Title: Wings or Tails
Author: VulcranDune
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After two years, people have become used to Dark. The press always try and fail to get a picture of the Thief and Satoshi fails to capture him. However, one night Dark fails. He couldn't steal Minna's Bell. From that night on, nothing is the same. Everything becomes a test of friendship or hatred. It all comes down to the choice of Wings or Tails.
Chapter 1
Takeshi's PoV
"Come on, Risa! Dark is stealing Minna's Bell and I need a good shot of him. Hurry up! It's almost time for him to steal."
I was so impatient when it came to seeing the Phantom Thief. Then Risa just had to overhear me talking about the stealing and begged me to let her come. 'I hate my weakness for pretty girls.'
I glanced down at my watch. 8:47. According to the warning letter, Dark was late. 'Hmm... that's not like him.'
Dark's PoV
/Dark, are you sure bout stealing the bell? I read that there was a curse on it... anyone who tries to steal it will face the warth of Minna./
'Dai-kun, don't worry. I am sure we can handle a little curse.'
/Dark! That's not what I meant. Many of the things we steal have power that can get out of control; and -/ I shut the redhead out. He was worse than my last tamer. Besides, I had a mission I had to complete.
The traps really weren't that difficult, which was surprising because the Chief Commander usually wasn't this lax in security. That was when I heard voices coming from the museum display of Minna's Bell.
"When can we leave?" whined a feminine voice.
"When the two get here, that's when. And will you stop playing with that.You'll break IT." Another feminine voice replied.
"I won't break IT. It's mine anyway, or have you forgotten that?"
I decided to turn the final corner to face my competition.
Satoshi's PoV
'Damn Dark, he's always getting through the traps so easily. Tonight will be a different story, though. I shall finally capture Dark.'
/Yes, you will, my Sato-kun, and I shall help./
'Krad, you can stay in tonight. I don't need your help.'
/Sato-kun, you nor anyone else will keep me from killing Dark./
Pain shot from my chest to my extremities and back. I held onto the wall for support. I gasped for the air lacking in my lungs.
/Remember your place, my love./
I slowly let go of the wall and stood straight. Cautiously, I walked to the Bell's display case. I was disturbed by what I heard before I got there, however.
'Why are there voices? I had no guards protect the bell.'
I turned the corner to see the new treat.
Normal PoV
Next to the now empty display stood two theives. Oddly enough, both were female with cat ears and tails. One was dressed in a white cat suit white white knee- high boots. A white leather collar hung loosely around her neck. Her hair was sky blue and cropped short and matching eyes that stared intently at a bell attached to her white tail. White cat ears twitched occasionally with small sounds.
Her companion was the opposite. The woman had a sleek black cat suit, sans collar, and boots. Around her waist was a black leather belt that looked like it had held something. Her fierce vermilion hair was slightly longer than her companion's and her ruby red eyes were narrowed in annoyance. Her cat ears and tail were a matching black.
The redhead glanced towards the blunette. "Minna, stop playing with that bell."
"Annim, I will do as I please, besides I... almost... got it!" Minna had caught her tail along with the bell attached to it. Minna smiled at her friend. "See, that didn't take very long."
Annim sighed, "You are incorrigible."
"Why thank you, Annim. I appreciate the compliment."
The redhead scoffed at her friend's antics.
Dark's PoV
/- And then Minna and Annim were cursed to a life of slavery to the mighty cat goddess, Bastet. They were the greatest thief and hunter of all time. They supposedly died a few years later in a fire. Dark? What's wrong/
'Nothing, Dai. Go to sleep.' Thankfully, Daisuke did as I told him and fell asleep. I confronted the two cat thieves.
"Give me Minna's Bell. Now." The one named Annim glared daggers at me.
"I think not. Ya see, we got it first therefore it's mine."
"You mean mine because it's mine, not yours, Annim." Minna glanced toward her friend.
'This was going to be a rough night.'
Satoshi's PoV
I made my presence known to the happy trio by simply coughing. "Excuse me, but I do believe that the bell belongs to the museum, not any of you."
The blunette stared at me. "It has my name, so it's mine. I just lost it," she pondered for a moment. "Nearly 6000 years ago."
She could not have been serious. She didn't look a day over 17. However, the look that she gave me made me realize that she was dead serious. This was going to be a very rough night.
Dark's PoV
"Well, if it isn't the Chief Commander Hiwatari Satoshi. What a pleasent surprise to meet you here."
"Shut up, Dark-san. Are these two your new assistants?"
Minna gasped. "Why heavens, no! Us with him? Ha! You're a funny one, Sato-kun." What's so bad about working with me? I'm not that bad, am I?
"Don't insult our talent with his blundering act of stealing," Annim said with vehmence. Now that was going too far.
"I resent that. I am not a stupid theif like you two! You both got caught on your first job." That should shut up the redhead twerp.
"What! We didn't let you 'catch us'; we stayed behind so you would know exactly who stole it. And-"
Minna interrupted her companion who looked ready to kill. "This is not our first job. Do you know the legend of Manna and Annim, Dark- san? If not, maybe you should read up on it for the next time we meet."
"You can't be..." The commander looked like he was having a stroke.
Satoshi's PoV
The legend of Minna and Annim was famous, at least to the Niwa and Hikari families. They are the two that were the inspiration for Krad and Dark. Minna was supposedly the rival of Annim; she always tries to catch Annim for stealing from the Pharaoh's tombs. Minna was the sacred avenger of the wronged. I didn't know much about Annim; she wasn't important to my family line.
"I can't what, Sato-kun?" purred Minna.
"Minna had blonde hair and gold eyes, not blue."
Minna flashed a toothy grin. "Very good, Sato-kun. At least you know the importance of history, but what would keep her from changing her hair and putting in contacts over the 6000 years she lived, hm?"
This young woman claimed to be Minna. I was going to have an awful headache tomorrow.
Normal PoV
"Well, after that history lesson, I think that it's time to depart. How 'bout it, Min?" The redhead lightly pushed her towards an open window. Minna never lost eye contact with Satoshi. She winked at him and jumped out the window.
Annim bowed dramacticly. "That's all the time we have, gentlemen. It was a pleasure doing business with you. If you have any questions, please drop them in the comments box on your way out. Thank you and good night." With that said, she jumped out the same window Minna had just exited.
There was silence for 5 seconds.
"How many stories up are we?"
"Three, with nothing but concrete below us." Satoshi answered absently.
The two enemies looked at each other then ran to the window.
"Get out of my way, DARK!"
"NO! You get out of MY way, Creepy Boy." They both glance down to see the girls.
Down on ground level, Annim was complaining loudly.
"Who the hell puts a car in the back alley? Really, is the person a dumb ass or-"
"Annim?"
"What?"
"We went out the wrong window and... and... and I see paparazzi people." The last was spoken in a whipser. Annim slowly turned around to see at least one hundred people with cameras staring at them.
"Hehe... Look! It's Dark!" Annim pointed up to Dark and Satoshi hanging out the window.
"And he's having an affair with the Chief Commander." Minna just had to add that. The paparazzi went into a riot. Some even charged the police barricade to get an interview with the 'couple'. The police were too preoccupied with the riot to see the cat girls slip off into the night.
