Ravenous Maneaters

Ravenous maneaters is the second episode of Crypto X Ing, opposing the wendigo from algonquin myth to the ghoul of arabic legends.

## Theme of the episode

Both fighters are gaunt, hairless, feral humanoids armed with fangs and talons whith a neverending hunger for human flesh, dead or alive.

## Rating

This episode is rated R and G as both of the episode's fighters belongs to religious mythos and are savage cannibals.

## Result

The fight resulted in the ghoul's victory.

The ghoul's ability to turn into any human whose flesh it has tasted proved to be the turning point in this match as it meant that, as soon as the ghoul managed to get a bite of the wendigo it could then assume it's form, thus matching it's physical prowess. As noted in the episode wendigos are strongly reliant on brute force and dont tend to do well against opponents who are a physical match to them (hence why many legends involve the heroes using magic to grow to the wendigo's size to defeat it).

In adition the ghoul held the advantage of superior inteligence, superior healing factor (since it doesn't have to eat to regenerate) and paralizing touch (wich the wendigo was resistant but not immune to). Meanwile the wendigo's only powers that couldn't be copied, it's ability to cause cold weather and it's ability to induce wendigo psychosis, were useless in the fight. and it's ravenous hunger would compel it to feed on the ghoul, preventing a one hit kill.

Lastly, while permanently killing the wendigo could prove dificult, as such a task would require fire, Xenunnaki pointed out that :

* Given the wendigo's cold weather aura any human around would try to make a fire and the ghoul itself is known to start campfires in those circumstances to try and lure humans to it, making the possibility of the ghoul pushing it in a fire believable.
* Even if the ghoul proves incapable of permanently killing the wendigo it still won the fight and is thus the winner by default.

## Fight

The fight takes place in a desert, somewhere in the middle east.

A plane is making the trip from the USA to India with a wendigo on board. The wendigo start attacking the crew, forcing them to throw it off the plane but it easily survive the fall and start hunting. After devouring some deers it notice a campfire and approach, looking for prey only to discover that a ghoul had made the fire as a lure.

As the fight begins the ghoul take the advantage by turning into a jackal to outmaneuver it's enemy until the wendigo manage to strike it, killing it. But the wendigo then start feeding of the ghoul's corpse, healing it's injuries but resurecting the ghoul, and the fight resume.

By that point however the wendigo has eaten enough to reach the size of 12 feet tall, easily outmatching the ghoul this time. Still the ghoul outsmart it, tricking the wendigo into stabing it's own palm on the ghoul's claws, alowing it to rip it of and eat it, though the ghoul's next attempt at an ambush ends with it's arm being ripped of and eaten. At that point both take a breack to eat and regenerate before the fight resume.

In the fight's final segment the ghoul takes the wendigo's form and finaly decapitate it, before throwing it's body in it's campfire thus killing it for good.
## Teaser

The next episode's teaser shows a UFO in the night sky (representing the grays) and lights in the woods (representing the fairies).

## Trivia

* On deviantart this episode is titled "The Devourers of Man" instead.
* Due to the constraint of keeping the episode within a roughtly 30 minutes length the fight portion was shortened, removing the explanation for the wendigo's presence aboard the plane and the ghoul's initial introduction. This problem was one of the reason for the change in format in latter episodes, allowing for a lenghty fight without making the Crypto X Ing episodes too long.
* This episode is the first to have a rating as well as the first to have a R or G rating.