Chronicles of Eden - Act III (18 page)

“So,” one commented while glancing over the caged girls. “This was all we managed to find on this night? It’s not much.”

“Better than nothing,” another said with a shrug. “We should have enough for all of us on this night.”

“Who should we start with? They all look very appetizing,” one pondered while kneeling down in front of Luna’s cage, eyeing over the butterfly girl with a cold stare.

“Appetizing?” Luna said shakily. The wolf monster smiled and nodded slowly.

“Yes, we’re having you all for dinner on this night,” she said with a chuckle.

Luna blinked then showed a curious expression.

“Oh? You’re just having us over to eat with? That’s a relief, I thought you were going to eat us,” she said with a weak laugh. Emily trembled while holding onto her as the wolf monster smiled amusedly and shook her head.

“Haha, you are quite the fool indeed,” the monster chuckled. “No no, I did mean we were going to eat you.
You’re
our dinner.”

Luna turned pale and shakily shook her head while Emily whimpered and held onto her through the bars.

“What?” Luna squeaked out. “But why? We don’t taste good, really we don’t.”

The wolf monster laughed and stood up as two others walked over to the cage for the bunny girl. They opened the side and reached in, pulling the crying and screaming monster out by her arms while Emily shut her eyes tightly as she tried to block out the sounds.

“How do you know? Have you ever eaten one of your kind before?” the wolf monster laughed while the others dragged the bunny girl over towards the altar. Luna whimpered and shook her head before the wolf monster laughed and walked over to join the others while one remained by the cages. The lone wolf glanced to see Luna trembling in her cage, seeing the fright on her face while the human child was whimpering and crying softly.

“It’s nothing personal, mind you,” the wolf said gently. Luna shakily looked at the monster as she kneeled before the cage, the wolf’s blue eyes looking between the two captives with a solemn expression on her face. Her dark hair was brushed and curled slightly behind her while she had her bolas coiled and attached to her hip with a small brown strap.

“We don’t eat to be malicious or evil, we eat to survive. That’s all.”

“But you’re going to eat us, that’ll kill us,” Luna whimpered.

“You eat other things to survive, humans eat other things to survive, what we do is no different,” the wolf pointed out while shaking her head. Luna looked over the monster and leaned back as far as she could in her cage while holding onto Emily through the bars.

“What are you anyway?”

“We are lycans. Queens of the wolves in Eden,” the wolf said with a hint of pride. She then stood up and walked over toward the others as they brought the bunny girl up onto the altar and held her down on it, all of the lycans holding her arms and legs down while she screamed and cried with fearful eyes. The last of the wolves walked over to the altar and looked down to the bunny girl whose head was facing her. The wolf leaned closer while holding the bunny girl’s head still, the helpless monster trembling as she stared up at her with fright.

“Thank you, for the meal,” the lycan said, then lunged down and bit into the bunny’s throat with a hungry growl. The monster cried out weakly before the other lycans quickly leaned down and started feasting on her, chewing into her arms, legs, and stomach with growls and snarls. Luna held Emily close and covered her ears as she heard the dying cries of the bunny girl while the munching and ripping of flesh caused chills to run down her spine. The bunny girl’s hand flailed around behind a lycan that was eating her breast viciously, the hand then shaking before slowly falling limp and hanging over the altar. Blood dripped down the arm and hand before dropping off the fingers while more blood started to form around the dead monster and drip down along the altar. Luna slowly shook her head as she watched the seven lycans devouring the bunny monster, all of their tails wagging while they ate all the meat they could from the poor monster’s body.

“No… please no,” Luna whimpered.

“What’s happening? What’s going on, Luna?” Emily cried as she held onto the butterfly girl, fearful to know the answer. Luna held her close and kept her hands covering the girl’s ears, not wishing for Emily to hear what would be their fate soon.

The lycans continued to eat while blood began to form around the altar from their kill. They viciously chewed off any and all flesh they could find, their teeth scraping and gnawing on the bones of their victim as they feasted. After a long while they finally finished and stood upright, licking the blood from their hands and lips while Luna’s eyes widened with fright. The bunny girl had been reduced to a skeleton with scraps of flesh and organs that the lycans didn’t care for, even the ears were gone as they were devoured by the wolves too. Luna screamed with horror as she saw what remained of the bunny girl, with the lycans then picking up the corpse and tossing it over to the side. The bones hit the ground before an arm and a leg snapped free from their joints and rolled away, with Luna staring at the remains with sheer terror while Emily was holding onto her tightly.

“What happened? What happened?” Emily asked while crying.

“They ate her! They ate her!” Luna cried out, with Emily then screaming as she shut her eyes tightly and shook her head. Some of the lycans laughed at the sight of them crying out in fear while a few others fetched some clay urns from a nearby shelter. They then poured water onto the altar to wash away the blood, the tainted water flowing down the edges of the stone slab and onto the ground.

“That was rather good,” one of them complimented. “Where did you find that one, Forrus?”

The lycan with the bolas on her hips glanced to her then shrugged as she put away her clay urn.

“I found that one wandering alone in a field, perhaps in search of a carrot or two. It was rather easy for me to catch her, she seemed to be daydreaming a little too much out in the open.”

“Yeah, not bad, but I’m still hungry,” another mentioned while eyeing the two remaining captives with a cold smile.

“You’re always hungry, Fiana,” Forrus said dryly while glancing to her. Fiana laughed and shrugged while licking some remaining blood from her fingers.

“No, I’m always horny. I just like to be running on a full stomach rather than an empty one.”

“Well we have two more meals for the night,” one of the lycans mentioned as the pack walked over towards the cages again. “Your problem should be easily remedied, at least the hunger part.”

Luna trembled and shook her head as Emily continued to cry while holding onto her.

“No, please,” Luna pleaded. “I don’t want to get eaten, and neither does she.”

“Oh, you hear that?” Fiana mocked. “They don’t want to get eaten. I guess we have to set them free then.”

“Let’s start with the butterfly, the other one can be our dessert,” one of them suggested.

“I agree, more meat on that one,” another said as she opened Luna’s cage.

“No! No! I don’t wanna get eaten!” Luna cried out as she was grabbed and dragged out of the crate, with Emily reaching out towards her desperately through the bars.

“Luna! No, don’t take her away, don’t!”

Forrus looked at the human with a raised eyebrow while the others dragged Luna who was kicking and screaming towards the altar.

“No! Don’t! Let me go, let me go!” Luna cried out as she thrashed around in their grip. The lycans pulled her over towards the altar then lifted her up onto it, holding the butterfly girl down by her shoulders, arms, and legs forcibly as she struggled around in their grasp.

“This one’s got some energy in her, I bet she tastes really fresh,” Fiana laughed, with Luna screaming for her life as the wolves eyed over her body with low growls.

“Please don’t eat her! Please!” Emily pleaded.

Forrus slowly kneeled down in front of the cage and watched the human carefully, seeing the girl’s empty gaze going through her while she desperately reached out towards Luna’s voice.

“You care that much for a monster, human?”

“Yes!” Emily cried out. “She saved my life! She’s not a bad monster, she’s my friend!”

Luna looked towards the sound of Emily’s voice with fearful eyes as she started crying, seeing the child trying to reach out for her while Forrus just watched the human carefully. After a moment the lycan slowly stood up and tilted her head slightly.

“A human calling a monster ‘friend’, how interesting,” Forrus commented before walking over towards the altar. Emily screamed and reached out towards Luna while the butterfly girl watched her with tears forming in her eyes.

“Emily…” Luna said softly.

Forrus walked up and stood over Luna, looking down at the girl with a solemn expression. Luna looked up to her with fearful eyes as the wolf held her head and leaned closer to her.

“Wait, please…” Luna whimpered.

“You won’t suffer for long, I assure you,” Forrus said gently.

“No, that’s not what I meant. Please, if you have to eat me, then fine, but I’m begging you not to eat her. Please, let her go, she’s just a child.”

Forrus looked at her curiously as the other lycans glanced to her while holding the girl down. Luna whimpered and shut her eyes with tears rolling down her cheeks.

“Please, don’t hurt her, she’s been through so much, she doesn’t deserve this. Please let her go, please.”

“You’re about to be eaten alive, and all you care for is a human child’s safety?” Forrus questioned. Luna nodded and looked up to her with pleading eyes.

“I’m going to miss my sister so much,” she whimpered. “And I’m sad I never got knocked up to have a child of my own, but if you hurt Emily it’ll break my heart. Please, do what you will with me, but let her go.”

Forrus looked over to Emily as the girl was crying and holding her hand out towards Luna with all her might, tears seen dripping down her cheeks while her eyes didn’t focus on anything in front of her. Forrus then looked down to Luna with a solemn expression.

“We don’t make deals with our food,” she said plainly, with Luna whimpering and trying to shake her head. Forrus paused for a moment then looked at her with a questioning glance. “However, I’ll make a deal with you, since your little ‘friendship’ with a human has caught my interest.”

Luna watched her with desperation while the other lycans stared at the butterfly girl with hungry eyes.

“We must feed,” Forrus explained. “It is the way of life, for all of us. However, like I said to you before, we don’t eat to be malicious or evil, only out of necessity. So I will offer you this deal. We will feast upon your flesh, we will devour you as is our way of living.” Luna trembled in fear as the wolf held her head still. Forrus eyed over Luna’s body then looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

“If you can satisfy all our hunger with your flesh, then we shall allow your ‘friend’ to leave. Where she goes is none of our concern, and if she is found and caught tomorrow then that is her fate, however we shall give her a chance to live tonight.”

Luna trembled and whimpered then glanced over to Emily as the girl was crying while holding onto the bars of her cage.

“If your body is enough to slate our hunger, we shall let her go,” Forrus offered. “If not, she will join you in our stomachs this very night.”

Luna gulped then looked up to her with fearful eyes.

“If you eat me alive… and then you’re full, you’ll let her go? You promise?”

“You have my word, regardless of how much that means to you in this situation,” Forrus said with a nod. Luna closed her eyes and trembled a bit then looked at her with saddened eyes.

“Alright, you can eat me, but please try to get full on me, please.”

“We can only hope,” Forrus mused with a smirk. Luna shakily took a breath then glanced over to Emily.

“Emily, cover your ears, cover them now!”

“No, Luna! Luna!” Emily cried out.

“It’ll be okay, you’re going to be okay, just cover your ears!” Luna called out with tears dropping from her cheeks. She shut her eyes and whimpered as Forrus bared her teeth slightly. “I don’t want you to hear this, please cover your ears!”

Emily whined and shakily covered her ears and closed her eyes, crying softly as she feared what would happen to Luna. Forrus glanced to the child then looked down to Luna as the butterfly girl slowly relaxed her body, offering no resistance anymore as the other lycans held her down.

“Alright, please make it quick,” Luna said with a shaky breath.

“Thank you, for the meal,” Forrus said gently.

Luna trembled as she braced to be eaten alive, her mouth quivering as she felt her heart pounding steadily. Her mind started racing of memories with her sister, how they always had each other in the world, and thoughts of Emily, the first human child that saw her as a friendly person and not just some monster of Eden.

‘Falla, Emily, goodbye.’

After a while she slowly opened her eyes, seeing all the lycans looking at something carefully rather than digging into her flesh. Slowly Luna lifted her head up and peeked over her bosom, watching as two figures were slowly approaching the campground from the shadowy surroundings.

“Who dares interrupt our dinner?” Fiana called out.

Slowly the two figures came into the light of the torches, both of them walking towards the lycans while Luna was still being held down on the altar. They looked to be girls around Luna’s age and height, the first having short raven hair and a black webbed masquerade mask over her eyes, a red cocktail dress with black edgings and a black tail, the dress having gold embroidering below the bosom, and black high boots with two green straps each. The second girl had long blonde hair that flowed down her back, wore a purple floral masquerade mask, a long purple slit dress with long sleeves and a sapphire embroidered belt, and long black stockings under her dress along with black high boots that had red bow ribbons on the front.

“Seems we have two more for dinner on this night,” a lycan said with a growing smile. Forrus chuckled then glanced to Luna while gently brushing her hair, the butterfly girl looking up to her nervously as the wolf had a gleam in her eye.