All the better to eat you with [OPEN!]

[gotmadskills]

WHO Conrad Ac Faith in Conrad's body
WHAT You know how Conrad doesn't eat people? Yeah, Faith doesn't have a problem with it and she's hungry
WHERE All around the city
WHEN Sunday night
NOTES/WARNINGS Likely violence, potential taking Conrad's body out for a spin in other ways, will update! Also, this is an open log, whoops for not mentioning that

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[heavenlychain]

Indeed it could, and what's more? The long slash from the apple of one cheekbone all the way over the bridge of Zangetsu's nose, stretching almost to his opposite ear ( souvenir of more city madness ) was starting to bleed again. Not a lot, just a a drop or two from where the long wound was reopened. Zangetsu's blood, while human enough in it's genetic makeup, was like liquid fire. Or energy. It depends on who's looking, but for certain this short, childlike boy was actually a sentient sword. He was power incarnate.

"I think you are an invasive spirit. An entity of some sort. I can not say for certain, but that does not matter. You will be returning Achenleck-san to his previous state."

He had this not!Conrad at a stalemate for the moment, but it wouldn't last. He'd have to bind the body, and find the lost soul, right? How, though....
Drip...drip...oops. Hastily turning and wiping his cut cheek on the shoulder of his cloak, Zangetsu didn't even close both eyes to do it. This would all be much easier if he could just fix "Conrad" through decapitation.

[gotmadskills]

She had a snappy comeback all ready to go, both barrels loaded and everything, and--

That copper smell hit the air and it made Conrad weak at the knees, it was hard to think for a second. Her eyes narrowed and flashed red as she grabbed for the kid's neck with a snarl, looking to hold him down, back or up against something long enough to drag her tongue across that line of hot and sticky-sweet.

[heavenlychain]

Hoshit, suddenly not!Conrad is grabbing onto Zangetsu hard. Which as ridiculous as it is, is a complete shock, because Zangetsu is too used to the real Conrad, and his own, aversion to physical contact. In an overbalanced tangle, the vampire has a much smaller Zangetsu off his feet, and smacked against the pavement hard enough to leave stars.

But none of that compare to being literally licked. Disgusted, Zangetsu gets a hard, and quick flash of emotion. That empathy kicking in too much; Child, woman, auburn, cross, sword, blood, blood, BLOOD, hungry, sick, tired, savage, broken.

"R-Release....me!"

Ugh...he felt sick. Sorry about this. Really. But that hungry madness is making it very difficult to keep not!Conarad from licking his face again. Without further thought, Zangetsu smacks his forehead into not!Conrad's nose, and jams a knee into the vampire's guts to try, and throw it off of him.

I will eventually decide on a tense. Who KNOWS what it'll be? >D

[gotmadskills]

Conrad makes a noise somewhere halfway between a growl and a purr as the kid starts to struggle...hey. Struggling is half the fun.

Not so fun? Forehead to the nose. She gets tossed but she's had a taste of the good stuff and now all she can think about is getting more, it's a stop drop and roll maneuver before she launches again.

"Cool your jets there Short Round, the more you fight the more it's gonna hurt..." Just that little bit of his blood has her lit up like Vegas at midnight and she wants a whole lot more of it.

Pffft, who needs tense? /Loves this thread

[heavenlychain]

Zangetsu had recovered enough to use a simple martial arts maneuver to regain his footing in a crouch without having to use his hands. Which is handy because it looks like not!Conrad is pretty damn determined to get teeth around his throat.
Even with a sudden forearm put up to stop those sharp snapping teeth, the height difference was a problem, and Zangetsu couldn't very well kill this person, right? Right.

Too bad he's pissed off enough to inflict some serious pain of his own. In one long movement, the broken blade of his sword was up, and jammed hard with a strong push. This particular blade probably feels like it's still on fire purely thanks to how angry Zangetsu is. That anger might also account for the hard, soon two-handed shove that makes the serrated tip punch through not!Conrad's back. It's not a heartkill, but Zangetsu was definitely making it hurt.

"I said release me!"

We don't need no tense! ( ._.)9

[gotmadskills]

If she could just get a good hold on the kid she knows she could just about snap him in half, she rears back with a growl and--

Sword.

The guy seriously has a sword. Who the hell carries around a sword? Not that it matters how it gets carried right now because the damn thing is through her, and she's not full up enough to shake it off.

She pushes off and staggers back, enough to pull herself off the broken blade again. "You fucking little shit," she spits, even though the only thing she can think right then is you did it, B and that doesn't make any kind of sense.

Backing up a little more, she decides it's time to make like a tree. She's going to need to eat to get over this and getting what she needs from the kid is just going to be too much trouble at this point. A glance behind and she grins, ragged and red. "Catch you later, Short Round."

And then she's grabbed on to the back of a garbage truck rumbling by, letting it carry her off for not the fastest getaway ever, but a pretty quick one compared to limping off.

[heavenlychain]

Oh no you don't. He wanted you to stop trying to bite, but that wasn't why Zangetsu was hanging around in the first place.

The speed of a garbage truck is also a problem when your opponent can keep pace with moving trains. Which, in the end, is exactly what Zangetsu does; bolts after the truck, running it down surprisingly easily with only a few blurry there-then-gone steps of shunpo.

"You will not be evading this. Return Achenleck-san."

Hi, not!Conrad, you're getting the collar of your shirt grabbed, and yanked hard. It's time to get off the bus so he can tie you up, and leave you up, and keep you from biting the unsuspecting people. Just like he promised.

[gotmadskills]

Whatever she did, it wasn't on purpose. All she knew was that she wanted to get out of there, and then suddenly everything was changing. Getting small, getting wide, slipping out of that hold on a collar she wasn't wearing anymore. And it hurt like hell because she was already hurt, but she burned through it and next thing she knew she was tiny and dropping through her pants leg to the ground.

The hell?

Running on pure instinct and adrenaline the tiny Faith-Conrad-Bat struggled into the air...goddamn. How did she get so chubby? Gritting tiny sharp bat teeth against the agony burning around the hole through her now fuzzy shoulder she climbed into the air headed back in the opposite direction, struggling but moving at a pretty good clip.

[heavenlychain]

Oh, for goodness sake! It's another game of 'Catch That Bat'! Tired, sore, and irritated with the whole situation, Zangetsu used the handhold of the truck's ladder rungs to get up on top of the stinky, metal behemoth. Crouch. And finally leap.

With a few glancing shoves of gathered reishi under his heels, it's less 'flying' and more a special sort of 'jumping' that allows him to close the gap, and wrap long, if bony fingers around the fleeing bat. Holding on tight ( but not too tight to crush ) he skids to a stop in the middle of the street.

"If you attempt to run away again I will carve off your limbs."

Ohhh, someone is pissed off. Conrad could survive a maiming, so his body should, in theory, survive just fine.

"I vowed I would stop you from biting, and becoming a monster. You may not be in there at present, Conrad, but I do not take my promises lightly. You are coming with me."

[gotmadskills]

Like this Conrad didn't have a whole lot of defenses. She struggled in the kid's grip but it was looking less and less like she was going anywhere...

"Oh hell no," the little Conrad-bat sneered, and then she dug her fangs hard into the guy's finger. The blood would help heal her up, especially blood that charged up with whatever the kid had going on, and as a bonus? Hopefully it'd hurt like crazy.

[heavenlychain]

"Damn!" Yes, it hurt, and reflex actually makes Zangetsu squeeze the little bat just a bit. Not too hard, but he's wired differently. An ordinary person would drop the little critter.

Have a moderately strong finger flick ( from the opposite hand ) against your head little bat.

"Stop that, or I will put you in my cloak."

Which...probably doesn't mean much to the bat, but Zangetsu's cloak isn't clothing. It's a part of him, and inside it...well, it's a bit like floating in a void. Soundless, lightless, and only Zangetsu's voice echoing all around. Really it would be like being in a very dense shirt pocket, but if the little bat was going to fuss, Zangetsu would just make do until he could locate a shoe box, and some duct tape.

[gotmadskills]

The flick gets a muffled batlike squeal out of her and a sullen-filled glare over the top of his finger. But Faith is nothing if not stubborn as hell, and she digs in her little fangs even harder, sucking down as much of that power-juice as she can. It's doing crazy good for her shoulder, she can feel the stab going all un-stabbed...

Problem is, even if she's getting her strength back it's still proportional to her little bitty wings and stubby legs. That, and she's thinking it'd probably be best to hold off until she has a clearer path of escape. Wait until he drops his guard and split instead of trying to run in clear view.

It's going to take some doing to keep her from going to town on his finger, though.

Since we talked a bit on plurk, shall we end it here?

[heavenlychain]

It's incredibly difficult to do this gently, but that biting simply had to stop! Scowling, Zangetsu used his thumb, and forefinger to reach around the back of tiny not!Conbat's skull, and apply pressure to the hinge of the little bat's jaw.
He's being insanely careful, not wanting to crush the bat's jawbone on accident, but gradually, with a little more pressure, and a lot of concentrated moderation, Zangetsu was using that same tried, and true dragon-bite-removal technique on this bat right now.

"I said stop that."

Without further ado, a small fold of Zangetsu's cloak is used to cover his own hand, then wrap up around the little puffball of a bat. It wouldn't hold not!Conbat forever, but would do the job of disorienting the bat long enough to get it into a shoebox.

...Ugh, even if it wasn't Conrad per say Zangetsu looked at the needle marks of teeth in his hand with a deep frown. He could only hope this place was not like his world. The last thing Conrad needed was an addiction to his blood.

Sounds good! \o/

[gotmadskills]

And then everything went dark. Not even like your average kind of dim red closing your eyes or the gray of a room at night with the moon and the stars out, it was some seriously advanced darkness.

Conrad rolled her jaw, snarling inwardly about how easy she got pried loose, and settled in to see how long this haul in the dark was going to last...

And if it was going to turn out she wasn't the only thing in it.