Page 158 of A Soul to Touch

“Blood? You’re injured?” he asked as he took a step backwards. Both his hands lifted to cover his snout, but before he did, his orbs had swiftly turned to red.

Shit. That’s not good.

Mayumi backed up while reaching for the side of her weapons belt. She grabbed at the air, having forgotten her sword was outside.

“You need to leave Faunus,” Mayumi said calmly, keeping her voice especially soft when an echoing, bubbly growl emitted from him.

She tried to grab her dagger, but her injured, trembling fingers fumbled it when he lowered his hands so he could fall forward and land on them. Her skin prickled with goosebumps in dread when he took a step forward into her home on all fours, his bubbling growl turning more ferocious by the second.

He shoved his wide shoulders in, making her doorframe creak.

His orbs are still red.And they were focused on freshly bled prey. Her.Shit.

She narrowed her eyes, keeping her heart steady even though her body was shaking with weakness.

“Hey there, my big sexy Duskwalker,” Mayumi cooed, backing up from him with a hand forward. She could sense the danger from him like it was something thick and tangible. “I know you don’t want to hurt me. You’ll be really angry with yourself if you do.”

She knew he was gone to whatever forces made the bloodlust silence his thoughts when he skulked low and kept coming. He was no longer listening. He no longer seemed to be her sweet Faunus.

There was no point in talking to him now, and she wouldn’t waste her breath on doing so. Instead, she just took a mental stock of where all her available weapons were.

Other than the dagger that now lay on the floor between them, the only available weapons were her father’s sword resting on top of the fireplace mantle and her whip looped on her belt.

When Faunus’ fangs parted, and he began to snarl, she braved flicking her eyes to the fireplace.

She had anticipated that he might leap if she took her gaze off him, and when he did, she dove to the side as he charged. He stepped on top of the coffee table, breaking it in half, as he came at her.

Her heart accelerated under her stress. This was the last thing she needed after the damn night she just had!

He missed her when she rolled to the side in front of the fireplace to dodge. She grabbed her father’s sword. It flung out of her hands when his chest shoved her to the ground as he tackled her much smaller form, her crouch making her too low for his swiping claws.

Shit! He’s so damn fast.She pressed against his chest with her feet to keep them separated while he savagely snapped his jaws above her. His fangs created a sharp clipping noise not even centimetres from her nose.Of all fucking days for him to come back, it just had to be this one?!

Only a minute had passed since he’d come inside, and already she was on her back! A human could never outmanoeuvre a Duskwalker, and she was weak and slow from blood loss.

Think, Mayumi.

Her father’s sword had partially slipped from its scabbard, but it was just out of reach – and those teeth were snapping dangerously closer.

Grabbing the fire poker lying in front of the flames, Mayumi shoved it between his fangs and used both her knees and hands to push him back, screaming in the agony that radiated up her injured arm.

Faunus obviously thought with his fangs because he just used his arms to steady himself above her while trying to get her head in his mouth. Drool splattered against her cheek as she kept him at bay.

Her arms were weakening, though, and her eyes widened when the iron poker began to distort out of shape. He was bending it!

Fuck. Fuck!She needed to do something, and quick.

She darted her head to the side to give her arms a break and let him come forward to bash his snout against the ground. At the same time, she reached down and unclipped her whip from her belt.

Just as he reared back, Mayumi kicked the underside of his jaw to shut his fangs and quickly threaded the whip around his deadly maw.

He backed up to scratch it off his face, the poker stuck behind his back fangs. While he was distracted, Mayumi reached into the fireplace and grabbed the non-flaming side of a burning stick that was half inside the flames.

Terrified of fire, Faunus yelped terribly at the splatter of embers that cascaded around his face. The sound squeezed her heart in pity for him. Actually, this whole situation only had her feeling pity for him.

She reached for her father’s sword and pulled it from its scabbard just as he roared.

Cut his head off.That’s what he told her to do if there was ever a situation where he was attacking her in a blood-hungry rage.He said he’ll come back if I cut his head off. Maybe I can fix his skull while he’s unconscious.

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