((This is an rp for NikaGika and I! For Nika, Alandri, and Iymeen.))

It was in the calm of the afternoon that a hazy green and purple portal popped up in the middle of the forest, disrupting the calm in the air. Two figures stepped through; one large figure - the frightening visage of a hound-like creature, trailed by a much smaller deer-like figure which had smoke wisps trailing from its body. Both of them bore a pendant around their necks, an object like an eye and blue and green in color.

They paused for a moment, as if surveying their surroundings. But the larger figure froze quickly as if realizing that something was very, very wrong.

"Iymeen!"

The small one turned, and he opened his mouth as if to speak. No sound came, of course, for he was mute - but a small cloud of smoke puffed into the air and took a shape that vaguely resembled the form of his larger companion.

"What do you mean?" The predator glanced down and then shook his head. Try as hard as he may, he could not will the visage away. "Iymeen, this can not be right. Touch me. Is this real? Am I really a forest hound? Why do we look like this?"

Iymeen nudged his brother's foreleg and then nodded. It appeared as if they were stuck this way. He puffed another cloud, this one taking a circular shape.

"Yes. The portal must have done this to us...come with me, Iymeen. We must have caution. This is not home, and yet I have the look of a beast from there."