~June 24, 1959~
Steve pictured the day when he met the love of his life, well, he was dreaming about it at least. It was a lovely sunny day, within one of the many beaches of Greece.
That was where he met Ashley, the very woman who would later on become his wife. Both of their families were visiting Greece, they were from the U.S. and that had ended up being their ice breaker, it got them talking.
On that day, she was wearing this beautiful, yellow sundress, which complimented her feminine features so gracefully and beautifully. Her smile could blind the lesser, and from that day onwards, their relationship developed towards the better, and the two of them had been through thick and thin! He died peacefully, after all, he died from old age, so that hinted how good his prior, human life had been.
It was very demotivating to think that he was here now, it was soul crushing, this world hadn't treated him well so far, so he'd rather not be in it if he had a choice. He missed his old wife dearly, as her radiant smile shone across his dreams to the point where it was almost haunting, the grief he felt was crippling, it was far greater than any type of pain that he could experience in this new world! His soul may never recover from this grief, but as far as facts were concerned, he had to live with it.
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Steve woke up. Since he could feel his head throbbing like a sore thumb, it was unlikely that he had died, the afterlife still eluded him. He woke up because of this horrendous headache, and he couldn't do anything about it, he couldn't even rub the temple of his head because well, his hands were restricted. He was tied up.
Seconds later, Steve discovered that these couple of shackles were behind his current, unfortunate immobility. Now this was a terrible situation that he was in, but he was still happy that his limbs didn't feel as numb as they were anymore, they weren't paralyzed! This was the only good thing that he could notice for the time being.
Nevertheless, these shackles have spread his limbs far apart from each other, on this narrow and flat board, as if he was supposed to resemble the figure of Christ! He could not escape, no matter what he tried, so if it was that lady who tied him up, then she surely knew what she was doing.
Steve was especially uncomfortable, once he realized that he had been stripped completely naked! This couldn't be random, so he figured that he was about to get brutally tortured here, sooner rather than later. He also guessed that he could get r*ped here, it was possible, and it may not be any better than getting tortured, under certain circumstances! That is, if the kidnapper had a team of some sorts, then he would really be done for! He was all flesh and bone anyway, so he wouldn't be able to endure a pounding. He freaked out even more, once he suddenly heard a man screaming in the distance!
If a man screamed out so helplessly, in these otherwise barbaric lands where nature itself would force everyone to be tough, then Steve was done for! A horrid stench filled the room moments later, which didn't make things any better; He was not cut out for this kind of trouble!
The system acknowledged the waves of discomfort that her guest was experiencing, so she thought it to be the best time for her to introduce a little deal. She hoped to motivate him again!
But first things first, she joked. [You've got yourself into a sticky situation, kid. This is a bad situation to be in, as you may have already noticed.]
"Oh, you don't say? I can point out the obvious too, but can you help me for once?" Steve sassed.
[Not really.] She admitted, [For the time being I can only offer some good opportunities for you, do you want to hear them out?]
"Let's hear it, then? Anything's better than this!" He answered.
[Okay, so you obviously don't want to die again, right? If you manage to escape this place alive, there will be a decent reward in store for you, point-wise.] She offered, and her offer was quite direct.
"How could this possibly motivate me? A reward in the future won't be doing me any good if I die while trying to get it!" He yelled, as if he was a crazed maniac.
[Yes, but wouldn't it be amazing if you both escaped this room, and attained a reward for your success as well? I will reward you with 50 system points if you succeed.] She bargained.
After a bit of contemplation, he admitted. "You have a good point there. I will try to get out of here, shouldn't be too hard, right?"
Steve wiggled against the board that he was glued on, as he tried to put some man power against the shackles, but his attempts were futile! He was fresh out of ideas after this point, and after a couple of splinters pierced into his wound, then he got demotivated completely.
He was especially motivated to stop, after the few wiggles pushed his back wound towards a new layer of pain! It was simply unbearable.
After a couple of heavy sighs, he then mumbled. "Well, that was humiliating. At this point, I'd be happy if they choose to pump me up cuz I can't stand another wound!"
[Although a sexual assault doesn't sound impossible, that should not be the case here. It is true that you are a somewhat healthy, and attractive, twenty-one year old man in this frogezoid body, but that may not save you here! Odds are that you will get mutilated, rather than molested.] The system added.
"I'm beginning to feel that this world is just some weird realm of hell." He sighed.
[Although demonic galactic dimensions are plentiful, this is not one of them. However, that should not be considered your main problem right now.] The system added, though she didn't know that Steve was just being dramatic, not literal.
Furthermore, she added. [You have been kidnapped by an alchemist of some sort, at least that point looks clear. So all things considered, apart from mutilating you, she might use you as some sort of arcana-oriented experiment. Those two issues are connected to one another.]
Steve started panicking even more, but that's all he could do for the time being, he couldn't get away. Even if he could've gotten away, it was too late now because someone was approaching the tiny room that he was imprisoned in. It was the same lady that had kidnapped him!
Shamelessly, she squealed. "Are you ready, my beautiful test subject number thirty-six?"
She lit a bunch of torches afterwards, which shed enough light to the room to blind him for a moment. It took him half a minute to adapt to the almost brute illumination that was pinching the very inner pupil of his eye!
Once he adapted, he noticed that this room had a couple of features. It had another single table on one side of the room, and this table was filled with a bunch of torture tools, mostly consisting of blacksmith's tongs, some saws, and various knives too! That was the first important feature that he noticed, and secondly, the kidnapper that had entered the room was almost completely naked now! It was hard not to notice that!
It was hard to ignore her features, he felt hypnotized. The only bit of clothing that managed to cover a tiny bit of her intimidating curves, was a clean, and expensive piece of bear fur! She had tied this fur around her lower belly for some reason, but that was the only thing that covered her body, and it didn't cover much.
The rest of her features were impossible to miss, her breasts flung around like that of an angered cow. She was too excited, so it was conflicting to predict what she wanted to do to him, as she seemed beyond dangerous regardless of that she was naked. Steve could only hope that she wouldn't excitingly start chopping his limbs off!