Fallen Down - Power discovery, 100th post

[Ares]

For the Record, this is self-destructive
For the record, [color=red]I'm aware of that.

It had been regular for her to go into the forest for herbs, grabbing more than what was usually needed but she did it to delay the inevitable. The ever growing feeling of fire in her chest, the itchiness in her legs that turned into fierce pain, the headaches. She had a feeling something was going to happen, something like it. She didn't want to hurt anyone, she was so close to hurting someone back then and the idea of doing it again hurt so much worse than the pain.

Her legs buckled at the wrong time. The high wind cliffs had been a small haven for her, despite what had happened to Mazekit, but now, as she felt the pain spiral into agony and body contorting once again like before, there was no safety there. She felt wings sprout from her back and fur falling away for scales and feathers and paws reshaping into talons and claws and suddenly she was falling, falling, falling.

A terrible scream followed her down, sound coming from rows of sharp teeth. Cut off by the splash of water, the beast thrashed and head surfaced, another scream erupting as flames were spat out, bright white like quartz flames. The deinonychus continued thrashing as it tried to reach shore, panic overriding any predatory instinct. Soon the water became shallow, beast staggered onto shore, heat waves radiating off it- her body. She shook her feathers out and opened her jaws, a menacing hiss leaving her. Fire licked at her claws and she looked at them, flexed them.

— Reggan