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Making Monster Girls 4: For Science!, page 26
Josephine jumped away from me and held the shawl close to her body as a silhouette appeared in the doorway.
“Ah, there are you are, Charles,” Edony purred. “I’ve been waiting for you. What have you been doing?”
“Drawing up the new plans for my machine’s improvements,” I instantly lied. “I need to get all of the schematics right before I buy any of the materials.”
“Ah, wonderful,” the Duchess sighed. “I almost forgot how beautiful my machine is. Such a stunning shade of copper… I’m glad we picked it out.”
Edony stepped toward the machine, and I widened my eyes as I stepped out in front of her. I had to do anything to stop her from going near the second compartment where Kelara’s presumably charred body laid, so I slapped my hands down on her shoulders, gripped her hard, and then forced her toward me. Our lips came together hard but just as I suspected, the Duchess softened under my touch. I kept my eyes open and over the blonde aristocrat’s shoulder, Josephine covered her lips in shock.
Edony wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed herself to my chest. I deepened the kiss and finally, closed my eyes. I’d never imagined myself kissing the Duchess, but I had to admit… it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. The tingling sensation that was there whenever we touched heightened to a point where it sizzled through all of my pores.
When I finally pulled away, Edony’s eyes were still closed and her cheeks flushed a rosy pink. I glanced over at Josephine and Daisy but noticed something familiar in the doorway. The stone of the stairwell looked a bit blurry and shifted for a second as something unseen moved forward. With Edony facing away from her, Valerie shifted into view, lifted a single finger to her lips, and then pointed toward Compartment B of my machine.
All of us understood what she meant. The feline-woman would sneak Kelara’s body out of the compartment and dispose of it while invisible… but I already knew this would be a difficult task with Edony in the room.
The Duchess breathed in a heavy sigh, and her violet eyes fluttered open. The blonde aristocrat stared up at me for a second with flushed cheeks and her hands found mine.
“C-Charles,” Edony whispered. “W-Why did you do that?”
“I don’t know,” I grinned. “I realized we’d never kissed, and I thought… this would be the best place to do it. This is where we’ll create your army of monster-women, so I figured why not here? Where our love started to grow and blossom?”
“Oh,” the Duchess asked. “How romantic…”
Daisy cleared her throat softly over Edony’s shoulder and pointed her narrowed eyes toward the compartment. I knew what I had to do next…
“Edony,” I boomed. “Come over here and look at what I’ve drawn up for the improvements.”
I grabbed the aristocrat’s hand, turned her toward the examination table, and guided her over to it. Hurriedly, I grabbed a sheet of paper from a side table and slapped it down on top of it.
“These,” I grunted. “Are the improvements.”
Edony blinked rapidly for a second, scrunched up her eyebrows, and then turned to me with an expression of confusion.
“Charles…” the Duchess squeaked. “This paper is blank.”
“Yes,” I chuckled and didn’t let the nervousness seep into my voice. “But imagine the possibilities. We could do anything we want with our machine! We could make it smaller or hell, make it ten times bigger. The components in it will be state of art and no matter how many times we repeat the experiment, they will never break down!”
I peeked out of the corner of my eye as I continued to speak and the door to compartment B slowly opened. Invisible Valerie slipped in and the door closed without a sound.
“This still isn’t making sense to me,” Edony barked. “Show me, Charles. Paint me a picture.”
The Duchess turned away from the examination table and the blank piece of paper. The blonde stepped toward the machine where Valerie and Kelara’s corpse hid from view.
“Uhhh,” I hissed as I reached for her hand, but it was too late. The aristocrat moved toward the second door, and I crossed the room in four massive steps to prevent her from looking inside. I pressed a hand to her left shoulder and turned her toward Compartment A.
“This is where I’ll make changes,” I explained as my heart hammered in my chest. “See how small the compartment is? It was barely large enough to fit the bear we used for Daisy. I’m sure whatever beast they find won’t fit inside.”
“I see that now,” Edony nodded, cupped her chin, and gazed into the window of the first compartment. “How much larger do you think it’ll need to be?”
“Like I said before,” I smiled. “At least ten times larger than it was. It needs to be massive… colossal even.”
“Can you imagine how expensive that will be?” the Duchess tutted.
“Don’t think of it in monetary terms, Edony,” I redirected. “Think of all the power you will have by the time I’m finished with the improvements. You will be all powerful… my Queen.”
“Your… Queen.” Edony’s whole body shook with shivers and a low gasp escaped her lips at that.
“Yes. Don’t you love the sound of that?” I glanced over her shoulder once more and watched as the door slowly opened, paused for a second, and then silently closed. A low grunt escaped the invisible feline, but Edony didn’t seem to notice as the Duchess turned back to me.
“How soon can you have it done?” the blonde aristocrat asked.
“As soon as you give me the funds,” I uttered as I tried to force my heart to stop hammering against my rib cage. “And can purchase the supplies. As I said, I could have it done in a manner of weeks… even days if I worked hard enough.”
“I’ll write you out a money order as soon as I have time,” Edony breathed. “Then I will go with you to purchase the supplies and supervise the improvements.”
“Whatever you wish,” I chuckled. “I am at your dispo--”
A loud thump and a cry came from behind us and Edony immediately whipped around.
“What was that?” The Duchess glared around the room and then narrowed her eyes on Josephine and Daisy.
In one swift movement, Daisy kicked out the small table with my instruments on it and clutched her right hand to her chest in pain. I scanned the room for any sign of Valerie and then… I saw it… Behind the sheets of spare paneling, a charred foot stuck out. If Edony noticed the charred leg sticking out of the paneling, it’d all be over for us. The Duchess couldn’t know the women who went into the machine died and were reborn into a new being.
“Ow!” Daisy cried. “Sorry, Charles. I accidentally leaned on the table with my hand and one of your scalpels stabbed me. It was all my fault, I should’ve been paying better attention.”
“It’s alright,” I soothed. “It was a mistake, I’m sure. It looks like none of my instruments are broken, so why don’t you go upstairs with the others and get that fixed up?”
“Yes,” Daisy nodded. “Josephine, there’s gauze over by those panels, will you grab it for me?”
Josephine nodded and seemed to understand what the bear-girl meant. Before Edony could see, I grabbed her by the arm again and stepped closer to the evacuated Compartment B.
“This one will need to be expanded, too,” I explained as I held her in place. “I’m sure that somehow we’ll figure out how to transform multiple people at once, so the process will be much faster.”
When I peeked out of the corner of my eye, Valerie wiggled out from underneath the paneling in total view, grabbed Kelara’s charred legs, and slowly dragged her out from underneath the panels. My heart hammered in every part of my body and I was surprised that Edony didn’t feel it pounding through the skin of my hand on her shoulder. Sweat beaded on the back of my neck, and I held onto the Duchess so tightly, I thought she would squeal out in pain.
Josephine scurried over, kept her eyes low, and aided Valerie in lifting Kelara’s corpse. The cat-girl’s cheeks puffed out from the strain but held steady as she lifted the dead woman up onto her shoulder. Just as suddenly as she appeared, the feline-woman faded from view.
“I found it!” the heiress grinned. “I got the gauze. Come on, Daisy. Let’s get you upstairs and all patched up.”
Before Edony could turn back around, Josephine waved Daisy over and the two women supported the invisible Valerie toward the door. From where we stood, their movements were natural as if nothing had happened, but I could tell from their faces most of the weight of Kelara rested on Daisy and on Josephine’s left shoulder. All of my women stepped through the doorway out of the laboratory and disappeared from view. Edony turned to me one last time and gazed pointedly into my eyes.
“Before we get to the excitement of the day and I forget,” Edony purred. “I brought you something.”
“What is it?” I asked.
“The will,” the Duchess smiled, reached into her skirt pocket, and handed me a rolled up piece of parchment tied with a red bow. “I want you to have it for safekeeping if anything were to happen to me during my experiment.”
I took the scroll from her and gazed down at it for a second. All of Edony’s worldly possessions and wealth were signed over to me on this parchment… I could do anything I wanted with Edenhart once Edony was transformed… I had her entire life in my hands, composed into a single document, and I could do whatever I wished with it. I was well on my way to being the ruler of all of the lands and this was just the first big step.
“When will you be finished with the blueprints for the new improvements?” the stunning blonde asked.
“I could finish them today,” I chuckled. “All I have to do is get them down onto paper.”
“Then we’ll need you to do that today,” Edony grinned.
“Why?” I asked.
“Let’s just say…” the Duchess giggled. “My trappers found something… something you might find interesting.”
“What is it?” I pressed.
Edony reached into the pocket of her dress, retrieved a pocket watch, and glanced down at the ticking hands.
“It should be unloaded by now,” The blonde aristocrat purred. “Why don’t we go upstairs and check it out?”
“Is that what the soldiers were bringing up the hill?” I probed. “Daisy saw it before you came downstairs.”
“Yes,” Edony giggled. “Come, Charles. I want you to see my beast.”
The Duchess grabbed my hand and pulled me toward the door. The bright morning sunlight burned my eyes for a second and I lifted an arm to shield my squinting eyes. Soldiers lined up and down the drive, even at the entrance of the stairwell into the laboratory. Their expressions were severe and serious, and I wondered what could’ve possibly made them look this way. Edony threw her head back and laughed as she tugged me along toward the front of the house.
My feet dragged right as we came around the corner and I spied the massive, tarp-covered cage that stood at least ten feet tall, and explosive roars ripped through the air. I stopped in my tracks, and Edony whipped around in my direction with the widest smile on her face.
“What is this?” I grunted. “Edony?”
“Come closer, Charles,” The Duchess purred. “Let me show you my beast. Alright, boys, lower the tarp, and let’s show Charles Rayburn my magnificent creature you caught for me.”
Four soldiers rushed forward with small daggers in their fists and cut the ropes holding the tarp in place. An enormous bellow from inside shifted the fabric, and it flapped slowly to the ground.
“By science!” I stared in absolute horror at the enormous, towering beast held inside the cage.
The creature looked like a wolf but ten times larger than the average wild lupine. The beast almost looked like the specter we’d seen in the forest a few nights before because it was shrouded in a hazy, icy blue aura. It’s fur underneath the pulsing light was snow-white with streaks of light and royal blue throughout. It’s ears were huge and pointed at the tips with large tufts of fur, and it’s tucked tail looked large enough to knock a fully grown man down.
The beast barred it’s pointed yellow teeth at every solder and then pawed through the bars at them. The guards scurried back with screams of fear, but I kept my eyes glued to the colossal being in front of me.
“What is it?” I breathed, hung my head back, and took in every inch of it.
“It’s formal name is Raiju,” the Duchess grinned wickedly. “But people often call it ‘the lightning beast.’ It is a dire wolf attuned to my element of lightning. Don’t you think it will make me even more amazing? These monsters are incredibly rare and powerful.”
A sudden memory flooded my brain, no. Not a memory, but a dream I’d had long ago.
Flashes of a slumped woman with snow-white hair held between Daisy and Valerie flashed through my head.
Wholly white pointed ears like a wolf’s poked out of her hair, and neon blue stripes worked their way through the fur and a snowy white tail, thick at the middle and thinner at the tip.
I remembered the feeling of her power from the dream… so immense… so overpowering.
Edony lifted her arms and held out her hands on either side of her like a showman. The Duchess stepped forward and spoke, but my mind spun, and I couldn’t hear a word she spoke.
“Oh science,” I whispered as I clutched my head. “It’s just like my dream... just like my goddamn dream.”
How was it possible that I could have dreamed of the exact type of monster I would turn Edony into?
This wasn’t science.
This was magic.
End of book 4
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