Tainted Wings
Chapter Two: Meet Akai
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Dark now watched as they started to bleed. He was about to try and stop the bleeding, but what happened next stunned him for a moment. Two red, blood red wings sprouted out of Daisuke's back. Dark stared in awe and surprise as the wings rested limply on the boy's back. Then Daisuke started to breath irregularly and Dark snapped out of his daze. With a curse he grabbed the blankets and wrapped them around Daisuke's wings, which had continued to bleed. Leaving the blankets to catch the blood, Dark darted out of the room to find bandages. He quickly found them and ran back to carefully removed the blankets from Daisuke's wings.
Dark then proceeded to wrap the bandages around the beginning of Daisuke's wings and his back to cover the area that was bleeding. With that done Dark turned Daisuke onto his stomach. He stretched out one of Daisuke's wings and then pushed it in to his back, then did the same to the other. His wings were weak and if the boy had any less care they would be completely useless, but with a little work and lots of food they would work again.
Dark sat back and stared at the boy. He was completely surprised to find someone with wings like him. He knew his cousin, Krad, had wings, but that was it. He shifted his black wings on his back and laid down on his side, watching Daisuke and his wings till he fell asleep.
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Daisuke slowly opened his eyes to find himself on his stomach. He tried to push himself up, but his arms were to weak. "Aughh..." Daisuke groaned as he felt pain in his back. The dead heavy weight on his back wasn't helping either. He turned his head slightly and saw wings. Blood red wings. He screamed.
Dark, who was leaning in the doorway at the time, flinched. "You needn't scream like that. They don't look that bad." Daisuke blinked and looked at him.
"So... There not some bird monster on my back?"
So innocent. Dark laughed, "No! Of course not. Their your wings, which by the way, why didn't you tell me about them?" Daisuke blinked cutely and asked,
"My... Wing's? I have wings? When'd I get wings?" Daisuke tried to get a better look at his wing's, but failed miserably.
"Well, from what I know, your either born with them or not. Less and less people are being born with them so they've gone from a God's gift to a curse." Dark made an annoyed face that caught Daisuke's interest.
"How do you know that?" Daisuke asked.
"One," Dark said with a smile. "Your past, two," he stepped into the room and closed the door. Then he leaned forward a bit and his wing's came out. "These." Daisuke stared in awe at the majestic black wings on Dark's back. They were huge, in Daisuke's opinion. Daisuke, finally being able to sit up, crawled to the end of the bed, still staring.
"I like them..." Daisuke said, making Dark smile. Then Daisuke started to cough horribly and lean forward. Dark rushed over and asked worriedly,
"What's wrong?" Daisuke couldn't answer with the coughs raking his body. Dark rubbed his back soothingly until it stopped. Daisuke continued to breath hard afterwords. "Looks like your still sick, well you need rest anyways, because of your wing's." Daisuke nodded, still favoring not to speak. Dark pulled him back to the other side of the bed and laid him down gently. "It's better if you sleep this time with your wing's out, or you'd never be able to sleep with your back aching so bad." Daisuke nodded again as his eyes drooped a bit. Dark pulled the covers up over him, and watched him as he fall asleep.
"Well, he wasn't awake very long." Dark nodded, then stopped. He looked at Towa, who was standing in the doorway.
"...Towa, who let you in?" Dark asked slowly in a calm, questioning tone. Towa didn't like the look in his eyes or that tone of voice. Dark wasn't one known to be calm about anything.
"A-anou... gomennasai!" Towa darted away just as something was thrown at her.
"DON'T COME BACK IN UNINVITED!" A loud slam echoed through the place and everyone sighed knowingly.
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A few days later, or two to be exact, Daisuke woke up to find no one in the room. He sat up to find that his wing's had retracked into his back. Something didn't feel right and he had learned to trust his instincts. Getting up he walked over to the door and peeked out. The hallway was empty of life and light. He stepped out quietly and headed down the nearby stairs. He visited all the rooms he could and found it completely empty. Where did everyone go? He stepped into the dining hall to find it empty as well.
Then a eerie and creepy feeling came over him making him freeze up. He started to turn around when something cold was pressed against his throat. "Ah, look what I found, so Dark did leave one behind. Now why would he leave one of his pets behind, when all the others are out?" There was a blade pressed to Daisuke's neck and the stranger was freaking him out.
"Ahh...!" Was all he could get out, for fear of moving the blade.
"You don't look like one of Dark's pet's, way to skinny too. What are you?" The stranger asked. Tears started to well up in Daisuke's eyes as the blade was pressed a bit farther into his neck.
"DAISUKE!" Daisuke turned his eyes to the doorway to see a huffing, angry Dark there. "Let him go." Dark growled out.
"Why?" The stranger asked. "You have lots more where he came from, don't you?" The blade on Daisuke's neck lightened a bit, to Daisuke's happiness.
"Let him go, Akai." Dark growled again. So this guy's name was Akai? Daisuke thought. The guy smiled cruelly, which Daisuke didn't see. Akai moved the blade from Daisuke's neck, but then ran it slowly over the boy's upper arm, making a long shallow wound. Daisuke whimpered as tears spilled from his eyes. That was all Dark could stand and he charged at Akai. Akai threw Daisuke into Dark who stumbled back, caught off guard.
Akai then charged at Dark and took a slice at him, which he barely blocked in turn. Dark pulled Daisuke behind him as he continued to block Akai's swings. "Run!" Dark shouted to Daisuke who only hesitated long enough for Dark to shout at him again. Daisuke got up and ran out the door Dark came through.
It was a back door that lead straight outside. There was a forest outside the door, indicating that it was the back of the house. Running into the woods Daisuke chanced a look back to see that the house looked more along the lines of a mansion then a house.
He kept running until he could barely see the place, then stopped. Daisuke collapsed on the ground breathing heavily. He had never ran that hard or much in his life. His legs ached, his lungs burned, and his side hurt. He laid on the ground trying to catch his breath as best he could. Damn, his body ached all over. He would have sworn to never run like that again, except he wasn't to sure about it. Without Daisuke knowing it, he fell into a light sleep. Hours later he woke to the sound of a twig snapping and the rustle of leaves.
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Short, but be happy. I'm still ground as of now and I'll have to re-put up that notice for chapter three, but with more detail in it this time. This is all of the story I have written down, so from now on its going to take brain storming to write it rather then copying off some paper.
Tell me how you like this short, but delightful chapter! I'm happy to see some any people started reading it after not posting up for that long. Foreshadowing Darkness should update sometime around the next two times I'm allowed on. But I don't feel like doing dog poo to get on...
EDIT:
Not much changed, about the same as the first chapter.