The Howl And The Growl (Old) (Discontinued)

The Bear

Flynn, a twenty-year-old male Bear Therian was taking a casual walk through the city. Like usual, he was going to the store to get some ingredients to make a meal fit for a bear. As Flynn walks down his normal path he comes across a store with animal ears, tails, teeth, necklaces, bracelets, fur coats, incense, candles and more stocked in the window. After a moment of indecision he decides to go in and take a look around. As Flynn walks in he's greeted with the soothing scent of incense. He shuffles around the store feeling mesmerized by the smell and feel of the place. He looks around at everything when something catches his eye.

It was a Zither, a beautiful instrument. Flynn plucked a string, a long clear C cord echoed through the shop. Flynn was a sucker for stringed instruments such as guitars. He lifted up the Zither to get a closer look. The Zither's design had thousands of symbols on it to signify every forest animal known to man, even some unknown to man, making Flynn question what type of shop he was really in. After a small debate with himself, Flynn decided to buy the Zither. He carries it snuggly under his right arm and looks around the shop some more. The shop itself was pretty big, it was at least two stories tall. Flynn, being the Therian that he is, decides to buy the soft bear ears and a tail since he didn't have any animal-like accessories yet. Along with his Zither and bear ears and tail, he buys a honey scented candle and a stone necklace with a bear claw in the middle.

Flynn looked around the shop some more. He was not alone in the shop, a few people milled around here and there. One girl caught his attention, she was acting suspicious, glancing around, blinking rapidly, Flynn could almost hear her fast heartbeat, but he shook it off feeling he was just being paranoid. Flynn made his way to the cash register after looking around the whole two story shop. The cashier calmly gave Flynn the price of eighty dollars. Flynn agreed to the unreasonable amount despite his better judgment, feeling very proud of his new Zither. Flynn was about to pay when the strange suspicious girl from before rushed past him, leaving the store at an inhuman speed. The cashier barely missed a beat before hopping into action. 
"Stop thief!"
He shrieked before running out of the shop. The cashier would try to catch the girl but Flynn suspected that he would never catch her. Flynn shrugged off what had just happened and dutifully put the eighty dollars plus some change on the counter for the cashier. Flynn leaves the shop and continues on his way to the grocery store hoping he still had enough money to get the ingredients for his meal.

Flynn finally reached the store. The place was buzzing with people. Flynn, being claustrophobic started to hyperventilate, earning a few strange looks from several passerbys. With all of the people around him he felt as if he were in a small cage which was impossibly unbearable for him, a big grizzly bear. At the mention of what he was, Flynn began to mental shift. He tried his hardest to keep calm and not lose control. After taking a few slow deep breaths he started to feel much calmer. He continued towards the isles that had what he needed. As he walked he stared at the list of items he needed in order to avoid looking at the sea of judgmental humans around him. With each step he took he could feel the presence of something that resided in him. Flynn began to Phantom shift. He quickly put his hand on his head to feel his ears that were not there. He wanted to put his bear ears and tail on but felt to wary and nervous to. He was afraid the people would turn on him. So despite how much he longed them on, he kept them off. Flynn hastily got everything that was on his list and loaded it into a blue minimart basket. Flynn shuffled towards the register afraid of being noticed. There was a long line of people waiting to check out. There was a mother hushing one of her kids and struggling with a screaming other. There was an old fat man in a green polka shirt carrying a jar of whiskey. There was even a kid no older than 11 waiting in line. There were so many other normal people to study it was overwhelming.
"Why does society have to be so cruel." He mumbled to himself.
The wait seemed to go on forever. All Flynn wanted to was to get the heck out of there.

When Flynn finally got to check out and after he payed the wanted amount which was about ninety-six dollars, it was already getting late. The sun had sunk almost past the horizon and was shining soft shades of violet and orange light. Flynn sighs in relief when he gets outside. He looks over at the parking lot with all the cars. Some part of him wanted a car desperately but another side of him completely dispelled the idea.  Flynn started to walk home to his apartment. He allowed his thoughts to stray, instantly they strayed to the girl he saw in the shop. His thoughts slowly changed into thinking about the shop itself. Reality suddenly slammed into his face. There was no shop there yesterday. He was sure of it. Flynn stopped outside of his apartment building and glanced behind his back in paranoia. He shakes his whole body trying to rid the feeling of panic building up, shrugging off the idea. He was now sure he had just never noticed it before. Flynn unlocked his door and hauled all the groceries in. He was feeling absolutely exhausted.
Flynn dropped the groceries at the foot of the stove and stumbled into his room. He dropped onto his bed and kicked off his shoes. He silently decided he would wear his ears and tail inside the house the next day. Flynn let out a huge sigh of relief, he was happy to be home. As soon as that thought left his mind he immediately passed out. Only to repeat the boring process tomorrow unknowing of what will really happen.