Chapter 9: Eclipse

Daisuke awoke with a snap of his eyes, momentarily blinded by the light of an unknown source. He noticed… how something had changed. No longer did he feel the… stinging cold of the asphalt of the roof of the skyscraper… no, he felt warmth, nuzzled in between something. His eyes adjusted to the light. He saw a little man dressed in a lab coat, holding a clipboard to his chest. "Ah, you've awoken!" he said, smiling lightly. Daisuke merely stared up at him, listening to him talk. "You've been out of it for two days, you know; I knew for a fact, since you were stable when you came in, you were bound to wake up soon enough" he chuckled, noting Daisuke's time of awakening. "Where…" Daisuke said, with some difficulty, his throat feeling heavy, as if unused, "where am I?" "The Sakura Haven Hospital for Neurological Studies and Treatment" the doctor said. "You were lucky you were so close from your school. That piece of metal was lodged in deep…" and the doctor took off, lightly closing the door of Daisuke's room.

Something that sounded like a snore came over from his side… there, on a sofa next to his bed, his mother and his father both snored, his father in his mother's lap. In a chair in the corner, his grandfather slept, Wiz perched atop his head, both without snoring… and then, there, next to him, so cozily nuzzled next to him, her arm wrapped around him, was Riku, also sleeping. Daisuke smiled… and he turned to the ceiling, staring at the lit light… until he slowly slipped into sleep as well… and as the darkness overtook him, a sweet, sweet voice began singing to him… so different than what he had grown used to:

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
And all that you love
And all that you hate
And all you distrust
And all you save.
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy,
Beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
And all that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All thats to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon…

"There is no dark side of the moon really… as a matter of fact it's all dark.

The only thing that makes it look bright is the sun".