The princess of the ice

Chapter 7: Memories and melodies

By: The Biggest Dreamer Lily

^^ He he, hi! It's good to see you again, and to see you're reviewing and reading my story! Hope you review this one too! Now, this chapter will have a song's lyric, and that don't belong to me, so don't sue! Just hope you like! Oh, and on the preview chapter, Davis tried to put the little girl up, to make her laugh or smile, not down like I said in the first day... I corrected it, don't worry! Now, let's begin!

Legend:

"" Talking

'' Thoughts

() My comments

italic: flashback

~ italic ~: song

Disclaimer: Digimon don't belong to me, don't belong to you, so please don't sue! (I think I have already read this... Sorry if this phrase belongs to you!)

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Davis was finally in front of her. In front of Claire Jordan, the princess of the ice. He walked towards the ice, till he was really near it. He grabbed his sword, put it up, and before braking the ice, he said: "It's now, or never."

With his entire straight, Davis put his sword down on the ice, and it broke in several parts, leaving a serene figure lying on the ground. Davis went near her, and picks her up, the girl now lying in his arms.

He looked at her face. She was a bit pale, but her beauty was still amazing. Davis couldn't help but smile at the sweetness figure that he had now in his arms. "She looks just like... An angel..." he whispered. It took a few minutes before Davis finally got back from his thoughts. He had to take the girl out of there, and had to warm her up. That was the easy part, but before he had to take her out.

Carrying the girl, Davis walked off the underground of the castle.

Meanwhile, Davis' group was totally crazy to know what was going on inside the castle. "Oh, I want to know what's happening there!" Yolei shouted at the guardians. "We can't help. Davis just had to go in there alone. That's one thing wished by Claire. The one chosen by the gods to have the Crystal Blade had to go in there alone, if not, the others would be thrown off the castle. And I think that you don't want that, do you?" asked Jenrya, the others shook their heads. "That's what we thought." Said Ruki, turning her attention back to the door of the castle that was open. "I'd like to know what's going on there, too." Whispered her, so only Jenrya could hear. "Me too, but we're just guardians. We can't go in there either." He replied. But then they saw. A shadow was coming towards the doors of the castle by the main hall. It was Davis. And in his arms, was a sleeping figure of a young woman.

The others saw him too, and run to him. Everybody was surprised at the girl lying in his arms.

"Is she Claire Jordan?" asked TK, Davis nodded. "Wow, she's very beautiful..." said Ken, but Yolei punched his arm. "What were you saying?" she asked, the threat sound on her voice. "Nothing..." he replied. "But she's too cold! We have to warm her up!" said Mimi that touched Claire's face. "Maybe inside the castle. Let's go." Jenrya said, the others followed him inside the castle. They climbed the stairs, and they entered a bedroom. The walls were light-blue, and the bed was big and white. Probably it was Claire's bedroom. The bed wasn't too dirt with dust or such, and then Davis put her down gently on the bed. Then he and the others left, going to the living room of the castle, to wait Claire's awakening.

When they sat down, on the dusted couches, Davis asked, "Wait a minute... If Claire had the most powerful magic in the world, like Ken said, why does she needed someone to help her get out of the ice? It would be pretty simple to her." The guardians looked at each other, and then they began. "Claire's magic faded..." they said, leaving the others shocked. "Faded? How can that be? It was too powerful to just go away!" said Ken. "Well, if you want to know everything, you'll have to ask her. She would explain better than us." Ruki said, and the others didn't have what to say. "I'm going check her out." Davis said, then went out of the room.

He climbed the stairs, and went in the bedroom Claire was in. He grabbed a chair, and sat down near her bed, watching her sleeping figure. Then, she slowly opened her eyes. Davis was totally amazed, when he saw that her eyes were of a pure light-blue. She didn't saw Davis. She sat up on her bed, and looked around. Then she finally noticed him. Her eyes grew wide. Davis got back from his trance, and smiled at her. "Welcome back, Claire. How do you fell?" he asked, but the girl was speechless. A few seconds later, she finally spoke. "You're... just... like... him..." she said slowly, leaving Davis totally confused. Before he could say anything, Claire went closer him, and her lips touched his. He didn't know what to do. So he stayed there, not daring kissing her back. But a part of him told him to do so. But before that thought was put in action, Claire went back, braking the "kiss". She slowly sat normally on the bed, then brought her hands to her mouth, muttering a "I'm so sorry.."

Before Davis could do or say anything, they heard someone at the door. It was Ken. "Err... Davis, could I talk to you?" he asked, Davis looked at Claire, that nodded.

They went out of the room, then Ken asked "What the heck was that? Have I just seem Daisuke Motomiya kissing Claire Jordan?" "No, no! You got it all wrong! It wasn't me that kissed her, it was her that kissed me!" Davis said fast, trying to defend himself. "Uh-huh, and you want me to believe that?" Ken asked, holding his chin. "It's the truth! She said something like I'm just like him, I don't know! I just know that when I realized, she was kissing me!" Davis said, a little red at his statement. Ken looked surprised at what Davis said. "You're like him...? Oh, then that's why she kissed you... That make sense, because of the names too, what a coincidence..." he said, leaving Davis more confused then he already was. "You got it? Care to explain?" Davis asked, incredulously. "Well, when Claire lived here, like 500 years ago, she loved a man named Daisuke McClaude (liked it? I thought it was cool). And for what she said, you must look exactly like him, and the funny thing is that your names are the same, except for the last one." Ken concludes, as Davis' jaw dropped to the floor. "Wow, I think that was the reason she kissed me... Excuse me, Ken, I will talk to her, tell the others will be there soon." Davis said, and with it, he got back to the room.

When he got there, Claire was sitting by the window. But that wasn't everything. Claire was singing a very beautiful song. The song echoed in Davis mind. It was an amazing song. She was singing...

~ So lately, been wondering
Who will be there to take my place
When I'm gone, you'll need love to light the shadows on your face
If a great wave shall fall and fall upon us all
Then between the sand and stone, could you make it on your own?

If I could, then I would,
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low,
I'll go wherever you will go

And maybe, I'll find out
A way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you, through the darkest of your days
If a great wave shall fall and fall upon us all
Then I hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you

If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low
I'll go wherever you will go

Run away with my heart
Run away with my hope
Run away with my love

I know now, just quite how
My life and love may still go on
In your heart, in your mind,
I'll stay with you for all of time

If I could, then I would,
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low,
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could turn back time,
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine,
I'll go wherever you will go
I'll go wherever you will go ~

When she finished, she looked at the doorway, where Davis was, and smiled to him. He got back from his trance, the wonderful song really touched him, but at the same time, he kind of remembered him of something... Had he already heard that song? 'I remember! That's the same song that little girl was singing, when I was going to the castle's underground! But I better not ask her what was the song, she might be upset like the little Claire...'. He went to where she was, and sat down next to her. An uncomfortable silence followed. Claire was the one that broke it.

"Sorry about the... Kiss thing... Is just that you.... Remind me of someone and..." she began, but Davis stopped her. "It's okay. Don't worry about it." He said smiling, then the silence came again...

"Claire... When I entered this castle, to save you... I don't know, I..." he tried to say, but Claire completed for him. "It was like you were sent back in time? (he nodded) Well, that was one of my tests. Only the one with the Crystal Blade could pass through it." She said. Then Davis remembered a question he was supposed to ask her just as she wakes up. "Claire.. If you were the most powerful magician in the whole world, why didn't you get out of the ice earlier?" he finally asked, and Claire turned her attention from the window to him. He blushed lightly at the gaze she was giving him, with her amazing light-blue eyes. "It's just that... My magic is gone..." she said slowly. "How...?" Davis asked. "Well, I'll tell you. The story is a bit long, but I hope you can listen to it..." she began, but Davis nodded quickly. "Don't worry, I'm here to this." He said, and she smiled to him.

*** Flashback ***

It all began a long, long time ago. When I wasn't locked in the cube yet, and I was 13 years-old. Like you must know, I have the power to call some creatures from another world, called Digimon. They can communicate to me, and then I bring them to this world, where they will search for their partners.

I was at the temple, calling one of them, when my best friend, Allison, came to talk to me. Just as the little creature, called Gomamon, appeared in my arms, Allison talked to me.

"Claire, your father is calling you." She said, patting the creature's head. "What does he want?" I asked her. "I don't know, maybe is about your marriage." She said, and I became hysterics. "What?! But that's in just three years!" I cried out. "Relax Claire, I think you might go see him." Allison said. "I think you're right." I said, then I left the temple.

When I arrived at the castle, a man, whom I've never seen in my life, was there, standing by my father's side.

"Uh... You wanted to talk to me, father?" I asked him, not taking my eyes off the strange man. "Yes, my dear daughter. I wanted you to meet your future husband, Mr. Ryo Akiyama." My father said, indicating the man at his side. For some unknown reason, I didn't like the expression of the man. Actually, I didn't like the man himself.

He began to walk towards me, and when he was in front of me, he kneeled and grabbed my hand, kissing it. "It's a pleasure to meet such beauty, dear Claire." He said, and I quickly take my hand off his. "Thanks, Mr. Akiyama." I said coldly, I just had the feeling that I couldn't trust him. "Ryo, my dear. Just call me Ryo." He said. He was probably 5 years older than I was. And the look in his eyes said something I couldn't explain. It was just... Something horrible.

I went off the castle. I will never forget the day I met the monster that destroyed my life. Never.

1 year later, something wonderful happened to me. That is one think I will never forget too. The day I met him...

I was at the temple again, talking mentally with my friends digimons, when one of them tried to get to this world. I didn't know why I did that, talking about it now, but even if I had the feeling to not bring him here, I brought him.

But when he appeared, my eyes were a mix of surprise and fear. The digimon was a ghost. And he didn't seem like he was friendly. Quickly, I ran out of the temple, towards the Holy Forest. I passed through it, but the monster was still behind me. But then suddenly I fell in a rock, and I didn't have where to escape. I went back, and back, till I reached a tree, and I didn't have where to go. I closed my eyes, waiting for the creature to finish me off, but that never happened. Instead of it, I hear the monster's scream. When I opened my eyes, he was there. Sword in hand, smiling to me.

"Are you okay?" he asked sweetly. I've never seemed him before. And I had never felt that way before too. I just stood there on the ground, looking up at him, felling my heart beat faster. Then I finally spoke. "Whe... re.. is the.... ghost?" I asked. "He's gone now, don't worry." He said, handing me his hand, to help me up. "Uh, thanks for helping me. What's your name?" I asked him, while I got to my feet. "I'm Daisuke. But you can call me Davis." He said, while looking into my eyes. I think was his gaze that made me fall for him...

He helped me to get to the castle, I was still a bit shocked. When I entered there, my father and Ryo were there. My dad was worried sick about me, and Ryo pretended it too, but I noticed he wasn't a bit worried about me, but about whom I was with...

"Claire, my dear! Where were you? I was so worried about you!" my father exclaimed, hugging me, but Ryo went near Davis, and was gazing mad at him. "What were you doing with her? Was it your fault that she was out? Answer me, Daisuke!" he said, yelling at Davis, but he just stayed neutral. "I wasn't the reason she was out, Mr. Akiyama." He said, and I could notice by the tone of his voice, that he didn't like Ryo. Well, that was something I agreed with him... But, where have those two met before?

"You're lying!" he said, grabbing his sword. I then get off of my father's hug, and went between the two, before Ryo could do something stupid. "He's saying the truth, Ryo. Davis had helped me with some problem with a digimon I brought here and..." I was saying, but my father cried out. "Claire! I told you to stop bringing those creatures to this world! Not all of them are kindly, you know!" he said. "Sorry father, I know that... And if wasn't for Davis, would be dead by now." I said, more to Ryo than to my father.

Then I excused myself, and went out of the room. I was in a corridor, and then I met Ryo there.

"Claire, my dear Claire. You can't go out there with strangers, mainly men, you're my fiancée, you know." He said, putting his hands around my waist. "He's not a stranger. My father kind knew him." I said, trying to put his hands off me, without much luck. "Yeah, that guy named Daisuke is new at the castle, even being only 16 he's already from the kingdom's army, but that doesn't matter. Why don't you kiss me now, sweetie?" he asked, moving closer. I didn't want to kiss him, and he was forcing me to. "Let me go!" I cried out, but his grasp was even harder. "Come on, dear." He said. I closed my eyes, to not look at him, when I heard. "She said to let her go, Akiyama. Let her out, or I'll have to do it myself." Said a voice from the other side of the corridor. It was Daisuke. "She's my fiancée, McClaude, you have no right to say what I have to do or not with her." Ryo said, finally letting me go off his grasp. "Yes, but she's human, and being you fiancée, you have to do what she wishes to." Daisuke said smartly. Ryo looked at him, and went off. I sighed in relief.

At night, I went to the entrance of the forest, to finally have a nice time alone, looking at the stars. When I got there, I found Daisuke himself there, sitting on the ground, doing what I was there to.

"Good evening, princess. You shouldn't be here at this time, it's dangerous." He said, his voice saying the opposite of his phrase. "I know. But I can't sleep, so I came here. Can I sit here?" I asked, indicating his side. "Sure." He said.

From that night on, Daisuke and me always went there at night, to talk. Was there that I confessed my love to him, and he said he loved me back. But there was the place everything happened too, 2 years later...

In the night before my marriage, Daisuke and I went there as always. We were planning to run away in the next day, the day when Ryo and I were supposed to be married.

"It's tomorrow, Dai-kun! It's tomorrow!" I said, hugging him. "Yeah, we'll finally be able to be together, Claire." He said, as his face came closer to mine, and we kissed deeply. But we didn't know what was going to happen next. Without me knowing, Ryo followed me that night. He was hiding in the bushes, waiting for the right time to attack. And when Daisuke and I were kissing, he attacked. But Davis fell that something was wrong, and he broke the kiss suddenly, pushing me out of where we were. If we stayed there for a few more seconds, he would be killed, certainly. Ryo came out of the bushes, sword in a position on attack.

"You! What are you doing here?" Daisuke asked, putting himself in front of me, defensibly. "I ask the same thing! Claire, how could you betray me? I'm going to be your husband in some hours!" Ryo said, madness controlling him.

"And? You don't love me, Ryo. Davis does!" I said, but I wish I didn't... Just after I said that, Ryo tried to attack Daisuke... And me! Daisuke grabbed me in his arms, and ran away from Ryo. But there wasn't many places to run to, so Daisuke run to the nearest: The Temple of the Digimons.

We entered there, and Daisuke put me on the ground. A little later, Ryo arrived too. Then he and Daisuke began to battle. Both were very strong, and smart too, the one that gets distracted first, would be the loser. However, Daisuke was the one... Ryo hurt him on the stomach, and he fell back on the ground.

I screamed at the scene, and quickly run to where my beloved Davis was. He was hurt deeply. I started to cry, as I put his head on my leap. I put my hand on his injury, trying to heal it with my magic. But Ryo didn't want to let that happen. He started to walk towards us, and when he was near enough for me to see him, I faced him. My eyes were filled with anger, and my hands were shaking with sadness. He tried to kill him. He tried to kill my Davis...

I take off my hand from Davis' stomach, and aimed it at him. From my hand, came a huge ball of magic, and it hit Ryo direct in his stomach. Ryo fell to the floor too, and stayed there, not dead yet. I looked back at Davis, tears still coming out of my eyes. But I didn't see Ryo, putting his hand up, in my direction. Using his magic, he make me fly away from Davis. When he put me on the floor, I fell it. Ice was forming under my feet. I tried to run, but that was of no use. While I was getting sucked into the ice, Ryo murmured: "If you're not going to be mine, you're not going to be anyone's!"

I put my hands together, praying that my Davis could go and grab help, since he was still alive. After it stopped, I was totally locked on that cube of ice, and Ryo died, but right before it he said his last words. "I'll reincarnate and make you mine..."

Daisuke began to move out of the temple, trying to call someone. But he fell in the middle of the forest. There, before he died, using my magic, I put a version of myself there, to stay with him, till he life went out. He told me he would reincarnate, just like Ryo, and that he would save me from my prison, and then we would be together again. With my magic, and with a part of his soul into it, we created The Legendary Crystal Blade. After that, he died.

*** End of Flashback ***

"Because I used too many of my magic in the same day, I was weak, and I didn't had how to came out by myself. So, using a part of what was left of it, I summoned two souls to keep the sword save. Then I summoned Jenrya and Ruki that you might know. With the thing left, I created another test, in this castle, that only the one with the Crystal Blade could pass." Claire finished.

"Wow... That's what I call a great story. But... Like you told me the part when you and Daisuke met... Then..." Davis began, but Claire, like reading his mind, finished to him. "Yes, the test of the castle was based on that. The only difference is that the "me" of it was a child. Many men tried to pass through the test of the castle, before challenging the guardians, and everyone failed. Only you passed. The test was like my dreams, I could see all of the men that tried it, and I became very happy when I saw you. Because you're just like my Daisuke, and I had the feeling you would make it." Claire said smiling.

Then Davis remembered. "Claire... That song you were singing earlier..." he began to say, but stopped as Claire's eyes widened. "You... heard it?" she asked, just like the little Claire. "Yeah, sorry if..." he began to say again, but she cut him off. "When I was locked in the ice, it was like I was sleeping. So, in my dreams, Dai-kun singed it to me..." she said, tears coming to her eyes. "Oh, sorry if I made you cry!" Davis quickly said, but the girl smiled to him. "Don't worry, it wasn't your fault. Thanks for listening to me, it was good to finally tell someone my story. By the way, what's your name, dear?" she asked kindly. "Well, you might think it incredible, but... My name is Daisuke. Daisuke Motomiya." Davis said, and he was right. Claire was surprised. "Daisuke..." she whispered, but they were interrupted as Ken arrived at the doorway. "What are you two talking? Come on, the others are waiting!" he said, before running out. Davis looked at Claire, and smiled to her, handing her his hand. "Let's go?" he asked, and she nodded, giving her hand to him. "Sure."

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^^ What a BIG chapter! Wait a few more time and you'll get the next!! About Ryo... You'll have to wait and see what will happen! Sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, I'm lazy, and I don't want to read it all again... yet. Well, REVIEW! See ya! ^^