Chronicles of Eden - Act VI (17 page)

Triska shut her eyes and tried to shake her head to regain her senses, and then saw Daniel more clearly along with the rest of the girls. She also then noticed the flashes of violet and crimson lights streaking about in the sky near them, bright flares and thunderous booms erupting among them while rings of glowing light from casting spells flared up again and again launching volleys of light and magic at each other.

“What’s going on?” Triska asked watching the sight with confusion. “What’s doing that?”

A rapid crackling sound echoed out while several bright crimson and golden circular blasts erupted in the sky one after another, all trailing towards the ground before a streak of purple light flew down from them and slammed into the dirt near the group. Dust and small flames flared around the impact while the group slowly backed away with Lucky neighing and scampering back as well. Squeak held Triska close while Daniel stood before them and held an arm back to keep them behind him. Specca quickly held onto Daniel’s arm while Luna and Falla darted behind Squeak and tried to hide behind her. Kroanette tensed up with her whip while Alyssa held her staff out towards the dust cloud with fearful eyes, both shaking a little as they tried to force a brave front. Clover quickly grabbed three arrows and primed them in her bow while gritting her teeth, eyes watching the haze sharply while she readied to fire her bolts as fast as she could.

Slowly the dust cleared to reveal Katie standing up from a small charred crater she had created upon her landing, her clothes ripped and scuffed while she was bleeding from her cheek and left arm. Her wings were singed and smoking while her left heel was broken, the woman appearing to have been engaged in a rather fierce battle by her standards.

“You think… you can keep her from me?” Katie hissed with anger towards the group, her breathing heavy while she clenched her fists with a snarl.

“You’re not taking her from us, you’ll never have her!” Daniel scorned.

“She belongs to Daniel and all of us,” Specca snapped while trying to muster as much courage as she could before the Darker One. “We will not allow you to take her away. Do you understand?”

“Get lost!” Luna cried out from behind Squeak.

“Beat it, she’s with us!” Falla added while feeling like she was going to wet herself at any moment.

“If you want her you’ll have to go through us,” Kroanette sternly threatened with a snap of her whip.

“Don’t take another step, you bitch!” Clover barked out while keeping her arrows set to fire.

“Leave, or else,” Alyssa demanded while trembling a little.

“Or
else
?” Katie mocked with a bitter grin. The group tensed up as the succubus glared at them with a cold smile, her eyes giving off a crimson glow briefly while her wings arched back behind her. “She belongs to me. She’s my kitten, she’s
my
property! I don’t mind having to kill each and every one of you to take her, and you can be damned sure I’ll do just that if you get in my way. Do you have any idea who I am? Do you have any idea what it is you’re dealing with here? Hand her over to me now or else I’ll make you all suffer! Nobody comes between me and what I want in this world! Do you hear me? Nobody!”

From the sky a bright red light streaked down in a blur, flying around the group and each of the girls in quick circles before soaring right towards the succubus. In a flash the light stopped right before Katie, showing Pip fluttering in place with a red glow around her and her hand held out towards the woman’s face. Everything fell silent as all eyes stared at the fairy with surprise as she not only gave off a haunting aura that rivaled that of a Darker One but the she also manifested a large casting ring before herself that was made of one crimson base with her trademark flair of question marks and exclamation points lining the inner edge and also having five more glowing casting rings of golden light that were interlocked and surrounding the middle one. All the magical circles lit up and crackled with energy as the fairy glared at the shocked succubus with a chilling glare.

“Nobody touches my boobies,” Pip scorned with a cold voice.

None of the girls or Daniel had time to say a word before Pip’s ring fired out a torrent of blinding light, completely engulfing the succubus and tearing through the ground behind her with a violent roar. Katie was heard screaming before an eruption blew up within the torrent, with the demon’s remains only being seen as brief silhouettes as they were thrown back into the magical torrent of energy before vanishing completely. Everyone was knocked back onto the ground from the force of the blast, the caravan rocking over on two of its wheels for a moment before touching down on all four again. Lucky whinnied and took off out of sheer fright while everyone watched with total shock at the sight of Pip annihilating the wicked Darker One with a frightening amount of power. So much so that the stream of light carved through the fields ahead of it before striking into the woodland hills further way, blasting apart the ground and slicing a huge gash through the forest with flaming debris being thrown to the sides.

Slowly the light began to fade and die down, with the linked casting rings before Pip flickering then vanishing before the fairy. Everyone stared at her in stunned silence as she gazed out at the long smoking gash she had made through The Outerlands with her attack. She then slowly looked back towards the group, all of them frozen in place as the fairy turned around and watched them with a cold glare. Almost instantly she cheered with a joyous hop, her glowing light shifting from red to blue as she returned to her normal happy self.

“I did it! I did it! I made her go away! Yay!”

“Am I still dreaming?” Triska slowly asked. “Or… did Pip… just…”

“She just killed that succubus with a single attack,” Specca breathed out while shakily adjusting her glasses.

“Is that even possible?” Kroanette asked with disbelief.

“I’d say that bitch is dead,” Clover answered as she saw the smoking crevice that was torn through field. “
Really
dead.”

Pip flew over and landed on Triska’s chest, watching the human with a worried eye while everyone looked at her with wonder.

“Are you alright now?” Pip softly asked.

“Pip,” Triska said while feeling speechless. She looked over towards where a Darker One was completely destroyed then to the little Darker One that was smiling worriedly at her. “That was you that saved me from her, wasn’t it? You stopped her before she could convert me into a monster.”

“I didn’t want to lose you,” Pip said shaking her head slowly. “I love you.”

“Pip, thank you. Thank you so much,” Triska said as a few tears started to form in her eyes. Pip hugged the girl’s chest and nuzzled her head against her, with the human smiling thankfully at the fairy. She was then hugged by Daniel and also Specca and Alyssa, all of them along with Squeak holding onto the girl they were grateful to have returned to them.

“Oh my, you had us scared to death, Triska,” Kroanette said dropping down onto her legs again with a relived sigh. “We thought you were a goner.”

Clover watched Daniel and his girls holding Triska close on the ground then glanced to Luna and Falla as the two were sitting up behind them while trembling with frozen faces, both sisters still looking towards where they saw a succubus up close and also where the Darker One was killed by Pip who completely shocked them with her display of power.

“What’s with you two?” Clover asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Nothing, we’re fine,” Falla squeaked out.

“Pip… really is strong,” Luna shakily said before the two girls fainted and dropped back with thumps.

Clover saw the two girls remain motionless on the ground then looked at the tiny fairy holding onto the human girl she saved from a succubus. The elf held in her scowl at the Darker One then looked away while crossing her arms with a dull expression on her face.

“She’s something alright.”

In the world of Eden unfortunate events could happen to anyone at any time. A village could be destroyed by a sudden quake, a healthy person could fall ill to an infectious disease, or perhaps a traveler would come face to face with a lustful monster in The Outerlands. This wasn’t to say that these dire instances would end in death though. After all it was possible to survive a fearsome tremor, there was medicine and magic to cure many infections, and monsters could be fought off or even run away from. These occurrences were perilous, but they didn’t always end badly.

Of course sometimes what came after could be just as bad, if not worse.

*****

A gentle breeze rolled across the fields and charred crevice that lay before Daniel and his companions, with banks of smoke drifting over the long trench that had been carved by a very powerful fairy who was at that moment doing what she was very well known to do.

“Boobies!” Pip cheered while her legs were kicking about out of Triska’s shirt above her bosom.

This time however nobody was stopping the tiny fairy from indulging in her perverted fetish, with Daniel and all the surrounding girls watching Pip with amused smiles while Triska quivered and shook a bit while sitting on the ground with them.

“Alright, Pip,” Triska laughed while feeling the tiny fairy squirming around between her breasts. “Go ahead, knock yourself out.”

“I can’t believe she did that,” Specca said looking back to the smoking crevice nearby. “She overpowered and defeated a succubus with such force.”

“I’m thankful she is a Darker One herself,” Alyssa said looking at the fairy with relief. “It helps having one of them on our side.”

Squeak nodded and squeaked with a caring smile as she watched Pip enjoying herself.

“Hey, Pip, that tickles,” Triska giggled while trying not to shake around. “Just go easy-
AH!
Stop, I’m still sensitive there.”

“What happened to you, Triska?” Daniel asked as Triska shivered with a weak smile on her face. She glanced to him then down to Pip with concern as the tiny fairy turned about and popped her head up between her breasts.

“Katie was about to turn me into a succubus,” she explained while remembering the close encounter. “I couldn’t move, I couldn’t fight back. All I could do was sit and watch as she… did something to me with her magic. I felt myself dying inside, like I was becoming somebody else entirely.”

“She was converting you,” Specca worriedly said. “What happened, what did she do?”

“She kissed me, pushed my thoughts out of my head and kept my body writhing in… I didn’t want to enjoy it, but I wasn’t able to help myself. Then as everything started to fade to black she said she would give me one final kiss and make me her slave.” She then looked at Pip with relief as the tiny fairy was watching her with a troubled eye.

“But then suddenly she didn’t, she was just gone. Pip came and stopped her just in time. You actually fought off a succubus and killed her to save me. Thank you, Pip.”

“Nobody touches my boobies,” Pip purred while nuzzling closer to the girl and holding onto her chest. She then looked to Daniel and around at the girls before giggling again. “Except for you all of course. Go ahead and touch them, it’s okay.”

Triska smiled at the fairy then looked at Daniel with wonder.

“Daniel, you were amazing. The way you fought that demon like you did, I thought I was dreaming with seeing you like that. You really fended off a Darker One all by yourself.”

“Well, not by myself,” Daniel replied glancing around at the girls with a small smile. “I couldn’t have done anything without their love helping me like they did.”

He then showed a saddened frown and lowered his head while shaking it slowly.

“But I couldn’t save you, Triska. I tried, with everything I had, but I couldn’t stop her from taking you away from me. I’m so sorry, I failed you.”

“No you didn’t,” Triska promised him. “Daniel, you were incredible, you came after me like a real knight in shining armor. That was so brave of you. And the way you fought her, it was like something out of a dream.”

“How did you move like that?” Alyssa eagerly asked him with a few hops. “I couldn’t follow you half the time, you were so fast!”

“You blocked her attack and even pushed her into the defensive with how strong you were,” Specca added while smiling brightly at Daniel. “You were amazing!”

Squeak nodded and squeaked something at Daniel while waving her hand around before pointing to him with a curious smile and squeaked some more.

“I have to admit you took my breath away as well,” Kroanette mentioned while she was kneeling down by Luna and Falla, gently fanning them with her hands while they were still unconscious. “How in Eden did you do that, Daniel?”

Daniel chuckled and rubbed the back of his head as all his girls were watching him with amazement then looked at Clover as the elf was keeping her eyes down at the dirt with a dull expression on her face.

“Thank you, Clover,” he dearly said, with the elf glancing to him with a raised eyebrow. “Thank you for bringing Triska back to us.”

“Wait a minute, that’s right,” Triska curiously mentioned as she looked at the elf. “You came and took me away while Pip was fighting Katie.”

“So?” Clover dryly replied.

“Why did you do that? Why did you of all people come for me after a succubus took me away?”

Clover merely looked away and grumbled something while all eyes were on her.

“She reacted so quickly,” Kroanette recalled. “We were devastated that you were taken away, Triska, and were still weakened by Daniel’s magic. But she didn’t hesitate. She ran after Lucky, got on him, and then took off after you like a bat out of hell.”

“Why did you do that?” Alyssa asked.

“I want to go home,” Clover declared while avoiding eye contact with them still. “Now that I saved her life you
have
to take me home. That’s all.”

“That’s not true,” Daniel said shaking his head, with the elf turning to him with a scoff. “We were already taking you home, you didn’t have to save Triska to get that. You wanted to save her, you chose to all on your own.”

“It’s not like that at all,” Clover snapped at him.