[IC] Animal Army

[BlackPanther]

@Tracyarmav@Alina13
Lucifer stares up at the button with a combination of frustration and determination. He realizes he can't reach it and sighs before sitting down lifting up his head and howling. The sound is loud and haunting. He could have barked a bunch of times, but he feels the haunting sound of wolf song is more likely to get the others to him so they can get that stupid button. As he howls he tries thinking of what they could do to reach the button. A thought crossed his mind. Getting two Tigers to hold still while he stands on them in a triangle shape would be difficult to both do and convey. Best plan he has right now though.

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav@KatherinWinter
Savannah lifted her head at the sight of Isa and raised her tail in a sign of friendliness towards him. She padded over and sat down in front of him and lowered her head in submission. She was not very experienced in this form of communication yet so she changed back into her human form to speak to Isa.
"I haven't had any luck yet. Would you want to team up and follow Luci around and see if he has found anything? He seems to have some clue what he's doing. If we could get to the same area he's in and explore together, we could find something."

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

I set a paw over my eyes, as she shifts back, out of general politeness. Maybe she hadn't meant to change back, or to change in the first place since she'd changed upon seeing him. It might seem uncharacteristic to those around me, but I just couldn't look, not without knowing that somewhere my two sisters were probably also being watched and used. Hearing the howl, I turn, my eye's still closed. and flick my ears trying to discern the origin of the echoing sound. I growl lightly, Luci had found something, and it was time to move. I move forward and brush my shoulder against Savannah's leg briefly, perhaps she'd come along this time... I flicked my tail rapidly several times and roared back at Luci, to let him know I'd heard him. I listen to make sure Savannah is ... on the same page. I wondered if she'd need to go to her room to dress again, but I resisted the temptation to look and see for myself. I set off down the hall, padding at a slight jog, following my ears to find Luci, unless Savannah requests something else.

@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther@Alina13

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav
Savannah wondered why Isa had looked at her so weirdly. All she wanted was to try and work together with him to find Luci. As she watched him pad away quickly, still in his tiger form, she realized that when she changed back to her human form, her clothes had not come with her. She was mortified. She quickly changed back to her animal form and ran down the hallway to cut Isa off before he ran too far away.
She looked him in the eyes and sat down in front of him. She placed her paw on top of his and lowered her head as if to apologize for her mishap. When she looked back up, she nodded at him as if to suggest them as a team, turned her back on him, looked over her shoulder as she slowly walked down the hallway, keeping eye contact with him as she walked. She really hoped he would understand this, as it was the best she knew how to communicate in this form. She heard Luci's howl from not too far away and thought that he must be frustrated. Wolves might be good at thinking out a plan but they often get stuck when something went wrong. But that was nothing compared to what had just happened to her. She had never been more embarrassed in her life.
Note to self. . . Clothes do NOT come with you when you shift between forms. Way to go Savannah, you've successfully made yourself look like a fool in front of the most important being here. What else is new? she thought.

[BlackPanther]

Lucifer hears the roar and lets out a sharp bark before howling again, figuring that the two cats were going off of sound. He could shift back, but part of the mission was teamwork. That and it took too long for him to shift back, so really he was going to have to come up with a plan with them to get to that button. If nothing else, they would learn to communicate as animals of different species. So maybe that would count...maybe.

@Alina13@Tracyarmav

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

Well, aren't we a determined tigress? Could you try any harder to shove your ... nope not gunna say it, in my face? Well, you seem to be a tad oblivious.... perhaps it isn't intentional, you're probably just not used to being in your tiger form. I catch up to Savannah, and briefly rub my head against her shoulder, to let her know it was okay, everyone makes mistakes, so I wouldn't hold this one against you. I just hoped I managed to avoid a boner, they're a lot harder to hide without clothes. So far so good, it helped that Luci's howling was echoing off the walls and making quite a racquet that was hard to think over.

Finally arriving at the room Luci was in, I let out a quick snarl, to get the boy to shut up, now that we were here. I shake my head trying to shake the echoes out of my head. I walk over to Luci, and look around, quickly spotting the button. I jump up, putting my front two paws on the wall, and try to press the button with my claws, but I can't quite get the right angle to make it work. Of course if I had hands... Balls, well I suppose this might make the day less mortifying for the new girl. I try to shift just an arm, but it just causes the shift to start there, and continue over the rest of me. I slap the button as soon as I can, and put my other hand over my groin, keeping my back to Luci and Savannah as best I could. I stood there in the nude, waiting to see what would happen, in case another human touch was required.

@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther@Alina13

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav@BlackPanther@Alina13
The door slid open and reveled a hallway there sitting at the far as Roxy. She was chained to the wall and glared at all of them. "Vlad must be laughing his head off at the three of you. I thought you guys were criminals! Did Sean explain the rules. Objection one was to work on communication between human and animal. And the three of you spent ninty percent of the exercise in animal form doing your own fucking thing." Roxy snapped at them

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

93% actually, any idea who's got the keys to those chains? Or are to busy belaboring past mistakes to move on? So far we seem to be communicating with each other decently, if not better. Granted it's a tad awkward having to go back and forth between forms, but so far we've been able to communicate the gist of anything we felt like communicating, and did so on the first go to boot. Sure none of us volunteered to play vanilla human, but since you're so pissed about it, and still dressed, you can have all the fun you want playing human while I work on getting familiar with the perks and drawbacks of being a rather large cat that prefers cold steppes to these halls.

Luci had to change to find your scent, I woke up this way, and the white tiger behind me shifted on seeing me, so it probably wasn't voluntary, that leaves our beloved leader who seems to have been dragged off to who knows where and you, the caged canary, as our human liasons, sure this didn't go as well as it might have, but that's because our leader is AWOL, not our fault! Then everyone makes assumption about what the others are doing, including you, and by the time it's obvious that none of bothered to come up with a plan before hand it's a little late to do anything about except make the most of it! And even Luci did a decent job of that, so pout if you want to but pissing off the only people interested in getting you out is a real good way to get left behind!

I stand there fighting the urge to slam the door shut in Roxy's face and going off to see about permanently incapacitating Vlad for the sheer fun of it. Sean may show up of his own accord, but I have no patience left, so I decide to "practice" the human beast communication some more, since everyone was damned unimpressed with our progress so far.

Luci, find a scent that isn't Roxy in this hall, hopefully there aren't many others, follow it and if you find the keys, bring them, or their carrier, back here as soon as you can. And New Girl, I missed your name, sorry, go fetch Sean.

@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther@Alina13

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav
"No Isa. I don't know which of the clone men has the keys to the chains. But unlike the three of you I know what happens when you fail a simple mission. While you might have been able to communicate somewhat it is pointless. Somewhat wasn't the goal. Cats can communicate so you and " She waved toward the girl who's name she didn't know. "whoever that is communicating doesn't count worth shit. Especially since you weren't talking about how to complete the mission or work together. Luci might have found my scent but so what? He's a dog. That's what dogs do. But did you know that he found my scent? No you were assuming. He could have needed help for all you know. Roxy sighed. They didn't get it. Or they didn't care. None of them were going to get a chance to do anything at this rate.

[Alina13]

@KatherinWinter@Tracyarmav@BlackPanther
Savannah sat awkwardly while everyone was yelling at each other. She never liked being around people yelling as it caused her great anxiety. People were always yelling back home and she had been very grateful to get away from that. But she understood why Isa was annoyed. The task had been to communicate with each other and find Roxy. They had done that. Just because they hadn't done it the way SHE had wanted her to they were suddenly idiots? That was not going to fly with her. She was sharing the feeling of wanting to leave Roxy behind. The first impression she was giving was not impressing Savannah whatsoever. She decided to mention what her name was.
"My name is Savannah by the way." she said rather disrespectfully. If Roxy was going to disrespect her, she was not going to be polite back. She respected whoever respected her.

[BlackPanther]

Lucifer snorts at all the yelling...then he hears the nickname. *Luci* his ears flatten and he growls at isa. With a grumble he nips the back of Isa's leg. With a normal wolf that type of nip wouldn't hurt very much, if at all. However, with lucifer's longer canines that nip will hurt. Most likely leaving a bruise.
He then growls at Roxy for calling him a dog. He could take being called a dog better then the other. Snorting, he turns and pads out of the room looking for a scent that may have keys. Not because he was asked, but because he was irritated. Which is clear in how he walks out. Interesting how much attitude could be put in walking.

@Alina13@KatherinWinter@Tracyarmav

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav@Alina13@BlackPanther
"Roxy is right you have all failed." Sean entered the cell room. He stood in the door way so none of them could leave. I told you that you needed to not only work on finding Rocy but communications. Communicating in animal form is lot easier if you are all animals. Even different species can communicate if they try. But human to animal communication is harder. Atleast one of you was to remain human. That didn't happen."

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

"Ow! You earned it Luci, don't bitch at me for your own mistakes."

Isa was impressed that Savannah was able to speak while in animal form. He'd honestly never tried, but was retty sure he couldn't if he wanted to. Then Sean showed up and said one of them had to stay Human and that hadn't happened. He lost his temper, and slammed a fist into Sean's nose as he screamed at the man, his hands balled into fists at his side. He would have continued attacking the scientist, but he hated Vlad more than he disliked Sean and the guards were all ready to drop him again as it was. Isa forgot to keep himself covered, but he was to angry to notice at the moment.

"What about Blue, doesn't she count anymore? She never changed, unless you did something to make her change! What did you do with Blue anyway? Do we have to find her next? If I made a mistake then fine, but this time I didn't, and you know it, so don't you fucking tell me I messed up! ... Now unchain Roxy before I decide to feed the keys to Luci."

@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther@Alina13

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther
Savannah couldn't help but laugh at the situation around her. No she wasn't enjoying all the yelling but she in fact WAS enjoying Isa's loss of temper. She shouldn't be laughing at one of her superiors getting decked but. . . She laughed at a lot of things she shouldn't.
She decided there was no reason for her to be here anymore so she decided to head back to the Jungle Room to find her clothes. She was starting to get sick of being in tiger form and she wasn't appreciating being yelled at for doing the best she could. She looked around the room in disgust and padded out towards the Jungle Room. If there were going to be more tasks like this, Roxy better learn to compromise and work together with others before she ordered others to. . .

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav@BlackPanther@Alina13
"Not happening. The boss says that Roxy stays right were she is. You failed so she gets the punishment." Sean explained. Roxy crossed her arms. Great. They piss the higher ups off and she pays for it. It wasn't her fault that they couldn't follow simply instructions. She wasn't the leader of the damn group. She had done everything she could to avoid being leader. But because she had been her the longest she got the blame for it. Why couldn't they just do what they were told?

[BlackPanther]

@KatherinWinter@Alina13@Tracyarmav

Lucifer stares at the two for a second then pass in front of roxy and sits. As if he was saying he would take the punishment. He wasn't fond of any of them yet, but he felt like roxy didn't deserve it considering she was locked in here. A memory surges by causing him to flatten out with his eyes shut as he starts convulsing. He can't easily the back human yet, so it's his dire wolf self doing so.
It seems like him getting trapped in memories is exactly ptsd.

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

"Fine... Have it your own way."

Isa whirled back to Roxy and stalked towards her, stepping around the convulsing form of Luci. He walked right up to Roxy, and wrapped his arms around her in an attempt to pin her arms between their chests, and glared down at her, still frustrated with her for having nothing but criticism to offer the team. If she was to be punished, the worst he could think of was forcing her remain in contact with another person, and Isa intended to do exactly that. He didn't ask for much, just a little support in these team efforts, if she couldn't offer that, then he'd waste no time pitying her for Vald's brutality. Compassion didn't exist like used to in Isa, his shattered heart had little room for anyone or anything besides his two sisters. If punishment was to be dolled, and Roxy agreed, then he'd be quite happy make that punishment personal. He was still to frustrated and angry to realize how awkward he really ought to feel right now... Hugging an attractive girl so... physically, and in the nude to boot, as he was now.

@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther@Alina13

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav@KatherinWinter@BlackPanther
Savannah entered the Jungle Room and looked around for her clothes that should be in a discombobulated pile on the ground. She sniffed around for a minute, finding it weird that she was looking for her own scent. After a minute of searching, she found her clothes underneath the tree she had hidden in when she had spotted the bear. She looked around to make sure no one was in here while she changed. After that embarrassing moment with Isa in the hallway, she didn't need to have another "no-clothes-on-in-plain-sight" experience. There was no one around that she could see or smell so she quickly changed back to her human form and began getting dressed.
As she put on her clothes, she wondered what was next for all of them. Were there going to be more missions like this one where they would be forced to work together in interchanging forms? Would they be tested in other areas? She hoped things would go better in the future than they had today. Aside from her little clothing mishap, she had thought her, Isa and Luci had done a fairly good job cooperating and finding Roxy. She didn't think they deserved the tough criticism they had gotten at all but she also understood what Roxy was saying. She did suppose that communicating with each other in animal form was a tad easier than human to animal communication. Maybe they didn't live up to Roxy's expectations 100% but they had completed the task. She should be happy with that.
When she was all dressed, Savannah wasn't sure what she should do next. Isa and Luci were on the whole key thing and frankly, she didn't really want to be around a bitching Roxy so she decided to just sit here under this tree and decompress. She needed solitude sometimes.

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav
Roxy growled at Isa. She didn't anyone cared that she was paying for their stupidity. They were told to work on animal human communication but they didn't. Now she was stuck with paying the price. She bared her teeth at him. "I get to pay for your stupidity. That's fair. One simply instruction and you couldn't follow it." She kicked Isa. She felt he was to blame. He was the most logical of the group. When Blue disappeared he should have taken over. He could obviously change fairly easily.

[BlackPanther]

Lucifer slowly starts to stand on his feet, falling back down several times. When he finally stands his skin is rippling. He then proceeds to watch as Isa gets kicked. He shakes as he walks over. As he stares at them one of his eyes roll oddly, as if his body wants to shift back but he isn't letting it. He sits down and stares at the two as his skin ripples. He shakes his head sharply and focuses on the now in order to calm down.
He watches the two for a bit longer before slowly standing and padding out of the room to get to his clothes....at least his pants. His shirt had been ripped to pieces, but pants should be okay. As he pads off, a quite yelp escapes him as a bone is heard snapping.
His body seems to have decided to shift back whether he wants to or not. He pads quicker.

@KatherinWinter@Tracyarmav