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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
KANA
I bent one knee and stretched to kick my other foot high, catching the gobbelin in the neck. It barely flinched, its body much more solid and muscular than the one Vento had brought in.
Maybe he’d gotten a scout, and I’d had the luck to pull a warrior.
“Come here, ugly,” I hissed, dancing around its back - his back? I assumed gobbelins had different genders, and this one had a bulky, more masculine shape.
Little was known about their magic and even less about their society, but I was smart enough to not take this fight for granted. There were too many unproven rumors.
Darnell rushed past on my other side, going for one of the pair, and Jillian let out a shriek of rage. I didn’t bother to keep an eye out for my team, though. No love lost if their blood was spilled.
Swiping my knife against the gobbelin’s shoulder, I found the skin was like leather that had been left in the sun for years - way too tough to make much impact on without a huge amount of force.
I needed a sword.
He whirled on me with a burbling growl, swinging the nasty-looking spiked club at my head.
“Have to be quicker than that,” I goaded - that was so far my biggest advantage. He was bulky and clumsy in a way that Luca’s bulk never was.
I leaped on his back and stabbed deep into his thick neck, smashing my lips closed when black blood spurted up from the wound.
Fucking disgusting.
I was instantly covered in the foul-smelling ichor, and what was worse, something in my blood was clamoring for a taste. Yeah, that wasn’t happening. I’d been taught gobbelin blood was poisonous, and I wasn’t in the mood to test my luck.
Gritting my teeth until my fangs ached for a new reason, I yanked the knife toward me through the flesh, severing the artery fully and leaning back to leverage my weight and unbalance him.
The gobbelin gurgled and toppled backward, and I rolled out from under him at the last second before getting trapped under his body.
He wasn’t dead yet, though, and he rolled to all fours, swiping out and catching my knee with his spike. I screamed through my teeth and rolled backward over my shoulder, hurling my knife as I straightened.
A shocked wail came from his mouth as the knife lodged deep in one eyeball, and he dropped his club to claw at the knife, losing more blood by the second.
I lunged for his weapon and hauled the heavy instrument over my shoulder, not hesitating to smash it down on his skull.
It exploded like a rotten melon, and I felt a laugh of triumph seizing my chest. Jillian screamed just then, though, ruining my moment. I sighed as I turned into a crouch, assessing the damage my team had done.
Darnell’s gobbelin was badly wounded but still fighting, its midsection leaking black blood as it limped as fast as it could toward Darnell. His short sword was a good weapon, though, and he had the same long reach as the gobbelin. Jillian was on the ground, twisting and rolling away from her gobbelin’s club as it hit the ground over and over, trying to pin her down.
For a split second, I considered just letting her die.
But then I decided that even though it would be convenient, no gobbelin was allowed to kill a vampire in my Queendom, if I had anything to do about it.
If I held grudges, I was no better than Merden.
“Get off your ass, Jilly,” I yelled, tossing her the dead gobbelin’s club when her opponent swung toward my voice.
She caught it with a gasp and was on her feet before the creature could turn back around, and she roared as she swung the club like a baseball bat, hitting the gobbelin hard enough to cave in its temple.
I gave her the thumbs up when it collapsed in a heap at her feet, and she flashed me a feral grin before turning back and whaling on the dying gobbelin in a way that made me turn around. Girl had issues.
