Hiwatari decided to walk the halls during lunch instead of going and enjoying it with his friends. It was partially because the only person he considers a real friend was missing at the moment and the only other person who ever dared really talk to him was also gone. She had an excuse though.

He wandered down by the art room and heard voices coming from the inside. He peeked through the small side window to see not only Risa, but Daisuke too.

"Will we get it done before fourth period starts?"

"It should be done by the end of lunch."

"Great. Fourth period is my study hall. I'll just tell my teacher I have nothing to work on and that I'd like to go the art room."

"That should work out just fine. You'll be able to actually examine it by then."

What are they talking about?

"What's that stuff for?"

"Well, what this is going to do is it's going to protect the paint and hopefully keep the piece from getting to soft and breaking. It's a precaution because I don't know what this thing was made out of."

He doesn't know what what's made of?

"And what does that stuff do?"

"It breaks apart the dust and soot and whatever else might be on it. All of that stuff will float to the top. We're gonna have to let it sit there for the remainder of lunch."

What on earth are they doing? Hiwatari was now curious. Risa had lied to him. She wasn't working on an art project, but another project of sorts. If she had actually been working on an art project for class the teacher would have been in there with her. The schools art teacher doesn't like leaving her students unsupervised.

He walked away from the door and continued down the hall. He turned the corner and stopped. He was waiting. He heard a door open and looked to see that Daisuke and Risa were leaving. As soon as he saw them head down the stairs he went back to the art room.

When he got inside he looked into the bucket he saw them standing over and saw that it was a chemical compound to remove dirt and soot and also protect paint. That explained what they had said earlier. He put his hand inside and pulled out the art piece. He looked at it for a moment and saw that he recognized it from somewhere. He pictured it in his mind and then put it back. He washed his hands and then left the art room. As soon as he turned another corner, he heard Risa and Daisuke coming back. He had perfect timing.

Later that night, when he got home, he started looking through some old files. He was hoping to find a picture of that art piece and find out how and why Risa and Daisuke had it.

It took a little digging, but he finally found the file he was looking for. There was only one page of information on the piece and details were limited. The photo of it was in black and white and the quality of it diminished over time.

He took the file and sat on his couch. He flipped it open and began reading the documented information. All of it was pretty mundane and unimportant. So why would Daisuke and Risa have it? He didn't know why they would want something so worthless until he got closer to the end of the document. It read: "This relic is believed to be the only key to stopping Krad." As soon as he read that, he went wide-eyed.

He knew that Daisuke and Risa knew that it could stop Krad and they were looking to unlock its power. Daisuke would eventually figure it out. All of these thoughts and emotions woke Krad from his sleep.

A tight grip had been placed on Hiwatari's heart and he knew that Krad was angry. The only key to killing him was in his Tamers, best friends hands. If Daisuke revealed the key to him then Krad would be gone forever. He wouldn't let that happen.

"K-K-Krad…"

"You brought this upon yourself by telling that stupid girl about me. Knowing that she had connections to that Niwa brat. Somehow she found the only way to stop me. Unfortunately, I won't let either of them get to you."

Hiwatari let out a sharp cry of pain. He fell to his knees and gripped his chest. He had felt as if his heart would explode. Krad sent a powerful wave of energy through his body and it made him feel unstable and like his entire body was undergoing an earthquake.

This pain only intensified with time and it got to the point where Hiwatari was screaming from it all. The only difference between this kind of pain and all the other times was that Krad wasn't trying to break out. He was just sitting there, torturing him.

After a little while the pain became so unbearable that Hiwatari blacked out. Krad then took his opportunity and released himself. He took over his Tamers body.

"I will make sure you never see those two again my foolish Tamer."

He stretched his wings and took flight out of Hiwatari's apartment window. The sun was almost getting ready to set, so not too many people would be out to take notice of Krad.

He flew down to the old church. They were in the process of turning it into a soup kitchen, but construction had stopped due to that storm a while back. He landed on the front steps and pushed the double doors open. He looked around and saw the stairs leading to the choir loft. Once up stairs, he cleared it of the chairs and small piano. He wanted as much room as possible.

On the inside Hiwatari was floating in and out of consciousness. He saw Krad walking towards him. Krad had a transparent look to him, though. Hiwatari slowly brought himself to his knees and through the pitches of black he began to speak.

"W-what's going o-on?"

"You shouldn't try to speak. It will only make this more painful for you."

"W-what a-are you t-talking a-about?"

"You see, this is the point of exchange. The point where I pass through you to go into your world. Because of what it is I'm not completely here. In other words, I can touch you, but you can't touch me."

Hiwatari was trying to catch his breath and he gave Krad a glassed over stare.

"Every time I free myself into the outside world you and I pass each other through this place. Which ever one of us is on the outside is transparent and the one on the inside is solid. Because I've taken over, I've become the transparent one."

"B-but I-I've always been a-able to fight y-you f-from in h-here."

"That's because you've always had the strength to take over physically. Right now you're in no condition for that and what I'm about to do will permanently disable you from doing so ever again."

"I-if you c-could actually do t-that, w-why didn't y-you do it a l-long time ago?"

"I've never had this much motivation. And you've never broken the rules this severely."

Their conversation was over. Krad pulled out one of his feathers and was casting a spell on it. Hiwatari attempted to back away, but was to injured to do so. He was about to be inflicted with an enormous amount of pain and there was nothing he could do about it.

"A/N: Well this chapter was really short, but I didn't want the fight scene to happen just yet, so this will have to do for now. Only 3 chapters to go! Anyway, please review."