Monstrous Horizons Chapter 7 (Patreon)

The door slammed behind me as I stalked through the storm for the scorpia. I’d recognized what she was, if it had taken a second.

A pocket of the sand storm parted around me as I flexed my magic to cut right through it.

She hadn’t gone far. Her additional limbs had found purchase on the wall and the monster girl glared at me through the raging sand storm.

I got a good look at her. The tan skinned, dark haired monster girl had chitinous armor that looked like it belonged in an overly sexualized video game along with two extra spindly limbs that currently kept her from being blown off the wall. Finally, she had that long sectioned tail that rose from the base of her spine and hovered over her shoulder as she glared at me.

Her mouthed made angry movements, but whatever she said was lost to the storm.

I grinned, knowing there was a very simple way to deal with her. Gathering my air sorcery I gathered air at her feet before sending it in an upward burst, uprooting her from her stance on the wall and watching as the storm carried her away.

Pitty, she was workout girl with rock-hard abs attractive, but maybe a little too much for me. Not to mention I knew what was hidden under the bulb of her venomous tail. Sam’s books described it clinically as ‘another orifice for male essence extraction.’

I just went with the crude reality, scorpia had tail pussies hidden beneath their venomous hooks.

They would sting a man with their lust venom and then relieve them all with their tails. It was rather forceful and disconnected, even for a monster girl.

I pulled on my earth sorcery and raised a wall of stone in place of the tower door. That ought to protect the men there for a while.

The storm would have driven my men to ground at three shelters. I pivoted and reach out with my earth sorcery to feel the surrounding buildings. I’d probably get lost in the storm otherwise.

Visibility was less than ten feet, and I needed to hustle.

Along with the foundations for the buildings, I could feel smaller forming moving about.

I came to the mess hall, and the door was already shattered. Inside, the men had their weapons out against five more scorpia and a lamia. The scorpia were much like the first, only in varying colors, but it was the first time I saw a lamia up close.

The woman was like all the monster girls I’d seen, stunningly beautiful with a fit body and swollen, upturned breasts enough to make a man drool. But she had blood red hair that fell down to her hips where just as her butt seemed to swell from her hips, she transitioned to a snake. She was taller than me, but only because she was propped up on the snake half of her body.

It was just a moment of recognition between the two of us before she recovered from her surprise and snapped forward with the speed that only could match a striking snake.

I blasted her with air, but her lunge cut right through the wind and she was on me.

“It’s the Colonel!” came a rallying cry from the men, and I knew I couldn’t show an ounce of weakness right now in front of them.

Just as the lamia got her hands on me, I stomped on the ground and wedged a pillar of earth between us before punching it and blasting the lamia with shards of stone.

She recoiled and hissed, her wild red hair covering her face.

I sank the earth below her and encased a section of her snake half in a foot of stone.

The lamia thrashed wildly as she was caught in the grasp of earth. “Getsssss him!” She screamed.

Now some of the scorpia took note of the battle, but one picked up an unconscious man and rushed out into the storm.

“No.” The lamia’s tail thrashed in anger, catching one of my men in the chest and sending him crashing into his fellows.

That scorpia’s decision caused a landslide as each of them took a man if they could and rushed out into the storm.

I needed to get these men in order. The sudden attack in the storm had them rattled and disorganized.

“Detain her, we’ll deal with her later. Then I need you.” I pointed to a man at random. “To organize these guys to barricade the entrances.”

“Colonel, what are you going to do?”

“Go get your brothers in arms.” I gave the lamia one last cautious glance as tables and chairs started scooting across the floor.

There was no time to waste and they couldn’t start to barricade till I was gone.

I marched back out into the howling storm and focused. It was much harder to pick up someone running on the ground with my earth sorcery as compared to making sure I didn’t run into a wall.

But luckily for me, those scorpia were burdened by the weight of two people and running full out. I could feel the vibrations of their flight and it was going to the east side of the fort.

That caused me to frown, and I reached out further ahead. What I felt made me gasp.

They’d tunneled under the east wall and the scorpia I was following were making a beeline straight for the tunnel.

I fell into a dead sprint as I raced the monster girls to the tunnel entrance. Several more footsteps joined them. They were retreating. If I didn’t stop them at the tunnel, those men would be lost for good.

One monster girl ahead of me disappeared into the yawning mouth of the tunnel. I’d sensed it with my sorcery, but seeing it firsthand was a different experience.

The tunnel was a near perfect ten foot circle entrance.

How had they made such a large tunnel so quickly? Or had they been lurking beneath the fort, waiting for the storm?

I’d have to figure that out later.

Another monster girl carried a man before me and I leapt into action, sliding the earth beneath her just as she tried to descend into the tunnel.

It was a scorpia, and she fell to the side only for her additional limbs to spring out and catch her, though she dropped the soldier she’d been carrying.

Stomping on the ground, I made a small barrier between the soldier and the monster girl long enough to get to his side.

“Get up and get back to your post.” I tried to pull him to his feet, but he was dead weight.

Through the raging storm, I could see his glazed look as he gave me a sleepy smile. “Feels good.” He slurred his words.

The scorpia came over the wall at that moment, her tail stabbing down at me.

I grabbed onto it below the barb and pulled her off the small stone wall, slamming her back into the packed dirt. “No, bad monster girl.”

Her dark brown eyes stared up at me in surprise as I said that. “What did you just say?”

“Bad monster girl, you don’t get to take my soldiers.” I swatted her hard on the ass.

Her eyes dilated for a second before her tail swung back at me. “Don’t touch me.”

I bobbed back out of her tail’s range.

There was a moment where she was distracted, looking at something behind me.

That was all the warning I got. Ducking down as another barbed tail struck the space my shoulders had just been.

Frustrated at almost being taken down, I lashed out with a jut of earth that caught the new scorpia in the gut. If she had captured a soldier, he was gone now. Both of these scorpia were still on the ground, and I didn’t want to have to deal with their tails.

I sank both of them into the earth for soldier to deal with later. My sorcery was starting to feel sluggish. I needed to conserve my spell casting.

More of the monster girls had gotten past me carrying more of my men, and they weren’t coming back out, instead following the tunnel away from the fort.

I had to go after them.

The tunnel was rounded at the edges where it cut through the sand, but after a few feet it became dry, hard packed dirt. Sand, after all, was just the top layer of most deserts.

I slowed down, watching for an ambush.

Nothing came, instead deeper inside the tunnel I could men moaning.

My thoughts were confirmed when the tunnel opened up into a larger space lit by torches and the scorpia had stopped.

Over a dozen men lay on the ground thrusting up into the monster girls tails like a symphony of wet squishes. They moaned in pleasure as they emptied themselves into the scorpia.

I stood at the opening and watched. Err, I mean, waited for an opportunity to help.

Yeah, that’s what I was doing.

One of the scorpia had a pearl like coloring to her exoskeleton as she pleasured a delirious man with her tail while another thrusted into her sex. She was enjoying herself while a number of the others would look her way warily.

She was my target. Clearly someone of significance in this attacking party.

Luckily, most of the monster girls were preoccupied. One, however, was coming my way to check the tunnel.

I flattened myself against the entrance of the tunnel and waited.

She stopped every few steps to scan the surroundings. I suspected they doubted I’d follow them into the tunnel and when she passed where I was tucked away; I ambushed her.

Wrapping one arm around her throat and pulling her back in a chokehold. I wasn’t about to let that tail of her’s be free though. With my other hand, I snagged her tail close to the tip.

I managed to pull her back away from the tunnel with only a short, frantic scrabbling of feet.

“Shhh, you are going to go to sleep for me.” I squeezed tighter on her throat. There was a little exoskeleton by her clavicle that made it difficult to squeeze.

She fought in my arms, trying to pull my arm away and give herself room to breathe.

But it wasn’t going to happen. I had gotten the choke hold right, and she was done for, or so I thought.

I had her tail in one hand, but I was two segments short of the barbed tip, just enough length for her to jerk and curl the barb down into my forearm.

She smirked in my grip as her tail made a lewd squish pumping lust venom into me. She was petite, with more of a cute girl next door sort of face rather than the statuesque features he’d seen on the others.

Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to give her a spin. Down her in the cave, where no one would know that I got a chance to fuck a hot sexy monster girl and took it.

My grip on her throat loosened for a split second before I clammed down on all those thoughts and squeezed her throat as hard as I could once again.

Damn, this venom worked fast.

Yes, all of that was true, but not at the expense of my men. I had to bite my tongue to keep my focus. Monster girl pussy wasn’t worth losing a soldier over.

I was sure with some lust venom in my veins Sylvia would be more than happy to help me work out the tension when I got back to the fort.

When the cute scorpia finally went slack in my arms, I set her down against the tunnel wall and peeked back in.

None of the others had reacted to my ambush, and I couldn’t help but smirk.

Crouching down, I slipped into the larger section of the cave, moving through the dancing torch light until I got to my target of interest.

The pearly scorpia was still lost in the pleasure of two men. My mind wandered for a moment, the lust venom making it hard to focus, or maybe focus on the wrong thing.

I stepped quickly out of the shadows, slapping the two men and capturing the monster girl, this time being far more careful with her tail.

The slapped echoed off the walls and everyone in the cave that wasn’t drugged up on lust turned my way.

“Unhand me. You do not know who you’ve just captured.”

“Oh no, I’m quite sure I have an idea,” I countered, squeezing her tail and making sure it wouldn’t end up in my arm like last time.

Both men I’d just slapped looked like they had an ounce of their wits back. “Colonel?” One asked, snapping to attention, or at least as best as he could manage.

“Get your brothers’ heads in the game.” I nodded to the rest of the cave.

That sobered them up real quick. Though one of them still had a glazed gaze, he got to work separating the men from the monster girls.

“This is going to be real simple.” I called to the monster girls in the tunnel. “We are going to leave, or I’m going to break the little princess’ neck.”

The scorpia froze what they were doing and didn’t fight as the men freed their comrades.

“How did you know who I was?” The scorpia in my grip hissed.

Maybe I’d been closer to my mark than I realized. “I know a lot more. Tell your girls to back away to the other end of the tunnel.”

“Or what?” There was a teasing quality to her tone, and her hips pressed back against me and rubbed against my erection. “Did you happen to get stung? Oh, I bet you did. I could help you with that.”

The globes of her ass pressed back and managed to capture my erection and squeeze it between her cheeks. “Oh my, so big.” She wiggled her hips.

I thought about it for just a split second before biting down hard enough on my tongue to taste blood. I squeezed her throat tighter. “Tell them.”

“Girls back off, or the big scary colonel is going to do something stupid.”

They listened to her falling into a marching column at her order.

“Have them head back down the tunnel. By the way, what made this?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” She still had my erection captured between her ass cheeks and it was making decision making harder.

“Men, up the tunnel, double time.” I barked, and even through their lusty haze they followed the order, some needing to lean on each other.

Now, for me to escape. I saw the scorpia marching down the tunnel and I brought the pearly scorpia to the edge of the tunnel further down. “Am I going to have trouble from you?”

“Oh plenty. Know my name is Pelladonis and I’m going to hunt you down after this.” She gave me a cheeky grin.

Oh great, another admirer.

“Good luck with that. Now get.” I shoved her hard and blasted her back with wind, throwing her into the other scorpia’s arms.

She bounced back at me, eyes full of fire. But I didn’t have time for this. Calling on the last dregs of my earth sorcery, I pulled down the top of the tunnel. It was hard packed earth, and I was trying to move too much of it. My sorcery strained, and I felt a bout of tiredness sweep across me.

But I managed to bring it down between me and Pelladonis.

She had enough sense to stop. Glaring angrily at me for a moment, while the earth piled up enough to block off the tunnel.

I fell to one knee, feeling like I was on the last of my strength.

“Okay, just time for a clean getaway.” I smirked happy with myself, though my erection was throbbing with need, I’d be able to make Sylvia very happy when we got back.

The floor underneath me rumbled and shifted.

I had to strain the last of my earth sorcery to steady myself and see what was happening.

My tunnel collapse had triggered another collapse further up the tunnel, I hadn’t realized till now that it wound back upon itself and by collapsing the other tunnel that I’d weakened the wall for the way out. I could only hope the men had gotten out by now.

I rushed through the cavern and up the tunnel, now recognizing the bend backwards, only to realize I was trapped.

The men were gone. At least that was one relief, but I was trapped underground. I was exhausted from all the magic I had used resisting the storm and fighting my way down here..

At a loss for what to do, I thought about the torches and went to go put them out to prevent them from burning up all the oxygen. Maybe Sylvia would be able to sense where I was and mount a rescue or the men would send a team from the fort to dig me out.

I had better focus on surviving. Waiting even for my sorcery to recover was an option, though not a very good one.

But when I went down to put out the torches, there was a voice.

“Hello?” a female voice called out.

I narrowed my eyes suspiciously. Had I missed one of Palladonis’ girls?

But just at the edge of the firelight a Pink woman stood, looking wet like she’d just gotten out of the shower, with only her upper half in the light.

“Oh! A man.” Her eyes went wide as she took me in.

“Yes, it looks like the tunnel collapsed on both ends.” I shook my head. “Looks like we are stuck here.”

“No, we can go this way. See.” She pointed into the shadows behind her. I couldn’t see into the darkness and my sorcery was tapped out.

My eyes wandered her curvy form, lusty thought seeped into my mind. She was built perfectly. I shook my head trying to clear it of the effects of the lust venom.

I didn’t trust a monster girl, but then again, she was my best option out. “I think you are trying to lure me away.”

“No! I promise there’s a way out here. Please, I’m not like the rest, I don’t force myself on men. Men taste so much sweeter when they are willing.”

Hmmm? That was a new one.

“So you want my seed for a way out?”

She blushed an even darker shade of pink. “I wouldn’t be opposed to that, but I’ll help you out, regardless. I don’t want to see you die down here and you are like forty feet deep right now.”

Forty feet down…

No one was going to be able to dig me out, and I wouldn’t be able to tunnel out before I rank out of oxygen. I decided to trust her, not to mention I hadn’t sensed that she’d lied. She was just omitting something.

What that was, I’m sure I’d find out.

“This way.” She offered her hand, and I took it, following her into the shadows.

The ground underneath me changed from hard packed earth to something soft and a little sticky.

“Hey, what’s happening?” I turned back towards the way we came and noticed… this tunnel was closing?