Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (12 page)

“We never killed anyone!” she yelled out. “The people of this village were dead when we got here, just like you’re going to be if you don’t let him go right now!”

Specca glanced to her then around at seeing all the buildings having no lights on or people being seen anywhere nearby during the loud standoff.

“Wait, the entire village is
dead
?” she asked nervously.

“Yeah,” Triska confirmed. “We don’t know what killed them though, they all appeared to just die from nothing.”

Jovian and Jacqueline laughed as Jovian walked over next to her sister, the twins looking around at the group with amused smiles.

“Oh, I see,” Jovian mocked. “They all just died on their own, that makes sense.”

“I suppose we can’t blame them for that,” Jacqueline taunted. “They couldn’t have killed anyone. They’re so weak after all, like this one here.” She dug her fingers into Daniel’s shoulder, the boy letting out a strained grunt as he dropped to a knee in pain.

“Daniel!” Specca cried out.

“Don’t you dare hurt him!” Alyssa yelled out with fury.

“If you don’t let him go this instant,” Triska threatened through bared teeth. “I swear to god I’ll hack you both into tiny pieces right here and now.”

“If you harm a hair on his head there shall be no forgiveness for you,” Specca threatened with anger as she clenched her fists.

“Oh, no?” Jovian mused while holding her blade towards Daniel’s neck. “Oh well, I guess we’ll have to live with being your enemies from now on.”

“I think we’ll manage just fine knowing that though,” Jacqueline giggled, then looked down to Daniel as she grabbed his hair and yanked his head back to look at his face. “Sister, this boy means so much to them. What should we do with him?”

Daniel gave her a weak glare while trying to pry her hand off of his shoulder before Jovian let out an amused murmur as she slowly lowered her blade down towards his crotch.

“Yes, what should we do with him indeed,” Jovian teased with a sly smile. All the girls jumped with wide eyes as Daniel glanced to her with growing fear as to where this was going. “Well, I think first thing’s first, we should put an end to their silly squabble over who gets to be fucked by him. I say, since he can’t make up his mind, we make it so he can’t fuck
any
of them.”

Jacqueline giggled as she looked down at Daniel, watching as he glanced to the blade with even more fear now than before.

“I think that sounds very fair, not like he was going to be using it anyway!” she laughed, with Jovian laughing as well.

“No, don’t,” Triska breathed out.

“You can’t, don’t!” Alyssa cried out.

“Please, let him go, right now!” Specca desperately pleaded.

Squeak shook her head and squeaked quickly at the twins, the two girls looking to the group with cold smiles as Jovian angled the blade to slice downward at Daniel’s crotch.

“Wait!” Falla yelled out from above. Everyone looked to the butterfly girl as she stepped out from behind the chimney while holding a hand out to the sisters. “Hold it, at least let me get his seed before you hack his penis off!”

“What?
What
?” Triska yelled out with fury. “That’s all you’re worried about right now?”

“I can’t believe you, Falla!” Specca shouted out with disgust. “You’re just as heartless as those two!”

Falla glanced to them then slowly fluttered down onto the road between the two parties, holding her hands up defensively while watching the sisters as they both smiled curiously at her.

“He promised to get me pregnant after all,” she explained. “He still owes me his seed.”

“Oh, did he now?” Jovian asked glancing to Daniel.

“No, I never promised her that at all,” Daniel argued while looking at Falla like she was crazy.

“Yes you did, Daniel,” Falla declared. “And whether you or the rest of your friends like it or not you have to fulfill that promise.”

“Seriously?” Alyssa yelled out at her. “You’re picking
now
to bring that up again?”

“Hey, I get it,” Falla scoffed as she crossed her arms in discontent. “You all love him, and me having sex with him would just break all your hearts. Well, boo hoo, he
did
promise to help me, and dammit, he’s not going to be weaseling out of that again. Not now, not ever.”

“I’m going to kill you, Falla,” Triska growled through bared teeth. “I’m going to straight up kill you after this.”

Falla rolled her eyes then looked to the sisters.

“You want to kill everyone,” she reasoned. “Fine, I get it. But his seed belongs to me, even if all these girls hate that thought with all their might.”

Jovian and Jacqueline glanced to each other then to Falla with raised eyebrows.

“What, you want to do him right here and now, is that it?” Jovian mused.

“In front of all of them? Really?” Jaqueline questioned.

“Well,” Falla said with a smirk back at the other girls. “Surely they would all
hate
that more than anything. I mean that would certainly be cruel to do to them, not sure I could stomach watching them all crying from it, but…” She then turned back to Daniel with a coy smile and held a finger to her chin as she thought about it. Specca looked at Falla carefully then glanced to the sisters.

‘Why does she keep emphasizing how much we’ll hate such a thing? It’s like she’s trying to stress that point with them, but why?’

Jovian and Jacqueline giggled and looked around at all the girls with amusement while Daniel was staring at Falla like she really was out of her mind.

“You’re right,” Jovian mused. “It would just break their hearts if they had to watch Daniel being raped right before their eyes.”

“And by a lowly rat such as yourself too, oh I like this idea a lot,” Jacqueline laughed.

Falla held in her growl as she forced a smile and shrugged modestly.

“Hey, I just want what he promised me,” she reasoned. “These other girls may not like the idea at all, but too bad. I’m a monster after all, and I need his seed.”

“Falla, what the hell are you doing?” Alyssa yelled out.

Specca glanced between Falla and the sisters as she tried to figure that out herself. Falla walked up to Daniel and smirked at him with a raised eyebrow.

“If you’re going to kill them anyway, at least allow me the chance to claim what is rightfully mine first.”

Jovian laughed and moved her sword aside as Jacqueline lifted Daniel up onto his feet, holding him by the shoulders firmly as she giggled amusedly.

“You know what, I think this would be quite a show indeed,” Jovian speculated with a sly grin.

“Yeah,” Jacqueline agreed. “It’ll be simply wonderful to watch all of them having their hearts crushed like this. I think it might even be more painful for them than our teeth would be.”

Daniel looked back and forth between them then to Falla with disbelief as the butterfly girl walked up and placed her hands on his chest.

“Are you crazy?” he frantically asked. “Here? Now? Like this?”

“Oh, Daniel,” Falla said with a sympathetic smile while shaking her head. “I know it’s not the most romantic spot or whatever, but that’s what you get for trying to cheat me out of what’s rightfully mine.”

“Falla!” Triska yelled out. “I swear to god if you touch him I’ll kill you myself!”

Jovian smirked at the teen while drumming her fingers on her sword’s handle.

“On your knees, all of you.” The girls just looked at her with frustration before she scoffed and held the sword up to point at Daniel’s neck, with him and Falla glancing to it worriedly. “I said on your knees, now!”

The other girls slowly got down on their knees as they watched with growing fear for Daniel as the twins smiled coldly at them.

“Now then,” Jovian informed them. “You all can just watch as this lousy rat gets to have the one and only session with him. Make sure you all pay close attention or else I’ll slice his throat during.”

“If any of you get up or make any sudden movements he’ll die right here and now,” Jacqueline said with a glance at Daniel. “Just in case you’re really so eager to deny Falla her seed.”

The boy looked around at his friends as they all watched him with worried eyes then to Falla as the girl had a solemn expression on her face. Jovian smirked then lowered her sword as Jacqueline shifted her hands down and held Daniel by his arms while standing behind him.

“Alright, Falla,” Jovian offered with a wave to him. “Rape him, hard. Get every drop of semen out of him. Wring him dry in front of all his friends.”

“Don’t worry,” Jacqueline giggled. “He won’t be going anywhere. Make sure to hump him really good.”

Falla slowly smiled a bit and moved closer to Daniel, holding her hands to his chest as she leaned over to his ear.

“Just relax,” she said softly.

“You know, I was starting to have hope for you,” Daniel scorned. “Seeing you caring so much about your sister, I thought there was some good in you after all.”

Falla closed her eyes as her hands slid underneath his outer shirt, with Daniel feeling her fingers tracing along his chest.

“Daniel, you know being sneaky and cunning is what I’m good at.” Daniel blinked then slowly glanced down to something as Falla leaned back and smiled kindly at the boy. “You really don’t give me enough credit, do you?”

Daniel looked at her carefully as the girl smirked with a twitch of her eyebrow. Falla nodded slowly then quickly yanked out Daniel’s dagger from his shirt, gearing back and striking it behind him into Jacqueline’s skull with a slick crunch. Jovian jumped and watched with surprise as Jacqueline let go of Daniel and stumbled back a step with a stunned expression on her face before Falla quickly grabbed Daniel and yanked him aside, with Jovian then screaming and taking a swing at them with her sword. Daniel and Falla ducked under the blade before Falla quickly fluttered her wings and grabbed hold of the boy around the waist, the monster quickly taking off into the air as Jovian yelled and swung at them again. The blade just missed Daniel’s foot as Falla lifted him up into the air and flew over the group before landing down behind Specca, with the girls looking at them with wonder as Falla smiled arrogantly at the sisters.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Jovian demanded. “I thought you wanted that stupid human’s seed?”

Jacqueline slowly reached up and pulled the dagger out of her forehead, her wound healing up while her expression turned to anger as she glared at Falla.

“I do,” Falla quipped. “And I’ll still get it just as he promised, however I don’t like the notion of you killing him after I’m done with him. I’d rather like to share him with my sister later on after all.” The other girls just stared at her with bewilderment while Daniel watched Falla with a raised eyebrow, the girl glancing around at everybody then to Daniel with a shrug.

“What? Luna wants to get pregnant too. Besides, you owe me.”

Daniel just stared at her for a moment with confusion before looking over to the sisters, with the other girls quickly getting back onto their feet and backing up towards him while staying between him and the two dark monsters.

“Okay then,” Jovian said dryly. “I think we learned a little lesson here.”

“Yeah,” Jacqueline said holding the bloody dagger down at her side. “If you want to cause pain and suffering to others, you have to do it yourself.”

“Alright, so what’s the plan here?” Triska asked carefully.

“Specca, what kind of monsters are they?” Daniel asked.

Specca eyed the two sisters over nervously and quickly shook her head.

“I’m not sure,” she answered. “Those eyes… the way they can’t die… something about them seems familiar, but… I’m too scared to think right now.”

“I think it’s safe to say we’re not going to be negotiating with them at this point,” Alyssa pointed out. “They’re not peaceful monsters, that much we at least know.”

“Great,” Daniel said. “They can’t be killed and they can’t be reasoned with. What options do we have left?”

The two sisters started walking towards them with cold expressions as the group backed up slightly.

“I vote run,” Specca quickly suggested.

“Seconded,” Falla agreed with a nod.

Squeak nodded a few times and squeaked in what was assumed to be in agreement as she watched the sisters with growing fear.

“We’re not running away from them,” Triska argued sternly. “Those monsters need to be put down for good.”

“We agree with that,” Specca nervously said. “But they’re not staying down, that’s the problem.”

The two sisters advanced on the group while wicked smiles spread across their faces before stopping suddenly and looking past everyone with a curious eye. Lucky quickly neighed then took off down an alleyway to the side between two buildings, his footsteps echoing out as the group looked to seeing him racing off then to the sisters who were now standing still.

“Lucky?” Alyssa called out after her horse.

“Something spooked him,” Specca said nervously.

“Something besides two flesh-eating monsters that can’t die and a village full of dead people?” Triska questioned skeptically.

“He wasn’t running from them,” Daniel said carefully. “He ran that way, almost like he was avoiding something behind us.”

After a pause the group slowly looked behind to seeing a figure walking towards them in the middle of the street, a little girl that gradually became visible in the light from the streetlamps.

“I see we have some new faces in this village, welcome to Eston,” Emily greeted with a calm smile on her face, her eyes seeming to look past everyone with an empty gaze while she had her hands held behind her back with her wand. From the rooftops around the group tentacle eyestalks slowly shifted up and peered down at everyone from all angles, giving Emily a complete view of the newcomers.

“Who are you?” Daniel asked.

“Get out of here, kid,” Triska ordered. “This isn’t a good time to be out playing.”

The twins watched Emily with curious smiles while Falla was staring at the witch with surprise.

“Emily?” Falla cried out.

The group looked to her then to the witch as Emily showed a faint smile at seeing the butterfly girl with the group.