I.VII "That in Which a "Love" is Formed..."
The world is such a disgusting place... Alex told herself as she slept soundly in her room filled with the darkness of night. Her thoughts of the corruption of the earth somehow drifted over to the mysterious three figures in her life: the seemingly-effervesent Shirubi, their antagonist, opposition, and tyrannical CHAO-Fi member, the Kaiser, or "Kai-kun", and the enigmatic friend named Chiisu Kimura. She imagined the three of them sitting in a room somewhere, having a meeting of "mysterious entities". Chiisu was sitting on a chair backwards, with his feet on the floor and eyes to the world around, with unkept, brown hair that fell over his dark eyes. A long, torn scarlet scarf wrapped loosely around his neck, the ends slept on the floor beside his feet longingly. A staff of silver and rubies leaned on his back.
Shirubi sat not too far from the others, as they were very close to each other as they sat. She laughed endlessly with a crystalline voice while her hands straightened her crimson shirt, equipped with a black metal cross. Her black skirt was spread around the floor, her legs folded under it. A large, crystal blade sat at her side. She tossed her light brown hair behind one of her ears. Her large eyes of sparkling emerald gazed at her two friends, opponents, and enemies, with a confidence and a hidden desire.
The final, the Kaiser. Cold hands were folded across his chest warily. His merciless, deceptive eyes darted around Shirubi silently, as if trying to communicate with her, trying to be accepted by her. Every minute or so, he'd unfold his arms and attempt to make conversation with her or at least touch her hand, but each attempt failed. Horribly. Dark, dark blue hair was a messy broom, his eyes unhidden by the glasses, the mask. He looked tired, wanting. He wanted something more.
Some kind of mist enveloped them all. Alex sensed a form of relation between the three of them. Each of them seemed to have some kind of power. She rolled over to her side to examine the egg...
...Which was missing. In its place, however, was a blue, dragon-like imp.
"Hewwo!" It screamed with a smile. Alex said nothing while having a shocked, numb face.
The morning slowly came with a harsh sunlight that filled the room of the Kaiser, located at the CHAO-Fi headquarters. It was a hardwood-floored, white-walled, and rather dull. The one in the bed, though, buried under an ocean of sheets, was the complete opposite of "dull".
BEEP BEEP BEEEEP!
A groan came from the bed. A arm emerged with grunts of effort to silence the alarm clock. Slamming the hand blindly across the bedside desk, it eventually fell upon the clock itself and slammed the button labeled "snooze".
"Snoooooooze..." a scruffy voice of a well-known and feared megalomaniac sounded quietly. "...need more snoooooze..." The arm swiftly dropped lifelessly to the side of the bed while the Kaiser tried to drift back into dreamland.
However, he didn't. The door suddenly burst open in his room, regardless of the "intruders" seeing the sign that screamed:
"KEEP OUT! NO TRESSPASSING! VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AND/OR KILLED!"
It had been his cohort Fighters, Arachnimon and Mummymon. The woman pointed a finger into the mass in the sheets jokingly.
"So..." she pried, "where were YOU last night, Kaiser-kun?"
No answer came.
"Were you, ahem, out?"
An arm slowly came out of the blankets and wrote the word "NO" in the air.
Mummymon slowly laughed,
"Heheh, yeah, we sawww you..."
The blue broom emerged from the sheets, with a pair of blue eyes of darkness.
"I don't know what you're talking about," a muffled voice spoke.
"Oh-hoooo...?" Arachimon pulled out a little stack of photos. "What do we have here...?" She handed them to him, who carefully studied them, grimaced, twitched, and finally stated,
"T-That's not me..."
"Sure it's not," Arachimon noted with heavy sarcasm, "anyways, do you know the girl in those pictures?"
"Kinda," the Kaiser mumbled, sitting upright with the pictures fixed in his gaze, "Shirubi, right?"
"How would we know?" Mummymon retorted. "Regardless of her name, she could prove to be a problem."
"Why's that?" Kai-kun asked, desperately searching for a lighter while rubbing his tired eyes.
"She could be working with Kimura, and those other kids..." Arachnimon assesed, "...and we all know that'd..."
The Kaiser sighed, "I don't think she and Chiisu really get along that well. I think she's just there."
"Chiisu?"
"Kimura."
"Really?!" Melissa shouted with Carl, as Alex held up the little dragon Digimon, "You have your own Partner now?!"
"I guess," Alex nodded. The Digimon began to shout,
"You guess?! We're Partners, Alex, and nothing's changing it!"
The clock on the side of the school was to ring any minute. The Digimon, introducing itself as V-mon, started to look around nervously. "Where's that boy, the one you were telling me about...?"
"Chiisu, yeah," Alex looked around. The group had been standing at the far end of the school's yard. Nervously, she handed her backpack containing V-mon to Melissa. "Here," she grunted, "I'm sure Chiisu's here...I need to find him..."
Melissa scoffed to herself, "She doesn't care about anyone but herself..."
"But she's going after Chiisu to find him...?" Carl asked the same question on V-mon's mind.
"Exactly..." She grimaced, walking into the school.
"Chiisu!" She shouted. "Chiisu! Chiisu! Where are you?!" She came across the school's garden. It was a vast, endless meadow of many vibrant colours. Flowers. Flowers everywhere. In the midst of the flowers was the very one known as Chiisu. He stood aloof from himself, his vivid eyes were blankened. His hands were still, unusual for his character. Alex tried to dash through the flower garden, stopping each second or two to pull thorns out of her hands from the stems.
"Chiisu!"
There was no answer from the tall, darkened figure that was Chiisu. He stood in the middle of the flower garden, the endless flowers of life. Alex kept on, running, tumbling, falling...
"It's strange," a flower's voice spoke, "we live, bloom, and die..."
Chiisu showed no answer. Alex sat, her hands deep in the fresh dirt. The smell of the earth filled her lungs. "Chiisu..."
"We live, we bloom, we die..." another flower spoke.
"We live, we bloom, we die..." Chiisu's voice, placid and pure like the flowers, burned into her. "We live, we bloom, we die..."
"Chiisu!"
"We live..." he fell backwards, into the flowers, the endless parade, the endless meadow of colour and life and light, "we bloom..." a grim smile spread across his face and dark eyes, holding his hand out to Alex, far, far away in the garden of everything, crying, "...we die..."
"The girl is a threat," Arachnimon reasoned with Kai-kun as the two of them walked through the hallways of the CHAO-Fi central, named La Maison de Saint Marie. There had been a rumour that another place, that where Chaos himself, the Lord of the organization, and all his highest officials resided, existed, but nobody really believed it. If they did, they were killed.
"I don't see why you..." Kai-kun was interrupted by Mummymon, who came dashing into the hallway with a paper in his hands.
"Hey-Hey-HEY!"
Kai-kun ignored him, "She doesn't seem hostile in any way. She's so carefree, perhaps innocent..."
"I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY--!"
The Kaiser grabbed the paper, encased in a large envelope, and kept talking to himself as he strode away.
"It's like she has the innocence that I lost so long ago... I wonder who she is... what she is..."
---I---need---to---know---
beforeIgocrazy!
Alex was in a field, an endless field. Yellow, sunlit flowers stood far before her. Chiisu came running by, carrying a staff in his hands and a steel expression in his eyes.
"Chiisu?" She was too slow to ask before he was out of sight. "What's...going on?"
"Ba-BIIING!!!" She felt a bug net suddenly come down upon her. She looked at the one who had trapped her, the wide-eyed Shirubi, insane look on her face and all. She was laughing, as usual.
"Shirubi," Alex began, "...what's happening?"
"You're growing up, Alex!" She shouted, jerking the bug net to make Alex fall into the endless flowers, past the earth and past everything. "There's no denying it! You're growing up, Alex! You're growing up!" The insane laughter penetrated her mind like millions of needles.
"I don't want to grow up..." a voice, belonging to a boy in a school uniform, standing for the bus to come.
"Life is a precious thing..." Alex turned to see a figure clad in a black suit and tie, loose but still formal. Darkened eyes stared out into the field. She tried to stand, but found she couldn't from fear. Along the man's arms were cuts, thousands of slashes, as if done with knives. "We can't waste it." He pulled out an umbrella and, walking away, floated off into the big blue sky.
"Wait! What's going on?! What's going on!?"
"ALEX!!" another voice screamed. It was Melissa, armed with another bug net. "Ah-HA! Found you! She's after you, so I will be, too!"
"What...?" Alex soon began running from Melissa, who was chasing her down with a butterfly net.
"Whee! I'm gonna catch me an Alex!"
"I don't want to grow up..." Synchronized voices spoke, one evil, one tired. "Adults are idiots..."
"Why can't we stay children forever?" V-mon spoke, who wore a large sunflower hat. "We should just be able to stay in the garden forever, without corruption from them."
"What...?" Alex asked.
"We are forced to grow up," the Digimon sighed. The man returned, a skeleton of a human being stood behind her, a mechanical being to her left, another who was remotely human stood to her right, V-mon stood ahead of her.
"What is it that makes us human?" The mechanical one asked rhetorically.
"Is it what we are?" The "human" giggled.
"Y...Yeah..." Alex whispered.
"Is it what we feel?" The mechanical being implored.
"M-Maybe..?"
"Or..." the skeleton, clad in a red scarf with a black cloud hovering around him, as if the darkness were constricting him, "...something completely different...?"
"Well...I...Well, I..."
"WAKEY WAKEY!"
The image of the boy waiting for the bus passed through her mind again before she awoke from the garden of everything,
"I don't want to grow up..."
Kai-kun sat back in his room. He lie on the bed, staring at the ceiling that was as dark as his eyes. Headphones were held onto his ears, his eyes soon became alert. The pulsing beat of heavy techno let his mind stimulate. He soon turned the Mp3 player off, thus ending the techno.
"I don't know why," he muttered, "why would Shirubi be any kind of threat... she's strange, but not a megalomaniac...she fell out of a damn tree..." He caught himself in mid-thought. "Maybe she's planning this. Maybe she's planning something, with Kimura...with me...?" He thought for a moment, then he shook his head. "No, no..." He then caught himself again. "Wait, why the hell am I talking about her...?! She means nothing to me...nothing to me at all..." He sat up. The orange and purple sunset glare shone brilliantly on his skin. His eyes were dark, confused.
"...She...she means
nothing to me..."
He took a deep breath, laid his feet flat
on the floor and stood. Putting his shirt back on, he noticed the
envelope he'd recieved earlier.
"Yeah, that's right..." he opened it and examined the contents.
One sentence stood out:
/the one by the name of Shirubi/
MUST BE KILLED.
There was no hesitation. He was swiftly out the door.
Any means necessary...
"She means nothing to me...she means nothing to me...!"
The human girl must be killed.
"But...I can't just sit around and watch her get...!"
He had been running through the forest where he'd met Shirubi, where she'd tried to awaken him. There was a loud, buzzing silence that filled his head. He gasped, his eyes were wide and his throat collapsed.
There was a shout that filled the cold night air. Shirubi.
"S...Shirubi-chan!" He screamed, seeing blood not too far away.
He saw the sight, Shirubi with her sword, fighting off nearly millions of demons of the night, Fighters. With each shout, her visible breath was expelled as a white cloud. Her hair was covered with blood, her own and her felled opponents'. They tore at her immaculate skin, with claws, knives, spears. The Kaiser dashed as fast as he could, he needed to protect her, to save her.
"Look out, Shirubi! Behind you!" He shouted, screamed. Too late...
Arachnimon, the Kaiser's partner as a CHAO-Fi Sentry, had descended swiftly and, with the aid of her powerful arms, had latched onto the girl, forced her to the ground beneath, and shoved many, many glittering needles into her back. The other Fighters held her to the ground while the witch continued, screeching with glee as each crystalline spike easily disappeared into Shirubi's back. She screamed in pain and agony, the blood ran down onto the grass, which they drank happily.
"You bastards...!" he grinded through an angry stare. "I'm...going...to..." he announced formally, regaining his composure, "I'm going to kill all of you!"
Arachnimon had escaped, leaving the remaining Fighters to disperse. Kai-kun decided Shirubi's condition was much more important than to pick an unnecessary fight. He knelt down to her nervously,
"Shirubi-san! Shirubi-san! Can you hear me?!"
She looked pathetic. Tears were running down her closed eyes, blood stained her white blouse that had been torn and nearly destroyed, her red overshirt mostly remained intact for the metal cross attached had discouraged blows to her main body. Her hands were attempting to be clenched, but failing. He needed her to stop bleeding, for his and her sakes. A shiver quickly went through his entire body, as the image of the Fighters drinking Shirubi's spilled blood. Quickly, he took off his jacket and wrapped it around her, as if to delay the blood from leaving.
"Please still be alive..." He gently, tenderly, lifted her off the blood-stained ground. The Kaiser then continued to run off into the dark, cold night with a more precious item than anyone could ever comprehend, with a completely selfless mission and mind.
Chiisu stood at the side of a large sunflower.
"I live, I live for the ones I love."
"I bloom for the ones that accept me."
"I die for the only one I truly, deeply love."
Lost in confusion, silence, and the vast flower garden, Alex screamed for help.
"Chiisu?! V-mon! Armadimon?! Melissa?! Carl!! Help me!"
A sadistic voice rang through the air,
"The human complex is a troubling one---!" He mused.
"Get away from me...!" Alex choked.
"The human being was created for two sole purposes, to suffer and to die! Its almost funny, in fact, it's hysterical. The fact that humans just muddle through their meaningless lives, trying to BE something, trying to DO something------" he soon erupted into laughter. "But they can't! The human is nothing more than God's little joke! In Eden, Eve was tempted by the snake, but she was ignorant, she didn't know the evil of the world---no, not the world, the evil that lies in the mind of man! The mind of man himself is purely evil, without those damn things called morals. Man continues to suffer for the mistake a WOMAN made..."
"But..." Alex intervened, "Eve was tempted! You said..."
"The snake, Satan, was sent by God, to test the will of Eve, that of which is called free will. Eve disobeyed God on her own free will, to become more like God..."
"What are you talking about?!"
"Unlike me. I'm not some man. Some human. I exist in many forms, I am omnipresent. I am omnipotent. I am the very God, the one and only God. The other, or others for all I care, are fake! I AM GOD!"
"That's impossible!" Alex shouted. "Impossible!!"
The boy at the busstop stated it again, but this time clad in a black uniform, other than the previous white one, pure to impurity...
"There's no stopping it..." Alex saw his face. His tired eyes. His spiked blue hair. "We're all going to grow up..."
"AND THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN'T GROW UP IS ME! I WON'T GROW UP! MY WILL SURPASSES THOSE OF THE PATHETIC EXCUSES CALLED 'MAN' AND 'WOMAN'---EVEN GOD HIMSELF!"
"Dammit..." the Kaiser sighed, the battling angel known as Shirubi held in his arms. He looked swiftly and altertly along the endless stretch of traintracks. A quiet whimper of pain came from Shirubi, unconscious and beaten. Kai-kun grimaced but tried hard not to clench his fists in fear of hurting her even more. Blood began to drip and soak the jacket, and soon onto his bare arms. "Dammit...!" He dashed to the station-house, where an out-of-order Mailbox-Tree stood with the posted times of arrival for the trains, Digimon called Trailmon. He sat down on the wooden floor with her, and began to clean the blood off of her and himself with his tongue. He actually felt sickened by doing so...and actually enjoying it. Her wounds were healing, though, magically. He nearly cried, knowing Shirubi was gradually becoming well again. A sound was rapidly approaching off in the distance.
"The...!" He shouted with joy as the Trailmon came to a screeching stop. "Please, can you give us a ride? We need to get out of the cold and..."
The Trailmon's eyes shifted to the girl, and then the Kaiser himself, blood-covered face and hands, with the beaten, bruised girl in his arms.
"Uhh..." the Trailmon hesitated, "...sure, hop in..." The doors slowly opened. He still held Shirubi in his arms as he made his way to the frontmost car, where the engine was. Engines mean movement, he figured, and movement is engery. Energy is heat. As flawed as he was in that logic alone, there was the engine room, glowing with a red, warm light with a furnace supplying the luminance. He lay Shirubi on the floor of the car, not too far but not too close to the furnace. He sat nearby, his hand place softly on hers. The golden, red light shone off her sliky, shining skin, her eyelids, her eyelashes, damp with tears of pain. He ran his other hand's fingers through her light brown hair, that revealed blood and sweat in the light of the furnace. He slowly lifted his hand off her hand and brought it to her face. He winced as soon as he touched her.
"Your hands are cold..." she muttered quietly, but a mutter it was, nevertheless. Kai-kun smiled secretly as he put his hands near the furnace and then brought them back to her face.
"Is that better?" He asked softly, with a smile as warm as her skin was to his touch. She nodded painfully,
"Yeah. It is..."
After what seemed like ages, Shirubi was able to sit up and then stand. Kai-kun sat near one wall of the car while Shirubi stood close to the furnace where he had put her in the first place. She hesitated momentarily, then cleared her throat and walked up to him.
"Kaiser-kun," she pried, "why did you save me?"
His eyes widened, and then closed,
"I...I felt like it. I didn't want to see you suffer...okay?"
Shirubi shook her head, then returned her gaze to his gaze,
"...do you...do you want something from me..?"
As serious as the question was, Kai-kun couldn't help but laugh.
"So..." Shirubi sighed, "...I disgust you..."
"No, no, no...!" He cried in his defense. "I just...don't think that's a very good thing to do--do something nice just so you get something nice in return..." He stopped talking immediately, watching as Shirubi removed her red shirt and tattered blouse. She then removed her jeans, and her shoes. Shirubi then stood in front of him, in nothing but her bra and panties.
"Just..." she began, her face red and obviously humilated. Kai-kun couldn't help but stare with a look of shock and...fear.
"Shi..." he winced, clenching his fists, "...you're so stupid..."
She walked up to him and held his hand,
"I know, I know... I'm stupid... but I know that there's some reason other than complete selflessness that you saved me... and besides, this is really the only way..." she took his cold hand to her cheek, "I feel like I can..." he, with the guidance of her hands, moved his hand down her neck and lower... "..like I can repay you...nobody's this nice to me..." Once again, he was at a complete loss for words. He stood up and drew her nearer to him. She obviously shivered; she was nearly naked and he was quite cold. He ran his fingers, carefully, kindly, gently, along her back. Then he remembered Arachnimon's needles...
"Wait a minute!" he shouted. He held her by the shouders, "What happened to those needles?!"
"What...?"
"Arachnimon..." he shivered with a whisper, "...paints them with poison and when they get in your bloodstream..." Shirubi laughed, but he could see that her eyes were beginning to fade.
"Ha-ha-ha! How silly! Poison? Really, Kai-kun, I'm fi..." she suddenly stopped mid-sentence. And then she collapsed onto the warm wooden floor. Kai-kun laughed nervously,
"Heh-heh-eh...Okay, Shirubi...very funny...you can stop now..." He slowly grabbed her and twisted her to lie on her back. He then gazed upon the sight of true beauty. As pathetic or unattractive as Shirubi was, she lie there, in the burning light of the furnace and the moon outside in the cold, sacreligious night. The light from both sides reflected off of her skin, completely pure and soft... warm, he felt. Her lips shone with an ethereal light that stunned him, her body was that of the miraculous metamorphosis of a girl into a woman, curved and shaped but supple and soft...innocence...poetry...light...home.
He swallowed hard. He placed one hand behind her head of brown, vivid hair and the other at her lower back. He brought himself to her face, her unconscious beauty. He felt the pulsing, the beat of life, from her when he got close enough to her chest. He closed his eyes and reopened them, confirming that it was real, that it wasn't some kind of wonderful fantasy...
Slowly, slowly, cautiously, gently, lovingly, kindly...
He kissed her.
At the moment, he was one---one with her, one with everything. Nothing else existed. Nothing else mattered...
The universe was in his hands... the most important thing in all of history.
Absolute bliss...pain...freedom...
imprisonment...
"Chiisu!" Alex shouted in the darkness. "Where are you!?"
"We live to die..." one sang from the skies.
"We bloom to love..." another sang.
"We die for those we love..." the final one sang.
"And it keeps on going," the three of them sang throughout eternity, "a man loves a woman, and they both die..."
...but what if the man wasn't quite a man...?
fin
Shirubi: OO...whoa.
Kai-kun: OO!! Whoa...
Alex/entire cast/readers: WHOA...
Me: Yes. This episode was mostly for many metaphors and other crap, foreshadowing what happens later in the story. I personally feel happy about this episode. I actually did something right and I got it done.
Chiisu: And duude, now you've completely ruined our chance for doing or saying something remotely interesting for a wrap-up and episode preview!
Shirubi/Kai-kun: you BITCH.
Me: Poo, okay... well, the next episode of DC02---"DEUS EX MACHINA"---things take a turn for the worse, and Chiisu's thoughts on Kai-kun being something a little different than a human prove to be true...
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