Chronicles of Eden: Season II - Act I

by Alexander Gordon

  “While I won’t deny he’s clearly been more interested in my ass than yours,” Sasha smugly retorted. “I’m the only one he needs to fight for him. He did train me to be his faithful servant in combat after all.”

  “Oh please, he’s looked at my boobs way more than he has your butt and you know it!” Rulo shouted back. “And he taught me to fight just as much as he did with you!”

  “He may have trained you two in combat,” Forrus mentioned shaking her head. “But I’m the one he chose to be his hunter on his quest. My lord has entrusted me to be his faithful companion during his quest, something I will never fail or be replaced with.”

  “Your stupid bolas is once again broken and you’re completely outclassed by Cataclysm,” Tabitha dryly pointed out. “You are the absolute worst choice for a faithful companion that Daemon could ever ask for.”

  “I’ve had enough of you and your filthy tongue, assassin!” Forrus snarled at her. “I’ve served him honorably and loyally ever since we met! You however have been nothing but a thorn in our side with your constant greed and your berserker friend there!”

  “Yay!” Scay cheered as she squeezed Tabitha close. “Did you hear that, Tabitha? They’ve noticed and appreciated me! Hooray! I have so many friends now!”

  “Scay! Too tight!” Tabitha gasped as the naga coiled around her body with a crazed laugh.

  “I think he would benefit more having a sorceress fight for him,” Mika pointed out with a smirk. “After all my magic was strong enough to beat all of you combined.”

  “Is that what you think happened?” Rulo yelled as she marched up to the woman. “You think your little magic was strong enough to beat me? Ha! You want a rematch to prove that, you little bitch?”

  Mika swiped her sword aside and held her arms out, taunting the orc who growled loudly as she clutched her stone hammer tightly in her hands. Before either of them could make a move or the other girls could continue their bickering amongst one another, all of them took notice of Minos standing up beside them as she flexed her enormous muscles. The minotaur whipped both arms aside with a mighty thrust, her tattoos glowing softly along with her cerulean eyes. Holding out her hand to the side a series of golden casting rings appeared along her arm, a surge of magical energy being exuded by the monster as she watched Daemon and Cataclysm fighting nearby with a stern glare. After a moment of silence her gigantic battle-axe soared into her grasp with a powerful impact, the giant fighter catching the massive weapon without budging in the slightest while the ground under her cracked from the immense force.

  “GUARDIAN?” she shouted with a violent snarl. “GUARDIAN… MAN? MAN MONSTER GUARDIAN? MAN MONSTER IS A GUARDIAN?”

  “What are you shouting about this time?” Rulo barked back as the girls stepped away from the loud monster.

  Minos trembled with a rising growl, the brute clenching her battle-axe firmly in her tightly formed fists as she seemed to become extremely riled up. Sasha and the girls exchanged cautious looks before growing tense as the minotaur grunted and shook with a swiftly wagging tail.

  “What is she doing?” Mika carefully asked.

  “I think she’s about to go mad like a wild bull,” Hollia warned.

  “If anyone would know that it would be you,” Forrus mentioned.

  “I don’t like the way she’s looking at my master,” Sasha hissed.

  “Are you serious?” Tabitha growled. “Now we’ve got to fight her off too?”

  “Challenge accepted,” Rulo arrogantly snorted.

  Minos stomped her feet quickly on the ground in an energetic trot before she suddenly squealed and hopped around with a huge smile on her face. The ground shook beneath the girls as the minotaur jumped about with a giddy laugh, the mighty monster holding her axe close to her chest and dancing for joy as she suddenly showed a completely different demeanor.

  “HAHAHAHA! THIS IS AMAZING! A MAN IS A GUARDIAN! AND A MONSTER! AND A WARRIOR! MINOS IS SO HAPPY TO FIND SUCH A GREAT MAN AS THIS!”

  “What is she talking about?” Forrus shouted as the girls stumbled and tripped over one another atop the shaking ground.

  “I HAVE FOUND HIM, MOTHER!” Minos roared into the sky. “THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR HAS LED ME TO HIM, JUST AS YOU SAID IT WOULD! I HAVE FOUND THE MAN I SHALL MATE WITH! FOR HONOR! FOR GLORY! FOR MAKING BABIES!”

  “What?” Sasha and the girls cried out in surprise. They watched Minos jumping about anxiously and squealing with delight before turning to see Daemon and Cataclysm having halted their fight as they too heard the extremely loud monster’s declaration.

  “I feel as though I’m missing something here,” Daemon remarked.

  “How endearing,” Cataclysm giggled. “Aren’t you the lucky man. I’m sure you two will make a fine couple in hell!”

  She promptly swung at Daemon with her lance, missing his head and then his feet as he ducked and jumped over the glowing steel. He grabbed hold of the spear’s end as she jabbed at him, the mighty weapon pushing him down onto the ground and back through the dirt with sliding feet before she lunged into a downward thrust at him. The cambion was plowed right into the dirt as the centaur laughed wildly, a powerful explosion of cerulean fire then going off from below that threw the woman back into the air. She reoriented and landed against small spellbase steps before leaping towards her opponent again, with Daemon shooting out of the crater with a fiery punch that he delivered right to her face.

  As the centaur was blasted clear across the field and into a powerful crash with Daemon quickly flying after her, the other girls were more focused on Minos as she was hopping about with her axe held up in triumph over what she believed to be true.

  “She did not just say that,” Hollia feared. “I didn’t just hear her say what I think I heard her say, did I?”

  “She said she’s going to mate with Daemon,” Scay told her. “How could you not hear that? She yells everything she says.”

  “Oh hell no,” Rulo argued shaking her head. “This bitch is stupider than we thought if she thinks that’s going to happen.”

  “She would kill him upon mounting him, wouldn’t she?” Mika questioned.

  “I believe my master is strong enough to survive her hips,” Sasha reasoned with a growl. “But that doesn’t mean I’m going to allow her the honor of mating with him to prove myself right.”

  “THIS IS TOO GOOD!” Minos roared with a daring grin. “I SHALL DESTROY THE ANCIENT AND MAKE LOVE WITH MY NEW HUSBAND ON THE SAME NIGHT! I AM SO HAPPY FOR THIS BLESSING! HAHAHAHAHA!”

  “Oh, bitch is dead meat now,” Rulo snarled. “She’s gone and crossed the line if she thinks she’s going to marry my master.”

  “Husband? Husband?” Forrus scorned. “Is she serious? My lord is not her husband!”

  “Ancient?” Tabitha repeated looking over to Cataclysm. “That little woman said the same thing about her. What’s an Ancient?”

  “Um, Tabitha?” Scay worried as she pointed to Minos. “She’s got a scary look in her eye. I think she’s going to rape Daemon.”

  “Over my dead body,” Sasha hissed as the girls quickly drew their weapons. They watched the minotaur turning towards Daemon with a piercing glare and wide grin on her face, with her glowing eyes, tattoos, and axe giving off a profound aura of danger as she licked her lips in anticipation.

  “THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE MOMENT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! HERE I COME, MY HUSBAND!”

  Daemon and Cataclysm continued their duel, both knocking and blasting each other all over the desolate battlefield as they only focused on killing each other and nothing else. The centaur slashed and thrusted with her giant spear, the cambion dodged and weaved with his wings while trying to get closer. The Ancient cast out blindingly hot bolts of white energy from her fingers and even her spear, the shots being evaded by the swiftly moving guardian as he always kept on the offensive. Cataclysm struck with her spear and waves of searing light she would cast out from it, pushing Daemon back before he would leap at her with fiery magic to retaliate wi
th. The two seemed evenly matched, both unveiling their true strength in a real battle between monsters of Eden. However, it wasn’t what the other girls were focused on at the moment.

  They were staring down a minotaur standing before them, with nobody making a single move. Minos remained still as a statue as she observed Daemon fighting Cataclysm with not even her tail swaying in the slightest. The other girls glanced to each other in question then back to the minotaur who appeared to now be frozen in place.

  “Are… you going to do anything?” Hollia asked.

  “DON’T RUSH ME!” Minos shouted. “I CAN DO THIS!”

  “What are you waiting for?” Tabitha questioned.

  “NOTHING! WHO SAID I’M SCARED? I’M NOT SCARED!”

  “Nobody said you were scared,” Mika mentioned with a raised eyebrow. “Um… are you scared?”

  “OF COURSE NOT! NOTHING SCARES MINOS!”

  “So then make a move,” Rulo dared.

  “I’M GOING TO!”

  “Well do it then,” Forrus urged.

  “I WILL!”

  “Sometime today?” Sasha dryly replied.

  “STOP PUSHING ME!”

  Saffron squeaked a few times and shook her head.

  “YOUR WORDS ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD!”

  “Are you shaking?” Scay asked.

  “NO I AM NOT!” Minos yelled as she was now trembling slightly.

  “Alright, just what is going on here?” Sasha demanded. “Are you planning on assaulting my master or not?”

  “JUST GIVE MINOS A MINUTE!” Minos shouted back in a flustered tone. “I’M THINKING OF WHAT TO SAY HERE! YOU CAN’T RUSH THESE THINGS!”

  “Thinking of what to say… what the hell are you talking about?” Tabitha scoffed. “You were just yelling about going over there and mating with him.”

  “THAT IS THE PLAN, YES!”

  “So then why are you just standing there doing nothing?” Forrus asked.

  “I’M… THINKING, ALRIGHT? LEAVE MINOS ALONE!”

  “Thinking about what?” Hollia questioned as the girls slowly lowered their stances. “I don’t understand. You were just shouting to the high heavens your intent of going over there and forcing yourself upon my knight, yet here you stand without reason. What is wrong with you?”

  Minos gulped as she nervously watched Daemon punching Cataclysm with a fiery fist, her eyes taking heavy notice of his chest and muscles while the sight of his fierce expression with blue cinders wafting past his face brought out a bright blush on the minotaur’s cheeks.

  “I JUST… UM… HE… AND I…”

  The girls closely observed the minotaur getting flustered and anxious, looked back to see Daemon using a powerful blast of fiery magic to throw Cataclysm into a wild tumble across the field, and then turned to Minos again as she continued mumbling loudly to herself.

  “Minos?” Mika wondered.

  “MINOS… CAN… DO THIS!” the minotaur nervously shouted. “JUST LIKE MOTHER SAID! I’M GOING TO GET A HUSBAND! I’M GOING TO GET A HUSBAND! I… AM GOING… TO…”

  “You sure about that?” Rulo snorted with a raised eyebrow.

  “She appears to be rather nervous,” Hollia mentioned.

  “MINOS IS NOT NERVOUS!” the minotaur yelled at them with a clearly flustered grimace. “NOTHING SCARES MINOS! YOU HEAR ME? NOTHING!”

  “Then go get him,” Tabitha dared as she waved back towards the battle. “What are you waiting for?”

  “I AM NOT WAITING FOR ANYTHING!”

  “You look pretty scared to us,” Forrus chuckled.

  “I AM NOT SCARED! TAKE THAT BACK, LITTLE DOG WOMAN!”

  “Then go get him,” Hollia snickered while pointing her lance back towards Daemon. “He’s right over there.”

  “I KNOW WHERE HE IS! MINOS IS NOT BLIND!”

  “Minos is scared,” Rulo sneered.

  “MINOS IS NEVER SCARED!”

  “We can see you shaking,” Sasha pointed out.

  “I AM NOT SHAKING! I AM… TREMBLING WITH CONFIDENCE!”

  “Really? Because it looks like you’re shaking with fear,” Mika laughed.

  “YOU SEE NOTHING WITH YOUR ONE EYE, PUNY HUMAN!”

  Saffron squeaked and gracefully motioned for the minotaur to pass.

  “I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU STILL!”

  “This is too funny,” Tabitha laughed. “A giant minotaur comes here looking for a fight, and now she’s scared because of how strong Cataclysm and Daemon are. All that loud shouting and boasting was for nothing, she’s just a cowardly runt amongst her kind!”

  “MINOS IS NOT SCARED TO FIGHT!” Minos roared in anger. She quickly lunged forward and grabbed hold of Tabitha in her hand, yanking the screaming neko up to face her glowing blue eyes and bared teeth. “NOBODY SCARES MINOS! DO YOU HEAR ME, STUPID PUSSYCAT? I AM A PROUD WARRIOR! I AM A FEARLESS MINOTAUR! I AM NOT SCARED OF ANYTHING! DO YOU HEAR ME?”

  “I can’t hear anything now!” Tabitha whined shaking her head in pain. “Do you even know how to talk in a normal voice? AHHH! Dammit, stop squeezing me!”

  “Tabitha!” Scay cried out, quickly slithering forward and up around the minotaur’s body. She wrapped herself across the giant’s chest and shoulder while grabbing Tabitha’s hand to try pulling her free, her tail constricting tightly as Minos roared and waved her other hand with the axe around at her side.

  “Let my friend go! Let her go! I’m gonna stab you! I mean it!” Scay screamed shaking her head.

  “GET OFF MINOS! GET OFF!” Minos yelled, thrashing and stumbling about on her feet. She hurled Tabitha into Forrus, the two girls taking off in a wild crash through the dirt with screams and howls, then grabbed hold of Scay and tried pulling her off to no avail.

  “LET GO, SNAKE WOMAN!”

  “Stab!” Scay shrieked, stabbing her dagger into Minos’ arm and causing her to roar even more loudly.

  “SNAKEBITE!” Minos cried out shaking her arm in the air. “SNAKEBITE! BAD SNAKE!”

  “Stab!” Scay again screamed as she jabbed her blade into the monster’s arm. Minos howled in pain before throwing the naga off her and into Hollia, the two girls crashing to the ground while the minotaur hopped around shaking her wounded arm.

  “I DON’T LIKE YOU! YOU MAKE MINOS FEEL PAIN!”

  “We don’t like you either!” Tabitha yelled as she got onto her feet with Forrus.

  “I still hate you more,” Forrus grunted shoving Tabitha aside, the two then getting into a pushing match with each other while Hollia slowly got up with Scay hanging off her backside with a low whine.

  “I can’t tell if this giant brute is an enemy or not,” Hollia muttered, taking a moment to yank Scay off her and let the naga and her long tail collapse onto the ground with a thump. “But she’s seriously testing my nerves all the same.”

  “She’s mean!” Scay whined while buried under the coils of her tail.

  The other girls watched Minos shaking off the stinging pain she felt in her arm before seeing Cataclysm crashing through the dirt nearby with a powerful impact. Everyone turned to watch as the centaur slowly got up with her spear and a low growl before Daemon swooped over and launched a large blazing blue fireball at her pointblank, blasting the monster further away with trailing smoke and an enraged scream. The force from the hit blew dust and dirt wildly through the air while the girls braced themselves from the shockwave.

  “My word,” Hollia marveled. “My knight is certainly using more of his strength this time. This isn’t at all how it was with our previous battle. Was he merely toying with Nuci in their duel?”

  “I don’t think he wanted to fatally strike down another guardian,” Sasha reasoned as she closely observed her master staring down his foe. “He’s always kept his true power repressed to avoid another incident with his inner monster. Even though Nuci tried to kill him, he didn’t allow himself to become as much a monster as he displayed and risk ending her life on accident. He knows how to use restraint with his true self.”

  “I don
’t think he’s using much restraint with Cataclysm,” Mika pointed out.

  Daemon erected a large flaming ring of blue light before him, casting out a barrage of fiery magic towards Cataclysm who charged him once again. The centaur spun her lance in front of her, the twirling pole blocking the fireballs as she closed in on the cambion with a heated warcry. Upon getting near him the centaur struck forward with her spear, narrowly missing Daemon as he jumped aside, grabbed the pole, and then delivered a flaming fist to the woman’s arm. The bone-breaking crack sounded off above her painful scream, the centaur staggering in her run before Daemon yanked her spear out of her hands and threw it behind him. The massive weapon struck into the ground with a heavy slam as Daemon grabbed her broken arm, twisted it with a horrible crunching noise, and then jumped into a kick to her head that sent the centaur crashing back through the ground in a wicked tumble away from the man.

  “AHHHH!” Cataclysm raged as she flailed her legs and scrambled back onto her feet, clutching her broken arm while furiously glaring at Daemon. “You fucking insect! How dare you touch me like that!”

  She held her hand towards him, creating a large white casting ring with foreign letters lining the inside. A torrent of crackling energy blasted forth and collided with Daemon, the cambion holding both hands out and halting the deadly stream while his wings arched up behind him. His hands sizzled and scorched from the energy wave, the ground below cracked and ruptured from the force, and his eyes glared at the centaur with a haunting glow as he gathered his strength to stave off the attack.

  “My master can grace me with vitality everlasting!” Cataclysm roared with murder in her eyes, both of which now displayed sharp glowing white rings in them. “He can make me immortal should I please him! He can bestow upon me power beyond your understanding! He can grant me anything you or anyone else may dare try to take from me! But you, nobody is going to be putting you back together after I’m through with you! Die, you fucking bug!”

  “Sire!” Mika cried out. She started to run towards the fight before Sasha grabbed her shoulder.

  “Don’t go near him, not now,” Sasha warned. “Cataclysm pushed him too far, he’s not going to hold back with this. Do not get in his way.”