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Post by blacksilver on Jul 24, 2009 14:46:26 GMT -5
Now that the smokes gone And the air is all clear Those who were right there Got a new kind of fearThe sky lightened as red streaks flooded over the horizon. The sun peaked over the mountains and light graced the clouds and city. The city itself awoke to a lurch, like a rusty old car starting. Workers started to their jobs and kids woke to get a start to their classes. Jesse, awoke late in the evening, she was more a night time person. She herself had been sleeping in the mall, hidden in a store room until the security left. She was an adept at hiding. She stood up and stretched, she had slept on a bench in the main mall square. Her neck and shoulders cracked before she headed to where she worked. The theater, still just opening. She an usher, making sure that no one was recording the movie illegally, smoking in the theater, or disrupting the film. She was fairly good at it, she didn't have to talk much, and she was strong enough to haul guys several heads taller than her out of the theater. She didn't like the little red vests that the other workers wore, so she just had a name tag around her neck. She paused to make sure that the other co workers who were opening up the theater noticed her. She then walked the hall way and back, checking in each theater to make sure they were all clear and ready for the steady pour of customers that would soon arrive. She sighed, leaning against the wall next to the theater B3, waiting for them in file into the theater. Jesse had never been too interested in movies, she more enjoyed books. She pushed her dark bangs out of her eyes and watched each person carefully as they walked past her. A man caught her eye, something was sticking out of his jacket pocket a bit too clearly for her to pass. She stepped in front of him before he could enter the theater, hand darting into his pocket, pulling out a full beer. Her eyes almost rolled with annoyance and she growled, "No alcohol in the theater."The man looked outraged, and pissed. He grabbed at the can but she pulled it away from him. A crowd seemed to be forming, most people loved to see violence, anything exciting to make their dull lives seem more purposeful. The man glared at Jesse and said something like 'You stupid brat.' before swiping at her. At that point she smelled the alcohol on his breath. Her eyes narrowed and she dodged the swipe, taking a clumsy cuff to her hand which held the man's beer. In a fluent motion, she grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, anger boiling in her eyes. The man struggled, obvious pain showing in his face. But she ignored it and escorted him out the back of the theater. Not showing an inch of compassion as she shoved him out the back door, then cracking open his beverage and letting the liquid pour out on the concrete. Humans were really starting to get on her nerves, and by the time she returned the movie had started, the crowd dispersed. She checking in from time to time. Then leaned against the wall, her arms folded in front of her. She really couldn't believe how stupid some humans could be. You'd fight and you were right But they were just to strong They'd stick it in your face And let you smell what they consider wrongThats why I say hey man, nice shot [ooc: muse explosion xD]
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Post by tink on Jul 26, 2009 7:05:04 GMT -5
The thick musk of unwashed bodies mildew seemed to pulse through the ragged building. Everywhere you looked, people were suffering underneath their own curses. Each hallway Lohi passed only brought her more grief. Was everyone here not to enjoy themselves? Pausing in her brisk pace as a crowd seemed to form around one of the shadowy doors, the tiny woman lowered the brim of her hat and held her baggy jacket closer. Having grown up surrounded by other shifters, Lohi was unaware of the many strange habits of the humans. What she picked up quickly, however, was their violent nature. As she filed into the theater, passing the drunkard who's own ignorance was to blame for his actions, little Lohi couldn't help but pity his race.
Inside the theater, the musky scent grew faint. Though in it's place the metallic smell of decay floated down from the ceiling. Taking her seat, Lohi wrinkled her sensitive nose at the smell. The least they could do is patch the place up a bit. She thought, enjoying the solitude of the far back rows despite the decrepit building. Soon, the vague lights vanished, leaving only the dingy screen, vibrantly illuminated by the beginning film, to capture the attention of the audience. Lohi found herself awkwardly aware of her surroundings. How easily the humans left themselves open for attack. Like insects, they were drawn wholly into simple array of flashing pictures. Yawning as she stretched out, resting her feet in the empty seat in front of her, Lohi failed to see what was so interesting.
On the screen, a story of epic proportions unfolded. Fickle characters danced to and fro, striving to obtain what they desired most; the everlasting love and loyalty of another. They plotted and schemed, running through blatantly ignorant plans only to find themselves, oddly to their surprise, caught red handed. Plot after plot flashed before the audience's eyes, an eerie chuckle bubbling from the humans from time to time. Yet all Lohi seemed capable of feeling was pity for the human pair, so desperately trying to catch one another. In her large brown eyes, the film only magnified one of the many things few humans understood. The concept they called 'love' was merely a guise. Those that one 'loved' were merely objects. Objects to be held like a precious jewel; to be boasted of, to be flaunted, to breed jealousy and contempt within those around you. One's unerring loyalty, however, was demanded. One simply did not 'love' another without dire consequences. Through life till death, 'love' meant being chained haplessly to a beast, living your days as its favorite toy. Frowning unabashedly while the humans took joy in their own kind's suffering, Lohi debated getting up to leave. ((Romantic comedies, as explained from the view of anything but a human))
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Post by blacksilver on Jul 26, 2009 14:01:52 GMT -5
Jesse rolled her shoulders before entering the theater, walking slowly down the isles. Her hazel eyes flashed lightly, seeing perfectly well in the dim light. The humans didn't notice her, they were too engrossed in some stupid romantic flick.
She paused at one row of seats, her eyes catching something different about one girl. The girl wasn't laughing or cooing or making some other squeaky noise that most teenagers did when they went to see romantic flicks. But this girl was just watching, intently, like she was inspecting some sort of alien creature.
Jesse had only paused a second to notice this, for she really did not want to know what made the girl so strange, and she didn't want to be noticed. So she turned and walked back out of the theater.
What really bugged her about the girl was the fact that the feeling in her eyes, the feeling of trying to understand humans that was plain as day on that girl, was something that Jesse herself was always feeling. So.. was that girl a shifter? She wasn't sure, but she could guess so, by the way the girl looked watching that romantic film.
Jesse lent against the wall again, her eyes locked on the door. Her curiosity would get the best of her, she wanted to know if there were other shifters that had dealt with problems just like Jesse. She didn't want to be alone, even if it was hard to see her yearning for that kind of compassion.
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Post by tink on Jul 26, 2009 14:44:39 GMT -5
A small bit of movement in the corner of her eye snapped Lohi's head away from the large screen. Though only for a moment, a familiar sensation coursed through the tiny shifter's body. Looking around at the mundane scene, Lohi felt uneasy. All that moved was an attendant, making her way down the aisles and back upwards. Yet as she passed, the sensation came and went with her. Tensing and avoiding all eye contact with the scruffy looking girl, Lohi waited for her to leave.
The second the door closed, her coppery hands went to the tattoo that graced her fragile ribs. Could it be? Her thoughts danced around the possibility. Since leaving her home, Lohi had encountered almost no other shifters. It had been such a long time since having last come into contact with one of her kind that it felt alien to think of having a likeness to someone. Getting up silently from her seat, the small woman exited the theater, intent on addressing this girl.
No sooner had the blaring filthy lights stunned Lohi's eyes had the feeling returned. Standing directly across the hall was the source of her anxiety. Standing a good few inches taller than Lohi was a girl of no older than sixteen. Her hair was a mousy brown and unkempt. Though it was a struggle to see through the thick bangs that hid her face, Lohi could see distinctly feline eyes. A bit dumbstruck, it took her a moment to react.
Straightening out her narrow shoulders, Alohilani loosened the large jacket around her and lowered her dirty cap over her disc like eyes. Glancing around before taking a single step forward, her voice was barely above a whisper as she spoke. "Ah, ah you..?" She said, her heavy Pidgin accent making it difficult to get her point across.
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Post by blacksilver on Jul 26, 2009 15:38:37 GMT -5
Jesse's shoulders tensed up when the girl appeared from the theater doors. In the full light she could see a dainty girl with black hair. Her appearance short after Jesse had left the theater made her eyes narrow slightly, she knows what I am. That was the only reasonable explanation and it was as clear as day to Jesse.
She disliked being followed, it was a sign that people noticed her and she didn't like that. Big cats were masters of silence and secrecy, and being followed made them feel exposed. Following and cornering a Jaguar would mean death for any creature in the jungle.
Her voice made Jesse's crown tilt only slightly, the accent making her words a bit confusing but Jesse got their meaning. She stared at the girl for a moment, optics focused on the girls eyes before she was certain that she was not human. Her lips pulled back a bit under her shaded face, showing the tips of her sharp teeth. Eyes gleaming lightly, as bit bitter as she growled low,
".. A shifter? Yes, and Im guessing you the same."
Her teeth showed only as a flash as she flicked her head back to reveal her face for a second, the pale scare under her eye showing brightly against her tanned skin. Her arms were folded over her chest and she scanned the halls with her dark optics, they were empty seeing as the movies had yet to end.
Just because this lady was a shifter didn't mean that Jesse was going to be nice to her, it did twinge a part of Jesse to know that she wasn't the only one but then again she had guessed that if she could shift, there would be others.
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Post by tink on Jul 26, 2009 16:05:10 GMT -5
The deep growl that rumbled from the small girl made Lohi edgy. Being a small primate, she would barely make a snack for a big cat. Shifting farther against the wall, she suppressed the urge to shift and run. All that gave her other half away was the small chirping sound she quietly made as her eyes lay on the toothy smile the young girl flashed her.
As the tension mounted, Lohi's body hunched over and a light coating of fur began to sprout over her body. Ever so slightly, her bones shifted and re-sized. A chorus of sickening cracks and pops echoed down the filthy hall as the minute woman became a creature barely five inches long. Her clothes, no longer resting on her human frame, collapsed on the tiny primate. With a startled cheep, all that was left of the deeply tanned woman was a shifting pile of clothes.
Though within moments Lohi freed herself from the worn heap. Skittering haplessly across the tiled floor, she soon found herself staring up at the other shifter. Large eyes quivering at the felid, Lohi prayed she didn't have a wicked streak enough to step on the tiny lemur. Though as she glanced at a nearby window, a plan of escape formed should things turn violent.
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Post by blacksilver on Jul 26, 2009 17:14:18 GMT -5
Jesse watched as the woman shifted. When the shifter's form was complete, Jesse could hardly stifle her laughter. A lemur?! The first other shifter she meets, and its barley bigger than her shoe. Jesse saw the small creatures eyes flicker to a window, her smile curling slightly on her dark features. What? Was the girl scared of her? She mused over this in her mind for a second, thinking about how scared she would be if she saw Jesse in her shifted from.
Jesse wouldn't risk shifting here, people would be sure to notice a Jaguar in the halls, but were likly to ignore a small creature such as a lemur. Jesse looked down at the small creature, rumbling with a bit less bitterness,
"Shifting in a public theater isn't the best of ideas, even if you are a lemur. If you don't wanna be dragged away by animal control, we should probably go somewhere less... open."
Her eyes snapped up as someone exited a theater a little ways away, heading for snacks or to the bathroom. The movies would end soon, and she didn't want to seem crazy by talking to a lemur. She shifted restlessly on her feet, like a cat prowling in its cage.
Hazel optics even glimmered with the gold that would be seen in her shifted forms optics. She now felt slightly giddy to change into her form, probably because she felt a bit envious that the girl could shift and no one would really notice, which wasn't the case when you changed into a prowling jungle cat with the strength to take down a full grown man with ease.
And she certainly didn't want one of her fellow workers see her shift, they were already afraid of her as it is. Being a loner made people slightly cautious and distasteful of her, but she didn't really care.
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Post by tink on Jul 26, 2009 23:02:29 GMT -5
((Looking back, I apologize for that last craptastic post. I think my brain shorted out for a moment while typing that.))
Fidgeting on the cold floor, Lohi's large ears easily caught each word that thundered from the cat's mouth. It's not like I could help it. She thought, glancing nervously from the window to the floor and then back up to the girl. Deep chocolate eyes gazed patiently as the other shifter seemed eager to reveal her true self. "Not so easy, is it?" Her voice was nothing but a shrill chirp to human ears, though the mocking look in her eyes and the accusing, albeit miniaturized, finger she pointed at the girl.
Not wanting to be caught in the middle of the hall, Lohi scampered the few feet to the young shifter's feet before climbing with ease up her pant leg. Jumping gracefully from her waist to her shoulder, Lohi was soon comfortably perched on her new 'ride'. Though as she looked forlornly at her heap of clothes, the tiny lemur tugged at the nearest scruff of brown hair, pointing to the discarded mound with a chorus of varying squeaks and cheeps. "Could you pick those up?"
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Post by blacksilver on Jul 27, 2009 23:04:16 GMT -5
At this rate, the creatures squeaking and chattering was going to give Jesse a headache. She glared slightly at the mocking tinge in the lemurs gaze, and the miniature hand movements that the creature produced. The jaguar in Jesse had a right mind to chomp the damn things head off when it grabbed her pant leg and climbed up like she was a tree. It bugged her that she did this without even consulting her.
Jesse's eyes rolled partly when the lemur perched on her shoulder like a parrot. She winced when the chattering started again, her finely tuned ears making the lemur's voice hurt her ear. She could guess when the lemur pointed to the heap of clothes that she wanted Jesse to pick them up. Strange, she thought silently, MY clothes never come off when I shift. She shrugged to herself as she picked up the shifted womans clothes and bundled them together in her arms, it must vary among different people, was what she thought silently.
She tucked the clothes under her arm as her hands went into her hoodie's pockets without really thinking about it, it was just something she did unconsciously. Her hazel eyes glanced at the lemur as she started to walk down the hall, towards the back exit so that people wouldn't see her with a primate on her shoulder. "I'm Jesse by the way..." Her voice was still a growl, it always was deeper than most girls voices, mostly because she always kept her voice low so it was naturally a growling whisper.
She pushed open the solid door, a gust of wind brushed her dark hair slightly as dim light flared into her eyes. The sun, being close to the horizon, and the sky being overcast, made the light fairly dim compared to the inside of the theater. The door opened out to the side of the mall, close by the parking lot. Her eyes gazed around before she saw that the town square was deserted, probably because of the weather and the fact that it was a weekday.
She paused to look around a bit more before she crossed the street at a brisk pace, ignoring the blaring horns of the drivers as she crossed without waiting for the walk signal to come on. She wasn't the type to waste waiting for that. She walked swiftly to the town square, finding a bench closer to some trees to sit at.
She sat down on it, crossing her legs under her and placing the lady shifter's clothes on the bench. Looking at the sky, she guess that when the sun was well under the horizon, she too could shifter into her predator self. But for now she sighed and stretched her arms over her head, cracking her back as she did so. Her gaze rested on the lemur now, not worried now that they were farther away from humans.
{ooc: Its okay ^^ we all have our brain shortages xD]
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Post by tink on Jul 28, 2009 23:26:45 GMT -5
Clinging to the girl's shoulder as she took up a brisk pace down the hall, Lohi's tiny hands grasped at the shifter's hair as they headed towards what appeared to be a back exit. Turning to listen intently as she spoke her name, all the lemur could muster was a nod in response as the door before them held what Lohi disliked the most about being up that early. Though the sun was well on its way to setting, giving way to the dull rays of the moon, the last fiery gasps of the day burned the primate's sensitive eyes. Cringing as the sturdy door swung open, not even the dreary skies could choke out the blinding light that flashed in Lohi's large eyes.
Yet just as she closed her eyes and crouched deeper into Jesse's hair, a cool breeze greeted Lohi's fur. It appeared as if her human sized companion was in a hurry, not even waiting for the light at an intersection to change. Having only peeked one saucer shaped eye out just as Jesse began her trek across the street, the sudden rush of loud sounds and bright lights startled the small primate. Cooing softly as she returned to hiding in Jesse's dark hair, Lohi waited till everything came to a stop before opening her eyes once more.
Glancing around for only a moment, Alohilani found the quiet surroundings to be safe, and soon clambered down the other shifter's sleeve and onto the park bench. Scratching her head in mild thought, Lohi searched for a more efficient form of communication. Looking to the trees that surrounded the bench, then to the thick dirt that covered the ground beneath them, a spark of inspiration formed in her simple mind. Jumping with ease to the ground, Lohi soon scrambled up one of the thick trees. Making her way to the top, she chewed through one of the narrower branches before taking a firm hold of it in her mouth and returning to the soft earth. Twig in hand, she then bounded back over to Jesse, making sure that a small patch of dirt was clear of debris. Giving the girl a simian grin, Lohi then began to write out a message. "I am Lohi." Read the vague English. It would be a miracle if Jesse could make any sense of it, though. As intelligent as primates appeared to be, legible handwriting was a rare talent of their kind.
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