I know, I know, it took me forever, but it's pretty good. This is probably my favorite update/chapter yet. Enjoy!

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Kage stood on top of a branch of the city park's old oak tree - right across the street from the museum. He had the collar of his coat down and his black hat stored away somewhere in one of the many interior pockets of the coat. What's everyone doing here?, he wondered. This is going to make my job more complicated, he sighed in exasperation. He is currently surveying the museum over a sea of heads that belonged to a crowd of spectators and reporters.
He leaped down, ambled to the edge of the crowd and tried to blend in as best he could, though he caught the eyes of several women who banded together to stalk him (of course, he doesn't know he's being stalked). Most people were paying close attention to the museum while others crowded around portable color TVs to see what was going on. Kage wandered around looking up at the museum and began to observe the flurry of activity and obstacles it presented him.
It would already be enough of a problem with a crowd of people on the ground - he would have to find a way to turn that into an advantage. He turned away from the crowd and bumped into (guess who?) Misho.
"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING," Misho snarled, then, "Oh hi, Kage," Misho chirped, smiling sweetly. Then seeing the band of women staring at Kage, Misho began to feel a bit possessive. She took Kage's arm and walked him over to sit on a nearby bench. She gave him a forced smile as she looked past his face and saw the women discreetly migrate their way.
"What's wrong, Misho?" Kage asked. "What's going -"
Kage didn't manage to finish his question. Misho had wrapped her arms around his neck and began kissing him still keeping an eye open. She saw the women glare at her with jealousy. Misho tried not to but found herself indulging the moment. She slipped him her tongue to add to the effect and watched in satisfaction as the women tried to salvage their dignity and walk past them, hoping Kage would notice them. He didn't - he was too busy trying to catch a breath of fresh air. Sorry girls, Misho was tempted to say, but he's taken. She didn't know how long she was kissing Kage, but she knew it was long enough when someone yelled them to go get a room. She looked at Kage, whose face had turned as red as his tousled hair.
"What was that?!" he fumed while trying to restore order to his wild hair.
"You're too naïve to understand," Misho replied with a serene smile.
"What are you doing here anyway?" Kage asked.
"You haven't been watching the news lately, have you?" Misho surmised. It was confirmed by Kage's sour look. "Everyone's here because the police was tipped off that the mysterious thief they've nicknamed "Phantom Night" was going to appear tonight to steal the ivory box and the manuscript."
"Yeah, but that doesn't explain why you're here," Kage said crossly. "I wonder who this "Phantom Night" is."
"You're so slow, Kage," Misho grumbled. "You are the "Phantom Night" and I came to see if you needed any help," she said in a low voice. "You've become quite an infamous thief," she added with a smile, elbowing his arm. Kage stood up and began to walk towards the same oak tree he hid in the night before. "Where are you going, Kage?" Misho asked.
"I'm going to figure out a way to get in and get out without attracting so much attention," he said without turning around. "You should go on home before things get a little hectic." He continued on and climbed the oak tree, which hid him from the crowd.
Misho ignored the warning and clambered up after him, "No way, I wanna see what happens. Who knows, you might need me. I've been meaning to ask you something. If you don't want to attract attention, then why can't you just materialize the items right into your hands?" Misho asked curiously.
"Hey! I'm a Feniks - not wizard!" Kage fumed defiantly. "I think it's more fun if I manage to bypass all that security and humiliate them, don't you think?" Kage grinned.
Misho rolled her eyes. "All right, I'll leave - just be careful okay?" she pleaded with concern.
Kage nodded slowly. "Of course, I'll be careful and besides, what's the worst that can happen?" he said nonchalantly. Misho hesitantly lingered on before climbing down. Kage waited until he saw Misho walk out of his line of vision. I'm on my own now, he mused, so I better not screw this up.

Kage turned his attention to the museum. He and peered into the windows and strained his eyes to see what was going on inside the museum itself. There were guards posted at about ten feet intervals on every floor and every exhibition room and armed to the teeth. Each had a large German Shepard with them. Wow, Kage gulped, they're taking this seriously. Kage pulled the file that contained his assignment out from one of the interior pockets of his coat.

". the ivory box holding the manuscript is inside the room marked "Treasures of the Ancient Civilizations" on the third floor."

He sighed in realization that he needed Misho after all. Kage saw no way into the building. No crack, no weakness in the security's stronghold. It was already tough enough with the crowd and the police on foot surrounding the museum. Now top it off with the fact that there was no physical way of getting in. No physical way of getting in, Kage noted, but there has to be a way. Kage mentally worked on a plan. Moments later, he found it.
It wouldn't be a problem to get into the building unnoticed, but it would be problem when time it is time to snag the box and the manuscript. He decided to work on that when its time came. He reached inside his coat and into one of the many interior pockets to pull out his black hat, which he placed on his head and turned up his collar. He focused himself and became invisible. Keeping this up, he focused once more was no longer a solid being. His molecules had dispersed into an invisible misty version of himself and were loosely kept together by a weak bond similar to water molecules and hydrogen bonding in its liquid state. In this form, he made his way through the crowd, untouched and unseen, to the museum doors.
Kage continued his way through the museum to the third floor and entered the exhibition room entitled Treasures of the Ancient Civilizations.
And there across the room was his prize, flanked by three security guards. He cautiously made his way towards the display case until he was about two feet away. What is so special about that piece of paper? He wondered. No need to worry about that right now. What I do need to worry about is how to get the manuscript and box in my pockets without the guards noticing me, Kage lamented.
To his surprise something had caught the guards' attention. Kage silently cursed himself - there at the window, was the phoenix.
Most of the guards in the room walked over to get a closer look. "What in the world is that?" "I don't know." "Looks like some sort of bird." "Quick! Open the window." One of them, the rookie on the force arrogantly walked up, opened the window and grabbed the phoenix. He triumphantly held it while the phoenix tried to desperately free itself from the man's grasp. Kage groaned. He was going to have to do something about that later. He was going to use the phoenix as a distraction for now.
The guards were still standing guard around the box and manuscript, but their attention was on the phoenix. Kage allowed himself to become solid again, but not visible. He reached for the vulnerable items through the glass display the way he did with the ruby the night before. He placed the items into his pockets. Kage looked up in time to see the guards ready to call animal control.
Normally Kage didn't like to make a mess of his job, but it appears that he has no choice. He tapped one of the guards that surrounded the missing display and darted off as the realized that they had failed their orders. He quickly made his way to the border of the group assaulting the phoenix and knocked one of the display cases over, sounding the alarm and shattering the glass. Kage's concentration wavered and momentarily the guards spotted him. The group was unnerved and the stunned rookie's hold on the phoenix loosened. Kage grabbed the phoenix and tossed it out the window (yeah I know, kinda cruel) where it took flight.
"Hey, you, what do you think you're doing?!" one of the guards that saw him yelled.
"See ya!" Kage said as the he became invisible again and jumped out the window. He concentrated and once again his molecules dispersed the instant he hit the ground. The impact was not enough to kill him, but it did jolt him out of concentration. He now stood in the center of attention of millions of people.
Having never been in any experience like this, Kage froze long enough for the police to release the dogs. Upon the dogs' barks, he raced from the museum as fast as he could. All the attention, screaming, and chasing alarmed Kage, rendering him unable to concentrate.
Then a feeling struck him. He didn't know what he was doing. He just felt that he had to do it. Instead of running blindly, he felt as if some unknown force was guiding him through the streets. He ignored the barking dogs and the chasing guards. He was gaining distance. He just ran. His legs burned, his lungs screamed for air. He didn't care. He just ran.
He saw an open mall ahead of him and ran into it. He took the elevator up to the fifth floor and ran a flight of steps onto the roof - where the phoenix had waited for him. To Kage's amazement though, the phoenix had dramatically grown in size, about two feet measuring from head to talons, a wingspan of five feet, with gold tipped wings and crest - a fully mature phoenix. A sudden realization struck Kage as he panted for air. The phoenix was the force that had guided him. It had called him there to the top of the mall. What for? We're about to see.
As he calmed down, Kage heard the phoenix whisper to him, "We must flee while we can." It can talk, Kage mused as he watched the phoenix grew a bright red flaming aura that enveloped them both, and drew Kage's physical body and mentality into the phoenix. "You will remain inside of me. for now," the phoenix told him.
The two flew away into the night as the bewildered guards stormed through the roof access and the crowd below witnessed an amazing sight. The threatening clouds cried a torrent of gales, rain, thunder and lightening.

Yay! Of course it's not over yet. If you like it, please tell me. If you have any idea, go ahead and tell me. Say whatever you want. I don't care. Until next time, thank you for reading! ;_; just remembered that I'm supposed to study for my test.