AVP Ultimate Prey 25

The same shimmer Blake had seen on the cineplex. Blake turned back to Hernandez with wide eyes.

"Run!" she screamed.

A bolt of blue light shot toward them. Blake felt herself being tossed into the air as the woods erupted in fire and chaos.
Then, she hit the ground. Hard. A muffled voice floated in and out of Blake's ears as she faced the sky. Hundreds of thousands of stars twinkled above her, like a crystal-covered ocean.

But her view was interrupted by a shimmer-it rippled over the whole of the sky, past the stars and everything beyond, stretching as far to the horizon as Blake could see. And with a blink, it was gone. Blake tried to summon the air back into her lungs as she saw Washington snap to attention and fire his rifle at where the blast had come from.

"Get up!" she finally heard as the shock wore off.

Mariana pulled her off the ground. She spotted Hernandez's mangled corpse as she got to her feet, little chunks of him still aflame, a strange white liquid spilling from in-between his charred wounds.-pg.191 chpt.7