Monsterverse 05: Monster Girl in the Monsterverse by Jamie Hawke

Author:Jamie Hawke [Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Cold shot through me, and I was glad of the warmth from Amabie. If not for her, even with my water power I wouldn’t have known which way was up, or felt there was any way out of this. Water pummeled us from above, other monsters hitting and plunging in around us. One slammed its head into a rock nearby, instantly going limp, and as we emerged from the water, another landed with a tree branch sticking up and through her chest. She shook, reached at us with a clawed hand, then went limp.

Amabie pulled me to the shore, three monsters still following. She set me down and said, “You’re up,” before collapsing into the shallow water. For the first time since I’d known her, she had actually exhausted herself.

I stood there shivering, held out my hands, and summoned the hunter sword. It appeared, only to slip right through my fingers and vanish before hitting the water.

Howling wind blew over us, sending a spray of water our way. I shivered, recalling the sword, ready this time. A shadow told me a strike was coming, and I was damn glad my shield had replenished because a trajectory struck, making it shimmer. I spun, sword up to knock another projectile out of the air. No, not a projectile exactly, I saw as it writhed on the ground, but a small centipede creature with two arms that resembled scorpion tails. Three large centipede monsters were coming at us from the woods, while clicking alerted me to a crablike monster woman emerging from the water.

“I can handle her,” Amabie said.

“And I’ll deal with those ones.”

She scoffed. “In your state? Maybe, but better to make a run for it.”

If doing so got us close to the rest of the team sooner than later, great.

“It’s that one I’m worried about,” she said, as the multi-limbed human-like creature came my way.

“Why?” I asked. It was disgusting, but as far as threats went, it didn’t seem as bad as some of the others.

“Magic.”

The creature was already moving its hands and legs in strange patterns, lights lingering in the air from the motions. Something was coming. When two limbs moved, a face became visible in the midsection, smiling. Its eye sockets were empty. Another face showed on its back, sticking out as if the head had been partially absorbed into flesh. I backed up as a strange, pulling sensation hit me. It was like I could see the colors of my flesh moving toward it, as if the thing was going to absorb me into it.

“Resist,” Amabie said, and she lunged for the monster in the water, while behind, the centipede ones started for us.

There was no time to dawdle. I stopped resisting the deformed monstrosity, running at it and leaping, summoning my sword as I collided, so the blade was already piercing flesh when it appeared.

That only caused a slight disturbance in the monster’s spell, but when I released the sword and dropped down, then called back the blade again, I was able to chop it off at the legs.

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