So this is the 2nd chapter of my all-too-awesome fanfic. I might not even get around to doing the rest of this...but I must try!!!

Dark's thoughts Krad's thoughts

Daisuke's thoughts Satoshi's thoughts

Meep!

"Satoshi?" asked a hesitant Daisuke.

"Hm?" replied the bluenette, who was busy putting the final touches on his current painting. Daisuke and Satoshi were in art class, working on their latest assignment- a painting of anything from their memories or dreams. Satoshi's canvas showed a white feather interlaced with the cross Krad wore on his long ponytail. Daisuke's was the Dragoness swooping down in the darkened museum. "What, Niwa?"

Daisuke leaned closer and whispered, "Just…uh…what the Stones of Ra are used for."

"Hm…" Satoshi repeated, putting bold strokes on the canvas as he thought. "The stones are one of the most ancient Hikari works, created by Kashimouuto Hikari."

"You sound like you're quoting something."

"My father."

"Ah."

"All I can remember," he resumed, pushing his glasses up his nose, where they began their mission to slide down his face, "is that there are 3 keys that are actually people, corresponding to the colors red, blue and green."

'Like the ruby and sapphire!' Daisuke thought. 'We might be getting somewhere!'

Yeah, right.

"Daisuke?"

"Eh?" he replied, snapping out of a near-argument with Dark.

"You were staring off into space."

"Oh."

Dark found the awkward silence that followed a perfect time to try to drive Daisuke insane. Daisuke and creepy boy sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, First comes love, then comes mar-"

'SHUT UP!!!!'

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!"

The entire class went dead silent, and every single person looked at him like he was insane.

"Go-gomen nasai…"

"And just WHO were you yelling at?" asked the teacher, who was an impressively built lady whose thick legs teetered on 3-inch high heels.

"Uh…um…er…um…"

Satoshi interrupted Daisuke's embarrassing display of verbal ineptitude and cut in, "He was just talking to his…other half."

The art teacher looked strangely at him for a few seconds. "Um, alright, but in the future please be quieter." She teetered away to yell at Takeshi's horrible work of himself in a newsroom.

"Thanks, Satoshi." muttered Daisuke gratefully.

"No problem…I do that a lot with Krad."

"So," Daisuke resumed brightly, "What do these stones actually do? I mean, when you get the three people who're the keys together?"

"No idea. But it has to have something to do with the three people."

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All those 45 minutes and that was the best you could get out of him?!? Daisuke, you're pathetic. Now change into me before Emiko comes in and sees you in my clothes.

'Not yet.'

Why not? There's no harm done! And besides, I thought you liked changing into me.

'That was before Riku and I broke up.'

That was pretty messy, wasn't it? And you couldn't even catch a glimpse of her without starting to cry.

'I did NOT cry whenever I saw her.'

Fine, deny it. Anyway, we've got to get going before Hiwa-creepy dude gets there.

'Why don't you just call him Satoshi?'

Because he's creepy, and he's a dude. Come on, change already!!

Daisuke set his thoughts on the one love he had left- the Dragoness. His limbs lengthened, his hair changed to violet, and his eyes left their usual auburn shade to become Dark's amethyst.

"Ha. This night's job is gonna be too easy. What're we stealing again?"

'The mermaid's jewel.'

Dark turned Wiz into his wing form, and the kaitou flew out into the night.

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Satoshi stood in front of the podium holding the Mermaid's Jewel, a vast carved blue and green opal set in a magnificent white gold spider-web setting. But it is a shame to let it go… whispered Krad in his ear.

It's a necessary sacrifice. Now shut up and leave me alone!

Hikari.

Shut up.

You're going to let Dark get the piece?

Yes. It's bait. So shut up.

Bait for what?

None of your business.

But Satoshi-sama. I'm part of you. Your secrets are mine. My feelings are yours. We are one. Accept it. I am not a curse, but a blessing to the Hikari family, born to protect the magic that lies in the artworks. And I am an artwork too…

You're wrong. You're not a blessing. You only want my being to succumb to your evils. Krad… I am not you. No matter what you say. I am not part of you. So leave me be!

Suddenly, a faint swish of fabric alerted Satoshi that there was another person in the room. He whirled around. In front of the window was a cloaked figure, with an oddly bent back and black boots poking out from beneath the dark cloak. "Who…who are you?" Satoshi asked, cautiously moving closer. "This is an unauthorized area for civilians…it may be dangerous…"

"I'm not a civilian," the person under the cloak explained. "I'm not even human, if you even want to ask me that. But knowing the Hikari family, you probably don't care what I am, because you think I'm here to steal the art they worked so hard to put magic into. But I'm not. So let me just stay here."

"How do you know who I am?" asked Satoshi, thunderstruck.

"Your eyes. Legend has it that the blue Hikari and the red angel will band together with the dark dragon and awaken the stones of Ra."

"The…stones…of Ra?"

The person under the cloak suddenly straightened. "Yes, the same Stones that Dark stole two nights ago. The very same. And the red angel comes again tonight, with the three most important stones hidden in his pocket. And when there is smoke…there is fire…" she finished cryptically.

"Who are you?" Satoshi repeated.

"Myself." She flipped back the hood of the cloak and Satoshi found himself looking into a pair of dark green eyes. "The Dragoness."

Suddenly, the skylight crashed open with a shattering of glass, pelting Satoshi and the Dragoness with shards of the sharp stuff. "DARK!" Satoshi yelled maniacally.

What the- creepy dude's already here! Daisuke! I'm going to turn into you so I don't have to deal with him!

'Eh?! Dark!'

Daisuke fell forty feet onto his back and went unconscious.

"Daisuke!" yelled Satoshi, clambering past the glass and the upturned podium. "Daisuke!" He found him, unconscious and barely breathing, beside the jewel. But Satoshi didn't care about that now. He lifted Daisuke up and carried him over to where the Dragoness was standing. "I have to take him to my house. Come with me." He ran out the museum doors, called a car, and went home.

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"Ehhhh…"

"He's waking up. Thank goodness."

"Yeah, thought he'd never come round."

"Where…where am I?" asked Daisuke as he opened his eyes. "Satoshi? The…Dragoness?!?"

"You fell when you transformed and passed out." explained Satoshi brusquely. "But you're not hurt, at least we think. But you might have gotten a pretty bad concussion."

"Oooh…" Daisuke groaned as he felt the top of his head. There was a sizable lump under all the hair, and it hurt. A lot.

"Here," ordered the Dragoness, "Drink this." She passed him a steaming cup of ginger tea with a plate of apples.

"Thanks."

Daisuke?

Dark!?!

I'm really sorry. It didn't occur to me how high up we were. And I thought Wiz would keep his form.

Well, he didn't. But if I make it out of here alive and without a concussion, maybe I'll forgive you.

Again, I'm sorry. You don't catch me apologizing for nothing.

"So Daisuke," the Dragoness asked, "Can I see the Stones?"

Daisuke nodded and rummaged around in his jeans for the golden orbs. "Here."

"See? Green, blue, and red. The three key colors of the Stones. Hm."

"Hm?" asked Satoshi worriedly.

"Just wondering…Are they glowing to you?"

Satoshi took off his glasses and squinted at the gems. "Kind of, like a lamp with a bad bulb."

"I have to tell you guys something…but first, can you trust me with your secrets?"

"You…know about Krad?" asked Satoshi worriedly.

"I know because my family has an extensive book on the Hikari family, detailing the Black Wings. I figured out that Dark was part of it, so it was obvious that Krad was in the opposite lineage. So you two…are opposites, essentially."

"Er…well, I can trust you." stated Daisuke.

"I suppose I can as well." responded Satoshi.

"Watch then…" she said, stepping back from the boys. Suddenly, her parchment-like wings folded seamlessly into her back, her hair shortened, her eyes turned a lighter green. She physically shrunk, and soon the boys were left staring at… Kanasha.

"Wha…bu…kana…uh…" Daisuke stuttered.

"You're the Dragoness?" asked Satoshi with a bit more tact than his younger classmate.

"Yeah. What's wrong with Daisuke?"

" He's having a mind lapse. It's normal…"