my wings, keeping them tight to my back, and turned to continue the sparring . “Good, now try and use them to help you fight, just make sure I don’t get my hands on them,” he said, still punching and trying to take me to the ground.
He bent down, leaning on his hand, and swept his leg to mine, trying to kick them out from under me. But I lifted myself up with my wings at the last moment and then spread them, hitting him in the face the moment he got up. Rubbing the spot where my wing’s tip hit him he smiled and moved again, this time sliding between the gap in my legs. Before I could turn to face him he had my wings where they came out between my shoulders. I froze for a second, then opened them and flung them closed, hitting his face in the process. He released them and I continued the fight. We stopped when we heard the first voice coming from inside the door leading to the arena.
“Good, don’t forget what I said. Today you take on a werewolf,” he told me, and went to stand outside the circle. Crossing his arms in front of his chest, he looked at the others approaching us. Okay, so I get a werewolf today; that can’t be that bad. I turned to look at the others, Seth’s face making me smile and he smiled back in return. Then I saw Nina and her Custos heading for my circle and my smile dropped. Oh no, not one of the divas!
Nina walked up to me, her face full of absolute hatred; not a very happy person is she? She turned and took a stand in front of me, transforming into one hell of a big wolf. Crap! I’m so dead! Still in hellhound form, I braced myself, preparing for anything from this girl. She doesn’t look like the type to announce her attack.
She had a snout like a wolf, her eyes also turned yellow with big black pupils. Man and she had a set of teeth only seen in movies. I’ve got a feeling this is going to hurt like hell. Her entire body was covered with brown fur. Basically, she looked like all the werewolves I have seen in the movies, just way bigger.
Then she leaned back on her feet and burst forward. The moment she was a step from me, I side stepped her, sending her strait into Chax and her own Custos . They all landed on the ground, but she was up like that, charging at me again. This time I was too slow and she rammed into me like a bull. Lifting me up and then bringing me down to the ground hard. I felt my breath leave me. At the moment of impact a small scream escaped without my permission, and then I saw her teeth heading my way. Oh hell no, not this again. Do I have a bite me sign on my forehead?
I grabbed her throat and squeezed as hard as I could, her eyes staying on me while she snapped her snout open and shut in an attempt to bite me. I just hung on for dear life; no way is she sinking that set of teeth into me. She started to wheeze and I knew that she was running out of air. The moment I felt her body starting to go limp I slammed her with my head, sending her off me and landing on the ground.
Jumping up, I moved back creating space between us. Okay lesson one, never give a werewolf enough room to build up speed, ends very bad. She got up and started to growl like a wolf. Okay, now she is really pissed, nice going Kas. She stormed again, but this time she couldn’t build enough momentum to give her a boost. Just a step before me, I stepped forward and brought my arm with a folded fist straight into her face. She went left with the impact and grabbed her face.
Okay, I think I’ve got the hang of it now, game on. I didn’t give her the opportunity to regroup. Stepping forward, I brought up my knee, smashing her in the face again. Her head went backwards with the impact, but I was not done. I grabbed her fur in front of her chest and brought her to her feet. Dazed, and with her head still hung back, I used my wings to lift both of us up in the air, and then slammed down with her below me. Her breath slamming out of her this time, she screamed and laid there motionless.
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