Samantha Moon 42: Wild Moon by J.R. Rain

Author:J.R. Rain [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Somewhat More Complex

Tammy cried out in pain involuntarily, but couldn’t move.

Vines pinned her arms to her sides, crushed her legs together, and tightened around her throat. Rather than panic, her need to escape manifested in a subconscious release of magic. She twisted over to her left side, rapidly shapeshifting into a panther. The big cat had been her first transformation, ending up as her default animal form.

She liked cats, after all, despite not being able to have one.

The sudden change in her size and dimension appeared to catch the root fiend off guard. Thick fur and thicker skin muted the biting pain of thorns. Her animal shape possessed significantly more physical strength than her human form, allowing her to somewhat easily tear her way out of the root cocoon.

Allison shouted, “Holy shit! Tammy!”

Tammy was admittedly unclear what shocked Allison more: the root monster attacking or witnessing the shapeshift.

Not caring to debate the exact meaning at the moment, Tammy leapt down from the enormous creeper vine, slipping away from the last of the thin grabbing tendrils of the dark faerie once impersonating her father. As she did so, a ball of black thorns erupted out of the slime pit, rushing over the massive root with a noise like a hundred small sticks whacking against a stone.

Like any self-respecting cat with an unwanted presence bearing down on its hind bits, Tammy spun around, and swatted at the ball of ouch, knocking the entire tumbleweed-of-death away from her and sending it rolling. Thin tendrils of thorny vines shot from the spherical mass, embedding like spears in the ground in an effort to cling in place and stop. She leapt backward, shapeshifting once more to her human form.

Meanwhile, yellow flashes came from above, likely Allison peppering the dark faerie with lightning or magical bolts.

Smoke rose from the dirt around Tammy’s toes, the tainted earth smoldering in response to the upwelling of life-charged energy she called out of the realm. Emerald light washed up and over her, coiled around her arms, and shot forward into the writhing mass of sharp roots. The blackened vines disintegrated on contact with the energy, leaving two fist-sized tunnels through the tangled mass. It collapsed to one side, the tumbleweed shape deflating from ball to blob. Whether or not she’d truly wounded it or it was trying to fake her out, she didn’t care—and hurled another blast of energy at it.

Allison’s lightning bolt struck the mass from the side at the same time; between both spells, the entirety of the thorny blob collapsed in a crackling heap of ashes. A tiny figure, like a silhouette of Maple, rose up from the pile before it, too, disintegrated… giving off a faint wail of agony.

“Ack! Tammy. Are you okay?” called Allison from the top of the giant root.

She peered up at the older witch. “Yeah. Just a few scratches.”

“A few?” Allison gawked.

Tammy glanced down at herself. Tattered shreds of fabric sorta-clung to her upper half, the remains of her shirt destroyed by a hundred thorns.

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