A couple months after the defeat of BlackWereGarurumon and Keith had died, I had found my way to a school. I had no idea why I was at the school or what I was supposed to do there, but something in me told me that this was a place I had to go to.
I walked around the school grounds for a little while, just trying to find a possible lead to finding the next servant of Daemon. Curious, I talked to somebody. Just to see if maybe that can perhaps get me some information.
"Hey, is there any odd happenings here?" I asked and the person I asked whispered something to me.
"One of the recent teachers here has been acting really strange. What I mean is that the man takes these two students over to the back of the school every few days or so. Nobody asks him why he does it but he comes back a few hours later every time and when he comes back they just look like nothing happened. He has only been here recently. No more than a year. Same thing as the two students that he keeps taking." The person said and I asked her who these two students were.
"Their names are Jason and Anna. A brother and sister. I don't know much about them but from I heard their family is gone and they can't be able to talk with their family anymore. I don't know how or why, but that is all I know." She told me and I nodded. Just maybe a tad bit confused.
"Okay, thanks for telling me. I will think about that." I said, not exactly sure myself if I was telling her the truth or not. I left the room that we were in and sat down on a chair in the corner of a really large room.
When I sat down on the chair, I saw several people walking in and out of the room and most of them had hardly even known where I was. It was as if I was nonexsistent. Which is odd because I think everybody sort of is like that to a different person. Most of these people in a couple hours after they first meet them, that person won't really matter.
I would say I was down in the chair for nearly a hour before somebody finally said something to me. Or at the very least showed that they were aware of me being there. It was a little boy who looked to be about ten years old or something.
"Hey, I don't think I ever met you." The boy said and I had opened my eyes because I think I was about to go to sleep for a moment. When I opened my eyes though, I tried to pay attention to them.
"What is your name?" I asked the boy a little bit curious.
"My name is Jason. I go here as a student. What about you? Are you just perhaps one of the older students?" Jason asked me and I tried to think of a good cover up.
"No, I just got registered here today. I heard you had a sister. Is that true?" I told him and he seemed to think about Anna again.
"Yeah, her name is Anna. She's my older sis. She also goes here as well. One might say we get along well enough. She had been sort of raising me as her own child for the last few years since we lost contact with our parents." Jason said and then realized that he had been saying too much to me.
"I shouldn't have said that. I know Anna doesn't like it when I go talking about that stuff. Pretend like you never heard any of that okay. Just between you and me alright." Jason told me and then ran off. I stared at him a bit interested as he was running off. I was curious why Anna his sister didn't want him to talk about that stuff. Maybe she was a private person. I would have to look more into that.
I stood up and started walking up and down the halls of the building. That way I wouldn't be close to falling asleep like how I had been earlier. That was the total definition of embarrassing. Maybe Jason was the only one who noticed and perhaps I would be able to get away with it this time. But I was in no mood to try my luck doing it again.
That night was when I was able to meet Anna for the first time. It was easy since Jason was with her. "Hey I saw your brother earlier today?" I said when we introduced ourselves.
"Yeah he told me he talked with somebody earlier. Although he didn't really go into much detail on who they looked like." Anna said and all three of us sat around a table.
"At least it's a nice night outside." I said feeling glad over that I hated it when the night time was terrible and all rainy and stuff. You have no idea how many times I have had to suffer through things like those.
"I love it when the night is clear like this. Gives me a chance to examine the stars. Some day I wish I would become a star as well and have people remember me." Jason said and I thought that this would have been something Anna would say.
"I doubt any of us are going to be so important that we are going to be going down as some sort of crazy legend hundreds of years in the future. It would be cool if that did happen, but it most likely won't." Anna was thinking about her family and what they used to do together when she said that.
"Is there something you would like to talk about? I have seen plenty of things in my life time that honestly I shouldn't be going through at this point." I told them and was wondering how much of the truth I should tell them.
"One of our teachers is acting really odd." Anna said and lowered her voice by double after she looked over for a moment and saw that the teacher was at a corner watching them talking this whole time.
"Yeah, they would lead us into the forest and after they do so, they lead us to a part of the forest. In that area of the forest, there is a large bug like monster that is sleeping. Never once has it opened its eyes to say anything to us, but we can tell from the presence around it that it is one of the most powerful things to have ever come across those woods." Jason told me and I asked them a little bit more for details.
"What does the bug look like exactly?"
"Large and black. They also have four arms and a grey chest. It looks like something that was created in a legend if it had went horribly wrong." Anna said and I knew right then and there that this was another one of Daemon's main servants.
"Can you show me the way to this bug? I really want to see it." I asked them and saw that neither of them had even wanted to consider doing something like this.
"What is your purpose for doing this?" Anna asked and I told her that it was something related to me that I had to sort out on my own.
"After you show me the way, you can leave all you all. You can pretend like you had never seen me before in your life." I said and promised them that this would never happen again if they would just do this.
"If this would lead to our freedom from this thing, I'm in." Jason decided and Anna forcefully agreed. We agreed that we would meet back at the front entrance of the school in fifteen minutes before we split up for the moment.
A few minutes later, Jason and I met together again at the front of the school. I asked them if they were ready. Jason said he was and Anna said she was although she didn't really look like it.
"Well then, I guess its bets for us to get going." I said and we started walking in the direction of the forest. Anna was the one that was leading there and she seemed like she was worried the whole time she was walking there. I wondered what could be so bad about it. I mean what would the bug have done to them that could have made them both feel like this.
Several minutes passed and I could feel the darkness coming as we were walking closer and being in the forest sort of gave it a scary feeling. After ten or minutes we had reached the area of the large black bug.
"That's the bug." Anna said and I told them that they were allowed to leave if they wished. They started walking off a little worried and after they were about twenty feet away from me, the bug opened their eyes showing a yellow set of eyes.
"This one is named BlackMegaKabuterimon. They are another one of Daemon's big servants." I heard Tina say to my head and I took that sword out. I really knew I should get something else as a main fighting tool. Like a gun or something. But for now it was doing well and I think this one would be a breeze even more so than if I didn't use one.
BlackMegaKabuterimon flew right at me and opened their four arms up. I sliced one of their arms off. Making it so I only had three to worry about. Then the BlackMegaKabuterimon swung another one of their arms and I ducked in time to avoid it. I then sliced that same arm off.
With one of their two remaining arms, they slammed their fists down to the ground and I barely blocked it with my sword. This fight was a little too easy for me to deal with. I sliced that third arm off. The fourth one was the only one that actually hit me and it only pushed me back a couple inches. Not feeling even the tiniest bit phased, I sliced off their fourth arm and that had finished all the arms.
After all the arms were sliced off, BlackMegaKabuterimon started breathing some gross goo out of their mouth and I ducked down to avoid it by just a small amount. Although there was a tiny bit that hit my back. I then sliced the BlackMegaKabuterimon in half. Winning this particular fight. This would turn out to b by far the easiest of the eight main servants of Daemon.
"How were you able to do that?" Jason asked and I told them that it has just come out with a ton of practice. I said that maybe we should get out of the area so nothing can do anything to us at the moment.
We were walking back inside the school and we were laughing the whole time and talking. When we were at the entrance of the school, Anna told Jason to go inside. She looked at me and smiled.
"Want to be my boyfriend?" She asked me and I felt excited over that question. I never had somebody ask me to be their boyfriend so this was really special.
"I would like to be your boyfriend. Maybe it will go somewhere." I agreed and we walked inside the school which was where our next encounter was.
Inside the school, we took a short break to sort of cool ourselves down from that encounter that I had with BlackMegaKabuterimon. "What does that man who kept leading you over there look like?" I asked after we had been settled down for just a little bit.
"He never saw what his face was looking like exactly. He always had a silver mask that couldn't really show us anything. But I felt that he as just a normal human. Which is the worst part if you were to ask me." Anna said and I had a feeling that she was talking about Jackson. Although it seemed withe every meeting that I had with him, he was getting less and less human. Almost more like a monster.
"Where does he normally go around this time of night" I asked and Jason told me that he normally stayed in the main hall. So just a few feet away. I decided it was time that I checked this out to see if I was right or not.
Finding the mask with the mask wasn't all that hard. In fact, you could say that I found him only a couple seconds after I had walked into that room. "Hello." I said in a casual way. To try and get the man not to fear me so much.
"You sound like somebody I know." The man said real calm after I said hello to him. I was getting the feeling that I was right with my prediction on that this was Jackson. But to be sure, I still kept talking.
"Going around the states this last year has been over kill for me." I said and he looked at me. Remaining silent for just a moment longer before he put his hands on my back. The feel of his hands made me scared. Almost like my fate was coming.
"Come on young man. We have a bit to talk about." He said and started leading me into a empty hall of the school. When Jason and Anna saw what was going on, they put themselves at risk and started following him. To make sure that I was safe.
Soon, the room we were in was completely empty and we were alone for a moment. The man took off his mask to reveal what I had thought from the start. It was Jackson after all.
"I have been here the last few months, knowing that you would eventually reach here. Those two kids that I kept bringing to the forest was just a cruel joke on my part. That way I can make some of them scared for their lives. But now that you are here and that I am here, let's get this thing over with." Jackson said and held his hand up into the air. Which started to cause a black form of energy.
"How are you able to do that? You are just a normal human. This should be impossible. I said and Jackson swung the black form of energy at me. I was able to sort of split it in two with my weapon.
"This is insanity. There is no way that I can win like this. I need to find more of my personal strength." I said and dropped the blade. The black form of energy became two again and showed a shadow version of me. Just like what had happened that one time nearly two years ago. Although this one was far more powerful. One look at it and I could tell that right away.
The shadow version of me flew in my direction and I brought my hand out in a fast motion. Making the shadow confused as I brought my hand through their body for a moment. But then they started coming closer to me and started covering my body. I saw a water spout on the ceiling and I jumped onto a chair. Then I aimed at the water spout and jumped right there and pulled down on it. Causing some water to start coming off of it. The black form of energy started being scared from the water and getting off my body.
After that happened, I jumped back onto the ground and watched as it started to fully form again. But seeing as it wasn't really formed into anything yet, I picked my blade up again and sliced a big part of it off. So when it formed again one of the arms was gone. The other arm though hit me and sent me going across the room.
Without even thinking about it most likely, the shadow version of me was walking into the water again. Making it starting to fall a part again. In a few seconds, they were just a black bit of gross goo and started going down a drain.
"That was too easy if anything." I told Jackson and he smiled. As if he was glad I passed this mini test. Because the tests were going to get a lot harder or something. He clapped his hands and a large bit of fire flew right at me and right through my chest. Separating my shirt and making it become to.
I saw what it looked like. My chest was now totally burnt around the middle point all around. I fell down to the ground and that was when Jason and Anna came into the room. When Jackson saw them, he ran out the window and never showed up at the school again.
"Oh my gosh. You need some help." Anna said and picked me up. Jason took that blade and carried it with his left hand. Anna brought me all the way up to her and Jason's room and placed me on their bed. "I will try and see if I can do anything about this. She said and turned around.
"Anna, who are those people?" Jason asked and she looked over to see them. Three people in all. Chiro, in his white clothes with the red cross. Jared, with his archers bow that I still have no idea how he got it. And Stephanie who looked like she was all for Chrio as she had her arms around his chest. It looked a little bit like a movie.
"We heard the news as fast as it happened." Stephanie said and I had absolutely no idea how that was even possible. Unless they were within the couple blocks from this place.
"I guess I better explain it to these two then." I said and looked at Jason and Anna. "Are you ready for some crazy stories?" I asked them wondering how many people were going to find out about this whole Daemon invasion thing. By now we were at like twelve or something. Me, my father, Tiffany, Gaven, Butch, Jackson, Chiro, Jared, Stephanie, Keith before he died, now Jason and Anna. Yeah twelve exactly.
A couple hours later, everything was explained and the two siblings looked like they were trying to really make sense out of what they heard. Which I guess would make sense after what I had told them.
"So that bug was a part of this big army?" Jason asked and almost screamed in excitement. "That's so awesome!"
"Awesome? More like insanely scary! You're life is pretty much at risk every time you go to do something. Don't you feel scared to do anything?" She asked me in response and I admitted that I was always scared lately.
"Better to be scared than think that you got everything taken care of. I lost five of my six first friends when I was only ten years old. Ever since then, I have not underestimated the timing of death. Stephanie's father already died during this invasion. That's already one death you can almost say is my fault. But I will not let this death stop me. In fact, I will use it to keep pushing me forward." I told Anna as she got an impressed and terrified look on her face about me.
"Don't you ever get to take a break?" She asked me and I told her that I take a break every once in a while. Sometimes, taking a break was what I need to keep going.
"When are you heading out again?" Jason questioned and I responded that I would be leaving once morning showed up.
"I know that I look like crap and that everything might be easier to screw up on because of this. But I still need to continue going. Resting is not a option. I only have defeated three of the main servants of Daemon. I still have five of them to track down." I told him and told them that I was interested in getting a nice night of sleep before I went off and did anything though.
"Can I come with you?" Jason asked and everybody said no almost at once. Then Chiro looked at Jared who was rubbing his chin.
"Chiro is already taking care of Stephanie right now. How about this? We each go in groups of two? Chiro and Stephanie go together. I go with Jason and Davis goes with Anna. That sounds reasonable enough. I think I can do a good enough job taking care of him while you guys look for the next of Daemon's servants. I know a small place a few days away from here. Maybe we can go there and talk there about what we plan to do next." Jared suggested as Jason looked at Anna with a pleading look in his eyes.
"I guess I can do this. Even though I don't like it. At all I may add in for extra." Anna said and that was how it was decided. Chiro and Stephanie stood up and he put on his orange looking gloves and I was curious on those. Wondering why the heck he would wear orange gloves. He walked out of the room with Stephanie and I looked out the window to see them holding hands.
"They have only known each other for a couple of months. Are they already hitting it off?" I asked curious in a quiet tone. I could see Chiro putting his hands on her chest and her arms around his chest as well. I then saw them stealing a kiss with each other. "Yep, they are." I said and couldn't believe that.
Then they walked back in pretending that nothing had happened. Even though at least I and most likely some other people noticed it.
"We should get some rest for now. It will be a long morning." I decided as everybody fell asleep in the course of a few minutes. When I woke up the next morning, everybody besides me and Anna had already left.
Upon waking up, Anna was getting some things out of her drawers. As if she never expected to be coming back here any time soon. I couldn't blame her really.
"How are you today?" She asked me when I had gotten out of the bed and I told her that I as alright enough. A little sore but nothing terrible.
She touched my back and I groaned just a tiny bit out of pain and I responded by telling her that maybe she shouldn't do that again.
"If everybody is already out of here, maybe we should go to." I said and we left the place after that. Nobody paid any sort of attention to us while we were leaving. Which was nice for both of us as we didn't want to deal with anybody asking us where we were headed.
"Do you have any idea on where the heck you are going to be heading next?" Anna asked me and I responded by saying that I had no real clue. I was just going to be going around until something comes up.
"I'm guessing you wanted nothing to do with this." I said and Anna admitted that she really didn't want to be doing this.
"It's not like this will kill you." I said and was wondering to myself if that statement could be true or if I was lying.
"You don't know that. This is the worst part. I'm pretty sure you already know that I and you both could die at any moment. If I do die, then will you tell Jason that he doesn't need to worry about me. Tell him that this was just how fate played out." Anna responded and we were walking while just talking about different things that we did growing up. Such as the fact that Anna wanted to go to school but nobody would let her in as she was a girl. So her parents had to do the teaching to her before they left her and Jason. I told her that I went to 'school' for a year with my father because my father wanted me to learn some basic things. Such as to read and write. Although that was cut off when these attacks started.
"Do you value education?" Anna questioned me and I didn't quite know what to say to that question. I guess I did but at the same time I wasn't sure.
"Education, I guess I can see why it is needed. But at the same time I don't see myself every pursuing it again. I think I have more than enough to go through my needs." I told Anna and once night fall was coming, I made a fire just for us.
She was sitting around it, staring at the flames. "Are you worried about Jason? Don't worry, he will be just fine. Jared is a good guy. I know Jared very well and he won't let Jason get hurt unless he gets hurt himself first. I know this." I said to Anna, taking the time to look at her beauty. I was wondering how many people liked her where she went in school.
"I am worried about him. I get that Jared is a good watcher and guy because if he wasn't you wouldn't have let him take Jason. But I can still fear for both of them. Because with all this insane digimon stuff, they might both end up dead during a battle. I can't possible imagine that happening. Mainly cause I just don't want it to." Anna said and I nodded understanding what she was saying.
"No I get it. I honestly do. I just wanted to help make you feel less worried. I bet you will get to see your brother again before too long. Usually those people end up at the sight where one of Daemon's big servants got defeated at. So when I defeat the next one, I think you will be able to meet Jason again." I said and sat next to her really closely.
"You're a nice guy. I have only known you for a day or so, but I can still tell that. Has your father helped you with your manners?" She asked in a curious way and I told her that I think he has.
"My father is a lucky man. His wife died when I was born but he still hasn't let that affect our relationship quality. He has always been able to look to the good end of things and all the positives. I don't know if I can do the same thing honestly. I think if I were him, after a while I would just give up." I was saying and was sort of admitting my faults.
"Everybody has their good and bad points. I wouldn't worry too hard over your bad points to be honest." Anna said and kissed me in the cheek. I looked at her confused. "I thought you might like that." I nodded to show her that I did like it. Despite wondering why she just did that out of nowhere.
"You should head to sleep. I got it under control." I said and she told me thanks and went to sleep. I fell asleep after her about a hour later and slept almost next to her. I bet she didn't mind it too bad after the kiss she gave me.
The next day, we found a water fall and decided to have some fun around it. Anna had told me that she had been to this place before and that made me interested on how we can do some awesome jumps and such. Since she had brought me all the way to the top of the water fall where we can jump into a pool of water.
"I used to do this all the time!" She said excited and got to the edge. She brought her arms out as if she were in a stretch and then brought them together like in a hug and made the jump. Going right into the water. Seeing from above, it looked like a ton of fun.
I got to the edge and made my jump. I didn't do any getting ready moves or anything, I just took the jump. Going twenty, thirty, forty feet into the water. When I went inside, I didn't feel anything for a second. But then I brought my face back out and took a deep breath. The water was cold, but that didn't bother me.
"Why did you stop doing it?" I asked her and she said that her and Jason just never found the exact place again. When they did and tried it out again, it just didn't feel right. I had a somewhat hard time understanding the context of that but I probably would have understood much better if I hung out with them before.
"Want to do something else?" Anna asked me and I said I was fine for the day so we played in the water a little and got ourselves out. Not taking the time or the effort to dry ourselves. Since our clothes will dry over the next several hours. I just had a terrible feeling the more I looked at Anna. Like something was going to end our friend/relationship any moment now. But she didn't look that way, so I got that thought out of my head.
We were walking very late in the night. Probably past midnight or something crazy like that. She was telling me how much she liked the night breeze. I would agree that it was nice when it actually did happen.
"I do hate how cold it can get sometimes though. Just ruins everything when it gets super cold. I don't like it then. I have been out late at night several times these last several months. Although until I left my house to take care of this, I think I was only out late at night two or three times. Back when the days were much easier." I was saying, having some sense of nostalgia.
"What is the coldest temperature that you have ever been in?" Anna asked me and I said that I think it was somewhere in the twenties. "So nothing unbearable." She said and I don't know how to react to that. It was almost unbearable. Mainly because I didn't have any long shirts, long pants, or jackets when I was in the area. Just short shirts and shorts in general.
"Although I would rather take terribly cold weather over super hot." I admitted not liking the thought of super hot temperature places. Unless it was like the beach or something. I then thought of it. "I don't think I have ever been on the beach." I was saying and then remembered that Jared had wanted us to get to this small village to meet him at.
"I wonder how close that one village is." I said and Anna looked at me confused. I then told her that it was the village that Jared wanted us to meet him at.
"Oh yeah, I bet it will take a couple more days. I think that area also happens to be near a beach." Anna said and we decided that we would take our time to walk closer to that village. That way we can remove some time that we had to walk the next day. Anna looked amazing at the night time.
I would say we took the next hour or two to continue walking and when it was nearly three in the morning we had finally decided that we should stop for the night.
Anna fell asleep first by only a couple minutes. I fell asleep next to her and wrapped my arms around her chest while I was asleep. If she told me the next morning that she didn't like it, I would apologize to her and promise I would never do it again.
The next day, we saw some papers advertising a party. Since we were close to a large house that was allowing everybody that wanted to in. "Want to go?" I asked her and she said that she would like to go to the party but at the same time she was worried to do it because she felt like she didn't look ready.
"Anna, I'm not really looking too ready to go to a huge awesome party. But that doesn't mean that we can't go to it. Besides, I don't think most of the people there are really going to notice us in particular." I told her and she smiled at me.
"You always know how to make me feel better." Anna responded and kissed my cheek. "If you think that it will be alright, I will go with you to the party." Anna said and I almost wanted to kiss her cheek as well. But I thought that maybe it would have been odd to kiss her without her permission. Then again she kissed me without permission. I should stop thinking about that.
That night, we were ready to go to the party. We had found the house the party was at pretty easily. We also found out it was only a day or two away from that small place Jared had wanted to meet us at. So I decided that it was extra lucky.
At the time of the party, I saw that Anna in a extra nice dress that she must have been allowed to borrow for the party. I had no idea how she was able to get that. Considering the fact that we were only apart for like twenty minutes to a hour today. When I saw her dress though, I thought she looked pretty hot.
"Are you going to put anything on for yourself?" Anna asked me and I admitted that I didn't have anything to put on, so the answer was no. "I guess you don't need to look nice. You did say that earlier anyways."
We went inside the house of the party and started checking out the party. For the most part, it seemed like a normal gathering just put in a little more fancy and had more stuff given for people to do as it is called a party.
"I wonder if we can have a dance here?" I asked and looked around to see some other couples dancing. I then looked at Anna with my answer. "I guess we can." I said and held my hand out. "Want to have a dance with me?"
"I would like to have one with you. Will you lead me there?" Anna answered and I held her hand as I led her over to the dance floor. Despite having little to no experience dancing before, I think I had done a decent job. We moved our hands around and did some spins and Anna lowered herself for another dance move and my hand was on her back the whole time so my back was lowered for her.
"I like dancing with you." I told her, looking at her nice smile. "Lets do some more dancing." I said and she nodded and we just had a good time afterwards. It was just casual like and we were silent as we were dancing. I wanted to talk to her, but then I didn't want to ruin the moment.
About about ten minutes of dancing, we went down to a table and found a bunch of food that people at the party were having. We allowed ourselves to have some of the food and get a little bit full. As it was the most food that we have had for a while. "I love apple slices." Anna said as I wondered how she had apple slices before. Maybe she found a apple and just used a knife to cut it into a few slices.
"This is the first time I have had apple slices before. I usually just eat the whole thing when I have the chance to have it." I told her wiping the little bit of dirt on her dress off. Not until just then did I notice it was there.
"Thanks Davis. I never even saw that was there. Hey, let's go up to the balcony." Anna said and I was surprised that there even was a balcony. So not knowing where it was and that she obviously did, I decided to follow her all the way up to where the supposed balcony was.
Once up there, I saw that there was another older couple there. But they were so into their own thing that they didn't even notice us there. So it felt like we pretty much had free power to do what we wanted here. "Anna, this is a pretty nice night." I said, thinking about two other girls from my past that died. First was Tina, who was one of my better friends from my first set that died during the war. I wondered if she was still alive, how it would be today. Maybe she would be the one up here with me instead of Anna. Secondly was Samantha, the one that took away my innocence that one day in the woods when she did that word to me I won't say. I felt a small hatred towards her for the last three years after she did that to me. But now, looking at Anna and all these things that have recently happened, I was willing to forgive her. Not respect her or like what she did. But forgive her. Never since that moment did I let that moment take my mind over and I had gotten over it from then.
"I know right. Wait, you look a little bothered over something." Anna said and I realized what I had been doing. I shook my head trying to show her that she had nothing to be worried about.
"Don't worry about it." I said and our faces met and we had a nice long kiss. It lasted a little while and when our faces divided up, I looked at her in a whole new light.
"I guess meeting you at the school that one day was sort of fated. That way, I could have gotten to know you." Anna said and she held my hand and started leading me out of the building. I was wondering what she was doing to me until she led me to a tree where nobody was at.
"What are we doing now?" I asked her, and we sort of had some fun for the next few minutes. I will just leave it at that and let you guys decide for yourself what happened. Okay, I will tell you. We just made out. Nothing more, nothing less.
The next couple months were really fun for Anna and I. Almost no battles that we had to have with any digimon and all that.
Our relationship started with us having a okay dinner. We combined our cooking skills and made a meal for us to share. It was probably one of the better things I have had for the last several months. But that isn't really saying much considering the fact that I have pretty much had dirt on some moments.
Soon after, we looked at a large tree and we learned the history of that tree. It was nothing special, but it felt like we were an actual married couple when we did that sort of thing.
We would sit at the camp fire every night and talk for a hour or so. It felt so nice to have somebody I get to know on a real personal level like I did with her. We got to know everything about pretty much both of us and the people that we were around.
Sometimes we would forget all about the whole Daemon thing and just go around and have some fun. Boy can I tell you that there was almost no greater time I had then those couple months. At least when I was dealing with the whole Daemon thing.
My fourteenth birthday (June 30th) went by and we had a alright celebration for it. Mostly just contained us playing some games that we made up at the spot. Probably one of my least eventful birthdays so far. But I didn't mind it because Anna was with me.
With that out of the way, everything was amazing. For the next six to seven days. Until July 6th. When everything went terrible.
Anna and I were going around. Trying to find everybody else or at least where the next Daemon servant was. Turns out that we didn't have to try and that they were there the whole time waiting for us.
We were walking down just a barren road. Thankfully it was barren because of what was to come. We were doing this until there was this loud bird noise. We stopped what we were doing to look up and see a giant black bird flying down towards us with a evil expression on their face.
They landed and stood up fully. Revealing that they were over seven feet long. I gasped in surprise and horror. I didn't even think for a second that birds could be that large.
I told Anna that I would be back in like twenty seconds when I saw a tree. I ran to the tree and planned a attack plan. That was the best source of protection against the bird at the moment. I then heard a voice. Tina's voice telling me what we were dealing with.
"BlackGarudamon. Same level and even more powerful than the other one of Daemon's servants you have fought earlier." Tina's voice said and that made me feel pretty much not any better at all. I grabbed that sword out of its sheete. Then I got on front of Anna and BlackGarudamon.
The digimon just looked at me for a split second. Not even really doing to me for that time. Then they swatted me away and I hit the ground with the sword flying away from me. Anna was closer to it so she grabbed it before I could get it. "Don't do this!" I yelled at Anna to not do this. I looked at her hoping that she would listen to me. This was a terrible idea.
"Davis, please tell Jason that I am sorry. Tell him it was my choice. Hopefully he will understand." Anna said and had a tear in her eye. She gave me one last kiss before doing what I knew she was going to do.
Anna ran behind BlackGaurdamon and started climbing up their back. Stabbing it every once in a while. Hitting her several times and totally ruining her image.
BlackGarudamon threw Anna at the ground and was going to breath a large column of fire at her when she jumped up and stabbed the blade through their mouth. In order to get the blade in there more, she forced herself in their mouth. She started climbing in BlackGarudamon's body and going down it. Soon enough, BlackGarudamon gave a large spout of fire and I knew that if Anna wasn't dead before, she surely was now. That fire was from inside the body. She was burnt alive in there. Then the strange part happened, BlackGarudamon exploded.
The sword was the only part of the whole thing that didn't get ruined. I went up to it and grabbed it and then put the blade in the holder again. I looked at the ground for a moment. "You didn't have to do that." I said, as if everything in my world was over. I decided that I didn't want to stay there long, so I grabbed the sword again and left the area. I would avenge her death by defeating the last four of Daemon's servants and destroying Daemon when I see him.
I had been going around trying to find either the next servant of Daemon or one of my team mates. I had felt terrible over Anna's death and I wanted to make her death worth it. Worth it meaning like it wasn't a total waste and it wasn't invain. But I think you got the idea. I wasn't really worried about the fact that they would think that I had done something wrong. What I was however worried about was how Jason would react to Anna's death. Part of me thinks that he would tell me to stuff off and he would never want to talk to me again.
Anyways, so as I was going by and the months passed, I was getting closer to the fifth of Daemon's servants. In these last months, I found Stephanie and Chiro again. Right away we exchanged stories with each other.
The story of Chiro and Stephanie was that when they were walking by trying to find more of a lead on how to get to reach the fifth servant of Daemon, that they had saw a large mountain. On top of the mountain (which seemed more like something out of the digital world) there it was. They had tried to fight it off but were eventually defeated. Since the defeat, they had been trying to find me while being on the run and slowly getting better. Both of them agreed that they would bring me to the mountain if I felt like it was time for me to fight them.
After their story was told to me they were wondering why Anna wasn't there anymore. I explained the story in a sort of brief detailing to them. That it was because of the fact that she gave her life up in order to save me and keep myself going in order for me to fulfill this quest of defeating Daemon and the other four main generals.
"This is very concerning news." Chiro said when both our stories were fully told to each other. "This brings a whole new level to the entire deal. One that I think can cause some great distress among Jason when he finds out."
"But you don't think that it was my fault right? Or do you think that it is my fault?"
"I do think that maybe you should have tried harder to do something about it. However, it is too late to change that and we have to accept it for what it is. But that means that we got to take this moment and better ourselves and the battle." Stephanie was giving me her answer as she was moving herself closer to me.
"I wish that I had never met Anna. That way she can still be here. But there is no time to feel bad over it. There is no time to brood over it anymore. There is just the time to take what had happened and make our way from there." I stood up and looked at both of them.
"I am ready for you to lead me to that mountain. I don't want any second thoughts or anything to it. We are going to take this fifth monster on. Then we will be one step closer to saving this land from Daemon." I wanted both of them to agree with me. Because if they didn't, then I might have to cut out ties to them and just get there myself.
"It's quite a long way. But that will give us time to improve you and us. So when we reach there again, we will be ready to fight them and defeat them." Chiro responded and I felt glad that he agreed to my words. I looked at Stephanie. Just waiting for her to argue with me. Thankfully she didn't. In fact she stood up and gave me her approval as well. Then Chiro started to leads us on the way to the mountain and the location of the fifth enemy.
It took us until December to really reach the mountain. That of course means that there were quite a few events that happened.
Over the months it had seemed that Chiro had gotten much better at fighting than he was earlier. As he had been spending much of these months on our way over to the mountain teaching me what to do in the fights and how I can use these battles to my advantage. I didn't really learn any moves or anything, but I did get faster. Which seems like it can be something that will come in use in the future.
During these teachings though, he started to get much more focused on the non physical part of it. "Most people have a inner animal in them. One that is hidden and will only come out when you let it. Most people would think that these will be one of my lessons, but I don't have the time or the patience to teach you that. I just wanted you to know that for if in the future somebody does want to teach you. Then you won't be so surprised over that popping up." Chiro said in one of our first non physical lessons.
"What do you want to teach me?" I asked him wishing that some answers will be presented to me finally and not just moved around and be answered much later when I forget or not care anymore. Chiro seemed to see this look on my face and sat down.
"That is one of the things you need to learn. The patience and payoff of the idea of patience. It is very much needed if you want to survive against Daemon or in general." Chiro explained and stood up. But only on one foot this time. Confused I looked at him and he then explained.
"A very basic example. Standing on one foot is one that shows that you can let go of half your body pretty much. Half of your force and balance. Not only can you do that but you can still hold on perfectly fine. Even when half your self and body is ruined, you can still hold yourself perfectly fine. That is the most basic description of this one and one that I have heard from even when I was just a young one. Not that calling me a young one would make a meaning to you since we are about the same age." Chiro said and I laughed. Trying to tell him that in in your face way that I can do it perfectly fine. So I tried to balance myself on one foot. Which turned out to be harder than I originally thought since I hadn't really tried that too much before.
"Believe it or not it is something that actually does take a few tries to actually get down. Don't underestimate things because they appear simple when other people do it." Chiro was saying and I laughed as he said that.
"I know right. I know not to let that fool me next time." I told him and we had spent quite a bit of time just trying to be able to do this exact thing. But for the sake of needing to cover a ton, and I mean a ton of stuff and not wanting to go overly long on it, I will move on now and tell you that after a while, I did succeed.
Some time had gone by and we had found ourselves at a beach. It looked rather simple enough. Aside from just one small thing. The beach house, or lack of one. The house that was there looked like it was nearly destroyed. Pillaged by something that had come by. This made me instantly think of you guessed it Daemon.
"What is going on? Maybe it was just a storm." Stephanie suggested and we decided to go and actually check the stuff out to see if that was in any way a legit possibility. As we were getting closer, I had started to see that this was more than a simple storm. Given the fact that there were horrible slash marks all over the wall. Then given the fact that there was blood showed that this was due to a obvious attack. But of what kind was now what I thought.
"Let's see what's inside." Chiro said as if he were the one feeling like he didn't want to try this out. Once he opened the door I could see the problem in it. The sight really wasn't the best. There were dead bodies everywhere. Not only were there dead bodies but the bodies seemed all ripped apart and then attempted to be put back together in order to hide their deaths. Then on top of the ripped up dead bodies the blood was tossed all over the place which made it look like something out of a horror story. Then once all that was in my head and settled down for a bit, I was thinking of what exactly could have done this.
"Could it have been the fifth of Daemon's generals?" I asked the two of them looking around to see if maybe there was some chance that the answer was in the house. Stephanie and Chiro followed my example.
"I think that it wasn't the fifth one as much as just a smaller digimon that worked for it." Stephanie was saying. "I think this is proof enough." She showed me a piece of paper that was barely readable. But there was enough on it for me to see what it was saying.
"The piece is talking about how a monster that looks Frankenstein's Monster came into the house with a giant axe and started to go crazy. They said that they only lived long enough to write this then blood shows up. I am guessing that is when they died." I was saying as I looked at the paper. What I had read out loud wasn't really what it had said, but the best that I can make out of it.
"Oh great, finally another battle after going such a long time without having one. I was starting to actually miss it." Chiro said as if the lack of any sort of fighting lately was actually a bad thing. I couldn't really understand that bit of a mind set. I think that the less battles there are, the better it is. That way you know, we can get a longer break.
But I was forced to stop thinking about this when there was a loud noise from right behind us. "Guys, look behind you." Stephanie was saying in a worried voice. Not wanting to make her think that we weren't listening, both of us looked behind us and saw it. Just as I had said it looked. Like Frankenstein's Monster that had a giant axe to boost their power.
"Hey you do, just do whatever you can to get them to look away from me. When they are looking away, I will try and attack it." I told them as if this was the greatest plan of my life. Which I fully admit it wasn't. But I needed to think of something so we can do something.
"Okay I guess we will do that. I hope you have a idea of what we need to do." Stephanie said and then grabbed a book on the ground. It was covered with blood so there was no point in me trying to tell you what it was. She threw the book at the digimon and that caused them to look over at her. That was when the voice that usually told me what the digimon was kicked in.
"Boltmon, a digimon that doesn't really like to listen to command and just goes off to do their own thing." The voice that sounded like Tina's told me.
When Boltmon was stomping towards Stephanie, I had stabbed it's back once. After I stabbed the back once the digimon punched me hard in the chest and I fell down.
That was when Chiro had grabbed my blade and made a large cut at the arm that punched me. Which was also the far larger arm by several inches. "Killing this thing soon would be nice." Stephanie said in fear that the Boltmon was going to eventually hit her. "How about we never listen to you ideas of distraction again." Stephanie proposed and I yelled at her that this wasn't the time to complain to me about my plans. But I thought that it would just make things even worse.
Chiro handed me back the blade and I stabbed Boltmon once again. This time right only a couple inches below the neck. Then I dragged the blade down and the further I dragged the blade down, the more Boltmon was becoming just useless to fight.
After that was done, Boltmon was pretty much defeated and I was free to just sort of take a moment of relaxing. "How about we never go into beach houses that look like they were abandoned again? Can you agree to that plan?"
"That plan I think we can all agree on." Chiro had said and I then heard a cry outside that sounded like a large bird flying towards us. The three of us were confused so we had walked out to see what it was.
I was right. A large bird digimon that had golden wings and was over ten feet long. "I was sent here to fly you to a certain destination. The sooner you reach there the better we are off." The digimon said and the three of us got on their back. After we started to fly off I asked the question that was probably on our minds.
"Where are you taking us?" I asked the digimon and the answer came a little later in time than I would have hoped.
"A certain pier. I will just leave it at that. All I will tell you further is that it is only a few miles away from this mountain that you seek." The digimon had told me and I was wondered what type of mountain it was. I would get my answer soon enough.
Flying on that thing to get to the pier took a lot longer than we probably all thought it would. We had to stop a few times. One of the steps was just in a empty road. We had been going on those a lot that way nobody could suspect what we were doing. Because let's be real here, if anybody found out what was going on, that would be a whole new load of trouble.
"Despite how long this has been taking, it is nice to know that we are well over half way through our journey. I do wonder what is so important about this pier that we have to go there." I was saying while I was laying down and looking at the stars.
"I hope that this is a view that never gets ruined by people or digimon in the future. The view of the stars. Even when I am angry, I can always look at this and just be relaxed by how beautiful it is." Chiro was saying and I could see him turning around as if wishing that he never wanted to tell us something.
"Is something wrong?" Stephanie asked Chrio among the longer moment of silence.
"Just thinking about something I had seen in my past. I don't think you will really want to know. It makes me sad still to even think about it." He was saying as if he were talking to his mother more than he was talking to us.
"Chiro, I know that what I am about to say right now is a little bit cheesy since people say it all the time, but you can talk to us. If there is something that you think you need to tell us, then you can just say it." I was trying to tell him and he snapped at me.
"If you were to know everything about me, it would possible ruin everything! You seriously don't want to know about my past or what I am here to do. Right now we should just have a moment of just relaxing. How hard is that to have?"
"I guess we could have that." I responded and laid back down again. The other two started to do just that. "I wonder how my dad is going to react when he sees me again. I wonder if my dad is even still alive right now. Not that I want to really think of him as not being alive. I do miss the guy though. Can't believe that it's been nearly eighteen months."
"Can't believe that we are getting to the winter season again. That means that Anna has been dead for five months. For all we know Jared and Jason are also dead." Stephanie was saying and I was picturing that thought in my head. Which was truthfully something I didn't want to do. I didn't want to think of my best friend Jared as being dead.
"I think we well find out what that answer is once we reach the pier." Chiro was saying in a much calmer tone. As if all the stuff that was clouding his minds had been calming down. That was when a unexpected voice had come in that confused all of us.
"How are you lady and gentlemen? I'm just here to be with your fire for a moment." A older homeless guy had said to us. All three of us looked at the homeless man in utter shock. It was clear that none of us had predicted that he was going to show up here.
"Did you hear anything that we said?" Stephanie asked hoping that this old man wasn't like some sort of spy for Daemon or heard too much about a matter that wasn't their business.
"Oh only about you guys going to the pier. The end of the road. Some would say that a pier is just exactly that. Some would also say that the pier is the end of the current road and the start to a newer one for you to go on. One where you get your answers that you want but will have new questions to spring off of. I personally have seen both of these in my life time. So what may happen to you is all a matter of experience." The older homeless guy was saying and then said something totally unrelated. "The fire is always where things are the brightest. If you have your fire for something run out, then that is when everything will be gone."
After he said that he walked away. To make it even more confusing, when he walked away our fire went out. We took this as our queue to go to sleep.
When we woke up the next morning we got on those birds again and started flying closer to our goal place of the pier.
Another two days passed on the bird before we had landed on the pier. When they landed us on the pier, we noticed a small place to eat and a few people out on the pier. One of them being a fat homeless guy. The birds also flew away after this. To show that no matter what, their part of the quest was over here. And that the three of us had to do the next bit on our own.
"Okay so what are we going to do now?" I asked checking out who the most reliable person that we could talk to in this area might have been.
"How about we ask around if there is any mountain if they know about close by." Stephanie suggested and Chiro and I thought that it might have been a little bit risky.
"Don't you think that they will assume we have gotten a bit crazy if they don't have a answer to that?" Chiro questioned as both Stephanie and I thought about it.
"You do have a point. It can be risky. But this entire journey had been nothing but pure risky business. I think it is a little too late to be concerned over what is risky and what isn't." I was saying, not even knowing where this part of my mind set had came in. There was another part of me that had wanted to slap myself across my face for my stupidity.
"I don't like it, and I bet if you were to think about it, you wouldn't either. But I guess there is no stopping it. We do however probably need to be taking it slowly though." Chiro was saying as if he had become the super visor of this entire trip.
"We know Chiro. Stop worrying so much over everything. This is just normal business for us lately." Stephanie was attempting to assure him. All Chiro did was make a light growl noise. Then we started walking to some people. I had went to the one that looked like he had been living there for a month.
"Hey. Do you perhaps know of a mountain that is relatively close to this area? I'm sorry that I just asked you this sort of randomly, I was just too curious. Wanting to know all I can about this place." I was saying and I took a look at Stephanie and Chiro. I winked at them as if to show that I felt I was making some progress. I could also tell that they were each trying to talk to somebody else. To get the info out of them.
"No I don't know of any mountain anywhere in this area."
"Really? That is quite curious. I honestly thought I had heard about one. Well I am very sorry for this inconvience then. I hope you can forgive me for intruding in on your time." I said and started to walk away from the man. I took absolutely no time to turn around and see what the guys facial expression was. Mainly because I couldn't care less if he thought I was a crazy dude who had no idea what I was talking about or not.
I walked up to Stephanie. I saw that she wasn't talking to anybody at the current moment. "Hey what is going on? Have you gotten any info some anybody?" I asked Stephanie as she looked at me and started to laugh. Not in the way that the question I asked was funny. In the way that no progress was being made at all, and she didn't like this lack of progression.
"No absolutely nothing. I wish I could say other wise. I guess yours wasn't any better?" Stephanie responded and I nodded. There wasn't really much else to say besides that.
"I am curious how Chiro is doing." I was saying and I looked around the pier a little bit on the spot to see that he was talking with that fat guy. This surprised me for a moment but I then thought that maybe there was a reason behind this. That maybe he, the fat homeless looking guy, somehow had a answer. Crazy to think though.
"Let's hope that Chiro is on to something here." I said and started walking over to him and the fat homeless guy. Stephanie was right at my side. I had the feeling that perhaps she was thinking the same thing as me.
"Hey what is going on?" I asked Chiro when I had gotten right next to him.
"Just listen." Chiro said quietly and we took what he said to mind. So the two of us remained quiet long enough to listen to what the fat homeless guy and his rantings.
"The day the world will end is soon coming. The man in the red robes has shown it to me. The mountain from the ground. The maze under the ground. The betrayal of trust. Deaths happening left and right. A business coming from the ashes of a failure to make itself glorious again. A battle between good and evil to see what stands as the better cause." The fate homeless guy was saying and I asked him what he meant after that little bit.
"You are the one. I seen you before. The one from the vision. You and evil clash on the top floor. In a storm of fire and death. Many will fall. Few will rise. You must go there to find the next step of your journey." The fat homeless guy was still rambling stuff that to any other normal person would sound like nonsense. But the three of us looked over and saw a mountain in the distance. Becoming more and more solid with every second. Some people were even starting to look over.
"Once you reach there, your adventure will become much more serious. All the easy and fun parts that you might have had before are now going to go away. If you thought that what you had been experiencing before was the battle, you have no idea. The true battle will start there." The fat homeless guy finished what he was saying and then suddenly in a fashion that made no sense he started talking like normal again.
Chiro looked at Stephanie and I. "We need to get going as soon as possible. Seems like we have to reach that mountain as soon as we possibly could." As he said that the two of us nodded in agreement and we started heading our ways to the now much clearer mountain.
Once we were at the foot of the mountain we saw two things. One was a small tree and the other was a small house. This was about thirty feet away from the by then solid mountain. Wondering who was there and if they had noticed what was going on, we knocked on the door of the house. What was surprising to us was that there was no answer. Even though we knocked three times.
"Nobody is going to answer the door guys. Come on we need to get going again." Chiro said a little annoyed that we had taken so much time to do something like this.
"Yeah maybe we should get going." Stephanie was saying in a tone of slight agreeance. So the three of us started to head up that mountain on our way to the next battle.
When we were several feet away, two things in the house opened the blinds a little bit. One of them was Jackson and the other one was Daemon. "They are falling right into the battle set up. We are finally going to make some real progress on defeating them." Jackson was saying with excitement and Daemon didn't sound as convinced.
"You should know just as well as me that these people have proven to be a little unpredictable to say at the least. Do not just assume that they can't hold their own against this enemy up there. No matter how convincing it all feels and looks." Daemon told Jackson as the two watched silently for a little while longer.
While that conversation was happening, the three of us reached a point in the mountain were we saw a golden tree. "What is that?" Stephanie asked in total surprise. I looked at it and was tempted to do something.
"I wonder how one of those fruits would taste." I was saying as I looked up at it and saw that there were several fruits I was allowed to take. Apples and oranges just to name a couple. Neither Stephanie or Chiro seemed to glad with the idea of grabbing any. But something in me didn't really know any better. So I just grabbed one of the apples and put it in my pocket.
"Who knows, it might be worth it." I told the two of them when they looked at me in a way that seemed like they were disgusted that I grabbed that. But they decided that it wasn't worth getting into a fight over it. So we just started to head up on the mountain again like normal. Not having any sort of idea what was waiting for us.
On the top of the mountain, things seemed very different from what I was expecting. In all the wrong ways. I saw that not only was there another one of Daemon's servants, but there was also a digimon that looked like it was just a humanoid version of Bigfoot. I also saw Jared and Jason held up in a cage. Soon after we got there as if it were scripted, Jackson and Daemon suddenly vanished into here. So this gave us a whole big set of things to deal with.
"Now we got ourselves a real battle." Chiro told me under his breath as I took that sword that was kind of rusty from all the fighting out.
"You guys really have not learned any sort of lesson have you? Each one of my servants gets more powerful than the last. Yet you don't even try and change your way of battling or the types of weapons that you use. It is almost pathetic." Daemon was saying and introduced their next main servant to us. "BlackLilymon! Don't not think for even a second that this won't be too much of a battle because of their name alone. You will be ashamed of yourself."
With that, the battle had totally started. Not only with BlackLilymon, but across all competitors that could do something. Stephanie already had a idea. "I will be getting Jared and Jason out of their cage." She told us and started running in that direction.
"I will take care of the Bigfoot wannabe. You take care of BlackLilymon." Chiro told me and before I could say anything I was thrown into this type of battle. Forcing me to be going along with it.
I blocked BlackLilymon's first attack with the blade and I could almost hear that there was a crack starting up. This caused a giant red alarm flare to be going off in my head. As a response, I just kicked BlackLilymon away from me by a few inches. That way I could get a few seconds to get myself together.
"Seems like they have a slight opening in the general body without any armor. Unlike BlackMegaKabuterimon that is. That makes it a whole lot easier." I was saying to myself and I put myself on the ground and slid across it. As I had done this I had taken a large slice at the leg of BlackLilymon.
While this was happening, Chiro punched the Bigfoot looking digimon in the face. But that seemed to be all the heading that he actually had on his opponent. As when he had done that the Bigfoot like digimon grabbed him like he was nothing and threw him right on the ground. He did his own sliding. Going all the way to the edge. But he grabbed onto it and saved himself before it was too late. There he got himself up and brushed himself off.
All that took in the span of a couple seconds. I didn't let myself get distracted from this. As when I had made the slice at BlackLilymon's leg they brought their arm down to me. Then it seemed like they were loading some sort of gun. Shocked that this was even possible but not totally fazed by the idea of it, I blocked about ninety five percent of the shots with my blade.
I kicked BlackLilymon hard in the chest. As I hard done that I jumped myself back up and made a large slice on the ground. This had cut off the tip of the BlackLilymon gun thing. Which made it so that they couldn't fire out of the gun on the right side. There was still the gun on the left side.
"I still have no idea how to pick a lock obviously." Stephanie was saying in pure rage in the distance. Since she had been making no progress on freeing either Jason or Jared. This made Daemon laugh out loud and Jackson smile.
"I can't believe that you guys want to be heroes and yet you are completely unable to do anything that is basic enough anybody with their own right mind can do it." Jackson was saying as Daemon seemed like they wanted him to keep going.
"Maybe a little bit of a flame will get them going." Daemon said and shot some flames down on the ground. Which now made the battlefield on fire.
So the rest of this battle was with a fire going on. Which made it totally hard in order for me to try and fight BlackLilymon. Since at one point they tried to throw me in the fire but I had to be sure I could stay out of the way.
There was a little bit when I was starting to tip over into the fire. But I pushed myself forward and by mistake got a stab in at BlackLilymon with my blade. Then the digimon shot some flowers at my face. Which was a lot harder to get off of it than I had seemed it would be.
I kept bumbling around and dealing with flower shots until I just ran right into BlackLilymon and it had toppled into the fire. But I had to get myself out of the fire before it started to affect me. Which I was doing while I was trying to get the flowers off of me. Honestly, this was just such a pain to do that I am surprised that I only got out of it with one or two minor burns.
Looking around I saw Chiro still fighting the Bigfoot looking digimon. "Hey Davis, you willing to give your weapon to me for me to use?" Chiro asked when he saw that I was done with BlackLilymon.
"Go ahead, just don't ruin it!" I yelled in response and threw it all the way to him. He grabbed it after it almost fell away from him.
"Thanks man, you're a real life saver." Chiro told me and started to have a easier time fighting off the Bigfoot like digimon. After watching for a couple of seconds to make sure that he was going to make it I decided that I was going to start helping out Stephanie with the locks.
I ran over to her and asked her how much trouble she was having. "If you were tell me to put it in a one to ten scale, my answer would be eleven." Stephanie was saying and I nodded. I looked at the lock for a second to make sure that it wasn't impossible.
"Maybe you can find something on the ground I can use as a lock pick." I told Stephanie and she agreed to my terms. She looked around the ground for a couple minutes while I was looking at it.
I picked my pocket and tried to see if there was anything there. I eventually was able to pull out a small coin. What would look like the modern day dime I guess. Not really having anything better going for it, I started to use that. Which wasn't really that great of a plan. Seeing as it was starting to get stuck in there. Although it did turn the lock just a tiny fraction. Which would make it easier for when Stephanie gave me something to pick it with that was better.
As I was waiting for Stephanie to get me something, I looked over at Chiro to see how he was doing. With the sword, he seemed to be doing a much better job keeping the Bigfoot digimon at bay. In fact he actually was able to start doing some damage. Such as when he made a fine cut at the left arm of the creature.
"Stephanie, can you seriously get something now?" I asked a little fed up with the fact that she wasn't getting anything. Then she threw something in my direction. Right away I just caught the item and noticed that it was a small toothpick.
"Oh dear lord, this is not going to end well." I said under my breath and put the toothpick in the lock after I brought the dime looking coin out. I moved it around very slowly, not wanting to break it. As I was doing this, I was gritting my teeth together and with every movement, I started to go even more slow. Even more exact. Soon enough, I had started to hear the lock being affected and I could tell that it was starting to unlock. Even slower I had went to make extra sure that this wouldn't get any worse. Then after a good long while, I had been able to move it just right and I heard the lock unlock.
Then I pulled the lock away when it had unlocked and the door flung open. Right away Jared and Jason ran out of their cages. Jared seemed glad that I was able to save them at all. Jason looked like he was super excited for a moment but then looked sadder when he saw that Anna was missing.
"Where is my sister?" Jason asked a little worried and I remained silent for a couple seconds. I told him that there will be more explained later.
"Chiro! Let's get out of here!" I yelled and Chiro saw that I had unlocked the lock and the two were freed. As a final attack, Chiro made a large swing at the lower chest of the Bigfoot like digimon. Then with our freed helpers, Stephanie, Chiro and I started running down the steps of the mountain. Daemon and Jackson seeming like this was a funny joke that we were pulling.
"You may have defeated my fifth general. But that doesn't mean anything. What is coming next will next of you will be more than a victory for me and my friend here. Once your small one leaves you, then I can make him join me. Run while you can, I will just get even stronger while you do so. The unavoidable death is just being delayed." Daemon was saying loud enough to make it seem like it was loud and epic but not loud enough for us to hear.
We had been running away for about six or seven hours. When we had finally stopped, we decided that we were going to rest the night. I told Jason that I would tell him what happened in the morning when we were awake. He didn't like this compromise, but he seemed to go along with it for the time being.
"Will you tell me what happened?" Jason asked right away when he had forced me to wake up for this conversation. I knew that I was going to hate every single second of this conversation.
"Anna died." I said it rather bluntly. Jason asked me how it went. Probably just giving me a chance to explain myself before he decided to pitch out on me.
"She gave her life up to save me. She thought that I was more important than her and that her part in this was all minor so she let herself die to defeat one of the enemies." I was explaining. When I had finished this confession Jason seemed like he was about to cry for a moment. But then this possibility of crying got transferred into obvious hatred. He looked at me with a look of anger in his eyes as he slapped me.
"You let her die!" Jason yelled and started to tear up. I looked at him and looked like what I had done was just the worst thing in the world. In a way I had failed my promise towards him and I knew it.
"I'm sorry." I said and Jason yelled at me to stop that.
"If you were sorry you would have saved her life and given yourself up you liar. Don't even try and tell me that you are sorry. I hate you!" Jason then started to run off after that as I stared at him getting further and further away from sight.
I sat down feeling defeated. I felt like I had totally failed the kid and I was feeling worse and worse the more that I sat there. I was trying to play in my head ways that I could try and get him back to be with us again. But the more I thought about it, the more I was starting to think that it wasn't going to work.
Stephanie, Chiro, and Jared found me just sitting there a few minutes later. "What is going on?" Chiro asked and I told him what had happened between the talk between Jason and I.
"So it really didn't turn out well and he thinks that you really are a traitor." Jared said and sat down right next to me. I sighed thinking that there were ways that I could have worded it better.
"Well Stephanie and I are going to be going off on our own. We are try to find more clues about Daemon." Chiro said and wrapped his arm around Stephanie. Then he pecked her on the cheek.
"So you guys are a thing. How does that feel?" I asked feeling even worse. Now I didn't even get the girl. Even though I really had no idea why I felt this way over them. I never had feelings for Stephanie.
"It feels nice. It was something we were talking about really quietly last night. So we will be doing our own solo run at this. Once we find something that we can report to you, we will tell you right away. No need to worry otherwise." Stephanie told me and I couldn't remember if we had the talk about them going out or not. If we had I was in too bad of a mood too care.
"Good luck." I said and after that Chiro and Stephanie decided to leave. I sighed and looked at Jared.
"So that is a thing. Why should I even care anymore? Jason is gone and he thinks that I am some horrible being now. I am a horrible human being and this just proves it." I was telling Jared how I felt and he sat down next to me and put his hand on my back.
"You are not a horrible person. It is not your fault that Anna died. He will see that soon enough. He just needs to think things through. How about we search for him together? Maybe we can make more progress that way." Jared was telling me and I felt like the idea of us teaming up was the best of bets.
"Sure let's do it." I agreed and we stood up. Then we started walking onto our journey on finding Jason and the sixth general of Daemon.
"Where do you think that we can have the best chance on finding him?" I was asking and Jared seemed to have no good answer to this question.
"I don't really have a good answer for that. He could be anywhere. Although I doubt he is in any crazy place like a forest or anything. We will find him soon enough." Jared was saying and little did we know how wrong that was. The thought set that we had that we would find him in a not so long time.
It had been several months since we had started looking for Jason. It was now June of 1868. Almost one year since Anna had died.
"It's been six months. I am starting to lose faith that we can really find him. Which is awful of me to say but you start to not believe after a while." I was saying to Jared after we asked probably the fifteenth house for directions of how to possibly find Jason. None of them had anything to say. Like the person we were talking about had never happened.
"Just because we have been asking forever doesn't mean that he isn't here. Maybe Daemon had taken him and is doing their own thing with him. I mean we shouldn't really be surprised over this revelation. Daemon could probably get away with doing things like that as we have seen before." Jared was saying and I just shook my head. I really didn't want to think of the possibility of him doing that to Jason.
"If Daemon has managed to get their hands on Jason, then there is more things that we need to worry about that I don't know if we can have the time to worry about." I was saying and I had no idea where I was coming from when I had said that. Trying to imply that saving Jason was less important than fighting a digimon that we could take care of any time later.
"Things are just not really going well anymore." Jared decided to say that in a way of trying to find something that we can agree on.
"I wonder what that tunnel leads to. I can see that the rain is starting soon. Maybe it will be wise if we just went under there for a little while. Wait for the rain to clear up." I was saying and I pointed at the tunnel that I was talking about.
"That might not be such a bad idea. I wonder what there would even be there. Although you had just said that so now I am just saying the same information. Let's go down there right now." Jared gave his agreeance and we started to walk on down to there.
For a second before we went inside the tunnel we looked up at the heavy raining sky.
"There is something different about this rain." I was saying and noticed that this rain was black. This seemed odd enough until I started to hear screaming. Which meant that the people that the rain did hit were getting hurt by the impact that the rain had on their skin. They were all running to their houses or the next closest building to them.
"This is the rain of Daemon. Their attack is starting." Jared said and I couldn't believe that they had actually taken this long to start their attack. The fact that it had taken nearly two years months seemed sort of like more of a miracle to me than a horrible thing.
"We really need to get started on this search for Jason. Who knows maybe one of Daemon's generals will be in there." I said and we started to run right into the tunnel, partly not even caring that this might not even be of Jason's location as long as we had gotten out of there.
So we had gone a tad while of just running before we decided that we were far enough away from the Daemon rain. But what we had noticed right away was all the odd directions that there were to take. Like there were four different path ways that we could have chosen from. "Oh great I think we are in a maze." I was saying and my disgust had shown pretty well in my voice.
"Maybe it won't be so bad. Let's just take that side." Jared said pointing to the second path on the right side. Not really wanting to have to deal with any sort argument I agreed that we can go that way.
So we started walking down that path and after checking out the walls that seemed like things were ready to pop out at any second and that a hand could grab us at any second as well. "This is starting to look a bit odd." I was admitting my slight concern and Jared told me that this way wouldn't hurt. We just had to keep a open mind.
"It's not like we are going to walk this way for a while and then reach the start again." Jared was saying in a way to make myself feel better right now, but I wasn't so sure.
"Let's just keep our head forwards and not to the sides." I was saying to him as I was starting to feel more and more uncomfortable the longer that we were in there.
Once we were finally in a room like normal I saw a fountain that looked totally empty. I walked up to the fountain as Jared started to follow behind me in a confused manner. Showing that he really had no idea how this was going to be working if I kept going any closer.
"Is there anything in here?" I asked as I felt the surface of the fountain. Trying to figure out if there was perhaps a coin or something in there. Which would then show that somebody was down here at one time before. And when somebody was down here at some time before that means that we can follow this path and then get ourselves out of here.
After looking for a while I felt something that was a little bit different. It had sunk down the tiniest fraction of a inch. I put my finger closer down to it and tried to see if there was anything else in there. Then as if there was a button, some noise was starting to be made.
I looked up and saw part of the wall splitting up. I looked at Jared in utter shock. "Do you have anything to say about this?" I asked Jared and he shook his head.
"I am just as lost as you are. Let's go down there regardless." Jared said in response and I looked down to see that there were a ton of stairs. I glanced at him and nodded.
"Better get going." I said and started my descent down the stairs of the path.
Before we started to head down there was a unexpected voice towards us. "What do you think you two are planning on doing down here?" The voice asked and I looked back to see that it was actually a talking wall. I decided to over look just how bizarre this was and answer it.
"There must be something down there that is of use to us. We should go down in there to at least give it a shot. Maybe we will be right." I was saying and the wall snickered.
"You humans are far too easy to sway. Who knows if your answer will be down there? Maybe there will just be traps and lost paths. There will never be a straight answer for anything. Just loops and turns. I swear that is all the life will ever give you. You may think that is the proper way bit then it will later be revealed that you should have gone a different way. But why should I care? It is your quest and you make your own choices. Just don't say I didn't warn you!" After that the wall stopped talking.
"We should still give it a try. Even though that was beyond strange what had just happened. Let's not think too hard on it for now and just go down there." Jared was saying and I decided that I would agree. The further we get away from talking wall the better I say.
We started walking down the stairs for a little while and I was having my hand on the wall for some reason. Probably for inner assurance that I wasn't going to just fall down at any moment.
I saw what was at the bottom of the stairs. At the bottom I had seen a kid down there and some older people. That wasn't the thing that surprised me though. What surprised me was the fact that these people looked like they were in some sort of prison for a really long time. I looked at Jared to make sure that I wasn't the only one seeing this.
"Well we better at least talk to these people. See if they need any help." Jared was saying to me and I started to walk closer to them.
"Hey what are you doing down here?" I asked one of the older people as they looked at me in utter shock that somebody had been able to find them after being hidden for so long. That was how I took it at least.
"There has been this awful monster keeping us down here. Telling us that we were going to stay down here for as long as the master pleases us to stay there. That was all they had said. We have been here for what feels like weeks. The kid has been here longer than all of us actually. If you ask me, it sounds like he is insane on getting back at somebody." One of the older people there said and pointed at the kid. I told Jared to stay there and let me check this out. Having a feeling I had known who this person was and who they were trying to get back at.
I started to walk up to the kid and saw that he was playing with his hands on the ground. It looked like he was drawing something on the ground.
"I hate that son of a bitch." He was saying in a angered tone. "He took her away from me, and I have been trying to figure out a way to bring her back but she won't say anything. Why won't she talk to me?" The kid was saying and I realized that I was exactly right. Aside from the fact that he looked much older and more abused, he was just the same Jason that I had known earlier. And he was more revenge driven.
"Jason, can we please talk about this for just a moment?" I asked him and he looked at me. For just a split second it looked like he had no idea who I was but then he wanted to get on me the moment that he figured out who I was.
"It was you!" Jason yelled and stood up. Then he pushed me down to the ground. "I have been trying to bring her back for six months now!"
"Jason, she is dead. There is no way that can possibly happen." I was saying to him in a soft enough tone. "You need to move on."
"You don't know this. Given all these crazy things that have been going on in this world these days, I wouldn't be surprised if I could bring her back. I just need to find the right formula. But you don't care on helping you cheap fuck. I want her back and you don't seem to care enough because you are so focused on this stupid quest." After Jason said that he kicked me hard in the balls. That was when Jared came in.
"Cut it out. If Davis said he didn't mean it, he didn't mean it. But let's try and put that aside for now and help these other people right now. They might have families that they need to take care of and being down here won't be able to achieve this." Jared said and pointed at all the other people in the room.
Before Jason could say something to stop Jared's idea, there was a loud noise that completely stopped all three of us in our tracks.
"That is the sixth one of Daemon's servants." Jason had tole us as if for just a second forgetting about his hatred that he had towards me.
"How are we going to get them out of here?" Jared asked and Jason looked around for a moment.
"We could always use the path right there." Jason said and pointed over at the small doorway over there. "It is the best bet to get everybody out of here." He said and yelled at the other people. "Get you butts going!"
I walked up to the small doorway and kicked it down. When I kicked it down I told everybody to in quickly. They did just as I had asked and the only people that were left were Jared, Jason and I.
The digimon had then came into the room. It looked like something that I would find right our of Norse myths. With a giant hammer just like Thor and a beard to almost go along with it perfectly.
"BlackZudomon, the sixth one of Daemon's servants." The voice that sounded like Tina's has told me and I let that register in my head. Just in case if it was needed for the future.
"Hey Davis how about you just broke those stone pillars right there?" Jared asked and I saw what he was talking. There were stone pillars that looked like they were seriously about to break at any second. This fight was going to be easy.
I slammed my body right into the stone pillars and made several of them break after I had done this six or seven times. After I had done this BlackZudomon waved their hammer around. I had to duck below in order to avoid getting hit. It was even better that way when I saw the bolt that was coming from the hammer. Where the hammer hit, a giant crack showed up instantly.
I looked at Jared. "This seemed like it is working. Great idea that you had." I was telling Jared and then I let Jared go a round at these. After he did his basic slamming and shoving there was a slightly bigger crack. BlackZudomon slammed their hammer down on the ground and this caused the pillars to crack even larger.
"Okay this is a perfect chance." Jason said and then he did his round of slamming into the pillars and then he punched them a couple times. Once Jason was done pounding at them they started to fall apart and they were toppling right at BlackZudomon. Before Blackudomon was able to submit defeat, they did one large grand slam on the ground and then threw the hammer at the wall like in a boomerang fashion and this was done to take us with them.
"Let's get out of here before anything happens to us." I said and the other two started heading off behind in me in agreement. We were running for a good few minutes in order to catch up with the others. Then we told them to go faster and then we had started to make progress on getting out of the place.
After a few minutes we were all out of there and we looked back. "That was a whole lot easier than I had thought it would have been." I admitted and looked at Jason.
"Will you please forgive me? Didn't I show myself that I was willing to be a hero and save people?" I asked and Jason seemed silent for a bit.
"I will have to think about it. You still killed Anna and you didn't really do all the saving. So I don't think I can forgive you. So don't you ever ask that stupid question again or else I will lose faith in you." Jason said and started walking outside. I looked and saw that the rain was gone. Maybe it was just something to scare the people for a couple minutes.
"Well now we have found Jason. That was what you and I had wanted to do. But I have a feeling there is something going on else beyond all of this. Something that I will start looking into." Jared said and told me goodbye. Before he left I asked him what he was looking into.
"I think Daemon and their attack at our hometown will be happening a lot sooner than we had hoped. If that is so we need to start putting our focus on that right away. It's just that this rain storm has me convinced that everything will be moving at a fast pace. You still do your thing though. We will see each other again." Jared told me and that was were he started to leave me off.
I had to think about it for a moment after he left. I was starting to have a bad feeling that maybe he was right in this worry. So I decided that I was going to start walking my way on over to my home town once again.