A Monster Life Ch. 25-27

Ulric looked at Valdys. 'How are you doing?'

She checked her tallies. 'Iphi, can you guys give me a few minutes?'

Iphigenia giggled. 'Sure. Enjoy.'

'Thanks.' Valdys said and smiled at Ulric, who looked puzzled at her.

'Where are we going?' he asked when she took his paw and pulled him along into a deep recess.

'My numbers are still high but I'd like to make sure to have them as high as possible now, and Iphi explained how to get a quick boost.' she said and moved Ulric with is back into a corner.

'Ah.' he said. 'I get it now.'

She went down on her knees in front of him and cupped his balls gently while placing her lips on the opening of his sheath hidden in his fur. He twitched his hips the moment the tip of her tongue entered it and touched his tip. Blood rushed to his nether region fast while she kissed his sheath and her tongue licked his growing tip. 'This definitely does it.' he growled.

Valdys smiled while his hot tip grew into her mouth and his taste and scent filled her senses. She licked his ridge, then pulled back. 'It doesn't bother you that my mouth is cold, right?'

He chuckled. 'I think the answer's obvious. But no, it actually makes it a little different than what I've experienced so far but just as good.'

She smiled and massaged his furry balls gently, and slid her mouth over his tip again and enjoyed his taste. He growled softly again and stroked her neck while she danced her tongue around him and sucked gently. "Does this count as necrophilia?" he thought. "Technically she's dead but also not." She pressed her throat against his tip and swallowed him deep inside. "Who cares!" he thought as he growled at the tight sensation around him.

She hummed in pleasure and the vibrations added to the thrill rushing through his dick from tip to balls and back again. 'I thought the fight would dampen my spirit but this gets me going.' he growled. 'Fast.'

She smiled and pulled back far enough to run her tongue around his tip again. 'Don't hold back.' she said over the link.

'How could anyone?' he growled and sensed his whole abdomen tense.

She felt his balls retract and hummed in anticipation while sucking harder on his tip, then felt his shaft tense and hummed in hunger while he growled urgently and filled the back of her mouth with his hot seed. She rolled her tongue through the sticky stream while more shot in bursts into her with every throb of his dick.

Ulric breathed heavily and growled softly in satisfaction while the undead beauty at his feet eagerly lapped up every drop he produced and cleaned him up. She stood up after she was done and pressed herself against him while nuzzling his neck. 'I can feel my numbers increasing.'

He kissed her in her neck and stroked her back. 'I don't know about my numbers but I do feel energised again.'

Iphigenia cleared her throat. 'Next time though, warn us when you swallow him that deep.'

Valdys chuckled once. 'Oops, sorry. I forgot I don't really breath. I hope none of you choked.'

Iphigenia chuckled. 'We didn't, but you took us a little more by surprise than Wolfie.'

'You're all right, my loves?' Ulric asked.

'I'm good.' said Elzbieta while licking a lingering taste in her mouth.

'I'm fine, master.' said Kaui and blushed. 'If you like that better I will try my best at it.'

He smiled. 'Don't force yourself, cutie. I'm most satisfied by your willingness to be with me.' he said and took a deep breath, sensing he was back in relative decent shape. 'Let's see if we can get rid of a very bad element inside this dead place.'

Iphigenia looked at Elzbieta and Kaui. 'We're moving out.'

The three marched out of the small hall they had hidden in and followed the spirits that led them towards the edge of Demetrus's radius of perception, with the rest following in their footsteps.

It didn't take long for stone knights and wizards and floating armours to appear at the other end of a wide passage. 'Contact!' said Iphigenia.

Ulric Looked at Valdys, who gave a nod a moment later. 'Confirmed, I sense he directed all his attention towards them.' she said.

'We're on our way now.' said Ulric. 'Don't none of you dare to get so hurt that I'll tear this whole place down to get to you.'

Iphigenia chuckled. 'The same goes for you, Wolfie.' she said and moved quickly forward while the spirits and the creatures overtook her to storm the enemy first and cause a disruption.

The floating armours swiped and slashed at the spirits to no avail while the creatures clawed and gnashed at weak spots in the stone of the statues. Iphigenia used the spirit's cover and rushed to the armours, and slashed at their weak sides to tear them apart. Elzbieta in the meantime hacked away at the exposed weaknesses of the statues until a gash large enough for a grenade was cut. Kaui handed those to the creatures, who nimbly crawled up the stone and planted the grenades then evacuated the statue until the blast tore it apart.

Valdys and Ulric sneaked in quick tempo through the hallways and stairwells behind her squirrel and its rat friend, avoiding enemies still on patrol or groups heading away towards the battle with the other girls. Soon enough they found themselves in the same corridor heading towards the throne room.

The doors were open and a quick peek revealed only emptiness and the soft crackle of the fire stands burning, and the stone knights at their original place. 'Looks empty and I hear nothing.' said Ulric across the link to Valdys. 'Not even pages turning.'

'Do you want to test going in first in case the guards will attack?' she asked.

'Yes. If they are active now we need to change our plans.' he said and stepped carefully around the doorway and into the throne room, ready to fall back at the first stir from statue or tapestry.

Nothing did and he sneaked further at a little distance from the walls and the tapestries, his eyes flicking left and right. All was still quiet when he reached the doorway to the library at the side and he peeked inside. 'No one here either. He must be somewhere else coordinating his guards.'

Valdys moved carefully into the throne room and joined him at the library. 'Let's get that book.'

He nodded and they slipped into the library and moved quickly along the bookcases towards the book stand where Ulric spotted the ominous book linked to Demetrus for the first time. The book on the stand was a large black leather bound one. 'This is not the same one.' Ulric said. 'I don't sense that evil aura coming from it.'

Valdys looked around. 'Then where is it?'

The fire in one stand lit up high and a dark figure flickered inside it. 'Did you think I would be distracted by a little skirmish by some rabble?' said the hollow voice coming from it. 'I knew you'd try to get my book now that you found someone to sacrifice, Valdys, then take my place as necromancer and ruler of my domain.'

'That's a lie!' said Valdys through the link. 'I don't want to hurt anyone or any of this place!'

'I trust you, Valdys.' Ulric said. 'Let him think he's sowing discord.'

'The book's safe here with me, you won't get near it even if you had any power.' Demetrus said and from the hall came the scraping of heavy stones and the heavy iron scrape of the doors closing.

'We're going to be trapped!' said Ulric out loud. 'I'm out of here!' He bolted for the door while Demetrus laughed and vanished in the diminishing fire.

As he expected, all the statues and the corpses and knights of the tapestries came alive and lurched menacingly towards him. 'Stay there, he's not holding back!' he said through the link and went for the first corpse. He yanked the sword from the dead man's chest, splitting him in two, and swung at the nearest knight. Ducking and weaving, he used any weapon he could get his paws on and struck at the enemy while keeping on the move through the hall.

Near the throne he kicked a fire stand at a tapestry and the dry fabric went ablaze in a flash. Several corpses and knights screeched and wailed when they caught fire at the same time. 'The burning tapestry affects those that came from it!' said Ulric and ripped a burning piece from the tapestry with his armoured paw and ran along the wall while rubbing it against the other tapestries.

Soon the walls were covered in fire and smoke spread throughout the hall and Ulric rushed through burning enemies while punching cracks into the stone knights. 'They're here!' said Valdys through the link.

Rattling from the direction of the steel doors intensified and small cracks spread from the doorway. 'All right!' Ulric said and took his fight to the back of the hall.

The rattling became louder while the cracks grew and pieces of stone fell from the doorway. The steel doors groaned as they trembled, then swung slightly forward. More stone sprung from the growing cracks and when the rattling couldn't be more deafening, the sides of the doorway burst into pieces and the steel doors fell forward. A flood of spirits and skeletal creatures rushed over them and spilled into the hall.

Ulric ducked underneath a stone knight's slash and scurried towards the large wave coming towards him. He dove through the small troops while they attacked the enemy, then ran for the library.

'You're unhurt!?' Valdys asked as she hurried towards him.

'Just a hot paw from grabbing the burning rag.' he said and took her hand.

Together they hurried through the hall and out into the hallway under the cover of the spirits and creatures. Outside the squirrel and rat were waiting with a spirit. The squirrel chittered excitedly. 'You found Demetrus.' said Valdys. 'Great work!' The rat chittered and the group hurried after it through the hallway towards the next junction.

After running through a couple of hallways, they ended up at another set of large open doors leading into a large library filled with bookcases in long rows left and right, and book stands placed around a thick pillar in the centre with the necromancer's hand on his book. Demetrus turned around sharply. 'You escaped!?'

'Cover me!' said Ulric and charged straight for the necromancer.

Demetrus chanted in a rumbling language and a dark misty bubble grew around Ulric.

'I won't let you!' said Valdys and chanted her own incantation in soft words.

'So you gained some power!' said Demetrus. 'You will never surpass mine though!'

Ulric's fur stood up at the power of a glowing mist suppressing the dark mist while he kept his focus on Demetrus. He nearly reached him when Demetrus swiped with his arm and a heavy blow to his side threw Ulric into a bookcase. It collapsed on top of him with a cloud of dust from the heavy books but he burst from underneath the heap. 'Is that all!?' he growled at Demetrus. Demetrus changed the tone of his incantation and the dark mist grew thicker around Ulric again. Ulric wasted no moment and threw a book at his opponent.

The necromancer fended it off and sent it crashing to the floor while Ulric rushed around another bookcase and went for him again. 'Fool!' he said and slammed two cases together with Ulric in between.

The remains of the cases and the books fell apart and Ulric jumped out with a lighter bubble of mist surrounding him. 'Thanks!' he said through the link.

'I won't let him hurt you if I can!' said Valdys while chanting her protective incantations.

Another case full of pottery and glass jars with murky contents flew towards Ulric. Before it hit him he jumped up and climbed over it, and jumped away on top of the next row of bookcases.

'Irritating vermin!' shouted Demetrus and sent a row of books flying towards Ulric.

Ulric jumped away onto the next row of cases and ducked at the next volley of books throws at him, and ran further on top of the row. The mist around him shifted between darker and lighter, and sparks flew from the tips of his fur under the magic pressure while he evaded more contents of the shelves around him.

He jumped towards another row but as soon as he landed it collapsed and every bookcase and object in his vicinity crashed hard into him. 'Will you please just die already!' shouted Demetrus.

Ulric crawled out of the heap. 'Why don't you?' he growled. 'You're way past your sell by date.'

Demetrus stared at him for a moment. 'My what!?'

Ulric bolted towards him. 'You expired long ago!'

Demetrus chanted and threw Ulric aside again. 'Why are you so persistent!' he shouted, then sensed something else was going on. He spun around to see the book with his life bound to it get carried away on the backs of two small skeletons with a spirit in tow. 'Curse you!' He chanted louder and a tremor shook the library.

'NO!' shouted Valdys.

An explosion hit the creatures underneath the book and sent it flying.

Demetrus chanted another incantation but Ulric threw him forward as he crashed into his back. In a flash Demetrus recovered and threw Ulric back with a swipe of his arm. 'I'll tear you into little pieces!'

Ulric jumped up from the floor. 'Just try it!' he snarled and bolted for the necromancer again.

Demetrus threw him back again into another case and turned to retrieve his book, then froze when he saw the book lying on the floor in front of Valdys and the white glow in her palms. 'You'll die with me!' he shouted.

'Then I'll die!' she shouted and chanted the destruction spell urgently as she placed her hands on the book. 'Farewell, my friends.' she said over the link with a tear in her eye. 'Farewell, my saviour.'

27 - Cornered

'We're getting the upper hand!' said Elzbieta and slashed the side of a floating armour in two. It screeched in metallic agony and fell apart onto the floor. Another one stabbed at her but she deflected its sword with a quick turn of her gauntlet and smashed the armour's front with the side of her sword.

'Good!' said Iphigenia as she dodged a stone sword. 'I'm getting tired!'

'Hang in there!' said Kaui. 'Master and Valdys will defeat the necromancer and these things should die down!' An urgent squeaking from one of the skeletal critters caught her attention. It jumped frantically up and down. 'What!?' She ran after it to a wide side passage and her face went pale at the large armoured skeletons heading her way, four to five times her size. 'There's more coming from behind us! These are armed giant skeletons!'

'What!?' said Elzbieta. 'How many!?'

'Five or six!'

'That's too much for us!' said Iphigenia. 'We can't fight them on all sides!'

The creature with Kaui jumped on her shoulder and chittered. She turned to run back. 'We can retreat into another passage!'

'Lead the way!' said Iphigenia and cut away the last piece of stone for a crack large enough to plant a grenade. One of the creatures jammed it in there and retreated with Iphigenia.

At the sound of the blast and the tumble of the large stone knight, the girls and all the creatures and spirits pulled back in a hurry and followed Kaui through another tall passageway. At the junction at the end they turned around and waited for the enemy to arrive.

The first floating armours reached them soon and Iphigenia and Elzbieta cut into them while the spirits blinded them. The first knights showed up a little farther away but the giants brought their biggest worries when they came stomping behind the knights. 'How can we defeat those!?' said Iphigenia.

'We have to cut off their heads!' said Kaui. 'I read all skeletal creatures should die that way.' She looked into her bag. 'I think three grenades should do the trick.'

'All right.' said Iphigenia and gripped her sword tight. 'We'll stick to the same method as the knights.'

The passage wasn't big enough for two giants standing side by side and the girls were glad for it. The spirits and creatures were able to confuse the giant skeletons as well, and Elzbieta provided defence. The first giant swung his short morning star around, then down when he spotted Elzbieta below him. 'Above!' said Kaui.

Elzbieta jumped out of the way in time before she became part of the floor stones shattered underneath the weapon, and slashed at the giant's lower arm. The giant jerked back when she left a cut halfway through his bone but he quickly slammed the morning star down again, shattering more floor stones. Iphigenia took that opportunity to jump up on his arm with several creatures in tow and ran up to his shoulder. The giant grabbed at her with his other hand but she was too quick. She hacked at once between his neck vertebrae. 'Blast him!' she said as she jumped down his ribs while the giant swiped at the back of his neck. The creatures who carried grenades jammed them into the gap she had cut and ran down his bones for safety.

The explosion tore his neck apart and his head shot forward and fell down with a loud crack onto the floor. The body swayed for a few moments, then toppled backwards against the giant behind it.

'Yes!' said Iphigenia. 'We can take them down!'

'Don't celebrate just yet!' said Elzbieta. 'There's still plenty of them left!'

'If we can take one, we can take them all!' said Iphigenia and eyed the second giant as he threw the first skeleton aside and out of his way. 'Kaui, more grenades!'

The second giant didn't hammer down, but swung his morning star left and right. Elzbieta jumped forward between his legs to dodge a hit and spun around fast, slashing at the knees. He buckled and dropped down to his knees but kept swinging his weapon around. Iphigenia jumped over it when it hit the wall near her, ran around to his back, and jumped and climbed up to his neck.

'Behind you!' shouted Kaui.

Iphigenia looked back in time to see the third giant raise his weapon. 'You can't hit me!' she shouted and stuck out her tongue.

The giant swung down hard, Iphigenia jumped away at once, and the second giant's skull caved in under the blow with a loud crack. The dead giant fell forward while the third tried to pound down on Iphigenia again, and tripped over the second giant's legs. He went down with a bone shattering sound and Elzbieta reacted at once by hacking into his neck, severing his head in three powerful blows.

The fourth skeleton giant hesitated. 'It's scared!' said Kaui. 'Attack and use that!'

'Yes!' said Iphigenia and Elzbieta and stormed the giant with more creatures carrying grenades.

The fourth skeleton giant tried to trample everyone but took a blow to his ankle from Elzbieta. Iphigenia immediately jammed a grenade in the crack between the bones and the explosion broke the ankle to pieces. The giant stumbled and before he could swat at his enemies, grenades had been pushed a the back of his thick skull and the following blast severed it from his spine.

The last giant snatched nearby knights and armours and threw them at Iphigenia and Elzbieta. 'It's going crazy!' said Elzbieta as she deflected a crushed armour. 'We have to get away!'

'Let's move again!' said Iphigenia as she jumped to avoid a knight's torso. 'Find a new place to take them on!'

The rat that had stayed at Kaui's side ran to one side of the junction and chittered. 'This way!' said Kaui.

They ran through the passage and ended up in a large hall. 'There's an exit at the other end!' Kaui said and the girls ran further with the spirits and creatures behind them, until a grating sound ahead halted them in the middle of the hall.

'The exit!' said Elzbieta as a thick iron grate came down. 'We're trapped!'

They turned to see stone knights and floating armours coming down the passage in pursuit of them. 'We can still take those on!' said Iphigenia.

Elzbieta noticed the tired stance of Iphigenia and felt tiredness creeping up on her as well. 'We can't hold out much longer though.'

Iphigenia took a deep breath. 'If it's just those last guys we can do it.'

Muffled pounding against stone surrounded them and Kaui looked around with eyes wide in fear. 'Oh shit.' she muttered.