Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch17

   I tried to dodge a low attack, but somehow he managed to trick me into slamming into a higher branch. He caught me in the shoulder and somewhere above the knee, but my adrenalin was to high up to feel anything except fear. 'I have to get away from him. No matter how many times I cut or burn him, he heals.' I thought to myself as I did my best to stay out of his reach.

   "Don't run. It's been forever since I had a good snack." He teased, from somewhere behind me. I stopped to say something back, but I had chosen a weak branch.

     Sure enough the flimsy thing holding me up, gave way. I was about to grab a branch when something grabbed me by my hair. A small yelp came out as I was pulled.

     "Mmmm. This should be delicious." The wolf being said in my ear. Although when I turned to burn him, there wasn't anyone or anything there. My hair had been caught by a hooked tree limb. 'Was he messing with me? Damn it. He must like to keep me afraid.'

   (*switch up*)
  Inside the wolf, I felt like a puppet, as if strings held me down inside a large mascot outfit. I could hear him taunting and hurting her. "If I get out of here, I'm gonna turn you into a rug! You hear me?!" I shouted into the void of red and black.

    I could feel every move he was making, because my body was moving the same way. I couldn't control anything, not even my thought. Random words would pop into my head like: Blood, Fresh meat, death, hunger.

    ("Here you go Gena")

   Finally the ground was just in my grasp. After landing on the ground, I took off running. I didn't stop, mostly because I didn't want to know what would happen if I did.

   "You are fast little girl, but I'm even faster." His voice started out on my left, then ended in front of me. A hand quickly, launched out from behind one of the trees, and got a hold of me.

    "Enough with the cat and mouse chase. I'm hungry." He said while a long tongue licked the lips of the werewolf's snout. I tried to burn his hand, but he grabbed my wrists and pointed them away from him. "No fire, I like a raw dish." He said as his fangs started to edge closer to me.

   ("Gen." "Ok I understand.")

  In the body, a small image formed in my head. He was about to eat her. It burned into my skull, that image of fear on her face.

   I pulled at my arms, trying and wishing to get free. The more I struggled the more time it took for the werewolf to bite her.

   "Stop squirming, you insignificant piss ant. You cannot hold my body back forever." He spoke in my head, pissed and hungry. "I will never stop fighting! Not until my last breath! Not until I see everyone I love or call a friend, be able to grow old!" I shouted back and pulled my arms inward.

    On my stronger arm, I heard a snap. Like the snap of a rubber band. This made the werewolf howl in pain, and force its self to bite Gena. I then stuck my hand forward, out of a sense of direction.

    Something sharp, peirced into and was stopped by my fist. Opening my eyes, I could see out the monster's mouth. There I saw, that my fist had stopped its teeth from biting down on Gena's throat. "Like I said." I replied in a low voice. "I won't stop!" I shouted at him again. This time pulling harder with my other hand. I slid out through the wolfs mouth and pushed down on its bottom jaw. If I had been their any longer I might have been dissolved into the wolf body permanently.

   It tried to chew on my hands, but I was too pissed to care. "Looks like you bit off more than you can chew." I said as I opened the jaw wide, but it bit down hard piercing my hip and wrist slightly. Gena walked him in the jaw with her axe helping me out as I pushed back.

    The sockets of the bottom jaw snapped out of place, the being unhappy with the situation it was now in. Although, it had grown it's own body now. White glistening fur that turn a silver tint in areas where the wind hit it. Muscles stacked apon muscles made this beast possibly able to bench press a power lifter while the power lifter is lifting their max weight.

   "Now that you are out of me, the eclipse will have almost full effect on you." The creature said as a warning of some kind.

  ("My turn." )

  Cory was covered in  a mixture of blood, and saliva, his shirt was falling off from the teeth of the beast revealing a huge change. Something made Cory's body more toned and built. Although he was free he was definitely feeling something come over him. A large smile crept across Cory's face, a creepy one.

   The werewolf attacked, but Cory didn't react with fear or anger. Instead he laughed, an angry cackling laugh. The wolf lunged at him, but Cory dashed forward having them closing the distance in between rather fast. The beast open hand attacked Cory hitting him in the jaw leaving two claw marks, who staggered back and retaliated.

   With in a second of being attacked, Cory punched the creature in the chest, then spun over to the side. The werewolf tried to impale him with his claws, but Cory caught his wrist. He was thrown back by the creature swinging his arm that was in Cory's grasp. Cory hit a tree and was rushed by the wolf.
  He barely dodged the claws aiming for his face which stuck into the tree. While he was dodging he had rotated to the side, using the creature's attack momentum and elbowed it. The wolf stopped the attack by picking Cory up like a small stuffed animal and pinning him against the same tree.
  I couldn't just stand there so I did what any girl would have done, I cut his leg off. The wolf dropped Cory and stumbled backwards, before regaining his strength. The wolf got onto all three while his leg started to sizzle and reform. The wolf swung at me with his claws, unfortunately for the wolf Cory caught his arm again.

    Cory then did something unlike himself. He slammed the werewolf's arm down on his knee, breaking it. This gave him enough time to knock the monster down and start to claw him up with the gauntlet forming on his arm. The gauntlets sizzling claws seemed to force the wounds to cauterize preventing immediate healing.

    Andrew came running through the forest, and stopped when he saw the fight. After turning the monster's white coat red with blood, Cory pushed the monster again a tree. A look of anger and joy over took him as they bared their fangs at each other.