Making monster girls 4 f.., p.23
Making Monster Girls 4: For Science!, page 23
“Give up now,” Daisy boomed. “We have you surrounded, and there’s no escape. You can’t even call out to your precious Queen in your time of need… How sad is that…”
“Don’t worry, Kelara,” I chuckled, stepped forward with my clones, and spread my arms wide. “Everything is alright… Everything will be fine. Once we’re finished, you won’t remember that this happened, and you’ll get to live a life full of bliss and happiness.”
Kelara whipped around and faced me, but it didn’t seem like the spy would back down any time soon. Daisy stared at me over the turban-wearing woman’s shoulders, silently stepped closer, and knit her fingers over Kelara’s head. I prayed that the bear-girl wouldn’t put too much force behind the strike… I’d seen the damage that those two hands could bring, and our objective here wasn’t to kill the tattooed-woman. Daisy brought her hands down in a slow swing, and Kelara felt the change in the air but didn’t have time to move out of the way.
The brunette’s hands slowed inches away from the crown of Kelara’s head, and a loud crack exploded through the forest. The forced air hit the turban-wearing woman, and instantly her eyes rolled back in her head. The spy fell to the side in a pile of limbs, and all of us standing in the circle took a collective sigh.
“That was surprisingly easier than I thought,” Valerie murmured. “I thought she was going to try to kill us all, but… I had no idea she would go down that easily. Daisy, what kind of move was that? You only hit her with air? What happened?”
“Changed the pressure around her head,” Daisy chuckled. “Kind of like… an altitude change? It was so fast that she couldn’t breathe, and no oxygen reached her brain, so she passed out.”
“How long do you think it’ll last?” I asked. “Long enough to get back to the manor?”
“No idea,” Daisy replied.
“Well, if it doesn’t,” I chuckled. “Daisy could always do it again. Now… let’s get her out of here before she does wake up.”
I stepped forward, rolled Kelara over onto her side, and threw her over my shoulder after we searched her for weapons. The spy was dead weight and didn’t move at all as I trudged forward through the forest. All of my women followed after me in the darkness, and again, I felt as if the ground beneath our feet shrunk and folded in on itself. When we arrived, we’d only spent fifteen minutes walking, and I wondered how long it would take us to get back out.
I didn’t have to ponder for long because within a few minutes of walking, I spied the tree-line right where we’d entered. I swiveled my eyes back toward the forest and spied the ghostly silhouette who’d guided us to Kelara, but this time, there was another shape with her; a man’s. The two spirits stood between two trees and stayed absolutely still for a moment, but as I stepped out onto the gravel of the road, both of them bowed their heads. Suddenly, the forest floor seemed to reel and then rolled backward, and the two shapes were lost between tree trunks that hadn’t been there a second ago.
“Thank you,” I murmured to the two spirits. “Thank you for helping us.”
I breathed a heavy sigh and then crossed toward the wagon across the road. My women raced toward it, and Rian, Valerie, and Josephine hopped into the back while Daisy climbed up into the front seat. I lowered the hatch of the cart, laid Kelara’s unconscious body down, and then slid her in with a soft shuffle. I hurried to the front and climbed in beside the bear-girl before grabbing the reins in my hands. I smacked them gently across the horses’ backs and guided them around in the direction of home.
“We’ll take the back roads home again,” I uttered. “I don’t want to get caught by Edony or her guards. It’ll be longer than going straight through, but if she wakes up… Daisy, do your thing.”
“Yes, Charles,” the brunette nodded and turned to stare down at the body in the back.
“I can’t believe those ghosts helped us…” Valerie breathed. “I thought that all spirits were evil and out to hurt people.”
“Not all of them, I guess,” I chuckled. “I fully believe that those two would’ve tried to hurt us if we were any other people. They somehow knew what we stand for, and they allowed us to pass. You heard what Valerie said… it took hours for Kelara to finally reach the Crying Tree, and I’m sure she battled their attacks the entire way there.”
“They knew what we stand for,” Rian nodded. “They understood that we were fighting exactly what they died for… the freedom to love each other without persecution. They understood us better than anyone in this city… I’m glad they allowed us to pass, and I wish there were something we could do for them.”
“They’re together now,” I soothed. “For all of eternity. That’s the one good thing that came out of both of them dying. They were separated for so long… I don’t think they mind being tied to the earth like this as long as they’re allowed to be together.”
“I honestly believe that we wouldn’t have made it through without their help,” Josephine smiled. “I wish we’d gotten to stay longer and look at the Crying Tree. It was so beautiful, and people rarely find it out here without being attacked.”
We reached the end of a big bend, and I pulled off onto the side road we’d taken on our way here. The streetlamps in between buildings burned a little brighter this time, and I could make out more aristocrats moving to and from different taverns while they drank their fill when I suddenly saw it… Four lines of soldiers marching in time down the middle of the street and in front of them… Edony rode on the back of a white stallion.
The Duchess held her cane in the crook of her arm and lifted it into the air to scream something to her guards. The men broke formation, bolted forward, and raced inside different buildings. I assumed they were performing raids in case Kelara shacked up with any of the aristocrats who lived or owned businesses in town. They wouldn’t find her there… she laid unconscious in the back of my wagon at this very moment.
Edony kicked her horse’s sides with her heels, and the beast took over down the brick-paved road. I wondered where she was headed and if she had a specific location in mind, but it didn’t matter anyway. By the end of the night, Kelara or Akerla Outebane would cease to exist, and a brand new monster-girl would be born.
I sighed softly under my breath and hoped that once the new monster-girl came into existence, all of our problems would disappear… or would for at least a little bit. I was so tired, and I felt as if I hadn’t slept in ages, but I had no other choice than to keep going.
“Did you see Edony?” Valerie murmured. “Through the buildings?”
“Yes,” Rian grunted. “On the white horse? Who does she think she is? Some sort of knightess in shining armor? It’s not like she’s out to save Edenhart anyway…”
“What Charles said earlier made me think,” the feline-woman mused. “Having Edony on our side isn’t all bad. She promised to train us and hone our skills, and that’s nice? I mean, she can be a little overbearing and downright annoying, but she has a lot of skills that we can use in the future. Not only that… and I hate to admit this, but she’s gorgeous. That’s what I was going to say when I saw her on the horse… She looks like a fairytale.”
“Yes, she is pretty,” I agreed. “But she’s conniving, cunning, sly, and malicious. All of her bad traits outweigh the good ones, and until she’s one of us, we can’t let our guard slip for even a second. Edony is too smart for her own good… that’s why I’m so cautious and apologetic with everything we do.”
“It kind of makes me mad how stunning she is,” Daisy laughed. “Every time I think of villainous people, I think of those from stories. Hunched over crones with hook noses in all black robes.”
“With warts!” Valerie giggled. “And biiig bellies!”
“Sounds more like Delphine than Edony,” I chuckled. “Now that woman was a villain out of a storybook. She was… grotesque.”
“Yes, she was,” the feline-woman nodded. “I felt so sorry that you had to go into her house and attempt to seduce her… She was so ugly. Her poor consorts had to have sex with her, blech! Gross!”
“Ortensia was pretty,” Daisy offered. “In a way… a dominating way. She looked like she knew how to kill you in thirty different ways and would do them without hesitation.”
“She probably could,” I chortled. “I’m so surprised that we managed to pull that one off… Maybe that’s where Rian gets her fiery personality.”
“Maybe,” the imp-woman shrugged. “Or it was from my past life as an imp… Who knows?”
“The only person we never got to know was the prisoner we used for you, Valerie,” I stated. “But we know that she was a harlot… but she did shout some pretty disgusting things right before I threw the switch.”
“People say a lot of things when they’re afraid,” Daisy nodded. “Ortensia promised not to tell anyone but… she once worked for the Queen. Hell, she might have been a spy just like Kelara for all we know.”
“No,” I shook my head. “I believe that Ortensia was nothing more than a soldier that served in her army, lost her eye from a tragic accident, and then was given a job here out of pity from the Queen.”
“Wait,” the brunette murmured. “Did Ortensia say when she lost her eye, it was a rogue brute? But like… an augmented brute?”
“I believe so,” I nodded. “Why?”
“Does that mean… there could be others out there like us? It couldn’t have been Edony or your super-soldiers. Someone had to create them and attack the Queen…”
“You know, I thought about that,” I grunted. “But I never came up with a solution. It couldn’t have been Edony since we were working together at that time… but it easily could’ve been someone else. Though I bet it was nothing more than an assassination attempt and not a group of people who believe the same things as us.”
“Well…” Josephine interjected. “That might not be true…”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“You already know that I’m part of a secret society of Harlots…” the heiress explained. “But a lot of them are accomplished women… some of them are doctors and renowned scientists… It could’ve easily been one of my ranks, and I would’ve never known. A lot of the missions that they go on are so secret and only known as codenames. I could ask around? Send out a few letters to some of my comrades?”
“Yes,” I nodded. “Do that and see if it was one of them. I’d really like to know if someone had the same idea as Edony but for other reasons.”
“Hey!” Valerie cried. “We’re almost home!”
I lifted my head and gazed up the hill toward the manor. All the candles we’d left in the window still burned, and from this distance away, I could make out the silhouettes of the soldier’s tents. We’d given them large doses to keep them asleep until morning, and I highly doubted that any of them had woken up yet.
Once we reached the top of the hill, we maneuvered through the path we’d created earlier and made it back to the carriage house. Rian and I worked together to unhitch the horses and got them back into their respective stalls. When we finished, I moved toward the back of the wagon to grab Kelara, but she wasn’t there.
Oh, science…. Ooooooh science.
Panic immediately beat in my brain, and my heart pounded in my chest as I glanced toward Rian. The black-haired beauty tilted her head and hurried over but stopped in her tracks as she noticed the empty wagon bed.
“W-Where?” the imp-woman gasped. “S-She couldn’t have escaped… We… We were right here.”
“What?” Valerie appeared from the stairs and tilted her head. “What’s happening?”
“Kelara,” I grunted. “She’s missing…”
“What?” the cat-girl asked. “No, she’s not. Daisy carried her downstairs while you and Rian put the horses away. We’re all super excited about the experiment, so we took her down without telling you. Daisy put her into Compartment B, and Josephine is keeping an eye on her in case she wakes up.”
“Oh,” I cried. “Thank science! I didn’t want to spend the rest of the night chasing after her… again.”
“Nope,” the ash-blonde giggled. “She’s tucked away in the machine. I just came up to check if you were coming down.”
“Yeah,” I nodded. “We’re coming.”
The three of us moved down the stairs and entered the lit laboratory. Daisy spoke to A.B. while Josephine stood at the door to Compartment B and stared through the glass window. All we needed to do now was load the nix into compartment A, add my blood to the third compartment, and throw the switch.
I moved toward the tank where we held the tiny creature, grabbed the glass we’d used earlier in the day, and rolled my right sleeve. I dipped my hand into the cold water and caught the nix within the glass. Before the tiny beast could escape, I pulled the cup out of the water and held it aloft. The nix raced through the water and beat at the glass for any means of escape. A soft song reached my ears, but it was so soft that it was barely audible.
I opened the door to Compartment A, placed the glass containing the nix on the corrugated floor, and then closed it with a soft click. I glanced over at Josephine, but the heiress kept her eyes glued inside of the small room. I opened the doors to Compartment C and glared down at the space for a second. I brought my right hand to my face and then paused before I bit down on the webbing between my pointer finger and thumb. Blood flowed into my mouth, and I spit it out onto the floor before I held my hand into the third compartment. Large, scarlet droplets fell from the cut and landed on the copper paneling in small pools.
“One… Two… Three…” I counted down. “Alright, that’s enough. Josephine, is Kelara still unconscious?”
“Yes,” the honey-blonde nodded. “She doesn’t seem close to waking up.”
“Let us proceed,” I grinned, crossed the room, and stood next to the paneling. “Over here, everyone.”
Daisy, Valerie, Rian, and Josephine came to stand beside me, and I reached above my head toward the switch. I breathed in deeply and then turned to the four women beside me.
“Ready?” I asked.
“Ready!” Valerie sang.
“Ready.” Rian nodded.
“Yes, Charles,” Daisy grinned.
“Oh, I’m so excited,” Josephine giggled. “Go on, Charles! We’re waiting!”
I swung the giant lever down into its cradle, and electricity crackled to life. All of the bulbs above our heads flickered on with a low hum, the sound rose in our ears as blinding white light poured out of all three of the compartments, and all of us squinted against it. I physically felt the electricity pass from the panel of lights and switches, passed through the thick, snaking wires across the floor, and finally reached my machine.
“Oh, my heavens,” Josephine gasped. “It’s so… it’s so beautiful… I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“See?” Valerie giggled. “Isn’t it everything we said and more? This is why we get so excited about our new sisters!”
The pistons at the top of the machine moved so quickly that they were blurs through the air, and greyish smoke billowed out of the valves. The noise coming from my machine heightened to a single pitch and almost sounded like an opera singer’s warbling voice. If I’d been a weaker man, the transformation process would’ve brought me to tears because of how beautiful it was. The blinding white light intensified to such a pinnacle that I squinted against it in pain and then bent down closer to the ground.
“Close your eyes!” I shouted above the noise. “If you look now, it’ll burn your retinas, and you’ll never be able to see again!”
Loud clangs and the whirring of the slowing pistons reached my ears as I slowly reopened my eyes. Like all the other times before, the entire laboratory was filled with choking smoke, and I hurried to open one of the windows above our heads.
“Is… Is it finished?” Josephine coughed. “Oh my, it’s so smoky in here.”
“Yes,” I grunted. “It’s finished.”
“Now, we hang back while Charles goes to check the last compartment,” the feline-woman explained. “It’s essential because the new monster-girl has to imprint on him or something like that.”
I crept toward the third compartment with light feet, stared into the foggy window for any sign of life, and then reached out for the door handle. My hand gripped onto the metal handle, swiveled down, swung the door open, and then I stared inside as the smoke billowed out. A soft sound came from inside, almost like singing but in a language that I couldn’t understand. I wafted the smoke away from my face, focused my eyes, and then grunted at the beautiful sight in front of me.
Chapter Sixteen
Just like my other monster-girls, the woman sitting on the floor before me was one of the most gorgeous women I'd ever seen. Her long, pin-straight hair was turquoise and came all the way down to the middle of her back. Her large, almond-shaped eyes were icy blue and so light that they were almost the color of ice. Her long lashes brushed at her cheeks, and the ears sticking out of her hair were long and pointed at the tip just like the nix before her.
The nix-woman's breasts were enormous, larger than any of my other women's, her waist was tiny, but the skin sloped down to large, round hips. Her skin, which I would've expected to be a light milky color, was tanned and looked buttery-smooth to the touch.
The turquoise-haired woman lifted her head, blinked once, and then her lips spread into a wide smile as if she'd known me her entire life.
"You…" the nix-woman murmured. "I know you, don't I? I feel… warm and wet when I look at you. Love? Do I love you?"
Her voice was higher pitched though a little raspy, and she reached out to me with a perfectly formed hand. I took it, and her hand was cooler to the touch than I'd expected.
