I am so sorry for the long wait!! I lost my muse and have been trying to get it back but I sort of got it, so here is the next chapter!! Again I am sorry!!

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"Hey Kai, what is your favorite aspect of nature?"

Max asked once he saw that he was calm. Kai looked up at Max, he thought for a moment, and then answered in his now quiet voice, "Fire, volcanoes."

The other four nodded.

"We thought as much, as when we think about our favorite aspects in nature and concentrate, we seem to change." Kenny explained.

At Kai's confused look Rei decided to show him.

"Watch me." He whispered, and then thought about seeing flashes of lightning and hearing the great crashes of thunder. Slowly he opened his eyes and looked down at Kai who was staring at him in shock.

Rei looked down at his body and noticed that his nails had grown and he felt more than saw his black and white tail. Reaching up he felt the top of his head discovering the two white cat ears that sat upon his head.

He grinned, showing off his lengthened fangs.

"OH wow Rei!" Max exclaimed. "You really do look like a cat now!" Max along with Tyson giggled at the sight of their friend, who was slightly pouting at being called a cat, even if he knew that it was true.

Rei looked down a Kai as he felt a hesitant hand gently stroke his ear, causing a loud purr to emit from Rei's throat, as he leaned into Kai's touch.

Kai blushed slightly but kept up his petting until, Tyson finally got impatient and asked Kai to see what his looked like.

Kai closed his eyes and concentrated on the heat and colour of a roaring volcano, imagining the molten lava swirling around him as he stood on a small piece of surviving rock.

He opened his eyes when he heard the gasps from his fellow team members, and looked down at his body.

He did not notice anything different until he looked closer.

His nails had hardened and lengthened, along with his eye-teeth, and he could feel a strange kind of weight on his back. Turning his head he was greeted with and eye full of feathers.

Rei was spluttering beside him, obviously having gotten a mouth full of feathers. Kai quickly, instinctively, moved his large crimson and gold wings to be folded tightly against his body. He guessed that the ends of his new with would just about brush the floor when he was standing by the size of them.

He gently ran his fingers through the silky feathers marveling at the ability to actually feel the touches.

Kai jerked as he felt another hand trail through his feathers, but calmed when he saw that it was only Rei.

Rei smiled at the small exotic teen beside him as he carefully ran his fingers through the soft feathers. He briefly wondered if Kai would be able to fly with his new wings.

Both Kai and Rei were withdrawn from their thoughts as the other three in the room, started to snigger slightly at the cute display before them.

Kai blushed as he withdrew his hand and concentrated on bringing his wings back into his flesh, succeeding after a few moments.

Rei on the other hand glared at the others for ruining his moment with Kai. But he also concentrated on changing back into his more human form.

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A short blue bus pulled up to a grand mansion and opened it doors for its occupant to step out.

Tyson jumped out fully healed and stretched his arms high above his head and looked back at the others getting out.

After the team had been released from the hospital in near perfect health, except the mental and emotional hurt, the team and their parents had decided that it would be best if the team stayed at a different residence, jut to make everyone feel safer. Thus after much discussion of where they should go, Kai had offered his mansion, saying that it was large enough for the whole team and that there would be room for their families, as said families did not want their children out of their sight for too long.

So here they were standing outside of the two three story mansion that stretched at least the size of a medium sized mall, with tall glass windows and an elegant garden that surrounded it.

"Wow Kai you live here?! Why do you stay at my place then?" Tyson asked looking at his team captain who had just stepped out of the bus.

Kai looked at him and then at the mansion before answering. "This was my parent's home before they died and I was taken to the Abbey. This is the second time I have ever been here."

"Oh…Well it's still HUGE!!" Tyson laughed to lighten the mood.

"Well let's go in and explore instead of standing out here!" Rei exclaimed to change the subject, and led the way up the winding path to the main doors of the mansion.

Once inside the ones who had never been inside before gawked in awe at the complete elegance of the building. Then a side door opened and a line of servants walked out and made a path leading up to the grand staircase, and bowed at the same time while greeting.

"Welcome home Master Kai, welcome guests to the Hiwatari ancestral home!"

Kai just nodded before asking the head servant, Osamu, a tall graying man who had been looking after the house for years, to show his guests to their rooms that they would be staying in.

Osamu bowed before gesturing to six servants, each family, Hilary and Daichi then had one servant in front of them introducing themselves before asking them to follow them to the guest quarters.

They were led up the stairs to the second level and each given a room of decent size close to each other. Each room was decorated in rich colours and themed in different cultures, giving each room having a unique expect of it. They were than left to themselves that someone would be there at seven o'clock to lead them to the dinning hall where they would eat supper, until then they were allowed to explore the mansion and its grounds.

Kai meanwhile went straight to his room only to fell onto the bed and go straight to sleep, never hearing the door open and amber eyes peering in.

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Whoot I finally updated!!