Hey! Thanks to everyone who reviewed my new story 'The Different Girl', they were all so
nice! Anyway, this is the next part to Familiar, sorry it took so long, too much editing and
stuff. This finishes up the battle between the Digidestined and Sora. Warning! There's
some Sorato hinting in here, so if you don't go for that, I apologize and suggest you don't
read. ( Even though it's not exactly that bad... urgh, okay it might be sappier than the
insides of a maple tree, but still... off subject!) Enough babble! (It's almost 3 a.m. here) On
with the fic!
Disclaimer: No own Digimon. (Disclaimers, ah, the best suing-lawyer repellents, it still
kinda annoying to write them all the time though....0)
Notes: "Speaking" 'Thoughts'
Familiar 12
A Fiery Battle
by Hitora
"Matt!" Tai said relieved. "I'm glad you showed up when you did!"
"Tai! You can't hurt her! She's one of the Digidestined! One of our friends!" Matt
said as he came down from Garurumon's back.
"Friends? She's trying to kill us Matt!" Tai reminded. "I know she's one the
Digidestined already. But she doesn't seem to care much for that." Tai stated coldly.
"She doesn't know who we are. We have to try to make her remember us!"
"We have to try to stay alive Matt!" Tai yelled back.
"But it's Sora!"
"Sora...?" he repeated in shock. A part of his memory felt as if recognized the
name, and slowly began to build a picture of a past close friend he once knew.
"Excuse me," a voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts and they turned to face
Takeru. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but aren't we in the middle of a battle?" he reminded.
Suddenly, a Meteor Wing attack came down all around them. They all realized
Takeru's words and darted away from the open area.
'Even if she is one of us, for now she's an enemy and I have to protect everyone!'
Tai thought to himself.
"Listen up everyone! She's strong, but outnumbered. We can do this, take her down!"
"Are you sure about this Tai?" Kari asked doubtful.
"It's the only way."
"No! It can't be! We can't attack our friends!" Matt yelled back fiercely.
"We have no other choice! I don't like this either Matt, but it's either us or her!"
Tai responded back sternly. "Greymon, go!" he commanded.
Matt looked on angry and frustrated at the whole situation. He watched as Tai sent
his own digimon into battle, the same battle poise never leaving him. Garurumon looked
back at him in concern, and felt the emotions that seemed to tear at him inside. But he had
priorities too, and one of them was to protect Matt. 'He's not going to like this.' he
thought to himself. He glanced back, catching a look from his frustrated Digidestined
partner. "I'm sorry Matt, but I have to do this.." he said back to him regretfully and
followed Greymon into battle.
"Garurumon!"
"NOVA BLAST!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The two attacks soared into the sky towards the red-orange digimon in the sky,
but she quickly dodged side to side from the attacks.
"METEOR WING!"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!"
They retaliated with their own attacks, and Greymon and Garurumon dodged them
as well.
'This is bad. If that girl really is a Digidestined, we shouldn't be fighting each other.'
Kari thought worried, looking at the battle before her.
"Kari! Maybe I should help too." Patamon said to her.
She looked to the digimon with a look of fear on her face. "No Patamon, Greymon
and Garurumon can handle it!" she said, discouraging him.
"From the looks of it though, it may seem that they are closely matched." Takeru
agreed. "But," he added, looking to Tai and Matt standing nearby with a mix of confusion
and frustration on their faces. "because they know she's a Digidestined, they're afraid of
hurting her and holding back in fighting her." he stated. "That could be dangerous,
because it seems she will not hesitate to destroy them. " he said.
"Is there anything we can do?!" Kari asked desperately turning to Takeru. "There
has to be something we can do!"
He turned to her sincere face with a look of surprise at her concern. 'She's our
enemy, and Kari wants to try to save everyone? Can anyone really be that kind?' he
wondered shocked. Gatomon gazed upon him with a narrowing stare at his change in
expression. She personally and silently felt he shouldn't even be considering doing
anything. But, unfortunately for her, Takeru came to look down to her anyway.
"Gatomon, we have to separate those two. Try to get the assassin away from Birdramon.
Maybe that way, Greymon and Garurumon can bring down Birdramon and weaken the
assassin's advantage." he said.
Gatomon sighed. "All right, as you wish." she agreed reluctantly. She leapt to the
air, climbing up the trees gaining height to reach the fiery pair. When she was close
enough, she waited on a nearby branch.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" the assassin cried out, firing another attack.
'Now,' Gatomon leapt from the branch straight for her.
Shinokaze caught a white blur take flight off from the corner of her eye. She
turned quickly to face a charging Gatomon.
"LIGHTNING PAW!"
'Clever cat, attacking me in the moment I can't use my wind power.' she thought
impressed. Using her free hand, she released the sword that stood on her back and blocked
Gatomon's attack. She swiped the cat digimon away , sending her flying back. But
Gatomon was not willing to give up, she back flipped in the air to have her feet land to a
trunk of a tree and pushed herself back towards the assassin. She rose her claw, striking it
down towards Shinokaze, who blocked it with her sword. She brought her other claw
forth, only to have it too stopped by the blade.
'Urgh, she's a lot harder than I thought.' Gatomon thought frustrated. 'Why is
Takeru even doing this anyway?! Is it because of that Digidestined human?' she thought
annoyed, remembering the way he had looked at Kari when she wanted desperately to
help everyone.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" Sora brought forth the hand that did not hold the sword to
fire out her special attack. Gatomon quickly reacted, bouncing off the sword that held her
claw above the whirling winds.
'Urgh, this is enough! If they want her down, I'm taking her down!' Gatomon
landed back before the assassin, and stood firm. She closed her eyes as her opponent
waited, preparing for whatever move she had planned to do next.
"CAT'S EYE!" Gatomon's eyes suddenly opened to reveal a concentrated pink
glow. Shinokaze couldn't react, and was soon drawn into the cat's hypnotic stare.
'I-I can't move!' she realized stunned. Gatomon smirked mischievously.
"Bad move! Now, you're mine!" she cried out as she leapt up towards her, ready to
push her from the security of Birdramon's claw. But, the giant firebird shifted, moving
aside the target she was aiming for. "Huh?" Gatomon had lost her landing and this time no
trees stood by for her to pounce off. All she could do was fall towards the fast
approaching ground.
"Are you all right?" Birdramon asked to Shinokaze, who had shaken off
Gatomon's last attack.
"Yes. Thank you Birdramon." she said. "I have to destroy the Digidestined, and to
assure that I do, I must take their lives with my own hands." she said in a frightening,
determined voice. "Take care of those two," she said, aiming her gaze at the two
Champion digimon below, and leapt off.
"Oh no Gatomon!" Kari cried out at seeing the white creature fall. "Patamon!"
Patamon quickly flew out and grabbed hold of Gatomon's arm. Flapping furiously,
he slowly settled her to the ground. "Whew, that was too close." Patamon sighed with
relief as he came to sit to the ground exhausted. "You okay Gatomon?" he asked, cheerful
that he was able to accomplish his task.
Gatomon quickly turned away from him, trying to hide her hurt pride. "I could of
taken care of myself!" she spat out annoyed.
"Hmph! That's the last time I save you!" Patamon pouted, turning away from her
as well.
"Whew, they're okay." Kari said relieved.
"They shouldn't be there." Takeru said, concern seeping from his usual calm voice.
"Huh?" Kari looked to the two arguing digimon to realize that they were almost
directly in the center of the battlefield. "No! Get out of there Patamon! Gatomon!" she
called out quickly.
"Huh?" they both looked over confused to Kari's warning, which had come a little
too late. A Meteor Wing fireball suddenly struck down close beside them in a piercing
explosion, sending them flying in smoking messes to the ground motionless.
"No! Patamon! Gatomon!" Kari cried out horrified, rushing to them.
"Kari! Wait!" Takeru called after her, but she did not listen or stop.
"Patamon!" she cried out, coming to kneel beside her injured digimon. "Patamon,
please say something."
she called out worried, holding him in her arms.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon fired out another attack at Birdramon. But it quickly
dodged away from his attack. The giant fireball flew past and cast an ominous shadow on
the unknowing Kari and the unconscious Digimon.
"Kari!" Takeru called out, trying to alert her.
"What? Kari!" Tai realized as he saw the attack heading straight down on her.
"No! Look out!"
"Huh?" she looked above to see the attack drawing closer down on her and
gasped. She couldn't do anything to dodge it. She knew it. She grasped Patamon closer to
her and turned away from the attack, huddling closer to the ground.
As the fires drew closer and as she felt the heat grow, she began to brace herself
for the inferno that was to cast upon her. A strong howl of wind pierced through the air. A
burst of green suddenly blasted into the side of the attack and sent it flying harmlessly
away from her. Kari blinked shocked. Something had saved her. She lifted her eyes from
the ground and turned to face towards where the unexpected power had came from. A
black-clad assassin stood nearby, her hand outstretched before her and eyes wide in shock.
Everything fell silent and motionless, except for the flapping of Birdramon wings, no
sound no longer pierced the stillness of the forests. They were all locked in shock at their
self-proclaimed killer and the action she had taken. All sorting through their muddled
thoughts, trying to decide if what they had seen was real or not. The assassin herself stood
wondering. She slowly turned her hand to face her, looking upon it with shivering,
confused eyes.
"Sh-she saved Kari..." Tai had managed to utter, breaking the silence.
"Sora...?" Matt whispered, a glint of hope in his voice.
'I- Why did I save that girl?' she thought stunned. But her expression suddenly
turned into one of anger and fierceness. "Birdramon!" she called to the bird above,
removing the bird from her own dazed state. She nodded, showing it understood her
signal. Shinokaze lifted her hand above her, sending out a storm of furious winds across
the area around her. Everyone was taken back and blinded by the rising dirt and dust
carried by the untamed gusts. Shinokaze rushed through it, unaffected by the artificial
storm. She ran before a stunned Matt and tore the tag and crest from his neck. She leapt
up and pushing off his shoulder into the air, she caught hold of Birdramon's foot as she
flew overhead.
"Huh? Wait!" Matt had suddenly realized her escape and turned from the still
stirring winds that blinded him to the air above. He watched her as she retreated, sitting
silently on her digimon's partner claw. "Sora!" Her eyes came to look back upon hearing
her name, only to become locked with a pair of sapphire eyes. Sapphire eyes that were
filled with sadness and regret. She didn't understand why, but she couldn't help but get
drawn and lost in them, into the unfathomable cloudy blues of his eyes. Her heart began to
pound louder in her chest, deafening all other sound around her. Clouding over all other
sights, except him. His eyes...they twinged something within her. Something that wanted
to comfort him, to do everything she could to remove that pain she saw in his eyes.
Something that didn't want her to leave him. But she wouldn't allow it. Closing her eyes
tightly she broke herself from his alluring gaze, forcing herself to turn to the sky that
outstretched before her.
Matt watched as she averted her eyes away from his. He had caught the look in her
eyes. Even though it was only for a moment, he saw that her ruby-colored eyes were full
of confusion, pain, and, a strange longing, that he felt beat in his own heart as well. As
she escaped further and further away, all he could do was watch as the sun's dimming
glow captured her and her digimon's form, causing them to fade more and more from
view. All he could do was watch, and whisper gently into the sky.
"I'm sorry Sora..."
-What ya think? I suck at writing romantic stuff okay, (Can't you tell?) so don't punish me
for it! Wondering what Matt's sorry about? You'll just have to find out later! Until then,
see ya!
nice! Anyway, this is the next part to Familiar, sorry it took so long, too much editing and
stuff. This finishes up the battle between the Digidestined and Sora. Warning! There's
some Sorato hinting in here, so if you don't go for that, I apologize and suggest you don't
read. ( Even though it's not exactly that bad... urgh, okay it might be sappier than the
insides of a maple tree, but still... off subject!) Enough babble! (It's almost 3 a.m. here) On
with the fic!
Disclaimer: No own Digimon. (Disclaimers, ah, the best suing-lawyer repellents, it still
kinda annoying to write them all the time though....0)
Notes: "Speaking" 'Thoughts'
Familiar 12
A Fiery Battle
by Hitora
"Matt!" Tai said relieved. "I'm glad you showed up when you did!"
"Tai! You can't hurt her! She's one of the Digidestined! One of our friends!" Matt
said as he came down from Garurumon's back.
"Friends? She's trying to kill us Matt!" Tai reminded. "I know she's one the
Digidestined already. But she doesn't seem to care much for that." Tai stated coldly.
"She doesn't know who we are. We have to try to make her remember us!"
"We have to try to stay alive Matt!" Tai yelled back.
"But it's Sora!"
"Sora...?" he repeated in shock. A part of his memory felt as if recognized the
name, and slowly began to build a picture of a past close friend he once knew.
"Excuse me," a voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts and they turned to face
Takeru. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but aren't we in the middle of a battle?" he reminded.
Suddenly, a Meteor Wing attack came down all around them. They all realized
Takeru's words and darted away from the open area.
'Even if she is one of us, for now she's an enemy and I have to protect everyone!'
Tai thought to himself.
"Listen up everyone! She's strong, but outnumbered. We can do this, take her down!"
"Are you sure about this Tai?" Kari asked doubtful.
"It's the only way."
"No! It can't be! We can't attack our friends!" Matt yelled back fiercely.
"We have no other choice! I don't like this either Matt, but it's either us or her!"
Tai responded back sternly. "Greymon, go!" he commanded.
Matt looked on angry and frustrated at the whole situation. He watched as Tai sent
his own digimon into battle, the same battle poise never leaving him. Garurumon looked
back at him in concern, and felt the emotions that seemed to tear at him inside. But he had
priorities too, and one of them was to protect Matt. 'He's not going to like this.' he
thought to himself. He glanced back, catching a look from his frustrated Digidestined
partner. "I'm sorry Matt, but I have to do this.." he said back to him regretfully and
followed Greymon into battle.
"Garurumon!"
"NOVA BLAST!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The two attacks soared into the sky towards the red-orange digimon in the sky,
but she quickly dodged side to side from the attacks.
"METEOR WING!"
"SPIRAL TWISTER!"
They retaliated with their own attacks, and Greymon and Garurumon dodged them
as well.
'This is bad. If that girl really is a Digidestined, we shouldn't be fighting each other.'
Kari thought worried, looking at the battle before her.
"Kari! Maybe I should help too." Patamon said to her.
She looked to the digimon with a look of fear on her face. "No Patamon, Greymon
and Garurumon can handle it!" she said, discouraging him.
"From the looks of it though, it may seem that they are closely matched." Takeru
agreed. "But," he added, looking to Tai and Matt standing nearby with a mix of confusion
and frustration on their faces. "because they know she's a Digidestined, they're afraid of
hurting her and holding back in fighting her." he stated. "That could be dangerous,
because it seems she will not hesitate to destroy them. " he said.
"Is there anything we can do?!" Kari asked desperately turning to Takeru. "There
has to be something we can do!"
He turned to her sincere face with a look of surprise at her concern. 'She's our
enemy, and Kari wants to try to save everyone? Can anyone really be that kind?' he
wondered shocked. Gatomon gazed upon him with a narrowing stare at his change in
expression. She personally and silently felt he shouldn't even be considering doing
anything. But, unfortunately for her, Takeru came to look down to her anyway.
"Gatomon, we have to separate those two. Try to get the assassin away from Birdramon.
Maybe that way, Greymon and Garurumon can bring down Birdramon and weaken the
assassin's advantage." he said.
Gatomon sighed. "All right, as you wish." she agreed reluctantly. She leapt to the
air, climbing up the trees gaining height to reach the fiery pair. When she was close
enough, she waited on a nearby branch.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" the assassin cried out, firing another attack.
'Now,' Gatomon leapt from the branch straight for her.
Shinokaze caught a white blur take flight off from the corner of her eye. She
turned quickly to face a charging Gatomon.
"LIGHTNING PAW!"
'Clever cat, attacking me in the moment I can't use my wind power.' she thought
impressed. Using her free hand, she released the sword that stood on her back and blocked
Gatomon's attack. She swiped the cat digimon away , sending her flying back. But
Gatomon was not willing to give up, she back flipped in the air to have her feet land to a
trunk of a tree and pushed herself back towards the assassin. She rose her claw, striking it
down towards Shinokaze, who blocked it with her sword. She brought her other claw
forth, only to have it too stopped by the blade.
'Urgh, she's a lot harder than I thought.' Gatomon thought frustrated. 'Why is
Takeru even doing this anyway?! Is it because of that Digidestined human?' she thought
annoyed, remembering the way he had looked at Kari when she wanted desperately to
help everyone.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" Sora brought forth the hand that did not hold the sword to
fire out her special attack. Gatomon quickly reacted, bouncing off the sword that held her
claw above the whirling winds.
'Urgh, this is enough! If they want her down, I'm taking her down!' Gatomon
landed back before the assassin, and stood firm. She closed her eyes as her opponent
waited, preparing for whatever move she had planned to do next.
"CAT'S EYE!" Gatomon's eyes suddenly opened to reveal a concentrated pink
glow. Shinokaze couldn't react, and was soon drawn into the cat's hypnotic stare.
'I-I can't move!' she realized stunned. Gatomon smirked mischievously.
"Bad move! Now, you're mine!" she cried out as she leapt up towards her, ready to
push her from the security of Birdramon's claw. But, the giant firebird shifted, moving
aside the target she was aiming for. "Huh?" Gatomon had lost her landing and this time no
trees stood by for her to pounce off. All she could do was fall towards the fast
approaching ground.
"Are you all right?" Birdramon asked to Shinokaze, who had shaken off
Gatomon's last attack.
"Yes. Thank you Birdramon." she said. "I have to destroy the Digidestined, and to
assure that I do, I must take their lives with my own hands." she said in a frightening,
determined voice. "Take care of those two," she said, aiming her gaze at the two
Champion digimon below, and leapt off.
"Oh no Gatomon!" Kari cried out at seeing the white creature fall. "Patamon!"
Patamon quickly flew out and grabbed hold of Gatomon's arm. Flapping furiously,
he slowly settled her to the ground. "Whew, that was too close." Patamon sighed with
relief as he came to sit to the ground exhausted. "You okay Gatomon?" he asked, cheerful
that he was able to accomplish his task.
Gatomon quickly turned away from him, trying to hide her hurt pride. "I could of
taken care of myself!" she spat out annoyed.
"Hmph! That's the last time I save you!" Patamon pouted, turning away from her
as well.
"Whew, they're okay." Kari said relieved.
"They shouldn't be there." Takeru said, concern seeping from his usual calm voice.
"Huh?" Kari looked to the two arguing digimon to realize that they were almost
directly in the center of the battlefield. "No! Get out of there Patamon! Gatomon!" she
called out quickly.
"Huh?" they both looked over confused to Kari's warning, which had come a little
too late. A Meteor Wing fireball suddenly struck down close beside them in a piercing
explosion, sending them flying in smoking messes to the ground motionless.
"No! Patamon! Gatomon!" Kari cried out horrified, rushing to them.
"Kari! Wait!" Takeru called after her, but she did not listen or stop.
"Patamon!" she cried out, coming to kneel beside her injured digimon. "Patamon,
please say something."
she called out worried, holding him in her arms.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon fired out another attack at Birdramon. But it quickly
dodged away from his attack. The giant fireball flew past and cast an ominous shadow on
the unknowing Kari and the unconscious Digimon.
"Kari!" Takeru called out, trying to alert her.
"What? Kari!" Tai realized as he saw the attack heading straight down on her.
"No! Look out!"
"Huh?" she looked above to see the attack drawing closer down on her and
gasped. She couldn't do anything to dodge it. She knew it. She grasped Patamon closer to
her and turned away from the attack, huddling closer to the ground.
As the fires drew closer and as she felt the heat grow, she began to brace herself
for the inferno that was to cast upon her. A strong howl of wind pierced through the air. A
burst of green suddenly blasted into the side of the attack and sent it flying harmlessly
away from her. Kari blinked shocked. Something had saved her. She lifted her eyes from
the ground and turned to face towards where the unexpected power had came from. A
black-clad assassin stood nearby, her hand outstretched before her and eyes wide in shock.
Everything fell silent and motionless, except for the flapping of Birdramon wings, no
sound no longer pierced the stillness of the forests. They were all locked in shock at their
self-proclaimed killer and the action she had taken. All sorting through their muddled
thoughts, trying to decide if what they had seen was real or not. The assassin herself stood
wondering. She slowly turned her hand to face her, looking upon it with shivering,
confused eyes.
"Sh-she saved Kari..." Tai had managed to utter, breaking the silence.
"Sora...?" Matt whispered, a glint of hope in his voice.
'I- Why did I save that girl?' she thought stunned. But her expression suddenly
turned into one of anger and fierceness. "Birdramon!" she called to the bird above,
removing the bird from her own dazed state. She nodded, showing it understood her
signal. Shinokaze lifted her hand above her, sending out a storm of furious winds across
the area around her. Everyone was taken back and blinded by the rising dirt and dust
carried by the untamed gusts. Shinokaze rushed through it, unaffected by the artificial
storm. She ran before a stunned Matt and tore the tag and crest from his neck. She leapt
up and pushing off his shoulder into the air, she caught hold of Birdramon's foot as she
flew overhead.
"Huh? Wait!" Matt had suddenly realized her escape and turned from the still
stirring winds that blinded him to the air above. He watched her as she retreated, sitting
silently on her digimon's partner claw. "Sora!" Her eyes came to look back upon hearing
her name, only to become locked with a pair of sapphire eyes. Sapphire eyes that were
filled with sadness and regret. She didn't understand why, but she couldn't help but get
drawn and lost in them, into the unfathomable cloudy blues of his eyes. Her heart began to
pound louder in her chest, deafening all other sound around her. Clouding over all other
sights, except him. His eyes...they twinged something within her. Something that wanted
to comfort him, to do everything she could to remove that pain she saw in his eyes.
Something that didn't want her to leave him. But she wouldn't allow it. Closing her eyes
tightly she broke herself from his alluring gaze, forcing herself to turn to the sky that
outstretched before her.
Matt watched as she averted her eyes away from his. He had caught the look in her
eyes. Even though it was only for a moment, he saw that her ruby-colored eyes were full
of confusion, pain, and, a strange longing, that he felt beat in his own heart as well. As
she escaped further and further away, all he could do was watch as the sun's dimming
glow captured her and her digimon's form, causing them to fade more and more from
view. All he could do was watch, and whisper gently into the sky.
"I'm sorry Sora..."
-What ya think? I suck at writing romantic stuff okay, (Can't you tell?) so don't punish me
for it! Wondering what Matt's sorry about? You'll just have to find out later! Until then,
see ya!