Plane jumps

Hey!’ | yelled. | don’t Know what | was thinking, but | charged the beast. | just wanted to get it away from my friends. | slashed with Riptide, a good strike to the flank that should’ve cut the monster into Meow Mix, but the blade just clanged against its fur in a burst of sparks.
The lion raked me with its claws, ripping off a chunk of my coat. | backed against the railing. It sorang at me, half a ton of monster, and | had no choice but to turn and jump.
| landed on the wing of an old-fashioned silver aeroplane, which pitched and almost spilled me to the floor, three Stories below.
An arrow whizzed past my head. The lion jumped onto the aeroplane, and the cords holding it began to groan.
The lion swiped at me, and | dropped onto the next exhibit, a weird-looking spacecraft with blades like a helicopter. | looked up and saw the lion roar - inside its maw, a pink tongue and throat.
Its mouth, | thought. Its fur was completely invulnerable, but if | could strike it in the mouth... The only problem was the monster moved too quickly. Between its claws and fangs, | couldn’t get close without getting sliced to pieces.
‘Zoe!’ | shouted. ‘Target the mouth!’
The monster lunged. An arrow zipped past it, missing completely, and | dropped from the spaceship onto the top of a floor exhibit, a huge model of the earth. | slid down Russia and dropped off the equator.
The Nemean Lion growled and steadied itself on the spacecraft, but its weight was too much. One of the cords Snapped. As the display swung down like a pendulum, the lion leaped off onto the model earth’s North Pole.

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