Riot [[Semi-lit. Accepting a few more!]]

[Cyanea]

Harlow looked at Silent as he left the group, she worried about where he was going, but she had her corner to fight in this argument. Now she was really alone. Strangely, it just made her angrier. "That would be why I came to talk to you," she whispered angrily, "To help me smooth out the kinks with what you know about these people. I never said it was permanent. I wouldn't have bothered if I knew you would all be so narrow-minded." She managed to keep from raising her voice so she wouldn't intrigue the crowd. "You can sit here and wait for the deathcrawlers to find this place or for the people to start dying off one by one by malnutrition or murder, if you want. By all means, go ahead. I was just giving a suggestion."

[Shiko Hayashi]

Silent walked through the entrance to the tunnel, Revin following behind. Silent had discarded his ribbon. It had been a sign of fear. Now, he no longer had it and that sign was gone. Revin had discarded his eye patch and in the darkness, you black eye blended and disappeared. His other eye glowed slightly and his pupil was narrowed. Silent's eyes were a wolf yellow and they gave off a faint glow as they walked through the night. "Silent..." Revin whispered, so quiet only Silent would be able to hear, having enhanced hearing. "Can I Change really quick?" He asked. Silent nodded and Revin slipped into a tiny alley way. While Silent stood guard, Revin turned into a werecat. As soon as he was done, he walked out on his hind legs to Silent. Silent looked him over and smiled. "Anthro this time huh?" He chuckled quietly. Riven hissed. 'I didn't feel like walking on all fours. " He grumbled. Silent sighed and they continued into he darkness. Even though Riven's pelt was an orange color, he blended into the darkness and almost disappeared.

On all Fours:
On his Hind legs:

[Micki.]

Severus growled under his breath, it was painful to have Harlow say such things. "We aren't as narrow-minded as you think, we just get slightly pissed when someone who left the group comes back, trying to make us to leave before our people are ready." His voice was raised and sounded agitated, very startling since usually his voice was very calm and smooth.

'Harlow, uhh, why did it have to be you?' Every inch of Severus' mind screamed it, trying to get her to hear it, but he refused to say it. "Why'd it have to be you, Harlow?" His thoughts won the battle and Severus, against his will, mumbled it under his breath. On the inside he was beating himself up, but on the outside he appeared as if he'd never said anything.

Nikki sighed, they were being rather close minded about the subject. "We are being narrow-minded, or you two are, and Harlow is right." She directed her words towards Tyler and Severus. "As one of the followers, I know what people whisper about, always the same things, 'when are we getting out of here?' and 'what if the night crawlers find us?' That's almost all they talk about now."

Nikki was talking more to Tyler than anyone, mainly just because she knew Severus had some other things on his mind. "You two should at least start planning how to get out of here and isn't that all Harlow is really asking? All she wants is for you two to start trying to find ways out of here and to teach some of us how to fight and quite frankly, I think I'm with her on that and I'm sure everyone else would agree."

[Cyanea]

Harlow looked at Severus, as he spoke. He looked mysterious in the dark tunnel, shrouded by shadows and it was hard to read his expression. She glanced at Nikki. Thank you, she thought to the girl, grateful that someone had finally seen her point of view. Now she waited for Tyler's reply. The chilly, damp tunnel made her suppress a shiver and rub her arms slowly. She didn't like being down here so much, and she wished she could show them her hideout and that the surface wasn't so bad if you knew how to be silent.

[Shiko Hayashi]

As Silent and Revin stalked through the night, the moon slowly rose. Silent moaned in pain and Revin placed a sympathetic hand on his shoulder blade. Silent's thought wearily went to Harlow. How she had helped him and how she had easily taken his.... problem. A shudder of pain went through his body and Riven suppressed a shiver of his own. Soon Silent would change and the two were creatures would be free of their chains.

[Micki.]

Severus growled under his breathe at himself and took his leather jacket off. It was patched and torn in places, but it was warm. He tossed it to Harlow, "It might not be the best looking jacket, but it's warm." Severus said, insisting she put it on. He sighed and looked at Tyler. "I guess we could start talking it over and start finding ways to get out of here, but we're going to have to get a new place, I hate it here, I don't mind cold, but I hate being under ground, I hate hiding."

[Cyanea]

Harlow hesitated, then took the jacket and put it on. It was way too big, but it was warm. "Thanks," she said quietly and gave him a quick smile. "I have an idea. I could take a few of you with me to the surface. I know a place where we can hide while we look for places that are big enough and well hidden for the rest of the people. Once we find some, we can bring them up in groups once we train them," she suggested, hoping they would take it better this time and not get defensive again.

[Micki.]

Severus couldn't hold back a laugh, his jacket had always been big on him, but Harlow looked funny with it. "Sure. We'll have to find a proper place to teach them how to fight, this place is way to wet they'd be breaking ever bone in their bodies. I can do most of the training, I've taken a lot of marshal arts and defense classed, plus I was in R.O.T.C. and the captain of riffle and drill team in high school." He said, still grinning.

"You look so cute in that jacket." The young man said aloud, immediately blushing. "I, uhh, mean funny, not cute." Severus said quickly, looking at his feet.

[Shiko Hayashi]

Suddenly, Silent groaned with pain and dropped to his knees. Riven hissed angrily and he grabbed Silent's arms and dragged him into the alley near them. Riven watched silently as Silent went through the painful Change. Silent moaned wiht agony and writhed on the cold ground. He was trembling violently and sweat covered his body. he hid his face in his hands as his bones snapped and cracked, shifting, breaking, and forming the right shape. All the while, Silent went through painful agony. He cried, tears flowing down his face as he writhed on the ground. His hands slipped off to reveal his half formed face. Half of his face was almost wolf like while the other half was changing slower. Silent covered his face again and this time his fingers were retreating into his hands, his nails growing into claws. Riven winced as he watched his body change. It look painful. Then the hair started to sprout. it felt like a thousand fire ants biting him. Silent bit his knuckles to keep from screaming and winced as he realized her had wolf teeth. Slowly, his tail bone grew out until it was medium whip. Then fur began to grow and sprout all over his body. His clothes had long since deserted him. They lay in shreds on the ground. His spine rippled and his bones shrunk and grew and his organs began to change as well. Silent let out a whimper from his mouth as he bit down on his knuckles so hard, he thought he heard a snap as he broke the bone. His hand had become a hairless paw. Hair finally rolled down to his arms and face and legs until it covered his entire body. The only thing left was his face and size and muscles. His muscles bulged as they grew bigger and stronger. His body grew in size until he was the size of a large truck. Finally, it was only his face. His hands had long since dropped to the ground. He stood on all fours as his face changed until finally, it finished by changing the color and shape of his eyes. He let out a louder whimper and finally, the Change was complete. Silent stood there, his arms and legs shaking from the change. "Silent?" Revin whispered, creeping quietly towards the werewolf Silent. Silent lifted his head and slowly, he stood up on his hind legs. He spread his arms and he let loose an eerie and bone chilling howl. The howl went wide and far, reaching even the underground tunnels. The howl traveled everywhere. As if he was right there. Revin grimaced at the howl. The nightcrawlers might be stupid, but they knew when it was best to avoid things. Like Silent in his werewolf form. But other nightcrawlers were not as bright. Silent stalked towards Revin and together the two were creatures walked out of the alley. Silent picked up his werewolf hand and gazed at it, flexing it. the bones were healed and the scars and blood were gone. He grinned a wolf grin and Revin grinned a cat grin.

[Cazio]

((gah, sorry I was gone, it was my grandma's 90th birthday today. ))

Tyler had stood in silence and let Sev take the wheel for a little bit. Soon enough though, the accusations and Severus's all to big of a heart got the better of him. He couldn't help but roll his eyes at Sev's comment on the jacket and decided to intervene before Harlow compromised him any further. He looked straight at Harlow as he spoke, but was talking to Nikki.

"The followers talk about getting away because not all of them see the real problem at hand. A lot of them probably have no idea just how many death crawlers are out there in the first place. Its happened all over history. Leaders keep the people in the dark to shield them from whats really going on . . . .and usually the people don't like it and try to change it. That's when the problems occur. The people breakout and try to figure out the problems themselves, sometimes they succeed; but most of the time the real danger the leaders have been protecting them from destroys them.: He finished, now talking to both of the girls.
"While I agree that getting out of here is the best possible thing for us, I am not taking one foot out of this station until you gove me a damn good plan of what we're doing once we do get out. Cause anyone can have a plan on how to escape, but how to we know if the world has changed completely since we've been away from it? What if our food sources that we knew of before are wiped clean? What then?"

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Avery ignored Maria's words. "What the h*** does Nikki even see in Tyler? He's an arrogant jerk who just so happens to be a leader." The boy wondered out loud. He sat on the floor of the subway station with his knees up to his chest. 'I wish Harlow hadn't left.'

Maria was surprised, was that a flicker of anger that went through her just now? She sure hoped not. But she knew she was biased, she didn't consider Tyler arrogant at all, only misunderstood. He just trying to help all of us . . . . Her voice felt small even inside her head. She tucked a blonde strand of hair from her face, her eyes intent on the conversation in front of them. She knew Avery wouldn't like that response.
"I don't think people just 'happen to be leader'. You have to earn it somehow." Her tone was flat, neither in favor or against. She smiled though and put an arm around Avery's shoulder, in a friendly way of course. She kind of saw Avery as a cousin or something. She knew he wasn't so much upset about Tyler as he was . . . . ah its not my place to to barge in.