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She fights our plan, but our momentum has already carried us over the tipping point.
We send her crashing to the ground, where Snake slips the rope around her neck and tightens it.
Scratch and I dig our claws in to her flesh as she tries to shake us off.
We need to hold her down. It’s the only way we’ll be able to kill her.
“Fox! Now!” I yell through the thickly falling rain.
My feline brother staggers to Snake’s side and fumbles with the pouch on his loin cloth.
I glance at Scratch, and he shakes his head at me. He doesn’t think the same trick’s going to work twice, and I’ll be honest, it’s not looking good to me, either.
The chimera shrieks and screams and makes all manner of painfully loud noises as she wriggles under us, trying vainly to shake us off. I dig my claws deeper into her flesh, determined to keep her pinned down until we’ve defeated her.
And that’s when everything changes.
The sound of a second chimera shrieking makes Scratch curse under his breath.
I look at my brother and we both know we’re in trouble.
Fox opens his pouch, and it’s whipped out of his hand by a sudden gust of wind.
Fox’s mouth opens in shock as he’s thrust into the air a second later, yelling out a curse as he’s thrown backwards across the street.
Snake holds onto the rope tightly as he starts to slide back.
He’s pulled into the air, his grip staying on the rope.
The pressure of the cold air that’s blowing so fast and hard is painful to fight against, and I can tell it’s only a matter of time before Scratch and I are thrown across town, too.
“What now?” Scratch yells back at me.
“Decapitation?” I yell back, making him laugh.
“For her, or us?” he asks.
“Didn’t you say there are tools in those barns?” I ask.
“Yeah, but I think we’re about to be blown far away from them.”
He has a point. Still, considering fire is out and we just lost our stash of poison, there’s only one option left to us, and it’s not going to be the easiest one to execute.
“Let go when I say so,” I yell.
He nods, squinting his eyes against the crazy wind.
“Now!”
Chapter Fifteen
Fox
Beingliftedofftheground and thrown into the centre of town is a hell of a way to test the premise that cats always land on their feet, but I’m glad to report I did manage to land on them. I stumbled forward onto my hands and knees after, and it wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to stand back up, but I made it after a few seconds.
The town square seemed further away, but I guess it felt like I was being launched at the speed of light, so maybe that is exactly what just happened.
Staggering back there in the howling wind and blisteringly cold rain does not feel like an easy task, and I sure as hell am not returning to the site of two chimera without some kind of weapon or plan.
