I was jerked awake by a hand pressed to my mouth and a knife at my throat.
"Don't say anything or struggle," a man hissed in my ear.
I was pulled to my feet and shoved into a different males body. He immediately grabbed my shoulders to steady me before I fell.
"Get off of me!" Shu exclaimed across the clearing while I watched as he was held between two people.
"What do you want?" I asked the man who originally grabbed me.
"Your money to start and depending on how generous you are to us we might spare your lives," he said while running his eyes up and down my body.
I struggled under the hold of man two and bared my teeth, "If you dare to lay a filthy hand on me I will gut you where you stand."
"Making threats are we?" Man one chuckled.
He reached over and threw my hood off and fisted a handful of my hair and forced me to the ground.
"If I were you I were you I would watch my mouth, I don't want to hurt you, but I will."
His grip of my hair tightened and I feared that if he gripped or tugged me any harder he would surly rip it straight from my scalp.
My eyes burned from holding back my tears as my eyes watered. I looked up trying to ignore the pain and when I saw his sneering face I spit.
It hit him in the face and he went red.
One second I was on my knees the next I'm pinned on my belly underneath him.
"Didn't I tell you to watch your mouth, this is your punishment." He whispered in my ear as he grabbed the dagger at my side and shoved it into my shoulder.
I unleashed a scream that I had never heard. This was pain that I had never felt before. As I screamed a second time Shu started bucking and fighting the people holding him captive.
"All you had to do Shu was get the goods and meet us back in the village but instead you decided to run with this thing? Oh how the mighty have fallen," Man one hissed atop me as he drove the dagger in again.
I screamed again and Shu cried out, "Stop! Please I'll do anything, but please leave her alone."
I was panting between my teeth as he pulled the dagger out again.
"I think your chance for redemption had already passed, plus I think torturing this girl is a just punishment for your defining orders," He chuckled.
"Please j-just let me go, all I want is t-to find my master," I gasped out between breaths.
He ignored me completely as he began taunting Shu with where to drive the dagger next.
I used his taunting as a chance to figure out how to save myself. I tried to move my arms but they were under the mans legs, I couldn't move them.
I could still use my hands so I rotated them ever so slightly to see what I could grasp around me, that's when I felt it.
I always carried more weapons than I needed on me and my hand was currently wrapped around one of my throwing knifes. I pushed it up my sleeve as best as I could and got to work on work on making a wedge between myself and this torturer.
I turned my head enough to see Shu staring at me with fear in his eyes and I silently warned him to brace himself as I shoved myself up and shoved the guy above me off and quickly slit his throat.
I threw my knife at the man behind him that was rushing towards me.
The other men all flinched when I turned towards them, and they all went into defensive positions but none of the men could block fast enough as I threw a dagger at each of them.
They all fell to there knees grasping at there throats.
I stomped over to Shu who was gaping at the whole thing but had managed to take out the two holding him among all of the chaos.
"Mind telling me what the hell that was?" I said furiously as I at last reached him.
"I was sent on a mission to use you and then kill you but getting to know you these past days I couldn't do it, I decided to trust you instead," he answered quietly.
Some of the residual fear still shone in his eyes as he looked at me but I shook my head and marched over to my bag.
"Another stunt like this one and I'll add your name to the list of the dead," I snarled as I grabbed my bag and started collecting my daggers and knives.
His throat bobbed but he nodded and helped me collect my things and bury the five men we'd killed.
"Your bleeding," he said after we put out the fire and packed up the camp.
"Well I did get stabbed twice," I snapped.
"We need to get that cleaned up or you'll get an infection," he said gently.
"I'll be fine until we get to the city," I snapped out.
"I get that your mad but if you continue on like this with those stab wounds you might very well bleed out before we even get there," He scolded.
I sighed and sat with a huff as I took my cloak off and pulled the shirt most of the way off with a wince.
"Where did you get all of these scars?" Shu asked as he came behind me with gaze and bandages.
"None of your concern." I answered quickly.
After Shu made quick work of patching me up we started on our way towards the city again.