Memory
Chapter X: I am Takaishi
By Salamon2
Salamon: That preview... of this chapter...Oh no! Takevi is going to be hurt!
Salamon2: I knew that preview would get her attention, I have up to Chapter 12 already written (that's what I've been doing with my Thanksgiving Lapse...)
Salamon: Will you stop using that term that Magnaangel started?
Salamon2: Maybe, if you say it...
Salamon: Alright... Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon...
Salamon2: Thanksgiving Lapse...
Salamon: You said you'd stop!
Salamon2: I lied...
Salamon: -_-!!
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"But I'm not tired mommy..." said Takevi lying down on the bed next to his already sleeping younger brother.
"It's time for all good little princes to go to sleep... are you a good little prince?" asked Kari, and the sleeping "not tired", Takevi, was placed next to Touchi. Kari put the older clothes were placed around the boys so that when the mixture took effect, they would "grow" into their clothes. Kari had given them the mixture with their drinks, Kari began noticing slight changes, but soon her tired body gave way to unconsciousness.
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In Kari's dream she was on a Royal Galleon, during a wild storm, in the middle of the sea. She held on to the side railing as it pitched back and forth. Kari saw, coming up the Stairs, fighting the rocking motion was Takevi, at his natural age. She tried to move towards him, but do to her weak condition she couldn't. The wind picked up even more, and blew her off the deck and into the surging sea.
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"No!" cried Kari awakening, sweat rolling down from her forehead.
"Huh?" said Takevi stirring, not fully awakened, not fully done the change, he soon fell asleep, and Kari sighed with relief, and rocked in her rocking chair, the sun would rise in an hour and the change would be complete, sadly enough. She had grown quite fond of the little boys totally dependent upon her, but at the same time she longed for her fiancé. Oh, if she couldn't have both at the same time... oh well, when the time would come she would be a real mother.
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Takevi stood on a rock over looking the once green fertile valley. He saw in one second the clean beautiful fields, and the next second he was on the ground of the blood spilt field, great warriors, dead all around him. Then suddenly, in front of him appeared Touchi, he bent down and looked at Takevi ion the eye, smiling a smile Takevi had never seen on Touchi.
"You gave him what he wanted... now I'm free... uggh…" said Touchi, who then stumbled to the center of the battlefield and fell. Takevi found new strength as the brotherly urge to protect his younger sibling kicked in. He got up weakly, like a newly born fawn, trembled and walked as best he could to his brother; he knelt down and shook Touchi. Suddenly Touchi's eyes opened, black as night, and he grabbed a hold of Takevi's throat, and his eyes became red, and a black mist surrounded the ten-year-old and it engulfed the child, and Takevi continued to be choked.
"He's free, within me!" shouted the mist.
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"NO!!" cried Takevi awakening, sitting up straight. The morning sun peaked through the curtains of the small inn room. Despite his yelling no one stirred, they all continued to sleep. Takevi knew he was in a small village inn, but where he had no idea, and how they got there was a mystery to him as well, but in his gut feeling, he felt that whatever had happened, Kari had taken care of the situations. He got up and walked to the window to see if he could recognize the type of architecture the town was, to determine where he was. Analyzing the town he determined they were somewhere in central Takenouchi.
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Touchi was sitting at the edge of a bed, looking towards a window to his right; he watched it worriedly, and at the rising moon. Suddenly a sound came from below the window and Touchi ran to it.
"Gatomon?" asked Touchi as he scurried to the window and opened it. In floated a black mist with red eyes as soon as the window was opened, it picked up Touchi. He starred at the mist, as if hypnotized. The suddenly the mist vanished into him and Touchi fell unconscious.
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"NO!" cried out Touchi, screaming his lungs out. Takevi instantly ran to his brother, and Kari awoke, and came as well. Takevi picked up his younger brother who hugged him tightly like a child of five, scared of the thunder and lightning.
"Touchi! Are you alright?" asked Kari to the panting boy, tightly holding on to his older brother.
"Yes... it was a nightmare... just a nightmare... I think..." said Touchi panting heavily.
"Well technically it's a daymare but that's beside the point..." said Takevi, smiling at Kari.
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"So what should we do?" asked Salamon to the humans, they all were sitting at the table, Tokomon was next to her right and the Patamon twins to her left, the Botamon in a basket at the foot of the chair. Salamon had her front feet up on the table in order to eat her scrambled eggs.
"I don't know..." said Kari, across the table from Salamon.
"We could go to the Queen of this country... being my twenty-eighth cousin, she could help..." said Takevi, sitting to the left of the Patamon twins, and to the right of Kari.
"Yes, but you turned down her offer of marriage, do you think she'll just forgive you like that?" asked Kari, taking a bite out of her toast.
"It's better than just sitting here and wondering what to do..." said Touchi, taking the words out of Takevi's mouth. He then drank his Orange Juice. He was to the left of Kari, and the right of Tokomon. Nobody could find an argument to his suggestion.
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"Thank you..." said Kari to the man in front of her, who was behind a concession stand on the street. She then went back to her group, waiting a little farther down the street in the wagon, and sat next to Takevi up front. Pegasusmon took them all out of the town and down a road leading to the capital city, Kenouchitak.
"Out of curiosity, what was the name of the town we have been in?" asked Touchi
"Ishida-Yamato..." said Kari
"Oh..." said Touchi, who then fell silent until they pulled up to the gate to the capital.
"HALT! Who goes there?" asked a female guard.
"Messengers from the land of Takaishi..." said Takevi
"And who is the message for?" asked another guard from atop the high stone wall terrace.
"Your Queen..." said Takevi. The guards in the guard terrace talked amongst themselves before answering.
"You may pass... I will escort you to the Royal Palace..." said the first guard and the large cherry doors opened before them, and when they had completely opened, the guard had come down from the terrace and mounted a horse like Digimon. She was dressed in red armor, on a red flaming horse like Digimon. She rode along side the wagon on Kari's side, or the right side.
"So you have a message for my Queen, from Takaishi... it'll be hard to get to her, she is in conference with another Queen at this time..." said the guard as they passed many merchants and houses, Digimon and Human walking about as equals.
"I wonder why..." said Takevi, and he felt a burst of pain come across his back rapidly, and this sent him into immeasurable pain and agony.
"SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO MAN!" shouted the guard, putting her whip back on her belt. "Keeping men in order these days is so difficult... Is it as hard in Takaishi?" she asked to Kari
"All people in are free to say what they please in Takaishi, despite gender!" said Touchi, and he wasn't not in pain after that statement.
"Oh... I thought Takaishi knew which the weaker sex was... women are naturally the stronger... Hell hath no furry than that of a mother missing a child..." said the guard confidently.
"That might be true, but it is as just as true as a man whose family and homeland has been attacked or destroyed..." said Kari and the guard laughed. Takevi and Touchi tried to shout at her, but Kari stopped them, not wanting them hurt anymore than they were.
"And you have seen this happen? HA! HA! HA! When that happens usually men run to the hills like the cowards they are!" said the guard.
"That is because they run from tyranny and oppression, from what I've seen so far... Show them kindness, compassion, and Love, and they will be the loyalist of all!" said Kari, stopping the wagon as they came to the Royal gate.
"Just be glad you come from Takaishi... words like those are treason her..." said the guard, waving to the guards at the royal gate and the gate opened and they headed for the entrance into the castle. The guard dismounted her horse at the entrance, and Kari, Takevi, Touchi, and Digimon did as well their wagon. They were lead through cherry doors, up stairs, and into a large corridor, where the guard stopped to find where the Queen was at the moment, talking with another guard.
"In the throne room..." said the other guard to their guard, and they walked down many other corridors until they came to a cherry door with rubies decorating them. They were allowed through by the two guards guarding the door and into the Throne Room. It was the most beautiful room Kari had ever seen, red rubies glistened on the ceiling, and red marble shone beautifully, and the back of the room was a throne, with a person sitting on it, dressed up in a red kimono, she had a fan in front of her face which showed a beautiful night scene with two Cranemon in a river near a waterfall. Oh the top of the throne the Queen sat on was a weird symbol that looked like a heart.
"Please give me your message, and then you may leave..." said the person.
"Cousin, I am Takaishi..." said Takevi, and the fan stopped moving.
To Be Continued...
Next: The Legend in the Palace
Preview:
"My Duke of Kawa, are the laws in effect?" asked Memai under her breathe.
"Yes you majesty..." said the hooded man.
"Good, I don't want anything to threaten my throne... and this uprising can easily spread into my country..." said Memai
"Unfortunately, it could have..." said the man
"Nothing must interfere with you know what..." said Memai
"Yes your majesty..." said the man.
"And Yamaki?" asked Memai
"From what I hear... he's doing the same..." said the man.
"Good... good... yes... my duke… there will be justice for the land grabbing Takaishis… it is for certain, now..." said Memai