AllFreeNovel
Share Us
And what a fall.
It wasn’t a long way down but the speed concerned me.
It made the ground blurry and fuzzy.
The wind roared and whipped my hair, snapping my clothes.
I peered over at the console and brushed a hand over the cool metal of the craft’s door that framed my exit.
I’d been through a lot with this shuttlecraft.
More adventures than I could count.
But it represented my past, not my future.
That was Agatha’s domain.
A host of new exciting adventures awaited me.
I just needed to rescue her from the jaws of death first.
The Desert Flower Monarch was far larger than any I’d seen in the past.
I wasn’t sure the shuttlecraft would take it out but I had to take the chance.
I peered at the creature.
It reached up with its sprawling tentacles, ready to snap around the shuttlecraft as it came in to land.
Would the ship slip through?
I couldn’t wait to find out.
I needed to jump now.
So I did.
I braced the chair with both arms and tossed myself out the door.
I was halfway to the ground when the ship struck the monster and tore into its soft and pliable body.
It flailed its tendrils and screeched a horrible sound like glass tossed into a blender.
Thick viscous liquid seeped from the tear in the corner of its mouth.
The ground rushed up to meet me.
Time slowed the way it always did during times of high drama.
The chair struck the ground first.
As it did, I landed on my shoulder, badly, and felt something tear.
I rolled end over end, taking out the worst of the blow and tossing up great plumes of sand.
I rolled five, six, seven times before I came to a stop.
I laid on the ground for a moment, dizzy and disorientated.
