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I awoke to find Shouta gone and remember that Kiku no longer wanted to see either of us. She was terrified by the transformations. I shook my head and got dressed to paint today. It would help clear my head of my cousin and maybe even think of a way to reconcile with her. I silently painted the walls while lost in thought. I could not think of a way to plead to Kiku to change her mind. So now I mulling over the next heist I was going to try. I wanted to hone my thieving skills further before I even attempted to kill the living artwork with Shouta who was not a thief. I finished my room before I even noticed and put away the paint supplies for today. I changed into my gi and walked towards the front door. I felt a hand on my shoulder stopping me from going alone to my karate class. "Shouta has also been enrolled into your class, so please wait for him." Satoshi asked nicely and I stayed silent. At least the girls from my old school can no longer spit their rumors where I could hear them anyway. Shouta came down from his room his gi misplaced a little and I stifled a small laugh and walked out of the door.
For two hours I stifled laughter unsuccessfully while Shouta attempted to keep up with the class. We walked home in silence and I had to avert my gaze or I was sure to burst out laughing . I stopped suddenly causing Shouta to look back at me in puzzlement, but I was certain we were being followed. Someone came behind Shouta and I ran to him shoving him out of the way and blocking the attack meant for him. I countered with a punch to his sternum, the attacker doubled over and I saw Shouta struggling with someone else and I tried to run to help him, but the attacker grabbed my ankle yanking hard causing me to fall. I kicked the attacker in the face, but the other one had already knocked Shouta out and putting him in a van. I do not think I could take them both on. Run for it! We can save him later. Better to get his father involved. I listened to Dark's advice, but it seemed they had someone waiting for us to run. I got caught in someone's arm and I tried to take him down, but the attacker had chloroform on a towel over my mouth before i could react. I slipped into unconsciousness.
I awoke and started coughing looking around trying to see where Shouta was. Chou, are you okay? Yeah, but I am tied up. Shouta is not here, at least not nearby. What do you think they want? I am not sure, but let us hope it is regular criminals that do not know anything about magic. I nodded thinking of Shouta again. Where could we be? I listened closely for any recognizable sounds or something that seemed familiar. I could smell sea water so we must be near the ocean, maybe a warehouse near a port. Dark can we change maybe snap the rope or something I cannot do anything this way. You know what to do kiddo, go ahead transform. I thought of the night where we shared the same bed and immediately my temperature went up and I felt that I had transformed. Dark managed to snap the rope that I was unable to. He turned to where he thought an exit was, but something seemed suspicious to me. Dark, stop something is wrong. Just then a man walked in with a gun pointed at us. "See she is the real deal, the phantom thief walks among us yet again. The old man was right." The kidnapper boasted not taking his eyes off us for a second.
"What do you intend to do to me?" I asked glaring ice daggers at him.
"Separate you two so you will be rendered useless until after the living artworks are completed." He replied nonchalantly as if was an everyday statement.
"Artworks?" I asked doubtful of my hearing. The man nodded and I got angry at this group of people who kidnapped us and endangered us by making more living artworks. "Do you even know what you are doing? Creating such powerful pieces can destroy the land!" I shouted getting more vexed by the minute. The man just began to laugh as if I was a mere annoyance.
"Soon child, you will not be able to do anything about it." The man whispered ominously walking away and turning around about to head out the door. I sprang into action knocking the gun out of his hands when he tried to take aim at me. I put him to sleep in a chokehold and grabbed the card key that he had in his pocket and for a second pondered if we should take his uniform, but it was too late an alarm went off and I rushed out of there. I quietly walked in the shadows looking for Shouta or a big group of guards since they know I would probably try to help him escape. I found them outside a small door, but above that door was a small window which we could fit through. I climb the pipes and quietly made my way towards the window. Once there I saw a major problem, Shouta nor Krad could fit through it. Second Krad was going berserk. I eased open the window while Krad continue to hurt our kidnappers, who were obviously scared of him. I slid through the window and land softly on my feet.
"Krad! Aim for this wall its weak and we can find an exit while we run!" I shouted and ducked out of the way of his attack to glare at him before we both ran past the guards that had no idea just what happened, but began to chase us. I saw some of them go down an alternate route to cut us off. When I saw them ahead of us in shortly and I jumped up to the pipes not caring to be silent and Krad followed closely behind me using his wings that must have hurt Shouta. I gritted my teeth and focused on escaping. I felt bullets whizzed by near us, but we were too fast for them to get a good aim. I felt one graze my arm and began to sprint and cling to the shadows. Finally a row of windows appeared in my line of vision and jumped breaking the glass and realized how much of a fall there was from a cliffside warehouse into the ocean. "With!" I screamed and hoped that both he was healed and able to come to me right now. Krad just smirked perfectly fine with Dark and me falling to our death. DARK do something. Alright but this might be very painful since With cannot make it. I don't care right now. I thought at least until I felt the first pains of growing my own wings. I screamed both from fear of the fall and the pain from wings coming out my back. I was panting until I got to the safety of the house and Dark transformed back in order for me to rest. I saw Shouta and his father before I fainted from the blood loss of the several grazes of multiple bullets that I had not noticed before.