Training Or Napping

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn had actually originally come here to do a bit of training before she would head to work for a few hours and then home to her wife. However, it had been a pretty busy day given that there were some test still being handed out and some teachers were crazy enough to actually give work over the break. That meant that Devyn ended up doing all of the work while at the school so she could enjoy her break. Her wife would likely still be working but at least Dev would be off and that meant she could cook and spoil Vera when she would get home.

That was what she planned to do tonight, but wanted to release some energy in her other form. She was even shifted in her shadow beast form, but instead of attacking dummies, digging holes, chewing on things, or changing her shape she was sleeping. Dev was still in her form, curled up much like a wolf would do when it was sleeping. It was one of the moments when you kind of just crashed for a little while from your body just being so tired. She didn't even realize how tired she was, but clearly she needed a bit more rest then she had been getting.

Well, it was more that she had not been getting in her regular naps like she was used to in order to make it through a day. The whole being mostly nocturnal things didn't change so she still struggled to fully function during the daylight hours. Not that she was really worried about sleeping in this form, she had done it before and most of the time her form would break down after a while without he maintaining thought on it or letting the beast take over. The shadow smoke around her ideally had multiple letter Zs floating around her form.

Z. z. z. z

((Tag:Raven Rander ))

[Raven Rander]

At some point in time, a point which was now feeling like a distant memory to her, this seemed like a good idea. Earlier today Raven had gotten into an argument with someone over the food she'd left in the fridge on her floor. And apparently she wasn't allowed to just eat the bastard and be done with it. So instead she'd just been left with nothing to do with all her impotent rage, and no one to punch.

And then later on she'd heard someone talking about another woman that could shift into animals. Which had for some unknown reason made her really curious. Plus she just wanted to let off steam in a none-productive manner as was her tendencies.

So she'd tracked "Devyn" down to where she was likely to be. And found her already shifted. Which lead to the reason this may not have been a good idea. This form was stunning. a word Raven didn't use often for anyone but herself, but she really was shocked how unnaturally beautiful this..... shadow wolf, looked to her. Otherworldly. there was a fair chance she'd get her ass handed to her. Oh well in for a penny.

Clearing her throat, Raven approached the 'animal' and tried to wake her up. Okay that smoke was being shaped, so supernatural shit? did magic exist? Raven stopped and tilted her head. "you can turn into a bear. of cause magic exists jackass what kind of fucking question is that?" she muttered, rather annoyed at how stupid she had been. She pushed that aside and crouched a few feet in front of the wolf to be certain. "Hey." she said, just loudly enough she could be confident it'd wake her up, while not yelling. she was here to ask a favour after all, she needed to play nice.

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn knew the other girl was already there before she even spoke or got too close. Her inner beast refused to allow her to fully sleep and not be prepared for any enemy to approach. It was also not a very good idea for her to sleep in this state given the risk of her beast side taking over while she was at yet. Thankfully, Devyn still remained in control but just had that inner beast within herself on high alert then it normally was. Then again, things were rarely normal for Devyn and her power ever since she had to deal with SPRITE.

Black ears twitched a little as the other girl started to approach but Devyn didn't make any moves or let out any of the few sounds she could make. The words did end up fading in away after a moment and resuming their smoke like state. Dev would not have called it magic. She would have called it her power to control shadows and the smoke that moved about her was shadows with a mix of the cold air that resulted in her form existing. After all, there was no heat in the cold so Devyn and the area around her tended to be cold when she was in this form.

When the girl did speak to her Devyn did move her head to now look at the other girl. She never actually worked on making eye lids for her eyes so her eyes were 'open' the whole time. The white orbs that had no pupils now staring at the girl before her instead of hidden beneath Devyn's front leg. Devyn's let out a yawn, her jaw opening wide and revealing the black teeth, gums, and even tongue. The shadow smoke around Devyn started to move and form then to spell out what Dev wanted to communicate since she could not talk in this form.

W. H. A. T. ?.

[Raven Rander]

"yeah.... i'm never getting used to that." Raven said aloud at the sight of the words. "It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. but it's also freaking creepy." Raven vaguely wondered if the wolf could do something like make a giant middle finger. would cut out the need for being able to say pretty much anything else.

Raven cleared her throat and scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "I didn't really mean to wake you up. sorry about that." She began before deciding to just cu the crap and get to the point. "Look, my name's Raven. I'm a shifter too... though nowhere near as impressive as this shadow stuff. just a regular bear. And I was wondering if there was any chance of a sparing match or something."

she was almost certain she had enough control that she wouldn't actually try to kill this lady while in bear form. like.... 85% sure. "and someone told me they'd seen you go to the training area so I thought you'd be training not sleeping. My bad."

Yeah that was about it, and she just leaned back waiting for the reply. Raven was starting to think this whole thing was a bust, in hindsight she should have tried an email or something first. Oh well on this boat now, might as well start trying to toss the water out. This is why they needed a fight club or something. all the violence with none of the social awkwardness of small talk. Show up. throw punches. go home. perfect system! she needed to make an app for it or something, make a billion off insane skin heads and hobos.

[Devyn Solway]

The other girl spoke of how she was never going to get used to that, which had Devyn’s head tilting to the side a little. When the girl added more about how she thought it was cool but creepy at the same time, Dev caught on she was talking about hos Devyn's manipulated the 'lighter' shadows to allow her to communicate. It was not fool proof and it was not like she could spell out a lot of sentence or even a sentence but it got the job done well enough. Dev would have already changed back by now in order to talk to the other girl better, but she was kind of already comfortable in this state.

S. O. R. R. Y.

The shadow smoke apologized, but if Devyn had actually said it there would have been a slight amount of confusion in her voice. She didn't know what else to say in that situation since she knew that her power was very terrifying in general. She expected that and even liked it on some level because it normally was enough to get people to not try and get on her bad side. There was an apology then followed by an introduction and pointing out why she was here. Devyn could not help but to give a wolfish grin as the other girl had a point about how she expected Devyn to be out here training and not napping. That had been Dev's intention as well, but sleep happened.

The girl wanted to basically fight in her other form; likely looking for a challenge and someone she could go 'all out with' and not have to worry about killing them. Dev was actually a good opponent in that regard because of how she could change her size and in general not actually get hurt as long as her opponent didn't dig too deep into her form. Devyn's ears flicked a moment before her tails started to move around. After a large yawn she stood up and gave herself a good shake. Her fur then started to stand up; tails went high into the air, fangs bared, and claws digging into the ground. The shadow smoke moved again to give the girl her reply and then Dev was going to wait for the girl to change, but then it would be time to battle.

F. I. G. H. T.

((Tag:Raven Rander ))

[Raven Rander]

"Ah you've nothing to be sorry for. It's not like i'm scared of you." Raven said, having not even considered she might make them feel bad. Or uncomfortable, she wasn't exactly certain what was being apologised for here. well whatever.

Raven tried her very hardest to pretend she wasn't a violent person. or at least not let on to the people she talked and interacted with. But the truth was that fighting excited her, even fights she knew she'd loose were fantastic things because of the rush it gave her every single time. so when the shadow beast truly showed itself to be the nightmarish, beautiful but terrifying thing that could easily be called a monster, stood up and challenged her, Raven couldn't help smiling. "all the hell yes."

The red haired girl closed her eyes. "fair warning. I honestly can't turn back for an hour once I've done this. so when we're done you can just leave me here, i'll probably just copy you and nap the rest of the time off." thank goodness the other girl could understand English like this. Enough talk though, Raven let herself go and began the change.

At first it looked like nothing was happening, but suddenly she cried out in pain and staggered, clutching at her stomach. "ah... never gonna get used to this." Raven hissed before falling to her knees, breathing hard. "It hurts." She mumbled, as it always did but whining about it made her feel better. "Shiiiii-" her swearing was cut off when her entire body started to grow and swell, tearing her clothes like wet paper to show masses of dark brown fur where skin was meant to be.

A change of clothes were in one of the lockers in the Ladies shower room. she was well used to wearing cheep crap she didn't care about when planning to change that day.

The entire process was painful and body horror to the extreme, but the worst part was that brief moment when Raven felt a large part of her mind, and almost all her personality, fade into darkness as her brain shrank and became a far less evolved version of the organ.

Luckily, she had indeed kept the thought that the animal in front of her was a friend and this was for fun. the Grizzly bear knew not to kill or seriously injure. It was like a territory thing, a show of strength where no one unsheathed their claws.

Even wild animals understood that not everything had to end in death.

The bear reared back onto her hind legs and bellowed out a deep, rolling roar of challenge. She didn't know what this opponent was capable of and watched it carefully, wanting it to make the first move. better to grasp what she was dealing with.

[Devyn Solway]

Not scared of her? That was a first and Devyn had a hard time believing it but could not say anything about it in her current state. A part of her wanted to lose control, just to see if she could show this girl true fear, something out a nightmare. Then another part of her had to remind herself that she was human and that she wanted to be in control, not the beast. Ah, choices. Either way, they were going to get to spar so that would allow Devyn to really get a gauge on the girls fear or lack thereof. It was possibly because of the girl’s ability that she herself felt like she was the thing to be feared.

Heh, another 'alpha' that I need to put in their place. Devyn could not help but to think to herself. After all she was alpha. She could not help want to maintain that potion in her relationship and interactions. Dev was half tempted to attack the girl while she was transforming, but that would have been a low blow. So she held back, watching and loving the fact that her transformation was relatively a painless one. She just had to focus to take and change her shape and she was set. There was a warning then about how the girl would not be able to turn back. If they fight lasted that long then that was fine but worse case Dev planned to cause the girl to pass out if she got too out of hand.

O. K.

Devyn's shadow smoke spelled out, not really being able to say too much and didn’t really think there was much to be said by this point. Time would tell what would happen and Devyn was ready for the worse or best of it. This was just for fun and as long as it remained that, Devyn didn't plan to do anything particularly dangerous towards Raven. Then Raven was no longer Raven, but a bear that was on its hind legs and roaring. Oh, this was great and Devyn's two tails wagged back and forth in anticipation. Now that her opponent was ready, Devyn left forward, going for a head on attack to try and tackle her opponent to the ground.

((Tag: Raven Rander . Sorry about the wait.))