Avenging Angel by Mike Albanese

Author:Mike Albanese [Albanese, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Night on the Levee

Leon lay with Samantha in the dark room. The windows were open and all the sounds of the river were there. Samantha rose and peeled off her cotton sleeping gown. She stood there in the light of the waxing moon. Leon watched her transformation. She was not rushed, no moans of pain and splitting skin, it was a gentle thing, unrushed and natural. The sight moved Leon to follow, moments later they were free, loping up river on centuries old trails.

The night was full of sounds. Alligators and turtles and stirred in their nests at the sense of a new danger. Leon and Samantha felt their thousand year eyes upon them.

Further and further, river sounds rose as they approached the rapids that formed a natural barrier to navigation. It was there the traders and trappers paused to rest, some went forward, some stayed behind to found what would become the city. There, just above this natural dam, the river was wide and slow, a place where game might be found.

They ran now, under interstate 20, higher into the upper reaches of the Savannah. Leon took the lead, his ears erect, every sense turned on. They were apex hunters now, seeking prey. Higher to their right dark forms matched their pace. Large animals. The smell of wild pig hit Samantha. Her nose flared, she signaled to Leon and left the trail, Leon vectored three hundred feet more up river, running fast to intercept.

Samantha broke through the scrub into the clearing. There before her two large wild sows a few piglets and the daddy, a huge boar. Dad had picked up on Samantha’s scent long before she emerged, he was ready. At her appearance he charged, three hundred pounds closing on her at thirty miles per hour. As he ran Samantha caught flashes of the boar’s brilliant white tusks. Razor sharp bone cutters.

In wolf form Samantha was a near match for the boar in speed. She banked off and ran along the circumference of the meadow as if to cut off the sows. The boar was a mass of hair and muscle coming down on her, he was fast, faster than her.

She banked around to confront the boar. He slowed, as if contemplating his odds against the wolf in his boar brain. He contemplated too long. From out of the bush leapt Leon, he seized the boar by the back of then neck and rolled the huge hog off his feet. The hog partially regained its footing but Leon held on like a pair of ice tongs. Samantha danced around the struggle waiting, looking for an opening. The boar thrashed out with his hooves catching her high on her rear leg. It hurt badly but no effective damage had been done. Leon was losing his grip. He tried to regain it but fell on the ground with a mat of bloody hog fur in his jaws. The hog rose to attack. Samantha made her move, she caught the boar by a front leg and snapped the bone.

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