A loud bleating noise erupted from all around me as I screamed. “Fuck all of you!” A form sprinted next to me and I slammed the rock I was holding into where the head was. Or where the head most likely was it was a bit hard to tell.

You have killed a level 6 Zorkid.

What is a Zorkid? Who names this stuff? I shrugged and cracked another one's skull open. I ignored the notifications as I continued to hear that annoying bleating noise. Are these things just giant goats?

Suddenly I felt a sharp pain on my side. I reflexively dropped my rock and grabbed the Zorkid. I then swung it around and used it to bat away any Zorkid that got close. It went like this for a few hours. I didn’t focus on killing my attacks, instead I just slapped them whenever they got close. Just as the sun was beginning to rise I heard a voice.

“My Queen! Please let us out! We can hear the fighting. We’ll dig our way out if you don’t!” Who was that? Was that Kurt? “No! All of you stay inside, I'm fine.” I wasn’t even lying. Zorkid hadn’t done anything in a while. They just circled me and I occasionally slapped them with their friends' corpses.

After ten minutes my kids managed to escape. I grumbled as they all wiggled out of the hole and sprinted into the enemy. I got up and got to work. I quickly threw away my makeshift weapon and sprinted at the nearest Orkid.

I tackled it to the ground and stomped on its face until I got the notification. I used my tail to grab and trip any Zorkid near me. Unlike the previous attacks we had faced, this one was easy to fight off.

I had two bruisers and a lot more hatchlings. Also there weren’t that many attackers. It was kinda lackluster honestly. It took around ten minutes for me and my kids to mop up the rest of the weirdos.

I walked over to one of the corpses and looked at it for a few seconds. It was humanoid, kinda. The thing had three arms, one long and two other small ones. The big arm didn’t have a hand, instead a spike of bone protruded out.

The Zorkid had the head of a goat which explained all the bleating sounds. I kicked the corpse and walked away as my kids made a pile. Diana ran over to me and said. “My Queen! Are you alright?”

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I nodded and said. “Of course! Now everyone gathers around! We need to talk.” My kids all circled up, Darwin sitting on top of Jack as Kurt and Harry wrestled nearby. “Today we were attacked by a new enemy. We don’t know where they came from or if there are more of them somewhere in our territory.”

I was about to continue when I stopped and said. “Wait, where's Linus?” They all shrugged as my head began to fill with the image of his corpse. Thankfully he was still in the burrow. “Did he just not wake up?”

Robert shrugged as I tried to wake Linus up. When he once again didn’t respond I began to worry. What if he had caught a disease? I didn’t have any way to help. I can’t kill an illness with a rock!

Felix poked him and said. “My Queen, maybe he's evolving.” He was pretty close to leveling up. But had he killed anything yesterday? Oh well. I turned to the rest of my kids and said. “Alright, same groups as yesterday but this time Jack takes your group first. Everyone else has the same deal as before. Take Harry instead of Linus today. Get to it everybody!”

I walked over to the lake and sat down. Okay, our population is gonna keep growing so I need to plan out this settlement. First things first we need somewhere to sleep. I need to dig out more sleeping burrows. Second, we need to have a more organized way of dealing with food.

We almost always have a surplus but that will most likely end soon enough. We’ll have to start going on hunts. And that means we need more skinks to go on patrols. I sighed and watched my kids go fishing.

Fishing was our best way to get food but it would soon dry up. We were fishing from a lake, that meant there was a limited amount of fish. I scratched my head with my tail while thinking.

The food problem wasn’t really an issue yet but if I don’t deal with it now it’ll spiral out of control. Being able to eat anything that tries to fight us is pretty nice but how can I expand on that? Are we able to eat plants? Being able to supplement our diet with fruits and berries would be convenient.

I rolled onto my back and stared at the sky. It was a beautiful day today. I stretched out and hopped to my feet. Welp, no reason to just sit here. I’ll think of something later. For now I need to start killing all the threats within my territory.

The patrols will be useless if we keep getting attacked like with the Zorkids. I walked into the camp to find Diana. When I found her she was panting breathlessly beside a pile of four eggs. I smiled as all my worries felt like they were washing away.

I’m gonna be a grandpa! I sprinted over to Diana and checked on her. “Diana! Are you okay? I know it hurts, take a breath.” Diana nodded and collapsed onto the ground. I motioned for my kids to carry her away as I checked on the eggs.

They all looked healthy and one was far larger than the other. I quickly moved them into a new burrow under a tree. We would find a way to solve our problems. There's no need to worry. Cause I’m gonna be a motherfucking Grandpa!