Chapter 108 - 106

I have to get away from Asher so that we can mount our trap as I lie in wait, not too far though but enough to make me uneasy already, but it could not be helped since his blood is a beacon for her, and I have to be the bullet's shadow, far more deadly than the real thing, hitting before the eyes can even see.

The Snake creature is very subtle in her passage and even has some ghouls come out and about to check things out for her first, but they are slow and the common type so they do not do a great job at scouting the area, and even though my heart fills with anxiety when they rush towards the direction Asher is at I'm confident that he can deal with such low key creatures.

I, on the other hand, have to focus on not only the smooth slithering sound made from her snake body brushing against the rocks but at the smaller passable one version coming from the fox as well that, with their smaller flexible body, manages to reach further places where the ghouls could not, so it slithered over the rocks and up the cliff, steadily approaching my position.

I have to stop an annoying growl from coming up at that, but I figure things would not go so smoothly anyway, that would be too easy.

Only that I did not take the threat of the fox seriously, after all I had battle it beforehand without a problem, but because of that confidence I end catching up with the second incoming sound from behind a little too late.

Completely covered by the fox slithering sound, this other, so similar, has only caught by my ears when the creature and the fox have already closed around me, so near that they surely coordinated the attack so that they could have me pinned at both sides.

This well thought planned resistance surprised me, and I barely had time to think that we may have underestimated our enemy when both attacked me, one from behind and one from the front, closing the remaining distance fast, able to reach me no matter which direction I dodged for.

I was not afraid of being damaged with my scaled armored body, but perhaps that perception made me cocky as to put myself into risky situations easily, which lead to the circumstances at hand.

But their intentions were never to try hurting or winning against me… but to simply slow me down.

Slow me down for long enough to put an end to Asher at the side.

So choosing the lesser evil between the fox and an unknown creature at my back I step forward towards the known enemy, but for being surprised with the sudden attack from my back I let my guard down enough that the fox manages to warp its strange snake part around me and make so that I could not use my lower pair of arms, finishing off with a tight grip around my legs.

The moment the fox has a grasp over me I see movement at the corner of my eyes coming from down the cliff, and what I see makes me growl in annoyance, anger, and some worry for I see the Snake Queen going out of the cave, its long body slithering fast as if waiting for that right moment where I would be trapped, a bowstring let loose.

And shooting fast towards Asher.

Even if Asher's wound was small, already treated and bandaged up at this point, the Snake would still be able to track him down by reaching where his smell was, even if Asher had immediately let a cloth with his blood out there and run away to cause a small diversion.

There is little to no time before she reaches him… and if she calls her army then he is doomed.

Freaking damn it!

My upper arms are already moving and, while my lower arms push the snake body out, the upper hands squish the snake body of the fox enough to make it shrink in pain, but it still stubbornly keeps his grip strong as long as it can.

And it gives enough time for the other creature to come into action.

At first I only see a blurry goopy figure move up and back, sneakily moving about in between the leaves and foliage, but once it reaches me it goes straight towards the part that the fox creature could not reach and pinned my upper arms into a tight grip.

And at that moment it gave a very close up clear view of its figure… and made me understand the worsening of the overall situation a little better.

For as the fox had the strange snake part attached to it, almost like an external limb sewed at it, this one has the explanation as to why the Stallion Ghouls had no head.

It is something that has been on my mind lately, the connection between me and Asher, the Queen and the fox, because I figure I would not be the only one with my… condition, and we, Abominations, have quite the peculiar constitution ourselves, not ghouls, not humans, but something else entirely, something uniquely dangerous.

Only after I made this contract with Asher was I able to think things through in a different perspective, not only changing forms, but going beyond the hunt, beyond the beast, and I'm almost sure that this something was brought by Asher, this connection we have may go both ways, I heal his wounds and protect him, and he… makes me hole, balances me somehow, calms the turmoiling energies that flow in my mind and body enough to think and not only act.

But what if… what if the ghouls could make this contract as well? Or some sort of connection like this? Then what would happen? Would it be the complete opposite, to go further down the madness?

Would it not end up rotting their insides?

And there is another thing that has been bothering me… the fact that, the first thing I gained after this contract was a humanoid body at Asher's image.

So if a ghoul could do the same, would I change to their image as well?

For this new creature's body, like the Snake Queen and the fox, had the remaining features that the Stallion Ghouls had in it… and that is, the long, bared full of horns tentacles.

Well, shit, seems we have another one of the Abomination's at work here.

Just my luck.