Curse of Twins

14. I Try Acid!

People were running and screaming. We looked at each other and, in unison, pulled out our weapons and Lucas jumped out front of us in lion form. Someone came over the loud speaker "Please everyone remain calm. It seems that the anaconda and the lion from the local zoo has escaped. Please evacuate in an orderly fashion."

Unfortunately, the people continued run chaotically away from the square, knocking over tables of jewelry, crafts, and paintings to the ground. I saw James grab something off the table near him and I was going to yell at him for stealing when a blood-chilling shriek came from the other side of the square.

"Great! What could it possibly be this time?" I threw my hands up and turned toward the monster.

Thomas shouted at me before I could see our attacker. "Don't look at it, Drakons can paralyze you with just one look."

"What the Hades is a Drakon?" I turned towards Thomas.

"Think giant snake monster."

James pulled out a foldable shield out of his bag. He signaled us to come closer. We were able to see the giant snake with the reflective metal of the shield.

"Do you think if I shoot the eyes, we won't be able to get paralyzed because it can't see?" I asked.

The Drakon was getting closer and coming straight toward us. Luckily, Lucas distracted the snake monster away from us by pouncing on it.

"Yeah, that might work. Then we can attack it head on." Thomas said.

I summoned my bow. "Lucas, Retreat!" I yelled at my pet lion. Lucas backed away from the Drakon so, I could get a clear shot. Lucas didn't seem to do much damage on the monster. "Hold the shield steady." I instructed James. I looked at the shield to aim and nocked two arrows and released them aimed at the serpent's eyes.

It hit the mark. The Drakon let out a roar and coiled up in the center of the square.

"Lucas, Attack!" The lion jumped onto snake avoiding the potentially poison fangs. We all ran forward and started to attack the snake.

Its scales were extremely hard and seemingly unbreakable. Lucas was thrown off the serpent by its powerful tail and directly into a taco truck and shrunk to cat size. I ran across the Drakon's path to help my loving companion.

Too close, apparently. The snake grabbed me with its muscular tail and brought to its mouth were it was going to eat me. I swung my sword at the beast but couldn't reach and my bow was somewhere below me and was unable to summon it due my arm being pinned against the snake.

The fangs oozed poison and it had started to drip. I could hear James and Thomas attacking and shouting as an attempted to distract the snake but it was failing. My free arm was starting to burn when I realized the venom was dripping on my upper arm and burning through my shirt and into my arm. I was going to die or a least lose my arm until I was saved by a trash can lid.

Thomas had thrown the lid at the snake and hit it upside the head causing the snake to turn its head and loosen his grip on me enough to pull my arm out and summon my bow. I shot at the snake in rapid-fire mode. It dropped me. The venom started to take effect. I tried to get up but instead fell over only to be caught by Thomas. He dragged me to the nearest store.

He leans me up against the front counter and pulled his bag in front of him. I was seeing black spots and felt like my veins were filled with... well acid. My senses were fading. I going to die, I could feel it. Since I couldn't even summon water from a puddle in my condition, Thomas started to pour some nectar on my arm then he made me drink some and eat some ambrosia.