Consciousness returned slowly and Zelda groaned as she felt pain radiating throughout her entire body.
"Ah, there you are, Your Highness. I'm so glad to see you awake now."
Agahnim's voice made her skin crawl and Zelda snapped her eyes open as memories crashed through her mind. No- her father- And she froze, staring upside-down in horror at the charred remains sitting on the throne. The sorcery, the fire, the sudden attack- she remembered it all, as well as how her attempt to flee had been interrupted by a sharp blow to the head, lights exploding in her vision as something struck her… then nothing.
She tried to talk, to protest, but she'd been gagged - a thin cloth bit at the corners of her mouth, making it all but impossible to close her lips while another, broader cloth was tied around her lower face, muffling her further. She could already feel how damp both were from spit and her own hot breath.
Pain radiated from her shoulders and hips; she'd been tied down to something, arms and legs stretching downwards in a way that left her entirely helplessly. Her back screamed in agony from having been trapped against a too-hard surface for too long. Her only source of comfort - or rather, the only thing that was slightly less unbearable - was the cushion resting under her backside. And that comfort was limited only to how it left her lower body in slightly less pain than the rest of her. Her hips were raised up higher than her head, actually, and that would be been quite unbearable even without the restraints.
The sorcerer who'd captivated her father's mind laughed as he leaned back in the throne set next to her father. She'd never liked him and seeing him lounging there, reveling in having taken control of the kingdom…
She had to do something. The blood of the ancient knights of Hyrule still lived on, if she just called out to them-
"Bring me the girls!"
The sudden command interrupted Zelda before she could gather her power and, before her eyes, two of her attendants were dragged out. Both Etea and Asha had been stripped down to their chemise. Both were limping and crying, and Asha cringed as she look at Zelda, mouthing a silent, I'm sorry, before Agahnim clapped his hands.
"The girls have already been given their instructions," announced the sorcerer.
There was a clatter as more mind-controlled knights came tromping up. Etea started crying harder as she was dragged over to the one closest to Zelda, where she was held firmly in place by her hair as the knight began to mechanically remove his codpiece and expose himself to the room.
Agahnim simply smirked as Zelda watched with growing fear. "My master does not hate Hyrule, Your Highness. He wishes to see it prosper… under his rule, of course. And since he cannot currently occupy the castle, it falls to me to carry out his wishes. Such as ensuring that the royal bloodline continues. And you are old enough to be bred, are you not?"
Etea cried out as she was shoved forward against the exposed member of the knight before her. Weeping, she began to lap at it with her tongue, tending to it like it was some sort of sweet treat. And in moments, that member began to twitch faintly, all while the knight stood as still as a statue.
"As enjoyable as it would be to watch my monsters have their way with you, there simply is no proof that Hylian woman can be made to spawn half-breeds. A subject I am having investigated as we speak." Agahnim laughed again, clearing enjoying Zelda's terrified horror. "All those high born ladies who once dared hold themselves so high are currently enjoying the attentions of a wide variety of monsters, goriya and moblins both. And depending on the results, or lack thereof, I may expand the range of potential sires to include hinox and lynel as well. By the end of the year, we shall know for a fact the full possible range of half-breeds.
"But that matters little right now. After all, the crown princess has far more importance than being a mere test subject." Agahnim laughed again, the sound ringing out over the wet slurping sound coming from Etea, who'd been forced to take the knight's fully engorged member between her lips. "For now, you shall be attended to by other humans. A month of being bred two or three times a day should be sufficient to ensure you catch. My supply of knights is ever expanding, as well, so you won't lack for the necessary substance.
"Indeed, as the girls have already discovered, the knights are more than capable of carrying out rape once properly stimulated. And if they attend to their new duties well, they will be spare the breeding pits."
And with that horror dropped on her, Agahnim barked more orders at the knights under his control. Zelda could barely make out the clatter of armor as Ashe was dragged around out of sight, not when she was too busy screaming, both aloud and within her own mind. The scale of Agahnim's evil lay bared before her, with mass-suffering already underway as he unleashed unthinkable horrors on her people. And planned them for Zelda, herself.
The knight Etea had been forced to attend to marched away and another stepped up in front of the poor girl, copying the previous one's action as he began to bare himself to her. And Etea just shook as she waited to tend to the knight's member, already wounded down to her very soul, if Agahnim was to be believed.
And Zelda had no reason to doubt him.
Small, soft hands suddenly touched her thighs as Asha made her presence known. There was a soft sniffle, but then Zelda gasped and jerked as her attendant began to lick at her loins. She'd… she'd been ordered to prepared Zelda… for rape-
Zelda screamed but found herself gagged too well to make much noise. She tried to flail but her limbs were too tightly bound to allow for any kind of give. And the tongue lapping away at her was sending confusing, unwanted sparks of heat through her whole body.
Agahnim rose from the throne as strolled past Etea as the girl diligently licked at another exposed member. He circled around Zelda's bound form, humming and chuckling to himself. And when Asha was abruptly turn away, Zelda realized he'd moved so he could watch her be raped.
She wanted to cry. The sheer amount of cruelty-
Gulping, Zelda lifted her chin up and fixed her eyes on one of the engravings fixed to the ceiling. She'd long been aware of the potential for this kind of horror. After all, she knew her history. Hyrule's throne had tumbled before. And the women always suffered greatly at the hands of the marauders that followed.
She would endure. She would hold fast. She would survive this crude assault and-
Armored hands gripped her thighs. Asha's voice faintly whispered an apology as a strange weight was pressed against her loins. And then-
Searing pain tore through her as the knight thrust himself forwards. His engorged member slammed inside her, the way eased only by the small measure of wetness Asha had been able to gift her with. In a split-second, Zelda found herself feeling painfully full as the knight fully sheathed himself inside her body. Then he paused, lingering for just a moment, before he set about thoroughly ruining her honor.
She couldn't muffle the sobs, as it turned out, nor stop the flow of tears. The knight slammed himself inside her again and again, causing her body to burn with agony at each thrust and her mind to quiver in shock as being so brutally violated.
Agahnim was laughing again and he soon stepped back into view, reaching out with a hand to crudely grope at her chest. "This is just the first of the lovers you'll be enjoying today," he told her. "Your royal cuntis bearing up quite well, actually. I may be able to set a number of knights on you before you are allowed to rest. You're doing far better than your maidens did. Of course, their partners were quite a bit rougher. I have not had to ensorcell all of my followers, after all, and those girls are hardly worthy of knightly seed. You should have heard their screams as they were held down and raped, over and over again. There's a reason they're so compliant now."
The knight forcing himself on her suddenly went still, armor clattering. He straightened up and dragged his foul member out of her aching passage. A feeling of humiliating wetness immediately followed, a sensation close to urination as that potent essence began to leak out of her.
But Asha had her orders and Zelda sobbed as she felt small, soft fingers gathering up that bit of leaking seed and stuffing it back inside her.
A second knight stepped up then and Zelda let out another muffled cry as a second member drove inside her. The knight's hard protective plates slapped against her legs as he repeatedly thrust inside her, dutifully claiming her as he'd been ordered. The thrusts hurt, making her ache deep inside her abdomen in ways Zelda hadn't realized possible. Worse still, though, were the faintly growing hints of pleasurestarting to stir inside her, burning as though she could possibly enjoy the process of being violated!
Agahnim stood over her and stared greedily down at her as Zelda sobbed and shook through her second raping. And he also saw ever little jolt and quiver as she felt more of those unwanted bursts of pleasure. His response to that was to reach out and loosen the strings holding her bodice closed, then rooting around and ripping until her breasts were bared to the room.
The knight finished suddenly and spilled his seed inside her. Asha dutifully swept the few bits trying to escape back inside her, and then another knight stepped up to carry on with the rape.
After a seeming eternity, Agahnim called an end to the cycle of abuse and Zelda collapsed limply against whatever it was she'd been tied to. She could barely feel her groin beyond the endless throbbing, stabbing pain inside her. She was left alone, her body still tilted backwards to ensure nothing escaped. It was possible, she realized with dull horror, that the knights' seed was already quickening inside her. But even if it had, she'd been forced to continue enduring this until Agahnim felt certain she'd conceived a child-
She couldn't go through that again-
Agahnim had returned to his stolen throne halfway through the rapes and was now taking conference with a small group of ruffians who kept sneaking looks at her, leering and smirking at her brutalized body and exposed breasts. Finally, he leaned back, satisfied, and gestured at Etea and Asha kneeling nearby.
"Leave the princess be, I have specific plans for her. I have exiled the other girls of importance to facilitate the breaking of the ancient seals. But all the other women in the castle are for you to enjoy. Including these two, though I do need them well enough to attend to Her Highness when you're done with them. There are more in the lowest dungeons, as well, if you don't mind rubbing elbows with monsters."
No!
But the men just laughed, and kept laughing after Agahnim departed. Some followed him out to seek out easy prey while those that remained quickly surrounded her poor attendants.
Asha was thrown to the ground and her chemise shoved out of the way, exposing bloodstained thighs. One of the ruffians forced a kiss on her, growling hungrily in his throat as he shoved a hand between their bodies so he could draw himself free. She screamed into his mouth as he forced himself inside her, but that was all she could do. Another man seized her arms and held them pinned to the ground as the man on top of her thrust repeatedly inside her.
Then Etea, poor Etea, was simply hoisted up between two other men and used at the same time by them both. Her screams rang out louder than Asha's, whose mouth was constantly being used by the man brutalizing her.
And Zelda… forced herself to watch. Unable to cry after using up all her tears, but determined to bear witness as her attendants had been forced to witness (and aid in) her own assault.
Thankfully, the number of ruffians was relatively few and they were mindful of Agahnim's orders that Asha and Etea be left… functional… afterwards. And soon, all three girls were carried off to the dungeons and thrown into a cell together with a meager amount of water to drink and try to clean themselves with.
Zelda firmly settled both girls onto the thin mattress thrown up against a wall, insisting that her own pain was currently far less than theirs. Then she folded herself down on top of them once they'd fallen into an exhausted, painful sleep. And in the silence of the dungeon, she reached for the only remaining thread of hope she had left.
"I am a prisoner in the dungeon of the castle. My name is Zelda. The wizard, Agahnim, has done… something to the other missing girls. Now only I remain… Agahnim has seized control of the castle and is now trying to open the seven wise men's seal. I am in the dungeon of the castle. Please help me…"