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She fell with a soft sound, clutching the fluttering bird even as she fell flat. Dispite the pain, dispite the weight on her back, she laughed. "Foolish pup...You don't understand the predicament you're in!" She sharply sat up, trying to throw shadow off of her. "Your anger is delicious!" "Shadow!" She beat her wings wildly even as she was thrusted to the ground, letting out a sharp tweet as Anaz fist hit the ground, jolting her. Then she was yanked back up, her small head jerking forwards then back.

"Well then...I'll just have to detach myself from that...wont I..." She closed her glowing eyes, the bright green light around them sharply disapearing. She stepped out of her skirt, the material dropping onto the floor before taking off her silver halter top. And when nude, she began to shift. Her skin became rough, fiery hair tinting green. Her fingers and toes elongated, apendentures sprouting from her shoulders. She opened her eyes again, bathing herself in green light. It was brighter then before, stronger, her entire body smoothly covered in polished wood, as flexible as a baby branch still. She stopped the transfermation, her lips and ears smooth, nose almost nonexistant. The now shoulderblade length green hair fanned around her shoulders slightly in her sleepy haze. It felt like she had just woken up from slumber, her mind sluggish. What was she doing again? What was this place? Shouldn't she be outside to finish her changing?

"Tcha!" She winced at the bite, though held strong, even so much as kicking at the male. "insolent little pup aren't you! Fine, she's already trapped like this anyway." She threw the finch harshly into the air, never thinking of how the stress from this was to her frail body. Then again, any damage done would be a 2 for 1 with anaz. Even as a bird, she couldn't do much. She was always in the way...she always would need saving- She sharply tweeted again as she was thrusted into the air, franticly beating now as she spun in midair to try and get steady. She eventually hovered a few feet away, panting, heart beating harshly. The female steadied her resolve then, and flew forwards, stopping at the last instant by Anaz's face to claw wildly at her face in revenge before swooping back up into the air. She couldn't do much, but curse her soul forever if she couldn't do something.

"Huh?" Chop? Her eyes flicked to the male, head tilting curiously. What in the-Oh goddess! She fell onto one knee, arms crossing infront of her bowed head as her eyes brightly glew. From her body, wooden spikes suddenly formed, branching off of eachother to hide her as if in a bramble bush, deeply cutting the male and ensnaring his sword if he so chose to continue his thrust.

"YOU LITTLE-!" She batted at the annoying finch before holding her bleeding face in a hand, a snarl on her lips. She rounded on the pup. "What are you jabbering about, you JUST said that we..." Her gaze snapped to the side at Shade exclamation, eyes slowly widening in horror. "What in the world IS she..." Another pause, and her eyes narrowed onto shadow. "No, its you isn't. What the hell are you doing you pathetic excuse for a creature?" "...Shadow." She spoke softly, looking down at the transformed male. She didn't like this feeling in her gut. The bird looked over at tartara's and Shades battle. eek What was going on here?

Confused? Thats what she was. She was having trouble processing what was going on, her mind slower as it morphed with her body. All she knew was 'bad thing wants to kill.' And in nature, it was survival of the fittest. With a deep breath, she slowly stood, the spikes slowly slipping into themselves before molding with her form again. Until all but a little line was on her arms. She crossed them, and sharply pulled them apart again, shooting out the little projectiles at Shade.

Huh? She tried to piece together what the weird canine was saying, her mind so slow. Too slow. Wait, finches weren't pink. Typically. Zana? Goddess her head was beginning to hurt. Who was Zana? In the end, all she got out of it was tree = good. She continued to shift, lifting her arms above her head. They began to split, her fingers elongating as her neck thickened to her shoulders and upper arms. A thought. She was of the light world...what sort of chemicals lay in the ground of the shadow world? She faintly smiled, just before her lips were sewn together. "Be a good girl Zana."

"...What?" She spoke flatly at the wolf, and then, she looked at Tartara. The woman was shifting, pulling, her feet slipping. Anaz didn't think so. In an instant she was up and running, straight at the nymph, at the last moment jumping up to aim a double kick at her side. She didn't know what would happen, but for the moment, the red head was defenseless and this was her one shot. "What?" But unlike her counterparts statement, hers was of pure confusion. He was right, she didn't understand the shadow world, and certainly didn't understand how a tree had any sort of relevance to shadows besides sometimes having a really big one. But what really frightened her, was her mothers last sentence.

Anaz hit her trunk straight on, though her toes were already roots, grounding her to the soil beneath. She didn't budge an inch. A moment later, and where the woman once stood, a small red maple tree had immerged.

THUNK! Her feet hit solidly, but only a single leaf fell. Her feet gently touched the ground. Bad move. They were harshly yanked forwards, sending the female back to the ground. Now, at long last, she was becoming frightened. She jerked around to look at shadow, eyes filled with anger and fear as she was dragged down. "I hate you." Slowly she fluttered down onto shadows shoulders, just a little ball of feathers as she inched closer to his neck to rest. Flying as a bird, was not as easy as they made it look. "But...shadow...She stays in this form for three days." She spoke softly, recalling all the times she suddenly ran off, leaving her to care for Erylia. Her gentle eyes watched as her counterpart fell to the wrath of her mother, still clawing at the ground to stop her demise even as she spoke to shadow. Which due to her location, eerily seemed like her. Something was off about your own self telling you that you hated you.

OOC: XD didn't just make this up for the plot, I swear! She turns into a tree for three days every other week, to regain the energy lost. Hence why she wasn't eating any food at the picnic, only drinking water, because she doesn't have to eat. Mainly just for the taste factor.

"Missing us isn't what I'm worried about... Will moon be out of...it...for..." She was shifting, elongating, the feathers falling from her like cherry blossom petals. Collar? The collar! The female reached for it, the size of a toddler, lightly dappled now with feathers. She would look for her fallen lilly later...somehow. But she had to hurry, the added nightvision with her transformation fading as she changed back. She worked at the clasp. "Its...it wont...open..." Anaz? Her eyes flicked back to where tartara sprouted, feeling sick to her stomach. She had to do it? "How? She'll be like that for three days." And if it was possible for her to change back early, only she and Raken would know that. If she even told her eldest that, and what ever adverse effects it would have upon her body.

OOC: >>clinging to Zana<< She's so hawt! 4laugh 4laugh 4laugh

Slowly, very slowly, she nodded, her hands falling from Shadows collar and onto his furry back. The female softly sighed. "So...we're to wait until she changes back?" The last feather fell from her, the teen pae gently sitting on the wolfs hindquarters. A hand tightened in his fur. She couldn't see a thing.