Bubonica

Classification
Parasite/Insect Grimm

Grimm Title
Bubonica (Boo-Bon-Nica)

Threat Ranking
SS- At least one member of any hunter team who chooses to pursue these creatures must have advanced medical knowledge.

Description
Bubonic are tiny, wingless insect grimm, heavily resembling the common flea in both body shape and type, although being slightly larger and mostly black. Their bodies are very squishy, most of its insides being liquid, making them hard to kill through physical force. A Bubonica's most prominent feature is their typical white, mask-like face with glowing red eyes, although this glow is very faint and nearly impossible to see with the naked eye.

They have three sets of legs, much like actual fleas, with the back set being the largest, and the front set being the smallest. Each leg is equpped with a pair fo hook-like claws, highyl adapted for holding onto hair, skin, and flesh with minimal contact, although the front pair have been reported to be larger on some older individuals. Along with this, their legs are incredibly powerful, granting them amazing jumping abilities. In some cases, specimens have managed to jump up to 14 inches in a single go.

Their proboscuses are tube-liek in nature, with the ability to split in to, revealing a razor shapr end, and equally sharp 'teeth' in between the two proboscus segments. There are glands in the back that have been confirmed to produce a sort of anesthetic 'saliva', which also contains the bacteria that create the perfect environment for the development of "The Dark Plague" to grow.

Behavior
By far one of the most voraciously violent monsters in exitence, the Bubonica have been known to target any warm-blooded organism. Their usual form of approaching said lifeforms is through their incredible jumping abilities, usually lying in wait within the darkness of a nearby bush before a potential host passes by. Once on a warm-blooded host, an individual Bubonica will immediately seek out the safest, most warm spot of the body; in this case with humans and faunus, the head. Upon reaching a desired spot, the Bubonica will use the sharp part of its proboscus, along with its 'teeth', to penetrate the skin, and begin feeding on the host's blood. During this, they also begin producing 'large' quantities of bacteria-rich saliva to use as a form of anesthesia.

As mentioned in the description, the produced amd injected into the surrounding area creates a sort of 'ideal enviornment' for a form of virus to take form and enter the bloodstream. This virus, having gone down in history notoriously as "The Dark Plague", is incredibly dangerous, the 4th and 3rd symptoms alone being enough to kill a full grown human.

Yet, one single bite is not capable of infecting a full grown host. Yet, to make up for this, Bubonica, which reach secual maturity at the age of four to five days, begin reproducing. In a lifetime, which for Bubonica is a little over a year, a single Bubonica mother can lay up to 5000 eggs, the span of time for an egg to hatch usually only taking up to half a year, although it has been reported that warm whether can speed this up to only