Ok, here's the next chapter. The chapter 9, as well as a special episode, will come on 16.8.
What this regards, I got the idea by watching Inuyasha and Kamikaze Kaito Jeane. ^^"
For now, enjoy this (and leave a reviwe)
[Shining Dreamers by Digimon Xros Wars Hunters plays]
8. Chapter
The Haunted Shrine, a 500 Year Old Legend
The group heared rustling in the bushes.
"What was that?" asked Zia.
"Let's find it out." Arisa stood up and went towards the bushes.
"I wonder who dared to interupte us." said Lucemon and followed the girl.
"It could've been a squirrle, we're anyways in a forest." said Akari.
"And I don't care." said Damien and followed them. The others followed them.
The group soon appeared nearby the so called haunted shrine.
"Hmmm...Nothing's here." said Arisa.
"Well, I felt a Digimon." said Impmon.
"Me too." added Lucemon.
"Huh?" Airu looked up at the sky. Dark clouds formed up there and rain drops started to fall down.
"It's starting to rain." said BlackGatomon.
"Get into the shrine." said Arisa.
The group listened to her, as a storm started.
"This was close." said Candlemon.
"No what?" asked Seichi. Impmon looked at the dark open part of the forest, waiting for something to see, but nothing came out of the bushes.
"I guess we'll have to stay here." he said.
[Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park plays]
[A/N: Like I said in the last chapter more of this part you can read in Digimon Tamers Awake of the Demon Lords.]
"Okay, so you can countine the part with the prophecy." said Lucemon.
"That prophecy was too obvious." said Akari, crossing her arms. "'Seven Demons, created for destruction, will fall and be prisoned away.' That was the time when you got sealed away by the Souveregines."
"And we had a witness." said Impmon, looking at his Tamer.
"Wait a sec, you want to say she witnessed the battle." Lucemon pointed at Arisa.
"Yeah I did, but at that time I was only five years old." said Arisa.
"What did your parents said when they found out 'bout it?" asked Airu curiously.
"I never told them that. But they sure would've freak out. I actually told that my grandmother." said Arisa.
"What did the old hag say?" asked Hiroshi.
"She said that she's glad that I didn't tell that my mother, since mum would never understand that I cannot stay an ordinary girl." said Arisa.
"Yeah you're quite abnormal." whispered Lucemon, making everyone start to giggle, and earining a glare from Arisa.
"Why don't we move on with the story?" suggested Akari. "'A Human will break the Seal of Eternity and the Demons will Awake again.' That's pretty obvious."
"That man that broke the seal was Yung." said Damien.
"That's right. Next part: 'Four, to Conquer. Two, to Choose their own Path. One, to Cause Destruction.'"
"Okay, I wasn't there when that whole thing took part, but I could guess that the 'Four' should be DemiDevimon, Phascomon, Betamon and Candlemon, the 'Two' Impmon and BlackGatomon, and the 'One' Lucemon." said Seichi.
"That's right. This part was also too obvious: 'No one will survieve, everyone shall die.' That meaned all of you."
"Wait, he too died?" Lucemon pointed at Impmon.
"Sure I did. Right after the battle with Ogudmon." said Impmon.
"Fine with me." said Lucemon with a smirk. He didn't notice BlackGatomon's expression. She didn't forget WHO killed HER. "I wonder one thing, you say you two were the leaders of the two groups which had killed us. Have you send them after us or what?" asked DemiDevimon.
"Actually, no. What I did was that I left a note in which was written that I'm going alone to the DigiWorld to find Beelzemon." Arisa looked at Impmon. "Akari only followed me. I guess Takuto, the one who's partnered with the RK Gallantmon, told them what to do."
"Still, you two fought me." said Lucemon looking at Impmon and BlackGatomon.
"I told ya already, we wanted to stop you from activating that Gate." said Impmon.
"'The Keys will open the Gate of Terror and release a Forgoten Monster.'" added Arisa. "But like always, you didn't want to listen." said BlackGatomon.
"Which leaded to the release of Ogudmon, and now GranDracmon." said Akari.
"Stop looking at me like that." snapped Lucemon at them.
"Let's countine. 'A Sin will turn to a Virtue. The Balance will be brough back.' That meaned my Crest." said Arisa. "'A Warrior will be born. Despite his Origins of Darkness, he will serve the Light. And destroy the Eternal Enemy.' That meant Impmon." She sighed. "To be honest, I wish it turned out differently."
"Well, if it was already predicted by a prophecy, I doubt you would've changed a lot." said Candlemon. Arisa shrugged.
[A/N: The next part you can read in Digimon Tamers A Horror Trip.]
"Anyways, after that, the only interesting events which happened was that Parasimon Invasion and the Halloween Party we had in the old mansion." said Arisa.
"Someone took us out one after one, but at the end we found out that a Myotismon was the one who sucked his victims blood out." said Akari.
"And we found out that ghosts do exist." said Impmon.
"They don't." said Akinari.
"They do. I met the spirit of a girl called Alice who was murdered by that Myotismon. She even wrote a note underneath his. I'll show you that when we go to DigiCity." said Arisa.
"Alright." Akinari shrugged.
[A/N: The next part you can read in Digimon Tamers Underground Battles.]
"Next bigger what happened were the Underground Battles about few months ago." said Akari.
"What were the Undeground Battles?" asked Hiroshi.
"Actually battles in the underground, held by a guy called Morikawa Yukio. They started at the same day as the DRA Tournament. There we encountered again Ami, Sara, Miko, but also two guys called Kudo Tsubasa, whose partner was a Falcomon, and a guy called Monogami Ryo whose partner was the RK Examon. Those two joined Ami's group." said Arisa.
"Yeah, anyways, we found out that Yukio somehow absorbed the negative emotions of the Digimon and Tamers there and used them to make D-Reaper stronger." said Impmon.
"What's D-Reaper?" asked Phascomon.
"It is a programm, and the D-Reaper's orginal purpose was to purge the Digital World once the number of lifeforms within it surpasses a certain number, and it pursued this goal with deadly efficiency." said Seichi.
"Buh?" Lucemon, Phascomon, DemiDevimon, Betamon, Damien, Airu, Hiroshi, Akinari, Zia and Gumdramon looked at him with confused expressions on their faces.
"Speak normal so that we can understand you." said Damien.
"What Seichi wanted to say is that D-Reaper is a programm made for deleting any Digital Creatures. It looks like a big crimson-purple blob." translated Arisa.
"And you just had to dissapeare in the time of crisis." said Akari.
"How do you mean it?" asked Betamon.
"D-Reaper can feed himself with negative energy. He captured me to make himself stronger." whispered Arisa.
"You got yourself captured? That was really stupid." said Akinari.
"D-Reaper destroyed the half of DigiCity and almost the whole DigiWorld." said BlackGatomon. "You should've seen what was left from the Dark Area. Luckily, everything got rebuilt."
"How did you manage to defead it?" asked Damien.
"Yung, who had a heart change, made us a programm and as D-Reaper turned into Quartzmon..." Arisa got cut off.
"D-Reaper turned into Quartzmon?! How's that possible?" asked Seichi.
"A Keramon merged with it. Anyways, we managed to implant a bomb into Quartzmon which deleted it." said Akari.
"Then Yggdrasil appeared, Calu!" said Calumon.
"WHAT?" All five Demon Lords and their Digimon jumped on their feet.
"Calu, yes, and he took us away. Calu!" said Calumon.
"He did?" asked Lucemon.
"Yeah, he took every Digimon back to the DigiWorld and forbid us to go to the Real World." said BlackGatomon.
"Well, he messed up with the wrong ones." said Impmon.
[A/N: The next part you can read in Digimon Tamers Digital Rebelion.]
"A DigiGnome opened a portal in our Castle and I used to pass to the Real World. While in the Data Realm, a kind of programm attacked me, but I destroyed it." countined Impmon.
"The same happened to me when I used a Data Stream to pass through." said Gumdramon.
"And that's the part when I finnaly got my partner." said Zia.
"Anyways, I, Impmon, Zia and Gumdramon went back from Yokohama to DigiCity where we found out that an Organisation tries to delete every Digimon that appears in the Real World." said Arisa.
"But also that at that time, Akari and BlackGatomon started a Rebelion in DigiCity." said Zia.
"A Rebelion?" asked Lucemon.
"Yeah, am, you don't mind that I used the portal in our castle to almost everyone who was supposed to be an ally of mine." said BlackGatomon.
"You did what?" Lucemon jumped on his feet.
"Sheesh, calm down." said Impmon. "Anyways, in both Worlds a big fiasco started. I heared from Pinapplehead that in the DigiWorld, Yggdrassil told the RK's to kill every Digimon that trys to pass the portal. Honestly, the RK's tried to disobey him. And in the Real World, we had our own problems with a group of Gizumon and some crazy woman called Mezurno Tammy. She's supposed to be a DigiDestenied, but she hated Digimon because her partner was Reapermon." "She hated Reapermon because he was the one who started that war between humans and Digimon?" asked Airu.
"No, she hated him because he killed other Digimon. But when Reapermon sacrisfied his life, her eyes opened and she finnaly accepted him." said Akari.
"At that time Yggdrassil himself appeared and we battled him. Lilithmon, Arresterdramon, ShineGreymon Burst Mode, Gallantmon Crimson Mode and BlackWarGreymon managed to break his defence. Beelzemon Warrior Mode managed to break his True Form revelating his Orginal form, a crystal ball." said Arisa.
"And...?" asked Lucemon.
"What and?" asked Impmon.
"Did you kill him?" asked Lucemon.
"I didn't." replied Impmon.
"What?! You had the damn chance to kill the God of the DigiWorld and you didn't? You're such a fool." said Lucemon.
"Hey listen to me, Ms. I released GranDracmon. I was tired, and I only wanted to teach Yggy a lesson and go to get a rest. At least Yggy did something positive and went to a hibernation state and left the Souveregines his job." said Impmon.
"After that I, Impmon, Akari, BlackGatomon and Calumon moved to Yokohama and this story begun." said Arisa.
"Why don't you write something of what happened in the past as a short story?" asked Seichi.
"Nah,...though, I thought I could write a book about the adventures I had." said Arisa.
"You would?" asked Airu.
"Would we then appear too?" asked Lucemon.
"Sure thing." nodded Arisa. "Why?"
"Am, nothing." replied the angel Digimon.
"I'll start from the war the humas and Reapermon and write everything happened, to me and to everyone I knew." said Arisa. "Maybe you could help me choosing the titles."
"Well, the story which'll involuve this adventure could be named Return of the Demon Lords." said Impmon.
"Also you can add our team name. Digimon Shadow Tamers." said Akinari.
"Okay. And it'll be great." said Arisa.
"I curious about something. Remember the last prophecy:
The Demons never sleep,
A granted Wish, a forgotten Prophecy,
They will come back A New Battle will begin.
The Crests will shine,
the Undead will rise,
the Gate will reopen,
and their Master will awake.
A Great Digimon from the past.
The Sins will strenght him,
The Virtues will destroy him.
Which Atributte will win?
Only the Keepers know it..." said Zia.
"Yeah what is it?" asked Airu.
"The part with the battle I understand, but I don't get the granted wish and forgotten prophecy part." said Zia and looked over to Arisa.
"What?" asked Arisa.
"You know such stuff best. Any idea what that might be?" asked Zia. Arisa rubbed her head.
"I have not the slighest idea. Guess I'll have to talk with Shinzui when I'll meet her...wait, I got it." she said. "'A granted Wish.' The DigiGnomes are wish granters and as much I remember..."
"Say, hadn't we made that promise that we'll see each other again before I died first." said Impmon.
"Sure, and there's something other." said Arisa and looked at the other Shadow Tamers."Guys, I think our own wishes had pulled us into this situation."
"How do you...oh, I got it." said Akinari.
"I knew that." said Zia.
"That would be?" asked Lucemon.
"We all wished to have Digimon partners, however, we wished that you guys become our partners." said Akinari.
"Which the DigiGnomes granted." ended Arisa.
"Same goes for me here." said Akari.
"Who would think that wishes could have such effects." said Candlemon.
[These Chains by Sturm and Drang plays]
"Anyways, I wondered why this place is called Haunted Shrine." said Seichi.
"Well, everything begun in the Edo Period, when this city was a fisher village. It was said that a samurai, called Tokai, walked around Japan, killing the ones who rebeled against the Shogun, Daimos and even the Emperor. The emperor gave him a piece of land and let him build a house, a castle to be precise. That piece of land would be this forest." said Arisa. "However, he was everything else then a honoured warrior. Actually he was an assasian, who killed poor villagers, both men, woman, even elder people and children. The villagers descriebed him as a terrifing killer, coldhearted and without any feelings."
"And what happened to him?" asked Lucemon.
"After he got married, he settled down. They had a daughter and lived, how it seemed, happily. However, one night, the samurai saw in his dreams the people he killed. They were calling out for vegance. The first few nights, he ignored that. But then he started to see the dead everywhere, even by daylight. That made him go nuts. He said that the dead want his death and that he even saw a strange black creature with sharp claws, horns and bloody red eyes. One night, while his wife searched for him she found him dead." Arisa stopped.
"How did he die?" asked Akari.
"He hung himself. He even didn't do a harakiri. The dagger was lying next to him. The villagers said that the souls of the death came for him." said Arisa. "After that, his wife killed herself, but before that, they burned their castle down. However, the room where Tokai was found dead, was whole, even after the inferno that burned the castle to ashes. That room, the villagers rebuilt into a shrine to calm down the angry spirits." said Arisa and looked upwards. "That's this shrine. And where Impmon's sitting now was the place where the man was found."
"What?!" Everyone looked upwards. They saw a white x mark on the roof.
"And what about his daughter?" asked Akinari.
"His daughter became known as an exorcist and..." Arisa stopped at that part.
"What? What is it Arisa?" asked Airu. Instead Arisa, Seichi answered.
"I read something in the archive in the library. That girl became something we would today call a Demon Hunter." he said. The Demon Lords seemed to feel nervous. "Okaaaay, and what has everything to do with you?" asked Akari.
"I'm Tokai's descedand." said Arisa. "From my mother's side."
"That would explain why your grandmother dosen't like us." said Lucemon. Arisa sighed.
"Or why my mother dosen't like Impmon. We have also a little tradition that the oldest daughter becames the Keeper of the Shrine." she said.
"And a Demon Hunter?" assumed Lucemon with a frown.
"No, well, not exactly." said Arisa. She looked at them. "Aw, com'n guys don't give me that look. I never actually wanted to tell you that story. Though..." she thought a bit. "I just got the perfect idea for my homework."
"Well, at least, it was worth telling us that story." said Hiroshi. "You got an idea for you homework and we found out you're a Demon Hunter."
Arisa glared at him.
"What?"
The girl sighed.
"I wonder one thing. After everything you told us, do you think it's save to sleep over here?" mocked Akinari.
"Sure it is." replied Arisa. "At least I think so."
Everyone sweatdropped.
The next day, the rain stopped and the group went back to their camp.
"I'm feeling like a freak." said Arisa, who sighed, lowering her head.
"Hey, relax, you're our freak." Hiroshi patted her back.
"Thanks." The girl frowned as she replied sarcasstically.
"Hiroshi's right, and it's not like everyone has such a cool past like you have." added Damien.
"And it is a good thing to have you as an ally, not an enemy." said Phascomon who was on Hiroshi's shoulder.
"That's sweet from you guys." said Arisa.
"Hey look!"
Akinari, who was on the top, exclaimed as they entered their camp. It was totally destroyed.
"Hey, that was my borther's tent!" groaned Airu. Arisa took her D-Power. She noticed four more dots which didn't belong to her team.
"Lightning Sting!"
A triplet of lighting was shot towards them.
"Watch out!" exclaimed Zia. The group escaped the lightings, as three Digimon emerged.
"Flybeemon. Level: Armor. Type: Insect. Attribute: Data. Flybeemon is the Armor Digivolved form of Hawkmon through the Digi-Egg of Knowledge." said Arisa. "They are responsible for the mess."
"Lightning Sting!"
The teens and their Digimon again escaped the attack.
"Demi Dart!" DemiDevimon fired his toxin filled syrnges at them, making them fall down.
"Grand Cross!" Lucemon fired ten super-heated spheres of light arranged in a cruciform syzygy, deleting them immediantly.
"Great and who'll pay for the damage?" asked Damien.
"I have no idea." said Airu.
Arisa looked at her D-Power. There still was one more Digimon, however, it soon dissappeared.
Zamielmon, who was now the size of adult human and was watching them, hid in the deepest part of the forest.
"That wasn't the last time you heared from me." he said.
The next morning in the school, the whole group gathered around Arisa who seemed to be satisfied.
"A+, what do you say?" she said with a smile showing them her story.
"I say we should go more often to camping trips." said Akinari. Everyone giggled at that comment.
[Ending Song Tooi Michi no Saki de by Inuyasha plays]
Daemon's speaking. Next time it's mine and Airu's turn to pass our test. Both of us will have to learn how to control our temper and how to wait. Which is everything else then easy. Stay tuned for episode 9:~Patience is Everything, Airu and Daemon's Test~ Don't Miss it!
