your soul and your body back to its original state, before you got defeated by that auroran...freak. Before you ask, no, you're still undead and you will always be undead. That is when the bargain, which you are part of, gets out of negotiation with that stubborn fool behind you."

As she turned around to eye the stubborn fool, as the lich put it, behind her, she froze when she saw the huge humanoid figure standing infront of what seems to be an altar. Armed with a mace the size of a human. An iron face, gazing almost through her.

The enormous daedra spoke. "I believe i have endured the bickering of my council long enough. The negotiations of the bargain are deferred. Maera isn't even present." What appeared to be a second lich next to her swiftly replied. "As you wish, lord Molag Bal." before teleporting himself somewhere.

Skana was like frozen. Her thoughts jumping from one wishful-thinking-idea to the next. "I'm standing infront of a daedra lord...impossible.." But her thoughts were interrupted by the lich she spoke first to, when he talked directly to Molag Bal.

"I trust you honor our agreement, Bal. Even as lord of lies. And don't harm her. At all." The last words sounded very much like a threat towards Molag Bal for Skana.

Molag Bal didn't react to the threatening tone of the lich, but replied almost in a courtly manner. "I honor the agreement i have with the risen lord." The lich who apparently is the risen lord seemed to be satisfied with that answer and left a simple "Good." in the room before he teleported as well away.

Molag Bal gestured at Skana. "Now to you, little corpse. You and Umbra have both failed me. Umbra got destroyed by Meridias little auroran puppet and swims through the waters of oblivion. But you, i will see to your punishment personally."

Molag Bal stepped down from his podium while seemingly changing his size to a much smaller version of himself, only to drag Skana back to it, infront of the altar.

Skana tried to protest as futile it might be. "But i didn't know-" she couldn't bring out more words, Molag Bal didn't allowed her to. "You're not worthy of speaking to your master." And with those words, Molag Bal began to rape her.

Skanas body refused to obey her. Molag Bal had his way with her and she couldn't do anything.

All she could do was closing her eyes and wait until it was over.

But it was long from over. Molag Bal had her for hours, if not the whole day.

Skana felt her body getting numb. Whatever Molag Bal did, had an effect on her. This wasn't simple rape.

Skana began to feel weak, as if being mauled by a bear.

Molag Bal continued merciless with the procedure, staying silent the whole time.

Whatever he did with her began to seep into her mind. She couldn't think straight anymore.

There was no pleasure in it. No feelings. Nothing. Just a daedric lord asserting dominance over a human.

As Molag Bal was done with her, he just stood up, letting her fall forward on the ground.

Skana couldn't grasp any thoughts in her mind, it was as if she is in trance, but fully aware of it. Her body twitching as she lay there. Molag Bal smeared something on her face. "I shed a tear for your failure.. ".

Skana was overwhelmed by fatigue and closed her eyes, trying once more to gather some thoughts.

Molag Bals voice entered her mind again. "Kneel." Skanas body obeyed and the fatigue subsided rapidly much to her surprise.

"For failing me, i banish you to the Soul Cairn, until the negotiations of the bargain have ended." He spoke as if partaking in a ritual.

Skana in posession of her senses again, couldn't make out what the daedra lord was talking about, the room seemed so bright all of a sudden, almost hurting her eyes.

"Try not to go insane, that's bad for the bargain and you don't want to fail me again." Molag Bal commented as a portal opened and swallowed Skana.

Skana awoke from a pulling feeling in her arms. "What in Shors name was that?" She thought while hanging in chains on a wall in a place she couldn't discern.

"Chains again... should i worry about getting used to it? At least i have my clothes back.." She overlooked the room she was in. There were bones, lots of bones and some kind of grate on the ground.

"Considering i do have my clothes, this must be the afterlife, damn this place sucks. I can't feel my sword on my back though, must've lost it when this bastard Auronus killed me. And how do it get out of this mess now?" Just as Skana finished thinking her mind, the chains holding her to the wall simply disappeared, letting her land rather ungentle on the bones below her.

"Is somebody there?." She yelled. A single lightning strike in the room, greeted her back. "I take that as a no.". she answered her own question and headed for what looked like an exit at the opposite of the room. "I don't give a damn about all this what.. disappearing chains and lightning in closed rooms, i just want out of here."

As she stepped outside, she noticed her vision blur, trying to adjust to the light in this place. "That was weird...but i feel actually fine..what on nirn is going here?".

She remembered Molag Bal in what apparently was just a dream, saying to her not to go insane. "Yeah sure.. going insane.. in a place like this, out of boredom maybe."

Skana smirked and spoke sarcastically to herself. "I can't wait to be an eternity here, with nothing! And why am i so damn thirsty? There must be some water here."

And thus she began to wander the wastes of the Soul Cairn, not realizing what she has become, in search of water.

If anything, this is the end of her unwilling servitude to Illia, Umbra and perhaps even Molag Bal.

Afterword: Skanas story will continue under a different name since i've gotten a much broader idea-construct (in fact i do finally have a idea-construct for this) about the storys content, screenshots, etc. Technically Unwilling Servitude is the first "Book" if you want to see it like that.

For everyone who enjoyed my story so far, stay tuned there'll be more.