Charlotte glanced back to her then looked to Specca as the nixie watched her with worried eyes.
“Please,” Specca begged. “We just want to put an end to the fighting.”
“Really now, all of you, huh?” Charlotte questioned skeptically. “And just what the hell are you all going to do to change anything?”
Triska looked around at everyone then back to the alpha with desperation.
“We’re trying to gain as many supporters from monster races that wish for peace,” she hastily explained. “To gather enough to show mankind that this can be possible. We have an ant girl nest that’s willing to talk if we are, we’re going to journey to the elven forest and also speak to the centaur empress in hopes those two races will join our cause. We’re going to talk to any monsters we can then show the queen of this region that we all want this stupid fighting to end.”
“That’s your plan?” Charlotte laughed. “To just wander around the land talking to any monsters you can, hoping they actually listen to such ideas and just go along with it?”
“You’re all insane,” Apoch and Astreal said shaking their heads at the same time.
“Dammit, no we’re not,” Triska shot back. “Somebody has to try and stop the fighting, so that’s what we’re going to do.”
“You won’t succeed,” Charlotte ridiculed.
“We have to try,” Daniel grunted as he struggled to hold Specca back, his arms loosening slightly as the girl was an inch away from the blades now. Charlotte watched him for a moment then slowly waved her wand down, with the boy stumbling back with Specca in his arms as the magical pull stopped suddenly. Triska and Squeak dropped to the ground with a thump, both of them being freed from their magical holds as well. Specca whimpered and turned around to hold onto Daniel for support, the boy holding her close while watching the alpha witch carefully. Slowly Charlotte walked up to the cage and eyed Daniel over carefully while Triska and Squeak got back onto their feet and walked over behind him.
“Answer me this then,” Charlotte proposed. “How do you believe humans and witches can live together?”
“My grace?” Apoch and Astreal questioned together.
Charlotte held up a hand to silence them while watching Daniel with a piercing stare.
“If we do live together, that means men are going to have to mate with us willingly, right?”
Daniel slowly nodded as he knew where this was going, the same question that came up before when talking to Squeak’s queen, one that he didn’t have a solution for then either. Charlotte tilted her head while showing discontent at the boy, waiting for his response before she set a hand at her hip.
“And just how do you plan to arrange that for us?” she demanded. “We’re going to need men to have sex with, and charming and raping them is how we get that, it’s the only way we get that. Do you want to know why? Do you want a hint? Look at us!” Daniel’s group watched her with concern as the witch waved down at her body.
“We look like little girls, only twisted and lecherous men wish to fuck a little girl willingly. I’m 168 years old, but I look like I’m twelve to you humans. Those that are pure wouldn’t touch us let alone have sex with us. We need to hex them into giving themselves to us in order to get their seeds, we have to trick them by any means we can, we have to force them with our magic, or else we would get nothing. So tell me, how do you plan for humans to accept not only fucking a monster but one that looks like a young girl?”
Alyssa closed her eyes as she worried about Daniel’s answer, with the boy looking down with a troubled frown as the other girls watched him with concern.
“I…” he said unsurely, desperately trying to figure out an answer to her question.
“And not just us,” Charlotte continued. “But other monsters as well, what about them? Not every monster is easy on the eyes, and many are far more twisted than we witches. Even those with impeccable beauty are still regarded as a plague to your kind, and are killed often by humans all the same. What’s your plan for getting your people to just accept all of us for how we are?”
“We can make it work, I know we can,” Daniel tried to reason with.
“No we can’t,” Charlotte scoffed. “No human is ever going to want to do us willingly. Not me, not Alyssa, not your friends there. Humans don’t want to have sex with monsters, humans can’t ever choose monsters willingly for a mate in life. That’s never going to happen.”
She started walking back over towards Alyssa, with Apoch and Astreal just watching Daniel with dull stares as he remained silent from the witch’s words. He looked to Specca, seeing the nixie watching him with worried eyes with a few tears dropping from her cheeks, then over to Squeak, the ant girl looking down with a troubled expression as she obviously felt some concern from the alpha’s words, then over to Triska as the girl turned her eyes from Specca to him while remaining silent. He then looked over to seeing Charlotte standing over Alyssa again, the alpha glaring down at the bound witch while Alyssa’s face was still hidden from view by the obsidian blades over her neck.
“I would choose a monster as a mate,” he declared firmly. Charlotte slowly glanced over to him with a raised eyebrow as he watched her with a confident expression. “I would choose any girl, human or monster, as my loved one in life, so long as they were kindhearted.”
“Right, I’m sure you would,” Charlotte replied mockingly.
“Like you would ever love a monster,” Apoch and Astreal scoffed together.
Daniel looked to them with concern from their words, then slowly down as he showed some clarity, his eyes darting around a bit as his friends watched him with unease from this topic. Something finally clicked in his mind, a sudden realization that was abruptly cut off as Charlotte raised her wand up in the air with its gemstone glowing brightly.
“Enough of this, it’s time for the Wildfire Witch to burn in hell!” she declared, with Alyssa gasping and staring at the alpha with fright.
Daniel jumped from that statement and looked to the bound witch as the blades over her neck budged slightly and creaked. Alyssa shut her eyes and cried out the only thing she could think of saying as she was faced with her own demise.
“DANIEL!”
Chapter 7
A Troubling Night
Sometimes in the world of Eden things didn’t always go as they were planned. One could be met with unfortunate circumstances, faced with a tragedy and no way to avoid it. In battle they could be confronted with unsurmountable odds, or perhaps a simple trip through the land would be ruined by murderous bandits or lustful monsters with no way of escape. Perhaps their strategy hit a powerful barrier and they couldn’t figure out how to continue on, or maybe they suffered a great loss, and pressing forward became nearly impossible. Facing failure, facing defeat, could happen to anyone, no matter how hard they tried to avoid it. However, it was only true defeat should they actually fall, should they accept that they’ve lost and give up.
For some, failure just wasn’t an option, and nothing could truly stop them.
*****
Up above in the night sky the moon was seen through a few passing clouds, the moonlight shining down from it showing a large barren valley deep within the highlands that surrounded it. Mountains and steep bluffs were visible against the horizon with a few lone trees here and there, the area having very little wildlife while small clouds of dust rolled off some of the rocky mounds in the breeze. Standing at the entrance of a hollowed cave against a steep cliff Jovian and Jacqueline were looking out at the land they had been teleported to, the girls having cold glares showing their resentment for being there while Jovian held Tora’s mangled corpse in her hand by the witch’s hair.
“Sister, they cheated,” Jacqueline growled.
“This isn’t over, not by a long shot,” Jovian hissed before she swung Tora’s body down onto the ground, the corpse cracking and splattering blood onto the rocks at their feet. Jacqueline fumed with anger then looked to her sister.
“We sho
uld be making them scream now,” she cursed. “We should be filling our bellies with their meat. So then why are we out here in the middle of nowhere now?”
Jovian slowly glanced to her with a cold stare, with Jacqueline then gulping and looking down with worried eyes.
“They think they’re rid of us so easily,” Jovian hissed through her teeth. “That they’re safe from us now, that they can hide behind their trickery. We shall show them that nobody ever escapes from us.”
“But now what do we do?” Jacqueline asked softly.
Jovian gazed around at the highlands then looked up at the sky.
“We’ll make them suffer for this,” she said coldly. “No matter where they go, no matter how hard they try, they will never hide from us. Daniel, we’re going to find you and your friends again, and this time we’re going to make you scream much worse than we would have before.”
“We’ll slaughter all his friends,” Jacqueline growled.
“We’ll crush his hopes and dreams,” Jovian added.
“We’ll make all of them scream in agony for us,” Jacqueline said glancing to her sister with a wicked smile.
“We’ll make them all know true hell before they die by our hands,” Jovian added while returning the look to her sister. The twins then laughed together in unison, their voices echoing out into the valley as they stood together under the night sky. The two then turned to each other with lustful smiles and licked their lips before looking back towards the cave behind them as the sound of women laughing was heard, the two watching the darkened tunnel with dull glares as something approaching them.
“I’m still hungry,” Jacqueline mentioned.
Jovian turned to face the cave as a few figures slowly came forth from it, along with the warm glow of a torch being carried. The entrance lit up as three figures walked towards the sisters. They looked to be older woman with red skin, their bodies being smaller than the sisters’ and having some muscle on them while their figures were hunched forward as they trotted along on bare feet. They wore ragged clothing of brown and black fabric around their waists and upper bodies, with necklaces of dull gemstones and polished rocks draped around their necks. They had horrid yellow teeth with two small tusks coming up from their lower jaws, eyes that were either green or light blue which stared at the sisters while twitching a bit, and what little white hair they had on their heads hung down to the back of their necks. Two of the monsters held spears in their hands while the other held a torch up along with a rusty short sword, all three of them cackling as they grinned at the two sisters.
“Goblins,” Jovian scoffed.
“Talk about junk food,” Jacqueline remarked with a laugh.
The goblin holding the sword stepped forth and waved the blade around at Jovian in a threatening manner while the two with spears poised to strike at the sisters with eerie chuckles.
“Whatsa we haves heeere?” the one with the sword taunted with a very thick goblin accent. “Two leetle lost lambs?”
Jovian merely glared at the monster before the goblin held the sword to her throat.
“Whatsa shall I do with youu? I wonder I wonder I wonder,” the goblin chuckled.
Jovian glanced to Jacqueline then back to the monster before she darted around the sword and tackled the goblin to the ground, grabbing hold of the blade while the torch dropped down next to them. The other two goblins hissed loudly before they struck their spears through Jovian’s chest, the girl grunting with blood sputtering out of her mouth while the goblin under her laughed.
“Stupid gurl! Stupid gurl!” she cackled while the other two looked to Jacqueline with wicked smiles. The blonde merely crossed her arms and giggled before looking to her sister who drew the blade up into the air. The goblins stared at her with shock as the girl then struck her blade down and into the goblin’s skull, piercing through down to the ground with a crunch before she looked to the other two with a cold glare. The goblins screamed and backed up fearfully, both of them cowering in fear as Jovian slowly stood up with the two spears sticking through her chest.
“Why you no die? Why you no die?” one cried out.
Jovian grabbed the spears and yanked them out of her body, the goblins then watching in terror as her wounds healed up completely.
“You’re not worth eating,” Jovian scoffed. “You’re not worth killing, you’re just garbage in this world. Mere trash that is as low as humans themselves.”
The two goblins quickly bowed down to her on their hands and knees.
“Pleese no kill us, no kill us!” one pleaded loudly.
“We sowwy! We sowwy!” the other cried.
“Disgusting creatures,” Jacqueline scoffed.
Jovian walked towards the two remaining goblins while her sister followed, with the goblins then screaming and falling onto their backs as they stared at the sisters with fright. Jovian walked by and knocked the torch back behind her, the flame rolling over then hitting against the dead goblin and lighting her clothing on fire. As the monster started to burn behind them Jovian and Jacqueline walked up and stood in front of the two terrified goblins.
“Pleese!” one of the goblins wailed. “We do anything you say! No kill! No kill!”
“We have men in our home, we give to you, we give!” the other cried out.
“We have no use for men,” Jovian said coldly.
“We have food! We give you food!” one of the goblins screamed as the two tried to scramble backwards away from the sisters, failing to do so as they slipped and stumbled on the loose dirt below them.
“Scraps from goblins aren’t fit for even a dog,” Jacqueline replied with a dark glare.
“No! No! We find you gold? Yes, we find and give you gold!” the other goblin begged while shaking her head.
“We don’t care about gold,” Jovian said shaking her head.
“No! Pleese! I pleasure you! I promise, I use tongue well, I do good job!” one of the goblins pleaded.
“Only my sister may touch me,” Jacqueline replied coldly.
“No! What you want from us? We do anything! Tell us!” the other goblin cried out desperately.
Jovian and Jacqueline walked closer then stood over the two frightened monsters, the goblins staring at the naked sisters with horror while the corpse nearby burned brightly.
“Sister, what should we do with them?” Jacqueline asked while eyeing over the goblins.
Jovian thought for a moment then smiled slyly.
“Tell us, how many are in your home?”
The goblins trembled before them and glanced to each other.
“Home has many goblins, tens of tens of tens,” one of them stuttered while pointing back towards the tunnel entrance near them. Jaqueline glanced to her sister with a raised eyebrow as Jovian slowly shook her head.
“That won’t do at all,” she derided. “Tell me, are there more tribes of goblins in this forgotten wasteland?”
The goblins looked to each other curiously then to Jovian as they slowly sat up.
“Yes, we everywhere here, all here and there,” one said while waving around at the valley.
“Sister?” Jacqueline asked curiously.
Jovian chuckled then crossed her arms with a slick smile on her face.
“I see. I’ll tell you what; we’ll spare your lives, if you take us to your leader in your home. Right now.”
The goblins jumped a bit then scrambled back to their feet.
“Yes! Yes, we take you, we take you,” one of them quickly pleaded as she rushed over to grab the torch. She looked at the burning body of her fellow goblin with a troubled frown then to Jovian as the girl glanced back to her with a smirk.
“Move it, or else you’ll get worse than she did.”
The goblin shook with fear then quickly trotted past them with the other frightened monster, with sisters following them into the cave together.
“Why are we going to their home?” Jacqueline muttered. “They’re goblins, it probably stinks there.”
&
nbsp; “Don’t you remember?” Jovian asked with a glance to her. “Daniel wants to find as many monsters as he can to show his queen that they can be trusted, that they can live in peace together.”
Jacqueline looked at her puzzled before Jovian turned her eyes towards the goblins in front them, a dark smile coming across her face as the sisters followed the two monsters toward the location of even more of them living in the mountain.
“Well,” Jovian mused. “As Daniel’s dear friends, I think we should bring even more monsters to his queen, and show the humans just how well we can all ‘get along’ with one another.”
Jacqueline blinked then started giggling as did her sister, the two breaking out into maniacal laughter while the goblins before them nervously led the two strange girls towards their home.
“Yes, I believe you’re right,” Jacqueline agreed with a dark smile forming on her face. “We should help Daniel with his quest after all he’s done for us.”
Jovian nodded as she glanced to her sister and took hold of her hand, the two walking close together as they headed further into the mountain with the goblins.
“Indeed we should. In fact, I dare say we can bring even more to the party than he could.”
*****
Running down a darkened street in Eston a centaur was galloping at a quickened pace, her hair flowing gently behind her while her large breasts bounced heavily under her shirt. Kroanette looked around at the passing buildings of the dead village then back behind her as she saw the glow from the burning district in the distance, knowing that Daniel and his friends were still at the mercy of the alpha witch that had come to the town.
“I fear that boy may not live long enough to see my mother after all, how unfortunate,” she sympathized before stopping at a street corner and looking around quickly, seeing darkened buildings with the faint moonlight from above and the burning district further away providing the only light to see with.
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