The road that had gave under the imposter's effort now found itself careening through the air at great speed and with perhaps greater force behind it, propelled by monstrous strength. When the two collided, the target and projectile, they together were sent hurtling into the burned out shell of a car. Bits of crunching metal and breaking glass filled the air as the vehicle turned side over side and came to a stop against the ruined bricks of a building, little more than a bent hull now. It remained unsettlingly quiet thereafter in the grey intersection, disturbed only by a few bits of debris clinking from the aftereffects of a small shockwave. Several more long moments passed without reply or reprisal, perhaps that the fight was already over before it truly had begun.
This remained true until the settling dust began to move in a wave away from the impact by an unseen force, washing across the ground like the sea with a coming tide. Next came rolling pebbles and the scattered glass in the growing windstorm, all of which tumbled end over end in wild teetering and loud racket, followed hastily thereafter by bricks, stones and wrenched steel. The car and accompanying stone were flung violently across the street the very moment to follow and plowed through the face of an opposing building; bits of sheared metal and busted pavement exploded out, hurled even more fiercely than they were in the first place and left to bounce across the roadway.
The bleak dust ceased its animation and a ghostly image reformed where it stood last.
"The difference is..." The ethereal maw replied,
"... some of us have already paid those dues."It took body again, the aurora of shimmering white and green winking out, a primal thought being returned to corporeality.
"And then there are those, like you, whose kind have not."
From standing even at its distance, it lunged. Its entire body, without the aid of the unnatural, covered several distances its own length and sprouted massive, hooked claws from the tips of its pawed digits. It moved with thousands of pounds of force in its swing, accompanied by a shattering roar, the same weight and power that could wrench down beasts that early men needed canyons to fell. This was not done as a show of course, but just an inherent quality. That it could, even without the aid of the other side, still prove a mortal threat despite however extinct it was.
And it did.
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