1 Where am I??

"I love you please marry me I'll take care of you my whole life" … Liam said but was rejected by Diana while pulling in her female lover. "Oh MY GOD! Why is she with a woman and not with THE MALE LEAD?? I'll take him if you don't!" yelled Claudia. She was currently watching a Kdrama about historical times when the female lead gets brainwashed and treated badly but trains becoming super overpowered. "This is getting too stressful." Claudia a NEET gets up from her desk and goes towards her bed. Her room was quite small, only fitting a bed, desk, and a tiny wardrobe but considering it was used as a storage unit she didn't mind much. "It's getting colder these days and I don't have enough money to use AC… *sigh*" Claudia decides not to think much and lights a candle next to her bedside and drifts to sleep.

*Mumbling noises* "mmmm…" *Kicks* "OW! What the?" Being kicked awake, Claudia feels her body shivering from the cold and felt an excruciating pain in her lower abdomen. "Get the fuck up we don't have all day!" Claudia with a confused face looks at the man holding a whip. She hears another man in the distance, "Hey, don't hurt the merchandise, you know how hard it is these days to get elves?" … Claudia still confused gets up and starts walking with the other chained individuals. All Claudia saw was trees that didn't seem to have an end and a sky which had a blue and greenish tint to it. 'What in the world is happening?! Is this a lucid dream… but the pain I'm feeling is too realistic to be called a dream…' Claudia was racks her brain and after a while realized, 'I left the candle lite in a closed room. Did I die from carbon monoxide? Is this heaven? No, this pain excruciating wouldn't happen in heaven! I think this is more like hell.'

*CRACKLE* Claudia feels a sharp sting on her lower back "AH" Claudia screeches as she got whipped from behind. She hunches from the pain and hears a shout from the back"Shit these fucking slaves won't hurry the fuck we're going to be late." the same man who kicked Claudia awake grumbled about something, Claudia couldn't quite understand since she was too busy dealing with the pain all over her body. She looks up to see the man who whipped her, she first noticed all the scars on the man and how he was a bit short but was very sturdy. His hair was receding and has a vikings beard, but the most intriguing part that captured Claudia's interest was he was missing his arm. While Claudia was eyeing him out she feels a light tug as it was a little boy who looked almost unrecognizable, he was very pale, skinny, and had wounds all over him. He whispered to her "Miss don't stare at the mean man, he doesn't like it when we do…" The boy said in a soft voice, almost as if only Claudia could hear him only

… Once Claudia saw the boy, everything that was occurring in her mind stopped in an instant. She then started realizing how dangerous of a situation she was in after seeing the little boy. She thought she was in a dream, denying the pain she felt in her body. "Ah, thank you… uhm, can I ask you a question?" The boy looks at Claudia with a tiny grin and nods. "Do you know where we're going and what's happening!?" The boy looks at her with a confused face and said, "You don't know what's going on?! We're going to an auction house, from what I heard, and we're being sold off." Claudia was stunned in an instant, she couldn't believe it. She was just at home and now randomly wakes up in a different world, chained in a line with others and men with swords and whips hitting them. Claudia asks the boy, "It seems I lost a bit of my memory, can you explain to me how I became a slave… if you know?" The boy looks at her with a sad look in his eyes. "They took us from the village…"

While Claudia was still confused on what he meant by "Village" she decided not to ask further as it seemed the boy was remembering the traumatic event. After observing the boy a little more, though, she saw the boy's ears were ragged and looked as if someone had cut off a piece of his ear. "Hey, what happened with your ear?" He looks up now enraged and says "Those bastards cut off my ears they said… they were bored and wanted to see … if I would scream or not. If I screamed, they would continue to cut parts of my body off…" He looks down with tears flowing and an angry look. Claudia looked at this boy, that didn't even seem to be older than 11 she had a pain in her eyes, and she pats the boy's head. "I see…" She didn't know what to say, as it was too graphic and unbelievable that a person can do that to a little boy.

Time passes and they finally reach a city. 'Fuck these dickheads didn't even let us take a break for the past 2 days ahhh I feel like i'm going to pass out..' During those 2 days Claudia would realize she would never wake up and that she really was in a fantasy world. After accepting the truth she was thinking of ways to escape but all her plans would fail as she didn't have the strength. She also learned the boys name was Isaac, the people chained up were elves and the men taking them were mercenaries hired by a Count. 'I wonder what's going to happen now. If there's a god listening to me please let there be havoc during the auction!' While Claudia was praying to god the mercenaries stop in front of a tent, "Get in here, you're all being treated nicely from the Count you better be grateful for his mercy dirty slaves." In total there were only 5 elves left after the journey so the tent wasn't too crowded up it was far from luxurious. 'Euagh what the hell is that?!?' Claudia smells a foul stench which smelt like rotting eggs, feces, and urine. The smell almost made her throw up at the spot, but she managed to swallow it down. It couldn't be the same for the other elves, though, as two males and 1 female threw up while going inside the tent from the awful stench. The puke smelt like nothing, as their stomachs had little to no food to puke out anyway.

Claudia noticed a strange blanket with maggots coming out. She saw a piece of hair also coming out the blanket, though once she realized what it was, it was too late as the male slave earlier who threw uplifted the blanket to wipe himself and the others. Soon revealed a decomposing body with maggots crawling all over it and some other body parts chopped. All the elves in the tent froze up, almost as time stopped. The woman who looked as nearing her middle age screams and tries to run out. She pulls the rest of them with her, but before she could reach the door, it opens and the Mercenary slices the woman's throat. "Aw shit, I didn't mean to slice her throat… whatever, she wasn't worth anything anyway. Hey you 4 shut the fuck up and sit quietly, or you'll become like her, got it?" The mercenary shuts the door, Claudia was stricken with fear she couldn't move the smell was the only thing on her mind, all the pain she felt earlier almost felt like it disappeared.

Isaac taps Claudia and said "… Are we going to be like that as well…" tears running down his face as he saw the other adults crouched around the woman's body in hysteria? Claudia also saw this and started comforting Isaac. "No, we'll get out of this, don't worry" Claudia notices a heart shaped locket on Isaacs chest. "Hm? What is that, Isaac?" Isaac stared at her with solemn eyes and opened his locket. It showed Isaac in the middle and a woman behind him. "This was a gift from my mother… before she was caught by some thieves, she gave me this to never give up and to keep living." After Claudia heard of his story she couldn't stay here anymore she thought it wouldn't be bad if she could just die here but after hearing Isaac made her want to escape and get revenge.

After a few minutes Claudia was holding Isaac while sitting down as far away as possible from both the bodies which was quite difficult as they were chained to 1 of them. 'Fuck, fuck, I need to get out of here, we can't stay here any longer, or we'll die!' While scanning the room, she sees the decomposing body from earlier has a piece of metal inside the torso. '… I think I know what I have to do.' She stands up but was dragged back by the two men who noticed her going towards the body. "Hey! What are you trying to do?! Do you want to die like that other just stay put!" She didn't listen and continued her way to the body. 'Oh my god. Please let this work…' She crouches down, closes her nose and digs into the person's torso, grabbing the metal object. Once she grabs out the metal object, she sees that she accidentally cuts herself with it, since it was a piece of a broken knife. She pukes and quickly wipes off the blood, but a maggot got into her cut still she couldn't freak out and on the blanket she wipes out the blood and other fluids to not get the cut infection.

She hurriedly looks down at the chains that restrict her and quickly tries to unlock it. After about 10 minutes it freeing Claudia. 'Ah! It worked, thank god!' The 2 men didn't take notice of this since they decided to not care about the other 2 mourning the death of their friend. Only Isaac takes notices and stands up quickly towards here. "What did you grab out of the body?!" Isaac excited saw Claudia freed from the chains. "Shh, let me get yours off too." Claudia didn't want the guards to come inside after hearing some chattering. She gets Isaac out of his chains as well now the issue about the 2 men. Claudia were wary of them but figured they couldn't do much harm, so she walks towards them. "Hey, be quiet and stay still." The 2 men looked confused, but they didn't dare say a word since they were still scarred on what had happened earlier. After 10 minutes, she freed both the men. "T-thank you! We don't know how we could ever-." The man talking stops mid way as they hear the door handle rattle.