Cave

So, little pre-chapter authors note here, but the end (Last 14 paragraphs) are going to a dark place, with cruel imagery, I will say this now but this won't be the last time I do something like this.

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Seeing Arthur was 'okay' in a loose sense of the word, Weiss let out a sigh of relief as she turned her gaze to the hooded woman who was tearing up strips of fabric and throwing them into a boiling pot of water which she stirred with a metal rod.

"Where are we?" Weiss asked as she sat up her hand going to her head feeling the bandage that had been wrapped around her head to halt her bleeding, While also letting her makeshift blanket slip off herself causing her body to shiver at the sudden coldness that assaulted her body. Her eyes widening in shock as her cheeks turned red and immediately grabbing the blanket and pulling it over her when she realized one simple thing, "Where are my clothes!?" she shouted, luckily still having her undergarments on.

The woman remained silent as she used the metal rod to lift the boiled strips of fabric from her crude handmade pot, laying them atop a flat rock she had cleaned beforehand. Whilst also picking up some already cooled pieces and walked over to Arthur, whilst ignoring Weiss's question.

Weiss's eyes watched the woman move, noticing in her hand a familiar piece of white and red fabric that made up her bolero, "You tore my dress up!? How dare you!" she shouted, "What right do you have to destroy someone else's property!"

The woman rolled her eyes underneath her hood as she began to lay the bandages in her hands over any part of Arthur's back that wasn't already covered, "The same right as I'm the one who saved you're sorry ass, girl" she snorted and returned to her seat by the fire, continuing to tear up the remainder of Weiss's dress.

"That still doesn't give you the right!" Weiss retorted, her voice furious at the women's disregard for others property, "That dress was expensive!"

The woman snorted once again, "No wonder it felt so 'fine' and 'cozy'" she mocked, "Waste of money if you ask me," she mumbled, "Look around you girl, just take a look," she said, opening her arms out to her surroundings of an empty cave with only a few things in it, like a large pile of snow and numerous piles of bones.

"I live in a fucking cave, I couldn't give two shits about you and you're pretty little dress" her voice turning venomous as she continued to speak, "I have fuck all, everything I have here, I have harvested from the forest for months, and would you look at that…"

"Forest's don't just grow bandages on trees, who would have thought. Now, I could have used the boys' clothes, but then he'd be left clothes less with only rags covering his back, or I could use the pretty little princess's magical gown of costs too much to make at least something decent enough to hopefully keep the boy alive for long enough that his he can start to heal" Weiss went silent unable to refute anything she said.

The woman's words also acting like water thrown onto the fire as the reality of her situation began to sink in, the memories of the crash and the assault by the grimms reminding her of just how useless she was in their current situation, her body beginning to curl into a ball as tears began to drip from her eyes, "Why me? What did I do to deserve this?" she mumbled, her hands gripping at her head as she began to panic.

As the woman was stirring the pot of makeshift bandages she gazed over to Weiss, a slight tinge out irritance in her gaze as she watched Weiss shiver like a lost lamb, "Oh, fuck off with that" she grumbled in disgust, "Grow up, be happy you're even alive" she said repeating the process of removing the bandages and taking the cooled ones to cover Arthur's back.

"You didn't deserve it, get over it, shitty things happen to everyone, babies get abandoned, fathers get murdered, people get kidnapped, you just so happen to have been shot out of the sky and are now stuck in a forest," the woman explained as she walked to a large pile of snow far away from the fire, her hands digging through it until she pulled out a large chunk of meat from it which she brought to the smoldering ashes of another fire she had made a while ago, throwing the deer leg onto the ash and covering it with them as well as adding logs atop it and setting them alight with a burning piece of wood from the fire Weiss and Arthur were next to.

Weiss was silent as she listened to the woman, "Take him for example, he got his back burned off from the explosion, his aura can barely keep up with the first and second degree burns, let alone the third degree ones that cover the entirety of his back, he's lucky to even be alive, I have seen men and women die from much less" she said

"But you, you are the lucky one, all you had was a concussion and a cut on your head, and all you can think about is your clothing and 'oh pity me! My life is so shitty because of something!'" her voice went high-pitched as she mimicked the voice of Weiss, "Get over it… I've got enough problems here than to deal with a whiny little brat"

"I-I…" Weiss wanted to retort to her, but her words became stuck in her throat, unable to even mutter a full word as she knew she was being selfish, she had never been treated this harshly before, even Winter wouldn't go this harsh, sure she would say things that would awaken Weiss to reality, but she had never been mocked like this before except by people who detested the SDC, never by a complete stranger.

"I-I'm sorry, I know I'm being selfish…" Weiss mumbled as she began to calm down, her body straightening up into a more relaxed posture, whilst her expression turned to one of guilt in realization at what she truly was, an arrogant child.

"No shit" the woman blankly stated, causing a slight twitch in Weiss's demeanor.

"Do you have to be so crude?" Weiss asked.

"Fuck yes" the woman snorted in response as the cave began to rumbled causing dirt to fall from the ceiling.

"What the!?" Weiss exclaimed as she steadied herself on the ground, only for her mouth to be covered as the woman dove to her and covered her mouth with her hand, another finger going to her mouth in a 'shh' gesture, her eyes serious as she pulled out what looked like a slingshot and a small red dust crystal, aiming them at the entrance to her cave.

Luckily the rumbling soon stopped, letting the woman release the sling whilst keeping the dust crystal unshot, the woman soon ran to the cave entrance, leaping across the ravine and latching onto the wall, quickly climbing up it until her eye's poked over the edge scanning for any threats.

Eventually letting out a sigh she threw herself backwards towards the cave, landing on it and quickly scuttling herself into it, "What was that!?" Weiss shouted as she ran towards the woman, her hands holding the roughly stitched together blanket over herself like a poncho.

"Blut" the woman said quickly walking pass Weiss and seating herself next to Arthur to check if any dirt had fallen onto his back, followed by Weiss.

"Girl, I don't know why they want you, but be careful, if they used blanks to shoot you down, then they want you alive, and that is never a good thing," she said as she pulled another shoddy blanket over Arthur to give him some extra warmth.

"What do you mean? Who are they?" Weiss asked, confused.

"The Kreischen"

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[You find them yet?] a voice wreathed in static came from the escorts radio on his chest.

Raising his hand he pressed a button on it and began to speak "No, nothing, checked where Gehirn said they fell, they're not here, Bein's checking the surrounding area," he said, static being his only reply for a bit as whoever was on the other side was doing something.

[Got it] the voice said, the static clearing up slightly letting the man hear the feminine voice of whoever was on the other side, [Find them and keep them alive, Knochen, we need the girl unharmed and the boy's information] she said.

[Though, feel free to play with the Schnee brat, just don't harm her] she added with a cackle.

Snorting the man began to chuckle as a cruel smile formed on his face, "Gladly, the brat's smug face was pissing me off the last two days, god is it going to be fun breaking her" he began to laugh as his eyes began to sparkle.

[Good boy, teach her the meaning of being a woman and I might just let you keep her until 'the rescue party' comes, might even give you a freebie if you want] Knochen gulped in excitement at her words, [Find them, Knochen]

The man excitedly said [Yes, Blut!] and the radio went silent. Knochen began to lick his lips his smile turning even more malicious as he turned his head to the rapier that was lodged into the ground next to him.

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"Hmm… hmm…" A girl's humming filled the large garage as her legs dangled off the side of the cockpit of a large mech, her eyes traveling over the hologram of Arthur and Weiss as they fell, the hologram zooming onto Arthur's face as a smile overtook her face.

The girl was short, barely taller than Weiss with long blood-red hair, she was also young, around eighteen years old, with large, almost unnaturally so, breastss for anyone her size. Her eyes were a bright pink.

Her hand reaching out to touch the hologram, "I wonder… are you good enough to be my husband?" she giggled, the hologram soon fizzing out as anger filled her expression.

"Do you have to ruin my fun every fucking time Gehirn!?" she shouted as she turned to a tall man with short brown hair a deep red eyes, the man wearing a black and pink scholar's robe.

"Quite honestly, yes, it's irritating every time I come in here and it smells like a whore house" Gehirn cover her mouth with his sleeve as he looked to the corner of the room where multiple men and women, tied up and hanging from the roof by their hands and legs, some even being placed on numerous mechanical 'torture' devices that made both the men and women moan whilst tears streamed from their faces with eyes dead of any expression.

"You really should just get rid of these wastrels" he said as he pinched the cheek of a young girl barely sixteen years in age, her eyes still having a little bit of light left as she tried to move her head away from Gehirn's hand, The girls arms and legs slotted into the arms of a machine that was slowly thrusting a rod into her body, the girl seemingly trying her best to hold her pained moans as she gritted her teeth and growled at Gehirn. Like all the other captive's in the room she was stripped of all her clothing revealing the numerous welts and cuts that covered her body.

Unable to move away from Gehirn the girl opened her mouth and spat on his face, covering it with numerous small drops of spit. Gehirn flinched slightly as his eyes shut, his hand moving into his robe where he pulled out a pink cloth and began to clean his face, eventually returning the cloth to his robe when he was done, "Stupid girl" he muttered, his hand raising into the air and quickly slapping the girls cheek.

"You should be grateful I even dirtied my hands just to touch you" he growled as he walked to a panel on the wall next to the girl, the panel showing numerous settings for the machine the girl was strapped into as well as a small dial with words above it saying 'Intensity'.

Gehirn smiled and turned the dial to max, immediately turning the originally rhythmic 'pumping' of the machine, rapid as the pistons began to roar to life, the girls eyes widening in fear as she began to scream in pain.

"Aren't you the cruel one" Blut muttered as she hugged Gehirn from behind, her clothing already having disappeared somewhere, "I love it, why don't you play with me for a bit" she said as she began to grind her chest against his back her hand reaching towards his lower body.

"Get off of me, I have no time to deal with your lasciviousness, Blut" Gehirn growled as he grabbed her hand and threw it off him.

"Awww, and here I thought you were finally coming to accept my offer," she giggled, "But never mind, I've got plenty of toys for now" she smiled and began to skip towards the nearly a dozen men and women tied to machines, her eyes tracing each one until she landed on a man who was bound and gagged hanging from the ceiling by his neck with rope around his arms that were used to bolster his weight and ensure he wasn't actually strangling to death.

"Hmm, I haven't played with you for a bit" she sang, beginning to rub herself against the man to get a reaction from him.

"Blut, the Scheisse is still out there, I am tiring of dealing with her, get, rid, of, her, she should have been executed on the spot" Gehirn ordered.

"Yeah!" Blut moaned in response as she watched Gehirn leave. As soon as he was gone she turned to her toy, rage in her eyes as she wrapped her hands around his rope bruised neck, "That fucking BITCH! CAN'T SHE JUST FUCKING DIE LIKE A GOOD LITTLE WHORE!?" she screamed as the man barely struggled to resist her strangling, which kept growing in power until a 'Snap!' resounded through the garage.

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Alternate Chapter names: [Things get dark] [Screechers]

Words: 2,316

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