Chronicles of Eden - Act V

by Alexander Gordon

“Made who go away?” Triska asked as the other girls all gathered around.

  “What are we talking about?” Specca asked as she and Squeak were the last to come closer.

  “Pip went somewhere this morning to make someone go away,” Luna said with a shrug.

  “What does that mean?” Falla asked.

  “Pip, what are you talking about?” Daniel asked as the fairy hopped out of Kroanette’s breasts and fluttered in the air before the group. “What did you do?”

  “I made the swarm go away!” Pip cheered.

  Everyone looked at her with puzzlement from that. After a while she looked around to seeing all eyes just staring at her in silence. Slowly Kroanette showed a nervous smile.

  “What about the swarm?” she carefully asked.

  “I made them all go away.”

  “Go away?” Triska repeated.

  “Yep, all of them.”

  Squeak squeaked at her with confusion and shook her head.

  “…what?”

  “We don’t understand, Pip,” Specca said cautiously. “What do you mean you made them go away? What did you do?”

  “I got rid of all the swarm near here!” Pip cheered with a giggle, with everyone looking at her with surprise from that.

  “You did?” Daniel asked curiously.

  “Yeah, now they can’t hurt you anymore. Did I do good, Daniel? Do you love more now? Do you?”

  Daniel watched her hovering in the air before him with confusion before he glanced around at the girls, all of them staring at the fairy with wonder as she giggled to herself with a smile on her face.

  “What is she talking about?” Luna asked.

  “Wow, she made all those bad monsters go away?” Complica asked with a big smile.

  “Pip, how did you do that?” Daniel asked.

  “The entire village of Rackleholm was infested with those things,” Triska mentioned. “How could you make them all go away?”

  “With my magic, silly,” Pip giggled.

  “Did you teleport all of them away from here?” Specca asked in disbelief.

  “Teleport them?” Pip asked. “No, I didn’t teleport them anywhere. I didn’t want to send such bad monsters anywhere else. They would hurt others if I did.”

  “Then how did you get rid of them?” Triska asked shaking her head.

  “I blew them all up!” Pip cheered, with the group looking at her with shock as she fluttered around in circles. “They all went boom! Hee hee!”

  Everyone stared at her in surprise of what they heard before looking to Daniel, his eyes locked onto the fairy as she merrily flew around laughing before she faced him with a cute smile.

  “Pip,” he said slowly shaking his head. “What did you do?”

  Pip giggled and tilted her head as everyone watched her with growing concern.

  *****

  Under the night sky the village of Rackleholm was once again silent while nestled in its peaceful forest valley. The swarm that infested the town had returned to their dormant state, with the monsters hanging from the walls and roofs of the buildings while also hugging the streets all throughout their home. The monsters retained their wide smiles as they quietly hissed in their sleep, eyes closed and wings tucked back over their bodies while they were as ridged as stone in their nocturnal positions.

  In the sky a blue light streaked across the quiet village before flying down and into a court in the middle of the infested town. A few swarm around the light twitched slightly while keeping their eyes closed as Pip gently touched down on the ground, the fairy slowly looking around at seeing the large ravenous monsters sleeping all throughout the streets.

  “You won’t hurt my boobies again,” Pip quietly scolded while her wings gave off a blue light that shifted to a golden hue. One of the swarm near her opened its eye suddenly which quickly snapped to attention on the tiny fairy. Pip looked to it with a blank expression as she held one hand up with a finger pointed out, the golden light glowing brightly around her while she cocked her head slightly to the side.

  “Nobody touches my boobies,” Pip said before she showed a stern glare, the light around her suddenly turning to a dark crimson. The swarm hissed at her while others nearby started to open their eyes. The tiny fairy then shot straight up into the air, trailing a crimson light while one of the swarm took off after her with a screech. As it did others around the courtyard started to awaken and hiss as they stirred and began to move.

  Pip soared high up into the air above Rackleholm, her eye that wasn’t hidden by her hair looking down towards the village with discontent before she pointed her finger at it. The swarm hissed as it flew up at her with its buzzing wings, flying right towards the glowing crimson light that the fairy was exuding against the starry sky behind her.

  “Meanie,” Pip said before a blast of red light shot out of her finger at high speed. The bolt of magic struck through the swarm, searing through it in an instant, and continued down towards the village as the monster dropped dead behind it. The magical projectile flew down and struck the courtyard with an ominous crimson glow and rumble before bright red lines shot outward from the impact in all directions along the ground. As they did swarm all over the village began to wake and hiss while the lights raced about in erratic patterns along the street and over the buildings themselves. Pip watched as the lines spread out to cover all of Rackleholm while forming into a giant casting ring with intertwined triangles lined with her flair of question marks and exclamation points. When the ring reached to the farthest corners of the village Pip held her hand down towards it before pressing a finger and her thumb together.

  “Bye bye,” she coldly said before snapping her fingers.

  With a massive bang the entire village of Rackleholm was detonated as if a volcano had exploded beneath it. The screeches of the swarm were heard only briefly along with the sounds of buildings being demolished before the entire town was blasted apart in a powerful explosion. Flames and smoke billowed up into the air along with scorching debris while a shockwave erupted outwards and leveled the surrounding trees for a good distance. The entire valley was lit up with a warm red glow from the blast while birds within the surrounding forest took off into the air out of fright from the loud disturbance.

  Up in the sky Pip watched the village of Rackleholm being wiped off the face of Eden with a cold stare. Slowly the red light around her shifted to a soft blue again before she giggled and bounced around happily in the air.

  “Yay! I did good! Daniel will love me now! Yay!” she cheered before zipping off through the air in a blue blur back to where she came from. As she did the crimson glow of the fiery hell she had cast the village of Rackleholm remained in the valley. And as it did not one single swarm was seen flying away from the destroyed village, the entire colony of the ravenous monsters having been annihilated by the fairy’s single attack.

  *****

  Daniel and the girls were staring at Pip with wide eyes and open mouths after she had explained she went to Rackleholm and blew up the swarm for him.

  “And that’s what happened,” she giggled while fluttering in front of Daniel’s stunned face. “They’re all gone now, so you can relax.”

  “You’re joking, right?” Kroanette nervously asked with a weak smile. “You didn’t really do that, did you?”

  “I sure did!” Pip cheered happily. “They’re all gone now! Yay!”

  “Daniel?” Triska slowly said while grabbing his hand and holding it tightly, her eyes watching the tiny monster with growing fear.

  “I thought you said before you can only do small spells,” Alyssa said slowly shaking her head with disbelief.

  “That was a small spell,” Pip replied to her with a shrug.

  “Blowing up an entire village is not small!” Falla cried out.

  “That’s so cool!” Complica cheered as she ran up bounced up and down around the fairy. “You made all those bad monsters go away wow that’s amazing you’re so incredible how did you do that I’m so happy th
ose monsters are gone they were really scary and mean thank you so much!”

  Pip giggled and flew around the young princess playfully, the two then running off together while the others all exchanged worried glances.

  “Clover was right,” Specca said nervously. “Fairies are destructive monsters.”

  “Wait a minute, we don’t have any proof she really did that,” Triska reasoned with a forced smile. “She could just be making it all up.”

  “You didn’t see what she did to a few birds the other day,” Falla argued pointing up. “Blowing up a village is well within the realm of possibility for that fairy.”

  “Would she really have gone that far?” Kroanette wondered. “I mean destroying an entire village like that, that’s simply overkill. It’s going way too far. It’s something only a-” She then froze as everyone thought of the same thing.

  “Only a Darker One would do,” Alyssa solemnly finished.

  “Fairies are Darker Ones,” Specca said looking to Daniel with a nervous tremble. “That foulmouthed elf was right.”

  “She can’t be,” Luna whimpered shaking her head. “Pip’s so nice and friendly. She can’t be a Darker One.”

  “If what she said is true then she could very well be one,” Kroanette reasoned with concern. “That much power is extremely dangerous, and from what Clover warned us about fairies they could easily destroy everything around them along with themselves if they’re not careful. I only know Darker Ones to possess such power as that.”

  “Charlotte could destroy a town,” Alyssa worriedly mentioned. “But I don’t think she could do it all in one go. Not at all like how Pip described herself doing it.”

  “A single shot to level an entire town,” Triska said looking down while trying to imagine such a thing. “That’s a very scary thought to think about.”

  Daniel looked over to seeing Pip flying around with Complica chasing after, the two laughing and playing with one another as if they were best friends.

  “Look at her,” he said, with the other girls setting their sights on the fairy and butterfly princess playing together. “That’s not how a Darker One would act. Playing with a child so happily, smiling and laughing with those around her, risking her life to save some of you from the swarm last night, and even bringing us here in record time all to help with our quest, I cannot believe Pip is a Darker One. I just can’t.”

  “But the power she has,” Specca worriedly reminded him. “The amount of damage she could do if she loses control…”

  “She’s powerful, yes,” Daniel agreed. “But that doesn’t make her evil. From what I’ve heard about fairies they’re very kind creatures. The only times they’ve gone too far and killed those around them wasn’t out of spite or anger, it was out of loneliness and despair. I actually feel sorry for those fairies, being unable to handle such sorrow and having it end their lives so quickly.”

  “She’s a good monster,” Luna insisted. “She’s like me and my sister, we’re good now too. She’s not evil, she can’t be.”

  “She used her magic to get rid of all the swarm for us,” Daniel reminded the girls. “To protect us. She’s not going to be blowing us up anytime soon. She’s happy here with us, she wants to keep us safe.”

  “So what should we do with her?” Triska asked him.

  “We let her come with us,” Daniel reasoned looking back to the kindhearted fairy flying about nearby. “Not because she could help us talk to her race about peace, but because we could help her not be alone in this world. We may never find another fairy in all of Eden, but we’ll keep this one safe and happy. That much we can do. Even if she is what the world would call a Darker One I know she has a real heart, she’s nothing like the Darker Ones we’ve met before.”

  Everyone watched as Pip and Complica played together, seeing the young child chasing after the moving fairy nonstop while giggling and trying to catch the moving monster with her hands. Pip playfully laughed as she zipped around Complica then flew about in front of her, always keeping just out of reach off the butterfly but never flying too far away from her.

  “You know,” Kroanette started, with everyone glancing to her as she crossed her arms with a dull stare at the fast moving fairy. “I went through hell because of that fairy. First with being separated from all of you, then being abused by some lecherous bandits in the forest, and then being forced to accompany that abrasive elf to Rackleholm where I was nearly killed by swarm. I even lost my refraction bracelets that my mother gave to me, having to give them up in order to come back with you all with Pip’s magic. That fairy has caused so much trouble and aggravation for me, and that’s not even getting into her constantly touching me all over with her depraved hands.”

  The group watched as Kroanette sighed before she smiled slightly and shook her head a little as she tried to follow Pip’s quick movements.

  “And yet even with all that on top of the fact that she could destroy so much if she had the mind to, I can’t deny that she really is a kind and caring girl. She really is naïve and one of the most perverted individuals I’ve come across, but at the same time I’m actually glad to have met her.”

  “You are?” Triska asked, with Kroanette nodding and looking to her with a small shrug.

  “Maybe she is a Darker One, maybe not, but Daniel is right. She’s so gentle and innocent, she’s like a young child herself, she never meant to cause me any harm at all. Perhaps she does need somebody in this world so as not to be alone, maybe that’s what all fairies need so they don’t fall into despair and lose control of themselves.”

  “Well,” Specca said looking to Pip with a careful eye. “She is very friendly with us, and she’s only wanted to help with everything she’s done.”

  “We’re not going to ignore the fact that she’s so annoying, are we?” Alyssa asked glancing around at everyone.

  “She can be a bit much at times,” Triska reasoned before smiling a bit at the fairy. “But she isn’t evil; we know that much for sure. I think Daniel and Kroanette are right, Pip just needs somebody to be with in this world, that’s all.”

  “What about what she did to those birds and the entire village of Rackleholm?” Falla reminded them. “That could happen to us if something spooks her or makes her angry.”

  “She won’t hurt us… will she?” Luna asked unsurely.

  “I’m going to trust her,” Daniel said, with the girls looking to him curiously as he smiled calmly at the moving fairy. “She’s earned that from me after all she’s done for us. As far as I’m concerned we’re safe with her. She can control herself around us.”

  “Boobies!” Pip cheered as she zipped right past Daniel and into Triska’s shirt, with the girl screaming and falling to the ground with a soft thump as everyone watched in surprise. Complica ran over and watched curiously as Triska was screaming while shaking her chest around before yanking her shirt up and showing her bouncing breasts and a tiny fairy squirming about between them.

  “Pip!” Triska cried out. “Why? Why?”

  “Milk please!” Pip said with a bright smile at her before she started sucking for just that. Daniel face palmed while the other girls watched with awkward expressions as the fairy clung to one of Triska’s breasts and sucked on the nipple like her life depended on it.

  “Pip!” Triska cried out while blushing and staring at the fairy with disbelief. “What are you doing? AH! Stop! I don’t have any milk to give you!”

  “What?” Pip exclaimed as she looked to her with a wide eye. “But you’re giving milk now, they even said so!”

  “Who in Eden told you that?” Triska demanded before looking around at the group with anger, her eyes stopping on Falla as everyone glanced to her while she smiled weakly at Triska.

  “She was scared to go after you during the night,” Falla explained while holding her hands up defensively. “I thought telling her that would get her to go and save your life, which it did. So, you know… you’re welcome?”

  “Falla!” Triska yelle
d out at her.

  “No!” Pip whined while squeezing Triska’s breast again and again with desperation. “Give me milk, boobies! Please! You have to!”

  “Stop it!” Triska cried out while blushing more. “There’s no milk! Falla lied to you! She lies all the time!”

  “Hey!” Falla snapped at her. “I don’t lie all the time! And I said that to get her scared fairy butt out there and rescue you! You should be thanking me!”

  “Waaaah!” Pip whined while starting to cry now. “I’m hungry! I need the juices of life!”

  “She’s not going to lose it now, is she?” Kroanette nervously asked.

  “Not liking how she’s crying,” Specca worriedly mentioned while stepping back. “Somebody give her something, quickly.”

  “Hey, Pip,” Alyssa called out. Everyone turned to her as she pointed to Falla with a smirk on her face. “You can have Falla’s nectar if you want, it’s okay with her.”

  “What?” Falla asked her with a jump.

  “Her nectar?” Kroanette asked with confusion.

  Pip sniffled then looked to Falla’s skirt with a hungry eye, with Falla backing up shaking her head as she saw how the fairy was staring at her now.

  “No, no no no no, don’t you dare,” Falla ordered while shaking her hands before her.

  “What nectar?” Specca asked. Squeak looked at Falla curiously then to Pip as the fairy fluttered her wings with a bright smile on her face.

  “I can?” she asked flying up from Triska’s chest, the teen then quickly yanking her shirt back down as she watched the fairy carefully.

  “No! No no no no!” Falla yelled out.

  “Yes,” Alyssa ordered her. Falla looked to her with a whine as the witch crossed her arms with a grin at her. “Go on, give our new friend what she needs. She’s really hungry after all.”

  “But… but…” Falla stuttered. She looked to Daniel with urgency, then to her sister who was shrugging slightly in response, then to Pip as the fairy licked her lips while fluttering in place, and then to Alyssa as the witch raised an eyebrow at her with a stern smile. She then cringed and looked up while slowly lowering her hands in defeat.