Scion: Seeds of Glory IC

Brigitte's mind flows out, touching each of the researchers' thoughts with delicate, fleeting caresses, her mental fingers gently passing over each one in turn. The touch of her telepathy is subtle, gentle. She gets very little from each of them, but "sees" enough to know that all of them are human.

Except one.

Brigitte feels Crystal as the huntress reaches the same conclusion as Brigitte. The other woman draws her bow and nocks an arrow in a fluid motion and levels it at the man, asking him what his position is on the team. When he hesitates, Crystal demands that he show them all his true form, like he's going to willingly betray his nature simply because they demand it. Crystal lets the silence hang heavy in the air, awaiting his response.

Brigitte doesn't wait for him to answer. In a lightning-fast movement, she steps forward, seeming to blur into motion and hefts Gram, then brings the pommel of the great blade down in a vicious slam at the other man's forehead.
 
The sound of the impact was terrific; a loud thumping crack that sent the normal humans scattering away from the conflict that had erupted in their midst. "Brody"'s head snapped back and his whole body followed, flipping end over end as he tumbled away with the force of the pommel strike.

As he fell, his form changed. Fair skin became stretched, taut, lizard-like hide of a violent red hue, his body became disproportionate and odd with a strong, bulging body and thin, wrongly long limbs that ended in widely spaced, clawed fingers. The revealed monster hissed, shaking his head as he tried to rise. His face was battered and bruised, one eye swollen shut and purpled, blood oozing from the pig-like nose and the corners of the mouth where his own fangs and torn into his lips. "Ki-"

Before he could speak, Evan sprang for him. The porn star launched himself like a living missile towards the titanspawn and reached out grap for its' head; determined to use all of his divine might to snap its neck before it could use mind control to cause more havoc.
 
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