“Enough of this bullshit!” Kitten shouted at her. “It’s bad enough you threw up on me earlier, but now you’re bringing that fucking human’s spirit out here and taking away my magic? Fuck this, my patience with you is way past over!”
With that Kitten shot forward and raced past Alyssa and Pip, flying towards Doku with a furious punch towards the harpy’s face. Everyone gasped as Doku showed a nervous frown before she reached up with one foot and caught the cambion’s fist. Kitten stared with wide eyes at seeing the harpy holding back her punch while she slowly shook her head with a worried smile.
“Um, please don’t fight in here. That’s not what this place is meant for.”
“What the fuck? Dammit, just die already!” Kitten shouted before gearing back and swinging another punch at the girl. To everyone’s further surprise Doku merely moved her foot and blocked the second attack with no effort, the girl remaining perfectly balanced on one foot while holding the cambion at bay with the other.
“Please stop, I don’t like violence,” Doku softly requested.
“What is this? How the fuck can you stop me like that?” Kitten demanded as she stepped back.
“That was going to be our question too,” Daniel mentioned as he couldn’t believe what he just saw.
“Like I was trying to say,” Doku sighed while lowering her foot. “Your magic and even your brute strength won’t work here. We’re in an ethereal plane of existence, our physical bodies are still in the real world as you can clearly see next to you.”
Kitten looked over to her unconsciousness body which appeared dull in color with the rest of the world then to Doku with confusion as she gestured around the area with a worried smile.
“In here we’re free from our physical limitations,” she explained with a hint of excitement. “Your magic won’t work because you need your actual body to use it. The same for your physical strength. In here you’re only as strong as your spirit is, not with how much raw muscle you possess.”
“What?” Kitten asked bewilderedly.
“You can’t bully Doku in here,” Cilia taunted before sticking her tongue out at the cambion. “In this place magic and muscle are meaningless. You need to have a strong spirit to be tough in here, and Doku’s spirit is the strongest of all!”
“Cilia, I’m not sure that’s remotely true,” Doku giggled as she turned her head towards the fairy.
“You fucking bitch!” Kitten yelled as she swung a punch towards the harpy again. Doku quickly raised her wing and blocked the hit, again stopping the attack instantly while Kitten stared with shock at the sight. “It can’t be. What the hell is this? Like fucking hell you can block my fist with your stupid wing!”
“Well, in the real world I wouldn’t be able to,” Doku admitted with a shrug. “I’m quite certain you would have killed me ten times over by now. But you’re not attacking my real body. You’re attacking my spirit, and… sorry to say, it’s stronger than yours.”
“And just how can the spirit of a damned bird be stronger than mine?” Kitten demanded as she backed up with clenched fists.
“A spirit’s strength isn’t determined by physical prowess but rather… the strength of a soul,” Doku explained as she looked down and held her wings over her heart. “You truly are a demon, I feel sorry for you actually. You rely so much on your brute strength and magical power, on intimidating others with your might, that you don’t understand what I’m saying, do you? Your soul is troubled and afraid, it’s weak.”
“I’m not afraid of you or anything!” Kitten roared out. “And how can yours be so strong when you’ve got no fucking confidence in yourself whatsoever?”
“I may not be so sure of my abilities in the real world, but I do know the kind of girl I am inside. I’m not a bad monster at all. I love and care for everything in this world, I even care about you despite the fact you’re trying to harm me. It’s part of being a harpy, we value life, so much. That’s why we train ourselves to be as compassionate and caring as we can be to all around us.”
“You’re a shaman,” Specca realized with wonder.
“That’s the art of magical power we practice in,” Doku agreed turning her head back towards her. “To help and protect everyone around us, to never harm or cause pain to those we find in this world. I may not be able to fly, or do much of anything else properly, but I still do love this world and all who are in it. It’s that love inside that gives me the strength to stand against anything… at least in here.”
“Like hell you will!” Kitten shouted before she raced forward and started sending powerful punches and fierce blows to the harpy’s head, all with Doku merely watching her while standing perfectly still. Everyone watched in wonder as the cambion’s ethereal fists did absolutely nothing to faze Doku or even ruffle her hair.
“Please stop that,” Doku politely requested.
“Dammit, just fucking die!” Kitten yelled out with frustration.
“I said, please stop that.”
“Never!”
Doku sighed and shook her head as Kitten continued to cause no pain or discomfort to her whatsoever with her furious attacks.
“You’re wasting your time,” Cilia laughed. “Doku’s spirit is as strong as a rock. You’ll never hurt her in here.”
“Oh yeah?” Kitten growled as she stepped back and glared at the harpy. “Then I guess I’ll just have to fry this bird the second I get back in my body!”
“Can’t we talk about what’s troubling you instead?” Doku asked with a worried smile. “Please? We don’t have to fight.”
“Put me back in my body so I can slaughter you!” Kitten demanded with fury.
“Put me back in my body!” Triska cried out. “That’s my body, not hers!”
“Um, not sure what to do here,” Doku nervously said looking back and forth between Kitten and Triska. “This is all so new to me. I didn’t know one person could have more than one spirit within them. I wasn’t prepared for this.”
“Just put all of us back in our bodies except for her!” Alyssa ordered while pointing to Kitten.
“Please!” Triska begged while thrashing about.
“But, I can’t do that,” Doku said holding her wings up defensively. “I’m holding all of us in this plane with the same spell. Once I end it we all go back into our bodies together. I can’t pick and choose who goes back. Either we all do or none of us do.”
“And when I get back, you’re so dead,” Kitten snarled at the harpy.
“I say we just get rid of the demon while we’re here then,” Clover suggested before she started walking towards Kitten with clenched fists. “That way only Triska’s spirit goes back into her body when this is all over with. Simple as it gets.”
“Ha!” Kitten laughed while smugly grinning at the elf. “You think any of you can take me on? Oh no, are you going to try to hit me like you did earlier? Haha, go ahead. Knock yourself out.”
Clover yelled and rushed towards the demon, sending a fierce right hook to her jaw which blasted the cambion off to the side in a wild spiral before she crashed into the ground further away from the group. Everyone stared at Clover with surprise as she looked at her fist with wonder, stunned silence befalling them as the elf took a moment to realize what she just did. They all then turned to Doku who was looking towards the elf with a curious expression.
“Wow, she’s got a strong spirit,” Doku simply said.
“That had to hurt,” Cilia said while peering over towards where Kitten was getting back onto her feet.
“You… bitch!” Kitten yelled out before rubbing her jaw. “Dammit, that hurt? How did that elf hit me like that, she’s just a weakling. She can’t hurt me.”
Clover examined her fist with a curious eye before a devilish smile came across her face. She chuckled then glared at Kitten while Doku and Cilia backed away from her nervously.
“Oh dear, that’s a rather frightful spirit,” Doku commented.
“Is she a demon too?” Cilia fearfully
asked.
“Something like that,” Specca answered before everyone watched Kitten shooting towards Clover with a violent yell. The cambion swooped low to the ground while rapidly approaching the elf, eyes glowing with fury while her fists were clenched tightly.
“You’ll pay for that!” Kitten roared as she swung at the elf.
Clover stepped aside, grabbed the demon’s hand, and then swung her around with a furious yell before slamming her into the ground.
“Fuck you!” Clover shouted as she stomped down on the back of Kitten’s head, smashing the girl’s face into the ground before she bounced a bit with the dirt and grass remaining unharmed from the impact. The thunderous sound of Clover’s boot hitting down on Kitten however gave a good hint as to how hard the elf’s blow was.
“Um, please don’t fight,” Doku weakly insisted while holding up a wing.
Clover kicked the cambion in the back and side again and again, each strike causing the demon to cough and gasp while being knocked to the side on the ground.
“You like that, bitch?” Clover shouted out with anger. “Say may I have another! Say it, you fucking whore!”
Kitten rolled away from another of the elf’s kicks and stumbled back to her feet, growling heavily while holding her side as it felt as if a minotaur had been pummeling it for hours with its fists.
“You… little… motherfu-” she grunted before two horse hooves struck her in the side of the head with great force, sending her flying off to the side and crashing into a violent roll along the grass with a yell.
“Um, please stop,” Doku nervously said as Kroanette turned around from her kick and started galloping towards Kitten with a furious glare at the demon.
“You despicable monster!” Kroanette shouted as she closed the gap between her and the cambion. “You raped Daniel, you messed with all of our heads, you took Triska away from us! I’ll kill you!”
“Alright,” Kitten snarled as she got back on her feet and held her head. “Now I’m getting mad!”
“Be gone, demon!” Kroanette yelled before she literally ran over the cambion, the winged girl feeling the hooves trampling over her and knocking the wind out of her lungs as she tumbled about and collapsed on the ground.
“What… the fuck is this?” Kitten groaned as she slowly sat up, only to then take Kroanette’s rear hooves to the face. She flew back and bounced along the ground in a roll while Kroanette let out a warcry and chased after her again.
“Please stop this,” Doku called out again, being unheard by everyone as they watched Kitten tumble to a stop on the ground coughing and groaning in pain.
“How… can they do this to me?” Kitten muttered as she started to get up. She was then yanked back and swung over in an arc onto the ground with a hard impact before flung back over and onto the grass face first with a loud thump.
“Nobody messes with our mate!” Alyssa yelled as she, to everyone’s surprise, literally swung the demon back and forth overhead by the foot, smashing her into the ground one way then another despite the cambion’s larger size.
“Alyssa,” Luna said in wonder.
“How is she doing that?” Falla asked with a growing smile on her face.
“Your friends have big spirits in them,” Cilia mentioned as her eyes followed Kitten’s arcs back and forth from Alyssa swinging her around like a toy.
“This isn’t what this place is used for, please stop,” Doku pleaded again.
Alyssa gave one final slam with the cambion’s body onto the ground, the thunderous clap sounding out showing just how hard she hit the dirt while no indentations were made from the impact. The witch backed up while growling at the cambion as Kroanette and Clover walked up beside her, the three glaring at Kitten who slowly got up on her hands and knees with her wings twitching behind her.
“This… isn’t right,” Kitten grunted before her head was grabbed and lifted up. Everyone watched as Squeak held the cambion by the hair and glared at her with bared teeth before she slammed the girl down face first into the ground with a powerful thrust. Kitten’s arms and legs twitched before Squeak lifted her up and slammed her down again, then again, and again, and one more time, each hit causing the cambion to flail about while weakly struggling to pry Squeak’s grip off her head.
“Why isn’t the ground cracking from her being hit against it?” Falla asked with confusion.
“You can’t change anything in the real world while in here, silly,” Cilia giggled at her. “The ground is completely unbreakable while we’re in this state.”
Squeak slammed Kitten’s head down onto the ground again then stood up and stomped her boot on the cambion’s back. With a heavy grunt Kitten was pinned down by the ant girl, her arms weakly trying to swat the powerful spirit off her to no avail.
“How… can you do this to me? I’m a demon!” Kitten cried out with frustration.
“A demon with a weak spirit,” Cilia giggled while shaking a finger at her.
“That’s not possible!” Kitten shouted before Squeak kicked her hard in the gut, knocking the cambion over onto her back with a loud cough. “You can’t… hurt me like this!”
“Again, please stop fighting in here,” Doku softly insisted with a flustered huff.
Kitten quickly crawled away and stumbled to her feet before running into Specca, the nixie grabbing her by the collar with both hands while struggling to hold in her growls of anger towards the demon.
“You tried to turn me against Daniel,” Specca hissed. “You stole my mate’s body and used her to torment all of us. You hide behind the face of Triska and taint her image for us with your foul existence!”
“I don’t understand!” Kitten yelled as she struggled to pry Specca’s hands off her, being unable to budge them in the least as the group watched the nixie curiously. “You’re just a stupid fish, how the fuck can you be this strong?”
“Because their spirits are much more powerful than yours,” Cilia reasoned while looking around at the girls curiously. “You all are really strong, at least on the inside. How come?”
“Clover is naturally vicious and headstrong,” Specca explained while glaring at the demon in her grip. “It’s no surprise her spirit would be just as adamant.”
Kitten glanced to the elf who was smacking her fist into her palm with a harsh glare at her then looked at Specca with growing fear.
“And… the rest of you?”
“We’re a family. We love each other very much. And we will not allow anyone or anything to come between us.”
“You are?” Doku asked looking to Daniel then around at the girls curiously. “You all… love each other?”
“We do,” Specca assured before holding her hand back and scowling at Kitten. “I detest violence as well, Doku. However, this demon messed with my family, and now I’m royally pissed off!”
With a powerful slap across the face Kitten’s head recoiled to the side, the thunderous clap of the hit sounding off before Specca started slapping her relentlessly. Everyone watched in wonder as Specca struck Kitten’s head side to side repeatedly with great force while holding her in place using one hand.
“Holy crap,” Kroanette said in awe.
“Specca’s beating up a demon,” Pip curiously mentioned as she fluttered over and landed on Kroanette’s bosom. “I never knew she could do that. Did you know she could do that? I never knew she could do that.”
“That girl’s got more fire in her than I thought,” Clover mused with a smirk while crossing her arms.
“Yeah, slap the shit out of her, Specca!” Falla cheered out.
“Kitten doesn’t look hurt, though she sure sounds hurt,” Luna said while watching the cambion’s head jerk side to side from the mighty blows she was taking from the nixie. Everyone noticed as although Kitten grunted and yelled from each hit her face and body didn’t appear to be damaged. No bruises or blood were seen despite the obvious pain the demon was going through.
“Please stop, you’re hurting her!” Doku pleade
d.
“That’s the idea,” Alyssa said while swinging her fists around in excitement from seeing Specca mercilessly slap the senses out of Kitten.
With one final hard blow across the face Kitten was struck down onto the ground with a painful yell. She held her face with both hands, feeling her head aching while her vision was spinning from the nixie’s powerful hits.
“Release Triska at once!” Specca demanded with a stomp of her foot.
“I can’t do that,” Kitten bitterly retorted at her, eyes glaring with rage while her cheeks had not a bruise or mark on them. “I told you all before, I don’t know how to free her. Even if I wanted to, which I sure as hell don’t, I can’t release her!”
“Release her from what?” Cilia asked looking at Triska with puzzlement.
“What do you mean from what? Look at her!” Falla exclaimed waving to Triska. “She’s tied down in chains and this demon stole her body!”
“She’s not tied down,” Cilia said shaking her head.
“She’s not?” Luna asked looking to Triska. “That’s so strange, it looks like she is.”
“That’s because I am!” Triska yelled out with frustration. “For crying out loud I can’t get free! I can’t control my body anymore because of that demon!”
“Doku? What is she talking about?” Cilia asked her friend.
The harpy looked from Triska to Kitten with a remorseful sigh before turning back to the bound girl and walking over to her.
“Triska, you can get up if you want to.”
“And just how the hell am I supposed to do that?” Triska shouted out.
“Alright, that’s enough,” Doku asserted with a soft voice and a light stomp of her foot. “All this fighting and yelling, I can’t take it. Please, everyone just calm down. This plane of existence is meant for peace and relaxation, to calm the mind and brighten the spirit. You’re all ruining this and it’s… it’s… it’s breaking my heart.”
Daniel and the girls exchanged curious glances with one another while Doku whimpered and hid her face behind her wing. Kitten slowly got back onto her feet and rubbed her jaw as she looked around at the girls, all of them giving her harsh glares for a moment before watching Doku trying to calm herself with slow deep breaths.
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