A Family Fight part 2
Native forest
Marcus, Rei, Chihiro, Kristy and their Digimon all ran in the direction from which the scream had just come.
"I sure hope Charlotte is alright!" Chihiro said.
"Well judging by that scream I don't think she's alright!" Marcus shouted to his youngest daughter.
Edge of the Native Forest
Charlotte Daimon screamed as she was thrown into the trunk of a tall tree. She slumped down in front of the tree and groaned in pain.
"Have you had enough now?" The Digimon Empress laughed wickedly.
"N...N…No" Charlotte stuttered attempting to stand up but it wasn't that easy due to the fact that she had just been hit with an attack full force.
"Just give up you can barely stand as it is" the Digimon Empress said laughing.
"I don't care I'm not giving up until I know the truth" Charlotte said running forward and managing to land a punch on BioSharpmon. The Digimon Empress watched as BioSharpmon and Charlotte took each others blows. Then the Digimon Empress started to have flash backs.
(Flashback :)
Five year old Jenny Raku walked through Odiver Park. Suddenly out of nowhere three older boys came running over to her and knocked Jenny into the mud face first.
"Ha, ha, ha look guys Raku is playing in the mud again" one of the boys laughed.
"Hey Raku did your mommy and daddy break up because of you?" another boy laughed. Jenny could feel the hot tears forming in her eyes as she tried her best to stop them from falling but her efforts were useless and tears started to trickle down her face.
"Look the little babies crying" one of the boys said laughing. Jenny just sat there in the mud letting her tears fall down her cheeks.
"What's the matter does the little baby want her mommy and daddy?" the first boy laughed.
"Hey leave her alone!" someone shouted. The three boys and Jenny turned to look at where the voice had come from. There stood behind them was six year old Charlotte Daimon and her best friend Samantha Norstein who was also six.
"Charlotte" Jenny said wiping her tears.
"Hey leave my cousin alone she didn't do anything to you!" Charlotte said.
"And what if we don't leave her alone?" the first boy said.
"Then you'll have to deal with me" Charlotte said passing her bag to Samantha.
"Ha, ha, ha fight with a girl you have got to be kidding me" the three boys said laughing. Charlotte glared at the boys; as if she was going to stand by and let then insult her and her cousin. Charlotte raised her hand and screwed it up into a fist. She ran forward hitting one of the boys right in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground. The boy sat there clutching his stomach until he noticed a shadow over the top of him. He looked up to see Charlotte standing over him.
"If I were you I would get out of here before I really get warmed up" Charlotte threatened. The boy glared at Charlotte before standing up and walking away with his mates following closely behind him. Charlotte turned to her cousin who was getting helped out of the mud by Samantha.
"Are you alright Jenny?" Samantha asked offering Jenny a handkerchief.
"Yeah I'm fine" Jenny replied taking the handkerchief. Charlotte walked over to her cousin.
"Thank you Charlotte" Jenny said.
"Hey what are cousins for?" Charlotte said taking her bag off Samantha.
"Anyway, we'll see you later Jenny and remember if those boys or anyone else for that matter start making fun of you then come and find me and I'll deal with them okay?" Charlotte said swinging her bag onto her back and with that she started walking off in the direction of her home with Samantha following her.
"Okay" Jenny said as she watched her cousin walk away…..
(End of Flashback)
The Digimon Empress stared at the fight in front of her watching as Charlotte took blow after blow.
'Charlotte saved me that day'Jenny thought. 'But then when I think about it she didn't always act so nice to me as we grew up' Jenny thought remembering what had happened when she was seven.
(Flashback :)
Seven year old Jenny was sat on the sofa at her aunt and uncle's house. She was watching cartoons with five year old Chihiro Daimon her younger cousin. Charlotte who was eight at the time was sat on the opposite chair with her nose stuck in a book.
"What you reading Charlotte?" Jenny asked.
"A book on what to do if your parents break up" Charlotte answered. Then a thought struck Chihiro.
"Hey Jenny?" Chihiro asked.
"Yeah" Jenny replied.
"Why did your parents break up?" Chihiro asked. At this question Charlotte raised her head from her book. She had forgotten that Chihiro had only been two when Aunt Kristy and Uncle Masuken had broken up so she didn't know Uncle Masuken very well or what had actually happened at the time. But Charlotte remembered it quite clearly. Pretending not to care about the question that Chihiro had just asked she returned to reading her book.
"Well um… you see they were having problems because my dad kept going out and drinking so my mom had enough and she divorce him" Jenny explained.
"So you mean your parents broke up just because your dad kept drinking?" Chihiro asked with wide eyes.
"Well… yeah" Jenny said leaning back in the chair. Chihiro stared at Jenny before she jumped off the sofa and ran over to Charlotte and started tugging on her sister's jacket.
"Charlotte?" Chihiro said tugging on her sister's jacket even more.
"What is it Chihiro?" Charlotte asked without turning to look at her sister.
"You don't think our mommy and daddy will break up do you?" Chihiro asked. Charlotte and Jenny both turned to look at the five year old. Charlotte put her book down on the chair and knelt down to Chihiro's height.
"Why are you asking that? You know mom and dad love each other very much" Charlotte said placing a hand on her sister's shoulder.
"But Jenny said that her parents broke up because her dad kept drinking and our dad goes out to drink every Friday and your reading a book on what to do if your parents break up" Chihiro said.
"Yeah well…" Charlotte said trailing off.
"You see that means mommy and daddy are going to break up!" Chihiro shouted as tears fell from her eyes. Chihiro then pulled away from Charlotte and ran upstairs to her bedroom.
"Chihiro!" Charlotte shouted after her younger sister. She then turned to face Jenny.
"See what you've done now you made her think that just because parents drink it means that they are going to break up!" Charlotte said leaving the room and heading upstairs to her sister.
"But… I didn't…"Jenny trailed off…
(End of Flashback)
The Digimon Empress clenched her fists as she remembered that day and how Charlotte had blamed her for Chihiro being upset. She looked at her cousin.
'When I was little Charlotte always use to help me whenever I needed help but as we grew older we grew apart and she tended to ignore me or shout at me' Jenny thought.
Meanwhile BioSharpmon had just dodged another one of Charlotte's punches.
"Claw Strike"BioSharpmon shouted releasing her attack again. This time it hit Charlotte in the stomach and she was once again flung into the trunk of a tree.
"Finish this now BioSharpmon" the Digimon Empress muttered. BioSharpmon walked forward stopping when she was directly above Charlotte. Agumon who had been battling against the Digimon Empresses BlackAgumon turned around to look at his partner who was sat slumped against a tree.
"Charlotte no!" Agumon shouted.
"This ends here Digidestined brat" BioSharpmon said raising her hands. Charlotte could do nothing but close her eyes and wait for the pain to come again.
"Pepper Breath, Beta Shugger, Fin Cutter, Claw Strike"
Out of nowhere four attacks appeared directly hitting BioSharpmon sending her flying in the opposite direction. Charlotte opened her eyes and turned to where BioSharpmon laid.
"What happened?" the Digimon Empress shouted. BlackAgumon and Agumon both stopped fighting to see what was going on.
"Well, well… so Charlotte's message was right" a voice said.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" the Digimon Empress shouted. The bushes rustled and then Marcus, Rei, Chihiro, Kristy and their Digimon appeared.
"Mom, Dad, Chihiro, Aunt Kristy what are you doing here?" Charlotte asked whilst slowly standing up.
"We came to find you of course" Marcus said turning to his daughter. The Digimon Empress glared at them as she stood there with her whip in her hand.
"BioSharpmon, BlackAgumon come on we're going!" she shouted and with that she turned on her heels and ran.
"Jenny wait up!" BlackAgumon shouted running after his partner. BioSharpmon followed close behind. Kristy watched as her daughter ran off into the darkness.
"Why Jenny?… why you?" she muttered under her breath.
"So would you care to explain why you came all this way just to fight with your own cousin?" Marcus asked Charlotte.
"I don't know…. I just wanted to find out why she was doing this" Charlotte said staring at the ground which had all of a sudden become much more interesting. Marcus and Rei smiled at their oldest daughter before Marcus leaned forward and ruffled his daughter's hair.
"You are so much like me and your mom" he said picking her up so that her head was resting on his shoulder.
"Now why don't we all go home?" Marcus suggested. They all agreed and set off to find a Digiport but Kristy had her mind somewhere else. She was still thinking of her daughter and why she would do such a thing.
Digimon Empress Base
The Digimon Empress stared out the window looking out at the digital world before her BlackAgumon came up beside her.
"Jenny is this really what you wanted to be the ruler of the digital world?" BlackAgumon asked. The Digimon Empress turned to face her Digimon.
"I guess not BlackAgumon I guess what I really wanted was something else" she replied as she watched the sun set behind the mountains.
To be continued…..
