"Yes, that is very interesting, in fact I think I'll just consider it. No, really, I don't like that one, it's too... baddie type. Which? Nah, too expensive, and the motor just doesn't work all that well. Via?" a young woman was happily talking through the cell phone, not watching or even realizing the two Digi's pressence.
Takeru and Mizumi both observed her with care. While Mizumi was glancing at the girl questioningly, not hearing the conversation, Takeru was alert. It was just a matter of seconds before the young girl realized about the two youngsters' pressence.
"Via? Via? I can't hear you. There are some interferences." The girl said, glancing at Takeru through the corner of the eyes, distractedly.
The girl repaired on Takeru and Mizumi more clearly. Taking the cell phone off her ear, she glanced at the two, stopping her paces. The woman's gaze returned to the cellphone, where the screen had gone off, and seemed to be beating with each of Takeru's breathings. Another glance at the two children, and her doubts had been cleared completely.
"DIGIS!" the girl yelled, screaming at the top of her lungs and trying to warn the whole neighbourghood.
"RUN!" Takeru snapped at Mizumi, rushing towards the woman rapidly.
"I've got my moto parked nearby. See you later, Tk!" Mizumi yelled at the boy, running towards a rather large staircase and vanishing behind it.
Takeru glanced at the woman briefly, looking at her with longing. Survival kept nagging him as the woman shrieked again, and various windows from nearby houses oppened with curiosity. The cell phone's screen glowed and the girl, on the verge of tears, and yelling like someone was rapping her, dropped the object on the floor. Takeru vanished through it, leaving the girl about to faint, in the small park behind the palace, and next to the old houses.
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Mizumi was sitting in front of her computer. The woman's lips were split in a large, happy grin. Tonight she would go to the Hideout and finally see her father, meet him after sixteen years of absence. Typing rapidly, barely seeing what she was writting, Mizumi was inmeersed in millions of possibilities of how that reencounter was to be like.
"Mizumi-chan?" a well known, yet abrupt voice said all of a sudden.
Startled, Mizumi leapt on her chair and ripped her fingers off the keyboard. A gentle ripple shook the computer's screen, before it faded as suddenly as it came. Kenji was at the door, staring at Mizumi strangely. It was obvious he had perceived something, yet wasn't too sure about it.
"Onii-chan! What is it?" the woman inquired, staring at the boy with a vivid smile.
"Hi, I just wanted to talk with you." The boy said gently, ruffling his tan golden hair and sitting on the bed.
"Tell me." Mizumi said animatedly, turning the chair to face Kenji.
"I see you are very happy, Mizumi, what happened to make you this chirpy?" Kenji inquired with a gentle, happy smile.
"Oh... nothing." Mizumi blushed lightly, and her eyes glimmered with a light Kenji had never seen.
"Hum... does this have anything to do with that Takeru boy?" the older boy asked with a mischievous smile on his lips.
"EH? No, no, of course not!" Mizumi said just too rapidly, her voice shaking slightly.
"Come on, Mizumi, I'm your brother." Kenji said, watching with interest the reluctant way in which Mizumi was eyeing him. "Do you love him?"
"I think so..." the girl said shyly, lowering her head and glancing at Kenji with a shameful look.
"My little sister is in love, how cute!" Kenji began with an extremely, high pitched voice, teasing the girl.
"Stop it, you dork!" Mizumi snapped angrily, throwing a rather large book at Kenji.
"Ok, ok. Sorry, tigress!" Kenji laughed happily, dodging the thick volume.
"It's not funny!" the woman glared at Kenji upon saying those words.
"Don't take it too seriously. I was just kidding." Kenji commented, clearing his throat before he continued. "I knew you had a thing for the boy. I was wondering what you were doing on saturday, afternoon."
"Why?" Mizumi inquired, a clear look of mistrust being thrown at her older brother.
"Relax, sister!" the boy said with a look of happiness lighting his face, "I just want to meet him. He has helped you a lot, and I'd like to know the man who has given you the will to live." The boy said more seriously, more calm.
"You will like him." Mizumi responded after a few minutes of pondering the request.
"Ok, how about we go for a beer at the Crow's Nest?" Kenji inquired standing up from the girl's bed.
"Sounds fine!" chirped the woman excitedly, as Kenji left her bedroom.
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Takeru landed on a heap on the floor. There had been many emotions for one day, many events, and his body felt drained of energy. Transforming into his Digital Spirit was always tiering and now he was exhausted. It took a great ammount of energy to maintain that form, and another great ammount to fire the powerful attacks, the only ones able to kill Agents in one blow.
"Tk!" Chiyo rushed to him urgently as he stumbled and held on a nearby table for balance.
"I'm fine, you know how this is." Takeru said with a smile, but glancing surprised at the woman. Having her experience, one would have thought she would already know the effects of transforming.
"It's not that, it's the Alpha Group!" Chiyo snapped alarmed, looking on the verge of tears.
"What? What happened to it?" Takeru was now alarmed, and his voice rose higher than he would have wanted.
"We are not sure, but we believe it was attacked." Chiyo explained, stealing a glance at Ryu, who was nearby, with Mia besides him.
"I went to their Hideout, just a rutinary visit to my father, and saw signs of violence in it. Nobody was there, but I believe Agents might have found their Hideout, somehow." Ryu explained, walking towards the two, more experimented Digis.
"But that's impossible!" Takeru snapped, looking completely worried, and glancing backwards with suspicion.
"No it isn't, and you know it!" Chiyo said fiercely, while Ryu just stared at them with his common impasiveness.
"Shit... shit... shit..." Takeru's voice was a soft, hiss like whisper. The boy was turning around and walking as if in a dream, his eyes focusing inside his thoughts. All eyes were on him as slow, heavy paces dragged him away from the three Digis.
"SHIT!" the blond Digi bellowed, slamming his clenched fist on a rudimentary table.
"TK!" Chiyo walked up to him and placed her hands on his shoulders, turning her head to motion at the other Digis to retreat. Ryu and Mia left the room understandingly.
"What am I going to tell Mizumi now?" the boy whined, staring at the table desperately.
"Do you love her, Tk?" Chiyo inquired, staring at the boy's blue eyes, humid with restrained tears.
"I... I do." Takeru admited looking defeated, "I know I shouldn't but I can't hold it back."
"Why not? Why shouldn't you love Mizumi?" Chiyo asked looking at the boy with bright eyes.
"You told me I shouldn't love her..." Takeru stared at Chiyo with surprise.
"I know. But I only did it because you were so stubborn with that ridiculous idea that you were forty, that only by insisting on this it would make that idea weaker!" Chiyo was looking proud at her responde.
"Inverted psychology!" Takeru responded surprised, looking with respect at the older woman, and apparently a bit annoyed at having been manipulated.
"Exactly! I didn't license in Psychology for nothing!" Chiyo stood up, patted Takeru on the shoulder and left the room.
Takeru stood in the dim light for a few moments longer. The boy was pondering about the terrible fate that his Digi mates had run. Veterans, experienced, mature men who knew all about Digis and Agents. It was hard to understand how they had sucumbed to a group of Agents. Even more, how the Agents had discovered their hideout. This events made Takeru think that, if the Alpha group had fallen, they could go down easily. Perhaps it was for the best if everyone returned home, but, where was Ryu Ishida going to go? What about Takato Yagami? Mia Kido? All of their parents were Digis in the Alpha group.
Ryu still had his mother, a gentle, hard worker administrative known as Sayuri Makeda. Takato was not so lucky, both, his father, Taichi and his mother, Sora, had been in the Alpha group. Mia's mother, Sen Lei, a proffesional police, passed away while pursuing a group of retreating terrorists. As surprising as it was, for she was the best driver known, it was later demonstrated that a bomb had been placed under her car. Chiyo, poor Chiyo had the worse luck. A mother who wanted to kill her, and her father gone. No doubt she was so affected. Mizumi? As if responding to his thoughts, the screen flashed bright and Mizumi appeared in the Hideout.
"Tk!" the girl chirped animated, feeling completely ecstasiated.
"Hi, Mizumi..." the boy said sadly, turning to stare at the woman very seriously, thinking hard how to say this news.
"W... what is wrong?" Mizumi's face shifted completely, becoming preocupied as she saw Takeru's long, saddened face.
"I'm sorry, Mizumi, but... the Alpha group was attacked." Takeru said slowly, watching the woman's reaction, and feeling his heart shrink painfully.
"No..." Mizumi whispered softly, looking at Takeru as if expecting him to jump and yell it was only a joke.
"I'm sorry, Mizzy..." Takeru said softly, taking a step forward and oppening his arms to hug her.
"I told you not to call me Mizzy!" the woman shrieked hysterically, slapping his hand away fiercely.
With tears on her eyes, and a painful sob strangling her throat, Mizumi glared at Takeru with a look of betrayal. Letting her emotions flow, Mizumi turned around and started running towards the screen. Takeru tried to stop her, throwing his hand forward and calling her name. Too late, for, in a flash of pure white, Mizumi had vanished into the Line. The boy let his arms fall down at each sode of his body. The feeling he had inside his chest was killing him, millions of craving dogs tearing his soul. Takeru felt like a total jerk.
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Mizumi was sobbing when she leapt off the Line and back into her room. Tears were falling down her cheeks, and her slender fingers covered her face. The grief was silent, for the least she wanted was having Kenji questioning her. In reality she had had a quarrel with Takeru, but she couldn't tell Kenji the reasons, not yet. Suddenly, Mizumi's senses went very alert as the sound of movement reached her ears.
Fear began to strangle her as images of sneaking Agents and silent guns filled her mind. A surprised gasp echoed in the dark night, and the moon's dim light tried to filter through the fallen blinds. Something was inside the room, next to the wardrobe. Something that shouldn't be there. Mizumi took off her shoes carefully, silently, and prepared her hand in case she had to attack. On her socks, the girl walked silently next to her bed, where the light switch was situated.
"Stop right there!" Mizumi snapped fiercely, jumping the last metre, turning off the lights and pointing at the stranger with her hand.
To Be Continued...
AN: Ok, here comes the next chapter. Oh, it's getting interesting, isn't it? What do you people think, like it? Don't like it? I'm loving this story, not my best (I still preffer A Life To Live) but I'm liking it a lot.
QUESTION: What do you think about this story? How would you guys write it? A girl and a boy that love each other, ok? (Insert names there, because I'm not sure). The girl had a car, which was severely broken after an accident, and sent to a car cementery. The girl loved her car, and misses it a lot, so it, somehow, got transformed in a horse and goes searching for her. Now the typical things, love, bad guys making their life impossible, and a horrible desire of the car to become human. Love trio!
What happens when there is a premonition that affects the two seriously?
Well, enough ranting, it's an idea I've got, but I'm not sure which characters I'll use for it, and I wanted to ask opinions. I'm also about to finish Origins in Darkness. Not more than two chapters to go. Well keep reading, .