Chronicles of Eden - Act VIII (51 page)

“I know that,” Daniel agreed looking to his hand. “I’m thankful to have all of you with me, and I’m sure to be the luckiest guy in Eden having all of your love the way I do. Make no mistake that I’ll always fight to keep you safe, to keep all of you safe. I guess part of me is still worried I’m not being fair to you all by having you share me with each other.”

“
Ah!
Specca!” Luna laughed as she was pulled back into the water. The butterfly giggled and started splashing about before Specca popped up behind and grabbed her, fondling the girl’s breasts using both hands while swinging Luna around in the bathwater.

“You need to wash all over, Luna,” Specca giggled as the girls splashed around together.

“Squeak!
Ah!
Stop!” Falla laughed as the ant girl started tickling her all over, the butterfly trying to get away but being held back by the feisty monster as they stumbled around in the bath.

“Save me, Triska!” Luna called out as she was yanked down into the water by Specca.

“No, help me!” Falla cried out with a smile as Squeak kept tickling her with an amused smirk.

“I think… I’ll just watch,” Triska casually decided while watching the sisters being played with by their co-mates. Pip flew over and snuggled down in between her breasts with a happy giggle, the teen then smiling at seeing the fairy nuzzling close to her chest before looking back over to Daniel with a small shrug.

“I wouldn’t worry about that, Daniel,” Kroanette reasoned. “I’d say we’re all enjoying the time we have with each other just as much.”

“How many times do we have to tell you?” Alyssa playfully asked, gently flicking Daniel’s forehead with her finger. “This is how we wanted it before you even made your choice. If you had actually picked just one of us it wouldn’t have ended so well. So stop worrying about all of us sharing you and just be happy that we’re all yours, okay?”

“Well, if you say so,” Daniel jested with a chuckle. He watched as the other girls laughed and played together in the bath, seeing them genuinely enjoying their time with one another, and felt his worries about his unusual relationship with them slowly fading away.

“Having this makes me feel better already,” Alyssa confessed as she admired her family.

“This is truly where we belong in life,” Kroanette agreed with a calm smile.

“My husband makes everything perfect,” Doku praised, sitting next to Daniel now with her wing holding onto his arm and her naked body pressed against his side.

Everyone stopped instantly and took notice of the harpy beside Daniel, with him also staring at the girl in surprise as she had appeared so suddenly. She sighed happily while nuzzling her beak against his shoulder, her wing covering his arm while her large breasts were enveloping it from behind the feathers.

“Doku?” Triska exclaimed.

“What are you doing?” Alyssa yelled out at the harpy.

“I’m just enjoying a lovely bath with you all,” Doku sheepishly answered.

“You don’t bathe with us, you know the rules!” Specca cried out.

“Rules?” Doku asked her. “I wasn’t aware of any bathing rules.”

“Only his mates are allowed to bathe with him!” Kroanette declared standing up and crossing her arms. “We are the only ones who-… wait a minute, you’re undressed right now, aren’t you? Are you clinging to Daniel while naked?”

“Well of course I am,” Doku reasoned with a shrug. “You’re supposed to get naked when taking a bath, are you not? What’s wrong with me doing this?”

“You’re hanging all over Daniel when you’re completely nude!” Triska yelled out grabbing her hair. “That’s what’s wrong with this!”

Squeak pointed to the harpy and squeaked something in a very stern tone while shaking her head, with Doku watching as the ant girl tried to protest in some manner about the situation before she turned back to Triska.

“Anyway, it would only be proper for me to get naked to bathe with Daniel,” Doku pointed out before turning to Daniel with a saddened smile. “I’m so sorry I’ve never had time to do this with you before. Every time you do I’ve been busy with one chore or another, I’ve been such a horrible wife to you. I’m so sorry, Daniel. Please forgive me.”

She broke down into tears and hugged Daniel, weeping into his shoulder while he continued to stare at her in bewilderment. After a moment he looked around to see the other girls glaring at the harpy in anger, except for Pip and Luna who were merely watching Doku with worried eyes as she cried against Daniel.

“I’m so sorry for making you wait this long,” Doku sobbed. “You must think so little of me now after failing you as a wife. But please, I promise I’ll make it up to you, I swear it. Please give me a chance, Daniel. Please.”

“I… um… but…” Daniel managed to get out while looking around at all the girls.

“I’ll redeem myself in your eyes, Daniel,” Doku promised with a gracious smile at him. “I’m so sorry it took so long, but I promise I’ll try to make more time for this in the future. I know how important it is for you to bathe with your loved ones.”

“You’re
not
his loved one!” Falla yelled out. “We are!”

“I know you are as well,” Doku agreed at her. “Don’t worry, Falla, I haven’t forgotten that we all share him together. I know we all belong to him equally.”

“She is missing the point entirely once again,” Specca groaned in frustration.

“Hold on, aren’t you supposed to be making us breakfast right now?” Alyssa demanded pointing to the harpy.

“Alyssa,” Daniel scolded her, with Doku lowering her head in shame behind her wing. “She doesn’t
have
to make us breakfast every morning. She’s been doing so because she wants to be nice to us, you should be thankful that she cooks for you every day.”

“Oh, you’re right, Daniel,” Alyssa agreed with her head lowered in remorse. After a pause she again pointed to Doku with a mean glare. “What the hell are you doing in here and not the kitchen right now?”

“Oh, well that’s the reason why I had time to come here this morning,” Doku happily said. “Clover offered to make breakfast for everyone, so I was free to come here to be with my husband.”

“Clover?” everyone repeated in disbelief.

“
She’s
going to be making us breakfast this morning?” Specca nervously asked.

“Does she know how to cook?” Triska wondered.

“Why in Eden did she offer to do such a thing?” Kroanette inquired. “That’s not like her at all.”

“She was rather insistent,” Doku praised with a warm smile. “She told me to leave everything to her this morning, and practically pushed me out of the kitchen in a hurry so she could get to work. So here I am enjoying a lovely bath with my husband. This worked out well for everyone, didn’t it?”

Silence filled the bathing room as everyone stared at Doku with blank expressions. The harpy sighed happily and nuzzled against Daniel’s side again, looking up to him with a timid smile before bashfully hiding her face in his shoulder with a small giggle.

“What I’m getting out of this is that it’s Clover’s fault we have a naked Doku hanging all over Daniel,” Triska summed up. All the girls looked to each other then to Doku while Daniel was keeping his eyes up at the ceiling and not the harpy that was rubbing her body against his bare skin.

“Alright,” Alyssa said standing up and looking towards the archway with a bitter scowl. “Bath time is over. Everyone get dressed and let’s go see what Clover is up to. And someone get Doku off our Daniel before I do something
really
bad to her!”

*****

Inside the dining room Clover finished setting out the last plate at the table, the elf nervously looking over what she had prepared for everyone before shutting her eyes with a frustrated sigh.

“This isn’t going to work, I just know it. It’s not good enough. Who am I kidding, I can’t cook worth a damn.”

She started running back towards the kitchen area, her fears that what she made would only push Daniel further away growing rapidly. Before she could leave the dining area however she stopped with a squeak as she saw Daniel and the girls walking through the archway, all of them fully dressed and looking at the table prepared for them with curiosity.

Each spot had been set with a plate consisting of a plain salad of dry lettuce and a bread roll, mutton chops that were cooked to a very dark color, cups of water filled unevenly between everyone, napkins and silverware set in a crooked manner beside the dishes, and one plate that was actually completely bare of any food.

“Clover?” Daniel asked as the group walked in around the table. “We heard you wanted to make breakfast for us?”

“The hell did she do?” Alyssa derided. “The meat’s burnt and there aren’t even any vegetables or dressing with the salads.”

“Um, guys?” Triska said with a raised eyebrow, pointing over to the kitchen area where it was seen to have cupboards left open, dishes and silverware sprawled about on the counter, a pantry in disarray with baskets of produce hanging out from its shelves, a cooking tray set in the stove that had a few charred lumps of something on it, and a puddle of water next to the urn that had been spilled recently.

“Oh dear,” Doku fretted hiding behind her wings.

“What a mess,” Luna worried.

“Clover… what the hell?” Kroanette exclaimed as all eyes turned to the elf.

“You made a mess of the kitchen and this is all that came of it?” Alyssa asked in disbelief as she waved to the table.

Clover clutched her gloved hands down at her sides while lowering her head in embarrassment, her flustered look still being noticed as she tried to keep calm with a few sharp breaths.

“I… I wanted… to try… and…”

“Do you even know
how
to cook?” Alyssa demanded.

Clover shakily shook her head and looked away from everyone with a cringe.

“Zoey always used to make everything for us. She… was better at it.”

“I can only imagine so,” Specca commented with a raised eyebrow at her plate, which was empty. “But at least everyone else got something to eat, whereas I apparently did not.”

“What?” Clover said looking over to her. “No, you had two fish on your plate.”

Everyone watched Specca lifting up her plate and looking around at the table skeptically before back to Clover with a dull expression. Clover walked over and saw no sign of the fish on the table then scratched her head in puzzlement.

“There were two fish right there for you.”

“I’m sure,” Specca dryly said setting the plate down with a clatter.

“I’m not lying to you,” Clover argued. She scoffed and marched over to a pantry in the kitchen while Specca crossed her arms in discontent at the elf. “I set two fish on your plate, both of them raw because I know you like them that way, and I got them from in here.”

She opened the pantry door then jumped back with a yelp, the group watching her staring at something in surprise with a bewildered look on her face.

“What the fuck? Get out of there!”

Bolting from inside the pantry Star ran past Clover on all fours with a mew, a fish held in her mouth as she warped out of the kitchen and reappeared behind the group where she took off out of the dining hall with quickly waving tails. Clover watched the jinx racing off with her fish then looked back into the pantry and groaned in frustration.

“What was she doing in there?” Triska asked walking over beside the elf, her eyes then seeing dozens of fish bones littering the floor of the pantry. “Of course. We bring a cat into our home and look what happens.”

“Did Star eat my fish?” Specca snapped as she looked to her empty plate.

“Actually,” Triska hesitantly corrected. “She ate
all
the fish.”

“WHAT?” Specca cried out. She rushed over to the pantry then gasped in horror with hands held over her mouth, eyes staring in shock at seeing the pantry in shambles with the remains of the fish resting on the floor.

“Oh dear lord,” Specca breathed out, tears forming in her eyes as she whimpered and slowly dropped to her knees. “No… this can’t be happening… this is just a horrible dream.”

“She ate all the fish we had?” Daniel asked.

“Every last one,” Triska sighed shaking her head.

Specca broke down crying into her hands, her loud wails echoing in the dining hall while everyone watched the nixie with sympathetic eyes.

“There there,” Triska gently said, patting the heartbroken girl on the shoulder. “We’ll catch some more, don’t worry.”

“This day is simply terrible!” Specca sobbed.

“You didn’t wake up with Clover’s tongue in your mouth,” Alyssa muttered.

“Or her crotch,” Falla added with a grumble.

Daniel walked over behind Specca and gently held her, the girl then scrambling to her feet and hugging him with her face buried in his shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Specca,” he spoke while holding her close. “We’ll make sure to stock up on more soon, I promise. It’ll be okay.”

“I hate that cat! I hate her, Daniel!”

“She didn’t do this to be mean to you,” Daniel assured as he gently rubbed her back. “She didn’t know better, she was just looking for something to eat. We’ll get her straightened out so this doesn’t happen again. So please, don’t cry.”

Specca leaned back with watery eyes, sniveling with her whimpers as Daniel wiped her tears away and straightened her glasses. He gently brushed her hair away from her eyes then gave her a light kiss, the girl slowly calming down as she held onto his shirt with both hands. After Daniel held her cheek with a warm smile, something that almost brought one to her face as well, they both then noticed a plate with two roasted fish held out towards them. To the side they saw Clover offering the food to Specca while looking away from them.

“Here,” she said without making eye contact. “They were going to be mine but… well, I’m sure I fucked up cooking them too. Still, you can have them.”

“Clover…” Specca breathed out.

“Just take them,” Clover grunted as she pushed the plate into Specca’s hands. The elf walked away towards the other pantry she had raided and left in disorder then looked around at the mess she had caused in the kitchen with a tired sigh.

“Every time I try to be nice,” she grumbled to herself.