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The Buru-nagas came to the surface of Lake George. Shifting back to their more human-looking female forms as they did so. Of course, once they had, the cold night air raised gooseflesh on the muscular upper torsos that made them more closely resemble hermaphroditic wrestlers!
Fortunately, their local contacts were on time.
The general public thought the Twin Cities chapter of the Sisterhood Of Bellona was merely an organization similar to the Gold Star Mothers. That is; an organization composed purely of those women who had lost loved ones in World War II and, more recently, South Korea. It had taken over thirty years to rebuild and expand, following the Camp New Hope debacle in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!* But, now, they were numerous enough that they could finally strike back.
And, their first blow would be dealt against the innocent children of the nearby town during their annual Halloween Parade.
"Here!" exclaimed the woman in charge, as she handed out towels: "Dry yourselves off. Then, put these on."
She pointed to three separate piles of clothes. Each pile marked with a white cardboard sign on which a number had been drawn in black felt-tip marking pen. The first pile consisted of long-Johns. The second pile consisted of blue denim cover-alls. And, the third pile consisted of bedsheets with little pairs of holes cut into each sheet!
"The underwear and cover-alls will keep you warm until your task is done. The bed sheets will make everyone think you're participating in the parade as ghosts! When you reach the mayor's reviewing stand..."
"We sssssssssssssstrike!" hissed the lead virago (with a fiendish grin).
Her contact (a recent immigrant from El Paso, Texas, who called herself "Astartita") grinned back, and nodded. The grin left her face, however, after a brief whooshing noise was heard. Followed by a sickening "thunk" that made Astartita's posture go rigid. All before she fell to the ground, face-first, with a crossbow quarrel in her back!
Hissing in startlement and anger, the Buru-nagas quickly shifted back to their bipedal varanid forms, while the local Sisters Of Bellona merely screamed. Furthermore, that screaming and hissing only increased when a thunderously loud voice suddenly shouted (in fluent Spanish):
"MUERTE A TODOS EMPUSAE!"
This was instantly followed by a bare right foot, roughly the length and width of a canoe, apparently materializing out of thin air. A bare right foot that crushed Astartita's corpse to a bloody pulp!
"Don't stop, Alika!" shouted Ron Van Helsing through his old rowing coxswain's megaphone: "Follow through! Follow through!"
The hundred foot-tall Easter Islander did as instructed. As he had spent the last five days training to do! Namely; using his giant size to augment the vampire-hunting techniques he had been taught (in a veritable crash course) by the man from Holland, Michigan.
The Buru-nagas who had swum all the way up the Mississippi River, via the Rum River, tried to escape back into the water. Only to be impaled, like shrimps on a fork, by proportionately gigantized quarrels! While the non-shapeshifting Sisters Of Bellona were mowed down by a silenced Browning Hi-Power in nine millimeter...that was now the size of a howitzer.
And, it was only when both men were sure that all their targets were dead that Alika used his bare left foot to obliterate every single trace of the corpses. Five minutes after doing so (then cleaning his feet off in the lake), Alika resumed his comparatively less conspicuous height of seven feet tall.
"Was good, Ronaldo?" he asked, half-rhetoricaly/half-hopefully, in his limited English.
"Mui bueno!" replied Ron, with a thumb's-up sign: "I now believe you're ready for Australia."
NEXT: DOGFIGHT WITH A WINGED GIANTESS
Giantess World
Author's Chapter Notes:
ANOKA, MINNESOTA
(OCTOBER 31, 1952)
(OCTOBER 31, 1952)
Chapter End Notes:
*Camp New Hope debacle: see THE THIN LINE.
"Muerte a todos empusae" (from the Spanish): roughly translated? "Death to all she-demons!"
P.S.---Happy Halloween, to all the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed down under at Alice Springs!
:-)
"Muerte a todos empusae" (from the Spanish): roughly translated? "Death to all she-demons!"
P.S.---Happy Halloween, to all the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed down under at Alice Springs!
:-)