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Chapter 8
Cryco pointed the laser light at the ground and did circles with it, smiling as Nikkita followed it. Ever since his mother had brought Nikkita here, he had been just a little bit better. But he could feel his disease really affecting him now. He didn't feel as energetic today at all. Mika then came into the room, scaring Nikkita so much the fuzzy bolted to the corner behind her owner.
"You scared Nikki…"
"So sorry…but there is someone downstairs who wishes to meet you." Cryco raised an eyebrow.
"A secret ploy figured out by the old man, is it?" Mika shook her head and looked at her brother.
"I've never seen this man…Krad said he is our uncle." Cryco immediately stood up, and put Nikkita back in her cage, promising to take her out later that night. Jogging down the stairs, Cryco ran into the living room and stood in the middle of the room and stared at the man with black hair and a golden strip. His own silver eyes glinting in the dim light as he stared at Cryco, clearly bored at the moment, as he locked gazes with him.
"Ah…you look like monkey brain over there." Dark's jaw dropped in mock horror.
"I thought you were done calling me that!" Cryco raised an eyebrow.
"Are you Angelus?" Angelus's eyes widened and he smiled.
"Why, yes I am. You are Cryco, I assume. Don't worry, I can tell you aren't like monkey puss." Cryco stifled a laugh as Dark gasped.
"Monkey puss now…? I preferred monkey brain!" Krad grabbed Dark's shoulder and pulled him out of sight.
"Krad said you might have some knowledge about the…disease." Angelus sighed and looked at the ground.
"Yes…I have knowledge. But not for the form yours has."
"What do you mean?"
"I, too have the disease Cryco…however mine is just a tad bit different from yours. You see, when I was younger, I was kidnapped by some scientists and they performed tests on me. They put the disease into me. I escaped them not too long after I discovered that they had succeeded into infecting me with it, and a few years later I met Jayden, my husband now by the way. We have had our speed bumps along the way, like him trying to kill me a few times, him thinking I was dead when he didn't want me dead, and then me trying to kill Dark. But Cryco, listen to me…there is a cure." Cryco's eyes lit up and he couldn't stop himself from smiling.
"H-How do I get it?" Angelus sighed sadly.
"I'm not sure if it'll work for you, but it should. It'll be very dangerous, and probably very painful. If you can survive the final stage of the disease, you will survive it." Cryco narrowed his eyes.
"What final stage…?" Angelus sighed and wrapped his arms around himself.
"You think your attacks are bad now…? Wait until you get a little older and they increase…you'll wish you still had the ones right now, trust me." Cryco swallowed a lump of air and stared at Angelus. Then he slowly nodded and turned away from Angelus.
"So…I don't have much longer left?"
"Cryco, you have plenty of time left here. You just need to figure out exactly how much longer you have until you reach the next stage of the disease. I'm pretty sure you have awhile before you reach the final stage…at the most eight and a half years."
"When I'm in my early twenties practically…" Angelus nodded.
"I think monkey puss wanted to do something with you tonight…have fun." Cryco narrowed his eyes as Angelus stood and left the room. Dark came back in wearing all black, with a little white rabbit on his shoulder.
"You ready to go?" Raising an eyebrow, Cryco looked at Dark.
"Go where exactly…?" Luna came back in with Angelus right behind her smiling wickedly.
"Absolutely not…! Dark he is not going thieving with you tonight!"
"Then I'll take him tomorrow night."
"He is not going thieving ever!" Dark turned to Luna and opened his arms.
"Luna…I'm a phantom thief, it is only right that my son should thieve with me."
"Phantom thief or not, Cryco is not leaving this house to go steal artworks." Luna growled at Dark as Angelus started laughing. Dark glared at him.
"You weren't supposed to say anything to her until we left…" Angelus smiled at him.
"I just love to mess up your plans monkey puss." Dark rolled his eyes and groaned.
"Anyways, Luna I'm pretty sure Cryco is old enough to make his own decisions." Dark turned to Cryco with a pleading look that none of them could see. Sighing, Cryco walked up the stairs silently. Dark turned to the others sadly as Luna gave a sigh of relief.
"You happy now…? The only thing I could probably do to bond with him, based on the stories you told them while they grew up, you just ruined Luna." Walking out of the house to stand on the roof, Dark slammed the door behind him. Angelus whistled and turned to his sister as Krad disappeared into the kitchen.
"You know…you really shouldn't set so many boundaries between people."
"I just don't want Dark to hurt him…"
"You should have more faith in Dark than that dear sister. When you really think about it, Dark would never hurt him since Cryco is in fact his only son…and he clearly loves him enough to want him to go thieving with him. If I remember the rumors of Dark when we were little kids before I was abducted, Luna, Dark was always thieving by himself without being caught by the police. For him to want to bring his son with him, would probably give him a huge honor that no one could comprehend."
"Angelus—"Angelus put a finger against her lips.
"No Luna, think about it. Cryco looks just like Dark, minus a few details like his eye color and the way he styles his hair. I noticed his hair doesn't fluff out as much as Dark's…more tamed. But I'm sure with a comb and a hair dryer; he could fluff it up and make it look just like Dark's."
"But Cryco could mess up and end up being caught!"
"Luna, I'm pretty darn sure Dark wouldn't let his own son be captured by the police."
"True…But what about his eyes…?"
"Contacts my dear sister…they work wonders."
~Outside~
Dark lowered himself onto the roof of the house and sighed heavily. In an hour he would have to leave for the museum to steal the Crystal Star…and he would be going alone. He understood why Luna didn't want Cryco to go with him…'She must hate me…' He heard someone cough behind him, and he turned around only to stare in horror at the person standing behind him.
"Well…old man, how do I look?" Standing behind him was Cryco wearing all black, his hair fluffed up and purple contacts on.
"Lose the frown." When he gave a forced grin, Dark couldn't help but admire how much Cryco truly looked like him.
"Well?"
"You…you look like me."
"That was the point. I'm coming with you." Dark smiled and looked at him with a slight smirk.
"But Luna doesn't want you to…You really want to go against what she says?"
"She doesn't want me to do a lot of stuff, and I do them anyways." Cryco unfurled his wings and Dark smiled even more. Sure he was a few inches taller than Cryco, but that was alright. The police wouldn't notice a height difference anyways. They weren't that smart. 'Tonight is going to be easy.'
~Later that night~
"Ok Cryco, we only another seven minutes until we have to get into the museum. Now here is the plan: I will fly above the police and distract them while you fly in from the far side. We'll meet up in this corridor here, where the Crystal Star is located. I'll grab it and then we'll go up through this vent here, which will lead us to the exit. You ok?" Cryco had gone slightly pale when Dark mentioned the vent.
"Huh…? Yeah, I'm fine." As they set the plan into motion, Dark was worried about Cryco the entire night. When they met back up at the Crystal Star, Dark saw that Cryco still looked pale.
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"I'm fine." Cryco insisted heavily and Dark nodded as he grabbed the Crystal Star.
"This way…" Running down the corridors, Dark led the way to the vent and let Cryco climb in first.
"Ah hell…" He heard Cryco mutter before his son climbed into the small space. About half way through the vent, Cryco suddenly stopped.
"I can't do this…"
"Just keep going you're almost there." Dark tried to encourage him and then a sudden, horrifying thought crossed his mind. 'He's not stuck…is he?'
"Dark I'm serious, I can't do this!"
"We are almost out! Just keep moving!" Dark tried to push him forward until he realized that Cryco was having a panic attack.
"I can't! It's too small in here!"
"Cryco…Are…are you claustrophobic?"
"Yes!" Dark cursed loudly and started trying to shove Cryco forward. No wonder Luna didn't want him to bring Cryco along with him to thieve…The poor boy was claustrophobic!
"I promise you Cryco, if you keep moving forward and if we make it out of here without getting caught; I promise that I'll never ask you to get into a vent or small space again."
"You promise?"
"Yes. I promise." That got Cryco to slowly move forward. Dark hung back for a little bit, to give Cryco his space. As the first one out, Cryco was suddenly grabbed the cops who started cheering that they had caught Dark finally.
"Shoot…" Dark muttered and he quickly climbed out of the vent and unfurled his wings.
"Hey!" Yelling loudly to get their attentions, Dark flew through the air and landed on the roof of the police car in which Cryco was in.
"What…? Chief…!" Dark jumped down and opened the door to the cop car and picked the locks to the hand cuffs.
"Come on…" One of the news reporters gasped and said quickly into the microphone "There are two Dark's!" Cryco gave Dark a glare.
"This is all your fault for making me go into the vent."
"If you had told me about your claustrophobia, I wouldn't have chosen the vent as our escape route." Cryco kept on glaring at him as they both flew off, using the surprise of the fact that there are supposedly two Dark's now, and headed back home. Both Dark and Cryco would have a lot of explaining to do…
Alright review! There is going to be a fanfic that I'm doing that deals with what happened between Angelus and Jayden before Angels, especially since it reveals in this chapter that Jayden at one point was trying to kill Angelus, and that Jayden thought (when he obviously was in love with him) that Angelus had been killed. Who knows? It might make you understand the characters a bit more. Ok review please!
