“You stupid bug!” Jacqueline screamed as she swung her Ice Princess into the ground, the impact causing giant ice pillars to erupt around her while rupturing the ground. The blonde quickly looked around at the glimmering ice that was steadily melting in the burning forest’s heat, seeing warped reflections of herself in all of them before a tiny girl zipped past one and stopped in front of her chest.
“Bad boobies!” Pip scolded, smacking the monster’s breast a few times with a stern expression. She took off in a crimson blur as Jacqueline swung her fist at the fairy, pulverizing ice with heavy impacts before she slashed around with her sword and destroyed the rest with a furious cry.
“I’m going to rip you to pieces!” Jacqueline raged. She was quickly struck with a heavy torrent of magical energy, the swirling red and white lights punching her across the clearing and into a tree as Pip fired the powerful stream at her through a magical casting base. As the falling timber exploded into fiery debris a flash of white light sliced through the flames, creating large spikes of freezing ice that erupted from the ground towards the tiny fairy. Shooting off to the side in a blur Pip dodged the frozen spires that clumped up near where she was with loud crackling crunches, the fairy zipping around a few burning trees before rushing Jacqueline who got back onto her feet and swung at the tiny monster with a murderous roar.
“I hope the others got the elves out of here,” Daniel said to himself. “We can’t keep doing this forever.”
Looking back over to Jovian he caught sight of the woman lunging at him again with her sword. Bracing his feet Daniel parried the incoming blade with his, pushing Jovian off to the side before she quickly kicked him hard across his chest. With a painful cry Daniel was sent tumbling through a few loose branches on the ground before crashing into a long slide in the dirt. Groaning with a hand held to his side Daniel started to get up before quickly raising his sword to block Jovian’s, the powerful clash sending the Hellfire’s Edge flying out of his grip and further away where it struck into the ground with a sizzling jab.
“Now you die!” Jovian yelled, swinging down with her blade and just missing Daniel as he rolled off to the side. The ground exploded from the impact with lightning zapping outward from the rubble, throwing Daniel further into a tumble along the flying dirt and sparks as Jovian ran after him.
“Daniel!” Pip gasped, watching in horror as Daniel was thrown by the explosion with Jovian quickly closing in on him. In a flash an eruption of ice crystals detonated behind her, throwing the fairy into a spiral down to the ground with frost covering her wings and back. Pip whined while struggling move, her fearful eyes looking back at her wings that refused to budge then over to Jacqueline that walked up over her with a cold glare that was equally as chilling as the sword she held in hand.
“Filthy pest,” the blonde scorned as she watched Pip trembling beneath her.
“See you in hell, Daniel!” Jovian laughed as she wound back with her sword. Daniel started to get up onto his knees before seeing the woman right on top of him, her glaring multicolored eyes having gleams of light flashing across them from the electrical energy her blade was quickly building up. Jovian laughed wildly as she swung her Hellstorm towards the human, the blade curving through the air and straight for his head, right before Jovian took a sudden punch to her cheek that knocked her clear off to the side where she crashed into a burning pile of lumber. Looking up Daniel saw Squeak standing over him while having her fist held out, the ant girl squeaking sternly at where Jovian landed while walking over in front of her mate and glaring at where the murderous girl was buried in burning debris.
“Squeak?” Daniel asked. “What are you doing here?”
“Daniel!” Pip screamed as she shut her eyes, with Daniel and Squeak quickly turning to see Jacqueline raising her foot over the fairy with a maniacal laugh. She got ready to stomp down on the tiny monster before looking ahead as she heard footsteps quickly rushing towards her.
“Gonna bop you one!” Cindy yelled as she raced over and punched Jacqueline across the battlefield and into a large tree that broke apart from the impact and promptly toppled down atop the blonde gemini sister with a loud crash.
“Cindy?” Pip whimpered.
“Oh my gosh, are you okay?” Cindy worried as she quickly picked the fairy up with her hands. “I’m sorry, I got here as fast as I could. I kept tripping a lot, the ground won’t stop shaking, it was hard to run here. Are you alright, Pip?”
“I can’t move my wings,” Pip whined. “It hurts. It hurts. I’m so cold and everything hurts.”
“What can I do? What can I do to help? Tell me, Pip, I don’t know what to do,” Cindy whimpered with tears quickly forming. She looked around in a panic then towards Daniel and Squeak as the ant girl helped her mate back onto his feet.
“Daniel!” she cried running towards them. As she did both gemini sisters erupted from the debris they had been buried in, their screams sounding off in unison into the air while they glared with murderous rage at their attackers.
“How dare you!” they roared, the two girls then sprinting towards Squeak and Cindy with their weapons building up deadly charges of magical energy. Squeak pushed Daniel back behind her while Cindy slowly stopped her run with a nervous whine, both of them watching as Jovian and Jacqueline raced at them with lethal intent. Before they could get close a barrage of arrows streaked out of the nearby woods in a tight volley, pelting both gemini twins repeatedly in the heads and chests as the bolts whistled in their flight just past Daniel, Squeak, and Cindy and into the bodies of the Dark Queen. Staggering back with low growls Jovian and Jacqueline regained their balance, their multicolored eyes turning to see Clover walking out of the burning woodland with two arrows primed in her bow and both twintails flowing behind in the breeze.
“Get away from my family!” Clover shouted, letting loose the bolts that shot through the air and into the foreheads of the sisters, knocking them off their feet and onto their backs with hard thumps.
“Clover?” Daniel wondered. “Cindy? What are you girls doing here? You’re supposed to be leading the elves out of Green Haven.”
Clover ran by the Hellfire’s Edge and quickly swiped it up by the handle, the elf rushing towards Daniel along with Cindy while Squeak was now hugging her mate tightly.
“Squeak, stop,” Daniel insisted as the ant girl squeaked and wiggled her abdomen in her embrace. “I’m happy to see you girls too, but you shouldn’t be here. It’s too dangerous.”
“Daniel, Pip’s hurt!” Cindy whined, rushing up to him and holding the shivering fairy out in her hands. Daniel gently took the tiny girl into his hands with Squeak looking at her little co-mate with alarm, both of them seeing the fairy twitching slightly while she was partly frozen.
“Pip! Pip, can you hear me?”
“So cold,” Pip shivered. “Can’t fly. Can’t move. Need boobies. Need boobies.”
“Pip,” Daniel softly lamented. He then saw Clover running up towards him while holding the Hellfire’s Edge at her side. “Clover, thank you for saving her. But what are you doing here, I told you to get your people out of Green Haven, remember?”
“And I did,” Clover replied, walking up to him and handing the sword out. Daniel took hold of the blade while watching her curiously, the elf glancing over towards where Jovian and Jacqueline were sitting up and yanking arrows out of their bodies. “I got my people heading towards Alyssa just like you asked. But I just couldn’t leave without knowing you were coming with me. Not to mention I wanted to say goodbye to those two assholes over there that killed my priestess.”
“You stubborn elf,” Daniel sighed.
“Feel free to discipline me all you want when we get back home,” Clover remarked with a smirk. “You can do whatever you want to me, Dan. I won’t fight you in the slightest.”
“I just might have to. Hey, where’s Felucia? You were with her last, weren’t you? What happened to her? Is she alright?”
“Oh, mother?” Cindy said looking
off to the side. “She’s right over there.”
Jovian and Jacqueline started to get onto their feet again after having pulled out all of Clover’s arrows, the sisters snarling at Daniel’s group with broiling rage before a tree slammed down atop the two girls and plowed them into the ground.
“FUCK YOU!” Felucia roared as she held onto the trunk’s base with both arms, the sand wraith backing away from where she pounded the Dark Queen into the dirt while flipping them off with both hands. “Yeah, you like that? You like that, you fucking whores? Having fun choking on dirt, you sick pig-fuckers! That’s what you get for messing with me and threatening my daughter! Suck on that, bitches!”
“She seems fine to me,” Clover reasoned with a shrug. She glanced behind Daniel before suddenly jumping with surprise and quickly grabbing three arrows to prime in her bow. “Whoa! Get down, Dan!”
Turning around Daniel saw a salamander woman wearing a scarf standing behind him, her glowing eyes and sharpened teeth with cinders floating out between them quickly jolting him with alarm, causing him to stumble away into Cindy while Clover took aim at the fiery monster with a sharp glare. Before she could strike the monster down Squeak jumped in front of the startled salamander and held her hands out towards the elf, shaking her head and squeaking something frantically while Daniel and Cindy just stared at her in stunned silence.
“Wait, don’t shoot,” Sheal hoarsely pleaded holding her hands up. “I’m not here to fight you. She brought me here after she saved my life. She wouldn’t leave me behind.”
“Squeak?” Daniel asked.
“That is your real name?” Sheal questioned the ant girl. “Huh, didn’t think I guessed right with that.”
“You two know each other?” Clover demanded.
Squeak nodded and squeaked something at them while waving her hands around in indecipherable patterns, with Daniel and Clover now showing blank expressions while Cindy was nervously watching the fiery monster from behind Daniel’s shoulder. After the ant girl finished speaking she smiled weakly at Daniel and awaited his response, with the human and elf remaining quiet as they then turned their eyes back onto the salamander.
“Do you understand her?” Sheal worried.
“Nobody understands her,” Clover flatly said, glancing briefly to Squeak who groaned with a face palm as she realized what once again happened.
“Please, I’m not with The Sisterhood,” Sheal insisted. “I mean… I was, but not anymore. Not after they betrayed me.”
“They betray their own members? I’m shocked,” Clover dryly retorted. She eyed over the salamander then raised an eyebrow at Squeak. “Why did you bring her? You seriously trust her?”
Squeak nodded and squeaked at her a few times, with Clover breathing out heavily before turning to Daniel for his verdict. He examined Sheal for a moment before Felucia walked over and grabbed him by the shirt, lifting him up off the ground with a furious glare aimed at the surprised human.
“You! You’re the one that corrupted my darling daughter! How dare you taint her impressionable mind with your nonsense and lies! You’re going to pay for what you did! Nobody messes with my baby!”
“Stop, mother!” Cindy pleaded as she tried pulling on her arm. “Put Daniel down! Don’t hurt him! I love him! Don’t hurt him, mother!”
As Daniel held a shivering fairy in one hand and the Hellfire’s Edge in the other, he looked around at seeing Cindy crying and shaking her head, Felucia shouting at him with sandy patches forming on her cheek and neck, Clover keeping her aim steady on the salamander woman in the group while berating the elder sand wraith to put her mate down, Squeak holding a hand out towards the elf while squeaking sharply at Felucia, and Sheal who was nervously keeping her hands raised defensively while staying behind Squeak. Everyone then turned to where explosions of lightning and ice tore through the toppled tree, sending charred and frozen debris flying into the air while the gemini sisters slowly stood up amidst the rubble with dark glares aimed at the group.
“Girls?” Daniel spoke up. “We can discuss our problems later. Right now we have a more serious issue to deal with. That being said, would you mind putting me down, Felucia?”
The sand wraith slowly lowered him onto the ground while trying to force a brave face in front of the gemini, the others then turning to Daniel as he brought the Hellfire’s Edge upright at his side while seeing the twins standing again without a scratch on them.
“Dammit,” Felucia grunted. “Those two monsters just won’t stay down.”
“Tell me about it,” Daniel dryly agreed. “Can someone please tell me if the elves in Green Haven are at least making their way to the southern fields by now?”
“I sent a huge crowd of my people to meet with Alyssa before coming here,” Clover answered.
“We saved some elves from some mean monsters,” Cindy spoke up. “We told them to go to Alyssa as well.”
“We saw a large mob of elves heading south on our way here,” Sheal added. “There was a strange, tiny woman floating ahead of them. I didn’t know what to make of it but Squeak seemed happy about seeing them.”
Daniel glanced to Squeak who nodded at him, his eyes then moving down to Pip who remained incapacitated in his hand. He carefully passed the whimpering fairy to Cindy, the sand wraith gently cradling the tiny monster in her hands as Daniel stepped ahead of the girls towards the gemini.
“Cindy, keep her safe. Without her magic we won’t be able to go home. Stay back and do not let those monsters get anywhere near her.”
“Okay, Daniel,” Cindy worried. She gently rested the fairy between her breasts and backed up behind the group, with Pip turning around and snuggling closer to the wraith’s boobs as she kept shaking.
“Boobies,” she whimpered softly. “Protect me. Give me your warmth, please.”
“You’ll be safe there, Pip. My boobs will protect you. I promise.”
“What’s your name?” Daniel asked the salamander woman.
“Sheal,” she raspingly replied.
“If Squeak trusts you then I’ll do my best to do so as well. My apologies if we’re understandably skeptical about you switching sides like this. Prove her faith in you correct and help us deal with these two, and then we can have a more civilized discussion about you after we leave.”
“If you’re planning on fighting those demons then I’ll gladly lend a hand,” Sheal growled with a harsh glare at the gemini. “They murdered my sisters unjustly and their followers left me for dead. I would love to pay them back for all they’ve done.”
“Glad to hear you’re motivated,” Daniel reasoned before glancing to Felucia. “We can have a long talk about Cindy and your concerns for her wellbeing after this, but right now my priority is making sure we all make it out of here alive.”
“Oh, we’re going to have a talk alright,” Felucia snapped at him. “You can count on that.”
“Glad we’re in agreement,” Daniel said as he turned his focus to the gemini again. “Alright, girls. You wanted to help me out, so here’s your chance. We need to keep these two horrors busy here while Alyssa works to get the elves out of this land. We can’t let either of these murderers get to them or else they’ll slaughter all of Clover’s people without restraint.”
“How are you planning on getting all the elves away from The Sisterhood?” Sheal questioned.
“Don’t worry about it,” Clover replied. “Just do as my man says and prove to us you’re not one of them.”
“We’re not going to be able to hold them off for long,” Felucia pointed out. “Just how long are you expecting to drag this out?”
Following another tremor hitting the area the group looked back behind them from hearing a high-pitched wailing sound, all of them seeing a fiery light soaring high into the air before exploding into a flurry of colorful flashes of red and violet radiances.
“What is that?” Cindy wondered. “Pretty lights.”
“That wasn’t Eden erupting,” Felucia said shaking her head. �
�That was some sort of magical display.”
“I bet that’s Alyssa’s signal,” Clover smirked. “That came from the southern fields. She must be starting the spell now.”
“So what does that mean for us?” Sheal asked.
“We just need to hold the gemini here a little longer,” Daniel answered as they turned their focus back onto Jovian and Jacqueline, the twins moving their chilling gazes from the colorful sparks in the sky back down towards the group of fighters that stood in front of them. Clover held her arrows at the ready with a sharp glare aimed at the murderous duo, Squeak clenched her fists while narrowing her eyes at the twins with a stern squeak, Daniel gripped the Hellfire’s Edge with both hands as he stared down the gemini, Felucia tensed up while her daughter kept further back behind them with one arm held close to her chest to shield Pip, and Sheal growled with fire coming out of her mouth as she felt her blood boiling at the sight of the Dark Queen.
As the fighters got ready to battle the near-immortal twin sisters within the burning forest, three others were closely observing the confrontation from under the shade of a nearby slanted tree that rested against another wide timber it had fallen into.
“Is the view more acceptable now, little sister?” Flarah asked.
“The view is fine,” Kindra snapped. “I’m more worried about the fact Daniel Sorres is facing that Dark Queen all because of you, big sister.”
“Relax, little foxes,” Aeon chuckled. Leaning against the upright tree the Dark Queen smirked as she witnessed the gemini brandishing their enchanted weapons, her glowing eyes then moving over to Daniel who remained firm with facing them while holding his own magical blade at the ready.
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