Yeah, that’s a
hard one to explain. I don’t know from where to start. I have told how I was
born, where I lived, how my life was for the first years.
Maybe I’ll start
from the leopard form I have. I feel it’s my stronger form. Whenever I’m threatened,
I feel better when I’m in my leopard-form. My reflexes are better, I hear,
smell and see better. Of course, the sight stays harmed, but as a leopard it
doesn't matter that much.
I have learned
that shapeshifters are larger than normal animals. A normal leopard would be
about 75 centimeters from the shoulder, I’m almost a meter. A normal leopard is
almost two and a half meters long when counting the tail, I’m more than three
meters. It’s needless to say that I’m in all ways stronger and smarter than my
animal relatives.
I have never met
a leopard, so I don’t even know how they communicate. I would love to learn it,
so that I could try life as a leopard, now my life is more like a human life.
As a leopard I wouldn't have to worry about police, guns, or violent deaths. As
a leopard I would only think catching my next prey.
Normal leopard
is yellow with black spots. I’m black, but in a certain light you can see the
spots, a slightly different shade of black. My eyes are green. And I have told
before, my body is full of scars. My leopard self carries all the scars too.
The one in my head looks really nasty. Most of the scars are covered in the fur
though. And if you see me in the street, you don’t have time to see the scars.
The transformation
between forms is quick. It takes a few seconds. Of course I prefer to be naked
when I’m transforming from human to leopard, and if I’m transforming the other
way around, I like to have clothes around.
Normally when I
go out to hunt I leave the home as human. I then go to a seemingly quiet place,
take my clothes off and transform. Then I’ll hunt, do things I want, and then
come back to the place I transformed in. Then I’ll dress up and go back home.
I don’t normally
like to transform when there is anyone around. I just feel like it’s very
intimate thing to do. I have done it in front of lots of people, team-mates,
enemies, friends. I still don’t like to have an audience. It’s just that in the
heat of the moment I don’t think about my audience.
The reason I
prefer the leopard form over the human form is most likely because I was born
as a leopard. It’s my real form, it’s the real me. I can just transform into
human. I think it’s true, that I and all the shifters are just intelligent
animals. But it doesn't mean that people could just treat us as animals. I want
to be treated with respect. I’m not some lab rat that is destined to be
miserable. I am me, and I deserve to be treated like any other runner.
I think I am a
bit unpredictable when compared to people. People think I have horrible habits,
as I eat raw meat. I prefer forest animals, but I’m forced to eat rats now that
I live in Seattle. I can, of course, eat the food that people eat, but I don’t
like the taste. And nothing beats the thrill of the hunt. I think that
everything I do is very logical, but others disagree. Let’s take an example.
We were on one
of our jobs. There was the coast guard, entering our boat. I didn’t have any of
my weapons with me at the moment. I felt more comfortable as a leopard. So I
transformed. I was ready to kick ass, but it never got to that. Jinx was able
to speak us out of the situation with some help from the otakus. But I’ll get
to that story later. The point is that they were not happy about me
transforming without telling others first. Jinx was just walking with one of
the coast guards, and had already told how many of us there was, and suddenly
one of us was an animal.
Oh, and about
the eating. I do eat raw meat, but I prefer to do that in my leopard form. The
claws and the teeth are much more fit to dealing with thick skins, bones and
flesh. Even though I have sharp fangs as a human they are not much of help when
biting through skin and bones. Also, as a human I taste better. I taste all the
crap the rats have on them, but as a leopard I don’t taste as well.
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