Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 181

Chapter 181: 181-The Monster Called Wendigo

Ian:

As I reached the road, that thing sped up, getting so close that she opened her mouth wide, but I pulled the sword from my back and swung it. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The blade cut across the lower part of her face, slicing the space between her nose and lip. She was huge, her face four times the size of ours. It was creepy as hell, and I knew what it was.

She screamed, black blood spilling out, then retreated only to lunge again. She jumped at me, and I dodged to the side, grabbed a metal rod, and swung myself down to the road. Because I moved, she landed hard, rolled, and came right back at me.

She stayed low on all fours, hissing, her body wrapped in black flesh that looked like clothes. I couldn’t tell where her skin ended and the covering began. She was just a mess of something ugly.

Joshua had Jack’s arm slung over his shoulder, trying to get him out. Suki and Yash had already run away.

I didn’t get why Joshua had put those two on lookout duty. First sign of trouble, and they were the first ones to run. I couldn’t even blame them. Nobody knew how to fight this thing.

Jack was slowing Joshua down, and now the monster’s attention shifted toward them. I had to pull her focus.

"Hey, come here!" I yelled, swinging my sword through the air.

She turned to me, grinned, then kept moving toward Joshua. She knew what she was doing. She wasn’t some dumb monster.

"Joshua, fucking let Jack go and transition!" I screamed at him, reminding that the idiot had a wolf he could use against this thing.

When I yelled, the creature let out a furious groan, turning her head to glare at me with rage-filled eyes.

That was when Joshua shoved Jack toward the shop’s entrance and turned back around.

He began his transition, finally realizing we weren’t as weak as we had pretended to be in the North.

Joshua grew claws, his canines lengthened, and fur spread across his body.

I saw his wolf, dark grey, massive, with eyes glowing full red. It hit me hard. His appearance wasn’t what I expected, and the way he transitioned without hesitation made me think he didn’t know the consequences of revealing himself. Something about his wolf felt wrong.

He turned, then lunged at the creature. His claws tore into her, but she wrapped her huge arms around him and hurled him into a building. His scream echoed, a loud, agonizing groan.

I rushed onto her from behind, jumped onto her back, and drove my sword down. She was huge, taller than an elephant, and her skin was thick, nothing like the flesh on her face. No wonder when I struck her there earlier with full force, it barely sliced.

She wailed, flailing her arms until one reached back, grabbed me, and ripped me off her. She threw me onto the road, my body rolling across the hard surface.

Before she could recover, Joshua came at her again. This time he stabbed deep into the spot between her neck and shoulder, making her screech and slam herself backward, crushing him beneath her weight.

"Guys!" I heard Suki scream from one of the houses. "There’s more!" She pointed to the side.

I turned and saw more of those things coming toward us. "Joshua, retreat!" I yelled, letting him know we couldn’t fight them like this. Then I pointed at Suki. "Come out, it’s not safe in there."

"What? We’ll lock the doors!" she shouted back.

"No, it doesn’t matter! They can break doors. We need an underground space!" I yelled, watching her eyes widen as she realized we weren’t safe.

She rushed back, probably to warn Yash, and the two of them came running onto the road.

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