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Zum was awoken that night of the meeting, The front door being burst open he heard it first, both him and Chuck crashed into each other in the living room to see what was up. After listning to Tetra's story zum glanced at chuck. Chuck sighed, "Yeah you can stay here, I am sorry to hear about your house..." Zum hugged tetra as she tried to catch her breath, he pulled back and looked at her tired tear filled face, "It will be ok Tetra, And dont forget we will be leaving soon." After a while zum took the couch letting Tetra sleep in his bed. The next morning both of them headed off to school and it was a very silent day for both of them. The other kids had heard about Tetra's house and many either laughed or joked about it, and some mentioned how horrible it was. She didnt talk all day at school, so Zum did not either. They returned to Chuck's place and a man was just leaving, dressed in a black suit, and wearing black sunglasses. His dark blue hair shined bright in the sunlight. "What was that about?" Zum asked once the man was gone. "Just wanting to know what we were doing with Avian last night... The man is a loon if you ask me..." As the day got to evening Zum showed Tetra more of his paintings that he had hidden in a storge room, and then they ordered take out for dinner. They heard Avian leave for work, seeing as how the club had gotten repaired, things replaced, and was up and running again in such a short time. They also noticed a black car following her down the road. "Man what does that guy want with Avian I wonder..." Chuck thought aloud, "Ok no one was hurt in any of those accident's in town, so why is he dead set on finding a guilty party, no one was harmed in the forest fire, the black out was late so it harmed no one, and her club icing up wasnt show in the paper which means that no one was injured, maybe cold, but not injured..." "Who knows, maybe its HOW the things are happening that he is more interested in... But it doesnt matter, so long as all our stories match itll be fine i think. Till we can leave..." Zum said as he sipped on his dinner. ----------- OOC: Frankie told me that her next post will probably flash a little forward in the time to when the ship is ready so she suggests that you dont leave you next posts with openings where people need to answer other characters or whatever... She doesnt want this to die so shes jumping ahead to take off time.

ooc: Yay computer access other thank yours frankie! Woot! ------------------- Zum and chuck returned Tetra to her home to decide to tell her parents or not, maybe just express her ideas about where her kind originated, either way they parted ways and returned home. Zumiah went up to his room to soak in the details. His pas wasnt the best but... his life now was as normal sa he could make it. Was he really willing to give it up for the chance to possibly die... or risk tetra's life either... But the nagging feeling to do people good was far stronger than to stay and get good grades. He fell into sleep thinking about the mission. A dream began~ Zum was in the orphanage again, he was 7 years old. He knew many kids there many came and many went, all the while and his oddness left him out of the choice kids. The orphanage was a terrible place to live when it wasnt visiting days... Kids were treated horribly, fed things that resembled food but didnt seem like it, beaten if they did or said something wrong, or insulted or offended the people who came to see the kids. It was terrible, and it was amazing no one had shut them down... Zum sat on a cold unfolded chair, like all the other kids, at an assembly of sorts. Shortly after that they were told to sit in silence as parents went up and down the lines to check the children... A large woman and a timid man hovered there in front of zum, eyeing him and the girl he sat next to, her name was Naomi, she was like him, able to change. Zum was adopted along with naomi to the couple. Later life went from crap to crappier. The husban was shot in a drive by shooting, and the mother, known as Betty the Bitch slowly went crazy and took things out on Naomi. One night naomi changed into her small little mouse sized form that looked like an arctic fox when betty beat her for not folding the sheets properly. That night she had changed under the stress of everything and Zum was comforting her, understanding her situation. Betty the bitch came in and saw naomi's form... that was the last straw, she went balistic and tried to kill naomi, zum attacked the woman and naomi fought back... leaving the woman unconcious in her mansion the kids ran away. Unfortunatly a few days later they got split up. Alone in an alley, in the shadows durring a warm sunny day Zum cried to himself, wishing the sun would go down so he could find something to eat. A smack in the heat alerted him to the fact someone was standing there. "Hey miss why ya cryin!?" Zum didnt look up, "IM A BOY!" He screeched. "Ah I see, Sorry about that, You know, The smell of flowers helps drown out the trash." Zum glanced up, surprised this man could smell his unusual scent., "Yeah well... " He couldnt think of anything to say... The guy smiled, "Heh Its alright, Im like you, no worries... My Name's Chuck! Looks like you need some help... wanna crash at my place?" "Sure..." Zum didnt care anymore, "My name is Zumiah, but you can just call me Zum..." Zum woke up from the dream, he met chuck that day and it was the best thing that had happend to him, he got a better life than before, he was greatfull to have Chuck as a friend and RoomMate, even if chuck was an idiot most the time... Zum forced himself to go back to sleep, if chuck can grow the balls and responsiblity to take ona life threatning mission, then so can he... --- ooc: fun stuff

Zum blushed horribly upon the kiss on the cheek. He nodded, in agreement to pass the message on and they both parted ways. The dance had been alright, his first ever so he had no real experiance to compare it to so it was a good night despite his panic attack and form change. He made it back in the house to see chuck there with a grin on his face, "So didja get any?" Zum frowned... chuck had a oNe track mind it seemed, "No you moron. We danced, I failed horribly at singing in front of a group, had a panic attack, changed forms in the bathroom, we had some nice conversation and we parted ways. She did kiss me on the cheek though, Oh and she thanks you for the ride." "Well thats good! You will have a girlfriend in no time!" Chuck then lost intrest and wandered down to his basement room. Zum never went down there, it smelled to much of beer and weed. Zum returned to his upstairs bedroom, went to bed and slept dreamlessly. The next morning he went to school and met tetra for a chat at lunch time. He was actually comfortable around her, maybe it was because she was like him in the animal sense... both were different but they were the same in their differences from the rest of the kids. There at the lunch table Zum spoke first. "Hey tetra... Hows it going?" "Ok, had fun last night and everything, so what did you do lastnight?" He sighed, "I was going to paint on my recent project but I went straight to sleep. I was kinda tired, probably from the panic attack..." "Oh... Wait you paint? I never see you paint in art class!" "I know... I paint ... strange things so yeah." "I would love to see some of it sometime, and hey how come you never eat lunch..." He paused, "How about tonight after school... I have tons of them in my room, the side room is like my own little gallery, you should ask your ever so happy mom and see if we can head to my house after school... and as for the food thing... eh... because of my eh..." He looked at the others nearby and thought about his w ords, " My abnormality as we should put it, normal food makes me sick, I have to eat specialized 'food' at home... No big deal though." She understood, "Cool!" Well the day went by and class ended and He met tetra in front of the school. "Good news, my mom said yes, just so long as I am home by dinner time!" And with that they were on the bus and at Zum's house in notime. Chuck was happy to see Zum mopre comfortable around girls, instead of unable to speak he was having open conversations with this girl. Of course chuck also knew she was like them, and perhaps that own level of understanding was a main factor for him. He could be comfortable being himself because he had no worries of letting out their secrets... As the evening drew down tetra was ready to come home when a knock at the door rang through the house. Zum got the door to find Avian standing there, a little tired looking. "Hey Zum, I would like to invite you all over to my house for dinner here in a few hours." Zum paused and then glanced at tetra, "Uhm..." Avian knew of Tetra's scent and smiled, "By all means she is invited too... Well just so long as her parents agree." Tetra, noticing Avian's scent as well, "I could call!" After a phone call some major persuasion Tetra got the go ahead. Within an hour they were all at Avian's house (a whole five feet a way) and around her large living room full of comfy chairs and a large chooshy couch. A girl sat silently reading in the corner. "Oh that is taylor, Leave her alone for now..." Avian began to cook. "I have a few more guests arriving soon, at least... I hope so..." She thought about Ira and Chance before zoning off into cooking land. Zum sat and conversed with Tetra and Chuck. ----- ooc: I got us at your house, I figured that the others (ira and chance) could bassicly repost what they did that night and come into this day... so at least two of us made it to avian's house :D Hope thats ok!

Zum was scared out of his skin, was it possible for him to be even more pale, right now would be the moment he breeched that barrier. He gulped and decided why not, he would try it, if not hed never hear the end of it from chuck. Well the moment he got up there and was ready he noticed just how many people were looking at him. He froze, as usual... He tried to follow the lyrics but the moment he went to say anything the only sound that escaped him was a high pitched noise that couldnt be understood. Suddenly overcome by anxiety her felt himself shifting and ran for the mens room. Once safely in the stall he jumped up on the lid, which he had closed, he let the panic attack consume him and his animal form take over, he shrank to the size of a skunk, and looked pretty much like a skunk, and once the transformation had occured, he calmed himself and changed back. Once he knew he was alright he left again. "Are... You alright?" Tetra asked once she found him. "Uh... I get... Not much of a crowd person, I think the singing idea was not the smartest, small panic attack... No worries its over now..." -------- ooc: were we at the dance by now or the club? I kept it pretty much unsaid... that way youcan specify later... :D

School droned on by like a blur, he remembered talking to very few people and he didnt skip gym either. Eventually that last bell rang, and the kids left like crazy. Some shouting about an all ages club and some freaking out about the dance. Zum returned home quickly, he was at least going to TRY this who dance date thing. He got ready and suddenly evening was upon him. Chuck knocked on Zums door, which was always locked now, and said it was about that time. Zum crawled into the Chuck's kinda nice black two door car. He was ready to sit in the back so that Tetra could have the front seat, but then he worried about Chuck and hoped everything would be ok. They arrived at the right location and he knocked on the door. Someone answered. "Hello?" Zum nervously spoke, "I-i-is Tet-tra here?" "Oh how cute!" In a flash the person at the door was gone leaving the front door wide open. It was wierd he didnt even catch who it was. The whole house smelled far different than an avarage human. "Tetra, your date is here!" ~~~~~~ ooc: you can take control for the dance bit Tetra, I got a message from frankie stating that we dont have to meed up with her at the club we can just go for fun or something like that. Her character already knows about our characters and knows how to find them so yeah... its about fun at this point :D

Zum was in his room again, painting like crazy when he glanced at the clock, He was such a night person he forgot there was school in the morning, and a dance after that... Wonderful. He cleaned his brushes, put away his paints and went to sleep. In the middle of the night he heard a car door, no .... two car doors close just outside the duplex, he glanced out his window sleepily and noticed Avian and... some teen girl go into Avian's home. "She doesnt look old enough to have a child..." Chuck said from the shadows. Zum jumped so badly his ears had shifted to animal state and then back again. He has super hearing and yet he did not hear Chuck come up the stairs. "I dont think its her kid..." Zum pointed out a few seconds after he caught his breath, No matter, what the hell are you doing in my room at this hour..." Chuck sighed and stepped out of the shadows, the moonlight hit him and Zum realized what it was. "You idiot! Its a damn good thing we dont live in an apartment complexe, what with you CHANGING and wandering around in your sleep! You would be the one to walk right out of our apartment and scare everyone in the area... Get your furry ass outta my room and go back to sleep! The wolf creature sighed a bit and grinned, show all its sharp teeth, "Watch out kid, I might get hungry in the night!" Zum ignored this and locked his door once chuck was gone. He drifted off into sleep and when hes alarm clock went off he fell out of bed to silence it. He was up and ready in no time and was headed off for school. "Dont forget brat! You have a dance, and a date to go to!" Zum stopped dead in his tracks, oh man how could he forget that kind of thing! He put it in his mind and headed off to school.

Being a rejected student himself he felt for her, but thought nothing was odd when he saw her tongue and there wasnt anything wrong with her scent either. It clicked for a moment and he nudged chuck and whispered into his ear, "She is one of us man! The smell of her doesnt make me sick, meaning she doesnt have that smell of human blood!" Chuck's expression didnt change much and he looked up at the girl waiting for a reply, "That doesnt matter right now, does it, this nice young girl has asked you an important question." With his mind back on track he realized that she was asking him to... a dance. One of those crazy dances that happend every so often at his school, gatherings of everyone to loud music, food, and obviously dancing. He was torn, kill fear, buck up some courage and go, OR sit there and be a coward, hurt the girls feelings and stay home like a little work hiding from the birds. He thought internally a little longer and grinded his fangs into his tonge for a moment, "Uh......." Again why was it every time he tried to talk to a girl he couldnt think of anything to say even if it was already in his head, "Yes... Sure Ill go..." "WONDERFUL! ZUM HAS A DATE!" Chuck cheered causing zum to go bright red, which was very obvious against his extreamly pale skin. "Chuck I swear, Im going to -" Ignoring his fear, he wanted to simply punch chuck's face in. "Swearing is bad for a child of your age!" Chuck was having fun now tormenting the little guy. "So when should I pick you up?" Chuck asked the girl. "I can drive you both to the dance tomorrow night if you like... Its better than walking in the weather we have been having!"

As Zum was headed in with the box he heard someone speak, It was a girl and he hesitated for a second, then dropped the box inside, not to nicely, and returned to the porch. It was a girl he recognised from school. He wanted to start talking yet that immobolizing fear hit him again. It was rather annoying. Chuck returned outside to check what whats taking Zum so long and then he noticed the girl. Knowing full well how illegal it was he made no comment towards the girl, despite how cute he may have thought she was. "Zum? Is this a classmate of yours? Now I can see why -" He stopped there, catching his idiocy before it got too out of hand, "So whats your name?" Tetra was confused but simply answered, "Tetra..." Zum broke his own silence, "Shes in my science class, My art class, and my gym class..." Chuck laughed, "Like you would know who was in your gym class! Anyways sorry about Zum, hes kinda strange like that, its completely harmless! So what brings you to this part of the neighborhood, and In the rain I might add!" Zum glared at chuck, "You are stupid, It just STARTED raining, I doubt she planned to take a walk through the rain, though thats about the only time id take one..." He trailed off, glad the sun wasnt beating down on the porch anymore. " But yeah, what brings you to this area Tetra?"

For weeks after the call from the landlord stating a new neighbor was to be moving in soon both Zum and his room mate Chuck were anxiously waiting to see who it was and what they were like. Zum was mor curious as to see what kind of human it was going to be, and chuck was more worried if she would fall for his charm or not. The renovations took a while, looks of crashing, thudding, banging, and poor Zum's sesitive ears could barely stand it. Not long though did the actual building stop and the finer touches began. The paint smell bothered Chuck more than Zum and zum had to put up with his continous whining when he wasnt at school. Today was a day off, It was a grand day, no stress from school, no girls to immobilize him, just him and his upstairs bedroom and his painting supplies. Part way through a project he heard Chuck return from work. The sound of chuck's heavy footsteps up the stairs told zum that chuck had something to talk about... "Yo Zumster! It looks like all the trucks are gone! So soon the smell of paint wont make me want to gag every time i go outside. Hey what you painting there?" "You....sort of...." Zum said quietly. "I dont have horns there..." Chuck said as he eyed the picture carefully. It was almost correct. "I only have one set, not two." Zum frowned, "Yes but I got bored, its supposed to be art anyways, it is what I want it to be... Anything else?" "Yeah, the school called me at work, You skipped gym again." Zum twitched... "Yes well..." "I thought I gave you tips on getting over your fear of girls in short shorts! Come on! Grow a backbone! Girls are good! Zum sighed, "It isnt just that, they have us run outside alot, in the sun, You know im sensitive to the sun and i cant very well carry an umbrella during gym. Plus, they have never cared before if i skipped.... And since when are YOU the one to talk about not skipping classes?" "Oh no by all means skip, i dont care, Just so long as they are the boring classes like history, math, science, stuff like that... But when you can occasionaly eye down the pretty girls you should take every chance you get!" "Yeah well..." Before Zum could finish his comment Chuck stopped him, "Someone's in the house...." "How do you know?" "I can smell someone in the house..." Zum sighed, "No, Its next door. The new lady must be moving in today. I have better hearing than you and It is deffinitly downstairs and next door." "Well then, lets go check it out!" Chuck was already halfway down the stairs. Zum followed, more in hopes to keep chuck out of trouble than anything, but as he stepped down his foot missed the next step by just a little bit. He toppled down the stairs like a ragdoll. He crashed into a pile of boxes that hadnt been unpacked yet from chucks last shipment of things he needed for his shop. Wheel's, boards, and screws scattered everywhere. "Im ok... I ment to... do that!" Zum shouted as he struggled to stand back up again. Once both of them were on the front porch chuck spoke, "Dude... For someone so rich, she didn?t bring that much stuff...." "Maybe this is like a vacation home or something..." Zum said quietly... "Dude you get vacation homes in Hawaii or ... Malibu or something, now run down, down town." Chuck argued back. "Ahem!" The was the last real thing Zum heard... Once he saw the tall lightly tanned girl with the brown hair with unusual highlights he went into panic mode. He couldnt think, he couldnt speak, and he couldnt move. He ignored the conversation between Chuck and the girl, whos name he did catch, avian, it was a nice name. Suddenly they were talking to, or about him. He paniced thought about introducing himself but the only thing he could bring himself to do was raise his arm up and wave real fast. "Hi!" Was the only thing he could say. Once she went back inside Zum realized the situation was much different. Chuck had just recovered from almost falling on his face and Zum knew why he looked puzzled. He could smell over the paint, and the grass, the everything, somthing far different than normal humans could catch onto. It was how Zum knew chuck was like him, when they first met. He looked to Zum, "Do you...?? Zum nodded, "I agree. Now what?" Chuck shrugged. He was used to running into odd people like himself, and this was just another one. He glanced down at the boxes still left on the porch. "Guess she isn?t used to running into others... Or she doesn?t like the smell of wolves... Im not sure if I should laugh, or be insulted..." Zum coughed, "Maybe it was my scent that..." Chuck laughed, "No! You always smell like flowers, it?s to annoying to be shocking..." Shortly after he said that small drops of water began to darken the wodden porch. "Uh what about her boxes..." "Well... Wouldnt want her stuff to get ruined, I guess well take them into our side for now, Plus it gives her a reason to come over to our side and talk some more... Now that the initial shock of meeting me is over. She cant help but come back for more." Zum said nothing, his comments were lost anyways. He grabbed a few boxes and chuck grabbed the last few and they headed inside, away from the impending thunder storm. [CENTER]------[/CENTER]ooc: Hope I got chuck right... You told me more about Zum than chuck...

Ok Frankie, Just so you know, this sucks that I have to use your computer half the time for this, thanks for showing me this site though, seems fun! At least I can use the school computers to post as well, and with our teacher never paying attention to the fact that ALL of us are on myspace I think itll be fine! So heres my signup based on the info you gave me. He sounds... interesting to play! [B]Name: [/B]Zumiah Withro [B]Age:[/B] 16 [B]Gender:[/B] Male [B]Species:[/B] Vampire Bat / Skunk [B]Class: [/B]Spy / Stink Bomb! [B]Personality:[/B] Zumiah, or Zum, is a strange kid. Due to odd DNA mutations he cannot eat human food. It makes him horribly sick and he must, as the vampire bat might give hint to, drink blood. Human blood makes him sick as well so he always has a stash of "kool aid" hidden in his roommates fridge, which is actually animal blood. Most times he will just sneak out at night and aquire it on his own, never killing anything though. He is a very shy person at first, and seems quite normal around other guys, but if you get female's around him he gets all shy and nervous. His voice gets squeeky and he cant think of what to say, and ends up saying strange things or just sweating and saying nothing at all with strange looks on his face. [B]Appearance Human:[/B] Zum has pure black hair with white tips. It swoops down in front of half of his face so only one grey eye is visible. He is horribly pale and skinny. He wears grey girl jeans with a spiked black belt and black sneakers. He wears a white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up above his elbow's and has been mistaken for a girl before. He is also almost allergic to the sun, it hurts his skin terribly and he is sometimes seen out in broad daylight with a black umbrella! In human form he has great hearing still. [B]Beast Appearance:[/B] He is the size of a skunk, and is black with the white stripe, each leg has its own wing flat that attaches to his body, so he is very much like a flying squirill. He has his bat ears as well. Other than that, from just a short glance he would seem like a normal skunk with large ears. And no one looks at him for long anyways, he looks like a skunk after all. In this form he can fly and he can be in bright sunlight with no problem. He has great hearing. [B]Elements:[/B] Light / Dark [B][CENTER]Daily Life: [/CENTER][/B] It had been three weeks since Chuck invited him to move in. Zum was in an orphanage for the first 7 years of his life, and the place was horrible, had that facility been caught by authority figures like the police, some people would be in jail even now. Him and a young girl by the name of Naomi, had been adopted by this rich couple who didnt want to take the time ot have kids of their own and raise them from babies. They wanted kids who could partialy take care of themselves. In their new home they thought things would be better but soon their new mother was nicknamed "Betty the Bitch" and Betty grew more crazy after her husband was shot by a gang leader, who she later found out was Naomi's real father. She had walked in on Zum and Naomi who were both comforting each other in animal form from the day's chaos. (After adoption they realized they both had beast forms but never told anyone) Once Betty saw Naomi's fox like form she went psychotic and tried to kill Naomi. Zum attacked and Naomi fought back, leaving Betty unconcious in the mansion the two ran away. They were split up on the city streets the next day but a parade crowd and zum hid from the sunlight and cried in an alley way. Thats when HE showed up. A guy with a grin on his face, "Hey girl whats wrong?" He asked as he clonked zum in the back of the head. "IM NOT A GIRL!" He screeched. "Oh man... Im sorry..." And after that they realized, they were both different, Zum had attracted another one like himself, and later he learned that Chuck had a keen sense of smell, and could tell what he was. Zum started living with Chuck after that. "Hey! Quit day dreaming! Get down here!" Zum suddenly heard Chuck's voice echo up the stairs. He had been remembering how he got there and forgot Chuck needed help downstairs. Zum went downstairs to find Chuck hanging up the phone, " Whats going on?" Chuck grinned, "Well that was the landlord, doesn have time to fix the leak in the basement, now all my stuff is gonna get messed up, but thats not the big news!" He was excited, which only ment one of three things. It involved beer, weed, or girls. Zum paused before making a comment, "New girlfriend?" Chuck laughed and pulled a beer out of the fridge. "She will be, once she moves in! The land lord told us someone has rented out the other half of this duplex! Said she paid for some serious work to be done before she moves in. Watch and learn little Zum Zum! Once she moves in ill show you all the cool moves to get a girl!" Zum, knowing chuck and his "new girl every night" policy snickered, "What if she's ugly or somethin?" Chuck stopped mid swallow. Once he got his thoughts straight he swallowed and smiled, "She wont be, The landlord said it was a young looker from a western city and shes loaded." "The landlord thinks ladies with canes are lookers!" Zum shot back. Chuck grinned showing off his own fangs. "Yeah, maybe, but real rich people are never ugly when they are young! None that iv met anyways! They keep up their appearance! All part of their image you see." Zum shook his head, "If you say so..." "I do... I just have a gut feeling about it... Just you wait. Once the renovations are overwith, she will move in, and Ill show you!" Zum shook his head and went back upstairs... With a sigh he muttered "Stupid wolf..." "I HEARD THAT!"