The Sky Is a Mirror of My Emotions
Disclaimer: I do not own DN Angel or anything associated with DN Angel but please I do own Kira and anything in common with her and other fictional characters is purely coincidental
General warnings: Yaoi (malexmale relationships), occasional swearing, mild violence
WARNING: Spoilers for DN Angel anime series! Sorry!
Chapter 9: The Stars Reflect in Your Eyes
"We've found a power source! Suzaki, you're back on in 5, 4, 3..," a man next to Kira with a camera yelled.
"This is news reporter Suzaki coming to you live from outside the Chuuou Art Museum! (1)," a woman holding a microphone said to the camera, "Sorry for the technical delay. We've just- Argh! What was that!?"
A blinding flash of white light lit up the sky. White snow began to fall.
"Impossible…" Kira breathed.
"There appears to be four bodies falling through the sky now! Can we get a camera on them!?" the woman on TV yelled above the crowd in the background. Risa gasped.
"Riku! You'd better come here quick!" she yelled down the hallway.
"Risa, what is it!? You make it sound like the house is on fire." Riku came in to the living room and leaned on the back of the couch. Risa pointed at the TV screen. Riku looked up to see a female reporter in a large green coat, holding a microphone and looking up into the sky.
"How did they get up there!? We know two of them must be Dark and White Dark but who are the others? Oh my God! The other two appear to be boys in their mid teens and -" the reporter said as a distorted image of four boys falling through the sky was flashed onto the television screen.
"One of the boys has just been identified by Officer Saehara as Satoshi Hiwatari, the young Commander of the Azumo police force. The other boy is about fifteen with red hair and for the love of … isn't someone going to help them!?" the reporter yelled, hand on ear, looking off the camera to a very stunned Saehara. Risa gasped and put a hand over her mouth. Riku gripped the back of the couch harder to stop herself from falling over with shock.
"What the-!" the reporter yelled as white wings filled the television screen, "It appears that another… female White Dark has taken off from outside the museum!"
Daisuke's eyes fluttered open. The four were falling… together through the deep night sky; bright stars above and death below. Snow began to fall with them. The white swirled around him and suddenly white wings enveloped him. What the heck?!
"Hold still, Daisuke!" a familiar female voice yelled at him over the whistling wind. He looked up to see short red hair and piercing blue eyes.
"Kira-san!" he yelled in surprise. He looked past her to see giant white wings beating steadily. Turning around frantically he saw Satoshi, slumped unconsciously over Kira's arm. He breathed again, feeling the relief flow through him from head to toe.
"Yes, it's me! Hold on!" she yelled again before going into a dive. Daisuke thought he was going to pass out any second from the pressure. What are we diving for!? Looking down he suddenly understood. Dark and Krad were falling unconsciously through the air in front of them. Wait! Dark and Krad have their own bodies!? What happened!?
"K-kira?!" he yelled. The ground was getting scarily close and at the sound of Daisuke's worried voice the girl faltered for a moment.
"Oh, damn!!" she yelled, pulling up swiftly. She could see the people below pointing and screaming. She hovered in the air above the museum.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the two Angels who were steadily falling towards the museum roof with no signs of stopping.
"Dark!!" Daisuke yelled frantically to his counterpart but it was too late. With a massive crash the angels broke through the museum's roof. "Dark…" Daisuke breathed. Alarm bells began to ring from inside the museum.
There was silence. Daisuke was shivering from the freezing snow that continued to fall on the crowd below. No one moved, no one dared breathe. The only sounds to be heard were the continuous ringing of the alarm bells and the monotonous beating of Kira's wings.
"Wiz!!" Daisuke noticed the small bunny-looking creature was missing.
Suddenly black wings erupted from the hole in the roof. Dark emerged with a limp Krad sprawled in his arms. He met Kira's eyes before shooting off into the night. She understood swiftly following, leaving a confused and chaotic crowd in her wake.
Risa and Riku stared at the television screen in complete shock. Dark and the other Angel had fallen through the museum roof.
"Riku! Will he be alright!?" Risa desperately asked her sister. Tears were forming in her eyes. Riku could only open and shut her mouth. She couldn't find any words. She just kept staring at the screen which showed the side view of the museum roof.
Suddenly black wings burst forth.
"Dark has emerged!" Suzaki yelled, almost joyfully. The crowd around her began to cheer. The shot went back to her. She was staring into the sky with a smile on her face.
Risa burst into tears and grabbed hold of her sister.
"Risa… you realise that, that red head boy… was …Daisuke-kun?" Riku held her sister but was still watching the screen. Risa looked up with a surprised look on her face.
"B-" she began.
"And now…the female White Angel has sped off after Dark! The police are beginning to form search parties by the look of it and …oh! Officer Saehara, please sir, would you like to comment on what has just occurred?" Suzaki grabbed the older man's arm.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we don't know exactly what has happened here and we will not comment until we can find any of the angels or either of the two boys and question them," a rather disgruntled Saehara said into Suzaki's microphone, which she was holding out for him.
"So Hiwatari-kun and Niwa-kun are both… angels?" Risa said slowly.
"I think so…" Riku watched Saehara's mouth moving but the words faded to nothing. Daisuke is… was, Dark? The boy I loved was… Dark? No… it can't be! They can't be the same!
"Who would have thought… And who was the other one? The girl one?" Risa continued trying to piece the puzzle together. But when she looked up there was no one there to answer.
"Riku?" (2)
Kira came to land slowly at the park. She set down Daisuke carefully on the snow covered ground before handing Satoshi to him. Standing with hands on hips she looked over to Dark who had laid Krad down on the ground and was now trying to clean some of the blood away from his face with water from the fountain. Wiz was lying on the grass, completely exhausted.
"Funny, that you should land here of all places, Dark," she said quietly watching Daisuke help the now awake Satoshi to sit up.
"I came here for a reason, Angel. You know that," Dark didn't look up, "Come on Krad, wake up dammit!"
"I'm not Angel at the moment and yes I do know. He'll wake up in a moment, Dark. He was more hurt by the battle than you. He'll take awhile to recover," she said softly. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Daisuke hugging Satoshi like the elder boy was about to disappear. She smiled warmly. The pain in Satoshi face suggested that he was actually being squeezed to death by the small red head, but he didn't really mind much. Or perhaps that pain came from the fact that, due to the angels' little dispute, he was covered in bruises and gashes.
"What th-?" Krad's confused voice could distinctly be heard.
"Glad to know your brain still functions in aggressive mode even if you have fallen through a roof," Kira smiled down at the angel who glared back at her.
"You're still alive… unfortunately" the homicidal blonde sighed.
"How're you feeling, Krad?" Dark said quietly, a small smile on his face, all of his former worries gone now that he knew his lover was still alive. He brushed Krad's hair aside gently as the other angel squeezed his eyes shut to try and to stop the world from spinning.
"Ow," was Krad's only response as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head. Pulling his hand away he saw blood contrasting greatly with his pure white skin and the white snow around him.
"I had always suspected you had something for Dark, but I never though it would be like this…" a familiar voice came from next to Krad. Wait! Next to me?! His tamer's voice was no longer in his head, and sure enough when he looked left there was Satoshi, leaning on Daisuke.
"What happened?" Krad asked warily looking from Satoshi, to Daisuke, to Dark, and back to Satoshi.
"No idea," Daisuke shrugged.
"You guys didn't do something stupid like confess that you actually like each other while in mid-air, did you?" Dark asked slyly, getting much pleasure from watching Daisuke's face slowly turn bright red.
"How would that possibly separate you all?" Kira asked sceptically, trying to save Daisuke and Satoshi from a very embarrassing question, for once.
"Well, it's never happened obviously, but theoretically if the two hosts loved each other and Krad and I loved each other, that would mean that all of us accept the whole of the other and that would separate us," Dark said as he helped Krad stand up.
"What?" Daisuke looked at his other half strangely.
"Basically, it's saying that we all become each others Sacred Maidens and that has the power to free us," Dark tried not to laugh at the look that suddenly came over the other three's faces. Kira on the other hand looked very stern.
"Wait… Angel says she knows this theory… but there's, there's something wrong with it though…" Kira's eyes glazed over and another silken voice replaced her heavily accented one.
Kira's hair was growing long and blonde and when she looked back up, her piercing blue eyes had turned a deep gold colour. Suddenly a bright, white Angel was standing where Kira had been. Satoshi gaped. He had never seen Angel before. He had known Kira's secret for as long as Angel had been with her, but never before had he ever seen Angel. It's the girl from that strange dream…she was the Hikari who was in love with Kaworu…
"I know," Dark suddenly looked as solemn as Kira had been, "We have our bodies now but if Krad and I aren't sealed before midnight then-"
The sound of police sirens filled the air. All eyes snapped towards the direction the sound was coming from. They could faintly see flashing lights whizzing past the park.
"If we aren't sealed our bodies, as well as our tamers, will be forfeited and the souls of the Hikari artworks will run amuck. We don't have much time and this isn't the safest place to be either," he finished, eyes still following the sound of sirens. Silence enveloped the group for awhile as the magnitude of what had occurred sunk in.
I'll never see Dark again… Daisuke pondered as he stared at the older boy who had come to be a brother to him. As annoying as Dark was at the best of times Daisuke couldn't stand losing him. He looked over at Satoshi who was blankly staring at the snow. He'll probably be glad to get rid of Krad.
"Why did you bring us here, Dark?" Satoshi suddenly spoke up. His deep blue eyes snapped up to meet Dark's. Dark did not reply. He merely looked over at Angel who was staring wistfully at the fountain in front of her. All eyes turned to the Angel.
"Do you remember that day, Krad?" Angel's voice was quiet and she barely moved as she spoke, "I had just told you that I was in love with him, and you turned away from me in disgust. It was 250 years ago, no? You almighty Hikaris found me and turned me into something more than I was but… you couldn't understand that I was still human inside."
Krad refused to look up at her or the fountain. He was silently seething at her calm exterior, even though she knew what was coming. Satoshi and Daisuke watched in fascination.
"We all knew this day was coming, Krad. There is nothing we can do to redeem the past but don't you think you could admit that perhaps you were wrong to turn away that one time; to deny me the humanity I rightly earned and pursue me until I locked myself away within that," she motioned at Daisuke's jacket, where the crown still resided.
"Perhaps I was, but there is nothing that can change it now. He is dead, and your humanity will not help you now. You may as well be sealed," Krad looked up at the sky. The snow had stopped abruptly and the clouds were clearing to reveal a wide expanse of star dotted sky.
"No, Krad," Angel said firmly, turning on him, "That is where you are wrong. You are right in saying that the only person I have ever loved is dead. But I know he is in heaven. Kaworu said he would wait for me and I believe him. I believe he is waiting."
Dark looked away, blinking back tears. He had been with Kaworu that day; the day he and Angel said goodbye before she locked herself away within the crown. The poor boy was distraught and Dark had had to comfort him for days, weeks, months, years.
"Kaworu never loved anyone after you. He died young and I died along with him until the next generation of Niwas. He loved you and said he would wait for you until the end," Dark said gently. The only thing he did not mention was the fact that Kaworu had died at the hands of Krad.
"That is why I ask you to return me to my human state Krad. Separate me from my host and return me to my human form so that I may return to him," she moved over to Krad and took his hands, "I implore you." Krad looked away.
"Daisuke, the crown?" Dark moved over to Daisuke who fished around in his jacket before pulling out the crown and handing it over silently.
"Krad, you must do this," Dark orderer his angel, handing him the crown. Krad looked up at him from hooded eyes before slowly nodding. He couldn't deny his angel.
He set the crown gently on top of Angel's head before stepping back and taking out a feather.
"Reverto is Angelus ut vultus of Deus, ut vultus is exemplar venit ex. Reverto is Angelus ut Terra, (3)" Krad murmured, as the white feather in his hands gathered strength and began to glow. The glow reached out in long tendrils to wrap tightly around Angel.
Slowly her long blonde hair turned black and her golden eyes faded to hazel and slowly to green. A light tan began creeping through her porcelain white skin. Angel screamed in agony as the feathers in her wings began to fall and swirl around her, leaving bare bone and cartilage for wings. Finally her wings ripped off her back altogether as she was surrounded by Krad's magic.
"Reverto is Angelus ut Terra," Krad said one last time as Dark, Daisuke and Satoshi stood in awe behind him.
A burst of light, followed by a scream, left two bodies lying in its wake. Kira lifted herself up on her arms into sitting position.
"Angel?" she asked groggily, looking over at the girl about her age, lying in the snow next to her with the crown, "Angel!?"
"Please, call me by my real name," a young girl's voice, very like Angel's but somehow different, came from beside her.
"W-what is your real name?" Kira asked as she helped the girl into sitting position.
"Rei," the young girl and Krad said simultaneously. Rei smiled up at Krad who frowned back down at her.
Sirens and the museums alarms could still be heard. The silent darkness of the park could not be kept as such much longer. Suddenly another, much more frightening noise penetrated the silent garden. The town clock began to strike the hour.
Dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…dong…
"You all must go! It is nearing midnight!" the girl cried, still holding Kira's hands in her own.
"And although the police are incompetent, they'll find us here soon enough," Satoshi added. He had been watching out for any intruders for quite awhile.
"We'd better get out of here," Dark looked around towards the Chuuou Museum.
"And you, Rei, what are you planning to do now that you have your human life back? You do know that things aren't the same as they were in the 1700s…" Krad taunted the young girl. He would release her but could not forgive her. She would never fit in here but he had no sympathy for what she had put herself into.
"You never look beyond the barriers Kr-" she started.
"Sir! There was a report of their being strange light in the park and…," a couple of police officers were heading in from the start of the park towards the fountain, talking on a small walkie talkie, "Hey! Isn't that them?! Quick! Get a backup unit in here! We've found the suspects!"
"Dammit!" Dark yelled, watching the three policemen start jogging towards them, "We've got to get out now! Wiz!"
"Leave, leave now!" Rei yelled at them, furiously indicating for them to take off. Dark grabbed Daisuke and Satoshi in one go and shot into the air. Krad took Kira's arm and tried not to think about the pain this was going to cause him.
"Ang-Rei! Aren't you coming?!" Kira asked as Krad put an arm around her waist and began beating his wings.
"No… I have my own plans. I have someone who is waiting for me. You were the best host I had Kira! I will miss you and your odd remarks!" Rei yelled over the sound of Krad's wings. He was having trouble taking off and they were hovering above the ground as Krad tried to regain his strength.
"No… no! I'll see you again, right?!" Kira yelled frantically as Krad got further from the ground.
"Please do two things for me, Kira. Please come back and look in the fountain when this is all over!" she held up the crown as the police bore down on her. They had almost reached the fountain, "And secondly, please, find someone you love and never let them go!"
Tears glided down Kira's face as she realised what her beloved friend planned to do. Rei held the crown up and murmured something that Kira could not hear but it flashed and turned into a bright silver sword. Its hilt was encrusted with stunning blue jewels and the blade had intricate little patterns flowing down it, telling a tragic tale.
"I will! I'll come back! And I'll miss you too, Rei! We'll meet again one day!" she yelled, tears streaming down her cheeks. Krad glanced down one last time at Angel. She was holding the sword calmly above her. She was smiling.
"Oh my God! What is that girl doing?! Hey you! Stop!" the police yelled as they skirted around the last flowerbed before the fountain.
"Kaworu, we'll be together… forever," Rei whispered as she let the sword drop. Light spread out from the sword and it shattered into a thousand tiny pieces. Rei slumped sideways, face turned towards the sky with the look of pure absolution resting gracefully upon her features. The tiny shards rained down on her like silver tears.
"Goodbye, Angel," Krad's silken voice could be heard gently from behind her before they shot off into the night sky.
One of the policeman, after regaining some composure, walked slowly over to the girl. He knelt down beside her and held her wrist, searching for a pulse.
"Dead," he said to his companion, who was standing beside him, shaking his head.
He looked over the girl. She could be no more than fifteen years old. How could she do that to herself? Why would she do that to herself?
He didn't have the heart to close her eyes. They were looking beyond the night sky, to the heavens above. The millions of tiny stars were reflected in her eyes.
And for a moment, he thought he saw a shooting star go past.
A/N:
(1) This is the name of the reporter from the anime series as well as the museum where the final battle takes place because I'm too lazy to make up my own. -
(2) Although they have absolutely no reference to my story, I thought it was rude to leave the twins out altogether.
(3) Rough Latin translation of "Return this Angel to the form of God, to the form she originally came from. Return this Angel to Earth." If it's wrong it's because I used a crummy Web translator.
I know this was meant to be a romance/humour story but these last couple of chapters have been a little tragic. Sorry but I am hopelessly addicted to tragic romance.
Wow! We're almost at the end!! Please review if you like the story!
Edit: Aw. Sometimes I want to beat myself with a shoe for the lame things I write. Just editing grammar, spelling, etc.