Alien Warrior's Bounty by Lizzy Bequin

Author:Lizzy Bequin [Bequin, Lizzy]
Language: fra
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16: CLARE

I scream as the monster charges Rogar. Its massive jaws are wide open, white fangs gleaming, ruined tongue dribbling slobber and blood.

Rogar is fearless. He stands his ground like an unflinching statue.

What happens next only takes a matter of seconds, but it seems to play out in slow motion.

The spear tip penetrates the beast’s mouth with a sickening thunk. Rogar leans into it, and the shaft disappears as he drives the weapon deep into his opponent. Instantly, the creature’s muscles shudder and spasm. Limp paws drag on the grass as it stumbles and collapses. The predator is already dead on its feet.

But its momentum carries it forward. The beast’s spiny orange shoulder slams into Rogar, sending the alien warrior sailing through the air, cartwheeling head over heels.

“Rogar!” I shriek.

My feet are already carrying me toward him before he even touches down. His head slams against the ground, and there is an awful crunching sound that turns my blood into sleet inside my veins.

“No,” I say through clenched teeth as I rush toward his body. “No, no, no.”

Dropping to my knees, I slide to a stop on the wet grass, kneeling over Rogar’s sprawled out body. The steel dome of his helmet is dented, and a thin crack has split the tinted visor.

Please let that crunch I heard just have been his helmet. Please, please, please…

I’m not sure what to do here. I know that you should never move an injured person since you could risk causing further injury. But I can’t just sit here and do nothing.

I suddenly feel so small and helpless.

“Rogar!” I shout, placing my hand against his bare chest. “Are you okay? Say something! Oh, please say something…”

He doesn’t respond. But beneath my palm, his heart is thumping strong as a sledgehammer against his ribs and his broad, muscled chest is rising and falling steadily like a bellows. He’s unconscious, but he’s alive.

At least for now.

Shit. This is all my fault. I was the one who insisted on defending that other creature from the predator, but Rogar is the one who paid the price.

“Rogar, please,” I whisper. “I need you to be okay…okay?”

“Babu?”

A high-pitched, warbling voice startles me upright. I twist around to see the strange, slender being with noodle arms and transparent skin that reveals the network of glowing fibers running through his body.

It is inspecting the predator, which is lying where it fell, body completely still and bright blood oozing from its wound.

The being reaches out a timid arm and touches one finger—it only has three on each hand—to the metal shaft of the spear that is plunged into the monster. I realize the being is checking for any vibrations from the creature’s heart.

“Gubaaa,” the being says, really drawing out the last syllable with a tone that sounds an awful lot like relief.

The monster is dead.

The slender being turns toward me. Unblinking eyes that are bulbous like a bug’s shift back and forth between me and my wounded companion.

It occurs to me that I don’t know if this thing poses a threat, but it certainly doesn’t seem to.

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