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Rika: "In the last chapter of Brother of Fire, Ranamon was having some doubts about who side she was on. Seems like her conscious was starting to nag at her. Fortunately for Alen, because Charubimon wasn't going to wait for him to just wake up to steal his Mystic Spirit, he was just going to take him out for good! Ranamon took the risk of getting his still spaced out self out of there, but the problem was Arbormon and Mercurymon were outside ready to get them. They managed to escape, but how long can they stay safe when even Ranamon's a target? And when the hell will Alen snap out of it!"
TJ: Well at least this time I didn't get yelled at for an update.
Rikumon: This time
TJ: Want me to hurt you, I can take out Mega's now you know!
Rika*BAM*Shut up already Baka Author and start your damn fic!
TJ: O-P;; ouch..ON WITH THE FIC!
Digimon Brother of Fire
By TJ and Rikumon
Chapter Eight
Awoken, The Beasts Burning Rage
Steel Station, one of most known and visited areas of the Digital World. The blending of machinery and foundation always visible and abundant. A peaceful haven form the attacks of Charubimon and his minions for some time. Ranamon always came here, never to break the peace, just to enjoy it herself. But she wondered if there was something that brought her here every time she sat atop the same building every time. She would watch the Trailmon ride by, her seat always aloud her the best view of their normal rout. Shed sit quietly inside of her cloak just watching the train style Digital Monsters, waiting..for what or who though? Sometimes she felt as if she was just waiting for the day that the Trailmon stopped coming, meaning her master had finally taken full control of the Digital World. But that wasn't it, she wasn't waiting for a sign. She was waiting for someone. She didn't know who though, a friend? Someone different from the others around them like her maybe? She knew she didn't fit in with the other darkened Warriors that she came to view as her allies. They ruthlessly destroyed other Digimon taking their Fractal Codes like it didn't matter. Like it was as natural as breathing to them
She couldn't do that. She would take a Digimon's Code, that was true, but she felt guilty for it, and even sorry for them. But she'd never show it. She had even helped a few escape from the other Warriors, that was probably how she got her 'fan club' a bunch of Digimon who were so stuck on how she looked that they'd willing give their Fractal Energy just to hold her hand, offer them a kiss from the Warrior of Water they'd take on Charubimon for his. She hated it, they didn't know her, or even know how she felt about anything. She'd take their Code just to keep them away from herself. Ranamon would have these thoughts as she sat on the building, just watching Trailmon after Trailmon coming and going from their pit stop. Waiting for something or someone to change how her life was going, minion to a Digimon that truly deserved the name 'Monster'. It came.
This day had been different, she could feel her Spirit of Water react to something, several Trailmon ran right though the station, the fact that they came at the same time was strange enough, but not for one of them to stop was odder, seeing that their carts were filled with passengers. She watched as one however wasn't traveling as fast as the others, Worm was riding across the track taking his time compared to the others, but even from the distance Ranamon could tell that he was carrying almost no one. She would have simply stayed right there on the building watching, but her attention was diverted by screams.
The Warrior of Water stood up scanning the terrain finding the source, a small pack of Purumon floated around trying to avoid the emerald blaze of the Ultimate Level Dog Digimon's attack. She wouldn't stand and watch these Digital Monsters destroyed by Cerberusmon, she leapt though the air landing not to far from the three headed dog striking him with her Draining Rain attack forcing him to fight her. However, he knew it was her underneath the cloak, he used it to his advantage by saying her name just before attacking. She had been sho shocked that the impact was enough to knock her out for a moment. She woke up in time to see a creature that didn't belong to this world attacking Cerberusmon head on, and saw him quickly knocked away by the stronger being. The Spirit of Water within her seem to flood her with the felling she had been having for some time, was this who she was waiting for? An orange haired human who ran into battle without thinking? A person who gets cough up in a fight not knowing what his opponent was capable of thinking bruit strength was enough to do the job? She wondered if he was more animal then human at the moment.
Ranamon hurried to her feet as Cerberusmon readied to finish the boy but couldn't help but stare in awe as he summoned flames around himself emerging as a Digimon. She jumped away and watched the battle continue and continued to be amazed as the newly created Digital Monster finished off the Ultimate with one last blow before returning to his human form and using the scanned Code of his opponent repairing the area. She couldn't help but even admit it to herself, he had been one strange and amazing human, and she decided to herself then and there to trail him if only to learn what made him so different, so strange, so outward against everything in his way.... So much what she wanted to be on the outside.
That night as he collapsed inside the woods she took the risk of being seen getting close to him. He should have been at rest there, but he seemed so sad, and even angry at something though it looked like he was having a peaceful dream. What was with this boy? Now that she noticed, he seemed bruised a little from what must have been a previous fight. Was this human so angry that fighting was the only thing he did? Was he a battle wild creature let lose in the Digital World by Ophanimon just so he could destroy every Digimon in league with her Lord? But if that was the story, he'd have just let Cerberusmon destroy her and take both their Fractal Codes. He was angry for a reason, he was..lost and alone, like herself. She did something she had never done before that point in her life. She knelt down next to him, brushing away his flaming orange hair out of his face, and kissed him on the cheek. She couldn't believed she had done that, she told herself it was just cause he saved her life that she was just paying him back. But it wasn't that, she never admit it to herself though, not yet.
That moment stopped, the forest around the two shifted and blurred into green and brown of the lively colors disappearing around the two leaving them in darkness. Soon Alen was gone and Ranamon was inside the realm of black by herself, to one side was light, just pure light she had seen before, but stayed away from. Opposite of the light was darkness, completely cold and empty, she always walked to it, but feared it. Something was different this time, both sides always had an emptiness to them, just light though warm, was new and lonely as the pure chilling darkness. But now, their was more warmth coming from the light, it seem to pore flames from within it. Fire and Water, always enemies, but to the Warrior of Water, the flames seem to call to her. And for once, she walked to the light. She aloud the light to surround her, but it wasn't the light alone that she wanted, the fire soon wrapped around her, warm, not hot as normal flames. The inferno continued to spiral around her, almost hugging her, she felt like she was no longer alone with the flames. She reached out for them, and the fire took shape. Wild green eyes meet her scarlet eyes, arms encased in large gauntlets wrapped around her pulling her body to the forms holding her protectively.
Ranamon didn't struggle at his grasp, she welcomed it, she found her own arms around the Digimon's body, feeling his flame colored tail flick back and forth against his long orange hair. The Warrior of Water rested her head on the beings shoulder, smiling. She felt so safe and cared for right then, the darkness disappeared to nothing at the presence of this Digimon. She was finally happy. "...Flamon.."
Darkness appeared again slowly as everything faded to nothing. Soon Ranamon's eyes opened slowly seeing the cloudy sky of her home world, the Digital World. She sat up stretching across the sand. She looked around, seeing just one person in sight, Alen, still with the lifeless expression he had the day before, and the day previous to that. She remembered now, it was just a dream. She was on the run from Charubimon and the other Legendary Warriors now, along with the once battle ready human. She sighed looking down to the ocean, they would be alright as long as she stayed near her element giving both the power advantage and escape rout needed for them to survive. "Ah swear, what was up with mah dream there? Well, no matter worrying mahself over it now. Ah have to figure where we should head off to next...wha' do ya'll think?" Ranamon looked over to the goggle equipped boy sighing again, not so much as a twitch. "Why am Ah asking ya? Ya'll cant even stand on ya'll owns feet...what we need is for ya to wake up already Alen..."
"Oh maybe I can help!"
"WAH!" Ranamon jumped up looking around, she didn't see anyone withing her view, she looked down to Alen and saw who had said it, it was a small white Digimon, an Intraining snow puff of a Digimon called Snowkoromon "Gah, don't sneak up on me like. Now what do ya'll want?"
The little snow-ball like Digimon jumped off of Alen's stomach looking up to the Warrior of water with its little black eyes perked up into an eye style smile "I've heard about you two. I know where you can go that might have the Fire Warrior up again."
Ranamon narrowed her eyes, this was ether a trick by minions of Charubimon, or the real thing. A fifty fifty change. She could take the risk and get Alen awake again and hopefully help her, or be destroyed. She thought about it, she wasn't going to just rush into this decision with so much to both lose and gain. But the more she thought, the more her mind seem to lean to waking the orange haired boy again. She had to admit, even if he chose not to trust her anymore it would be nice to have him back to normal again. Sighing she nodded to the Intraining "Alright, where do Ah go?"
"Easy, the Fire Village! Its covered in Ice but theirs a special hot spring there that Fire Digimon go to take a bath in, any weak one comes out better then ever!"
The Fire Spring. Ranamon remembered hearing about it herself, any flame Digimon that bathed in it would come out rejuvenated and stronger then before. There was a good chance it could work on Alen seeing that he still had his Mystic Spirit locked inside of him. Not only that but the Village had a river near it, Ranamon could have them there in no time and still have an escape rout incase of emergences and still have a power upgrade. The risk would be worth it and it wasn't too risky come to think of it. She thanked the Intraining Digimon again picking up the human and using her control of the waters to surround herself and him within a bubble streaking though the waves to the continent that the Fire Village was located.
Some time had passed as the two traveled, unknown that they were still being watched by the metallic Digital Monster with that smirk ever present in his face mirror "Mhmhm, tho so eagerly race to thy doom do ye not malady? So eager to awaken thy companion that tho throws caution to the wind. Little do ye know that Arbormon is already on his way to greet the, shame that one of ye shall not survive the meeting."
Ranamon stood up from the shore, still carrying the orange haired along with her. She frowned a bit feeling her toes freeze withing the frozen form of her element. She walked away from the river leading the human to the frozen gate of the Fire Village, she wondered why it was called the Fire Village seeing that the only sort of flame in sight was the symbol of it etched upon the entrance. Looking here and there the Warrior of Water became worried, not a soul was insight at first, but that changed. Soon large amounts of fire type Digimon came crawling, skipping, running and flying around the two. A murmur was growing from the crowd as they watched the newcomers. Soon a single Digimon made his way out of the crowd, he was a rather short Digimon, no bigger then an Agumon. It wore a little cloth around its torso, carrying a small staff with a little cat-like paw at the end, its head was about half of his whole bodies size, it was completely covered in white hair and whiskers. Ranamon knew that even though he wasn't even half her size that didn't matter, she knew Ancient Digimon types were tough enough, and at Mega level was bad enough. "Umm Hello there. Ah hear ya'll have a spring that can cure Fire Type.."
"Now, now. I know why you are hear Warrior of Water. I am Jijimon, leader of the Village. I've been expecting you to come here for some time now."
"Y..you have?"
"Of course, and yes. The rumors are true. We can have the Warrior of Flames awoken in no time. Come with me. Now for the rest of you continue with your business." The small digimon waved his staff a bit as he lead the two Legendary Warriors to his icy hut. He walked on past a drape of an old cloth down a staircase.
Ranamon continued to follow, though she still felt worried, she was away from the water and that took away her escape rout and power up. This would be a perfect set up for her to be caught, and she'd have little chance of getting out on her own.
"Don't worry, this isn't a trap."
"Huh?" Ranamon looked up from her thoughts, before her was a tall ceiling room with a massive pull of steaming water at its center. Behind it was the mark of Flames engraved within the wall, around that were mor markings of the Fire Village, and of two entering figures. Herself and Alen. She couldn't help but gasp.
"Hmhmhm. Yes amazing isn't it? It was written back when the first Legendary Warriors lived. Now we must be careful here." Jijimon announced as he climbed the carved steps to the Hot Spring motioning for Ranamon to follow.
The sea green Digital monster nodded climbing up after him bringing the human along. She looked to the water, she couldn't see the bottom from where she stood. She saw there was a ledge for Digimon to perch themselfs on while resting. The heat giving off from the bubbling liquid was comforting compared to the snow outside. "Alright, so we just set him up in here and let him rest up till he wakes up now?"
Jijimon shook his head sighing "No, that would not be wise. The powers behind the water would drive him insane."
"Excuse me??!"
"You see, the water can revive him. However, any Digimon that has spent more then a few moments within these waters have come out insane for some time. One even dared to swim down to its depths, when he came up, he was a mindless monster bent on destroying everything in sight."
Ranamon stared in shock at Jijimon then to the water. She looked back to Alen still limply held up by her shoulder. She big her lower lip nodding, this would be risky but if it was for a moment then worse case he'd come out insane for a few minutes only. "Alright then." She carefully knelt down next to the waters slowly helping the human sit up at the sides still holding his arms so he wouldn't drop all the way. "Tell me when Ah should lift em.."
However that moment wouldn't come. Just then the ground around them shook violently cracking the frozen waters around them, massive chunks began to fall rapidly. The water based Digimon began to panic starting to pull the human from the Spring, but a large piece of ice fell upon her head knocking her back off the ledge of the spring with Jijimon following behind her. She rubbed her head gasping as she saw the humans hands sink beneath the waters, just as an enormous part of the ceiling feel down atop of the spring sealing it and the human forever "NO!"
Jijimon looked to the roof heading up the stairs again "I am sorry, but we must leave before we are crushed as well! Besides, the Village is being attacked!"
Ranamon stood there, ignoring the falling debris around her. She simply stared at where the goggle wearing boy was. Her check felt cold, she slowly reached up with her hand brushing it, it was wet. She was doing something she hadn't done in what felt like forever. She was crying. "A-Ah'll get whoeva's responsible for this!" Without another word the Warrior of Water rushed up from the room past the Mega to the outside.
As the two Digimon raced up the passage, neither heard or noticed that the crater of the spring began to sizzle. Even melt, a silent sound grew louder, a sort of growl. A small hole opened up letting some water shoot out, and let a spark of burning red light shine through.
Ranamon skid to a halt across the icy area glaring hatred for the cause of the disturbance. It was a huge lizard-like digimon, its body built of plants, his neck surrounded by large brown red pedals, its claws made of green leafs. Its tail split into two root like whips, his face made of a sort of wood while six root spines shot out from his grass covered back, his yellow eyes searched out around the area falling onto the smaller female Digimon smirking "Well there you are, I've been looking for ya right. Come along quietly Ranamon and bring that Human with ya and maybe Lord Charubimon will be nice like right."
Ranamon glared even more, her fists shook violently as her eyes began to water. How dare he say something like this to her, she swore she'd do just as he had done to other Digital Monsters, take his Fractal Code without so much as another thought "Ah'll, Ah'll Delete you Petaldramon! You killed him! Alen is dead now because of you! DARK VAPOR!" before she realized what she was doing, Ranamon placed her hands together forming a mass of black fog sending it into the face of the Beast Spirit of Wood melting away some of his petals. As the large lizard Digimon recovered from the attack the Water Warrior race up his back quickly striking him again from the back. However she was swatted away by his twin split tails sprawling across the snow.
Petaldramon rear back onto his hind legs as the petals around his neck spun around into a whirling blur "LEAF CYCLONE!" he shouted as twin tornado's of leafs erupted from his nostrals blasting the sea green Digimon away again. He returned to all four starting to stalk over to the still wounded Ranamon smirking devilishly "Since you don't have the human with ya's anymore Charubimon wont mind if I takes your Fractal Code, right"
Ranamon cringed trying to raise back to her feet. But she knew she wouldn't be able to after that attack. She was away from the river, alone, over powered by Arbormon's Beast Spirit. But mostly she was losing the will to fight. She began to feel the cold embrace of darkness again starting to welcome it, at least she wouldn't feel anything ever again now. 'At least this will be quick...'
Ranamon closed her eyes not looking as Petaldramon closed in going back to his hind legs. Both of the Digimon were so focused at that moment that the slight steam coming from the now melting hut that was Jijimon's was left unnoticed. The lizard like Digimon began to ready for the final blow, that is until both Digimon heard a new sound that wasn't created by ether. "GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Huh? What was that right?"
The melting hut was blasted apart as a red figure flew out of its base heading straight up to the sky, soon it came rearing back down smashing Petaldramon away with the force of a volcano before landing roughly on the ground again. It was an crimson gold and silver armored Dragon digimon, its three clawed silver feet crushed the snow and earth beneath them as its body slowly incinerated them. Its lower arms finished off by three silver taloned hands, equipped with diamond shaped blasters resting upwards along the elbows paths, spikes shooting out of each shoulder pad. Its large flaming orange wings twitching slightly along with its long red and gold jointed tail smashing the ground beneath it Its head shaped like the well known Skull masked Dragon Digimon Greymon, though at a smaller more humanoid scale with golden teeth coverings, its eyes though a shade of blue burned with a fiery red aura as it snarled at the Beast of Wood.
Petaldramon was enraged himself now, he jumped back to his feet changing his target from Ranamon to this new Digimon "WHY YOU! LEAF CYCLONE!"
The Dragon Digimon snarled flexing his arms towards the attack. The golden diamonds spun around aiming the twin barrels as they glowed, soon the began to shoot off random blasts of inferno energy incinerating both the Leaf Cyclone and its creator in the posses. The barrels pulling back and forth across the golden plates from the feed back. The dragon snarled more as the heat of its body increased. Soon flames shout out from the gaps of the armor it was encased in and spun around whipping its tail in the direction of the lizard plant Digimon sending a tornado of flames into his already burning body sending the Wood Warrior flying out of sight. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" the Digimon roared in victory slowly looking about the area for another battle. And finding just one last Digital Monster, Ranamon.
Ranamon shook in fear as the Dragon type stomped over to her, she leaned back against the icy hut behind her pressing her form against it as much as she could in small hope that she could escape. The Digimon was a mere foot from her now, she saw its body flare up again ready to do to her what it had done to Petaldramon. Ranamon shut her eyes turning her head from the beast hearing a low growl escape its fangs. She waited for what seemed like forever, taking what courage she had left, she opened her eyes again to see the Digimon's face inches from her own, its head shook back as its unseen nostrils took in her scent. Its eyes began to soften from the burning glare, almost becoming peaceful. It kept its face near hers, slowly with a shaking hand the Warrior of Water reached out gently placing her palm atop of the silver mask of the Dragon. It responded gently rubbing its armored skull about letting the sea green hand pet him almost growling in its own sort of purr. Ranamon took a step closer to the Digimon looking into its eyes as she continued to brush her hands about the dragons head. Those blue eyes, filled with a beastly rage, a saddened creature, and a lone being all in one. She knew who these eyes belonged to.
"Alen?"
In reply his head began to rub against her shoulders kneeling down, still with the gentile mix of its growl still within the peaceful purr. It was him deep within this massive beasts body, still lost, but with the beasts instincts to guild his once lifeless body was brought back to fight as a true monster. But his heart held great control over its actions, it would strike when needed it would refuse the urge to strike his first friend.
"..oh mah stars...what happend to ya sugar?" Ranamon couldn't help her actions now, she quickly leapt up wrapping her arms around the beastly neck of the Beast of Flames patting his head still comforting the beast.
The elder Digimon walked out slowly to view. Carefully seeing that his every moves seem to trigger the Dragons monstrous instincts to attack. "It would seem, what drove all the other Digimon to insanity was the beast fighting instincts taking them over. But with their normal minds it ended with them going mad and it still trapped beneath the waters. The Beast Spirit of Flames, Burning-Greymon. It would seem though, the humans mind still exists within the Beasts own. It would have destroyed the Village by now if not for you."
"Ma..Me? But, why? Its because of me that he's like this in the first place. He shouldn't trust me let alone be treating me like...umm.."
"The beast mind simply is responding to his own, it sees you like he does. Someone to trust and care for, if you wish to know why. I suggest that you wait till his normal mind returns to normal."
Ranamon took a step away from Burning-Greymon looking to the ground as she held her arms. She felt that sickening feeling rise up in her stomach. She was glade that Alen was up, in a mater of speaking. But she was expecting him to be angry at him, not all...cuddly. She felt miserable for what she did, or didn't do to help him out of the problem he was in now. She continued to let her thoughts grow dark until something brushed up against her arm. She looked seeing the silvery claw of Burning-Greymon rubbing up her arm a bit trying to comfort her, she couldn't help but smile a bit. Alen wasn't in his normal state of mind, but with the Beasts instincts to comfort those it cared for "Guess Ah'll have ta wait some time then wont Ah huh? Come on, Burning-Greymon lets get outta here before Charubimon sends more Digimon after us." Ranamon took the larger Digimon's clawed hand tugging on it for him to follow, she waved to the Villagers as they went down the horizon. Soon the Beast Dragon was following her without orders or motions, she went one way and it followed without a word. "...Ah still say you own lill o' me a lot for this....on second thought. Ya'll given me more then Ah have you."
"Grrrraa."
"Hahahaha, true."
****End of Chapter Eight*****
Rika: "At least now the goggle heads able to fight for himself. Now if they can just get him to use words already. The question is what is Mercurymon planing anyway? And does Ranamon have some other feelings for the over grown dragon-mon? To find out, you better be here for the next chapter of, Digimon Brother of Fire!"
TJ: Well people another chapter another update..or vis versa. Glade that your all enjoying it too. Fact if I have a question. Brother of Fire was my very first fic, and Im not sure but, have I gotten any better at writing since I started this? Honestly?
Riku: How about you just say "Am I better now then I was in Chapter one"
Rika: Id ask that, but more like, am I as lame as I was back then
TJ: Thanks a lot you two, you really know how to bust a guys ego..
Rika: "In the last chapter of Brother of Fire, Ranamon was having some doubts about who side she was on. Seems like her conscious was starting to nag at her. Fortunately for Alen, because Charubimon wasn't going to wait for him to just wake up to steal his Mystic Spirit, he was just going to take him out for good! Ranamon took the risk of getting his still spaced out self out of there, but the problem was Arbormon and Mercurymon were outside ready to get them. They managed to escape, but how long can they stay safe when even Ranamon's a target? And when the hell will Alen snap out of it!"
TJ: Well at least this time I didn't get yelled at for an update.
Rikumon: This time
TJ: Want me to hurt you, I can take out Mega's now you know!
Rika*BAM*Shut up already Baka Author and start your damn fic!
TJ: O-P;; ouch..ON WITH THE FIC!
Digimon Brother of Fire
By TJ and Rikumon
Chapter Eight
Awoken, The Beasts Burning Rage
Steel Station, one of most known and visited areas of the Digital World. The blending of machinery and foundation always visible and abundant. A peaceful haven form the attacks of Charubimon and his minions for some time. Ranamon always came here, never to break the peace, just to enjoy it herself. But she wondered if there was something that brought her here every time she sat atop the same building every time. She would watch the Trailmon ride by, her seat always aloud her the best view of their normal rout. Shed sit quietly inside of her cloak just watching the train style Digital Monsters, waiting..for what or who though? Sometimes she felt as if she was just waiting for the day that the Trailmon stopped coming, meaning her master had finally taken full control of the Digital World. But that wasn't it, she wasn't waiting for a sign. She was waiting for someone. She didn't know who though, a friend? Someone different from the others around them like her maybe? She knew she didn't fit in with the other darkened Warriors that she came to view as her allies. They ruthlessly destroyed other Digimon taking their Fractal Codes like it didn't matter. Like it was as natural as breathing to them
She couldn't do that. She would take a Digimon's Code, that was true, but she felt guilty for it, and even sorry for them. But she'd never show it. She had even helped a few escape from the other Warriors, that was probably how she got her 'fan club' a bunch of Digimon who were so stuck on how she looked that they'd willing give their Fractal Energy just to hold her hand, offer them a kiss from the Warrior of Water they'd take on Charubimon for his. She hated it, they didn't know her, or even know how she felt about anything. She'd take their Code just to keep them away from herself. Ranamon would have these thoughts as she sat on the building, just watching Trailmon after Trailmon coming and going from their pit stop. Waiting for something or someone to change how her life was going, minion to a Digimon that truly deserved the name 'Monster'. It came.
This day had been different, she could feel her Spirit of Water react to something, several Trailmon ran right though the station, the fact that they came at the same time was strange enough, but not for one of them to stop was odder, seeing that their carts were filled with passengers. She watched as one however wasn't traveling as fast as the others, Worm was riding across the track taking his time compared to the others, but even from the distance Ranamon could tell that he was carrying almost no one. She would have simply stayed right there on the building watching, but her attention was diverted by screams.
The Warrior of Water stood up scanning the terrain finding the source, a small pack of Purumon floated around trying to avoid the emerald blaze of the Ultimate Level Dog Digimon's attack. She wouldn't stand and watch these Digital Monsters destroyed by Cerberusmon, she leapt though the air landing not to far from the three headed dog striking him with her Draining Rain attack forcing him to fight her. However, he knew it was her underneath the cloak, he used it to his advantage by saying her name just before attacking. She had been sho shocked that the impact was enough to knock her out for a moment. She woke up in time to see a creature that didn't belong to this world attacking Cerberusmon head on, and saw him quickly knocked away by the stronger being. The Spirit of Water within her seem to flood her with the felling she had been having for some time, was this who she was waiting for? An orange haired human who ran into battle without thinking? A person who gets cough up in a fight not knowing what his opponent was capable of thinking bruit strength was enough to do the job? She wondered if he was more animal then human at the moment.
Ranamon hurried to her feet as Cerberusmon readied to finish the boy but couldn't help but stare in awe as he summoned flames around himself emerging as a Digimon. She jumped away and watched the battle continue and continued to be amazed as the newly created Digital Monster finished off the Ultimate with one last blow before returning to his human form and using the scanned Code of his opponent repairing the area. She couldn't help but even admit it to herself, he had been one strange and amazing human, and she decided to herself then and there to trail him if only to learn what made him so different, so strange, so outward against everything in his way.... So much what she wanted to be on the outside.
That night as he collapsed inside the woods she took the risk of being seen getting close to him. He should have been at rest there, but he seemed so sad, and even angry at something though it looked like he was having a peaceful dream. What was with this boy? Now that she noticed, he seemed bruised a little from what must have been a previous fight. Was this human so angry that fighting was the only thing he did? Was he a battle wild creature let lose in the Digital World by Ophanimon just so he could destroy every Digimon in league with her Lord? But if that was the story, he'd have just let Cerberusmon destroy her and take both their Fractal Codes. He was angry for a reason, he was..lost and alone, like herself. She did something she had never done before that point in her life. She knelt down next to him, brushing away his flaming orange hair out of his face, and kissed him on the cheek. She couldn't believed she had done that, she told herself it was just cause he saved her life that she was just paying him back. But it wasn't that, she never admit it to herself though, not yet.
That moment stopped, the forest around the two shifted and blurred into green and brown of the lively colors disappearing around the two leaving them in darkness. Soon Alen was gone and Ranamon was inside the realm of black by herself, to one side was light, just pure light she had seen before, but stayed away from. Opposite of the light was darkness, completely cold and empty, she always walked to it, but feared it. Something was different this time, both sides always had an emptiness to them, just light though warm, was new and lonely as the pure chilling darkness. But now, their was more warmth coming from the light, it seem to pore flames from within it. Fire and Water, always enemies, but to the Warrior of Water, the flames seem to call to her. And for once, she walked to the light. She aloud the light to surround her, but it wasn't the light alone that she wanted, the fire soon wrapped around her, warm, not hot as normal flames. The inferno continued to spiral around her, almost hugging her, she felt like she was no longer alone with the flames. She reached out for them, and the fire took shape. Wild green eyes meet her scarlet eyes, arms encased in large gauntlets wrapped around her pulling her body to the forms holding her protectively.
Ranamon didn't struggle at his grasp, she welcomed it, she found her own arms around the Digimon's body, feeling his flame colored tail flick back and forth against his long orange hair. The Warrior of Water rested her head on the beings shoulder, smiling. She felt so safe and cared for right then, the darkness disappeared to nothing at the presence of this Digimon. She was finally happy. "...Flamon.."
Darkness appeared again slowly as everything faded to nothing. Soon Ranamon's eyes opened slowly seeing the cloudy sky of her home world, the Digital World. She sat up stretching across the sand. She looked around, seeing just one person in sight, Alen, still with the lifeless expression he had the day before, and the day previous to that. She remembered now, it was just a dream. She was on the run from Charubimon and the other Legendary Warriors now, along with the once battle ready human. She sighed looking down to the ocean, they would be alright as long as she stayed near her element giving both the power advantage and escape rout needed for them to survive. "Ah swear, what was up with mah dream there? Well, no matter worrying mahself over it now. Ah have to figure where we should head off to next...wha' do ya'll think?" Ranamon looked over to the goggle equipped boy sighing again, not so much as a twitch. "Why am Ah asking ya? Ya'll cant even stand on ya'll owns feet...what we need is for ya to wake up already Alen..."
"Oh maybe I can help!"
"WAH!" Ranamon jumped up looking around, she didn't see anyone withing her view, she looked down to Alen and saw who had said it, it was a small white Digimon, an Intraining snow puff of a Digimon called Snowkoromon "Gah, don't sneak up on me like. Now what do ya'll want?"
The little snow-ball like Digimon jumped off of Alen's stomach looking up to the Warrior of water with its little black eyes perked up into an eye style smile "I've heard about you two. I know where you can go that might have the Fire Warrior up again."
Ranamon narrowed her eyes, this was ether a trick by minions of Charubimon, or the real thing. A fifty fifty change. She could take the risk and get Alen awake again and hopefully help her, or be destroyed. She thought about it, she wasn't going to just rush into this decision with so much to both lose and gain. But the more she thought, the more her mind seem to lean to waking the orange haired boy again. She had to admit, even if he chose not to trust her anymore it would be nice to have him back to normal again. Sighing she nodded to the Intraining "Alright, where do Ah go?"
"Easy, the Fire Village! Its covered in Ice but theirs a special hot spring there that Fire Digimon go to take a bath in, any weak one comes out better then ever!"
The Fire Spring. Ranamon remembered hearing about it herself, any flame Digimon that bathed in it would come out rejuvenated and stronger then before. There was a good chance it could work on Alen seeing that he still had his Mystic Spirit locked inside of him. Not only that but the Village had a river near it, Ranamon could have them there in no time and still have an escape rout incase of emergences and still have a power upgrade. The risk would be worth it and it wasn't too risky come to think of it. She thanked the Intraining Digimon again picking up the human and using her control of the waters to surround herself and him within a bubble streaking though the waves to the continent that the Fire Village was located.
Some time had passed as the two traveled, unknown that they were still being watched by the metallic Digital Monster with that smirk ever present in his face mirror "Mhmhm, tho so eagerly race to thy doom do ye not malady? So eager to awaken thy companion that tho throws caution to the wind. Little do ye know that Arbormon is already on his way to greet the, shame that one of ye shall not survive the meeting."
Ranamon stood up from the shore, still carrying the orange haired along with her. She frowned a bit feeling her toes freeze withing the frozen form of her element. She walked away from the river leading the human to the frozen gate of the Fire Village, she wondered why it was called the Fire Village seeing that the only sort of flame in sight was the symbol of it etched upon the entrance. Looking here and there the Warrior of Water became worried, not a soul was insight at first, but that changed. Soon large amounts of fire type Digimon came crawling, skipping, running and flying around the two. A murmur was growing from the crowd as they watched the newcomers. Soon a single Digimon made his way out of the crowd, he was a rather short Digimon, no bigger then an Agumon. It wore a little cloth around its torso, carrying a small staff with a little cat-like paw at the end, its head was about half of his whole bodies size, it was completely covered in white hair and whiskers. Ranamon knew that even though he wasn't even half her size that didn't matter, she knew Ancient Digimon types were tough enough, and at Mega level was bad enough. "Umm Hello there. Ah hear ya'll have a spring that can cure Fire Type.."
"Now, now. I know why you are hear Warrior of Water. I am Jijimon, leader of the Village. I've been expecting you to come here for some time now."
"Y..you have?"
"Of course, and yes. The rumors are true. We can have the Warrior of Flames awoken in no time. Come with me. Now for the rest of you continue with your business." The small digimon waved his staff a bit as he lead the two Legendary Warriors to his icy hut. He walked on past a drape of an old cloth down a staircase.
Ranamon continued to follow, though she still felt worried, she was away from the water and that took away her escape rout and power up. This would be a perfect set up for her to be caught, and she'd have little chance of getting out on her own.
"Don't worry, this isn't a trap."
"Huh?" Ranamon looked up from her thoughts, before her was a tall ceiling room with a massive pull of steaming water at its center. Behind it was the mark of Flames engraved within the wall, around that were mor markings of the Fire Village, and of two entering figures. Herself and Alen. She couldn't help but gasp.
"Hmhmhm. Yes amazing isn't it? It was written back when the first Legendary Warriors lived. Now we must be careful here." Jijimon announced as he climbed the carved steps to the Hot Spring motioning for Ranamon to follow.
The sea green Digital monster nodded climbing up after him bringing the human along. She looked to the water, she couldn't see the bottom from where she stood. She saw there was a ledge for Digimon to perch themselfs on while resting. The heat giving off from the bubbling liquid was comforting compared to the snow outside. "Alright, so we just set him up in here and let him rest up till he wakes up now?"
Jijimon shook his head sighing "No, that would not be wise. The powers behind the water would drive him insane."
"Excuse me??!"
"You see, the water can revive him. However, any Digimon that has spent more then a few moments within these waters have come out insane for some time. One even dared to swim down to its depths, when he came up, he was a mindless monster bent on destroying everything in sight."
Ranamon stared in shock at Jijimon then to the water. She looked back to Alen still limply held up by her shoulder. She big her lower lip nodding, this would be risky but if it was for a moment then worse case he'd come out insane for a few minutes only. "Alright then." She carefully knelt down next to the waters slowly helping the human sit up at the sides still holding his arms so he wouldn't drop all the way. "Tell me when Ah should lift em.."
However that moment wouldn't come. Just then the ground around them shook violently cracking the frozen waters around them, massive chunks began to fall rapidly. The water based Digimon began to panic starting to pull the human from the Spring, but a large piece of ice fell upon her head knocking her back off the ledge of the spring with Jijimon following behind her. She rubbed her head gasping as she saw the humans hands sink beneath the waters, just as an enormous part of the ceiling feel down atop of the spring sealing it and the human forever "NO!"
Jijimon looked to the roof heading up the stairs again "I am sorry, but we must leave before we are crushed as well! Besides, the Village is being attacked!"
Ranamon stood there, ignoring the falling debris around her. She simply stared at where the goggle wearing boy was. Her check felt cold, she slowly reached up with her hand brushing it, it was wet. She was doing something she hadn't done in what felt like forever. She was crying. "A-Ah'll get whoeva's responsible for this!" Without another word the Warrior of Water rushed up from the room past the Mega to the outside.
As the two Digimon raced up the passage, neither heard or noticed that the crater of the spring began to sizzle. Even melt, a silent sound grew louder, a sort of growl. A small hole opened up letting some water shoot out, and let a spark of burning red light shine through.
Ranamon skid to a halt across the icy area glaring hatred for the cause of the disturbance. It was a huge lizard-like digimon, its body built of plants, his neck surrounded by large brown red pedals, its claws made of green leafs. Its tail split into two root like whips, his face made of a sort of wood while six root spines shot out from his grass covered back, his yellow eyes searched out around the area falling onto the smaller female Digimon smirking "Well there you are, I've been looking for ya right. Come along quietly Ranamon and bring that Human with ya and maybe Lord Charubimon will be nice like right."
Ranamon glared even more, her fists shook violently as her eyes began to water. How dare he say something like this to her, she swore she'd do just as he had done to other Digital Monsters, take his Fractal Code without so much as another thought "Ah'll, Ah'll Delete you Petaldramon! You killed him! Alen is dead now because of you! DARK VAPOR!" before she realized what she was doing, Ranamon placed her hands together forming a mass of black fog sending it into the face of the Beast Spirit of Wood melting away some of his petals. As the large lizard Digimon recovered from the attack the Water Warrior race up his back quickly striking him again from the back. However she was swatted away by his twin split tails sprawling across the snow.
Petaldramon rear back onto his hind legs as the petals around his neck spun around into a whirling blur "LEAF CYCLONE!" he shouted as twin tornado's of leafs erupted from his nostrals blasting the sea green Digimon away again. He returned to all four starting to stalk over to the still wounded Ranamon smirking devilishly "Since you don't have the human with ya's anymore Charubimon wont mind if I takes your Fractal Code, right"
Ranamon cringed trying to raise back to her feet. But she knew she wouldn't be able to after that attack. She was away from the river, alone, over powered by Arbormon's Beast Spirit. But mostly she was losing the will to fight. She began to feel the cold embrace of darkness again starting to welcome it, at least she wouldn't feel anything ever again now. 'At least this will be quick...'
Ranamon closed her eyes not looking as Petaldramon closed in going back to his hind legs. Both of the Digimon were so focused at that moment that the slight steam coming from the now melting hut that was Jijimon's was left unnoticed. The lizard like Digimon began to ready for the final blow, that is until both Digimon heard a new sound that wasn't created by ether. "GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Huh? What was that right?"
The melting hut was blasted apart as a red figure flew out of its base heading straight up to the sky, soon it came rearing back down smashing Petaldramon away with the force of a volcano before landing roughly on the ground again. It was an crimson gold and silver armored Dragon digimon, its three clawed silver feet crushed the snow and earth beneath them as its body slowly incinerated them. Its lower arms finished off by three silver taloned hands, equipped with diamond shaped blasters resting upwards along the elbows paths, spikes shooting out of each shoulder pad. Its large flaming orange wings twitching slightly along with its long red and gold jointed tail smashing the ground beneath it Its head shaped like the well known Skull masked Dragon Digimon Greymon, though at a smaller more humanoid scale with golden teeth coverings, its eyes though a shade of blue burned with a fiery red aura as it snarled at the Beast of Wood.
Petaldramon was enraged himself now, he jumped back to his feet changing his target from Ranamon to this new Digimon "WHY YOU! LEAF CYCLONE!"
The Dragon Digimon snarled flexing his arms towards the attack. The golden diamonds spun around aiming the twin barrels as they glowed, soon the began to shoot off random blasts of inferno energy incinerating both the Leaf Cyclone and its creator in the posses. The barrels pulling back and forth across the golden plates from the feed back. The dragon snarled more as the heat of its body increased. Soon flames shout out from the gaps of the armor it was encased in and spun around whipping its tail in the direction of the lizard plant Digimon sending a tornado of flames into his already burning body sending the Wood Warrior flying out of sight. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" the Digimon roared in victory slowly looking about the area for another battle. And finding just one last Digital Monster, Ranamon.
Ranamon shook in fear as the Dragon type stomped over to her, she leaned back against the icy hut behind her pressing her form against it as much as she could in small hope that she could escape. The Digimon was a mere foot from her now, she saw its body flare up again ready to do to her what it had done to Petaldramon. Ranamon shut her eyes turning her head from the beast hearing a low growl escape its fangs. She waited for what seemed like forever, taking what courage she had left, she opened her eyes again to see the Digimon's face inches from her own, its head shook back as its unseen nostrils took in her scent. Its eyes began to soften from the burning glare, almost becoming peaceful. It kept its face near hers, slowly with a shaking hand the Warrior of Water reached out gently placing her palm atop of the silver mask of the Dragon. It responded gently rubbing its armored skull about letting the sea green hand pet him almost growling in its own sort of purr. Ranamon took a step closer to the Digimon looking into its eyes as she continued to brush her hands about the dragons head. Those blue eyes, filled with a beastly rage, a saddened creature, and a lone being all in one. She knew who these eyes belonged to.
"Alen?"
In reply his head began to rub against her shoulders kneeling down, still with the gentile mix of its growl still within the peaceful purr. It was him deep within this massive beasts body, still lost, but with the beasts instincts to guild his once lifeless body was brought back to fight as a true monster. But his heart held great control over its actions, it would strike when needed it would refuse the urge to strike his first friend.
"..oh mah stars...what happend to ya sugar?" Ranamon couldn't help her actions now, she quickly leapt up wrapping her arms around the beastly neck of the Beast of Flames patting his head still comforting the beast.
The elder Digimon walked out slowly to view. Carefully seeing that his every moves seem to trigger the Dragons monstrous instincts to attack. "It would seem, what drove all the other Digimon to insanity was the beast fighting instincts taking them over. But with their normal minds it ended with them going mad and it still trapped beneath the waters. The Beast Spirit of Flames, Burning-Greymon. It would seem though, the humans mind still exists within the Beasts own. It would have destroyed the Village by now if not for you."
"Ma..Me? But, why? Its because of me that he's like this in the first place. He shouldn't trust me let alone be treating me like...umm.."
"The beast mind simply is responding to his own, it sees you like he does. Someone to trust and care for, if you wish to know why. I suggest that you wait till his normal mind returns to normal."
Ranamon took a step away from Burning-Greymon looking to the ground as she held her arms. She felt that sickening feeling rise up in her stomach. She was glade that Alen was up, in a mater of speaking. But she was expecting him to be angry at him, not all...cuddly. She felt miserable for what she did, or didn't do to help him out of the problem he was in now. She continued to let her thoughts grow dark until something brushed up against her arm. She looked seeing the silvery claw of Burning-Greymon rubbing up her arm a bit trying to comfort her, she couldn't help but smile a bit. Alen wasn't in his normal state of mind, but with the Beasts instincts to comfort those it cared for "Guess Ah'll have ta wait some time then wont Ah huh? Come on, Burning-Greymon lets get outta here before Charubimon sends more Digimon after us." Ranamon took the larger Digimon's clawed hand tugging on it for him to follow, she waved to the Villagers as they went down the horizon. Soon the Beast Dragon was following her without orders or motions, she went one way and it followed without a word. "...Ah still say you own lill o' me a lot for this....on second thought. Ya'll given me more then Ah have you."
"Grrrraa."
"Hahahaha, true."
****End of Chapter Eight*****
Rika: "At least now the goggle heads able to fight for himself. Now if they can just get him to use words already. The question is what is Mercurymon planing anyway? And does Ranamon have some other feelings for the over grown dragon-mon? To find out, you better be here for the next chapter of, Digimon Brother of Fire!"
TJ: Well people another chapter another update..or vis versa. Glade that your all enjoying it too. Fact if I have a question. Brother of Fire was my very first fic, and Im not sure but, have I gotten any better at writing since I started this? Honestly?
Riku: How about you just say "Am I better now then I was in Chapter one"
Rika: Id ask that, but more like, am I as lame as I was back then
TJ: Thanks a lot you two, you really know how to bust a guys ego..