“You all do have that,” Kroanette pointed out. “You all have his love and each other.”
“He couldn’t pick one of us,” Alyssa said with a small forced laugh. “We all meant the world to him. And as it turned out we didn’t want him to pick just one of us. Because although we loved him so much, we came to love each other as well, and we didn’t want to lose whoever he didn’t pick. When I first met Triska I wanted her gone, any way at all, just gone. But now I don’t want her to go, ever. They all mean so much to me, they all helped me stand in this world just as Daniel did, they’re all like sisters to me.”
“Sisters who you sleep with?” Kroanette questioned. “And have sex with?”
“We’re perverted girls, so what? It just sort of happened that way, for the better if you ask me.”
“But you don’t want any more sisters, do you?” Kroanette asked looking down with closed eyes.
Alyssa glanced to her for a moment then up at Pip, the fairy watching her with a saddened frown while holding her legs close to her chest.
“I just wanted things to stay the way they were,” Alyssa said shaking her head. “I had Daniel, I had the other girls, and we all had each other just like we wanted. It was perfect. And then what happens? All of you tag along with our journey, all of you keep hounding Daniel and trying to earn his love, and all of you cause problem after problem with us.”
“Alyssa,” Kroanette shakily said before Alyssa aimed her staff at her, with the centaur dropping back onto her side as she watched the witch with surprise.
“You, you get lost every day, you slow us down with trying to find you again and again, and you outclass all of us, even Squeak, with your damned oversized breasts.”
“Alyssa, please,” Kroanette said raising her hands defensively.
“And you,” Alyssa snapped while turning her glare and staff up towards Pip, the fairy squeaking with fear at being her focus. “From the second we found you you’ve been nothing but a pest. You never leave us alone, you never stop touching the other girls inappropriately, and you’re supposedly so powerful you could blow us all up if you get too scared.”
“I’m sorry,” Pip whimpered while slouching down and away from the witch.
“And Falla and Luna never leave him alone,” Alyssa said with frustration and eyes shut tight. “I mean they’ve never left him alone, we can’t get rid of those two girls even when we try! They just keep coming back, with Luna laughing her ass off about every little thing and Falla lying through her teeth just like a giant butterfly does so she can get closer to Daniel.”
“Did you really have to follow us out here just to shun us more?” Kroanette asked with a hurt expression.
Alyssa slowly dropped to her knees and lowered her head before she struck her staff into the ground, the relic letting off a wide ripple of light along the forest floor before twisted vines and weeds grew up around the girls. The trees shifted and tilted about with the dirt churning around beneath them, with Pip quickly fluttering off the branch that started swaying around before she flew down and landed on Kroanette’s shoulder, both girls watching as Alyssa struck her staff into the ground again and again. Each hit caused the dirt and grass to roll away from her while light was shining up from below in patches around all the girls.
“Why?” Alyssa choked out. “Why did you all have to fall in love with him? Why did he have to fall in love with you? And why… why do I care if I lose you now?”
Kroanette and Pip watched Alyssa curiously as she held a hand to her face and slowly shook her head.
“I should have just let you two run off, I should have let Pip fly away and leave you to get lost out here, I should have hoped we could leave before you came back. But I didn’t. I was worried about you two!” She started crying and rubbing her eyes while Kroanette slowly sat up on her legs again.
“You were worried about us?” Kroanette softly asked.
“I was, I shouldn’t have been but I was. The fact is… I don’t have an excuse not to share Daniel with you. I’m already sharing him with three others, and I’m glad I am. Daniel means the most to me, but I if lost Triska or Specca or Squeak I would be heartbroken. It seems so perfect for us to be together. We belong together. But to think about others wanting to be with him, I should be against it, shouldn’t I?”
“We’re not trying to take him away from you,” Kroanette reasoned. “I know very well nothing in Eden could take him away from you girls. You’re so lucky to have him the way you do. We just want to be a part of that, we want to be as close to him as we can, we love him just like you do.”
“He really is too desirable,” Alyssa dryly pouted while shaking her head.
“Indeed he is, however he’s not the only one I want to travel the world with,” Kroanette mentioned, with Alyssa then looking to her curiously. “If I couldn’t spend my days with all of you as well it wouldn’t be the same. I don’t want to have Daniel all to myself, Alyssa. What I want is to join the family he already has. I want to be with all of you.”
“Why?”
“Because it wouldn’t be right without you all with us,” Kroanette reasoned with a small shrug. “Just like you said, I feel we belong together. In our own way, we’re a family.”
“I want to be with you too,” Pip whimpered. Alyssa watched as the fairy slowly flew over and clung to her chest while looking up at her with a watery eye. “I want to stay with you if you’ll let me. Please?”
“Why? I don’t have any boobies, Pip,” Alyssa sulked while glancing away.
“I want Alyssa more,” Pip said dearly, with the witch then looking at her with wonder. “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be with Daniel, and I want to be with all of you. You’re my family now.”
Alyssa looked at her with a quiet sigh then to Kroanette as the centaur tilted her head slightly with a worried smile.
“Falla and Luna feel the same way,” Kroanette mentioned. “We don’t want to take Daniel away from all of you, because if we lost you we would be sad just as he would be. Luna loves you all so much; I think you can tell that already. And Falla cares about you as well; she’s just a little stubborn with showing it. Alyssa, I know you love Daniel very much, and I don’t want to come between you two. I just want to be his mate with you. We all do.”
Alyssa stood up and rubbed her face with one hand as Pip flew off her chest and hovered in the air. The witch looked from one girl to the next before lowering her head and closing her eyes as she thought about the idea of more girls sharing Daniel with her.
‘It’s not that it would be a really bad idea, I guess. They all love him, and he does for them as well. And I suppose I do care about them too, just like Triska and the others do. Is this really something I want?’
Before she could speak again a bird quickly swooped down and snatched Pip in its claws, the tiny fairy screaming as the bird took off into the air above the trees.
“Pip!” Kroanette cried out as she quickly got to her feet. Alyssa watched with surprise as the bird flew off with a tiny scream coming from it before she and Kroanette raced after as fast as they could. The centaur grabbed Alyssa and swung her onto her back before taking off at a speedy pace, both the girls watching as the bird soared above the tree branches with Pip screaming in fright in its grasp.
“Pip!” Alyssa called out to her.
“Bird!” Pip cried out. “Bird! Bird! Bird! Bird!”
“Shoot it, Pip!” Alyssa shouted to her. “Blast it with your magic like you did before!”
“Too scared! Bird! Peed myself! Bird!”
“Grab it!” Kroanette shouted back at Alyssa. “Don’t you have magic as well? You’re a witch for crying out loud!”
Alyssa thrust her staff towards the bird before it vanished over the trees. She quickly yelled and swung her relic around, with the branches above being ripped and thrown to the sides while the bird kept flying ahead just out of sight.
“I can’t see it to grab it! Where did it go?”
“Pip!”
Kroanette cried out. “Where are you?”
“Bird!” Pip sobbed as her voice drew further away.
“It’s going to eat her!” Kroanette exclaimed fearfully. “What do we do?”
Alyssa swung her staff around frantically, with trees bending and cracking outward away from them while branches and leaves were thrown to either side as the two raced along the forest floor.
“No! Pip!” Alyssa screamed out. “Come back!”
The bird squawked and flew down into a tree far ahead of them, landing on its nest of twigs on a high branch, while Pip shrieked as it held her down with one foot.
“Pip!” Alyssa cried out as the bird screeched at the fairy and spread its wings high.
“Save her!” Kroanette pleaded as she ran as fast as she could.
Alyssa thrust her staff towards the bird again with all her power, a distorted ripple of air shooting outward while the centaur and witch traveled at a snail’s pace compared to it. The magical burst of energy streaked towards the bird while it began to lunge down towards Pip with its beak. The fairy screamed with eyes shut tight, her arms and wings held close to her body by the bird’s feet while a tiny tear was shed from her eye. The bird opened its beak to peck at the fairy’s head, getting within a centimeter of her face before an arrow struck through it and shot it off the branch with a slick whack. Alyssa and Kroanette watched with surprise as the bird was speared by the arrow and struck into an adjacent tree. A mere moment later Alyssa’s magical blast rolled by, throwing few twigs and leaves off the branch while Pip opened her eyes to see two feathers from the bird slowly drifting around above her before falling towards the ground.
“What happened?” Kroanette asked as she ran over to the tree.
“Pip?” Alyssa called up. “Are you alright?”
Slowly Pip leaned over the nest and looked down at them with a whimper.
“Bird gone?” she nervously asked.
“Yeah,” Alyssa said looking over to the bird that was pinned to the tree. “Bird gone.”
“But how…” Kroanette said before they all looked to the side, seeing Lucky standing atop a nearby small hill while a familiar elven archer was on his back. Clover slowly lowered her hand and bow while watching the bird she had shot with perfect accuracy remain still then turned her harsh stare towards Kroanette and Alyssa.
“Lucky?” Alyssa said with a smile forming.
“Clover?” Kroanette said with a frown forming.
“Boobies!” Pip cheered as she shot down from the tree in a blur right into Kroanette’s bosom. The centaur squealed and tumbled over onto her side with Alyssa falling to the ground with a thump as the fairy giggled while squeezing herself in between Kroanette’s breasts.
“AH!” Kroanette cried out as the fairy was nuzzling herself in her bosom with a happy sigh. “Why, Pip? Why are you doing that now?”
“I missed you, boobies,” Pip purred with way too much lust in her voice. “I thought I’d never get to suck on you again.”
Kroanette stared at her with bewilderment and an open mouth while Alyssa scrambled to her feet and watched with wonder as Clover rode Lucky over towards them.
“Lucky! You’re alright!” Alyssa cheered as she ran over to him and hugged his nose.
“You know this horse?” Clover dryly asked.
“Yes, he’s mine,” Alyssa said looking up to her while holding Lucky close. “Where did you find him?”
“I found him running in the forest, idiot,” Clover scoffed. She then huffed and looked to the animal with a raised eyebrow. “I wanted to ride him out of here back home, but he kept turning around and running this way. He just wouldn’t go in any other direction.”
“He wanted to come back to me,” Alyssa explained looking at her horse with relief. “He always stays close to me and finds me when he’s lost. That’s a good horse, yes you are.”
Kroanette stumbled to her feet with a shudder as Pip started licking her breasts then looked to Clover carefully as the elf glanced to her with a scoff.
“Why did you save her?” Kroanette asked. “I’m very grateful you did, but I thought you hated this one.”
“She saved my life last night,” Clover reasoned looking away from her. “I just didn’t want to be in her debt. Now we’re even.”
Kroanette looked down to Pip as the fairy was now watching the elf curiously while still sandwiched in her bosom. Clover sighed with annoyance then got off the horse, holstering her bow around her shoulder while her quiver of arrows swayed slightly behind her.
“Let me guess, you want him back,” Clover muttered with a glance to Alyssa.
“Of course, he’s my horse,” Alyssa snapped at her.
Clover looked to Lucky with a dull stare for a moment then down with a grunt.
“Figures. I’m never getting out of this stupid place.”
She started marching off with a grumble before Pip flew out of Kroanette’s chest and raced over in front of her, with Clover then stepping back with a growl as the fairy fluttered in the air before her.
“Thank you for saving me,” Pip softly said.
“Whatever, just get out of my way.”
“Where are you going?”
“I’m trying to go home! Now scram!” Clover yelled out at her.
“Where is your home?”
“It’s in a forest far, far away from here!”
“Do you want help going home?”
“I don’t need your help! I don’t need anyone’s help! Now get away from me before I do to you what I did to that bird!”
“Why are you so mad?”
“None of your business!” Clover yelled out before marching through and knocking the fairy aside with her hand. Pip fluttered around in circles before looking at the elf curiously as she grumbled with each step she took.
“Is it because you lost someone you love?” Pip called out. Clover stopped and kept looking forward with a glare and bared teeth while Pip showed a remorseful frown. “Are you mad because you lost somebody important to you? I’d be mad too if I lost somebody I love. Is that why you’re mad now?”
Slowly Clover glanced back to her with a harsh scowl while Kroanette and Alyssa watched her curiously.
“You want to know why I’m mad?” Clover asked before turning to face Pip with a fierce glare. “You want to know why? It’s because of monsters like you!”
“Like me?” Pip asked tilting her head.
“You and your kind make me sick,” Clover snapped with anger. “All you do is act so fucking stupid and innocent, but you’re not innocent at all. You’re a destructive menace and a plague to Eden. If it wasn’t for fairies existing at all she would still be alive!”
Silence filled the area as Pip backed up a bit with a hurt expression, seeing the furious look in Clover’s eyes while Kroanette and Alyssa glanced to each other questionably from hearing that.
“I don’t understand,” Pip whimpered. “What did I do to make you mad?”
“It wasn’t you, it was another one just like you,” Clover hissed. “She came to the grove, acting all sweet and friendly, like nothing was wrong in the world. I saw her with my own eyes, I saw her befriend my best friend. Zoey thought she was so nice and shit, it made my blood boil seeing that fucking fairy making her laugh so much.”
“You saw another fairy?” Pip asked with wonder.
“Yes, I did. I saw her laugh and play with my friend. I saw her smile and fly about with my friend. And then I saw her cry and scream before she blew up my friend and the whole damned grove!” All the girls jumped in surprise as Clover marched back towards Pip with fury. “That fairy took Zoey away from me! She was the only friend I had and your fucking sister blew her to pieces because she was depressed about being the only fairy she knew!”
Pip trembled and backed up more with a nervous whine while Kroanette slowly pointed to Clover with wonder.
“You’re the survivor,” she said softly, with Clover turning her glare towards her. “The one in your story you to
ld the other night. You were the only survivor of your grove’s destruction. That was your home you were talking about.”
“And I have to walk Eden alone from now on because of that fairy,” Clover scorned before turning her eyes back onto Pip. “That’s why I’m mad, that’s why I hate you. That’s why the whole world can fuck off as far as I’m concerned. Got it?”
Pip whimpered and looked down with a watery eye as she hovered in place while Clover scoffed and turned to walk away.
“But where do you live now?” Kroanette asked worriedly. “If that was your home, then where…”
“I live in Green Haven now,” Clover spoke while keeping her back turned to the girls. “They took me in and gave me a home, even though it’s not really my home. Now I have to go back to my new priestess and inform her that I lost her treasure when that thieving elf stole it from her. I’m not going to belong there anymore after I let them know I failed. I fucking hate life.”
“Green Haven,” Alyssa said in wonder. “That’s the elven forest we were going to travel to later.”
Clover glanced back to her questionably as the witch and Kroanette looked to each other curiously. After a moment they turned their eyes to Clover while Pip watched the elf with remorse.
“Listen,” Alyssa spoke up while stepping closer. “Could you possibly allow us to see your priestess?”
“Why the fuck would I want to help you do that?” Clover snapped.
“We could speak in your defense,” Kroanette offered holding her hands up defensively. “I was there with you personally, I saw you try to recover your treasure before the swarm got in your way. And Tabitha took your bag and ran off, it wasn’t your fault you lost it, you’re not to blame for that.”
“Why do you want to see the priestess anyway?” Clover asked turning to them with a sharp eye. “Not that I’m going to help you, but why do you want to?”
“Daniel wants to speak to her, just as he is now with the giant butterflies’ ruler here in Flairwood,” Alyssa explained. “Look, we’re going to Green Haven to try and talk to her no matter what, that was always our plan. But if you would be so kind as to help us arrange an audience with her then we could give you a lift back to your home in exchange.”
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