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Story Codes: Gamelit, Magic, Fantasy, Violence

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Chapter Thirty-Two

Ms. Trueno shouted at the raiju again as the beast burst out of the webbing and lunged for Leo. Despite the fact he was made of fire, the lightning wolf still wanted his blood. The teacher wouldn’t let her favorite student be hurt at all.

Her passionate cry punched the lightning wolf, throwing the beast down. Ms. Trueno hissed in delight. She was enjoying these new powers of hers. They were something amazing. Something that she reveled in possessing.

She wasn’t helpless here. She wouldn’t be victimized as a thunder sprite. She had power.

The lightning wolf fired a breath of lightning at Leo as the beast gained her feet.

Ms. Trueno gasped in alarm, hating herself for her moment of gloating. But Leo was ready.

“Hammer concusses, let the might of Lord Ishkur deafen!”

The air warped before the lightning wolf. A sonic hammer slammed into the beast and slammed it hard in the head. The wolf staggered from the blow while Leo sidestepped the lightning blast. It crashed into the wall behind him.

Ms. Trueno drew in another breath.

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The air crackled from the lightning bolt’s passage, tingling over my skin.

Unfazed, I chanted, “From above it falls, let the ice of Lord Anshar crush!”

The stunned raiju didn’t have a chance to dodge Frozen Fall. A large chunk of ice slammed down on her head. She collapsed and vanished in a burst of golden light. I let out a relieved breath. Two arachnes dead.

Too high a price for one monster girl.

But she was down. The city was almost mine. The halflings almost saved.

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Halia sprang at the burning treant, Blessed Blade buzzing and shining with light.

Lady Sherida’s blessing animated the paladin’s limbs. The Lady of Light had blessed Halia. Her black hair flowed behind her as she closed the distance. The treant saw her. Snarling in pain, thick roots clubbed at Halia.

Her sword hummed as it slashed through the first then the second. The severed ends tumbled past her head. She jumped over a tripping attack. Fire burned to the side, the three surviving salamanders breathing their hot fire.

Halia landed and lunged.

Her sword rammed through the chest of the monster girl. The treant’s branches rustled in the air above her head. Halia swiped to the right, cutting through flesh and out the side. An arm spilled to the ground.

The treant staggered back. The branches rustled and whipped at Halia.

Her sword was faster.

She cut off the treant’s head. The monster girl had a look of abject terror frozen on her face before she vanished in a burst of golden light. Halia panted, confused by that look. Terror. What did she have to be afraid of? She’ll be reborn. She’s not dead.

Halia glanced across the meeting hall. Lord Leo burned, but not from the enemy. The flames around him snuffed out. Three arachnes dropped from the ceiling. Ms. Trueno stood by him. He glanced across the room.

Their eyes met. He nodded.

She returned it. They had won.

“Is the city secure?” Leo asked, his voice ringing through all their minds.

“It is, big bro!” Garnet answered. “Kweh, heh, heh, the city is yours! The evacuation is well underway! We won, big bro! We won! Kweh, heh, heh, heh, heh!”

Leo shook his head while Halia couldn’t help but smile. The salamanders burst into laughter as they gathered around Halia. There were smiles on Engana’s, Malvada’s, and Horca’s faces. Their burning wings fluttered behind them.

“Where do you need help with the evacuation?” asked Lord Leo.

“North and south,” Garnet answered. “East and west are pretty well done.”

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Morana the banshee waited in the dungeon. Halflings were starting to trickle in now. Small groups that looked at her and squeaked in fright. That made the goth monster girl smile for a moment. I’m a dark lady of Death.

“Morana,” Leo’s voice rang through her mind. “Help with the evacuation in the south. Baaghi, you help in the north. Halia, go south with your salamanders while I take the arachnes and Ms. Trueno north.”

“And what about me, Lord Leo?” Isatu asked.

“You’re still my last reserve,” Lord Leo told her. “Things could go wrong still. Hela, any sign?”

“No enemy forces coming yet,” the wildhound answered.

Morana rushed up the stairs, her cloak of black mist billowing behind her. She was now a dark lady on a mission of mercy. Death didn’t have to always take life. Death could preserve it. Protect it. Today, she would do that.

She stepped out onto the street and rushed towards a group of halflings peering out of a building. She put on a big smile. The old Morana would never have been interested in helping people. That was something preps did.

She wasn’t that person any longer.

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Kassie was all smiles. The halflings were flooding in. A crowd of them waited as she stood by the teleporter. Once she had as many on as she could, the words were spoken.

“Asud Gu!”

The circle glowed. The white light engulfed the halflings and whisked them to the other side of the mountains and the village of Astovin. This is a miracle, floated through Kassie’s mind as she motioned for the next group to squeeze on.

“Teleport circle is clear,” Feya reported.

Once more, the halflings filled up the circle. As soon as Kassie had on as many as could fit, the words were spoken.

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Sulanga Stormfury gripped his Void Crystal. In the heart of his dungeon, in his Vault, he revived the last of his monster girls that had been slain. Peda and Vilkas would have to be punished severely for this disaster. Losing his city.

Fury whipped through him. He marched forward through his dungeon, every step matching the raging beat of his heart. He would show this dungeon builder upstart who had attacked him the price of challenging the storm.

He would whip away Leo and his monster girls. He would annihilate them. He would bring them all down. He would step on this bug and crush him into the ground. His hands balled into fists as he marched through his empty dungeon, passing the myriad of traps, navigating the labyrinth, until he reached the hall where all his monster slaves gathered.

He swept out before them. They all knelt. Werewolves behind Peda, that cow of a treant; thunderbirds behind Vilkas, that mongrel bitch of a raiju; phoenixes behind Esclava, his ifrit; and the hippogriffs behind his first companion, Paetu the djinn. His brother’s wife.

“You saw no sign of Level 3 Monster Girls?” Sulanga Stormfury growled.

“None, Master,” whimpered Peda. She quivered, her branches rustling.

“It was Lord Leo,” Vilkas added, her face pressed into the floor. “He used no Expert Magic?”

“Then he is done,” growled the dungeon builder. His swarthy face twisted in a grin. “Vilkas, transform! I will ride you, bitch!”

“Yes, Master,” she whimpered and blurred from her female form into that of the wolf made of lightning.

Sulanga marched to her and threw his leg over her back. He sat on her hunches and looked around at his monster slaves. The werewolves blurred into their wolf forms. The others spread their wings wide. He had powerful monster girls.

“Let’s ride!” he snarled. “That city is mine!”

He led every monster slave he had out of his dungeon.

Chapter Thirty-Three

I reached the northern sector of the city and found Garnet, Hagane, Sriblo, Terra, Baaghi, and the surviving werebears and orcs getting the halflings moving towards the dungeon. I looked around at the evacuation then glanced to Ms. Trueno.

“Let’s go,” she said in a calm voice. The sort she would use with her students. “It’s okay. We’re getting out of here.”

“Garnet,” I shouted, seeing her leading a group of halflings towards the dungeon, Sriblo trotting with her.

“Big bro!” squealed my little sister.

She flapped her red wings and raced over to me. She threw herself into my arms and kissed me. Her lips were soft on mine. I grabbed her ass and squeezed her rump. Her tongue thrust into my mouth. Hot and nimble, it danced with mine.

I broke the kiss and breathed heavily. She had a wicked smile on her lips, this naughty gleam in her red eyes. Her black pigtails framed her mischievous face. She thrust her hands behind her back, arching an eyebrow at me.

“What’s up, big bro?” she asked.

“Get to the air and make sure we’re getting everyone out,” I told her. “Sweep the city. No one gets left behind.”

“You got it, big bro!” She spread her wings wide and leaped into the sky. “Kweh, heh, heh!”

I shook my head then headed out into the city to find people to save, my heart pounding in my chest. Exhilaration surged through me. We had taken losses, but we had the city secured. Now we just had to funnel the halflings through Astovin and pull my dungeon back across the mountains.

If Sulanga Stormfury wanted vengeance, he’d have to come to me. He’d have to leave his dungeon behind. He might have the stronger monster girls, but I had more of them. He would be attacking me on my home turf.

And if he took too many away from his base, then he would be vulnerable to adventurers. I smiled. He could never bring his full force to bear on me. Not without risking it all. We just had to get everyone out of here fast.

How far away was his dungeon from here?

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Garnet winged over the city. It was still full of so many halflings.

“Zobens and Briesmoni, there’s a group of halflings hiding in the building that you’re passing on your right. I saw them through the windows,” I sent to the two orcs prowling through the street. “Be gentle with them.”

“We’ll be gentle,” promised Zobens as she kicked in the door and rushed in, Briesmoni right on her heels.

Garnet looked to the south and drifted into that sector to help with the evacuation down there. Her eyes scanned the city. She would find every last halfling. She would not let her big brother down. She would help them save everyone.

This was such an incredible day. She felt so thrilled to be in this world.

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Crystal reached the street with her surviving yuki-onna. Morana emerged on the street, her cape of black mist spilled down her back. Lana swooped down and landed with a flurry of her lightning-clad wings.

“Let’s move it,” Lana shouted. “We have a city to evacuate.”

“Right, let’s go,” said Crystal. The ice sprite ran down the street and burst into a building. A group of halflings huddled inside. “Come on, it’s okay. We’re here to help. Lord Leo has sent us.”

“Lord Leo?” a child squeaked. The boy was so small, coming up to Crystal’s knee.

“That’s right,” she said, smiling at him. “We’re Lord Leo’s, not that evil Sulanga Stormturd’s.”

The boy laughed. So did others.

Crystal motioned them and led them out onto the street. She guided them to the cobbler that served as one of the dungeon entries and ushered them inside. Morana led her own group, the queen of the dead looking strange holding a hurt halfling in her arms. Concern painted the goth banshee’s face.

The ice sprite swallowed and darted off to find more halflings to return. Her next group hid in an alley, quivering there. A small family, grandparents included. She led them out and spotted Halia leading a group of halflings. A large one. Thirty or more being shepherded by her and a few of the salamanders. They were waving their arms, ushering the halflings inside.

Then Piaro, Mastab, and Dychannie led another large group. The blue-scaled basilisks looked so gentle as they guided them in. They weren’t the fierce monster girls whose breath could petrify you. They were loving and caring women.

Leo’s done this to us, thought Crystal. He’s changed these fierce monster girls from something dangerous and vicious into creatures who are full of love and compassion. Those bitches in the skies had none of that.

“Hey, big sis,” Garnet said in Crystal’s mind. “Don’t just stand there. I’ll whip that butt. There are halflings three blocks to the north. In the large building with the shattered wall. Go get them.”

Crystal shot a gaze to the sky and spotted Garnet soaring above them. She indeed had a shadowy whip in hand. “Love to see you try,” Crystal sent back with a smile on her lips. “Your whip would freeze to my ass, then what would you do?”

“Tie you up!” Garnet cracked the whip in the sky.

Laughing, Crystal headed to the building to help dig out the halflings. She felt good. This was such a rewarding moment. Fighting Anguin had been terrifying. They had been protecting Astovin Village, but also themselves.

They didn’t have to come here. Leo could have left these halflings to their fate. He and Sulanga weren’t enemies yet, but Leo attacked a stronger enemy to help them out. Crystal burst with joy as she found those halflings.

She gathered them and led them to safety.

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“How is it going out there, Garnet?” Kassie sent as she gathered the next group onto the tunnel.

“Awesome,” Garnet answered. “Ooh, we have most of the city cleared. How’s it going down there?”

“Slowly.” Kassie studied the group on the circle. She had as many as could fit. “Asud Gu.”

“How slowly is slowly?” asked Garnet.

“The refugees are piling up in the tunnels.” The mage looked at the groups waiting to get on. She motioned to the next one. “I’m moving them as fast as I can.”

“Where are we going?” an old halfling woman asked, her face wrinkled, her eyes milky.

“Safety,” said Kassie. “Come on. Squeeze in tight. We can fit two more on. No, no, just two!”

She marched around the circle, making sure everyone was inside of it. They were packed tight.

“Send the next group,” Feya called, her voice chipper.

“Asud Gu!”

“Okay, next group,” Kassie shouted. “Squeeze in tight. Let’s go. Let’s move it!”

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The pressure to get everyone out mounted on Terra. It weighed on her clay shoulders as she led another family to the evacuation building. She had to go farther and farther from it to find survivors. That was a good thing, but she also felt the time slipping away from them.

How long did they have?

“How is it going, Orcs?” asked Terra.

“We’re doing a final sweep of our sector,” Zobens reported. “We think it’s clear, but we have to make sure.”

“Good, good,” Terra thought. “And Bhaaloo, how is your part of the town.”

“We just found another group,” Bhaaloo said. “Smells clear. We’ll get them all out, Terra. Don’t you fret. We would never let down Lord Leo.”

Terra led her group out to the street before the building with the dungeon in it and saw Hagane ushering in her own group. The animated statue waved her metallic arms. The halflings vanished inside. She lifted her head, her glasses gleaming in the afternoon sunlight.

“I think we’re going to do this,” Terra said to Hagane. “Save them all.”

The animated statue nodded, a big smile on her lips. It was an unusual sight to see on the normally thoughtful face.

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“I wish I could defend this place,” I said to Sriblo as she pranced up to me. The unicorn’s golden horn gleamed in the sunlight. “But it feels good to save all these halflings.”

“It does, Lord Leo,” Sriblo said. She stopped before me, her white horse tail swishing behind her. She stood on her two hooves, a big smile on her gentle face. “I can’t find any more halflings to rescue.”

I nodded, looking around at their home. An entire city of halflings rescued. I would have to use my magic to help feed them. Build homes for them. They would have to resettle in the valley around Astovin. I could never hold this city against Sulanga.

He was too powerful and this was too far from my base of operation. I would need to find more mana veins. I had a good idea where I could get them, but it would leave my dungeon stretched too far apart. I could never have grabbed those veins and built a tunnel to Sharithin.

Hagane appeared around the corner. She smiled at me and hurried over. “How is the evacuation going, Leo?”

“Good, good,” I said. “How long do you think before he hits us again.”

“I don’t know,” said Hagane. She pushed up her glasses. “I fear we saw only a fraction of his forces. Maybe a quarter of what he had. If he hits us before we’re done… We’re finished.”

“Just keep the evacuation going,” I said. “We have to have most of the city emptied. We just get them out and through the magic circle.”

“That’s the bottleneck,” Hagane said. “The halflings are choking up the tunnels. Kassie’s moving them through fast, but it’s still a lot to be done.”

I nodded. “Let’s do a final sweep of our sectors and make sure—”

“Lord Leo!” Marwo the wildhound shouted in my mind. “There’s a horde of monster girls flying in from the northeast. Thunderbirds, phoenixes, and hippogriffs. I count… ten of each.”

“Fuck,” I growled, the fear squeezing about my heart.

“There’s also a lightning wolf leading ten werewolves running on the ground. The treant and a man are on the back. Sulanga. Plus there’s a whirlwind and a firewhirl roaring across the ground with him.”

“Shit,” I groaned.

“At least we had fought half his forces and won,” Hagane said. “So it is not as bad as I feared.”

“We lost more than half our force,” I growled, my stomach sinking.

Chapter Thirty-Four

“Get to the north wall now!” Crystal’s little brother shouted in her mind. “You and your yuki-onna. All the monster girls to the wall right now!”

“Fuck,” growled Crystal. She broke into a run, her surviving yuki-onna rushing with her.

She reached the main street that led to the administration building. Halia and her salamanders appeared from a side-street. Crystal’s mother burst out of an alley with her three basilisks. Morana joined them while Lana, Garnet, and Vaivory soared over them

The group ran fast.

Fear thudded in Crystal’s heart. She had heard the report from Marwo on how many monster girls were coming. Twice what they had barely defeated. She didn’t see how any of them were surviving today.

Just so long as Leo survives and can close the dungeon. If he can do that, then we’re fine. We just have to hold them back.

Crystal would. She would drive off these bastards for the halflings, for her family, for her little brother. She was born for this. Her life in the other world had been empty. Boys, parties, clothes, TikTok videos and Instagram posts.

Nothing that mattered.

This did. She was terrified and determined.

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Leo turned to race to the wall after getting everyone moving.

Hagane grabbed his robed arm and yanked him short. He turned to face her, his flesh transformed into granite. He gripped his lightning spear in a tight hand, his brow furrowing in question at the animated statue.

“What?” Leo asked her.

“Where do you think you are going?” she demanded, arching a metallic eyebrow at him.

“The wall,” he shouted, pointing to it rising over the buildings. “We have to hold him there long enough for Kassie to get the halflings out.”

“No,” Hagane said. “Your monster girls have that task. Your job is to be ready to activate the Void Crystal the moment you can.”

“I’m the strongest one here,” Leo growled at her. “You can’t expect me not to be there. You’ll need me to keep them off.”

“No,” Hagane said. “Halia, you need to protect Lord Leo. Get him into the dungeon. You, Kassie, Isatu, and he are the last line of defense. Leave the guarding of the city wall to the monster girls.”

“Hagane!” Leo growled in shock and anger. “That’s not where I’m going to be.”

Hagane cupped Leo’s face and stared into his eyes. “I know you can command me to do differently, but this is the logical thing to do. We come back. You don’t. And you’re the only one who can close off the dungeon.”

Leo stared at her in shock. She kissed him.

Her eyes closed as she savored the warmth of his lips. They were so magnificent. This thrill rippled through the metallic girl’s body. She savored the kiss, her fingers stroking his granite cheeks. The fear diminished for a moment.

“I love you, Leo Baldwin,” Hagane said. “I am your animated statue. Trust my advice.”

“Yeah,” he groaned and nodded. “You’re right.”

She smiled, glad he listened to logic.

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Ms. Trueno watched the kiss Hagane planted on Leo’s lips. Then her student nodded and headed for the dungeon. She was so proud of him. He was making the hard choice. To send his women to fight. His pride would want him leading the battle.

But a commander had to stay in the rear, out of the fray of combat. You couldn’t see the entire battle when you were fighting to stay alive in one small part of it. It was why you never saw generals on the front lines. Or if they were there, then things had gone badly.

It wasn’t cowardice. It was a necessity.

As he headed off to the dungeon, Ms. Trueno glanced to the wall. It would do nothing for the thirty flying monster girls heading for the city, and Garnet, Lana, and Vaivory were the only fliers left. They would not last long.

Ms. Trueno didn’t see much odds of their success.

I’m going to die, she thought. The other monster girls didn’t view that as a problem. They would come back. She would come back. So long as her student lived.

She gripped the hope that they could pull this off as she headed to the wall. The others were arriving at the gate at the north side of the city. All the survivors. Ms. Trueno took in a deep breath as she faced them all.

“Okay,” Ms. Trueno said, clapping her hands. Someone had to be in charge. There had to be a teacher leading the classroom. She looked out at the monster girls. “Baaghi, you, the werebears, the orcs, and the basilisks are going to hit the ground forces when they burst through the gate. Strike hard. Distract them. Make it hard for them to kill us.”

“That is a good plan,” Hagane said. “But the sky.”

Ms. Trueno rubbed her arms. She glanced up. “Okay, this is what we do.”

“Sorry, Lord Leo!” Marwo screamed in all their minds. “They’ll be on the city—”

Ms. Trueno’s stomach sank at the words cutting off. Marwo was dead. They didn’t have much time to prepare.

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Halia broke away from the reinforcements heading north and rushed to the building in the east. She ran, her endurance holding out. Lady Sherida blessed her limbs. She reached the dungeon itself, rushing through the stairs.

It was alive with halflings. Their voices filled the air with a cacophony of sounds. Shouts echoed. Some halflings were running up and embracing friends and family as they choked the tunnel, waiting for their turn to get to Astovin.

“Make way!” Halia cried. “Make way!”

“It’s Lady Halia the Paladin!” a child cried. “Lord Leo’s knight-champion!”

Halia blinked at that. She didn’t think that any had heard of her.

“Anguin’s mighty daughter!” another shouted. “Is that your father’s Blessed Blade? Will you smite Sulanga down with it in Lord Leo’s name?”

She swallowed. Her cheeks warmed with embarrassment. She nodded to them as she pushed by them.

“Lady Halia! Lady Halia!”

She reached the center where Kassie sent another group of halflings away. From the northern tunnel, shouts rose. The halflings were clapping. Cheering. “LORD LEO! LORD LEO! LORD LEO!”

Her lord and lover appeared, looking majestic in his gray robes. His spear gripped in his hand. Lightning flickered in the enchanted weapon. He glanced to her, nodded. He looked serious. Worried. He glanced up at the ceiling.

“Like standing in the throne room as they deal with the adventurers,” muttered Lord Leo.

“Only this is more serious,” said Halia, looking around. So many halflings left to funnel through. How long will it take?

“Stop gawking at Lord Leo and get on the circle,” Kassie shouted. The mage seemed to tower over her fellow halflings. “Move it! Move it!”

“This is going to take too long,” Leo growled.

If one of the enemies gets in the dungeon… If Sulanga…

Halia wasn’t sure they would survive today. Leo was strong, resourceful, but Sulanga had access to more advanced magic. Who knew what sort of spells he could call upon. And his monster girls were powerful.

“Lord Leo,” Isatu said. The dragon ran up, anxiety on her red-scaled face. She quivered there.

He put his hand on her head, rubbing at her black hair between her horns. He scratched her head. Her wings fluttered. The fear in her eyes faded. She looked up at him with such hope. He stared at her, thinking.

“You are the very last resort,” he said. “I want you to wait to the south.”

“Yes, Lord Leo,” she said. “Can’t I wait with you?”

He shook his head. “I’m sorry, Isatu.” He kissed her on the mouth. She groaned into it. He broke it and said gently, “Go.”

“Yes, Lord Leo,” the dragon pouted. She headed south, the halflings whispering as they stared at her. Did they know what she was?

Halia hoped they didn’t. If it got out Lord Leo had a dragon, it would only encourage more powerful adventurers to attack him. And Halia wasn’t ready for that. She barely had begun putting together her plan to have adventurers.

Chapter Thirty-Five

Garnet spotted the flying force as she circled before the north gate outside of the walls with Lana and Vaivory. In the streets behind them, Sriblo the unicorn, the two orcs, two basilisks, two werebears, three arachnes, Baaghi, Ms. Trueno, Hagane, and Terra were assembling the defenses. It wasn’t great.

The others were still racing through the city.

Garnet had to be ready for battle. With her shadowy powers to create sex toys, she made a whip that she clutched in her left hand and a massive dildo in the other. It was three feet long of clubbing rubber. The Penetrator from those Saint Row video games.

She would beat some monster girls to death with a giant dick. There would be no seducing them. No flirting. No playing. It was all or nothing today.

She stared at the group of them. Thirty monster girls flying in a formation plus a whirlwind and a firewhirl that soared behind them. Garnet swallowed at the sight of those. She didn’t know what made them, but they worried her.

Frightened her.

But she was Lord Leo’s little sister. She would not let her big brother down.

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Lana circled with Garnet and Vaivory studying what was coming. Below, Ms. Trueno cried out orders, the teacher taking charge. Lana was glad about it. She hated when Leo put her in charge. Just because she was his first monster girl didn’t mean she should be in command.

However…

“Garnet, Vaivory, we can’t fight here,” Lana Fulmine cried out. “We have to fall back over the city. We can’t be out in front of it. This is a mistake.”

“What?” Garnet asked in shock, wiggling her massive, black dildo at Lana. “We have to meet them before they get to the city.”

“No, no, we have to get them over the city. It’s the only chance we have. Look!” She pointed to the monster girls climbing up on the roofs. The arachnes. The basilisks. “We have to get them over the city and make them come down low so the others can help us!”

“She’s right, Garnet,” Vaivory said, her green snake tail undulating behind her as she soared through the sky.

“Okay,” Garnet said. “We’ll do it. There are only thirty of them. Easy peasy.”

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“We need to divide into groups,” said Ms. Trueno. “Use the arachnes to yank them out of the sky.”

“Right,” Terra said, seeing it. “Three groups centered around each of the arachnes. Ms. Trueno, why don’t you take Damhanalla, Skamianiela, and Vielmi.”

“That roof,” Hagane said, pointing to a building. “I’ll take Baaghi, Gaiste, Sriblo, Bhaaloo, and Daant to the center roof. We’ll need the most defenders there.”

“That leaves me with the left roof,” Terra said. She glanced at Sreaga, Zobens, and Briesmoni. “You three are with me.”

“Let’s move,” Ms. Trueno said, the thunder sprite clapping her hands. “We don’t have much time.”

“What about the werewolves?” growled Baaghi.

“Let’s hope the city gates can hold them off,” Terra said. “The fliers are the most dangerous part. We have to get them out of the sky, or we’re fucked.”

Terra led her forces to the left building and found her way to the top.

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Ms. Rosa Trueno had just made it up on the roof with her group and gasped. From here, she could see over the city wall. The fliers were almost on the city. The fighting would begin in the next minute. Her group spread out on the roof, Damhanalla on the middle.

“Yank them down,” Ms. Trueno said, the teacher staring at the arachne. “Basilisks, breathe your noxious breath on them. I’ll shout. Disorient them. Knock them about. Be ready for their attacks. It’s going to be bad.”

The fliers were almost on them now. She could see the ten thunderbirds, ten hippogriffs, and ten phoenixes beating their wings hard. The second round had begun. They soared over the walls right for their group.

“They’re here!” she thought to Leo as she drew in a deep breath.

She bellowed.

Her thunderous peal warped the air and slammed into a phoenix at the head of the formation. The sonic attack ripped feathers from her wings. She screamed and spun out of control, crashing into the side of a building.

Silk shot from Damhanalla. The battle had begun.

Chapter Thirty-Six

Terra readied her hammer hands as Sreaga’s silk shot out and snagged the lead hippogriff. The teal-feathered monster girls shrieked in shock as Sreaga yanked her out of the sky, The hippogriff hit the roof with a hard impact.

Terra pounced. She slammed her hammering fists in the monster girl’s back. Then Zobens was there, her golden sword lopping off the screaming hippogriff’s head. The enemy monster girl vanished into motes.

“Yes!” Zobens hissed. “First blood!”

Terra felt that same wild exultation. They would win today. They would take down these monster girls and hold the line. Silk fired from Sreaga’s spinnerets and struck a crackling thunderbird. The lightning monster girl screeched as she hurtled for the roof.

“Get her!” Terra shouted.

“Yes!” Briesmoni roared. The orc rammed her sword into the thunderbird’s back. A discharge of lightning shot up the weapon.

The orc screamed and flew back a foot, landing smoking on the ground. The thunderbird vanished into motes, killed. Briesmoni followed a heartbeat later. Terra clenched her jaw. They had killed two monster girls and lost one.

Not a good trade. The sky was full of so many more.

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Hagane watched the fight. Gaiste’s webbing yanked down a phoenix. She screamed, firing a ball of fire. The arachne jumped to the side. The phoenix hit hard, snapping her right wing. Before she could even react, Sriblo and Baaghi were on her.

The unicorn slammed a hoof down on the phoenix’s head while Baaghi bit into her side, tearing at her flesh. In moments, she vanished. Hagane nodded and glanced at the other roofs. Briesmoni died killing a thunderbird.

A razor-sharp arrow struck Hagane, leaving a scratch down her arm that throbbed with pain. More arrows fired at her from the hippogriffs in the sky. Their teal pinions rained across the roof, forcing Hagane’s team to dance and dodge.

Hagane ignored them. They scratched her, that didn’t matter. From here, she could watch the entire battle. They had to hold them off for as long as possible. Lord Leo had to get those halflings out of the dungeon.

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Ms. Rosa Trueno shouted again.

She struck a hippogriff, ripping feathers off her wings and sending her spinning. At the same time, Damhanalla ripped another hippogriff from the sky. She crashed to the ground between the two basilisks. They breathed their noxious breath.

The hippogriff screamed as she petrified.

The other hippogriffs screeched in the sky. Teal feathers shot down at Ms. Trueno’s roof and Hagane’s. The thunder sprite roared again. Her powerful voice warped the air and destroyed the incoming missiles.

Fire whooshed from above. As Damhanalla shot out her next line of silk, the phoenix’s attack struck the arachne. She burst into flames, a roaring candle of screaming pain before she vanished back to the Void.

Ms. Trueno groaned.

“Breathe in the sky!” she shouted at the two basilisks.

Skamianiela and Vielmi lifted their heads and expelled their breath upward. The roiling fume rose towards the monster girls flying above, engulfing a thunderbird. She burst out of the cloud screeching in fear as her electric body petrified.

She slammed into the side of a building and burst into shards.

Pain exploded in Ms. Trueno’s leg. She gasped and glanced down at a teal feather buried in her thigh. Blood welled around the wound and poured over her copper scales. She threw back her head and snarled her agony.

The air warped from her pain and fury.

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Garnet whipped at a phoenix, striking the red-winged bird-girl on the back. The phoenix cawed in pain, her tail fluttering. She swooped around and opened her mouth to breathe fire on the little succubus.

Garnet swung the Penetrator, and struck the phoenix hard in the face with the massive dildo. The impact knocked the phoenix to the side. She screeched, her wings flapping to regain control of her flight. But she struck the side of the building where Damhanalla vanished in flames.

The phoenix vanished from the bone-crushing collision. Garnet flapped her wings hard, soaring over the roof.

A teal feather-arrow flashed by her face. She laughed as she banked, dodging another volley of them. Her wings flapped hard as she held her weapon. She swooped to the right, more sweeping past her.

“Kweh, heh, heh, I am Dark Succubus Naughty Garnet! And you cannot touch me!”

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Lana Fulmine and Vaivory swooped down on a hippogriff, firing their lightning. The ball of electricity from the quetzalcoatl and the blast from the movie starlet’s wings struck the enemy monster girl, frying her.

Smoking, she tumbled for the streets below and vanished into motes of mist.

“Yes!” Vaivory cried. “We did—”

A phoenix slammed into Vaivory, talons ripping at the feathered-serpent-girl’s body. Blood spurted from Vaivory’s throat as the phoenix flapped her red wings and launched away. Vaivory spun, clutching at her wounded throat.

She crashed into the street below and died.

“You bitch!” Lana Fulmine snarled, her wings crackling. She fired a blast at the phoenix.

The monster girl dodged it, a ball of fire hurtling back at Lana Fulmine. The movie starlet dove beneath it. The heat crackled over her head. She hissed in fury, catching the phoenix’s eyes. Hatred burned in them.

We’ve fought before, Lana Fulmine realized. I’ve killed you before!

She laughed and turned her body, a new charge building in her lightning wings. Her golden hair swept behind her crackling with static electricity. She flew at the phoenix. The bird fired another ball of fire.

Lana was ready. She twisted to the side, letting it fly past her. The heat kissed her breasts. Then her wings exploded as she soared past the enemy. At point-blank range, there was no chance. She cooked the phoenix.

“That’s for Vaivory!” Lana screamed as the phoenix sizzled and convulsed, her wings twitching.

No longer flying, she tumbled and crashed into the side of a building, smashing masonry and bursting into light.

Lana grinned. She turned around and found the whirlwind surging for her. A massive tornado flew through the air, roaring and hungry for her.

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Chaos boiled through the skies above Terra’s roof. She and Zobens backed away from the one they killed, waiting for Sreaga to find another. The arachne rubbed her hands together and aimed at the sky. Silk fired out and struck a phoenix in the tits.

Sreaga grabbed the silk with her spider legs and pulled. Like yanking a kite of the sky, the phoenix hurtled to the roof and hit hard. She snarled in pain. Landing closer to Zobens, the orc rushed in to ram her sword down at the beast.

The monster girl rolled over, silk tangling wings. She shot out a foot to rip across Zobens’s belly. The orc lopped the foot off with a swing of her sword then drew back her blade for the coup de grace. Terra grinned.

The phoenix detonated.

Fire exploded from her and engulfed Zobens. Hot air slammed into Terra. She stumbled back, the roof shaking. Stone cracked and crumbled. The flames cleared, leaving not a trace of the phoenix or the orc. Masonry fell into the building below, leaving a smoking hole where she was.

“No!” Terra screamed in fury.

“I’ll get the next one down,” Sreaga said, her voice quivering. “The hippogriff. Get ready.”

Lightning shot out of the sky and struck the arachne. Her legs spasmed. Terra watched in horror as the arachne collapsed convulsing on the ground. Her back arched then she burst into motes. The thunderbird soared over, laughing.

Terra stood alone on the roof. A feather hissed down and struck her in the thigh. Terra growled at the pain and shoved out the missile by reshaping her flesh. More hurtled down at her. She charged across the roof, dodging the attacks hurtling down at her.

She stared up at the sky. Not even half of the flying monster girls were killed.

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Hagane waited for Gaiste to yank down the next monster girl as Baaghi ripped out the throat of a thunderbird. Electricity crackled, but this one didn’t unleash a fatal discharge. As a monster girl companion to Jindag, Baaghi was as strong as Hagane.

Gaiste snagged a hippogriff and dragged her out of the sky. As she came down, her wings flapped wide, sending a flight of teal arrows down at the roof. One struck Sriblo in the throat. The unicorn whinnied in pain, blood pouring down her pale body. She staggered and collapsed.

Bhaaloo roared with fierce hatred and pounced on the hippogriff. The werebear ripped out the hippogriff’s throat. Blood sprayed. Her claws raked over the flying enemy’s chest, rending the body and killing her.

Another flight of arrows shot down at Bhaaloo.

“No!” shouted Hagane.

She threw herself before the werebear, taking the hits on her metallic body. The arrows pinged off her, leaving burning scratches and dings behind. Flesh wounds that Hagane ignored. She would not let her monster girls die.

She would protect them.

Fire exploded behind her. Daant roared in pain. Hagane whirled and watched the other werebear on her team collapse, the flames consuming her body. Hagane’s body shook with fury. Silk hissed out, Gaiste firing her next blast.

A thunderbird shrieked in the sky above, yanked down. Lightning sizzled from the crackling monster girl. Before she hit the roof, she discharged a bolt of lightning that slammed into Gaiste. The arachne howled in pain, her legs twitching. She collapsed.

“No! No! No!” shouted Hagane.

She had never been so angry in her life. She leaped at the thunderbird and landed on the enemy’s back. Hagane’s arm-blades slashed down, cutting through the body made of electricity. The charge flickered. The thunderbird screeched.

Lightning slammed into Hagane’s body.

It flashed through her metallic form, merely a tickle. She laughed and slammed her arm-blade through the monster girl’s shocked face. The point buried into the stone of the building. Hagane wrenched her weapon free as her enemy died and vanished.

But that wouldn’t bring Daant and Gaiste back. The last of the arachne was killed. The monster girls would own the sky. It was a miracle that Lana and Garnet were still alive up there. Hagane already formulated new plans.

I can have Bhaaloo throw me up into the air, she thought. Be a missile.

The roar of fire whirled Hagane around. It wasn’t a phoenix’s fireball but a whirl of flames that rushed over the city wall straight for Hagane. Malevolent fury burned in the midst of the approaching cataclysm.

Hagane raised her arms and prepared to fight.

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Crystal ran down the main street beside her mother. The other monster girls ran at their side. Salamanders, yuki-onna, basilisks. Morana was right behind her. They pounded through the streets, fireballs and lightning bolts surging down from above.

The flying monster girls circled over buildings. Some were yanked down out of the sky by the defenders. Crystal had no idea how the fight was going, but it couldn’t be going well. In the sky, Lana Fulmine and Garnet were dancing and weaving, dodging razor arrows, balls of flame, and thunderbolts. Roars and growls and booms filled the air.

Just hold out, Crystal thought. They were almost there.

Garnet swooped down and swung her shadowy club into the face of one thunderbird. The electric monster girl crackled as the impact threw her to the side. She tumbled, her wing clipped a building, and she hit the street only a block before Crystal, bursting into motes.

“Yes!” Crystal hissed. “We’re here!”

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