Smiles And Snapping Spines

"Wait, come back!"

Dear little Caly wasn't totally sure where she ended up. As per usual, her flighty disposition towards her thoughts lead to her portalling to some random place out in the wilds. She didn't have much this day to do, so she just went about her business enjoying nature, until she was held to a surprising sound; a creature was yelping and crying out. Obviously, this got Caly's "Gotta save everybody!" sense tingling, and in turn she went towards the noise. She ran with urgency, until a flash of orange fur crossed her vision.

Her eyes were wide when she came upon the sight; A fox, helplessly yelping, it's tail caught in a bear trap that seemed to have narrowly missed it's leg, and instead clamped on an equally important body part. Gasping in surprise, she sensed the poor creature's emotions, sprawling across her mind like words within a book. She reached out, quickly moving to free the poor thing, though the creature of vulpine-kind didn't get the hint, snapping at and even biting the girl.

"H-hey! Calm down..! I'm tr- ow ow! trying to get you..." She yanked the metal jaws open, and the creature took off, "...Out.. Hey!"

She ran after it, deeply concerned for any wounds. It would likely get infected if she couldn't get her hands on it; micro-organisms attacking one's body were scary things she was thankful she didn't have to worry about. She was surprised that humans could even stand the thought of having billions of teeny-weeny creatures living in and on them, but, then again, she had the array of voices and eyes living in her flesh, along with her sibling's love, so maybe it wasn't too different?

She ran and ran, until abruptly losing the creature, no longer seeing it's flaming fur against the greenery. She looked around helplessly, both acknowledging she had just gotten lost, and that she didn't know where the critter had gone. She pushed on looking for it, searching bushes and trees, until... Something hit her.

It wasn't a physical hit, it was a mental one. She was digging around until she reached a clearing, staring from the bushes at people doing.. Something. A red haired woman was tearing a gaggle of idiots apart who were trying to kill her, she could feel the killing intent, but it was intensely eclipsed by the woman's... Own...

"...Oh..."

Was the last thing she breathed until she felt her knees buckle, falling through the bushes and hitting the ground. It was like her mind shut off, and then back on, and then off again, over and over, burning herself trying, trying to compute the sheer amount of rage she was exposed to, she hardly had to even look at the action to mentally feel like she was bottlenecking. It wasn't a pretty sight to see her, lying on the ground, twitching and making noise, her eyes glassed over as all sense pretty much turned off to be focused into the calculation and processing of what the fuck was even happening.

Overstimulation and shutdown was the best possible way to describe her pitiful position, it just took awfully long for her to figure that out.

Her became body still as stone, her breathing shallow as her mind tried to compute the mere concept of the woman's rage, her gaze a thousand yard stare as she suffered from the shutdown, until some instinct in her decided to correct the bottleneck itself. Trying to plot it out logically was going nowhere to some primal center of her mind, and thus...

Fight or flight was initiated, as instead of trying to process it logically, the switch was forcibly flipped to emotionally. Instead of being glassy, her eyes became lit aflame, they looked like they were burning, on fire, without the fire thankfully, golden tears spewing from them. Fight or flight, fight or flight... Fight And Flight.

Reactionary behavior came from the young Asthavon, as the hand was place on her shoulder, being ushered to get up. Well, she did get up, sort of. Splotches of her body became black, rigid yet small hands and tendrils, which appeared horribly disfigured and mishapen were spawned from her, as four larger, unfocused limps were formed, lifting the girl's body eerily, like a puppet. Her heart rate was off the charts, an odd noise coming from her body as she breathed softly, like some ethereal being was hissing in Ulv's ears.

Eyes upon eyes opened on the girl's body, as an attempt to relieve the bottleneck was put into play, mouths forming on the eyes' pupils, opening wide and taking in air...

The girl screamed. It was a heart wrenching wail, as the eyes that formed on her body followed, a powerful, soul-shaking scream, that in turn blasted energy in the form of strong sound around the girl, instantly flooring many weaker trees and stripping away plant life that wasn't strongly rooted into the soil.

If Ulv didn't get the idea that it was a good thought to bolt, it would be easy to say she would be caught in the burst.

Spoiler:

 

Harrowing Shriek

After a post of warming up, the eyes on Calypso’s body open up, and open once more to reveal mouths with many pointed teeth, which all take in air during the warmup. If able to stand on a stable surface, all of the mouths formed on her body, using her own as a catalyst for the attack, releases a powerful, horrible shriek, that affects objects within a 20 meter radius. Not only is the force strong enough to badly damage buildings, vehicles, and smash about any glass unfortunate enough to be within it’s grasp in one pulse, those who were within 10 meters of her body would have received the true effects of the shriek, for it isn’t simply a release of sound, but uses Za Koa as a push off point for the blast, the energy in which ceases at 10 meters to exert force further out.

Those so close to her, provided they have a functioning sense of hearing, will all start feeling the real effects of the shriek; at first, they’d obviously hear ringing in their ears, but this ringing will instead sound like whispering. Depending on the afflicted’s Focus vs her own, this can either stay at whispering, peter out, or become far, far worse. The farther the distance in skill, the less or more damage it causes.

She just screamed, and screamed, and screamed. An instinct within her knew the only way out of this was to just let it out, let it all loose, unfortunately it was a lot for the poor girl. Her body behaved by itself, almost, as the eyes on her body slowly closed shut, though Caly herself still screamed, but it was far out of the nuclear zone in terms of the horror screeches. She saw something shiny in her vision, she didn't know what it was, her body just reacted, limbs twitching wildly, and if Ulv paid close attention to her body, as Calypso moved rigidly towards her, the girl was literally tearing herself apart. It wasn't massive amount of damage, it was more the smaller forms on her body lashing out wildly, scratching and harming their own body, some yanking at her torn flesh, blue blood trickling off of many corners of her body.

She just screamed, and screamed, and screamed, it was all her voice could do, golden tears pouring from her eyeballs as her tendrils rather threateningly struck towards Ulv, and if she didn't move, instead of simply attacking her, instead would wrap rather awkwardly around her arms, and would squeeze, same for her legs, as the girl would come close, screaming in the woman's face as colorfully chilling, something-out-of-some-mentally-diseased mind's kind of confusing patterning thorns appeared from the girl's body.

Looking as if glass or crystal shards were jutting out of her flesh, they were attempting to pierce Ulv's armor, the girl squirming and screaming relentlessly. Blood even came from where the shards appeared, her whole demeanor currently being mostly comprised of self-harm and pain.

Though blood trickled from her wounds, it looked as if they were healed as quick as they were formed, excepting the forms actively tearing her flesh open. Was there anything happening in this young lady's head? Not quite, not quite. She felt like she was asleep, living in just another nightmare where she turned into something horrific. If anything, despite her heightened and frantic physical state, the girl herself seemed to have just fallen asleep, her eyes didn't seem focused on anything, dreamy even, as she screamed. Even if she felt pain, her body moving rigidly like some wooden doll, she behaved fast asleep in this torrent of rage, having no clear idea of what she was even doing.

And then she did something out of sorts, her tendrils seeing to glitch out of existence, wobbily landing on her own feet, but almost as quickly did her arms become black.. And grow, into giant darkly iridescent fists, and if successfully swung down, would smash into Ulv with the force of a car, surprisingly, the girl's screams seeming to become more intense again, as her body exerted itself once more, forming more eyes and performing the horrific screech once more, her fists coming for a second time, even if a first didn't occur.

Having a screaming demon child wailing at you for a few minutes may be annoying, but having that go on for hours upon hours until the sun was almost down was probably even more irritating. Well, it was certainly tiring to the young one, who had done nothing but be physical and loud and aggressive the entire time, even if she wasn't sure what the hell she was doing, simply smacking and slapping and trying to pierce or bite the glowy thing in front of her out of confused anger.

But the girl's movements would slow in this last hour, loud panting coming from her body as she... Sank. All the way to her knees, onto the eviscerated dirt that once contained grass, and level ground. Her palms hit the ground, the girl panting, til she slowly looked up at Ulv, before making a loud gagging noise, her head quickly jerking back down to the floor, a stream of viscious blue fluid pouring from her mouth, her body trembling as she looked back up. She looked positively beaten, like she was tired beyond tired, panting deeply and shakily,

"...Ulv..? Thaht you...? Ughh.." She held her head, looking down at the floor coated in her fluids, "...I don't feel soh good..."