Conflict_The Expansion Series Book 3 by Devon C. Ford

Author:Devon C. Ford [Ford, Devon C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DHP Publishing
Published: 2018-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

VA’ALEN – 98.76% MATCH.

The billhook-type blade rose a third time, pausing at the height of its upswing as though the thing wielding it, as terrifying to the humans as the beasts hunting them, summoned yet more strength to deliver the killing blow. Before the blade could bludgeon down on the layers of spiny feathers which had defeated the dull edge of the weapon on the first two attempts to decapitate it, the thing turned as it coiled, striking out with sharp teeth and both hind legs as talons broke through the hard carapace of the alien and the teeth ripped hard chunks of it away. The Va’alen, already missing the arms on one side of its body, which seemed so dull and dusty in comparison to the ones they had seen before, toppled onto its back and dropped the blade before it could strike a blow.

The three of them stood mesmerized for a second, unable to contemplate which posed the greater danger to them, until Brandt sucked in air sharply through her nose and raised her weapon to drill a dozen shots through the thick coat of the animal and drop it lifeless on top of their enemy. All of them converged, ignoring the increasingly frantic calls over the radio for their situation, and pointed weapons at the badly injured Va’alen. The arms on its left side, the only ones attached to the big body, flailed weakly for the billhook. Specter, standing closest to the weapon, pushed it away with an armored boot as he kept his pistols up, one pointed at the alien’s center mass and the other sweeping the room. It lashed out with a powerful leg to knock Specter down hard onto his back, as the remaining arms snatched up the body of the brightly plumed predator and flung it bodily to hit both Paterson and Brandt in the chest plates and knock them back. It rose, defying the sorry state it appeared to be in and threatening death to all three of them. Its featureless face split open to reveal rows of elongated and very sharp fangs, as it roared a challenge at them, its arms spread wide as though it still possessed the two missing from one side. That roar, that deafening challenge, was cut short as Specter performed a gymnastic flip back to his feet and, ignoring the dropped pistols, snapped a wide blade like an ancient Roman short sword from the forearm of his armor and drove it deep into the chest of the Va’alen, until his bunched fist connected to bounce the dying alien off the blade and into the nearest wall, where it rebounded and flopped to the deck.

It looked up at them, or at least gave them the impression it looked up at them, as it had no facial features to read, and croaked a hissed sequence through obvious pain. The software of the suit worked to translate the words as it repeated them again, louder, and it convulsed horribly.

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