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SILENCE
Fox Tails:
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You’re all back how exciting, and it seems we have a few new faces. Anyway you all seem to know what I said last time rite? Most of you, where you even listening? Oh well I’ll just give a little refresher from my last part.
Well it’s me Ryokumon again. Ryoku for short for all you new people. Yeah I know it’s the name of a Digimon, and that’s what I am in part. Juts to save myself from repeating myself again lets just go straight to the review. You will be tested…. Just kidding.
Well to start off I came back home with Zero and Bit looking for Impmon with all I wanted to do was see my home: Digimon or human, my love and possibly the tamers. I made sure that I would help Bit before I made my own personal errands so we went to the city from the ledge we started off from. Before we left that day I thought of a reason I could go back to Renamon knowing in a logical sense that Bit would get hurt if he tagged along while we search for his partner. I went ahead of them in the night after I left Bit somewhere with Zero to go see Renamon for personal reasons before I took Bit there while we searched for Impmon.
Getting there I found out something weird had happened and that my worries I had for the tamers was justified. When I came back to Renamon she was Marena, part Renamon part Maria. Some how when Renamon Digivolved to mega Maria joined with her and they couldn’t go back, so for a while they where two minds in one body till they set into each other and became as one with each other as I was with Ryokumon. There was a period of shock and it took me a day to get back to my senses where I got permission from Marena to let Bit stay in her burrow at the time.
I went back to get Bit and Zero and we went to my home. After we went there, Marena and I went out to talk where she told me a few troubling things about what happened while I was gone. She didn’t blame me for what I did but I beat myself up over it. At that time all she knew was that ultimates and then megas started coming threw and soon after the first few ultimates David lost his partner then Richy’s family moved away leaving Maria to defend the city from Digimon by herself. One reason I beat myself up was because Zero told me that I was infected by a Digimon virus called Titan that corrupted a Digimon and used it to block Digimon from coming thru. That was news to me and to you if you where here the last time. I didn’t deal well from what I can remember and when Marena told me about what happened I thought I had something to do with it so I just beat myself up over it until she told me not to. Maria and Renamon were one and they accepted it, if I wasn’t there it wasn’t their or my fault. So much for learning experience huh?
Well after that we went back to the burrow after Renamon agreed to help Zero and I find Impmon for Bit, but there where a few things in the way between this and that, for one was a jamming signal the military set up so tamers couldn’t get readings if Digimon did come threw, or even find Digimon that where already threw. Zero fed us the information after he found one of the transmitters and we planned out an attack on them though not said with as many caustics as we could go around. During the planning, Marena showed who she was pushing off the top of the towers to make Bit and Zero freak or pass out. Then explained who she was to the two of them which made it easier in the long run.
Zero told me why he was so loyal, inspired and all. Him having my memories and how I got away from Vulpi also is what he showed me. After he told me that, I went out feeling the cause I had after Zero had helped me out in the digital world, exited and happy and went out to get my Starlight. Coming back with the hefty priced bouquet of flowers and showing her how much I cared, again, doing it right before we went off on a mission if you will. It felt wrong of me to do it that way, but it worked. Maria thought the flowers where as pretty as Renamon did and she was that much closer to loving me.
Maria put up a little resistance but they where coming closer in mind then and she soon realized she loved me too and we went off to do our tasks with the mission. We destroyed the transmitters without any problems and found out later that there was still enough of an effect of the transmitter to screw us up, I wasn’t too happy about it and I found a park to relax in and sleep. I found out that Heto left a spy in the military and the spy decided to quit with Heto’s consent, leaving me his phone so I could communicate with Heto.
I had a little chat with Heto, heated to say the least, and
Heto told me something very strange. The Dark Masters were hackers. One was in
After I went out I followed Impmon's signal around coming back to a gas station roof wracking my brain over every thing I recently had dumped on me and instead of finding Impmon he found me. After a short emotional moment ,which I’m sure Impmon would try to hurt me for repeating, we went back to the burrow where I forced tamer and Digimon to make up. If I was Impmon I would have left at first sign of bitterness but he stayed and there was a rough make up at threats end of a forceful kiss.
Well the next event started off as a team effort but for some reason after every one went to sleep I had second thoughts about having everyone come along. I was dealing with the personal problem of the Titan virus in me. I wanted every one to be there for some reason then I decided against it. I thought that is was blocking the portals into the digital world with new emergences but what I didn’t know on the surface was it sucked anything close by, Digimon people pretty much anything living, into the digital world. Some how everyone realized I was gone and came after me and found me just in time as I disabled the cell phone tower near Richy’s old house; sucking us all into the digital world unprepared.
Entering a data stream then after a short conversation falling into the digital would like we jumped out of a space shuttle. None of us knew what to expect so we all panicked as we fell, Zero took Bit and Impmon as he changed onto some strange armor and I tried to save Renamon with the force of my weapon. It didn’t matter though because when we landed after we all blacked out or at least I think we all blacked out. We just landed fine.
The major shock was to see Renamon and Maria separated again. Both of them where in their own body but as far as I could tell they had the same mind. Which made the first day painful trying to keep them from hurting each other over small things they thought they should get for who they where. They both realized a while later that they where apart but the same and started to get along a little better after I begged them to put what ever problems they had with them selves aside.
New problem arose then, Bit Zero and Impmon where still
gone. I thought at first they would go to the nearest city Which was Data port,
but I’ll explain that later. On the way to Data Port Renamon and Maria, the two
mates I now had went sex crazed and chased me down in one of our hunting games.
I was worried about my freedom if anyone found out so I tried to out run them
but they seemed to keep up fairly well and the only way I could pry them away
and make it out of that situation with my pants on was to tell them about the
Dark Masters. They weren’t happy about that and gave me the silent treatment
till we came to the destroyed
There we found a Candlemon injured in the rubble who we saved and got some information from. One being that Vulpi was still very alive and two being that the masters where forcing their servants to Digivolve, and those who didn’t or wouldn’t revolted and started the Dark Revolution.
This was a troubling thought on its own as well as a few other things that seemed small at the time but just as pressing when I get into it in this edition of my story. Shortly after we left Data Port I started to hear Vulpi stalking us but I didn’t know it was her at the time, I just heard her like Zero was when he hunted me, absolutely silent except for the sound off her feet against the ground as she stalked us all the way to MSN to find that the Dark Revolution had been threw or around there, we didn’t ask past Renamon wondering what all the Digimon where doing wounded in the inn we stayed in.
Well after we rested a little we moved on after I scared the crap out of two Dark servants in the safe house in the inn. There was a third Digimon that was smarter, a Wizardmon who seemed to be resisting the Masters for his purity like I was, for the purity I had gained under my Darkness for Heto. Anyway after we left MSN Vulpi struck for the first time and I foolishly fought alone almost doing a good job till she flattened me and left me for dead if it wasn’t for Maria and Renamon who took me back to MSN where I rested for a while. Seeing the Wizardmon hadn’t left yet and covered the tab for the room while I quickly recovered from my near death experience.
After I thought I was well enough to move we left while I was still injured and went out trying to make up for lost time I spent on my back recovering. I made it look like I was still injured but Vulpi saw threw it and attacked again. I made a promise to myself not to hold Renamon back; if she could help, she could. I knew she was just as much of a fighter as I was and she proved to be a help in the battle with Vulpi.
Maria was a help too and card swiped for me while I fought giving us a better chance in the battle, coming down to the last blows between us Maria found her blue card and used it on Renamon who Digivolved to Taomon blocking Vulpi’s blue flames but not being able to hold it. In her Digvalution she dropped Leo who had no place in it. When I saw her shield spell was fading I jumped between Maria Renamon and Vulpi as the shield shattered absorbing the blast so they would be safe with one final attack I never knew I knew ending the battle with me on the ground thinking I was near death as Vulpi ran away wounded.
Well that sums it up for the major points for the last saga of my life but a few of the finer points where, My father and my mothers voice that he heard. He said she called me Ryoku. It spooked me bad and I didn’t know why. Then there was the Berserk energy card that Maria started to use at the end of the battle with Vulpi, I was afraid of what it could do and didn’t want to have her use it on me.
My last point is my Digimon mother, not many Digimon had names like I’ve said before unless they’re new. As far as I knew Renamon and Ryokumon had been around since Digimon where Digimon but my mother had a name that escaped me. I could remember her face but not her name like it was extremely significant. That scared me to tell the truth especially after not listening to Zero, what I didn’t know could hurt me and that felt as pressing as anything when I first thought about her. I may have pushed it aside but you’ll find out in a little bit why it was so important as well as what happened with the Dark Ones and the revolution.
It’s a long story so pull up a chair people and listen…
Mental
“Did we beat her, are you safe?” I said as Taomon and Maria started to sob down onto me while I felt a stream of my blood run from my face while I faded into the darkness I wasn’t afraid of. They nodded as I weakened feeling myself slip away while a light sparked above my head as I closed my eyes thinking ‘Was it worth it?’ completely into the darkness while I felt like I was dropped into water and just sank eyes closed ready to just give up and fade away till I heard a sound and a feeling I started to sink, “It’s not you time Ryoku.” The voice said as I opened my eyes looking around thrashing my eyes almost senseless. “Go back. Their waiting.” The familiar voice said as I looked over to my eyes seeing myself as a Digimon and as soon as my arm touched my arm on my Digimon body as we thrashed together there was a flash and I felt a surge of pain and energy as I sank.
I looked around seeing I was Ryokumon then not caring or understanding what was going on as I opened my mouth and a stream of bubbled came from my mouth showing me the way up that I struggled to reach seeing a light that could be the surface hearing the voice in my ears “You can make it my son….” Fading off as I touched the surface with one claw the braking threw to air waking up on the floor of my burrow in the digital world with every one around me that I expected to be. I gasped as I jumped I felt like I was dead for a while, while I panicked and huffed like I was dunked into a pool of water looking around seeing Renamon and Maria that rushed over to me until the new pain hit me and I arched back and screamed as my entire body felt like it ripped apart. I gritted my teeth and looked at the ceiling wide eyed while Renamon and Maria tried to comfort me in the spasm of pain and confusion till I blacked out from the overwhelming sensation of agony.
I don’t know what happened for a while except I was trapped in my head screaming out while I burned all over from what ever was ripping at each individual nerve in my body paralyzed by it to the point I could only imagine myself moving in tortured twitches. I don’t know if they where shown outwardly but I know in my head I was tensed up in every fiber of my body while I cried out in horrific pain slowly coming back to my senses feeling a stiff pain as I tried to move unconsciously. Wondering why I was screaming as I went around the stiffness to force my eyes open and look around at the world as I breathed in shill huffs not remembering where I was except that I was in mind blowing pain as I laid on a mat on the burrow floor looking around slowly calming down seeing that Renamon and Maria where asleep not to far away. I squeezed my eyes shut and grunted as I rolled over making every last inch of my back scream as I punished my chest which took the blow in it’s entirety. I gritted my teeth and forced a growl to my mouth as I tried not to cry and looked around seeing four bodies against the wall in old chairs I had made before I left. I laughed a little at the three I was looking for seeing Bit Impmon and Zero all sleeping and Zero actually looking like he was asleep.
The forth was a Wizardmon, the one I meet in MSN but I wasn’t sure why he was there so I stiffly and in extreme pain forced myself back over and looked at the ceiling seeing it and smiling at my success.
I had energy to use but it seemed my body used more of what I had to move, like gravity was turned up or someone was weight testing me setting a few tons over top of me so I couldn’t move. After moving so much I tensed back up and went back out with out a thought or word against the act. Most of my consciousness was spent on trying to keep my stiff body from tensing up so I could move and it made me twitch around it grunts as I subsided back into my head feeling the pain but forcing around it to joy myself at Bits well being. Almost crying in my head if I didn’t know I wouldn’t be able to stop if I did. So all I did was laugh as I started to moan outwardly, I didn’t hear much the entire time I was out cold most of my audio came and went while I laid on the mat but what I did hear was usually comforting. Renamon or Maria Zero and Bit all giving me their regrets till the Wizardmon stepped in and told everyone to stop treating me like I was being deleted.
It was something to smile at past the pain even though I didn’t recognize him till I woke up in almost a week. I was trapped in my head again but it wasn’t as claustrophobic then, listen to this next line and don’t take it the wrong way, it felt like I had a lot more empty space to work in where the last time I didn’t even think I could move. It was probably hallucinations but I’d rather be hallucinating than be afraid for how long I could think. Being able to move in my head made it a lot easier to think as well even though my surroundings where pitch black it felt like there was ground and air to move around it. Extremely open spaces like an auditorium or something. When I could stand I didn’t move from where I was, for the most part it was because I was to stiff but somewhere else I was worried that if I moved I wouldn’t be able to find my way back as if that one place in my mind meant every thing.
So around the pain and the confusion of being alone I tried to think, meditate and relax. At first just clearing my mind and soon my body fallowed loosening up to a semi comfortable level. The more I meditated the better off I was, I knew there was pain but I was conscious to a point. I regained enough control over my body to open my eyes and look around as every one sulked over me while every now and then someone would come over to see my eyes where open while I silently laid there, asking me if I could hear them almost screaming in my ears till they realized I couldn’t talk.
That kind of inner meditation is a serious drain and I went back into my blacked out state for a few days till I came around to the cavernous black room I was in and soon, maybe a few weeks after. I woke up for real. In about the same state as the first time I let Vulpi floor me. I grunted as I sat up and put my weak arm up and held my head feeling my fur as I rubbed over my face and groaning as I looked around, “Ow.” I coughed as I sat up in a stiff jerk as my body moved. I was acting like I was in and out of it the entire time while Renamon and Maria kept every one away trying not hot have them touch me as a greeting while they all swarmed around except for the silent types the Wizardmon and Zero who sat against the wall. “I don’t think what ever I did was fun am I rite?” I said using something I planned on saying when I woke up while every one laughed at the bad joke and sat down looking at me like I was a miracle. “Oh My God I thought I was going to lose you!” Maria and Renamon shouted as they gently leaned forward and hugged me together while I clumsily patted them as they gave me a fairly painful squeeze.
“I wasn’t finished yet Starlight.” I grunted as they backed away still with their hand or paw on my shoulders and arms looking into my eyes as I smiled into their faces. “How long was I out?” I asked as Renamon looked to every one else and almost cringed as they said the frame of time, “almost a month.” And I squinted at it, I must have been out of it for longer than I thought, “A month?” I asked as I rubbed my neck with my ungloved paw. The Wizardmon against the wall with Zero chimed in, “You where really unstable, they almost thought you weren’t going to make it Ryokumon.” He said seriously as I looked back to him replying for the sake of talking which I hadn’t done in a long time, “It was touch and go from my end too bud.” I laughed as I painfully made my shoulder pop with a hiss as I went from my neck to it, “Ow, ow, ow.” I grunted as I leaned back onto the mat. “Who are you?” I asked back once I laid down. “The Wizardmon you seemed to have forgotten Ryokumon.”
I grunted on my back as I leaned my head to look at him seeing he was the same Wizardmon from the inn. I looked at him for a second and tried to focus on my memory brushing over a few faces seeing his briefly but not recognizing him at the time, “If I know you you’ll have to forgive me my memory has been pretty shot up lately.” I grunted as I turned my eyes back to the ceiling. “That’s enough, he needs his rest.” Renamon said as she leaned against the wall, now confident I would be fine since I woke up letting every one go back to their chairs or spots around the burrow. Impmon didn’t move from my feet and made sure they where covered with a happy smile that from him creepped me out. “What’s with you?” I asked down to him as he quietly grinned away.
He looked at me for a few seconds and I wanted to shutter to tell the truth and he replied, “Nut tin.” and scooted away while I squinted in confusion at him while he sat smiling against the wall a few feet away. I rolled my head to my left and looked out into the digital world day seeing the village that the burrow overlooked living and moving and I smiled thinking that the Salamon where safe. I sighed as I closed my eyes to go to sleep thinking I would return to the auditorium in my head but I went back to my normal sleep.
I was still sore but I could think clearer now that I didn’t have to move around so much pain to do it. Openly I was hoping the Wizardmon had mistaken me for someone else but I knew it wasn’t the case. I thought about him some more and recognized him as one of my older friends who traveled as much as I did when I was Dark. He would stop by every few years and asked if he could stay for a while. This was in a time where ultimates and megas didn’t roam the digital world, where the Dark Masters didn’t exist yet. I helped him in a battle against the dessert bandits that clamed this part of the dessert outside of MSN, then they where commanded by three ultimates their high leader a ShogunGekomon and his two lesser commanders of a Parrotmon and a Scorpiomon. I had seen the ShogunGekomon’s commanders individually but that day I saw all three of them. I arrived to late and when they attacked Wizardmon was almost destroyed.
He was running when I saw him from almost two or three miles away and they struck him down for a staff that they took. It was a magical icon in the digital world that amplified a Digimon’s ability by elemental forces he/she commanded. It was a simple wooden staff with a metal cap on the top that had a crystal ball on it. It would have made a pretty walking stick even if that’s all he had. Much like the Candlemon I nursed him back to health after I fended the bandits away from him so they wouldn’t absorb him in his point of weakness. He wasn’t as friendly as he was later on, he wanted revenge on the bandits even though I tried to explain how much more powerful they where he didn’t care that staff meant everything to him.
He stormed off half dead determined to get the staff back which I found out later to be addictive, he used it well but he was addicted to it like it was a drug. In the hands of the bandits they made more lootings on the village I protected with the ShogunGekomon leading the attacks with the staff that the Wizardmon had. For two weeks I helped him hunt for the bandits while they where raiding the village while I was away. Renamon was doing her best while I was gone but always seemed to be on the losing side as the bandits took what they wanted and left.
I managed to convince Wizardmon that he wasn’t going to find them in the dessert unless they wanted something from him so I went back to the burrow and he fallowed for some reason. Coming back in the middle of a raid where Wizardmon jumped in and tried to fight off the ShogunGekomon for his staff getting hurt badly and spending another few weeks in my care while Renamon and I took turns against the raiders not making any progress since they had the staff.
I knew the Wizardmon did rite with the staff and I came to the conclusion that I needed to get it back to him even if he was addicted to it, where the ShogunGekomon was too it would make it that much harder to get it back. After a few weeks and attempts at going for the staff I was fatigued and exhausted, near the end of my string of attempts as the bandits scared most of the villagers to the city, only elders and females stayed behind while the male Salamon went to the city to beg their forces for help since their protectors weren’t doing such a good job. This left more of the village open as they no longer resisted as much getting in and leaving fast almost to fast for me to do anything about it till the day the Wizardmon thought he had recovered enough to fight again seeing the large green ShogunGekomon he went off casting a spell that made us both fly.
He was nicer then despite his angry appearance that time I was almost ready to give up after almost three months of losing to the raiders and as proverb says, a candle flickers violently just before it goes out. Meaning I was so fed up I was going to try my hardest to embarrass those damn bandits into never coming back.
Then we succeeded and took back the staff, only problem was that in my hands it didn’t have the defensive power I had and a stray attack from a Digimon near by shattered the ball at the end making it little more than a stick. The battle was won and the bandits left for a while but both the Wizardmon and I where wounded a little so for a few weeks we healed in Renamons care in our burrow. He acted like an addict sulking over his staff till I made him throw it away, he left for a year then came back and apologized to me knowing I was rite in making him give up the staff, he found out there was a way to fix the item but decided against it knowing it would make the addiction that much stronger and possibly evil. Befriending me and staying for a while trying to repay me for what I did for him. Getting the staff from the defeated ShogunGekomon and helping him get over the staff it’s self.
After remembering all of that I felt bad for him, like some kind of AA councilor that forgot to call his buddy. I’m sure he lived well till the masters found him, I’m sure he tried his hardest to resist them after he found a reason to. The thing that bothered me was the fact that in forgetting him I wondered if I did more harm to him. He looked to me then like some kind of hero for how I helped him. I knew he was fighting the masters for me and now that I knew it and why I was less of a fateful guide to sobriety in the sense of evil. I can say that I was weighted but I was determined to get over it as I knew I slept for a few days while I made sure to recall every moment I had with him and around that point in my long Digimon life.
When I woke up I started snickering past the stiff feeling I had to look back at him and try to apologize seeing him sleeping in a chair two spaces beside Zero, I loved those chairs. The village elders sat in them every time they came up to visit or when we had to talk. They where some of the most comfortable chairs in the digital world as if for royalty. I guess they where considering how the elders where looked up to.
Back to my apology it could wait till morning, I knew it was night by looking to the entrance of the burrow seeing the digital world night over the plains and sighed as I tried to sit up only making it to my elbows as I realized that someone was sleeping on me. I looked down to see Renamon laying on me sleeping while I held the position for a few seconds. I wanted to get up and move around if I could but instead I just laid down and looked back to the ceiling of the burrow. I tried to stay awake till morning but I found myself drifting back off to sleep after a few minuets happy that my Starlight, one of them was on me.
I was resolved on the issue of an apology to Wizardmon so I tried to think of a new subject to dwell on till the light of the morning would rush into the burrow. Hovering around the Dark Masters for a while then decided to stop pissing myself off and remembered suddenly what happened before I woke up.
The voice I heard was familiar and seemed to be like someone I knew, I didn’t remember what it said at first only the tone and gentle nature it had to it, very feminine concentrating on it’s soothing tone till I started to remember the words, “My son…” is what she said. ‘My son?’ I thought as I felt Renamon move off of me making me wake up temporarily to look down to see he curl up beside me where Maria was. I could feel the morning wasn’t to far off so I grunted to a sitting position and took a deep breath as I struggled to my feet. I was a lot better off than the first time I fought Vulpi because I actually made it to my feet and stood without having to be steadied. I walked to the mouth of the burrow that pointed out and not up like the one Starlight and I had in the real world and looked down to the village and to the planes while I thought about what I heard in the voice, “My son?” I said out loud in a slight huff with how hard I worked for the position I was in. I leaned over onto the edge of the entrance and looked down as I started to slide down the rock thinking and not really being shocked by what I came to only because of what I already explained. The voice was like my mother, Digimon and human, kind of how Marena talked when she was between forms.
Then I started to feel myself slide around my shoulders where my rifle holster would have been if I was wearing it and started to force myself to stand again looking out as miles away I saw the day crossing the plains. Dawn traveled at a cretinous speed in the digital world and it was still a few minutes off from its distance, I looked back into the burrow seeing a few occupants of the much roomier home to see a few of them that might wake up from the light including Wizardmon so I turned around and went back to the mat and laid down and covered myself back up.
‘My mom’s dead, was I?’ I thought as I pulled the cover up on me. It made sense with how much pain I was in. I read when I was human that if a limb is reattached it would hurt like hell because it was clinically dead for how ever long the appendage was “missing”. I don’t know how long it was before I woke up and if it was very long I could have been dead for days. Then all of a sudden I came screaming back to life. With how short that weird vision was, it only seemed like minutes or just a minute. I knew even flying like Taomon could, it would take ten minutes to get to the burrow. I don’t think I’m ready to explain this yet so I’ll stop. Death is confusing enough without trying to paraphrase it into what I’m telling you.
Anyway, while I wondered if I was dead or not the day came over and made me look to the brightness from outside and I heard a few grunts from Renamon, Maria, Impmon and Wizardmon, pretty much anyone who was or is a Digimon in that cave was stirred from the low light that made it’s way in. I looked at the shadow it cast and from the direction like the sun was high in the sky getting confused at it because I would have seen its corona from how close I was to the lights edge; but in the digital world a sun doesn’t exist, only the light dose.
With everyone slowly waking up except for the only real human and the machine I thought about my apology that I had planned out but seemed to fall apart when I tried to say it looking back to Wizardmon like an idiot.
I was more distracted by the voice I heard though than the cheesy lines I knew wouldn’t cut it as an apology and plus the apology was one sided, as he started to wake up I realized that he would have some thing to say about it and just rambling over him like a cue card would make me look insensitive I guess. I think he knew I remembered him by how I looked at him, because he smiled at me when he opened his eyes and thru the cloak I could see that he knew who I was then, and pitied me for what I went thru with the masters.
I’d still try to apologize though so really without thinking I just started, “Wizardmon…”
Feud
“Yes Ryoku?” he said as he stretched out and stood up looking down to me on the mat. I moved the covers feeling almost obsessive compulsive by folding them up as I sat cross-legged on the thin mat that kept me from the floor. “I’m sorry about your staff.” I said as he waved his hand to the side and made a happy grunting laugh, “Don’t worry about it Ryoku.” He said as he walked over to the mouth of the burrow where I followed him with my eyes till I had to turn my head. “I can’t believe I forgot about you.” I said as I turned completely around to watch him as Renamon and Maria came up close to me and placed their hand or paws on my shoulders. He sighed as he looked out over the dessert in the direction of the village and looked back only for a second then going back to the dessert, “I can’t blame you, the Dark Masters blocked most of my memories. Until a few months ago I didn’t ever remember you.” he said toning down into a sad voice as he shifted to the wall just inside the mouth of the cave.
“Yeah I know, that’s what happened with me.” I said as I stood up and walked over to the other side of the entrance. “Looks like it’s going to be pretty warm today.” I said trying to make small talk as I noticed everyone was looking at me standing up like it was impossible. I don’t know why but I thought it should have been to considering how weak I was last time I woke up after a fight that far into the losing side. “It’s always hot in the desert plains. You know that Ryoku.” Wizardmon smiled as he looked over. I rubbed the back of my head and grinned stiffly, “Yeah, it is isn’t it.” while he grunted out a laugh. I leaned back against the wall losing the train of thought I had on my apology as I looked down at the village putting one paw in the other as I leaned against the wall putting them in my lap while I looked out over the elevated observatory I had of the village. “What are you doing here Ryoku?” Wizardmon asked, making me look over from out of my scarred eye.
“Don’t know.” I said simply, as my tail swished the dust from directly below me. “I mean in a place like this. You were Dark Lord Ryokumon, I know you had at least half that power and you use it protecting a village.” He said as I turned to him looking at the group I had in the burrow. “Some one has to protect them.” I said looking back to him as he turned to me, “From what. Those drifters are long gone since the Masters came around.” I sighed with a smile, “That’s not why I’m here.” I said as he followed me back into the burrow where I sat in a chair next to Zero waking him up as my tail accidentally brushed his knees. “Good morning my lord.” Zero said as he leaned back and yawned how he said his body was programmed to, it looked real though like he actually woke up. “Good morning Zero so how where the tiny tots while I was gone?” I asked as Bit flew me a look but with a smile as he watched me move around on my own.
“Not to much trouble my lord. I did have a disagreement with the child though.” I laughed as Bit turned away and I knew that something like that would happen while I was away, “So any trouble getting here?” I asked as I looked over to Wizardmon who knew I had some catching up to do. “Nothing I couldn’t handle.” Zero smiled letting me know he wasn’t going to let me know much. “You scare me Zero, you really do.” I laughed as I grunted to my feet and slumped over as I felt a jolt of pain run up my back, “I’m good.” I laughed as Impmon made it over to me first. “Are you Ok Impmon? You’re acting a little funny.” I said as he backed away strangely. “Who? Me? Yeah I’m coo.” He laughed as he stepped away with his little gloved hands behind his back as he grinned as if he was hiding a maillot behind his back. If there was someone who scared me more in a social sense than Zero it was Impmon. He was a little too friendly lately. I looked away from Impmon to Maria and Renamon who now seemed to start sitting in different positions and acting slightly different. “And how is my Starlight doing?” I asked as they both stood up and came over to me in a hug that hurt but I took it while they both said things into my shoulders and chest, “I missed you.” or “God I thought I’d lose you.” and I heard the voice from my little vision saying ‘Their waiting for you’ as I kissed their heads as they held me. “I won’t leave you again, I promise.” I said making them cry a little and me smile.
I went back to that feeling of being whole then and smiled as we all leaned into each other. A minute passed and Wizardmon cleared his throat because he had something on his mind. “We do have other things to talk about.” he said in a cocky laugh a little embarrassed for coming between the moment. Renamon and Maria leaned back as I exhaled from the release of the pain that the hug caused and kept my paws on their shoulders. Every one was serious all of a sudden, which didn’t fit their usual profile. “What’s up?” I asked putting my paws to my hips regretting it as the pain it caused made me pull them away and look like someone punched me in the face. More or less ignoring my pain a few unsettling looks floated around breaking Zero, Wizardmon, and I from the circle as Bit, Impmon, and my Starlight all shifted around and gave fearful looks at the topic, “Well spit it out; what’s the big deal?” I said while they kept silent giving me enough time to figure what was going on. “Vulpi right?” I said as Wizardmon nodded looking to the sky.
“She came here with a message for you.” Wizardmon said as everyone just stopped like the message was holding their mouths shut. “The Dark Masters want to see you.” he said making everyone look at me as he said it without pause and in the straightest tone anyone could have bearing bad news. It just hovered like that for a few minutes and as I sat down feeling my legs get tired Zero asked, “What are you going to do my lord?” and I just shook my head. Now if I never needed something dropped on me it was that then. By me not answering I think it brought up a small panic. “I’m open for suggestions.” I said looking around seeing everyone but Wizardmon think slightly but calming the buzz of worry I made by not answering instantly. I looked over to Zero hoping he would know something but in that situation he couldn’t know a thing.
After a minuet Maria started, “What about that card?” she said looking over to Renamon while I wondered what she was talking about. “What card?” I asked. As Renamon shot Maria a look for bringing it up making me almost fall over, it was the first defiant change between their minds that I had seen, last time they where angry it was with each other typically at each other. Renamon was almost alone in it and it was startling. “This green card that just appeared.” Maria said as she popped open my card pouch that was sitting on a table I had gotten from the village years ago. She pulled out the card that resembled theirs, Bit and Maria’s, Blue Card and handed it to me making me wonder what it did. “You tried it yet?” and Maria shook her head, “We weren’t sure what it would do.” She said as I looked back around to my belongings on the table seeing my gloves. “I don’t think a card is going to solve our problems.” I said trying not to make it sound to bad towards them. Renamon looked like she knew it and Maria just kind of sank back coming to the same conclusion Renamon already had. To make it simple I think it was a case of time lag. I know that now that I’m a Digimon my mind works faster, Maria was still stuck in Renamons wake, she may have been her but she was still only human, and I can say personally I know how much that sucks. No offence to my audience but that’s just how it is.
“Where did you say you found this?” I said looking back as I flipped the card between my three fingers. “Just after you took that hit for us my love.” Renamon said for Maria making me remember the fight in fragments up to the last second before that vision started. I gave a hum and Bit said something only war heroes would “Lets take them head on.” and I shook my head while he pouted at it like it was a good idea. “They have an army and we are all we have. If we burst right into it chances are we wouldn’t come back.” I said as I watched the logo on the back of the card go to the base color of green as it twirled in my paw. “I don’t think we’d have much chance even getting there together, the digital world could separate us at almost any second.” Bit was the only one who seemed shocked about it and grunted like I was making excuses, “The real world rules don’t apply here Bit, this is another plain of existence basically. Unless you want to end up god knows where, you should listen to me.”
Wizardmon looked back at me strangely and I could tell he was a little thrown by the concept of a world different from the one he lived in but decided not to say anything about it and just looked back. “Besides I’m sure that they’d have an army of MEGA’s outside their fortress here.” The Wizardmon blinked at me and chimed up again, “She said to go to the machine plains, they moved since you where here last Ryokumon.” I squinted at him in confusion sitting on the mat and looking around, I guess since they were here, at least one of them was tired of the heat. “She said to come alone.” Wizardmon picked up again making me shudder at traveling with her alone again. “I don’t think so.” I grunted as I put the card down and crossed my arms in my lap sneering on at the thought of her. “We could always follow you my lord.” Zero said from the silent corner of the conversation.
I looked to him seeing he had a few scratches and dents in his otherwise perfect armor remembering what he said about being decommissioned, “You cant be repaired anymore Zero, I don’t want to put you in that kind of a situation.” I said as he waited for me to finish so he could speck. “I am here to serve you hunter, I have no wish to stay in this body. If I can be free of it even by death it self then so be it. If I do it in the name of my commander I will die with honor.”
It was touching but insane at the same time, I didn’t want to lose him even if he was a little too cryptic for me. He seemed to be a decent enough Digimon on the inside and I really didn’t think having them along would go over very well. “None of you would have a chance.” I said looking around. “Neither would you.” Wizardmon said sadly from the entrance of the burrow.
They all looked at me and I saw that they were willing to trust me, all for their own reasons down to Bit and Impmon who I thought had no reason to. “Why me guys?” I asked and they all laughed like I made a joke making my ears go back in the curiosity of their humor. None of them said why but I could see that I meant a lot to them, “Oh no, I don’t want you in this. I wanted to come here, my grudge not yours.” I said as all but Wizardmon eyed me going against my judgment, “None of you should be here, it’s my fault you were even dragged into this.” I said as Impmon stood up speaking for everyone as they nodded with his bad English, “I don tink you woulda left us if we didn mean somethin to ya. We came along cuz we knew youse was gonna need us. If youse don take our help den we’ll make ya. I’m comin along.” and every one again but Wizardmon said, “Me too.” while I looked over to him where he stood silent looking out over the desert.
“This isn’t my fight Ryoku, and your right I shouldn’t be here but I am. The most I can do is resist the Dark Masters from their control. I can’t fight them I’m too weak to help directly.” I nodded at him almost feeling like he should have spoken for everyone. There was a silence while I waited and everyone smiled at me now that I knew their intentions and I sighed, “I don’t think me telling you no is going to make a difference to any of you, but I don’t want you following me. If this was a fight I wouldn’t hold any of you back but this is personal.” Renamon and Maria came up to me putting their paws and hands on my shoulders, I held up my paw and looked at it while I tried to stop them and Maria took it and showed me something, “This is who you are personal with, don’t go off to get killed because your mad at him my love.” and I looked at the letters instead of the word while Renamon handed me my gloves, belt and sword strap, “You’re ready for them my love, we’re ready for them. Don’t push us away now just when you need us.” I sighed again as I took my gloves looking at the leather belt and strap, while I put them on I felt sad towards them, “Your throwing away your lives people, I really don’t think it’s a good idea.”
“We ain't gonna die Ryoku, so we ain't gonna waste r selves on creeps like dem.” Impmon said while Wizardmon looked back at the terms die, lives, and death not knowing what they meant. Renamon set Leo’s strap in my lap and I almost pushed it away but left it there feeling warm yet still sad at the decision they made, “No.” I said looking down with my eyes closed knowing my opinion made no difference in that. I looked up to see Wizardmon had left and stood up holding my sword strap as I started to put on my belt coming out of the cave seeing him walking down the path. “It’s your decision Ryokumon. They won’t listen just like I wouldn’t listen about the scepter. If you go alone expect a rescue party because whether you like it or not they are going to follow you to limbo.” He said as he put one hand in the air and waved at me from the path leading down the mountain my burrow was in, “I’ll come back same time next year my friend and I hope I won’t find your place empty like I did before.” I felt myself start to cry then but held it in as I leaned back to look into the burrow seeing all eyes on me.
It really didn’t matter, even if I was marching off to die. They where going to follow me like I had saved their lives. Renamon and Maria where the only ones I expected that from, but everyone else was considerably further from me. I didn’t deserve that kind of respect the dignity or the loyalty. I was a miserable human and a weak Digimon not some supper hero.
I don’t think I would have ever thought the way I did then. I thought I had a chance, since they were counting on me to stand proud, they were my strength. I had others to think about also with that much devotion to me, one was walking away fighting a battle he knew he could win, the other was in another would probably drinking a cup of coffee wondering if I was alive or if I was ever coming back. My last inspiration I should say next to first in line died for me after I was born, my mother who cared for me enough to make my life possible. If there were that many people behind me, I couldn’t let them down. I had to go on even if I wanted to alone.
I may have walked alone but we marched together…
To the City
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!!!!CAUTION!!!!! This chapter contains material of sexual nature. If you are not of at least 18 years of age please skip over this chapter, almost none of this applies to the story line, and if referred to will have little effect on any outcomes. Also note that events in this chapter may not be accurate to the “life style” it portrays. SO…. down to business, I will take no responsibility for under aged readers. Read at own discretion !!!!CAUTION!!!!
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I screamed as Vulpi grabbed my limp cock while I hung taunt in the strange ropes that suspended me from the ceiling as she laughed sexually commanding into my face while I grunted as her three fingered paw squeezed me out of my sheathe. “GET OFF ME BITCH!!” I shouted as she started to twiddle my pecker around in the air not moving away from my face. “No.” she laughed as she reached over to the table beside me and picked something up. “What the hell do you think your doing??” I said as I tried to look down to see only bashing foreheads with her while I struggled to look down. “You’ll find out.” She smiled as she licked up her muzzle to mine making me jump away from disgust at the action swinging away on the rope coming away only on my top half while she held my limp dick in her hand almost making me want to scream as she squeezed in so I wouldn’t swing around.
While I was away from her I saw that what she had in paw was a very mean looking pin, something like a cloths pin but with teeth. It was metal and she slowly snapped it at me to scare me, at that point I was. “Oh, bad boy.” She laughed as she picked up her whip wrapped in leather and whacked it a crossed my kidney making me wince as it stung. I shot my head to hers as she stood straight up looking down on me as I hung from her chamber of sexual horrors, Vulpi stood there in all of her Dark radiance as a true dominatrix, at least in appearance. For a Renamon, the leather look was carried off very well definitely with how she held herself in a teasing lean usually and in the corset or something that went under her large tits and stopped about the chest and hip having two rings on either side that went down over the black open crotch panties to leg bands that were studded.
If I wasn’t so disgusted with her she might have just barely made par under attractive in a flog-me-please fantasy but I don’t usually swing that way. In either case I was swinging though as the hard snap of her whip made me rock on my toes hissing in pain making me want to rub the sting away. “BITCH!” I shouted as I tried to struggle out of the ropes while she laughed at me teasing me by tapping the whip on my sheath while she leaned over, “Where do you think you’re trying to go?” she laughed as she walked around behind me swatting me in the face with her black tail dragging the whip around till she came to my ass raising it back while I couldn’t see and swatted me on the right ass cheek making me jump forward and choke myself from how my tail was tied to my collar. “I’m going to kill you Vulpi.” I growled as I tried to turn around. I couldn’t move very well since my knees where spread apart by some kind of rod.
While I tried to turn around moving with my toes I heard the hiss of the whip as she came down on my left cheek making me jump again and sustain a long growl while I wanted to rip the ropes apart. “Oh Ryokumon, stop resisting it and enjoy it.” Vulpi said as I started to sway around coming back up to view of her looking at me with the hungry looking pin as she snapped it in my face. “You put that on me you’ll regret it.” I said in a low voice as she pushed forward making me lose what footing I did have and slip back into a dangling hang. Swaying back and forth I came back to the pin she didn’t move and snapped it at my nose as I went back scrapping my claws on the ground while I tried to stop myself. She timidly laughed hoping I’d come back one more time but when I stopped she reached forward and snapped the sharp pin to my nose where it sagged down to where I couldn’t see the grip of it only the teeth as they painfully scrapped down my nose. I growled louder trying not to yelp from the pain as I gritted my teeth, “Get that off me NOW.” I said as my voice cracked.
She laughed at me again and tapped her long rod whip on my nose making the pin bounce as I yelped slightly inside my growl at how much it hurt. The tips were sharp and it was made of some heavy metal and it weighed down my face slightly. “Let’s work on your obedience shall we?” she said as she stood up bringing the whip down to her vagina and sticking it between her folds. “Get me out of this now you whore.” I spat lowly so I didn’t lose my composure with her. “No, no, no.” she gasped as the leather of the long whip came up wet as it moved from her lips, “your not learning are you?” she laughed as she went back behind me to the table of her toys swatting me a crossed the ass getting both cheeks, stopping on it while she whipped the pussy juices from the rod of her whip in my fur giggling madly as she picked something from the table sounding metal.
“This is two Ryokumon, are you going to obey me now?” she laughed as I felt her leather gloved paw brush across my ass, “GET AWAY FROM ME!!” I shouted as she moved up the crack of my ass with one finger stopping at my ass hole circling it while she breathed hard in anticipation, “Too bad.” She said in a fake sad voice as she drew her finger up to the base of my tail and slowly wrapped her paw around it while I heard two snaps, “Strike two Ryokumon.” She laughed as I forced my self to look back threw the tangle of ropes to see her hover a pin at the base of my tail combing my fur with it waiting for me to look at her so she could let it go, that’s exactly what she did and I couldn’t hold in the yelp as it bit into my tail making me yelp loudly coming back to a growl, “Vulpi.” I growled as I tried to move my tail while the teeth of the pin dug further into the flesh under my fur with each choking movement. “I think you’ll really like strike three.” She laughed as she brought her whip up to the ropes and brought it down around my tail at the ticklers on the end swayed back and forth as her tail did making the leather bands holding up the straps on her legs move up and down as she bent over and gave the ropes a shake making the pins jiggle away from the rest of my body while she circled me again.
“IF I GET OUTA THIS BITCH YOUR GETTEN THREE STRIKES AT ONCE YOU HEAR ME!!” I shouted as the pin on my nose fell off making the skin on my nose scream as she laughed, “Oops looks like we lost one.” She laughed as she bent down in front of me shoving her ass in my face making me catch the full scent of her sex that was exposed with the puckering hole of her ass. Her scent was a wear on my instinct and I felt a hard on forming and she saw it too as she bent over to pick up the stray torture device. Putting the ticklers of her whip to my peeking cock as it came from my sheathe involuntarily, “Looks like you are getting in the mood, sexy.” She laughed as she brought her tail down over my face holding it there so I couldn’t see, I growled in pain from the scratches on my nose and the piercing sensation on my tail. I opened my mouth in the fluffy fur and tried to find the rod of her tail with my teeth snapping at fir till she snapped the teethe clamp on the sheathe of my cock making me open my mouth and yelp out.
“Strike three handsome.” She laughed as she pulled her tail from my face. “But it looks like we need a new strike one.” She laughed as she put her tail to her chest running it down the corset she was wearing making me see the two belts that went along the top and bottom of it. She whipped my saliva from her tail onto the leather making it shine and moaned in a strange perverted pleasure as her scent grew and started to burn in my nose making my dick that much harder against my will and almost come out of my sheath.
She laughed at me as she brought her whip up to my shoulder looking down between my widely spread legs and with her free paw reached down and made sure the ball of my cock was out in the air so it didn’t get to hard to come out. Pushing back on my sheathe making it pop out in slight pleasure with a pop as the larger ball came out the smaller exit. “Almost ready lover.” She laughed as she took her whip to my face before I could say anything, “I am your lover slave.” She said laughing into my face as she stood up whipping the moisture from my own dick on my cheek as I growled at her, “I’m going to kill you slowly.” I said gaining a little composure as she walked behind me and picked a few things off of the table. “Kill?” she said as she stopped behind me and twisted the pin on my tail making me yelp as the sharp teeth scratched my skin. “Oh that’s right, the Masters explained that to me, Killing and death are being destroyed or deleted.” She laughed as I felt her wrap something around my feet at the ankles, tying it tight then making them come together painfully as the knot she tied them fighting the spread of my legs with the bar at my knees. She pulled on the rope suspending me by the bondage ropes around me tying my feet to a knot higher up on the rope somewhere from the ceiling so I swayed uncontrollable with my dick pointing almost straight down.
“That’ll be an interesting position.” She laughed as she took the clamp she had picked up from the table and tapped it on my dick making a few drops of my own seed spill to the floor. “Getting a little closer.” She laughed as she opened the clamp with a sexual gasp and barely settled its teeth on my dick while I cringed and quivered from the weight on my tail. “No, I don’t think I’ll put it there.” She laughed as she scrapped the clamp from my full hard on not getting meat with it but just enough to cause a discomforting sensation that made more seed drop from my cock while I growled at her for causing me the pain I was in.
I just growled, I couldn’t say anything to stop her and the most I could do then was try not to enjoy what she was doing. I had Renamon to think about and as bad as the situation was I could only find sexual memories of her then while I tried to think of something else that would get rid of my erection. Fat people, men, something to keep her from getting what she wanted from me. “I’m not your love you fucking prostitute.” I growled as she spun my rope making me dizzy and choking me as my tail and head went outward with the speed of the spin till she stopped me looking into my face as I coldly sneered up to her, “Not in the mood to get down?” she laughed in a sexual taunt.
“What do you think?” I spat literally as the huffing from the pain and dizziness made me drool. She brought her whip up again and snapped it up the center of my chest laughing as I yelped almost letting my head drop onto the taunt collar to choke me. “I SWEAR, I’ll make you pay for this!” I said as I hissed from the sting of the whip, “Oh that’s what you said last time.” she said as if I didn’t keep a promise leaning over and putting my head between her breasts and pressing together as I just hung there trying to get over the pain. “Lick my nipples.” She said as I felt the dummy strap of her whip against my ear while I was blinded by the braids of her fur and her hefty tits over my eyes.
When I sighed quickly showing her I was going to have no part in it she pulled away in one of her discontented grunts then chuckled briefly, “Non-compliance, ten lashes.” She said as I started to squirm again just screaming while I tried to turn my head far enough around to see her as she walked behind me swatting me with her tail again. She set the thin whip she had down and pulled one from the table with thirty or more thin leather bands that hung lose from the hard wood looking grip of it, all of it multi colored as she chuckled childishly swinging it so the bands where all over her shoulder like a cheerleader with a palm-palm, “Ready?” she said as she reached under me to feel my cock making me quiver as she squeezed the tip feeling the consistency brining it back up to her face and smelling her finger and licking them clean, “Guess so.” She said as she quickly came up for the whip and slammed it down a crossed my ass and arm making me scream out, “One,” she said happily while I reared my head back and twitched my tail trying to tuck it instinctively from the pain choking me as she brought the bands down again, “Two,” she laughed as I felt a tear come to my eye from how much it hurt.
“Three!…Four!” she shouted before the swings making me tense up and hurt worse as she landed a few bands across my tied wrists at the base of my tail. “FIVE!!” she shouted in wet glee as I felt another load blow onto the floor, “SIX!!” she shouted this time hitting me on the legs as she moaned in pleasure from watching me quiver in pain. “SEVEN!!” she shouted bringing the bands down on my arm as I screamed loudly from the combined pain of the pins and the lashes stinging and cutting into me barely coming back to a growl before the next swing gritting my teeth and clinching my eyes closed as she slapped me with the whip, “EIGHT!!” she said as it came down on my shoulder. “Nine!” she shouted as she immediately fallowed the last swat from underneath wracking the whip a crossed my exposed chest. I shouted and held a yelp as I dropped my head down and started to cry in the stinging pain. It was worse that recovering from a fight and I’d feel all of it for weeks!
She huffed for a minute laughing at me while she leaned over me like a countertop and giggled into my sword strap and sword sheathe. “What’s this still doing on you.” she gasped for air from her orgasmic fit. I was to busy twitching in the pain moaning to myself while the stinging sensation started to bleed into my joints putting them into a burn of flaming pain. “Tell me or I’ll get the paddle for the last lash.” She laughed as she let her gloved paw travel around my waist to give me a short hand job. I started to pant trying not to cum again and she giggled at me while I grunted against the pain putting my ears as far back as they possible could go. “You like that don’t you.” she giggled as she leaned over and bit my ear making me lose my concentration and yelp as she bit into my ear and blow the load she was looking for. I thought she went thru and pierced my ear but it just hurt on both sides and she laughed as she gave my head a little tug in her teeth.
“Not so chatty now are you.” she said as she walked around with two fingers on the top of my head till she came around where she put the bands of the whip up and ran them down my muzzle. “I don’t think you’ll fight it anymore.” She giggled as she rubbed her clit with her opposite paw while I listened to her moan while she rubbed her nipples, “Lick them, lick them now.” She moaned and I curled my tear soaked face into a sneer and looked away from her as she growled at me dropping her whip and grabbing me by the muzzle “LICK.” She said harshly as she squeezed so hard my tongue barely passed my lips and she laughed while I grunted trying to pull away dragging me to her tit and ran my tongue up her pierced nipple. I opened my eye and brought my mouth open while she pulled more of my tongue out with her sex soaked paw making me taste in and squirm more against my binds and pain as I felt the weight of the pin on my cock sheath start to slide off making me want to scream while she held me there.
When it popped off I clinched my eyes closed and closed mouth yelped as she huffed from the stimulation she was forcing me to give. She stumbled backwards and moaned as I opened my mouth in a painful howl not piecing together words but just rambling while I fought and restraints. I watched for a second feeling my dick get so hard it could have exploded and nut started to drip down it, she moaned on the floor in a puddle of my cum and looked down to my vertical cock snickering as she rubbed the slit in her sex coming under me while I screamed down, “GET OFF ME YOU WHORE!!!” coming around to words as I felt her wrap her mouth around my hard waiting dick and suck making me lose it quickly into her mouth where she swallowed making me want to puke on the ass she bounced rite below my face while her raised tail whipped a crossed my face.
“VULPI! I’M GOING TO KILL YOU I SWEAR!!!” I screamed in huffs as she sucked my dick hard till I lost another load of nut to her stomach making me that much closer to losing what ever I ate months ago. I felt my dick throb in her mouth and she came off of me with a pop as the end of my dick passed her teeth and jiggled from the motion of her sucking and bobbing. “I think your ready now.” She giggled as she stood up from below me running her paw threw my chest fur that was tangled in ropes while I sneered at her more out of breath than she was. She looked at me again and grabbed Leo from my sword-sheathe and pulled him out while I shouted to her. “PUT HIM BACK NOW!!” while she giggled at me and tossed him aside like useless matter tugging on my sword sheathe trying to pull it from the loops in the strap but it wasn’t happening. After a few seconds of hard tugging she found her self out of breath at my level and I just growled to her while I looked over to Leo apologizing to him with my eyes while Vulpi stood back and slowly wormed the tight crotch-less panties from her hips over the straps of the leg bands showing me exactly how excited she was as she gushed on the floor as the fabric touched her swollen clit. She leaned forward after she caressed her opening a little and put her paws on my shoulders so she could spin me and kissed me in a deep moan on my lips making me taste myself in her mouth while I squirmed away from the kiss.
When she decided it was enough she pulled back and I dryly spit as much of the taste out as she picked up her whip and walked back over to the table pushing every thing else off of it but one device that looked like a soda can, attached to a small plastic ring. Holding the device in one paw as she pushed the table up behind me seeing that I was to low for it and walked over to the wall and pulled on some taunt ropes that I thought where to something else or spares or something but I raised up about a foot and she tied the rope off and walked over to me, “Your going to love this.” She smiled as she put the small ring around my throbbing dripping prick and snickered as she sat on the table with her ass pointing to me while she held my cock in her paw and the can thing in the other, “Get that thing off me you PIECE OF SHIT!!” I shouted as she turned the can on and a sudden powerful vibration shook my dick in her paw making me shoot a load onto her waiting pussy where she set the vibrating can down and massaged the nut into her fur in a high screaming moan till there was no more seed left to spread so she jammed my dick in her slit making me scream out as she bent me backwards and tugged on it to pleasure herself.
“I’LL KILL YOU!!” I shouted as I bounced trying to move my tail and arms pulling on the stronger ropes as she laughed and moaned both with me and at me for still resisting. I grunted and huffed after a minute of it not being able to make a word I said understandable and just waited for her to tire out and let my cock either go in her or just drop it and let me swing. I grunted while she slammed my vibrating cock in her opening and refused to let myself nut in her and started to moan while the feeling of it coming to my shaft bashed at every sensitive nerve in my cock while the vibration and her thrusts felt more intense with every second till I couldn’t hold it and it just exploded almost sending me from her pussy to sway but she screamed out in joy and kept going while I tried to keep the next load from coming out while she screamed orgasmicly and I felt her cum jet around my dick till she shuddered out and fell weakly limp back on the table holding me by the ball of my poor cock in her pussy.
She laughed while she huffed and looked at me while I just stared at the wall feeling dirty for even having a place in her moment of bliss. She pulled me out of her in such a fast motion that she punched me in the sheathe and I went dangling away shooting a load of over stimulation on her while she laughed rolling off the table exhausted while I swung back to the table knocking my cock on the wood of it feeling the film of both our lubricants. As it hit the side then slid up the edge and rolled back down while I swung away, she walked over to the wall where the ropes where tied and laughed while she sat down against the wall below the knot.
“Was it good for you?” she teased and I just growled back while I weakly squirmed to get away from the knots the ropes were making in my back as my sword sheathe started to sit uncomfortably. “Hell no!” I shouted as I looked back forcing my tail to move with my neck and the collar that didn’t sit in the place it was making me move my tail enough to pop of the pin around its base as I yelped again and dropped my head against the collar exhausted, “I won’t let you down unless you tell me the truth.” She laughed as she flicked the ropes with one finger while I tried to breath against the coking of the tight collar. “Fuck off.” I said as she put her paw over her muzzle and laughed making the braids on her chest bounce as she breathed hard and chuckled. “Ok.” she said teasing me.
I still had a little swing to me and I still had a hard on going and I felt so humiliated I wasn’t going to give her the final pleasure of giving into her even if she left me there. “Well I still owe you one,” she said as she pushed up running the back of her glove over her fucked hole, “More,” she said in a moan as she came one more time, “Lash..”
I turned away gritting my teeth looking around wondering if it was even possible to get out of the veined tangle of ropes I was in as she picked up her thin flexing whip and walked over to me, “DO IT! Go on I don’t give a shit anymore.” I said as she reared it back and swiped under me slapping it a crossed my dick making me scream out at the top of my lungs closed by shrill panting yelps as I felt like she snapped my prick in half, “Ten.” She said as she laughed strutting back over to the ropes on the wall grabbing the knot on the wall and giving it a tug untying it and her paw grasped around it was the only thing keeping me up. “Well did you have fun?” she asked and I looked over to her with so much pain in my face trying not to cry again with tears, “No.” I said as she stuck out her tongue letting go of the ropes in a sneer letting me fall to the floor as the knots loosened enough for me to move my arms to a position beside me.
The only really bad thing was I landed on my dick and it went right back into my sheathe painfully feeling like I stubbed it. I hissed and found the energy past all of the remains of the burning swats to cradle it like I was kicked in the balls and grunted and rolled in the puddle of evaporating semen and female cum till Vulpi walked over to me and stood over me, “You are just no fun anymore.” making me laugh up to her like I was at one point. Rolling over weakly looking at her with one open eye changing into a cackle losing my breath till it didn’t make a sound; I watched her as she stormed to the door. She seemed to have that all planned out as if it was something I would have enjoyed and not doing so made her very angry and hurt in her own demented way. “I’ve had a better time jacking off you slut!” I shouted as loud as I could over the horse airless voice I had laughing as she cringed from it and walked to the door making me roll to my side as she slammed the door and almost cried.
With my paw still to my crotch I felt the cord of the vibrator still around my cock but detached from the can thing that was the rest of the unit and I tried to pull it out but it created a cutting sensation around my dick. I had to pull it all the way out, now being limp again and take the ring off looking at it seeing it was as covered as the floor I was on. I still had the ropes around me so I struggled to get them off while I ripped and pulled at the collar around my neck getting it off and the spreader between my legs, “Damn it.” I grunted as I felt fur come off with some of the ropes as I sat up and threw them across the room, “God I’m going to feel this later.” I hissed as I rubbed everywhere to get rid of the burning pain from Vulpi’s whips. ‘Real master there,’ I laughed in my head as I leaned against the wall while the lights went lower in the room, ‘gets upset when people don’t have a good time’ I laughed smiling while Leo hummed from a crossed the room where Vulpi tossed him.
“Oh god,” I grunted as I leaned forward and struggled tiredly to my feet, “I’m sorry you had to see all of that old friend.” I said as walked over to him and lifted him tiredly and brought him to my back and put him away. “I’m sorry I had to see all that.” I said as I fell forward bashing my head into the wall not caring about the lump but sliding down to the floor onto my Digivice and cards she didn’t take off over the coarse of that little event.
“I’m going to kill her.” I tiredly muffled out as I slipped off into a sleepy state and quietly dozed off humiliated and exhausted, ‘I’m really going to kill her.’ I said as the vision of Renamon and I standing on the knoll somewhere watching the sunset ran thru my head calming me down then playing again till I was calm enough to think…
Intervention
I sat against the wall not believing I had a part in that, shuddering weakly as my sides ached along with my ass, arms, and my pecker for the forceful bondage nightmare come true. I think that if I had anything left in my stomach it would have been on the floor while she raped me for the second time. There was something else bothering me the entire time though in the corner of my mind screaming from my memory that I didn’t understand. ‘Kitsune?’ I though, ‘Where have I heard that before?’ I thought hearing the word before, as a name greeted in my head by a smiling face shocking me from my exhausted sleep.
“Kitsune? That was her name?” I said as I pushed off the wall in the dark room. “My mom. Her name was Kitsune!” I said sitting up rolling the cheeks of my ass over the swat Vulpi gave me making me hiss in pain as I quickly stood up rubbing the line that divided the hemispheres of my ass into fourths while I grunted again at the thought of Vulpi, “I’m going to kill that bitch.” I hissed as I danced in the burning pain to the door I could see plainly in the darkness of Vulpi’s dungeon. I ran my paw over the face of the metal door and searched for a knob in the dark thinking I saw one when I walked over but looking down to where it should have been all I saw was a panel. I was still trapped but I wasn’t going to give up, thinking like I was still in the real world the thin metal door should have collapsed when I punched it with all my strength, but instead all it did was clang against my knuckles and make me rear back my paw shacking it as I felt like I broke it, “Damn it!” I shouted as I took a step back into the closed in room smelling the events that took place there, wanting to get away from the smell so the memory of it would stop playing in my head.
I looked up seeing there were vents in the ceiling that let the scents waft out which made me feel a little better. I felt my paws warm to the point of flames but only smoking as I shook in pain from pounding the door. The trail of smoke from my paw blew past my face making me sneeze as I breathed it in. “Stupid piece of shit.” I cursed at the door looking at it again and growling at it. I sighed as I stepped away looking back at it wondering what it was made of to take a hit like that, then looking around to the rest of the room wondering if there was anything I could use to either pry it open or beat it down but not seeing anything but an array of sex toys I’m glad she didn’t use on me; all of them to small or just plain disgusting to be of any help. As a man in general I think I had a phobia with dildos and I’m sure it would have been very impressive to jimmy a door with one but I wasn’t going to do it. I felt my stomach turn at the thought of it; trying not to picture it even thought the image appeared in my head.
Leo hummed for the first time since Vulpi came up behind me and I turned my head to look at him, “Doesn’t seem like there’s any way out of here Leo.” I grunted as I looked up to the small vents in the ceiling that didn’t fit in with the gothic atmosphere or the sexual torture chamber, grunting thinking I shouldn’t even think about an escape then. The Calvary would be coming soon and I was sure of it, but there where two megas outside at least and I don’t think even Zero, Taomon, or Impmon's Digivolve could handle them. If I was going to get out of there I had to do it before they risked a rescue. I should have had them come along with me from the start then the Dark Masters might not have let Vulpi do that to me. I grunted realizing I came back around to Vulpi again as I tried to push the sex dream she had for me out of my head shuddering with each step to the back of the fairly large and appropriately decorated room. “How am I going to make it out of this one?” I asked myself as I stepped up to a wall that was covered in various sized and colored whips looking gruesome in their leather designs. Leo hummed again and I could tell he was trying to bring a little humor to the situation by saying something I couldn’t really understand but in the translated tone meant something around the point to “At least you weren’t stuck under an elevator for a few weeks.” and I chuckled as I pictured my escape from Heto’s bunker.
There was no way I was going to make my way out of this situation the same way so I sat against the wall knocking over a few whips on the wall that weren’t really placed to well. ‘Kitsune,’ I thought going over my memories getting confused as I remembered both of my lives at the same time, ‘My Digi-mom was Kitsune but my real mom was Tenko.’ I thought as I ran my paw over my muzzle thinking at a few things that had other meanings in the names, legends I read into things like that. Kitsune was an old Japanese lore about magical foxes who had special powers, Digimon like I guess, but could take on human form to a point or completely which really applied to me. My human mother is what started to bother me though; her name was Tenko which translated out to: a celestial fox that reached 1000 years of age, really good or really evil in the lore I read up on. She seemed to be a bright person and never did anything wrong.
What was troubling me was the fact if it was just coincidence or not. Both my human and Digimon mothers had the same temperament, very gentle if need be or extremely ruthless at the same time. So controlled and sad most of the time but always when I asked what was bothering her/them she’d smile over to me warmly and say “nothing my son.” Which felt very weird moving my train of thought to the vision I had, the voice I heard said “My son.” too in between the voices of my human mother and my Digimon. I think that their voices are sounds I’ll never forget and I knew them and what they’d sound like as they crossed over in tones to one steady graceful tone so soothing and gentle you could never mistake it. I shuddered again feeling Leo vibrate on my back and I reached over my shoulder and tapped his grip, “It’s not that Leo.” I said as I looked up to the door with my paw on the hilt of his blade, “Gotta get out of here.” I sighed while I put my mind back to work, “What to use?” I mumbled as Leo hummed on my back.
I felt him and felt stupid for not thinking of him in the first place. “I have an idea Leo.” I said trying not to laugh as I walked over to the door still briefly running over my mothers name and voices. “But it’s going to suck for you.” I said as I pulled him from the sheathe on my back making a slight light as a single spark shot from the metal of the sheathe. Leo hummed in my hand in something that would work around to “What are you doing?” and I laughed as I stepped into swinging distance of the door holding him in a judo stance, “lock pick or battering ram Leo?” I asked as he sighed making me feel him shrug going with my better judgment, thinking about what would be less painful for him. “Lock pick.” I said quietly as I thrust him straight at the latch of the door slamming into the rocks of the wall and sliding between the frame and metal door pushing in as hard as I could hoping to find and sever the latch holding it in place but I quickly found I missed it and Leo’s blade shot into the hall.
This corner of the stronghold seemed to be Vulpi’s and no one else’s, so I was sure no one saw him sticking out. I still pulled him back in until almost the tip of his blade would be used to pry the door open. I forced him up the frame not feeling any resistance going up from where a latch would be. Grunting before I cut down as hard as I could, examining the movement for any resistance but coming up with none. As I pulled Leo from the ground I placed his blade back between the door and gave him a little push thinking somehow I had cut the latch without knowing it, finding out I was far from it.
I pushed on Leo for an hour, not moving the door an inch thinking that no matter what it was made of it had to bend at some stress, even if it was tempered it should have caved in with all the force I put against it. Well pushing as much as I did my paws where red and close to blistering, warm from the effort and no anger. I did lose my temper with it, punching it again. Seeing how absolutely useless it was pulling Leo away with my aching paws while I slid down the wall in a very unhappy face to say the least. I don’t know how long I slept really, I was too lost in thought and anger to remember and I had spent at least an hour and a half on the door. It was possibly the next day, and if my friends weren’t to far behind I expected a show some time soon.
I looked up to the ceiling seeing the metal looking vents thinking about what they would be made of, and if they where anything like the door. Sighing lightly as I put Leo away while he hummed at how much help he thought he wasn’t and I jumped to the ceiling and hung and tugged from the thinner but just as strong vents. The vents were going nowhere just like the door wasn’t. I think I may have bent the vents but that was all I did even after I put as much effort into them as I did the door. I gave a frustrated human growl and swung from my upside down squat and dropped back to the door looking around at the room wondering how I was tied up when Vulpi shoved me in. It was like someone with a whip skillfully snapped at me tying the slipknots around me. It was so fast that it could have been a machine. If I say it’s fast that means it’s faster than human eyes can pick up. I barely saw it and not just because it was dark.
I slapped myself a little hard and gave another human growl at bringing back up Vulpi and almost tripped over the table she used also, well you know. I was angry at her but I was trying to stay calm so I could either think of a way out or keep myself from going insane. I was still committed to Starlight, both of them. One of the only real bad things about it was explaining it. It was embarrassing to even think I couldn’t stop someone from doing that do me, but lull and behold Vulpi did it twice. I sighed as I put my paw against the top of the table coming down hard then slowing it down before I broke it in the moment of rage.
I know from that point on all I did was rethink a few dead end options for a few hours getting more angry at Vulpi every minuet but staying calm enough to sit down and stew over her for the hours alone. “I wonder how long she intends to leave me in here?” I asked out loud and Leo answered in a simple sigh that meant nothing but the sound. After I asked myself those questions I figured Vulpi would come back for me when she wanted “Something” thinking about that I knew the Masters had the entire meeting planed out from the beginning. They never intended to let me leave, if they couldn’t have me then they thought Vulpi could, and logic would seem that after Vulpi had me enough I would be one of theirs again. Vulpi’s servant that time around. I laughed at the idea wondering if that is what they had in for me. It would have been the smart thing to do in the Masters position but they seemed really weird, like no one I’d ever meet good or evil.
In my human circle of friends I knew a few people who did some powerful drugs that really screwed with their head that made the person who used it really out of it. My druggy friends didn’t laugh as much as the Masters did, it was like they were insane. They were but that was my train of thought for a while.
“That’s why you have to fight them.” a voice said making me look up slightly not hearing it, in the dark of the room I searched around for the voice and it called again like background noise, “Come here.” It said; it was almost distant garbled and distorted to the point that I couldn’t tell if it was a male or a female voice but it came from across the room. Listening for it again, “It’s ok, I won’t hurt you.” the voice laughed slightly to try to ease me from my shock, “Its not me who should be worried, who are you?” I said as I stood up and put my paw back to Leo, “You never used to talk to me like that.” The voice laughed again becoming clearer towards the end of the friendly chuckle. “Come on I’ll tell you over here.” The voice called as I cocked my head to the side detecting a hint of something in the voice I couldn’t place. I don’t know why I went over to the distanced origin; I think under the circumstances I would have been a little more wary of a strange voice calling me in a dark room. Could have been Vulpi for all I knew, there wasn’t a childish tone to the voice to it so that dismissed that theory that I thought of as I looked around pacing over to the voice. “Nothing funny ok?” I said as I looked to the door seeing a shadow cross the thin band of light under it while I went to the sound of the voice.
“Hurry.” The voice said as something came from the wall and pulled me threw it as I started to hear the door open with a sudden shift in the room behind me. Going threw the wall wasn’t like breaking stones; I just went thru it as if it wasn’t there but I could see it until it disappeared. I came to a large open room, completely dark except for a small cone of light that came from FAR above in what seemed like the center of the place a hundred yards away. “Come on over here silly.” The voice laughed from a figure sitting inside the cone of light now even past the echo I could make out the voice. “I missed you Ryoku.” The voice from my vision said, “Sit down.” She said as I came close enough to see a Renamon sitting cross-legged on the ground. My ears shot straight back as I looked on, I watched her die just after I digivolved to Ryokumon, she said it was age but the fact is she was dead.
“It’s only me Ryoku.” She said as she tapped outside the light, past the feeling of shock there was something else weird that she pointed out, “Come on, all of you sit down.” I looked from side to side without moving my head then turned my head to come face to face with myself; then I swung around to see two more of me. I looked down at me seeing I was human warring Leo and naked. Beside me was my Digimon form and behind my Digimon form was my Digimon form again. I swung around thinking it was like a trick mirror or something and saw another me as human naked. I stuttered out for a few seconds with the rest of me while the me of me in my Digimon form and my human me where starting to look extremely pissed. “Calm down and I’ll explain.” My mother smiled as she put her paws out and I shot back to her while she said it. “Ryoku sit down.” She said flatly after we all stood tragically confused for a moment.
I stuttered out a few words while my digimon form made the same gestures as I did coming around to the same thing I was thinking. My mom pointed to the ground and I quickly sat with my Digimon form while the two of me behind almost socked each other until they realized that they where going to find out what happened. “That’s better.” She smiled as I leaned forward expecting Leo to say something. “You are all the same person,” she started as I looked over at the little pow-wow in session in absolute disbelief of what was going on, “You are all representations of what every soul has.” I looked around seeing the expressions on every face wondering what she was talking about getting more confused while she continued. “Good and evil both have their goods and evils. The four of you represent these frames of mind and body. Here you can see this.” She said as my other human form asked rudely interrupting, “Where is here?” and she sneered at “Me” till “I” shut up.
“Between life and death.” She said making me fall backwards, “You are still alive though, there is nowhere for you to go in this realm between dimensions. I brought you here to talk to you.” there was a short intermission of grumbling shady uh-huh’s rolling around myself included feeling absolutely lost. “How’d we…I get like this?” I popped up between the pause, “Here your souls are separate unless you are balanced in mind. In the digital world your thoughts were so off balance you spiritually reverted to these forms.” I nodded gaining some sense to it and rolled my head over to my Digimon form holding the same expression in muzzle equivalent, “You are all the same person like I said.” She said and I looked to her wondering what she meant seeing myself as a Digimon and a human twice including the me I’m specking from.
“How’s that possible?” my not so friendly Digimon form asked while she looked to his degree of the cone of light and laughed, “You were Digimon from birth and human, Kitsune birthed from Kitsune.” She stopped short of something bigger letting the point slide as if I didn’t need to hear it then, “I don’t understand.” my adjacent Digimon body asked while I turned to my mother in the same question. “I am Tenko Kitsune, both Tenko your human mother and Kitsune your Digimon. I am a messenger of the gods in higher dimensions, who by prophecy knew you to be born. So instead of keeping you in one body they separated you into your Digimon and human halves, even gods make mistakes and in that separated you into sides of light and darkness. As Ryoku and Nogitsune.” I grunted as I looked at her, “Nogitsune was what you where as a human, a prankster. You weren’t evil in pure sense but drawn close enough to that line to take the name.” She said looking to me making me feel vile as she said it, that made sense with the kind of life I lived, I was hell on earth for those who knew me.
“Don’t dwell on it my son, it wasn’t your fault.” She said as she looked to me, then at all of us as I know we all recalled the same moments, “What should be dwelled on is the problem at hand. She is coming back and soon your allies will arrive. The gods wish to ask you a question before they will help, that may decide the battle ahead.”
As I looked down I closed my eyes and a strange feeling came over me and when I opened my eyes I saw my muzzle and could feel the array of emotions from each part of my soul that I went thru in the moments she was there. All of me was feeling regret then and I think that similarity of thought brought me together. I didn’t worry about it though; I had more important things to think about. “What then?” I asked seriously as she smiled to me closing her eyes and opening them as my mother naked in human form slightly startling me from the change, “Kitsune were created,” she started and I looked at her not realizing what or who she meant, “Me?” I asked and she shook her head. “No, the one you would call Marena, and the female known as Vulpi” She said looking flatly serious as her eyes gave the animal tone of a yellow in something I had never seen in her before.
“How?” I asked thinking about what had happened to her, “In the real world Digimon are not supposed to be able to Digivolve to Mega yet Marena did. Spiritual observers tracked her thoughts then to find out two things you might find interesting.” She said as she watched me lean forward for the answer. “One is that even in the moment when she was supposed to be defeated she had no thoughts of her self in both beings she thought about you. Your love for her is that much from her as well and she used that to digivolve past physical limitations placed in that reality. This brought about the problem of body sharing.” She said as I smiled at the seemingly hopeless thought. “And the second interesting point?” I asked while she paused, “After so long souls in one body come together in the same sense as you and I, she was a Kitsune as her mind reflected her change. She may not be a true Kitsune but she is a spiritual being now. The device she used to aid her digimon half tainted her abilities but she is still Kitsune.” She said as she looked at me and put the question out for me, “They are one in the sense of spirituality separated equally into neutral halves as you should have been, the only down fall to this separation is death. The body in either dimension cannot survive on the essence of half the spirit. I was divided with you so I could train you,” she said coming short of the point she was avoiding, “and my death is the result of the separated soles.”
She shook her head as if she could read my thoughts, “It wasn’t age or ailment Ryoku, I lied to you for your own protection. I thought I could last until you rejoined but my essence faded and I returned to the gods. In Marena’s case she will live out a normal human life but her Digimon body with a longer span will be cut to the same restricting life span, this is the question my son. Will you save them from the death, you will live on for at least 900 years where they won’t reach a century.” I turned my head away from her at it knowing it was a fact, every thing I read, heard, knew in the back of my mind. She was telling the truth, “this is the option the gods have given you. Bring them back together as the Kitsune they were or leave them separate. This ascension also comes with a price my son. Kitsune have no true champion form, and the principals of your devices and cards work from the ladder of evolutions Digimon have, until we have found a way around this to help you she is damned to her weaker form in the rookie stage.” I squinted at that and looked from the corner of my eye while I swished my tail around to my lap using it as a rest while I leaned forward to ask her, “I’ve always been stronger than normal though?” I said making the fact seem like a question, “She will have that strength as well but binded to the physical rules and differences of the Kitsune to the normal creatures of both the real and digital world, your bodies may have the forms but they will be lost to you. You have succeeded this long because you are sure of the strength you have and this strength also has caused you problems in the case of your Dark double.” She said as I realized what she meant, “Vulpi.” I said as she nodded, “She is the embodiment of the evil you have as well as the added strength of not only corruption but Kitsune ability. She is stronger.” She said making me shudder and grunt as I knew it was true. “She is not important my son it is the choice the divine have given you. What do you say?” she asked as I closed my eyes and tossed up the answers. Marena or Starlight’s, they would both still be my loves but one would be stronger to a restricted point and live on with me but separate they would be strong to their fullest potential and let me walk alone. I didn’t want the second option I didn’t want to even think about it but I had to.
I saw the vision of Marena beside me on the knoll again and I changed there in thought as I wondered what would happen in either instance. In any case she…they were allies in the sense of fighting and combat they were necessities but in love they were everything I needed. In a greedy train of thought they were how I changed between myself but in pure minded thinking they were my loves, I knew the decision wasn’t mine and I flat out wasn’t going to make it for them. “It’s not my decision mother. It’s their choice.” I said as she smiled. “It is your choice my son, only yours. As the messengers of god we can chouse the path of man and Digimon alike by how we present the choice. By presenting you this choice from the gods you can chose the fate of,” she stopped again short of the point again taking it down to a more local level, “Your mate.”
“Then as a Kitsune I give them the choice; I can’t make that choice for them. I know what this is about now. They are coming and as it stands now we don’t have a chance do we? They are going to die and I’m staying in that hell hole with the whore Vulpi aren’t I?” she turned her head like I saw the future and came back to me in a serious expression. “This is a lot bigger than that isn’t it?” I asked while she opened her eyes and gave me the cornered caring expression I saw so many times in my youth, “They give you this now for something I can’t tell you. The fates are watching me here and are letting the powers that be make this into a fair fight. Make the choice so no one has to suffer.” She said while I wondered what she was talking about. “No.” I said straightly crossing my arms. “I can give them the chance some other time but as it stands now I need them as they are, they still have this question in their hands. If anyone takes this in any other way than I just said it, screw you! They are their own persons and I have no right to make that kind of a choice for them!” I said looking off into the darkness until I came back to her while she smiled. “You have done well today my son, you just proved yourself again. You’re ready for what’s in store.” She smiled proudly as she shifted back to her Digimon body. “The gods agree to let you present this to them personally. Now go back to them, time is waiting.” She said, “What about Vulpi?” I asked as I stood up and looked down at her in a serious glare.
“She is only half a Kitsune, and will die as a normal Digimon. As she is her life is tied to you and cannot go further in her evolution without you. She is a Kitsune in the sense of strength and only that, being a copy of your essence as different as it is from a normal Digimon she cannot do anything on her own. Without guidance she is innocent, a child.” My eyes froze on the words and that’s when I truly recognized how she acted, she did seem to be very impressionable and mostly went with my judgments or the masters someone like her or more powerful. She was a child, as innocent in mind and not action as a child. She probably didn’t comprehend what she did and from there I couldn’t blame her. “Don’t lose cause against her, she is just as dangerous now that you have that knowledge as before, she still has superiors and their whims will command the copied abilities she had and may very well destroy you before…” she paused looking down. “Time is waiting and so are the fates, go to your life and your destiny.” She said as I looked back over my shoulder to see the room with my body standing frozen staring at the wall as I slid to it.
“Take care my son, stay safe.” My mother cried as I turned back around seeing her fade away standing in the cone of light as a white Renamon with nine shimmering tails while I moved away closer to the flow of time, “Wait! What do you mean destiny?” I said as I tried to step but couldn’t move my feet as my body started to settle back into the position I was standing in, “WAIT! MOM WAIT!!” I shouted as my face started to fix back into position while I fought tears, “I’ll be back Ryoku don’t worry. I have always been here to guide you and I’ll never leave you. Now go my son. They’re waiting…” she said as she disappeared like a wisp of holy smoke and time took its hold and the door came open and I leaned for the wall hoping to pass back thru it to get back there.
“NOOO!!” I shouted as the ropes snapped around me and brought me back into position and I slid on my toes back to the spot in the room while Vulpi walked in as I struggled to get back to the wall till I fell back, “Let me go! Let me go!!” I shouted as I pulled on the ropes and started to cry, “MOTHER NO!!!” till I fell back down while Vulpi stood at the door looking at me in the most lost aired out gaze I could have seen in her red eyes.
Vulpi stood in her sexual dress yet completely out of it from my sobbing onto the floor down my muzzle while I cried for not saying anything to her besides what was important then. She was my mother and I didn’t even tell her I loved her, I didn’t tell her I missed her or even that I cared. It was like losing her all over again and with the facts before me it was going to be a while before I saw her again if at all, I kept screaming out for her and Vulpi was so stunned she walked out of the room and left the door open while I slowly started to fall down into a depression. Lingering on her loss again choking myself against the collar Vulpi’s chamber had around my neck mournfully howling to the wall then just dropping my head not caring about anything untill…
Severed
An explosion rocked up the hall and a gore of the walls filled with fire and dust bellowed up the hall and into the room. I heard thousands of calls as a battle erupted outside the fortress cleared because the walls and ceiling where missing making the roar of the combat that much clearer as thousands of digimon screamed and shouted attacking or falling on an assault against the Masters’ fortress. I didn’t care at first the explosion didn’t even phase me past the shake in the ropes and the swing as my rested head choked against the ropes. “REVOLUTION!!!” called out and another explosion sounded and I looked up from my daze to see swarms of digimon screeching from the outside world up the hall and from the rest of the building in a rush and frenzy as more fireballs energy waves and bullets axes and any other weapon a digimon could use pushed into the building while more fighting went on outside to calls of “PUSH THEM BACK!! HIT THEM!! DESTROY THEM ALL!!” from both sides till from the outside a wall of Gargo and Dark Gargomon stepped up to the level of the door wasting away ammo while one or two fell away into a puff of data as the rest undistracted by the fallen pushed forward as more digimon of both pure and Dark fallowed behind calling out their attacks and strategies to the force moving in while some Digimon looked into see me hanging from the ropes absolutely confused as to what was happening.
None of them did anything for a few minutes till the front line pushed into the building while the sounds of the battle moved into the fortress and lingered outside making what seemed to be a clear path at the time while title calls of Mega attacks and screams blistered outside “RIVER OF POWER!!” and a black tidel wave of energy surged up the hall stopping the fight for a moment while some had the chance to recover and blast away at the digimon defending his masters’ keep while a few digimon came up the hall kicking in doors calling out, “CLEAR!” and moving on to the next untill an Ogremon came up to the door looking wounded and limping saw me paralyzed in shock from it all, “Lord Ryokumon?” he said as he looked back into the hall and shouted, “I FOUND SOMETHING!! SEND THEM IN!!” and turned around. “Ryoku?” he asked making me nod slightly against my collar, “FOUND HIM, CLEAR A PATH!” and a higher roar of the fight clanged and exploded as forces pushed hard at the Dark Masters forces to why I didn’t know but the were there.
The Ogremon ducked in the room and hid behind the door and waited for anything stupid enough besides his side to come in. “The revolution is here to help Lord Ryokumon.” The Ogremon said as a guard walked up the hall with three people I recognized in either a defensive squat to avoid attacks that occasionally flew up the hall or making cover fire as they shuffled to the door revealing the head of the operation was two females I knew all to well. “Ryoku!” Maria shouted as she pushed Wizardmon out of her way and came up to see me further confused, “What’s going on?” I shouted over the sounds of the battle, “Resistance movement, Wizardmon commanded the army to attack so we could free you! Let’s get you down from here!” she shouted as another attack was called from the Mega outside, “RIVER OF POWER!!” and another black wave of energy was blocked by Taomon as she raised a shield in time to let the wake of energy sweep around her shield and harmlessly flow into the fortress while the Digimon guards of two Dark Agumon and two pure Gargomon looking extremely well battled and experienced unloaded into the distance with energy and fire balls making smaller Digimon fall as accurate short bursts destroyed their targets in seconds.
Maria raised my rifle to the main rope and shot it out while Wizardmon caught me and started to peel away the restraints while I yanked at the collar and Maria took the straps of the spreader off so I could move. “When was all this started?” I asked as they moved on to the door where Taomon smiled at me past the concentration to levitate and hold her shield protecting all the Digimon as several attacks bounced off making her tense up as if they where attacking her mind and concentration. “A week after you left! Wizardmon had this attack planned for months!” I shook my head knowing I wasn’t going to get the right answer until it was over and forced myself from the shock to take in the battle and concentrate on getting the hell out of there with what I knew.
“Never mind we need to get out of here!” I shouted as an explosion sent a few Digimon flying back from the main hall from the attack of “TERRA DESTROYER!!” as another attack silenced the forces outside, “WE REALLY NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!!” I screamed over the roar of the battle as the mute of the explosions gave way to more violence. I moved to the door concentrating my energy to my paws how my mother had shown me when I was young and made a smoky shield, when she showed me it was a barrier of lightning but since my Dark energy was controlling my attacks smoke was what I got, “Lets get out of here!” I shouted as the forces tried to overcome anything in their way both sides struggling against either greater numbers or greater strength one slowly losing but in the middle of it all, all it was, was carnage and death.
“Starlight, lets go, every one come on!” I shouted as I pulled Leo from my back pushing out of the shield Taomon made repelling fire balls shooting up the hall taking the impact with the solid transparent shield I had grunting while I forced myself against the strike coming to see a few dark digimon sprinting from rooms in the hall attacking and stopping to do so while I pushed ahead with Leo out. It was a slow process getting up the hall and there were almost too many to fight off with what methods we where using, I was restricted to close quarters fighting with my shield and every time I came in close to strike it seemed like another Digimon would jump out of a room where either one of Wizardmon’s guards would pick him off or Maria would blow their heads off shattering them into data that clung to the wall like smoke until it passed the missing ceiling high above to digital world night and stars.
More explosions rocked the strong hold and the battle was slowly churning down to its final stages and then it seemed like it was the attackers that were losing as more of the Masters rookie and champion minions stated to block our escape as we pushed outside. Making it slowly outside seeing a long line of Digimon hunkered up in a ditch of dirt; attacking over the ridge while seemingly the same thing happened on the other end of a mega and a chain of dark servants. I crouched down holding my weakening shield at an angle as dirt kicked up and fell on top of me while I looked back to signal everyone else to move out while Taomon dropped her shield and started to avoid attacks as she floated closer to the ground to avoid them, then it almost looked like we where in the clear if we could make it past the evac funnel that the Dark Revolution had made I grunted while I tried to hold my shield as the smoke started to trail off leaving my paws with only the energy for physical attacks while I followed Taomon who slowly hovered her way to the batter path of pipes that where cleared as if by bulldozer or like a meteor landed and skidded all the way thru the seemingly miles of pipes. Maria fired into the field making some of the more powerful Digimon drop wounded while some of the other fighters took it on themselves to finish her kill, “Where do you think your going?” a call came as I turned over in my army crawl to see Vulpi standing out of bondage dress behind Wizardmon’s guard as she smashed in the heads of the two Gargomon making them disappear into data while Maria started to turn around as she raised a blue flaming paw in a snicker and called out her new attack, “BERSERK ENERGY” and a blue rock shot from her palm as Maria dodged away to have it hit the butt of the rifle adding another scorch mark to it as it soared away, Vulpi didn’t waste time on watching to see if it hit anything correcting her aim quickly to the remaining Agumon while Maria snapped her aim to Vulpi and fired a chain of bullets up her torso making her stumble back and laugh as if they meant nothing. I started to force myself up feeling completely drained in energy reserves seeing Vulpi as a direct threat diving to her while Maria tried to find the concentration to push her back with the weapon against the sweltering heat the scorch made on the butt of the weapon.
Diving to her Taomon rolled over bringing back up a directional shield blocking attacks from the side chanting loudly as she used her covered robed arms to paint a symbol in the air while I rushed screaming at Vulpi while she looked to Maria for easy prey. “I’LL KILL YOU!!” I shouted horse and going for action of death as she shifted her paw to me and a wall of blue flames erupted as Taomon competed her chant as I raised my arm to block it using my arm and a brace while I pounced to her in a deep growl till I started to see paw threw the blue tint of the attack coming from an under swing to her arm bashing Leo into her elbow making her arm aim skyward while the flames continued and she stood stunned for coming thru unshaved as the symbol Taomon used to protect me stayed at my arm as I pushed further in to her bringing my elbow up and using the force of my pounce to slam against her face knocking her to the ground while Maria found the shoulder to fire on as I cleared her making her soar threw the air with the bullets slamming into her and flipping her in the air with the collision of my arm to her head.
I hit the ground feeling drained from it while Taomon chanted and cringed as attacks hit her from either side making her toss around as she tried to protect me with her spell, “Get back to the pipes Starlight!” I shouted as Maria shook her head, “Out of range!” and I cringed, “Taomon forget about me!” I said as Vulpi touched ground and used it to her advantage flipping over in a short seconds laugh and pushing off the floor and thrusting to me with a fisted paw forward slamming me into the stone wall making rocks fall as I found myself in a room covered in debris looking up seeing a patch of sky threw the gray scale vision I had from the G rush till I came back to sense and vision to the right sky seeing the real world half in view and hearing the scream of Wizardmon as Vulpi laughed making me force against the weight of the wall pushing the large easily ton of wall off me while Vulpi looked over to me while I dripped in anger still holding Leo in my paw while I felt my paws smoking but my eyes where still clear of the blood shade while I remembered what my mother said, “She is a child…” and I felt then that it was time to give a spanking to that brat, “VULPI!” I shouted as she dropped Wizardmon short of ripping an arm off while I started to smother the shattered room I was in with smoke bellowing from my paws like a chemical fire. Much more full than any other time I had raged myself over anything while I looked at her forcing Maria to save her head as Vulpi pushed down on the Rifle to her throat while she looked at me, “BAD Vulpi!” I shouted and she cringed at it. “That’s enough, you want some one try me.” I said lowly as I brought a smoke covered Leo up to grip while her nervous cringed turned to a smile, “Ok Ryokumon lets play!” she said as she stood straight off of Maria letting her rest as she looked at me while I growled forcing a flood of energy I had from my anger around Leo to a stable black shifting casing razor fine to another weapon as I remembered what my mother showed me with my ability, Leo seemed more bulky but the flood made me stronger and faster and Leo’s weight didn’t change only the Dark energy I used to surround him.
I screamed curling up my muzzle and shaking the ground as my anger at her for harming anything soared to a place I was sure to be more than she could handle and she laughed while Maria crawled away from her knowing my attack could easily tear her apart with counter flow of energy. I was faster and the moment slowed down and I watched Vulpi’s movements for a split second between the stutter of her laugh seeing an instant I’d wait for to move while my feet felt glued to the ground as I started my lunge passing threw rocks of the walls crushing them with the speed I put up coming closer to Vulpi while she made the pause in her laugh where her body was relaxed and in the instant I saw her face turn to shock as my shrill scream danced threw the ripped corridors and I struck in an explosion of the smoke while Leo sang as I came a crossed her chest feeling resistance while I completed the stroke standing behind her feeling a fine line of pain a crossed my stomach looking back to see her standing in almost the same position with one blue flaming paw to her side while she tried to stay standing as the black line of smoke blew away from the path of the cut seemingly threw her till it faded only showing a line of fur missing at a rounded ineffective cut.
It looked like it hurt because she wavered and brought one paw to her chest and almost fell over while I looked down to the growing pain on my stomach to see three blue lines of charred fur while I smoked and fell forward as I watched flesh smoke feeling just as drained before that final charge at her. Vulpi turned around in an angry pained expression full over red eyes that quickly went back to her normal blood red tone while she started to snivel and a few tears started to form in her eyes, she was crying from the pain. The cut didn’t make enough success to destroy her but it did destabilize her around it to extricating pain. She yelped in pain once almost falling over as she held the wound and started crying while I forced myself up, “I’ll do it again Vulpi.” I said as she cringed back, “No I don’t want you too.” she cringed as her ears went back and she stumbled looking for a place to hide as I brushed my paw over the burning fur putting them out in just as much possible more pain as she was while she looked around sobbing trying to find a way out. “You can stop this.” I said as she laid eyes on Maria, “Get us out of here and you won’t have to feel that again.” I said as she cried.
“NO, MASTERS!!” she screamed as she ignited her paw and leaned to Maria flowing over with tears while I watched the movement coming a second to late pushing off as Vulpi screamed out innocently falling onto Maria bringing her paw down on her chest while another burst hit me more powerful than the last and I saw my mother die and I had no control over it, then I saw Maria as Vulpi fell onto her while her paws came closer to her chest and I blew past any limitations in the decimal of time with nothing to say and no action other than to stop her, raising Leo in a stab coming behind Vulpi “NOOOO!!!” bringing him down in the center of her back almost not making any progress till a shine of yellow fur fell away from my burn making her back go gray and the force went straight thru and a snap sounded as the two halves of the cross necklace she wore snapped from her neck up into the air and exploded into a puff of red data where she stopped in place fading from gray back to yellow while her data left from around Leo while she weakly turned around, “Thank you Ryoku…” she said as she vanished from around my blade till I saw Maria in front of me still while Vulpi vanished down to her paws where one still gray paw sat with claws into Maria’s shirt drawing blood as she gazed up blankly gasping from the ground while Vulpi completely dissipated into nothingness.
“OH GOD! STARLIGHT!!” I shouted as I shook Leo in my hand and swung him around to my back and put him away while Maria gasped on the ground, “Ryoku…” she said weakly as blood started to come from her mouth, “Shh keep quit, Taomon!! We need to get her out of here!!” I said as I picked her up and started a crossed the ditch running towards the pipes passing up Taomon while attacks hit me and the MetalSeadramon called out his another attack while I rushed to the safety of the pipes looking down at Maria, “NO, no, no, no, no, no. Don’t leave me. Come on don’t do this to me.” I said as I felt the force of the attack hit me and roll around me while I use myself to shield Maria gritting my teeth not feeling the pain as I started to fall forward losing my ability to move “Maria’s hurt COME ON HELP ME!” I shouted as I fell to the ground to a sharp spick of pain that subsided while I held Maria, “Ryoku, I love you…” Maria smiled as she leaned onto my shoulder while I looked back to see Taomon above me while Wizardmon hurried over.
“I can help you but I don’t know about her,” he said as I forced my paw from around her to his collar, “You better not let her die, or so help me.” I started to sob and he squirmed to get away, “I’ll do what I can but we need to get out of here before the line collapses.” He said as I tried to stand looking down still crying as Maria’s eyes started to flutter, “Oh no.” I wailed weakly she was going into shock and as I stood to move her head dropped back while I looked up the mile or so of pipes, “There is no time she’s going to die if you don’t do something now!!” I said showing Wizardmon her soaked shirt and he shook his head, “If I do it here we all are data! MOVE!” he started to shout and my eyes boiled over red and I grabbed him by the collar and lowly said as I gritted my teeth in tears, “I lost my mother twice and I’m not losing her, now or die coward.” I said as he nodded in a gasp understanding how serious I was.
“Fine put her down,” he said as I set him down with her while she lost her grip on my rifle and it fell away as her hand started to tense into talons while she started to lose color in her face. Wizardmon looked back to the fortress seining the smoldering remains as a Dark WarGreymon started to walk up the main hall stepping on his forces like ants and gasped as he tried as hard as he could to concentrate on what ever ability he had putting his hand together as a circle appeared below him flashing to a cross then back in bright yellow as with came from below him while he pulled together strength putting out his hands as the WarGreymon started to come out side, I growled to the new opponent as guard while Wizardmon called out his spell, “Healing Wind!” and it echoed making Maria gasp as tendrils of blood she lost in drops over the path from where she fell came back to her as she arched forward in the yellow light of the spell, “Guard me or we’re all data! If I get distracted further than saying this the spell will blow like shrapnel deleting us all!!” He said as Mara started to levitate while Taomon looked over to me while I growled as the gigantic digimon stood over us. “If this doesn’t work you have to digivolve!” I shouted coming back to clear eyes now that Starlight was getting help and the towering digimon stopped as he kicked away digimon from the defensive line.
“Pay…” it gasped in the mindless tone of the emerged digimon, “I don’t think we can take this.” Taomon said as she brought her robed arms up while her head covering flapped in the breeze of the magic Wizardmon used. “ Trust me Starlight!” I shouted over a blast of wind as the WarGreymon lifted his arms to attack with a Terra Destroyer not getting the chance before I dashed with everything I had left to him coming to his feet and jumping up pulling Leo from my back as I came up his chest while he started to look down almost shifting to me till Taomon called out and threw something that hit him in the head how ever unfatal shouting out “FOX SPELL PAPER!!” paralyzing him in place so his shoulder couldn’t bash me away while I went for a space between his neck and helmet jamming Leo between it and screaming as I put all the pain I gathered into the stroke making and explosion of red blast me to the ground and shatter his helmet making him fall away as part of his face was burned and visible while I slammed into the ground. Chunks of his helmet hit the ground turning the gold color they should have been and vanished into data while the large Digimon fell back unconscious while the hole in the line made space for the MetalSeadramon to come threw as the next challenge looking down at me while Taomon tried her spell paper again. When the Greymon hit the ground a shockwave shook every thing while the MetalSeadramon glanced from its dead eyes to the attacking digimon who threw every thing they had at it making it wince and call out a different attack while I tried to pry myself from my crater, “SERPENTS TAIL!” and its large tail swung over me if not destroying Digimon with the quick impact then with the shimmering trail of energy behind it as it snapped and popped above my head.
“Ryoku!” a voice called from far off in a New York accent fallowed by the shout of “DOUBLE IMPACT!!” as the sound of a shotgun went off twice fallowed by the MetalSeadramon cringing back from the small injuries as well as the others that covered his body. “Hunter! We are here!” Zero shouted while Bit used what cards he had and weapon as Zero used his weapon to distract while Taomon pulled my wrecked body from the ground and back away. I couldn’t move on my own and I looked on helplessly as they fought for me, “Noo.” I whined coughing as the levitation let me sag down almost dropping Leo as his blade shuttered weakly and the black spot on him grew slightly as I nearly passed out while the MetalSeadramon regained himself from the puffs of the implosions a crossed his face. That mega was strong enough to attack even as Bit put a bullet in his eye while the MetalSeadramon brought his tail up and slapped Taomon to the ground dropping us both painfully; making Bit, Zero, and who I gathered to be Impmon later, to attack. “Energy Boost Activate!” Bit called out as he stood over me aiming carefully with the pistol firing three rounds to the head of the digimon hitting the other eye while a large leather bound digimon stepped in front of me and called out “DOUBLE IMPACT” and a shockwave of energy ripped the dust from the ground as a flash happened in front of him from the cannon blow of his weapon. “Cards.” I said weakly as Bit looked down to me clumsily moving around as I grabbed his arm and came back to my Digivice with my paw seeing just how bad I was as cuts and wounds stretched over my arms mixing in dirt with blood and unstable wounds as Bit understood what I meant. “Taomon, help Taomon! Cards, Maria’s cards.” I said as Bit stopped short of my card pouch.
“You need it more Ryoku.” Bit said as he looked back “Hold him there Beelzemon!” Bit shouted as the Large Digimon looked back over his shoulder and threw the lining of his jacket to laugh “You got it!” as he flipped his weapons to his leg and his back to their holsters and as quick as he could dashed for the Digimon where it slapped him down with his tail a few feet away lifting it from the ground to see him still hanging on for dear life. “Taomon my Starlight!” I moaned as I tried to sit up where Bit put his hand to my chest making me yelp out in pain while I watched him come back up bloody. “Don’t move and I’ll get you a card.” He said as he popped open my pouch and I brought over my paw holding his arm and spoke as clear as I could, “Taomon first Me second, got it.” I started to laugh as he looked into my eyes scared, “Kid?” I said as he nodded and looked back at Wizardmon as Maria started to fall back to the ground. “It’s not working!” Wizardmon shouted as I brought my paw down to the pouch coming back up with my green card, “She’s not going to make it!” Wizardmon shouted sadly as he rushed over to me looking down at me then back up to the fortress and then behind him. “I’m sorry Ryoku I can’t stay here.” He said as I looked up and smiled “Go, I’ll be ok.” I said as my paw fell back down to my chest while I searched for my Digivice almost blind from fallen dirt on my face.
“Hunter!” Zero shouted as he came up and stood in front of me firing his silent invisible blasts at the Digimon trying not to hit Beelzemon in the process Till Bit started sobbing as a light came from beside me and Taomon shot up with her wand gasping for air. “Digivolve!” I shouted as she looked over to me speaking, inches from death as I watched the MetalSeadramon rear back his tail like a javelin and throw Beelzemon as I found the card reader on my Digivice while another light came from beside me. I slid the card threw gasping as I saw myself from above in a shining moment as if out of body seeing Bit arched over where Maria was as Taomon started to glow and the tail of the MetalSeadramon shot towards Zero and time froze while I looked down at myself gasping upward as the card shined in my gripped paw seeing myself from there I didn’t know what to make of it.
“This isn’t the end my son it’s just the beginning…” my mothers voice called as I looked around and down to myself seeing myself as a ghostly white fox while the form I had seen my mother in hovered near me, “This is the first step Ryoku, and you will find this to be a simpler battle than the one’s you will face. You have given the choice to Marena and they have made it. I hope it was the right one for all our sakes…” she said as I watched her tails flicker into flames or pure white as she spread them apart like a Kyuubimon, “You also have something not even the gods knew about. Use it well…” she said as she gasped out what could have been an attack making her tails come forward launching small flames at me, “Light of eternity!” she gasped in tears and all the pain went away all the fear every thing as I felt myself drift back to my body looking new and refreshed, “The gods have helped you, now carry out your mission.” She said as she faded away again as I reached for her in that instant coming back to the flash in the moment finishing my gasp as the light from my card surrounded me.
So much more was happening than I could comprehend then, too much for any mind to gather at any moment at any time. I was revitalized and for the second time I saw her. There wasn’t time to think from then on, just to act as every thing that happened from defeat to victory. That was a small chance, the slightest intervention. What could I possibly do to make any difference in the worlds that would make the gods assist? Who were these gods? What were they saving me from, saving me for? Too much to comprehend.
“Neo Ryokumon Digivolve to…”
Ultimate Defeat
“Shintaomon!” I gasped as the light of my Digvalution surrounded me while I rose from the ground feeling the light weight of robes hang from me as my form changed and things disappeared and moved around hidden below my fabric vials while I moved vertically above the ground seeing the MetalSeadramon’s tail slam into and threw the heavy plates of Zero’s armor in a gasp of pain and garbled artificial voice while sparks flew and the white tint of my light started to fade as my mind changed from one set of instinct driven abilities to another with languages and spells I could barely understand flowed into mind while I called out the best one for the energy I was blessed with at that time “Light of evolution!” I shouted as I turned around gathering all of the excess energy from my Digvalution swinging it around me completion the rotation throwing the glowing ball of light at the Mega hitting him in the face as bolts spread out like lightning and wrapped around his head making him slam backwards removing his tail to let Zero spark and fall to the ground damaged and broken. “ZERO!” I shouted as he caught him self on his hands short of his face and pushed back up, “We need to go hunter, hunter, hunter.” Zero said in a stutter as his voice repeated like a record.
I turned around seeing Maria and Taomon lift up to each other in a light while what was left of Wizardmon’s spell dissipated while they joined together coming to the form of Sakuyamon, “Bit!” Impmon shouted weakly as he walked from around a corner of shattered pipes in his rookie form battered from head to pointed toe, “I can’t fight no more.” he said as he started to fall forward while I used my new found abilities to help him back to his feet. “You did what you came to do now let’s get out of here!” I shouted as I watched the MetalSeadramon start to recover from my first attack at him. “PAY!!” it gasped as a few sparks flashed from the metal of his face while he growled floating into the air as I saw the WarGreymon start to move from the ground in the same hateful frame of mind.
“Now would be a good time to leave my love.” Sakuyamon said from behind me as I nodded from my almost human like face over the coverings on my shoulders to her while she lowered the staff she held and started to recede from the pipes. There were still a few Digimon left standing from the attack and they started running around the megas while we slowly backed away. “Fall back, FALL BACK!!” I shouted as I lifted my arm calling Leo from the ground where I dropped him as both megas readied for their joined attack. I started chanting closing my eyes as Leo came up to grip flashing in light like my Digivolve changing in my robed hand while I shifted my four fingers up what felt like wood on Leo opening my eyes to swing Leo from side to side shouting, “EARTH WIND FIRE WATER, ELEMENTAL SHIELD!!” as four symbols appeared in front of Leo’s new Flail form making a half dome layering and strengthen as Digimon passed threw the barrier I put up to safety while MetalSeadramon screamed out, “RIVER OF POWER!!!” opening his mouth to the black flood of energy that slammed my shield pushing back on Leo as the steady symbols I made started to flicker over top of each other pushing me back, “Starlight!” I shouted as she came up beside me struggling to hold against the force of water like energy, I closed my eyes and mentally chanted putting more power to my shield while Sakuyamon brought her staff close and let the rings in its staff head spin around as she defended me against them, “Tengu’s Rice!” she shouted as I opened my eyes to use all of the shield as a weapon in defense of myself making the layers of the shield attack with Sakuyamon’s attack forcing a thin strong layer of all fire water earth and wind slamming into the Digimon stunning them as we fell back further, “Run!” I shouted as the attack did little more than make the MetalSeadramon fall away. Zero still damaged started to limp holding Impmon as Bit tried to steady him along losing in his fight against the metal man’s grater weight letting one hand drop from Leo I pulled my mind from my own flight around them and lifted them up carrying them along with me as we soared a crossed the clearing of pipes faster than could be imagined for an ultimate.
The megas where catching up behind us not wasting time with the retreating army as they ran from the pipes into the buildings and further into the digital world city and into the dark of the night as I started to lose focus coming lower to the ground, “I can’t hold them.” I said as I stopped and turned around letting the flying megas coast past as they converged like jet fighters passing me while Sakuyamon used their momentum to push them away while I called down to the wounded, “Hide and we’ll meet up later!” I shouted looking down to Bit as he avoided a spark from Zero’s chest. I looked back wanting to leave the fight with them from an honor code that came with the digvalution but seeing Sakuyamon fighting alone against two megas made me boil below calm respectful states my form had growling as I looked back seeing her slapped a crossed the face by the MetalSeadramon’s tail and then checked to the ground by the WarGreymon set a spark in me and I screamed holding Leo like the sword he was gliding threw the air as my robes turned to tighter garments clinging to my arms and legs in straps while Leo shined again as I shouted, “SHINTO WARRIOR!!” holding Leo as a longer katana with tassels at grips end as I came to the battle between two against one striking down on the MetalSeadramon’s tail cutting a section off of it’s end making it move away as the Greymon tried his hand at me swinging down calling out “TERRA FORCE!” as I dodged to the side moving one of my hands from Leo’s grip into a spell and mystic movements and less than ten seconds calling out and attack aiming for the missing section on his head, “ELEMENTAL FIRE!” I shouted as a cone of fire shot from my palm and crossed into itself hitting and shoving him back while I started to sink slowly to the ground looking down to Sakuyamon who started to regain herself as the next section of the MetalSeadramon’s tail slammed me up my side almost making me drop Leo again in an extremely powerful blow.
Sakuyamon came up in my guard and brought her staff down on his tail leaving a thick mark as a shockwave of energy erupted from it as she grunted with its release as I tried to regain my flight before I slammed into the ground catching myself on sandaled toe to push back up and trim the large serpents tail more from the point slightly beyond Sakuya’s strike to about half the length of it’s body severing the cables that ran to the metal joints apart from flesh showing the instability he had as data that would have been inside his body became exterior form while he fell back in pain. I saw for the first time his cross tucked under on of the flipper or wings small and barely noticeable as I climbed higher into the air looking to Sakuyamon almost saying the location of his power before the WarGreymon swatted me from my ascent making me fall into a building and thru three floors stopping on the first as the wall crumbed before me like Vulpi’s thrash at me while I struggled to stand as the Dark MetalSeadramon’s tail exploded into a shrapnel of data doing more damage to him than Sakuyamon as she blocked it with a directional shield before the severed section could harm her, not seeing the Greymon continuing his swing from an over slap to an upper cut with the large black edged guards he had catching her a crossed the side making her fly into the distance enraging me further shooting out with my arm at length into another spell as both Megas caught sight of me, I didn’t try to avoid them while I moved only concentrating on my spell chanting aloud the verse of it coming to it’s name just before the Dark WarGreymon attacked with Terra Force as my, “ELEMENTAL WIND!” swept around me cushioning Sakuyamon before she slammed into a large metal looking building with force that certainly could have destroyed her.
“WE NEED TO RUN STARLIGHT!!” I shouted as the sweeping metal claw forced me to the ground pinning me there as I fought to get free of the metal claws while the WarGreymon pulled his other armored hand back to finish me as I raised Leo to the call of an attack less powerful than I would have hoped, “SINGING SWORD!!” shattering the middle blade of the extended arm holding me down giving me enough room to slip under his arm and fly up to his stomach and call out another quick spell sending him back losing the weapon embedded in the ground, “ELEMENTAL EARTH!” I shouted as a large chunk of ground moved from below him ripping up to a perfect sphere and slammed into his stomach breaking off the latches and straps holding his arm in his guard leaving it in the ground while I turned to Sakuyamon seeing five more Megas flying in with only minutes between us and them as well as less than that into striking distance.
“NOW STARLIGHT!!! MORE ARE ON THE WAY!!” I shouted as I came back to the ground in a heavy sprint stopping at the alleyway I saw Zero and Bit duck into, turning back to see Sakuyamon dashing along as well holding a ripped section of her armor as she moved along side me. The two Megas we battled where still in fighting shape and stomped up to the buildings behind us while I flipped Leo to my side feeling extra weight as a sword sheath appeared at my side as I put him away sprinting almost a mile ahead of the dark digimon looking up to see Bit waving us down from a building calling us inside as I ducked in breaking the wall with my much bigger size as Sakuyamon followed.
“Not a good place to hide. Bit we need to move fast, come on!” I said as I started to bend down to pick him up. “Wait! It is! Look!” he said as he pointed to a door on the far end of the blank room to a sign that said exit and on the other side was open desert not like the machine plains with city as far as you could see. “Its one of those portals you where talking about! Come on!” he shouted as he jumped from my arms as the thumps of the mega behind us started to get closer and closer mixed with the sounds of concrete shattering under his humongous feet. I looked back to Sakuyamon and we nodded together as she and I both changed to human form and lunged for the door behind Bit as Zero stepped forward from the door and put one arm threw blasting over head as a foot blew threw the wall while we glided in and fell to dust seeing safety as Zero screamed out again as a toe of the giant foot settled in the door ripping his robotic body in half making him spark worse as he separated at the Seadramon’s hole falling to the ground as the door collapsed disappearing with the arm he put threw gasping and sparking in pain but with a smile on.
“ZERO!” I shouted as I bent down over him. “It, see seem ma ma’s it izzzz my ti ti time my lor lor da da.” He repeated in jerks of movements, “there is no...no pain here.” He said holding his voice long enough to speak it, “I will..will beeeeee back, just one...one...one last, up date te...te…” he gasped as his face went clear past a slight smile coming back to speak, “ I may...may die he...he...here, but my my mind liiiiiives on…” he gasped finally closing his mouth in a smile as the sound of machines powering down puffed with data from his head and Zero was all but gone then. I held him there while every one else looked down at me while I tried to keep myself from crying over him.
I cried in sand not on concrete and I cried for a friend not a machine. I cried for a reason, all of it inward as I tried and fought to twist my face into a smile for what he wanted, “To be free…” he once said as I repeated it out loud for everyone to hear. Sitting their with what was left of his physical body in my arms for two hours till Maria’s human body put her hand on my shoulder, “He’s gone Ryoku.” She said as I shook my head, “only here.” I said as I had a sense he was still around somewhere. Zero was someone who you whished you could get rid of that easy and death is never an end, if there’s one thing I learned from Zero as he traveled with me, it’s that he wanted to die honorably and in combat with prey instead of combat against masses. He was the hunter, and I held his title then. If I knew Zero since he lost that body when and if he found another he would return for me so I stood up looking around dropping the metal frame of what I could consider a hero and looked to the open desserts seeing the boarder between the three plains all together and knew where we were.
“Where are you going?” Impmon grunted as he started to fallow me. “Home again.” I said as I started to walk from our escape into the heart of the dessert plains, “What about Zero?” Bit asked as he looked to my nudity from behind. “Leave him.” I said as I continued to walk using the memory of Zero fighting off a tear to go back to my digivolved digimon form of Shintaomon walking with Leo at my side and not my back, “But?” Marena said as I continued on raising my arm to her and waving them to follow, “For all the lives lost, honor without tears.” I said making them follow as my thinner tail swayed behind me as I walked away from out retreat…
Where We Go From Here
“Ryoku?” Bit said as he started to follow as Marena held onto Impmon who groaned from burses all over as well as unstable cuts and such. I looked over my clothed shoulder to see him standing about ten feet below smaller than ever due to my growth spurt in evolution. “Yes?” I said in my wiser sounding new voice. “What the hell are you?” he asked fairly forwardly. I smiled instead of taking it in as an insult, “Shintaomon, Digimon priest.” I smiled as he laughed, “don’t look like a priest to me.” he said as he looked over his shoulder. “This form has a few other modes if you will, priest warrior and guardian. All as Taomon would have. Since I am male my form is different.” I said simply and a little technical for my own good but I just spoke like that, it seemed to quiet Bit down though. “How’s Impmon?” he asked turning back to Marena while I closed my eyes feeling the cross of energy she had as the two united making me smile and shudder at the same time.
“He’ll be fine.” She said in Renamon’s voice making me smile again. “Ryoku?” she said to me, “How did I Digivolve? I was wounded…” she asked and I bit my lip now easier to do it since I had less of a muzzle and looked over my shoulder wondering if that was the time to tell all. I looked back ahead and walked silently as Impmon groaned, “Can we please stop movin’ so much?” making me smile. My heart was still pounding from the fight, the loss, the shock, and I felt like I could carry them all anywhere in the digital world then but my calm mind sensed that rushing around then wasn’t the best idea. I needed to think and past reviling everything spiritual and mystically challenging there were other things. One on top of it all was D. “Do you know how I digivolved?” Marena asked again and I shook my head as I brought my four fingered hand to my face and thought, “No Starlight I can’t say I do,” I lied and paused while I looked around the plains thinking something was wrong past Zero’s vacancy, something that seemed urgent at the time. ‘D?’ I thought as I paces on, ‘What is D? What would get the Devas attention as well as the Dark Hackers, this can’t be good.’ I grunted as Bit looked around saddened with Marena about Zero.
“Do you know about D Marena?” I asked as I turned over my shoulder. She shook her head making Impmon groan louder in her arms and I asked again to Impmon, “How about you Impy?” I asked down as he stopped groaning, “I’m sittin’ here hurt an you wanna know about some stupid D?” he said hoarsely as he leaned forward, “D, yes the Dark Masters were asking about it, past asking me if I wanted to join them again that was the only question they asked me.” I said as I sighed and relaxed drifting back down to Neo Ryokumon feeling Leo move back around with strap to my back as I relaxed enough to de-digivolve, “I know squat.” He grunted as he fell back into Marena’s arms clutching his side. “Stop milking it Impmon…” Bit forced out in a low voic as he walked on with his arms behind his head. “I AIN’T MILKIN IT!” he shouted coming out of Marena’s arms and falling flat on his face. “Good, you can walk on your own.” Marena said in Renamon’s voice again as she stepped around Impmon and past a smirking Bit as Impmon staggered to his feet, “Yeah, yeah dump da little guy dat SAVED YOUR ASS!!” he huffed as he started to walked a little crooked but all the same walking grumbling the entire way as Marena came up to my shoulder and took me by the arm, she still had the holes it her shirt but there didn’t appear to be a scar or even a wound. “I think you know what happened my love.” She said up to me in her human voice and I looked straight ahead and tried not to fold under Renamon’s seduction, “Nope not a clue.” I said as straight as I could. I think she picked up on my lie but didn’t push for an answer past looking down the collar of her shirt at the marks that didn’t exist in her chest. “Not even a scab.” She said out loud as it looked over to see her peering down her own shirt quickly looking away while I, being the pervert I always was, looked down and agreed, “Nothing; interesting…” I smiled as she tapped me a crossed the chest. “You are a pervert,” she teased as she kept her hand in my chest fur not rubbing but holding as we walked on. “You don’t seem to have a mark either, that’s really weird.” She said as she looked to my arms and chest, “I know.” I said simply letting more of my insight slip. She looked at me in her deadly steel cutting glare but with love, if you can believe that. Making me laugh a little and bite my tongue not to speak twisting my muzzle as the pain showed from my sharper teeth almost drawing blood as I bit down.
She tapped me again in a sigh and returned to the subject I set earlier as Impmon came up beside Bit with his arms crossed still grumbling, “What do you know about D?” she asked as I looked over my shoulder again threw my tufts at Impmon who I vaguely heard a comment from to the note of, “Yeah sure I know bout it like I’d tell you ya happy ya-hoo.” Smiling knowing he’d get over himself sooner or later. “Legend of D, came from ground destroy all, light, small chance, ya-da ya-da defeat darkness. That sums it up pretty well.” Saying it in such poor contexts made every one silent for a while all but Impmon who rambled on to him self.
Hours past and the day came along and I knew every one but Marena and I were tired looking back to see the two tamers and digimon sagging back weakly from being outpaced, so I stopped. “Whud ya stop for?” Impmon asked curiously as I looked over to Bit huffing against his own limitations. “Rest for now people we have a long road ahead of us.” Bit, as always, started walking on ahead refusing to stop, “You don’t know the way.” I said up to him and he cringed as he walked another hundred yards stopping in the light of day and turning around. “Who needs rest?” he said slightly angry as he eyed Impmon before he could speak. “You do.” I said making Marena laugh covering her face with her hand so Bit didn’t see.
“Don’t start.” I said holding up my paw as he tried to make an argument, “It’s daylight we can see where we’re going.” He said blowing off my request. “I can see just fine in the dark, I’m sleeping are you?” I said as he growled at me stomping back over to our tattered little group. “I don’t see how you can sleep after all that.” Bit said coming over to Impmon flopping down behind him pouting, “Zero is gone.” He said losing most of the anger in his face coming back to his shock of it, “Dead.” he said as I sat down looking at Maria seeing she wasn’t wearing my rifle strap anymore. Then back to Bit, “He’s not dead Bit. If I know Zero he’ll have some way of cheating death, trust me.” I smiled as I laid down and curled up onto my tail how I had seen Marena do in the real world and Bit fought himself not to ask how but trusting me.
Zero was the least of our worries then, definitely the bottom of a full barrel of crap. Since Vulpi was gone, chances where the masters where going to send an angry horde of megas after us if not me. With how much trouble we had with just two I can only imagine how much we’d have with however many they had. On top of that I didn’t know what I had at the time, what my mother meant by “Something the gods didn’t even know about…” she just finished telling me that I couldn’t Digivolve but looky, looky I did.
Sleeping with the ability to think can be more stressful than it’s worth because all I did was wonder what we were going to do? D seemed to be a big deal but I knew next to nothing about it. Stories are stories, who’s going to believe me if I said it was a Digimon or not, who would tell me if it was or if it wasn’t. Impmon acted like he knew something but he seemed a little more intent on pissing me off than into knowing anything about it. Still, if he knew something it could help us out in some way. I sighed getting away from what I didn’t know while I sensed Renamon next to me curled up in almost the same position thinking to myself that now she’d be with me forever with what my mother told me. She didn’t know what she was though; I wasn’t entirely sure what we were actually.
She needed to know though, but after a battle like that she could wait to hear it, I should have slept more soundly than I did considering all the hits I took but I was really awake and semi-conscious almost the entire day. The light may have had something to do with it but I won’t blame it on that, I had too much energy to burn. For how bright the day was, I’d expect everyone to be in the same boat, by everyone I mean everyone slept till I woke them up. Bit looked fine and unharmed from the battle but he took a few smaller weaker hits from rookies that I hadn’t seen mostly from behind there where some burn marks in his shirt and holes scorched into the back nothing serious besides burns and cuts, he may have wanted to go on but he needed the rest as much as Impmon did. He was almost bad, taking the blunt of every thing; even digivolved the Beelzemon left him with injuries, there were some nasty looking gashes all over him but they were mostly healed over then, knowing Impmon he would be acting strange again in two days tops.
Digimon healing didn’t take as long as humans did and Bit would probably be in the same situation with his wounds it the same period of time, Bit was right though, how could I overlook Zero even if he managed to find a way to pull himself together? I think I was still traumatized from the whole deal then, feeling sorry for just letting his body rust in the open desert. In the digital world you can ask a lot of questions but never understand something. Such as where the hell did that door come from? Damn strange place to leave a door to another plain. Worked in our favor but seemed a little out of place for me. Where did the door go? Simply answering my own question, there wasn’t another side to it, the WarGreymon kicked it in.
There was way too much to think about: masters, megas, Zero, gods, legends, lore’s, mothers, lovers, tamers and me need a longer list? Ok more specific, possibly THOUSANDS of megas would be chasing us down, the Dark Masters human abominations in the digital world would make sure I was dead for sure, Zero was gone and one of my only links to the many spenders of the digital world or the real world and then just gone on top of that and I seemingly didn’t care! Then there was the gods, what the hell did they think I was a pawn or something? I’m alive, I’m independent! What do they want with someone like me? Next my mom-mon, I didn’t really feel used by her end of the scope but that’s what it boiled down to. She told me about all this and as nuts as it sounded all of it seemed true, except for the part about being stuck rookie. I had two champion forms one now lost because I didn’t have the tools for it and next the green card which by then I had figured out to be how I went ultimate. Lot of fat good that did me huh. Lovers being Maria, Marena, and Renamon all now the same person, I can’t tell you how lost I am on her but lets give it a try. Oh boy, what a choice, “If this doesn’t work digivolve…” oh yeah that was a real choice. More like do or die, but in that instance it was what it was. Now they weere as bad off as I should have been. I don’t think that from there I could go the distance to mega from my ultimate and Marena, god it’s so confusing. My ultimate form didn’t have the oomph needed in the battle anyway what was I going to do as Shintaomon that Renamon couldn’t do as Sakuyamon? Boiling it down further Bit and Impmon, you might say “Yeah, what about them?” if you were in my frame of mind but they were there and both seemed to be injured because they came for me as well as all the Digimon that fought at the masters fortress, if they weren’t hurt they where destroyed and I had that on my head with every thing else.
Finally I came to me beating myself up for things I knew nothing about, one being my mother when she said she died for me, two what I was had been withheld from me since the day I was born till recently. I had the chance to live as what I was meant to be and in turn with the rest of my problems. I made my mate and her tamer what I was just by knowing them, is that right to do? I didn’t think it was and I started to feel to stuck up for putting them in the position they where in, I really just wanted to die to tell the truth like that operation failed and I was a casualty but I could move on and regret all I did and what I was left to do. Next is something I’m sure you would never expected to hear, Vulpi. I killed her and she was a child like my mother said, innocent in mind but not in action. She had no one stronger than her to keep her from doing wrong and by hurting her in the battle I forced her into her own death. I killed a child, Vulpi was gone because of poor guidance. Because of me. I opened my eyes feeling more of the death wish from that than anything else.
After knowing I had destroyed Vulpi I didn’t think I could live with it. She treated me like a big brother while she knew me always teasing, but even if she did get her way physically from me I don’t think it was right. It may have been creepy to think that as she was a copy of me and for what she did, but that was as gone as she was then. She was a new person since she was gone and even though she thanked me as she left and I saw her face untainted by the evil of the digital world, she was gone.
Don’t get sick just yet, to top it off I know I was making a saint out of her doing it. Vulpi the Huntress, how can you forgive that? You can’t but you can forgive minds. I didn’t mean to say she was a shining example to the worlds but that’s what I was doing, I felt like I killed the pope or something and it rattled me until nightfall.
I sat with my face on my tail the entire time holding back tears while I moped around everything that was too much of a stress thinking about every thing in as much light and detail finally coming around to the final question of the day.
“Where do we go from here?” I asked myself as Marena opened her eyes to me shining into the night from her human face, “What my love?” she asked as she saw me laying awake on the ground looking out into the dessert plain for an answer, “Where do we go from here?” I repeated thru the fur of my tail looking without moving my head to her as she wondered what I meant. “You said we should go home?” she repeated my direction. I sighed as I pushed up from the ground stretching out while Leo yawned from my movement as I parted my fingers and my toes digging my claws into the ground before I stood up followed by Maria who went thru the same routine in human form and equivalent. “That’s not what I mean. You know the Devas are preparing for D right?” I asked as I looked over the two tamers and digimon sleeping side by side while Bit slept with the most heartbroken face on sad as can be away from anything he would make openly.
She sighed and nodded while I looked out over the desserts wondering if anything else could possibly go wrong from then on. “Yes of course, that was all that was said about them before the Dark Masters came.” She said as she stood there looking over the sands as I strolled over to Bit and nudged him with my clawed foot making him roll over and grunt tiredly and partly dead to the world due to human fatigue. I gave him a slightly harder prod to the hip and he swatted at my foot, “Knock it off Impmon I’m trying to sleep.” He yawned as he curled up into a ball, “Not going to work Bit get up.” I said as he groaned while I looked back to Marena, “The masters know something about D that we don’t.” I said as she slumped over to one side looking off into the dessert sucking back tears, “We shouldn’t worry about that now my love.” She said as I looked down away from Bit and Impmon, “I don’t think I have a choice.” I said as she looked thru me seeing I was hiding something in my posture sighing at my conclusion that D had something to do with everything, the mission my mother mentioned. “All right.” She sighed sadly as she came up to my side and hugged close to me while I prodded Bit again with my foot gaining no response past a grunt.
“We’re going home Bit, we need to start moving if anything is searching for us.” I said thinking that maybe the masters thought we where destroyed. How could we have gotten out of a building if it was kicked in and probably stomped afterwards, we where trapped there allegedly so that would give us more time. Bit sat up and I put my arm around Marena, “Are you my Starlight again?” I asked and she pressed her hand to my chest and sang the song as I started to walk away.
Bit listened for a moment as her voice rolled to digimon as did her form and the more space we put ahead of him the more inclined he was to move. Breaking the verse we only knew was Impmon grumbling back to life from his sleep and both Bit and Impmon followed as Marena and I walked off into the shadows of the night guiding the two by bright yellow coats and a Maria’s U.S. flag T-shirt while the question still remained.
Where do we go from here…
Inter-dimensional
Trudging along slower for Bit and with less rest for him and his stubborn pride we moved across the desert plain for almost a month coming back into view of cities and villages I had seen or destroyed during the coarse of my life or dark campaign or just in my pure travels before I settled down. Looking over some of them but not stopping, seeing no reason to and not wishing to hear anything from Bit on the topic. I can’t say I didn’t miss it, traveling around is what my digimon half loved to do. What was better was that we were going home after a long battle. Nothing like winning against raiders and the mini challenges my lives had before all of this. Marena still hugged to me in digimon form, Bit still followed and Impmon still whined about not being carried when he thought he was to injured enough to walk.
Other than that I kept a clear mind and tried to get over the losses I just went thru to smile at what I was left with. Zero died there for me how he said he intended to, dying there could have possibly been the best thing. I don’t think the kind of damage he had could be repaired by any means other than replacement. A hole is bad enough but he was ripped in two. He left as honorably as I could think of and without him dying there I wouldn’t be able to go against the masters again. I can say I was angry but it wasn’t terminative as it should have been. It would be retribution for Zero more than revenge, and then on top of that Leo. I lost him to their power and I didn’t even know what the second master was. Zero said he served under Devastation before he met me and I wanted to see his face before I made him pay for Zero’s body.
After I cleared my mind of that I made my peace with Vulpi. Defeating her was self-defense as well as protection, she may not have deserved it but she forced me to it. Children, even obedient children, can’t be allowed to thrash about. She had her way most of the time even after I had told her no so many times. I reinforced what she was in part and I made her pay for it as much as I did. Where she hurt me, she ultimately paid and as sad as it was to lose an innocent mind what she did need was to be recognized, she took so many lives and for that she lost hers. Innocent is only innocent when you can never make a mistake and she made many outwardly, never knowing it but when it came into her mind she probably didn’t understand death, she played more than she intended to, hurting, which made her the most truly dangerous digimon of all, more than I was who understood what I did, I was the filthy one and she was the dark angle the Masters had given me. ‘May she rest in peace.’ I thought as I clapped my paws together making Marena look at me and ask “What are you doing” and I smiled to her sadly thinking of Vulpi and the innocent smile she always had, “Honoring the dead.” and they all smiled doing the same.
“Zero wouldn’t want us to cry over him.” Bit said and I looked back at him turning my head as far as I could for his misconception and smiled, “I think you’re right.” I laughed thinking again that he wasn’t truly gone. For what reason I didn’t know but it would come to me, ‘somehow’. After that little jewel of heart it turned into the travels I had at the end of my year of meditation in the wilds of America, conversations in the morning and every other day stopping for Bit to rest, sleeping and thinking about things off track from events I should have concentrated on. Instead of wanting to be with my love I was happy that she was at my side no matter what she looked like or what ever she and I may be. Then I was happy and free, on my way home to find out more about my future.
Bit and Impmon slowly healed from their battle scars and were almost to 100% if not for the thrill of on foot travel watching as the love birds cuddled in front of them the entire way, Bit made the comment on more than one occasion, “If you’re not the head dog in the pack the view never changes…” and Marena and I looked at each other and giggled as we wrapped our tails around each other and walked on further disgusting Bit and his immature loathement of our relationship.
Well in time all good things must come to an end and it wasn’t too soon for Bit, by my direction we were only a days walk away from the Salamon village and it could be seen in the distance, “There it is people, home sweet home.” I smiled as I put my head on to Marena’s shoulder and we both walked on in peace. Bit was happy, yet sick of trying to keep his mouth shut while Impmon walked beside us separate from his tamer holding the same smile he had for me the day I woke up. “So, uh, D eh?” he said finally almost the first positive thing he had said the entire trip looking away slightly embarrassed for some reason. “Yeah I thought you said you didn’t know any thing.” I joked passing over the fact I had heard him rant. “I didn’ remember it den, er..uh. Somen knocked it loose upstairs in dat fight ya know.” he said as he started to talk with his hands. “Well?” Marena said smiling to me coming away from my shoulder.
“I did hea’ some’in a while ago.” He said as he walked backwards swaying his short straight tail behind him while he moved, I gave him a subtle glare and he laughed a little and continued, “Yeah, you two heard of dem keepers a the Darkness?” he said looking from side to side as he said it like someone could possibly be listening in on him. I shook my head lifting it from Marena and we just walked paw in paw as Impmon tried to find words past the duel stare almost burrowing into his skull. “Well um.” he said as he walked backwards for most of the time. “Dem Keepers digi’s watch ova dat D ting, heard it from anudder Digimon a few monts before I met ya.” He didn’t make it sound that direly important so he stopped walking as we passed him up, “what ya think?” he asked as I looked at his coy smile telling me he was hiding something, “I think there’s a little more to the ‘Keepers’ as you put it Impy.” When Bit cleared his space behind us and came up beside Impmon he whacked him on the back of the head as I turned around switching the paw I held for the other as Marena looked at me from the corner of her eye while I felt the urge to press Impmon further.
“Less stopping more walking” Bit stated as his hand bounced off of his Digimon’s shiny head and fell back to his side making the centerpiece of his dirtied cloths rattle at his pants button with the chain of his belt. “Well, ah what else can I say?” Impmon said as he pushed off the urge to curse his tamer. “Where it is first off.” Marena picked up for me without facing him. I laughed a little and Impmon started walking again with out saying word one to his tamer for striking him. “I dun know, how would I know some’in like dat?” he said as he came up beside me and crossed his arms while I started to chuckle at his mood.
“What? I’m serious! STOP LAUGHIN’ AT ME!!” he shouted as I walked on home while he vented behind me, he did get angry enough to throw one fire ball over my shoulder but I laughed at it and he knew if he did it again I would do more than laugh. We walked on slightly into the night going straight for the burrow over looking the quiet little Salamon Village. Quieter than usual but it was to be expected from the night. Not much happened other than raids at night so all was quiet and nothing was said past the good nights as we all found a spot in the wall. I think under normal circumstances I would have drifted right off to sleep with everyone else. Bit and Impmon drifted off on the mat Renamon and I had as a bed, mostly tradition in it I’m not sure where it came from but my mother gave it to me and I carried it around with me till I met Renamon then it found a home here.
Marena sat against the wall next to me while I looked out into the night feeling bothered from the back of my mind like someone was prodding me to do something tickling my brain to look somewhere till I was focused on the table. Where a few things sat neatly arranged, one being my shorts, two being Marena’s stuffed fox toy I gave her in the real world, and three being the cell phone Heto gave me, and four being the two spare clips for the rifle I no longer had. I stood up after Marena moved off my shoulder after an hour and curled up on the floor.
I stood up looking back picturing her and I on the knoll somewhere looking out as the sun set changing back to my human body looking at my shorts, slightly dusty then down to myself, “Clothes are good.” and picked them up to shake off the dust and put them on. I took off Leo then, and put him back on, running my belt thru the loops to hold up the baggy cloths and looked around. The nudity wasn’t bothering me though and after I dressed myself I looked back to the table picking up Marena’s fox and the phone wondering what I was supposed to do. I didn’t think I had anything to say to Heto and a silly notion of a small stuffed fox toy, what could I do with that? Well I held them both feeling the chasing sensation to check the phone walking out of the burrow around Bit and Impmon to stand outside looking out, not seeing the stars like I did in the machine plain wondering back into the burrow, how the song Marena was named after made its way to me.
It didn’t matter and I twirled the phone in my hand while I put Marena’s fox toy in my pocket to hold while I looked up to the real world spinning and moving in the sky. I really didn’t have anything to say to Heto, good or bad or so I thought. When I thought of him all that came to me was what he did for me and the words rubber bullets. That’s it. Only the words not the acts. I sighed as I thought of how angry I was with him and what for, I couldn’t remember. Seriously I couldn’t remember. Seeing the phone remembering that I had thrown my darkness in his face not seeing the reason for it then, I just hoped that if I found the strength to say anything to him he wouldn’t remind me. Logic told me that rubber bullets shot people and I figured then that he defended himself against me past my ignorance of the memories obtuse to them because I had forgotten finally. I could have let it go. I know I could have. I could have said, “I’m sorry” and meant it, but life isn’t that simple and the words would come out wrong if I did.
I stopped twiddling the phone looking at the fox in my pocket feeling like it was staring at me and said, “Ok, ok.” and pushed the button on the side of the phone that popped up the hinge, I felt like the toy was telling me to say something and actually I had nothing better to do past think about the information Impmon gave me. Popping open the phone brought it out of sleep mode and the display flashed to the phone logo then the MSN logo as I looked to the direction of the city from my home. I took a deep breath as I started to push the buttons in the menus getting it to pop up a session with Heto and slid down the rock of the wall looking out into the desert unsure of what and why I was doing it. Getting the chat session open to Heto finally having the thing tell me “Type your message here.” So I thought of something to say.
“Starting a conversation with bad news always makes it suck.” I said out loud as I looked back into the burrow to see Renamon move around from the sound of my human voice. I chuckled lightly short of hitting myself for almost waking her up and looked down at the phone making a little smiley face like this “>^.^< ” (I’m sure it would look better in text but since I’m telling the story you’ll just have to bear with me.) I clicked the enter key and it sent beeping once as it sent the message and I looked into the screen for a minute expecting it to say “message could not be delivered” because I wasn’t even in the same dimension. I was about to close it smiling at it because it seemed to stupid to even say hi to him at the time and it beeped again and I looked for the failure notice finding a line of text.
Heto: Ryoku?
He typed as the curser blinked, I looked out into the desert again wondering if I should type anything, make it look like some kind of text SNAFU then again since when did errors send you smiley faces huh? I giggled to myself and typed in, “what’s up” and another minute went by and the type your message bar said, “Heto is typing…” untill another message came up,
Heto: are you O.K.?
I smiled at his concern feeling dignified that he would worry about me and typed, “I’m fine, how are you?” and it said Heto is typing for about five minutes untill he responded,
Heto: are you feeling ok?
I laughed again as I read it imagining his voice as I read it over, “I’m fine, really.” I typed and sent the message. A minute passed and it gave me a chance to look out over the dessert seeing MSN lit up as cities should be in the digital world. It looked worlds away as a tiny speck on the other wise flat horizon, not like the real world were it bends to the shape of the planet. I sighed again; I really missed chatting with people. I had a good old time with all of my chat buddies in the real world, we’d screw around in forums and basically just tag team people talking to them at the same time from two different windows with the same conversation going on from both ends, it was great but I doubt Heto would have been up for that.
Heto: Do you need anything?
His line of text read and I wondered if I did. I didn’t think I needed anything, in the mood for a pizza or something but past that and including that I didn’t think he could do anything for me from where he was, “Nah I’m fine.” and in less than a minute his next line was.
Heto: why did you contact me then?
I shook my head to the question wondering the same thing myself. “Don’t know actually.” I typed in, I expected a casual smiley but he came back with,
Heto: have you found the hackers yet?
I cringed at the question, feeling it was out of my mood to answer; but I did anyway, “You can say that, they’re still kicking if that’s what you’re asking…” I said almost considering closing the phone. A minute past and my look came closer to a serious tone.
Heto: So they are there, we just had a system failure that traced back to their patterns as well as a major software crash of Data Port Systems. Since their servers are down most of the United States has been without higher end communications for the past few days.
‘Data Port Systems? As in Data Port?’ I thought as I looked to the city remembering what I had seen there, nothing left, “Is the server back up?” I asked as he quickly replied beating around it but working to a yes. “One of the cities here was called Data Port and it was toast when I saw it. Cities and servers are linked I’m guessing.” I said and it took him ten minutes to think of a response.
Heto: Then you might want to know that your origin is in Tokyo, MSN systems by your IP. I have been watching servers crash for a month now and you’re on a server that is supposed to be down.
I looked over to MSN in the distance to see it’s light probably weaker but since I hadn’t seen it in such a long time I don’t think I could tell. “Change the subject please this is confusing enough just being here.” I said tossing my hands into the air after entering and sending the message, moving my back from the rocks as one felt like it was pushing into my skin. I took a breath as I waited for his next message and by the length of time and the length of the message he was thinking long and hard about it before he pressed enter
Heto: Are you alone? You said you had our missing Tiger Unit with you and your “companion.”
Well as open as that was I couldn’t hold back what he asked for, it would be nice to let Zero go all the way than to hold his loss only to those who knew him here, “Zero is dead.” I typed straightly while I smiled at the thought of him possibly coming back.
Heto: I see, and your lover?
He said directing the question to a more depressing end that didn’t happen, “No everyone else made it back ok.” I typed and he stopped for a while as if I didn’t care about Zero.
Heto: You have more than just you and her?
He asked and I nodded as I typed stopping short of sending with names to the line that read on the screen
Ryoku: Two other’s, yes, another tamer and his Digimon.
Heto: I thought you said your female had a tamer too?
I wanted to kick myself for telling him that, I didn’t remember doing it then but in his bunker when he ran out of intelligent questions he started asking me about my life and I had gotten to her and her tamer then. “She’s here too.” I typed knowing that forgetting the fact meant I had some explaining to do.
Heto: then that would make four others…
He said correcting me, “All together we are four.” I typed and started my explanation before he could say anything, “I am a Kitsune, don’t repeat anything, I already know. Renamon is a Kitsune also she is part of her tamer. That’s as short and blunt as I can make it.” I typed and he was probably stunned beyond stunned from that information.
Heto: You I could understand, but her? How did that come around?
I slapped my hand to my head and grunted as I quoted “‘as blunt as I can make it.’” for him so I didn’t have to spread the gossip I barely knew anything about. He quickly dropped the subject and went back to the hackers Devastation and Corruption.
Heto: So what did you find out with the hackers?
I looked down at the line and knew two things one he didn’t need to get further into and one I wasn’t sure about myself. “Something called D” is all I typed and he thought again and gave the next line of text that meant almost nothing
Heto: haven’t heard of it, possibly the monster makers would have. I’ll have to ask tomorrow in the office.
He wrote and I smiled at its seemingly causal properties,
Heto: With all of those evil Digimon I imagine you had to fight for that information, I don’t think even you could fight against an army.
He typed quickly responding to my comment in a personal question, “It wasn’t easy but I had to get away more than I had to get to. We lost Zero in that fight.” I typed sighing at saying he was gone again, saying it casually as if he didn’t matter.
Heto: Against an army of their Digimon?
He wrote and I responded “Yes, I Digivolved.” I wrote as he waited to type again I pictured him rolling around in a big comfy chair typing at his home computer while he browsed the internet for information possibly coming a crossed me till I bothered him with this session.
Heto: Blue cards?
“No mine is green.” I typed without thinking or withholding information and he thought again before he typed, now I was glued to the conversation. He seemed to know more about my travels than I did. I didn’t know about the blue cards till after I had left him, a year after I left him. Zero could have reported to Yamaki but by the time he found out he was off the roll call.
Heto: Scan it in the phone so I can see what’s on it
I was confused by that line I didn’t know what he meant till I looked closer at the phone, something you only really do when your bored or confused, I didn’t see anything that could read a card on the portion of the phone I looked at, so I turned it around in my hand and saw a reader on the side of the phone for credit cards or something.
Heto: It’s on the side of the phone.
He typed as I turned it around asking a stupid question, “How are you going to read a card?” and he responded quickly
Heto: that phone was made to scan Key Cards magnetic data; the playing cards you use are based on the same thing I can imagine. When that phone belonged to my spy he sent me key cards data to copy so he could have access to more of your governments facilities.
“Very shrewd.” I laughed out loud realizing I was speaking again and looking back in to see Marena moving again as I returned to my chat with silence in mind, so as not to wake her, I popped open my card pouch looking at the deck in it mixed in with a few of my remaining protective sleeves was the edge of my green card and I pulled it out from the shuffled deck that my Digimon form seemed to do for me looking at the image on it seeing it disappear as I moved it to the back of the phone and slid it thru the deeper card reader till a small window flashed over the screen saying “sending card data” with an hour glass rotating below it only leaving one line visible below the status bar.
I set the phone down and looked back into the burrow standing up to stretch after the almost two hours of the chat, Heto may not have said much but he took his time saying it. I walked around bored while I looked at the screen seeing Heto hadn’t said anything while I was moving around. I pulled Marena’s little toy out of my pocket and flipped my finger down the seem that went down it’s muzzle and laughed, “You are some kind of good luck charm.” not knowing if it was or if it was just something else. The phone quietly beeped again, not to stealthily to tell the truth, and I walked back over to where I had it set down picking it up to see Heto responding
Heto: Just as I though, Shibumi
He said spelling out the Japanese name while I wondered who he could be typing “?” alone as apposed to a big raging “HUH?” in capitol letters. Heto’s lack of typing skills bored me and I set the phone in my lap while I slid down the face of the wall feeling a cut from a sharp rock as I slid down jumping from it and almost losing the phone from my lap to the craggy slope to the base of the mountain I lived on.
Heto: Shibumi is one of the monster makers we haven’t been able to find yet; his code is in the other children’s blue cards. What does this one do?
I typed in not knowing how to answer but just did anyway, “I Digivolved to ultimate after I used it.” I said while he typed the line “hmmm” making himself sound very perplexed.
Heto: That’s what the other children’s blue cards do.
“I know.” I typed as he made another line of “hmm.” And I responded by typing, “My kind can’t digivolve to ultimate because we don’t have a real champion form, I’m guessing off the top of my head that it bypasses that step in the evolutionary ladder to my ultimate level.” Needless to say there was another long pause from him, not even a hum of curiosity and I looked back into the burrow seeing Marena tap around on the ground looking for me in her sleep I cringed lightly as I saw it and turned back to Heto and quickly tried to close the conversation, “I have to go Heto, I’m needed. I’ll try to keep you posted if anything happens. Later.” I said and he typed before I could close the phone.
Heto: Be careful Ryoku, I have a feeling something is really wrong
And I frowned as I understood the feeling, “I know.” I said closing the phone to it beeping it’s self into hibernation mode while I moved back into the burrow taking a deep breath as Marena smiled to me, “Where were you?” she asked as I came back in sticking my hands in my pockets giggling timidly, “Taking a leak.” I smiled pulling my hands out tapping my sides. “I don’t think so.” She teased as she yawned to her feet walking around Bit and Impmon on the floor. “The entire time here I haven’t needed to go so I don’t think you had to either.” She laughed as she stepped over to me in her own special tease between Renamon and Maria in stepping posture.
I cleared my throat as I looked down at my self feeling the barbarian feeling again giggling at it because it was such a strange sensation. She didn’t hug to me like I thought she would but passed me up to go outside while I turned and followed her while her tail moved like a ribbon in the breeze fallowing her movements around the corner in a sexy tease asking me to follow. I giggled again like it was some kind of game and sucked in my gut I didn’t have, looking more muscular than I was or just pathetic either way it would have been something to look at.
When I went outside Marena was walking down the path down the mountain in the quarter mile or so to the village below. I wasn’t sure why and I didn’t know what she was thinking, again the merge with Maria strikes again confusing me to a point of daze and abrupt stuttering. She laughed back to me while I hopped to the winding path she was on about fifteen feet below laughing with her while she walked on. “Where are you going?” I asked as she flipped her tail at me making me fallow. “To see the elders again.” She laughed as I cocked my head in confusion, “Why?” I asked as she turned around with her gloved hands a crosser her chest. “It’s been a few years Ryoku, I wanted to see how they were doing.” She laughed as we came to the base of the mountain. “Ok.” I said not completely following in her mental pattern but following her all the same while she teased me the entire way.
It was a quarter mile to the village from the mountain and there was talking time and now starts the relationship tester questions I’m sure you all would have expected by now. “So Vulpi.” She started as I stepped beside her, “Vulpi ‘had’ you.” she said looking straight on with concern in her muzzle, “I had nothing to do with it.” I said as she muted me with a raised paw to my face, “I know, I could see that by how we found you.” she stopped and looked to me half way from the village. “Did you,” she paused looking away with her eyes making me see the question coming and smile, “Enjoy it, hell no. You’re my Starlight I can’t look back on that for her.” I said making her smile to me lightly and turn to the village, “How did you get into the that bondage nightmare though?” She asked me as she turned her head up as if she didn’t accept my answer, “Ropes tied themselves Starlight.” I said to her making her look over her shoulder like that was a joke.
“I’m serious they did.” and she huffed from the response making it clear she didn’t accept that answer and I said the one thing that never works in that situation, “Would I lie to you?” and I got the usual response to that across the face as a back handed slap from her paw almost sent me flying, “What was that for?” I asked stunned at it. She gave an angry grunting laugh crossing her arms while I looked around holding my cheek, “I’m serious, this is the digital world things happen that can’t be explained, you think I wanted to be tied in knots and abused by that kid?” she looked back at me and I sank like I just dropped the toilet seat on my balls. “And what am I? Hmm? I’m seventeen Ryoku am I a kid?” and I tried to explain, “You saw how she acted, she was a kid at mind. A five year old in a Digimon body. That was immature and Vulpi was exactly that.” I said as she brought her paw back a crossed my face making me fall into the dirt. “What was ‘that’ for??” I said more stunned but equal as both my cheeks blossomed a cherry tone, “Immature??” she said as I realized the error or my speech. I wasn’t thinking this out and I was getting it from both sides at once.
“She was a child Renamon I can’t help what she did, I can’t say I wanted it and I can’t say I’m sorry for explaining it that way but she was,” she put her paw up in a short growl then turning it over to wave her finger at me swatting me in the face evilly for the sake of non-trust on the subject. “I say trust me and you believe me, but when I say would I lie to you, you walk away and hit me. Since when did I deserve that?” I said as she walked away and stopped, “Since you lied about not knowing.” She said as I looked at her seriously wondering what she meant.
“You know why I’m back together, I can tell when you lie because you never did. Now that you do it is so obvious. I want to know.” she said as I looked to the ground. “It’s complicated.” I said and she came back over to me and stood in front of me with Maria’s steel cutting glare mixed in with the down tilt of Renamon’s muzzle and the cold stair of her purple eyes. “Test me, I think I can understand it as well as you can.” She said as she popped up my own line, “Trust me.”
I looked away closing my eyes and sighed, I told Heto first but I think it was easier to tell him since I didn’t see him face to face. “I don’t understand it myself.” I said coming back up to her flashing to my mother and then to Maria wounded in my arms then to her evolving to Sakuyamon and then all rolling around to the memory of her and I standing on the knoll. I opened my eyes looking into hers while she waited not letting me back down with how her sight locked me in place. “I want to hear it.” she said as I walked around her a yard before she started to fallow. “Do you know anything about Kitsune?” I asked to open the explanation and she shook her head, “Congratulations now you do.” and she looked at me as if it was an insult. “WE are Kitsune. I was born one and when you Digivolved to Sakuyamon the first time you made yourself one. Two forms one body and one mind.” I said making it shorter than expected and she asked, “digimon human?” and I shook my head stopping to think of how to put it. “We are foxes and that’s what Kitsune are, mystical foxes. Its and old Japanese lore really, which makes this that much more confusing.” I smiled as I sat down followed by her directly in front of me whipping her tail around for padding as she anxiously listened. “I knew you could digivolve because god told me you could.” I said and she tilted her head to the side making me feel insane for putting it that bluntly.
“Kitsune can also be messengers of god, Tenko my mother, was a messenger and she raised me in the real world and here with the two halves of our souls. I was human and I was digimon, she raised me till she died.” I stopped as she looked at me like I was explaining politics more than I was religion, “Ok lets try this another way,” I said as she eagerly nodded. “Every being has four souls, good and evil and that good has its goods and evils just like the evil side does, each of these souls has an essence that powers us to live. By dividing me, and my mother being divided with me, she divided what essence she had left when she ran out she died and returned to the gods as she put it.” I said having her follow untill I gave away this was mostly second hand knowledge, “Got a question then. When you were wounded did you find your self in a big black room or maybe in some kind of water?” she looked around a little and thought about it and nodded a little more vivid with the length of her muzzle and I smiled at the fact, “You where almost dead, that’s between here and there. I don’t know where ‘there’ is, but life and death, the further you moved in that place I’m guessing the closer to death you were.”
I found myself getting further and further away from the point so I cleared my throat and tried to start again, “My mom took me there so she could speak to me and I heard all of what I’m telling you from her, gods gave me a chance in the middle of that fight by giving me a refresh. Also to say how I knew you could digivolve,” I stopped putting my paw behind my head, “The gods also told me to decide wheather I wanted you two as you two, or as Marena.” She leaned back and gasped while I put my paws out, “I denied the choice and they let me give it to you. I’m sure you’d rather digivolve than die and digivolving brought you back together.” I said and she slapped me while I closed my eyes and made a single huff, “one more thing, you will live to the ripe old age of around a millennium now.” and she turned around, “Where if you had stayed apart you would have lived about as long as a human normally would. My mothers name was Tenko which means a celestial fox of up to 900 years of age. I don’t even know how old she was before she died but we have the opportunity to live just as long.”
She stopped, “Not immortal but we’ll live longer than anyone else you could possibly know.” she looked at her paws in shock at the concept while I closed my eyes for another slap thinking she wasn’t going to accept it. “That’s all I know.” I said as I stood up and walked towards the village. “Wait.” She said sadly for not believing me, “I’m sorry.” She said and I smiled as I walked.
She came up to me and wrapped her tail around me, “Together forever right?” she laughed with the new knowledge of her self. “Damn near.” I smiled back and we both laughed as she stopped me from taking another step to the village. “What’s the matter?” I asked as she turned me around, “We can say hi tomorrow.” She said coyly as I looked back at the quiet village only a few yards away tying to raise my paw to gesture back to it only finding a “But?” and she laughed.
“Don’t be so thick Ryoku, I wanted to get you alone so we didn’t wake up the others.” she laughed as she brought her tail up and tickled my nose till I sneezed looking over to her smiling at the playful push to me, she may have been the puzzle box then but at least that puzzle box didn’t want my fingers anymore. She still knew how to manipulate me into doing things, so well I might add. I guess a nudge in the right direction goes without saying.
“I should have told you though.” I said looking down and she laughed to me speaking in Maria’s voice. “You were right I have almost no clue what you where saying but I know you’re telling the truth. I don’t think anyone could cook something like that up.” and I smiled, if that were true then my life would be a work of sick fiction. You’re all here looking at me so what do you think?
Well I think that was a semi productive night, I felt like a moron for not telling her to begin with but I told her and she believed me which is scary, I figured it would have been a little harder than that. On top of that I talked to Heto again without swearing at him which was a plus, I could have gone as far as to say I was sorry for slapping him around, I remembered stalking him and I felt so stupid now that I couldn’t remember his tortures.
I couldn’t help but ask again where do we go from here though, because there really was nothing left to do except stand against the masters and that was suicide with every thing I went threw trying to get away from them. A month is nothing when trying to forget a battle, especially one that we lost so much in and almost lost more if higher powers hadn’t assisted. The question of where to go and what to do was bigger than I could have imagined, if we where going to go against the masters then the first place to start would be stopping them from doing what ever they where doing with D.
As Renamon and I sat back down against the wall of the burrow looking around as the night wore on I came to that conclusion, we had to stop the masters before they did whatever they were going to with the D. Impmon seemed to know more and then next day would start our next challenge and make my journey that much longer, harder and dangerous. For Zero, for Leo, and for myself and what I couldn’t remember, for the good things Heto wanted and for everyone the Dark Masters were to hurt or already have.
It wasn’t my crusade yet, not personal enough but soon I’d find out it was very personal. So close to home in every sense. I knew my “Master” better than I thought I did, you could say he was an old acquaintance of mine. When I was human I hung around a circle of people that were into computer vandalism but when I find out who is who, it goes far beyond personal or crusade it goes to the depth of my being testing my ties and respects even for a person I thought I left behind and definitely didn’t need. Who, is the question, but that’s further on to make this part of my life that much harder…
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