Jeff and Amber sat in a cell, there was no other way to put it. This was not how Jeff thought the proposal to Amber would go. He had just asked for her hand in marriage but before she could say yes or no, her face had gone white. He turned and followed her eyes to see something he never thought he would see outside of a movie theater or maybe a top of the line theme park. There was a mix of clearly not human but near human creatures, one was a werewolf woman, what looked to be a tree man and two figures which looked like humans aside from their pointed ears.
Jeff and Amber had just stood there stunned not sure to even believe their eyes when suddenly their bodies had been encased in a blue green energy.
“Two humans…and they are of breading age.” Said the werewolf woman “A good start to today’s hunt….”
“Only issue, they are an engaged pair and that makes them harder to sell.” stated an elf man as he walked forward toward the wide-eyed couple. Then with some care he removed their backpacks and dropped them over the cliff side.
“take a shoe as well…it will make the humans think they fell.” Advised the tree man as the elf man nodded and removed one of Amber’s shoes and letting that drop off the edge as well.
“Overall not a bad pair of humans…but our goal was to get individual humans not a couple.” Stated the Elf man “This will make it a little harder on us.”
“Not that much we can sell the two for a higher price because they are more likely to have children sooner without a fight.” Countered the female elf her hand covered with blue energy “Besides, we could split them up if we have to…now let’s get going.”
“Allow me.” Said the elf man as golden energy surrounded his hand and then the ground around each of them. Then slowly all of them where lowered into the ground passing through it as if it was water, for a moment everything was black and then their vision returned. Instead of a forest they where in a room of some kind, a large stone room with glowing torches along the wall and dozens of doors almost all of them either had wooden bars over the doors or had the wooden bars sitting beside the door.
“Put them in cell 7.” Ordered the Werewolf as the tree man picked both Jeff and Amber up, neither of them could move or speak as they where still surrounded by the energy field. They where carried into the cell and then without any real care and tossed into the cell. The tree man then walked out of the cell, slamming the door behind him followed moments later by a turning of a key and the dropping of a wooden bar. Once that was done they energy sounded them disappeared and they could move again.
“HELP!!!” yelled Amber
“HELP!!!!” yelled Jeff as he slammed his fists against the door. “LET US OUT!!!!”
“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!” yelled Amber as the female elf figure appeared by the bars near the top of the door.
“Allow me to explain…you are now in our world, a world of magic and fantasy as you would call it.” Explained the Elf “This will be your home from now on…well not this cell, but this world.”
“What?” asked Amber
“In a few hours, representatives from some interested parties will be coming around and they will buy you.” explained the Elf “Now some of these representatives may be from private families or business, others representative species as a whole. Either way you will be bought and then transformed into whatever type of creature they find fit.”
“What…. we are being sold as slaves?” inquired Jeff as the elf shrugged, neither one of them noticed the whole transform part of what she had just said.
“Could be, somewhat some families buy single humans to become brides or grooms for their sons or daughters, some buy humans to serve as waiters, escorts or other high-end staff for their business or home life. Those are those humans bought by representatives of private business or families.” Stated the Elf “Those bought by representatives of a species, will transform you into their species and then integrate you into their communities to add new blood to it. Either way we get paid and you become part of our world.”
“LET US GO!” yelled Amber
“No…” answered the Elf with a grin “For you I would be more focused on attempting to stay together, if someone only wants one of you, then you may never see the other one again but be careful you don’t want to spend the rest of your life as something you would hate would you”
“What…” said Jeff
“You two will no longer be human, you may become an elf like me…my great grandfather was a human from Italy, or you could become a troll, a goblin just as easily.” stated the Elf “And we could sell you separately so take care now…when we come back it will be time for the show.”
For hours, the two of them sat in the cell holding each other, trying to figure out what to do…how to deal with what was going on. They could see figures walking by their cell looking in and moving on.
“I never gave you an answer….” cried Amber “It’s yes…I will marry you.”
“Well that is one good thing today.” Cried Jeff as the bar over the door opened….