JTB: I'm back just like I said I'd be back
SK01: Oh joy
JTB: Silence, anyway sorry for lack of update's but I've been busy and had writers block
SK01: Busy slacking off
JTB: Partially, but I also went to a concert, went on a trip, made a crappy movie for English class, wrote songs, checked out a possible singer for my band, and was camera man for someone else's project.
SK01: That's quite a bit for a slacker like you
JTB: Yeah... the concert was pretty fucking awesome
SK01: What bands were there?
JTB: I may have already covered this but The Vancouver Seed's Winners(All five bands were pretty damn cool), The Start(The singers voice annoyed me), The Trews(The guitar player was fucking awesome, he played a solo with his guitar behind his head), Billy Talent(They were pretty good... I think... I was kinda busy trying to survive the mosh while they played to really listen well), Bif Naked(She was okay, but my ears were so shot by this time she sounded like she had inhaled helium), and Finally The Offspring... one of my favorite bands EVER, They kicked some serious ass.
SK01: Thank you for your completely unnecessary review of Foxfest
JTB: Your just mad cuz I went and you didn't... because you know you live on the other side of the country
SK01: Shut Up... Baka
JTB: Please, read, review, and enjoy
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Chapter 14: Discovery
Jessy walked down the street, hands in the pockets of his trench coat, humming to himself. He had sent his bass and amp in Arisu's parent's car, choosing to walk to Conall's place. He contemplated his situation for the hundredth time since he had returned. He had made friends other then Kayla and the Digidestined, a good start, he had now formed a band with them, probably not a good mood in the long run but it didn't really matter. The emerald haired teen's contemplation was cut short as a car screeching around the corner, knocking over a parking meter in the process. The car was closely followed by a police car.
"Oh, you've GOT to be kidding me!" exclaimed Jessy. He backed into some nearby shadows, wrapped shadows around his body, creating wings and claws. The shadowed teen ran from then shadows and took off after the car chase. Moments later he had caught up with the cars, he landed with ease on the roof of the escaping car and ripped open the roof.
"What the fuck," yelled the driver. Jessy reached down and pulled out the man in the passenger's seat.
"Stop the car," ordered the shrouded teen. The driver stopped the car, moments later the police reached the car. Jessy took off into the air and flew the rest of the way to Conall's.
Approximately ten minutes later
Jessy knocked on the door of Conall's massive house, after a few minutes Conall opened the door and asked ", What took ya?"
"I got delayed and kind of lost," lied the emerald haired teen, he stepped into Conall's house and followed his friend down to the basement. The room was large and empty except for the amps, guitars, bass, drum kit, and mic stand. The walls were soundproofed and there was a large light attached to the ceiling. The girls looked up from their seats on the amps and smiled greeting Jessy, who picked up his bass and slung his strap on. "Any clue what you guys want to play?" asked the saffron-eyed teen.
"We've actually written some songs, just not the lyrics," explained Naoko, tossing Jessy a book with bass tab in it.
Jessy flipped through the book and nodded ", I can play this," he said ", let's play this first one." Arisu started playing, then the other three joined in. After just over three and a half minutes they had finished playing the song. Jessy grinned ", I like it, I think I could write some lyrics for this. Let's play it again," said the tall teen. Again they played, while they played Jessy came up with lyrics in his head.
Four and a half hours later
The group had played through a few songs and had wrote some lyrics for the songs, they had temporarily appointed Jessy the singer and Naoko the backup singer. Arisu put down her guitar and said ", What we need is a name for the band."
"How about 'Freak'," suggested Naoko.
Jessy shook his head ", Nah, what about 'Forsaken'?"
"I think 'Shattered' would be a good name," said Arisu.
The three went on arguing for about five minutes until Conall got fed up and said ", Calm down you guys are Frantic."
The three all looked at him for a minute then together exclaimed ", THAT'S IT!"
"Frantic would be a awesome name for our band," said Naoko. The others voiced their agreement.
Conall looked at his watch and said, jokingly ", It's about time everyone got the hell out of my basement."
At a surprisingly quick pace Arisu, Jessy, and Naoko got their gear together and left Conall's house.
The next morning
Jessy waited outside Arisu's door, leaning against the wall. The short girl walked out the door greeted Jessy, handed him a newspaper and said ", I know you don't get the newspaper Xander but I thought you might be interested."
One the front page there was a large sketch of a black demon tearing the roof off of a car. The headline read "A Demon Prowls Odaiba". "Interesting," said Jessy, reading the article. He tossed the newspaper aside and growled ", People are fucking crazy these days. Psh demon, yeah right." The two walked out of the apartment building where they met up with Conall and Naoko then continued to school.
That day at school there was a buzz about the alleged demon, some people were skeptical, while others were paranoid, but one group viewed the news in a whole different way. Kayla and the Digidestined met up at lunch to discuss the incident from the night before. "This is serious," said Matt ", imagine how much damage this thing could do, especially if it's a digimon."
"Not to mention it sounds fairly similar in appearance to a certain black gear using devil type," said Sora.
"It doesn't fit the description of Devimon," said Izzy ", It actually looks much more similar to Jessy before he died."
"You don't think it could be Jessy come back from the dead?" asked Kayla, almost hopefully.
"That's not possible," said Tai ", and even if it was wouldn't he have tried to contact us?"
"I suppose," said Kayla a bit disappointed, she missed Jessy. Without the tall teen the apartment seemed empty.
Jessy sat down the table from them with Arisu and the others. 'Great now I feel like shit,' he thought ', she fucking misses me.'
Two weeks later
Jessy sat in his room practicing the songs Frantic had decided to play for the concert. Despite his better judgement and the advice of Seth, he continued to fight any crime he came across. The city was in an uproar and had finally named the entity they though was a demon Shade. Articles featuring his picture were pasted all over Jessy's room, no one was ever in his apartment, other then Tenshi and Seth of course, so no one would see the pictures. Surprisingly none of his band mates suspected that he was Shade, then again there were no visible similarities between the alias Alexander McLeod and Shade.
Currently Jessy leaned his bass against the wall, stood up, put on his trench coat, and walked out of his room. "I'm going to wander a bit," he called out to Seth and Tenshi, who were currently playing chess. He walked out his door and took the stairs down to the ground floor and walked out the entrance to the building.
Arisu's voice called out from behind him ", Xander wait up," she ran up beside him, grinning.
'Shit,' swore Jessy at his bad fortune of a friend showing up, he then looked down at the short girl, smiling ", Hey how's it going?"
"Good," replied the blue haired girl. "Where are you going so late?" she asked.
"Anywhere really," he said ", It's a Friday night and I have no curfew."
"Cool, mind if I go with you?" she asked.
"No."
"Cool."
About two hours later
Jessy and Arisu walked around a corner and saw a building on fire a few blocks away. Arisu's eyes widened and Jessy swore, then looked over to Arisu. "Come on," he said, grabbing her by the arm and pulling her into a nearby alley. "Arisu what your about to see you can't ever tell anyone understand," Jessy told her, then without waiting for a response gathered shadows around him.
"Your Shade!" gasped the short teen. Jessy nodded and flew into the air.
Within moments Jessy reached the burning building, and flew into a window. He flickered through the shadows in the building until he found an old man, who yelled in fright and tried to hit the shadow covered teen with a cane, Jessy picked him up and flickered to a shadow close to a window, flew out and put him on the ground. The teen turned to look at the building, ignoring the old mans thanks, and searched the shadows for any one else. Sensing nothing Jessy turned and flew to the alley where he left Arisu. He dismissed the shadow and looked over at Arisu, who was staring at him defiantly.
"Who are you really?" she asked.
Jessy sighed ", Come on let's walk home, I'll tell you on the way." The two walked out of the alley and Jessy began his story "It began a short while ago... to you..."
A hour and explanation later
"So your real name is Jessy Bowgard, you're from a different universe, you died, went to hell, were reincarnated thrice, then were sent back here looking completely different then you originally did, and now fight crime and avoid Kayla Ivyson and her friends?
"In a nutshell, yes that's excellent summary of everything that happened," said the hybrid teen.
"That has to have messed up your head a little bit," she commented.
"Probably, but its not that important, what's important is that you tell no one or else I may just have to kill you," said Jessy in an offhand manner. Arisu looked at him with wide, alarmed eyes, slightly nervous. "I'm kidding," said the part-demon with a grin. He opened the door to the apartment building and said ", I'll see you on Sunday when we practice," with that Jessy disappeared into the stairwell.
A few weeks later the day before the Battle of the Bands
Conall, Naoko, and Arisu sat practicing their instruments in Conall's basement, they had been waiting for Jessy for an hour now. "Where the hell is he?" Naoko demanded annoyed.
"He said earlier that he may be held up today," said Arisu, making up a lie on the spot for the crime fighting teen.
"On a day like this he should have cancelled all other plans," grumbled a frustrated Conall ", I mean this was HIS idea to begin with."
"An interesting conversation to be sure, glad I missed most of it," called out Jessy as he walked into the basement, bass in a case on his back and amp being carried in his left hand. "Sorry I'm late but I nearly got run over a few times on the way here so I decided to take a route that went across less streets," explained Jessy, setting down his amp and removing the bass from his back and from it's case.
Naoko exclaimed ", You should have called or something, there are dozens of payphones out there."
"All near the streets where the cars are," pointed out the emerald haired teen.
"Meh, enough arguing lets get practicing we're playing at the battle tomorrow," said Conall. He began playing the intro to a song and the others joined in, practicing the songs they planned on playing over and over again.
A couple of hours later
Jessy put down his bass and looked at his watch ", It's late we better get going Arisu," he said, putting his bass in it's case. He unplugged his amp and rolled up the cord, putting it in a part of his amp that held it. He picked up his trench coat, which he had discarded earlier while playing, he glanced over at Conall who had his head down on his snare drum, snoring slightly. "Conall, CONALL," he yelled, Conall looked up half asleep ", I'm leaving my bass here I'll pick it up tomorrow before the Battle." Conall nodded and put his head back down on his snare.
Arisu put on her coat and walked over to beside Jessy ", Let's go," she said, walking up the stairs out of Conall's basement, Jessy close behind.
"It's a long walk home," complained the tall, exhausted teen ", hey Arisu ever think of what it would be like using shadow teleportation?" he asked the shorter girl.
"Yeah," she trailed off the looked up at him with a raised eyebrow ", Why?"
"Wanna try it?" asked the emerald haired teen, grinning.
"HELL YES!" responded the blue haired girl, grinning excitedly.
"Excellent, grab my hand," instructed Jessy. Arisu did so and Jessy yelled ", And away we go." The two sunk into the shadow and were gone.
Seconds later at the apartment building Jessy and Arisu rose from a shadow below the stairwell. "That was a little odd and disorienting," said a dizzy Arisu.
"Eh, you get used to it," responded Jessy, who began to sink back into the shadows ", see ya tomorrow," with that he was gone.
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SK01: That wasn't your best chapter ever
JTB: Agreed, please review and I hope you enjoyed the chapter
SK01: You realize I'm like the only one who reads this
JTB: Yeah...
SK01: Then why do you act like your talking to more people
JTB: I'm Hoping someone else will read my story and review...
SK01: Your pathetic
JTB: SILENCE
SK01: Baka
JTB: If anybody is interested in looking at my bands website go to
SK01: Wait your band actually has a website... for how long
JTB: The drummer started it as a April Fools Joke
SK01: Oh I See
SK01: Oh joy
JTB: Silence, anyway sorry for lack of update's but I've been busy and had writers block
SK01: Busy slacking off
JTB: Partially, but I also went to a concert, went on a trip, made a crappy movie for English class, wrote songs, checked out a possible singer for my band, and was camera man for someone else's project.
SK01: That's quite a bit for a slacker like you
JTB: Yeah... the concert was pretty fucking awesome
SK01: What bands were there?
JTB: I may have already covered this but The Vancouver Seed's Winners(All five bands were pretty damn cool), The Start(The singers voice annoyed me), The Trews(The guitar player was fucking awesome, he played a solo with his guitar behind his head), Billy Talent(They were pretty good... I think... I was kinda busy trying to survive the mosh while they played to really listen well), Bif Naked(She was okay, but my ears were so shot by this time she sounded like she had inhaled helium), and Finally The Offspring... one of my favorite bands EVER, They kicked some serious ass.
SK01: Thank you for your completely unnecessary review of Foxfest
JTB: Your just mad cuz I went and you didn't... because you know you live on the other side of the country
SK01: Shut Up... Baka
JTB: Please, read, review, and enjoy
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Chapter 14: Discovery
Jessy walked down the street, hands in the pockets of his trench coat, humming to himself. He had sent his bass and amp in Arisu's parent's car, choosing to walk to Conall's place. He contemplated his situation for the hundredth time since he had returned. He had made friends other then Kayla and the Digidestined, a good start, he had now formed a band with them, probably not a good mood in the long run but it didn't really matter. The emerald haired teen's contemplation was cut short as a car screeching around the corner, knocking over a parking meter in the process. The car was closely followed by a police car.
"Oh, you've GOT to be kidding me!" exclaimed Jessy. He backed into some nearby shadows, wrapped shadows around his body, creating wings and claws. The shadowed teen ran from then shadows and took off after the car chase. Moments later he had caught up with the cars, he landed with ease on the roof of the escaping car and ripped open the roof.
"What the fuck," yelled the driver. Jessy reached down and pulled out the man in the passenger's seat.
"Stop the car," ordered the shrouded teen. The driver stopped the car, moments later the police reached the car. Jessy took off into the air and flew the rest of the way to Conall's.
Approximately ten minutes later
Jessy knocked on the door of Conall's massive house, after a few minutes Conall opened the door and asked ", What took ya?"
"I got delayed and kind of lost," lied the emerald haired teen, he stepped into Conall's house and followed his friend down to the basement. The room was large and empty except for the amps, guitars, bass, drum kit, and mic stand. The walls were soundproofed and there was a large light attached to the ceiling. The girls looked up from their seats on the amps and smiled greeting Jessy, who picked up his bass and slung his strap on. "Any clue what you guys want to play?" asked the saffron-eyed teen.
"We've actually written some songs, just not the lyrics," explained Naoko, tossing Jessy a book with bass tab in it.
Jessy flipped through the book and nodded ", I can play this," he said ", let's play this first one." Arisu started playing, then the other three joined in. After just over three and a half minutes they had finished playing the song. Jessy grinned ", I like it, I think I could write some lyrics for this. Let's play it again," said the tall teen. Again they played, while they played Jessy came up with lyrics in his head.
Four and a half hours later
The group had played through a few songs and had wrote some lyrics for the songs, they had temporarily appointed Jessy the singer and Naoko the backup singer. Arisu put down her guitar and said ", What we need is a name for the band."
"How about 'Freak'," suggested Naoko.
Jessy shook his head ", Nah, what about 'Forsaken'?"
"I think 'Shattered' would be a good name," said Arisu.
The three went on arguing for about five minutes until Conall got fed up and said ", Calm down you guys are Frantic."
The three all looked at him for a minute then together exclaimed ", THAT'S IT!"
"Frantic would be a awesome name for our band," said Naoko. The others voiced their agreement.
Conall looked at his watch and said, jokingly ", It's about time everyone got the hell out of my basement."
At a surprisingly quick pace Arisu, Jessy, and Naoko got their gear together and left Conall's house.
The next morning
Jessy waited outside Arisu's door, leaning against the wall. The short girl walked out the door greeted Jessy, handed him a newspaper and said ", I know you don't get the newspaper Xander but I thought you might be interested."
One the front page there was a large sketch of a black demon tearing the roof off of a car. The headline read "A Demon Prowls Odaiba". "Interesting," said Jessy, reading the article. He tossed the newspaper aside and growled ", People are fucking crazy these days. Psh demon, yeah right." The two walked out of the apartment building where they met up with Conall and Naoko then continued to school.
That day at school there was a buzz about the alleged demon, some people were skeptical, while others were paranoid, but one group viewed the news in a whole different way. Kayla and the Digidestined met up at lunch to discuss the incident from the night before. "This is serious," said Matt ", imagine how much damage this thing could do, especially if it's a digimon."
"Not to mention it sounds fairly similar in appearance to a certain black gear using devil type," said Sora.
"It doesn't fit the description of Devimon," said Izzy ", It actually looks much more similar to Jessy before he died."
"You don't think it could be Jessy come back from the dead?" asked Kayla, almost hopefully.
"That's not possible," said Tai ", and even if it was wouldn't he have tried to contact us?"
"I suppose," said Kayla a bit disappointed, she missed Jessy. Without the tall teen the apartment seemed empty.
Jessy sat down the table from them with Arisu and the others. 'Great now I feel like shit,' he thought ', she fucking misses me.'
Two weeks later
Jessy sat in his room practicing the songs Frantic had decided to play for the concert. Despite his better judgement and the advice of Seth, he continued to fight any crime he came across. The city was in an uproar and had finally named the entity they though was a demon Shade. Articles featuring his picture were pasted all over Jessy's room, no one was ever in his apartment, other then Tenshi and Seth of course, so no one would see the pictures. Surprisingly none of his band mates suspected that he was Shade, then again there were no visible similarities between the alias Alexander McLeod and Shade.
Currently Jessy leaned his bass against the wall, stood up, put on his trench coat, and walked out of his room. "I'm going to wander a bit," he called out to Seth and Tenshi, who were currently playing chess. He walked out his door and took the stairs down to the ground floor and walked out the entrance to the building.
Arisu's voice called out from behind him ", Xander wait up," she ran up beside him, grinning.
'Shit,' swore Jessy at his bad fortune of a friend showing up, he then looked down at the short girl, smiling ", Hey how's it going?"
"Good," replied the blue haired girl. "Where are you going so late?" she asked.
"Anywhere really," he said ", It's a Friday night and I have no curfew."
"Cool, mind if I go with you?" she asked.
"No."
"Cool."
About two hours later
Jessy and Arisu walked around a corner and saw a building on fire a few blocks away. Arisu's eyes widened and Jessy swore, then looked over to Arisu. "Come on," he said, grabbing her by the arm and pulling her into a nearby alley. "Arisu what your about to see you can't ever tell anyone understand," Jessy told her, then without waiting for a response gathered shadows around him.
"Your Shade!" gasped the short teen. Jessy nodded and flew into the air.
Within moments Jessy reached the burning building, and flew into a window. He flickered through the shadows in the building until he found an old man, who yelled in fright and tried to hit the shadow covered teen with a cane, Jessy picked him up and flickered to a shadow close to a window, flew out and put him on the ground. The teen turned to look at the building, ignoring the old mans thanks, and searched the shadows for any one else. Sensing nothing Jessy turned and flew to the alley where he left Arisu. He dismissed the shadow and looked over at Arisu, who was staring at him defiantly.
"Who are you really?" she asked.
Jessy sighed ", Come on let's walk home, I'll tell you on the way." The two walked out of the alley and Jessy began his story "It began a short while ago... to you..."
A hour and explanation later
"So your real name is Jessy Bowgard, you're from a different universe, you died, went to hell, were reincarnated thrice, then were sent back here looking completely different then you originally did, and now fight crime and avoid Kayla Ivyson and her friends?
"In a nutshell, yes that's excellent summary of everything that happened," said the hybrid teen.
"That has to have messed up your head a little bit," she commented.
"Probably, but its not that important, what's important is that you tell no one or else I may just have to kill you," said Jessy in an offhand manner. Arisu looked at him with wide, alarmed eyes, slightly nervous. "I'm kidding," said the part-demon with a grin. He opened the door to the apartment building and said ", I'll see you on Sunday when we practice," with that Jessy disappeared into the stairwell.
A few weeks later the day before the Battle of the Bands
Conall, Naoko, and Arisu sat practicing their instruments in Conall's basement, they had been waiting for Jessy for an hour now. "Where the hell is he?" Naoko demanded annoyed.
"He said earlier that he may be held up today," said Arisu, making up a lie on the spot for the crime fighting teen.
"On a day like this he should have cancelled all other plans," grumbled a frustrated Conall ", I mean this was HIS idea to begin with."
"An interesting conversation to be sure, glad I missed most of it," called out Jessy as he walked into the basement, bass in a case on his back and amp being carried in his left hand. "Sorry I'm late but I nearly got run over a few times on the way here so I decided to take a route that went across less streets," explained Jessy, setting down his amp and removing the bass from his back and from it's case.
Naoko exclaimed ", You should have called or something, there are dozens of payphones out there."
"All near the streets where the cars are," pointed out the emerald haired teen.
"Meh, enough arguing lets get practicing we're playing at the battle tomorrow," said Conall. He began playing the intro to a song and the others joined in, practicing the songs they planned on playing over and over again.
A couple of hours later
Jessy put down his bass and looked at his watch ", It's late we better get going Arisu," he said, putting his bass in it's case. He unplugged his amp and rolled up the cord, putting it in a part of his amp that held it. He picked up his trench coat, which he had discarded earlier while playing, he glanced over at Conall who had his head down on his snare drum, snoring slightly. "Conall, CONALL," he yelled, Conall looked up half asleep ", I'm leaving my bass here I'll pick it up tomorrow before the Battle." Conall nodded and put his head back down on his snare.
Arisu put on her coat and walked over to beside Jessy ", Let's go," she said, walking up the stairs out of Conall's basement, Jessy close behind.
"It's a long walk home," complained the tall, exhausted teen ", hey Arisu ever think of what it would be like using shadow teleportation?" he asked the shorter girl.
"Yeah," she trailed off the looked up at him with a raised eyebrow ", Why?"
"Wanna try it?" asked the emerald haired teen, grinning.
"HELL YES!" responded the blue haired girl, grinning excitedly.
"Excellent, grab my hand," instructed Jessy. Arisu did so and Jessy yelled ", And away we go." The two sunk into the shadow and were gone.
Seconds later at the apartment building Jessy and Arisu rose from a shadow below the stairwell. "That was a little odd and disorienting," said a dizzy Arisu.
"Eh, you get used to it," responded Jessy, who began to sink back into the shadows ", see ya tomorrow," with that he was gone.
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SK01: That wasn't your best chapter ever
JTB: Agreed, please review and I hope you enjoyed the chapter
SK01: You realize I'm like the only one who reads this
JTB: Yeah...
SK01: Then why do you act like your talking to more people
JTB: I'm Hoping someone else will read my story and review...
SK01: Your pathetic
JTB: SILENCE
SK01: Baka
JTB: If anybody is interested in looking at my bands website go to
SK01: Wait your band actually has a website... for how long
JTB: The drummer started it as a April Fools Joke
SK01: Oh I See