"So do you know what direction we should be going?" Iori asked Hikari.
"I think that way," she pointed, "but don't take my word for it. I was running too fast to know what I was passing."
"Right, well, it's better then nothing."
"Why are you alone? Did you all split up to search?"
Iori stopped. Jyou. How could he forget? The explosion occurred, he remembered, because Jyou forgot to hook up the wires to the detonator. After that he had swam in darkness before he came to a bright light where he had heard the voices of his parents and grandfather. 'Is this my body? She can see me so I must be visible,' he looked at Hikari, 'But still, where's Jyou? How did I get here without a scratch, just a headache? So many questions must be asked.' "I'd rather not say for now, I have to figure things out first." Iori kept to his path with the girl in tow.
"So what happened with Davis and Onkó?"
She lowered her head, "First Onkó kidnapped me, and then something weird happened with Davis, he got really mad. Onkó said he was evil. And then we were in a clearing where Davis finally caught up with us and he and Onkó started fighting. Davis called some attack that scared Onkó, I think. Onkó told me to run but even if I wanted to run, I couldn't, I was too scared, and then, he started throwing fire things at me to get me to run. So that's it."
"Some attack? Black thunder?"
"Yeah, that's what it was called!"
"Oh no! Davis just may be dead now."
"What?!"
"We have to keep going on. The vampires have to be around here somewhere."
"The vampires? You say that like you don't care about them." Hikari looked at his sorrowed face.
"I don't think I could befriend a vampire. Even if they're nice and all, I don't think I could ever be friends with them. Vampires killed my whole family; I guess I haven't recovered yet."
"Oh, I'm sorry. My mother also was killed by vampires." She wanted to change the topic, "So are there more of you guys?"
"You mean like the hunters?" he looked at her, "There's Ken, he's kind of the leader. Miyako or Yolei, she's smart with computers and runs our computer system at base. Then Takeru, T.K. for short, he's got a very good aim, and handles the crossbow with ease. Then there's Jyou or Joe..." he paused, "He was in training to become a doctor. He wasn't good at explosives but he had an arm that could kill. Joe could throw hard and far. Last there's Mimi. She's a blind vampire, but sometimes she sees things others can't."
"She's a vampire? Are you friends with her?"
"I think she senses my discomfort so she doesn't really bother me. And I don't bother her."
"Oh."
~*~*~*~
Sora examined her whip. She looked back at Jeffery and the other man who called himself Yosho. She glanced up at Taichi, then back at her whip. She sighed, 'I feel like I'm in the middle of a cheese sandwich. Tai's blowing some steam and Jeffery and Yosho are talking about God knows what. Just to think me and Tai only met a short time ago.' She laughed to herself, 'If meeting means embarrassing the crap out of him.'
She looked back at the talking duo. Then she turned her head right back to Taichi; she walked up a bit to catch up with him, "Are you okay?" she tried to sound concerned but was unsuccessful.
"Just leave me alone right now, Sora!" he barked.
She was taken back a bit by his actions. She gave a little whiff of the air, someone or something was nearby. "You smell that? Maybe it's that guy you're looking for, Tai, or better yet, your sister."
Taichi turned to her and inhaled a bit, "Maybe. Although it's somehow familiar, it's not Kari. But, it may just be that little bastard." He suddenly took off like a dart. Just a blur was left for them to see. Sora huffed a bit, and turned to Jeffery, "You have a radar, correct?"
"Yeah." He looked confused but took out the radar anyway. It was off.
"Great! Keep track of us with that." She flew off after Taichi.
Jeffery looked puzzled at first but then he turned on the radar to keep track of his brother and Sora. When he looked at the radar it consisted of one pink dot and one blue dot. He turned to Yosho, "You're a vampire!?"
"Onkó, the King, to be precise." He knocked Jeffery out with a swift side of his hand to the boy's head. Onkó bent down and picked up the radar to turn it off. He then set off to find his future queen and Daisuke, this time to kill him.
~*~*~*~
"Why are you still following me?"
"Davis, you have to stop this madness, now!"
Daisuke turned to Marth, "Just leave, all you're doing is bothering me. If you see me as your king then I order you to leave and stay out of my life!"
Marth looked down at the ground, saddened by his friend's reaction. Daisuke was more than a friend to Marth, he was his family. Marth had watched over him like he had his own son, the one he couldn't protect.
Roy's death flashed into Marth's memory. The blood, the screaming, and the pain he went through. It was Daisuke's actions that scared Marth, Roy's death all over again. He could picture it in his mind.
"I'm sorry, my king, but that is an order I refuse and will never obey."
Daisuke huffed and turned on his heel, ignoring Marth.
~*~*~*~
"Ow, do you think you can go a bit slower, trees are hitting me." Mimi complained.
"I don't think it's trees that are hitting you, Mimi," Koushiro looked around the vast land, they were in a clearing without trees.
"Then what is it?!" she screeched.
"I don't know, would you stop screeching in my ear, damn it!" Koushiro's feet hit the ground so he could get another running start. He jumped up again heading toward the trees above them. He looked and saw some movement in the trees.
~*~*~*~
Hikari pushed branches out of her face. "I think we're going in circles, Cody."
"How?" he stopped and looked around. "We'll mark this tree with..." He shoved his hands in his pocket and pulled out a brown snowboard hat. He put the hat on a branch of the tree and moved on.
Hikari looked down at all the twigs on the ground. She felt like they were walking in circles, ten minutes had passed since she first told Iori. Hikari slammed into the back of Iori as he stopped short, "What's wrong?"
He looked over at a branch and picked his brown hat up, "I guess you were right. We are walking in circles."
"Ow, Izzy, you could land a bit better, you know."
"Would you please shut up, Mimi?"
Both Iori and Hikari swung around to see the complaining duo. "What are you two doing here?" asked Iori.
Koushiro looked up at the pair, staring directly at Iori.
"Hello, Hikari. Hi, Iori," Mimi greeted them.
"Where's Jyou?" asked Koushiro.
Iori looked at the ground, "I'm not sure where he is. Why would you want to know?"
Koushiro dropped Mimi on the ground and walked over to Iori and Hikari. He grabbed Iori's arm and pulled him away from the girls. "You were dead, or at least, close to death."
"How would you know that?"
"Because I brought you and Jyou to the hospital."
"Joe? Why did Joe need to go to the hospital? He was behind the rock."
"Well, when I saw him, he was in front of the rock. His head must have been smashed."
Iori looked down at the ground, "It was my fault. I should have signaled what I was doing."
Koushiro cleared his throat, "It still doesn't answer my question. Why are you alive and here, standing, alive?" he repeated.
Iori looked at him, "I'm not sure, I don't know anything. Last I remember, I pulled the detonator on the bomb and..."
"That's enough said, I need no more. Let's just go find Davis and the others now," Koushiro walked back to the girls.
Iori watched at him as he walked away, 'how can he be so calm? I'm not calm. And he just wants to concentrate on the others right now, why not me? Is my situation not important?' As if Koushiro could read his mind, he turned around and said, 'We'll figure your situation out later. But if we don't find the others, you might not have a situation to deal with, now let's get going, buddy.' He had smiled at Iori; it was a smile Iori hadn't seen in a long, long time, the smile of a kind, generous person, someone that he knew would figure things out, help him, and care for him. Then, Iori's eyes grew dark. Those people were dead, killed by vampires, and Koushiro was one of THEM. He hated all of THEM; he would never befriend a vampire, ever!
~*~*~*~
"Any sign of a vampire yet?" Ken looked at Takeru, who signaled no as he looked at the radar.
Yamato rolled his eyes at the two of them with their, as he put it, 'Vampire Sensing radar'. He stopped in the middle of his tracks and looked at the sky. 'Tai? Is that him? He's moving in our direction. What?! I think I'm picking up Davis's signal. I don't know, maybe there's more with him. Hikari?'
"Matt, what is it?" asked Miyako.
He scouted out his area before he found the 'aura' of what may be Daisuke. "I think it's Davis! I can't tell, too much negative energy, but Tai is on his trail." He stopped moving and looked up, growing into the devil's beast, "There!" he yelled as he leapt toward the sky.
"Quick, follow him," yelled Takeru.
Taichi soared under the devil's influence, not paying attention to anything but the aura. He never noticed Yamato soar up next to him in the moonlight, nor did he see Sora catch up to them. He was fixed on killing Daisuke, again.
Landing gracefully, all three vampires came face to face with Daisuke Motomiya and Elder Marth. "What did you do to her, you bastard?!"
"Who?" Daisuke mocked.
"Hikari! You imbecile!"
"She scurried off somewhere so she wouldn't get hurt, I presume."
"You presume?!" Taichi wrapped both hands around Davis's neck, lifting him up off the ground and squeezing so tight that little air entered Daisuke's lungs. "You were supposed to protect her!" Marth tried to pry Taichi off of Daisuke's neck, "Why are you always protecting him Marth? Why do you have to protect someone who is no better then Onkó himself!?" Taichi tossed Daisuke into a nearby tree.
"I have always protected him, nothing will change that Tai. If Hikari ever turned evil, you would always protect her, correct?"
Anger boiled within Tai, he slammed his fist into Marth's jaw. "How dare you compare my baby sister to THAT THING!" he spat, "How dare you even say she could be evil!"
Marth slowly raised himself up from the ground but did not look into the black soul-less eyes of Taichi, did not look at the fallen body of Daisuke, but instead looked in a different direction – at darkness, death, evil. He was here. He could smell it. He knew Daisuke knew, that was why he had not bothered with Taichi, not bothered getting up despite the wooden splinters burning through his back. Onkó. Was nearly around the corner.
Daisuke stared upwards. He was here and he was still very much alive. Slowly rising from the burning spot, he stared at the abuse Marth was getting from Taichi. He switched his gaze to Yamato and a female. The female was trying to calm Taichi down. Yamato was welcoming some newcomers and filling them in. Newcomers, the hunters, the ones who wanted them dead not so long ago.
He looked to the sky again; the sun would be rising within the next two hours. Silently he turned his head the other way toward more auras. He smirked as he saw the aura of Hikari. "If Taichi weren't so blind, the fool would see she is safe in the hands of Koushiro," he thought.
Onkó approached the group. He knew who was aware of his presence. He crept quietly out of the sight of Marth and Daisuke, though their eyes followed him the entire time. Taichi, who had been calmed a bit by Sora, noticed his presence, "What are you dong here and where's Jeffery?"
"It was horrible – being attacked, then Jeffery threw the radar, said to find you. He may not be alive anymore," he lied.
Taichi growled, "Sora, find my brother NOW!" After hearing his barked command, she leapt off.
"Black fire," Daisuke had whispered. He was now rotating the fireball in his hands. "Move Tai, unless you want to join your mother in hell."
Taichi whipped around to face Daisuke, anger couldn't be more of a virtue, "How dare you!"
"Move Tai!"
"You killed his new wife and now you want to kill him too," he snapped.
"You are a fool, Tai, you're blind as blind can be! You protect someone who is 'no better then me,'" Daisuke mimicked.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"The man who cowers behind you is no coward. He is the puppeteer, and you are merely his marionette, played by strings and wooden controls that dance along his fingertips." Daisuke looked into the depths of the fire and then raised his eyes toward Taichi, "Now move away from the bastard. You are protecting the person you are fighting and trying to protect your sister from – the one that ordered your mothers death."
Taichi turned to Onkó who said, "Well, you figured me out once again, little one," He shut his eyes giving an evil smirk. When he opened his eyes, they were no longer green but rather jet black. His fangs grew long and were lusting for crimson red blood. "So, you figured me out. I had a great plan but I didn't think Taichi would leave me with his annoying brother. It would have worked out perfectly." He started towards Daisuke, "I guess the strings have been cut."
Taichi backed away from Onkó thinking, "That's him? That's Onkó? How could I be so blind? Oh God! Jeffery. Did he kill him?" Pain went through Taichi's broken heart; his family had fallen apart and was all gone. His mother had been killed, his father hated him, Onkó wanted Hikari, and now he didn't know if Jeffery was alive. His adopted baby brother, the innocent grey eyes flashed through his mind, the eyes that saw good in everything. When he wore purple, his eyes turned purplish grey. His baby brother who had looked up to him from the day he came from the orphanage.
~*~*~*~
Decked in baby blue overalls with a green shirt, six-year-old Taichi Kamiya stood with his baby sister in front of Odaiba Orphanage. Goggles hung around the boy's neck. He heard his three-year-old sister start chirping through her whistle, "Don't worry Kari, Mommy and Daddy will be coming out with our new brother real soon."
The little girl was dressed in light pink overalls with a green shirt like her brother's. She held on to the older boy's hand for safety. The whistle that rested in her mouth fell out when she saw two figures walking toward them; the first figure was holding a much smaller figure in her arms. Hikari broke away from the safety of her big brother and ran to her mother, who was holding her new brother. Mrs. Kamiya set him down gently on the ground, "What's your name?" asked the little girl.
"Jeffey" said the four-year-old, improperly.
"I'm Kari, nice to meet you, big brother," the three year old had better speech then the four year old.
"Hey, how come you squeak at me and you talk to him?" Taichi asked jealously. He received a big smile from his sister. Taichi looked down at the younger boy. His huge eyes stared right through him; he couldn't help but smile at the young one. He bent down and ruffled the child's light blond hair, "I'm Tai and I'll be your big brother from now on."
Jeffery smiled, opened his arms wide and wrapped himself around Taichi's neck, "I neva hada big brotha before." Taichi smiled. Jeffery was as innocent as could be.
~*~*~*~
He still remembered the innocent boy Jeffery was and always would be. Tears started streaming down his cheeks, his black eyes turned back to brown. "How can this happen? Why did this happen?"
Daisuke noted the tears falling on Taichi's face. "Weak," he muttered. He looked down at the fireball still in his hands. "This is for you, Onkó." He threw the fireball like a baseball. In the middle of the throw, the fire grew bigger and within a blink of an eye, fire came out in streams aiming for its target – Onkó.
"Is that all you got?" the evil king grinned. He sidestepped the attack and looked back to see it hit a tree.
Daisuke smirked, running up to him, claws out and ready. "Fell into my trap!" He lashed out at him.
Onkó fell back yelling in agony. He clutched the side of his face. Blood gushed out of the scratch marks on his face. Wiping some blood off, he held it to his lips, putting his index finger in his mouth. His own blood flooded his taste buds. Even his own blood gave some pleasure, but the tastiest, most pleasurable blood is that of another immortal vampire. "You'll pay for that!"
"Try me!" Daisuke spat, moving into an attack position, "You'll only regret it."
Onkó was the first to make a move. He jabbed fast like a thousand hands attacking. Daisuke blocked them all. Then, it was his turn. He took his leg and swung it fast toward Onkó's head. Onkó caught it and twisted his leg; Daisuke spun but caught himself with his hands before he hit the ground. Onkó punched downwards; Daisuke climbed up on his hands and kicked the king square in the face.
Miyako observed the battle at a safe distance with the others. "They're moving so fast. All you can hear are their blows on one another. And sometimes, just see a glimpse of what's going on."
Taichi, still in shock, looked up at Miyako, then at Yamato who was also fixateded on the battle. "What's going on? Who's winning?" it came out almost as a whimper.
Yamato walked over to his friend, "Even my eyes do not see what they are doing. I may see more of the battle, but I can not see everything, they're too fast." He placed his arm on Taichi's shoulder to comfort him. "Everything will be alright, Tai. No need to worry, you'll always have Izzy and me, even Davis. Plus, what about that hot girl that was all over you? We may not replace your real family but we can still be considered family, no matter what. Anyway, I'm sure Kari and Jeffery are just fine."
Marth's eyes were fixed on Daisuke, every movement he recognized. "He fights so much like Griffin. Yet, when he thrusts out his hands, you can see Jon's strength from all the sword training. I wish I wasn't the kid's foreign language teacher. That's boring. True, he knows many languages and we even created our own but I wish I could have taught him how to fight." He rambled on in his head, "maybe if I taught him, then what's going to happen would never, no, I must not think negative. I was his sparing partner, he learned a lot, what happens tonight will NOT be changed." He shut his eyes.
Onkó and Daisuke had been fighting for twenty minutes before Onkó successfully kicked his foe down to the ground. Pain shot through Daisuke's ribs. He couldn't move. The black pits of his eyes looked up at Onkó; he was up in the air in a position that Daisuke didn't recognize. Suddenly, blood was splattered all over Daisuke's face.
It was not his own blood though. His eyes had been shut but when they opened, he was stunned.
~*~*~*~
End of the damn chapter! Thank god, that seemed to take FOREVER!! Wonder who died? Who do you think stepped in front of Daisuke before the attack was fully given? Or did someone get Onkó? I know I was supposed to include the cops chasing Izzy but I didn't, because it was long enough for me. Besides it has been hard to write because my friend recently died in a car accident on January 24.
Daisuke! Take us out!
Daisuke: Hello everybody. One day I'll figure out how to escape from this woman's mind, but for now shut up and listen. It's my time to shine. Okay, Izzy goes berserk when the cops chase him (hopefully). And the death (that didn't have to happen) that will set me free from my trapped mind. Anger will come across me and I shall right the wrongs that have been committed. Then, I try to change the past, by going back.
Please Review and tell me about this chapter's picture, Thank you all for the support, Disclaimer: I like my mind and I'll stick with that!
Foxy_Tai, Tommy Kenny: 1986-2004
"I think that way," she pointed, "but don't take my word for it. I was running too fast to know what I was passing."
"Right, well, it's better then nothing."
"Why are you alone? Did you all split up to search?"
Iori stopped. Jyou. How could he forget? The explosion occurred, he remembered, because Jyou forgot to hook up the wires to the detonator. After that he had swam in darkness before he came to a bright light where he had heard the voices of his parents and grandfather. 'Is this my body? She can see me so I must be visible,' he looked at Hikari, 'But still, where's Jyou? How did I get here without a scratch, just a headache? So many questions must be asked.' "I'd rather not say for now, I have to figure things out first." Iori kept to his path with the girl in tow.
"So what happened with Davis and Onkó?"
She lowered her head, "First Onkó kidnapped me, and then something weird happened with Davis, he got really mad. Onkó said he was evil. And then we were in a clearing where Davis finally caught up with us and he and Onkó started fighting. Davis called some attack that scared Onkó, I think. Onkó told me to run but even if I wanted to run, I couldn't, I was too scared, and then, he started throwing fire things at me to get me to run. So that's it."
"Some attack? Black thunder?"
"Yeah, that's what it was called!"
"Oh no! Davis just may be dead now."
"What?!"
"We have to keep going on. The vampires have to be around here somewhere."
"The vampires? You say that like you don't care about them." Hikari looked at his sorrowed face.
"I don't think I could befriend a vampire. Even if they're nice and all, I don't think I could ever be friends with them. Vampires killed my whole family; I guess I haven't recovered yet."
"Oh, I'm sorry. My mother also was killed by vampires." She wanted to change the topic, "So are there more of you guys?"
"You mean like the hunters?" he looked at her, "There's Ken, he's kind of the leader. Miyako or Yolei, she's smart with computers and runs our computer system at base. Then Takeru, T.K. for short, he's got a very good aim, and handles the crossbow with ease. Then there's Jyou or Joe..." he paused, "He was in training to become a doctor. He wasn't good at explosives but he had an arm that could kill. Joe could throw hard and far. Last there's Mimi. She's a blind vampire, but sometimes she sees things others can't."
"She's a vampire? Are you friends with her?"
"I think she senses my discomfort so she doesn't really bother me. And I don't bother her."
"Oh."
~*~*~*~
Sora examined her whip. She looked back at Jeffery and the other man who called himself Yosho. She glanced up at Taichi, then back at her whip. She sighed, 'I feel like I'm in the middle of a cheese sandwich. Tai's blowing some steam and Jeffery and Yosho are talking about God knows what. Just to think me and Tai only met a short time ago.' She laughed to herself, 'If meeting means embarrassing the crap out of him.'
She looked back at the talking duo. Then she turned her head right back to Taichi; she walked up a bit to catch up with him, "Are you okay?" she tried to sound concerned but was unsuccessful.
"Just leave me alone right now, Sora!" he barked.
She was taken back a bit by his actions. She gave a little whiff of the air, someone or something was nearby. "You smell that? Maybe it's that guy you're looking for, Tai, or better yet, your sister."
Taichi turned to her and inhaled a bit, "Maybe. Although it's somehow familiar, it's not Kari. But, it may just be that little bastard." He suddenly took off like a dart. Just a blur was left for them to see. Sora huffed a bit, and turned to Jeffery, "You have a radar, correct?"
"Yeah." He looked confused but took out the radar anyway. It was off.
"Great! Keep track of us with that." She flew off after Taichi.
Jeffery looked puzzled at first but then he turned on the radar to keep track of his brother and Sora. When he looked at the radar it consisted of one pink dot and one blue dot. He turned to Yosho, "You're a vampire!?"
"Onkó, the King, to be precise." He knocked Jeffery out with a swift side of his hand to the boy's head. Onkó bent down and picked up the radar to turn it off. He then set off to find his future queen and Daisuke, this time to kill him.
~*~*~*~
"Why are you still following me?"
"Davis, you have to stop this madness, now!"
Daisuke turned to Marth, "Just leave, all you're doing is bothering me. If you see me as your king then I order you to leave and stay out of my life!"
Marth looked down at the ground, saddened by his friend's reaction. Daisuke was more than a friend to Marth, he was his family. Marth had watched over him like he had his own son, the one he couldn't protect.
Roy's death flashed into Marth's memory. The blood, the screaming, and the pain he went through. It was Daisuke's actions that scared Marth, Roy's death all over again. He could picture it in his mind.
"I'm sorry, my king, but that is an order I refuse and will never obey."
Daisuke huffed and turned on his heel, ignoring Marth.
~*~*~*~
"Ow, do you think you can go a bit slower, trees are hitting me." Mimi complained.
"I don't think it's trees that are hitting you, Mimi," Koushiro looked around the vast land, they were in a clearing without trees.
"Then what is it?!" she screeched.
"I don't know, would you stop screeching in my ear, damn it!" Koushiro's feet hit the ground so he could get another running start. He jumped up again heading toward the trees above them. He looked and saw some movement in the trees.
~*~*~*~
Hikari pushed branches out of her face. "I think we're going in circles, Cody."
"How?" he stopped and looked around. "We'll mark this tree with..." He shoved his hands in his pocket and pulled out a brown snowboard hat. He put the hat on a branch of the tree and moved on.
Hikari looked down at all the twigs on the ground. She felt like they were walking in circles, ten minutes had passed since she first told Iori. Hikari slammed into the back of Iori as he stopped short, "What's wrong?"
He looked over at a branch and picked his brown hat up, "I guess you were right. We are walking in circles."
"Ow, Izzy, you could land a bit better, you know."
"Would you please shut up, Mimi?"
Both Iori and Hikari swung around to see the complaining duo. "What are you two doing here?" asked Iori.
Koushiro looked up at the pair, staring directly at Iori.
"Hello, Hikari. Hi, Iori," Mimi greeted them.
"Where's Jyou?" asked Koushiro.
Iori looked at the ground, "I'm not sure where he is. Why would you want to know?"
Koushiro dropped Mimi on the ground and walked over to Iori and Hikari. He grabbed Iori's arm and pulled him away from the girls. "You were dead, or at least, close to death."
"How would you know that?"
"Because I brought you and Jyou to the hospital."
"Joe? Why did Joe need to go to the hospital? He was behind the rock."
"Well, when I saw him, he was in front of the rock. His head must have been smashed."
Iori looked down at the ground, "It was my fault. I should have signaled what I was doing."
Koushiro cleared his throat, "It still doesn't answer my question. Why are you alive and here, standing, alive?" he repeated.
Iori looked at him, "I'm not sure, I don't know anything. Last I remember, I pulled the detonator on the bomb and..."
"That's enough said, I need no more. Let's just go find Davis and the others now," Koushiro walked back to the girls.
Iori watched at him as he walked away, 'how can he be so calm? I'm not calm. And he just wants to concentrate on the others right now, why not me? Is my situation not important?' As if Koushiro could read his mind, he turned around and said, 'We'll figure your situation out later. But if we don't find the others, you might not have a situation to deal with, now let's get going, buddy.' He had smiled at Iori; it was a smile Iori hadn't seen in a long, long time, the smile of a kind, generous person, someone that he knew would figure things out, help him, and care for him. Then, Iori's eyes grew dark. Those people were dead, killed by vampires, and Koushiro was one of THEM. He hated all of THEM; he would never befriend a vampire, ever!
~*~*~*~
"Any sign of a vampire yet?" Ken looked at Takeru, who signaled no as he looked at the radar.
Yamato rolled his eyes at the two of them with their, as he put it, 'Vampire Sensing radar'. He stopped in the middle of his tracks and looked at the sky. 'Tai? Is that him? He's moving in our direction. What?! I think I'm picking up Davis's signal. I don't know, maybe there's more with him. Hikari?'
"Matt, what is it?" asked Miyako.
He scouted out his area before he found the 'aura' of what may be Daisuke. "I think it's Davis! I can't tell, too much negative energy, but Tai is on his trail." He stopped moving and looked up, growing into the devil's beast, "There!" he yelled as he leapt toward the sky.
"Quick, follow him," yelled Takeru.
Taichi soared under the devil's influence, not paying attention to anything but the aura. He never noticed Yamato soar up next to him in the moonlight, nor did he see Sora catch up to them. He was fixed on killing Daisuke, again.
Landing gracefully, all three vampires came face to face with Daisuke Motomiya and Elder Marth. "What did you do to her, you bastard?!"
"Who?" Daisuke mocked.
"Hikari! You imbecile!"
"She scurried off somewhere so she wouldn't get hurt, I presume."
"You presume?!" Taichi wrapped both hands around Davis's neck, lifting him up off the ground and squeezing so tight that little air entered Daisuke's lungs. "You were supposed to protect her!" Marth tried to pry Taichi off of Daisuke's neck, "Why are you always protecting him Marth? Why do you have to protect someone who is no better then Onkó himself!?" Taichi tossed Daisuke into a nearby tree.
"I have always protected him, nothing will change that Tai. If Hikari ever turned evil, you would always protect her, correct?"
Anger boiled within Tai, he slammed his fist into Marth's jaw. "How dare you compare my baby sister to THAT THING!" he spat, "How dare you even say she could be evil!"
Marth slowly raised himself up from the ground but did not look into the black soul-less eyes of Taichi, did not look at the fallen body of Daisuke, but instead looked in a different direction – at darkness, death, evil. He was here. He could smell it. He knew Daisuke knew, that was why he had not bothered with Taichi, not bothered getting up despite the wooden splinters burning through his back. Onkó. Was nearly around the corner.
Daisuke stared upwards. He was here and he was still very much alive. Slowly rising from the burning spot, he stared at the abuse Marth was getting from Taichi. He switched his gaze to Yamato and a female. The female was trying to calm Taichi down. Yamato was welcoming some newcomers and filling them in. Newcomers, the hunters, the ones who wanted them dead not so long ago.
He looked to the sky again; the sun would be rising within the next two hours. Silently he turned his head the other way toward more auras. He smirked as he saw the aura of Hikari. "If Taichi weren't so blind, the fool would see she is safe in the hands of Koushiro," he thought.
Onkó approached the group. He knew who was aware of his presence. He crept quietly out of the sight of Marth and Daisuke, though their eyes followed him the entire time. Taichi, who had been calmed a bit by Sora, noticed his presence, "What are you dong here and where's Jeffery?"
"It was horrible – being attacked, then Jeffery threw the radar, said to find you. He may not be alive anymore," he lied.
Taichi growled, "Sora, find my brother NOW!" After hearing his barked command, she leapt off.
"Black fire," Daisuke had whispered. He was now rotating the fireball in his hands. "Move Tai, unless you want to join your mother in hell."
Taichi whipped around to face Daisuke, anger couldn't be more of a virtue, "How dare you!"
"Move Tai!"
"You killed his new wife and now you want to kill him too," he snapped.
"You are a fool, Tai, you're blind as blind can be! You protect someone who is 'no better then me,'" Daisuke mimicked.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"The man who cowers behind you is no coward. He is the puppeteer, and you are merely his marionette, played by strings and wooden controls that dance along his fingertips." Daisuke looked into the depths of the fire and then raised his eyes toward Taichi, "Now move away from the bastard. You are protecting the person you are fighting and trying to protect your sister from – the one that ordered your mothers death."
Taichi turned to Onkó who said, "Well, you figured me out once again, little one," He shut his eyes giving an evil smirk. When he opened his eyes, they were no longer green but rather jet black. His fangs grew long and were lusting for crimson red blood. "So, you figured me out. I had a great plan but I didn't think Taichi would leave me with his annoying brother. It would have worked out perfectly." He started towards Daisuke, "I guess the strings have been cut."
Taichi backed away from Onkó thinking, "That's him? That's Onkó? How could I be so blind? Oh God! Jeffery. Did he kill him?" Pain went through Taichi's broken heart; his family had fallen apart and was all gone. His mother had been killed, his father hated him, Onkó wanted Hikari, and now he didn't know if Jeffery was alive. His adopted baby brother, the innocent grey eyes flashed through his mind, the eyes that saw good in everything. When he wore purple, his eyes turned purplish grey. His baby brother who had looked up to him from the day he came from the orphanage.
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Decked in baby blue overalls with a green shirt, six-year-old Taichi Kamiya stood with his baby sister in front of Odaiba Orphanage. Goggles hung around the boy's neck. He heard his three-year-old sister start chirping through her whistle, "Don't worry Kari, Mommy and Daddy will be coming out with our new brother real soon."
The little girl was dressed in light pink overalls with a green shirt like her brother's. She held on to the older boy's hand for safety. The whistle that rested in her mouth fell out when she saw two figures walking toward them; the first figure was holding a much smaller figure in her arms. Hikari broke away from the safety of her big brother and ran to her mother, who was holding her new brother. Mrs. Kamiya set him down gently on the ground, "What's your name?" asked the little girl.
"Jeffey" said the four-year-old, improperly.
"I'm Kari, nice to meet you, big brother," the three year old had better speech then the four year old.
"Hey, how come you squeak at me and you talk to him?" Taichi asked jealously. He received a big smile from his sister. Taichi looked down at the younger boy. His huge eyes stared right through him; he couldn't help but smile at the young one. He bent down and ruffled the child's light blond hair, "I'm Tai and I'll be your big brother from now on."
Jeffery smiled, opened his arms wide and wrapped himself around Taichi's neck, "I neva hada big brotha before." Taichi smiled. Jeffery was as innocent as could be.
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He still remembered the innocent boy Jeffery was and always would be. Tears started streaming down his cheeks, his black eyes turned back to brown. "How can this happen? Why did this happen?"
Daisuke noted the tears falling on Taichi's face. "Weak," he muttered. He looked down at the fireball still in his hands. "This is for you, Onkó." He threw the fireball like a baseball. In the middle of the throw, the fire grew bigger and within a blink of an eye, fire came out in streams aiming for its target – Onkó.
"Is that all you got?" the evil king grinned. He sidestepped the attack and looked back to see it hit a tree.
Daisuke smirked, running up to him, claws out and ready. "Fell into my trap!" He lashed out at him.
Onkó fell back yelling in agony. He clutched the side of his face. Blood gushed out of the scratch marks on his face. Wiping some blood off, he held it to his lips, putting his index finger in his mouth. His own blood flooded his taste buds. Even his own blood gave some pleasure, but the tastiest, most pleasurable blood is that of another immortal vampire. "You'll pay for that!"
"Try me!" Daisuke spat, moving into an attack position, "You'll only regret it."
Onkó was the first to make a move. He jabbed fast like a thousand hands attacking. Daisuke blocked them all. Then, it was his turn. He took his leg and swung it fast toward Onkó's head. Onkó caught it and twisted his leg; Daisuke spun but caught himself with his hands before he hit the ground. Onkó punched downwards; Daisuke climbed up on his hands and kicked the king square in the face.
Miyako observed the battle at a safe distance with the others. "They're moving so fast. All you can hear are their blows on one another. And sometimes, just see a glimpse of what's going on."
Taichi, still in shock, looked up at Miyako, then at Yamato who was also fixateded on the battle. "What's going on? Who's winning?" it came out almost as a whimper.
Yamato walked over to his friend, "Even my eyes do not see what they are doing. I may see more of the battle, but I can not see everything, they're too fast." He placed his arm on Taichi's shoulder to comfort him. "Everything will be alright, Tai. No need to worry, you'll always have Izzy and me, even Davis. Plus, what about that hot girl that was all over you? We may not replace your real family but we can still be considered family, no matter what. Anyway, I'm sure Kari and Jeffery are just fine."
Marth's eyes were fixed on Daisuke, every movement he recognized. "He fights so much like Griffin. Yet, when he thrusts out his hands, you can see Jon's strength from all the sword training. I wish I wasn't the kid's foreign language teacher. That's boring. True, he knows many languages and we even created our own but I wish I could have taught him how to fight." He rambled on in his head, "maybe if I taught him, then what's going to happen would never, no, I must not think negative. I was his sparing partner, he learned a lot, what happens tonight will NOT be changed." He shut his eyes.
Onkó and Daisuke had been fighting for twenty minutes before Onkó successfully kicked his foe down to the ground. Pain shot through Daisuke's ribs. He couldn't move. The black pits of his eyes looked up at Onkó; he was up in the air in a position that Daisuke didn't recognize. Suddenly, blood was splattered all over Daisuke's face.
It was not his own blood though. His eyes had been shut but when they opened, he was stunned.
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End of the damn chapter! Thank god, that seemed to take FOREVER!! Wonder who died? Who do you think stepped in front of Daisuke before the attack was fully given? Or did someone get Onkó? I know I was supposed to include the cops chasing Izzy but I didn't, because it was long enough for me. Besides it has been hard to write because my friend recently died in a car accident on January 24.
Daisuke! Take us out!
Daisuke: Hello everybody. One day I'll figure out how to escape from this woman's mind, but for now shut up and listen. It's my time to shine. Okay, Izzy goes berserk when the cops chase him (hopefully). And the death (that didn't have to happen) that will set me free from my trapped mind. Anger will come across me and I shall right the wrongs that have been committed. Then, I try to change the past, by going back.
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