Bestia Barghest

The Barghests are the souls of dogs reincarnated trough the use of demon magic. They are sometimes called Hell Hounds, though this is somewhat untrue. They classify as Diabolus nevertheless though, Rutilus is known to make extensive use of these creatures even going so far as to create them himself

There exists two types of Barghests, the Perfect, and the Imperfect - A perfect Barghest sports much higher power than Imperfect ones, and appears more similiar to normal dogs. The Imperfect ones are usually rapid and useless, and commonly wither away in the span of a few days.

The Barghest are classified as A-Class Bestia-Type Diabolus. Being able to pressure Liuetenant-Level opponents quite easily. The imperfect Barghest are regarded as B-Class, though.

Appearance
The Barghests are visually horribly twisted dogs, their eyes are red and swollen, their fur is a dullen black, sometimes with bony appendages sticking out at random places. Giving them a deathly appearance, this is however only true to those Barghest whom are made imperfectly. These are known to be in constant agony and are henceforth in a rabies-like state 24 hours a day, and thus useless in most regards. As they'll attempt to kill Human, Shinigami and Diabolus alike.

When created perfectly though. The Barghest are very valuable creatures in all Diabolus armies and organizations, they're excellent for tracking, incredibly inteligent and can understand most languages in existence. Their appearance also resemble normal dogs to a certain degree, though their faces are warped with malice, the most note worthy of their features would be their glowing red eyes.

Personality
Barghests are commonly only out after securing the pack, or their masters. They only very rarily possess advanced personality traits, and this is reserved to the oldest and most powerful of them. And those aren't found in the living world, being kept as pets for High-Ranking Arcus Daemon most commonly. It is known that the Optimates known as Lucifer has an especially old and powerful one serve as his personal body-guard and pet.

Powers & Abilities
Like most Diabolus, the Barghests possess many different abilities. Note that this is how Perfect Barghests have their abilities, Imperfect ones are substantially weaker.

 High Spiritual Power : A perfect Barghest sports among the most powerful of Spiritual Powers found within the ranks of the Bestia. They're fully capable of matching a Lieutenant-Level Shinigami in terms of Spiritual Power.
 * Enhanced Durability: Barghests have high amounts of durability in that their Spiritual Power is so dense that it works like some sort of armor against attacks. In quite the same way as it does for Zaraki Kenpachi of the 11th division.

High Spiritual Awareness: Barghests are naturally spiritually aware, which operates by scent, sight and hearing. They're also able to manually track down Spiritually aware beings, and they do so quite frequently.

Enhanced Speed: The Barghests are noted as being roughly as fast as a Shunpo or Sonido Expert, being able to fight on par with those quite easily, due to this being their natural speed. They very rarely tire and their common tactics are to wait for the opponent to reach exhaustion, before moving in for the final blow.

Enhanced Strength: Though this is much less prominent, Barghests possess Supernatural strength. Easily able to put heavy pressure on opponents whom face them in battle, they're able to easily break the necks of a human in quite the same manner like a normal dog might do that to a cat.


 * Uluatus (Latin for Howl) Is a special ability that all Barghests have, this allows them to release a dreadful howl which may or may not paralyze an opponent with fear. The force of the howl is also such that it can demolish small structures and obstacles, as well as deal heavy damage to opponents; making it very useful as a ranged attack too - Finally, they're able to summon forth nightmares in the minds of those whom hear this howl, torturing their adversaries with horrible visions, and increasing that persons suspectibility to Faustian Bargains in the future.

Behind the Scenes
The Barghests are based upon both Hell Hounds and the well known tales of Ghost Dogs, from where I have borrowed the name. They were created for the purpose of fleshing out the Bestia-Types, read about the other currently known type here.