Arena 2 by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“And I thought you guys smelled bad on the outside,” I cried in an effort to keep myself from freaking the fuck out.

Keeping a lid on my emotions was difficult because I was sliding down the throat of a massive sandworm who had just eaten me whole, like it was some kind of nightmare waterpark ride, and as I tried to halt my fall, my hands scrabbled uselessly over the slimy interior of the creature.

It was dark, smelled like used gym socks filled with chicken shit, and the air was heavy and wet. My body was covered in slime from head to toe, and from the way it burned my exposed skin, I had a feeling that if I reached the bottom things would get way worse before they got better.

I needed a plan. Fast.

“Thing is…” I had let the Eradicator go, its sling tightened automatically, and it slammed back out of my reach on my left side. “… I keep telling people I’m too tough to eat, but no one believes me!” Then I managed to get twisted around and drew my SVA blades and slammed them into the flesh in front of me.

Three things happened simultaneously. One, I was instantly covered in warm blood and gore, thankfully it was too dark to see what color. Two, while the laser honed blades of the SVAs sliced through its flesh just fine, the sparks that burst from the inside of the creature’s skin let me know I couldn’t cut through it. And three, the creature began to buck like mad.

As the worm began to twist and writhe, I grabbed onto the axes for all I was worth and they continued to rend its flesh from the inside. Then, as my downward momentum slowed, I planted my feet against the worm’s slick muscle, pressed downward with my pinkie toes to trigger my boots built in crampons, and kicked off. My muscles weren’t quite used to parkour yet, but they still knew what they were supposed to do, so as I launched myself into the small, air shaft like space of the worm’s throat, I spun around and used my axes to plant myself against the opposite side of the worm’s neck.

Then I repeated the maneuver while the worm screamed in pain. My SVAs had severed several of the worm’s esophageal muscles so it wasn’t able to swallow me anymore, and I was going to K2 my way out of this shit. That’s when I felt a rumble and massive gurgle beneath me. I had half a second to look down before I realized things were, in fact, about to get truly terrible.

“Barf-O-Rama!” I yelled right before I sucked in a lung full of air and was swept upward in a wave of bile, blood, and vomit that smelled like a long night of cheap tequila shots and value menu Taco Bell. I almost lost my own lunch, but didn’t only because I was concentrating super hard to make damned sure my mouth was kept shut.

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