Genesis
A furious surge of defiance, of pure, unadulterated will, ignited within me.
"Nooo!!" I screamed, the sound tearing from my throat, raw and powerful. Digging my nails, now full-blown claws, deep into the dirt, I called to the element, to the very earth beneath me. The ground beneath me rocked back and forth, a slow, deliberate tremor at first, and then with a bit more strength, and a lot faster, building in intensity. Limpy, seeing that it was me causing the ground to shake, shifted his weight, moving to bite at my exposed hands, to silence me. He didn't get very far because a sharp, jagged rock spear shot up from the trembling earth, piercing him below his neck and out his skull, a brutal,