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Wanted
I have wandered far and wide
For something real something to die for
But I have found you and you do not see
All that is me all that is true
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Ordinary Boy
Just a dream, just an ordinary dream
As I wake in bed
And that boy, that ordinary boy
Was it all in my head?
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Joyous Heartache
Chapter 10: Of an Eternal FlameIMPORTANT MESSAGE PLEASE READ!
30th November 2004
Hey Guys,
I'm afraid I have some v. bad news, and some good news.
The Bad news is that we have to give back our laptops to the
school as we are getting new ones next year, and we have loaner laptops, so from the 1st of December I wont be updating till around the 4th of February as I will have no laptop, and no internet connection to I may be able to go over to a friends house and update, but its unlikely.
The good news is that I have the rest of this story completely worked out, and so will write it in the holidays, and my other two stories.
I also have written the first two chapters of 'Paris: The city of Romance', and have a short story about Joyous heartache called 'Shifting Tides'which is about the friendship of Matt, Tai and Sora when they were little before the war. Its rather sweet but I'm not sure if I'll put it up.
That's about it for all the important news.
Review if you want a teaser for my new stories!
Enjoy!
Em
p.s Sorry in advance bout the cliffie!
2nd February 2005
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Blue Sakuramon: yes… innocent look Its more of Takeru's choice, he remembers their time together, and so understands the depth it goes and that it cant be broken, and so concentrates on more important things rather than things that he cant change at the moment, Kari however, doesn't understand their relationship and doesn't remember anything about him, and so she ponders on it a lot. Thanks for the review!
RogueSummersLover Don't apologise for asking questions! I love them! Um, yeah, its more that Tk chose not to think of her, in this chapter he thinks of her quite a bit more, but while he knew that she was a princess of their enemy kingdom he sort of blocked her out of his mind, and decided that there were more important things to go about doing. With Kari, I really don't know anything much about amnesia or anything like that, but the way I see it, when you have something around to remind of it, you remember it more and more each day, and so Kari has all her memories back from when she was a child living in the palace, but very little from the time she was spending with Takeru and Lara. I hope that makes some amount of sense… Sorry, I had this chapter written quite quickly (for me anyway) but then the stupid school took back my laptop. I got ahead with chapters though so I'll be able to update every 3-5 days now! Thanks heaps for the review! It means a lot to me!
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Eva-Freak015: Don't worry, Tai's going to change very soon. I'm exactly the same as you, I really don't mind Tai in the show, but I could never stand Davis, but I reckon he and TK could be really great friends if he changed his attitude a bit, so I suppose that's just how I write him… but somehow, its always Tai that ends up being the bad guy… perhaps somewhere in my subconscious I'm following on with the Season 1 fights Tai and Mato always seem to have, and I Love Matt and Tk, so I suppose… it just goes from there… I really quite like Tai though… strange… Anyways, Thanks for the review…
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Ballet Kitty: You know, I was going to have that, but then it just didn't work, i suppose I support Michi, but I don't really mind, I mean I've never read a michi fic, and I've never tried to write one, but it's a bit late in the story to add it in; Tai'll stop acting like a git soon though! Um, about the other digidestined, I've sort of… hmm… well they live somewhere, but they aren't really crucial to the story plot… and I just haven't added them in… all of them are in my next few stories though! Thanks!
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Wow, I got so many reviews for that last chapter, and to be able to return to fanfiction and see the number count (138) made me sooo happy! (you get the emails about reviews you get, but its not the same as reading them online) so, thanks to all my wonderful readers and reviewers, you guys make my day, and make me love writing this soo much! If I missed anyone out, I'm sorry!
Enjoy the story
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Hikari woke up that morning, the light dancing around her pink room as a new day began. She sighed remembering her dreams. It was a usual occurrence for her to dream about her past, but this was just getting to strange.
She put on her corset and pale pink dress, ignoring the black ones of which her father and brother prefer her to wear, and walked half awake down to the dining table.
She couldn't help feeling a little bit nervous. This was another strange thing, she'd never actually felt nervous sitting at the dining table before, but that morning she felt as if she were a stranger in a household that was not her own. She had had episodes before but they'd never been like this, never been so strong. It was as if all her feelings were out of her control. Like she was somebody completely different.
"So, Hikari, those Ishida's-" Taichi started a conversation with his little sister. Her eyes widened in shock.
"What? What? What about the Ishida's?" She cried, "Why, why would you mention them here?" she asked frantically.
There was a moments silence after her outbreak, and she held her head in her hands, as Taichi recovered with a confident smirk.
"Because we are going to beat them, that's why." He said, smiling proudly at his father, and continuing to talk with them.
"Excuse me," Hikari said, "I'm not feeling well"
With that she walked away from the table, food untouched, and sat on her bed.
It wasn't long before her mother came in, sat beside her with hands upon her shoulders.
"Hikari?" she questioned softly, "are you all right,"
"Yes, Mama, I'm fine. Just a bit confused,"
"Memories?" The queen questioned
"No," she answered, "Not really, but, Mother, of late I've been having the same dream, and I am afraid it is a sign, or of some significance…"
"Tell me of it, child." The queen replied. "Is it bad?"
"I am not sure, when I dream of it, I am the happiest person on earth, but when I waken, I am afraid, and dread what it tells me…"
"The background is all a blur, but I can see outlines of a strange castle, with high peaks, but it is not a castle of my own… I hear a voice, but it is muffled, strange on my ears, and I hear parts of it, but they are words I do not understand… I turn around to answer, and there he is." She paused. "My angel…"
Her mothers' eyes widened, but she did not show her confused and scared expression outwards.
"His hair is dancing golden in the sunset, and his blue eyes are ever loving and hopeful. He calls my name softly, and I feel as if I would be the happiest person, if only to her my name again. Then, in the distance I see the insignia, flying freely on a flag atop the castle…" Kari's eyes looked down confused.
"What insignia, my daughter, you are not making sense."
Kari's eyes looked up, desperate despair shown in her crimson eyes. "Their insignia, Mother, the Ishida insignia." She sighs. "Then I open my mouth to say his name, and I wake up."
The Queen looked at her daughter, concerned. "Was this boy older, or younger than you?"
"He looked younger, mother, but last night, the dream did not finish there. I said his name…"
Her mothers eyes snapped up, looking fearfully into crimson eyes.
"Keru… I whispered it and it carried on the wind, like a broken sad song. But he smiled wistfully… before the dream faded out into nothingness."
"What does it mean? Mother? I don't understand!"
"Neither do I, my daughter, but I must talk to your brother now, hurry along so I may think upon it for a time."
"Yes mother"
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Takeru smiled, as he packed up his sleeping matt, breakfast and other belongings, putting the morning wake up fire out with some water he collected, humming as he did it. Davis glared at his best friend, he himself was half asleep, and had not yet accustomed to the early mornings that the scouts and small armies were so used to. He'd never been on a mission this big before. He was one of the Captains of the Takenouchi army, but they had never really been in a war zone before, never done anything like this, where they had to get up before the sun to have left 1hr after dawn.
"Someone's in a good mood," He mumbled.
Takeru just smiled at him, his blue eyes sparkling, "And someones in a grumpy mood," he retorted.
Yamato, who was packing up nearby, smiled, entering the conversation, "Both of us dreamed of our princesses, while you were obviously dreaming of oxen,"
"Lara ain't an oxen," he muttered, making Takeru and Yamato both chuckle, "I just ain't a morning person"
"Really?" Takeru laughed, "I hadn't noticed!"
"huh" Davis grunted, he strapped his belongings onto his horse, while Takeru mounted Hiro, turning him around to smile at his brother, who was mounting Kaiser.
"Shall we go?" Takeru asked, and Yamato nodded, and yelled out orders to the soldiers, whom mounted their horses and with Takeru and Yamato in the lead, they headed out.
They rode for around 2 hours without a break, and little trouble still being within the Ishida border, when they came to the edge of a forest.
Takeru looked around the clearing; it looked strangely familiar, like from a past memory.
Yamato nodded at Takeru, who gave the order, "We'll stop here! ½ hour breaks, then I want you all to report so that you understand what we are doing next," He shouted, and all the soldiers began to dismount their horses, tying them to stumps they put in the ground, or nearby trees, and sitting down for a rest.
The time passed quickly and soon the large amounts of soldiers were standing wherever they could hear their Prince.
Yamato stood up, and took a deep breath, and looked seriously around at all the warriors, "From now on, the dangerous part begins, its going to be hard, and many of us wont return, but I believe that we can make a difference."
"From the moment we enter the forest, I want you to be on guard, technically, half of the forest belongs to the Ishida realm, but the Kamiyans often disregard that rule and come into our part of the forest, so from the moment that we enter the forest, you have to be on guard. We will go in formation, Archers, I want you to surround us, report any dangers back to Takeru or Me."
He looked around a bit, Taking a deep breath before yelling, "Alright then lets move out!"
Matt looked at Takeru, nodding, and they set off once again.
It wasn't long before they were deep into the Kamiyan forest, and everybody was on edge. Every sound startled every soldier.
Takeru looked around, the only people not on edge were the scouts and himself.
"Matt!" he called out softly to his brother.
Yamato jerked around, giving his brother a glare. Takeru indicated that he needed to come next to him so that they could talk. Yamato muttered something to his captain, and turned his horse around so that he could walk next to his little brother, and second-in-command.
"Yes," he whispered.
"Matt, this is hopeless, everyone's on edge." Takeru stated the obvious.
"Well, I know that T.K, and there isn't much that we can do about it!"
Takeru nodded, "I think it would be best for all of us, if I took half of the scouts out to look around and check for dangers, if we stop for a rest now, I can get them into order, show them where we are camping so that they can scout properly."
Yamato didn't answer for a while.
"Matt?"
"I think its better that we don't split up," he said quickly, not looking into his little brothers eye.
Takeru rolled his eyes, raising his voice a little as he tried to reason with his brother, "But Matt! For all you know we could be surrounded by Kamiyan scouts just waiting to attack us when we make camp."
Matt sighed, he knew his little brother was right, but… "Then someone else can lead them."
He heard his brother scoff, and knew he'd said the wrong thing, "What, because I'm incompetent?"
Yamato glared at him, "No! Because you're my little brother!"
Takeru sighed impatiently, "Matt, it will be fine, we will all be back before sunset, and that's what, five hours?" The younger boy scoffed, "That's hardly a scout!"
Matt glared at the ground, "Fine…" he said, as T.K made to go, "But, Keru?"
Takeru turned around.
"Be careful,"
The younger boy broke into a smile, "You to Mato,"
Davis rode up, looking confused at Yamato.
Yamato didn't explain, "I hate being overprotective," he admitted, "But I hate letting him go more."
Davis sighed, understanding immediately, "Yeh, well someone's got to do it."
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Taichi looked up from where he was sitting at the table, as a knock was heard at the door.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Taichi? Its me," his mother said, opening the door, "May I come in?"
"Of course, mother," Tai smiled sincerely.
The Kamiayan Queen walked to the table and sat down, looking at Tai worriedly. He had become so much like his father, and she wasn't sure if that was a good thing.
"Did you talk to Kari?" Tai asked, with sincere concern for his sister.
His mother nodded, "Yes, that's actually what I wanted to speak to you about."
Tai look of concern turned immediately to apprehension, something that was noticed by his mother.
"Why?" he asked, "What's the matter?"
His mother sighed, "She's been having these dreams, and I was wondering if you knew anything about it," she looked at him, "Tai, you're the only one that knows what really happened to Hikari when she was gone, and lately I've been wondering if you haven't told us the whole truth."
Tai looked at the table, his conscience nagging at the back of his head.
"Tai?" his mother asked, "You can talk to me, I'm your mother,"
A loud knocking was suddenly heard from the other side of the room, Tai looked up at his mother guiltily before standing up and ordering the guards to open the door.
The Kamiyan Queen shook her head, sadly. That look had told her that everything she had suspected was true.
Two Kamiyan scouts hurried into the throne room, bowing slightly to their prince and inclining their head to the Queen.
Tai indicated that it was all right for the scouts to speak.
"My lord, we have received news that the Ishida army has been noticed approaching the clearing. We believe that is where they will be making camp."
Tai's head snapped up, "You have seen this?" he asked.
"Yes my lord," the other scout said, "I have seen it, I saw a massive army, heading South west earlier this morning."
Tai smiled, "Thankyou for your work, it will not go unrepaid."
They bowed again, waiting for their next orders.
Taichi turned around to see his sister enter, and walked up to her.
"It begins, little sister, are you ready?" he asked.
"Yes Tai, I am ready to serve Kamiya in whatever way she sees fit," Hikari whispered looking at the floor.
He smiled, "I love you Hika,"
"I love you too, Onii-chan," she said, flinching at the nickname.
He turned around, to face the scouts. "I want every single Kamiyan scout in triplets, and paired up with two Kamiyan Soldiers, to go and scout for them. Don't get too close to the army, I want them to come to us. We will annihilate all of the Ishida scouts, even before this war starts."
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The sun was low in the sky, as Takeru looked at his scouting partner, a boy his age named Madred. They had been on guard for the past four hours, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
They knew they were nearing the camp, and something just didn't feel right. There was an aura around the whole area, an aura of apprehension… of nervousness.
Takeru couldn't help thinking that the silence was too deadly, too quiet, like the calm before the storm.
Madred took in a deep breath, running his hand through his light brown hair. His chocolate eyes looked across at Takeru, "Something is wrong,"
Takeru nodded, the two boys hadn't spoken much throughout their scout, but had talked enough to be acquaintances. "Or is going to go wrong," he added. Madred nodded in agreement.
That was when all hell broke loose. First a scream was heard, and the sound of swords clashing, not far from where they were. Takeru nodded at Madred, and they both drew their swords, making their way to where they heard the noise.
They didn't get very far, before three scouts and two soldiers surrounded them. Before Takeru realised the predicament they were in, he had to give Tai points for the good combination of attack. It was definitely going to be hard to beat.
"Can't help your little friends now," one of them sneered, "You're ours."
Takeru smirked, getting into position, "Then what are you waiting for,"
The two of the scouts and a soldier glared at Takeru, lunging in at him. Madred was having enough trouble with just the scout and the soldier.
It wasn't long before Takeru realised they had no hope in hell of winning this fight, since they were fighting to injure, and the Kamiyans were going for the straight kill, to annihilate both of them.
A few seconds later Takeru heard a coughing sound, and spun around, Madred looked seriously injured, his dark brown eyes were frightened, and his fair hair was thick with blood. The soldier had taken advantage of him, and was holding his hair back, and had the sword along his throat.
"Surrender or your friend here dies," The soldier ordered.
Takeru narrowed his eyes, looking at the soldier, trying to see how far he could get with him. He put his hands out in a sign of defeat.
"Let him go," Takeru said warily.
They did, throwing Madred to the side, where he lay in an almost unconscious heap in the ground.
Takeru let his sword become loose in his hands, he knew it was over, he just hoped that someone would find Madred and help him. He had had a good run and injured most whom he was fighting with.
The sword hit the ground with a steel clatter as he raised his hands in defeat, watching them warily.
They pushed his head roughly down, and tied his hands behind his back.
Blood trickled down from his mouth, as they punched him in the stomach again and again; but he made no sign of pain, no sign that they were hurting him. If he couldn't keep his life he may as well keep his pride.
Punching him in the face, they raised his head, "Whats your name?" They asked.
"Why?" he croaked, hating how weak his voice sounded.
A scout laughed, "We like to know our victims names before we kill them, and no lies,"
A soldier laughed along with the scout, "Yeah, we know you're an Ishida soldier, Whats your name?"
Takeru smirked, "T.K," he said, "Takaishi."
They looked at him with contempt, Punching him across the face, "Don't lie, Ishida scum,"
Takeru's eyes darted noticing the youngest scout going through his belongings.
"Fine, you caught me," he said sarcastically, "Takeru Ishida,"
The soldier punched him again, splitting his lip, and coming close to Takeru, "You're a bit of an arrogant one aren't you. We. Said. No. Lies."
The scout going through his belongings stared at the sword, recognising the royal insignia immediately. "I don't think he's lying," he said.
All eyes were on the scout, and then they looked incredulously between one another. Amazed at their good luck.
Takeru flinched, saying between his split lip, "I suppose its too late to tell you my name's Davis Motomiya, right?"
They punched him again, before putting another longer rope around his hands, kicking him as they dragged him towards the castle.
"Thought so."
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Matt looked around the camp, the sun had already disappeared below the horizon almost an hour ago. Numerous fires had been set up all over their war camp, Davis was sitting at one such fire, staring into it with a worried look on his face, but every now and then would look up at the distressed Matt sympathetically.
The scout camp was supposed to come back over an hour ago, and only half of them had returned. Those that had returned were all either unconscious or seriously injured. His brother was not among those who were safe.
"Matt-" Davis started, feeling like he should do something to console his best friends older brother. The two brothers were extremely close.
"Don't even start Davis. My little brother is out there, possibly dead or captured. Don't even try."
Davis nodded, whispering softly, "It will be alright though," going back to his staring at the fire and sympathetic glances.
Matt sighed, sitting next to Daisuke. "I've got to go,"
"Where?" Davis asked.
Matt looked at him, "I'm going to the medical tent. I've got to know what happened.
Davis looked across his soldier at the massive medical tent. They were sitting at the fire closest to it.
"Sure."
Matt nodded, making his way to the tent, and entering in. The Medical Soldiers looked up at him, and led him to one of the first scouts that were brought in, knowing that he probably wanted to know what had gone on, and that this one had already been treated as best they could, and was the only one awake and able to speak.
Yamato knelt down next to a young scout, he was injured seriously, and coughing up blood as the doctors tried to help him.
Matts eyes clouded over, even though he had all those injuries, he was still the one most able to talk.
Matt knelt down next to him, a doctor nodded, "His names Madred, sir,"
Yamato nodded thanks, and whispered softly, "Madred, can you hear me?"
The young scout nodded, and Matt continued, "I'm going to need you to tell me what happened, can you do that?"
The boy nodded again, and took in a shaky breath, "They- they were everywhere," his voice was broken and he stopped to cough up blood every now and then.
Matt looked at the boy in incomprehension. His blue eyes dark with an inexplicable sadness.
"Who, who were everywhere?"
Madred paused, taking in another breat, "the scouts," he coughed, "Kamiyan, they were waiting, just waiting."
Matt looked down at the boy, he was around Takeru's age and tears started filling his eyes, he looked up at the doctor, "Heal this boy," he said, "Look after him, make sure he gets better."
With that he turned around and sat down on a nearby log. He knew what that meant. Takeru had saved them all…
With that he walked as fast as he could out of the tent, away from all the death, the screams, the blood. He sat down on the log. He heard something next to him, and knew it was Davis. He could feel his little brothers' best friends' eyes on him, and took in a shaky breath.
"I hate it when he's right." He whispered, "I really do."
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Takeru glared at the soldier who was handling him with no amount of care. He had been dragged for quite a while now, and the sun was disappearing underneath the horizon. Matt was not going to be pleased.
They kicked him with remorse, before leading him into a large room that looked alike to the throne room at home.
Hikari was sitting down as the soldiers entered the room. "My Princess," they called, "Look what we captured,"
She looked up in mild interest, as they pushed forward a body. His face was beaten up, actually his whole body seemed to be a beaten mess. There was bright blood around his wrists where the rope had been tied too tight and had chaffed. His hands were covered with dark red dried blood.
She could see his blood streaked blond hair, they raised his head and he tried to pull himself away from their cruel hands, but she could see his eyes and right into his soul. Bright blue sapphires full of hope, love, and regret. They etched right into her heart as if searching for something that she would give if she knew what he wanted. She didn't know anyone could read her soul that easily.
Gasping, she realised something, this boy looked exactly like her angel.
The guards mistook it and beat him down, kicking him. "Don't you dare look at the princess like that, you Ishida trash" They warned ferociously.
One of the Scouts bowed briefly, "We await your orders, My Princess"
"Who is he?" she asked, confused, her head spinning. She felt as if she knew him. At these words, the boys head snapped up, the hope that had etched into her heart was gone.
"What do you mean?" A soldier scoffed, "It is an Ishida; the youngest Ishida spawn." He gave Takeru a kick.
Takeru retorted with a deadly glare.
Hikari instantly recoiled. This was their major enemy?
She gave him a look of total disgust, "I couldn't care less what you do to him," she said, "Take him to the dungeons, I'll tell Taichi of what you've done."
"Yes, My lady," They said, dragging and kicking the youngest prince down then stairs. The last thing the princess saw were the bright blue eyes that seemed to pierce her soul.
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to be continued
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A/NHappy Summer Holidays! Merry Christmas!
This chapter was finished in record time (although time between chapters doesn't really show it) but I finished this chapter in about 3 or 4 hours! Most was written today.
Yes. I've been planning this for a long time. Yes you can send virtual bombs (although the next chapter wont be put up sooner). Yes. I am evil. Yes, I am sorry. No. I wont be rewriting the chapter. No. Takeru will not get out of this easily.
There we go! Hopefully that cleared up quite a few questions!
It was such a relief to write that… it's been nagging on my brain since the third chapter.
Important NoticeWe had to give in our laptops 9 days ago, which means I have no means of updating my stories. Sorry! I think I'll be leasing another laptop in late January, but until then… yeh… its going to be hard to update. I'll finish writing the story during hols though. Updates will return on regular basis on the 4th February.
I'm really sorry.
Another Important NoticeI've finished a mini story on Joyous heartache, its just one chapter long and all about Tai, Yama and Sors friendship when they were kids. Anyway, do you want me to put it up?
Thanks! Reviews would be much appreciated
Don't kill me too much! (save that for next chappie! jk)
Love,
Em
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1:26pm) Thursday 9th of December 2004