WARNING: badly written but a rewrite is up on my page
WORTH | When Lorna Jackson's brother is missing, she tries looking for him. But instead, she finds someone who will change her life for the better.
❝ So what is your type? ❞
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30. Enceladus
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The plan went wrong almost immediately.
Piper scrambled along the ridge, trying to keep her head down, while Leo, Jason, Lorna and Coach Hedge walked straight into the clearing.
Jason summoned his golden lance. He brandished it over his head and yelled, "Giant!"
Enceladus stopped chanting at the flames. He turned toward them and grinned, revealing fangs like a saber-toothed tiger's.
"Well," the giant rumbled. "What a nice surprise."
Lorna didn't like the sound of that. Her grasped Tremor tightly. Leo stepped sideways, edging his way toward the bulldozer.
Coach Hedge shouted, "Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your—"
"Coach," Jason said. "Shut up."
Enceladus roared with laughter. "I've forgotten how funny satyrs are. When we rule the world, I think I'll keep your kind around. You can entertain me while I eat all the other mortals."
"Is that a compliment?"
Hedge frowned at Leo. "I don't think that was a compliment."
Enceladus opened his mouth wide, and his teeth began to glow.
"Scatter!" Lorna yelled.
Jason and Hedge dove to the left as the giant blew fire—a furnace blast so hot even Festus would've been jealous. Lorna made a huge bubble of water around her. Leo dodged behind the bulldozer. Then he ran to the right, heading for the tree harvester.
Immediately after the fire died down, Jason and Lorna charged at the giant.
Coach Hedge ripped off his canary yellow jacket, which was now on fire, and bleated angrily. "I liked that outfit!"
Then he raised his club and charged, too. Before they could get very far, Enceladus slammed his spear against the ground. The entire mountain shook. The shockwave sent Lorna sprawling. She blinked, momentarily stunned. Through a haze of grassfire and bitter smoke, she saw Jason staggering to his feet on the other side of the clearing. Coach Hedge was knocked out cold. He'd fallen forward and hit his head on a log. His furry hindquarters were sticking straight up, with his canary yellow pants around his knees—a view Lorna really didn't need.
"Nude satyr! I repeat: nude fricking satyr!" Lorna said.
The giant bellowed, "I see you, Piper McLean!"
He turned and blew fire at a line of bushes to Leo's right. Piper ran into the clearing like a flushed quail, the underbrush burning behind her.
Enceladus laughed. "I'm happy you've arrived. And you brought me my prizes!"
