Madman's Monster by Michael Louis Weinberger

Author:Michael Louis Weinberger [Weinberger, Michael Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780983768319
Published: 2012-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

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It was all I could do to keep the knife away from my face as I held onto the guy's wrist and kept him from stabbing me in the face. Then he started thrashing around like a wild animal, which lessened the direct downward pressure but made it even more difficult to hold on to him.

What was going on? I should have been able to take this guy apart, but he was moving faster than a regular human and also seemed stronger than his physical appearance would have otherwise suggested. I could hear Lei calling out to me from the distance, and I supposed that the rest of the people who were strangers to the village had retreated, but that didn't help me in my current predicament.

I brought my leg up and wrapped it around the man's waist while shifting my weight and rolled both of us over. It was a neat little trick I had learned from one of the martial art instructors at the police academy, and it left me sitting ontop of my opponent in a dominant position. The quick shift in leverage had also enabled me to pin his wrist to the ground and I raised my fist for the punch that would have sent him to sleep when his head darted to the hand which I was enforcing the pin, and he sank his teeth into my forearm.

I cried out with more shock than pain, and couldn't help but to see a beast pinned beneath me, instead of a man. He took advantage of my moment of confusion and managed to kick me off of his body sending me rolling down the path and away from him. I deliberately rolled with the force of my fall, and sprang to my knees in preparation for the attack I was sure was coming, but the man was gone.

I stood and ran forward a few steps, but quickly stopped to listen for the sounds of the guy running through the dense foliage and giving away his position, but all I could hear was the background sounds of Lei and Larson, as they called out to me from the village.

I looked down to my arm and saw a perfect semi-circle of teeth marks where the guy had bitten me. The bite was deep and it bled a little, but I ignored it as my particular physiology left me insusceptible to infection, which is what normally would be the only concern. I tore apiece of my shirt away and wrapped the bite to staunch the bleeding in any case.

Lei called out again and I answered with a quick, "I'm okay!"

I was going to turn and walk back to the village but couldn't keep myself from taking one last look into the trees. That guy had been too strong, too quick and too...what? My head searched for the right word, but all I could come up with was, “wild.”

He clearly had been well trained, but I still should have been more than a match for him, yet he had held his own against me without much difficulty.

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