Her face lit up with a smile as his claws tore into her throat. She let the pain linger a light, and he began to squeeze her neck. Then he saw a flash, and blood gushed out of his wrist.
He saw the blade in her hand, she had taken the blade out of her back and slit his wrist in one swift move.
He instantly released his grip and growled in pain but then she punched him on the side of his face, and a cracking sound echoed as his jaw dislocated.
"Is that all you've got, gluttony?" She screamed at him and punched him in the face again, breaking his nose and again knocking a couple of teeth down his throat.
Her last punch pushed him a couple feet back. He shook his head as he was still dizzy from the attacks, and then she ran up to him, leaped in the air, raised her knee to his face, and sent it crashing against his jaw.
The impact almost knocks him out cold. It pushed him a few feet back into a tree that kept him from falling and he felt it rock his brain.
The green eye pulsed and released another blast at her, but she jumped out of the way, this time, the eye followed her every move. The laser-like beam burned everything it touched.
It cut trees in half and set the bushes on fire. She ran away from it, away from the light, and hid herself well in the shadows.
It couldn't see her anymore, so it stopped. He felt drained, but his wounds had healed, so he ran into the shadows beyond the reaches of their campfire.
"Anger is your weakness, gluttony!" Her voice echoed out of the shadows, he could hear her but couldn't see.
"I'll beat it out of you"
From his acute hearing, he could tell her voice was coming from the trees. He turned toward the direction of her voice and a blast from her gun hit him in the face.
He growled like an animal; he had no remorse to give, and he only desired to rip her apart. This wasn't what he wanted to be, but he felt he needed to be this monster to avenge his love; the little part of him that was left in the monster's rage wept for them, and this drove him on.
He leaped up, and in one jump, he got as high as nine meters in the air. He jumped towards the direction of the blast, hoping she'd be there, but as he got to the tree top, he felt something coming from behind him.
Before he could turn, the sole of her boot landed on the back of his head. The kick drove him down, crashing face-first against a tree.
As he fell she grabbed onto a branch, she smiled as he watched him fall but then he swung his hand at her as he fell and he managed to grab hold of her ankle and he excitement seemed to get even brighter
"His reflex has improved and in such a short time"
She spoke with a childly enthusiasm, she wasn't alarmed, nor did it bother her that he had her ankles.
She raised her other leg and kicked him in the face, directly on the green eye; he shrieked in pain but then gripped her ankle with the other hand, making it two hands.
She sighed, mildly annoyed by this, but she still kept her grip tight on the branch. She looked up to check if the branch was about to give, but it seemed sturdy enough. She smiles
War mothers are known to like a good challenge, so perhaps the prospect of fighting a raging monster, ten meters off the ground, without the use of her hands and having the monster clinging to her leg was a challenge that made her excited and she smiled with a deep childlike glee as she look down at him.
He saw her smile and thought of it as a mockery, so he climbed up her long leg, digging his sharp claws deep into her thigh; she didn't flinch or squirm. She gave him a hard kick going to break his grip.
He dug his claws deep into her thigh, trying to cause her pain. He looked deep into her eyes; they were cold and unfeeling, and they made him mad.
He wanted to make her feel the pain he was feeling; how could he avenge the death of his loved one if the killer had no fear of death or no touch for pain?
It pissed him off. She raised her leg till it was over his head, then she stumped down on his head, over and over and over again, but he wouldn't let go.
He dangled from her long leg, and she looked down at him, a bit annoyed.
"I'll show you pain, I'll avenge Estiah"
He screamed at her and then opened his mouth
"Well, this is interesting; I've gotta take samples of those teeth later," she thought.
His teeth were all razor sharp, and he bit into her thigh, and she looked delighted.
"You're really not bright, are you kid?"
She let go of the branch and they began falling. With her hand free, she drove her fist down at the center of his head, crashing it against the eye, and he shrieked in pain.
He let go of her to cover the eye, it was just ten meters but they were fast enough to exchange a series of blows in such a short time with her connecting the most but he had succeeded in driving one of his claws into her left eye, destroying it in the process, that gave him a temporary an advantage.
As they got close to the ground, he quickly attacked her blind spot, binding her arms with his own and pinning her head downwards.
He smiled as he watched the ground close in on her, and she crashed head-first with the weight of a monster on her back; her neck snapped on impact, sending hunting echoes through the woods.
He got off her mangled body and she seemed dead. He looked down at her and roared at her but she didn't move.
He roared at her again it seemed like he was urging her to get up but she didn't, she was dead and he was victorious and he finally saw her as just another woman
Memories flooded his mind, her body reminding him of his Estiah and his heart began to hurt.
His rage didn't subside; it grew and grew him, and with her dead, he didn't know what to do with it. With her dead, he felt the hate for himself now,
"I could have protected them, I'm so useless," he screamed at himself,
"We could have made it to paradise, we could have been happy," he smashed his fist against his head,
"But you went and blew it, it was you, you turned into a monster, you killed them all."
He kept pounding his head over and over.
"Hey baby, don't hurt yourself, let me do the hurting"
He heard her voice, and she was standing behind him, and he turned around and a blaster was in his face. She cracked her neck
"I'll ask for a full body massage next time, you really know your way around a woman's body"
Her hair had turned blond again, and she winked with her left eye, the one he had blinded, and then pulled the trigger and shot him directly in the green eye.
He pounced on her and swung his claws, but easily, she dodged and shot him directly at the green eye again.
He swung again, and she jumped back, making him miss and firing a couple of shots directly at the green eye.
The eye began to look damaged and beaten and with it, he became weaker, he came charging at her like a raging bull she stood her ground, took aim, and fired
She pulled the trigger, and then she realized she had made a grave miscalculation. The gun clicked, it was empty.
She saw his claws close in on her jugular, but she leaped back at the last moment, narrowly escaping. His claws touched her and left a large wound on her neck.
She kept her distance from him, but he mindlessly ran in after her; she smiled. She ran in, too, and kicked him in the groin; he dropped his head, unconsciously reacting to the hit.
Then she grabbed his horns and pulled his head down with all her strength so he couldn't resist. She leaped upwards and raised her knee.
His forehead crashed heavily against her knee, the impact shattered the green eye and cracked the black skull, and broke off a piece of his horns.
She let go of him and he slumped to the ground. He felt his strength leaving him; his horns broke off piece by piece, and their roots regressed back into his skull.
His skin turned paler and paler and the redness and blackness faded away. His claws broke off into ash as he slowly regressed back to his original height and weight. Back to his original form.
But his rage was still there, his eyes still burned with them, he got on his feet, he staggered a little but he kept his balance then he screamed at her
"I'll kill you"
He ran at her, but the stress from his transformation hit him all at once, and he fell unconscious, but he was close enough to fall against her thighs and lower body.
She looked down at him and thought his behavior to be odd. She picked him up into her arms like a child and gave him her warmth. She let herself fall backwards on the grass, like a log and she landed like one too then she closed her eyes and fell asleep.