I didn't like being in a dog form but it was convenient at the moment. Rayne's voice echoed in my ears and I folded them against my head in annoyance. I gazed up at her.

"So kawaii!" She squealed loudly, picking me up so that my back legs dangled in the air. I gave her a blank stare. She put me down. "Come on, Kanata, lets go somewhere." They left together, and as soon as I heard them go down the stairs, I turned back into a human.

"Jeez! I may be able to turn into a dog but I don't have to act like it! At least they got my name right." I stopped in front of a full-length mirror. My hair wasn't gray or black at all, it was kind of orange and short. My ears were pointed -like an Elf's- with two gold earrings in the left one. My right eye was blue while the left was crimson. I had a scar running from under my left eye to the center of my chest and a smaller one going from my shoulder blade to the back of my neck. It hurt like hell when I got those. Damn bastards who did that to me are dead now. I jumped about 10 feet when she appeared.

"Rakuen! WHY MUST YOU KEEP DOING THAT?!" I snarled out, trying to calm my speeding heart. Her opal, almost white, eyes held no emotions as she gazed up at me. I twitched. Her original eye color is opal but she can change her eye color to whatever color she wanted.

"....Gomen, Master...." She mumbled finally. Her eyes may look blind but they are anything but. In their depths swim an ever-changing rainbow of pastel colors, swirling and twisting around each other in the most hypnotic way. Her ability as a witch was whatever she painted came alive and could be used as a weapon, pet or just for fun.

I took a deep breath to calm myself. "It's fine, let's go, Rayne will just assume that I've gotten out." I went into Kanata's room and out his window, Rakuen following. In her real height, she was taller than me -about 5'7"- and her real outfit was a knee-high black dress with a triangle which showed a portion of her breasts, black sleeves that covered most of her arms, and a black witch's hat. She always carry's a book of spells around. And in this form, her hair is pitch-black that went down to the back of her knees.

But now, she had reverted to her child form which had blond pigtails tied with black ribbons, and a sleeveless nightgown. This form was shorter -about the size of a 4 or 5 year-old- with her opal eyes. This form was obedient, willing to do anything for me, while her real form was more disobediant and didn't trust me as much. She always has a blue lollipop in her mouth, which she can turn into a paintbrush.

She stuck her blue tongue at me, and turned back into her real form- a girl around 19-20. "Be nice, or I'll have Yura kill you." A red-orange snake wound itself around her witch hat, rested its head on the wide brim, and flicked its tongue at me. Guys around us eyed her in want and sadness at the sight of me.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." I rolled my eyes. She smiled, her opal eyes with their ever-changing pastel rainbow glittering. Her eyes turned pitch-black to match her outfit. I smiled as the guys walked around her cautiously, obviously wondering if she's a demon. I laughed. "Good job, scare the guys, Rakuen."

"Oh, just shut up." Her eyes turned green and I rolled my eyes. A big guy elbowed me away and focused his blood-shot eyes on Rakuen.

"Hey, pretty, what about you and me ditch the dipstick and go have some fun?" He said, putting his arm boldly around her. She grimaced.

"I would rather not." She tried to pry his fingers off her shoulder but he only tightened them. "Let go." She said, her voice getting colder. He grabbed her hat, thinking it was her hair, and pulled. Yura's green eyes met his blood-shot ones. He froze. Yura's eye color changes to whatever Rakuen's is. "Do you wish to live?" The guy nodded, held by Yura's gaze. "Yura." The red-orange snake flicked his tail and her hat floated out of the guy's hands and landed on her head.

Yura wound all 4 feet of himself around her hat and rested his head on the brim. He's a ball python, and an odd-colored one- not colored like all the others but he was saved by Rakuen, who put his soul in one of her soul less art made snakes. The guy turned and walked away quickly, not looking back once. I laughed.

"Good boy, Yura," Rakuen said, patting the snake on the head. "Good boy, at least he didn't bite the guy." He simply flicked his tongue out, and brushed against her face then went back under her hat. "What, Hoshi, are you looking at?"

"Isn't that heavy on your head? I mean the weight of Yura." She smiled.

"No, because he's light as a feather- only his soul is in there, he's basically a empty shell except for the soul." I found that creepy- no bones? "And yes, he has bones, but they are light. As light as a bird's bones." I shrugged and walked on.

"Hurry up, we need to see him." I said.

"Who? The one who want's us to protect Rayne?" I nodded. "Okay." She sighed.

"Shush for a little while, I need to concentrate and remember where he is. And no, it's not her dad, Franken Stein." I said, pretty sure that was what she going to say. She closed her mouth. "Found it." I turned into a pitch-black alleyway, and smiled when Rakuen's hand found my arm. "Scared?" She let go and I felt her hit me. "Ow!"

A pair of green eyes opened and a man walked out of the shadows. "Hoshi, Rakuen."

"...If it isn't Crow, what do you want now? We're protecting Rayne just as you asked." He nodded.

"Protecting her, right, then why is she fighting with a kishin egg, in Death City, while Kanata is knocked out? You were supposed to protect him, too." I sighed under my breath, and he heard and lifted me up. "Listen, boy, I can easily take your life the same way I gave you it." I growled.

"You wouldn't." I pried his hand away from my shirt.

"I would, now go and help Rayne." He walked backwards and vanished. I rolled my eyes.

"Don't make him mad, Hoshi! He'll kill you, then come after me!" Rakuen's voice was slightly high-pitched.

"Shut up, and lets go." I ran out of the alley with her right behind me. "Nice time for Rayne to fight." I sighed to myself.