Chapter 7:
The time now was approximately 12:32am, the sky was completely darkened by now and the moonlight was still incredibly thin. The police station was quiet, as was the rest of this side of town, there were a few lights on and the only person there, it seemed, was an officer asleep at the front desk inside. Dark and Krad were sitting on the roof of a building near by waiting, Dark (in Krad's body) spent some time that after noon convincing Wiz that even if it was Krad inside of his body, it was okay to be his wings.
"Dark...we've been sitting here for an hour now! When are we going inside?" Krad asked in a whisper so they wouldn't be noticed.
"Have patients! Geez, I know your excited about your first illegal act but have some maturity!" Dark said sarcastically as Krad gave him and evil glare.
"I don't want to do this you know! The only reason I agreed was because I wanted to get my body back! Got that?" Krad said in a tone of complete firmness and nervousness. He'd never stolen anything before, and the thought of the Great Hunter of the Phantom Thief stealing an ancient pendant was a thought that still made him sick.
"Get ready! Here we go..." Dark said and spread his wings flying upward with Krad following close behind. They flew over the police station that was about five stories tall and landed on the roof by a glass window that lead downward into the head inspector's office, namely Satoshi's adopted father. "Okay, remember what I told you...you may have my body but that doesn't mean you have my skills. Therefore you'll have to..." But before Dark could finish Krad had blown the window clear off. "YOU MORON! I SAID BE SILENT! SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE HEARD YOU!" Dark almost screamed.
"Satoshi's father leaves work around eight o' clock and no one else is allowed on this floor...so come on..." Krad said calmly and jumped downward into the room with the shattered glass on the floor.
The room was extremely dark and there were books and bookshelves everywhere, but it was a very organized and tidy place for that matter. Krad was extremely surprised at how well Dark's eyes allowed him to see in the dark. He walked towards the door and stopped before opening it and watched Dark finally jump down into the room.
"What took you so long?" Krad asked as if he didn't really care.
"I was making sure no one heard that. You know for a Phantom Thief you make a lot of noise!" Dark grunted and walked over to the door with Krad.
"I'm not a phantom thief..." Krad said and left the room heading into a hallway.
"Right..." Dark muttered and stepped into the hallway and walked down the left corridor.
"Hey, where are you going? The stairs are that way!" Krad said annoyed.
"Stairs? Damn Krad, you really are an amateur..." Dark said with a sigh and shuck his head. "We aren't taking the stairs..." Dark replied pulling off the top of a ventilation shaft. "We're going through here."
"What? Dark we'll be ripped to shreds! That leads to the air conditioning!" Krad growled at Dark's stupidity.
"No we won't...haven't you noticed that your wings are gone?" Dark asked and pointed out that Wiz was gone. "Okay Wiz whenever you're ready!" Dark called out and all of a sudden the air conditioner shut off.
Krad's face grew red at being proven wrong by Dark Mousy of all people. Then he felt something sit down on his shoulder and saw the small furry rabbit creature. "Hmph." Krad snorted and followed Dark into the vent.
They crawled downward in this shaft for sometime, Dark at the head acting as if he knew exactly where he was going even though he'd never been in the Police Station before.
"How is it that you are so confident in our course?" Krad asked trying not to sound impressed.
"A good thief does research before he begins his mission. I had Satoshi tell me everything he knew about this place and found some blue prints in his room. Apparently he kept them there incase I attempted to break into the police station, so he'd know where to set up a trap. Ironic isn't it? Dark asked in a whisper with a laugh.
Krad kept silent the rest of the trip, and then stopped once Dark had stopped moving, "What gives?" Krad hissed at this sudden stop.
"Shhh! Now look," He said pointing ahead of him as Krad moved to beside him. Dark was pointing to what was beyond a gate that separated them from a large gray colored room which only had a signal door on one end, and a gated one on the other. "You have to get over there to that gated door and turn off a red switch. That'll turn off the lasers..."
"Lasers? What lasers?" Krad interrupted seeing nothing in the room.
"Grrr...the ones that if you screw up and touch will send every cop in this city on us!" Dark said with a sigh. Now watch..." Dark said and carefully removed the gated door in front of them and pulled out a spray can out of his pack he had strapped to his leg. He shuck the bottle and sprayed the entire can throughout the room, suddenly red beams appeared from every direction in the room. Krad's mouth couldn't drop any lower. "Now all you have to do is not touch the lasers! Simple right?" Dark said with his usual smile.
"Wha...wait, you must be kidding!" Krad nearly screamed. "Th...That's impossible!"
Dark gave Krad one of those, 'You've got to be kidding me' looks,"This is simple Unfortunately for you I can't do it in this body, because your wings can't disappear like mine can. So just go!" And with that Dark shoved Krad out of the opening and Krad nearly landed on a laser but thanks to this body's wonderful sense of balance he narrowly missed it and now stood on one foot.
"Damn you...Dark..." Krad said trying not to breath to hard for fear it might launch him forward and off balance. "I...If we get out of this...I...I'm gonna wring your neck!" He growled still trying to keep his balance.
"Don't worry! You're doing fine! Just concentrate and you'll be fine! Go!" Dark called down to him finding this sudden change of events entertaining.
Krad gave a large gulp and did his best trying not to make one false move. He quickly ducked under two lasers and slid by another. For this next set he jumped over them and had to come to a quick stop before he accidentally landed on another laser. That was just to close he thought and stood still to think a moment.
"Don't worry, you're doing find Krad! Just relax! And no pressure, it's just the end of the world if you screw up!" Dark added with a chuckle that made Krad want to shove a laser up his ass.
"Okay..." Krad said to himself trying to concentrate and once again was back to dodging lasers with better ease this time. It was almost as if that the body knew exactly what to do. Finally he flipped over a laser in front of the gated door and hit the switch that Dark had told him to flip and the lasers vanished. Krad felt an interesting combination of relief, and excitement?
"Good job Krad!" Dark said descending from the ventilation shaft and walked right over to Krad and put his hand on his shoulder, "You might actually make a pretty decent thief!" He said with his smile.
Krad gave him another evil look; "Don't tempt me to kill you right here and now...I already was having visions of shoving a laser up your ass..." Krad said as Dark opened the password sealed door.
"After you..." Dark said with a bow and a smile.
Krad gave him and look and entered. It was indeed the evidence vault and indeed...it was an actual vault.
"I don't suppose you have the code to get in?" Krad asked to Dark still staring at the huge vault door.
"Um...nope...Satoshi has no clue what this one is!" Dark said and looked over at Krad who was preparing to launch and energy ball at it. "HEY!" He said and grabbed Krad's arm.
"What?" Krad asked confused.
"We can't blast it open!" Dark said firmly.
"Why not?" Krad asked impatiently.
"I thought you weren't allowed to blow things up that you were suppose to be guarding!" Dark shot back.
"Oh did you forget...Krad!" Krad yelled and pushed his hand away; "I'm the Phantom Thief Dark now...so out of my way!" He growled.
"Krad!" Dark said again, "Are you trying to get us caught?"
"Look...it's bad enough I have to steal this damn thing, so I'm going to do this my way! Now stand aside!" Krad demanded again.
"This isn't the time to be fighting Krad! What if even touching this thing sets off..." But Dark didn't have time to finish his sentence before Krad blasted a hole through the vault door, which sure enough set off an alarm.
"YOU IDIOT!" Dark yelled as Krad walked into the vault and looked over at the pendant sitting on a pedestal.
Krad grabbed the pendant, once he did, he felt the pendants magic power really was depleting...it was almost as if he could feel it slipping away in his fingers.
"KRAD!" Dark screamed as he heard several men trying to open the door that they had recently come through. "WE HAVE TO GO!" He said again and grabbed Krad's arm and just before the room flooded with armed officers they vanished.
The time now was approximately 12:32am, the sky was completely darkened by now and the moonlight was still incredibly thin. The police station was quiet, as was the rest of this side of town, there were a few lights on and the only person there, it seemed, was an officer asleep at the front desk inside. Dark and Krad were sitting on the roof of a building near by waiting, Dark (in Krad's body) spent some time that after noon convincing Wiz that even if it was Krad inside of his body, it was okay to be his wings.
"Dark...we've been sitting here for an hour now! When are we going inside?" Krad asked in a whisper so they wouldn't be noticed.
"Have patients! Geez, I know your excited about your first illegal act but have some maturity!" Dark said sarcastically as Krad gave him and evil glare.
"I don't want to do this you know! The only reason I agreed was because I wanted to get my body back! Got that?" Krad said in a tone of complete firmness and nervousness. He'd never stolen anything before, and the thought of the Great Hunter of the Phantom Thief stealing an ancient pendant was a thought that still made him sick.
"Get ready! Here we go..." Dark said and spread his wings flying upward with Krad following close behind. They flew over the police station that was about five stories tall and landed on the roof by a glass window that lead downward into the head inspector's office, namely Satoshi's adopted father. "Okay, remember what I told you...you may have my body but that doesn't mean you have my skills. Therefore you'll have to..." But before Dark could finish Krad had blown the window clear off. "YOU MORON! I SAID BE SILENT! SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE HEARD YOU!" Dark almost screamed.
"Satoshi's father leaves work around eight o' clock and no one else is allowed on this floor...so come on..." Krad said calmly and jumped downward into the room with the shattered glass on the floor.
The room was extremely dark and there were books and bookshelves everywhere, but it was a very organized and tidy place for that matter. Krad was extremely surprised at how well Dark's eyes allowed him to see in the dark. He walked towards the door and stopped before opening it and watched Dark finally jump down into the room.
"What took you so long?" Krad asked as if he didn't really care.
"I was making sure no one heard that. You know for a Phantom Thief you make a lot of noise!" Dark grunted and walked over to the door with Krad.
"I'm not a phantom thief..." Krad said and left the room heading into a hallway.
"Right..." Dark muttered and stepped into the hallway and walked down the left corridor.
"Hey, where are you going? The stairs are that way!" Krad said annoyed.
"Stairs? Damn Krad, you really are an amateur..." Dark said with a sigh and shuck his head. "We aren't taking the stairs..." Dark replied pulling off the top of a ventilation shaft. "We're going through here."
"What? Dark we'll be ripped to shreds! That leads to the air conditioning!" Krad growled at Dark's stupidity.
"No we won't...haven't you noticed that your wings are gone?" Dark asked and pointed out that Wiz was gone. "Okay Wiz whenever you're ready!" Dark called out and all of a sudden the air conditioner shut off.
Krad's face grew red at being proven wrong by Dark Mousy of all people. Then he felt something sit down on his shoulder and saw the small furry rabbit creature. "Hmph." Krad snorted and followed Dark into the vent.
They crawled downward in this shaft for sometime, Dark at the head acting as if he knew exactly where he was going even though he'd never been in the Police Station before.
"How is it that you are so confident in our course?" Krad asked trying not to sound impressed.
"A good thief does research before he begins his mission. I had Satoshi tell me everything he knew about this place and found some blue prints in his room. Apparently he kept them there incase I attempted to break into the police station, so he'd know where to set up a trap. Ironic isn't it? Dark asked in a whisper with a laugh.
Krad kept silent the rest of the trip, and then stopped once Dark had stopped moving, "What gives?" Krad hissed at this sudden stop.
"Shhh! Now look," He said pointing ahead of him as Krad moved to beside him. Dark was pointing to what was beyond a gate that separated them from a large gray colored room which only had a signal door on one end, and a gated one on the other. "You have to get over there to that gated door and turn off a red switch. That'll turn off the lasers..."
"Lasers? What lasers?" Krad interrupted seeing nothing in the room.
"Grrr...the ones that if you screw up and touch will send every cop in this city on us!" Dark said with a sigh. Now watch..." Dark said and carefully removed the gated door in front of them and pulled out a spray can out of his pack he had strapped to his leg. He shuck the bottle and sprayed the entire can throughout the room, suddenly red beams appeared from every direction in the room. Krad's mouth couldn't drop any lower. "Now all you have to do is not touch the lasers! Simple right?" Dark said with his usual smile.
"Wha...wait, you must be kidding!" Krad nearly screamed. "Th...That's impossible!"
Dark gave Krad one of those, 'You've got to be kidding me' looks,"This is simple Unfortunately for you I can't do it in this body, because your wings can't disappear like mine can. So just go!" And with that Dark shoved Krad out of the opening and Krad nearly landed on a laser but thanks to this body's wonderful sense of balance he narrowly missed it and now stood on one foot.
"Damn you...Dark..." Krad said trying not to breath to hard for fear it might launch him forward and off balance. "I...If we get out of this...I...I'm gonna wring your neck!" He growled still trying to keep his balance.
"Don't worry! You're doing fine! Just concentrate and you'll be fine! Go!" Dark called down to him finding this sudden change of events entertaining.
Krad gave a large gulp and did his best trying not to make one false move. He quickly ducked under two lasers and slid by another. For this next set he jumped over them and had to come to a quick stop before he accidentally landed on another laser. That was just to close he thought and stood still to think a moment.
"Don't worry, you're doing find Krad! Just relax! And no pressure, it's just the end of the world if you screw up!" Dark added with a chuckle that made Krad want to shove a laser up his ass.
"Okay..." Krad said to himself trying to concentrate and once again was back to dodging lasers with better ease this time. It was almost as if that the body knew exactly what to do. Finally he flipped over a laser in front of the gated door and hit the switch that Dark had told him to flip and the lasers vanished. Krad felt an interesting combination of relief, and excitement?
"Good job Krad!" Dark said descending from the ventilation shaft and walked right over to Krad and put his hand on his shoulder, "You might actually make a pretty decent thief!" He said with his smile.
Krad gave him another evil look; "Don't tempt me to kill you right here and now...I already was having visions of shoving a laser up your ass..." Krad said as Dark opened the password sealed door.
"After you..." Dark said with a bow and a smile.
Krad gave him and look and entered. It was indeed the evidence vault and indeed...it was an actual vault.
"I don't suppose you have the code to get in?" Krad asked to Dark still staring at the huge vault door.
"Um...nope...Satoshi has no clue what this one is!" Dark said and looked over at Krad who was preparing to launch and energy ball at it. "HEY!" He said and grabbed Krad's arm.
"What?" Krad asked confused.
"We can't blast it open!" Dark said firmly.
"Why not?" Krad asked impatiently.
"I thought you weren't allowed to blow things up that you were suppose to be guarding!" Dark shot back.
"Oh did you forget...Krad!" Krad yelled and pushed his hand away; "I'm the Phantom Thief Dark now...so out of my way!" He growled.
"Krad!" Dark said again, "Are you trying to get us caught?"
"Look...it's bad enough I have to steal this damn thing, so I'm going to do this my way! Now stand aside!" Krad demanded again.
"This isn't the time to be fighting Krad! What if even touching this thing sets off..." But Dark didn't have time to finish his sentence before Krad blasted a hole through the vault door, which sure enough set off an alarm.
"YOU IDIOT!" Dark yelled as Krad walked into the vault and looked over at the pendant sitting on a pedestal.
Krad grabbed the pendant, once he did, he felt the pendants magic power really was depleting...it was almost as if he could feel it slipping away in his fingers.
"KRAD!" Dark screamed as he heard several men trying to open the door that they had recently come through. "WE HAVE TO GO!" He said again and grabbed Krad's arm and just before the room flooded with armed officers they vanished.