Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (51 page)

Kroanette shook her head at the girl then looked to the door with curiosity.

“I wonder,” she said softly to herself. “Had I been kinder to him and his friends, would I have been allowed in there with them as well?”

Luna stood up while watching the door with gentle eyes, holding her hands together in front of her as she took a step forward.

“Would he do me too if I’m nice to him?” she asked worriedly. “Is that how it really works?”

“No!” Falla yelled out at her. “For the last time, Luna, we’re monsters! We have to take the man by force if we want them!”

“But Daniel is having sex with all of them on his own free will right now, all because they were so nice to him,” Luna debated while pointing to the bedroom. Apoch and Astreal glanced back to the door then to each other as they kept hearing the cries, moans, and squeaks of the four girls inside the room.

“If he could honestly choose to mate with a monster on his own free will, perhaps others may as well,” Kroanette pondered looking to Luna.

Falla growled then marched over in front of them and faced the two with her hands at her hips.

“Oh for crying out loud, not you too!” she barked out. “Daniel won’t have sex with us, I mean look at my sister and I, we’re as sexy as they come and he wouldn’t do
either
of us! That human isn’t right in the head, he’s only preaching nonsense. Mankind won’t just accept us for how we are, it’s not normal!”

“But, Falla,” Luna pleaded. “I don’t want to rape anyone, it’s horrible. Do you have any idea what it’s like to be raped? I couldn’t live with myself if I did that to Daniel or anyone else. It’s not worth having a daughter over.”

“Is raping others really so bad?” Kroanette asked Luna, with Apoch and Astreal watching the butterfly girl with raised eyebrows to that question. Luna nodded and looked down with a whimper while Falla face palmed and grumbled as she saw nobody was listening to her.

“It’s awful,” Luna whined. “That witch did stuff to me because she said she loved me, but I hated it so much. She did things to my boobs and my pussy and even in my ass, it hurt so much. Both my body and my heart couldn’t take it. I just wanted her to stop, I wanted it all to stop, but she wouldn’t let me go. I couldn’t get away, I couldn’t stop any of it, it was like a never-ending nightmare.” She then looked to Kroanette and shook her head.

“Have you ever raped anyone? Have you ever taken a human by force?”

Kroanette hesitated then slowly shook her head as she glanced back to her saddlebag.

“Well, not yet,” she admitted. “But I was planning on getting pregnant soon with a human that I’ve earned with my delivery.”

“You mustn’t rape him, please!” Luna desperately implored. “I’m begging you, don’t be so cruel to him, it’ll kill him inside!”

“But I must if I want a daughter,” Kroanette reasoned looking to her with concern.

Luna whimpered and shook her head with fearful eyes.

“Then you watch that human as you force yourself on him,” she condemned. “Watch how he cries and begs for you to let him go, watch the agony and torment you put him through. If you have any heart at all you won’t be able to do it, only a Darker One would be so cold as to do such a thing.”

Kroanette looked at her with worry then to her bag while Apoch and Astreal watched Luna carefully.

“I’m not trying to be evil,” Kroanette explained looking back to Luna. “I just… I want to have a daughter. I must have one both for myself and my race.”

“Then listen to Daniel,” Luna reasoned with a worried smile. “I know I will. I want a human to choose to have sex with me. I can’t force him to do anything against his will.”

Falla groaned with annoyance then looked at her sister with frustration as she grabbed her hair.

“For the last time, Luna, we’re
monsters
, we have to-”

“I’m never raping a human being for as long as I shall live, end of story!” Luna shouted back at her. The girls all looked at her with wonder as the butterfly whimpered and tried to hold back her tears.

“I won’t do it! I won’t be that kind of monster! No matter what, I will never rape a man, ever! I’d rather die without any daughters than become so evil in life!”

“Luna,” Falla said softly.

“I mean it, Falla!” Luna shouted while stomping her foot. “I won’t do it. I’m going to follow Daniel’s beliefs, I’m going to learn how I can be nice and kindhearted and do whatever it takes to get a daughter without sacrificing my soul!”

Falla stared at her with a stunned expression, words failing to form in her mouth as she saw the sheer determination in her sister’s eyes. She looked to Kroanette then to the witch sisters while shaking her head slightly, with Apoch and Astreal watching Luna curiously now.

“You would seriously choose never to have a daughter rather than take a man by force?” Apoch questioned.

“You would prefer never to have sex with a human simply because you believe raping him is evil?” Astreal asked.

Luna nodded at them with tears forming in her eyes, the witch sisters glancing to each other with raised eyebrows while Falla sighed and lowered her head with a hand held over her eyes.

“Luna…” Falla tiredly argued. “We can’t… it just doesn’t work that way.”

Luna glanced to her then looked at the bedroom door with longing eyes.

“Either Daniel teaches me to be a kindhearted monster, or I’ll never have a daughter in my life,” she declared. “I won’t become like the Darker Ones in this world are, I won’t cause such pain and suffering all to get pregnant. I couldn’t live with myself if I did.”

Luna sighed and walked back over to the couch. Falla held a hand out to her as she watched her sister with disbelief, only managing to get a few short stutters out of her mouth as she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Kroanette looked to Luna with wonder then to the bedroom door as she seemed to think about something carefully.

‘Only Darker Ones cause such agony and despair in this world, they are truly the most evil of all monsters. But… what if this one speaks the truth? Are we centaurs just as bad as the Darker Ones by raping humans? No… no! We are not like those abominations at all! I refuse to let that be our future!’

After a while she showed a stern expression and reached back into her saddlebag, pulling out the scroll given to her by Charlotte, and then showed it to the witch sisters.

“Here is your alpha’s receipt for my delivery,” she firmly stated, with everyone looking to her curiously. “Promising me one human male to be provided by the witch community, a man that I would have to have tied to a post for me to rape in order to have a daughter in life.”

The centaur then tore the paper apart with a scoff, with Apoch and Astreal watching in disbelief as Kroanette tossed the pieces aside.

“What have you done?” Apoch scolded. “That was your payment from our alpha.”

“You earned that human’s seed,” Astreal admonished. “How very foolish to throw it away like that.”

“All I earned from that delivery was the right to rape a human being,” Kroanette argued. “Something that I do not want. I will be taking Daniel home to my mother as I promised him, and we’re going to have a very long talk with her about his beliefs. We centaurs are proud, noble creatures of Eden, and I’ll be damned if I allow my kind to treat others in this world like the Darker Ones do.”

“Are you implying that we are just like Darker Ones for merely continuing our existence?” Apoch and Astreal inquired sharply.

“I’m implying that it’s time we find a better way to continue our existence,” Kroanette said crossing her arms. “Rather than become Darker Ones ourselves.”

“You’re insane,” Falla said shaking her head.

Kroanette grabbed her whip and snapped it hard at her side, with Falla jumping back with a yelp as the centaur pointed to her with an accusing stare.

“Watch your tongue,” she sternly warned. “The legendary courier Kroanette does not take kindly to those who are so callous with their words.”

Falla blinked then looked at the centaur with puzzlement.

“Legendary courier? Couriers aren’t legendary. There’s no such thing as that.”

“Yes I am!” Kroanette shouted as she started whipping at the girl, with Falla screaming as she scrambled around to avoid the cracking flail. Apoch and Astreal shook their heads at the sight then looked to the door as a gentle pawing against it was heard on the other side. Apoch quickly opened the door slightly, with Charlotte’s cat racing out while a veil of pink mist flowed behind it. The other girls looked over to seeing Apoch peeking into the room where Specca’s passionate cries were heard before the witch closed the door.

“My grace?” Apoch and Astreal asked as they looked to the cat.

The animal mewled at them while its eyes glowed red briefly, with Kroanette and the butterfly sisters watching curiously as Apoch and Astreal appeared to listen to something that couldn’t be heard.

“What happened?” Kroanette asked as she holstered her whip. “Did Daniel complete his task?”

Apoch and Astreal glanced to her then to the bedroom door.

“Mr. Daniel has given his seed to all four girls, as requested, and is in fact still going,” Apoch said softly, with the other girls jumping with surprise.

“He did?” Luna asked with wonder.

“He… he
impregnated
all of them?” Falla asked with disbelief.

“Wow, he’s quite virile for a human of his size,” Kroanette mused to herself.

Apoch and Astreal looked to the cat again as it meowed loudly, the witch sisters nodding then turning to the other girls with solemn expressions.

“We are done here,” they informed together. “Mr. Daniel has owned up to his word, and as such Ms. Charlotte will deliberate whether or not to offer a truce with mankind.”

Astreal glanced to Kroanette then to the cat with a raised eyebrow.

“My grace,” she mentioned. “This centaur has refused her payment of one human male for her delivery, citing that she doesn’t wish to rape a human anymore.”

The cat turned to Kroanette with a low hiss as the sisters watched the centaur with harsh looks. Kroanette forced a brave expression as she stood proudly before the tiny feline.

“I thank you for honoring your commitment,” she formally announced. “However I will not go about having a daughter if it means subjecting anyone to something as horrible as rape. I will be placing my faith with Daniel and his beliefs. I will be taking him to meet my mother so they may talk about his idea of peaceful coexistence between our races. After seeing what Daniel has said to be true, and giving it much thought, I cannot accept your payment.”

Luna walked over and looked at the cat with wonder before she squealed with delight and rushed over towards the animal, lifting it up in her arms and giggling happily as everyone stared at her with wide eyes.

“She’s so
cute
!” she cheered. “I love kittens; they always make the cutest noises when you pet them! Awwww, she’s so adorable and fluffy. Whose cat is this?”

“That cat belongs to our grace, Ms. Charlotte!” Apoch and Astreal yelled out at her.

Luna looked to them curiously then around while holding the cat close to her.

“It does? Where is she?”

“Luna,” Falla urgently said. “That cat belongs to the alpha witch, she’s looking through its eyes at us as we speak. Put it down, put it down right now.”

Luna looked at the cat as she held it out in her hands, the animal meowing at her as its eyes turned red briefly. After a pause Luna then peered closely at the cat with a curious eye.

“So that alpha witch is in here somewhere? Wow, how did she do that? And doesn’t that hurt the cat?”

Apoch and Astreal just looked to Falla with bewilderment, the butterfly face palming and shaking her head with a tired groan. Kroanette smiled weakly and held out a hand towards Luna.

“Luna,” she gently implored. “Please put that cat down, the alpha witch that Daniel is trying to appeal to wouldn’t like you touching it.”

Luna blinked then squeaked with fright before she tossed the cat over onto a chair, the animal letting out a loud yowl from the toss as Luna backed up nervously with a worried smile.

“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know, I didn’t know that was… um… sorry,” she said before darting over behind Falla, with the red eyed butterfly glancing to her tiredly before looking to the witch sisters who watched them with discontent. Charlotte’s cat then trotted over and hopped up onto Apoch’s shoulder, hissing at the butterfly girls while Apoch glanced to it briefly.

“What is wrong with her?” Astreal asked flatly.

“Too much. Too much,” Falla replied while shaking her head, with Luna peeking out from behind her wings at the witches.

Apoch rolled her eyes then looked back to the girls while clearing her throat.

“Anyway, we are done here. Please inform Mr. Daniel that we will contact him tomorrow with Ms. Charlotte’s decision,” she announced before the sisters started walking towards the front door, with the other girls standing aside and allowing them through. As they passed by the sisters stopped and glanced to Kroanette.

“As for you,” they mentioned together. “It’s very commendable to place all your faith and the future of your offspring in the hands of a single human, or perhaps the word is stupid that we’re looking for to describe such a poor decision.”

“Seriously, it is
very
strange the way you two keep talking together like that,” Kroanette replied, not wishing to even bother arguing with the witches about her choice.

Apoch and Astreal then walked out of the building, with the other girls looking to each other before over towards the bedroom. Before they could move Apoch quickly popped her head back through the door with a playful smile.

“Oh, by the way,” she added. “Ms. Charlotte says you shouldn’t go in there. Mr. Daniel’s a bit…
busy
, and for your own safety you’d best not disturb him for the remainder of the night.”

Kroanette and the butterfly sisters watched her leave again then looked to the bedroom door curiously as silence filled the room.

Outside in the streets Apoch and Astreal twirled their staves around at their sides as they walked away from the human residence, the crescent ends trailing a sparkly blue and green light as the sisters had blank expressions on their faces. The two then struck their staves together by the obsidian stones with a loud clank, a bright flash of light flaring up around them briefly before slowly fading to reveal them inside Charlotte’s study as the alpha witch was seated in her chair watching something in a glowing magical window before her. Charlotte glanced over to seeing the sisters bowing to her gracefully while the cat leapt off of Apoch’s shoulder and scurried out of the room.