Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (42 page)

“Mr. Daniel,” Apoch and Astreal interjected, with the group looking to them as they were watching the boy with bored expressions.

“It is now 11:30,” Apoch informed holding a hand to her hip. “You have only 30 minutes left before Ms. Charlotte’s offer expires.”

“Are you going to fuck Ms. Alyssa or not?” Astreal asked flatly.

Daniel held in his sigh of annoyance at the two then looked back to the girls who watched him with worried eyes.

“Listen, our time with this is short, I understand that, but I can’t make this decision alone,” he reasoned. “Doing something like this would help my cause, true, however I don’t want to do anything that would hurt any of you. I couldn’t live with myself if I made any of you cry with such a thing. I don’t know what to do, I can’t make this decision on my own. I need to know what you all think.”

The girls stared at him with disbelief then looked to each other.

“But… wait, you can’t… not like… but she…” Triska stammered looking back to Daniel then to Alyssa with nervous eyes.

“Oh god, this can’t be happening, not like this,” Specca said holding hand over her mouth and looking down with sorrow.

Squeak looked to Alyssa and opened her mouth as if she was going to speak, then turned to Daniel before slowly closing her mouth as couldn’t figure out what to say, or squeak, about this.

Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel, a glimmer of hope coming across her face as she slowly walked up to him.

“Daniel?” she asked softly. “Would you… would you really have me tonight like this?”

Daniel looked at her with a slight smile as the witch tossed her staff over to the side of the room onto the floor before she held her hands to her cheeks with a blush on her face.

“Alyssa,” he gently replied. “I want to say something important to you, something that goes for you as well as all the girls, and I want you to listen carefully. Each of you are beautiful to me, each of you I care so much about, and each of you…” Again he trailed off as he tried to form the right words, with all the girls watching him with growing suspense before he finally continued.

“I would be honored and willing to take to bed with me.”

Alyssa gasped quietly while holding her hands over her mouth as the other girls stared at Daniel with wonder.

“Daniel, you… mean that?” Triska asked as a faint blush formed on her cheeks.

“You would be alright… doing that with me as well?” Specca asked timidly while hiding behind her hands, peeking at the boy between her fingers while her tail slowly swayed behind her.

Squeak merely squeaked something while pointing to herself with a small blush on her cheeks.

Daniel looked around at them and nodded with a worried smile.

“Yes, it’s true. I know that whoever I may pick as my girlfriend, as my love, as my mate in life, I would be fine with everything about them, human or monster.”

“You’re serious,” Kroanette spoke with wonder. “You would actually have sex with a monster just as easily as you would with a human, only if because they would prove themselves to be kindhearted and caring to you?”

Daniel looked to her and nodded again, with the centaur glancing around at the other girls before turning to Daniel as she fell speechless.

“It is now 11:35, and still no answer,” Apoch and Astreal mentioned dryly as they kept watching the grandfather clock.

Daniel looked down while holding a hand over his eyes, struggling to keep his mind focused while time was dwindling for them, then turned to the girls with urgency and held his hands out at his sides.

“I’m sorry,” he desperately implored. “I wish we had more time to make a better decision about this, but we don’t. Please, I don’t know what to do. We could gain the witch community’s support with our cause, or we could decline Charlotte’s offer and leave right now. Either way, we need to make a decision, one that I can’t make for all of us.”

The girls all looked to each other with concern then to Alyssa, the witch glancing to them with worried eyes before down while her hands fidgeted at her sides. From the bedroom a cat mewled softly, with the group then seeing a black cat walking out and standing next to the sisters while watching the other girls.

“Ms. Charlotte is growing impatient,” Apoch and Astreal informed sharply together. “What is it going to be?”

“Charlotte?” Triska asked carefully.

The cat’s eyes glowed red briefly for a moment, with Alyssa jumping with a squeak before quickly bowing to it.

“My grace,” she shakily greeted.

“That’s Charlotte? She turned herself into a cat?” Triska asked pointing to the cat.

“No,” Apoch corrected. “She is merely using the animal as her seer, so that she may also witness Mr. Daniel’s act of love to a witch or his refusal to prove his belief.”

“So, Mr. Daniel, we’re waiting,” Astreal said glancing to the boy with dull expression.

Triska growled then pointed to the cat accusingly as it looked to her with a simple meow.

“What are you trying to pull here?” she yelled out. “Is this some sick game to you? You can’t tell Daniel to have sex with Alyssa just like that, this isn’t something you can force upon us like this!”

Apoch and Astreal struck their staves into the floor sharply, causing the building to rumble with a loud bang while everybody backed up from the sisters and cat.

“Ms. Charlotte is not ordering Mr. Daniel to do anything,” Astreal snapped. “He is not being forced to take this witch to bed by any means. If he doesn’t want to, then he doesn’t have to.”

“Our alpha is offering you a chance to prove your idiotic belief,” Apoch added with discontent. “Something that isn’t asking too much given what you are claiming can be done in this world.”

Specca stepped forward while shaking her head and gesturing around at her friends.

“But it can be done,” she insisted. “We’re proof of that. We’re with him peacefully right now, aren’t we? We’re not raping him, or tricking him, or using magic on him, or anything. We’re proving that monsters and humans can live together in peace.”

“Ms. Charlotte wants to see a human willingly choose and mate with a witch on his own accord,” Astreal demanded. “Provide us with that or else your claims of coexistence mean nothing.”

“Merely traveling around with this human and preaching his beliefs is not the same,” Apoch argued. “Now, either Mr. Daniel gives Ms. Alyssa his seed on his own free will, or else we are done here tonight.”

Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel worriedly, with Daniel turning to her as she slowly walked up towards him.

“Daniel, what is it you want to do?” she asked softly.

Daniel hesitated as he looked at her with gentle eyes then turned to the other girls who all watched him with distress in fear of his answer.

“I… I don’t know,” he slowly replied.

Triska glanced to the clock then to Daniel with heartbroken eyes. After a while she took a shaky breath then shook her head slowly.

“Do it,” she managed to get out before holding back her tears and cries. The group looked to her as she hung her head low, her hair covering the view of her eyes as she merely waved over to Alyssa.

“This is what… we came out here for, for the good of Eden,” she whimpered. “We need their help with this, you said it yourself, we need the witches to help back us up on this. If this is what it takes… then we have no choice.”

She held her hands to her face, trying her best not to cry as the other girls looked to each other with sorrow. Specca held her hands to her cheeks as she whimpered, her tail slowly swaying around behind her before she took a shaky breath and turned to Daniel with a saddened smile, it obviously being forced as her lips tried to curl down into a frown against her will.

“Do what… you must, Daniel,” she shakily said. “That’s why we’re out here, to… complete our mission. That’s why… that’s why… that’s why you should just do it.”

The nixie quickly broke down into tears, looking down and away as she felt her heart aching while she cried quietly to herself. Alyssa looked at her friends with remorse then to Squeak, the ant girl glancing to Daniel then back to her as she had tears coming down off her cheeks. She then slowly forced a small smile and nodded before turning away and crying softly with closed eyes.

Daniel felt his heart break at seeing the three girls being brought to tears then looked down while trying to convince himself that he was only out here for his purpose, for his quest, to promote peace between humans and monsters in the world.

Alyssa looked around at seeing the three girls reluctantly giving their blessing to proceed then turned to Kroanette, the centaur sighing quietly before looking to the witch with a solemn expression.

“Don’t look at me, this is all up to you,” she said shaking her head.

Alyssa then turned to Daniel, trying to force a small smile as she walked up to him.

“I… I would love… to… for us to…” she said shakily, finding her words being difficult to get out as her heart began to ache more and more. Slowly she stopped and glanced back to seeing Triska, Specca, and Squeak crying while avoiding eye contact with everyone, the sight of them in agony like this driving into Alyssa’s mind and causing a painful sensation to spike in her chest.

“Well, are you going to do it or not?” Apoch and Astreal demanded while tapping their feet impatiently. Daniel glanced to them then to Alyssa with remorseful eyes, the witch just watching as her friends continued to cry out of sorrow.

“Alyssa, the choice is up to you,” he offered. “In the interest of forming relations with your kind, I’m… okay with doing this with you tonight.”

Alyssa looked up to him with wonder, realizing that now she had the perfect chance to have sex with him. It was actually being handed right to her. She could have Daniel all alone and sleep with him, being allowed to do anything she wanted with the boy in bed and actually being encouraged to get his seed in the name of coexistence between humans and witches. And Daniel was even offering himself with no resistance, ready to take the witch to bed with him upon the simple answer she could give him right now, to just say yes.

“Go on, Alyssa, tonight’s your night with him anyway,” Specca sobbed before she dropped to her knees crying.

“It’s what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it, Alyssa?” Triska mentioned before struggling to hold back her tears.

Alyssa glanced back to them then to Daniel, seeing him watching her with a troubled expression as he waited for her answer. It was her turn with him, she could take him to bed with her right now, she could have sex with him and even get impregnated by him on that very night. All she had to do was say yes.

All she had to do was say yes, and everything she wanted could be hers.

“No,” she said softly, with everyone looking to her with surprise as she slowly shook her head.

“No.”

“No?” Apoch and Astreal questioned carefully.

“No?” Daniel asked.

Alyssa looked down in thought for a moment, her eyes darting around slightly as she contemplated what she was thinking and whether or not she was acting foolishly.

“Alyssa, just do it,” Triska muttered with teary eyes. “You know you want to.”

“Just please make it quick,” Specca whimpered before looking down with sorrow.

“No, no no no no, not like this!” Alyssa declared looking to the cat. The animal mewled with glowing red eyes briefly before Alyssa got down on her knees before it, watching the creature with pleading eyes as she held her hands together.

“My grace, I can’t do it with him like this,” she desperately beseeched. “It would be too cruel. I would be hurting Daniel, I would be hurting my friends, I would be hurting those who are closest to me and I love. Please, if I agree to take Daniel to bed with me like this, I’ll really be a
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“So you are refusing to have sex with Mr. Daniel then?” Apoch asked with a smirk.

“You decline Ms. Charlotte’s offer?” Astreal asked sharply. “After she agreed to give you a chance you’re saying no to her?”

“Okay,” Kroanette spoke up. “Why are you two always saying Mr. and Ms. all the time?”

Alyssa quickly stood up and looked to Daniel with urgency, the boy watching her with wonder as she thought about something very carefully before turning back to the cat with a formal bow.

“My grace, I’ll prove Daniel’s belief to you,” she promised. “I’ll prove his point without a shadow of a doubt to you, I’ll even do so this very night, on one condition.”

“On one condition?” Apoch and Astreal asked together. “What condition?”

“And how do you two always talk together like that? It’s just creepy,” Kroanette mentioned again with a disturbed expression.

“Alyssa, what are you talking about?” Triska asked.

Alyssa looked to the girls, going from one to the other as she realized just how precious they were to her, how she loved them and couldn’t stand the idea of them being hurt, and then understood the only way she could make tonight work for them. She smiled softly and turned to Daniel while backing up to the girls.

“Daniel, if you’re going to do me, you’re going to have to do all of us,” she reasoned, with everyone then looking to her with surprise and a jump.

“What?” Daniel exclaimed with shock.

“WHAT?” Triska and Specca cried out.

Squeak merely squeaked loudly with a stunned expression on her face.

Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel while gesturing to the shocked individuals at her side.

“Daniel, it’s the only fair way to do this,” she explained. “I love you, so much, and so do all of they. We mean the world to you, like you say, and you mean the world to us. But until you pick one of us to be your mate, until you actually make your final decision on which one of us you really love, then you have to be fair with giving us all a chance. If you have sex with just me, you’re not being fair to them. So… either you have sex with all of us, or none of us.”

Silence filled the house as everyone just stared at the witch, unable to believe what they just heard. After a few minutes a rustling sound was heard outside, the group then looking to seeing Luna and Falla landing down outside the building, with Falla struggling to hold her sister back as Luna was trying to run towards the residence.