“Can I kill her now?” Clover flatly asked while aiming her arrow at the cambion’s head.
Daniel glared at Kitten while showing no amusement from her words, the girl slowly looking down with a weak smile before glancing up to him with a small shrug.
“Quit wasting time,” Daniel scorned before walking over towards Specca’s side. “Do as I ordered you to and think of a way to bring Triska back to us.”
“Yes, master,” Kitten softly said before her lips flinched from hiding her scowl. She slowly looked over to Kroanette in the doorway, seeing the centaur shaking her head at her with discontent while having her arms crossed under her large bosom. Looking back she saw Specca and Daniel going through a book together while Pip landed down on his shoulder, the tiny fairy looking at the pages curiously then Kitten with a mean face before sticking her tongue out at her. Kitten held in her scoff and glanced over to see Luna and Falla going through books while comparing entries together, the sisters peeking up at the cambion with troubled looks before returning to their search of a cure for Triska.
“Fucking demon,” Clover derided.
Kitten slowly looked over to the elf with a glare, seeing the girl keeping her arrow and bow set in her lap while watching the cambion with a similar look. Glancing to the side she saw Squeak watching her with discontent before walking over towards the bed and sitting down on it while keeping her eyes on the cambion. After a while Kitten slowly looked down with a dull glare, fingers lightly drumming on the table while her tail swayed about in the air behind her.
However she wasn’t staring off into space while deep in thought, her mind wasn’t trying to figure out any way of bringing back the girl she once was, rather she was watching with inner amusement at seeing Triska on her knees before her, bound in chains while looking up at the cambion with gritted teeth and teary eyes.
“You fucking bitch!” Triska yelled out in a ghostly echo. “Get out of my head! Get out of my body!”
‘No, I don’t think so,’ Kitten thought to herself while trying to hide her smile. ‘Sorry, but I’m not going anywhere.’
“You heard Daniel! You have to obey him now that he tamed you; you have to let me out of here!”
‘No, I don’t. His orders were clear. I have to bring you back or think of how it can be done. I can honestly say I don’t have a fucking clue how to give control of this body back to you, and I have no way of coming up with such a wild idea of how to either. So I don’t really have to do a damn thing.’
“Goddamn you!”
‘And even if I did know I would do my best to forget. If you come back I may not exist anymore, I may end up going bye-bye. And I just cannot let that happen. You understand, right?’
“Daniel!” Triska screamed while looking towards him with fright. “She knows I’m still here! Help me!”
‘You’re not here anymore, Triska. You’re not really sitting there on the floor, you’re just… my imagination. Nothing but a figment in my mind. Those chains around you are just a manifestation of the truth, that you’re no longer in control.’
“I’m not your imagination! I’m real! And if these chains are what’s keeping me from having control then remove them! You have your orders to save me!”
‘I can’t remove them, they’re not real. And I have no idea how to free you, Triska. You’re as good as dead to the world now.’
“I’m not dead yet! I’m still in your mind and you know it!”
‘You won’t be for long though. Just accept that you’re not coming back, Triska. You’re never coming back.’
Triska looked around at seeing herself slowly becoming hazy and transparent. Thrashing in her chains she screamed and struggled to break free, the echoing sounds of her voice and the links clacking around being heard by nobody except Kitten who watched the image of Triska with a straight face as she laughed in her mind.
‘It won’t be long before you fade away into my subconscious. You’ll be nothing but a fleeting echo in my mind, a hazy memory of who you were at best. Hell, you’ll pretty much be forgotten entirely. Nothing personal mind you, I just want to survive. It’s my inner nature to try and survive. You can’t get mad at me for that. Even Daniel can’t truly hate a monster for following her inner nature.’
“No! Daniel! Please, help me!” Triska cried out, watching in horror as everyone around her continued on without hearing a word she said.
‘Nobody but I can hear or see you, you’re only in my mind now. Just shut up and fade away, it’s inevitable at this point. Nobody here knows how or even has the power to bring you back as you were. I’m here to stay, whether you want me to or not.’
“I’m going to kill you!” Triska screamed while struggling to free herself from her spectral binds.
‘No, you won’t be doing anything of the sort,’ Kitten chuckled in her mind. She glanced to her fingernails carelessly as she heard Triska screaming inside her head before smirking slightly.
‘No matter what, I’m not going anywhere. Not a chance in hell.’
Chapter 3
At the Brink
Those that traveled the world of Eden needed to tread carefully lest they stumble across danger or certain doom. Murderous bandits, vicious wildlife, unforgiving weather, lustful monsters, there were many perils that could strike when least suspected. Tragedy could befall anyone without warning, perhaps even leaving the unfortunate crippled or trapped to face a slowly approaching death without any way of saving themselves. When faced with one’s own annihilation and unable to stop it, their only hope would be for their friends or allies to come to their aid quickly before it was too late. When at the edge of their life and about to fall over they would need someone to pull them back.
And sometimes it would be someone they never expected.
*****
Standing in the middle of the room Kitten was looking up at the ceiling with a bored gaze and arms crossed before her. Her tail slowly waved about while her wings ruffled once as she was growing tired of standing still for so long.
“Not going to work,” she droned while shaking her head.
“Shut up,” Alyssa snapped as she finished pouring a fine white powder on the floor. Stepping back she examined the elaborate casting diagram she had created with the alchemic dust which surrounded Kitten.
“Will this really work?” Luna asked from the bed. She and her sister were sitting at Daniel’s sides while next to her Specca was carefully eyeing the drawing and slowly adjusting her glasses. Looking to the book in her hands the nixie nodded in approval as she compared Alyssa’s work with what they had found within the tome about performing an exorcism spell.
“It looks to be correct,” she confirmed. “This should remove the evil spirit within Triska and return her to normal.”
“No it won’t,” Kitten said again.
“As if we’re going to listen to your advice on the matter,” Kroanette scorned from the entryway. Tucked in her bosom Pip was watching the cambion with a worried expression, seeing the demonic girl rolling her eyes then watching Alyssa with a dull stare.
“No no, you’re right,” Kitten dryly mocked with a raised eyebrow. “I’m actually so scared of being cleansed right now that I’m trying to lie to save my skin. Oh, please have mercy. I do not wish to die such a cruel death so early in my beautiful life.”
“I said shut up!” Alyssa yelled at her before picking up her staff and focusing her sights on the incantation on the floor. “You’re going straight back to hell, demon.”
“Yeah, no,” Kitten said looking to her fingernails without a care.
Sitting on her bed Clover kept a close eye on the cambion while having her bow and arrow held in her lap. Next to her Squeak was standing by the couch while watching Kitten carefully, her antennae twitching slightly as she squeaked quietly to herself.
“Hurry up and do this already,” Clover snapped. “I’m tired of dealing with all these setbacks with you people.”
“Clover,” Daniel sternly hushed with a
glance to her. The elf merely scoffed at him before looking back to Kitten with a grunt.
“Alright, time to bring back our Triska,” Alyssa declared as she held her staff up in the air.
“Nope,” Kitten calmly replied while still eyeing her fingernails.
Alyssa struck her staff down onto the floor atop the outer ring of the casting diagram with a loud whack. The powder glowed with a bright white with golden streaks flying up through the air, a small torrent of wind blowing around the cambion while everyone watched with growing wonder and suspense. Alyssa held a hand out towards the demonic girl while focusing her power, eyes glowing purple while her staff gave off an orange hue. The floor under Kitten shined with a bright light while golden streaks flew gently around her like shimmering ribbons. In the air around the cambion three glowing orbs of black light formed that crackled with arcs of dark electricity between each other and near the girl. Kitten merely looked up again with a tired sigh while setting her hands at her hips, patiently waiting for the spell to finish while showing no signs of discomfort or fear.
“Please let this work,” Specca prayed while Luna and Falla grabbed hold of Daniel’s hands tightly, all of them watching as the glowing lights swirled around Kitten with crackles and loud snaps.
“Pretty lights,” Pip said in awe.
“Be gone, you wretched demon,” Kroanette voiced quietly.
The casting ring gave off a blinding flash followed by a loud boom. Everyone shielded their eyes while Alyssa merely held an arm over hers as she focused on the spell. A pulse rippled out from the center of the light before it slowly began to fade away. The group carefully opened their eyes and saw the light disappearing while a swirling cloud of haze remained in the center of the room.
“Triska?” Daniel carefully asked.
“Daniel? Is that you?”
Everyone jumped as they heard the girl’s timid voice, all eyes locked onto a hazy silhouette that began to rise up from the floor.
“Triska, are you okay?” Alyssa hopefully called out.
“I think… I think…”
“Triska?” Pip eagerly asked with a big smile.
With a flap of her wings Kitten parted the lingering veils of smoke around her, the girl opening her eyes to reveal their glow before she glanced to Alyssa with a smirk on her face.
“Gotchya,” she taunted before laughing. Everyone stared with stunned expressions as the cambion laughed while stretching out her arms nonchalantly.
“Didn’t even tickle,” she sneered at Alyssa before looking up with a smug grin on her face.
“Dammit,” Daniel cursed while glaring at the cambion.
“It didn’t work,” Luna whimpered as she saw Kitten standing perfectly fine in the middle of the room. “She’s still that bad demon. Now what do we do?”
“Are you sure the spell was correct?” Falla asked Specca.
“Yes, Alyssa drew it properly,” Specca answered while looking at the book in her hands with worried eyes. “I don’t understand, why didn’t that work?”
“Oh, oh, I know,” Kitten derided while raising her hand up. She looked around at everyone with a curious smile while they all glared at her with discontent. “I do know. Really. Pick me. I have the answer.”
“Okay, you,” Pip said pointing to the girl.
“The reason it didn’t work is because I’m not a demonic spirit possessing this body,” Kitten explained as she walked over to Specca. “I’m a real demon, this is really my body, I’m not controlling Triska against her will or anything. And do you know what an exorcism spell will do to a demon who’s in her own body?”
“What?” Specca asked through gritted teeth.
“Absolutely nothing,” Kitten mocked while leaning close to her face. “I told you it wouldn’t work, didn’t I? And you thought I was lying to you.”
“Damn damn damn!” Alyssa yelled while striking her staff repeatedly onto the ground in frustration.
Kitten smirked and stood upright with an amused smile before glancing to Daniel with a twitch of her eyebrow.
“Want to fuck now?” she purred. “It may help me think of a way to bring back Triska. Worth a try, right?”
“I would only make love to Triska, not you,” Daniel condemned while Luna and Falla held onto his arms and pulled him back slightly.
“You sure did make love to me last night though,” Kitten quipped while flaunting her hip towards him. “Or rather you fucked me like an animal. You want me and you know it, master.”
“That’s not true at all!” Specca shouted at her. “He only did so to save us from your spell and get you under control!”
“He wanted me,” Kitten asserted while looking up with a proud smile.
“No he didn’t!” Specca yelled as she threw the book to the ground.
“Alyssa, do something,” Luna whined while holding onto Daniel closely. “Don’t you have another spell or something you can try?”
“I’m not done with her yet!” Alyssa shouted while pointing to the cambion. “I’m going to rid you from Triska’s body no matter what it takes, you can count on that!”
“Really?” Kitten laughed at her. “And just how do you plan on doing that?”
*****
Daniel was looking down with a hand over his eyes as he sat on the edge of the bed, with Luna and Falla holding onto his arms and leaning him back with uneasy frowns as they watched something in front of them with growing concern. In the middle of the room Kitten was on her hands and knees with a seductive smile towards the boy. The cambion purred and waved her tail and hips behind her while her wings flapped gently a few times, her efforts to entice Daniel not working so much as they were angering the other girls in the room.
“Can I just shoot her now?” Clover tiredly asked while keeping her arrow poised to fire at the cambion.
“No, just keep her away from Daniel,” Specca snapped as she stood next to Alyssa with a spell book open in her hands and facing the witch. Alyssa looked from the book to the floating jars and pouches she was manipulating with her magic while they were next to her alchemic supplies beside the bed, with the witch carefully mixing different ingredients into a bowl and stirring them together. The floating bags gave a few dashes of colored powder into the brew while a bottle carefully poured a light blue liquid into it, the potion she was creating glowing a soft pink while having the fragrance of rotten flowers.
“Hurry up with that stuff, Alyssa,” Falla called over as Kitten tried to playfully leap towards Daniel again. Before she could a pickaxe swung in front of her face, prompting her to hop back and glance up to Squeak with a bitter smirk as the ant girl kept trying to fend off the cambion’s advances while standing her ground before the boy.
“Daniel, order her to stop,” Kroanette urged while Pip continued to watch from her bosom with a worried eye.
“I did,” Daniel muttered before peeking to Kitten between his fingers. “I told you to sit down and be quiet, remember?”
“And I did,” Kitten pouted before making a cat scratching gesture at him. “Now I’m ready to fuck with my master. C’mon, you can’t keep me in heat like this forever. That’s so mean of you, you naughty boy you.”
“Back off already!” Falla shouted as she and Luna kept holding onto Daniel.
“Daniel gave her the order to stop and she’s not stopping,” Luna said shaking her head. “Why isn’t she staying put when he tells her to?”
“I’m just following my inner nature,” Kitten reasoned with a giggle. “And right now it’s- whoa… it’s really telling me I need to have sex with him. Like, right now. Can’t argue with a monster’s instincts I suppose. Isn’t that right, master?”
“Stop calling me that,” Daniel snapped at her. “And monster instincts or not you can control them better than this. All the girls around you are controlling their inner nature; they’re not senselessly raping humans without a care.”
“I don’t think you can include Clover in that,” Kroanette mentioned with a shrug. �
��I’m sure she’ll still try to deceive humans like a deceptive rat after we take her home.”
An arrow promptly struck into the doorframe next to her head with a loud whack. Kroanette jumped with a scream while Pip quickly ducked down into her bosom, the centaur and everyone else then looking over to Clover as she pulled another arrow out of her quiver and took aim at Kitten again.
“Fuck you, so much,” Clover growled with a mean glance towards Kroanette before turning her sights onto the cambion.
“Am I wrong?” Kroanette nervously asked.
Daniel rolled his eyes then glared at Kitten as the cambion waved her hand like a paw at him while purring through a slick smile on her face.
“I guess I need more lessons from you on how to be a good girl,” Kitten reasoned before trying to crawl forward again. Squeak swung her pickaxe around in an arc in front of the girl, squeaking loudly and shaking her head while Kitten ducked back repeatedly from the swings with an annoyed smile.
“Alyssa, is that potion almost ready?” Luna worriedly asked the witch.
“I’m working on it, give me a minute here!” Alyssa snapped while frantically trying to get the supposed cure for Triska just right.
Squeak swung her pickaxe around a few times in front of Kitten before the cambion reached out and grabbed it with one hand, stopping it instantly and holding it in place without any effort. The demonic girl then yanked the tool down to the side, throwing Squeak onto the floor in front of her with a loud squeak while the heavy digging tool clanked onto the floor near them.
“Seriously now, are you just trying to amuse me with your antics?” Kitten laughed while holding Squeak’s hands together over her head with one of hers while the ant girl lay on her side. Squeak struggled to get free before Kitten applied pressure to the girl’s wrists with an amused chuckle. The ant girl let out a sharp squeak and flinched in pain while the cambion rested her other hand on the girl’s hip and her tail snapped around one of her legs to hold her still.
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