The Supernaturals by Gene Gant

Author:Gene Gant [Gant, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Nine

IN MY relatively short time, I’d seen some pretty frightening supernatural beings: manticores, griffin, yeti, zombies, even other Grendel Kids. In Russia, I ran across a werewolf that, when shifted into its full lycanthropic form, was as big as a sedan. And there was a harpy haunting the Greek islands who was so huge and fast she snatched men from the decks of cruise ships at night and bit off their heads in midflight.

None of those creatures was as hair-raising as Malwar. Malwar would make my nightmares have nightmares.

He was easily the largest manlike being I’d ever encountered. Ten feet tall, he towered against the sky only a few yards from where I huddled in hiding. His appearance was long, sleek, and distinctly leonine. He wore no clothes; he didn’t need them. His limbs and torso were covered by a short, smooth pelt of shiny black fur. His broad head, neck, and shoulders were swathed in a thick, ruffled mane, also black but without the sheen. The deadly fangs in his wide mouth were at least six inches long, backed by muscular jaws that undoubtedly had the biting strength of a great white shark. The muscles in his arms and legs bristled with vicious power, enough that he could rip a man limb from limb with less effort than it would take a mean kid to pull the wings off a fly. The claws on his hands and feet were like steel hooks, the edges so sharp they would cut flesh with the neat precision of a scalpel. Most horrible of all were those golden-yellow eyes, glittering with sadistic delight. This was a creature designed for just one purpose—to inflict tortured death.

The monster Malwar strode forward, moving away from my hidden position and toward the spot where Mina and Inky lay. He moved with a formidable, silky grace, exactly like a lion, the tufted pads of his feet making virtually no sound against the rooftop. Inky was barely moving at all now, and Mina seemed to be totally absorbed in an effort to climb inside his clothes with him. Neither of them appeared to notice the hulking menace striding their way. I resisted the panicked instinct that suddenly urged me to scream a warning. With a silent curse, I got ready to drop the magical veil and warp myself onto the broad back of the huge Grendel Kid.

Then, when the walking death had closed roughly half the distance between them, Mina snapped her head up and looked right at Malwar. That look of hers stunned me yet again. Her face was twisted with more raw passion than I had ever seen in any living being. She grinned at the sight of the monster.

Apparently, Malwar was just as stunned by the way Mina looked at him as I was. He stopped dead in his tracks.

“Back again, ugly one?” Mina said, her growl of a voice as horrible as the expression on her face. “Let’s dance.”

What came next is hard to describe. It happened so brutally fast.

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