Transgenics (Mature)

[Krystalline Kabutops]

[center][color=grey][size=7]Transgenics
[size=5]Brought to you by: Krystalline Kabutops and Roy Karrde
(Rated Mature for sexual content, language, and violence)

[color=lightgreen][font=Rockwell Extra Bold][size=5]Be a Part of an Experience that will Change Your Life!
Winzolo’s New Outer World Science Store is looking for some COOL TEENS to play a New Game!
You will never be the same again!
Come to 1253 Abrams Street
April 23rd 3:30PM
Don’t Miss Out!

[left][color=#00a5ff]These flyers are littered everywhere on campus, in the library, in the cafeteria, everywhere. They have quickly become the joke of the school and everyone seems to poke fun at them. Even though you go along with the humor, you’re strangely intrigued at what would happen if you followed the flyer. When the day comes you decide to walk home instead of taking any other transportation. On the way home you walk past the shop that the banners were advertising and decide to step in since you have the time. Inside you find the shop basically empty of customers except for a few other people you know from school. The shop’s mad scientist like feel makes you and the others want to leave only when you’re about to the shopkeeper beckons you to the back. There he has each of you lay down in what he promises to be Virtual Reality tables. With each of you strapped in and safely secured he injects each one of you with something as military officers and scientists come in and watch.

The next few hours you are forced to experience a painful horrific transformation in which your body slowly changes. Each of you take on a different change or mixture of changes, some can be simple as hair changing or growing younger or older, while others completely change sexes. Dazed and in horrible pain you are finally led to the back of the shop where you are all placed in a jail cell. While in that cell you overhear the scientists talk about how your group didn’t completely respond to the treatment and you will die within weeks because of it. Angered and saddened by this each one of you discovers that you have the power to transform into an animal. Using your power you escape and are now on the run, your old identity is gone and you only have a few weeks to live. Is it enough to get revenge, and change back? Or is your fate and destiny sealed?

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[color=#008680]Some of you have been sent invites over PM, those people are the first to be eligible for the eight slots. If you did not get a PM you will still be able to sign up. Although you will be placed on a Wait list with the first one to sign up being on the front of the list. If a spot becomes open you will be the first to get in.

[color=limegreen]Slots Taken:
1. Dentai Blanke (Black.0ps)
2. Simba (Roy Karrde)
3. Arianna Silvera (Hinata)
4. Annri Brown (Nabooru23)
5. Michael Silvern (Hatake Kakashi)
6. Roxy Alopex (Drusilla)
7. Lance Kanon (SuperSonicMewtwo)
8. Scieszka (Tsukasa)


[color=orange]Sign Ups are closed.

My form:

~Name: Daniel Rowr
~Alias: Dentai (Or just Tai) Blanke
~Age: 16
~Gender: Male, and then female after the experiment.
~Original Appearance: Dan is a little above average, at five foot eleven. His hair is dyed black over its natural orange, and is straight and limp. It comes down over his eyes, and he lets it all just hang out. His physique is slim but capable, with strong muscles in his thighs and calves. His eyes are a verdant green, and go well with his black bandana (Although they contrast against his pale skin). He wears black, overly baggy jeans that he holds up with a black cloth belt, and his shirt is a navy blue sleeveless with a couple of tears in it. He’s got a wristband with small, black studs on it, and his shoes are a pair of beat-up sandals with blue designs on the straps (Tevas?).
~New Appearance: Tai is short, measuring barely five foot two, but is obviously a teenager. Her hair’s straight, comes down to her waist, and is a silvery shade of white with flecks of jet black. She has light blue, almost clear eyes, and three piercings on each ear, two in the cartilage and one in the lobe. She has an enviable hourglass shape, and is about a C-cup. Most of the time she keeps her hair in a ponytail with a black hair tie. For clothing, she starts off with the clothes she wore as a guy. However, once more options become available to her, she usually wears T-shirts with very short sleeves or tube tops if there’s nothing else, and she prefers pants to shorts and skirts. She absolutely refuses to wear skirts, unless blackmailed or ganged up on to do so. Her favorite outfit is a long-sleeved black shirt, where the sleeves flare at the end, and it says on the chest “My eyes are up here ^”. There’s a short (6 inches) black shawl sewn on the neck of the shirt, a pair of semi-loose black jeans, and a set of black sneakers with Gir shoelaces.
~Personality: As himself, Daniel is definitely antisocial. He dislikes being forced into new environments, and is very socially awkward around people older than his age. He’s morbid, but once you get to know him he can be rather outgoing. He’s not afraid to speak his mind, although he chooses to do so very little. However, after the change, he acquires an ample amount of mood-swings. Most of the time, Tai is a shy, quiet girl, reluctant to speak to others due to her unique situation and unsure of her place in the group. She’s prone to having panic attacks if someone brings up their expiration date, or does really anything at all to stress her. Still finding her sexuality, she tends to gravitate towards the other girl(s) of the group for security.
~Relationships: Open… Although I invite anyone to get something started with Tai.
~Animal: Raven
~Animal Appearance: White with pink eyes – basically an albino.
~Theme Song: Tourniquet, by Evanescence (Aww, she's emo :'( )
~Other: She’s hopeless with makeup.

[color=navy][\-< Daniel Rowr >-/]

Change your life… Do I want my life changed?
This is what I thought as I stood outside of Winzolo’s store, holding one of the flyers in my hand, and a backpack strap in the other. I’d never been in the store myself – I wasn’t much of a gamer or science geek. But the promise of something new appealed to me – I hadn’t done anything interesting since the n1ghtw0rk5 concert the week before. Peering through the windows, I saw some other people from school. I couldn’t see anyone objectionable, but I couldn’t see anyone I found particularly tolerable either.
As I tried to decide whether to venture in or not, I heard footsteps behind me. Turning around, I saw the pale face of Roxanne D'Angeles.
“Hello… Dan, isn’t it? You come here because of these flyers too?” She held one up by way of illustration. I nodded in reply. A flicker of a grin lit her face.
“Well, you’re going to have to come in then.” With that, she grabbed my arm and burst into the shop, with me in tow. As the little bell above the door tinkled, everyone turned to look over. Roxanne let go of my arm and drifted over to talk with the others. I counted 8 people or so in the shop. It had an eerie atmosphere. There were strange things in jars on the shelves, beakers bubbling, and a tyrannosaurus skull was mounted on the wall behind the cash register. I started sidling towards the door, but a voice, sharp and rough, sounded from the back of the shop.
“Ah, good! We have testers, and so many! Come come come, the game is in the back room.” As everyone moved to the back, I took one last look out the windows, idly wondering why Winzolo hadn’t been punished yet by the city for filling the streets with his flyers.
At the back of the crowd, I peered over their heads as we trooped into the back room. It was clinical in appearance, with high-tech machinery along the margins, including several computers with meaningless graphs and charts on them. In the center of the room were eight tables, white in colors with detailed designs on the tops.
“These are Virtual Reality Tables, young people. You’ll need to each lie down on one before we can begin. I’ll come around and strap you in when you’re ready.”
Everyone started scrabbling for a table. I sighed and picked one to the right of the room, lying down on it. It was a bit too short for me, and my feet hung off awkwardly. Winzolo came around once everyone was settled in, and began clicking in restraints. Only when he got to me did I get to see how extensive the restraints were. A metal band went around my waist, two more at my wrists, one at my neck, and two last ones on my calves. Once he’d finished with everyone, he moved to the back of the room, where I couldn’t see. Testing the restraints, I was uncomfortable to note that I couldn’t budge them an inch.
Suddenly, someone out of my line of sight screamed. So did another person. And another. The next one started asking what the hell was going on, but their question melted into a moan. Trying to see what was going on, I saw Winzolo next to me, a businesslike look on his face and a syringe in hand.
“Now what the fuck do you think you’re gonna do wi-” As he stuck it into my arm, my jaw locked up. Fiery pain spread from the spot as the injection was completed, and now I understood why none of the people I had heard before were screaming anymore. They couldn’t.
The next few hours were the most painful and humiliating of my life. As the pain spread through my body, strange men and women shuffled through the room, holding whispered conversations, particularly above me. Gradually, it dawned on me what was happening to my body. Although I couldn’t see it, I felt a new weight upon my chest. My groin felt foreign to me, and the hair on my head seemed to be doing something industrious. If only I could’ve lost conciousness, it might have not been so bad… But I remember the whole time clearly.
Finally, after what seemed like days, Winzolo unbuckled me from the table. Before I could bolt, assuming I’d had the energy to, a pair of guards grabbed me by the arms, holding them behind my back, and half walked, half dragged me down a hallway. At the end of it was a prison cell. They shoved me in roughly, closing the door, and went back for the next person.
Sitting in the corner, I slowly looked down to confirm what I felt. My eyes hit home my new identity. Bringing my knees up to my head, I curled up into a ball and cried quietly.

[Drusilla]

*dance*


Oh, and I apologize in advance if I typo badly... my right hand is torn up, and I'm supposed to be wearing a splint... but it's pissing me off. So my hand isn't completely functional right now...

~Name: Roxanne D'Angeles
~Alias: Roxy Alopex
~Age: 19
~Gender: Female
~Original Appearance:I love doll generators... one two
~New Appearance: Generally a kind of bleached/albino look... Change in eye color...after
~Personality: Loud, raucous, confrontational... When she sets her mind to something, she does it, no questions asked. Anyone who tries to persuade her otherwise probably won't like the results. She can get downright nasty when she puts her mind to it, but she does her best to never let her anger get in the way of her goals. She does have a few friends, and she makes friends easily... her problem is keeping them. Her temper flares, and there's no telling what might happen next. Patience and a level-head are required to work with her in any context.
~Relationships: Just have to see, won't we?
~Animal: Arctic fox
~Animal Appearance: She stays in strictly the winter-coat. Her fox form has purple eyes and a bluish tint to her fur.
~Theme Song: South Texas Deathride by Union Underground; mp3 here (It's got baaaad words, kiddos...)
~Other: Your mom.



Roxanne
But why must you fuck with these things in my head for so long that I feel I could break?

[color=red]Strapped to the table, I was helpless, immobile... totally vulnerable. I tested my left arm; not that I thought I would make any progress, but I wanted to make an attempt none the less. Futility never seems as such until after the fact, in my opinion.

Then the screaming started. My pulse quickened, and I tried to look around to see what was going on. I was, inconveniently, in a corner, and had no chance of seeing anything. Yet again, it wasn't like I could do anything, even if I could see.

"What the hell is going on?!" I yelled, anger and frustration evident in my voice. There was movement to my right, and I had a slight glimpse before I realized what was going on.

They had needles. Well, syringes, but the needles were the important part. I hated needles. I screamed, a full, all-out shriek of terror as the man plunged the damned point into my arm. It felt like ice spreading through my veins, a sudden shock of cold, burning and freezing at the same time. My voice died in my throat as my entire body was robbed of what little mobility I'd had left. I gasped for air, glad that something would still obey me, and stars exploded and danced in my vision. I could feel the ice in my blood spreading, flowing, tearing through my body in waves... I had never been able to feel every little bit of myself all at once, almost right down to the nerve endings, and the realization unleashed a new wave of panic. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, could barely breathe... Was I going to die here? A single tear pooled in my eye and trailed down the side of my face... and it was cold, so cold...

I shivered; the air felt like it had dropped several degrees very quickly. Goosebumps raised on my arms, and even my locked-up muscles spasmed from the cold.

"Her body temperature is skyrocketing... get her a blanket, we don't want to lose any of them too soon," a voice murmured nearby. Why was my temperature so high? What was happening...?

I managed one long, agonized screech before everything went black...

When I woke, I was in a... cage... there was no other way to describe it. A disturbance nearby caused me to blink and turn, trying to see what it was....

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

all right, time to see how i do

~Name: Lance Kanon
~Alias:
~Age: 16
~Gender: Male
~Original Appearance: Lance is a stick. He is just above 5' and is very thin, due to birth defects. He has brown hair which he normally keeps short, appears (and is) sickly, and pale. Lance's eyes are a dull green. He normally wears jeans and sweatshirts, for his health prevents him from keeping in his own heat, and he is constantly cold.
~New Appearance: Lance is reversed. His health, other than the fact that he'll die in a few weeks, is remarkably improved. He now has a 6' 3" muscular build. His hair is long and silver, and he has bright, resiliant eyes, with tan skin. Wears whatever he can find that fits.
~Personality: Originally very depressed and a loner, he lightens up after his change. He always knew he'd die young, but this shock has forced him to believe he should try to live life. He isn't used to the change in fitness and strength and stumbles alot, which he develops into a sense of humor. Tries to help those who he holds dear. Will try nearly anything once.
~Relationships: Open.
~Animal: Cheetah, a strong and fast animal, coinciding w/Lance's change to a strong and powerful person.
~Animal Appearance: Yellow w/black spots, keeps his bright blue eyes, has that kind of fur that you just like to feel.
~Theme Song: He's a Pirate - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
~Other: lol alot of people are going for feline-like animals.

<Lance>
It was April 23rd. I left school and headed down Abrams. The air felt chilly against me skin, and I pulled gloves out of my sweatshirt pockets and put them on. None the less, I was shivering. I stopped on the sidewalk when I noticed some banners, and noticed Winzolo's. I had heard about this place, and their new game, and I was sure they had heating, and decided to enter. Inside, the place felt more like a voo-doo magic shop that a place to try a new VR game, but I had time and went with it. When 8 of us had entered the shop, and were wandering about, we were called to a back room. The real technology was revealed here; specially designed tables for our gaming experience at the room's center.
"These are Virtual Reality Tables, young people. You’ll need to each lie down on one before we can begin. I’ll come around and strap you in when you’re ready."
'If it will change my life...' I thought, and climbed onto the table. The owner, Winzolo, strapped everyone onto their tables. The metal restraints were cold, even through my clothing. I had been restrained before, though, for when getting different xrays and scans, so it wasn't TOO different, until Winzolo pulled out a tray of surgical syringes and began injecting their contents into each one of us!
"What does this have to do with virtual reality?" i yelled, but upon feeling the needle enter my arm, all I could do was scream. Whatever was inside the needle felt like the worst pain I had ever experienced. It was burning hot, icy cold, stabbingly sharp, and spreading throughout my body. I quickly realized screaming made it harder to resist the pain, so I clenched my teeth and tried to push against the spreading pain, but to no avail. The pain continued for hours... Through my teary eyes, I saw different people walking around me and the others. I also could hear occasional ripping sounds. I didn't know what they were.
One of the people walked up to me, and felt my face and jaw. The feeling against my skin only raised the pain, and I gasped and closed my eyes. I heard the person say to another "he looks much better now." They were changing how we looked?! As soon as I thought of this, I heard the clanging of buckles falling to the floor. Two men grabbed my arms (causing me more pain) and heaved me off the table.. and dropped me on the floor. My head collided with the hard ground with a thud, and I screamed once more.
"Damn, he's heavy!" I heard one of the men say. My arms were grabbed again, only this time, I was dragged, rather than lifted. I did not watch wear they were taking me. Finally, the men let go of me, and I heard the sound anyone whose ever seen a prison movie has heard; the sound of the bars closing. I tried to get up, but the pain was still strong, and for some reason, I couldn't quite manuver myself correctly. I fell down the floor and fell asleep.

[Roy Karrde]

Opaque and SSM! Some one pinch me, I feel like I am in 2002!

[left]~Name: Austin Anderson
~Alias: Simba
~Age: 18
~Gender: Male
~Original Appearance: He has long black hair that is grown out a bit and very wild. He's somewhat muscular in appearance, mostly becuase he is always outside playing and exersizing instead of being inside. He has a light tan from all of the sun and deep hazel eyes. He wears glasses sometimes but takes them off when he wants to, mostly becuase they bother him. He usually wears a button down black shirt which he keeps open all the time, with a tan shirt underneath along with tan jeans.
~New Appearance: His height has shrunk alot, he is now barely 5'1" and looks around 11 years old. He has curly dirty blonde hair right now and a bit of baby fat still in his face. He still has hazel eyes and keeps his glasses and has a few freckles on his cheeks. He now wears a gray Old Navy T-Shirt and a pair of blue jeans, both he found in the trash when they escaped.
~Personality Old: He can get in fights easily and has a temper, yet he loves to play around and spends most of his time out and about with his friends. He's very joking and layed back, while he is very loyal to his friends. Overall he just enjoys having fun.
~Personality New: He is still care free and has fun, yet he does get scared easily and has a tendency to cry when he gets really scared. He stays close to the older members of the group, but believes he needs to prove his worth and can sometimes go overboard and get into dangerous situations when he does so.
~Relationships: Open
~Animal: Lion
~Animal Appearance: He's just a small lion cub in appearance, nothing special except for it's age.
~Theme Song: To be filled in soon
~Other: He has a thing for Lions, which is why he got the name.

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Bored ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]Lazily I followed a couple of others into the shop on this pretty much uneventful day. It was almost the end of April, and the last thing I wanted to do was hang out here too long. Eventually I would have to start studying for finals and being here was just boring. I kept my hands interlocked on the back of my head as I walked around the weird shop that had to double as some kind of mad scientist’s shop. None of the people here I really knew from school or had even seen before, the only one that even looked somewhat interesting was a cute girl with dyed blue hair that was looking around the shop.

Our eyes met for a second before I glanced away, the awkward was quickly broken by the entrance of the shopkeeper. “Ah, good! We have testers, and so many! Come come come, the game is in the back room.” The shopkeeper said in a hurried manner as we were pushed into a room that was more clinical and high tech in appearance than arcade like. “These are Virtual Reality tables, young people. You’ll need to each lie down on one before we begin. I’ll come around and strap you in when you’re ready.” We were commanded as we slowly got onto the solid table.

The straps or restraints I should say were each fastened down, to prevent us from moving. Alarm bells began to sound in my head when I realized I couldn’t move with the restraints on. How was I supposed to get out? Could this be a trick? Out of the side of my eye I could see the dark blue haired girl lying next to me. “Looks like we’re stuck now.” I mumbled to her, the response I got from her was in the form of a scream in pain and shock. Glancing over I could see the shopkeeper remove a syringe from her arm, refill it and then strike my arm with it.

The following hours, or maybe it was days, were filled with pain and misery. My bones felt like they were stretching and rearranging, my skin loosening and then tightening again. Over and over in an agonizing hell. At one point I could swear that my hair fell out and then re grew almost instantaneously. My mind began to be flooded with emotions of pure fear as my thoughts started to become more and more simplistic in nature.

Eventually two men came over and un-strapped myself, or at least they felt like men, at this moment they were more like giants as they grasped my arms and dragged my light frame down a white hallway and then into a prison cell. I quickly found a wall and pressed my back to it, my underwear now hanging off my body while my pants were pooled at my feet. My own t-shirt was now a sweat-stained tent while my new hair clung to my face. “What…what happened to me?” I asked, my voice cracking a slight bit like it did when I was just starting puberty.

“My..my voice.” I gasped bringing my hand to my throat as if it held the secret to why my voice had changed so much. My eyes began to fill with tears as my now younger mind began to fear for what they did and how I would be stuck here for the rest of my life.

The guards returned with the last of our group, throwing a young girl in that had to be no older than twelve with raccoon ears and a tail. “That’s the last of them.” One guard remarked as the girl looked around in a haze before moving over a few feet near me, her back to the same wall that I was sitting against, her clothes also way too big to fit her. “The doctor said they failed this time, oh well they will be dead in a few weeks and then we start this all over again.” Another guard shrugged as if it had happened thousands of times before.

Dead? DEAD? I didn’t want to be dead. I didn’t want to die; I just wanted to go home. Tears began to spill over my cheeks, which I couldn’t hold back anymore. I began to draw breaths in quicker and quicker as I began to cry harder and harder drawing some stares from some of the others while others seemed to be crying or preoccupied with their own quickening mortality.

“It’s okay.” A soft voice and hand rested on my shoulder, messaging it lightly. I turned and in my hazy vision I could make out the shape of the raccoon girl. I messaged my eyes to get away the tears and could see a look of concern and worry on her face. I scrunched up my nose a bit to fight back even more tears, which didn’t work as the warm fluid began to trickle down my face again. The girl leaned forward and embraced me lightly in a soft hug as I continued to sob.

“I-I don’t wanna die” I sobbed as a tingling sensation ran through my body. She began to rub my back lightly in response, as the tingling seemed to get worse and worse until it felt like my whole body was being poked by pins and needles. “Wha..?” I asked as my vision began to flicker and then came back in full black and white, yet with much crisper detail. My ears were also picking up amazing sound quality now; I could even hear the heart beat of the girl in front of me. The rapidly growing girl, or maybe I was just shrinking. My teeth began to ache while at the same time something pushed out of my tail bone. My fingers began to push together and my nose started to stretch until I could see it in front of my vision.

‘What happened to me?’ I tried to ask only my voice seemed to work in the forms of soft mews and cat noises. The raccoon girl who’s smell was now assaulting my nose, put her arms underneath my arm pits and lifted me out of my clothes. ‘NO! you will see me naked’ I tried to yell, which came as more of a deeper cat growl. I struggled only lightly as she brought me up to her face and I realized I was covered in fur.

“You’re so cute.” She grinned holding me up to her shoulder so that I could place my hands on it. Something alien swayed near my butt as I looked around at the shocked faces of everyone else in the group. The question on their mind must have been the same one on mine. What had happened to me?

[Arnen]

~Name: Kali Stevens
~Alias: Annri Brown (yeah, I know, so original with last names today..)
~Age: 16
~Gender: Female
~Original Appearance: She's got a pretty average build and height for her age, at about 130 lbs and 5'5". Her hair is dyed dark blue, fading to lighter blue at the tips. It reaches down to just above her shoulders and is slightly wavy, feathered at the tips. Her eyes are a luminescent silvery color, and she dresses like the pic on the left in the attachment (with different hair color, since the thing I used didn't have what I wanted), only instead of a pumpkin her shirt has a silver oriental dragon with red clouds on the front.
~New Appearance: She now appears to be 12 or so, and is only 115 lbs and 5'1". Her hair is now brown and straight, and a tiny bit shorter. Her eyes are a shade darker than before as well. She manages to find some clothes like the pic on the right in the attachment.
~Personality: Though she has the appearance of being rather serious, she's usually pretty cheerful. She does get annoyed easily however, and also tends to be lazy. She's very adamant in her opinions, and doesn't like them to be challenged, though she does enjoy a good argument. By no means is she girly, and implying that she is in any way weak will probably lose you a couple of teeth.
~Relationships: Becomes friends with Austin/Simba.
~Animal: Raccoon
~Animal Appearance: Just a smallish raccoon, although her fur is noticeably lighter than normal, with the darker markings being quite nearly black. Her eyes are grey.
~Theme Song: "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish" ~ My Chemical Romance
~Other: Often, when returning to human form from her animal form, part of her will stay animal. Most commonly this includes keeping a raccoon tail, claws, or ears. (Pics are in the sign-up topic)

-/- Kali Stevens -\-

Usually I didn't listen to flyers, but the promise of trying out a new game intrigued me. But although I had hoped to be one of the only ones going to this store, it turned out that a bunch of kids from my school had shown up.

I recognized most of them, but didn't really consider any of them to be my friends. That didn't matter though; I wasn't here for any of them.

The store itself was pretty interesting. Severed hands in jars, weird devices strung up from the ceiling, looking like someplace out of a horror movie. This, to me, was interesting, and I found myself almost immediately examining a case of daggers.

"Hm... serrated edges, nice.. little short, though..." I muttered to myself. I happened to glance up and saw a guy, probably a few years older than me with messy black hair, watching me. I blinked for a second, then looked away quickly as a man, presumably the shop keeper, walked in from some other room.

He talked for a while, but I didn't really pay attention. Something about more people than expected showing up. I let my eyes wander around the room as he prattled on, looking at some peculiar object or other. Finally, I noticed that he was walking away and everyone was following him, so I reluctantly shuffled forward, glancing once more around the shop before heading into some sort of back room.

This room was more high-tech looking. The shopkeeper dude was saying something about "virtual reality tables". It sounded pretty suspicious -- I'd never heard of any form of virtual reality that used tables, and it just didn't seem like it would work. But I shrugged; it was too late to back out at this point. Cautiously, I walked over to one of the tables and lay down on my back, feeling the coldness of the surface through my shirt.

Soon enough, someone came by and tied my wrists and ankles down to the table. I stiffened. Usually, tied to table equals bad news.

"Looks like we're stuck now." I turned my head to see the dark-haired guy strapped to the table next to mine.

With my head turned, I didn't see the guy coming around my other side. The needle sank into my arm before I even knew the guy was there, and I couldn't stop from crying out in surprise and pain. I never was really good at handling pain, so I blacked out almost as soon as I felt something spreading from the puncture left by the needle, like white-hot lightning shooting through my veins.

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Though I wasn't technically conscious, I still could feel immense pain. That was it: blackness and agonizing pain. My mind became numb, and I could only wish for it to end. It seemed to go on forever, until suddenly it stopped.

I felt rough hands at my wrists, yanking them straight through the bindings, which felt strangely slack. I was lifted from the table, rather easily, I thought, and as I blinked my eyes open I saw that I was being carried through a hallway, and eventually into a room disturbingly like a prison cell.

I was thrown rather roughly to the ground. Looking around dazedly, I saw an assortment of people in the cell along with me, many of whose clothes didn't seem to fit quite right. The dude who'd thrown me in said something, but my ears were ringing so loudly I couldn't hear what it was... I did pick out the words "failed" and "dead in a few weeks", however, which made me kind of nervous.

On a whim, I looked down, intent on fixing my shirt, which felt as if it were hanging rather oddly. But then I saw my hand. It looked smaller than it should have, somehow. My clothes also seemed to be fitting a little loosely. I tried to stand up, but fell back down right away because my shoes were too big. A few strands of brown hair fell into my eyes. I reached behind me for something to brace myself on, but felt something furry. I clenched my fist around it, and felt pressure from something behind my butt that should not have been there.

"What.. the hell.." I groaned, noting that my voice was a little higher than it was supposed to be. Deciding not to try walking again, I crawled over to one of the walls until I was sitting with my back against it, not far from a little kid with blonde hair.

Before I could do anything, he started crying. I edged forward, intent on making him feel better.

"It's ok..." I offered tentatively, resting a hand on his shoulder. Thinking of how massaging my mom's shoudlers always made her feel better, I started tearing up again again. Not knowing what else to do, I pulled him into a light hug.

"I-I don't want to die..." he sobbed, his voice cracking slightly. Frowning and generally feeling really sorry for the kid, I moved my hand to his shoulders and started massaging there.

Suddenly, he tensed up. I pulled back as he let out an incredulous "Wha?" and started shaking slightly. I watched as he began to shrink, golden hair sprouting all over his body as his face changed and became cat-like. In less than a minute I was looking at a pile of clothes housing a small lion cub. He let out a confused-sounding meowl.

"You're so cute..." I couldn't help from remarking as I reached over and tucked my hands under his arms. He let out a little growl of protest and started squirming as I picked him up and held him near my shoulder so he could lean on it, like I often did with my cat at home.

It was then that I noticed that everyone else in the room was looking at me strangely. "Umm..."

[Krystalline Kabutops]

{/~( Tai Blanke )~\}

As I sobbed into my knees, I felt a soft hand on my shoulder. Looking up, I saw a black-haired girl, her skin pale, with clothes that seemed to be too large for her.
"Are you alright?" She asked, kneeling down beside me. Afraid to open my mouth, for fear that I would wail, I simply latched onto her, burying my head in her shoulder. Obviously unsure of what to make of this, she simply patted my back awkwardly, muttering reassurances.
"There there... Stop crying, it'll be alright..." I could feel the eyes of the others on us, like a laser cannon focusing on my neck. And then, abruptly, they were gone. I heard the pale girl gasp. Wiping my eyes, I turned my head to see what everyone was staring at. In the lap of a young girl with a raccoon tail sat a small lion cub, who looked just as bewildered as the people that were staring at him. I let go of the pale girl, and turned my whole body around to see the cub.
"Where... Where did he come from?" I asked her, pointing at the cub.
She shook her head, bewildered. "He was a little boy just a moment ago..."

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ In full Kitty Mode ~*~*~*~*~

The girl's magical hands began to stroke past my neck, her nails scratching the skin in a manner that made it feel so good. Like a itch that was just finally being scratched, yet at the same time I didn't have a itch in that area. Deep inside my throat I could feel a deep rumbling that began to get louder and louder as she began to scratch under my chin. It just felt so good. Below I could feel my tail starting to twist around wildly and out of control.

Looking over at her as she slowly stopped I began to feel a need to thank her. I mean I couldn’t talk to her like this, unless she could understand what my meows meant. Moving my face over to her nose slowly, I extended my now flat tongue and began to lick her soft nose carefully. She began to giggle again as I licked a few more seconds before she began to scratch my head and then allowed me to jump down.

Now all eyes were on me, the attention of what seemed like thousands of giant people were all staring at me. “Hello” I said softly, only to have it come out as a soft mew as I backed up in fear back to the girl.

“You’re scaring him” She spoke up as her arms reached around me and rose me high into the air again. Being afraid of heights this was one thing that I just couldn’t get used to. I hated going up high and being lifted up in the air was even worse.

“Maybe the furball can get us out of here.” One voice spoke up. My eyes narrowed and I felt something push out from my fingers in anger as a deep growl rose from my throat. How dare she call me a furball. What did she think I was?

Soon the scratching began again from that familiar hand and what ever came out of my fingers and toes slowly retracted back in as my muscles relaxed. “Can you help us get out of here?” The girl’s soft voice whispered into my ears as I turned to face her. How could I say no to her? She was so cute even now and nice. I nodded slowly as she slowly placed me back down on the ground.

Squeezing through the bars with ease I made it out into the hallways. Walking on four legs wasn’t that hard, just one hand or paw in front of the other. It seemed almost primal to an extent. Yet now I couldn’t focus on walking or the overwhelming urge coming from my bladder. I had to let the others out before I could attend to other things.

With what seemed like an Olympic sized jump, I reared back and jumped what felt like twenty stories onto the computer on the desk at the end of the hallway. “Wow.” I gasped in amazement as I walked around slowly on the keyboard, using my small hand to move the mouse on the desk over to the commands area of the screen. My new muscles and strength was just outstanding. With my tail whipping around playfully I moved and clicked the mouse until I finally found the command to open the cell. Two swift clicks on the mouse and the jail bars opened to allow everyone’s escape.

Another click and the back door of the room unlocked to allow an easy escape into the back alley of the place. Proud of myself, I jumped back down and yanked on the mouse cord, ripping it out of the socket. Grinning as wide as possible I ran back to the girl with the mouse cord locked firmly in my mouth. “Here.” I presented her, dropping the mouse onto the ground at her feet as she rose me back up into the air.

“You brought me a present?” She asked scratching under my chin again. Yeah that felt so freaking good. My body began to relax even more in her arms as she scratched me more and more. The rumbling rose from my throat and a sudden warm feeling shot forward from around my waste. The girl screamed and released me, what felt like a drop of three stories rushed up upon me as I landed on my side.

The girl’s shirt was now soaking wet and her smell changed to smell more like me than anything else. “He peed on you” Someone else laughed as my tail suddenly went limp between my legs as my face lowered to the ground.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” I mumbled over and over again, knowing she couldn’t even hear my whimpering. Everyone began to file out of the cage finally leaving just her and myself. After a minute or so passed she slowly bent down and started scratching my head softly.

“It was a accident wasn’t it?” She asked as I began to lick her hand over and over again as thanks for her forgiving me. Finally I looked up at her and nodded slowly, she smiled and began to scratch me behind my ears even more. Smiling, I leapt up into her arms and snuggled up against her. I may be younger now, and not even human, but I felt safe with her, and right now that was all that mattered.

[Arnen]

~\~ Annri Brown ~/~

"Wait..." I said suddenly. Walking over to the computer desk, I thanked my good luck that I was only a few inches shorter than usual as I set the cub down on the desk.

"Hmm..." Grabbing the bottom of my shirt, which hung just above my knees, I examined the stain. It only covered the bottom portion of my shirt, fortunately. Since I didn't know how long I'd be stuck like this (I ignored the voice in my head echoing the words "dead in a few weeks"), I decided to just rip the shirt. There was already a small hole on the left side, so I worked one finger into it and tore from there.

"That's better," I muttered as I let the damp fabric fall to the floor. Shortened as it was, the shirt now only came down to a half-inch or so below the top of my pants.

A small growl made me look up. The cub was shifting from paw to paw, looking very insistent. I let out a small "oh" and quickly picked him up, walking back over to the others as I petted his back and neck.

"So what're we gonna do now?" I asked no one in particular, looking around at everyone.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

I wasn't asleep for very long; people talking and random noises forced me to conciousness. Unusually, my sight came clear very quickly, and I could make out a girl examining her shirt, a lion cub, and a few others. There were just as many people as who had entered the shop however long ago it was, but I did not recognize anyone now. Everyone had changed in some way. I sort of realized that I must have changed, too... It was then that I noticed the cell we were in was open, and a door outside was as well. Everyone began filing out, and I followed, only to trip and fall flat on my face. Two of the other kids turned around, and helped me up, and we continued our exit. I began to realize what my change must have been.. I was taller than the others, and I couldn't control my weight... somehow, I had grown.

I tripped again outside, this time knocking over a trash can and falling right into the garbage that spilled out. I mentally prepared myself for the disgusting feeling of rotten food all over my face, but was startled to find clothing instead. My, and many people's clothing didn't seem to fit...

"Hey guys, I found some new stuff to wear!" I called. Everyone turned around, and began walking toward the trash can, when we heard some voices.

"They're gone!"

"They've escaped through to the back alley!"

"Those specimens are vital to out future research, we NEED THEM back!" Two men burst out of the doorway, each in dark clothing and carrying rifles, fitted with tranquilizers. One held the gun to his eye, and aimed toward a girl who.. had a tail?! The lion cub, who was at her feet, began growling furiously, and ran toward the thugs. The second man smirked, and gave the cub a swift kick. The lion cried out in pain as it flew into the air, and right into my chest. We both fell over, and I wheezed from having the wind knocked out of me.. and felt pissed. I stared at the thugs, and growled a bit. I felt a prickling sensation all over my body, and heard the same ripping sound as I had heard back in the 'VR Table' room.. this time, I could see my clothes fall to the ground. My senses, they grew stronger... I could smell the thugs enjoyment of the situation, and that only made my anger grow more wild. I screamed, and began running toward the men. Something felt very different... how I was running, what I was saying... but I did not pay attention. I had an incredible urge to rip the men to pieces. I lepped into the air, opened my mouth, and latched right onto one man's arm, and savored his scream as blood spilled into my lips. I closed my jaws more, and felt the bones crack. With a swift pull of my neck, the arm came clean off, and I spit it to the side. I then turned to the other man, and began to growl once more.

[Toxicity]

Sorry it took me so long to post; life generally sucks for me.

~Name: Laura Deirdre
~Alias: Arianna Silvera
~Age: 16
~Gender: Female
~Original Appearance: Standing at an average height of 5'5", Laura is seemingly a European goddess of battle in her appearance, yet her personality does not show it: Her eyes are a deep forest green color with flecks of golden brown around her pupils, and her hair, thick and shoulder-length, is deep dark brown in color. Despite the slight pale tone of her skin, her build definitely shows her fitness: almost bodybuilder type in strength, her biceps, triceps, and legs gently ripple with this physical prescence, yet remain not so intimidating to some. Even her abdominal muscles are well-formed, and the same with her figure, naturally curved.
Due to her modest nature, Laura dresses in slightly baggy clothes consisting of a black shirt reading in red "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was the suspect," and jeans that appear to have a slight hint of turquoise to them. Her shoes are simply black high-tops.
~New Appearance: In this form, Arianna is still fit physically, although she doesn't look it. Shrinking down to around 5'1", Arianna's eyes are an inky dark brown in color, her hair now black with a unique tinge of indigo, yet keeping the same thickness and length. Her skin still remains pale, although now showing a tan which seems to bring out her being partially of Native American descent, yet her build has obtained a drastic change: her figure is now brought out, although maintaining more of a bust than hip size, and her arms and legs are now "soft," lacking their former definition. She also managed to obtain a slight belly, in which many question whether or not she's obese.
Her clothing has also changed greatly. Arianna is now adorned in a somewhat large Metallica band shirt for the Master of Puppets album, and her pants are now knee-length boy's shorts dark green in color, both also found trashed during the escape.
~Personality: Laura/Arianna is kind, compassionate, and caring. However, she seems to dwell too much on the negative things in life, which has led to some of her stress and even depressive nature. Modest in nature, she seems to be in denial of the things going for her, as in intelligence, a sense of humor, and according to the one she loves, beauty. She's really a "gifted" girl, yet many think that she'd put brawns before brains and such, in which she intimidates those who think that by doing the opposite. While she seems introverted at first, she eventually opens up and realizes that survival will be a major factor, which includes making relations with others, to her.
~Relationships: In a relationship with Michael Silvern.
~Animal: Chinchilla
~Animal Appearance: Her pelt's color is a mix of silvery grey and charcoal black, yet aside from that, nothing too special about her.
~Theme Song: "Not Like the Other Girls" by The Rasmus (only because it seems to be a slightly depressive song; she understands that she isn't too unique...)
~Other: Not really.

~*~Arianna Silvera~*~
I won't let this build up inside of me

The coldest of sweats drifted down the back of my neck..."dead in a few weeks?" "Failed?" Maybe my mother was right all along in not supporting my growth. Maybe she didn't care what would happen to me, much less now. My clothes were definitely baggy now; suprisingly, my shirt was even longer on me. Clearly I had shrinked in height, and not to mention became...fat. My anxiousness to see Michael's reaction was evident by the look on my face, as I turned on my side to look up. People were escaping this steel hell, and running for their lives. It seemed to leave me and a few others, one of which appeared to be in his early twenties now...Michael?

Slightly panicking, I scooted myself over and gazed down upon him. I was nervous even if this was the one I loved more than anything. He was still asleep, so I had no other choice. Gently touching his cheek, I slowly neared myself towards his other cheek. Right before I could nuzzle him, I heard him.

"Who...are you?" I was greatly upset now. Did my face even look different? I sighed, and lifted myself up, still slightly fatigued after the lack of sleep I had the night before, and disturbances I felt during the "nap" everybody seemed to experience.

"Michael, it's me..." I spoke, my voice trembling. I gazed down upon my figure; he loved my figure in my "old form," but would he learn to accept this new me? "We have no time now, though. We've got to get out of here..." Still shocked, he nodded and stood, his hand gently reaching towards mine to help me up. I quietly thanked him as we quickly made our way to catch up with the others. Wherever we were to go with this group of people, I just hoped that eventually we'd manage to survive these few weeks we had left, and for me, a new pair of clothes.

And I apologize if it's too short. I'm mainly gonna try and get Kakashi to post.

[Krystalline Kabutops]

{/~( Tai Blanke )~\}

Standing up with some difficulty, I exited the cell with the rest of my fellow experimentees, using them for support, to the annoyance of more than a couple. As we entered the alleyway, someone shouted that they had found some clothes... I suddenly realized that the only thing holding my pants up was my hips, and my shirt had more holes in it than I'd have liked. However, before any of us could look into this discovery, voices were heard from the open door.
"They're gone!"
"They've escaped through to the back alley!"
"Those specimens are vital to out future research, we NEED THEM back!"
The next thing we knew, a pair of burly thugs, armed with tranquilizer guns, burst out of the door. One took aim at the girl with the raccoon tail, and her lion cub went for his leg. What he got was a swift kick. Suddenly, a growl sounded behind me, and before I could turn around, a cheetah had sunk its teeth into the arm of one of the men. He screamed as the giant cat tugged back and forth, until finally, with a sickening crunch not unlike a wishbone being pulled apart, the arm came off, squirting profuse blood. The cheetah flung it to the side, and then faced the thugs again, as if challenging them to try anything. The uninjured one ran back into the building, and his one-armed friend lay on the ground, screaming at the sight of his bloody stump. I turned my eyes away at the sight of it, feeling as if I might vomit. Finally, I heard a sharp sound, like two rocks hitting each other, and the screaming stopped. Slowly turning back around, I saw the oldest-looking member of our group, a tall man with dark brown hair, standing above the thug, garbage can lid in hand. It bore a dent in the rim.
"Let's see what he's got on him..." He began rummaging in the thug's pockets. After a moment, he pulled out a wallet.
"Bingo."
I stood with the rest of the group, watching as he thumbed through the wallet.
"Umm... Shouldn't we get out of here? His buddy might come back..."
The man nodded, pocketing the wallet. "I know an abandoned house a little ways out of town. It's down near McCreevy street, got a gravel driveway leading off the road and everything. I think that'd be the best place to go."
He set off down the alley, the pale girl who I had cried on following close behind him, her arms full of clothes. Suddenly, I remembered them - unfortunately, by the time I got a chance at the pile, all that was left was underwear, socks... that sort of thing. Sighing, I rubbed my arms and started to hurry after the group, only to be struck by a thought - the man's tranquilizer gun. It might come in handy. I picked it up, grunting with surprise at how heavy it was, and rushed after the others, finally catching up with them right behind the cheetah and a girl with reddish/brown, white tipped hair.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Hurt badly ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]The man leveled the gun at the girl that had been so nice to me. He wanted to shoot her, to hurt her. Rage began to build as my body shook in fury; a deep growl arose from the back of my throat before I took off running straight at the man. My claws pushed their way back out of my toes and fingers as I leapt in the air preparing to tear him limb from limb for threatening my friend.

I was inches away, just mere inches away from giving this guy the worst pain in his life when something that felt like a truck hit me in my ribs. Darkness threatened around the edges of my eyes as I sailed through the air, this time in a new, out of control direction. I must have hit a wall or something hard for all I know is that my motion stopped while in mid air, this was again followed by more pain which caused the darkness in my vision to leap forward and I fell into a deep slumber.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

”Wake up, please wake up.” A faint voice called out, the darkness in my eyes seemed to fade and my surroundings began to come back into focus. I wasn’t on the hard ground or anything but laying on something soft. My surroundings began to fade into view and I found myself in a semi dark room, the only light coming through was from an open window. The dirty white wallpaper in the room was pealing and in some parts turning a thick black. A thick musk filled the air and stunk it up as if the house hadn’t been clean for years. To my side laid my friend, she was laying on what I found out quickly was a bed, stroking my head softly.

Slowly I rose up onto all fours only to collapse back down, a deep pain in my side had lanced out and I knew trying to stand up again would provide the same result. “Take it easy, we’re at a huge house that one of us suggested. We’re all okay you just need to rest.” She whispered softly her hand stopped stroking my head and moved out of my field of vision. When it returned she had some small nuts in her hand that looked almost like the size of candy bars to me. “We found some dried food, it’s not much, but you should eat it.” I leaned forward, tentatively smelling the food to make sure it isn’t poisoned before softly pushing my face into her hand and grasping one in my mouth.

I quickly chewed it up and dug my face in her hand again, grabbing another and another until it was all gone. “You we’re really hungry.” She stated more than asked as I laid my head back down on the side of the bed. Pain seemed to rack my body over and over and it had just become too unbearable to stay awake. “You could…change back.” She asked, almost scared to mention it.

Changing back hadn’t really occurred to me yet; I had no idea how to change back, I didn’t even know how I changed in the first place. I gave a slow pitiful glance up at her before closing my eyes and concentrating on my new young self. Seconds with by with out nothing and then the tingling sensation happened, followed by what felt like stretching and more stretching. My bones began to re arrange and snap back into place as if I was popping a double joint back into place. My face flattened back in an almost painful, getting it in the face with a frying pan type of way, and all of my fur fell out onto the bed. “Am..I back?” I asked slowly before rubbing my raw vocal cords.

My eyes fluttered back open and I moved to an upright position on the bed. The girl, who ever her name was, was slowly walking back to me, a pair of raggedy clothes in her hands. “We found clothes before we left, I got these for you.” She said almost sheepishly, her eyes still closed. I quickly thanked her and got dressed in the surprisingly fitting dirty old clothes before sitting back down on the bed. “Can I look now?” She asked peeking one eye back open.

I smiled slightly and nodded as she slowly opened both eyes. The next part is what shocked me; she leaned forward and hugged me tightly, tears threatening at the edge of her eyes. “I thought you might have died.” She whispered into my ear softly as I began to wrap my arms around her. We both embraced into a tight hug for a few seconds before we both let go. “I guess I should introduce myself, I’m Kali..” She paused for a second deep in thought. “I’m Annri.”

I guessed the new name was fake which was probably a good idea, we couldn’t go around looking different and saying our old names. “I’m Austin.” I smiled cheerfully and stood up. My ribs did not ache anymore, it seemed as if any damage that had been done was now repaired when I changed back.

“You looked more like Simba when you were a lion.” She grinned, my cheeks began to flush and I looked down for a second and then slowly looked up to match her gaze.

“If you want you could call me Simba.” I said softly unsure how she would take it. She slowly reached out and touched my cheek and then sat down on the bed patting the seat next to her, I slowly sat down and matched her gaze. “You should see if you could turn into a animal like I can.” I suggested.

She pondered it for a second and then looked over at me, a bit unsure. “I don’t know how to really, and I guess it would be scary, I mean does it hurt?” She asked, thousands of questions seemed to rush out at once. So many that I thought my head would spin from all of them.

“No it doesn’t hurt, not really, and I can try and show you how to do it.” I offered.

She seemed to hesitate for a few seconds more before nodding that it was okay. I smiled and got up off the bed and moved away so that she could lie down. “First you need to just relax, I guess, I mean until you master it.” I spoke up, acting as if I knew exactly what I was doing, when in reality I was just trying to copy how I transformed back in the first place.

“Yeah right, relax after everything that happened today.” She rolled her eyes nervously. She had a point there, how could any of us relax after what had just happened to us? How could we relax when we knew we were going to die in just a few days? Which now began to seem huge, if we were going to die in days, why wait for things, why not take chances? With this as the only thing in mind I slowly leaned forward and kissed her cheek softly. “What, was that for?” She asked suddenly shocked, her face as deep of a red as mine.

“I just think you’re really pretty, and I figured if something bad was going to happen to us, I wanted to kiss a pretty girl before it happened.” I said a bit childishly, I couldn’t actually believe that I had just said that. I mean I had kissed lots of pretty girls before in my life, yet at this moment none of those kisses seemed to matter. They were as if they were parts of another life, right now all I cared about was Annri.

“Thanks.” She blushed an even deeper red as I slowly reached out and touched her hand. “Okay okay, relax.” She breathed before closing her eyes.

“Alright, now focus on yourself, focus hard on it and you will start to feel something tingly.” I said, slowly moving my hand away. Any second now she was about to transform and I was a bit worried of something ripping out and scratching my hand if I kept it near her for too much longer. Yet as the milliseconds ticked by and changes started to occur, I began to wonder in anticipation what she was going to change into.

* Tags Nabster *

[Drusilla]

Roxanne/Roxy
Take a look in my mind and justify
[color=red]
"So what do we do now?" I asked, keeping my voice low as not to disturb the two sleeping in the next room. "I mean, we can stay here for a little while, but sooner or later someone's gonna find us... and they'll know that we're not normal."

"Wouldn't that be good? I mean, if we went to the police or someone, they could stop those people..." Kali suggested.

I shook my head. "We don't know who these people are, how they did this, or where they may have connections." I sighed, running my hand through my hair, a familiar gesture that seemed so wrong now. My hair was thicker, softer, than it had been, and felt like it should be shorter and on some expensive stuffed animal rather than on my head. It was more like very long fur...

I stood and began to pace. "They said that we have a limited life now... We have almost no time left. What the hell can we do in a few weeks?" I slammed my fist into the wall, my blood pounding in my ears, all attempts to be quiet forgotten. A growl burst from my throat, ending in a harsh bark. "What the fuck is happening to us!?" I yelled, rage overpowering me, and I felt the slip.

The change came on like a wash of cold, cold water, and I was suddenly falling, drowning in the power of the shift. I blinked, and struggled from the tattered remains of my clothing. Someone moved to help me, but I growled, baring my teeth, unable to see yet as my shirt still covered my eyes. I shook my head, trying to disengage, poking my nose out of the folds of fabric and giving the others their first glimpse of my new form.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

I stood, growling at the other thug. His eyes filled with fear, and he ran back into the building for cover. If I could smile like I used to, I would have. My smile didn't come out quite right, but I didn't care; I had achieved my goal. Another member of our group, a tall man with dark hair, came over by my side, picking up a the lid from the garbage can I had knocked over as he walked, and gave the thug a sharp whack on the head. The tall man then stole the thug's wallet, and told us of an abandonded house we could stay at. I wasn't going to think twice; two men were okay to handle, but many more would prove a challange, and we needed to regroup. The man started leading the way toward this house, and we followed. Some people grabbed the clothing as we went, I instinctively grabbed the small lion cub by the skin of his neck and followed the group. I was scarecly aware that I was not acting myself. I was thinking less, and acting more, things I had never done. Then again, I was also fairly sure that I was nolonger who I was, so it obviously didn't matter, all that mattered right now was getting safe.

We walked very slowly. I had this craving to run ahead of the group, but I didn't know our future location. Eventually, we made it to the house, and could rest. I let the cub down, and he was immediatly taken by a girl with racoon body parts. I walked over to a side of the room and lied down.

"Everyone has said we are going to die? Is it true?, I thought. It might, odd things are happening to us and we don't know what's going on. I scratched the back of my head with my paw in wonder. Wait..

With my PAW...?? I starred, wide eyed, into a broken mirror on the other side of the room. The old me wasn't there. Not even an odd, taller me. Instead, there was a black spotted cheetah. I smiled.

"Things can't get any worse, can they? You're dying and you're a cat. At least you're at the lowest of the low..." I just put my head down and sighed. What a weird day. Or was in a month? A year? Who knows... I just felt like relaxing after all the stuff we had been through. And as soon as I felt comfertable, I felt a jolt in my body.

"What?! What now?" I exclaimed... though it came out as some cross between a growl and a low voice. My body felt like it was being stretched and pressed, being reshapen. It hurt, yet felt good, yet felt normal... It's a feeling hard to describe. However, just as quick as it started, it stopped. I realized my eyes had been closed, so I opened them and turned to the mirror. Now, I didn't know WHAT to say.. I was tall. I was ripped. My hair, it was long and flowing... and silver? Who has natural silver hair?! I was so surprised by my transformation, that I didn't realize I wasn't wearing anything, when a girl came through the door.

[Krystalline Kabutops]

{/~( Tai Blanke )~\}

As I wandered down the hallway, the enormity of the situation began to dawn on me. New body. New gender. Dead in less than a month. And worst of all, I didn't know any of the other people here. SUre, they went to my school, but to me they were just faces. And now I couldn't even go off of that.
My head was starting to hurt. Probably from all of the things I'd seen that night. I felt that I needed to lie down, and it was only upon pushing open the door and half walking, half falling into the room that I realized someone was in there.
And he was nude.
"Oh, sh- Sorry. Sorry. My bad," I said, turning away. "Please... put your clothes back on." I giggled a little bit. I don't know why. It wasn't like I had never seen a guy naked before. Something felt different, though. I could hear the rustle of cloth hastily being pulled over skin, and then the ssshhhhwip sound of a zipper being pulled up.
"It's ok... you can look now." I slowly turned around, and gasped a little bit. The boy - no, boy didn't begin to do him justice - the man standing before me was too much for words. Tall, with an athletic build, and long, silvery hair, he made me feel like a silly little schoolgirl who'd been skipped one too many grades.
Wait, what am I saying? I don't even know what it feels like to be a schoolgirl. And why was I getting all woozy all of a sudden? I certainly didn't like him. He was a guy, and so was I... or at least, I was at heart...
I suddenly realized that I'd been standing there, staring at him this whole time. I blushed a deep red, like the color of blood when it's still fresh. He was staring at me.
"Are you okay?"
I stared back at him, my mouth trying to form words, but none would come out. Suddenly, the fuzzy feeling I'd gotten upon seeing him dissipated, and my troubles flew back to torment me anew. It was too much for me to bear. The rational part of my brain overwhelmed, I fell forward, wrapping my arms around his waist, and burst into tears. A little part of me in the back of my head made a mental note; Major downside of being a girl: Waaaay too emotional.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

"Er..." I found myself, standing still, as a girl sobbed against me. Just moments earlier, she had been starring at me, and I her... well... parts of her... she was really attractive... anyway, I stood puzzled. It's not every day that a girl is crying her eyes into your stomach. Then again, you don't get kidnapped by shop workers, have your body changed into a new form, and get the ability to randomly change into an animal at random on a daily basis, either.

"Hey," I said, kneeling down next to her, and pulling her hair out of her eyes. "We ALL are having a rough time right now. It's not easy for any of us, so we're all in the same boat together. You have support. Cheer up! We just got a house FOR FREE. Didn't even have to pay for it, free place to spend the night!" She gave a small smile.

"Fit with parasite infested beds and moldy food, mmm mmm." She replied, giggling. She was cute when she giggled. Actually, she was cute all the time, I couldn't help but smile when I looked at her.

"So, what's your name?"

"I'm De...Tai. Call me Tai. What's your name?" Tai replied, wiping the tears off her face.

"I'm Lance. Well, I was Lance. And I think I still am Lance, or at least, part of me is. I certainly didn't look like this before." I said.

"What do you mean?" Tai looked a little frightened. I didn't want her to feel scared.

"I mean, I look completely different. I was NOT this tall, I did NOT have all these mucles, this hair... I didn't have the feeling I could go and just run nonstop and have no problem... I had a terminal illness, it made me really weak and sick all the time... And well, we're going to die in like a few weeks... But I feel more alive than ever!" I said, excitedly. "What about you? How have you changed?"

Tai's eyes widened a bit, and she turned away. "I... I don't want to talk about that. It's too much for me to think about right now. But you! Look at this!" She grabbed my arm and felt the muscle. She seemed utterly thrilled by it. I had never gotten this much attention from anyone before, let alone a girl... so I flexed the muscle. Tai giggled and ran her hands over my arm. Her touch, it was electric.

"What about you? You look GREAT." I ran my fingers from her shoulder to her fingertips, and watched Tai shiver. She turned back to me, and we stared in each others eyes for a few moments. Instinctively, I held up my hand, and slowly put in against her cheek. Tai looked surprised, and then felt the hand with both her own. It was then that there was a loud crash, and the lion cub and a raccoon came running through the room. My eyes narrowed a bit; I was annoyed, and growled at them. It would seem that nothing would last very long in these new lives of ours.

[Drusilla]

Roxanne/Roxy
Hell, I might even sympathize

[color=red]I could smell everything. And I mean everything. I wrinkled my new nose at the overwhelming stench of human. No wonder animals ran away from us... or was it, no wonder we ran away from humans? Which was I?

Then a new scent reached me. Other animals. I didn't know what kind, because I had never smelled it before... One was young, and a predator, another was a scavenger... I "smiled", opening my mouth slightly and letting my tongue peek out, and wiggled out of my clothing. I shook my thick coat out, fluffing the fur and giving me a slightly larger appearance. Gods, I was a giant furball! But it was cool, at least. I trotted to the door where the intriguing smells were coming from and, nudging the door open a few inches, poked my head in.

A lion cub, the one from before, sat on the floor looking at a raccoon. I grinned again, seeing the potential of the situation. I backed up a few feet, and with a running leap, charged through the door with a high-pitched bark. The two, startled greatly, scrambled out of the way, running towards the opposite door, which lead to another room.

They barreled through the doorway, in turn startling the occupants of this room. Lance and Tai seemed to be in some kind of personal moment, and Lance growled. I only found it more entertaining as I chased the cub and raccoon around the room's perimeter, silently laughing to myself.

My enjoyment was cut short by a pair of hands roughly grabbing me by the back of the neck and lifting me into the air. I twisted to look Lance in the face and barked at him as he glared at me. I only continued to laugh.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ In Love ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]I began to step away from the bed as gray fur that was noticeably lighter than any normal raccoon began to wash over her body. In the blink of an eye her eyes changed from being human to being a grayish animalistic color. “Everything itches.” Annri began to note as her height began to get noticeably shorter. She began to scratch herself with the small black claws that used to be her finger nails as her fingers began to fuse together. Small pops were heard all over as her bones readjusted themselves from being able to be upright to walking on all fours. “Ausaaaa.” She tried to say my name only to be cut off as her voice changed only to squeaks.

Only after a few seconds she disappeared inside of her pile of clothes, the only thing that could even be seen of her was a rapidly shrinking lump in her clothes. Eventually the lump stopped and a small raccoon poked its head out. “Annri?” I asked slowly bending down to get eye level with it. Slowly it made it’s way out of the neck hole of the shirt, white panties attached to its back paw. “Are you okay?” I asked as she began to look herself over. Even though I couldn’t understand her squeaks it was quiet evident that she was disappointed in that she wasn’t a tiger or a lion.

“Okay don’t be scared, I am just going to pick you up.” I said slowly reaching toward her with out stretched hands. Annri seemed to understand and just waited patiently, standing up on her hind legs. Wrapping my hands around her soft fur I picked her up slowly and softly cradled her in my arms. “You’re so cute.” I whispered, petting her softly, while stroking my fingers through her fur.

I would guess, tired of being held, Annri scampered up my arm, down my back, across my mid section and then went under my shirt, using her little claws to climb up my chest. I could barely keep myself from falling over laughing from all the tickling as she climbed all over me, finally finishing by poking her head out of the neck hole where we met face to face, her muzzle only a few centimeters away from my face. “Hey,” I said a bit afraid of her biting me, she looked into my eyes with her small gray eyes before finally leaning forward and licking my mouth softly. I couldn’t help but blush as she repaid me the kiss that I had given her just a few minutes earlier.

My face seemed to warm even more as the familiar and uncontrollable feeling of fur and what felt like falling swept over me. The kiss seemed to spark the uncontrollable transformation which I guess wouldn’t be too much of a problem since Annri and I could play together. Annri herself crawled out of my shirt and jumped down as my clothes collapsed to the ground. Mere moments later I dug myself out of the large pile and clothes and shook myself free. Annri slowly padded over to me, her height was now about the same as mine, and we began to sniff each other slightly with our new noses, taking in each other’s scent.

I began to form plans for a game of tag when a fox leapt into the room, making a high pitched bark with drool hanging from it’s mouth. With out even a second thought, Annri and I took off towards the opposite doorway; we had to get away from the hungry, evil monster thing that was chasing us. We ran around the room a few times, with the fox physically on our tails when the actual people of the room seemed to intervene and picked the fox up. Myself and Annri scamper up the girl until we were both perched on her shoulder. The girl shreked and fell over as Annri and I jumped off. "Please get out." One boy said softly his voice seemed to hold a bit of anger and yet at the same time alot of shyness. Annri and I both nodded and went back to our rooms while the man seemed to take the fox somewhere else in the house before returning to the room with the wierd girl.

Using her tails Annri pushed the door shut as he entered back and turned to me. Grinning I made a running leap at her in hopes to pin her for fun. Yet to my shock and amazement she stood up on her hind legs and took me head on, throwing me to the ground and pinning me instead. Growling in annoyance I pushed her off with my own hind legs and rolled around with her on the fur, both of us creating a mass of rolling fur. The end result only being myself being pinned again.

Scampering out from underneath her I quickly changed back, completely annoyed that I had been bested twice. She followed suit and changed back in front of my eyes. I began to blush in embarrassment as her human features took shape, the fur receded into her skin and her small breast emerged, her soft hair appeared on her head, and that one area girl’s have appeared between her legs. “I umm.” I stammered as we both turned our heads away, embarrassed by our own nudity. Why couldn’t we change back with clothing on. “How about a game of hide and go seek? One of us being a animal and hides, the other finds as a human.” I said quickly, I began to turn around only to find her nowhere in sight.

“One…two…” I began to count as the game began.

[Krystalline Kabutops]

Dru... I wonder what you're going to do if you run out of lyrics before the RPG runs out of steam :x

{/~( Tai Blanke )~\}

As Lance took the grinning fox out, and the lion/raccoon ran into another room, I sat on the floor, broken out of my reverie. The first thing that hit me was that I was a girl, wearing guys' clothes and guys' underwear. The shirt and pants I could explain away, but boxers... not as easily. I needed real underwear. Entering the room ours (Ours? Were Lance and I roomies now?), I spied the pile of girls' clothes. I felt a strange sort of guilt, rummaging through them, until my hands alighted on a pair of panties and bra. I unzipped my pants, letting them fall to the floor, and removed my boxers. Hurriedly, I pulled the white underwear on - it felt strangely soft against my skin. I pulled my pants back on and zipped them up, and tossed my boxers out the window. The bra... I had no idea how to put it on, but I could leave it in our room and he might assume I had taken it off. I doubted he'd ask me to put it back on.
Once I was redressed, I stepped into the bathroom, leaving the bra on a desk. Staring at myself in the mirror, I got my first look at my new body. A short, pale, and attractive girl stared back at me, some of her long white hair falling in front of her face. Pushing the hair out of the way, I tried making some expressions to see if it really was my face. The girl's did what mine did. I shivered a little, unable to believe that this was now me. Turning the sink on (I was surprised it even worked), I splashed my face with some cold water to make sure I wasn't dreaming or something. But this was real. And if this was real, then that meant that I had really...
I covered my mouth with one hand. Had I really acted that way around Lance? A fellow male? What had I done?! I put my head in my hands, working it over in my head. I had a girl's body now. What might have made me act differently... Hormones! Of course. All the estrogen must have been affecting my brain. That was what was making me act so weird. But as I thought back to the way I had felt around him... Could hormones really be all that was at work? I mean, he seemed like a nice guy... and as much as I hated to say it, he was attractive... Maybe... Maybe this wasn't such a big deal... No one knew it was me... And if we were going to die soon anyway... Did it really matter? I didn't want to die alone, and as embarassed as I was to admit it... I'd never gotten to home base with my girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend now, I supposed. This could be my last chance...
Right in the middle of my thinking, I felt arms around my waist, and a warm chest against my back. Looking up, I saw Lance's face smiling kindly down at me, his silvery hair falling on my face. I giggled, flicking it out of the way.
"So, going to tell me anything about yourself?" He asked, one of his hands rubbing my stomach. I shook my head. He grinned.
"Oh really? Well..." He suddenly foisted me up over his shoulder, and I shrieked. He walked into the other room and sat down on the bed, still holding me over his shoulder.
"Now, if you just tell me your last name, I'll put you down. But if you don't...." I could feel him begin to tickle the backs of my knees, and started flailing, shrieking again as I giggled madly.
"B-b-blanke! Dentai Blanke!" I managed to say between giggles, pulling up the first name that came to mind. As I said it, he released me, dropping me onto the mattress. I lay there panting, thinking that if nothing else, the last week or two of my life would be the best of it.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

Ooooooooooooooh I was confused. I wasn't acting like me at all. It felt right, and at the same time, felt wrong. Here I was, flirting with Dentai. Dentai Blanke. I had never done this before. I was just acting on a whim, and instinctively repeating the actions I saw people do in movies. And I'll admit, it was fun. But other than her little breakdown in front of me, everything was physical. Was that ok? To be attracted and act on looks alone? I thought all of this while laying next to Dentai, stroking her hair. We were living new lives. Ones that would probably be short... so should I care? Would it matter if we just went all out, based on whatever crazy stronger hormones we had recieved from these transformations?

....No

She wasn't attracted to me. Tai was attracted to my body, the changes that had been forced on me. I guess you could say this WAS me now... but I still had my personality. And she had hers. Maybe she was used to going on looks, or easily attached to people. And half the reason I wasn't resisting her, and was playing with her was that I saw her bra lying on the bathroom sink... But I couldn't do this, not this quick, not like this. We had to know each other better.

"So, what about you, what's your last name?" Tai asked me. She rolled on her stomach, put her hand on my chest and smiled. I couldn't help but smile back.

"Kanon." I replied. "Lance Kanon. Secret member of MI6's division in America, double O 9." Tai stared at me blankly. "In my past body, I didn't get around much, so I watched alot of movies. James Bond was cool. He was everything I wanted to be... suave, strong, always knew what to do in the bad situation... I wish I knew what to do right now..." I lied down, put my hands behind my head, and stared at the ceiling. "Have you been thinking about what's happened?" I asked. "If we heard right, we're going to die soon. That's not good."

"Well... maybe it means we're supposed to live our lives to the fullest while we can?" Tai seemed hopeful.

"Shouldn't we... try to find a solution? Or even, get away. We're still really close to Winzolos. I'm sure they'll look here for us soon. We could try and research things... see how to keep from dying... and I know I like this new form better, but I'm sure some of us would rather be changed back to how they were before." At this, Tai looked at herself and seemed to blush. Now I felt bad... she probably liked her new form better than the old one, or something along those lines. I had to change the subject.

"Um.. a lot of us have been able to transform into animals. What about you? Has anything happened to you yet?"

"No, not yet. Can you.. teach me? How did you transform?"

"I was.. I don't know. Just angry. I felt anger consume me, and I just went with it. And suddenly, I was ripping a guy's arm off. But maybe... I know how I changed back. I relaxed, I just sat down and decided to rest, and I started to become human. So maybe, you just need to relax, but think about NOT being human... or something."

"All right, I'll give it a shot." I watched as Tai backed herself up against the wall, closed her eyes, and sat. Sure enough, as I watched, she began to change.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Searching ~*~*~*~*~

“Come out come out, where ever you are.” I teased walking around the old house. One or two of the occupants of the house began to give me odd glares as I walked around playing a game with Annri. “I’m…playing a game” I tried to explain walking past a few of them.

A brief flash of a tail near the kitchen and my hopes grew, I found her! With a grand leap I jumped over the bar only to find the Fox on the other side, blood on her paws and pieces of a mouse all over her muzzle. She began to back away, obviously afraid of me now that I was bigger than a lion cub. “Hey there.” I bent down, holding my palms out to show I meant no danger or harm to her.

She began to walk forward, slowly at first and then sniffed each of my hands. I slowly started petting the back of her head and down her neck. “Hey lets try and be friends instead of you trying to eat me okay?” I asked, as she seemed to smile from the attention and petting. “Now, have you seen Annri around here?” I bent down, my voice dropping low as I asked the question.

The fox bent down to the ground and sniffed the ground a few times before bounding off in another direction. In hot pursuit I followed her over to the pantry where she was scratching at the door. “I found you!” I sprung my trap, throwing the door open to have an angry raccoon jump into my arms. Angry from cheating, and jumping into my arms for the shock factor. “Hey there.” I grinned petting her all over in a attempt to calm her and as a show of affection to my new girlfriend? Were her and I dating?

I dropped Annri down to the ground next to the fox and bent down to their level. “So who’s next?” I asked. Without warning the window in the living room broke open, while at the same time the front and back door burst open. Screams and smoke filled the rooms as armed men began to run into the house.

My first and correct instinct was to grab both the fox and Annri and run into the pantry. The fox seemed to struggle a bit while Annri shook in my arms. “It will be okay.” I soothed her as I opened the door only a crack. Men sporting cages and Swat gear stormed the house throwing everyone on to the ground and handcuffing a few of them. There was three of them at least, two were taking care of everyone in the living room while, one returned from the bedroom with that one guy and a bird in one of the pet cages.

“Let her go!” He struggled against the man, trying to free himself and the bird in the cage. “Let me go now!” He growled his teeth beginning to sharpen. He was changing, any minute the three men would notice he was changing and would try to kill him.

It seemed one of the girls in the group noticed too and jumped up, her hands handcuffed. “Fuck you all!” She screamed fur blossoming around her neck as she shrank, quickly her hands became small enough to slip out of the bindings as they began their trek of turning into paws. “I’ll kill you all!” She growled before her face pushed out into a muzzle.

One of the officers quickly leveled her gun at the woman as a tail pushed out of her pants. “She’s changing.” The officer warned, the lead officer nodded and two shots were fired into the skull of the woman, killing her instantly.

Gasping in shock I backed away in the pantry as Annri scurried over to the door to gain a closer look. Uncontrollable fear began to bubble up inside of me as I collapsed to my knees. Were they going to kill us all? Would I die next? Tears began to stream down my face by these possibilities. Sounds of more gunshots rang out, followed by horrible screaming and the roar of a cheetah as it ripped through the flesh of the three men. Slowly Annri climbed up my shirt and began to lick the tears off of my cheek. With out even thinking I grabbed her and hugged her as tightly as possible. “I wont let anything bad happen to you Annri, I promise.” I sobbed hugging her tightly. “I promise.”

[Arnen]

~\~ Annri Brown ~/~

I was shaking. Austin was practically squeezing the life out of me, but I didn't care at the moment. I'd just seen a girl get fucking shot in the head! SHOT! In the HEAD!! Hell, comfort from my worst enemy wouldn't be too bad at the moment.

"Why..? Why did they do that..?" I muttered (though it only came out as a few squeaks). I was trying really hard not to cry; I didn't want Austin to get even more upset.

Suddenly, I felt him stiffen. The sounds of his crying were cut short. Twisting around so I could face the away from him, I saw a shadow looming a few yards away from the door. Fear crept over me, and I had to force myself to move. I squirmed out from under Austin's shirt so I could get a better look around. It seemed as though the pantry had doubled as a laundry room at some point, judging by the piles of old clothes and the washer/dryer on the wall apposite the food-laden shelves.

Hopping down from Austin's lap, I scurried over to the dryer as silently as possible and leapt up onto it. The pile of folded clothes on the makeshift table next to it would likely be clean. Catching Austin's eye, I motioned with one paw for him to come over. The fox stayed at the door to keep watch.

I spotted a box that held some large black garbage bags sitting on a shelf near the washer. I had to stand on my back legs and nearly throw out my back, but I managed to wrestle one free. I gestured with my paw towards the bad, then towards the food on the shelves, and after a second Austin grabbed it and immediately began carefully shoving food from the shelves into the bags. While he did that, I went right back to the pile of clothes on the table. I dug around for a second before finding a shirt and jeans that would fit me, then grabbed a few extra pairs before grabbing them in my paws and teeth and lugging them over to the bag, into which they were hastily stuffed.

After the bag was about halfway full, I hopped over onto Austin's shoulder, licking his cheek lightly for support. We had supplies. Now we just had to figure out how to get out of here intact.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

I knew it would happen.. men burst in, and grabbed me and Tai. Tai was quickly stuffed into a cage (did they come prepared? Did they know what animals we could transform into?) and began pushing her and me into a larger room where they were rounding up the other kids.

"Let her go!" I yelled, trying to rip myself free. "Let me go now!" I growlwed in anger, and I could feel a sensation, now familiar, begin to come over me. I licked my teeth, and could feel their shape becoming more built for ripping flesh. One of the men noticed.

"He's beginning to transform, we can't risk it, kill him!" I was mid-transformed, and my lightness as a human and my agility as a cheetah allowed me to jump sideways out of most of the gunfire that now rained on my previous location. I landed on the wall, and propelled myself to the opposite wall, jumping around the room. As I flew past, I grabbed one of the men's heads and rammed it into the wall as I landed, and continued my dance around the room. I then heard a single shot, and felt the lead enter my arm. I fell to the ground in pain, and the men started to close in on me.

"You seem to think I'll go down without a fight!" I yelled, and went to ram one of the men. I startled them all, and as soon as I made contact, I also made my transformation, and went to take a bite out of the man's shoulder. He screamed in pain as I broke his scapula in shards. I looked up at the other men, and they looked fearful. But they weren't watching me, they saw a bullet on the ground. Where I was. Next to my leg. I looked to my leg (previously my arm), and saw it healed. And it was then that I realized, when we transformed, we healed our wounds.

Maybe we would die early. But until then, we were invincible.

And they knew that.

Now I knew too.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Scared ~*~*~*~*~

I continued to fill the bag with Annri helping me, the fox keeping look out as we pillaged the room. “I cant lift any more..” I slung the bag over my shoulder weakly as Annri licked my face for support. I smiled at her slightly and kissed her muzzle in response. She began to rub her face against mine in a loving fashion as the fox snorted in disgust. Another roar rang out and cut through the silence of the whole romantic event. An inhuman scream followed, and then silence.

The fox ran over to me and began to tug on my leg, pushing me to the door as the noise of animal squawking began to fill the atmosphere. I pushed open the door to find a naked man slowly lifting the bird out of its cage. Blood and gore painted the walls of the house as two men lie dead, another knocked out. “We should get out of here, more will be on the way.” One of the people in our group warned, her voice shaky in fear.

Trying not to pay attention to the death all around me, I walked over to the man, meekly and opened the bag. He smiled and ruffled my hair as he grabbed out some clothes for himself and then some feminine clothes. I began to wonder what he was going to do with the girl clothes until he left to go into one of the rooms. It then struck me that he was going to use them for his girlfriend.

Completely embarrassed by this, I decided to follow suit and walked over to the other room and allowed Annri to jump down. She ran over and hopped up onto the bed, standing on her hind legs as I laid down the clothes she had chosen for herself. I took a step back and closed my eyes tightly as the sounds of bones snapping and changing filled the room. A minute passed, and then two, and then finally I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Annri standing there, dressed and as beautiful as ever.

Not using any words I just leaned forward and hugged her tightly. “Everything is okay.” She said soothingly, stroking my hair. “We’re still alive for now.” She stroked my chin bringing my face up to meet hers. We looked into each others eyes for a few seconds before leaning forward and kissing only lightly and briefly.

“W-w-we should g-go” I stumbled out as Annri blushed in embarrassment. She nodded and took my hand, intertwining her fingers with mine as we walked back into the living room to meet everyone else.

Everyone seemed to be dressed and carrying a few things that could help us on our journey. “It’s almost dark, so lets try to stay together.” The Bird woman spoke up, all of us nodded silently before marching out of the house in pairs of twos. Annri was by my side, holding my hand, and I felt safe.

We walked out onto the street and then down the sidewalk, no one truly knowing where we should go. We were all lost, all homeless and dieing. All we truly had was each other now. “S-sir?” I spoke up to the cheetah man who walked in front of me. He glanced over his shoulder to make eye contact with me, which instantly caused me to tighten up ever so slightly. “I-I if it wasn’t too much trouble, I-I would like to know how to fight, like you can.” My voice came out shaky as the man eyed me for a few seconds and then laughed.

“You’re just a cub, but I guess I could give you some lessons tomarrow.” He smiled, I grinned back too as Annri looked at me in disbelief. I really couldn’t blame her, I was only a lion cub really, I mean what could I do? I was bound to get killed. Yet if it would help save Annri’s life then I wanted to learn how to fight.

We walked in silence for what must have been hours, down neighborhood roads, and past busy streets. It was near midnight as we turned onto another street when a car that had it’s bright headlights on skidded to a stop in front of us. A man and a woman exited the car and came rushing over to me. “Kali! Kali is that you?” An older woman asked, running over to Annri and scooping her up in her arms. “Kali we have been looking all over for you, why are you wearing this costume…oh my god what happened to you?” The woman asked realizing that Annri now had Animal parts and looked younger.

“Mom? Dad?” Annri asked, tears flowing over her eyes as she hugged both of the adults. I stood back and watched as she had a moment with them. My own eyes began to tear up as I realized how much I longed to see my own parents. “Mom…this is my friend Austin, and these are my friends, please we need a place to stay for a while.” Annri begged, rushing over to me and grabbing my hand.

[Drusilla]

Dru... I wonder what you're going to do if you run out of lyrics before the RPG runs out of steam :x

I find a new song, BOOOYAH! :biggrin: Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a Dru-id.


Roxanne/Roxy
"The day has darkened once again. Moonlight shifts my chemistry." -'Nightgown', by The Rosedales

[color=red]I pushed the boy towards the door of the pantry; shock always seemed to, well... shock some people. I ran back to where I had left my clothes, or what was left of my clothes, and attempted to gather them. The problem with not having hands is just that; I didn't know how to carry my clothing without changing back, and I didn't really want to. Everything was much more fun this way... but a bit more difficult.

I glared at my clothing in frustration. I didn't want to change back right now, but I didn't want to leave my clothes behind. I was attached to my clothing... then the thought hit me that I probably never would see my wardrobe again. Sorrow swept through me... gods, I was materialistic, huh? I twitched my ear in irritation, trying to turn my focus back to my current predicament.

The raccoon girl came up beside me, watching me carefully, and saw my problem. She put my clothing and shoes in a bag, which she apparently planned on carrying herself. I barked softly; she raised an eyebrow and lay the bag on the floor by my feet. Carefully, I took the bag in my mouth and, if I focused, I found that I could keep the bag far enough off of the floor that I didn't trip.

We left the house, with no real destination other than away from here. I followed quietly; a few curious glances were thrown in my direction, but I was otherwise unnoticed. We must have looked like some random group of kids with a funny looking dog following along.

Night fell, and I glanced above us to see the moon rising in the sky. It looked so different through these new eyes, but no less beautiful. Its force was compelling... no wonder man and beast alike had had an obsession with the moon since Creation.

Voices brought me back to earth. Two adults, two normal, human adults, were tearfully embracing the raccoon girl, Annri.

"Please, we need a place to stay for a while...” Annri begged.

I watched with my deep, black eyes.

[Krystalline Kabutops]

{/~( Tai Blanke )~\}

The adults looked at us, apparently unsure as to the truthfulness of the raccoon-girl's claim. She let out a well-timed sob, and they caved.
"Alright. All of you, get into the car. Some of you will have to share seats, however." Dutifully, we all piled in. There were 4 passenger seats and one for the driver, and we had 9 people to fit in... the girl sat on her father's lap. Lance, a large guy whose name I didn't know, and another girl got the back seats. The fox, Austin, and myself had to sit on their laps. Lance wrapped his arms around my waist, and I leaned back against him, shutting my eyes. I hadn't slept in over two days, our circumstances kept changing, and I had a serious migraine going on.
After what seemed like an eternity, the car stopped. With difficulty, we all managed to extricate ourselves, and proceeded into the main hall of the decent-sized, suburban home.
"We have a guest room... The girls can share Kali's room, and you boys can have the guest room. Kali, we'd like to talk to you before you go to bed..."
As soon as they gestured towards where the rooms were, I ran in that direction. Finding one with a sign on it that said "Kali's Room: Beware, Here There be Monsters", I thrust the door open and flopped onto the bed. Despite my tiredness, I couldn't really get to sleep. I heard the other girls come in and settle down in assorted spots around the room. After what must've been an hour, I heard the door open again. There was the pit-pat of small feet, and then I felt the weight of someone else on the bed. There was a light tape on my head, and I lifted it up. It was the raccoon girl, looking at me a little anxiously.
"Um... Do you think, you know... You could make some room for me on my bed?"
"Oh, sorry... Yeah, of course." I moved to the lower half of the bed, sprawled on it. Slowly, I fell asleep, at last...

I have shooooooort posts D:

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

Things had calmed down. We ran into the parents of the racoon girl, Annri. Her father gave me his jacket, for once again in my human form, i was without clothing. We all loaded into the car. Tai sat on my lap. If it had been any other time, this would have been very akward, but we were all tired and didn't care. I put my arms around her. Soon after, we arrived at a house. Us males were directed toward a guest room. Fairly quickly, everyone got to bed. I was mentally exhausted, but my body was still alert and awake. Instinct told me I couldn't give in, not now. We weren't safe yet. So I took a seat by a window, and watched outside. I tried to keep focus on watching for any intruders, but something felt odd in my mouth. I did some exploring with my fingers, and pried some food out.

But... I hadn't eaten.

Or had I?

Stuck in my teeth was skin. I had bitten guards all day. I had savored the taste. And now that I was thinking about it, I was starting to again relish in the excitement as blood spelt over my teeth and I tore flesh apart..

"NO!" I gasped, and threw the flesh on the floor. It couldn't be! Was I going to become a cannibal? Disgusted, I got up and went straight to the bathroom, where I immediatly washed my mouth out. My teeth had been stained with blood. I felt excitement and anger fill me. It wasn't right.

I returned to the guys room. There, I met up with Austin. He asked for some training. I had a number of things on my mind, so I agreed. I don't really remember what went on, it was a good distraction, but with everything running through my head recently, I guess my mind didn't find it that important to remember that situation.

Afterwards, I walked back to the guys' room, but on the way, stopped at the girls'. The door was wide open. They must have been too tired to close it. I went to close it, and saw Tai sleeping next to Annri on a bed. I felt two urges... to simply go over and make her feel better, hold her close... and to do much more than that... and I realized it. Even though I was human, I still had traces of that cheetah mind within me. Just as I had a bit of human reason while a cheetah, I also had some of those animal instincts while human. Mixing with my confused feelings toward Tai, this was a dangerous combination. I closed the door and returned to the guys' room, and resumed my watch by the window.

I watched people walk down the street, and watched all night until the sun rose from the east. An aroma graced my nose, and I sniffed automatically. Pancakes... with maple syrup... orange juice... two different kinds of milk. My ears perked up as well, and I had the clamor of a nervous mother preparing many meals. I stood up, and checked out the closet of the room. Luckily enough, I found a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt that fit me. Well, sort of.. As I put the jeans on, something didn't feel quite right in the backside... I turned around to check, and did a double take.

I had a tail?! I was human now, wasn't I? Apparantly, something happened during that training with Austin that I should have paid attention too. I calmed myself down. It wasn't that big of a deal. Annri already had racoon parts, I guess it was to be expected. I ripped a whole in the back of the jeans for my tail, donned the clothing and headed downstairs. On the way down, I nearly tripped 3 times. I was able to catch myself, but that didn't really make sense...

"Excuse me, miss... Annri's mother?" I asked. The woman had been setting plates on the table. She turned to me, with her disheveled hair and clothing.

"Yes? What is it?"

"Um... do you need any help? You shouldn't be doing this on your own." The mother cracked a small smile.

"We need more syrup. It's in the pantry over there."

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Exausted ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]Tossing and turning on the floor, I just could not find any sleep or comfort. The other guys in the room were snoring loudly, and even with the pillow wrapped around my head, I could still hear them. With a lazy glance at the electronic clock to check the time, I slowly rose lazily and stepped over my sleeping friends. Taking a step out into the hallway and shutting the door, I relished in the freedom from the insane snoring that had filled the room. Smoothing out my messy hair I walked down the hallway and into the den to see the cheetah man sitting in a chair, watching the door lazily, almost half awake. “Cant sleep?” He whispered, I nodded slowly and walked over to him, sitting down at his feet.

“Could you help train me?” I asked, slowly changing with out waiting for an answer, my tail slipping out of my back pants and swishing lazily. “By the way you can call me Austin, it was my name before this all happened.” I grinned childishly as my canines enlarged and I began to shrink while fur sprouted all over my skin.

“Lance, and I really have no idea how to train you, I mean I just work with anger.” He replied as his own changes took place. In a matter of minutes there were two wild feline animals standing in the middle of the den at two a.m. in the morning. Lance, who now towered over me, glance down at my small body before extending his claws. I followed suite and extended my own claws. Lance made a few slash motions in the air with his right arm. I lifted my right arm and did the same, only the weight threw me off and I ended falling back on my butt.

Lance made a deep throaty growl, which sounded almost like a laugh as he lifted me up onto my feet by picking me up by the scruff of my neck. He made the slashing motion again and I followed suit, this time I landed the slash with out falling down. Lance nodded approvingly as we practiced it a few more times. The next exercise was a race around the living room. Of course with his cheetah like skills, he quickly lapped me a few times, his third time around I began to slow from exhaustion, this only caused him to start nipping at my tail to speed me up again.

I began to pant deeply as I finished my first lap around the living room, Lance finishing up his fifth lap. I collapsed on my side, breathing deeply as Lance came over and licked me for support. I grinned and began to swat at Lance with a paw, batting lightly at his muzzle as he buried it deep into my chest. Pushing me up onto his head, he reared back and tossed me into the air, allowing me to sail a few feet before catching me and lowering me safely down to the ground.

With eyes as large as frying pans in fear, I watched as Lance slowly started to change back. “Go to bed Austin.” He breathed; the race around the living room must have exhausted him too. I nodded in agreement and walked out of the living room, still in lion form. I was halfway down the hallway when I came to a crossroads, I could continue on to the noisy boys room, or go to the quiet girls room. Weighing the two options, I finally decided to go with a peaceful night’s sleep.

Using my muzzle to push open the door I slipped into Annri’s room, I quickly jumped over the sleeping girls lying on the floor and landed on the bed. There was the scent of two girls on the bed; luckily the one closest to me was Annri, her eyes still open as her tail twitched slowly. “Austin?” She whispered as I walked up to her and licked her nose.

She let out a soft giggle before pulling me close to her chest. “Want to sleep with us?” She asked as I cuddled in her warmth. It felt so good, so nice, I quickly found myself purring as I laid my head on her arm, my body enveloped in her warmth. Sleep seemed to come almost instantly that night. Like almost all times I seemed to forget my last thoughts before I fell asleep. Yet I would bet that they were full of love and warm feelings toward Annri.

The next morning I awoke before any of the other girls had. Annri had fallen asleep clutching me for what seemed like either safety or just love. Either way it took some very tricky maneuvering to escape her grip with out waking her up. Now though, I found myself in a very unique position. I was in a girl’s room. I had never been in a girl’s room alone before. With my curiosity sparked I leapt off the bed and then onto the dresser. What did girls have in their dressers? I used to put my underwear in the top drawer, was Annri the same way? There was only one way to find out. I pawed open the top drawer and jumped in to find myself in softness heaven. It was filled with odd pieces of cloth and large round things. Yet the most important thing was the scent that filled the drawer was that of Annri. I relished the scent, I took it in and wanted to hold the warmness it gave me forever.

Anxious to get even more of this scent, I pushed my face even deeper into the drawer, swimming in a sea of softness and Annri’s scent. “Austin!” Annri’s voice screamed from outside of the door. I could barely turn around before I felt a not so gentle yank on my tail as I was lifted out of the drawer. One of the odd round things clung to the topside of my head like a cap, and one of the soft pieces of cloth clung to my toe claws.

“He’s so cute.” One of the girl’s exclaimed as a pissed off Annri removed the cap from my head. “He even has panties on one of his paws!” Another girl giggled as Annri snatched them away and shoved them back into the drawer. Annri’s face began to redden even further as I shook myself out of her grip and ran out the door. The last thing I wanted was to make her mad, and besides I could smell the sweet lovely smell of pancakes and with a rumbling stomach, I was starving for something good.

[Wolfsong]

I was told that I could join.

~Name: Amy Wolfe
~Alias: Wolfsong
~Age: 22
~Gender: Female
~Original Appearance: Amy is 5’ 5 1/2” tall. She has an average build, with brownish blonde hair (more on the brownish side). She has deep blue eyes that are very expressive. You can almost tell how she’s feeling by looking in her eyes, they never lie. Amy never wears make up and she wouldn’t be caught dead in a dress. Her usual attire consists of jeans and a t-shirt.
~New Appearance: Her eyes are no longer blue but are now the golden yellow color of a wolf’s eyes and her hair is now silver. Also she now has the claws of a wolf instead of fingernails.
~Personality: She’s a very quiet person who doesn’t like to draw attention to herself. In fact sometimes people tend to not notice her if she’s in a room. She tries to avoid conflicts whenever possible. However if she is attacked or pushed past a certain point she will fight as hard and as fiercely as she can.
~Relationships: None yet.
~Animal: Grey Wolf aka Canis lupus.
~Animal Appearance: Put simply, it is your average grey wolf only she has silver fur. Here us a pic: Silver Wolf
~Theme Song: I Will Hold My Ground – by Darryl Worley
~Other: Her favorite animal is the wolf. For some reason, animals have always seemed to take an instant liking to her and she trusts them more than some people. For this reason people tend to think of her as a loner but if someone manages to push past her defenses, she can be a loyal friend.

Amy Wolfe – Wolfsong
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

I slowly awoke from my spot on the floor. Absently, I reached up and tried to wipe the sleep from my eyes. Unfortunately, when I did so, I felt pain as something scratched me and soon I had blood trickling down into my eyes. “Perfect,” I muttered to myself as I slowly stood up trying to be quiet so that I wouldn’t wake anyone else in the room. Quickly, I put pressure on the stinging sensation above my face.

Then, quietly as I could, I tiptoed down the hall to the bathroom. Luckily, I didn’t have to wait. I quickly ducked inside and locked the door. Taking a deep breath, I was a slightly reluctant to look in the mirror afraid of what I’d see. Finally, I decided that I had better look at least to see why my head was bleeding. I could tell that the bleeding had finally slowed to a stop. I gently lowered my hand, but when I saw my hand I was instantly jerked wide awake. My fingernails were gone, not that I ever had much of any in the first place. I always chewed them when I got nervous. Instead, in their place I now had the claws of some sort of canine which was clearly the cause of how I ended up scratching myself.

Quickly turning the cold water on, I splashed the water on my face in an attempt to calm myself down. Fortunately, it worked and I reached down and dried my face on the shirt that I was wearing. Then, I cautiously raised my head until I was looking directly in the mirror. The first thing that I noticed was my eyes. Instead of my usual deep blue eyes, the eyes that were looking back at me were now the golden yellow color of a wolf’s. I couldn’t help but smile at that. Most people I knew thought that I was crazy for having wolves as my favorite animal, but I just ignored them.

The only other change in my appearance that I was aware of was too my hair. It was now silvery gray in color, instead of brownish blonde. I reached up to touch it and found that it seemed to be two layers. The outer layer was course, while the layer closest to my head was somewhat soft. Sighing, I turned the faucet off and headed out the door.

Once I was in the hallway, I could smell food cooking which caused my stomach to growl. I don’t think I had anything to eat since before everything went crazy. Suddenly, I was distracted by sounds coming from the bedroom. Not too long after, a lion cub ran out, causing a chuckle to escape from me.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ On The Run ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]My little body ran as fast as it could carry itself, I had a bunch of tired, crazy, girls actually on my tail and I knew that if I slowed down for just a second, that they would catch me. Rounding the corner I swung past the bathroom to see a girl watching me as she did a self-inspection of her new body. Which actually was a pretty good idea seeing I hadn’t actually seen what I looked like yet.

With only a brief thought, and barely any time to spare, I turned and ran back into the bathroom. Using my hind legs to propel me up into her arms from the tile floor. “Why hello there,” She whispered soothingly, as her hands found their way into the fur just back behind my ears, her elongated nails slowly stroking and rubbing the skin. For a few seconds the pure bliss of the sensation was enough to allow me to forget all of my troubles and worries. The only thing that mattered were those magic fingers as I leaned up and licked her chin slightly in gratitude.

“Pervert!” One of the obnoxious girl’s screamed as the each piled into the room, one after another, their monstrous hands trying to swipe at me from the protection of this beautiful girl’s arms. “Give him back, he needs to pay!” Another girl yelled out.

My eyes narrowed and ears flattened as I gave out a little growl in anger at what they were saying, how could they demonize me? I was just curious at what was in the drawer that was all. “I’m sure he didn’t mean to.” The petting girl smiled, her magic fingers still running through my fur as we both left the room. The other girls turned and watch, some making threatening motions as we made our way to the table and sat, with the promise of good food and pancakes to come.

“So where are we going today?” Lance asked, placing a pile of pancakes down upon the table, which was quickly swiped by almost every member of our little team. This was followed by sausage, and glasses of milk and orange juice.

“We could check the shop out, with a Cheetah and a Wolf on our side, we could probably take on anything they threw at us.” Annri mentioned, looking at Lance and my new friend. “Besides they may have a cure to change us back.” She added, as I leaned forward sniffing and taking small bites of the pancakes on my friend’s plate.

“Wont it be kind of deadly and dangerous?” The older girl who seemed to be the girlfriend of Lance’s spoke up. I nodded in approval before being rewarded with a piece of warm sausage from my friend, to, which I gobbled up as quickly as possible.

The room grew instantly silent as we all sat there and contemplated our own mortality, how we only had a few days left to live anyway, so wasn’t it worth risking those days to find a cure? “I think it’s worth the risk.” Lance finally spoke up between mouthfuls of pancakes. He had basically said what everyone was thinking yet not willing to say. “Alright, so after breakfast, get changed and we will head out for the shop.” He added before swiping another piece of sausage off the plate. As much as I just wanted to stay here in the comforting grip of my friend, I had a sickening feeling this day would end in blood shed.

[SuperSonicMewtwo]

*~<Lance>~*

I rushed through breakfast. I was impatient, and wanted to get to something. After thinking all night, I was ready for some action. Once everyone had finished eating, we headed out. Or, tried. I automatically went to lead the way out the front door, and I simply tripped over nothing.

"Are you okay!?" someone asked, surprised. I contemplated the stupidity of my situation, w/my face planted on the concrete sidewalk, and got back up. "I'm fine."

It was no sooner that I had taken another step that I had fallen over again. This wasn't working... Tai came over and helped me up, and she felt something I had been trying to hide.

"Is that.. a tail?" she asked. I had worn my shirt over my tail and pants, in an attempt to hide it. I guess it was pretty obvious, sticking out like a hunchback or something... But once Tai pulled it out from my shirt and into the air, my balance was restored. I had thought about a bunch of things last night, but I really did not consider this. I'd leave it for another time. Right now, we had a mission. Annri knew the neighborhood best of all, so we followed her to the main roads, where I then took lead (hey, I had longer legs, I naturally walked faster, that's all...). It wasn't soon before we arrived at the street Winzolo's was located on. I felt myself growling. My vision was fading from color, and becoming sharper.

It wasn't my anger at the place alone that was making me more aware. I could.. smell it. The scientists, the workers, the thugs and grunts who worked there... They were outside. Watching us. In the buildings, on the street, waiting for their chance to strike. I waved my hand a bit toward Austin. I could sense that he understood; on my signal, we'd both attack the same grunt and get them out of the way. Striking fear into their hearts would help with a quick victory.

We stood still, and a cool breeze ruffled through my hair. By now, everyone figured out what was going to happen, but not many could tell when.

I could.

I was aware of everything around me. And that's when I heard it. The cocking of a firearm. I instantly leaped into the air, already in cheetah form, with the lion cub beside me. We bounded up a staircase, attached to the side of a building, and latched onto a grunt who had just pulled out their weapon. Our combined force and the surprise caused the man to trip over the stairs, and fall a few flights down to the ground. His head exploded with a... satisfying.. crunch against the ground. It was no time to savor the defeat though, he was but one grunt, there were many more--

a bullet whizzed between Austin and myself, barely missing either of our heads. We both instantly jumped off the building. Everyone has already begun their fights, and we rejoined the battle.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Fighting ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]Left, Right, No Left, the hall way had turned into a living hell as we ran through it, bullets whizzing past our heads, each aiming to rip through fur and flesh. With a flying jump I tackled through the nearest door and turned back into my human form. “Everyone keep quiet.” I whispered shutting and locking the door just as the wolf slipped in.

We all stayed in a hushed silence as we waited, the guards passed the doorway, not spending a moment’s notice to check to see if we were in the room. “We’re near the lab” Lance changed back, his tail flicking back and forth. “I can smell the chemicals.” He added after we gave him several skeptical looks. Lance’s girlfriend eyed his toned body, and his long…area, both of which caused me to blush and cover my own area, feeling a bit inadequate next to Lance.

“The door’s locked.” Annri sighed testing the door on the far side of the room. We all sighed and began to look around the small storage room that we were in. Various cleaning tools and other machines were lodged inside the room, nothing really important. “But..” Her voice trailed off as our eyes were led to the small window that hung over the doorway, the window slightly ajar and leading into the next room.

We each gave each other uncertain looks, as we all knew that none of us were tall enough to reach the window. “I think I can handle that.” Lance’s girlfriend spoke up. We all gave her a puzzled look until black feathers began to sprout from her skin while her whole body began to shrink. In a matter of seconds a bird lay where she used to stand. The bird took a few flaps and flew straight up and through the open area.

“Now that is taken care..” Roxy’s voice trailed off just as the door was whipped open with a loud crash as several armed guards piled into the room. “We…surrender.” She gulped, placing her hands up as each of us followed suit. Now it was all up to that one birdy to help find a cure or at least rescue us.

[Drusilla]

Roxy
"Who told you that the evil has got no name?" -'Devils', by The 69 Eyes

[color=red]"We... surrender..." I proclaimed as a group of armed men rushed into the room. Yeah, right, assholes, over my dead body... I thought to myself. One of the men nudged me with his gun. I grinned. "Hey, baby, take it easy, I'm just a girl, after all. I'm not all that dangerous..." I winked at him, hoping to distract him even slightly. He showed no physical reaction, but I could smell the adrenaline rushing through his veins. He was afraid, and he was paying a little too much attention to my lack of decent clothing. The other guards were securing the rest of us, taking particular care with the boys. Sexist bastards.

"Come on, baby, I can't hurt a big, strong man like you..." I whispered out of the corner of my mouth. It sounded absolutely ridiculous, and I was afraid that he would jump the gun and just shoot me. Hormones, apparently, have no need for reality, and the man continued to become flustered. I turned my large green eyes to his face, smiling slyly, glad that my plan seemed to be working. "C'mon, let us go, I'll make it worth your while..."

He was sweating, and kept making accute adjustments in his stance that only my sharpened vision allowed me to see. He moved slighty closer to me, and I could feel the heat of his breath on my neck. Then, quickly (though it felt like it was slow motion), I rammed my elbow into his diaphragm, knocking the wind from him, and I grabbed his gun. I cocked it, and shot the guards on Lance, Austin, and Amy. There were still the remaining guards, not to mention whatever else was coming for us, but now we had a better chance.

We were going to make like a tree and get the fuck out of here.