The endless red sands were calling to him today. The city couldn’t hold much sway when it barely felt like home anymore. Sooner or later, it was a given that he would have gotten bored with the games he’d been playing upon his return. Sooner or later, something different would have had to catch his interest. In this case, that something different had nearly caught him a few times too many before he decided that it was something worth investigating.
His bike cut through the terrain, kicking up a cloud of dust that could be seen for miles in all direction. He was probably going too fast. Any unseen dip or buried something in the sands could easily lead to a more embarrassing meeting than he’d been planning. That didn’t matter, he had a few backup plans prepared just in case. He was reckless, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t plan for his recklessness, fuck you very much. Just because he was about to strand himself in the desert looking for a local myth who’d taking waaay too keen an interest in his, uh, nocturnal extracurricular activities didn’t mean that he couldn’t be smart about it.
In retrospect, this probably wasn’t what his financial advisor meant when they recommended he lay low for several months upon returning to the city.
Matt enjoyed the feeling of the wind pulling at his riding clothes, leather jacket over tight jeans over a tighter muscle tee, the rumble of the mechanical beast beneath him, and the hot sun beating down on his back for a while longer before he figured he was far enough away from any known civilization to qualify as ‘lost’. He slowed his bike to a stop, checking the GPS function on his watch to confirm that he wasn’t too far from where his drone had been taken down a few days ago. This was where it’d get tricky.
No one knew how the beast operated. The only thing that everyone agreed on (and that his own numerous first hand accounts confirmed) was that it was some sort of giant canine, resembling a hellhound, who took an issue with anyone committing crime at night. From other first hand accounts and way too many rumors, he’d strung together that it kept mostly to the desert and was sometimes even seen during the day, helping lost travelers return home. Which was why Matt was currently sliding off his bike and carefully dismantling some key bits of machinery, storing them in secret, out-of-the-way places on the bike itself.
Once he was satisfied with his work, Matt slapped his hands against his thighs and attempted to rev his engines. The bike, on cue, sputtered and started smoking something awful. He held back the grin threatening to spread over his face and pulled over his helmet with a put-upon sigh.
Today, he was a dark brunette, hair falling straight down past his chin. His eyes had shifted to a startling blue, nearly clear in color, and his skin was so pale he could practically feel the sunburn setting in already. If this beast took too long to show up, he was going to be quite the pathetic sight to behold. His body was subtly changed from lean muscle to just straight up lean, rearranged in such a way to be more androgynous just in case the beast had certain preferences. He’d tried to get himself a bit shorter, too, but that was as far as his transformation was willing to go before he had to settle into the unfamiliar skin.
Matt stripped off his jacket with short, angry moments before collapsing next to his bike with a grunt. Jacket, gloves, and helmet were all tossed a short distance away in apparent disgust before he settled in for the long wait. He ignored the gun that was carefully hidden against the machinery of the bike, blending in perfectly unless you knew what to look for. If Mr. Mystery Dog could show up before he needed to consider shifting to avoid sunstroke, that’d be great.
His bike cut through the terrain, kicking up a cloud of dust that could be seen for miles in all direction. He was probably going too fast. Any unseen dip or buried something in the sands could easily lead to a more embarrassing meeting than he’d been planning. That didn’t matter, he had a few backup plans prepared just in case. He was reckless, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t plan for his recklessness, fuck you very much. Just because he was about to strand himself in the desert looking for a local myth who’d taking waaay too keen an interest in his, uh, nocturnal extracurricular activities didn’t mean that he couldn’t be smart about it.
In retrospect, this probably wasn’t what his financial advisor meant when they recommended he lay low for several months upon returning to the city.
Matt enjoyed the feeling of the wind pulling at his riding clothes, leather jacket over tight jeans over a tighter muscle tee, the rumble of the mechanical beast beneath him, and the hot sun beating down on his back for a while longer before he figured he was far enough away from any known civilization to qualify as ‘lost’. He slowed his bike to a stop, checking the GPS function on his watch to confirm that he wasn’t too far from where his drone had been taken down a few days ago. This was where it’d get tricky.
No one knew how the beast operated. The only thing that everyone agreed on (and that his own numerous first hand accounts confirmed) was that it was some sort of giant canine, resembling a hellhound, who took an issue with anyone committing crime at night. From other first hand accounts and way too many rumors, he’d strung together that it kept mostly to the desert and was sometimes even seen during the day, helping lost travelers return home. Which was why Matt was currently sliding off his bike and carefully dismantling some key bits of machinery, storing them in secret, out-of-the-way places on the bike itself.
Once he was satisfied with his work, Matt slapped his hands against his thighs and attempted to rev his engines. The bike, on cue, sputtered and started smoking something awful. He held back the grin threatening to spread over his face and pulled over his helmet with a put-upon sigh.
Today, he was a dark brunette, hair falling straight down past his chin. His eyes had shifted to a startling blue, nearly clear in color, and his skin was so pale he could practically feel the sunburn setting in already. If this beast took too long to show up, he was going to be quite the pathetic sight to behold. His body was subtly changed from lean muscle to just straight up lean, rearranged in such a way to be more androgynous just in case the beast had certain preferences. He’d tried to get himself a bit shorter, too, but that was as far as his transformation was willing to go before he had to settle into the unfamiliar skin.
Matt stripped off his jacket with short, angry moments before collapsing next to his bike with a grunt. Jacket, gloves, and helmet were all tossed a short distance away in apparent disgust before he settled in for the long wait. He ignored the gun that was carefully hidden against the machinery of the bike, blending in perfectly unless you knew what to look for. If Mr. Mystery Dog could show up before he needed to consider shifting to avoid sunstroke, that’d be great.
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