Feature Writer: DieselJester / AlexClayton
Feature Title: HEROES FALL 8
Published: 08.02.2021
Story Codes: Erotic Horror
Synopsis: Lady Alexa falls in war and is enslaved by the victor.
Author’s Notes: This story has been Inspired by a combination of Hiblli3D’s Knight Elyane art and stories, Seeds of Chaos, and Viper RSR.
Heroes Fall 8
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Alexa was off of her horse, running to meet her parents with arms wide open and tears in her eyes, leaving Ronin behind. “Mother! Father!” she cried out as she rushed to the front steps of her family’s estate and into their loving embrace.
“Thank the gods, you’re home!” Tobyn sobbed with joy, holding her close along with Yvette.
They all held each other, crying and blubbering as they reveled in the moment, not paying attention to Ronin who was now walking up. He coughed politely into his fist to get their attention. “As joyful as this reunion is for you all, I have to make it brief as I have business to attend to,” he said. “Thus, when one contract ends, another begins,” he intoned as if quoting an axiom.
“Yes, yes,” Tobyn said, waving his hand dismissively. “You may leave now that our daughter has been returned to us. You have our gratitude.”
Ronin walked up behind Alexa, snapping an iron collar around her neck and putting a heavy, iron lock on in that only he had the key for. The effect on Alexa was immediate as she screamed with horror and dismay, dropping to her knees and clawing at the circlet of metal that represented her servitude. Ignoring her tirade, Ronin then attached a leash to it and pulled her back to her feet and towards him. “I am sorry to cut this short, but we have a lot of ground to cover for this contract,” he said apologetically.
“Ronin!” Alexa exclaimed, pulling back against her collar and leash. “NO! What are you doing? WHY? Let go of me! I’m home now! Your contract is over!”
“Yes,” he conceded. “Unfortunately for you, you are my next contract as well. I’m to bring you back to Lord Kirgon now.” He tugged on her leash again. “Now let’s go.”
“Back to that demon!” Alexa screamed, now struggling frantically. “NO! I WON’T GO BACK TO HIM!” She was desperate now. “You can’t take me back to him!”
“You can’t do this!” Tobyn protested.
“You work for us!” Yvette screeched incredulously.
“And that ended the moment I brought her home,” Ronin explained evenly, nonplussed by the outbursts. “I told you that you wouldn’t like the results of my investigation and that has revealed that she is the rightful property of Lord Kirgon under the sanction of King Sephant who now owns this land. He reached down to pull down the front of Alexa’s trousers to reveal her glowing fertility brand that the demon lord had put on her. “She still wears his mark.”
“It might be HIS mark but it’s YOUR baby growing inside of me now!” Alexa was hysterical now. “It just shows when I am with child, not just HIS child, Ronin! You take me back and you’ll be enslaving your own baby!”
“Do something, Tobyn!” Yvette yelled at her husband, frantically tugging at his arm to jar him into action.
“What?” Tobyn asked, shrugging in panic with what was happening. “What can we do against him?”
Ronin smiled. “Nothing, and it’s good that you realize that.”
“We’ll pay you more money!” Tobyn blurted out. “We’ll give you our lands, our titles, everything! Just don’t take her back to that monster who has defiled her.”
“I never take more than one contract at a time,” Ronin said. Now he yanked on Alexa’s leash, forcing her to his side and glaring at her. “Now… let’s go.”
Alexa’s lip was trembling as emotions rolled over her ranging from hurt and betrayal to just how unfair the world was to her. “When we made love… that…” she choaked back a sob even as she fell into step with him on the way back to his horse. “That meant nothing to you?”
“You said it yourself; I was a client,” Ronin shrugged indifferently. “All business, wasn’t it, to get my gold?”
“NO!” Alexa spun in place, out of his grip, to face him despite the fact that he was still holding onto her leash. She planted her feet, squared her shoulders, and glared at him with her fists balling up. “I will NOT go back to him! Do you hear me? I will fucking drop you if you try to take me back to him!”
Ronin closed his eyes and sighed with resignation. “Don’t do it,” he warned her, fixing her with a steady gaze. “I really, REALLY, do not like to hit women.”
“Oh, but you got no problem collering and enslaving them, do you, you piece of shit!” Alexa thundered, her old fire coming back. This was just one man, alone, on her home turf and not some false king who had a demonic pact. She could take him. Her hands shot up to his neck to grab him at the same time she brought up her knee towards his groin.
Ronin was already moving, ducking down and sidestepping to the left so fast that he made her look slow. His hands came up at the same time, dropping her leash and slapping her hands away. He then followed up by smacking the back of her right shoulder as they moved by each other. Alexa stumbled forward and tried to kick backwards at him. He slapped that away as well but Alexa used the momentum to spin around and flip another kick at him with her other leg. Noticing that Ronin wasn’t going to commit to battle with her, Alexa charged him, jumping at him at the last moment to take him down with a savage double kick to the chest. She was up first, straddling his midsection, and striking at his head with rapid blows. “I,” (hit) “Will,” (hit) “Not,” (hit) “Go” (hit) “BACK!” (hit)
But Ronin had his fists up and his forearms protecting his head against her ineffectual, roundhouse punches. He bobbed and weaved his upper torso left and right to roll with every wild punch she made. Then he shoved upwards, striking both of his palms against her collar bone before grabbing her right arm with his right hand and pulling it across so that her upper body twisted. At the same time, he kicked his left leg up and over her neck, bringing it down in a choke hold that she’d never seen before. “Grrrk!” she gagged as she struggled to breathe, now trying to pry his knotted body off of hers so that she could breathe. “Heeeeeeelp…” she wheezed as her vision started to go black.
“Just relax,” Ronin said as calmly as if he were ordering dinner. “It’ll be over soon… or you can just surrender now and save us both the trouble.”
“Nooooo…” Alexa gasped, now slapping her free left arm around impotently. She felt his calf and thigh flex to tighten around her neck despite her collar and then everything went black.
xxxxx
The moment Alexa went limp, Ronin released his hold on her from an ancient martial art from days long since passed. She rolled to her back, flopping flat out on the ground, her body already sucking in air into her oxygen deprived lungs. He got up and dusted his cloak and trousers off, fixing Alexa’s parents with a hard stare, silently daring them to do something. When they didn’t move, as he expected of them, he drew his knife and systematically started stripping and cutting Alexa’s clothes off of her body until she was a naked slave with a collar once again.
“You’re a monster!” Lady Yvette spat at him. “How could you do this?”
“Easy,” Ronin said, not looking up as he worked. He then took out a length of rope, binding Alexa’s wrist together in front of her before looping the rope between her wrists to cinch it closed and restrain her further. “I was paid to do it.” He looked up at them. “I might not take multiple contracts at once, but I do line them up so that when one contract ends, another one begins.”
“Can’t you just make an exception, just this once?” Tobyn implored him. “Please? For our sake?”
“No, because it is bad for business,” Ronin grunted as he stood and tossed Alexa’s now sleeping form over his shoulder. “Once word goes out that you’ve gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it’s nothing but work, work, work all the time.”
“You mock our pain, you bastard!” Yvette screamed at him.
“Life is pain, highness,” Ronin smirked. “Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.” With that, he turned on his heel and left with his prize, draping Alexa over the front of his horse’s saddle before getting on the horse himself and riding off.
xxxxx
When Alexa finally woke up with a start, she tried to get up but found that her leash had been staked to the ground right next to her head so that she couldn’t do so. She looked at the stake just to the right of her head and then down her body. Ronin had taken off her clothes and tied her hands together in front of him. She then saw him sitting next to her as he tended to a campfire as night had fallen. He noticed her moving and looked over at her. “Hungry?” he asked and that’s when she saw that he was making dinner. When she didn’t answer, he held up a waterskin. “Thirsty?”
“You are a strange man,” she glared up at him. “You fuck me one night and abduct me the next. And now you’re just sitting here offering me dinner as if nothing has changed between us?”
“Nothing has changed between us,” Ronin said as he took slabs of meat out of the frying pan, proceeding to cut them with a knife he kept in his boot. “I am a bounty hunter, and you are the target of a contract. I told you back in that village I found you in that Lord Kirgon hired me to bring you back.”
“You said you didn’t take that contract!”
“I said that I wasn’t currently on that contract, two different things, dearie, try and keep up,” Ronin corrected her.
“For all of your power and abilities, why don’t you go out there and do some good for a change rather than living your life for gold?” Alexa snarled. “Someone like you should be a beacon for change, not a symbol of corruption!”
Ronin smirked. “Tried that, once, it didn’t take.” He smiled ruefully as he stared back into the fire, a distant look coming to his eyes. “There was once a time when I was young and idealistic like yourself. I tried to change the world and for a moment I succeeded. But then…” he shook his head slowly, “people are people, no matter what race they’re from. You get good ones and bad ones. You get the highs and the lows and there’s nothing anyone, not even me, can do about it.” He looked back at her. “Sephant wasn’t wrong, you know, in bringing his crusade against your people. Feudalism is a stupid system where people are noble by birth. He just brought about the system again in that might makes right and you don’t have to be consigned to the caste that you’re born into. That’s why he won.”
“But King Randal was a kind and benevolent ruler, and he was a progressive thinker!” Alexa protested. “He allowed equality in the ranks of his army with us Paladines!”
“Oh yes, nine or ten women out of how many who could wield a sword? And that’s not including the few casters that you all had who were women,” Ronin laughed. “He wasn’t about equality. He was all about a publicity stunt just to shut you noblewomen up. How many women, overall, took to the field under Sephant’s banner? Far more than they did for Randal. Sephant is more about merit and equality than Randal ever was.”
Alexa stayed quiet as she stared into the fire and mulled that over for some time. Then she looked back at Ronin after a while. “You don’t have to do this, you know. I could hire you to take me away from him. But… all I have to offer you is my body.”
“I’m already on a contract and I finish contracts that I start,” Ronin pointed out.
“Make an exception!”
“Do you know why I’m regarded as the best, hm?” Ronin asked her. “It’s because I complete every contract that I am paid to do to the letter. To do no less means that people know that they can take advantage of you. I do not bargain. I do not relent. I get a job, I do the job, I get paid for the job. End of story.” He held up a hand to forestall any more comment from her. “If you can’t get the undertone of what I’m saying, then maybe you have no business being a free woman. Now get some sleep, our meeting with Kirgon tomorrow will be interesting enough as it is.
xxxxx
“Pleeeeeease…” Alexa blubbered not for the first time in the journey back to Kirgon’s keep since coming through the portal a half a day’s ride from the keep the next day. “Please, don’t do this. Like I told you last night; I’ll do anything! I’ll be your personal slave! You can have my body whenever you want it. I’ll give you all of my gold and all of family’s fortune that I have access to! ANYTHING! Just please, don’t give me back to that demon to be bred! Kill him and keep me for yourself for all time instead!”
“This is why most bounty hunters gag their marks,” Ronin groaned as he stopped the horse by the front gate to the keep and motioned for the demon guards to open up for them. He dismounted from his horse and then dragged Alexa off of the saddle where she’d been sitting in front of him, setting her on the ground on her feet. Then, with her leash in hand, he led her through the gate and to the keep. He looked back at her as they crossed the courtyard. “Are you serious with your proposition?”
“Yes…” Alexa whined as she hung her head and wept. “Please. I’ll give you my body and soul if you just won’t give me over to him. I’ll proudly fuck you every night and bear your children for you. Just… please… I cannot bear it being a slave to Kirgon again.”
“Alright… I’ll keep that in mind,” Ronin said as they walked into the keep and up the two flights of stairs to Kirgon’s throne room. “Just keep your head down and your mouth shut.”
Minutes later, they were walking through the doors to the throne room. The red and black demon lord had obviously been appraised of their arrival. “Ronin,” Kirgon said from where he rose from his throne. He had a big smile on his face and his arms spread in welcoming. “I didn’t think that you would actually bring her back to me.”
“A contract is a contract,” Ronin half shrugged as he led Alexa to him. Alexa wailed in dismay as he handed the leash over to her master. Ronin stepped aside for Kirgon to examine his slave girl. “I believe that I’ve fulfilled the terms of our agreement?” he asked. “I walked her right through your front gate, walked her through those doors,” he nodded to the double doors of the throne room that Kirgon had instructed him to use just days before. “And I handed her leash over to you, thus giving her back to you.”
“Yes, and to my surprise and enjoyment, no less,” Kirgon said. “You have more than earned your bonus of a slave girl of your own. Leave us and enjoy the comfort of my keep. I’ll have more work for you in the future after I get reacquainted with my prize breeding girl here.”
“Thus, one contract ends and another one begins,” Ronin said, using his favorite line that drew a look of confusion from Kirgon and a look of shock from Alexa. He smiled as he pulled his magical handheld blunderbuss from his inside overcoat pocket and pointed it right at Kirgon.
“WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?” Kirgon demanded in outrage as his eyes darted from Ronin to the weapon, and back up again.
“You are now the contract,” Ronin said as he pulled the trigger.
THE END OF CHAPTER EIGHT