Kaiju City: Tartaruga Town by Adam Sampson

Author:Adam Sampson [Sampson, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35: Victorville

They ended up needing two lengths of rope to get from the kaiju’s ear to its forearms. The bear was resting its head on its arms, so they were as close as they would get, but the bear was big. Very big.

Dimitris showed them a way to descend the rope without burning their hands. They wrapped the rope in a spiral around one leg and used the other to regulate their speed. Their armor saved their legs from getting rope burn.

Just before Matteo made it down to the arms, he heard a yell. It was the envoy, screaming something unintelligible high above. Moments later, the four guards started down the rope. Pend squad quickly dropped to the fur to get off the rope. Matteo had a brief moment of anguish as he saw the guards start sliding down.

He had never killed someone before, and these four guards were at his mercy. He knew that they were heading down the rope to kill them. There was no way the cultists could afford to let Pend Squad survive. Still, the decision was difficult. He wasn’t a murderer. His heart started beating faster.

He gritted his teeth and forced his hand up. With determination, he traced out a fireball and sent it screaming towards the men after them. A moment before it hit, two of them jumped off the rope. The fireball incinerated the two that had still been holding on. One of the guards manifested a dozen huge scissors around himself. The blades gave him just enough surface area to slow his descent a bit. The other guard that had leapt off the rope didn’t have a useful artifact, and fell to his death.

The guard with the phantom scissors quickly floated down towards them. As soon as he came in range, Chiara sent her terror wasps zooming towards him. His scissors got a few of them, but he lost the battle. Soon another corpse joined the first three in the kaiju’s fur.

Matteo stared at his pen. He had just killed three men with this. Riccardo gently took his arm and led him away. They needed to run now that their escape had been discovered. They hurried across the huge strands of fur towards the ground.

Despite their plan, once they got down there, they raced west. The envoy was bound to be watching them escape. They needed to throw off the pursuit. They would head north after they got deep into the forest.

As they ran, Ilaria huffed out, "Try not to kill anyone they send after us. It might be someone innocent that was told a lie about us."

Matteo nodded and shot his four stored runes into the air. The fans were too deadly. He replaced them with waterjets instead. It might still kill them if they got too close, but it was the best he could do.

They continued to run as fast as they could. The relentless training Captain Angelica had given them was bearing fruit. They didn’t see anyone following them as they entered the tree line, but they didn’t let up.

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