Dani's blood raced at the miraculous speed he found himself running at. It almost felt like he could keep pace with his bike if he really wanted to. His tiredness seemed to shed as his muscles worked to follow that redlined scent. Excitement and adrenaline filled him to the brim, his thoughts losing focus on his task at hand. His hefty breakfast seemed to have evaporated as hunger began to make him salivate. It apparently took a lot of energy to run at such speeds.<br/><br/>Soon he came across streaks in the road that looked like some kind of car accident. His bloodlust directed him towards the forest where he could clearly see breaks in the plant-life and against the trees where something had struck. An uncharacteristic anger began to bubble deep inside him as there was only one real conclusion to be made from it: the loser who'd stolen his bike had crashed it. A fury like no other began to rise through him, a snarl that sounded more like a ferocious growl escaped his lips. And without realizing it, his body began to transform. His feet and hands elongating into clawed hooves, hair began to grow all across his body and he could feel the sharp canines maturing into fangs that forced his mouth open. Before he knew it, his figure was no longer that of a man but of a monstrous horned beast with a long snout and shaggy mane, an enormous luxurious wolf-like tail whipping in the open air.<br/><br/>His clothes lay forgotten and useless, torn to shreds, on the asphalt. His yellow eyes and slit black pupil saw much further than his human ones ever could, searching the brush for the trail. His nose twitched and flared, and in half a second his giant cloven hooves were bounding into the woods after the guilty party.<br/><br/>In a brief moment he discovered the crash site where he found his wrecked vehicle. His nostrils flared again, snorting in rage. Throwing his head towards the sky, he released a deep bellowing cry of reckless rage so loud it shook the entire forest quivered in its wake. And without a second thought, he'd bounded in the direction the scent would lead him. Even as such a large creature, traversing the terrain seemed second nature to him somehow and he was soon upon the wretch who'd wronged him.<br/><br/>There was a singular thought playing on a loop in his mind.<br/><br/><i>Kill.</i><br/><br/>Kill it said to him. And he could give no good reason not to listen. His gaze became fixed on the culprit, but for a moment he was distracted by the person beside him. It was an unfamiliar scent. But did it matter? No... No it didn't seem to.<br/><br/><i>Kill them both.</i><br/><br/>And at the suggestion, Dani visibly shrugged in a 'why not' manner (mostly to himself).<br/><br/>His breath hot and heavy, the thought of the kill delighted him. Tearing their flesh from bone, consuming it? He was hungry after all, starving in fact. Revenge would be sweet indeed; an unnatural laughter began to pour forth through his predatory jaws as the ungodly beast he appeared to be.<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>Richard shivered. "Hey, you're not cold at all..?" He glanced over at Gretchen who seemed preoccupied with the passing scenery.<br/><br/>She shrugged. "Not really."<br/><br/>He sighed at her distraction but his resignation was soon replaced with confusion as he noticed his misty breath. The cold seemed to grow colder by the second, frost forming at the edges of the windows. "Woah, are you seeing this? Gretchen!" It suddenly felt like winter, his teeth chattering as his speech became steam before his eyes. He turned to his sibling in what seemed like slow motion as she too turned sluggishly to face him in surprise. She opened her mouth to speak as she placed her hand on his arm, but no words came as his sleeve turned into a thin sparkling layer of ice beneath her touch.<br/><br/><i>SCREEEEEEE.</i><br/><br/>It was as though someone had pressed slow and then fast-forward on a tape recorder. One moment Richard was turning to face his sister, the next the car was crashed head-on into a streetlight and the airbags had gone off. Time seemed to return to normal only as he struggled to come to, the suddenness completely knocking them both into a daze. Blinking profusely, his ears were ringing something harsh but his concern lay with his sibling.<br/><br/>"Gretchen... Gretchen are you okay?"<br/><br/>She groaned in reply. "What just happened..." She placed a hand to her head, eyebrows scrunched. Neither noticing the temperature had returned to normal.