Chapter 29

Note: Thanks to Alex for beta reading this!

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.

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.

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.