Friday the 13th. Beware ya'll, cause you never know what will happen next. XD And this is a story that… er… revolves around it? Um, I don't know anymore.

Before we get this started, let me make a few things clear (and please don't kill me because of it):

Krad is a girl. Yes. A. GIRL. Why? Uh… I don't know. Let's just say that I was debating the option this whole time for the last two days since the idea popped into my head and in the end I made him a girl. Don't like it? Well, it doesn't make a difference, cause she doesn't wear dresses… and will be explained later. Ugh.

Also, Dark and Krad haven't seen each other for ages unless under parent supervision. There's a reason to that as well, but that's also later.

Daisuke has a twin sister in this. Why? Well, I was thinking about having two girls and two guys, but Daisuke as being a girl all the way… er… Krad was enough. (dodges flying knives) Don't know is Dai's twin will stay for long, but she just seemed… necessary. For now. And her name's Daichi (I think I've heard it before as a guy's name… but I'm all confused now. Besides, they need to sound similar.)

And Satoshi is the vampire. Who isn't shocked by that?

Ugh, there's no certainty that this story will work out in thirteen chapters, or if it'll ever get there, but hey. Okay, I'll shut up with the pointless stuff.

Disclaimers: You do know that Black Friday is actually come economy business thing… right? And what would make you think that I owned this?

Warnings: Besides Krad being a girl? Uh… AU, strangeness in all it's forms?

Other: Don't kill me. I'm hoping this will end up okay…

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"Thirteen years, thirteen stars. Foul separate souls destined from the start. One dreaded prophecy; waiting to come true…"

Fragment Zero: Past, Present, Future

In a world unlike our own, in a place that knows not of existence; in the dreams of another child… in the fate of another's hand. Peace befalls the land, evil ripples the waters, innocence is nothing more than a word of fate, and then there is the silence. Silence of peace, pain, loss, gain… of everything. There is something in everything, and vice versa.

Very few people now believe in legends, myths, and superstitions, but sometimes they can be very true. But there is nothing that they can do when this is so. There's no other way to handle it.

And this involves the foretold prophesy concerning Friday the Thirteenth.

Black Friday.

The day of foretold doom.

000

The whisper of the wind was what woke her up. Golden hair, golden eyes; pure light shone and Krad yawned. It was so boring sometimes, the scenery she had grown up with. It was her home and she loved the serenity of it all, but it was also extremely tedious and nothing ever happened to her.

That was what you got for being something akin to royalty. If she hated anything, it had to be the fact that she had close to no freedom, no time for herself, and she was always, always being stalked by that really weird butler guy… whoever he was. Ever since she could walk and talk, they had been watching her.

It really did suck when you were the only child in a place that was too big for its own good. True, that did mean that the now seventeen-year-old could get lost if she wanted to, but the butler was always there, and that was it.

Muttering something under her breath, Krad looked out the window and saw the other neighbouring kingdom thing. Or whatever. Completely opposite to where she lived, it was cast in dark shadows, yet it didn't look threatening or dangerous.

Day and night.

The sun and moon.

The two kingdoms that co-existed for peace.

The blonde couldn't help but wonder if Dark had remembered that today was actually her birthday. Oh well, only one way to find out.

000

"Dark-chan!" called a weary voice. Said teen turned around, pausing from his run up hundreds and thousands of stairs. His nurse, who was a middle-aged woman with wispy brown hair, panted as she tried to catch up to him.

"Yeah?" he asked. He always hated formalities, but some people had to act like that, and at least the suffixes she used now weren't so… high and mighty. But it still was annoying.

Not to mention that the purpled-haired only son prince-something-guy was now mentally kicking himself for being caught by an older woman who had known him since birth. He knew that his parents sent her to the task to stalk him almost everywhere – excluding the bathroom, of course – and they seemed to think that it was for his own safety.

But he really needed to get out and no nurse, even if he did care for her like a second mother, was going to stop him from going to the neighbouring kingdom. He honestly couldn't stand the fact that they never allowed him to go on his own, and that they had to make arrangements and all that other stuff, which meant he would have to wait another three months, and there was no way he was going to allow it.

Besides, how long had it been since he'd seen Krad? He hated the fact that they never met without someone right behind them and listening to their every word, and that both sides seemed paranoid every time they met at all. What was supposed to happen? Bad luck?

Dark really doubted that. He couldn't believe that meeting someone could do something like that.

The nurse's voice brought him back to reality.

"You know that you should be downstairs. Your parents will be worried for you--"

The purple-haired teen rolled his eyes; no other way to it. He grinned and gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder confidently, "I know that. But I have to do my exercises, right? You know that's what the doctor's said."

"Yes, but--" she seemed to be lost for words.

"Be right back!" he called cheerily, rushing up the stairs before she could work out what was going on. The current stairway that he'd been running up of led to a sort of open room to the outside world. There were usually guards up there, but Dark knew for a fact that they weren't there at that very moment, and that was his chance for an escape.

It was cool outside, with barely a trace of wind and the teen knew that he was going to get the telling-off of his life, but he didn't care.

Black wings unfurled in the dark sky.

000

"Daisuke! Daichi! Where are you two!" grumbled a sixteen-year-old girl with dark brown hair. She looked around the backyard, but there were no redheads in sight. She scowled. "You two!"

Nothing.

Grumbling, the girl stomped back into the house that the backyard was connected to and complained loudly to her mother, "Daichi and Daisuke ran off again!"

"Not now Hikaru," the woman replied lightly, "And those two can obviously take care of themselves. My brother and sister-in-law always seemed quite capable of taking care of the two before this."

"But mother--"

"Hikaru, why is it that you want them to come back so badly? If I recall, you were the one to put up the first complaint."

Grumbling.

Outside in the backyard, a boy with amber-tinted eyes and crimson shaded hair that spiked out in all directions listened at as the argument came to a close. He was small for his age, but it didn't make him any less physically weak, and he cast a glance at the girl next to him.

She had exactly the same eye and hair colour, yet her own hair was more tamed and fell down to close to her waist, tied up with a ribbon that looked worn out.

Twins.

"Are you really sure that we won't be punished for this, Daichi?" he hissed.

The girl shrugged, "Who knows. But after the last time, we've got to make sure that there aren't anymore running around wild. Hey, With?" She looked over her brother's shoulder, where a white rabbit with red eyes sat, blinking patiently. "You know that, right?"

"Kyu!"

Daisuke sighed and nodded, "But this is the last time that we do summoning without an adult."

Daichi grinned and gave him a friendly pat, "Correction there bro; you won't let ME handle the summoning."

"But you can do it. I've seen it before."

"That was with a proper teacher though! And I can't do it in front of whoever he is now!"

"I know…"

"Sorry, Dai-chan."

"No, it's okay. We'll just take it at a slower pace then, okay?"

"Sure!"

"Kyu!"

000

A pale boy with cerulean shaded hair watched as the sun rose slowly over the horizon, a heavy cloak wrapped around him for protection. A pink tint appeared in the once dark sky and he could almost imagine the residents out there still sleeping, unknown to the world that he was aware of.

So much to be done; so little time.

He looked a lot older than fourteen-years, and his eyes reflected no emotion and was completely void. He would be left alone where he was, since no one else wanted to come here, and it was the only place he knew where he wouldn't be followed.

He hated being where he was, but where else would he go? He knew no one and the modern day society were scared of his… kind. There was nowhere to turn to.

And that sucked.

The sun was rising higher now, but he didn't flinch; he didn't care too much for the sun, but at least it repelled the others from him.

They thought he was a genius mastermind of some sort. He might have the intelligence, true, he didn't deny it; but there was something else that set him away from the rest of his family, and that was why they always singled him out.

What could be wrong? He didn't know.

He'd just never seen the logic of drinking blood off every living thing.

Satoshi sighed and wrapped the cloak closer to himself. He only took blood because it was the only way to sustain his existence, but that didn't mean he craved for it.

The rest of them didn't seem to understand. Oh well, they would just have to handle with the fact that he wasn't normal and that was final. There were other ways to go by it, but who really cared? He knew he didn't.

000

A seer once told the four of them a horrible prophet. One of doom and despair, destruction and pain.

And there was no way out of it.

Their lives would be in turmoil, their futures wrought with danger at every turn. There was no way to avoid it, she said, and that the only thing to do was to prepare.

But they believed that they could avoid it, and did not heed her warning.

Or, at least, two did, and the other two didn't.

As they turned to leave, the seer issued them a warning; not only of the prophet, but of who was going to be involved.

Their children.

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Okay, to clear things up:

Krad and Dark are single children in the (cough)kingdoms(cough) and they're watched all the time because of this foretold doom. (eerie music) Ooooh, whatever. And they were really good friends so yeah.

Daisuke and Daichi live with their aunt and uncle for reasons… well, they're explained later. Daisuke is the real daemon tamer of the two, but Daichi shows promise, okay?

And Satoshi drinks blood, but not all the time. He has a large family and they think he's weird cause of the way he is, like hanging outside and stuff. What? He turns into a bat as well? Meh…

The 'prophecy' will be explained in later chapters… I hope.

Yay! Black Friday (was yesterday…)! But hey, I'm not complaining! Stuff WILL happen, okay? Death, doom, angst, arguing, people mistaking other people's genders… the whole lot! So yeah! Please read, review, enjoy, uh… yeah, all that stuff so I know that I should continue! Okay? Okay.

Final note: Should it be Dark and Krad and Dai and Sato for pairings? I mean, Dark and Krad would work, but a vampire and a mortal… what do you think? I need to know this so I can… uh… continue? Yeah. Thanks!