Chapter 380
380–Beast To The Beauty
Byron:
I did not meet Madeline the entire day. I knew she was probably waiting for me on the mountain top. But I also knew that her pain would only last for a short while.
Maybe she thought I had run away and lied to her.
Maybe she even hated me for it.
But when I went back to her with the news, she would probably feel better. That thought alone kept me focused on summoning the monster.
“All right, Sean, listen. I will be back soon. But you need to make sure you take care of Madeline while I am gone,” I told him.
As soon as I said that, I saw Sean throw the ropes down and place his hands on his waist as he stared at me.
“Seriously? She is not your wife. Why do I have to take care of her?” he asked me in a stern tone.
Even I did not know why I had said that. The words had just slipped out of my mouth.
“I mean, just ask her how she is doing. If she is crying too much, go and tell her that I am doing this for her. That is all you have to do,” I told him in an annoyed voice.
We had already set the ropes in place so that when the monster arrived, it would be trapped for a short time, just long enough for us to attach the tracker.
I could not remember the last time Sean and I had argued this much. This time, he questioned everything I said.
I knew why. He was my friend. He knew me.
I had never put in this much effort or care for any woman before, so he probably already knew that something
was wrong.
Even I knew that something had changed, but I did not have the time to sit and think about it.
I needed to find out about Baxter and Gina as soon as possible, before Madeline did something foolish and the
monster hurt her.
Then night fell, and I began to think.
I thought about how Madeline must have cried that day. How angry she must have been that I wasted her entire day, lied to her, and disappeared.
Then another thought crossed my mind, that she would be relieved and happy when I returned with the news. But the fear was there too, the fear that the news might be bad.
Just then, I began to hear the sound of the monster’s wings flapping.
I was hiding behind a large slab. Sean was behind another one. I signaled to him, and he signaled back. He was holding a tracker, and so was I, just in case my tracker missed and he had to place his instead.
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The monster descended and looked around. It probably saw the large amount of meat we had left below for it.
Seeing the monster made my heart tighten. I signaled to Sean to look underneath it so we could at least figure out whether it was male or female. In response, Sean flipped me off with his middle finger, and I rolled my eyes.
The monster came down, and the moment it tried to lift the meat with its claw, the trap tightened around its leg. The ropes pulled hard, and its leg got caught. It began screeching and shouting as it flapped its wings. It was massive.
At the same time, Sean and I came out from behind the large trees. We both tried to reach its leg, but the monster started striking at us with its beak. Every time it attacked, we defended ourselves. We got injured during the struggle, but our focus remained on placing the tracker.
“I have attached it to its wing,” Sean shouted at me.
“That is not enough. Can you not see how violently it is flapping? The tracker will fall off,” I yelled back.
The sound of the monster’s wings was so loud that our voices were drowned out. We had to shout to hear each other. I also had to keep jumping again and again. Every time its wing came down, I jumped aside to avoid it.
“All right, fine. I will draw its attention to me,” Sean shouted, and he picked up a piece of meat and threw it at the monster.
The monster crawled and turned toward him. At that moment, its wings stopped moving in the air. I ran forward and placed the tracker on the thick, trunk–like skin of its leg.
As soon as I did that, it jerked its leg violently. It tore through the ropes and knocked me backward. Then it took off into the air. But I knew it would come back down to attack us again.
“Come on, Sean, run. Now we have to save ourselves,” I shouted as I started running.
We had only one way to survive, and that was to get into the wooded area. The creature hated trees. Its wings were so large that they would get injured by hitting branches, so it always avoided places like that. Just as we expected, that is exactly what happened.
We had chosen the spot carefully so the wooded area was close by. Both of us dove forward and hid inside thick bushes.
“We did it,” I told Sean with a smile.
But his expression stayed the same, filled with annoyance and judgment.
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