SHIFTER RULES, PART 2

[Beauty]

WOLF SHIFTERS
La Push, Washington, USA

The History

Legends have it that the members of the Quileute tribe had the ability to have their spirits leave their bodies. In times of need the men would leave their useless and often enough vulnerable bodies behind them to perform tasks such as taking on a numerous tribe for land and needs. It was not until the time of Taha Aki and Utlapa that they became true shapeshifters.

Disagreements between Taha Aki and Utlapa led to Utlapa's banishment from the tribe and being forbidden from using his spirit self. Utlapa had intentions of killing the chief, but in the end he stole the chief's body instead. To keep Taha Aki from finding a human form, he killed his own body and left the chief as a spirit and went on to convince the tribe that he was their chief. Taha Aki watched desperately as Utlapa went about his lies.

One day Taha Aki met a wolf who stayed near him. The chief was able to enter the wolf's body and shared it with him, as staying in the spirit realm for too long was uncomfortable and painful. When Utlapa killed a fellow tribe member, Yut, though, a great rage came over the chief's spirit and allowed him to transform into a man. With that began the ability of the Quiletute tribe to transform from men into wolves and back into men. Over the generations, the sons of Taha Aki held the ability to transform, which came in useful when Cold Ones entered their territory and began harming their people. The shifters were able to take on the monster.

The Present

As time went on, though the descendants of Taha Aki stopped becoming wolves when they reached adulthood. Only in times of great need would the gene trigger and cause them to shift. Now, those of the right blood, have been able to shift as their ancestors have. When a coven of vegetarian vampires, the Cullen family, moved into a nearby town, the people began to shift again, preparing to defend their families. While the Cullens have turned out to be a harmless group, other Cold Ones have moved around them as well. As long as there are Cold Ones and there is a threat to the humans around them, the people with that blood will hold the ability to transform at will to guard those around them.

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TIGER SHIFTERS
Tynda, Amur, Russia

The History

It is said that in Tynda vampires were not the reason that the northern villagers of Russia started becoming tigers. In those early days there was a lot of carnage for land. Nomadic tribes would invade villages and cause havoc. Anything from normal pillaging to complete destruction. Alik Fedot was the first leader in those days of his small village. He sent out men to patrol the area much like a alpha would with his pack. Many men didn’t come home though, later they found a body torn to pieces by some sort of huge animal.

Alik pondered over his dead friend and what fate had befallen him. The bite from his body was bigger then any of the normal predators in the area even the largest the Siberian Tiger. He called a meeting with his people and his daughter sat in the corner listening closer then he intended her to. Lubov was her name and she was more sympathetic to her peoples plight then anyone her age should have been concerned with. In the night while her family slept she left the house intent on finding out what was eating their men. She wore a heavy parka as she tracked through the snow. She walked nearly all night before coming face to face with a huge Siberian tiger.

She thought surely this is what had been eating the men patrolling and she sank to her knees. She let out a sigh but it felt weird different then any breath she had taken. When she opened her eyes she was looking at her body limp in the snow. Fear never struck her, confusion yes but not fear. She was one with the huge tiger and she could see his thoughts. He was thinking of a equally gigantic amur leopard tarring the men to pieces. The leopard had family with it, a large family and the enormous leopard became a nude man before her eyes. So a nomadic tribe of shape shifting demons had entered the area intent on testing the Tynda villagers to see if they were ready for an attack. Lubov returned to her body running to the town to warn them.

She took a group of six men out with her though truth be told they were only amusing her initially. Since even though she was losing her mind she was the leader’s daughter. She felt these men were special in her heart the tiger was telling her they were her pack. Lubov Fedot sunk before the tiger once more and the men in fear and awe watched as the tiger looked at them with intelligent green eyes a signature Fedot trait. She roared and other tigers came to take on their men and their destiny to protect their tow. Lubov would later fall in love with a Amur leopard shifter male but that is a whole different legend.

The Present

Today in Tynda, tigers had been nonexistent for sometime. After a vampire invasion that nearly destroyed all the shifters leaving only Yasha Fedot and his son from the original pack or so they thought. Little did they know a few of the other pack families had made it away unscathed. Yasha was not the only one who had gone out on patrol the day the village burned and the vampires attacked. Some of his pack remained and had children. Yasha is dead now because he could no longer live without his imprint. She was changed before his eyes and he died at her hand but the reaming alpha blood runs through his son Adam’s veins. He just thinks he is the only one remaining. Who knows though maybe his brethren will appear and he will take his rightful place at the head of a tiger pack.

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BEAR SHIFTERS
Franklin, Louisiana, USA

The History

It was in the days of Robert Beers that the locals began their destiny of becoming the Louisiana Black Bears. At the age of fifteen the young boy called Robert Beers was accused of raping a local girl, Carolina Watson. The teen was shunned by his own family and run out of the town by the residents. Robert hid in the forests surrounding Franklin, Louisiana, hoping that he could find the evidence to prove his innocence and return to his home soon. But he was well despised among the people in town and his name and face was too well known as the rapist for him to find solace anywhere else.

There in the forest, Robert came across a small black bear cub about to be killed by two hunters. Three other bears were lying bleeding and dead around the cub. Bear hunting in Franklin was illegal at the time and Robert had a particular fondness for bears. The two hunters knew him well and jeered at him, waving their guns drunkenly at him. With both them as wasted as they were, though violent, it was easy for Robert to disarm them and knock them out cold. Robert picked up the bear cub and ran with it, taking it deeper into the forest and safely away from the other humans. There he let the cub go free around an area he had seen other bears before.

Bears were dangerous, though, and Robert had no means of protection. The man ran and fled the area and headed off towards Shreveport, Louisiana. Twelve years later, Robert Beers returned to Franklin to check up on the sister he had been writing for three years. Horrible, brutal deaths were taking place in Franklin once a month and she was scared. One night while visiting Rebbecca and her husband, Robert heard noises outside and in the light of the full moon he saw a monstrous being chasing two girls into the forest. Robert ran after the thing bravely, followed by his old high school friend, Harry Welch.

The thing looked like some cross between a demon and a wolf. Robert was scared, but he was not about to let the two girls get hurt. The monster turned on Robert and Harry and as it advanced, several bears ran into the clearing, growling at the thing. Robert watched in shock as the fiend turned onto them and slaughtered them easily. It then turned on to the girls once more. Robert was infuriated and scared, but he could not let those two girls get hurt. For a moment his mind clouded and he felt so strange, but suddenly he felt bigger and stronger and he was growling at the monster. Beside him, Harry had become just like him...The two had turned into large bears, far bigger and nastier than the bears the monster had slaughtered. With some difficulty the team managed to take down the monster they later discovered was called a Child of the Moon.

The Present

After Robert and Harry only one other generation managed to shift into bears in the threat of an attack by other shifters. Now, though, with the sudden rise in vampire population, more people in the town of Franklin seem to have the blood in them to change into bears. With the Louisiana Black Bears as a threatened species in the are, though, it makes it a bit difficult for the species to get around inconspicuously.

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BAT SHIFTERS
Dumai, Sumatra, Indonesia

The History

The bat shifter origin is shrouded in mystery. Some say that the ancient people of Indonesia were sacrificing their children to a evil god who drank the blood of their young virgins. The god threatened the ancient tribes of Dumai. He was unusually strong, beautiful and fast the people feared him because they knew he was a god after all a mortal man could not go up against twenty men with spears and live. He began to grow greedy and the people feared they would not have enough blood to quench his thirst. Guntur was a young husband at the time and he loved his wife dearly. She was all he had ever wanted in a mate.

He tried to hide her in his hut from the god who if he saw a woman he wanted he would take them forever. When they were out of virgin sacrifices though the god moved onto the beautiful women of the town. He saw Atin though there was just no hiding her from the god who seemed to sense Guntur’s apprehension. It is said that the god lifted Atin up to his temple to sacrifice her. Guntur began to shake with rage and those who witnessed it said he exploded into huge black bat or as they called them flying fox.

He was enormous and the god shrunk back with fear but had a chance. Until Guntur heard anger in his mind. Behind him was a huge brown bat. He knew it was Kersen a man from the village who had lost his daughter. Together they tore the god to pieces, though he put himself together again. They decided to burn his as a sacrifice to the sun god. The violet smoke filled the room but he did not come back together. The gods had smiled upon them for killing this false god. Guntur got Atin and formed a unnaturally strong bond with her. She was his sun and the gods had hand picked her for him. Guntur became the alpha of a bat pack his last name is lost in time but perhaps his decedents will show their faces.

The Present

When the vampire was killed and Guntur and his pack went into dormancy the gene faded into the background. Though Guntur had many sons and daughters with Atin and his blood lives on along with his pack’s descendants. The gene has been spread throughout the world maybe someone who doesn’t know they have some Indonesian in them will sprout wings one day. The gene lay waiting though for its next reason to appear.

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TASMANIAN DEVIL SHIFTERS
Tasmania, Australia

The History

From childhood, Logan Tierny had been determined to have a Tasmanian Devil as a pet. He was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and had always had a strange fascination for wild, strange animals and often wants them as pets. This was never made possible until he grew into manhood and married an equally wild girl named Addison. The two moved to Tasmania and made their dream come true of owning as many strange pets as possible, including a Tasmanian Devil.

Their neighbors were a bit scared at first of the Tierny family, but soon they all grew close and the Tierny family mini-zoo was a popular place to be. Logan and Addison were flamboyant and friendly and made for great hosts. Making such good friends with the neighbors, though, they began to easily notice when one by one they were being killed off. Logan, Addison, and a small group of friends walked into the Jeffrey household to find a red-eyed monster drinking the blood away from the young thirteen year old Stacy Jeffrey. When the vampire looked up and saw the audience, he moved in a flash and attacked Addison.

Seeing his wife being drained of her life, Logan was devastated and panicked and infuriated. Before everyone's eyes, Mr. Life of the Party Logan Tierny had transformed into one of the several Tasmanian Devils he owned...Only bigger and meaner. He attacked the leech that had attacked his wife and ripped him to shreds before shoving him into the Jeffrey fireplace, watching him burn to his death. Once it was over, Logan transformed back into a man but his friends left in a fury, terrified of him now. Logan moved over to Addison's side and brought her home to care for her wounds. Sadly only days later, Addison turned into something beautiful and something deadly just like the man who had destroyed their friends. Unable to kill her, Logan ran off back home to Sydney.

Most of the time, Logan stayed in his animal form, unable to face his pain and shame as a human. One day, though, walking through town on a rare human day (not aged after twenty years) he met a woman in the market named Hilary Jameson. It was literally love at first sight. Hilary revived his passions in life and with her he returned to his home in Tasmania and produced a good and healthy twelve children with her.

The Present

There are many decedents of Logan Tierney now, though none had been able to shift as he had until this generation. With a Child of the Moon and several vampires in town, the locals need protection and they have it in those who share the blood of Logan Tierny.

[Beauty]

LION SHIFTERS
Daiyir, Persia, Iran

The History

Avan Navid was raised as a noble in Persia during the early ages. He was truly a man of privilege because his father was an advisor. Greece was at war with Persia and Avan was expected to lead some of his brave countrymen into war. He was young only sixteen at the time when they began to prepare him. He was strong though, way stronger then a boy his age should be,. His father accounted this to good breeding, his mother said it was good nurturing but Avan thought in his heart that it was something else. He was brave, braver then men twice his age always willing to lead a charge. He had the heart of a lion. Before battle his mother kissed him goodbye. She didn’t want to watch him go although he had grown tall and strong in the past couple training months. She didn’t think she would ever see him alive again.

He was treated with respect on his march to Isis to fight against Aleksander the Great’s army. He was not afraid although some men retreated in the night. The army was heard to be undefeatable. Avan was convinced that it was only because they hadn’t met the proper opponents. When the day came they lined up and across the field Avan could see the man his opposite. He shown like the sun almost inhumanly so. Avan chalked this up to armor, obviously for men don’t shine like that. As the armies ran together to collide Avan began to feel hot. Soon he was face to face with his opponent. The fiends topaz eyes bore into his. He was inhumanly strong and one swift hit sent Avan backwards twenty feet. When he stood though he began to lose control.

Avan suddenly became a huge lion although nobody but his opponent noticed the transformation since they were caught in the throws of war. They collided and suddenly some soldiers turned shrieking it was Nemean, Hercules’s nemesis. The man with the topaz eyes disappeared into the crowd as many man fell. Avan so surprised by what had happened ran. Not from fear but from confusion and his people’s army was all but annihilated. He was lost for sometime but when he finally made it home he felt odd there. This was not over and that was not a dream. Little did he know the topaz eyed opponent had decided to stay in the area. He had been fighting not for human purposes but for a Persian girl. This is how the lion’s began and sustained in Persia when the wild lions there are extinct.

The Present

Today their descendants still live in Daiyir though the true alpha is in Forks. Cy Navid is his name he is the eldest son of the late alpha Firuz who took his life when his imprint Ewka was killed by vicious nomads. His second wife has taken the position though. Leyla is her name and she is willing to fight for it. They have come to Forks following the nomads who killed their family and pack mates. A pack could simply not let that go although the other families still live in Daiyir with the remaining pack mates.

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SNAKE SHIFTERS
Crowley, Texas, USA

The History

It was around the time the state of Texas was founded that the first snake shifter was born. Chad Ewing's family had escaped a mass slaughter of their kind in Dublin, Ireland...Godlike people who were slaying small cities and villages and had reached the place where the Ewing family lived. They had lived in a worn down neighborhood of Wicca people hiding their practice of witchcraft from the God-fearing Catholics in the region. The people had learned of their ancestors being able to have their spirits leave their body and called it magic and had worked hard to conjure it up in themselves ever since the legends were heard of.

The Ewing family had never been able to do this, though a few of their friends claimed to have done so. Once in America, though, the family stopped all practices of witchcraft, fearing that that was why the creatures had been sent after them, too kill Wiccas and while they escaped their country, they did not feel entirely safe. They renamed their older children more normal names and shied away from more older and difficult Gaelic names they had chosen for their other children. They raised their children properly and forgot all about witchcraft in favor of going to the religion they had sworn against for so long: Catholic.

As a boy, Chad often enough got himself hurt and on several occasions had been bitten by snakes. Most times doctors could swoop in and save him. On his seventeenth birthday, though, Chad was bitten in his leg and it was so much worse. Doctors knew he would either die or he would need his leg removed. His family was devastated until an old Native American from the region came in and offered his help. Desperate, the family let him look at Chad. What the man did exactly is uncertain, but the next morning when the man disappeared, Chad was better and healed and the family was grateful to their anonymous savior.

Only a month after the healing, the Ewing family encountered the godlike creatures who had hurt their friends before. A man far too handsome to be real was trying to seduce a young local woman named Maggie Slater. The Ewing family knew what this meant and began packing their things to leave. Chad, however, did not feel right with running. As his family began to leave, Chad abandoned them and went after the creature. The vampire was just about to hurt the girl when Chad showed up. The girl was cowering in fear. Chad had heard of the creature's strength, but he was determined to die trying to help the girl. Then something unusual happened...Chad felt funny for a moment and in the blink of an eye his body was morphing slowly into a large, hissing snake like the many of those that had bitten him. The vampire attacked and the two fought brutally for some time, but Chad managed to tear the creature apart and Maggie gathered enough strength to toss them into the fireplace according to certain myths she had heard of vampires.

The moment Chad came back into his human form and his eyes fell upon Maggie really looking at her, he fell in love. Chad stopped shifting after that one incident and lived happily ever after with Maggie in Crowley, Texas.

The Present

For a long time, the shifting gene was not seen of or heard of again. The Ewing couple bore many children and over the years they grew and married off and now many of those descended from Chad Ewing bear the gene today, just waiting for something to set them off. The moment a danger is sensed, the gene will be triggered and the town of Crowley, Texas will have more trouble with snakes than before.

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CHEETAH & LEOPARD SHIFTERS
Lubango, Angola, Africa

The History

It started as a war between the Mekhi tribe and Amari. Ever since the two had lived in proximity to each other there had been fighting. The Mekhi became huge leopard shifters and were rulers of the trees while the Amari became long sleek cheetah shifters and in numbers could easily take out a Mekhi. For many years the two fought over food sources, water sources and religious rights. It seemed the two tribes always had to look out for one another. In primitive times they would steal each others women, this created deep seeded hate that just never seemed to stop. War was a constant thing and it was about even between them. If a Amari went out alone near Mekhi territory he would surely die as was the same with the other.

Then something came into the Lubango area. Something more sinister then cheetahs and leopards. It started by taking the weak and the tribes blamed each other when people started to go missing. Until they smelled it. The scent burned their noses. It struck fear and hate into all of the shifters. The tribes tried to take out the monster on their own who turned out to be a beautiful almost heartbreakingly so female demon. She had red eyes and light caramel skin she seemed to beckon to village men who could not resist . She would catch the leopards though and bite them. They simply couldn’t out maneuver her on the ground. While she would leap from the sky seemingly and kill the cheetahs. So Sabe the leader of the Mekhi stuck up a deal with Imani the head cheetah. They would work together to rid the world of the foul smelling demon.

Since cheetahs couldn’t climb they would hide for her in the trees. The cheetahs would run her into the dense over growth where she would be met by the two formidable jungle cats. They talked over the plan and went into preparations. During this time the Mekhi and Amari began to bond realizing they were not so different. Men from the different tribes became close friends even taking to running together. when the day finally came the plan went off with only one casualty. Ig his name was and he was a Amari runner. The Mekhi though feeling like they lost a comrade organized him a funeral right that would make kings jealous. The two began to notice their mind link had connected which was strange because they were different packs but it seemed the fight had combined the two into one pack. Proving that genes aren’t all it takes to make a pack, a pack is a family that fights together.

The Present

Today the Mekhi and Amari no longer exist instead they are one united pack and people called the Shan. They are a formidable pack led by the bloodline that is both Mekhi and Amari the leaders children imprinted on one another to make a mixed lineage. Their blood lines run through out Africa though Shan is the pack. They still pray for Ig as he was the one who helped to unite them, They are a respectful breed of shifters and if you ever come across one you would know by their tact. They are raised with honor.

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PANDA SHIFTERS
China

The History

Myths and legends told of an ancient Chinese School that taught of the ways of Chi, an art that delved into the manipulation and control of living energy. There was one, Tai Chi, who was said to be the divine master, the one who had tapped into this energy and could control it at will. He was worshipped throughout the lands, and people from around the entire country of China travelled to catch sight of Master Tai Chi. His worship and honour sprouted solely from the protection he was now able to provide with this power and the promises he had made to the people of China to rid them of the beings of ice that threatened them, the Vampires.

Tai Chi’s ways of Chi Bending was unique and very special. It was during one night that he was practising his art, training it and attempting to master it, long before he had ever earned his now god-like reputation, that he first felt his chi leave his body. For him, it was an exhilarating and wondrous experience that would change his life forever. He could feel his living energy travel and enter a new host, one that was completely random, one that was found simply because it was the first living being the energy came in contact with; The Giant Panda. Master Tai Chi felt the connection, the bond, the shiver of warmth and was incredibly pleased with his discovery, with his master of the art of chi bending. From that day forth he swore to stand against those who he had once feared to do so before.

And so, Tai Chi did, he became the great Panda Man, a warrior who’s legend was told from village to village. His original human form was left within his own private training shack, dead, and his new form, a more beautiful and memorable man, was the figure who was painted and sculpted. Through time, Tai Chi fell in love with a woman who adored him not for his supernatural ability, but for his strength and passion. The two had several children, who each, to their surprise, gained the ability to shapeshift just like their Father. His oath to protect was passed onto them through his teachings, and with him being the very first, and therefore the strongest of the Panda shifters, Tai Chi became the Alpha of the pack, and the stories and folklore surrounding them became incredibly poular.

The Present

When Tai Chi died of his own accord, stopping shifting in order to grow old with his wife, his children followed tradition and lived to protect and serve the people of China. They spread out in order to even the odds against the beings of ice and , in time, they began to significantly decrease the numbers of Vampires within the country. And with nowhere near as many Vampires, the generations of Tai Chi’s descendants had no need to shift. And so, now, in the present, most of Tai Chi’s descendants do not have the shifter gene, only few remain, only few are needed.

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SEAL& ARTIC FOXES SHIFTERS
BARROW, Alaska, America

The History

The Inuit people have been in the North for as long as most can remember. They had prayed to the gods for abundant seal pups constantly. It was one of their largest food sources afterall and without them how would they survive. The seals always came though back in those days they werent clubbed for the white man hadnt entered that far north yet. The darkness was coming soon in the season. Alaska always has thirty days of complete darkness in its year. While making preperations Siku one of the sons of the elders found a very peculiar man. He was naked at the day he was born in the snow moaning.

He begged Siku to kill him but he would never do such a thing. Instead he took him home where he clothed him in a thick parka and gave him some food. The stranger remained in the home for the entire thirty days but he seemed constantly on edge. Tatkret was his name. He was kind and showed no agression so Siku told him he could remain as long as he needed to. Ulva was Siku's oldest son and he began to grow ill when the days were at their end. On the night of the first full moon Tatkret seemed to come down with the same illness. That night Tatkret writhed on the floor Siku was sure he would die but instead he exploded into a huge wolf monster killing and devouring Siku.

Ulva ran from the house as Tatkret followed on his heals. Ulva was faster then he ever remembered suddenly he exploded into a ribbon seal which was really no use at all. He floundered along the ice until he reached the water. He began to swim quick but Tatkret wouldnt jump into the drink. Suddenly Ulva heard Sesi in his mind telling him he would chase the giant beast toward the thin ice where Ulva could tare him apart. Sesi was a boy from a neighboring tribe but when he saw him he didnt recognize him for he was a white artic fox. He had two others at his heals. Apprently from the memories Ulva could see last moon they had chased Tatkret and lost him in the night.

The three foxes exploded toward the wolf who in fear lost his barring and went towards the ice for escape. He broke through clinging with his fingers onto the edge. Ulva who was now a ribbon seal shiftr began to drag him down while Sesi and his pack pulled him. They torre Tatkret into pieces he would never terrorize the north again.

The Present

Today the Inuits still have thier odd shifters. They seem to work together perfectly seeing as the Denali vampires take up permanent residence it seems the shifting wont cease through generations. They have made a pact not unlike the Cullens and La Push wolves. Though many of the shifters resent the coven dearly.

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