Rayne
Damn. I’m screwed. Cracking my neck, I fired on the two biggest aliens first. My aim was true, and they fell face forward in the dirt. I threw the empty gun at the nearest alien and dashed behind the tree. Laser fire flew past me, and I slid down the tree ignoring the bark scraping my back. When the fire ceased, I held my breath listening to all the sounds around me to gauge their positions.
“Come out female, Bainkre wants you alive. If you continue to fight me, I will kill you but not here, it will be in front of your sparkly friend,” he said.
A guttural roar burst from my lips and adrenaline soared through me, making my body shake. The noise of the birds soaring above me, the smell of burnt tree bark, and the numbness of my limbs faded as a red haze fell over everything. Time se
