Monster Girl by T. R. Woodman

Author:T. R. Woodman [Woodman, T. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stargazer Press
Published: 2018-11-26T22:00:00+00:00

FOOLISH

The hull rumbled as the engines powered, but quickly quieted as the shuttle lifted off from the surface. There were no tentacles in sight. Apparently, the long arms of the monster didn’t stretch past the mouth of the cave. Either that, or it didn’t think Evelyn and Titus were worth pursuing, because there was nothing coming from the cave other than millions more of the rose-colored petals.

Evelyn sat in the center seat and cinched the straps on her safety belt. Her hands had stopped bleeding for the most part, but her nanites still hadn’t made an appearance to suture the cuts closed. Evelyn wondered about it for a moment before she remembered that they were already working double duty dulling her nerves from the disease.

Shaking out her hands, she looked back out the window and then at the doctor and Titus, who had just sat in their seats. “Everyone, strap in. This is going to get bumpy.”

The nose of the shuttle tilted down, and Evelyn hovered the shuttle closer to the plume.

“You’re not going to set that thing on fire, Evie,” the doctor said with a little loop in her tone that made it sound more like a question than an order.

“Oh no, I definitely am.”

“Good riddance,” Titus added.

“Evie, that cloud of petals is a lot bigger than the last one,” the doctor added, clicking the buckles on her belt. “Who knows how bad it’ll be when it catches fire.”

“Like Titus said, good riddance,” Evelyn said, and really, she didn’t care. So far, nothing good seemed to be emanating from the island, the monster within it or the plumes of petals coming from it. As far as she was concerned, Orsus could use one less monster.

She brought the shuttle to within twenty yards of the opening and turned so the rear was facing the entrance.

“Hold on,” she said, gritting her teeth, pushing her back into the chair and digging her fingers into the armrests. She opened the oxygen valves. The engines fired. The shuttle rocketed forward. The chairs creaked under the pressure as the g-forces smashed them into their seats.

Evelyn sucked in air, and just when she thought she might catch her breath, the sky filled with fire. The hull shuddered from a deafening boom, and Evelyn felt every vertebra in her spine pop under the pressure of the shock wave. The shuttle tumbled through the air. Evelyn felt her peripheral vision blacken as she started to lose consciousness, the flashes of sky and sea through the window in split-second intervals making her nauseous. The g-forces were twisting her head off her shoulders. She closed her lids to keep her eyes from bulging out of her head, and then, in a desperate attempt to regain control before they crashed into the ocean, Evelyn activated the autopilot.

The engines fired again. The nose tilted up, and Evelyn felt what little blood she still had drain from her head as everything went black.

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