Daisuke felt like he was floating. He opened his eyes slightly, visions of blue filled his sight.

"Where am I..." Daisuke said weakly to himself. He heard a small giggle, as he slowly turned his head he saw a figure of a man lying unconcious. Daisuke again heard the giggle, he looked up from the man and saw a figure of a young girl. Daisuke tryed to make out her face but everything was starting to get blury, with the little strength he had left he reached his hand out to the man laying unconcious, he slowly opened his mouth and mannaged to say "Dark..." before everything went black.

Daisuke could hear the chirping of birds, he slowly tried to roll over

"augh!" Daisuke's entire body was sore and he could barely move.

"What happened..." Daisuke said weakly to himself. Daisuke's door opened

"Daisuke..." Emiko's face looked like she was about to cry

"mom..?" Daisuke didn't understand his mother's reaction. Emiko rushed over and threw her arms around Daisuke.

"Augh mom!..." Daisuke said as his face flinched in pain.

"Oh I'm sorry!" tears rolled down Emiko's cheeks.

"Kosuke Dad hurry!!" Daisuke could hear the sounds of feet rushing towards his room.

"Daisuke!" Kosuke and Emiko's father yelled at the same time as they rushed into his room.

"Hey dad, grandpa.."

"How are you feeling?" asked Kosuke

"okay I guess, I feel like I can run a mile..." Daisuke tried to force a smile, as Daisuke looked he could see that Kosuke's eyes gave a look of relief.

"What happened to me?" Daisuke asked as he looked at Kosuke

"we were hopeing you could tell us..."

"what do you mean?" he asked

"You were sucked into the Crystal Heart, and when you came back you were unconcious--you've been unconcious for almost three days" answered Kosuke.

"What!?" yelled Daisuke he flinched as he yelled

"Be careful honey your in rough shape!!" said Emiko

"Daisuke do you remember what happened in the Crystal Heart?" Kosuke asked

"..." he said nothing as he tried to recollect his memory.

"Wait!" said Daisuke

"what is it!?" Kosuke said in intensity

"I do remember something!"

"tell us Daisuke!" yelled Daisuke's grandpa.

"It was all blue...blue was everywhere-- and there was a girl! and a man was laying on the ground!"

"what else Daisuke!?" Kosuke urged

"...DARK!!..." Daisuke jumped out of his bed and tried to get up, but to aval.

"Daisuke!!" Emiko and Kosuke quickly helped Daisuke up back into his bed

"NO Dark!!" he yelled

"What happened to Dark!?" asked Kosuke

"...she took him!..."

"who did?!" Kosuke asked urgently

"...the girl..." said Daisuke before his eyes closed and his body slumped on the bed.

"DAISUKE!" yelled Emiko

"It's ok Emiko he just passed out,he must have used a lot of energy" said Emiko's Dad

"I'm suprised he even woke up as soon as he did. I mean a mortal going into a world with so much magic, must have sucked all the energy out of his body" said Kosuke. Emiko sat beside Daisuke as she wiped his face with a wet cloth. Kosuke and her Dad left the room.

"Kosuke what happened in there?"

"I don't know but if what Daisuke's saying is true, we're in for a lot of trouble" Kosuke said as he walked down the stairs.

Kosuke sat on a chair as he started to read yet another book

"Dad?" Kosuke quickly looked up and saw Daisuke standing there.

"Oh Daisuke, you feeling better?" he asked

"yeah...so?" Daisuke looked at Kosuke with a look of wondering.

"I haven't found anything yet...I'm sorry" Kosuke looked down at the floor as if ashamed.

"Oh...ok" Daisuke turned to leave the room as Kosuke said

"we'll get him back" Daisuke gave a small smile nodded and left the room.

Daisuke walked into the kitchen

"Goodmorning honey!"

"..goodmorning.." Daisuke replied dully

"Daisuke everything's going to be okay" Emiko tried to reasure him.

"Yeah..." Daisuke started to head out the door

"Where are you going!?" asked Emiko

"to school" replied Daisuke

"are you feeling well enough to go to school?" asked Emiko

"yeah I'm fine" said Daisuke

"Alright, take it easy ok--and have a good day" Emiko said as she gave Daisuke a little smile

"I will" Daisuke gave a smile and was out the door.

Daisuke slowly entered the Azumano schoolgrounds.

"Daisuke!!" Takeshi ran up to Daisuke and put him in a head lock.

"Where have you been!?"

"I was sick!" said Daisuke as he tried to escape.

"Oh that makes sense, there was something going around" Takeshi let go of Daisuke as they started to walk again.

"Riku's been wondering where you were, we all were, the teachers said your parents called but didn't say why you couldn't come!"

"Must have slipped their minds"said Daisuke

"yeah hehehe!" Takeshi and Daisuke started to laugh, then Takeshi pointed his finger at something in front of him.

"Hey speaking of Riku, there she is now!" Daisuke quickly looked up

"Daisuke!" Riku ran towards him.

"Hey Riku" said Daisuke nervously.

"How are you feeling?" asked Riku

"a lot better hehe" Daisuke said as he smiled

"that's good I'm glad, I was worried about you" Daisuke blushed a little

"um Riku.."

"yeah?"

"I'm sorry I had to cancel our date.."

"that's ok, you seemed like whatever you had to do was really important" Daisuke smiled

"Oh we better get to class!" Riku started to hurry to get to class and Daisuke followed.

Daisuke entered the classroom with Riku and Takeshi.

"Please take your seats" said the teacher Daisuke sat down in his seat.

"Satoshi's not here again.." he thought to himself "wait!... maybe I could ask Satoshi about the Crystal Heart, he'd have to know how to get Dark back!---but, if he knows Dark's gone, what will happen?--I have no choice, it will take dad forever to find the information on the Crystal Heart!" Daisuke stared out the window as he was lost in thought

"NIWA!" Daisuke snapped out of his reign of thought.

"Yes!?"

"roll call!" said the teacher

"oh sorry,here!"

"thankyou!..and that's it, Hiwatari's out sick today"

"Hiwatari's sick!?"

"yes Niwa he is!"

"I'm sorry but I have to go!" Daisuke quicky got up and rushed out of the classroom.

"NIWA!...well Niwa will not be joining us either apparently" the teacher turned around to face the chalk board

"Ok shall we get started."

Daisuke ran out of the school

"If Satoshi's out sick that must mean he's at his house so I can ask him about the Crystal Heart!" Daisuke reasoned with himself as he approached Satoshi's apartment. Daisuke put his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath. He straighted back up and rang the door bell to Satoshi's apartment, but there was no answer.

"Arg no!" Daisuke slid his back on the door of Satoshi's apartment as he sat down and put his head in his hands.

"Are you ok?" Daisuke jumped as he looked up and saw Satoshi standing there.

"Satoshi!"

"What are you doing here?"

"um..I came to see you"

"ok" Satoshi opened the door to his apartment

"Come in" Daisuke followed Satoshi inside. Satoshi went into the kitchen and placed a bag on the counter Daisuke thought the bag to have grocerys. Daisuke looked around the apartment, Satoshi came back to where Daisuke was.

"Sit down"

"oh ok" Daisuke sat down on the floor because Satoshi seemed to have no furniture only a bed that was in the corner of the room.

"So what did you come here for again?"

"they said you were sick, so I wanted to see if you were alright...but you don't seem to be sick!" Daisuke said as he smiled.

"So you cut school to see how I was?"

"um...hehe.." Daisuke looked down, for some reason he felt nervous. Without Daisuke noticing Satoshi had come closer to him.

"Um.." Daisuke couldn't think of anything to say

"hmm.." Satoshi went back to his previous spot.

"What?" asked Daisuke

"your different.."

Daisuke scooted back in suprise

"how did you know!!"

"I don't feel Dark's presense" Daisuke was speechless.

"So you put it together huh?" Satoshi said as he looked at Daisuke.

"What?"

"the Crystal Heart" Daisuke looked down at the floor and with a slightly shameful tone said "yeah...we did."

"You didn't come here to see how I was, you came to ask about the Crystal didn't you?"

Daisuke quietly confessed "yeah..."

"So how's the research going?" Emiko asked as she placed a tray of snacks and tea on the table next to Kosuke.

"I can't find anything..."

"what do you mean?" asked Emiko

"That magic is unlike any I've ever seen before." Emiko came closer to Kosuke and wraped her arms around him.

"You'll find a way, you always do" Kosuke layed his hand on Emiko's arm.

"I hope I will find a way, the information has to be out there somewhere.." Emiko let go of Kosuke

"well I'll go get dinner started" Emiko walked out of the room.

Kosuke turned back to his books. "I don't understand?...what's so different about the Crystal Heart?..It's unlike any of the other Hikari's art?"