The Boy Who Cried 'Wolfmon'!

Chapter 9: 'Crap of Holiness'

The brunette just gaped at the name on his arm. Then he began to roughly rub at it with his left hand. "No way!" he exclaimed in disbelief. He began to rub harder when the marking refused to disappear. "No way no way no way no waaay!"

Kouji gripped Takuya's shoulders and spoke softly. "Calm down . . ."

The tanned boy just looked up at him with wide, frantic eyes. "This name! Rave! Frei burned it into his arm when they parted! I saw it, I saw it all!"

The raven-haired teen seemed to be unaffected by Takuya's inchoherent ranting. He leaned forward slightly, and touched his forehead to the brunette's. "Shhh . . ."

This time, Takuya quieted down, and closed his eyes, enjoying the feeling of Kouji's warm breath on his face. When he slowly opened his eyes, he saw the other teen smiling softly. "What you have claimed to see," Kouji said. "Must have been actual events from the past."

"Well, duh," Takuya said bluntly. Kouji pouted, and playfully knocked the brunette on the head with his knuckles. "Tell me what you saw in your dream."

Takuya obeyed, he could remember it clearly, almost as if the dream was his own past. He described everything in great detail, from what Rave and Frei had been wearing, to what the scenery consisted of. When he had finished, Takuya looked up at Kouji, who was deep in contemplation.

"Hmmm . . . " The pale teen murmured. "I should have known that something like this would happen . . ."

"Something like what?" Takuya asked.

Kouji returned the brunette's gaze. "Well, erm, how do I explain this . . . Since . . . Since I'm the descendant of the original Wolfmon, I should have figured that his past would show up in my future. I'm not really sure how it works, though. Most likely, it has something to do with the fact that all of the descendants of Rave have the same destiny: To protect Tallatpicka."

"But what does your family line have to do with me?" Takuya inquired. "After all, I'm the one who had the dream, and I'm not related to you!"

"I know," Kouji answered calmly. "Though I figure . . . that you're somehow related to Frei, the Agnimon."

"Eh?" the brunette's eyes widened. "But Frei had no descendants! How could I be related to him!"

"I know," The raven-haired teen's fuzzy ears flattened slightly. "And that's what really bugs me, there's no other explanation."

A spell of silence was temporarily cast over the two boys, until Takuya's eyes suddenly widened to an inhuman size. "OH MY GOD! EEEWWWW! BAD MENTAL IMAGE!" The brunette shreiked and tried to claw out his eyeballs with his fingernails. Kouji nearly jumped out of his skin at the ear-splitting cry, and grasped the frantic boy's wrists, trying to restrain him. "H-Hey! Stop that!"

"I know how I could be related to Frei even though he didn't have any family!" Takuya didn't wait for a response from the surprised Kouji to shout out his solution to the mystery. "HE ASEXUALLY REPRODUCED!"

Kouji's expression of shock quickly turned into that of sheer annoyance. Asexual reproduction? That was just ludicrous.

The wolf-boy sighed and lightly clapped his hand on Takuya's head. "Re-LAX. Humans can't asexually reproduce! There needs to be two people for . . . you know . . . "

The brunette shot a pouty glare at the thinner teen. "Jeez, don't pop out and give me a sex ed. lesson!"

Kouji cringed at the 's' word and grumbled, retracting his hand. Takuya noticed the teen's actions, and gave a mischeivous, almost evil, grin. "Oooooh, you don't like the 'S' word, do 'ya?"

Fear and confusion danced across Kouji's face, and was obviously unnerved by Takuya's devilish expression. He scurried backwards away from the brunette slightly, but he wasn't quick enough. Takuya's moves were almost lightning-quick and he soon pounced Kouji and pinned him to the ground, all the while screaming, "Sex! Sex! SEX!"

Kouji had his eyes squeezed shut, as if that would protect himself from hearing the 'forbidden' word. The impish brunette just burst out laughing at his expression and buried his face in the other teen's neck. Kouji slowly opened his eyes, then asked with concern, "Hey . . . Doesn't jumping around hurt your leg?"

Takuya muffled the last of his laughter, and looked up at the raven-haired teen. "Not really . . . come to think of it . . . it hasn't really hurt at all ever since I woke up . . ." The brunette sat up, his back against the cave wall, and undid the wrappings on his wound.

The inward side of the bandage was stained with medium-sized splashes of blood, but Takuya's shin was completely healed, not even a scratch or a scar remained. Wide-eyed, the brunette ran his fingertips over the area where the wound should have been. "Whoah . . . "

"Now there's no doubt about it," Kouji said, eyeing Takuya's miraculously healed leg. "You are definitely related to the Agnimon, no ordinary human can heal that fast . . . or withstand fire like you do."

"Jeez," Takuya's expression converted from awe, to irritated. "This is so damn confusing. There is no reasonable explanation to how I'm related to Frei! And my traits can't just be inherited from some dead dude whom I'm not even in the slightest way related to!" Takuya's tone of voice became more frustrated as he continued to rant. "I mean, why is this happening to me! I'm just like any other kid, no different! I mean, besides the fact that I'm the descendant to some gullible kid who called for help from a werewolf. Gah!" His ramblings became more inchoherent. "And Rave, turnin' into a wolf ever since he was 13, that's gotta be a ton of stress on a kid. And then Frei and Rave split up and never saw each other again, even though they promised to, broken promises put a ton of guilt on someone! And now they're dead and stuff, so their promise can never be fulfilled! I mean, the only way they could keep it now was if they reincarnated into new people and met up again and be all happy and huggly and, and, and . . . and . . . and . . . "

A spell of silence washed over the two teens as the wheels turned in their heads. At exactly the same time, both of their eyes widened in realization, and they looked at eachother in disbelief. Then they spoke in unison.

"HOLY CRAP!"

END OF CHAPTER 9

Ritina: KYAHA! Ain't that an interesting way to end a chapter? But I'm so sorry that it took me MONTHS to update and that this chapter is kind of short! I've just been using up all of my creative energy on my webcomics. I've been running 2 and I'm going to start another one later this year. But I will try to get the next chapter (which will be the final one) up soon!