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Arin and Holly were on the beach picking up trash as part of their bi weekly environmental days. Holly finally mastered full human form and wanted to go out wearing shorts and a tee-shirt since she can hide her wings and bird legs. Arin however was still having difficulty with his tail and ears so he wore a sweatshirt and a beanie and hid his tail in his shirt. An hour passes as they roamed the beach cleaning up trash and other disgusting thing humans leave on the sand and wave pools.
“Arin do you hear that noise?”
The Tiger turned to Holly and moved his hat so he could hear easier. In the distance there was a clicking sound behind large boulders covered in Graffiti. “What the fuck is that?” He handed Holly his garbage bag then rushed to the boulders. The clicking got louder and more frantic as if something was calling for help. He felt his protective instincts kick in as his forearms and hands started transforming slightly. He moved behind the massive rocks then stopped dead in his track as he stared at the creature. A fish like tail was thrashing around in a panic, Blood was pouring out of a fin that seemed to be bitten from a shark or a larger predator. The upper half of the creature was covered by a bag and tied up by a fish net. “Holly!! Get over here now!” As Airin yelled the creature stopped thrashing and started clicking softer trying to communicate. The tiger looked over and reached out to touch it. “Its ok bud. Me and Holly are gonna help you ok?” More clicking but it sounded weaker.
“Arin what is going on?” She turned to the creature and her eyes started tearing up. “Oh my god..” She walked over and started cooing softly to calm the creature. The sound seemed to work. “We have to get him into the water. Cut the bag open.”
Arin nodded and pulled out a sharp claw silently thanking Suzy for letting him keep the claw instead of filing them down. He started cutting open the net and slowly removing the bag. He felt his heart stop as he saw it wasn’t a fish or a dolphin. It was a male siren, his breathing was slowing and his eyes were closed. Panic started forming and Arin quickly turned to the bird “Holy shit Holly its a siren! Get his tail, we need to move him now! The quickly maneuvered the Siren back to the water and carefully placed him at the edge of it.
The Siren's eyes opened quickly as he felt water on his gills and took a deep breath. He started clicking happily and started splashing. He turned to his saviors and froze in place in confusion. There were two people A male and a Female, though the male was clearly not a normal human. He clicked to them and they stared at him curious what he was saying. 'Oh right Humans don’t understand my speech.' He stuck his head out of the shallow water and slowly spoke, carefully enunciating the syllables his Angel friend taught him. “Th-Thank y-y-you.” He felt his face flush at how bad his stutter was The male of the two smiled at him then turned to the female.
“Holly he can talk it seems. Have you ever met a siren before?”
She turned to him smiling back “No but I have read that Sirens can learn human language a lot easier then ether of our kind. I am curious if he has a human form though.” She turned to the Siren and smiled. “Can you turn into a human to?” She stuck out her arm and feathers started to come out of her arm.
The Siren's eyes grew wide in fascination. Brain told him that Angels and other creatures lived in the human world but he had no idea they were able to transform. “How? Can? You?” He stared at the feathers then turned to the male in fascination wonder if he could turn to.
Arin smiled and took off his sweatshirt and his shorts. Thankfully he chose to wore his super baggy shorts underneath. He took a deep breath and transformed into a massive tiger. He looked behind them and smiled as the Boulder was large enough to hide him. He turned back to the siren who's eyes were as wide as a child's on Christmas. “Its not that hard though I am still getting use to a human form. Try to think of humans and what they have compared to you. Like they have legs and you have a tail. But I must warn you transforming hurts the first time.
The Siren nodded and closed his eyes and started thinking. He felt a sharp pain in his tail and it was different compared to the dulling pain from the shark wound. He bit his lip to distract the from the pain. He felt two sensations now from his lower half. He opened his eyes and saw the Female cheering and clapping. The male had a proud look on his face. He looked down and smiled. He had legs and those things at the bottoms humans have to stand. Though his right leg had a scar shaped like the bite that his tail had. He looked to the humans and smiled widely. Though the smile faded as he heard the flapping sound of wings coming close. He quickly turned and saw Brian in his angel form and he looked furious It was rare for the Angel to show himself like this. Many of the sirens hated how he was a dark colored angel and feared him. Brian looked at him then flew down to stand in front of him. “What the fuck are you thinking? You are in front of predators!” the Angel looked down to his new legs. “What the..? You learned how to change? You cant even fucking talk human yet?!” Brain turned to the Tiger and the Bird and glared darkly. “Who the fuck are you two?”
Arin growled softly and stood in front of holly to protect her. “I am Arin, me and my friend Holly found him and we saved him from a fisherman trap.”
'You expect me to believe that? Your a tiger and shes a bird. Your kind eats fish and sirens!”
Arin rolled his eyes. “Sheesh I knew Ross was an angel but I figured his attitude was just from him being Ross. No idea all Angels were assholes.
Brain looked at them with curiosity “You know Ross?”
Holly peeked out from behind Arin. “Yes.. me and Ross are together. And yes in a romantic way.”
The Angel sighed softly then placed his hand over his face to calm down. “If Ross trusts you enough to get involved in that way then I must as well. Now explain to me how Dan learned how to change? Since he isn’t out of the water I am to assume he only changed his tail not his lungs or gills.”
Arin rubbed the back of his head nervously. “We wanted to know if he could and when we asked he seemed confused. So Holly showed him her wing and I showed him my full tiger form. Then I explained how I do it and he picked up on it quick. I also thought it would help with his wound.”
“Wound?!?” The Angel turned to Dan, then looked at his legs and saw a massive bite scar. “God damn it those sharks got you.. Are the others.?” Dan looked back at him and nodded sadly then changed his legs back into his tail. Showing Brain the missing fin. “Fuck..” Tears started to fall from his three eyes and he ran to hug Dan tightly. The Siren was startled at the act of Affection. It was rare for the Angel to show any signs of care or anything similar. “I’m sorry Dan. I shouldn’t have left..” Dan smiled softly and started to make clicking sounds trying to cheer his friend up.