Shadow Angel-
HEY! I got another review so I'm finally getting around to working on this! I'm trying to update all of my stories (I have like…10 I'm still writing) and I have a weird thing about writing chapters under seven pages long so I have to write at least seventy pages for all my stories (groan) but I still love writing, it's just getting harder to switch from DN Angel to say…Harry Potter, but even harder to go from one DN Angel story to another, I get confused T^T. ANYWHOO! Here's the next chapter! I hope you enjoy it and REVIEW!
Chapter 3-
As soon as Riku woke up the next morning she knew something was up with Zaria, she seemed high strung and fidgety,
"Is something wrong Zaria?" she questioned, getting ready.
"Nothing at all Mistress…nothing at all…" she said shakily, obviously worried about something, but Riku didn't push it.
"RIKU!" Her sister's voice called shrilly, Zaria twitched and the younger Harada barged into their room.
"HEY! Knock first!" Riku shouted at her sister, finishing buttoning up her blouse.
"I just needed to make sure you were awake." She giggled before sitting down on her bed, staring longingly at her Dark poster, Zaria had been hard pressed to not rip that down, it was creeping her out.
"I can't believe my Mr. Dark had some other girl with him last night!" she said, sitting up and frowning, "Who does she think she is?"
"Please try and secretly talk some sense into that girl Mistress." Zaria groaned.
"Well uh…from what I saw they seemed to interact more like siblings than…a couple." Riku made up wildly, hoping it was believable.
"Ya think?" Risa asked, chocolate brown eyes wide with hope.
"Of course I do now leave, I want to get ready." Riku chased her sister out of her room, feeling slightly panicked because her angel was.
"Are you sure you're okay Zaria?"
"I AM ABSOLUTLY FINE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU MAKE YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY!" she 'said' very loudly, her voice shaky.
"Riiight…" Zaria grumbled under her breath as Riku went through her daily routines, extra jumpy.
"Hey Riku—"
"AHH!" Riku screamed, spinning around to face her sister.
"Uh…are you okay?" Riku nodded mentally cursing her jumpy angel,
"Yah I just had a strange dream last night and it made me jumpy." Risa, being an idiot, accepted her sister's answer and smiled broadly.
"Guess what?" Riku sighed,
"What?"
"Two nights says it has something to do with Dark." Zaria spoke up, a little less jumpy at the moment,
"Two nights?"
"Sure, I get the body for two nights." Riku thought it over,
"Deal." Zaria smirked.
"MR. DARK SENT IN ANOTHER WARNING LETTER! HE'S GOING TO BE AT THE MUSEUM TONIGHT!" Riku groaned, and Zaria did a mental happy dance.
"Don't expect me to go with you again!" Riku warned her sister. Risa scowled,
"Fine, I'll just ask Niwa then." At the name 'Niwa' Zaria went back into panic mode,
"Yah…cause you'll definitely meet him then…" Riku grumbled, glancing at the clock.
"Oh crap! I'm going to be late!" she gasped, Zaria jumped on the chance to be able to do something.
"Mistress Riku! Let me take over! I can stay in your form and we can run there!" she said hurriedly. Riku hesitated,
"If you don't were going to be late…" Zaria hinted. Riku gave in,
"Fine, just make sure we aren't caught!"
"Yes Mistress! Thank you Mistress!" Riku grumbled and nodded.
"Well see ya Risa!" Riku called, running from the door. Midstride Zaria took over and when Riku opened her eyes they were a shining purple, a cocky smirk now on her face.
"We're not gonna make it!" Riku wailed. Zaria's smirk grew, happy to have some reason to relieve the tension from her muscles, even if they weren't actually hers.
"Have faith Mistress, of course we will." Riku didn't believe the angel one bit so Zaria put on a burst of speed, now sprinting straight through the town, avoiding people with ease.
She was so lost in the thrill of running she would've run into a certain blue haired boy if Riku hadn't said something.
"LOOK OUT!" Zaria gasped, dug her feet into the ground and, when she almost toppled over, performed a perfect flip in a way that kept her tamer's underwear hidden.
"S-Sorry." She muttered, not looking at the commander.
"It's quite alright…Zaria." Purple eyes met ice blue and she couldn't help but smirk,
"Am I really that obvious?" he adjusted his glasses,
"You just sprinted for quite a distance and are not out of breath and your reflexes gave you away."
"Hm…I need to work on that. Well bye! Tell Krad I said hi!" she chirped, waving and jogging away.
/"She is quite an interesting person."/ Krad commented, waking up when he heard her voice.
"That she is." Satoshi replied stiffly, never liking talking to his curse.
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"Stop being so fidgety!" Riku shouted at her 'curse'.
"I'm sorry Mistress but I can't help it!" Zaria whined. "AH! Only two periods left!" she screamed.
"Until what?"
"Until school ends Mistress!" Riku sighed and focused on her lessons.
"—Ku! RIKU!" Riku blinked and jumped back.
"Risa! What are you doing?"
"Trying to talk to you!" Her younger sister snapped, hands on hips and leaning over her desk.
"S-Sorry I zoned out." Riku laughed awkwardly but Daisuke, who she just noticed, gave her a kind knowing smile.
"You're like Niwa!"
"EH?" they both gasped, thinking she had somehow discovered both their secrets.
"Yah! You're always spacing out and stuff!" They both let out a sigh of relief and laughed.
The day seemed to fly by, much to the two dark(-ish) angles.
"Ready Ms. Harada?" Daisuke asked kindly.
"NO!" Dark and Zaria screamed.
"WHY?" The tamers screamed back.
"You don't want to know!" they responded.
"I don't know why your so worried Dark! Is there something wrong about that girl Zaria?"
"You really don't want to know!"
"Daaark!" he whined.
"Trust me, this is something better left unsaid." He said, strangely serious.
"C'mon Niwa!" Riku called, pulling him forward.
"MISTRESS! Please don't do this!" Zaria pleaded.
"The more you tell me I shouldn't learn about it the more curious I get!" Riku sung.
Before Riku could take another step she felt a surge of 'evil' energy.
"Zaria! W-What are you doing?"
"No!" she snarled.
"I hate that side of you! Stop it!"
"Some secrets are meant to be kept secret!" she hissed poisonously.
Riku started to ignore her curse and pulled Niwa ahead, going towards his house.
"Ms. Harada! I'm not to sure about this anymore…"
"THANK YOU!"
"Don't wimp out on me Niwa!" she laughed, tugging on his hand.
"NO!"
"O-Okay then. Maybe my parents have some information on her since I doubt Dark or Zaria are going to tell us anything."
"EVEN WORSE! And no, no I'm not." Each angel told their tamers.
"You seemed to have stop using honorifics." Riku commented
"When you piss me off this much you are not my Mistress." Zaria snarled. "Besides at the moment I am not the Zaria you are used to." Riku shuddered at her tone and kept walking.
"Mom! I'm home?" Daisuke called, "Oh and Ms. Harada, I apologize if there are any traps." Riku frowned and stepped forward,
"Oh it's fine." She laughed only for the floor to drop out. Riku screamed but Zaria took the chance and took over the body, flying easily through the traps and pulling Daisuke with her.
"You're Zaria!" Zaria looked at the red haired boy and smirked, putting him down and bowing.
"A pleasure Master Daisuke." She purred looking up at him with cold golden eyes. He lept back in fear.
"T-They look like Krad's eyes!" Daisuke gasped. Dark groaned,
"Don't worry she's just mad right now, when she calms down they'll go back to purple." Dark replied, totally calm.
Though what surprised Dark was that Zaria gave Riku their collective body, Riku's eyes flashed gold once before settling back on their auburn color.
"That was strange." She muttered, massaging her temple.
"Sorry Ms. Harada, my parents set up these traps to test me." He laughed, checking the door handle before walking in.
"Hey Mom." He called
"Oh sweetie I knew you could make it!" Emiko cooed, hugging her son tightly.
"Oh and Riku, how nice to see you! I didn't know you were coming!" she cast her son a slightly disapproving glance.
"Sorry I forgot to tell you." He muttered,
"Well that's okay, I'll get you some tea!" she scurried away.
"Thanks Mom!"
"Thanks Mrs. Niwa!" they both sat down in the living room, discussing idle things until Emiko came back.
"Hey Mom can we ask you something?" Daisuke asked, taking a cup of tea.
"Sure honey! Anything!"
"No! Don't ask her!" Zaria and Dark yelled, Dark's voice was more panicked while Zaria's was fearful as well as angry.
"Do you know who the angel Zaria is?" Emiko froze, her hand twitching to the scar on her stomach.
"Why do you want to know about that monster?" Zaria flinched,
"Ooo, that hurt. It's not like I want to do it." She grumbled,
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"R-Riku! A-Are y-you her tamer?" Emiko gasped. Riku blinked,
"What's so bad about her?" Said tamer asked, confused. The only thing she ever really feared about Zaria was her other golden eyed side.
"Has she ever told you how she's released from the black wings?" Emiko's voice was deadly calm and her eyes were closed. Riku shook her head,
"She always avoided that topic." Emiko barked out a cold laugh,
"She's been said to be smart, I guess they're right. Zaria and Krad's sister Aria, were both created with a special curse, they are only allowed out of the Black Wings under special circumstances. As I have learned Aria, being much kinder despite being Krad's sister, gave up on completing the task that was forced on her and became one with the Black wings forever. Zaria on the other hand continued with her task and kept leaving the Black wings, returning, then leaving again."
"What was the condition?" Riku asked, curious about the angel in her head. Said angel had been chanting 'no' under her breath since Emiko started talking.
"There are two different options depending on how things line up. She could either have a tamer or her own body, the tamer is more usual though." Daisuke frowned,
"So what's the condition?" he urged his mother on. She took a deep breath and looked straight into Riku's eyes.
"She takes the life of an unborn baby girl." Riku and Daisuke gasped in horror.
"I-Is this true?" Riku asked Zaria hesitantly. Zaria had slipped into a forced calm, she showed no emotions, just calm.
"Yes Mistress. To escape from the Black wings I must, to put it bluntly, kill a baby girl."
"But that's not all." Both teens stared at her with wide eyes, how could it get any worse?
"They could not take just any family's child or they would never stay in the black wings." Tears welled up in both of their eyes.
"No…" Dai gasped but Emiko kept going.
"They must take the life from either a Niwa or a Hikari. If they take a life from both families they have their own body until both Dark and Krad return to the black wings. If they take only one life they join a tamer."
"So does that mean…" the red haired male couldn't continue, horrified when his mother nodded,
"I was going to have twins, you would've had a sister Dai but she took her from me." Tears were falling freely from Daisuke's eyes now and Riku was close.
"Did you know Dark?" he asked out loud. Dark formed a projection of himself and sighed,
"Yes Dai, I knew, she's my sister, I know what she has to go through every time she wants to leave the Black Wings, she hates it." Zaria was hesitant but she formed a projection as well.
"I really do hate it. I hate having to kill a little girl every time I want to get out of that… that hell." She spat, eyes flashing gold before settling back to purple. "I am sorry for what I did Emiko but—"
"There is no way you can make this any better." Riku sobbed angrily. "How many times have you left the Black Wings?" Zaria sighed,
"I have lost count Mistress."
"How many times have your own body?"
"I have lost count Mistress, I may have been in the Black Wings for 150 years but I still had the 250 before that that I tried to escape as much as possible." She explained softly, glancing at Dark's projection desperately.
"Sorry Sis, you knew this was coming and I don't think there's much I can do." She nodded, excepting her 'fate'.
"You…are a sick creature. I can't believe I thought you were actually okay!" Riku said, her voice rising in volume as her rage rose as well.
"Now Mistress—"
"NO! I hate you! I never want to see you again and I never want the world to see you again!" she roared. Dark and Zaria froze both of their minds flashing to one person who was possibly in the same situation: Krad. The siblings looked at each other in horror.
Dark knew full well about the destructive rage that Zaria could slip into, she usually went on a rampage around the time that Dark or Krad were about to leave but she couldn't either because she chose not to take a life or there were no girls conceived that generation. If she was forced to stay within the confines of Riku's head she would most likely snap and fall permanently to her more aggressive side.
"Riku that is not a good idea. You know about Krad and how…homicidal he is." Riku nodded, still fuming. "Well Zaria can get like that when confined to an area for long periods of time." He warned but Riku would hear none of it.
"Hiwitari is fine, distant, but fine. I can hold back this murder." Zaria flinched and looked away, hiding the golden tint that was threatening to overcome her eyes.
She knew it and so did her brother: if she was locked up like Krad she would begin to act like him, there was no question about it.
A/N- Tell me what you think and REVIEW!