"Onkó has Hikari," Mimi whispered.
"What?!" Taichi roared. Takeru, who sat on the other side of Taichi, had his hair blown back by the wind Taichi had made.
"Something is wrong-"
"Yeah that slimy bastard got to my little sister! I knew Davis couldn't handle it!"
Takeru started getting scared by the fuss the older vampire was making.
"No! It's Davis. He's not well. Something is wrong with him."
Marth entered the room with a few bowls of normal food in his hands. "Did someone invite you?!" Taichi snapped at the young twenty-one year old without meaning.
Marth answered him with dry expression, "I don't remember inviting you to live with us. Besides, Mortals have to eat."
Marth set down five bowls of beef stew. He looked over at Mimi; her head was tilted his way. Was she looking at him?
She started talking to him, "You know something don't you?"
~*~*~*~
I'm fed up with my destiny
Place of no return
I think I'll take another day
And slowly watch it burn.
Doesn't really matter how the time goes by
'Cause I still remember you and I
And that beautiful good-bye
Fifteen-year-old Daisuke Motomiya flopped on his bed. He was sick of the vampire stuff; all he wanted to do now was go home. His original home with Jun; oh how he missed her. Sometimes he wished everything would just burn up and he could leave the sewer full of hopeless dreams. A hopeless dream: that's what he had just seen. Ten of his men went out in battle. It wasn't even Onkó they were facing. It was some of Onkó's weakest men. And out of every person that went out in battle on his side, only one came home. Himself.
Eight years since he had last seen home. Do they still think of him? Did their family grow? Have more kids?
He laughed to himself; if his parents did have more kids, would they ever take his place? Would they laugh and play like he and Jun had done? Would she teach them how to read, play soccer, write, sing, and other things? He wished he had at least said good-bye.
Stagger through these empty streets.
Laughing on and on
And I had made a mess of me
A confession keeps me warm
I don't really miss you
I need to know do you ever think of you and I
And that Beautiful Good-Bye
One-step, two step. Little baby steps. The eighteen-year-old walked down the street passing very few people. She had been walking for some time now. Ever since her mother and father went to the orphanage to get a boy child that looked a lot like her little brother. They even got one with the same name. One thing was sure though: she had only spent a week with the new boy and he was nothing like her little brother used to be.
Eight years he had been gone, was he still out there?
Nighttime had fallen and Daisuke walked up and out of the sewer. He was walking on a street that never had many people on it. He walked in baggy black pants with his shoes that were black with flames. He had no shirt but a hooded black sweatshirt. He carried some chains and a spiked choker necklace. His fingernails were painted black. He attracted people's attention when he walked, and he noted that the police were following him from a distance to make sure he didn't rob anything with his black attire on. He started laughing at most of the people that were watching.
He stopped and looked at an older girl who wore a black trench coat, black leather pants, and a red top that stopped before her bellybutton. Her hair was gelled up and a white rabbit followed her. The rabbit reminded him of his rabbit. But the girl; he had known that girl somewhere. He turned and started following them, making the police sit at a table drinking mugs of coffee but keeping their eyes on Daisuke the whole time.
She looked behind her shoulder but it looked like no one was following her. But it sure felt like it.
"Come on Snowflake," she called to the white rabbit. The rabbit looked at her owner and back to the street before following the girl.
The girl got to thinking of her little brother again. She hated thinking of him because she didn't want to miss him. But did he ever think of her wherever he was? Heaven? Yeah, that's where her little brother was: heaven. He was a good boy. She only wished she said good-bye the right way. The last words to him were that she had some thing for him. And what she had was a white rabbit named Snowflake II. The stupid cat that had killed his first pet was now dead from trying to eat something that wouldn't fit in its mouth.
When I see you now I wonder how
I could have watched you walk away
If I let you down please forgive me now
For that beautiful Good bye
The police started gaining on him and running after him. The streets were so empty that Daisuke could see them drop a dime. But Daisuke didn't have time for games. He wanted to know who the girl was. He had already started a record with the police: all they had to do now was catch him and all their problems would be over.
Daisuke saw others coming at him from another end. He cursed under his breath. The girl would have to wait. He picked up his pace and ran past the girl, purposely bumping into her. He still ran but looked back to say he was sorry.
The police started shouting his name, "Daisuke Motomiya you get back here right NOW!!!"
The girl was hit by a boy who ran past her. She wanted to yell "Watch it!" but he turned around. He looked so familiar, but who was he? As if her prayers were answered, someone shouted his name. But it couldn't be true. Daisuke Motomiya was dead. She went to his funeral. Her little brother Davis was not alive. But the boy would be around Daisuke's age and even though he was decked in black he still looked like him. His reddish unruly hair that went whatever way it pleased, the same boyish face with his chocolate eyes. She bolted after him with the rabbit close behind her.
He lost the police fast but he never lost the girl and her rabbit.
"Hey you stop right there! Stop you imposter!" she yelled.
Daisuke stopped and looked back at her, "Imposter?!"
"Yeah you're a thief!" she said out of breath.
"Thief? What did I steal?" he asked innocently.
"The name. You stole my brother's name."
Daisuke's eyes widened a bit. "Her brother". Did that mean that the girl he was talking to was, Jun?
"Jun?"
Jun looked up at him, not believing what she was seeing. "You're not my brother. My brother died eight years ago." She stared him in his eyes; they seemed to soften then get sadder.
"Eight years ago I committed the worst of sins." Should he tell her? Someone he had trusted his whole life. Not here. He smiled up at her, "Come on I'll buy you dinner and we'll talk there."
She didn't know why she agreed. Maybe there was just the slightest hope that he was really her brother.
They went to a place called Mars Diner. There, Daisuke explained everything. Jun finally believed him, and told him things that were happing at home. By the end of the two hours they had been there, Snowflake was attached to her original owner.
"I just can't believe it's been eight years and I tried to get you off my mind, like I wanted you just to walk away. And now I know why I still have you on my mind. It's 'cause you died." Jun gulped down the last of her coffee.
In these days of no regrets
I keep mine to myself
And all these things I never said
I can say for someone else
Nothing lasts forever, but we always try
And I just can't help but wonder why
We let it pass us by
They walked in the moonlight, laughing about the past and thinking on the future. Daisuke had no regrets about leaving his home now. He saw that his family was doing alright without him. But his other family wouldn't survive. He knew Marth wouldn't be able to handle Daisuke not being around. He had told him that he never wanted to see his family leave, and that he considered Daisuke his family. He was all Marth had left: the other elders couldn't do much.
Should he tell Jun what he felt, or should he wait another day? They had their entire lifetime. He could tell her another day.
"So are you going to come home with me? Mom and Dad would be real happy to see you. And then we can live like a family again. Won't that be great?" Jun got excited just thinking about it.
"It would be awesome, but I got another family. I'm all Marth has left. I'm all they have left." He felt bad telling his sister that. But she understood. He changed the silence and the subject, "So what's up with your hair?"
She ran her fingers through her spikes, "When I left home I didn't want Mom or Dad to find me. The one time I did this they walked past me and didn't know it was me, so when I left this is what my hair looked like."
Daisuke stared at her. He knew who she was.kinda. So that meant her disguise was a success.
When I see you now I wonder how
I could have watched you walk away
If I let you down please forgive me now
For that beautiful Good Bye
They walked and talked before a figure came out and stopped them. Daisuke stopped in his tracks. Jun was confused by his quick halt. She turned to the figure.
"Who are you?"
"Who, me?" he gave a sinister laugh, "Well girly, I'm the king of them all." He looked over at Daisuke, "Looks like little Davis has to have help from the mortal race now."
"Onkó what are you doing here?!" Daisuke snapped.
"Just passing by."
Baby what can I do
Ought to get though to you
And sometimes I cry
It's a fools lullaby
Sometimes I cry
Just a fools lullaby
I'm dying inside
Yeah
Daisuke had told Jun about Onkó. She backed up a bit with Snowflake II in her arms. Onkó looked over at Jun and then at Daisuke.
"This could be fun."
At first he went and attacked Daisuke. Knees colliding in stomachs and fists in the face. Jun winced at the sight of her little brother fighting. It was she who fought when they were little when all the bullies would pick on him; she would come in and smash the bullies face. But this was a much different fight; this was a fight of strength.
Onkó kicked Daisuke down hard; blood was spilling like water out of his nose, mouth and other cuts. Onkó looked over at Jun, and smirked, "Why are you with this loser anyway?"
"He's MY brother. He's NOT a loser!"
"Yeah I can see the resemblance now. Such a pity, I was going to take you under my wing too. Now I cant. It's my policy: can't date my enemy's sister. But I can kill her." Jun's eyes widened. He was going to kill her?
Onkó made each step he took a step towards death. Daisuke could hardly move but he had to for Jun. Onkó cornered Jun up on a tree. Her death was near. She dropped Snowflake, and the rabbit ran towards Daisuke. It cuddled up its soft white fur on Daisuke's face; the coat was now stained a bit with blood.
Angered.
His black nails grew in the ground where they were clenched. His eyes grew blacker then hell itself. The White Rabbit started getting scared, was it the same Daisuke?
Daisuke kicked the rabbit out of his way. He approached Onkó; Jun had already started screaming from Onkó's grasp.
"Onkó!"
Onkó turned to Daisuke, he smirked and, "Looks like even the good guys get to blow a little steam." Onkó dropped Jun and walked over to Daisuke.
Daisuke charged at Onkó with an Evil Force.
Up on a nearby hill, the Elders watched. Marth was not happy with Daisuke's sudden burst of Evil.
"BLACK THUNDER!!" Daisuke yelled at the skies. Clouds parted, rumbling was heard, and electricity came forth.
Onkó stopped in fear. "How is this possible?" he said to himself. " I have been training my entire life for that move and nothing worked. Can he truly do it?!"
Marth's eyes widened, "No Davis, you idiot!"
All the Elders watched in shock.
"How did he learn that move?!" Edwin roared and looked over at Nicholas.
"Don't look at me! I am not the one who spent time every day..."
Everyone looked over at Math and Griffin.
"Don't blame this on me! I never even said anything about Black Thunder!" cried Griffin.
"But Marth did; he opened his trap when I was explaining the Black elements," Nicholas yelled again.
Marth looked at everyone "I'm in trouble" he thought to himself.
The electricity came clashing down on Daisuke, charging him up, but Daisuke couldn't handle the pain and pressure he was given. His muscles bulged, and the electricity started ripping him up. He moved his hands forward and tried aiming his attack towards Onkó. Giving the final yell, his attack was sent forth towards Onkó.
Onkó was still frozen in shock, but recovered soon. He looked down, and saw the blood- stained white rabbit trying to limp to Jun. Onkó picked it up and threw it at the coming attack.
Daisuke was seriously hurt trying to send forth that attack. And all he hit was a now dead rabbit.
Onkó gave an evil laugh, "What? Wrong target?" he jumped over to where Jun was and picked her up by the neck. "Oh little Davis, looky over here!" Onkó said in a childish voice.
Daisuke tried prying his head up to look at Onkó. Tears formed in Jun's eyes. She tried breathing but little air could flow through her lungs. Blood started falling from her neck as Onkó's nails dug into her skin. He lowered his fangs to her neck, and bit down.
"NO!!" Daisuke was paralyzed; he couldn't move at all.
Before the last of her life was seeped away, Jun murmured something. Onkó tossed her aside and wiped his mouth. Daisuke finally fell into unconsciousness. Onkó turned and left all the bodies to rot.
The Elders got up to leave.
"Wait, what about Davis?" Marth asked.
Arthur answered him.
"Davis needs to calm down. When he gets back to the good side, he can come home." Marth sat on a rock and watched Daisuke's motionless body. Griffin came over and put a hand on Marth's shoulder.
"You heard him, he's all you've got left. He won't leave you Marth. He'll come back."
An hour later Daisuke woke up and looked around. He seemed normal again. He looked over at Snowflake II's ashes and bones. He looked over at Jun's pale face. He smiled remembering what she murmered:
"Remember, you'll be the King. That means I'll be a Queen, and when we meet again, little brother, I'll rule you once more. Love ya-"
Jun's body is now in one of the most beautiful cemeteries imaginable, covered in flowers next to Snowflake II. Daisuke's body was also "buried" there; it was close to Jun's grave. Daisuke brings flowers to her often. On her gravestone it says: "To a Future Queen. We'll meet again". This time he did it right. He said a Beautiful Good-bye.
Mimi turned her head toward Marth.
"So what you're saying is Davis is not on our side right now?"
"No, I wouldn't say that. He just now has the potential of killing, he himself is on his list."
"What!? You mean Daisuke might try and kill himself?" Ken was shocked.
"Well didn't you listen to the story I told you. He almost tried killing himself then."
"How?" Asked Takeru.
"I think you guys are going to give me a headache." Marth rubbed his temples. "Black thunder can kill the person who uses it."
"Oh." Miyako shook her head then realized the dangers, "Oh!"
Marth threw his arms up in defeat. "That means we have to start looking for him"
Miyako got out a map and started assigning people to places. The teams were:
Miyako and Mimi: North
Yamato and Takeru: Northeast
Taichi: East
Ken and Koushiro: South
Jyou and Iori: Southwest
Marth: West
"Hey how come Taichi and Marth aren't partnered up?" asked sixteen-year-old Iori.
"Because we're special." Marth and Taichi said at the same time. Yamato rolled his eyes at the two goofs.
Griffin entered the room, and Yamato looked up at him, "What's going on Old Man?"
Takeru looked at Yamato like he was an idiot. Griffin wasn't old, he was only about thirty-five. So why did Yamato call him an Old Man?
"I'm here, dumb-bells, because our King is out. Being evil. Again. Do you know that means!?"
Griffin shook Yamato's shoulders. Yamato shook his head yes.
Griffin smiled and started clapping, "Holy Shit, he knows something!"
Marth grabbed him back and told him, "Griffin don't scare the kids". Yamato got up and started arguing with Griffin. It was one insult after another. They almost seemed like an old married couple. Taichi was laughing at them with Koushiro. Marth was screaming for the two to brake it up. And all the while the mortals and Mimi stared in a daze.
"We're losing perishes time here people!" Marth finally shouted. Griffin and Yamato stopped bickering and looked up at him. "While you two are fighting Davis is out there possibly getting himself killed! So can we please get a move on!?"
"Yeah I'll establish a meeting between the rest of the elders and we can working something out you guys get move on." Griffin smacked Yamato in the back of the head and ran out of the room, "See ya." Marth held on to Yamato's pants holding him back from killing Griffin.
~*~*~*~
Jeffery put the final piece of equipment together. He looked over the radar while his father drove, looking for a vampire signal and a human. "I knew something was wrong that girl. Maybe it wasn't a girl. How could Hikari not know?" Mr. Kamiya kept asking himself.
Jeffery kept looking at the radar. Beeps were finally heard. One human and one Vampire. Perfect. "Father East quadrant."
~*~*~*~
Taichi got to the east part of town it was mostly a cemetery. In a distance he saw figure by a gravestone. He walked over, it was a girl of seventeen, and she had curly blond hair. Her eyes were cerulean blues; she wore a blue dress that brought out her eyes. "Hello?"
She turned around startled, "Hello" she gave Taichi a very confused look, "You don't see too many people at cemeteries after night."
"I was going to ask you the same thing." Taichi gave out his hand, "The name is Taichi but you can call me Tai."
She smiled and took his hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you Tai, I am Catherine"
"Beautiful name, you have an accent?"
"Yes. I moved here from France."
"Oh, so what are you doing here alone, don't you know about Vampires."
"Yes I do. But I was visiting my father, since I was so booked up in the day I had to come at night. What are you doing if you know vampires."
'Think tiny little brain cells Think! Ken is hunter and I am holding my sword so I'll be a' "I am a slayer."
"Oh I guess that would explain the sword then" she giggled. "Well I should be heading home now."
"Alone? Don't you think that's dangerous?" Taichi gulped he never knew what to say to women, "I'll walk you home if you want."
"That's quite alright, you have to patrol and I don't want to interfere."
"Are you sure?"
"Come on Tai don't make the girl say no again" a female voice came from the shadows. Taichi looked up, "Who's there?"
Out walked a girl, Taichi's jaw dropped to the ground. His eyes scanned the girl interlay. Tight black leather pants that was laced on the sides, you saw her skin in little diamonds. Her top just covered her breast and made them perk up a bit, it was also black and strapless. On the side of her hip was a long wound up whip. Her hair was Strawberry orange. Her eyes brown.
"How do you know who I am?"
"Silly Tai, don't you remember you got surgery so you could become a guy so it wouldn't look so awkward when we do this." She grabbed his face and pulled him down for a deep kiss. Taichi's eyes bulged out of his head. She released the kiss, "You must have really forgotten all about little old me since you were flirting with another girl. How could you!?" she dropped to her knees and started crying.
Catherine started feeling awkward, "Um I think I should go now." She started backing up when a sound of a car came screeching around. Two exited out of the car, Taichi's face paled when he saw who came out. The girl jumped up and started smiling showing no tears. She jumped up on Tai and wrapped her legs around him. He stumbled backwards and tripped over Catherine's father's gravestone making it break and fall down.
"Father's Grave!" Catherine came running over.
"TAICHI!?" Mr. Kamiya and Jeffery came running over to the fallen duo and crying girl. Mr. Kamiya pointed the gun at Taichi's head. "Don't move."
The girl sat there purring on Taichi's chest, Taichi's arms were up from the gun and Taichi was getting hit with tears and rocks from the girl Catherine.
Hey Dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan
Taichi looked over at his father; it didn't seem like the same man that he left some time ago. He turned his head towards his adopted brother, Jeffery. Did he hate him too?
"A vampire?!" Mr. Kamiya shouted.
"My fathers grave stone you broke it! I hate you! You sex changing bastard!" Catherine yelled.
Jeffery kept his mouth shut; he didn't talk to his brother. Did he want to? He remembered laughing and playing with Taichi but now it was so different. Mr. Kamiya spoke again, "This is disgusting Tai, how could you become a vampire after your mother was killed before your eyes by the bastards. I thought you hated them the most. And now your little sister is endanger and you probably don't care at all about her."
Tears started forming in Taichi's eyes, this was his family. His father yelled that he didn't care. His brother stayed silent because he was scared. His sister being kidnapped. Some girl he just meet is yelling about her family. And a strange girl who he doesn't know her name is purring on his chest. What else could go wrong?
And do think I'm wasting my time
Doing things I want to do
But it hurts when you disapprove all along
"Don't you think your wasting time being a vampire. I thought you would have killed your self a long time ago." Mr. Kamiya pulled the trigger on the gun half way "But I'll help you with that."
Was Taichi really scared of dying? Again? He tried staking himself before but he got scared of the pain he was going to have to go through again when he got down back in hell.
"Father, there seemed to be thousands!" Jeffery called spinning around looking at all the woods parts. Mr. Kamiya lowered the gun from Taichi and looked at the radar Jeffery held. Hundreds of dots that directed to vampire, "Well it looks like someone called all his new friends to save him from death."
"Friends?" 'Hundreds? I don't have hundreds of friends. But I know who does. Onkó's men are all going to attack. I got to stop them before they hurt father and Jeffery. Maybe the girl that's STILL purring would like to help?' He tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up at him, "You're a vampire, now would you like to help me?" he whispered. The girl smiled and rubbed her nose on his; "Aw me help Taichi. Yeah!" she jumped up, she drew the attention of the three next to them.
The vampires started coming out from the trees all at once. Taichi grabbed his sword and got up. Mr. Kamiya shot him a glare that didn't have a meaning that Taichi understood.
And now I try hard to make it I just want to make you proud
I am never gonna be good enough for you
Can't you pretend that I'm all right.
And you can't change me
The girl rushed out to battle first. She grabbed her whip and slashed through all the vampires. Taichi ran out. He chopped off the heads and used the other end to stake them. They both slashed their way through all the crowds. One vampire knocked Taichi's sword out of his hands. "Black Fire!" he got on both hands and swung his feet kicking them in the face and the stomachs. The fire mutilated towards his feet, all the vampires he touched were sent in flames back down to hell.
The girl had her own way of battling. A group huddled up. She blew breath out and spelled words out in the air. Once the words were drawn she blew on it again and the words she drew glowed in purple. "Black Wind" she slammed her palm of the purple words, and the group of vampires were lifted up in the air and tossed to individual sharp-branched trees.
'Cause we it lost all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
It was finally narrowed down to one. Taichi made his way over to the cowering vampire. The vampire fell to the ground backing up far away. Taichi grabbed him by the collar and held him up in the air. Taichi turned his eyes and sharpened his fangs to scare the vampire. "Tell me where Onkó is?" he snarled.
"I-I don---t kn-ow" he stuttered. Taichi shook him a bit, "Tell me where he is now and I won't kill you!" he dropped the vampire and raised his sword. The cowering vampire yelped in fear, "Okay! Lo-Lord On--Onkó is near th-he we-est part."
"Thank you" Taichi turned around to stare at the girl, then swung himself fast to chop the vampire's head off and stab the rest of his body with the other end of the sword. "Scum!"
The girls eyes went wide, "You said you weren't going to kill him!?"
"I lied." Taichi then turned to his father and the others, "I'll see you again and I'll bring Hikari back safely."
I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you use to be my hero
Tears slid down Taichi's face, as he turned away. What did his father feel? Did he feel the same as him? Taichi looked back at his astonished father. 'What went wrong father? A long time ago we used to be best friends. I would always look up to you. You were my role model. I know I hated vampires with passion before because of mother, but now things are different; I know that there are good sides and bad sides. And I know that the bad side killed mother, and me. They also killed your heart inside.' Taichi turned around and mummer, "I'm sorry."
All the days you spent with me
Now seems so far away
And it feels you don't care anymore
The girl followed close behind Taichi. Mr. Kamiya followed his son, "Jeffery get the car!" he snapped. Jeffery ran off and got the car, all the while Catherine stayed there stones in her hand. "Tai stop right there!" Mr. Kamiya started running. The girl turned around and looked at Mr. Kamiya. Taichi slowed down but didn't turn around. "Look at me when I'm talking to you boy!"
Taichi didn't turn, "I don't live by your rules now Pa, that was then and this is now. I'm not your perfect son anymore. That was a long time ago. But I wouldn't even get to be considered you son anymore. You don't care!" the last sentence hurt Taichi the most. He held his hand out for the girl; she walked up and took it. They walked hand in hand towards the west area.
"Just one question then." Taichi stopped and the girl looked back again. "Why did you kill those vampires, I thought they were your new friends?"
"Those were Onkó's that I killed. I'm on Daisuke's side. And the side I'm on protects the innocent from Onkó's grasp." Taichi continued on again. It wasn't good enough for Mr. Kamiya though; Jeffery pulled the van up and hopped out. Mr. Kamiya took driver and Jeffery went in the passenger's seat.
"That's a nice whip you got there" Taichi started a conversation with a girl-he didn't even know her name. She looked up at him with the devil dancing in her eyes, "Killing vampire's isn't the only thing it's used for you know."
Taichi blushed furiously and gulped down hard. "That brings up another question: why I am I a sex changing bastard?!"
The girl sweet-dropped, "eh-I just didn't want that blond French bimbo getting all of you."
Taichi softly laughed to himself, "Tai Kamiya" he held out his hand.
The girl smiled softly; "well that was hard to figure out. Sora Tackenouchi" she took his hand. They heard a car speeding behind them. "Lets go" Taichi started in a dash toward the west. Sora started running after him and jumped on his shoulder, which startled Taichi at first; but she had good balance and didn't fall off of Taichi's shoulder.
And now I try hard to make I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothings all right
Taichi jumped up in the moonlight. 'Father it was hard to make it with out you. And now that I'm finally on my own I can do things myself. So long ago that would have made you proud but now you think it's disgusting. What did I do wrong? Will I ever be good for you? Is fighting the only thing we'll do? That would have never happened two months ago. Fighting. I don't think I can take it.'
"Tai are you alright?" Sora put a look of concern on her face. Taichi looked up at her, smile; "Everything is Fine." 'No it's not Taichi Kamiya, you cant fool me. Your worried of you family. Your father. How different was life some time ago?' thought Sora.
'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
'Was your life so perfect Taichi? Was it so dramatic? Do you live a Soap Opera? Am I the new character to your life story? If you wrote a book called 'Perfect' would the imperfect girl be put in the story?' Sora stared down at his face watching all the shadows move across his face. She turned her head to see the van following close behind.
Nothings gonna change the words that you said
Nothings gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard just to talk to you
But you don't understand
Taichi landed and stopped, looking around. His father slammed on the brakes and got out of the car, "Where is she?!" Taichi hushed him, he listened carefully for the sound of something, a twig braking, a sneeze, maybe a scream. Mr. Kamiya started asking where Hikari was again, over and over. Taichi couldn't concentrate with his father talking. "Are you going to shut up so I can hear Kari please."
"You have no right to call her Kari anymore. You have abandoned her!" he went on and on. Taichi put his head down in defeat. 'Was it really this hard trying to talk to him before? No.' Taichi got thinking again, 'Did he really meant on what he said before? I abandoned Kari? I never abandoned her. Or did that mean he abandoned me?' "Father can you shut you mouth please?' he tried not to yell.
"You also have no right to call me father anymore. I can't believe I called you son at one point. Hell I can't believe I loved you at one point and time." Taichi felt the hot burning water swelling in his eyes. 'This is hopeless I can't get him to understand!'
'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
"Would you please SHUT UP!! Okay I'm sorry I'm not your perfect son anymore. I'm sorry I can never be perfect for you any more! But we all knew nothing lasts forever. And we lost our life as a family a long time ago when mom died and me becoming a vampire I know didn't help but I'm trying to find my baby sister who I still love with all my heart. Even if I'm a vampire and I need blood to survive my family will always come first! That means you, Jeffery, Kari, and even my new family and friends such as Davis and Matt and Izzy! So that means I have two people I love out there. One might kill himself by accident and the other is defenseless against who has her. Now dad I am sorry that it's too late and we can't go back to two months ago. But I need support. From a father who won't abandon his child because his child was turned in to something against his will." Taichi turned back around away from his father and listened to the sound of Hikari. He heard a rustle in the bush.
~*~*~*~
Yamato and Takeru looked around where they had been sent. A pretty cemetery. "Why do I think we were sent here for a reason?" Yamato asked glum.
They walked about looking around for any sign of Onkó or Daisuke. After ten minutes of searching Yamato gave up, "Well there's nothing here let's go look around in the woods." He turned on his heel and started walking towards the trees. Takeru rolled his eyes at his impatience brother, 'Tai would risk his life you his sister. Would Ma-Yamato risk his life for mine? Would I risk it for him? Was there a reason he wanted to become a vampire? I spent over a month looking for him to kill him. Now that I have him I can't kill him. Why?' Takeru looked up at his older brother.
Yamato felt Takeru's eyes on him, 'is this a good sign or a bad one?' he asked himself. Not paying attention to where he was walking Yamato tripped on a stone. "What the hell?" he looked at what he tripped on, a jolting out gravestone, "Now who the hell would put a big rock in the middle of a flower field?!"
Takeru looked around and sweet-dropped, "Um a cemetery."
Yamato looked around, "Oh yeah. This place is covered in flowers that I forgot it was a cemetery." He got up off the ground; his foot moved some of the dead flowers on the gravestone that was placed on there by someone. A last name was reviled; it was Motomiya. Yamato squatted down again and pulled the rest of the flowers off, Jun Motomiya. He went to see if Marth's sad story was true. And sure enough Snowflake II was there. Takeru walked up behind Yamato and saw the stones. He walked around he saw a stone that looked like it stopped getting flowers from their family. "Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: 1986-1993 Come home" Takeru read the stone. "How can someone be died and be alive at the same time?"
"I'm dead. And yet I'm alive." Yamato got up and started walking toward the woods again. 'A Motomiya family all dead but the parents. Would they be happy if they knew their youngest was still alive? Would they blame him for Jun's death? Does he think he made her die?' Questions fluttered Yamato's mind. Takeru picked some Cherry-blossoms off of some trees. He placed one on each of the two. He started running up towards his brother. Yamato stopped abruptly and made Takeru slam into his back. Hundreds of Vampires came out of the woods. "Hey T.K. you think we can take them?"
"NO!" Takeru's eyes bulged out of head, "Are you crazy there's two of us and possibly a thousand of them."
Yamato answered his own question positively, "I think we can take them!" Yamato rushed forth. He dug in his pocket and pulled out a long chain. He whiled the chain above his head. On the one side of the chain was a wooden spike ball and on the other, which he held, was a wood stake. Yamato kicked one and smashed another's face throwing off the head, he staked them after that.
Takeru started having some vampire troubles. How was he supposed to defeat all of them? He grabbed the crossbow on his back. One jumped up for him, but he was put to the dust. Takeru high kicked one spun around and shot him.
Yamato finally finished his big group of vampires. He started hearing struggling, when he turned around Takeru was in a headlock trying to reach his bow. The one who held him went and tried biting him. 'Is this the end already?' Takeru thought, he heard Yamato start screaming, "Hey get off my brother you good for nothing demon!" Yamato tackled the vampire down dropping his chain in the process. The vampire had the upper advantage now it was on Yamato and ready to kill him, "Oh Lord Onkó's in the West not like it's going to matter. You and your brother will be dead tonight!" it chuckled. Yamato shut his eyes for the burning to start. But instead he felt the burns on top of him. Takeru had shot the vampire with his crossbow.
Takeru had a big gash in his arm. "Are you all right?" Yamato came over and expected the wound. Takeru laughed slightly and then it came to fits of laughter. "What's so funny?" Takeru looked up at Yamato with childish eyes, eyes he never looked at Yamato ever since he became a vampire. "You. You never changed have you? After being a vampire for some time, you're still the same person. Every time I got hurt you would always over-react and try to take care of it."
"Is that bad?" Yamato tilted his head in confusion.
"No it just admits Tai's right."
Yamato gave a grin; "If it's one thing Tai knows about it's about Family." He picked Takeru up and placed him on his back, "Let's go!" he jumped out in the night towards the west.
When they got there Yamato started hearing screaming and yelling was it Daisuke and Onkó? He sure hoped so.
~*~*~*~ Songs: Amanda Marshall "A Beautiful Good Bye" and Simple Plan "Perfect" (if you have any thoughts of songs or poems for the story please let me know.)
Okay that's all for this chapter. It was my longest chapter yet (Yippy) sorry I was REALLY late on updating though and I didn't do to much of a spelling check on it.
Thank you for all the reviews if you have suggestions on the Tamers tell me so I can fit them in my story.
Next time: Does everyone get to Daisuke in time? Is he really on the side of darkness? What about Hikari? Mr. Kamiya and Jeffery? Can Taichi take more of his father? What's the rustling in the bushes and the yelling? Will Onkó get his queen?
Thank you so much, Foxy_Tai.
"What?!" Taichi roared. Takeru, who sat on the other side of Taichi, had his hair blown back by the wind Taichi had made.
"Something is wrong-"
"Yeah that slimy bastard got to my little sister! I knew Davis couldn't handle it!"
Takeru started getting scared by the fuss the older vampire was making.
"No! It's Davis. He's not well. Something is wrong with him."
Marth entered the room with a few bowls of normal food in his hands. "Did someone invite you?!" Taichi snapped at the young twenty-one year old without meaning.
Marth answered him with dry expression, "I don't remember inviting you to live with us. Besides, Mortals have to eat."
Marth set down five bowls of beef stew. He looked over at Mimi; her head was tilted his way. Was she looking at him?
She started talking to him, "You know something don't you?"
~*~*~*~
I'm fed up with my destiny
Place of no return
I think I'll take another day
And slowly watch it burn.
Doesn't really matter how the time goes by
'Cause I still remember you and I
And that beautiful good-bye
Fifteen-year-old Daisuke Motomiya flopped on his bed. He was sick of the vampire stuff; all he wanted to do now was go home. His original home with Jun; oh how he missed her. Sometimes he wished everything would just burn up and he could leave the sewer full of hopeless dreams. A hopeless dream: that's what he had just seen. Ten of his men went out in battle. It wasn't even Onkó they were facing. It was some of Onkó's weakest men. And out of every person that went out in battle on his side, only one came home. Himself.
Eight years since he had last seen home. Do they still think of him? Did their family grow? Have more kids?
He laughed to himself; if his parents did have more kids, would they ever take his place? Would they laugh and play like he and Jun had done? Would she teach them how to read, play soccer, write, sing, and other things? He wished he had at least said good-bye.
Stagger through these empty streets.
Laughing on and on
And I had made a mess of me
A confession keeps me warm
I don't really miss you
I need to know do you ever think of you and I
And that Beautiful Good-Bye
One-step, two step. Little baby steps. The eighteen-year-old walked down the street passing very few people. She had been walking for some time now. Ever since her mother and father went to the orphanage to get a boy child that looked a lot like her little brother. They even got one with the same name. One thing was sure though: she had only spent a week with the new boy and he was nothing like her little brother used to be.
Eight years he had been gone, was he still out there?
Nighttime had fallen and Daisuke walked up and out of the sewer. He was walking on a street that never had many people on it. He walked in baggy black pants with his shoes that were black with flames. He had no shirt but a hooded black sweatshirt. He carried some chains and a spiked choker necklace. His fingernails were painted black. He attracted people's attention when he walked, and he noted that the police were following him from a distance to make sure he didn't rob anything with his black attire on. He started laughing at most of the people that were watching.
He stopped and looked at an older girl who wore a black trench coat, black leather pants, and a red top that stopped before her bellybutton. Her hair was gelled up and a white rabbit followed her. The rabbit reminded him of his rabbit. But the girl; he had known that girl somewhere. He turned and started following them, making the police sit at a table drinking mugs of coffee but keeping their eyes on Daisuke the whole time.
She looked behind her shoulder but it looked like no one was following her. But it sure felt like it.
"Come on Snowflake," she called to the white rabbit. The rabbit looked at her owner and back to the street before following the girl.
The girl got to thinking of her little brother again. She hated thinking of him because she didn't want to miss him. But did he ever think of her wherever he was? Heaven? Yeah, that's where her little brother was: heaven. He was a good boy. She only wished she said good-bye the right way. The last words to him were that she had some thing for him. And what she had was a white rabbit named Snowflake II. The stupid cat that had killed his first pet was now dead from trying to eat something that wouldn't fit in its mouth.
When I see you now I wonder how
I could have watched you walk away
If I let you down please forgive me now
For that beautiful Good bye
The police started gaining on him and running after him. The streets were so empty that Daisuke could see them drop a dime. But Daisuke didn't have time for games. He wanted to know who the girl was. He had already started a record with the police: all they had to do now was catch him and all their problems would be over.
Daisuke saw others coming at him from another end. He cursed under his breath. The girl would have to wait. He picked up his pace and ran past the girl, purposely bumping into her. He still ran but looked back to say he was sorry.
The police started shouting his name, "Daisuke Motomiya you get back here right NOW!!!"
The girl was hit by a boy who ran past her. She wanted to yell "Watch it!" but he turned around. He looked so familiar, but who was he? As if her prayers were answered, someone shouted his name. But it couldn't be true. Daisuke Motomiya was dead. She went to his funeral. Her little brother Davis was not alive. But the boy would be around Daisuke's age and even though he was decked in black he still looked like him. His reddish unruly hair that went whatever way it pleased, the same boyish face with his chocolate eyes. She bolted after him with the rabbit close behind her.
He lost the police fast but he never lost the girl and her rabbit.
"Hey you stop right there! Stop you imposter!" she yelled.
Daisuke stopped and looked back at her, "Imposter?!"
"Yeah you're a thief!" she said out of breath.
"Thief? What did I steal?" he asked innocently.
"The name. You stole my brother's name."
Daisuke's eyes widened a bit. "Her brother". Did that mean that the girl he was talking to was, Jun?
"Jun?"
Jun looked up at him, not believing what she was seeing. "You're not my brother. My brother died eight years ago." She stared him in his eyes; they seemed to soften then get sadder.
"Eight years ago I committed the worst of sins." Should he tell her? Someone he had trusted his whole life. Not here. He smiled up at her, "Come on I'll buy you dinner and we'll talk there."
She didn't know why she agreed. Maybe there was just the slightest hope that he was really her brother.
They went to a place called Mars Diner. There, Daisuke explained everything. Jun finally believed him, and told him things that were happing at home. By the end of the two hours they had been there, Snowflake was attached to her original owner.
"I just can't believe it's been eight years and I tried to get you off my mind, like I wanted you just to walk away. And now I know why I still have you on my mind. It's 'cause you died." Jun gulped down the last of her coffee.
In these days of no regrets
I keep mine to myself
And all these things I never said
I can say for someone else
Nothing lasts forever, but we always try
And I just can't help but wonder why
We let it pass us by
They walked in the moonlight, laughing about the past and thinking on the future. Daisuke had no regrets about leaving his home now. He saw that his family was doing alright without him. But his other family wouldn't survive. He knew Marth wouldn't be able to handle Daisuke not being around. He had told him that he never wanted to see his family leave, and that he considered Daisuke his family. He was all Marth had left: the other elders couldn't do much.
Should he tell Jun what he felt, or should he wait another day? They had their entire lifetime. He could tell her another day.
"So are you going to come home with me? Mom and Dad would be real happy to see you. And then we can live like a family again. Won't that be great?" Jun got excited just thinking about it.
"It would be awesome, but I got another family. I'm all Marth has left. I'm all they have left." He felt bad telling his sister that. But she understood. He changed the silence and the subject, "So what's up with your hair?"
She ran her fingers through her spikes, "When I left home I didn't want Mom or Dad to find me. The one time I did this they walked past me and didn't know it was me, so when I left this is what my hair looked like."
Daisuke stared at her. He knew who she was.kinda. So that meant her disguise was a success.
When I see you now I wonder how
I could have watched you walk away
If I let you down please forgive me now
For that beautiful Good Bye
They walked and talked before a figure came out and stopped them. Daisuke stopped in his tracks. Jun was confused by his quick halt. She turned to the figure.
"Who are you?"
"Who, me?" he gave a sinister laugh, "Well girly, I'm the king of them all." He looked over at Daisuke, "Looks like little Davis has to have help from the mortal race now."
"Onkó what are you doing here?!" Daisuke snapped.
"Just passing by."
Baby what can I do
Ought to get though to you
And sometimes I cry
It's a fools lullaby
Sometimes I cry
Just a fools lullaby
I'm dying inside
Yeah
Daisuke had told Jun about Onkó. She backed up a bit with Snowflake II in her arms. Onkó looked over at Jun and then at Daisuke.
"This could be fun."
At first he went and attacked Daisuke. Knees colliding in stomachs and fists in the face. Jun winced at the sight of her little brother fighting. It was she who fought when they were little when all the bullies would pick on him; she would come in and smash the bullies face. But this was a much different fight; this was a fight of strength.
Onkó kicked Daisuke down hard; blood was spilling like water out of his nose, mouth and other cuts. Onkó looked over at Jun, and smirked, "Why are you with this loser anyway?"
"He's MY brother. He's NOT a loser!"
"Yeah I can see the resemblance now. Such a pity, I was going to take you under my wing too. Now I cant. It's my policy: can't date my enemy's sister. But I can kill her." Jun's eyes widened. He was going to kill her?
Onkó made each step he took a step towards death. Daisuke could hardly move but he had to for Jun. Onkó cornered Jun up on a tree. Her death was near. She dropped Snowflake, and the rabbit ran towards Daisuke. It cuddled up its soft white fur on Daisuke's face; the coat was now stained a bit with blood.
Angered.
His black nails grew in the ground where they were clenched. His eyes grew blacker then hell itself. The White Rabbit started getting scared, was it the same Daisuke?
Daisuke kicked the rabbit out of his way. He approached Onkó; Jun had already started screaming from Onkó's grasp.
"Onkó!"
Onkó turned to Daisuke, he smirked and, "Looks like even the good guys get to blow a little steam." Onkó dropped Jun and walked over to Daisuke.
Daisuke charged at Onkó with an Evil Force.
Up on a nearby hill, the Elders watched. Marth was not happy with Daisuke's sudden burst of Evil.
"BLACK THUNDER!!" Daisuke yelled at the skies. Clouds parted, rumbling was heard, and electricity came forth.
Onkó stopped in fear. "How is this possible?" he said to himself. " I have been training my entire life for that move and nothing worked. Can he truly do it?!"
Marth's eyes widened, "No Davis, you idiot!"
All the Elders watched in shock.
"How did he learn that move?!" Edwin roared and looked over at Nicholas.
"Don't look at me! I am not the one who spent time every day..."
Everyone looked over at Math and Griffin.
"Don't blame this on me! I never even said anything about Black Thunder!" cried Griffin.
"But Marth did; he opened his trap when I was explaining the Black elements," Nicholas yelled again.
Marth looked at everyone "I'm in trouble" he thought to himself.
The electricity came clashing down on Daisuke, charging him up, but Daisuke couldn't handle the pain and pressure he was given. His muscles bulged, and the electricity started ripping him up. He moved his hands forward and tried aiming his attack towards Onkó. Giving the final yell, his attack was sent forth towards Onkó.
Onkó was still frozen in shock, but recovered soon. He looked down, and saw the blood- stained white rabbit trying to limp to Jun. Onkó picked it up and threw it at the coming attack.
Daisuke was seriously hurt trying to send forth that attack. And all he hit was a now dead rabbit.
Onkó gave an evil laugh, "What? Wrong target?" he jumped over to where Jun was and picked her up by the neck. "Oh little Davis, looky over here!" Onkó said in a childish voice.
Daisuke tried prying his head up to look at Onkó. Tears formed in Jun's eyes. She tried breathing but little air could flow through her lungs. Blood started falling from her neck as Onkó's nails dug into her skin. He lowered his fangs to her neck, and bit down.
"NO!!" Daisuke was paralyzed; he couldn't move at all.
Before the last of her life was seeped away, Jun murmured something. Onkó tossed her aside and wiped his mouth. Daisuke finally fell into unconsciousness. Onkó turned and left all the bodies to rot.
The Elders got up to leave.
"Wait, what about Davis?" Marth asked.
Arthur answered him.
"Davis needs to calm down. When he gets back to the good side, he can come home." Marth sat on a rock and watched Daisuke's motionless body. Griffin came over and put a hand on Marth's shoulder.
"You heard him, he's all you've got left. He won't leave you Marth. He'll come back."
An hour later Daisuke woke up and looked around. He seemed normal again. He looked over at Snowflake II's ashes and bones. He looked over at Jun's pale face. He smiled remembering what she murmered:
"Remember, you'll be the King. That means I'll be a Queen, and when we meet again, little brother, I'll rule you once more. Love ya-"
Jun's body is now in one of the most beautiful cemeteries imaginable, covered in flowers next to Snowflake II. Daisuke's body was also "buried" there; it was close to Jun's grave. Daisuke brings flowers to her often. On her gravestone it says: "To a Future Queen. We'll meet again". This time he did it right. He said a Beautiful Good-bye.
Mimi turned her head toward Marth.
"So what you're saying is Davis is not on our side right now?"
"No, I wouldn't say that. He just now has the potential of killing, he himself is on his list."
"What!? You mean Daisuke might try and kill himself?" Ken was shocked.
"Well didn't you listen to the story I told you. He almost tried killing himself then."
"How?" Asked Takeru.
"I think you guys are going to give me a headache." Marth rubbed his temples. "Black thunder can kill the person who uses it."
"Oh." Miyako shook her head then realized the dangers, "Oh!"
Marth threw his arms up in defeat. "That means we have to start looking for him"
Miyako got out a map and started assigning people to places. The teams were:
Miyako and Mimi: North
Yamato and Takeru: Northeast
Taichi: East
Ken and Koushiro: South
Jyou and Iori: Southwest
Marth: West
"Hey how come Taichi and Marth aren't partnered up?" asked sixteen-year-old Iori.
"Because we're special." Marth and Taichi said at the same time. Yamato rolled his eyes at the two goofs.
Griffin entered the room, and Yamato looked up at him, "What's going on Old Man?"
Takeru looked at Yamato like he was an idiot. Griffin wasn't old, he was only about thirty-five. So why did Yamato call him an Old Man?
"I'm here, dumb-bells, because our King is out. Being evil. Again. Do you know that means!?"
Griffin shook Yamato's shoulders. Yamato shook his head yes.
Griffin smiled and started clapping, "Holy Shit, he knows something!"
Marth grabbed him back and told him, "Griffin don't scare the kids". Yamato got up and started arguing with Griffin. It was one insult after another. They almost seemed like an old married couple. Taichi was laughing at them with Koushiro. Marth was screaming for the two to brake it up. And all the while the mortals and Mimi stared in a daze.
"We're losing perishes time here people!" Marth finally shouted. Griffin and Yamato stopped bickering and looked up at him. "While you two are fighting Davis is out there possibly getting himself killed! So can we please get a move on!?"
"Yeah I'll establish a meeting between the rest of the elders and we can working something out you guys get move on." Griffin smacked Yamato in the back of the head and ran out of the room, "See ya." Marth held on to Yamato's pants holding him back from killing Griffin.
~*~*~*~
Jeffery put the final piece of equipment together. He looked over the radar while his father drove, looking for a vampire signal and a human. "I knew something was wrong that girl. Maybe it wasn't a girl. How could Hikari not know?" Mr. Kamiya kept asking himself.
Jeffery kept looking at the radar. Beeps were finally heard. One human and one Vampire. Perfect. "Father East quadrant."
~*~*~*~
Taichi got to the east part of town it was mostly a cemetery. In a distance he saw figure by a gravestone. He walked over, it was a girl of seventeen, and she had curly blond hair. Her eyes were cerulean blues; she wore a blue dress that brought out her eyes. "Hello?"
She turned around startled, "Hello" she gave Taichi a very confused look, "You don't see too many people at cemeteries after night."
"I was going to ask you the same thing." Taichi gave out his hand, "The name is Taichi but you can call me Tai."
She smiled and took his hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you Tai, I am Catherine"
"Beautiful name, you have an accent?"
"Yes. I moved here from France."
"Oh, so what are you doing here alone, don't you know about Vampires."
"Yes I do. But I was visiting my father, since I was so booked up in the day I had to come at night. What are you doing if you know vampires."
'Think tiny little brain cells Think! Ken is hunter and I am holding my sword so I'll be a' "I am a slayer."
"Oh I guess that would explain the sword then" she giggled. "Well I should be heading home now."
"Alone? Don't you think that's dangerous?" Taichi gulped he never knew what to say to women, "I'll walk you home if you want."
"That's quite alright, you have to patrol and I don't want to interfere."
"Are you sure?"
"Come on Tai don't make the girl say no again" a female voice came from the shadows. Taichi looked up, "Who's there?"
Out walked a girl, Taichi's jaw dropped to the ground. His eyes scanned the girl interlay. Tight black leather pants that was laced on the sides, you saw her skin in little diamonds. Her top just covered her breast and made them perk up a bit, it was also black and strapless. On the side of her hip was a long wound up whip. Her hair was Strawberry orange. Her eyes brown.
"How do you know who I am?"
"Silly Tai, don't you remember you got surgery so you could become a guy so it wouldn't look so awkward when we do this." She grabbed his face and pulled him down for a deep kiss. Taichi's eyes bulged out of his head. She released the kiss, "You must have really forgotten all about little old me since you were flirting with another girl. How could you!?" she dropped to her knees and started crying.
Catherine started feeling awkward, "Um I think I should go now." She started backing up when a sound of a car came screeching around. Two exited out of the car, Taichi's face paled when he saw who came out. The girl jumped up and started smiling showing no tears. She jumped up on Tai and wrapped her legs around him. He stumbled backwards and tripped over Catherine's father's gravestone making it break and fall down.
"Father's Grave!" Catherine came running over.
"TAICHI!?" Mr. Kamiya and Jeffery came running over to the fallen duo and crying girl. Mr. Kamiya pointed the gun at Taichi's head. "Don't move."
The girl sat there purring on Taichi's chest, Taichi's arms were up from the gun and Taichi was getting hit with tears and rocks from the girl Catherine.
Hey Dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan
Taichi looked over at his father; it didn't seem like the same man that he left some time ago. He turned his head towards his adopted brother, Jeffery. Did he hate him too?
"A vampire?!" Mr. Kamiya shouted.
"My fathers grave stone you broke it! I hate you! You sex changing bastard!" Catherine yelled.
Jeffery kept his mouth shut; he didn't talk to his brother. Did he want to? He remembered laughing and playing with Taichi but now it was so different. Mr. Kamiya spoke again, "This is disgusting Tai, how could you become a vampire after your mother was killed before your eyes by the bastards. I thought you hated them the most. And now your little sister is endanger and you probably don't care at all about her."
Tears started forming in Taichi's eyes, this was his family. His father yelled that he didn't care. His brother stayed silent because he was scared. His sister being kidnapped. Some girl he just meet is yelling about her family. And a strange girl who he doesn't know her name is purring on his chest. What else could go wrong?
And do think I'm wasting my time
Doing things I want to do
But it hurts when you disapprove all along
"Don't you think your wasting time being a vampire. I thought you would have killed your self a long time ago." Mr. Kamiya pulled the trigger on the gun half way "But I'll help you with that."
Was Taichi really scared of dying? Again? He tried staking himself before but he got scared of the pain he was going to have to go through again when he got down back in hell.
"Father, there seemed to be thousands!" Jeffery called spinning around looking at all the woods parts. Mr. Kamiya lowered the gun from Taichi and looked at the radar Jeffery held. Hundreds of dots that directed to vampire, "Well it looks like someone called all his new friends to save him from death."
"Friends?" 'Hundreds? I don't have hundreds of friends. But I know who does. Onkó's men are all going to attack. I got to stop them before they hurt father and Jeffery. Maybe the girl that's STILL purring would like to help?' He tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up at him, "You're a vampire, now would you like to help me?" he whispered. The girl smiled and rubbed her nose on his; "Aw me help Taichi. Yeah!" she jumped up, she drew the attention of the three next to them.
The vampires started coming out from the trees all at once. Taichi grabbed his sword and got up. Mr. Kamiya shot him a glare that didn't have a meaning that Taichi understood.
And now I try hard to make it I just want to make you proud
I am never gonna be good enough for you
Can't you pretend that I'm all right.
And you can't change me
The girl rushed out to battle first. She grabbed her whip and slashed through all the vampires. Taichi ran out. He chopped off the heads and used the other end to stake them. They both slashed their way through all the crowds. One vampire knocked Taichi's sword out of his hands. "Black Fire!" he got on both hands and swung his feet kicking them in the face and the stomachs. The fire mutilated towards his feet, all the vampires he touched were sent in flames back down to hell.
The girl had her own way of battling. A group huddled up. She blew breath out and spelled words out in the air. Once the words were drawn she blew on it again and the words she drew glowed in purple. "Black Wind" she slammed her palm of the purple words, and the group of vampires were lifted up in the air and tossed to individual sharp-branched trees.
'Cause we it lost all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
It was finally narrowed down to one. Taichi made his way over to the cowering vampire. The vampire fell to the ground backing up far away. Taichi grabbed him by the collar and held him up in the air. Taichi turned his eyes and sharpened his fangs to scare the vampire. "Tell me where Onkó is?" he snarled.
"I-I don---t kn-ow" he stuttered. Taichi shook him a bit, "Tell me where he is now and I won't kill you!" he dropped the vampire and raised his sword. The cowering vampire yelped in fear, "Okay! Lo-Lord On--Onkó is near th-he we-est part."
"Thank you" Taichi turned around to stare at the girl, then swung himself fast to chop the vampire's head off and stab the rest of his body with the other end of the sword. "Scum!"
The girls eyes went wide, "You said you weren't going to kill him!?"
"I lied." Taichi then turned to his father and the others, "I'll see you again and I'll bring Hikari back safely."
I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you use to be my hero
Tears slid down Taichi's face, as he turned away. What did his father feel? Did he feel the same as him? Taichi looked back at his astonished father. 'What went wrong father? A long time ago we used to be best friends. I would always look up to you. You were my role model. I know I hated vampires with passion before because of mother, but now things are different; I know that there are good sides and bad sides. And I know that the bad side killed mother, and me. They also killed your heart inside.' Taichi turned around and mummer, "I'm sorry."
All the days you spent with me
Now seems so far away
And it feels you don't care anymore
The girl followed close behind Taichi. Mr. Kamiya followed his son, "Jeffery get the car!" he snapped. Jeffery ran off and got the car, all the while Catherine stayed there stones in her hand. "Tai stop right there!" Mr. Kamiya started running. The girl turned around and looked at Mr. Kamiya. Taichi slowed down but didn't turn around. "Look at me when I'm talking to you boy!"
Taichi didn't turn, "I don't live by your rules now Pa, that was then and this is now. I'm not your perfect son anymore. That was a long time ago. But I wouldn't even get to be considered you son anymore. You don't care!" the last sentence hurt Taichi the most. He held his hand out for the girl; she walked up and took it. They walked hand in hand towards the west area.
"Just one question then." Taichi stopped and the girl looked back again. "Why did you kill those vampires, I thought they were your new friends?"
"Those were Onkó's that I killed. I'm on Daisuke's side. And the side I'm on protects the innocent from Onkó's grasp." Taichi continued on again. It wasn't good enough for Mr. Kamiya though; Jeffery pulled the van up and hopped out. Mr. Kamiya took driver and Jeffery went in the passenger's seat.
"That's a nice whip you got there" Taichi started a conversation with a girl-he didn't even know her name. She looked up at him with the devil dancing in her eyes, "Killing vampire's isn't the only thing it's used for you know."
Taichi blushed furiously and gulped down hard. "That brings up another question: why I am I a sex changing bastard?!"
The girl sweet-dropped, "eh-I just didn't want that blond French bimbo getting all of you."
Taichi softly laughed to himself, "Tai Kamiya" he held out his hand.
The girl smiled softly; "well that was hard to figure out. Sora Tackenouchi" she took his hand. They heard a car speeding behind them. "Lets go" Taichi started in a dash toward the west. Sora started running after him and jumped on his shoulder, which startled Taichi at first; but she had good balance and didn't fall off of Taichi's shoulder.
And now I try hard to make I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothings all right
Taichi jumped up in the moonlight. 'Father it was hard to make it with out you. And now that I'm finally on my own I can do things myself. So long ago that would have made you proud but now you think it's disgusting. What did I do wrong? Will I ever be good for you? Is fighting the only thing we'll do? That would have never happened two months ago. Fighting. I don't think I can take it.'
"Tai are you alright?" Sora put a look of concern on her face. Taichi looked up at her, smile; "Everything is Fine." 'No it's not Taichi Kamiya, you cant fool me. Your worried of you family. Your father. How different was life some time ago?' thought Sora.
'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
'Was your life so perfect Taichi? Was it so dramatic? Do you live a Soap Opera? Am I the new character to your life story? If you wrote a book called 'Perfect' would the imperfect girl be put in the story?' Sora stared down at his face watching all the shadows move across his face. She turned her head to see the van following close behind.
Nothings gonna change the words that you said
Nothings gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard just to talk to you
But you don't understand
Taichi landed and stopped, looking around. His father slammed on the brakes and got out of the car, "Where is she?!" Taichi hushed him, he listened carefully for the sound of something, a twig braking, a sneeze, maybe a scream. Mr. Kamiya started asking where Hikari was again, over and over. Taichi couldn't concentrate with his father talking. "Are you going to shut up so I can hear Kari please."
"You have no right to call her Kari anymore. You have abandoned her!" he went on and on. Taichi put his head down in defeat. 'Was it really this hard trying to talk to him before? No.' Taichi got thinking again, 'Did he really meant on what he said before? I abandoned Kari? I never abandoned her. Or did that mean he abandoned me?' "Father can you shut you mouth please?' he tried not to yell.
"You also have no right to call me father anymore. I can't believe I called you son at one point. Hell I can't believe I loved you at one point and time." Taichi felt the hot burning water swelling in his eyes. 'This is hopeless I can't get him to understand!'
'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
"Would you please SHUT UP!! Okay I'm sorry I'm not your perfect son anymore. I'm sorry I can never be perfect for you any more! But we all knew nothing lasts forever. And we lost our life as a family a long time ago when mom died and me becoming a vampire I know didn't help but I'm trying to find my baby sister who I still love with all my heart. Even if I'm a vampire and I need blood to survive my family will always come first! That means you, Jeffery, Kari, and even my new family and friends such as Davis and Matt and Izzy! So that means I have two people I love out there. One might kill himself by accident and the other is defenseless against who has her. Now dad I am sorry that it's too late and we can't go back to two months ago. But I need support. From a father who won't abandon his child because his child was turned in to something against his will." Taichi turned back around away from his father and listened to the sound of Hikari. He heard a rustle in the bush.
~*~*~*~
Yamato and Takeru looked around where they had been sent. A pretty cemetery. "Why do I think we were sent here for a reason?" Yamato asked glum.
They walked about looking around for any sign of Onkó or Daisuke. After ten minutes of searching Yamato gave up, "Well there's nothing here let's go look around in the woods." He turned on his heel and started walking towards the trees. Takeru rolled his eyes at his impatience brother, 'Tai would risk his life you his sister. Would Ma-Yamato risk his life for mine? Would I risk it for him? Was there a reason he wanted to become a vampire? I spent over a month looking for him to kill him. Now that I have him I can't kill him. Why?' Takeru looked up at his older brother.
Yamato felt Takeru's eyes on him, 'is this a good sign or a bad one?' he asked himself. Not paying attention to where he was walking Yamato tripped on a stone. "What the hell?" he looked at what he tripped on, a jolting out gravestone, "Now who the hell would put a big rock in the middle of a flower field?!"
Takeru looked around and sweet-dropped, "Um a cemetery."
Yamato looked around, "Oh yeah. This place is covered in flowers that I forgot it was a cemetery." He got up off the ground; his foot moved some of the dead flowers on the gravestone that was placed on there by someone. A last name was reviled; it was Motomiya. Yamato squatted down again and pulled the rest of the flowers off, Jun Motomiya. He went to see if Marth's sad story was true. And sure enough Snowflake II was there. Takeru walked up behind Yamato and saw the stones. He walked around he saw a stone that looked like it stopped getting flowers from their family. "Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: 1986-1993 Come home" Takeru read the stone. "How can someone be died and be alive at the same time?"
"I'm dead. And yet I'm alive." Yamato got up and started walking toward the woods again. 'A Motomiya family all dead but the parents. Would they be happy if they knew their youngest was still alive? Would they blame him for Jun's death? Does he think he made her die?' Questions fluttered Yamato's mind. Takeru picked some Cherry-blossoms off of some trees. He placed one on each of the two. He started running up towards his brother. Yamato stopped abruptly and made Takeru slam into his back. Hundreds of Vampires came out of the woods. "Hey T.K. you think we can take them?"
"NO!" Takeru's eyes bulged out of head, "Are you crazy there's two of us and possibly a thousand of them."
Yamato answered his own question positively, "I think we can take them!" Yamato rushed forth. He dug in his pocket and pulled out a long chain. He whiled the chain above his head. On the one side of the chain was a wooden spike ball and on the other, which he held, was a wood stake. Yamato kicked one and smashed another's face throwing off the head, he staked them after that.
Takeru started having some vampire troubles. How was he supposed to defeat all of them? He grabbed the crossbow on his back. One jumped up for him, but he was put to the dust. Takeru high kicked one spun around and shot him.
Yamato finally finished his big group of vampires. He started hearing struggling, when he turned around Takeru was in a headlock trying to reach his bow. The one who held him went and tried biting him. 'Is this the end already?' Takeru thought, he heard Yamato start screaming, "Hey get off my brother you good for nothing demon!" Yamato tackled the vampire down dropping his chain in the process. The vampire had the upper advantage now it was on Yamato and ready to kill him, "Oh Lord Onkó's in the West not like it's going to matter. You and your brother will be dead tonight!" it chuckled. Yamato shut his eyes for the burning to start. But instead he felt the burns on top of him. Takeru had shot the vampire with his crossbow.
Takeru had a big gash in his arm. "Are you all right?" Yamato came over and expected the wound. Takeru laughed slightly and then it came to fits of laughter. "What's so funny?" Takeru looked up at Yamato with childish eyes, eyes he never looked at Yamato ever since he became a vampire. "You. You never changed have you? After being a vampire for some time, you're still the same person. Every time I got hurt you would always over-react and try to take care of it."
"Is that bad?" Yamato tilted his head in confusion.
"No it just admits Tai's right."
Yamato gave a grin; "If it's one thing Tai knows about it's about Family." He picked Takeru up and placed him on his back, "Let's go!" he jumped out in the night towards the west.
When they got there Yamato started hearing screaming and yelling was it Daisuke and Onkó? He sure hoped so.
~*~*~*~ Songs: Amanda Marshall "A Beautiful Good Bye" and Simple Plan "Perfect" (if you have any thoughts of songs or poems for the story please let me know.)
Okay that's all for this chapter. It was my longest chapter yet (Yippy) sorry I was REALLY late on updating though and I didn't do to much of a spelling check on it.
Thank you for all the reviews if you have suggestions on the Tamers tell me so I can fit them in my story.
Next time: Does everyone get to Daisuke in time? Is he really on the side of darkness? What about Hikari? Mr. Kamiya and Jeffery? Can Taichi take more of his father? What's the rustling in the bushes and the yelling? Will Onkó get his queen?
Thank you so much, Foxy_Tai.