[2259] Scaredy Cats or Frankenweenies

Desmond:

I eventually snapped getting paranoid that I will start getting Mer's crazy or something if I kept only drinking Mer all the time. Something like what Leithe would always warn about when it came to cannibalism. I know its not the same thing but like I'm some new vampire okay! Whose already mentally bonded to her and the lot, do I need to have her blood and DNA running though me all the time too!? What if it starts changing me into her! I don't know! I'm not a scientist!?

Runs down the halls on all fours in tiger form to the food guide. If I'm going to eat someone surely it would be from the FOOD guide and not medical. Medical needs blood for wounds and whatever.

There was plants everywhere but they don't interest me right now. BLOOD does. and they were blood so whatever.

I run up the stairs and swerve towards the entrance in my haiste have to go to a skidding halt and slide on my paws and end up banging and knocking over an empty table.

I squint and growl at the stupid lghts flickering it was very bothersome and much more blinding then it should be as my eyes kept trying and failing to adjust.

Turns head aside and squints while attempting to shield my head against the light with a wing.

I head further and see... a lone dish.

.....


Sniffs air.

I wonder if there's blood in there... But... The blood probably isn't good now.

Pssshhh.. LAME.

...

Look at all those suckers and smoothness though...

Remembers Bash's d.

....

I kinda want to... touch it.... Just to see what it feels like... Texture wise... Of course...

Hunkers down and clamps down on my bite as I start the painful process back to humanoid form.

Meredith:

I startle awake in the freezer.

It was so dark and quiet.

Where did Desmond go?

I stagger around and fall out the freezer door.

(To Desmond) ((Desmond!))

I call out for him in a panic.

I check my notes written in pen on my arms.

So I won't forget.

He is in his cat room. No! The freezer!

I review the notes again but they were so, so very confusing.

I feel a stir and look down at my stomach sadly.

My young had been crying out for so, so long.

It broke my heart.

Bash's suffering, did too, ALL OF IT was far too much for me to handle.

I probably would have snapped earlier if I wasn't so weak and Desmond's feedings helped keep me from wandering off too.

Until now.

I crawl across the floor trying to determine how much time had passed.

Far too much I'm afraid.

"Desmond!"

I call out to him again, this time out loud.

He shouldn't be running around, not until Cary says its ok.

Cary... was sure taking awhile.

I sit back and lean against a wall to rest.

Desmond:

I breathe sharply in even though I don't have to breath but I feel a pressure deep in there like a nostril is obstructed but it isn't. I feel so confused and unable to be sure of anything anymore.

It's probably Beo and this damn connection. I can't help but think of that shroom he blew out of his nose a while back. Ugh. But how can I be surreee??

I move my nostrils.

I hate everything.

I hear Mer in my head. Why does it have to be me?... Is it because of the.. death thing?...

....

(("I'm-")) I was going to say alive at least so she doesn't panic at that and upset her litter with stress. But.. I'm not alive.

(("Fine."))

I walk up to the table and peer at the tentacle dish and reach out a finger.

Desmond:

Oh goddesses well I was really feeling it now.

And then it spews on me.

...

So wet and slick and slippers and bumpy and ah! All over. Texture overload.

Damn. I gasp and groan and shift around in the tentacles and ink. This was quite an experience.

Meredith:

I hear Beolan and am about to call back to him when i suddenly hear a strange noise.

I stagger back at the creature which snuck up to me.

At first it looked like a giant centepede... thing. But on second glance I started to notice more of its feline features.

It was.. actually kind of cute.

I wondered where it came from as I take note of a familiar shade of blue all over its body.

I slowly crawl closer to it but a combination of hunger, exhaustion and paranoia causes me to freak out again.

I portal jump to the throne room next.

Desmond:

I hear Beo snap at me to teleport away and I jump startled from my stimulation zoneout.

I cringe at the weird feeling at my belly button, owie. That's just wrong. Did it try something freaky there? Cringes again while I push myself up onto my elbow in the sticky and witness Beo beating it.

....

I flush, this is so weird and awkward.

I'm so confused and embarrassed and mortified that I do what Beo says and look back towards the entrance of the food guide and teleport there outside.

I pant despite the lack of the need for it and gaze around the large space, flushed expecting more people to see me like this.

I shiver with the black ink running down my exposed bare body. Goosebumps raised.

But all I'm met with is emptiness. The entire lack of people suddenly occurs to me. There's all-encompassing silence other than Beo and the tentacle.

...

What in Flynn happened while we were away... How long were we away??

The paranoia from the locked-away confinement with Mer comes back to me and I look around warily.

It any of this reallll??? Or have I snapped???

Desmond:

As if it wasn't terrible enough, in the vast haunting emptiness, something warm suddenly touches me!

My whole body tenses. Hair gets floofy in fear, ears flatten down, tail a poof curl between my legs.

I shiver at the vibrations of more movement.

I hear freaky musical sounds which just sets me even more on edge!

I will myself to look at it shaking horrified!

I flinch with the sounds of breaking glass and Beo's screams from behind.

Instincts take over.

Whack! Whack! Whack! I thwak my hand down at it. It's so hot! It burns.

"AHHHH!"

Wet slap noises of slapping pretty thing against my inky flesh.

THE BURNING!

GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!

I then try to smack it away.

Desmond:

The proper is oddly comforting as insane as that might sound. It's something familiar in this barren place with no other signs of life!

I feel an ache in my back at the thought.

Hisses and teleports behind it to go from the back.

Just as I lunge forward ready to bite-!

I slip on ink and tumble into the back of the worm and land on it.

Hisses and rolls around on it and the ink.

Desmond:

I gape when that little tiny thing turns into a full-grown person.

... Oh my gods, I have to be dreaming...

Before I can see how much I can feel from this lucid dream and try to get freaky with the thing out of curiosity it starts sonic shit.

I clamp down my sharp teeth and press the heels of my palms to my ears and flatten my other pair.

OW!

This dream's sensations hurt!

Suddenly Flynn's voice is in my head.

Okay... Maybe I'm not dreaming and just really high on whatever this stuff is on me.

Then there's another voice in my head. A lady? Where did she come from? Who is that? Is that the goddess Yrt?

Or did dad get married to a different one?

As I light myself on fire, black flames burning off the black ink, I try to think of what she said.

Something about pieces? And a staff?.. And fusing the pieces with fire.

....

For a moment I wonder if this is a dream again and this is some sort of bizarre dream logic that would make sense if I wasn't lucid.

But then I remember...

The mouth thingy. And the tentacle dick... These are pieces of Bash!

"OKAY! I'LL GET THE PIECES!"

I jump onto the back of the person while still on fire and reach around their face and try to jam my hand in their mouth hoping to find the weird mouth thinger to slice off them.

"Come on!"

Really tries to jam my arm in there to reach deep.

Desmond:

For a moment I thought I was gonna get sucked in and vored. Crazy. As if anyone can suck an entire person in.

I manage to get it out via the ripping and burning. I wouldn't have been able to brute strength it on me own. The ripping was lucky.

I hold my prize up triumphantly.

"Ha!"

Then realize I'm still on fire and burning it.

"Oooh... Whoops."

Well, the attempt was made.

I extinguish the flames and teleport back into the food guide.

I hold the remains to me and try to peer around but that damn blinking light messing with my vision.

"Beo?"

I close my eyes and sniff around trying to pick up a scent but just mainly smell Beo everywhere.

Meredith:

I sob in response to the horrific display on the throne.

"N-"

Nooo

Bash's eyeball rolls over but I hardly notice it when Blythe approaches.

"Where is Cary??"

I gasp.

She accuses me of Bash's condition and I tear up and shake my head at her.

She tries to maul me and I portal jump to the other side of the room startled.

"I didn't mean for this I swear!"

I thought Cary was making him better! Separating him from Boron!?

*Almost trips over William passed out on the floor.*

Desmond:

I jump startled at the sudden face smacks and lean my head back, eyes tightly closed, grimacing, and wave my free hand blindly around at first.

Then I squint into the flashing darkness and realize it was the hot appendage.

I move my hand away at a distance from my face and try to take a calming breath doing my best to ignore the sudden instinct badgering the back of my brain at the 'bird'.

Shivers.

"Do you want me to eat you instead? Cause if you keep this up..." I trail off.

I heard nothing besides the wings.

Beo musta ditched to follow the weenie.

...

Or he's dead.

I look around and between the annoying flashes of light, see him of the floor. There's some sort of splatter on the windows standing vigil over his apparent corpse.

...

Well, there's nothing I can do there.

Turns away from the body and looks around the room.

How far can a tentacle actually go? Could it really have gone far?

I head outside the guide to continue the hunt.

Meredith:

I am turned on, by everyone, and so I should be.

I was responsible for this whole mess wasn't I?

In my attempts to stay away from Bash and prevent both myself and Desmond from hurting anyone, I got Cary killed!

We were so close.. so close.

My heart broke.

All that pain we went through, was for nothing. All for nothing!

How could I explain myself? I could hardly get the words out.

Maybe.. maybe Beo could do it for me?

(To Beolan) ((Beolan help! I need you!))

I call out for him but there was no response.

I could hardly sense him at all.

There was so much pain coming through the connection it was hard to tell.

(To Desmond) ((Desmond! Where are you? Do you know where Beolan is? I need.. help.))

I plead with him next before slumping down, weak with hunger and pain.. so much terrible pain.

"It's not how it looks! Bash is.. sick. We were trying to help him. He needed to be weak so that he could be made strong."

I try to explain but it just sounded crazy.

"Bash wanted this. Please.. you must believe me. I could not do this to him unless he wanted it too. I love him! His pain is my pain and I am suffering too!"

I wrap my arms around myself feeling a strange sort of temptation for one of the nearby soldiers

Desmond:

....

(("Beolan died saving me from Bashes tentacle dick."))

I hadn't really considered it saving or anything at the time but I mean..  

...

Yeah... I still don't know really but it did kill him...

Lucky bastard.

(("His body is in the food guide. I'm looking for the dick now now."))

Laughs to self and grins madly.

(("A ladies voice in my head told me to get the pieces. I got Bashes mouth thing so far!"))

I think proudly at how good I'm progressing in something for once.

(("But it wants to fly... The mouth has wings.")) I giggle.

......

Yeah. I'm perfectly sane right now...

Or maybe im now undead nuts and this is my new perverted perception of reality...

Seems nicer this way.

Desmond:

I hear the cat and make a whine sound.

"I don't want to be around Mer. I've been around her enoughhh."

Holds up cat head, peering at its new form.

So fuzzy... But wounded! (burnt stubs)

Gets distracted by cat instincts and licks burnt stubs in the feline way cats do to wounds.

It's hot and burns my tongue. My ears perk up as I hear my tongue sizzle.

Catdaver:

Desmond refuses to bring me to Merideth. He licks me and I recoil back alarmed he was the reason I was so sick and suffering this is all I need.

*fights back cat purr*

((Let me replace you then, she wont know the difference I'll go as you!  You go free! We are both cats it will work. Run away and let me handle Meridieth))

I reply. 

((You'll be free of her at last.))

Desmond:

I hold the hand back at a distance to get a good look at it.

(("Mmmm..."))

I consider what it had looked like person-wise.

Pale skin... Platinum Blonde... Blue eyed... Tall.. Yeah, that certainly describes me.

Buuuuttt.....

(("I dunno... You're really pretty and sparkly... She might see through that. I'm very ugly.")) I point out the obvious.

Catdaver:

I struggle with this never ending banter to GET TO MERIDITH.

I have the urge to just release Klaus into the bushes and FEAST ON HIS NEWLY FORMED BODY TILL SHE FUCKING GETS HERE GODAMNI-

((Your beautiful..)) 

*puurs at him with big sweet cat eyes*

Meredith:

I remain silent at Desmond's response.

Did he really just say that? Or was that.. me?

I portal jump regardless to Beolan needing to heal him.

Once he is back again he can explain to everyone else the TRUTH.

I try not to be distracted thinking about Bash.

I could not heal him... not yet. Not until he was FIXED.

I find Beolan on the ground where Desmond said and drag him out of sight.

Desmond:

I look at them surprised.

"Oh...?"

I hadn't been catfishing for a compliment, just pointing out our differences, but it was uplifting to hear.

I flush with a smile.

"Thank you."

Purs back and wags tail low, looking down embarrassed.

Desmond:

I straighten, wide-eyed in alarm as my hearing picks up the screams.

"ETTIE!"

Breaks out in a teleporting sprint trying to find her.

When I get to the dark room I see the horrid scene!

I feel a crackle from my core at the site!

Drops the cat person and goes feral as I leap onto the thing, while it was pulling away from her, making cat-fighting yowls.

Bites into the tentacle and shakes my head violently, trying to finish ripping it off. I clamp my sharp tiger teeth feeling hot burning blood burning my throat. It causes me to unclamp, opening my mouth unbidden with a shriek of pain from my own throat.

I remash my jaws with determination and hard eyes, as black ooze runs down in rivulets on my chin. I tug and turn my head away from Ettie as I continue to pull with my mouth. (probably making it worse since it was already trying to disentangle.)


Ettie! I feel my wings ache at the thought of her possibly dying.

The black inked feathers expand out in the darkness and suddenly a soft cold light ripples across them and white ash starts to smoke out as the light ripples and crackles around them like electricity. Piecing the air with their sounds.

I desperately want to burn this vile ooze and this monster that could have attacked Ettie of all people but I don't want to accidentally burn her. (As if I haven't been burning her with flinging putrid blood everywhere already.)

As the burning drips down my throat like liquid fire, the sensation and the situation of Ettie's 'attacker' causes a flashback to come to me.

Raginbar.

I feel electricity travel and horridly tickle the roof of my mouth then create a great ache in my fangs and jaw. Electricity sparks out rippling the darkness in a light show against the slick think in my maw.

Desmond:

I let out a muffled screech as my gums scream at me as they're ripped and carved by the creature's stingers.

How is this bastard still alive??

In the background, I hear the ding chimes of a tablet cast aside nearby on the ground for the food guide. Points for frying fish. Well, at least I wasn't the only one who thought that should work.

I see Ettie helping and it touches my undead heart, giving me some focus despite my animalistic rage jumping into this.

My electricity at my teeth fizzles out and I set myself a blaze and piece into the rope of a body between us wth one of my claws to hold it for a starting point and use my other claws in an attempt to rip down it open, but the scales make it difficult.

Meredith:

"I'm trying to heal him!!"

I snap back at Blythe when she keeps me from not only reviving Beo, but also properly explaining what is ACTUALLY going on with Bash.

I tear up when Blythe projects more of her emotions onto me.

Like I wasn't already feeling enough.

"P-please Blythe, if not me than yo-"

I try to get her to heal Beolan but she comes at me with something else.

My brother...

I blink somewhat startled.

...........

"Please Blythe!"

I beg not understanding why she thought I was against her.

Blythe: (Beast form):

Meridith can just whimper and whine at me. She was completely useless. I ignore coldly her pleads for Beolan.
I lower my paw feeling defeated.

((Whatever you tried its failed, you killed him. There is no cure for Desmond's bite,you knew that. That fate is reserved for our worst enemies and you gave it to Bash along with Boren carelessly.. Now everyone is sick from the body....some cant even wake up....they are taking him away now...))

Boren's been captured many times.. why didn't she just use moonstone?

Now there's no hope for Bash. 

((Why should I let you have Klaus? What can you offer me now??)) I ask coldly watching her and continue. 

((You couldn't heal him from godkiller bite..its impossible... so what good are you and why should Beolan live if Bash doesn't..))

Meredith:

"N-no he's not dead."

I try to reassure her frighteningly reptilian form.

"Not truly."

I try and push myself up.

"I can bring him back, like he did m-"

She mentions Boron and I freeze.

She knew, she knew this whole time???!!

"YOU TRAITOR!!"

I push myself away from her in disgust.

"I am bonded with him! I can't kill him?! I can't even say anything that could result in his death eather! BUT YOU! YOU KNEW THIS WHOLE TIME AND DIDN'T DO A  THING!!!!"

I snap before responding to her about my brother.

"Giving him back is the LEAST you could do after leaving me alone to deal with your FATHER!!!"

I start to hyperventilate.

Omd... omd, omd, OMD!

I curse.

This can't be happening?! I trusted her! We all trusted her and now she is.. she is..

I look her over freaked out and confused.

Working with HIM???

"How could you! I LOOKED UP TO YOU!!!"

She was my mentor..

My eyes flood with tears again and my heart breaks.

"You let your own son go through this too. "

I look up at her angrily.

"He is in there you know and I will bring him back just like he did me, just like I did Beolan, then he will know what you have done!"

I lash out at her in anger.

Meredith:

I glance to the side when Blythe reveals that Klaus knew the truth too.

How could so many of us KNOW but still do nothing?

Blythe asks me more questions I do not know, or care to want to.

I stumble back when she appears suddenly in my face again.

"What the hell?!"

She wanted to find Boron.

Better her than me. I will only make him stronger.

I was so confused with what she was telling me.

Bash was separated.. into pieces. Boron had his own body. Bash might have his own too.

Either way she was not going to let me heal Beolan until Bash was back.

I try to sense for him.

(To Bash/Boron) ((Where are you?))

Desmond:

I grimace at the shrieks hurting my hearing. My mind is bombarded with pain and despair, as I feel a wave of exhaustion and sickness wash over me while the monster burns between my teeth, its toxins seeping into my bloody, ripped gums.

My screams join the monstrous chorus but it gets gurgled from fluids filling. My jaw drops open numb, the fluids seep out of my mouth and stream down my chin, neck, and chest.

Numbness tingles down my throat.

Toxic ashes start caking my mouth and throat.

My vision swims and backs out with pain.

The fire goes out as I fall forward and collapses on the floor, bashing my chin and face against it.

Meredith:

I panic sensing Desmond was in trouble and that was enough for me to portal jump around and search for him like an IDIOT.

When I FINALLY find him he was already on the ground.

"NO!"

I cry out before dropping down to check over his condition.

He was in such bad shape.

Next to him was... it was hard to say what it was but it seemed to be completely burnt up and then there was another noise... off in the distance.

I squint a little unsure.

Whatever movement I saw it was small.

(To Blythe) ((Food guild. There is something here.))

Meredith:

"Ettie!"

I gasp and cover my mouth in shock at her current state.

Before I can ask her where Boron was - because clearly only he would do such a horrible thing - she runs off not even answering Blythe either.

I curse, and carefully work my way around the black goo to roll Desmond onto his back.

Blythe soon startles me and I stumble backwards as something inside her was tearing its way out.

I scream and chase after her next trying to SAVE HER!