Treading on forbidden Grounds Ch1

Story by ZealtheDragon on SoFurry

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#1 of Treading on Forbidden Grounds

A lizard prince with a soft heart, a shy female fox slave, and a over-protective older brother who happens to be a brilliant war general. With war and tension hanging thin, what will happen to the days to come. Only by following advice and their hearts, may they Tread on the Forbidden Grounds.


Chapter One

The sun rose high and mighty to the sky tops with many races preparing for a celebration. Many various of instruments rang through the sky. Some from the ground and others from the flying races. Griffins and other flying races ruled the sky with their majestic flying and musical talents, while the ground races simply trained for their stunts and decorated booths and buildings. The clothings from the many races varied from race to race and cultures. There in the town square, many of the many races gathered for trade and festival activities. In front of the town square lied the first second castle gates which led straight the castle itself.

Then with a unison sound, the trumpets and horn rang in a royal rhythm leading the various races to rush and gather towards the main road. The roaring music traveled far and woke the young prince from his slumber.

He did not rise from his bed slowly, like his other days, but jolted out his bed and towards the wide balcony. There he bore into the vast distance of his kingdom to see that the front gates were rising with a vast army. The army marched through the town with many people cheering and there in the middle of the vast army was the king. He rode a horse to stick out.

The young prince cheered for the return of his father. He looked down again to see his bare scaled feet. Then quicked jumped back into his room to discover that he was only in his undergarments. He bursted towards the closet of his chamber and pulled out a white dress shirt and brown slacks. Then he slipped his sock and dress shoes on and out of his room he went.

Moments later, he found himself at the main entrance of the castle and he saw his father and brother march right in with other people standing behind him, and as the last person entered. The main entrance was then blocked off. The young prince stood next to his mother. His mother wore a royal purple robe with with gold shoulder pads. Her scales held a light green color and red eyes. The scales on her face held many details leaving the impression of age. In front of them stood the father and brother. The father scales was a black color and he wore a battle torn armor with is royal purple cape tattered and dirtied. His face held his years heavily and his eye color is yellow. The prince's brother wore the same thing as the father, but his cape was more torn from battle then their father. His faces had scars and a fresh new one across his snout. His eye color is red.

"Aw Ky and Zane. I'm glad to finally see you guys. The war was too long, but we..." The father then felt the sadness set in and he walked towards the stairs and beckon for his wife to follow. Zane stared at his father and mother leave while his brother tried to regain his attention.

"Zane,what father was trying to say is that we won the war, but the price was that the losing side had to give up to be slaves. So we bought ten." Zane looked behind his brother to see ten slave. Ten fox slaves. Each with their own color and fur. "Father told me to tell you that you may have one."

Zane gazed over the ten fox slaves to choose. He saw six males and quickly decided that he was not going to have a male for a slaves. The other four were female. One of the female foxes looked to be in her late forties, he discarded her and looked at the other two. They looked like twins, so he discarded them since he did not want to separate them. Then he looked at the last one. She stood at the end of the chained slaves, and stood out beyond them all. She only stood five foot four inches and the other females slaves stood around five feet eight. While the other were fully clothed she only wore a long sleeved green shirt. It was long and cover her lower parts to the thigh. Her legs rattled in the shackles and her knees knocked together. Her tail lowered between her legs.

Zane was then staring directly at the tail. I had a lot of a wolvish details. She shyly sneezed bring Zane's attention to her face. Her whole left side of her muzzle had he long brown hair covering it. He then examined her right side. Her face was clearly visible and it sent shivers down his spine. She was gorgeous, her orange-reddish fur and her pure sapphire blue eyes drew him in for a closer inspection. He was two feet away from her when he notice the wet fur under her eye. Her action decided his final choice.

"Brother, I choose this one. Slaveholder, bring me the key to the shackles and unlock her." Zane spoke loud and with authority, while the slaveholder went to grab his keys.

Time slowly ticked as she nervously stared at the young green lizard in front of her. He towered over her, standing only at six foot one. His eyes are the color yellow, but held no malice in them like the black lizard had. All her thoughts went away right when the cold metal shackle went around her neck and the chains went into the green lizards hands.

Zane watched as the canine slaveholder released the ankle shackles from her and placed the chains into his hands with the silver key for her collar. The slaveholder told him about the rules of the slaves and that since the foxes have lost the war, they are to be treated all the same. The more the slaveholder spoke about the rules, the more Zane was close to ripping his head clean from his shoulders.

Zane sighed and realized that he had to, be mean to her, and it hit him hard. He felt like a jerk about doing it, but he had to. He rose his hands and yanked the chain. Pulling her and leading her to his chambers. He wanted to bit his own head off now for what he was doing, but despite all the spite he is putting on himself. These were all the rule of slaves. She followed quickly and closely so the pulling would not hurt.

Once he was in the room with his slave, he swiftly shut his door and locked it. This caused her to panic as Zane grew closer. He reached out his hands towards her neck and she gulped all her fear down. She knew this is how slaves were treat. Her eye closed and expected for the worse to come. She then heard a clicking noise and felt the cold metal around her neck disappear with warmth filling in the missing spots. She opened her eyes with shock as she saw the green lizard remove the collar. He set it next to the bed stand and pointed towards the bed for her to sit. He walked toward the desk and grabbed the chair from the top and placed it next to the bed where he sat. She stared at him for a while as he did too. He then made for the first move.

"Can you speak? Do you understand me?" Zane spoke and made hand gesture for her. She quietly nodded her head, so Zane made another question for her. "Do you have a name?" She nodded again making Zane relax that she is cooperating. "May I ask you for your name?" There was a long moment of silence that it made Zane feel awkward, so he rose from his seat and started walking towards his balcony. He was suddenly stopped with a soft and light female voice which almost made his heart skip off the balcony.

"My, my name is Yuki."