Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (17 page)

“I love the sound of little girls screaming in agony,” Jovian said with a soft purr at the end.

Tora shakily held a hand out over Emily’s remains, her eyes going over what was left of her mother’s body with horror as she trembled with tears dropping from her cheeks.

“No… no no no no… mother…” she wept out. With a shaky breath she shut her eyes, clenching her fists as she growled with the utmost fury. She then screamed out with sheer anger and looked over towards the twins with murder in her eyes.

“You… you did this? You killed my mother?” she raged, the ground under her turning dark and parched as her ring glowed softly. The twins giggled then nodded with dark smiles at the girl.

“Yes, she was delicious,” they said together before licking their lips at the same time.

“Emily was Tora’s mother?” Triska asked curiously.

“It appears so,” Specca said softly as the group saw the sheer rage in Tora, the witch standing back up again while she growled loudly at the sisters.

Katie murmured slightly then started walking towards the twins, the two girls looking to her with wicked smiles and showing no fear to the succubus at all.

“I don’t think I like seeing Tora so upset like this,” she bitterly said. “I’ve grown rather fond of her after all. I believe this calls for some discipline regarding your behavior.”

Jovian smirked then darted forward to grab the succubus, with Katie in turn grabbing her hand in a flash before yanking her closer and striking her other hand through the girl’s heart. Jacqueline watched with an amused smile as Katie held a bloodied hand through Jovian’s body. Jovian coughed out blood before falling limp on the demon’s arm, with Katie watching Jacqueline with a cold stare.

“Not a care for your sister being slain before you?” Katie questioned.

“I would cry, should she actually be dead,” Jacqueline quipped.

Katie looked at her puzzled before Jovian grabbed her arm and chomped down on it, with Katie then screaming as the dark girl growled and chewed into her flesh.

“Mistress!” Tora cried out.

Katie grabbed Jovian by the hair and yanked her head up, the girl tearing out a mouthful of the demon’s arm with blood spraying out from the wound.

“
AH
! You wretched little insect!” Katie yelled before her wing arced over and struck through Jovian’s face, piercing the skull and sticking out the back with a crunch before the succubus yanked her bloodied arm out of the girl’s body. With a grunt Katie threw Jovian’s body to the ground then held her arm where blood was coming out from.

“What trickery is this?” Katie snarled.

Jacqueline laughed before a barrage of thorny roots shot up from the ground at her side and spiked through her body and head, spraying blood out through the puncture wounds as the blonde girl twitched while being held up on her feet by the wooden spikes. The group looked over to Tora as she had her staff struck down into the darkened ground where a trail of black, parched dirt was leading over to where the witch’s magic manifested the thorny roots.

“How
dare
you!” Tora yelled out. “First you kill my mother and now you attack my mistress?”

Katie held in her growl then backed up as Jovian started to get up again, the girl’s head reforming as she laughed amusedly with eyes that regenerated to watch the succubus with a dark glare. Katie then narrowed her eyes as she held a hand out to face the girl, with dark blue and purple flames flaring up around her palm as the succubus arched her wings back behind her. Jovian stood back upright as her body fully healed while Jacqueline started to rip out the roots with one hand while yanking some out of her body with the other.

“Whatever you two are, you’re at your end,” Katie declared coldly before the fiery magic blasted out and struck Jovian, exploding into a powerful inferno of blue and purple flames that blazed back and engulfed Jacqueline and then the burning remains of the building behind them. The group watched as the powerful magic incinerated the area in front of Katie, with the torrent of flames striking into another building behind the now leveled toy store and demolishing it with a bright flash.

“Wow,” Specca breathed out with wide eyes.

“Just how powerful is a succubus anyway?” Triska asked shakily.

“Very, why do you think they’re Darker Ones?” Alyssa pointed out nervously.

Daniel watched the billowing torrent of blue and purple flames with awe then looked over to see the deathmare charging towards them again, the monster letting out a ghostly wail as it geared back with its scythe.

“Look out!” he yelled as the Darker One swung at them with its weapon, with Katie then holding a hand back towards the monster as her eyes gave off a crimson glow. The spectral scythe sliced through the air before striking against a barrier of dark violet light that bloomed before Daniel and the girls, the wall of magic having strange emblems and circular patterns lighting up as they gently spun around in the air. The deathmare howled then looked to Katie as the succubus turned towards it while waving her hand down at her side, creating a spinning ring of green and blue lines and glyphs to form under the deathmare.

“No you don’t, she’s all mine,” Katie stated coldly before snapping her fingers, causing the casting ring below the deathmare to flash brightly and create a pillar of purple light that shined up around the Darker One. The deathmare howled as its body started smoking, with the covering it wore on its back igniting and burning off into ashes before the monster darted out of the hazy pillar of light. The group watched as the magical pillar wavered then died out with a crackle while the deathmare wailed at Katie with anger.

“Stubborn, aren’t you?” Katie scoffed as she walked towards the deathmare. From the flames behind her two burning skeletons leapt out of the blaze while laughing together.

“Mistress, behind you!” Tora cried out.

Katie looked back to seeing the skeletons swiping at her with their hands, the succubus using her wings’ ridges to block the attacks before one of the cadavers grabbed her tail and swung her around, the woman letting out a small yelp before she was slammed into the ground. The two skeletons slowly started to regenerate their flesh and organs, with the group watching in disbelief as Jovian and Jacqueline fully recovered from the Darker One’s powerful attack.

“We’re back,” the sisters taunted together in unison.

“That’s not possible, they should be dead!” Tora shouted out with frustration.

Katie growled then whipped her tail around Jovian’s leg, the woman then throwing the dark girl into her sister and knocking them away into a violent roll down the street as she got back on her feet while glaring at the twins with anger.

“Now you are truly getting me angry, something you won’t live long enough to regret,” she hissed as her eyes gave off a deep red glow.

The deathmare wailed at her while Jovian and Jacqueline slowly got up on the other side of the street from it, the twins laughing together as they turned to smile eerily at the succubus.

“We’re going to make you scream,” they said together before laughing again.

“Mistress!” Tora called out as she ran over to Katie, her eyes watching with horror as the succubus was holding her bloodied arm with a scowl on her face.

“Don’t concern yourself with this little scratch, I’ll be fine,” Katie assured while keeping her eyes on the sisters. Tora looked towards the two girls with sheer fury as she clutched her staff, the ground under her turning dark and drying up.

“What the hell are those things anyway?” she raged loudly.

“We have no clue,” Specca spoke up while hiding behind Daniel still. “But we do know they’re out of their minds and completely sadistic. They tried to eat us alive a little while ago.”

“They’re out of their minds alright,” Triska cursed as she glanced from the twins then to the deathmare. “They ate Emily alive just for the hell of it and they tried to eat us just to make us scream in pain, they’re only killing for the sake of killing.”

“And they slew my entire pack, just because they wanted to,” a female voice spoke up behind them. The group looked back to seeing four figures walking towards them in the street.

“They are nothing but abominations in this world,” Forrus growled while baring her teeth in anger, her eyes glaring at the sisters with unbridled fury.

“Well, well, well. Look who we found here,” Rulo scoffed while holding her hammer back over her shoulder, her eyes focused on Katie and Tora while her lips curled into a scowl.

“It appears this town is a beacon for evil to congregate to,” Sasha commented while glancing around at the burning buildings, her large sword being held down at her side with one hand while her tail slowly swayed behind her.

Daemon merely kept his eyes locked ahead of him at Katie before quickly glancing around to seeing Daniel’s group, the deathmare, and the naked twins, none of which seemed to cause any reaction or concern from him.

“It’s them, the ones from Ashwood,” Specca said curiously.

As the newcomers walked along the street Sasha and Rulo noticed Emily’s body lying off to the side, the fires of the village lighting up the corpse to show the bloody remains of the witch.

“Hey, wasn’t that the blind kid we saw earlier?” Rulo asked.

“I’m afraid so,” Sasha said, having a hint of sympathy in her voice.

“Seems she suffered the same fate as my sisters,” Forrus commented with a quick glance to the witch’s body.

‘Dying like this, there is nothing just about it. My sympathies, young one.’

Daemon and his three companions walked up behind the group and stopped, with Forrus growling with anger at the sisters while Katie showed a bitter smile towards the boy.

“Now is not the time to test me,” Katie sternly warned. “Do yourself a favor and take your pets out of my sight.”

Daemon drummed his fingers on his sword’s handle while watching her with his cold eyes before slowly glancing over to the deathmare and sisters that were all facing everybody.

“Looks like the cowardly succubus had some trouble,” Rulo mocked with an oink. “Is that blood I see?”

Katie growled quietly as she slowly turned to face them with narrowed eyes, holding a hand to her wound as a soft glow came from it. Slowly her bleeding stopped as her flesh and skin healed from her magic, the woman glancing to it briefly before at the newcomers with a scoff of derision.

“Just a scratch,” she taunted with a twitch of her eyebrow. “I wonder what it says about you and your boy toy’s skills in that none of you could touch me yet those two naked girls could. Seems you’re outclassed even by crazed monsters in this land.”

Sasha raised her sword and hissed at the succubus before Forrus glanced to Daemon and spoke up.

“My lord,” she pleaded urgently. “Please, I beg of you, help me slay those two monstrosities.”

“Our priority is the artifact that this bitch stole, remember?” Rulo snapped before she brought forth her hammer. “You can wait for your revenge later.”

Katie flexed her hands as a faint purplish glow flared around them before Daemon slowly drew his sword, with Daniel’s group watching him carefully as his blade gave off a soft light.

“Okay,” Falla whispered while backing up towards Daniel and Specca. “This is getting out of hand. I don’t know who these people are and I don’t care, we need to get out of here and find Luna.”

“Hey, who are they?” Jovian called out curiously. “Friends of yours?”

“Friends or not, let’s make them scream too!” Jacqueline cheered.

Forrus snarled at them then looked to Daemon with pleading eyes.

“Please, they must not escape this time, I need your help.”

Daemon glanced to her then to Katie, the succubus watching him with discontent while Tora looked back and forth between the sisters and her.

“Mistress, please,” Tora begged with a strained voice. “I cannot allow those two
letchyasks
to get away with what they did.”

“Letchyasks?” Triska asked.

“It means vile abominations in our language,” Alyssa clarified. “Those who are beyond redemption in our eyes.”

“You would know of that well, wouldn’t you?” Tora hissed at her before looking back to the sisters. Alyssa looked down with remorse from that while Katie slowly shook her head as she kept her eyes on Daemon.

“I don’t mind continuing our little quarrel if you’re so eager to fight,” Katie threatened. “However right now I must deal with those two wretched little brats. They had the nerve to draw my blood and slay Tora’s poor mother. So, if you don’t mind, step aside until it’s your turn to die.”

“Your little witch’s mother?” Rulo asked, with her and Sasha then looking back towards Emily’s corpse.

“That was not a child, but a witch?” Sasha questioned looking back to Katie, the succubus only nodding once to that. Daemon watched Katie with a cold glare before the deathmare wailed and charged towards the group, with Katie glancing back to it with a quiet snarl as she waved her hand at it, creating another purplish barrier of circling light and glowing symbols that the deathmare collided with. The Darker One let out a ghostly howl then swung her scythe through the barrier, shattering it with a bright flash as Katie looked back to Daemon.

“Once I deal with these pests you and I can settle this,” she stated decisively.

Daemon narrowed his eyes then walked past the woman, the group watching as he walked out in front of everyone and glanced from the deathmare then to the sisters who were watching him with wicked smiles.

“So, who wants to die first?” Jacqueline cheered with a hop, the two sisters then laughing together.

In a flash Daemon whipped his sword up then swung it towards the twins, causing a white wave of light to ripple out and fly towards the two girls. The sisters watched with eerie smiles before the magical wave struck into Jacqueline and decimated her into bloody bits that splattered back across the ground, with some of the blood spraying onto Jovian’s face as the girl continued to watch Daemon with a hungry eye. The boy just watched Jacqueline’s remains while holding his sword down, with Daniel’s group staring at him with surprise from what they saw.