Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch18

   I looked the bloody creature in the eyes, and then back to it's neck. "Go ahead, you know that you want to. Me and you are the same. Both creatures that strike fear, both shouldn't have been created, and...." He paused and laughed. I shook him hard. "And what?" I asked. He roared at me before I clawed him again in the snout. He tried to move his arm but Gena already used the chain on her weapon to bind one arm, the other was held by Cory's hand.

"And we are both animals of destruction." He finished with a small chuckle, obviously amused by himself but still licked the wound on his face with his long tongue. I could feel myself getting closer, and my hunger growing. Although instead of biting him, I talked in a low voice.

"I. Am. Not. Like. You." I said each word as if they were a sentence. I then twisted my arm slightly holding the creature's throat. "Tell Gaia that I said Hi." I said before digging my weapon nails into the flesh of his neck. Blood dribbled and pooled onto his fur before running down more to reach the ground. The blood that touched the floor started to turn to metal and the crumble into a fine powder.

I ripped at its throat, slow enough not to kill this creature quick, my heated nails digging into the resilient beast. Soon my hand grasped onto the spine, that I crushed in my palm.

I starred at the creature for some time, making sure it wasn't coming back. His smile locked on his face as he died and he chuckled.

Sure enough, it started to turn to the normal dust. only this time, the dust moved forward and disappeared into my ring. I paid no attention to it as I stood up to face my friends.

Andrew was next to Gena, they were weary of me. "Sorry about that. He was a bad dog, and I had to put him down." I joked as I went over to greet them. Andrew laughed and high fived me, Gena gave me a punch in the shoulder. "What took you so long?" She asked me but then turned around.

"Wait, Drew where is Serena?" She asked, which made me notice that she wasn't here. "She said she would be down after me. Something about cramps and stuff. I don't know." He answered with a normal expression.

Gena and I followed Andrew, back the way he came from the train. There was a small ledge that lead to the tracks, so I boosted them up. I had to do a little wall run, to grab Andrew's hanging hand.

Soon we were up and on the train, but we were confronted by a new problem.

When we got back to our train cabin, it was trashed and broken. "Guys, I think Serena is missing." Gena said picking up a tan leather jacket off the ground.

"There is only one direction that they could of gone. Which is north, the wolf leaked info while I was inside it. I said, making a shiver run down my spine from the thought. "Hephaestus is your father so I think you will be able to fix what ever is wrong with the train." I said towards Gena trying to think.
"Looks like our quest isn't over." Andrew mumbled in but still that bit of worry in his voice. We spread out, I looked for evidence, Andrew checked on the passengers. Gena headed to the driver's seat to see why we had stopped.
  From what I could see was that she fought back. Slash marks from swords and residue of what looked like Celestial Bronze dust was all over the jacket. "This might be a little weird..." I said to myself and picked up the jacket to sniff it. The dust was definitely Celestial Bronze. It stung quite a bit as a small amount went up my nose.
  I went to see what Gena had found. Making my say towards the first car. She was there getting covered in grease and fluids from multiple tubs that ran next to and under the gears. "Gods, grease never looked so good." I said to myself. "Huh?" She said turning around with a wrench with a soft grip in her teeth. "Nothing. Was wondering what happened." I said gesturing to the machine. She spat out the tool to talk. "Looks like the red apes bent some of the gears. So I had to take it a part to get the gears that need to be fixed. Shoulf have this baby running again in an hour or so. You get some sleep. Your no good to use exhausted." She said with a smile.
  "Are you sure you don't need my help?" I asked her but she threw a tool at me. "Skat. Shoo. Get. Get out of here." She said in a joking way but threw more tools when I didn't leave right away. "Ah. Okay okay." I said putting my hands in the surrender motion and walked off.
  "Gods, look after him. He really worries me sometimes. I wish he would have told me about that wolf. I could have helped maybe." She prayed to herself, though I couldn't help but over hear.