Blood Zone:
Lie And
Truth
[A/N: What is a lie and what
is the truth? Has Myotismon betrayed
the Digi-destined and attacked Matt, or was it some other strange assaulter
with a liking for vampires? Read,
review, and I hope you enjoy. By the
way, this is an AU fic, so it doesn't really connect to any of my other
fics. Yeah, let's just clear that up.]
[Disclaimer: Don't own.]
Tai stormed up the stairs and half-ran down the path. Oh, if he was there, he was going to tell him everything… The twenty-two-year-old man slammed his fist on the wood door with a vengeance.
Shinji
slowly woke from a peaceful sleep. Why
the hell was there shouting and banging? Had she left something on? Ignoring the sound for a few minutes, the doctor slowly stretched, and
noticed the very strange spot she had fallen asleep in.
Her
legs were half-hung-over the back of a couch, her back on the ground. "I need to remember to actually get to bed
before falling asleep." Shinji rolled her blue eyes and rolled over backwards. With a short glance in the mirror, she
merely walked to the door. Someone had
once asked her if she had just woken up, due to the state of her hair. Well, that was the reason she had rather
shaggy hair…
"Yes?"
the door finally opened. A
tousled-headed Shinji looked down at Tai in confusion. "What the hell?" she still hadn't woken up
much, due to the manner in which she spoke what she thought, "Tai, shouldn't
you be teaching kids how to throw balls or something?"
Tai's
brown eyes glanced up and down Shinji and he looked her in the eye. "You just woke up?" he asked coldly. Shinji rolled her eyes and said, "So, what
brings you here? You don't come up here
often."
"Where's
Myotismon?" was his reply. "Myotismon?"
Shinji rubbed her eyes roughly, "Um…I can't remember. He was here when I got home last night…I think…"
"Well,
you should know that Matt was attacked last night." Tai's voice was icy, "In a
vampiric style." Shinji stared at Tai
for a moment. "I'm sorry, I have
something in my ear." she suddenly seemed skeptical, "Did you say in a vampiric
manner?" Tai fixed her with his darkest
glare.
"Tai,
did you ever stop to think that it was some weirdo with a liking for vampires?"
Shinji was irritated. She had been
having a sleep with no dreams, but a very nice sleep, and Tai had to go and
ruin it. "Why do you think it's
Myotismon?" she finished.
"Because
Matt said that he saw Myotismon just before he bit him." Tai's glare was so
cold it sent icicles through the air. Shinji countered the iciness with her own glare, and the two stared at
each other.
"Sorry,
Tai, but Myotismon isn't here." the older Digi-destined said finally, "And I
seriously think you've gone over the deep end if you think he attacked
Matt." She started to close the door,
but Tai slapped his hand against it, trying to keep it open. Without pause, Shinji slammed the door
shut. Tai sighed slightly; this was
such a pain in the ass.
Shinji
took her hand away from the door and paused for a moment, just standing there
in the semi-darkness of the room. And
then, her eyes rolled back into her head, and she fell backwards, somewhere
between sleep and unconsciousness. Strong arms caught her and she and the person remained still for a
while.
Tai
stared up at the ceiling of his apartment. Well, his and Matt's apartment. "She was hiding something, I know it." he murmured to himself, "She
knows perfectly well where Myotismon is." The twenty-two-year-old closed his eyes with a soft sigh. Well, Matt was coming home tomorrow, so that
was something to look forwards to.
Tai
jerked awake with a snort and blinked the bleariness out of his eyes. It was dark outside, he found. "Dang me and my amazing ability to fall
asleep in two seconds." he rolled his brown eyes. He rolled over and came crashing down from the couch.
"Ow!"
he rubbed his nose with a moan. The
engaged man pushed himself up off the floor and walked out onto the
balcony. There were a few people
wandering around in the streets below. Some had bags from stores in hand; some were just out for late-night
walks.
Tai
glanced up the road a short way, to look at the various neon-signed
stores. He found the light comforting
in a strange way. Dark shapes of people
strolled up and down the sidewalks and some walked in the street slightly. Cyclists were out late as well, Tai spotted
with a smirk.
Suddenly,
a loud echoing explosion rang out. Tai
snapped out of staring and looked around. That sound wasn't an explosion…it was a gun.
Screams
erupted from the stores and the sidewalks. Tai could just make out a dark shape holding one arm up; that had to be
the person who had shot the gun. Just a
few meters away from the gun-toting psycho stood a screaming person. A large shape on the ground just beside the
screaming person, a screaming woman probably, was missing a torso.
"Holy
hell." Tai whispered to himself. The
gun-toting person walked up to the large, torso-missing person and knelt
down. They were examining the
torso-missing person. When the sirens
started up, the person looked over their shoulder, and then ran off with
exceptional speed.
Tai
continued to stare at the horrific scene, and then the phone started to beep
wildly. He stepped back once, still
staring, but then turned away and walked to the phone.
"Yes,
Tai Kamiya speaking." he answered politely. "The one that attacked Matt has been eliminated." a gravelly voice spoke
from the other end. "What?" Tai asked
back, "Who are you?" It dawned on him
suddenly. "Wait!" he snapped, "You're
the one that killed the man right in the street!"
There
was only silence on the other end of the line. "Who are you?!" Tai shouted, "Why did you kill that man?!" "Because he was a vampire." replied the
person. Then, a click sounded, and the
phone beeped with the dial tone.
Tai
stood in the darkened room, the phone to his ear. The person he had just been talking to had committed murder just
a few minutes before. But what was even
stranger was that they said they had killed a vampire.
Tai
slowly put the phone down. Vampires
didn't exist. Myotismon was the only
vampire, the one that had attacked Matt…wasn't he? He walked dumbly over to the couch and sat down. "This is such a pain in the ass." he
repeated himself once more.
Matt
stared up at the white ceiling of the hospital room. He hated it in there, where he couldn't be near Tai. He couldn't hear Tai's laugh, his jokes, or
see his smiles. This was so horribly
boring.
"Hey."
Tai's voice came from the doorway. Matt
sat up and looked to the door, lighting up with a smile at the sight of his
fiancée. "Hey, Tai!" he said
happily. His smile faltered when he saw
Tai's upset look.
"What's
the matter?" Matt wondered. "Someone
was killed last night." Tai murmured, walking to the chair beside the bed, "It
wasn't a vampiric attack. Someone blew
off his torso. With one bullet."
"That's
not what bothering you." Matt read Tai like a story, "What's the problem with
that?" "The person that killed the guy
called me." Tai replied, "They said that the person they killed was the person
that attacked you."
"That's
impossible." Matt murmured, "The man that was killed wasn't Myotismon, was
he?" "No, but the person that called me
said that he was a vampire." Tai answered, "And when I talked to Shinji
yesterday, she said that I was crazy if I thought that Myotismon was the one
that bit you."
"She
was lying." Matt said bitterly, "She was lying." Tai watched his fiancée avidly. "She also said that she couldn't remember where Myotismon was." Tai said
softly. "I already said that she was
lying." Matt hissed.
Suddenly,
the window was shattered inwards and a large stone with a note tied about it
clattered to the floor. Tai and Matt
stared at the stone. Matt's room was on
the twelfth level of the hospital; how had the stone gotten there?
Tai
stood up and paused, and then walked to the stone. His hand hovered over the stone, and then he picked it up. Untying the knot around the note, Tai
unfolded the note and read over it quickly. The stone in his hand fell to the floor with a clatter.
"It
says 'I know this is a rather immature way of communicating with you, but I
would rather not be heard by anyone but you.'" Tai read, "'I personally want to
speak with you. If you and Matt would
kindly meet my partner on the roof of the hospital at midnight tonight, they
will bring you to me, so we may talk. And I will not hide the truth.' There isn't any signature though."
"Well,
should we?" Matt wondered. Tai stared
at the note for a few moments, studying it. This was very strange. It was so
very strange. "All right." he finally
answered, "We should go."
The
hours rolled on. Tai returned to their
apartment to fetch Matt some acceptable clothes and a comb. Matt simply wouldn't allow anyone except Tai
to see his absolutely mussed-up hair. When it became quarter to midnight, they finally moved.
The
roof was as dark as it could get. Tai
and Matt looked across the roof and spotted something. It looked like a very, very large wolf. The creature was sitting in the middle of
the roof, very still. It suddenly tensed
and stood on all fours, turning to face Matt and Tai.
And
then, with a flash, everything went black.