Everlasting Beauty (Free Ebook)

Chapter Twenty Five

I felt that my heart was literally coming out of my body and every breath pained my chest.

"Just keep on eating. Don't even worry about me," I whispered as the kimbrucks growled. Obviously, they didn't understand what I was saying, but I thought that maybe if I whispered my wishes to them they would actually come true. My whispers were ineffective. As I paced backwards little by little I heard them growl. I tried to walk away with a faster pace and they imitated my speed. Holy shit. I was going to die. I ran as fast as I could. I heard the foot prints behind me as tears streamed down my cheeks. My heart boomed like thunder. If the creatures didn't kill me, my heart would. I shouted.

"Help, help!" The animals roared as high as I called for help. I tripped over a red stone and turned around. The beast was coming at me from the air. I covered my face in fear waiting for death, but it didn't happen. I heard a loud thump. The kimbruck lay beside me dead with his jaw and eyes wide open. I screamed and scampered upwards to see the prince and Rox fighting the kimbrucks. The prince was using a boomerang spin around the air and hit them. Rox was using his hands to push them aside before the boomerang impacted the creatures. Once the boomerang hit them they automatically fell to the ground. More of them came to fight.

"Prince Brok!" I shouted panicked and the prince looked at me and was instantly shoved on the dirt with the huge foot of one of the kimbrucks. The creature was now on top of him. The kimbruck kicked him with his flat feet, but failed as the prince skillfully dodged his every kick. The kimbruck tried to eat his head off, but the prince moved with haste and took cover.

As the creature would not let go of the prince I grabbed a rock nearby and launched it at the creature's head. Its hair waved in the air and his face tilted. His huge mouth growled at me. The kimbruck ignored the prince and was now crawling towards me with a huge roar.

"No!" I heard the prince shout behind it. He scampered on all fours, crawled to it in a hurry and punched it on the leg. The kimbruck tilted to attack him, but a boomerang came out of nowhere and slashed the creature' head.

"Are you okay?" The prince asked me, but I was still in shock. I couldn't move, much less talk. I breathed heavily and trembled all over.

"Anabella!"

"I'm okay," I replied still shaky. Out of the blue, the prince pushed me to the ground with force. I fell sideways and hit my arm. It hurt me bad enough to feel it's sharpness.

"Ouch," I wailed rubbing it. What the hell was wrong with him? Did he save me to kill me, I thought, but then I realized that he had actually saved my life. The prince was already fighting another kimbruck, but he was doing this with his bare hands. I screamed as I saw the prince grabbing the blazer sharpened teeth of the creature. For sure if he didn't have a weapon he would be killed. I looked back at Rox who fought three kimbrucks at the same time. As they tried to attack me or the prince, Rox would punch them with his rough hands or attack them with his boomerang weapon, but where was the other one? I scanned the forest and saw it on the floor. I ran to grab it, but the prince was already wailing and screaming in pain. The kimbruck was going to eat him up I thought and panicked. I grabbed the weapon, but I cut my hand.

"Ouch," I complained and dropped it. Red, blood oozed out. How was I going to help if I didn't even know how to use that damn thing I thought.

The prince screamed again. I turned to look at him. He was still fighting the same creature. I wanted to call Rox, but he was already too busy disposing the other kimbrucks. Prince Brok pushed and pulled the upper and bottom teeth. I wasn't sure at first what he was aiming at, but then I realized that he was trying to rip the mouth apart. Could he really be that strong? I didn't know. I wanted to grab a stick, a stone or anything to try to help him. The kimbruck made force and I could see the veins on Brok's arms and biceps. He was truly making a lot of strength against the creature. The creature fought to try to close and devour his arms, while Brok forced the jaw to remain open. I grabbed a stone, ran towards them and hauled it at the creature. The creature was momentarily distracted and angry. Brok opened his jaws and did something I didn't expect. He bit the kimbruck in the side of his face and purple blood streamed down. The kimbruck lost control. Suddenly, the prince forced its jaw open. A bone cracked. I covered my eyes in utter terror as the kimbruck fell limp on the ground. Then I covered my mouth in disbelief as I saw the prince with his mouth smeared in the purple blood of the kimbruck. He roared furiously at the rest of the kimbrucks that surrounded him. His golden eyes were now bloodshot with such hate I could hardly look at them myself without feeling some pulsing fear inside of me. Three kimbrucks must have felt that same evil because they quickly ran away. A dozen kimbrucks surrounding the grounds around us were now dead. Brok looked at me with a heavy breathing. The savage look on his face had fainted as quickly as it had appeared in front of the other kimbrucks. His fury had dazed off, but I noticed that his arms and hands were covered in blue liquid. I assumed it was blood. His blood.