Emmett and Arnia 2
Listen, okay, this isn't whumpy whumpy, this is a light series! or at least is meant to be!
CW: Royal whump, kicking, collar, cold.
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“I can’t anymore”, Emmett said while patting, he had stopped walking and was leaning on a tree, “This is… too far.”
“Keeping moving”, Arnia said, grabbing his arm and forcing him to walk as she did many times on the way, but different from before Emmett stayed on the ground after falling, he had enough energy to get up, but no more to walk, “So you truly want to test the collar before arriving don’t you?”
“Wait-”, Emmett’s words were cut by his scream, it was only pain, inside his head, and all over his body at once, it was the worse pain he ever felt, his body didn’t know if he should curl on itself or squirm, so it stayed still.
“Ready to behave now?”, Arnia asked when the pain stopped, looking down at Emmett as he tried to catch some air.
“I-I can’t”, he said weakly, “Please, I I would obey if I could, I did so up until now, didn’t I?”, He looked up at his captor, not glaring this time, but not pleading either, just trying to make her look at this logically.
Arnia looked down at the prince, he truly obeyed up until now, but it was just half a day since the kidnapping, she tsked her tongue before kicking Emmett right in the stomach, “We’ll stop here for a break.”
Emmett curled on himself, was it her way to say she isn’t pitying me, he hissed, because it’s working. He didn’t bother getting up, and after a few minutes, he heard Arnia approaching again, “What?”, he hissed, “Came for more?”
“What if I said yes?”, Arnia asked, tossing a water bottle at him, “Would you quietly take it all? As all the people that your kind hurt?”
‘Your kind’ again, Emmett thought, but he didn’t say anything, just took the bottle before she changed her mind, he took a few sips and took the herbs out of his pocket, he wanted to do this away from Arnia eyes, but she didn’t seem to have any plans on leaving his side.
“What are you doing?”, Arnia asked, grabbing Emmett’s wrist and forcing his hand open to see what was inside of it.
“Medicine”, Emmett said, hoping that she would allow him to at least take care of his wounds, “It’s only medicine”, he added, feeling her grip bruising his skin.
“Where a highness as yourself learned this kind of thing?”, Arnia asked, letting go of his arm.
She did it again, Emmett thought, talked in the mocking tone, her hatred wasn’t aimed at him personally, it was the whole royal family, and, well, that included him, “I’m botanist”, he explained, starting to smash the leaves.
Arnia laughed at him as if he had just said something stupid, he groaned when another kick came, but Arnia just walked away right after, she was doing some kind of shelter, Emmett had a feeling he would not be allowed there.
And he was right, “I’m cold”, Emmett said, he was hugging himself, as soon as he finished tending at his own wounds Arnia magically chained his ankle at a tree far from the warmth of the shelter, “I’ll freeze here!”
“Stop complaining, people survive worse”, Arnia said from her magically heated spot and Emmett glared at her.
“Hey”, he called, “Why don’t you just tell transport us away from here?”, the more he thought about the less this made sense, “You are a sorcerer after-”
Pain, all over his body, not as long as earlier but it still felt like an eternity, he gasped for air and glanced at Arnia as if betrayed, he was just talking, “Why?”, he asked betting coughs, “I didn’t do anything!” he shouted.
Arnia glared at him and got up, Emmett uselessly backed away when she bent down at his level, taking the chain off and forcing him on his feet, “You talk too much”, she said angrily, angry at him, he made a mental note of not talking about her being a sorcerer again.
Emmett let himself be dragged to the shelter, but he didn’t have a good feeling about it, “Get down”, Arnia ordered and when he didn’t obey immediately she kicked him again, making him fall on his knees.
Arnia forced his head down, before Emmett could say anything he was attached to the floor by the collar, Emmett looked down at the thing too close of a leash, his face turning red in shame.
“Aren’t you a prince?”, Arnia asked mockingly, massing his hair with the tip of her finger, “Why don’t you order your knights to fight me, then?”
Because I can’t do it right n-, Emmett halted, was it the same thing? Can’t she use all of her powers? That would make sense, how she was losing for the knights and why she didn’t teleport them right to wherever they were going.
Emmett just hugged himself again, if he lay on the ground he can pretend that there is not a leach attached to the collar around his neck, and at least he was in the shelter now, at least it was warm.
“Please, wake me up normal”, Emmett said before closing his eyes, “I know you want to kick me awake, so, at least this much…”, Arnia didn’t reply, but he didn’t expect her to, Emmett fell asleep thinking about how long it’ll take for him to be found.
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