Marvel's Princess - Chapter 55

The severely wounded alligator fell back into the water, and before Bella could strike again, a second alligator lunged at her fiercely.

Bella was faster than the alligator, and although the Zodiac was not an ideal place for combat, she quickly performed a sprint attack, using her strength to thrust when the alligator emerged, piercing its eye.

As she estimated, the rebar entered through the side of its eye and exited near the back of its brain. The thrust was too deep, and as two more alligators clamped onto her legs, she had no choice but to kick one back into the water while using the force to retreat and pull the rebar out of the alligator’s head.

“Help! Help!” The distant calls continued, but Bella, busy fighting, paid no attention.

“You’re forcing my hand!” Simple swordplay was no longer effective against the never-ending stream of alligators, and the cramped space of the Zodiac worried her that the alligators might capsize it, leaving her very vulnerable even if she managed to rescue anyone.

Muttering a spell, she gathered her psychic energy and shot a thin line of ice from her fingertips as an alligator breached the surface.

The icy beam hit the alligator’s mouth, the cold spread covering half of the beast’s skull, and the freezing effect continued under the spell’s influence. Bella kicked out, and the alligator’s flesh mixed with ice, scattering like celestial flowers into the nearby water.

The scent of blood in the flesh drew the attention of most of the alligators, who swarmed happily to devour their kin’s flesh. Bella killed another alligator with the rebar and threw its body in another direction before quickly steering the Zodiac toward the source of the calls for help.

A middle-aged man and a woman resembling Karina Barbossa stood at the door looking out, the water already waist-high. They hurriedly waved when they saw Bella’s Zodiac.

“Not too difficult a task,” Bella thought, glancing at the compass; her target seemed to be the woman, who looked a couple of years older than herself. Rescuing this father and daughter would mean completing her mission.

Both had suffered at the hands of the alligators, the father limping and the daughter with several bite marks on her thigh and arm. Why they weren’t bitten off? Don’t ask; let’s just say their ancestors were watching over them!

“Come on board!” Bella pulled them aboard, and before she could speak, the middle-aged man pointed behind her in horror.

“Get down!”

What? Bella quickly turned to see a giant wave, at least five meters high, carrying countless debris and charging toward them from afar, heading straight for their Zodiac.

Bella was stunned for a few seconds, realizing they weren’t in a remote area but a residential neighborhood surrounded by houses and trees, with household debris piled up on the water, from pots and pans to TVs and washing machines. How could such a five-meter wave gather here without magical manipulation?

Bella instinctively cursed like old Barbossa, “Calypso, that bitch!”

As soon as she spoke, the massive wave crashed over the Zodiac.

Water is ruthless, and despite Bella’s strength, she has nowhere to use it against this force of nature. She curled up, and the Zodiac and its occupants were pushed sideways into a nearby house—coincidentally, the house the father and daughter had lived in. They’d come full circle, now with Bella in tow.

With a loud crash, the house’s door was smashed open, and the Zodiac tipped over, all three hurled inside by the water.

The middle-aged man was beyond caring; Bella kicked in the water and, in the nick of time, grabbed the woman, who might just be a reincarnation of her distant ancestor.

The house’s quality was not great. She held onto a door frame at the corner of the wall, but the massive water flow still rolled them over into the kitchen.

“Get up, quick!” As the water level rose, tables and chairs floated around, occasionally struck by debris. Bella was irritable, helping the woman up onto the kitchen counter.

Then she climbed up herself.

Disheveled—that was Bella’s first feeling.

The rain soaked her hair, and after being carried by the wave for over a dozen meters, now drenched from head to toe, she looked like a drowned rat. Fortunately, the person beside her was a woman, so a little exposure wasn’t a problem.

They both caught their breath on the counter, finally having a moment for introductions.

“Hi, I’m Haley, Haley Keller. You? You look unfamiliar; you’re not from around here, right?”

“Uh, Isabella Swan. No, I don’t live here. I’m just passing through.”

Bella certainly couldn’t say she had traveled from Washington in the northwest to Florida in the southeast just to find her, making up a travel excuse as a cover.

Haley and Karina Barbossa looked alike, both with a defiant look in their eyes. Listening to the other’s self-introduction, she seemed to be a student at the University of Florida.

But as she spoke, she suddenly lowered her voice as if worried Bella would be frightened, “Quiet, there’s something under the water.”

Bella wanted to find a weapon, but there wasn’t even a knife within her line of sight.

“Do you have any weapons at home? Baseball bats? Golf clubs? Chainsaws?” Bella asked.

Haley shook her head repeatedly, having lived in the university dorm for a long time and not having been back here for a while. Besides, what the heck is a chainsaw?

Seeing Haley’s panic, the hidden alligators underwater put huge psychological pressure on her, and Bella reassured repeatedly, “Don’t worry, don’t worry, it’s okay.”

Marvel’s survival rule number three: when someone tells you, “Don’t worry, it’s okay,” you should be very careful—it’s not okay!

Bella watched the water surface unarmed, making it tricky to deal with the alligators, especially since she didn’t want to expose her magical abilities.

“We need to find a boat to get out of here. Let’s move along the wall slowly.”

Their bodies were light, and the two stepped on the counter, moving slowly towards the door along the wall.

Suddenly, a massive creature burst from under the water. Just by its size, this alligator was over six meters long! Its huge mouth opened, and its sharp teeth gleamed coldly, seemingly ready to bite them both to death.

“Calypso, that bitch!” Bella immediately realized that this alligator had been magically enhanced; otherwise, a normal crocodile couldn’t grow to such a monstrous size! Six meters might not sound big, but it was incredibly terrifying!

She yanked down the range hood above her head and smashed it onto the giant alligator’s head.

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