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The Fire Mountain SleepsStaring into the cold deceptive mirror, he could not help but see those long forgotten watery cerulean eyes full of childish innocence.
"Bu-Burn, no, no bu-burn Yama." An amused voice whispered. Her eyes were full of adoration for the young boy and she could not help but wish that she would be with him always.
She watched as the young fair-haired toddler gazed into the dancing flames, his eyes wide with excitement and curiosity.
Inwardly she groaned as a fresh wave of nausea took hold of her frail pale body. Grabbing the bed he tried to control the dizziness whilst also trying to watch over the over inquisitive child.
Gazing at his mother cheekily, he awaited her reaction as he outstretched his arm towards the flickering flame. Sternly she gazed back at him however this proved ineffective as the small dainty fingers of the boy touched with the burning flames.
"MAMA!" The boy wailed pulling his fingers away and into his mouth as the flames scorched his skin.
"YAMA!" A voice bellowed from the door of the room, turning his tearful head he looked in to the stern vexed face of his father. "YOU STUPID CHILD!" He roared grabbing the child by his arm and dragging his out of the room flinging the sobbing child into his own room.
"Dada?" The tearful toddler wailed, pitifully gazing up at his father for some comfort.
"Your mother need not be disturbed by your wretched stupidity." His father snarled, looking down at his son with disgrace. Suddenly the face of the father changed as the soft whispering of shadows filled the room and his father stared horrified into the shadows.
"Noyoru?" He whispered his face as pale and cold as the marble tombs.
The air around the boy became warm, as though the night were embracing him, holding him as though he were the most precious being in the night.
Silently he watched as his father left the room shaken and disturbed. Abruptly the child turned to see what had shaken his father so yet only found his childhood companion in the shadows alert and blissfully happy sitting in the moonlight.
"You shouldn't be here!" He sneered unhappily mimicking his father's stern tone, much to the surprise of the youngster and immediately left through a secret passage way connecting the children's room, small trickles of little tears streamed down her face. And it was only when he turned to look in the mirror beside him, he could observe how stern he looked.
Horrified and angry the blond haired teenager stepped back from the mirror before him, the angry face of the fair-haired youth momentarily perplexed him. However aware there was another watching he turned his back on his childhood and exited the room, his footsteps echoing the snarls and howls from the monstrous creature beside him.
"Sora! You're being completely unfair, it was your hair I was saving!" Tai cried. For the passed two hours he had exhausted himself trying to keep up with Sora's angry pace.
Without giving him a look she continued, the end of the forest was in sight and the last thing she needed was to run into another Millipede. She reckoned that she should resume communications once more, when they were fully grown again. She just couldn't work out in her heads why she would be this worked up over a little harmless hair saving kiss.
She concluded finally upon seeing the light at the end of the forest to resume communication with him, beside perhaps this was indeed an experience, it had made her dwell upon the infinite reasons why it should have been her lips he were kissing.
As she felt her body elongate and enlarge she sucked in the oxygen around her preparing herself for his apologetic manner and her more than likely forgiveness of him.
Closing her eyes she swivelled her head and began to speak.
"Tai, I know your sorry and I really am thankful that you saved my hair but this little… erm… situation has made me realise that I perhaps-" She paused waiting for a short enthusiastic or apologetic reply, something to indicate that he was thinking the same thing.
Growing bored of the self imposed darkness her eyelids created she let them flutter open, only to see the crumpled heap of Taichi on the ground, another body pinning him to the earth.
"I swear Sora I didn't know!" He muttered apologetically, trying to push the frilly glittery heap that had him pinned to the floor of his crushed body.
"I am truly sorry erm… Sera?" The fairy twinkled, standing up and brushing herself down making sure that her shimmering wings were intact and in direct proportion to her body.
"It's SORA!" Sora snapped, a slight blush rising to her cheeks, a mixture of embarrassment and fury.
"Well, I have decided that it would be in my best interest to travel with you for some time." She replied airily, pulling Tai to his feet so suddenly that he fell into her arms.
"No!" Sora cried immediately glaring at the shimmering teenager before her. Purposely she switched her gaze to that of the dazed Taichi who upon her intense fury filled eyes distanced himself from the fairy's embrace.
"I don't think-" Tai began confidently under the approval of Sora's watchful eyes, however at the fairies saddened pouting face his opinion began to waver slightly. "I don't think it would be a good idea if we continued without a guide in such a strange land."
"Oh thank you, my handsome savoir from immense boredom!" The fairy cried flinging herself in his arms.
"Fine, whatever!" Sora snapped whipping the leather flask they obtained from Ambet out of the rag they carried with them "I'm going to find some water."
Looking around her the world seemed a gloomy dim land, she could now see that the forest was perched upon a hill, around her were vast fields of repetitive greenery and tiny settlings. It was hard to distinguish what made these lands so different than the plains of Earth. The sky remained a sunless haze, the clouds drifted sadly along the skies, until it seemed they were pulled into a darkened mass of storm clouds hovering over charcoal black mountains.
Flopping down on the grass, she let the leather flask slip out of her hands and onto the cool morning dew grass, the coolness was welcoming and soothing and it took her a moment to realise she were not alone.
"MORNING!" A pink bulb like creature shrieked rubbing cheeks with the exasperated girl. "You don't look so good." The bulb squeaked, concerned for the health of her friend.
"I'm tired." Sora replied staring up at the bleak sky, wondering whether this bizarre situation was indeed real.
"Sleep Sora, sleep." The little creature whispered rubbing cheek to cheek with her partner, letting her words become a lullaby for the tired girl.
"Rise and shine the moon is full sweet one." A melodic voice whispered, awakening the tired and sleepy child.
"I'm sleepy." The child replied, pulling the sheets closer to her snuggled body like a caterpillar embedded in its woven cocoon.
"Rise my darling or I may not see you tonight!" The voice warned, embracing the girl with the warmth and comfort oozing from her presence.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The girl yawned sitting up in her bed and rubbing the sleep out of her tired eyes, scanning the room for the figure she hoped to see.
"You have grown sweeter by each rolling night." The voice breathed, though she wasn't physically before the girl, the air became sweeter and the full of comforting warmth.
"I want to go back with you, I want to go back!" The girl cried, crawling to the end of her bed, her despair growing ever still.
"I know you do honey, but you must stay here!" The voice continued causing the girls tears to trickle down her cheeks, her hands clutching the darkness for something to grasp to.
"I hate it here, I hate it!" The girl cried, her eyes frantically scanning the shadows.
"But sweetie what about your Taichi? Surely you wouldn't leave him?"
"We'll run away together back home and back to Yama you see!" She retorted with childish contempt.
"You will forget with time my darling." The voice whispered, now echoing off the pale painted walls, as her voice grew thin.
"I don't want to!" The girl wailed, opening her arms to be lovingly embraced.
"I'll leave you my kiss and a part of me will be left to you my darling, do not forget my name." The voice whispered airily as a small flutter of what felt like butterfly wings settled on the young girls cheek.
"Noyoru, Momma I'm forgetting, I'm sorry, Come back!"
As her eyelids fluttered open the sharp stench of burning brimstone filled her nostrils as clouds of deadly hellish black lolled dangerously in the sky above her.
"Where are we?" Sora muttered as the coal black lumps of rock dug into her back as she propped herself up.
"Well you see Yolei wanted to help us progress so she used some magic to transport us to a 'new and more exciting location' and we've now landed here!" Tai rambled avoiding Sora's gaze as he hoped to escape an I-told-you-so.
"Yeah and she managed to get us lost in the fire mountains it's mad Sora complete madness!" Yokomon shrieked bouncing upon her partner's stomach in indignation.
"Hey I don't' see you transporting anyone!" The fairy snapped back lifting her dress off the coal black dirt and wrinkling her nose at the probable stains.
"Well I guess it's somewhere new and exciting!" Tai mumbled trying to make light of a situation.
"Yeah if you're a chain smoker and get high off taking in toxic fumes!" Sora snapped jumping to her feet and placing the squealing digimon under her arm.
"This is disgusting and repulsive!" Yolei shrieked trying to protect her shimmering white dress from the dirty blackish coals. "If you common folk aren't going to do anything to help a princess then one must take things into her own action." She cried hitching her dress up to her knees and storming off through the cloud of now thickening black smoke.
At once the ground thundered and shook with mighty tremors, the mountains around them gurgled and roared spitting out fiery flaming rocks. The air was thick with the coal black smoke and flesh-roasting stench.
At once the mighty roars of the mountains were echoed by a high-pitched wail.
"Bloody Fairy." Tai muttered, grabbing Sora's hand and desperately tried to move through the black fog to where the fairy may have stumbled.
Suddenly what had once been jagged rocks beneath there feet became the absence of physicality and they found themselves hand in hand plummeting through a thick black nothingness.
As their bodies hit the floor, their eyes blinked with satisfaction as their sight returned and they could see great charred doors before them left slightly ajar. Beside the door lay ash dusted fruit and roots in baskets. The occasional animal laid dead and ready to feast upon at the door and messages were etched in an indescribable code onto slabs of slate.
"Madame aren't they beautiful?" A suave voice cried from inside the door. "They are truly wonderful creatures nom?"
As the bewildered pair crept through the charred doors, their eyes stung with fierce fiery light and their bodies flinched as they entered the vicious inferno, the mountain keeper's chamber.
The walls oozed molten magma, great monstrous heads pouring liquid fire from their mouths. At the end of the chamber stood a stone spiral which towered above the hall, upon that was a great throne of carved jagged volcanic rock and their the arrogant keeper sat, his eyes transfixed of the creatures dancing seductively before and beneath him.
There were three of them, winding in next to nothing, flaunting their bodies for his amusement, and in the middle of these beautiful women was the flustered face of Yolei.
"Company." The keeper murmured, annoyed that his amusement had been disturbed. Lounging in his chair he gazed lazily at the pair, no live mortals had ever entered his chamber without his permission. He hoped that this did not mean that the fire sparks were rebelling once more.
"Oh Tai." Yolei cried, running and flinging her arms around the boy, bringing an uncomfortable blush to his cheeks. "He is truly the most arrogant person I have ever met!"
"Oh Shut Up!" The keeper cried wavering his hand lazily. He could barely be motivated to look at them, his body language oozed self-superiority bronzed by the mountains warmth he absentmindedly ran his fingers through his dark spiky hair.
"He expected me to degrade myself in such an appalling dance as these wretches." Yolei wailed indicating to the skimpy girls around her.
"I'm Bored! I hope your all happy now!" He roared, glowering at the seductive dancers who cowered under his gaze. At once their was an almighty sizzle and all three girls flared up, their bodies burning from inside to out.
"Master!" One of the girls wailed flinging herself forward so that she clung to the base of the spiral, her eyes glistening with pain.
With a flick of his finger she burned to ash and the remains scattered over the horrified trio.
"Well." He smirked swinging his legs over the arm of the throne. "Entertain me, or pay the price."
Staring at one another, they gulped uncertainly, both Tai and Sora glanced at one another wondering what they hell they could pull off. Soccer was perhaps the only thing he truly excelled in and Sora didn't doubt that any type of flower she had heard of would wither and burn within seconds in this tremendous heat.
"I… I could sing for you!" Yolei stuttered, her head bent and cheeks pink.
"Then sing your heart out." The keeper laughed. Gazing now at the annoying lavender haired fairy with new intrigue.
"I'll sing the winter tale for you." She blushed, opened her mouth and prepared to lull the keeper with her traditional forest folk song. As she began the room seemed to bloom with the breeze and beauty of a spring forest, her voice carried them to the crystalline cascading waterfalls and through the spring bloom, but suddenly the world around them became cold, and her voice became a shrill high pitched squeal.
"Hush, HUSH UP YOU'LL WAKE UP MY SISTER." The keeper cried, placing his hands over his tanned ears. At once the mountain began to rumble and a mixture of annoyance and fear crossed the face of the keeper.
At once the fairy placed her indignant hands on her hips and glared at the keeper. Staring him down she opened her perfectly oval mouth to shriek once more.
Gazing back her threateningly, his eyes challenged her, intrigued by her sassy confidence.
"AHHHHH!" The fairy wailed, her mouth wider and angrier than before.
As soon as the wails pierced his ears he leapt upon the girl placing a hand over her mouth, so that her bitter song became a muffled murmur. Falling to the floor she wrestled from his grasp and threw him off her so he fell to the charcoaled floor.
"Idiot!" She cried, making exaggerated mouth movements to emphasise the fact her mouth still worked though dreadfully traumatised.
"You no what, I could have burned to a smouldering crisp if I pleased." He scowled, glaring at her with humorous contempt.
"Well I Dare You!" She challenged, scowling at the amused youth.
"I wouldn't do that, your too… amusing. Can you imagine, me worshipped and admired amused by a twinkling ball of pixie dust." He began, imposing some great importance upon himself.
"Worshipped by who? The petty and the stupid!" Tai laughed, averting Sora's less than amused gaze.
"And who dared utter that! The wandering light!" The keeper roared, his eyes a blaze with monumental fierceness as he glared at the perplexed wild haired youth. "He who yearns for the horizon, a confused and perplexed being, you dare mock me! You may be the last of them but I am the direct descendent and it falls upon me, when my sister sleeps, whether the fire burns. Nothing dare alights without my conformation. I am worshipped by those beneath me because the powers of my bloodline, I may only have a fraction of that but believe me you will burn!" He spat, the coldness of his voice contrasting with the intensity of his anger.
At once the Tai doubled over, clutching his stomach as his insides began to flare and burn. Gazing at a horror stricken Sora, his could barely gasp as the saliva in his mouth dried.
"Please don't hurt him." Yolei gasped from behind the keeper, her hand placed on his bare tanned shoulders. "I am what you call, a direct descendant also." She stated, smiling happily as the keeper broke his gaze and Taichi was left to regain his breath.
"A descendant of what?" Sora queried helping a stricken Taichi to his feet.
"It is from my mothers line, we do not speak of it often as her unfortunate end was most unexpected and cruel, but I am her great, great niece, and share a fraction of her once wondrous power." Yolei breathed, ignoring Sora's gasp as she opened her arms, welcoming the keeper into an elegant spell of wind waltzing.
"I must say, I have never met a women so feisty and annoying as you. You intrigue me deeply." The keeper whispered, enjoying this smooth form of dancing. "Please sing for me again"
At his command the fairy opened her mouth to a rush of melodic high shrieks, drowning out the numerous questions of a very perplexed Sora.
As the notes grew higher and sharper, the face of the keeper became more enraptured, ignoring the fact that the cavern around him was shaking with tremendous force, the ground that was once beneath his feet shaking dangerously as the magma from the mouths of the monstrous stone heads flickered violently onto the hall floor.
"I must say… your hair is most lushes and well kept, I could… I could possibly run my fingers through it all day long." Yolei blushed lovingly stroking the keeper's short spiky mane.
"DAVIS!!! DAVIS SHE IS AWAKE!" A small bluish creature wailed running into the hall, his stubby arms flailing madly above his head.
"Whose awake?" Yolei murmured, enjoying the feel of lushes brown hair under her fingertips.
"Just my sister." Davis replied casually as the monstrous heads finally collapsed under the strain of the burning magma, causing a river of intense molten rock to gush out of the scorched entrance. Closely on the heels of the two perplexed and now greatly terrified teenager. "Shall we continue our dance?" He whispered as his partner continued her shrieking song.
To Be ContinuedHoped you enjoyed that instalment, a bit of Yolei and Davis there but there was some useful information in that chapter regarding storyline but anyhoo…
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