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Beastman!Crush looms over Laios in the dark vastness of the dungeon, claws drawing deep lines over the stone as if it were butter, nose twitching, low grumbles in his throat, tail swaying; The Tallman looks so small, so fragile, so vulnerable under him.

Appetizing-

He's in a similar situation to Izutsumi, but he doesn't want to be turned back, (Doesn't know if it's possible anyways, he's a strange, mysterious case even for Beastman standards) he was never Human in the first place, nothing but the lab rat of a mad mage that defiled his body, his identity, all the way to his very soul, and the depths of the Dungeon his only escape, his teeth and claws his only weapon.

His scales twitch in certain places, he naturally runs hot so he wears little clothing, heat oozes from his scaly, blood tinted body, golden eyes glimmer in the darkness, all consuming. Hungry.

He doesn't know what he wants, he can only grumble and click under his breath as he adoringly nuzzles the side of the blonde's neck, as if trying to scent him and resists the urge to lick, to sink his fangs in his all too fragile human flesh, the dragon part of him screams both Mate and Prey, the human side, although muted, drowned, seems to whisper Lover, Companion.

See me. You see Me

He doesn't know where the line blurs, where one ends and the other begins, he just knows he boils with jealously when the blonde gives attention to someone else, that his insides jump with elation when he delivers prey and the tallman goes on an almost obsessive tangent about everything he knows about said prey, the way Laios rants about Crush's appereance and speculates the logistics of his outlandish anatomy, reads his nature and instincts like a book-

It does not feel violating, does not feel menacing in the way everyone else feels as they decide between hunting him for a reward or fleeing in terror.

See me. You see Me

Laios knows he's not human, he knows he's an animal, a beast, A Monster.

Looks at him as if he's the most majestic, most beautiful creature in the world and he doesn't know if he wants to eat him alive, sink his teeth into him to taste his sweet, sweet blood or claim him as his. Blurry the line between their bodies until it stops existing, devour him completely, break him apart and consume him entirely until the only thing he knows is to say his name in nothing but ecstasy as his nails helplessly try to carve lines on his scaled back.

He can't help it as he licks the straight line of blood on his cheek, rolls it on his tongue like a fine wine. So sweet. He's burning all the way to his core and grumbling like an engine revving up it can be felt all the way to the floor. He just realizes he's been whispering 'Laios, Laios' like a prayer as he helplessly nuzzles his face into his chest like an overly affectionate cat.

Mate, Prey, Mate, Prey, Mate, Prey-

So like, everyone remember the pentoculus plotline that never went anywhere and how The Hand weren't good villains despite their immense power?

I made a thing:

So, the Pentoculous is set up as this strange device that is talked abt in scrolls and stuff and is called this 'Key to the Truth of Monsuno', it's a whole treasure hunt with clues and puzzles and riddles they have to solve to even get a possible location, five pieces, five treasure hunts with their own risks.

They have no idea the wild ride they're setting themselves up for to find the pieces.

Team Coretech goes incognito to a museum bc they have a clue that an exhibition is related to Monsunos and the Pentoculus that might help them, one of the objects is suspiciously shaped like Jinja's piece. (The purple piramid)

Among the objects exhibited there's a spear with complex carved symbols, jewelry and a monolith with an ancient forgotten alphabet.

They're trying to figure out a way to inspect them without getting caught, Beyal is geeking out random info on the objects exhibited to Chase, Bren is trying to analize them with his core tablet and Dax is plotting Museum Heist 101.

Jinja throughout the whole thing is getting weird flashes and is increasingly being pulled by an invisible force towards the objects of the exhibition while at the same time Beyal tries to translate a bit of the carvings on the monolith from afar, saying that a vague warning and a riddle is writen, until, dazed, Jinja breaks into the exhibition and touches a triangular symbol on the monolith.

A bright green flash engulfes her and she apparently gets swapped by an ancient huntress version of herself drapped in animal hides, tattoos and archaic but complex jewelry, her hair is darker and thickly braided, the piece of the Pentoculus having been dislodged from the monolith and on her grip.

To say that all hell breaks loose is an understatement. Freaked out and with no idea where she is, the huntress grabs the spear while she's at it and goes full caveman on the Museum guards while running for her life, the rest of the team trying to go after her as she goes on a full parkour montage through the streets, jumping over moving cars and climbing brickwalls like is a sport with people recording and photographing her.

Eventually she runs into a dead end and, getting increasingly overwhelmed by the flashes and the noise of the crowd, with the help of the Pentoculus piece, her spear lights up bright green, charged with Monsuno essence and she blasts the wall blocking her way, escaping into the nearby forest at the very edge of the city.

Team Coretech follows after her tracking the energy of the spear and the piece but she's absurdly good at hiding from them, well into night and no trace of her, she stalks them as well from the shadows but remains hidden, apparently fearful of their Monsunos.

Dax, profficient on tracking and wilderness, is the one that keeps her on her toes the most but is Beyal who gets ambushed by her and separated from the group.

She holds him hostage as she interrogates him in an ancient forgotten language but the more she talks the more familiar her words are to him. He attempts to communicate with her Kida and Milo style, he has studied a lot of forgotten languages but talking them for the first time to a fluent speaker is a whole other matter. Eventually her words start to make sense and they manage to have a proper conversation.

Among the things she does and says one of them is that she invades his personal space to grab at his hair and goes 'You are one from the frozen lands, those with snow on their hair' hinting at the ancient heritage of his tribe and also describes the rest of the team as 'Those who control the Ancient Beasts' (As casual wordbuilding here and there).

Beyal finally manages to ask her who she is and what the Pentoculus piece is for, she says her name is 'Huntress' (Literal translation) and goes on a long tangent abt how she was trusted to guard the Piece and heavily trained in the arts of combat since she was little, never allowed to live the normal life of the farmers, the hunters and the gatherers and strictly prohibited to be courted in any way, shape or form, never allowed to love or run around with other children, feared and respected, prisioner in the walls of the temple she lived in while also never given the full context of her 'Mission', that she was to guard the Piece with her life and eventually train her replacement when she grew too old for it. She explained how the Piece apparently bonded with her soul and aided her when she was in real trouble and she felt her life on the line, also helped her see things beyond mortal eyes (The Monsuno Sight and The Dreaming) she also felt how, the stronger her bond grew, the more she felt someone watching her, someone stalking her dreams and visions but her concerns went to deaf ears.

'They are neither Men or Monsuno, their skin is as pale as milk and their eyes dark and hard like gemstones; They talk, walk and dress like men but they aren't alive, They don't breathe, eat or sleep, they don't bleed nor grow old, but they hunger'

'They feed on the blood of Monsuno, on the souls of those connected to the Beasts and The Dreaming, they are insatiable, they are cruel, their hunger is a bottomless pit of greed and violence, They...'

Eventually they are found by the others along with their Monsunos, The Huntress is terrified of Boost and Nightstone and gets on defence mode, convinced she's gonna get torn to shreds by them but Beyal manages to calm her down enough to convince her to touch Nightstone's snout and get the idea home that they don't want to harm her and everyone sits down to keep talking and figure out what the hell happened to Jinja.

They immediately reach the conclusion that Jinja got swapped via time travel and begin to panic.

-''You mean Princess got sent to Caveman Land!?''.

But Beyal shuts that idea down, saying that he can sense the soul is exactly the same and quotes the riddle written on the monolith at the museum, deducing that the Jinja they are seeing right now is actually a memory and not another person swapped in her place.

(No time travel here, idk how the hell to write it and I think the soul projection is more canon compliant)

The Huntress is actually Jinja's past life brought to the present day, triggered by coming into contact with the Pentoculus piece, but why?

Hearing this, something seems to click for the Huntress:

-''Does this mean... I died?''.

Beyal is at a loss as to how to sensibly answer this, and when he is about to try The Huntress suddenly grabs her head as if having a massive headache, she sees memories of two completely different times, two different people, Jinja and her, flash through her eyes at full speed, then opens her eyes and exclaims in perfect english:

'That's right! I remember now!''.

She then explains (Now in english) how one night, her village was invaded by a man with dead pale skin and haunting green eyes, he was looking for the Pentoculus piece and killed anyone that stood in his way with a mere touch, she tried to fight him but she got mortaly injured in the process, she remembered he talked about how he needed her soul to complete 'The Ritual' and how troublesome it was that the Piece favored her so much and rejected him.

In her last moments, she ran towards the main temple and, chanting ancient magic, she sealed the Piece on the monolith and 'Sent the Piece away', leaving a final warning in the shape of the riddle they were trying to solve earlier before...

''Then he grabbed me... And... Everything was so cold...''

The Huntress rests a hand on her neck with a haunted expression that shocks everyone into silence at the horrifying realization.

-''That was what I wanted, send one last message, warn someone, anyone, about the Monsters''.-She said gripping her spear.-''Now that you know this, Now that you have this piece, they will come after you too''.

-''I hope you succeed where I failed... Thank you, and Goodbye''.

She closes her eyes as a green light engulfs her, The Huntress gone and Jinja having recovered control of her body, much to everyone's shock and relief.

After everything is said and done, Jinja wistfully traces the patterns carved over the Spear and the Piece, feeling memories and emotions that aren't exactly hers and yet so familiar, mourning the lonely and tragic life The Huntress lived and how her memories are getting blurry, hesitating to give the Spear up bc she feels connected to it and 'Is tecnically hers anyway' Chase adds.

The quiet moment is interrupted by Bren showing her the Core Tablet saying.-''Yeah, about that... You're viral now, Miss Cavewoman''. And a video of her crazy stunts at the Museum and the street earlier that day, much to her horror.

-''WHAT!?!?''.

And that would be it, in canon The Hand is just fully dropped onscreen with no warning and they're literally just 'Hur hur, Evil Magic Scientists That Want To Dominate the World but are defeated by Plot Armor' and in my rewrite I wanted to make them an actual mystery hinted through the chapters until The Huntress situation that describes them as this sort of all powerful Vampire-Esque beings that predate humanity and Team Coretech is left very much spooked and with more questions than answers, kind of a 'Final Boss' villains with Droog as the last plot point to close, (Reincarnation and Past lives are Canon with Chase's past life as the chief of a Tribe being dropped in a flashback by Beyal and I wanted to actually incorporate that into the story), Also The Hand having a generational (Reincarnational?) beef with Team Coretech is such juicy drama X3 I've been inspired by Dandadan's style of plotscaling (Can I call it that?) where the story gets consistenly more crazy and the villains more dificult as the story advances while at the same time the main cast gets progressively stronger to defeat them. (I cannot recommend Dandadan enough, if you can excuse, ehem, the nudity, it's VERY good and will hit you in the gut when you least expect it)

Also been working on a proper powersystem regardind The Hand (Nothing too crazy tho, just an attempt to make Canon points make sense plus an explanation on how their powers and inmortality works plus their weaknesses) Bye!

(Originally titled: I have (A) Mouth and I Must Scream)

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Everything feels wrong as he holds Glowblade's core on his hand, perhaps courtesy of the connection between Monsuno and controller, and Glowblade does not recognize him as such; The energy inside is erratic and chaotic, the Core's metallic surface is mildy hot against his skin, as if threatening to burn him the longer he holds it.

-''You're not gonna do what we're thinking you're gonna do, right?''.-Jinja eyes him the same way she does when he's thinking of doing something stupid.

-''I think he wants to come out''.-Chase replies glancing up from the Core to meet her eyes.

-''What? Are you crazy?''.

From the wiki:

Monsuno Sight is an uncommon attribute posessed by some humans which gives them the ability to bond with Monsuno more easily than others. This includes the Monsuno Essence in the earth which can allow the user to see visions from across distances. The Monsuno Sight Keepers are descendants of the Five Tribes of Destiny.

Monsuno Sight Keepers

This is a list of characters that has the Monsuno Sight.

Sophia Suno

Chase Suno

Jinja

Beyal

Kimi

Chef Syd

Hargrave

Dom Pyro (possibly)

Alpha

X-Ray

Tango

Unnamed Keepers (The ones kidnapped along with Sophia)

In canon Monsuno are stated to 'Communicate beyond words' by Beyal past his debut episode (Which in practice are glorified movie reels if you ask me)

The concept quickly grows both highly underused, underexploited, underexplained AND Deus ex Machina'ed to hell and back.

This are the abilities Monsuno Sight grants besides just bonding with a Monsuno:

Gain short glimpses into the future, which helps predict the next move of your opponent in a fight and/or future events that will play shortly. This is mainly the case in Season One.

Soul Projection: This was mainly used by Sophia Suno throughout the season as she manifested as an apparition of sorts to deliver messages to others.

As of Season two, the abilities of the Sight get more complex, mainly seen on The Hand of Destiny, which include:

High distance Teleportation, either on the user or another person, no matter if it's against their will

The ability to make weaker users see highly vivid and often terrifying hallucinations

The ability to use The well of Insight, a well filled with Monsuno Essence that allows the user a bird's eye view of location and targets (Although it is not explained if it's thanks to the Sight or an ability innate to the Hand

Steal other user's energy and their Sight as well, This also isn't clarified like the point above.

Alright, how I would classify The Sight into a more, cohesive I guess, concept.

Well it would be like this:

Standard Monsuno Sight

This are your average users, the most common around the world by far, nothing extraordinary but good enough to bond with a Monsuno, it does not automatically grant Visions but can be trained to become stronger. Most people live normal lives without ever realizing they possess it.

Non-Sight users

The other average around the world, I'd put it in, 2 of 10 ppl are Sight Users, Non users are capable of spinning a core and control a Monsuno but their bond is nowhere near that of a User, this is most commonly seen in S.T.O.R.M. soldiers, where the Cores are easily interchangeable between controllers because the Monsuno are trained to obey basic commands and display certain desirable behaviours, although this has a flexibility for combat, it leaves an open vulnerability the moment the non-User loses control of its Monsuno, which most likely can cost defeat.

A S.T.O.R.M controller that can successfully form a bond with it's Monsuno through the Sight easily rises through the ranks, althought that can gain you extra pressure from Charlemagne.

Keeper's Sight

A keeper is a person who can easily access to the Sight, as they naturally possess a great amount of energy to use it for prolongued periods of time

They aren't Monsuno Controllers, more often than not live the life of Monks and specialize in delivering prophecies, communicating with Monsuno and protecting important secrets and locations from falling onto the wrong hands.

They can also boost other people's Sight and strenghten momentarily a Controller's bond with their Monsuno during a fight to a level they usually can't achieve by themselves.

Their abilities make them targets of The Hand since they can be used as living batteries to boost their powers, more often than not at the cost of the Keeper's life.

The dreaming

The dreaming is a bridge between dimentions and Life and Death, it's appereance is that of a surrealistic landscape that is always changing, more often than not it mimics the location a Sight User is at the moment or has seen begore through an innaccurate lense, as if seeing and navigating things through a dream hence the name.

It can be accessed by an User to search for enlightnenment, predict the future, strenghten a Monsuno Bond or visit the previously deceased.

The dreaming can be a particularly tricky and dangerous place to navigate, since is accessed only through Soul Projection, a User can easily get lost and, literally, lose their soul, which renders their body an empty, useless husk.

They can also be affected if they encounter another User in the same location with less than good intentions or a Lost Soul trying to get back to their body.

Monsuno can also wander The Dreaming, which makes them as dangerous as encountering them in the physical world.

Ok, now onto the 'Special cases'

'Gifts'

There are two types of Monsuno Sight that are labelled as 'Gifts':

Universal Listener

This is a Sight User who can 'hear' Monsuno's voices clearer than anyone else to the point of them forming actual words, even more than Keepers without much effort. This allows them to have usually more positive bonds with their own Monsuno.

This is a passive ability, they usually train more to block their spiritual hearing because having the voices of all Monsuno in close vicinity on Speaker at the same time can become overwhelming pretty quickly. Users of this Gift include:

Beyal

One Eyed Jack

(Although Jack's is artificially acquired through implants in his brain)

Universal Commander

A Sight User that can extend their will onto other Monsunos, no matter if they have already bonded with a controller, but it's more often an only one way signal, they have a hard time receiving another Monsuno's Voice and have to train specifically hard to properly bond with one since the Gift has the downside of muffling it in favor of the User.

Depending on how well trained the Sight is, he user has the ability to overule a Controller's command over it's Monsuno or to downright erase a Monsuno's free will for a short period of time if they are strong (And stubborn) enough to break the creature. Although some Monsunos may willingly allow themselves to be controlled if the situation calls for it. The user can exhaust their energy to dangerous levels while trying to control an unwilling Monsuno, even more so one with a strong bond to it's controller.

Users of this gift include:

Kimi

Artificial Monsuno Sight

As the name suggests it, this are Users who have acquired The Sight through science rather than developing it normally. Users include:

Chase Suno

One Eyed Jack

Jack uses it through chip implants that mimic an Universals listener's Sight, the downside of this is that the voices cannot be blocked unless the implants are turned off, which effectively renders the Gift useless.

Chase shares DNA with Lock aka The Lynchpin, Jeredy did this so that Lock would be specially loyal to Chase.

Chase possesses an unusually strong Sight, which makes his bond with Lock the strongest of the series, but it does not mean he's the strongest controller.

To infiltrate a GUN base wasn't on Sonic's agenda for today, but after a rather heavy fight with Eggman, Tails had accidentally found several... Interesting files in his supercomputer which read about a Top Secret experiment, The name? Project: Shadow.

Or

Tails lifts his head to blink drowsily at something blurry in his vision, he's sure there's saliva running down his chin and staining his latest blueprint design. He rubs at his tired eyes and now he's eye to eye level with no other than Shadow the Hedgehog. In his workshop. At ass o'clock of the morning.

Or

Beyal: