Me: Hey all, I'm back for another installment of this lunacy I call a
fanfic.
Rika: Don't forget about me!
Me: Why in God's name did I not lock her in the mental hospital when I had a chance?! To everyone who reviewed, thanx and I hope that you continue to do so.
Now to Marshmellow and SSB, I'm just telling you right now to not make any conclusions about Hazard. There's much more than meets the eye right now. ^
^
Thanx, enjoy the fic, and PLEASE REVIEW!
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"You want me? Then come and get me!" Taunted the massive human-like digimon as he bared his claws, ready to destroy the champion-leveled Tuskmon that had attacked him and his friends. There was no way that Tuskmon would win and the green dinosaur-type knew it far too well. However, the one who he had attacked was not going to let him walk out of the battle alive.
"Slamming Tusk!" Roared Tuskmon as he charged towards his opponent, hoping to get lucky and impale him. The three-eyed digimon standing in front of him merely smiled a mischievous smile and then leapt into the air right before Tuskmon could attack.
"Double Impact!" Shouted the three-eyed demon as he flew over Tuskmon. The black clad digimon fired a round from his sawed-off shotgun down at Tuskmon, instantly reducing him to data. Beelzemon smiled as he landed on his feet and then reverted back to his rookie form, Impmon.
"Great job, Impmon!" Ai cheered as the devilish little digimon walked back to the younger of his twin Tamers. Impmon flashed a confident smile as he sat down next to t he 20-year-old man who had become a Tamer at the age of 3 along with his sister, Mako. They had broken the mold on what it meant to be a Tamer because they were the first people to ever have the same digimon as a partner.
Four years ago, when the twins turned 16, they and Impmon left for the Digital World and together they started the first permanent human colony in the Digital World. Other Tamers and humans soon followed them and now, only four short years since its creation, more than 10,000 humans and digimon resided in what they had affectionately named "Imp City."
"Guys! You've got to come quick! There's a message from Zhuquiamon and he says that it's a matter of utmost and immediate importance!" Mako said as she rode up on a specially made motorcycle that she had designed herself. Even though she and her brother were constantly busy running the city, Mako had become an inventor and was well known for her revolutionary machinery in both worlds.
"Well then why are we standing around here? Let's go see what that flaming Big Bird wants." Impmon answered in his usual sarcastic tone. Ai just smiled as he climbed on the back of the bike, their partner doing the same.
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"Please, mom. I swear I'll clean the entire house from top to bottom if you let me go with them just this once." I pleaded as I cleaned away the dishes from the table and hurriedly washed them before sitting back down with her and Renamon. "Barret and Matt will be there with both Deiomon and Cystemon so it'll be more than safe for us. After all, not even Zhuquiamon himself is strong enough to take on the three of us bio-merged and then be able to walk away with his data in tact."
I could see that mom was turning the idea over in her head, contemplating whether or not she should let me go and whether or not I was old enough to go alone. I didn't know why she worried so much; I was 14 so it wasn't like I could not handle myself. She knew how strong my friends and I were because Sakuyamon, MegaGargomon, and Justimon had tested each of us individually in a fight. In the test, it was all of the adults versus one of us at a time and, in every battle to date, we had always won.
However, there was one opponent that I was still waiting for a fight with, Beelzemon. My dad was the only Tamer to have ever beaten him in a one on one match so that meant I had to beat him by myself as well. Otherwise, I would never be as good as dad.
"You do not need to worry, Rika. After, Takeid has become a teenager." Renamon said, adding plenty of sarcastic emphasis on how I was in the trouble age group. I smiled innocently, all the while praying silently that mom wouldn't remember all the fun Barret, Matt, and I had had, especially a particularly nasty run in with the cops last year.
Mom closed her eyes and ran a hand through the fiery red hair that fell a little past her shoulders. Slowly but surely a smile emerged on her face, a sign that she was resigning from this talk and that I was going to the Digital World next week.
"You can go but under one condition, if I get an e-mail from Ai or Mako saying you three have been causing trouble, you'll be grounded the rest of the break." Mom answered.
"THANKS!" I cried out happily, hugging her before I rushed off to my room to call my two best friends and tell them the good news.
I quickly dialed the number for Barret's house, hoping that his parents were as trusting as mom was. On the end of my bed, Blackguilmon was snoring lightly, lost in the world where dreams ruled over reality. 'I hope he doesn't start another fire.' I thought silently, remembering how he had accidentally set my bed aflame last week while snoring with his mouth open.
"Hello?" Said Barret's mom, Jeri Wong, as she picked up the phone at her and Henry's condominium.
"Is Barret home?" I asked, nervously tapping my fingers on the table in front of me where the cradle for the mobile phone I was using sat.
"Why yes he is, Takeid." She answered cheerfully before calling for the older of her twin children. "How is Rika?" According to mom, she and Jeri had become good friends after the defeat of the D-Reaper and had stayed that way since.
"Mom's doing great. She's got another out of town photo shoot scheduled for the end of the month so she's been getting ready for it." Grandma Rumiko had started mom in modeling like her around the time she turned fifteen, three years before I was born. Mom said her mom thought that just because she was a Tamer did not mean she could not be beautiful as well. Mom had stayed in the business since then and was now one of the most sought after models around.
"That sounds like fun. Say hi to her for me would you?" Jeri asked.
"Sure thing Mrs. Wong." I heard Barret's mom had him the phone and then walk off. "What's happening Takeid?" Barret asked as he got on the other end.
"Please tell me they said yes, okay psycho?" I prayed aloud.
"It's official! BMT is goin' to the Digi World!"
"Hell yeah baby!" I shouted far louder than I had intended to. Besides Barret bursting into a fit of roaring laughter and my mom yelling my name out, the shout woke up Blackguilmon in alarm and, because he rolled sideways, he accidentally fell to the ground beside my bed. "Crap, just a sec Barret." I put down the phone and walked over to my partner who pulling himself up off the ground.
"Is everything alright Takeidmon?" Blackguilmon asked, still in a daze from his slumber and smacking his head into the wooden flooring of my bedroom.
"Everything's fine, boy. Sorry about that." I replied as I helped him back up onto my bed where he promptly went back to his snoring. "Goodnight, Blackguilmon."
To make sure I did not wake him again, I slid open the door that led to our garden from my room and headed outside with the phone in hand then shut the door back. The moon cast soft rays of silver down into the garden, reflected beautifully of the waters of our lily-covered pond. There was a slight breeze blowing from the west, causing the blooming cherry blossom trees to shudder and their blossoms to twist about lazily. I smiled as I just looked out into the garden for a moment, in a small state of euphoria by the untamed magnificence that lay before me.
Suddenly, the sound of a familiar voice brought me back to the reality that surrounded me. "Are you asleep again?!" Barret shouted into the phone, snapping me back awake.
"Sorry. Just doing some work." I answered. "You said BMT so that means that Matt's parents said it was cool as well, right?" Across the garden, a cherry blossom fell from the tree and drifted slowly down towards our pond, creating an incredible show as it spun down as if performing an unknown ballet.
"Yep. We'll finish off the details tomorrow in fourth period and lunch so I'll just talk to ya' in Mr. Kaijou's class." He finished before hanging up. I turned my attention back to the moonlit garden after turning off the phone, letting the gentle breeze and the moon's radiance relax my body and mind after the stress that came today.
A slight change in the temperature of the air around me and a small shifting of the wind alerted me of a foreign presence nearby. I could feel a pair of eyes casting their rock-hard gaze upon my back, staring me down like a predator about to strike its prey. It would be unnerving if I had not become to her usual method of entrance whenever I looked to be absorbed in my own thoughts.
"Is something a matter, Renamon?" I asked without turning to confirm that she was the one standing behind me. A nearly soundless sigh greeted my ears, a sigh that only she heaved so softly, and another sign of her presence. We knew each other too well.
The fox-like digimon stepped out of the shadows and sat down next to me, a tired and worn look on her face. It was clear something was bothering her, nagging at her heart and mind continuously and preventing her from finding any measure of rest.
"Takeid... there is something that I need to talk to you about honestly..." She whispered as she surveyed the garden, watching her reflection as it moved silently across the ripples of the water. I nodded silently, remembering the last time we had had one of these conversations. The only time Renamon came to me out of the blue like this was when I made a decision that made her uneasy or whenever she felt that I needed to know something about my father.
"Let me take a guess. It has something to do with the Digital World, right?" I replied, lowering my voice to a whisper as well in case my mother had not yet gone to bed. These conversations were for Renamon and I alone and it was going to stay that way as long as it could.
She nodded, fixing her stare toward me. I stared back, gazing deeply into her icy blue eyes, wordlessly watching the intensity that burned behind those eyes. 'There has been a murmur traveling through that the dimension and it has reached my ears." She answered. "A shadow has been tormenting the digimon as of late, a data-seeker that has been destroying champion and ultimate levels then devouring their data without a second thought. However, why I feel you need to know about this is that according to the whisper that I have heard is because the survivors are saying it is both a human and digimon committing these odious crimes. Thus, they believe it is a rouge Tamer and his partner but nothing is for sure, yet."
"I understand." I responded almost noiselessly, getting her meaning immediately. "You are worried because if he is rouge like mom once was, he might be willing to fight us and then we might have to destroy his partner."
She blinked slowly, a sign that I was correct. "Try to avoid him if you can but if you must fight, try to do it without anything stronger than Destramon. If you do fight, spare him as much as possible."
"Yes, Sensei." I replied, calling her the name that I had begun calling her back when she privately taught me how to fight when I was a young child before I had become a Tamer. Mom was not around much back then because of the photo shoots so Renamon had showed me how to stand up for myself when I needed to.
She turned her piercing gaze back to the garden. "One more thing, Takeid. Come back safely."
I did not say a word. I knew that if I were to die like dad did, mom would not be able to recover again. That was why I had made a solemn oath at my father's grave when I became a Tamer that I would be the one to bury mom, not the other way around. I promised him that I would live a long life and when mom did pass on, I would let her find peace beside him at the same gravesite.
"Good night, my son." Renamon finished as she stood back up before phasing out of the area for her evening walk.
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The next two days passed at what felt like a snails' pace yet finally the day came; the day that my friends and I would begin our journey to prove that we were true Tamers.
I dressed quickly but wisely, wearing a pair of baggy blue jean shorts and a white T-shirt underneath a long-sleeved plaid shirt. I slid on a pair of white ankle socks and then my old, tattered tennis shoes that had served me well for many a battle then finally put on my father's old goggles and let them hang around my neck.
I smiled to mom and Renamon as I grabbed the backpack full of food they had made for Blackguilmon and I and then I left, my partner following.
"'Bout time you two showed up. We were about to leave without ya'." Barret said as Blackguilmon and I arrived at the portal that we were going to leave through. It was near the Hypnos building were Mr. Yamaki still worked as an overseer of bio-emergences.
"Yeah and then I'd have kicked your butt from here to America." I retorted.
"Ladies, try to keep it civil." Matt finished. Barret and I both gave him a death glare that made him start sweating but it was just banter between friends. "Well, the Digital World awaits us."
I nodded. "Let's do this." We strode confidently into the digital field, our partners beside us.
~*~*~
"Hazard, everything is as you asked it to be." The digimon said as he returned to his master.
"Good, inform me when our next target approaches." He replied, watching the valley below him with a gaze harder than the steel that his right arm was made of.
Five minutes later, the digimon returned, a look of malevolence upon its fanged mouth. "It is here."
Hazard balled his hands into fists, the layers of steel and electrical wiring they were made of glimmering brightly in the afternoon sun. As always, a constant surge of electricity pulsated through Hazard's body, creating an illusion that lighting was surging behind his eyes. He smiled, his grin neither human nor inhuman either, a hybrid between the two. "It's time to play."
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Me: Well there's Chapter 3 for ya'. Like I said, there's much more to Hazard than you might think.
Rika: I still hate you you know that?
Me: Yes and I know you want to kill me but like the saying goes: People in hell want ice water and Michael Jackson wants to be a white chick.
Rika: Damn you.
Me: Well I hoped you enjoyed it folks. I'll update soon so please read and review.
Rika: Don't forget about me!
Me: Why in God's name did I not lock her in the mental hospital when I had a chance?! To everyone who reviewed, thanx and I hope that you continue to do so.
Now to Marshmellow and SSB, I'm just telling you right now to not make any conclusions about Hazard. There's much more than meets the eye right now. ^
^
Thanx, enjoy the fic, and PLEASE REVIEW!
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"You want me? Then come and get me!" Taunted the massive human-like digimon as he bared his claws, ready to destroy the champion-leveled Tuskmon that had attacked him and his friends. There was no way that Tuskmon would win and the green dinosaur-type knew it far too well. However, the one who he had attacked was not going to let him walk out of the battle alive.
"Slamming Tusk!" Roared Tuskmon as he charged towards his opponent, hoping to get lucky and impale him. The three-eyed digimon standing in front of him merely smiled a mischievous smile and then leapt into the air right before Tuskmon could attack.
"Double Impact!" Shouted the three-eyed demon as he flew over Tuskmon. The black clad digimon fired a round from his sawed-off shotgun down at Tuskmon, instantly reducing him to data. Beelzemon smiled as he landed on his feet and then reverted back to his rookie form, Impmon.
"Great job, Impmon!" Ai cheered as the devilish little digimon walked back to the younger of his twin Tamers. Impmon flashed a confident smile as he sat down next to t he 20-year-old man who had become a Tamer at the age of 3 along with his sister, Mako. They had broken the mold on what it meant to be a Tamer because they were the first people to ever have the same digimon as a partner.
Four years ago, when the twins turned 16, they and Impmon left for the Digital World and together they started the first permanent human colony in the Digital World. Other Tamers and humans soon followed them and now, only four short years since its creation, more than 10,000 humans and digimon resided in what they had affectionately named "Imp City."
"Guys! You've got to come quick! There's a message from Zhuquiamon and he says that it's a matter of utmost and immediate importance!" Mako said as she rode up on a specially made motorcycle that she had designed herself. Even though she and her brother were constantly busy running the city, Mako had become an inventor and was well known for her revolutionary machinery in both worlds.
"Well then why are we standing around here? Let's go see what that flaming Big Bird wants." Impmon answered in his usual sarcastic tone. Ai just smiled as he climbed on the back of the bike, their partner doing the same.
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"Please, mom. I swear I'll clean the entire house from top to bottom if you let me go with them just this once." I pleaded as I cleaned away the dishes from the table and hurriedly washed them before sitting back down with her and Renamon. "Barret and Matt will be there with both Deiomon and Cystemon so it'll be more than safe for us. After all, not even Zhuquiamon himself is strong enough to take on the three of us bio-merged and then be able to walk away with his data in tact."
I could see that mom was turning the idea over in her head, contemplating whether or not she should let me go and whether or not I was old enough to go alone. I didn't know why she worried so much; I was 14 so it wasn't like I could not handle myself. She knew how strong my friends and I were because Sakuyamon, MegaGargomon, and Justimon had tested each of us individually in a fight. In the test, it was all of the adults versus one of us at a time and, in every battle to date, we had always won.
However, there was one opponent that I was still waiting for a fight with, Beelzemon. My dad was the only Tamer to have ever beaten him in a one on one match so that meant I had to beat him by myself as well. Otherwise, I would never be as good as dad.
"You do not need to worry, Rika. After, Takeid has become a teenager." Renamon said, adding plenty of sarcastic emphasis on how I was in the trouble age group. I smiled innocently, all the while praying silently that mom wouldn't remember all the fun Barret, Matt, and I had had, especially a particularly nasty run in with the cops last year.
Mom closed her eyes and ran a hand through the fiery red hair that fell a little past her shoulders. Slowly but surely a smile emerged on her face, a sign that she was resigning from this talk and that I was going to the Digital World next week.
"You can go but under one condition, if I get an e-mail from Ai or Mako saying you three have been causing trouble, you'll be grounded the rest of the break." Mom answered.
"THANKS!" I cried out happily, hugging her before I rushed off to my room to call my two best friends and tell them the good news.
I quickly dialed the number for Barret's house, hoping that his parents were as trusting as mom was. On the end of my bed, Blackguilmon was snoring lightly, lost in the world where dreams ruled over reality. 'I hope he doesn't start another fire.' I thought silently, remembering how he had accidentally set my bed aflame last week while snoring with his mouth open.
"Hello?" Said Barret's mom, Jeri Wong, as she picked up the phone at her and Henry's condominium.
"Is Barret home?" I asked, nervously tapping my fingers on the table in front of me where the cradle for the mobile phone I was using sat.
"Why yes he is, Takeid." She answered cheerfully before calling for the older of her twin children. "How is Rika?" According to mom, she and Jeri had become good friends after the defeat of the D-Reaper and had stayed that way since.
"Mom's doing great. She's got another out of town photo shoot scheduled for the end of the month so she's been getting ready for it." Grandma Rumiko had started mom in modeling like her around the time she turned fifteen, three years before I was born. Mom said her mom thought that just because she was a Tamer did not mean she could not be beautiful as well. Mom had stayed in the business since then and was now one of the most sought after models around.
"That sounds like fun. Say hi to her for me would you?" Jeri asked.
"Sure thing Mrs. Wong." I heard Barret's mom had him the phone and then walk off. "What's happening Takeid?" Barret asked as he got on the other end.
"Please tell me they said yes, okay psycho?" I prayed aloud.
"It's official! BMT is goin' to the Digi World!"
"Hell yeah baby!" I shouted far louder than I had intended to. Besides Barret bursting into a fit of roaring laughter and my mom yelling my name out, the shout woke up Blackguilmon in alarm and, because he rolled sideways, he accidentally fell to the ground beside my bed. "Crap, just a sec Barret." I put down the phone and walked over to my partner who pulling himself up off the ground.
"Is everything alright Takeidmon?" Blackguilmon asked, still in a daze from his slumber and smacking his head into the wooden flooring of my bedroom.
"Everything's fine, boy. Sorry about that." I replied as I helped him back up onto my bed where he promptly went back to his snoring. "Goodnight, Blackguilmon."
To make sure I did not wake him again, I slid open the door that led to our garden from my room and headed outside with the phone in hand then shut the door back. The moon cast soft rays of silver down into the garden, reflected beautifully of the waters of our lily-covered pond. There was a slight breeze blowing from the west, causing the blooming cherry blossom trees to shudder and their blossoms to twist about lazily. I smiled as I just looked out into the garden for a moment, in a small state of euphoria by the untamed magnificence that lay before me.
Suddenly, the sound of a familiar voice brought me back to the reality that surrounded me. "Are you asleep again?!" Barret shouted into the phone, snapping me back awake.
"Sorry. Just doing some work." I answered. "You said BMT so that means that Matt's parents said it was cool as well, right?" Across the garden, a cherry blossom fell from the tree and drifted slowly down towards our pond, creating an incredible show as it spun down as if performing an unknown ballet.
"Yep. We'll finish off the details tomorrow in fourth period and lunch so I'll just talk to ya' in Mr. Kaijou's class." He finished before hanging up. I turned my attention back to the moonlit garden after turning off the phone, letting the gentle breeze and the moon's radiance relax my body and mind after the stress that came today.
A slight change in the temperature of the air around me and a small shifting of the wind alerted me of a foreign presence nearby. I could feel a pair of eyes casting their rock-hard gaze upon my back, staring me down like a predator about to strike its prey. It would be unnerving if I had not become to her usual method of entrance whenever I looked to be absorbed in my own thoughts.
"Is something a matter, Renamon?" I asked without turning to confirm that she was the one standing behind me. A nearly soundless sigh greeted my ears, a sigh that only she heaved so softly, and another sign of her presence. We knew each other too well.
The fox-like digimon stepped out of the shadows and sat down next to me, a tired and worn look on her face. It was clear something was bothering her, nagging at her heart and mind continuously and preventing her from finding any measure of rest.
"Takeid... there is something that I need to talk to you about honestly..." She whispered as she surveyed the garden, watching her reflection as it moved silently across the ripples of the water. I nodded silently, remembering the last time we had had one of these conversations. The only time Renamon came to me out of the blue like this was when I made a decision that made her uneasy or whenever she felt that I needed to know something about my father.
"Let me take a guess. It has something to do with the Digital World, right?" I replied, lowering my voice to a whisper as well in case my mother had not yet gone to bed. These conversations were for Renamon and I alone and it was going to stay that way as long as it could.
She nodded, fixing her stare toward me. I stared back, gazing deeply into her icy blue eyes, wordlessly watching the intensity that burned behind those eyes. 'There has been a murmur traveling through that the dimension and it has reached my ears." She answered. "A shadow has been tormenting the digimon as of late, a data-seeker that has been destroying champion and ultimate levels then devouring their data without a second thought. However, why I feel you need to know about this is that according to the whisper that I have heard is because the survivors are saying it is both a human and digimon committing these odious crimes. Thus, they believe it is a rouge Tamer and his partner but nothing is for sure, yet."
"I understand." I responded almost noiselessly, getting her meaning immediately. "You are worried because if he is rouge like mom once was, he might be willing to fight us and then we might have to destroy his partner."
She blinked slowly, a sign that I was correct. "Try to avoid him if you can but if you must fight, try to do it without anything stronger than Destramon. If you do fight, spare him as much as possible."
"Yes, Sensei." I replied, calling her the name that I had begun calling her back when she privately taught me how to fight when I was a young child before I had become a Tamer. Mom was not around much back then because of the photo shoots so Renamon had showed me how to stand up for myself when I needed to.
She turned her piercing gaze back to the garden. "One more thing, Takeid. Come back safely."
I did not say a word. I knew that if I were to die like dad did, mom would not be able to recover again. That was why I had made a solemn oath at my father's grave when I became a Tamer that I would be the one to bury mom, not the other way around. I promised him that I would live a long life and when mom did pass on, I would let her find peace beside him at the same gravesite.
"Good night, my son." Renamon finished as she stood back up before phasing out of the area for her evening walk.
~*~*~
The next two days passed at what felt like a snails' pace yet finally the day came; the day that my friends and I would begin our journey to prove that we were true Tamers.
I dressed quickly but wisely, wearing a pair of baggy blue jean shorts and a white T-shirt underneath a long-sleeved plaid shirt. I slid on a pair of white ankle socks and then my old, tattered tennis shoes that had served me well for many a battle then finally put on my father's old goggles and let them hang around my neck.
I smiled to mom and Renamon as I grabbed the backpack full of food they had made for Blackguilmon and I and then I left, my partner following.
"'Bout time you two showed up. We were about to leave without ya'." Barret said as Blackguilmon and I arrived at the portal that we were going to leave through. It was near the Hypnos building were Mr. Yamaki still worked as an overseer of bio-emergences.
"Yeah and then I'd have kicked your butt from here to America." I retorted.
"Ladies, try to keep it civil." Matt finished. Barret and I both gave him a death glare that made him start sweating but it was just banter between friends. "Well, the Digital World awaits us."
I nodded. "Let's do this." We strode confidently into the digital field, our partners beside us.
~*~*~
"Hazard, everything is as you asked it to be." The digimon said as he returned to his master.
"Good, inform me when our next target approaches." He replied, watching the valley below him with a gaze harder than the steel that his right arm was made of.
Five minutes later, the digimon returned, a look of malevolence upon its fanged mouth. "It is here."
Hazard balled his hands into fists, the layers of steel and electrical wiring they were made of glimmering brightly in the afternoon sun. As always, a constant surge of electricity pulsated through Hazard's body, creating an illusion that lighting was surging behind his eyes. He smiled, his grin neither human nor inhuman either, a hybrid between the two. "It's time to play."
~*~*~
Me: Well there's Chapter 3 for ya'. Like I said, there's much more to Hazard than you might think.
Rika: I still hate you you know that?
Me: Yes and I know you want to kill me but like the saying goes: People in hell want ice water and Michael Jackson wants to be a white chick.
Rika: Damn you.
Me: Well I hoped you enjoyed it folks. I'll update soon so please read and review.