The Good Guys Chronicles Box Set by Eric Ugland

Author:Eric Ugland [Ugland, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Air Quotes Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-03-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 81

I clambered up the rocks until I found a good spot to sit, where I could see the camp and its surrounding area. Fireflies blipped on and off for my own private little light show. Bats swooped in and around, eating the bugs before they could get near me. The fire crackled and popped, and sparks shot up into the air.

With a sigh, I hopped down from the rock and did a loop around the clearing, picking up some wood here and there for the fire. I tossed a log on and continued around, cleaning all the dead wood off the ground until I had enough to make a stack.

Snores came from the group.

I ran through a few ideas, wondering how best to spend my down time. I didn’t feel like any more large weapon throwing. I decided to find a dagger, and while I searched in my bag, I realized something a little sad — all the fireflies had gone away. Which was a bit surprising, because I kind of thought the little buggers would go all night long.

Then I realized another small detail: the night was quiet. The bugs that had been chirping away were now silent, and I couldn’t hear any of the creatures doing their thing out in the trees. Everything was very still.

Keeping my eyes on the dark forest, I took a few tentative steps backward until I bumped a boulder.

I could feel something watching me.

My axe was in my hands nearly instantly.

I turned it around a few times until I got a grip I liked, and then pushed my eyes into dark-vision so I could see.

Nothing was there.

Well, nothing I could see, but I could definitely feel something.

The problem with our perfect camp was that the rocky outcropping blocked more than half the fucking woods. I scrambled up to the top, still gripping the axe.

I scanned the woods.

Something huge was moving through the trees, big enough that I couldn’t place what it was. But it moved with enough grace that not a single branch broke.

Then I saw its eyes staring at me.

Big, dinner-plate-sized eyes. Bright. Its eye-shine was super apparent in the dark-vision.

It blinked.

“Guys,” I said. “There’s something—”

It hit me like a fucking freight train, uncoiling and striking in a heartbeat. I had no idea how it had crossed that distance so fast. The creature’s head slammed into my body, and there were definitely pops and cracks as several somethings inside me snapped.

I flew across the clearing, shouting unintelligible curses to the party below me. I landed in a pine tree, its thick boughs doing a great job of slowing me down and keeping me from breaking my back against the trunk. They did a terrible job of catching me though, so I fell out of the tree. But the 20-foot fall wasn’t that bad. The ground was full of pine needles, so it was almost like landing on a mattress. A prickly, nice smelling mattress.

The creature used two massive claws to grip the rocky outcropping.

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