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Vincent's tear-streaked face goes flat. "Have you, now?" Its puny child hands are groping desperately at Tsi-ka's arm. It imagines that stronger hands could crush it like the fragile body of a grasshopper. But the hands of this pink, fleshy child are useless.

It feels the creature's claws pumping venom into its body. Does that work on it? It can't remember. Oh, well. Its puny child hands start to contort. To bloat, to grow in mass and in muscle. The fingers sprout claws and the skin grows thick and leathery, then covered in small, bronze scales. Its arms grow the same way to have muscles that support the pushing and pulling and crushing it has to do to get the claws out of its stomach and destroy. It has slain bigger beasts before; this one was named Zekrul, it thinks, and his body lies somewhere in the bottom of a pit.

“Stop fighting guys , there is a child down there!” She could hear the girl still screaming and talking to someone .

She tried to push the weird creatures away “Idiots.” She shouted well she tried to kick against the basement door

She new it would change shape. To something of this size and resiliance? No, that was unexpected, but also irrelevant. It was not as though she could retreat anyhow. All she did was clamp her jaw shut, and shove as many more claws into what soft flesh remained as possible, doing her best to bowl it over in the narrow hallway to bring more of her legs to bear. If she could get a grip on any organs, she would do her damnedest to rip them out.

“Can someone help me to open this door!” She shouted . She kicked again , the wood was clearly old!

“So you guys don’t care that a child is propably dying down there?” She kicked again. And she felt down in the water , the whole room was filled with water she looked around the child was one an old shelf but the child was also underwater.

"It's okay, we'll get out. We won't drown." This becomes Raven's mantra as the water rises to meet them. She repeats that but as water laps around her paws, she can't believe it. It's not okay. We won't get out. We will drown. Most of the crawlspaces she'd used to get in are underwater and probably flooding. Now she's as trapped as Liliath.

"Little!" She cries as the child's head disappeared under the dark water.

Then the crack of splintering wood, a light. The growling and hissing and cackling became clearer, but not as clear as the admonition of the new girl, Seo, as she broke down the door.

"Thank goodness! Save the girl!" Raven can swim, and now with a clear exit in sight, she had little problem diving into the water to reach safety.

“Yeah I am trying!” She screamed underwater , she noticed the girl weakly laying on the ground . Seo swimmed faster to her and tried to grab her . She tried to swim with the girl to the stairs . The girl seemed not to breath oh lord!

She pushed the girl out the basement and then climbed out herself “She is not breathing.”

(She is not dead)

Vincent is ready to bring down the house and kill everyone inside, especially this insolent insect that keeps trying to stick its filthy claws in its gut. It manages to cover most of its growing body in the dragon's thick hide, although all except the tough belly scales are still stabbable.

It feels the tearing of flesh as Tsi-ka fishes for vital organs. It knows that most of those are safe, but HELL does the tearing hurt. In pain and enraged, it forms a large, reptilian dragon head, with powerful jaws and sharp teeth made for crushing bone. it lunges at her, aiming to crush her brains into mush. Further losing itself to the role of a giant beast, it grows a muscular tail that bats back and forth with reckless abandon. In such close quarters, it slams against walls and broken furniture. People too, if the small creatures aren't careful.

Raven lies by Liliath's pale face, wet, cold, and terrified. "We need to get out before they crush us!" Raven frantically searches the room for opening for all of them to escape the house. Tsi-ka take up most of the room, blocking the front door and the broken window, but there's a narrow hallway that probably leads to a back exit. "There!"

In a last desperate move, having pulled a length of intestine out of the draconic body, the large arthropod yanks her injector claws out of the monster, and strikes into its gaping maw, hoping its palette won't be strong enough to keep her from jamming what poison she has left directly into the beast's brain. Either way, this fight would end HERE.

All for the will of the Hive. This contagion would be contained.

Seo nodded and grabbed Liliath and dragged her to the hallway “We need to do something , we can’t just let the kid die!” She looked to the girl , she looked so scary almost dead. But she could see that the child was breathing a little that was good

“Come one cat!”

Death. Finally. It's dying now. More claws striking at the roof of its mouth, a final effort to kill it. Claws slip between the teeth and into the soft palette's flesh but that is also thick and probably protects the brain. But to be safe, whatever lies between its ears is shying away from the claws. Even without the venom, that would be fatal. Not today! It waits for the dying Tsi-ka to go completely limp before it lets go. The corpse falls to the floor with a dead thump. Dead. Finally.

It licks whatever this thing had for blood and brain matter off its lips, ecstatic and relieved. What a close call. What fun.

Too tired to finish destroying the house or pursue the small people, it drops the Draconic form and flees through the broken window, leaving some of its bloody intestines snagged on the broken rim of glass. It can grow that back later.

"Gladly!" Raven follows Seo thank heaven there is a back exit. The house is quiet now. She hears a dull thud somewhere back in the room and she really hopes its the nasty that just died.

But more so, she hopes it isn't too late to save Liliath.

An image, a dying thought. Mother's will. A beast. Ever changing. Hunt. HUNT. HUNT. HUNT. HUNT

kill.

Chew from her body, wings spreading. other creatures.... not relevant. Escaped? yes.... kill kill kill.

[The new Volatile neuters burst forth from her limp abdomen, and speed after the fleeing beast on buzzing wings, bodies filled with acids]

“She is already breathing .” The girl was moving a little then started coughing, she opend her eyes. Thank god she was alive.


-Liliath-
“Raven.” She smiled weakly , “I was almost with the angels.” “Raven I wanna go home.” She said soft and weak

Raven feels so relieved that she purrs. The soothing, rumbling sound intensifies as she rubs her head and side against Liliath's little face. "I'm so glad your alive." The comment starts as a shout but the falls into her whisper as her throat tightens.

“I felt so free.” She smiled “But now.” She sighed “I wanna go to bed , home to my mother.” She coughed “I don’t feel well.” “Is the killer still here?”

What's that? Buzzing, huh?

Without stopping, Vincent turns and see two large wings insects chasing him. It can't help but laugh. Tsi'ka has a lot of nasty tricks, and it loves tricks. Not only that, but it has a new shape to play with. Two shapes out of one prey, amazing!

If it wasn't so tired, it'd turn around and say hello, but it needs to rest and heal its damaged insides. Furthermore, Tsi'ka's venom is starting to take effect. It feels a little slow, uncoordinated.

But still fast enough to duck into another building, the inside perfectly out of sight of the buzzing killer bees.

Out of sight, out of place. The buzzing outside fades as the house shifts place and hides Vincent far away from Tsi'ka's drones.

It crawls into a small, creamy bed, curling up as the venom finally overtakes its muscles. It can't move anymore, and won't be able to for a long time, a few days at least. A week at most. This venom probably won't kill it, and even if it did, all would be alright.

Although this batch of prey would get away if it died.

No, this won't kill me, It thinks as the room goes black. Never has before. With that, it falls asleep content, the taste of Tsi'ka's death is fresh on its tongue and the knowledge that the town will protect it here in its wicked heart.

"No, no. The killer is not here," Raven says. "Tick kah tore him apart. Buggy, you should tell her-!?" She realizes that Tsi'ka hadn't followed them. "Buggy?" Is she...

She sits, stunned, and absentmindedly paws at a loose string on the bandages. Tsi'ka was weird, a little scary, even for Raven, but...

She's tough, right? She can't be dead.