~Shift~ A Shape-Shifter's RP (Need Members)

[Ƨσиαтα]

Ariana was already out of school and she was walking near the 36 bus. She happened to her a couple of the things being said, and she got on. What am I about to do? She thought as her body walked over. "Leave her alone!" She snapped as she tried to remove Damien, not entirely caring if she got hurt or not. Despite the fact that she didn't really show her emotions, was normally by herself, and that she normally had a bad temper, she couldn't stand seeing others in a position in which they are uncomfortable of scared. She looked at Ryker and then back at Damien. "Why are you so obsessed with her anyway?!" She hissed. She looked at Lyra, hoping that Damien would leave her alone. Anger burned inside of her. She let go of him and scanned him for any valuable items, as an owl would do to prey. He has to have something on him. Maybe if I take it, he'll leave her alone. Ariana thought, looking at Lyra again. (writer's block XD)

[ZephyrWolf]

Ryker stumbled back from the shove, but being the athlete he was, he swiftly recovered and balled up his fists in anger, ready to swing at this kid. He got in Ryker's face and challenged him, saying that he was sitting there and that Lyra was his. Ryker pulled back his arm, winding up for the punch of his lifetime, but stopped when Lyra shot back at him, defending herself. But this kid obviously had a too much to drink or something because he didn't take the hint and back down. Instead, he seemed to get even more irate and possessive. He suddenly whirled around and slammed Lyra to the seat, pinning her down and grinning maliciously. 'This jerk is insane!' Ryker thought as he let his emotions take over and guide his actions rather than his head. Without thinking about it, Ryker unleashed his rage on this kid and grabbed his shoulders with an iron grip and wrenched him off of his sister. "Don't you EVER touch my sister again!" he shouted in what was almost a screech as he practically threw Damien to the ground.

So preoccupied with rage, Ryker hadn't noticed Ariana board the bus earlier, but he was relieved as the girl took over and harried Damien. Although he only knew about Ariana from the rumors of her thievery, he was glad that she stepped in even though it had nothing to do with her. For all he cared, she could take anything and everything the boy had. He deserved whatever came to him. Ryker began to calm down a bit as he watched Ariana beat up on Damien and once she stopped yelling, he sat down next to Lyra. "Are you alright?" he asked worriedly, looking her over for bruises or cuts. As her twin brother, he was a bit overprotective of her, but in this case, it was definitely necessary.

[Nopers]

Damien was leaning in for a forced kiss when Ryker had grabbed him and thrown him to the ground. He was about to get up and show this little fool who he was dealing with when he suddenly felt his wallet being yanked out of his jeans pocket. Whirling around, he came face to face with Ariana, the theif everyone had been talking about. So she was against him too. Damien might have been a bit slow, but he knew when he was outmanned. "You better watch your back punk" he spat at Ryker. "And you", he continued, pointing at Lyra, "I'm not done with you either". He didn't bother getting his wallet back. It only had 89 cents in it anyway. Flicking them all off, he beat an undignified retreat to the front of the bus.

Lyra watched Damien go with hate in her eyes, knowing that he was serious with his threats. Looking down, she cursed as her hands started to shake from the adreniline rush. She quickly shoved them into her pockets and resisted the urge to rub her aching head. That bastard had slammed it into the side of the bus when he had pinned her. Looking at Ariana, she flashed a quick smile. She didn't know the girl and hadn't heard about her reputation since Lyra didn't really care about gossip. As far as she was concerned, she was on her friends list. "Thanks for the help. Usually Damien isn't so...pushy. I don't know what I would have done without you and Ryker" she said, her gaze flicking over to her brother. Lowering her voice so only he could hear, she responded to his question. "I'm alright now but that kid scares the crap out of me! This...this kind of...isn't the first time he has messed with me", she admitted. "It's the first time hes hurt me, but before he would harrass me and its gotten to the point where I think hes even stalking me." There was fear in her eyes, something not seen by many people, even her own twin. But she trusted him with her life and that was why she chose him to confide in. She thought back to how Damien had leaned down, clearly intending to kiss her, before Ryker had pulled him off. She shuddered involuntarily and leaned closer to her brother, wondering what she was going to do if she ever had to ride the bus without him. Suddenly she wondered if Ryker had caught it, if he had noticed that Damien had tried to kiss her. Probably not, since the kid is still breathing, she thought with a small grin. Never before had she seen him so fired up...but then...she had never been threatened like that before either.

The rest of the ride home was boring, as it should be. Lyra noticed that she was sticking closer to her twin than she usually did and tried not to be annoying about it. Damien had shaken her up. Every so often she would sneak a glace to where Damien was sitting, just to make sure he wasn't comming back. Finally their stop came up and she gathered up her things and got off. It was about half a mile of walking from their stop to their house and she was not looking forward to it. All she wanted to do was collapse in her bed with a good book and escape from the world for a while. The bus had just driven away when she heard the steps behind them. She knew who it would be before she even turned around. "DAMIEN LEAVE US ALONE!" she shouted, whirling to face her stalker. The boy stopped and lit up a cigarette, taking a long drag of it before replying. "No" was all he said. Lyra had no clue what to do. Looking to her brother, she wondered how much his bail would be after he killed this pain in the a**.

[ZephyrWolf]

Ryker watched with an amused smirk on his face as Ariana pick-pocketed him and took his wallet. Although it only had some measly coins, it was still quite funny. When he turned to face him and Ariana, Ryker just simply ignored him, knowing that any response would get the kid going again. Ryker gave a short nod to Ariana, his way of saying thank you. He turned to his sister after she also thanked the girl. As she told him that this wasn't the first time he had bothered her, Ryker's eyes widened in shock and his eyes become clouded with worry. The fear in her eyes shocked Ryker...he had never seen that in his sister before and it scared him that this kid made her so afraid. "Lyra, why didn't you tell me?" he asked her seriously. He felt the need to protect his sister in anyway possible, and he couldn't do that if she wasn't telling him when she felt fearful of something.

Ryker continued to think about the confrontation with Damien the entire ride home. Thankfully, the bus driver hadn't been on the bus at that moment so he didn't get in trouble for acting violent towards the creeper. He noticed that Lyra was staying a lot closer to him than she usually did but he didn't mind. In fact, he found it reassuring to himself that she still felt like she needed him, and that she was okay. He noticed her glance at Damien a few times, no doubt to assure herself that he wouldn't come back to where they were. After a long and tense half hour, the bus finally came to a halt at their stop. Ryker and Lyra got off and began walking home, but suddenly, Lyra stopped in her tracks and went rigid. "Damien!" he hissed angrily when his sister turned to face him. There was no way he lived by them...he had just gotten off at their stop to harass Lyra some more. Ryker faced the kid with his hands clenched into fists once more as he lit a cigarette and took a drag of it. His ignorant reply to Lyra's plainly obvious denial of him put Ryker over the edge. "Listen you good for nothing, drug addicted, creep! Stay the he** away from my sister, do you hear me!" he shouted, taking a step in front of Lyra to protect her if needed. He knew for a fact that this kid wouldn't just ignore him. Enough was enough though and Ryker was through with Damien stalking his sister.

[Ƨσиαтα]

Ariana only turned away when he gave her a short nod, and she sat down. After Lyra and Ryker left the bus, she remained sitting in her seat, thinking about what happened. Thoughts from earlier in the school invaded her mind also. She knew this year, she couldn't let her bad reputation get in the way of her work, despite the fact that she knew that she probably couldn't get a job later on in the future. The bus hit a bump, and Ariana held on to the seat in front of her to avoid falling out of her seat. Twenty dollars slid to the back of the bus and she picked it up, happily. "That's my money!" She heard an angry voice yell. She closed her eyes as the footsteps became closer and closer. The bus stopped again and Ariana stood up. She ran past the upset man and out of the bus. The man huffed, grabbed his things, and ran out with her.Ariana looked at an abandoned building which was North, and then South. Without hesitation, she ran South. The man trailed behind her, and she felt her heart pound against her chest. The man stopped, and took a deep breath before taking off again. Ariana stuffed the money in her pocket and she continued running, pushing past people in order not to get caught. She made a left turn into an alley way, and the man looked at her. Ariana took a deep breath and coughed a bit. "Give me my money!" He commanded. Ariana kicked him and began running again. She looked back as she ran and then she looked forward again. She ran past Ryker,Lyra, and Damien, then the guy grabbed her arm. "I don't have your money!" Ariana snapped. The guy went in her pocket, pulled the twenty dollars out, then he let her go. Ariana sighed and looked down. "D*** it!" She exclaimed, highly furious.

[Nopers]

Damien's eyes glinted dangerously as Ryker once again placed himself between himself and Lyra. This kid just wasn't getting it. "Yes, little sophomore. I hear you. Now let me tell you something". He took one more drag of his cigarette and flicked it on the ground before starting towards Ryker. Stopping with their noses only inches away from eachother, he let the smoke from his last drag seep between his teeth, flooding into Ryker's nostrels and shrouding his face. "Lyra may be your sister, but she's my girlfriend...whether she realizes it or not. I'll soon make it clear to her". There wasn't even the cruel light of a joke in his gaze, only deadly seriousness. And with that, Damien backhanded Ryker with a clenched fist, sending him reeling.

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Lyra stood in suspensefull silence as Damien got in her brothers face. She wanted desperatly to move to help him but something told her not to...something she couldn't explain. There was a feeling growing at her core. It wasn't anything she had ever felt before, inexplicable and untamable. All she knew was that she liked it. The feeling warmed her from the inside out, getting hotter and hotter until it became uncomfortable. She was wondering if she should be concerned when Damien suddenly lashed out and struck her brother in the face. That was when everything went terribly wrong. The heat grew to searing hights and a migrane exploded through her mind, blocking out any thoughts but the ones that demanded her survival. Flinging herself to the ground, she clawed at her head, trying desperatly to rip away whatever was causing this unbeleivable pain. Her cries abruptly became feral howls of anguish, sounds that humans just didn't make. And just as quickly as it had come on...it stopped. The heat fled from her body, leaving her moaning and shivering on the ground.

Even though it had only been seconds, Lyra felt like she had been laying on that dirt road for years. New sensations and information flooded her senses, far too much for her to handle. It was almost painful, the sun too bright, the colors too vivid, the sounds louder than they had ever been before. But the most painful was her new sense of smell. Smells assulted her without abandon, telling her things that no other would have been able to detect. Damien's clothes had been owned by six people before him, all male...and by the smell of it, all related to him. Ryker had not washed his socks in two months, due to the rank odor that nearly exploded her nose. It wasn't these smells that were the worst though, and it took her a minute to put a name to the scent...fear. She could smell their fear. Forcing herself to her feet, or what she thought was her feet, she looked at those around her...and another wave of information assulted her.

It was too much. This time her mind went on lockdown, trying desperatly to integrate everything that was comming in. All thoughts other than sleep, drink, and hunt were banished from her mind, all aspects of humanity erased. And that was when the fourth instinct came in, the pack instinct. Ryker was part of her pack and he was being attacked by an enemy. She didn't stop to think about what was happening to her, nor ponder the fact that she was a massive white wolf. Her only purpose in life at that moment was to protect her pack member. Leaping forward with a grace and power she had never experianced before, she landed heavily on top of a terrified Damien. The boy was shaking now, his eyes wider than Lyra had ever seen them. The smell of beer and smoke was so thick on him that she almost gagged. As it was, she exposed her fangs and gave him a vicious growl that came from low in her throat. The wolf in her told her to give him a warning nip, as would be appropriate to punish an offending wolf from a rival pack. But the human in her knew that such a "nip" might end the kid's life. She stared down at him, snarling louder as indesicion swept though her. She was an alpha by nature and her wolf half was insulted by this hesitation. But still she held back. Some small, insignificant part of her was struggling to regain control, fighting madly for sanity. She decided to give it a chance. If it could win against the wolf, then it deserved some recognition. And so her internal war began, showing plainly in her eyes.

[ZephyrWolf]

Ryker flashed a warning glare at Damien when he saw a dangerous glint in his eyes. Obviously, like he thought, this kid wouldn't give up. He taunted Ryker, taking a final drag on his cigarette before flicking it to the ground. Ryker clenched his fists as Damien started towards him, not stopping until their noses almost touched. Ryker nearly choked on the acrid smell as Damien blew the smoke of his last drag right in his face. He told Ryker that while Lyra was his sister, she was his girlfriend whether she realized it or not. He said that he would make it clear to her soon, with deadly seriousness. As Ryker tried to imagine what horrible things he would do to his sister to 'make her realize' she was his girlfriend, he didn't notice Damien's hand flying towards him until it was too late for him to dodge it. His fist slammed into Ryker, sending him reeling. Ryker was strong, but against the insane senior with drugs and alcohol pumping through his body, Ryker was the underdog against Damein.

The blow to his face made Ryker black out for a second when he fell to the ground, but he almost instantly regained consciousness. When his vision cleared, it revealed his sister falling to the ground with her hands clenching her head. He scrambled to her side, but she didn't seem to notice his presence through the pain. "What did you do to her!" he shouted at Damien, beyond furious. His eyes were wide with horror and insurmountable rage. Thinking that it was Damien who had hurt Lyra, he wasn't about to let him get away with it. But before he could reach the red-haired senior, his look of horror intensified at the sound of his sister's agonized screams. He was shocked and frozen in place. He had never seen Lyra, let alone anyone, in that much pain. But his expression changed once more and his gut twisted from pure, raw fear, as Lyra's screams warped into feral, unrecognizable sounds that were by no means human.

Suddenly, he felt the need to bolt and run far, far away, despite his desperate desire to stay and protect his sister. He couldn't just leave her there with him, but at the same time, his muscles were screaming at him to run. Time began to slow immensely and Ryker's body quickly began to become unbearably cold. It felt as if he had frostbite on every inch of his body, inside and out. The demonic-sounding cries from Lyra had stopped finally and he could hear her moaning, but Ryker couldn't move. Even if ever fiber of his being was telling him to stay away from her, it was as if he was frozen to the ground. He did glance towards her though, and the sight of a massive white wolf lying where Lyra had been a moment ago was enough to unfreeze him, sending him scrambling to get away from her, shouting in fear. But when he opened his mouth and sound came out, a massive, intense pain explode in his head. His body went limp from the pain and he fell to the ground once more, clutching his head in his hands just like he saw Lyra do a few minutes before. He screamed in pain, but the sounds he thought were coming from his mouth didn't match at all with what his ears were hearing. He heard a high-pitched sound that resembled the cries of a spooked horse...a very, very spooked horse.

Sooner than he had expected, the pain subsided, the spasms stopped, and his body felt warm once more. Ryker scrambled to his feet by the still-present panic. Once he got up, however, he did nothing but stand there. He was not on his feet, but standing solidly on four sturdy legs belonging to a jet-black stallion. In front of him was a startling scene with Lyra standing over Damien, her jaws inches from his throat. She had an immensely intimidating snarl that showed her large, white fangs and although it made Ryker want to flee, he could also see a struggle inside of Lyra's eyes that seemed to be consuming her. Against his almost-overpowering sense of danger that the wolf presented, he ran to her side, marveling for just a second on how fluid and strong his movements were. 'I'm a horse, and Lyra, my sister, is a wolf' he thought, almost thinking he might be going insane right now. But a more pressing matter made him push away these semi-irrational thoughts as he noticed that whatever battle his sister was fighting, she wasn't winning it. "Lyra!" he called, producing a high-pitched roar instead of actual words. He had no idea whether or not she could understand hum, nor did he know what her struggle was, but he was going to help her if he could. Although he got no immediate response from his sister, he noticed, to his satisfaction, that Damien cringed even more at the intimidating sound that he had just made.

[Ƨσиαтα]

Ariana thought about how the theft went unsuccessful and she sighed. Something with her body really didn't feel right. She was beginning to have hot flashes and she almost passed out on the ground. She stumbled into an abandoned building. She gripped a wall and her nails scratched it as she fell to the ground in pain. Extreme pressure impacted her skull and she lay on the ground. She opened her mouth the scream, but shock prevented her. The world around her became red,blue,green,purple, and then stopped at black-and-white. Her eyes rolled around in their sockets and Ariana's body began to convulse violently. The shattered glass on the ground scratched her as she convulsed, and suddenly she felt as though she had collided with a sixteen-wheeler truck. Ariana suddenly felt as though she was standing in a blazing fire and she tried to swallow. Footsteps came from a corner of the abandoned building, and her first instinctual thought was on territory. Who dares to come onto my territory? What was she was aiming to say, but as she opened her mouth, her vocal cords burned and she chattered and hissed. The person stopped and looked around. Is that a raccoon? He thought as he bit his lip. The burning along with the pain sensation worsened, and Ariana hissed louder. The person saw her and rushed to her side and her territorial instincts heightened, now that she saw the intruder. He went off into a different section of the building in order to look for something that could help Ariana. Just then, the pain subsided and Ariana blinked. To her, the world was much bigger then it had been three seconds ago and she looked at her hands. They were now the front paws of a raccoon's and she chittered in surprise. The person walked back over and gasped. Ariana's fur bristled and she hissed at him. The person threw a glass bottle at her and she ran. She looked behind herself as she ran, hoping the person wasn't following her. All of a sudden, she stopped and looked at a wolf, black stallion, and Damien. Remembering what had happened earlier on the bus, she began hissing violently.

[loyalwolf06]

((I've been so busy. I'll post tonight hopefully. I already have part of my post written. But is everyone supposed to be experiencing their first shift right now? Should my characters shift too?))

[ZephyrWolf]

((Everyone doesn't need to shift today...Ryker and Lyra are because it's their 15th birthday. As long as your characters shift sometime soon, I don't think Comet will mind. She said she would probably be able to post tomorrow, although there is a very slim chance she may be able to post tonight instead.))