Do Caged Birbs Sing?

“Rock slide!” yelled an orc as he ran opposite of the falling rocks that had already crushed two of his companions. He looked back just for a second to see a rock land squarely on the head of his friend, who’s brains shot out of the crushed skull and splattered all over the rock. “Must get away!” he said as he turned back only to see a wall of wind that blocked the rest of his pack from fleeing the falling rocks.

“Can’t get through,” gruffed one.

“Cuts if try,” another pointed out.

“Can’t run through rocks to other side,” pointed out another. The four orcs watched as the rocks got closer and closer to them until they, too, were crushed under the weight of the pieces of the mountain.

“Gotta love the Wind Wall Rock Slide combo, right sis?!” said a jubilant Miho.

“Our teamwork is top notch,” admitted a proud Mikuru. The two twins quickly thought up this combo attack when they realized fighting on the narrow paths of the mountainside would be suicidal.

“Yeah, ya’ll have top teamwork skills. But could you bitches please leave me some not crushed corpses?” an annoyed Tanya told the two twins.

“Sorry,” the two said in unison.

“Sorry ain’t gonna give me my zombie horde, now is it?” she asked them.

“It’s not. But these paths would make your horde mute, would it not?” asked Mikuru as she thought the narrow paths would make the zombies move one at a time and the horde aspect would be lost.

“Ya right, but I’m thinkin’ long term here, girlie. We gonna reach the top and it’ll open up. Then you twos will wish I had my zombie horde!” she pointed out.

“She does have a point, Mikuru,” said Miho as she agreed with Tanya. Mikuru let out a sigh before she answered.

“She does. We’ll try not to smash the next batch of orcs, ok?” Mikuru offered the dark warrior.

“That would be appreciated," she told the elder twin.

“Alright, let’s keep moving. I can feel the vibrations of an even larger batch of orcs up ahead,” Mikuru told the girls as they continued up the path. The three moved quickly but softly, as to not give away their position. As they made their way up to a more open area, they saw something that infuriated them.

“Get them birds in cage!” ordered a rather large orc. He towered over the other orcs by at least a foot or two.

“That’s a big orc,” Tanya whispered to the girls, who nodded in agreement.

“I wonder if he’s part ogre?” asked Miho.

“That does seem possible,” replied Mikuru.

“Yeah, the big fella probably is a halfbreed,” agreed Tanya.

The three continued to watch as more orcs gathered more harpies and shoved them into a cage that was already full of harpies. The orcs whipped the harpies near the entrance of the cage to ensure they would stay in the cage as they opened the doors to usher in another group of captured harpies. The women and girls screamed in pain as the leather whips hit their torsos, backs, and wings. Many near the doors were covered in dried and fresh blood from the terrible whippings they had received. The youngest harpies were protected in the middle of the cage, while the older harpies seemed to rotate who would be near the doors to get whipped.

“What’s our game plan?” whispered Tanya.

“Well, we found where you can get your horde,” teased Miho.

“It’d help if I had it now, ya damn onihole,” growled Tanya.

“Hey now, what John and I do in his bed is our business!” puffed Miho.

“Quiet, both of you,” Mikuru angrily whispered to the two arguing women. “Miho, use a gust to distract them. They’ll either be knocked down or off the side of the mountain. Tanya, collect some zombies. I’ll break the harpies out. Understood?” she asked. The two nodded. “Then, go!” she ordered and Miho followed suit.

“Gale **** Winds! yelled Miho as she jumped from their hiding spot and activated her attack. A giant gust of wind blew from her body towards the various orcs that were caught completely off guard. All of the orcs, save for the rather large one, were all blown to the ground. One even tumbled off the side of the mountain. His scream slowly disappeared the further down he went.

“ATTACKERS! KILL THEM!” roared the large one as it turned to charge Miho.

“Torrential Winds!” cast Miho towards the orcs. This time, however, they were ready for it and made sure to brace themselves for when her wind attack hit them. While the orcs were busy protecting themselves from Miho’s attack, they were unable to protect themselves from Tanya’s greatsword. The ebony **** knight used Miho’s wind to boost her attack by jumping into the wind and using a powerful slash on the first two orcs she encountered before the wind died down.

“Get dark skinned one! Me take care of little one with wind!” ordered the large one as it continued towards Miho. Its large legs let it rush towards the small asian girl rather quickly.

“Not today, Satan!” laughed Miho as she used her wind to boost her into the air. The large orc reached out to grab her, just barely missing her foot as she flew over him and landed behind him. An orc thought he could get the jump on Miho by attacking her as she landed. Sadly for the orc, Tanya saw what he was doing and quickly ended his ambitions with a sword through his back.

“Fuckin’ orc scum,” spat Tanya as she pulled her weapon out of the orcs lifeless body.

While the two ladies distracted the orcs, Mikuru quckly made her way to the cage full of harpies. Thanks to Miho and Tanya, the orcs were far too focused on the fighting to notice Mikuru or the harpies that started to make some noise.

“Shh, shh,” Mikuru told the harridan of harpies. “We’re here to help. Keep quiet while I get you out,” she told them as she began to look at the lock on the cage. It was a simple lock for a simple creature. Mikuru used the earth to create a simple earthen hammer and began to bash at the lock. The simple lock slowly started to buckle under the constant strikes from the makeshift hammer. Sadly, the noise the earth made as it hit the metal lock did cause an orc or two to look towards the cages and spotted Mikuru.

“There’s another!” shouted one orc before a sword went through his mouth.

“Better hurry up, hoe!” shouted Tanya as she pulled her weapon from the orc’s now gaping mouth. “I’mma finish up and help your sis before her Asian ass gets stomped!” warned Tanya.

“I know! I’m working on it!” shouted back Mikuru as she doubled her efforts. With a few more hits, the flimsy lock finally broke, freeing the terrified harpies.