Lucy Grapples with 300 pound reptile

A tall, gray-scaled humanoid crouched in the doorway and tensed to leap at her. It had no eyes but had a long-curved beak lined with vicious-looking teeth. Its feet were clawed like a bird’s. It looked like three hundred pounds of reptilian muscle. She looked around for her pistol and started scrambling towards it when the thing leapt.

Lucretia caught the thing in mid-air, grasping its head with her hands. Carlotta noticed that Lucretia’s fingers had sunk into the meat of the anomaly’s neck and head. Lucretia’s mass had increased until her shirt was straining to contain her muscles. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she gritted her teeth while straining with the entity.

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Lucretia grunted and pulled the creature to the ground. It was bleeding where her fingers had sunk into the flesh. Carlotta saw Lucretia had grown talon-like appendages on each finger. “You shit! Stay still!” Lucretia screamed at the struggling thing. She got both the entity’s arms behind its back and wrapped one of her arms around the limbs in a double arm bar. The muscles on her arm rippled and increased mass once more, struggling to hold the creature immobilized. Lucretia used her free hand to grab the back of the thing’s head and slammed it against the concrete floor of the corridor.

The entity immediately stopped struggling with such energy, disoriented by the strike to the skull. Lucretia grunted again as she lifted the semi-limp entity and dragged it back into its containment cell. It reached blindly behind itself and tried to latch onto her arm, cutting into her left bicep. “Fuck!” Lucretia threw the disoriented lizard thing’s form roughly into the unfurnished concrete cell.

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Light and the Mole