Log: Complete

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

When: January 19, between midnight and dawn
Rating: Teen for violence
Characters: Vampire Hunter D [favored_son] and the Captain [wolfsmercy]
Summary: A dhampir and a werewolf run into each other in a forest. Which one gets to walk away?
Log:

There had been times in D's youth that he had been frustrated by the connection he shared with his father. Alucard hadn't abused it, but it had been difficult to keep secrets from his father, and thus to keep secrets from the rest of his family as well. When D had finally learned to shut the vampire out, he had been relieved.

In his own time, he rarely blocked the link that tied him to Dracula. It was was one of the few reliable means he had of tracking his father. In the city, he rarely felt the need to keep Alucard out. Tonight was an exception. He'd had enough of explaining to his father why he fed so rarely, why he couldn't take a wife or have children. He'd had enough of wondering if he was wrong and his father was right. A night or more away from the flat was called for. D intended to be alone, and that meant blocking the link. Even the parasite was silent.

D paused in the shadows, hands relaxed at his sides, and listened. He expected little trouble with a significant portion of the population having only recently been toys. Nothing approached him, and he took another step away from the city proper.

"Uh ... D?"

So much for silences from the parasite. D flexed the fingers of his left hand in warning.

"Oh, save it. I know you don't want to ta--"

"Then be quiet," the dhampir interrupted. His companion offered no further argument, and D was satisfied. He knew his family was concerned. He would return to the flat before sunrise. They could speak then. In his current mood, conversation would only lead to fighting.

Comments

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

As soon as he was swallowed by relative darkness, the werewolf loosened his form into a tide of liquid fur that snaked through trees with lightening speed, but added little more than a whispering rustle to the breeze already meandering through underbrush. He came at D from the side - a monstrously huge and disembodied maw - mere seconds after his human form had slipped from sight.

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

The dhampir went down under the werewolf's weight, unprepared for the raw might of the sudden attack and given no opportunity to defend himself.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

After slamming into his quarry, the werewolf pins/engulfs D with mass and ameboid waves of fur ... but in the same motion sharply rolls into a twist, endeavouring to snap the dhampir's neck ...

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

Bone gave way to the pressure of powerful jaws. The injury would have been fatal to a human. For D, it was enough to paralyze and rob him of consciousness. His body went limp in the werewolf's hold.

In the dhampir's hand, the parasite cursed. It could stay where it was, try to help D, or it could take its chances on its own, try to outrun a werewolf.

Oh yes. The situation was looking just wonderful.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

Once he felt his prey go limp, the Captain tightened fur and form back into something more humanoid. But with lupine jaws still solidly locked around D's neck, his head cocked towards the vocal hand. With eyes dismissively averted, a warning growl rumbled through his chest, ending in a snarl that left wolfish lips purring against pale dhampir skin.

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

Right. So running away was a bad idea. The parasite kept its mouth shut and got to work on D. Maybe he could at least wake him up enough to let Alucard back in.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

Apparently convinced that he'd incapacitated his quarry enough for transport, fur bled away as the dhampir dropped from shifting jaws into waiting human arms. In one smooth motion the Captain launched himself into the night ... D effortlessly hefted over one shoulder ...