14: Clan
Daisuke doesn't know how lucky he is to be born a Niwa, their so warm and nice. Weird in comparison to other families but nice, the clan is scattered and the legacy secret. But his life was nothing like what I went through growing up as the heir to the Hikari clan. I was raised in the Academy to be their perfect tool, heir to the cursed legacy in the main line and also the last possible heir to the leadership of the clan. If I hadn't been destined to carry Krad I would've been made a puppet ruler, but no one would dare train Krad's future host to be a puppet, because of the consequences they would face when Krad woke again. All the history to know, and worst was being taught everything that would happen to me eventually, and then nearly as bad were all those mantras to learn; 'deprive a Niwa of his wings, he cannot steal Hikari things' and 'kill your heart, and do not hold anything dear to you so that he may not appear.' The history neglected to mention how Krad became a terror in the first place, hated and feared from the very beginning, and given no chance for understanding as Dark was by the Niwas. Krad had learned his cruelty from the early Hikari and their hate. I do not hate Krad, I can't, I hated what he did, what he wanted to do, but I never hated him. I understood him, more than I ever wanted to. I do however hate my clan, and find Daisuke's idea about what to do to them highly appealing. Going there as we truly are, playing up the magical aspect of it, maybe bluffing that we have Dark and Krad's full power, and threatening to break things, It needs a bit of work on details but not a lot.
There is no way the entire Hikari clan died out, anymore than that the Niwa clan now has only three blood members, that the Niwa are scattered I can believe, that the Hikari went into seclusion, I can believe. Heck I can even believe that the Main line of tamers and clan heads are down to the characters we know of, but that the last of those once great clans are reduced to three and one fighting it out in Amizino, that I can't believe.
