Chapter 44: Slight Concern
After fighting the mother of spiders, Arachne, and killing her, Enychta decided to feast upon her corpse, eating it completely in some fast bites. He burped a little as he finished eating the giant spider woman and began to use his nails to pick on his teeth and see if there was some meat left there... He turned around and look at Luke who had the girl in his arms, the girl had grey eyes and Enychta knew instantly who she was! He walked up to Luke and when the girl turned her eyes to him, she began to panic, it was then that he remembered he did not change back at all! He huffed and ignored the girl, approaching Luke and sniffing his hair, looking down at the girl frozen in fear he said: "So, is she okay?"
He knew why she was acting like that, but he decided to play oblivious because was slightly enjoying this... Sadistic bastard.
"She is, I think." Luke looked at Eny's bloody maws and sighed, he motioned with his eyes towards the blood flowing down the big black werewolf who sighed and began to transform back while producing threads while at the same time weaving it into a simple short skirt that he wore. "Gonna take a bath, you up for it?" Luke felt his cheeks getting red as he heard the offer, but when he looked at the little girl in his arms he sighed and shook his head he walked towards Thalia to get her help and free the little girl from her silk prison.
Enychta didn't know why but being rejected by Luke and left behind because of the little girl made him feel slightly jealous and a little bit angry, but maybe that was just his mind. He isn't jealous, Luke has the right to choose to come with him or not, Pruno will come anyway! "Let's go Pruno," Enychta called just to see the boy beside Luke and Thalia, helping the grey-eyed girl get rid of the threads... What is this? Eny was sure she was Annabeth Chase, but what if she was someone else pretending to be the daughter of Athena? He doesn't know if a monster can disguise themselves to be a Demigod, but as far as he knows it can be possible! Maybe she is also a reincarnated individual that took over Annabeth's body and has some kind of Charisma-based skill and is slowly taking his family from him...
She can be a threat.
No, she is just a little girl... Maybe that is what she wants him to think! He can't trust her, he won't trust her, his paranoia saved the life of his family several tones before, and he trusts it to some degree.
He decided to first clean himself before making some decision, he slowly walked away from the group and began to search for any body of water that he could bathe himself into and he had to opt for a quick call to the Grey Sisters to bring him to the nearest great body of water, so they took him to a river and left him there, where he took a bath and cleaned himself from the green-ish black poisonous blood of Arachne. Oh wait, did he get any ability from her at all?
[New Proficiency Acquired:
Color Change: 0%
Can freely change the color of anything produced by the body.]
"What?" Enychta was so confused that he expressed his confusion out loud. "What is this?" He thought back to the fight, Arachne was a half spider half-woman whose half spider lower half was completely black, her spikes were also black, maybe that's where the color thingy comes from? Those spikes were made from threads, weaved together to form a spike or a thorn, Eny wants to learn how to do that! Slowly, a white silk thread began to float out of his finger, after it was standing tall at 5 inches, he concentrated on the color and thought about it being blue.
Sure enough, the white silk slowly turned blue!
Eny thought of the uses for this ability, with that he could sew better clothing but also lay traps! Green threads in a forest, black threads in complete darkness, brow threads on dirt and soil, slightly orange threads for sand traps! Depending on the environment, it can be very useful!
When he was done with his bathing, he quickly left the river and flew back to where he came from. When he arrived he saw the three members of his family curled up together close to a fireplace while trying to help a shivering girl who looked to be wet? Thinking about it, it was raining and they were below a tree with a barely lit fireplace, curling up together. They are too dependent on him, aren't they? Wait, this might not be a bad thing after all! If they are too dependent on him, they won't leave him... Yes! He just has to make them depend on him, all the time, forever and always.
He quickly shifted to his coziest form possible, his Carnivorous Sheep form was the coziest but also a very stupid one. Why? It lies on the name, Carnivorous! He eats meat! On that form, he has to focus most of his time to try and not eat the little Demigods in front of him while trying to keep his wool expanding and creating a barrier of fluffiness against the cold wind and rain! Maybe he should just shift to his Lycanthrope form and just do the cozy floof dome? Yeah, that seems to be the safest option right now.
His bones cracked in a sickening snap, his muscles began to tear, and ripe as he grew in size and black fur began to expand from his skin and he became a werewolf with golden eyes that shone in the darkness. He slowly walked towards the quartet and expanded his form up to 14 feet, when they saw him they sighed in relief whole the grey-eyed girl that Enychta knew was Annabeth Chase began to shiver, but bot because of the cold, but because of his scary appearance as a 14 feet tall Werewolf! "Come here." He commanded as he began to crouch down to create the Floof Dome, Thalia carried a frozen in fear Annabeth while Luke and Pruno held hands and walked towards Enychta who huffed through his nose some smoke, he was using [Skill] Fire Breath to make his body hotter in a literal sense.
He looked at the grey-eyed girl and wondered if she was truly a threat... He concluded that although she was not a big threat, she was one nonetheless, and no matter the size of the threat, they are still a threat.
-Scene Ends-
Author Note:
And here we have a wild paranoid, in his natural habitat.
*snaps photo*