Mutated Shadow Beast

[Devyn Solway]

It had been a little while since Devyn had met up with her trainer wanting to try and see if she could put someone else’s in her shadow beast form. It was easy enough to say hold something in her jaws or even swallow something, but things that typically entered that way were dead. So she wanted to see if the same thing could work but with something alive this time; specifically another human being. After that training session Dev was a little hesitant to try with another living being but Charity did suggest trying to use her power with smaller objects and people. So while she was waiting for one of the dorm monitors to finish checking her room; someone foolish said that she had alcohol in her room.

Too bad for whomever that idiot was, she actually didn't have any but a search was still being done since Dev had a record and all of that. She let out a sigh as she leaned back against the wall, her green eyes drifting over to one of the little tables with a desk lamp sitting on it. The desk lamp and or the little desk were small enough to try and have a hold or at least bring into her other form. After a deep breath, Dev closed her eyes, and started to pull shadows around the area to her. Pulling shadows to her was not difficult at all and it would only take a few moments until she was in her shadow beast form, but with a small twist. While pulling shadows towards her, she also reached out to pull the lamp in with her. While she did manage to pull the lamp in, she also ended up pulling in the small desk and neither was fully inside her beast form.

So there she was with a lamp sticking out behind her beast head and the legs of the small desk sticking on her right side. It looked painful and it certainly was to some level, even without the objects actually touching Devyn's real body. It didn't matter to her beast form and all she knew was she wanted them out. Thus she was trying to reach back and pull the objects out of her, the shadows rippling in the places but still sticking and making it difficult to pull the two objects out. She needed help, if help was brain enough to deal with a semi 'injured' shadow beast that at the moment was now having difficulty breaking out of her form. This is what she got for trying things.

[Nicole Artaud]

It took Nicole a few seconds to fully register what she was looking at.

She had been walking rather determinedly down the hall--running over in her head a list of chemical formulas she had been studying, moving more on intuition than actually paying attention to where she was going. Her eyes saw the shadowy figure first, and while it was enough to make her stop, she blinked twice (Once to snap her back to reality, and again to make sure she saw what she thought she did) before the reality of the situation settled. Once it did, however, her brain moved on its own--

Move slightly forward, if the shadows had wanted to attack her they already would have, hands out, keep balance, no aggression, quickly finish covering the distance, hands on the lamp, grasp it

-- I'm sorry if this hurts, Nicole said, no clue as to whether the figure before her understood her, and pulled on the lamp.

[Devyn Solway]

This really did hurt, not like something that was going to kill her but it certainly didn't feel good to have things sticking out of her form. If she did not 'feel' what the shadows felt in this form, then everything would have been fine. While she was not actually injured and it was more of a mental pain, it still felt like it was the real deal physical pain. That was what came with the type of power that Devyn wielded which she supposed was a good thing or she would be an unstoppable beast when she lost control.

Dev didn't even notice the other girl coming down the hall or looking at her as she tried to turn her head the right way to get the lamp out of her. Had she been better at manipulating the shadows outside taking the form of the beast, it would not have been hard to do. However; she was not so that meant she was dealing with a bit of a situation at the moment. She could not even actually make physical sounds in this form, other then what sounded like a low growl that came out more like someone was whispering the growl in your ear.

It was not until she felt the tugging feeling that her mind clicked that there was someone close to her. Her sense of course had picked up the girl a long time ago, but it was in the back of Devyn's mind since the removal of the lamp came first. She had managed to get the table out do to all her moving around, but the lamp was stuck. This person, this girl was...helping? Dev was kind of surprised and it was that surprise that prevented her from snapping at the girl as she pulled. It would take a good amount of tugging to pull the lamp out of Devyn's form due to the shadows clinging to it tightly, but eventual the lamp was free.

Likely sending the girl stumbling back now that there was no force on the other end; Devyn certainly stumbled away, falling to the ground and her form finally breaking until the shadows returned back to normal and Dev laying there on the floor. "Owwww." Dev muttered out from where she lay on the floor face down.

[Nicole Artaud]

Fuck, said Nicole, and she took another breath. The lamp felt like it had been surgically attached to the shadows. Their adhesiveness surprised Nicole, and looking at them she had a hard time believing something could stick to them that tight, but she wasn't about to touch them herself to check. There was nothing to do but continue to pull. 

Nicole reinforced her grip, and dug her feet harder into the ground. For the first time since seeing the beast she had a moment of clarity, autonomy--snapping out of the problem-solving pseudo-trance she so often found herself it--and looked at the situation. What am I doing? She thought. What if this thing kills me as soon as I free this lamp? What if--the second what if forced Nicole back to the situation at hand. No time for hypotheticals, Nicky, she said to herself, just pull. And she did.

The lamp was immovable until it wasn't, and then it became very movable. In a fraction of a second, the lamp went from feeling like it was attached to the shadows on a subatomic level, to being a very free, very light lamp that a seventeen-year-old tennis star was pulling with all her strength. Nicole nearly flew across the room with it as it exited the beast, landing on the floor with the lamp atop her. Slightly dazed, Nicole at first thought the "Owww" she heard had come from her own mouth, but looking up, she saw that a few feet away from her, where the shadow beast had been a moment ago, was a girl with her face planted on the ground.

Nicole stood up and let out her own Ow. She looked inquisitively at the girl, who seemed to be alive and with no visible injury, but apparently had no current interest in moving from her place on the floor.

Uh, hello? She said. Are you okay?

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn was surprised in herself that she had not snapped at the girl when she had first approached her. It was very unwise to get close to a wounded animal and while Devyn still had her human mind for the most part in her other form, she often lost it. Thankfully she had not lost it completely there and was able to understand that the other girl was just trying to help her. Not hurt her. Even if her help was hurting by the shadows still not wanting to let go of what Devyn did try to make a part of herself. This was all of her fault, but at least she knew that her form could be maintained with nothing things inside of her.

Not living things, but it was a step in the right direction. Well, minus the getting stuck in her other form and almost ending up turning into a crazed animal. It was for that fact that Dev was so thankful to this girl, she really didn't want to add any more trouble to her no doubt very long record. It did not feel good when the lamp was pulled free, nor did the whole stumbling over and falling to the ground. Devyn was not seriously hurt, but she surly was bruised somewhere. She didn't know where at the moment and she didn't care too much. Right now her head was killing her and she just wanted to lay there.

That was why she didn't move from where she had fallen or checked on the girl who had been kind enough to help her out. The voice had her turning her head to get a better look at the person who helped her and was still being kind enough to ask if she was alright. "Yeah, I think so. A bit sore, but nothing that is going to kill me." Devyn said as she did slowly start to get up, wincing a tiny bit but pushed past it until she was on her feet and moving closer to the other girl. "Thanks for helping me out there...sorry you had to see that." Devyn said as she looked down in an apologetic manner.

She really did not like people to see her when she was in any state of being out of control or looking super threatening; unless she was trying to intimidate.