Season 4 Chapter 24


Terra was standing right next to Leo as the attack shouted through her mind. Every monster girl heard the cry. It set her off. Coiled like a spring, Terra broke into a sprint for the stairs that would lead upward. Leo had already penetrated into the building.

This is it, thought Terra. If she had a heart, it would be pounding right now. "Let's go, orcs and werebears!"

The five werebears roared behind her, and the five orcs shouted, "For Lord Leo!" as she took the stairs two at a time like she did on her jog every morning back in the real world. She always ran before going to her early shift at the Morning Drip.

The dungeon erupted into what looked to be a carpenter's shop. The stone flooring had been thrown to the side. A table was knocked over, spilling woodworking tools across the floor. The scent of sawdust filled her nose.

She looked around and spotted a door. She charged it, her monster girls rushing right behind her. The werebears snarled as they turned into beasts. She leaned in and slammed through the door, her wiry copper hair flying behind her. Splinters exploded around her. She burst out into daylight onto a cobblestone street.

The halflings on the street screamed in alarm at the sight of her. Then the werebears and orcs flooded out. Terra looked around, getting her bearings and remembering her part of the plan. She formed her fists into hammers.

"Let's go!" she shouted. The ghosts reported the werewolves were concentrated in the northern part of town. Each of the monster girl types had its own section.

Like they were territorial or something.

More halflings shouted in fright at the sight of her. Many of them were injured, sporting bandages on their faces or moved with limps. Bruises, black eyes, and split lips abounded. Anger boiled through the barista. She would smite those damned werewolves.

She rounded a corner when a loud howl drifted through the streets.

"AAAAAAWWOOOOOAAAAAHHHH!"

The howl of a wolf. It was answered.

"Get ready!" Terra shouted, the orcs holding their golden swords and adorned in their shiny armor. The werebears blurred, their busty, female forms replaced by hulking bears that snarled their anger.

"AAAAAWWOOOOOOAAAAAHHHH!

Garnet burst outside of the building in the wake of the anti-werewolf team and the one her big brother led. The succubus had a very important job. She flapped her scarlet wings hard and took to the air. Her black pigtails whipped behind her while her tail danced. She quickly rose above the street, the city laid out before her. The buildings were mostly two stories with some three here and there. The central building was taller.

The enemy fliers were in the distance, over the other quadrants of the city. She ignored them as she looked down at the ground. Terra vanished around the corner while her big brother, Ms. Trueno, and the arachnes rushed south.

Garnet's gaze swept around the ground. The halflings that had seen the group burst out were hurdling down alleys, trembling in fear. She had to help them. She swooped down at one group. They gasped at the sight of her.

"I'm not going to hurt you!" she cried. "I serve Lord Leo! He's come to rescue you! Come on! We're evacuating the city! Let's go!"

The halflings quivered in shock. It hurt that they only seemed to be listening to her because they were afraid. But she pointed them toward the building, waving her hand to hurry them along. They headed the way at a fearful, half-crouched huddle, some helping the more wounded.

"Down the stairs and follow the tunnel!" she cried. "That'll lead you to Kassie. She's a mage from here. She's going to get you to safety! Hurry! Hurry!"

They vanished into the door, Garnet moving after the stragglers, waving her hands to urge them along. This was so important. She would make sure that every halfling was rescued. Their injuries made her so angry.

They vanished down the stairs. "Kassie, you have your first group coming. Oh, they're so hurt!"

Garnet flapped her wings high. The angry succubus took to the air to search for more halflings and get them out of the city. Shouts were echoing across it. The sounds of fighting. In the air now, she could see the battle for Sharithin had begun.

I ran through the streets from the northern building with Ms. Trueno at my side. The five arachnes scuttled behind us. Halflings in the streets saw us and shouted in fear. They ran from us. I didn't blame them. I might look human in my gray robe and silver breastplate, a crackling spear in my hand, but Ms. Trueno was a lizard-woman covered in coppery scales, and the arachnes...

Well, they were spider-girls scuttling on eight legs.

"Get to the carpenter shop!" I shouted at any halflings we passed. I pointed back at them as I rushed down the street, boots slapping on the cobblestone. "The carpenter shop!"

"Hurry, hurry!" cried Ms. Trueno. "You need to get out of the city. The carpenter shop!"

"Yes, yes," Damhanalla shouted, her voice quavering. "Just don't melt me with your eyes!"

But the halflings were not listening to us. They were scared of us. They scurried from us in terror. I had feared that we would panic them. But we had no choice. We had to start the fight. I knew it was underway. I just hoped it would go well.

My women were amazing, but these monster girls were stronger.

I kept running for the central building and the companions that waited inside.

Nina Naughty burst out of the smithy on the west side of the city and flared her devilish wings wide. She took to the sky, forming a flaming pitchfork. The ghosts rose ethereal into the air after the devil. Their naked, translucent bodies were almost impossible to see.

Below Nina, Maya charged out of the building with the unicorns. The watery undine and the unicorns spread out, rushing to the frightened halflings. Many of them were hurt. Anger swelled in the porn star at how these poor, abused halflings were treated.

There were bodies in allies. Lying where they had been killed. Many of them had burn marks like they had been struck by lightning. Nina Naughty's tail swished behind her as she climbed over the city and gained her bearings.

The thunderbirds patrolled this part of the town. They were made entirely out of lightning. They were women with wings for arms and bird talons on their feet. They saw Nina and her group, the enemy monster girls cawing like angry crows. They flapped their wings, winging towards Nina and the ghosts.

Well, just to me, Nina realized. They must think I'm all alone up here.

Nina grinned, eager to heart these bitches. She raised her arm and threw a flaming pitchfork at the first one of them. The thunderbird banked to dodge it with ease while fire burst in the devil's hand. A new weapon appeared.

The five thunderbirds all exploded with lightning. The bolts hurtled at Nina Naughty, crackling with fury.

Maya nodded to Hagane and followed Nina out of the dungeon and into a smithy. The unicorn hooves clopped behind her as she rushed through the shop, dodging an anvil. She reached the streets. The halflings were screaming in fear.

They were recoiling as Nina Naughty took to the air.

"Be gentle!" Maya cried, the undine rushing towards a group of halflings, her unicorns fanning out to help.

She rushed up to a group of halfling mothers grabbing their children. The undine put a big smile on her face as she moved towards them, her arms spread wide open. They stared at her with such fear as she stood taller than all of them.

"It's okay," Maya said. "Come with me. We're going to get you away from the thunderbirds and Sulanga Stormfury. Lord Leo is here to rescue you."

One of them stared at her in shock.

"Go, to the smithy," Maya said, pointing. "There are stairs, a room, and a tunnel. Follow it and you'll get to safety."

The mothers nodded, maybe out of fear or hope. But they moved towards the smithy. Lightning crackled in the air. Maya's body rippled with dread. Were Nina and the ghosts all right? That wasn't her concern.

She spotted three young men with the group. "You, you, and you! Find everyone in the neighborhood and get them to the smithy. If they want to escape Sulanga's tyranny, then they need to evacuate right now!"

They gaped at the undine.

"Move!" she shouted. "Be heroes and save them!"

The three gasped and darted away, one crying, "Y-yes, Lady Undine!"

"We're here to help!" Rih shouted to another group. The unicorn's silvery tail swished behind her. Her big, black eyes were liquid and full of such gentle love. "Follow me!"

"Just this way!" Sriblo cried as she trotted out of an alley. She held a pair of halfling children. "We're your friends! Follow me!"

"Come with us!" Kin cried to another group, beckoning them out of a building.

Maya rushed down the street to another house. She threw open the door and found a group of ten halflings huddled inside. They stared at her in fear, a man shielding a woman and a child. Maya smiled at them.

"This way!" she said. "Kassie the Mage went to Lord Leo and begged him for help. Now she's going to take you to safety! Let's go!"

"Lord Leo?" the halfling shielding his family said. "The dwarves... They spoke of him."

"And he's here to help!" Maya smiled at them all. "Let's go. We're getting you out of here!"

The halflings rushed towards the door. Such joy washed through Maya. More lightning crackled in the sky. The fight was on, but so was the evacuation. They would get the survivors to safety. She motioned them down the street towards the smithy where other small groups were running, escorted by the unicorns.

Maya smiled. It's working. It's really working!
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