Chapter 14

Note: Thanks to Alex for beta reading this!

The taste of blood filled my mouth. My side ached from the run. Even with my body pushed to my peak physical condition, I panted. Ten minutes later, I reached the entrance to my dungeon. The fighting was fierce. They had reached the guard room. My monster girls were dwindling.

I charged through the cave and to the doors. They were thrown open. Just torn off their hinges. Inside, traps were tripped. Evidence of the enemy monster girls tearing through my dungeon was everywhere.

My women followed me as I ran through the maze. I knew it by heart. The pressure filling my chest swelled and swelled. A satyr died. The fighting raged in the guard room. I had to get there right now, but I had so much territory to cross.

The mermaids were dead, the bridge raised and turned to the secret door. Maya had to dive into the water to turn it. I chaffed. Every moment I stood here brought defeat closer and closer. I stared at her swimming in the water.

She turned the bridge.

We darted out to it and then fought for balance as it rotated to go through the secret door. They had blasted through it, finding the way with ease. Maya climbed up the central column as I raced down to the end.

The moment I could, I darted through the door and moved deeper into my dungeon. The lightning columns were all destroyed. The enemy monster girls had blazed through my defenses with ease. Level 2 monster girls.

I only had Level 1 and the companions. Would Usiku, Paanee, and Baaghi be enough?

I hurtled down the hallway to the throne room, Garnet whimpering in fear as another wildhound went down. I could feel my resources dwindling. I swallowed my fear, leaping over a triggered pit trap. I hoped it got one of the bastards.

The growls and shouts of monster girls echoed down the hallway. Through the blown-up doors ahead, I could see the fray. The battle had commenced. Lightning strobed and flashed. Metal clanged against horn. A satyr baaed in pain and then I felt her soul released and returning to the Void Crystal. My stomach twisted.

I burst into the room to find chaos.

But my arrival had evened the odds.

I had two wildhounds, a will o’ wisp, two satyrs, and three oozes still in the fight besides Usiku, Baaghi, and Paanee. They fought the yuki-onna, unicorns, and orcs, everyone paired off. Usiku and her shadowy blade met the steel sword of what must be an orc. Baaghi danced around a white-skinned woman with frosty-blue hair. Mist spilled off her body. That must be the yuki-onna. I didn’t know what that was, but I knew what orcs and unicorns were, and that wasn’t her. Paanee battled a unicorn. The naga’s serpentine body wove and twisted, dodging the unicorn’s lancing horn attacks. Silky, white hair danced behind the unicorn as her golden horn thrust from her forehead. A horse’s tail swept behind her above her curving rump. My oozes fought unicorns and yuki-onnas. Sviesos fired lighting at an orc who blocked with her sword. My Satyrs danced around flashing blades, the orcs trying to hack them down.

It was chaos.

Nos, one of my wildhounds, dodged the sword slash from an orc, a tall and swarthy woman with thick strands of black hair. Nos’s petite body twisted around a sword stroke. She darted in to bite into the orc’s flank and tear out flesh.

The orc was faster.

Her sword plunged through Nos’s body. My wildhound yipped in pain. Her tail straightened and her head snapped back. Then her slender form slid off the sword and vanished before she even hit the ground.

“No!” I roared, fury brimming in my voice. “Spark of lightning, crackle of electricity, let the wrath of Lord Enlil explode!”

The sizzling bolt of lightning hurtled from my hand and struck the orc as she turned to face us. She ducked the bolt. It crashed into the wall behind the orc. She grunted and charged at me, her big tits swaying. The amazonian monster girl fixed death on me.

Behind her, Philtara screamed. The ooze’s body crystallizing. One of the yuki-onna’s had her hand planted on Philtara’s body. An arm snapped off. A hair tentacle broke. Then my ooze shattered into a thousand pieces and vanished.

I closed my eyes, almost forgetting the threat that barreled down at me.

“Fuck!” I snarled and raised my spear before me, clutching it with both hands spread wide apart on the shaft. I caught the powerful sword stroke with the haft. Metal clanged.

Fury swept through me. Nos suffered on the end of her blade. My hand shot out as the orc drew back for her stroke. If this failed, she would cut me down. I planted my hand on her chest as her sword slashed down at me.

“Sizzling touch, the spark of pain, let the prowess of Lord Enlil stun!”

Sparks erupted from my hand. The orc staggered back, her sword falling from her spasming hand. She hit the ground and convulsed. I ran her through with my spear as she lay stunned. She vanished. I gritted my teeth, glad that I had killed that bitch. Even if it was just for a moment.

But while I killed her, the other wildhound still in the fight, Hela, was grabbed by the throat by the yuki-onna she fought. Hela twisted her head and bit the hand, but that didn’t stop the ice from spreading over her body. The wildhound howled in pain as the frost spread over her skin. Her body spasmed.

Then she vanished.

At the same time, Havas the satyr screamed in pain. A unicorn’s golden horn burst out of her back in a spray of blood. The unicorn wrenched her horn free, crimson staining her once pristine horn. Havas staggered back on her hooves, her life spilling down her breasts.

She vanished before she hit the ground.

Rage blazed in me. My monster girls were just not strong enough to fight Level 2 enemies.

Mrs. Zoe Baldwin shuddered at the horror of seeing poor Havas gored by a unicorn.

She loved Havas. They were both Life monsters. She was a surrogate mother to the satyrs and the other monster girls. She loved them as much as she loved her own children. With fear beating in the dryad’s heart, she rushed forward.

“Hey!” she shouted at the unicorn who had gored Havas. “Come fight me, you bitch!” The unicorn turned to face the dryad. A smile spread on her innocent face. Blood ran over her features, dripping from her horn, making a mockery of that purity. The unicorn stamped her hoof and then lowered her horn.

She charged at Mrs. Baldwin. The dryad flexed her toes and then they shot out. Vines to wrap up the unicorn. But the monster girl charged faster than the dryad had expected. Her tendrils seized the unicorn’s legs, but she was running too fast.

The golden horn slammed into Mrs. Baldwin’s guts. Pain exploded through her while her vines tightened around the unicorn. Mrs. Baldwin would rather take this pain than another. She threw back her head and screamed.

Maya rushes at the yuki-onna that killed Hela. The watery undine felt the harem’s desperation. This was worse than the village. If they failed here, there was no coming back for any of them. They would all die. She would have failed Leo.

She wouldn’t let her best friend down.

“Hey!” she shouted, darting past Usiku.

As she did, she smacked the orc the fomorian fought in the ass. The watery slap brought a snarling growl from the orc. Maya heard more than saw Usiku’s sword cutting into the orc’s flesh. A bellow of pain that cut off.

“Thanks!” Usiku shouted.

Maya nodded and formed her hand into a watery battering ram. She slammed it into the face of the yuki-onna. The blue-haired and frosty woman gasped as it struck her hard in the head. The yuki-onna flung to the ground, sluggish blood oozing out of her broken nose.

Maya grinned, liking her watery body. It was just the thing she needed to embrace to fight at her full efficiency. She turned her battering ram into a sword but she couldn’t get it to have a sharp edge. Water didn’t want to do that. A blunt object, though...

She formed a hammer and raised her arm.

The yuki-onna thrust a hand against her leg. Cold shot into Maya. She gasped, pain tearing through her form as her water froze. Crystals of ice built inside of her, growing on each other, reaching up through her body.

“Noooo!” she screamed in agony.

Pain flowed through Mrs. Zoe Baldwin.

Her golden sap bled out of her. She gripped the unicorn. “Why?” The pain spread through her. Around them, the fighting raged. The dryad screamed in pain. “Why do we have to fight each other?”

She would rather love and nurture all the monster girls. Orcs, unicorns, yuki-onna, and basilisks included. They didn’t have to be enemies. Why did these twins have to send this pain and suffering to her family?

The memory of crushing that poor basilisk screamed in her mind. She had to do the same to the unicorn. She just had to crush the life out of her, but Mrs. Baldwin had felt the life leaving the basilisk’s body.

She was life. A Life monster born in service to that soothing and healing power. She wasn’t meant to cause pain but to strengthen with her love and nourish with her breast milk. Her grip faltered on the unicorn.

She surrendered to the pain. Regret filled her as she died and fell into a sleep, held by the loving arms of Souleen.