Back for the final day of @kyloevents' Hurt Kylo week, this is for Day 7's prompt of monster
CW: body horror
[Also on AO3]
Kylo knows it’s begun when his muscles start moving under his skin. At first, small twitches and quivers, then escalating to cramping spasms that he can’t control. His teeth clack together and he grits them, falling to his knees as his body starts to contort.
His bones shudder and ache as they stretch, elongating and shifting, changing his form while they feel like they’re snapping like twigs. Kylo screams through his teeth. He’s already given up on trying to stay upright even on his knees, his body hitting the ground and moving erratically without any input from his mind. If he didn’t know better, he’d think he was dying.
Jaw splitting and lengthening as well, his teeth morph and burst through his gums, as sharp as daggers. His skin tears. Kylo’s vision disappears and then returns, different. His senses fry as infrared and ultraviolet become visible in new, sharper eyes at the same time the smell of his own blood overwhelms all else through a new, more sensitive nose.
His hands and feet, too, crack, change, evolve. He grows a tail, just as sharp as the teeth and claws that have sprouted. Every part of him becomes a weapon. He is a one man arsenal, the Force surging even more powerfully within him as he lets it take over all else.
This is your true form, Snoke had told him, when he’d first learned the technique. This is the pinnacle of power that you can unlock through the Force.
And Kylo had done it. Soon, he would break out of the high-durability transportation crate he was in like he was tearing through paper. Instincts would take over and he would hunt. Anything alive, he would chase down and tear apart and feast upon. When he was like this, he had no control; there was no Kylo, there was only the creature that he released from within.
It was power. He knew that; Snoke had said so. Kylo should embrace it. And yet, as the monster came, devouring his entire self just like it would the village he was being set upon, Kylo couldn’t help but fear every time that this would be the transformation he wouldn’t come back from.
