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Story Codes: Gamelit, Magic, Fantasy, Violence

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Chapter Twenty-Eight

I nearly tripped and fell as all five of my ghosts died. Duhot, Dusata, Grobi, Ipalsi, and Nevidena were all gone like that. Killed in one attack. I didn’t even understand how that could be possible. It didn’t make any sense.

Then Nina Naughty died. The first of my companions killed. A heartbeat later, Slepkavi, another of my orcs, vanished.

“Leo?” Ms. Trueno asked, putting her hand on me.

I blinked, realizing I had stopped running. I glanced ahead. We were almost there. “It’s fine. We just have to keep fighting. We’re here anyway. Gaiste!” I pointed to the target building a block away. “Climb up to that window high up and see what’s in there.”

“Yes, Lord Leo,” Gaiste cried. The arachne scuttled forward past us on her black legs, her red hair flying behind her. My heart beat fast, twisting with pain.

Were we losing?

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Halia and her group arrived at the central government building. It rose five stories high. It was made of gray stone. It looked imposing. Like all of Sharithin was supposed to revolve around this point. Which made a certain sense.

“Lord Leo, we’re on the south side of the building,” Halia said, Usiku standing beside her. The salamanders’ heat washed over her.

“We just arrived on the north,” her lord answered her. “I’m having Gaiste scout the building. Hold on.”

She nodded then her cheeks warmed. He couldn’t see her. “Standing by, Lord Leo.”

“I want to get in there,” Engana hissed. The salamander flapped her fiery wings. They weren’t that big. “I want to kill those bitches. They’re dying, right? We’re losing sisters?”

“I can only assume so,” Usiku said. “We have to wait. Lord Leo has given us orders.”

Engana hissed her frustration. Halia understood.

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“It’s a meeting hall, Lord Leo,” Gaiste reported. She clung to the outside of the building and peered through the window. “The two monster girls in there, the raiju and the treant have barricaded the doors. They are ready for a fight.”

“It’s just the two of them?” I asked.

“Yes, my Lord,” Gaiste added as she scuttled down the wall.

“Move into position,” I ordered. “We’ll breach on my order!”

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Terra fell, tripped by the werewolf that savaged her leg. She fell on her back with a hard thud, wincing in pain. The wolf leaped for her throat, eager to rip it out. The golem raised her arms, but not fast enough to save her life.

Only Slepkavi was faster.

The orc’s golden sword flashed out and buried into the side of the werewolf, skewering through its side and knocking the monster girl off her attack. The werewolf staggered to the side, hissing in fury, and turned in a blur to tear out the orc’s throat.

Terra gasped in horror as Slepkavi staggered back, blood spilling down her golden breastplate. The orc took a step back then vanished before her body hit the ground. Fury exploded through Terra. She slammed her hammer-fist into the wounded werewolf’s side.

The beast howled in pain and tumbled off the golem. She gained her feet and slammed her left hammer-fist down on the werewolf’s head, knocking the beast back to the ground as it tried to stand back up. Fury beat through the golem.

“She saved my life and you killed her!” snarled Terra.

She battered her hammer-fists down on the werewolf, driving the beast into the pavement. Bones crunched. The monster girl snarled in pain. Terra slammed her weapon down, shouting her fury, and hit the pavement instead.

The werewolf had vanished. Dead.

She straightened and looked around. The other four werewolves were still up, fighting. They were so tough. Terra’s metaphorical heart flagged, fear whipping through her that even with twice their number, they couldn’t win.

Then Zobens’s sword slammed down and cut off a werewolf’s head. It spun through the air and vanished. The sight heartened Terra. They could still win.

To her right, Bhaaloo and Panja fought another werewolf, the two werebears swiping with powerful claws, raking the air and driving back the beast. Briesmoni and Dzelzs fought a third, while Daant and Maan battled the fourth.

The werewolf sank her teeth into Maan’s neck, ripping out the werebear’s throat. The big bear staggered back, blood spilling down her black fur. She crashed back, thrashing on the ground as she died.

“You fucking bitch!” the pissed-off golem cried and ran forward.

She slammed her hammer-fist down into the werewolf’s skull hard. She knocked it down, caving it in and killed the werewolf. The beast vanished. As she did that, Zobens rushed to help Briesmoni and Dzelzs. Before Zobens could reach the fight, the werewolf clamped her jaws on Dzelzs’s head and crushed her skull.

“For Lord Leo!” Zobens cried and slammed her sword into the werewolf’s hide. At the same moment, Briesmoni slashed her golden sword down in hard blow and cleaved into the werewolf’s skull, creaking it open.
The beast was down.
“NOOOO!” roared Bhaaloo as Panja vanished, killed by the last werewolf.

Terra rushed to the fight as Bhaaloo raised her bulk up and slammed her bulk down on the werewolf, crushing the beast beneath the black bear’s large bulk. A crunch of bones and a whimper of pain burst out from beneath the werebear.

The last werewolf was down.

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Mrs. Bella Lucina flapped her wings hard.

The angel’s white-feathered wings whipped at the air as gouts of fire growled up at her. Boiling oranges and reds surged up to devour her. Hot currents buffeted her, whipping at her blonde hair. She banked hard to the right as the fireball surged past her, almost singeing her wings.

Her heart pounded as she banked around to see the surviving sphinxes roar. The air distorted before the majestic monster girls, slamming into a phoenix. The shock wave hit the fiery bird woman, throwing her to the side. Her red feathers ripped from her wings.

Mrs. Lucina focused her halo. It flared with a golden light that then lanced as a beam, striking that disoriented monster girl in the back. It smote the phoenix’s spine. She screamed in pain, a hole burned into her body. With a caw of shock, she went limp and plummeted to the ground.

She vanished before she hit a building.

Mrs. Lucina flapped her wings, banking around to find the other two phoenixes. They both surged together and flew at Talalo from below. Their fire slammed into the poor sphinx. Mrs. Lucina screamed in horror as the roiling reds and oranges immolated her ally.

“NOOO!” the angel cried, tears in her eyes.

“Lord Ishkur’s mighty cock!” howled Ordita. She roared at them.

The two phoenixes broke apart. Their burning talons crackled as they soared over Ordita and breathed their fire on her. The flames engulfed Ordita, killing a second of my sphinxes in quick succession. Mrs. Lucina was losing her girls so fast.

The angel’s halo pulsed and fired a beam.

The phoenix banked to the right, dodging the attack. She surged down at Oroszla and crashed into the top of the sphinx. Talons dug into her flesh, ripping at her body. They tore wicked lines down her flesh, blood spurting.

Oroszla roared and whipped her head around, the air distorting. But the phoenix dodged the attack. The pair tumbled in the air, the phoenix’s burning claws raking across Oroszla’s body, sizzling her flesh. Her screams filled the air.

And so did Gyama.

The other sphinx that survived howled in agony. The other phoenix had dived on Gyama. They tangled in the air, Gyama’s feathers burning. They hurtled for the rooftops. Mrs. Lucina’s heart clenched as the last of her girls were in the fights for their lives.

Oroszla vanished. The phoenix spread her wings wide, banking out of the dive. Fury screaming in heart. Mrs. Lucina fired a beam of light that narrowly missed the phoenix. It struck a building instead, bursting out a chunk of the wall.

“RUN!” roared Gyama.

Mrs. Lucina whipped her head around to see the sphinx falling flaming to the street. She vanished moments before hitting it, fire washing across the pavement. Halflings screamed and ran for cover as the phoenix climbed back into the sky.

The angel focused her beam to smite the phoenix who had just killed Gyama, but the roar of flames stopped her. She flapped hard, a fireball whizzing past her head. Her heart lurched as the two surviving phoenixes climbed at her.

They threw fire.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Mrs. Zoe Baldwin stepped out of the building to evacuate more of the halflings.

Skamianiela raced up. The basilisk had halfling children clinging to her body. She carried a dozen of them as she ran into the building, a column of more refugees behind her. Mrs. Baldwin nodded and ran down the street.

She didn’t know how the rest of the battle was going, but the evacuation was in full swing. She looked down the street and spotted more of the basilisks bringing in large groups of halflings to get them out of the city.

So many were hurt. Had been abused. Fury burned in Mrs. Baldwin for the fiends who did this. If she could get her roots around Sulanga Stormfury and choke the life from him, she would do it. Gladly. He deserved to pay for all the hardship he had inflicted on these people.

“Get them inside,” she shouted as she ran down the street. The dryad’s big boobs bounced before her. She nodded to Mastab with her group. Then she passed Dychannie leading another. The basilisks were so gentle despite their fierce appearances.

She ran down another street, having to go farther and farther to find those to help. She would save them all.

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Lana Fulmine whirled around and gasped in horror to see the last two living hippogriffs crashing into Gyvate. The enemy monster girls ripped at the quetzalcoatl while they tumbled for the city below. Rainbow wings and teal flapped. Blood spilled in the air.

“No, no, no!” the movie starlet cried. She had to protect her number one fan’s monster girl, but she was getting ripped apart.

Gyvate managed to get clear of one attacker. This hippogriff pulled out of the dive and vanished for a moment behind a building. Gyvate shifted her focus to the remaining attacker and turned. She fired her lightning ball breath right into the face of the second hippogriff bitch that still tore at her stomach.

Sparks exploded in the air. The hippogriff flung from her, spinning towards the road. Gyvate tried to flare her rainbow wings and pull out of the dive, but her left one didn’t extend properly. Blood ran down the quetzalcoatl’s back and shoulder, her flight muscles torn.

“Please, no!” shouted Lana Fulmine.

The hippogriff and Gyvate both crashed hard into the cobblestone streets and vanished. Killed. Lana Fulmine closed her eyes, the pain rippling through her. Gyvate had done her best, she had even beaten one on her own. So it wasn’t fair that she’d still died. She should be alive right now.

The other hippogriff! screamed through Lana Fulmine’s mind.

She opened her eyes and scanned the skies. The hippogriff had vanished behind a building. Where was she? Her eyes scanned the skies, searching for her. The flap of wings came from beneath Lana. The movie star stared down.

Teal feathers shot up at her, razor-sharp missiles that would rip her apart.

“Fuck!” she gasped and flapped her lightning wings hard. She lurched back. The feathers shot up before her, narrowly missing her.

“Lady Tiamat’s windy cunt!” snarled the hippogriff climbing for her, murder in the monster girl’s eyes.

A ball of Paanee’s green acid struck the hippogriff in the breasts. The powerful liquid sizzled on the hippogriff’s flesh. She screamed in agony. Drops of the acid splashed on her face. Her wings. She smoked and tumbled, dissolving away.

Lana Fulmine sighed in relief. The last hippogriff was dead. They had cleared the skies. They were winning.

It just didn’t feel like it.

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Maya motioned to the halflings. “This way! Let’s go! We have to get to safety! Hurry! Hurry!”

The crackle of lightning filled the air. A bolt slammed down into the group of halflings that she guided. They screamed, flung from the explosion, their bodies smoking. Three landed charred and unmoving on the ground as a thunderbird swooped over the street.

“You fucking cunt!” Maya gasped as the enemy monster girl vanished out of sight over the building.

“Sulanga Stormfury will kill us all,” one woman moaned as she crawled out from beneath a smoking body.

“Randee!” another woman gasped, grabbing at a male who’s face had been burned to a crisp.

“We have to move!” Maya shouted. “Hurry!”

“Maya!” shouted Rih.

Maya whipped her head up the street to see the unicorn pointing at the sky. Another thunderbird swooped down at her group. The undine’s water body rippled with fear. How could she protect the halflings?

“RUN!” she cried, pointing at the building. “Get in there! Hurry!”

The thunderbird crackled, her body made of lightning. Her wings sizzled in the air. A murderous rage swept over Maya. She could feel that this monster girl wanted to kill the halflings then let Maya and Leo’s harem save them.

What can I do? thought Maya. She didn’t know.

Rih jumped.

As the thunderbird soared over the street, the unicorn’s bent legs extended. She soared into the air, her golden horn thrusting up at the enemy monster girl. A living spear hurtled at the bitch. Rih looked so graceful. So majestic.

A surge of lightning crackled as Rih slammed into the thunderbird’s body. Sparks flared. The thunderbird screamed in pain while Rih was flung back to the ground, her body smoking from the defensive discharge from the enemy.

She hit the ground and vanished.

The thunderbird crashed into the side of the building a moment later. She spun off it and hit the ground before Maya and burst into sparks. She disappeared. Killed. But there were other thunderbirds in the skies.

Two more swooped down at them. Maya didn’t see Nina or the ghosts in the air.

Kin, another unicorn leading her halflings, jumped to impale one of them. The thunderbird was ready. Her lightning blast struck Kin before she could even close the distance. The burst hit her head on. When the sparks cleared, she was gone.

Maya quivered in fear. She didn’t know what to do but get her halflings to safety. She ran down the street, her panicked charges scurrying after her.

Think! Think! Think! Maya hissed at herself. You need help. Where are you going to get it?

Then the answer blossomed in her head.

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“Hagane, it’s Maya!” screamed in the metal monster girl’s mind. The animated statue stood ready to go. Halflings darted down the stairs into the dungeon, screaming. In a panic. “Thunderbirds are attacking us and the refugees. Two of my unicorns are dead. There’s no sign of Nina and her ghosts!”

“I’m coming!” Hagane cried.

She rushed to the stairs, shouting, “Move! Move!”

The stunned halflings gasped and melted out of her way. Her slender form raced up the stairs. Her glasses shifted on her nose. She reached the top and stepped out onto the street. Maya ran down it, a group of halflings with her. Another was racing from a different direction.

Lightning crashed down and struck that group, killing the very people that Hagane was here to protect and save. She had never felt such anger before. This fury swelled in the animated statue’s breast. If she had a heart, it would be pounding with fury.

The enemy swooped back into the sky, leaving the dead in her wake.

I need to get up there.

Her hands reshaped into thick, strong claws. She drove her chrome digits into the masonry of the building and climbed. Her toes merged into spikes that she kicked into the side of the wall like she was wearing ice-climbing gear. She scrambled up the side of the building, shattered masonry falling around her.

In a minute, she had gained the top of the four-story building. She surveyed the sight and spotted her quarry. A thunderbird swooping down for her next attack. Hagane’s arms flowed into blades, hands extending into sharp points. She waited and waited, gauging the distance. The speed she could run. The velocity of the enemy.

Hagane burst into a run.

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Garnet, on the same network as both her mother and Maya, heard the call for help.

She banked over to the west to help, summoning a whip of shadows. She would not let the enemy win. she would help her big brother save all these halflings. She soared over the streets towards the fight, staring at the thunderbirds.

The wicked monster girls would pay.

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“GO!”

I shouted my command as I stood before the door. I aimed my spear at it and chanted the words to Concussive Burst. “Thunderclap deafens, let the roar of Lord Ishkur disorient!”

The sonic burst struck the door. It exploded inward, ripped into a thousand pieces of shrapnel that sprayed through the inside. I charged inside, my robes billowing, my body enhanced and defended by multiple spells.

My monster girls were dying across the city. I would end this. I would secure it and get these halflings to safety.

Behind me, Ms. Trueno followed, her scaled feet slapping on the ground. From above, Gaiste and the other arachnes jumped through the window and landed on the rafters above. They fired webbing down at a large wolf made entirely of lightning.

The raiju.

She dodged the attacks with lupine grace, snarling. Electric hackles rose about her neck. Static charge crackled off her. She howled her fury. A bolt of lightning shot into the air at the arachnes scurrying above.

It struck a wooden beam then hit Greasai. My arachne screamed in pain as she was thrown back. I felt her die before she hit the ground. I skidded to a stop and glared at the raiju. I leveled my spear at her, fury howling in my heart.

No more of my monster girls would die.

“Water’s crushing weight surround, feel the grasp of Lord Enki squeeze!”

A ball of water engulfed the lightning wolf. It squeezed down on her, crushing her. Drown her. I watched on in vicious satisfaction.

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When Leo’s command screamed through Halia’s mind, she leveled her Blessed Blade at the door. The sword hummed in her hands as her salamanders drew in their breath. Their burning wings flared wide. Then five streams of fire slammed into the door.

Their burning breath destroyed the door. Flaming pieces flew inside the building. Halia broke into a charge, clad in her golden armor. She held her sword in her hand. Beside her, Usiku ran with her midnight sword in hand.

“Lady Sherida, bless us with your light and protection,” prayed the paladin as she charged past the burning frame of the door.

On the far side of the room, lightning crackled, but Halia’s attention was on the treant that whirled around to face them. She had wood-brown skin like Mrs. Baldwin, but instead of hair, she had leafy branches extending from her head making a strange crown. Her large breast bounced as she stared at them with anger in her eyes.

Roots surged from her feet like Mrs. Baldwin grew. Halia skidded to a halt and raised her sword before her, ready to cut the binding roots before they could seize her. She aimed at the floor as they surged at her.

Only these roots were thicker and instead of going for Halia’s legs, they rose into the air and swung at her. Clubs whipped at her. She gasped and cut one, but a half-dozen more struck her armor. Her breastplate rang as the force threw her back into the wall. She hit with a hard impact. The air burst from her lungs.

She groaned and slumped to the ground, her armor dented. She wheezed, struggling to catch her breath. The whipping roots slammed at Usiku. Her shadowy blade slashed, cutting through three of them before they struck her body.

She shouted in pain as her arm snapped from the crushing blow. Then the treant’s root-club struck Usiku in the neck. The fomorian’s head twisted at a sickening angle. Her body went limp. She fell to the ground and vanished.

The roots surged towards Halia.

Chapter Twenty-Thirty

Crystal nodded as the last hippogriff died.

“I need help!” Mrs. Lucina cried. “I have two phoenixes on me! All my sphinxes are dead!”

“Come to us!” Crystal shouted back. “Me and my yuki-onna are still in the fight.”

Mrs. Lucina sent back a groan of gratitude.

Crystal looked in the direction the angel should be, scanning the skies for her. In three heartbeats, the ice sprite spotted Mrs. Lucina. Fire burned after her. She dodged a blast, her white wings soaring her through the skies. Crystal’s stomach churned for the beautiful MILF.

“We’ll save you,” she muttered to herself. Then she cupped her hands. “LANA!”

Lana, soaring overhead, glanced down.

Crystal pointed towards the angel coming in fast. Lana Fulmine nodded. The movie starlet’s wings crackled with her fury. Crystal looked around at her yuki-onna and Paanee, they were all ready to give the phoenixes a welcome.

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Mrs. Bella Lucina flew like an angel fleeing hell.

She could feel the fires right behind her. She dodged and wove through the air. Flames shot past her. The two phoenixes screeched with fury as they fired their death at the angel. She flapped her wings hard, seeing Crystal, Paanee, Lana Fulmine, and the yuki-onna.

Mrs. Lucina just had to get to them.

Fire burned.

She banked to the right, the ball of fire screaming by her only for the other to slam into her back. She gasped as she realized she had dodged right into the inferno. The flames engulfed her, wings burning. Pain blazed through her body.

She could see her help. She had almost reached them.

Almost.

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“NOOOO!” Lana Fulmine screamed as Mrs. Lucina vanished in a ball of fire. “KILL THOSE BITCHES!”

“YESSSSS!” Sparnas and Vaivory hissed as they swooped in beside Lana Fulmine.

The lightning sprite and the two quetzalcoatls all fired their electric attacks. Blasts of plasma arced from Lana Fulmine’s wings while the two quetzalcoatls spat balls of sizzling energy. The three attacks surged at the phoenixes who cawed in surprise.

They had been so focused on killing the angel, they hadn’t realized that she had backup.

Lana Fulmine’s electric blast and the two balls of lightning slammed into the same phoenix. All three attacks struck the flaming monster girl and annihilated her. The other phoenix cawed in shock, banking hard to the right.

“Get her!” Lana Fulmine snarled and soared after her, the two quetzalcoatls beating their rainbow wings as they flew with her.

They dove at the phoenix. She flew down a street, vanishing behind a building. Lana Fulmine led her quetzalcoatls over the top of it. She built up her charge, ready to fry this monster girl. She focused on the street where she would appear.

Only the enemy popped up to the right, flying straight up. The phoenix had killed her speed. Now she flared her wings wide and fired a ball of fire. It slammed into Sparnas, the quetzalcoatl taking the blow that would have killed Lana Fulmine.

“No!” screamed the movie starlet. She hated this. She was leading the monster girls into pain and suffering. They could come back, but not until all the halflings were safe. That could be hours.
Sulanga could counterattack, and they were losing their forces.

“Come on!” Lana hissed and banked around to chase the bitch down, Vaivory with her.

“We’ll get her!” the quetzalcoatl hissed, her serpent tail swishing behind her.

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“Get ready!” Crystal snarled. Anger pounded in her heart. Mrs. Lucina had been so close to being rescued. “Lana’s driving that bitch right for us.”

The last phoenix dodged a blast of lightning from Lana Fulmine’s wings then swooped to avoid a ball of electricity from Vaivory. The pair sent the phoenix flying right for the roofs that held Crystal and her force.

She formed her crystal dagger, the yuki-onna doing the same. Paanee inhaled, her boobs jiggling and tail swishing. At once, the group threw their attacks. Glittering missiles of death soared right for the flaming monster girl.

Red-feathered wings flapped. The phoenix cawed in surprise. She saw death coming for her. Flames burst from her mouth and swept out into the icy attacks. Crystal cursed as the attack engulfed their attacks.

Their ice melted into useless water.

The steam died down. Her glittering dagger gone.

But not Paanee’s ball of acid.

The phoenix banked at the last second. Instead of taking a face full of acid, it struck her wing. The feathers dissolved. The phoenix gasped and spun through the air. She hit on the roof a second later, tumbling between Prekrasnyy and Moroz. The two yuki-onna formed icy daggers.

Fire burned from the phoenix’s mouth as she came up into a crouch. Her flaming breath engulfed the two yuki-onna before they could reach her. They screamed, their icy bodies melting from the heat. They stumbled back, dissolving then vanishing.

Crystal’s heart lurched.

Hissing, Paanee leaped at the phoenix. The naga slammed into the bird monster girl. The blue snake’s tail wrapped tight about the phoenix, crushing her. Paanee’s face twisted in fury, her boobs jiggling as she squeezed her coils about the phoenix.

“Yes, yes, crush that bitch!” Crystal shouted.

The phoenix threw back her head to scream in pain. But instead of a cry of agony, flames burst out of her mouth and engulfed Paanee’s breasts and face. The naga’s blue hair burst into fire. She threw back her head, dying.

Crystal rushed toward the fight, forming an icy dagger. She raised it to throw it as Paanee thrashed in her death throes, her body still coiled about the enemy monster girl. Crystal didn’t have a clear shot. She hissed in frustration.

Paanee vanished. Returned to the Void Crystal.

The ice sprite threw her icy weapon.

The phoenix whirled around and breathed fire. It sprayed out from her, engulfing the attack and rushing for Crystal. The ice sprite threw herself back, rolling across the ground. The heat surged at her freezing body.

“No!” shouted Belyy. The yuki-onna threw herself to the ground, the fire licking over her. Water spilled off her body, part of her arm melting. But she rolled clear.

“Get that bitch!” Crystal roared, rising to her feet.

The phoenix spread her one remaining wing wide. The other was burning. Healing. She was regenerating her injury. Fucking phoenixes! snarled Crystal. She knew they could be reborn or something. Harry Potter had taught her that.

Flames exploded from the phoenix’s mouth and hurtled right for Crystal.

She had to flee farther down the roof, driven back by the heat with her yuki-onna. The flaming breath pushed them towards the edge of the roof. She reached the edge and faced a drop that would kill her. She had nowhere else to run. The fire boiled at her. She threw her ice shards.

They became puffs of steam.

From above, Lana Fulmine swooped down and spread her crackling wings wide. Lightning danced in her golden hair. Her silver body gleamed as she fired her electricity down at the phoenix. She hit the monster girl from behind and fried her ass.

The phoenix screamed as the attack flung her on her belly, snuffing out her flames. She thrashed, her back charred. Crystal and her three remaining yuki-onna threw their ice daggers. The blades ripped through the phoenix’s flesh.

Crystal’s took the bitch in the eye.

She died.

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Ms. Rosa Trueno watched as the lightning wolf thrashed in the watery ball that her student had conjured. Leo stood tall and proud. The thunder sprite padded on her feet her coppery scales gleaming with the flashes of light arcing from inside the ball of water.

The wolf thrashed, attacking the ball. Steam rose from the glob. Then it burst and the wolf exploded out of it, landing on the ground. Without breaking stride, she bounded for Ms. Trueno’s student.

The teacher screamed.

The air warped before the thunder sprite. A cone of sonic force punched into the lightning wolf, throwing the beast to the side. The monster girl rolled, snarling in pain. She tumbled and gained her feet. As she did, her mouth opened.

A bolt of lightning arced out across ten feet. There was no time for Leo to dodge. Ms. Trueno’s heart clenched in fear. But static energy exploded around Leo, absorbing the attack and keeping it from touching him.

Ms. Trueno gasped out in relief.

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As Static Aura dissipated, protecting me from the raiju’s attack, the monster girl leaped at me. Her crackling body hurtled at me to rip me apart. I didn’t flinch. Didn’t shout in alarm. Battle trained you to react when things shocked you.

“Incarnation of flames, let the passion of Lady Lamashtu embrace!”

Flames exploded across my body a moment before she crashed into me. Flamebody turned me into living fire. The wolf struck me and knocked me to the ground. The fire burned beneath my robes. My face blazed. The heat soared around her.

The raiju snarled in pain and she leaped off me. I grinned. As I stood up. Webbing fired down from above. The arachnes struck the lightning wolf this time. The raiju snarled, the webbing sticking her to the ground.

It smoked as her lightning attacked it, but she was frozen in place for a moment.

Ms. Trueno shouted. Her thunderous roar slammed into the lightning wolf. She fired a blast of lighting back that Ms. Trueno dodged. Then the wolf looked to the rafters and fired one up at the scuttling arachnes leaping above.

It struck Nimhe between the tits as she was in mid-jump. She landed badly, slipped, and hit the ground with a bone-crunching impact, spider legs twitching. She vanished. I felt her death in my heart as I faced down the bitch.

The webbing snapped. The wolf howled.

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As Halia struggled to stand, the root-clubs hurtled at her. Death swept down at Halia. She would never block them all. Not while gasping for air and struggling to stand.

Fire boiled before her.

The salamanders burst into the room and breathed their passion. The roots crisped to ash. The treant screamed in pain, her branches rustling above her head. She stumbled back, her roots blazing. The salamanders advanced as Halia gained her feet.

The roots snapped, cutting off the burned parts. Then they surged out in a hundred directions. There were so many of them. They surged down at the salamanders.

Fire roared from their mouths. They slammed into roots. The treant grimaced in pain, her face twisting with agony. But she kept attacking with a desperation. Almost like she was afraid of what would happen if she failed.

One got through and struck Dolor in the head, crushing her skull. The salamander dropped dead to the ground.

Halia edged around the fight. The treant grew her roots as fast as the salamander’s burned them. She just needed them to make one mistake, and she would strike down another. Halia moved slowly, getting out to the flanks.

Halia charged at her enemy.

Her boots slapped down on the stone, her arms pumping. She hoped to surprise the treant.

A root flicked at Halia. She raised her sword and swung, cutting it in half. But the severed end still struck her thigh. The bruising impact tripped her. She fell to the ground in a tumbling clatter.

Roots reared over the rolling Halia.

Astuta charged in, using her wings to propel her faster. They flapped behind the salamander. She reached Halia and knocked her to the side. She rolled on the ground out of the descending roots. Astuta breathed her fire.

Roots burned. Clubs blazed.

The treant snarled in pain.

But the roots got through. There were too many for Astuta to get them all. They crashed down on her, battering her down, crushing her orange scales. As Halia gained her feet, her savior vanished into motes, banished back to the Void Crystal.

“Lady Sherida, guide my steps!” the paladin prayed to the Lady of Light.

Her sword flickered.

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The halflings huddled beneath the eaves of buildings, crouching from the fury of the thunderbirds that swooped down at them. Maya pressed into the wall, thinking about what to do. Down the street, Nezaymana appeared. She flexed her legs and jumped at another thunderbird.

That tactic had worked once. But the wily monster girls were ready for it and shot lightning. The blast smote the unicorn, knocking her attack to the side. She screamed in pain, spinning in the air, and hurtled back to the ground.

Unable to land properly, she hit hard, the impact finishing her off.

“Maya!” Chystota neighed. She unicorn trotted across the street, leaving behind a group of halflings huddled in an alley.

“Don’t jump at them,” Maya said. “You can’t take the lightning blasts.”

“What do we do?” the unicorn asked, her black eyes brimming with fear.

“Throw me!” Maya glanced up. Another thunderbird was coming around. “I can take a blast of lightning. I’m water.”

“Okay,” Chystota said, though she didn’t sound convinced.

Maya wasn’t, either, but she had to do something.

Chystota crouched down and cupped her hands. Maya stepped into them, her body rippling. The thunderbird crackled, about to attack a group of refugees. Anger flashed hot through the undine.

“Throw me!”

The unicorn neighed and sprang upright and threw the undine.

Like a shot from a catapult, Maya hurtled into the air. Curling up into a ball of water, Maya soared for the thunderbird. The enemy monster girl screeched in shock, spotting her. The lightning struck Maya. Pain arched through her body.

But it didn’t kill her.

Steam spilled off her, the blast raising her temperature.

A heartbeat later, she splashed against the thunderbird.

Maya spread her body around the lightning monster girl, engulfing the electrical form in living water. She coated every bit of her. The thunderbird screeched and burst with current. Agony twisted through Maya as they hurtled towards the ground.

It was like being frozen with ice. The temperature in her body rose. Steam spilled off them as they fell towards the street. Her body boiled as the current arcing through her liquid heated her. But she didn’t let go of the thunderbird.

I got you, bitch, Maya thought, drowning her enemy.

They hit the ground. The monster girl exploded in lightning. Maya’s body ripped apart from the impact, boiling off into steam. She splashed across the road, too scattered to stay together. She felt herself dissolving. Her consciousness…

Faded.

She died.

Chapter Thirty-One

Hagane skidded to a halt. She had mistimed her attack.

Instead of jumping off the building, she stopped at the edge. Staring down at the street, she grimaced at Maya’s sacrifice to kill the thunderbird. Hagane closed her eyes. One more thunderbird dead, but it had cost a good monster girl. Hagane couldn’t make that mistake again.

Because she heard the crackle of lightning. She opened her eyes and spotted another thunderbird swooping down at the halflings that Maya and Chystota defended. The unicorn threw herself into the blast of lightning, taking the blow that would have killed a half-dozen of the innocents.

The brave unicorn hit the ground, her body smoking and charred. Hagane’s anger swelled. Fury trembled through her metallic body. Chystota whinnied in pain one last time then she vanished in a burst of motes.

Sent back to the Void Crystal.

You did amazing, Chystota, Hagane thought. You saved their lives.

Now it was Hagane’s turn. This time, she would not mess up. The thunderbird rose out of her attack, climbing out of the buildings and right towards where the animated statue stood. She leaped from the building.

The metallic girl slammed down on the back of the thunderbird and rammed her arm-blades through the electric body of the enemy. Current surged up Hagane’s limbs and through her body. But she wasn’t made of flesh.

Of metal.

She could take an electric blast. Endure the pain as she drove the monster girl to the ground. They hit hard. The thunderbird burst into motes while the animated statue’s tough body rose to her full height, hurt but still in the fight.

The halflings stared at her where they huddled in fright. She aimed at the door to the building. “Go! Get to safety! Lord Leo will protect you! Just get out of the street.”

Hagane didn’t know if all the thunderbirds had been killed or not. She would not take any chances.

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Garnet soared over the city and found Hagane ushering a group of halflings into a building. From around the corner, Sriblo trotted at the tip of a large group of halflings. From the air, Garnet could see more groups rushing in this direction.

Word’s spreading, she thought. She took the responsibility of making sure the halflings got out of the city very seriously. She would not let down her big brother.

“Are there any more thunderbirds?” Hagane asked in Garnet’s mind.

The succubus didn’t see any. “You’re clear. Get them to safety then move to the north. We have to help up there.”

“Okay,” Hagane said as Garnet winged to the north, her whip dissolving. She didn’t get to spank a naughty thunderbird.

Tears formed in her eyes at the dead lying in the street. Those halflings didn’t get to come back like the monster girls. They were snuffed out forever. The little succubus hissed her fury. She wouldn’t let any more of the halflings die.

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“How’s it going in the east, Mommy?” Garnet asked, her voice echoing through the dryad’s mind.

“Almost clear,” said Mrs. Zoe Baldwin to her daughter. “How’s it going in the west. It sounds bad over there.”

“It’s under control now,” said Garnet. “Hagane had to come join the fight. Only Sriblo survived on the evacuation team.”

Mrs. Baldwin sighed. Maya dead. She liked the girl. “Okay, we’re almost done here.”

“Please send some of your basilisks north then take the rest to the south and help out there,” Garnet said.

Mrs. Baldwin looked around. She spotted Skamianiela and Vielmi appearing around the bend leading a large group of halflings. The basilisks swept them towards the door that Mrs. Baldwin stood at. She nodded in approval as the refugees hurried by.

“Skamianiela and Vielmi! Head north!” the dryad shouted. “Join the evacuation effort. Listen to Garnet.”

“Yes, Mrs. Baldwin!” the two basilisks cried together.

“You be good,” Vielmi added to a halfling child. “Mind your mother!”

The little girl nodded.

The two jogged off to the north. With a mental command to Piaro, Mastab, and Dychannie, Mrs. Baldwin prepared to move south and help out down there. She felt good about the day. They had taken losses, but they were killing the enemy monster girls and retaking the city.

They didn’t have to hold it for long.

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Terra felt stunned now that the fight was over. She needed a minute to gather her wits. It was insane. The werewolves were so dangerous. Level 3 Monster Girls outclassed Level 2 even with all their training and practice.

But numbers had their own quality.

She felt like she should be gulping in breaths.

But she wasn’t alive in that way. Wasn’t human any longer no matter what she felt. This body was animated clay, not flesh and blood. It was a strange thing to fully realize. She was truly a different person from Terra the Barista.

And she had done something important today.

“Terra, are the werewolves defeated?” asked Garnet, the succubus’s voice ringing in the golem’s ears.

“They’re dead,” Terra answered.

“Please help with the evacuation. Aid is coming!”

Terra nodded even though Garnet couldn’t see her. She looked at the survivors then at the streets. All the halflings were in hiding. They better find them and get them moving to safety. Who knew when those werewolves would be brought back to life and sent to attack them.

And would there be more of them for round two?

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“Okay,” Crystal said, looking at her three surviving yuki-onna. Snezhinka, Belyy, and Sukkub were the only ones still standing. “We’re on evacuation duty now. Skies are clear. Good job!”

“You heard her, princesses,” Snezhinka called, sounding almost like Smerta. “Move those pretty asses. Let’s go. I want your frosty butts down on the street and helping out. Big sis Crystal gave her orders. Let’s move!”

“Damn,” Crystal said, impressed. Then she sent, “Mom, we’ll help you with the evacuation.”

“Thanks, honey,” answered the dryad.

Crystal was feeling good. The battle seemed over. She hadn’t heard from her brother. How was the fight going with the two most powerful monster girls in the city? She couldn’t see how it would fail. Not when he had Halia with him.

Crystal followed the yuki-onna down to the street.

To be continued…

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