Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The more that I watched the beast, the more terrifying it became. The monster’s head was almost all crocodile. It was about three to four feet wide. Its jaws were filled with foot long, razor sharp teeth. And the eyes on its head were trained right onto me.
It was even textured and colored much like a crocodile. Specifically like a saltwater crocodile. There were two sets of ridges on its snout that ran down from the eyes. And there were even ridges that went down the back of the things head and to its tail. Though the closer it got to the tail, the more spike-like those ridges got. And the thing was dark green, almost green enough to be black if it wasn’t so bright over here right now. And that brightness, of course, was coming from the flames of punishment.
That beast just didn’t look right. Even with the rest of the thing looking like a snake, it was still so wrong to my eyes. It was long and skinny when it came out of the tunnel. However, as it coiled itself in front of me, it wasn’t as thin anymore. It was like the thing had stretched itself out to fit through the cave and was now going back to normal. It was still long though, that wasn’t the issue. As it came out of the tunnel, it looked to me like it was at least sixty feet long, if not longer.
I had just a moment to think about something as well. When the thing was moving through the tunnel, I swear I heard something that sounded like claws digging into the ground to push it through. Where were those claws now?
Was it possible that the hell snake’s ridges and spikes were making the scraping noise? Or was there something more sinister about this beast than I knew? I really, really, really hoped that it was the former of those two possibilities and not that this thing had hidden feet.
“Queen Riviana, you cannot fight that thing. Not with that sword. It is armored. Its body cannot be pierced.” Rudy called out to me from his place of safety.
“Yeah, well, I need to try, don’t I? I need to protect you and the boys. I need to kill this thing so that we can move on.” I was doing my best to sound confident.
“We need to run, Queen Riviana. We need to get out of here. We need to leave that thing back here. You cannot kill it.”
“Give me a chance first, Rudy. I need to try.”
Despite what he was saying, I decided to insist on fighting the monster in front of me. I would never know what I was capable of doing if I didn’t try, right? I needed to see if I was able to kill this thing so that not only would I, Zachary, Zander, Zayden and Rudy be safe for the time being, but I didn’t have to worry about it coming after us later.
I stood my ground, gripped my sword with two hands, and launched myself forward to attack.
I flipped through the air, spinning just enough so that I would land on the hell snake’s head. Or the back of it at least. I was facing the others, so that I could keep an eye on them if I needed to. However, I was putting my all into fighting this thing.
The hell snake knew that I was on the back of its head, and it didn’t like that one bit. The thing started to shake its head from side to side in an attempt to rid itself of me. I had to do my best not to go flying off into the distance.
Not only that, but the beast started to smash itself against the rocky wall next to us to knock me off. If it kept that up, it would eventually work. Not to mention, I could tell that its tail was whipping around. Was it trying to knock me off like that as well?
Something told me this beast wasn’t all that smart. It was going to hit itself with its own tail if it kept up what it was doing. Not to mention it was probably giving itself a nasty ass headache.
‘OK Riviana, just kill it and go.’ I gave myself a mental pep talk as I prepared to deal the final blow. I wanted to get out of here before there were any more monsters that came after us.
After fortifying my nerves with the mental boost, I once again grabbed the Frozen Kiss in two hands and threw my arms down toward the monster with all my might. I was aiming for the back of its skull, intent to give it history’s worst brain freeze ever.
Only I failed at that.. I failed miserably.
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Riviana
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The frozen blade of my enchanted sword shattered against the monster’s head. Its armored scales were too powerful for the sword to penetrate at all. Not to mention the resulting vibrations from the sword’s destruction rattled through me and almost made me fall off of the hall snake.
“MOMMY!”
“MOMMY!”
“MOMMY!”
“Queen Riviana!” The four people hiding out in my magic barrier were frantically calling for me as I tried desperately to catch myself. I managed, just barely, to stay on top of the hell snake, but I no longer had my sword with me.
I would be able to reconjure it, to bring it to me again, but it wouldn’t work anyway, so why bother? No, I needed to think of something else. I needed to figure out what I was going to do. I needed to get out of the way before that snake’s tail hit me and pierced through me with its long spikes.
Just as I sensed that the hell snake was about to hit me, I leapt into the air again. I did something that I hadn’t done in a long time. I had created a wind platform for me to land on and perched myself in the air to watch the snake.
There was blood. The snake was bleeding. Only it wasn’t bleeding from its head where its massive tail had just landed a blow that would have killed most creatures. No, this massive hell snake was bleeding from its tail.
The hell snake was rearing and thrashing about, definitely in pain. The blood from the snake’s tail was showering the area around it as the tail flung all around. It was hard to see with all of the movement that the snake was making, but I believe that the snake had lost one of its spikes when it struck itself in the head.
There was a missing piece of the tail that was pink and red rather than green. And the blood seemed to be pouring from that spot.
Before I could even formulate a plan that would allow me to use that wound as a way to get to the beast’s vulnerable body, the damn thing started to heal itself. Just like the fucking hellhound had done, the snake was closing its wound up. And I knew that the moment it did, it would attack again.
I needed to get us out of here while it was injured and distracted. I needed to get us all out of the way before that thing decided to come at me once again. And I knew just how I should get us out of here too.
I pulled the rope of magic toward me, the one that was wrapped around the boys and Rudy. I pulled them into the air to where I was perched on my platform of wind. I hadn’t expected this maneuver to get the reaction that it did.
While it was understandable for the boys to get scared because of their age, they had been falling through the skies with me every time that we went through a door. They were apparently getting used to the sensation of moving through the air and sky.
Rudy on the other hand, apparently didn’t like heights. The moment that I started to pull him up into the air with me, he screamed. He literally screamed like a little girl that was terrified of a spider or something like that.
“NO! NO! NO! NO! QUEEN RIVIANA! NO! NO! NO! NO! PLEASE STOP! PLEASE HELP ME! QUEEN RIVIANA! AHHHHH!” He was almost nonstop with it until I had him standing on the platform next to me.
Actually, he was still screaming on the platform as well. He didn’t stop until I slapped him in the face and called out to him.
