Angel of Vengeance

Chapter 3

The Clown


Renamon, or whatever she'd become, was a bit uncomfortable. But this had nothing to do with the fact that she still wasn't quite used to the new body she possessed, and had everything to do with the girl– no, the young woman– in front of her. She fidgeted a bit and her cape and chains rustled and clattered audibly. Ruki had grown up to be a beautiful young woman, and Renamon was very glad to see this. But the hard eye the Tamer was giving her left her wary of what her Tamer (Former Tamer?) would do or say. She'd been standoffish since she'd come to the house, and while she understood it, it still rankled the Digital Hellspawn.

"How?" Was all the red-and-blonde haired girl asked. Renamon knew what she was asking, and shook her head with as much confusion as was loaded into the question.

"I don't know." Renamon replied. "One minute I was throwing myself in the way of Beelzemon's attack...the next I was here. Like this." She lifted a hand and lightly tugged at the voluminous blood red cloak that seemed to be very much attached to her. "I don't remember anything in between. The last five years are just...blackness."

Impmon watched the goings on warily. He wasn't sure he believed it, but the more he listened to the Hellspawn, the more and more convinced he became that t his was in fact Renamon. He couldn't say why he was so sure of it, or why he became ever more convinced as conversation had continued between her and the others. Ruki's sudden appearance in front of the Vulpine Digimon...was she even still a Digimon?...was a surprise but the answers the Tamer got from her Digimon— If indeed they were still bonded, or had been re-bonded...whatever— seemed to drive the idea home to him. He got up from his seat and walked over towards her.

The Hellspawn felt more than heard the little imp moving towards her. Green eyes met green eyes, and the one time Fox of the Tao wondered what this was about. She couldn't quite help feeling amused, and a little vindictive, when she saw him scratch at the back of his head sheepishly.

"Listen, Renamon...about what happened five years back...I'm sorry. It was a pretty screwed up time for all of us." he said haltingly. "I was kinda drunk on my new power as a Mega and...well, you saw what resulted from that."

Takato smiled a bit and patted the little Digimon on the shoulder, and Renamon felt simultaneously annoyed and nostalgic. Annoyed because Takato seemed to have utterly forgiven the little imp his mistakes, and nostalgic because of the fact that it seemed Takato's basic personality hadn't changed a whit. She noticed attention had shifted to her, and looked at the little Rookie and couldn't quite help chuckling.

"I suppose given how long I've been gone, and that Takato and the others've forgiven you, I'd be a real; bitch to hold a grudge. Forgiven, Impmon. Just be more careful who you trust your fate to next time." The DigiSpawn said. This drew laughter from the others and an abashed but grateful nod from Impmon. The party seemed to get back into full swing after that, laughter and food abounding. One thing that had people gaping shortly thereafter was the fact that Renamon's odd new mask seemed to respond to her thoughts, pulling away from her face to allow her to eat, and leaving behind a dark silver colored vulpine head behind. Her eyes were brighter by comparison without the mask on, and green replaced the blue under her eyes to make it a matching set. Takato gave her a smile and a wink when she began to look self-conscious at the attention, which raised a blush through her fur, but the moment passed (though Ruki couldn't help but glare at Takato for the flirting he was engaging in with the Digital Hellspawn.) and general chatter resumed. It was when Shuichon was reaching up to the top shelf of a bookcase and nearly fell that the group got to see another of Renamon's new powers in action as her cape extended to absurd lengths and caught the falling girl with a deftness nobody would have believed possible from a mere cape.

"Whoa...cool!" Kenta remarked with a laugh. Shuichon seemed utterly fine, if startled from the fall. But she had quickly made up for that by plopping herself down next to Renamon and babbling off about a million and one questions per second, or so it seemed. She wanted to know everything about the Spawn possible. Sadly, the reborn Digimon had no answers for her. But after awhile the girl gave up, seeing no worthwhile explanation forthcoming. The party trundled on, well into the early hours of the morning before everyone else left. Everyone save for Ruki, her mother, her grandmother, and Renamon. Ruki remained polite, but distant. She still had trouble believing this was really her partner, back from the dead. Renamon couldn't bring herself to blame the girl. Once everyone else had gone to bed, the Digital Hellspawn made her way to teh roof of the traditional style house, cape rustling lightly in the mild breeze.

"Well lookie here. Ain't you all cozy and comfy?"

Renamon spun around sharply, cape and chains reacting with the speed of thought, snapping out against the direction of the voice, to see a grossly overweight human— she thought it was a human anyway— with odd makeup on his face and bunring red eyes dodge— barely— out of the path of the attack.

"Oy! Watch it, ya stupid bitch! You could'a taken my head off!"

"That was the general idea." Renamon replied to the angry shout. "Who are you? If you're some demented prowler or burglar, I warn you now I will show you no quarter."

"Oh please. If I wanted to hurt your precious humans, I'dve done it by now. I ain't here for them, sweet-cheeks. I'm here for you. You're a first among Hellspawn, and I can't wait to start your training..."


The Unenviable Author's Post-notes!:

Short, yes. But I hate to admit that this year Halloween kinda snuck up on me due to work on my novels meant for actual publication! This fic has become something of a halloween tradition for me. So yeah, that's why I've only been updating it once a year. I'll try to make next year's chapter bigger. But for now, here's the third chapter of Angel of Vengeance!

Happy Halloween folks! Remember, may your night be filled with frightful fun and candy to match the power of the sun!

*At this point, Godzilla pops up and waves.* Godzilla: HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! ^.^

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