Sorceress Super Hero series Box Set by Darius Brasher

Author:Darius Brasher [Brasher, Darius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daba Publishing
Published: 2019-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

16

My arms flailed. My legs kicked. The water around me churned like I was in the middle of a washing machine.

“Help! Help!” I cried. “I’m drowning! Somebody save me!”

The only answer from the fog enshrouded Astor Bay was a silence that was peculiarly unique to the post-daybreak bay.

“Help! Help!” I shrieked, swallowing water. I thrashed even more wildly in the chilly water.

My pleas were met with more silence.

I spit out a mouthful of brackish water. I stopped flailing and started treading water as readily as a seal. I frowned, peering into the thick fog. I saw nothing and no one.

“Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?”

No one responded. What else was new? The cotton-like fog which clung to the water like a fluffy blanket was still. It muffled the ambient sound, making it seem as though I was the sole occupant of a watery world. The fog dispersed the light of the morning sun, giving the area an otherworldly glow.

What’s a girl gotta do, I thought, to get attacked by a sea monster? Hang a copy of Moby Dick around her neck?

“Call me Ishmael,” I called out into the fog. Still nothing. Maybe Chessie wasn’t much of a reader. It only stood to reason. Water wreaked havoc on books.

I was of course in no actual danger of drowning. I could swim like a fish thanks to Dad’s patient tutelage of me in one of the District’s YMCA pools when I was barely out of diapers. I had been chumming the waters of Astor Bay with my own sweet self for the past few days, hoping to attract Chessie, just like the thrashings of Amanda Hawking in these same waters had led to Chessie attacking and killing the student earlier in the week.

“Astor Bay Sea Monster Strikes Again!” had been the National Inquiry headline which spurred me to drag myself out of my sick bed and get Agatha to drive me to the Eastern Shore. The story’s lede had read, “A busty boating 20-year-old Salisbury University student named Amanda Hawking was reduced from a D cup to a sea cup by Chessie.” I knew the tabloid could only openly report news about the magical world if it appeared farcical to mundane readers, but I didn’t like the fact it cracked jokes about people who died at the hands of the monsters I was going after. Especially when Goatman had nearly made me one of those people.

I had not caught so much as a glimpse of the sea monster while out here in the bay. The only thing I had gotten for all my trouble was a sore throat from my pretend panicked screaming, a bellyful of salt water, and prune-like skin. The Pale Prune, while descriptive, sucked as a potential superhero name. If this was what the life of a superhero was always like, it was a lot less glamorous than I had expected.

The only good thing about Chessie not making an appearance was its absence had given my body a chance to further heal from my encounter with Goatman.

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