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While he watched them closely, they began to circle away from each other until they were about ten feet apart. The hulkish forms seemed ready to attack, but instead they just stood there. They were apparently waiting for him to either attack or flee.

Sean felt the same strange sensation overtake him that he’d experienced on the Oregon Coast. The feeling of thousands of volts of electricity rushing through his veins hit him anew. Instead of a healthy sense of fear, he now felt calm and actually looked forward to a fight.

Sean was tired of waiting for them to charge him. He leapt into the air, covering ten feet in seconds. He landed a few feet in front of one beast, who looked confused and was slow to react. Sean began spinning around and landed a rapid series of brutal kicks to the side of the behemoth’s face. He heard bones cracking along its cheek bone and eye socket. Sean leapt and landed softly close behind it.

He sensed the other beast coming at him from behind. Sean leapt high into the air again just as its plate-sized hand reached for his neck. With a perfectly executed backward somersault, he landed behind the charging creature. Before it could react, Sean side-swept a powerful kick at its right knee. The sound of bones breaking and ligaments tearing told Sean his attack had been successful.

With a bellow of savage anger and pain, the behemoth crashed to the floor, grabbing at his ruined knee. Despite the disparity in size, Sean realized he could deal with these brutes.

Just as he was about to put them out of their misery, Sean felt a stinging pain burning through his right hip. Instinctively, he leapt away, now feeling weakness in his right leg. Before he looked around, he realized that he’d forgotten about the cat-like creatures that disappeared earlier.

He completed two additional leaps across his large master bedroom, trying to give himself time to see what he was fighting. Just as he landed the second time, he felt another stinging pain burn a line across his stomach muscles.

Sean ignored the pain and lashed out with a series of leg kicks and brutal punches. The incredible speed and strength of his attack still amazed him.

To his surprise, he felt one of the kicks strike something hard. There was very little resistance. Whatever he was fighting was not very large or heavy. When he saw a short animal-like creature suddenly appear on the floor on his left side, he knew it had been invisible. It was completely indiscernible until he’d knocked it unconscious. That is how the creature had approached him unseen.

He took a moment to study the creature and realized it closely resembled a large bobcat, only its claws were at least six inches long and curled upward at the end. It was covered in gray fur and couldn’t have weighed more than fifty pounds. These animals must rely heavily on their speed and invisibility.

He abruptly realized that there had been two of the beasts as he felt another raking scrape across his back. The second one had attacked him from behind. With instinctive, blazing speed, he leapt high in the air and came down ready to fight.

To his surprise, the second cat-like animal ignored him and was licking its unconscious twin. Sean grabbed a large chunk of roof rafter and hurled it at the preoccupied animal. It struck the conscious cat in the head with tremendous force. The odd angle of its twisted neck told Sean it was dead.

He barely had time to take a deep breath, before a huge, hairy hand grabbed his left arm and flung him at the far wall. Despite his great strength, Sean was stunned by the impact. His left shoulder was badly injured, making his left arm almost useless.

He struggled to get to his feet, as the beast with the broken eye socket charged at him from across the room. Blinding, hate-filled rage filled its dull black eyes.

Just as he was about to leap away from the creature, Sean felt another massive hand close around his right leg. He looked down to see the second beast glaring at him and smiling grimly through jagged teeth. It must have crawled across the room to reach him, since his injured knee made it impossible to walk or run.

Sean doubled over and slammed his right fist into that creepy smile. The injured beast let go of him and roared in pain. Sean was sure he’d broken the creature’s jaw and half of his teeth.

Before he could redirect his attention, the other beast struck him a vicious blow to his back, which again slammed Sean up against the wall. Searing pain shot through his midsection when he tried to jump free of the two injured beasts. It felt like there was serious damage to his ribs where he’d been hit.

Even with his injuries, Sean managed to get to his feet and leap up and away from his attackers. When he landed, Sean felt a surge of dizziness and weakness coming on. Next came a burning pain from his abdomen. He looked at the claw marks on his stomach and realized he was in serious trouble. The deep cuts were already swelling and dripping with an ugly, black ooze.

“Those cats must have had poisonous claws,” he mumbled to himself.

He looked at the two badly injured hulks stumbling toward him. The one with the broken face was holding up the one with the broken knee. Together, they were dragging themselves toward him. Even from this distance, Sean could see the anger and murderous intent in their black eyes.

Sean knew his only hope was escape. He was feeling weaker by the moment, as the poison worked its way through his system. He managed one, half effective leap, to put more distance between them. One more leap and he could break through a window and out of the house.

The creature who could still walk realized what Sean was planning and dropped