Artemis drove an old car with the headlights on toward the beast."What is she doing?" She lost colour when it spotted her and snaked into the ground. The ground bulged as it came toward her in a straight line like a locomotive. "No!" Julie cried out when the chains disappeared into the ground with it. Running through the field. Artemis kept driving on the rough terrain, eyes wide and searching in the darkness, and she gasped when it sprouted up from the ground to swallow her vehicle up. She jumped out and rolled over the soil. Julie entangled the farthest tree with a rope and yanked it. She whistled and swung. Artemis ran looking back to the beast while it swallowed her car. "Sheesh_oop."She felt the motions when Julie swooped in to clutch her."What do you think you're doing!?" Julie asked."Saving your life?" Artemis said."Get ready to jump." Julie growled avoiding obstacles. She let go of the rope and. Artemis landed on her face, she spat out grass. "That was close_"Julie
She mumbled to Elena who stood by her side sulking. She wore a white winter jacket with a furlined hood, bum-shorts, leggings and boots. Her black hair looked exotic and choppy."Please, don't do anything rash. As Reyna has spoken. Now move along." She said leaving her last.Artemis sniffed. ....[ Quest completed ] Maks returned home after the crusade, he wiped soothe and blood off his face and rubbed a hand sanitizer, going into his house. The first thing he saw were two pair of green eyes. "Ah!" He flinched. His vision widened to Jessica and he growled. "Look!" She was holding up a black kitten. Playing with it a little. "The neighbours said to look after it for a while.""That's great." He kneaded its scruff and it gave a low purr closing its eyes."Jessica, for the last time. Would you keep that thing back in its cage?" Doreen asked drying the inside of a cup. "We haven't seen the vet yet_Oh, Maks, you're back, I see. And how was your day?" She replaced her glass at the cupbo
He was sent to the clinic, treated and asked to stay in the boys' bathroom until his stomach cleared. He held the toilet bowl and pushed up. He washed his face and mouth at the sink."That's impossible, I can't be sick." It was too sudden. He was starting to feel like he was going to have a low-grade fever. His hands shivered and he limped to the door. It flailed open and Dom entered and smiled."Oh, I see that dweeb never passed across my message." He cracked his knuckles."What message?" He said with red eyes. "This one." He punched him and he fell on his stomach and curled up. He was a bit concussed from hitting his head on the toilet bowl too hard. He groaned and Dom's face came into his view, nostrils flaring."The next time you embarrass me in front of those people again. You're dead!" He kicked him in the gut and took a bathroom break. Maks cringed and Dom dropped toilet paper on his face. Maks stirred and his leg stretched. Dom's ankle caught on his foot and he crashed outsi
Artemis opened her eyes and gaped at the view ahead, she was twenty feet up the in the air, and facets of buildings vanished before her eyes. She glanced at her rescuer, an owl-faced punk with salt-and-pepper feathers. She grimaced when she found out he was half-human. "Ew.""You're welcome. It's coming for us." Maks said looking for a new route, the plant roared and crept swiftly gaining on them, and he dropped Artemis. Artemis squealed landing on a red canopy, she bounced steadily and slipped, gripping the fabric until she dunked into a cask full of apples. The shopkeeper squealed taking to her heels. Artemis looked drenched, she spat up an apple. "Things could get worse."Maks turned his head 360° to view the casualty on his back. The sight of spikes on him looked even more painful than the actual pain. "Ouch!" His new skill from defeating Lord Hu was [ Zoocephalic Shapeshifting: The ability to shapeshift to a human body with an animal head only. ] The plant roared and he found i
Maks wrestled with her. "Give it!" "Oh, don't tell me you were that infuriating bird ruining our dance_"He turned pink and his lips pursed."I'm just asking for help." Her eyes tilted when he crumpled it. "Please." She passed him a photo and he folded his arms gazing at them. She was in the midst of at least twenty of them on a field without tails. With a big grin on her face. "You honestly want me to believe that these girls..." He snorted. "Are Hulijing?""Yes! They don't go on expeditions for more than a week. They come back even if they're empty-handed. This one's different_""Oh, they hunt too." He said sceptically."Yes. Regular hunting to be clear and they're after this lady who they think wants them gone. A soil serpent killed 13 of them." "Not clear enough."Maks flipped the snapshot. He wondered if she meant dragon. "Hmm. And do you have any idea where they went?""I have no idea. But we can start digging."... He groaned and shoved his hands into his hunter-green cargo
...Harry planned to build a chain factory along the plains of Algeria and she freaked out. It's a desert. She turned into an eco-loving person. My dad tried to call her back into the light and everything. They had a presentation to get to, they wanted to impress the ambassadors before they were given a license to build a chain industry there. She vetoed. There were a lot of delays. My mom and dad had to leave on their own without their successor. I was just 17 and I had little or no knowledge about the corporation. They died in a sandstorm on their trip to Qacentina. And that project on the desert and the field my girls used to live in died with them.""Damn." He said. "I was only asking about the Huli jing, but nevermind...that's rough...Did Rosie come back?" He slouched on his chair and she kept her eyes on the road. "Oh, she came until that awakener feud. I lost all contact. I don't know what else to do."He watched her hiss and tap on the wheels straining her eyes."Maybe I should
He rushed over to her side. "What? What is it? Let me see."She was as pale as a ghost sobbing. "I got bit by a snake."He looked up. "Oh great! Just what I was hoping for." They moved to another spot where there were no logs or shrubs where snakes could hide. Her hand trembled. She was pale and took deep breaths.Maks searched his rucksack for a first aid kit. He was in real trouble. He checked again and found it in her bag. "Got it.""Hurry.""Look, the best thing you can do is relax." He frowned."Snakes of the rain forest are well adapted to an arboreal or tree-dwelling existence. Many have long thin bodies with angled scales for climbing trees.""What are you doing? Are you trying to scare me?""Trying to remember my lessons." "Please tell me you were a scout."He was hyperventilating. "No." For venomous snakebites. He was warned never to suck a wound or even use a suction tube, "put heat or ice in it." The best option was to find a hospital. Which they were lacking at the mom
"Reeeeyna! Something's messing with us. This forest is alive.""Are you kidding? Don't you remember those vines back in the city?She probably knows we were coming for them or something. I knew this was not a good idea_""Excuse me!?" Artemis turned to him, her notched eyebrows furrowed poking his chest. "We came over here to find them and what I say goes, understand? We'll worry about escaping with our lives later!"Maks grimaced. "Yes ma'am.""And quit calling me ma'am."... They reached an open field. Artemis was not in a good mood. However, she tried to uplift her mood rather than hold a grudge. "Look at these." She touched a plant with orange and scarlet stripes. "Isn't it neat?"The chameleon uncloaked itself and made its escape away from her. She snorted. "Nevermind." The hooded person watched them hiking from the trees and clenched her fist.Maks stopped and spotted the shadow standing by a tree. "Hey!"She disappeared into the trees.Artemis frowned racing after her. "Oh no