The Return of Beaumont and Beasley_The Janus Elixir and The Hound of Duville by Kyle Shultz

Author:Kyle Shultz [Shultz, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kyle Robert Shultz
Published: 2018-10-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Hello

I swooped down through the hole I’d made and alighted on the floor—fully dragon, and fully alive.

“Malcolm!” Melody cried, overjoyed.

Jekyll’s face had gone white as chalk. “B-b-but-but how...that’s impossible! I absorbed you!”

“No,” I said, “you didn’t. You only thought you did.”

“What?”

“I took a page out of your book,” I explained. “I called on Victor Frankenstein for a little help. You know how he makes those homunculi of himself? Well, he was kind enough to create one for me—after I threatened to eat him, that is.”

“It was—you mean—”

I grinned. “Precisely. You got a small taste of my mind, but nothing more than that. I’m still here, and still completely myself.”

Jekyll stared in disbelief for a few seconds, then his expression changed to one of fury. “It makes no difference! I’ve still got Hyde’s powers: I can still kill you all!”

“Actually, you can’t,” I said. “Because that wasn’t just any homunculus you ate. It was one we’d dosed with hydra blood, provided by James here. It didn’t hurt the homunculus, given that it wasn’t alive to begin with. I’m not quite sure what it will do with something as complicated as you.”

Jekyll gasped and clutched at his stomach, his complexion even more pallid than before. A trickle of blood oozed from his nose.

“Victor theorized that it would either kill you outright, or just set you back a bit, since you’ve absorbed a second life in addition to your own,” I explained. “Personally, I’m hoping for the former option.”

“Insects!” Jekyll screamed.

“Oh, yes, that’s always the way, isn’t it?” I shook my head. “Come up with some heinous plan, get defeated, start calling people insects. Never fails. Try something new.” I shifted back into human form and stepped over to Melody, who had moved under one of the undamaged sections of the roof to get out of the rain. “You can congratulate me on my brilliance whenever you like,” I told her in an undertone.

She slapped me hard across the face.

I glared at her with fire in my eyes—literally. “Did you just slap a dragon?”

“Yes,” she snarled, breathing heavily.

“No one’s dared to do that in approximately three thousand years.”

“Well, you deserved it! For scaring me half to death and letting me think you’d gotten absorbed!”

My fury cooled slightly. “I couldn’t tell you the plan before. He might have heard me.”

“I don’t care! I’m still angry!”

“How does that make sense?”

“Oi,” said James. “Sorry to interrupt, but what should we do about Dr. Crazy over here?”

“I will destroy you all!” Red light shone around Jekyll’s entire body as he doubled over and hugged his belly. “We will meet again, Malcolm Blackfire! I swear it!”

Then, in the blink of an eye, he suddenly vanished.

“What?” Melody looked around. “Where did he go?”

“Who knows?” I said. “At least he’s gone for now; that’s the important thing. And he might still die.”

“But if he doesn’t, he’s going to kill more people!” Melody argued.

“Right. So, actually, it’s a relief that he escaped instead of taking the time to kill us. Now we can get to work on tracking him down and destroying him for good.

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