Hey guys it's Lunamon810 once again, here with another chapter of good ol' Crest of Trust. Have I ever mentioned how much I love writing this? xD I'd just like for you guys to know you're all AWESOME for reading this, especially for this long. I promise the up-coming chapters are progressive as far as the storyline goes, I wanted to write these chapters for a few reasons. I wanted to first of all bring out more of Amber's history, I wanted to have some good emotional moments, and I needed some chapters for you love-hungry people out there. xD Love-hungry or not you're still awesome. But like I was saying just hang on, some digimon-action stuff will start happening soon.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Digimon in any way, shape, or form! I only own two of the OC's, Amber & Seth.
Claimer: As said above I own Amber & Seth.
Once again thanks to Latina Shewolf for the 'recap' below, and not to mention submitting Clary!
Hey guys, Seth here. After a night of fright, the gang woke up rather refreshed for once. During breakfast a couple of Sorcermon came in bringing a group of very wet friends. Joe, Felix, and Felicia with Gomamon, Terriermon, and Lopmon following close behind. Yay! More friends. Poor Joe finding out that TK is alive was far too much for him. Matt just got a new ringtone thanks to Clary, hehe. They filled Joe, Felix and Felicia in on what they missed. After everyone split up to do their own thing, Davis and Amber start discussing what to do about the grassland. Clary bumped into Joe and ended up striking a conversation with him. Not too long afterwords, Amber and Davis left to check on the grasslands. Carter, Kari, Tai and their digimon were all under a few big trees weren't doing so well with soaked by the rain. They managed to find a Bearmon village and got some shelter at last. I wasn't a happy person when I learned that the digidestined Lana and her partner Shoutmon managed to escape. Watch out Lana! Luna has some trouble sleeping but at least she has her partner Lalamon at her side. Meanwhile Ren and Kotemon stumbled across Primary Village. There they met Elecmon. Amber and Davis made it back to the Grassland to check for any damage when Amber heard a small voice cry for help. Turns out there was a Yaamon trapped under a building. Thank goodness Amber heard its cry for help. Things look peaceful for our friends, but for how long? Stay tuned for Digimon: The Crest of Trust!
Everyone sat around the big dinner table, some small talk taking place between most of them. Amber sat quiet while she ate, thinking. Now three more were in Seth's clutches. Would they all join Seth? Had she really caused this change of heart? She knew they couldn't all really want to be there, a few were there because she was, and others were there because those people were. Who could be left? If memory served there were still four kids they didn't know, Tai, and Kari left. Tai was stubborn, surely he wouldn't join them. Maybe he was the good side's last hope.
'What's wrong, you look bummed out." Sora said, and Amber looked up from her bowl of soup.
"I'm okay."
"You don't look or sound okay." Sora persisted.
Amber sighed. "Not to come off rude, by why do you care anyway?"
"You're one of us Amber, you're my friend. Plus, you're Matt's sister."
Amber nodded. "I'll be fine."
"But you've been like this for a while."
"I know."
"Well I'm here if you need to talk about it."
"I'll keep that in mind." Amber said sighing, taking a bite of garlic bread. She felt Seth's eyes on her, so she looked at him from the top of her eyes. "What Seth?"
"What'd I do?"
Amber just stared at him, then Seth looked away, realizing she blamed him a little bit for everything she'd been through recently. The two of them were quiet through the rest of dinner, and after words Seth walked over to her as everyone was heading back to their rooms. Davis looked at her, and she just smiled and nodded for him to go on to his room. He left, along with everyone else. Seth looked at her. "Amber why are you so upset? The Amber I knew never let anything keep her down."
"I guess I'm not your little sister anymore then."
"Amber you're always going to be my little sister no matter how you act or if we're in our world, this world, or any other world that may exist. And as your big brother, I want to know what's wrong."
"Nothing's wrong."
"Amber, look at me."
"No."
"Look at me." he said with his strict older brother voice, and Amber did just like she did when Seth used to be so persistent about looking him in the eye. She looked with her head tilted town, looking from the top of her eyes. "What's wrong?" Seth asked again. Amber took a deep breath and fell into her brother's arms, hugging him tight, crying. This caught Seth off guard. He patted her on the back. "I told you something was wrong." Seth said quietly, and Amber wiped her tears away, calming down. She remained hugging him, feeling as if she would be separated from him otherwise. Once she did pull apart, she took a deep breath and let out what she'd been holding back.
"What's wrong? I got sucked into a totally different world with my adoptive brother thinking his brother and my brother were dead, I got split up from half the group, got back together, then got split up from my best friend, got split up from everyone in a whirlwind that came out of nowhere that I'm pretty sure you had something to do with, kissed someone I barely knew at the time, fell in love with him, found out my adoptive brother's brother, who's also my adoptive brother, was alive, then I got taken away by Myotismon with Davis, found out you were alive but evil, got crowned queen, had the area I ruled somewhat destroyed by a storm, that same storm nearly got us all killed!" Amber exclaimed. "I almost lost everyone I loved and cared about- again!"
"Again?"
"I lost mom and dad first, then you and Aunt Allison!" Amber exclaimed, panting. "I lost everyone! Then I almost lost you again, along with Matt, TK, Davis, and Lunamon! Not to mention Clary, my best friend! Who I watched sink into depression because she lost her partner because Etemon split them up!"
"Amber I-"
"And you're the one who did most of this to me!" she said before she could stop herself. She froze as she realized she'd said it outloud.
"Are you really that mad at me Amber?" Seth asked, his voice shaky.
"No...well maybe...I don't know. I shouldn't be having to make these decisions."
"Amber I didn't want to upset you." Seth said. "I just wanted you to be around...and for you to accept who I am. Which I know must be hard, but you're my little sister. I just hoped you'd always accept me no matter what I did."
"Seth just because I'm upset doesn't mean I don't accept you." Amber said. "It just means I'm frustrated, you should know that."
"I kept my promise you know." he said, his face softening a little bit.
"Huh?"
"I promised you something a few nights before the fire at Aunt Allison's. You had a dream you were a princess, remember. And you said you were sad because you couldn't ever really become a princess. So I promised you I'd make sure you'd become one." He grinned at her, and she laughed.
"I remember that. And me and you made plans of what we'd do as rulers of country." Amber said. "And you said you make sure I was heavily guarded so no one would be able to hurt me."
"Uh-huh." he said, ruffling her hair a little bit. "But, how do you feel about all of this...I mean about being here?"
"I feel like I need to leave honestly." Amber said. "I guess the princess life wasn't for me."
"Maybe if it were under different circumstances." Seth sighed. "I understand how you feel, but I can't let you leave."
"I honestly wouldn't leave without you anyway."
Seth didn't have a response, he simply hugged her tight and picked her up, and carried her up the stairs.
"What are you doing?" she asked laughing lightly.
"You're a princess, you shouldn't have to walk up stairs." Seth said jokingly, then brought her to her room and laid her on her bed. She stared up at him, smiling. He sat down next to her on the bed and ran his fingers through her hair, and she just laid there staring up at him. "Now, you need to go to sleep."
"But it's only 8pm-"
"You haven't been sleeping good lately. You need to try to get some sleep Amb."
"But I'm not tired Seth." Amber said, hearing a hint of childish whining entering her voice. She looked up at him with puppy dog eyes, so he rolled his own and looked away.
"Sleep, puppy dog."
"Fine." Amber said sighing, laughing. She used to do that to Seth when he would try to convince her to go to sleep. She laid curled up on her bed while Seth sat on the edge, still stroking her hair. She fell asleep easily, to Seth's relief. He waited a while then left the room, since he was king and did have some business to take care of.
Amber was woke up the next morning by someone she wouldn't have expected. Izzy. She sat up, and looked out the window, then the clock. It was around the regular time she woke up, but why did Izzy wake her up? She looked at Izzy with a confused look. "Something wrong Izzy?"
"Well, we need to come up with a plan to get out of here soon." Izzy said. "I can tell you think the same." Izzy sat down on the desk chair.
"Maybe I do." Amber said quietly. "But I don't know that I could leave Seth here."
"We don't have much of a choice Amber."
"I know Izzy, but how do you expect to get out anyways?"
"We could go to the grassland as a group and just...run off from there." Izzy said.
"Surely my castle there is going to be done soon, which means there will be a lot of guards there." Amber said.
"Less than there will be here." Izzy said.
Amber nodded and sighed. Did anyone understand that she cared for her brother? She froze when she thought that. Whose side am I on? Didn't you originally come to keep their attention off the others, to find out more information about the enemies plans? I mean sure, I didn't know Seth was here then...but can I really allow him to change my side officially?
"Amber?" Izzy said. "You look zoned out."
Amber snapped her head up. "Oh, yeah, sorry."
"So when should we try to escape?" Izzy asked.
Amber bit her lip. "I don't know. Davis and I were going to go to the grassland today, but that's not enough time to get everyone in on the plan. Especially since we have to be careful, if I know Seth, which at this point I don't know if I do or not, he'll be keeping an eye on us."
"Do you think he's heard any of this then?" Izzy asked.
"Hopefully not." Amber said.
"Izzy!" Mimi's high pitched scream echoed through into Amber's room.
"Uh...That's your cue I believe." Amber said.
Amber's door banged open, and Amber's eyes widened at Mimi's enraged look. "What are you doing in here Izzy!"
Izzy and Amber exchanged a look, could she keep her big mouth shut?
"Izzy I asked you a question!"
"Amber and I were discussing if we thought another storm would be coming through, trying to keep everyone safe." Izzy said.
"Well get down to breakfast soon!" Mimi demanded, then stomped out.
"Wow..." Amber said. "Anyway, Seth...I don't know who he is. He's cheerful him around me, but around the rest of you something's...different."
"I see." Izzy said then nodded, then stood up. "Well I've gotta go, we'll discuss this more later I guess."
"Yeah." Amber said, then stood up as he left and got ready for breakfast, then headed down stairs. Davis was already down there, and he smiled at her.
"Morning Amber."
"Hey Davis." she said, then sat down smiling.
Seth was sitting across from her, and he smiled at her. "Sleep well?"
"Better than I have been." Amber said. "More than I have been. I guess I could thank you...or blame you, for that."
"Now why would you blame me? Wouldn't that make it a bad thing?" Seth asked.
"I clear my head before I go to sleep." Amber said. "I didn't last night. So my brain equals a sea of jumbled up thoughts."
"Oh well." he said. "You'll just have some extra clearing up to do tonight."
Amber stuck her tongue out at him, then started eating. But she needed to think now. Izzy wanted to get out of here, and soon. She was sure a lot of the others did too, but she had to be honest with herself. Her heart wasn't in leaving. She wanted to stay with Seth, she lost him once out of something no one could have stopped, but now she had a choice. But what about Matt, TK, Davis? How about Clary, how would that make her feel?
Sigh, poor Amber. Will she ever figure this all out? Guess we'll have to see if she manages to next time on Digimon: The Crest of Trust.
