He felt like crap. No, that was an understatement- he felt like the lowest scum ever to crawl on the Earth. It wasn't like Krad's words had gotten to him in anyway, because they hadn't, at all, but how was he supposed to know those wires would snap back like that when he broke them? Hell, he didn't, because if he had, then he wouldn't have done it. Period. Where was he anyway? He couldn't see anything except this…stuff that he was wrapped up in, and it was really tight, it hurt his rib and his wing. "What is this…" He pushed his head back and felt something stretch underneath his skull, "Eh?"
He wriggled until the top part of his non-injured wing escaped the binding and very slowly, stretched out the appendage into the abyss. It didn't brush against anything at all and one of his wings stretched to his full length was easily fifteen feet long which meant… the floor was at least fifteen feet down.
~Where is Daisuke? I need to get out of this-~ He began to struggle harder but stopped once he felt a vibration in the cables underneath him that felt like human steps. Now that he thought about it they were that same weird grey color as his bindings.
"I wouldn't if I were you." A voice called and a teen walked along one of the cables and made his way over to him.
"The floor is about six stories down and it's too narrow to fully spread those interesting appendages of yours…" Dark sighed and folded his wing back up against his body, guessing, "So…you're probably going to suck out all my magic and Krad's too, right?" The Mahou leered at him and ran his strangely long fingernails under his chin. "That is my intention, yes."The thief paused as his mind raced furiously-he needed to come up with a good reason for the Mahou to listen to him, or he'd never see Daisuke again. "I think…it'd be more beneficial for you to just turn Krad into a human, and give me just enough magic to turn into a full artwork."
The teen blinked then crouched down and ran a hand along the strange bindings holding the phantom down. "How so...?" He noticed Dark hadn't moved his other wing and ran a hand across it, and it heated. "Ah, you're injured." Dark winced as the heat intensified right around the break in his bones and was about to scream when it suddenly faded as quickly as it came. He shifted his wing and found that it was no longer broken, "Hey, why did you-" but the teen simply waved it off,
"Continue. Tell me little thief, how that would benefit me." and waited. " Well, if you drain all of Krad's magic and kill him, Satoshi Hiwatari will get upset and most likely, figure out what happened and he'll come and smash this mirror and all of your efforts get wasted. But, if you make him human and erase the part of his memory where he gets sucked in here- where is he, anyway?" The Mahou Shukkou gestured vaguely to a wall over on his right and just barely he could see a figure wrapped in the same grey material, his head drooped in sleep. "Oh. (Uh, that's gross.) Well then, it'll only take a small fraction to turn me into a full human I'm guessing, so you'd keep the rest of it, Krad would forget everything that happened and he wouldn't smash the mirror either, and then you get to keep all the leftover magic."
Dark waited as the entity seemed to absorb this information, and then said, "How do I know you're not lying about this 'Satoshi Hiwatari' just to save your own skin? You have a relationship with the redheaded half of the Kitsune Yuusen, don't you?" The phantom said softy, "You don't, but Krad will make your life hell if you try to kill him and take his magic. You can take my word on that. And yes, I do." and shifted his wings as the Mahou seemed to mull this over. "It isn't yours though. So why are you attached to him?" Dark colored and was about to make a retort he'd regret when the artwork asked, "Where do you want the marks to be then?"
His purple eyebrows drew together. "What?" The teen said it again slowly as if talking to a small child. "The marks. When I attempt to change you into a full artwork I'll have to sedate you, and my fangs always leave scars." His mind automatically thought of all the places where he didn't want it to be before he finally managed,
"How about here?" touching the nape of his neck, just below where his hair ended. "A good place." The artwork commended.
"Right into the spine. If you're lucky you won't even feel a thing, just like 'Krad'." Dark shuddered a little and winced as his ribs stretched then said as the Mahou pulled up one of his shoulders slowly from the web, "If you liquefy my insides I'll beat you to a pulp in the next life." The artwork laughed, surprising both of them and said,
"As much as I would like to little blackbird, I don't go back on my word." Dark felt him closing in and closed his eyes then instructed his body to relax even though it wanted to curl up tighter than a snake's coils and murmured mutedly, " And…try not to erase that memory of Krad's-when he found out he was going to be a father…" For a second in the dim light the shape of the teen changed and he thought he saw an enormous grey spider in his place, its long legs balanced perfectly around them. The Mahou snorted and Dark suddenly felt two impossibly long and sharp fangs sink into the soft skin of his back. "Gh-!"
Then blackness spread across his vision and swirling colors, like gasoline in the sunlight…
Daisuke startled awake as he felt someone shaking his arm and blurted the first thing that came to his mind. "I didn't do it!"
The police chief Hiwatari stared at him for a moment, his blue hair and eyes looking almost white in the moonlight, then handed him a thermos filled with hot chocolate and sat down next to him. "What are you doing here, kid? You know that Phantom Dark-" Daisuke pointed to the mirror.
"I know. He got sucked into this so I'm waiting for him. My name is Daisuke, by the way. We're…" He hesitated as he searched for the right word for their relationship. "…we're friends." Satoshi smiled at him and gestured for the redhead to help himself to the hot chocolate, then asked, "Did Krad get sucked in there too?" and Daisuke nodded. The bluenette's manner changed and his head drooped dejectedly at this news. "Oh…" Daisuke poured himself a little of the drink and offered the thermos to Satoshi and the boy took a slight sip. "It's ok; I think both of them will get out safely. Dark has a really good reason to get out, and-and so does Krad." His hand thrummed nonchalantly on his belly in his pocket as he said this and Satoshi asked. "Oh? What reason would that be?" It hurt the blunette a little to think that Krad's reason wasn't him- they'd been dating for almost a month now. Daisuke colored and stammered, "W-Well, uh…oh forget it. You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
The other boy grinned, "Come on, try me." and took another large sip just as Daisuke said, "I'm pregnant." Satoshi spewed the drink all over the floor in a boiling sweep and shouted, "WHAT?" and Daisuke started laughing so hard he had to hold his ribs so they wouldn't break.
"Oh-ahahaha ha oh my god, you actually believed me!" Satoshi glared at him and snatched the thermos lid from Daisuke's hands,
"That's it! Liars do not get hot chocolate!" and Daisuke whimpered, "What, but, but…Hiwataaaariiiii..."
Dark was asleep- that much he knew, but he wasn't fully asleep, only floating around in that comfortable place between sleeping and waking. There was something hot running through his veins, seeping in somewhere around his neck, and as it wound around through his body and finally up into his wings he felt stronger, like whatever this was making him whole…He felt his heart slowing down and the beat became deeper, his wings shivering with the strength of blood pulsing through them.
Dark wanted to move them but he knew that he couldn't- he was wrapped up tighter than a Christmas present in that damn webbing, but that was ok because all his joints felt kinda loose and achy and he probably couldn't stand up anyway. He curled his hands and legs up as close as he could and felt the stuff stretching, accommodating his movements. Briefly he wondered how he could even breathe considering that it went over his face, but… ~Well…at least I'm nice and warm.~
He numbly felt two things come out of his neck slickly and he wrapped one hand as best he could over the wounds, thinking,
~I gotta try and…stay awake…~ but the warm fluid in his veins looped back around to his heart and he was consumed in the instinctual, irresistible desire to just…sleep…
As Daisuke and Satoshi joked around with each other they noticed that it was nearly five in the morning and both began to wonder if either of their important people were in fact, going to get out of the Mahou Shukko.
Daisuke's stomach had begun to growl and though he tried to hide it, Satoshi paused as he heard a low, definitive growl. "What was that?" He asked softly and Daisuke colored again. "N-nothing." The bluenette grinned faintly."Oh." A few minutes later they ran out of hot chocolate and it happened again, then Satoshi asked,
"Daisuke, I have a few bars in my car. Would you like me to go get you one?" and the redhead nodded eagerly. But just as he stood up the room was suddenly flooded with light and both he and Hiwatari covered their eyes, "Augh, not again!" as they were momentarily blinded in the light.
Then it darkened and both of them had to let their eyes adjust painfully back to the blue night. "Daisuke, what…?"
It was Daisuke who noticed them first- two immobile figures lying in front of the mirror, one of them with a pair of glorious black wings blooming from his back and cradling his damp body. "DARK!" He ran over to him and wrapped his arms around the thief, finding him strangely damp and limp like he had jst taken a hot shower. Their were tatters of grey silk around his feet and interspersed through his hair and the ebony feathers of his wings. "Dark, wake up!"
He heard Satoshi imploring the same thing of Krad but it sounded like it was from far off, and he snuggled into the thief and kissed his neck,
"C'mon Dark please..." then froze as he felt Dark's arm move to drape around him instinctively. "'Lemme sleep..."The phantom whispered and Daisuke breathed a shaky sigh of relief. "Okay..." Then put his head on Dark's chest and listened to his heart, curling his hands up to his own torso and basking in his scent, his warmth...
Dark folded one of his wings protectively over Daisuke and whispered in his ear,
"Now...we're gonna be together forever Dai." then buried his face in the soft flame-red hair of his loved one.
Eheh...I cant help it, I love fluffyness. So there I updated now review or else...
...Daisuke will have octuplets!