Chapter 302: Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Tank felt the tremors under his feet long before the humans did. Dropping his head to the ground, he snarled low as he heard one small explosion after another, far deep beneath the surface.
It took moments for the surface of the earth to catch up with what was going on under it, and the shock waves knocked the earth and metal power users off their feet. Cries of fear echoed around the Hellhound as everyone seemed to be racing to find a safe place to be.
Only Eric stood his ground, standing beside Tank with his feet braced apart.
"Why do I think Lucy had something to do with that?" asked Eric under his breath as he looked off in the distance. The ground evened out for a moment before another shock wave, even bigger than the first one, hit, sending the humans into the air.
Tank let out a ferocious bark as he lunged toward the direction he last felt Hattie. However, before he could get very far, someone grabbed his leash, stopping him dead in his tracks.
"I wouldn’t do that if I were you," called out Eric as he shook his head, but the man holding Tank’s leash simply gripped the leather strap tighter as he dug his heels into the ground.
"Don’t let him go!" called out Jonas from where he was sprawled out on the ground. His leg was bent at an odd angle, and a thorn from one of the veins was pierced through his calf. "Fuck the girl, she probably ran. But him we need!"
Tank froze, his entire body almost quivering as he slowly turned his head to look at the man with his leash. The man was so big that he had to have been a fighting power user, but his size wasn’t going to keep him alive.
"I’d put the leash down if I were you," said Eric, his voice soft as he held his hands out to the side. After being pulled into Hattie’s house, he and Tank had reached an uneasy truce, but that didn’t mean he was dumb enough to hold Tank back from where he wanted to be.