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Jaina Gaben
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Post by Jaina Gaben on Jun 14, 2023 5:16:22 GMT
Something was killing things. Small creatures, squirrels, stray cats, dogs. The occasional homeless person. All of them dead in a very strange way. Some large predator had clawed and bit them and then drank their blood. Didn't really consume the meat, just the blood. A few people claimed to see some demonic figure hunched over the corpses before they died, and Meth Marty swore it had bat wings and laser eyes. But that was Meth Marty. Jaina thought this was very interesting. Plus it wasn't like blood loss was a permanent condition for her. She came back every time, no matter what she tired to do to end it all and move on. She just wanted change. Something different. So she might as well go wandering off into the woods at night near that creepy (in her opinion at least) Institute and see if she could find this vampire or chupacabra or whatever mothman hybrid was killing things. "'Sup demons, it's ya girl. Or mothmen. Or gremlins. Or vampires. Maybe werewolves? I met a werewolf once. He wouldn't bite me though." Jaina felt like she wasn't very well equipped for this expedition. A stolen flashlight with a ratty backpack full of batteries scavenged from dumpsters was her only weapon, and she was just wearing what she always wore; a very stained and patched jean jacket with a fleece trim, a black T-Shirt that was also scavenged from a dumpster, skinny jeans that you would assume were scavenged from a dumpster based on the number of holes in them but were actually stolen from a designer pop-up clothing boutique, and her tennis shoes, which had also seen better days and were at least a half a size too big. Despite feeling like her equipment was incredibly inadequate to protect herself if she did find whatever this creature was, she still felt no fear. Either she found it and uncovered it was really Old Man Jenkins doing some weird property scheme, or she'd get killed by some ghoul and come back the next day, or she wouldn't come back. Really, she hoped she wouldn't come back. She scanned her light around the scattered trees, trying to spot anything unusual. "If I was some creepy ghoul or banshee or whatever, where would I be? Come out come out wherever you are!" A snapping twig made her whirl around in place, a little more scared than she realized. "Hello?" Nyx
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Post by Nyx on Jun 14, 2023 5:41:12 GMT
Nyx had quickly shifted into a less suspicious form when she realized someone was roaming the area. It was risky to be out so far… but they needed food and resources. They kept dwindling. What choice was there? She snarled a tad when she heard them mention “vampires” but crept ever so closer. Her red eyes flickered in the tree-line, rather low to the ground. A dog figure seemed easy. People didn’t always attack dogs. People sitting on the streets didn’t always begrudge that form. It made it easier to watch and assess her surroundings. The hair bristled up on her back when she heard them taunting her to come out. She pondered doing just that and scaring she life out of them… She stepped a bit closer, snapping a twig under her paw in the process… Then she stopped… The “hello” gave her pause. They were already afraid… She debated for awhile with herself as to whether she should continue or not. After the heavy debate she decided it was only fair, and crept out from her hiding. She shifted her weight to her back legs, but still kept some distance between them. Then she let some of the angriest most unhinged dog barks that she could manage. Letting a decent amount of unbridled rage out the young girl. Jaina Gaben
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Post by Jaina Gaben on Jun 15, 2023 4:37:08 GMT
The bag and the flashlight both hit the ground, the light now casting eerie shadows all over the forest between the snarling, barking dog and the sixteen year old girl. Jaina was trembling. Frozen in place, she tried to run, to will her legs to move away from the savage beast, but they remained locked in place. "Not again. Not again. Please not again." Tears sprang to her eyes, and she squeezed them closed, hoping that blocking the sight of the dog would free her and she'd be able to run. She was an idiot, why didn't she think it could be some kind of dog or wolf or coyote or something? Closing her eyes only made the foaming, tearing, slathering maws of the dogs that now lived only in her memory more vivid. Jaina screamed, not a scream of defiance, but one of pure, abject, helpless terror. "Not again! Not again! Please not again!" Movement. She could move. Finally, she could move. Not to run, though. She couldn't run. She just collapsed onto the ground and curled into a fetal position. Maybe it would be over quicker if she didn't watch, if she didn't try to fight. The screams were now just whimpered sobs. "Not again. Please, not again. Not again." She hated that she was like this. She'd been through worse, right? She'd dove into wood chippers. Fallen off skyscrapers. Drowned over and over again. Why was this what scared her so much? Nyx
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Post by Nyx on Jun 15, 2023 5:28:03 GMT
Nyx continued letting her rage out, up until Jaina collapsed. Nyx’s instinct kicked in. There was an opening. She could so easily have what her body wanted- no, it was stronger than a want… What she craved and thirsted after. Blood. She could easily take Jaina’s blood. She was vulnerable. Oh so vulnerable. Nyx quickly pounced at the idea. Pounced on Jaina’s crumpled form and attempted to pin her shoulders down. It wasn’t the easiest to hold someone in place with dog paws but Jaina didn’t seem up for the fight anyhow. She snarled once and opened her mouth, inches away from what she craved. Yet something inside of her burned… She slowly pulled her head back up and eyed Jaina’s face. This was a young girl. She couldn’t be past her teens… and she was terribly frightened. ”Not again.” Nyx pondered the girl’s plea. Her mouthed opened again, but not to harm Jaina. “Damnit.” She hissed somewhat angrily. She hesitantly released the girl’s shoulders and stepped aside. The dog stood up on it’s hind legs and the form began to change. It’s bones seemed to break and dislocate. To crack and twist in a grotesque manner. The fur began to shrink and dissipate. It’s paws began to shift into human hands and human feet. The snout shrunk into a human face. Despite the clear human resemblance the form still seemed… off. Bones were clearly visible, under the skin, as they finished shifting into place. Even after they had shifted they remained painfully visible. As were the many scars that laced Nyx’s oddly grey skin. Staunch white hair and blood red eyes added to the rather strange appearance. “The fuck are you doing out here?” Nyx huffed. “And who the fuck are you?” Jaina Gaben
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Post by Jaina Gaben on Jun 16, 2023 3:36:24 GMT
Did... did the dog just talk? Fuck. She was hallucinating now. "G-get it over with." Something about hearing the dog... talk, apparently, had restored some manner of function to Jaina in the midst of her panic and terror. She still hadn't moved from her fetal position, hiding her face. Even if it was a talking dog, Jaina didn't want to see it. "Get it over with, put me out of my misery. For now at least." She tried to sound tough. Strong. But it was all fake. She was just this side of pure panic and reliving one of the most traumatic days of her life, and she'd had quite a few. "I was fucking looking for cryptids and shit and I found it and it's a-a-fuck just eat me and get it over with!" Nyx
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Post by Nyx on Jun 16, 2023 3:47:18 GMT
“Eat you.” Nyx smirked a bit at the girl, showing some of her fangs in the process. “Sorry. You don’t really look… appetizing.” Nyx paused, quirking an eyebrow up at Jaina, who had yet to move. “Damn. Didn’t think it’d scare you that bad. Look. If I wanted to hurt you I would have already. Now get up off your ass and answer my questions.” Nyx began pacing around Jaina, somewhat impatiently. She stopped occasionally to give the girl a once over, taking in her appearance. Jaina Gaben
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Post by Jaina Gaben on Jun 17, 2023 4:27:57 GMT
Jaina continued to tremble, but with the barking and growling being replaced by talking and sassing, her courage was growing. She slowly uncurled, and saw human feet instead of paws. She snatched the flashlight back off the ground and pointed it directly at the woman's face, then proceeded to grab the bag with batteries and hold it against her chest, scooting back so that she had a tree or something at her back. "Where did it go? Where did the-the-" she had trouble even saying the word. "Where did it go? There's a fucking d-d-rabid freaking animal out here somewhere! Fucking asking me questions when you're in fucking danger from a fucking d-d-d a fucking thing! You know the thing. Fuck. Jaina'd given up on blinding the woman in front of her and proceed to scan the forest with the light erratically, looking for the animal. It was clear that the sixteen-year-old had no worries about the woman standing in front of her, despite her being much more confident and capable than Jaina, but rather the girl's only fear was the dog that she assumed was somewhere still in the dark. "What do you think you're doing out here, huh? Setting rabid d-d-d-d-monsters loose to prey on whatever it might find?" Nyx
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Post by Nyx on Jun 17, 2023 4:50:52 GMT
“Where did it go?” Nyx mocked, quirking a white eyebrow up at her. “Where do you think?” Nyx shifted one of her hands back into the shape of a dog paw. “I am the fucking monster kid.” “You afraid of a little dog?” Nyx tilted her head to one side, still in a bit of a mocking manner. “I 'spose you are rather weak and pathetic. A hungry mut probably wouldn’t have much of a problem getting a meal out of you… You didn’t even try to defend yourself.” Nyx huffed. It was the girl’s fault not hers. Didn’t matter how old she was, she shouldn’t’ve curled up like she did. It wasn’t even strategic curling up. She wasn’t trying to protect her soft bits or anything. She crumpled. The kid just gave in and folded like a piece of cloth. She was more than pathetic. Yet… Damnit… Nyx couldn’t let anything happen to her. Why the hell do you care? Nyx felt like clawing her face off. It was so aggravating. She was weak. She was pathetic. She couldn’t finish the deed couldn’t… couldn’t what? Hurt a child? What would Lil say or think if she had? Her sister would’ve been horrified… and rightly so. After all, she had just warned the kid earlier that she, herself, was in fact, the monster.
Her pupils shrunk away from the light, unaccustomed to it. Nyx let out a low growl and scowled up until Jaina moved her light away. “I’m the one asking questions. Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing out here?” Jaina Gaben
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Jaina Gaben
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114 posts
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Physically 16, Technically 32 years old
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last online Apr 3, 2024 3:05:53 GMT
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Jun 19, 2023 18:16:49 GMT
Post by Jaina Gaben on Jun 19, 2023 18:16:49 GMT
Jaina flinched when she transformed her arm back into a dog’s paw, but then her face hardened at the mockery. She threw a battery at the woman. It was with all the force and energy a sixtee-year-old girl who wasn’t very athletic could muster, so not a lot, so it wasn’t going to do much. “F-fuck you. Shit happened to me, okay, bitch?” Jaina laughed internally at how accurate “bitch” was for this specific woman. “You need to fucking listen better. I said I was cryptid hunting. Looking for whatever freaky giant mosquito was sucking blood outta shit. And I found a fucking PTSD nightmare is what I fucking found. So get shit over with, kill me and move on and we’ll see if it sticks this time. Nyx
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Jun 19, 2023 18:31:59 GMT
Post by Nyx on Jun 19, 2023 18:31:59 GMT
The battery smacked Nyx directly in the mouth. Rust, steal… Blood. One of her fangs had cut her lip. She swiped the blood off her lip and stared at it as it slowly coagulated and dried on her hand. She was loosing it. Loosing her focus. It’d been too long since she’d last… Damn, her head was in the wrong place… She shook, attempting to pull herself back. “Shit happens to a lot of people, bitch.” Nyx responded harshly. She turned back to face Jaina, in a manner that would make the claw marks she bore rather visible. “You need to answer better. Who the hell are you? One, you can call me nightmare all you want but vampire and mosquito are off limits. I’d appreciate an apology. Two, I’m not going to kill you. If I wanted to I would’ve already.” Nyx folded her arms across her chest. She glared back down at Jaina as her lip continued to bleed down her chin. Jaina Gaben
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