Chronicles of Eden - Act VIII (53 page)

“She ate all the fish in the kitchen and she grabbed your crotch, it’s most certainly
not
alright,” Specca argued with a flustered stomp of her foot.

“I’m not sure if her eating your fish is making you more upset here,” Triska commented with a raised eyebrow.

“Have Kitten come out and teach her a lesson,” Specca begged Triska. “Please, that cat needs to know it’s not acceptable to eat my fish like that.”

“But grabbing Daniel’s crotch is okay?” Alyssa flatly asked.

Specca clung to Triska’s shirt and cried into the teen’s chest, her sobs echoing in the court as everyone watched her breaking down again over her loss. Triska glanced to the side and saw Kitten’s image in her mind, the demon cracking her knuckles with a smug grin on her face.

“It’s so nice to be wanted,”
Kitten politely said.
“Triska, be a dear and honor her request. I’ll teach that troublesome cat a lesson and then some for poor Specca.”

‘You don’t care that Star ate Specca’s fish, you just want to torment her because she touched Daniel.’

“Torment doesn’t even begin to describe it,”
Kitten bitterly said with a furious scowl.

“First she tries to rape Daniel,” Specca sniveled into Triska’s bosom. “Then she wrecks the library, and now she’s eaten all my fish. I hate that cat so much.”

“But she’s being good now, isn’t she?” Luna wondered. “She didn’t try to take Daniel’s seed this time. She’s being nice.”

“She has changed a lot since yesterday,” Kroanette agreed. “I’m actually quite curious what brought about this sudden change in her. Yesterday she was like a wild monster, and now she’s perfectly tame even with Daniel near her. I wonder what happened.”

“It was Daniel,” Doku praised with a warm smile. “I do believe his words of humans actually caring for and loving monsters such as herself reached her. She had the perfect opportunity this morning to rape Daniel, and yet she did nothing. Star wants to be good and find someone to genuinely love her, I’m sure of it.”

“You really think she changed like that overnight?” Falla skeptically asked. “Aren’t jinxes supposed to be intelligent and crafty monsters? She could just be tricking us again, she could be pretending to be nice to lure us all off guard. She could be plotting her next move to steal Daniel away right now.”

Turning to point at the jinx accusingly Falla then blinked and watched with a blank expression along with everyone else as they saw Star once again rocking her head side to side while she mewed in rhythm to the ticking timepiece.

“She doesn’t really seem that… crafty,” Kroanette pointed out shaking her head.

“What is it with her and that clock anyway?” Alyssa asked in puzzlement.

“She seems to like it a lot for some reason,” Daniel reasoned with a shrug.

“I hope it breaks,” Specca muttered with a dull glare at Star. “I hope that damned clock breaks so she knows what it’s like to have something she likes taken away from her.”

“That’s pretty cold coming from a ‘kindhearted’ girl,” Clover mentioned walking out from the dining hall. The group watched the elf approach them with Pip merrily flying around her in a fast moving blue blur. “Aren’t you supposed to be a pacifist, Specca? Wishing harm or misfortune upon others doesn’t seem like something a good girl would do.”

Specca muttered something as she turned away from the elf while Daniel smiled curiously at seeing Clover glancing to him with a small blush on her face.

“That was real kind of you to offer Pip a meal this morning,” he commented. “You know it’s not your responsibility to do that though, right? She’s our mate, not yours. You don’t need to handle her special needs for us.”

“I offered to make breakfast for you all and so that’s what I did,” Clover snapped before looking away with her arms crossed. “I wasn’t going to exclude her just because she’s different. She was hungry too, you know.”

“Well, thank you,” Daniel complimented before Pip landed down on his head. “Did you enjoy your breakfast, Pip?”

“Yes I did!” Pip cheered waving her arms around. “She’s so tasty! I love her juices of life!”

Clover blushed and held a hand to her cheek to hide her face while the group looked at her curiously.

“With the way you were gulping it down I could tell, you glutton,” Clover quietly added.

“She’s so delicious!” Pip cheered as she quickly zipped around the elf in tight circles. “I think she even tastes better than Luna and Falla! Hee hee!”

The group watched Pip with confusion then Clover as she took a moment to fight off her blush, the elf then casually brushing aside her bangs before glancing to Falla and Luna with a twitch of her eyebrow.

“Take that.”

“What?” Falla cried out. “That’s bullshit! Giant butterflies taste the best between the legs, everyone knows this! There’s no way Clover’s juices are better than ours!”

“With the way you were eating her out this morning I’m not so sure,” Alyssa giggled.

“Alyssa!” Falla yelled out before whacking the witch upside the head, knocking her hat off and sending the little girl to the ground. “I thought we agreed not to talk about that ever again!”

Alyssa growled and stumbled to her feet, pulling her hat back down on her head as she glared at the butterfly girl. Squeak held Falla back while Triska held Alyssa by the shoulders, with Daniel smiling weakly at them before seeing Clover looking down timidly with one hand tugging at her skirt. She glanced to him then quickly turned away, her long golden hair waving behind and resting against her rear while she fidgeted her hands together in front of her chest.

“It’s not often we see you with your hair let loose like that,” Daniel commented, with Clover jumping a bit then glancing back to him. “Is this part of the new Clover as well?”

“I prefer to have it tied up,” Clover quickly snapped before looking away. “I just need to wash it before doing so. It’s a real pain to keep it managed while it’s down like this, I don’t like it.”

“Well the bath is all yours. Feel free to take your time in it and relax,” Daniel offered with a wave towards the bathing room.

“Can’t right now. I’ve got a fucking mess to clean up, remember?” Clover flatly replied as she walked off towards the dining hall. She stopped under the archway and paused, her deep blush not being seen by anyone as she glanced to her long hair resting down her side before she shook her head and quickly headed into the kitchen.

Everyone watched as the elf vanished into the hall then turned to Star as the jinx was still lost in her rhythmic mewing in front of the clock. Doku smiled a little then quickly hugged Daniel close.

“I’m going to go help her. I’ll see you later, my darling husband.”

“Doku,” Triska growled through her teeth.

“Right, sorry, I’m going,” Doku hastily insisted before rushing off. “Don’t worry, we’ll have it taken care of shortly. I promise.”

“That’s not what-” Triska started to argue with before the harpy disappeared into the kitchen. “-I was going to say. Dammit, she always does that.”

“Was it just me, or was Clover acting weird again?” Alyssa asked.

“Something is really different about that elf this morning,” Kroanette commented. “Both she and Star are… being so nice now.”

“She ate my fish,” Specca cursed, holding her hands to her face and trying to calm down. “She is not being nice at all.”

“It’ll be okay, Specca,” Daniel assured. He gently held the nixie close and lowered her hands, wiping a few tears from her cheeks before brushing aside her bangs. “Star knows she misbehaved, she was just hungry and didn’t know better. And we’ll catch more fish for you the next chance we get. There’s no need to get worked up over this. Everything will be fine.”

“Thank you, Daniel,” she softly said before resting her head on his shoulder. Her tail slowly coiled around his leg and pulled him closer, something that he smiled at while holding the girl in his arms.

“I know what will cheer you up, Specca,” he mentioned, with her looking up into his eyes as he winked at her. She blushed and smiled timidly, her hips shifting side to side slightly while her tail tightened around his leg.

“I know where this is going,” Falla chuckled.

*****

“I didn’t know where this was going,” Falla sighed. She shook her head while fluttering in the air next to a tall bookcase, the butterfly now being inside the library along with everyone else after Daniel had brought Specca there to cheer her up. And he was doing just that as he was seated at a table with the nixie in his lap, the girl cuddling close to him while reading a book with a gentle smile on her face.

“I could have sworn he would have taken her to the bedroom instead,” Falla said scratching her head.

“But Specca likes it in here,” Luna reasoned while fluttering around near her. She was eyeing the books with a curious smile before looking down to Daniel and Specca. “And look how happy she is now. She’s completely forgotten about the fish.”

“Squeak, no,” Kroanette scolded as the ant girl tore out a page of a book to examine it. “Why must you keep doing that? Books are not meant to be taken apart.”

Squeak looked at the paper with words that seemed indecipherable to her then squeaked at the centaur and pointed at it.

“Every book you pick up you rip the pages out of,” Kroanette sighed as she snatched the paper and tome out of the ant girl’s hands. “These are Twilight’s in case you’ve forgotten, you can’t treat her property like this. Oh dear, now we’ll have to fix this one as well.”

“Add it to the pile,” Alyssa casually said while sitting at a table with a book opened in her hands. She turned the page and continued to read with a calm gaze while resting on the table before her were several books with various pages loosely sticking out from where they too had been ripped out by the curious ant girl.

“I don’t understand,” Kroanette sighed as she trotted over and placed the damaged book with the others. “She speaks so eloquently when her spirit is lifted by Doku’s magic, she’s very sophisticated behind her guise of being a dirty worker, and yet she has no idea how to read a simple book.”

“Why would she have ever read before?” Triska asked from a table next to them, the teen having her legs propped up on the counter while she was eyeing her sheathed blade that rested in her lap. “She grew up in the tunnels digging and testing men in their mating den. That was all she ever did, reading probably never came up in her life. I really doubt they even had books down there.”

“And the way she speaks is probably because that’s how her queen talked,” Alyssa reasoned with a shrug. “Queen Victoria was very well-spoken. I bet all her subjects speak with such cultured words when they’re squeaking at each other.”

“I suppose that does make sense,” Kroanette admitted. She looked over to the side and saw Squeak again pulling a page out from another book and examining it curiously with a few small squeaks. “Squeak! For crying out loud, stop doing that! How is tearing the pages out going to help you understand them better anyway?”

As the centaur rushed over to lecture the oblivious ant girl once again Pip soared around the ceiling of the vast library in a streaking blue blur. She zipped down and weaved around the tall bookshelves with a happy giggle before running into Luna’s chest to which she sprawled against with wide arms.

“Boobies!” she cheered as she crawled into the butterfly’s bosom.

“You’re so cute,” Luna complimented before looking around at the books with a curious eye again.

“What are you looking for?”

“I don’t know,” Luna said with a shrug. “I don’t even know how to read that much. But I always wanted to learn. Daniel reads a lot, and he’s really smart. Maybe if I learn how to read I’ll be smarter too.”

She picked out a book and looked at it curiously while Falla sighed and flew down towards the others as she didn’t seem to find any of the books to be remotely appealing. Luna examined the cover of the tome which looked older than the others then fluttered up onto the top of the shelf to sit. Opening the book she showed a puzzled expression as she turned page after page of strange writing and symbols. From her cleavage Pip looked at the pages with a curious eye while Luna scratched her head in confusion.

“I can’t read any of this,” she pouted. “The writing even looks way different compared to the others. Can you read it, Pip?”

“I can’t read any of it,” Pip whined waving her arms around. “What does it say? I want to know!”

Luna sighed with a troubled frown as she tried to make sense of the unusual writing. Each letter and symbol seemed angular and was written in a very dark ink, almost like the words were burned into each sheet. Turning another page Luna jumped a bit as she felt something brushing against her wing. Looking to the side she saw Star watching her with a curious smile while her twin tails were swaying along the butterfly’s wing.

“Star? When did you get here?”

Star meowed and leaned over, examining the book Luna was holding before her smile slowly faded. She gently rested her hand on the page and drew it down, eyes deeply gazing at the letters while she mewed silently.

“Can you read this?” Luna asked.

Star slowly nodded and took the book from Luna, looking over one page then another before she closed the tome and set it down on the shelf. With a forlorn look on her face she remained silent, her head lowered while her ears were drooping low.

“What’s wrong? What did that book say?” Pip asked.

“Was it a bad book?” Luna worried.

Star nodded and glanced to them with a low meow. Luna looked at the book with an uneasy frown then smiled at Star and shook her head.

“Then I don’t want to read it. If it’s a scary book I don’t want to know what’s in it.” Standing up she fluttered her wings and looked around at the shelves below them. “Let’s find another one to start with, Pip. One that won’t be so scary to read.”

“Let’s try over there,” Pip suggested pointing over to an aisle of bookcases nearby.

“Why over there?”

“Why not?”

“You have a point,” Luna giggled before she flew off. As she did Star meowed with a curious expression at seeing the butterfly fluttering over towards the books with Pip. The jinx then turned her sights back onto the tome next to her, carefully resting a hand on it for a moment before opening it once again. Lying down on her stomach she went over the pages of the book, remembering the words well as she had read them before in her life.