Twisting Paths of Twilight
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Partner and Tamer talking within the sphere"
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(--) Different point of view
(-:-) Flash back
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Chapter 14
He studies the list of what Mimi and Yolei wanted to be in their movie. He glances over to where TK is, his friend's head is on the desk top, it seems that TK seems to be stumped on what kind of story to write for this movie. He sighs as once he reads the list out loud, "Number one Medievalism setting, we need to use the haunted house! Number two romance, number three scary bad guys, and number three really cute looking good guys."
TK bangs his head on the table; he shakes his head at the list. "Not to descriptive, is it?" He says to his blond friend. Patamon seems to sigh, most likely echoing TK's mood. He doesn't need to look at Gigimon to know that his partner's fast asleep; he can hear the gentle snorts from where he's standing. "I can't believe they expect you to have something by the end of this week." He says, once more TK bangs his head against the desk, clearly agreeing with him.
"It can't be that hard to come up with something, could it?" Patamon asks, TK and him turn and stare at the orange Digimon. Patamon shifts uncomfortably under their gaze, clearly not liking their looks. "Maybe we should have the hero as something other then human?" He suggests, after a few minutes. TK glances at him, frowning. "Ok, so do an angel or something?" TK says, clearly not liking the thought of the hero being an angel.
"How about something that's slightly more animal, but still looks human? You know, mimic animal ears as well as a few other features light slit eyes and thick nails. You know, do something along those lines." He says, shrugging off the look TK had sent his way. TK blinks and seems to think about it. "That would be easy to write and easier for Mimi to get the person to dress up as." TK muses out loud. "What of the villain?" He asks.
TK smirks before turning away; his friend pulls the key board towards himself. "He'll definitely be human." TK says, he notices how TK's already jotting ideas for a plot down. He's eyes raise at the mention of jealousy of nonhumans among the notes. The concept of a forward plot coming together, he also noticed gryphons and Minotaurs for mythical species. He moves to get a better view of the computer screen.
He nods thoughtfully as he once TK finishes with the jot notes. "How about we list some names for the possible Hero and Villain?" He suggests. TK snorts and nods, they then brainstorm names between them. They soon had a few good names and were trying to decide between them. For the names of the hero, they had Akarui, Akel, Sekishoku, and Kuranos as their favorites. Names for the villain, they have Kraken, Saya, Ryuken, and Takeryn. They weren't too worried about the names of the friends or minions of the two; they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.
He lies on TK's bed, Patamon moved to allow him to climb on. Patamon rests on TK's shoulder as the blond types away on the computer. By supper they had a rough draft of the story, he had also begun on the storyboards sketches to show Ken and them tomorrow, after school. Davis is in charge of recruiting extras for the movie as Matt's to come up with the music for it. Mimi and Yolei seem to think they could do this within four to five months, he wonders if they're being too optimistic for the project. 'It's not mine problem. I do wonder who'll be casted in the leads though.' He muses as they head out of the room to eat supper that TK's mother made for them. Gigimon riding on his shoulder, mimicking Patamon in that regarded.
(-Tai-)
He sighs as he looks through the script, he wonders just how it was that he ended up as the heroic Akarui, what's even weirder is that Gennai got the part of the lead villain Saya. He snicker at the fact that Takato landed the part of the yet to be named white furred Minotaur that's Akarui's best friend on the journey to stop Saya's plot to dominate the nonhumans by transforming into a demon. Most of the good guys were nonhumans, very different then the norm.
He sighs as finds himself before the machine that caused the incident about two weeks ago. He flips to the second page of the script, it shows what Akarui looks like and he wonders if his senses would be heighten while he's in costume. He also wonders how he's to act when he's interacting with Kelth, Akarui's empathic pet.
He knows that Izzy will use the sketches that Takato has made of the little beast to add him in to the movie, it's just that he's never pretended to see something that's not there. He's kind of worried that he'll make a complete ass out of himself in those scenes with Kelth. He blinks as he hits something white. He backs up a step and looks up into the face of what appears to be a bull or cow. "Takato?" He asks, gawking at the bull man. The ears twitch in annoyance and a deep voice says flatly, "Tai."
He hears giggles and they both turn to find their respective sibling chuckling at their encounter. "How tall are you?" He asks, he notices that Davis is currently on the pad with Cody waiting patiently for his turn. "I think about eight feet." Takato says dryly. He studies Takato's 'costume' slowly. He notices the harass that Takato's wearing, he takes note of the navy blue leather pants that Takato's wearing was well as the mace that's hanging on the belt.
He then turns his attention to Takato's face; he notices that the black mane of hair has that the two braids have beads woven in. The horns were pointed straight and that around Takato's neck is a necklace with a gem pendent. He takes note of the fact that Takato has two fingers and a thumb on each hand now. He looks down at the large black hooves that Takato has. He whistles, surprised by the detail that Takato had done for the Minotaur, even though Takato hadn't known that he'd be casted at the white Minotaur.
He moves and turns to see if Davis is done, he doesn't know who Davis got cast as, but then, they were going to be filming the attack on the village that had been Akarui's home, which means that Davis might end up as either a knight or one of the Azchon, the teen looking humanoids with fox ears and other features of said animal. He blinks as a slightly shorter Davis steps off the pad. He studies Davis's new features and blinks as the animal ears move upwards, he notices that Davis seems surprised and the ears then drop back to their original position.
Davis's hair colour was now a chestnut brown then his usual maroon colour. Davis's eye hadn't changed much, just that the pupils were more slit then normal. Davis's looks were a mix of sharpness and childish chubbiness, making Davis look cute and adorable. Davis's cloths were that of a simple green vest, no undershirt, brown linen pants, and dark brown boots. He notices the thick nails that were on each finger, Davis seems to be testing to see if they're sharp enough to break his skin.
Cody steps lightly onto the pad and soon those rings of light ascend and descend around Cody's form. He turns and studies Kari, he asks Takato, "Kari's…?" Davis snorts and answers before his adopted brother turned Minotaur answers, "Knight." He snorts and looks at Takato to confirm it, Takato nods his white bull head in agreement with what Davis said. "She's going to dress up as a Guy?!" He exclaims.
He turns to see if Kari heard his shout, Kari's face is redden meaning she hear him. He hangs his head and Takato pats him, he notices that Takato's a great deal stronger as his shoulder aches after the two pats. "Sorry, I don't know my own strength just yet." Takato says in an apologetic tone. He nods and the pair head off to where they need to be.
He returns to watching Cody on the pad, his hand fumbles the card in his pocket, the one he's suppose to put into a card slot before standing on the pad. He watches as subtle changes occur, like Cody getting taller and more muscle. His cloths were also undergoing changes as well, in time they became a suit of armour. He raises an eyebrow as he notices Cody's features were still undergoing some changes. 'Cody got the part of Saya's main minion, if I remember… so duh, he's going to have a more detailed costume. General Martin Stormram is the character's name. I wonder when they'll settle on a name for Takato's character?' He muses to himself.
Soon it's his turn; he steps onto the pad after he inserts his card. He puts his script onto the table that's by the machine. He once more feels light headedness as the rings of light scan his body. He wonders how many times he'll have to use this machine to put on his custom as he waits for the machine to finish dressing him up.
(-TK-)
He studies the pictures of Kelth, the Skivie bonded mentally to Akarui. For the movie, Skivies were dog like beasts with large ears, short muzzle, and a small horn on the forehead. They stand between three feet to three feet and three quarters of a foot tall at the shoulder. They were emphatic beasts that were about as intelligent as a three year old. Their fur ranges from snow white to jet black; they could also have tiger stripes to leopard spots coats.
Kelth's colouring is going to be pure white with blue colouring his ear tips and his right forepaw is going to have a blue sock. The inch long horn located on Kelth's forehead is going to be blue fading into white. Big silvery blue coloured eyes. He sighs as he glances at the other drawings of some of the other Skivie that his friend has made. He glances to where Izzy is sitting in front of the computer. On the computer screen is a frame of wires that's the frame of the Shivie, Izzy already has the gryphon models up and running, it had taken longer for Mimi and Yolei to agree on what a Shivie should look like, Takato had drawn five other kinds of beasts that could have been used, two of which had been fliers.
He watches as slowly Izzy adds bones and then muscle tissue onto the frame of bones. Next Izzy does skin, the ears appear at this point and he glances from the drawing to the computer image. Izzy too glances at a drawing to his right, checking to make sure it looks like its printed counter part. Izzy does some adjustments to the tail and ear structure, and then Izzy begins on the fur coat. He leans in, clearly interested in this part of the process.
It's just Izzy and him in the room, the others were out filming the movie, it had taken a whole month for them to decide on what a Shivie is and thus Izzy hasn't gotten around to having anything done for the digital beast race. He's here mostly because he stated that he would want to make sure that Izzy got Takato's drawings of Shivie onto the computer without too much mishap. This got him out of him getting to play soldier number twelve or something like that.
He sighs as he reflects on how many of the extras were of the partnered kids with Digimon. 'But then, the dressing machine works best if you have a Digivice of any kind, which kind of means that it's just plain easier to have those with Digivices willing to work on this film for free, or for a certain percentage if theatres are willing to show it. I wonder how many people would be willing to go to a movie that's not only starring the Digidestine kids, but also made by them?' He wonders to himself as Izzy continues to tweak the 3D model on the computer screen.
He sighs as he hopes that the gifts he had been able to buy during the few days he could get away from the movie set would be good enough to give out to his friends and family. He wonders if the others have bought their Christmas gifts yet, he sighs and decides that it's not his problem to point out how many days until Christmas. He wouldn't blame any of them if they forgot, they're all become kind of absorbed into making this movie. 'Looming Shadows.' He thinks to himself as he flips to the front page of the script.
The 'company' that's producing Looming Shadows is called Lancer and Heart. They really didn't want the 'company' to be called Mimi and Co., the other choices were Lost Adventures, Digital Star, and, for some really odd reason, Thin Claw. The last came from the Digimon; he believes that it might have been Guilmon that coined that title.
Thinking about the Digimon, he wonders what it was that they're doing while they're occupied with making this film. He had noticed Calumon hanging around as well; he wonders if they were playing any of Calumon's rule changing games, he still remembers some of Calumon's versions of Basketball. He sighs, already feeling the beginnings of a headache happening just by thinking about those rules that Calumon came up with.
He shakes his head, hoping to get rid of his thoughts on that subject. He glances at the clock; he's surprise to notice that Izzy has been at it for about four hours now. He glances to the 3D image on the computer, his stomach growls. He puts his left hand over his middle; Izzy pauses and looks at him questioningly until Izzy's stomach echoes his. "Snack break?" He asks and Izzy nods, Izzy saves his work and turns off the screen. They head out of the room and towards where the mess hall is.
The building had only been in existence since they began filming in the Digital world, he doesn't know how Gennai built it over night, especially since Takato had only revealed which area they'd be filming about two days after Mimi's announcement, Takato had searched through the Digital World the day after his friend helped him with the beginnings of the story. It seemed that Takato used the Digi Ports to jump from one area to another without having to head to the real world. It saved his friend a great deal of time and energy.
He notices that there were a few Digimon lingering in the cafeteria, mostly talking animatedly among themselves. They paused as they hear Izzy and him walk in, but then returned to talking among themselves. "I wonder where the other Digimon are." He wonders to Izzy, the young genius shrugs as the red head says, "Probably watching either one of the filming sites." He nods in agreement as they head into the back room, there isn't any regular staff for the cafeteria, so they usually get to make their own snack, unless some people decide to cook something for everyone to eat. He had to admit that Tai, Kari, and Takato were quite a cooking team. He smiles slightly as he remembers those turkeys and that huge castle cake… His stomach growls at the memory of that night as he walks up to one of the many fridges in the kitchen.
(-Kari-)
Her ears twitch as she hears someone walk up from behind. She's currently dressed up as an Azchon, the humans with fox like features. She turns her head and finds Takato dressed up as Ryouji Frostmaul standing there. She sighs once more finds herself looking up at her adopted brother. "Why couldn't I play a Minotaur?" She mutters to herself out loud.
"Don't know, but I'm tired of having people make cracks about the weather and about my diet." Takato grumbles. She chuckles at this, knowing perfectly well that Takato doesn't like being one of the regulars on the film. Takato would prefer to be one of the extras then to be one of the main cast members. She smiles as Takato sends her a glare. "Oh come on, it's been about three months since we've started and you still haven't accepted that nobody's going to replace you? We're almost done filming." She says, her adopted brother simply sighs and she watches as her brother's ears perk up and scan the area for some noise that Takato picked up.
"I notice you worn TK's Christmas gift this morning." Takato says, changing the subject. She blushes at TK's name, she tries to think of a way to derail the conversation that's about to happen. She really doesn't want to discus her love life with one of her brothers. 'Even though he's the one that talked Tai out of laying out the ground rules with TK.' She thinks to herself.
Then a thought crossed her mind, it's more like turning the tables on her brother. "I wonder what Rika would like for a Christmas present." She says, trying to sound causally about it. Takato's head jerks slightly and the white Minotaur's jaw drops open, she does what she could do to school her facial features, only allowing a small grin on her face. "Maybe a kiss under the mistletoe?" She adds lightly, Takato just sighs and looks off into space. She hadn't expected that kind of response to that statement.
She rubs the back of her neck, not sure what to do when Takato's acting like this. "Come this spring break, I will most likely be back at my parent's bakery." Takato says softly. She blinks and then nods, suddenly feeling like a jerk by bringing up Rika.
"Well, maybe you'll visit during the holidays? It just doesn't seem right that you head back and don't even get to visit us. I know that I'll miss you, a lot. We're so close and I can't really picture my life without you around to tease me or to be there to support me. I know that Tai and TK will, but it just won't be the same…" She says, looking at some tree trunk then at her brother. "Yea, it will be different. I won't have any siblings to hang out with, sure I could hang with Henry, but it wouldn't be the same. I'll also miss the others too, like watching Matt and Tai try and impress Sora or watching TK and your interactions as you stumble along with your relationship." Takato says, he grins as he says the last bit about her and TK.
"I wouldn't mind watching you stumble around in your own relationship." She says dryly and Takato chuckles at that. "You just have to keep rubbing it in, don't you?" She grumbles. "I have plenty of ammo." Takato replies cheekily. She punches Takato in the middle, she couldn't reach his chest. "Ouch." Takato says, she just snorts and rolls her eyes, knowing full well that the little punch couldn't have hurt her brother.
Before she could say anything, Davis's voice rings out saying that the break is over, she wonders what the final produce of all this hard work is going to look like, she knows that Izzy will most likely get help from Yolei and Cody when time comes to add the gryphons and such. Matt's still busy recording music, which should be finish by the time they're done filming and Izzy is ready to add special effects. She also can't help but wonder why Mimi and Yolei wanted to make a film now as well as want to finish it as soon as they can.
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She stretches as she tries not to fall asleep. They had finished filming the movie about three weeks ago, leaving Izzy, Ken, Yolei, Matt, and Cody to go through what has been filmed, to add the music and the special effects, and then edit it. All she knows is that all five of them haven't been getting enough sleep, seem to be living off of fast food and coffee in order to put the finishing touches on the movie they're about to watch.
She still doesn't understand why they had to be here for 7:00 am, especially on a Saturday, but she shouldn't complain since Izzy, Ken, Yolei, Matt, and Cody look ready to fall asleep even though they're standing upright. Mimi had been busy trying to get a hold of the equipment that will copy the film onto DVDs as well as looking around for a theatre to rent so they could watch it on the big screen.
She glances to her right; Takato seems to be studying Gennai. She glances at the Digital human, wondering just how Mimi and Yolei talked him into being a part of the movie in the first place. She sighs and glances at Tai, who's to her left. She's not surprised to notice that her blood brother is staring at Sora. She looks for TK and finds that TK's sitting with Davis and Matt. She notices that Jun's here, Davis's sister. She had noticed that some of the kids had brought their parents to the showing; she noticed that Nancy, TK and Matt's mom, was also here, she can see her talking with some of the other parents.
Soon people quiet down as Mimi comes into the theatre. Those that had been standing around headed to their seats as Ken, Izzy, Matt, Yolei, and Cody walk over to where Mimi is standing. They're all tense as they wait for the pink haired teen to begin. "Thank you all for coming! I know it's early, but I promise it's worth it. Yolei and I had been thinking about doing this since we started work on the haunted house. A good friend of ours will be departing this year and we wanted to do something special before he moves back to his home city. So we decided that making a movie was a perfect way to make his last few months with us enjoyable as well as have something to fall back on when we miss him."
She could tell that Mimi had looked pointly at Takato when she mentioned someone departing back to their home city. Mimi then concludes, "So I hope you all enjoy this, for it'll be the first and last film made by the whole group of Chosen children." She notices that instead of Digidestine, Mimi used chosen, which in its own way covers Takato as much as it does the rest of the group. "I also believe a great round of applause to Izzy, Ken, Matt, Yolei, and Cody for working non-stop in order to put the finishing touches on the movie," Mimi claps her hands and soon they all are, the startled looks on their faces made her smile. They shift their weight around; clearly unsure about what to do with all of the attention they were receiving.
The lights dim and Mimi wraps it up by saying, "So enjoy the show and thank you, all of you for participating in filming a Lancer and Heart production." Mimi sits down as does the group of five that had put the finishing touches on the film.
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Akarui remembers the raid on his clan's settlement. It was around noon, he was hanging with Rujish and Ketuke, their Shivie were rough housing before them. Kelth, his bonded Shivie had teamed up with both of Ketuke's bonded Shivie to attack the larger Shivie that's bonded to Rujish.
It was their partners that paused in their play; they all look off to the east, their ears forward and bodies stiff. From his bond with Kelth, he felt confusion and then terror from Shivie, this alerts him and his two friends. The white Shivie glances at him, as if hoping that he could do explain what's happening. He glances around, his members of his family were coming out of their huts, glancing eastward, some of the younger Shivie diving into the huts, as if that would protect them from what they're feeling.
The older members of the Crimsonfangs were heading to the main hut, where their clan relic rests with their shaman, old Takel and her two apprentices live. He leads Rujish and Ketuke to the hut as he sends comforting feelings to Kelth. He notices that his father and uncles were handing out weapons, swords and battle axes.
"What's going on?" He asks his dad's elder brother. "Human raiding party. Hurg saw signs a scouting party about two days ago. We didn't think about it too much, thinking they might be after those Minotaur traders that showed up a few days ago." He bites his lower lip, a sinking feeling in his gut as he takes a sword from his uncle. He heads out with Kelth following him; he joins his elder cousin, Levii. "I don't like this, Levii. Why are they coming here? We haven't done anything to them!" His younger cousin, Geklar asks Levii. "There's not explaining why humans do what they do. All we have to worry about is holding them off while the children and elderly evacuate." Levii says before looking around at them all. Levii strokes her bonded Shivie, Urge.
One of his cousin's partner Shivie growls, he perks his ears up and they soon get their first glimpses of the human raiders. Soon chaos erupts as Azchon of the Crimsonfangs engage in combat. Shivie evade the human's attempts of killing them, allowing the Crimsonfang clan of Azchons time to attack them. It doesn't take long before the leathered armoured humans to ignore the Shivie.
He watches as some of his cousins, aunts, and uncles fall prey to the wounds they received from the raiders. Their partner Shivie come to their defense, this allowed for the Azchon lines to surge forward, pushing the group of soldiers back. He can hear one of his distance relatives shout orders on how to move the injured from behind the lines.
Then the humans covered in metal armour come charging in on horse back, pole-arms lowered. They speared quite a few of his clan mates, they were forced to retreat as one of the more decorative humans on horse back shout out orders in their native tongue. Then the man, since humans have this odd thing about gender, charges towards the main hut. He pushes the human he was engaging back and takes aim at the man with his belt knife. His knife falls harmlessly off the metal armour it hit.
He feels a sharp pain in his arm; he clutches it as he turns to face the man that's attacking him. Kelth knocks the human off balance and he uses his left hand to bring his sword into play. His swing almost cuts off the human's head; the man drops his sword as he clutches the front of his neck. Blood continues to pore out of the wound; he turns away and once more is defending himself from an attacking human.
He hears something from behind him, he turns his head and out of the corner of his eye he sees the human in decorated armour coming out of the main hut, the man is carrying something in his arms. The man shouts something and a horn blows, the human raiders begin to retreat. He watches as his clan mate try and retrieve the relic from the leader of the raiders.
The man cuts his family members down with his sword; he couldn't help but wonder where the man's pole-arm is as the humans retreat from the direction they came from. He drops his weapon and races into the main hut, he moves around the fallen as he crosses the distances between the main hut and him. He enters and pales as he notices the spear like weapon lodge in shaman Takel's chest, Felder and Aldar were both unconscious with minor wounds themselves. Kelth rubs his head on his left him, trying to comfort him. He hears others walk into the hut; he hears their gasps, horrified by what happened to Takel.
He feels something wet hit his sandaled foot; he touches his face to find tears running down his face. He doesn't know who pulled him away; he just knows that someone had as he's still in shock about the fate of kind old Takel.
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Saya Blackmoon studies the object that General Stormram had brought back from a raid on an Azchon's village. He glances at his sorcerer, a dark smirk gracing his handsome face. "Well? Will this suffice wizard?" He asks in a cold tone. He hands it into the waiting hands of his personal magus. "Indeed it will, my lord, indeed it will." The ancient sorcerer murmur as he clutch the piece of redwood with Azchon runes on it, clearly hoping to figure out how to make something similar before they use it in the ritual of Becoming.
He only smears at the old man, finding the man's antics amusing. He then turns away from the scene, he heads out of the study that he had allowed the sorcerer to have. His navy blue cloak swirling as he pulls it around him as he exits the room and enter into the hall. He doesn't say a word to the guards posted before the sorcerer's quarters. He walks through the underground hall, lamps of oil burning as he walks towards the stair case. He can't wait for the new moon, he could practically hear the screams of his victims as he torments them slowly, savouring their fear.
To Readers:
I would like to thank my friends Sora and Kata, AKA DeathEmperorDaeron, for their support of this movie idea that I came up with for this story. I probably would have just gone straight to something that wouldn't have been as challenging as having them, the Digidestine and Takato, make and produce their own movie. I hope you guys enjoy this bit of story, I did want to do something different and what I perceive as unique. Once more I would like to thank you for reading this and applaud those of you that continue to take time to review as well. Hope to hear what you think as well, see you all later, bye for now!
To be continued …