Contemplation (Okami-Raptor)

[Okami]

1407 Greymalkin Lane, Salem Center New York

Tsukimori glanced at the crumbled piece of paper in disdain and stuck it back in her pocket. Her last orders from her Father where to go to that address. So far, she had no intention of doing any such thing. Instead, she leaned back against the tree she was in, enjoying the park as the sun set on another day.

She glanced around the park, watching joggers finishing up and leaving. Everyone else had already left. The park was nice. Thick green grass, trees, a water fountain; but at night it took a more sinister feel.

The air stirred with a slight wind and she could smell something unusual. It made her shift her body till she could see a wider part of the park. What was that scent?

[Raptor]

Nathan was out enjoying the night air. Every so often he paused to feel the burn scars from his latest misadventure. "Damn fire demon child." He whispered to himself. Then he caught a somewhat familiar scent on the wind. Well it was also very different.
The scent had similarities to Fyrelia's and Ringmaster's scents, but it was still... different. Deciding to investigate, Nathan shifted to his transitional form and started making his way through the treetops, always following the scent.

[Okami]

Tsukimori had been focusing on the ground so Nathan had gotten rather close before she heard him. She felt her hair rise and she turned, eyeing the other limbs in the tree. She contemplated shifting, but didn't want to loose her clothes in the process. She sniffed, it was that scent again. What ever it was, it had gotten closer. Much Closer. "Who are you?" She said into the tree. She couldn't pick out the shape of who was there, but that didn't mean she had to let on to her weakness. Her body was poised....ready to evacuate the tree in case whatever-it-was came after her.

[Raptor]

Nathan saw the girl and shifted back to his human shape so he wouldn't alarm her. He then dropped from the tree right in front of the woman. Yep she was definitely the source of the scent.

"Your not some kind of werewolf are you?" He paused. I'm sorry that was rude of me. I'm Nathan Andrews." He stuck out his hand. "And you are?"

[Okami]

She saw a form fall out of the same tree she was in and she dropped down as well. It turned out to a guy around her age with remarkable green eyes. She stiffened when he asked her if she was a werewolf. That was...kinda close to the mark. Knowing that a normal human would not be able to smell wolf pheromones or scent she guess that he was a mutant of some sort.....but what he was remained to be seen.

She made a note to remember his name/scent and cautiously shook his hand. "Tsukimori Yashida" She said in accented English. "Just why where you sneaking up on me?"

[Raptor]

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Yashida." Nathan said relesing her hand. "Well I smelled an interesting scent and came to see where the trail would take me."

He was sure that the girl was pro-mutant, so he didn't feel bad about "outing himself". Most supertypes tended to be so.

[Okami]

"I see." She relaxed slightly. "Where I come from...the ones sneaking up you have a more....destructive purpose." The Hand where ultimate assassins. Sadly, she had gotten to know more of Japan's underworld than she ever wanted. "But then I'm far from home." After a moment she said, "I'm a shifter. I can take the form of a wolf. I...could smell you. Just what are you?" She was curious. It was reptilian but the pheromones where different. Every instinct told her he was a predator.

[Raptor]

"Well I'm sorry to startle you." Though there was a side of him that would have tried to tear her apart. But the Symbiote didn't tend to be that stealthy.

When she asked what he was, Nathan frowned thinking. "Well I guess you could say I'm a mutant though one third of me is alien, I accidentally ran into a symbiote and it rekick started my main power of DNA assimilation."

He paused catching his breath. "As for the other third of me, have you seen Jurassic Park?"

[Okami]

She took his apology and listened to him explain himself. Symbiote? Alien? My, my it was getting interesting. She casually looked at him, making note of what he looked, sounded, and smelled like for future reference.

"Jurrassic Park? But all the dinosaurs where female......?" She couldn't help but tease him to see his reaction.

[Raptor]

"Not all of them, after a while. But that's beside the point. The other third of my DNA comes from Velociraptor canidensis"

He looked around to see if there were people there or not. "Do you want me to show you?" He asked.

[Okami]

Touche. "Velociraptor?" She almost smiled at the memory of the seeing the raptors in the movie. They made such a good pack... at least in the movie. "I remember them." She noticed him looking around and she did too. The park had emptied. It seemed like they were the only two there.

"Sure, I've never seen a raptor before." She said. Living at her Father's house she had never met any other shifters, so she was curious. I wonder if all shifters loose their clothes...She thought, knowing that even if she only shifted to half wolf the clothes would fall to the ground in transformation.

[Raptor]

Nathan nodded and shifted. First he shifted into his transitional form, as he was more comfortable in that one. Then he shifted into his full raptor form and grinned. His smile appearing rather predatory due to all the sharp teeth.

He tilted his head at the wolf girl before running around the clearing a bit. Whe he came to a stop he shifted back, his clothes appearing as he did.

[Okami]

Her eyes widened as he went into an median form before becoming a full raptor. The man had towered above her as a human. Now with a tail seemed even bigger. She responded to the grin with one of her own. It was almost automatic. Wolves grinned at each other too. She watched him dash off, his form agile and fast. She tried picturing a pack of raptors....yes....raptors where definitely the wolves of the dinosaurs.

As he shifted back to human she eyed him almost jealously. "Not fair, your clothes stay with you." It baffled her, and she didn;t like to be baffled.

[Raptor]

"Actually, the symbiote stays with me." Nathan corrected as his clothes melted away to take the form of the symbiote costume then it changed back to his clothes. "The Symbiote can look like clothing. It's actually pretty handy. Otherwise I might have to have gotten some sort of specialized costume or something."

[Okami]

She actually took a step closer as she saw the clothes disguise change into the symbiote that covered the man. It quickly changed right back to clothes though. "That is rather....useful" She admitted. She had doubts about bonding with one though. "My transformation is not a.....natural one....so clothes just fall off. Its actually a big pain." She offered him a smile. The wolf didn't like the fact that he was most likely a higher predator. She did her best to push those feelings aside though. Logic saying if he wanted flayed wolf, he'd have already attacked.

"I'm....very new to this area. Do you know of someplace better to....run?" She could feel the urge. Running was something she loved to do and was only strengthened by the wolf's instincts. The park was alright but it didn't feel big enough.