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singindemonhq) wrote2003-05-20 12:27 am
singindemonhq) wrote2003-05-20 12:27 am
Car Chase!
I'd expected the others to object to my liberating the fire-truck, but Percy seemed as delighted with it as I was. I stayed around the drivers seat, testing her out, while Percy did most of the loading up.
Then we heard it, a howling, grinding growl that made me think "werewolf" for a second, before I saw the thing. It hardly needed the waves of killing hatred coming off the creature to tell me it wasn't friendly. It seemed to be looking at us with its teeth!
The others were yelling at each other to get on the truck. I heard Percy shout that we needed to get out, took it that they were both on board and slammed the truck through the gap in the wire fast! That left her jammed across the road for a moment. It took some manoeuvring to get her straightened up and pointing into town.
The demon seemed to be bouncing all around the truck while that was going on. It was fast and agile. At one point it was right in front and I aimed at it, hit something that seemed too solid to be a body and swerved back into the road. That must have been a hydrant - a fountain of water went up behind us.
I couldn't see the demon by then. but there was clanging and shouting from the back of the truck. I guessed it'd got on board and started to swerve the truck, still at top speed, trying to dislodge it.
I was heading back to Grant's place, until I realised that could guide the attacker there, and swung the truck into a street leading into the rough area behind the Bronze. We were scorching through, with the siren blaring, but the streets of Sunnydale were deserted anyway.
It seemed better not to leave a straight trail, but some of the roads are narrow there and I saw a derelict car by the roadside just too late. The truck just seemed to clip it as we passed, but it threw the car up and over into the shop-front of the looted liquor store.
The siren covered the sound of the explosion, but the mirror showed fire billowing up behind us as the truck skidded into into a wider street, ziggzagged for a moment on what seemed to be oil and then straightened onto the home stretch.
That was when I realised that if I didn't want the creature to know where we were headed leaving the siren on was not a good idea. We still had the long curve up to the coast road that led from Grant's place straight out of Sunnydale, so I took her up that way, still running at speed, but silently.
The turn into the coast road is pretty much blind, but we were the only people who used it and Sam and Percy were were on the back. I slowed the truck just enough to take the curve - and then I saw!
Then we heard it, a howling, grinding growl that made me think "werewolf" for a second, before I saw the thing. It hardly needed the waves of killing hatred coming off the creature to tell me it wasn't friendly. It seemed to be looking at us with its teeth!
The others were yelling at each other to get on the truck. I heard Percy shout that we needed to get out, took it that they were both on board and slammed the truck through the gap in the wire fast! That left her jammed across the road for a moment. It took some manoeuvring to get her straightened up and pointing into town.
The demon seemed to be bouncing all around the truck while that was going on. It was fast and agile. At one point it was right in front and I aimed at it, hit something that seemed too solid to be a body and swerved back into the road. That must have been a hydrant - a fountain of water went up behind us.
I couldn't see the demon by then. but there was clanging and shouting from the back of the truck. I guessed it'd got on board and started to swerve the truck, still at top speed, trying to dislodge it.
I was heading back to Grant's place, until I realised that could guide the attacker there, and swung the truck into a street leading into the rough area behind the Bronze. We were scorching through, with the siren blaring, but the streets of Sunnydale were deserted anyway.
It seemed better not to leave a straight trail, but some of the roads are narrow there and I saw a derelict car by the roadside just too late. The truck just seemed to clip it as we passed, but it threw the car up and over into the shop-front of the looted liquor store.
The siren covered the sound of the explosion, but the mirror showed fire billowing up behind us as the truck skidded into into a wider street, ziggzagged for a moment on what seemed to be oil and then straightened onto the home stretch.
That was when I realised that if I didn't want the creature to know where we were headed leaving the siren on was not a good idea. We still had the long curve up to the coast road that led from Grant's place straight out of Sunnydale, so I took her up that way, still running at speed, but silently.
The turn into the coast road is pretty much blind, but we were the only people who used it and Sam and Percy were were on the back. I slowed the truck just enough to take the curve - and then I saw!