Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (44 page)

“Well I can’t sleep with him alone, I just can’t!” Alyssa yelled back.

“Why not?” Triska demanded. “Why are you making this more difficult? You’ve been dying to get Daniel’s pants off from the minute you met him, and now you’re practically being ordered to by your alpha to help Daniel’s cause. Why can’t you have sex with him now when that’s all you’ve ever wanted in the first place?”

“Because I can’t do it without you with me!” Alyssa cried out, the group then looking at her with wonder as she broke down crying and held her hands to her face. Even Luna leaned up from her from drink and watched the witch curiously while her sister stood beside her.

“What?” Triska asked softly.

“Dammit, Triska,” Alyssa whimpered. “I can’t have sex with him like this. He’s only choosing to do this in the first place because it’s for his quest, not because he actually chose me. If I use that to get his pants off I’m no better than those horrible witches we saw raping humans before. I can’t use this to get his seed. It would hurt him and myself in doing so, and I can’t betray you all like this either!”

“Betray us?” Specca asked.

“Yes, betray you!” Alyssa cried out. “I love you all too, I do! If I have sex with Daniel and he hasn’t chosen anyone then that’s not fair to any of you. I have no right to have him like that. It’ll break your hearts if I have sex with him alone, it’ll hurt you all so deeply, I just know that I’ll never be able to talk to any of you again after this night if I were to do something so horrible to you.”

Triska, Squeak, and Specca looked to each other curiously then to the witch as Alyssa looked down to her hands as she shakily held them together in her lap.

“I had the chance,” she tenderly recalled. “I had the opening to take him in there and sleep with him. He even offered to do so without any resistance. I could have been having sex with him right now if I wanted to, but… I just couldn’t. It broke my heart seeing you all hurt so badly. I just couldn’t go through with it.”

The girls just stared at her with wonder while Luna stood up and wiped her mouth, the butterfly girls also watching curiously as Alyssa cried and slowly got onto her feet.

“If I wasn’t the witch I am today because of Daniel and all of you, I would have taken him earlier without hesitation,” Alyssa admitted. “I would have used the excuse of this being for his quest to do anything I wanted with him. But I’m not like the monster that Triska and Daniel found on that day, I’m not that lustful monster anymore. I love Daniel, with all my heart. I want to have a family with him, I want to be with him forever and ever and ever, I want to stay with him for all time. But… but…” She trailed off as she started to get choked up, the girls watching as she struggled before looking to them desperation.

“But I don’t want to lose any of you either, I can’t! This is so unfair, this is so cruel, I don’t want to be without any of you! Dammit, I love you so much, I really do!” she screamed out before she dropped to her knees and cried like a little girl, with the others watching her with surprise as she sobbed uncontrollably on the floor.

“You… love us… that much?” Triska asked softly.

“Alyssa, I… we… never suspected…” Specca said gently with worried eyes.

Squeak merely squeaked something while watching her friend with concern.

The girls looked to each other with wonder then back to Alyssa as the witch cried and held her hands to her face.

“Please,” Alyssa begged. “I can’t have sex with Daniel knowing it will hurt you, I can’t go through with it! If doing it with me is the only way to secure Charlotte’s support for his cause, then I need you all to join me with him. Please, it’s the only way to make it right.”

“You’re serious,” Triska said with wonder. “You… you really want all of us to have sex with him together.”

“You would really decline to have sex with him if we don’t share that with you?” Specca asked softly.

Alyssa nodded while watching them with worried eyes, the three girls then looking to each other in silence as words failed them. Falla groaned while holding a hand to her head as she watched the girls with disbelief.

“I can’t believe you would turn down a free go with getting a man’s seed all because you don’t want to be mean to one another,” she tiredly said. “What kind of rivals for him are you anyway?”

“That’s so beautiful!” Luna sobbed before she tore some leaves off of Falla’s skirt to blow her nose with. Falla looked to her with annoyance then to the other girls with a dull expression while she crossed her arms with a quiet grumble.

Kroanette looked around at the four girls with a curious eye then cleared her throat to gain their attention, all of them then turning to her as she gestured over to the bedroom.

“Touching as this may be,” she admitted. “I need to point out that Daniel is sure to wake up soon, and I believe those witches in there will expect some form of response to whether or not he’s going to be having sex with anyone on this night. So, what do you plan to do about this?”

The girls glanced to each other with concern then to Alyssa as the witch slowly got back up on her feet. Alyssa looked to the bedroom then to the other girls with a worried smile.

“Please, I can’t go in there and do this without you.”

“But… all of us… together?” Triska stuttered. “That’s not… we can’t just…”

“Oh my,” Specca said holding a hand to her cheek. “This… isn’t quite how I pictured my first time with him happening.”

Squeak smiled a bit and shrugged while squeaking something, again not seeming opposed to the idea at all.

“Please, this is the only way,” Alyssa said softly.

The girls all looked at her then to each other, silence filling the room as they thought about the idea of all of them sharing Daniel on that very night with each other.

*****

Slowly Daniel opened his eyes, his vision returning again to show that he was inside the bedroom and lying on the bed. Quickly sitting up his senses gradually came back to him, with his eyes looking around at the interior of the inviting room and focusing again before seeing Apoch and Astreal standing off to the side while watching him with dull expressions. Charlotte’s cat was sitting on the dresser while watching Daniel as he slowly sat up on the edge of the bed.

“So, you’re finally awake,” Apoch said softly.

“Some man you are,” Astreal mocked. “Fainting at the very idea of having sex.”

Daniel breathed out slowly as he remembered what caused him to become overwhelmed earlier, the very idea of all the girls wanting to have sex with him together being more than he was ready to handle.

“Did
not
see that coming,” he said softly to himself.

“Mr. Daniel,” Apoch and Astreal said sternly, with Daniel then quickly looking over to seeing them watching him with narrowed eyes.

“Are we wasting our time here?” Apoch demanded. “Or are you going to honor Ms. Charlotte’s deal?”

“Yes,” Astreal agreed. “Either you have sex with all of those girls out there and give Ms. Alyssa your seed, or else your proposal to Ms. Charlotte is worthless.”

Daniel glanced to the door of the room then turned to the cat as it watched him with a small meow. He opened his mouth to speak, however nothing came out as his mind was having trouble focusing on what he should do. Apoch and Astreal rolled their eyes then looked to the cat with dull expressions.

“Ms. Charlotte, I believe we have our answer,” they said together.

Before anyone could move the door slowly opened, with Alyssa peeking in with a worried smile.

“Daniel? Are you awake?”

Daniel looked to her and nodded slowly, remaining silent as Alyssa then opened the door and walked in, followed by Triska, Specca, and Squeak. As they did they all watched Daniel with curious glances, the boy noticing that Triska didn’t have her sword and dagger sheaths, Squeak didn’t have her pickaxe, and Alyssa was without her staff, the four girls being completely unarmed now. The ant girl closed the door behind her before the four lined up next to the bed and looked at Daniel with small blushes on their faces as he glanced from one girl to the other while remaining speechless.

“Daniel,” Triska spoke up. “We all talked about Alyssa’s…
idea
, and… well…”

“We have to ask you something, honestly,” Specca said softly.

Daniel looked at her curiously before Alyssa stepped forth and took off her hat.

“Daniel,” she said carefully. “If you could choose, right now, regardless of Charlotte’s offer, to take one of us to bed with you on this night, to have sex with on your own free will, could you pick any one of us?”

Daniel showed a troubled expression before he slowly glanced around at all the girls. Triska brushed her hair back behind her ear while watching him with worried eyes, slightly swaying her hips as she waited for his answer. Specca timidly held her hands down in front of her against her skirt, very carefully and slightly ruffling it while her tail slowly swayed around behind her. Squeak glanced down to her bosom as she held her arms closer and perked her chest up before looking back to Daniel with a simple squeak and small smile. Alyssa tossed her hat off to the side while watching Daniel with a hopeful smile, using one hand to slowly brush against her skirt as she shifted her hips around slightly.

Daniel looked around at all the girls as they awaited his response, trying to think of the answer to Alyssa’s question while Apoch and Astreal watched him with bored expressions. After a while Daniel closed his eyes and looked down, shaking his head slowly as the girls showed concern at seeing his reaction.

“I… I just can’t,” he remorsefully said. “I’m sorry, I just don’t know who I love more.”

“Daniel, did you just say who you love
more
?” Specca asked carefully.

Daniel looked to her and nodded, with the girls then showing curious expressions as Specca slowly shook her head.

“So, then you
do
love us?” she asked again.

Daniel blinked then looked around at them with a small jump as he tried to think of what to say.

“Well… I mean… I don’t know, that’s just it, I don’t-”

“Yes you do,” Specca reasoned softly. “You just said you don’t know who you love
more
, that means you love us all the same.”

Daniel stammered something nervously as the girls all watched him carefully.

“Daniel?” Triska slowly asked.

Alyssa smiled a bit and leaned closer to Daniel.

“Daniel? Do you love
all
of us?”

Daniel merely stammered some form of incoherent response as the girls all glanced to each other curiously. Specca looked down in thought for a moment before back at Daniel while watching him carefully.

“You say we all mean the world to you,” she recalled. “That you can’t pick among us who to have as your mate. And now you claim you don’t know who you love
more
. Daniel, do you… do you love all of us?”

Daniel opened his mouth to speak before looking down with confusion, questioning that very premise himself. After thinking hard about it he slowly looked back to the girls as they all watched him with question.

“I… um…” he slowly got out before failing to form any other words.

Apoch and Astreal grunted with annoyance as they tapped their staves on the floor.

“Enough of this,” they demanded together. “Are you going to prove your words to Ms. Charlotte or not?”

Daniel looked to them then to the girls as they all glanced to each other curiously. Alyssa then giggled and looked back to Daniel with a knowing smile.

“Daniel, are you going to pick one of us yet?”

Daniel gulped and slowly shook his head, with Specca adjusting her glasses as she watched him carefully.

“Is that because you don’t want to? Or because you honestly don’t know?”

Daniel remained silent as all the girls watched him closely, with Triska then walking up to him and setting her hands at her hips.

“Daniel,” she said sternly. “I want an answer right now, no more hiding with this. Tell me, honestly, do you love me too?”

Daniel stared at her with wonder before glancing to the other girls, with all of them smiling curiously at him now. Triska then grabbed his jaw and turned his focus back to her, the girl leaning closer to his face with an accusing stare.

“Do you?” she demanded.

“Triska, I…”

“You risked your life to fend off a Darker One from killing me,” she said with a gentler tone. “You say I mean the world to you. So tell me honestly, do you love me?”

Daniel hesitated in speaking before glancing over to the other girls, with Specca slowly walking up to him and holding a hand to the side of his head.

“Daniel, do you love her just as much as you do with us?” she asked softly. “Is that why you won’t answer her?”

Triska slowly let go of the boy as Squeak walked over and sat next to him, the ant girl holding onto his arm as Alyssa hopped over onto the other side of him and held onto his arm as well.

“Is that why you haven’t picked one of us yet?” Alyssa asked curiously. “Not because you don’t feel strongly about one of us, but because you feel strongly about
all
of us?”

Daniel looked to her as he tried to speak, not getting any words out still before he saw all the girls watching him with wonder. Triska glanced down for a moment before looking at Daniel with the sudden realization.

“You do, don’t you? You… you actually love… all of us.”

Daniel slowly looked around at the girls, seeing Alyssa blushing and nuzzling against his arm, Triska staring at him with a stunned expression, Specca holding a hand to her cheek as she blushed timidly, and Squeak holding onto his arm which was being enveloped in her bosom as she squeaked softly at him. He then looked down as everything played out for him again, the thought of Triska nearly being killed by the deathmare, how Squeak nearly died trying to save the caravan from going off a cliff, how Specca was nearly killed by Charlotte and her bladed cage, and how Alyssa was almost beheaded right before him. The thought of losing each girl hit him one after another, along with the sudden realization of what clicked in his mind before out in the streets of Eston, when Charlotte and her helpers criticized him for claiming to ever love a monster.