A slender and light hand clutched the silky, white gown with trembling strength, nearly scratching the delicate cloth with the sharp and long nails. Chest raised and fell with trouble, quick and ragged breaths were swallowed with anxiety. The rosy lips were open in shock, and also suffocation, like a fish's mouth when it's out of the water. Eyes lost into infinity, staring into the depths of her memory, seeking all that was worth. The intertwined scenes of reality and dream confused her. Her adventures as Digidestined, her first love, her first failure, her friend and brothers, Blaze and all the new feelings is presence bloomed within her.
She turned around and made a speed towards the room, tears spilling down her caramel and warm eyes with frustration. Her pale skin tensed in her face reflecting an intense pain. She flew towards the bed and recalled the past experiences, occurred not long ago.
"ok you win, I am Blaze, the copper dragon!" Izzy snapped with some anger, or should we say frustration accumulated.
"sun dragon" had a cheery little voice replied. Kari's voice, her voice. "I see it in my dreams, 17 dragons Izzy, 9 Elemental, 8 Sinister, the 17 species of Becenykan!"
She had gotten odd looks upon revealing such knowledge, but ignored it. At first she considered her oddities as normal, for deep inside her she never considered her own existence as different. Yet now she knew some factor ignored through her life; she was adopted.
Through a blurry vision her eyes focused on the immaculate paleness of her hands. She stared at them like that first day, fearful and trembling, her mind shocked yet full of prejudice. Back then they were muddy and torn. Now they were glistening with the humidity of her own tears, sparkling silvery, almost like a dolphin's skin.
"what am I?" questioned a strangled and broken voice, cracked with a sob that threatened to arise.
That day in the forest he had seen Yoley laying on the floor, and over her, standing in a trembling courage, was Wolf, the silvery golden werewolf. Before the couple was Onyx, their mayor threat of the moment, an enormous black dragon with a hormone decontrol, who pursued Izzy. The beast was threatening, inflating his chest and releasing a column of fire that licked and burnt the air itself with it's potency. Kari had felt a tugging on her body, and closing her thumb and index in a circle, she conjured a spell. Petals of ice had melted the fire, avoided a death and created a growing doubt within the woman.
Kari knew she shouldn't worry, for Izzy turned out a dragon. However, although her nature was tolerant she was frightened. Her eyes had observed Yoley's reaction towards Izzy's second identity. Friendship had turned out to matter to her far more than the 17 metres of length and the nearly 2 ton weight of the creature.
"what matters is the person!" had Yoley commented once.
However, although her friends were bound to be there for her, she was troubled and doubtful, scared at their rejection. She knew that was not bound to happen, however it was in her fears, for she ignored the true nature of her power and the chaos it might develop given the case.
"oh, I hope I was just a dragon like Izzy, that way I would know and control my power" moaned the girl, still her throat constricted by the fluid tears.
A cheerful smile illuminated a face of pure skin. The girl looked around with flashing blue eyes, sparkling with joy, irradiating with a brilliance that was unknown to her, and wondered her person in equality. Her lavender hair was tied in a ponytail, and her callous fingers, due to continuous and minucious work on minuscule particles, gripped an item with strength. It was like the opening device of a garage door, and was the colour of purple, darker than her smooth hair.
"I finally found the formula" snapped the girl cheery, examining her friend's faces with studious curiosity.
A golden haired boy rounding his twenty raised an amused eyebrow. Kari, meanwhile, seemed totally spaced, staring at the woman but looking right through her.
"hum guys…the connection to open a worm hole and travel to Izzy's place!" snapped the girl slightly angry, snapping her fingers to make her point.
"ah!" had exclaimed the handsome teenager of luminous pale eyes, "you meant that, I was just thinking about some of my things!"
"Matt, what's wrong? Is it full moon the same night of the Iron Maiden concert?" commented the woman placing an angered hand on her hip.
"ha ha, very funny Yoley, NO! My guitarist left the group, said he wanted to be a solo, and I'm having one heck of a time in finding a suitable one." Growled the boy with an almost inhuman sound, glaring at the girl sarcastically.
"well, anyways, I used Izzy's device, because I supposed it would have a closer connection to that world, and thanks to the help of our good friend Genai, and to my knowledge about maths and computer technology (we must thank Izzy for such) I was able to create a connection with that world!" Yoley explained excitedly, pointing in numerous times at the small device.
"erm, has it got notes?" inquired Matt raising a confused eyebrow at the girl.
"um, pardon me?" asked Yoley leaning in closer, wondering whether she had heard correct.
"musical notes Yoley!" explained the boy, gesticulation profusely as to make his point clear.
"what have musical notes got to do with electronic?" gasped Yoley confused and almost exasperated.
"well then, don't explain me anything that hasn't got to do with musical notes, it's the same as if I tell you about the variation of octaves in accords of seven!" explained Matt standing up and raising his melodious voice.
Yoley snorted but avoided a confrontation with the man. She feared him as much as she had feared Izzy, but admitted he was right, and in the actual moment, the last two friends that remained in touch were far more important to her than pride. After Izzy's departure, Kari and Matt had been there by her, and were the only ones, including Tai, that never treated her as crazy upon her declaration of Izzy's disappearance through a worm hole.
Just then did Yoley notice on the weeping figure, who was about to collapse on a heap right now. She frowned worried at the ghastly expression and pale skin that ran across the youth's features.
"Kari? Kari! Are you ok?" Yoley called snapping her fingers, trying to attract her attention.
Kari looked up distractedly. Her caramel eyes observed the surrounding as if she had just woken up and was attempting to situate herself. A weak and forced smile tugged at the corner of her lips, and a soulless shrug attempted to occur on the blades of her shoulders.
"I'm fine, it's just that I'm adopted!" explained the girl looking at her friends, explaining the reason of her mind's absence as if commenting the weather.
"oh, come on Kari, it's not that bad, I mean, Izzy was adopted!" Yoley explained, embracing the woman in a tight, comforting hug.
"yeah, it's not like your parents won't love you more than they would love Tai just because of that!" said the blond child, placing a hand on the woman's slim shoulder and squishing it lightly and tenderly.
Kari collapsed emotionally. She threw herself forward and engulfed Yoley's larger body in a tight hug. Tears began to flow, streaming down her pale cheeks and moistening the girl's blue shirt abundantly. Her body convulsed periodically with spasms developed by the continuous sobbing. A muffled whine could be heard from time to time, echoing in the depths of the body in a drowned manner. Yoley's eyes focused on Matt helplessly, her intention had been cheering the girl, hence she had done quiet the opposite without even knowing what had she said that could have caused such reaction.
"But … but Yoley!" exclaimed Kari pulling away from the girl's warmth and friendship, "Izzy is a dragon, and I'm afraid!" finished the girl staring intently at both creatures.
Matt raised an eyebrow while staring at the woman. Her eyes were puffy and swelled, and were quiet red. Her pale cheeks sparkled and shone with the presence of tears on her fine skin.
"don't you understand? Think! My knowledge about a world that you don't even know it existed! I can understand dragon language! And it was I who saved you and Wolf from Onyx's attack!" finished the girl in a high pitched scream, pointing accusatively at Yoley.
Matt winced and stood up abruptly, staring with wide eyes at the young girl. Yoley recoiled feeling her throat constricted, staring at the young woman with something close to hope and sympathy.
"you did that? How could you release that attack?" inquired Matt staring curiously at Kari, his bright blue eyes focused right into her caramel gaze.
Through that blurry veil, Kari observed the man's eyes with admiration and surprise, hence she ignored why of his alteration towards the ignorance of her identity. Opening her eyes a little bit more, her mind analyzed his vision, those crystalline eyes that, while focused and studious, and very attentive, were always absent.
"I don't know! I don't know!" screamed the exasperated and altered girl, "I overheard my father saying they had found me by the Ryuu river, I know nothing else about myself, what if I'm some sort of weird creature and morph into an ogre or something!" squeaked the girl in a shaky voice, trembling all over.
"that'll never happen Kari!" said Matt placing both arms, and staring at the woman straight into the eyes in such a sharp yet noble way he was convincing.
"the moon!" thought Kari abruptly, staring into the man's eyes confidently.
"I promise!" finished Matt with a warm smile, so contagious that it was soon placed into the woman's cherry lips.
Kari's face was illuminated with a light that irradiated right from her heart, the smile was of such brightness it competed against that of the sparkling stars, and her eyes regained such brilliance that polished amber could do nothing against their beauty. She had regained the trust lost, and knew from their own lips that her friends would always be there for her needs.
"I'm leaving tonight!" explained Yoley stuffing in a few pants into a large, camping bag.
The woman stared at them with an excitement such that it expanded and filled the room with the alteration it supposed. Her eyes were bright, reflecting not the room but the wondrous lands she was to meet. A copperish glitter, like a mild flame seemed to be present in the depths of her bluish orbs, reminder of their friend's existence.
"I'm coming!" snapped in Matt standing up and clenching a fist tightly. His blue eyes were determined, and the prideful smirk on his lips warned of any contradiction to his proposition.
"me too, there are answers I can not find here!" added in Kari, staring with a pleading and warm gaze at the woman.
Yoley opened her mouth to complain, but hesitated slightly, gazing at the two, now adults that stood before her.
"It'll be dangerous!" she finally had the courage to reply.
"less dangerous if more people come!" said Matt winking an eye at the woman, smirking wisely and cleverly at the young girl.
"anyways, we are the Digidestined after all, what is danger to us?" said Kari staring at the woman innocently.
Yoley smiled, unable to convince them of the contrary, and happy that her friends were bound to risk their lives in order to accompany her in such perilous and unknown journey.
"this will be like our first trip to the Digiworld!" Yoley commented, smiling at the teenagers with a look that clearly said how pleased she was for their company.
Yoley raised her hand towards the computer screen, pointing at the black, thick glass with the threat of a Digidevice. Her fingers were white with the tension of gripping the item so tightly. Drops of sweat trickled down her forehead, running grimly across her nose, to suicide themselves by catapulting their fluid bodies from such height. Her face was a frown of nerves, reflecting the anxiety that possessed her. Deep inside she was excited by being able to find her best friend, yet she was also nervous, and the Ifs began to attack her. What if it didn't work? What if they all perished? What if Izzy was dead? What if he forgot her? If he was just a dragon now?
"Portal OPEN!" she commanded authoritally, her voice a quiver yet strong and determined.
Immediately the item grasped tightly on Yoley's hand began to irradiate an intense glow. At first a dim bluish, and continuously increasing graduation until becoming a strong and brilliant pale ice. The three children looked away briefly, covering their sensitive eyes with their hands, seeing nothing but lights and shadows within their visions as they were briefly blinded by the fulgor. The glow travelled in a sly slithering, waving softly and sneaky until reaching the screen. Possessed by the light the same screen, dull and black, bean to irradiate a bright sparkling of equal proportions.
"quick, hold me!" yelled the young scientist who had bred such wondrous object.
The other two obeyed instantly, taking a firm hold of the woman's shirt. Their eyes gazed into the swirling depths of a tunnel that seemed to have opened right before them, a depth without end which called and attracted them with a bait of honey.
The light increased far greater than ever, it's brilliance conquering the shadows that lurked in the room. The glow engulfed the three pre adults and grabbed them with their warm fingers. Then the beast retreated towards it's depths, inside the tunnel, inside the star that had appeared. It retreated leaving the room silent, with shadows quickly taking control over their ancient territories. A room with a silence so anguish, a tension so thick it was palpable. A room that was empty except for the black beings that slithered and lurked inside the depths of the shadows. No trace of the three children was left, nothing to point out their former pressence, nothing at all.
The three traveles quickly through the eye of a tornado. The colours swirled around them in a whirlpool of mild colours, or bright lights, and stars of all intensity and sparkles. Particles or shinny glitter floated past them calmly, racing with them in a twinkle of complice, and chimming like minuscule bells with their magnified beauty. Particles of lights and sound trapped and fused together in the depths of a long and endless tunnel.
They flew, stomach down, or up for they ignored their position, arms extended and faces looking straight forward. Yoley was beaming, radiant and excited, happy like she had never been before. Matt seemed lightly frightened, attempting to grasp air, or an invisible something that would help him slow down his speed. Kari, on the other hand, was conmotioned, looking around nervously, a thoughtful frown crossing her worried features.
"this was in my dream! I crossed this tunnel once already!" Kari thought to herself, for she wouldn't dare to speak in fear of leaving her voice behind.
A blinding flash flared before them, increasing rapidly of intensity. It was a blinding light, like the sun itself or far more, and it tempted them to follow it. It was the exit, the light at the end of a dark tunnel. However, aside the pressure and the speed felt by the movement inside the worm hole, the atmosphere was rather pleasant, warm with a freshness hanging from it, and a humidity that was unnaturaly sweet.
They all yelled upon plunging head first into the light. They closed their eyes for the ache was unbearable, the light was far too brilliant to maintain their gazes focused under conditions of safety. They felt a surge of energy flow through them, as if their bodies were fusing together by some sort of strange force, a pressure that was in a way an interesting experience, since they felt able to lift a mountain.
And it all ended abruptly when their bodies felt first a current of cold air, to end with their bodies colliding hard against pavimented floor. Yoley groaned sitting back, feeling her aching back all over in search of fractures, while her other hand sensed and analized the ground unconciously. She could not see clearly, blinded as she was by the brilliance of the travel, but she saw through an illuminated and blurry vision that there were buildings before her, grey and dull buildings, created with the same material as the floor. Stones, large boulders of grey stones, marbles, wood and hay were the materials used to build the houses and comerces of this place. This was not Odaiba, this was not Japan, this looked like a Lord of the Rings movie.
A pair of hooves stood before her, an enormous shadow with flaming eyes, but Yoley saw nothing more that difuminated figures. She did recognize that the beast before her was no horse, for although it seemed, acted and nieghed like one, it had enormous wings on it's sides, and not the noble, feathered kind.
"I think it was very clear that by noon nobody was allowed out of their homes, wasn't it?" echoed a cruel voice inside the metallic helmet that covered the rider's head.
"sir, we are not from here!" she heard Matt growl behind her, and stand up with some trouble, the boy's voice a threatening and warning snarl.
"you, three shall pay for your insolence and disrespect towards the Dark Lord!" boomed the cruel voice within the helmet.
A glow and the metallic swish of a blade cutting the air told Yoley that the man had unsheated a sword. She shook her head mentally and pitied herself, so far had she gone to die blind and in the hands of a psicopath on a dragon horse. She closed her eyes to prepare herself for the impact, for the unbearable pain that was to reach her in brief.
The blade swished in the air, whistling threatening, like a poisonous snake hissing in it's warning before the bite. Yoley clenched her fists tightly, and shut her eyes with equal strength, she heard it, in slow motion, approaching. Finally she heard the sharp and cruel sound of…
To Be Continued…
AN: Ok here goes the second chapter. Sorry for the delay but I really didn't feel too inspired, and had a story in my head I had the urge to put to work.
Coldfang: well, I appreciate your comment on clearing a few points, but then again, if we do that, what would the fun of the story be? I know I left many gaps, and I did it knowing well what I was doing. The reason to that was keeping people interested, for everything will be revealed at the end (or before).
Well, keep reading, I hope you are enjoying it. By the way, let me remind you this is the sequel to Copper Blaze, you will understand many things if you read that one before.