“We really have to spell everything out for him, don’t we?” Jovian muttered.
“What do those stupid girls see in him?” Jacqueline scoffed.
“What are you two talking about?” Daniel scorned as he kept a hand back to keep Clover behind him. “Why have you done all this? The centaurs, the elves, so many innocent lives, why have you brought this hell upon them? Why are you doing this?”
“We told you before,” Jovian reminded him. “We’re thrill seekers, my sister and I. We like to party.”
“And word has it there’s going to be a very big party in Rockhelm soon,” Jacqueline said with a wink. “Right, Daniel?”
“Rockhelm?” Daniel repeated.
“That’s right,” Jovian agreed as Daniel and Clover watched them in further confusion. “You were planning on bringing some monsters there to visit your queen and talk about peace and love and all that shit. Ring any bells?”
“You have to remember,” Jacqueline laughed. “You’re out here looking for monsters to stand before your queen while your preach your idiotic beliefs, that’s what you said to us before we got separated. Well we have good news for you, Daniel. We’ve found a whole lot more to bring before your queen.”
“What the fuck is this?” Clover asked shaking her head slowly. “What are you two talking about?”
“It’s quite simple,” Jovian lectured with hands at her hips. “We’re bringing more monsters to Rockhelm to help poor Daniel. We’re going to aid our dear friend in showing the humans and their queen exactly what happens when monsters and humans ‘try to get along’.”
“She’ll get the message loud and clear,” Jacqueline taunted. “Don’t worry, Daniel. We’re going to help you make everyone see what monsters are really capable of in this world.”
“You’re going to invade Rockhelm?” Daniel asked in disbelief. “That’s your grand plan?”
“That’s why you wanted us and the centaurs to join you?” Clover retorted. “To help you overthrow the humans in Koskaysil? Are you fucking insane? Rockhelm is an impenetrable fortress in itself, no monsters in this land can bring it down, especially the likes of those pathetic bitches you’ve gathered here under your feet. Do you have any idea how strong Rockhelm is?”
“Oh yes,” Jovian recalled looking up thoughtfully. “We’ve heard much about the revered and incredible might held within that kingdom’s magnificent walls.”
“Over a thousand well-trained knights,” Jacqueline said with a shrug. “Hundreds of expert spell casters. And if the humans were truly desperate enough they have handfuls of citizens who could easily pick up a sword and join with protecting their precious home. Those are just lowly estimates from what we’ve heard as well, it could very well be much greater than that.”
“And you think you can beat them?” Clover mocked with a bitter smile. “How fucked up are you girls? All of that waiting for you within Rockhelm’s walls, and what do you have to challenge them?”
“Over four thousand strong,” Jovian remarked, the sisters now showing cruel grins as Daniel and Clover stared at them in surprise of what they heard.
“Four… thousand?” Clover slowly repeated. “That’s impossible. Where could you have gotten that many monsters to side with you?”
“That’s the funny thing,” Jacqueline laughed. “They just came to us.”
“That’s not entirely true, sister,” Jovian mentioned shaking a finger. “We did gather plenty of tribes of goblins and gremlins out in the eastern wastelands. They were pretty keen on seeing the humans falling to their knees and wanted to help us.”
“That is true,” Jacqueline conceded. “We did make lots of friends all on our own at first. They told friends who then became our friends, we had a nice little bunch going for a while. But then the craziest thing happened. So many more just came our way.”
“Hundreds upon hundreds of them,” Jovian said with a sharp smile at Clover’s shocked face. “The mindless idiots were just waltzing across Eden, not even seeming to know why themselves. They just ‘wanted’ to come out here. Why, if that wasn’t a sign from the heavens above I don’t know what is. We kindly extended our hands and they joined our cause of tearing apart your dreams of peace and love in this land, and with them more and more came before us, each just as eager to see the humans reduced to cattle and corpses as the last.”
“Four thousand monsters?” Clover breathed out. “There are four thousands monsters nearby?”
“Well, not right now,” Jovian admitted with a shrug. “Many have been sent out to the east to find and collect more pawns for our little game. Others are scouring the nearby lands, gathering food for our army, weapons to butcher our prey, humans to rape and torment, and anything else that catches their fancy.”
“Though we do have plenty of friends to keep us company here,” Jacqueline giggled as she pointed behind her. “Maybe you didn’t see it behind your little dump of a home. There are tents and campfires stretching far past the forest into the arid countryside right behind us. We have so many playmates all within arm’s reach, all of which who will do anything we say.”
“Plus we have the elves here in Green Haven,” Jovian mentioned. “Didn’t you hear about that? They’ve agreed to join our Sisterhood. You’re one of us now, girl. Congratulations.”
“Like fucking hell I am,” Clover snarled. “And my people are not joining the likes of you. We’re nothing like you fucking savages and never will be!”
“Oh, but you already have,” Jacqueline retorted. “Your new priestess has agreed to our terms. High Priestess Sivil is what I believe she goes by.”
“Sivil?” Clover cursed. “That fucking whore who Celine kicked out of Green Haven for treating our sisters like cow shit is now priestess? How the hell did that happen? My people would never bow to the likes of her!”
“They do when their only other option is death,” Jovian pointed out. “I will admit, there were some holdouts when she became priestess, and sadly we had to put down a few stubborn elves who wouldn’t listen to reason. But as I’m sure you’ve seen outside the rest of your people are falling in line quite well with their new leadership.”
“The high maidens sure went kicking and screaming,” Jacqueline laughed. “And then they were only kicking. And then they just… swung in the breeze.”
Clover looked back down to the forest below with horror while Daniel trembled with anger as he saw the gemini laughing at them with absolute merriment. Felucia glanced behind her at the elven grove beneath them then shrugged at Clover who slowly shook her head while struggling to hold in her tears.
“Look on the bright side,” she said, getting Clover’s attention while Daniel’s remained focused on the gemini. “At least your people are going to live while serving them.”
“Serving demons like them isn’t living,” Clover argued shaking her head. “You may have resigned yourself to being their bitch but I’m not letting my people share that fate.”
“Oh yeah?” Felucia asked raising an eyebrow. “And just how do you plan on stopping them?”
“Yeah, tell us,” Jovian giggled. “What are you weak little elves going to do to stop us?”
“You could always refuse our generous offer,” Jacqueline mused with a shrug. “If you prefer to be turned into manure to feed this forest of yours that’s always an option.”
“Why are you doing this?” Daniel demanded, with the girls then seeing him stepping forward. “Why are you going out of your way to attack the centaurs, the elves, and the humans in Rockhelm? Why are you doing all this, what do you have to gain from spilling so much blood?”
“You, Daniel,” Jovian answered, with Daniel watching her carefully as the girl held a hand to her cheek and shook her head slowly with a gentle smile at him. “We want you to suffer. We want you to cry. We want you to scream. That’s what would make us the happiest. Your despair.”
“Not going to lie,” Jacqueline added with a shrug. “Slaughtering all these monsters and humans along
the way is a wonderful treat. We can’t say we’re not enjoying ourselves because believe us we are. But the one thing we want more than anything, Daniel, is you. We want you to suffer the most.”
“Why me?” Daniel asked.
“Because we want you to,” the gemini replied before slowly unsheathing their swords. Jovian’s Hellstorm crackled with arcs of electricity while Jacqueline’s Ice Princess had a chilling aura surrounding it with snowflakes drifting from its edge.
“You and your… mates are the only ones who ever escaped us,” Jovian said with a bitter smile. “Who ever lived after we decided you should die.”
“You talk of such naïve dreams of peace and desire such disgusting things as they in life,” Jacqueline scowled while glancing to Clover. “You’re so weak, and pathetic, and undeserving of life itself.”
“We’re going to do more than kill you for daring to escape us,” Jovian promised as the two sisters held their swords out towards Daniel with dark glares. “We’re going to fill your heart with more than just pain and suffering. Agony, despair, loneliness, fear, sorrow, ridicule. We’re going to make your very soul weep and beg for mercy before you die, before you wish for release from your accursed life, before we allow you to finally breathe your last breath in this world.”
“We’re going to take everything from you,” Jacqueline promised. “All your dreams of bringing peace to this world, all your mates that you love and fuck, any wishes you wanted to see become a reality, every single thing you cherish and hold dear, we’re going to break it and stomp it into the dirt before your very eyes.”
“You’re fucking crazy,” Clover breathed out. “You’re completely mad.”
“No,” Jovian corrected shaking her head with a sinister smile. “We’re not mad. We’re delighted. We’re delighted to be able to do this. Not just with spreading chaos and anarchy wherever we go, not just with the amount of blood we’ve soaked the trail behind us in, but all because it will destroy Daniel Sorres’ very spirit in a way we so rarely get to bestow upon our prey.”
“We have the chance to completely tear your heart out in the worst of ways,” Jacqueline continued. “A special kind of suffering, just for you, Daniel. Our dear, beloved, cherished, friend. Breaking you into a shallow wreck of a sniveling maggot is going to be simply orgasmic to see.”
“We’re going to make you scream,” the gemini taunted with cruel smiles. “We’re going to make you scream, Daniel Sorres.”
Daniel stared down the gemini while gripping the handle of his sword, seeing the twin monsters laughing at him with their repeated saying while Clover shakily held her aim on them still and staying close behind him.
“But you know what?” Jovian said with a raised eyebrow. “I think we’ve been good little girls and waited patiently enough at this point. I believe we deserve a little taste of things to come, don’t you?”
“Sister,” Jacqueline coyly said. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
“I think I am. How about we rape and devour Daniel’s pet elf right here and now?” Jovian mused, with Clover jumping with a startle as the gemini turned their multicolored eyes onto her. “Let’s start filling Daniel’s big heart that he has for these girls with agony by ripping that girl open right before his eyes.”
“She doesn’t have much in terms of breasts,” Jacqueline mocked with a smirk. “But her ass does look tasty. Hopefully she’s a good screamer at least.”
“Fuck you!” Clover yelled as she fired all three arrows, piercing Jacqueline in the chest and head with loud thwacks and staggering the girl back a step. Everyone watched as the dark girl slowly regained her balance with a mean smile aimed towards Clover before she pulled the bolts out and tossed them aside.
“Good, you can scream loudly after all. I like that in our meals,” Jacqueline said before licking her lips. “Let’s get her on the table and have some fun with her, I want to taste her so bad.”
Clover trembled fearfully at being their focus while she slowly lowered her bow before Daniel stepped over and stood in front of her.
“You’re not touching her,” Daniel growled as he felt something within him again building with his anger. “I will never allow you to harm a hair on any of my girls.”
“Oh no?” Jovian mocked with a smirk.
“What are you going to do about it?” Jacqueline sneered.
“Yeah, seriously,” Felucia dryly added. “What can you do, kid?”
Far below the royal tree in the hollowed railway hub red ant girls were busy checking crates of their explosives while more were being unloaded from the cargo trains that had already arrived. The officer standing near the turntable watched her kin working steadily before her antennae twitched, the girl then looking towards the eastern tunnel as clacking wheels and light screeches were heard approaching. She rolled her eyes with an annoyed grimace and looked back to the workers, pausing for a moment before blinking and quickly turning back to see the tracks for the incoming train were still set towards the center turntable that wasn’t aligned for it. She squeaked in alarm and pointed to the tracks, with workers quickly taking notice before a few dashed towards it with frantic squeaking.
They barely got off the main platform before the incoming train rounded a bend and raced towards them, the drivers of the convoy steadily squeaking and working their levers while those riding in the cars behind them saw the approaching station while having an abundance of bombs that were to be delivered. The ant girls running towards the tracks squeaked and waved their arms to no avail as the train ran across the rails and into the cavern in a straight path, with those aboard watching in confusion before jumping in shock at seeing where they were heading. The drivers began to apply the brakes before noticing where they were going, the ant girls then screeching in surprise while those aboard squeaked in panic and waved their arms around. The train started to slow down but not nearly enough as they soon ran out of track, with the convoy then striking the edge of the turntable platform with its wheels being struck clean off below it.
All the ant girls stopped what they were doing in watched in shock as the out-of-control convoy screeched and slid across the cavern before clipping another track and toppling over into a roll in the air. The ant girls on the train experienced a brief moment of wonder as they floated in the air along with their cargo, moments before they crashed into the ground where the volatile explosives onboard reacted as they were expected to. In a flash the entire cavern lit up with a powerful blast, the shockwave and resulting inferno striking through the cave and igniting every bomb that was stockpiled in it. The ant girls in the tunnels ahead heard a loud rumble and deafening bang before the corridors filled with fire and smoldering debris, the workers only managing to realize what happened before they and everything around them was annihilated with all their bombs going off in an uncontrollable chain reaction.
High above Green Haven the entire grove and forest behind it was seen to rumble with a heavy groundquake hitting without warning. All the elves and monsters in the forest stopped and struggled to keep their balance before blasts of fire and charred rock erupted violently all throughout the haven. A massive rupture exploded directly beneath the royal tree while dozens of smaller yet still dangerously large pockets of burning fire and molten rock sprayed up through the ground and several trees all over the forest, sending flaming debris and burning wood into the air all across the home of the now terrified and screaming elves. Behind the village a winding crevice blasted upward of flames and high-speed gravel, slicing through the forest and instantly incinerating dozens of camps filled with goblins, trolls, and witches while those around were scattered into disarray and panic. Trees swayed and crackled in the haven while every elf grabbed onto whatever they could for balance, with a few rope bridges snapping and falling with screaming elves aboard while some of the trees teetered and even dropped down into pits as the ground was annihilated from below.
“What’s happening?” Cindy cried out before Squeak tackled her aside to avoi
d a falling tree that was engulfed in fire.
“Okay…” Reiko slowly said as she was looking out the window of a rumbling elven dwelling. She watched all manner of chaos and hellfire raging throughout the village then turned to the elven mother and two daughters that she had been talking to.
“So, I don’t think that’s the signal I was talking about. But… you should probably start running for your lives anyway. Your choice. Good luck,” she said before waving and zipping out the window. The elves looked to each other in stunned silence then screamed as their home shook violently and tilted on the side of its tree.
Standing near the tall field of grass outside of the elven grove Alyssa stared with wide eyes while holding the sleeping fairy in her hand, the witch watching in shock as fire and smoke blasted high above the forest while screams were heard echoing throughout the haven.
“Did Daniel use the sword already?” she shakily asked herself.
In the royal temple Clover held onto Daniel as they lowered to their knees and struggled not to lose their balance, the shaking building throwing tables and chairs all around while the windows cracked severely with small shards of glass falling out. Felucia staggered aside then dropped onto her rear with a yelp while the gemini wavered with their footing while merely looking around curiously.
“What the fuck is going on now?” Clover cried out.
“That’s a good question,” the gemini plainly replied as they nodded in agreement.
Daniel and Clover stumbled back and hit the window, breaking more of its glass out with a clatter before they helped each other stand again and looked outside at what was happening to the village. They saw fires spreading everywhere in the forest while several trees were tilting dangerously far on their broken bases. Elves were running around in a panic along with The Sisterhood while pockets of the forest floor gave away into deep pits with fire flaring up far below them. Beneath the royal tree most of the ground had dropped into the seemingly endless chasm while the grand timber’s roots still held onto enough foundation around the pit’s edges to stay standing.
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