It was a normal night in Beacontopia, almost no one was outside due to the amount of people gone missing and other mobs coming from the darkest area in the city. But among those who do walk around at night is a sixteen-year-old pig girl named Jesse who has black hair and emerald green eyes with small darker-colored spots of skin on her limbs and torso and wearing a yellow hairclip with her clothes. Jesse has had a rep for fooling around with multiple boys either a year younger, a year older, or just her age. But she never did so with a predator. She was trying to deal with a llama girl named Stella's bullying towards her earlier that day, so she went for a late-night stroll to clear her head. Meanwhile, Lukas was nearby walking around for a bit after finishing a book he was reading. He had to intimidate a couple predators for attacking his prey friends even if they deserved it.
But then Lukas started catching Jesse's scent, and for predators with his instinctive condition, it meant something to eat. '...A prey animal...', he thought. Suddenly, he felt a burning feeling in his veins, a painful adrenaline rush courses through his entire body, and his pupils dilated as his sclera turned a paler shade of blue. Soon, his carnivorous instincts took over. Jesse stopped as she heard an incoming predator attack and an IRL ocelot growl. She might be just a pig, but she has the hearing abilities of a rabbit. 'An ocelot, they sound ravenous!', she thought. Reacting on instinct, she waited a few second before running. But seeing as an ocelot can catch up to a pig, he ran after her on all fours and pounced her from behind. The two tumbled a couple feet until Lukas was crouched low and Jesse was sitting on the ground with his arms holding her, causing her to grab onto his arms in a futile effort to try and break free of his hold.
As Lukas was contemplating how good it would feel to eat her, he felt both his heartbeat and hers. She felt so warm and soft, she kept trembling in his hold, and he felt her breath on the sleeve of his jacket. He started asking himself questions like how satisfying her flesh would be in his mouth, but he kept trying to tell himself to stop before he finds out. He grabbed her upper arm. 'That's how it should be. You have craved this your whole life, and now you'll actually taste it after nine years. This is what you are.', his instincts called to him. He saw where that voice in his was coming from, which was a black nightmarish creature in the shape of a huge male ocelot with no physical traits except for scary red eyes and a twisted open-mouth smile. The being was a projection of his instincts. Lukas felt like he was about to cry, "N-No... S-Stop... Please... D-Dammit, I can't...", he murmured under his breath.
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to overcome his instincts. He dug his claws into Jesse's arm and drew blood, "Give it to me... I'll eat you... I'll eat you... I'll eat you...", he said with a growl in his voice. But before he could bite her, he heard his name being called by his friends, (a white tailed deer boy named Aiden, a dwarf rabbit named Gill, and a skunk girl named Maya), causing him to snap out of it as his eyes went back to normal. He let Jesse go and accidentally scratched her in the process, she then ran away as he realized what just happened. Aiden and Gill are Lukas's age and Maya is Jesse's age. Aiden has brown hair and green eyes, Gill has black hair and beard and coal black eyes with grey ears and tail, Maya has dark brown hair and blue eyes. They all wear jackets like the one Lukas has on over their clothes. "There you are. C'mon, let's go back inside.", Aiden said as he and the other two walked over to Lukas, who replied by stand up and following. How could he stomach what he just tried to do in the morning, though?
...Flashback...
He was little when it happened. He got too curious then scratched his hand on a twig and fell next to a patch of firewillows, he didn't want to think about what happened after. He felt the same sensations as he did now, and the sweet kid he was became temporarily replaced by a vicious animal. After a few minutes, he snapped out of it. "Lukas!", his parents screamed out as they both ran to him, "I...", he started to say but then looked up and gasped. An elk lady panting and bloody on the ground, her body littered with claw marks that tore through her clothes and bite marks on her joints and neck as tears welled up in her eyes from shock. Lukas looked at his now-bloody hands and started shaking and crying, understanding what happened more than an eight-year-old should. "I... I'm a monster...", he whimpered, clinging to his parents tight as the image was burned into his skull. He didn't mean to attack her.
...End of flashback...
The next morning, Lukas pondered those two incidents. The elk survived a mauling from him while Jesse was scratched once on her arm and was almost devoured by him, they didn't know the reason behind his total predation. Well, not at first at any rate. The elk lady, Rwanda, was a florist and family friend who understood what firewillows could do to someone. But he didn't even know Jesse's name at that point in time, she probably didn't know why he attacked her or if she was able to tell who it was in the dark. 'I was just a little kid, but how could she have forgiven me? I could've killed her.', he thought to himself and sighed, 'Well, at least I didn't actually eat that girl last night. Who knows if that would've made me go full-on savage?', he reasoned in his mind. In any case, he had friends with him, regardless if they were racist. It was time to see were they went, so he just put on his jacket and headed out.
Oh, dear...