The Grid Trilogy Box Set by Paul Teague

Author:Paul Teague [Teague, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clixeo Publishing

Chapter Ten

Battle

One half of Rick’s torn body was tossed back towards the terrified group, landing in the centre of the circle they’d formed. These beasts didn’t seem to want to eat, they just wanted to kill.

‘Keep the circle tight!’ came Clay’s voice. ‘If we break it, they’ll pick us off one by one.’

Chris was becoming very agitated. His overalls were spattered with Rick’s blood.

‘I need to fight,’ Lucy shouted to Joe. ‘We’ll have to leave Chris in the middle – we’re all dead if we don’t kill these things.’

Two of the beasts made a second charge, and this time they were ready. Grace pushed out her spear and Miron swung his hammer at the beast’s head. It roared with pain and retreated. At least they could be hurt.

On the other side, the second beast had been more successful. Ross, Marjani and Clay managed to spear it twice between them, and again it retreated. The other two beasts rushed straight in, barely giving any time to breathe. They seemed incensed by the green of Joe and Lucy's overalls, as if driven by an obsession to reach them. Joe and Lucy had joined the circle now, and they worked together to force their spears into the creature’s head. It screeched with pain, its tusks flailing madly, one narrowly missing Joe, who stepped back just in time. Ross followed up swiftly by running at the creature and pounding its head with a hammer.

‘Don’t break the circle!’ shouted Clay, but it was too late. The beast that had killed Rick charged once again, this time directly towards the side of the circle Ross had broken. Clay saw that their defensive strategy had been disrupted and rushed to help Ross finish off the beast. He thrust his spear directly through the creature’s eye. It screamed out then died.

Chris had run off in terror along one of the tunnels of the labyrinth. Lucy saw him go but was too preoccupied with the creature that had killed Rick. It had tasted blood. It seemed more ferocious than the others. The presence of Joe and Lucy seemed to make the creatures frantic – it was as if their presence agitated them even more. Joe and Marjani stabbed and pounded the beast, but it seemed to be exhilarated by the fight and grew stronger and wilder. With a sudden swipe of its deadly tusks, it lifted Marjani high into the air and pounded her body into the roof of the labyrinth, dashing her head against the damp stonework.

She had begun to let out a scream but was dead before it was finished.

‘Clay, any ideas?’ shouted Joe, not even knowing where he was in the confusion.

‘This isn’t working,’ Clay replied, thrusting a scythe at one of the creatures. ‘We should try fighting in the tunnels – we’ll need to splinter into groups and pick them off.’

Joe counted quickly to see who was still left. Chris had run off, probably the best thing for everybody, he was safer like that. Clay, Lucy, Miron, Ross and Grace were still fighting, and one creature was dead.

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