Chronicles of Eden - Act V (64 page)

“Sorry, Squeak,” Triska spoke up with a small smile. “Don’t take it personally though. That’s just their opinion.”

“You always look perfect to me, Squeak,” Daniel assured her, with the ant girl looking to him with a timid smile.

“And at least we got everything we needed,” Specca added before walking up to Squeak with concern. “I am sorry they ignored you, I certainly didn’t expect them to treat me like that. I never meant to show you up like that.”

Squeak sighed and nodded then smiled a bit at her, with the nixie returning the look in relief while Falla snickered at the ant girl still. Daniel looked around at everything with awe then saw Clover keeping her eyes down to the ground with a dull expression on her face. She glanced to him then looked away while shrugging.

“So are we going now then?” she plainly asked.

“Yes, we’re all done here,” Daniel said looking around at his girls, all of them nodding in agreement to that. “The giant butterflies are with us, now on to the next race.”

Everyone then looked to Kroanette as she showed a determined smile to that.

“Kroanette, I trust you can lead us to your home next?” Daniel inquired with a smirk. “It would be of great help to have the centaurs joining us as well.”

“I’ll get Lucky to ride right away,” Kroanette promised with a nod. “Then I shall lead you there personally, Daniel.”

She rushed off to fetch Lucky, the curtain slowly dropping back down over the entryway before Daniel glanced to Specca with a weak smile.

“I’ll go get the map,” Specca softly offered as she walked over towards the table.

“Thank you, Specca,” Daniel said rubbing the back of his neck. “But let’s not let Kroanette know we’re using it to get to her home.”

Specca nodded with a giggle as she brought out the map and laid it on the table. Triska walked over to see along with Alyssa while Pip flew over and landed down on it, her eye going over the large print and markers while a curious smile formed on her face.

“About time,” Clover muttered as she walked over to the new bed in the corner. She sat down on it and bounced a few times to test its sturdiness before resting her feet up on it. “I guess this’ll do.”

“Hey, what are you doing?” Falla snapped at her while walking over. “That’s our bed, get off it.”

“Where am I supposed to sleep then? The couch again? Fuck that,” Clover shot back with annoyance.

“You can have the bed, Clover,” Alyssa said while eyeing the map on the table. All the other girls and Daniel looked to her curiously while Falla and Luna showed worried frowns at the witch.

“What?” Falla whined. “That’s supposed to be our bed, not hers! Where are we sleeping, the couch and floor again?”

“No, you’re sleeping with us,” Alyssa replied with a shrug. After a pause she glanced over to see the sisters staring at her with wide eyes. “You
are
Daniel’s mates, aren’t you?”

“I… but… we… um…” Falla stuttered looking to the bed then over to Daniel with a blush.

“Really?” Luna asked with a smile forming. “We can sleep with you? You mean it?”

“If that’s what Daniel wants, I’m fine with it,” Alyssa said with a small smile at the boy. “We’re all his after all, we belong with him.”

Daniel glanced to Luna and Falla as they turned to him with hopeful smiles then looked to seeing Triska, Squeak, and Specca watching the sisters curiously.

“Well, I suppose that would be alright,” Specca reasoned with a shrug.

“They’re not sleeping
next
to Daniel though,” Triska pointed out raising an eyebrow at them.

Squeak glanced to the bed for a moment then shrugged with a squeak before smiling a little at the sisters.

“Can we?” Luna asked holding her hands together.

“Would that be alright with you?” Falla asked with a worried smile.

Daniel looked at them for a moment before nodding with a small chuckle.

“What have I gotten myself into?” he lightly jested. “I suppose I can’t say no, now can I?”

The two sisters jumped with delight then quickly hugged him, with Daniel holding an arm around each one and feeling a sense of warmth from both of their love for him. Falla and Luna smiled at him with joy then looked over to their new co-mates, the girls smiling back at them while Pip was glancing to Triska’s chest with a perverted eye and not paying much attention to anything else.

“Welcome to the family,” Alyssa greeted, with the sisters blushing and holding onto Daniel more closely.

“Just remember to control yourselves,” Specca mentioned. “We’re not mindless monsters of Eden after all.”

“I think we can trust these two giant butterflies,” Triska approved.

Squeak squeaked something and nodded while crossing her arms in content.

“What makes you all want this guy so much?” Clover asked, with all the girls looking to her as she watched Daniel quizzically. “I’m just saying, he doesn’t look like anything special. What makes him so desirable to you?”

Falla let go of Daniel and walked over to Clover with a blank expression, the elf looking up to the butterfly as she stood next to her. Everyone then watched with surprise as Falla punched Clover right in the nose, the elf yelling in pain as she dropped back onto the bed holding her face with both hands.

“Don’t talk about Daniel like that!” Falla shouted out. “There isn’t any guy out there that I would want to be with other than him, and don’t you dare forget it!”

“Sister,” Luna said with wonder.

“I thought giant butterflies don’t like to fight,” Specca questioned.

“I’d say that one is willing to for our man,” Triska mused with a smirk.

“Yeah, she’s definitely sleeping with us tonight,” Alyssa agreed while watching Clover amusedly.

Daniel watched Clover growling and cursing as she held her nose then looked to Falla as the girl turned to him with a warm smile.

“Although it hurt to do that,” Falla said rubbing her hand with the other. “It was worth it. I don’t like anyone talking bad about my mate.”

Daniel smiled in appreciation for the girl as Luna giggled at her sister, with Falla then looking back to Clover with a stern smile as the elf continued to shout and swear in her frustrations.

*****

A small breeze rolled by as the leaves and branches of the nearby trees swayed and gently rustled. Parked at the edge of the grove of the giant butterflies Daniel sat at the seat of the caravan and took in one last look of the monster homeland. Lucky was again hitched to the ride and set to pull the wagon while Kroanette stood beside it and enjoyed the moment to see Flairwood with Daniel one more time.

“Well, it was nice to visit,” Kroanette mused with a smile at Daniel.

“Yeah, it was,” he agreed before looking back behind him into the cabin. He saw Alyssa and Specca sitting at the table looking at the map of their region together, Luna and Falla resting on the bed that they would be sleeping in that night while watching Pip flying in circles above them, Triska sitting with the sisters on the bed while waiting to see who Pip would choose to fondle next, Squeak relaxing on the couch with her abdomen sticking out behind her on the cushion, and Clover lying back on her bed while having her bow in one hand and an arrow primed with the other as she aimed it up and over the table across from her.

“She’s going to do it,” Luna said softly.

“Wait for it, wait for it,” Triska slowly said.

“It has to be soon,” Falla mentioned with a shrug.

“Boobies!” Pip cheered as she shot off to the side and dived right down into Specca’s shirt, the nixie yelping and dropping to the floor shaking while Alyssa kept looking at the map with a close eye.

“Called it,” Triska said with a smirk at watching Specca getting up onto her knees and lifting her shirt, showing the perverted fairy nuzzling herself in between the nixie’s scaly breasts.

“How did you know it would be her this time?” Luna asked curiously as the fairy then started sucking on Specca’s nipple, the nixie dropping to the floor with a squeal and shaking her head with a blush on her face.

“Lucky guess,” Triska answered with a shrug. She then stood up and walked across the room, glancing down to seeing Specca flailing around on the floor with Pip holding onto her breast, then sat down next to Daniel on the front seat of the ride. “So, still think you don’t have a harem?”

“Starting to believe it,” Daniel admitted with a weak smile as he looked around at all the girls that were living with and had expressed their love for him, with all of them smiling at him except for Specca who was waving her arms around and begging Pip to stop and Clover who kept her eyes focused ahead of her.

“I hope you’re not including me in that,” Clover scoffed before she fired her arrow, the bolt flying across the room and striking into the wall with a whack next to three other arrows.

“We’re all thankful he isn’t,” Alyssa dryly replied glancing to her. “And quit doing that. No archery in the caravan.”

Clover grunted with annoyance as she lowered her bow before glancing to Daniel with a raised eyebrow, the boy smirking at her before turning to Kroanette.

“Alright, all set to lead us to your homeland?”

“You can count on me, Daniel,” Kroanette boldly promised him. “I’ll get us there in record time.”

“You know,” Triska quickly spoke up with a nervous smile. “Pip could just warp us there with her magic, couldn’t she? That would be the fastest way to get there. Why don’t we just do that?”

“No, we shouldn’t,” Daniel said looking back at the other girls, his eyes going from Pip to Clover as the two newcomers went about their own business, with the fairy squirming around between Specca’s breasts and the elf watching the others with a dull stare. “It was nice of Pip to save us time traveling here, but if we use her magic to teleport from one place to another we miss out on finding any other monsters to meet. We have time to travel by horse to our destinations, and who knows, we might find more support for our cause along the way.”

“That is true,” Kroanette reasoned with a thoughtful nod. “If we jump straight to my home we may end up passing right over another potential candidate to join us.”

“I suppose you’re right,” Triska agreed, watching Pip fluttering up from Specca’s chest with a happy giggle before she resumed flying around in circles above the room. The nixie wearily watched her while slowly lowering her shirt and trying to catch her breath, her tail twitching slightly at her side as she wondered how long before the fairy would come at her again.

“Daniel,” Kroanette said looking to him curiously. “Have you given any more thought about Pip’s offer to endow you with her magic?”

“I have,” he answered while trying to follow the fast moving fairy in the cabin. “And I’m going to hold off on doing that with her. She may very well be able to give me her magic, but could I control it?”

“Control it?”

“Fairies are capable of great power,” Daniel reminded her. “So much so that they could even destroy themselves if they’re not careful. I don’t think I’m ready to handle that kind of power, I may never be. I’m just now getting the hang of using any kind of spell right, it would be too dangerous if I mess something simple up and hurt all of you in the process. Right now I’ll focus on the magic I’m learning to use, that will be enough for me.”

“You do have a good point,” Triska said as she watched Pip dive down into Squeak’s tunic, the ant girl squeaking and dropping the floor while Luna and Falla giggled at the sight. “For now it may be safer to stick with what you have.”

“I have faith you’ll master your own craft, Daniel,” Kroanette assured him with a warm smile.

“Here’s hoping,” he replied with a weak laugh and a modest smile. “But anyway, it’s time we depart. So, would you like to lead the way, Kroanette?”

“You’re going to let
her
guide us?” Triska asked nervously while pointing to the centaur.

Kroanette looked down with remorse and gently scraped the ground with her hind leg.

“I can do it,” she insisted. “I promise, I won’t get us lost this time.”

“I trust that you will,” Daniel assured her, with the girls looking to him curiously as he smiled confidently at the centaur. “You are after all the legendary courier, Kroanette.”

Kroanette hopped with a wide smile and stars in her eyes while Triska cringed and slowly shook her head.

“Daniel?” Triska said raising her hand slightly. “Are you
sure
-”

“I won’t let you down, Daniel!” Kroanette cheered while standing proud and at attention.

Triska looked to her with an uneasy smile then sighed and reluctantly nodded.

“Alright, show us the way.”

Kroanette nodded and got ready to run before Daniel snapped the reins, getting Lucky to take off along the trail while the centaur steadily galloped alongside him. As they left Flairwood behind Triska leaned over and kissed Daniel on the cheek, smiled and winked at Kroanette then casually got up and walked into the cabin towards Alyssa at the table.

“The legendary courier is showing us the way to her home,” she whispered to the witch.

“Just make sure Daniel takes this path,” Alyssa tiredly said as she traced the best path for them to take towards Kroanette’s home located to the east on the chart. “And if she even mentions the word ‘shortcut’ stop us right away.”

Triska nodded as she eyed the map while Pip flew up from out of Squeak’s bosom giggling and flying around the room once more. As the ant girl squeaked up at her with frustration and a deep blush while holding an arm around her chest Triska looked at the marker showing the centaur’s homeland with hope they would have good fortune there as they did in Flairwood.

“Next stop, Ruhelia.”

*****

“No!” a swordswoman screamed as she ran through an abandoned stone ruins, the human looking behind her with fright while holding her sword with a trembling hand. The wind blew by while dust and sand drifted around and atop the stone walls and arches of the remains for a stone keep. The woman ran around a corner and turned to hold her sword towards where she came from, taking uneasy steps backwards while nearing a weathered brick wall behind her. From in front of her a figure slowly walked around the corner, the human staring with a nervous glare at seeing Cindy approaching with a playful smile on her face.