Hi there! Well, it had to happen eventually - I got a prompt I was completely fanblind for. This is for the pairing Koh/Sayo from the Digimon Dusk/Dawn games. Even when I looked into it, I didn't find much, so I hope this is at least somewhat accurate. In addition to the Bingo Challenge, the 28 Days of Love challenge, and Prompt 17 on the Monthly Restrict challenge (all hosted on the Digimon Fanfiction Challenges forum btw), I put an addition challenge on myself by making it 500-plus words of poetry. I rarely ever write poetry, ever. So...yeah, this ought to be interesting XD
Was going for more of a prequel-type thing here, figuring that would be more flexible to work with.
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Digimon. Don't even own a Digimon game, hence the awkwardness.
Sunless, Moonless, Starless
"Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!" - Lord Byron
Daylight against nighttime
Black versus white
Claws opposing fangs
Even before the quakes, the world trembled
Before the quakes
Before the fall
Before the war
Before the possessions and the time-render
There was a boy
And there was a girl
They viewed each other from opposite sides of a chalk line
Marred in blood
Romeo and Juliet ensanguined
Only they weren't as foolish
Death would not bring satisfaction, nor unity, nor respect,
Much less any illusion of happiness
Nor did they run into each other's embrace
They didn't fear a tooth or talon piercing their back
From each other, that is.
But words and touch were forbidden
Because of that white-red chalk line.
Highlighted by the sun, moon, and stars in turn.
They each had friends
Many, many friends even
They did not want to lose those friends
But each friend was also a iron bar in a cage
You must do this, not that
You must like this, not that
You must battle this, not that
And both the boy and the girl
Had many, many friends
They were not foolish.
Not even optimistic.
So they stayed on their sides
The girl watched the boy
And the boy watched the girl
Still, like portraits of summer
Silent, like photographs of falling leaves
As disputes and data flowed freely around them
Like endless sharp snowflakes
There were only each other's eyes
Bright against each other's silhouettes
Bodies made dark by ash and fire
But those eyes told all, and beyond
Reaching beyond words, touch and postures
To unveil their true wishes
And they wished for disaster
They wished to be challenged to cross that line
They wished to be become unfrozen
The processes locking them into place
To be shattered
Broken
Annihilated
Like the screen of an obsolete computer
They wanted the line to fade
So they could stumble about in obscurity
So they could not be blamed for stepping out of place
And over that line
And into each other's touch
If only to have something guide them in the dying light of old ways.
They were not fools
They knew the wrong of their thoughts
Yet they yearned for plagues
And for calamity
And for misfortune
And for a nemesis
And for betrayal, and disorder, and oblivion
Never uttering these wishes, of course
They were not fools
Still the archfiend arrived
Silent as radiation
The disaster began
And the world shook
And the adults fell
And the virus spread
And the war commenced
The boy and girl watched it all
Sickness and dread and fascination
Pumping through them like venom
Was the world going mad with poison?
Or were they slipping into appalling, astonishing delirium?
Everything was slipping into nigrescence
The light of the old day weakening
Everything they knew was sinking into obscurity
Their friends
Themselves
That line
They see only the silhouettes on the other side
Including the one they have always watched
Still peaceful, still silent
As the last light perishes
As the land, and everything, is cloaked with blackness
Sunless, moonless, starless
They reach
They stumble
Forward
Together
Among the now-shadows still fighting on mindlessly.
And somewhere, a line was crossed.
In the darkness, no one notices.
IIIIII
I found the best way to write this pairing was to write it on a symbolic level, which was the main reason I chose poetry. So what did you guys think of it? Be honest, because poetry is not my specialty and neither is Dawn/Dusk XD. I hope you enjoyed it regardless.