THIRD PERSON
The heavy pitter patter of the rain and the swooshing sound of the wind were the only thing resonating in the dark alley along with the scrambling sound of cans and garbages on the pavement. The alley was deserted with people, garbages and posters barely pasted on the walls were the only things symbolized the trace of human deeds. Perhaps it was because of the rain silently brewing into a storm.
A group was huddled on the very corner of the deserted alley, the large drum they took abode barely held them in as they relied on each other's body heat.
The biggest of them all, curled trying to accommodate all the little creatures in its body, licking each one of them giving comfort and warmth as they kept on mewling.
"His tiny little beings''A thought was said lovingly.
Being a shifter was not an unusual thing in their world. For the adult leopard, being a shifter was not a problem. It was his nature, it was his origin but the sad part was that in his society he was deemed unusual, a freak, an abomination. He was born with a female leopard, with a male anatomical body. Some found it cool, some found it not. Or in his part mostly. He was banished by his own society, shamed by his peers but loved by his family. A family that was ripped off from him, a family that was gone.
But now another family was made. A family not all bound by blood, origin or species but of love, affection and trust.
The rain was still pouring heavily from the stormy sky. The cold was getting rampant and the wind was going wild.
Little whimpers emmitting and shivers eminent, so the older leopard curled more covering the li'l ones.
Cubs were more susceptible to cold , and need more heat. Their system were not yet full to completely protect themselves from extreme cold and heat.
'How I wish the rain stops' the older one thought. His son, a snow leopard in origin like him was not having a hard time deflecting cold since it was their nature to be susceptible to cold areas. But the li'l ones ,not from his own blood were having a hard time and how he wished the rain would stop. He also need to hunt for food for himself inorder to able his leopard's system to produce more milk for the cubs.786Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmghMfnYMw
Hunting was hard since he's in the human territory, so he would resort to human foods and let himself transform in his human form to look for jobs or he might get lucky someone might give him food.
He's poor, it was obvious since he's living in an alley and basically lacked human actions since he practically stayed in his animal form for years. Shifting into his human form might be difficult and interacting as a human was another thing. But he needed to do it, whether he liked it or not.
The storm was still raging yet still he need to eat. So he opted to shift and looked for food.
But of course, he need to wait the storm to settle down. He couldn't leave the littles behind in this drastic wheather.
All he wished was to have a decent shelter, food and safety for his family. But having his condition that everyone seemed to condemn, it would be an unachievable one.
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FIRST PERSON
Argen's POV
The rain was still pouring hard. I sighed. I'm hungry and I couldn't feed the littles due to my dried up milk. I was not producing milk anymore. I need to refill myself.
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I wanted to shift and ask for food but I couldn't. I stood up earning some whimpers from the cubs but I just licked them off giving assurance. My son Artic the oldest of them all replaced my role and curled around them.
I moved my hind legs towards a pool of rain water, it didn't looked clean due to the dirty pavement, but I had no choice I was really hungry and thirsty. Perhaps water could sate my hunger.
Lapping on the water, I couldn't help but sighed inwardly with relief, it's been two days since I ingested something. I wanted food but I couldn't beg for it in this form. I couldn't hunt here and I couldn't reveal myself. Exposing myself would lead to danger and who wouldn't freak out seeing a snow leopard in a middle of a street? Surely I would end up captured.
I walked back to the cubs and picked each on of them to the deepest corner of the alley. Our sleeping area. I guess the rain wouldn't stop so I'll just let them settle for the day and let them sleep, at least in this place it wasn't so affected by the rain.
Artic followed me as soon as I picked the youngest Azure and let them curled up in each other. I licked my eldest son one last time and went to clamp my teeth in the piece of big cartoon, and covered them.
'For now that would do, I'll be back Art take care of your brothers' I said gently to my son while lapping his head, he mewled and answered back 'yip mama' I cooed, responding him. He couldn't say well for now cause he lacked basic education since I birthed him when I'm in my cat form, since then I never shifted back, so mostly all he learned came from my thoughts.
He's a 7 year old snow leopard, who shifted only once in his lifetime. During that time he was so confused and all he did during was to crawl to me and hugged me, trying to let out some noises but all I heard was a croaking sound. Eventually I shifted too for the first time ever, explained to him what happened using our bond link. He didn't shift again.
He's a seven year old cub who's still nursing at me as his food source. I couldn't force him to shift to eat, so I let him nursed in me since I was still producing milk. Good thing about that, after I lost my second child from miscarriage I thought I'll stop producing milk, but fortunately I didn't and since it was hard hunting at that time I let Artic nursed in me, gladly he liked and adjusted to it. During that time too I adopted the two cluded leopard cubs abandoned in the forest, since the two were too young to eat, I let them nurse at me too. Which somehow an advantage since it was rare for me to catch a prey suited for family. It was really hard at that time. The forest was abundant but also dangerous which always put myself at risk.
But being in the city was more dangerous and hectic. I just hope we could survive this and hopefully live peacefully.
If we would have a stable life, I'd fill all those times that my son Artic should spent his early childhood, I'd make him the happiest kid among with his siblings.
I just had to work harder.
I shifted, wear my one and only set of clothes. It was tattered but still usable. I saw it once in the garbage, grabbed it and let it washed by the rain water. Whenever I shifted I used it, but since I shifted only twice, thrice this time I only used it twice.
Groaning from the pain, I tried moving my muscles and getting used to this form. I was still wobbly but somehow I managed. The rain was still pouring but not much, I used some cartoons to cover my head and trotted to the streets and to the shadowed area where rain couldn't penetrate.
Staring at the big sign 'E-Grocery Store' I took a deep breath and walked, perhaps this time I could get a job and have a food.
I was so hungry I could die.
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-Arya
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