This Chapter brought to you by Alphaken, a subdivision of Alpha Studios.
Gee, sorry about the wait! All reviews accepted! (Begs rather pathetically) I hope you noticed that the visions Izumi gets are actually flashes of the past, present, and future. So far, all of the ones she's had are past, but as the story goes on, her mastery of time will grow, and she will get flashes from the future to be (some of which she can't necessarily change.) From now on, these will be labeled accordingly.
Authoristic Note: Finally! Well, hello there, and welcome to the third chapter of Digimon Unlimited. I've been lurking around in the RuroKen section, and I just sorta ignored this. But no longer! I now have a friend who will help me out with this task! (Points to curtain) Please welcome Makimachi Misao!
(Misao enters)
Misao: Alpha, I hope you haven't forgotten your part of the deal. (Points) Go capture my Aoshi-Sama!
Alpha: Yeah, yeah. (Takes out a Pokéball and wanders off)
Misao: Wait, you can't... Whatever...
Digimon Unlimited
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Chapter Three: Simple Things
"... Nice place."
"Are you using sarcasm on a blind person, Izumi?"
Izumi had traveled through the forests, swam across the rivers, hiked up the mountains, and crawled through the desert to find...
...A cactus.
Wow. La octava maravilla. (1)
"Yes, I am using sarcasm."
Sara looked down at the shorter girl. "Was it for good reason?"
"Yes."
"Would you like to see me prove you wrong?"
"No." Izumi said dryly. "I would like to see you try."
"Ah," Sara grinned, cracking her knuckles. "A challenge? Well, I will be certain not to disappoint you, Lady Izumi. All pregnant women and children under three years old, please cover your eyes."
Zoe crossed her arms confidently and smirked.
Sara raised her palm up in the air.
"Digital Conjuration!"
Zoe's mouth fell open.
"Earth Style! Pixie Pass!"
A whooshing sound, and then-
"A jungle? In the middle of a desert? Oro..."
Sara put her hands on her hips while standing next to the floating hole in the air. "If you only believe what you can see, then you're in serious trouble, hon," she grinned. "Come on."
Zoe blinked and entered the hole. Which closed behind her.
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They followed Takuya in their natural order of ability; Kouji, Kouichi, and Tommy on JP's shoulders. Takuya didn't talk to anyone, his mouth set grimly. I'm sorry, Izumi. Ultimately, though, we have to save the Digital World, and we'll just have to do it without you. I just hope you're alright...
"We're here!" Bokomon said cheerfully.
"The Village of Beginnings... oro..." Neemon said, oroing.
"Hey, look! Digieggs!" JP exclaimed gleefully. He reached out to touch one, when-
"GET OUT OF HERE, INTRUDERS!" a voice boomed.
"What?" Kouji growled. "You can't tell us to do anything!"
"I CAN AND I WILL!"
"Just who are you, anyway?" Takuya glared into the surrounding shrubbery.
"I am Swanmon, caretaker and protector of the Digieggs! I will protect this village against any and all intruders!" The Digimon in question waddled out angrily.
"We're not intruders!" Kouichi yelled.
"Yeah," Tommy added. "We're legendary warriors, sent to the Digiworld to protect it against the Royal Knights!"
"Hmm..." Swanmon said. "If you really are legendary warriors, then are you here to help me take the Digieggs to a safe place?"
"Um, no, we just got here," JP said apologetically.
"But the Royal Knights are coming! You have to get some help!"
"WHAT!"
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"... You have to be kidding."
"Nope."
Izumi fell over anime style.
"HAVEN'T YOU PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF ELEVATORS?"
Sara stayed calm with her arms crossed as Zoe spazzed out. "You have to climb up there," she said, pointing to the mountain in the middle of the jungle. There was a series of staircases leading all the way up to the top. You could see a coliseum at the peak.
(A/N: Is this sounding familiar? Because it should. If you don't remember, all will be explained shortly, so don't fret.)
Izumi blew a strand of hair out of her face and began to climb. She was surprisingly energetic, considering that she had just gone through a desert and a jungle. But as she climbed, she began to feel a burning at the back of her eyes. "Oh god, not again," she whispered as the prickling sensation intensified.
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"So, I guess this is the end of the line."
"I suppose..."
Sara was facing a wall of fire. It was burning from top to bottom, but when it slackened, it would begin again from the side.
"So this is your borderline." Another young woman came from behind Sara. She was wearing a bandanna, and had who long white hairs coming from her head under the bandanna. The rest of her hair was brown. She looked Mexican, actually, and she spoke with an L.A. accent. "Looks awfully hot."
"It is." Sara replied.
"Are you sure you want to cross?"
"Are you sure you want to stay here?"
The girl smiled. "Someone has to protect this dimension from Apocalymon's wrath."
"But Roxanne, you're not guaranteed to come out after this! This is your last chance to stand a possibility of making it home!"
"I don't have a home." Roxanne said calmly.
"Neither do I!" Sara persisted.
Roxanne smiled. "At least you have your sister."
"I used to."
They watched the wall in silence.
"So, will you cross with me?"
"No."
Sara sighed.
"Don't worry a single golden hair on your head!" Roxanne smiled gently, and gave her friend a hug. Sara buried her head in Roxanne's shoulder.
"Ah, well," Sara said, pulling away. "This is the way it has to be..."
"Lo que sera, sera."
"Y tu, vas a estar bien?"
"Siempre olvido que entiendes Español…"
Sara grinned. "Pues, ya me tengo que ir."(2)
Roxanne nodded. Sara turned around, holding Roxanne's hand. She began to walk through, but when Roxanne felt the wall herself, she winced. Pulling back, she blew on her burnt finger.
"I always did wonder what kind of material you were made of, Sara..."
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Zoe dragged her feet weakly over the last step and looked up at the twilight sky. There was Sara, fresh as a daisy.
"How did you get up here before me?"
"I took the elevator."
"..."
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Pixiemon was meditating in the sanctuary. He opened one eye, thinking he heard something. Seeing nothing, he went back into his happy place.
"Pixiemon-sensei?"
"Kyaaa!"
Sara smiled apologetically. "Gomen ne, Pixiemon-sensei. I have brought the One."
"Oh, really," Pixiemon said in his high-pitched voice. "If she's the One, then that means she gets visions. Does this girl get visions?"
"I dunno... she just collapsed and I carried her over here."
"She might be getting a vision right now."
"Just let her get some sleep. She can meet us in the morning."
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"Where are you taking me?" Zoe protested, but the little fairies wouldn't let her go. They continued dragging her along; up a cliff, in fact. She looked up and gasped. There was a great noise from below. As the fairies deposited her at the edge, she looked down.
Sara was fighting some strange-looking man, half- angel, half devil. She had been thrown to the ground, and was trying to escape this strange roulette- like thing in a sphere over her head.
"Oh, no," Zoe whispered. "I have to get down there." She tried to climb down, but the digignomes-for they were digignomes- wouldn't let her. "Let me go!" she yelled, straining. "That's my friend down there!"
The roulette sphere imploded, and Zoe gasped as Sara lay there, helpless.
"Still alive, are we? Resilient little girl," the half- angel, half-devil monstrosity smirked, and opened his palm outward. A ball of black light grew in his hand. Sara glanced weakly at the ridge.
"Nunca pensaba que esto seria el fin..." (3)
"Now, die!"
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"NO!" Zoe gasped, sitting up in a bed. She touched her sweating face.
"It was only a dream," she sighed.
Then a flash of text went through her head.
People have hope because they cannot see death standing behind them
And Zoe knew what she has seen had been no dream.
Sara was going to die.
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A/N: this chap was finished on Wednesday, December 14, 2005. God, I'm lazy. But I'm going to Mexico for Christmas break, and I couldn't leave y'all w/o a chapter! Sorry it's so short.
Let the torrent of protest begin (ramen noodles fly at Alpha) don't hurt me rabid fan tribe!
1) The eighth wonder of the world (sarcastic)
2) Lo que será, será. What will happen, will happen.
Y tú, vas a estar bien? And you, will you be all right?
Siempre olvido que entiendes Español… I always forget that you can understand Spanish…
Pues, ya me tengo que ir. Well, I have to go.
3) I never thought this would be the end...