Zoid by Paul Stewart

Author:Paul Stewart [Stewart, Paul and Riddell, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447234418
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

The two creatures are advancing from either side. They’re writhing and swaying, their heads raised and bodies squished in between the safety rails. Their sucker feet squelch as they advance.

Belle does a backspring away from me, flipping over and over in a series of flic-flacs, blurring as she gathers speed. Reaching the first suckerworm, she leaps high into the air and lands with her legs straddling the creature’s neck.

She squeezes tight. The worm’s eyeballs bulge and it lets out a wheezing cry of alarm.

Belle tightens her grip. The blade of the cutter glints as she leans forward and stabs down hard. Blood gushes, purple and thick.

The suckerworm hisses, like something deflating.

Belle leaps from its back and onto the safety rail. Arms outstretched for balance, she runs along the metal rail back to where I’m standing, open-mouthed. She jumps down, grabs me in a tight hug and lifts me off the ground. Then, with me in her arms, she leans back over the rail as the second suckerworm lunges.

The next moment we’re dropping down to the ground-panels far below. Twelve metres at least. My eyes are shut. My stomach’s in my mouth. I wait for the bone-shattering crunch – but it doesn’t come. Belle’s zoid legs cushion us both as we land. I open my eyes.

Belle sets me down on the ground. Smiles.

There’s seven shades of mayhem going on above our heads. I look up. The other two suckerworms are attacking the wounded one, biting great chunks out of its writhing body and swallowing them whole. I jump aside to avoid being spattered by the thick purple blood and turn to Belle.

‘What you just did . . . It was amazing,’ I say. I’m aware of how inadequate the words are. After all, she’s just saved my life. This zoid. Again.

She smiles. ‘I did it for you, York,’ she says.

And I feel like kissing her.

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