Chapter 7 : After Midnight
Kianna's ears were pointed straight upwards in excitement as she looked back and forth between her sister and Anton. Seeing that neither of them were going to make a move she quickly began to get impatient.
"Mm!" she mumbled as she started to sway back and forth "Mmph!"
Kianna stopped her movements and went completely still as Anton shifted his gaze to her. Finding herself under his scrutiny, the dark elf stared back at him for a moment before nervously leaning herself back.
"Mm!" she whined as she looked from him to the pitcher of water and then at her sister "Hm!"
Fiona remained completely still as her sister continued to moan frantically beside her.
Twisting herself at the waist, Kianna turned to fully face Anton and mimicked her sister by laying her ears back submissively and hunching her head down on her shoulders.
"Hm!" she moaned as her eyes became pleading "Hmm!"
Anton looked back and forth between the two surrendered dark elves that had now become almost mirror images of each other. With a soft sigh he turned to the pitcher and began to fill the second glass with water.
Actually seeing the water being poured made all the difference in Fiona, and her eyes immediately began to quickly dart back and forth between the glass and Anton. Seeing him still unmoving she followed her sister's lead and began to quietly whimper.
Kianna went silent and turned to look at her sister as she noticed that she was calling out herself.
"Finally!" mumbled Anton "I was starting to think you were going to make poor Kianna do all the work for you!"
Fiona ignored the remark as she stared at the glass of water and continued to whimper softly.
Anton made a show of cracking his knuckles as he stood up and walked towards the two dark elves.
Suddenly unsure, the dark elves both cringed away from him as he knelt down and sat at eye level with them.
"Hm, well isn't this nice and convenient!" teased Anton as he looked from Fiona to Kianna "Tame one, and she goes off and tames the other one for you!"
Kianna blinked before looking down at the floor and mumbling sheepishly.
Fiona's eyes became glaring as she made a low menacing sound in the back of her throat.
"Hm, isn't that what this means?" asked Anton as he waved a finger back and forth between the dark elves and indicated their still flattened ears "Isn't this your way of saying that you don't want to fight anymore? And that you're ready to behave yourselves?"
Both of the dark elves went quiet. After a moment of stillness Kianna shrugged by raising a single shoulder and then letting it fall.
"I'm going to take that as a "yes" then" said Anton as he shifted his gaze to Fiona.
Fiona's glare intensified as they both stared into each others eyes.
"...You're a stubborn one. And that's the only reason you've suffered as much as you have" said Anton as he watched the dark elf's eyes tightened "You know what you need to do next"
Fiona's ears began to quiver slightly as she fought to keep them where they were. After a few more moments of glaring she gave in, cast her eyes downwards and nodded while groaning defiantly as she did so.
"Good" said Anton as he reached out and took hold of her sybian.
The startled dark elf bucked her hips and pulled away from him as Anton pushed her back and slid her across the floor before maneuvering her back to where she was originally. He then picked up the little wired control box and turned it over in his hand as he made a show of examining it. Out of the corner of his eye he watched as Kianna stared directly at the little box.
"No good deed will ever go unpunished Kianna" said Anton as he turned to the dark elf and gave her a soft grin "But you already know that... Don't you?"
Kianna's eyes went wide as she hunkered down and whimpered fearfully.
"We'll get to that in a little while though..." said Anton as he shifted his gaze back to Fiona "First things first..."
Fiona's rage was still clear on her face as she continued to glare angrily at him.
Without a word Anton reached out with his left hand and took hold of her head-harness before roughly pulling her head upwards until her whole body became taunt.
Fiona grunted in surprise as her body was suddenly stretched tight. She flinched but kept one of her eyes open as Anton moved his free hand to her face and began to unclasp her face plate. Once the plate was free of the leather straps, he peeled it away from her face while pulling the gag out of her mouth.
Anton did this in one quick motion as he felt this dark elf had not earned the gentler touch he had given her sister.
Setting the gag to the side, he took note that it had been just as badly ravaged as Kianna's. Which of course meant that Fiona had teeth that were just as capable of causing damage as her sister did. Unlike her meeker sister however, this dark elf seemed far more likely to use her natural weapons, and as such she warranted a higher level of caution.
"Better watch the fingers..." mumbled Anton to himself as he turned back to the dark elf.
Fiona immediately began to take several deep breaths through her parched mouth. She tried flexing her jaw but just like her sister it was too painful of a process for her to accomplish. Her tongue was so dry that it was literally stuck to the floor of her mouth and she let out a tiny yelp as she painfully peeled it up. Moving her newly freed tongue back and forth in her mouth, she glanced at the glass of water sitting on the table across from her and then looked at Anton with expectation in her eyes.
Anton's face became stoic as he stared back at her.
"Who is your Master now Fiona?" he asked calmly.
Fiona clamped her eyes shut and tried to clench her jaw as her face became marred with her agitation.
"Y-you!" she croaked angrily though her opened mouth.
Anton closed his eyes with a sigh and shook his head.
"Look at me when you say it" he said as he looked back at the dark elf and bobbed her head up and down by her head-harness.
Fiona scrunched up her closed eyes in irritation before blinking them open and shifting her gaze to him.
"Who is your Master now?" asked Anton as he took note that the dark elf's ruby colored irises now had a faint red glow to them.
"You!" hissed Fiona as she curled her lip up to bare her teeth and pointed her ears straight back behind her head.
"Good girl!" praised Anton with a smile as the dark elf hissed angrily through her open mouth and began to tremble in fury "Such a very good girl!"
"Hhhate!" hissed Fiona as she struggled to clench her jaw.
Anton couldn't help but to chuckle as he watched the enraged dark elf continue to tremble.
"Now you're just becoming more and more entertaining by the minute!" exclaimed Anton "I knew I was going to enjoy this!"
"Kill you!" ragged Fiona as she finally brought her jaws together and rattled her teeth.
"Hm, good luck with that!" teased Anton as he gave her a knowing smile and let go of her head-harness.
The dark elf tumbled back a bit at the sudden free falling sensation. She quickly readjusted herself and turned back to glare at Anton as he stood up in front of her.
With a small smile still on his face, Anton crossed over to the little table and picked up the waiting glass of water. Turning back to Fiona he was surprised to find that the dark elf had dropped her head to hang forward and was taking one labored breath after another as she stared down at the floor. Kneeling back down in front of her, he lifted her head back up by retaking hold of her head-harness and frowned when he found that she was already on the verge of falling asleep.
Teetering on the brink of unconsciousness, Fiona's ears were hanging limp from the sides of her head as she absently opened and closed her mouth. Her large eyes would only open halfway as she began to blink drearily.
Anton shook his head and moved the glass of water under the dark elf's nose a few times to both bring her fully back to her senses, and to torment her a little.
Fiona became alert again almost immediately as she registered the closeness of the water. Lurching forward in an attempt to reach the glass, she was jerked back by both Anton's hold on her head-harness and the chain attached to her shoulder harness. She groaned in frustration as she tried and failed to pull herself free of Anton's grip. Her tongue hanging limply out of her mouth she twisted her head as much as she could to glare at him.
"What do you say?" asked Anton as he gave her a condescending smirk.
Fiona clenched her teeth and swallowed painfully before taking a deep breath through her nose.
"P-please!" she groaned through her teeth as her eyes went wide with desperation.
"Good girl!" whispered Anton as he immediately moved the glass to her lips.
Fiona whimpered happily through her nose and shivered uncontrollably as the cool water filled her parched mouth and soaked her dried tongue. She pulled against her chain and raised her body up off the sybian as much as she could as she frantically gulped down the rejuvenating water.
When the glass was emptied, she let out a long and labored sigh and started to tremble so violently that it almost seemed as though she had gone into convulsions.