You don't deserve pain. Nobody had ever said that to it before. Not so directly at least. It stared at the pup as she smiled up at him and was so lost for words and confused in that moment that he didn't react, at first, when she pushed forward.

It was a momentary delay, but then the feeling of touch, not asked for, unwanted, like a sudden poke of fire against its fur, made it flinch back violently. Sparks of chaos flew through its veins, but did not breach the skin as it snarled low. Helion moved out of her range, out of the personal bubble that she had breached, standing back up to its full height. How dare she touch me DONT LOOK DOWN ON ME as if I need consolation DONT LOOK DOWN ON ME!! There had been an odd tenderness in it, a quietness to its voice, but it was shattered now as it took a step back, baring its teeth in a threat once again.

"Listen, kid, you don't know who you are fucking talking to. I'm not your friend. I'm not your mom. I'm a VALKHOUND. I am a beast of CHAOS. You stick near me and you'll get hurt, maybe killed, and I won't lose a wink of sleep over it!" Its tail lashed behind it as it took another step back. This was dangerous. This was BAD. Beasts of chaos did not make friends. Helion V-RUBY-ONE would not be consoled by a child, would not be TALKED DOWN TO by a child, like IT needed help, like it was some fucking charity case.

@Daphne

Daphne Harmon

She blinked up at the creature, cocking her head to the side for a moment. She was a bit confused at first, unsure why the creature got so mad, but she really didn't dwell on it all that much either. It's words didn't really bother her all that much, and she simply shrugged slightly as if nothing bothered her too much. "Well, I still think you're pretty cool, even if you don't." She took a step back so that she could look up at the creature for a moment, cocking her head to the side.

A large smile crossed her face, flicking her tail gently behind her. "I'm going to practice my powers and I'm going to be powerful like you." She stood up to her full (albeit still very small) height and did one little jump. "You'll see! I'll come back and show you just how cool my powers can be."

"Speech"

@V-Ruby-One

Helion was in it now, the furious heat choking it out, every fiber of it rejecting, hating, refusing. Her words bounced off like rain on a rock, and every moment she stood in its presence without fear or terrified awe or hatred made it more and more frusterated. She just kept repeating the same words over and over - "You're cool!" "You're powerful!" CONSOLATION! It didn't need coddling! It needed to be feared.

Its magic thrummed and raced through its veins, bursting out briefly, warping. Daphne would probably feel it - a strange tingling along her body as all bacteria present was suddenly eradicated by the forged spell. It wasn't...a purposeful decision, but without Helion even trying to control it at this point, it was going a bit haywire.

Fine. It didn't have a problem with that.

"SHUT UP," it roared, towering over her. "I don't CARE. I don't care about your stupid powers! Stop trying to be like me, I don't WANT you to be like me! YOU don't want to be like me!" It snarled and physically held itself back from just. Tearing into her. Doing something terrible that it knew it was going to regret.

Its teeth bared, its own voice screaming in the back of its head. WHY AREN'T YOU SCARED OF ME? "WHY AREN'T YOU SCARED OF ME?"

@Daphne

Daphne Harmon

She shivered at the weird feeling, unsure what was happening. She felt weirdly clean and glanced down at her paw, shaking out for fur for a moment before flicking her gaze back up at the creature in front of her. For a moment, even just a single second, she hesitated, not understanding why the creature was so mad. She thought it would like being seen as cool and powerful, isn't that why it used such powerful magic? So it could be better than everyone else?

She shrugged for a moment, only taking a single step back, but keeping her head tilted up to look up at the large thing. "If you wanted to kill me, you would have." It was a fact, at least to her mind, it wasn't disputable. "Besides, you're magic is powerful, you're better than anything else I've seen here. I don't get why you're so mad that I want to be like you. I won't do the bad things you mentioned before, I just... I want to be powerful and better than others. If I can get my lightning to do what you did without even blinking, than that's what I'm going to work towards."

She flicked her tail, still rather confident in her wants and desires, even though the creature before her seemed to get more and more angry at her by the second. Perhaps it should be time she decided to leave. "I won't show you my progress if you don't want it, but I still have my goals. "

"Speech"

@V-Ruby-One

If you wanted to kill me, you would have done it


Helion froze. Eyes widened at Daphne as a chill settled over its skin, like frost collecting in its fur as hot, vicious hatred boiled it from the inside out. Anger, unbridled rage, everything about it that it could not keep unchecked, devoured it's very bones in that moment. It did not hear what else Daphne had to say, it could only hear the rush of its own blood and the roaring of chaos.

KILL HER. KILL HER. RIP THE SKIN FROM HER BONES. BURN THE BLOOD FROM HER VEINS. DEVOUR DEVOUR DEVOUR because she had very nearly SUGGESTED that Helion just kill her right there. And ohhhh it was tempted, it was clawing at its own soul trying to stop itself from losing it right there.

But

It

Wouldn't.

No.

NO.

It was a sudden shift from aggression and threats to a stumble back, gripping its head again, eyes flitting from the ground, to Daphne, to rolling in its skull as it fought its own violence, gutted itself to keep from destroying the young wolf in front of it.

Why?

I don't know.

"Then go! Practice your stupid lightning!" The bite was back in its voice, but it was weak. Strained. All the effort was put into stopping itself. "If you stay here a minute longer I WILL kill you!" KILL HER NOW KILL HER KILL HER VIOLENCE CHAOS DEVOUR DEVOUR DEVOUR

@Daphne

Daphne Harmon

She took a step back, her ears flattening on the top of her head. She really didn't understand why this creature was so mad. She just wanted to understand their powers and be just as cool as they were. But that just seemed to get more and more angry. She hesitated for a moment, before turning to bolt, a bit saddened that this didn't go the way she had hoped.

But she had still learned some valuable information, even if she didn't understand it all just yet. And for that, she was grateful still.

With one last glance over her shoulder, she rushed away, hoping to one day understand the odd creature a bit more. But for now she just wanted to get as far away as possible.

- Daphne exits

"Speech"

Some part of it felt relief that she was retreating, another part of it clawed at the inside of its chest, screaming at it to go after her, chase her down, destroy her before she fled, but it merely sank its claws into its own skin. It could feel the trickle of hot, black blood down the side of its face but it paid no mind. It stood there for a while more, until Daphne was far out of range before it finally released its tether, letting out a roar and ripping into the fallen tree trunk behind it.

COWARD. WEAK. SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER. SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED HER. But it wasn't listening, focused on the burn in its muscles as it ripped and pounded and kicked at the tree, returning to its child-like tantrum before a little while before it stepped back, panting, feeling like its limbs had turned to liquid.

It glanced back at where Daphne had been before abruptly leaving, moving towards Draco as its blood continued to simmer beneath its skin. It would force itself to sit in front of that damn Spire until it stopped feeling like shredding every gembound in sight.

*exit