The whole group, including Crunch, sensed that something was wrong when the two monsters opened their mouths wide. The incandescent light rose quickly from their chests to their long tube shaped necks and a fireball escaped from their mouths with the power of an artillery shot.
The two projectiles were no bigger than a ping-pong ball, rather pitiful at first glance, but Jake had no doubt that it would be lethal to take one head-on, even for him.
Grabbing his cat by the neck and Will by the collar of his jacket, he leapt with all his strength in the air to leave the impact zone. Sarah, for her part, dived in a forward roll towards the two monsters, passing successfully under the two balls of fire.
The two flaming ping pong balls hit the ground a fraction of a second later and like two air bubbles bursting brutally, an explosion louder than a grenade deafened their eardrums.
