Up front Specca glanced to see Daniel still keeping his eyes on the scenery to the left, the boy not once looking over towards her or the centaur that was running beside her.
‘He’s trying not to notice them, but he can’t avoid seeing such things forever. What if he finds her more attractive than us because of them? We can’t compete with that.’
“Excuse me,” Kroanette called over to her. Specca jumped then looked to see the centaur looking at her with a bored expression while easily keeping pace with them. “Can your horse run any faster? I can certainly cover more ground if I would actually be allowed to run to my fullest. This is going to delay us in reaching Rystone quite a lot.”
“Lucky is going is fast as he’s able,” Specca said shaking her head. “This caravan isn’t even designed for a single horse to pull. If Lucky wasn’t enchanted with magic we wouldn’t be moving at all right now.”
“This is ridiculous,” Kroanette complained. “I would be able to deliver this artifact at a much faster rate than this if I wasn’t forced to keep pace with you.”
“I’m sorry, but this is as fast as we can go, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Kroanette let out an annoyed sigh then looked to Daniel.
“Hey, Daniel,” she called out.
The boy jumped a bit while still looking away.
“Yes?”
“You wish to speak to my mother soon, yes? Then allow me to carry you personally to Rystone then to my home afterwards. We’ll make much better time without having to wait for your friends to get there in your ride.”
“No, no thank you,” he replied kindly. “That’s alright. I’m not going to leave them behind like that.”
“Excuse me, I’m talking to you,” Kroanette replied with annoyance. “You’re being awfully rude by not looking at me when you’re speaking to me.”
“I don’t know… what you mean.”
“Such horrible manners,” Kroanette scoffed. “My mother is not going to be pleased talking to someone such as yourself if this is how you behave. Face me when you’re speaking, or have you no sense of etiquette?”
Specca watched as Daniel slowly turned to face the centaur with a weak smile, his eyes struggling to remain on her face while her large breasts continued to bounce with each gallop she took.
“Sorry, it’s just… I’d rather not… it’s not a problem if… um…” he stammered, with Kroanette watching him with a raised eyebrow while the other girls were showing worried expressions.
“What are you babbling about?” Kroanette scolded. “If you’re indeed going to be speaking to my mother about your radical beliefs the least you can do is speak coherently.”
Daniel closed his eyes and took a steady breath before looking at the centaur with a sincere smile.
“I’m saying, I’m not going to leave my friends. We’re all going to make this trip together.”
“But I have a very strict schedule to keep,” Kroanette argued. “This is taking far too long to travel like this. Just hop on my back and we’ll be done with this in no time.”
“He said no so the answer is no,” Specca stated firmly at her.
“Yeah, he’s not going out there alone with you,” Triska called out from inside the cabin.
“Give me one good reason why he shouldn’t,” Kroanette demanded.
“Because you have no sense of direction at all!” Alyssa shouted out. “If we let him go with you we’ll never see him again!”
Kroanette twitched at that then grabbed her whip and snapped it at her side.
“What was that? How dare you mock my navigational prowess! Come out here and say that to my face, you little brat!”
“Yeah, go on, Alyssa,” Triska urged. “Get out there and say it to her face.”
“How about I throw you through the wall at her and call it a day?” Alyssa barked back.
Squeak started squeaking loudly in the caravan while Daniel merely looked down with a hand over his eyes, the boy shaking his head tiredly as all the girls but Specca continued to bicker back and forth. Specca looked over to Kroanette as the centaur was yelling and snapping her whip while running alongside the caravan, then back to see Alyssa and Triska again shouting at each other while Squeak was just squeaking at both of them while pointing around at everyone, then turned to Daniel who was showing signs of aggravation with each passing moment.
“Don’t you dare try to hide from me after saying such nonsense!” Kroanette shouted. “Now get out here and face me!”
“I’m not afraid of you!” Alyssa yelled out.
“Yeah, she’s not afraid of you,” Triska defended. “Go on, get out there and show her how much you’re not afraid of her, Alyssa.”
“Shut your mouth already, Triska!” Alyssa shouted out at the teen.
Squeak just continued to squeak in a stern tone, obviously not being understood by anyone.
“Stop!” Specca yelled out suddenly, with everyone looking to her in surprise. Kroanette growled at her with a scowl on her face.
“You stay out of this, this is between me and the little witch with the big mouth!”
“No, I mean stop, Kroanette!” Specca cried out as she pointed ahead of them with urgency.
Kroanette blinked once with a confused expression before she dropped down out of view with a scream. Daniel looked over to seeing the centaur having vanished while Specca was looking down over the side and watching Kroanette tumbling down a steep incline that was right next to the trail, the caravan now traveling on the top of a hill while the centaur rolled down the slope.
“WAAAH!” Kroanette cried out before she crashed into a tree at the base of the hill, with Daniel and Specca watching as the branches and leaves shook from the impact while the caravan passed by on the higher ground.
“What just happened?” Triska asked.
“She wasn’t watching where she was going again,” Daniel said tiredly.
Specca quickly snapped the reins, causing Lucky to slow down to a stop before she and Daniel looked down towards the tree that had some leaves dropping off of it.
“Do you think she’s alright?” Specca asked.
“Knowing our luck, she’s fine,” Alyssa said flatly.
“What’s the big idea?” a girl’s voice yelled out from the tree down below.
“It’s not my fault; I didn’t want to come down here to begin with!” Kroanette shouted back.
“You could have killed me with your fat ass a moment ago!”
“Fat? Fat? How dare you!” Kroanette shouted before the sounds of whipping and screaming were heard.
“What’s going on?” Daniel asked.
“Someone else is down there,” Specca said curiously.
She and Daniel hopped off the caravan while the other girls started to climb out of the cabin, all of them hearing Kroanette shouting, her whip cracking, and another girl screaming.
“Great, now she’s going postal on some other poor soul,” Triska muttered.
“Let’s go,” Daniel said before he and Specca hopped over and slid down the grassy slope. Alyssa jumped down from the caravan with Triska while holding her staff, the two then hopping over onto the slope while Squeak stumbled after, the ant girl wavering around on her boots as she slid after them.
Daniel held Specca’s hand as the two slid down the grassy slope, the nixie glancing to him with a small smile before they reached the bottom, with Alyssa then promptly sliding down and knocking Specca forward as she grabbed onto Daniel’s arm with a giggle. As Specca stumbled over and fell down onto her face Triska slid down and grabbed Daniel’s other arm, pretending to waver off-balance so she could use him for support, before Squeak slid down and crashed into Daniel, taking the boy to the ground with her while Triska and Alyssa spun around and fell over. Specca shook her head and spat out a flower before looking back to seeing Triska and Alyssa getting back onto their feet and Squeak lying on top of Daniel, the boy’s face lodged in her bosom as the ant girl was staring down at him with a blu
sh on her face.
“Squeak!” Specca cried out.
Triska stared with a shocked expression while Alyssa’s eye twitched a bit at the sight. Squeak blinked then jumped and leaned back quickly, with Daniel gasping for air before looking at her with a stunned expression. She squeaked a few times before showing a timid smile and shrugging, with Daniel glancing down to her breasts then up at her while remaining silent.
“Squeak, get off of him this instant!” Specca scolded as she rushed over to the ant girl, grabbing her by the shoulders and, having to use a great deal of strength since the ant girl was very difficult to budge, pushed Squeak off of Daniel onto the grass before quickly kneeling down next to him while holding an arm back to shield the boy as if he was in some sort of danger.
“What do you think you’re doing? How dare you force his face into your breasts like that, shame on you!” Specca shouted out at Squeak, the ant girl slowly getting up and smiling nervously at her before looking at something with wide eyes.
“Specca!” Triska yelled out.
Specca looked to see the human pointing down to Daniel, then looked down behind her. She gasped and turned red as she saw that by kneeling down so close to Daniel like that she actually had her rear end hovering over Daniel’s face while he was staring with even wider eyes at the extremely close up view of the nixie’s pussy. Hell, at that distance he could make out the individual scales along with noticing the gentle color change from aqua to a very light blue around the clit and even see where her tail connected right above her asshole. She even had a slight lake water fragrance to her private area, something that seemed to compliment her very nicely. Specca then screamed and darted away onto the ground, holding her skirt down between her legs while watching Daniel with an embarrassed whine.
“Oh dear lord, I’m so sorry, Daniel! I didn’t mean to… I wasn’t trying to…”
Daniel however just kept staring up at the sky, wondering which was more surprising to him; the soft, extremely comfortable feeling of being pressed face first into Squeak’s bosom, or being nearly pointblank from Specca’s exposed flesh. Triska and Alyssa watched as Daniel just seemed to lay there while stunned then looked to Squeak and Specca with frustrated glares. Squeak was smiling worriedly at them with a small shrug while Specca was holding her hands over her face while her tail curled up around her waist.
“Are you two that desperate to show off to Daniel?” Alyssa yelled out as she clutched her staff in both hands.
“What’s the big idea sticking his face into those places like that?” Triska barked out. She unsheathed her sword, the metallic ring causing Daniel to blink then snap back to his senses. He quickly sat up and looked around, seeing Triska growling with anger and her sword held in hand, Alyssa glaring with bared teeth while her staff glowed orange, Squeak slowly scooting back with a nervous squeak, and Specca continuing to hide behind her hands out of embarrassment of what she did.
“Wait, everybody stop, please!”
All the girls halted and looked to him, falling silent as the sound of Kroanette and another girl yelling nearby became heard again. The group then looked over to the side as the centaur continued to snap her whip, everyone then seeing Kroanette and another girl they recognized.
“Falla?” Triska said with exasperation.
Over near the tree they saw Kroanette snapping her whip up at a branch where Falla was seen ducking and darting around the limb frantically, with the lash snapping off twigs and leaves as the centaur kept striking with powerful swings.
“Knock it off, you bitch!” Falla yelled out as she kept trying to avoid the cracking whip.
“I’ll teach you some manners, who do you think you’re calling fat?” Kroanette shouted out with anger.
“You, look at the size of your ass that you nearly crushed me with!”
“Get down here and say that, you loudmouthed butterfly!”
“Like hell I will, what’s your problem anyway?”
“You are, you have no respect for a centaur at all!”
“Why should I? You nearly crushed me to death; I just stopped here under the tree to rest, not to get run over!”
Daniel and the other girls just watched as Kroanette continued to snap her whip at Falla, the butterfly girl dodging and darting around the large branch while the two exchanged verbal strikes with one another.
“Is that really Falla again?” Specca asked tiredly.
“I don’t believe this, those two are everywhere we go,” Triska groaned.
“Where’s the other one, what are they up to this time?” Alyssa asked looking around, not seeing any sign of the second butterfly sister.
“Kroanette, stop!” Daniel called out as he ran over to the bickering girls. The centaur looked back to him with a huff while Falla peeked out from over the branch, the butterfly girl then showing surprise at seeing him.
“Daniel?”
“Hello again, Falla,” Daniel replied flatly.
Kroanette glanced to her with narrowed eyes then looked at Daniel carefully.
“Do you know this girl?”
“Unfortunately. Could you please stop trying to kill her?” Daniel asked dryly.
Falla jumped down from the tree then rushed over to the boy, grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him frantically.
“Have you seen Luna? Have any of you seen her?” she asked desperately. She was instantly thrown back into the tree by a magical force, the girl slamming against the bark before green vines whipped up from the ground and ensnared her ankles.
“How many times must we tell you, stop chasing after Daniel!” Alyssa yelled out as she and the other girls walked over towards the tree. Triska held her sword out towards Falla, the butterfly monster leaning back and looking at the blade with worried eyes, while Specca and Squeak just watched her with discontent.
“What’s your plan this time, Falla?” Triska inquired with narrowed eyes.
Kroanette looked at the scene with confusion then glanced to Daniel.
“So, you and this girl are not on good terms?” she questioned with a raised eyebrow. The boy sighed and walked towards Falla, gently pulling Triska back while the girl remained ready to lunge forward with her blade.
“Falla, what are you doing here?” he asked looking at the butterfly.
“I’m looking for my sister, have any of you seen her?” Falla asked quickly.
“Isn’t she always following you around?” Specca asked plainly.
“I don’t see how this is supposed to get Daniel’s pants off,” Alyssa commented flatly.
“This isn’t a game, witch! My sister’s missing!”
“Missing?” Triska asked while keeping her blade held out.
“Yes, missing, she’s been gone since yesterday. I’ve been looking for her and that little girl since then.”
“Little girl? What little girl?” Specca asked.
Falla looked to her then to Daniel with pleading eyes.
“We found a human child, in the woods, after you left us back there. We’ve been trying to find you so you can help her, she’s all alone out here,” she explained. The group looked to each other then to Falla carefully.
“A human child? Way out in The Outerlands like this?” Specca questioned.
“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of, a human child wouldn’t be wandering around The Outerlands alone,” Triska argued.
Falla looked to her with concern then pulled out Emily’s bloodied shoe from behind her, the group looking at it with surprise as she tossed it to Daniel.
“She wasn’t alone, until monsters ate her family,” she said sadly.
“Oh my god,” Specca said holding a hand over her mouth as the group stared at the shoe in Daniel’s hand, the boy tilting it around slowly and seeing it having bloodstains all over it.
“Okay, this is a rather elaborate ploy to get Daniel’s pants off, I’ll give you that,” Alyssa said glancing to Falla with discontent.
“This isn’t a trick,” Falla p
leaded. “Her name is Emily Winterbloom, she’s a young girl, has long brunette hair, blue eyes, very dirty clothes with blood on them, and she’s blind.”
“She’s blind?” Daniel asked.
“Why don’t you just say she’s wearing an eye patch too, or has a scar on her leg?” Triska mocked. “Seriously, what kind of flimsy story are you trying to push on us here?”
“I’m telling you I’m not making this up!” Falla yelled out while shaking her head. “We were trying to find you because you would be able to help the child more than we could; we were trying to do what was right! We stopped at a clearing because she was hungry, so I left to find food while Luna watched over her. When I came back they were both gone, all that was left was that kid’s shoe.”
“Do you think she’s telling the truth?” Specca asked looking at the shoe with concern. Daniel watched the butterfly girl carefully as she whimpered and looked at him with pleading eyes.
“Please, I’m begging you to help me.”
“The last time you begged me to help you it was all just an act,” Daniel scorned. “Why should we believe you this time? You could have found this shoe anywhere, at the very least I’d like to think that even you wouldn’t go so far as to harm a child’s parents to get to me.”
Falla looked around at everyone then to him as they all waited for her answer.
“How is this a plan to get your pants off?” she cried out. “I’m asking all of you to come with me, not just you, Daniel. For crying out loud, something happened to my sister, I need your help!”
“I would like to believe her,” Triska dryly said. “But her history of being a deceptive little rat isn’t something I can just forget about.”
Falla looked to her with desperation and shook her head.
“Fine, don’t do it for me, but what about Luna? I thought you liked her, you gave her cookies last we met, think about her. And what about the child, what about Emily? You can’t just turn your back on a kid in need, can you?”
Triska looked down with a solemn expression while slowly lowering her sword, not saying anything back to her. Falla looked around at the group with frustration then to Alyssa.
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