Page 25 (1/1)

My God Is this a…

River finished my sentence for me, her voice choked with horror "A ht a fist down against the reinforced glass She slaainst it so forcefully, I felt the floor beneath me tremor If she continued to hit like that, I didn’t kno lass would hold up

Ilook, hoping to scare her back

It didn’t If anything, it only aggravated her Now she began bringing both fists down at the sah the water

Dropping into the control seat, I ra doard, then upward, sideways right and left, hoping to jerk her off the vessel But she reh her hands had suckers on theainst the roof of the submarine A few seconds later, another equally hideous creature slid down the , taking up a place next to the first This one appeared to be badly injured, however She had a deep bloodied gash in her torso It was bleeding sothe water

Merate nearby? Sootten here?

I had left The Shade with athe human and supernatural realms Unfortunately, it had later been confiscated by hunters, but I couldn’t reuess that thethe glass in unison

Crap

In my panic, I perforht I was capable of in my continued atteasped She clutched the arms of her seat hite knuckles "There’s another one"

Sure enough, barely a second later, another slalass Now all three pounded away

I stopped trying to shake the to the surface as fast as I possibly could As the first crack forlass, we burst up above the waves

These were fish I expected the, but they did no such thing Although their natural habitat was in the water, they could clearly survive for soed by the crack that had appeared, they beat harder against the glass

I grabbed River’s hand and pulled her out of the control roo her head, I forced her to look me in the eye "Lock yourself in a cabin Don’t come out until I say Understand?"

She looked terrified, but nodded and raced away

A hellish screech assaulted my eardrums as I hurried up the ladder and pushed open the hatch in the roof of the sublared down at the three creatures still clinging to the as furious to see that one of thelass by now She didn’t seem to be at all concerned about the fact that her fist was now a bloodyto s, Ithe nearest one todown into the water

One of the re speed, her hands outstretched and ai off the side of the submarine, back into the sea The third one--with an injured torso--had nowhold of a pole so I wouldn’t go skidding into the water, I reached for her She slipped through too quickly, and although I rab the tip of her tail, it was too slippery for h after her when a squelching sound ca to face the open hatch, I was just in tih it, and then a loud thud came from inside the subet in our subh the open hatch, I laid eyes on another creature squelching away from me across the corridor But this one looked different than the others With shorter hair, broad square shoulders, and a thick waist, this was clearly a ripped the back of his neck He squirmed beneatha face that was no less hideous than the wos, but I struck him hard across the face I was about to slit his throat when I noticed that he heezing badly He looked so ill and pathetic as he lay beneath me, I decided to just leave him there and deal with the other who hadthe trail of dark blood thethe floor, I found her, to my surprise, curled up in a fetal position in a corner of an e tail was splayed out to cover her face Her whole body tre sound

I hurried back along the corridor to fetch thewith the female I wasn’t sure what to do with them I really didn’t want to kill the them back in the water when they clearly didn’t want to be there It see them both inside, I headed back to the control room to examine the broken screen

I breathed out in frustration Great After all the trouble we’d undergone to find a sub to have to spend the rest of the journey above the waves