The princess of the ice
Chapter 12: Dreamland brings the past
By: Lily Maxwell a.k.a. Shinigami Lily
^^ Well, hello! Me like OCs, don't I?
Claire: Yeah, and talking funny too.
Lily: Claaaaaiiireeeeeeeeeeeee...
Duo: *nods*
Lily: O_O You too? Traitor!!!! I'll kill you, Maxwell!!
Duo: Oops... *sweatdrop*
Lily: Well... I hope I don't get flames cause of this chapter, cause it tells the story of my OC.... BUT it's for a good cause! She'll be essential in the battle against Ryo!
Duo: Hey, good excuse Lil-chan!
Davis: Yeah! Go Lily!
Lily: ¬¬ Bunch of traitors... We can't even find faithful assistants and boyfriends these days! Well, let's begin! ^^
Legend:
"" Talking
'' Thoughts
() My uselles comments
Disclaimer: Okay, OKAY! You think I own Digimon? But I don't! HAH! You fool! Thank God I don't own it! *grins*
Claire&Davis: *big sweatdrop*
Duo: Welcome to my world.
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"Claire...." a voice whispered in her ear, while Claire's eyes were still closed.
She slowly opened them, just to see a very familiar face. Yes, she somehow had seen it before going into The Phoenix Meditation, but now...
"D...Dai... suke?" she asked, before completely opening her eyes. When she did so, she saw herself sitting under the same tree, in the same place where she had met Daisuke McClaude. She saw, now kneeling in front of her, this exactly man, smiling.
"It's good to see you again, my love." Daisuke said, while Claire's eyes became watery, and she threw herself in his arms.
"D-Dai-kun! I-it's so good to see you again! I missed you so much!" she said, hugging him tightly. He himself wrapped his arms around her.
"Well Claire..." he said, laughing. "it's not like I wasn't with you. Have you forgotten about our friend Davis? He's still my reincarnation. I was with you."
"B-but.. He may be your reincarnation... but..." she whispered.
"But?"
"He's... not you, Dai-kun. The soul may be identical, but Davis is not as strong... as... heroic... as smart as you..." Claire said slowly, while Daisuke laughed.
"You don't like him, Claire?" he asked simply, and she let go of him.
"No! I mean, no, it's not like that! I do like Davis, I really do... But..." she trailed off.
"He doesn't love you?" Daisuke simply asked, and she looked into his eyes. Then looked down, and nodded. "Well, selfish, aren't we?"
"What?!" she exclaimed, looking at him again.
"Claire..." he began, hugging her again. "I'm dead. You saw me dying. And there's nothing we can do to undo that... Daisuke McClaude's body died. And he'll never come back. However... Part of my soul didn't die. And that part is within our friend Daisuke Motomiya. The other part, you may remember, is within the Crystal Blade. So, you see, Davis was supposed not to be like me. And.... he may never be."
Claire looked at the ground again, and tears began to fall down her cheeks. Daisuke made her look at him, and whipped them off.
"Am I wrong, Claire?" he asked.
"No.... you're not." She concluded.
"But our friend Davis sure has his goods!" Daisuke said, and Claire laughed, nodding.
"He's funny, and his brainless is... cute." Claire said.
"Hey! I'm getting jealous of my own reincarnation!" Daisuke said, and both laughed.
Then Claire remembered... about her friend Lily. How different she was acting, how different she looked... And the pain, sorrow, blood and death she could see reading her soul.
"Dai-kun..." Claire began.
"Yes?" he asked, while both got up, and started walking around.
"What... happened to Lily while I was sleeping'?" she asked, and Daisuke's face darkened.
"Lily Iris Daniels... fell in love with a guy named Duo Maxwell (ok! Ok! Wanna kill me for putting Duo in this story! You'll have to catch me first!!! *runs* Sorry!)." Daisuke said.
"Oh! But that's so great!" Claire exclaimed happily, but noticing Daisuke's face, she asked "However...?"
"However... he died about 250 years ago." Daisuke finished, and Claire was shocked.
"But... was he... human? How did he die?!" she asked.
"Maxwell was human. But... someone killed him." Daisuke said, and Claire stopped in her tracks.
So... that was the reason? Why Lily has adopted the last name "Maxwell" and why she acted differently? She fell in love... and the person was killed? Claire's tears once again started to fall down, but this time, they were not sad tears... They were angry tears. But one question was still bugging her in her mind... Only one question... That, somehow, she knew the answer wouldn't surprise her, indeed would shock her.
"By who?" she asked in a whisper.
"What...?" Daisuke asked, getting closer to her to listen. She looked up at him.
"Who killed Lily's love?!" she asked, the angry tears not stopping.
".... Ryo." he answered, and Claire closed her eyes, wishing what she heard was a lie.
"How?" she asked again.
"The first time that monster reincarnated." Daisuke said.
"So.... this is not the first time he has awakened!?" Claire asked, and Daisuke nodded.
He then clapped his hands, and the surroundings changed. Now, they were at the top of the mountain where her master lived. But... something was different from where they were at first. When they were in the entrance of the forest, the world around seemed frozen. Now, everything was... alive.
"We are in the past." Daisuke said, and Claire looked at him. "Here, I shall tell you better about your friend's story." Claire nodded.
The door of the house then opened, and from the inside Claire's master and Lily walked out.
"A new day, for we once again begin our practice." Scott said.
"Yeah... master Ferdinand." Lily said giggling, while her master just chuckled.
"You know because of that you'll have a really hard practice today, ne?" Scott said, and Lily gasped.
"Master!" she complained.
"Hyaa!!" someone called from the entrance of the beautiful field. It was a boy, about 15 years old, with long light-brown hair, and blue eyes. He waved his hand frenetically, while master and student, this last one very confused, just glared at him.
"Welcome, young human. What brings you here?" Master Scott said, and the boy hurried to him.
"My name's Duo Maxwell, sir! And I want to be your apprentice!" the boy said. "I've heard you're the best when the subject is magic, and I wanted to learn."
"He sure is hyper." Claire said, while Daisuke laughed.
"Well, I suppose you've heard that my training's are very hard also." Master Scott said.
"I say." Lily whispered, and the boy, for the first time, noticed her there.
"And who are you? Another apprentice?" he asked smiling. She nodded. "What's you name?" he asked, coming closer to her, smiling wide. She sweatdropped and blushed at him.
"M-my name's Lily Daniels." She said, and Duo shook her hand.
"Pleased to meet you! You must be Master Scott's #1 student! You were even here before the great Claire Jordan, right?" he asked, and the mention of her best friend's name made the elf's eyes widen and then look at the ground.
"You're right..." she whispered, ands the boy blinked.
"Oh! Sorry! I suppose..." he said, his face surprised, and then looked at the ground too, saddened. Lily saw this, and smiled weakly.
"It's okay." She said, and he was back to his old hyper self.
"Well, Mr. Maxwell..." master Scott was saying, and both looked at him. "If you're aware of this hard training, and indeed accepted coming here, then I shall accept you as my new student." The boy went happier then ever.
"Thank you! Thank you! When shall we begin?" he asked.
"Now. Oh" he continued, looking at Lily. "and don't mind if Lily's practice is harder than yours. She owes me that." Scott said, and Lily sweatdropped.
"I should keep my mouth shut." Lily whispered again.
"Oh? What have you said?" Duo asked in a whisper, as Master Scott entered his house. Lily blinked at the boy, then said:
"Never call him Ferdinand."
"Hmm.... I'll keep that in mind." The boy said, looking at the house.
"Don't." Lily said, and he laughed.
"Okaaay then!" and she laughed at the boy.
"They really got along easy. Lily likes funny people." Claire said smiling.
"Yeah. I say they really got along." Daisuke said, as the images began to move again, faster. "For 2 years, Lily and Duo trained every day, and each day they got closer. Of course, as you already know, they fell in love."
Claire looked at the images, smiling as while training, they laughed at each other's mistakes, while master Scott just shook his head. The images stopped running, when they seemed to be at the bottom of the mountain. Claire saw Lily and Duo walking out. It was night, and by looking at the clouds, it wouldn't take long to began raining.
"So, this way!" Duo said, while conducing Lily by the hand through the forest.
"Duo! You know master said it was going to rain! Let's go back and sleep. I'm sleepy..." Lily said.
"What 'bout the rain? You love it!" Duo pointed, and she blinked.
"Ok, so you have a point..." Lily said, but Duo didn't stop. "But I'm still sleepy!"
"C'mon Lil-chan... When I show you this, you'll love it!" he said, and kept going.
Claire and Daisuke followed the two, through the forest, and soon enough, as they all had expected, began to rain.
"Oh, Maxwell! I'm so gonna kill you! I'll get all wet!" Lily said, as they came to a stop.
"Shut up and look, Lily." He said, and walked forward.
There was a small lake in the middle of the forest. The full moon was clearly reflected on the water, even though the clouds the danced in the sky. It's light was so bright, it reflected on the raindrops as well as on the lake, and that made little lights dance around them. Claire, Davis, Lily and Duo watched fascinated the little lights.
"It's so... beautiful." Lily and Claire said at the same time, and Claire made her attention go back to the two.
"I know. Er... Lily?" Duo asked.
"Yeah?" she asked looking at him, the lights reflecting on her tan skin, making her eyes glow as she looked directly at the young human. He blushed.
"I-I... brought you here... 'cause... I..." Maxwell tried to say. Claire laughed.
"I think I know exactly what he wants to say." She said, giggling.
"And to think the dark future that would reach them..." Daisuke said, and Claire just nodded at his comment, still focused on the soon-to-be couple in front of her.
"C'mon Duo. You can tell me. Go on." Said Lily, coming closer to him, not knowing what he was going to say.
"I-I... I... wanted to tell you... that... I..." he tried miserably to say, and then looked at her eyes, that were telling him to continue, and he did. "IwantedtosaythatIhavefallenforyou!" he said in one breath, and the elf's eyes widened.
"W... what?" she asked in disbelief.
"It's no problem though! I know you don'1 feel the same wa-"
"I do." She said smiling.
"And that ain't gonna ruin our fri-... What did you say?" he asked, finally realizing she actually said something, and the look on his face made her laugh.
"I do love you too, Duo. (Oohhhhh, soo true!! Wish he could actually tell me this!! Duo: No way. My fan gals would kill me. Lily: Shut up, Duo. YOU'RE MINE! *evil laugh* Duo: *sweatdrop* Yeah, yeah... And I'm the God of Life. Lily: ¬¬U)" she said, and the boy smiled.
He leaned forward, and his lips touched hers, both falling in a deep kiss, the rain around softening the scene, as the moonlight made it even sweeter.
"Lily was really happy..." Claire whispered. "How did the dream turn into a nightmare?"
"That's something that I, not pleased, will show you now, Claire." Daisuke said, as the image of the two pure souls finally finding each other vanished from Claire's view.
They were now back to the flower field that was the place where the three magic users lived. Lily was about to do her training, this time along with Duo, and may I say, a very difficult one.
"I sure need a cheery blossom tree here. It'll soften the environment." Master Scoot told the two.
"Cool teacher." Lily said.
"Yeah, we think that too. Will make the vision prettier." Duo said, and both nodded.
"I agree. And I want you two to create one.... there." Scott said, motioning to a space beside his house. The two lovers, kinda spacing out, nodded. Then...
"WHAT?!" they both exclaimed.
"You heard me." Scott simply said, and walked off, ignoring the protests coming from his students.
The two, very angry and annoyed, walked to the place their master told them to do their task. During several hours, they sat there, hands placed in front of them, concentrating, trying to make the tree bloom.
"I hate him." Duo said in an annoyed tone.
"Me too. And he's been like that for... UGH! Since I damn know him!" Lily complained. Claire and Daisuke laughed.
"Was he really always like that?" he asked, and Claire nodded.
"He likes giving stupid but hard tests for us, knowing they'll make us annoyed and that it'll take probably the whole day. He says we give all of ourselves to be free of the annoying things." Claire said, just as, in front of them, a tree began to grow from the ground, and soon, was really big, several cherry blossoms falling down, dancing in the wind.
Lily giggled, while Duo started to run around, jumping.
"We did it! We did it!" he kept saying, while Lily hurried to sit under the new tree. Soon, he joined her, and they kept there, looking at the sky, grinning about their great work, in each other's arms.
"Duo... I've been... thinking..." the female elf began.
"You can do that?" the boy asked, and his answer was a death glare from his companion. He sweatdropped. "Ok, go on."
"I'm an elf. You are an human." She said, and he simply said "Duh." "I'm... an... immortal creature. So... in.... about 100 years... you'll be..."
"Dead?" he asked, and he felt her grip tightening. He passed his hand through her hair, while whispering. "I know that." the girl started to sob.
"But I don't want you dead! You're the only one I've ever loved! When you die, I'll want to die with you!" she said, then looked into his eyes. "I won't be able to live through centuries without you by my side." She placed her hand on his cheek, and then started crying loudly.
"Don't worry, Lily. Remember that story... about your friend, Claire? You told me she'll be free when her lover, Daisuke, reincarnates. Sooo... same goes for me!" he said, grinning, and she turned her gaze back to his blue orbs. "I think that I'll love you in each life that my soul stalks into this big world. And I'll, somehow, be able to find you again. And love you again. And be with you again. Ok?"
She blinked, whipped her tears away, and nodded.
"But I don't think I'll be able to hold away the pain every time I see you die..." she said, not more than in a whisper.
"You'll, yes. Cause you'll know... That I'll come back to you." He said, wrapping his arms around her waist, while his hand on her chin made her come closer to a passionate kiss.
"Ahem..." someone said from their side, and they broke the kiss, to see their master standing there.
"Yeeees... What is it?" Lily asked, still not forgetting the annoying task he gave them.
"I wanted Mr. Maxwell to go and bring something for me in the woods." He said, and Duo rolled his eyes.
"Okaaay, master. I'm going." He said, then gave Lily a little peek on her cheek, and walked off.
"You did that in purpose." Lily said, as the boy was gone.
"I know." Master Scott said.
"I hate you."
"I know that too." her master laughed.
They entered the house and began to work, soon it'd be time for dinner, and they needed something to eat! An hour passed, and yet the young Duo hasn't been back yet. Lily started to get worried, and then, all of a sudden, her master looked up.
"Lily..." he said. "Let's go down."
"Why-?" she started.
"NOW!" he ordered, and hurried out of the house, Lily surprised, followed him.
"It's not...?" Claire began, and Daisuke looked away. They followed the two too.
When they reached the exit to the bottom of the mountain, they were just in time to see a figure throwing Duo several inches in air, making him fly and hit his back, the magic ball attacked him on the stomach.
"Duo!!" Lily exclaimed, hurrying to his side, while master Scott stayed in front of the guy.
"Ryo..." he whispered, and Lily looked up at him, shocked.
"Scott. I need you to come with me. Now!" the man, now known as Ryo's reincarnation, ordered to Scott.
"Why? Isn't you magic as strong as before, that you can't free Claire? Or... can't you do it because the magic's way too strong, even for its caster?" Scott smartly asked.
"SHUT UP! Just come. With. Me." he said, demanding the master to come with him with his tone of voice. "I know your magic is strong enough to break that fucking ice (oops... Sorry the language). So come with me! NOW!"
"I'm not going with you. And you shall perish... again." Scott said, as he aiming his hand in his direction, and Ryo's pupil was gone, the useless body falling down hard to the ground.
"Lily..." Duo tried to say, while the two in front of them battled. Blood came from his mouth, from his right arm, broken, and from several other parts of his body, filling his black clothes and the place around him with the liquid.
"Shh... Don't speak, Duo. I'll heal you." Lily said, while the tears kept coming from her eyes, falling one by one down her cheek to the ground.
"I... love you. Remember... always... what I told you." He said, and with one last smile, closed his eyes, leaving the elf in front of him wide-eyed and speechless.
After destroying the monster called Ryo once again, her master walked towards her, kneeled beside her, and was taken off guard when the female elf threw herself in his arms, crying loudly, the body of her lover dead, in front of the two.
Claire, who watched everything with wide eyes, was now crying along with the image of her great friend, and Daisuke wrapped one arm around her shoulders. The princess tried to regain control, and then finally spoke.
"So... he couldn't brake the ice?" she asked, and Daisuke shook his head.
"Only the Crystal Blade, the one now in Davis' possession, was capable of braking the ice. Ryo came looking for your master, because he knew that his elfic powers were stronger than any magic in the world. But..." he closed his eyes. "He did more damage than anyone could think."
"Lily got into depression, and, after years without sensing that Duo's soul hadn't reincarnated, adopted his personality and name, so she could be forever with him." Claire said, now under control, closing her fists with such a force, that blood began to fall from it.
"Claire... stop... Now listen to me." Daisuke said, making her face him. "You know that that monster is back. Your duty, as well as Daisuke's, is to stop him... Forever. Breaking his soul into pieces. Try to protect your friend Lily, and also stop her from killing him. If she does so... Ryo, now knowing that you're free, won't die. His soul will keep coming to you, till he gets want he wants, possessing your friends... And hurting them. So, do what you have to do, ok?"
Claire nodded, and looked at him, a determinate look on her face.
"Ryo will be punished for everything he has done to me, to you, and to Lily. And everyone he may have hurt along his pitiful and disgusting existence. When I wake up... The revenge shall begin." Claire said.
"Not revenge, Claire... Justice."
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^^ Ooohhhhhhhh... I'm so sappy! ^^ This is far one of my fav chps ever!
Duo: You know it kinda sucked, cause it was your OC's story, ne?
Lily: *sweatdrop* Yeah, yeah... I know... But HEY! ^^ Now we know more 'bout Ryo's hated life! And I also know I can be reaaaaaally sappy when I want to... So! Come DavisxClaire sappy moments! ^^ Well, anyway... Hated? Liked? Thought I should burn into the deepest of freakin hell? With flaaaaaames? Well, THEN REVIEW!!! Ok? The next chapter... shall come SOON! IT'S A PROMISE! ^-^ Ok? See ya later!! ^^