“You’re family to me. I don’t care that you’re monsters, I’ve gotten to know all of you so well, you’re like sisters to me. So… yes, I do love you all,” she finished. Specca stared at her with awe while Squeak started to get teary-eyed, the ant girl then scrambling over and tackling Triska to the ground with a hug. The group watched as Squeak held Triska in a very, very, very tight embrace while squeaking something frantically with closed eyes, with Triska gasping for air while her legs kicked about underneath the strong and apparently emotionally choked up monster.
“Squeak, that’s enough, please, let me up,” Triska coughed out.
“Triska,” Specca said softly as her eyes began to water.
Alyssa tried to pull apart Squeak’s arms with her magic, with Triska then prying herself free and sitting up in front of the ant girl. Getting only one deep breath of air in Triska was then tackled to the ground again by Squeak as the ant girl continued saying something to her in her own language while hugging the girl very tightly. Triska grunted and tried to get free then saw Squeak watching her with teary eyes, the teen then showing a curious expression as the ant girl squeaked quickly at her.
“Squeak? What is it?” she asked.
“I think she’s saying she loves you too,” Specca said as she slowly stood up, with the group looking at Squeak curiously as she nodded a few times. Triska smiled a bit as the ant girl slowly let her sit back up, with Squeak smiling gently at her friend before looking over to Specca as she walked over to them.
“I’m so glad you told us this, Triska,” Specca said as she knelt down next to the teen with a gentle smile on her face.
“You are? Why?” Triska asked.
“Because I was a bit fearful I was the only one who felt this way, I’m rather relieved that the feeling is… mutual,” Specca admitted. Triska and Squeak looked at her curiously as the nixie gently held the two girls’ hands.
“I couldn’t bear to part with any of you either, it just wouldn’t feel right,” Specca said as she looked around at all of them. She gave a small weak laugh and shook her head before glancing to Triska then to Squeak with a faint blush.
“I… love you all too. I mean… you’re like sisters to me as well. You accepted me for who I was, right from the start, even though I was a monster. And you’ve helped protect me out here, I feel safe whenever I’m around you. I… I don’t ever want to lose any of you,” she confessed. Squeak and Triska smiled gently at her before they all turned to Alyssa as the witch was watching them with a troubled frown. Alyssa then sighed and looked down with her hat hiding the view of her eyes.
“Alyssa?” Triska asked softly.
“I… I…” Alyssa stuttered as her hands trembled a bit in her lap.
“You’re not all going to start making out now, are you?” Falla asked flatly. All the girls looked to her with dull glares, the butterfly then smiling nervously and holding her sister close to her.
“Never mind, I’ll be quiet,” she said quickly.
Alyssa then looked down while clenching her fists, seeming to struggle with forming her words as the others watched her curiously.
“I love Daniel, I love Daniel with all my heart, I want to be with him forever, I want to be his mate. I want him more than anything in this whole world,” she stated firmly, with the other girls then watching her worriedly before she slowly glanced to them with a tear in her eye.
“Having said that… you should know… that I love you all too, I do,” she added softly. Squeak smiled and held out her hand towards her along with Triska, the witch then whimpering before scrambling over towards them. The four girls held each other close while Falla watched them with a dull expression, the four friends feeling a strong kinship forming between them even though they were competing for the same boy.
“Dammit, we’re not supposed to feel this way for each other, we’re rivals for Daniel’s heart,” Alyssa whined as she held onto Triska and Squeak.
“Yeah, and we have the worst way of warding each other off from him, we all help each other survive out here together,” Triska pointed out half-amusingly.
“Be that as it may, we are a family out here, and I’ve grown attached to all of you just the same,” Specca reasoned softly while her tail slowly curled around behind her.
Squeak merely squeaked something softly as she closed her eyes, holding Specca and Alyssa close as the four girls came together like this. They all loved Daniel, he was the one they all wanted to be with forever, and yet at the same time they realized that they didn’t want to lose each other either, that they had actually grown closer to each other during their journey. Even though they were all rivals for Daniel’s heart, they felt a real sense of love and care for one another, which brought up a very important question that Alyssa felt she had to address despite how touching this moment was for them.
“Um, I hate to ruin the moment, but… this presents us with a bit of a problem here,” she pointed out as she leaned back from the group hug. The other girls looked at her curiously as she slowly shook her head with a small shrug.
“What about Daniel? When he chooses one of us, what are we going to do about the three he doesn’t choose?” she reminded, the girls then looking to each other with concern as they all thought about that same scenario.
“Yeah… good question,” Triska replied unsurely.
“Well, I hate to admit that Jovian and Jacqueline were right, but it seems that they spoke the truth before. We have once again made something very complicated when it normally shouldn’t be,” Specca mentioned with a small sigh. Squeak looked down with a troubled expression and squeaked something while Alyssa held a hand to her head tiredly.
“This isn’t good, this isn’t good at all. When he makes his choice what are we going to do then? One of us is going to be his mate… and the other three…” she said before trailing off.
“Won’t be. They’ll… have to leave,” Specca finished softly.
“This is going to be more difficult than we planned,” Triska reasoned while slowly shaking her head. Squeak nodded in agreement as all the girls glanced to one another, all of them feeling confused and worried as to how to address this unusual problem.
“We all love Daniel,” Alyssa reasoned.
“And we all care for each other as well,” Specca added.
“So where does that leave us?” Triska asked.
Squeak merely shrugged while squeaking something.
“What is your problem?” Falla asked with disbelief. The girls all looked to her as she shook her head with a baffled expression.
“For god’s sake, why are you worrying about this? If you all love him and each other, then just all be with him together, what’s so hard about that?” she asked.
“We can’t do that, it doesn’t work that way,” Triska argued shaking her head.
“What doesn’t work that way? You all just admitted that you love each other and don’t want to lose one another, and you all love Daniel, so what’s the problem here?” Falla retorted.
“This is different, we may love one another like sisters, but we love Daniel like… a lover, a mate,” Specca reasoned.
“So? I love my sister, and she loves me, and you can be damned sure we’ll fuck a man together any day, no complaints here. We don’t mind sharing a man for his seed,” Falla pointed out while gesturing to Luna.
“This isn’t about getting Daniel’s seed, it’s about having his heart, his real love, to be with him forever as his mate,” Alyssa argued. Falla just stared at them with confusion still while the other girls saw that got nothing out of her.
“That means only one of us can be with him, true love is shared between two people, just two,” Triska explained dryly. Falla glanced around at the other girls then back to Triska with a raised eyebrow.
“So, what you’re saying is, you all love Daniel, and you love each other, but only one of you can be Daniel’s real love, right?” she asked skeptically. The other girls nodded before Falla slowly shook her hea
d.
“I don’t get you people at all,” she said flatly.
“I’m not surprised,” Triska replied dryly.
“The problem is, Falla, we cannot just share Daniel between us, he deserves someone to devote all his love to, and not have to share that with any other. That’s how love works,” Specca reasoned. Falla nodded slowly then looked down to her sister with a small shrug.
“Well then, if that’s how you want it, good luck on deciding who gets that love and who has to take a hike,” she said dryly. The other girls flinched at that then slowly glanced to one another, not liking that idea at all. Before anything else could be said Luna slowly started to stir, with Falla gasping while the other girls quickly looked over to seeing the sleeping butterfly girl beginning to wake.
“Luna? Luna, can you hear me?” Falla asked worriedly.
“Falla?” Luna asked softly.
“Yes, I’m here, you’re ok now, you’re saf-” Falla said before Luna suddenly shot up and screamed while looking around quickly. She scrambled around in a panic while screaming for her life before Falla quickly grabbed her and held her close.
“Luna! It’s alright, you’re alright now, everything is ok!” Falla pleaded as she held her struggling and freaked out sister.
“Calm down, Luna, you’re safe now,” Triska reassured as the other girls watched the butterfly shaking her head and screaming with fright. Luna then paused and looked around at them all as she seemed to be in a daze still then turned to Falla with fearful eyes.
“Falla?” she whimpered.
“You’re ok, your sister is here, just calm down,” Falla assured as she held her sister by the shoulders. Luna whimpered then started crying as she held onto her sister.
“Oh, Falla, it was horrible! That child wasn’t a child, she was a witch! She was a witch and she did stuff to me, it hurt so much! It hurt so much!” she cried out. Falla held the girl close with remorse while the others watched with sympathetic eyes.
“Oh, Luna, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know she was a witch, I never would have left you alone with her like that if I had known,” Falla said softly. Luna choked back her sobs then looked around quickly.
“Where is she, what happened to Emily?” she asked.
“She’s dead; she was killed by those man-eaters that were after her. Those things tore her to pieces, I saw it with my own eyes,” Falla reassured. Luna gasped and looked back to her with surprise.
“What? Oh no, poor Emily,” she whined.
“What, poor Emily? How could you feel sorry for her, she hurt you, she lied to you, who cares that the bitch died?” Falla asked with disbelief. Luna whimpered and leaned back from the embrace while looking down, fidgeting her hands together in her lap.
“She was so nice to me before, she even kept saying she loved me like no other. I don’t think she understood what she was doing to me,” she reasoned unsurely.
“She was going to kill all of us with her pet Darker One earlier, she killed every human in that village nearby, and she kidnapped you in her insanity, there was nothing good about her,” Falla argued. Luna sighed and closed her eyes.
“I liked her better when she was just a human child, before she raped me like a horrible monster,” she said sadly.
“She really did rape you?” Specca asked worriedly. Luna cringed and nodded before rubbing her rear.
“She used some magic tree thing to do stuff to me, it was horrible. It touched me all over and went inside me and ungh! And it really hurt, I hate it in the butt, I don’t like doing stuff there,” she whined.
“Oh dear, I’m so sorry,” Specca said softly as the other girls watched Luna with remorse. Luna cried and shook her head before looking at them with sorrow.
“Why didn’t anyone ever tell me raping others was so horrible? I hated it, I kept begging her to stop but she wouldn’t, she wanted to do stuff to me and I didn’t want her to, but she never listened!” she cried out.
“What do you mean why did nobody ever tell you? Raping others is always horrible, how could you not know that?” Triska asked with a raised eyebrow. Falla shook her head and held up her hand towards Triska and another in front of Luna.
“Hold on, don’t confuse her any more than she is, which really wouldn’t be that difficult to be honest. We’re monsters; we’re supposed to rape humans, it’s how we survive in this world. Tricking them, lying to them, taking them by force, there’s nothing wrong with us doing that, it’s a natural part of life,” she defended.
“No it isn’t, rape is evil no matter how you look at it, and lying to humans just to get their seed doesn’t make that any better,” Alyssa snapped at her.
“Like you can talk about such things, how many men did you hex in your lifetime, hm? How many of them did you lie to or use your magic to cloud their thoughts? We’re monsters, you hypocrite, this is how we live!” Falla barked back at her, with Alyssa holding in her grunt of annoyance as she knew she was being a hypocrite based on her past.
“No, I don’t want to live like this!” Luna cried out as she scrambled away from her sister. The group watched as the butterfly girl curled up in a ball on the ground while holding her legs close, her body shaking slightly as she whimpered and shut her eyes tight.
“I don’t want to do that to anyone, I don’t want to rape anyone, I don’t want to do something so horrible to them, I couldn’t live with myself if I did,” she whined. Falla looked at her with disbelief then to the others with frustration.
“Great, see what you did? Now she’s really screwed up in the head thanks to you and your stupid ideas,” she snapped.
“She’s not screwed up in the head-” Triska started before Luna began laughing manically while shaking her head, the butterfly girl having a very twisted smile on her face while tears were still dropping from her cheeks.
“I’M SO SAD RIGHT NOW, I JUST WANT TO CRY! HAHAHAHAHA!” she yelled out before suddenly switching back to sobbing in sorrow. Triska just stared at her with a raised eyebrow for a moment then looked back to Falla.
“She’s not any more screwed up in the head than she already was, she just sees now that raping others is wrong. That’s good, that’s what we’re trying to show monsters in this world,” she reasoned.
“No, that’s not good, that’s not good at all! She’s a monster, if she doesn’t use deceit or force to get a man’s seed then she’ll never get pregnant!” Falla yelled out before she stumbled to her feet and marched over towards the other girls.
“Look at us! We’re monsters, we’re not human at all, we’re giant freaking butterflies; don’t you get it? It doesn’t matter if we don’t have any dangerous magic, or that we look damn sexy compared to other monsters, no man in the world will ever willingly fuck us like this!” she shouted while gesturing to herself.
“Humans would be a lot more accepting of you if you weren’t lying and tricking them all the time just to hump them,” Triska shot back.
“Not to mention there are many monsters that kill humans, even the man, to get pregnant. You can’t blame humans for having a terrible image of monsters,” Specca defended.
“If monsters would just be peaceful with humans then it wouldn’t matter that they looked different,” Alyssa said, with Falla looking to her with a harsh glare.
“Bullshit, you heard Charlotte, you witches look like little girls, no human is ever going to want to do it with you willingly unless their either hexed by your magic or they’re a pedophile!” she barked out.
“I’m 72 years old, I’m not a little kid, there’s a difference!” Alyssa shot back with frustration.
“Yeah right, keep telling yourself that. Look, the bottom line is we have to trick them into doing us, we have to tie them down to get their seeds, we have to do whatever it takes to survive in this world and keep our race going; you can’t change that!” Falla shouted out at them.
“Yes we can, Daniel’s out here along with all of us to do just that,” Specca insisted.
“He’s not goi
ng to change a damn thing! You heard that witch in Eston, monsters and humans are never going to live together like you want, it can’t happen!” Falla barked back.
“Yes it can, Charlotte just didn’t want to listen to reason, that doesn’t mean monsters can’t live peacefully with humans. We’re going to get things to change in this world, we’re not going to let the senseless killing and raping continue,” Triska argued sternly.
“You’re all insane! We’re monsters, don’t you understand that? Humans will never just want to live with us peacefully, and I’m pretty damned sure monsters don’t want to live with them either!” Falla scorned while backing up and shaking her head.
“Daniel wants us to live together peacefully; he’s even considering three monsters as a possible mate for himself. If he can love a monster than other humans can too!” Alyssa shot back.
“Daniel is a moron!” Falla yelled out. The other girls glared at her with anger from those words as the giant butterfly grabbed her hair and shook her head with frustration.
“You’re all out of your minds, how can you all be so stupid? If my sister and I don’t lie and use force with a human they’ll never have sex with us, the same goes for any monster in this world. No human will ever want to willingly mate with a monster, no human will ever love us for how we are, how can you all think otherwise?” she demanded.
“Because Daniel said-” Specca started before Falla shouted and pointed to her.
“Daniel doesn’t know anything about monsters! We need men to breed with, that’s it! Humans don’t want us around, but we’re not going anywhere, so this is the only outcome. Either we do whatever it takes, whatever it takes, to get a man’s seed to get pregnant with, or else it’s all over for us. There is no other way for us to live!” she yelled out, with Specca backing up a step with a nervous expression. Falla growled with frustration then looked to Luna with worried eyes as the girl kept whimpering while curled up into a ball on the ground.
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