Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (7 page)

The witch cheered then hopped down and sat on Luna’s lap, the butterfly girl screaming around her gag while her hands flinched and struggled to pull free. Emily giggled then started pinching the butterfly girl’s nipples, with Luna looking to her with fright and a blush.

“I can’t wait, I can’t wait at all. Please, hurry and lose yourself to this pleasure, hurry and give your heart to me so we can be together forever,” Emily said happily before she leaned down and started sucking on one of Luna’s breasts. Luna cried and whimpered as the witch licked and lightly bit her nipple before smiling eerily at the girl.

“I love you, Luna, so much,” she tenderly said, then started caressing and sucking on the butterfly’s breasts again with an eager murmur.

Luna screamed as loud as she could around her gag as she felt both fright and pleasure rippling through her mind. She couldn’t deny that she was starting to feel good from the witch’s magic and actions, however the way Emily was expressing her fondness for the butterfly girl was still frightening and downright chilling to her. As daylight outside through the window started to slowly fade away Luna desperately thought of one thing as she tried to fight off the pleasure being forced upon her.

‘Falla, where are you? I need you!’

*****

Inside the caravan’s cabin Daniel and Specca were looking down at a map they had rolled out on the floor, the two trying to figure out what direction to head in to find Luna and Emily, a decision that was difficult to answer seeing as how they had no idea where the elusive butterfly had traveled to. Next to them Alyssa and Squeak were looking down at the map with troubled frowns, all of them having traced their path from where they encountered the slaughtered camp of lycans to where they were now, which was almost to the village of Eston. Lying over at the rear of the cabin Jovian and Jacqueline were seen facing away from the group with blankets over them, the two having opted to take a nap earlier while the others continued their search for the missing girls and had yet to get up as they lay beside one another. The two were of course both wide awake, listening to the group’s discussion with dull expressions on their faces while their masks were set near their pillows.

“How much longer do we have to wait?” Jacqueline whispered.

“Just a little longer. If we don’t find those two lost girls soon though we may have to skip them for now,” Jovian replied while glancing back behind her to the others, all of them talking amongst each other and not noticing the girl was awake. Jacqueline held in her growl as she slowly turned to face her sister, still being hidden from view by the others while she snuggled closer to Jovian under the blanket.

“We’ve been pretending to be asleep for hours, this is boring,” she whined.

Jovian sighed then moved her hand forward under the blanket, with Jacqueline then holding in her gasp as she was pulled closer to her sister by her crotch.

“No, don’t tease me like this, that’s not fair,” Jacqueline whined silently, then held a hand over her mouth as Jovian pushed two fingers into her pussy and started stirring them around slowly.

“You were the one complaining, now be quiet otherwise they’ll know we’re awake,” Jovian said quietly with a smirk as her sister blushed and shut her eyes. Jovian’s other hand slipped around to Jacqueline’s rear, with the blonde girl trembling and holding in her gasp as Jovian started to play with her ass as well.

While the sisters remained mostly quiet and motionless the others were trying to decide their next move, which nobody had a solution for.

“This isn’t good,” Daniel said worriedly. “We’re about an hour’s trip away from the village, do you think she even came this way?”

“Maybe she flew off in this direction,” Specca wondered as she drew her finger away from their location towards a small forest to the south.

“No,” Alyssa replied while pointing to another spot on the map. “That would mean she would have had to come through here to get there by now, that would have been too dangerous going through here.”

Squeak squeaked a few times and pointed to another section, with Alyssa and Specca shaking their heads while Daniel started to think they were never going to see Luna again.

“No, she wouldn’t have gone that way,” Specca reasoned. “It would have taken her back closer to the lycans, and she was trying to get away from that area.”

“Do you think she went this way still?” Daniel wondered. “Maybe she left the child at the human village ahead of us.”

“Luna may not be a straight thinker,” Specca reasoned. “But I would assume not even she would be foolish enough to go into a human village, let alone with a human child.”

“Why not?” Daniel asked. “She was trying to protect that kid, right? Wouldn’t she want to take her into a village where she would be with other humans?”

“It’s one thing to approach a human village, Daniel,” Specca informed him. “If Luna were to get too close she would have been chased off for being a monster. She’s rather harmless and doesn’t look threatening; the humans would likely scare her off with threats and swords but wouldn’t bother to hunt her down. But if she had a human child with her, the people would have gone after her in a riot and killed her.”

Alyssa shook her head and eyed the map carefully.

“Monsters may prey on men and chase away women, but only truly evil and despicable monsters mess with children,” she explained. “I’m not proud to admit that witches can fall into that category, although I’ve never harmed a kid in my life. But there are some monsters that don’t care if a human is young and innocent.”

“It’s a very serious offense,” Specca added. “If a monster is seen near a human child, especially out here in The Outerlands, humans will try to kill it on sight. They’re protective of their young after all.”

“But Luna is trying to help save that child,” Daniel reasoned. “Doesn’t that make her a good monster?”

“Daniel,” Alyssa said with a glance at him. “Not everyone in this world thinks monsters can even
be
good. That’s what you’re out here to prove, remember?”

“She’s right,” Specca agreed. “The bottom line is even if Luna is trying to help Emily she can’t be seen with her near other humans, otherwise she’ll be placing a death warrant on her own head.”

“Which means if she wants the child to be returned to other humans, she’ll need us to deliver Emily into a village. She can’t do it herself,” Daniel concluded.

“Exactly,” Specca replied with a nod. “There may be a human village up ahead, but Luna, as crazy as she can be, wouldn’t dare go near it with a human child in her custody. She would be asking to be killed.”

“Then where would she have gone?” Daniel asked looking at the map carefully. “If she wouldn’t go for the village she could have gone off in any direction, if she even came this way to begin with.”

“This is bad,” Alyssa said shaking her head. “She could be anywhere. And I hate to point this out, but there’s no telling if they’re even still alive. It’s not safe out here for a lost, blind child and a wandering idiot.”

The group then looked ahead to where they saw Falla and Triska sitting on the front seat, the two looking around at the sight of fields of grass and trees while the caravan was stopped at the top of a hill. The sky above was starting to turn dark with stars beginning to be seen as the day was coming to an end, with Falla’s anxieties growing by the minute as the butterfly girl held her arms around herself while whimpering with distress.

“Oh god, I need to find her! I need to find her!”

“Calm down, Falla, we’ll-” Triska started before Falla grabbed and shook the teen by the shoulders with frustration.

“Don’t tell me to calm down! You don’t know my sister like I do, she can’t live without me! She could be hurt or dead right now, how can I calm down?” She shook Triska bout then looked around again while grabbing hold of her hair, her breathing picking up as Triska regained herself and watched the girl with surprise.

“Luna can’t survive without me for this long! Oh god, she might eat her own hand if I’m not there to feed her!” Falla wailed before choking back her sobs.

Triska watched her worriedly for a moment before slowly setting the reins for Lucky down and moving back into the cabin. The group watched as Falla muttered something to herself while looking around in a panic as Triska came over and sat by them.

“Okay,” Triska cautioned. “She’s freaking out now. What are we going to do?”

“She’s really troubled by her sister’s disappearance,” Specca commented curiously.

“I guess she does have a small heart after all, but don’t tell her I said that,” Alyssa mentioned while looking down to the map.

“We want to help her,” Daniel said worriedly. “But we don’t know where to begin looking at this point. Luna could be anywhere out there, we have no way of finding her.”

“Well what are we going to do then?” Triska asked. “We can’t search all day and night like this, we have places we need to be too.”

“We need help finding them, we can’t do this alone,” Specca reasoned.

Alyssa glanced around at the map then shook her head slowly.

“We could go ask the village of Eston for help,” she mentioned. “But they’re not going to want to save Luna. In fact, if they find out Luna is even with Emily they’ll kill her. Actually, when they see that most of us are monsters they may try to kill us.”

“We can’t send the village out there after Emily,” Daniel countered. “They may find her, but if they do they’ll find Luna with her and kill her. We can’t ask humans to help with this.”

“Well that leaves just us,” Triska pointed out. “And again, we can’t keep doing this. We have to meet up with Kroanette near Eston and then go see her mother, not to mention we have a lot of other monsters to meet.”

The group looked over to seeing Falla now standing on the seat as she desperately scanned the surroundings for any sign of her sister.

“We can’t just tell Falla we’re quitting though,” Specca said worriedly. “And we can’t leave Luna and Emily out there like this. What are we going to do?”

Alyssa drummed her fingers on the map then looked to Daniel.

“Daniel,” she said, getting everyone’s attention. “Do you have any idea how you’re going to ask humans to consider coexisting peacefully with us yet? I mean, do you know how you’re going to bring up such an idea with them?”

Daniel looked at her curiously then up in thought while crossing his arms.

“Hmm, I’m not quite sure yet,” he speculated. “At the very least we need more examples of monsters wanting the same thing before our leaders would even consider it.”

“Well,” Alyssa continued with a shrug. “If we’re going to find Luna and Emily, I don’t think we have a choice but to ask Eston for help.”

“What?” Specca questioned. “But we just went over how that would be a terrible idea. They’ll kill Luna and perhaps even us when they see that we’re monsters.”

“I know that, but we don’t have any other choice,” Alyssa reasoned looking down at the map. “We need help, and they’re the only ones around here we can ask. Look, we have a monster out there trying to help save a human child, maybe that will be enough to convince the village to at least spare her life if they find her. Maybe.”

“I don’t know,” Daniel said worriedly. “If we ask Eston for help we could be killing Luna in the process.”

“True,” Alyssa admitted. “But we need their help, and a monster
is
trying to save a human child as we speak. Daniel, this is as good as any time to try talking to your own kind about trusting monsters, we need their help searching The Outerlands for them.”

Daniel looked at the map with unease, wondering if he enlisted the help of a human village to search for Emily that he would be sentencing Luna to death in the process. Specca looked at the map carefully then sighed and glanced to Falla.

“She may be right,” she reluctantly agreed. “That village is the only chance we have at getting help with finding those two, and perhaps this would be a good example of monsters trying to help humans to get them to see reason.”

Triska and Squeak looked to Daniel and waited for his reaction, the boy thinking carefully about his options. After a while he slowly nodded while looking at the village on the map.

“I guess we don’t have a choice. We can’t keep circling around The Outerlands like this in search for them. We need help, and they’re the only ones we can ask.”

“Do you think they’ll spare Luna’s life though?” Triska asked. “What if they kill her on the spot when they find her?”

“We’ll have to hope Daniel can convince them to give Luna a chance,” Alyssa reasoned with a confident smile at Daniel. “If anyone can do it though it would be him.”

Daniel smiled slightly from that compliment and hoped he could indeed convince the village to at least spare Luna’s life for all that she’s done.

“Alright, then that’s what we’ll do.”

“So should we keep going towards Eston?” Triska asked. “We could be there in about an hour or so if we go now.”

Alyssa shook her head and looked to Daniel with a sweet smile.

“No, it’s getting late. We should make camp here and head to the village in the morning.”

“What?” Triska questioned. “But the sooner we tell the village about Emily the sooner they can start searching for her.” She blinked then showed Alyssa a dull stare.

“Right, you just want your date with Daniel,” she remembered with a flat tone.

“Hey,” Alyssa snapped back. “I’ve waited patiently for my turn with him, I’ve earned it.”

“Okay,” Triska said crossing her arms. “You tell Falla we’re putting off saving her sister and the child just so you can spend a night with Daniel.”

Specca and Squeak looked over to seeing Falla pacing back and forth on the seat of the caravan while crying and mumbling something to herself in her panic.

“I’m not sure she’ll like that idea too much,” Specca commented, with Squeak shaking her head to that.

Alyssa huffed then quickly grabbed onto Daniel’s arm with a stern look on her face.

“You’ve all had your nights with him,” she argued. “I’ve waited and waited for my turn with him, and I’ve tolerated bringing Falla along with us during this as well. Tonight is my time with Daniel, and like hell I’m giving that up for anything.”