Chapter Twelve
The creatures morphed from harmless little blobs into vicious snakes in half a heartbeat. They stopped flopping about like air-starved fish and began slithering on their bellies. Their heads, which looked like nothing more than slimy thumbs with a light, suddenly opened up into mouths full of needle-like teeth. What had been a negligible presence moments before now became the Notches’ greatest threat.
“Move!” Cody yelled.
The little slug in front of him had drawn the team’s attention, but there was a crate of the creatures in the container behind Sam.
She rolled forward over one shoulder so that when she came back to her feet, she was facing the container, her shield raised just in time to block two of the creatures that shot at her like slimy missiles. They hit the shie
