Fantasy Dungeon Builder's Harem

"This way!" Mrs. Baldwin cried, rushing a group of halflings along. "Safety is this way. Let's go!"

The skies were alive with shouts. Panic echoed through the city. The dryad had to focus on getting her next group of charges to the store. She was waving her hand, begging them to move faster. The halflings scurried through the streets, wincing at every noise.

"We're here to help you," Vielmi, one of the basilisks, said to her group that was coming out of an alley. "Just be calm. There you are. See, nothing to be frightened of."

They hurried down to the main street before the dry goods store where Piaro was leading another group. She actually was holding a halfling child in her hands, the girl's face buried in the basilisk's pink, feathery hair.

"I know we're scary," Piaro was saying, "but we're your friends. We're not like the wicked monster girls who serve Sulanga Stormfury!"

Piaro set the child down at the entrance to the shop, motioning for the halflings to go inside. Mrs. Baldwin and Vielmi led their group towards Piaro while in the sky, fire burned. The crackle of flames was growing louder and louder mixed with thunderous roars, lionesses bellowing their fury.

I hope the battle is going well up there, Mrs. Baldwin thought. But she had more halflings to save.

Maya thought the evacuation was going great.

The halflings were flowing towards the smithy as the unicorns darted down the streets to find more refugees. The young halfling males Maya had recruited were fanning out and going from house to house, making sure people were getting evacuated.

A crying child caught Maya's attention. There, by a stack of crates, a little halfling boy was sobbing. Maya gasped and rushed over to him, her watery form jiggling. She bent down before him, giving him a smile.

He looked up at her. Then lightning flashed above, crackling with hungry thunder.

The boy buried his face into his hands.

"It's okay," Maya said, scooping up the little boy. She held him tight to her, realizing that as a monster girl there was one thing she would never have with Leo: his child.

I hope the me in the other world gets that with him, Maya prayed.

She spotted a group of halflings running down the street, led by Chystota. The unicorn trotted before them, her white tail flashing behind her and golden horn gleaming in the sunlight. Maya thrust the child at one of the men.

"You get him to safety," she told the halfling.

"Yes, Lady Monster Girl!" the male said, holding the child in strong arms. "Come on, poppin, we'll get you to safety."

Maya nodded. Then she turned and ran down the street. She had more halflings to save.

Kassie smiled as the refugees began rushing down the tunnel. She waved to them, beckoning them as they came from the north. Then more were running in from the east and west. Tears almost spilled down her cheeks.

You really are saving my people, Kassie thought, joy bursting in her.

"Kassie!" gasped a halfling male named Zhane. "It's you. Kassie!"

"It's me!" the mage said, a big smile on her face. "Come on the circle. Everyone, step onto the circle. We have to get you all to safety. The Village of Astovin is taking you in. You're under Lord Leo's protection now."

"Bless him," a wounded woman carrying two children said, tears spilling down her cheeks.

Zhane helped get the first group on there. More than thirty were crowded on it. Kassie took in a deep breath. "Feya, first group is incoming!"

"Ready!" Feya answered.

"Asud Gu!"

She spoke the activation command. The light flared and they were gone. Just like that. Kassie sighed in relief. The first of her people were saved. That was amazing. She was so relieved that she had rescued some of them.

Then she heard more cries. More halflings were rushing down the tunnel. Hurt and hale. Men and women. Children and the elderly. Such joy beat in Kassie's heart. Lord Leo was everything she had hoped he would be.

Fauraliiithiliana stood with Feya in the dungeon beneath Astovin. The magical circle glowed bright then there were thirty halfling refugees standing there nervous. The fairy fluttered her purple wings and rushed over to them.

"Welcome to Astovin," she said. "I'm Feya. Just go up those stairs. The humans of Astovin are ready to help you with any injuries. Please, please, we have to get you out of here. Up the stairs."

The stunned halflings stumbled along. Fauraliiithiliana nodded her approval, so glad to see these halflings heading to safety. Lord Leo was such a great man. Such a noble hero. He would see that all these people were rescued.

Fauraliiithiliana was thrilled to be a member of Lord Leo's harem. She nodded to the halflings as they went by, smiling at them.

"You can send the next wave whenever you're ready, Kassie," Feya reported through the link.

Crystal was thrilled when the hippogriff died. The ice sprite wanted to kill them all. Already two of the quetzalcoatls were dead. That was not acceptable to Crystal. She wanted everyone to survive. For all these bitches to die.

Paanee and the yuki-onna were doing their part. They were firing off ice shards and spitting blobs of acid. Crystal threw another shard of frozen water. It flashed through the air, as sharp as broken glass, but missed her target.

It was chaos in the skies. Lana killed one on her back and one of the quetzalcoatl's lightning ball took another hippogriff in the side. The monster girl shrieked and spun through the air, smoking but not dead. Crystal tracked the enemy and threw her shard of ice.

It struck the wounded hippogriff in the side. The monster girl vanished as she tumbled for the ground, leaving only her blood to rain down on the street below. A big grin spread on Crystal's lips.

"Got you, bitch," she hissed in delight.

Things were going great here. She formed her next attack and sought her target.

I ran as fast as I could down the street, Ms. Trueno at my side. She ran fast, the halflings scattering out of our way. There were fewer and fewer of them the closer that we got to the center. I could see our target building.

I glanced back to see the arachnes were scuttling along the sides of buildings at times, running just as fast on the sides as they were on the ground. Their boobs bounced in strange ways as they seemed to defy gravity with their clawed feet.

My monster girls died.

I could feel the winking out as the battle raged. A werebear. An orc. A sphinx. Then two quetzalcoatls died. And more would come. I could feel who they were. Garjan, Orka, Igazsa, Iaidas, and Skale were all gone. Slain by the enemy. This was turning into a nightmare. I was so disgusted with it. My heart was hammering in my chest. I hated this so much.

I hoped the air battles were winnable. They had always concerned me. They were the places that I was most afraid that we would lose. I had far, far more ground monster girls, while this Sulanga Stormfury had all these air ones.

I just had to keep with the plan. Stay the course and hope we would pull out the win. What else could I do?

Then I staggered as five of my monster girls was killed at once.

Nina Naughty watched as all of the thunderbirds burst with electricity, surging their power into the ghosts. The five ethereal forms, hardly visible in the daylight and the crackling of plasma, vanished at once.

Killed by the thunderbirds' attack.

"Fuck me in the ass raw!" Nina Naughty gasped, the shock slapping her. That wasn't supposed to have happened. They were supposed to have drained them. The ghosts were supposed to be the sure thing.

The thunderbirds flapped their wings, shaking their heads. Their lightning didn't crackle as bright. They had been hurt by the ghosts and looked dazed by the attacks they had just suffered. They shook their heads from side to side.

Nina threw her pitchfork and struck one in the face. The thunderbird crackled and poofed out of existence, killed.

The other four recovered as Nina Naughty summoned her next pitchfork. Blasts of lightning rushed at her. She flapped her wings hard. The devil rose into the air as the four chased her. She threw her next pitchfork behind her as she did.

It slammed into the thunderbird's shoulder. She screeched in pain and spun out of control, winking out.

The other three hurtled their blasts of lightning at Nina Naughty. She banked to the right, the devil flapping hard. One bolt hissed by her. Another just flashed beneath her, tingling her nipples. The third struck her in the back. Pain exploded.

She gasped, sparks flashing around her. She spun through the air and crashed into the side of the building.

Souleen's arms wrapped around Nina Naughty. "Sleep," the Soul of the Void Crystal whispered. "Sleep."​