Chronicles of Eden - Act III (54 page)

“I didn’t know what she was getting at,” Falla defended while raising her hands up. “She said we’d get to know each other a lot better, sex was the first thing that came to mind with that.”

“Triska, would you mind?” Alyssa whined with exasperation while looking up and covering her eyes with one hand. Triska nodded and swallowed her food before quickly standing up and taking out her dagger.

“Right, Falla? Stick out your tongue, you’re done talking. Like, forever.”

Falla quickly scrambled off her seat and ran away as Triska gave chase, with the others just watching the two run off together.

“I do hope we find Luna and that child today,” Specca commented. “The sooner we do, the sooner Falla no longer has to travel with us.”

The group watched Falla flying up into the air while Triska shouted and swung her dagger at the monster in a threatening manner. Squeak nodded with a squeak while Daniel looked down with a hand over his eyes, trying to push the image of Lucky having sex with Falla out of his mind. Alyssa let out an annoyed huff before she sat back down and took a bite out of her apple. After chewing the fruit and swallowing she looked up at the sky tiredly while shaking her head.

“Just how are we supposed to find her anyway?” she spoke aloud. “If she was flying off in this direction there’s no telling if we’re on her tail or off course by any degree. We could miss her again, or maybe head in the wrong direction altogether if she gets turned around.”

“Maybe we’ll come across someone who’s seen them, we could hope,” Daniel suggested with a shrug.

Alyssa shook her head and looked around the area while Triska started walking back to them, with Falla still hovering up in the air for safety from the teen.

“Coming across others out here may not be such a good thing,” Alyssa mentioned. “No telling who we might stumble upon, especially with flesh-eating monsters lurking about.”

Specca nodded and looked around with worried eyes while Daniel and Squeak glanced around as well, all of them feeling more concerned as they thought about that.

“What do we do if we come across them?” Specca asked worriedly.

“Let’s hope we don’t,” Daniel said, with Squeak nodding quickly to that.

Walking over the hill away from the campsite Jovian and Jacqueline were looking back at the caravan and group of travelers they were accompanying, with Jovian having a slight scowl on her face.

“Stupid pieces of meat,” Jovian spat out.

“I hope we find those two other ones today, I
really
want to eat the bitch out of that Falla,” Jacqueline mentioned as the two girls walked over the hill and down towards the stream on the other side.

“Patience,” Jovian said coldly. “It’ll be all the more satisfying to make Falla scream as we peel her sister’s flesh before her eyes. If you truly want that loudmouthed butterfly to know agony then make her suffering last as long as possible.”

Jacqueline whined and looked back ahead with a pout while crossing her arms.

“Ugh,” she grunted. “I can’t believe we have to pretend to like these pieces of meat like this. I hate it.”

“Just remember,” Jovian reminded with a twitch of her eyebrow. “That ant girl and nixie are all yours, dear sister. Start thinking about how you want to deal with them in the meantime, that should help kill time.”

Jacqueline giggled and nodded as she looked ahead at the river with a hungry smile.

“Nonsense, I’m up for sharing them with you. I know that ant girl has plenty of meat on her for the both of us.”

“Well, that is certainly generous of you,” Jovian replied with a dark smile. “However, remember that the witch and child are all mine. I want to savor
every
last bite of them.”

“That’s okay, it’s hard to share smaller girls like them between us anyway, you can eat them up yourself. Say, what about Daniel? I don’t like eating men to be honest, do you want him?” Jacqueline asked curiously as they walked up to the stream. Jovian chuckled as the two knelt down next to the water and scooped some up into their hands.

“I don’t mind snacking on him. In fact, I was thinking we should do that first, together,” she mused before taking a drink.

“What? But why?” Jacqueline whined. “I wanna eat the ant girl and nixie first.”

“And you can have them,” Jovian assured her. “However, just think of the agony they’ll endure as they watch the boy they love so much being slowly devoured before them. It’ll fill their hearts with so much despair and sorrow, it’ll be absolutely divine.”

Jacqueline looked up in thought for a moment then smiled wickedly down at the water.

“You’re right, I’m sure the other girls would just
hate
it if something bad happened to him. Oh, I can’t wait to see them crying as we eat them, it’ll be so delicious,” she said before laughing. Jovian nodded and glanced back to the hillside with a cold smile.

“We’ll kill him first, and then take our time with the rest of the girls after they’re heartbroken and devastated. It’ll be worth the wait.”

“I hope so,” Jacqueline said patting her stomach. “I’m starting to get a little hungry. Its torture having to sit around them like this for so long. The last travelers we ate only made it half a day before they found themselves in our bellies.”

“I know,” Jovian said gazing at the river. “We may have to find a snack to hold us over. Just a small one though, we don’t want to ruin our appetites for the main course.”

“But what can we eat? If we try to eat anything in front of them they’ll know we’re not human, not to mention their food sucks. I’m not eating human food,” Jacqueline replied with a disgusted expression.

Jovian nodded slowly then looked off to the side, nudging her sister who then glanced over to seeing two humans atop horses further downstream from them. They were dressed in boots, dark pants, ragged jackets with swords sheathed at their hips, and red scarfs, both of the men seeming to watch the sisters while their horses grunted and scraped their feet on the grass. Their unshaven appearances along with messy dark hair didn’t make them appear friendly looking, although the sisters didn’t feel any concern or fear, rather they both thought of one thing in particular.

“Oh, what do we have here?” Jacqueline asked coyly.

“Looks like a snack found us,” Jovian said with a smirk.

“I don’t really prefer men to eat, however I guess I could chew on them just enough to hear them scream for me,” Jacqueline said with a hungry growl before Jovian held a hand over her mouth and shook her head.

“No,” Jovian cautioned. “If we try to eat them here the others might see or hear us, we need to lead them away first.”

Jacqueline looked to her then to the humans as the two girls slowly stood up while keeping their eyes on the riders.

“How are we going to do that?” Jacqueline asked.

The two riders then snapped their reins before taking off towards the sisters, the girls watching with blank expressions as the two men raced towards them. Jovian giggled then glanced to her sister with a shrug.

“Oh dear, looks like we’re about to be kidnapped,” she said playfully.

“Whatever are we to do?” Jacqueline replied mockingly while looking to the riders with a hand at her hip. The two sisters merely stepped away from the river and put some space between them, watching as the riders charged towards the two girls.

“Come and get us, big boys,” the sisters taunted in unison.

The two riders raced by and grabbed hold of the girls, with Jovian being lifted up and held across the waist next to her kidnapper while Jacqueline was pulled up and forced to sit in front of her rider as the horses galloped alongside the stream.

“Oh, you
brute
,” Jovian mockingly said with despair, with her kidnapper laughing and holding her close while grabbing her breast. The girl held in her growl from being touched and forced a frightened expression while the other rider held Jacqueline close to him with one hand around her front, also squeezing her breast, much to the girl’s annoyance. Jacqueline forced a heartbroken expression as she contemplated how to kill the man soon and then looked back to him with a whimper.

“Please put me down,” she pleaded softly.

“I don’t think so,” the man laughed. “Can’t have two young pretties like you wandering around alone out here in the world.”

“Haha, don’t worry,” the other rider said with a hearty laugh. “We’ll take good care of you from now on. We have many friends who’ll keep you nice and safe.”

Up in the air Falla was flying over the campsite while growling with annoyance, her eyes watching Triska as the teen had walked back over to her friends to sit down and finish her breakfast.

“I can’t believe this bullshit,” Falla scoffed. “For crying out loud, here I am trying to be nice, and they just can’t let go of the fact that I tried to rape Daniel a few times in the past. I mean, seriously, I don’t deserve this crap. I’m trying to save my sister and that little brat that’s with her, where’s the gratitude?”

She then looked over to seeing the two horsemen riding off with Jovian and Jacqueline, making their way towards a forest trail where two other men on horses were waiting for them. The four riders then took off into the woods together as a small dust cloud built up behind them.

“Um, who are they?” Falla asked. She blinked then jumped a bit with the realization, the girl looking down to the camp then over to where the riders vanished before she flew down towards the others.

Sitting around the fire pit the group was finishing their meals, with Triska glancing to Daniel curiously.

“Say, Daniel? Not to pry or anything, but did you learn anything else about Squeak last night?”

Daniel paused then looked to her curiously as the girl glanced between him and Squeak.

“Did I learn anything else about her?”

“Yeah,” Triska said with a shrug. “I mean with Jovian and Jacqueline allowing you to actually talk to her, I was just curious if you both talked about anything interesting. That’s all.”

Alyssa and Specca waited to hear as they also wondered the same thing, with Daniel smiling weakly before turning to Squeak who was looking down with a bashful smile.

“Well… we pretty much established that her past was pretty simple and straightforward. There wasn’t anything else to discuss about that.”

“So then what did you two talk about last night?” Alyssa asked.

“We… um…” Daniel replied distantly as he looked down to avoid eye contact with everyone.

The girls turned to Squeak questionably as she glanced to them with a slick smile and a twitch of her eyebrow. She squeaked at them while mimicking a playful clawing gesturing with one hand then held a hand to her cheek with a blush and squeaked something else as she looked to Daniel with adoring eyes.

“I’m not sure I like where this is going,” Specca commented.

“Daniel, what is she trying to say?” Triska asked carefully.

Daniel glanced to Squeak then smiled weakly at Triska.

“I’m not sure, I don’t speak squeak, remember? Haha,” he replied with a nervous laugh, which only got silence and dull stares from the other girls. Daniel hesitated with an open mouth for a moment then shook his head and held his hands up defensively.

“Again, this isn’t anything that’s your concern or business. It’s just between me and her.”

The other girls slowly nodded while eyeing Squeak carefully, the ant girl smiling smugly at them with a single nod. Before anyone could ask another question Falla quickly swooped down and landed next to Daniel.

“Okay,” she sternly said. “First off, I think you all owe me an apology for the way you’ve been treating me, right now.”

The group just stared at her in silence, with the butterfly girl grumbling and crossing her arms with discontent.

“Seriously? I’m trying to be a good person and help the less fortunate, and you all still think I’m a bad monster. You’re unbelievable.”

“All you care about is your sister,” Specca lectured. “Which is good in its own right. However you care nothing at all for that lost child, which is bad.”

“Not to mention we still don’t trust you near Daniel,” Alyssa added. “Not after all the times you’ve tried to rape him.”

“And on top of all that you ruined our appetites this morning by thinking we wanted you and Lucky to get intimate with each other, thanks a lot by the way,” Triska added flatly.

Falla grunted and shook her head with anger at them.

“Excuse me for wanting Daniel’s seed, I am a monster who wants to have a daughter and he
did
promise to knock me up.”

“No, I didn’t,” Daniel replied plainly.

“And of course I care about that little girl with Luna,” Falla continued while waving her arms at her sides expectedly. “It’s not like I want her to die out there. I’m trying to get you all to take care of her, aren’t I?”

“That raises more suspicion about you rather than trust,” Specca pointed out with a raised eyebrow.

“And if I’m such a bad monster then how come I came down here to tell you that some bandits just kidnapped those weird sisters?” Falla yelled out.

The group jumped at that as Falla pointed off towards the forest on the other side of the hill.

“They’re riding off with them right now!”

“Wait, what? Kidnapped?” Daniel exclaimed with surprise.

“Bandits?” Triska said cautiously.

“What kind of sick joke is this?” Specca demanded.

“It’s no joke, go see for yourself, those girls are gone,” Falla argued while pointing to the hill.

Triska and Squeak watched her carefully for a moment then took off running up the hill while the others stood up and looked towards the forest.

“What do you mean bandits kidnapped them?” Daniel asked. “How do you know they were bandits?”

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Falla snapped at him. “Should I have assumed that their friends came and picked them up, then rode off with them into the woods without so much as a goodbye? Should I have kept my mouth shut here? For crying out loud, why is it whenever I try to help you guys you criticize me at every turn?”

Triska and Squeak ran to the top of the hill and looked around quickly, not seeing any sign of the two sisters or any others. Triska then turned and waved down to the group.