only one - open; joiner??

[rhosmari]

The leopardess walked back and forth, moving with nervous energy. Uncertainty and unsure of the decision she was making here. She had personally never been a part of any if these groups. They seemed hostile or at least that was the stories she had been told growing up. They were dangerous, they needed to stay away from them at all cost. But well, she figured there had to be more than that right? These animals living here couldn't all be feral beasts looking to eat kits and cubs. Just seemed wrong but all the stories she had been told made her wonder. After swimming for the majority of the way she ended up on the island that she was told to keep away from. Man, was her father going to be angry if he found out. But she honestly just wanted to know. Two colored eyes wandered and looked across the beautiful terrain before something odd happened.

It was a strange feeling, almost like everything in her being stopped. Everything seemed...weird. Like time was stretching itself. The colors were changing and warping and then her body just fell like a log. Collapsing against the soft sands of the beach. A war began, pink and blue swirling and battling. Pressing against one another in a torrent of aura. Splashing and tearing only to reform. At one point they melded together only to split apart so violently that a dribble of blood slipped out of the unconscious leopard's nose. It seemed to go on forever before one color grew larger, cowering the other into a corner. Pushing it back and back further still till it was little more than a speck.

Then eyes opened, a cough, a wheezing breath. Confusing swimming in those bright colored eyes. A strain to get up, limbs sore and tired. Where was she? What was going on? A hiss of pain as a venomous voice echoed in her skull. Her head. "What.....?" The smell of blood was potent and she lifted a paw touch her nose but stopped to stare at the appendage.