Disclaimer: I don't own DP.
BGM: "Higurashi Moratorium" composed by TOTAL OBJECTION ft. GUMI. YouTube: watch?v=GacBuYFfosg
I Didn't Know You So Well
Danny, meet Tucker:
Two small boys run in fear, shrieking for help. None comes.
One goes one way, one goes the other. One is found by a teacher. The teacher does not listen and makes him stand in the corner for running in the classroom. One gets caught by his pursuer – the phone his father gave him, trashed. He walks home trailing his broken belongings, one small hand covering his blackened eye.
Seasons pass.
Daniel is alone. He walks through the halls of Casper High silent as a ghost, always in brown and gray so as not to be seen. He smiles to his parents, speaks to his sister, answers his teachers promptly and politely. He has gotten very, very good at not showing pain, so much so that he has forgotten what it means.
The other boy is always, always surrounded by people, always quick with an answer, forever gabbing glibly and helplessly to stay afloat. He has acquaintances, he is well-known. He will techno-magic his way into the school's security system and rewrite another student's entire history, for the right price. One Dash Baxter and his teammates apparently get perfect grades for free.
Nine years have passed.
Daniel's sister asks for help cleaning up after their parents' latest failed experiment. He agrees, not caring either way. Chasing a dropped nut, he follows a light into the
depths
trips
falls
learns in that screaming moment the reason of pain, and bursts out of the mouth of the portal dyed a brilliant, bloody carmine red, his skin charred black. He cries now, always. He has no name.
He has no face.
In the days that follow, the sunlight streams red like flames, filtering dimly through the thick black smoke of oil and electrical fires. An old bottle falls broken to the ground and shatters, breaking the seal. A thousand and one wishes are made; one, specifically, for power.
They meet in the sky. Fight.
A victor is found, and the city's history ends in fire.