Blink blink.... Well what do yah know...? Tyrant's covering for my
mistake...
I'M SUCH AN IDIOT!!!! I didn't have to take this down after all! I am a serious...
Bee: *whacks me us side the head* Baka~!
*swirl eye thing* Uh...yeah... *shakes head quickly and is back to normal* Now here's the chapter... AGAIN!! This time, edited.
Crossing Paths
Ancient and Nina... What's the Connection?
"Boring!" I sighed, plopping down on a wooden bench near the outskirts of the misted forest. Chaos Lord laughed lightly at my antics, leaning against the back of the bench and showing his more Bee-ish side.
"Perhaps you'd rather see the Flame Lord and gather information? That would be far less 'boring' than simply having me accompany you." Chaos Lord suggested. I looked up at him, at the smirk dancing in his eyes, and stuck my tong out at him.
"Nah!" He let out a laugh at that, closing his eyes in a half smile and turning to face the opposite direction as me. My heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I could have sworn I heard somebody whispering my name, as in my real name, in my ear. I thought I saw past the wooden entrance of the mist-covered forest, straight back to a rather tall looking man with his hands resting on the hilt of his sheathed sword, looking straight back at me and whispering my name. Chaos Lord's hand on my shoulder suddenly pulled me out of it.
"Nina? What's wrong?" Chaos Lord demanded. I closed my eyes and shook my head slightly to clear the sudden feeling from my mind.
"You ever have one of those feelings like you're being watched? And for a split second, no matter how far away the watcher is, you manage to catch a glimpse of him?" I questioned softly. Chaos Lord nodded in understanding. "...I think somebody in those woods is trying to get my attention..."
"That's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard." Well look who's back! Bolt!
"Hey, blue boy, up and atom so soon?" I smirked, not even blinking about the fact he looked like a human now. A sudden red hand at my throat made me gasp and grab at the hand. In two shakes of a lamb's tail, I had the hand's owner over my shoulder and in a tight neck lock with Chaos Lord.
"Firenze! I realize you would like to vent some of your anger for your defeat on Athena's incarnate, but need I remind you who she is?!" Chaos Lord boomed. The now revived Firenze growled, falling limb in Chaos Lord's grip.
"Chaos Lord... She and her brethren nearly killed me!" Firenze countered, drawing his sword and pointing it at me the moment he was loose. I would have countered, if not for that weird feeling screaming back through my mind, this time looking as if the person was trying to feel out something. I shut my mind of completely, even to the others who were sill outside the Sacred Sanctuary, and nearly fainted. I halfway thought they were going to throw an insult at me, but instead, everyone gathered looked back towards the Ancient Woods.
"...Impossible..." Bolt muttered.
"A...summoning spell...?" Chaos Lord whispered.
"...Who is calling to whom...or what?" Firenze whispered, shocked for some reason. I took a deep breath, and turned towards the forest.
"Good question. Want ah come find out?" I smirked, daredevil style.
"Fool! No being has ever returned from that wood!" Bolt snapped, his whip striking the ground in show of his anger.
"Eh." I shrugged him off, walking towards the woods anyway. Chaos Lord let out a sigh, before following behind me.
"C-Chaos Lord?! You can't be serious!!" Chaos Lord turned back to face Bolt, and shrugged,
"I am," before turning back to follow me towards the woods.
"...Well I, for one...am not about to be outdone by that human witch!! Athena's reincarnate or not!!" Firenze growled, sheathing his sword and stomping after us. Bolt sort of blinked, before cursing and advancing towards us.
"...In the name of all things Holy... I'm supposed to stop the intruders, and instead I'm keeping two insane idiots alive!!!" I kinda smirked when I heard that.
"This brings back memories," I teased.
"Yes, only they're not used to taking orders." Chaos Lord countered, his hand at the ready to draw his sword.
"Like you are?" I countered, steeping over a large root. I nearly fell flat on my face as that feeling washed over me with ten times the normal force.
"Nina!" Chaos Lord quickly steadied me in his grip.
"So the spell's targeting her?" Firenze muttered, looking around the forest in a glare. Bolt cracked his whip against the ground again, glaring directly in front.
"Alright, whoever or whatever you are! Revile yourself now and fight like a mon!"
*Fight like... a mon...?* I tensed as the voice started forcing itself into our minds. A verbal laugh echoed through out the woods, making the sleeping bats disperse through the air. *I am no...mon... You, however, are a fool to trespass...here?!*
"Shut the hell up!!" I snapped, unsheathing the Crimson and pointing it towards where I felt the strongest pull, coincidently stopping him mid sentence. "Why the hell are you trying to invade my mind?!"
*Invade your...?* the voice let out another laugh, this time more jubilant. *Jennifer! Ah, how you've grown!* Before I could even blink, I was being pulled up by a root towards a rather thick patch of vines that served as a kind of house. A tall man, about Chaos Lord's height, with long silver grey hair, burning brown eyes, soft facial features, fangs, a tail, and small claws dressed like that knight dude in 'Escaflona the Move', grabbed me in a hug the minute I reached his height. Chaos Lord quickly punched him out.
"Gah!! I have just been violated!!" I gasped, sheathing the Crimson and brushing myself off. "Yuck, nasty! I think he might ah tried to kiss me!!!" Chaos Lord let out a low growl to that one, with Firenze and Bolt rising up behind him on pillars of either fire or electricity. The man that had hugged me seemed hurt, and before anyone could blink, he had turned into a rather large wolf that, standing on all fours, reached my waist. Everyone but me let out a gasp.
*I would N-E-V-E-R violate my own descendant, Jennifer!!!* the wolf snapped, breaking down my mental defenses as if he were simply snapping a twig. *Chaos Lord, catch her and lay her gently here.* A vine-made bed suddenly showed up, and right before I could pass out into my subconscious due to the force of the mental blow, Chaos Lord had caught me in his arms.
"...The Guard of the Woods... Ancient...?!"
*No duh,*
* * * * * * * * * * * *
All three paused mid movement, stiffening as if to prepare for some kind of an attack.
"...Huh...?" Rico blinked, the first to notice that Bee, Black, and Lucifer had suddenly stopped. Wizardmon looked back at them, a soft glow in his eyes.
"What's wrong? What's happened?" He demanded.
"...Nina...cut herself off..." Lucifer muttered, looking down at the ground. "...Something was...attacking her mind...so she cut herself off from everything..."
"...She's near the Shrieking Shack, but that's all we know..." Black sighed.
*We can't get there with Lars still being hurt,* Lucifer stated to the three that could hear him mentally.
*Yes... Bee, is there any chance...?* Black stopped mid thought when Bee showed him the still white mark now pulsating on his wrist.
*Yea,*
"Okay, move it." Bee growled, marching up to Lars who had yet again needed to rest against the rock face. Kimber and E-Vie had instantly blocked his path.
"What for? So you can kill me again?" Lars growled, panting slightly.
"Do yah mind?" Bee questioned, a dark edge in his tone.
"Yeah, I do!" E-Vie growled. Bee let out a sigh, before reviling the glowing white claw mark on his wrist. The human and Digimon exchanged a blink.
"Now, before I go full out white blast mode, do yah mind moving?!" Bee snapped. The two parted like the Red Sea. Bee bent down on one knee next to Lars, making the later growl in worry and pain. "Shut it,"
"Make me," Lars growled. Bee put his hand directly in front of his third eye, closed his own eyes, and smirked.
"Kay,"
Lars had just enough time to blink before gasping out in shock at something only he and a certain wizard duo could see. Bee's smirk had turned into a grimace as he pushed all his hidden energy to the front, forcing himself to switch to his pure white blast mode. His eyes snapped open and he exploded in light when his pure white wings finally managed to break themselves loose. Lars was also lost in the light, glowing with half the strength of the light still echoing off Bee as his wound was shut tight.
*Now that everyone is thoroughly shocked...* Black sighed.
Bee stood up once the glow had ended and he was back to being pure white, offering Lars a hand up as well.
"Okay, what the hell did we just miss!?"
* * * * * * * * * * * *
At that moment in my subconscious mind, I was in the middle of a fight with a giant white/silver wolf!!
*How the hell did you get in here?!* I demanded, blocking yet another counter blow.
*The same way your brothers can!* the wolf snapped back. He had retreated back a few feet after his failed attempt at trying to corner me.
*Great! That didn't answer the question!!* I screamed, charging in. Before I knew what was happening, the wolf was back to being a guy and had me pinned down against the ground, disarmed and defenseless. His eyes glowed a demonic silver color, he shoved his hand against my face, and yelled,
*Awaken!!* at the top of his mental lungs. A bright orb of silver suddenly shot out of his hand, making me wince. All the doors to all the people I knew and loved, including the Chaos Lord that happened to be looking down at my physical body, snapped open. Being used to the mental link, I shut them enough so that they could only hear what I wanted them to hear, and nothing else. Another door, this one leading to what I would assume would be the wolf's mind, snapped open wide at both ends, letting me feel his emotions as if they were my own. Top on his list; worry that I'd lost my mind and that he might have gone a pinch overboard. I instantly shut that door so that I couldn't feel his emotions, but found that it couldn't be shut all the way.
*...Alright...bakayero...Who the hell are you?!?!* I snapped. The wolf guy blinked, standing up off me and offering me a hand up.
*My name is Ancient, and I... I am your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather.* My jaws just sort of hung loose there for a moment as all the greats started clicking in my mind.
*...You're dead?!?!*
*A spirit never dies,* Ancient countered, returning back to looking like a wolf. *...Jennifer... You are most certainly my decedent... Those battle skills were as sharp as my own when I was your age; in other words, you stunk.*
*Hey!!* I jumped, glaring at my spirit ancestor.
*It's only the truth, so get over it. Now, wake up and put Chaos Lord at ease some.*
My eyes instantly snapped open, and I glared at the chuckling wolf.
"I'm gonna kill you for that insult!!!" I snapped, grabbing the wolf by the throat. He simply tossed me off him, smirking as I tried rather hilariously to skin his furry hide.
"...What the...?" Firenze blinked, exchanging a look between Bolt and Chaos Lord. I finally managed to get Ancient in my grip, and had him down on his back in a tickle tackle. Unable to do anything but laugh, he squirmed and let out a howling laugh.
*Gah! Alright, I take it back!!* Ancient roared. I stood up again, brushed myself off, and turned to face the shocked trio behind me.
*He says he's my great times ten gramps.* I explained mentally to Chaos Lord. He sort of blinked, before smirking slightly as everything made since.
"Lord Ancient, it is a pleasure to meet you." Chaos Lord bowed.
*Likewise.* Ancient smiled, a slight doggy smile parting his lips. *Now, perhaps you'd like to tell me about what's going on and why Jennifer's changed her name to Nina? I've been guarding this forest for one too many centuries now to know the answer to my own questions...*
* * * * * * *
Five hours later, our rather tiny group of five exited the forest, just in time to see Sacred Sanctuary under attack from a bunch of Megas and a witch.
"Whoa! Who called out the fireworks?!" I jumped, using the Crimson as a baseball bat to send one Mega flying off a wounded King-type.
*...Him....* Ancient growled, the fur on his back bristling in anger, *The one you call Elrond is behind this... His scent of darkness permeates even the enemy's flesh...* One Mega was deleted with a rather large chunk of his arm missing. Anger flashed across my mind, memories that were bad to have right there and then pushing forward for an instant.
"You know, brat, this is all your fault!!" Bolt snapped, standing back to back with me.
"Oh yeah?!"
"Yes!! If you and your friends hadn't pushed to gain entry into here, our defenses would not have failed us!!"
Okay, that was officially it. I, was, ticked.
"Bolt, take that fire head and start rounding up survivors and send 'em to Ancient's place! Chaos Lord, you're with me. Ancient, if you'd please give blue boy and the hot head some cover." I barked off a battle strategy which was, surprisingly, instantly followed.
"Why should we listen to you?" Bolt growled.
"Because right now I'm ticked. Excuse...me?!" I stopped mid step as somebody somewhere on the mental link let out a pain-filled grimace brimming with the feeling of the inability to do anything for someone who was his friend. Ancient blinked, looking back at me and nudging me slightly.
*Nina?* he questioned softly. I stood like a rock, my eyes wide in shock as the door to my three brothers snapped open wide and I saw a good friend being killed by his own son. There was something else there that they couldn't see, either that or they didn't want to see. Darkness pulsating off the boy in a rather familiar pattern, forcing his movements like a puppet on strings.
"...Lord..." I whispered, the tears falling slightly. I had a rather good idea who had done that to him, who had made him go insane, and my sadness was quickly replaced by a boiling rage. My fists clenched tight in anger around the Crimson, and I growled, "...He...is so...dead..."
*Yeow! If you wanted my help, you just had to ask!!* Athena's voice suddenly snapped through my mind. I would have laughed as the chibby Athena raced through my mind, trying to avoid the strings of crimson red energy I had unknowingly used to call her from her gem prison.
Ancient instantly jumped when he saw Athena running through my mind.
*Get back!! Don't go near her!!* Ancient barked, backing off quickly.
"Nina?" Chaos Lord blinked, looking at me wide eyed.
My eyes started glowing in a crimson hue, and several tiny orbs of energy suddenly surrounded me. Both hands were tight on the Crimson's hilt, the sword angled slightly to the left while still being held directly in front of me. A crimson glow surrounded both me and the sword, and I started floating with the little multi-colored orbs following me up towards the sky. A couple of idiot Megas charged at me, and the orbs struck out at them.
Blood spattered against the ground, and Ancient buried his head under his paw so that he wouldn't have to look at their mutilated corpuses.
*...Oh Great Devine, do take pity on their foolish souls...*
"...Nina..." Chaos Lord whispered at first, the shouted out, "NINA!!!"
I couldn't hear him. I wouldn't hear him. I was ticked, and I do mean t-i- c-k-e-d. One of the Megas that had attacked me was spared for a moment or two, and brought directly in front of my glowing face.
"Who sent you here?" My voice was definitely not mine. It was covered in darkness, rage, and anger as memories from the past boiled up in quick succession, clouding me to all things but one; revenge for a friend. The Mega gulped, pointing out a rather odd looking Witchmon with a silver crescent moon buckle on her hat. The Mega was spared.
"Crescent!! You... Are... MINE!!!"
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Iniora: I've got a great start for Next Chapter in my head, and now all I've got to do is write it and not be a Baka!
Bee: Just leave her a review, please...
I'M SUCH AN IDIOT!!!! I didn't have to take this down after all! I am a serious...
Bee: *whacks me us side the head* Baka~!
*swirl eye thing* Uh...yeah... *shakes head quickly and is back to normal* Now here's the chapter... AGAIN!! This time, edited.
Crossing Paths
Ancient and Nina... What's the Connection?
"Boring!" I sighed, plopping down on a wooden bench near the outskirts of the misted forest. Chaos Lord laughed lightly at my antics, leaning against the back of the bench and showing his more Bee-ish side.
"Perhaps you'd rather see the Flame Lord and gather information? That would be far less 'boring' than simply having me accompany you." Chaos Lord suggested. I looked up at him, at the smirk dancing in his eyes, and stuck my tong out at him.
"Nah!" He let out a laugh at that, closing his eyes in a half smile and turning to face the opposite direction as me. My heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I could have sworn I heard somebody whispering my name, as in my real name, in my ear. I thought I saw past the wooden entrance of the mist-covered forest, straight back to a rather tall looking man with his hands resting on the hilt of his sheathed sword, looking straight back at me and whispering my name. Chaos Lord's hand on my shoulder suddenly pulled me out of it.
"Nina? What's wrong?" Chaos Lord demanded. I closed my eyes and shook my head slightly to clear the sudden feeling from my mind.
"You ever have one of those feelings like you're being watched? And for a split second, no matter how far away the watcher is, you manage to catch a glimpse of him?" I questioned softly. Chaos Lord nodded in understanding. "...I think somebody in those woods is trying to get my attention..."
"That's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard." Well look who's back! Bolt!
"Hey, blue boy, up and atom so soon?" I smirked, not even blinking about the fact he looked like a human now. A sudden red hand at my throat made me gasp and grab at the hand. In two shakes of a lamb's tail, I had the hand's owner over my shoulder and in a tight neck lock with Chaos Lord.
"Firenze! I realize you would like to vent some of your anger for your defeat on Athena's incarnate, but need I remind you who she is?!" Chaos Lord boomed. The now revived Firenze growled, falling limb in Chaos Lord's grip.
"Chaos Lord... She and her brethren nearly killed me!" Firenze countered, drawing his sword and pointing it at me the moment he was loose. I would have countered, if not for that weird feeling screaming back through my mind, this time looking as if the person was trying to feel out something. I shut my mind of completely, even to the others who were sill outside the Sacred Sanctuary, and nearly fainted. I halfway thought they were going to throw an insult at me, but instead, everyone gathered looked back towards the Ancient Woods.
"...Impossible..." Bolt muttered.
"A...summoning spell...?" Chaos Lord whispered.
"...Who is calling to whom...or what?" Firenze whispered, shocked for some reason. I took a deep breath, and turned towards the forest.
"Good question. Want ah come find out?" I smirked, daredevil style.
"Fool! No being has ever returned from that wood!" Bolt snapped, his whip striking the ground in show of his anger.
"Eh." I shrugged him off, walking towards the woods anyway. Chaos Lord let out a sigh, before following behind me.
"C-Chaos Lord?! You can't be serious!!" Chaos Lord turned back to face Bolt, and shrugged,
"I am," before turning back to follow me towards the woods.
"...Well I, for one...am not about to be outdone by that human witch!! Athena's reincarnate or not!!" Firenze growled, sheathing his sword and stomping after us. Bolt sort of blinked, before cursing and advancing towards us.
"...In the name of all things Holy... I'm supposed to stop the intruders, and instead I'm keeping two insane idiots alive!!!" I kinda smirked when I heard that.
"This brings back memories," I teased.
"Yes, only they're not used to taking orders." Chaos Lord countered, his hand at the ready to draw his sword.
"Like you are?" I countered, steeping over a large root. I nearly fell flat on my face as that feeling washed over me with ten times the normal force.
"Nina!" Chaos Lord quickly steadied me in his grip.
"So the spell's targeting her?" Firenze muttered, looking around the forest in a glare. Bolt cracked his whip against the ground again, glaring directly in front.
"Alright, whoever or whatever you are! Revile yourself now and fight like a mon!"
*Fight like... a mon...?* I tensed as the voice started forcing itself into our minds. A verbal laugh echoed through out the woods, making the sleeping bats disperse through the air. *I am no...mon... You, however, are a fool to trespass...here?!*
"Shut the hell up!!" I snapped, unsheathing the Crimson and pointing it towards where I felt the strongest pull, coincidently stopping him mid sentence. "Why the hell are you trying to invade my mind?!"
*Invade your...?* the voice let out another laugh, this time more jubilant. *Jennifer! Ah, how you've grown!* Before I could even blink, I was being pulled up by a root towards a rather thick patch of vines that served as a kind of house. A tall man, about Chaos Lord's height, with long silver grey hair, burning brown eyes, soft facial features, fangs, a tail, and small claws dressed like that knight dude in 'Escaflona the Move', grabbed me in a hug the minute I reached his height. Chaos Lord quickly punched him out.
"Gah!! I have just been violated!!" I gasped, sheathing the Crimson and brushing myself off. "Yuck, nasty! I think he might ah tried to kiss me!!!" Chaos Lord let out a low growl to that one, with Firenze and Bolt rising up behind him on pillars of either fire or electricity. The man that had hugged me seemed hurt, and before anyone could blink, he had turned into a rather large wolf that, standing on all fours, reached my waist. Everyone but me let out a gasp.
*I would N-E-V-E-R violate my own descendant, Jennifer!!!* the wolf snapped, breaking down my mental defenses as if he were simply snapping a twig. *Chaos Lord, catch her and lay her gently here.* A vine-made bed suddenly showed up, and right before I could pass out into my subconscious due to the force of the mental blow, Chaos Lord had caught me in his arms.
"...The Guard of the Woods... Ancient...?!"
*No duh,*
* * * * * * * * * * * *
All three paused mid movement, stiffening as if to prepare for some kind of an attack.
"...Huh...?" Rico blinked, the first to notice that Bee, Black, and Lucifer had suddenly stopped. Wizardmon looked back at them, a soft glow in his eyes.
"What's wrong? What's happened?" He demanded.
"...Nina...cut herself off..." Lucifer muttered, looking down at the ground. "...Something was...attacking her mind...so she cut herself off from everything..."
"...She's near the Shrieking Shack, but that's all we know..." Black sighed.
*We can't get there with Lars still being hurt,* Lucifer stated to the three that could hear him mentally.
*Yes... Bee, is there any chance...?* Black stopped mid thought when Bee showed him the still white mark now pulsating on his wrist.
*Yea,*
"Okay, move it." Bee growled, marching up to Lars who had yet again needed to rest against the rock face. Kimber and E-Vie had instantly blocked his path.
"What for? So you can kill me again?" Lars growled, panting slightly.
"Do yah mind?" Bee questioned, a dark edge in his tone.
"Yeah, I do!" E-Vie growled. Bee let out a sigh, before reviling the glowing white claw mark on his wrist. The human and Digimon exchanged a blink.
"Now, before I go full out white blast mode, do yah mind moving?!" Bee snapped. The two parted like the Red Sea. Bee bent down on one knee next to Lars, making the later growl in worry and pain. "Shut it,"
"Make me," Lars growled. Bee put his hand directly in front of his third eye, closed his own eyes, and smirked.
"Kay,"
Lars had just enough time to blink before gasping out in shock at something only he and a certain wizard duo could see. Bee's smirk had turned into a grimace as he pushed all his hidden energy to the front, forcing himself to switch to his pure white blast mode. His eyes snapped open and he exploded in light when his pure white wings finally managed to break themselves loose. Lars was also lost in the light, glowing with half the strength of the light still echoing off Bee as his wound was shut tight.
*Now that everyone is thoroughly shocked...* Black sighed.
Bee stood up once the glow had ended and he was back to being pure white, offering Lars a hand up as well.
"Okay, what the hell did we just miss!?"
* * * * * * * * * * * *
At that moment in my subconscious mind, I was in the middle of a fight with a giant white/silver wolf!!
*How the hell did you get in here?!* I demanded, blocking yet another counter blow.
*The same way your brothers can!* the wolf snapped back. He had retreated back a few feet after his failed attempt at trying to corner me.
*Great! That didn't answer the question!!* I screamed, charging in. Before I knew what was happening, the wolf was back to being a guy and had me pinned down against the ground, disarmed and defenseless. His eyes glowed a demonic silver color, he shoved his hand against my face, and yelled,
*Awaken!!* at the top of his mental lungs. A bright orb of silver suddenly shot out of his hand, making me wince. All the doors to all the people I knew and loved, including the Chaos Lord that happened to be looking down at my physical body, snapped open. Being used to the mental link, I shut them enough so that they could only hear what I wanted them to hear, and nothing else. Another door, this one leading to what I would assume would be the wolf's mind, snapped open wide at both ends, letting me feel his emotions as if they were my own. Top on his list; worry that I'd lost my mind and that he might have gone a pinch overboard. I instantly shut that door so that I couldn't feel his emotions, but found that it couldn't be shut all the way.
*...Alright...bakayero...Who the hell are you?!?!* I snapped. The wolf guy blinked, standing up off me and offering me a hand up.
*My name is Ancient, and I... I am your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather.* My jaws just sort of hung loose there for a moment as all the greats started clicking in my mind.
*...You're dead?!?!*
*A spirit never dies,* Ancient countered, returning back to looking like a wolf. *...Jennifer... You are most certainly my decedent... Those battle skills were as sharp as my own when I was your age; in other words, you stunk.*
*Hey!!* I jumped, glaring at my spirit ancestor.
*It's only the truth, so get over it. Now, wake up and put Chaos Lord at ease some.*
My eyes instantly snapped open, and I glared at the chuckling wolf.
"I'm gonna kill you for that insult!!!" I snapped, grabbing the wolf by the throat. He simply tossed me off him, smirking as I tried rather hilariously to skin his furry hide.
"...What the...?" Firenze blinked, exchanging a look between Bolt and Chaos Lord. I finally managed to get Ancient in my grip, and had him down on his back in a tickle tackle. Unable to do anything but laugh, he squirmed and let out a howling laugh.
*Gah! Alright, I take it back!!* Ancient roared. I stood up again, brushed myself off, and turned to face the shocked trio behind me.
*He says he's my great times ten gramps.* I explained mentally to Chaos Lord. He sort of blinked, before smirking slightly as everything made since.
"Lord Ancient, it is a pleasure to meet you." Chaos Lord bowed.
*Likewise.* Ancient smiled, a slight doggy smile parting his lips. *Now, perhaps you'd like to tell me about what's going on and why Jennifer's changed her name to Nina? I've been guarding this forest for one too many centuries now to know the answer to my own questions...*
* * * * * * *
Five hours later, our rather tiny group of five exited the forest, just in time to see Sacred Sanctuary under attack from a bunch of Megas and a witch.
"Whoa! Who called out the fireworks?!" I jumped, using the Crimson as a baseball bat to send one Mega flying off a wounded King-type.
*...Him....* Ancient growled, the fur on his back bristling in anger, *The one you call Elrond is behind this... His scent of darkness permeates even the enemy's flesh...* One Mega was deleted with a rather large chunk of his arm missing. Anger flashed across my mind, memories that were bad to have right there and then pushing forward for an instant.
"You know, brat, this is all your fault!!" Bolt snapped, standing back to back with me.
"Oh yeah?!"
"Yes!! If you and your friends hadn't pushed to gain entry into here, our defenses would not have failed us!!"
Okay, that was officially it. I, was, ticked.
"Bolt, take that fire head and start rounding up survivors and send 'em to Ancient's place! Chaos Lord, you're with me. Ancient, if you'd please give blue boy and the hot head some cover." I barked off a battle strategy which was, surprisingly, instantly followed.
"Why should we listen to you?" Bolt growled.
"Because right now I'm ticked. Excuse...me?!" I stopped mid step as somebody somewhere on the mental link let out a pain-filled grimace brimming with the feeling of the inability to do anything for someone who was his friend. Ancient blinked, looking back at me and nudging me slightly.
*Nina?* he questioned softly. I stood like a rock, my eyes wide in shock as the door to my three brothers snapped open wide and I saw a good friend being killed by his own son. There was something else there that they couldn't see, either that or they didn't want to see. Darkness pulsating off the boy in a rather familiar pattern, forcing his movements like a puppet on strings.
"...Lord..." I whispered, the tears falling slightly. I had a rather good idea who had done that to him, who had made him go insane, and my sadness was quickly replaced by a boiling rage. My fists clenched tight in anger around the Crimson, and I growled, "...He...is so...dead..."
*Yeow! If you wanted my help, you just had to ask!!* Athena's voice suddenly snapped through my mind. I would have laughed as the chibby Athena raced through my mind, trying to avoid the strings of crimson red energy I had unknowingly used to call her from her gem prison.
Ancient instantly jumped when he saw Athena running through my mind.
*Get back!! Don't go near her!!* Ancient barked, backing off quickly.
"Nina?" Chaos Lord blinked, looking at me wide eyed.
My eyes started glowing in a crimson hue, and several tiny orbs of energy suddenly surrounded me. Both hands were tight on the Crimson's hilt, the sword angled slightly to the left while still being held directly in front of me. A crimson glow surrounded both me and the sword, and I started floating with the little multi-colored orbs following me up towards the sky. A couple of idiot Megas charged at me, and the orbs struck out at them.
Blood spattered against the ground, and Ancient buried his head under his paw so that he wouldn't have to look at their mutilated corpuses.
*...Oh Great Devine, do take pity on their foolish souls...*
"...Nina..." Chaos Lord whispered at first, the shouted out, "NINA!!!"
I couldn't hear him. I wouldn't hear him. I was ticked, and I do mean t-i- c-k-e-d. One of the Megas that had attacked me was spared for a moment or two, and brought directly in front of my glowing face.
"Who sent you here?" My voice was definitely not mine. It was covered in darkness, rage, and anger as memories from the past boiled up in quick succession, clouding me to all things but one; revenge for a friend. The Mega gulped, pointing out a rather odd looking Witchmon with a silver crescent moon buckle on her hat. The Mega was spared.
"Crescent!! You... Are... MINE!!!"
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Iniora: I've got a great start for Next Chapter in my head, and now all I've got to do is write it and not be a Baka!
Bee: Just leave her a review, please...