Page 95 of Stealing Jia

“We are not out of danger yet. It is following us.”

The damned thing was climbing up the tiers. “Oni! We need backup now!”

“The Gorum’s weight is straining the transporter,”Oni snapped.

In barely recognizable English, the creepy half-Gorum brayed, “There is no escape for you, my pretty.”

My pretty? Did he think he was a space pirate or a Yagga? I stared down into the eyes of madness and knew we were screwed. The chamber was full of monsters.

Giovanni yelled, “Don’t eat her, she’s mine.”

The mutant space pirate giggled and giggled and giggled.

Keeping an eye on Giovanni’s ascent up the pyramid, I scrambled to the sixth tier.

LooLoo asked, “Why he laugh like that?”

“His mind is broken,”Chiara replied with a shudder.

A fact Giovanni was blindly unaware of or simply didn’t care.

The space pirate roared, “I no longer obey you.” His protrusions turned intotentacles and they wrapped around Giovanni’s body.

The mad scientist let out a startled yelp. “Release me or face punishment.”

“No.” The space pirate stuffed Giovanni down his enlarging maw lined with needle sharp teeth.

“Him no fit,” LeeLee said.

But Giovanni did. Bile rose in my throat as the hybrid Gorum ate him in three bites.

LooLoo shivered. “No like.”

Me either. “Oni, if we can get to the tunnel, is there a way out?”

“Do not! There are still enough Yak bugs left to devour you within seconds,”Oni warned. “I am trying to bring your warriors to you. Stay where you are.”

“It won’t take the monsters long to reach us,” Chiara exclaimed.

Right on cue, the giggling space pirate yelled, “I’m coming for you my pretty. You’re dessert with a little sex on the side.”

“We bite. He die,” the twins proclaimed.

“Your venom doesn’t work on Gorum or Askole warriors. If he makes it all the way up to us, Chiara, I want you to take the twins and hide.”

“I will not abandon you,”Chiara said.

“You must.”

“I think I’ll eat your breasts first, then your pussy,” the space pirate chortled.

From somewhere deep inside me came an angry defiance. A fierce determination to kill the obscenity in front of me. “Fuck off.” I summoned an enormous energy ball and hurled it at him.

The space pirate burst into flames. He laughed hysterically. “I can’t die.”

“Let’s see about that.” I hit him again. He rolled down the pyramid and slammed into a mutant crocodile.Whoosh!A bonfire erupted.

“Kill her,” Mallox shouted.

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