Chapter 2: The Attack

When Beatrice gave the order, the vanguard rushed into the portals with crazed excitement and desire, the flying mamono along with their passengers took to the sky and soar into the town where the vanguard is supposed to be. The rest charge towards the town while avoiding trampling the spell casters, dreaming of at least finding themselves an unclaimed man. From this moment on, nothing will ever be the same again.

One minute before the surprise attack, at the west side gate, a couple of guards lazily stood around either daydreaming or chatting with someone, not paying any attention to their surroundings. One last second before this peaceful town turns into chaos as a portal suddenly appeared out of nowhere inside the gate area, the chatting guards drop-dead silent, staring at the portal absolutely clueless. Seconds later the vanguard comes through screaming and yelling in excitement, completely terrifying the guards and even waking up the ones that were daydreaming from the sudden loud noises. The few guards who were next to the portal didn't have time to react before some Minotaur or Orc grab them and start stripping them down. The guards on the wall were appalled at what was happening to their fellow guardsmen, that they had their backs turned towards the incoming aerial assault. The flying mamono dive-bombing in and releases their passengers either on top of the wall with the unaware guards or into the gate area so they can join in the fight. Now unburden from carrying someone the flying mamono starts snatching up the men they fancied earlier or looking for any targets of opportunity. Outside of town, the fast-approaching mamono starts entering the town without any resistance and moves deeper into town.

In the south gate area, Beatrice is currently hovering, seeing how well her plan is going while enjoying the lewd acts below her. She then spots a guard in a corner of a lookout tower hiding behind some crates so she decides to go pay him a "visit" and lands near him. The guardsman unable to hear her approach due to all the screaming and moaning, he notices a shadow overshadowing his, making him slowly turn his head with terror in his heart.

The young man makes eye contact with the extremely beautiful figure of a woman, his feeling of terror slowly turns into confusion as he asks, "Who are you?"

Beatrice didn't understand what the man just said, just replies "Hmmm, I wonder if a language spell will work on you?" She reaches down, gripping the man's chest plate armor, and slowly rises him to his feet. Now getting a good look at her prize, he's more cute than handsome, not too young and not too old, just right. He has green eyes, light brown hair, and fair tan skin color with freckles around his face. Seeing him magically, he has plenty of spiritual energy to indulge herself but noticed something odd. She sees a brand or some sort of curse imprint on the outside of his spiritual core. Confused, she mutters to herself, "Have you already been taken?" The man standing before her didn't understand her as he simply tilted his head. She moved her right hand closer to his heart and pouring some of her demonic energy into him. As soon as the demonic energy got close to the core, the marker lightens up in purple, and a flash of energy shot toward Beatrice.

"AAAHHHHH!" Beatrice stunned by both the sudden pain and the nasty surprise giving the guardsman a chance to escape. Beatrice unable to stop him as he runs away then she starts hearing the painful screams from the other nearby mamono. Once Beatrice is no longer stunned, she lifts off to the sky and sees the same thing happening to all the mamono who were loving their new husbands. All of the pinned guards now fleeing away from the immobilized mamono.

"What kind of spell is this!?" Beatrice asks out loud but then her gaze is diverted to the strange structure that the griffin had reported about earlier, showing signs of some sort of activation, as the indent lines begin pulsating the same purple color as that man's mark.

Back to when the attack started, over at the town lord's house, the lord has a well-built body, with brown hair that barely touches his shoulders, blue eyes, and lightly dark brown beard covering his face. He is known to be a fair and just ruler over the town, knowing almost everyone and doesn't abuse his power over them unlike his fellow nobles. Everyone loves him and his family since they helped grow this town from a meager village in the beginning. Lord Fredrick was inside doing some paperwork until he started hearing a commotion outside, "What's going on out there?" he mutters. He goes outside to see everyone running everywhere like a bunch of headless chickens. Fredrick wonders if there is a wildfire nearby.

Fredrick sees a guardsman running up to him, "My lord we're under attack by a large monster force, they-" he was cut off when a yellow-colored harpy came out of nowhere and snatched him right up. Now that Fredrick is looking up, he sees dozens of these flying monstrosities diving in and out of the town with some men in their talons. Fredrick sees the feminine-looking monsters on the ground making their way closer into the heart of the town and that they were only going after the men. The women were being completely ignored or fighting them to get their loved ones. Those who do fight back with whatever they have on hand ranging from broomsticks to large kitchen knives, the duels are very short-lived and the town women are forcibly pushed aside.

Fredrick looks at the black structure and immediately thinks 'We need them.', thus he runs towards it. 'Only they can save us…. I hope.' Dodging and weaving through the crowd as fast his legs can move while avoiding the flying mamono grabbing any man they can catch. Fredrick bursts through the metal door as a black harpy almost grabs him. Quickly he surveys the room and sees the glass-looking orb sitting atop a pedestal in the middle of the room. He rushes over to it as he can hear the screams outside getting louder, knowing those monsters are closing in.

He lifts the orb up and starts yelling at it, "HELP US, PLEASE HELP US!" For seconds it doesn't do anything making Fredrick more frightened as the screams were getting louder. He starts slapping the orb, shaking the orb, anything that'll make it do something out of fear, unaware he was getting noticed.

"Well, well, who is hiding in here in this strange place hmm?" a feminine voice speaks behind Fredrick's back. Fredrick hastily turns his head to the source of the voice and to both his horror and confusion sees a gorgeous-looking woman with cat-like features like eyes, ears, and tail.

"W-who are you!? What are you?" Fredrick asks as he backs away from her.

The girl smugly replies, "I'm Jean and as for what I am, you'll have the pleasure of finding out for yourself as we get better at knowing each other." Fredrick backs up to the wall, thinking of a way to escape while Jean continues in a sultry tone, "You've chosen a good spot for us to explore each other's bodies and I can't wait to thoroughly examine yours."

As the creature gets closer and closer, the orb in Fredrick's hands suddenly flashes in a rainbow of colors and shoots towards the middle of the room. The Werecat in awe of the beautiful show of colors coming from that small glass orb, completely fascinated by it. The orb's lights dims down considerably and return to Fredrick at eye level and says two words "We're coming."

I know this was a short chapter but I promise you the upcoming chapters will get longer and more detailed. Still getting used to this website on uploading my stories but I think I've figured it out.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter and are excited for what is coming next!