18 First Exploration Out! (1/2)

*WITH THE MONSTER EMPRESS*

Majin was currently relaxing inside her village after getting the snowmen and deer to finally fix up the village. It now looked like the perfect place for a community of monsters to settle down and expand, but as the Monster Empress, Majin couldn't be just satisfied with this. It was time to get off her butt and begin to do Empress stuff.

She raised her head and patted the deer whose soft sleep-inducing side she was laying on and mounted it. She called this deer Minion #1 and it was currently her favorite. This little deer evolved into an elemental deer instead of the other three choices, like growing horns, growing bigger, or growing more fur. There wasn't any special reason why she chose this deer to favor over the others. It just happened.

Majin and Minion #1 set off into tundra with 10 snowmen trailing behind them. She left the rest of the deer and snowmen to defend the village while she went out looking for more races to conquer and take under her rule. She decided to save the trolls for last, since they conquered this cold wonderland for themselves. Majin and her minions came across a cave as they traveled across the ice. There was a frozen waterfall a little bit away from the cave but Majin felt something from the cave.

'Whatever's in this cave will be mine! I don't care if you're a monster or a nice little treasure waiting for Mama to grab! It'll all be mine!' She smiled.

Majin left 5 snowmen outside the cave and went inside with the rest and Minion #1. The inside of the cave was completely dark. If a normal mortal came inside this cave, they wouldn't be able to see a thing. But Majin is anything but a normal mortal and was able to see everything clearly. The cave just led down a straightforward path down. The walls and floor was covered in ice and not much else was present until Majin reached the end of the cave. At the end was a campfire and 3 blue-skinned giants sitting around it. They had very impressive physiques and beautifully crafted weaponry. Majin nearly bit her tongue in excitement at the beautiful creatures.

They spoke to each other in troll language and seemed to be curious about her intentions. She smiled wickedly before sicking her monster snowmen and deer on the three. The three trolls roared and easily tore through the snowmen with their weapons and surrounded Minion #1. They all struck simultaneously to end the cute little doe but she defiantly cried out and tendrils of vines shot from the ground, knocking the trolls away. Beautiful colorful flora began to grow on Minion #1's fur and she started using her nature magic to bind and entangle the trolls.

”Good work Minion #1! Now let's take them back and….” Majin was suddenly interrupted by the sound of chewing and turned around to see Minion #1 chewing the exposed blue shoulder of the tangled troll, but despite her carnivorous desires, her biology wasn't quite meant for something like that yet.

”Awh you little vicious killer.. Fine. You can have a bite.” Majin said as she walked over to the bounded troll and tried to freeze its arm. But her ice magic had no effect on the troll.

”Good to know about one of the weaknesses of our future enemies..” She then used fire and the troll began to shout and yell in pain.

Even though this was quite inhumane for Majin and definitely the first time ever torturing someone, she didn't feel much from it. It was kind of hard to really think of these creatures as thinking and feeling people like her. The fact that she couldn't even conversate with them wasn't helping either.

'But I will have to deal with even more cruel and terrible things to come as Monster Empress. It just feels like I'm getting a headstart on it or something.. Usually the protagonist would be forced to this point and I'm just doing whatever I want…' Majin thought to herself while still burning the troll's arm into a nicely smelling delicacy.

Minion #1 tried to eat the tough troll meat with it's herbivore teeth while Majin continued to delve on her thoughts before suddenly screaming out loud and giving up.

”SCREW IT! ENOUGH THINKING AND MORE DOING WHATEVER I WANT AS MONSTER EMPRESS!”

Majin turned the second troll into a peanut chocolate bar and ate him before softening up the arm meat for Minion #1 and letting her finally sink her teeth into it. She somehow ate the whole arm without looking any different afterwards and they left the cave with a fully traumatized Troll being dragged behind them. But when Majin exited the cave, she noticed her snowmen were gone.

”AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” She heard a cry from above her.

A short troll around her size was leaping down towards her with a familiar C floating above his head. He held in his hand a short spear and was aiming at Majin's temple. Majin dodged the boy's attack.

”What do you want?” She asked.

”Release my father! Don't make me hurt you.” He shouted in a child-like voice.

”Hey, I can understand you! You'll be much more useful than your father here. I can't understand a word he's saying.” Majin said while patting the troll yelling something at his son.