This part of the story is especially dedicated to - nickygirl

Chapter Three - Life Risk - Part One - Fire

I was awoken by the unavoidable sound of the fire alarm ringing throughout my once silent room. Quickly, I shot up from under the sheets and looked around the room panicking. That's when I saw the black smoke seeping through the cracks of the oak door. My heart was beating rapidly that I swore it would tear off while the voice in my head told me to get out quickly after waking my mom and dad. --- And I was always one to follow my instincts. I tore myself off the bed and ran out of my room. Immediately, I was greeted by a fog of black smoke and the smell of many things burning. Ignoring the sting in my eyes from the fume, I headed to my parent's room. Opening the door, I saw that the bed was empty and I panicked all over again.

"Mom? Dad?" I yelled, hoping that they would hear me.

Nothing came as a reply. My heart started to beat even faster as I started to look in their room. Now that's when I heard something. I swore that it was like someone calling my name - and it sounded like it was coming from downstairs. I quickly ran down the stairs and the lower I got - the thicker the smoke got. When I reached the bottom - I finally got to see the fire. Large, orange, raging fire giving off the heat. Searching for the front door, I heard someone calling my name again, but this time louder. I found the door and before I got to open the door. I woke up.

With my head still resting on the pillow and my sight facing the direction toward the wall, I heard something beeping. I dared myself not to turn around since the sound exactly sounded like the beeping of the fire alarm that had existed in my dream. I gradually closed my eyes as I turned around. As my position headed more towards my closet, the beeping sound got louder.

In an instant, I opened my eyes and just completely felt like an idiot. I then realized that that sound was coming from my alarm clock reading the time of 5:45 a.m. in the morning. Then I smelled something burning. I was afraid once more and thought, this better be some fire or I'll feel like an idiot once more. I pushed myself away from the covers and quietly got out of bed. I slowly opened the door and a screeching sound just blended with the smell of the burning. I took a deep breath and started creeping through the hallway. I quickly snatched open my parent's room. The bed was empty, please don't let anything bad happen. I continued to tiptoe down the stairs and it seems like the burning object was getting worse. Cough...cough...When I reached the first floor, the smoke got intensely thick and still, no fire trucks came.

I was beginning to worry about what was going on. Could this be true or am I just dreaming like I am about Dark? Out of the blue, I heard my name shouting out from the garage. I turned to my left and saw darker and thicker smoke easily getting through the cracks of the garage door. I pinched my nose and held my breath as I opened the garage door. There it was, that big field of fire in a bonfire? What? I saw my dad there resting his feet right on top of it and wondered what?

"Hey Sora, do you like what I build?" My dad wondered.

"Dad! Why? I mean I thought there was a real fire in our house," I thought.

"Oh, I'm sorry Sora, but our heater broke so I build a bonfire for tonight and I'm probably inviting some people over," He mentioned.

"Okay, well it is really warm here, and smoky," I complained, "you know daddy, why don't you call the person who fixes the heater instead of building a bonfire in our garage,"

"Well at least we have this, and besides, it melts the snow outside," He figured.

"Fine, you could have your little party, but I'm going somewhere that doesn't involve here," I ended going upstairs to get cleaned up.

- 2 hours later -

After I took a shower and got dressed up, I was really worried about our house. But hey, what's to worry about? I'm going to be out all day anyway. I went outside, grabbed my coat and took out Tai's Silver Porsche (in which I stole, sort of) I just took it out for a long drive, just thinking about thoughts. Everywhere, I see Dark, I really don't know why. I have a lot of things to think about like the Formal tomorrow, my house not being burned by my daddy's bonfire, how to bring this car back to Tai, and other stuff.

I stopped by at the beach again and instead of the sunset, the sunrise. I sat there searching for Dark, and just my luck, I found him working in the shack with a look-a-like of Matt's electric guitar. He went to hide and then came out MATT? This is soooooo weird.

- Okay so you can see that Matt and Dark are kind of the same people. Like they are in the same place at the same time. Well what your thinking isn't really true. Heads up, Dark isn't Matt. It's a whole other person. Just guess. Not Jyou, Izzy, Ken, TK, Davis, Willis, Cody, and Tai. It's a whole new person just to let you know (maybe). - writefreakjamie7 (changed digital dancer7 pen name to writefreakjamie7)

Okay, this is getting too weird. I can't take it anymore. I have to many things to worry about. I really need to get some rest. So I did. I went home, got some rest. I layed on a pillow and took a really really deep sleep until it was dark. Beep...Beep... I was awoken again, by that stupid alarm clock. I turned around and slammed it off. But it didn't. Wait, is this true. Is this a real fire. I looked up and saw the fire alarm ringing loud with smoke easily getting through the cracks of my oak door.

I rushed quickly out of bed and coughed a couple of times. While opening the door, the smoke just blew in my room strongly stinging my eyes. I tried to cover them and hold my breath but I just stayed calm and tried to find mom and dad. I opened their door and saw that the bed was empty. Just like in my dream. I tried to search for my parents in every room on the top floor but they were just not there. Suddenly, I saw an image of a man in black getting closer to me. I stepped back getting so afraid of him. When I bumped into a dead end, I closed my eyes and with in just minutes later, I was outside.

Searching for the man who rescued me, which I think was oviously Dark, I can't quite see where my parents are. From the garage, I saw black smoke oozing out of the metal two car garage door. I prayed that everything will be okay. Just a few moments later, I heard a familiar noise. The firetrucks came! Then everything was a blur.

I woke up, hearing the birds chirping right by the sidewalk where I had slept. As I got up, my body started to feel pain and then I heard a voice from behind. "Miss Takenouchi, I'm sorry but..." the fireman paused.

"But what? Are my parents okay? Are they alive? I tried searching for them in the house when the fire and smoke occured but they never left a trace. My question is, are they okay?" I wondered.

"Sorry Miss Takenouchi but your parents passed away. We found them laying on the garage with a couple of their friends who are injured or dead. I'm sorry," the fireman finally said.

On that moment on, tear after tear after tear after tear, I thought about what happened. All I had left of myself was the remanining peices of my house, Tai's car which was thankfully in a parking space away from my house, this notebook, friends, and so many little things. I kept thinking, what made me dream of fire - the day that there was one, where did it start, whose this Dark person, where am I going to live, and so many more. I walked toward the remanining peices of my house and luckly, it was still standing up. The garage is gone but everything turned out to be fine.

The garage was separated from our house the moment we moved here but how did the smoke enter? A sound from my pocket just appeared and it was someone very suprising.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Ummm... hi. Guess who this is?" the very deep voice mentioned.

"I have no idea. Who is this? I just had a tragic moment happened to me and I am so ferious right now,"

"I'm sorry Sora," the voice said my name.

"Wait, how do you know my name?" I wondered, "please, tell me who you are!"

"I'm the man in black that's been saving you for the past few days," Dark finally said.

I paused for a couple of minutes just realizing that this is the moment where I could finally know who this "Dark" is. "Okay, please can you tell me who you are! My parents just pasted away and I don't want anything bad to happen,"

"Okay, if that's what you want. Meet me at the road turnpike near Tokyo and you'll then know who I am," Dark said hanging up the phone.

Chapter Three - Life Risk - Part Two - Accident

Instead of taking Tai's car, I just walked over to the turnpike and met Dark sitting on the grass just listening to his music. I ran over to him and just when I didn't look left to right over the road, I saw a car zooming towards me again. Everything felt like it was in slow motion. I looked and there was Dark running to save me again. I froze trying to think of what to do, but it just felt like my feet are stuck to the ground just wanting to not move. The man on the car tried to stop but I saw that his face was turning red as his feet pushed to break. He seemed like that his breaks seemed to not work.

Dark dove to save me for about the fifth time and that fifth or whatever time turned out to be horrible. My head hit a sign that read Speed Limit 85 miles per hour. I looked where Dark was and saw a surreal moment.

He stopped the car but his foot was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Blood squirted out of his foot as it was stuck between the tires of the non-moving car. The red liquid oozed out of the skin really fast and I really need to help him. I covered my eyes and took his foot off the tire while he was just lying there screaming out pain. When it finally came out, I took him to the sidewalk and dialed 911 on my phone. Like what I did when Jun broke her ankle, I told the lady every bit of information she needed.

I took a very deep breath and hoped that everything will be okay. In an instant, the ambulance came toward us two. Please lord, I hope that everything will be be okay. They took Dark away and I followed them to the hospital.

- This story is kind short since it's like 2000 words long. I hope you like it. Thanks nickygirl. My spell check and my read over kind of stinks but I hope I got every bit of mistakes fixed. Review please!
- writefreakjamie7 (digital dancer7)