Chronicles of Eden - Act IV (26 page)

“If we ever see that bitch again I’m smashing her into the ground,” Rulo grunted with discontent.

“No arguments here,” Sasha agreed.

“Allow me to assist you,” Forrus added as the three girls walked after Daemon down the street. As they passed by the battle-scarred street from earlier Forrus glanced down to her broken bolas on the ground, the lycan merely swiping up the severed rope and rocks while the two other girls glanced to her.

“Not much of a weapon if it breaks so easily,” Sasha commented.

“I can make another very easily. Despite its frailty it serves its purpose well,” Forrus replied before looking ahead at Daemon, with the other two girls watching as he kept walking without glancing back or saying a word.

“If you’re really going to tag along with us you’d better hope you’re not as weak as that dumb thing is,” Rulo grunted with an oink.

Forrus merely whipped one of the flails of her bolas back behind her and struck Rulo’s ass, the orc yelping before looking to the lycan with a heavy growl as Forrus casually spun the rock and rope around at her side.

“I’m not,” Forrus replied while keeping her eyes on Daemon, with Rulo gearing back with her hammer to strike at the girl before Daemon glanced back to them, the girls jumping a bit then watching him with unease as Rulo slowly rested her hammer back down onto her shoulder.

“Ladies, is there a problem?” he asked dryly.

“No, master,” Rulo said with a weak smile.

Sasha whacked the back of the orc’s head while Forrus again whipped her bolas over and struck the girl’s ass, with Rulo yelping with a loud oink before looking down with a cringe.

“I mean, Daemon,” she said softly, then glanced to Sasha then Forrus with a scowl before Daemon looked back ahead and shook his head slightly.

As the four travelers all headed off together to leave the village Daniel’s group watched them go from within their bladed prison.

“What the hell, they’re just going to leave us here like this?” Falla asked with disbelief.

“They didn’t come here to save us, they just wanted that artifact,” Specca said, slowly shaking her head as they watched Daemon and his three companions heading off without so much as glancing back to them once.

Charlotte watched the four travelers with a curious smile then giggled and glanced back to the witch sisters.

“Apoch, Astreal, I want the other fragments of that relic,” she ordered.

“My grace?” Apoch asked curiously. “I thought we didn’t want to have such a thing in our possession anymore.”

“Yes, isn’t that why you gave that human your piece just now?” Astreal questioned.

Charlotte nodded with a smirk and looked to her free hand as she slowly curled and uncurled her fingers.

“I don’t want the artifact anymore, I want
him
, and if I have the pieces that he seeks then he’ll come back to me.”

“You want that human?” Apoch asked. “Then why are we letting him go? We can still capture him for you, my grace.”

Charlotte chuckled and shook her head as she looked off to where Daemon and his group were faintly visible further down the road.

“Now now,” she said holding a hand up to silence her helpers. “Using force with that one won’t end so well. His pets may be weak but he certainly isn’t. Besides, I can’t charm him, but I can certainly bargain with him for those fragments. Yes, I believe giving me one daughter for each piece, that sounds fair.” Apoch and Astreal giggled before Charlotte turned to point at them with a daring smile.

“Spread the word to the other witches of this region. I want those fragments brought to me as soon as possible. My knight will be sure to come here after them, and he’ll get them just as soon as he gives me the most powerful daughters I’ve ever conceived!”

“Yes, Ms. Charlotte!” Apoch and Astreal cheered in unison.

Charlotte closed her eyes and tried to hold back her shudder then gave the sisters a dull smile.

“Please stop doing that.”

She then glanced over to Alyssa with a raised eyebrow as the witch was watching her with nervous eyes still.

“Oh, that’s right, I still need to deal with all of you,” Charlotte mentioned as she looked over to Daniel and the other girls before back to Alyssa.

“You know,” Triska offered with a weak smile. “If you’re busy that’s fine, we don’t want to keep you.”

Charlotte gave a small amused murmur to that then walked over towards Alyssa with a dull glare, the alpha being accompanied by her two helpers who watched Alyssa cower before them with scowls on their faces.

“Shall we slit her throat and be done with it?” Apoch asked softly.

“I say we hang her, watch her kick around for a bit before her neck snaps,” Astreal suggested.

Charlotte walked over and stood above Alyssa’s head, looking down at the terrified witch with a cold stare as Daniel and the other girls watched with growing concern.

“Alyssa, you shouldn’t have come here,” Charlotte said while slowly shaking her finger down at the witch.

Alyssa gulped and shook her head a bit, being unable to really move much with the obsidian blades poised over her throat.

“Please, I’m sorry about Ritherwood. It was an accident, I never meant-”

“Silence,” Charlotte ordered, with Alyssa whimpering quietly while staring up at the alpha with fright. Charlotte tilted her head slowly as she eyed over the witch then glanced over to the others who were trapped in their razor-edged prison.

“I’m not in the mood to settle for the boy in there now, not after seeing a real man up close. Apoch, Astreal, you may have him tonight, rape him all you want, I don’t care,” she offered, with the sisters looking towards Daniel with sly smiles as he and his friends watched them worriedly.

“We’re going to play with you all night.
All
night,” they called out friskily before giggling together, with Triska and Squeak quickly stepping in front of Daniel while holding him back behind them.

“No you’re not,” Triska snapped at them. “Over my dead body you’ll be touching him.”

“Again, I think that’s their plan, Triska,” Specca mentioned nervously.

Charlotte looked down to Alyssa as her eyes gave off a soft glow, with Alyssa whimpering with a few tears dropping from her cheeks.

“Please,” Alyssa begged. “Do whatever you want to me, just don’t hurt Daniel.”

Charlotte raised an eyebrow in question as Alyssa closed her eyes and prepared to face the end at the hands of the alpha.

“Please, don’t hurt him,” she softly begged again.

Charlotte slowly looked to Daniel, eyeing him over for a moment before glancing down to Alyssa.

“Why do you care about him so much?”

“Because I love him, with all my heart,” Alyssa answered sincerely.

“You
love
him?” Charlotte replied cynically.

Alyssa looked up to her and nodded a bit. Charlotte stared at her for a moment then walked over towards the cage with a dull glare at Daniel, the boy slowly stepping forth from behind his friends while the girls all watched the alpha carefully.

“What’s to love about this one?” Charlotte questioned. “He looks rather meek and poorly, hardly a good candidate for getting a seed from.”

The girls glared at her with discontent before Daniel sighed and shook his head, the boy kneeling down to face Charlotte with a troubled expression.

“Please, we didn’t come here to fight, or to come between you and that artifact. We-”

“You came here to try to talk to me about the ridiculous notion of witches and humans living together happily,” Charlotte scoffed. “To put all the fighting and bloodshed behind us and live with one another in a dreamland.”

Daniel looked at her for a moment as he could tell the alpha certainly didn’t believe in such things then down while closing his eyes.

“How many witches have been killed by humans? How many that you knew of personally?” he asked, with Charlotte remaining silent as the boy slowly looked up at her again. “How many witches have killed humans, all just to rape our men and get pregnant?”

“That’s called the way of life,” Charlotte lectured with a faint smile. “Monsters rape you humans, it’s what we’re made to do, it’s what we
have
to do. There’s no changing that.”

“No you don’t, it doesn’t have to be that way,” Daniel reasoned hopefully.

Charlotte scoffed then waved her hand to the side, causing Daniel to be thrown forward and smack against one of the blades of the prison, his cheek being pressed against the flat side of the steel while the girls watched with surprise. A small trickle of blood came from his skin being cut as the boy watched the alpha worriedly, the girl just staring at him with a dull glare.

“Quit wasting your breath,” she admonished harshly. “What you say is utter nonsense. Humans and witches can’t live together. Humans would
never
agree to something like that, and frankly neither would I. Your whole quest is nothing but a fool’s errand. Monsters and man will never live together in peace.”

“It’s not nonsense,” Daniel pleaded carefully. “You don’t have to be enemies of mankind, we can live together in peace, I know we can.”

“No, we can’t,” Charlotte argued sternly before waving her hand at him, throwing the boy back down onto the ground near his friends with a grunt. Specca and Squeak quickly kneeled down to help him sit up while Falla and Triska watched Charlotte carefully as the witch walked back towards Alyssa with a dull expression on her face.

“Stupid human,” she derided.

“He’s not stupid,” Specca snapped at her. “He’s right, we can live together in peace if only you would give it a chance.”

Charlotte stopped then slowly glanced back to the nixie, with Specca then showing a nervous expression from seeing the witch just staring at her. After a moment’s pause Charlotte pointed her wand at the girl then swung it down, throwing Specca forward into the wall of their prison with a scream.

“Ow,
OW
! STOP!” Specca cried out as she was pushed against two sides of the razor-edged blades, the opening between showing the nixie’s body with her clothing being cut against it. Blood dripped down the edges as the nixie whimpered while her hands were held down at her sides by the witch’s magic.

“Specca!” Triska exclaimed as she rushed over and tried to pull the nixie back, with Specca then screaming as she was pushed forward still by the magical force. Her breasts were fortunate to be pressed against the flat edges of two of the blades so not to get cut, however her lower body and legs had blood dripping down on them from being pushed forward against the sharp edges.

“Stop it, let her go!” Daniel shouted out as he got up and rushed over, with him and Triska then trying to pull Specca back by the arms as the nixie was trying to keep her head back from being pushed against the razor edges in front of her.

“No,” Charlotte merely replied before holding her hand out to them, throwing Triska back into Squeak while Falla was pushed back and dropped to the ground, with Daniel still struggling to hold onto the nixie with all his might from the forceful wave of magic. Specca screamed again in pain as her body was being pulled towards the alpha, which meant going through the small space between the razor-edged bars of their prison in what would be the equivalent of meat going through a grinder. Daniel pulled as hard as he could with her, the nixie then slowly being brought back a step as the boy held her from around the waist and above her breasts with both arms. Specca whimpered as she grabbed onto his arm around her waist, feeling her body still being pulled forward with great force.

“Daniel,” she cried as she felt her sandals dragging forward an inch in the dirt.

“Stop, please let her go,” Daniel begged as he looked to Charlotte, the witch having a cold expression on her face while Apoch and Astreal merely watched with amused smiles. Alyssa couldn’t see her friends still but based on hearing how Specca was crying out in pain she knew something bad was happening.

“You should let go,” Apoch giggled.

“Yeah, or else you’re going to be sliced into pieces with her,” Astreal laughed.

Daniel narrowed his eyes at Charlotte and held onto Specca tightly, the alpha watching him with a raised eyebrow as he struggled to keep the nixie from being forced through the bars in what would be a painful death.

“I will never let her go,” Daniel replied sternly, with Triska and Squeak watching him with worried eyes as they got back up.

“Your choice,” Charlotte said carelessly while waving her wand to the side. The group watched as three of the razor edged blades then twisted in place to face Specca and Daniel, the openings between them still being too small to fit between without getting cut into pieces first. Daniel struggled to hold Specca back as the two were dragged forward a bit towards the blades, with Specca staring in fright at the edges that would likely slice right through her with little trouble should he let go. Triska and Squeak tried to run towards them before they were stopped suddenly, the two being lifted up a foot into the air and held in place by a magical force. Falla looked to them with a jump then over to seeing Apoch and Astreal shaking their fingers at them while holding their staves towards the two bound girls.

“Now now, don’t ruin the fun,” Apoch insisted as Triska and Squeak struggled to move their bodies, both of them being held in place firmly by the witches’ magic.

“Yes,” Astreal mocked with a smirk. “Let’s see if he still holds onto his belief that she’s worth saving while he’s being forced through with her.”

“Daniel!” Specca cried out as her feet slid along the dirt, her eyes staring at the blades in front of her as she felt her body being pulled with great force by something while Daniel struggled to keep her from flying forward and being sliced into pieces.

“She’s a monster, what do you care if she dies?” Charlotte ridiculed before holding her wand out towards them, a bright glow coming from it as Specca watched with fright. She and Daniel slid forward a bit more towards the blades before the boy regained his footing again and stopped them.

“Didn’t you hear me?” Daniel retorted. “We’re out here to show the world that monsters and humans can live with one another peacefully. I don’t care that she’s a monster, she’s just as much a woman in my eyes as a human would be.”