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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.
No matter how hard she tried, Alanna couldn't forget that stupid smelly giant chicken thing that charged her and Sailor Tempesti that one night – the red-eyed, foul-smelling creature that seemed to be protecting a nest of weird-looking eggs. But they'd parted ways before she could investigate the nest. Alanna wanted one of those eggs in the worst way. She was dying to know if they really were just empty shells, as the rumor mill would have it. It didn't make any sense to her, none at all. Like why would the chicken monster be protecting a clutch of empty eggs? She had to find out.
So she powered up as Sailor Robinhood, just in case one of those chicken things showed up, and went out hunting for eggs.
It took a little while and lots of exploring the many parks in Destiny City, but the Senshi finally came across a nest of eggs that could only belong to one of those monstrous smelly birds because it was on a pile of dead leaves at the base of a tree. Not a normal place for a nest of eggs at all, nope. Robinhood scanned the area carefully for signs of the nest's owner, things like red glowing eyes or ominous death-rattle clucking sounds or that horrible sulfur smell. Nothing. Satisfied, she allowed herself a tiny smirk and crept as stealthily as she could toward the clutch.
"PWOARK!!!"
The thing came out of nowhere, charging her with a speed that was jerky and unnatural. "Aaaaa!" Robinhood yelped, backpedaling so fast she tripped over a root and landed on her butt. She frantically crabwalked backward on the ground, trying to escape the beak of the giant chicken monster as it screamed and pecked at her. Lashing out with a booted foot, she kicked it in the face, which slowed it down just enough that she could get back onto her feet and run. She dodged through the trees surrounding the nest, using the trunks as shields against the creature's sharp lashing claws and beak. Screaming in frustration, the foul fowl pursued as it tried to chase the intruder away from its nest.
Then it happened. In its haste and fevered attempts to drive Robinhood off, it stepped on the nest, crushing the eggs. The monster threw back its head and let out a gargling wail, then poofed away, leaving only a chicken-shaped cloud of awful-smelling sulfurous smoke lingering behind.
"Ugh oh god," Robinhood panted, leaning back against a tree trunk. She pulled the bottom of her hood over her nose and mouth to block out as much of the stench as possible. Then she remembered. "Oh s**t, the eggs!" Muttering "eggs eggs eggs how about a nice egg in this trying time," the Senshi darted through the trees back to where the nest was located.
It was, of course, ruined.
Letting out a huffed sigh, she nudged the crushed eggshells – clearly empty – with her toe. Well, at least now she knew for sure that the stupid weird eggs were completely devoid of contents, not even a drip of yolk or albumen. It still didn't explain why the monster chicken thing was so intent on protecting them, if there was nothing in them. "Well that was a waste of time and energy," she grumbled, powering down to make the long walk home.
She would avoid eating chicken for the next week.
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