Chronicles of Eden - Act VIII (37 page)

‘I… I don’t want…’

A tear formed in her eye and ran down her cheek. The men laughed as they saw her expression slowly shift to a heartbroken one while her body gave up all resistance to them. She tried to say something but the words were lost in her breath.

“What was that, sweetie?” the man rubbing his erection against her mockingly asked.

“I don’t… want…”

“You don’t want what? Speak up.”

Clover’s mouth quivered as she closed her eyes.

“I don’t want… this.”

“Haha!” the bandit laughed while the others joined in. “Oh you don’t, do you? We never would have guessed.”

Showing no empathy the man then pushed into Clover and held her hips tightly, causing the elf to scream at the top of her lungs as she felt the painful spike shooting through her. Her mind became blurred as the laughter of the men echoed in her ears, the world around her fading into darkness as her own scream became muffled over the shock of what she was feeling.

‘No! I don’t want this! This isn’t what I want! Make it stop!’

The bandit began thrusting into her while the others held her down, her screams fading away as she started to lose touch with the world around her. It wasn’t at all how she envisioned it happening, it was far worse. The elf felt like she had suddenly fallen down a deep, dark pit with no bottom in sight.

‘Why… why is it like this? I just wanted to get pregnant. This is what elves are supposed to do. This is what we’re supposed to do, so why is it so horrible?’

Each time the man’s hips smacked against her she felt a painful sensation rolling through her body. The way the men were holding her down became more prominent with how much it was hurting her. A slap was made across her tiny bosom, electing a shriek out of the girl before she was struck across the face. The men only laughed at her suffering, enjoying the torment they were subjecting the monster to, and all the while Clover felt her world shattering around her as she plummeted in the darkness her mind had withdrawn into.

‘Why is it so horrible? It wasn’t supposed to be like this.’

She felt herself falling further into despair, her body aching all over from the abuse while her heart started to feel cold and numb.

‘This is how elves survive, yet I feel like I’m being killed. Why is it so bad like this?’

“Because you don’t want them,” Zoey said in her mind.

Opening her eyes Clover saw her deceased friend falling alongside her in the darkness, a forlorn look on Zoey’s face while her hair wavered in the air above her.

“Clover, what have you done?”

“I… I don’t know,” Clover whimpered. “I thought-”

“You didn’t think!” Zoey yelled at her. “Dammit, Clover, why did you choose to be gang raped by bandits over having a real man in your life?”

“I’m sorry. But this is what we’re supposed to do, isn’t it? This is the way it’s supposed to be for us.”

Zoey stared at her in disbelief and sorrow then closed her eyes as she began to cry.

“No, don’t do that,” Clover begged. “Please, don’t cry. I’m alright, really. I’ll be fine.”

“There’s nothing fine about this!” Zoey snapped at her. “You’re being raped by fucking assholes, Clover!”

“It’s what I have to do! I don’t have any other choice!”

“You stupid bitch!” Zoey yelled before slapping Clover, the sudden hit halting their fall as they came to a stop in the darkness. “This isn’t what you want and you know it! Stop being so goddamn stubborn and admit the truth!”

“The truth?”

“Get out of that damned shell, Clover,” Zoey growled in anger. “Enough of this. You know damn well why it hurts so much as they rape you, you know fucking well why you don’t want this. Admit what’s in your heart!”

Clover quietly stuttered something as the two remained suspended in the dark void. Zoey whimpered and cried before shutting her eyes and screaming at the top of her lungs.

“SAY IT, CLOVER!”

“I want Dan!” Clover cried out, with herself then breaking down into tears as her heart ached. “I want Dan! I want him to love me, I want him to choose me as his mate, I want to have him holding me and not these fuckers, I want his seed and not theirs! I want to be with Dan!”

“And why?” Zoey demanded. “Why do you want him? Tell me the truth, Clover! Tell me the truth!”

“Because I love him!” Clover sobbed loudly. “He’s the nicest fucking guy out there and he… he… he actually cares about me even though I’m such a monster! He really cares about me even after all the shit I put him through!”

Zoey whimpered and watched as Clover held her hands to her face and curled into a ball before her.

“He was right,” Clover admitted. “Humans really can love monsters. He loves all of those girls so much, he takes such good care of them, and he isn’t mean to them at all. I want that, Zoey! I want a man who loves and cares about me, I want a man who’ll treat me better than these fucking assholes, I want… I want Dan!”

“Why, Clover?” Zoey softly asked. “Why couldn’t you admit it before all this?”

“Because I’m too fucking stubborn. I didn’t want to see him like that, I didn’t want to believe in him. I didn’t want to fall in love with him. Goddammit, why is he so fucking nice and everything? It’s not fair, I never would have been thinking like this if I hadn’t met him. What has he done to me?”

“He helped you find a better way of living, Clover,” Zoey gently answered.

Slowly Clover lowered her hands and looked to her friend with watery eyes, seeing a sympathetic smile on Zoey’s face as the elf reached out and touched her cheek.

“You stupid girl,” Zoey softly said. “Instead of opening up to such a wonderful guy you ran away and let these fucking assholes have their way with you.”

“I’m sorry,” Clover breathed out. “I’m sorry I fucked up again. I deserve this, I deserve the pain. I deserve to… be knocked up by them and not Dan. I don’t deserve him at all, and I never will.”

“I wouldn’t say that, Clover,” Zoey argued shaking her head. “There’s still a chance for you.”

“Why would you think that? It’s over for me. I’m their fuck toy now. If I’m even lucky enough to leave here alive I’ll be pregnant with their child and not Dan’s. He’ll never look at me the same as the others again.”

“Have you forgotten already?” Zoey mused with a smirk.

Suddenly Clover felt the world around her tremble briefly before the aching stopped all over her body. She started to regain her senses, realizing she was lying on the table with her arms and legs free from being held by anyone while the pain between her legs was vanishing.

“You have a family, Clover,” Zoey reminded her.

“A… family?” Clover asked.

“Yes. Now, for fuck’s sake, stop pushing them away. After all this, you’d better damn well show your fucking gratitude for them. Do you hear me? Hold onto them, hold onto that guy that you know is the one for you. And don’t you ever let go of them.”

“Zoey…”

“You’re not alone anymore, Clover,” Zoey promised as she started to fade into the darkness. “Try to keep it that way from now on, alright?”

Slowly Clover opened her eyes as the world came into focus again. Everything was silent except for the crackling of the nearby fire and a cat’s low yowl of anger. Looking up Clover saw Star crawling atop her, the jinx hissing around at the men who had jumped back from the cat suddenly appearing in front of them. The girl’s twin tails slowly waved around as she turned to hiss and glare at the men while keeping herself over Clover.

“Star?” Clover slowly asked.

“What the hell is that?” one bandit questioned.

“Where did she come from?”

“Dammit, I was just getting myself warmed up with that bitch,” the man who had been interrupted with raping Clover muttered as he pulled his pants up.

Star yowled at the bandits with a fierce glare then looked down to Clover with worried eyes.

“You… you came to save me?” Clover quietly asked.

Star nodded with a mew.

“But why?”

The jinx leaned down and gently licked the elf’s nose before meowing again, leaving Clover stunned as tears started to well up in her eyes. She then looked around to see the men approaching them with stern glares.

“Don’t you fucking touch her!” Clover yelled out.

Star quickly vanished and reappeared in the air as she leapt towards a bandit with a high yowl. She tackled the man down and slashed her nails across his face twice before warping over and grabbing a man who was reaching out towards Clover’s pigtail. They vanished and appeared together by the campfire as Star swung the bandit over by his arm into the pit. The man yelled and thrashed around while his clothes caught flame as the jinx warped to the side and pushed a bandit aside using both hands before he could grab the elf on the table. She teleported backwards into a kick to knock another bandit away before warping to the other side of Clover and slashing her nails across a man’s face.

Clover watched in awe as Star jumped all around the campsite to strike at the bandits relentlessly. Swiping at their faces, kicking them hard with her feet, grabbing and swinging the men into their tents and trees, the jinx kept hopping around with her teleportation as she fervently attacked the bandits all by herself.

“Holy fuck,” Clover said in wonder.

“You little bitch!” a bandit yelled as he grabbed his axe and charged towards the jinx. Star merely glanced back to him with a glare, watching as the man tried to swing at her only for the axe to slip out of his grip and soar across the clearing into another bandit’s back.

“AHHHH!” the man yelled as he dropped to his knees before forward onto the ground.

Clover stared in surprise as Star swung back with her leg and hooked it around the stunned bandit’s neck before jumping into a grapple with him, warping them to the side, and literally flinging the man with her leg into a tree face first. The jinx looked back to see two men racing towards her with their swords, the bandits winding back to strike before their feet slipped in the grass. Swinging off-balance the two men struck their blades into each other with fierce slashes, both of them dropping down screaming while Star merely watched them with a raised eyebrow.

“Holy fucking shit,” Clover commented in disbelief.

Looking over to the side she saw a bandit grabbing his bow and an arrow out from a tent then taking aim at Star. Before he could shoot the wire snapped from the bottom and struck across his throat, slicing it open and spraying blood out. Clover stared at the sight with wide eyes then saw a bandit running towards Star with his sword to thrust at her. The jinx rolled her eyes then warped away just as the bandit charged through with his weapon which then struck into the man who was slumped against the timber from earlier and pinned him to the trunk with a heavy crunch.

“What the hell?” the thug shouted as he saw he had impaled his friend then turned back to see Star punching another bandit across his jaw then upwards and knocking him into a tent which collapsed around him. The monster then warped while jumping into a kick and struck the stunned bandit next to the tree back into the bushes before warping over and swiping her claws across another outlaw’s face as he got near Clover. The elf watched in marvel as the man screamed and backed up before Star grabbed his arm, swung him into a spin, teleported them to the other side of the clearing, and threw him into another tree headfirst.

“Bitch is hardcore,” Clover softly said to herself.

Star jumped into a kick against a bandit, launched off him and sent the man flying into his friend, warped into another kick at a thug as he tried to grab his sword, then teleported back and pounced the two other men to the ground with a fierce yowl. She swiped one of their faces then the other before warping to the side and sweeping out the feet of a bandit as he ran by with her leg. As she reappeared back by Clover and hissed at the men the ones that weren’t dead stumbled to their feet with faces dripping with blood, burned clothing and skin, tattered shirts, and severe headaches.

“Dammit, what the hell is that thing anyway?” one of them cursed.

“Screw this, they aren’t worth the trouble,” another said before running towards his horse.

“She’s using magic or something, get out of here!” a third ordered as all the men scrambled away.

Clover and Star watched as the bandits raced towards their horses and quickly mounted them. The men hollered threats and obscenities as they rode off into the woods while Star slowly gazed around the campsite which was disheveled and had a few dead bodies lying about. Her eyes then rested on Clover as the elf was shakily catching her breath while sitting up on the table. Slowly approaching her Star meowed quietly, catching Clover’s attention as the elf remained silent after her ordeal.

“Star?” Doku called out from nearby. “Which way did you go? Hello?”

Looking over to the side Clover saw Doku stumbling through some bushes into the clearing, the harpy then jumping with a squeak as she saw the campsite, bodies, blood, and naked elf on the table.

“What in Eden? Clover! Are you alright?” Doku exclaimed before rushing over to her.

“Doku?” Clover wondered as the harpy quickly hugged her close.

“Thank god you’re alright. We’ve been looking all over for you. What happened here? What happened to you?”

Clover fell speechless as the harpy hugged her, staring over the shoulder of the girl while feeling a sense of warmth spreading inside her. After a while she held Doku and started sobbing into her shoulder, surprising the harpy as Clover held onto her tightly while burying her face and crying loudly.

“Clover?” Doku softly asked. “What happened? Please tell me.”

“Thank you for coming for me,” Clover sniveled. “Thank you so much.”

“I don’t believe I’ve ever heard you saying such things before. Are you alright?”

Clover leaned back from the embrace and wiped her eyes while Doku looked her over with a worried frown. She turned her head to see a few dead bandits lying about then noticed the marks on Clover’s arms and legs.

“Did they hurt you?”

“Yes, they did,” Clover admitted with a nod before lowering her head in remorse. “I let them. I let myself be taken. I was going to let them rape me to get a daughter.”