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Oh here she comes

WHO: Saya Wallace, Kitty Jones, King Nicolas the long-suffering
WHERE: Heropa, garage
WHEN: Wednesday the 30th
WHAT: Saya was such a cute teenage girl. She's not going to be one for long.
WARNINGS: Spiders. Body horror.

[She's been feeling restless and twitchy all day; hungry in a way she hasn't ever felt before, which should have been some indication something was wrong. But it didn't seem to matter how much she ate; it just sat heavily in her stomach.

So now she's at the garage where she's staying (and she keeps wondering how long she'll stay there) and there's a big bag of trashy food, cheap and usually filling, sitting in front of her, when she hears someone come in.]

Kitty?

Is that you?

[She's only really just met Kitty; the other girl is a fighter, a little bit brawling, but that's okay.]

I have chips if you want some.

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Too right I'd like some.

[ She ought to have been doing work, looking at the books - she does know how; she'd learned to keep accounts just earlier that year - but she couldn't bring herself to do so. The weather was lovely, and there was this argument happening on rumblr that she had to weigh in on, and so she'd spent an hour outside typing furiously on her phone. She's late, therefore, coming into the garage, and she did forget to eat, so the offer of chips is a lovely one.

She comes over and fishes a few from the bag and shoves them into her mouth. And then she says: ]

Can you believe that there are still people out there who insist that girls are weaker and gentler by nature? That makes me want to weakly and gently punch them in the bloody jaw.

Is that what you've been doing all day?

[She laughs a little, that actually makes her feel a little better.]

On what, Rumblr? There's a whole corner that just does science, you know.

[Yes that's what Satya's been spending her time doing.]

Oh, well, science.

[ She says that a touch dismissively. ]

It's not exactly my thing. I'm definitely way more into politics.

I noticed.

[She takes a chip and then sets it down.]

I think I ate something sour. But I'm still really hungry.

Really?

[ Her eyebrows draw down. ]

D'you need some ginger root? Or mint? Or medicine?

[She stands up then, and it's weird; like she doesn't quite know how her legs are working. She takes a deep breath.]

Maybe?

Um.

I'm really hungry, but-

[She looks up, then.]

Do you smell that?

Smell that?

[ She frowns just a little. ]

Smell what?

[ It's almost like he's never going to escape spiders telling him how much he stinks...

Oh well. Nicolas may be older, but his habit of stopping at the garage door to knock on the nearest surface instead of barging in (at least when someone besides Saya had been around) yet remains. Maybe a remembered habit, if distantly, or just one he's always had.

Considering his previous conversation with the younger spider shifter, it was about time to check up. ]

Hello? Is anyone in?

[She feels a roiling in her gut, but it's in her head, too. Like a migraine only not quite pain; more like the buzzing of an aura, something clicking between her ears. She hears it but she doesn't.

And the hunger.

She turns when she hears Nic's voice and it's suddenly clear she's not completely well.]

It smells like something foul.

[Werewolves don't really smell bad. They smell like the Wyld, musky and mossy and strange, maybe. But it's so overpowering that she can't block it out.]

I think I'm going to be sick-

Oh, God, Saya. Here, we're back here -

[ Kitty calls that out to Nicolas. But she's distracted by Saya's distress; she goes over to touch the other girl on the back of the hand. ]

Are you all right?

[ There's a tension in the air the other two might not be able to pick up on, but he does. He can still hear two distinct voices in the back of the garage. Does that mean he's made it in time? That he was right?

Nicolas doesn't say anything else from out by the doors, instead entering the garage and striding directly towards them. ]

Edited (decided it'd take time to get from point a to point b shh) 2016-04-02 03:20 (UTC)

[She curls over a little, and over her stomach. Something happens - it's like suddenly she can see all around her, she can see for the first time and it hurts, and she feels like-

-no, she's not going to vomit-

-she turns to look at Kitty and there are four more eyes stacked on her forehead, brown and round and not at all human. She opens her mouth and there's something in her mouth. Whatever it is flicks out, and she does vomit.

On Kitty.

Only it's not vomit, they're spiders, brown and the size of quarters. Satya grips Kitty's arms and all her eyes blink at once, and her mouth reforms, her additional eyes close-]

What's happening-

-I'm so -

[The word that's missing is hungry, and Kitty is starting to smell delicious.]

[ Holy shit. Holy shit, holy fucking shit. Kitty is a brave person, no question of that, someone who's seen a lot of weird things in her life. She grew up with magic. She's interacted with demons, some of whom take the form of rotting, disintegrating, shambling corpses or hideous beasts or whatever. This? This right here? Saya suddenly having more eyes - Kitty pulls back away from her, hissing in fear - and then that vomit, and spiders on her, spiders all over her -

Kitty screams, loudly, a piercing shriek of terror. And she goes to scramble back, but Saya is holding onto her. And so Kitty yanks back, struggling to get away from her, still screaming - too scared to even think to transform. ]

[ That's when Nicolas arrives on the scene, running the last few steps around the corner to grab Kitty by the shoulder, try to pull her away and out of Saya's grip. So this is it, this is what he'd been fearing, and he's already shifting in response.

In case he needs to fight.

That leaves a similarly inhuman look about him, ears growing pointed, fangs beginning to replace regular human teeth, eyes going yellow. ]

Satya! You need to let her go!

I'm hungry.

[Her mouth opens again and there's those things, and her eyes all open at once as she tries to crawl over Nicolas to get to Kitty.

This is helped by the fact that she's just grown another pair of legs, right out of her torso.

Two extra pairs, in fact. She's increasing in weight, no less, her mouth changing shape almost entirely, her chelicerae descending. She tries to climb over him, and shifts back, tumbling over his shoulders, her hands reaching.]

[ And Kitty is struggling to scramble away. She doesn't have the breath to really scream again, because she's too busy trying to get away - She squirms out from under her hands, however many hands Saya has right now, and then scrambles across the floor on all fours, not even bothering to stand up. Her eyes are wide and her breathing hard and terrified. She's just trying to get as far away from Saya as possible - from both of them. Because even he's a threat. She knows what happens once a werewolf shifts - he gives into the bloodlust, he comes for you, tears you apart, like they did to Timothy...

She grabs for a dolly in her way, turns around and desperately chucks it behind her at one of them. Doesn't matter which. ]

[ Nicolas lets Kitty go. As long as she's trying to get away from them, he isn't going to impede her. He wants her to escape, get as far away as she can go, to be safe. With her scrambling backwards across the floor, he steps forward, putting himself even more between the two than before. His own mass is growing, although he'll hold it at the mid-form, still human enough to speak normally. ]

I know, but you can't eat her! She's your friend, Satya! Control yours--

[ And then the dolly bounces off the back of his head, cutting him off short as he stumbles, surprised by the sudden blow. ]

[That's when a spider the same rough size as a VW Bug slams into him, crawling over him.

Fortunately for him, she hasn't quite figured out how this body works yet, so instead of crawling over him she just tries to ram herself through him. Unfortunately, though, the shift seems to be holding this time; she's not changing shape at all now.]

[ Kitty's brain is finally recovering from the terror. In a flash, she turns from girl to sparrow, fluttering awkward and uncoordinated up to the roof of a car. She looks towards the open window just beyond her - she could escape easily -

Then she turns her head back to the werewolf. Half-shifted. Probably not far from bloodlust, from tearing people apart, like werewolves do. And yet he was just talking about...friendship and all that, which is not talk that you usually hear from the Night Police or those like them. She'd thought she had to run from him, too, but maybe...

In a burst of reckless courage, the sparrow becomes a hummingbird. And that hummingbird lifts off and buzzes low past the spider's hideous, horrible mandibles, trying to distract it so that it stops trying to rip its way through the werewolf. ]

[ i didn't want to be left out on the icon change-up-- i mean

That's the end of trying to reason. Saya's gone full first change, although whether this is the war form of her kind or not, he isn't sure, not even so many years later. As it goes, some of the Changing Breeds still aren't quite so interested in talking to high and mighty werewolf lords. While Kitty attempts to distract the giant spider, Nicolas pushes his form even farther, taking much better control of it than what the younger spider can manage.

Clothing either sinks away into fur or grows with the form change rather than tear, flesh, bone structure, everything changes in the span it would take someone to sneeze. Still, it isn't pretty to watch, the shift happening quick, but not instant, not like how Kitty changes forms. If anything, it looks as if it should be painful, the way the body distorts, but there's no sign that he feels any.

Now, instead of a man grappling the spider, it's a nine foot tall, much heavier-looking beast, an amalgamation of man and wolf -- a werewolf, definitely a werewolf, making Kitty's snap judgement of him right on the dot. He isn't raging, though. He's only trying to pin Saya down, any words he may have said nothing more than growls now. ]

[With spiders, it's blood that fuels them and not rage, and the adrenaline from the shift itself is wearing off quickly. All that's left is a bottomless hunger.

But she's still a spider, and she's quick like one. She spin in circles, unsure for a moment - where the hell did the food go - but then she's skittering, trying to move up the wall, trying to slip past the werewolf, and get out of the garage-

-but she's hungry, famished, and he finally does manage to pin her. Her exoskeleton splits like an eggshell, and spiders drip out of it, oozing, until all there's left is a pile of spiders taking the shape of a girl, and firming up next to him.

She's curled up, naked, and her eyes are closed for a moment.]

I'm hungry.

[There's no emotion in her voice. She sounds like she's utterly devoid of a soul.]

[ The hummingbird hovers near the ceiling a long moment, and then very slowly dips down lower. She stays well out of Nicolas' reach - not trusting him even one bit, never trusting a werewolf - but coming a little closer.

Hesitantly, cautiously, with fear giving way to nervous curiosity, she asks: ]

What's...wrong with her? Why did that happen to her?

[ There's a surge of anger when Saya gets by him, heading for the garage doors, how dare she ignore him, but that's the underlaying rage talking. Nicolas pushes it aside as he turns to follow, poised to leap on her, when the spider bursts apart into more spiders, eventually back into the human Saya had been before.

He stops, frozen for a few seconds, waiting, but nothing more comes.

He can relax, though he doesn't change back, not yet. It's always been a tiring feat for him, to jump between forms too quickly. An ear does twitch towards the hummingbird, even as he looks around the garage until he spots a blanket typically used for pulling over one vehicle or another.

He'll get that before answering, draping it across Saya once he has it. ]

This is what she always was, only she never knew.

[ The voice is purely mental, his jaws and teeth no longer the right shape to properly speak. ]

[She looks up at him, at the monster above her, and she knows she should feel fear, she should be scared.

Her scent - the scent of the girl that she was - is fading quickly, dissipating, only remaining on the things she touched. She stares at him and then at the hummingbird, and she looks down at her hands.]

I'm hungry.

[She says it a little more firmly. She moves under the blanket, pulls it up over her shoulders, and reaches for a tool; something lying around.

And she gashes her hand open.

Her blood is blue.

She looks up at the both of them.]

I'm not like you.

What am I?

[That's curiosity speaking.]

[ Kitty jerks away in surprise when a voice sounds in her head - and jerks away in surprise a second time when Saya cuts herself and bleeds wrong. This is too fucking weird for her. This is too fucking weird. She just wants to get the hell out of here, right now, before more spiders get vomited on her.

But, instead, to the werewolf: ]

Can she hear you? Do I need to...translate?

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