The Preserve and Then Beyond Into Fandom, Tuesday Morning

[lockestheway]

The infection had had time to spread. The blasted heath had had time to... reproduce. The poor teal deer who first sipped from the water at the campsite had had no idea of what was about to happen - and neither had the alots that had ventured out near the rock.

In the days since the rock had insinuated itself in Fandom, its influence had grown. It had crept up through warm living cells and twisted them. Made them greyer, sharper, tougher.

It was the deer who felt it first. Their bodies twisted. Their legs changed, their faces warped. Their minds went dark, then mad with hunger. It was the hunger that drove them out of the woods in the morning, not walking, shambling or slinking, but stalking quietly onto Fandom's empty streets.

Only an hour or so later, the alots joined them. They looked nothing like they once had.

But they all had the same purpose in mind: feed.

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[abominationoffh.livejournal.com]

It made a chirping sound and shuffled back another step, seeing if the Bright Thing would follow it and come closer.

Come here, little girl. It would like to get to know you better.

[heromaniac]

"Aww! It's okay! I won't hurt you." Blossom wondered if it would get more scared if she tried to lasso it. She totally wished she had Bubbles' wand right now. Or a net. She stepped forward, reaching slowly to part some of the brush, trying to see what she was hunting.

[abominationoffh.livejournal.com]

It waited. It was hard to wait with the hunger driving it, but it let her come closer. One step, two.

But once Blossom started to part the brush, the hunger would not let it wait any longer. It lunged forward with an unholy shriek, looking to tear her face off or rip out her throat with its beak.

[heromaniac]

"Aaaaah!" SCARYBIRDTHINGINFACE! Blossom immediately reached up and grabbed the thing by the neck and... a wing? and tried to push it away, at least from her face. "Hey! Ah! Quit that! Ow! Calm ah tsch! Down!"

Hopefully she could get it to calm down without hurting it?

[abominationoffh.livejournal.com]

It screeched and slashed at her a few more times in desperation, but Blossom was stronger and it staggered as she pushed it away.

It danced backwards, flaring out its wings to their full span and screaming at her again before taking flight and heading back towards the blasted heath. It would find more prey, perhaps easier, back towards the cabins.

[heromaniac]

"Ow ow ow ow ow OW!" Blossom reached up and felt her face. She had tons of scratches and was actually bleeding! Superhero fail, not even able to rescue a lost bird-thing!

The bleeding had her worried, though, and she decided to put off the campground investigation. Time to head back home and do some clean-up.