. In all his years, Trevor had never seen anything like the two ten foot tall creatures. They were dark gray with grotesque spikes and wrinkled skin. He saw that they had children trapped in the alley, so he rushed there first leaving the other Unseelie to his warriors.
“I would make a much better meal,” Trevor shouted at them and got their attention.
One of them dropped the child that he had been feasting on. Blood still dripped from the monster’s suction cup mouth. It seemed to grin.
“Yes you would, but how can I catch you?” said the Unseelie beast.
“You can’t,” said Trevor with loathing as he shifted in and drove his Death Sword into the center of the beast.
It wobbled and looked surprised before it disintegrated. Its partner, evidently a female, started to rant without a word. Trevor zoned in and shifted once more. She too, disintegrated.
Why had Pestale sent in a few of each caste? These two were slow and not very bright. It appeared that he was testing them to see who was the smartest and best at fighting.
He needed to have the best as his back up so he was sacrificing Unseelie to find the best amongst them. That was the only answer he could come up with.
He shifted to his men and saw that they were spread out and making short work of their targets.
Evidently these Unseelie wouldn’t make the cut. He doubted that any would have the sense to shift back to their safe haven before they were taken out.
Jazmine Decker; his sweet beloved. He could feel her, even as far away as she was. When his mind reached for her he could feel her warmth spread through him.
He called to her saying her name softly through their mind link. She didn’t answer him.
He sighed. Apparently she was still annoyed with him.
He wanted to hear her voice in his mind. He needed to hear her say his name in that way that was all her own.
He wanted to touch her, feel her tremble with love. He hated the way they had parted.
And then his eyes opened wide as an unusual monster came into view.
It was different than the rest and it slipped out of the fray and quietly pulled open a car door. He could see that a woman was backing away inside the vehicle from the grotesque thing reaching for her.
Trevor thought he could make it in time, because it was no more than twenty feet away. His Death Sword was raised, but even as he brought it down the blue lizard thing had a hold of the woman. It grinned at him and shifted off with her.
“Damn you to Bloody Hell!” Trevor growled and immediately followed using his better than average tracking ability.
The monster had only jump shifted. It was hungry and wanted to feed. It thought it was safe. It saw no one but humans milling about.
It never knew what hit him as Trevor’s sword took off its head.
The woman who had been screaming all the while, fainted.
Trevor wondered if he should return her to her car. He looked about and saw that this part of the city had not been attacked. He picked her up and set her on a bench outside a store front and returned to the fray.
An Unseelie that had the body of a snake and the head of a giant Venus Fly trap, slithered towards him eating people along the way.
A Seelie warrior hovered in the air over it. He came down and sliced off its head, but the horror of the head with the jagged teeth kept chomping at anything and everything, regardless of the fact that its body now lay lifeless. Trevor set it on fire with a thought. He turned to find yet another Unseelie who was tearing a man in half.
Even as the creature chewed on his flesh, its tongue reached out and caught another young woman.
Trevor was on it. He downed and beheaded the creature in a moment for it was no more than a simpleton of a monster. No thought other than to feed. No thought to escape.
The woman threw herself into his arms. She was a lovely brunette, and she cried and screamed, and wailed as she held onto him for dear life.
~*~
Ete and Jazz looked around and smiled at each other. Their mission was accomplished. The Portal was now in the Wasteland and the Unseelie monster insects had been vanquished.