Starving and Hurting...

Posted on Mon Aug 14th, 2023 @ 12:44pm by Miscreant The Reverend

Mission: HYDRA: Another Head Rises
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Timeline: Two weeks after battle with Syn

Coughing up blood, the homeless man stumbled in the alleyway that he had used as shelter for the past few months. Things had been difficult since he had been kicked out of the shelter. He still wanted to kill the bitch that had had him booked out. She had come onto him afterall. Then she went to the counselors and claimed he had exposed himself to her. No one had even took a moment to consider his side of things. He had simply been forcibly removed, his few possessions tossed out with him.

Now, he was here, dodging the cops and other homeless that were stronger than he was, simply doing what he could to survive each day. Of course, the coughing was getting worse. He knew he was sick, but not much more than that.

Watching the bum shuffle along, the creature known simply as The Reverend, was feeling a strong hunger. Since his fight with the mutant, he had been struggling. She had injured him more than he had realized, and he was burning through hosts faster than usual. He was already on his third host since the battle, and this one wasn't going to last much longer. To survive, he would have to find a stronger host. However, in his current state, that was a difficult goal to attain.

As the bum stumble by, the Reverend shifted, trying to look like an easy target. He just needed the bum to come a few steps closer.

Seeing a fellow bum try to curl away into the shadows, the vagrant sneered slightly. He needed a new coat and saw that the other person had one tgat could fit. "Hey," he said in a rough voice. "Give me your coat!" He lunged forward reaching to grab at it.

The Reverend made a show of trying to struggle free of the man's grasp. Then, in a flash of movement, he reached up and bit the other man's neck. He then wrapped his arms tightly around him and held firm. As the other man changed from attacking to struggling to get free, the Reverend burst free of the one host and entered the new one.

For several moments, there was no movement. Then, the attacker twitched a few times. Finally, he shoved the corpse off of him and he stood. While the body was weak, the Reverend could use it to continue his movements. He hungered for vengeance against the dragon mutant who had injured him so.

Once he was as comfortable in his new shell as he could be, the Reverend moved on, leaving the destroyed and drained body of his previous host behind him amongst the trash in the alley. While he could feel that this new host was weak with disease, he would use it to find another host. That was his existence for now, hunting for a stronger host to sustain him long enough to achieve his vengeance.

~OFF~