Nox rolled up his lips, flashing teeth, the other Anubis did the same while taking a step back. As quick as the other creature hacked at Nox’s body, the Anubis inside him countered the attack with a surge of mass that shredded his clothing and twisted his form into an identical creature almost twice the size. The deep boom rolled across the parking lot, bouncing off the sides of the building, rippling reality. Nox leaped at the same moment as the other Anubis, meeting the other beast half way, their bodies colliding in an explosion of strength. Black threads spiraled out from Nox’s skin, stitching his damaged flesh, filling his insides with fresh tissue, sucking away the pain as he came to a stop, landing on is feet. The Anubis’s grip slid from Nox’s stomach, taking a string of entrails with it. The nerves along his spine screamed, and he jerked back.
Razor claws sank into Nox’s ribs, severing bone. He didn’t fight the momentum, rolling with the beast. Asphalt grated the flesh on his arms and back. It slammed into Nox, taking him to the ground.
The Anubis vaulted, blurring in the puddle of light but not detaching from reality. What preceded the monster in front of him prodded awake a wariness sleeping in the back of his mind. Hairs on the back of Nox’s arms stood, his skin prickled. The Anubis within Nox swelled in response to the approaching creature. Where the vibration of recognizing his own should have been, there was silence. These creatures were not born from the death of another. Now Nox understood the strangeness of the Anubis he’d encountered at the farmhouse. Moving like a being connected to the world, built of atoms, constructed out of life. A solid mass of night emerged from the darkness beyond the halogen lights. Nox headed across the parking lot, following the vibrant trail of particles Luca left behind.
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