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Chapter 7: A Tiger's Foreboding

Daniel stood strong in front of his opponent, his ex-lover Uraku. "I may have tried to run once, but it was a mistake, you dumb fuck! You're overreacting to something so small! How can you still believe I'm a traitor...?" He trembled with the murderous anger that he felt many times before. He wanted to punish the tiger. He wanted to bash him over the head, and force him to move on. He deserved to be in a relationship with him. He would MAKE Uraku live him again. But what could he do...he was the small one.

Uraku growled loudly as he picked Daniel up by the neck, choking him as Uraku raised his frail body into the air. "Small!? This is not small! My entire world is at stake, and you ran! I listened to Shah...I know what you are. I know how you have two sides to you. I know you must let your evil take over to save our world." Uraku shoved Daniel hard against the brick wall near them, a sharp pain flooding over him. Daniel was growing desperate for air, wanting to scream for help as he was choked and trapped.

Daniel's plan wasn't working. Angry sex may have worked once to mend things over, but it was foolish to think it would work again, especially with how livid Uraku was now.

He was still glaring at Uraku, watching as the tiger's eyes seem to fade from anger into...despair. "I fell in love with you, Daniel, but not the part of you that our world needs.." The grip from Uraku's paw loosened and Daniel fell to the ground, gasping for air and laying on his side to recupirate.

"I'm not stupid, Daniel...I'm not overreacting." He knelt down, looking into Daniel's exhausted eyes. The human slowly got into and upright position. The look of sorrow Uraku gave pierced Daniel's heart. Every bit of evil intention of him melted away. Daniel wasn't thinking of something.

"Hmf...and I thought I was about to get laid. I'm not much for this sappy stuff." Daniel could hear his darkness talking to him.

"Tell me...why do you accept your destiny now, but you didn't later?" Daniel was caught off-guard by the question posed to him. Did Uraku believe him that he wasn't wanting to run anymore? If that's the case, why is he so angry...so unfair to Daniel?

Daniel paused for a moment before answering timidly, "I...I convinced myself to accept..." Daniel's heart plummeted more as the look of despair escalated in the tiger.

"Stop lying! I know there's two of you in there! When you killed Qurrah, I saw for myself how different your soul can be! It wasn't just an emotional change, it was a complete change! Someone else might as well have stolen your body!" Uraku growled, standing up and walking away from Daniel a little bit.

"Tell me...what did the other Daniel say to you to make you reconsider running?"

Daniel silently gasped. What was he saying? How could he know that he had a real conversation with his other side? Uraku was almost showing the same wisdom as Shah could have, but he lacked the phoenix's calm. "He told me...it would be okay. I should not worry about what else I can become. He said it was a better evil..."

Uraku looked up into the sky, his maginificent frame still nude standing before Daniel, back turned to him. He let out a tremendous roar of anger and sorrow. Daniel could almost feel his emotions pouring through him, making him tear up. He didn't understand what was happening. He was missing something...some important piece of information that would tell him why Uraku was so depressed with him lately. As curious as he was...he was afraid to ask.

Uraku turned his head around. He looked down at Daniel, still sorrowful and tearful. "I will always love you, Daniel...but after what Shah said to me when you ran...I know the Daniel I fell in love with will soon disappear forever."

Daniel's growing depression instantly died off. Fear and curiosity took its place in the front lines, making him shoot upright, standing in front of Uraku and putting his hands on the tiger's shoulders. "What does that mean? What did Shah say?" He was shaking the tiger, desperate for an answer. Uraku opened his muzzle to reply when a loud shout interrupted the privacy the two had.

"It came from over there!"

Somebody had heard Uraku's roar. They had been spotted.

Uraku pushed all of his emotions back. Daniel did the same as the situation became dangerous. They were wanted for murder, and after what they've been through, they were surely wanted dead or alive. Uraku morphed into the white tiger quickly. Daniel instinctively hopped onto him, hugging him tightly with his head down in his fur.

Uraku was already dashing off, the sound of gunfire starting shortly after someone shouted. They knew who Uraku and Daniel were, and they wanted them dead.

Uraku spoke with a bit less emotion now, the heat of the moment giving him more confidence to speak, "Shah came to me again, and told me that I must watch over you more than ever. Your evil desires will overcome you in time, and once that happens, he said you'd no longer have a reason to come back to my world. You'd have no interest in saving my people...or me"

Daniel listened hard to the tiger even through the familiar sounds of bullets whizzing past his ears. "That means...we can't be mates. We have to break it off now...I'm sorry. I don't know if I can take the heartbreak later."

Daniel's heart was mixing with the adrenaline rush and the sorrow he shared with Uraku. It was then that he felt the wind around him stop as Uraku came to a sudden halt. They had been running through the streets and several dark alleys in the bustling city. They had just exited another dark alley before he was surrounded by two tanks, apache helicopters, and several personell from what seemed to be the army.

He looked around frantically in the night sky, fear racing through him as he stared down the barrels of the guns all pointed at him and Uraku. "ROAR!" Daniel shouted at Uraku. The tiger let out his tremendous roar, but it was nothing like the roar he used to save them the last time they were surrounded. He watched as the surround didn't budge.

"Oh no...it wasn't just a dream..." Thought Daniel. Uraku bowed his head down, "After all this...we failed." Daniel couldn't believe what was happening. They were in a rift in their relationship that he felt so close to mending. He knew why Uraku was acting the way he was, now. Daniel felt he could convince him to change his mind about being mates...maybe. He had rekindled a small beacon of hope...and it felt so good.

But was this their end? Did the sudden darkness of his dreams show him the future of how they were to die?

"FIRE!"

After the command was given, Daniel cringed as he awaited for the barrage of gunfire to tear him apart.

But something else happened...there was darkness...an eerie darkness that went beyond blindness.

The world around him had gone completely black as the lights from every building went out. The flashlights and searchlights aimed at the two fugitives in the surround had all turned off. The sounds of car engines were dying out. The helicopter's swishing blades were slowing. Shocked murmurs arose out of all the soldiers surrounding them before frantic yells came from them as explosions appeared in the form of blazing helicopters arround them. The apaches had been disabled and were falling from the sky. Each mighty machine was crushing and incinerating soldiers and buildings around it. The darkness was replaced with an eerie light of death, destruction, and panic.

Uraku looked around, shocked and relieved at what was happeneing. "Daniel...we're alive!"

Daniel didn't share the same half-hearted excitement that Uraku shared. Daniel had been startled at first as well, but he quickly put two and two together. The shouts of the experienced shoulders who knew what just happened confirmed what he now knew had just happened.

"That was...an EMP..."