Chapter 12: Cousins meet
(Fate ost ougon no kagayaki )
Ashura after sensing an unchecked sigil mark returns to the school yard to sense where the source of the drainage is
"Okay I just felt one left,* sigh* and it had it be right after Vermillion left... still I've checked about almost everwhere so what could be left?" He stops to think
"...hmm...I guess I should feel the drainage" he says as he starts to play hot and cold in order to find out where the last mark is
The more drainage he feels the closer the mark must be so he continues this mysterious trail until it leads him directly to...
Ashura looks at a closed staff building "Weird isn't this where Viola had those weekly club socials?" He walks to the distant area and opens the door leading to inside the house
Inside he sees the windows with the light of the sun about to set and uses it to look around small room "I'm close" Ashura said as he feels his energy being drained more 'it's a good thing my family has such durability' He thoughts as looks at the room but then as as he turns he sees something shocking behind him. A giant sigil mark painted that covers the whole wall.
"What how come no one noticed this?" He said as he attempts to examine it but it shocks him "Ow! Ugh should have known the size wasn't just for show...I better catch up to Vermillion before..."
"Before what?" Said a voice
Ashura turns around with wide eyes to see the mysterious rider standing on the shadows
"Sigh before villian of the story shows up..." he quips but is also suprised that Rider arrived so quickly
"Hmph I hardly call myself a villain but I can'tlie saying it would be fun" she smiled she walks a few steps close to him
Which forces Ashura backs up to the other side of the wall slowly "I don't think I can understand why cornering someone with intimidation fun" Ashura sweats as he still feels the drainage from being so close
"Oh this isn't intimidating, just trying to get you to listen" she snaps her fingers
Some mysterious wind pushes Ashura on the back and knocks him a few feet in front of her "listen? Listen about what?"
"An meeting with my master" she said as that makes him stop
"Your brining me to him?" He raises an eyebrow
"No...my master's already here" she said as she sat on her floating broom
After hearing more footsteps he sees another silluotte and hears one reply "Eh?"
Ashura was confused "What ?I didn't catch that" 'is she suprised?'
"I was hoping people I didn't know would be taking out of the war" said the voice of someone young "It was supposed to be an easy task to fill out"
"Um who are you?" Ashura says
On his reply the master steps out of the shadows. She is a young girl with red eyes with long golden hair with a silver necklace cross with black braids with a stoic face like she's super bored "YYou already know Ashura Hoshigumi"
He looks at her with Wide eyes "C-Cousin Yami"
"We have a lot to talk about"
Against his will and without an answer, Ashura now finds himself sitting in front of one of his long missed kin.
'Is she seriously Rider's master? How is this possible? I thought she was out of state with Aunt Tearju!' Too many thoughts and possible events for a coincidence was pushing up to his head
This is Yami Lunatique, a branch family member of the Uzumaki family from Sunbeam's dad's side of the family, I never my uncle from that side but I met his sister Aunt Tearju once and it's how I was able to meet Cousin Yami...But I don't understand, Yami wasn't this moody or had knowledge of something this dangerous before
"Are you uncomfortable?" Yami says to him
"Actually I'm just suprised" he moved his legs a bit due to being a nervous habit "Last I checked your home was back a few countries away at shanghai"
"Like you, I was clearly brought here because of the war as your can see perfectly" as she points to her servant playing cat's cradle 'stupid yarn' thought rider as she looks to be stressing at her miniature ordeal.
"The grail summons people from other cities too?" Ashura said
"That only depends by status, candidacy, and magical or spiritual power." Yami answered "Once it was rumored that random magic users can participate in the previous wars just by stealing ancient artifacts from other magus" she said *sigh* "humanity can be sneaky and so greedy"
'But this means raises confusion on why I'm here.' Ashura looks down in thought 'it can be my status because I'm not considered a mage let alone a magus and my knowledge of magic is very lacking...could it be my power?' He puts those thoughts away for later "Wait so does this mean you have magic too?"
Yami raises an eyebrow" Magic...Maybe you could call my special skill that" she glows a bit and suddenly her hair moves around slowly like a octopus.
This shocks him 'I thought Mr Kakashi knew about digimon how does she know? Did someone tell her...they must have' he looks at her "So why bring me to this place by force?"
"Sorry but my instructor told me that I should bring "he who is interfering with our plan" "she said "If I knew it was you I would have planned it to be safer."
"Plan, you mean you attended this, and your not alone?"
"No When I got...separated from my family awhile back some weird guy gave me a job and one thing lead to another promotion until I was instructed to join this war" she explained
"Who is this weird guy?" Ashura sweatdrops at her answer
"Not sure"
"What?" Ashua said confused "But you said gave you a job"
"True, but he's so uninteresting that I often forget about him." Yami shrugs "But the one thing I only remember is that he talks about the mafia"
"Eh? The mafia in this country"
"Mafia ,yakuza, of course gangsters to exist Ashura it's a humanity's way of never getting bored...hinting this as a fun war game"
"Game?" Ashura questions and wanted to speak to her more but suddenly hears the door open
"GOLDEN DARKNESS YOU STARTED THE MEETING WITHOUT ME!" Said an arrogant voice
Ashura looks at some punk looking guy dressed in an orange tiger suit with red skin like he was mad all day with imitation porcupine hair
'A yakuza?' Ashura thought as he looks at the stranger 'but what's golden darkness mean?'
Suddenly the punk looks at Ashura "Ehhh..." he makes a scary voice "So your the little brat that's messing around this turf"
"I'm not sure what your talking about"
"Don't play dumb! Your little...I KNOW FROM DARKNESS THAT YOUR A MASTER IN THIS WAR!"
Ashura just looks confused as this thug knows about the war
"So you told them to bring me here"
"Grrr...straight to the point...fine" the thug looks like he's snorting out smoke and stands back "Your irritating but useful, and if Golden Darkness approves of you, how about you join our cause and work with the Mafia"
Ashura looks shock "The mafia know about the war too!"
The thug smirks "Heh heh heh not yet but once they will they will be impressed at my idea!" And turns around "and maybe free me from that rotten debt..." he mumbles maniacaly
Ashura manages to hear that last part but looks away 'If it were possible I might actually join to keep an eye on Yami but,...I already made an alliance with Vermillion and I'm sure she wouldn't trust this guy if her life depended on it not to mention Gatomon was already upset that I did it behind her back' he feels conflict on his thoughts
The thug sees his look "oh you thinking about it, well as a sporting guy I will give you a time...or unless I feel like it for your answer otherwise you'll be priority number one of Furio Tiger GOT IT!"
Ashura takes the opportunity and nods 'What a weird name'
The thug snaps his fingers "Golden Darkness tell Rider to escort him out" and walks out "I'm so freakin ticked off right now!" He walks out
With most of the tension out of the atmosphere Ashura gets up and prepares to let Rider take him away But remembers something "Oh Yami"
"Hm?"
"Why did he call you golden darkness?"
She blinks "It's just a codename for this game"
'Again with game?' He says as rider pushes him out the door "Come on kid lets take you outta here" Rider said
As he left, Yami looks at the wall mirror "Just a game"
A about an hour as they walk out to near Ashura's neighborhood, even with only one person, Ashura feels awkward because she is still his enemy
"So you weren't scared of the spooky pad or that loud guy?" Rider broke the silence
"Should I be?"
"Well in my opinion I just don't take him seriously, but hey I can easily take care of myself" Rider smirks "but you really have to either be brave, or you instincts are slow not to notice the danger your in"
"I take it as that's the only good praise I got so far" Ashura just doesn't care for the insult right now 'I can think of far more terrifying things like Berserker or that eater...or Vermillion or Gatomon's temper hah' He smiled at his inside comment
"Well this is as far as I need to" Rider stops and prepares to fly away as her broom levitates high up "If your smart you should take up on our offer" she warns him with a scary smirk and flies off
He looks back at that reply then turns away,"It's not like I enjoy making such choices...I can't even tell if what I'm doing is making a dent in this competition yet" he mumbles the last pat wondering if he has made any progress in this serious event
He then just realized "Oh I forgot to ask Yami if her mom is around town!" He yelled
He walks inside his apartment building and was about to open the door by reaching his keys until he looks at the clock 'Oh I'm late at night, Gatomon might be ticked off if I arrive so late...' he remembered how Ruler was scolded him which made him feel a bit guilty so he does not want to see what a grumpy cat girl would do
"I think it's time to visit Anna" He says as he walks away slowly not to cause any noise so late at night. He walks back down the stairs since elevators would take too long until he reaches the first floor but stops "Oh wait I can't ask my manager to make me something...oh I'll just buy some food so we can both make something!" He said as he ran to the nearest store
15 minutes later
He reaches the managers apartment door and rings her doorbell. He waits a minute or two and stomps his foot lightly as a habit he picked up in a game until he hears footsteps and sees the door open
He sees Anna Tristain in a blue robe holding a pot of warm food "Oh Ashura what brings you here this late?"
"Hello I just came for a visit" he said holding a bag of groceries "and thought that I bought too much food so maybe we could both make something? "
"Well I believe there is enough time" Anna said "Come in" she said as they both went inside
In the morning After Ashura's offering idea worked, Gatomon let him off the hook and requests Ashura to train for a bit in the digital world
"So what brings us outside of the arena today?"
"It's over stocked due to so many digimon wanting to train, so were seaching for rogue digimon today" she said holding the left overs she had last knight 'These are mine! And I bite off the fingers of who dare to take then from me!' Gatomon thought
"Rogue digimon?" Saber said "That's a new title"
"Arrogant criminal digimon that cause mischief or pranks" She says "Saber I thought digimon chosen from the grail had knowledge of modern times how did you not know?"
"Sorry but I can only remember one thing at a time with so much stuff recently crammed inside my head so I'm still getting use to it" Agumon said
"Anyway, while you were at school, with the enemy..." Gatomon squinted her eyes at him "Mero told me that these certain digimon have been seen nearby it's partly one of the reasons why her card shop closes so early"
"She's heard of a rumor here?"
"Even the digital world gets news Ashura" she says with a straight face
They soon find a cave and as Ashura sees Gatomon walk in this must mean that the monsters are inside the cave
As they enter they hear some water dripping meaning that the area is moist or that it rained in the digital world before
But what made Ashura stop a bit was hearing some hissing "Was that a snake?"
"Nope, animals don't exist in the digital world...bug or snake type digimon now that's something to watch out for" she pointed out "due to their size, intelligence, and actual attack abilities it's pretty obvious that anything from the digital world is more dangerous than the human world"
"What about the grail?"
"That was enhanced by digimon ancestry it doesn't count" she said as she jumps over a puddle and still a drop of water lands on her head making her hiss
'She doesn't like water?' Ashura said with a suprised look 'No that can't be right yesterday she said she used all the hot water in the building...I can't stand cold showers in this time of year' he shudders of the cold water spraying his exposed back in the bathroom "I hope the hot water comes back..." Ashura mumbles
He then hears a rock noise and takes some steps back As the group sees the enemy appear
He sees about 3 gottsumon and 2 clockmon
"Nows a good opportunity for you to train, I'll just sit here away from the water" Gatomon said as she sat on a flat rock Eating her leftovers
"Okay Saber fire doesn't look like they should hurt them so simple tackles or claw attacks should work"
"Okay then" he says as he jumps and crashes between them
"Ah saber you should take it easy so the cave wouldn't close in on us!"
"Oh I think I can do that"
He says as he dodges some after he jumps and strikes two of them back with his claws and the ome of the clockmon charges so Saber grabs the and throws it to them knocking them like bowling pins
And saber uses his claws to chop one of the gottsumon just hard enough to knock them out and then lifts and throws it as another gottsumon and clockmon knocking them out also
Leaving only one left Agumon waves for it to charges as the clockmon attacks and Saber jumps over it and hits the back with of his claws leaving a hard blow
"Great work Saber"
"Thanks!"
"Excellent work, unfortunately that was only a small team, the rest are deeper inside" Gatomon rained on there parade a bit
"Oh" said the only human "Well this isn't called training for nothing, let's go" He said as they went
Meanwhile on another part of the digital world
"How are you on your end Gabumon?" Kakashi said as he was seaching in a rock mountains
"I think I found a lead, but why couldn't Gaomon come with us"
"Remember he's watching out for people who might think were in the war"
"We're not?"
"We'll not legally but I figured Ashura may need our help" he said as he was attempting to check marks or traces of anything different from the environment
"Oh" Gabumon replied until his nose whiffed up something "Kakashi I found a scent"
"Good boy" he said as he rubs his head making him shy and follows Gabumon
As he follows Gabumons route he notices that the air is thinner but it's odd as there not on high ground
"Kakashi look!" He turns to where gabumon is pointing and cannot believe what he is seeing
A wall of the mountain has a massive hole but the holes are coated in pixels but these are purple which is quite peculiar as data and pixels are blue and the weird part is that it spreaded on the treess nearby making them look dark and omnius until the tree slowly disolves into data "What does this mean Kakashi?"
With one reply he said "I'm not sure...but I'm willing to find out" his eyes narrow at this event.
(End ost teleportation guy by MULL)