By the time Viral was even becoming conscious of what was happening his mind was slipping away into a primitive state, a sudden gasp causing him to breathe in water. He soon felt like he was choking, his inability to think straight only having him grasp at the water close to his throat until he started to advance beyond panic. His panic quickly turned into primitive anger and desires as his body continued to change, even his hair was growing long and discoloured like a madman’s. As a powerful tail began to form and his skin discoloured and became leather-like there was only a moment between writhing movements before he suddenly dashed at a great speed through the water into the lakebed leading to the shore, only this time he disappeared in a great cloud of dust and dirt leaving only a tunnel in his wake as water drained inside.

The creature knew it had the advantage and on account of Yumi throwing herself around like she was it was only a matter of time before she would run out of energy and give up. She may be able to hit it when it was solid and throw it off, but when it came to actually causing harm she was not accomplishing anything. Her screaming had been annoying when it happened, being paralysed like that didn’t help it one bit in its quest to poison the system and prevent the advancement of cleansing the water. Finally managing to pierce her pretty well it continued to play around as she continued to get more reckless, eventually ending with her trying to charge it’s mass. What a futile attempt, but it wasn’t done with her yet.

With each movement it made it crept closer to Aito’s place, moving across the beach area until Yumi stunned it again with that howling of hers. Getting annoyed at this constant throwing off she was doing it was starting to consider throwing her around in turn but with these throws most likely going to end up with her eating dirt instead. When she once again propelled herself towards it it hissed, going into a semi-solid state before grabbing at her as she came in contact with it. [i]”Little pest!! I’ve had enough of you! I’ve studied you long enough to see what you can do and I have come to a conclusion…”[/i] it spoke, hardening itself some more, [i]”You are nothing of value! Not even worth anything in materials or for study! Just another worthless energy user! I’ll crush you slowly so you can feel every bone break and-what??”[/i]

Very suddenly there was an earthquake, or rather one in the immediate vicinity that it was in. The moment the earthquake started the stronger it got, but as the shaking caused the creature to lessen its grip on Yumi as well as its own form. Suddenly shaking and splattering a sudden whirlwind of dirt kicked up before suddenly there was what looked like an explosion centred around the creature. Splattering all over the place before angrily sinking into the ground whatever had caused it fell out of the dirt funnel, slamming into the ground on all fours with a heavy thump. Slowly turning around a large tail scraped up the stones and sand, the form slowly pushing off their hands as it grew larger. With a hiss rivalling the creature’s hisses the figure turned around as the trailing dust lifted revealing a transforming Viral, his form changing into one akin to a shark-like monster. Tearing away the last of his clothes except for his scarf his large toothy mouth opened to snarl, instead out poured part of the creature he appeared to had bit into without any fear of poisoning. As his form continued to grow most of what resembled Viral ceased to if only a few aspects like his hair style, irises, teeth and scars remaining, his mouth a permanent toothy grin. Towering at well over ten feet as his transformation came to a stop he wandered heavily towards the spot the creature was reforming at, his eyes momentarily going to Yumi as if she interested what could only be described as a hungry desire to eat her.