FireSamurai: Hello and welcome to the 2nd chapter of this (hopefully) great story. I would like to thank my only reviewer at this moment, Sakuyamon1. I was doubting if anyone was going to review at all but I would like to thank you for encouraging me to continuing to write this story. So thank you again. Here is a nice lengthly chapter for all who is reading this.
Disclaimer: I only own the red fox, I don't own the robed digimon nor any other digimon from the show.
Chapter 2 Light at Midnight
Mikomi sighed for about the tenth time in a row as she watched Areku's sleeping form. It had been a few hours since the events on the roof but now they are in the nurse's office, watching over Areku who was in a somewhat deep sleep. She looked over to Ayami who had a worried look on her face as she too watched over her sibling. Both girls were sitting on either side of the bed, both scared and concerned about what happened. She sighed again as she recalled the events that had occurred.
Flash Back
"Areku!" She and Ayami yelled as the strong wind blew them off the school roof. As they started to fall, She felt a strong arm wrap around her. She looked to see, to her surprise, that it was Areku but he had two angel wings on his back and his eyes were glowing an eerie white. She looked down to notice that he was flying them back up to the rooftop. Landing softly, he let go of both her and Ayami then turned around to face the demon.
"Well demon," Areku started, his voice was much deeper and older then his normal voice, "You said you wanted to kill me now, so take your best shot." With that last line a smile appeared on Areku's face. The demon just let out another skin chilling laugh.
"It seems you have a death wish," His wings then folded and he raised a gloved hand. "Evil Inferno!" a black and blue flame blasted out of the gloved hand heading straight toward Areku. He just raised a hand and the a white barrier formed around him, the girls and the fox. The demon hadn't given up though. He just increased the power of his attack but the attack still did not effect the barrier at all.
"Alright, enough games." From what Mikomi saw, it appeared that Areku focused his energy into seven glowing balls while still maintaining his barrier, which surprised both her, Ayami and the kitsune. When the glowing balls were finished, they shot forwarded toward the demon. When they came in contact, a explosion occurred and when the smoke cleared, the demon was nowhere to be found.
"Mark my words, I will be back." Was the last thing the four heard of him.
"And I will be waiting." Areku answered back. For a few moments, no one moved or spoke. Finally, Mikomi took a step forward.
"Areku?" The white winged figure turned around and looked at Mikomi and Ayami.
"Are you two ok?" Both Mikomi and Ayami nodded. He then walked over to the fox. He looked her over, seeing that she had a few scrapes from fighting the demon. He placed a hand on the fox's shoulder and she started to glow white for a few moments before Areku took his hand and the light disappeared. When the light did disappear, both Mikomi and Ayami saw that all her wounds and scrapes were healed. The kitsune went wide-eyed at this and looked back at Areku.
"I am grateful for your healing." She sighed.
After healing the kitsune, he turned to face his friends and with a warm smile, his body glowed a bright light and he was back to normal. No wings and his eyes were their normal red again. With one final smile, he fell forward onto the school roof.
"Areku!"
End Flash Back
After that, they took him to the nurse's office where he has been sleeping even now when school has ended. Ayami called their father and told him that Areku had fainted but he hasn't showed up yet and to her surprise the fox hadn't disappeared yet. The nurse was to scared of seeing the kitsune that she didn't say anything when they brought Areku in.
'Speaking of which...' She turned to her right to see the kitsune standing against the wall. She and Ayami tried to question her as to what was going on but she would either not answer them or answer with "The information I have is only meant for him and him alone." As she was about to talk to the fox again, the door opened and a student walked in, a student that neither she nor Ayami particularly liked. He was about five foot six and a half inches with short platinum blond hair and ice blue eyes. He wore a black t-shirt under a navy blue button up t-shirt and a navy blue jeans. He walked in, took a look at the kitsune, looked at Areku, took a chair and sat at the end of the bed. No one said anything.
"How long has he been like this?" He asked. No one spoke. For a few moments, no one answered him.
"He has been like this since the time that you humans call Lunch." The red kitsune answered. The student looked toward the kitsune then back to Areku.
"I am guessing that the red fox face over there had something to do with it." Not even a nod from either Mikomi nor Ayami. The student didn't really like the silent treatment but he was use to it.
"I will take that as a yes then."
"What are you doing here Rei?" Ayami asked. This person was Reikou Fushin or Rei for short. He was known as the bad ass punk around school. He was usually seen in fights. He was really a good guy but because of his rep around school people stood away from him except for one person and that one person wasn't awake at this moment. His family was one of the riches families in Japan but that wasn't what people didn't like about him. It was the way that they got rich that gave Rei the bad image. That didn't stop Areku though. He had known Areku since elementary school and they had been friends ever since they met but because of his family background, people didn't really trust him nor like him. Needless to say, Mikomi and Ayami don't like him that much.
"I am as concerned about Areku as much as you are and I want to help. I heard rumors of what happened on the rooftop. Now is anyone going to tell me want happened?"
"Well, it first started at lunch when this robed freak-"
"Mikomi!"
"We are going to need help on this one Ayami. If that thing is going to come back any time soon, I don't think Areku nor the red fox can protect us again."
"Hey, what's with all the yelling?" All four pairs of eyes went to bed to see two red eyes looking back at them.
"Areku!" The three students said at once. Ayami and Mikomi immediately hugged the life out of him as the kitsune and Rei just smiled at seeing him awake.
"Guys...can't...breath..." When this was said, the girls stopped hugging him seeing that his face was turning blue.
"What am I doing here?" Areku asked after regaining his breath. Ayami and Mikomi, as well as the kitsune, were shocked at hearing this.
"You mean you don't remember what happened?" Ayami asked, a worried look on her face. Areku shook his head.
"The last thing I remember was seeing you two falling off the roof and then I caught both of you. I remember trying to save both of you then it's a blank." Ayami and Mikomi looked at each other with worried faces, wondering if they should tell him or not.
"Well? Is someone going to tell me what happened?" Areku questioned.
"Well after we started to fall..." Ayami started, Mikomi sometimes adding to the story. Needless to say, both Areku and Rei were awestruck.
"Your saying I became a angel?" Areku asked, reconfirming this information. Ayami and Mikomi both nodded. Areku looked toward Rei and both started to laugh their heads off.
"Him? An angel? Hahahahaha, man that is rich." Rei laughed.
"Yeah. Me? An angel? Hahahahaha." Areku added.
"Your not far from the truth." All eyes were now on the red fox. This made Areku and Rei shut up.
"What do you mean by your not far from the truth?" Areku asked. The kitsune then got up from the wall.
"We can not speak of it hear. You never know who is listening." Areku nodded and tried to get up. Unfortunately he didn't have all his strength back and almost fell forward but Rei caught him just in time.
"Thanks man." Areku grinned. This caused a huff of disapproval from both Ayami and Mikomi.
"Where to?" Rei asked.
"Our house I guess." Areku answered. Rei nodded and they headed for the door. At this point, Ayami was fuming at her brother for having Rei come over to their house, Mikomi wasn't happy but she didn't say anything and the kitsune just said nothing as they headed out of the school and towards the Kurameru house hold, the sun setting in the background. People gave them weird glances but anyone would when you are walking down the street with a red fox behind you. Before long they reached the door to Ayami and Areku's house. To their surprise a little girl was sitting on the steps in front of the house. She was about four foot five with sky blue hair that went down to about mid back and hazel eyes. She wore a long sleeved yellow shirt with a forest green skirt. She smiled when she saw the four high school students but then frowned when she saw Areku. She bolted straight up and ran toward him when she saw them coming.
"Areku! What happened?" She asked. She then turned to Rei. "Did you do this to him?" She asked angrily, her fists up ready to deck the guy. Rei could only frown at seeing this.
"No Sora (A/N: has nothing to do with the Sora from season one!), Rei didn't do anything this time." Ayami said. Sora Amatsu was a ten year old little girl from their neighborhood that the four students baby-sat after school and when her mom was out of town or at work. Her father was a pilot and died in a plane crash leaving her and her mother alone. Seeing that Miss Amatsu needed help, Ayami and Areku volunteered to watch after Sora while she was away. Every once and a while Mikomi and Rei would help and because of what Mikomi and Ayami said about Rei, Sora didn't like him much.
"Care to help us get him inside Sora?" Mikomi smiled. Sora nodded, she was to concerned for her friend that she didn't notice the red fox behind them, and quickly opened the door. The six quickly went into the two story house. The downstairs had a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom while the upstairs had three bedrooms and a bathroom. When they were heading up the stairs, when a voice from the living room stopped them.
"Is that you Ayami and Areku?" a gruff voice said. A man, about five foot ten with light brown hair and storm gray eyes came out of the living room. He wore a plain white button up shirt with black pants. All of them stopped as the looked at him. This was Mr. Kurameru. He raised Areku and Ayami since they were babies but he was always harder on Areku more then he was on Ayami for some reason.
"I see you have friends here. Ayami take your friends into the living room. Areku start making dinner." he said in a gruff voice and with that, he walked upstairs passed the students. When he walked past the red fox, he looked at her for a moment then continued upstairs.
"What's his deal? He excepts Areku to make dinner after he just fainted?" Rei growled.
"Its fine Rei. Just help me get to the kitchen ok?" Areku said. Rei only nodded and they headed toward the kitchen as Ayami, Mikomi, Sora and the fox headed toward the living room. Before long, Areku was walking on his own but Rei still helped him with dinner. Meanwhile in the living room, Ayami and Mikomi were explaining to Sora what happened. After finishing, Sora looked over to the red kitsune in awe.
"So you helped save Areku?" The fox only nodded. Before she could ask anymore questions Areku called everyone for dinner. During dinner, everyone was quiet. After dinner, everyone headed upstairs toward Areku's room. It wasn't a particularly big room so everyone kind of had to squeeze in. Sora and Mikomi sat on the bed, Rei and Areku sat against the door, Ayami sat on the computer chair and the kitsune sat on the window still. The silence was thick, thicker than pea soup.
"So I guess first things first. Who are you?" Areku asked.
"More like what are you..."Ayami mumbled. This caused Areku to kick his sister in the leg. The kitsune only chuckled at the sibling antics but she didn't answer. Everyone looked at each other confused.
"Something wrong?" Areku asked.
"I am only allowed to give the information to you and you alone. These other humans are not allowed to hear." She answered.
"Its fine. I am sure the others won't tell anyone, right?" Everyone nodded in agreement. The kitsune just sighed.
"My name is Pyrarenamon and I am a digimon." She answered.
"So Pyrarenamon, what exactly is a digimon?" Rei asked.
"A digimon is a digital monster." Pyrarenamon answered.
"Digital monster? You mean you are made from like computer data and stuff?" Mikomi asked.
"Something like that." She answered.
"Was that robed freak a digimon as well?" Ayami asked. Pyrarenamon grimly nodded.
"Yes, his name is Daemon. He is the greatest evil in the digital world. His armies have taken over some of it already. It is my job to bring back the angelic knights to help defend and resort what is left of the digital world." She said.
"And one of these angelic knights is suppose to be Areku?" Sora asked.
"Yes, Areku was destined to be one of the angelic knights that is suppose to bring the digital world back to order from the chaos that Daemon has caused." Pyrarenamon nodded.
"Now this digital world of yours, can we assume that there are more digimon like you there?" Rei asked.
"Maybe not exactly like me but there are good and bad digimon there." She answered.
"What is an angelic knight exactly?" Areku asked.
"A angelic knight is a human and digimon partner chosen by the angel king and queen of the digital world to help bring it back from the brink of destruction." She answered.
"So you are saying that I am one of the angelic knights meant to save this digital world, am I right?" Areku asked after hours of talking and pacing back and forth in the room. Pyrarenamon nodded to this.
"And that I am suppose to go to this digital world, find my digimon partner and defeat this Daemon alone?" Areku continued.
"Course you won't be alone. I am coming with you." Rei said as he got up and patted Areku on the back. All eyes were on Rei.
"What? I am not going to let my best bud go into the unknown alone." He said in a matter-a-fact tone.
"I am going to. I am not going to let anything happen to my little bro." Ayami added.
"I am going as well. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't." Mikomi said. Sora walked up to Areku and pulled on his sleeve.
"Can I come to Areku? I promise to be really careful." She asked. Areku could only smile at this and bent down toward her eyelevel.
"Sure but you better listen to us and stay close ok?" Sora only nodded and tackled him into a hug. Areku could only smile at this.
"Thanks guys for having my back." He turned to Pyrarenamon. "When do we leave?"
"Your not leaving at all." The door slammed open to see Mr. Kurameru in the doorway.
"But dad, Pyrarenamon needs our-"
"I don't want to hear it! Now, seeing how late it is, I want all of you to call your parents and tell them you are staying here for the night then I will drive all of you home in the morning. Is that clear? After that is done, Areku I want to speak to you down stairs." All of them nodded as Mr. Kurameru left for his room. Grumbling, Rei, Mikomi and Sora called their parents telling them that they would be staying overnight. The three had stayed over so many times that they had spare clothes there. After that, they saw Areku going down stairs. Unknown to him, however, the other five were right behind him. The five looked inside to see Areku standing against one side of the room and Mr. Kurameru was sitting in his reclining chair, a bottle of beer in on of his hands. They didn't say anything for a few moments but as Areku was about to say something, his father cut him off.
"What is a digimon doing here?"
"You know what a digimon is?" Areku asked surprised.
"Just answer my question!" He yelled, slamming his fist on the chair arm. Areku started to explain what happened. When he was finished, he was slightly surprised that he wasn't shocked at hearing all this.
"Is that all?" Areku only nodded to this.
"I see. Ayami is not going nor are any of the others. I don't want them harmed nor in a dangerous land with a monsters like you." Mr. Kurameru finally finished. Needless to say, all of them were shocked. Areku only looked down at the ground after hearing this.
"Pyrarenamon, I know you are there. Come on out." In a moment, Pyrarenamon was standing right next to Areku. It took a moment for Areku to stop freaking out from Pyrarenamon's sudden entrance.
"I am assuming you are taking Areku back with you?" He asked. Pyrarenamon nodded at this.
"I see. The digital world must be in real danger then if a digimon is here." He continued. Areku started to head out of the room, Pyrarenamon was right behind him.
"Where are you going?" Areku took a breath and turned around to face his father.
"I am going to get ready to go with Pyrarenamon. I am sure she can protect us and if she can't, I'll..." He looked down at his shaking fist.
"You'll what! Turn into a monster and save everyone again!" He yelled. He turned around and started to head out the room again.
"Can't answer me monster!" Mr. Kurameru yelled. This caused Areku to stop. He turned his head slightly, looking back at his father.
"It appears to me that you are the monster here, not I." That answer caused Mr. Kurameru to get so angry that he threw his beer bottle right pass Areku's shoulder and straight onto the way. The four students were shocked that he would throw something at Areku but more shocking was that Areku didn't even flinch.
"How dare you show such disrespect to the person who raised you since you were a baby?" Mr. Kurameru yelled. Pyrarenamon, who had been silent up till now, was growling and she charged Mr. Kurameru, grabbing him by the shirt and pushing him up against the wall.
"How dare YOU try and harm him? Was it not your job to watch over him? I can't believe that you were the one she asked to watch him. I have seen you harm him all his life and I will not stand by and let you harm him anymore! Prepare to -"
"Stop Pyrarenamon." She looked back to see that Areku was the one that called her.
"Areku?"
"He may have treated me badly all my life," He started, placing a hand on his chest where underneath his clothes was a scar that his father gave him during a belt whipping. "But he is still is my father. Let him down." Pyrarenamon looked right into Areku eyes, nodded and let him down not so gently. After that, she gave one last huff before she left the room. Areku sighed as he looked back at his father who had a terrified look on his face.
"I am sorry dad." Areku bowed and left after Pyrarenamon. He walked straight pass the other four who were speechless after seeing what happened. He walked straight upstairs into his room were Pyrarenamon was waiting.
"You were brave back there." She said.
"Thank you, Pyra." Areku blushed.
"Pyra?"
"Short for Pyrarenamon."
"Ah I see." She said.
"Glad you like it." He sighed as he sat next to her on his bed, flopping on his back. They sat in silence for a few moments.
"Are you scared?." She asked.
"I would be lying if I told you I wasn't." He laughed. Pyrarenamon only smiled at this.
"You know, before I even knew you, I was waiting for someone." Pyrarenamon started. This caused Areku to lean up.
"Oh?"
"Yeah," She leaded against the wall, pulling her legs up to her chest. "Ever since I hatched from a digiegg, I was always waiting for someone. Always looking toward the sky, waiting on top of the hill for that someone. Then when I digivolved to this form, the great angel king and queen gave me a special orb that let me gaze into the human world because they said the person I was waiting for was there. You know what the first thing I saw was?"
"Me?" Areku answered. Pyrarenamon nodded.
"I knew since the first moment I saw you as a baby that you were the one I was waiting for. When they asked me again to come to the real world to guard you, I was ecstatic." Areku could only chuckle at hearing this. Pyrarenamon could only frown at hearing him laugh.
"What's so funny?" She frowned.
"All this." This earned him a confused look from Pyrarenamon. "What I mean is by you coming here and all this happening. Now we have to go off to some land I that I am scared shitless of and we have to find the other angelic knights plus their partners and mine. I am probably going to die in the process which is just a great thought." Areku could only laugh at all his worrying.
"You shouldn't worry about it." She said then added in a whisper "I will protect you no matter what." At hearing this, something started to glow in Areku's pocket. He took out the glowing object to find a digital watch with a red band with black wings on it. There was also two buttons under the screen.
"What is this?" a confused Areku said but it seemed Pyrarenamon was very interested at seeing this.
"Its your D-Wings, but it should only appear when..." Her face then lit up and she hugged Areku tightly.
"Pyra..."
"What is it?" She asked while still hugging.
"Can't...breath..." She let going seeing that his face was turning blue. She grinned sheepishly as he regained his breath.
"Now," Areku started after regaining his breath, "What is this exactly?" He asked, pointing at the watch.
"It's your D-Wings. It's a device that signifies that you are a angelic knight. It only appears when you find your digimon partner."
"Ok, so who is my partner?"
"Me!" It took a minute for this to process in his mind before he finally gave her a big grin. He gave her a big hug, took the both off the bed and danced around the room. After a few moments he let go and tried to get his breath back.
"This is great. Now all we have to do is find the others right?" Pyra nodded to Areku's question. At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
"Its Rei." Areku opened the door to see that it was Rei standing there.
"What's up Rei?"
"We're ready to head out." both Areku and Pyrarenamon could only raise an eyebrow to this.
"Just come on." Rei said as he headed downstairs. Placing the D-Wing on his wrist, he and Pyrarenamon looked down stairs to see the four waiting to go. It appeared that they had packed what food they could and anything else that seemed to be useful.
"Guys?" Areku asked as he stood at the base of the stairway.
"We told you before Areku. We are not letting you go alone." Mikomi said.
"Yeah, and if Daemon wants to get you again he will have to get through us." Rei added with a grin.
"Lets go!" Little Sora said as she headed out the door.
"Hey wait for us!" Mikomi yelled heading after her.
"I better keep an eye on them." Rei said as he started to follow them. As Areku and Pyrarenamon were about to head out the door, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see it was Ayami, her face in a frown.
"What's wrong Ayami?" He said with a somewhat cheery yet concerned tone.
"It's just what..."
"What?" She then ran into her brother's arms, crying.
"Dad is wrong. You are not a monster. In fact, if anything, your a angel." She said through her sobs.
"Pyra, please go see that the others are safe please?" Pyrarenamon nodded and she phased out. Areku returned his attention back to his twin, rubbing her back to sooth her. He always did this when ever she was scared of something and it usually worked.
"Is that what you're upset about?" He asked. She then stepped back, wiping her tears away.
"Well, yes, sort of." She sniffed. "I am just afraid that you would turn into a monster like that Daemon we saw. I am really scared Areku." She sniffed. Areku stepped forward, embracing her into a hug.
"Its ok, Ayami. I am not going to turn into a monster like Daemon. You know how I know?" He asked. She shook her head no.
"Because I know that you won't let me and neither would Pyra or Mikomi or Rei or little Sora. So you have nothing to worry about." He then broke the hug, that she had stopped crying.
"Come on, the others are waiting." He said with one of his cheesy grins. This caused Ayami to start giggling and soon they were out the door.
The cool night air hit their faces as they walked toward the place were Pyrarenamon first came into the real world. The five humans and one digimon were heading to Odiaba park. It was a great park with trees and a small lake in the middle. The five sometimes hang out here after school or when they baby-sat Sora. It wasn't long before the six were standing on the bridge on the lake.
"So what are we suppose to do now?" Ayami said. Everyone looked toward Pyrarenamon.
"I believe Areku can open up a doorway with his D-Wing."
"And how am I suppose to do that?"
"I believe all you have to do is hit one of the buttons on it." Pyrarenamon answered. Areku looked at his D-Wing and pressed one of the buttons under the screen. This caused a beam to shoot out of the screen straight toward the sky. The beam then started to open a white hole in the sky.
"I am guessing that's the gate way." Rei asked.
"Yes, and I won't let any of you get through it." All of them turned their attention to the end of the bridge to see Daemon standing there.
"Quick! Everyone into the gateway!" Areku yelled. Sora jumped into the gate first, then Mikomi.
"Evil Inferno!" A blast a black flames shot toward the small group. Pyra jumped in front of the blasted.
"Pyra!" Areku yelled as Rei jumped in.
"I'm fine just make sure everyone gets in safety!" Pyrarenamon yelled as Ayami jumped in.
"Come on! We're the last ones!" Areku yelled. Pyrarenamon nodded and she let loose a Firestorm. When she landed, she grabbed Areku and jumped into the portal.
"No!" Daemon dashed forwarded to get to the portal but it closed just as he was in reach. He pounded the stone bridge, making a crack in it.
"I will get you angelic knight. Mark my words." With that he shot a black beam into the air, opening a gateway and flew in.
FireSamurai: (in tears) I believe that this is a very emotional chapter. I mean with the father and Pyra and the sister and well you get the idea. There is a reason why Areku has wings which will be explained later in the story, saying if people still want me to write it. I think the reason will surprise all of you. If you are wondering why I picked Sora (or Rei's) names, this is what they mean.
Reikou Fushin - Reikou (cold light) Fushin (disloyal). So if I was doing this true Japanese name style (meaning last name comes first), his name would mean disloyal cold light.
Sora Amatsu - Sora (sky) Amatsu (heavenly). True Japanese style meaning: heavenly sky. Thought that sounded pretty.
Anyway:
Next Chapter: Chapter 3 Blaze Kick! High Kicking with Taojinmon!
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