I really shouldn't be doing that." Arturia had just gotten out of the bathroom after finishing her session. "My addiction to Shirou isn't healthy, but I miss him, I miss him so much." If one were to look closely, they'd see that she was on the verge of tears. Her lover was a touchy subject, not being able to see him for a thousand years had made her almost insane, but she had at least managed to control herself, hoping that she'd be able to see her lover's reincarnation someday, and beat him to a pulp for making her wait that long, then proceed to force herself on him catching up on all the lost time, making him pay for the hole he left in her heart.
Looking at the bed she noticed that it was empty. Had that girl awoken when she was in the bathroom? "Damn…" She cursed she quickly bolted out the door to search for the Uchiha.
***
"Here we are, outside the east entrance. I didn't take you the main entrance because we would have to go through the court and they're having a meeting there."
Satsuki had chuckled inwardly. This woman was just so stupid. Her excuse as a latrine cleaner had not backfired like she had thought, in fact, because of that, the moron in front of her told her a lot of things about the military power of this place. Though some of them were unbelievable, like when she told her "they were the right hand of the Goddess herself" bullshit. Guess some people are just so stuck up they believe they can beat anybody.
"Well, thanks for the help, see ya…" She stepped right in front of her and into the crowd in front of them.
"Hey, wait…"
"Huh?" Satsuki looked back. "What is it?"
"What's your name?"
Satsuki decided to be a smartass. "Shouldn't you introduce yourself first before asking someone else's name?"
"Oh, right, my name's Erza Scarlet, nice to meet you…"
"Luna… my name's Luna…" Satsuki decided that would be her fake name. She was in a land place full of foreigners and she decided to go with a more Western name. Though she had not even noticed why these foreigners were speaking Japanese.
"So, Luna, want to go eat something? I'm pretty sure nobody uses the latrines anyway." She offered.
"I'll pass…" she denied rudely then started walking off. She felt someone grab the back of her shirt then dragged her away. "…Hey what are you doing, Scarlet, let go!" She demanded.
"Oh, come on, no need to be shy, a sexy, hot onee-san is asking you to lunch and you turn her down? Shame on you…"
Satsuki struggled to get out, but the woman's grip felt like steel. "Are you some sort of pedophile?! Let go of me!"
***
"How long are you gonna keep squirming?"
"Till you let me go!" Satsuki hissed. She tried her best to break out of the woman's grip, but to no avail. Erza was as strong as an ox, probably even stronger. People that passed by stared at the pair with curiosity, but otherwise did not spare them a second glance.
As much as Satsuki thought it would be unpatriotic, the place she was getting dragged across to was beautiful, really beautiful, as in she couldn't even spot one imperfection. Not even a single trash littered on the streets. Even the people were dressed in rather expensive looking clothing without so much as a single peck of dust to ruin the perfection. It definitely seemed like a better place to live in than Konoha.
"Hm, what are you so afraid of, Luna?" Erza raised an eyebrow. "It's not like anybody's going to hurt you, it's just lunch."
Somebody already did hurt me. Satsuki thought, still not giving up on trying to pry Erza's headlock open. "Let go!"
"Look let's just have dinner and I won't bother you anymore, okay?"
Satsuki thought about it for a moment. The headlock was unbreakable, really unbreakable. It would be just plain stupid to continue doing it any further. Sighing in defeat, she agreed. Besides, she might go hungry on the way out. "Fine."
"That's great!" Erza responded enthusiastically.
"Hey, didn't I already agree?! Let go of me already!"
Erza just ignored her and began humming.
***
"Where are Natsu and Gray?"
Mira gave Satsuki the glass of water she requested. "They left just before you guys came in, the others decided to follow." Mira explained. "I don't know why though, everyone seemed to be saying something about a bet."
Erza took a bite out of her cake. "… I see."
"Hn." Satsuki took a sip. "Why did you bring me here?" With a bored look, she stared her in the eye. Erza almost winced at her forwardness, almost. She began sweating and looked away from her and quickly began thinking of an excuse.
"You know, I—uh, I just thought I might just show you around. You did say you were new here, r-right?"
"So kidnapping someone wassssssss—" Satsuki's head suddenly felt dizzy. Everything around her was starting to blur. What was happening? Why was she suddenly feeling so sleepy? She glanced at Erza who seemed to be talking to Mira not concerned about her condition at all.
"Good job." It was what Satsuki heard come out of her mouth. Her drink, she realized, was spiked. Damn. She fought to keep consciousness but whatever was in her drink was doing its job well, really well. With a thud, she fell onto the floor. Every part of her body was begging her to sleep. Before she could lose consciousness, she saw Erza's boots stop in front of her.
"Sleep tight… Luna."
***
"Wake up."
Satsuki heard a rather feminine voice order her. Slowly opening her eyes, she could see a beautiful woman with long red hair. She looked extremely rather similar to Scarlet, the woman she had just met a few hours ago. Except this one had a more mature, no nonsense aura around her that rang of authority. And she looked to be around her twenties. She was dressed in some sort of armor that covered off her entire body except for the head. All-in-all, she looked pretty intimidating. Especially that she was glaring at her with such intensity. Her looks screamed "beautiful and deadly."
"What… happened?" Satsuki's head felt like it had been split open with a crowbar and sewn back together. She felt dizzy. Was it like this for people who had hangovers? She wouldn't know.
"You are in no position to ask questions, Uchiha…" She spat the name Uchiha with disgust. Wow, déjà vu. "I'm the one who's going to get answers here." Her voice meant serious business, as if she had done something to offend her in the past.
Son of a—Satsuki cursed inwardly, it was only a matter of time before she got caught and tortured for information. She steeled herself. No matter what happens, she won't talk, especially not to the likes of her. Her pride wouldn't allow her.
She looked around the room she was in. It was some sort of dungeon, and she was shirtless, hanging on a chain connected to the ceiling. It was so tight that it was hurting her wrists, it was only a matter of time before the tightness would make them bleed. The only thing that gave the room any light was the torches. It only made it more scary and horrifying to look at. Stereotypical dungeon. Her eyes widen when she saw a skeleton hanging on the chain beside her. She couldn't tell if it was real or not. But judging from the smell of death, it was real. Should she be scared? She noticed there were also people standing behind the woman in front of her. They were all wearing armors. They all looked like knights. And they were all female. Her eyes paused on one redhead amongst the group. Erza Scarlet. She was the only one amongst the group who wasn't fully armored.
"You!" Satsuki spat, glaring at her, and remembering what had happened. "What the hell did you—"
She never got to finish the sentence as she received a strong blow to the stomach by the other redhead in front of her, making her spit out her saliva.
"Silence!" The woman ordered. "You will only speak when you are talked to!"
"Mother, you said you wouldn't hurt her!" Erza protested with a worried look from the background. The other knight looking females held her back.
"I said I wouldn't hurt her too much. But if she doesn't give me the answers I want to hear. I may have to use more force than I originally planed." She said, never once look back at Erza.
Mother? Satsuki thought. So this is Mrs. Scarlet, another wackjob. Like mother like daughter, huh?
The woman in front of her once again began interrogating Satsuki. "We'll start with something simple. Tell me about yourself." The voice sounded exactly like Erza's, only rougher, more serious than the friendly tone Erza used.
"…"
"Tch!" Her fist raised and descended on Satsuki's nose, breaking it. She could actually hear the sound of more than just her nose breaking. It felt like some parts of her skull were cracked as well. The force was actually so strong that the Satsuki flew back and swung back in front of the woman due to the chain that was keeping her hanging from the ceiling. She swung right back in front of the redhead.
Only for her to repeat the process.
"You!"
PUNCH!
"Do!"
PUNCH!
"Not"
PUNCH!
"Keep!"
PUNCH!
"Quiet!"
PUNCH!
"While!"
PUNCH!
"I'm!"
PUNCH!
"Talking!"
PUNCH!
"To!"
PUNCH!
"You!"
PUNCH!
The entire process was like a paddle ball. Each word was accompanied by a punch. By the end of one sentence, Satsuki's jaw was dislocated, her nose was broken, her lips were sore and had cuts, blood streaming down her mouth, she was coughing out blood, and her left eye was black and extreme pain was felt all around her face. But the Uchiha still refused to cry.
The sadist in front of her smirked when she looked at Satsuki's teary eyes. "Good, that's what I wanted to see!" She even gave a short chuckle.
The best way anyone could describe Satsuki's look was a beaten up little puppy. Erza had a look of shock on her face. She felt extremely guilty about what was happening to Satsuki, but could never go against her mother's orders. The Dragon Queen can be scary when she's mad.
"Irene-sama, she's just a child!" One of the knights, one with blonde hair, beside Erza voiced. Irene shot her a glare and she suddenly kept silent with fear.
"I suppose you would like to know why I captured you." She said while smirking. Despite the cruelty in her tone, one could still find it extremely attractive. It was quite similar to Erza's only more mature and colder. "You must be asking yourself: Why am I here? Why are you doing this to me? Why am I such a filthy human scum?" She had said the word 'human' with much stress.
"You human, you're all the same, child or not." She glared at Satsuki and grabbed her chin, to which Satsuki's winced in pain, and stared at her eye to eye. "I hate human. Why Yggdra even allows them to Heaven is beyond me. But I don't take kindly to them." She forcefully turned Satsuki's face to the skeleton hanging beside her. "You see him? That filthy lowlife scumbag is Erza's human father, my husband. He betrayed me so many times with so many women behind my back, now look, he kept begging and begging when I paid him back in such ways you cannot even imagine." She let go of Satsuki's chin, allowing her to go back to face her. "The same thing is about to happen to you if you don't cough up some answers. I'm gonna ask again, tell me something about yourself." She lifted Satsuki's chin up to face her eye-to-eye, smirking. This woman was obviously a sadist. She knew Satsuki couldn't talk without hurting, her jaw was dislocated.
"You're still not talking are you?" Her smile grew even wider. "Such a pity, and here I thought human would at least be smart enough to know when they're in trouble. They never fail to disappoint." She shook her head as in to feign disappointment.
Satsuki's eyes widened in surprise as she produced a huge sword out of nowhere in her hand. The sword was huge and the hilt seemed to have a design of a dragon, with a huge two way blade sticking out of its mouth in replacement of its tongue.
"Maybe cutting off one of your legs will get you to talk!" She raised the huge blade with just one hand and came swinging down on Satsuki, who closed her eyes bracing for the impact.
Before she could feel any part of her being cut off, she heard a huge clank of steel clashing against each other.
Opening her eyes, she saw Erza standing with her back facing her, and equally large sword in both her hands, using it to block her mother's attack. She couldn't see the look on her face, but noticed that she was trembling and was somewhat sweating. She was wearing the same thing when she met her. She was the only one in the room who wasn't dressed in full body armor.
"What is this?" Irene raised her eyebrow in astonishment, but otherwise kept calm.
"I'm sorry, Mother, but I cannot allow this! You're taking this way too far!" She retracted her sword. The entire thing disappeared from her hands like magic.
What are these people? Satsuki thought. Was she hallucinating?
"You said that you wouldn't hurt her too much!"
"She is a human, a vile disgusting creature, scumbag. Have you forgotten what your father did?"
Erza's head hung low and her eyes darkened. "No, I would never forget that and I will not deny that he was scumbag," Erza raised her head to face her mother eye-to-eye. "… but Satsuki is different!"
Irene was shocked. It was obviously shown on her face. "Different?! How?! She's no different than any other human scumbag! You seduced her here! She was obviously thinking about doing sick, perverted things to you!"
"You're wrong, during the whole time we were together, she never looked at me like she wanted to ravish me, or have her way with me." Erza explained with such determination that shocked her mother. "Though it did look like she was trying to get away…" She muttered the last part quietly.
Silence reigned for a moment before Irene's shock finally wore off. "I would never let vermin like her near Princess Naruko." Satsuki did not know what she was talking about. What Princess? "Why do you think I'm doing this? So I can find an excuse to have her thrown into Hell and have Princess Naruko change her mind."
"By torturing her to show how pathetic she is?!" Erza barked back. "She didn't break, most human would've been begging for you to stop at this stage."
"I haven't even begun the fun part yet." She told her. She turned to the other knights. "Hold her down." They had a look of reluctance when they were given that order and was hesitating to carry it through. But they still had to obey. Two of them got out of formation to hold Erza down, but did not expect her to fight back.
"You're not going to harm her any further." She said as she knocked the two out. Summoning another sword, she turned to face her mother. "Even if it means I have to stand up to you." She glared at her own mother.
"You care for her this much?"
Before she could get an answer, the door suddenly banged open to reveal another knight dressed in blue, obviously tired and panting hard. Her sword clutched tightly in her right hand. Behind her were unconscious bodies that were guarding the room lay down the floor motionless. She looked pissed. And she looked like she had gone through hell.
There was never another moment where Satsuki wanted to kill herself so badly.
Arturia's eyes landed on Satsuki. Eyebrows raised in shock as she took in her condition. She turned her attention to Irene and Erza. "I-Irene, what's the meaning of this?!"