Cause I Would Do Anything [Closed]

[visioneightfold]

Characters: Vriska Serket, Kishin Egg NPC, later Karkat and Selendis
Location: Sewer, Death City
Rating: PG-13, minimum
Time: October 13th, night
Description: Vriska tries to take on a watch mission by herself. Karkat and Selendis come to save the day and yell at her.

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[kishinegg]

This kishin egg was one of a brood of three or four -- it did not remember anymore -- a small band of people who had gorged on human soul because it seemed like a fun thing to do. It realized eventually that one was not enough, nor two, nor three. It wanted more, more, more, and it wanted a little bit of variety. Maybe one of those people whose souls burned brighter than normal--

It had scented one of these tasty ones, a fine treat for a fine day. Without making a sound, the kishin egg -- all scales and slime by now, and an odd shade of grey -- slid into the water to pursue the prey.

[visioneightfold]

To be entirely honest, Vriska was exceedingly vague on what one of these eggs looked like--mostly that they did not look anything like an egg. That said, it was very hard not to distracted by false positives: floating debris, legless reptiles, and scurrying small furbeasts with long tails were all filtered out in turn.

That, however...

Vriska saw it before it reached her, some monstrous abomination of scales and grey limbs, mutated like some ugly beast from the medium--she turned, pulling out her knife and baring her sharp fangs in a predatory grin. Then she kicked off, leaping into the air towards it.

Aah, you like this format?

[kishinegg]

The kishin egg wasn't about to wait for its delicious meal to just jump on it -- the food was too big to fit in its mouth, anyway, and all the egg wanted was the soul. It erupted from the water in a mess of bilge and nimbly landed on the concrete bank at the side.

It also had a tail. A very spiny tail.

It had hardly landed when it whipped the tail at Vriska. Tenderized meat was also good.

Is that okay?

[visioneightfold]

The tail connected solidly--as was inevitable, given the basic rules of physics: without her rocket boots or assistive technology, Vriska couldn't exactly change direction in mid-air. She hit the wall, her head cracking against the cement, and landed on her feet, her hair and back filthy with slime and grime. Blood spattered the embankment, rich and blue and alien.

It hurt, but she wasn't exactly down.

Tightening her grip on the hilt, she charged, aiming the long, wicked blade for the throat of the monster, her teeth clenched. Her smile was gone, replaced instead by determination.

No problem at all! I tracked the post with Spirit, anyhow. : >

[kishinegg]

It stalked toward her in something of a crooked, bent slouch, tail poised high behind it in case the food decides to do something again.

Which it did. The kishin egg didn't really know what to do about that. Usually its food just screamed. With a growl, it turned around to whip her with the tail again. Thankfully for her, she was too near by then and the spikes were right at the end of the egg's tail, so if it were to hit her, it would do so with the flatter part of the tail.