Season 4 Chapter 36
Terra readied her hammer hands as Sreaga's silk shot out and snagged the lead hippogriff. The teal-feathered monster girls shrieked in shock as Sreaga yanked her out of the sky, The hippogriff hit the roof with a hard impact.
Terra pounced. She slammed her hammering fists in the monster girl's back. Then Zobens was there, her golden sword lopping off the screaming hippogriff's head. The enemy monster girl vanished into motes.
"Yes!" Zobens hissed. "First blood!"
Terra felt that same wild exultation. They would win today. They would take down these monster girls and hold the line. Silk fired from Sreaga's spinnerets and struck a crackling thunderbird. The lightning monster girl screeched as she hurtled for the roof.
"Get her!" Terra shouted.
"Yes!" Briesmoni roared. The orc rammed her sword into the thunderbird's back. A discharge of lightning shot up the weapon.
The orc screamed and flew back a foot, landing smoking on the ground. The thunderbird vanished into motes, killed. Briesmoni followed a heartbeat later. Terra clenched her jaw. They had killed two monster girls and lost one.
Not a good trade. The sky was full of so many more.
Hagane watched the fight. Gaiste's webbing yanked down a phoenix. She screamed, firing a ball of fire. The arachne jumped to the side. The phoenix hit hard, snapping her right wing. Before she could even react, Sriblo and Baaghi were on her.
The unicorn slammed a hoof down on the phoenix's head while Baaghi bit into her side, tearing at her flesh. In moments, she vanished. Hagane nodded and glanced at the other roofs. Briesmoni died killing a thunderbird.
A razor-sharp arrow struck Hagane, leaving a scratch down her arm that throbbed with pain. More arrows fired at her from the hippogriffs in the sky. Their teal pinions rained across the roof, forcing Hagane's team to dance and dodge.
Hagane ignored them. They scratched her, that didn't matter. From here, she could watch the entire battle. They had to hold them off for as long as possible. Lord Leo had to get those halflings out of the dungeon.
Ms. Rosa Trueno shouted again.
She struck a hippogriff, ripping feathers off her wings and sending her spinning. At the same time, Damhanalla ripped another hippogriff from the sky. She crashed to the ground between the two basilisks. They breathed their noxious breath.
The hippogriff screamed as she petrified.
The other hippogriffs screeched in the sky. Teal feathers shot down at Ms. Trueno's roof and Hagane's. The thunder sprite roared again. Her powerful voice warped the air and destroyed the incoming missiles.
Fire whooshed from above. As Damhanalla shot out her next line of silk, the phoenix's attack struck the arachne. She burst into flames, a roaring candle of screaming pain before she vanished back to the Void.
Ms. Trueno groaned.
"Breathe in the sky!" she shouted at the two basilisks.
Skamianiela and Vielmi lifted their heads and expelled their breath upward. The roiling fume rose towards the monster girls flying above, engulfing a thunderbird. She burst out of the cloud screeching in fear as her electric body petrified.
She slammed into the side of a building and burst into shards.
Pain exploded in Ms. Trueno's leg. She gasped and glanced down at a teal feather buried in her thigh. Blood welled around the wound and poured over her copper scales. She threw back her head and snarled her agony.
The air warped from her pain and fury.
Garnet whipped at a phoenix, striking the red-winged bird-girl on the back. The phoenix cawed in pain, her tail fluttering. She swooped around and opened her mouth to breathe fire on the little succubus.
Garnet swung the Penetrator, and struck the phoenix hard in the face with the massive dildo. The impact knocked the phoenix to the side. She screeched, her wings flapping to regain control of her flight. But she struck the side of the building where Damhanalla vanished in flames.
The phoenix vanished from the bone-crushing collision. Garnet flapped her wings hard, soaring over the roof.
A teal feather-arrow flashed by her face. She laughed as she banked, dodging another volley of them. Her wings flapped hard as she held her weapon. She swooped to the right, more sweeping past her.
"Kweh, heh, heh, I am Dark Succubus Naughty Garnet! And you cannot touch me!"
Lana Fulmine and Vaivory swooped down on a hippogriff, firing their lightning. The ball of electricity from the quetzalcoatl and the blast from the movie starlet's wings struck the enemy monster girl, frying her.
Smoking, she tumbled for the streets below and vanished into motes of mist.
"Yes!" Vaivory cried. "We did—"
A phoenix slammed into Vaivory, talons ripping at the feathered-serpent-girl's body. Blood spurted from Vaivory's throat as the phoenix flapped her red wings and launched away. Vaivory spun, clutching at her wounded throat.
She crashed into the street below and died.
"You bitch!" Lana Fulmine snarled, her wings crackling. She fired a blast at the phoenix.
The monster girl dodged it, a ball of fire hurtling back at Lana Fulmine. The movie starlet dove beneath it. The heat crackled over her head. She hissed in fury, catching the phoenix's eyes. Hatred burned in them.
We've fought before, Lana Fulmine realized. I've killed you before!
She laughed and turned her body, a new charge building in her lightning wings. Her golden hair swept behind her crackling with static electricity. She flew at the phoenix. The bird fired another ball of fire.
Lana was ready. She twisted to the side, letting it fly past her. The heat kissed her breasts. Then her wings exploded as she soared past the enemy. At point-blank range, there was no chance. She cooked the phoenix.
"That's for Vaivory!" Lana screamed as the phoenix sizzled and convulsed, her wings twitching.
No longer flying, she tumbled and crashed into the side of a building, smashing masonry and bursting into light.
Lana grinned. She turned around and found the whirlwind surging for her. A massive tornado flew through the air, roaring and hungry for her.
Chaos boiled through the skies above Terra's roof. She and Zobens backed away from the one they killed, waiting for Sreaga to find another. The arachne rubbed her hands together and aimed at the sky. Silk fired out and struck a phoenix in the tits.
Sreaga grabbed the silk with her spider legs and pulled. Like yanking a kite of the sky, the phoenix hurtled to the roof and hit hard. She snarled in pain. Landing closer to Zobens, the orc rushed in to ram her sword down at the beast.
The monster girl rolled over, silk tangling wings. She shot out a foot to rip across Zobens's belly. The orc lopped the foot off with a swing of her sword then drew back her blade for the coup de grace. Terra grinned.
The phoenix detonated.
Fire exploded from her and engulfed Zobens. Hot air slammed into Terra. She stumbled back, the roof shaking. Stone cracked and crumbled. The flames cleared, leaving not a trace of the phoenix or the orc. Masonry fell into the building below, leaving a smoking hole where she was.
"No!" Terra screamed in fury.
"I'll get the next one down," Sreaga said, her voice quivering. "The hippogriff. Get ready."
Lightning shot out of the sky and struck the arachne. Her legs spasmed. Terra watched in horror as the arachne collapsed convulsing on the ground. Her back arched then she burst into motes. The thunderbird soared over, laughing.
Terra stood alone on the roof. A feather hissed down and struck her in the thigh. Terra growled at the pain and shoved out the missile by reshaping her flesh. More hurtled down at her. She charged across the roof, dodging the attacks hurtling down at her.
She stared up at the sky. Not even half of the flying monster girls were killed.
Hagane waited for Gaiste to yank down the next monster girl as Baaghi ripped out the throat of a thunderbird. Electricity crackled, but this one didn't unleash a fatal discharge. As a monster girl companion to Jindag, Baaghi was as strong as Hagane.
Gaiste snagged a hippogriff and dragged her out of the sky. As she came down, her wings flapped wide, sending a flight of teal arrows down at the roof. One struck Sriblo in the throat. The unicorn whinnied in pain, blood pouring down her pale body. She staggered and collapsed.
Bhaaloo roared with fierce hatred and pounced on the hippogriff. The werebear ripped out the hippogriff's throat. Blood sprayed. Her claws raked over the flying enemy's chest, rending the body and killing her.
Another flight of arrows shot down at Bhaaloo.
"No!" shouted Hagane.
She threw herself before the werebear, taking the hits on her metallic body. The arrows pinged off her, leaving burning scratches and dings behind. Flesh wounds that Hagane ignored. She would not let her monster girls die.
She would protect them.
Fire exploded behind her. Daant roared in pain. Hagane whirled and watched the other werebear on her team collapse, the flames consuming her body. Hagane's body shook with fury. Silk hissed out, Gaiste firing her next blast.
A thunderbird shrieked in the sky above, yanked down. Lightning sizzled from the crackling monster girl. Before she hit the roof, she discharged a bolt of lightning that slammed into Gaiste. The arachne howled in pain, her legs twitching. She collapsed.
"No! No! No!" shouted Hagane.
She had never been so angry in her life. She leaped at the thunderbird and landed on the enemy's back. Hagane's arm-blades slashed down, cutting through the body made of electricity. The charge flickered. The thunderbird screeched.
Lightning slammed into Hagane's body.
It flashed through her metallic form, merely a tickle. She laughed and slammed her arm-blade through the monster girl's shocked face. The point buried into the stone of the building. Hagane wrenched her weapon free as her enemy died and vanished.
But that wouldn't bring Daant and Gaiste back. The last of the arachne was killed. The monster girls would own the sky. It was a miracle that Lana and Garnet were still alive up there. Hagane already formulated new plans.
I can have Bhaaloo throw me up into the air, she thought. Be a missile.
The roar of fire whirled Hagane around. It wasn't a phoenix's fireball but a whirl of flames that rushed over the city wall straight for Hagane. Malevolent fury burned in the midst of the approaching cataclysm.
Hagane raised her arms and prepared to fight.
Crystal ran down the main street beside her mother. The other monster girls ran at their side. Salamanders, yuki-onna, basilisks. Morana was right behind her. They pounded through the streets, fireballs and lightning bolts surging down from above.
The flying monster girls circled over buildings. Some were yanked down out of the sky by the defenders. Crystal had no idea how the fight was going, but it couldn't be going well. In the sky, Lana Fulmine and Garnet were dancing and weaving, dodging razor arrows, balls of flame, and thunderbolts. Roars and growls and booms filled the air.
Just hold out, Crystal thought. They were almost there.
Garnet swooped down and swung her shadowy club into the face of one thunderbird. The electric monster girl crackled as the impact threw her to the side. She tumbled, her wing clipped a building, and she hit the street only a block before Crystal, bursting into motes.
"Yes!" Crystal hissed. "We're here!"