Teeth & Claws: A Paranormal Space Opera Adventure (Star Justice Book 10) by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MSE Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2018-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

A split-second after the chime rang out I dove hard to my left as I swung my pulse rifle around under me. Hildr was sprinting toward me from my nine o’clock direction, but she also had her rifle raised, and a stream of blue fire left the nozzle of her weapon as I squeezed my trigger.

Her shots missed my shoulder by what I guessed was a few centimeters, but I got luckier, and one of my energy bullets nicked her leg as she ran away from me. She stumbled a bit, but she never stopped firing her weapon, and I had to roll on the ground to my right to avoid getting cut in half by another firehose spray from her weapon.

I only had one magazine of ammo, so I released the trigger as I rolled to keep from wasting ammo. The valkyrie didn’t seem to care about her own ammo, and her stream of plasma almost clipped me an instant before I managed to roll behind a waist high stone barrier.

I’d scored the first hit, but I was in a bit of trouble since I had taken cover first and I didn’t know her exact position. She could keep me pinned down while she moved if I didn’t act fast, so I held my rifle up over the edge and squeezed a few bursts out in the direction where she last shot at me from.

Then I threw myself to my feet and sprinted toward the next closest pillar of cover.

I knew I was going to miss her with my shots, but that wasn’t the point. I just needed to buy myself half a moment’s time, and my plan worked. She had leaned back behind her own pillar when I fired and I was able to get another burst off right at the edge of where she stood as I ran.

Hildr took another shot at me before I could make it to my cover, but I was moving faster than she expected, and I slid to safety before she could make another shot with the correct lead.

Then I slid behind my new hiding spot, set my back against the wall, and took a deep breath.

Silence descended on the colosseum.

Hildr knew where I was. I knew where she was. I also knew she was injured, but it was a leg wound that I didn’t think had done much to stop her.

I looked down at the top of my rifle below the sight and saw the number “33” displayed in digital lights. I’ve shot seventeen times and guessed that she had shot about twice as much. I doubted that she had more than twenty shots left in her magazine, so I guessed that she would be a little more frugal moving forward.

I leaned out the left side of my cover, then leaned back and twisted around the other side quickly. I hadn’t switched the grip on my rifle, so I couldn’t really get a shot, but I just wanted to double check her location and see how fast her reactions were.

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