Hmm... seems things are finally heating up. I know some of you have truly missed the Takouji parts, which plays a truly big part in this story even if I am a lousy author describing them. Poor guys, heh? I am not giving them any time to catch their breaths. It's action upon action.
And if anyone has heard about the Digimon Savers really airing in Japan right now, lucky guys, then no, none of the Savers characters will appear in this. Too early yet for any appearance. Even though I have found a Digimon from Savers I truly adored, yet i don't know it's name yet.
Hopefully the updates don't seem too slow. It's just lately i suddenly got stuck on Naruto, and even though if there will ever be something written in that category, they will be way shorter then this! I've been doing too many long stories lately!
Oh, and something i found out the other day. Browsing through Internet and such, Aquila means eagle in Latin. It freaked me out, but sounds reasonable thinking me out. And I've been using it for ages. Oh well, didn't think about eagles when i started writing about em.
The intro of this chapter is taken 200 years back in time, at one of many councils with the Royal Knights. That's why there are really so many dialogues this time, since Aquilas, who wrote this down, are pretty good at documenting down everything that is said.
Oh, and the first uhm, Digimon partner name will enter. I have finally found, apart from the Royal Knights, a place to put a name. Only, well... you'll see...
Just don't hate me.
Shitza
PS: Since there is a lot of facts, that are essential to this story, they are labelled IN... You will find these in some places, take them as short facts to make you understand stuff.
PPS: Don't flame me for making short and quick scenes. I am trying to turn up the temperature here. Things will get pretty much dangerous and many will get hurt. (ducks rotten eggs and tomatoes). Hey, it's just a story, right?I mean, i don't own Digimon and thank God for that.
I know it will be hard though to know what is going on.
Chapter 17
The War Begins
Livia 4th.
I am witnessing a lively conversation between the thirteen knights. Darkness must really be dark to make such glorious creature have discussions that echo around the clouds. Truly, with their armour and weapons, our Thirteen Royal Knights are honourable.
Something has occurred to the Magical World we live in, Nemorisa. Something that has made the Knights sweat blood. The floor is covered in red sweat, making this look like a War-scene instead of a council. They must be hasty, or this world we all love, will fall.
"Time is against us!" Alpha, the strongest and most heroic of them said. Not before long, the darkness will once more be upon us."
"And we cannot do anything to stop it." Omega said. The Light brother of Alpha. In a few weeks Nemorisa will be gone, and here we are trapped to guard an even fouler evil."
"What do you suggest we do?" Lord Knight, asked. A flower held in his hand. "I am actually quite relieved that we cannot do anything, or my armour would get dirty."
"My Dear Lord Knight, if everyone is Nemorisa would think like you then this world would probably not even face danger any more, because we would most likely have been destroyed since long! We have to fight, somehow!" Magna said, growling.
"Calm down, there is truly no reason to fight between each other." Duke said.
The eleven other knights nodded, even though Lord Knight (no one knew his real name) looked quite upset still about the others behaviour towards him. Yet, he knew as well something had to be done, and the Knights knew that all his comments were what remained of his old nature.
"So, any ideas at all?" asked Craniu. Ultforce Veedra simply sighed.
"Well... we could... I don't know... wait a minute..." Sleip began. "Someone's missing. Where's Crusader?"
"Hasn't anyone seen him?" The twelfth knight asked.
Tension builds between the Knights, so beautifully. Crusader is missing and they go searching for him. But like the old saying (IN: An Nemorisian proverb) Never be the mouse near the cat, if you don't want to be scratched... Literally meaning don't go looking for the obvious, and a Knight was always obvious.
Crusader turned up before they had time to blink, with him a blind hag as you should call it. But really she was a banshee, close to her death. Now, you probably don't think banshees can be killed, which is true. But they can be exterminated to another world. But before she would be forced to leave, she had something she wanted to tell the knights. About two twins, one dark and one light. Two twins, identical at the first sight. One twin, killed the other half alive. One twin Yin, the other Yang.
About the Warriors that would come, to save them. About the warriors now all living in the worlds.
And about terror that had started to rise, about darkness that grew. About deaths that came like storms.
"So, it is beginning!" Alpha said, looking down.
"Then this must be a sign we are looking for, a solution." Omega agreed.
"Royal Knights, we sure have a lot to prepare."
"All our hopes lies upon the six elements of darkness, fire, wind, thunder, ice and light."
Ken could truly feel the presence of darkness, he remembered back when this kind of darkness had dominated his thoughts. The young kitsune growled, staying close to his Dragon. Daisuke looked quite puzzled at first, until he too could sense it. The sea swayed below them.
Kouji stood on a rock, gazing over the red sea. The mermaids that had survived had fled to the rivers towards the Shapeshifters' land. He knew things were getting far more the serious. Chaotic...
During the time he had been gone, and the time they had been travelling, the dark forces had raised their armies in caves close to the prison the Demons stayed within... and it had been a surprise for them all to have the first attack at sea. Right now they borrowed the ships the Shapeshifters used to battle, captained by none other then Takato and Jenrya who had led his clan to fight, accompanied by some of the Dragons Daisuke commanded over. The dragon lead his warriors to a fight he hoped could have been prevented. Normally he would not say no to a fight, but he didn't like slaughtering like this. Mermaid's and Dragons were partly good friends, at least friends enough not to fight. Instead Mermaids tended to lure you down to the sea, but even though they did that to almost all kinds of creatures.
The wind came as a soft breeze, it hardly gave you any clues of that only hours ago hundreds of creatures had been killed, below their feet. Daisuke sighed, feeling unusually alone not to have Ken by his side. He looked back towards the shore, where he knew someone waited for him and sighed once more.
The ships continued sailing, not encountering any enemies for long. Feeling uneasy, Jenrya wrapped his arms around Takato. It had been long since the two of them had been together, last time they really had some time together, when was that? Neither Shapeshifters or kitsunes were fabulous creatures or popular in this strange world, and it had set its mark. And resulted in weird ways.
Takato leaned at his boyfriend's shoulder. Life seemed cruel to everyone who had found someone. He had known people, who had lost their lives in various ways because of love. Sometimes he wondered what would happen to him and Jen. He could remember only a few years back, he had a partner in crime, Guil as he was called (IN:no one knew his real name). The two of them had been the best of friends, and best of thieves stealing bread and cakes from the Royal Kitchen. It had been happy days, until... well...
Takato could never forgive them. Guil had been a good boy, his yellow lizard like eyes and flaming red eyes gave him an appearance of being something truly unique. But even though they all knew that this world was dangerous, even danger had to have a limit. Unfortunately Guil was caught at it in full power.
Takato hadn't been there to witness, only heard the news from the team Guil was set to lead. Their leader had been like many other unlucky killed by Schakal, who had eaten his soul.
He knew he wasn't alone having close ones killed by this THING.
Flashback
Takato sat b the water, looking sadly down at the murky water. This was the day, the day he stayed alone to honour a great soul. A soul that probably had never reached either heaven or hell. In his hand lay an piece of dirty cloth, ripped from a shirt. On his lap lay a shirt, dirty of sand and dust, it too had a piece of cloth ripped from it, yet not the same piece.
Once in his life, he and Guil had promised to be brothers, and had given the other one a piece of cloth, ripped from their shirts. As an oath to always stay by the others side. But when Guil had been killed, this was broken so fiercely. Such a close friendship, ripped in two.
Suddenly he heard footsteps, in his stupid mind he could simply imagine Guil walking up to him, saying: "I'm hungry. Let's go down to the kitchen for some food!"
Takato, what are you doing here?" Izumi of the Wind asked (IN: a Title that had appeared due to their most featured powers, well obvious, isn't it?)
Takato sulked, his heart still hoped that Guil would appear again.
"Nothing" he said sadly.
The Aquila sat down beside him, her wings had only a few minutes ago been waxed and treated. Her hair was braided and she wore a white dress, that reached to her ankles. If Takato hadn't been in love with Jenrya had sworn his heart to him (IN: Kitsunes have a different way of mating then vampires. They share hearts, normally set during full moon where the moon can mark their oaths. The moon inflicts a lot around the kitsune, as well as for werewolves.)
Though, he could add she didn't look like any royal princess anymore, and he wouldn't say no to have a queen like her.
That day he found out a lot about the Warriors. Izumi was nice and could dry his tears, and some of his sorrow. She managed to cheer him up. It seemed that she had lost someone precious as well. It seemed as if everyone of the Warriors had lost someone precious to them. He was amazed by that Schakal had killed both hers and Tomoki's family members, the Umbra had been the one responsible for turning Kouichi to a ghost, and that Takuya would have to fight his own brother, if he wanted to save this world.
It seemed as if even the heroes had problems, and that wasn't what he had believed in. Yet, it didn't seem as if they wept themselves every years because of that. Maybe the difference of being a true Warrior and a coward was hope...
It had been a useful lesson for him, and he promised himself not to cry. Guil would not want him to cry, and so he wouldn't. Not until they met again...
End Flashback
Yes, he wanted to be strong. He couldn't think about loosing Jenrya, not after having lost Guil he didn't want to loose any more.
He smiled, believing in a future. A future that once had seemed so distant to him.
It was all quiet. People all around her kept quiet. It was too quiet, she felt so uneasy. And worst of all.
Flashback
Her mother sat at the end of the table, silently watching her. She felt so uneasy thinking about the War.
"Izumi!" she said, staring at her in her eyes.
"Yes mother!" she answered.
"I don't want you to participate in this War. You are my only child, I am worried that anything will happen to you."
She dropped the glass of wine she was holding. "What? But why?"
"You are the future Queen, and if you die so does the whole Mountain with you. They will need you."
"But..."
Yet it was the end of discussion. Her mother left her and she was alone.
End Flashback
What should she do? She didn't want to betray her friends, and yet her mother was right. She knew, out of history that once when the Royal Family had been killed, the mountain almost destroyed itself. When her family was put on the leading role it stopped, but if she died. Who knew what would happen.
What would the others say? Takuya, the overconfident dragon would probably think it wasn't a possibility for any of them to die. Yet, he hadn't been able to predict that his own brother sought after his death. Kouji, perhaps would think along the same thoughts, yet Kouji was a mystery for her. Kouichi, he probably would believe she could become a ghost like him. But if she would be a ghost the results would be the same. Junpei, Junpei who almost died trying to save them.
Yet Tomoki's voice reached her thoughts. He thought it was his responsibility to live for the ones he cared about, and that was exactly what she would do. She would fight, and she would live for her people.
Hurrying she went to take off the stupid satin blue dress she wore, and sneaked to find a suitable armour for herself. Her mother had taken a late nap, and she would leave a note telling her about what she would do. Her mother might curse her but she knew, she had to live on for everyone that depended on her.
Outside the sky was coloured red of fire. Screams could be heard from all kinds of creatures who died.
Yep, it was now or never. It was now or never for the wind to rise.
Hikari was in shock. Never before had the Healing house been this full, and now only the ones who had a chance of survival was brought in. The most hurt had to die. It was a difficult task for her, with such a kind hear, yet there was nothing in her power that she could do.
Many friends had been severely hurt. Mimi lay in a small garden being constantly fed nutrition for plants. Iori had been put into the Magical Ward where two witches sat healing him with magical strings. The elf Juri had been hit by a rock and was now resting from the impact, she was lucky to have a system in her body that by itself could heal these wounds. Even Yamato was here, who sat supporting his brother as Takeru was going through an rough operation as his tail had been cursed, severely cursed, by none other the Schakal.
Tears flowed down. She was working in a mass of screams and yelps. People died in her arms.
"Hikari!" she heard coming from the door. She looked up to see Taichi standing there, his left arm wrapped in bandages.
"Taichi!" she said, her eyes widening. Her older brother had been severely beaten and hit his back into a rock. Parts of his body was burnt by fires that did not belong to him. But it wasn't he who really needed treatment. He was carrying someone. A young male that looked as if he was dead. Hikari knew this man very well...
"No!" she said. "NO!"
It was Koushiro...
Tomoki ran down the street, his very shadow burning with rage. Schakal seemed to appear in every corner, her laughter followed his haunting dreams. Images of his parents' and brother's mangled bodies flashed before him.
"Here I am, little Warrior of Ice!" the voice called from ten spots at the same time.
Curse her.
Kouichi couldn't think of the last time he had been this worried. Not for himself, but of others. His brother was down by the bay fending of the dark creatures from the water. Takuya in the sky, trying to destroy the flying machines that came to drop explosive charms at them. Tomoki had gone chasing after Schakal and Junpei, who had finally recovered from the incident with Bohemus, helped his tribe to do some serious rocky damage.
"Shadow meteor!"
A skeleton exploded by his attack, but it was far from enough. He was lucky he was already dead or he would have been killed instantly by this surprise attack. Corpses of dead vampires and trolls covered the sand.
"Why? Why must everything go so wrong?"
Why couldn't he be stronger?
Hikari refused to give up. She refused to let Koushiro die. He was one of her and Taichi's oldest friends, she refused to give up. A magical charm glowed in her hand, which she pressed at his chest. She was the best Healer, why did people have to die? She refused to see her friend die like this!
Indeed as the first day of War soon passed down to night things looked really bad. The Armies retreated back, to be replaced by the creatures that didn't need the sun to see. It was a full moon so this meant that the werewolves were fighting as well, in their true form.
Takuya watched the scene of destruction. The air around him seemed so cold, it froze, it paralysed. Kouji and the others helped the ones who were too weak to walk. Still some people were missing. It had been reported that Izumi had sneaked out from her mother's wings and now the older Aquila was devastated. Tomoki was gone as well, and no one had seen him since the beginning of everything.
And yet, it was just the beginning. Tomorrow would be a new day of blood and terror.
And yet, he couldn't wait to teach his so called brother one lesson about life.
It is one of those nights you will always remember. Hikari's cries as she soon realised, that Koushiro was beyond saving Tomoki's growls as he furiously tried to find the one that had brutally slain his family. Izumi's tears as she left her mother and her life.
Nothing would ever be the same again. Dead friends can't be brought back. They pass on to the afterlife, to hopefully find something better.
Schakal sat by a huge bonfire, smiling to herself. "Come at me Warriors of Ice and Wind. Come at me, for I am ready and you shall bend to my dominating will!"
TBC
Muahahaha... what will happen now? You will have to wait and see! This author feel very evil today.
Shitza