GHandB10Fan- Glad to be back! Don't worry about missing chapters (especially with my updates being so quick) so long I know you're still reading ^.^ I do really like your reviews though, they're so long lol I love that. Well, I am an English major now XD. WORKING MY WAY UP! Yes, poor Evan. He will be somewhat missed. I do really like him, though. (lol, censors) As far as the question's in chap 51 go, I'm gonna consider what everyone says, even your comments. I'm still pretty much considering the family background thing. TBH, I put that (Six thinking about his brother) in there, because I wanted Six to be nostalgic and really considering the fact that he's about to die. I will update as soon as I can (when you're reading this XD). Due to this being Louisiana and Mardi Gras, I have a long weekend. Oh, and the fic was getting depressing/serious so I couldn't help but have a little fun with those two lol. 'Loaded' onto the net, is probably an understatement. I have a lot of stuff I wanna do, and finally time to do them. Really glad you liked! And I'm glad you're a loyal reader/reviewer! ^.^ Hope you like this one, too lol.

Total Weirdo- I'M TYPING AS FAST AS I CAN! Course, I'm LOVING everyone being all "D: OMG SIX NO". But, alas, gotta update one of these days XD.

HOLI and SIX's AGES!- GHandB10Fan said 'IMO, Holiday is actually older than she looks and is maybe 29-30 when she looks mid 20's and Six looks older than what he is and is like 32-35.' Anyone else have a comment on how old Six and Holi are?

I've started rereading this fic, to make sure I've got all the information straight. And, ya know what? I think I actually do have all the information right... I'M SO PROUD! Really thankful that I wrote out a timeline/summary of this fic before starting on it, though. That thing helps A LOT. We're going to have a recap in a few more chaps, featuring Rex and Circe, just to make sure that everyone is, indeed, on the right page.

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He didn't have time to reach for the gun on his side. He didn't have time to remove the hand. He didn't even have time to scream.

The kid they had found earlier, stood up with what strength his legs had left. "He's bad now!," he screamed to the blonde man, "Get away from him!"

Li's eyes darted towards the kid, as a rumbling growl escaped his throat. But it wasn't Li anymore. It wasn't even a hand that still gripped Callan's shirt. It was a claw. The entire arm was being covered in white scales, just like the other arm, while the rest of his body started growing a thick white fur. Even his face didn't look the same. It didn't even look human or like it was ever human. The bones continued to crack and moan, his face becoming almost dog-like, growing a snout.

The creature's claws started to crack and bend, and that's when, finally, Steve was released from the grip.

The boy's breath caught in his throat, when the yellow eyes beaded in on him. The rumbling in his chest shook the earth, before it let out a massive roar.

Callan was horribly confused and lost. What the hell was going on? This couldn't be right. That couldn't be his partner. Though, he did quickly notice that the monster was zeroing in on the kid. He pushed his legs out from under him, but the creature moved fast, with all of his friend's speed and then some.

Thankfully, Steve made it to the kid before it. He stood in front of the boy in a protective stance, the creature quickly running towards him and raising it's sharp claws. "Li! Stop!-," he tried to scream, but from behind, the boy had grabbed his shirt and pulled Steve back with all the strength he could muster.

The claw came down in a jagged arc, barely coming up short of Callan's skull. Though, it did leave a nice slice over his right eye. The blood sprayed, making the wound seem much worse than it was, when the claw of the monster touched to the ground, preparing to leap for the two.

Steve was dumb struck, breathing in sharp breaths through his teeth, not moving a muscle. The boy latched himself on to the back of the man in front of him, tackling him down right before the creature pounced for them and, effectively, jumped over them.

It turned back towards them, smelling the air. Now the thing seemed like it was never human. It stood on all fours, like a hound or a wolf, it's sharp eyes darting around independently of each other. It pawed at the Earth and roared at the two again.

The boy was scared, but at least he was trying to think. He knew what had just happened. He knew what this man now was. He knew what happened to his mother and he could imagine what happened to his father and brother. He knew all this, but he didn't want to. He didn't want to know or face any of it. So, instead, he turned his complete attention on the monster in front of him, only bringing back the one memory he currently needed. The memory of using his power and driving back whatever thing was turning these people into the demons.

But before he could do anything, the other man, the one he had tackled to the ground, was already leaning up and pulling out his gun.

Callan only had one eye and he wasn't exactly the best shot in the world, not to mention he was aiming at what used to be one of his closest friends. But that was just it. It used to be Li. Now, it was just this creature that was about to tear them to pieces.

"No!," the boy screamed, "You'll kill him!"

"That's the point," Steve breathed out and fired.

The monster moved it's head to the side so quick it was barely visible. The only proof that it had dodged at all was the small cut along it's cheek where the bullet grazed.

It dug it's hind leg into the ground, before jumping for them again.

The boy stood, getting in the path of the beast so he could take it head on, but the other man pushed him aside, trying to save him. It tackled Callan, pinning him down by the shoulder with one of it's claws. Thankfully, Steve had managed to move his arm under the monster's neck, so it could only snap at him inches from his face.

Before it would get wise to any other ideas, Steve moved his arm that was pinned, the one with the gun, rather painfully, up towards the creature's eye level. This time, he wasn't about to miss.

The kid picked himself off of the ground, running to them before the worst happened. He pushed himself against the beast's fur, putting his hands against it's skin. Instantly, without having to concentrate like he thought he would, the ice flowed into his veins and into the creature's body.

It snapped it's mouth shut, cringing back as the blue lines flowed across it's form.

"Move!," the boy screamed to the other man, who was staring up at the creature. Once he got the message, he backed out of the creature's now loose grip, moving away and out of it's range.

The kid closed his eyes, trying to think on this one. This was a lot more difficult than saving his dad earlier.

The beast arched it's back and let out a howl, probably from pain, as it slowly transformed back into what seemed human, then towards something that seemed much more familiar.

"... Li?," Callan breathed, looking at the scene with the eye that was only half covered in blood. Yes, the wound did hurt, but that was in the back of his mind at the moment.

When Li became visible again, he was on his knees, the lines still streaming over him from his side where the boy was.

The kid seemed like he was having a hard time letting go or, to put more accurately, prying himself away, but he did with a sudden force. Li quickly fell to his arms, grasping for breath.

"Jesus," the other muttered under his breath.

Li slowly looked up to the voice he had heard. "Steve?," he asked, back in his normal voice. He knew what had just happened, even though the memories were incredibly fuzzy.

"My God," Callan muttered again, leaning up on a knee, before quickly glancing to the kid.

The boy's eyes suddenly rolled to the back of his skull and he quickly fell to the side, catching Li off guard. "Kid," he gasped, trying to remember if he hurt the boy, too and trying to shake him awake, "Kid! Hey!"

Steve was in mid crawl/stride towards the two when something else suddenly caught his attention and he looked towards the horizon. "You hear that?," he asked incrediously.

The first thing Li thought was that his friend was about to lose it, too, when he heard it. The steady and familiar chop-chop in the distance. "Can't be," he breathed.

Steve quickly looked back to them. "Wake that boy up, Li!"

The other quickly went back to what he was originally doing. "Hey, wake up! Kid!" He was two seconds from going all out and slapping the boy, until he seen the shimer of the his eyes, barely open. "Come on! Stay with me!," he said with a lot less force

"He's alive," Steve breathed out with relief, finally finding the time to hold his wound and try to stop the bleeding, watching the figures in the distance.

The boy's eyes were on the verge of closing again. "Kid!," he tried again, to keep the boy awake, "Stay with me, ok? You have a name?"

He looked back up at him, his eyes looking almost vacant for a second. Then his lips parted and muttered a word. "Rex."

"Rex," Li repeated, adding that name to the list of 'people whom I owe everything to'.

The screech of fighter jets echoed off the land, causing him to look away and towards the sound. Three flew over them, apparently getting a scout's view of what was going on, before the choppers arrived.

He looked back down to the boy, as Callan used leverage from a destroyed wall to stand. "I'm going to get you out of here, Rex," he told the kid, if nothing else but to reasure him.

"Okay," the boy inaudibly murmured, as a solid white chopper touched down a few feet away from them, a large 'P' symbolized on it's side.

"Who are they?," Steve asked, as the chops died away and he continued to hold on to the wall, things starting to get hazy. Honestly, he didn't really care who they were, at least they were human, until he got an answer that sounded... like the right one.

Li looked over to him. "My guess is, the funders."

Callan slowly looked back to him, then down to the boy. Li followed the other's gaze, realizing that the boy had slipped back into unconciousness.

"What do we do?," Steve asked, as men started to jump out of the chopper and walk towards them.

The other man stood, craddling the boy in his arms. "What else can we do?"

One of the first men to reach them, who was dressed in a black and white uniform, quickly looked them both over. "Callan, Drake," he instantly addressed, "The Beta White Knight wants to have a word with you."

The two men looked at each other, waiting for an answer to imprint itself in their brains.

After a second or so, Callan said, "I think we're dead."

Li nodded. "I'll go with that," he said, before slowly walking towards the chopper.

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The rain fell against the city, the sky turning from a navy blue, to a more relaxed gray.

The smoke from Callan's cigarette travelled up to the small piece of what looked like sheet metal, which was the only thing keeping the rain off of him. He blew the smoke from his nose in a sigh, looking up and down the alley.

Scrunching up his shoulders, he shuffled the jacket closer to his neck. Apparently this rain was a cold front or something. It was starting to get pretty chilly.

Taking the cig from his lips, he looked down to the ground, a small puddle starting to form at his feet. "Knowing Li, he's on the other side of the globe right now," he muttered under his breath, getting a little tired of standing out in the rain.

That's when he noiced a pair of boots across from him, against the other wall. "Ye of little faith," Li told him, after he fully looked up.

"Ya know," Callan blinked, "Being all ninja like that doesn't exactly make you cool."

"Yes it does."

The captain smiled. "So, where's the doctor?"

"Not here," Li said, straightening up and taking his weight of the wall.

"She know about this?," he asked, replacing the cigarette to his lips.

"By now?," the other said, looking at the sky, then to the ground, "Yeah, probably."

"You didn't tell her?"

"No."

Callan blinked at him again. "You had to go after the telepath."

Li narrowed his eyes. "Did you want something?," he asked, getting a bit annoyed and even more nervous for when he had to face her again.

"Right, right," he chuckled, digging in his jacket pockets and pulling out a disk in a small case and handing it over.

"What's this?," asked the agent, looking at the disk from all sides.

Callan leaned back against the wall. "It's your bounties," he said. Li shot him a look, so he continued, "Knight put out a real bounty on all of you."

"All?"

"Circe and Rex, too," he nodded, "You need to team back up with them again. Quick."

Li rubbed his eyes, letting out a sigh. "What's Providence up to now?"

"Ah, same old, same old," he replied, flicking the ashes from his cigarette. "Though, the Evos are becoming more of a witch hunt than a protocol."

After looking back up, Li guessed, "They're killing them all?"

"All that we can get to," Callan smirked, "Rex has been getting to a lot of them before us." He looked back up to the sky and continued, "But, you know, the colder it is, the less Evos that start runnin around."

"In other words," Li clarified, "You don't know where he is."

"Not a clue," the other sighed, "If I did, I'd be talking to him right now."

"What about the monkey?"

"I know where he and the doctor's sister are," Callan informed, taking a quick drag from the cig before throwing it on the ground, "But they aren't causing any kind of trouble, so it's been pretty easy to keep them under wraps."

Li nodded. "And Noah?"

"Worried," Callan replied with a smile, "He's helping us with the covering up and everything. Mostly on Rex's side. He's doing pretty good."

"Not in danger, is he?," he asked, raising a brow. He knew how White ticked, they both did.

"Nah," Callan shook his head, stomping at the cigarette on the wet concrete, "I've got the boy listed under a 'black market' contact. As far as White knows, the kid hasn't so much as looked at Providence since Rex left."

"One last thing," Li said, looking towards the end of the alley, where a sedan was parked, "Your dog can be trusted?"

Callan smirked, looking too, "Who? Ramirez? Yeah, he's alright. Doesn't know everything, though."

"Good," Li nodded, looking back to the captian, who was giving him a small smile.

"Just stay out of sight, Li," he said, "Providence'll handle King."

Li smiled back, then looked down at the disk. "Providence can't hold him back."

Callan quickly frowned. "Neither can you," he said, the other pocketing the disk, "He's after Rex and Christine."

"I know," Li said, looking back to face him.

"They can't hold him back either."

The agent slowly let out the breath in his lungs. He hated actually physically hearing what he had been thinking ever since he had met this 'King'. "I know," he breathed again.

"Then what are you going to do?"

They stayed like that, looking at eachother, for almost a whole minute. Eventually, Callan gave in and breathed a sigh. The other reached out his hand and the captain gratefully shook it, looking back up to his face again. "Just stay out of sight, Li," he said again, then gave a small smile, "At least let Providence have a shot."

Li gave a wavy smile back. "Will do."

Callan dropped his hand and started walking through the rain, back to the car. After a second, he turned back to see the empty alley way again. He smirked and walked closer to the car, looking through the window.

Ramirez was singing his heart out to the radio.

Oh God, why?

After a few quick knocks on the window, Ramirez finally unlocked the door and turned down said radio. Callan got in and slammed the door behind him.

"Sorry, Captain," the private said, starting the car, "Didn't hear you."

"Yeah, that's a shocker," the captain mumbled, "Take us somewhere to eat, Ramirez."

"Yes, sir, Taco Bell it is."

"What?," Callan looked over at him.

A voice drifted from the back seat. "I hate Taco Bell."

"Hey!," Ramirez screamed at the rear view mirror, "Adults are talking!"

The captain face palmed, "Jesus, can't you two get along."

"I'm trying!," Noah whined.

"We're going to Taco Bell!," Ramirez screamed again, back in 'gung ho' mode, "And that's that!"

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Ok, ok. So, for a little while (AGAIN) we're going to be switching through the characters a bit. Next we're going to visit Holix, and see what's on the fabled disk. Then, the plan is to visit Circex and then run back around to Callan and crew.

In the original storyline, this was going to be the last appearance of Callan, but all you guys LOVE him and the interactions of Ramirez. Plus, we all need more Noah and he was supposed to come back later anyway. This is the best way to do that.

Now, I'm going to be bumping back over to the story of 'King'. Which is the reason that we're going back to Circex a little later and getting a recap of the important storyline that going on here. Rex and Circe are both going to tell eachother what they know. We know what Circe knows (she told us in chap 20ish) and we know some of what Rex knows (during his flashback in chap 30ish), but that wasn't the ENTIRE story. Well... it was, but there's still some pieces missing. So, yeah! Woohoo!

And yeah, this chap is a little long. :)

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