All Shall Fade

[Locket]

((I don't know why it won't work embedded, but here it is: http://christianforums.com/t5980592-thom-and-mary.html And seriously, the whole village thing is up to you. But they wouldn't be friends- they might know about each other, but not pals. GM? Me? Noooooo))

 

[cyberwing]

((Okay then Isi was captured before they got to Mary and Thom's village... so they don't know each other at all, how's that?))

Isi's dress was ripped and dirty from her many falls to the dirt and from the orc's tormenting of the blind woman. Her precious staff was gone. A rope looped around her neck and bound her wrists. The orcs used this to drag the woman around like a dog. Some of them would stop and paw her, laughing at her frightened response. Isi would jump at any touch now, they had mistreated her enough she was terrified by any touch. Isi cringed away or tried to; often only to shrink back into another waiting orc. They made a game of it. Isi had known torment before but nothing like this. She was frightened almost beyond what her mind could comprehend. Isi could not scream anymore... she was hoarse from screaming.

Isi was trying to keep up with her orc masters. She was glad they were running. At least when they were running, they weren't pawing at her. She was ashamed of herself for her self-centered thoughts. She heard the screams of others, smelled the burning, knew others were suffering and probably dying but all she could think of was the horror she had been trapped within. Isi may not have been able to scream with her taxed throat but her tortured spirit screamed for release.

 

[Ellesar]

Cursing the orcs with every ounce of her being, Rica ran forward, trying to help those she could. Seeing a woman in the midst of a band of orcs, Rica moved closer and opted to use her sword instead. Killing the orcs around the woman, Rica cut the ropes that bound her and then asked, her voice accented by the Wild Men dialect, "Are you alright?"

 

[cyberwing]

Isi whirled in the direction of the voice. It was a human voice! The ropes no longer tugged at her neck but those around her wrist still had not let go, even though they were cut. She threw her wrists up and out wildly making Rica back up or get clobbered accidentally.
"Wh...wh....who are you?" Isi cried, her silver eyes frantically roving randomly across the sky apparently not not focusing on Rica. Sounds of an orc screaming a challenge at Rica made Isi scream but it came out as a coarse squeak. She kept flailing her bound wrists around trying to figure out what was going on. Isi moved toward Rica and her knee caught the body of an orc. She fell on top of it. Now she was flat on her face, which was fortunate because the charging orc had swung his sword to end her life, her fall made him miss. That brought the orc to Rica. He growled hatefully at the girl and then grinned.

 

[Ellesar]

"My name is Rica." Rica said, noticing that Isi didn't focus. She didn't have time to dwell on that fact, though, since when Isi fell, it brought the orc directly to her. Raising her sword to face the orc, Rica only grinned back, ready to do battle.

 

[cyberwing]

Isi tried to get up but slipped on the black orc blood. Isi whimpered her terror, "Help me... help me..." she cried, her hands were beginning to work loose from the ropes and she felt a ray of hope. This seemed to help Isi get a hold of herself and she began breathing in and out in long slow breaths.

The Orc laughed. "I'll 'elp you lots o' ways... then into me belly girlie! Gottas take ker of this 'un first tho'. This bad little girlie has a sword."

Isi grimaced at the Orc's threat. Same threats different orc... the girl... it was the young woman that spoke to her! It must have been her that cut Isi free! Isi suddenly had some hope. 'Rica... she said her name was Rica...'

 

[Ellesar]

"You will stay away from her." Rica told the orc calmly, her sword not wavering. "I'll make sure that you stay away."

 

[cyberwing]

The Orc kicked the back of Isi's leg and she fell down with a frightened squeak. "Come give it yer best shot girlie!" the Orc laughed at Rica.

 

[Ellesar]

"Well...if you insist." Rica stated as she feinted to her left and then spun to her right, lunging at the orc in mid-spin.

 

[cyberwing]

The Orc was almost caught off guard moving somewhat slow. However he was strong and did block Rica's attack, pushing her back.

 

[Ellesar]

Rica stepped back in order to keep her balance, and smiled slightly. "Not bad for a smelly, idiotic orc." she taunted.

 

[cyberwing]

The Orc roared his impatience with Rica and swung his blade at her.

 

[Ellesar]

Rica parried the attack and said tauntingly, "That the best you can do? I've seen young children attack better than that!"

 

[cyberwing]

"Human scum..." the Orc snarled and hacked at Rica several times.

 

[Ellesar]

Rica parried and danced back out of reach of the orc. "I'm the scum? Well...you LOOK like scum, and you smell like it too. Have you filthy vermin ever heard of baths?"

 

[cyberwing]

"You are an annoying little vermin!" the Orc snarled, charging and hacked at her again.

 

[Ellesar]

"Who me?" Rica asked innocently as she parried the orc's blows. "It would seem to me that you are getting weaker and weaker." She spun out of reach and then lunged at a weak point in the orc's armor.

 

[cyberwing]

The Orc gnashed his teeth as Rica's blade made contact and cut him. He tried to return the favor but Rica was too fast. He cursed in the Black Tongue and lunged for Isi unexpectedly. He seized her by her long golden hair pulling her backward and placed his blade at her throat. The frightened woman trembled, her unseeing eyes brimmed with tears.

"Back away!" the Orc commanded her.

 

[Ellesar]

Rica frowned slightly, but didn't lower her sword. "Let her go." she commanded the orc.

 

[cyberwing]

"Surrender your sword or watch this one die..."