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The chimera is getting closer. She has already felled a couple of trees coming after us, and I can tell she is not looking where she is going. We enraged her in The Abyss. She is extremely angry.
I grab Fox’s arm and hiss.
We’ll be running toward people. Nightshade’s pack.
They’ll think we’re monsters, but the thing chasing us is the monster.
I dart out under the first streetlight, and my brothers catch up.
We turn as the chimera crashes through the trees and crushes several plants worth of poisonous berries with her tail. She smears the mess into the ground as she slithers forward.
Someone sees something and screams. More people start screaming.
A group of teens run past us, and a woman stops close by to stare up at the chimera with wide eyes.
I ignore the compulsion to relax under the light, and I whip my tongue out at the chimera’s torso when she begins to tilt forward, ready to collapse. I knock her back and she bumps into the building that’s a few feet away from the nursery.
She roars at us as she falls over, crashing to the ground and returning to her chosen human form.
The woman who stopped to stare lets out a gasp.
“Valerie! Oh, I knew something was wrong with that bitch.”
She shakes her head and walks away.
Scar takes in a breath. “One of you find a way to decapitate her. Be careful about where you stand. We can’t let her rise again. This needs to end tonight.”
He darts off in the direction of Lita’s house.
I look at Fox. He lets out a sigh.
“We’ll get this done faster together. You watch the body. I’ll ask my mother if she has a knife or something we can use.”
He leaps over the front yard fence and goes to the door of the nursery.
I go stand near the body. A few people are curious, moving closer.
I hiss at them, shaking my head.
“What are you?” one boy asks, staring at me.
I hiss to tell him. Even if he doesn’t understand now, maybe one day he will.
“Leave the man alone, Jason,” a woman says, moving the teenager along.
“What was that?” another teen asks, pointing at the dead woman.
“It’s one of the monsters from The Abyss,” another teen suggests.
“No, it’s Valerie. She wasn’t from The Abyss.”
“She was from hell,” someone jokes, laughing.
I laugh along with her, and some other people join in.
It is strange to not experience this town the way I’ve been told for many years it would be.
The people here do not seem so terrible.
