I Feel Like a Monster

[heatblast1996]

Sokka tilted his head in confusion. He didn't know the chick, he was just freaked out by her. "Not really, never seen her before in my life!"

He laid down, getting comfortable in case this conversation dragged on for some time. "Wait....... if it worked for you, then that means that you can change too!"

HIs ears perked up and his eyes widened.

[Tigress]

Of course. Just as Tigress assumed. Sokka had no clue who the other wolf- probably wolves were. It made sense, seeing as how he hadn't known how to switch back and forth from wolf to man. More like wolf to teen, but you get the point. Tigress stayed leaning against the tree, her heart pounding at what he said next. Her look of stone died into one of slight worry, but she quickly covered it back up with a look as hard as stone again. Emotionless, one would call her.

"Exactly." she replied. A human, and several wolves however, didn't sound like the best thing for Tigress. If she showed them her other form, at least one wolf would decide to attack. Which one? Most likely the blonde she-wolf. Sokka was on the ground, not likely he'd get up to attack. Sinbad had been sitting down, unlikely he'd want to get up off the ground either. The blonde one was the one Tigress was going to look out for. She was the only one standing on all four paws, not resting like any other animal. Tigress had been leaning on the tree with no intentions to fight.

Her ears lowered closer to her head. She wasn't going to tell any of them what she could change into. At the very least, she wouldn't show them.

[heatblast1996]

The brown wolf nodded, his eyes darting to the other wolves. "You guys change too?"

His tone had gotten quite serious. What was this world coming to if a bunch of people just randomly turned into animals? He looked up at the stars staring at them for some time. They weren't the constellations he saw at home, they were different, northern stars. He sighed a little than brought his head around and stared at the femme wolf that was still standing with hackles raised. What was her problem? Sure, it was a strange and new creature, but his Gram-gram taught him to respect others until scorned.

[sinbad]

Sinbad rolled his eyes before giving a smirk. "Yeah. Got my powers a long time ago. It takes awhile to get used to them but i've been practicing for awhile." he shrugged. "It's all about control and taking it one step at a time, sure the pain sucks but you get used to it."

he turned to the girls. "Though i think most of the men can handle it better than women."

[Astrid]

Astrid nodded to the other teenager. Of course she changed, she was a werewolf right? Some people really weren't able to connect the dots quickly... Astrid relaxed slightly, but the tiger-woman was putting her on edge. She had no doubt in her head that she could take on any of the male wolves, but the tiger looked like a formidable feline. Astrid, the long viking nature bred in to her, couldn't relax when she felt so threatened ( a feeling unusual to her). Her blonde pelt had stopped bristling, and she had taken in a sufficient amount of air to be able to remember all three stranger's scents. That was a plus. A smirk did form on her lips though as the other male teen went into submission mode. It must've been the wolf in her that liked being top dog.... and maybe an itty-bit of Astrid herself....

At Sinbad's comment, Astrid swung on her heel and faced the larger male canine, a snarl rising to her lips. Sexist, idiotic, jerk-off, arrogant, cowardly. All the words that came to mind when she turned to see the male dog. Tail fluffed out once more. "Yeah? I bet any woman could kick you into submission you lousy mutt!" her words came out quicker than she had intended, she'd barely had time to think for herself... One thing the man said was right though, the pain was hard to get used too... not to mention some attitude changes. Astrid had been hot tempered before, sure, but now below the temperament issues of before, she had a clear aggressive cause. Astrid's blue orbs glared at Sinbad, on her toes already, muscles tensed and ready to crouch if it should come to a fight. Part of her wanted it, part of her wanted the man to step down from his high pedestal. Astrid had some how felt comfortable turning slightly away from the tiger. The body language the other fae was putting off clearly showed she had no intent to fight, much like the other wolf's just not so openly. The blonde respected that of the other female, at least she didn't back down.

In the back of her head, she was curious to see the human forms of these creatures. She'd seen the male, submissive wolf, another thin, lean teenager. The timber wolf seemed like he'd be muscular, and the tiger looked more lean and feral than muscular. She could almost see their human forms by the tone of their voices, the cracking of Sokka's voice suggesting... somewhat awkward teen. The tiger sounding more experienced and adulty- yet not old. The man... just irritating.

[heatblast1996]

(Sokka is kinda awkward, isn't he? But, he has a lot of bravery, intelligence, and good fighting skills to balance that..... Wierd, ain't it?)

Sokka layed his head down on the ground, ears drooping once more. Why was he acting so strange? Usually, he wouldn't be so helpless. He was the one in charge of hunting for the Southern Water Tribe, the only one who was responsible for the rest of the village. He scratched the paw with his dirt once more. Was it the wolf inside him telling to submit, tell him to be the omega? He had seen the snow wolves and how they behaved, one always taking the lead while one being at the bottom of the pack. Sea traders had once brought a book that Katara had traded for a crystal necklace she made herself. The book explained animals and how they moved, how they acted. She had given it to him, telling him that if he know how the prey thought, it would be easier to hunt them. He huffed, a small glint of anger at himself appeared in his eyes.

Then, he decided to step up. He pushed up with his forepaws to a sitting position, a small growl escaping from his throat, directed at the older wolf. "How could you say that? Where I'm from, the women are just as important as the men! Heck, if it wasn't for the guys taking off on an eight year voyage for revenge, the women wouldn't have so much work to do! They do everything now, fishing, making clothes from the furs, making the goods for trade, and much more. Just because they're a different gender does not make them inferior!"

He felt very strongly about this topic. His mother, rest her soul, was also a hard-worker. The chieftan's wife had just as much responsibility as the chief himself. If it wasn't for her sacrifice to protect him and the other children, old ones, and women, they would all be dead, not just her. His father, Hakoda, was so enraged, he literally did what Sokka stated, going an a vengeful trip and taking all of the Tribe's warriors with him. That meant most of the male populace. It had been years and they still had not returned, leaving all of the females and old ones to make sure the clan survived.

[Tigress]

A snarl that Tigress couldn't control got out of her. Her orange eyes narrowed in anger towards the timber wolf, claws unsheathed now for intimidation. She clenched her fists together tightly as she stared down upon Sinbad with anger. "I don't feel pain, got it?" she said, saying each word clearly as if she were speaking to a young child. She had learned to feel virtually no pain, hitting the iron wood trees with her spare time. She had felt pain when she first changed, yes. But that pain had faded quite a bit. Tigress wasn't immune to pain, sure, but she was as close as one could ever get to it. It was because of that pain that she had been left as an orphan.

Because of that pain she had such a bad temper. Because of that temper she felt it was a touchy subject. Though he was right in a sense. The pain of the change was unbearable at first. Physical and mental pain. Physical was obvious. It was painful to swap back and forth from human to beast, that took several years for Tigress to get used to. Mental was a bit more underlying. Mental meant attitude. Temperment changes, attitude changes, personality tweaks. It was what Tigress had experienced for quite some time until it all just turned to anger. It took what seemed like forever to get out of that stage in her life.

She briefly glanced at Sokka. He must have had such strong feelings about it, considering he was standing up for the women from the way he'd been brought up. Tigress took care of herself until Shifu came along. Even after then, she was mostly solitary. Even when she was with the Furious Five, she was mostly solitary. She had begun to stray away from that, but so far, it didn't completely work. She still enjoyed her independence, and she liked to stay that way. Independent. There are few cases where she actually liked the company, but those are very few.

This was not one of those times she enjoyed company.

[sinbad]

Sinbad rolled his eyes, the wolf didn't really care what this little wolf thought. "Submission? I really don't think that any female would ever try, i am an alpha." he replied with a dark growl. He turned
back to the tigress.

He sniffed back at her, he didn't mind that they hated him, he was used to it. He just shook his head at the boy. "They've already gotten to you." he gave a shake of his head but didn't really say anything else about it.

He was more surpised that people were not freaking out of seeing three wolves and a tiger in the park.

[Astrid]

Astrid had unconciously taken a step towards the two other beings who had sided with her. She liked the tiger, in a warrior to warrior kind of way. The woman had the air of experience about her and it not only intrigued and brought on Astrid's curiosity, but had a stinging threat to Astrid's own viking pride. The fighting techniques the sleek tiger seemed to use were much different from those of viking, or even wolf law. The teenage male didn't seem to bad either. He respected the opposite gender and that was enough for her. He was on her side. A silent snicker spread on Astrid's lips but disappeared just as quickly, the snarl replacing it, her pelt bristling.

"Submission? I really don't think that any female would ever try, I am an alpha." Astrid let out a low, barely audible snarl at that. "Trust me, give it a second. I think you'll find yourself in the beta position.... better yet, run out. " The blonde fae snapped paw twitching as if to advance a step to the larger male. She didn't doubt her fighting capability, nor did she doubt his, brought on by arrogance and 'manly' pride. She also did not like to act out irrationally, fighting moves like that often made one look ridiculous and miss a target. She should know, teenagers of Berk did it all the time. Astrid's body was screaming at her lunge, but she held back. That didn't mean she stepped down from her challenging position. She was already quite irritated with this man and wouldn't back down from a fight. Even if, in that fight, she appeared to be outnumbered.

Astrid also couldn't help a bit of pride and gratitude to the two strangers that had willingly sided with her opinions against this jerk. her village was somewhat like the teens... "Where I come from, the women are just as useful as the men. 'Bout as powerful too. Maybe even worse." She snarled out, blue eyes seething in anger.

[Taiga]

A light brown wolf made her way lazily out of the bushes towards the sound of the fighting. Curious to what was going on, but also ticked off at being woken up. She took a quick look over the gathering and opened her jaw in a large yawn. The tigress seemed on edge, along with the blonde wolf. On the other hand the two males seemed pensive as well. She grimmanced at the realisation that she was the smallest here. I hope i don't get eaten, she thought.

"What's with all the snapping and snarling?" she asked cocking her head to the side.

[sinbad]

"Oooh," Sinbad said with a snicker. "Aren't you a feisty one?" the brown wolf's eyes flickered to the others. "Sure where you come from women are just as strong as women but as of now, in my home women did house hold chores and men did the real work."

He was not about to convert to his human form just yet but he was intrigued that a young wolf like this that challenged him before.

[heatblast1996]

Sokka's hackles raised. This guy was really ticking him off. Why, if it wasn't for.......... It was then Sokka realized he had nothing to lose. He snarled, showing his large canines.

This was not going to end well for himself, he realized, but it just felt right. The teen felt his claws come out of his paws. He lunged forward, paws outstretched.

This was a really bad idea.

[sinbad]

Sinbad turned to the younger wolf, he gave her a smirk. Despite Taiga being a girl, he actually liked her a lot, and saw her as almost like a daughter. Sinbad moved out of the way of Sokka's attack. "You need to work on your form kid, other than that you would have had me." he shrugged his broad shoulders before deciding that he was tired of being a wolf and returned to his human form.

"Well, this has been an interesting day." he replied

[Baird]

"No way Sherlock, it was an interesting day?" A new face appeared, blonde fur and blue eyes. The burly wolf came out of the shadows, a smirk on his face as he stared at Sinbad before reverting to his own human form from the thought of someone. Sam. Once he thought of her, he was able to concentrate and become human. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and a small goatee matching his hair. The oddest feature about him, aside from his muscles perhaps, was the pair of goggles resting on his forehead. He crossed his arms and leaned against the tree next to Tigress.

"Kid, I saw that sad attempt to take down this guy. You really think that flailing towards him is going to do any damage? First of all, you have to be a human to punch his face into the ground. If you don't have the muscle to do that, a weapon will do the job just fine. If you're the bigger and better man, you always win. Or you wait until he's not looking and sneak up to attack. Whatever. Do something else that isn't going to go to hell like that move just did. Because that was just... just sad."

~~

With two wolves humans, Tigress contemplated on being human herself. Of course, one came out of the shadows out of nowhere, but it did give her confidence to revert to her own human form. Tigress decided that there wasn't much of a threat between the wolves, so she reverted to her own human form. Hair matching her main fur color fell to her shoulders, orange eyes transforming into bronze brown. Her skin was fair, a slight tan hinted in it. Her arms across her chest still, she opened her mouth and spoke once more.

"Where I come from, women have an equal place amongst men. Where I come from, we fight with honor, those of us who fight. We fight with kung-fu. We don't attack like crazy people. We attack with trained, precise, accurate skill." she said as she narrowed her eyebrows towards the males, including the newcomer who decided to lean against the tree as well. One shapeshifter. Many werewolves. This seemed... odd for Tigress.

[Taiga]

Taiga growled at Sokka and moved over to Sinbad before changing back to her human form. She wasn't exactly happy someone had tried to attack the man that was like a father to her. Now the brunette girl was distracted by the new comer as well as the tiger changing into a girl. Still, she kept her brown eyes on Sokka in case of another attack.