Memory
Chapter XV: Memai, the Thorn in a Rose
By Salamon2
Hey guys! How did you like the wait? I've had this done for a while… yeah typed and everything… but do you think I'd let you suffer? No, but FF.NET might by switching to some new fangled system of Uploading… I couldn't upload my last chapter… oh well… all of this is over with… I also have finished the next chapter… YEAH! But… it won't be up… reviews are really needed you know… I mean it's nice to be the type of reader who looks at a story and likes it, but what about reviewing? Whatever happened to that age old habit? Anyway… do you guys want any hints about what's about to happen? All I'll say is Memai really goes crazy… yeah… and it's not just the pregnancy hormones either… And now here's SALAMON!
I really want to read this so I'll comply! Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon!
"Calm down Hikari…" said Takevi
"But I can't! What I heard is so unnerving!" said Kari
"I understand but-" started Takevi
"Memai killed him!" shouted Kari, who then cried.
Kari awoke and breathed, not able to think straight. She looked to her left, her fiancé slept, he looked so sweet and innocent, like he had when under that spell from the Sea of Memory. She touched him briefly, and smoothed back a wild golden tuft of hair from his face, only to have it fall back in place, where it was before. Suddenly something occurred like never before, she was out in a forest. She was wearing the clothes she had when she had been eight.
"T.K.!" called out a male voice, who sounded familiar.
"T.K.!" cried a female voice.
"It's no use Matt… Puppetmon must have done something to him, or took him too far away…" said a tall male with large brown hair, and goggles. He spoke to a tall blonde boy, with a weird hairdo.
"And he won't let us leave this tree!" said a tall female with red hair and blue helmet.
"I say it's better staying here… so that way we don't go looking for trouble and finding it!" said a taller blue haired male with glasses.
"Joe!" shouted another girl, blonde with a pink cowboy hat.
"MY LITTLE BROTHER IS OUT THERE ALONE! PROBABLY TERRIFIED AND BEING TOTURED, AND ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY IS TO BE GLAD WE'RE NOT OUT THERE WITH HIM! YOU'RE NO FRIEND OF MINE!" screamed the blonde male.
"MATT!" screamed a voice, and in came a younger version of the tall blonde boy, only wearing a hat.
"T.K.!" cried Matt and the others, but the others surrounded him first, and they congratulated him as he showed the merits and prizes he had caught. The tall blonde looked at the group.
"he doesn't need me… he found a way out of it… I didn't save him…" muttered the tall blonde, who started to cry, and then ran in another direction. Just then the group faded into the woods, as though she were being pulled away by something, and she felt it all around her, a darkness, with red eyes.
"Kari…" is whispered with a hoarse voice.
"Who… who are you?" asked Kari in a scared manner.
"The time draws near when the powers of the Kurai shall battle those of the Hikari!" shouted the disembodied voice. And the dark mist surrounded her and it seemed to choke her, she screamed for help.
"HELP! HELP!" screamed Kari
"Kari! It's okay… I'm here…" said Takevi, who grabbed the flailing girl, his fiancé, and held her close to him. It seemed to snap her out of her dream.
"Takevi… Ohh… Takevi!" cried Kari, and she held onto him and cried onto his shoulder, afraid from what she had just experienced.
"I never thought of actually following the advice of this mock Congress of Digimon, but why should I start now?" asked SaberLeomon, pacing in front of Champions and Ultimates, more Champions were however present today, for this vote. He knew they knew they would be killed for defying him, but the had come and stayed, they would face the punishment.
"More humans die everyday, we're now having to use more Rookies and In-training Digimon than anticipated…" said the unofficial leader of the Champions, Ogremon.
"Whatever we need to do to harvest our crops, rebuild our cities, defend our borders, and defeat our enemies, needs to be done!" shouted SaberLeomon
"But we can not ask for our people to go back to the fields that we freed them from!" shouted Ogremon
"You think that what we need can be obtained without doing this?" asked SaberLeomon, increasing his pace.
"Azulongmon would have rather died than become human like in behavior!" shouted Ogremon, and many Champions agreed, and applauded him. But SaberLeomon's response was not so pleasant, but was indeed tragic for Ogermon. He jumped the green Digimon, and sank his gigantic teeth into him, ripping off layers of skin, digital information flooding out, as if blood, until Ogremon dissolved away. This stopped the applause with many gasps!
"That is what happens to those who dishonor Azulongmon!" shouted SaberLeomon, in front of a lot of fearful Champions, and smirking Ultimates.
"They tried to pass it!?" questioned Memai, who paced in front of her mirror. A cloaked man stood in front of the door nodding his head. Memai's surging rage ripped the paper in her hands and threw them in front of the man, and she shouted "GET OUT!" and the man bowed and almost ran out the door, not shutting the door the whole way.
Memai paced a little before sitting down on her bed and crying. Her perfect plan was ruined… there was only one way now, she had been keeping this option on the back burner in case of this outcome. She picked up a paper, and scribbled her signature on a line, then rolling it up she called the man in again. He entered hesitantly, but obediently, not shutting the door after entering.
"Here… take this to Daisai, then send it to you know where…" said Memai, and the man left the room, and turned right, he left the door wide opened and when Memai shut it in furry, a girl cloaked in a yellow cloak, with a pink sash ran off.
"Where's the fifth one?" asked Kari, referring to her missing hand maiden.
"I do not know my lady…" said the front girl, curtsying as she spoke.
"I hope she is not in any danger…" said Hikari, the sun was rising in the east, and the palace was stirring.
"Your majesty… your sister-" started an armed guard to the young King of Hida.
"Yes I know… causing havoc again… have the guard at home put down her little rebellion and this time make sure they capture and execute her!" shouted Iroi, a bit angry.
"She and the Digimon terrorist group, Digoudok have taken over half the Kingdom... renaming their half Digida…" said the man in armor of black, another guard nest to him was one in white.
"DAMN HER!" cried out the disturbed ruler
"Your Majesty, may I suggest to you to listen tot me, I am your mother! The more land you have the more power you have… voting against that proposition was very fool hardy of you! I do not say these things to upset you… I say them so that my- our country may become the most powerful in the Digital World, and I- I mean you the most powerful Ruler of it!" said Taichou's Mother, saving herself very slightly with her last sentence.
"Yes mother…" said Taichou, tired of her talking. He nodded not really listening to her words afterwards; she left him soon yelling something about not listening. He sat down in a chair, and somehow he felt that something was not right, the palace seemed dark, even though it was noon, something was wrong, something was going to happen, and soon.
Kari looked at herself in the mirror, she couldn't believe all of this, where she had come from, and what was happening to her. She was not really thinking about her life at home, where ever it was. 'Maybe this all is a big dream… oh well… at least it is a nice dream…' thought Kari. She was then interrupted by a knock at the door. "Come in…" said Kari in response to the knock, and sat in a couch in the sitting room. Touchi came into the room. "Touchi! What do you want?" asked Kari with cheerfulness.
"I would like to invite you to a talk… with a Digimon I met…" said Touchi
"Is this one anything like Azulongmon? Because if he or she is… I better start packing…" said Kari jokingly.
"No… it's a Gatomon…" said Touchi, and that name sounded very familiar, like Kari should have known it, but she did not.
"That's nice…" said Kari, not knowing what to say, think, or do.
"Tomorrow Night? Meet me in front of my room?" asked Touchi
"Sure…" said Kari, unsure of what she was agreeing to.
Yamaki paced his room, 'I have to stop Memai. When angered she can do anything, but what to do? She could be anywhere… Speaking of anywhere… where is my sister? She should have been back hours ago…' thought Yamaki as he looked out of his window and at the descending sun.
"Your majesty! I have just heard that the King of Takaishi shall marry in one week…" said a cloaked man.
"ONE WEEK!" screamed Memai.
"And then that Monday, to war…" said the man
"All so soon… well, I have little time to save Tachikawa…" said Memai who rose from her seat and walked over to the desk.
"Your Majesty?" asked the man
The words of the oracle in Ikawa still were crystal clear in Memai's mind.
'Tachikawa will fall if The King of Takaishi marries and produces children…'
If they were engaged they could've had a huge argument and called the whole thing off, but now they're seriously serious and infatuated with one another. She had to destroy their relationship, and she had just the thing to do it with. She opened her desk draw, and saw her belt with a sheath on it. She lifted it and unsheathed her weapon and held it up to the window, the fading sunset's beams shone onto the blade of the weapon, sharpened before she had left Tachikawa.
Then practicing with no one, she fenced with her weapon, remembering her training from early in life. She continued practicing the attacks and defenses with the imaginary person, before thrusting her dagger at something that moved in the corner of her eye. She smirked, the cloaked man had fallen to the floor, the dagger in his heart.
"Sire, if what's true is true, we now have three more allies…" said Wizardmon
"It is true… I can almost taste the death of those royals in my mouth… this time they shall not escape their deaths! And try and find out the cause of the recent earthquakes will you?" asked Leomon
"Of course my Lord…" said Wizardmon
"Your majesty, the King of Motomiya…" said a new cloaked man, who bowed and walked away backwards, leaving King Daisai to come in. The man closed the door and sulked into the shadows, disappearing in one of them.
"Daisai, I trust you signed the sheet…" said Memai, rising to her equal.
"Or else I wouldn't be here!" said Daisai
"Why would Motomiya want to join our cause?" asked Memai
"We hate all of the Takaishis for taking half our land years ago… we'd rather die than be with those gold diggers!" said Daisai forcefully.
"Good…" said Memai, and just at that moment the door knocked, the man in the shadows answered, let the person in and closed the door.
"The Kind of Kido, your Majesties…" said the man before slithering back into the shadows.
"Ahh… Jyoudo, you got my note I see…" said Memai
"Yes Memai… now tell me why you called me here…" said Jyoudo threateningly.
"As I'm sure you're aware of, part of your Kingdom seceded because you came here, correct?" asked Memai
"So!?" asked Jyoudo, as if it weren't relevant.
"What if I told you it was willing to come back peacefully? Without further bloodshed to your people… yes I know that in the mountains of your country live terrible monstrous Digimon, who at night come down into the valleys, the biggest one being what is now Digido, where your people live, stealing crops, abducting and eating livestock. And when their supply is low on these, the monsters murder your people, burn your villages, and blockade your roads waiting for unexpected travelers…" said Memai.
"And what if I have… this group of Digimon calling themselves Digido shall fall without much blood. Little action if any…" said Jyoudo with confidence.
"What if I told you what I know?" asked Memai, pausing waiting for him to ask her to tell him. But when she had waited for ten minutes, she continued "They have seized Doki, your capital…" said Memai, believing this would convince him.
"Then my men and I shall fight for our homes. We would rather die than show that those Digimon are stronger than us, an established nations versus a band of outlaws! How dare you even suggest it!" shouted Jyoudo, showing himself out of the room.
"Take care of him! Now!" shouted Memai to her servant who flew out the door, and chased Jyoudo, who at seeing ht man drawing his sword from its sheath ran.
To Be Continued…
Next: The Eleven Senshi
Preview: Memai crept towards them, hovering over Kari, unsheathing her dagger, the moonlight gleaming against its extremely sharp blade, soon to be dirtied with blood.