Shifters

The customs official looked startled at the coins and quickly snatched them and casually covered the exchange rates board
 
Nyla looked sadly at the handful of copper she was able to keep, then tucked the money back into her satchel. "Is it finished?" Nyla asked the customs official. She gave another glance to the man with the orange hair. Kasparov, he had called himself. It was an unfamiliar name. But surely she would hear many unfamiliar words before the day's end.
 
Err yes, all done, now shoo, shoo!

As the woman stepped out of the hut, a great big grizzly bear crashed through the scrub into the small port. In a split second he morphed into a human. " they're here! The drakons!" He yelled. Suddenly, red-horned beasts launched out at the man and the few guards that answered the call.
 
"Heelo, do you kno where is ze nearest town -" the beasts crashed through the forest tearing there way towards them. One of the drakons pierced the messenger with its razor sharp tail, bursting the man's chest open. Kasparöv stood stunned for a few seconds then quickly morphed into a peregrine falcon, what the book had translated as an eagle. Flying up high into the air, he plunged back down into the skull of one of the drakons, imploding its head.
 
Another man rushed toward the beasts. He turned to the woman, "HELP US" he morphed into another bear and charged the drakon that killed the messenger
 
A boat pulled into port going mostly unnoticed in the chaos. A few rowdy men leave the boat, followed by a thin man with long hair and black clothing. He was the tallest person coming off the boat, at 6 and a half feet he was just above average height, but was easily outweighed by everyone at the port. He followed the men, he had to they were bound in chains, and casually observed the battle. His blue eyes darting to the man at the front of the group, an officer of some sort. Their escort seemed a little distracted so he slipped his hands out of the irons and ducked off to find the customs officer.
 
The customs officer had heard the shout of drakons and morphed into a fox, curled in the corner of the hut.
 
(It takes me a while to type out some posts.)

When the bear appeared, Nyla suddenly bent her legs as if to jump away. But he was only a shapeshifter. Her left leg shook slightly. She clenched her teeth and stomped her foot to the floor. No shapeshifting. She had heard those here were more comfortable with it, but they also seemed to have better control over it. Returning to human form a moment after a violent action? The wild-dog had been chased from the village because he couldn't do that.

Then the monsters appeared. "drakons," as the bear had called them. She had to escape! Adrenaline kicked in. Nyla reached for the door handle for the hut she had just exited, hoping to escape inside. A split hoof bumped against the handle. Nyla sucked in through her teeth in consternation and twisted her head back around. Someone was calling for help, but a drakon was nearly to her, and she had no idea how to fight these things.

Nyla spun around to the side of the hut and hurriedly dropped her satchel and shrugged out of her cloak and dress. There was only one fabric that could shift along with a shapeshifter, and it was rare enough in Wustental that she had only undergarments made from it. She couldn't afford to destroy her clothes due to an unavoidable shifting. Finally, she stopped holding it back, and burst into the slender form of a nubian ibex.

With one leap, Nyla was on top of the customs hut. Whatever the roof was made of, it looked tasty, but she didn't know how long it would hold her weight. In one direction was the water. Not good. In one was monsters. Not good. In one was a city. Not good. ("Good!" a thought in the back of her mind seemed to cry, but the animal ignored it.)
 
The drakons lost enthusisasm as massive black bears in platinum armour roared and charged at the drakons from the barracks at the end of the street
 
Gliding across the sky Kasparöv saw swarms of them moving at an insanely fast speed towards the dock. Plunging into another brain, he stepped out morphing back into a human.
"This way! There's too much!" He started running into the forest motioning for them to follow him
 
The thin man watched helplessly as the "drakons" attacked. He had never seen these creatures before and was not quite fit for fighting. He slipped into the hut after the ibex lept to the roof. He looked around and sat on the floor against a wall. If the hut was destroyed in the chaos he'd have a better chance with a wall to his back. He tipped his head to the fox officer and smiled.
 
The fox squealed and scrambled out of the hut. A loud scream and a crunching, squelching sound could be heard as soon as the fox left
 
The thin man winced. He shook his head and smiled, standing up he made his way behind the counter and helped himself to the collected taxes. Searching through the papers he grabbed up a pen and input his own information speaking aloud as he wrote it in. "Viktor... Carne... Pantherachnid." He nodded, put pen down and started toward the door counting his takings. He stopped at the door opened it a crack and looked out.
 
The battle bears had managed to beat back the drakons but the new arrivals escorting the now disappeared man were dead, and the customs official was nothing but bits of fox fur.

(Probably leave it there so we don't continue without the others)
 
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(Message to everybody, check the OCC thread from now on in the first post, and also I will be away until 4:30pm roughly tommorow, but feel free to continue. Remember, the port only has a tavern, the immigration hut, the barracks and the ship maintenance shed. You must journey to the various cities of Aakraan to continue the journey. Also, most aakraans have a bear shift, it's like the national animal.)
 
(I didn't know this roleplay had an OOC thread. Where is it?)

The fourth direction was forest. It would be hard to see in there, but there would be plenty to eat and the drakons would also have trouble seeing. As the man started for the forest, the ibex lept down to land beside him and dashed into the forest ahead of him.

Nyla soon reached a clearing near the edge of the forest. She turned her head and listened, but did not think the monsters had followed. A bush looked lush and greed, and she began to nibble on the foliage. This was an advantage she had had back home: other villagers could not eat the things she could. In a famine, it was a very useful ability. But right now, she wanted to get out of it.

"Human," the ibex thought, "go back. Go back." It paused in its eating, nodded, sat down, stood up, shuddered, and there was Nyla in human form, on all fours and wearing only a light undershirt and undershorts. With neither her cloak nor her goathair, the cool forest air caused her to shiver. Nyla stood and looked back the way she came. She had to get her stuff.
 
(UGG NO ALERTS One moment)

The girl nodded and headed for the costumer officer building where she had seen the others go.
 
Viktor looked down and gathered the clothes that were on the ground near the hut. He then turned around and headed back in. When the girl entered he said, "Hullo; I need your full name, animal-shift, and 1 gold coin as tax." In the chaos he figures he can impersonate the officer, at least for this one time.
 
She looked at the man and removed her cloak's hood. "My full name...." She paused hesitant to reveal such information to a stranger but then nodded grabbing out a gold coin. "Sade Roth. Um... Monkey." She said handing the man her gold coin.
 
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