Truth - The Balance

Chapter 22 - TLC

The pain was nearly unbearable. Natalie let out a horrific blood curdling scream, feeling it's sharp claws rip open her shoulders as it's teeth sunk down into her shoulder blades. She could feel it's rough tongue slide over her wound, tasting the appetizer of her blood.

It had thrown her face first to the ground, now attacking her back. When it bit into her again, this time on her side, it pulled back a chunk of meat. Natalie shrieked out in pain, tears and dirt blinding her as it's back paws held her face in the dirt. It dug it's long feline claws deeply into her hips, kneading, as it nonchalantly ate the flesh it had retrieved.

Natalie moaned out in pain from the sharp claws steadily digging into her hip bones, the sensation of small knives cutting into her over and over again.

This wasn't what she had in mind, she was expecting a quick death, not for the creature to peck away at her like she was already dead.

Natalie's mind was reeling, unable to process a rational thought as the creature continued to eat her alive, slowly consuming the first hunk of her it had retrieved.

Natalie cried out again in agonizing pain as it bit into the same bite on her back. She couldn't do this!

Her nails elongated as she attempted to buck the creature off of her back, but it growled at her, sinking it's nails deeper into her.

The pain was overwhelming, making her panic as she thrashed wildly under it. Her actions only causes it to latch it's talons deeper in, and apply more weight on her as it continued chewing.

It wasn't worried about her in the least.

Natalie clawed at the creature's ankles on her head, digging her sharp nails into it and making it shriek out in surprise. It's hind paws slipped off of her head, giving her an advantage to buck more wildly as she lifted her tear and dirt streaked face from the ground.

If the Kludde had hurried along and killed her on the spot like she had hoped, things would have went more smoothly for it. But she wasn't about to lay down and let it slowly devour her alive.

Natalie flipped over onto her back, crying out in a painful hiss as dirt packed into her deep open wound. She wasn't sure how bad it was, but she knew it was bad. She was sure it looked as if a shark had bitten her, she could feel the heat of her warm blood coating her entire back.

The creature's nails sliced along her hips, causing her to wince and whimper out in pain. But she didn't care, her survival fight instinct had finally kicked in.

Ignoring the sharp ache in her back, Natalie flailed her legs at the creature who had flipped around, stalking towards her. Pieces of her flesh lodged and dangled within it's rows of razor teeth, blood dripping off of it's chin. She kicked at the beast as hard as she could, hitting it in the muzzle and face over and over again.

A scream erupted when the creature caught her ankle, it's teeth shredding her soft flesh.

Her war cry could be heard from miles away as she instantly sprung forward, digging her sharp white nails into it's electric blue eyes.

It bucked, it's chains flailing wildly around as the metal clanged together. It screamed out in a loud static-like noise, causing her eardrums to bleed, but she ignored it. Gritting her teeth, she plunged her thumbs in each of it's eyes, attempting to rip them out.

The creature leapt backwards, blood dripping from it's milky blood filled eyes, and dove towards the trees as they bent open for it, letting it in.

Natalie could see where it was running, the canopies rattling as the leaves rustled and fell from overhead. The trees moved around her before everything went eerily quiet.