Excerpt: The Transformer

Kael sighed and remarked, “Shit.” He then slouched and said, “Just do it.” The guard laughed, and charged. Kael quick-stepped to the left and grabbed both wrists of the officer as he went by. He quickly smashed them against a nearby tree, over and over until the officer’s wrists bled and he dropped the weapons. Kael ripped a nearby vine from the tree and quickly tied the wounded guards hands and ankles together. Then he surveyed his handiwork. Not bad, he thought. He looked around there was still the one remaining lead officer. And he was aiming his gun at an unsuspecting Lanae! Kael sprinted towards her, trying to knock her out of the way. Not fast enough, I need to go faster, faster, like a panther, thought Kael. He jumped and his body flattened out. He then transformed into a 550 pound black panther in under the 2 seconds it took for his body to land. His muscles flexed and he shot towards Lanae, knocking her to the ground a millisecond before a bullet whizzed where her head had been.