Chronicles of Eden - Act VI (43 page)

“Of course, Daniel,” Kroanette replied with a small bow. “I don’t mind her that much to be honest, though I’m quite against her harsh actions towards you. I’ll check and see if she’s doing alright before going to sleep tonight.”

“Thank you. And sleep well, Kroanette.”

“I will,” Kroanette softly promised as she turned to walk away, holding a hand to her cheek with an excited smile on her face. “I’m going to sleep so well tonight, I’m sure of it.”

Daniel watched the centaur trotting off towards the nearby hill then looked to seeing the girls settling into bed for the night. He made his way over towards the wardrobe while taking off his shirts, seeing his mates watching him they lay in bed with the three sleeping girls. Squeak was curled into her ball above Falla while Alyssa was gently brushing Specca’s hair and setting her glasses down above her head for the night. The nixie had fallen asleep quickly alongside Triska and Luna, her tail moving only slightly under the covers as Alyssa lightly brushed it with her foot. Pip fluttered over in the air next to Daniel and watched him curiously while having her hands held behind her.

“Daniel? Triska’s going to be okay, isn’t she?”

“Of course she is, Pip,” Daniel assured her as he hung his shirts up. “She’s already doing much better. I’m sure by tomorrow she’ll feel as good as new.”

“Good. I was worried about her,” Pip softly said fluttering over and hovering above Triska.

“We all were,” Daniel admitted with a small smile. “She really gave us all quite the scare today.”

“Boobies!” Pip cheered as she dived down in between Specca’s breasts, squirming around against the slick, scaly mounds while Specca murmured something in her sleep.

“But she’s a tough fighter, she always has been,” Daniel continued as he took off his pants.

“Boobies!” Pip cheered again as she flew straight up then back down again into Luna’s chest, happily giggling while nuzzling herself in between the girl’s soft assets.

“Nothing can keep her down, nothing at all.”

“Boobies!” Pip giggled before Falla squealed from the fairy diving into her breasts.

“Still, I hope that next time she’s in danger I’ll be ready to fight for her,” Daniel said with a determined expression.

“Boobies!” Pip cheered before Squeak squeaked loudly and flailed around on the bed with the fairy sandwiching herself in between her large breasts.

“I’ll get a better hold of my magic, and I’ll make sure nothing ever touches her again,” Daniel vowed as he clenched his fist. He blinked then looked back to see Triska sleeping peacefully with the covers pulled up to her waist, revealing her breasts that Pip was joyously squirming around in between, Falla wearily looking up to Squeak with a blush as the ant girl returned the look while lying on her side and blushing as well, Luna and Specca sleeping quietly while their bosoms were exposed, and Alyssa sitting up and watching Pip with a raised eyebrow before she glanced to Daniel.

“Does that include a perverted fairy?” Alyssa dryly asked before Pip quickly flew over in front of her and gently patted the witch’s forehead.

“Goodnight, Alyssa,” Pip kindly said before she zipped around several times in the air then landed back down in Luna’s bosom and snuggled in between her breasts before quietly yawning. Everyone watched as the fairy then fell asleep while dearly holding onto Luna’s chest then looked to Daniel as he smiled weakly at them.

“That particular Darker One is okay in my book,” Daniel reasoned with a shrug before the group looked to Pip again and smiled a little as the fairy happily slept in Luna’s chest.

*****

“So let me get this straight,” Tabitha droned while looking up at the moon with a dull gaze. “This Daemon Warrick guy is a cambion, a mythical half-human half-demon monster, who not only fought off an entire swarm all by himself to save you two for some reason, but he also
ate
one alive right in front of you?”

“That’s so unbelievable,” Scay breathed out with eyes of wonder, hands gently playing with her hair while she stared at Sasha before her.

“She’s right, that is,” Tabitha agreed with a bored look at the reptile girl. “You can’t possibly expect us to believe this.”

“Why would I lie about it?” Sasha questioned her. “What would I have to gain in doing so?”

“You’re just trying to mess with us, that’s all. A joke. Or maybe you’re trying to get us to run away scared so we won’t keep this job of ours. There are plenty of reasons why you could be telling us this twisted tale, anything other than the truth of course.”

“I’m growing tired of you calling me a liar,” Sasha hissed at her.

“Then stop lying. None of what you’ve told us is realistic. No human could possibly fight off an entire swarm singlehandedly with a sword, even if they do know how to use magic. I remember a human girl that tried to do just that. She was brave, I’ll give that much, but stupid. I doubt she’s alive now, last I saw her she was surrounded and about to be devoured by those things. At best she would have lived for maybe a minute or two, no longer. Such a foolish human.”

“We just told you our master is
not
human!” Rulo shouted at her.

“Fine,” Tabitha scoffed as she stood up. “Let me go ask him myself, let me see with my own eyes that he’s a monster like we are.”

“He told us to stay here,” Forrus growled at her as she stood up. “So we’re staying here.”

“You girls do whatever he tells you to without thinking, don’t you?” Tabitha laughed at her. In a flash Forrus darted in front of the neko and slapped her across the face hard, sending the girl down to the ground with a yelp while Scay jumped in surprise and backed up.

“I wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for him!” Forrus yelled before she tackled Tabitha down on the ground and held a claw to the girl’s throat. “He saved me before a Darker One and her lowly witch could murder me in cold blood, he saved me and offered to help avenge my sisters who were slain by accursed gemini!”

“Gemini?” Tabitha scoffed while grabbing Forrus’s hand with both of hers and trying to move it. “Oh c’mon, now there’s
gemini
in this story? Those things aren’t real either.”

“They killed my sisters! My entire pack!” Forrus roared at her, with Tabitha and Scay watching with surprise as the lycan struggled to hold in her screams and tears. “I watched two of those vile abominations slay and
eat
all my sisters! They would not die; no matter what we did to them they wouldn’t die! My lord has promised to help me avenge them, he saved my life from a wretched succubus, you can be damned certain I will follow his command until the end of time!”

“Gemini aren’t real, they’re just old traveler’s stories,” Tabitha coughed out.

“We saw them ourselves,” Sasha spoke, earning a glance from the neko while Forrus growled loudly at the cat girl. “We had heard Forrus’s tale and also came across others who claimed to have met these supposedly immortal monsters, we were skeptical of such things as well. Then we met them personally, and saw with our own eyes they could not die.”

“Bitches took a bite out of us too,” Rulo grunted rubbing her shoulder. “Forrus wasn’t kidding, those two don’t go down at all, and they got a real appetite for anyone around them.”

“Great,” Tabitha scoffed. “Gemini are real too, huh? That’s amazing. Next thing you’re going to say is that the Archlight’s Blade and Hellfire’s Edge are real too, aren’t you?”

“Of course they are, my master wields the Archlight’s Blade,” Sasha snapped at her. Tabitha slowly looked to her with a dull expression as the reptile girl growled and looked down while clutching the fragment of Eden close to her. “That accursed blade is real, I assure you of that.”

“Accursed?” Tabitha asked. “Why is it accursed to you?”

“Don’t you know the legend behind that sword? Don’t you know the price that must be paid in order to wield its power?”

Forrus sat back on the ground while Tabitha scooted away from her and rubbed her throat with a low hiss at the lycan. The neko caught her breath then looked at Sasha with a scowl.

“Yeah, I’ve heard the stories behind that sword. It’s supposedly a holy weapon, real powerful with magic and such, and can only be used by…” She blinked then showed a look of wonder as she saw Sasha and Rulo having their eyes downward with frustrated expressions. The neko looked to Forrus who also had her head lowered with a troubled frown on her face. Tabitha looked around at the girls along with Scay as all fell quiet.

“Can only be used by a virgin,” she slowly finished.

“Yes,” Sasha spoke in a strained voice, trying not to show her resentment or anger towards the mythical blade in question. “My master wields a sword of great power, one that will help him with his quest, and one that…”

“That requires he remain pure,” Forrus sadly mentioned.

“So he can’t have sex with anyone?” Scay asked the girls. She then gasped and pointed to Sasha. “That’s why he didn’t have sex with you in your story, isn’t it?”

Sasha slowly nodded as Tabitha watched the reptile girl holding back her tears and forcing a stern expression on her face.

“It’s because of that blade… that accursed sword from heaven… that I cannot lay with my master.” She then turned her eyes to Tabitha while baring her teeth slightly in her anger. “I wish him having that sword wasn’t real, I truly do. As powerful as it is, what it demands of him in return… I hate that sword so much.”

*****

Under the night sky Daemon was looking up at the stars while sitting on the grass. Beside him Sasha was resting against his shoulder that didn’t have an armored plate strapped to it, holding onto his arm while cuddling as close to him as she could. Her armor was set on the ground near them, her body having dirt and dried blood on it still from her ordeal while her hair was messy with dust in it.

“Thank you for coming back for me,” Sasha softly spoke while holding onto him dearly.

“I told you I would be coming back tonight, didn’t I?” he replied while keeping his eyes up at the stars above.

“I’m sorry you found me in such a pathetic state upon your return,” Sasha sadly said with closed eyes. “I really did try to lift my sword, I wanted to be ready for when you came back to prove myself.”

“I know, I saw you struggling with it earlier.”

Sasha looked to him with a jump and surprise as he kept his gaze on the heavens. They then looked over to see Rulo slowly walking towards them while dripping wet, the orc nervously watching Daemon and shaking a little.

“I’m all clean now, really,” she insisted with a worried smile.

“You didn’t wash behind your ears,” Daemon said shaking his head.

Rulo twitched with a squeak then held her hands to her head and backed up a step.

“But… but… I’m clean now.”

“If that’s what you call ‘clean’,” Daemon replied looking back up at the sky. Rulo fidgeted and glanced back to the river behind her then to the swordsman with a nervous smile and backed up more.

“I can get cleaner, I really can. Just wait here,” she urged before running back to the river, stopping at the edge with a whine, and then reluctantly jumping in with a large splash.

Sasha watched the orc seeming to cry while she scrubbed her hair and behind her ears in the water then looked at Daemon with wonder while tenderly holding onto his arm still.

“Master, you saw me earlier?”

“Sasha.”

“I mean, Daemon,” Sasha corrected with a cringe.

“Of course I saw you, I was over there all day,” Daemon said pointing towards where he had walked off earlier. Sasha saw some trees and a hill on the other side of the trail then looked at Daemon with surprise.

“You were watching over me, all day?”

“I wanted to see what you would do,” Daemon answered with a glance to her. “How hard you would push yourself towards your goal. I knew that you wouldn’t be able to lift that sword up in one day, Sasha. But I wanted to see if you would really try.”

“So you saw everything that happened?”

“Yes. I saw you fight rather poorly against that orc,” Daemon replied, with Sasha burying her face in his shoulder out of embarrassment. “Granted you did impress me in the end.”

“I… I did?” Sasha asked peeking up at him.

“You didn’t kill her. I saw you about to land the finishing blow. You could have smashed her head open and have been done with it, saved yourself a lot of trouble that came your way afterwards, but you didn’t. You were better than that. You didn’t kill senselessly, you showed self-control. A great strength reptile girls are known for.”

“Well… I tried… though after I couldn’t free my sword from the tree I started to think about- hey, wait a moment,” Sasha said with a jump as she leaned back. “You mean you saw me trapped under the rubble all day and just left me there like that?”

“You weren’t going to die. I wanted to see what you would do in that situation, how you would handle yourself.”

“I was stuck with that filthy orc all day,” Sasha whined. “The smell was nauseating and I was in pain, it was horrible. Why would you let me suffer like that?”

“You got yourself into that mess,” Daemon pointed out with a raised eyebrow. “It wasn’t my job to get you out.”

Sasha sighed and nodded while lowering her head then held her legs close to her chest and rested her tail at her side.

“I must have appeared so weak and childlike to you. I’m sorry. I only wanted to stay by your side, to do whatever it took to be yours and for you to accept me.”

“Why would you want to be mine still? Don’t you fear me?”

Sasha shook her head slowly and turned to him with a small smile, seeing the swordsman watching her with his cold blue eyes and a blank expression on his face.

“You’ve surprised me, again and again, with what you are and what you can do. You truly are a monster, one that is very strong and has a ferocious appetite from what I’ve seen. But I’m not afraid of you, master.”

“Sasha.”

“No, I mean it,” Sasha implored as she took hold of his hand with hers. “To me you are my master, that’s what I want more than anything. I found someone who is the perfect mate, the perfect soulmate even, and I’ll do whatever it takes to be worthy of you. I don’t need to fight you to test that, you’ve already won me with all that you’ve done. Please, give me another chance to prove myself to you, don’t let me go.”