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.
