Moonlit walk through the words P1(finished)

Zachary walked into the woods and stripped down. The clothes he had now had all been altered so they would change with him, but nothing quite compared to the feeling of freedom presented in running around naked. It brought him closer to the side of his wolf nature. Bearing that in mind he opted to shift to wolf form. His fur was a beautiful shade of black and looked up at the moon, enjoying the mist and the feeling of true freedom he finally had.

He was focused and clear and he briefly considered stepping into the umbra to do this but decided that he was going to just run through the woods. Bearing that in mind he took off, full speed across the forest catching scents, feeling the wind going through his fur, and foraging for small animals hidden in the brush and enjoyed the search for prey. Even though he was born as a human, he could truly enjoy the things the wyld gave him. He did think it was odd that he hadn't run into any other large predators.

And Zachary was not lost in the forest. It was not the most ideal situation but he was hardly concerned with it now. He had left his clothes near the entrance and would be fine with tracking them down later if necessary... At least as long as nothing else got hold of them and scattered them about. He continued to run until he caught the scent of something that didn't belong in the forest. Human? There was something else there but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.

He tore out of the bushes like a bat out of hell and was suddenly in the middle of the forest looking at a girl. She was about 5'5" and fairly attractive by his standards. Part of him wanted to transform back but that would involve him standing there in his birthday suit. Despite this he also remembered reading books about maidens in the woods where the wild wolves roamed and they would transform into naked humans and engage in primal intercourse with those women... somehow he didn't think this was one of those times. Her heart rate was irregular and he figured she had heard him coming or sensed or any number of any extrasensory abilities that could have lead to his discovery.
<Good evening for a run, right?> He said in his best voice which came out more as "grrr arf howl wine rar".

Most Garou had to dig deep and force their way through the five forms, Zachary and his master, as well as one of his master's pack mates were a different story however and while the pack mate could only change certain parts of her body at will, he had learned, through very painful and extreme practice and in secret areas of the umbra, how to truly control the transformations, though it was slower. Instead of just instinctively switching back to homid form, he took his time, shifting through the states.

First was the near wolf form, Hispo, a bear sized wolf stood before the now shifted jaguar. Next was the war form, crinos, and his frame grew to an even nine feet bipedal form with extended arms and jaws and claws that could rip bones out of creatures and smash trees. After that was the near human form, glabro, about 6'7" form with extra fur and a huge muscular frame. And finally he shifted to human, a light tan skinned, well built male standing completely nude in the cool autumn air.
"I was just making small talk, forgot how hard it is to talk in wolf form. And Lobo was another wolf who associated too closely with the Nuwisha, my changer name is Tsuki no Kage, Shadow of the moon, and my human name is Zachary." He explained. He had watched the clothes get tattered and assumed, much as his always used to, that she had not learned how to make clothing that would shift with you. It made for an interesting gift idea, but he opened his arms wide in body language.
"If you're planning to eat me I'll let you, just please don't eat my face or my manhood, i'll need those in the afterlife." He joked.

He had only seen animal spirits talk in their animal forms. Only the odd Garou or Bastet in a grand while had the ability to use anything but their species innate language as far as he knew and that made her an abnormality.
"Nice to meet you. Now... how are you talking as a Jaguar... I mean I've never even come close to getting the hang of speaking English in my animal form, and barely that in anything but the near human form. I think where I come from you'd be something of a celebrity." He said speaking in as much of a formal voice as he could muster standing naked. He still hadn't shed all vestiges of the human humility in being naked... nor the human reaction to seeing others naked.

"I'm glad you're not a fan of canine meat. I haven't been a food supply since nineteen ninety never but it's nice to be able to avoid the experience." He added, starting to wonder how funny other humans not in the know would think him if they saw him standing naked talking to a Jaguar and having a full conversation.

And now the human instinct of shame crept in on him even more. He was now standing naked in front of a fully clothed girl who had maintained the foresight to not only keep her clothes on, but brought extras just in case. He had listened to her quote and realized it was very much true for his kin as well.
"You have me at a disadvantage. I lack any extra clothes and um... " He was now fairly nervous. It wasn't like a hospital setting with a nurse that was supposed to see you, or at least part of you, naked anyway. This was someone who appeared to be his own age who now had a distinct advantage on him and he didn't really like it. The brief notion of grabbing a leaf and somehow attacking it to his crotch made way into his thoughts but he couldn't help but realize how stupid that was. He didn't have the ability to summon clothing because he hadn't dealt a lot with silk worm spirits or spider spirits and so he did the only thing he could think of.

"Be right back." He said, slowly shifting back into wolf form, each feature taking a little bit of time to manifest. He quickly took in a deep whiff of her scent and then went running back to the forest to get his clothing, returning to homid form and putting it on before heading back to Trini. What he hadn't even been thinking about was that the method he was going to use to find his way out of the forest if he got lost, was no long a viable option, but that never occurred to him, in fact he never even got the chance as he started to hear sounds behind him, followed by a loud thud and finally a huge black bear with some sort of thickened armor plating on its nose, underbelly, and back and scars on its face. His eyes grew wide and he took off running at full speed in homid form, tearing out of the bushes to face Trini again, only this time he turned and pointed.
"BEAR!" Was the only word that escaped his lips and the gigantic hulking mass erupted from the brush after him. He wasn't a big fan of fighting any of Gaia's other children but he wasn't about to take it on alone either, not if he didn't have to waste any of his rage just fighting a basic animal.

When the bear saw there were two humans now it stopped barreling ahead. It stopped, sizing up the two of them and roaring.
"Know anything in particular about scaring off unruly Ursine?" He said, addressing the bear with the name the Gurahl (werebears) preferred to address their animal kin, though not all would necessarily know it but context clues were the thick point here. It never even occurred to him that he was fully clothed now in his black shirt with the black martial arts pants that had the violet flames at the bottom of the legs and the black leather coat he wore that had gotten some tears from the brush.