Cain's eyes gradually opened to a small room full of a few beds, a makeshift table, and weapons strewn about the room. His chest throbbed with pain as he picked himself off the bed that was now completely covered with his dried blood. Wincing and groaning from the wound in his chest he slowly moved off the bed while grabbing a knife lying next to him on the table. Once on his feet, he shuffled over the sheets that seemed to separate the room from the cave outside.
He moved the sheet to the side enough so that he could peek around them. In front of him were three girls seated in front of a fire roasting what looked like a huge boar, the thing had huge tusks and the skin that was next to the fire was covered in stone.
Crouching down to avoid their eyes, Cain slowly made his way to the one closest to him. Once behind her, he covered the girl's mouth and slid the knife up against her neck. "If any of you move I will not hesitate to slice this girl's neck." He said finally being able to get a good look at the three girls, who ended up being dark elves.
All the girls looked the same except for a few key differences that separated them. The one on the far right had long white hair, dark skin with a tint of purple, and was wearing armor that would make weebs who cry about overly sexualized armor happy.
The one on the left seemed to be more of a typical ranger elf, outfit and all. She had short white hair, a bow that was placed on her back, and short knives that were strapped on her back. Her outfit was completely black with a black hood and mack that was currently covering her face.
The one he currently has in his arms was surprisingly different from the other 2. She had medium-length dark black hair and pale skin with a tint of pink skin. (I'll just link an image of this one in the comments along with the rest of them. I'm horrible at describing characters.)
"What is wrong with you Faye?" The swordswoman screamed and instantly started arguing with the archer. ``I thought you were supposed to be on the lookout with your skills and Stuff."
"Me?" Faye the archer yelled back at her. "If you didn't distract me with your constant rambling I would have heard them."
"My rambling?" The swordswoman screamed back, "You were the one who kept asking me to turn the food every ten seconds."
"Yes, that was because your bimbo brain can't understand how to cook meat, Vera!"
"Enough," Cain yelled at the two. "In case you don't understand, I have one of you at knifepoint." To emphasize his point he brought the knife closer to the girl's neck. This seemed to snap Vera and Faye out of their argument.
"Ok," Vera says, holding her hands up, glaring at Faye to do the same. Faye seemed to want to argue but also held her hands up. "See, we will cooperate, now why don't you tell us what you want?"
Cain, happy that they were done fighting, brought the knife a little bit away from the girl's neck. "Ok, I just have a few questions for you. Simple questions that might clear this whole misunderstanding up. Where am I, who was that guy in the room, what was the reason for him attacking me with that wired sword, and why are you three cosplaying as elves. The one in my arms is barely even clothed."
Faye and Vera seemed to give each other confused looks before Faye started to answer his questions. "Currently you are in a maze the king cleared out 20 years ago. Now he just uses it as a body dump so that he can hide his deeds from the other races. The man who I think you are referring to is King Sabar. He's currently on a huge genocide against all other races. What he was trying to do is have your powers transferred to somebody else via that sword."
Cain nodded his head before asking "Why would they want me? I don't exactly have any powers." Before Faye could answer Vera spoke out. "It's because you're a hero from another world. You have powers granted straight from the goddess herself. The humans have been killing the heroes from the second they started summing them."
Cain raised his eyebrow and started working out the pieces from there. "So, that means you're the rebel group that he was referring to?" Faye nodded her head and looked at him. "That's why we're down here. We were hoping that they would fail to kill one of them so that we could ask them for their help. The other groups left a long time ago after losing hope. But here you are!"
Cain stared at the over-excited Faye for a few seconds before letting go of the girl in his arms. "Man, your plan really relied on the fact that the king would just fail to kill one of us? Man, what kind of manga cliche have I been transported to?" He says rubbing his neck. "I'm living a weebs wet dream right now... Fine, I'll help you kill the king, but that is it. After that I'm done."
Vera smiles before nodding her head. "Alright, I think that will work perfectly. Tomorrow we'll start teaching you magic and swordsmanship after we figure out what your unique magic is." She says sitting back down on the log to eat the now burnt meat."
"Right, I can't get over the fact I'm in another world, it feels too surreal." He says walking over to one of the logs and laying himself on the ground next to Vera, groaning in pain. "Then what?" He asks, closing his eyes. "To be determined." She answers before Cain falls back to sleep