Krad's magic is gold
Darks magic is purple
Dai's magic is the opposite Krad so his is gold
Satoshi's magic is the opposite of Darks...So what would be the opposite of purple?
I made it dark green.
Well it is my story so I could make it pink (but I hate pink)
Was that a surprise last chapter? Did you expect any of that? This is my first story with Mio saying a lot and the first with OC's I usually stick to the main characters a lot.
I need to write less. I own nothing
ONTOTHESTORY
Andhereasyoucanseeisalinebreak.Imgettingbetteratwritinglinebreakslikethis.Idonthavetothinkasmuchanymore.YAYme.
Dai was woken fully revitalized by a fluffly bunny on his face. "KYUU!" Wiz called in Dai's ear.
Dai opened his eyes and stared right into Wiz's eyes. He jumped slightly at the closeness of the bunny.
"Hey Wiz." He petted the bunny's ears. "Did you just get back?"
"Kyuu."
"I bet your tired."
The bunny seemed to shrug. "Keyuu Kyu Kyuu Kye Kyue Kyuue-kyu."
"Can I have the note then?"
"Kyuu."
"Ill give him the note Wiz."
The bunny dropped a rolled up sheet of paper in Dai's lap the jumped off and went somewhere to sleep. Dai watched the bunny trot off before looking down at the rolled paper.
Dai picked up the paper and walked over to Satoshi's bed, where the boy lay with his back to Dai. Satoshi's hair was flopped in his face since it was longer, now that he had used magic, making him look all that much more hot.
The redhead sat down lightly on Satoshi's bed and calmly rubbed Satoshi's back in a massaging way. Satoshi sleepily leaned into the touch of Dai's hand.
"Satoshi," Dai said whispering into Satoshi's ear. "Time to wake up. Its nearly nine and Wiz came back with a note."
Satoshi's eyes sleepily opened. "Too early." He said as he grabbed Dai and pulled him down on the bed with him.
"Satoshi." Dai said when Satoshi spooned him. "Not now. Your cousin replied to you."
"So? Sleep now, read later." Satoshi murmered.
"Come on Satoshi. Stop flirting with me and wake up." Dai said pulling away from Satoshi.
The bluehaired boy sat up too and wrapped and arm around Dai's waist. "So what'd it say?"
"I dont know. Its for you."
"You could have read it. I wouldnt have minded."
"Not the point. Its to you."
Dai handed him the note that had an old timey orange wax seal made of dripped candle wax and a metal seal. Satoshi looked at the seal for a second before slitting it loose.
::::Satoshi
Im glad to hear from you. That bunny thing is a hyper little fluff ball. He was quite the comedian when he fell in my well and flapped around for a while. To tell the truth Im surprised you have found someone, not meaning offense but he IS your mortal enemy. Id be glad to come help you all though. When you get this I should be there in twenty four hours. Tell your new lover to go easy on you, cuz. Im kidding. I know you wont have sex with him yet. I'll have a surprise for you two when I get there. Be there soon. Save some bad guy butt kicking for me.
::::Mara
Satoshi was flushed at some of the things his cousin had said. He was kind of glad Dai didnt read it.
"So what did she say?" Dai asked.
"She'll be here tomorrow. That and she enjoys Wiz's company." Satoshi said as he rolled the paper back up.
"Thats good. We need all the help we can get." Dai was about to get off the bed.
"Whats wrong? Dont you want to sit with me anymore?"
"Satoshi? What did I do to make you think that?"
"You seem to want to get away from me quickly."
Dai looked hurt. "No." He shook his head slowly, sadly. "I wouldnt do that."
To Satoshi's amazement Dai hugged him and kissed his cheek. He didnt expect Dai to be so...so loving.
Satoshi hugged Dai back and rested his head ontop of the others. "I dont deserve some one like you, Dai. You're so pure and innocent."
Dai hugged Satoshi all the more tighter. "If you didnt deserve me, then who would you deserve? Im as tainted as you."
"No!" Satoshi said loudly pulling away from Dai. "No. You arent tainted. Theres no way you could be."
"Im impure, Satoshi. Ive had girlfriends. Ive had dirty thoughts. Im not as angelic as you think I am."
"In my eyes you can never be anything but pure and angelic." He pulled Dai against him. "Nothing less." He was leaning against his headboard with Dai leaning against his chest. "Nothing but that."
Satoshi was hugging Dai like if he let go Dai would flutter away out of reach. He cared so much for Dai it hurt.
"Satoshi?" Dai whispered. "Your the only person to say anything like that."
Satoshi layed his head on top of Dai's. "Thats because I care so much for you. I care so much it hurts."
Dai squeezed his hand. "Everyone thought of you as a cold hearted machine but I always knew you werent. Some points I dispised you but I could never disguise how attractive you were to me. At night I would dream about you. I always dreamt about you, waking and sleeping. You haunted my thoughts." Dai kept staring at the wall across the room as he spoke. "I worried about you when I thought I hated you. When you were down I never realized it but I was sad. I couldnt get you out of my mind."
Satoshi hugged Dai a bit more and kissed his hair. "I think we're in the same boat. Head over heels for each other."
"I think so." Dai said as he tuned his head to put his cheek against Satoshi's chest. "You're beautiful to me. Beautiful and angelic."
Satoshi kissed Dai's forehead. "Your my angel."
They sat there holding each other for a while, then Dai shifted. Dai remembered they had enemies to fight and reality kicked in when he heard shuffling coming from the living room.
Satoshi let Dai go, also remembering that other people were in their rooms. He loved those little moments with Dai even if they werent very long.
"We'd better get up, ne?" Dai stood up.
Satoshi smiled. "I guess so."
Takeshi sat up in the living room, waking Sekimoto up. "Oy, Dai! You awake?"
"I would be after that anyway." Dai called back.
Takeshi laughed and stood up stretching. "Whatever. Food. The four of us need to eat soon."
Satoshi looked up at Dai. "You cant be thinking of going down there, can you?"
"I have to. If the teacher is better," They heard the door open and close. "then she wont allow me to stay in here."
Mio walked to the bedroom door. "Dont worry about it. She's still really sick. I believe Seriko poisoned her."
"What?"
"Yeah. Shes laying in bed. Told me that she wont be better for a few days."
Dai nodded. "I expected no less." Satoshi watched him curiously. "She fell sick right when everything began getting worse. Its the only explanation."
"Yeah." Mio nodded. "That means you, Dai, can stay in here."
"I dont want to stay cooped up in here." Dai said with a slight pout.
"Its to keep you safe." Mio said as if she were talking to a child
"You try being stuck in a room for days! You get a bit of anxiety. A lot actually." His voice held a crisp edge.
Dai walked over to his own bed and sat down. He wouldnt look at any of the others.
"Dai," Satoshi began to speak.
Dai looked up at him with a cold look saying he really wasnt in a mood to talk anymore. Satoshi dropped his gaze to the floor.
In almost a whisper Satoshi spoke. "Im sorry, Dai. Sorry your treated like a caged animal."
Dai made no move that he heard Satoshi as he stared at the floor. He didnt move even when Mio huffed out of the room.
Satoshi stood up slowly, watching Dai, wanting to comfort the other boy but could do nothing. He stood there staring at Dai for a minute before speaking agin.
"Im sorry, Dai. In this Mio knows best since she has worked with magic before. I cant second guess her when she has kept us alive." He squatted infront of Dai to make him look in his eyes. "Im sorry Dai, I really am. This is for your safety and I...I dont want to lose you." He rested his hands on Dai's knees. "If I lost you I dont know what I would do. Your my everything, Dai. Please, I dont want to lose you."
Dai was staring at Satoshi, who had a light layer of tears in his eyes. The redhead brought his hand hand up and put it on the side of Satoshi's face to wipe away the tear that rolled down his cheek.
Satoshi's eyes locked onto Dai's and he understood Dai's pain. The one moment Satoshi understood everything about the younger boy, from how he was successfully hiding his fear of everything outside his door to being locked up in the same place for hours, days not being allowed where he loves to be.
The older boy couldnt stand it, he pulled Dai into a comforting hug. He rested his chin ontop of Dai's and rocked him back and forth slowly.
"Im sorry, Dai. Im so sorry about it all."
Dai hugged Satoshi back just as tightly. He knew Satoshi understood him now and knew the hug was reassuring Satoshi too.
"Satoshi." Mio called. "Hurry up. We need to go eat."
The two pulled loose and Satoshi gave Dai a hopeful look then left the room. Dai sat there on his bed, wanting so bad that it was the few days before when he and Satoshi flirted and had their first kiss.
Dai sat there on his bed unmoving for the full fourty minutes his friends were gone. He hadnt moved once since Satoshi left, and had felt no need to move.
Satoshi came back around ten and walked quietly into Dai's room after finding he wasnt in the living room. He watched the boy on the bed a minute and saw he didnt move once.
"Dai?" Satoshi called quietly.
Dai looked at him for a second then let his gaze slide back to the floor like it took too much energy to look up. He let out a small sigh as Satoshi walked over and sat beside him.
"I got you something to eat." He said as he rubbed Dai's back with his free left hand.
Dai sat up and looked at Satoshi. "Thanks." Was all that came out of his mouth as Satoshi handed him a large cooked burito and a salad.
Satoshi kept rubbing Dai's back in calm motions that seemed to calm the boy down as he started on his burito. Dai seemed to relax in Satoshi's touch completly and leaned against said boy.
After finishing the burito Dai put the wrapped on his lap to remember to throw away before starting into his chicken caesar salad. Satoshi's left hand went from where it was rubbing Dai's back to just wrapped calmly around Dai's waist as a comfort.
Dai spoke not a word through the whole meal but Satoshi knew that he wanted, no, needed Satoshi with him at the moment. No complaints came from the blue haired boy as he say there with Dai, and no complaints would come from him.
Another five minutes passed before Dai was done eating. He just put the plastic bowl and paper wrapper on the floor and leaned against Satoshi some more.
"Thank you." Dai's voice held so much sincerity.
"Its nothin. I just want you to be happy. Maybe Mio will let us fly after dark, kay?"
Dai nodded. "Thats sounds good." Then looking down he added a whispered a sentence. "Even if I only get to get out for a few minutes."
Satoshi sighed. He hated how Dai couldnt move about freely. Dai was trapped like a wild bird in a small cage.
"Im sorry."
"Its not your fault." Dai said as he wrapped his arms around Satoshi's middle. "None of this is."
"I know but I feel so bad that you can do anything. Your stuck in a little room for hours, days, building up the tension and frustration. During all of it, I cant do anything."
"But you are. You just being here helps me." Dai looked up into Satoshi's eyes, and Satoshi knew Dai wasnt lying. "With you here I dont feel agitated. When you're here beside me I feel safe and happy."
Satoshi lightly squeezed Dai's waist. "Thats good. I just wish I could do something to help you, to get you out of this room for a while."
"So do I. So do I. What are we supposed to do today?"
"Mio told me she'd try to teach us how to strengthen our magic to make us be able to use more. She hopes that before long we will have the same reserves as Dark and Krad."
"But they've had hundreds of years to build it up."
"They have to renew the storage every reincarnation."
"Oh. So in reality they've had a year, roughly, to make it what it is?"
"Yeah. Thats why she thinks we can do it."
"Well why not, Satoshi?"
"Exactly. I dont see why not, since you two have convinced me to challenge everything I know now." He ruffled Dai's hair. "Going from hating the enemy to loving it, and thinking I have no magic to having it."
"Maybe you just stink at observations." Dai said chuckling, earning his hair ruffled again.
"Funny Dai, real funny."
Dai shrugged innocently. "You know Im right."
"Alright so you are, but do you have to rub it in?"
"Yes." Dai said smiling up at Satoshi.
"Will you two love birds stop doing that?" Mio called.
"Not our fault we like each other." Satoshi called while Dai blushed.
"Hurry up and get out here so we can start training."
Dai let Satoshi go and nodded him out. "I gotta change."
Satoshi nodded. "Ill give you five minutes."
"Alright."
With that Satoshi walked out and Dai changed into what he had on the day before. Before five minutes was up Dai was in th living room in his loose clothes.
"Alright you two. I sent Takeshi and Sekimoto to their rooms for your training, where they cant hear anything."
"Whats with all the secrecy now?" Satoshi asked.
"You two are going to transform today. The first transformation is a bit on the painful side and I didnt want them to see or hear it."
Satoshi flat out glared at Mio. "Why? Why transform? We can use our magic this way."
Dai decided to answer that. "Satoshi, when we are in our transformed body its easier to use our magic and it doesnt tax us as much."
Mio nodded. "Im amazed you knew Daisuke."
"Mom and Grandpa taught me well."
Mio nodded again, then looked at Satoshi. She wasnt going to put up with his 'smart' remarks.
"You might want to choose something different as your outfit."
"Why isnt what I wore the first time I used magic not what Ill have on?"
"It wasnt major magic. Dai was in a life threatening spot when he used magic. You have to use a lot of magic to have that as your form." Mio explained. "Dai," She had an evil smirk on her face. "How about you and Satoshi fly down the beach sometime later on and buy him a complimentary outfit to yours?" With a wink she changed the subject. "Alright, since you, Satoshi dont have the right...outfit...we will try some more simpler spells."
"I really think Im going to hate what she has planned for my outfit." Murmered Satoshi, thinking Dai was listening.
Dai wasnt. He had an almost as evil smirk as Mio about the outfit for Satoshi.
"Oh no. Nononononono. NO! nu-uh. Dai no! I am not wearing leather!"
Both Mio and Dai pouted. "You'd look just so kawaii!" Mio stated.
"Dai, please tell me you arent planning what I think your planning."
"Alright I wont tell you." Dai said smirking at Satoshi's uncomfortableness.
"Enough of that for now." Mio stated. "A bus is coming for anyone who wants to go to the museum in an hour. Seriko and the whole class is going to make it look like nothing is happening and maybe meeting up with Kei." She held up a hand as Satoshi tried to speak. "No its not the time to attack him. He has many an artwork at his disposal. While they're gone well be training on the beach."
"Why and how?"
"Combat training and against each other."
"What!" They both called.
"Dont worry. You'll both have protection spells on yourselves so you wont be hurt. We'll be headed down to the beach in an hour and a half. During that time I would ask that the two of you release your wings and rest up untill then."
Satoshi sighed and nodded. He wasnt liking Mio's training plan, not at all.
Dai shrugged, not really minding. He wanted to see how far he could get but didnt want to hurt Satoshi.
"Satoshi," Dai said timidly. "Do you think we can ever do it? Beat Kei, I mean."
Satoshi gave Dai a soothing look. "Why not, Dai?"
"We're normal human boys. What makes us able to beat artworks?" Dai asked skeptically. "Why should we be the heros? What makes us strong or brave or smart enough to beat anything? Why us? Was it ever about just Dark and Krad or did things always lead up to this? Did our ancestors go through this and fail?"
Mio sat heavilly on a couch. "You shouldnt be smart enough to ask those questions yet." She said putting her face in her hands. "Why can these be so smart already?"
"I was right! Our ancestors went through this too!" Dai was pointing at Mio. "What makes US able to defeat them now?!"
"Sit down." Mio commanded as she lifted her face. "Now. Either sit or dont listen."
Dai was sitting and Satoshi reluctantly sat beside him. He wasnt liking this one bit.
"Ive been in connection with every Niwa and Hikari ever in the past. Many Niwa had, when needed, procured a lover. The Niwa were always easy to get released of Dark. When the time came to fight off the other side, the Niwas were already rid of Dark so Krad and his tamer had to go against them. It always ended the same. The tamer never realized he had magic and Krad didnt teach him. EVERY TIME the other side mortally wounded the tamer where he had little time to live. The bad thing is Krad would have to...obtain...a lover for his tamer to pass his seed on to reincarnate Krad." She swallowed heavilly. "Many times Krad couldnt find suitable...partners...for the seed, so he would..."
Dai held onto Satoshi's hand to help him with it. "Mio please go on." Dai said giving Satoshi's hand a squeeze.
"He had trouble choosing a right match or fertile woman for the seed. After many times of that in the Hikari lines Krad gave up looking for someone outside of the line. He would find a cousin of the tamer and forcefully insert the seed into her."
Satoshi seemed pale as the story came along. He couldnt speak at the moment, he was too stunned.
"Krad raped those women, didnt he?" Dai asked. "Raped everyone of them, and if Im right Mio, you let it happen. You let it happen and you knew that it would kill those women since Krad came to the tamer at birth. Thats why Satoshi never knew his mother. Its because you let her die from the magic in her womb!" Dai was furius at what mio had let happen.
"I had to!" Mio was on her feet. "If I didnt the evil in this world would continue on, unchecked, unchallenged, until it took over!"
"Every time the Hikari went against the other side you were there with them but you let them die! You had to keep yourself alive even though you were an artwork and could be resurrected!" Dai was on his feet too, still holding onto Satoshi's hand. "You are the one to blame for all their deaths! Krad can only be blamed for wanting to continue his existance, while you were too self loving to help him!"
A pink hue surrounded Mio and Dai could see it was swirling like a gaseous flame. "Dont you dare talk to me like that, you insubordinate ungrateful fool!" Her aura was stretching out towards Dai. "I have protected you and taught you how to fight and you dare stand there and disrespect and disregard what I have done!"
The aura surrounded Dai and enclosed him in a pink gaseous flaming bubble. It was cutting off Dai's air, strangling him.
"Stop." Satoshi said weakly.
"He will learn his place. Until then he will stay there."
"You're killing him." Satoshi said quietly looking at Dai, who's hand had dropped his.
"Dont worry. I wont kill him. Hes still needed to beat them." Mio said glaring at Dai. "Actually he is despensible. We have Dark. He is unneeded." Satoshi's eyes widened.
"No." He was barely audible.
That was when a blinding silver light encircled Dai. He was glowing so bright both Satoshi and Mio had to look away or be blinded.
"How can this be?" Mio asked. "Only the strongest and taught magic users can escape that!"
Dai's aura surrounded him like Mio's had done but it was more tangible and actually solid looking just like a silver flame. His aura was flickering and moving just like a real fire would do.
"How!" Mio was barely able to contain Dai's power.
Dai's flames became bigger and even more like fire. It licked his body, that was beginning to transform. Satoshi had scooted away from Dai since it was so bright.
"No! Its not possible! He cant be able to do that. He shouldnt be able to do that, ever!" Mio was calling loudly, the room was full of dull crackling flaming noises. "He cant be!"
Both Mio and Satoshi watched as Dai's body arched back some and his mouth opened where a silver light began to emit from there and his eyes. The silver fire was so purely colored Satoshi and Mio couldnt look anymore.
"Whats going on!"
"Hes transforming, except hes stronger than I ever concieved in my wildest thoughts. He has two levels of transformation! One where he is at Dark and Krads level. That one is where he is dressed in the black leather like I said, but this...This is truly amazing! He is transforming into the second stage. Only the most powerful in the world can do this!"
"Whats that mean!" The noise of fire was louder now where the two had to yell to hear each other.
"He will be dressed in the purest of silver looking garmets, establishing his position of power. When at that stage, he can do almost innumerable things, spells, summonings!"
A crackle, like the loudest lighting, sounded then a flash of silver light that was followed by a wave, like what would flow out from a bomb, knocked the two far off into walls. Dai had transformed into the second level.
Satoshi was the first to open his eyes and saw a silver light in the middle of the floor and after squinting he saw Dai, collapsed in the middle of a slight dent in the floor. He stood up and ran to Dai's side.
That was when Satoshi noticed Dai's clothes, hair, and wings. Dai's pants were like tight fitting silver leather, his shirt- a tight skin clinging v-neck sleeveless silver cloth with silver colored fishnet down his arms to go up the back of his hands to attach to the back of his middle finger, his feet had tight fitting boots that went all the way up his calf to stop at his knee below his pants, his hair had silver in the ends- almost like highlights, around his neck was a simple thick silver chocker, and his wings had grown to either fourteen or sixteen foot wing span.
"My lord!" Mio whispered in a scared voice as she timidly walked towards Dai.
Subconsciously Dai's wings flapped, thinking Mio was a threat to him. The blast from the powerful wings knocked Mio from her feet and slide bakwards some while Satoshi grabbed the carpet covering his face with his free hand.
"Dai!" Satoshi called over the powerful whooshing air. "Wake up. No one here is threatening you."
Dai's eyes flickered open and Satoshi saw that they, too, were different. His eyes were still their blood red color but a thin line beside the pupil then around the edge of the iris was silver colored.
"Satoshi?" He asked with a rough sounding voice, like he had been screaming for hours. "What happened?"
"Its hard to explain, Dai. Mio says you went to a second level of transformation." Dai looked accusingly at Mio.
"You are one of the most powerful magic users in the world." Mio said warily. "Between you, Satoshi, Dark, and Krad the most powerful is you. There is no 'what ifs' in that fight."
Dai nodded weakly. He hadnt seen himself yet.
"Whoa! What the crap! Im all silver!"
"Dai...I think you should gointo the bathroom and look in the mirror."
Dai looked curiously at Satoshi who just smiled at nodded him towards the bathroom. With a skeptical look Dai stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
"Three...Two...One..." Satoshi said slowly as Dai walked.
"HOLY CRAP!" Dai practically screamed. "I AM all silver."
Takeshi poked his head through the protective charm Mio put over the magic-ed stairs. "What happened? We saw a bright light then this weird wave and stuff."
"Dai. I think Takeshi would like to know what happened." Satoshi called. "Would you like to show him?"
Dai walked out of the bathroom and Takeshi rightly fainted on sight. The redhead cocked his head to the side curiously like a cute kitten.
"What'd I do?" Dai asked sweetly with a little smile.
Satoshi could only smile back at the cute little redhead. He nodded to Dai, still smiling, glad he just wasnt hurt.
"Alright, so I have no idea what to do now." Mio said. "I expected neither of you to be able to do that."
Dai's smile faded and he got a far away look in his eyes. After a second he came back to reality after Satoshi and Mio gave him curious looks.
"That was so cool!" He called.
"What?" Mio asked.
"I can talk to Dark AND Krad where they are!"
"I expected you to if you were well like that. When a magic user can go to second level, they can speak to creatures on different planes of existance IF they know the aura signature. After a while, you could summon them to you. Dont try that right now. If you dont do it right you or the one your summoning can be killed." Mio said.
Dai gave her a pointedly mistrusting look. He had the kind of attitude that said 'why-should-I-trust-you-now-that-you-have-tried-to-kill-me?'.
Takeshi began waking up then. He groaned and sat up quickly.
"What just happened? Tell me it was a dre...Gods above, Dai! How can...no normal...but...how...wh...you cant...you cant have...he cant...can he?"
"What ARE you trying to say, Takeshi?" Dai asked.
"You look like..." Takeshi began muttering. "You look like a real angel..."
Dai laughed. It was too crazy or ironic to be true.
"I cant be, Takeshi. Im a human and if I was I would be one severly twisted angel. Twisted and tainted."
"Whatever." Takeshi and Satoshi muttered.
"Splayed through the mud." Dai said.
"Cut the crap, Dai." Takeshi said. "You were born an innocent, you'll die an innocent. You cant get rid of that feeling of innocence out of you."
Dai rolled his eyes. "Takeshi just go back downstairs. Actually you and Sekimoto go on the trip, or down the street. I dont want you two pulled into this right now."
Takeshi nodded. "We'll be shopping."
Dai had a grim look on his face. He was afraid Takeshi and Sekimoto would get hurt during those random experiments.
When Takeshi was gone Mio stood up, looking even more collected than normal. She wasnt in the mood for arguments anymore.
"Dai, see if you can get your magic in your hand again."
Dai looked at her with an untrustworthy look but agreed. He closed his hand like he was holding a feather and almost instantaneously a feather was there.
The feather had an ethereal and almost unearthly silver glow to it. It seemed like an extension of his will as he stood there, calmly holding it.
"Mmmmkay. So what now?" Dai asked, as he stood in a relaxed position.
"See what you can do with it." Mio stated like it was obvious.
Dai thought for a second then smiled as he came up with something. He looked at the feather for a split second and before Mio or Satoshi could ask, it had turned into a silver looking flaming scimitar (scimitar-A curved Asian sword with the edge on the convex side...imagine a sword that the blade curved up while the other side stayed straight.).
"Whoa!" Dai said as he summoned another feather in his left hand just as quickly and turned it into a flaming scimitar too. "You see this?"
"How can we not, Daisuke?"
Dai huffed then let his feather turned scimitars disperse. He was happy he could do that.
"Alright Mio so Im amused with what I can do now. Got a problem with it, or are you scared you cant control what I can do now?"
"Im afraid you'll get out of control with it. Then you'll be as good as the other side."
"Dont talk about Dai like that." Satoshi said then looked at Dai as he said the next part. "He wouldnt get out of control and become part of their side."
"I not a power hungry fool!" Dai said stiffly as his wings unfurled in anger. "IGH! I need to NOT do that."
Satoshi chuckled and walked over to Dai. "You need to become a little less emmotional, I think. When you're like that, Dai, your wings will react to your emotion like now."
He slowly stroked Dai's wing closest to him, the left. The wing slowly relaxed from its tensed position as Satoshi gave Dai a small smile, knowing Dai would have trouble with keeping his emotions a little more controlled.
"Thanks Satoshi." He said as Satoshi stroked th other wing, relaxing it too.
"Its nothing, Dai." He said as he helped Dai furl his wings against his back. "I know what its like to control things."
Dai smiled at Satoshi over his shoulder. "Im just glad you can help me through this."
"You know Id help, Dai. I would just drop you after seeing you can kill me with less thought than you need to breathe. Im more loyal than that."
"Thats not what I meant Satoshi." He looked at Satoshi over his shoulder. "I mean that I was glad you're on my side for this. What scares me is how much power I have that I dont even know is in me. I know I've only tapped into a tiny bit of it so what happens to the rest?"
Mio looked astounded. "Are you sure that you have more that hasnt been tapped?"
"Yeah. I can feel it. It feels sort of like a lake that you skim across, sort of." He shrugged. "I can tell theres more in me."
Mio's eyes were wide. "What?" Satoshi asked.
"This...amazing. Usually the second level users have only enough power to transform at first and have to build up their power but you, Daisuke, are equal to nothing I've heard of. You should have to build it up to get that much power. It seems you are the ones to stop this from happening ever again."
Dai nodded. "How do I transform back?"
"Wait until you get tired?" Mio asked. "At this point, Im as clueless as you. I have never been near a second level. Um...Try concentrating on changing back. See what happens."
Dai shrugged and closed his eyes. His face scrunched up in concentration for a little while.
When Mio began to think nothing was going to happen, a flash of silver light came and went in the blink of an eye. Dai stood there in his first level of power.
"I did it!" He looked over at Satoshi. "Satoshi?" To him it looked like Satoshi was disgusted, he was nervous now.
"Huh?" He shook his head. "Sorry. I was thinking about Kei and all of them." He said quickly.
Dai still seemed nervous. Satoshi had been staring at him with the disgusted look and it make him question Satoshi's attraction to him.
"Daisuke, can you still feel the 'lake' of power anymore?"
"No."
"I suspected so. In second level you are completly learned and very little I can teach you there. In first level you are still equal with Satoshi. That means I need to teach the two of you a lot before anything happens."
"How do I know you wont just give us to Kei?" Dai asked skeptically. "Why dont you just kill me off now? Ill be out of your way then. You wouldnt have to put up with me anymore. Just one quick thought and Ill be dead, out of your hair forever."
"You idiot." Mio said. "I did that to see how much you can do."
"Then why come so close to killing me? If it was for show you wouldnt go that far." Dai was glaring at her.
All three heard the bus out front honk as it drove off to go to the museum, leaving the three in the hotel and the two down the street left of their class. Dai was getting mad at everything, Mio for trying to kill him, Satoshi for faking his attraction to him, Takeshi and Sekimoto for having a good relationship, Kei and his goonies for ruining his life, and himself for being fooled every way he turned.
"Im going to go outside for a while. I need a breather." Dai said emotionlessly.
Mio looked confused at his complete attitude change, while Satoshi suspected something wrong. Satoshi followed Dai to the balcony.
"Dai?" He asked quietly. "Whats wrong?"
"Why dont you leave me alone? I think you put me through enough pain already." With that Dai unfurled his wings with Satoshi behind him to not get hurt. "I trusted you, Satoshi. I fell for all of it. You faking it, everything. I saw the look you had when I was in second level."
Before Satoshi could respond Dai had flapped his powerful wings and soared upwards towards the sky at an amazing rate. Satoshi skided(ed?) backwards covering his face from the force of air from Dai's wings. (Dai's wings are still huge. They wont go back to the smaller size)
"Mio!" Satoshi called, afraid.
She came running. "What is it?"
"Dai thinks that the look I had on my face was towards him. He was always unsure of himself after Risa used him then Riku cheated on him. I think I just made it worse. Im going after him."
"Be careful. Its light out so try not to get close to the ground."
Satoshi nodded as his wings appeared behind him. He flapped quickly and lifted into the air.
He had reached half of Dai's height when a loud crack, like a gunshot, echoed through thae air. Even several dozen feet below Satoshi, Mio heard the sound.
Satoshi looked up at Dai and saw a tiny gray fleck soar towards him and then a red spatter went through the air. Dai's figure began to fall, with a tail of red behind him.
"NO! DAI!" Satoshi flapped his wings as hard as he could.
He wasnt going fast enough to catch Dai, and he knew it. Dai's wings, even though one was injured, flapped weakly to slow his descent.
Dai was headed for the forest to Satoshi's right and was dropping at an alarming rate. The silver wings flapped a bit more, even though it wasnt doing much, but it slowed Dai a bit more.
Satoshi flew faster and thankfully Dai's wings had slowed his descent enough for Satoshi to catch up to him. He grabbed Dai's hand as he fell past him, trying to stop his fall into the trees.
Dai had been falling so fast that his momentum brought Satoshi along for the fall and both fell into the trees. The tree branches were willowy and slapped and scratched the two in their fall.
At one point a tree knocked Satoshi loose from Dai as they continued on in their descent through the trees. Satoshi heard a cracking sound as his arm broke after slamming into a thicker limb and another point snapping his left leg.
Satoshi fell crashing his ribs into another thick branch before sliding off and falling to slam into the ground on his back. He was barely conscious enough to look up where Dai was.
As Satoshi fell into the blissful painless darkness he saw Dai hanging almost persecuted looking from a branch that had snagged the hole in his wing, hanging him like a warning. That was the last thing Satoshi saw before falling back to the ground, unconscious.
Dai groaned and then moaned out loud, just barely holding a scream of pain, as he tried to move his right wing or arm. The bullet had gone through his upper arm then through his wing.
After taking slow deep breaths to keep himself conscious Dai grabbed the limb he was hung on about to pull himself off. Before he could do anything the end of the limb snapped of and he began falling again.
Dai had been hanging a good thirty feet above the ground when the branch broke. He fell, landing on his wounded arm and wings throughout the tree, then finally landing on the ground on his right side.
After keeping the black spots from taking over his vision, Dai lay there, assessing the damage to himself. His right arm was dislocated, fractured, and severly cut up, his wing was bleeding pretty bad, one of his knee felt almost dislocated, and a couple ribs felt fractured.
He looked to his left and saw Satoshi laying there oddly. A shiver went through Dai as he realized it was Satoshi who had come after him.
Dai crawled over to Satoshi to look at his wounds. Satoshi had broken his right wrist and forearm, left leg, three or four ribs, severly cut up much of his body including his face, and hurt his back to some extent.
With a deep calming breath Dai knew what he had to do but wasnt sure if he was strong enough. He concentrated on himself inagining himself in the second stage of transformation.
Dai knew that was the only way to save Satoshi. Blood dripped down his back from his wing as a flash of silver light engulfed him and transformed him.
He lightly lifted Satoshi into his arms, even though his arm was dislocated, and stood on his weakened leg. A flap of his wings lifted the two into the air and Dai flew upwards through the trees.
One brach on the way up grabbed the bit of branch still on Dai's wing and his speed tore it out, ripping his wing even more. He could hold in the scream of pain as the branch tore through the last bit of wing. (His wing was only held together by the top where the hard membrane bone is)
Dai barely got above the trees as black began to envelop his vision. He couldnt rest though as more gunshots echoed around him.
He swirled in a loop-de-loop dogging the flying bullets. A bullet crashed into the back of Dai's slightly dislocated knee.
The altitude he had dropped away and Dai was barely able to keep the two of them from skinning the tree tops. His wing strokes were beginning to weaken and the hotel was still a bit off.
Satoshi growned in Dai's grip as he tried to gain more altitude. He opened his eyes and since his head was on Dais right, the first thing he saw was the seriously injured bleeding wing.
He gasped and looked at Dai's face. Dai was pale but determined to get the both of them to safety.
Another bullet hit the mark and slammed into Dai's left side, spinning him around in a circle. He let out a weezing gasp as he flew a bit higher.
"Dai!" Satoshi called but Dai ignored him.
Dai wasnt going to answer even if he wasnt bleeding profusely from three different wounds while dodging flying bullets and carrying an almost equally injured person. His breathing was becomming difficult and the blackness was engulfing his vision.
The balcony to his room was only a dozen feet away. He went crashing into the room through the balcony door.
Satoshi had gone rolling from his grip as Dai gave into the darkness. Nothing mattered to him as he fell into the painless darkness.
//Dai was laying in the grassy field again and he knew he was with Dark and Krad when he didnt feel the grass. He couldnt move he was in so much pain.
//"My lord Dai!" Darks voice called. "What happened?"
//He explained everything that had happened since the last time he had talked to Dark. "I dont know what to do Dark." Dai had tears falling down his cut up and bloody face.
//"Its okay, Dai. Its okay." Dark said from his spot beside Dai, he had assumed during the story.
//"You lied, though."
//"I had to lie about healing you because they was the first step to learning you had magic. I see you are actually as Mio said. Second level." Dark poked Dais side, but recieved a painful hiss. "Sorry."
//"Do I just lay here and heal myself or what?"
//Krad decided to answer this time. "That I would believe is a yes. Is Master Satoshi alright?"
//That was when a deep earthern green light flashed from a dozen feet away from Dai. "Go see for yourself, Krad." Dai said weakly as he closed his eyes.
//Krad walked over to the spot Satoshi had appeared. Satoshi looked almost as bad as Dai but everyone knew he was in a lot better condition than Dai.
//Satoshi groaned and opened his eyes. Confusion glazed his eyes.
//"Welcome Master Satoshi." Krad said with a smirk.
//Just had jerked erratically after hearing Krads voice. "What?"
//"This is where you sent me."
//Satoshi's head turned and he caught sight of Dark beside Dai. "Is...Is he...?"
//"He'll be fine. Wont trust you for a while, that one. Thinks that disgusted look you had was towards him. He thinks your disgusted with his power and pretended to have affection towards him."
//"I would never..."
//Krad interrupted. "Thats what he thinks. Remember he never had a very good running relationship."
//Satoshi nodded. "Why am I here?"
//"Its easier to heal here. You are NOT going to transform into that everytime though. Hmmm." Krad rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Ah, yes. I know just the thing."
//Krad snapped his fingers, since the world was one for magic beings anything can come to their call. Satoshi's clothes flashed, changing completly.
//He now had on black leather pants that was skin tight (like Dai's), black boots that clung to his skin to his knees below the pants, his shirt, also skin tight and leather, was sleeveless with fishnets to encase his arms and had a low V-neck, to make Satoshi happy he also had a dragon chocker necklace like Dai's, and his hair was tied back with a ribbon the color of his magic.
//Krad laughed then frowned. "Glasses gotta go Satoshi-sama." With a snap the glasses had disappeared and in its place was black eyeliner. "Much better."
//Satoshi was too weak to move and he really wasnt in a mood to argue leather...maybe he was. "Leather, Krad? Im not a motorcycler!"
//"But your little lover wears leather. He isnt a motorcycler. Do shut up about it Satoshi-sama." Satoshi decided to growl. "Now. Heal yourself and you'll go back to your world."
//Satoshi huffed and concentrated on his wounds for a second, then stopped. "What about Dai? Will he make it?"
//"Im not sure. His wounds are extensive." Krad explained. "He told the whole story. He saved your life. After falling down the tree to land beside you..." Krad told Satoshi what had happened as he was unconscious. "He used his energy to save you. Might have ruined his wing for you..." He was about to continue when Dai screamed.
//"Krad! I need you over here." Dark called, scared. "Hes trying to heal his wing! I think someone on the other side is doing something to him. Its getting worse!"
//Krad ran over to Dark and Dai. He held Dai down as Dark tried to help heal him.
//After a minute Dark had tears running down his face as everything Dai had healed was coming back. "Satoshi," His voice was watery. "You need to heal youself and help Dai out...he could be killed."
//Satoshi nodded, closed his eyes and concentrated on his wounds with renewed vigor. He knew he had to save Dai.
//As Satoshi vanished after healing his wounds Krad held Dai down again as Dark tried to help him heal his wounds. Both knew Dai had to make it, he just had to.
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Satoshi opened his eyes a slit and saw two of Seriko's goonies hurting Dai while the third held a knife to Mio's throat. Seriko was still on the trip.
After grabbing Dai's pouch of Darks feathers from the floor beside him (Satoshi was in his and Dai's room where Mio had put him) he charged two feathers, one in each hand. Satoshi walked into the living room and threw a feather at the goonie holding Mio, thankfully hitting him in the head.
The goon fell to the florr unconscious as Satoshi threw the second charged feather at the goon cutting Dai's wing. The feather only skimmed the goons arm but it got his attention.
The goon hurting Dai sent the other after Satoshi and Mio. "Keep 'em busy while I finish this." He grunted as Dai healed a bit of the cut. "Hurry up. He keeps healing himself so I cant go far."
That made Satoshi mad. He summoned his own feather and charged it. The feather blasted the goon away into the wall across the room as he and Mio went for the last goon.
"Do anything and I kill him." The goon said as he keld the knife against Dai's body.
Dai was unconscious and the two conscious ones couldnt do anything to help him. Satoshi felt hopeless.
Mio and Satoshi didnt expect what was coming next, neither did the goon. Dai's body began glowing brightly and with an odd detached scream Dai's body pulsed out the magic making a shield looking thing radiate around him.
The goon couldnt get the knife within two inches of Dai. He knew he was in deep shit then, his leverage was gone.
Before he could say anything, the goon was blasted into the wall, landing on the one that was blasted before him, by Satoshi. Both Satoshi and Mio stood there for a second before either moved.
Satoshi ran over to Dai, where the shield was gone and the unconscious Dai just laid there, healing himself. That was when Satoshi realized he was in the outfit Krad had given him.
"Nice outfit, Satoshi." Mio said with a chuckle after she was sure Dai would be okay. "Change of mind about leather?"
"Krad picked it." He replied. "Can his wing heal completly?"
"I dont know. He's gone to heal the other things right now. Put him in his bed. He wont wake for hours." Satoshi nodded.
"What are you going to do?"
"Im going to shop some. You and Dai need some better clothes than what you have. Boys are so clothes matching illiterate."
"For what?"
"You'll see. Ill be gone for a while. Ill meet up with the other two and bring them back with me."
"Alright. Ill be here. Stay out of trouble. I dont want to come find your body."
"What are you going to do about these three?"
"Trash gats picked up in about an hour." Mio laughed as she went out the door.
Satoshi looked down at Dai's broken bloody form. He felt horrible since he was trying to save him. He had just caused Dai more pain.
Satoshi squatting beside Dai he brushed the hair out of Dais face. "Im sorry Dai." He whispered. "I wish I didnt cause you so much pain. If I hadnt been so stupid none of this would have happened. You saved me because you like me. I went after you to save you because I like you. Why does it have to be so hard for us?"
He picked Dai up lightly and carried him to his bed. After putting Dai on the bed he arranged him where his wing was stretched out some and covered him with a sheet. Dai lay there and transformed into his first level.
With a worried sigh, Satoshi walked out of the room to find the bleach to clean the bloodied white carpet in the living room. The floor infront of the balcony was all bloody and Satoshi knew he would have enough work to do.
He stopped moving when he thought of something. He whipped out his cell phone and dialed Mio's number.
"Hello?"
"Mio."
"Yes. Satoshi?"
"Yes. why were the goons able to get in?"
"You and Dai were unconscious so your wards were depleated to a very low level and mine isnt strong in someone elses room. They were able to force their way in because of that." She explained while Satoshi rolled the largest goon to the stairs and down them. "What is that sound?"
"Oh. Sorry. I rolled the largest to the stars and you know I just lost my grip and he went tumbling. My oops."
Mio laughed. "Thats funny. I never expected you to act that way, Satoshi."
"Lets just say Dai Dark and Krad wear off on you after a while."
Mio laughed again as she heard thumping again. "Loose your grip?"
"Oh, no. Not that time. Leg spasm."
Mio was guffawing into the phone (guffawing is like very severe laughing thats really loud that hurts your sides and brings tears to the eyes).
"That is funny, Satoshi. Id say that would be a Krad move?"
"Probably."
"And the third?"
Mio heard Satoshi rolling the third to the stairs. He flopped down on the goon, thinking.
"Hmm...Im not sure." He rubbed his chin. "I have it."
He stood up and turned the goon a bit, moving his arms where they wrapped around his own head.
"What did you think of?"
"Bowling ball." Satoshi explained it as he got the goon into a relative ball shape. "Timber!"
The goon went rolling down the stairs crashing into the other two and continuing down to the lobby. Satoshi pretended to dust his hands off and realized Krad had given him leather fingerless gloves as part of his outfit.
Mio finally stopped laughing then. "You have a very creative imagination, Satoshi."
"Thanks?"
"Thats good. It comes in handy when you fight. Surprises the enemy."
"Id expect so." He said as he went back to his and Dai's suite room.
"Well I need to go. Gotta pay for some clothes. Tootles." She hung up.
Satoshi shook his head at the phone, amusedly. He closed and locked the door behind him and went to check on Dai.
Dai was still laying unconscious on his bed with crusted blood all over him. His wing was still wounded but had thankfully stopped bleeding.
Satoshi found a bowl under the bathroom sink and a wash cloth. He filled the bowl with water and went in to Dai.
Satoshi sat down on the edge of Dai's bed and dipped the washcloth into the cool water. He dabbed the cloth across Dai's face, cleaning off the caked blood and dirt off of him.
A tear fell down Satoshi's cheek, seeing Dai like that. He hated seeing Dai hurt and he felt even worse for pushing Dai to it.
Ten minutes later he had gotten off all of the caked blood from Dai's body but didnt dare try the wing. He was too afraid he would make it bleed again.
The rest of the day Satoshi bleached the bloody carpet, trying to take his mind off of Dai in the next room but he would look up and in the room every couple minutes at the boys pale body. He kept his mind mostly off of Dai for much of the afternoon, then went to dinner, eating quickly to be back to watch over Dai.
That night Takeshi and Sekimoto stopped in after the bus was back and checked on Satoshi and Dai. The two were so surprised by Dai's pale form they couldnt stay long.
Satoshi went to bed that night with tears staining his fair cheeks and thoughts of the poor pale Dai across the room from him. He wouldnt sleep well that night.
Andsoendschaptererumnine.Chapternineisofficiallyoverandmoretocome.
That is where Ill leave it for the next day is full of odd surprises and visits. We finally learn who cousin Mara is in ch. ten.
Also in ten we learn a bit more of well...you'll just have to read and see. I dont want to give anything away .o