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Hunt. Hunt. Where prey? Need to eat. Hungry.
A dark figure shot into a dive from the sky at the escaping rabbit. Its black and blue wings wrapped around its form, shooting out to the sides as the creature grabbed up the poor animal. It squealed in terror, but it was already too late as the predator tore into it with shark-like teeth. Discarding the rabbit after eating its fill, it shot up out of the trees, into the moonlight. It flung its wings out to the sides, revealing every aspect of its form in the blinding sun.
She had a tangled mane of honey-brown curls, flowing haphazardly in the wind around her pale face. Black lines were running down her face, trailing down from her pure black eyes like tear-tracks. Her manic smile was stuffed full of razor-sharp teeth, covered in blood and gore. Her black-and-blue wings were giant, almost looking too big for her. Same with her tail, it was also black, with a fan of deadly-sharp spines at the tip. Her fingers were claws, blue at the tips and also covered in blood.
She was wearing a lightly torn black shirt, with overall blue jean shorts and soft black boots, lined with blue fur. The boots and shirt were swirling unnaturally around her arms, legs, and neck.
Just as soon as she felt the warmth of the sun on her skin, the predator folded her wings and fell back into the forest, alighting lightly on a tree limb.
She no longer was Tocci. This was something else, made feral from at least a year of living wild (the predator didn't know and didn't care how long it was).
That night she followed the stream even more. The predator had been following it slowly for the past year, having long since forgotten why. She travelled the whole night, hanging up in a tree for five minute intervals for sleep. The only other thing she stopped for was hunting. At this point, the predator survived on a diet of mainly meat, with some plants for the vitamins (after all, the part of her who was still vaguely human needed it). At last, the predator stumbled on a grove in the early morning, just as the sun's light peeked its way over the horizon.
The stream trickled into a crystal clear pond, its end point. The still water was surrounded by large mushrooms, and various plants surrounded the pond as well. Deeming it a safe place to rest, the hunter wrapped her tail around a branch, wrapped herself with her wings, and fell asleep.
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"I'll be back. I just need to visit my quiet place." Calibri waved to her brother Papyrus.
She was wearing black jeans, purple shoes, black gloves, and her favorite purple hoodie, which was zipped all the way up and with the hood up.
"GOODBYE, SISTER! DO NOT FORGET TO BE BACK IN TIME FOR MY AMAZING SPAGHETTI!" Paps shouted, waving to Calibri.
Calibri closed the door and walked down the driveway, looking at the sun coming up. It still amazed her how beautiful the surface was. Even if the humans weren't as pleasant.
Calibri took a shortcut to right outside of her little patch of the forest, to not scare any creature inside. Then she stepped inside.
Immediately, she felt eyes on her. She shuddered, but didn't try looking for them. She didn't want them to know that she knew they were there.
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Person. There was a person.
Who? Who person? What they are? Human? The predator growled softly at the thought. Human bad. Kill? Kill human? No. Watch human. Is human?
The predator's thoughts were all over the place. She hadn't seen a person in so long. If it was a human, she would kill it, she decided. Until then,, she would watch.
The person's face was hidden by a hood, and every inch of the person's skin was covered. The person walked to the pond, and picked one of the mushrooms. The predator watched as they broke off the stem, and ate it. Food? Cap thing food? Can eat? Hungry. She licked her lips. The person ate out the inside of the cap, and then scooped up water from the pond with the shell, drinking it before eating the rest of the cap.
Then the person leaned against the tree that the predator was sitting in. She nearly growled, but held it back in favor of watching the person.
As the predator watched, the person peeled of their hood, revealing...bone?!
Skeleton kill skeleton bad bone person hurt me kill the skeleton kill kill kill skeleton kill kill KILL KILL
The predator screeched, a terrifying sound, preparing to jump down and crush the skull of the horrible skeleton between her talons. But the skeleton was gone in a flash of purple.
What? Skeleton gone where skeleton bad going to kill me need to find kill the skeleton
Tocci scanned the clearing sharply. Surely it was a trick? Where was the horrid bone person?
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Calibri, wary of the tingle on her spine, walked over to her pond, picking one of the mushrooms she had brought from Waterfall. She ate it properly, eating out the inside, leaving a bowl for water, before eating the shell as well. Blue fluid dribbled down her chin as she bit into the tender flesh. It was very filling, so Calibri always made sure to eat one before dinner so that she didn't have to stomach Pap's spaghetti. As much as she loved him, he wasn't a good cook, and he only made spaghetti. So she always teleported it into the forest for the animals to eat or for it decompose.
After she ate her fill, Calibri sat down under her favorite tree. It was her favorite because it was the perfect scenery. She lowered her hood, planning to take a small nap to get her energy up.
That was her plan, until she heard the terrifying screech above her. Thinking it was a bird after her bones, Calibri shortcutted to the other side of the glade, behind a tree so it wouldn't see her. She peeked around the trunk, and scanned the tree, looking for the source of the sound.
There were no birds she could see at first glance, but upon closer inspection, she saw flashes of blue, black, and something pale, almost white. It was standing stock still; Calibri almost didn't notice as the black practically melted into the shadows. The blue gave it away, though.
Calibri shortcutted closer, still staying out of sight, to try and get a better look. The creature definitely had wings and a tail, which were draconic in nature. The tail and wing 'fingers' were both pitch-black, like the night, and the wing membrane was the bright blue that Calibri had spotted. If it was a monster, which was unlikely, Calibri had never met them. If it was an animal, then it was some sort of mutant hybrid thing, because nothing Calibri knew of had draconic wings and a tail, and that large at that.
If it was neither...then it could be dangerous beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Maybe even more dangerous than Frisk on a genocide run.
Calibri decided to take a risk and step out into the open.
---POV SHIFT---
Skeleton gone where skeleton kill skeleton
The predator locked her eyes on a figure stepping out from behind a tree. Skeleton kill kill skeleton
She screeched again and launched herself at the offending person. She stretched out her claws to grab the skeleton, so that she could drop it from a far height.
But she felt something in her chest grow heavy, and she was suddenly slammed into the ground. She roared and hissed at the approaching skeleton, who's eye and hand were glowing purple.
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As soon as the creature leaped out of the concealing foliage, Calibri used her magic to grab its SOUL, and slammed it into the ground.
It-or should Calibri say she-was in full view, so it was easy to discern her features. Laying flat on her belly, the girl had pale skin and tangled light brown hair. Wings were protruding out of her shoulder blades, and a tail out of her lower back. She had sharp teeth, which she was baring at Calibri as she screeched, and black eyes like pools of tar. There were black lines running down her cheeks, like tears. She was wearing blue jean overall shorts over a black shirt, which was twisting and flowing around her arms and neck in an unnatural way, same with her black boots.
The first thought that went through Calibri's mind was, She must like blue and black. Closely followed by, I think I need to take her back home. If she goes back to the forest, then I'll let it be.
She quickly applied a little bit more pressure on the girl's soul, causing her to pass out painlessly, and then immediately released it. Calibri carefully picked up the girl, bridal style, being careful of her wings and tail, and shortcutted back to her house.
Calibri opened the door, knowing Paps would be quick to greet her, and dashed up to her room, ignoring Papyrus's calls.
"SISTER? WHO HAVE YOU GOT THERE? IS IT A NEW FRIEND?!"
"Not now." Calibri closed the door to her room gently, and set the girl on her bed. She was twitching in her sleep, like she was having a bad dream. Calibri wanted to comfort her, but didn't want to get clawed by those talons, so she just left the room quietly, hoping you wouldn't wake up before she was back.