Angst Warning
+++ Cursed +++
It was a few words shouted into the night sky as he escaped with the spoils of victory.
"May you steal all but your hearts desire!"
He had laughed, vanishing into the darkness like a phantom.
Words, mere words.
What were words going to do to him?
"May you steal all but your hearts desire!"
The words slipped from his mind as unimportant. After all, his dream of finding the Pandora stone was a long shot to begin with, and really, what could some unknown patron know about it?
But some things never forget.
"May you steal all but your hearts desire!"
Years passed, and his skill and reputation grew as the heists grew more and more dramatic, more and more daring. Impossible thefts were pulled off with an ease usually reserved for a walk in the park.
Rumours spread about how there wasn't anything he couldn't spirit away.
"May you steal all but your hearts desire!"
When the media threatened to change his nick name from 'Phantom Kid' to 'Phantom King', he laughed and thought nothing of it, merely continuing his charades with the trademark smirk on his face.
Then one day Hakuba, who had never given up on catching him, pulled him aside in his civilian persona and requested a favour.
He and Aoko were getting married, and Hakuba wanted him to be the best man.
"May you steal all but your hearts desire!"
It was then that he remembered the words...
"May you-"
...shouted on a night long ago...
"-steal all-"
...and realised...
"-but your-"
...that he...
"-hearts-"
...had been...
"-desire."
...cursed.
-fin-
You choose what was his heart's desire. ~_^
9 July 2003