Page 1 of Monstrous Hunt
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She’s gone. My mate is dead.
The Blue Giganotosaurus Rex threw his head back, swallowing Natalie in one big gulp. At least he spared me the torture of having to watch him tear her limb from limb.
Every muscle straining with effort, I tore across the earth. Trying to reach her, even though it was too late.
The BGR turned his head toward me, teeth gaping in a vicious grin that I’d recognize anywhere. Motherfucker.
Axxol.
My own former squad leader fucking murdered my mate.
Blue fire sparked in his eyes. I knew what the fuck that meant.
No.I strained harder, blurring to my most extreme speed.He can’t fucking escape. I have to kill him. For her. Natalie.Her name roared out of my mouth in a vicious screech of agony.
The jump ring dropped down around him, and he disappeared.
Gone.
Stumbling, I slammed into the ground, skidding and rolling out of control up against the outer wall of the house. The entire wall collapsed on me, not that I felt it. I couldn’t feel anything. Not without her. Nothing mattered. My reason for breathing had been taken from me. Forever.
Even if she were still alive, I’d never be able to find her in a million years, even if I personally visited every single planet and star system in search of her. The most powerful Dynosauros pilot ever engineered could take her off planet. To another galaxy. Anywhere in time or space on any multiverse.
A massive horn shoved through the debris, barely missing my stomach. The CEOT swiped his head back and forth through the rubble, trying to gore me. Despair mixed with murderous fury, blanketing my vision with red.
Kill.
Kill everything. Kill everyone until they managed to send me after her in death. At least then I wouldn’t have to live with this gaping hole in my chest where my heart used to beat.
I sprang up out of the debris, T-rex jaws ready to crush this motherfucker to dust. Ripping into the bigger dynos’ chest, I damaged as much tissue and muscle as possible, using my powerful thighs and vicious talons to rend and shred. Blood burned down my throat, fueling my rage, and the CEOT had plenty of blood to offer. He swung his head from side to side, but his mighty horns were useless now. I was already too close. He’d been engineered to hammer into a Gig Rex or another Ceratopsian with his heavy head, plated frill, and horns. Up close and personal, he didn’t have a fucking prayer against me. I tore my way effortlessly into his chest cavity and devoured his heart.
Slowly, he started to topple. I leapt free, savoring the fresh organ meat. The perfect appetizer for my killing spree.
Licking my jaws, I surveyed the battle to pick my next target. Snryx engaged an AANK—Artillery Ankylosauros with cannon osteoderms ringing his shoulders and upper back, as well as a clubbed tail that could swing in a complete three-hundred-sixty-degree arc. That club had enough weight to crack even Lohr’s shell, and Snryx was having a hard time getting his spikes through the armored plating down its back.
I leapt onto the AANK’s back behind the row of cannon and slipped my longest talons in between the rows of plating, prying and digging until I popped one off. Immediately, Snryx jammed a thick spike through the vulnerable point, winding through the beast’s skeletal framework straight to his heart.
Two more to go, though the alpha pilot would be the hardest to kill. If he was fucking brave enough to pass through the jump knowing the rest of his squad was dead.
A TMS—Taser Mamenchisauros—telescoped its head and long neck out of the jump hole, aiming straight at Rizan. Wings tucked, he cut sharply away, arrowing down toward the thicker jungle. The trees might deflect some of the taser’s electromagnetic effects, but he’d still be out of commission, his circuits fried indefinitely. Bad news for our communications expert.
With a burst of speed, I sprinted forward and clamped my jaws around the sauropod’s thickly muscled neck. Crunching down, I reared back, digging my claws into the ground to keep from toppling through the hole. I didn’t want to end up wherever this squad was jumping from. Not unless Natalie was on the other side.
Distracted from his quarry, the TMS arched his impressively long neck nearly in half, bringing his head—and his taser—toward me.Go ahead, motherfucker. Blast me. I dare you.
Sword-like fangs sank into the TMS’ shoulder and anchored deeply into the muscle.:Let’s haul this fucker out,:Lohr growled.
Fuck yeah. Together, we strained backward, dragging the massive sauropod out onto Earth-side. Hopefully Lohr was pumping him full of venom, too, though I had no idea if a dynos would be susceptible. Heart and head were my usual targets.
:Mine’s the liver.:Rizan swept past, dragging his bladed jaws down the sauropod’s flank, slicing through layers of tissue.:Bingo.:
Bolts of electromagnetic energy pulsed from the TMS’ gaping mouth, but he couldn’t get a direct hit. The taser pulse fizzed out as his life bled away.
Snryx added his coils to the beast’s neck, helping us get the upper half of the sauropod out of the hole.:If he’s this big, how massive is his alpha?:
