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 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:59 pm
Quote: Poultrygeist (10) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke. Bélénos wandered, grateful for the clear night. Much better than the previous night with the insane, very wet fog that had blasted her around. She hated getting wet. Much like a cat. She hummed to herself, not really paying much attention to where she was going except to avoid any auras she sensed that weren't from the Dark Mirror Court. She preferred going home unscathed, thank you very much. Unfortunately, it seemed the universe wanted to have another laugh at her expense, because she tripped right over some kind of odd bird nest and fell, wrenching herself to the side so she didn't crush them. "Ugh, gross," she muttered, standing up and dusting herself off. It was only then she realized exactly what those eggs were. "Oh, crud."
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 4:25 pm
There was an awful smell in the air.
Ariadne wasn't sure what to make of it; maybe someone had thrown rotten eggs into the trash or something? But surely that wasn't strong enough, unless they'd been left on the sidewalk or something to bake. No, it had to be something else, and she wasn't exactly up on thew Christian ideas of Hell, but she vaguely remembered something about sulfur? Or fire and brimstone? Or something like that?
What that would be doing in Destiny City was anyone's guess, but maybe there was some magic bullshit involved here that she knew nothing of and was about to learn about very forcefully.
Because, against every ounce of her better judgement, she found herself moving towards the smell--and it turned out to be the right thing to do.
She saw the giant chicken-thing first, and it made her gasp. Clearly, it was the source of the awful smell, and it looked both very angry and very dangerous--a bad combination, and one Ariadne definitely couldn't turn away from, not if someone else was in danger, because she could definitely see a person who was probably in distress.
And when she looked closer, she realized who the giant chicken-thing was staring down, and that spurred her into action. That was a very familiar face, and it was someone who had helped her before--seemed like she was going to get to return the favor.
"Bélénos! Move!" The chicken looked like it was about to charge her friend--and that would simply not do. So with all the leg power she had from ballet and figure skating, Ariadne kicked it in the side as hard as she could.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 5:11 pm
Bélénos had yet to see the giant chicken as she looked around for it, so when Ariadne seemed to appear out of nowhere and launch a flying kick at the thing, she yelped in shock, spinning around to avoid getting hit by it as it crumpled onto its side, bawking furiously. "Holy s**t HEY GIRL!" she shouted enthusiastically. "Nice moves!" She looked around for the nest—last year, wasn't this stupid thing dispelled by stomping the s**t out of its eggs?—and groaned loudly when she realized she was now on the other side of the chicken, further from the nest than when she'd started. "Stomp its eggs!" she called out to Ariadne, taking up a fighting stance and staring the chicken down as it scrambled to its feet, wings flapping and screeching with all its might. "I'll distract it this time." It charged.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 5:22 pm
Honestly, Ariadne thought that her entrance was sick as hell. flying kick the chicken, knock it down, and land on her feet like she'd just done a triple lutz and perfectly stuck the landing. So goddamn cool. She was so ******** good at being a Senshi, she deserved an award.
"Hey girl! Thanks!" Ariadne flashed Bélénos a thumbs up at her praise, and then spun around to look for the eggs her friend had mentioned. "I got it!" Hopefully Bélénos would hold the creature's attention long enough--but at least they weren't far.
She booked it for the nest, slamming her foot down hard on the contents once she got there, again and again until every weird, empty egg was broken open.
Ugh, that was so creepy, a weird sulfur chicken guarding empty eggs and coming out of nowhere. destiny City was so ******** cursed sometimes. But at least hopefully they'd dispelled this particular one.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 5:33 pm
Bélénos was grateful for the acknowledgement—it made what she was about to do slightly less crazy. Taking a deep breath as the maniac chicken charged, she dove to the ground just as its beak came within pecking range, flipping herself over so she was face-up. As it skidded over her, she grabbed it by its horrible legs right at the ankles so she could avoid its talons, then lifted her legs and gave it a double kick right in its rotten little cloaca. It shrieked and she let it go, watching it flap and scramble madly, limping to its nest and shrieking in grief before it vanished, covering the area with more of its disgusting sulfuric scent. "Bleeeghhh," she groaned, standing up and stretching. "My back is gonna be soooo sore tomorrow, and not even for fun reasons! God, that thing smells awful."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:04 pm
For a moment, hearing the monster's shriek of grief, Ariadne felt a pang of guilt. It wasn't exactly chill to come barging in and destroy the poor creature's nest, was it? And even if the eggs were empty, it was clearly protective over them...oh, no, was she really feeling bad for an evil chicken from the depths of the weirdest parts of Destiny City? Bad look, at least as far as she was concerned.
"Ugh, the worst, yeah. Are you okay otherwise, though? Didn't get hurt or anything?" She hoped not, it would suck of they'd chased it off and her friend was wounded, especially since she didn't exactly have anything she could do to help fix it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:37 pm
Bélénos nodded, smiling at Ariadne. "Yeah, I should be fine. Other than the bruises I gave myself," she said with a gusty sigh. "I should be used to those at this point, though. Seems like every time I go out at night this summer, some stupid bullshit happens to me. Maybe I should stay indoors for 'til Halloween, or something." She laughed softly at herself, giving her body a second check just to make sure she really was fine and it wasn't adrenaline talking. "...Yeah, I'm good. Thanks. Guess now we've saved each other. Score another win for the Dark Mirror!"
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