Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?
Crossing Paths
White Light
I sighed as I rolled over in my semi-conscious-semi-sleep, back facing my partners' feet. I mentally took count of how many pairs of feet I was up against. Black's leg guards were my pillows, so that made one pair. Hard steel-toed boots were a little further down, so there's two. Wait.... problem. Where's the third pair of feet?
*Don't wake the others worrying about me. I'm fine,* Lucifer stated calmly. I semi-forced myself to sit up, knowing that I eventually had to get all the way up anyway. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and blinked.
*If you're alright, then where are you?* I asked. I couldn't see a hide or a hair of Lucifer anywhere around the camp sight.
*Enjoying the sunrise... It's a lot easier to see above the trees,* Lucifer answered. I could hear the smile in his voice as he said that.
*Wouldn't know, never been able to fly,* I smirked. Before I knew what was going on, a translucent black orb of energy surrounded me.
*Relax, I'm the one doing this,* Lucifer smiled before I could sound an alarm to a possible kidnapping-in-progress. I blinked as the orb rose up through the parting treetops.
"See what I mean?" Lucifer smirked as the orb stopped climbing right beside him. I got into a more comfortable position and looked out at the horizon. Sure, I had seen the sunrise before, but this was completely different. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky to block the view. Best of all, not a drop of smog or smoke or anything could be seen floating in the air, giving us a crystal-clear view.
"...Picture- perfect doesn't even come close..." I whispered, drinking in the beauty of the sunrise. Lucifer sighed and looked at me out of the corner of his vision. You didn't have to be telepathically linked with him to know that he was upset. "Lucifer? What's the mater, bro?" Lucifer gave another sigh.
"That's exactly what's the mater, Nina..." Lucifer sighed. I blinked from confusion.
"Come again?"
"The fact that we all really are related..." He turned to look at me, and I could tell that if he hadn't had a helmet instead of eyes, he'd be giving me the 'sad, depressed, and deprived' look he had always given me as Impmon when he wasn't getting something he wanted.
"Actually, I think it's kind of great," I smirked, placing my hands behind my head. Lucifer sighed again.
"No, it's not all that great. Now that we know that we're related, doesn't it seem strange? This evil that Athena prophesied about before her...you know...Doesn't it seem strange that the person causing the most damage from both her time and ours is your, her, fathers?" Lucifer explained. I blinked.
"...Yah don't think that Elrond could be Myotismon incarnate, do yah?" I nearly jumped.
"That's what all this is pointing too..." Lucifer sighed, "Being Lucifer...Spirit Digivolving...Getting you involved in a Digimon's problems...Even now as I watch this...I wish it had never happened!" Somehow, I managed to maneuver the bubble over behind Lucifer, reach my hands out, and grab him around the neck. The bubble popped the minute I got a good hold around Lucifer, probably because he lost what little concentration he had in way of controlling the bubble, I startled him so badly.
"Whether you're my real brothers or adopted...Lucifer, Impy, whatever name or form you take...I still love you, Bee, and Black with all my heart. Fate's dealt us one heck of a cruddy hand, but we've still got to play it the way it comes..." I whispered into his ear, pecking him on the cheek. "Don't you ever forget that I love all three of you, no matter what happens." Lucifer brought his hand over mine and grabbed it tight.
"....Jennifer.... Thank you, for giving me back my hope," Lucifer smiled. A warm feeling began to pass from his hand into me, and I began to feel more relaxed than I ever had before. I let out a minor squeal of shock as Bee's arms suddenly wrapped around both me and Lucifer.
"Morning folks!" Bee joked, giving us both a huge bear hug at once. He was gentle about it, but he still nearly squished me to death in Lucifer's wings.
"A little warning would have been nice!" I countered, somehow managing to whack the Beelzemon playfully up side the head.
"And ruin the surprise of me and Black sneaking up here? I think not!" Bee countered, releasing his hold on Lucifer and landing me lengthwise in his arms.
"We figured that you two might be watching the sunrise, so Bee decided to sneak up on you," Black explained as he too floated up next to us.
"We were. And it was nice, and peaceful, and relaxing," my voice was all relaxed and gentle sounding, "Then he showed up and ruined the tender moment with a bear hug." Black chuckled at the amount of mock disgust I had managed to get into my voice.
"Well sooorrrry, Mrs. Poetry writer wanna-be." Bee smirked. I looked up at him and blinked.
"You didn't..."
"Only a quick peak... through the first 27 pages," Bee admitted. I got really mad really fast.
"BEELZEMON!!! You... jerk! Reading my diary!! There are only 27 pages I've written on in that thing, and you read them all?!?!?!" I snapped, nearly jumping right out of his arms. Lucifer called up that orb again, which stopped me from plummeting back to earth like a bowling ball dropped from the top of a seven story building.
"I think you might want to run now..." Black hinted. I was still fuming, but not as mad as I had been before.
"....If I ever find out that you've read my diary again, then I'll.... I'll.... I'll mess up the Behemoth's paint job!!" I screamed. Bee looked at me in mock fear and real shock.
"Not the paint job!! Anything but the paint job!! I spent half of my time daily working on that paint job!!" Bee jumped. One thing you do not do is mess up Bee's bike. The results are NOT going to be healthy if you do.
"You better believe the paint job, buster! So don't you DARE touch my diary ever again!!!" I snapped. Bee gulped, muttering a 'yes, ma'am' under his breath. Lucifer looked like he was going to fall over laughing and Black was trying desperately to hold back fits of laughter.
But, again, fate decided that we weren't aloud more than a moment of peace. A huge explosion off to our right-hand side, which happened to be the west, caught us all off guard.
"What the hell was that?!" Lucifer demanded, steadying himself. Our joy had been thrown into the wind as another explosion rocked the landscape.
"We had better go check it out," I ordered. The bubble popped as I landed in Black's arms this time.
"Right, hang tight," Black ordered as he and the others raced off at full speed towards the source of the blast. Wouldn't yah know it? It was centered at the town we had passed threw earlier, and being caused by none other than Starmon.
"Dang nab it, human! I know you're still around here!! Show yourself!! I'll get you even if I have to destroy the whole town to do it!!" Starmon screamed, shooting everyone and everything in sight.
"What the hell did I ever do to you?!" I snapped as I jumped to the ground. Lucifer and Bee landed directly behind us.
"Three things. 1) You and your partners lied to me. 2) You're a human. 3).... I HATE HUMANS!!!" Starmon yelled, lashing out at us with his attacks. I managed to block a few with the Crimson while Bee and the others got airborne.
"Why do you hate humans? What has a human ever done to you?" Black demanded as he slammed into Starmon. The mon went flying back, but surprisingly managed to stay on his feet.
"Humans deleted my whole family when they charged through the gate server here in town. I've held a grudge against them for years. And now... now... I can finally take revenge!!" Starmon shouted, launching his attack. Lucifer blocked it with another Shell of Darkness and Black just barely made it out of range with his armor still intact.
"Revenge is going to get you nowhere!!" Bee snapped, sneaking up behind Starmon and knocking him back into another building. "It's only going to cause you more pain and those around you suffering." He flicked his wings clear of dirt as he turned his back on the weakened mon.
My eyes hit about double size as Starmon started getting back to his feet. He had a crazed look in his eyes that told me he was about to do something stupid. Something very stupid.
"If...you won't let me....kill that human... then I'll get my revenge... by killing... YOU!!!" Starmon shouted, grabbing his gun.
"Bee, DUCK!!" Lucifer ordered. It was too late, though, for Bee to move out of the way, but it wasn't to late for me to stop his death. Just as the blast fired, I managed to throw myself in the way of the bullets, taking the full blast to the stomach.
Everyone's eyes, including those of Starmon's, hit triple sized as I fell back into Bee's arms from the force of the blast.
"Nina.... you idiot..." Bee whispered. I smiled weakly up at the idiot birdbrain as blood trickled down my mouth. My arm lay weakly over my newly acquired wounds as he bent down and held me firmly in his arms. His wings wrapped around me as well as they could, holding me tight against him. His eyes stung with tears of rage and sadness.
*Don't kill Starmon over this, bros.... That'll just... start another cycle of pain and rage...* I whispered mentally as I coughed up a little blood. Bee couldn't hold back the tears that started falling.
"You idiot, Nina... Don't you dare die... Don't you DARE!!" Bee whispered, holding me tight. I gave him a weak smile as I felt the world around me go dark and grow cold.
"She... gave her life for you...?" Starmon blinked. Lucifer somehow managed to find his voice.
"Yes... because we love each other... like a family!" Lucifer spat, keeping his eyes turned down to the ground.
"You wanted to get your revenge for the murder of your family, Starmon? Congratulations, that drive has caused you to murder yet another family," Black mockingly congratulated. Starmon's shocked eyes looked down at his blaster. He felt his heart sink into the pit of his shoes. He had been such an idiot. Without a second's hesitation, he snapped his gun in two and tossed the pieces as far away from him as he could get them.
"...Looks like you managed to help someone else in need.... Nina..." Bee whispered.
*But I can't help you when you need me most...* the tears were running down his cheeks in droves by now, and one lucky one hit right on the center of the Crimson Jewel. It glowed for a second, but not bright enough for Bee to notice.
*Your gift...Beelzemon...Heal her with your gift...* Black, Bee, and Lucifer all blinked. The voice that had echoed through their minds sounded strikingly like Chaos Lord's voice.
*Chaos Lord...? How.... What gift?* Bee questioned, sticking the 'how' question on the back burner for now.
*You know what I speak of, Beelzemon... The gift that is locked away within you...The gift to heal the wounds of the injured...* Chaos Lord answered.
*Wrong mon, Chaos Lord...Beelzemons don't have that kind of power...* Bee countered, *But, Lord, if I did...I'd use it right now and save her!*
*You do have that gift locked deep within you, Beelzemon. When you and BlackWarGreymon Spirit Digivolved to my form, I felt it pulsing within you. It seemed very faint at first, but then I realized it was so faint only because you had yet to realize you had it within you,* Chaos Lord explained. Bee blinked.
*...How...do I use it then?* Bee asked. Chaos Lord sighed.
*You must find it within yourself.*
*Dang it, Chaos Lord! Nina doesn't have the time for me to do all that 'searching my soul' bull!* Bee snapped.
*Wait! We could help you, Bee!* Lucifer jumped.
*He's right! We could enter into your mind and help you look for it!* Black jumped. Bee blinked, not sure of what to do.
*It is your choice, Beelzemon,* Chaos Lord stated. Bee took one look at my dying body in front of him, and his mind was made up.
*We'll hunt for it together, then. I don't care if we have to rip my mind apart to find it, but we will find it in time to save her, or help me...!* Bee spat, closing his eyes and holding me close. Lucifer and Black also closed their eyes, concentrating their energies within Bee's mind.
*Found it!*
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Inside Bee's head was a bit of a messy place. There were manuals on how to work on bikes, magazine images of different kinds of motorcycles, and half a dozen other things thrown all over the place. Black and Lucifer nearly fell over at the disorganized mess as they started their hunt. Like in my subconscious, Bee's memories played above them in the 'sky', and his latest memories were being passed up into the 'sky' like the sun rising up in the west.
Bee, minus his wings, was already hard at work looking through the disorganized mess that was his subconscious, trying desperately to find his 'gift'.
*Found it!* Lucifer, Bee, and Black shouted at the same time as they all came upon the same huge white orb. Bee looked at it for a second, and blinked. This defiantly had to be it, because it seriously didn't go with his biker motif.
*Grab the orb, Beelzemon, and bring your gift to the surface! Hurry! Nina's life is all but gone from this world!* Chaos Lord urged.
*We're going to have to have a very long talk about how you're telling me all of this after Nina's back in the land of the living, Chaos Lord.* Bee promised as he reached out to grab the orb. When his hands were about an inch away from the orb, he stopped and turned to the two behind him. *You two better scat back to your own bodies. I don't have a clue what's about to happen.*
*All right...* Black sighed, disappearing.
*Good luck...* Lucifer added as he too disappeared.
*Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to need it...?* Bee muttered. The moment he touched the orb, a white hot light began to snake up his arms. *...That's why!...*
The energy came rushing into him, almost causing him to let go of the orb. He held tight, though, and didn't let go. The energy crackled through him like electricity, and he felt it burning itself into his skin. The orb began to glow white hot, and the hotter it got, the more Bee dug in with his claws. The energy snaked into his head, searing all three of his eyes as it pulsed in through them into his conscious mind. He opened his mouth to try and scream the pain out, but instead of letting out a scream, he let the energy into his very soul. The energy crackled through him, fidgeting its way through every bit of him, including all the way down to the tip of his tail. His back began to budge at the shoulder blades as his wings began to come out, and when they finally ripped through his jacket like they always did, the energy seared itself into them. Bee was finally forced to release the orb by the fact it sent out a huge jolt of energy through his claws. The energy that was still crackling into Bee continued to sear into his flesh as he was tossed back into one of the farther reaches of his subconscious mind. A bright light passed around Bee's body as the energy finished becoming absorbed into him. Bee shook his head to clear it of the lingering pain as he somehow managed to get to his feet.
*That...hurt...* Bee muttered. His wings flapped forward without any mental command, and Bee gasped. His wings had been turned pure white! He looked down at his hands, his legs, and then back at his tail. Everything on him, excluding his skin, hair, and scarf, and been turned white! Pure untainted white!
*What the heck?!* A light chuckle could be heard.
*Good, I see you've absorbed your gift fully. Now, hurry! Use your gift and save Nina!* Chaos Lord's voice ordered. Bee closed his eyes in concentration, and his body began to glow.
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*Come on, Bee! Nina's about gone!* Lucifer warned.
*You can do this, Bee!* Black cheered.
*...Yeah... and that whole orb thing hurt like hell and then some...* Bee muttered as he opened his eyes back in reality. His body began to pulse with a blindingly white light as he quickly filled Lucifer and Black in on what had happened.
"He...he's glowing!" a passerby Digimon whispered. Half the town had seen what I had done to save Bee, and they had hit Starmon upside the head with half a dozen insults already in response.
"Nina... Come back to the living..." Bee ordered, holding me tight against his chest.
*USE IT NOW!!!!* Chaos Lord roared. Bee nodded as he closed his eyes. Holding me tight against his heart, he rose to his feet.
*Keep your head on, yah Digi-God!* Bee snapped back. Chaos Lord blinked.
"Demon Feather's Healing!!!" Bee roared, slamming his wings open. The feathers on Bee's wings began to fly off in different directions, landing on the wounded wherever their injuries were. Three feathers landed on me, it took that many just to cover the wound's full area. The feathers glowed white hot for a moment, then vanished, leaving the wounds as nothing but painful memories. Bee stopped glowing, and just about fell over with me in his arms.
"Beelzemon!!" Black and Lucifer cried out in shock as they ran to catch their falling brother. They got their just in time to steady him on his knees.
"...Was I too late...?" Bee gasped aloud, seeing as I had yet to open my eyes. My eyes were closed tightly against the bright light that was still shinning off Bee a little, and I cracked them open slowly.
"...What's...with the light show...bro?" I asked groggily. Bee smirked down at me in relief. Lucifer released a breath he hadn't noticed he was holding as the tension lessened. That's when he noticed something had changed about Bee.
"Holy... Bee! You're wings! You... You're....!!" Lucifer stuttered, looking hard at Bee.
"...Pure white!..." Black finished, his eyes about to fall out of his helmet. I looked up at Bee, and yah, he was pure white. His skin was still pale blue, but his helmet was now white, as were the bits of him that I could see from my current vantage point. I also noticed something else.
"Your third eye..." I whispered as reached up to touch the now closed part of Bee's pure white helmet. "It's...gone..."
"It is? Well, what do yah know? It is," Bee smirked, allowing me to touch that part of his helmet. "How yah feeling?"
"Like I just died," I replied, trying to get to my feet. Bee chuckled a little.
"You did," I pinned him with a glare that said he had to be kidding.
"We'll...fill you in on the more important details later," Black muttered, noticing the pressing crowd.
"How did you do that?!" "Get them to stay, force them to stay and answer us!" the crowd was turning ugly. I took a look over at Starmon, and he looked at me. He mouthed over something, and I nodded in understanding.
"Let's get the heck out of here!" I laughed, allowing Bee to pick me up again.
*Take off!* Bee laughed as he threw open his wings again. With a strong back-wing, we were off in the air. I held myself close to him as we flew quickly out of the town.
*So...what did Starmon mouth over to you?* Lucifer asked mentally as he came into formation on the left-hand side us.
*Yes, do tell,* Black inquired as he moved in on the right. I smiled.
*Live, and I'm sorry.*
*That's it? I guess it makes sense....* Bee muttered. As we landed in a VERY far away clearing, I hopped out of Bee's arms and turned on him.
"All right, angel boy, what the heck happened while I was quote 'dead'?" I demanded. Bee looked at me and smirked.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you," Bee smirked. I blinked.
"If it has something to do with my diary and confessions, I want to hear it all!" I smiled.
"Let's get dinner going and then I'll..." Bee really didn't get to finish his sentence as he collapsed from lack of energy, returning to his normal colors and regaining his third eye in the process.
*Fainting on me was not the right answer!!* I mentally screamed at him.
*...Sorry... too tired to get up...* Bee answered. I sighed as I wiggled out from under him.
"Black, give me a hand getting Sleeping Beauty-mon into a more comfortable sleeping spot. Lucifer, sorry to dumb dinner plans all on you, but do yah mind?" I ordered.
"Say no more, Nina. I'll go get dinner. Or maybe I should be saying breakfast because it is still just 7 or 8 in the morning..." I sighed. Lucifer just gave my hair a ruffle before disappearing into the surrounding woods to go get food.
"So, Black... What'd I miss?"
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Ah, that's done! Oh, yes, and Corran? In response to your little editor note that you slipped me via e-mail, this is taking the place of the Powerstone one.
Bee: Is there a particular reason you turned me all white?
White shows purity. You can't really fully heal someone body and mind unless you yourself are pure.
Trunks: For a completely random answer, that works pretty well...
*falls over anime style* That's not completely random!!
Trunks: *rolls eyes* Sure it ain't...
Moving on.... Thanks for the reviews! Thanks again to Corran Nackatori who's doing the editing for this story! And, as always....
PLEASE REVIEW!! And I am accepting flames incase someone was wondering. I will not chew you out for a flame. I'm a slightly grown up writer and I should be able to handle criticism with a smile, even if I don't personally like it.
Lena: Shut the curtain before she talks our ears off, Janus!
Janus: Right! *slams curtain closed, ending the chapter*
Crossing Paths
White Light
I sighed as I rolled over in my semi-conscious-semi-sleep, back facing my partners' feet. I mentally took count of how many pairs of feet I was up against. Black's leg guards were my pillows, so that made one pair. Hard steel-toed boots were a little further down, so there's two. Wait.... problem. Where's the third pair of feet?
*Don't wake the others worrying about me. I'm fine,* Lucifer stated calmly. I semi-forced myself to sit up, knowing that I eventually had to get all the way up anyway. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and blinked.
*If you're alright, then where are you?* I asked. I couldn't see a hide or a hair of Lucifer anywhere around the camp sight.
*Enjoying the sunrise... It's a lot easier to see above the trees,* Lucifer answered. I could hear the smile in his voice as he said that.
*Wouldn't know, never been able to fly,* I smirked. Before I knew what was going on, a translucent black orb of energy surrounded me.
*Relax, I'm the one doing this,* Lucifer smiled before I could sound an alarm to a possible kidnapping-in-progress. I blinked as the orb rose up through the parting treetops.
"See what I mean?" Lucifer smirked as the orb stopped climbing right beside him. I got into a more comfortable position and looked out at the horizon. Sure, I had seen the sunrise before, but this was completely different. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky to block the view. Best of all, not a drop of smog or smoke or anything could be seen floating in the air, giving us a crystal-clear view.
"...Picture- perfect doesn't even come close..." I whispered, drinking in the beauty of the sunrise. Lucifer sighed and looked at me out of the corner of his vision. You didn't have to be telepathically linked with him to know that he was upset. "Lucifer? What's the mater, bro?" Lucifer gave another sigh.
"That's exactly what's the mater, Nina..." Lucifer sighed. I blinked from confusion.
"Come again?"
"The fact that we all really are related..." He turned to look at me, and I could tell that if he hadn't had a helmet instead of eyes, he'd be giving me the 'sad, depressed, and deprived' look he had always given me as Impmon when he wasn't getting something he wanted.
"Actually, I think it's kind of great," I smirked, placing my hands behind my head. Lucifer sighed again.
"No, it's not all that great. Now that we know that we're related, doesn't it seem strange? This evil that Athena prophesied about before her...you know...Doesn't it seem strange that the person causing the most damage from both her time and ours is your, her, fathers?" Lucifer explained. I blinked.
"...Yah don't think that Elrond could be Myotismon incarnate, do yah?" I nearly jumped.
"That's what all this is pointing too..." Lucifer sighed, "Being Lucifer...Spirit Digivolving...Getting you involved in a Digimon's problems...Even now as I watch this...I wish it had never happened!" Somehow, I managed to maneuver the bubble over behind Lucifer, reach my hands out, and grab him around the neck. The bubble popped the minute I got a good hold around Lucifer, probably because he lost what little concentration he had in way of controlling the bubble, I startled him so badly.
"Whether you're my real brothers or adopted...Lucifer, Impy, whatever name or form you take...I still love you, Bee, and Black with all my heart. Fate's dealt us one heck of a cruddy hand, but we've still got to play it the way it comes..." I whispered into his ear, pecking him on the cheek. "Don't you ever forget that I love all three of you, no matter what happens." Lucifer brought his hand over mine and grabbed it tight.
"....Jennifer.... Thank you, for giving me back my hope," Lucifer smiled. A warm feeling began to pass from his hand into me, and I began to feel more relaxed than I ever had before. I let out a minor squeal of shock as Bee's arms suddenly wrapped around both me and Lucifer.
"Morning folks!" Bee joked, giving us both a huge bear hug at once. He was gentle about it, but he still nearly squished me to death in Lucifer's wings.
"A little warning would have been nice!" I countered, somehow managing to whack the Beelzemon playfully up side the head.
"And ruin the surprise of me and Black sneaking up here? I think not!" Bee countered, releasing his hold on Lucifer and landing me lengthwise in his arms.
"We figured that you two might be watching the sunrise, so Bee decided to sneak up on you," Black explained as he too floated up next to us.
"We were. And it was nice, and peaceful, and relaxing," my voice was all relaxed and gentle sounding, "Then he showed up and ruined the tender moment with a bear hug." Black chuckled at the amount of mock disgust I had managed to get into my voice.
"Well sooorrrry, Mrs. Poetry writer wanna-be." Bee smirked. I looked up at him and blinked.
"You didn't..."
"Only a quick peak... through the first 27 pages," Bee admitted. I got really mad really fast.
"BEELZEMON!!! You... jerk! Reading my diary!! There are only 27 pages I've written on in that thing, and you read them all?!?!?!" I snapped, nearly jumping right out of his arms. Lucifer called up that orb again, which stopped me from plummeting back to earth like a bowling ball dropped from the top of a seven story building.
"I think you might want to run now..." Black hinted. I was still fuming, but not as mad as I had been before.
"....If I ever find out that you've read my diary again, then I'll.... I'll.... I'll mess up the Behemoth's paint job!!" I screamed. Bee looked at me in mock fear and real shock.
"Not the paint job!! Anything but the paint job!! I spent half of my time daily working on that paint job!!" Bee jumped. One thing you do not do is mess up Bee's bike. The results are NOT going to be healthy if you do.
"You better believe the paint job, buster! So don't you DARE touch my diary ever again!!!" I snapped. Bee gulped, muttering a 'yes, ma'am' under his breath. Lucifer looked like he was going to fall over laughing and Black was trying desperately to hold back fits of laughter.
But, again, fate decided that we weren't aloud more than a moment of peace. A huge explosion off to our right-hand side, which happened to be the west, caught us all off guard.
"What the hell was that?!" Lucifer demanded, steadying himself. Our joy had been thrown into the wind as another explosion rocked the landscape.
"We had better go check it out," I ordered. The bubble popped as I landed in Black's arms this time.
"Right, hang tight," Black ordered as he and the others raced off at full speed towards the source of the blast. Wouldn't yah know it? It was centered at the town we had passed threw earlier, and being caused by none other than Starmon.
"Dang nab it, human! I know you're still around here!! Show yourself!! I'll get you even if I have to destroy the whole town to do it!!" Starmon screamed, shooting everyone and everything in sight.
"What the hell did I ever do to you?!" I snapped as I jumped to the ground. Lucifer and Bee landed directly behind us.
"Three things. 1) You and your partners lied to me. 2) You're a human. 3).... I HATE HUMANS!!!" Starmon yelled, lashing out at us with his attacks. I managed to block a few with the Crimson while Bee and the others got airborne.
"Why do you hate humans? What has a human ever done to you?" Black demanded as he slammed into Starmon. The mon went flying back, but surprisingly managed to stay on his feet.
"Humans deleted my whole family when they charged through the gate server here in town. I've held a grudge against them for years. And now... now... I can finally take revenge!!" Starmon shouted, launching his attack. Lucifer blocked it with another Shell of Darkness and Black just barely made it out of range with his armor still intact.
"Revenge is going to get you nowhere!!" Bee snapped, sneaking up behind Starmon and knocking him back into another building. "It's only going to cause you more pain and those around you suffering." He flicked his wings clear of dirt as he turned his back on the weakened mon.
My eyes hit about double size as Starmon started getting back to his feet. He had a crazed look in his eyes that told me he was about to do something stupid. Something very stupid.
"If...you won't let me....kill that human... then I'll get my revenge... by killing... YOU!!!" Starmon shouted, grabbing his gun.
"Bee, DUCK!!" Lucifer ordered. It was too late, though, for Bee to move out of the way, but it wasn't to late for me to stop his death. Just as the blast fired, I managed to throw myself in the way of the bullets, taking the full blast to the stomach.
Everyone's eyes, including those of Starmon's, hit triple sized as I fell back into Bee's arms from the force of the blast.
"Nina.... you idiot..." Bee whispered. I smiled weakly up at the idiot birdbrain as blood trickled down my mouth. My arm lay weakly over my newly acquired wounds as he bent down and held me firmly in his arms. His wings wrapped around me as well as they could, holding me tight against him. His eyes stung with tears of rage and sadness.
*Don't kill Starmon over this, bros.... That'll just... start another cycle of pain and rage...* I whispered mentally as I coughed up a little blood. Bee couldn't hold back the tears that started falling.
"You idiot, Nina... Don't you dare die... Don't you DARE!!" Bee whispered, holding me tight. I gave him a weak smile as I felt the world around me go dark and grow cold.
"She... gave her life for you...?" Starmon blinked. Lucifer somehow managed to find his voice.
"Yes... because we love each other... like a family!" Lucifer spat, keeping his eyes turned down to the ground.
"You wanted to get your revenge for the murder of your family, Starmon? Congratulations, that drive has caused you to murder yet another family," Black mockingly congratulated. Starmon's shocked eyes looked down at his blaster. He felt his heart sink into the pit of his shoes. He had been such an idiot. Without a second's hesitation, he snapped his gun in two and tossed the pieces as far away from him as he could get them.
"...Looks like you managed to help someone else in need.... Nina..." Bee whispered.
*But I can't help you when you need me most...* the tears were running down his cheeks in droves by now, and one lucky one hit right on the center of the Crimson Jewel. It glowed for a second, but not bright enough for Bee to notice.
*Your gift...Beelzemon...Heal her with your gift...* Black, Bee, and Lucifer all blinked. The voice that had echoed through their minds sounded strikingly like Chaos Lord's voice.
*Chaos Lord...? How.... What gift?* Bee questioned, sticking the 'how' question on the back burner for now.
*You know what I speak of, Beelzemon... The gift that is locked away within you...The gift to heal the wounds of the injured...* Chaos Lord answered.
*Wrong mon, Chaos Lord...Beelzemons don't have that kind of power...* Bee countered, *But, Lord, if I did...I'd use it right now and save her!*
*You do have that gift locked deep within you, Beelzemon. When you and BlackWarGreymon Spirit Digivolved to my form, I felt it pulsing within you. It seemed very faint at first, but then I realized it was so faint only because you had yet to realize you had it within you,* Chaos Lord explained. Bee blinked.
*...How...do I use it then?* Bee asked. Chaos Lord sighed.
*You must find it within yourself.*
*Dang it, Chaos Lord! Nina doesn't have the time for me to do all that 'searching my soul' bull!* Bee snapped.
*Wait! We could help you, Bee!* Lucifer jumped.
*He's right! We could enter into your mind and help you look for it!* Black jumped. Bee blinked, not sure of what to do.
*It is your choice, Beelzemon,* Chaos Lord stated. Bee took one look at my dying body in front of him, and his mind was made up.
*We'll hunt for it together, then. I don't care if we have to rip my mind apart to find it, but we will find it in time to save her, or help me...!* Bee spat, closing his eyes and holding me close. Lucifer and Black also closed their eyes, concentrating their energies within Bee's mind.
*Found it!*
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Inside Bee's head was a bit of a messy place. There were manuals on how to work on bikes, magazine images of different kinds of motorcycles, and half a dozen other things thrown all over the place. Black and Lucifer nearly fell over at the disorganized mess as they started their hunt. Like in my subconscious, Bee's memories played above them in the 'sky', and his latest memories were being passed up into the 'sky' like the sun rising up in the west.
Bee, minus his wings, was already hard at work looking through the disorganized mess that was his subconscious, trying desperately to find his 'gift'.
*Found it!* Lucifer, Bee, and Black shouted at the same time as they all came upon the same huge white orb. Bee looked at it for a second, and blinked. This defiantly had to be it, because it seriously didn't go with his biker motif.
*Grab the orb, Beelzemon, and bring your gift to the surface! Hurry! Nina's life is all but gone from this world!* Chaos Lord urged.
*We're going to have to have a very long talk about how you're telling me all of this after Nina's back in the land of the living, Chaos Lord.* Bee promised as he reached out to grab the orb. When his hands were about an inch away from the orb, he stopped and turned to the two behind him. *You two better scat back to your own bodies. I don't have a clue what's about to happen.*
*All right...* Black sighed, disappearing.
*Good luck...* Lucifer added as he too disappeared.
*Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to need it...?* Bee muttered. The moment he touched the orb, a white hot light began to snake up his arms. *...That's why!...*
The energy came rushing into him, almost causing him to let go of the orb. He held tight, though, and didn't let go. The energy crackled through him like electricity, and he felt it burning itself into his skin. The orb began to glow white hot, and the hotter it got, the more Bee dug in with his claws. The energy snaked into his head, searing all three of his eyes as it pulsed in through them into his conscious mind. He opened his mouth to try and scream the pain out, but instead of letting out a scream, he let the energy into his very soul. The energy crackled through him, fidgeting its way through every bit of him, including all the way down to the tip of his tail. His back began to budge at the shoulder blades as his wings began to come out, and when they finally ripped through his jacket like they always did, the energy seared itself into them. Bee was finally forced to release the orb by the fact it sent out a huge jolt of energy through his claws. The energy that was still crackling into Bee continued to sear into his flesh as he was tossed back into one of the farther reaches of his subconscious mind. A bright light passed around Bee's body as the energy finished becoming absorbed into him. Bee shook his head to clear it of the lingering pain as he somehow managed to get to his feet.
*That...hurt...* Bee muttered. His wings flapped forward without any mental command, and Bee gasped. His wings had been turned pure white! He looked down at his hands, his legs, and then back at his tail. Everything on him, excluding his skin, hair, and scarf, and been turned white! Pure untainted white!
*What the heck?!* A light chuckle could be heard.
*Good, I see you've absorbed your gift fully. Now, hurry! Use your gift and save Nina!* Chaos Lord's voice ordered. Bee closed his eyes in concentration, and his body began to glow.
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*Come on, Bee! Nina's about gone!* Lucifer warned.
*You can do this, Bee!* Black cheered.
*...Yeah... and that whole orb thing hurt like hell and then some...* Bee muttered as he opened his eyes back in reality. His body began to pulse with a blindingly white light as he quickly filled Lucifer and Black in on what had happened.
"He...he's glowing!" a passerby Digimon whispered. Half the town had seen what I had done to save Bee, and they had hit Starmon upside the head with half a dozen insults already in response.
"Nina... Come back to the living..." Bee ordered, holding me tight against his chest.
*USE IT NOW!!!!* Chaos Lord roared. Bee nodded as he closed his eyes. Holding me tight against his heart, he rose to his feet.
*Keep your head on, yah Digi-God!* Bee snapped back. Chaos Lord blinked.
"Demon Feather's Healing!!!" Bee roared, slamming his wings open. The feathers on Bee's wings began to fly off in different directions, landing on the wounded wherever their injuries were. Three feathers landed on me, it took that many just to cover the wound's full area. The feathers glowed white hot for a moment, then vanished, leaving the wounds as nothing but painful memories. Bee stopped glowing, and just about fell over with me in his arms.
"Beelzemon!!" Black and Lucifer cried out in shock as they ran to catch their falling brother. They got their just in time to steady him on his knees.
"...Was I too late...?" Bee gasped aloud, seeing as I had yet to open my eyes. My eyes were closed tightly against the bright light that was still shinning off Bee a little, and I cracked them open slowly.
"...What's...with the light show...bro?" I asked groggily. Bee smirked down at me in relief. Lucifer released a breath he hadn't noticed he was holding as the tension lessened. That's when he noticed something had changed about Bee.
"Holy... Bee! You're wings! You... You're....!!" Lucifer stuttered, looking hard at Bee.
"...Pure white!..." Black finished, his eyes about to fall out of his helmet. I looked up at Bee, and yah, he was pure white. His skin was still pale blue, but his helmet was now white, as were the bits of him that I could see from my current vantage point. I also noticed something else.
"Your third eye..." I whispered as reached up to touch the now closed part of Bee's pure white helmet. "It's...gone..."
"It is? Well, what do yah know? It is," Bee smirked, allowing me to touch that part of his helmet. "How yah feeling?"
"Like I just died," I replied, trying to get to my feet. Bee chuckled a little.
"You did," I pinned him with a glare that said he had to be kidding.
"We'll...fill you in on the more important details later," Black muttered, noticing the pressing crowd.
"How did you do that?!" "Get them to stay, force them to stay and answer us!" the crowd was turning ugly. I took a look over at Starmon, and he looked at me. He mouthed over something, and I nodded in understanding.
"Let's get the heck out of here!" I laughed, allowing Bee to pick me up again.
*Take off!* Bee laughed as he threw open his wings again. With a strong back-wing, we were off in the air. I held myself close to him as we flew quickly out of the town.
*So...what did Starmon mouth over to you?* Lucifer asked mentally as he came into formation on the left-hand side us.
*Yes, do tell,* Black inquired as he moved in on the right. I smiled.
*Live, and I'm sorry.*
*That's it? I guess it makes sense....* Bee muttered. As we landed in a VERY far away clearing, I hopped out of Bee's arms and turned on him.
"All right, angel boy, what the heck happened while I was quote 'dead'?" I demanded. Bee looked at me and smirked.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you," Bee smirked. I blinked.
"If it has something to do with my diary and confessions, I want to hear it all!" I smiled.
"Let's get dinner going and then I'll..." Bee really didn't get to finish his sentence as he collapsed from lack of energy, returning to his normal colors and regaining his third eye in the process.
*Fainting on me was not the right answer!!* I mentally screamed at him.
*...Sorry... too tired to get up...* Bee answered. I sighed as I wiggled out from under him.
"Black, give me a hand getting Sleeping Beauty-mon into a more comfortable sleeping spot. Lucifer, sorry to dumb dinner plans all on you, but do yah mind?" I ordered.
"Say no more, Nina. I'll go get dinner. Or maybe I should be saying breakfast because it is still just 7 or 8 in the morning..." I sighed. Lucifer just gave my hair a ruffle before disappearing into the surrounding woods to go get food.
"So, Black... What'd I miss?"
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Ah, that's done! Oh, yes, and Corran? In response to your little editor note that you slipped me via e-mail, this is taking the place of the Powerstone one.
Bee: Is there a particular reason you turned me all white?
White shows purity. You can't really fully heal someone body and mind unless you yourself are pure.
Trunks: For a completely random answer, that works pretty well...
*falls over anime style* That's not completely random!!
Trunks: *rolls eyes* Sure it ain't...
Moving on.... Thanks for the reviews! Thanks again to Corran Nackatori who's doing the editing for this story! And, as always....
PLEASE REVIEW!! And I am accepting flames incase someone was wondering. I will not chew you out for a flame. I'm a slightly grown up writer and I should be able to handle criticism with a smile, even if I don't personally like it.
Lena: Shut the curtain before she talks our ears off, Janus!
Janus: Right! *slams curtain closed, ending the chapter*