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Chapter four

" WE RULE! There is just no question about it I totally rule man!" Cameron hollered as he climbed the stairs to his apartment.

" We could have beaten you cam. You only play soccer with us because you're bigger," His nine-year-old sister yelled as she followed him up the staircase.

" No I play soccer with you and your little friends because I whip your asses every single time!" he cried with joy.

The young girl with her hair pulled back in a scruffy ponytail suddenly leapt on top of her brother's back.

" Come on then cam. I'll take you out right now!"

He struggled to get free of her grip and just managed to pull himself off the floor with her still clinging onto his neck.

" I'm eleven your nine. I'm not going to fight you because I'll just win again!"

" No you won't!" She hung on to his shirt as he stumbled to their apartment door. He threw open the freshly painted red door and fell onto the soft carpet with his sister sitting on his back.

" Aaaaaaahhhhhhh get off me!" He yelled,

" See you're not going to win this time Cam!" She yelled,

" Mum! MUM!" Cam shouted into the apartment, " Mu-" His yells were cut short as he saw his mother sitting on the couch curled up into a little ball with a knitted blanket draped across her. She didn't seem to notice the two fighting children, she was staring at the television at an old home movie. Her face was red and streaked with tears. She looked more like a little girl than a strong grown woman.

He felt Nadia clutch onto his hand for comfort as she looked at their mother. There was a errie sadness over her, depression, and grief. Something that he had never seen before. He had never seen her cry. Not once in his whole life. Even though she didn't make a sound the silvery tears still ran violently down her face. She didn't seem like his mother any more. It was asthough she had been replaced. She looked so weak and fragile, like the slightest sound would cause her to crumble. He was glad Nadia was holding onto him, he was scared too.

" Mum?" He whispered as he pulled himself off the floor.



Taichi stoked the fire with a long wooden stick he had found not far away.

Amte sighed as she stared up at the starlight sky. Sometimes she wondered if there was anything more beautiful than the stars, maybe there was and she hadn't seen it yet. Each little sparkle must be trillions and trillions of miles away. Maybe there was someone on one of the stars staring at earth wondering the same thing.

She was brought out of her trance at the gruesome noises of Dane eating a loaf of bred beside her.

" Can't you be a little quieter," She demanded,

" Sorry mother," Dane snapped,

" Your so disgusting," She said shaking her head.

He grinned and stuck out his tongue, revealing the chewed up lumps off bread in his mouth.

" Dane that's foul!" She screamed,

" Dane I'm trying to eat," Rord cringed,

" At least I'm not as foul as how you smell," Dane laughed at Amte,

" I don't smell-" She was about to launch herself into another childish argument. When Taichi interrupted her.

" The dark is rising," He spoke barely above a whisper, but these four words were enough to silence the whole group.

He didn't take his gaze away from the depths of the burning fire as the other three stared at him.

Amte closed her eyes and tried to register the fateful phrase he had just uttered.

" How . . .how do you know?" Rord asked quietly.

The landscape suddenly sounded silent around them, not a cricket or even a gust of wind broke the stillness. It was asthough the whole world was waiting for Taichi's next words.

" The lords have told me," He muttered, " They have bestowed a vision on me. The time will soon be upon us," The tone of his voice did not change but his words carried an air of great importance.

" But . . .how . . .we're not ready . . . they can't," Dane whispered dumbly,

" Eleven years you have all trained. I have watched knowing that this moment would come one day. We have all known it. You are no longer children. You are adults, you have you skills and your logic. You no longer need me to guide you,"

A wave of horror suddenly washed over Amte. Yes she had always known this day would come, but there was something more terrifying than fighting a battle.

" Your not going to leave us are you Taichi?" She blurted out sounding like a little child again, " I couldn't bare it if you left us now,"

Taichi took his gaze away from the dancing flames and looked upon her. After all of her training and years she still couldn't read that blank hard face. She understood him a little better now, he had suffered a massive heartbreak, something that could never be repaired. But he wouldn't let her know what was really going on in his mind. He had taught her this power and while teaching her he had secretly put a spell in-between them.

" Not just yet," he answered her, " But the day will soon be upon us,"



" Mum?" Cameron whispered again as he slowly walked across the living room floor to where she sat. She didn't stir nor did she look away from the television screen.

He glanced at the screen. The camera was being walked through what looked liked a hotel room, two freshly made beds, a long desk with various bottles on it, a wardrobe and then a long clear patio door. The holder of the camera pulled open the patio doors and walked onto a stone patio. Infront lay a clear blue pool with a couple of sun lounges dotted around its edges on the patio slabs. Three people came could be seen sitting on a group of sun lounges talking together.

" Hey matt I found Kari's camera!" The cameraman shouted. His voice was deep but gentle and light-hearted, he started to snigger. A lively fun loving sort of laugh.

" Come and sit down," Cameron's mother whispered to him.

He sat on the couch beside her with Nadia on the other side. She immediately put an arm around both of them and pulled them in close to her.

" Great! Hey film me falling in the swimming pool!" A teenage version of Cameron's uncle matt cried as he ran towards the camera from the sun lounges.

" Tai put that back! She'll kill you if she finds out you've got it!" His own Mothers voice yelled from one of the sun lounges.

She was dressed in shorts and a pale T-shirt with sunglasses hiding her eyes. She looked incredibly young, about eighteen or nineteen. But it wasn't his mother's youth that startled him. It was her words.

'Tai' his father. His father was holding the camera. His father was filming this scene. He had never met his father, never heard him speak. The only thing he knew about him, was his name. But now it was as though he was seeing through his father's eyes. He felt a great leap of triumph in his heart. Finally he would see his father. Not just in the photos they had of him, he would see his father living, breathing, talking, and moving.

" Relax she and T.K are down at the beach. They'll never know," His father laughed joyfully,

" Hey Tai! Tai film me! Film me!" Uncle Matt shouted waving his arms around like an excited toddler.

His father focused the camera away from his mothers frowning face, to Matt. He suddenly turned around, bent over and pulled a full moon at the camera.

Cameron burst into laughter at the very same time his father did behind the lens. His outrageous laughs seemed to echo around the room despite the sombre aura it held.

" Matt!" Auntie Mimi's voice shouted with disgust.

The camera dropped to a weird angle as Tai leaned against a wall to steady himself. The screen bumped up and down as Tai let his laughter flow.

" Tai Kamiya give me back my CAMERA!" An angry voice screamed behind him,

The camera spun around to show Auntie Kari running out of the same patio doors Tai had just emerged from.

" Uh oh!" Tai cried, " Sora you hold her off while I make a run for it,"

" No way I'm not helping you. You shouldn't have taken her stuff in the first place!" Cam's mothers voice laughed in the opposite direction. The camera started to bump up and down as he ran across the patio pass the swimming pool and fought his way through some bushes.

" That's all for now folks," He whispered into the camera. Then it all suddenly went fuzzy with static snow.

Sora pressed the remote control in her hand and the screen went black.

They all sat in silence for a while. Cam mulled over that happy, lively mischievous guy he had just seen on the screen. A question was burning at the back of his mind.

" What was he like Mum?" He whispered cautiously,

She took her hand away from his side and stroked his soft spiky brown hair. She sat in silence until Cam didn't think she was going to answer him.

" He was a wonderful man," She whispered, a smile suddenly curled at the corner of her rosy lips, "And you take after him in every way. You both do,"

She twisted her body and pulled Nadia into her lap.

" He was all ways full of energy, hardly ever sat down. That's why he loved playing sports so much, he was incredibly good at them too. Especially soccer, he was captain of the soccer team in high school three years running," her smile grew as though she was remembering a happy memory, " He was always happy as well. He never had a bad word to say to anyone. He was nice to everyone and he was always willing to help. Even when people were very very bad he never turned them away. He was defiantly a comedian, everyone thought he was hilarious. Even when I was really upset he could always make me laugh," She twisted a lock of Nadia's hair around her finger as the little girl laid her head on her mothers chest, listening to stories of her father.

" How did you meet him?" Nadia asked softly,

" I first meet him in the restaurant he worked at in high school. Matt worked there as a waiter too and Auntie Mimi really liked him. So she dragged me down there after school so I could sit with her while she flirted," His Mother giggled,

" Was it love at first sight, " Nadia asked remembering all the fairy tales she had heard,

" Sort of, I suppose deep down I knew I loved him then. But I didn't act on my feelings for a while,"

" Was he handsome Mommy?"

" Very very handsome," Sora whispered as she kissed her daughters head, " And very very brave too,"

Nadia smiled as she cuddled her mother. But there was something more serious nagging at the back of cam's mind. Of course he wanted to know about who his father was, but there was something the other two were over looking.

" How did he die," He blurted out quickly before he could change his mind,

Sora was silent for a while.

" There was a gas explosion in the park while he was jogging . . . .a pipe had burst underground and it . . .it just exploded," She held her children tighter to her, " he wouldn't of felt any pain. He wouldn't have even known what had happened,"

Cameron's heart sunk lower than it had ever gone before. Like switching of a switch, his father's life had gone out. A whole lively, happy person just gone in a second. Leaving behind him, his mother and his little sister. He wouldn't have had any idea what was about to happen. Did he wake up that morning knowing he was going to die?

Out like a light. Like a candle snubbed. Nothing. The end. A whole existent just whipped out in a matter of seconds.

Authors note- Not very much action in this chapter I know. But I'm working on the history of the characters first. The next chapter will be a lot more action packed and up soon, but I've got a lot of school work going on at the moment and so it might take a little while. I hope that it's not too sad for you so far. Thanks for all of your reviews and I really didn't mean to make anyone cry in the last chapter. Anyway R+R! ***************************************************