Chapter 59

How do I beat her?

The thought echoed over and over in my mind as I flew over the bitch. I had to switch tactics. Maybe I had to blind her. I found the right Light spell as she turned her attention back to the air. On her back, my monster girls were crouched low, struggling not to fall.

This was hopeless, but...

I could not give up. Everyone was counting on me.

“Sunlight explodes, let the radiance of Lord Shamash erupt!”

A blinding light exploded before the dragon. A miniature sun burned before her eyes. She screamed in draconic pain and ripped her head from the source. Hope surged through me. Maybe I had blinded her. If she couldn’t see.

Her head snapped back, and her eyes focused on me.

“Shit!”

Acid exploded from her mouth.

Terra watched the spray of acid streak across the air at Leo. He flew ahead of it while the breath spread out into a deadly rain that fell back on the camp. The soldiers must be running in every direction by now, fleeing their own defender.

“Come on,” Terra said as she watched Baaghi, Bjorni, and Vilkas tearing at the scales.

“Hard!” snarled Vilkas.

“Let me!” Terra shifted her balance as the dragon moved and raised both her fists shaped into hammers. She slammed them down together.

They struck, her big breasts heaving. Cracks ran across two of the scales she struck. She raised her arms again and crashed them down on the armored hide. A chunk of the hardened protection snapped off and struck Bjorni in the stomach. The bugbear snarled and grabbed the other half.

She ripped with her mouth.

Baaghi joined her. The two monster girls tore at the broken scales. Blood welled up from beneath. They ripped the protection free, exposing flesh beneath. Vilkas crackled, her electric tail swishing back and forth.

“We’re opening a wound!” cried Terra as she stepped back.

The dragon shifted, her body moving beneath Terra. The golem planted her feet wide, shifting her body with the rocking, and raised her fist. She slammed them down on a new set of scales. The dark-blue cracked again. She hammered at them as Vilkas darted in and tore.

Scarlet ran around their feet and stained the muzzle of the three monster girls tearing up the scales. They ripped a wider hole in the dragon’s defense as Leo’s voice filled the air with his magical spells. The dragon shuddered and shifted, her tail swishing.

“Yes, we have an opening!” Terra cried as they had exposed a spot six or seven feet across.

“Incoming!” Nina Naughty shouted in Terra’s mind

A flaming pitchfork plunged down into the wound. It buried deep. Blood sizzled and smoked. The dragon roared in pain. Terra grinned and slammed her hammers down into the wound, striking the exposed flesh.

Tenderizing it.

Howling, Vilkas ripped at the dragon’s flesh, ripping it out. Baaghi and Bjorni joined her in the grisly feast, eating their way through the outer layers of the dragon’s skin to the muscle beneath. Terra grinned, blood dripping from her hammer-fists.

“Got you,” she breathed.

Garnet soared up to her big brother as the dragon breathed acid.

“What are you doing?” he asked. “It’s dangerous around me.”

“I know!” The succubus beat her wings. “I’m your shield, big bro! It’s all I can do!”

“Shield?” He stared at her in shock.

“I can’t hurt her, but I can defend my big brother!” She stared at him with love. “I won’t be useless. I’ll keep you safe. Dark Succubus Naughty Garnet is your guardian!”

For a moment, a smile spread on his lips. He nodded.

He turned and studied the dragon. Nina Naughty flew over and threw a flaming pitchfork that hit the beast on her back. Terra, Bjorni, Baaghi, and Vilkas had done something. Terra had shouted it in their minds. Blood spilled across the dragons.

“Yes,” Leo said.

“They’ve opened a wound!” Garnet cried.

Leo soared for it. Garnet followed, her wings beating.

The dragon bent her head around and breathed acid across her own back. The four monster girls ripping into her flesh vanished in the deluge. The dissolving liquid spilled off the dragon’s back. Smoke rose from her wound, her acid sizzling against her own flesh. Garnet’s stomach sank. The four brave monster girls were gone.

I stared at the hole. Hope burst in me. Four of my monster girls had died giving me the opening to hurt her. “Everyone,” I cried in my mind, “Hit that wound! Unload on her!”

My surviving monster girls flying in the air all soared at the dragon. Nina Naughty, Mrs. Lucina, Lana Fulmine, Alizee, and Paetu rushed at the beast as I focused on the wound. Garnet flew at my side, bravely ready to die for me.

I had to end this.

“The sharpness of ice cuts, let the razors of Lord Anshar slash!”

Shards of ice hurtled from me. The glittering blades slammed into the wound. The dragon’s head snapped back. She roared as blood splattered. Her acidic breath sprayed out at me. Garnet gasped, her hand grabbing mine as she flapped her wings fast.

As the dragon’s breath rained down on the camp, my other flying monster girls swooped in. Mrs. Lucina’s halo erupted with light. Blades of air from Alizee and pitchforks of flames from Nina Naughty. Lana Fulmine’s wings exploded with lightning. Paetu flew into the edges of the dragon’s acidic spray and caught it with her wind.