forum Labyrinth: Lost (OPEN for anyone read first page for details!!!!!!!)

Started January 23, 2023 by @Im-just-here-idk-what-life-means group

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Sunobi chuckled as she smiled back. "I've got a little more than sparks," he says and his entire left half flashed quickly, then was jumping with sparks, while his right side was surrounded by floating arrows, some tipped in silver, cause werewolves might exist. "Bones, huh? Let's see if this tickles your fancy(Not dirty)." The right side of his head became simply a skull. "Mind the sparks?" he joked, hoping the horrible joke would lighten the panic they were both clearly feeling.

Chirp continued pawing through her bag, enjoying the interaction. She hoped whatever was coming wasn't strong enough to kill her new friend. That would be annoying. She reached towards the bottom of the bag, taking out the skull of a large wolf, as well as some key bones that she couldn't cannibalize from the human body. To a certain extent she could improvise, but sometimes it was just physically impossible.

Holding the parts in her arms she took one last glance with her eyes at her friend, looking slightly impressed at the half skull face, head half cocked to the side as she watched the light show. Finally she paused then smiled a bit more genuinely this time. "You might want to turn around if you're squeamish."

Then without waiting for a response she shifted. In a flash Chirps shape melted off of her, flesh and sinew moving like water. It rippled around the bones, feeling for them by touch instead of sight. The flesh curled around the bones, wrapping on tightly and the fleshy mass began to grow, faster and faster, muscle tightening into thick strands that could support her weight. The outline of four legs, a tail, and a triangular snout started to take shape. Some other bones clattered to the ground by her bag and Chirp used a mass of her self to open a little pouch of fur. She hated actually making it and it was so much easier to do with a base.

The whole grotesque transformation just took a few seconds, the changeling was damn good at what she did. Standing there was a large, nearly 6ft long wolf from nose to tail-tip. It was entirely hairless and then after another second, there was a poof sound, and fur pushed out, the animal shook itelf, taking a few jittering steps, then did a little hop, adjusting to the body and bones. Chirp liked the wolf body, it was large enough to accommodate her human brain, so she didn't need to dumb herself down, and it was fast and strong. She could even keep her human skull tucked away in the stomach in case she needed to shift back quickly. In her jaws, she placed the bones that had fallen in her bag, nosing it shut.

The wolf body was black furred, with silver grey eyes, just like her human form. She'd liked the symmetry of it. A moment of concentration, and she changed her tongue, the voice wasn't entirely the same, but it was lower and huskier, but most definitely Chirps voice.
"How'd I do? Miss any patches of fur?"

"Oh. Wow." He looked her wolven form up and down. "Not bad. You didn't miss anything, no." He thought for a moment. Ground… his mind said. "Let me try something." He knelt and placed his hand on the ground, and pulsed, sending an electric current through the ground. He had covered Chirp's feet in a shield before he did this so she wouldn't get shocked. Yes… Fins his mind said. "Fins?" he said aloud. A whale like creature erupted from the ground behind him, its claws extended ready to attack. Sunobi rolled, and ended up in a corner. "Huh." He zapped the creature but it shook off and came at him again. "Don't make me do it," he said to the creature.

Meanwhile, another one pops up behind Chirp

Chirp preened a bit under the attention. People didn't often get to see her shift and she was particularly proud of this transformation, she lifted her head a bit. Then he knelt and she felt the cool of some other material under her paws than just cold stone. She looked down curiously at the shield, sniffing it. There wasn't anything to smell, but the magic of it made her hackles rise in shivers.

Then the ground shifted, and something came out of the ground. The source of the tremors. It was smaller than she'd thought, only about three feet long and looked a bit like a whale, which would have made her grimace if she had the appropriate mouth. So instead, her lip curled back in a snarl. She was going to shout out a warning when the man rolled away, moving so quickly she had to allocate some more of her brain to sight instead of speech to comprehend it.

But she had her own problems to deal with as she could hear the rumbling, then tearing sound of broken earth and she spun around with a growl to face her own mini-whale. It had sharp teeth and clawlike hands and Chirp was sure her teeth could rip through its flesh. She pounced, trying and failing to pin the thing down, biting and tearing at it where she could. She could tear out big rips out of its side, her fur up and spiky with her excitement in battle. She was grateful for the bodies speed, as it seemed hard for the ground fish to get a good bead on her, she'd rather do lots of small bites than risk damaging this body. She didn't know if she'd be able to absorb whatever this was.