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I don't own digimon OK? So don't go suing me 'cuz all you would get from a 12 year old would be…::digs in her pocket: A penny, a pic of my b/f, some lint, and a note that went through the wash one too many times…::
A/N: Yes this is my first fic… :: 'NEW AUTHOR RUN!!' A mob of digimon fanatics run for their lives:: Okay so maybe it's not that bad, but just go easy on me k?
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The crimson-eyed beauty trudged home. She was 16 years of age. At 14 she decided she wanted to be a priestess. She had just gone through another day of ridiculing. All the people at school teased her for being a loner. At times it was hard for her… REAL hard. She slowly opened the door to her beautiful flower temple. It was in honor of her mother who died when she was 14. Another reason she wanted to be a priestess… so that it would feel like she was closer to her mother. Her mother always loved flowers, and until just recently Sora hadn't seen why. Now flowers were one of the biggest parts of her life. Since her mother died, Sora now lived with her grandfather. Since she really didn't have any true friends she busied herself with her prayers, flower arrangements, and schoolwork. She never got many visitors to her temple, but on rare occasions she would. This is where our story begins……..
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*That's freaky! * I thought to myself as I walked home. I felt a pair of eyes on my back. I turned around several times but each time I saw the same thing, nothing. I sped up. When I finally saw my temple in the distance I breathed a sigh of relief. I felt a shiver up and down spine once again. I got that feeling, only this time it was much stronger. I broke into a sprint up the hill. I burst through the door and slammed it shut. "My Sora!" My grandfather said as he wobbled to me. "What happened, my word, you look like you have just seen a ghost! Not to mention you slammed that door awfully loud, I hope the spirits are not fed up with you. First, the fighting with those two boys…." I opened my mouth in defense, but he just silenced me. "And don't think I don't know about it, I may be old, but not stupid. And now this door, Sora what has gotten into you lately?" He looked at me with hurt crimson eyes, identical to mine. I knew he was either mad or terribly disappointed since he didn't call me "my Sora." "O Grandfather, I'm so so sorry!" I whispered, barely audible as hot tears made rivers down my cheeks. "O my Sora," Grandfather said comfortingly as he stroke my back. I think it is time we had a talk. He led me to his private room. It was beautifully decorated with bright yellow paint and a few pictures of my mother and father. It was a simple room but it was one of my favorite rooms. I barely ever got to come in here so it was a surprise that he would take me here. *I must be in major trouble if he is bringing me in here! * I thought. Not very anxious to start, I walked around looking at all the pictures. I stopped at one in particular. It was a picture of my parents and me when they first brought me home from the hospital. I traced the soft features of my mother's face. I had stopped crying a while ago, but I again felt the familiar feeling of hot tears welling up behind my crimson rubies. A single tear rolled down my already tear-stained cheek. It hit my father's face. A sad memory came back to me when I was only 10 years old….
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FLASHBACK***~"I'm sorry we couldn't save him," the doctor spoke softly to my mother. "Noo!" She moaned. She began to weep for, what seemed like, the millionth time in four hours. I was no longer sad, I was furious. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU COULDN'T SAVE HIM? YOU'RE A DOCTOR! I HATE YOU. I HATE CARS. I HATE ACHOLHOL. I HATE HOSPITALS. I HATE PEOPLE. I HATE THE WORLD!" But inside I was really screaming, *I HATE MYSELF. IT'S ALL MY FAULT. I DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE! * I tore out of the hospital, I could hear the calls of those inside telling me to stop but I didn't care. Nothing mattered anymore. The whole world was crumbling more and more with every step I took. I finally made my way to a dark alley. I stopped to catch my breath. I fell back into the wall and sunk down the pavement. I finally realized that my father was never coming back. My hand hit something sharp. I looked down. I hit a sharp piece of glass. Caught up in the moment and not thinking, I slowly and carefully lined up the glass with a vein in my wrist. Shaking I dug the glass deeper and deeper into my wrist. I faintly felt something that felt like my bone. I brought the glass back up. It hurt more than anything I ever felt, but strangely it satisfied me, like doing this to myself made up for the death of my father. I repeated it with my other wrist and in no time I had passed out, undoubtedly from loss of blood. When I awoke I found myself in a hospital bed, my wrists bandaged and my head. I didn't know what happened to my head. My mother nervously, pacing around at the foot of the bed. I had no idea how long I was laying there unconscious or who found me and brought me back to the hospital. I didn't have much time to ponder though because my mama pounced on me the minute I awoke scolding me, and holding me.
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END OF FLASHBACK***~"My Sora?" My grandfather shook my lightly. I snapped back to reality. "I'm terribly sorry Grandfather," I apologized as I bowed my head to my elder. "No need for that my Sora. I know it's hard, it was hard on all of us." I blushed. I didn't want people to know that I struggled. I just wanted everyone to be happy even if I could never be.
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"Dear Diary," I started. As I began to write in my diary.
"It has been a week since Grandfather and I had a talk. We basically spoke of my parents. He explained to me that he knew how hard it was, even though I knew he really didn't, no one does. I didn't exactly get off the hook that easily though. I still got punished. I'm still getting those weird feelings, like someone is watching me or something. Another weird thing is that whenever I am praying I hear this same voice saying,
REMEMBER. What's up with that? I think I am just being paranoid. Okay well anyway, school's the same. Except now those two kids I beat up told everyone and now not only do the kids tease me they are also afraid of me. What more could go wrong in my life. The only good things left for me are you, of course, diary, Grandfather, and my beautiful temple. Not that I am not thankful for what I have, it's just that my life seems like it's missing something."I was cut off in my writing by a small rapping at the door. "My Sora, would you like to join me in a glass of herbal tea?" My grandfather asked. "Sure, I will be right there!" I called. I waited until I heard the soft sound of his cane proceed down the corridor and eventually die out. Than I carefully signed my name at the bottom of the page….
With Love,
Sora Takenouchi
I slid the book under my pillow and slipped off my bed. I hurried down to the tearoom. After I had had some tea with my grandfather I decided to go down to my flower room. Immediately after I opened the door, the heavenly smell of incense and flowers creeped up my nose. I slid the door close behind me. "Well, well Sora I was beginning to think you would never get here….."
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FLASHBACK***~"NO TAI!" I screamed as Piedmon shot a beam of light at Taichi. My love, the one that would never know. I lunged in front of him just in time for the full force of the beam would hit me. "HAHAHA!!" I heard Piedmon cry. "I wasn't trying to hit the child of love, but I guess that will do." "NOOOO!!!" I heard all my friends cry. I struggled to open my eyes, but it was just too much. "Biyomon, you stay with Sora. It's time for me to kick his @$$ for Sora." I heard Tai call to Biyomon as he ran off into the chaos. "Tai.." I murmured, before everything fell into complete darkness.
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END OF FLASHBACK***~I repeated the story to the man. "What happened after that, I mean, did we win?" "Yes, Piedmon was defeated in memory of you." I let out a squeal of delight. "Then what happened to me." His face grew somber. "Ohh Sora, we couldn't save you…" "What?!? Than why am I here now?" "This will explain it better than I ever could. Here take my hand." I took his outstretched hand. Suddenly I felt all tingly. "What's going on?" I asked the man. "You'll see!" I was beginning to worry. Than I felt my self jolt forward. We were traveling in some kind of portal. I saw the universe go by before my eyes. I tried to scream, but nothing came out. I felt sick to my stomach from spinning continuously. Finally when I thought that I had just about had it we fell on hard ground. I laid there for a few seconds trying to get everything into focus. "O my head!" I complained as I tried to hoist myself up. "Hurry!" I heard the man call from the forest. *Where are we? * I asked myself. I ran to catch up with the man. He was peering through the bushes. "What are you looking at?" I asked in a hushed voice. "No need to whisper. Come on this is where we want to be." He led me out of the forested part and into a clearing. That's when I saw it…
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Soon the whole battle moved to the clearing. All the digimon were fighting. They were getting closer and closer to where I was lying. I glanced at Taichi; he was starting to get up. I followed his line of vision to where he was looking at. It was the fight. Greymon was trying to hold Piedmon off for as long as he could, but it was just too much for him. "I'm sorry Tai!" Greymon called as he dedigivoled into Augomon. Than he glanced back at my figure, he realized that I was right in the line of fire. He courageously crawled over to me and shielded my body with his. "O Taichi!" I murmured. Tai's crest started to glow its usual orangish color, only this time it seemed to shimmer. "Augumon warp digivolve to…….. WARGREYMON!" He roared. Tai's eyes widened. Than an even weirder thing happened… my crest started to glow, just like Tai's! "Biyomon warp digivolve to……. PHEONIXMON!" Everyone gasped. They all looked over at my still unmoving figure. I looked at the man, "But how?" I asked. He just shook his head. In a matter of minutes Pheonixmon and Wargreymon had finished off Piedmon. "Yea!!" All the kids called. I smiled. "We won!" I said triumphantly. Everyone rushed over to Taichi and me. "Tend to Sora, I am fine." Tai said getting up. "I guess the power of his crest healed him, right?" I asked the man. "You guessed it." "But than why wasn't I healed?" I asked quizzically. "Because you had already passed on, the last bit of life you had was sucked out of you when Biyomon digivolved. Crests can only heal not resurrect." He explained. "Oh I see." I murmured really only half understanding. I turned back to the unfolding seen. Everyone was huddling around my frozen body. "I'm sorry everyone…" I heard Joe's voice trail off. "We are too late." He finished. Everyone froze, like time had stopped or something. "NO!" I whispered sadly, it was hard seeing yourself die, even if you knew what was going to happen. The man turned to me, tears in his eyes too. "It's still hard witnessing it, even after all this time. You were always very special to the group." He said looking me straight in the eye. I looked away. It always hurt me to see people struggling because of me, ever since my father died I never let anyone knew what I was really feeling. "WHY!!" I heard Mimi call out. She thrust her cowboy hat at a tree. "THIS IS A STUPID WORLD, STUPID DIGIMON. STUPID SORA, WHY DID SHE HAVE TO BE SO SWEET AND THE BEST PERSON WE'VE EVER KNOWN!" Mimi started crying hysterically. I couldn't bear to see her like that. "Mimi! O Mimi, I'm here stop crying! I'll take you for a manicure, whatever you want! Just please, please stop crying over me!" I panicked trying to put my arm around her to comfort her. I failed miserably. "O please sir, let me speak with my friends they need me!" I pleaded. He looked terribly hurt, "Sora, dear, I'm so sorry just letting you see this is pushing the law to do that might change the course of history. Please don't ask me again." "I understand" I replied. I watched over the rest of the group. Each of them had started crying uncontrollably. Tai was holding my body like I was the last hope diamond left in the world. Oddly though he didn't cry. A man appeared. "Who's that?" I asked. "Me," he replied simply. I squinted for a better look at the man that had just appeared. "Gennai!" I remembered. "But than if that's Gennai, and you said that you're him, than you must be… GENNAI!" I deducted. I threw my arms around him. "Wow, it's been a long time!" I said. "We can reminisce later, this is the best part!" He said. *Same old Gennai! * I thought to myself. The kids backed away to make a path for the visitor. He made his way over to Tai and me. He spoke the four words that I will never forget; "Do you love her?" "What?" Tai asked shocked. "DO-YOU-LOVE-SORA-TAKENOUCHI, TAICHI-KAMIYA?" Young Gennai spoke clearly and slowly letting Tai savor every word. "With all my heart," he whispered a single tear rolled down his cheek and hit my crest. A blinding red light bathed the rest of the group. When the light faded out, my body was gone. "What happened?" Tai said outraged. "You just did the best thing you've ever done, and the best thing you'll ever do." Young Gennai said fading in his own light. Tai's eyes widened in disbelief. "Time to go!" Gennai said, he led me to where we first came in. I took his hand. The weird tingly sensation again……
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THE END!
(or is it?)
Please R/R I really need to know how it was and if I should write a sequel. Email me at
crestoflove@hotmail.com or starlight-sora@home.com Thanz!Peace Out
*Starlight Sora*