[IC] Animal Instincts (recruiting!)

[Araby264]

@Raafling
Armis collected a small bag of dried scorpions and began to intermittently munch on those as she spoke to Kara.
"Well usually I lived out in the desert by myself, but when I was younger I stole the bag of a hiking human and found a book inside that had animals that looked like me in it. It took me forever, but I was able to teach myself to read by stealing children's toys from dumpsters and such. The first time I actually went into a human home was a few years later, and it was so I could get more books. Apparently the name of the place was Las Vegas and as I entered the city you know what I wore."
She gave the girl s sly grin," Absolutely nothing. I didn't wear a disguise or clothes or anything. Of corse I was nervous, but I didn't think anything bad would happen. And I was right. I didn't realize it at the time, but everyone who saw me thought I was wearing a costume for a show, or some kind of costume party."
Armis giggled as she munched on dried scorpions.
"At the time I didn't get why no one was pointing out that I was different, but now I think it's hilarious."

[Puffhead]

Jerric watched the hunched boy attempt to discover and locate the berries, laughing in good nature when he panicked from the sudden cold air. "My apoligies." He offered with a slight amused smile.

It looked like most of the hybrids were now talking with each other, getting to know one another... He was glad honestly. They needed to have each other or things would all go to hell. It looked like his job here was done anyways. Maybe he could even start meeting more of them?

[Eklispe]

Armaldo carefully repeated the word making sure he had it down, "Ax-o-lotl, got it." He also filed away the warning about the top part of the cold box for future reference. Sniffing carefully he also committed the Axolotl's scent and the Sloth's scent to memory. Looking around for more people he didn't know what they were he went through the list. "Axolotl, Sloth, Fox, Hawk, Snow Leopard."

Now there were two more he didn't know so of course he waddled up to the muscular one with fur ears and, a pause for a brief snuffle, something that smelled like him. He peered curiously at it curiously, it seemed that he was similar to it, but it was a "girl". So was the other one, "Hello things, what are you?" he inquired once again confident that he had this talking thing down. Although there was still that Wolf thing, it seemed he hadn't come in with them, Armaldo would go visit him and he finished learning what these things were.@Araby264@Raafling

[Araby264]

@Eklispe
Armis turned from her conversation with Kara and looked down at what was obviously an Armadillo hybrid. She smiled at his rather adorable way of speaking, and went to hold out her hand. She hesitated though, thinking it might not give the right impression. If he was raised in the wild like her, but without human influence, he would have no idea what a handshake was, and might take it as threatening.
But if he doesn't learn how will he if no one shows him.
So she held out her hand to him and spoke in a gentile tone, "I'm Armis, and I'm an Armadillo Lizard hybrid. Pleased to meet you."

[Murtox]

@Puffhead

Ignoring almost everything that happened around him and just thinking in what he was going to do next , well he was thinking about having training of some kind and how being a reptile hybrid affected him as naturally , now he saw some of the hybrids as direct enemies to him , maybe some kind of second effect from being a hybrid.

-Hey Jerric i decided to have a room for myself i really want to have some privacy and peace when i go to sleep .

This action was mayorly because he wanted to be far from other dangerous hybrid or bad companions

[joeycbee]

The instant Fox saw the fridge he lunged at it tackling the door. He flung it open, surprisingly not off the hinges he opened it so hard, and straight up ate the "precooked" hotdogs, Canadian bacon, ham, and a few other meats. After his frenzy he got up like a civilized person and took out a few slabs of raw stacks from the fridge. He ran around the kitchen gathering spices, vegetables, fruits, and anything else he wanted for the meal.

He turned the heat on and placed a pan on top of it with one hand. With the other he took a knife and started to chop the onions with it. And with his tail he did the same except with green and red peppers. He took a hammer (the one you cook with) and started tendering the meat. Then with his tail and his other hand took two knifes and started cutting up some bananas, and strawberries. Once the meat was tendered he chopped it up into little chunks and threw it in the pan. The threw in the the peppers and unions in the pan and added a few sauces and a few spices. The his tail he was scooping some vanilla ice cream into a blender with some milk, ice, and the chopped fruits and turned the blender on. He took some lettuce and a few other things and turned them into a salad. He put the steak on the salad and mixed it together and poured the banana, strawberry milkshake into a glass an took a seat and started to eat as the fantastic smell filled room.

[SayZun]

Aiden scanned the fruits which were displayed and grabbed a handful of grapes. He gulped down six of them within two seconds and what looked like endlessly stuffing fruits into his mouth he did the same for other grapes. He then scanned to his right and saw a rich crate of nuts and seeds. His eys light lit and he in two strides to the crates started scoop up what was inside the peanut crate with his long beak. He tried his best not to look too much like a chicken and did his best eating the seeds while looking cool at the same time.
Still with a mouthful of seeds and carrying a handful of peanuts, Aiden walked over to his fox friend. "Hey, man wanna bunk tonight?" he asked the fox gulping down the handful of peanuts.
@joeycbee

[Puffhead]

@Murtox

"That's perfectly fine with me." Jerric replied good naturedly as he looked around at everyone else. "In fact as soon as people are done eating they should all figure out their sleeping arrangements alright?"

[Eklispe]

@Araby264 Armaldo looked at the offered hand curiously. It seemed she wanted something, maybe she wanted food, sometimes the small animals with tails that climbed trees did the same thing. Obligingly he took a blackberry out of his bag and placed it in her hand. "Hello Armadil-" he cut off his sentence remembering something Fox had said. People liked to be called by their names, but their names were not what they were. How confusing, his name was Armaldo and he was Armaldo. He resumed his sentence, "Armis, I also liked to meet you." then he watched almost in awe at Fox's rapid cooking. The food he made looked fantastic, most impressive, he noted the Fox's cooking skills for later. "Although you have your own food so why do you want mine?" Armaldo asked looking upwards at her owlishly.

[Merule]

@Araby264@Eklispe
Kara chuckled at the story. She could imagine something like that happening around halloween, but just on a normal day in the year? Must be quite a strange city- Las Vegas- though she was sure she could remember some of the gang members talking about wanting to go there. Perhaps they also wanted to dress up in strange costumes?

She cut off small pieces of meat with a wicked little knife she found in one of the drawers, and eat them without cooking as she watched Armis interact with a shy little fellow that started asking questions without introducing himself. In the background the Fox was frantically eating and then frantically cooking- it seemed the man did nothing by halves.

Kara chuckled at the hunched boy's confusion, not unkindly.

"Hey little dude," she said even though she wasn't much taller than the other hybrid. "She doesn't want your food, she wants to shake your hand." She walked up to him, took his hand and placed it in her own before moving their clasped hands up and down a couple of times.

"Like so. Now we're supposed to introduce ourselves: I'm Kara, who are you?" She wasn't planning on taking someone under her protection in this unfamiliar place, but it couldn't hurt to make friendly connections. When she'd been younger she'd been much more prone to antagonising people she hadn't met before, but she had learned since then. Especially with people that seemed weaker or more docile than her, it was simple enough to let her defences down a little.

[TheBrightestEyes]

Jacky sat down in a chair, resisting the urge to rest his chin on the table and close his eyes. That was rude, right? What if they thought he was dead or something? Oh god, what if he was dead? He ended up resting his chin on the table anyway as he unsuccessfully tried to understand the mysteries of life.

(This is literally the best thing I've ever written. Go me.)

[joeycbee]

@SayZun
"I don't see why not." Fox said to him. He looked over his shoulder to see guards behind him closely monitoring him. "We'll I mean I don't have a problem with it but these guys might." He pointed his thumb at th guards. He continue to eat his steak salad and ask the bird man, "I probably just have terrible memory but what did you say your name was?" trying to remember if he said his name or not.

[Eklispe]

Armaldo watched the motion curiously, apparantly a form of greeting. "I am Armaldo, hello Kara." What was that thing you said when you were grateful to someone. Oh yes, "Thank you Kara." He looked around running through his namelist again. He knew everyone here except for... the one that wasn't here, the wofly. Silly wolf, it seemed he was still being lonely. "Wolfy probally want food. I get him." Armaldo annoucnced to no one in paticular then began waddling back towards the front entrance where Shadow still was. He could get his bed worked out later, it didn't really matter to him so long as he had somewhere to sleep.

[Merule]

@Araby264
Kara shot a quick glance at Armis as Armaldo waddled away to get 'wolfy'. She couldn't imagine anything good could come of that, but neither could she imagine the armadillo-boy doing something to provoke the wolf. Well, doing something [/i]agressive[/i] to provoke the wolf, anyway. Armis seemed pretty certain before the wolf was more bark than bite.

"Would calling him 'wolfy' count as 'showing him respect'?" she asked lightly. She hadn't minded being nice to the little fellow, but she wasn't about to look after him if he wanted to get himself into trouble. In her experience, if people went looking for trouble, they would find it sooner rather than later and it was best not to get caught up in the crossfire.

[Puffhead]

@joeycbee@SayZun

Jerric listened to the cover satin between the fox and the bird, raising an eyebrow as the fox made a comment about the humans not wanting them to share food. He really needed to get these guys to realize the humans didn't care what they did, as long as they didn't bother the humans.

Slowly marching forwards, Jerric lazily leaned against the counter and gestured to the fox. "Don't worry, they won't care if you share food. Just as long as you don't do anything threatening to them they don't..." He paused in the middle of his sentence to yawn before continuing. "Care at all really...."

[TheBrightestEyes]

@Eklispe

Jacky quickly leapt up as Armaldo left, taking the opportunity to go with him. "Wait up, let me get something!" the Axolotl hybrid shouted, grabbing a bag of beef jerky from his bag and running after Armaldo. "Who's wolfy?" he asked, smiling.

(Jacky = Snack God for precisely 2 days.)

[Eklispe]

Armaldo thought over Kara's question, Fox did say that people preferred to have their names used. "Armaldo will just ask him his name." he said confidently and continued on his way. "Wolfy is scary one still in truck. He seems lonely." Armaldo responded to Axolotl. They quickly arrived at the truck still waiting out front and Armaldo knocked on the door ignoring the armed guards. "Hellooooooooo?" he inquired drawing the word out. "What is your name Wolfy?" Armaldo asked through the door. Hmm, Kara had said "Wolfy" probably wasn't very respectful but Armaldo had no doubt wolfy would be reasonable like everyone else he had meant so far. He idly munched on berries while waiting for a response.@TheBrightestEyes@GodOfChaos

[Araby264]

@Eklispe@Raafling
Armis watched Armalldo walk away to go feed 'wolfy' and she got a bit worried for the guy. She had gotten away from the wolf hybrid because she was intelligent enough to know what to do. Armaldo, while charming and very nice, wasn't exactly a sharp tack.
but isn't he?
Armis paused to entertain this thought. Armaldo had most likely grown up in the wild with no human interaction yet he was speaking in fairly understandable English. She had also seen him periodically speaking to each of the students. She realized now that he wasn't just speaking to them, he was cataloging them. She felt rather bad now about doubting his intelligence, but that still didn't mean that he would be okay against a genetically altered wolf hybrid.
But then again, Armaldo had most likely grown up in the wild, and if he had he would have had to deal with predators before. All of this debated in her mind before she gave Kara her answer without turning away from watching Armaldo.
"I'm not sure if it would insult him or make him laugh, but I think Armaldo can handle himself. I think he's more resourceful than most people give him credit for."
She turned from watching Armaldo and looked to Kara with a smile.
"So, on another topic, what about you? what was your past like? I'm guessing you were actually able to live among the humans. How was it?"

[TheBrightestEyes]

@Eklispe@GodOfChaos

Jacky carefully tore open the bag of beef jerky, taking out a piece and putting it in his mouth. He looked at one of the guards nearby, smiling and waving as the guard nervously looked over at him and Armaldo. He tried to chew slowly to save as much as he could for 'Wolfy'. Using his amazing powers of deduction, he was probably a wolf. And that meant carnivorous habits or whatever Gramma said about the wolves on the TV.

(SeNpAi NoTiCeD hIm ouo)

[GodOfChaos]

@Eklispe@TheBrightestEyes
The guard standing by the trailer looked over at the two hybrids making their way to Shadow's trailer. He stared at them for the longest time before realizing that they had knocked on the trailer's door. "Wait, wait!" The guard dashed towards them. "Don't mess with him, seriously. Shadow will chew you guys up." Then again, the guard was told to let anyone in. "Just be careful." The guard opened the door and quickly raised his gun into the darkness.

Orange eyes shot back towards the opening of the door. He had heard someone speaking to him before. the smell of beef jerky filled his nose but what overpowered that smell was the armadillo hybrid. A menacing laugh escaped his mouth as he walked towards the opening of the door. "You smell absolutely tasty..." He directed this towards the armadillo hybrid.