Chronicles of Eden - Act X

by Alexander Gordon

  “Who is this ‘we’ you keep referring to?” Mae asked.

  Slowly the three hunters looked around the area, seeing more monsters filling the streets nearby and creeping closer while laughter was heard all around. Goblins, trolls, gremlins, and mites were literally flooding the alleys and streets leading to the courtyard. Behind Rio arachne were skittering along the walls, dozens of them filling the narrow corridor while spilling out onto the sides of the buildings around the court while hissing down at the hunters. From the rooftops more were seen gathering near, with the gremlins holding their alchemic pouches while the trolls were set to throw their sharpened axes. In the air mites buzzed about while some landed down on webbing near the arachne who were cackling at the humans. Among the crowd of fiends a few more scorpias could be seen, the monsters sharing the similar blank expression Rio held while also giving off an aura of death as their kind usually did. And from the store where the sisters had set aside their horses a loud roar was heard before the building crashed down violently, crushing the animals who only had time to let out short whinnies while dust billowed out into the court. The sisters looked back to seeing a very large monster lumbering through the toppled building, having apparently made its way through another behind it which was also in ruin.

  “Is that…” Mae breathed out in disbelief.

  It was certainly larger in size, towering over all those in the courtyard while standing on two muscular legs, although didn’t have an alluring figure to it as most other monsters tended to. This one had a gray complexion while wearing a tattered skirt that was barely holding onto her wide waist, her breasts hanging freely while draped over her chest was a necklace with two skulls on it. The monster wore leather bracers on her wrists that seemed stained with blood while in her hand was a large club that also had gore smeared on it from a recent killing. Her head had a mohawk of black hair while from her large jaw she had two blunt tusks coming up out of it. The bloodthirsty look in her dark eyes was the norm for her race, the massive monster being known as one of the more vicious and dangerous creatures that were normally only found deep in the wastelands of the region.

  “An ogre,” Milly softly said in shock. “Here?”

  The ogre snarled then picked up a horse that was under it, eyeing the dead animal for a moment before taking a big bite out of it. The monster chewed the flesh and bones while blood poured onto the ground, its eyes then focusing on the three hunters that were staring at it with frustration.

  “How the hell is one here?” Mika demanded.

  “We have more than one with us,” Rio mentioned, with the hunters turning to her in surprise as she nodded with a blank expression. “We’ve brought many of their kind along with us for this special party.”

  “You… what?”

  “You heard me. As for who we are,” Rio said stepping forward, the monster then stopping and glancing around to her companions before giving a mocking bow to the hunters. “We are The Sisterhood.”

  The monsters around the area cheered and shouted while raising their weapons up, with the ogre holding up the half-eaten horse it was eating while giving a loud groan in agreement. Rio glanced around at the monsters who were laughing and sneering at the humans then turned her sights back onto Mika.

  “We’ve been on the march for some time now. We’ve already razed the centaur kingdom of Ruhelia to the ground for daring to refuse us-”

  “Wait, what?” Mae asked startled.

  “The elves of Green Haven should be joining our cause soon, if they know what’s good for them-”

  “What the hell is this?” Milly asked looking around at the enormous horde of monsters that surrounded them.

  “And soon your precious kingdom of Rockhelm will be bought down into rubble and ash,” Rio continued carelessly. “We’ve brought many sisters with us for this party, the party to end all parties in Rockhelm. It shall be the last dance you humans ever have in this land.”

  Mika slowly glanced around at the monsters while she and her sisters kept on guard near one another, seeing firsthand how the queen’s warning of them coming against an opposition that was greater than what they’ve faced before was accurate after all. The three hunters saw monsters that shouldn’t even be this far out from the wastelands invading a human city with great numbers, they saw mites and arachne actually working side by side rather than fighting one another as they typically would, they saw with disbelief that these monsters were united rather than merely fending for themselves in the world. They had somehow come together under a common goal and were working together, something that was unheard of among these monster classes.

  “Since when do these monsters work together like this?” Mae cautioned. “And was what they said true? They really wiped out the centaur kingdom?”

  “If they’ve really got the numbers maybe they did,” Milly carefully reasoned. “It sounds like they’re about to take out all the elves too. And then…”

  “They’re going to attack Rockhelm,” Mika growled. “Whether they have the power they boast of or not, we need to warn the queen. She needs to know something very wrong is happening out here.”

  “Oh?” Rio plainly asked. “Do you wish to leave now? But we’re not finished yet. I’m not done with you.”

  Mika and her sisters tensed up while the crowd of monsters laughed and began moving forward, with Rio then snapping her claw in the air a few times to halt them. Everyone turned to the scorpia as she slowly shook her head while watching the hunters.

  “Please wait your turn,” Rio announced. “I’ve already started my dance with them and would like to continue with it. You, monster hunter, I will be the one to make you suffer just as I promised. It will bring me great pleasure in doing so.”

  “You think you can beat me?” Mika dared while holding her hand aside, a flash of red light swirling around it while she gripped her blade tightly.

  “Yes,” Rio plainly said, then tilted her head in question. “Though for you resisting me as you have I should make you suffer more. Yes, I do think I want to make you scream in agony all the more now after you dared to draw your blade towards me with such arrogance. And for that little scratch you gave me earlier. I didn’t quite like that.”

  “Then you’re going to hate this!” Mika yelled as she dashed towards the scorpia. Rio took one step then shot forward in a blur, racing towards the hunter before quickly passing her. Mika started to step down with her foot to stop her charge while her eyes tried to follow the monster’s movements, seeing Rio quickly dashing past her before skidding to a halt while her tail wound back to attack.

  Only it wasn’t aimed at her.

  With a fierce strike the stinger was plunged through Rio’s real target, with Mika and Milly watching in horror as the tail struck into Mae’s neck with a thick crunch. The monster hunter was lifted off the ground from the force then held up the air, blood spraying out the back where the stinger was pierced through, glasses falling off her face, hands shaking while her crossbow flew out of her grip and over onto the blood-soaked court.

  “NO!” Mika and Milly screamed at seeing their sister fatally struck by the scorpia’s tail. Mae’s gurgled cry with blood coming from her mouth was the only sound she could make, her eyes staring in shock at Rio as the scorpia watched her with a blank expression on her face. Her legs weakly kicked about while she was held above the courtyard floor with blood flowing down her shirt and pants from her neck.

  Rio tilted her head slightly while watching Mae choking and twitching on her tail then looked back to Mika, the hunter staring in horror at the sight before returning the monster’s gaze.

  “Tell me,” Rio plainly said, then whipped her tail through the side of Mae’s neck. The girl dropped to the ground with blood splattering onto the ground, her body twitching a few times before she remained motionless. Milly screamed while holding her hair, seeing the lifeless gaze in her fallen sister’s eyes as they lost focus.

  “Are you in agony now?” Rio asked before she showed a d
evilishly cold smile. Her eyes displayed a frightening amount of malice behind them as the monster’s true nature slipped past her emotionless mask. “Are you? Do you feel pain? Do you feel like crying? Please, scream for me. Scream loudly. Do it for me now. I want to hear it, I want to feel that pleasure, it’s what makes this all worthwhile for me you see. Do it for me, monster hunter. I want to hear your despair.”

  Mika shakily looked down to Mae, seeing the frozen look of shock on her face while her head had been nearly sliced off. The world around the eldest Harollson sister started to grow cold and dark, the sight of losing another one of her family striking into the woman’s heart with more pain than she could bear. Try as she might she couldn’t hold it in any longer and finally let loose an agonizing scream that made Rio chuckle in delight.

  “MAE!”

  Chapter 3

  Making Up

  In the world of Eden some people would become friends very quickly with one another while others had a more difficult time in doing so. Maybe it was because of a disagreement they had or there was something about them that was seen as troublesome. Whatever the reason may have been they would end up pushed away from each other, maybe even becoming enemies one day if the resentment grew too strong. However there was something to be said for those that started off as enemies, overcame their differences, and became friends in the end.

  The bond they would share would be as strong as steel.

  *****

  Inside the bathing room of their magically enhanced living space Daniel and his girls were washing up together as they prepared for another day. Steam gently lingered in the air while the waterfall that remained constant in the center of the rounded bathing pool continued to fall just as it always did without ever ceasing or overfilling the bath. This was a place that the travelers of Eden could come to cleanse themselves, relax, and enjoy the tranquility with one another.

  “Oh fuck yeah,” Clover purred while she was eagerly scrubbing Daniel who was sitting in the bath while a group of girls were practically swarming him, something that wasn’t out the ordinary for him at this point. While the elf who was also naked with her hair hanging freely behind her focused heavily on washing Daniel’s front and waist, her eyes remaining fixated on something just beneath the surface of the soapy water that surrounded him, Star was hanging onto his left arm while scrubbing his sides with fevered meows. The jinx used her breasts which had soap on them to wash his arm as they rubbed up and down against it while she kept her sly smile focused on his face with her tails wagging anxiously behind her.

  “Uh, girls?” Daniel nervously asked before looking back to see Doku hopping about in the water behind him, the harpy having a washcloth held in foot while she cleaned his lower back with it. His upper back was of course being scrubbed clean by the harpy’s breasts as she too had them covered in soapy suds.

  “Don’t worry, Daniel,” Doku eagerly promised while watching him with unseen eyes from behind her bangs. “We’ll get you all clean in no time.”

  “We’ll make sure to wash every inch of you,” Clover coyly added while paying more attention to what she was able to occasionally catch a glimpse of under the water rather than what she was actually washing.

  Star meowed while washing his front and back while she kept using her breasts to hug Daniel’s arm as she moved up and down against him repeatedly.

  “Hey!” Triska yelled out. The three girls stopped and looked over to see the cambion standing in the bath glaring at them while the other girls were beside her with similar looks of annoyance. All except for Cindy who was again sitting on a stool near the bath’s edge while holding Snapper close to her chest. The sand wraith was pouting with a dirty look towards the three girls while Snapper was just snapping her teeth and flailing her arms about as she always did.

  “What do you think you’re doing?” Alyssa demanded.

  “What do you mean?” Doku innocently replied. “We’re cleaning our mate of course.”

  “What’s the problem?” Clover asked glancing to them while her hands kept close to Daniel’s waist.

  Star meowed with a curious smile at the girls as she continued to rub up and down along Daniel’s arm.

  “You’re getting way too close to him,” Specca argued. “For crying out loud, you’re all rubbing your breasts against him in such a lecherous way.”

  “Clover isn’t,” Pip pointed out while fluttering over Kroanette’s shoulder. “Her boobies are too small to rub against Daniel like that.”

  “Fuck you!” Clover shouted at the fairy with a deep blush.

  “Get off our man so we can wash him!” Falla demanded waving her arms around in a fit. “And you’re copying what my sister and I do with him, that’s our thing we do with Daniel!”

  “There’s nothing wrong with us washing him like this,” Doku defended hiding behind Daniel’s back. “We’re allowed to do this much for the man we love, are we not?”

  “You’re crowding him,” Kroanette shot back. “Not to mention you’re all obviously trying to- Star! Quit doing that while we’re lecturing you!”

  Star merely meowed in a cocky tone with a glance to the centaur while she kept rubbing her soapy breasts along Daniel’s arm.

  “I’m his mate now,” Clover firmly argued while taking hold of Daniel with both hands. “He chose me to be his so I’m allowed to take care of him too.”

  “Are you grabbing his penis under the water?” Alyssa angrily demanded. All the girls looked to Clover as she was glancing down to where her hands were underwater in Daniel’s lap, with him just looking up with a tired expression as he felt the elf clearly grabbing onto his genitals.

  “I’m just cleaning him,” Clover innocently replied with a timid smile at him. “Dirty boy.”

  Daniel closed his eyes and sighed before he heard the other girls screaming and rushing forward in the bath, something he was expecting them to do and knew by this point he wouldn’t have been able to stop them anyway. Squeak plowed through the water and literally tackled Clover off to the side with a big splash, Kroanette charged through the water towards Doku who hastily retreated with a yelp and quickly fluttering wings, and Star warped away while Alyssa chased after her holding up a spiked dildo that she just seemed to pull out of nowhere. Luna and Falla quickly raced over and grabbed onto Daniel’s arms, Pip zipped over and clung to his chest with a wide hug, Specca rushed over and held onto him from behind while her tail quickly wrapped around his waist, and Triska remained in place as she watched the other girls fending their newest harem members off from their man.

  “Good thing you’re not out right now,” she mentioned with a glance to the ethereal image of her counterpart she saw standing next to her.

  “Yep, the bath would be running red with their blood right now,” Kitten casually agreed with a nod.

  “Knock it off!” Clover shouted while Squeak kept her held back against the bath’s edge with a firm grip. “I was just washing him! Let me go!”

  “Please, Kroanette,” Doku pleaded as she tried fluttering in the bath one way then another, the harpy always being cut off as the centaur kept rushing to get between her and Daniel. “I haven’t finished washing his back. I need to clean my husband properly, it’s my duty.”

  “Get back here and bend over!” Alyssa yelled as she kept running in the bath after the jinx with Star fearfully warping around quickly to get away from the witch and her punishment tool.

  “The nerve they have,” Falla scoffed as she and her sister clung to Daniel more closely, their breasts enveloping his arms while their wings lay limp behind them in the water. “Hanging all over you when they just got accepted into the harem, how dare they. Not to mention rubbing their bodies all over you like that, they don’t have that right yet.”

  “This feels better when we do it, right?” Luna hopefully asked as she and her sister bobbed up and down to rub their breasts along his arms. “You like us washing you more, don’t you, Daniel? Especially like this. We’re naughty sisters, aren’t
we?”

  “I believe I’m the most qualified to wash our mate,” Specca asserted while holding onto him closely. “The water is my domain after all.”

  “You’re so slippery,” Pip giggled as she slid down Daniel’s chest. She quickly crawled back up only to start sliding down again. “Weeee! This is fun!”

  “Everyone stop!” Daniel called out. All the girls halted where they were and turned to him as he listened to the sudden silence in the bathing room. “Before you girls kill our newest family members, may I ask if anyone actually set forth any rules in here regarding washing me?”

  “Well… not specifically…” Specca sheepishly admitted.

  “So technically they didn’t do anything wrong,” Daniel reasoned looking around at them. “Yes, they were a little… anxious to wash me, but they didn’t overstep any boundaries.”

  “They were rubbing their breasts all over you!” Alyssa whined hopping up and down. “And Clover was grabbing your penis!”

  “You mean like what these three are doing?” Daniel questioned looking around at Falla, Luna, and Specca. The butterfly sisters noticed their breasts hugging his arms then smiled weakly at him while Specca huffed and held onto his back more closely.

  “I’m not doing anything lecherous with you, Daniel,” Specca claimed. “I know how to control my inner nature.”

  “Tell that to your tail,” Daniel mentioned looking down. Luna and Falla peered closely at the water and saw the nixie’s tail stroking his erection, the two then turning to her with dull expressions while Specca looked away with a nervous smile.

  “Sorry, that thing has a mind of its own sometimes,” she quickly said pulling her tail aside and holding it.

  “But that’s different,” Kroanette asserted with a splash of the water. “Those three are your close mates, they’re allowed to get intimate with you. Doku, Star, and Clover are not allowed to do that yet.”

  “You accepted them as part of the family,” Daniel reminded her. “Not to mention you girls even invited them to bathe with us rather than have them do so afterwards.”