Sombra and his dam were left in that cell. There was nothing in it just stone walls and the bars. Sombra laid on his back trying to take pressure of his ribs, but he wasn’t finding any relief. He struggled to breath, he had never broken a bone before. Let alone multiple at once. His dam licked his chest trying to sooth him, she had managed to push the muffle down a bit so she could partly open her mouth.
“what about your eye?” he asked with concern, looking up at the blood soaked cheek beneath an eye that was torn down the middle.
“I’ll be fine. But your ribs could puncture your lungs”
“but it looks like it hurts”
“sshh. The more you talk the more you will hurt” she continued to lick his chest fur after giving a peck on the cheek. He couldn’t help but look up at her ruined eye, it made his stomach churn as he could see the spilt down the centre.
The pair had lost count of how long it had been. It had been more than forty eight hours as their last meals had left them, left as a pile in the corner. But apart from that they did not know how long they had been stuck in the cell. They had however learnt from the other umbrum that the princess was called Amore. Supposedly a princess of love, but they were struggling to see it.
Amore walked in then, she seemed to take pride in seeing them in pain. She strides in with her head high, looking down on them through the bars. She turned to one, an evil smirk across her face. She made her way other to his and his dam’s cell, who was already standing above him.
“You’ve been a bad girl, I think it’s only right you get a punishment. I bet you won’t leave without him. If he can move that is. You should give him to me, I could take so much better care of him then you could” she said through the bars, another twisted smile accompanied it. His dam hissed and snarled at her as Amore unlocked the cage door. There chains were reattached and they were yanked out.
Sombra chest ripped itself open with pain again, even though he collapsed he was dragged along the ground. His dam pushed him up with her foot and he continued to follow back into the central room, despite his body’s complaints.
In the centre of the joining room they were chained to the floor. His dam stood over him again as the twisted princess pranced around the room. She opened up the cabinets that were hidden in the walls. She pulled out a long leather whip a flicked it around like she was dancing with it before it snapped on his dam’s flank. She hissed at the princess more with annoyance then pain.
His dam lowered further down above him as Amore’s aim got lower. The whip wacked her legs as she moved around Sombra to protect him. The very chains put there to hurt them protected her legs from the whip. Eventually Amore gave up on trying to get Sombra and went for his dam.
Crack.
Crack.
Crack.
Crack.
Crack.
Pop.
“AAAAA” She screamed as the whip hit the already damaged eye. One half exploded from the pressure, the other half was turned in the socket, its muscle ripped as the inside was pulled out. It flooded with silver and slight yellow pus. The tear ducts flooded but the eyelids refused to close. Amore grinned as the mare cringed in agony.
Sombra grasped his dam’s leg, trying to comfort her as her eyelids caused more pain as they tried to blink. However his shoulder was left exposed and the whip slammed down on it, the joint half snapping as the young bones bent. His dams remaining eye burned with maternal fire.
The floor chain pulled taught in mere moments as she flung herself forward. Sombra watched weakly as his dam tried to snap at the princess head. The single chain around her neck restrained her, except she swung her hind and tail around throwing the princess to the ground. Before Amore could even get of her back the giant mare had stood above her, head flying down. The princess’s horn got caught between the leather strap of the restraint and the grey skull. With a swift pull upwards the restraint was torn of.
Sombra watched as Amore swung her head left and right to avoid the grasping teeth. He would help with his own little teeth, but he could hardly move. Eventually however his dam did snag something, but it was only hair. But even so she tugged at it, the princess head twisted as the skin was pulled. He heard the snapping of hair as it ripped from the roots. It was Amore’s turn to scream, but hers bought in the guards who instantly started to prod and poke them. Then they were dragged back to the cell.
Again Sombra was licked by his dam, despite the fact that her eye socket was now bulging. She held him in her forelegs tightly. Once the heavy door was sealed the other Umbrum spoke.
“You put up a fight didn’t you” the one closet to them said.
“she hurt him” she scowled back.
“she hurt him? Look at you. You don’t have an eye anymore”
“I am well aware”
“someone’s clearly never had a foal” another mare sarcastically stated. They fell silent after that. Another presumed day went by and they weren’t fed again.