AUTHOR'S NOTE: I know, I know! I said I should be able to do daily stories, so I'm sorry I didn't manage. I slept over at a friend's yesterday, so that's why. I'm going to be at my aunt's for Christmas and Christmas Eve night, so I hope this chapter makes up for it, kay? Reika is Riley's Japanese name. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH REIKO!

Judging from my reviews for last chapter, I think I lost some readers, since everything about Jenrya/Renamon is sort of out of the bag now. **shrug** I warned them first chapter...

Grey sat on the roof of a cafe, watching the people as they passed. There was an old elderly couple walking down the street, followed by a boy and another girl. His girlfriend, Grey guessed.
He used to be like that.
As much as he could, anyway. It was hard to be a normal guy when you had horns popping out from under your hair every five minutes. Of course, he could've explained, but people would think he was insane. Still, he did kind of miss it. He used to hang out with Devi at this cafe...
Grey shook his head violently, trying to clear the thoughts from his head. He didn't have time to think about Devi right now, other than returning her to Father, along with Kiiroishi. Really, why did they insist on hanging out with humans? Sure, humans were cool and everything, but it didn't beat hanging out with his own kind; Grey privately thought. And boy, was Father mad at them...
Grey scanned the crowd of people again. Another old couple, a group of teens hanging out, a girl baby-sitting her little brother, a guy in his later twenties standing and watching the crowd with a Terriermon hanging on his shoulder.

Grey blinked as his mind ran that last bit to him again. Guy in his twenties with a Terriermon? Duh! That was Kiiroishi's dad! Well, then, maybe he wasn't going to have to work as hard as he thought trying to find him.
Grey calmly jumped from the roof of the cafe, and began to walk with the crowd, making his way to Jenrya.

Terriermon frowned. This wasn't any fun at all. Jen had just left and took him with him, and Terriermon wasn't sure why. He hadn't bothered to explain, and now he was just standing here and watching the crowd. Something was wrong...
"Hey, Jen?" asked Terriermon.
Jenrya looked at his partner. "What?" he asked.
"What's wrong, Jen?" he asked, looking at the young man.
"Nothing's wrong, Terriermon." Jenrya muttered, and continued watching the crowd.
"Hey!" yelled Terriermon. There was a boy heading towards them, with red hair. He didn't look very nice.
Jenrya almost lost his balance as he felt someone slam into him. He turned around to see who it was, but found himself getting punched in the face.
"Nice to see you, old man." Grey teased. He sighed, and looked Jenrya in the eye.
"Tell me where you put Devi, and I won't fry you. How's that sound?" he asked.

Devi gave a shout and stood up. Everyone turned around to stare at her.
"What's wrong?" asked Ruki. Devi began to shake, then she let out a scream as her black, tattered wings erupted from her back, and her arm formed into a monstrously long one with black claws.
"Grey...!" she panted angrily, and gritted her teeth. "Kiiroishi...!!"
Suddenly, she collapsed back into her chair, unconscious.
Everyone was silent for a few moments. Takato gently picked up the girl.
"I'll take her to bed." he said, and began to go in the direction of Kiiroishi's room.
Once he had left, everyone exchanged tense looks. "What exactly was that about?" Hirokazu asked.
Ruki shrugged and shook her head. "I really don't have any idea." she admitted, frowning. She looked at Shuchion.
"Has Kiiroishi ever done anything like that?" she asked the brunette. Shuchion shook her head.
"Not that I know of..." she whispered. Then from upstairs came the sounds of a small scuffle, Takato yelling, and a small explosion.
"I think Devi left the building." stated Hirokazu.

Devi raced through the city, leaping from the ceiling of each building to the next. Grey was attacking someone, and he was going to go after Kiiroishi. She had to stop him. If he went after him, he'd surely annihilate him!
This feeling had only gone through her once, back when Kiiroishi was fighting Toge. She couldn't explain it, but she knew that somehow; it possessed her of this energy. Something about her own kind fighting each other...it wasn't right, and she couldn't let it happen.
Devi came to an abrupt halt. There was Grey! He seemed to be attacking someone. Not Kiiroishi, Devi realized with relief. But then she realized whom he was attacking.

"I...won't..." Jenrya panted. He threw his hand out to stop himself from falling.
Grey shook his head sadly. "C'mon man, surely you'd like a little break?" he asked Jenrya, who just glared in response.
"I really do hate to beat up on a guy like this, you haven't even got anything to protect you." Grey stated aloud, looking over Jenrya. Grey shook his head sadly as he continued.
"But if you're not going to talk, I better just get you out of the way; you hear what I'm saying? You've provided Father with enough trouble as is." Grey stepped towards Jenrya with a look of grim determination on his face.
"Father?" Jenrya whispered to himself.
"You mean Yamaki, don't you?" he hissed at the redhead.
Grey nodded. "Yeah, I do." he replied casually as a cruel grin appeared on his face.
"Well, then...you won't talk..." he whispered maliciously.
A figure came hurtling out from the sky towards Grey, knocking him away from Jenrya.
"Devi?" both males said in surprise. Devi got up, and held out her hand. Grey took it and hoisted himself upwards. Both hybrids stared at each other for a long and tense moment. Then Devi spoke.
"Grey, what's going on?" she whispered, a hint of fear was in her voice. The redheaded boy glanced at Jenrya, then looked back at Devi. He lowered his head.
"Devi...you and our little brother have to come back to Father." he whispered softly. Devi stepped backwards, away from Grey.
"What do you mean?" she asked fearfully, backing even farther away. Grey gave Devi a depressed look.
"I'm so sorry." he said as missiles began to materialize from his chest; aimed towards Devi.

I wasn't sure exactly how long we had been there. Mom and I, you know. It couldn't have been more than two days. When I'd woken up, it was nighttime, so I figured we'd been there around a day and a half, since it was somewhere between late morning and early afternoon. My assumption, anyway, since we had been given breakfast sometime ago.
Mom had fallen asleep not too long ago. I'd been sitting here watching her for what seemed like an hour. She wasn't sleeping peacefully, I can tell you that much. She was constantly rolling over and changing her position. She almost fell off her cot, and I had to push her back on. I wondered briefly if she slept like that every night, or only nights she was in a Hypnos prison.
Right now, I was looking out our window, which of course was barred. It actually provided a pretty good view of the city, I have to admit. I could almost see my house from here, I thought wistfully.
"I wonder," I mused aloud. "If I'm going to ever be there again." I sighed and took a deep breath, and kept looking out the window. I'd done enough crying at the moment. I still had a bit of a headache from before. I looked over at Mom again. She never did tell me if she cried.
But I was distracted from my thoughts rather quickly by a loud yell of "RAZOR WING!"

The bars on my window, and most of the wall it had been on, were blasted away. Mom woke up.
I looked up and found myself face-to-face with Devi. She was flying, and holding Dad and Terriermon.
"I thought maybe you were bored in there." she said, grinning at me. Then her expression turned grave.
"Look, Kiiroishi." she said sternly. "Something is wrong with Grey. He's been...been upgraded or something." she said told me, with a hint of confusion in her voice. "He's lost it. He attacked your dad because he was trying to find us. I don't why." she admitted, seeing the confused look on my face.
"He told me he had to return us to Father." she frowned.
"Yamaki." I hissed, catching on to what she was saying. "It must be Yamaki. He probably reprogrammed him like he did me. He's probably this 'Father' person, too." I said, feeling my blood boil. What right did Yamaki have to go doing this to hybrids like Grey and me? Even if he did create us...he hadn't had the right to even do that!
Devi placed my dad and Terriermon down on the cot I'd been sleeping on. Terriermon looked like he'd gotten in a fight with fifty rabid dogs. Dad, well he looked like he'd been beat up very badly. Not exactly in immediate need of a doctor, but there were a few marks that definitely were going to stay for a while. I gritted my teeth, remembering the last time I'd seen him like that. At least it wasn't me attacking him this time...
I knelt down and took the green D-Arc out of Dad's pocket. Grey had probably attacked them both before Terrermon could Digivolve. Yamaki was even attacking Digimon while he used us to do his dirty work.
I also fished out a handful of cards, not really paying attention to what they were.
Mom had been watching us without saying a word. She stood up and looked me in the eye.
"Kiiroishi, be careful." she told me. "Promise me you'll keep your head while you fight him." I nodded.
"I will, mom." I promised, turning to leave; but mom grabbed my arm. "I'm not going to be any help to you if I fight, since I can't Digivolve without Ruki...so leave it up to me to get your father and Terriermon back home." I nodded again, feeling my eyes fill up with tears.
"I love you, Kiiroishi, so promise come back to me." Mom said, her own voice sounding choked up.
"I promise, Mom." I managed to croak out as I followed Devi out the window.
"I love you, too! I'll come back!" I shouted as I finally left, barely able to see because of the tears in my eyes.

"So you guys are going to come with me?" Grey asked.
"Grey..." Devi whispered, shaking her head.
"No, we're not." I said, my voice sounding a lot stronger than I felt.
Grey looked shocked. "But...then why are you here?" he asked.
"Grey, this isn't you!" Devi protested, and I noticed a look of pain on her face. It reminded me of Reiko, if it had been me instead. I'd never thought of Devi and Grey in that sense...
"The Grey I know would never attack some innocent guy. He'd never attack me!" Devi shouted.
Grey seemed to flinch at what Devi was saying, but he shook his head. A frightening, cruel look passed over his face.
"Devi, I'm bringing you back to Father." he stated gravely. "Both of you. Or I'll just have to kill you."
"Giga Blaster!" he shouted, firing missiles from his chest at us.
"Fox Leaf Arrowhead!" I shouted in an attempt to stop the missiles. The enhanced leaves had no effect.
"Razor Wing!" Devi shouted. Also, no effect.
Then I blacked out as one of the missiles hit me, the last thing I heard was Mom's voice. I broke my promise.

Yamaki pounded his fist on the table next to him. "You weren't supposed to kill them!" he shouted.
He grimaced as he thought the situation over. There'd been some sort of glitch, he reasoned. He had to work this out somehow. When he made these hybrids evolve, they would go insane. Yet, what use were they if they couldn't be upgraded and made more powerful?
If he didn't work this out, he'd be lunchmeat. He picked up the picture on his desk. That was the only reason he was still working on this project, other than his personal attachment to these hybrids.
"If you hadn't died..." Yamaki whispered, covering his face with his hand as he placed the picture back.
Once he got Reika back, he would stop. That was all that mattered.