Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, nope, STILL don't. Heh, but I do own this cat who's haunting my keyboard. oO Uhm…yah…Anywho, without further ado, onto the story!
"So, we're heading towards this evil guy?" Takuya asked Tomoki unseasily. Tomoki nodded his head yes and smiled.
"Would you like to help us?" Tomoki asked. Takuya tilted his head and was quiet. I smirked a little, I've been watching the boy for awhile, although I'm not entirely sure as to why.
"Well, I'll help you figure out how to use your abilities, but anything beyond that I'd prefer to not fight." Takuya answered finally. Tomoki frowned but nodded his head in understandment.
"Alright." Tomoki replied. The two have been talking for the past three hours we were walking. At night. Surprisingly enough no one was tired just yet, which was good because we had to get as far from that place as we could, just in case Jack felt the need to try and get his old slave back. I cringed, I just didn't like to think of Takuya as one, and I can't figure out why.
"Kouji, when are we going to stop?" I turned to see Izumi just asked that, and shrugged.
"Whenever we see a forest that can keep us hidden." I sighed in answer. Takuya perked up and walked over to me again.
"There's a forest that way about four miles away." He said and pointed north east ahead of us. I nodded and watch him go over to Tomoki to continue their chat.
"Okay, guess we'll go there then." I said, and Junpei let out a happy sigh of relief. 'Guess we're all getting a little tired now.' I thought.
The forest, needless to say, wasn't what I expected. I was expecting your average, everyday woodland. No, this was a REAL forest. It had trees everywhere, and chirps from the birds in the trees canopy. The ground had all sorts of things, from pine needles and leaves, to twigs, to flowers, and grass. It was actually quite nice, and I felt at peace here. "So, this is the forest?" I questioned aloud.
"Yes, it is." Takuya replied and looked around. "Now where'd he go?" He murmured, and I looked at Tomoki. The boy shrugged and I sighed. Who was this 'he'? "Oi, Sight!" Takuya called out and then I saw blur of gray run over and tackle Takuya. It was a wolf. A gray wolf. This was who Takuya was looking for, ah okay.
"Who's that?" Izumi asked as she walked over and scratched the wolf behind it's left ear. The wolf got off Takuya and let his tongue hang out in pleasure at the feel of nails scratching his itchiest spot.
"Sight." Takuya explained. The wolf barked and nuzzled Izumi's hand, making her giggle.
"Awe, he's so sweet!" She cooed and began petting Sight who was overly-enjoying the pettin's.
"Of coarse, what else do you expect?" Takuya asked and happily watched the two get along so well. Izumi shrugged and continued to spoil Sight with pettin's, kisses, and cooing noises. Sight had his eyes half-lidded and looked to be in some sort of haven, you could tell by it's tongue hanging out of the side of it's mouth.
"Are we going to stand here or keep going?" I asked, not really sure of what kind of answer I was expecting.
"Keep going." Izumi sighed and stood up, Sight immediately looked up at her and tilted his head at her as if to ask, 'Why'd you stop?'
"Alright then." I said and we began walking again towards wherever we first find to rest. Sight walked loyally by Izumi's side, Tomoki and Takuya were talking again, while and me and Junpei walked in front of the rest keeping an eye out for a place to rest.
"So, what are we going to do?" Junpei asked.
"Hm?" I said, turning my head to look up at him. He sighed and looked down at me.
"What are we going to do? Takuya's only going to help us with our abilities, not fight. When we get to that evil guy, what are we going to do about him and Sight back there?" Junpei asked, jutting his thumb behind his back to signal the two mentioned ones.
"…I'm not really sure, I guess we'll have to wait and see." I sighed, Junpei nodded his head to show he knew that there was no answer, and we kept on walking. 'Odd, why is it still nighttime? Dawn should be coming right about now.' I thought uneasily. This wasn't good if daylight wasn't coming. I wasn't the only unsure one, everyone but Sight looked troubled by this. Definitely not good.
"Kouji? Do you know why there's no daylight yet? Not even some minor sun rays yet?" Tomoki asked, fear in his voice, honestly I couldn't blame him.
"No, Takuya?" I began, and he looked up me at the mention of his name.
"Yes sir?" Takuya asked, waiting.
"Uhm, don't call me sir…But, can you talk to Sight there?" I questioned, not sure if I was right about him and the whole animal telepathy thing.
"Alright…Yah, why do you ask?" Takuya replied, tilting his head at me. He looks so cute like that… 'GAH!!!' My mind screamed again and I mentally hit my mind for that thought. Bad mind! Oh, great, I'm telling myself bad mind now, okay I'm losing it.
"Because he's the only one who's acting as if this is normal." I replied, a small growl in my voice. Takuya looked bewildered as to why I spoke like that, but did as he was requested. A few moments later it was still dark, and no answer from Takuya, who hung his head in silent defeat.
"He won't let me." Takuya sighed.
"Oh come on, if you can do the same thing as me, except with animals not people, then he doesn't have to let you." Izumi said smiling.
"I haven't been around enough animals to really know how to read their minds well." Takuya answered her; Izumi fell anime-style.
"Gah…" She scowled and got up and began marching ahead of us, Sight on her heels. We all ran to catch up with her.
"Well, this is what we get." Junpei sighed. After getting Izumi to slow down, we found ourselves at a place we could rest. There was enough room between the trees for us to have enough to spread out when we sleep.
"Fine by me and Sight, isn't that right Sight?" Izumi cooed, rubbing his nose with Sight's. I my eye twitched at this scene set before me.
"I'll go look for firewood!" Tomoki called and started to walk no more than five steps, before the ground rose higher in front of him. "AIYEE!!!" He screamed and ran back away from it. "What iss that?!" He yelped. I growled and waited for the cause of this to come.
"Attack!" A voice yelled and low and behold, we were ambushed by that fuckin' evil guys henchmen. One came behind me and I made my light sword come out and sliced him. Aww, great, blood stains. Do you have any idea how HARD they are to get out?
"What's going on?" Izumi yelled before sending a gust of wind, knocking three henchmen to their death by one very sharp tree branch. Ouch.
"No idea." Junpei hissed and shocked a couple of men to a crisp. That had to hurt.
"Do we ever catch a break?" Tomoki sighed and froze several men solid. What one very slow and painful death they just got…
"So who made the land go up?" I asked before beheading five guys trying to jump me at the same time. No, I think not.
"I did!" The voice called, and one very weird looking monster appeared. "Take this!" He growled, and sharp jagged rocks began appearing and heading towards my direction, I ran and jumped up a tree, now out of harms way. Or, so I thought, the rocks below just kept growing, and here I am climbing my way to the top. Finally they stopped, then returned to their natural place under the earth.
"Come back on down here!" Takuya's voice called. Not sure, I came down slowly, and landed by taking down two more men. Damn, where are all they coming from? Huh? Oh, hell no… The henchmen I sliced in half came back together and smirked. Uhm…oh…shit…
"You 'tink you can defeat me? Hah!" That monster-like thing laughed. "No one can defeat Legendary Warrior of Ground! No one! Not even you pathetic Warriors!" He cackled again. Oh, goodie. We're facing another Warrior, although you don't suppose he's nice like Takuya, do you? Because right now I'd like some unrealistic reassurence please.
"Why can't our enemies send us NORMAL henchmen for once?" Izumi whined and with a very large gust of wind, sent many more henchmen into dangerous branches.
"Time to go bye bye Light boy!" The monster-thing cackled and threw a very sharp looking rock at me a little too quick and I noticed a little too late. A burst of flames came and engulfed the rock, and went out quickly without setting anything on fire, and stopping the object. I turned to see Takuya kick a guy before it could get too close.
"Thanks, but I thought you said you don't fight." I said and sliced several henchmen.
"I said I'd prefer not too, but I'd also prefer more to see us all get out of this alive." Takuya replied and flipped out of the way of another henchmen. "So I block." I chuckled at him and watched Tomoki freeze the monster-thing, just long enough Junpei to shock it to death. The thing dissappeared and an odd light flashed to signal it was dead. For sure.
"Well, what are we going to do about these guys?" I mumbled. Junpei smirked.
"I summon a…demon! But what kind?" He murmured.
"Whichever one will listen to you." I growled back and blocked one attack, only to get hit by another. Izumi was now resorting to keeping an air barrier around her to prevent getting hit, smart girl. Tomoki was deep freezing the area around him, but I could tell he could only do it for so long. Takuya wasn't doing so well, and I felt like slapping myself. He was fighting me earlier, so of course he was worn out more than the rest of us, and not to mention I don't use much of my energy to use my sword, as swords bring more destruction than peace, which is why it's the non-prefered choice, but I use it still because it's more effective, and uses nearly no energy.
"Alright, come to my aid: Lightning Demon!" Junpei called and opened a portal to a land filled with electrical currents. A demon that looked like the clouds, sky, and had wings made of lightning came out and hissed. It glared at the henchmen, looked at Junpei; and chased him. There went plan A…
"Gah!" Tomoki said, his teeth clenched tightly, his deep freeze leaving and so now he was running from the enemy. Ack! Damn henchmen just punched me, aww crap. Block, hit, block, got hit, got hit, block, block, block, got hit, hit, block, block, hit, got hit, and this continued. Izumi was now on the defence instead of offense, Junpei still trying to escape the demon he summoned, Tomoki running with Junpei because the demon didn't like him either, but where was Takuya? I looked around and noticed him getting knocked around between some henchmen easily. For some reason this really pissed me off, and I ran over and my sword cut through one henchmen, zapped him and he was gone like darkness is in the light. Uhm…okay…This worked for the rest and I went over to Takuya who was lying on the ground.
"Hey, you okay?" I asked him. He groaned and tried to get up.
"Guess." He murmured and fell back down.
"Stay here, I'll be back." I ordered, only because I didn't want him to hurt himself than he already was, I'm not sure why though. Takuya nodded his head and I went off to help the others.
"Well, that was sure fun." Junpei said sarcasticly. I destroyed all the henchmen, still not sure how, and we managed to send the demon back to where it belongs, and Takuya was doing better.
"Oh yah, I hope we get into another fight like that." I answered, sarcasm dripping heavily from each word. Junpei chuckled.
"Know how you did that yet?" Junpei questioned. I shrugged, not really sure myself.
"I have no clue whatsoever." Was his response from me.
"Well, I'm just glad we're all okay." Izumi said, wrapping a bandage on Takuya's wrist. Sight was next to her, chicken wolf, ran off at the first sign of trouble. They all continued chatting except Takuya who was looking at me with a tilt of his head.
"What?" I asked, a bit harshly.
"You're bleeding." Takuya answered. I looked at him as if he were crazy. He sighed and reached over and touched my left temple, and moved his hand away to show some blood on his fingers that wasn't there before.
"Oh." Was all I said.
"Want me to fix that up for you?" Takuya asked, tilting his head.
"Sure, Izumi's busy." I replied, and moved over and he got up and sat next to me. Grabbing a wet cloth, he started cleaning it. "How long have you noticed it was bleeding?" I asked.
"I looked over to say thank you for helping me out there, and by the way thanks, before I got to noticed you were. So, about twenty seconds." Takuya said.
"That's not very long." I said, wanting to put some input in. Takuya smiled, he had a nice smile… 'GAH!!!' Yet again my mind screamed at thinking that. I don't care if means I'm going insane, BAD KOUJI!!!
"No, no it's not." Takuya answered with a gentle smile. He placed a bandage on my wound and looked it over before nodding. "There you go." He said smiling, nodding at his handiwork.
"Thanks." I muttered and looked at the fire we built. Takuya frowned and shook his head.
"You don't need to tell me thanks." He said softly and started to get up but I grabbed his arm. "Hai?"
"I do, you just helped me out." I said sternly. He kept put where he was sitting and looked at me as if deciding on something.
"No, I'm suppose to." Takuya told me shaking his head. I sighed and got up, motioning for him to follow, he did this automatically.
"Come here, we need to talk." I sighed and led us to a dark part of the forest, far but not too far from the others. Takuya looked at me with confusion with those sweet eyes of his. 'GAHHHHHH!' My mind yelped again. "Takuya, if you can say 'thank you' to me, then I can say thanks to you too. Got that?" I said. He nodded his head 'yes'.
"Yeah…" Takuya murmured.
"So, how about those tips you offered to give me back at that bar?" I asked smirking. Takuya smiled brightly and nodded his head, still eager as ever to please. I still don't understand why.
"Sure." He said and came over and took both my hands and looked over them. He said nothing, but looked at them carefully. "You can use more than just your hands." He said after awhile. I looked quizzically at him.
"Huh?" Oh, that sounded intelligent. Gah… Yah, go and keep chuckling Takuya, nope, doesn't make me feel anymore embarrassed than I already am. Do you hear the sarcasm?
"You can use more than just your hands to use your abilities." Takuya answered smiling.
"Like…?" I trailed, hoping he'd give me some sort of help here. He chuckled again and let my hands go, weird, I think I liked it when he held my hands…GAH!!!
"I'm not sure…" Takuya said sheepishly. "I'd have to see." He added. I sighed and signaled he could try and find out. Hestitantly, he reached a hand out and touched my cheek as he leaned in to take a closer look at my eyes. His hand felt warm, just a little…NO! No, I didn't just think that. Okay…Phew…Ah…oh crap…At least I didn't finish the sentence… "Not your eyes." He said and moved away and removed his hand from my cheek. Oh poo. GAH!!! Bad Kouji, when he's done mental slaps for you! And a few physical ones too! Takuya frowned before shrugging. "Don't know what else you can use for your abilities other than your hands or eyes." He sighed.
"No problem, at least we know there's another way." I stated. An uneasy silence followed before I spoke up. "About those hints…" I began and he chuckled.
"No problem." Takuya said smiling. "Take out your light saber thingy." He said and I couldn't help but laugh light-heartedly at his attempt as to what to call my sword.
"Okay." I said, and did just that. Takuya looked it over, and touched it lightly.
"…" Saying nothing he moved his index finger up along the sword to the top. "Hmm…" He backed away and tilted his head at it. "Say the first thing that comes to mind when you try to focus energy in that." He requested. Doing as I was told, I felt a lot of pain in my wrist.
"Shit!" I yelped and a bright light shot right out of my light sword, and Takuya luckily jumped out of the way before it hit him.
"Well, that was nice to know." Takuya said grinning as he got up and dusted himself off. I stared at where I released that energy. Unbelievable, and strange.
After awhile we got back to camp, everyone else was already asleep. Takuya picked a spot and fell asleep too. I just leaned against a tree and watched the moon As soon as I saw the others were completely asleep, I began the mental slaps I was going to give myself for nearly thinking what I almost did. Then onto the physical ones, and they stung like a bitch. Oww.... What the…? 'Kouichi…'
A/N: My mom wanted me to get off and start on my room, so I had to finish that chapter quickly, yah know? If you saw the so called 'Teaser' you should recognize this. ^_^ If not then, well you saw it anyways. Heh, the next chapter will the the one before everything slows down to updates once a week (If lucky. -_-;;) Gah…Oh, thank you for taking the time to review! Your so nice! Have a wonderful day/night! ^_~
