The princess of the ice
Chapter 11: The task
By: Lily Maxwell a.k.a. Shinigami Lily
^^ I'M ALIVE! YEAH! THE BIGGEST DREAMER HAS CHANGED, BUT HASN'T DIED! *Ahem* Hey there! It's been a while, don't you think? Well, new fics and such, you understand, ne? *sees the reader with a knife or something sharp or threatening* *sweatdrop* Maybe not... Well, let's begin this, before I lose some body part... And yeah, I changed my pen-name, I suppose everyone already noticed that... ^^
Legend:
"" Talking
'' Thought
// Something \\ Telepathy
() My comments
Disclaimer: OH, COME ON!!!! YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS!
Claire&Davis: ...
Lily: Okay, okay, geez.... I do not own Digimon or anything related to it, since I'm a 13 year-old that likes animes that doesn't have any money on her pocket ^_^
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"Ferdinand-sensei!!!!! Hey, master!!!!!" yelled Claire, that hurried to the man. Hearing someone calling him, the young-looking elf looked towards the person that called. Seeing Claire, he smiled.
"Claire Jordan. It's been a while." He said, his voice calm, silent and gentle.
"Oh yeah, it sure is!" she exclaimed, and bowed slightly beside her master. "But isn't it great!? I'm free from the ice!"
"Yes, really surprising." He said calmly.
"You don't seem so surprised though." Pointed Ruki, and the elf looked at her.
"You can say that, there's nothing I don't know." He said smartly. "I also know why you are all here."
"Really?" asked Ken.
"Yes, and the answer is..."
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IN IT?! CLAIRE ANNE JORDAN?!" exclaimed an excited voice behind them, and they all turned. There stood a girl with dark-brown hair, that came past her shoulders. Her dark eyes were shining, and about her skin... Well, she was another elf.
"Lily Iris D-" Claire was about to say, but the young elf cut her out.
"No, Anny, not Daniels anymore. Lily Iris Maxwell." She said.
"Oh... Why?" Claire asked curious.
"You can say that is a long story... And well, you're finally free from your prison!" Lily said.
"Yes."
"And that means that this little boy here..." Lily was saying, standing in front of Davis. "Is who I think he is?"
"Err... Well... If you mean Daisuke's reincarnation, yeah!" Davis said. The elf smiled.
"Well, can I speak?" asked the master, grabbing everyone's attention. "And glad you're back, Iris."
"I told you to call me Lily, master, not Iris! And that has been for the past 600 years!"
"And that exactly why I call you Iris, Ms. Maxwell. And where is the thing I asked you to get for me?" he asked. The girl hurried to him (in the way, smiling to the little digimons), and handed him a bottle with brownish moisture.
"And what the heck is that?" asked Matt.
"Something that will help our young friend Anne." The master said.
"Claire, sensei. Just Claire, I already told you that." said Claire, a bit annoyed. Her master grinned.
"And that's exactly why I call you that."
"But wait a minute... Help... Does that means...?!" Mimi tried to say.
"Yes, I'll help my old student." The master said, and everybody jumped.
"Thanks so much, master Ferdinand-"
"Scott. That was my name before your father decided to give me a 'royal name'." The master said.
"And that's exactly why I call you that, master Ferdinand." Claire grinned, and her master chuckled.
"And you, Iris..." he was saying, and a spear appeared out of nowhere, which he hit on Lily's head.
"OUCH!? What was that for?!" Lily asked.
"For you being late. You were supposed to arrive before they did, yet you didn't." Scott told the female elf. She muttered something under her breath, and went off.
"Well, let's get in." He told everyone, and they did so.
"There's something that still bothers me..." said Davis, while they were on their way to the house. "Even being an elf, that girl said 600 years! Can elves live that long?"
"Elves are immortal mystical creatures, such as unicorns and centaurs, that nowadays are still very rare, cause of the human race.... That killed most of them." Said Ruki.
"And for Claire's master appearance, I can say that he has more than 2000 years. Yet, he's young." Completed Jenrya.
"Young!? 2000 years?!" exclaimed Matt.
"Well, Lily's 600. She's a teenager I can say." Said Jenrya.
"My master has like 25 years, and Lily like 16 or so." Said Claire.
"Really impressive." Said Davis, and Chibimon in his arms nodded.
"But there's something odd about Lily..." said Lidmon.
"I noticed that too?... She tries to act so damn happily, yet I can sense sorrow deep within her soul... Her eyes told me that." Claire said.
"You're good at that. For me, she's just another hyper freak." Said Davis.
They finally reached the house and entered. It looked like an old Japanese styled house, and was really beautiful. Master Scott conduced them to the living room.
"Lily will bring us some tea in no time... Till that, I'll explain you what we're gonna do to make Claire's powers come back." He said serious, and they all nodded.
"Just say... We're here just because of that." said Ken.
"Okay then... Claire, first, pay attention to what you'll have to do." He started, and Claire nodded. "You'll have to pass through the 'Phoenix Meditation'..."
"Oh say what?! NOT THE PHOENIX MEDITATION!!!" Claire exclaimed.
"Uh... What is this 'Phoenix Meditation'?" asked Davis.
"A kind of meditation where the person stays like s/he is sleeping, for a long period of time." Said Ruki.
"It's called that, 'cause it's especially for cases where the person or have such little magic power left, or none, like Claire has. The person starts the meditation and stays in sleeping form, and when the person wakes up, has almost fully recovered the magic power." Jenrya finished.
"Like a Phoenix... That comes back from the ashes... The person go meditate with no power, and waked with full power." Said Ken.
"Exactly... That can take up to 1 to 7 days... or months... or even..."
"YEARS! Yeah, master, exactly! But... I can't wait that long..." said Claire.
"But you'll be sleeping..." her master tried to say ironically.
"Yeah, but is annoying like hell..." said Lily that finally came with their tea. "'Cause, you see, when you're in this 'meditation' thing, you go to 'Dream Land', right? So, you can even have nightmares..."
"Or maybe wonderful dreams." Completed the master. "And in Claire's case (he smiled), I think she'll dream about a certain ex-royal-army-captain..."
Claire blushed, and looked away, while the others laughed...
"So, when do we start?" she asked.
"If you don't mind, right now. But I haven't finished saying, you know." The master said, and everyone's attention was back to him. "After going through the 'Phoenix Meditation', you'll have to use your magic, you know, to test it out, and see if everything is going just as it was supposed to."
"And what will Claire do to do that?" Mimi asked.
"Simple." He smiled, and Claire felt like it was an evil smile. "You'll turn your friends there (he looked at Chibimon and Lidmon) into humans."
"OH WHAT?! YOU'VE TO BE KIDDIN' ME!" Claire and Lily exclaimed.
"Master, well you know, we never got to do that, even 500 years ago! And Claire and I were the most powerful people in the world! Beside you, of course." Said Lily.
"Beside him?" asked Davis. "But I thought Claire had the most powerful magic in the globe."
"Yes. She was actually the most magically powerful person in the world... As a human. But me and Master Ferdinand (she grinned) are elves. And elfic magic is different from human magic." Lily said.
"But back to my task... Master, I really don't think I'll be able to-"
"If you think you won't be able to complete your task, then don't even try it. You must have hope and trust in yourself to do the things you have to. If you have not... Then you're a loser and a coward." Her master said.
Claire looked at her feet... Then at her friends. They smiled to her, encouraging her.
"We'll be here when you wake up, Claire. Just go and get your magic back, and be sure you'll be able to turn our little friends here into humans." Davis said. Claire then smiled and nodded, and then followed her master. They all did.
He conduced them to a white room, with a big bed.
"Hey... What a minute, what was that thing Lily gave you?" Ken asked Scott.
"That was dirty water. When Claire wakes up, she'll expel some of her magic unconsciously, and that'll clean the water. That's just to be sure that at least she got a part of her magic back." The Master Ferdinand-Scott said "Now, Anne, lay there, now."
"Claire, master, not Anne..." Claire muttered, while walking towards the bed.
"Anny..." Lily said, and Claire turned around. The elf hugged her, and by that she could see... Blood, pain, death... And sadness, sorrow... Deep sorrow. When they stopped hugging, Lily said "Good Luck"
Claire then laid on the bed, and her master came, and placed his hand on her forehead.
"Master... What happened to Lily? She's different... Before, she was a little quiet, funny though, but a little shy... Now she's so energetic... It's like she has adopted another personality... And she even changed her name from 'Daniels' to 'Maxwell'... Beside that, I can sense she's in deep sorrow and pain..." Claire asked in whispers.
// Something in her past... Made her change... 250 years ago. \\ her master answered with his powers.
'Something pretty bad must have happened... I wish I could know, since beside Allison, Lily was also my best friend...' Claire thought.
// Why don't you ask your future companion about that? \\ Her master suggested, probably hearing her thoughts... And with a confused look, Scott made his student fall in meditation...
Claire now was going to get her powers back... And she probably would need, cause the enemy was closer than she thought... And he was silent. It was like he was invisible... But 4 pair of eyes knew about him...
/*\--|TBC|--/*\
^^ Big, wasn't it? Please, review, and maybe the next chapter will be up soon... Hopefully... Well, and sorry the ones that thought that maybe there would be digibattles in this fic... But things do not always turn out the way we want... And I am too lazy to put digibattles in this fic ^_^U Sorry!!! WELL, REVIEW, PLEASE? THANKS! See ya! ^^