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“I couldn’t just stand around at home while you’re out here fighting for the future of my pack. I had to come find you. I need to help.”
“Scar,” Fox calls out.
I turn around and see I’ve moved further away from my brothers than I thought.
“Come with me,” Lita says, her eyes wide. “I need to show you something.”
I blink at her as she turns away. She can’t read my lips.
She was watching my mouth closely while we sat together in the kitchen, but she wasn’t able to work out what I was saying. She kept having to asking my mother to translate.
How did she know what I was asking her just then?
“Lita?” I call out, knowing I’m right once she turns around, giving me an expectant look.
My mother never would have let Lita come out here. This isn’t Lita.
The moment I question her existence, she fades into smoke.
“You didn’t think I’d come alone, did you?” Maria asks, making me turn her way.
She has stopped walking, and she looks as if she is ready to shift forms.
“You brought Candace.” A quick scan of the immediate area doesn’t reveal her friend, but it’s dark, and there are plenty of places she could be hiding out here, even in her true form.
“I see Valerie has been running her mouth,” she says, her expression tightening.
“You really shouldn’t talk ill of the dead,” I warn her.
She raises an eyebrow, looking me over as if she’d never believe someone like me could ever beat someone like her. She’s just as arrogant as my father was.
“I don’t smell burning chimera,” she murmurs as she looks toward her friend’s house. “But I see you brought your little pack of rejects. Well, three of them at least. I’m sure my son is busy taking very good care of the deaf wolf right now.”
“Your son is currently pushing up daisies in The Abyss.”
She blinks at me, her self-assured expression faltering.
“You’re lying!” she snaps. “You’re no match for Apollo.”
I stare right back at her, thinking of all the terrible things her son said about Lita.
He didn’t deserve a fair fight, and I don’t regret killing him.
“I tore off his arm, and then I crushed his head beneath my foot.”
She roars in anger and begins to change form in front of me.
My brothers rush to surround her, and I move quickly as her lower half finishes its transformation and she attempts to hit me with her reptilian tail. I feel a whip of air as I avoid the sharp slap of her scaly skin.
Her chimera form is a little smaller than my father’s was, and the rain that begins to pelt down from the sky is nothing compared to the lightning he made strike the ground that I miraculously managed to avoid twice.
I nod at Snake, and he moves from his position with the rope, disappearing behind her.
She lets out an ear-splitting roar before the rain gets heavier above us, smacking the mud in thick blobs. It’s going to feel like we’re fighting her in a swamp soon enough, and I for one do not wish to experience her signature drowning power move.
I glance at Scratch and nod. Our plan to overwhelm the chimera is simple, and that is why we hope it will work. Running at her middle, we lunge at the same moment. She attempts to move her tail, to swipe it at me again, but Fox is there with Snake’s knife, and he slams it into the end of her tail at the precise moment when she is about to make her move. Snake’s rope misses its target, but we’re already slamming into her body, pushing it to topple over onto the ground.
The cry of pain she lets out makes me wince.
