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Blood Cave

Jez woke up, she was standing up, no, she was chained up in a cave. “What?! What’s going on?” she yelled. She glanced around. A cave, a cave that reeked of warm metal and, something else. She noticed Jane hanging on the wall across from her, “Jane! Jane are you alright?” she yelled.
Jane shook her head and looked up at Jez, “Huh? What, what happened? Where are we?” she asked in a drowsy voice.
Jez looked around again, “I have no idea, but it’s not good, if we’re chained up like this. How’s your head?”
“Throbbing, yours?”
“Livable.” Jez tugged at her chains. They where thick, and there was no saw around to help out.
Jane looked worried, “Should we not call out for help? Who would do this to us? What does he want with us?” she was beginning to hyperventilate.
Jez kicked a rock at Jane,” Chill out! This is no time to panic! Don’t worry; I’ve gotten out of a jail cell before I can certainly find my way out of this.” She said.
Jane raised a brow at what Jez revealed. “You’re a criminal?!”
“No! I was sloppy.” She said. She pulled a hair pin from her hair, not that it made any difference to how her hair looked, just that she had that on her at all times.
She carefully picked at the lock on her right hand cuffs. After sometime there was a click sound and the chain fell off. “Thank God for hair supplies!” she smiled. She went right to work on the left hand, this went faster. Another click, it was off. She rubbed her wrists and went over to get Jane un-done.
The two girls went towards the only light they saw in the caverns. It was a little hole at the top of a larger room in the subterranean death trap. “I can’t do this anymore!” Jez ripped off the skirt of her dress, revealing her workout pants underneath it. “Much better.” She smiled.
Jane stood there, shocked that Jez would take off her skirt and roam in her underwear, “Nightmare, what are you doing? Even if we are in a very bad position you shouldn’t go around in your underpants like that!” Jane said.
Jez looked at her; “You’re completely right.” she took off the shirt of the dress, revealing her tank she had under it, “That’s better.” She smiled.
Jane gasped in even more shock than before. Jez looked at her, “Okay, this is how I see it, if I have a better chance at living if I’m stark naked, I’m stripping down to my birthday suit. At least this way, I’m comfortable and clothed. It’s easier to run in loose fitted clothing, then a Victorian dress.” She said looking at Jane seriously.
Jane nodded, this was true, it was getting hard to move around in her dress, it kept picking up the moisture in the caves. She took off the skirt, but dared not take off the shirt part. Her underpants where lacey, but they would do just fine if the girls had to run for their lives, and in the position they where in, they would have to do that at some point in time.
Voices up ahead, one was definitely human, the other was more, creature like, strained and raspy.
“I do see why I can’t ‘ave a lit’l fun wit ‘um that’s all.” The human voice, obviously an under educated man, and probably a little drunk.
“Silence! The girls are mine. You’ve done your part, I paid you well. Now go, bring me the white haired one.” The creature.
The girls shared a frightened glance. Jez quickly recovered and took Jane’s hand, “This way.” She whispered as she led Jane away.
Jane followed Jez obediently, right to a place in the cave that began to fill with water.
“Tide is in, can you swim?” Jez asked.
Jane nodded, “Yes, I can, you?”
“No, I can’t, I’m afraid of the water, it’s my only fear.” Jez smiled nervously.
Jane nodded, “Hold on to me, as tight as possible and never let go!” she said as she tided a loose rope around herself and Jez. The two jumped into the water.
After some time of swimming they popped up out of the water and inhaled deeply. Jane towed Jez to the shore line and the two passed out there.
A man in a dark overcoat walked up to the girls and glared down, “Nice try ladies, but you won’t be escaping that easily. What’s this?” he took a closer look at Jez, “Can’t be…” He ripped her necklace off of her neck and put it in his pocket. “You’re not supposed to be in this era, you’re not supposed to be alive.”

[I know it's short, but there really wasn't much to this chapter except that dramatic-ness...]