Argh!!!! I'm done! So many things to do! I'm soooo sorry this took me such a long, long time to get up! I'm not going too much into detail, but I just didn't have much time (and I'll admit motivation)! So anyway, this is part 11. It's a little longer than usual, just to warn ya. There's mainly a lot of fighting in here, and I suck at describing battle scenes, so bear with me. Enough talking for me! On with the fic!
Disclaimer: (Man this thing's important isn't it?) Don't own Digimon. 'Nough said.
Notes: "talking"
'thoughts'
Familiar
Chapter 11
Two Names
by Hitora
Tai and Kari pursued the crest furiously, refusing to let the signal escape the little digivice screen.
"Urgh, this is stupid!" Tai thought frustrated. He quickly turned to his digimon partner. "Agumon! We need to pick up the pace! Digivolve!"
"Right!" Agumon nodded. "AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO- GREYMON!"
Tai rushed to sit on the orange dino's back. "Come on Kari!" He called. She hopped onto his tail and climbed up to sit behind Tai. "Okay! Let's go Greymon!"
This time they moved faster through the forests, keeping pace to the fleeing crest. "This is great! We're almost to the crest!" Tai announced. He looked anxiously between his digivice and the forests ahead, waiting for the crest to appear. The distance grew smaller and smaller, and every moment Tai grew with anticipation. Finally, they came to be right on the crest's location. But there was no sign of it, and it still continue to move. "Hey! Where the heck is it!?"
"Tai!" Kari called. "Look! Up there!" she called, pointing to the sky above them.
"What?" Tai followed the direction his little sister pointed to and saw what she yelled about. A giant firebird soared above them. It was huge with a body of orange flowing flame and a glorious tail. Its round beak was lined with pointed teeth and its eyes were a deep,clear blue. The feature that caught Tai's eyes the most though was the glimmering crest grasped in its claw.
"It has my crest!" Tai recognized. "That bird must be trying to take my crest to Yumemon. Well, I won't allow it! Greymon!" Tai called, signaling him to attack.
"Wait Tai!" Kari interrupted.
"What is it?" he asked, wondering why his little sister had interrupted the start of the battle.
"We can't attack that bird. We don't know if it's working for Yumemon or not." Kari reminded. "It might of just taken your crest by accident."
"You got a point Kari. Hm? How are we going to figure out if it's working for Yumemon or not?" Tai wondered. "I got it!" he declared. "Patamon, fly up there and ask for my crest back." Tai said turning to the brown digimon that flew beside them.
"Right! I'll do it!" he agreed and soared into the sky towards the unknown firebird.
"Um, excuse me." he called out in his squeaky little voice.
"Hm?" the firebird's voice boomed, turning its light blue eyes to him.
"Uh, if you don't mind me asking, can I have that crest you have?" Patamon asked politely, trying very hard to conceal his nervousness.
"Are you with the Digidestined?" it asked back.
"Uh, yeah! See!" Patamon replied, happily showing Tai and his Digidestined human (Kari) watching and following below.
"I see." the graceful bird flew around in a half cirlce to stop upright in the sky. Tai watched from below, seeing the phoenix-like bird coming to a halt.
"Hey, wait a minute Greymon." Tai called out, and Greymon stopped in his tracks to stand below the flapping bird.
"So, can I have that crest?" Patamon asked again, nervously, having to face such a large being. The firebird extended out its wings. Sparks and bursts of flames grew from their feathers like stars in the night sky. With a mighty motion the bird crossed its wings across its chest, curling slightly into itself, as if it was gathering energy into its very core.
"METEOR WING!!" it cried out. A storm of fireballs erupted from their wings, racing towards the ground below. Tai looked above in shock as the rain of flames crashed down all around him. Greymon quickly leapt aside, as Tai held onto him tightly, trying not to get thrown off. Greymon luckily dodged out of their mulitple paths.
"It's attacking us!" Kari said shocked.
"Tai! Kari! I think you should go hide or you might get hurt!" Greymon said back to them.
"Right! Take that bird down and get my crest okay Greymon?!"
"You got it Tai!" his digimon assured.
"Come on Kari!" Tai said, aiding his little sister to the ground. They quickly ran from the battlle ready Greymon into the cover of the trees of the forests.
'I hope Matt and the others are okay,' Kari thought to herself, worried to what Matt, Takeru and their digimon were facing right now.
Within a blink of an eye, she suddenly appeared on the ground before them. "Look out Matt!" Gabumon stood firm before him, ready to attack. The assassin charged towards them, bringing her sword ready beside her.
"BLUE BLASTER!" Gabumon fired out his blue flame attack towards her blurred figure. She brought up her sword and sliced it away like nothing. She brought her hand forward and pushed it towards them. A green blast of wind burst from her hand and flew across the clearing. The rush of power struck Gabumon aside, throwing him to lie unconscious to one side of the clearing.
"Gabumon!" Matt cried out for him. But only for a moment, because within seconds a slice of a blade flashed down on him. He was barely able to dodge aside from it. She sliced down again towards him, and he dodged the blade. She brought her blade to slice at his neck, only to have him duck under it. But he was unprepared for the kick she threw around back into him. Matt was slammed back into a tree that stood behind him from her sudden attack. 'Urgh, that's a good kick..' his mind moaned. But he had barely any time to recover from the blow, because she came around with another slice that aimed to take off his head. He ducked under it again, makng her slice the tree behind him. As she came around with a back swipe he had managed to grab her arm in time before the blade had touched him. He held it, trying to fight the her struggling to push her blade forward to finish him.
'Who is this girl?! She-she has such a..she feels so familiar, like I should know her.' he thought.
"Urgh!" She pushed harder against his hold, inching her sword closer and closer to his neck. He held back strongly though, but it was diffucult. "Ugh, why are you trying to kill us..?" Matt hissed between the struggle. She gave no response, except for a stronger push against his. 'I don't want to hurt her! Why?! She's trying to kill me.. but I just can't. Did I know her before? Who is she?!' he thought frustrated. He faced her, and looked into her calm, determined face. Her face twinged something in him, a strange feeling deep within that he couldn't describe or explain. Her eyes, seemed unfitting on an evil assassin to him. They were the determined eyes of a killer, but they.. had a strange warmth in them as well. 'Those eyes..I've looked into those eyes before..Who is she..? What is this feeling? I've felt this before. It's the one that's been haunting me ever since I entered the Digital World..a name..? A face.. Someone I knew before...Someone my heart is looking for...'
But his chain of thought was interrupted by another strain on his arm by the assassin's attempt to kill him. "Urgh! Stop it Sora!"
Her eyes widened in shock, and she let out a small gasp.
"H-How..? How di-"
'Sora..?' Matt wondered. A crack snapped into the moment, and Matt turned back to see the tree behind him finally give way to the slice she had put in earlier. The tree began to fall towards them. He looked back to the still shocked assassin. "Look out!" As the tree came onto her, he leapt and pushed her out of the tree's falling path. The trees around them shook from the booming rumble when the tree came to the ground. A storm of dust and dead leaves leapt up and spreaded throughout the clearing. Moments later, the forests settled, and the storm returned to the ground.
"That was too close.." Matt said relieved. "Huh?" He looked down on the assassin that was safe on the ground below him. She was still a little dazed from the shock for a couple of moments, but she had managed to regain herself and looked up to face him. "Are you okay?"
A blast of green wind whipped out of her hand and he went flying back from her. He skidded across the ground from the force when he landed, sending up clouds of dirt trailing behind. Matt moaned achingly from the sudden blast, and had stiffly managed to rise to his arms, only to face the end of a sword pointing straight at his neck. "Why did you do that?" she asked back coldly. "You obviously know I'm trying to kill you. Why did you save me?" she asked in a very commanding tone.
"I couldn't allow you to get hurt Sora.."
"How do you know that name?!" she yelled back. "I never told you that, how do you know that name?" she asked coldly, demanding an answer.
"Because, we know eachother Sora! It's me, Matt!" he called out to her, hoping to revive at least a part of her memory.
"Matt..?" she repeated, as if, somehow, a part of her knew that name. Something inside of her seemed to suddenly speak, slowly and unclearly telling her of the identity of the boy below her sword. "Matt..."
A beeping blared into the moment and she snapped back out of the dazed state. She quickly looked to her side to where the beeping came from. Matt watched closely, as she revealed under her coat a flashing digivice.
"Birdramon." he had managed to hear her say in a very concerned tone.
She turned back fiercely to Matt lying before her blade, and drew her sword back into the scabbard on her back. "I'll deal with you later." Sora stepped back from him, and began to walk away. Matt quickly rose back to his feet.
"Wait!" he called after her, but she had stirred the sands upon the grounds around her with her wind into a concealing beige cloud. Matt brought his arm before his eyes to block it away, blinded by the mists of clay-colored dust and dirt. Once the cloud settled, all he came to see was an empty clearing. "Sora.."
"Matt..?" an aching voice called out to him.
"Huh?" he turned back to realize his hurt digimon partner slowly rising to its feet. "Gabumon!" Matt ran to him, and knelt before him in concern. "Are you all right Gabumon?"
"I will be fine." he assured back. "I am glad you're all right. I'm sorry I wasn't able to be of much help." he said ashamed of failing to to defend him.
"Hey, you tried you're best Gabumon. Now, we have to go after her!" Matt said determined, rising to his feet.
"Her? Are you talking about that assassin Matt?" Gabumon asked puzzled.
"Yes! She's one of us Gabumon, one of the Digidestined! I know she is!"
"Are you sure you are all right Matt?" Gabumon asked worried.
"Yes!" Matt said a little annoyed at his digimon's doubt in him.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because," Matt began. "She has a digivice like mine, and.. I just got a feeling all right Gabumon!" Matt replied, frustrated in trying to explain any further. "A feeling that I've known her before.."
Gabumon looked up at his partner's serious face curiously. "Well, if you say so Matt." he said, still reluctant to totally agree. "Um, but shouldn't we try to locate Takeru and Gatomon first? And don't forget your crest." Gabumon reminded.
"You're right Gabumon. But what if she's going after Tai and the others? We have to stop her!"
"Don't worry, he can handle himself until we arrive." Gabumon assured.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon's fireball collided into the giant firebird's back, and it staggered a little from the attack. Greymon took advantage of the moment and dashed underneath it. He leapt off from the ground and rammed his head into its back sending it flying up in tumbling circles into the sky, struggling to remain in flight.
"Finish it Greymon! Take that thing down!" Tai called out.
Greymon obeyed. He threw its head back, slightly opening his mouth revealing a frenzy of flames between his white, pointed teeth. "NOVA-"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" A black figure leapt suddenly from the forests to land beside Greymon's head, firing out a burst of green wind from their hands. The wind bursted into the side of Greymon's head, throwing him down with a mighty thump to the ground.
"Greymon!" Tai called out shocked to see his fallen digimon lying hurt before him. "What was that?!" He looked side to side looking for the culprit that took down his digimon.
"Tai! Over there!" Kari called pointing beyond the giant orange digimon to the dark figure that came to land onto the ground.
"What?" He came to see a human figure. A girl the same age as him with short, brown-red hair and crimson eyes. He stood stunned. 'I-I've seen this girl before..' Tai thought. 'But where..? From the past? What's.. this strange feeling in me when I look at her, those familiar eyes..'
"Tai?" Kari called to him, worried at the blank, serious expression on his face. He blinked in surprise and back to reality.
"Uh, right." Tai said a little shakily, still adjusting to the mental transition. "Greymon! Are you all right?!" he called out, returning to his battle self.
"I-I'm sorry, I was caught off guard.." Greymon moaned apologetically.
"That's all right buddy!" Tai said back. "Now," he turned his attention back to the mysterious figure that stood behind Greymon's fallen form. "Who are you?! Why did you attack us?!" he called out sternly, trying to hide that he was still a little shaken from the strange feeling from before.
"I am an assassin sent to destroy the Digidestined in the name of Yumemon." she called back. "You may call me Shinokaze."
"Shinokaze?" Kari repeated. "'The Wind of Death..?'" she translated nervously.
"If you're working for Yumemon, that makes you our enemy!" Tai said. "Greymon! You have to get up!" he called out to his digimon. Greymon, slowly rose to its arms and eventually its feet to stand ready once again.
"Hmph, so this is your digimon partner.." she replied calmly, looking up at the menacing dino before her. "Impressive," she commented. "But, not good enough to save you! Birdramon!" she called. The firebird flapped its wings and came to hover over her. "This is my digimon partner!" she called out. "Birdramon." she introduced.
"Digimon partner?" Tai repeated. "Than, that must mean you're one of the Digidestined!" he said shocked.
"Why are you working for Yumemon?! She's trying to destroy us!" Tai called back.
"Actually, she's trying to destroy YOU. " She leapt back to land on Birdramon's extended claws, and it began to push off back into the air above them. "Birdramon! Attack!" she commanded.
"METEOR WING!" it cried out, sending down its fiery attack.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" Shinokaze put her arm forward and shot down a swirling burst of green wind.
Both attacks struck into Greymon, causing him to waver with every shot. "Greymon!"
"METEOR WING!"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" The attacks fired out at the same time. The assassin's green wind somehow wrapped around the bursts of fire and transform them into one, powerful beam of raging flame that aimed straight for the orange digimon below.
"Greymon look out!!" Tai warned to him. He leapt aside, sending the beam to go straight through the forests behind him. The forests where Tai and Kari were taking cover. Tai quickly ducked, bringing his little sister down with him. The attack flew right over them, while at the same time quickly scorching the trees that stood around them.
"Tai! Kari!" Greymon looked back to see if the ones he were protecting were hurt. He looked on with relief to see them both rise above the blackened debri and broken off trees.
"Are you okay Kari?" Tai asked worried.
"I'll be all right." she assured. "That was too close."
"METEOR WING!" A rain of fireballs suddenly bursted all around them, and they realized that they were no longer protected by the trees that had surrounded them before. They were now open targets to the flying digimon's attacks.
"METEOR WING!" Another series came down upon them. Every direction was ignited into flame and they stood motionless, trying to escape out of the open area. A litted shadow soon appeared and began to grow larger above them.
"Ahh!" Kari screamed in horror as a fireball came charging towards them. But, a sudden large figure had rushed and blocked away the attack. They looked above to see the stomach of a blue-furred wolf standing over them.
"Garurumon?" Tai said shocked.
"What is that?" Birdramon asked, seeing the blue striped wolf that had disrupted its attack below.
"I don't know Birdramon." her partner admitted. She looked down closer and soon spotted Matt riding on the digimon's back. She gasped surprised at first, but quickly returned to her usual compusure. "But the one riding on its back is a Digidestined." she said. "So, that means we must destroy them too." she reminded. Her voice was more unsteady than it usually was, and Birdramon noticed. It looked down at her in concern and wonder at the sudden change in her human partner's occassional cold self.
"What is it Sora?" it asked.
"Nothing!" she yelled back. "And don't call me that in the middle of battle Birdramon! I'm Shinokaze, assassin of Piedmon, sent to destroy the Digidestined!" she said back fiercely.
"Yes. I'm sorry, I forgot." the bird apologized, obviously hurt at her partner's reaction.
The assassin was taken back shocked and looked down from the bird ashamed at her actions. "I'm sorry Birdramon. I- I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." she apologized. "It's just - I'll talk about it later. But right now, we have a battle to finish." she reminded, returning to the task before her.
Shinokaze turned back to look below at the Digidestined. She looked at every one of them that had appeared. 'Every face, every face seems different than the others that I had killed before.' she thought to herself.
'But what is it that would make these Digidestined any different?! I've killed for as long as I can remember, why would I hesitate now!? Never once have I hesitated, but I did with that boy from before.. Why..? Why.. is this mission so much harder than the others before..?' she thought, closing her eyes in frustration. 'Why do I have this feeling of regret in having to destroy them...?'
What do you think? I know it's not as good as it can be, but I tried! And I know the title's kinda bad too. I couldn't think of anything else! I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can! 'Til then, please R+R. See ya! - Hitora
Disclaimer: (Man this thing's important isn't it?) Don't own Digimon. 'Nough said.
Notes: "talking"
'thoughts'
Familiar
Chapter 11
Two Names
by Hitora
Tai and Kari pursued the crest furiously, refusing to let the signal escape the little digivice screen.
"Urgh, this is stupid!" Tai thought frustrated. He quickly turned to his digimon partner. "Agumon! We need to pick up the pace! Digivolve!"
"Right!" Agumon nodded. "AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO- GREYMON!"
Tai rushed to sit on the orange dino's back. "Come on Kari!" He called. She hopped onto his tail and climbed up to sit behind Tai. "Okay! Let's go Greymon!"
This time they moved faster through the forests, keeping pace to the fleeing crest. "This is great! We're almost to the crest!" Tai announced. He looked anxiously between his digivice and the forests ahead, waiting for the crest to appear. The distance grew smaller and smaller, and every moment Tai grew with anticipation. Finally, they came to be right on the crest's location. But there was no sign of it, and it still continue to move. "Hey! Where the heck is it!?"
"Tai!" Kari called. "Look! Up there!" she called, pointing to the sky above them.
"What?" Tai followed the direction his little sister pointed to and saw what she yelled about. A giant firebird soared above them. It was huge with a body of orange flowing flame and a glorious tail. Its round beak was lined with pointed teeth and its eyes were a deep,clear blue. The feature that caught Tai's eyes the most though was the glimmering crest grasped in its claw.
"It has my crest!" Tai recognized. "That bird must be trying to take my crest to Yumemon. Well, I won't allow it! Greymon!" Tai called, signaling him to attack.
"Wait Tai!" Kari interrupted.
"What is it?" he asked, wondering why his little sister had interrupted the start of the battle.
"We can't attack that bird. We don't know if it's working for Yumemon or not." Kari reminded. "It might of just taken your crest by accident."
"You got a point Kari. Hm? How are we going to figure out if it's working for Yumemon or not?" Tai wondered. "I got it!" he declared. "Patamon, fly up there and ask for my crest back." Tai said turning to the brown digimon that flew beside them.
"Right! I'll do it!" he agreed and soared into the sky towards the unknown firebird.
"Um, excuse me." he called out in his squeaky little voice.
"Hm?" the firebird's voice boomed, turning its light blue eyes to him.
"Uh, if you don't mind me asking, can I have that crest you have?" Patamon asked politely, trying very hard to conceal his nervousness.
"Are you with the Digidestined?" it asked back.
"Uh, yeah! See!" Patamon replied, happily showing Tai and his Digidestined human (Kari) watching and following below.
"I see." the graceful bird flew around in a half cirlce to stop upright in the sky. Tai watched from below, seeing the phoenix-like bird coming to a halt.
"Hey, wait a minute Greymon." Tai called out, and Greymon stopped in his tracks to stand below the flapping bird.
"So, can I have that crest?" Patamon asked again, nervously, having to face such a large being. The firebird extended out its wings. Sparks and bursts of flames grew from their feathers like stars in the night sky. With a mighty motion the bird crossed its wings across its chest, curling slightly into itself, as if it was gathering energy into its very core.
"METEOR WING!!" it cried out. A storm of fireballs erupted from their wings, racing towards the ground below. Tai looked above in shock as the rain of flames crashed down all around him. Greymon quickly leapt aside, as Tai held onto him tightly, trying not to get thrown off. Greymon luckily dodged out of their mulitple paths.
"It's attacking us!" Kari said shocked.
"Tai! Kari! I think you should go hide or you might get hurt!" Greymon said back to them.
"Right! Take that bird down and get my crest okay Greymon?!"
"You got it Tai!" his digimon assured.
"Come on Kari!" Tai said, aiding his little sister to the ground. They quickly ran from the battlle ready Greymon into the cover of the trees of the forests.
'I hope Matt and the others are okay,' Kari thought to herself, worried to what Matt, Takeru and their digimon were facing right now.
Within a blink of an eye, she suddenly appeared on the ground before them. "Look out Matt!" Gabumon stood firm before him, ready to attack. The assassin charged towards them, bringing her sword ready beside her.
"BLUE BLASTER!" Gabumon fired out his blue flame attack towards her blurred figure. She brought up her sword and sliced it away like nothing. She brought her hand forward and pushed it towards them. A green blast of wind burst from her hand and flew across the clearing. The rush of power struck Gabumon aside, throwing him to lie unconscious to one side of the clearing.
"Gabumon!" Matt cried out for him. But only for a moment, because within seconds a slice of a blade flashed down on him. He was barely able to dodge aside from it. She sliced down again towards him, and he dodged the blade. She brought her blade to slice at his neck, only to have him duck under it. But he was unprepared for the kick she threw around back into him. Matt was slammed back into a tree that stood behind him from her sudden attack. 'Urgh, that's a good kick..' his mind moaned. But he had barely any time to recover from the blow, because she came around with another slice that aimed to take off his head. He ducked under it again, makng her slice the tree behind him. As she came around with a back swipe he had managed to grab her arm in time before the blade had touched him. He held it, trying to fight the her struggling to push her blade forward to finish him.
'Who is this girl?! She-she has such a..she feels so familiar, like I should know her.' he thought.
"Urgh!" She pushed harder against his hold, inching her sword closer and closer to his neck. He held back strongly though, but it was diffucult. "Ugh, why are you trying to kill us..?" Matt hissed between the struggle. She gave no response, except for a stronger push against his. 'I don't want to hurt her! Why?! She's trying to kill me.. but I just can't. Did I know her before? Who is she?!' he thought frustrated. He faced her, and looked into her calm, determined face. Her face twinged something in him, a strange feeling deep within that he couldn't describe or explain. Her eyes, seemed unfitting on an evil assassin to him. They were the determined eyes of a killer, but they.. had a strange warmth in them as well. 'Those eyes..I've looked into those eyes before..Who is she..? What is this feeling? I've felt this before. It's the one that's been haunting me ever since I entered the Digital World..a name..? A face.. Someone I knew before...Someone my heart is looking for...'
But his chain of thought was interrupted by another strain on his arm by the assassin's attempt to kill him. "Urgh! Stop it Sora!"
Her eyes widened in shock, and she let out a small gasp.
"H-How..? How di-"
'Sora..?' Matt wondered. A crack snapped into the moment, and Matt turned back to see the tree behind him finally give way to the slice she had put in earlier. The tree began to fall towards them. He looked back to the still shocked assassin. "Look out!" As the tree came onto her, he leapt and pushed her out of the tree's falling path. The trees around them shook from the booming rumble when the tree came to the ground. A storm of dust and dead leaves leapt up and spreaded throughout the clearing. Moments later, the forests settled, and the storm returned to the ground.
"That was too close.." Matt said relieved. "Huh?" He looked down on the assassin that was safe on the ground below him. She was still a little dazed from the shock for a couple of moments, but she had managed to regain herself and looked up to face him. "Are you okay?"
A blast of green wind whipped out of her hand and he went flying back from her. He skidded across the ground from the force when he landed, sending up clouds of dirt trailing behind. Matt moaned achingly from the sudden blast, and had stiffly managed to rise to his arms, only to face the end of a sword pointing straight at his neck. "Why did you do that?" she asked back coldly. "You obviously know I'm trying to kill you. Why did you save me?" she asked in a very commanding tone.
"I couldn't allow you to get hurt Sora.."
"How do you know that name?!" she yelled back. "I never told you that, how do you know that name?" she asked coldly, demanding an answer.
"Because, we know eachother Sora! It's me, Matt!" he called out to her, hoping to revive at least a part of her memory.
"Matt..?" she repeated, as if, somehow, a part of her knew that name. Something inside of her seemed to suddenly speak, slowly and unclearly telling her of the identity of the boy below her sword. "Matt..."
A beeping blared into the moment and she snapped back out of the dazed state. She quickly looked to her side to where the beeping came from. Matt watched closely, as she revealed under her coat a flashing digivice.
"Birdramon." he had managed to hear her say in a very concerned tone.
She turned back fiercely to Matt lying before her blade, and drew her sword back into the scabbard on her back. "I'll deal with you later." Sora stepped back from him, and began to walk away. Matt quickly rose back to his feet.
"Wait!" he called after her, but she had stirred the sands upon the grounds around her with her wind into a concealing beige cloud. Matt brought his arm before his eyes to block it away, blinded by the mists of clay-colored dust and dirt. Once the cloud settled, all he came to see was an empty clearing. "Sora.."
"Matt..?" an aching voice called out to him.
"Huh?" he turned back to realize his hurt digimon partner slowly rising to its feet. "Gabumon!" Matt ran to him, and knelt before him in concern. "Are you all right Gabumon?"
"I will be fine." he assured back. "I am glad you're all right. I'm sorry I wasn't able to be of much help." he said ashamed of failing to to defend him.
"Hey, you tried you're best Gabumon. Now, we have to go after her!" Matt said determined, rising to his feet.
"Her? Are you talking about that assassin Matt?" Gabumon asked puzzled.
"Yes! She's one of us Gabumon, one of the Digidestined! I know she is!"
"Are you sure you are all right Matt?" Gabumon asked worried.
"Yes!" Matt said a little annoyed at his digimon's doubt in him.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because," Matt began. "She has a digivice like mine, and.. I just got a feeling all right Gabumon!" Matt replied, frustrated in trying to explain any further. "A feeling that I've known her before.."
Gabumon looked up at his partner's serious face curiously. "Well, if you say so Matt." he said, still reluctant to totally agree. "Um, but shouldn't we try to locate Takeru and Gatomon first? And don't forget your crest." Gabumon reminded.
"You're right Gabumon. But what if she's going after Tai and the others? We have to stop her!"
"Don't worry, he can handle himself until we arrive." Gabumon assured.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon's fireball collided into the giant firebird's back, and it staggered a little from the attack. Greymon took advantage of the moment and dashed underneath it. He leapt off from the ground and rammed his head into its back sending it flying up in tumbling circles into the sky, struggling to remain in flight.
"Finish it Greymon! Take that thing down!" Tai called out.
Greymon obeyed. He threw its head back, slightly opening his mouth revealing a frenzy of flames between his white, pointed teeth. "NOVA-"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" A black figure leapt suddenly from the forests to land beside Greymon's head, firing out a burst of green wind from their hands. The wind bursted into the side of Greymon's head, throwing him down with a mighty thump to the ground.
"Greymon!" Tai called out shocked to see his fallen digimon lying hurt before him. "What was that?!" He looked side to side looking for the culprit that took down his digimon.
"Tai! Over there!" Kari called pointing beyond the giant orange digimon to the dark figure that came to land onto the ground.
"What?" He came to see a human figure. A girl the same age as him with short, brown-red hair and crimson eyes. He stood stunned. 'I-I've seen this girl before..' Tai thought. 'But where..? From the past? What's.. this strange feeling in me when I look at her, those familiar eyes..'
"Tai?" Kari called to him, worried at the blank, serious expression on his face. He blinked in surprise and back to reality.
"Uh, right." Tai said a little shakily, still adjusting to the mental transition. "Greymon! Are you all right?!" he called out, returning to his battle self.
"I-I'm sorry, I was caught off guard.." Greymon moaned apologetically.
"That's all right buddy!" Tai said back. "Now," he turned his attention back to the mysterious figure that stood behind Greymon's fallen form. "Who are you?! Why did you attack us?!" he called out sternly, trying to hide that he was still a little shaken from the strange feeling from before.
"I am an assassin sent to destroy the Digidestined in the name of Yumemon." she called back. "You may call me Shinokaze."
"Shinokaze?" Kari repeated. "'The Wind of Death..?'" she translated nervously.
"If you're working for Yumemon, that makes you our enemy!" Tai said. "Greymon! You have to get up!" he called out to his digimon. Greymon, slowly rose to its arms and eventually its feet to stand ready once again.
"Hmph, so this is your digimon partner.." she replied calmly, looking up at the menacing dino before her. "Impressive," she commented. "But, not good enough to save you! Birdramon!" she called. The firebird flapped its wings and came to hover over her. "This is my digimon partner!" she called out. "Birdramon." she introduced.
"Digimon partner?" Tai repeated. "Than, that must mean you're one of the Digidestined!" he said shocked.
"Why are you working for Yumemon?! She's trying to destroy us!" Tai called back.
"Actually, she's trying to destroy YOU. " She leapt back to land on Birdramon's extended claws, and it began to push off back into the air above them. "Birdramon! Attack!" she commanded.
"METEOR WING!" it cried out, sending down its fiery attack.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" Shinokaze put her arm forward and shot down a swirling burst of green wind.
Both attacks struck into Greymon, causing him to waver with every shot. "Greymon!"
"METEOR WING!"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" The attacks fired out at the same time. The assassin's green wind somehow wrapped around the bursts of fire and transform them into one, powerful beam of raging flame that aimed straight for the orange digimon below.
"Greymon look out!!" Tai warned to him. He leapt aside, sending the beam to go straight through the forests behind him. The forests where Tai and Kari were taking cover. Tai quickly ducked, bringing his little sister down with him. The attack flew right over them, while at the same time quickly scorching the trees that stood around them.
"Tai! Kari!" Greymon looked back to see if the ones he were protecting were hurt. He looked on with relief to see them both rise above the blackened debri and broken off trees.
"Are you okay Kari?" Tai asked worried.
"I'll be all right." she assured. "That was too close."
"METEOR WING!" A rain of fireballs suddenly bursted all around them, and they realized that they were no longer protected by the trees that had surrounded them before. They were now open targets to the flying digimon's attacks.
"METEOR WING!" Another series came down upon them. Every direction was ignited into flame and they stood motionless, trying to escape out of the open area. A litted shadow soon appeared and began to grow larger above them.
"Ahh!" Kari screamed in horror as a fireball came charging towards them. But, a sudden large figure had rushed and blocked away the attack. They looked above to see the stomach of a blue-furred wolf standing over them.
"Garurumon?" Tai said shocked.
"What is that?" Birdramon asked, seeing the blue striped wolf that had disrupted its attack below.
"I don't know Birdramon." her partner admitted. She looked down closer and soon spotted Matt riding on the digimon's back. She gasped surprised at first, but quickly returned to her usual compusure. "But the one riding on its back is a Digidestined." she said. "So, that means we must destroy them too." she reminded. Her voice was more unsteady than it usually was, and Birdramon noticed. It looked down at her in concern and wonder at the sudden change in her human partner's occassional cold self.
"What is it Sora?" it asked.
"Nothing!" she yelled back. "And don't call me that in the middle of battle Birdramon! I'm Shinokaze, assassin of Piedmon, sent to destroy the Digidestined!" she said back fiercely.
"Yes. I'm sorry, I forgot." the bird apologized, obviously hurt at her partner's reaction.
The assassin was taken back shocked and looked down from the bird ashamed at her actions. "I'm sorry Birdramon. I- I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." she apologized. "It's just - I'll talk about it later. But right now, we have a battle to finish." she reminded, returning to the task before her.
Shinokaze turned back to look below at the Digidestined. She looked at every one of them that had appeared. 'Every face, every face seems different than the others that I had killed before.' she thought to herself.
'But what is it that would make these Digidestined any different?! I've killed for as long as I can remember, why would I hesitate now!? Never once have I hesitated, but I did with that boy from before.. Why..? Why.. is this mission so much harder than the others before..?' she thought, closing her eyes in frustration. 'Why do I have this feeling of regret in having to destroy them...?'
What do you think? I know it's not as good as it can be, but I tried! And I know the title's kinda bad too. I couldn't think of anything else! I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can! 'Til then, please R+R. See ya! - Hitora