The Wild and The Domesticated

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn had not been sleeping well recently, she kept having a nightmare and she would wake up with shadows on her and going towards her. It was not really scary to have shadows on her and going near her, since that’s what happened when she was using her power. However it was scary when she was doing it in her sleep. It typically only happened when she was in the complete dark, but she had made sure to keep a small light on, yet it keeps happening. Lucky for her each time it happened the nightmare would get to a part that would make her jolt awake and remove the shadows from her before it became a problem. She had been advised by her trainer to not really use her powers outside of their training sessions so she was trying to stick to that. Granted was it her fault if she was doing it unconsciously. Plus every time she would wake up she didn’t remember the nightmare.

This time was not different, except that fact that she had fallen asleep in the lounge while playing a racing game on an Xbox 360. She didn’t even realize that she had completely zoned out while playing and just ended up falling asleep right then and there. Losing the race of course, but she actually was able to get in a good powernap before the nightmare set in and the shadows in the room started to pull towards her and try to cover her body. “Shit!” Devyn kind of yelled out pretty loud as she jolted awake at the same part every time in the nightmare. Growling a little and squinting because her quick movement had knocked her shades off and the light coming through the windows was bright. Even more so because she had her eyes closed for a while so they had adjusted to her night vision, leaving her in a temporary state of blindness as her eyes burned. Just great. Devyn thought to herself as she slowly moved towards the ground, eyes remaining closed as she felt around on the floor for her shades. The shadows moving back to their original places they had come from in the room. While the video game still playing its end game credits.

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Sleeping was something that normal people did and Gabe was far from normal, it seemed he always ran off of three or less hours of sleep at night. Sure, sleeping would be nice but the boy suffered from insomnia, mainly because his brain never knew when to shut the hell up. At the moment he was trotting around Bellefonte, not as a human, nah. It was easier to see in the dark as a dog. Wandering the halls he found a few students who stared at him with confusion as he passed past them. A Husky walking the halls of a school for mutants, how straaaange. Idiots. Obviously he was just using his powers.

Hrm, where to go next? Shit! Oh, that sounded interesting. The dog's ears twitched, trying to locate where the sound was coming from. Had to have been the lounge. Gabriel started on his way again, walking down to student lounge and finding the door cracked open a bit. He used his nose to push the door open and walked in, finding a girl in there. 'Did she just growl?' Gabe asked himself, tilting his head to the side a bit, obviously confused by her sounds. 'Strange.'

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn was muttering other curse words under her breath, not wanting to swear up a storm, just in case some staff walked in. She didn’t have that bad of a potty mouth when she first came to the school, but after her dad died and she started hanging out with older people, she just picked it up from time to time. In mainly only slipped out when she was angry or frustrated, which she was now, luckily being able to find her shades and questioning herself why she didn’t close the shades all the way when she came into the room. The sun was setting so it was all bright and full range of colors in the sky, which just pissed her eyes off. "Damn nightmare." Devyn growled out still as she adjusted her shades back on her face and opened her eyes, they were still burning for a moment but son settled and where pleased to be shielded and somewhat in the dark, but Devyn could see with ease.

She gave a small yawn, stretching out, and moving to turn off the game system, but her nose picked something up and she also heard the movement of the door opening. It letting out a small creaking sound. Devyn's green eyes quickly looking over to the door, and not seeing anyone, until she looked down. A dog? There was a dog standing there. A husky to be specific and she was pretty sure that pets of that size where not allowed. So either someone was breaking a rule or this dog was like Devyn's friend that she called kitty. Both where highly likely, which peeked her interest and she wanted to find out. She knelt down and held out her hand, not afraid at all. "Come here...uh..." Devyn tilted her head to the side before moving to get low enough to the ground to get a look under the dog for a moment. "Alright, come here boy." Devyn said with a slight chuckle, finding it funny that she had looked under the dog to look.

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Did she just? She did. She looked...under him. What in the actual hell? If a dog could looked offended then that was definitely the expression that Gabriel was giving to this girl right now. Gabe took a couple steps back, baring his teeth a bit. A soft growl came from him as he eyed the girl, something was off about her. She didn't smell...right. His ear twitched and he tilted his head to the sound of movement in halls and heard a faint laugh coming from a girl. Good, it wasn't a teacher. It was obviously past his curfew and he wasn't planning on getting caught. But back to the girl.

He took another few steps back, what was it about this girl that was setting off every internal alarm that he had? Another growl came from the dog, more a warning than a threat. If this girl was trouble, which everything he felt pointed to yes, then he'd be ready for her. Gabe just hoped it really wouldn't come to that.

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn could not help but let out a chuckle at this dog backing up and letting out a low growl at her. She growled right back, partly by choice and another part because deep down instinct of the shadow beast the was a part of her. Even if it was a being made out of shadows, and in fact herself, it was a beast either way. It was a wolf, but not a wolf and it was living, but at the same time not living. "Hey, don’t give me that. Would you have preferred if I called you girl?" Devyn asked since that was going to be her default for the dog after all. Assuming genders was a very difficult thing to do and even people who were not androgynous could still be mistaken as another gender. Devyn was very androgynous and she would not have been offended in the slightest if someone called her a boy.

"Don’t worry. Not planning on telling everyone your size or anything." Devyn teased with another chuckle as she looked at Gabriel, moving to sit down on the ground then in front of him. Stubborn puppy does not want to come closer. Devyn thought to herself, her eyes falling to the dogs shadow, and wishing that if she pulled the shadow towards her it would pull him as well, but her power didn’t work like that. The dog took another step back and let out another growl, making Devyn growl back at him a little louder. Her green eyes focused on this dog that had come in here and was growling at her. Was he trying to pick a fight? She killed a dog before; she had no real issue doing it again if she had to. Problem was, this had to be a student. A smart dog would have bolted for it by now, peed, or came closer and had been friendly with her. The first two were more likely, but this one was sticking around.

"So, nod your head if you are a mutant or else I'm going to feel crazy for talking to a normal dog." Devyn said with eyes still focuced on the dog. Not planning on looking away since this dog was coming off a a threat. Not that she was fully taking him as one, but either was he was giving her warnings and she was going to warn him right back until he backed down.

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Well, she was growling back but keeping position. Maybe she wasn't a threat after all, internal things could be wrong sometimes. She was a 'funny' one though. Har har har. After deciding that she wasn't going to harm him, at least at his moment the Husky sat down, keeping his eyes on her at all times. His ears, on the other hand, kept moving and picking up the sounds coming from the school. Whenever she asked if he a mutant or not, he though for a second to make her feel a bit crazy, but decided against for fear that she might already be that way.

Gabriel nodded his head once, eyes locked on hers for a few more moments before getting back up and walking towards her. Gabe sat a few feet away from the girl, reaching up his back left leg to scratch an itch on his neck. He would still be a bit cautious around this girl, but for now, he figured he was safe enough.

[Devyn Solway]

Alright, so he seemed to be settling down, he even sat down like a good dog should. Devyn chuckled to herself inside her head for a moment. Oh so many dog jokes she could make. Yet the same could be said back to her. Since she was like a dog...but a wolf...but both animals were very close and cousins basically. Her eyes looked over him for a moment. Yeah, looks pretty much like a normal dog. Similar power to Kitty's maybe? Devyn was thinking to herself after she got his nod. Just by him nodding it was clear that yes he was a mutant.

Even if the dog shook its head no, or did not respond, she still would have guessed somewhere with him being a mutant. Since again he was at the school, and really not pets his size would have been allowed and him making it this far without an issue either meant he was really good at sneaking, someone sucked at their job, or he was a mutant. Devyn choosing to go with the latter. She raised an eyebrow as he stood up and started to go towards her. Lifting up a hand to go and try to pet the dog. If he bit her she was going to make him pay. Especially since she was trying to be nice. "So, can you talk in this form? Or are you just the can change into this and that’s it type?" Devyn asked and then was silent for a moment. "Really you just need to bark or speak English and I'll have my answer." Devyn said simply, betting on that he was just going to bark.

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Gabriel eyed the girl as she reached out her hand, another low growl coming from him but ultimately let her pet him. Why must people always want to pet dogs? Did they ever think that maybe said dog didn't want to be pet? Hrmmm? He got used to it eventually though, especially in this form. To people it seemed that Huskys desired the most affections through hugs and...ugh...cuddles. Gross.

Could he talk in this form? Really? Was she dumb? Can dogs talk? No, they can't. Their vocal cords weren't the same, though, he figured if he put enough effort into it he could shift everything but his voice box...but that sounded like a shit ton of work. Gabriel gave her a few barks, though it meant 'of course I can't speak, idiot.' Not that she would ever know. The boy could feel the headache coming on that came with his shifting abilities, a nearly debilitating migraine.

He started shifting back into his human form, a few groans coming from him. Where a dog once sat in front of her a boy now sat. Luckily enough for him, somehow his power allowed him to shift with clothes. Something about the molecules absorbing into his skin...or something. His trainer tried to explain it to him but it all just sounded like sciencey mumbo-jumbo. "I'm Gabe."

[Devyn Solway]

She still reached out to pet him, growling low still back at his growl. If he was going to keep growling at her he was going to find himself in a bad place with her. She was good at keeping herself in check and her more animalistic aggressive side down, but when he was egging it on with his growling, there was only so much she could do. She was not rough about her pet, just giving him a good scratch on the head before taking her hand back and letting it fall into her lap. She squinted at him when he barks. Alright so yeah he was just the type to change into this form, unless he was forever stuck in this form. She didn’t see it as bad for asking if he could speak or not. Mutant were mutants after all, they could have multiple things about them that made them not so human. So a talking dog would not really surprise her.

She didn’t move from where she was sitting as he started to make odd sounds and groans coming from the dog. She didn’t really expect for him to shift there and there, moving to take her jacket off to have something to cover him with. She might have liked men, but she preferred to undress them first and see things, not just see it right away. Even if I already saw it. Devyn snickered to herself, own little joke going on in her head. Knowing very well that his parts would look different in his more or less normal form then it would as a dog. She tilted her head to the side at the fact that he had clothing on. She was...not all that impressed. It was cool, but no wow factor really. Even less since she knew Kitty who’s power seemed to be like this boy in front of her.

"Hello Gabe." Devyn said back with a smirk on her face, looking over him now in this other form. Less muscle, looked pretty soft, and she bet if she put makeup on him he look perfect in drag. He was...cute. Didn’t really seem her flavor of guy yet, but she still had to talk to him a little bit more before she was sure about that. "I'm Devyn. What are you doing out this late?" Devyn asked, as she had pulled out her phone and looked at the time. Wow, that late. What time was her curfew again. Heh, yeah right. Since when did I ever go by curfew? The thought made her do a mental chuckle before her attention was back on him. Her green eyes looking at his blue eyes, reading him in a way.

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Gabe gave her a strange look as she held her Jacket out. "Uhhh...do you honestly think I would just shift and be naked in front of a stranger. I have a bit more decency than that." The boy said, rather bluntly. He shook his head, god, people were stupid. What was he doing out so late? "Well, it was either stare at my ceiling for the next few hours or walk around, I chose the latter." Gabriel watched as she pulled out her phone. "Yeah, it's late." He nodded. "Plus I can usually hear when people are coming so I can avoid them, it's not all that hard."

"What's up with the growling?" He asked, staring at her. "I'm a dog...was a dog. Whatever. We do that, people aren't supposed to be doing that kind of crap." The boy said, rolling his neck. God, he was always so stiff whenever he shifted back. He assumed it was because all the bones and muscles shifting and growing or something of that nature.

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn just shrugged at his question and moved to put her jacket back on, not that she needed it on, but carrying it would have been pointless. Plus she liked to wear a jacket and often did whenever she was wearing short sleeves; which she was in this case. Only really just wearing a short sleeve shirt with no jacket on really hot days or if she was working out. "Never know, you could be in to flashing people." Devyn said with a slight smirk at Gabe. She didn’t know him so she was entitled to her own opinion, no matter how skewed it might have been. She gave a simple nod to his words about preferring to be walking around and not just lying in his bed not doing anything. He needed a hobby in other words. Something he could do in his room, unless he liked sneaking around the school grounds when he should have been in his bed. Devyn was not judging either way, since she too wondered around if she didn’t feel like being cooped up in her room.

"True, bonus of sensitive ears." Devyn said very much tempted to just clap her hand together as loud of she could, but she didn’t. He had not done anything to really make her angry or anything. Other than his earlier growling, but she was pretty much over that now...for the most part. She raised an eyebrow and tilted her head a little at his question about her growling. "I could ask you the same thing still. You were not always a dog right? It’s something you do because you became a dog right? You never find yourself doing it when you are not a dog?" Devyn asked him several questions back to his question. She would have given him an explanation or at least told him about it being kind of a side effect in her behavior because of her power, but she didn’t like his tone.

I might punch him. The thought crossed her min in the back of her head for a split second. 'People aren't supposed to be doing that kind of crap' she didn’t know why but those words really pissed her off. What was he trying to imply? Should she even really be taking this personal? The growling started a little in the base of her thought as she squinted at him with her green eyes. "What is Gabe short for?" Devyn asked, and it may have seen like a random question but she did have a point behind it.

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"I'm not into flashing anyone." He said with a roll of his eyes. What was wrong with this girl? She was just so...crude. Her next question had him thinking a bit. Had he ever growled at someone when in his normal form? He honestly wasn't sure, but he supposed the strange girl had a point. "I may have, force of habit I would guess. A warning signal is a warning signal is a warning signal I suppose." Gabe said, looking over Devyn for a few moments. "Though, I learned mine from my ability. Unless you have a power similar to mine, yeah, it's kind of strange." He said with a nod, feeling rather good with that comeback. One, she would hopefully explain her power and two, if she didn't have an ability like his it showed that she was just plain crazy.

'What is Gabe short for?' Really? No, come on. Really really? What did she think it was short for? Mitchell? Oh god, this girl was just far too duuuuumb. "Gabriel." He said, his tone sharp. Honestly though, who in their right mind wouldn't just assume Gabe to be short for Gabriel. It was just common damn sense, something this girl was clearly lacking.

[Devyn Solway]

An eye roll. She cracked her knuckles using the floor to add pressure to her fingers in order for them to crack. Shadows in the room twitch a little, not enough to be noticed but enough for her to know that she had to keep herself in check since she had been advised to not use her powers outside of training. "I don’t have a power that is completely like yours. Sure I turn into something resembling the canine family, but it’s not really." Devyn said trying to explain it, she normally did well at this part, but she had just been horribly awakened from her nap by a nightmare, had her eyes irritated, and now she was dealing with some pretty boy and his attitude. So yeah, she might have been a little to a lot out of it. She gave a slight yawn and rubbed her eyes.

"Just know that my growl was warning you back and if you kept it up, we might have had a problem." Devyn said in a normal tone, but her eyes were looking dead at him. "Meaning, don’t start growing or anything at me." She warned giving off another small growl with her words but then took a deep breath. Alright, settle down now. Warned herself as she glanced at a few shadows in the room, just to make sure she was not pulling them towards herself or anything. She could kick this guy’s ass without using her power she figured. She was military trained and worked out. Could probably bench-press this Gabe guy. Devyn thought as her eyes looked over him once more. She had to look away and bit at her tongue to keep herself from lashing out to much. "I was just checking Gabriel." Her voice was flat and without feeling as she just stared at him for a moment.

"Have you ever been punched by someone wearing a ring? Or better yet, have you gotten into any fight here at this school? Just curious." Devyn said sounding friendly, but she had a malicious smirk on her face as her green eyes got a little darker. "How old are you even?" Devyn was soon asking right after her question about if he had ever been punched or in a fight. No she was not hinting at anything. She was warning him. Daring him to keep pushing her on her bad side. She had a bad nap and was crankier then she normally was and she wanted to go back to sleep. She was always slow when it came to fully waking up. So at the moment she was half herself and half her more aggressive self. So Gabe was not doing himself any favors by pushing even her smallest of buttons.

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What the hell did that mean? What a vague ass answer, ugh. Something resembling the canine family, but not really. What was she? A werewolf or something? God. Whatever, it didn't matter anyway. He just nodded his head, let her have her mysterious canine power. She just told him not to growl at her, yet she was going to do it right at him? Fucking alpha dog bullshit was what this was. Gabe took a deep breath, trying not to play into her little game of growling. No, he didn't growl when in human form, not if he could help it at least. "Fine." The boy finally said after a few moments of silence. "No more growling, either of us."

Woah, woah, woah, woah. Was she threatening him? Because it sure as hell felt like it. The hairs on the back of Gabe's neck started to stand on end. You know what, no. He wasn't gunna play this game either. The boy decided that he would answer honestly, but leave out a few key details. "Yeah, I've gotten into a few fights here. I don't take kindly to people messing with me, I'm not the 'back down' sort of guy." Of course, Gabe left out how he had his ass handed to him each time, but that wasn't what she asked. Devyn here simply asked if he had ever been in a fight. And just like that she changed the subject again. Jesus, did the girl suffer from A.D.D. or something? "I'm sixteen, though I really don't see why it concerns you. Does my age have anything to do with what we were speaking about?"

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn was happy that he accepted her very vague and not really helpful answer; she made a note to get back to him on it once she woke up more. Well that was if she was around him long enough to wake up into her more...well her less aggressive in the way of wanting to punch this guy. "Not making any promises." She growled for a lot of things and her body kind of just did it even if she didn’t think about it too often. She was very in touch with her shadow beast form one could say. Her growls were all slightly different from playful, flirting, anger, and warnings. People who spent a lot time around her and actually experience every kind of growl would be able to pick up on the difference between them.

Gabe might have been able to pick up on a few because of his dog-like-ness, but he still did not know her so it was up on the air if he figures them out. So far for sure she had given him a few warning growls with the last one being more of a 'this is your last warning, knock it off' growl. She started to nod a little as he spoke about how he had been in a few fights. With how he had been acting with her she could tell that he had to have put himself into a position where he was going to risk getting into a fight. Yet she did have a small amount of respect for him for not baking down. It was good to have a backbone; however there was a time to stand your ground and a time to back down and seek help. Even more so when you were outnumbered and could not handle something on your own. That was when you should reach out for help, unless you were prepared to always handle things on your own.

"Have you one any of these fight?" Devyn asked with a raised eyebrow as she looked over him again. He could possibly do a little of something in a fight, but this was a school of mutants. Granted she did not know Gabe so he could have been good in a fight, looks being deceiving and all. "Oh, well it really is past your bed time young man." Devyn teased with a slight chuckle. Heh, yeah Devyn, calling him young, you are only a year older then him.