Chronicles of Eden - Act V (27 page)

“Just relax, Alyssa,” she tried to reassure herself with. “Your home is still okay, it has to be. Maybe this is some side effect from Pip warping us across The Outerlands like she did. Maybe that’s why it’s not working right now.”

As she approached their mobile home a small smile came across her face, her anxieties beginning to fade with her own hopeful words while she slowly breathed out to calm herself.

“I’m sure by tomorrow everything will be fine. Daniel will have gained another ally with his quest with the giant butterflies, my magic will be working the way it’s supposed to again, and we’ll continue on as usual.”

With a small laugh of amusement she made her way over to the caravan and hopped up onto the front seat. She brushed aside the curtain, stepped into the cabin, and then froze in place as she stared at the sight before her with wide eyes.

“You sure you don’t want to taste me?” Luna offered again happily while she was sitting on the table, had her legs pulled up by her sides, and her skirt lifted to expose herself. Daniel was shaking his head with a nervous smile and waving his hands in front of him to decline her offer while Falla was hanging onto his arm and gently grinding her hips against his leg.

“We’re not lying you know,” Falla mentioned. “I’d hate for you to think we’re trying to trick you here. I am after all an honest monster thanks to you. Just give us a small lick each, just to prove that we’re telling the truth and so you can add that little detail to your monster guidebook without any doubt.”

“She’s so tasty!” Pip cheered while zipping around in a blue blur near the ceiling, nimbly weaving up, down, and around the rafters. “She’s so tasty! I feel so happy and alive again! Weee!”

“See?” Falla said pointing up with a slick smile on her face, her other arm still holding Daniel close to the point her breasts were rubbing around his arm. “Pip knows we’re telling the truth. Go on, it’s just for research purposes, right?”

“That’s alright,” Daniel insisted while shutting his eyes as Luna kept herself open to him. “I believe you, I do. You can get down from there now, Luna.”

Luna and Falla giggled at seeing him becoming flustered then looked over to hearing the sound of footsteps approaching. Pip stopped instantly in midair and watched with a curious eye while Daniel glanced over to see Alyssa slowly walking towards them, her hat barely covering her eyes as she glared at the butterfly girls while her staff was glowing softly in her hands. Alyssa made her way over to the table between Luna and the others, slowly glanced to Luna’s pussy, then to her face while drumming her fingers on her staff.

“Unless you have a
very
good reason for doing what you’re doing,” Alyssa spoke in a cold voice. “You are going to die on that very table right now.”

Luna turned pale with fright and let out a quiet whine while Falla slowly let go of Daniel and backed up away from him.

“I… was…” Luna whimpered shakily. “Only trying… to help… Pip.”

Alyssa narrowed her eyes which gave off a soft glow, remaining silent while Luna trembled nervously as she kept her legs apart still.

“And then… I only wanted to offer Daniel… a taste of me as well,” Luna added, with Falla face palming to that while Daniel shut his eyes with a cringe as he knew that did not help matters with the witch.

Alyssa paused for a moment then held her staff towards Luna, the skull ornament beginning to exude smoke from its eyeholes as it glowed orange. Luna showed extreme fright while her hair began to flow back from a magical force emanating from the relic in front of her face.

“Goodbye, Luna,” Alyssa condemned.

“Wait, Alyssa,” Daniel quickly spoke up. “Don’t hurt her; it’s not what it looks like.”

Alyssa turned to him with disbelief while still holding her staff towards the frightened butterfly girl’s face.

“Daniel,
this
is not acceptable,” she stated expectantly at him. “I’m going to have to kill this one in a very painful manner so the
other one
gets the point!” She glanced to Falla with a harsh glare, causing Falla to back up with a squeak, then looked to Luna again as she was now starting to cry.

“I’m sorry,” Luna sniveled.

“No!” Pip cried out as she flew over in a blur then hovered in front of Alyssa with her arms held out at her sides. “Don’t hurt her! She’s tasty!”

“Tasty?” Alyssa shouted out.

“Yes, tasty! I love her juices! And her boobies! And her! But mostly her boobies! No wait, mostly her juices! No wait, wait, her first, then boobies, then juices.” Slowly she fluttered down and landed on Alyssa’s staff with a quizzical expression, with everyone watching as she looked down with confusion while rubbing her head.

“Let’s see, I like her, and her boobies, but also her juices. Which do I like more? Hmm, this is a toughie.”

Alyssa just stared at her with bewilderment as the fairy stood on her staff while talking to herself then looked to Daniel who was watching Pip with a blank expression as well as Falla.

“Gee,” Falla dryly said. “So glad she cares about my sister’s wellbeing.”

“What in Eden is she talking about?” Alyssa asked shaking her head.

“Alyssa, we have a few things to explain,” Daniel said before pointing to Luna, with Alyssa looking over and seeing Luna shaking with a few tears coming from her cheeks while staring at the end of the witch’s staff. “But first, could you please not scare her like that? She didn’t do anything wrong, I promise you.”

“Not to mention she’s known to wet herself if you scare her badly,” Falla mentioned, with the group then quickly stepping back as a trickle of urine started to drip off the edge of the table onto the floor.

“Like that,” Falla groaned as she held a hand over her eyes. Daniel sighed and looked down while shaking his head, Alyssa showed a disturbed expression as she watched Luna peeing on the table out of sheer fright, and Pip stared at the small puddle of liquid forming below the table with wonder.

“Is that more juices of life for me?” she asked curiously while turning to Daniel.

“No, Pip,” he tiredly replied. “Those are most certainly
not
the juices of life.”

*****

A short while later Luna was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding her hands over her face while she hid herself out of embarrassment of what she did, Falla was sitting next to her, gently rubbing her sister’s back with a dull expression on her face, Alyssa was wiping the table with a wet rag with a puzzled expression, and Daniel was cleaning the floor with a wet towel. Hovering over the table Pip was watching them clean up Luna’s accident with a curious eye, her wings fluttering in a blur behind her with small specs of dust drifting below them briefly.

“I’m so sorry,” Luna whined while keeping her face hidden.

“It’s alright,” Falla tiredly said. “I did warn them, it’s not your fault.”

“Okay, let me get this straight,” Alyssa said before looking to the sisters questionably. “Fairies like Pip can live off of bodily fluids, that’s the
only
stuff they want to eat, and the
only
reason why Luna was up on the table exposing herself was because she offered to have Pip eat her out since Pip was hungry?”

“Yes,” Daniel agreed. “And believe me I was as surprised as you were hearing and seeing this too.”

“You
watched
Pip eat out Luna?” Alyssa asked looking to him carefully. “You actually watched her do that?”

“Yeah, it all happened so fast. I was mostly stunned to the point where I wasn’t sure what I was seeing to be honest.”

Alyssa looked up to Pip as the fairy hovered around in a slow circle above them. The tiny monster remained silent while watching the group curiously as her wings fluttered quickly behind her.

“And the reason she likes breasts so much is because she wants milk from them?” Alyssa wondered.

“That and they’re so
hot
,” Pip purred with a lustful voice. Alyssa glanced to the butterfly sisters with a raised eyebrow as Falla slowly shook her head while watching the fairy and Luna continued to hold her hands over her face.

“Starting to see why fairies aren’t around anymore,” Falla dryly commented.

“It sounds strange, I know,” Daniel mentioned. “But after Pip did that to Luna she felt as good as new, she even let off a golden light like she did before afterwards.”

“Pip,” Alyssa said while slowly walking over to get closer to the fairy. “Before I ask that you explain yourself with that, did you do anything else with your magic to us when you brought us here?”

“Anything else?” Pip asked. “I don’t know. What else did I do?”

“Tell me, could your magic have affected mine in any way?”

Pip looked at her puzzled and shook her head as Daniel and Luna glanced to the witch curiously from that question.

“No, it shouldn’t have,” Pip answered. “Why do you ask?”

Alyssa watched her carefully for a moment then turned her sights back over to the sisters.

“Is there anything around your forest that you know of that can dampen or stop magical spells even in the slightest?”

“How should we know?” Falla replied with a shrug. “Giant butterflies don’t use magic.”

“Alyssa?” Daniel spoke up. “What are you getting at?”

“What about those floating lights above the grove?” Alyssa asked pointing up. “Could those interfere with casting any spells?”

“I don’t know,” Falla said again. “Nobody here uses magic, remember? We have no idea what exactly those lights are, just that they’ve always been here and never caused us any problems. Supposedly monsters that could use magic lived here before us, so I would think nothing would stop magic from happening here again.”

“Alyssa, what’s wrong?” Daniel asked as he stood up and watched the witch showing growing concern on her face. Alyssa turned to him and slowly shook her head before looking down to her hands.

“I tried to open the gateway to my home in Ritherwood before you came back. But I couldn’t, nothing happened. I couldn’t open the way back to my house.”

“You couldn’t go back to your home?” Luna asked worriedly.

“No, nothing would happen when I tried to create the gateway. I thought that I could run back quick and see if I had any books that might help Daniel with learning to study magic, but I couldn’t create the gateway.”

“That’s strange, what would cause that?” Daniel wondered.

“Well,” Alyssa uneasily replied. “It may be we’re just too far, though I wouldn’t think we are. Or maybe something around here is stopping my magic from working right, that’s a possibility I guess. Otherwise…”

“Otherwise what?”

“Otherwise… my home might not be there anymore,” Alyssa finished nervously.

“What?” Daniel said with a jump.

“Where would your home have gone?” Luna asked curiously. “Can it really get up and move around all on its own?”

“Luna,” Falla dryly said shaking head. “She means her house might be destroyed.”

Luna gasped with a hand over her mouth while Alyssa tried to force a smile to hide her growing fear that her home may indeed be gone.

“Something must be interfering with my magic,” she shakily reasoned. “That’s all. Maybe it is those floating lights. Maybe they can stop magic from working right. Maybe that’s it. That must be it.”

“I’ll go check!” Pip offered before flying out of the cabin in a blur. The group blinked then looked over to the curtain which finished ruffling from the fairy having flown through it then quickly rushed over and looked outside together. They saw the trail of blue light from the fairy streaking up into the air before vanishing while the sky above was starting to turn darker.

“What is she doing?” Daniel asked.

Pip zipped through the air in a blue blur, flying high up and towards a few of the gently floating blooms of light over Flairwood. She then stopped instantly next to one, watching with an eye of wonder as the ball of light drifted about before her.

“Hmm,” Pip murmured to herself before looking around at all the floating lights. “They don’t seem to be doing anything. Pretty though.” She then looked off into the distance and saw a flock birds flying about through the sky near the edge of the grove above the forest.

“Birds,” she squeaked out with fright as a few turned to fly towards her.

From the caravan Daniel and the three girls were watching the sky curiously, seeing the floating lights high above the town while all was quiet.

“What is she going to do?” Luna asked.

Pip stared with a wide eye as the birds slowly approached her. A fearful whimper escaped her mouth before she held her hands out towards the incoming flock.

“I don’t see her,” Daniel said peering around at the sky.

Suddenly a bright flash of blue and orange light flared up in the air near the floating lights, with Daniel and the girls watching in surprise at seeing five interlocked casting circles appear like a wall facing towards the outer forest. The magical rings had question marks and exclamation points spinning around their edges while they were colossal in size compared to the tiny fairy who was giving off a golden light around her behind them.

“What is that?” Falla asked with wide eyes.

The casting rings then fired off a mighty barrage of blazing red and blue streaks that spiraled and raced through the air. A rapid crackling sound echoed out from the discharges as magical bolts of energy streaked across the sky and shot over the outer forest in a wide arc.

“What the hell is she doing?” Daniel exclaimed.

Dozens of small thumps were heard on the roof of the caravan before they saw scorched and smoking clumps of dead birds raining around them. Daniel and the girls watched with bewilderment as the fried avians dropped into the trees and grass nearby then looked up as the casting rings slowly faded away in the sky.

“What just happened?” Alyssa questioned.

A moment later Pip zipped down from the sky and stopped in front of them, hovering in place while looking at the group curiously.

“My magic still works near those lights,” she reported with a shrug. “Yours should too.”

The group just stared at her with wide eyes for a while before Daniel showed a nervous smile.

“Pip? Did… you just… um…” he stuttered before looking up at the sky again.