Chapter 18

Note: Thanks to Alex for beta reading this!

The current arcing across the dragon nearly hit Maya before leaping to the ceiling. She clung to the side of the dragon’s face beneath her missing eye. The head snapped down for Leo. Maya thrust out her left arm and grabbed the edge of the dragon’s mouth. The point where her upper and lower lips met.

Maya flowed down her arm. She poured herself into the dragon’s mouth. She spilled over the tongue then went down the dragon’s gullet. The undine had a plan. She poured into the beast’s maw, hoping it would work.

“Dark Lord Big Bro!” Garnet cried as she dived at her brother, lightning arcing from the dragon’s head and striking the ceiling.

The dragon snarled and snapped her jaws down at her big brother. But the naughty succubus was faster. She swooped down and grabbed her big brother, clad in his majestic armor, his face all stony. She lifted him in the air, beating her wings hard.

“Kweh, heh, heh!” she laughed as the jaws snapped shut behind them. Then she kissed her big brother on the stony mouth.

I am the best!

The dragon roared behind the succubus. She glanced behind her and squeaked, beating her wings faster.

The dragon roared. Lana Fulmine banked around as Garnet flew Leo to safety. Furious, the dragon’s head turned and breathed black flames that chased after Leo and Garnet. The fire swept over the walls of Siwang’s throne room.

Lana fired her lightning, fear swelling in her. She looked around. Maya was gone, Lana had missed what happened to her. There was Leo, Garnet, and Lana Fulmine. It was like those early days when they had assaulted Jindag’s dungeon.

It’s not enough, thought Lana Fulmine.

“How do we get through this maze?” Halia asked as she ran down the tunnel. She stopped. A dead end. “I have no idea!” Smerta cried. “Let’s try that left passage.”

“Right!” Halia cried, her blade humming.

Maya dropped into the dragon’s stomach.

The bile and acids sizzled about Maya. Pain surged through her as she surged through this water and hit the lining of the dragon’s stomach. A muscular layer of convulsing flesh. Dissolving, Maya had to act fast. She screamed out the pain as she formed her hand into the thinnest and sharpest point she could.

She plunged it into the stomach lining.

Maya felt the dragon’s roar of agony as the stomach acids poured out into her guts, sizzling away. Maya flowed with them, her body losing the fight against the burning chemicals. Maya relaxed into the pain and let it carry her away.

She dissolved into the Void and the peace of dreams.

The dragon staggered and roared in pain. Then it shook, its head staring at the ground, and vomited blood and acid. As I did, I felt Maya die. My connection to her vanished. My hand clenched with anger that another of my monster girls suffered.

That Maya had suffered.

But she had dealt the dragon a devastating wound. The beast roared in agony and vomited again, blood and yellow bile splashed on the ground. The stink washed over me as I gathered my magic and faced her.