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growths had forced my mouth open and my lower jaw back to make room for the disconcerting protrusions. As I felt them, it seemed they had taken over my incisors and were already below my chin and still growing. They began to curve even as I watched. I freaked, panicking that they would curve around and pierce my eyes. Death by gnashers was not the way I envisioned shaking off my mortal coil.
    What was wrong with this place? Soul eating pigs, puppies that ate you, now tusks. I just wanted to murder a beautiful and deadly Japanese vampire and go home. Nothing wrong with that is there? Not too much to ask when on vacation.
    Mitsu sighed like I was a special kind of idiot and said, "Is this really Faz Pound the great Black Spark, a dark magic enforcer who beat Hidden prison and survived? Surely this is idiot impostor who let animals eat him and can't even control own teeth." That told me, right? Never mind that I was gagging, my jaw hurt like hell as it was prised open wider and wider, and my tongue kept darting out like it had a life of its own, licking the fresh enamel on my deformed teeth.
    Kate and Grandma stared at Mitsu, not sure what to make of her. I wasn't exactly able to make introductions, it would have to wait. But then Kate introduced herself and Grandma and they began having a chat about the numerous shopping districts, Dancer and I seemingly forgotten. Mitsu finally told them what had happened and both Grandma and Kate tutted about our foolishness, nodding their heads as though it was exactly what they expected from the two fools with red fingers and faces. There were way too many knowing glances aimed in our direction.
    I tapped on the tusks, a dull thud that reverberated around my skull like it was full of keratin, then began worrying that it was and my brain was slowly hardening and I'd be nothing but a big tooth or grow a horn or something.
    As I began to really panic, the females took pity on me and Grandma said, "Faz, you dolt, you let a hellhound lick you, didn't you?" I nodded like a naughty schoolboy. "Well then, that explains it. You've got some venom in you and—"
    "Does that mean it's going to happen to me?" squealed Dancer, panicking and checking his teeth, hand all pink and shiny with fresh skin.
    All three women rolled their eyes and Grandma continued, "You've got to focus. Don't you know anything?" We stared at her mutely, neither of us having a clue what she was talking about.
    "I read about this somewhere," said Kate. "Legend goes that they give a little of themselves to you if you survive contact. You start to turn into one."
    "Oh, well that's just great," moaned Dancer.
    My eyes widened as I pictured myself turning into a deranged, demonic puppy. "You either have to go with it or you have to get rid of the poison." I nodded, understanding.
    My eyes turned black with a vicious snap like a slap from Mitsu, and I saw Dancer focus. Magic eddied as we turned our attention inward, calling to the Empty for all we were worth. Universal essence came at our command and before I morphed into something freakish I let the truth of all things wash over me.
    Ink sprang to life as it channeled magic through my body, forcing it deeper into my hands and my face where I'd been torn and gnawed on, repairing the damage dangerously fast. I knew there would be a serious comedown for such rapid repair rather than letting it happen gradually, but just like Dancer, it felt preferable to turning into a rabid beast.
    My flesh burned as skin knitted together and muscle regenerated, and I felt sickness rise as the venom was purged as the tusks receded, feeling like they were spiking upwards into my nose then my skull while a loud ringing made me lose normal hearing. Vertigo hit, and I fell sideways onto the carpet as I vomited thick black trails of foreign dog venom in long lengths that looked like blackened and burned intestine. It snaked across the floor for a moment before dissipating, the corruption along with it.
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