Truths Hide In Shadows

Chapter 39

Okay, the first drawing is Dust at work, so yeah... Doesn't really look like her. The last two are her in her Great One form. Basically where she's not completely beast yet. Pick whichever one you like best and let me know!
                            ~SR

The night was cold, colder than usual...

Something honestly didn't feel right... She knew that...

Her hands kept clenching into fists, her deep blue eyes zooming around the dark streets.

She knew she shouldn't have been out as late as she was, but... She was out of coffee and several other necessary items...

It honesty wasn't suppose to take as long as it had... It was suppose to be an in and out thing...

Gulping lightly, the woman picked up her pace, avoiding areas that were too dark, or seemed darker than it should be... Being cautious and quick

But something caught her.

It pulled her into the dark alley, even as she kicked and screamed! Yet, her voice bounce hopelessly around the brick and stone walls, all people at far too asleep to hear her.

Out of desperation, she changed.

Her pale skin darkened to a violet color, her hair elongating and puffing out like that of a porcupine. Her nails sharped and lengthened like a cat's. Her teeth even transformed, causing the sides of her mouth to split open and her lips to curl back as she let out a yowl.

Her claws slashed at the thing around, causing it to rear back!

Swiftly, she pushed herself onto her hands and knees, bearing more of her teeth as her blue eyes glowed a menacing violet color.

In front of her was a monster the size of a wolf, looked like one too if it wasn't for the long, drippy tar like fur it had and the sharp glowing cyan eyes it held.

It howled into the night air before charging at her.

The Great One barely was able to dodge, rusty after a few years of living a peaceful life as a normal human.

She racked her claws along the wolf monster's side, getting a yelp of pain from it before it landed on its feet painfully and she had to turn to face it.

Her hair was standing straight up, fear and anger coursing through her body.

She gave a loud hissing growl, warning the other beast to back off. It didn't.

It lunge toward her once more, this time she wasn't lucky.

She fell onto her back, her arms right in front of her to hold off the monstrous creature from biting into her face.

A sharp cry of anger and fear fell from her lips as she tried to shove the creature off her, to no avail.

It barked and growled, smirking in its nightmarish way as it knew she had grown weak, as it knew she would not last long holding it up.

Her body started to shake unwillingly as it gave to that fear... The fear her kind craved and fed off of... Growing stronger from that fear.

The wolfish beast lurched up, it jaws wide and sharp teeth at the ready, before falling down.

The violet eyed Great One closed her eyes, turning her head away as she waited for pain. However, she felt the great weight of the monster being thrown off her with a small grunt.

Swiftly, she opened her glowing eyes. There, she saw the bright azure eyes of her boss... Berry.

Yet, it was the glowing things in his hands that really caught her eyes. The two dual swords that held the carving to kill Shadow Beasts... Swords he really shouldn't have if he was retired.

"Never thought I'd get a chance to use these again." He grunted out, no longer the childish man he once was.

The large wolf beast whimpered and whined, backing away from the two. Then it decided to turn tail and flee, at the best warning the other Beasts of who now resided there.

Yet, just as she was rusty, the Blue Knight was as skilled. The beast never got the chance to fully turn around before being nothing more than a bad memory.

He then focused his eyes on the Great One who still was on her back.

"Maybe I should take you to my home... It seems you have a bounty on your head."

The Great One slowly nodded, carefully contorting her features back to the way they once were.

Standing up again, she quickly collected her groceries as he had his swords transform into some thick bracelets that he would sometimes wear.

After that, the two started walking... Both with a plan to have a small conversation... About things...

Want me to do a bonus chapter just for Berry and Dust? Where they're having their little 'talk'?

                                   ~SR