Chronicles of Eden - Act V

by Alexander Gordon

  “You’re so delicious!” Pip exclaimed before she was heard licking and slurping below Luna’s skirt. “I never want to stop drinking this!”

  “Pip! Stop! OH! You can’t… wait, not like… please… AH!” Luna cried out as her legs kicked about by the table.

  “What the heck am I seeing?” Daniel asked while staring at the sight.

  “Luna, why are you letting her do that to you?” Falla demanded.

  “I wanted to help her,” Luna shakily reasoned while staring up at the ceiling, her breathing picking up as she gripped the table while her legs quivered over the edge. “I didn’t want her to… starve!”

  “How is that helping her though?” Daniel asked while he contemplated whether or not he should look away from seeing Luna being eaten out by the perverted fairy. “That’s not really considered food, is it?”

  “It’s so tasty!” Pip cheered between slurps. “Yummy, yummy, yummy!”

  Luna screamed and arched back a bit before her legs lifted up and raised above the table. Daniel and Falla saw the little fairy clearly as she was licking all over Luna’s private region while her wings were fluttering every now and then.

  “Get off her right now!” Falla yelled as she reached out for the fairy.

  “No, don’t!” Luna cried out as she kicked her sister away, with Falla stumbling back and staring at her with disbelief. “She needs it to live. I don’t mind, really, it’s okay.”

  “Okay? How is this okay with you?” Falla demanded.

  Luna shakily sat up while leaning back on her arms, watching as her skirt rustled and moved about with Pip still going at it underneath.

  “It’s the only nectar we have to give her, she needs it. Besides… it really… isn’t that bad once you get used to it.”

  “Used to it?” Falla repeated with disbelief. “Luna, she’s eating you out!”

  “How is this helping her though?” Daniel asked covering his eyes as he felt he had seen enough at this point. “This can’t possibly be taking care of her hunger.”

  After a few more slurps and giggles Pip fluttered out from under the girl’s skirt and into the air, sighing happily as she wiped her face which was covered in fluid and licked her hands. The group watched as she giggled and twirled around merrily before she gave off a golden glow briefly, a strange aura of power resonating by them briefly as the fairy finished licking her hands and face clean.

  “That was so delicious,” she praised Luna who was breathing heavily with a blush on her face. “Thank you so much. My tummy is all happy now.”

  “Good, I’m… glad,” Luna wearily replied with a weak smile.

  “I don’t believe it,” Daniel said with wonder. “She really can feed off of that alone?”

  Falla merely watched Pip carefully as the fairy sighed happily before fluttering over and landing on Luna’s chest, hugging the girl tenderly while Luna watched her curiously while slowly regaining herself.

  “You tasted so delicious, can I have more later? Please?” Pip begged looking up to the girl with a hopeful smile.

  “More?” Luna asked nervously. She glanced to Daniel timidly then to Pip with a small smile.

  “Well, if you’re gentle… I suppose so.”

  “Yay!” Pip cheered while nuzzling against the girl’s bosom. Luna smiled gently at her then glanced to Daniel as the boy stared at the fairy with wonder.

  “They’re just like fluughers,” Falla warned. “Luna, don’t give her anymore of yourself. She could end up hurting you.”

  “She’s not like them, I’m still alright. It’s okay, Falla,” Luna assured her.

  “What do you mean she’s like the fluughers?” Daniel asked.

  “They find us delicious,” Falla said eyeing the fairy closely.

  Daniel looked at Pip curiously then to Luna as the girl kept watching him timidly, almost as if she were expecting him to say something else. She giggled softly and glanced down to her lap as she parted her legs on the table and revealed herself to him, with the boy jumping back with a gulp.

  “We told you all before, we’re delicious, Daniel,” Luna reminded him.

  “Wait, what? You mean when you kept saying that you were talking about… about…” Daniel said shakily pointing to her exposed flesh.

  “What else did you think we meant?” Falla asked him with a smirk. “We giant butterflies are the most beautiful monsters in Eden, and we taste the best compared to any other woman out there.”

  “That’s what you meant when you said that?” Daniel asked with surprise. “That you’re delicious… down there?”

  “Of course,” Luna giggled. “Our nectar is the sweetest and tastiest out there, you didn’t know that?”

  “I thought Specca wrote everything about us in your book,” Falla questioned. “She didn’t include that detail?”

  “No, she certainly did not,” Daniel stuttered while looking up to avoid seeing Luna even more. “I had no idea that you girls were like that, none of us did.”

  “Did you want to try tasting me to see for yourself?” Luna offered. “You can, it’s alright with me.”

  “Give me a taste as well if you don’t believe us,” Falla added with a sly grin. “We’ll prove we’re not making this up.”

  “No, that’s alright!” Daniel quickly protested while keeping his eyes up. “I believe you, I do. Pip made it quite clear Luna tasted good to her. I trust you’re not lying to me.”

  Luna and Falla giggled at seeing Daniel getting flustered before he glanced to Falla carefully.

  “So when you said earlier that fluughers catch giant butterflies and eat them…”

  The two sisters looked down as their smiles vanished and were replaced with obvious concern and fear about the subject.

  “It’s not that they eat us like an arachne would,” Falla explained. “They’ll eat us out to get our nectar, but they won’t kill us in doing so. It’s just something they find delicious and seek to get from us, even by force. But if a fluugher catches one of us then it squeezing our nectar out over and over again isn’t the worst thing it’ll do.”

  “I’m a little afraid to ask, but…” Daniel said glancing to one girl to the other. Luna looked away for a moment before to him with concern while holding Pip close to her.

  “I don’t want to talk about it, please.”

  “Let’s just say it’s horrible,” Falla shuddered while holding her arms around herself. “I know friends that met their end that way, it’s… not a good way to go.”

  “I never knew fluughers were so dangerous like that,” Daniel said in wonder. “The one we came across before seemed so gentle and tame.”

  “Well, you don’t taste as good as we do, Daniel,” Falla remarked glancing to him. “And the fluughers around here have a nasty habit of… using us for something else while sucking our nectar out.”

  Daniel looked at the two girls with concern then to Pip as the fairy rested with a happy smile on her face while she lay on Luna’s chest. Suddenly he felt more worried about Triska and Tabitha being out in the forest with monsters who may not be as peaceful as he once thought.

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  Riding through the forest along a worn trail atop their horse Triska and Tabitha made haste towards the village of Rackleholm located further away in a valley nestled in the surrounding wilderness. As they did Triska kept a sharp eye out around her, seeing trees and foliage passing by all while she had the constant feeling they were not alone out there.

  “Okay, this is getting a little uncomfortable,” she commented while Tabitha kept her eyes straight ahead of them.

  “We just started our ride,” Tabitha quipped with a smirk. “Are you really so inexperienced with riding a horse like this?”

  “That’s not what I meant. Ever since we left I’ve gotten the feeling we’re being watched.”

  Tabitha glanced around at the passing trees then shrugged as she resumed looking ahead.

  “It doesn’t matter,” she casually said. “The local monsters shou
ldn’t disturb us while we’re close to the trail. Just focus on our task, I want to have this job done by nightfall if possible.”

  Triska focused her sights ahead again as they made their way through the forest, the creeping sensation that they were being watched never ceasing. Lucky continued along at a brisk pace as the girls only heard his galloping and nothing else. Triska slowly glanced around again as she couldn’t shake the feeling she had which was causing her to feel uneasy.

  ‘This isn’t like how it was traveling through The Outerlands before. It’s almost like… the entire forest is staring at us.’

  After a while they heard a girl’s cry in the woods to their side, with Triska searching the passing trees and shadows to seeing nothing.

  “Did you hear that?”

  “Yes, however it sounded like an older girl and not a young princess,” Tabitha reasoned. “Not our target. Keep moving.”

  “Hold on, someone could be in trouble out there.”

  “Oh god, no!” the girl’s cry sounded off again.

  “You see?” Triska exclaimed before she pulled on Lucky’s reins, getting the horse to stop with a small whinny.

  “It’s not the princess,” Tabitha scoffed as Triska hopped off the horse and yanked out her sword. “Let’s get going. We only have to save the young butterfly girl, not some lost traveler.”

  “Someone needs our help, don’t you care at all?” Triska snapped at her. Tabitha merely stared at her with a dull expression for a while in response. “You would only save her if you’re paid to, wouldn’t you?”

  “That would be a better incentive to save her than doing so for nothing,” Tabitha replied crossing her arms.

  “I thought you were an adventurer. Well, here’s an adventure for you, saving a lost girl in there!” Triska yelled as she pointed her sword towards the forest behind her.

  “I’m already on an adventure, one that will pay for my services nicely,” Tabitha quipped. “And that one takes precedence over any others, as is my job. Now enough of this nonsense, are you coming or not to do this? I’m alright going on alone if that’s what you wish.”

  “Lucky, help her down,” Triska called out, with Lucky then neighing and bucking back, throwing Tabitha off him onto the ground with a yowl. “If you want to get there faster with my horse, then you will help me save that traveler right now. How’s that for payment for your services?”

  Tabitha got back on her feet and hissed at the girl, holding the handles to her swords while Triska stared her down with a stern glare.

  “Why do you care about some stranger anyway?” Tabitha snapped.

  “Because I’m a nice person, that’s why!” Triska yelled out at her.

  Tabitha growled then glanced to the woods as the other girl’s shriek was heard again from within the shadows and trees.

  “This is such a waste of our time,” she grumbled walking over to Triska.

  “That poor girl in there won’t think so. Now let’s move,” Triska ordered before they ran into the woods together. The two made their way around trees and through bushes as the forest around them grew darker and denser, with large flowers blooming all over and long vines strewn about in the branches above. As they heard the girl’s scream again which was getting closer Tabitha quickly grabbed Triska’s hand, stopping her instantly as the neko showed a disgusted face.

  “What is that smell?” Tabitha complained while glancing around the area carefully, with Triska looking to her curiously then around as she didn’t smell anything strange. All she took notice of was the strong floral scent floating through the forest.

  “What are you talking about? I don’t smell anything.”

  “Something is most foul up ahead,” Tabitha warned as she let go of the girl’s hand.

  Triska slowly made her way through the shrubbery along with Tabitha, the two girls coming into a darker part of the forest with rays of light coming through the branches above in small beams while specks of pollen drifted about. A few more feet further into the woods Triska then started to smell something in the air, a powerfully obscene odor that became stronger with each step they took.

  “Ugh, you’re right,” she coughed before holding a hand over nose. “Wow, that smells really bad.”

  “Perhaps this lost girl is merely screaming about something she stepped in,” Tabitha speculated before holding a hand over her nose as well.

  “Oh god,” Triska groaned before she stopped and leaned against a tree. “The compost we used in our farms back home didn’t smell this bad.”

  Tabitha coughed and hacked off to the side for a moment before looking around with a pale expression.

  “I say we head back, we’re not getting paid enough for this.”

  “We’re not getting paid to help this girl at all.”

  “Exactly.”

  Triska shook her head then walked ahead while trying to ignore how foul the air became around them. Tabitha growled then reluctantly followed after while keeping a hand over her nose, her tail behind twitching with annoyance as the smell was much more noticeable and disgusting to her senses. After walking along the forest Tabitha again quickly grabbed and stopped Triska, with the human seeing the neko staring at the ground with caution.

  “Stop, right now,” Tabitha ordered.

  Triska blinked then looked down, seeing a few slinking green tendrils waving about through the grass and flowers ahead of them. The ends of the slender limbs were wiggling at them as if beckoning the girls to come closer. Slowly the two girls looked up and traced the tendrils to where they saw a fluugher ahead of them near a tree. Its petals were black and purple while its skin was a light brown rather than a soft green like the one Triska had seen before. The monster was watching the two girls with a sly smile on her face with its two orange eyes while wavering around slightly in her blossoming flower bud. Around the base of the monster tall flowers and orchids were growing as well as a strange plant that seemed to come right from the fluugher’s own bud. It looked to be a thin brown and red fruit hanging off a stem that rose up into the air near the monster. Triska and Tabitha saw dozens of the fruits dangling around the fluugher as the plant monster kept watching the girls with a slick smile on its face.

  “A fluugher,” Triska said in wonder. She then slowly looked around as Tabitha hissed as she too saw what was near them. They were able to make out several fluughers in the woods ahead of them, with shadowy movements seen further behind them showing there were even more that couldn’t be seen yet. All around the monsters were colorful flowers, small insects flying around, and the strange plants that seemed to grow from each of the fluughers’ bases, almost like they were a part of the monsters.

  “Lots of them,” Tabitha added as she let go of Triska.

  “What’s the big deal though?” Triska asked glancing to her. “They’re very gentle and tame monsters. Plus they’re not going to do anything to us; we’re not human men they can use.”

  “Then why was a girl screaming out here earlier?” Tabitha questioned her.

  “She probably got scared from these things, or maybe the stench was too strong for her,” Triska reasoned before she started thinking of something. She then looked around at all the monsters with a curious eye as they kept watching her with seductive smiles while their tendrils slithered about in the ground near them.

  “Wait, are they making this smell?”

  “No,” Tabitha said pointing off to the side. “That is.”

  Triska looked over and saw a fluugher watching them with a coy leer while her tendrils were busy churning what looked to be manure into the ground around her flower bud. The brown compost appeared to be fresh and reeked very badly while insects were flying around the smelly mulch.

  “Well, that’s disgusting,” Triska commented while holding her nose.

  “I suppose that would be considered food for them,” Tabitha reasoned. “Still, I fear that smell is going to stay in my fur if we linger any longer. Can we go now?”

  “But who scream
ed earlier?” Triska asked looking around again. “We should find who’s out here and make sure they’re alright.”

  “Perhaps she fainted from the smell,” Tabitha dryly suggested. “And with any luck will not wake up again to suffer from it like we are now.”

  Suddenly a tendril snapped around Triska’s leg and yanked her down onto the ground before reeling her in through the grass. The girl screamed as Tabitha watched with surprise, seeing Triska being dragged over to a fluugher before she was lifted into the air with green tendrils wrapping around her arms and legs each.

  “What are you doing?” Triska shouted as she thrashed around in the grip of the monster’s limbs. “I’m not a guy, I’m a girl! Let me go!”

  The fluugher showed a warm smile while she looked over Triska, not seeming to care that she captured a girl rather than a man. Tabitha eyed the monster carefully then glanced around to seeing the other fluugher watching her still, their eyes remaining locked on the neko intently.

  “Let go!” Triska yelled out at the fluugher. “I know you can understand me! Look at me, I’m not a man! Why are you holding me like this?” She then gasped and looked down as she saw another green tendril sliding back and forth against her crotch, her eyes widening before looking back to the monster while shaking her head quickly.

  “Oh hell no! You’re not thinking of… Tabitha, help!”

  “I told you we shouldn’t have come here,” Tabitha dryly mocked while watching the girl with a dull stare.

  “Just get me down, I really don’t like where this is going!” Triska called out to her while watching the fluugher with unease. She then felt the tendril sliding up her pant leg and rubbing against her panties, prompting her to scream in fright.

  “Seriously, get me down from here, now!”

  Tabitha growled and yanked out both her swords before rushing towards Triska. With a loud yowl she swung her blades and sliced apart the limbs that were holding the girl’s legs as well as the one that was going up her pants. As she got ready to swing again a tendril snapped around her leg and yanked her to the side with a yelp. Triska kicked around before watching as Tabitha was reeled in towards another fluugher that was watching her with a lecherous smile. The neko struck her swords into the ground and stopped herself, her leg still being yanked by the monster that then ensnared another tendril around the girl’s other leg.