Chapter #5A Portrait of an Amazon as a Young Girl by: Neo-rodent   It lunges down, clamping your helmet in its terrible, steaming mouth. You hear its metal casing creak under the pressure and notice as the visor starts to crack. Desperately you pound on the dino's shoulder. It whips you about in response your head still in its jaws. The motion finally does the job of dislodging your helmet, and you go flying leaving it stuck between the predator's teeth.
You land sprawled halfway between one of the thing's advancing pack-mates and your laser pistol which appears unbroken. The reptile is walking head down and snarling, its merciless yellow eyes focused on you. Deciding its your only chance, you resolve to dive for the weapon, but before you can, a skull sized rock pegs the dinosaur in the head crushing its own instantly and spraying the ground to the left with brain and bone. Your would be devourer falls into its own gore and you look to the right from whence the stone fell.
Rubbing your eyes does nothing to dispel the sight before you, and realizing its hard reality, you start to scramble backward in fear. The alien appears to be a human girl-child, around ten years of age. Her proportions are normal, but she stands nearly fifty feet in height. 'If this is how tall a child is then what about adults.' You remember the size of the statue and scramble even faster to escape. The girl Amazon looking suddenly angry loads another stone in her slingshot, a weapon made from a small tree-trunk split down the middle. Her appearance is of a barbarian, covered only by crude hides and her own filth, so you have no doubt she'll fire. Ceasing all motion, you hope she gets the message that you give up. To your horror she draws back the weapon's elastic and lets fly her shot anyway, aiming in your direction.
You cringe knowing you'll be pulverized, but the rock flies overhead missing you by a good few feet. Behind, you hear an animal shriek and turn to see the dinosaur which originally attacked you lying crumpled around the stone. Turning about, you watch in awe as the girl strides up confidently and raises her bare foot above the remaining reptile. Dirty toes come down binding the struggling creature to the ground. Snapping at her foot it finds her callouses an impenetrable armor. Your fear returns in full force when the child reaches down, pinches the things snarling head between her fingers, and with that terrible smile shared by all youthful torturers, pulls its head slowly off. The splatter of blood nearly reaches to where you lay but the young giantess seems unsatisfied and tosses the still reflexively biting head away over her shoulders.
The Amazon walks forward each foot step jolting the ground beneath you. She stops as her shadow falls over you. You look up but fail to see her childish face due to the glint of the high sun, which is too bad because you'd really like to see if she still wore that sadistic smile. Instead, you wind up looking at her ankles, the part of her anatomy eye level with you, and notice something you didn't earlier. Around her right leg is a bracelet of dangling bones... human bones. You remember the statue and its grizzly masonry and look about for a means of escape.
Your eyes find your laser gun, in all the chaos you'd forgotten about it. It lies five feet from you -- too far to reach, but if you dove for it... | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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