As the core shot through her heart, Rubani stumbled to a stop. A panicked hand clutched her heart in fear.

A few seconds passed, and nothing had happened. For a moment, she thought she was unharmed. The only thing that she could see as any different was the dull itch in her left arm. In fact, that itching was becoming more noticable by the second. Rubani tried scratching it, but it was actually starting to hurt. Sparing a moment to look away from the monster child, she looked down at her arm and gasped.

Black, white, and orange hairs were rising from her skin and covering her arm in a thick coat of fur. She could feel each follicle growing out from her skin. They grew together, until her arm was almost completely unrecognizable.

"What?!" Rubani exclaimed, before her the bones in her arm suddenly snapped. She screamed. Her arm wasThe pain was spreading through her arm and past her shoulder. Panic washed over her as she realized what the core was doing to her. It was forcefully twisting her body in to some sort of creature. Within an instant, it seemed as if her entire body was burning in agony.

Her spine snapped, her legs grew weak, and she found herself on the ground, screaming and writhing in agony. She couldn't think, breathe, or anything. There was only the pain of her bones shifting, her limbs stretching, and her entire sense of self being torn apart.