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[OPEN] you're dead and outta this world

Who: Liliana & YOU! (Other vampires are very encouraged!)
When: August 15th, night of the Full Moon
Where: Aristocratic District, Entertainment District
What: Full Moon Vampire transformation time.
Warnings: Bat violence? Maybe a little blood.

For these prompts, Liliana is a very fearsome pied bat. She's about a foot tall and has a wingspan of around 4 to 4.5 feet.

Going Batty

[ Much to her dismay, Liliana has found herself a little hairy. Well, very hairy. Despite Chandra's best efforts to placate her--and they did work for a while--these vampiric instincts were too much to ignore. So she takes to the skies in search of--something. Food? Probably. She's restless and doesn't want to be cooped up inside their (admittedly large) house much longer.

Heading directly into town seems to be the best course, as she enjoys spending her time getting entertained by others there when she can. She's been avoiding it recently after her death, but this is suddenly very freeing. It's not exactly a conscious choice, but her little dead heart is beating faster than it has in a long time.

Being a bat isn't exactly easy, though. Liliana does her best to land on a lamp post and hang upside down...

...but she misses and ends up being a bat torpedo onto the nearest bystander. Oops.

OR she manages to successfully situate herself on the lamp, pulling her wings around herself like a perfect little burrito. And waits. Waits for someone to pass underneath so she can satiate the growing hunger in her belly. Do you see the bat? Are you wary? She'll be more inclined to get the drop on witches. ]

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BAT FIGHT! BAT FIGHT!!

[ NOTE: If you are ALSO a vampire and want to get in on the ridiculous bat fight, please do!!! If you are not a vampire (either another monster or a witch) and want to try and break it up, you are welcome to as well. ]

[ Being a bat isn't actually all that bad, she's surprised to find out. Granted, she isn't exactly thinking like she's used to and is kind off an adrenaline high, but it's the best high she's had in quite a while. A few nips and bites to the locals have given her a taste for blood, but it also means that there might be competition.

Which is why when she finally encounters another bat circling the area where she has been attempting to hunt, she lets out a warning cry. ]

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[Look, he's been trying to be very good about the whole blood drinking thing. He's asked permission and been mindful of how much he's taking and all of that. Maybe too cautious, actually, given the near-starvation at first, but—]

[But. Being cautious as a bat is a lot harder than in more-or-less-human shape. In part this is because bats are not very smart, and it's harder to think in bat shape. In part, though, it's just more fun to be a bat wheeling through the sky, and he's got a lot less motivation to maintain his own standards.]

[In other words, he's in the perfect mood for a BAT FIGHT.]

[Having scented blood and wheeled towards it, he is both shocked and affronted that some other bat would dare get in his business like this. Excuse you, this is free-range blood. He bat-shrieks right back at her and dive-bombs. Why? Because he can. Although even if he makes contact, he's not trying to injure her, so he'll just bounce off.]

[ Liliana is absolutely terrible at sharing when it comes down to it. And as a bat? She can't even play it off and try to be cute. (Although, in many ways, she's probably cuter right now with the fuzz and even teeth.)

But she's still fearsome. Totally scary.

And clearly disagrees that this is an open buffet.

Liliana isn't the most coordinated bat, so the dive bomb does catch her off guard. She lets out another shriek when she goes barreling in the opposite direction of the impact, but manages to twist back around.

Oh HELLS no. It's on now.

It's her turn to try and get the drop on him, shooting forward as fast as he can to try to head butt him like a ram. ]

[Neither of them, it seems, are very good at being bats yet. That's not that surprising. It takes much more coordination than Giorno thought at first to, you know, fly. He expected it to come naturally. It does not. It took him a while to even figure out how to get off the ground.]

[True to his nature, dodging is what he's best at so far, but even so, he doesn't quite manage to dodge her revenge attack. In fact, he's still trying to redirect himself from his own initial attack, so her headbutt . . . definitely works.]

[Bad news: she headbutts him into a tree. Good news: the leafy part, not the hard part. He squeaks through the thickest layer of leaves and manages to latch onto a branch, from which he yells the bat equivalent of complex Italian swear words.]

[But he doesn't come after her . . . weird . . . is he injured . . . maybe she should come check . . . This Definitely Isn't A Ploy.]

[ It's not as dangerous to go out at night here, and he's learned just enough magic to feel as safe as he did walking around alone at home.

None of that prepares him for a rather large furry body dropping onto his shoulder and brushing against his neck, what the hell.

Sora lets out a weird yip of a sound that he entirely does not mean to make. ]

What— [ Cue a lot of brushing himself off and ineffectual slapping to try and get this unknown object away from him. The verbal protesting he's doing would also not be effective to a real animal, but. ] G-Get off!

[ HE DOESN'T LIKE THIS! ]

[ Oops! Well, you know, it's not going to be a perfect landing. Liliana recoils and flaps back upwards several feet but quickly realizes that there's an opportunity in front of her too.

He has a neck! And arteries! All of which sound very good right now.

So Liliana does a 180 and goes in for a real dive this time. Take two! ]

[ Sora's been through a lot of things in his life, but trying to fight off an animal diving for his neck is not one of them. So he goes for the time-honored tradition of flailing his arms in front of himself. ]

Go away!

[ He's not that effective. The bat manages to make it through his defenses and latch onto his neck, which makes him panic all the more. But he doesn't want to make it worse, so once he feels the teeth go into his skin, he sort of just—freezes. What if it tries to rip his neck open completely? ]

[ Flailing arms is, sadly for Liliana, still decently effective. Even if it's just the sheer chaos of it. If she were thinking beyond basic instinct and thinking necks are a good opportunity? She might be embarrassed. Later, she likely will be.

Also unfortunately for Liliana, he manages to whack her pretty good in the head in his flailing, which pulls a loud screech of surprise (and hurt!) as she tumbles down to the ground.

How...how could he? Look at this poor little (large) creature! ]

[ That's a large creature that was on his neck, okay? It was scary!

Oh, but he did hit it kind of hard. Sora freezes for a second, hands hovering in midair, then slowly moves closer to see if he's done permanent damage. ]

[ She just lays there for a moment, a lump of batty fluffiness on the ground. Who could possibly hurt such an adorable mix of white and black fur? Really, even if it was an attack right for the jugular. She's just a bat.

One that still has some fight left in her, it seems, because once he's close enough she springs to life and flaps wildly around as she tries to take to the air again just above his head. ]

[ It was an ATTACK and Sora is stressed out. The stress wars with relief when he sees that the animal isn't permanently injured, because it's able to fly again a moment later. ]

Can you just go away?

[ He makes a shooing motion towards the bat. Like that will convince it. ]

[These moons had been...shockingly calm ones, for Kaede. She wouldn't have dared walk in the city at night last month--not that there was fear to be found in the dark, oh no. The Chimera was one of the Things that went bump in the night, not the other way around. But, if she lost herself around so many soft, tempting targets, well. There would have been questions to answer.

But now, now she was bound by responsibility--and a clear mind. Clearer, at least. The Moons still called to her, but they were as much background noise as the ambient noise of the city.

Kaede had just been passing the outskirts of the pool of light a street lamp cast to her eyes when her ears picked up the sound of something hurtling towards her. Not a dog, not a cat with the zoomies, something in the air?

The Chimera flinched back, but not fast enough to escape something small(ish) smacking into her chest like an overly excitable chihuahua.]

Hey!

[Her elongated arms clamped around the whatever-it-was, pinning it to her chest.]

[ Well that didn't go as planned--not that there's much planning right now as Liliana is overtaken by instinct. Bat instinct, that is, mixed with some of her own overarching desire for power and preservation. Which meant flapping wildly and trying to struggle out of the grip she finds herself caught in.

Mistakes were made! Now bat screeches will be heard. ]

[RIP Kaede's ears. Even pinning them flat against her skull didn't drown out the noise enough to matter. The Chimera didn't let go, glaring at the wriggling ball of fluff in her arms. It sounded like a bat, but was way too big to have any business being one. Its white and black striping were making it difficult for her to parse what it really was, and the thrashing didn't help.]

Cut it out!

[The wriggling or the screeching, not in that order. Though both would be quite nice too.]

[ If screaming and trashing doesn't work in her favor, does that mean playing dead might? Because that might be what she does. The flapping suddenly stops and she becomes dead weight. ]

[The sudden weight dropping in her arms wasn't too much to deal with, with the Monster's strength. But it was a little surprising, and Kaede had to fumble to keep from dropping the thing. It didn't start wriggling again. Did she squeeze too hard?

Cautiously, Kaede held the thing out between her clawed hands to get a better look at it.]

A bat...?

[When the fuck did they get so big.

And pretty, but also Quite Large.]

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[OPEN] you're dead and outta this world

bAT FIGHT

I love how fuzzy and not at all intimidating these bats look

um how dare you they are SO frightening

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