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Shift
"Let her," was Galen's throaty snarl, changing even as she spoke. She tossed me her knife which I caught by the hilt, and yowled a hissed challenge before morphing into the large, lithe, and very-fanged black panther that she was... at least when she was mad. "Lovely," I snarled before turning to face Robin. I didn't sense anything from the majority of the Erasers mentally, so I knew that either someone was having a hayday with light, or it was a fluke. I didn't bother warning the others for two reasons: a) because there was a very angry Robin-wolf charging at me, and b) because I wouldn't be able to warn them which was ones were real, and which weren't, so if a real one happened to come straight at them, they wouldn't know the difference. So I kept quiet. I morphed my nails sharper than they usually were, ending in two-inch claws and wished I had a chance to morph like Galen did. I'd get a lot more speed and power even if I was a tad smaller than the wolf. 'Specially jumping -- but I didn't dwell. I yowled a cat-like challenge and ran forward, a knife in my hand extended, though I knew I didn't want to have to slice and dice if I could help it. I'd rather knock 'em out and question 'em later. So I barralled forward, trying to get my shoulder in Robin's neck to bowl us both over. "Take this, you scrapper!" I snarled, within two feet.

Galen
I couldn't help a tail-lash as I felt my claws extend. Hoo, boy, did I feel better. It'd been months since I'd been in panther form and I was itching for a fight. I padded two steps forward before stopping and turning to Lee. Speaking past my canines was very difficult, not to mention the somewhat different vocal chords, but I dealt. "Now?" I asked Lee, rolling my shoulders as I got ready to charge.

Galen
I smiled ferally as I bolted out to meet the tiger chick. Hoo, boy was I gonna enjoy creaming the fashion queen. I yowled a challenge at her that sounded fully tiger - another lovely tweak to my DNA - then saw the others charging towards us. I faltered before I felt Shift's distracted voice in my head: They're illusions! The real ones are only the ones we s-- he was cut off from whatever he was about to say. I again bounded to meet the half-tigress chick, claws unsheathing to better grip the tough grass under my paws. My tail was lowered, and my eyes - still a dark blue - glimmered with hatred towards the Erasers. I snarled again before I took two, then three bounds before I left the ground. My intentions were to come crashing down on her shoulders, but if she somehow evaded me, I'd be ready.
I was used to how the Erasers fought... after all, my cousin used to be one.

Shift
I growled as I landed on top of the wolven form with an audible whump! Oww... But I didn't let it stop me. I jumped up just as quickly as I'd started and smiled, my teeth slightly smaller as I put on my best friendly face. "Hi! How are ya?" I asked in a friendly-enough tone before scowling again and slamming a sneaker-clad foot towards his chest, ready to follow up with an elbow to his jaw, without waiting for a reaction.
I had to press my advantage before I completely lost it...

Rayk
"Go," Riven said from beside me, having ignored the fire surrounding both of us by jumping over it, already having sharp, narrow spikes sliding out from her knuckles, each roughly eight inches long. She glanced at me once before she took off towards the girl who hadn't turned into a panther. I couldn't hear what they called her, but I thought her name could've been Lee, or McGee or something. I looked at the panther once more, wishing I could've seen her before she did... Something about that attack form... No way. She's gone and probably dead. Focus... I snarled audibly at Dev's lack of doing anything and took off running, pumping my legs without apparent effort as I crossed the distance of the field, heading towards the other girl who - I suspected - had started the fire by her stunned look. I glanced again at Dev, seeing him panic, and couldn't help a small smile I jerked my head to clear the brown hair out of my eyes. Maybe there would be a way to get out of this... somehow.

Riven
I knew Rayk was behind me, because the grass around me darkened from the shadows trailing after him, making him look like a fiery dude - except the 'fire' was shadows. Without glancing back, I chanced a look at my feet, having felt the moist, misty feel of shadows. Did shadows always feel like this? Uh, no. I usually couldn't feel them. Only when Rayk was close by did shadows feel anything at all.
I ignored him as he veered off elsewhere, and concentrated on barrelling down on Lee, hating what I was doing... except I figured there wasn't any choice.
There was never a choice.

Galen
I didn't have a choice but to ignore the girl who shouted something at me - if I did, I'd been in two. I snarled a challenge and twisted enough to avoid the blow that was easy to see coming, stretching out a paw to slash at Sword Shrike - what I called whoever this was. If she gave too much resistance, I'd have to change human to use what mobility and agility I could against her - in panther form, I didn't have the full range of punches and kicks that I normally did. I aimed a blow to her noggin and snapped my teeth close to her neck, already knowing that it would miss. Crap!

Riven
I sort of felt bad for having to capture the Avian. I knew that I'd be doing the same thing in her place, but... I couldn't move out of the rut. I may sympathize, but if I didn't fight back, I'd be dead before the morning was over. I rolled under the knife and came up faster than a normal eye could follow, snapping upwards in a ready position with three eight-inch spikes protruding from my right hand, and a single, fourth of an inch-around, ten inch spike in my left. It would function as a knife for the time being, as the edges were as sharp as one and it was more durable than the normal bone. I feigned left and made a quick one-two fake to the right before standing stock-still, waiting for her to make the first real move.

Galen
I felt like time had stopped.
I heard some faint music, but I had to ignore it. It was fight, or die. The hand whipped at me really fast, and I wasn't all that prepared. I tried frantically to scramble backwards, straining to pull away. Then something collided with my temple, though it wasn't a head-on collision. I felt something sharp scrape above my eye and staggered backwards. Only then did I realize that I'd changed back human, clutching at my head, and grimacing in pain. I stumbled backwards and threw up a hand as I hit the ground. I tried to cry out, but only managed a rough mutter before the ground seemed to rise up to meet me.
Thud.
I blinked open. I knew I'd hit my head hard. My vision was blurry, my head was throbbing, and my ears were ringing, but I staggered upright. I had a feeling that I was going to end up dead or captured, but maybe I could take this fashion whelp with me. "Bring it... Fashion Shrike," I growled, blood trailing down along my nose from above my eyebrow, dripping to the ground.

[Ah, low muse... so tired...]

[How on earth did I forget to RP Riven?]

Galen
I could've sworn some fashionista-turned-smelly-animal had fallen on me, but I was too unfocused, still feeling the blood pour over my face from the row of three scratches. "Uhn...?" I groaned, blearily lookin up. I thought I heard Lee call something, but it sounded super disjointed. I sat up, holding my head with my right hand, since the left side of my face was streaked with my own blood.

Riven
I watched as the girl with the knife bounded over to the bleeding girl on the floor, Solar dead. Hm.... I didn't really feel anything about it... but when did I ever? No emotions soaking through to the surface, seeing as I didn't feel like I could if I tried, I walked slowly over to the two girls, three spikes protruding out my knuckles in one hand, and the long knife-like flat spike out the other. I wasn't going to kill them - those weren't my orders.
And what was my life but just following my orders?

Rayk
I ignored the music fairly easily, having been used to tuning out just about everything in my long, miserable life. I threw up my forearm, blocking her kick, then with my free left hand, I created a temporary shield of shadow to squelch the fire. I heard Dev fall down, not caring in the least, and had felt Solar collapse - dead or injured. I was almost happy that she wasn't in the picture. Almost. That'd save many experiments and Erasers alike pain and suffering... though I was more sympathetic towards the experiments. retaliated with a snap-kick, aimed for her left arm, not wanting to injure her too badly, while simulataneously keeping an eye on Robin, Riven, and Dev. The moment they weren't paying attention, I might have a chance to get the heck out of here... But in the meantime, I had to stay uninjured from the fire girl.

Shift
I started to laugh at Robin's dancing problem for a few seconds, already having realized how close I was to losing a foot. Pushing the thought out of my mind, I ditched the claws on my hands with an audible shnick! and turned towards Rayen. She was battling some black-clad goth boy... except he looked pretty dang familiar... Oh, well. I'd figure it out later. Meanwhile, I bolted over towards where Lee was dueling with some super fast girl with freaking spikes coming out of her hands.