A/N = I must have hit my head or something, 'cause I'm going to rewrite this story, the second digi-series I ever typed down. There's a reason for this, a very =very= good reason. Wolf. And Lady Myotiswomon. I grew attached to them, and I've now decided to use them in other projects of mine, so I thought I owed them to rewrite this story with a readable style ^^;; I'm not going to rewrite this completely, though. I'm already working on something like 15 fics, digimon and non, and going to five schools, and since ME WANNA LIVE!!! I'm just going to edit the major mistakes and add some scenes here and there. This means this fic's style is going to be very different from my current one AND that it will sport a huge amount of grammatical mistakes *bows* I'm sooooooooooooooooorry…………. this story's grammar is going to suck *bows again*.
But truly hope you'll enjoy the plot. ^_^
A/N 2 = This takes places during season 01. The Dark Masters never existed, or at least, the DD never met them. They =did= come back to Earth to find the eighth children, Kari, and they're now back to the digital world to destroy Myotismon since- or so it seems- they didn't get rid of him in the real world. They're nearly all 14 now. Just Joe's 15 and TK's 11.
Warnings = *** MAJOR SPOILERS*** This fic will have Mimato, Wolfmimi, Taito, Taiora/Sorichi (k-chan DON'T KILL ME!^^;;), LadyMyoato (?), hints of Wolfichi aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand………that's all. I think. Beware of character………. 'death'. Sort of. Never forget I'm a sucker for plot twists and surreal situations.
Disclaimer = I don't own them. I'm borrowing the characters to torture them a bit. ^^
ENJOY!!!!
The eyes of the wolf - chapter 02Mimi was sitting outside the cave were the chosen children had planned to rest, waiting for Matt. She was tracing senseless figures in the mud with the tip of one boot, letting loose a soft sigh every now and then. Next to her, blue eyes incredibly wide and petite rosy lips puckered in a look of worry, was TK. His blond head was placed on her shoulder, as to search some comfort. He knew he and Mimi were the ones that were worried for Matt the most, and even if he didn't like to be treated like a child, he accepted gratefully the soft caresses she gave him from time to time, knowing all too well that they had to stay together till Matt would come back.
Sora and Kari, evidently worried, exited the cave carefully, as if worrying that a loud noise could scare them away; make them disappear, fade away in the twilight. As they reached the pair, the two girls made themselves comfortable on the fallen trunk Mimi and Takeru were sitting upon, handing them some berries and various herbs. TK smiled at Kari as he took the berries from her hands, glad to see her smile back, but when he turned toward Mimi, expecting to see her do the same, his smile faded. The boy frowned, the red berries sliding out his grasp and showering on the ground. The brunette was shaking her head at the offered food, refusing it mutely. Her eyes were lost, deprived of their usual sparkle, and that sight was enough to make tears well up in Takeru's sapphire eyes. His lips quivered, and he hastily swiped at his glistening eyes with the heel of his hand, refusing to acknowledge them.
"You must eat something, Mimi…" Sora began, motherly-like apprehension both steadying and softening her voice.
"I'll…I'll wait for Matt…it will be sad for him to eat all alone…" Mimi whispered back, smiling first at Sora and then at Takeru, who immediately offered her a wavering smile in return.
"Sincerity…I fear you won't have to wait for Friendship anymore…" The low voice whispered from behind them. They all turned quickly to see a ghostly image of Gennai standing in front of them, wavering as if under the effect of a wind they failed to feel.
At the sound of the familiar and yet so foreign voice, Tai, Joe, Izzy and all the digimon dashed to the entrance of the cave, not caring to hide their evident apprehension.
"I won't? That means he is coming back?" Mimi eyes glowed as she thought about Matt coming back to her, but her smile was wavering, false and unsure. Tired emerald eyes aligned on the brunette and a wrinkled hand moved toward her slowly, painfully. And the girl just blinked at the crest and the digivice lying limply on Gennai's pale palm.
Matt's crest and digivice, the digidestined children - not children anymore – realized with a shiver.
A shiver that grew colder, like artic water running down their veins, as they noticed that Matt's digivice was off, and that his once azure crest was now of a dark, deep tone of grey.
But was really crushed them, what made their eyes water and their mouth go dry, was the blood that covered both of the digi-items like a fine blanket.
"Gennai…where…where is Matt…?" Tai asked in a whisper, afraid to hear the answer, but even too afraid not to.
"I fear he is dead…" The old one replied.
"NO! DON'T LIE! MATT CAN'T BE DEATH!!!" Tai yelled, and then whipped his head around, refusing to face Sora and the comforting hand she had put on his shoulder. He roughly shrugged it away, eyes squinted and lips pressed in a thin line, refusing to let her see his walls of self-control crushing down under the weight of tears.
"M-my brother…dead…?" T.K whispered brokenly.
"I fear so…" Gennai sighed, moving his eyes from the digidestined leader to the little Hope. "His digi-items don't sense his life anymore… and where the light of his life faded away, I found just these…" He whispered, his eyes moving toward the dead digivice and crest, followed by huge blue eyes wavering in fear. "His body was nowhere to be found…it pains me to admit that some digimon could have eaten…"
"STOP THIS!!!" Tai yelled, running toward Gennai, his fist ready to strike. But Gennai was just a hologram, a wavering image of someone miles away. So, Tai passed through is body as if it was nothing but air, and fell on the ground.
"He can't be dead…" The brunette hissed as he clenched the moist grass in his fists, hot tears running down his tanned cheeks. "He just can't…" he whispered, lowering his face to the green carpet of grass, his chest heaving painfully. "…he just… can't… not Matt… no…"
"Matt…" Was all Mimi whispered, dropping on her knees bonelessly. "No…It…it can't be…"
Everyone looked at he ground, their eyes full of tears. No one said a world for eternal moments until, at last, Mimi let her pain and sorrow out in a loud yell that echoed in the cave and the forest, making them tremble as they were in pain for Matt's death too.
"MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
~*~* A YEAR LATER ~*~*
The digidestined were walking in the tropical woods of iridescent bizarre plants. A year had passed since Matt's death and now, on the anniversary of his departure, they were again walking in the wood were his young life had been taken away. Gennai –their spiritual guide- had told them they couldn't come back home until they defeated Myotismon, which had resurrected again after they killed his VenomMyotismon form in the real world. But he also told them they must found a new digidestined to achieve their destiny. After a year tough, the six digidestined were still six, and there was no trace of a seventh chosen one. They had already searched the whole world. The north continents, the deserts and eerie fields of the south, the lakes region of the east, the mountains to the west. But nothing, =nothing= gave them hope to come back home. To achieve their destiny; fulfil their mission; take their long-awaited revenge.
"Myotismon's castle is near…we should be careful…" Izzy whispered flatly, daring to break the oppressive silence covering them like a blanket.
"WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE!!" Tai snapped, swirling around with eyes gleaming with rage. "WE WERE ESCAPING FROM THAT CASTLE WHEN___" With a choking sound, his words died in his throat, the memory of Matt still a wound too deep not to burn.
The keeper of the crest of Sincerity stopped dead in her tracks as she too remembered Matt. A single tear ran down her pale cheek and she bit her lip, lowering her gaze to the grass softly caressing her ankles with each breathe of the wind. She still loved and missed him. Even if he never knew her feelings, she still loved him. So much it hurt.
"We…" She began, and immediately everyone turned toward her. "I think we should put an end to this." As she spoke, a cold wind rose and she shuddered, rubbing her hands against her arms.
"What do you mean?" Always the mother, always caring, always worrying, Sora stepped forward, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"She means we should take revenge for what happened to Matt." Tai explained in a cold voice. "And I'm with her."
"But…!!" Sora shivered at the coldness of Tai's voice, but deliberately shaking it off, she swirled around to face him, never loosening her hold on Mimi's shoulder.
"Me too!" T.K. agreed slowly, his voice even and unemotional hiss, so different from his usual warm and cheerful twit.
"But, guys!!" Joe began, gripping his bag with force as he took a step forward. "Think about it! It's crazy! It's dangerous…It's"
"Well, I see you don't love Matt as much as we do." Tai snapped, eyeing the blue haired boy with nothing but anger burning in his russet hued eyes.
"…count me in!" Izzy said without stopping his fingers, which were tapping frenetically all across the little keyboard of his loyal laptop. "He died to save us. I wanna repay him."
"If that's it…" Joe sighed, tightening his hold on his bag enough to make his knuckles turn white. "I'm with you."
Being she the only one who didn't spoke, Sora got a long and cold look from Tai. A look powerful enough to make her shiver.
"All right…" she nodded reluctantly, dropping the hand she had lied on Mimi's shoulder. "Count me in, too… but how are we supposed to pass the maze that Myotismon placed around his castle? Of our digimon, only Gabumon knew the way!!" she shouted, her strength somehow renewed.
"Damn!" Tai's eyes grew wide, as he realized the girl was right. He clenched his hands into fists, gritting his teeth with anger. Mimi could feel more tears burn in her eyes as she too clenched her fists.
"DAMN YOU MYOTISMON!!!" She yelled to the sky. "I'LL GET YOU!! YOU HEARD ME?! YOU'LL PAY EVEN IF IT'LL BE THE LAST THING I DO!!" she started sobbing then, quietly, refusing to surrender to the tears.
It was then that a strange wind rose. It swirled around them digidestined, playing with their hair and clothes, and then run away, to create a little whirlwind few feet behind them. Slowly, a figure seemed to materialize inside the swirling wind. It was just an unfocused shape, a blurred shadow, but the air seemed to turn ice when it spoke.
"Are you enemies of Myotismon?" The deep, low voice asked.
The digidestined –disoriented- turned toward where the voice came from. The digimon did the same, ready to attack, but then stopped, confused, as they saw him. He was hidden in the shadow of an immense tree, sitting down on one of its lowest branches, looking at the digidestined. The only thing the chosen could see were his eyes that were glowing in the pale darkness.
"I asked you if you're enemies of Myotismon." The figure repeated, without losing his freezing calm.
"YES, WE ARE!!!" Tai, true to his impulsive character, stomped toward the stranger, eyeing him diffidently. His clear eyes were now so dark the pupils were almost undistinguishable, and his voice held an underlying anger, an inexplicable wild indignation that simmered just beneath his composed facade.
"Are you the digidestined?" the stranger asked, and Tai stopped dead in his track, swallowing soundly.
"How…how did you know?" Koushiro asked hesitantly, squinting his eyes to take a better look at the young man still hidden in the shadows.
"I'm good at guessing." He replied carelessly, and even if they couldn't see him, the digidestined could easily guess he shrugged. " I heard you need a guide through the maze." The subject was changed carelessly, and Koushiro didn't even try to lead the conversation back to the previous matter.
"That's correct." the redhead said with a nod.
"Well, maybe I could be that guide, then."
"HOW CAN WE TRUST YOU?!" Taichi snapped, eyes squinted with rage. Koushiro shot him a disapprovingly glance, but Tai ignored him, advancing toward the mysterious figure of a step.
"I fear your only choice is to do it." Was the calm reply.
"SHOW YOURSELF!" Mimi yelled, unconsciously nuzzling closer to Sora, who immediately moved to offer her shield.
"As you wish, milady." As if he had been just waiting for such invitation, the mysterious man jumped down from the branch, landing noiselessly in front of them. He landed on his knees and slowly rose up, the wind still running around him.
His muscled, yet young body seemed to be human. His hair was of a light blonde with brushes of electric blue at the tips of his locks. His sparkling red eyes could be seen under the mask he wore. It was white with some blue stripes and the mark of a scar on his right eye. His skin, which could be seen under his opened black shirt, was amazingly pale, the same colour as alabaster, and some blue stripes like the ones over the mask run across the whiteness. On his right arm he had a heavy manacle and a leather band sneaked around his wrist and hand. On his left arm he wore a long, dark glove that ended on is wrist, were he had another leather band. His nails were red, sharp claws. And on his left shoulder he had a leather protection, a rudimental type of armour.
His black leather pants were ripped in many points, and a huge no-human skull was stamped on his left thigh. His knees sported a pair of leather kneepads, the left one smooth and lucid while the right one was adorned with sharp metal spikes. Black leather boots heaved his feet.
"W-who are you?" Tai's voice trembled slightly –even if he'd never admit it- as he backed up a step. Burning ruby eyes lingered on the brunette as the newcomer shrugged carelessly.
"My name's Wolf." he said.
"Just Wolf?" Mimi's tipped her head curiously, coming closer to him of a step, to study his appearance. "Not Wolfmon or something like that?" she waved her hands as to explain her point, and when the blonde just shook his head, her palms met with a little clapping sound. "So you must be human! Maybe you're the new digidestined!" Again she clapped her hands, ecstatic at the idea they could finally take their long awaited revenge and come back home.
"…check for yourself." Wolf replied, gesturing with his head toward Koushiro, noticing he was already working on his laptop.
"Well…" the redhead began, swallowing under the piercing red gaze. "Here it says:
NAME: WOLF
TYPE: DIGIMON
STATUS: CHAMPION
ATTACK: UNKNOWN
Koushiro read the information slowly, so the others could absorb them. They al nodded, eyes all but glued on Wolf, who just kept staring blankly at the redhead, as if waiting for him to add something… something that the redhead would have never noticed if the faithfully insect digimon at his side hadn't screamed, "Hey, Izzy! Don't you think that's strange?" Koushiro's attention was suddenly diverted to his digimon, and soon obsidian eyes were following Tentomon's pointing finger to the monitor.
"What?" The boy asked, bending forward to take a closer look at the monitor. "Oh!" His eyes literally gleamed, as they widened in recognition. "You mean," he said, taking his chin in two fingers. "The fact that instead of says what kind of digimon he is, it just says "digimon"? Well, surely it's odd, but…"
"Read better, Izzy!" Tentomon shook his head, tapping his paw against the word he wanted his partner to notice. "It doesn't say 'digimon'!"
"What?" The redhead moved even closer, keen eyes scanning the glowing surface of the monitor. As realization dawned on him, Izzy's eyes shot wide open, and aligned slowly on Wolf. It took the boy several seconds to recover and say something, but when he finally talked, it was only to be cut off.
"E-Ehy! It says…" the redhead began.
"Let me guess." Was all Wolf said to interrupt him. "It says 'digihuman', perhaps?"
End of chapter 01
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Suspence, suspense... guess who's coming back in the next chapter...
