ROUGH DRAFT: Dungeon Builder's Harem 2 Part 13
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Chapter Thirty
“The thick night falls, let the enmity of Lord Zuen smother!”
Night Smother fell on a basilisk. The dark coated her, hiding her from sight and disorienting her. It was chaos. I had to be careful. There was so much craziness going on. I had to be careful about where I fired my spells.
I spotted a yuki-onna open. “Spark of lightning, crackle of electricity, let the wrath of Lord Enlil explode!”
The bolt of lightning slashed down and struck her. She screamed and pitched forward, hitting the ground and then vanishing in a mote of darkness. Will o' wisps fired their attacks down at the enemy. Pandemonium reigned. My monster girls were attacking. Slashing. Biting. Clawing. They were fighting for their lives.
Fighting for me.
“Yeah, get him!” Garnet cheered. “Come on Baaghi! Usiku! Kick his ass!”
Those two were fighting Ziamili. He was blocking Usiku's shadowy sword strikes with his bare arms. That stone flesh he had was powerful. He hardly needed that armor he wore. Baaghi's claws raked uselessly down his back.
They were pressuring him. Keeping him from using spells.
I searched for my next target. I had to use my magic to eliminate the enemy. Enemy monster girls were vanishing. But so were mine. Would it be enough? Would my plan work? Or had I kicked over the beehive and we were about to be swarmed to death.
* \ * / *
Lana Fulmine and the will o' wisp opening volley had been effective.
She had personally killed a basilisk. Will o' wisps had fried another basilisk, and unicorn, and an orc. The enemy was being whittled away. But there were still so many of them out there. The movie starlet looked for another open target.
Werebears, arachne, wildhounds, oozes, satyrs, and quetzalcoatls all fought down there. The chaos was frightening. She didn't want to hit a wildhound on accident. Didn't want to fry a werebear by mistake. Her heart pounded a mile a minute,
But she had to keep her cool.
“Pick your targets!” she shouted as she stared at the melee.
A flash of movement to her immediate left turned her attention to Dvasia. The will o' wisp had her attention to the battlefield and didn't see the block of ice that had appeared over her head and then slammed down into her body.
The force caved her plasmic head in head in and drove her body to the floor. She hit hard and her body shuddered. Then she vanished in a burst of motes, dead and sent back toe the Void crystal to sleep.
Lana's stomach tightened at the sudden death.
* \ * / *
A group of monster girls had broke free of the others and rushed up to the balcony where I stood with Garnet and my dryad. A pair of unicorn, a basilisk, and a yuki-onna were intent on climbing the walls to reach me.
I ignored them. We were high up. I wanted to kill the monster girls who were hurting my girls. My lovers.
I felt Ci die. I spotted her fading away, an orc over her. Hela jumped onto that orc, the wildhound clawing to avenge her slain packmate. An orc threw a sword up and slammed into Vaivory. The quetzalcoatl screamed in pain, her serpentine half swishing. Her wings faltered. She plummeted for the ground vanishing into motes a moment later. A unicorn gored Du, slamming hard into the wildhound's back, and kept running. The dying wildhound spasmed, impaled on the horn, and then vanished in a motes.
Sreaga bit into her basilisk, the arachne holding the scaled bitch tight. The basilisk fell to the ground, body spasming. However, another basilisk threw Gaiste to the ground. The spider-girl's legs kicked as the basilisk slammed a foot down and crushed her throat.
“Fuck,” I muttered, hating my monster girls dying. I stared at the basilisk, open. No one around. “Spark of lightning, crackle of electricity—”
Suddenly, the two unicorns who had charged the balcony leaped up the fifteen feet and landed amid Mrs. Maia, Garnet, and me. The shock interrupted my spell. I hadn't realized they could do that. Their horns lowered and they lunged, one at me and one at Garnet.
* \ * / *
Maya surged through the water, the oozes, mermaids, and the one hippocampus swimming with her. The enemy monster girls were kicking in a froth of bubbles, trying to swim to the surface. But they were in Maya's element.
She went for the red cap, the naked monster girl kicking, releasing her sword that became blood that diffused crimson through the water. The orcs were thrashing, their armor carrying them down towards the bottom of the pool. Basilisks opened their mouths to breathe their petrification breath.
Nothing came out.
The rec cap turned in the water and then fresh blood flashed. A trident formed out of the scarlet, tines gleaming in the light. She locked eyes on Maya as the undine swam closer. The weapon stabbed out at Maya.
She surged around it, flowing with ease through the water. She laughed in delight, the red cap moving so slow. She seized the red cap, holding her in my arms and legs. I clapped a hand over her mouth and forced my fingers into to drown her faster.
She thrashed in my arms, legs kicking in a panic.
The mermaids went for the unicorns. Mase, Skela, and Pani all surged for one and grabbed the kicking unicorns by the waist. Their powerful tails swished and dragged the enemy monster girls deeper into the pools.
The yuki-onnas who'd had fallen in began freezing the water around them, forming barriers to protect themselves. They made Maya shiver. She remembered the pain they had caused her. The torment they could inflict.
Ghoda, the hippocampus, shot at one barrier of ice and slammed into it. The crystals shattered around her. With another flex of her seahorse tail, she hurtled into the yuki-onna and propelled the monster girl to the water depths.
The red cap thrashed. Her trident tried to find Maya's flesh. But she was water. Liquid. She could ripple and undulate and avoid those steal tines.
The oozes struck the basilisks. Cikhala and the others engulfed the basilisks in their gelatinous bodies, weighing them down and keeping them from kicking to the surface. It was brutal. Maya knew they weren't just killing these monster girls.
They were drowning them.
It was a terrible way to die, but they had no choice. They had to eliminate or Leo and the others would have more to fight. So Maya kept her hold on the red cap. She would make sure that as many monster girls drowned as possible.
As many of the enemy eliminated to give the rest of her family a fighting chance.
* \ * / *
Mrs. Zoe Maia acted the moment the unicorns landed.
The nearest unicorn to the dryad lowered her horn and rammed it at Leo's guts. The spell had had been casting faltered. He stepped back, struggling to bring his weapon down to block, but it would be too late for him.
However, Mrs. Maia was ready for the attack. She had been prepared for this eventuality. She surged out her vines from her toes the moment she saw them leaped. Now they reached for the unicorn and wrapped around her legs and torso, yanking her back. The horn came an inch from slamming into Leo's breastplate.
Garnet wasn't so lucky.
She screamed in pain. The other unicorn's horn had buried deep into the succubus's guts. Her wings fluttered. Her head tossed in pain. Mrs. Maia stared in horror at Garnet's badly injured. Leo screamed out something that was lost to the shock that fell on Mrs. Maia.
She had only protected one of her tenants.
* \ * / *
The unicorn horn jerked to a stop before ramming into me
The vines wrapped around her body yanked her to the balcony. My heart raced. The sudden leap had me spinning in shock. I had ignored those monster girls. And now—
“Big bro!” moaned my little succubus. The unicorn ripped her horn out of Garnet's guts. She staggered back, a large hole punched through her flesh. She stumbled into the wall, leaning there as the unicorn lunged to finish her off.
Mrs. Maia let out a sob of pain.
“Sparks zap and crackle, let the strength of Lord Enlil sizzle!”
Sparks burst from my hands and slammed into the unicorn. The electric force burst across her skin. Her entire body shook from the Intermediate Lightning spell. She slumped over the railing, her horse tail swishing over her naked rump.
Then she melted away. Gone. Killed.
Garnet slumped down the wall, leaving a bloody smear on her. Mrs. Maia wrestled with the other unicorn who fought to break the woody vines wrapped around her body. I ignored the bitch and rushed to my dying little succubus.
“Big bro,” she breathed, her eyes falling on mine. “I don't mind... dying for you... I love you and—”
“Idiot, I'm not letting you die.” I grabbed her hand.
“What?” she gasped, blood on her lips. “I'm wasting my dying speech and you're not letting me die?”
I shook my head and chanted, “Graven wounds pulse in pain, let the healing of Lord Dumazid flow!”
The Intermediate healing spell flowed into her body. The wound to her guts closed up, leaving not even a scar behind. Only her blood. She stared down at the hole and then her cheeks puffed out in annoyance.
“You really should warn a girl before she goes and makes a dying speech of love,” she said. “That's so rude, big bro.”
“I know,” I said, grinning at her. For a moment, all the death fell away.
Then I heard the unicorn hissing. The sounds of violence echoed from below. I rose and turned to deal with the unicorn only to see a yuki-onna and a basilisk climbing over the railing. Frost spread from the icy monster girl's touch while the basilisk opened her mouth, sharp, lizard-like teeth dripping with venom.
Their breath didn't work on me, but would the poison?
* \ * / *
A block of ice slammed down on Zaibas, killing another of the will o' wisps.
Lana Fulmine knew it was Led. The smarter brother stood back and was casting spells while his twin fought with Usiku and Baaghi below. Lana gathered her lightning to attack when a shout drew her attention to the left.
Monster girls were assaulting the balcony Leo was on. A unicorn thrashed in vines. A yuki-onna and a basilisk were climbing over the railing. Fear for her number one fan galvanized the lightning sprite.
Her wings thrust wide. Electricity crackled between the plasma bones that formed their shape. She aimed it and fired. Crackling death hurtled across the battlefield and struck the basilisk about to pounce on love. She collapsed on the railing instead and vanished in motes of light.
Lana smiled.
Before her, a frozen ax flashed into being and hurtled at her like it had been thrown by an invisible, floating person. The edge gleamed sharp.
* \ * / *
The basilisk vanished into glittering motes.
I focused on the yuki-onna. She leaped over the railing and touched the tendrils holding the unicorn bound up. My dryad gasped in pain, the ice attacking her hold on the unicorn. I rose to my height.
“Waves slam into the shore, let the strength of Lord Enki hammer!” I chanted.
A mace of water formed in the air and slammed into the yuki-onna's face. It struck her hard like it were made of stone. Her head cracked back. She tumbled over the railing and slammed to the ground below.
“Bitch!” Mrs. Maia cursed and then her tendrils squeezed about the unicorn she held. The monster girl screamed as the vines crushed her. Ribs popped. Cracked. Then she spasmed and collapsed on the ground.
I swallowed at the pain on her poor face. I pushed it away and marched over her as she vanished into motes of light. I didn't want to cause them pain, but their masters had sent them into harm's way. I grabbed the railing, looking for new targets to kill.
Bhaaloo the werebear ripped apart a unicorn while Panja, in her bear from like the other werebears, roared in pain. Ice formed over her fur, crystallizing about her as a yuki-onna unleashed her power.
I growled and drew in my will to throw out more death.
* \ * / *
The red cap abandoned trying to stab Maya with the trident.
Instead, she kicked.
“No, you don't!” Maya shouted into the water as the redcap swam for the surface.
She wasn't the only one. A unicorn, basilisk, and five of the yuki-onna, the most deadly to water monster girls, broke the surface and breathed. They were still stuck in the water, but they were not drowning.
The yuki-onna gathered together as Maya fought against the red cap's strength. The enemy monster girl was strong. She kicked her legs with desperation, that will to live strong. She wanted to reach the surface.
Maya wouldn't let her.
The five yuki-onna linked arms and then dove back beneath the water. They were floating above Maya, their frost-blue hair billowing around them. The temperature in warm water plummeted. Ice crystals formed around them. Feathery branches of freezing water extended out in all directions from them, the cold reaching to Maya.
Terror rippled through the undine at the memory of being frozen before. The growing branches of ice crystals reached towards her. She kicked with her legs, fighting against the red cap swimming for the surface.
“NO!” Maya shouted, the cold chilling her liquid flesh.
* \ * / *
Lana Fulmine's instincts screamed at her.
Between fighting here for her number one fan and the months of training in stunts and hand-to-hand combat playing Jane Dangerous had required her to endure had taught her body how to react under stress. She threw herself to the ground. The ax slammed into the wall behind her and shattered. Shards of ice peppered her flesh.
But they didn't mar the perfection of her silvery skin.
Her golden hair alive with static electricity, she rose with fury in her heart. She focused now on Led. Leo was protected, so it was time to take the bastard out who was killing her will o' wisps. She threw her wings wide.
Lightning arched across the battlefield at Led. He dove out of the way and rose, his blue hair not even ruffled. He had that attitude many male models had. Men who thought they were gorgeous and hunky. She could feel the ego pouring off of him.
He didn't like missing and being attacked.
“I have more for you!” Lana Fulmine shouted. The movie starlet had no idea if he heard. More electricity crackled through her wings, the charge building to discharge an attack.
Blinding lights burst before the lightning sprite. I gasped at the strobing effect stabbed pain into her eyes. Lana Fulmine stumbled back, her wings flapping. The attack vanished, leaving her feeling dizzy. She shook her head.
The urge to discharge swelled through me, but she couldn't see well. She blinked, blue blurs left smeared across her vision. They cleared up enough for her to gaze out at the battlefield. She looked to the far end where Led had stood.
He wasn't there.
She looked around, searching any sign of the bastard. She had only been blinded a few seconds. Surely he couldn't have vanished in that amount of time. Unless she ran away through the doors where his valkyrie was freeing the last of the monster girls trapped by the vines.
She scanned the battle field, spotting the two satyrs, Havas and Khur, goring a unicorn and killing her. The number of combatants had shrunk. Casualties on both sides were mounting up. Lana cursed. Where did that bastard go?
Fear twisted her guts. He had Light magic. What could he do with it?
* \ * / *
I gazed out at the battlefield.
It was not going well. Many of my monster girls were dead. So were the enemy, but the balance seemed to be shifting in their favor. I swallowed and sought out my enemy. Lights burst by Lana Fulmine's position, driving her back. I spotted Led who...
Vanished.
“Crap,” I muttered. A rippling mirage had devoured him. I couldn't see him at all. “Invisibility?”
“What, big bro?” Garnet asked.
“Never mind.”
My gaze swept along, looking for Ziamili. He still fought with Usiku and Baaghi in the middle. She swung her sword at him but a shield of metal sprang up in the air before here. The weapon clanged off of it. He jumped back and then turned as Baaghi rushed in to attack.
His fist struck her in the head hard. It threw her to the ground. He aimed his hand at her, his lips moving with a spell.
But I was already casting my own spell. “Spark of lightning, crackle of electricity, let the wrath of Lord Enlil explode!”
The bolt of lightning leapt out of my hand and hurtled across the battlefield at Ziamili. He finished his spell and a spike of rock fired from him and rammed through Baaghi's heart as the rakshasa struggled to stand. Her tiger head threw back, maw roaring in pain, and then she died.
Ziamili threw himself to the ground a heartbeat later. My spell struck the ground behind him. I grimaced.
“Fuck!”
The valkyrie charged to the fight, leading the monster girls she had freed. Reinforcements. This was going badly.
* \ * / *
The cute and adorable little succubus watched her Owner, waiting for him to give commands. He cursed and then pointed out at the battle field. “Mrs. Maia, Garnet, we're going down there. I have a weapon. I can do more good own there.”
“You got it, big bro!” Garnet exclaimed, excitement rippling through her. Her red, bat-like wings spread wide and her cute tail swished back and forth behind her. “Kweh, heh, heh, they will kneel before my adorableness!”
Leo vaulted over the side, his gray robes flapping. Mrs. Maia followed. Grinning, Garnet leaped off, her wings letting her spiral down the fifteen feet to land at beside her Owner. The surviving will o' wisps fired lightning at the reinforcements. Enemy monster girls died.
Garnet grinned.
Leo charged out into the battlefield. Garnet followed, conjuring a whip of shadows from her hand, eager to lash some naughty, naughty monster girls. What a fun day this has been! I got to do a death speech and now I get to whip girls!
* \ * / *
Lighting fired from Lana's wings. She discharged that itch, striking a yuki-onna racing at the valkyrie's side.
The monster girl collapsed to the ground in a burst of frosty air and dissipated into motes.
Lana nodded and then turned her gaze back to finding Led. She would kill that bastard for her master, avenging Dveios and Zaibas in the process. Her eyes scanned the battlefield. He had to be somewhere.
He couldn't be a coward and flee. The had to end this today.
Then she groaned as she spotted her number one fan rushing into the battle. “Leo. What are you doing?”
* \ * / *
I charged forward. The valkyrie had reached the main fight. She had a deadly look about her. She went to attack Bhaaloo my werebear. I couldn't let that stand.
“Hey, frosty bitch!” I snarled. “You skank-ass valkyrie!”
She whirled to face me, her icy sword held low. “Skank?” she demanded. “You peasant. Do you know who I was?”
“Some two-bit slut that Led had a hardon for!” I growled, sliding to a stop facing her. Ten feet separated us.
She snarled and charged at me. I parried her attack with my spear. She was fast, darting to the right to get around my attack, her crystalline blade bleeding fog. It spilled down around her hand while her blonde hair whipped behind her. She got around my spear and lunged in to cut me down.
“Oceans fury crashes into the beach, let the passion of Lord Enki flow!” I chanted.
A splash of water swept from me and flowed across the ground. It struck her and knocked her down on her ass. She hissed in frustration, the liquid freezing on the body and icy armor. She kicked up to her feet like she was in a kung-fu movie and launched into slashing attacks at me.
* \ * / *
Mrs. Zoe Maia looked for who needed her help.
Iadias, one of the quetzalcoatl, had her snake tail wrapped around a basilisk, crushing the enemy monster girl. From behind Iadias, a yuki-onna rushed to the aid of the dying basilisk. The quetzalcoatl had no idea it was coming.
Mrs. Maia acted. The dryad sent her tendrils rushing at the yuki-onna. The motherly woman didn't want to crush another monster girl, but her family was in danger. Iadias wasn't one of her biological children, but that didn't matter. She was a surrogate child. Adopted.
Mrs. Maia loved them all.
Her roots surged towards the yuki-onna when something flashed down from above. The fairy darted before Mrs. Maia, butterfly wings fluttering. With a giggle and swish of her wand, a bright burst of light exploded.
The dazzling brilliance struck Mrs. Maia's eyes. The motherly dryad screamed and stumbled back, her eyes burning.
* \ * / *
Garnet's conjured whip smacked into a yuki-onna.
“Naughty, naughty girl!” the succubus chortled. “You've been so bad. Kweh, heh, heh!”
The yuki-onna turned, her blue hair sweeping behind her. Frost spilled down her body. She held out her hands, icy winter gathering between them like she powered up to unleash some sort of attack. Garnet grinned and flapped her wings, dodging to the right as a chunk of glittering ice fired from the yuki-onna's hands.
“Missed me!” Garnet taunted and slashed her whip again, striking the yuki-onna in the belly. A red welt rose across the white skin.
Blue eyes glared at Garnet. More ice hurtled at the succubus.
She danced around it, tail swishing behind her. Mocking laughter burst from her throat as she whipped the yuki-onna across the tits this time. The succubus savored her graceful dodges. She was the masochistic heroine of the story. Like Tira from Sorcerer Hunters.
“Bad, bad, yuki-onna!” she admonished. “I'll have to whip you into—”
The block of ice hurtled at Garnet, catching her off-guard it the middle of her fantasy.
Chapter Thirty-One
I blocked the valkyrie's slashing attacks with my spear. Three blows that rang out against the metal of my weapon. She fought with a ferocity, her blue eyes burning with anger. I had touched as nerve in her, and she was pissed.
“How much did you charge for blowjobs?” I demanded.
“You pustulant bastard!” she snarled.
“Five bucks, huh? A cheap whore, huh?”
She slashed in wildly. I blocked her furious strokes with ease, reading her attacks. A spell formed on my lips as our weapons crashed together. “Darkness hides and shadows conceal, let the curse of Lord Zuen fall!”
Inky patches of darkness spilled over her eyes, blinding her. I smiled at that.
“Lord Leo!” Nimhe cried in pain.
I turned to see one of my arachne's legs being cut off by a stroke of an orc's sword. Purple ichor spurted from the stump. Then Nimhe lunged in and grabbed the orc's head with her hands and jerked, exposing the orc's neck. Nimhe bit.
Her venom pumped into the orc's body. the green-skinned monster girl roared in pain, her face twisting in agony. Nimhe released her. The orc collapsed and fell on the ground, spasming, froth at her mouth. Then she melted away.
“You okay?” I shouted at her.
“I'm find!” Her compound eyes fixed on me. Then she gasped, “Watch out!”
The blind valkyrie lunged in at me while I was distracted. Her sword stabbed me in the shoulder. She hit my breastplate, the point scraping over the side with an ear-splitting screech. It hit the edge of my armor and rammed into my exposed upper arm. Icy cold speared into me.
The valkyrie cackled with mad fury.
* \ * / *
Lana Fulmine scanned the battle.
It was a mess. Everyone was running around. Fighting. Leo reeled back, taking a wound from the valkyrie. Worry tugged at Lana Fulmine, but it was too chaotic for her to fire into the battle. She could hit someone.
Where are you, Led? rippled through her mind. She didn't think for one second that the slimy dungeon builder had fled. He was here somewhere.
She just had to spot him.
She winced as an orc threw Hela off her back. The wildhound's slender limbs spasmed as she struggled to stand. Before she could, the orc slammed her sword through Hela's breasts. The cute monster girl spasmed and then vanished.
“Where are you!” Lana hissed.
Kibir screamed to Lana's right. The will o' wisp collapsed, crushed by another block of ice. Led's work. Lana didn't understand where he could be hiding. How he could still be killing her will o' wisps. She had to find him. Stop him.
* \ * / *
“Blossom and regrow with life, let the vitality of Lord Dumazid heal,” I growled, using the Beginner Tier Life spell to heal myself. I didn't have unlimited mana. I was burning through my reserves. It was enough to heal the damage.
I blocked the wild attacks from the valkyrie. She might be blind, but that didn't stop her from flourishing her sword before her as she sought to cut me down. Our weapons clanged together as I considered a plan.
I smiled. “Waves slam into the shore, let the strength of Lord Enki hammer!”
The mace of water appeared and slammed at the valkyrie. Her battle instincts were intense because she whirled and blocked the watery weapon. It struck her sword with a quivering blow. She was open to me.
I rammed my spear forward.
She must have heard the rustle of my robes, because she turned at the last moment. Instead of ramming my spear into her side, I slammed it into her belly. I thrust it deep. She gasped, her back widening. Then she convulsed as the electric current from the enhanced spell arced into her.
She screamed, “Lord Led!”
Her crystalline sword fell from her twitching hands and shattered on the ground. I ripped my blade from her stomach and then rammed it right into her throat. She gurgled, blind hands grabbing the haft, clutching it.
Then she sagged and dissolved into motes.
“Yes!” I hissed in triumph.
Only to see Marwo falling to the ground, spasming, her shoulder bloody from a basilisk bite. Venom poured through my wildhound. Her body spasmed on the ground. I felt Gwyllt dying somewhere else, my monster girls dwindling fast.
* \ * / *
Garnet squeaked in fright at the icy death hurtling for her.
All she could do was fall limp.
She crashed on her back moments before the chunk of frozen water hurtled over her. The chill of its passage kissed her face. Her heart lurched. This was suddenly so real to her. Battle had always felt like a game to her. Like she was reliving all her favorite Anime. Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Demon Slayer, ReZero, Naruto, Sorcerer Hunters, Those Who Hunt Elves, and more. Now... Now... Now she had almost died.
She could be hurt.
Her friends were getting hurt. Sure, they came back to life, but there was pain. When the unicorn gored her, she'd felt agony, but it let her pretend to give a dying speech, her final words of love to her Owner.
But she knew she would come back. That death wasn't the end for her.
Not so long as Leo lived.
But that didn't mean this was a game. The enemy didn't just let her monologue. They didn't care she thought it was a game. It was life and death. She had to take this seriously. She had to stand up and defeat the yuki-onna.
“Yes!” she cried and pushed herself to her feet. “I'll...”
Her words trailed off as a blast of lighting struck the yuki-onna. The icy monster girl pitched forward in a flurry of frosty hair and hit the ground. Then she dissolved into light. From the balcony, Svyte stood proud.
“Okay,” Garnet said. “I'll take the next fight seriously.”
She looked around and winced as Daant, one of the werebears, was gored by a unicorn. Nasty bitches! Garnet didn't like them. Not only where they Light monsters, the antithesis of a Dark monster like the succubus, but they liked to ram their horns into people.
“Unicorns are supposed to be graceful and beautiful!” she hissed. “Not big meanies!”
But the unicorn darted off, not caring that Garnet was offended.
Still, she had the vicious satisfaction of spotting Havas and Khur goring another unicorn, the two satyrs ramming their shorter horns into the nasty monster girl's flesh. Garnet's wings fluttered in excitement at the evil being slain.
However, it was Ziamili that really caught Garnet's eye. He threw a fist at Usiku. She blocked his blow with her sword, retreating before him. He was like a boxer, throwing hay makers left and right at the fomorian.
Time to dominate a guy, Garnet thought and charged at him, her whip at the ready.
* \ * / *
An icy ax spun through the air and slammed into Gintaras. The will o' wisp's body of roiling, blue plasma split in half from the force of the blue. Incandescent fog spilled from her injury. She screamed as torso tumbled.
Then she dissolved away.
“This ends!” Lana Fulmine screamed. She was tired of her will o' wisps dying. She threw herself off the balcony, her wings spread wide. They carried her over the battlefield. She would find the bastard. She would murder Led.
* \ * / *
Mrs. Zoe Maia fell to the ground, her eyes burning from the fairy's attack.
The dryad blinked her eyes, tears spilling down her woody cheeks. Her vision blurred. She couldn't see anything clearly. But she heard the Iadias scream in pain as yuki-onna's sneak attack struck. The quetzalcoatl's hissing agony tore at Mrs. Maia's heart.
Then it cut off and the dryad knew Iadias had perished.
Mrs. Maia had failed to protect another of her surrogate family. Another of her children had been hurt. She screamed in fury as she staggered to her feet, blinking to see. Everything looked distorted through her watery vision. Blurred and blotchy.
In the air, a smudge of purple and pink whirled around and soared right the dryad. The obnoxious giggling rose over the battlefield. Something sparkled and swirled. The fairy brandishing her wand! screamed through Mrs. Maia's mind.
A beam of white-hot light lanced down at the dryad.
* \ * / *
The valkyrie dead, I glared at two basilisks. They had just killed my wildhounds. They were the reason that Marwo and Gwyllt had died. I had felt both their deaths. Now they were staring at me, blood on their plump lips. The reptilian monster girls advanced.
“The thick night falls, let the enmity of Lord Zuen smother!”
Chocking night fell on the two basilisks. A crushing darkness that would suffocate them. I turned away from their deaths, taking grim satisfaction in avenging my monster girls. I would protect as many of them as I could.
* \ * / *
The feathery tendrils of freezing water reached for Maya and touched her flesh.
She screamed in pain, fighting against the swimming red cap. The crystals formed in her liquid from. They tore at her. The pain rippled through her. The five yuki-onna floating above her all had vicious smiles on their lips.
“CUNTS!” Maya roared, the agony spreading through her as more of her body froze.
She reached into the water around her. The liquid that shared her essence. She was an undine, made of water. The element wholly made up her body. She had no orgasms. No muscles or veins. She didn't even have a brain. She was an awareness that animated the water into the from of a young girl.
An awareness that could control water.
Maya poured her rage into the liquid around her and sent a wave rippling through the surface. Unseen until it tore into those delicate branches of growing ice. Shards ripped for the current that rushed up at the yuki-onna.
It stuck them, bu they held tight, clutching each other's hands. Their blue hair whipped around them in the current. Shards of their own ice struck their bodies, cutting them. They didn't care. They kept freezing the water.
More ice spread.
The red cap thrashed harder to escape Maya's grasp as the ice surged down and stuck her body again. She screamed in pain, holding tight to the monster girl as the crystalline death spread through her. The five yuki-onna smiled.
They know they've killed me, Maya realized, helpless to stop her body from freezing. Her one attack had failed. Her last chance to survive. Sorry, Leo.
All she could do was hold onto the red cap and hoped she drowned first.
* \ * / *
Mrs. Zoe Maia dove to the ground and rolled hard, the impact bruising her flesh. The beam of light from the fairy's wand slashed across the stones where she had stood. The dryad heart pounded, the sap flowing through her veins chilled with fear.
What could she do against the fairy? Mrs. Maia had no ranged attacks. She had no possible way to fight against the winged fairy.
She picked herself up as the fluttering, giggling monster girl winged over the battlefield. Mrs. Maia had to think of something and fast. Her eyes scanned the fight. Bhaaloo the werebear was in a fierce battle with an orc nearby.
A sword plunged into her chest. Mrs. Maia gasped as the orc ripped her weapon free of the werebear's furry chest. Roaring in pain, blood spilling down her black fur, she batted the orc's sword to the side. It hit the ground and slid to a stop. With a snarl Bhaaloo fell on the orc, clawing at the enemy monster girl.
But so much blood was spilling out of Bhaaloo. The orc struggled beneath, getting mauled. The werebear grew weaker and weaker. Mrs. Maia darted forward to help, but only got a few feet when Bhaaloo collapsed.
And then vanished.
The orc lay on the ground, panting. Then she rolled up and sprinted off to help in another fight, leaving her weapon lying nearby. The fairy winged around. Mrs. Maia swallowed then sent her toes growing out, her roots reaching towards the mad idea the dryad had just had.
* \ * / *
Garnet cracked her whip and Ziamili. The shadowy blur struck his armor across the chest, ringing it like a bell, and did nothing to him. He grinned at her. She wouldn't be afraid. She would be strong. She was her big bro's little succubus.
She would charm Ziamili and end this fight.
“Well, well, well,” said Ziamili, “look at you. Just a delectable thing, aren't you. After I kill your builder, are you going to serve me.”
“Kweh, heh, heh, you do not have the skill to—”
His first blurred at her in the middle of her monologue. She squeaked in indignation and flapped her wings hard. She launched into the air, his fist flying beneath her. The graceful succubus twisted, annoyance flashing through her.
“You're supposed to let me finish talking before you attack!” she hissed as she twisted in the air and then dropped down on his shoulders. Her thighs went around his neck, which didn't feel flesh at all bu as hard as stone, and her hands grabbed his face, covering his eyes. “That's how this works!”
“Fuck a bear!” growled Ziamili.
Nearby, Usiku regained her feet and darted in, a shadowy sword flashing into her hand. The fomorian would ram him through. Garnet grinned, keeping her hands covered. But Ziamili snapped his head in Usiku's direction.
“SteelBater!” he chanted.
A hunk of steel burst from him and slammed into Usiku. The impact threw the fomorian to the ground. She hit hard, dark-purple tits heaving. She coughed and wheezed, her chest crushed in. Then she vanished into motes.
Garnet squeaked in indication and dug his fingers into his eyes.
“Little bitch!” growled Ziamili
“I'll show you how—hey!”
The air whipped around her as he did a backward slam. She struck the ground between her shoulder blades moment before he hit, his armor clattering. Air exploded from her longs and she lost her grip on him. Her head cracked into the hard stone. Lights strobed before her eyes. She groaned as her highs slipped from his thighs.
Her mind ached.
* \ * / *
Lana Fulmine surveyed the battlefield, still looking to find that bastard Led.
On the ground, she spots the gorgon fighting Paanee. The snakes hissed around the gorgon's. Paanee slithered hard. She swung her long, blue tail. The gorgon jumped over it. As Paanee came around, the gorgon's eyes met hers.
Paanee hissed, the stone starting to slid over her body and petrify her. Monster girls, Lana thought, couldn't be petrified. But maybe Paanee had been exposed to the gaze too many times. It wasn't happening fast, but the stone was creeping up her scales.
Green acid spat from Paanee's mouth. The gorgon dove to the ground, all her snakes spitting fury, dancing in a dozen directions. Paanee's tail was too quick. Before the gorgon could get up. She was wrapped up by the crushing tail of the naga.
“Yesssss!” Paanee hissed, her boobs bouncing as her sinuous body wrapped around the gorgon. She held her tight.
But the gorgon twisted. Her snake-hairs lashed out and bit all over Paanee's breasts. As the naga crushed the gorgon's body, dozen of venomous attacks struck the poor naga, leaving her torso riddled in deadly wounds.
“No!” Lana shouted as Paanee's mouth frothed. Her entire body convulsed as the snakes kept striking her, poisoning her.
Lana banked down to help, but she was too late. Paanee vanished into motes, slain by the Gorgon. Snarling in fury, Lana's wings arced with more electricity. The gorgon rose and staggered. She breathed, poking at her tender ribs. Paanee had almost killed the gorgon.
Lana Fulmine would finish the bitch off.
The lightning stuck the gorgon and threw her back. She hit the ground, her body smoking from damage. She wasn't dead. As Lana landed, her hair crackling with static energy, the gorgon turned her gaze on Lana.
She felt the strength of it. The power. It struck at her magical body, seeking to petrify it like a human. The attack was painful, attacking the defenses she had against it, eroding it like the current of a river undercutting a cliff.
* \ * / *
Maya clutched to the redcap as the yuki-onna froze her body. She held tight, barley able to move. The pain ripped through her. Just let me drown the bitch. Keep her from joining the fight. That's it.
From the depths of the pool, the mermaids swam up. Mase, Skela, and Pani rushed at the yuki-onna attacking Maya. The three mermaids' tails flashed, their hair streaming behind them. Before the yuki-onna could react, three were seized and yanked down into the water.
The attack on Maya halted, but so much of her body was already turned to ice. She could hardly move, just clutching onto the red cap to keep her from swimming to the surface. The yuki-onna, already beneath the water to attack Maya, thrashed. They would drown soon.
A blast of ice struck Pani in the face. The green-haired mermaid went limp and drifted down only to disappear. The other two drove their yuki-onna to the bottom of the pool. Then Ghoda the hippocampus shot into view. She slammed into the yuki-onna that killed Pan with such force it broke her body.
She died.
Then Ghoda turned and shot up to grab another yuki-onna the hair. The hippocampus swam fast, dragging the kicking monster girl behind her. It left one yuki-onna to attack Maya. She kept it up, freezing more and more of her body.
The red cap thrashed. She has to be on the verge of drowning, thought Maya. She just has to be.
The red cap conjured a hammer, another weapon.. It flashed in the water. They had been useless so far. Maya was water, she could flow out of the way. Only she was so frozen right now, she could barely move.
The red cap swung the hammer through the water, screaming out a burst of bubbles. The hammer hit Maya's body. The ice in her shattered. She screamed in pain as she was ripped apart. Her body burst into fragmented pieces.
She died.
* \ * / *
Mrs. Zoe Maia snagged the orc's sword with her roots. The fairy swooped down, brandishing her wand. With a mighty heave of her roots, the dryad threw the orc's weapon. The steel slashed through the air, forming a whirling blur of death, a disc of silver.
The fairy gasped and dodged to the right. The sword missed body but sheered through her butterfly wing. She screamed as she went into a tumble and crashed to the ground hard. Dust burst off her remaining wing, the powdery scales that came off butterflies.
Mrs. Maia surged her extended roots at the fairy who groaned and whimpered on the ground. The fairy struggled to rise, her face twisted in fury. She had her wand. The dryad hated doing this. But she had her surrogate family to protect.
The roots wrapped around the fairy's head and throat. They grew into the monster girls' mouth and squeezed about her neck. More roots grabbed her wand, yanking it from her grasp. Mrs. Maia strangled the fairy, her heart breaking that such violence was necessary.
* \ * / *
Lana closed her eyes against the petrifying gaze. It's attack on her body stopped. Without looking, she spread her lightning wings wide. The gorgon charged at her, snakes hissing in pain from the last attack. If those snakes bite me...
Lightning burst from her wings.
Sweeping chains of electricity arched out and struck the gorgon. They blasted her body, throwing her smoking to the ground. She screamed in pain, thrashing. Her snake-hairs twitched and spasmed. Then she died and vanished.
Hearing the hisses cut off, Lana opened her eyes. She smiled and turned around.
An ice ax slashed in at her head. She had just a moment to realize that Led had killed her before the magical attack buried deep into her chest. Lana Fulmine was dead before she hit the ground, her body vanishing.
She joined the many other monster girls sleeping in the Void Crystal.
* \ * / *
Ziamili was on Garnet before she could react.
His strong hand crushed about her slender neck. He stared down at her, his stony face twisting with lust. His eyes raked her naked form. She thrashed and kicked beneath him as he choked the life out of her.
“I hope you'll serve me,” he said, staring down at her body. “You are sexy.”
Never! Never! Never! screamed through Garnet's thoughts as he squeezed the life from her.
She clawed at his face, but she scratched down granite. He was armored against her. Protected. Her knees slammed up into his armor, stroking his breastplate. She could do nothing against him. He was too defended.
The world grew black along the edges.
* \ * / *
The basilisks were dead. I looked around and groaned as Lana was stuck by an ice ax. My movie starlet crashed dead to the ground. Fury beat in me. Mrs. Maia strangled the fairy and...
Ziamili choked my little succubus. Fury slammed through me.
There was the bastard I had to kill. The monster whose minions had petrified Halia. Robbed her light and beauty from the world. My left hand balled into a fist, my right gripping my spear. I glared at him choking my little succubus to death.
“WaterGrasp!” spat from my lips.
