A/N: Thanx again for the reviews... OOoooOOOoooOO more Takumi!...I'm
getting addicted to writing their moments...but don't worry the plot will
stay ever prominent in my writing... I promise I'll keep the Takumi moments
as precious as the storyline! ^_^ R&R!! please!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, Digimon Characters or any other related subjects that are directly copyrighted towards Toei Animation.
Note to Concrete Angel/or AlannaBanana (^_^; i dunno wat to call you, sorry): THANKS SOO MUCH!! Thanx for your wonderful review! It's reviewers like you that really get me inspired to write! ^_^ I'm so genki (cheery, happy) when I read your (and others) reviews!! I don't know if I'm the best out here....cuz I'm not...but you people sure make me feel that way!!! ^_^.... *clears throat*....ok it's getting too mushy....Ahem, Anyways...thank you I'll take your compliments as constructive critism from now on. -__- ; Who am I kidding? AHHH!!! THANX!!!! LOL!
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The Pure of Heart: Netherworld Journey {I}
Ode to Erica..."I like it, is all!"..."You can take that TWO WAYS!"
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Spirit-Samurai Evolution -Chapter 5-
"You--You kissed me." said Takuya, looking a bit disbelieving.
Izumi nodded, suppressing a faint giggle. It seemed he had not taken in the incident as clearly as she had. Takuya knew his face had turned quite scarlet from this, it surely felt this way.
"And you didn't even call me crazy for doing so either." Izumi said looking relieved.
"I--er--uh--I--" Takuya spluttered nervously.
"I little confused, yes. But no, not completely revolted by a 'mature' girl- -who is supposedly crazy--kissing you." Izumi smirked at Takuya's blanched expression; she had awakened something quite vague in his memory.
Takuya's mind, instantly responding to her remark, had traced back to their early days in the Digital World. They had been spared their lives from falling into a deep hole, once before. Takuya hazily remembered how it happened but he clearly remembered the results of being too close to her.
Leaving off from where they fell, Takuya recalled...
Izumi was clinging off of him and rambling on about how thankful she was for her dear life being saved. It had been an awkward moment afterwards and Takuya had ended up being thrown to the ground with a number of bruised areas on his face. They had exchanged a few snide remarks; Takuya calling her an insignificant girl who was crazy, and Izumi releasing a slew of comebacks to his immaturity as a little boy. From this memory alone Takuya stayed timidly silent.
Izumi continued to smile as she shook her head. "For someone whose awfully hot-headed and quick to come up with a good number of insanity claims on me...you seem to have gotten easily caught off guard by this happening."
"You're...You're not crazy." Takuya meekly smiled at her.
"I'm glad." said Izumi, she beamed.
Takuya let his gaze fall to the ground, then slowly ascend to her's once more. Izumi felt her stomach fluttering relentlessly.
"How...disgustingly...touching..." a hissing boom of a voice surrounded them.
"K-Kukuthmon!" Izumi gasped and swiftly took hold of Takuya hand. "We have to run!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" replied Takuya, his heart gave a frightful jolt as a set of bulging, snake-like eyes appeared in the dark in front of them.
They were too late, Kukuthmon had clamped her large, scaly claws around their waists. They struggled and fought to slip out of her grasp but it was useless, Kukuthmon's grip only sunk deeper. Izumi whimpered. Kukuthmon leered at both of her captures.
"So you thought I wouldn't find you, did you?" Kukuthmon hissed viciously, intently glaring her daunting eyes at them.
Izumi made another painful noise. Kukuthmon's advanced menacingly towards her. Izumi winced and quickly shifted her direction of sight elsewhere. Kukuthmon heaved an unpleasant cackle, Izumi shuddered to the feel of a sudden chill rise from her spine.
"STOP IT!" Takuya roared indignantly at Kukuthmon. "What do you want from us?"
"I seek nothing from you petty humans." Kukuthmon jerked her head towards Takuya.
"This one," Kukuthmon hissed and directed her attention to Izumi again. "was supposed to open the Chamber to the Mahonmon...but did not....so now the whole purpose of your living is quite a dispensable one. You are merely an interference that I have been sent to...shall I say...receive 'extra' data from..."
Kukuthmon's mouth had slowly twisted into a wide, malicious smile. "Hisamemon will be needing all the data she can get, you know....and Lord Lucemon will be quite pleased with all the data we have collected for him, as well."
"NO!" Takuya shouted, a searing flush of blood had begun rising to his head.
"And when I'm done with you two... your little Mahonmon friends will be next." Kukuthmon sneered and continued to speak as though she had never heard Takuya's objection. "I need not of a trivial password to open the Chamber door...I will open it by force!"
"No. Not the Mahonmon, please!" Izumi gasped, her eyes wide and looking glazed over.
"You have no say in the matter, nor do you have any say with you own lives!" Kukuthmon's head shook with more derisive laughter, the eel's that protruded from her head writhed in amusement as well.
Takuya and Izumi exchanged fearful glances. Izumi quickly mouthed a silent question: 'What do we do?' Takuya just stared back at her, his mind had come across blank ideas.
"Time has run out, children." Kukuthmon's claws began to crush deeper into their bodies.
Izumi let out an agonizing cry.
"Izumi!" Takuya wriggled is hand out of Kukuthmon's gripping claw to reach her.
Then, as if reacting to all the pain and torment Takuya felt, the Agate Amulet he wore began humming a high-pitched screech. Kukuthmon staggered to the side, dropping both Takuya and Izumi to the ground, her claws scrambling to cover her hearing.
"AAAARRRRRGGHHHH! WHAT THE DEVIL--?" cried Kukuthmon, helplessly sprawled to the darkened ground.
Takuya stood sorely up, the Amulet still humming even more loudly and yet it did not effect neither Takuya nor Izumi. There came a transcendent flush of energy to both of their bodies--a strong surge of power. They stood adjacent to one another for what seemed like an eternity until the backdrop of the cavern disappeared to reveal a completely white surrounding. Takuya's Amulet shot up and hovered between him and Izumi. The Amulet had then shattered into two separate stones, each deeply coloured in a raven- black and each floated to either Takuya or Izumi. A gathering Digicode inside the stones encircled both of them and soon their eyes met and nodded in sudden understanding.
"Spirit-Samurai Evolution!" they cried in unison.
"Nuskumon!" cried Takuya.
"Yonhamon!" shouted Izumi.
Glimmering in the darkness and standing defiantly over Kukuthmon were two well-armoured Samurai knights. They were, of course, both Takuya and Izumi. Takuya's form was of a knight clad in blazingly scarlet armour, his left hand held a shield bearing the emblem of an engraved dragon and to his right hand was a fiery blade. Izumi stood--as well as a knight--beside him, her armour stunningly white, her shield emblazoned with an illustrious storm-bird and her right hand gripped a long, curved sword. Kukuthmon gaped at the two in front of her, her face contorted in fear.
"D-Di-Cangmon's W-Warriors?...Nuskumon and Yonhamon?" Kukuthmon stammered, she still lay trembling to the ground. "B-But it isn't possible...That must mean...that you are the Promised Ones... Legendary Warriors--here--in Naraka?"
"That's right and either you surrender or we'll have to take you down- -forcefully and if possible painfully." Nuskumon said under gritted teeth.
"You must promise to never threaten or ever hurt the Mahonmon!" Yonhamon glared dangerously at Kukuthmon.
Kukuthmon suddenly narrowed her eyes. "Mistress Hisamemon--has sent me--to stop your interference and--as I stand unwounded--I shall fight you-- in my Mistress' honour!"
She swiftly got back to her feet in a readied stance. "Medusa's Strike!" Kukuthmon's eels had jerked upright and launched two massive orbs of green gunk at Nuskumon and Yonhamon. Yonhamon leaped into the air, her arm outstretched and deflected the attack with her sword. The poisonous ooze had been redirected to hit Kukuthmon's eyes. She shrieked in pain and staggered back to the ground.
"You--You--" Kukuthmon fiercely wiped her eyes and squinted angrily at Yonhamon. "Medusa's Strike!"
It was Nuskumon's turn to deflect the attack; his shield being the weapon of protection.
"AAAARRGHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Kukuthmon shrilly yelled, she had been struck in the arm this time.
Kukuthmon was persistent however, she lifted herself once more. Twenty of her gangly, spider-like legs eerily clicked as she circled both Nuskumon and Yonhamon. She made a swift move to Nuskumon, her arms wrapped around his neck in a headlock.
"Hisamemon, will not tolerate your meddling plans!" she hissed into his ear.
Nuskumon clenched his teeth and took hold of Kukuthmon's arms, thrusting her over his head and onto the ground. At this point, Kukuthmon panted in exhaustion and swayed her head as she lay sprawled to the ground. She lifted herself up yet again, this time lunging towards Yonhamon. Yonhamon used her shield to avert Kukuthmon's fists swinging incessantly towards her.
"That's enough!" Nuskumon roared. "Zhu-Ron Blaze!"
Nuskumon's fiery sword had released a smoldering flame--resembling a three-headed dragon--to Kukuthmon's back. Her body began to fade into a darkened black, the Digicode revolving around her shadowed form. Soon the only visible sign of her was a set of blood red eyes, still squinting at Nuskumon and Yonhamon. A last angst-ridden cry could be heard from Kukuthmon's fading silhouette, "You have yet to see the evil in Naraka....you two are doomed...Nagamon will avenge me!"
She had vanished and the two samurai knights had restored back to Takuya and Izumi.
"Nagamon?" Izumi panted, exasperated.
"I remember...Galen told us....Nagamon...he's another follower of Hisamemon. He's was a servant just as Kukuthmon was." Takuya reflectively spoke.
"Speaking of Galen...I hear him calling us." Izumi held the black stone in her hand.
"Yeah...that's right...But--But how do you hear him, too? I thought I was the only one who could communicate like that with him." Takuya gaped at her.
"I don't know." Izumi replied. "He's going to explain to us, come on."
Izumi ran towards the path leading to Di-Cangmon's Chamber as Takuya followed her from behind.
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A/N: Hmmmm........the plot thickens........I hope you liked this chapter! MORE TO COME!!!!! ^_^ Please R&R! TAKUMI ROX!!!!!!!!
Note to Erica: Rocheleau Park!!!!
Note to Anime Master ZERO: Hello again ^_^! Ummm...about the fractal code thing...is that the Japanese term....sorry again...I fixed it!!! ^_^ hope it's up to everyone's liking!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, Digimon Characters or any other related subjects that are directly copyrighted towards Toei Animation.
Note to Concrete Angel/or AlannaBanana (^_^; i dunno wat to call you, sorry): THANKS SOO MUCH!! Thanx for your wonderful review! It's reviewers like you that really get me inspired to write! ^_^ I'm so genki (cheery, happy) when I read your (and others) reviews!! I don't know if I'm the best out here....cuz I'm not...but you people sure make me feel that way!!! ^_^.... *clears throat*....ok it's getting too mushy....Ahem, Anyways...thank you I'll take your compliments as constructive critism from now on. -__- ; Who am I kidding? AHHH!!! THANX!!!! LOL!
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The Pure of Heart: Netherworld Journey {I}
Ode to Erica..."I like it, is all!"..."You can take that TWO WAYS!"
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Spirit-Samurai Evolution -Chapter 5-
"You--You kissed me." said Takuya, looking a bit disbelieving.
Izumi nodded, suppressing a faint giggle. It seemed he had not taken in the incident as clearly as she had. Takuya knew his face had turned quite scarlet from this, it surely felt this way.
"And you didn't even call me crazy for doing so either." Izumi said looking relieved.
"I--er--uh--I--" Takuya spluttered nervously.
"I little confused, yes. But no, not completely revolted by a 'mature' girl- -who is supposedly crazy--kissing you." Izumi smirked at Takuya's blanched expression; she had awakened something quite vague in his memory.
Takuya's mind, instantly responding to her remark, had traced back to their early days in the Digital World. They had been spared their lives from falling into a deep hole, once before. Takuya hazily remembered how it happened but he clearly remembered the results of being too close to her.
Leaving off from where they fell, Takuya recalled...
Izumi was clinging off of him and rambling on about how thankful she was for her dear life being saved. It had been an awkward moment afterwards and Takuya had ended up being thrown to the ground with a number of bruised areas on his face. They had exchanged a few snide remarks; Takuya calling her an insignificant girl who was crazy, and Izumi releasing a slew of comebacks to his immaturity as a little boy. From this memory alone Takuya stayed timidly silent.
Izumi continued to smile as she shook her head. "For someone whose awfully hot-headed and quick to come up with a good number of insanity claims on me...you seem to have gotten easily caught off guard by this happening."
"You're...You're not crazy." Takuya meekly smiled at her.
"I'm glad." said Izumi, she beamed.
Takuya let his gaze fall to the ground, then slowly ascend to her's once more. Izumi felt her stomach fluttering relentlessly.
"How...disgustingly...touching..." a hissing boom of a voice surrounded them.
"K-Kukuthmon!" Izumi gasped and swiftly took hold of Takuya hand. "We have to run!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" replied Takuya, his heart gave a frightful jolt as a set of bulging, snake-like eyes appeared in the dark in front of them.
They were too late, Kukuthmon had clamped her large, scaly claws around their waists. They struggled and fought to slip out of her grasp but it was useless, Kukuthmon's grip only sunk deeper. Izumi whimpered. Kukuthmon leered at both of her captures.
"So you thought I wouldn't find you, did you?" Kukuthmon hissed viciously, intently glaring her daunting eyes at them.
Izumi made another painful noise. Kukuthmon's advanced menacingly towards her. Izumi winced and quickly shifted her direction of sight elsewhere. Kukuthmon heaved an unpleasant cackle, Izumi shuddered to the feel of a sudden chill rise from her spine.
"STOP IT!" Takuya roared indignantly at Kukuthmon. "What do you want from us?"
"I seek nothing from you petty humans." Kukuthmon jerked her head towards Takuya.
"This one," Kukuthmon hissed and directed her attention to Izumi again. "was supposed to open the Chamber to the Mahonmon...but did not....so now the whole purpose of your living is quite a dispensable one. You are merely an interference that I have been sent to...shall I say...receive 'extra' data from..."
Kukuthmon's mouth had slowly twisted into a wide, malicious smile. "Hisamemon will be needing all the data she can get, you know....and Lord Lucemon will be quite pleased with all the data we have collected for him, as well."
"NO!" Takuya shouted, a searing flush of blood had begun rising to his head.
"And when I'm done with you two... your little Mahonmon friends will be next." Kukuthmon sneered and continued to speak as though she had never heard Takuya's objection. "I need not of a trivial password to open the Chamber door...I will open it by force!"
"No. Not the Mahonmon, please!" Izumi gasped, her eyes wide and looking glazed over.
"You have no say in the matter, nor do you have any say with you own lives!" Kukuthmon's head shook with more derisive laughter, the eel's that protruded from her head writhed in amusement as well.
Takuya and Izumi exchanged fearful glances. Izumi quickly mouthed a silent question: 'What do we do?' Takuya just stared back at her, his mind had come across blank ideas.
"Time has run out, children." Kukuthmon's claws began to crush deeper into their bodies.
Izumi let out an agonizing cry.
"Izumi!" Takuya wriggled is hand out of Kukuthmon's gripping claw to reach her.
Then, as if reacting to all the pain and torment Takuya felt, the Agate Amulet he wore began humming a high-pitched screech. Kukuthmon staggered to the side, dropping both Takuya and Izumi to the ground, her claws scrambling to cover her hearing.
"AAAARRRRRGGHHHH! WHAT THE DEVIL--?" cried Kukuthmon, helplessly sprawled to the darkened ground.
Takuya stood sorely up, the Amulet still humming even more loudly and yet it did not effect neither Takuya nor Izumi. There came a transcendent flush of energy to both of their bodies--a strong surge of power. They stood adjacent to one another for what seemed like an eternity until the backdrop of the cavern disappeared to reveal a completely white surrounding. Takuya's Amulet shot up and hovered between him and Izumi. The Amulet had then shattered into two separate stones, each deeply coloured in a raven- black and each floated to either Takuya or Izumi. A gathering Digicode inside the stones encircled both of them and soon their eyes met and nodded in sudden understanding.
"Spirit-Samurai Evolution!" they cried in unison.
"Nuskumon!" cried Takuya.
"Yonhamon!" shouted Izumi.
Glimmering in the darkness and standing defiantly over Kukuthmon were two well-armoured Samurai knights. They were, of course, both Takuya and Izumi. Takuya's form was of a knight clad in blazingly scarlet armour, his left hand held a shield bearing the emblem of an engraved dragon and to his right hand was a fiery blade. Izumi stood--as well as a knight--beside him, her armour stunningly white, her shield emblazoned with an illustrious storm-bird and her right hand gripped a long, curved sword. Kukuthmon gaped at the two in front of her, her face contorted in fear.
"D-Di-Cangmon's W-Warriors?...Nuskumon and Yonhamon?" Kukuthmon stammered, she still lay trembling to the ground. "B-But it isn't possible...That must mean...that you are the Promised Ones... Legendary Warriors--here--in Naraka?"
"That's right and either you surrender or we'll have to take you down- -forcefully and if possible painfully." Nuskumon said under gritted teeth.
"You must promise to never threaten or ever hurt the Mahonmon!" Yonhamon glared dangerously at Kukuthmon.
Kukuthmon suddenly narrowed her eyes. "Mistress Hisamemon--has sent me--to stop your interference and--as I stand unwounded--I shall fight you-- in my Mistress' honour!"
She swiftly got back to her feet in a readied stance. "Medusa's Strike!" Kukuthmon's eels had jerked upright and launched two massive orbs of green gunk at Nuskumon and Yonhamon. Yonhamon leaped into the air, her arm outstretched and deflected the attack with her sword. The poisonous ooze had been redirected to hit Kukuthmon's eyes. She shrieked in pain and staggered back to the ground.
"You--You--" Kukuthmon fiercely wiped her eyes and squinted angrily at Yonhamon. "Medusa's Strike!"
It was Nuskumon's turn to deflect the attack; his shield being the weapon of protection.
"AAAARRGHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Kukuthmon shrilly yelled, she had been struck in the arm this time.
Kukuthmon was persistent however, she lifted herself once more. Twenty of her gangly, spider-like legs eerily clicked as she circled both Nuskumon and Yonhamon. She made a swift move to Nuskumon, her arms wrapped around his neck in a headlock.
"Hisamemon, will not tolerate your meddling plans!" she hissed into his ear.
Nuskumon clenched his teeth and took hold of Kukuthmon's arms, thrusting her over his head and onto the ground. At this point, Kukuthmon panted in exhaustion and swayed her head as she lay sprawled to the ground. She lifted herself up yet again, this time lunging towards Yonhamon. Yonhamon used her shield to avert Kukuthmon's fists swinging incessantly towards her.
"That's enough!" Nuskumon roared. "Zhu-Ron Blaze!"
Nuskumon's fiery sword had released a smoldering flame--resembling a three-headed dragon--to Kukuthmon's back. Her body began to fade into a darkened black, the Digicode revolving around her shadowed form. Soon the only visible sign of her was a set of blood red eyes, still squinting at Nuskumon and Yonhamon. A last angst-ridden cry could be heard from Kukuthmon's fading silhouette, "You have yet to see the evil in Naraka....you two are doomed...Nagamon will avenge me!"
She had vanished and the two samurai knights had restored back to Takuya and Izumi.
"Nagamon?" Izumi panted, exasperated.
"I remember...Galen told us....Nagamon...he's another follower of Hisamemon. He's was a servant just as Kukuthmon was." Takuya reflectively spoke.
"Speaking of Galen...I hear him calling us." Izumi held the black stone in her hand.
"Yeah...that's right...But--But how do you hear him, too? I thought I was the only one who could communicate like that with him." Takuya gaped at her.
"I don't know." Izumi replied. "He's going to explain to us, come on."
Izumi ran towards the path leading to Di-Cangmon's Chamber as Takuya followed her from behind.
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A/N: Hmmmm........the plot thickens........I hope you liked this chapter! MORE TO COME!!!!! ^_^ Please R&R! TAKUMI ROX!!!!!!!!
Note to Erica: Rocheleau Park!!!!
Note to Anime Master ZERO: Hello again ^_^! Ummm...about the fractal code thing...is that the Japanese term....sorry again...I fixed it!!! ^_^ hope it's up to everyone's liking!