Chapter 51

Note: Thanks to Alex for beta reading this!

Alizee soared over the next assault rushing at the damaged west wall. The crack was growing worse. Masonry tumbled from it. The wall looked unstable, damaged severely by those big boulder lobbing thingies.

Arrows peppered the walls, forcing the monster girls defending the battlements to duck behind them. Save Hagane. She let the arrows ping off her body as she watched the fresh siege ladders come up.

“Come on!” Alizee cried to her surviving harpies. The sirens had died, but they had done their job. Now they had to defend the wall.

Holes opened in the ground, swallowing soldiers here and there. The oreads at work, but they just killed one or two at a time. It wasn’t enough to stop the crush of soldiers. Fresh ladders slapped against the wall and men went up them.

She slashed with her wind blades.

She struck a ladder, cutting off a soldier’s arm and slicing through the side of the ladder. It creaked, groaned, then snapped in half. Men above fell into those waiting below. Her harpies swooped on other ladders, grabbing soldiers and pulling them off to drop them on the mass of enemies below.

Makeshift weapons.

Arrows filled the air.

Alizee danced through them with the grace of a cheerleader. She wove a path through the death to swing her arms. Blades of air killed soldiers climbing ladders. Fire burst from the wall, engulfing others. Smerta and Hagane fought, but they were losing defenders.

Hota screeched and vanished, the arrow that killed her falling back to the ground.

A howling whirlwind and a roaring firewhirl hurtled over the wall and into the siege ladders. Paetu and Esclava engulfed the enemy. The djinn threw men out from the ladders, hurtling them above Alizee. The ladders followed. The ifrit left her ladders burning, the men screaming as they fell to the ground engulfed in oranges and reds.

Daleitha followed. Her multitude of rainbow wings flapped as she send blades of light hacking down into the enemy. In moments, all the ladders were cleared from the wall. Alizee whooped so loudly.

“Oh, yeah!” she cheered, putting her fists together and making a circle before her with them as her hips rocked back and forth. “We’re fierce! We’re hot! We’re full of fight! You challenged us, now fear our might!”

“Nice!” Pihatu said as she flashed by Alizee.

Hagane watched the ladders being destroyed. The soldiers at the bottom reeled now as Paetu and Esclava surged down into them. Natural disasters with intelligence. The soldiers screamed as they recoiled.