Bloodborne au
Characters: Cross, Crowned Clown, Mana, Allen
Premise: Crown Clown doesn't know how to take care of a traumatized child at all.
Warnings: Blood, Trypophobia
A 10 year old boy laid across a carpet of wings, ignoring the stabs of the teeth hidden under the fluff. Bleeding was good for him, Mana had said. Crowned pressed against him and stopped the bleeding if it became too much.
Cross came into this dimension expecting a blood bath, and got what he expected. A monstrous heap of torn flesh was scattered about, and in the middle of the wreckage lied the young Great One, already twenty feet in diameter. He approached the thing, cautiously, and it scooted back like a living, bloodstained white carpet.
"Allen?" Cross said testily. A blood-soaked boy lifted his head from the fluff that protectively surrounded him, and blinked at him blankly before he was pulled back down. Cross grit his teeth, he couldn't kill this secret project Mana had left him with, but he didn't trust Mana's son with the creature, either. And a battle with a Hunter meant a battle to the death.
Although blood kept him going, Cross usually liked eating something solid once in a while. He reached into his pocket and picked out a half-loaf of bread to offer.
"Mind if I give this to the kid? He's probably starving. It's not poisoned." He tried talking to the thing. Crowned leaned forward, grabbed the bread with its teeth… and devoured it and nearly Cross's entire hand with it.
"Fuck! Do you know how hard it is to get actual food nowadays!" Cross swore, causing Crowned to rear back. Allen rolled off it. Cross jumped toward the kid while Crowned didn't have him and picked him up. Crowned spread out all of its wings angrily as Cross quickly retreated with the near-catatonic boy in tow.
"Goddammit…" Cross hissed at seeing the state of the boy in his arms. He was absolutely riddled with holes. If he was a normal human he would have been dead! Cross reached the stone temple in the middle of the lake.
Crowned Clown set down its wings and body and let them go back to the waking world.