The Brimstone Network (Brimstone Network Trilogy) (24 page)

The rat demon didn’t know how much longer he would be able to hold back his gnawing hunger.

“I … I think there’s something watching us,” Human Mikey said. “Over there … in the bushes.”

The human pointed out for the other where he and his pack were lying in wait.

“Is it a cat?”

“Too big for a cat … maybe it’s a dog?”

The hunt is over
, Laxitus then decided.
Let the feeding begin.

The rat demons swarmed from the underbrush onto the road, Laxitus screeching madly in the language of its kind for the others to circle their prey so they could not escape.

The humans started to scream, holding on to each other as they tried to flee but were stopped by the hissing snarls of Laxitus’s swarm.

As leader, Laxitus would be given the honor of first taste, and moved toward the two humans. The rat demon leader’s belly ached painfully as the smell of their prey’s fear wafted enticingly in the air.

Laxitus rose up on its back legs, preparing to spring.

He could practically taste the delicious human meat already.

Too bad he wouldn’t have the chance.

E
xcuse me,” Bram called to the rat creatures as he stepped out with the others from Bogey’s rift.

The rat demons turned their beady eyes toward them, baring yellow, razor-sharp teeth in a feral hiss.

“You’re probably wondering who we are.” Bram looked quickly to his left, where Bogey and Dez, and his father were standing. And then to his right at Stitch, and at Emily in her wolfen form, before turning his attention back to the demonic rat things.

“We’re the ones who are going to make you sorry you even thought of coming here to feed.”

The rat demons forgot the boys and surged toward the team in a wave of fur, fangs, and claws.

“We’re the Brimstone Network,” Bram announced with extreme confidence.

The rat demons never stood a chance.