Fairies Versus Zombies [COMPLETED]

6

An awful, sacred humming filled the air. Maya's soldier wasps arrived. A million of them.

Eddie buzzed by.

"His true-name's Bartholomew," the thousand voices said. "Give him a little kickback."

"I see you, Bartholomew," Chloe called. Eddie paused, goggled, hovered in mid air, and stared at her.

"Send him a psychic vision," the voices said.

"This guy's a pickle." I can do that?

"Of course. Just link up. And make it good." Chloe focused, linked, and sent him a vision of herself sucking Eddie's guts straight out of his abdomen while he watched. Eddie turned away, affronted, and then flew away to obey his queen.

"You're an asshole, Bartholomew," Chloe called after him. "I could so report you!"

A bear crashed onto the village floor, plowing past ferns. Then another bear. Their musky, ursine scent rose over the stench of the deadings.

"Oh," Maya said. "I hope you don't mind. I asked my grizzly friends to join us." The sun gleamed down on two monstrous heads. The grizzly brothers had arrived. They saw the deadings, frolicked like overgrown kittens, and pounced. The earth thundered and quaked beneath their weight.

"To air," Chloe yelled, and the resonant overtones of her thousand voices shattered the air. "All you fairies, take to the branchline!" As one, a mass of fairies slammed into the air, then circled up to the branches above. The great furry paws of the bears smashed down on the deadings below, clobbering their bodies, brains and all, beneath great hulking paws.

A million wasps collided with thousands of airborne deadings. The air was thick with damp, rotting wings and snapping mandibles. Chloe aimed her scepter at The Hatchery, directed her will, and cast a laser beam of violet magic at it. A dense, protective ring of mushrooms popped up all around the redwood tree.

"Not gonna lie, but that's awesome," she thought to the thousand voices.

"I know, right?" they replied.

Fairy soldiers stood in front of the The Hatchery and guarded the perimeter. They cringed back from the bear monsters but held steady. Chloe lifted her acorn whistle and called the jay. The jay flapped over to her and she flung her two living legs over his neck. She gripped his body with thighs and knees, holding her scepter in one hand and her prosthetic in the other.

Shaun whirled and spun in flight. He hooted in sheer happiness as he dashed a deading's head upon the rocks. In the air, the jay flew her to the wobbly, new-flying deadings. She shot an icy bolt into a cluster of deadings, freezing them. They plummeted to the duff and shattered. The next deading she saw, she brained with her prosthetic. Then, just like Shaun, she hooted and yelled to the sky as she fought. She cast a bolt of ice with her scepter here and crushed a deading skull there.

The wasps lifted the deadings by their heads, carried them high, savaged them like dogs, shook their heads and broke their necks, bit their skulls through, and then dropped their corpses to slosh on the forest floor. The grizzly brothers roared as they crushed deading skulls beneath their paws and between their teeth.

The forest floor collected corpses.

Finally, only one deading stood. Twilight lowered over the forest. The grizzly brothers faded back into the trees.

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