“Sessa, the clearing, to our right”
She looked and adjusted her direction, and actually put on a burst of speed after sending another light blast to the left. I was hard on her heels now about twenty feet behind her. She was almost to the clearing when a stand of stunted trees exploded outwards directly at her. The exploding tree pieces weren’t the real threat though. The threat was the creature that rapidly covered the short distance to her and hit her like an express train. Sessa went flying and slammed up in another stand of stunted trees. I don’t know how bad she was hurt but the sound of her hitting those trees wasn’t good. The creature kept going after her. I ran at it as fast as I could and shoot at it five times hoping my rounds would hurt it or stop it long enough for me to reach it. I couldn’t let it get to her. My rounds hit it in the side and it stumbled sideways as the rounds exploded. I put four more rounds into it, one of them impacting it’s head and exploding. The creature went down and I shifted my path to Sessa. Getting to her I found she was conscious, but badly dazed. I was trying to get her up when I heard the creature coming. I turned to shot it again, but it was ready for me. For it’s size it was still very fast. As I turned towards it, the creature swung a large branch like a bath catching me in the side. My vest absorbed most of the blow but it was still terrible. I was knocked a good dozen feet away, losing my .44C at the same time. I was in pain and out of breath. Sessa must have come around enough that she released a blast at the creature, but missed it. As it started to strike her again, I pulled my .40C and shot it six times, putting two in the head, the others in the right leg. The creature when down, but I could see it start to regenerate immediately. Shouting,
“Sessa, hit it now!”
She freed herself from the trees, stood up unsteadily, but took aim and released a beam from both hands. The creature however was fast. It snatched up a large log and used it as a shield to absorb the force of the blast, which knocked it back into the trees. It could be seen moving away. Struggling up I moved over to Sessa who was still holding onto a tree.
“Are you okay?”
“Just stunned. I will be okay in a minute”
“I don’t think we have a minute. Come on we need to get into the clearing.”
Taking her arm onto my shoulder we started for the clearing rapidly looking around for the creature. Sessa then noticed I was nursing my left side.
“You’re hurt”
“Just winded. I’ll be fine”
We had just entered the clearing when Sessa screamed,
“Look out” just as another boulder slammed down just missing us, causing us both to fall down. As we started to get up, the creature was there. It slapped Sessa up side the head knocking her out instantly. Even with my speed the creature was able to knock my gun from my hand before I could train it on him. He then grabbed me by the neck and hit me with two powerful punches. If he hadn’t been holding me by my neck his blows would have broken my neck. Its hands was so big that the fingers wrapped around my neck supported it during his punches. That thought was after the fact as his blows had nearly knocked me out. He was raising his hand to pound in the top of my head when I unclearly saw a blue light blossom behind the creature. It screamed that sonic scream of his, but this time there was a edge of pain to the sound. I was barely aware as he tossed me away to the side. I struggled to regain consciousness and saw that the creature was down on one knee, clearly hurt. What had hurt him I couldn’t tell. I again passed out for a few minutes. Coming to again, I saw the creature was still on one knee with both of his hands deep in the soil. It was trying to regenerate itself. That could only mean Sessa had hit him with a blast. Struggling to move I looked for Sessa and saw her over by the edge of the clearing. She was still out. I had to get to her, but hadn’t fully recovered yet. My backpack was hindering me so I struggled out of it. Feeling my strength coming back I rose up on my knees. I was hurt. I knew it. There was an intense pain in my side where the creature had struck me with the branch. Probably a broken or cracked rib. My head hurt like hell from the blows I got. I lowered my head to try and clear it enough to get up. I had to get up and get to Sessa. Hearing a noise I looked up to my horror to see the creature raising up, slowly but moving just the same. He turned in Sessa’s direction and I could see a large blast hole burn in it’s back. It was oozing a dark colored fluid that may have been blood, but didn’t look to be regenerating. It looked as if Tessia’s was right about the different energies the Ladies needed to use in their attack on the creature and its companion. It started for Sessa slowly but steadily. Forcing myself up I had to stop it.
My weapons were lost, but I had my knives. Pulling my ten inch spike dagger, half running and stumbling I charged at the creature. I was almost on it when it noticed me. It tried to turn fast, but couldn’t. Sessa blast had clearly hurt it. As I got close I stabbed it in the neck as it turned. Swinging its arm it knock me away from it, leaving the dagger in its neck. Getting back up I ran at it again now mad with my desire to keep this beast away from Sessa who was still out. Enraged I hit it with my right as hard as I could. My blow made it stumble back. I hit it again, again and again, right, left, right each blow making it stumble back. The problem was I was driving it right toward Sessa. Stopping my attack trying to think of another way to drive it away from her, gave it time to regain it senses. It roared and stumbled towards me with its hands outstretched to tear me apart. Stumbling back I turned and ran hoping it would follow. This way I would get it away from Sessa. My head was rapidly clearing but I was now feeling intense stabbing pains in my side, which was slowing me down. The creature’s was also getting its strength back and it gained on me. Knowing I wasn’t going to outrun it with the pain in my side, I did what it probably didn’t expect. As it closed on me I stopped turned and delivered the strongest uppercut I could to the creatures jaw. As it was crouching down to grab me my blow connected solidly. I think what happened next stunned the both of us. Hitting his jaw was like punching a rock wall. I should have broken my hand. It sure as hell felt like it. The punch however was the surprise. It snapped the monster’s head up and back viciously. When it’s head came back down I hit it again with as much power as I could with my left. That blow snapped its head to the right and made it fall sideways to its knees. As I moved it to hit it again, it swung it arm and backhanded knocking me on my backside stunning me and causing shooting pain in my side that caused me to scream. Trying to get myself together I was suddenly snatched off the ground by my vest. Holding me up off the ground, the creature reached for my head probably to twist it off. In desperation I drove two fingers into its right eye. The eyeball burst and the creature when wild. It flung me a clear across the clearing as it stomped around screaming that sonic sound it makes. This time the pain level in my side as I hit the ground almost made me pass out. Then its sonic scream level went so high I felt the pain in my ears, which caused me to also scream. So did Sessa. She had regained consciousness and was trying to rise when the scream hit us. Grabbing her ears she fell back down, and didn’t move. Why I didn’t know, but judging from the pain level in my ears, it must have knocked her back out. Her scream got the creature’s attention. It shook it’s head, looked around like it was trying to find me but couldn’t as I was lying next to the boulder I had came up against when it flung me. Turning back to Sessa it started towards her. This time struggling to get up was out of the question. The shooting pain in my side almost made me pass out again. Half lying there helplessly I started yelling at the creature to get its attention. Better for it to come after me, hopefully giving Sessa time to recover again. The creature stopped, turned its head to look at me with it’s left eye. It’s right was a oozing mess. It looked at me for a couple of minutes as I kept yelling at it. It then turned from me and continued towards Sessa. It must feel I was no longer a threat to it, and it could deal with me later. What was it going to do with Sessa. Kill her. Because her blast had clearly badly injured it. Reaching Sessa, the beast reached down and grabbed her by her le
g and started dragging her back into the clearing. Sessa’s blast must have really hurt it because I could now smell the putrid rotting odor now coming from it full force. It was either no longer able to mask it odor or didn’t care that we could smell it. I struggled to get up. I had to do something before it killed her. In desperation I looked around trying to find something, anything that would help me stop this beast. As I did my eyes came to rest on my pack, which was only a few feet from me. And the mace strapped to it. If my punches has stumbled it, the mace might be what I need to knock it out or kill it if I can get close. Dragging myself, grunting with the stabbing pain in my side, I slowly made it to my pack and untied the mace. It slipped from the pack and fell to the ground. As it did so, the creature made a sound I hadn’t heard before. Turning back to it I saw it had Sessa in the clearing and as I watched it reached down and starting tearing her pants viciously from her body. So violent was his actions that he badly clawed her legs causing them to start bleeding. What the hell was he doing? To my horror as I watched his penis began growing bugling out from under the rags of twigs he wore. Was he...? He was going to rape Sessa. Right there in front of me. Picking up the mace in haste I was turning to go and stop this beast when I received a jolt of energy from the mace handle.
It wasn’t a painful sensation, but it was unpleasant. My back arched from the jolt, which lasted just a few seconds, but the results was fantastic. My vision went unfocused and images started flashing through my mind at a speed, which made them blurry and not understandable. Then the pain and images were gone and I felt somewhat different. The pain in my side was sill there but I was able to now push it aside and ignore it. In fact I felt somehow recharged. Glancing at the mace the internal lights that were somehow inside the handle was moving around very fast. Looking back at the creature it had just ripped Sessa undergarments off. The sight of her female parts almost made me swoon. Even in this situation, with me badly hurt, her life in danger, I felt the almost overwhelming need to take her to bed. Then seeing this monster over her with the intention of raping her sent me into a red haze of hate. Pushing myself up I rushed towards the beast with unbelievable speed, which I subconsciously registered. I was almost on him before he noticed me, but it was too late. Reaching him I swung the mace with all my strength. I wanted to bust his skull open for what he was attempting to do. The head of the mace connected with the lower part of his face and the results was spectacular. The mace hit his jaw and destroyed it in a mist of flying flesh and ooze when it passed right through it as if it was made out of paper. The ease of the blow connecting caught me off guard, and I had to catch myself. I had expected a stiff resistance when I hit him. The mace tore through his face almost as if it wasn’t there. Stumbling pass a few steps, I caught myself and turned to hit it again and again and beat it to a pulp before it could regenerate itself. Yet as I faced it again, the lower part of its face was a mass of pulverized flesh, and as I watched it did not regenerate. It turned its ruin face towards me and its one good eye glared its defiance at me. Stepping up to it slowly, I glanced at Sessa quickly, saw she was okay, and swung my mace again completely destroying the rest of the head. I raised the mace again to pound the body to a bloody mess but the creature’s body slowly crumbled and fell to the ground. It shrunk as if the air was let out of it. Standing there it slowly dawn on me that I had killed it, and I had done it with the mace. I stood over it for a few minutes to make sure it didn’t regenerate. When it became apparent it wasn’t going to come back to life I went to check on Sessa. Which was unbelievably difficult. Seeing her womanhood exposed like that, my manhood was pounding on the door, desperately trying to release it’s man animal. I clutched the mace tighter trying to get my composure under control. If I had touched her at that moment, well it was a good thing I didn’t. I must have been standing there with my eyes closed when she called.
“Conrad, Conrad, are you all right?”
I opened my eyes and looked at her. She was leaning up on her elbow trying to steady herself. She must have seen the state I was in because the desire for her immediately dropped to manageable levels. I started shaking my head to clear it.
“Are you alright?’
Looking back at her I managed to croak out
“Yes. What happened”
She looked around and spotted the creature first before she answered me.
“While I was out I must have lost control of my Eurola. The effects was plain on your face”
“You think I had it bad, you should have seen the creature’s face”
It was then she noticed her missing pants, bleeding legs and became slightly alarmed.
“Conrad, did you remove my pants?
“No”
She glanced down at the dead creature and shuttered. The truth of what had almost happened finally hit her. I reached down and helped her up. The fact she was naked from the waist down didn’t seem to faze her much. Doing the right thing I walked back over to my backpack and pulled out the thermal sheath blanket that was inside. She had crotched down and was examining the creature. Going back over to her I offered the blanket to her for cover. She wrapped it around herself, and then asked me what happened. I gave her a condensed version of the attacks and fight. She confirmed she had come too, groggy but had seen the creature about to kill me when it had me in its hands. She said she unleashed all the energy she was able to muster, but knew it wasn’t enough to kill the creature, but hoped it would injure it enough for me to get away. The strain of releasing that energy before she was recovered caused her to pass back out.
“We need to contact Hennings to see if the plan is working on their end”
Unfortunately when I checked the comm unit was smashed having been on my left side and was busted when I was hit with the branch.
“Comm units do not last long with me. We can only hope they are handling things on their end”
Sessa stepped over to the creature and pulled my knife out of what was left of the creature. As we watched the creature was slowly shrinking into itself. She then pulled off the blanket and started cutting it up. In a few minutes she had fashioned a skirt, which she closed around herself.
“Looks like you have experience being in this position before”
She gave me an evil look before she looked hard at my side. Walking over she took my arm.
“Come over here and sit down”
“Why. I’m alright”
“No you are not” she said as she pointed to my side.
I couldn’t see what she was referring to, but feeling back there I felt a thick piece of wood stuck inside. Now I knew the reason for the intense pain I was feeling. Following her over to the boulder near the backpack I sat as she got the pack and took out the Combat Aid Kit inside. She did have experience with combat wounds because she administered mine as if she was a combat medic. She actually performed minor surgery on my wound, closing it with a trauma cast which would sustain me until I could get to a doctor or hospital.
Sessa did a search of the clearing and woods and found both of my guns. We then sat down next to the boulder to rest. We talked a little about the mace and it’s effect on the creature. We figured Sessa blast had hurt and weaken the creature enough for me to finish it with the mace. We had been sitting there for a little less than an hour talking about the creature and the battle before we decided that we should have heard something from Hennings or the Ladies by now.
“If their part of the plan has gone smoothly, someone should have tracked us by now and be here”
“Something is wrong”
“Is there anyway you can contact them”
“No. Only Tessia has that ability for mind contact”
“Are you recovered enough to get back to Muraii. Once there you can either get back to Woodspirit or get help to find out what’s happening. I will be okay until you can get someone back here. If necessary I can hike back to the MATV.
“I am not comfortable with leaving you here alone”
“I am fla
ttered, but I am a big boy. Plus I have been in situations such as this before. We need to know what is happening back in Woodspirit”
Then I heard faintly a high pitch sound like the wind blowing. The sound rapidly built up in volume.
“What is that”
“I don’t know. It sounds like a hurricane building up, but that's not possible” I said as I got and Sessa stood up. We were looking around trying to locate where the sound was coming from when the woods south of us started exploding as if a giant bulldozer was forcing it’s way through. In a few seconds we got the shock of our lives. A large section of the woods blew away and into the clearing flowed Carol. That’s right I said flowed into the clearing. The woman was levitating. As amazing as that was, the sight of her was more spectacular and even more horrific. She was a full eight feet or so above ground. Her clothes was in tatters as if she had been in a serious fight. Her appearance was worse. Her eyes had expanded to twice their size. There was an unhealthy purplish glow around her and her flesh looked to be peeling. Her mouth was also elongated sideways on her face. Her voice when she spoke came off the blackboard.
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