“Why are you getting that now?” Specca asked as the ant girl hopped back down onto the ground. Squeak squeaked something while watching Lucky riding off towards the village, with Specca then looking to the sisters curiously as they smirked a bit.
“She says she’s just being prepared for danger,” Jovian relayed.
“Yes, you never know when trouble might creep up on you out here,” Jacqueline added as she glanced over to Falla, the butterfly girl facing away from her and watching Daniel and the two girls riding off together. Falla blinked then glanced back to the sisters, seeing the two girls smiling at her while she felt like there was something about them that was familiar.
‘Something’s not right about them, I just know it. What am I not seeing here?’
“Something on your mind, Falla?” the sisters asked together in unison. Falla looked at them carefully then back towards the village, trying to shake off the bad feeling she had forming inside of her. After a while her eyes slowly widened as she remembered back to when they first found Emily and what the child spoke about regarding her encounter with the dreaded man-eaters.
“I hope Daniel is able to convince the village to help us,” Specca said softly as she walked over next to the butterfly girl. Squeak nodded and squeaked something while looking around the area and keeping on guard, with Jovian and Jacqueline smiling curiously at her then at Specca.
“She says she has complete faith in Daniel, he’ll be able to help us,” they relayed together. Falla felt a cold chill run down her spine while Specca glanced back to the sisters with a curious eye.
“How do you two always do that?” Specca asked.
“Do what?” the sisters asked with coy smiles.
“Talk at the same time like that, it’s just so different,” Specca said with a raised eyebrow.
“We just do,” the sisters replied with shrugs. Specca looked at them quizzically as Falla slowly turned her head back to the sisters. She glanced from one to the other, both twins just watching her from behind their masks.
“You know, when we found that human child out in the wilderness she was scared out of her mind, exhausted from running all day from the monsters that killed her parents,” Falla mentioned. Squeak and Specca watched Falla as she slowly turned to face the sisters with a careful eye.
“The poor thing was blind, so she couldn’t see her parents’ killers at all, but she did remember hearing them very clearly. Hearing how they ate her family, taunted her about it, laughed about it,” Falla said cautiously.
“Oh dear,” Jovian said softly with her smile still standing.
“That must have been so horrible for her,” Jacqueline agreed with a shrug.
“It must have, the poor girl was so scared of those monsters, even though she couldn’t see them. She told me and my sister what she heard though, how there were two of them, both being female,” Falla said carefully. Specca looked at Falla curiously while Squeak walked over towards them before stopping in front of the sisters, the ant girl watching Falla as the butterfly girl stared down the twins with an accusing glare.
“Two of them, who had a very unique way of talking, they always spoke together in perfect sync,” Falla accused sharply, with Specca and Squeak looking at her like they heard wrong.
“Falla, what are you saying?” Specca asked carefully. A loud squeak was heard behind her, the nixie then looking back with a jump as she saw the sisters holding Squeak firmly by an arm each while also holding onto her head and neck. Squeak was looking ahead at her friends with fright as her arms were forcibly held back behind her, the sisters giggling in unison as they removed their masks. The twins placed the masks in their dresses in front of their left breasts before Jovian yanked on Squeak’s hair and tilted her head up.
“I think she’s implying that we’re not human,” Jovian said looking to Squeak with a cold smile, the ant girl trembling in fear as she couldn’t budge or break free at all from their grasp.
“Yeah, like we’re monsters or something,” Jacqueline laughed while brushing Squeak’s hair.
“Jovian, Jacqueline? What are you doing?” Specca asked with surprise.
“They’re not human, they’re monsters! Like hell two human girls could hold your friend like that!” Falla accused as she pointed to Squeak, with the ant girl struggling around in the powerful grasp of the sisters. Specca’s jaw dropped slightly as Jacqueline leaned down and slowly licked Squeak’s neck, the ant girl trembling as she felt the girl’s tongue going across her skin up to her cheek.
“You know, we wanted to enjoy eating you all together, and were prepared to wait as long as reaching this little hole in the world to do so,” Jovian said coldly.
“No, you can’t be,” Specca breathed out.
“But since Falla wouldn’t shut up, I guess we’ll have to settle for eating you all however we can, starting with you three,” Jacqueline said as she looked down at Squeak with a dark smile, the ant girl squeaking and struggling to get free to no avail. Jovian chuckled and let go of the ant girl before starting to walk towards the others, with Squeak then being held by both arms and forced down onto her knees by Jacqueline alone. The ant girl thrashed about but wasn’t able to break free as the blonde haired sister held her arms back behind her with great strength.
“See? See? A human couldn’t hold her like that, she’s a monster, they both are!” Falla shouted while pointing to Jacqueline.
“What? What?” Specca cried out.
“I told you, didn’t I? They’re not human, those are the man-eaters!” Falla exclaimed pointing to Jovian with fright. Jovian laughed then darted forward and grabbed Specca’s hand, the nixie screaming and trying to run away before she was thrown down onto the ground. Jovian pounced on the girl and sat on her lap, holding the nixie’s hands down by her head as Specca screamed and stared up at the creepy smile on Jovian’s face. Jacqueline giggled then threw Squeak down onto the ground on her side, the blonde girl then kneeling down and holding the ant girl’s hands down by her head while leaning closer to her face. Using only one hand she held the ant girl’s wrists together down on the ground while her other held Squeak’s waist. Squeak struggled to kick free and get up yet was held down with great force, with Specca thrashing around weakly in Jovian’s grip nearby as the raven haired girl laughed down at her.
“What are you doing? Let me go!” Specca cried out.
“Haha, no, I don’t think I’ll be doing that, you look so delicious after all,” Jovian laughed, with Specca screaming and shaking her head as she tried to get free. The sisters then looked over to Falla as the butterfly girl slowly took a step back away from them.
“What’s wrong, not going to try to save your friends?” Jovian mused before she leaned down and licked Specca’s cheek, the nixie screaming as she kicked about underneath the monster.
“I don’t think she cares about them, she’s just a lousy rat after all,” Jacqueline said before she grabbed hold of Squeak’s breast, the ant girl squeaking and shaking her head with fright as the blonde girl roughly squeezed and fondled her. Jacqueline laughed before licking her lips slowly as she eyed the ant girl over with a hungry smile.
“I’ve been waiting to bite into these for a while now, they’re so plump and juicy looking,” she said coldly. Squeak looked down to her breasts then to Jacqueline with terror and shook her head, with the blonde girl slowly nodding in response.
Jovian licked Specca’s cheek then forced a kiss on the nixie, with Specca screaming into her mouth and trying to shake her head as she felt the raven haired girl’s tongue lapping around hers. Specca kicked and thrashed about while her tail whipped around on the ground before Jovian leaned back and smiled wickedly down at her.
“You taste good, Specca, I wonder how you taste between your legs,” she taunted before baring her teeth in her smile, with Specca shrieking at hearing that. Jovian laughed and watched as the nixie desperately tried to free herself before a loud crack echoed out, with Jovian promptly dropping down to the side with
blood pouring out from the back of her head. The girls all looked to her then to Falla who was standing over Jovian with a large rock in her hand that had blood splattered on it.
“Falla?” Specca breathed out shakily.
“Ok, I am sick of you calling me a rat, you fucking bitches!” Falla yelled before she swung down and cracked Jovian’s skull open, striking again and again with furious grunts while Specca scrambled away from them onto her feet. Squeak watched with surprise as Falla smashed Jovian’s head into a bloody smear then quickly bashed her head up and knocked Jacqueline off of her, the blonde dropping to the side before Squeak quickly rolled over and pinned the girl down with one hand while reaching back and grabbing her pickaxe with the other. She squeaked loudly before driving the tool down with a sharp whack into Jacqueline’s head, spiking through the skull with a crunch as blood splattered onto the dirt. Specca held her arms around herself with a nervous whimper as Falla stumbled back to her feet and tossed the bloodied stone aside, the butterfly girl catching her breath as she backed up towards Specca while keeping her eyes on Jovian’s body.
“Those were the man-eaters… those were the man-eaters…” Specca managed to get out while struggling to calm her nerves.
“I told you, didn’t I?” Falla snapped at her. Specca looked to her then to Jovian with horror before over to Squeak as the ant girl slowly stood up and yanked her pickaxe out of Jacqueline’s head.
“Squeak, are you alright?” Specca asked. Squeak nodded and looked to her with a weak smile.
“Oh my god,” Falla said holding her hands over her mouth with wide eyes as she stared at something. Specca and Squeak looked to her then to Jovian as the girl was slowly sitting up, her head regenerating and growing back before their eyes.
“What the… impossible,” Specca breathed out with fright. Squeak stared at Jovian with shock then looked down to seeing Jacqueline smiling up at her, the girl’s large hole through her head slowly closing up again. Squeak squeaked loudly and darted away from her towards the other girls as they all watched the sisters slowly getting up while their fatal injuries healed up completely.
“That’s not possible, we killed them!” Falla cried out.
“They really are monsters!” Specca exclaimed as Squeak held her pickaxe before her with a frightened expression. Jovian and Jacqueline stood up and giggled as they turned to the girls with dark smiles on their faces, both appearing to be completely fine even after having been struck down with lethal force.
“It can’t be, they should be dead,” Specca whimpered while shaking her head.
“So what do we do now?” Falla asked nervously. The sisters laughed in unison as the three girls stared at them with fright, all of them seeing very clearly that these twins were anything but human. Jovian and Jacqueline stepped closer towards their prey while pointing to them with eerie smiles on their faces, both of them causing chills to run down the other girls’ spines, and then spoke together in perfect sync with a haunting tone.
“We’re going to make you scream.”
Chapter 16
Evil in Eston
In the world of Eden, danger could strike at any moment, especially from the monsters that roamed the lands. Although monsters needed to ‘make love’ with humans in order to breed, that didn’t mean that love was always in the air or that their intentions were peaceful for others. Some monsters didn’t care about the humans at all aside from using them to reproduce with, others took delight in killing those they copulated with afterwards, and a few even preferred to spill blood more than anything. Being forced to either run or fight may be the only options one might have to survive. But sometimes the direction in which to flee may not be clear, or the incoming threat too dangerous to take on.
Sometimes the danger may be unavoidable, and death may be inevitable.
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The sky had only a few small clouds passing by in the night, the stars and the moon above casting the land down below with a soft bloom and providing the only real light for anyone to see with, something that was obviously suspicious while looking at the village of Eston which had no lights on at all throughout the settlement. Riding towards the darkened town a white horse was galloping along a dirt trail at a quickened pace, with Daniel riding on top with Triska and Alyssa behind him. As they approached the outer village limits Daniel slowed Lucky down as he and the two girls took notice of the same thing.
“Um, why is it so dark here?” Daniel asked.
“That’s weird, not a single lamp or fire seems to be going,” Triska said glancing around, watching as they trotted into the village down a dirt road with darkened buildings on both sides of them. Houses, shops, and even the streets were completely vacant as well as void of any light, with the moon above giving the only slight illumination to the area. It was enough to at least see what was around them for the time being and to notice that something was not right with this village.
“This doesn’t seem right,” Alyssa commented with a raised eyebrow.
“I don’t get it, there’s no patrol or night watchmen, where is everyone?” Daniel asked.
“Hello?” Triska called out as they slowly trotted down the street, her voice echoing out yet offering no reply from anyone.
“This village wasn’t marked as deserted, it should be livelier than this,” Alyssa said shaking her head.
“Hello? Please, we need help, is anyone here?” Daniel called out. They heard nothing but Lucky’s footsteps on the grains of dirt below them.
“You’ve got to be kidding me, there has to be someone here, anyone,” Triska said with confusion.
“This is a village out in the middle of the outerlands, they have to have someone keeping watch for trouble,” Daniel reasoned unsurely.
Lucky stumbled against a bucket and shovel, the horse letting out a neigh as the three riders quickly held on so not to get thrown off while the clanking of the metal rang out in the air.
“It’s so dark here, we can hardly see what’s around us,” Daniel said with concern.
“Well… I do know of one way we could shed some light on this situation,” Alyssa carefully mentioned.
“You’re not thinking what I think you’re thinking, are you?” Triska asked dryly.
“And it’ll certainly get the attention of anyone who might be here, I don’t think they’ll be ignoring us then,” Alyssa continued.
“She’s thinking what you think she’s thinking,” Daniel replied simply with a glance back to Triska.
“No way, Alyssa, we’re supposed to be here to talk peacefully with the village and ask for their help, not scare and likely provoke them into attacking us,” Triska argued.
“Scare who? Look around you, nobody’s here,” Alyssa pointed out while waving her hand around.
“We can’t-” Triska said before Lucky neighed and bucked back, with the riders falling off his back onto the ground as the horse cried out and shook his head with a grunt.
“Ow! What was that for?” Triska asked as a cloud passed by overhead, casting the town into darkness around them. Daniel and Alyssa looked around then towards the sound of Lucky as he scraped some dirt ahead of them with another neigh.
“Something’s getting him riled up,” Daniel cautioned.
“Alright, that’s it, I’m putting an end to this,” Alyssa grunted as she stood up.
“Don’t, not here, not like this,” Triska argued sternly.
“Lucky, bandits!” Alyssa shouted out.
Lucky neighed and bucked around as Daniel and the two girls quickly backed up, watching as a bright red flame appeared ahead of them from Lucky’s tail setting ablaze. The horse cried out as he shifted into his demon form, his skeletal wings erupting up from his back while his hair shifted to black. His crimson eyes glowed softly in the darkness as faint wisps of fire and smoke came from his mouth, outlining his head with a fiery glow. The area around them slowly lit up a bit from the horse’s fiery tail, with Alyssa holding her hand out towards the burning flames.
“Now, let there be light,” she stated distantly.
“Alyssa, I swear to god, if you burn down this village…” Triska warned with growing concern.
“Shut up and let me focus,” Alyssa snapped as she concentrated her magic, watching as the flames licked and flared up from the animal’s tail. Daniel looked around worriedly while hoping that this wasn’t scaring anyone who may be hiding nearby.
“Alyssa,” Triska slowly cautioned while watching Lucky’s fiery tail, with Alyssa narrowing her eyes which glowed softly along with her focuser crystal. The witch took a slow breath then swung her hand out to the side, casting a fiery trail of red flames to extend out from Lucky’s tail and swirl around in the air above them. Alyssa held both her hands up towards the flaming ring as the fires sizzled and burned with a soft bloom above. Daniel and Triska watched with wonder as Alyssa seemed to strain herself while trying to keep her magic from going out of control, the witch feeling the surge of energy growing in her palms as she held the flaming ring in place with her power.
‘You can do this, Daniel believes in you, plus he’s watching you right now. Don’t screw this up, you can’t screw this up, whatever you do don’t screw this up!’
Alyssa shut her eyes and focused her magic with all her might, feeling the pull and sheer energy in the flaming ring above her which was hard to concentrate on as it kept wavering slightly in her grip. The fires burned brighter and spun around faster, with Triska and Daniel watching the ring carefully while Lucky was now looking around while stepping in circles as he kept on guard for whatever was nearby.
“Alyssa?” Daniel asked softly. Alyssa smiled a bit at hearing his voice then opened her eyes, the soft purple glow from them being overpowered by the crimson light above her.
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