Tears of Twilight
ch 31
"It's time to eat, my fallen angel." Jakada said with a possessive look in his eyes, as he brought her food.
"Let's get something straight. I'm not nor ever will be your fallen angle!" Kaye replied as she glared at him angrily.
"Such defiance...You know what that does to me." Jakada said as he ran his clawed hand along her silver wings. Kaye shuddered, and then pulled away the best she
could from him. Jakada just laughed and then showed her the food. From the rafters, an angry glint came off of Hawk's eyes as he watched. Kaye looked up, she could tell that Hawk was still there, she shook her head, telling him to stay where he is. Jakada saw that she distracted, so he looked up to where her eyes were looking, but he couldn't see anything. "Is there something that's up there? Maybe I should go and see what has your attention." Jakada sets her food down and then starts for the stairs.
"No! There's nothing up there, I just didn't want to see your ugly face." Kaye shot back.
"What did you just say?" Jakada asked angrily as he threw something against the cage, making the black energy rise and shock her. Kaye winced, trying to hold back her scream of pain, hoping that Cye wouldn't feel it.
"AAHH!" Cye yelled as he clutched his sides and fell down on his bed.
"Cye!" Thunder said in alarm as he rushed over to him.
"Someone activated the cage that Kaye is in." Cye replied with clenched teeth.
"What!? Who would be so..." Then Thunder realized that was an easy question to answer.
"Jakada." Talpa said as he walked over to them.
"Talpa." Jakada greeted with a mock bow.
"What do you think that you were doing?" Talpa asked suspiciously.
"I was only bringing the Dream Walker her food." Jakada replied as he motioned over to the plate. Talpa looked up towards her, Kaye looked away in anger, and then Talpa looked back at Jakada.
"I believe that you're done here. You may go." Talpa said as he motioned Jakada to leave. Jakada huffed at them and then took one final look towards Kaye, and gave her a hungry look as he licked his lips, and then he finally left. Kaye shivered in disgust, as Talpa watched the nonverbal communication. He was amused that Jakada would even think of trying anything yet with the Dream Walker. Would he be that stupid? Instead of waiting to try and find out the answer to his own question, Talpa looked up towards Kaye.
She felt Talpa's eyes on her, Kaye looked back down. "What?" Kaye asked hotly.
"Be careful on how you talk to me, I can call him back and leave the two of you alone." Talpa replied with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"No...No that's not needed." Kaye objected, "what do you want Talpa, I have a feeling that this is more than just a social call."
"I'll tell you after I take you back to your brother and friend. But first, I think that it would be best to make your wings, even though I find them very fascinating, to disappear." Talpa replied.
"I...I'm not sure how. They just appear and disappear on their own." Kaye explained.
"Well, I suggest that you figure it out before we leave." Talpa said as he turned his back on her.
"Leave? Wait. Where are we going, and who's we?" Kaye asked in extreme curiosity.
Talpa stopped and then looked back. "Will you make your wings disappear?"
"I can try." Kaye replied as she closed her eyes and concentrated very hard on trying to make them disappear. Then after some time passed, and a few more tries, Kaye finally could make them vanish. "Ok, they're gone, now answer my questions."
"Patience, you'll know in due time. Now, I suggest that you come with me." Talpa said as he opened the cage's door. Kaye's eyes went wide in surprise.
"How did you do that? I thought..." Kaye asked.
"You thought that only Badamon could release the cage? Guess again, who do you think has control over Badamon? Me, that's who, so that means I have control over his nether spirits as well. I'm not the lord of the Dynasty for nothing. Now you can either come with me, or you can stay here and wait for Jakada to come back. The choice is yours." Talpa replied as he began to walk away. Kaye jumped down from the cage, and then looked back to see if Hawk was still there, and to her surprise, he wasn't.
'Where did he go?' Kaye wondered with a frown.
Talpa took a quick look back. "Are you coming?"
"Ah yeah, I'm coming." Kaye replied as she caught up with Talpa.
A few minutes later....
"Cye, are you sure that you're ok?" Thunder asked as he looked over to him in concern.
"Yeah Thunder, I'm fine." Cye replied in a short manner. Just then the door opened, Cye and Thunder quickly turned around to see who was coming.
"Get in there." Talpa said as he pushed her forward, into the room. "I'll be back shortly, there are some things that I have to take care of." Then he shut the door and locked it.
"Cye!" Kaye exclaimed as they embraced each other. "I missed you."
"I missed you too." Cye replied as they pulled away. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm better now though." Kaye said with a smile.
"Hey, what about me? Didn't you miss me too?" Thunder asked in a mock hurt.
"Thunder," Kaye replied with a laugh. "Of course I missed you too. You won't believe what I saw when I was in that cage."
"What? What did you see?" Cye asked as they looked over towards her in curiosity. Kaye looked around to make sure that they were the only ones there and then she explained about the wolf that turned into a hawk.
"And that's not the coolest part." Kaye replied, as she tried to wait for them to ask, but she couldn't wait so she just went ahead and told them. "He communicated with me, not by words, but by pictures in my mind. I couldn't believe it." A look of recognition registered on Thunder's face. Cye looked over towards him with a slight frown.
"Thunder, hey..." Cye said as he waved his hand in front of his face to snap back his attention. "What's going on? By Kaye's description, it looks like you know who this wolf is."
Thunder nodded, "Yea I do, his name is Hawk..." Just as he was going to continue with his explanation, Talpa came in.
"You two, come with me." Talpa said as he motioned over towards Cye and Kaye.
"Why, where are we going?" Cye asked as he intended to not even go anywhere with him.
"I'm taking the two of you to see your mother." Talpa replied, as he crossed his arms.
"Our...Mother?" Kaye asked as she and Cye looked towards each other in slight confusion. And then she turned her attention towards Talpa, "Why, why now of all times have you decided to let us see her?"
"There's something that the two of you should know about this 'family,' and I doubt that you'll believe it if it came from me, so I'm taking you two to her, and then you'll know it's the truth. But we're only going for the day, and then we're coming back. If either of you try anything, then you don't want to know the consequences
." Talpa replied, as he uncrossed his arms. "So are the two of you ready to go or we can just forget all about the visit?" Cye and Kaye looked towards each other and then over to Thunder, they didn't feel right about leaving their friend behind.
Thunder saw the look in their eyes, and gave a nod, "I'll be alright, just go." They nodded back and then left with Talpa.
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"If either of you say a word to her of what's been going on, or who I really am, then I'll make you wish that you didn't. Do I make myself clear?" Talpa asked as he made a disguise, and then they walked up to the door. Having the two in front of him, Talpa knocked on the door. A woman came and opened the door, her eyes went wide in surprise. "Hello Shianne, it's been a while."
"Talpa..." Shianne replied in disbelief, and then she saw the other two that were with him. "Cye, Kaye, where have the two of you been? I've been worried sick, ever since your friends told me that you two were missing."
"They've been visiting me, Shianne, I'm sorry that I didn't call to tell you, but I just wanted so much to see them." Talpa replied, "I was wondering if we may come inside? It's been a long drive and we're tired."
"Yes, of course." Shianne said as she let them in. They walked inside and Talpa gave them a warning glance as they sat down. Cye and Kaye looked towards each other and then joined them at the table.
"Sorry to be abrupt, Shianne, but this is only a very short visit, and we have to go back in a few hours." Talpa replied as he looked towards her.
"If it was going to be so short, then why didn't you call, instead of coming all this way?" Shianne asked in slight annoyance.
"This visit is basically about you telling them the truth about when they were small. They wouldn't believe it from me, so I told them that we're going to get it from you." Talpa replied. Shianne frowned and then clenched her hands under the table, and then finally took a deep breath and relaxed.
"I guess that it is time for the two of you to know the truth." Shianne said quietly as she avoided their eyes.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Cye asked curiously.
"See, a long time ago, I gave birth to the two of you. Kaye first and then around a year later, Cye..." Shianne replied as she kept her eyes onto the table, as she
nervously played around with her tea cup. "See, even though the both of you are my children, you each had a different father. Cye, Talpa is your father, and Kaye, Inuzumi, was yours." Cye's eyes went wide in disbelief, but Talpa just had a look on his face that said basically, I told you so.
"No..Inuzumi, was my real father, then...Then you knew what happened that night, don't you!?" Kaye asked as she snapped her attention towards her.
"Yes, I know what happened, and for the rest of my life, I'll never forget it." Shianne replied as she didn't move.
"Then what they said is true, that Inuzumi did take me away from you when I was an infant." Kaye said as she was trying to fight back the tears. Shianne nodded, she refused to make eye contact with anyone. "Did you know that Inuzumi also had another name?"
"Yes, it was Lightning, and he...He's a, well it's kind of hard to explain..." Shianne started to say.
"A what mom, a tiger? Just say it! My father was turned into a mystical tiger!" Kaye replied as she cut her off. "You let him take me away!"
"Kaye, no that's not it! You don't understand!" Shianne said as she quickly looked up from her tea cup when at the same time fighting away the tears.
"Then make me understand! Why didn't you try and get me back?! Why? Didn't you want me?" Kaye asked, as tears were now falling freely down. She ignored them and continued to look into Shianne's eyes.
"Kaye, don't say that! Of course I wanted you, the reason I couldn't run after him was because Cye was a baby at the time, and I couldn't leave him alone. I was afraid that he would have been taken too." Shianne replied, as she was trying to make them understand. Kaye sat down and shut her eyes, she didn't, or actually couldn't say anything.
Cye also couldn't believe everything that he heard either. He was torn between so many emotions that he didn't know how to feel, or even what to think. "Mom, if you knew all of this, then why didn't you ever tell me?" Cye asked in disbelief.
"Cye, I'm sorry but I don't really have an answer...I guess that I couldn't bear it if I lost both of my children." Shianne replied as she looked over towards him.
"I believe that it's time that we take our leave." Talpa said as he got up, and motioned for Cye and Kaye to leave with him.
"It's too soon! You just can't appear one day, and come for the information that you want, and then leave!" Shianne replied as she hurried over to them.
"That's exactly what we're doing. Now, we have to go back, they have an 'appointment,' that just can't break." Talpa said as he ushered them out. As soon as they were outside, Talpa's eyes glowed red and Shianne froze in place, he went into her mind and erased all memories of their short visit, and then teleported her to her bed. Then he turned around and faced them. "We're going back to the Dynasty...Now."
"What did you do to our mom!?" Cye growled angrily.
"She's fine, just asleep, and to answer your question, all I did to her was erase all of the memories of our short visit. Now, we're going back." Talpa replied as he jerked both of them by the arm and vanished.
Back at the Dynasty
Talpa returned with Cye and Kaye, he pushed them inside and then locked the door behind them. Thunder looks up from his meditation, and quickly gets up. "Cye, Kaye, you're alright! Where did he take you? What happened? Did he stay with his word, and take you to see your mother?" Thunder asked in a mix of concern and curiosity.
"Sorry Thunder, I'm not much for talking right now." Kaye replied, "where's a punching bag when you need one?"
"Cye...What's going on?" Thunder asked with a frown. Cye takes a deep breath and then fills Thunder in on what happened. Thunder thought about what Cye told him, he couldn't really think of anything to say to try and be a comfort to the two. Besides the usual condolence of I'm sorry.
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While all of that was going on...Rowen, Kento, and Scorpio were trying to attend to Flash's wounds, while the two tigers prowled around and kept watch. "Flash, hey wake up! Come on, stay with us!" Scorpio said as he was trying to keep her awake.
"Not now...I'm too tired...Wake me in an hour." Flash replied in a sleepy voice. The guys just glance at each other in disbelief, and then Scorpio decided to try again, but this time when he did, a few trees, and shrines caught on fire.
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"It's time to eat, my fallen angel." Jakada said with a possessive look in his eyes, as he brought her food.
"Let's get something straight. I'm not nor ever will be your fallen angle!" Kaye replied as she glared at him angrily.
"Such defiance...You know what that does to me." Jakada said as he ran his clawed hand along her silver wings. Kaye shuddered, and then pulled away the best she
could from him. Jakada just laughed and then showed her the food. From the rafters, an angry glint came off of Hawk's eyes as he watched. Kaye looked up, she could tell that Hawk was still there, she shook her head, telling him to stay where he is. Jakada saw that she distracted, so he looked up to where her eyes were looking, but he couldn't see anything. "Is there something that's up there? Maybe I should go and see what has your attention." Jakada sets her food down and then starts for the stairs.
"No! There's nothing up there, I just didn't want to see your ugly face." Kaye shot back.
"What did you just say?" Jakada asked angrily as he threw something against the cage, making the black energy rise and shock her. Kaye winced, trying to hold back her scream of pain, hoping that Cye wouldn't feel it.
"AAHH!" Cye yelled as he clutched his sides and fell down on his bed.
"Cye!" Thunder said in alarm as he rushed over to him.
"Someone activated the cage that Kaye is in." Cye replied with clenched teeth.
"What!? Who would be so..." Then Thunder realized that was an easy question to answer.
"Jakada." Talpa said as he walked over to them.
"Talpa." Jakada greeted with a mock bow.
"What do you think that you were doing?" Talpa asked suspiciously.
"I was only bringing the Dream Walker her food." Jakada replied as he motioned over to the plate. Talpa looked up towards her, Kaye looked away in anger, and then Talpa looked back at Jakada.
"I believe that you're done here. You may go." Talpa said as he motioned Jakada to leave. Jakada huffed at them and then took one final look towards Kaye, and gave her a hungry look as he licked his lips, and then he finally left. Kaye shivered in disgust, as Talpa watched the nonverbal communication. He was amused that Jakada would even think of trying anything yet with the Dream Walker. Would he be that stupid? Instead of waiting to try and find out the answer to his own question, Talpa looked up towards Kaye.
She felt Talpa's eyes on her, Kaye looked back down. "What?" Kaye asked hotly.
"Be careful on how you talk to me, I can call him back and leave the two of you alone." Talpa replied with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"No...No that's not needed." Kaye objected, "what do you want Talpa, I have a feeling that this is more than just a social call."
"I'll tell you after I take you back to your brother and friend. But first, I think that it would be best to make your wings, even though I find them very fascinating, to disappear." Talpa replied.
"I...I'm not sure how. They just appear and disappear on their own." Kaye explained.
"Well, I suggest that you figure it out before we leave." Talpa said as he turned his back on her.
"Leave? Wait. Where are we going, and who's we?" Kaye asked in extreme curiosity.
Talpa stopped and then looked back. "Will you make your wings disappear?"
"I can try." Kaye replied as she closed her eyes and concentrated very hard on trying to make them disappear. Then after some time passed, and a few more tries, Kaye finally could make them vanish. "Ok, they're gone, now answer my questions."
"Patience, you'll know in due time. Now, I suggest that you come with me." Talpa said as he opened the cage's door. Kaye's eyes went wide in surprise.
"How did you do that? I thought..." Kaye asked.
"You thought that only Badamon could release the cage? Guess again, who do you think has control over Badamon? Me, that's who, so that means I have control over his nether spirits as well. I'm not the lord of the Dynasty for nothing. Now you can either come with me, or you can stay here and wait for Jakada to come back. The choice is yours." Talpa replied as he began to walk away. Kaye jumped down from the cage, and then looked back to see if Hawk was still there, and to her surprise, he wasn't.
'Where did he go?' Kaye wondered with a frown.
Talpa took a quick look back. "Are you coming?"
"Ah yeah, I'm coming." Kaye replied as she caught up with Talpa.
A few minutes later....
"Cye, are you sure that you're ok?" Thunder asked as he looked over to him in concern.
"Yeah Thunder, I'm fine." Cye replied in a short manner. Just then the door opened, Cye and Thunder quickly turned around to see who was coming.
"Get in there." Talpa said as he pushed her forward, into the room. "I'll be back shortly, there are some things that I have to take care of." Then he shut the door and locked it.
"Cye!" Kaye exclaimed as they embraced each other. "I missed you."
"I missed you too." Cye replied as they pulled away. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm better now though." Kaye said with a smile.
"Hey, what about me? Didn't you miss me too?" Thunder asked in a mock hurt.
"Thunder," Kaye replied with a laugh. "Of course I missed you too. You won't believe what I saw when I was in that cage."
"What? What did you see?" Cye asked as they looked over towards her in curiosity. Kaye looked around to make sure that they were the only ones there and then she explained about the wolf that turned into a hawk.
"And that's not the coolest part." Kaye replied, as she tried to wait for them to ask, but she couldn't wait so she just went ahead and told them. "He communicated with me, not by words, but by pictures in my mind. I couldn't believe it." A look of recognition registered on Thunder's face. Cye looked over towards him with a slight frown.
"Thunder, hey..." Cye said as he waved his hand in front of his face to snap back his attention. "What's going on? By Kaye's description, it looks like you know who this wolf is."
Thunder nodded, "Yea I do, his name is Hawk..." Just as he was going to continue with his explanation, Talpa came in.
"You two, come with me." Talpa said as he motioned over towards Cye and Kaye.
"Why, where are we going?" Cye asked as he intended to not even go anywhere with him.
"I'm taking the two of you to see your mother." Talpa replied, as he crossed his arms.
"Our...Mother?" Kaye asked as she and Cye looked towards each other in slight confusion. And then she turned her attention towards Talpa, "Why, why now of all times have you decided to let us see her?"
"There's something that the two of you should know about this 'family,' and I doubt that you'll believe it if it came from me, so I'm taking you two to her, and then you'll know it's the truth. But we're only going for the day, and then we're coming back. If either of you try anything, then you don't want to know the consequences
." Talpa replied, as he uncrossed his arms. "So are the two of you ready to go or we can just forget all about the visit?" Cye and Kaye looked towards each other and then over to Thunder, they didn't feel right about leaving their friend behind.
Thunder saw the look in their eyes, and gave a nod, "I'll be alright, just go." They nodded back and then left with Talpa.
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"If either of you say a word to her of what's been going on, or who I really am, then I'll make you wish that you didn't. Do I make myself clear?" Talpa asked as he made a disguise, and then they walked up to the door. Having the two in front of him, Talpa knocked on the door. A woman came and opened the door, her eyes went wide in surprise. "Hello Shianne, it's been a while."
"Talpa..." Shianne replied in disbelief, and then she saw the other two that were with him. "Cye, Kaye, where have the two of you been? I've been worried sick, ever since your friends told me that you two were missing."
"They've been visiting me, Shianne, I'm sorry that I didn't call to tell you, but I just wanted so much to see them." Talpa replied, "I was wondering if we may come inside? It's been a long drive and we're tired."
"Yes, of course." Shianne said as she let them in. They walked inside and Talpa gave them a warning glance as they sat down. Cye and Kaye looked towards each other and then joined them at the table.
"Sorry to be abrupt, Shianne, but this is only a very short visit, and we have to go back in a few hours." Talpa replied as he looked towards her.
"If it was going to be so short, then why didn't you call, instead of coming all this way?" Shianne asked in slight annoyance.
"This visit is basically about you telling them the truth about when they were small. They wouldn't believe it from me, so I told them that we're going to get it from you." Talpa replied. Shianne frowned and then clenched her hands under the table, and then finally took a deep breath and relaxed.
"I guess that it is time for the two of you to know the truth." Shianne said quietly as she avoided their eyes.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Cye asked curiously.
"See, a long time ago, I gave birth to the two of you. Kaye first and then around a year later, Cye..." Shianne replied as she kept her eyes onto the table, as she
nervously played around with her tea cup. "See, even though the both of you are my children, you each had a different father. Cye, Talpa is your father, and Kaye, Inuzumi, was yours." Cye's eyes went wide in disbelief, but Talpa just had a look on his face that said basically, I told you so.
"No..Inuzumi, was my real father, then...Then you knew what happened that night, don't you!?" Kaye asked as she snapped her attention towards her.
"Yes, I know what happened, and for the rest of my life, I'll never forget it." Shianne replied as she didn't move.
"Then what they said is true, that Inuzumi did take me away from you when I was an infant." Kaye said as she was trying to fight back the tears. Shianne nodded, she refused to make eye contact with anyone. "Did you know that Inuzumi also had another name?"
"Yes, it was Lightning, and he...He's a, well it's kind of hard to explain..." Shianne started to say.
"A what mom, a tiger? Just say it! My father was turned into a mystical tiger!" Kaye replied as she cut her off. "You let him take me away!"
"Kaye, no that's not it! You don't understand!" Shianne said as she quickly looked up from her tea cup when at the same time fighting away the tears.
"Then make me understand! Why didn't you try and get me back?! Why? Didn't you want me?" Kaye asked, as tears were now falling freely down. She ignored them and continued to look into Shianne's eyes.
"Kaye, don't say that! Of course I wanted you, the reason I couldn't run after him was because Cye was a baby at the time, and I couldn't leave him alone. I was afraid that he would have been taken too." Shianne replied, as she was trying to make them understand. Kaye sat down and shut her eyes, she didn't, or actually couldn't say anything.
Cye also couldn't believe everything that he heard either. He was torn between so many emotions that he didn't know how to feel, or even what to think. "Mom, if you knew all of this, then why didn't you ever tell me?" Cye asked in disbelief.
"Cye, I'm sorry but I don't really have an answer...I guess that I couldn't bear it if I lost both of my children." Shianne replied as she looked over towards him.
"I believe that it's time that we take our leave." Talpa said as he got up, and motioned for Cye and Kaye to leave with him.
"It's too soon! You just can't appear one day, and come for the information that you want, and then leave!" Shianne replied as she hurried over to them.
"That's exactly what we're doing. Now, we have to go back, they have an 'appointment,' that just can't break." Talpa said as he ushered them out. As soon as they were outside, Talpa's eyes glowed red and Shianne froze in place, he went into her mind and erased all memories of their short visit, and then teleported her to her bed. Then he turned around and faced them. "We're going back to the Dynasty...Now."
"What did you do to our mom!?" Cye growled angrily.
"She's fine, just asleep, and to answer your question, all I did to her was erase all of the memories of our short visit. Now, we're going back." Talpa replied as he jerked both of them by the arm and vanished.
Back at the Dynasty
Talpa returned with Cye and Kaye, he pushed them inside and then locked the door behind them. Thunder looks up from his meditation, and quickly gets up. "Cye, Kaye, you're alright! Where did he take you? What happened? Did he stay with his word, and take you to see your mother?" Thunder asked in a mix of concern and curiosity.
"Sorry Thunder, I'm not much for talking right now." Kaye replied, "where's a punching bag when you need one?"
"Cye...What's going on?" Thunder asked with a frown. Cye takes a deep breath and then fills Thunder in on what happened. Thunder thought about what Cye told him, he couldn't really think of anything to say to try and be a comfort to the two. Besides the usual condolence of I'm sorry.
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While all of that was going on...Rowen, Kento, and Scorpio were trying to attend to Flash's wounds, while the two tigers prowled around and kept watch. "Flash, hey wake up! Come on, stay with us!" Scorpio said as he was trying to keep her awake.
"Not now...I'm too tired...Wake me in an hour." Flash replied in a sleepy voice. The guys just glance at each other in disbelief, and then Scorpio decided to try again, but this time when he did, a few trees, and shrines caught on fire.