Post by Zahra on Dec 20, 2014 15:56:17 GMT -5
This is a Training Tier character
Password 1: Kuroi's Shoes
Password 2: Midgets Can't Dunk
Type: Shadow
Rank: Mercenary Rank 1
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Name: Zahra
Age of Death: 15 (in jackal years)
Real Age/Age of Appearance: 114/23 (in human years)
Birthday (Month/Day): August 3rd
Blood Type: A+
RP Sample (Optional): Look at Hotaru W. Kuchiki and Aurora Guerrero threads
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Height/Weight: 5'8" / 140 lbs.
Physical Description:
Zahra is a member of the Jackal Beast-Clan. As such, she takes jackal qualities as well as human qualities to make her look like herself. She stands at five foot, eight inches. Her weight matches her height well. She is considered tall among her race, but this short height does have some advantages. It gives her the ability to fit in smaller places and go to fairly unnoticed compared to others of the Beast-Clans. Her fur is thick, but the thickness changes to adapt to the weather that she's in.
The color of her fur is a pitch black color. There is also a teal color in her fur. The teal appears in various places on her body. It appears on the tip of her ears, going down halfway on her ears. She has the teal around her eyes like eye shadow/liner, two spots above each eye to act like little eyebrows. She also has two teal stripes coming from her back that stretch over her collarbones to end in a point between her breasts. This color also swirls down each arm and leg, but absent on her torso.
Her muzzle was a little smaller than a normal Jackal, to fit her humanoid-like face, so it's about two inches long. Its that long so it can fit all of her nice, sharp teeth. She has the normal dog nose at the end of her muzzle with four stripes where her incisors are located, two on each side from nose to mouth and on the bottom of her muzzle, from mouth to chin. She has a full head of hair which is also teal. She usually wears it in a ponytail to keep it out of her way and when it's out of the ponytail, her long, straight locks hit her about midway down her back. She added some gold metal that she's found to her hair to make it look more like the Egyptian animal people she saw when she was alive.
Her ears are a little unique. They are large and pointed, like the jackal, but she added accessories to them. On her right ear, she has four piercings on the inside of her ear and two on the outside of her ear closes to her head. On her left ear, she has four more piercings on the inside of her ear closer to the bottom. Towards the top of this ear, however, she has another piercing with a half hoop in it and above that one, a bar piercing going across the entire inside of her ear. Now on each ear, on the outside near the bottom in the biggest part of the ear, she has two gauged piercings, one in each ear that are also teal in color.
Being a jackal, her body is built for being quick and agile. So, she does have muscle tone, but nothing too big. All of her muscles are nice and lean, giving her the power she needs without all the great bulk of huge muscles. What also helps her with her speed and agility is her tail. It's a nice, big, bushy tail that ends right below her knees, giving her the extra balance she needs to get around in tight spaces and to keep her speed up.
Her clothing is a different story. Since she is not completely in with the humanoid society, she didn't use to wear clothes before. But, seeing the humans wear clothing, it made her feel out of place, so she started to scavenge around for clothing that would help her fit in better. At first, she covered herself with simple materials, to make sure that everything was covered. But now, she's found some better fitting clothing that she can wear around easily. She found a white short sleeve shirt that was fairly clean, with some extra shirts, and capri pants. The pants fit snug, she got lucky in finding them. She keeps her knives strapped to her right thigh. Also while looking around for clothes, she found a good pair of leather gloves. Since she liked them, she stole them as well. They're black in color and she cut holes out of the top to leave room for her claws to come out.
She leaves her feet bare. Since she has pads on the bottom of her feet, she doesn't see the need to actually wear shoes. She's found some sometime, and they just help with traction. Since the pads give her all the traction she needs, she didn't see the point. She also has non-retractable claws on her feet, since she is in the dog family. This also gives her extra traction. It's another reason why she doesn't really need any shoes.
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Dislikes:
* Cold. She grew up in the sands of Egypt. So, needless to say her and cold weather don't get along.
* Confinement. She doesn't mind smaller spaces, as long as she can get out. If she finds herself in a space where she can't get out and her freedom is gone, she will fight tooth and nail to get it back.
* Bigger predator mammals. She remembers many times where her meal would get stolen by the hyenas and lions. If she met any of them now, she would definitely make sure they never stole her food again!
* Getting annoyed. If she had someone hang around her and they just kept bothering her, she would start to get angry and tell them to leave. If they didn't, she would make them leave!
* Not being listened to. Just because she's short, doesn't mean she isn't there. If people don't listen to her, she will make them listen!
Likes:
* Heat. She was born in Africa. The heat always made her feel active and alive everyday she played under it.
* Smaller mammals. They are much easier for her to handle by herself. Since she doesn't have a mate or a pack to help her, the smaller the mammal, the easier it is to eat.
* Running. This has always been her favorite past time. She will just run for no reason other than to run around and see the sights.
* Digging. Ever since she was a pup, she had always liked digging. Even though she was bigger now, the love of digging stayed with her to the point where if she gets bored enough, you'll see her digging for no reason.
* 'Talking.' She is not the master of the human language. But, since she doesn't know a lot about that language, she will substitute with her own when she doesn't know what words to use.
* Freedom. She loves having her freedom. She doesn't know what she would do if she was in a place/with a mate that wouldn't let her have the freedom that she wants.
Flaws:
* Too full of herself. She thinks very highly of herself. It gets to the point where she thinks that she can do no wrong and it usually comes to bite her in the butt later on.
* Concentration. She will concentrate on things that are important, like food and shelter. But, she does have her moments of weakness where her mind will wander on other things, like what her main goals are and can easily distract her from what she's doing at the time.
* Freedom. She loves her freedom. She will do anything to keep her freedom. Because she will do anything to keep the freedom she's found, it can be used against her to get her to do some bad things.
* Curiosity. They say that curiosity killed the cat. Well, it did and it might kill her too if she's not careful. If it smells even remotely interesting, she'll go look.
Habits:
* Gnawing on something. Zahra gets bored fairly easily, so to pass the time, you can find her gnawing on something. It's pretty much on anything she can find, be it a small piece of bone or a twig off a tree.
* Foraging. She always needs to keep herself busy. So, if she has nothing better to do, she'll start to forage around for anything she can snack on, like tiny insects.
* Grooming. She likes to keep herself well-groomed. So, you'll see her making sure that she always looks nice, just in case she runs into anyone.
* Yipping. She tries to talk the human language. But, when she doesn't know the word, she will insert various jackal noises to try to get her point across, using yips, barks, howls and cackles.
Fears:
* Dying alone. She was brought up that she must find her mate and live. Since jackals mate for life, she doesn't want to have her life end without finding the person that would complete her life.
* Leaving no mark on the world. She wants to leave her mark on this new world in some way. If she doesn't, she will feel like her life had no good come from it, and she lived for nothing.
* Dying through a fight. She was never partial to fighting, but she was always able to defend herself. If she ever does die while fighting, she would've proven herself as weak, and that would be all the world would remember her as. It would never do.
Goals:
* Finding her mate. While she was alive, she never was able to find the one animal that could be her lifelong mate. She hopes that here in this new place, she might be able to find him.
* To survive. She is an animal and this is one of the most basic goal of an animal. She wants to be able to survive and thrive in this new environment that she finds herself in.
* Leaving a legacy. It was something that she learned early in life. She wants to have pups that will be the legacy that she leaves on this new world.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Overall Personality:
Zahra really only has a few worries in her life at the moment. She wants to find a mate, find food and remain free. It's not really in that order but those are the main three things she worries about. For her first worry, she uses her nose to try to find a mate. She sniffs around the air and the ground, trying to find anything worth going after. But, she was always told that you know your mate by the smell. You know if you find the right smell. She was always wondering how she would know, but no one had ever told her how. So, she just assumed it would hit her when she found it.
As for food, that is probably the easiest thing she does. It's always on her mind. When you see her walking around, she's thinking about it. When she sleeps, she dreams about it. There is not one second that passes that it doesn't at least flash by her mind. It's why she forages so much. She has to keep herself busy and snacking throughout the day helps her keep busy. Whether it be leftovers or a cockroach, as long as it tastes good to her she'll eat it. This food driven jackal does some pretty interesting things to get food.
For her freedom, it's the best part about her life, she would say. Her freedom lets her pretty much do whatever she wants, as long as it doesn't really interfere with the first two motivations in her life. Because of this freedom, she feel entitled to do everything she wants, whether it's against the law or not. So, you might find her running around rooftops to go in a house and pick out something shiny, or stealing a wallet because she can. As long as she doesn't get caught when she's doing something the law says is bad, it doesn't really effect her.
She does okay in smaller groups. If it gets more than twenty people in a group, however, she gets nervous. When it gets to that many people, she will feel surrounded and outnumbered. Even if all the people in the group are friendly towards her, she will get nervous enough to run out of the situation. Also, with her 'talking,' she loves to try to use the human language. It makes her outgoing. But, when she starts yipping when she doesn't know the words, she gets some funny looks, but it doesn't bother her. At least she knows what she's talking about.
Her curiosity will get her into sticky situations. As long as something smells good to her keen nose, she will try to investigate. She relies on the thought that she can face anything that comes her way, even if the opponent seems impossible to defeat. In battle itself, she loves it. If she had a partner to fight beside, she would love it even more. She feels like she thrives in battle. It lets her know how well she is doing to leave her mark on the world. She will try her best to fight and is not one too back down very easily.
There are very few reasons that she would leave a battle. She would leave only when her life was threatened, say she was on the verge of death and had no way to win, she would flee. Another would be to save the life of her mate and/or pups. If they were in danger and she was facing an opponent that she couldn't win against on her own, she would get out and get them out so they wouldn't be hurt. Those are the only reasons. She might be awesome, but even she knows when to cut her losses and go.
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Fighting Style:
Zahra's fighting style is pretty easy. Due to her very nature, she is very much a close combat fighter. She is agile enough to stay around the enemy and if her speed is good, stay out of their range. Her frame also helps with this. Being smaller than other Beast-Clan members, her size allows her to sneak in and around some enemies that might just not recognize her. It comes in handy when she wants to run in quick and pick something off an enemy before she actually starts a fight with them. Her doing that has actually gotten her into many fights.
She is more suited to the run and gun style of fighting. She is much more used to running into an opponent, getting in a few good shots and then running back out again to regroup. She does this because she was built for quickness and speed. She doesn't have the muscle mass required to take a lot of hits. This is why she fights the way she does. Also due to her small nature, she can worm her way out of a lot of sticky situations that she seems to get herself involved in.
Now, if her enemy tries to get away from her and attack her from a range, there is two options for her. If she's severely losing the fight and there is a very high risk that she would die, she would run. She sees no shame in running away when she could live to fight another day. The next option for her is, if the fight is going in her favor, or she thinks that there is a high likelihood she would win, she would try to run in as fast as she could to close the gap between the two of them and then run in again to fight.
If she has to play any kind of defense, however, her strategy is pretty simple. She will try her best to go and hide in the shadows. Since she does have her small frame, it would make her easier to hide. This way, she can observe her target and try to either run in and attack quickly before going back to another spot to regroup herself, or where she can stay for a bit and get a good shot off with her throwing knives. Also, if she's given enough time, she could even charge up her energy and transfer it to a throwing knife to use it that way.
Now, if she fights with other people, it would be a lot easier for her. Since she is more used to fighting in a group dynamic, she will have a better chance at getting good shots in. This would give her the opportunity to hide in the shadows and the other people in her group could lure out the enemy so she can come from behind and get one good hit in. Also, by having more people around her, she can protect herself better while charging up for her attacks. If there are more people, she might not be the prime target, hence giving her the time she needed to power up to her strongest attacks.
Yaseishin Name
Heat
Yaseishin Apperance:
When she activates Heat, there are some fairly significant changes that happen over her body. The changes that happen, however, don't really go with the actual power that it gives her. When she releases, there are a few things that start to change on her body. The teal accents on her black fur start to take over, turning her fur the same teal color. While that happens, her eye color turns black, matching her pupil color.
Her teeth also change. She already has sharp incisors, but they grow another inch, showing now even when her mouth is closed. You also see that her fur accents that she had that were teal now turn golden, to make the insignia that will appear on her. She also gets a little bit of makeup in this form as well. Gold circles her eyes and two eyes of Ra appear, one around each eye. Her hair also turns black, matching the change like the rest of her fur.
The next thing that happens is that the gold accents on her body where the teal accents were start to do something around her hands. She gets a golden stripe around her wrist and two eyes of Ra, one on the backside of each hand, appear as well. These marks will help her when it comes time to use her power. After the golden accents change on her body, her hands are the last thing to undergo a change for her Yaseishin power.
You can start to hear bones cracking and the fur on her hands actually starts to harden. The golden accents that her fur gains in this form now cover her fingers and knuckles, changing the fur over those parts of her hands into a steel hardness. So now, her hands have the golden accents around her wrists, finger and knucles, with eyes of Ra on the backs of her hands. When she charges her energy into her hands, the eyes of Ra on the backs of her hands will start to glow.
Yaseishin Overall Ability:
The overall ability of her power is heat. The way she uses this is through her hands. The eyes of Ra that adorn her hands allow her to concentrate on those and 'power up her attacks.' The way she does is by concentrating on the muscles in her arms, tensing them up for their strike. Tensing her muscles in this way creates kinetic energy, and when stored, she expresses that kinetic energy as heat through her hands, weapons and legs.
Yaseishin Techniques:
Burning Fingers
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: The energy she gathers in her hands can either be passed onto her throwing knives, superheating them so she can damage her opponents with an added boost of extreme heat, keep in her hands or move the energy into her legs. The length of her muscle tensing is denoted by colors (red for one post, orange for two posts and white for three posts). Hit with any of the colors will cause burns to appear on the skin. These burns will cool off quickly, causing pain and hinder her enemy. This pain makes it harder for enemies to concentrate, so techniques that her enemies use after this will cost more (25, 50 and 75 reiatsu respectively). For her knives, the range of the explosion they will set off increases (10 feet, 20 feet and 30 feet respectively). Also, when hit with her knives (by either the explosion or hit with them), the reiatsu usage will go down by one every post. For example, if someone is hit with a level 3 burn, they would pay 75 more reiatsu, in the next post, it would be down to 50. Third post would be down to 25 and fourth post would have no effect whatsoever.
Heat resistance will lessen the pain of the burns she inflicts. For every point in Heat Tolerance, the reiatsu usage will be reduced by 20 (making it 5, 30 and 45). Once she stops tensing, if the heat isn't used, it's lost.
Class 5: The heat burns hotter, creating worse burns. Reiastu usage increases to 50/75/100 respectively.
Class 4: Now, when she punches, she can hit them with two blasts of heat. When the fist first hits, the middle of her fingers make contact, releasing one post of heat. Then, finishes the fist, pushing the rest of her heat out of her palm to release another heat post. If it has only been one post, the second push will be as strong as her OS (in this example, both attacks hit with her OS, but only one will be treated as a burning attack with the same effects as written above.)
Feel The Burn
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: Since she uses her own muscles to create heat, it makes sense that there would be some other way through her body to make herself burn hotter. In that aspect, she will the calories in her body to cause her body to heat up, making her fists and/or weapons to burn one post hotter (if held for one post, would count as two). This technique lasts for three posts and costs 100 reiastu. If she uses this technique more than three times in a thread, her arms weaken by half of her OS.
Class 5: Cost is reduced to 75 reiatsu
Class 4: Technique can now be used a maximum of four times before her arms weaken.
Heat Dome
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: She flexes every muscle in her body for three posts, resulting in a massive amount of heat being generated off of her body up to fifteen feet in all directions. At the outer section of the dome from 15-11 feet away anything that enters the dome will immediately suffer burns that will continue to blister and grow in size the longer one is in the area, following the same guidelines as in Burning Fingers with said burns. Anything that gets closer 10-5 feet from Zahra suffers burns serious enough to create boils instantly on sections of their body and every boil that is popped results in a fair amount of pain compatible to being hit by a soft ball. Concentration will be insanely difficult at this point, making techniques even harder to use against her. The costs increase by 5%/10%/15% the post that one, two or three boils are popped, respectively. Three boils can form on a single section of a character per post. This dome will stay active for a maximum of three posts, paying 100 reiastu per post and leaving her immobile during the duration.
Class 5: Reiatsu percentage goes up to 10%/15%/25% respectively.
Class 4: Anyone that gets within 4 feet of Zahra gets burned, with more boils being created on their skin, to five boils forming on a single area of the character. The boils ignite and burn at 400 OS. Inanimate objects that enter into this dome with less than 400 OS melts once it gets within 5 feet or her including reiatsu structures. Boil pops have the same percentage loss, with 35% and 45% going with four and five boils popped, respectively.
Yaseishin Enhancements:
Class 5: Duration increase from 3 to 6 posts
Class 4: Increase Tech Class from 6 to 5
Class 3: Increase Tech Class from 5 to 4
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Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Current Residence: Soul Society, Rukongai District 50
Memorable Figures: The old pictures from Ancient Egypt. She never really learned/remembered all the names.
History
Her history begins like most other jackals, in the sands of the desert in Africa. She was born with two other litter mates, another female and a male. She doesn't remember too much about her early life there in the desert, only that she always had her brother and sister with her in the sand den that their parents had made for them. They didn't let her explore that much either, so she would look around their den area, play with her brother and sister and then eat when mom let her eat.
After awhile, she noticed that they were giving her more solid food instead of getting all of her food from mom. It was small food at first, something that would be easy for her to eat. But, as time passed and she grew, her parents started giving her larger meals to the point that this solid food was all that she was eating. It was an interesting change for her, but it wasn't anything that she hated. This went on for about a month or so, until something changed.
She had gotten big enough to actually wander around the den. This was around two to three months. She was allowed to venture around her parent's territory. She would walk around with her brother and sister, exploring the sands that had become her home. Every time she ventured out, she found nothing but sand everywhere. She would sniff around, looking for anything that was different. She learned the smells of her prey and by five months, she was able to hunt down her own food.
Also, when she had gotten that old, her parents started to kick them out of their den, making it so that she would need to find her own place to stay, but still allowing them to live in their territory. This gave her a great sense of family. She was able to wander around the territory, but always knew that she had a place she could go if she got bored, where she would have a place to stay and people to play with and hunt with. This went on for at least two years, her living in peace.
Then, they smelled something different close to their territory. It was beings that walked on two legs that were walking behind big animals that walked on all fours like they did. The two legged thing smelled weird, but the regular four legged thing smelled good. It also wasn't afraid of them, which was not smart on their part. They discussed among themselves and they had decided that this would be better than the little niche they made for themselves here. These huge things they could feed on so easily, it would make their lives much better.
So, without these two legged things realizing, her and her little family would follow them, catching up to them at night, but trying their best to be careful and not get spotted. After three days (sun rising and setting three times each) and on the fourth, they say some weird things popping up from the desert. They looked like large dens, but they weren't technically dens either. These two legged things walked in and out of them and it seemed that they spent a lot of their time in them. So, she concluded it was their den.
They watched as the two legged things were leaving the beasts outside in some kind of ring made out of something that looked like twigs from a tree. She had never seen anything like this and it fascinated her. Without thinking, she started to walk towards this new thing, but her parents stopped her by pulling at her tail. It made her stop and look backwards. They yipping quietly, adding a growl at the end. It seemed that they thought it was too dangerous for them to go in now, which now that they thought about it, made sense.
They stayed where they were, on the top of a sand dune and waited for night to fall. When they no longer saw light in these new dens, which it still amazed her that they could get little individual suns in those dens, they made their move. They slowly made their way down the dune and towards the ring. They surrounded it as best they could, without going into the den area. Her parents didn't want to risk going in there and seeing what could happen. They started to look through this herd to find anything small enough that they could take.
Thankfully, they found one of the baby calves. Zahra yipped, telling her family which one she found. They yipped back their agreement and they slowly started to enter the ring. Some of the animals started to get afraid with them in their space, but they would just move to the other end of the ring, which made it easier on them. They slowly made their way to the calf. They tried to surround it, but to no avail. It realized what was happening and started to run full tilt, with mother right next to it.
They were able, after what seemed like an eternity, to block off the calf and the mother to one side of the ring. Now, this was the tricky part. They needed to get the calf without involving the mother. So, a plan was thought out. Let the mother run by them and catch the calf while it was running after mother. So, they did it and it worked. Right when the mother passed them, the completely surrounded the calf and was able to take it down. When they were done with it, however, the mother was not pleased.
They knew they needed to get out with their meal quickly. Her brother and sister left the pin and Zahr tried to push the calf out of the ring. She didn't have a lot of the strength needed, so she tried to get her siblings to help. Even with their pulling, they couldn't get the calf out. Then, her parents helped. Thankfully, with all five of them, they were able to get the calf out. But, in doing so, the ring broke. With three of them dragging away the kill, she watched as all the beasts now started to run around the area free.
This woke up the two legged things and it gave them a good distraction to get away. Once they made it up to a nice sand dune, they were able to relax and howl at their triumph. There they sat, eating their prey at their own leisure. For once, there weren't a lot of other predators around that would mess up their meal. She sat and ate and was happy. She finally thought that they had found the best place to live. But joy was shortly outlived. The next day, after they ate their fill of their prey, they looked back on the weird dens of these two legged things.
It seemed like they found their tracks from that night. They were starting to form up little groups. They were able to fix the ring and contain all the beasts again, but it seemed like they were going to hunt them down. She quickly woke her family and they started off. They ran for hours, trying to outmaneuver these two legged things that were now going to chase them. They had traveled so far from their territory, they didn't know how they could get back. So they just ran in one direction hoping for the best.
Her family didn't believe her at first, so they went slowly. But, when they turned around and saw the things run at them, they started running as fast as they could to get away. They had to stop every now and then for a break but would keep the pace. At night, they moved slower and would constantly check to see where the two legged things were. On the first night, they didn't see the humans, but they still slept in shifts, just to make sure that the humans wouldn't be coming up on them.
They kept a pace like this one for two days straight. Jackals can survive without water for a while, but they were starting to strain that limit. It was getting to the point where they needed to find water. Zahr sniffed the air and didn't smell the two legged things anymore, so she figured it would be safe for them to stop the pace and try to find water. Her family agreed. So now, they walked slower, looking for water over everything else. The first day they were unsuccessful. She knew on the next day, they had to find water at least for her parents.
She had been keeping an eye on them and they weren't doing well. She would get behind and push them to try to have them keep up with them, but on the third day, she had lost her mother. She just didn't wake up the next day. Being without water for six days was getting to them. Even though they gained water from their meal, it wasn't enough to really keep them going. They lost their father the next day. Now, it was just her and her siblings. She actually started to smell water. She ran as fast as she could, which wasn't that fast, but she knew what she smelled.
She went as fast as she could and found a little pond. She took long drinks and felt much better. She looked around for her siblings and she saw them. It looked like they were making their way towards her before they passed out. She ran over to them, sniffing their bodies and knew that they were dead too. She howled mournfully at the sky, hating that she had lost her family over something as stupid as prey. She stayed at this water source for another day, finding some small mammals to munch on.
When she felt ready, she left. She walked aimlessly for what seemed like days, until she saw something peek out of the sand. At least that's what it looked like until she saw this thing get bigger and bigger. Once she got to the sand dune, she saw a huge....thing. She didn't know what to call it, because she had never seen anything like it before. The only bad thing was that there were more of those two legged creatures around it. She decided to wait until night to go look at it.
When night finally fell, she had been asleep. She woke with a start and looked around. She didn't see any of the two legged creatures around anymore, so she felt that it was safe enough to venture down there. She slowly walked down the sand dune. She sniffed and smelled the two legged things again, but there weren't as many. She wanted to risk it, just to see what these things actually were. She was able to avoid the two legged people walking around with mini suns (she really needed to find out how they did that) and made her way inside.
Once she got inside, it just amazed her. The inside of this whatever it was is so big, it reminded her of a desert or the sky it was so massive. She just sat there, staring up at it. She walked around, sniffing everything in this place. She smelled a lot of dirt and sand, which made her sneeze a few times and clean her nose. Then, she saw some amazing pictures. She didn't know what the pictures meant, but it was the two legged things again, except the faces were different.
She walked closer to the pictures and saw that one of them had a head that was like hers. It seemed like these two legged things were kneeling towards it, almost like they were acknowledging its dominance over them. It gave her an idea. Maybe this is the way that these things are run. She just needs to walk like them and then, she would be ready to lead them like these pictures were showing her. Looking at these changed her life forever. She snuck out of the pyramid, but now she was more curious about these two legged creatures.
She started to stay around this town, looking through everything. She smelled all the different animals, and almost got caught with a chicken. She stayed away enough to where they didn't bother her and she grew old to the ripe old age of fifteen. Since she had made the city her territory, there were no other jackals that came close enough to the humans to want to even try with her. But, the way she died was that she was up to her usual antics. Sadly, she didn't have the speed she used to and got caught by the farmer. She was crated off and left in the desert to die.
The last thought in her head is that she was going to make a mark on the world like those two legged jackal faced beings did. She would if it was the last thing she did. And then, with one last breath, she died. She then woke up and found herself in a place she had never been before. There was green stuff on the ground, that she heard people call grass. She sniffed it and pulled out a bit. It wasn't really something she would go after again. She then looked up at the trees that were full and lush.
It was definitely a different landscape than she was used to, but nothing that she couldn't adapt to. She got up and shook herself off. She stretched and started to sniff the air. She was getting assaulted with all these new scents, she didn't really know what to do, but to find a body of water. It was then when she started to see more two legged things walking around. Though, these smelled different than the ones she had smelled before. But, due to her past history, she put herself farther into the wilderness.
When she did that, she found a lot of other strong animals that lived in the wilderness of this new area. One day, while she was foraging, she saw one huge wolf coming at her. She held her ground and started to growl at this beast. Then, it barked and more started to show up. She showed teeth to all of them, not backing down from them. Soon she was surrounded. She kept her ground, but she knew she was going to get injured pretty badly if something didn't happen.
She knew that at this moment, she could easily die. Her stupidity was going to make her get injured. She was cursing herself about it before one of the wolves came into strike. She faced it head on and that's when she saw something black flash by her face. She looked and saw this huge two legged thing got in the way. The black fur surprised her and he was easily able to take all of the wolves out. He turned to look at her and then ran off. It reminded her of the pictures she saw and knew she needed to get that way.
Over a very long period of time, she learned how to hunt in this new place but kept finding herself watching these two legged things. After many, many years, she started to actually speak some of their words. She found herself saying the word, "Ja...ck...al..." She was surprised that she could actually say a word, she started yipping happily. After that, she started saying more and more words until she woke up one day feeling completely different.
She stood up and her eye view was different. She was higher up off the ground. She moved her front legs and they appeared like the hands from the two legged dwellers. She looked down and she was walking on two legs. She had finally done it! She yipped again in glee while walking around to try out her new legs. She was a little wobbly at first, but then she got used to it. But, she knew that she needed to wear clothing to actually walk around with her new two legs. She waited until the others had gone and was able to raid around and find some clothing.
Now, she had some clothing, so she could make due walking around near the humans. But, since she still didn't know much of their language, she stayed in the shadows, trying her best to learn as much as she could. Though, whenever she saw something that caught her eye, she wouldn't hesitate to go grab it and run away with it, inspecting it when she knew that she was in the clear and no one would come after her. If she didn't like it, she would throw it away and go after something new.
Though, she got all the holes in her ears from people trying to catch her after her thieving. They would try to hit her, and get her ears instead. She found nice metal rings and small little metal pieces that she stuck in her ears to make her look better and maybe even more menacing. Right now, she's trying to find her own niche and territory. After this, she will find a mate that is worthy of her greatness and make a new way for herself and the freedom that she cherishes more than almost anything in the world.
-Opening-
Password 1: Kuroi's Shoes
Password 2: Midgets Can't Dunk
Type: Shadow
Rank: Mercenary Rank 1
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-Basic Information-
Name: Zahra
Age of Death: 15 (in jackal years)
Real Age/Age of Appearance: 114/23 (in human years)
Birthday (Month/Day): August 3rd
Blood Type: A+
RP Sample (Optional): Look at Hotaru W. Kuchiki and Aurora Guerrero threads
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-Appearance-
Height/Weight: 5'8" / 140 lbs.
Physical Description:
Zahra is a member of the Jackal Beast-Clan. As such, she takes jackal qualities as well as human qualities to make her look like herself. She stands at five foot, eight inches. Her weight matches her height well. She is considered tall among her race, but this short height does have some advantages. It gives her the ability to fit in smaller places and go to fairly unnoticed compared to others of the Beast-Clans. Her fur is thick, but the thickness changes to adapt to the weather that she's in.
The color of her fur is a pitch black color. There is also a teal color in her fur. The teal appears in various places on her body. It appears on the tip of her ears, going down halfway on her ears. She has the teal around her eyes like eye shadow/liner, two spots above each eye to act like little eyebrows. She also has two teal stripes coming from her back that stretch over her collarbones to end in a point between her breasts. This color also swirls down each arm and leg, but absent on her torso.
Her muzzle was a little smaller than a normal Jackal, to fit her humanoid-like face, so it's about two inches long. Its that long so it can fit all of her nice, sharp teeth. She has the normal dog nose at the end of her muzzle with four stripes where her incisors are located, two on each side from nose to mouth and on the bottom of her muzzle, from mouth to chin. She has a full head of hair which is also teal. She usually wears it in a ponytail to keep it out of her way and when it's out of the ponytail, her long, straight locks hit her about midway down her back. She added some gold metal that she's found to her hair to make it look more like the Egyptian animal people she saw when she was alive.
Her ears are a little unique. They are large and pointed, like the jackal, but she added accessories to them. On her right ear, she has four piercings on the inside of her ear and two on the outside of her ear closes to her head. On her left ear, she has four more piercings on the inside of her ear closer to the bottom. Towards the top of this ear, however, she has another piercing with a half hoop in it and above that one, a bar piercing going across the entire inside of her ear. Now on each ear, on the outside near the bottom in the biggest part of the ear, she has two gauged piercings, one in each ear that are also teal in color.
Being a jackal, her body is built for being quick and agile. So, she does have muscle tone, but nothing too big. All of her muscles are nice and lean, giving her the power she needs without all the great bulk of huge muscles. What also helps her with her speed and agility is her tail. It's a nice, big, bushy tail that ends right below her knees, giving her the extra balance she needs to get around in tight spaces and to keep her speed up.
Her clothing is a different story. Since she is not completely in with the humanoid society, she didn't use to wear clothes before. But, seeing the humans wear clothing, it made her feel out of place, so she started to scavenge around for clothing that would help her fit in better. At first, she covered herself with simple materials, to make sure that everything was covered. But now, she's found some better fitting clothing that she can wear around easily. She found a white short sleeve shirt that was fairly clean, with some extra shirts, and capri pants. The pants fit snug, she got lucky in finding them. She keeps her knives strapped to her right thigh. Also while looking around for clothes, she found a good pair of leather gloves. Since she liked them, she stole them as well. They're black in color and she cut holes out of the top to leave room for her claws to come out.
She leaves her feet bare. Since she has pads on the bottom of her feet, she doesn't see the need to actually wear shoes. She's found some sometime, and they just help with traction. Since the pads give her all the traction she needs, she didn't see the point. She also has non-retractable claws on her feet, since she is in the dog family. This also gives her extra traction. It's another reason why she doesn't really need any shoes.
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-Personality-
Dislikes:
* Cold. She grew up in the sands of Egypt. So, needless to say her and cold weather don't get along.
* Confinement. She doesn't mind smaller spaces, as long as she can get out. If she finds herself in a space where she can't get out and her freedom is gone, she will fight tooth and nail to get it back.
* Bigger predator mammals. She remembers many times where her meal would get stolen by the hyenas and lions. If she met any of them now, she would definitely make sure they never stole her food again!
* Getting annoyed. If she had someone hang around her and they just kept bothering her, she would start to get angry and tell them to leave. If they didn't, she would make them leave!
* Not being listened to. Just because she's short, doesn't mean she isn't there. If people don't listen to her, she will make them listen!
Likes:
* Heat. She was born in Africa. The heat always made her feel active and alive everyday she played under it.
* Smaller mammals. They are much easier for her to handle by herself. Since she doesn't have a mate or a pack to help her, the smaller the mammal, the easier it is to eat.
* Running. This has always been her favorite past time. She will just run for no reason other than to run around and see the sights.
* Digging. Ever since she was a pup, she had always liked digging. Even though she was bigger now, the love of digging stayed with her to the point where if she gets bored enough, you'll see her digging for no reason.
* 'Talking.' She is not the master of the human language. But, since she doesn't know a lot about that language, she will substitute with her own when she doesn't know what words to use.
* Freedom. She loves having her freedom. She doesn't know what she would do if she was in a place/with a mate that wouldn't let her have the freedom that she wants.
Flaws:
* Too full of herself. She thinks very highly of herself. It gets to the point where she thinks that she can do no wrong and it usually comes to bite her in the butt later on.
* Concentration. She will concentrate on things that are important, like food and shelter. But, she does have her moments of weakness where her mind will wander on other things, like what her main goals are and can easily distract her from what she's doing at the time.
* Freedom. She loves her freedom. She will do anything to keep her freedom. Because she will do anything to keep the freedom she's found, it can be used against her to get her to do some bad things.
* Curiosity. They say that curiosity killed the cat. Well, it did and it might kill her too if she's not careful. If it smells even remotely interesting, she'll go look.
Habits:
* Gnawing on something. Zahra gets bored fairly easily, so to pass the time, you can find her gnawing on something. It's pretty much on anything she can find, be it a small piece of bone or a twig off a tree.
* Foraging. She always needs to keep herself busy. So, if she has nothing better to do, she'll start to forage around for anything she can snack on, like tiny insects.
* Grooming. She likes to keep herself well-groomed. So, you'll see her making sure that she always looks nice, just in case she runs into anyone.
* Yipping. She tries to talk the human language. But, when she doesn't know the word, she will insert various jackal noises to try to get her point across, using yips, barks, howls and cackles.
Fears:
* Dying alone. She was brought up that she must find her mate and live. Since jackals mate for life, she doesn't want to have her life end without finding the person that would complete her life.
* Leaving no mark on the world. She wants to leave her mark on this new world in some way. If she doesn't, she will feel like her life had no good come from it, and she lived for nothing.
* Dying through a fight. She was never partial to fighting, but she was always able to defend herself. If she ever does die while fighting, she would've proven herself as weak, and that would be all the world would remember her as. It would never do.
Goals:
* Finding her mate. While she was alive, she never was able to find the one animal that could be her lifelong mate. She hopes that here in this new place, she might be able to find him.
* To survive. She is an animal and this is one of the most basic goal of an animal. She wants to be able to survive and thrive in this new environment that she finds herself in.
* Leaving a legacy. It was something that she learned early in life. She wants to have pups that will be the legacy that she leaves on this new world.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Overall Personality:
Zahra really only has a few worries in her life at the moment. She wants to find a mate, find food and remain free. It's not really in that order but those are the main three things she worries about. For her first worry, she uses her nose to try to find a mate. She sniffs around the air and the ground, trying to find anything worth going after. But, she was always told that you know your mate by the smell. You know if you find the right smell. She was always wondering how she would know, but no one had ever told her how. So, she just assumed it would hit her when she found it.
As for food, that is probably the easiest thing she does. It's always on her mind. When you see her walking around, she's thinking about it. When she sleeps, she dreams about it. There is not one second that passes that it doesn't at least flash by her mind. It's why she forages so much. She has to keep herself busy and snacking throughout the day helps her keep busy. Whether it be leftovers or a cockroach, as long as it tastes good to her she'll eat it. This food driven jackal does some pretty interesting things to get food.
For her freedom, it's the best part about her life, she would say. Her freedom lets her pretty much do whatever she wants, as long as it doesn't really interfere with the first two motivations in her life. Because of this freedom, she feel entitled to do everything she wants, whether it's against the law or not. So, you might find her running around rooftops to go in a house and pick out something shiny, or stealing a wallet because she can. As long as she doesn't get caught when she's doing something the law says is bad, it doesn't really effect her.
She does okay in smaller groups. If it gets more than twenty people in a group, however, she gets nervous. When it gets to that many people, she will feel surrounded and outnumbered. Even if all the people in the group are friendly towards her, she will get nervous enough to run out of the situation. Also, with her 'talking,' she loves to try to use the human language. It makes her outgoing. But, when she starts yipping when she doesn't know the words, she gets some funny looks, but it doesn't bother her. At least she knows what she's talking about.
Her curiosity will get her into sticky situations. As long as something smells good to her keen nose, she will try to investigate. She relies on the thought that she can face anything that comes her way, even if the opponent seems impossible to defeat. In battle itself, she loves it. If she had a partner to fight beside, she would love it even more. She feels like she thrives in battle. It lets her know how well she is doing to leave her mark on the world. She will try her best to fight and is not one too back down very easily.
There are very few reasons that she would leave a battle. She would leave only when her life was threatened, say she was on the verge of death and had no way to win, she would flee. Another would be to save the life of her mate and/or pups. If they were in danger and she was facing an opponent that she couldn't win against on her own, she would get out and get them out so they wouldn't be hurt. Those are the only reasons. She might be awesome, but even she knows when to cut her losses and go.
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-Powers-
Fighting Style:
Zahra's fighting style is pretty easy. Due to her very nature, she is very much a close combat fighter. She is agile enough to stay around the enemy and if her speed is good, stay out of their range. Her frame also helps with this. Being smaller than other Beast-Clan members, her size allows her to sneak in and around some enemies that might just not recognize her. It comes in handy when she wants to run in quick and pick something off an enemy before she actually starts a fight with them. Her doing that has actually gotten her into many fights.
She is more suited to the run and gun style of fighting. She is much more used to running into an opponent, getting in a few good shots and then running back out again to regroup. She does this because she was built for quickness and speed. She doesn't have the muscle mass required to take a lot of hits. This is why she fights the way she does. Also due to her small nature, she can worm her way out of a lot of sticky situations that she seems to get herself involved in.
Now, if her enemy tries to get away from her and attack her from a range, there is two options for her. If she's severely losing the fight and there is a very high risk that she would die, she would run. She sees no shame in running away when she could live to fight another day. The next option for her is, if the fight is going in her favor, or she thinks that there is a high likelihood she would win, she would try to run in as fast as she could to close the gap between the two of them and then run in again to fight.
If she has to play any kind of defense, however, her strategy is pretty simple. She will try her best to go and hide in the shadows. Since she does have her small frame, it would make her easier to hide. This way, she can observe her target and try to either run in and attack quickly before going back to another spot to regroup herself, or where she can stay for a bit and get a good shot off with her throwing knives. Also, if she's given enough time, she could even charge up her energy and transfer it to a throwing knife to use it that way.
Now, if she fights with other people, it would be a lot easier for her. Since she is more used to fighting in a group dynamic, she will have a better chance at getting good shots in. This would give her the opportunity to hide in the shadows and the other people in her group could lure out the enemy so she can come from behind and get one good hit in. Also, by having more people around her, she can protect herself better while charging up for her attacks. If there are more people, she might not be the prime target, hence giving her the time she needed to power up to her strongest attacks.
Yaseishin Name
Heat
Yaseishin Apperance:
When she activates Heat, there are some fairly significant changes that happen over her body. The changes that happen, however, don't really go with the actual power that it gives her. When she releases, there are a few things that start to change on her body. The teal accents on her black fur start to take over, turning her fur the same teal color. While that happens, her eye color turns black, matching her pupil color.
Her teeth also change. She already has sharp incisors, but they grow another inch, showing now even when her mouth is closed. You also see that her fur accents that she had that were teal now turn golden, to make the insignia that will appear on her. She also gets a little bit of makeup in this form as well. Gold circles her eyes and two eyes of Ra appear, one around each eye. Her hair also turns black, matching the change like the rest of her fur.
The next thing that happens is that the gold accents on her body where the teal accents were start to do something around her hands. She gets a golden stripe around her wrist and two eyes of Ra, one on the backside of each hand, appear as well. These marks will help her when it comes time to use her power. After the golden accents change on her body, her hands are the last thing to undergo a change for her Yaseishin power.
You can start to hear bones cracking and the fur on her hands actually starts to harden. The golden accents that her fur gains in this form now cover her fingers and knuckles, changing the fur over those parts of her hands into a steel hardness. So now, her hands have the golden accents around her wrists, finger and knucles, with eyes of Ra on the backs of her hands. When she charges her energy into her hands, the eyes of Ra on the backs of her hands will start to glow.
Yaseishin Overall Ability:
The overall ability of her power is heat. The way she uses this is through her hands. The eyes of Ra that adorn her hands allow her to concentrate on those and 'power up her attacks.' The way she does is by concentrating on the muscles in her arms, tensing them up for their strike. Tensing her muscles in this way creates kinetic energy, and when stored, she expresses that kinetic energy as heat through her hands, weapons and legs.
Yaseishin Techniques:
Burning Fingers
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: The energy she gathers in her hands can either be passed onto her throwing knives, superheating them so she can damage her opponents with an added boost of extreme heat, keep in her hands or move the energy into her legs. The length of her muscle tensing is denoted by colors (red for one post, orange for two posts and white for three posts). Hit with any of the colors will cause burns to appear on the skin. These burns will cool off quickly, causing pain and hinder her enemy. This pain makes it harder for enemies to concentrate, so techniques that her enemies use after this will cost more (25, 50 and 75 reiatsu respectively). For her knives, the range of the explosion they will set off increases (10 feet, 20 feet and 30 feet respectively). Also, when hit with her knives (by either the explosion or hit with them), the reiatsu usage will go down by one every post. For example, if someone is hit with a level 3 burn, they would pay 75 more reiatsu, in the next post, it would be down to 50. Third post would be down to 25 and fourth post would have no effect whatsoever.
Heat resistance will lessen the pain of the burns she inflicts. For every point in Heat Tolerance, the reiatsu usage will be reduced by 20 (making it 5, 30 and 45). Once she stops tensing, if the heat isn't used, it's lost.
Class 5: The heat burns hotter, creating worse burns. Reiastu usage increases to 50/75/100 respectively.
Class 4: Now, when she punches, she can hit them with two blasts of heat. When the fist first hits, the middle of her fingers make contact, releasing one post of heat. Then, finishes the fist, pushing the rest of her heat out of her palm to release another heat post. If it has only been one post, the second push will be as strong as her OS (in this example, both attacks hit with her OS, but only one will be treated as a burning attack with the same effects as written above.)
Feel The Burn
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: Since she uses her own muscles to create heat, it makes sense that there would be some other way through her body to make herself burn hotter. In that aspect, she will the calories in her body to cause her body to heat up, making her fists and/or weapons to burn one post hotter (if held for one post, would count as two). This technique lasts for three posts and costs 100 reiastu. If she uses this technique more than three times in a thread, her arms weaken by half of her OS.
Class 5: Cost is reduced to 75 reiatsu
Class 4: Technique can now be used a maximum of four times before her arms weaken.
Heat Dome
Class: 6, 5, 4
Description: She flexes every muscle in her body for three posts, resulting in a massive amount of heat being generated off of her body up to fifteen feet in all directions. At the outer section of the dome from 15-11 feet away anything that enters the dome will immediately suffer burns that will continue to blister and grow in size the longer one is in the area, following the same guidelines as in Burning Fingers with said burns. Anything that gets closer 10-5 feet from Zahra suffers burns serious enough to create boils instantly on sections of their body and every boil that is popped results in a fair amount of pain compatible to being hit by a soft ball. Concentration will be insanely difficult at this point, making techniques even harder to use against her. The costs increase by 5%/10%/15% the post that one, two or three boils are popped, respectively. Three boils can form on a single section of a character per post. This dome will stay active for a maximum of three posts, paying 100 reiastu per post and leaving her immobile during the duration.
Class 5: Reiatsu percentage goes up to 10%/15%/25% respectively.
Class 4: Anyone that gets within 4 feet of Zahra gets burned, with more boils being created on their skin, to five boils forming on a single area of the character. The boils ignite and burn at 400 OS. Inanimate objects that enter into this dome with less than 400 OS melts once it gets within 5 feet or her including reiatsu structures. Boil pops have the same percentage loss, with 35% and 45% going with four and five boils popped, respectively.
Yaseishin Enhancements:
Class 5: Duration increase from 3 to 6 posts
Class 4: Increase Tech Class from 6 to 5
Class 3: Increase Tech Class from 5 to 4
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-History-
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Current Residence: Soul Society, Rukongai District 50
Memorable Figures: The old pictures from Ancient Egypt. She never really learned/remembered all the names.
History
Her history begins like most other jackals, in the sands of the desert in Africa. She was born with two other litter mates, another female and a male. She doesn't remember too much about her early life there in the desert, only that she always had her brother and sister with her in the sand den that their parents had made for them. They didn't let her explore that much either, so she would look around their den area, play with her brother and sister and then eat when mom let her eat.
After awhile, she noticed that they were giving her more solid food instead of getting all of her food from mom. It was small food at first, something that would be easy for her to eat. But, as time passed and she grew, her parents started giving her larger meals to the point that this solid food was all that she was eating. It was an interesting change for her, but it wasn't anything that she hated. This went on for about a month or so, until something changed.
She had gotten big enough to actually wander around the den. This was around two to three months. She was allowed to venture around her parent's territory. She would walk around with her brother and sister, exploring the sands that had become her home. Every time she ventured out, she found nothing but sand everywhere. She would sniff around, looking for anything that was different. She learned the smells of her prey and by five months, she was able to hunt down her own food.
Also, when she had gotten that old, her parents started to kick them out of their den, making it so that she would need to find her own place to stay, but still allowing them to live in their territory. This gave her a great sense of family. She was able to wander around the territory, but always knew that she had a place she could go if she got bored, where she would have a place to stay and people to play with and hunt with. This went on for at least two years, her living in peace.
Then, they smelled something different close to their territory. It was beings that walked on two legs that were walking behind big animals that walked on all fours like they did. The two legged thing smelled weird, but the regular four legged thing smelled good. It also wasn't afraid of them, which was not smart on their part. They discussed among themselves and they had decided that this would be better than the little niche they made for themselves here. These huge things they could feed on so easily, it would make their lives much better.
So, without these two legged things realizing, her and her little family would follow them, catching up to them at night, but trying their best to be careful and not get spotted. After three days (sun rising and setting three times each) and on the fourth, they say some weird things popping up from the desert. They looked like large dens, but they weren't technically dens either. These two legged things walked in and out of them and it seemed that they spent a lot of their time in them. So, she concluded it was their den.
They watched as the two legged things were leaving the beasts outside in some kind of ring made out of something that looked like twigs from a tree. She had never seen anything like this and it fascinated her. Without thinking, she started to walk towards this new thing, but her parents stopped her by pulling at her tail. It made her stop and look backwards. They yipping quietly, adding a growl at the end. It seemed that they thought it was too dangerous for them to go in now, which now that they thought about it, made sense.
They stayed where they were, on the top of a sand dune and waited for night to fall. When they no longer saw light in these new dens, which it still amazed her that they could get little individual suns in those dens, they made their move. They slowly made their way down the dune and towards the ring. They surrounded it as best they could, without going into the den area. Her parents didn't want to risk going in there and seeing what could happen. They started to look through this herd to find anything small enough that they could take.
Thankfully, they found one of the baby calves. Zahra yipped, telling her family which one she found. They yipped back their agreement and they slowly started to enter the ring. Some of the animals started to get afraid with them in their space, but they would just move to the other end of the ring, which made it easier on them. They slowly made their way to the calf. They tried to surround it, but to no avail. It realized what was happening and started to run full tilt, with mother right next to it.
They were able, after what seemed like an eternity, to block off the calf and the mother to one side of the ring. Now, this was the tricky part. They needed to get the calf without involving the mother. So, a plan was thought out. Let the mother run by them and catch the calf while it was running after mother. So, they did it and it worked. Right when the mother passed them, the completely surrounded the calf and was able to take it down. When they were done with it, however, the mother was not pleased.
They knew they needed to get out with their meal quickly. Her brother and sister left the pin and Zahr tried to push the calf out of the ring. She didn't have a lot of the strength needed, so she tried to get her siblings to help. Even with their pulling, they couldn't get the calf out. Then, her parents helped. Thankfully, with all five of them, they were able to get the calf out. But, in doing so, the ring broke. With three of them dragging away the kill, she watched as all the beasts now started to run around the area free.
This woke up the two legged things and it gave them a good distraction to get away. Once they made it up to a nice sand dune, they were able to relax and howl at their triumph. There they sat, eating their prey at their own leisure. For once, there weren't a lot of other predators around that would mess up their meal. She sat and ate and was happy. She finally thought that they had found the best place to live. But joy was shortly outlived. The next day, after they ate their fill of their prey, they looked back on the weird dens of these two legged things.
It seemed like they found their tracks from that night. They were starting to form up little groups. They were able to fix the ring and contain all the beasts again, but it seemed like they were going to hunt them down. She quickly woke her family and they started off. They ran for hours, trying to outmaneuver these two legged things that were now going to chase them. They had traveled so far from their territory, they didn't know how they could get back. So they just ran in one direction hoping for the best.
Her family didn't believe her at first, so they went slowly. But, when they turned around and saw the things run at them, they started running as fast as they could to get away. They had to stop every now and then for a break but would keep the pace. At night, they moved slower and would constantly check to see where the two legged things were. On the first night, they didn't see the humans, but they still slept in shifts, just to make sure that the humans wouldn't be coming up on them.
They kept a pace like this one for two days straight. Jackals can survive without water for a while, but they were starting to strain that limit. It was getting to the point where they needed to find water. Zahr sniffed the air and didn't smell the two legged things anymore, so she figured it would be safe for them to stop the pace and try to find water. Her family agreed. So now, they walked slower, looking for water over everything else. The first day they were unsuccessful. She knew on the next day, they had to find water at least for her parents.
She had been keeping an eye on them and they weren't doing well. She would get behind and push them to try to have them keep up with them, but on the third day, she had lost her mother. She just didn't wake up the next day. Being without water for six days was getting to them. Even though they gained water from their meal, it wasn't enough to really keep them going. They lost their father the next day. Now, it was just her and her siblings. She actually started to smell water. She ran as fast as she could, which wasn't that fast, but she knew what she smelled.
She went as fast as she could and found a little pond. She took long drinks and felt much better. She looked around for her siblings and she saw them. It looked like they were making their way towards her before they passed out. She ran over to them, sniffing their bodies and knew that they were dead too. She howled mournfully at the sky, hating that she had lost her family over something as stupid as prey. She stayed at this water source for another day, finding some small mammals to munch on.
When she felt ready, she left. She walked aimlessly for what seemed like days, until she saw something peek out of the sand. At least that's what it looked like until she saw this thing get bigger and bigger. Once she got to the sand dune, she saw a huge....thing. She didn't know what to call it, because she had never seen anything like it before. The only bad thing was that there were more of those two legged creatures around it. She decided to wait until night to go look at it.
When night finally fell, she had been asleep. She woke with a start and looked around. She didn't see any of the two legged creatures around anymore, so she felt that it was safe enough to venture down there. She slowly walked down the sand dune. She sniffed and smelled the two legged things again, but there weren't as many. She wanted to risk it, just to see what these things actually were. She was able to avoid the two legged people walking around with mini suns (she really needed to find out how they did that) and made her way inside.
Once she got inside, it just amazed her. The inside of this whatever it was is so big, it reminded her of a desert or the sky it was so massive. She just sat there, staring up at it. She walked around, sniffing everything in this place. She smelled a lot of dirt and sand, which made her sneeze a few times and clean her nose. Then, she saw some amazing pictures. She didn't know what the pictures meant, but it was the two legged things again, except the faces were different.
She walked closer to the pictures and saw that one of them had a head that was like hers. It seemed like these two legged things were kneeling towards it, almost like they were acknowledging its dominance over them. It gave her an idea. Maybe this is the way that these things are run. She just needs to walk like them and then, she would be ready to lead them like these pictures were showing her. Looking at these changed her life forever. She snuck out of the pyramid, but now she was more curious about these two legged creatures.
She started to stay around this town, looking through everything. She smelled all the different animals, and almost got caught with a chicken. She stayed away enough to where they didn't bother her and she grew old to the ripe old age of fifteen. Since she had made the city her territory, there were no other jackals that came close enough to the humans to want to even try with her. But, the way she died was that she was up to her usual antics. Sadly, she didn't have the speed she used to and got caught by the farmer. She was crated off and left in the desert to die.
The last thought in her head is that she was going to make a mark on the world like those two legged jackal faced beings did. She would if it was the last thing she did. And then, with one last breath, she died. She then woke up and found herself in a place she had never been before. There was green stuff on the ground, that she heard people call grass. She sniffed it and pulled out a bit. It wasn't really something she would go after again. She then looked up at the trees that were full and lush.
It was definitely a different landscape than she was used to, but nothing that she couldn't adapt to. She got up and shook herself off. She stretched and started to sniff the air. She was getting assaulted with all these new scents, she didn't really know what to do, but to find a body of water. It was then when she started to see more two legged things walking around. Though, these smelled different than the ones she had smelled before. But, due to her past history, she put herself farther into the wilderness.
When she did that, she found a lot of other strong animals that lived in the wilderness of this new area. One day, while she was foraging, she saw one huge wolf coming at her. She held her ground and started to growl at this beast. Then, it barked and more started to show up. She showed teeth to all of them, not backing down from them. Soon she was surrounded. She kept her ground, but she knew she was going to get injured pretty badly if something didn't happen.
She knew that at this moment, she could easily die. Her stupidity was going to make her get injured. She was cursing herself about it before one of the wolves came into strike. She faced it head on and that's when she saw something black flash by her face. She looked and saw this huge two legged thing got in the way. The black fur surprised her and he was easily able to take all of the wolves out. He turned to look at her and then ran off. It reminded her of the pictures she saw and knew she needed to get that way.
Over a very long period of time, she learned how to hunt in this new place but kept finding herself watching these two legged things. After many, many years, she started to actually speak some of their words. She found herself saying the word, "Ja...ck...al..." She was surprised that she could actually say a word, she started yipping happily. After that, she started saying more and more words until she woke up one day feeling completely different.
She stood up and her eye view was different. She was higher up off the ground. She moved her front legs and they appeared like the hands from the two legged dwellers. She looked down and she was walking on two legs. She had finally done it! She yipped again in glee while walking around to try out her new legs. She was a little wobbly at first, but then she got used to it. But, she knew that she needed to wear clothing to actually walk around with her new two legs. She waited until the others had gone and was able to raid around and find some clothing.
Now, she had some clothing, so she could make due walking around near the humans. But, since she still didn't know much of their language, she stayed in the shadows, trying her best to learn as much as she could. Though, whenever she saw something that caught her eye, she wouldn't hesitate to go grab it and run away with it, inspecting it when she knew that she was in the clear and no one would come after her. If she didn't like it, she would throw it away and go after something new.
Though, she got all the holes in her ears from people trying to catch her after her thieving. They would try to hit her, and get her ears instead. She found nice metal rings and small little metal pieces that she stuck in her ears to make her look better and maybe even more menacing. Right now, she's trying to find her own niche and territory. After this, she will find a mate that is worthy of her greatness and make a new way for herself and the freedom that she cherishes more than almost anything in the world.