Chapter 8: The Dark Side of the Moon
Daisuke propped his eyes open, a strange whistle in his ears... but only an eerie whiteness filled his vision… Soon, he realized he was rising up from the cold, cold ground… and someone was helping him. The maniacal laughter kept ringing out from nowhere, crashing, batting away at his ears. And then… a very familiar voice said something: "Hello, Daisuke".
Daisuke's head filled with realization… and sheer hate and anger… images zipped through the eye of his brain… and it all started to make sense… there was a man standing next to a generator… a white-haired man. Daisuke felt his blood rush to his head as the laughter increased… "I knew you would find out sooner or later".
And then he saw a man floating outside the window of his room… a white-winged man. He saw him pluck something into his head… and he saw something come out too… Daisuke started to suspect… and he started to register who his enemy could be……… "Krad"
The whiteness disappeared from his eyes, and Daisuke realized two Mirror Daisukes were restraining his limp body, smirking menacingly, an insane happiness filling their gray eyes. Daisuke then looked to where the familiar voice came from… and came upon two amber eyes, a shock of white hair and the flutter of white wings… and he felt nothing but anger and hate…
"Krad" whispered Daisuke, completely scared, but still in deep ire, "Dearest Daisuke" said Krad, making a mock bow, "I knew you would finally figure it out, the smart boy you are" "you did all of this" whispered Daisuke, closing his fists, which were now shaking as the blood rushed around his body…
"Yes, lovely little things, aren't they?" Krad smirked, petting what was unbelievably Leader Mirror Daisuke, his gashed face smiling, "they're all made from the essence of your feelings; you know, hate, anger, all that you're feeling right now" Krad said, waving his hand in the air, as though commanding, which caused the Mirror Daisukes to release Daisuke… "Where's Riku…" said Daisuke, on his knees, and then a Mirror Daisuke came up… and he had Riku, unconscious, in his arms… "Let her go" "Oh, but I can't do that" said Krad, "I need her for your power to be unleashed"…
"But why…" started Daisuke, his nails digging into the flesh of his hands… "You see, since I knew you and Dark were never going to die quietly, I decided to attack indirectly; when Satoshi finally started feeling something, I took the chance and unleashed my magic. Now, I have his body… but it's not completely mine yet" Krad said, and then Daisuke felt himself being lifted off the ground… magically.
"Now that Dark is finally out of you, I can use you; you're the one with all the power, Daisuke. Dark is just the one who knows how to use it. You're his puppet, but you're still the powerful one… I just needed to…" and Daisuke felt something lift from him… but it wasn't his anger… his fear felt like it… just left his body… "Draw it out of you" and then Daisuke fell to the floor.
"And now that I have this… your anger, your power… I can have this body of Satoshi's and me, and then… I can destroy you and Dark…" but when Krad realized Daisuke was saying something, he stopped talking… "No… dark side of the moon… I'm gonna… I'm gonna…" Daisuke mumbled, as though pained… "I'm gonna… I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" and then… the wind picked up… and then it turned into a gale… and then it felt like there was a hurricane…
"What going on?" screamed Krad, "I thought I…" and then, he was seized by the throat… and he felt someone crushing it completely… "It wasn't anger… that I shut out of me…" said someone… "it was fear… and now you're going to die…" and then, Krad looked down at his attacker… it was Daisuke, who looked completely insane… and then his pawns disappeared… and then…… someone said something…
"And when the black-winged demon and the white-winged angel both stand down,
The Devil himself, his red wings blazing, will appear"
Krad smashed against the floor… but he didn't really care… because he was afraid now. He spread his big, white wings and took off with the force of a bullet… but then his foot got grabbed… by Daisuke… and what he saw made him quiver and panic: Daisuke had grown a pair of red wings, and from where they sprouted on his back blood gushed out… but Krad didn't care… he just wanted to leave… but he knew one thing which he tried to ignore: "you lost"
Daisuke, with all of his strength, threw Krad back to the roof of the hospital, hearing his right leg crunch… "Payback's a bitch, isn't it?" he told Krad as he landed on the roof. The winds died down… the Mirror Daisukes stood by, stunned, and apparently waiting for orders… but none came from the injured Krad.
"Come on, Daisuke" said Krad, trying to mask his fear, "you can't hurt me" and then his bones crunched together again, "true…" said Daisuke, and then he pulled a knife from out of nowhere, and he put it to his throat… "but I can hurt me" and then, with a fierce scream, Daisuke thrust the knife into his throat… and Krad put his eyes wide open… and then, Daisuke ripped his throat out as he pulled the knife out…
"And now…" gasped Daisuke through what was left of his vocal cords, the other half on the floor next to his feet, "to fix my BRAIN DAMAGE…" and he plunged the knife deep into his forehead… the Mirror Daisukes all started to scream… Krad's eyes twitched as blood started to come out of his mouth… Daisuke kept the knife going, until he chopped off the front of his brain, which he felt touch the forehead of his skull…
Daisuke couldn't take it… he felt numb… but he couldn't feel any better… he collapsed, falling on his knees, blood spouting from his throat… Krad was still standing, his eyes and face blank… the screaming had stopped… Daisuke was waiting for it… and then, it happened: in the blink of an eye, Krad's lifeless body slumped on the floor, blood coming from out of his mouth……… the nightmare was over.
And then… he saw Krad rise up… but it wasn't Krad. This was now a short-haired, handsome boy… Satoshi was now sitting in front of Daisuke. "You beat Krad all by yourself" Satoshi smiled, "I'm impressed" "Is he… dead…" gagged Daisuke, "no; he'll still come back when I transform, but you still gave him a good kick in the ass". Daisuke laughed, falling on the floor. Satoshi sat next to him as feeling left his body…
"You did well, Daisuke" assured Satoshi, patting Daisuke on the shoulder, "thanks…" Daisuke said, but he couldn't squeeze anything else in; he coughed blood when he tried. "You shouldn't talk" said Satoshi, wiping the blood off of Daisuke. This made Daisuke laugh: "I guess… you shouldn't talk when your throat… is lying ten feet away from where it should be… ha-ha…" and then he coughed again.
Daisuke felt life leave him… but he couldn't be any happier… a voice came to his mind…
"Hello… is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me…
Good, you're waking up now…"