“Anyway, I never really saw you two even though you were right there in front of me the whole time. And when I did stop to think about it, to ask myself how much you both meant to me, that’s when I realized how I really felt.”
“And?” the sisters quickly asked while leaning towards him.
“And I realized that…” Daniel said before taking a moment to consider what he was saying. He glanced over and saw his girls watching him closely while Pip was hovering around near them, seeing Alyssa, Specca, and Squeak keeping their unblinking eyes solely on him, then looked back to the butterfly sisters as they were growing fearful of what the answer was. Taking a steady breath he then reached out and took hold of a hand from each of them.
“I realized that if a Darker One, or anyone for that matter, tried to hurt or take you away, I wouldn’t allow it.” Saying those words caused Falla and Luna to take a shaky breath while their knees wobbled, all while Triska and the other girls exchanged glances with one another. “If I had to see either of you die, be harmed, or become sad in life, it would hurt me. I realized that I never want to lose you both in my life, I never want to miss out on seeing you smile or being happy, I never…”
“You never what?” Falla quietly asked as she and Luna held onto his hands securely.
“I never want to let you go,” Daniel finished, with the sisters then smiling brightly at him. He then showed a sorrowful frown and lowered his head, shaking it slowly and closing his eyes which caused the sisters to look at him worriedly again. “But… I can’t…”
“But?” Luna whimpered. “There’s a but?”
“Don’t say that,” Falla pleaded.
“I can’t… it wouldn’t be right… because I can’t lose them…” Daniel said softly as he glanced to his mates. “If I allow myself to feel this way, I’m going to lose everyone I care about.”
Everyone remained silent as the sisters struggled to hold back their tears while holding onto his hands, with the other girls looking to each other with concern and wonder before back to Daniel. After glancing to the butterfly sisters for a moment while thinking about it one of the girls then spoke up.
“No you won’t,” Specca promised, with Daniel and the girls looking to her as she stepped forward and shook her head. “I wasn’t aware you felt so strongly about them like that. If this is how you truly feel, Daniel, then I’m alright with it.”
“What?” Alyssa cried out at her. “What? What do you mean by that? You want to share Daniel with those two now?”
“I don’t mind,” Specca said shaking her head with a small smile at Daniel. “Like Triska said, two more won’t hurt. As long as I get to be with you and still have your love, as long as you never let me go, I don’t mind them joining us.”
“This is just because you and Luna made out last night, isn’t it?” Alyssa demanded, pointing to her accusingly as the group jumped a bit from hearing that. “You two got hot in the moment because of Daniel’s magic and now you’re having second thoughts about keeping her with us!”
“Wait, what?” Triska said looking to Luna as the butterfly blushed and slowly hid behind Daniel again.
“That’s not why I’m agreeing to this,” Specca defended nervously. “It’s just I don’t want to take anything away from Daniel. If he’s feeling love towards them-”
“Then we need to kill them!” Alyssa yelled out her before glaring at the sisters, with Falla now quickly backing up behind Daniel out of fright. “He’s our man! We’re not sharing him with more girls, I don’t want to! There’s no reason for us to share him with anybody else, nobody out there loves him like we do!”
“I love Daniel!” Falla cried out from behind him. Everyone looked over towards her as she and Luna peeked out from behind his shoulders at the girls. “I’ll scream it to my monarch if that’ll make you believe me. I never thought humans like him existed, I never thought anyone like him could be real. But he proved me wrong; he showed me that humans can love monsters, real love! I want that, I want him to love me because of who I am, not just because of some damned lie I told him! I don’t care if he snores at night or if I have to share him with a hundred girls, I just want to stay with him like this forever!”
“We used to be bad monsters before he found us,” Luna whimpered. “I never knew I was being bad before, that I was going to make humans feel so sad when I raped them. He showed me how to be good; he likes me for who I am even though I have some problems.” She then grabbed hold of Daniel’s arm and started laughing manically with a twisted smile on her face, with everyone just watching her with wide eyes.
“IF I CAN’T BE HIS LITTLE BUTTERFLY I’LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN! HAHAHAHAHAHA!” she screamed out before breaking down and crying softly while nuzzling against his shoulder.
“Is she alright?” Pip asked curiously.
“Probably not,” Falla said shaking her head before holding onto Daniel’s other arm and watching the girls with a teary-eyed glare. “But I’ll prove my love for him if I have to. I know how he feels about me, there’s no hiding that anymore. I’m not going to let him go now, I won’t! If you want to keep him from me then you’re just going to have to kill me!”
“Deal!” Alyssa yelled as she held her hand out towards the girl, her eyes glowing purple as a wave of air rippled away from her through the grass. Falla tensed up while holding onto Daniel’s arm tightly before Squeak reached over and grabbed Alyssa’s hand, yanking it to the side and pulling the witch over to her. Alyssa looked up to the ant girl with surprise as Squeak shook her head and squeaked sternly at her.
“Are you kidding me?” Alyssa cried out while yanking her hand away. “Now you’re agreeing with this too? Is that just because you and Falla were making out together as well?”
“Okay, what exactly did I miss last night?” Triska asked with a raised eyebrow.
Squeak shook her head and squeaked at Alyssa with a teary-eyed frown, pointing from the witch to Daniel then to Falla before waving her hands around and squeaking some more. After a few minutes of speaking she then set her hands at her hips and nodded once with a firm squeak. Alyssa stared at her for a while before looking to Triska with disbelief.
“I don’t know which is harder to believe. The fact that you all are agreeing to share Daniel with those two or that Squeak still doesn’t grasp that we don’t understand a damned word she’s saying.”
“I just want what will make Daniel happy,” Triska reasoned. “If he feels so strongly about them then I’m alright sharing him with them. I’m already fine with you three being with us like this, two more won’t make a difference.”
“That’s five girls you’re willing to share him with!” Alyssa exclaimed. “How can you be alright with that?”
“I don’t know, how am I fine sharing him with three girls to begin with? Oh, yeah, I’m a perverted girl,” Triska mused with a smirk and shrug. “Like you’re any different, Alyssa.”
“I’m not that perverted!” Alyssa defended.
“Need I remind you how you ‘punished’ me yesterday?” Specca mentioned with an inquisitive glance at the witch.
“You’re like a harem king!” Pip giggled before zipping around Daniel in a blur blue. He watched her with confusion before she flew onto his chest and clung to his shirt with a bright smile up at him. “Can I join too? I love you too after all.”
“You see?” Alyssa cried out at Triska while waving to Pip. “We can’t let more girls become his mate too. Otherwise more and more are going to want to as well!”
“That would be a problem,” Specca agreed thoughtfully. “I admit I’m alright with the idea of Falla and Luna joining us, but I don’t want every girl we come across to do so. How can we decide how to handle this?”
“We kill any other girl that says they love Daniel!” Alyssa reasoned while waving her hands around. “How am I the only one here that gets that?”
“I have an idea!” Pip called out as she leapt off of Daniel’s chest and hovered in the air. She raised a hand up and
looked around at the group eagerly as they all just stared at her. After a while she held her other hand to her arm as support to keep it up and hopped around in the air. “I do! I have an idea! I’m not making this up!”
“Alright, what’s your idea?” Specca asked.
“Whoever has the best boobies can be his!” Pip cheered out. Everyone just stared at her with blank expressions as she looked from to another while fluttering in place.
“What do you think?”
“Please go away,” Alyssa flatly said.
Pip slumped down and pouted before she zipped over and darted down into Triska’s bosom, with her and the others watching with surprise as the fairy nuzzled her body in between the girl’s breasts before she lay forward against Triska’s chest and closed her eyes. Triska looked around at the group with a tired sigh before glancing down to the sleeping fairy in her bosom.
“Alright, she saved my life last night, so I guess I can’t complain about this,” she reluctantly admitted before looking to Daniel questionably. “Still, what should we do, Daniel?”
Daniel looked around from one girl to the next, seeing Triska, Specca, and Squeak waiting to hear what he wanted to do, Alyssa gritting her teeth in hope that Daniel would admit he didn’t care for the butterfly sisters after all, Pip who was sleeping quietly in Triska’s bosom because she was just weird like that, and finally behind him at Luna and Falla who were holding onto his back while watching him with hopeful eyes that he would say they could be with him. Thinking hard about what everyone had said, how he himself felt about the situation, and what would be best for everyone, he finally came to the only conclusion he could.
“I’m just a hopeless bastard,” Daniel said looking down shaking his head. “I have no idea what to do, I feel so conflicted inside. I shouldn’t be having any feelings for anyone besides the ones I picked as my mates, it isn’t right. Then again a normal guy should only have one girl as his mate in life, not more, so this isn’t right by normal standards anyway.” He held a hand over his eyes tiredly as all the girls watched him with concern from not getting a final answer.
“How am I supposed to handle this?”
“May I make a suggestion?” Kroanette spoke up from nearby. The group looked to seeing the centaur slowly approaching them while holding a hand up and with a small smile on her face.
“Kroanette?” Triska said before looking around the area. “Where’s Complica?”
“Oh, about that,” Kroanette said before looking to Falla and Luna nervously. “You see, we found a nest of beetles near a tree and she got rather excited, so much so that she went on and on about how the spotted ones were her favorites and they tasted the best and so forth until…”
“What happened? Specca asked.
“She passed out,” Kroanette replied with a shrug. Everyone jumped a bit as the centaur looked back to the caravan with a curious eye. “The poor thing dropped to the ground like a rock, she just didn’t take a moment to breathe during all that. I didn’t know what else to do, so I just rested her inside the caravan. She’s sleeping now, so I figured I would come over and see how you all are doing.”
“She passed out again?” Falla asked looking to Luna.
“Oh well,” Luna said with a shrug.
“Oh well?” Daniel repeated looking back to them questionably.
“She does it all the time,” Falla reasoned. “Nothing to worry about.”
“It’s normal for her to pass out from forgetting to breathe a lot in Flairwood,” Luna explained with a nod. “Whenever she does the local butterflies will offer their bed to her while she sleeps.”
“It’s considered good fortune to have her unconscious in your bed,” Falla added with a weak smile.
“Seriously?” Triska asked raising an eyebrow at them. “You people have made it into an actual thing with her passing out all the time like that?”
“Anyway,” Kroanette spoke up again to get their attention. “I overheard how you all feel about the idea of sharing Daniel with these two girls, and I believe I have an idea of how to resolve it.”
“Alright, let’s hear it,” Triska said setting her hands at her hips. Kroanette glanced to her then to Pip questionably as she saw the tiny fairy sleeping in the girl’s breasts. She then shook her head before smiling timidly at Daniel.
“Daniel, I believe what is needed here is a hierarchy.”
“Hierarchy?” Daniel asked with puzzlement.
“Yes, exactly. Think about it. You and these four girls have a powerful bond with one another,” Kroanette reasoned while gesturing around at Daniel and his mates. “Triska, Specca, Alyssa, Squeak, you all love Daniel so much, cherish him like no other, and care for one another so greatly that you not only are alright sharing him between you but also engage in carnal acts of lust and love with one another as well.”
“That was really touching and sweet up until the last part,” Triska mentioned with a raised eyebrow. “Go on.”
“But those like Falla and Luna do not share that bond,” Kroanette explained gesturing to the butterfly sisters. “They may love Daniel with all their hearts, and he too may feel love towards them, but in this case that’s not enough.”
“How is that not enough?” Falla asked shaking her head. “If we love each other why can’t we be with each other?”
“If it were just you and him you could,” Kroanette replied with a shrug. “But remember that this isn’t a normal relationship. Daniel is involved with four mates, not one. He may be willing to share his love, but that isn’t enough. They have a bond with each other, not just with Daniel. The only way it would be right for you and Daniel to become lovers is if you become lovers with them as well.”
“What?” Alyssa dryly questioned with a dull stare at her.
“That makes sense actually,” Specca said with a thoughtful smile.
“How does that make sense?” Alyssa demanded.
“The only reason we agreed to share Daniel is because we didn’t want to lose each other if he didn’t pick us,” Specca clarified while looking around at her three co-mates. “We all cared about each other so much that we were fine sharing him with all of us. That way we wouldn’t lose anyone.”
“What does that have to do with a hierarchy?” Triska asked scratching her head.
“You’re Daniel’s mates,” Kroanette praised her. “You’re his harem, the ones who have the strongest bond of love with him and those he cares deeply about, the ones he chose to be with first.”
“It’s not a harem,” Daniel pleaded shaking his hands before him.
“Daniel, look around you,” Triska said with a glance to him. “What else would you call this?”
Daniel opened his mouth to speak, looked around at all the lovely and attractive ladies that were in love with him, then lowered his head and nodded in defeat. Kroanette giggled softly and shrugged while looking around at all the girls.
“Triska, Alyssa, Specca, and Squeak have earned that high position in the hierarchy of Daniel’s harem. They have just as much say who can be Daniel’s mate as he himself does.”
“Please don’t start calling it that,” Daniel groaned quietly.
‘That makes it sound more perverted than beautiful.’
“Whereas girls like Falla and Luna,” Kroanette continued as she turned to them. “You two have expressed your love for Daniel and have even earned it in return, but you’re still below that of the others in terms of position in the harem.” She then glanced to Pip with a raised eyebrow.
“That one does appear to be fond of Daniel as well, though I question if he means more to her than the closest pair of breasts she can spot. As such, she too would fall below the level of the ranking girls and has no right to be his official mate.” And then she looked to Daniel with a worried smile while bowing her head slightly.
“And… I myself am not yet worthy to join that rank either, much to my disappointment.”
“What? Her too?” Alyssa exclaimed, pointing to the centaur before
face palming with a loud growl. “And now there’s another one who wants to be with our man! We need to stop this whole conversation now before anyone else jumps in.”
“I’m not saying I can be his mate,” Kroanette quickly defended while waving her hands in front of her. “I understand my place in this, I know I have no right to lay with Daniel right now, but I will not hide my feelings for him. I want to be honest with all of you, I don’t want to hide how I feel, and I’m not afraid to admit it.”
“Kroanette, you love Daniel too?” Specca asked curiously.
“Can you honestly blame me?” Kroanette replied with a nervous smile at her. “I’ve never known humans to be as noble and kindhearted as he is, nor as brave, intelligent, handsome-”
“Okay, Kroanette, we get it,” Triska said raising a hand to silence her. She, Specca, and Squeak exchanged looks of curiosity and question while Alyssa was staring at Kroanette with discontent and drumming her fingers on her staff. Slowly the four girls backed up and huddled up together.
“That’s four more girls to share our mate with,” Triska quietly said to her co-mates.
“I was alright with Falla and Luna because they’re always around him anyway,” Specca said with a shrug. “But what about Kroanette and Pip? I’m not sure how I feel about that.”
“You just want to make out with Luna again,” Alyssa growled at her.
“I was rather fond of her before she and I did that,” Specca snapped at her. “Quit using that against me.”
Squeak squeaked something quietly around at the girls before stopping then looking down with a dull expression as she remembered nothing she was saying was getting through.
“Well, what do you girls think?” Triska asked glancing around at them. “I’m alright if they stay with us since Daniel is fond of them, and it wouldn’t feel the same without them to be honest.”
“That’s not a bad thing,” Alyssa argued with her. “They have no right to sleep with our mate just like that.”
“That’s what Kroanette is talking about,” Specca lectured her. “In a way they are part of Daniel’s harem, but have not yet earned the right to have sex with him. It would be like an extended harem. They love Daniel and he is starting to love them, and if he wants to keep them as mates I’m alright with that so long as we remain his as well. But that doesn’t mean we have to let them get intimate with our Daniel. If they want to make love to our mate they need our blessing.”
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