Return To The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck

Author:Greig Beck [Beck, Greig]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2020-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Slowly but surely they ate up the distance between themselves and the mainland ahead. But equally, the tide was winning the race, and the first thin layer of water washed over the sand, making their feet splash as they traveled.

Dmitry held his gun tight, constantly feeling the prickle of warning his soldier’s intuition gave him about hidden danger. He looked to his side and noticed he was passing over another deep spit, and the dark red water here seemed bottomless.

He wondered how high the tide would come up: another few inches, few feet, or so high it would mean swimming? If that was the case, it would also mean they would be dead.

“Contact.”

Behind him, Viktor fired off several rounds into the water.

Dmitry half-turned to look over his shoulder and saw the soldier curse and shake his head.

“No hit, no hit.” Viktor continued to watch the water.

Dmitry snapped his head back to the front as his footfalls angled a little off the center of the spit and he stepped momentarily into deeper water.

“I’ll watch, you lead us.” Chekov grinned. “No time for you to go swimming.”

Up ahead the land mass drew them on, tantalizingly close, and though the huge towering jungle was as dark and mysterious as it had always been, now it seemed a source of safety and comfort.

The rate of inundation was accelerating, and Dmitry’s adrenaline surging through his system made him jumpy and he wanted to sprint, but instead had to slow his pace as the slim sand spit that had been their pathway was totally submerged, and now invisible.

Dmitry knew if he charged on too fast, he might run right into the deeper water and the waiting jaws of whatever thing it was that followed them. He wondered how much water needed to rise before the thing would assail them.

He didn’t need to wonder for long.

From his side the attack came fast. The massive head loomed from the depths. Dmitry swung around but instinctively backed away and fell off the narrow strip into the water on the other side.

Chekov went to one knee, aimed, and fired in full automatic mode into the beast. The creature was all shining dark carapace and pitiless eyes like pools of oil. It looked like some sort of mad cross between a lobster and a shark. On each side of its armored head were long grasping arms and the mouth telescoped open to reveal a gullet of inward pointing spikes down a long throat.

The men and women of his team yelled, cursed, and tried to get out of the way of a creature the size of a bus that must have weighed many tons. It split his team; some behind it on the sunken spit of sand, and some on Dmitry’s side, closer to the mainland.

The water was still too shallow for it to fully beach itself, but the arms on each side of its head flicked forward and then inward, while the mouth gaped wide, the intention clear, as it hoped to catch some of the humans in the sweeping motion.

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