Katey:Woot, this is where our characters come in D MY CHARACTER IS ALMIGHTY FEAR HER wahhhhh! By the way, I'm Akitara, so uh YEAHFEAR HER WAHHH! And Sara's Shihiro, thehuman version ofCalumon XDWell, not literally, but her personality is alot like his!... anyways, I can't really think of anything else to say ..;; So, enjoy!
Sara: Throughout this fic, we're going to be putting Beelzemon on an emotional roller coaster ride D
Beelzemon trapped on roller coaster: "WAHHH! YOU BASTARDS!"
Sara: "What? Faster! OK!" -pushes switch-
WOO Beelzemon without a shirt in this chappy! -drools-
Katey: ZOMG Indeef! -drools also- ... I think we're gonna need a towel o.o;;
The clouds began to gather ominously, threatening to rain. As the two girls, Akitara and Shihiro, quickly walked home they marveled at their newly purchased digimon cards.
"I can't believe we just did that!" said Shihiro, her bright blue eyes filled with excitement. She had long golden brown hair, and was wearing a dark purple shirt with grey cargo pants.
"What's there to believe?" answered Akitara, who had long strawberry blonde hair. She was wearing all black except for her blue jeans, and a suit-like trench coat. "We've been planning this for weeks."
"But I didn't think we'd actually do through with it!" said Shihiro, her spirits undampened.
Since the war had started between the government and digimon, all digimon merchandise, including the cards, had been declared illegal. Shihiro and Akitara had bought the cards off a guy just over the border between Shinjuku and Chiyoda.
Akitara reached into the generic paper bag to retrieve the recently purchased cards. "Wait!" cried Shihiro, "What if someone sees those? We'll get in trouble and might even go to jail!"
Akitara only hesitated for a moment, but didn't listen. She pulled the cards out while saying "I'm just checking to see if they're legit, I don't want to get ripped off. Besides, who would remember what a digimon card looks like anymore anyways?"
"Well… I guess a peek would be ok." relented Shihiro. Her worrying gave away to excitement again as she wanted to see the cards just as badly as Akitara.
Finally the shiny wrapper of the booster pack came off, and they beheld the first card: Beelzemon. "Oh my gosh! That a really good card! And he's so cool!"
Akitara pushed up her sunglasses to get a better look at the card. "Yeah I guess he is pretty cool, and these look pretty legit." Satisfied that she hadn't been ripped off, Akitara put the cards back in the bag, and was about to put it in her coat when they heard voices coming from the alleyway behind them.
"Hey ladies, whatcha got there?" said the voice of a burly man who stepped out onto the sidewalk, followed by three equally menacing men.
"Oh, n-nothing!" squeaked Shihiro, obviously startled by their rugged appearance.
"Don't lie, we saw those cards. Digimon cards aren't they?"
"Uh, no! They're Pokemon cards! Right Akitara?" she said turning to her friend for support.
"Pokemon are for losers. Digimon is clearly superior." Shihiro's face fell at her comment, and she glared at Akitara while whispering "You idiot! You're going to get us caught!"
"Well if they are Pokemon cards, can we take a look? We're big fans." one of the men said, the others snickering and elbowing each other.
The same man started walking towards them, when Shihiro said "Hey, we don't want any trouble! Can't all just be friends?"
"Sure, just let me see those cards." said the man, reaching for Akitara's coat pocket.
"Keep your hands to yourself or you're going to lose them." she threatened, backing away.
"OooOooOoo!" "You'd better watch out!" "She might claw your eyes out! Hahahaha!" the men all laughed and sneered at the girl. The man tried again to reach into her pocket but she pulled away.
He scowled at her and it showed that he was obviously done with being polite; he roughly grabbed her by the shoulder and shoved his hand in her pocket. Akitara pulled a knife out of the sheath on the back of her belt and sliced the man's forearm, making him drop the cards he had just pulled out. The man recoiled slightly and sneered at her, "You little bitch!"
"Akitara! Be careful!" warned Shihiro, shifting her feet back and forth nervously. Akitara didn't take kindly to being called a bitch, and when the man lunged at her again she punched him right between the eyes, sending reeling back and stumbling around.
Shihiro quickly grabbed the cards from the ground and tugged on Akitara's sleeve. "We should be running away now…" Akitara nodded and they both turned around, but were stopped by two of the other guys who had circled around them while they weren't paying attention.
The man who Akitara had punched wiped the blood from the brim of his nose and regained his senses. "I was going to be nice to you, but now I'm going to take great pleasure in killing you both."
The men were about to jump on the girls when they all heard the revving of motorcycles coming down the street. Two bikes slowed to a stop in front of the group, and one of the street-bound men called out to them. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be patrolling Shinjuku! And where is the rest of the gang?"
"He killed them!" blurted out one of the extremely terrified bikers.
"Wait, start at the beginning!"
"We were patrolling like you said when some digimon came out of nowhere and started taking us out one by one!" he said, franticly.
Suddenly another bike was heard off in the distance. The two biker's eyes widened in fear as they looked at each other. "It's him! He's here! He's going to kill us!" One of them started up his bike and drove off, nearly taking out a few of the men on the street. The other tried to start up his bike, but it refused to work.
In a flash of black metal, Beelzemon sped down the road. He held out his arm, and clothes lined the remaining biker knocking him down to the concrete sidewalk; he convulsed slightly before going still. The remaining men, seeing the digimon closing in, forgot all about the two girls and dove for opposite sides of the sidewalk so as not to get run over.
The girls, knowing that they wouldn't be able to get away in time, closed their eyes and feared the worst. Beelzemon saw the two girls and slid sideways to a stop just inches from them, creating a long skid mark along the sidewalk.
"Are we dead yet?" Shihiro squeaked, opening her eyes a crack, seeing the large digimon leaning over them.
"Are you guys ok?" he asked, looking down at them. The two girls stared in awe as they realized it was the digimon they had seen on the card moments before. All they could do is nod their heads, signifying they were fine. "Good, you should go somewhere safe now. I'll handle these guys." Not saying anything, the girls retreated to a safe part of the alleyway, and hid behind a pile of boxes.
"Did you see that?" asked Akitara, to affirm that she wasn't seeing things.
"Oh my god oh my god oh my god!" Shihiro said, pulling out his card. "It really was him!"
Back on the street, Beelzemon stepped off his bike. "Picking on girls, that's an all-time low for you scumbags."
"Are you the digimon who killed the rest of our gang?" asked one of the men angrily.
"As a matter of fact I am. I'm also the digimon who will be killing you guys in a second." with that, he pulled his two shotguns out and aimed at the nearest thug. One of the others went to pull out his own gun but Beelzemon saw this and beat him to it. His first shot was a bull's eye, instantly killing the man.
Beelzemon then turned to the two other men closest to him and picked them off with a shot from each gun. He walked over to the corpses on the ground, kicking one of them slightly to make sure they're dead. "Wait a minute…" he started counting on his fingers, "Weren't there four guys here?"
Suddenly from the corner of his eye he sees the two girls rush out of the alleyway, screaming at him, "Watch out Beelzemon! Behind you!" but the warning is too late. The fourth man, who still had blood all over his face from being punched earlier, lunged at him and digs his knife deep into Beelzemon's side. He was about to drag the knife across when Beelzemon drops his gun and grabs him by the neck; a sickening crunch is heard as the man's windpipe is crushed.
Once Beelzemon is satisfied that the man is dead, he drops him to the ground and starts walking towards his bike. All of a sudden he feels a searing pain and drops to his knees, and sees the blood begin to seep through his jacket. He snarls in dismay as he realizes the man had actually got him pretty good.
Seeing the digimon collapse, Akitara and Shihiro rush over to his side.
"Are you ok?" asked Shihiro worriedly.
"I've had worse." grunted Beelzemon, struggling to get to his feet but he can't quite make it and drops back down.
"Akitara, help me!" says Shihiro, trying to help him up. Akitara nods and puts his arm around her shoulder to support him.
"Thanks, could you get me to my bike?" says Beelzemon weakly. It seems to take an eternity before they finally reach it, even though it's only a few feet away. Beelzemon leans against it and tries to stop the world from spinning, but he's still really woozy.
"You don't look too good…" worries Shihiro, "Maybe we should get you someplace safe until you feel better."
Beelzemon goes to deny their help but stops himself, realizing that more gang members might return to get revenge. "Where did you have in mind?" he asks, swallowing his pride.
"Well our house is only a few blocks away, and we were going there anyways." suggests Shihiro, pointing down the street.
"Fine." he says as he gets on his bike. The girls just stand there, wondering what to do next. "Well aren't you getting on?" asks Beelzemon, gesturing behind himself.
"Come on Shihiro, don't tell me you're scared." joked Akitara as she gets on first.
"Hey I happen to like bikes, except when they're moving and I'm on them." Eventually she climbs on behind her friend and holds on for dear life.
Beelzemon starts the bike and begins to drive at steady pace. "Hey this isn't so bad…" says Shihiro, but without warning the bike begins to swerve erratically.
"What are you doing? Who taught you how to drive anyways?" Akitara asks, masking her fear as the bike gets worse.
"Hey, I'd like to see YOU drive a bike with a six-inch hole in your side!" retorted Beelzemon as he tried to keep balance. He managed to get the bike back on course and changes the subject. "So where is this place anyways?"
After they finally reached the house, the girls helped him through the door and into the basement suite, lowering him onto the couch as carefully as possible.
"Are you comfortable enough? Do you need another pillow? How about a blanket?" asked Shihiro.
Beelzemon weakly shakes his head and closes his eyes. "No, I'm fine thanks."
"I'll go get the first-aid kit then, I'll be right back." Shihiro rushed up the stairs, returning with a box marked with the first-aid symbol. She returned to see Akitara rummaging through the bag Beelzemon had brought with him.
"What are you doing?"
"What? He's asleep, he won't care. Maybe we can find some information about this guy while we're at it."
"Well I need your help, we can look through that later." Shihiro stood over Beelzemon with a dumbfounded look on her face. "I don't even know where to start! Well, I do but…"
"Just lift him up." says Akitara in an annoyed tone. Shihiro obliged by gently placing her hands under Beelzemon, lifting him up slightly. Akitara pulled off his jacket, then grabbed the corners of his shirt, attempting to pull it off too.
"Whoa whoa, hold up a sec, won't he find it a bit suspicious that we're stripping him?"
"Uh, no. We're just taking off his shirt so we can clean up his wound. It's not like we're removing anything else."
"Good point." Akitara goes back to taking off his shirt which is soaked in blood. They then clean up and bandage the knife wound, and Shihiro goes to the closet to get a blanket for him. They cover him up and stand there, wondering what to do next.
"You know… he's kinda cute when he's sleeping." says Shihiro, looking down at him.
Akitara rolled her eyes and went back to rummaging through his bag again. She found nothing of importance until she got to the bottom, where she found a ratty teddy bear and what appears to be a digivice.
"Okay, I can understand the digivice but what's with the teddy bear?" Akitara says holding up both items.
"Well if the teddy bear was in the bag, it obviously belongs to him." Shihiro points out.
"I somehow don't see a 6-foot-something digimon carrying around a teddy bear." Akitara says dismissively. Suddenly they hear groaning from the couch as Beelzemon regains his consciousness.
"…Where's my shirt?" he asks groggily, looking around the room.
Akitara quickly shoves the stuff back in the bag and stands up. "We needed to take it off to tend to your injury."
"Oh…" he says, not really caring. Suddenly his stomach growls and he looks a bit surprised. "That's strange… I can't remember the last time I ate."
"I don't think that's such a good thing…" says Shihiro, "We'll go get some food from upstairs."
They retrieved a leftover Tupperware container of spaghetti from the freezer and popped it in the microwave. After it's cooked they brought it down to Beelzemon who commenced to wolf down the food.
"No kidding about the being hungry part…" says Shihiro quietly to Akitara as he finishes the bowl in record time.
Beelzemon leaned back on the couch and sighed happily. "That was good. I can't remember the last time I had a decent meal."
"So, you're Beelzemon right?" Shihiro asked, sitting down with Akitara on a couch opposite him.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Just making sure, because we've never seen a real digimon up close before."
"And you are…?" he asks.
"I'm Shihiro, and this is Akitara." she says, pointing to herself and then her friend.
"Are you guys sisters or somthin'? 'Cause you live in the same house…"
"No, I just live here because my parents died a few months ago when they worked at a building called Hypnos. I don't know all the messy details though."
"Oh, I'm sorry for making you bring that up." he said apologetically.
"It's all right, I'm over it now. Talking about them doesn't bug me anymore." she said smiling.
"What's with little miss no-smile here? What's your story?" he asks, addressing Akitara.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that first comment." she said coolly, "I've lived with just my mom all my life because my dad was a jackass and left before I was born."
"Whoa, and I thought I was the one with problems…" he muttered under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Oh nothing… it's just that you kind of remind me of someone I know. I just can't place my finger on it."
"Ok so what about you?" Shihiro asked Beelzemon. "We still don't know much about you."
"My story isn't that interesting…" he said evasively.
"Oh come on, we told you ours!"
"I don't want to talk about it." he snapped, surprising the girls.
"Whoa, didn't mean to pry…"
"Sorry, it's still a touchy subject."
Their conversation is interrupted by a loud beeping noise coming from Beelzemon's bag. Everyone jumps, especially Beelzemon who looks like he's seen a ghost. He walks over to his bag, "That sound, I haven't heard that since…" he reaches into his bag and pulls out the digivice. "I thought it was broken." The beeping then stopped all of a sudden. "…That was weird…"
With nothing better to do, the three of them watched TV until a knock is heard at the door.
"I'll get that." says Shihiro, running up the stairs. She comes back down a minute later and addresses Akitara, "There's a strange man in a black suit and sunglasses here, saying something about knowing Beelzemon an-" she's interrupted by Yamaki coming down the stairs behind her.
"Hey, you can't come in here! That's trespassing!" says Shihiro.
"It's important that I speak to Beelzemon." he says, walking into the room.
Beelzemon looks surprised, but not in a good way. "Yamaki, what the hell? How did you know I was here?"
"That's what I would like to know. I tracked your digivice but I thought it stopped working when…" he stops himself suddenly and leaves it at that. "But that's hardly the point, it's imperative that you come with me right now."
"Oh? And why should I do that?"
"I have some information about Ai and Mako's murderers." Yamaki said shortly.
Beelzemon looked like he's been punched in the stomach from the look of utter shock on his face.
"You should bring your two new friends along with you too."
"Wait, where are we going?" asked Shihiro.
"Someplace safe; right now you're in great danger just being here."
"Should we trust him, Akitara?" Shihiro said, turning to her friend. Akitara doesn't answer but instead grabs her coat and sunglasses, and walks over to Yamaki. "I'll take that as a yes." She then follows Akitara's example.
"So, are you coming Beelzemon?" asked Yamaki.
"Yeah yeah…" Beelzemon gets up and begins to walk towards them, when Yamaki stops him.
"Forgetting something?"
Beelzemon looked incredulous "What do you mean?"
"You might want to put a shirt on before we leave…"
"Oh…right." Beelzemon said, throwing on his shirt and jacket.