“Daniel,” she breathed out, seeming to become choked up from his words. Daniel smiled a bit at her then looked to the other girls who were all watching him with alarm.
“But, the truth is I don’t know if I love… well, who I love. I’ve been trying to figure that out, I’ve been trying to be fair with figuring out which one of you means more to me, I’ve been asking myself over and over again which one of you I really feel the strongest for, and… after thinking hard about it…” he said before trailing off, with the girls all watching him closely as they grew more anxious from the silence. After a pause Daniel slowly shook his head and looked down with remorse.
“I couldn’t choose one of you, not now, not yet. I can’t do it, I just… I can’t…” he stammered, halting again as he tried to gather his thoughts, then looked to the girls with a saddened smile.
“I can’t stand the thought of going on without any of you. I just couldn’t bear to lose any of you, I mean it,” he said gently.
“Mr. Daniel,” Apoch and Astreal interjected, with the group looking to them as they were watching the boy with bored expressions.
“It is now 11:30, you have only 30 minutes left before Ms. Charlotte’s offer expires,” Apoch informed while holding a hand at her hip.
“Are you going to fuck Ms. Alyssa or not?” Astreal asked flatly. Daniel held in his sigh of annoyance at the two then looked back to the girls who watched him with worried eyes.
“Listen, our time with this is short, I understand that, but I can’t make this decision alone. Doing something like this would help my cause, true, however I don’t want to do anything that would hurt any of you, I couldn’t live with myself if I made any of you cry with such a thing. I don’t know what to do, I can’t make this decision on my own, I need to know what you all think,” he requested sincerely. The girls stared at him with disbelief then looked to each other.
“But… wait, you can’t… not like… but she…” Triska stammered looking back to Daniel then to Alyssa with nervous eyes.
“Oh god, this can’t be happening, not like this,” Specca said holding hand over her mouth and looking down with sorrow.
Squeak looked to Alyssa and opened her mouth as if she was going to speak, then turned to Daniel before slowly closing her mouth as couldn’t figure out what to say, or squeak, about this.
Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel, a glimmer of hope coming across her face as she slowly walked up to him.
“Daniel, would you… would you really have me tonight like this?” she asked softly. Daniel looked at her with a slight smile as the witch tossed her staff over to the side of the room onto the floor before she held her hands to her cheeks with a blush on her face.
“Alyssa, I want to say something important to you, something that goes for you as well as all the girls, and I want you to listen carefully. Each of you are beautiful to me, each of you I care so much about, and each of you…” he said before thinking about his words carefully, with the girls all watching him with growing suspense before he finally continued.
“I would be honored and willing to take to bed with me,” he said gently. Alyssa gasped quietly while holding her hands over her mouth as the other girls stared at Daniel with wonder.
“Daniel, you… mean that?” Triska asked as a faint blush formed on her cheeks.
“You would be alright… doing that with me as well?” Specca asked timidly while hiding behind her hands, peeking at the boy between her fingers while her tail slowly swayed behind her.
Squeak merely squeaked something while pointing to herself with a small blush on her cheeks.
Daniel looked around at them and nodded with a worried smile.
“Yes, it’s true. I know that whoever I may pick as my girlfriend, as my love, as my mate in life, I would be fine with everything about them, human or monster,” he agreed.
“You’re serious, you would actually have sex with a monster just as easily as you would with a human, only if because they would prove themselves to be kindhearted and caring to you?” Kroanette asked with wonder. Daniel looked to her and nodded again, with the centaur glancing around at the other girls before turning to Daniel with curiosity.
“It is now 11:35, and still no answer,” Apoch and Astreal mentioned dryly as they kept watching the grandfather clock. Daniel looked down while holding a hand over his eyes, struggling to keep his mind focused while time was dwindling for them, then looked to the girls with urgency and held his hands out at his sides.
“I’m sorry, I wish we had more time to make a better decision about this, but we don’t. Please, I don’t know what to do. We could gain the witch community’s support with our cause, or we could decline Charlotte’s offer and leave right now. Either way, we need to make a decision, one that I can’t make for all of us,” he explained desperately.
The girls all looked to each other with concern then to Alyssa, the witch glancing to them with worried eyes before down while her hands fidgeted at her sides. From the bedroom a cat mewled softly, with the group then seeing a black cat walking out and standing next to the sisters while watching the other girls.
“Ms. Charlotte is growing impatient, what is it going to be?” Apoch and Astreal demanded together.
“Charlotte?” Triska asked carefully. The cat’s eyes glowed red briefly for a moment, with Alyssa jumping with a squeak before quickly bowing to it.
“My grace,” she shakily greeted.
“That’s Charlotte? She turned herself into a cat?” Triska asked pointing to the cat.
“No, she is merely using the animal as her seer, so that she may also witness Mr. Daniel’s act of love to a witch or his refusal to prove his belief,” Apoch explained.
“So, Mr. Daniel, we’re waiting,” Astreal said glancing to the boy with dull expression.
Triska growled then pointed to the cat accusingly as it looked to her with a simple meow.
“What are you trying to pull here? Is this some sick game to you? You can’t tell Daniel to have sex with Alyssa just like that, this isn’t something you can force upon us like this!” she yelled out. Apoch and Astreal struck their staves into the floor sharply, causing the building to rumble with a loud bang while everybody backed up from the sisters and cat.
“Ms. Charlotte is not ordering Mr. Daniel to do anything; he is not being forced to take this witch to bed by any means. If he doesn’t want to, then he doesn’t have to,” Astreal snapped.
“Our alpha is offering you a chance to prove your idiotic belief, something that isn’t asking too much given what you are claiming can be done in this world,” Apoch added with discontent. Specca stepped forward while shaking her head and gesturing around at her friends.
“But it can be done, we’re proof of that, we’re with him peacefully right now, aren’t we? We’re not raping him, or tricking him, or using magic on him, or anything. We’re proving that monsters and humans can live together in peace,” she insisted.
“Ms. Charlotte wants to see a human willingly choose and mate with a witch on his own accord, provide us with that or else your claims of coexistence mean nothing,” Astreal demanded.
“Merely traveling around with this human and preaching his beliefs is not the same. Now, either Mr. Daniel gives Ms. Alyssa his seed on his own free will, or else we are done here tonight,” Apoch ordered.
Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel with worried eyes, with Daniel turning to her as she slowly walked up towards him.
“Daniel, what is it you want to do?” she asked. The boy hesitated as he looked at her with gentle eyes then turned to the other girls who all watched him with distress in fear of his answer.
“I… I don’t know,” he replied. Triska glanced to the clock then to Daniel with heartbroken eyes. After a while she took a shaky breath then shook her head slowly.
“Do it,” she managed to get out before holding back her tears and cries. The group looked to her as she hung her head low, her hair covering the view of he
r eyes as she merely waved over to Alyssa.
“This is what… we came out here for, for the good of Eden. We need their help with this, you said it yourself, we need the witches to help back us up on this. If this is what it takes… then we have no choice,” she said before holding her hands to her face, trying her best not to cry as the other girls looked to each other with sorrowful eyes. Specca held her hands to her cheeks as she whimpered, her tail slowly swaying around behind her before she took a shaky breath and looked to Daniel with a saddened smile, it obviously being forced as her lips tried to curl down into a frown against her will.
“Do what… you must, Daniel. That’s why we’re out here, to… complete our mission. That’s why… that’s why… that’s why you should just do it,” she managed to get out before she broke down softly into tears, the nixie looking down and away as she felt her heart aching while she cried quietly to herself. Alyssa looked at her friends with remorse then to Squeak, the ant girl glancing to Daniel then back to her as she had tears coming down off her cheeks. She then slowly forced a small smile and nodded before turning away and crying softly with closed eyes. Daniel felt his heart break at seeing the three girls being brought to tears then looked down while trying to convince himself that he was only out here for his purpose, for his quest, to promote peace between humans and monsters in the world. That had to come first, no matter what the cost.
No matter how much it hurt him inside to do it.
Alyssa looked around at seeing the three girls reluctantly giving their blessing to proceed then turned to Kroanette, the centaur sighing quietly before looking to the witch with a solemn expression.
“Don’t look at me, this is all up to you,” she said shaking her head slightly. Alyssa then turned to Daniel, trying to force a small smile as she walked up to him.
“I… I would love… to… for us to…” she said shakily, finding her words being difficult to get out as her heart began to ache more and more. Slowly she stopped and glanced back to seeing Triska, Specca, and Squeak crying while avoiding eye contact with everyone, the sight of them in agony like this driving into Alyssa’s mind and causing a painful sensation to spike in her chest.
“Well, are you going to do it or not?” Apoch and Astreal demanded while tapping their feet impatiently. Daniel looked to them then to Alyssa with remorseful eyes, the witch just watching as her friends continued to cry out of sorrow.
“Alyssa, the choice is up to you. In the interest of forming relations with your kind, I’m… ok with doing this with you tonight,” he offered.
Alyssa looked up to him with wonder, realizing that now she had the perfect chance to have sex with him. It was actually being handed right to her; she could have Daniel all alone and sleep with him, being allowed to do anything she wanted with the boy in bed and actually being encouraged to get his seed in the name of coexistence between humans and witches. And Daniel was even offering himself with no resistance, ready to take the witch to bed with him upon the simple answer she could give him right now, to just say yes.
“Go on, Alyssa, tonight’s your night with him anyway,” Specca sobbed before she dropped to her knees crying.
“It’s what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it, Alyssa?” Triska mentioned before struggling to hold back her tears. Alyssa glanced back to them then to Daniel, seeing him watching her with a troubled expression as he waited for her answer. It was her turn with him, she could take him to bed with her right now, she could have sex with him and even get impregnated by him on that very night, all she had to do was say yes.
All she had to do was say yes, and everything she wanted could be hers.
“No,” she said softly, with everyone looking to her with surprise as she slowly shook her head.
“No,” she repeated.
“No?” Apoch and Astreal questioned carefully.
“No?” Daniel asked. Alyssa looked down in thought for a moment, her eyes darting around slightly as she contemplated what she was thinking and whether or not she was acting foolishly.
“Alyssa, just do it, you know you want to,” Triska muttered with teary eyes.
“Just please make it quick,” Specca whimpered before looking down with sorrow.
“No, no no no no, not like this!” Alyssa declared looking to the cat. The animal mewled with glowing red eyes briefly before Alyssa got down on her knees before it, watching the creature with pleading eyes as she held her hands together.
“My grace, I can’t do it with him like this, it would be too cruel. I would be hurting Daniel, I would be hurting my friends, I would be hurting those who are closest to me and I love. Please, if I agree to take Daniel to bed with me like this, I’ll really be a letchyask among my friends,” she begged.
“So you are refusing to have sex with Mr. Daniel then?” Apoch asked with a smirk.
“You decline Ms. Charlotte’s offer, after she agreed to give you a chance you’re saying no to her?” Astreal asked sharply.
“Ok, why are you two always saying Mr. and Ms. all the time?” Kroanette asked curiously.
Alyssa quickly stood up and looked to Daniel with urgency, the boy watching her with wonder as she thought about something very intently before turning back to the cat with a formal bow.
“My grace, I’ll prove Daniel’s belief to you, I’ll prove his point without a shadow of a doubt to you, I’ll even do so this very night, on one condition,” she declared.
“On one condition? What condition?” Apoch and Astreal asked together.
“And how do you two always talk together like that? It’s just creepy,” Kroanette mentioned again with a disturbed expression.
“Alyssa, what are you talking about?” Triska asked. Alyssa looked to the girls, going from one to the other as she realized just how precious they were to her, how she loved them and couldn’t stand the idea of them being hurt, and then understood the only way she could make tonight work for them. She smiled softly and turned to Daniel while backing up to the girls.
“Daniel, if you’re going to do me, you’re going to have to do all of us,” she reasoned, with everyone then looking to her with surprise and a jump.
“What?” Daniel exclaimed with shock.
“WHAT?” Triska and Specca cried out.
Squeak merely squeaked loudly with a stunned expression on her face.
Alyssa looked around at the girls then to Daniel while gesturing to the shocked individuals at her side.
“Daniel, it’s the only fair way to do this. I love you, so much, and so do all of they. We mean the world to you, like you say, and you mean the world to us. But until you pick one of us to be your mate, until you actually make your final decision on which one of us you really love, then you have to be fair with giving us all a chance. If you have sex with just me, you’re not being fair to them, so… either you have sex with all of us, or none of us,” she declared boldly.
Silence filled the house as everyone just stared at the witch, unable to believe what they just heard. After a few minutes a rustling sound was heard outside, the group then looking to seeing Luna and Falla landing down outside the building, with Falla struggling to hold her sister back as Luna was trying to run towards the residence.
“Let me go, Falla, I need to talk to him!” Luna yelled out.
“No you don’t, that human is the last person in the world you need to talk to!” Falla barked back as the two sisters struggled around in the street.
“What are they doing here, why do they keep following us?” Alyssa asked with disbelief. She shook her head then looked to Kroanette while waving toward the butterfly sisters.
“Kroanette, could you please keep them out of here, we’re in the middle of something very important,” she pleaded.
“Daniel!” Luna cried out as she broke free from her sister and raced into the building. Not even a second later Triska yelled out with frustration and unsheathed her sword with a sharp ring, spinning around and holding the blade out to Luna who stopped in her tracks with a f
rightened squeak.
“Not now! For the love of god, not NOW! You, outside, this instant!” she yelled out as Falla ran in after her sister, the two girls then staring at Triska with fright as the human growled furiously at them.
“But… I need… to talk to…” Luna whimpered.
“Luna, you and your sister are going to go outside and wait there, you are not going to move or make a sound, or so help me I will chop you both up into itty bitty pieces right here and now! Do you get me? If you bother us with anything, I will straight up murder you two like you wouldn’t believe, do you understand?” Triska yelled out, with everyone staring at her with wonder while the butterfly sisters nodded shakily with fearful expressions.
“Ok,” Luna squeaked out.
“Leaving, right now,” Falla shakily agreed before the two girls ran out and hid behind the wall together. Triska dropped her sword to the ground and held her hands to her face as she tried to calm down, taking a few deep breaths as she struggled not to freak out, then turned to Alyssa with shock as words failed her once again. Alyssa glanced to her then to Kroanette with a shrug.
“Never mind,” she said simply before looking back to Daniel with a hopeful smile.
“Daniel, please, this is the only fair way, both for our goal of peaceful coexistence, and also to give us all a chance to be with you,” she reasoned. Daniel just stared at her with a stunned expression as Apoch and Astreal watched Alyssa with puzzlement.
“You seriously wish to share this human with your friends? That isn’t necessary by Ms. Charlotte’s terms,” Apoch pointed out softly.
“Why would you want to share him with them?” Astreal asked with disbelief. Alyssa looked to Triska then to Specca and Squeak with a gentle smile.
“Because I love them too,” she answered. Daniel blinked then looked at the other girls with bewilderment.
“What?” he asked shakily. Alyssa giggled and looked back to him with a small shrug as the other girls turned to him with timid expressions.
“Before we came here, we realized that… we love each other too. We do, we’re like sisters, like family. Daniel, I couldn’t do anything to hurt them, I just couldn’t, and by using Charlotte’s condition to getting you to sleep with me, that would kill them inside, and me too,” Alyssa explained with a small shrug. Daniel looked around at the other girls as they glanced to each other with blushes on their faces.
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