ashley magnus is more badass than you (choseherside) wrote in colligo_threads, |
Ashley nodded, her attention already sliding back to the area spread out before them. Senses on high alert, her entire body poised to strike at a second's notice, she tilted her head to the side slightly as a sound far up ahead caught her attention. Eyes flashing, she scanned the shadows. "Hey, mom," she called out, not taking her eyes off of the darkness just off in the distance, "how many of the trackers are showing out of place?"
As she asked the question, she dropped her arms to her sides, hands opening and her claws fully prepared to come out the second it became necessary. There was a tightness to her voice, the tone having dropped nearly a decibel when she suddenly called out a sharp, "Incoming!" Less than a second later, there was a loud screeching sound followed by something moving so quickly toward them that it was little more than a blur.
With a snarl, Ashley immediately surged forward, putting herself directly between the advancing creature and her mother and John. The second she slammed into it, sending them both crashing into the wall then into a tumble with neither willing to release their grip on the other, she knew it wasn't the same creature she'd gone up against back home. It had to be one of the babies, mostly grown up.
Not that she cared. The thing was just as deadly, just as determined to kill her and anyone else it came across. Ashley was not going to let that happen. Surging to her feet, holding tightly to the creature, she slammed it hard into the wall and did her best to pin it down. The next thing she knew, she was crashing through the far wall and, with a screech, the creature fled back into the darkness.
On her feet in an instant, Ashley climbed back through the hole her body had made in the wall and shook the rubble from her hair. "Okay. What was that?!" she demanded, looking to her mom for some sort of explanation. "Since when is their M.O. to leave a kill unfinished?" She didn't like it. A change in behavior without a damn good reason was never a good thing.
Of course, she realized a second later, neither was revealing a glimpse of your less-than-human self to the man you were forcibly wed to when he hated pretty much all things non-human. With a heavy sigh, mentally cursing her lack of foresight, Ashley glanced toward John with a carefully neutral expression to try and see just how much he'd noticed and figured out. Maybe, if she was really lucky, he wouldn't have realized a thing.
Yeah. Right.