The new year: A time of celebration and merriment for many, one for drinking and partying, or attempting to sleep off of explain away the ramifications of the drinking and partying, for others, it was a time to reflect on all that they had done in the past, and look towards the future to better themselves as people. For one auburn haired young man, it was none of these things, just another day for a hunt. Dimitri Silvera stared up from the branch he sat atop at the sun as it rose higher into the sky. It was risky for him to hunt by day, however it was even riskier to try to hunt last night with so many people out celebrating. Dimitri looked down at the base of the tree he sat in, the corner of his mouth twitching a bit as he eagerly awaited his latest victim's awakening. As if on cue, the young and very athletic looking blond haired man whom he'd lured out of a house party and knocked out awakened, "Ugh...my head. Where-" "Are you? The park Kyle. Arrowhead park to be specific.", the man jumped a bit and looked upward, eliciting a chuckle from Dimitri. The man -Kyle- staggered to his feet as he recognized Dimitri, "Wait, you're the asshole that was hitting on Laura, what the fuck!? Why the hell did you drag me out here you shit?! Wait- why the fuck are you wearing nothing but boxers!?", Dimitri grinned, his mouth splitting impossibly wide as the scent of copper began to waft through the air, "You told me to step outside. So we're outside. I felt it would be awful though if we interrupted the party though so I decided to find us a more suitable spot. I would've told you but I doubt you would've listened. So I decked you.".
Kyle started sweating a bit and coughed as the scent of copper hit him, he could feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was, "You knocked me out and dragged me all the way out here to fight me? That doesn't make any sense...". Dimitri's impossible grin only stretched further, revealing nearly twice the number of teeth in a human's mouth, "Fight you? You've got it all wrong man. I dragged you out here because I wanted to dine in peace." he said as the scent of copper grew heavy enough to taste, causing Kyle to wretch and gag, though the smell wasn't nearly as worrying as the sudden stab of primal fear he felt. Kyle turned to run only to find Dimitri to be in front of him standing merely inches away, "Whoa now, what's the rush?", Dimitri punched Kyle in the ribs, causing the much larger man to double over, his throat landing neatly into Dimitri's raised hand as a result. Despite the fact that Kyle towered over Dimitri by a good nine inches and likely outweighed him by several kilos, Dimitri was able to force Kyle onto his knees as if he weighed nothing. Kyle struggled and struck at Dimitri's arm feebly as Dimitri held him in place, his eyes bulged a bit as Dimitri clamped down harder . "Jeez you struggle a lot. Tell you what, I'll give you a chance to get out of this alive. All you've gotta do is solve a little riddle of mine. Deal?" Dimitri inquired. Kyle gasped a bit, and realizing that there was no way out of it and just barely managed to rasp out a yes. Dimitri's blue eyes danced with excitement, "'Atta boy. Now i'm gonna let you go, don't to anything stupid, ok?". The moment Dimitri let go of Kyle's throat, Kyle began to scream for help, only to be cut off by Dimitri kneeing him in the chin. As Kyle had currently been attempting to say something, his tongue was severed in short order as his bottom jaw was forcefully smashed into the upper one. The man fell back and clutched his face, howling in agony as Dimitri casually picked up the severed muscle and devoured it, "I told you not to try anything stupid. Now i've gotta kill and eat you quickly." Dimitri said with a sigh as he grabbed Kyle by the throat.
As blood spilled and bubbled from his mouth, Kyle looked at Dimitri, then wished that he hadn't. Dimitri's body began to transform, it grew and twisted in all manner of ways as his bones broke and reshaped, starting first with his hands with sprouted claws that stabbed Kyle's neck just enough to draw blood. Dimitri's clothing tore as his body grew and fur sprouted, his ribs actually began to tear themselves free of his skin. Kyle wasn't focused at all on that however, only on Dimitri's head as horn like protrusions sprouted and most of the skin and flesh on his face tore open and sloughed off leaving nothing but bones. Bones that were gruesomely breaking and reshaping, taking the shape more akin to that of a canine's skull than that of a human's. Dimitri never screamed, nor broke eye contact with Kyle as his body grew and morphed, going from a paltry five foot three frame, to a menacing eight foot six. Dimitri lifted Kyle up, his glowing red eyes bored into Kyle's as he began to salivate, "You should've agreed to solve the riddle Kyle. You might have won.". The creature which had at one point been an auburn haired young man opened its mouth to reveal rows of massive jagged teeth, eliciting a piercing screech from Kyle. This would be the last sound he ever made before the top portion of his head was ripped free and devoured in a shower of bones, blood, and bits of brain.
It didn't take long for Dimitri to finish his meal, scarcely a minute passed before everything that Kyle had once been was reduced to nothing more than a bloody stain on the grass below. This was typical of his kills, and had become a calling card of sorts since his arrival in Ashe city. The wendigo licked his claws clean, content with the feeling of a stomach full of flesh, still though he couldn't shake the feeling of disappointment at the lack of entertainment before his meal. Dimitri twisted his head a bit eliciting a string of cracks from his neck before he reverted back into his human form, shedding his fur, rearranging his bones, and regrowing the lost flesh from his face as though he had never transformed in the first place. He wordlessly returned to the base of the tree and walked around it to grab and don the clothing that he'd removed and folded whilst waiting for his victim to wake up. "A good start to the new year. Guess I should grab some mouthwash before I head in to work." He mused aloud as he walked off in the direction of one of several of the park's trails.
