Chapter 40

'If that hits...' panic overcame me, causing me to freeze and drop to the floor. A second later I found myself clawing at the ground with my remaining arm, trying my hardest to move out of the way before-

*Whistle*

*BOOOOOM*

The sky was a deep aqua blue given a tone of purple by the rising sun shining from the east with all its radiance and glory, overcoming the darkness and turning the sky into a fabulous artwork filled with so numerous colors, stars, and depth far beyond my imagination.

Yet, within the depth was a shadowy figure, given the dark tone due to being illuminated by blaring rays of the sun from the other side.

All I could see of the creature was but a tiny shadow in the distance, and before I had even realized it, the shadow was becoming bigger... No. It was getting closer.

Its speed was something else. Something that broke several sound barriers with each flap, making the creature only close the distance between the ground and it at an extraordinary speed.

With another flap of its wings, the creature was capable of generating enough force to completely stop its descent.

Yet, this was not all since the whiplash effect from the immediate stop had caused the creature it had been holding onto with its talons could only feel the dreaded feeling of them being torn apart and eventually launched into the ground, creating a huge dust cloud in its wake.

The flying creature held the other creature's head in the grasp of its talons for a few seconds while not breaking eye contact with me... The wide-eyed, shivering, and whimpering me could only watch in awe, fear, and most of all, excitement.

It was an excitement I had never felt before because rather than just enjoying myself, this feeling felt like an addiction corrupting every part of my brain, cell by cell, atom by atom.

Yet, this did not mean that the fear I felt at the moment had nullified, in contrast, it had become amplified causing the two emotions to clash in my mind.

I never broke eye contact with the flying creature that was seemingly using its wings to float mid-air, expanding them outwards to show the thick membrane that formed its wings alongside the bones that went through them, sticking out at the end of each wing-like sharp daggers waiting to stab something or someone...