3 | Weird looking pet
After about an hour and 5 minutes driving in a fast falling storm, Zaak told me to speed up the car.
"What? Why?" I asked
"There's a monster near us," Zaak said.
I could have asked what he was tal-king about, but I decided better not to. He would not answer me, either way.
I stepped deeper into the gas pedal and raced down the free roads, switching the lines to keep from slamming onto another cars. You could say it was hard for me, I had never drove in my entire life.
Zaak turned to me with sweat running down his face. "Its coming."
"What's co–"
I got interrupted by the sound of enormous impacts hitting the ground at fast rate, I turned back to see a beast with black, horse-like head, with three horns protru-ding from its forehead, and exceeding the size of an elephant. Its body seemed to be like a green dinosaur with four giant paws running in our direction.
I gasped.
My feet drowned further into the pedals, the engine screaming like it was in pain at the large speed the car was going at.
The speedometer said the car reached over 237 Miles per hour, but the beast beh-ind us still closed the distance between the car and the beast.
"What is that?!" I yelled at Zaak.
"I'll tell you later. Keep going!" Zaak gripped his seatbelt tight. "We're almost there!"
The monster roared like a dinosaur would, its head turning from side to side to slam against cars and throw them out if its way.
"There! The hill, that's where we're headed!" Zaak yel-led as he pointed at a hill with lots of trees around, a large and tall pine tree stan-ding at the top of it.
"How are we supposed to reach there with this huge dinosaur at our tail?!" I asked, my fear turning into controlled rage.
"It's not a dinosaur." Zaak rolled his eyes. But he opened the door and I quickly kicked the brake with all my strength.
I opened the door as fast as I could and jumped out after I unbuckled my seatbelt. I was sent rolling by the wet street.
The huge beast didn't have time to turn and hit one of us, so it hit the car at at least 400 miles per hour. The time around me seemed to slow down with the adrenaline, I could see the car being smashed into a single pillars of shattered windows and bent metal.
The beast shook its head violently. The car had stuck onto its horns.
"Run!" I heard Zaak shout.
My feet moved on their own, clawing at the slippery ground until I eventually lifted my body. I ran out around the monster and dashed to the direction Zaak was pointing at.
Zaak soon catched up to me, his pants now discarted to reveal a pair of furry legs with knees bent in the opposite direction and black hooves instead of feet.
"What the h–"
"Not now!" Zaak cut me off before I could finish my sentence.
The beast threw the car onto a random part of the street, roa-ring with anger.
It clawed at the ground with all its four paws like an old bull and started trotting at our direction.
"Go, I'll keep it behind!" Zaak pushed my back to further on the hill.
The pine tree was only a few more yards, but the hill was getting steeper and slicker.
I tried protesting, but Zaak only jumped out of the hill and into the monster's back. It started trying to push him out by jumping around and slamming itself against trees to throw Zaak to the ground.
I looked down at the wristbands in my pocket, the ones that Zaak threw to me and the same ones that also turned into small twin swords that killed Mrs. Denis.
I took the out as I kept running. "How do I make these into swords?" I asked myself.
I closed my eyes and slapped the leather against my forehead.
Again.
Again.
And again.
Until I felt a cold material hit my forehead instead of leather.
I opened my eyes to find the twin swords again, I lightly cheered in my head in relief.
I looked at the other side of the hill after I reached its crest. There was a farmhouse with lights glowing into the ground out-side of it. It was half a mile away, surely if Zaak could hold him back for long enough, I could reach there before the monster could run to me in time.
I sighed and turned my heels to face the beast trashing around, and a now bloody and heavy breathing Zaak. I can't let Zaak die, I thought.
I yelled, "Give me my friend back, you stupid donkey!"
The creature snapped its head to me, its tail wagged as its eyes pierced through my body.
The beast charged at me.
Zaak was wobbling on top of the beast. He was about to pass out. Or worse. Die.
I gulped down my fears and crossed the two twin blades in an X.
The creature opened its mouth to swallow me whole and end me right there. But I raised the blades higher and hit the top of its mouth. The beast flinched and stepped back before shaking its body and charging at me again, its head leaned down to spike its horn through me.
"(y/n), get out of here!" Zaak yelled in a pained voice.
Zaak jumped out from the back of the beast and took the hit in my place, his chest being carved open by one of the bigger horns on the side of the beast's forehead.
His eyes strug-gled to keep themselves open. But his efforts were useless and his body just went limp.
His eyes were still open, but his head fell down like it weighted a ton. His arms fell down and blood poared into the grass like the rain that followed.
I gasped and almost dropped the swords.
Zaak was dead.
His body started dusting. His limbs turned into golden sand slowly. The top half of his torso fell to the ground and started disappearing like the rest of his body.
The creature huffed and charged at me again, its horns aimed straight at my nose, wishing to run by my head and kill me that instant.
I crossed the twin blades and pushed forward as I felt the creature push me back into the hill.
The right blade, who was placed in front of the left, started slicing by the horn with ease. A hole starting to form in the white spike on top of the creature's head.
The left blade started forming a hole of its own, a cross sinking into the horn.
The creature groaned and pushed further into the blades, trying to push the swords out.
The two swords started reaching the base of the bone, the beast's head. But the beast pushed back and tried bit-ing me again.
I used the right blade to slash at one of its pointy fangs, cutting the top of its left canine out and letting it fall to the ground.
The creature roared and shook its head. I took the opportunity to jump up and drown the two blades onto its head, sinking the two deep into its skull.
The monster dashed forward and slammed me into the large pine tree behind me.
I groaned and started feeling my eyes getting heavy.
I resisted the urge to catch some shut-eye and sunk the blades inside the beast more.
It began to fall onto its knees, its eyes shutting close as it fell to the side, the wind starting to carry the sand out as the monster evaporated.
I shook my head and walked down the hill, my mind cursing at me for letting my best friend die in front of me.
I walked to the wood farmhouse in this side of the hill, I fell down at the porch, supporting my shoulder on a wooden pillar so I still stood.
I felt the nice breeze of a ceiling fan on top of me, heard the soft buzz of moths flying at the lit up light.
A bearded man in front of me hummed as he watched me trip over myself. The pretty girl with blonde curled hair, like a princess's, at his side kept a stern face, much like the man's. The two looked at me. The girl said, "He's the one. He must be."
"Silence Annabeth," The man said. "He's still conscious. Bring him inside."