Digimon: Death of Akume

Chapter 1: A reason for Revenge

A blond girl ran down a school hall at the end of the day, her eyes full of tears. She ran to her bus and sat near the front, where no one would hear her cry. Another girl, this one with dark brown hair and a Kahn symbol necklace sat down in the seat behind the other girl.

"Akume, what's wrong?" The brunet asked the other high school girl as the bus began to move.

"He dumped me." She said between a sob and a sniffle.

"He what?" The brunet asked.

"Tai dumped me." She said sadly, still crying.

"Oh, Amy, he was a jerk anyway. Remember how we always made fun of him last year?" The other girl asked her.

"Sokkia, please don't call me Amy. You know how I hate following those 'American fads'." Akume asked Sokkia.

"Only if you agree to call me Sam." Sokkia said, knowing her friend wouldn't comply.

"Fine," Akume said with a sigh, "You can call me Amy."

"Does that mean me, too?" A freshman asked Akume.

"Get lost, you little pip-squeak!" She yelled at the boy.

"Not in to American fads, huh?" Sokkia asked.

"Leave me alone, Sam." Amy said, putting her face back in her hands. Sokkia was hurt, Akume had never said anything like that to her before. Sokkia vaguely noticed it was her stop.

"I can't stay any longer anyway. See ya!" Sokkia said as she got off the bus and faked a cheerful mood.

***


Akume walked into her room and shut the door. She pulled out the blade she had taken from a disposable razor. This one was especially sharp and never used.

'So much for not being into American fads' Akume thought with a grim laugh. She pulled up the arm of she school uniform and slashed the blade across her wrist. She almost didn't feel the pain of the cut. She looked down at the cut. It was just starting to bleed. She caught the blood with a few tissues and wiped the wound clean. She still felt overwhelmed.

'That's odd.' She thought, 'That usually takes the pain away. I should feel better now, but I don't. Maybe something's wrong.' She looked at the blade, then down at her wrist and at the blade again. She put a small bandage over her cut and sat out in the den. Her parents never seemed to disturb her in the den. She couldn't stop thinking about Tai, Tai and Sokkia. She saw the image again.

~Flashback~
Sokkia ran up to Tai and was talking giddily to him. Just as she was about to leave, she quickly gave Tai a peck on the cheek and ran off down the hall to her next class. Tai stood there with wide eyes for a moment. Then he laughed and blushed with his hand behind his head.
~Flashback~

'How could Sokkia do that to me? After I had just told her I was going out with Tai?' Akume thought to herself. 'I can't stand it any longer. I'm going to the bridge.' She thought. She went to her room and wrote a note. To keep her parents from finding it to quickly, Akume hid the note under her pillow. She then left into the warm autumn air heading to the bridge.

***

Sokkia had decided to go sit at the bridge, her spot to be alone. She had just sat down when she saw a figure on the other end of the bridge. Sokkia went to see who else had come to the bridge. When she was close enough, she saw it was Akume.

'What would Akume be doing at the bridge?' Sokkia asked herself. Just then she saw Akume hoist herself over the railing and was now standing on the precariously short ledge.

"Akume! No! Don't do it!" Sokkia yelled to her friend. Akume turned to look at the other girl.

" Good bye." Akume said, then she jumped off the ledge. Without thinking Sokkia jumped over the railing and off the bridge after her friend who could not swim. Sokkia hit the freezing water and nearly couldn't move. Then her adrenaline kicked in and she swam under the surface to retrieve her friend. After a few dives, Sokkia grabbed the collar of Akume's shirt and pulled her to the surface. Sokkia swam back to the shore with her friend in tow. When Sokkia got to the shore, she pulled her friend up with her and upon noticing Akume was not breathing, started CPR as someone who was passing by came down and told Sokkia he had called an ambulance. Sokkia let the stranger take over with the CPR as she rested on the ground and hypothermia set in. When the medics got there, they pronounced Akume dead ant took Sokkia to the hospital for treatment of hypothermia. Sokkia cried the whole way, repeating over and over the words, 'I tried to save her.'

***


'Tai did this.' Sokkia thought in her room at the hospital a few days later. 'Tai killed Akume. Now Tai must pay.'

"Mark my words, Taichi Kamiya, you will pay." Sokkia whispered as she looked out her window. "You will pay."

***


When Sokkia came back to school, she now acted much tougher, especially to Tai.

"Hi, Sokkia!" Tai said to her as he saw her coming down the hall to class.

"Leave me alone, Taichi." She said and Tai just looked at her in curiosity. Sokkia was about to touch home in Tai's life, and Tai would be oblivious to her whole plan until she unleashed it upon him. Sokkia stepped into the computer lab and found who she was looking for.

"Where can I sign up to be in computer club?" She asked harshly.

"You can sigh up over there on that sheet of paper." The boy told her as he continued to type. He hadn't changed since Myotismon came. Sokkia signed up for the club and was about to go to class, when the boy looked up to her. Now she would put her plan into action. She nearly gasped as he looked into her eyes.

"The next meeting is tonight." The boy told her.

"Hey, I, I need to tell you something." Sokkia said with a false apprehension in her voice.

"Yes?" The boy asked her

"I, well, I, I like you, Izzy." Sokkia said, "No, that's the wrong word. I love you, Izzy." She said, emphasizing the word love.