Disclaimers: Yes. I own it (waves obvious sarcasm flag)
Warnings: Er… stuff… happens… I can't remember…
Other: We're getting there, aren't we? That's a good thing, right?
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"Thirteen years, thirteen stars. Foul separate souls destined from the start. One dreaded prophecy; waiting to come true…"
Fragment Six: Falling Stars; Destiny Calls
Some few hours later, when Dark was finally satisfied with the tour that Krad had been forced to give him, they returned to the castle/palace/place-thing of residence and entered together. All in all, nothing had really happened, besides the odd glance or two, but then again, how often then the higher of social status walked around with no accompaniment? But the blonde was more than capable enough to protect herself, and everyone seemed to know this well enough to keep out of her way.
As soon as they passed the front doors of Krad's home, they were bombarded by a number of guards, who kept yelling something about going inside and talking to the king and queen and… yeah, that was pretty much it. The blonde ignored them and the guards moved out of the way to allow them to pass.
It was actually a long way until they reached the main room where their parents were waiting for them, so they had a choice: go, or don't go. Both seemed to make sense into their own.
Dark placed both hands behind his head, "So… what are you going to do now?"
Inclining her head at him, Krad could only shrug, "I suppose there's not much we can do. Might as well get it over and done with, right?"
"I guess…"
Upon entering the main room, both pairs of parents stared at them for a moment. They stared back.
… Silence.
Then, Krad's mother erupted.
"KRAD HIKARI, HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO YOUR OWN MOTHER AND FATHER! WE'VE BEEN WORRIED SICK AND--"
She snorted softly at this and muttered, so that only Dark could hear her, "Yeah right. I could have been abducted for ransom and they wouldn't give a damn about me."
"Well, they're very considerate then, aren't they?" asked the purple-haired teen, a small grin on his face while the queen continued to ramble on about one thing or another. It seemed that she had trailed off the main focus of her yelling bout, but no one was bothered to put her back on track.
Eventually, King Hikari decided to calm her down and now all four adults glared down at the two teens, who stared back at them indifferently.
"Do you know why you're here?" he finally asked.
"Yeah," nodded Dark, "'cause we walked right in. So, what's up?"
Krad shook her head at him, "You're an idiot." He stuck his tongue out at her and she elbowed him before returning her attention towards the indignant parents, "And why are we in so much trouble for something like this?"
"Because…" answered Dark's mother, "you are not allowed to meet unless you are supervised."
The blonde fumed at this, while Dark tried to regain his breath, "And why do we need supervision if Dark and I just want to talk! I don't see the point to it at all! It's so pointless and useless and that's why neither one of us has any friends and we're socially challenged!"
"Krad! Don't you dare speak to us in such a tone!" reprimanded her mother indignantly, "Oh, why did I deserve such a rebel child for our only heir…" She sniffled and fished out a handkerchief.
"And what do you mean by socially challenged!" bellowed her father.
Krad inclined her head thoughtfully at this, flicking back a stray bang, "Makes you wonder huh?" She waved a hand towards the vast room, "Um, unless you haven't noticed yet, I'm an only child." He nodded slowly at this, but obviously still didn't get it. "AND, due to my social standing, I don't exactly have ANYONE in this place to TALK TO."
Still, she got no reaction.
"Geez…" the blonde resisted the urge to hit her head against something incredibly hard, "Look, dad, mum, ever since I was born I was placed on a higher status level than everyone else here! WHICH, IN TURN, makes it harder for me to talk to others!"
Still no reaction.
By this time, Krad was fuming, but Dark just patted her on the shoulder, "I don't think their brains are working right today."
"I'll say," she snorted.
Dark's father coughed, "Anyway. Dark, you go home now. We're late."
"Hey, what's wrong with you people?" the teen couldn't help but ask, "I mean, you're so tensed up that it's not funny. What's going on?"
"…" The four adults exchanged gloomy, storm-ridden faces, yet did not say anything. This, in turn, irritated the two teens, and as they decided to walk off since nothing was going on, that was when the messenger burst in.
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Daisuke rushed down the stairs and nearly ran into his twin, who was at the landing already, trying to help her aunt get the groceries into the house. Aya glanced up at the redhead, who stumbled a bit and then gave a bright smile, and frowned just a bit before speaking up.
"Daisuke, could you help your uncle with the rest in the car?"
He nodded in reply and slid past her, where the older man stood by said car, scowling at it. "Is something the matter, uncle?"
"Oh, Daisuke," his uncle groaned in frustration, "I think something's wrong with it again."
"Uh… huh…" Daisuke couldn't really think of anything else to say about it. "Are you sure it's just not locked up and you can't find the key to it?" Besides the fact that that meant that his uncle would have had to drop it as soon as he'd closed the door, but it wasn't entirely impossible. His uncle seemed to have a tendency to do something complete and utterly stupid, but since he was an adult, there was nothing one could do about it.
"No, it's right here," he held up the key to his nephew, who then nodded and fell back into thought. "I suppose you should just go back inside then; I'm not going anywhere soon."
"Okay," the redhead nodded and reentered the house and looked around. The hallways were clear and he could hear his aunt and sister talking about… something. Who knew, who cared? He didn't in particular and ascended up the stairs, back to the room.
As he expected, the vampire was still lying there, and now scowling at him. Daisuke laughed nervously; what was he supposed to do now? Knowing what he'd been taught about vampires, they were still very dangerous. It wasn't that them drinking human blood either killed them or made them into vampires as well – it was a possibility and all but… you know – that scared him, but the fact that the reactions of the rest of the village would be the end of the world. Okay, he was still kinda scared of the guy, but after watching Daichi trying to do her own summoning, anything besides that was better.
Hesitantly, and well-aware that he was being watched, the redhead went over to the desk and sat down, where he was instantly joined by With, who had been hiding a good way away from Satoshi, who was still scowling.
…
…
Silence.
"Er…" began Daisuke, shifting uncomfortably when the silence became too much for him to handle, "So… uh… are you feeling okay now?"
"… I suppose." Satoshi replied bluntly.
His tone of voice practically screamed the end of a conversation, and something about that fact wasn't a good thing and the redhead sweat dropped. He almost felt like he was being analysed for something and for some reason, and he just couldn't place it.
It was very unnerving.
"Am I disturbing you?" asked Daisuke, feeling REALLY uncomfortable now, "Then maybe I should go--"
He was about to open the door, but the vampire said something that caught him completely off-guard.
"It's too late. We're all doomed."
The redhead turned slowly, "What--?"
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Waving a piece of paper like crazy, the stunted messenger gabbled something incoherent which confused the party in the large room. His voice bounced along the marble walls and got distorted, rising higher in pitch with each passing second, giving everyone a headache. And that wasn't a good thing at all. Krad's father decided to put an end to it.
"What the bloody hell is going on!" he roared, silencing the messenger efficiently. "Stand straight and report now!"
Krad raised a brow at this, "Wow, I've never seen him so serious in my life. Maybe old age has finally gotten to him."
The people who did hear this – that was, Dark and his parents – raised eyebrows at this, but didn't say anything as the messenger finally delivered the piece of paper without so much fuss.
"Sire, it's as the prophecy says; that doomsday has finally arrived. There's no way out of it, it's way too late for us, sire. I mean… we're all going to die! We should have been ready for it years ago and--"
The king waved a dismissive hand, "Get out of my sight."
After a hasty boy, the messenger scurried off and the door slammed shut. Then he pointed a hand at his daughter and the child of the Moon Kingdom. "You two, leave for now. We have a lot of talking to do that doesn't involve you."
…
When the doors slammed shut in their faces, Krad visibly fumed, "Oh, that's it. I hate being bossed around like this all the time. Come on, we'll just have to listen in, huh?"
Dark crossed his arms impassively, "My, my, Krad. What would your father say to such atrocious behavior?"
"Not a lot by the time I've through," she replied lightly as they walked down another long and winding hallway, "They keep acting like we can't take care of ourselves or something. So we might as well find out what's going on or I'm out of here."
"This is a pretty boring place, anyway," agreed the dark-haired teen.
It wasn't that long before the two teens found a side door that they could open without being noticed and they stood by it, silently listening in on their parent's conversation. Of course, they had to note the fact that the tone of their voices were hostile, and that couldn't be a good thing.
"So, what do you make of this, then?"
"Was what the seer said true then? Why didn't we listen to them?"
"Because we're all idiots. We believed that our own actions would stop it."
"Yes, and now… what are we to do?"
"We can't let Dark or Krad get involved with this. We'll just have to take this matter into our own hands."
"Are you insane!"
"But the prophecy said that our children will be the ones who will have to face it."
"And we intend to not let that happen!"
"So here's what we are going to do…"
They fell back into plans and muttering and Krad nodded at her friend before they left to Krad's room. With a sigh of frustration, she flopped onto the bed and then stared at the canopy above her.
"Did that make any sense to you?" she asked blankly.
Without even looking at her, Dark walked over to the now-destroyed balcony and could only shrug, "No. But I'm assuming that they're going to lock us up now and… you know, the usual."
This little piece of information didn't go too easily into the blonde's mind. "That's it! I'm out of here! Literally." She got up, after a brief moment of difficulty and stomped over to her closet, "I can't take all this 'protect our children' thing; it's never true anyway."
Dark watched as she pulled out a small duffel bag and began to stuff random items into it with wide eyes. "Whoa. You're serious."
"Of course I am!" she snapped, as she ploughed through a pile of clothes to find something more appropriate. "And don't even start by saying that since I'm a girl, I can't go."
"But it's true, though. You shouldn't go because you're a girl--"
Krad spun around and glared at him, but he ignored her and continued smoothly.
"—so I'll be coming with you." He waved hand before she could start questioning him and then added, "I'm just going back to grab some stuff. Meet you at the Gate, okay?"
Still confused, the blonde nodded, "In fifteen minutes."
"'Kay." In a flurry of black feathers, he was gone.
Now that she was alone again, Krad couldn't help but scowl as she tried to find something more appropriate. And she knew how much trouble she was going to be in when her parents found out. So she had to be in a disguise. It was the only way.
Sorting through different articles of clothing, it didn't take her too long to find what she needed.
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"My parents always wondered why I was so different," Satoshi continued in a deadpan voice, as if relating the tale to himself more than anyone, "I never had that raging bloodlust that the others had and I was born a healthy child, as they always told me. They supposed it was their fault for having me born on a full moon; where purity is at its best. And they believed that was what caused me to be so… detached from the others. Not that they liked me at all in the first place."
Daisuke was silent, listening intently.
"But it seemed that the need for blood wasn't the only thing different about me. Sometimes I can hear voices from the other side. But the sun still hurts me, but since they don't go there, I stay for as long as I can." He gave a low-keyed, humorless chuckle, "My father was never happy with how I turned out, but my mother loved me dearly, like every other vampire before me. She treated me the same way and taught me the same things. But she also warned me about a threat that could not be ignored. And that I had to learn to defend myself to prepare for it. But as I got older, she grew distant from me. Was she being threatened? Or did she learn that I could never be like the others? Eventually, I just kept to myself."
Unable to think of anything to say, Daisuke could only stare. Why was he being told this? Or was Satoshi getting so delusional that he was talking to himself just to pass the time? Now he felt really confused and embarrassed. He considered sneaking out of the room, but stopped when he noticed that the vampire's gaze was now focused on him intently.
"Wha-what?"
"She wanted me to prepare for a doom that would involve myself and three others. One of them being a Niwa…"
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Exactly fifteen minutes later, Dark arrived at the Gate. It was a portal of sorts, that flowed with different magical energies and allowed them to travel around to different lands, as it was said.
He noticed what Krad was wearing. "I'm suspecting that you don't want to be noticed?" She was wearing a dark cloak with hood that covered her completely.
"Well duh," she snorted. "Let's go before they finally work out that we're gone."
"I agree."
As they stepped into it, they linked hands, having heard that there was a possibility of getting sent to different lands if they didn't find a way to stay together.
"What's with the sword?" Krad asked, noticing what Dark had.
"You can't trust the outside world."
"Hn."
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Daisuke was in a bind. His mind had frozen at this little piece of information that he'd been told. It was so… absurd. So strange, so weird… and it made so much sense. He now remembered where he'd heard the family name Hiwatari. Both his parents had talked about them and how, somehow, their fates were connected together.
And he'd always thought it was just a story. Nothing more.
Now this.
"Ah… er… really…?" he stammered nervously, noticing that Satoshi was getting up and moving over to where he stood, "A-a-a-a-are you sure?"
"Definitely," the vampire replied coolly, "And you must be the Niwa."
The redhead head instantly thought about his sister, but decided against it; she would just freak. "B-b-b-b-but…" He knew nothing about this guy! It was just so insane!
Satoshi pinned him easily to the wall, "But what? You aren't about to deny fate, are you?"
"Uhm…" Daisuke sweat dropped.
Whoa. Definitely freaky.
And that's when another earthquake knocked them both off their feet.
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Landing, there was an unforeseen rumbling that made the two teens stumble forwards. Rubbing her forehead, Krad turned her head a bit and watched the portal apprehensively.
"What was that!"
"Dunno…"
Silently, they watched as the portal exploded in a series of different lights and auras. An earthquake rumbled and the two teens did their best to keep their balance. Once it passed, a strong blast of wind swept by them and Dark looked over at his friend.
"Tell me that I'm not the only one confused."
The blonde frowned at this, but didn't say anything.
That couldn't be a good thing. And the portal was now destroyed completely.
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Sighing, Towa tugged a hand through her hair. Was everything going to go according to what she had said? She wasn't sure anymore.
But she was truly hoping that nothing was going to go wrong.
She just didn't know anymore.
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Yup, things are just getting started. And that's a good thing in the end. Otherwise who knows what will happen next. (grins evilly, but then gets kicked out of the house) What was that for!
And before I forget, I've done a picture for the story---! (Everyone stares at her) And it's here: http/ www. deviantart. com/ deviation/ 19846979/ without spaces.
Whatever. But let me warn you that I'm not a very good artist, blah blah blah, and I don't really do fanart to make them LOOK like the original characters. My style really is different.
And if possible, could you drop me a comment for that? There if you're a member of deviantart, or just here, please? Thanks everyone!
Reviews:
animefreaktyan: lol. XD Yeah, I think we're getting there. Slowly, but surely. I'll just have to keep on going, huh? Thanks for the review!
Hakudoshi-chan: Yeah, I know, it was pretty random. I guess the fact that when I want a story to continue, I need to put in some rather… unnecessary things that happen, yet they don't seem to get hurt. o.O Why don't they ever break any arms or legs? I don't know anymore…
neko-nya: If I was allowed to, I'd shove most to all people down the stairs XD Do you think cursing the sky will make it stop? Or rain even harder? Strange… Krad's good either way. XD (and now he's gonna kill me for that…) Your head doesn't like you either?
Bram: Eheh… it was a bit like that in this chap, but Sato's just… er… yeah. (sweat drops) Thanks for the comment!