A Storm of Blood and Stone (Myths of Stone Book 3) by Galen Surlak-Ramsey

Author:Galen Surlak-Ramsey [Surlak-Ramsey, Galen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tiny Fox Press
Published: 2020-10-26T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Achlys

A sharp pain stabbed through her fingers. Euryale jerked awake to find herself in the muck, slumped against the tree, with a skeletal creature firmly latched on to her hand.

The thing was about the size of a thirty-pound dog with four legs sporting claws and a skull that looked like it belonged more on a dragon than a canine. The moment it saw the gorgon wake, it let go of her hand and jumped back in surprise, only to launch itself at her neck a split second later.

“Stheno!” Euryale yelled, diving to the side with her arms up to try and block the attack.

The monster clamped down on her forearm, its teeth piercing flesh and digging into bone. Euryale howled and channeled her pain into anger. She grabbed the creature by the back of its neck and drove forward, using it as a battering ram against the tree.

The creature shattered on impact, sending fragments of bone in all directions. Euryale ripped its skull free of her arm and spent the next few seconds driving it into the tree as well. The damn thing was resilient but not indestructible. On the third hit, it, too, shattered.

Sensing that danger still loomed, Euryale spun around as three more similar creatures pulled themselves out of the black mud. They staggered at first, like marionettes being brought to life by a demented puppeteer, but they quickly found their footing and coordination.

Euryale didn’t wait to see what they’d do. She bellowed, loud and fierce, before pouncing on the nearest one, which happened to be larger, but thinner, than the one she’d destroyed moments ago. It met her charge by leaping at her face with an open maw of broken teeth.

The gorgon caught it under the chin with her right hand, and using its momentum against it, spun it in a circle and launched it at the next monster. The two collided, breaking limbs in the process.

An instant before she tore into the third, Stheno dove on top of it, coming seemingly out of nowhere. Her sister dug her claws into the spaces of its rib cage and flung the bones, laughing all the while. “Finally!” she cried out, ripping it apart further. “And here I thought this day would be dull!”

The fourth backed away, keeping its head low, its eye sockets fixated on the two sisters, before lifting its head to the sky and baying mournfully.

Stheno shot forward, grabbing it by the neck, narrowly avoiding the snapping of teeth in the process.

“What are you going to do now, I wonder,” she said, holding it up in the air. The thing struggled vainly against her grip before reaching up with its back claws and tearing a set of deep gouges in her flesh.

“Stone for you, yes?” Stheno purred. Her eyes narrowed, but nothing happened. Surprise splashed over her face, and she grunted in disgust, at which point she grabbed the creature’s rear legs and tore them from their sockets. “Not immune to that, are you?”

The skeletal

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