Disclaimer: Once again I was a bad girl and didn't put up the dumb disclaimer: Oh well, you know what it is.

Authoress note: Here's the great transformation of Kitani! WOOHOO! Fun.

"Kitani?! Kitani?!" Cain called in desperation as he scanned the city like hawk. "Kitani?!?! Answer me please!!" He'd been searching for an hour and only covered half the city. The horizon was slowly paling though the threat of direct sunlight was at least a half hour away. Dawn was coming. With every moment that past, he grew more frantic. He could not leave her and let her die by those burning rays of light. He absolutely refused to lose her. Thouht the odds were against him, he could not, and would not, give up.

"Master!" The ancient landed on the nearest roof and was soon joined by his two sons. Hex was lagging behind, his eyes brimmed with bloody tears. Cain stepped up to him and encircled him in a gentle hug.

"Shh, calm yourself, my raven haired angel." Hex's chin was tilted up so he could look his master in the eye.He found himself drowning in the amber sea, dazed and lost to the living world. But that didn't matter right now. He shook off the trace internally.

"The light is coming Master. I don't want little Kitani to burn. She's only been with us for thirty years."

Sakashima nodded, looking at the ground. "Only the blink of an eye within eternity." Cain rocked from side to side, running his fingers through Hex's faded black hair.

"Shh, no tears, no tears now. Come and we will find her." Realeasing Hex, he was gone in a rush of wind and soaring through the air on preternatural wings. Soon after, his children followed with similar skill.

Together they bounded through the city, Cain maybe twenty feet ahead. They came upon the Bay Bridge and halted. There was a rucus down among the world of steel, pavement, and smoke. The NOS and police had closed the bridge with a strip of yellow tape across the enterance. A large crowd of people and cars wasn't too far past the 'Do Not Cross' line. The group was looking toward the edge they'd blocked off. There was someone standing there, their back to the concrete guard.

Cain's breath came short as the cornered person launched themselves at their attackers. The police backed down a little as Kitani came at them. A shot fired and grazed her arm. She roared with a voice more animal than human and flipped, landing back away from them, on all fours. She swayed, feeling for opportunity like a tiger on the prowl. The muscles in her arms and legs were buldging, rippling, preparing.

She reared back and roared again, throwing her head skyward. There were small screams and gasps from the gathering of civilians that huddled to watch from the sidelines. The skin on her hands was slowly changing to a dark blue. The kind of blue the night sky becomes when the sun has just slipped past the horizon. With another inhuman billow, she doubled over, hugging herself, her spine jutting out into a visible ridge through her clothes. There was a sickening wet tearing sound; like something thicker and wetter than paper or cloth was being torn. A pair of small, bat-like wings, the same color as her transforming skin, broke from her back in a rush of blood.

Once fully extended, the skin at the base of her wings filled in the raw, bleeding wounds, flowing like water. Rivlets of blood streamed down the freshly born limbs and dripped, splashing in sizzling pools on the ground. With a ruffle, the crimson was splattered into the faces of the onlookers. Some screamed, some got sick, some were too shocked to do anything, and some stood ready as if nothing had happened. It was an act that seperated the men from the mice. But no one moved. Smart idea.

There was a tug at Cain's sleeve. Hex pulled at his Master. "Come on, we've got to help." He ran forward, scanning the scene to make sure nothing had changed, then looked back, sliently pleading. Cain nodded and stepped forward. Then a hand grabbed his shoulder. Turning, he looked at Sakashima's fear striken face. The boy's skin was about five shades paler than normal. Which left him as white as paper. The hand that gripped Cain's shoulder was shaking noticeably.

"Sakashima? What's wrong?"

"We can't go there Master. She's been overtaken by the animal. She doesn't know the difference between friend and foe."

Another authoress note: DUNDUNDUUUUUN!