Everyone, who has read my first 2 instalments, don't worry, I haven't abandoned this fic, it's just that I've been tied up doing my Saiyuki one and working out the ending for this one. I'm going to really concentrate on this fic, so don't expect updates so soon. Thank you and enjoy!


"Mo! Why must I come with you?"

"Otherwise I'd feel lonely."

"Liar...by the way, where are we going to start searching? We don't even know what he's trying to do."

"I don't know, just look for anything suspicious for the moment."

"Not for too long, I've started to get used to sleeping early now."

"Ahaha...you haven't changed."

"Dark, aren't you tired of carrying me around like this? Can Wiz hold?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it. So have you seen anything?"

"Ah, there!"

"So it's started..."

Dark flew down and settled Daisuke far from where he needed to go.

"Stay here; don't get yourself into any trouble."

"I know I know."

Dark flew to the roof of a building where Krad was, as he looked up at Dark he smirked and flew up towards him, charging up a beam. Dark countered it with a beam of his own and then flew in and punched him in his stomach, he recovered and kicked Dark's side and they engaged in battle.

Daisuke watched from a distance and anxiously hoped nothing would happen to Dark and hoping that nobody would see them.

"Krad! What are you up to?!"

"Hmm, if I told you that it wouldn't be fun anymore!"

Dark hated his expression and punched him in the face and then threw an energy ball, making Krad fall hard on the building rooftop.

'Dark...' Daisuke broke his way into the building and ran up to see if everything was okay.

Dark flew down and kneeled beside Krad who lay motionless.

"What are you trying to do Krad? And, why are you so strong all of a sudden?" Dark whispered. Then, the moon shone onto a blue pendant that had Krad on his neck. Dark looked at it and his eyes widened.

"It can't be..."

Then suddenly Krad's eyes shot open, he then grabbed onto Dark's face and slammed it against the floor.

"See you again, Dark Mousy."

Krad flew away far and fast so Dark wouldn't be able to catch up to him by the time he regained his focus.

"Dark! Dark, are you alright?!" Daisuke rushed to his side as Dark sat up and rubbed his head. "What happened?"

"He got away...that bastard."

"Don't worry about that, I think I got something."

"I think I got something too."

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"Did you find anything?" Emiko asked as she wiped some of Dark's injuries.

"Yeah."

"Krad is targeting Hikari arts." Daisuke said.

"What? Why?! Isn't he meant to protect Hikari?"

"Iie, I guess since he doesn't have a tamer anymore he has no need to protect them. But if what I'm thinking is right, then things are going to get bad."

"What do you mean, Dark?"

"Krad, he has the pendant...Krad found the Atlantic Pendant."

"What is that?" Daisuke asked.

"In the Hikari family, there was this woman. She wasn't closely related so her arts were ignored. One day she voyaged to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and found a pendant with a blue jewel in the centre."

"I remember that story," Daiki came into the room and sat down with a cup of tea. "The jewel was part of a savage history that was forgotten by time. Within it lies many magical spirits, and they surged into her artworks. Those pieces were finally recognized by the rest of the family."

"The building we found him at was an exhibition centre;" Dark continued, "displayed there was one of the few paintings that the woman had created. Krad had absorbed the spirits back into the pendant, and I think he's using them to give him power, the more he has, the more powerful he becomes."

"But, doing that would destroy the painting!" Emiko exclaimed.

"It was destroyed; that's how we know for sure."

"With all that power...what does Krad want to do with it?"

"That's something we need to find out, and fast...before he gains too much power...and I won't be able to stop him."

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Daisuke was getting ready for school, and Dark sat in his room with nothing to do.

"Ah...it's going to be so boring..."

"Why don't you sleep? That's what you used to do."

"Daisuke...I have my own body now, I want to do something with it...and, I can't go out or anything, it'll attract attention and I'm too lazy to deal with that."

Daisuke sighed and picked up his bag and flung it over his shoulder and made his way downstairs for breakfast with Dark following not far away.

"Ohio, Dai-chan, Dark."

"Ohio." They both said at the same time.

"Ah, it feels like I have two sons." Emiko blushed and laid two plates on the table and Towa poured them some juice.

Daisuke finished and made his way to the front door like usual and waved to his family, which now included Dark. He didn't realize how odd it was to actually have Dark as a separate person, but in a way he was happy about it, he was able to see it with his own eyes, the Legendary Phantom Thief, Dark.

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Daisuke walked down the road leading to the entrance of the school along with other students, and then Riku caught up with him and tapped his shoulder.

"Niwa-kun, ohio."

"Riku-san? O-ohio..."

"Are you okay Niwa-kun?"

"Mm...I'm fine."

"Did you find anything last night?"

"A bit, but its not enough."

"Don't worry about it, you guys will figure it out."

"Figure what out?" Risa came up behind Riku and stared at them questioningly.

"N-nothing..." Riku replied, with guilt as she looked at Risa's disappointed face.

The first bell rang and they all sat down in their homeroom.

"Hey, I heard that someone destroyed a painting at the exhibition centre. Police have no idea who did it and all their security tapes were sabotaged."

"Who could've done something like that?"

"Yeah, I mean when Dark steals, he doesn't do anything like that."

Daisuke was troubled and wanted to talk to Satoshi, but he wasn't in class yet. Wait, Satoshi's always in class early…he began to worry, he wondered if something had happened to him, had Krad gotten him?

'Dark, what do you think?'

After a while there was no response. Daisuke felt stupid at the fact that he forgot that Dark wasn't there anymore.

"Daisuke...Daisuke...DAISUKE!"

"WAA!! What? What?"

The teacher looked at Daisuke, annoyed, as the other students giggled at him.

"I've called you five times! We're starting a project today! Go get some poster paper at the supply store, here's the card key. Get me 3 of every colour you can find."

"Hai..."

Daisuke walked out of class and towards the store with his head down, feeling embarrassed. Daisuke was walking down the very quiet, and deserted corridor, no one was to be seen from either end. Then suddenly, Satoshi tapped Daisuke's shoulder.

"Aaaahh!!!" Daisuke jumped away and had his hands open and stretched out to protect himself from whoever was there. Then before he knew it, light grew from his hands and became beams that threw themselves in Satoshi's direction. Luckily, he dodged just in time uninjured.

"NIWA!! What are you doing?!" Daisuke opened his eyes to see Satoshi on the floor and the walls damaged and its bricks crumbled in front of him. As Daisuke saw his hands stretched and aimed at the broken wall and freaked out.

"Wh-wh-wh-WHAT HAPPENED?! Hiwatari-kun!!"

"Why don't you tell me?" Satoshi calmly stood up and dusted himself off; he walked over to Daisuke and pushed his arms down.

"Niwa, calm down."

"But...how did I do that?"

Daisuke's class heard the sudden explosion and they all rushed outside. Leading the class were Riku, Risa and Saehara. As they got out they searched for where it came from.

"Quickly, before someone sees us." Satoshi pulled him round a corner, hoping nobody saw them.

"Hey, isn't that Daisuke and Hiwatari?" Saehara saw them for a split second, running around the corner.

"I think so..." So did Risa.

"I don't think so, it could have been anybody." Riku too, but she was covering.

"Iie...I'm sure it was them." Saehara walked closer to the damaged wall and examined it. "This is a...scoop! This isn't normal! It looks like someone blew it up."

"Saehara, get away from the wall. Everyone! Enough, back to class." The teacher ushered them back to class with all of them whining and complaining. Then Satoshi and Daisuke reappeared but this time with the bundles of poster paper that the teacher wanted.

"Huh? What happened?" Daisuke asked, trying not to seem too much like he was lying.

"Nothing Daisuke, now come on, let's get back to class. Satoshi, you're late."

"Gomen." Daisuke and Satoshi let the class walk in first and they slowly trailed behind while whispering to each other.

"Niwa, what just happened? What you did back there was Dark's magic."

"I don't know...and Hiwatari-kun, last night-"

"Let's talk about this later; I'm guessing no one at home knows about this."


TBC

Next Chapter: A certain Hikari artwork arrives in the school for study, Krad is not willing to wait until night.