The Beast Within
Sep. 18th, 2010 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Purple crests carved high across his cheeks as his body pulsed in time with his heart… fighting the change…
‘No! No, not again…’
Claws and fangs lengthened, sharpened… one wayward fang clipped his bottom lip. Blood pooled into his mouth. Coppery, tangy, delicious…
‘Blood… kill… destroy that which has trapped us here…’
Red bled into his vision. Red… everywhere red.
Youkai vied with human in his veins, in his heart, in his mind…
Nostrils flared; the scent of the monk’s pain, his friend’s fear, an acrid accelerant to the youkai fighting for freedom.
‘Free me… no, not again! Protect us… kill them…’
A scream, a woman brutalized. His mother, screaming for mercy for her child as she bled…
A snarl; the battle was won.