Spirit Animal Ficlets

Growing Darkness 2

Conor enjoyed going on the missions to relieve his monstrous tendencies. Nobody questioned what happened and he kept his tracks covered. Until came to bandits.

Conor had been looking over the missions board until a greencloak gave him scroll. It was a mission about Bandits, the four fallen were going to amaya to deal with it.

In Amaya, they encountered these supposed bandits. They were ambushed and captured. Conor found his hunger starting to grow as the men approached "Well looks like we've greencloaks," a tall tan man said. He crouched down "So what animals you've got?" He asked, pulling Conor's gag down.

"The four fallen," Conor said before he could stop himself. The darkness pressing forward "I suggest if you don't want a wolf ripping out your ugly throat then you should let us go," he snapped.

The leader gave a sharp laugh as he stood "What? You think you're scary boy?" He mocked.

Conor shook his head but the shadows were So Hungry "No, but the spider is," he said, the leader's fear crawling forward to his mind.

"Spider?"

"Oh yes, the big black spider with red eyes and green acidic venom on your shoulder."

A man screamed. He started batting at his body to get rid of the nightmarish sight.

"Or is it the large andaconda sliding its way up your pants leg?"

Another scream. Conor smiled excitedly as he tasted the fear on his tongue "Keep screaming, you'll bring all of those deep dark shadows crawling over to the light," he rasped. The creature was sliding under his own skin. A darkness growing inside him.

Conor froze as he came to the cusp of changing, recalling his friends were there. Tied up with him as he forced horrific visions on his captors. His claws were hidden and he used them to cut the binds. There he looked over the leader on the ground, this man looking horrified "Don't Ever Attack This Town Again," he warned. The man whined but nodded weakly.

The shepherd began undoing his friends bindings. He tried not to think of what had almost happened. Rollan was dubious "What did you do to that guy?" He asked after getting his gag off.

Conor shrugged "I dunno," he lied.

"Yes, you do."

"No, I don't."

"Yeah."

"No."

Conor you just-"

The shepherd whirled on his friend, shadows darkening his vision "Stop. Asking." He flinched at his reaction "Sorry it's just- a new power came from my bond with Briggan," he lied.

No more questions, no more words. The four headed to town but Conor diverged, claiming to need the restroom but he would catch up. Instead the boy founded the bandits. A dark feeling rose it's ugly head.

Hunger

Nobody heard the screams. Nobody questioned when Conor came back a bit later after he got momentarily lost. Something had happened and nobody would know.