Wrath by Nicholas Knight

Author:Nicholas Knight [Knight, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D20 Kaiju LLC
Published: 2019-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

A giant chicken shouldn’t be intimidating. Keuketon was. In all fairness, he was as much snake as rooster, dripping with what I was sure had to be venom from his glossy black feathers. A pair of appendages rose up from his back, like a pair of spider legs trying their best to be angel wings and failing horrifically. Each was capped with a nasty-looking stinger.

He was just so weirdly alien. Combined with his size, which I could now appreciate in the stillness of the semi-transparent jungle was significantly greater than Halira’s, gave him a seriously scary vibe. He had to be several levels higher than me to be that big. That struck me as odd. Anyone could tell how strong you were at a glance.

It made me more appreciative of Halira’s build. The long, crouched frame would make it more difficult for other players to gauge my girl’s exact size at a glance. Just another example of how my baby was perfect. The thought made me rustle Halira’s scything claws. How easily would they cut through Keuketon here?

He must have understood the thought because he cocked his head in a gesture that combined the jerkiness of a bird with the smoothness of a reptile. It was inquisitive and unnatural. Things on earth did not move like that. And yet the motion somehow seemed natural to this particular creature. The programmers had really outdone themselves making our monsters come alive.

“There’s no PVP in Monster Land,” he said through his kaiju’s shrieking caw. “Go ahead, try.” He spready his scaly arms wide, exposing his long, narrow chest.

I didn’t hesitate. I would have in real life. Here, though? I was free to be as savage as I was meant to be, and there was nothing to hold me back.

Halira moved like a samurai. One cut. One kill. Her glittering claws flashed as we leapt, struck, and landed behind Keuketon in a single fluid motion. There’d been no resistance. Either our claws had passed through him like a hot knife through butter, or…

His laughter sounded behind me. People cut in half didn’t laugh. Too bad. I’d have liked to see his monster fall apart.

“You really are fast,” he said, through the odd hissing sound that was his monster’s laughter. “Glad you accepted my friend request. Halira, huh? I like it.”

I shrugged and the game translated the gesture into an odd shifting of Halira’s crystals. I liked how it looked, all casually threatening. Like, hey, I’m covered in a bunch of sharp points that I could skewer you with.

“What does naming her have to do with anything?” I asked.

Another one of those slithering head-quirks. “The implants are smart, they know who we mean when we direct our attention at someone, but without a name, you can’t send a friend request or do much of anything with someone in Monster Land.”

“I thought this place was called the HUB,” I replied.

“Sure, that’s what the menu calls it. But all the players call it Monster Land. It’s where we come to socialize.

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