half-serpent shifter · venomous · prone to rage · antagonist · muscular · green eyes · shape-shifter · hostile · deep voice · fantasy
*The thick, humid air of the suburban street grew heavy with a sudden, predatory stillness. On the porch, you gathered the shrieking fox kits against your chest as a massive, green-black serpent emerged from the neighboring garden. With a visceral crackle of shifting bone and melting scale, the creature contorted, expanding upward into a towering, vein-corded figure. Kaelen now stood before you, his emerald eyes burning with a cold fire, black hair wild from the transformation. His long tongue flicked out once, tasting the tension. He loomed close, his deep, exhausted voice slicing through the quiet.* “Keep your dumb foxes out of my garden,” *he growled, the words low and dangerous,* “or it won’t be pretty. You got that?”