"Freak!!", someone yelled from behind her. She had come to understand that
if you were going to get past all the standards of society you had to learn
to ignore what people thought of you.
She walked out the front doors and sat down on a bench beside the curb waiting for her mother to come get her. She had been picked on, put down and made fun of her entire life, when she was little before she had started school, she had been feared by the neighborhood kids. She thought though that as the victim she had a right to know why they were afraid of her. But that's not to say she didn't have friends. She had grown up around her parents best friends, and they were all pretty smart, except for her uncle, Tai, and her non-blood uncle, Davis. For the longest time she thought it had something to do with the fact that they both liked to wear goggles.
"Rori, come on sweetie.", she looked up to see her mom's head sticking out of their car window.
She scolded herself for having the same conversation with herself everyday. She got up and got in the car.
"How was your day?", her mom asked.
"Hello in there, could you ask my daughter to come back from la la land?", she continued.
She snapped out of it. She smiled and nodded.
"What's wrong?", she asked with a frown.
"It's nothing.", Rori said shaking her head slightly.
"They were picking on you again weren't they?", she said putting a hand on her shoulder.
She nodded slowly wiping away a tear.
"Hey, you want some ice cream?", she asked she said putting on a fake smile.
"Not really.", she said looking down, she never felt like going along with her mother's cheer tactics.
"Okay, well do you feel like doing anything special?", she said pulling away from the curb, she headed for her aunt Yolie's house. Her mother thought that this might cheer her up, she had always liked being around her twins, she felt connected to them for some reason.
"Why are we going to Ms. Ichijojy's house?", she asked already knowing that her mother would come up with some lie to try and hide the fact that she was just trying to cheer her up. She loved her mother for it, but thought that at sometimes she was a little overzealous about it.
She just smiled and said they were going so that she could visit one of her best friends. When they arrived the twins, Ruby and Jeff, were huddled in the corner, and Yolie was nursing her new baby.
"Hey, how's it going?", she said, buttoning up her shirt.
"We're good, we were gonnna go out for some ice cream but Rori wasn't up for it.", she said sitting down across the table from Yolie.
"So, how are you?", she said giving Rori a hug.
"I'm fine.", she said putting on a smile.
Rori didn't feel like sticking around for this pity party, so she went to say hi to the twins.
"So how's she holding up?", Yolie asked, burping the baby.
"Well, the bullies at school are still picking on her. But she is amazingly strong-willed for an eight-year-old, much stronger emotionally when we were teenagers.", she said pouring herself a glass of tea.
All the digi-destined had chosen to not tell their children about the events in the digital world, at least not until they were old enough to understand it all, Kari and TK were especially worried about it and swore they would never put her in danger unless it was demanded, and since they had never been able to find a way to open the portal they always disregarded the whole ordeal.
"Well, it's probably a good thing, she never has been one to make friends very well.", she said.
"I think it's just that they don't understand her very well.", she said taking the baby in her arms.
"So, how's TK lately?", she said taking out some paper work.
"He's been a little stressed with work, but what can you expect when you merge two conglomerate companies.", she said rocking the baby to sleep.
*
"Hey Rori.", Ruby said smiling up at her.
"Hi, what are you working on?", she said leaning over her shoulder.
"We were writing out the taxes on our business.", Jeff said barely taking his eyes off the paper.
She nodded in bewilderment. She didn't want to interrupt their taxes so she went outside to the porch and sat on their swing. She was thinking about her father when Mr. Itchijojy got out of his door.
"Well, hello, Rori. How are you on this fine day.", he asked with a smile sitting down next to her.
"Same as usual.", she said sighing heavily.
"Is something wrong?", he asked/
"I was just thinkin about my dad, wondering why he's at work so much.", she said.
"Don't hold it over on the guy, he's got a lot on his plate right now. He's had a very stressful life, you know? And the last few years haven't been better. Frankly, with all they've had to worry about in the last decade, I'm surprised the haven't had a meltdown.", he said looking off into the dusky sky.
"Like what?", she asked frowning.
"Ah, nothin really, just some stuff from our past that they don't want to have to deal with.", he continued.
"Why don't they want to deal with it, they tell me that if I have I problem I shouldn't disregard it.", she said pacing across the porch.
"That's exactly why they teach you that lesson, so that you won't be in the same situation one day.", he said.
"But I bet they also realize that given the situation, anyone would have done what they did.", he said walking inside.
She started to say something but realized that she didn't know what he was talking about. She was going to ask him but he was already inside and her mother was coming out the door.
"It's time to go, you ready.", she said swinging her purse over her shoulder.
Rori silently followed in contemplation of what Mr. Itchijojy had said. When they got home her dad was already there.
"Hey guys, where you been?", he said hugging them both.
"We stopped in to see Yolie.", Kari said smiling back at him.
"How are they today.", he said.
"Yolie said that Ken was really overworking himself.", she said heading for the kitchen to make dinner.
They had lamb chops for dinner, and quietly discussed their days. TK said that he might be up for a promotion soon, and they might be able to get a pet for Rory. Only, she wasn't paying much attention. She was still trying to figure out what Ken was talking about when her mother tapped her on the shoulder. She snapped out of it and quickly looked up to see her father frowning at her.
"Are you okay, you seem really distant tonight?", he said.
"I'm thinking about something that Ken told me, he said that you two have had a stressful life and that he was surprised you haven't had a meltdown yet.", she said disregarding her father's question.
Her parents glanced quickly at each other, and their faces went pale.
"Um, well, when you were born we had to make certain decisions that affected a lot of people. And we have had to live with the fact that not everyone was happy about it.", her mother said fidgeting.
"What decisions?", she said, her brow creasing.
"It's not something we want to talk to you about just yet, but we promise we will when we feel you are old enough, okay", he dad said going back to his food.
She had learned early in life that when her parents told her they didn't want to talk about something, she was probably the last person in the world to change their minds, so she let it go. But she couldn't help feeling that whatever it was they wouldn't discuss, it was something she needed to know if she was going to trust them.
*
Later that night in their bedroom, TK called Ken's house.
"Ken, what are you doing telling her about it?", he said, his voice rising.
"I'm sorry TK, I just thought that she deserved to know, I mean she is kind of key in the whole thing. Plus, she would have started to figure it out sooner or later, she's almost as smart as I am. And seeing as how she's only eight, by the time she's done developing her mind, she'll probably be smarter, did you really think she would never find out.", he said defensively. "We would have preferred to tell her when we thought she was ready, now she'll keep on bugging us about it until we tell her.", he said almost yelling.
"Why not just tell her, what could be the harm in that.", he said.
"She could be put in jeopardy, that's what.", Kari said using their other phone so she could be involved in the conversation.
"Oh, come on. You guys were the same age when you went through this.", he said hitting down everything they threw at him.
"But we didn't have a choice then.", Kari said.
"But the fact that you know what she'll inevitably come against, you can prepare her for it.", he said his own voice raising.
"We don't care, she's not ready!", TK interjected.
"Okay, but ask yourselves one question, were you?", he said and hung up the phone.
*
Rori was walking home from school a few days later when she noticed a man in a purple coat and long, jet black hair following her. She started jogging and quickly made her way home. She fell to her knees once she got in the door even though the stranger had stopped blocks ago.
"Rori, what's wrong honey?", her mom said kneeling down to help her up.
"There was someone following me.", she said standing up slowly.
"Following you, who was it?", she said.
"I don't know, he was tall, with a set jaw and a dark purple coat.", a split second later her mother collapsed on the ground.
When she came to she was still on the floor and Rori was holding a cold cloth to her head.
"Mom, are you okay?", she said helping her sit up.
"I'm fine honey, I just lost myself for a moment.", she said standing up and walking to the kitchen.
"You sure?", she said following.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why don't you go wash up for dinner, okay.", she said.
Rori simply nodded and ran upstairs. Kari immediately picked up the phone and pressed the speed dial to her husbands car phone.
"TK, Rori said someone was following her today after school. The way she described him it sounded like Owikawa.", she said with panic in her voice.
"Owikawa, are you sure?", he yelled.
"Dark, purple coat, set jaw, and long black hair.", she said making sure her daughter wasn't close enough to hear.
"We'll talk about it tonight okay.", he said reassuringly.
"Okay, see you in a little bit.", she said and hung up the phone.
She spent the next half an hour making dinner and letting it carelessly go to hell. She was too worried to cook. When TK arrived home she was relieved that he was calm, she was a nervous wreck.
"TK, what do we do now, we can' avoid it any longer?", she said hugging him protectively more than lovingly.
"Honey, calm down, we will talk about it after dinner, okay.", he wasn't asking, he was forcefully keeping everyone sane.
They had a very tense dinner. Rori was curious as to why her mother looked over her shoulder every other minute. Kari half expected a digimon to spring out of thin air and attack them. After supper TK asked Rori to go to her room.
"Your mother and I need to discuss something privately, okay?", he asked in a loving tone.
He smiled as he watched her go upstairs to work on her homework.
"Kari, what is so wrong with this, I've been thinking all day. I think Ken's right, we couldn't avoid out destinies, and we can't keep our daughter from hers'.", he said putting his arm around her shoulder as they sat together on the couch.
"You're right, I know you are, I just don't want anything to happen to her", she said leaning her head on his shoulder.
"She's a smart girl, she is more than capable to handle herself", he said rubbing her back.
"So how do we go about this?", she asked.
"Well, before we tell Rory about this we need to ask Izzy if he was ever able to find a way back. We don't want to tell her something big is going to happen only to have it come back and bite us in the ass.", he said.
"Let's not worry about it until tomorrow.", she said looking into his eyes with an intense look. He knew right away what she had in mind.
Their daughter was smart almost a genius, so they knew that she had long ago figured out what the obscene noises coming from their bedroom at night were. Kari led him upstairs with a series of passionate kisses, each one lasting a bit longer so by the time they reached their room he would be unstoppable, the way she liked it.
TK was beyond bliss, as these days they had so much on their hands, these occasions were few and far between. Inside their room, he closed the door, and began to take off his wife's shirt while she removed his pants. He started kissing up and down her neck, rubbing her breasts, as she moaned quietly. In an extremely quick motion he snapped off her bra and proceeded to unzip her shorts. She was caressing his chest with her tongue. He picked her up and gently placed her on the bed, kissing her stomach, and her moans got louder and louder. He sucked her nipples and groped her pussy causing her to almost scream his name. She pulled his mouth to hers and forced him inside of herself, it had been weeks since she had felt the pleasure of her husbands presence there. He started coming in and out so hard it was like a bucking horse, she loved this kind of raw passion, he kept getting faster and faster. She probed his mouth with her tongue. She forcefully rolled him over and got on top of his lap, wanting her turn to be rough with him. She buckled his hips with hers for and hour and a half. Afterwards they laid in their sheets, sweating and panting. She fell asleep in his arms, completely forgetting about the problems outside of their bedroom.
*
Rory had heard her mother and father begin their bedroom tirade, and had put on her headphones to meditate. She was curious as to what they had been talking about downstairs that was so private they couldn't even tell their own daughter. She closed her eyes and centered herself blocking out everything, when she opened them and looked at the clock, it read 10:00 p.m., they must have finished by now. She removed her headphones to the sounds of silence. She sighed, it was a rare occasion for her parents to show their affection for each other, as she had come to call it, so she tried to act like it didn't happen, if only for the sake of letting her parents spend some alone time together. She went downstairs to get a snack, in the kitchen she made herself a sandwich and a glass of milk, she had never been one to appreciate junk food very well.
When she returned to her bedroom she ate in the eerie silence of the house and when she was finished, she set the plate and glass down on her desk. Then she heard a noise at her window that sounded like a claw scraping glass, she opened her window and looked down, there was nothing there. Then, she looked up and saw a pair of yellow eyes, she screamed as loud as she could muster her voice to do, and the eyes turned a glowing blood red. A very big hand came down and caught her by the throat.
"You are the child, I was sent to kill you", it had a raspy voice like fingernails on a chalkboard.
It pulled her out of the window as she continued to scream. Of course her parents couldn't hear her because they were unconscious from their roughhousing. She stopped screaming figuring that it was useless, and tried to make out the shape of her assailant. It was strangely dark, and she looked for the moon only to discover that it wasn't to be seen. A few minutes later she was above Central Park, when she suddenly began to fall towards the ground. She screamed as loud as was humanly possible for an eight year old. When she was supposed to hit the ground she simply hovered a few feet above it. She looked to see a cloaked figure standing approximately ten yards away from her.
"What do you want with me?", she yelled at him.
"I'm here to stop you from fulfilling your destiny.", said a rather calm and at the same time ghoulish voice.
"What are you talking about, what destiny?", she said frowning at him.
"You are destined to stop me from ruling the digital world.", he said without any emotion in his voice.
"What is the digital world?", she said becoming more confused by the minute.
"Enough questions, it's time I ended this once and for all.", he said lifting up his right hand and pointing his open upward palm at her.
She recoiled as some sort of beam shot from his hand flying across the park at her, it reached the point of impact only to be redirected into the sky.
"Huh.", she stared in bewilderment as the figure gasped, showing his first display of feeling yet.
"What is going on here.", he demanded.
"You will not harm the Child of the Light", a soothing voice said from thin air.
"Who is there. Jennai, no it can't be I locked him away centuries ago.", he said hoarsely.
"It is not Jennai the Great come to stop you, but someone far less patient.", said and then the air shimmered, revealing the man that had been following her earlier that day.
"Who are you", she asked barely able to speak.
"Right now, all you need to know is that I'm a friend of you and your parents.", he said with a small, reassuring smile.
She didn't know why but she felt immediate trust to this peaceful phantom of the night. He made her feel oddly safe.
"It can't be, Owikawa, the spirit of legend, ha.", the cloaked stranger said raising his hand once again.
"You shall cause this child no more trouble, you will return to your merciless empire and leave this world to its own.", he said raising his left hand in defiance of the stranger.
At the same time they both shot beams of light, the strangers a pulsing black and, this Owikawa's, a piercing and radiant gold. When they met, the strangers remained only a moment before it dissipated and he was hit with the gold. He cried out in pain before he broke up into bits of matter.
"What just happened", she said falling those last few feet and hitting the ground hard.
"I am not the one to explain this to you just yet. I must go now, it is not safe for me here at night but I will return in the morning to speak with you and your parents, so be ready and feel comforted by knowing the fact that if there is trouble I will be there to protect you.", he said smiling widely.
"How am I supposed to get home?", she asked frowning at him.
"Here, take my hand and I will take you home.", he said extending his hand to her.
She took it quickly and was swept up in a wind funnel. She blinked and was back in her room by the time her eyes opened. Her clock read 10:45, she was exhausted. She got into her pajamas and climbed into bed forgetting to set her alarm.
She walked out the front doors and sat down on a bench beside the curb waiting for her mother to come get her. She had been picked on, put down and made fun of her entire life, when she was little before she had started school, she had been feared by the neighborhood kids. She thought though that as the victim she had a right to know why they were afraid of her. But that's not to say she didn't have friends. She had grown up around her parents best friends, and they were all pretty smart, except for her uncle, Tai, and her non-blood uncle, Davis. For the longest time she thought it had something to do with the fact that they both liked to wear goggles.
"Rori, come on sweetie.", she looked up to see her mom's head sticking out of their car window.
She scolded herself for having the same conversation with herself everyday. She got up and got in the car.
"How was your day?", her mom asked.
"Hello in there, could you ask my daughter to come back from la la land?", she continued.
She snapped out of it. She smiled and nodded.
"What's wrong?", she asked with a frown.
"It's nothing.", Rori said shaking her head slightly.
"They were picking on you again weren't they?", she said putting a hand on her shoulder.
She nodded slowly wiping away a tear.
"Hey, you want some ice cream?", she asked she said putting on a fake smile.
"Not really.", she said looking down, she never felt like going along with her mother's cheer tactics.
"Okay, well do you feel like doing anything special?", she said pulling away from the curb, she headed for her aunt Yolie's house. Her mother thought that this might cheer her up, she had always liked being around her twins, she felt connected to them for some reason.
"Why are we going to Ms. Ichijojy's house?", she asked already knowing that her mother would come up with some lie to try and hide the fact that she was just trying to cheer her up. She loved her mother for it, but thought that at sometimes she was a little overzealous about it.
She just smiled and said they were going so that she could visit one of her best friends. When they arrived the twins, Ruby and Jeff, were huddled in the corner, and Yolie was nursing her new baby.
"Hey, how's it going?", she said, buttoning up her shirt.
"We're good, we were gonnna go out for some ice cream but Rori wasn't up for it.", she said sitting down across the table from Yolie.
"So, how are you?", she said giving Rori a hug.
"I'm fine.", she said putting on a smile.
Rori didn't feel like sticking around for this pity party, so she went to say hi to the twins.
"So how's she holding up?", Yolie asked, burping the baby.
"Well, the bullies at school are still picking on her. But she is amazingly strong-willed for an eight-year-old, much stronger emotionally when we were teenagers.", she said pouring herself a glass of tea.
All the digi-destined had chosen to not tell their children about the events in the digital world, at least not until they were old enough to understand it all, Kari and TK were especially worried about it and swore they would never put her in danger unless it was demanded, and since they had never been able to find a way to open the portal they always disregarded the whole ordeal.
"Well, it's probably a good thing, she never has been one to make friends very well.", she said.
"I think it's just that they don't understand her very well.", she said taking the baby in her arms.
"So, how's TK lately?", she said taking out some paper work.
"He's been a little stressed with work, but what can you expect when you merge two conglomerate companies.", she said rocking the baby to sleep.
*
"Hey Rori.", Ruby said smiling up at her.
"Hi, what are you working on?", she said leaning over her shoulder.
"We were writing out the taxes on our business.", Jeff said barely taking his eyes off the paper.
She nodded in bewilderment. She didn't want to interrupt their taxes so she went outside to the porch and sat on their swing. She was thinking about her father when Mr. Itchijojy got out of his door.
"Well, hello, Rori. How are you on this fine day.", he asked with a smile sitting down next to her.
"Same as usual.", she said sighing heavily.
"Is something wrong?", he asked/
"I was just thinkin about my dad, wondering why he's at work so much.", she said.
"Don't hold it over on the guy, he's got a lot on his plate right now. He's had a very stressful life, you know? And the last few years haven't been better. Frankly, with all they've had to worry about in the last decade, I'm surprised the haven't had a meltdown.", he said looking off into the dusky sky.
"Like what?", she asked frowning.
"Ah, nothin really, just some stuff from our past that they don't want to have to deal with.", he continued.
"Why don't they want to deal with it, they tell me that if I have I problem I shouldn't disregard it.", she said pacing across the porch.
"That's exactly why they teach you that lesson, so that you won't be in the same situation one day.", he said.
"But I bet they also realize that given the situation, anyone would have done what they did.", he said walking inside.
She started to say something but realized that she didn't know what he was talking about. She was going to ask him but he was already inside and her mother was coming out the door.
"It's time to go, you ready.", she said swinging her purse over her shoulder.
Rori silently followed in contemplation of what Mr. Itchijojy had said. When they got home her dad was already there.
"Hey guys, where you been?", he said hugging them both.
"We stopped in to see Yolie.", Kari said smiling back at him.
"How are they today.", he said.
"Yolie said that Ken was really overworking himself.", she said heading for the kitchen to make dinner.
They had lamb chops for dinner, and quietly discussed their days. TK said that he might be up for a promotion soon, and they might be able to get a pet for Rory. Only, she wasn't paying much attention. She was still trying to figure out what Ken was talking about when her mother tapped her on the shoulder. She snapped out of it and quickly looked up to see her father frowning at her.
"Are you okay, you seem really distant tonight?", he said.
"I'm thinking about something that Ken told me, he said that you two have had a stressful life and that he was surprised you haven't had a meltdown yet.", she said disregarding her father's question.
Her parents glanced quickly at each other, and their faces went pale.
"Um, well, when you were born we had to make certain decisions that affected a lot of people. And we have had to live with the fact that not everyone was happy about it.", her mother said fidgeting.
"What decisions?", she said, her brow creasing.
"It's not something we want to talk to you about just yet, but we promise we will when we feel you are old enough, okay", he dad said going back to his food.
She had learned early in life that when her parents told her they didn't want to talk about something, she was probably the last person in the world to change their minds, so she let it go. But she couldn't help feeling that whatever it was they wouldn't discuss, it was something she needed to know if she was going to trust them.
*
Later that night in their bedroom, TK called Ken's house.
"Ken, what are you doing telling her about it?", he said, his voice rising.
"I'm sorry TK, I just thought that she deserved to know, I mean she is kind of key in the whole thing. Plus, she would have started to figure it out sooner or later, she's almost as smart as I am. And seeing as how she's only eight, by the time she's done developing her mind, she'll probably be smarter, did you really think she would never find out.", he said defensively. "We would have preferred to tell her when we thought she was ready, now she'll keep on bugging us about it until we tell her.", he said almost yelling.
"Why not just tell her, what could be the harm in that.", he said.
"She could be put in jeopardy, that's what.", Kari said using their other phone so she could be involved in the conversation.
"Oh, come on. You guys were the same age when you went through this.", he said hitting down everything they threw at him.
"But we didn't have a choice then.", Kari said.
"But the fact that you know what she'll inevitably come against, you can prepare her for it.", he said his own voice raising.
"We don't care, she's not ready!", TK interjected.
"Okay, but ask yourselves one question, were you?", he said and hung up the phone.
*
Rori was walking home from school a few days later when she noticed a man in a purple coat and long, jet black hair following her. She started jogging and quickly made her way home. She fell to her knees once she got in the door even though the stranger had stopped blocks ago.
"Rori, what's wrong honey?", her mom said kneeling down to help her up.
"There was someone following me.", she said standing up slowly.
"Following you, who was it?", she said.
"I don't know, he was tall, with a set jaw and a dark purple coat.", a split second later her mother collapsed on the ground.
When she came to she was still on the floor and Rori was holding a cold cloth to her head.
"Mom, are you okay?", she said helping her sit up.
"I'm fine honey, I just lost myself for a moment.", she said standing up and walking to the kitchen.
"You sure?", she said following.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why don't you go wash up for dinner, okay.", she said.
Rori simply nodded and ran upstairs. Kari immediately picked up the phone and pressed the speed dial to her husbands car phone.
"TK, Rori said someone was following her today after school. The way she described him it sounded like Owikawa.", she said with panic in her voice.
"Owikawa, are you sure?", he yelled.
"Dark, purple coat, set jaw, and long black hair.", she said making sure her daughter wasn't close enough to hear.
"We'll talk about it tonight okay.", he said reassuringly.
"Okay, see you in a little bit.", she said and hung up the phone.
She spent the next half an hour making dinner and letting it carelessly go to hell. She was too worried to cook. When TK arrived home she was relieved that he was calm, she was a nervous wreck.
"TK, what do we do now, we can' avoid it any longer?", she said hugging him protectively more than lovingly.
"Honey, calm down, we will talk about it after dinner, okay.", he wasn't asking, he was forcefully keeping everyone sane.
They had a very tense dinner. Rori was curious as to why her mother looked over her shoulder every other minute. Kari half expected a digimon to spring out of thin air and attack them. After supper TK asked Rori to go to her room.
"Your mother and I need to discuss something privately, okay?", he asked in a loving tone.
He smiled as he watched her go upstairs to work on her homework.
"Kari, what is so wrong with this, I've been thinking all day. I think Ken's right, we couldn't avoid out destinies, and we can't keep our daughter from hers'.", he said putting his arm around her shoulder as they sat together on the couch.
"You're right, I know you are, I just don't want anything to happen to her", she said leaning her head on his shoulder.
"She's a smart girl, she is more than capable to handle herself", he said rubbing her back.
"So how do we go about this?", she asked.
"Well, before we tell Rory about this we need to ask Izzy if he was ever able to find a way back. We don't want to tell her something big is going to happen only to have it come back and bite us in the ass.", he said.
"Let's not worry about it until tomorrow.", she said looking into his eyes with an intense look. He knew right away what she had in mind.
Their daughter was smart almost a genius, so they knew that she had long ago figured out what the obscene noises coming from their bedroom at night were. Kari led him upstairs with a series of passionate kisses, each one lasting a bit longer so by the time they reached their room he would be unstoppable, the way she liked it.
TK was beyond bliss, as these days they had so much on their hands, these occasions were few and far between. Inside their room, he closed the door, and began to take off his wife's shirt while she removed his pants. He started kissing up and down her neck, rubbing her breasts, as she moaned quietly. In an extremely quick motion he snapped off her bra and proceeded to unzip her shorts. She was caressing his chest with her tongue. He picked her up and gently placed her on the bed, kissing her stomach, and her moans got louder and louder. He sucked her nipples and groped her pussy causing her to almost scream his name. She pulled his mouth to hers and forced him inside of herself, it had been weeks since she had felt the pleasure of her husbands presence there. He started coming in and out so hard it was like a bucking horse, she loved this kind of raw passion, he kept getting faster and faster. She probed his mouth with her tongue. She forcefully rolled him over and got on top of his lap, wanting her turn to be rough with him. She buckled his hips with hers for and hour and a half. Afterwards they laid in their sheets, sweating and panting. She fell asleep in his arms, completely forgetting about the problems outside of their bedroom.
*
Rory had heard her mother and father begin their bedroom tirade, and had put on her headphones to meditate. She was curious as to what they had been talking about downstairs that was so private they couldn't even tell their own daughter. She closed her eyes and centered herself blocking out everything, when she opened them and looked at the clock, it read 10:00 p.m., they must have finished by now. She removed her headphones to the sounds of silence. She sighed, it was a rare occasion for her parents to show their affection for each other, as she had come to call it, so she tried to act like it didn't happen, if only for the sake of letting her parents spend some alone time together. She went downstairs to get a snack, in the kitchen she made herself a sandwich and a glass of milk, she had never been one to appreciate junk food very well.
When she returned to her bedroom she ate in the eerie silence of the house and when she was finished, she set the plate and glass down on her desk. Then she heard a noise at her window that sounded like a claw scraping glass, she opened her window and looked down, there was nothing there. Then, she looked up and saw a pair of yellow eyes, she screamed as loud as she could muster her voice to do, and the eyes turned a glowing blood red. A very big hand came down and caught her by the throat.
"You are the child, I was sent to kill you", it had a raspy voice like fingernails on a chalkboard.
It pulled her out of the window as she continued to scream. Of course her parents couldn't hear her because they were unconscious from their roughhousing. She stopped screaming figuring that it was useless, and tried to make out the shape of her assailant. It was strangely dark, and she looked for the moon only to discover that it wasn't to be seen. A few minutes later she was above Central Park, when she suddenly began to fall towards the ground. She screamed as loud as was humanly possible for an eight year old. When she was supposed to hit the ground she simply hovered a few feet above it. She looked to see a cloaked figure standing approximately ten yards away from her.
"What do you want with me?", she yelled at him.
"I'm here to stop you from fulfilling your destiny.", said a rather calm and at the same time ghoulish voice.
"What are you talking about, what destiny?", she said frowning at him.
"You are destined to stop me from ruling the digital world.", he said without any emotion in his voice.
"What is the digital world?", she said becoming more confused by the minute.
"Enough questions, it's time I ended this once and for all.", he said lifting up his right hand and pointing his open upward palm at her.
She recoiled as some sort of beam shot from his hand flying across the park at her, it reached the point of impact only to be redirected into the sky.
"Huh.", she stared in bewilderment as the figure gasped, showing his first display of feeling yet.
"What is going on here.", he demanded.
"You will not harm the Child of the Light", a soothing voice said from thin air.
"Who is there. Jennai, no it can't be I locked him away centuries ago.", he said hoarsely.
"It is not Jennai the Great come to stop you, but someone far less patient.", said and then the air shimmered, revealing the man that had been following her earlier that day.
"Who are you", she asked barely able to speak.
"Right now, all you need to know is that I'm a friend of you and your parents.", he said with a small, reassuring smile.
She didn't know why but she felt immediate trust to this peaceful phantom of the night. He made her feel oddly safe.
"It can't be, Owikawa, the spirit of legend, ha.", the cloaked stranger said raising his hand once again.
"You shall cause this child no more trouble, you will return to your merciless empire and leave this world to its own.", he said raising his left hand in defiance of the stranger.
At the same time they both shot beams of light, the strangers a pulsing black and, this Owikawa's, a piercing and radiant gold. When they met, the strangers remained only a moment before it dissipated and he was hit with the gold. He cried out in pain before he broke up into bits of matter.
"What just happened", she said falling those last few feet and hitting the ground hard.
"I am not the one to explain this to you just yet. I must go now, it is not safe for me here at night but I will return in the morning to speak with you and your parents, so be ready and feel comforted by knowing the fact that if there is trouble I will be there to protect you.", he said smiling widely.
"How am I supposed to get home?", she asked frowning at him.
"Here, take my hand and I will take you home.", he said extending his hand to her.
She took it quickly and was swept up in a wind funnel. She blinked and was back in her room by the time her eyes opened. Her clock read 10:45, she was exhausted. She got into her pajamas and climbed into bed forgetting to set her alarm.