Hello again everyone. Like I promised from the last chapter, I would put up this second one as well. Anyways hope you enjoy it.
-Chapter Two-
"Daisuke! Time to get up!" Emiko called up the stairs. "You'll be late for school."
"Ah! School!" Daisuke sat up quickly nearly knocking Wyth off the bed as he had been cuddled up on his chest.
"Kyu!" Wyth said as Daisuke got up and ran quickly around his room pulling on his school uniform and grabbing his books and bag and ran downstairs.
"Mom why didn't you wake me up sooner?" he asked as he grabbed a piece of toast his mom had ready for him.
"Well you looked so tired from last night," Emiko replied. "But I thought you were already getting up."
"Alright then," Daisuke called as he went to the door. "See you later!"
"See you later," Emiko replied. "And don't forget to get home early. I sent out another warning letter!"
"Oh Mom! Fine then. Bye!" Daisuke called as he shut the door and quickly sprinted to the lift and just barely caught the last one and sprinted on to school.
"Just in time," Daisuke sighed as he got to class and slunk into his seat with a few minutes to spare and leaned forward putting his head on the desk.
"Yo Daisuke!" Saehara called as he came over to Daisuke's desk. "You're late today. Get up late?"
"Yeah," Daisuke replied with a sigh.
"Did you see the news last night?" Saehara asked. "Dark went to go steal those two strange necklaces but I hear he only got one of them. What were they called again? Oh yeah, Fangs of an Immortal Love I think. Some strange necklaces I hear."
Daisuke stiffened slightly as he heard the name of the two necklaces and glanced down to his neck. Then without Saehara noticing, he reached his hand up and felt the necklace still on underneath his shirt where no one could see it and gave a silent gulp.
'I still have it on?' Daisuke thought confused. 'I remember putting it on for a moment before heading to bed but why do I still have it on? Oh no! What if someone sees me with it on? Ah! I'd be busted!'
"What's wrong Niwa?" a cold toned voice asked as he stood in front of Daisuke's desk with his usual icy glare. "You look a little…pale."
"Eh? Hiwatari," Daisuke snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at the blue haired boy in front of him. "Um…I'm fine. Really."
"Hn. Suit yourself," Hiwatari replied and walked past to go sit in his seat two seats behind Daisuke.
'Oh man. Hiwatari's got me pegged…again!' Daisuke thought as the bell rang to start class and the teacher came in and everyone got their things out for class.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and the class looked over to it. The teacher excused herself and went and opened it but blocked the view from the class.
"Class we have a new student," the teacher said as she turned and headed back to the front followed by the new student. "Class will you please say hello to Ms. Selena Washintsuda?"
The class said hello but was shocked to see a pale girl with long, black hair dressed in all black standing before them. She had a pair of sunglasses that were darkly tinted on and a black backpack with chains on it as well as her pants. Then she lifted her sunglasses to rest on top of her head to reveal deep, sapphire blue eyes that seemed to gleam.
"Class Ms. Washintsuda has just moved here from Romania so she's not accustomed to our rules," the teacher said to the shocked class. "Please be respectful okay?" The class nodded. "Alright Ms. Washintsuda, please take a seat there in the empty desk between Mr. Niwa and Mr. Hiwatari." She pointed to the seat as Daisuke and Satoshi's heads snapped to attention at the girl.
Selena nodded once silently and went over to the seat and silently sat down, pulling out a black and red notebook, a black and red pencil, and focused her attention to the teacher as the rest of the class stared at her for a moment longer then went to work.
'Huh? There goes Ms. Washintsuda,' Daisuke thought as he watched Selena go by silently and alone outside after school got out.
"Hey Niwa!" Riku called to Daisuke as she and Risa walked up to him.
"Oh um hey Ms. Harada," he replied to Riku looking away from Selena to Riku then to Risa.
"Oh there goes the new girl," Risa said looking at Selena still walking away then disappeared around a corner. "Have you heard what's been going around about her?"
"Well um not really much," Daisuke replied.
"They say she's not human," Riku said. "She didn't eat any lunch today."
"What does that have to do with her not being human?" Daisuke asked confused. "Maybe she wasn't hungry."
"Because of her bottle she had," Riku replied. "Didn't you see it? It was filled with a blood red liquid."
"Yeah but," Daisuke started to say.
"It was thicker than water so it had to be blood," Riku replied with a slight shiver. "Plus the way she's dressed. They say she's a vampire. You've heard of the stories of Dracula and Transylvania? That's in Romania."
"But that doesn't mean she's a vampire Ms. Harada," Daisuke replied.
"Oh no? What about the dark sunglasses?" Riku added. "And the way she reacted to the sunlight when the shades were put up and went in her eyes. She covered her eyes awfully fast."
"Anyone would've done that," said the voice of Satoshi coming up behind Daisuke.
"Yeah but-" Riku started to say.
"You shouldn't believe every rumor you hear," Satoshi said coolly. "It just might lead to some…misunderstandings. Right Niwa?"
"Eh…ah…um I guess so," Daisuke stuttered then looked at his watch. "Ah I uh got to get home now. Mom's making dinner early today and uh I was gonna help so yeah. I'll see you all later then." He turned then and ran off and disappeared around a corner going towards the lift.
Hiwatari watched him go then gave an ever so slight nod to Riku and Risa then turned and left leaving them there confused for the strange reactions from the two.
Dark landed silently on the museum rooftop where his next target to steal waited below. He silently opened a window and slipped inside to the shadows below and told Wyth to hide.
'Well I'm guaranteeing creepy Hiwatari to be here since the painting's by his family,' Dark said mentally to Daisuke.
'He's not creepy!' Daisuke replied. 'He's just…different. Like well you and I…' He trailed off the thought.
'Right Daisuke,' Dark replied sarcastically. 'He's creepy and you know it.' He peered around a corner and saw guards around the painting he was to steal. 'He's not making it easy this time is he?'
'Guess not but we still need to get the other necklace back,' Daisuke pointed out. 'I bet he has it locked away somewhere.'
'Probably right but let's get this job done first,' Dark replied as he snuck closer to the guards. 'I have a reputation to keep.'
'Oh Dark! You always say that,' Daisuke said sighing mentally. Dark just laughed mentally back for a moment before he put his plans into action to get the painting.
"Get him! He's got the painting!" the guards yelled as they chased Dark down the hallways.
"Ha ha! I'm surprised Creepy Boy didn't show!" Dark laughed as he turned a corner to an empty room and waited in the shadows until they passed by. Then he quickly ran back out and around another corner and was suddenly knocked to the ground.
"Well, well, well. Looks like I've caught you," Hiwatari said as he pinned Dark to the floor and the painting was knocked to the side. "You sure amuse me with your little tricks thief."
"Ah dammit! Let me go you creepy boy!" Dark said struggling to get out of Hiwatari's grasp.
"Now why would I do that?" Hiwatari replied in his icy tone as he leaned down until he was inches from Dark's face.
Suddenly the necklace that Satoshi had on under his shirt fell out and gleamed in the moonlight that was coming in through a window. Dark saw it and blinked in surprise and the one Daisuke had on before was now on Dark and it too gleamed in the moonlight. Then suddenly a pulse of energy like a heartbeat emitted from the two necklaces several times.
"Ah what the…" Dark and Satoshi started to say at once then Satoshi quickly backed off Dark.
"What's happening…to me?" Satoshi said as he knelt on the ground as he held his chest feeling his heartbeat starting to pulsate faster and the necklaces continued to pulsate.
Dark sat up immediately and scooted away from him a little bit but was just as confused as Daisuke and looked to his own necklace around his neck.
'What's going on with Hiwatari?' Daisuke asked concerned.
'I don't know. Maybe it's Krad,' Dark replied. 'In any case we've got to leave. Now.' He stood up and grabbed the painting as Satoshi went silent and let his head drop down to his chest.
'We can't just leave him Dark,' Daisuke said.
'If we don't leave we'll be caught,' Dark replied then stopped as Satoshi shifted and his glasses dropped to the floor.
Dark and Daisuke both looked in surprise as Satoshi slowly looked up with his hair now a little longer hanging over his eyes that were now a deep, dark blue. Strands of his icy hair turned dark blue and the sound of nails scratching the floor as he closed his hand and slowly stood up now taller than he had been and now just a couple of inches taller than Dark.
'Dark?' Daisuke asked confused.
'It's not Krad,' Dark replied staring at the strange person in front of him. 'It's not Satoshi either but there's certainly a dark aura around him. We better go now. I don't want to find out who it is since he doesn't look too happy.' With that, Dark quickly called Wyth and turned into his wings to the other guy's surprise.
As Dark flew up past the window, the strange man noticed the matching necklace gleaming in the moonlight and looked at him in surprise.
"Kris's necklace," he said in an accented tone but in a language that neither Dark nor Daisuke knew.
Dark stopped in midair and turned to look at the man with a confused look as to what he said. Suddenly the man ran forwards at Dark in a faster speed than Dark could ever see coming.
"Give me Kris's necklace!" the man said in the strange language as he lunged at Dark with his speed. He knocked into Dark and they both went flying through the window in shattered glass that caught the attention of the guards.
Dark and the man landed on the ground hard and Dark lost grip of the painting and Wyth was also thrown off into the bushes. The man pinned Dark with an iron grip to the ground as Dark coughed slightly trying to catch his breath as he hit the ground first on his back.
"How'd you get Kris's necklace?" the man asked still in the strange language. "How?"
"I don't know…what you're saying," Dark coughed.
The man blinked at the thief he had pinned for the different language but understood him all the same. "Where'd you get the necklace?" he asked now where Dark could understand him. "Kris's necklace."
Dark blinked in surprise at the man's words as the necklace gave a couple pulses of energy causing the man to look down to the necklace. Then suddenly guards came around the corner and spotted them. They shouted to get Dark and the man quickly got up and disappeared in a blur. Dark quickly got up and grabbed the painting and called to Wyth again and flew up into the night air away from the museum.
'That was a close one Dark,' Daisuke said as Dark flew over a small forest.
'Yeah but I don't get what he said about the necklace being Kris's,' Dark replied. 'Obviously whoever it is is important to him.'
Suddenly the necklace started pulsating with energy again and Daisuke gave a yelp before going silent. 'Daisuke? Daisuke answer me!' Dark asked mentally then suddenly everything went black for him too and he plummeted from the sky into the forest below.
'Ugh. I feel like I just fell from the sky,' thought the woman from the necklace. She looked up at the slight hole in the treetops above her and frowned. 'Ouch. Guess I did.'
She then slowly got up and brushed herself off finding a few scrapes and bruises but nothing serious and looked around. There on the ground off to the side was a painting that had managed to be unscathed from the fall and a little white rabbit a foot from it seemingly knocked out.
'I hope I didn't land on it or the painting,' she thought going over to the rabbit, picked it up, and looked at it then picked up the painting and looked at it too. 'Hm. I wonder what the painting's doing out here?'
Suddenly Wyth woke up and growled at the woman holding him from the energy he sensed from her and nipped her finger. "Ouch," the woman said dropping him. "What'd I do to you?" Wyth, however, charged at her and aimed for the painting and she realized that the rabbit definitely wasn't an ordinary one. "Oh so you want this? Fine take it. I don't need it." She set the painting down against a tree and turned and walked off.
'What a stubborn little rabbit,' she thought then realized she was dressed in Dark's clothes but she didn't know whose they were. 'Well whatever boy I ended up being stuck with sure knows style.' She looked at the black shirt with grey along the edges that were sleeveless and matching black pants and boots and continued on walking.
"Daisuke and Dark should've been back by now," Emiko fretted as she paced the living room with the news going. "They said that he got away with the painting nearly half an hour ago!"
"Emiko I'm sure they're both alright," Daiki said as he watched his daughter pace the floor. As soon as he spoke, however, there was a noise at the back sliding glass door and Emiko ran to the door and opened it.
"Dark and Daisuke you're back!" she said as she gave Dark a hug.
"Kyu!" Suddenly Dark turned into Wyth.
"Wyth? What were you doing turned into Dark for?" Emiko asked now holding the rabbit in her arms. "And where's Dark?"
"Kyu!" Wyth said jumping down and going to the painting lying on the ground and Emiko picked it up and brought it inside. "Kyu! Kyu! Kyuu!"
Emiko and Daiki looked at Wyth then at Towa who had come in with tea. "Towa what is Wyth trying to say?" Daiki asked.
"He says that there was something strange with the Hiwatari kid," Towa said as Wyth jumped up and down.
"Was it Krad?" Emiko asked concerned.
"No but someone entirely different," Towa replied confused. "He doesn't know who though and he attacked Dark."
"Hiwatari attacked Dark?" Daiki asked.
"Kyu!"
"No Hiwatari didn't but the strange man that Hiwatari turned into but wasn't Krad," Towa said just as confused. "The guards scared off the man and Dark escaped unharmed but while flying back here he suddenly lost consciousness and fell from the sky and Wyth couldn't stop him. Wyth said he woke to find a strange girl holding him and managed to get down and she left the painting with him and walked away. That was then he couldn't find Dark and to get the painting home, changed into Dark."
"What did this girl look like Wyth?" Daiki asked.
"Kyu!" Wyth replied and changed into the girl he had seen.
Emiko, Daiki, and Towa all gasped slightly in surprise as Wyth stood as the girl but in Dark's clothes and the necklace around his neck that was the same as what was stolen the day before.
"Hm," Daiki said lost in thought and Wyth turned back to normal.
Suddenly Towa looked up at the back door where Wyth had come in. "I sense someone outside."
Emiko went over with Towa to the door and looked out as a shadowed figure stood in the shadows holding something or rather someone. Daiki came up behind Emiko as the shadowed figure looked to them with glowing red eyes as the moon peeked out behind a lone cloud showing what was in the shadow's arms.
"Daisuke!" Emiko called but Daisuke had his eyes closed. "Who are you? What have you done with my son?" Emiko went to go forward but Daiki put an arm up and stopped her.
"Wait a moment," Daiki said to Emiko. Sure enough, the shadow set Daisuke down gently against a tree and with a quick glance to them again, disappeared into the night.
"Daisuke!" Emiko said as she rushed out to her son and Towa followed. "Daisuke sweetie. Wake up please."
At that moment, Kosuke came home from being out to the museum in the crowds to see that Dark had made it alright. He saw Emiko outside with Towa next to Daisuke and quickly went out to see what was wrong.
"Emiko what happened?" Kosuke asked as he knelt beside Daisuke.
"I don't know," Emiko replied. "Wyth said something strange happened while getting the painting from the museum and that he was attacked by some strange man then that the man ran off without actually hurting him and Dark managed to escape but passed out while flying up in the air and fell down. Then when Wyth woke after a few minutes, he saw a strange girl who had the painting but left it for him and he managed to get back here since he couldn't find Dark or Daisuke anywhere." Emiko was in near tears from worry. "Then just now some shadowy person brought him here. I don't know if they hurt him more or not."
"Well let's get him inside shall we?" Kosuke said as he gently picked up the sleeping Daisuke and brought him back inside to the couch and set him down.
Emiko quickly looked him over and noticed several bruises and a couple of small scratches on his arms and also saw a couple of bandages freshly put on his arms where it was apparent he had gotten larger cuts. She also found a neatly done cloth bandage covering his side where a rather large scraped cut had been and left her quite confused.
"Hm. Seems that the bandages must've been put on by the person who brought him back," Daiki said but also confused. "Whoever it was, it wasn't likely the girl Wyth saw first."
"Why's that?" Emiko asked.
"When Wyth changed to show us the girl she had dark maroon eyes," Daiki pointed out. "The eyes of the person were glowing in a bright red almost like fresh blood."
Everyone looked at Daiki confused but he just shrugged also confused enough and said for Daisuke to rest for now. Kosuke brought a blanket over and put it over Daisuke and let him rest as Daiki said.
Well there's the second chapter. I hope it's not too confusing still. (And if anyone's read my Twilight crossover fic I have, they'll know Selena.). But anyways I hope you all like it. I hope to update at least every week maybe. Again, any reviews and comments are appreciated! Thanks!