Act IX
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“What are you doing?” Specca nervously asked. “And why do you keep grabbing my tie like that?”
Star glanced back to Daniel and twitched her eyebrow before looking down to Specca, leaning closer to her face and causing the nixie to lean back as far as she could into the bed with a whimper. Daniel examined Star carefully, seeing her tails swinging about more excitedly while she was gently caressing Specca’s cheek and keeping a firm grip on the girl’s tie. She seemed to enjoy watching Specca cower in fear before her while being in control of the girl, which finally clicked something in his mind about the jinx and her behavior.
“Specca, don’t you remember? When she first saw you she did the same thing. She grabbed your tie and made you walk around with her. It was fun for her.”
“I remember, but why did she do that?” Specca asked while watching Star with fearful eyes.
“She was treating your tie like it was a leash.”
Specca blinked then looked to him in surprise as he smiled a little at the jinx, the cat meowing strongly as she seemed to be very happy sitting atop the nixie like this.
“A leash?” Specca repeated. “But why?”
“Look at her,” Daniel said, with the girls all watching Star purring eagerly down at the nixie. “She’s enjoying you being afraid of her, she likes being in control like this.”
“Being in control?” Specca wondered.
“She likes dominating you,” Daniel reasoned with a shrug. Star meowed and slowly nodded, with Specca staring at her in shock as the jinx kept a firm hold on her tie and gentle touch on her cheek.
“Dominating… me?” she nervously asked. “But why? Why me?”
“You’re afraid of her,” Triska said as she started to put the pieces together. “She’s a cat and you’re a fish, you’ve been nervous of her since you first saw her. She likes that.”
“She likes being in control,” Alyssa realized. “She enjoys having others at her mercy. She’s a dominatrix.”
“A what?” Specca yelped. Star gently held the nixie’s ear with a sly smirk, using her claws to carefully scratch the fins and cause Specca to squirm with a squeal underneath her. The jinx licked her lips slowly as she saw the nixie blushing and gasping while shaking about, her apparent pleasure at seeing the girl at her mercy being noticed by all.
“She didn’t join the game to try to save Luna,” Triska said with a curious smile. “She joined the game to get to you, Specca.”
“Why me? Ah! Star!” Specca whined with her tail slithering about near them.
“You’re a cute, timid, fish,” Kroanette reasoned crossing her arms with a smirk. “Looks like that’s why Star’s been so interested in you from the start. She wanted to be in control of you.”
Star pulled Specca upright by her tie, the jinx then quickly grabbing the nixie’s arms and yanking them behind her back, binding the girl in place while leaning close to her face with a seductive grin. Specca trembled a bit in the nixie’s embrace before Star licked her nose and winked.
“You want me?” Specca breathed out.
Star bared her fangs, with Specca’s eyes widening from the sight, before leaning over and gently grazing one against the nixie’s ear. Specca squealed and shivered from the touch as Star lightly scratched her ear with her vampiric fang, the jinx then meowing softly in the girl’s ear and watching her with a hungry smile.
“Star… I… uh…” Specca stuttered while having a deep blush. “Wait, we can’t… but I… and you…”
Star giggled then kissed her forehead before quickly warping off her lap, the jinx reappearing behind Daniel while Specca slowly sat back as she caught her breath and began to calm down. The girls saw Specca regaining herself now that she was released by the forceful jinx then turned to Star as she was holding Daniel from behind while purring and watching him with the same look in her eye.
“I think she wants to dominate Daniel next,” Luna worried.
“What makes her think she even could?” Falla sneered at the jinx.
“That’s your plan for making Daniel fall in love with you?” Alyssa laughed. “To take him by force? That’ll never work, Star.”
Star shook her head and meowed, the group watching as she then rested her head on Daniel’s shoulder with closed eyes and gently held a hand over his heart.
“She wants to earn his love by being a good girl for him,” Doku reasoned. “The same way we all wish to be with him.”
“I want to be a good girl too!” Cindy cheered as she rushed over and held onto Daniel’s side. The boy stumbled a bit with Clover still holding onto this waist while kneeled down next to him, Star hanging onto him from behind, and Cindy now snuggling closer to his side while hugging his arm. He looked around at the three girls that were clinging to him out of sheer affection then noticed the others watching him in silence from around the room.
“Girls?” he asked, wondering why they were being so quiet.
“So, Daniel,” Triska mentioned with a raised eyebrow. “I take it you gave Kroanette your seed earlier, didn’t you?”
Daniel nodded and looked to the centaur with a warm smile, the girl blushing and slowly nodding while watching him with loving eyes.
“Did he ever,” she softly agreed. “I was nearly incapacitated for the night from his lovemaking.”
“And you’re still standing, Daniel,” Alyssa pointed out with an impressed smile. “How much stamina do you have?”
“I’m… not sure?” he answered with a weak smile.
“You’ve got enough to handle more mates, don’t you?” Clover eagerly asked, her mouth starting to water in anticipation. “You can do that, can’t you, Dan?”
“Well, I guess…”
“Only if they get our permission to join us,” Alyssa sternly reminded her. “We still have to give our blessing for others to sleep with our man.”
“That is true,” Daniel had to agree with.
“And before anyone else does we need to really like them first,” Falla asserted crossing her arms with a stern expression, her sister trying to mimic that before she fell onto her side and started giggling uncontrollably with a twisted smile on her face.
“Unless we love them that much they’re not having sex with our Daniel.”
“But of course,” Doku approved with a flutter of her wings. “You’re all family to us as well. We must have a strong bond with one another to make it right, that’s how it works with those who are Daniel’s mates after all.”
“That does make sense,” Daniel slowly said with a shrug.
“I can stay with him too then?” Cindy excitedly asked. “I like playing with all of you, except for Triska. I want to stay here with you, except for Triska. Can I live here with you too? Except for Triska, she can leave. Pretty please?”
“Really don’t like that girl,” Triska muttered.
“Wait, live with us?” Daniel asked in surprise. He turned to face the girl while Star and Clover let go and stepped back. “But what about when you find your mother again? I thought you wanted to stay with her afterwards.”
“I want to stay with you,” Cindy answered with a gentle smile. “I like being a good girl, I really do. I don’t want to be a mean sand wraith. You make me so happy and you like me for being nice, it makes me want to be an even better girl in life. I don’t want this feeling to stop. I want to stay with you all; I want to stay with you, Daniel.”
“But what about your mother?”
“When we find her you can help her be good too,” Cindy answered holding her hands to his chest. “Just like you did with me. She can learn to be good and to have friends, she’ll be even happier then. And after you teach her how not to be bad anymore I’m going to stay with you still, because I’m a big girl and I’m ready to walk on my own feet. I want to do this, I want to be here with you.”
Daniel stared at her in awe as she smiled a little and wiggled her chest as she always did when she was happy. He then glanced over to Star as she held onto his hand with a soft me
ow, the girl’s eyes locked onto him and showing the same admiration that all the other girls had towards him. Not only that but he could feel her star in his mind tugging at him now, the love she had being clearly felt by her monster energy connecting to his being. Hers, along with Cindy’s, and even Clover’s as she held onto his other hand, he felt their love for him becoming clearer as they openly expressed it to him. The colors of a deep indigo, shimmering gold, and dark green light from the three stars flickered in his head briefly but their insignias didn’t come into view just yet, they couldn’t as his focus on the newly found monster auras was broken with Cindy quickly pouncing him with a happy cheer. She took the boy back onto the bed with a thump along with Star and Clover, the two girls holding onto his hands tightly and being thrown onto the mattress as Cindy landed on top of Daniel’s lap and sat there with a happy smile on her face.
“I’m a good girl!” Cindy cheered. “I’m your good girl, Daniel!”
Daniel blinked a few times to regain his senses then saw the sand wraith looking down at him with a gentle smile and hands resting on his chest. He then took notice of Star and Clover sitting up next to her, both girls also looking down at him with warm smiles as they continued to hold his hands. The other girls gathered around him on the bed, his eyes going to each one as they watched him curiously.
“Well, Daniel?” Triska asked with a raised eyebrow. “What do you have to say?”
“I say why do girls like me so much out here but back in Edgewood none would give me the time of day?”
“I was the only one that didn’t think you were crazy,” Triska reasoned with a shrug. “That and you can’t really blame these girls for feeling this way, you’re way too nice to monsters in the world, something they’re not used to seeing from a human. It makes you really desirable.”
“Desirable,” Daniel repeated, remembering that nearly all his mates had called him that at one time or another during their journey. He looked between Star and Cindy, both eagerly awaiting his answer to their affections, and then closed his eyes and shook his head.
“I think taking on twelve mates may be too much for me to handle.” Opening his eyes he saw Star and Cindy showing nervous frowns from his words, with Cindy gently gripping his vest while Star was holding his hand more tightly now.
“I still need to take care of Clover and Doku, I promised to and they are to become my next mates when my harem approves of them. And now we’ll be expecting to have children in the future, with each of my mates and I having families that I’ll need to take care of as well. Taking any more mates after them is going to push me to my limits.”
Star and Cindy whimpered and lowered their heads, both holding back tears as they felt their hearts aching from his response. Daniel sighed then smiled a little and sat up, with Cindy scooting back a bit on his legs as she and the jinx watched him with watery eyes.
“No more after this,” he added, with everyone looking to him in wonder as he gently wiped a tear away from Cindy’s cheek. “If I can handle taking care of Doku and Clover along with all my mates, that I can make them all completely happy and satisfied while sharing me, and somehow find the strength to do so with you two as well, then I’ll be responsible for taking your hearts. But only if I can honestly take care of you two after them and still stay standing, and also if my harem approves of you joining them. All ten of them.”
“I can be with you?” Cindy eagerly asked. “I really can? Snapper too? Please?”
Star meowed while leaning closer to him, having a hopeful smile on her face while her tails waved about behind her.
“Only if it all works out in the end with everyone,” Daniel reasoned. “If my mates don’t approve of you staying with us then you can’t. If I don’t feel that way towards you as you do with me then you can’t. But if we all want you to stay with us and be a part of our family, if we develop that bond with one another that keeps us together no matter what, and if I can actually take care of twelve girls-”
“Thirteen,” Triska interrupted. The group turned to her as she smirked at Daniel and shook her head. “Kitten wants to be yours as well, Daniel. And not just as your slave, she wants your love. That’s thirteen girls who want to be your lovers.”
“Thirteen,” Daniel slowly said, eyes turning around to each of the girls as they all watched him with concerned smiles to that.
“I believe this may be too much for you, Daniel,” Kroanette mentioned. “It is perfectly acceptable to say no to them, you know.”
“You don’t have to take any more as your mates,” Falla insisted shaking her head. “We’ll forgive you for breaking their hearts, really we will.”
“I’m okay with more boobies joining us,” Pip giggled. “As long as they’re good boobies.”
“Can you really handle loving all of us?” Luna asked in wonder. “And our daughters too, Daniel? You’ll have time for all of us?”
“You’re going to kill yourself if you keep this up, Daniel,” Specca worried. “I understand you wish to be fair and don’t want to hurt anyone, but you must understand that you have limits to what you can do.”
“I’m going to drain you dry when I get the chance, Dan,” Clover promised with a wink at him. “You sure you can take on more mates after me?”
Squeak shook her head and squeaked something with a worried frown before pointing to Daniel and smiled a little before squeaking and then gesturing down along her body that she flaunted before him.
“Please don’t overwork yourself with us, Daniel,” Doku softly warned. “I’d hate to be responsible for you becoming ill or incapable of continuing your quest.”
“You proved you could satisfy all of us,” Triska said gesturing around to his current lovers. “And I’m happy that you could, that shows you are capable of taking care of us as your mates like you wanted. But don’t lose sight of your objective out here or forget that we’re going to be loving each other every day now as it is, don’t let your promises you’ve made falter because you bit off more than you could chew.”
Daniel slowly nodded as he looked around at the girls, his gaze stopping on Alyssa as everyone turned to the one who had been silent so far. The witch was eyeing over Cindy and Star with a look of annoyance, her lip scowling slightly before she quickly moved forward and hugged Daniel from behind.
“Daniel’s already proven to me how much I mean to him,” she said looking over his shoulder at the jinx and wraith. “I don’t have any fear that I’ll lose him or that he’ll love me any less now. We’ll always be together, nothing at all can ruin that for us now. Doku and Clover want to be his mates too? Fine, let them try. Doku’s a sweetheart and Clover’s not the worst person in the world after all.”
“I’ll take that as a win,” Clover mentioned.
“As you should,” Triska agreed with a nod.
“Once we let them join us with Daniel, if we do decide to, we’ll see if he can even handle more mates without passing out first,” Alyssa challenged with a glare at Cindy and Star. “He’s going to have his hands full with us and his quest, very much so as we’re not going to sacrifice any time of ours just for you two. If he really has the strength to care for more mates after us, if you two properly behave yourselves with all of us, if we by some miracle decide to let you two join us because we love you that much, then you can be with Daniel along with us. But until then he’s our man and only ours, and you will respect that or so help me I’ll punish you so badly you’ll never walk again!”
“I don’t know if that will work on Cindy or not,” Kroanette mentioned with a curious glance at the wraith.
“We’ll still sure as hell find out!” Alyssa yelled waving her fist around in the air, the girl glaring with softly glowing eyes at the jinx who was smiling nervously at her and nodding in agreement as well as the sand wraith that had a curious expression on her face.
“So… I can be with him then?” Cindy asked with a happy smile.
“Did any of what I just said get through to you?”
“Don’t worry,” Falla flatly said to Alyssa. “She’s last in line to be with Daniel, there’s no guarantee he’ll have the stamina to take her as a mate too after all of us.”
“Again, we have a line?” Specca sighed lowering her head.
“Not anymore,” Triska said crossing her arms with a smirk at Daniel. “Our man just said so himself. These girls are the last ones who can try to be his. We’ll give them a chance since Daniel’s trying to be fair to them and take responsibility for stealing their hearts, we’ll see if our opinion of them gets any better. But either way, after this we’re not letting anyone else come near our mate. This is where the line is going to be drawn.”
“The final boobies have come to us,” Pip sagely commented. “Just as it was foretold.”
“Foretold by who?” Kroanette asked looking down to her in confusion.
“The boobies,” Pip whispered.
Daniel smiled amusedly at the fairy then looked around at the girls, all twelve of those who had expressed their desire to be with him, while also knowing there was an unseen thirteenth girl who was trying to fight her inner nature to be closer with him. From Triska the swordswoman, Alyssa the witch, Squeak the ant girl, Specca the nixie, the giant butterfly sisters Falla and Luna, Kroanette the centaur, Pip the fairy, Clover the elf, Doku the harpy, Star the half-jinx half-vampire, Cindy the sand wraith, and Kitten the cambion, he knew that if he was to take care of all these girls who placed not only their faith in him but also their love he would certainly be pushing himself to his limits, both emotionally and physically. That and he just might be the luckiest guy in the world to have so many beautiful women in his life if he really could handle them all.
“Alright then,” Daniel decided as he brought Alyssa over to sit on his lap, the witch quickly clinging to him like she always did while he smiled in content at those around him. “Then it’s settled. Tomorrow we’ll continue our journey; hopefully with this detour we’re taking we can make better time with our destinations. And along the way I’ll do all I can to take care of you girls just like I wanted to. I’ll be fair in spending time with you all, as well as respecting the boundaries that are in place with some of you. Let’s see if I can not only bring peace to Eden but also take care of so many beautiful mates.”