Act IX

by Alexander Gordon

  “C’mon! You’re the feared Bloodcat of VanEllovan aren’t you? Get up and fight!”

  Star remained motionless.

  “You’re not fooling anyone! We all know jinxes are crafty monsters, so quit the charade and get up!”

  Star remained motionless.

  “Star, are you alright?” Doku worriedly asked as she rushed over to her. She nudged the cat who then dropped down onto her side with a thump with a weak mewl.

  “You took her down in one shot,” Falla said, remembering how the jinx had smiled arrogantly at seeing Kitten flying towards her with a pillow wound back to strike with, only for the cambion to then swing down on the cat with enough force to slam the poor girl straight into the bed and knock her out of her senses.

  “How though?” Clover wondered. “Shouldn’t something bad have happened to Kitten instead?”

  “Kitten wasn’t trying to hurt her,” Specca reasoned covering her face tiredly. “She was only trying to play with her. Star’s aura only protects her from physical harm being directed at her purposely, not accidents. Or in this case playing.”

  “Get up!” Kitten yelled at the dazed girls. “This isn’t a fun game at all! You all go down too easily!”

  “I’m having fun!” Cindy cheered sitting up and raising her hand. “Let’s do that again!”

  “No, let’s not,” Specca asserted holding her hands out. “Two girls already have concussions, let’s not add to that.”

  “Of course they went down easily,” Clover reasoned with a dull glance at Kitten. “You’re a demon with super strength. What did you expect to happen when you whacked them with those fucking pillows like a battle hungry minotaur?”

  “That’s the point of the game, isn’t it?” Kitten snapped at her. “To hit each other with these damned things. I was just doing what you all were doing.”

  “Alyssa? Speak to me,” Doku fretted as she hurried over to the witch. She cradled Alyssa in her wings as the little girl’s head was rolling around slightly, a weak groan being made before she coughed out a white feather.

  “Wha… what happened?” she wearily asked.

  “Alyssa, are you alright?”

  “I didn’t take the last cookie… it was Luna,” Alyssa droned before slumping down in the harpy’s wings.

  “Cookies?” Luna eagerly asked sitting up, looking around with a bright smile just as Cindy was now doing.

  “There’s more cookies here?” the wraith cheered while hopping onto her feet. “Yay! I love cookies!”

  Kitten threw her pillow down to the floor with a frustrated growl, hands clenching at her sides while her wings flinched behind her. Falla and Squeak headed over to Luna to untie her and then take turns gently nudging Star to make sure she was still alive. Clover and Specca hurried over to where Doku was lying Alyssa down, the three girls watching the witch with unease as they saw her barely keeping awake. Everyone then turned to Kitten while remaining quiet, her glowing eyes slowly glancing around at seeing everyone watching her as the last the floating feathers in the room finally settled.

  “I just… wanted to try playing with you girls,” Kitten slowly reasoned.

  Nobody said a word as they stared at her, the cambion’s lips flinching a bit before she turned to walk towards the archway.

  “I can see that was a mistake,” she muttered looking down. “I’ll just leave. Sorry for ruining your night.”

  ‘Why do I even try?’

  “Don’t give up, Kitten,” Triska urged. “So you went a little overboard with the game, it doesn’t mean-”

  ‘Just stop, Triska. I shouldn’t have come in here with them, I should have just stayed near my master. I’m never going to bond with them like you do. Even when I’m trying to be nice I just cause trouble. Who the hell would want to be friends with a demon anyway?’

  “What did you just say?” Specca asked. Kitten stopped and glanced back to her, seeing all the girls looking at her curiously now.

  “I said I was sorry for ruining your night.”

  “I don’t think I’ve ever heard you saying sorry to any of us before,” Specca mused shaking her head. “I wasn’t sure you even could.”

  “Whatever,” Kitten grumbled walking away again. Before she could leave the room someone quickly hugged her from behind, the demon stopping in confusion and looking back to see Luna holding onto her.

  “Thank you,” Luna kindly said.

  “For what?”

  “For coming to my rescue,” Luna giggled with a flutter of her wings. “It was just a game, but you were still the one who saved me in the end. So thank you, Kitten.”

  “You weren’t in any danger,” Kitten said shaking her head. “Actually, if my swing had been any lower you could have been in danger. From me.”

  “I trust you,” Luna replied with a shrug. Kitten turned to look at her in puzzlement as the butterfly looked down with her hands held behind her back. “I know you wouldn’t hurt me on purpose. You’re not mean like that.”

  “You actually trust me?” Kitten doubtfully asked.

  “I do. You still scare me a little, but that’s alright. I know you’re not like how you were when we first met you. You’ve changed.”

  “You really think I’m any different?” Kitten mocked looking down at herself in derision. “You really are crazy.”

  “Maybe a little, but I know you have changed. You’re becoming a good girl, just like Daniel wanted for you.”

  “Not good enough,” Kitten retorted. “I try to be nice to you girls and may have caused brain damage with two of you by playing a simple game.”

  “Just control your strength next time,” Luna reasoned with a weak smile. “You’ll get better at it.”

  “Next time? Why would there be a next time? Why would any of you want me to play with you again knowing I could likely kill you by accident?”

  “I want to play with you again!” Cindy giggled running over to the cambion. She hopped about excitedly while Kitten watched her with a raised eyebrow. “I like playing with you! You’re really strong and it’s fun whacking each other with those pillow things! They’re so soft but they also hit so hard! And these pretty feathers come out the more you hit stuff with them! I wanna do that again!”

  “You liked playing with me?” Kitten asked in bewilderment. “But I kept smearing you across the room. Literally.”

  “It was fun! Haha!”

  Kitten watched the wraith hopping about joyously with confusion then looked over to the other girls, all of them watching her curiously from the bed while Star and Alyssa twitched a little and proved they were still alive.

  “Kitten,” Specca said scooting forward. “If I may ask, why did you want to play with us to begin with? Last we saw you it seemed like you wanted nothing to do with us.”

  Kitten remained silent as she lowered her head. She then flinched and rubbed her ear with an annoyed growl and glance to the side.

  “Fine, fine,” she muttered before looking over to the girls again. “It’s just… the only reason… it wasn’t because… look, it’s just that I want to be like you, okay?”

  “Like us?” Falla asked pointing to herself.

  “You control your inner nature,” Kitten explained, lowering her head and holding a fist over her heart. “Just like my master wishes of you. Just like he wants me to do. My nature… my entire being only wants one thing. To make him happy. To serve him. That’s all I think about now.”

  “How does that make you want to come back and give Star and Alyssa concussions?” Specca asked.

  “My nature is to only care about my master,” Kitten told her with a solemn expression. “He’s the only one my body and heart yearn for. Nobody else. Having friends, a family, or even other lovers, it’s not normal for me. I’m a slave to my master and him only, nobody else should mean anything to me.”

  “Again, why come back and nearly kill them then?” Clover dryly asked pointing to Star and Alyssa.

  “I wanted…” Kitten said before stru
ggling to speak. She took a few slow breaths then glanced away with a stubborn grimace. “I wanted… to try… and make friends.”

  “Friends?” Specca repeated as all the girls showed surprise to that.

  “You want to be friends with us?” Falla carefully asked.

  “It would please my master,” Kitten reasoned while averting eye contact with them. “He desires a girl who can control her inner nature, who can show... heart. And that doesn’t mean just towards him. Treating others kindly is also something he looks for in a girl. So… I came back to try and… be friendly with you.”

  After a long pause she slowly looked around to see all the girls except Cindy staring at her with wide eyes.

  “What?”

  “That is the last thing I ever expected to hear you say,” Specca answered. “The last thing.”

  “Well it’s true!” Kitten snapped. “Do you have any idea how hard it is to merely tolerate you being around my master? It already goes against everything I am to allow such a thing, but it alone isn’t enough to truly please him. He wants me to… be more like you girls. And apparently that’s the only way I can get closer to him as well.”

  “So you’re just pretending to be our friend in order to get closer to Daniel?” Falla flatly asked crossing her arms.

  “No, I’m not. I’m trying to be nice to you girls. I’m trying to be your… friend.”

  Falla slowly showed a look of wonder while her mouth opened slightly. The other girls turned to her as she stared at Kitten while seeming stunned of what she just heard.

  “Falla? Is she telling the truth?” Luna asked.

  “I think… she is,” Falla slowly answered, with all the girls looking over to Kitten in surprise as she was shaking a bit in embarrassment and frustration.

  “You really want to be friends with us?” Specca asked in disbelief.

  “Is this true, Kitten?” Doku wondered with a curious smile.

  “I want to control my inner nature,” Kitten stated while keeping her eyes down at the floor. “And right now I am seeing as how my inner nature is telling me to kill you all for making me say such embarrassing things like this! Yes, goddammit! I want to be nicer to you all! Okay?”

  “You want to be our friend?” Luna asked with an eager smile.

  “I just said yes!”

  “You really want to be our friend?”

  “How many times do I have to say it? Yes!”

  “FRIENDS!” Luna cheered as she quickly clung to Kitten and started laughing like a deranged homicidal maniac. The other girls watched them curiously while Kitten struggled not to throw the butterfly off her as she was laughing loudly into her ear with wide eyes and quickly fluttering wings.

  “I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND TOO! HAHAHAHAHA!”

  “Yay, friends!” Cindy cheered as she quickly hugged them as well. Luna continued laughing uncontrollably while Cindy hopped about holding onto both of them, all while Kitten was shutting her eyes tightly and reminding herself that killing either of them was something Daniel would frown upon.

  “She wants to be nice to us?” Falla asked shaking her head.

  “She thinks she can be nice to us?” Specca dryly added.

  “I think she can,” Doku calmly agreed. The other girls turned to her questionably as she was watching Kitten losing her patience with Luna and Cindy. “She said it herself, her inner nature wishes to make Daniel happy with her. If becoming closer with us is the only way to achieve that then she’ll do it. She’ll do even the impossible if it means he’ll accept her.”

  “You really think Kitten can become a kindhearted girl like we are?” Falla asked. Squeak slowly shook her head as she glanced over to the cambion, the troubled look on her face suggesting she thought the demon wouldn’t be able to at all.

  “Daniel brought out the best in all of us,” Doku proudly replied. “We’re here now as a close family because of him. If anyone can help Kitten show her heart to the world and fight her nature to repel all others in this world, it would be our mate. I have faith in that.”

  The girls turned to see Kitten having a furious scowl on her face as Cindy and Luna were bouncing about on either side of the girl while holding onto her arms. The demon glanced to the special butterfly who had lost her senses then to the sand wraith who didn’t have much sense to begin with, both girls laughing and rubbing their breasts against her arms as they hopped around excitedly. Kitten growled quietly to herself then lowered her head and shut her eyes, thinking about how happy her master would be with her that she bonded with the girls and trying to tune out everything else.

  “What’s going on?” Alyssa wearily asked as she started to sit up. Star began to move and meowed weakly before she rubbed her head. They slowly regained their senses then saw Luna and Cindy laughing while they tested Kitten’s last nerve, the two girls then questionably looking around at the others who were watching the sight with skeptical belief.

  “You’re not going to believe it, Alyssa,” Specca said shaking her head.

  “We’re still trying to,” Falla added.

  “Something wonderful has happened,” Doku praised.

  “Or fucked up depending on how you look at it,” Clover mentioned with a raised eyebrow.

  Squeak squeaked something and nodded in agreement to that.

  Alyssa and Star looked over to see Luna and Cindy now dancing in circles around Kitten while laughing happily, all while the demon was holding her hands over her ears and struggling to keep from drawing her sword in order to shut them up.

  “Wait,” Alyssa cautioned. “Are they saying Kitten is now our…”

  “Yep,” Falla flatly answered. Star and Alyssa stared at Kitten in surprise while the butterfly girl held her head with a tired sigh.

  “She’s going to be our newest friend. How lucky are we?”

  Chapter 18

  The Final Members

  In the world of Eden there were groups or gatherings that were exclusive to who could join. Those that were a part of these special circles would know of joys and wonders that others may wish to have as well, however not all could. There were requirements that had to be met, a limited number of acceptances could be established, and sometimes if rejected there was no trying again. But for those that tried with all their might and expressed their fondest desire to be a part of that special group there was hope. A chance in that their intentions and passion for what they sought to be a part of would be rewarded with being accepted by their peers.

  And if they had the chance to be the last to join that group, they would certainly give it their all.

  *****

  Opening the doorway into their home Daniel and Kroanette entered the court together, the centaur holding onto Daniel for balance while her steps were uneven and her shirt was ripped and barely keeping together. She had a dazed smile on her face, showing she was awake enough to walk yet was likely not paying much attention to where she was going. Daniel led his wobbling mate into their home while Pip quickly zipped by and soared around in circles above the court, giggling and chasing her own trailing blue blur without a care.

  “Easy there, Kroanette,” Daniel said, carefully reaching back and closing the door then helping his mate stand as she wavered slightly. “Let’s get you to bed, shall we?”

  “Are we going to fuck more?” Kroanette purred before tripping to the side, the girl stumbling with her hooves before catching her balance and giggling. “I don’t know, Daniel. I think if I take any more of your seed into me I might explode. And Doku will have a terrible mess to clean up in here afterwards.”

  “Well we certainly don’t want that,” Daniel laughed as he helped the girl head towards the bedroom. “I wouldn’t want to lose my beautiful mate in such a horrific way, and I would hate to make Doku work even more than she already does to clean up the mess.”

  “Daniel, wait,” Kroanette said, stopping as he walked in front of her. “Do you really wish to have a family with me? Is that the real reason you decided to give me you
r seed?”

  “Of course it is,” he sincerely told her. “I love you and want us to have a family together.”

  “And you being able to draw more magical energy from me in return isn’t a reason either?” Kroanette worried.

  “No, it isn’t. I don’t care that I can get more magical energy from you girls if I impregnate you, I haven’t been thinking about that at all when mating with any of you. My training with magic can wait, right now I just want to take care of the ones who mean the world to me, and that includes you, Kroanette.”

  “I suspected as much,” Kroanette replied with a timid smile. “I’m sorry, that must have been a very rude question to ask. I guess I couldn’t help but worry a little. It’s not every day a man wants to willingly mate with a centaur to have a baby with her. I’m sorry for doubting your reasons.”

  “It’s alright, I can understand how you felt,” Daniel admitted rubbing the back of his head. “The other girls asked the same question, they must have been unsure about it at first too. I guess hearing from those witches that I could boost my own power if I got them pregnant made them wonder if that was the reason why I did it.”

  “So then what did persuade you to having children with us if not for Apoch and Astreal’s suggestion of doing so for your magical training?” Kroanette wondered.

  “It was their suggestion that I quit being so hesitant with how I felt,” Daniel answered with a shrug. “They were right, I shouldn’t be dragging my feet so much with doubt or concern weighing me down. I know I love you girls, I know I want to take care of you, and I already know we’re going to have a family together. So I decided not to wait anymore, to take charge and love you girls with everything I had.”

  “I’ll say you did,” Kroanette giggled looking back to her rear and wiggling it a little. “You certainly guaranteed I’m going to be having a daughter. The way you rode me out there with such ferocity was amazing. Even after you released your seed into me you kept going, I actually feared you were going to cripple me with the way you made love to me.”

  “That’s not to say we’re done making love like that though,” Daniel mentioned with a smirk. The centaur hopped with a squeak and looked at him in surprise as he walked up and gently held the girl by her waist. “Whether you’re going to be pregnant now or not, I think we should spend more quality time like this more often. I have to admit it is very pleasurable to ride you, Kroanette.”