CHAPTER 42: LOSING TO SELENE

EMILIA’S POV I didn't back down when she attacked me again. I ducked beneath the second blow and dodged the first, confronting her head-on. I then rotated my body and booted her in the side as hard as I could with a fluid motion. For a brief moment, the blow caused her to stumble backward, losing her footing. That moment was sufficient. I rushed forward, hit her twice in short succession, and then I was on top of her. I had stopped thinking. My intuition was winning out. I knew I had to keep battling; I didn't need to know how I was moving. Then I noticed it. I sensed a change in the energies around us and a shift in the air. Selene's wolf took possession as her eyes shifted to a darker tint. Her shape changed in an instant, her body swelling into a huge wolf with sprouting fur. As the beast she had been hiding inside came fully out, the air crackled with sheer power. I wasn't scared, though. Until I saw her teeth, however. Her wolf, which was considerably taller than she had b