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Chapter 9: Red Winged Angel

"We'll see about that, Neda," Krad said.

Krad dashed towards Neda and used him magic. She raised her hand and pointed at Krad. She shot a small bullet of her magic and both of the auras disappeared.

"Fool, I know all about you, Krad. You would do anything to kill Dark, even use a lot of your magic. But you'll never win against me."

"Impressive, you know something about me. What about you?"

"I thought you'd never ask. I have much more power than you," she said shooting a small bit of her magic towards Krad again. It hit his arm but it only scraped the side of it. She shot another one at the same spot and it cut the scrape open. It started bleeding and Krad yelled. Neda was walking over to Krad and she raised her arm. She was about to hit him on the head until Dark got up and yelled,

"Neda! What are you doing! Where's Kazuko!"

Neda put down her arms and looked at Dark, "My tamer is here, but she's unconscious. Letting me out takes a whole lot of energy from her. In her mind, she is seeing what I'm seeing and listening to whatever I'm saying. Unlike you two, I transform back whenever she wakes up from her sleep, and sometimes, that's hard to achieve. I only transformed this way because she was emotionally hurt. I'm here, to take care of that."

She formed a ball with her magic and she shot it when it got as big as her hand. Dark went in the way of the magic and he was hit in the chest.

"Step aside, Dark. This has nothing to do with you."

"I never thought that I would try and save Krad before," he started as he was walking towards Neda, "and I never thought that I would hit a girl before either! But yours is a different case!"

He punched Neda in the face and she stumbled backwards.

"You're not so tough are you!"

"Stand aside, Dark!" Krad said as he went up to Neda and punched her too. Krad was going to punch her again, but she grabbed his fist when it was coming towards her face and she threw Krad to the cliff. Krad had his wings so he flew up. Dark went up to Neda and grabbed her shoulders.

"Kazuko! Come on, transform back into yourself! Neda, if you keep this up, you're going to hurt Kazuko!"

"I've told you before, this does not concern you, but if you want to get involved, say hello to a shorter life."

"You're not making any sense. What's the point in killing Krad?"

"Were you not listening? He is in the way and he hurt my tamer."

She shot another bit of her magic and it wrapped around Dark. Dark fell to the ground and Neda kneeled down and raised his head.

"This will keep you from getting in the way again. I'll take care of you later."

She walked up to Krad and she flew towards him.

"Hmph…thank you for doing that to Dark, but I'm afraid I'll be the one to eliminate him."

"Dark is not part of this fight; you are my enemy now," Neda said holding up her hand towards Krad. She pulled out a feather with her other hand and she started chanting something. Krad hastily took out a feather and attacked Neda. She flew upwards and used her feather on Krad. He evaded, flew up towards her and attacked her again.

"It's impossible for you to kill me, Krad. There's no reason for you to struggle in this fight."

Dark was struggling out of Neda's magic and he managed to free himself a while after. When he was standing up, Riku started to wake up.

"What's…happening…?"

Riku looked up and saw Dark. Dark looked down and she thought.

"R-Riku! How can she be up right now!"

"It's…Dark!" Riku yelled. (Riku doesn't think of Dark that perverted anymore.)

"Be quiet, human. Your noise will attract attention," Neda said.

"Huh?" Risa said. She looked back but didn't see anything.

"Risa, what's wrong?" Ritsuko asked.

"…I thought I heard Riku. She was screaming that Dark was here."

"Oh please, how can Dark be here in America? We're like…5 thousand miles apart."

"…You're right…How silly of me."

Dark was going to transform back until Neda swooped down from her battle with Krad coming from behind her. She pointed her index and middle finger to Riku's forehead.

"W-Who are you!"

"You will remember nothing of this," Neda said.

There was a glow from her fingertips and Riku went back to sleep. Satoshi was forcing to transform back and Satoshi was winning. Dark transformed back into Daisuke and he ran up to Neda.

"Neda! Stop, don't fight Krad!" Daisuke yelled, "Krad is transforming back into Satoshi!"

Neda looked at Daisuke and Kazuko on the inside was starting to wake up.

"Sato…shi…Dai…suke…" Kazuko was saying.

"Hmph…she's starting to stir," Neda said to herself.

She looked to Krad and then to Daisuke, "We'll continue this some other time. Just for now, I'll let you go."

Neda was transforming back into Kazuko. When she transformed back, Kazuko fainted because of all the magic that Neda used, the time when she was hit by Krad's magic, and because of the time when she fell off the cliff. Satoshi caught her before she hit the ground again.

"…We should go back down," Satoshi said carrying Kazuko in his arms.

Daisuke agreed and he picked up Riku and carried her. When Daisuke was walking behind Satoshi, he noticed that Satoshi had a bleeding arm. He remembered that it was from the fight with Neda, but he didn't want to say anything about his arm right now since he was carrying Kazuko. They got to their cabin; Daisuke placed Riku on her bed, and he fainted since Daisuke was hit with Krad's and Neda's magic. When Satoshi placed Kazuko on her bed, he went up to Daisuke and placed Daisuke on his. There was a first aid kit in a cabinet in a corner and Satoshi grabbed it and started wrapping Kazuko's wounds.

Kazuko woke up and saw that Satoshi was wrapping her leg. She noticed that her arms were already treated and her back was untouched.

"Ow…that hurt," Kazuko said weakly.

"Sorry…"

"…I'm fine Satoshi. I should worry about your arm…where's Daisuke and Riku?"

"They're both sleeping right now. I guess the wound that Neda gave him took a lot out of him, too. You were the one who collapsed and started this whole thing. You should be the one resting. Don't worry about me."

Kazuko sat up and she ached all over her body when she did that. She grabbed Satoshi's arms, and looked at him.

"You've been through a lot too. You took quite a beating from her."

Kazuko slowly moved herself to the edge of her bed and noticed the big wound on his arm. She grabbed a bandage from the first aid kit she saw near her and ripped off Satoshi's sleeve that already looked like it was hanging on with the last thread.

"That looks terrible…"

"You were the one who did it."

"It was Neda who did. I would have never done this to you."

She put some rubbing alcohol on Satoshi's cut and it stung a little. She started wrapping his arm afterwards.

"…To be honest…I should have told you…I couldn't get enough sleep. That dream kept on waking me up…and Neda was always trying to get out…which made me even more weak."

"How come you never told me about Neda?"

"I didn't know about her either. I'm just as surprised as you were when she came out."

"Your dream…"

"…Yeah? What about it?"

Kazuko stopped wrapping Satoshi's arm when he mentioned that.

"That was your dream…I figured it out."

"…Okay then…explain it to me."

"The voice said, 'it will happen soon,' he was probably referring to Neda coming out."

"Okay then…explain the birds then."

"It's obvious now…Dark has black wings, and Krad is also known as white wings-"

"Which means that the crow represented Dark and the dove represented Krad."

"Correct…and the cardinal represented Neda. She said that you transform into her when you're emotionally hurt…. What were you thinking of when you transformed into her?"

"I was thinking that I wanted to see you again. I really meant it, because I thought that you would be gone forever. When that happened…it felt as if my shoulder was going to come off."

Kazuko gasped as if she just discovered something.

"My shoulder was hurting before I transformed into her!"

"Your shoulder?"

"Yeah! It felt like my shoulder was burning!"

"…Two years ago, your marking was causing your shoulder to hurt because you were really mad…are you saying that this has something to do with it?"

"Yeah! Since I got mad about not seeing you again, Neda came out…do you think, since I don't have my marking anymore, I can transform into this?"

"…That maybe true…the marking was probably hurting because Neda wanted to come out. Your parents probably knew that when you wanted to kill him, so he put that…marking…on before you transformed."

"So…I guess the marking was acting like a barrier this whole time."

"I suppose."

"…Neda is like a bigger threat than Krad when she comes out. Her opponent is not only one person…it's someone who pisses me off. Do you think that's true?

"I'm not sure…but it really looks that way."

End of Chapter 9

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