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Poultrygeist (15) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke.
He had not gotten the memo. Hadn’t even heard there was one. So it wasn’t exactly his fault that he didn’t know not to get near the strange nest and the eggs inside of it. It only made sense to try to flee from the creature that apparently took offense to his accidental approach. And it absolutely wasn’t his fault that he ran into a senshi while he was trying to escape the demon creature.
And to think, his night had started so nice.
Wade had been out patrolling after a great day at work, he had even picked up a little gold star charm to give to his mom. There wasn’t a date in the books but he had been able to wrangle one out of Abby, so that was definitely something to whistle about, and he hadn’t even had an ‘episode’ in the last few days! It was all smooth sailing for him. That's why he decided to go patrolling. He figured his luck was hot and he wouldn’t end up dealing with more than he could chew, and Wade was fairly certain he could handle enough.
But that all fell apart when, during a casual stroll through a park, he stumbled upon a nest with some strange AF eggs. He didn’t give a flying crap about them, and definitely wasn’t about to mess with them, but apparently Mama Bird didn’t know that because before he could do more than take a few steps away there came this horrid, guttural, rasping cluck out of the darkness. He had turned to see what had just made that noise but all he saw in the darkness were two beady red eyes staring back at him.
Unnerved, Wade backed up again, but found the nest behind him. The creature was pinning him between it and the nest. He had nowhere to go! And then the monster stepped out of the darkness just enough. Demon Chicken, was the only thing he could think as his mind tried to make sense of what he was seeing. A creature that might have been a chicken in a past life stood there on tall stilt-like legs, legs tipped with razor-sharp talons, covered in long, oily feathers that would put the Exxon Valdez oil spill to shame…. And all as tall as he was! If the unproportionate thing could even be considered ‘tall’ since Wade couldn’t figure out why it looked like some horrid child’s messed up drawing of a dead chicken.
What. The. Actual. ******** willing to stick around, and well aware… NOW, that being stuck between the nest and the ‘chicken’ was the worst possible spot, Wade tried to bolt. He was getting the ‘cluck’ out of there. Sadly the creature decided that the fleeing officer was worth chasing.
Even worse, Wade stopped paying attention where he was going or more importantly, who might be around as well. So it did come as a complete surprise, that while avoiding the lunges, pecking, and scratching of the Devil’s Chicken, that the Lieutenant ran right into, if not over top of, a senshi who definitely didn’t deserve the railroading he just got.
Viva Viola
