Chronicles of Eden - Act VI (45 page)

“I just had to save them.”

*****

“And that’s how we met our master,” Sasha explained, with Scay watching her with eyes of wonder and Tabitha looking down at the dirt with a dull expression and slowly shaking her head. “Ever since then we’ve followed him on his quest in Eden. As the years passed we grew stronger, faster, we became who we are today because of him. I used to struggle holding my sword up, now I find it weighs nothing at all. I used to be lost when everyone abandoned me, now I have a place in this world with the one who gave me a new life.”

“We learned all about what he really is,” Rulo added. “How he’s half-demon half-human, how he wields a sword of great power… and also how him having that sword means we can’t have sex with him, ever. He needs that power to complete his goal, that comes first, and wouldn’t dare try to take that away from him after all he’s done for us. So all we can do is help him complete his goal so that he’ll be able to take us as his in every way someday.”

“What is his goal?” Scay eagerly asked as she got really close to Sasha. “What is he trying to do? Will you ever be able to
fuck him so hard one day
? Tell me-
nrrghmmm
what
is his mission
?”

“I’ve heard enough,” Tabitha grunted as she got up and dusted off her rear.

“But they haven’t told us the best part yet!” Scay whined while clinging to Sasha’s chest and looking back at Tabitha with pleading eyes. “I
must know the reason
!”

While Sasha growled and tried to push the persistent naga off of her Forrus stood up and kept a close eye on Tabitha.

“I didn’t believe them at first either,” Forrus spoke as Tabitha turned to her with a low hiss. “But I saw for myself that my lord is no mere human, both with his combat prowess and what he hides from the world to see.”

“As if I would trust your words any more than theirs, mutt,” Tabitha snapped at her. “I’ve listened to enough of this nonsense. I’m going to speak to Daemon myself and get some real answers, and also to let him know that his little followers were just wasting my time with their wild imaginations.”

Tabitha hissed then dashed forward and ducked down under Forrus as the lycan swiped at the girl with her claw, the agile neko taking off into the woods before Forrus quickly chased after her.

“Tabitha, wait!” Scay pleaded before she took off after them, slithering along the ground hastily and into the woods before vanishing in the shadows.

“Hey, get back here!” Rulo shouted as she grabbed her hammer and followed them along with Sasha, the reptile girl holding her sword in hand and black satchel at her side as the two ran into the darkened woods after the girls.

Tabitha made her way through the dark forest, her nocturnal vision allowing her to see well with the little moonlight that came down between the branches and leaves. Her feet swiftly ran along the ground over fallen logs and moss-covered stones, her hands resting on her swords’ handles as she kept a sharp eye out for the mysterious swordsman who she refused to believe was anything but a strange human being.

“I don’t know what kind of games you’re playing, but I’m done playing around,” she spoke to herself as she weaved around trees and through bushes, her tail waving along behind her with the silent bells dangling on the end.

She ducked under a low branch then hopped over a fallen tree, gracefully making her way deeper into the forest before she came to a small clearing and stopped with a sudden gasp of surprise. Her eyes went wide while her jaw dropped slightly, the world around her falling silent even as Forrus quickly leapt out from the trees and landing down beside her with a loud growl. The lycan glared at the neko before looking forward and jumping with a startled gasp, widening while she slowly took a step back and fell silent.

“Tabitha, don’t run away, please!” Scay called out before slithering out from behind and coming up beside her friend. She saw Tabitha staring ahead with a frozen expression of surprise then looked forward before jumping with a squeak of fright.

Sasha and Rulo ran out from the trees behind them, seeing the girls all staring in silence at something before slowly looking forward as they knew what stopped them in their tracks.

In the middle of the clearing where the moonlight came down through the trees Daemon stood with a cold blue eye glancing back towards the girls behind him, his hand slowly wiping the blood from his mouth and chin while at his feet were the ravaged remains of a fluugher. The plant monster had a frozen expression of horror on her face while her body and torso had been torn apart, revealing a nearly clean skeletal frame with scraps of flesh and bloodied sinew hanging from the bones. The monster’s tendrils and floral petals were slashed and scattered around its corpse while blood had soaked the ground and leaves under the swordsman’s boots.

“Wha… wha… what the… hell?” Tabitha breathed out in shock.

Daemon turned around and started walking towards them, with Tabitha and Scay staring at him with wide eyes and open mouths while Forrus slowly backed up and lowered her head with a whimper. Rulo and Sasha glanced to each other then to the girls as they watched the swordsman approach them.

“He… he…
ate her
,” Scay squeaked out before she quickly wrapped herself up with her tail, covering her body up to her eyes which nervously peeked at Daemon from behind her long hair.

“No… he can’t be…” Tabitha said slowly shaking her head.

“I told you to wait by the cliffside,” Daemon spoke while watching Tabitha starting to tremble out of fear.

“It can’t be true… it can’t be true…”

“I’m sorry, my lord,” Forrus quickly apologized. “She got past me and came here looking for you. I know you don’t like to be disturbed when you’re eating, please forgive me.”

“Eating?” Tabitha nervously breathed out as she glanced to the fluugher in the clearing, seeing the lifeless gaze in the monster’s frozen expression of horror as it lay eviscerated on the bloody ground.

“He’s a monster!” Scay cried out while feebly holding her dagger out between two of her tail’s coils towards Daemon. “He’s going to eat us! He’s really a monster!”

Tabitha stared at Daemon in complete shock as he walked up and stood before her, his eyes staring into hers while his hand rested on his sword’s handle. The neko slowly looked to his gloved hand, hesitating at first before carefully reaching out and taking hold of it. He offered no resistance as she nervously lifted it towards her, her eyes nervously staring at the black glove before she very slowly used her fingers to carefully pull it off.

“It can’t… be…” Tabitha softly said as she saw the black scaly hand under the glove. Scay whined with fright at seeing the inhuman hand on Daemon while Tabitha slowly looked up into his eyes with wonder.

“I don’t believe it…” the neko faintly said. She looked to his inhuman limb again as she held it with a trembling hand, then slowly down towards the sword he had sheathed at his hip.

“That’s really…”

“The Archlight’s Blade,” Sasha confirmed.

“He’s really…” Tabitha said looking back up to Daemon and stepping away.

“A cambion,” Rulo solemnly stated.

“You were…”

“Telling the truth,” Forrus finished.

Daemon calmly reached out and took his glove back from the stunned neko, her eyes just staring at him while she was rendered speechless. He slipped the glove on his reptilian hand, flexing it slightly with his fingers before raising an eyebrow at Tabitha in question.

“So did they answer your questions?”

Tabitha merely stared at him in silence, not even her tail moving an inch now as she appeared to become disconnected from reality.

“Is the gold you’re being promised enough?”

The neko continued to remain quiet and still as the other girls watched her curiously. She didn’t blink or even move her eyes from the swordsman as he then waved a hand in front of her face.

“Are you even listening to me now?” he dryly asked.

“I believe we have our answer,” Sasha reasoned with a skeptical glance at the neko. “I didn’t think she could handle the truth to be honest.”

“We didn’t even tell her everything before she took off,” Rulo snorted. “I knew she couldn’t handle it like we did.”

“Didn’t you two faint when he first showed you his true self?” Forrus questioned them.

“Shut up!” Sasha and Rulo snapped at her.

Daemon shook his head slightly as he saw Tabitha having been stunned into a petrified state before he glanced to Scay, the naga trembling while weakly holding her dagger out towards him from behind her tail.

“Please don’t eat her, she’s my friend,” Scay nervously whimpered.

“I wasn’t going to eat her or you,” Daemon calmly assured her. “I don’t like to eat sentient monsters if I can help it.”

Slowly Scay unraveled her tail from her body and watched Daemon with worried eyes. She slithered over beside Tabitha and held onto the neko tenderly before glancing to his gloved hand then to him again while remaining silent.

“You and your friend should seek work elsewhere,” Daemon said before walking past them towards the forest. He stopped at the edge of the clearing and glanced back to the naga and neko while his girls gathered close to him. “I don’t recommend staying out here for long. There are a lot of dangerous monsters hiding in these woods.”

Scay watched the swordsman and his followers take their leave into the shadowy forest then looked to Tabitha as the neko slowly lowered her head while holding her hands over her mouth.

“Tabitha? Are you alright?” the naga asked as she gently shook her friend.

“I don’t believe it,” Tabitha softly said taking a few steps forward. “This is… this is…”

She then jumped with a loud meow and turned to Scay with a bright smile.

“This is perfect!” she cheered before rushing over, hugging her friend and lifting her off the ground a little.

“What? What’s perfect?” Scay asked with a confused smile on her face.

“Him!” Tabitha exclaimed as she looked towards the woods where Daemon had left. “This is perfect, Scay! We hit the jackpot with this job!”

“Job?” Scay nervously repeated as the neko set her down. “Wait, you’re not still thinking about going with him, are you?”

“Of course I am. Scay, don’t you understand? Charlotte wants him to be watched over and protected from danger, and to keep him a virgin from those other girls.”

“We have to make sure he stays a virgin too?” Scay asked with a puzzled expression. “But he’s really sexy, that sounds like it’s going to be hard to do.”

“Not at all, we don’t have to do
anything
to achieve that. Think about it, he doesn’t need protection. He doesn’t need anyone watching out for him, nobody’s going to try anything with how strong he is. And with that sword in his possession he won’t be having sex with
anyone
, ever. That means those other girls won’t lay a finger on him, they’ll even make sure nobody else does. This is too perfect for us!”

“What do you mean?”

“Scay, our job is going to take care of itself,” Tabitha smugly explained. “All we have to do is follow him in his quest for those artifacts, and they’ll take care of the rest. He’s so strong that nothing is going to be a threat for him, and that sword will make it so nobody will be allowed to have sex with him. Those other girls aren’t going to rape him; they’re going to make sure he stays a virgin. This couldn’t be easier for us.”

“Are you sure?” Scay nervously asked.

“Scay,” Tabitha purred as she hugged her friend close. “This is as easy a score as we can get. You want two human men to have a threesome with, don’t you?”

“A
bloody threesome
?” Scay strained out through her teeth while grabbing her hair.

“A
real
bloody threesome,” Tabitha agreed with a slick smile. “And the best part is the gold is going to be practically handed to you. What do you say?”

“I want that! I do!
Stab
! I want!
Stab
!”

Tabitha nodded and looked towards the woods with a sly smirk on her face while Scay trembled in her arms and kept stabbing her dagger around in the air to their side.

“Alright, Scay. That leaves just one more thing for us to take care of,” Tabitha mentioned, with Scay then looking at her curiously while giving one last stab of her dagger in the air before lowering it to her side. “Another part of Charlotte’s deal that I’m going to want your help with. I can count on you with that of course, can’t I, friend?”

“Another part of the deal?”

“Yes,” Tabitha said glancing to her with a sly grin. “You see, we’re not
just
protecting his life and chastity for Charlotte. We’re also… collecting a few things for her.”

*****

Daemon and his girls walked out from the woods and onto the overlook above the valley that lay ahead, all of them gazing out at The Outerlands before them under the moonlight and starry sky above.

“I’m glad those two won’t be tagging along,” Rulo snorted while holding her hammer over her shoulder with ease. “That naga was really messed up in the head.”

“I’d rather tolerate her insanity than that neko’s mere presence,” Forrus growled in discontent. “Just the mere thought of having to deal with that wretched feline during our journey makes my fur crawl.”

“Forget about them,” Sasha ordered while keeping her eyes on Daemon and a hand on the satchel at her side. “So then, where do we go now, master?”

“Sasha,” Daemon flatly said shaking his head.

“I mean, Daemon,” Sasha corrected looking down with concern.

Daemon rolled his eyes then glanced back behind them, with the other girls looking over to see Tabitha and Scay coming out from the tree line and approaching them with smiles on their faces.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Rulo grunted.

“Can I
please
kill her?” Forrus snarled while glaring at Tabitha.

“I thought we made it clear to you that this job is not one you should be taking,” Sasha demanded as she and her two comrades turned to face the new girls.

“We talked it over,” Tabitha said as she and Scay exchanged glances briefly with one another before walking closer and standing before the trio of girls that were glaring at them. “And we decided that even with all the strange things about this job, it’s still worth it for us to take.”