Chronicles of Eden - Act 2 by Alexander Gordon Page B

the flower, pulling Daniel down with her while the flower petals closed up over them.
    “Daniel!” Alyssa cried out. She started to run towards the closed flower bud before Specca grabbed her shoulder and stopped the witch.
    “Wait, it’s ok, stop,” Specca assured while reading the entry in the book.
    “What? It’s ok ? It just swallowed up Daniel!” Alyssa cried out at her. The two then looked to seeing Triska and Squeak racing towards the bud with their weapons drawn back.
    “Wait! Don’t hurt it!” Specca shouted out. Squeak stopped and looked back to her while Triska raced up towards the bud and geared back with her sword.
    “Daniel!” she yelled out as Specca gasped and shook her head.
    “Don’t, Triska! Leave it alone!” Specca called out. Triska looked back to her with frustration while holding her sword back behind her.
    “Are you crazy? It ate Daniel!” she yelled out before swinging her blade across the petals, slicing through them and cleaving one off onto the ground. A high pitched wail was heard from below while a few tendrils whipped up around the flower monster, with Triska furiously swinging her sword around and hacking them apart before striking at the flower petals again.
    “Don’t worry, Daniel, I’m coming!” Triska shouted out, with the monster wailing as its severed limbs flailed about around it.
    “No! Stop, Triska, don’t cut those!” Specca cried out as she ran towards the teen, with Alyssa and Squeak quickly following after her with confused expressions. Triska swung her blade around quickly and hacked apart the large petals, with a few twisting vines coiling up under where they were as the wailing grew louder. Through the vines she saw Daniel and the monster’s female body below, with the boy looking up to seeing his friend through the green vines while the monster was holding onto him with a pained expression.
    “Daniel! I’ll get you out of there, just hold on!” Triska called out as she geared back with her sword.
    “Don’t!” Specca cried out as she ran over and grabbed Triska’s hand, struggling to push the human away while Alyssa and Squeak looked down through the opening in the flower to seeing Daniel being held by the monster.
    “Daniel! Are you ok?” Alyssa called down quickly.
    “I think so, what’s happening?” Daniel asked looking around at everyone. Squeak frantically pointed off to the side at something while squeaking quickly, the girl then pointing down to him then shaking her head with a shrug as she squeaked some more. Daniel just stared at her for a moment then looked over to Alyssa.
    “Um… what’s happening?” he repeated.
    “Let me go, I have to get him out of there!” Triska yelled out as she and Specca stumbled off to the side.
    “He’ll be just fine! Stop hurting the monster!” Specca yelled out at her. Triska looked to her with surprise as the nixie pushed her away then ran over to the others.
    “What do you mean he’ll be just fine, she’s eating him!” Triska cried out.
    “No, she’s not, she just wanted to mate with him, that’s all,” Specca argued.
    “How is that any better?” Triska yelled out with disbelief.
    “Because if Daniel politely refuses her then she’ll let him go!” Specca yelled out.
    Everyone fell silent as Triska and the other girls stared at Specca with bewilderment.
    “She’ll… just let him go?” Triska asked shaking her head. Specca scoffed at her then looked down to Daniel as the boy was watching the flower monster with wonder, the creature now wailing and crying with a saddened expression.
    “Daniel, it’s alright, she’s not going to hurt you. She’s a very peaceful monster, she just brought you down there to try to mate with you,” she informed with a worried smile.
    “Oh good, I was worried I was in trouble?” Daniel replied unsurely while shaking his head.
    “You’re not in trouble, not really. Just don’t kiss her, her saliva is a special honey that will cause you to...