A Passing Meeting of Creatures
A bit of a self-indulgent thing. I wanted to know if my little kid dream demon interacted with an older supernatural variant of himself. Vampire Raoul is from @quiche-on-wheels while Incubus! Raoul was immaculately designed by @aurora-ze-aquarius who was inspired by Le Prince Héritier des Cauchemars, but both were inspired from my ramblings and fanfictions.
Tw for nightmare, implied violence
Vampire! Raoul and Donor! Shu are haunted by his experiences as La Béte du Alsace. Some days, he's the one he is chasing is a terrified Shu Todoroki in the darkened woods who falls at his fangs and claws held down by his giant bat wings. The betrayed, fearful look on Shu would be replaced by pure hatred as both would snap awake at the same time. Raoul wasn't expecting any new changes to this particular daymare and not especially this one.
It was just another chase between predator and prey, when by chance illuminated by the full moon, Vampire Raoul Çaroule came across a phantasmal flower. He stopped in his pursuit of the Japanese racer to further investigate the impossible flower.
It resembled a rose, only with the center colored an ashy silver and the outer edges completely icy pale blue . The absinthe like scent combined with a withered rose scent coming from it and the blackened stem and thorns belied it's unnatural nature as the vampire could sense something not human clinging on it.
Without warning, the rose shot out multiple bramble vines that ensnared and wrapped around every part of the vampire: wings, limbs, neck and claws, tight enough to keep him still but not pressing too deeply to cut with the thorns. He struggled but all of his strength seemed to leave him at that moment. He vaguely recalled that laying wild rose over a vampire's grave would prevent it from leaving.
His senses were still picking up on the flapping of wings then a delicate pair of claws landed on him. The vampire could feel similar claws poking and prodding at his wings, with the addition of several thorns and smaller than his own talons. A snuffling noise from the little intruder?/visitor? and a small lick from a forked tongue made him twitch involuntarily. The older vampire was manipulated by the brambles to turn around onto a sitting down position and face his captor.
What he saw took whatever practiced breath away from his dead lungs. A mini him was laying on top of him. Only with silvery hair that glowed in the pale light with little horns,patches and curls of dark bluish black scales on his face and neck, mixed feathery bat wings emerging from the back of his hoodie (along with similar ears but furry and black), blackened sclera staring at him icy blue irises and silver slit pupils, claws with thorns bursting up to his forearm(stained inky black skin, almost gangrenous in the vampires view), bird like feet with even more thorns coming out and to top it all off, a spiked rose just like the one that captured him acting as his tail with the devil's arrowhead poking out. The mini demon yawned, revealing fangs just like his and a forked tongue, more thinner and colored blackberry at the tips.
The little demon loosened his rose fetters with a small wave from his equally blackened hand. In just that moment, the vampire perceived his true kaijuesque merleviathan form, just under the surface of the nightmare. He really didn't want to make the little one pissed off so he stayed still.
A taloned hand, dwarfed by his own extended out to help him get up. Then with a smile, the little demon spread out his wings (the older vampire noticing the dark gray feathers and pale blue membrane and claws just like his) and took off to the night sky. The older Raoul followed suit, launching off the ground with his black bat wings.
A race was one, both supernatural beings doing their best to outfly each other. Vampire Raoul had more experience with flying and used parkour on the trees to quickly gain. The kid incubus on the other hand, had near total control of the dream and shifted everything constantly to throw off the vampire. Laughter from both of them echoed throughout the forest as they playfully swept and dove at each other, like two falcons mock fighting each other. Both of them were fully immersed in the flight that the both of them nearly collided with the returning two Shu Todoroki's.
They had learned after both recovered that the child version of Shu had accidentally gotten lost in Vampire Raoul's dream and that the Incubus him was tracking him down when he came across his older counterpart. The older Shu luckily was there to calm him down and held his hand as the kid followed the trail of gray blue roses only visible to the little boy. Both pairs were reunited as the older human Shu was holding the incubus as he sniffed at his piercings and neck bite mark while the little Shu was cradled in the older vampire's talons and poking at his wings and ears, excitedly showing off his own bite mark on his hand.
Much to the older pairings shock, one of little Shu's eyes began to open up and bloom fully as one of Raoul's demonic roses emerged from his eye socket. Little Shu giggled at their responses and told them it was time to wake up as his eye returned to its normal dark brown color. It was that time the alarm activated in the waking world.
Both of the older racers didn't recall much of the dream other than it was peaceful. They almost didn't notice the small pile of petals with a single thorn placed at their nightstand as a thank you from the younger selves. Shu swept them into a little satchel ( still smelling of absinthe and rotting flowers for years) was shared between the two of them during sleep.
