Chapter 36 Pain (Warning!)

The sound of metal clanking reverberates through the cell Gelfree, Gelfree opens her eyes to look out from the corner she is curled up in. Her heart sinking at the thought she might be dragged out again to satisfy the monster keeping her captive. Her worries however are unfounded as the guard of her cell brings in a kicking and screeching Succubus that she recognises as Beryl. With a hard shove Beryl is sent to the ground as the guard closes the metal door of Gelfree’s cell. Jumping to her feet Gelfree looks on in astonishment at her new cell mate. “Beryl? Why are you here? I thought you were sold as a slave?”

Beryl looks up to the tattered and unkempt Gelfree who is assisting her in shock. “Gelfree? Darling, what happened to you?” Beryl gapes as she gets up from the floor fully.

“I… I don’t wanna talk about it. But you haven’t answered me, Why are you here?” Gelfree asks, avoiding answering the succubus.

“Well, I was sold off but it seems the person who bought me didn’t seem to like my sas I gave. They deemed me too much trouble and forced our captor to do a refund.” Beryl chuckles but soon she begins looking Gelfree over. “Darling… have you had a bath at any point recently?”

“Oh sure, I just tucked the tub under the wooden plank I have as a bed.” Gelfree snarkily shoots back causing Beryl to flinch at the hostility. Gelfree sighs and shakes her head. “Sorry, you didn’t deserve that.”

“No no, I should have realized these bastards wouldn’t give you such luxuries.” Beryl meekly says clasping her hands together as she looks to the floor. “Have you… been doing alright? I mean not that this situation is good but…” Beryl trails off.

“Ya, I’ve been doing as best as I can be… I’ve been nauseous recently. I think they are trying to break my will.” Gelfree says with a small chuckle. “It’ll take much more than just intentional food poisoning to break this Goblin.” Gelfree says with a smirk.

“Well, that’s good at least.” Beryl sighs in relief looking back up, looking around she finds two flat wooden boards hanging from either wall of the cell. Taking the pause in conversation Beryl walks over to one of the wooden boards and sits down on it leaving room for Gelfree to also sit down. “Come sit Darling.”

Doing as she says Gelfree sits down beside the Succubus. “Beryl.” Gelfree says getting a hum from her. “I… I was told my mom…” Gelfree stops dead before asking the question she wanted to ask but Beryl’s mood falls dramatically even not hearing the question leave her lips.

“She is… I heard about it when the return was happening. Vo… well he isn’t happy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is taking the frustration of his revenge going south out on you.” Beryl says with sadness in her voice. Gelfree however is frozen stiff as her brain processes the fact Vo wasn’t lying to her and that her mother is gone. The night of them being split apart playing on repeat in her head. Regret, sadness, and pain all coursing through her as tears fall from her eyes. Slowly Gelfree wipes away her tears and looks to Beryl who looks back at her.

“H-has there been any word on Twilight?”

“I heard somethings, have you heard about her coming after Vo?”

“I heard him say to one of his guards one time that she has become a nuisance and staged a revolt in Primal Glow.”

“That’s the general gist of what I know. She is getting power before she comes for us.” Beryl explains with a small smile on her lips. “I also heard rumors of the Fool joining her.”

“Wait? You mean the Prime evil? I thought he was dead.” Gelfree says in surprise.

“Mind you these are rumors, there are many of those circling about your Mistress.” Beryl chuckles as she bumps her shoulder against the Goblin who sputters.

“You say that yet you act as if you didn’t feel it either.”

“You mean the potential and vast wellspring for just being the basic one? Yes I did.” Beryl sighs with a happy smile on her lips. “It was simply marvelous. The raw power in that girl, she has so much innate strength. It’s sad her physical prowess is so minimal or I might just have submitted entirely to her.” Beryl happily says with a shiver but jumps when the sound of the door unlocking roars through the Cell, followed by the door opening with the guard standing there.

“Green skin, The boss wants you.” Hearing this Gelfree stiffens up but with a hard gulp gets off the bed. Beryl looks to the Guard as she gets in Gelfree’s way.

“I’ll go in her stead.”

“What?” The guard asks with an underlying evil joy to his tone.

“I’ll go to your boss. Anything she do-” Before she can finish saying her words the guard takes their armor plated foot and kicks Beryl in the gut expelling any air they had in their lungs. Yelping Gelfree catches Beryl and helps her lay on to the ground gently as she gasps and coughs.

“The boss asked for that bitch, you aren’t in any place to substitute used trash like yourself instead of her.” The guard growls with joy at her pain in his voice.

“Stop… I’ll go… I’ll go.” Gelfree says as she looks down to Beryl who desperately tries to say words but only manages gasps as she reaches up and places a hand on Gelfree’s cheek. “Please don’t try to stop them. I don’t think I could handle hearing two people I care about dying. He won’t kill me… I’m too special for his plot for revenge.” Getting up slowly Gelfree places Beryl’s head on the hard ground and reluctantly follows him out of the cell leaving Beryl alone as tears begin to fall down her face, a feeling of being a failure of a friend washing over the Succubus.

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Many hours later the door cracks open, startling Beryl awake from her sleep and in her dreary state she rubs her eyes only to see the sight of two guards dragging in a limp and almost unrecognizable form of Gelfree into the cell. With a toss they send her form into the cell, with a thump Gelfree lands on the ground and Beryl jumps into action to aid the Goblin girl. “Gelfree? Gelfree are you there?” Beryl asks, getting a groan from the girl telling her that Gelfree isn’t dead or unconscious. “One second, I’m going to help.” Beryl says as she looks at the bruised and scarred face of the Goblin, blood pouring out of their mouth and nose while many lacerations exist on her face.

The clothes that were once just tattered now are just torn up cloth that hardly cover the Goblins body and show of many more injuries but as Beryl looks lower she becomes keenly aware of two things, the amount of male fluid all over Gelfree’s chest and waist, but also the fast her one leg is broken. “That sick bastard… Gelfree… I’m not the best at medical magic but I know a bit. I won’t lie… It will hurt.” Beryl says but not getting a response she resolves to do the spell anyway and sets to work on the difficult journey of healing Gelfree. All throughout the healing process repeatedly telling herself she wouldn’t let Gomra’s kid die on her watch. Hours pass and with each spell Gelfree’s screams fill the cell as Beryl first fixes the broken leg as much as she can followed by the ribs she finds afterwards that are also broken.

“Please Twilight… Please hurry.” Beryl begs quietly as she works on fixing up Gelfree’s last few injuries, feeling her wellsprings get exhausted. “I don’t know how long Gelfree can last.” She sighs but as she casts a spell to analyze Gelfree’s body for any other major injuries something else catches Beryl’s attention making her freeze after looking at her stomach. “Oh… Oh no…”