Author's Note: Here is chapter one of book two the tempo here going to change, more action new creatures, and more. The Prologue i gave you all a glimpse of what is going on to a degree, most was obvious by now. And no they are not gods those three from the prologue.

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Book 2 -C 1 Siege

I awoke to a pleasant feeling, Ki'Diera was taking care of my business. My erection came this morning without fail waiting for her, almost pleading. As her life mate, she gladly did her duty and was moaning loudly.

“For gods sake not so early Ki'Diera, I am still trying to sleep,” Julie complains sleepily and pulls the pillow over her head. She had had her fill last night with me, attacking me as soon as we got in bed. She did not drink any alcohol as she was careful about her pregnancy. Last night was really nice, the dinner, the beer, the jokes, all of it. It brought back memories of a quiet life style if only for the moment. We took anything we could get, if it gave us peace of mind for a few minutes in the day. So Julie got horny.

This morning was Ki'Diera's turn. And she took full advantage of it, her tail swaying in the air provocatively, as she moaned out loud, her blue hair falling over her shoulders, hiding her breast from sight in a teasing manner. I attacked them heartily, biting and licking and sucking to my delight and hers.

Finally Julie gets up and heads for the door stomping her feet, “ Fine, if I can't sleep, I am going to go shower, then I will get to work, but I am going to check on Cindy first,” she says as she storms out.

Ki'Diera and I enjoy the morning together. It seems the girls were starting to get moody now. So I just simply went with the flow not saying anything as it was no use. This was to be expected of pregnant women. Hormones start to go crazy, then the morning sickness hits, it was the one thing we were all not looking forward to, tho we all welcomed the idea of kids, even in this crazy world, it was a symbol of hope and living on.

When we finished up, Ki'Diera and I head for the showers, she is holding my arm leaning on me sniffing my scent smiling as we head down the halls. People give us smirks as they see us, but say only good morning as a polite greeting. The Regular Guards all bow as I approach, “Good morning your Majesty” they all greet us, one by one as we pass them.

After the shower I shaved, brushed my teeth, combed my hair and even started to sprinkle after shave, I was feeling that good today, but decided against it as we were headed back to the NE zone. Today's target was Kart Mart and the Drow, if we can find them. The reason for Kart Mart is they carried Ham Radio Base Stations. If we can get a few of those set up, we might be able to make contact with other survivors who are trying to do the same, maybe even meet up with them and guide them here.

We have the Walls now and our guards. It is fairly safe, safer than being out there alone. And we need more people to grow and expand. Going by my dream, or premonition if you want to call it that, we made contact and had several thousand people by then. So now we need to gather them to make it come true. The incident with Doc and Rick weighs heavily on my mind as well, but so far we have not found any more females terrorized by the goblins.

30 miles away to our west is another fairly large town, population 40K. It too, has a mall and shops, just thinking about what we might find there already makes me feel uneasy. My gut is telling me we need to get there soon if we want to find more survivors, but we need to deal with the Drow first. Priorities have to be set and the safety of what we have now comes first.

After breakfast the team assembles once again and we head out. Julie is in a foul mood, but keeps quiet.

What is wrong kitten

I simply wanted to sleep in this morning but Ki'Diera was too loud.

I tried to sleep last night and someone was making a lot of noise too you know

I ...oh hell you are right, I am sorry, sigh

Both go silent from then on, not bringing up the matter, as Julie calms down reflecting. We make our way to the outer zone quickly, the scouts once again ahead of us.

“Scout one to leader”, A call comes over the radio.

“Go ahead scout one”, I reply

“Drow spotted, heading SW, about 2 Km from your position. I count 40 or more.” comes the voice over the radio.

“Copy that, heading towards you scout one”, with that I nod to the group leaders, Halloway and Montgomery who quickly take their teams and head to my left and right splitting us up. Julie raises her mana shield to cover my team. We all make our weapons ready and begin to move out.

Moving quickly we head for scout ones position. After a few minutes we find him retreating,” They spotted me and are following”. Says the Ny'Har'en scout.

“Alright spread out, but stay within the mana barrier. Also put your own barriers up just in case.”, With that we take cover and wait for them to come. It did not take long, as 14 Drow pop into the open, invisible but we can see them. We open fire right away. I press full auto on my mana blaster vaporizing the Drow in my sight in seconds. Julie fires her pistol hitting the Drow but only wounding it. Ki'Diera is our rear guard to prevent attacks from the back and warn us, even with the ability to detect presences around you in a fire fight, having someone watch your back helps as you can not focus on everything at once.

4 Drow drop dead right away and the rest scramble for cover. Then an onslaught of fire spells hit the barrier. Julie's Barrier holds. Then the barrier is snuffed out. It simply vanishes, like it was turned off.

“Julie?” I ask quickly

“I do not know, the barrier has been negated somehow.” Julie says slightly panicked.

At that time more spells come flying at us and the barrage hits us. Everyone's barrier flickers but holds, Julie has her personal barrier up as well. We return fire shooting thru walls and cars forcing the Drow to retreat, but as they do, they run into Montgomery's team who picks them off quickly, taking the Drow by complete surprise. Halloways team arrives on the right side sees the fight is over and scans for more Drow.

“Anyone hurt?” I call out.

“No Mastery Gunnery Sergeant, but my mana is low from that barrage of spells.” One of the Super Soldiers calls out.

“A few of us got burnt, but the ring is healing us” Says one of the Ny'Har'en Warriors.

“Alright scouts find the remaining Drow, we need to end this fast.” I call out over the radio and look to scout one.

“This is scout two, I am shadowing the 28 remaining Drow.” A voice says over the radio quietly.

“Location?” I ask.

“At this time they are withdrawing back towards the Kart Mart.” the voice says.

“Of course they would” I mutter under my breath.

Julie is administering heals to the two Ny'Har'en who got burnt. One of which was scout one.

“Looks like they can counter our barriers somehow,” remarks Pvt 1st Class James annoyed.

“Yeah it was probably a dispel of some kind, like in those games, I played a mage who could dispel as well, even remove curses and such, but the range was very limited.” says Cpl Stinson quickly in an excited voice.

“Well that seems to be inline with what happened, they removed Julie's barrier but not our personal ones.”I say out loud.

“Scout two hold position till we arrive.” I call over the radio.

“Understood your Majesty” Says the voice.

“So we hitting Kart Mart?” Asks Montgomery who joined us hearing about the Drow retreat.

“Yeah, but we need to get numbers first, there may be more inside.” I say nodding, putting the radio away.” I will go inside invisible and see what we are up against.”

“Why you Scott?” Julie asks in a sulky mood again “They got invisibility too, you know.” She says pointing to the Super Soldiers.

“Yes but they do not have access to a huge mana pool like me Julie” I reply to her.

“Are you planning on staying the whole day and night there?” she retorts.

“Um no an in and out, see what is there and get out.” I say to her.

“Then send someone else, the mana cost will not be that high.” she demands.

“I too, would prefer if you send someone else gunny.” Montgomery speaks up.

“I will go Master Gunnery Sergeant!” Cpl Stinson volunteers.

“Very well when we get there, in and out got it?” I say to him, and he nods smiling.

We then pack our gear and head out to scout two's position. It did not take long, and we saw the Kart Mart. We all looked with zoom and enhanced vision at the location and saw Driders standing guard in several locations, hidden well, but we could see them. The familiar Spider webs lined the entrance, like an early warning system.

“Going to have to go thru the roof it seems Stinson” I said to him. Then we formulate a plan for his approach and entry. We would create a diversion for him to enter.

“Leave it to me Master Gunnery Sergeant.” Stinson says and then goes invisible and takes off. We watch his progress as he heads for the Kart Mart, the Driders do not react to his approach. It was also a test if they could see invisibility as well. Stinson still used cover not taking the most direct route, but the real test was the parking lot which still had a lot of cars in it. He would use the cars to make his approach then the last 15 meters to the building he would be in the open.

“So far so good, he has not been detected yet.” Montgomery comments.

“I see a few of the Driders on the roof”, Halloway remarks.

“Once he gives the signal we will take them out, that will draw the Drows attention to us and he can slip inside.” I say to them. “And as they keep exiting we can keep picking them off at this distance.” we were 270 meters out.

All nod, knowing the plan. Stinson finally gets into position moves among the cars, looking to see if he has been spotted and runs the last 15 meters to the building and begins his climb up to the roof. As he reaches the roof, he gives the signal. Phaser Rifles and Mana Enhanced rifles fire simultaneously, taking out all the hidden Driders. One of the Drider gives a warning before it dies.

Several Drow come running out the exit, invisible and are cut down as shot after shot is pouring into them. Meanwhile Stinson had already climbed onto roof, made his way to an entry point and was inside the building.

Several more Drow come out and are cut down, but then they stop coming out. They realize that their invisibility was compromised. Kart Mart has no windows as is typical for a large warehouse store, so they were effectively blind right now.

After a few minutes pass, Stinson is seen running across the roof and jumps off the side of the building, ”shit, shit, shit, there is shit ton of them in there, I was seen and they are on my ass” he yells into the radio, as he hits the ground running. We see several Drider racing across the roof as well and we open fire to take them all out. None make it off the roof and they stop coming out as well.

Stinson rejoins us shortly after. “Master Gunnery Sergeant there is a whole damn army of Drow in there, I even saw several female Drow in there, and what looked like 30 or so biker guys hanging from webs, some had their limbs cut off. They spotted me as I tried to get closer to see the females who were sitting in a circle, I think I accidentally tripped one of the webs.”

“In and out Stinson, in and out” I sigh.”Estimated numbers?”

“If I had to guess, more than 400” he says uncertain.

“That sounds almost like their entire clan.” I say

“The Female did say she would hunt you down Scott,” Ki'Diera speaks up.” and if we hurt their eggs they might be after pure revenge”.

“Dammit I really wanted those Ham Base stations” I say and sigh.

“Alright folks we are going to blow it up. Destroy it all.” I say.

I equip Big Daddy, my new name for my Rifle and charge it up.”on my mark we fire.do not stop till I say so”.

All take positions and aim their rifles fully charged. Man I wanted those ham radios.....

“FIRE!” I yell.

As one we all fire into the building. I fire and the center of the building just simply explodes into nothing, splinters go flying into the air hundred of feet high. The Super soldiers hold down continues fire and start cutting into the building. The Phaser Rifles are also on continuous fire slicing up the building. I fire shot after shot into the hole I created, causing massive thundering explosions inside.

The building begins to collapse in onto itself. We keep firing, All changed from continuous to single shots, after the collapse. Explosions kept rocking the wreckage. “Cease fire!” I call out after seeing that there was nothing left standing.

“Alright lets go” We approach the former Kart Mart, and look to see if any survived, rifles pointed at the wreckage as we move forward in a line. The Super Soldiers have active targeting on. Several shot are fired at a location and it erupts in an explosion. This goes on for a while as we search the wreckage for survivors. An hour passes and no more shots have been fired.

If the Drow were all dead their bodies would have vanished by now. I check my unread messages and see I have 463 notices, all xp notices. Between each of us, we got 90 xp for each Drow. Another 41670 XP. A drop in the bucket of the XP needed to the next level.

“It looks like we may have gotten them all,” Montgomery comments looking at the wreckage.

“Yeah I hope so, I really want this over with so we can start on our objectives and find survivors. We need to do it fast too.” I sigh.

“Hey Master Gunnery Sergeant I found a box with one of those Ham Base Radio Stations you wanted!” Cpl Stinson says holding up a box in the air.

“That is great news Corporal Stinson, pack it up and take it with you. The rest, lets keep searching till we are sure none are left.” I call out my mood lightens up a bit at the find.

“Did we really have to destroy this place?” Ki'Diera says looking at the devastation.

“It was the safest and easiest thing to do, all we lost was access to some stuff. No lives were lost and they had a small army, for me it was a no-brainer.” I say to her with a smile.” and we might still find some things salvageable in this wreckage. And there is a ton of steel here now for the taking:, I look at all the bent girder beams and cut support beams.

“Everyone Grab the metal as you find it!” I yell out. All begin the metal salvage operation on that command.