Chronicles of Eden - Act VIII (23 page)

“I can’t be lost now, not now!” Kroanette whined with tears coming down her cheeks. “Daniel! I’m coming, please wait for me! Wait for me!”

“She really is a horrible candidate for a courier,” Falla mentioned with a raised eyebrow.

“The poor thing, she has no idea where she is now,” Luna worried.

“We’re parked right over
there
,” Falla tiredly said while pointing over to where the carriage was in a clearing. “I can see it from here. How can Kroanette possibly be lost when she’s within shouting distance of us?”

“Where are you guys? WAAAH!” Kroanette wailed as she ran by their tree for the umpteenth time.

“Kroanette?” Luna called out as the centaur ran along near them through the trees and shrubs.

“WAAAH!”

“Kroanette?” Luna said again as the centaur raced past the area in a blind stampede.

“WAAAH!”

“Kroanette!” Falla shouted out.

Kroanette quickly came to a halt and looked around quickly in a startle before seeing the sisters in a nearby tree watching her with puzzlement.

“Falla? Luna? Oh thank heavens, I thought I was the only one lost out here.”

“We’re not lost,” Luna said shaking her head.

“Camp is right over there,” Falla flatly stated while pointing off to the side.

Kroanette turned her sights over in that direction, then looked behind her, then to the left, then to the right, and then back to the sisters while scratching her head.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, very sure,” Falla insisted as the sisters fluttered off the branch over to her.

“We came out here to get you since it was getting late,” Luna explained with a small smile. “We’ve been watching you run around in circles for about twenty minutes.”

“You’ve been what?” Kroanette exclaimed.

“At first we thought you’d find your way back eventually,” Falla reasoned crossing her arms with a questioning look at the centaur. “Then it was more of us watching you out of sheer curiosity for how long you could stay lost when right next to our home. Then…”

“Then we got bored and just started talking,” Luna said with a shrug.

“Why didn’t you say anything earlier?” Kroanette demanded with a flustered stomp of her two front feet. “I’ve been trying to get home all this time, why didn’t you help me?”

“It was more fun to watch,” Falla snickered.

Kroanette fumed with a deep blush before turning her head away with a scoff and crossing her arms stubbornly. She grumbled something to herself before hopping with a startled yelp. Looking back she saw Luna gently patting her rear while her other hand was lightly running along the centaur between her legs.

“We’ll make it up to you tonight, okay?” Luna giggled with a wink.

“Luna,” Kroanette stuttered as her body shook slightly. “Wha- wait, what are you doing?”

“You nervous about tonight too?” Falla asked, with Kroanette seeing a worried smile on her face.

“Tonight? Well… I… uh-
AH
! Luna!” Kroanette yelped as Luna had briefly run her fingers across the centaur’s exposed flesh.

“Sorry,” Luna said before quickly trotting over beside her sister. “I’ll wait until we all get started inside.”

“All get started?” Kroanette shakily repeated.

“You know what’s happening tonight, don’t you?” Falla asked.

“Yes, I do,” Kroanette answered as she tried to steady her breathing. “And to answer your question, yes, I am nervous. I don’t know why though, I was fully prepared to have sex upon returning home from making my delivery without such anxiety. I don’t know why this is making me feel so weak in all my knees. I’m a monster, having sex is what I was born to do, so why is this making me so tense?”

“Because Daniel is choosing to be with us out of love,” Falla answered as the girls began walking back towards their home. “This isn’t us having sex with Daniel just to get his seed, this is us having sex with our mate. With someone who loves us just as we love him.”

“And with a lot of other girls too,” Luna added with a blush.

“I hope I don’t faint,” Kroanette softly voiced while fanning herself with one hand. “This is a bit much for my first time. I just don’t want to disappoint Daniel.”

The sisters noticed Kroanette shakily breathing and trying not to whimper, a saddened frown barely masked by a forced smile on her face as she apparently had trouble keeping calm.

“You’re really nervous, aren’t you?” Falla asked curiously.

“Are you still worried about how you look?” Luna said softly.

“How can I not be?” Kroanette fretted. “With all of you Daniel’s making love to beautiful girls with human bodies. But I have the body of… oh damn it all, I’m the most monstrous of all of you. For Daniel to make love to me he would essentially have to mate with a horse.”

“You’re not a horse though,” Luna insisted as the girls stopped, with Kroanette covering her face with both hands and whimpering to herself. “Even Daniel said so. You’re a beautiful woman in his eyes.”

“That’s easy for you to say, Luna,” Kroanette sniveled with a peek through her fingers. “Your inhuman differences add to your beauty. I’d much rather have colorful wings than a horse’s ass.”

“What is wrong with you?” Falla snapped. “You know damn well Daniel loves you the way you are. He’s even told you just that, he wouldn’t change a thing about you.”

“Excuse me for being scared as hell of what Daniel will think of me!” Kroanette shouted back. “This is not only my first time coming up tonight, but also my first time with the man I love! I want it to be perfect, I want him to love me, I want him to… I want him to see me as a normal girl and not some farmyard animal!”

“He does see you as a normal girl,” Luna promised. “He sees all of us as normal girls. You know Daniel doesn’t think less of you with how you look on the outside, Kroanette. He loves you just the way you are.”

“He’s going to have to get behind me and ride my rump like an animal lover,” Kroanette whimpered. “He’s going to hate it, I just know it. Compared to making love to all of you I’m going to be the worst one for him.”

A loud slap echoed out in the thicket. Kroanette held a hand to her cheek where it was red and sore then turned her head to Falla as the butterfly was scowling at her with a hand held back still.

“Did you forget that he risked his life to save yours?” Falla demanded. “He nearly drowned trying to save you from suffering the same fate. He loves you, Kroanette! And so what if I have beautiful wings, I was rotten on the inside when he first found me. If anyone here would be considered a bad fuck for him it would be me, I’m the one who’s scared he’s not going to like doing because of how I’ve been in the past.”

“Falla,” Kroanette softly said in stunned awe.

“He’s going to make love to you because he truly cares about you, you have nothing to worry about in the slightest. And you’ve got those huge boobs and your charming personality, he’s going to love having sex with you. All I’ve got is physical appeal, but… I chased him all across Eden for so long only to get his pants off, I wasn’t a kindhearted girl with him or any of the girls at all for so long. I was despicable.”

“Falla, he’s forgiven you though,” Luna assured her. “He’s forgiven all of us with how we’ve been stupid in the past. He’s going to love having sex with you, I just know it.”

“You’re not scared at all, are you?” Kroanette asked. “Aren’t you just the least bit nervous?”

“I get to make love to my mate and all my co-mates,” Luna reasoned with a happy smile. “We all get to be together tonight with the human we love. I’m just so excited about that, nothing can make me scared to go forward now.”

“That is true,” Kroanette agreed as they started for the campsite again. “We’re all together, this is how we wanted it. And the other girls have accepted us, they approve of us mating with Daniel. They all want us to join them tonight, they want us to be with them.”

“So what do we do when it’s not our turn with Daniel?” Falla nervously asked. “What’s the rule here for having sex with one of the other girls? Do we just… do them? Do we wait for them to pick us? Which ones should we pick and which shouldn’t we? When do we stop with them and go back to Daniel?
Arg
! What do we do?”

“Let’s go speak with the others quickly before its time,” Kroanette urged. “If there are any guidelines to this we must not break them.”

She and Falla quickly raced ahead while Luna continued walking at a calm pace, the butterfly watching the two sprinting towards the campsite with an amused smile on her face.

“I think we’re supposed to just relax and have fun with it,” she reasoned with a shrug.

Falla and Kroanette rushed into the parked carriage right by Alyssa who was helping Lucky lay down in a fresh bedding of flowers and soft grass she manifested with her magic. The witch watched them dash into the ride then turned to Luna questionably as the butterfly walked towards her and shrugged with a small giggle.

“What-” Alyssa started before a loud crash and screams were heard inside the ride. The two girls then quickly ran inside to see Kroanette coming to a quick halt as she noticed Falla had ran into someone and was no longer beside her.

“
Ow,
” Falla whined as she sat up and rubbed her head. She then froze and stared straight ahead as she felt a deathly chill run down her spine. “I feel a murderous intent below me. Did I run into Kitten?”

“No, but close,” Kroanette nervously replied.

Falla slowly looked down to see Clover growling at her through bared teeth, the elf’s eyebrow twitching while her hands clenched into fists at her sides. The girls saw Falla tremble nervously as she found herself straddling the elf with both hands cupping her chest as she sat atop her.

“Oh god no,” Falla breathed out as her hands squeezed the elf’s bust for some unknown reason.

“Quit groping me and get off already!” Clover yelled, with Falla promptly scrambling off her and racing over to Kroanette. The elf got back to her feet and snarled viciously at the butterfly who was hiding behind the centaur’s body with shaking wings.

“What’s the big idea anyway?” Clover demanded. “This hall is fucking huge, there’s no reason for you to bump into me at all in here!”

“Why are you two in such a hurry?” Alyssa asked.

“We needed to talk to you girls about something,” Kroanette said while holding up her hands defensively to stop Clover from charging her. “Well, not Clover specifically, but perhaps you could help us, Alyssa.”

“Still waiting for my apology here!” Clover shouted. “Isn’t that common courtesy with you people when you fuck up?”

“I’m sorry!” Falla called out from behind Kroanette. “Please don’t kill me, I’ve been waiting forever for this night!”

“Why is Clover shouting again?” Specca tiredly asked as she walked into the hall from the library. She looked around at the girls, noticing Clover growling loudly at a cowering Falla behind a cautious Kroanette, then turned to a puzzled Alyssa with a raised eyebrow.

“What’s going on here? Why is Clover angry this time?”

“I’m pissed because she ran straight into me,” Clover scoffed pointing towards Falla. “And only gave a half-assed apology in return.”

“Aren’t all your apologies half-assed?” Alyssa dryly quipped with a glance to the elf.

“Specca, how is the library now?” Luna asked walking over to her. “I know how much you were worried about the damage that was done to it.”

“It’s still a mess,” Specca sulked lowering her head. “Doku is helping with the reorganizing but there are books everywhere that need to be put back in their proper place, and there’s the broken tables, and water is all over the floor, and-”

“
Shh
,” Luna gently hushed as she pulled Specca into a hug. “It’s alright. The library will be as good as new soon, so don’t get yourself worked up over it like this.”

“Luna,” Specca quietly said as she held onto the butterfly.

“I know how important books are to you,” Luna empathized as she rubbed the nixie’s back. “You’ll have everything back in its proper place soon enough, and then you can enjoy all of those books to your heart’s content.”

“Thank you, Luna.”

“How sweet,” Clover flatly remarked. She started walking away with a grunt towards the bedroom while the other girls paid her no mind.

“Luna, thank you for this,” Specca softly said, then glanced to the side of the court with a glare. “It’s all that
cat’s
fault this is happening.”

Everyone looked over to see Star sitting before the grandfather clock, the jinx cocking her head side to side with quiet mews in rhythm to the swaying pendulum. Star didn’t appear to show any interest in the girls behind her, or may not have been aware of them at all. She merely stared in wonder at the moving weight while mewing to herself with slowly waving tails behind her.

“She should be fixing what she broke!” Specca yelled out before Luna held her close and shook her head.

“Calm down, it’ll be alright.”

“First she bites my tail, then she tries to rape Daniel twice, and then she causes so much trouble in the library,” Specca moped burying her face in the girl’s shoulder. “Why are we letting her stay with us still? I don’t want her here.”

“Daniel thinks she can be good like us,” Luna reasoned with a hopeful smile.

“Plus I think Kitten traumatized her earlier,” Alyssa mentioned with a smirk. “After she was done with her Star wouldn’t even make eye contact with any of us. She just went straight for her spot in front of the clock and hasn’t budged since.”

“That’s true,” Kroanette mused. “She’s been enthralled by that clock for hours now. But what are we going to do when she finally loses interest in it? Do you think she’ll behave herself?”

Star mewed quietly with her eyes following the swinging pendulum, her sole focus seeming to be on the clock and nothing else. Suddenly she froze with a squeak, her tails halting in place as the girls saw her shaking slightly. Slowly she glanced over to see Triska leaning against the archway into the bedroom, the cambion watching her with a raised eyebrow and crossed arms while remaining silent. Star turned pale and mewled quietly before moving her eyes back onto the clock and forcing them to stay put.