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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:53 pm
"Pyroth?" Zach stopped, surprised. The last time he'd seen the guy, he hadn't looked that... canine. He felt a little sick just looking at the doglike something he'd become.
He didn't move any closer, but he could see the faint tattoos and the remains of the man's red hair. There was no doubt it was the same guy he'd met on the beach once before. He lowered himself to the ground and sat facing Pyroth. "I don't believe this..."
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:01 pm
Pyroth's frown deepened slightly and he felt that canine disposition towards agression rise to the surface. He met it and quelled it though, well aware that Zach was not the object of his fury and was actually sympathising with him despite it all. He finally spoke, his tone ever so slightly raspier than it had been before, a sort of ragged edge to his "r" sounds.
"You don't believe this? How do you think I felt when I went to bed sure I was done changing, only to wake up looking like something out of my worst nightmares?"
He sighed deeply and looked down at his paws, the most painful area emotionally for him in terms of transformation. "I can't even hold a pen right anymore." he stated bluntly, showing none of the forlorness that this very thought invoked in him.
He glanced back at Zach, his eyes entirely those of a coyote, piercingly yellow.
"I guess the question this raises for me, for everyone is, when will these changes stop?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:30 pm
"I-I didn't mean-" he stuttered nervously. Pyroth certainly sounded angry about his transformation, and Zach couldn't blame him. He didn't want to rile up the dog-man further, so he shut his mouth.
He followed Pyroth's gaze toward the man's paws, and then looked back up again when he noticed the yellow eyes had looked over at him. He shook his head. "I'm sorry, Pyroth, I have no idea... none of the islanders know?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:43 pm
Pyroth sighed and waved a paw vaguely, giving Zach an apologetic smile, it certainly made you more sensitive to other's feelings when you could smell their nervousness. "Thanks, this is still a bit of a shock to me, but I'll get by, I always do."
But still that bottomless panic wouldn't shift, what if they ended up as nothing but animals, stalking the forests hunting each other, no one ever knowing that they were once human. It was terrifying.
Still, he didn't trust his newly intensified instincts entirely yet, the coyote was still more in control than he liked. He needed to sleep, to rest after the transformation, maybe then, he'd be a little more together.
The idea of a smoke wasn't bad either.
"Hey, sorry Zach, but I'm going to head back to my duplex, see if I can sleep some of this light headedness off. I'll see you later when hopefully my head will be more together."
He gave the other man a farewell nod, all the while wondering wether it was worse for him, who knew what he looked like, or for other people, like Zach, who had it all unkown ahead of them.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:26 pm
Zach's expression stayed blank as he listened to Pyroth. The way the guy seemed to shift in and out of anger was unnerving him a little. Besides, he really didn't want to get bitten. "I hope this was your last change... it's awful you had to go through all this."
He stood as the dog... man... left. "Goodbye," he called to the retreating form of Pyroth. He continued his walk, more shaken than when he'd started. Inwardly, he hoped he wouldn't have to come across yet another islander who'd become more animal than when he last saw them.
It was still downright creepy.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:14 pm
New RP
Pyroth, after grabbing something to eat the next day, headed down to the jungle again. He really wasn't in the mood to see people, well, not a /lot/ of people as tended to gather in the main villiage. Out here he could just sit around and pretend that nothing at all was up with the world, helped along to an extent by what he had smoked earlier, of course it was pretty rapid to wear off, but left a pleasant mental fuzziness.
He had been telling himself all that morning that he really didn't have anything to complain about, he wasn't that much different from before, was he?
Yes he was.
Before he had been a coyote shaped man, now he was becoming a man shaped coyote. He had crossed an invisible line, one which was worrying him more the more he thought about it.
He let out a deep sigh at the philosophical questions of it and furrowed his brows, his mind hopping erratically from one mental concern to the next.
"s**t. I don't even have eyebrows any more."
It was amazing how important insignificant things could seem.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:30 pm
Awen had just been out for a swim in one of the rivers for awhile that day. Things had been looking up since she had the IV stuck in her awhile ago. Except for the attack that Billy had on her anyway, she still kept his secret even if she wasn't really afraid of him anymore.
She'd felt like being alone for awhile after the night with Lauren and the morning discovering Jamal was out of his cage. Yeah things seemed to be getting a little back to normal around this place. As normal as things could be anyway.
She probably could be heard, and probably smelled, before she ever got to Pyroth but stealth wasn't her goal at the time. She didn't even notice the coyote around until he spoke. She turned in the direction of the beast man and saw him through the trees. It took her awhile to realise this was the same long eared man she had met on her first day to the island but he was much further in his transformation than she had ever seen.
Moving closer Awen couldn't help but gasp. She had seen two other islanders who were further than anyone she had seen before, but this was different and even Awen could tell now. They couldn't be going that far with things could they? Lauren would have known, Aubrey wouldn't allow it, Sabin would never....
Her eyes wide she stepped forward. "Oh my god..." She muttered under her breath. "Pyroth?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:37 pm
Pyroth was only half listening to his senses as he mused on the problems of this new turn of events, definately aiming to look for the good points. It just so happened that one of the good points he tried to convince himself of was the nose. After all, he had never ever been able to smell in colour, making vision seem obsolete, able to tell where people had been and gone rather than just where they were. It was as he considered his olfactory senses that he actually noticed a scent that hadn't been there before, human but with an unfamiliar blue tinge to it. His nose was proven as he heard Awen head nearer, still not sure who it was.
He all but shied away from the gasp as he heard it though, his ears back against his head, like a scolded dog. Looking up at Awen with his yellow eyes, he was surprised to find that he recognised her. Sure things had changed, but on this island you got used to it.
Flicking his ears back to rest at ease by a mental effort, Pyroth gave Awen a wry grin.
"I'm afraid so. Long time no see."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:49 pm
Awen sat down on hte jungle floor with a surprised look on her face as she looked him over. She noticed how he twitched his ears back and she tried to school her features with little success. She couldn't believe this, what were they doing to him?
She tried on a smile but it was a little forced. "Yeah...it's been a long time..." She took a slow breath and looked down. "Sorry... I know..I mean with everything that's happening I shouldn't look at you like that." She had been on hte other end of such stares a lot lately and the girl knew she didn't like them so how could she turn around and return the stare to this poor fellow? "Just..." She glanced up again. "They're not seriously... I mean..Colche and Amaya weren't like...." She winced and once again tried to clam herself. "Sorry."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:59 pm
Pyroth saw her surprise and inwardly cringed, it really was that bad, eh?
Shaking his head he waved a paw dismissively, he wasn't bothered by Awen's shock, that was to be expected, however, one thing did catch his attention. "Don't worry about it at all, I know this is shocking, it scared the s**t out of me, thought I was done changing." It was only then that he actually got a chance to make note that Awen seemed to be becoming aquatic, he was tempted to ask if that meant gills on the way, but refrained.
"Colche changed again? and Amaya?" he looked slightly worried at this, especially at the fact that neither of them sounded like they had hit anything like he had. Just his luck, wasn't it?
"I take it both of them can still move their arms?" his tone was pretty acrid, directed at those who had put him like this rather than to the other. Just to demonstrate a point, he raised a paw, attempting to bring it level with his head, it didn't reach as far as it had, now very much canine. He let it drop back down and sighed "It's uncomfortable, as though I'm trapped inside muscles that don't fit right."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:05 pm
Awen shook her head. "No they're very much still.... well more human like than you anyway." Seeing Pyroth started something inside of her, a fear of what she would eventually become. She had grown used to the water aspect, fine she was turning into a fish. She was starting to deal with the fact that she might be stuck in the lake perminently if or when she changes next. But Pyroth was turning into...a dog or whatever he was... he couldn't move his arms and everything. Does that mean that Awen would....turn completely into a manta ray? No hands...no feet....nothing normal like that?
She visibly paled at the very thought, which was hard because it was harder to see her face change colour in such a fashion anymore. She swallowed hard and just paced herself for another breath. "I'm really sorry Pyroth... I.... really don't know what to say..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:16 pm
"Damn." Was the only word that came to mind, he had been hoping that the others might have shown a similar amount of change and without that glimmer of hope, he was in the dark. It was nice to have people like Ambrose in the same boat as you, not to be out on your own.
But whatever.
He had shrugged off worse things than this, and after the initial shock, he wasn't going to let the cameras see him in a state of mental breakdown. No, he'd shove all of the horrible feelings right down out of the way and pretend like nothing was the matter. It was the only way to deal because he knew that if he gave in to that seemingly bottomless pit of panic and despair just beyond his thoughts, he'd go mad. That couldn't happen, his humanity was in his head and it would stay there.
He shrugged -using only his shoulders, his arms couldn't be held spread eagle any more - and said with a degree of gentleness.
"No need to say anything at all." all the questions were there in his appearance and he was sure that the others might now be as worried as he was.
"Anyway. Ignoring..this." he said, curling his lip slightly "How has life on this little island of madness been treating you?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:23 pm
Awen forced a little laugh. "Like a roller coaster from hell, just like everyone else." She brought her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees. "This won't help much but ya know I don't know how much longer I'll be able to breathe air." She shook her head a little. "Came a long way from thinking I was seeing things in the cafe huh?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:35 pm
Pyroth raised a brow, concern evident in his reply. "Seriously?"
At least he knew what he was turning into was a mammal. It hadn't even occured to him that perhaps turning into a water creature could end up being so much worse. "That would be plain cruel. Surely they would find a way to let you keep your lungs?" Pyroth wasn't a social butterfly - he still enjoyed a chat- but the idea of being trapped in that pressing silence, underwater all but made him shiver.
"I couldn't handle something like that, I can't even swim well." He hated the water, feeling that you were suspended on nothing. It freaked him out.
"And yeah, feels like we've all been here forever." Half a year had felt like half a lifetime so far, days rolling past when you didn't want them to and speeding past when you needed time to think. Speaking of thinking, he had barely slept in two days and that, combined with a little too much pot in his panic was really messing with his head.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:41 pm
"Got over my fear of water with it though." She gave him a half smiletrying to be positive. "I just... hope that you're right. But lots of us had thought we wouldn't be going as far as you have either. I mean... mobility and staying more human and all..." She shrugged a little bit.
She stood up slowly suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. Whether it was the talk of the water, seeing Pyroth like he was or her flaking skin Awen felt the urge to just be emersed in the water. "I..think I'm going to go for a swim, clear my head a bit."
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