Chapter 213 (2/2)

”Are you seriously going through your purse right now?” blurted Joseph .

”Why not? I can't really do much else right now,” she remarked around a mouthful of cookie .

He only responded with a grunt as the imugi slammed into Chuck's back, ripping off the damaged wing .

”AAGGHHH!” bellowed Chuck, twisting around and slamming his elbow into its face . He grew a long spike out of his elbow and plunged it into an eye, causing it to disengage and pullback away from him .

He didn't hesitate, charging at it, and smashed his fists down on top of its head before it could drop his wing out of its mouth . Pounding over and over, his fists began to bust open the skin, causing thick black blood to well out around the imugi's scales .

With a snarl it dropped the wing and opened its mouth, exposing all of its needle-sharp teeth, so he couldn't hit it again without impaling his fists on those teeth . Bellowing, he grabbed it by the neck, ripping the other hood flap to get his fingers around it, and standing painfully, he began to whip the entire thing back and forth, slamming its head against the ground .

Just before Stella could complain about dropping one of her cookies, they stopped beating it against the ground, and threw it up into the air . Panting hard, Joseph and Chuck watched as it flew up into the air, hanging limply as if dead, then began to fall back to the ground .

”Is it…” began Stella, but stopped as they saw it land and begin to glow .

”Oh shavist!” cried Joseph, das.h.i.+ng towards it .

”What's going on?” asked Stella . ”Is it about to evolve or something?”

”Not if we can help it!”

”But aren't you supposed to stand and stare in horror as it changes into some upgraded form?” she asked .

”What?! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!” yelled Joseph .

”That's what happens in all of the films Issa shows . ”

”I'm going to have to talk to her about that when I get back!” he growled as they got close .

Chuck grew a long crystal sword, and as they arrived next to the crater it had made when landing, didn't hesitate as the glare became too bright to see . He slammed the blade into the back, slicing it open from the base of its head all the way to the middle of its back . Shoving his hand into the muscle tissue and past the cut rib bones, he closed his eyes and grasped his target firmly .

Pulling back in a spray of blood, Chuck held up its beating heart . Throwing it away, Joseph sent a bolt of lightening at it, then turned back to the imugi . Taking the b.l.o.o.d.y blade, Chuck chopped at the backbone at the base of the head . If he could just get past the interlocking bones, its head would slice off .

Placing his hurt leg onto its back, to steady himself, he lifted the sword high, and plunged it through the last of the bone, carving past the soft tissue, and driving the crystal deep into the ground underneath . The glow began to dim, and he grabbed it by the two horns that poked up over its eyebrows, hefting the head in the opposite direction of the heart, and sending another lightening bolt .

”That was fun,” chortled Chuck, stumbling to the edge of the crater to sit down .

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