Dark Waters

Loud shattered mounds of glass splatter across the cold streets of St. Canard. Alarms blare as shadowy figures break from the robbed building; items bunched up in bags in the thieves arms. The figures looked around for any sign of police; foot falls rapidly slapping against the ground as they ran quickly. "I still don't feel right about this" the taller thief said to his partner. The shorter thief smacked his buddy and groaned "We got no other choice.

No one will miss this stuff, now let's get the goods back to him before", the thief was cut short as a powerful light beamed upon his blue eyes. Both thieves ceased running gasped at the powerful light, they'd been busted. Purple smoke suddenly sizzled around the blinded thieves, and a booming voice echoed loudly. The voice bellowed "I am the terror who flaps in the night; I am the virus that screws up your computer". A 3rd shadow appeared.

The light vanished from the crooks and focused now on a purple masked duck, dressed in a purple coat, grey hat, and a black gas gun in his white feathered left hand. "I am DARKWING DUCK" the masked duck proclaimed proudly. A larger duck in a brown flight suited appeared next to the costumed crime fighter, he smiled waving "And I'm his side kick Launch pad". Darkwing angrily groaned "Oh yes thank you for THAT LP".

Darkwing Duck stepped off his purple beaked motorcycle, the Rat Catcher, and quickly aimed his gas gun at the tall/short shadowy thieves. "Freeze burglar boys" Darkwing bravely said, "You're crossing paths with the wrong crime fighter tonight. And judging by your (cough) interesting clothing I'm guessing you're new to St. Canard. Well here's a free lesson, NO ONE messes with the masked mallard, me, none other than Darkwing Duck".

The shadows blinked at each other and stared stupidly at Darkwing, sweat drops appearing behind their heads. Quite annoyed by this, Darkwing snapped hatefully "OH NEVERMIND just drop what you goons got in your hands or else". The clicking chamber of Darkwing's gas gun was proof enough that as crazy as he seemed, this masked duck was serious. The shadows dropped what was in their hands as it spilled across the street.

Slowly and carefully Launch pad picked up some of the stolen items, his baffled eyes staring blankly at actually what the items were. "Okay Launch pad so what are our prized pin heads pilfering tonight? Rubies? Jewels? Gold coins? Diamonds? Or just plain cold cash?" Darkwing asked. Launch pad scratched his pilot's cap replying "Aspirin, Nyquil, Oxycontinen, Celebrex, and Benedryl". Darkwing nodded before gasping "MEDICINE?".

The light shined back onto the 2 crooks as it was none other then Goofy and Donald. "You set off 3 alarms, break through glass, risk getting caught by the police, not to mention the most daring and dastardly dangerous crime fighter in the world for MEDICINE?" Darkwing said shockingly. Goofy and Donald nodded lightly, not looking too upset or guilty just awkward. Darkwing groaned "Just who the hell are you guys anyway? Pill poppers?".

Goofy chuckled "Hyuck awe shucks it's nothing like that Mr. Darkwing my name's Goofy and this here is Donald". Donald and Goofy politely waved, Launch pad smiled and waved back "Hey nice to meet cha fellas". Angrily steaming at his beaked top, Darkwing yanked his side kick down and slapped his face a bit. "Must you be SO friendly with the enemy, they were stealing medicine Launch pad" Darkwing said. Launch Pad shrugged.

"Yeah but it's not really hurting anyone, I mean it's just medicine, not like there running away with it while were talking or anything" Launch pad said. The second the 2 heroes turned around, both Goofy and Donald were in fact gone and seen running down the street with the bottles of medicine jangling in their stuffed arms. Launch Pad and Darkwing hopped back into the Rat Catcher and screeched the tires into full gear, zooming after the thieves.

Donald's web feet slapping faster and faster, but both he and Goofy knew that Darkwing's cycle was far faster then they were. "Oh rats he's gonna arrest us Donald, what do we do now?" Goofy asked, Donald smirked "Let's see that turkey catch a pair of flying crooks ha, ha, ha". In seconds the magic of Peter Pan's pixie dust started to sparkle and charge up around Goofy and Donald once again. The 2 valiant soldiers began to float up off the street.

"I don't believe it, there actually flying away, looks like there not ordinary crooks after all" Darkwing said, raising the bike's speed higher and higher. However it was becoming very clear that the Rat Catcher, speedy as it was, couldn't catch up to Donald and Goofy's high flying technique. "There getting away DW, how are we supposed to follow em now?" Launch pad asked, Darkwing smirked and aimed his plunger locked gas gun at Donald.

"Improvise Launch pad" Darkwing said as he fired the plunger armed gas gun, the thick red plunger locked onto Donald's feathery behind tight. The wizard waterfowl squealed and started to flap and to thrash about in mid air. With the medicine bottles still bunched up in his arms, Donald had trouble trying to control his magical flight without losing the bottles or hitting Goofy. "Yeeow Donald careful, look out before we AHEIOU" Goofy said.

Darkwing Duck eventually slammed his webbed feet into the crunching gravel of the street deep enough to cause Donald and Goofy to crash. Launch Pad panted as he frantically ran his way after Darkwing and the flying medicine thieves. Darkwing wheezed "No flying foe, freak, or geek escapes the hawk eye of the dastardly dark devil demon buster known as DARKWING DUCK". Goofy and Donald groaned as they slowly stood up.

Quickly arming his gas gun again, Darkwing aimed it directly at Donald and Goofy, watching their arms slowly rise up as they dropped the medicine. "Please we got to get this stuff to our friend, he's gonna die unless we get him some medicine and quick" Goofy pleaded. Darkwing laughed "You expect me to swallow that load of garbage? How stupid do you think I am...DON'T answer that". Suddenly the ground started to shake a bit.

Metal clanging was heard from a dark alley, silver toned trash cans spill out from a shadow lurking in the darkness of the trash filtered hallway. Launch pad and Darkwing immediately jerked their attention towards the shadow. "Sora" both Goofy and Donald exclaimed, Darkwing aimed the gun at the hallway and shouted "Okay buster get your burglar buns out here nice and slow". Soft steps weakly began to carry Sora from the depths of darkness.

The boy's yellow shoes click into view, the skin of his bare legs was deathly pale and close to a grimly white. The silver keyblade dropped from his shivering digits. Darkwing sweat dropped a bit as he was starting to believe the deathly sick friend story, as Sora stepped out his face was deathly ghastly. The paleness on the skin of is legs was all over him, eyes were sunken and black, lips blue and shaking, limbs dropping, Sora was dying.

"Pp-p-p-please d-d-d-don't h-h-hurt my f-f-f-" Sora weakly stuttered before collapsing to the ground. Goofy and Donald gasped and ran to him, the frantic friends unlocked pill boxes and placed the capsules into Sora's lips. "Gee DW looks like they were just trying to help a sick friend after all" Launch pad said, Darkwing just groaned "Don't rub it in LP". The masked mallard carefully approached the frail Sora asking "What happened to him?"

Flashback

You've got quite a heart of gold there Sora" Mirage stopped speaking, he then laughed as he jammed his black fist seemingly right into Sora's body. The dark man's fingers didn't even slice Sora's flesh; he just jammed his fist into his heart as if Sora was nothing but pure energy. "Let's see how it looks painted BLACK" Mirage cackled as Sora began to become pale and very weak. Shuddering struggling moans and shivers escaped Sora's dying lips.

"So now you see why we needed the medicine, Sora's dying and we got to help him before those Lost Soul guys do" Goofy pleaded. Baffled purple masked eyes stare blankly at Goofy, Darkwing wasn't aware of whom the Lost Souls clan was. Suddenly the cold stone grey gravel below the duck's webbed feet shuddered with a tremor. Launch Pad's curious blue eyes started to notice the rumblings, while Darkwing continued his questioning.

Sora stirred and started to widen his weary blue eyes in fear, his voice coming out a weak raspy gasp of pure fear. "Uh DW?" Launch Pad said to which Darkwing frowned "Not now LP I'm trying to get to the bottom of this". But the frantic side kick started to rapidly tap Darkwing's shoulder, faster and faster to match the rapid pounding of his horrified heart beat. Car alarms started to blare, glass windows sported cracks as the tremors grew.

"DW I REALLY think you need to see this" Launch Pad gulped, "No what I REALLY need to do is find out what's going on with these 3 weirdoes'" Darkwing said. Donald and Goofy hugged each other tightly at sight of the looming shadow emerging before them, their teeth chattering loudly. Angrily Darkwing slapped himself in the face and cried out with frustration, "What the hell is with you people? No one ignores Darkwing duck you hear?

There is no one more dangerous, cunning, and respectably feared then the mighty masked ma..." but that sentence dropped down half way. Darkwing's grey hat sagged down like a wilted flower. The source of the heroes fear filled hearts was finally revealed. Behind them was a towering abominable monstrosity composed entirely of water. The beast's face was snarled, claw like, resembling bat like head with savage wolf like jaws.

Bubbles churned in the massively huge hunched over water monster, legs and arms literally composed of countless amounts of H20. Eyes had a sharp demonic glare to them, carved like daggers and glowing like head lights. Near the monster's right shoulder was a shadowy cloaked man, sporting the same dark silver coat that Mirage wore. White hair stormed over ice cold blue eyes, black gloves over his hands, and in his right hand was a red shard.

Echo grinned "Looking for something?".

To be continued...