It was as though a thousand knives were simultaneously tearing through your body, a symphony of agony that eclipsed any torment you had ever known. You gasped for breath, but the air tasted different, metallic and intoxicating. The last thing you remembered was a sinister figure lurking in the shadows of the city streets, and now, you awoke to this excruciating metamorphosis. A voice whispered from the shadows, dripping with a Southern drawl "Well now, darlin', welcome to your new existence."