Nina's Weakness (Public Speaking)

Nina sat on a bench outside, staring blankly at the sky as anxiety tore up her insides. She had a presentation due next week and was going to have to speak infront of the class. She would rather face a Shadow than suffer such a fate. Her grimace of suffering caused everyone to give her a wide berth as per usual, assuming she must be doing something very important and cool like battling her inner demons and obviously they shouldn't interrupt that

The distant howl of a wolf shook her out of her stupor, though her stomach still did a few flips in protest, leading her to wonder if she was going to get an ulcer at her young age. It wasn't impossible, and how would you even explain that your main sources of stress are demonic beasts and the constant presence of literal sins trying to lure you aside... As if on cue she felt prickles down her arm.

She took stroll towards the sports fields, hoping that touching grass could clear her head, but knowing she would likely end up just taking a nap to stifle the dread inside for a while. The fact that she heard a wolf again turned it from just a coincidence to a strange occurance. They usually weren't this close to populated areas, and definately not this close to a school of people who had demonic energy often tainting their every action. Animals usually stayed clear away - Except for corvids for some reason.

But just as suddenly as she observed the oddity, she promptly decided to ignore it, flopping down onto the grass and straightening her skirt as she stared up at the sky for a few moments before letting her eyelids drift closed...

The peaceful moment lasted several minutes before she heard loud thuds and growling approaching, and a student letting out a cry of fear towards the main building. Her eye flared and aburptly the world was silent. A distant bird hung in the air like it was nailed there. She exhaled slowly and stood up. Mentally as her feet oncemore planted on the ground she counted to two and looked around.

Several feet away, and then spread out behind that point were a half dozen werewolves barreling towards the school, the lead one paused mid-air in the midst of its sprint, slobber frozen in the air flying out of its maw and its eyes bloodshot and locked dead ahead on the school, no recognition of Nina's presence. A weird side effect of her meditative moments of lethargy was that she kind of just seemed to fade into the background.

She took several carefully measured steps... 3 4 5 6... before pulling an energy drink from her schoolbag and popping the tab, while the skin on her other arm started to bubble and boil disconcertingly.

[To the outside observer, aburptly Nina had appeared in the middle of the field and tore open the lead werewolves throat with casual contempt while drinking a can of soda. She was so cool and powerful] Or so it seemed as a result of her cursed Eyepatch.

The following wolves skittered to a stop, the youngest ending up getting outrun by his hindlegs and spinning out as they skidded in confusion at the sudden appearance of a heavily demonic aura so close to them. Nina slowly put the can back in her bag as the lead wolf growled and stood back up, the torn out throat already starting to heal. "Look guys you picked a really bad day for this. I don't think I could tell it to calm down if I wanted to... Its really worked up." The wolves further behind tilted their heads in confusion, but the Alpha at the front had his bloodshot eyes locked on her arm, sporting quite the demonic makeover with blood-covered claws and evil looking black spikes and carapace and the whole nine yards.

[She spoke softly for a moment while confidently putting away her drink, the wolves so eager for blood now seemed uncertain, possibly even afraid. And then she raised her fist and her voice and shouted "Feed, cursed arm, consume them all" as the carapace and spikes and blood red stains covered her entire body, transforming her into a full on demon before she abruptly launched forward and started to tear the wolves apart with her bare hands, laughing in a manic fashion the entire time and smiling in a way that was quite out of character.]

Nina regained conciousness quite a while later sprawled out on a tree branch awakening as if from a nice nap, she didn't even bother to look down at her bloodsoaked clothes. Just letting out an exhausted sigh before sliding down the treetrunk and making a detour to the washrooms. Atleast the terrible anxiety was gone, even if it took the entire day with it, she mused looking up at the now dark sky above.