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 Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:11 pm
He got to his feet again and stared for a moment with his yellow eyes. The woman's voice sounded familiar, but he wasn't going to spend all his time trying to figure out when he'd met her. Everyone he was meeting in this lizardy state he was alienating, unable to control his urges. What was wrong with him? He didn't want to be like this.. He felt his humanity becoming faint, fading. He didn't want to deal any more with the situation. Something else flickered in his eyes, targeted his prey. The predator was happy to keep chasing Chana, and did so.
He launched himself back into his run, wordlessly now. His horns were pointed forward a little, but his mouth was open and his canine teeth caught the last of the sunlight. He'd catch Chana, and he'd kill her.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:17 pm
Aside from her fading fear, Chana was doing fine. It was like fitness testing at school again...
...and then she heard something crashing in the brush behind her. Someone that no longer cared if she knew he was there. Someone that wanted her dead.
Chana gulped and pushed herself to go even faster. Her lungs were starting to burn and her legs were aching. She didn't dare take the time to look back. Still...
"This is really stupid, Zach!" she called out, only turning her head enough to be sure that he had a chance of hearing her. Not that she really thought it would do anything...but a chance was better than nothing, right?
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:46 pm
Not even saying his name could pierce the hungry animal he'd effectively become. He gained some speed, his tail straight out behind him like a pole. They were soon out of the jungle, in the open. This was the edge of the village. Something about it forced Zach to stop and start to move backward slowly. Deep down he thought being in the village was a bad idea.
He looked over at Chana with his mouth still open, down at his clawed hand, and then bolted into the forest as fast as he could.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:56 pm
When she reached the edge of the village, Chana had to stop and give herself a chance to recover from the grueling run. Then came the sounds of Zach bursting out of the jungle. Swallowing dryly, she turned to face him. If she had to die today, better to see it coming.
But to her surprise, he also stopped. And turned around. And went back into the jungle.
The shock hit her quickly, and she fell onto her tuchus. What the hell just happened? She could only sit there, staring, wondering why he hadn't come into the village.
Then the beaver girl realized the most important thing. Zach wouldn't come into the village! She was safe from him here! She was so relieved, and probably a bit hysterical as well as the strains of the day caught up with her.
So Chana spent the sunset crying at the edge of the jungle, and she couldn't have said whether it was for fear, relief, anger or frustration.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:20 pm
Zach eventually found his way back to the little jungle clearing he'd been in, dragging behind him a thick, long vine he'd cut from a tree. The possibilty of simply taking a victim without so much as a thought was terrifying him. It had come to something degrading. He'd seen people do this to dogs with rope. Well, it would work on the same principle.
He pulled the vine into a collar around his neck, and tied it, making sure not to choke himself, though it wasn't comfortable. He grabbed the other end of the vine and looped it around a sturdy tree trunk, tying the knot around it twice as securely. Now, to test it. He grabbed the two feet of vine that remained loose and yanked. The knot on the tree didn't give at all. He was reluctant to test the one around his neck, but it was tied rather tightly, so he doubted it would just come loose, even if he stretched the vine to its limit.
He looked around. No doubt the cameras were watching this. Did he care? Hardly. He hoped this would be the solution to his bloodlust problem. He was running out of options.
He went to sit down with his back against the tree again, but fell asleep quickly. Chasing Chana had taken a lot out of him, and he wasn't going to last long out in the jungle if he kept starving himself of what he really needed - meat.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:47 pm
~ New RP ~
Ok it was official, Joliette really needed to stop wandering in the jungle and going off the path... She was lost... again... Her yellow tongue flickering as she pushed through the brush, her stomach gurgled she'd not eatten since before lunch, mid morning actually. Se fought to keep the urges to hunt away as she moved closer to Zach's clearing scenting something nearby.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:53 pm
Zach was now lying curled up on his side at the base of a tree. Around his neck was a vine, and that vine was connected to said tree. Some loose vine was looped in a pile in between the two. It was no doubt a very odd sight. Anyone who came across him would never guess he'd done it to himself.
He mumbled something and clawed his hand into the ground, but didn't wake when Joli drew closer.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:58 pm
Joliette broke the edge of the clearing and looked around, her green eyes coming to rest on the sleeping form of the changed Zach. Her eyes looked at him more and she crouched low her tongue flickering as she watched him in silence, it took until she noticed the lack of a second arm to determine who it was she was looking at... Her stomach gurgled again
'No... Not prey... islander... Not prey...' she tried to convince the beast inside this... though rather unconvincingly as she crouched there in her black gi and one of the shirts hargun had given her
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:03 pm
One of Zach's eyes opened a little, revealing its starkly yellow iris. He seemed to stare directly at the komodo girl. Then it closed again, as though nothing had happened.
"Not a dragon..." he murmered, then followed it with something incoherent. He reached up to scratch at his neck but was foiled by the vine wrapped around it. His hand fell back to the ground.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:07 pm
Her tongue flickered and she moved forward, she saw Zach's lips moving, but the words were in such a level of tone that she couldn't make them out. Her eyes fixated on him as she moved forward, he seemed to the Komodo to be such an easy target...
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:20 pm
Something in Zach's brain realized that he'd seen a person. A minute passed before his brain decided to confirm this fact. He opened both his eyes, ending up staring Joli right in the face. He froze, confused.
"Joliette? J-Joli... you have to get away from me..." he said quietly. Was she staring at him because he'd changed? No... something else...
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:25 pm
Joliette didn't back up, the thought of another villager rather then prey dwindling... Prey... trapped prey no less, was loosing the Komodo, the one thing Joli didn't want... and had managed to control with keeping full up to this point since the village re-opened. Her own sharp claws dug into the earth below her as she paused for a moment
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:32 pm
Food! the predator barked happily. Zach felt sick. He didn't want to kill Joliette, not at all, but he didn't want Joliette to kill him, either. She wouldn't be beyond it. Well, she certainly didn't look beyond it at the moment. He couldn't blame her though, the animal instincts were so powerful.
He sat up quickly, wondeirng what to do, the vine tether around his neck entirely forgotten. He could run, but to where? He couldn't go back to the village, not like this, never if he was going to keep attacking people.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:36 pm
The Komodo grinned slightly, revealing the mouth full of sharp pointy, jagged teeth Joliette mostly could usually keep hidden. She took another step forward and her stomach gurgled hungrily and audibly. She'd lost the control the human pushed to the back, her eyes noted the vine... all the more better for this hunter...
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:41 pm
Zach swallowed hard, looking at all her sharp teeth. As much as his own monster animal was happy to attack Joliette, perhaps cut her throat out, or bite her face, or maybe even claw into her organs... he felt weak, and he didn't want to give in to the animal. He had to fight it, he had to. He also had to make an escape now while he still could.
Panicking, he looked around a little in the dark, then ran around the tree to lose himself in the forest. He didn't get very far. The vine stretched taut at two feet and throttled Zach in mid-run, sending him falling to the ground coughing and wheezing.
Oh, he was going to die.
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