The dragon's harem

Arad flew through the sky and opened his maw, breathing waves of pure light at the charging horde of horrifying monsters. Each and every one of them was a titanic horror with too many limbs, claws, heads, and bloodshot eyes burning with madness and hunger.

The ground shattered beneath her massive emerald claws, and her head reeled back like a viper ready to strike. Claug stood, towering over the gigantic monsters.

A forty-meter-tall blue lobster with a humanoid torso approaches the green drakaina, clicking its bulky pincers. The horror was followed by a swarm of smaller crustaceans, all aiming for one thing: the mass of green flesh approaching them.

Claug stood there. She was colossal compared to her kind of the same age, more muscular, and unlike most green dragons who only focused on poison, she was also a brawler.

Her tail cracked like a whip, shattering the sound barrier several times as it approached the blue lobster. The lobster didn’t have time to lift his claws before the tail struck him, shattering his shell and ripping his flesh apart in a shockwave of splinters and blood.

The smaller crustaceans were caught in the shockwave and wave of splinters, getting eviscerated into pieces as the claw ran past them. Arad had noted from the sky that he had seen the lobster fighting some titans earlier. Their powerful spears couldn’t even scratch his exoskeleton.

Claug now had another target in mind, a colossal moving mountain, which was almost five kilometers wide and seven kilometers tall with massive spider-like legs.

This was the kind of thing that everyone should rally together to slay, a monster so large that the titans would need to focus all of their attack power and spells on to kill. The normal plan would’ve been to aim for legs first, but now, Claug wanted to solo it.

Claug disabled the size magic, making her bigger and returned to her normal size.

She stood almost two hundred meters long without the tail and a hundred meters tall.

She jumped up, bounced off a large mound, and then climbed one of the monster’s legs and reached its monstrous carcass. She then proceeded to burrow her way into his body and wreak havoc on the inside, ripping flesh, spitting poison everywhere, and tearing her way through the horror’s organs.

Two minutes later, the monster dropped dead, and Claug burst from its peak, did a backflip in the air, and snatched a titanic bird of prey from the clouds without even looking at it. Her tail also smacked another monster bird, making its body burst like a water balloon.

Claug landed back on the mountain monster’s peak, looked down at the battlefield, and roared into the heavens. Her roar was deep, loud, and reverberated through everyone’s chests like a deep base, a base so deep that their bones rattled.

Everyone had to stop fighting for a second to look at her, terrified and in awe. That was her frightful presence, but why the loud roar? They immediately figured that out and cursed when a massive avalanche rushed down from the distant snowy peaks.

The titans retreated, and the monsters stumbled as the avalanche separated them. By that time, Claug was already running down the dead monster’s back like a mountain lion charging down at her prey. But instead of attacking the monsters, she made a sharp turn at the last moment and jumped at one of the monsters’ legs.

It took Claug only a few strikes from her claws to rip the titanic leg from its upper joint. She then jammed her claws into the hard shell and flapped her wings as hard as she could, carrying the massive through the air. She looked like a tiny bird carrying a cow’s leg; the size difference was almost comical. But that’s why her muscular arms and back existed for raw power.

Countless flying monsters attacked her, but they all got the tail treatment, being turned into balloons of blood and splinters of bones.

Claug flew with the leg to the nearest volcano and dropped it on its summit, causing an eruption seconds later.

The monsters now found themselves pincered by both the lava and snow, and a murderous green drakaina that kept plummeting down from the clouds like a vulture to pick them up.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of monsters were dying each minute by her claws, or by the natural disasters she caused.

One of the Titans noticed that Claug wasn’t using her natural element at all. Through this whole fight, no one had seen her unleash a single poison breath. She was still holding the majority of her power back, but why?

The Titans could clearly see why Claug of the Crypt forest was feared so much; she was like a flying natural disaster. But still, they found it strange that she was holding back.

It was Alice who answered their question when she noticed them all staring at the disasters caused by the claw in horror and confusion. Claug’s poisons are so toxic that they might spread through the air and kill even the titans. The whole war-zone would become inhospitable to life for years to come from the toxic pollution.

Claug would’ve used her poison anyway, if not for Arad and Princess Tyal making sure she understood that she mustn’t use it.

Alice informed the soldiers that if Tyal didn’t think about them being caught in the crossfire, they’d all be dead by now, ravaged by the deadly toxins of the Ancient drakaina.

Claug didn’t like the Titans that much and wouldn’t care if they lived or died. She had too many run-ins with them in the past, some bad, some worse. Many fools of their kind have tried to slay her for glory, only to end up as her dinner. She wasn’t that keen on protecting them.

But once again, the Storm Titans only got Tyal to thank for talking some sense into Claug.

Claug was running across the battlefield like a massive cat, snatching monsters from the air with massive leaps, toppling colossal titanic horrors, and sowing terror in the endless horde of nightmarish monstrosities.

And of course, Alice was also doing her part, a huge part in fact. While Arad and Tyal fought in the chasm itself. Claug ripped the main bulk of the monster’s flood in the middle of the battlefield. Alice was in the city’s plateau, casting her spells to support both of them and defend the city simultaneously with massive barriers.

Alice was even teleporting the injured Titans back to get healed and summoned a swarm of flying devils to give them javelins and ammunition. She was the backbone of the whole army, solving all of the logistical hurdles and supply problems with spells that no mortal beside her knew.

Her support spells even had a spell that scratched the soldiers’ noses when they couldn’t reach them behind the visors of their helmets.