Note:(I don't own digimon. This part of the story takes place in the year
1036.
My friend betaed this for me and helped with the writing. So thanx to Sweet-Angel-of-Innocence.
The Rain: Chapter 2- History
Deep in the gold mines under the fallen city of Tokyo, Rain followed the well-worn path to where the beer house was made in the southern mines. A terrible storm was raging on the above ground, and had been for the past two and a half months, destroying everything . Everyone was brought to the mines and elsewhere underground to be safe. There were hardly any supplies for even a small family of two. Rain opened the door to the beer house to find her dad. She looked but he was nowhere to be found. An old friend she had grown up with, a boy named David approached her.
"Hey Rain, would you let me buy you a drink?" David asked.
Rain sighed, "David, put that down and come with me now!"
"Um. Do I have to? I was just going to have another round." He asked, smiling slightly, knowing the answer even before she said it.
" This is no time for your jokes David. Now hurry up! Just put it on that table right beside you and come on." Rain said, exasperatedly.
David did as he was told, put the mug of beer down and followed her away from the beer house. They walked to a guest room with no food for themselves, only a wet cloth.
"I'll be right back. You, lie on the bed and don't go anywhere," Rain told him. He nodded. Rain walked out of the room and returned 10 minutes later with something for David to drink. He was falling asleep. She shook him so that he would wake up. He opened his eyes.
"Sit up," She told him, "Open your mouth," He did as he was told, "Drink this, Swallow, Tilt your head back, Put this on your head, Don't go to sleep for half an hour." He followed her directions, never once stopping to question her, not even to say that the drink tasted terrible and he didn't want to drink it. He loved her but, he would never tell. He was afraid he would be rejected by her. After a while, he was feeling better. He hadn't realized he had fallen asleep. He got up and looked around the room, feeling only slightly dizzy. Rain was sitting in a chair reading one of her books. He walked towards her.
"Have a nice sleep?" she asked, not even raising her eyes from the book.
"I guess. I didn't even know I was asleep. I thought you said not to sleep for half an hour," he replied.
"I did and you didn't sleep until half an hour was up. You've actually been sleeping for 5 hours."
"Oh. What was that stuff you gave me?"
"It was just a medicine that had a bit of sleeping potion in it, it'll help you to sober up and so that you won't have a hang over."
"Oh, uh.. Thanks." David said, feeling a little embarassed as he scratched his head.
"No problem," she sighed, " This storm has gone on for well over 2 months. I wonder when it'll stop. I want to know how the damage is up there."
"It started the day we were off for the summer from school. We were just walking home and the clouds started to form. And then it started to spit, then turned a little harder and then it was an all out downpour. Even the breeze turned into a raging wind. It's really very strange. Do you think that above ground is already flooded?"
Rain smiled, "Why don't we find out for ourselves?"
"Um.. What if we were to get caught?"
"Look David, everyone stays away from the entrance because they're afraid. Trust me, I walk by there every day and never see anybody watching or even stay there for more than 5 minutes so what in your right mind makes you think that we're going to get caught?"
"You said people walk by there."
"Yeah, but they don't stay for long. If anyone asks, we'll just say we're fixing a leak."
"Hmm. Sounds like a full proof plan but, how do we get back underground?"
"Same way we got out." She said, as if it were the obvious answer.
"Huh?" David looked confused.
"The door!" Rain said, smacking her forehead, sometimes he was so dense, but she loved him anyway. In a way, she liked his stupidity. But she knew that sometimes he would do it on purpose.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. But, can we get some sleep first. I'd rather not be tired when I do a lot of work." Said David, yawning.
"Yeah, I suppose, even though you already slept for 5 hours. I haven't so I guess it's okay if we both get some rest at the same time." She said.
Rain got up from her chair and went to the bed. David waited a little bit before going to bed. He was thinking things over. He remembered the day when the whole storm started. The thing that he remembered more than ever was his letter. He had just gotten home and there it was on the table with his name on it. Curious, he had opened it after he'd put his school bag down. It was from an anonymous person:
Beware of what you keep inside.
Pretty soon there will be nothing to hide.
Day or night it matters not.
The Rain will fall without a stop.
He could never understand what it meant at all. He had been thinking and hadn't seen the time pass, about an hour had passed and Rain was sound asleep. He went over to the other side of the bed and crawled in next to her. He looked at her. She was on her side, facing him, no expression on her lovely face. He laid on his back, but soon moved to his side, facing her. He moved closer to her and then pulled her in a loving embrace when he saw her shiver slightly. He fell asleep almost immediately. The top of her head was near his shoulder. She opened her eyes and she had known what was going on when it was happening, but she had let it. She smiled and then went back to sleep, laying an arm across his chest and resting her head on his smooth shoulder falling into peaceful oblivion, wrapped in his warm, strong embrace. No nightmares could have possibly claimed either of the youths dreams that night.
Until.
David woke up before Rain, although he didn't really know if it was morning or not. They hadn't seen the sun in months, never telling when dawn or dusk started or ended. He got up and headed into the small bathroom they had off to the side of the larger bedroom to relieve his bladder.
Rain walked through the foggy mists swirling around her. 'Where am I?' She thought as she turned, looking around. As she turned fully, facing the opposite way, she saw something in the slight distance ahead of her between the fog. She walked towards it, feeling more and more uneasy as she approached, noticing something, looking like a person laying under the huge stone tablet. Running towards the body, she realized as she got closer that the person looked familiar. She ran faster, not noticing the light drizzle starting to poor down on her. She finally reached the person, dread paralyzing her as her fears were confirmed. She dropped to her knees, her newly shed tears mingling with the cold, unyeilding rain. With trembling hands she caressed the pale, freezing skin of his cheek. "Why?" She whispered to no one. 'Why him? Why not me?' She asked herself over and over as she let her sobs take over, hugging David's dead, bloodied body to herself. Something seemed to call to her, whispering a sweet sing song poem she couldn't seem to catch the words of, just begging her to look up.
Her eyes travelled up the age-eroded stone, landing on the scrawling words of the deadly, sweet poetry written in blood. His blood. She clutched David's lifeless body closer as she read them out loud in the same choked whisper:
Beware of what you keep inside,
Pretty soon there will be nothing to hide
Day or night, it matters not
The Rain will fall without a stop
Rain screamed as she was shaken awake. She pushed the arms away. They only tightened around her though as she struggled. "Shhh. It's okay Rain. I'm here." David soothed. He had come back from the bathroom to find Rain tossing, turning and crying out in her sleep. "D-David? You're okay!" She exclaimed, wrapping her arms around his neck and sobbing into his shoulder. She shuddered in his embrace as her sobbing subsided and she hiccoughed a few times.
"It's time to go sweetie. C'mon, let's go." David said softly, not noticing his slip up. He pulled her up with him. David grabbed his dagger and slipped it into his boot before taking her hand and making a run for the doorway to the upperworld. They reached it in a matter of minutes. Rain stopped David, "David, wait, I have to tell you something." "Okay, hurry up." He trailed off as the sound of footsteps became evident. "David, I-I just wanted to say that I." She started. The footsteps got louder, the unknown person getting closer. " We have to go, tell me when we get up there. Right now, we have to hurry." He whispered and pushed the heavy, iron hatch open, rain pelting them as they made their way to the surface. The droplets feeling like shards of icy, jagged glass on their pale skin.
They broke to sea level. As they shut the hatch again, a dark shadow fell over them. The Shadow Reaper closed in on the unfortunate travellers, his scythe blade gleaming a deadly silver as he approached them. He reached out towards the terrified girl, standing next to the boy. He could feel their hidden feelings for each other. An ivory white finger traced over Rain's jawbone softly. She shuddered as if it was cold to the touch and in a way it was, for he was so lonely after losing his only love to death, never revealing his own feelings until it was too late. "Tell herrrr.." He said in a low, soothing tone just above a whisper. The loneliness and pain evident in the old shadows voice. "What, who are you?" David asked, stepping away and pulling Rain with him. "N-No, David, listen to him." Rain whispered. "Tell herrr what you ffffeeelll for herrr or ssshhheee will nnneverr knowww." The Shadow replied coldly, knowing that this would have to end in blood in order for the mortal to understand. "Why should I listen to you? Who." David was cut off as the Reaper's scythe sliced through the flesh of his abdomen. Rain screamed. "NOOO, David!!" She fell to her knees, tears trekking down her sun-deprived cheeks. Her hands trying to catch David's lifeblood from pouring out of him.
A cold hand touched her shoulder gently. "Talk to himmm girrrl, he willll die." The same soothing voice chilled her as it spoke. She leaned forward over David, brushing his rain-soaked bangs out of his face. "D-David, I-I tried to t-tell you. You should have listened to him." She said, holding in the worst of her tears. His eyes fluttered open "I-I am so. s-sorry, Rain. I-I lo-ve you. I'm.sorry I w-won't be able. to stay w-with you." He said, his breaths soft and shaky, each of them causing more pain than the last. Rain leaned forward and kissed his shaky lips softly. "I love you to, my sweet David. I'm coming soon." She said, her eyes clouding over with her tears as she reached for the long, sharp daggar in David's boot. She couldn't live with the burden of knowing that David had died for his love of her. She raised it and drove it deep into her heart feeling her love lessen the pain. She let the bloodied blade slide from her hands, laying close to David as she felt herself weakening, her life's blood washing away in the last of the rain. And as the sun finally broke the long-shadowed horizon, two lovers died in the first rays, wrapped forever in each others arms. For all eternity. The shadow receaded, soon to return.
To be continued.
So how'd ya'll like this chapter? Huh, huh? Send reviews if you wanna find out what Amy finds behind the door. And is this mysterious tale of love repeat itself? Wanna find out? Review. ();D this was from Angel and Rain.
My friend betaed this for me and helped with the writing. So thanx to Sweet-Angel-of-Innocence.
The Rain: Chapter 2- History
Deep in the gold mines under the fallen city of Tokyo, Rain followed the well-worn path to where the beer house was made in the southern mines. A terrible storm was raging on the above ground, and had been for the past two and a half months, destroying everything . Everyone was brought to the mines and elsewhere underground to be safe. There were hardly any supplies for even a small family of two. Rain opened the door to the beer house to find her dad. She looked but he was nowhere to be found. An old friend she had grown up with, a boy named David approached her.
"Hey Rain, would you let me buy you a drink?" David asked.
Rain sighed, "David, put that down and come with me now!"
"Um. Do I have to? I was just going to have another round." He asked, smiling slightly, knowing the answer even before she said it.
" This is no time for your jokes David. Now hurry up! Just put it on that table right beside you and come on." Rain said, exasperatedly.
David did as he was told, put the mug of beer down and followed her away from the beer house. They walked to a guest room with no food for themselves, only a wet cloth.
"I'll be right back. You, lie on the bed and don't go anywhere," Rain told him. He nodded. Rain walked out of the room and returned 10 minutes later with something for David to drink. He was falling asleep. She shook him so that he would wake up. He opened his eyes.
"Sit up," She told him, "Open your mouth," He did as he was told, "Drink this, Swallow, Tilt your head back, Put this on your head, Don't go to sleep for half an hour." He followed her directions, never once stopping to question her, not even to say that the drink tasted terrible and he didn't want to drink it. He loved her but, he would never tell. He was afraid he would be rejected by her. After a while, he was feeling better. He hadn't realized he had fallen asleep. He got up and looked around the room, feeling only slightly dizzy. Rain was sitting in a chair reading one of her books. He walked towards her.
"Have a nice sleep?" she asked, not even raising her eyes from the book.
"I guess. I didn't even know I was asleep. I thought you said not to sleep for half an hour," he replied.
"I did and you didn't sleep until half an hour was up. You've actually been sleeping for 5 hours."
"Oh. What was that stuff you gave me?"
"It was just a medicine that had a bit of sleeping potion in it, it'll help you to sober up and so that you won't have a hang over."
"Oh, uh.. Thanks." David said, feeling a little embarassed as he scratched his head.
"No problem," she sighed, " This storm has gone on for well over 2 months. I wonder when it'll stop. I want to know how the damage is up there."
"It started the day we were off for the summer from school. We were just walking home and the clouds started to form. And then it started to spit, then turned a little harder and then it was an all out downpour. Even the breeze turned into a raging wind. It's really very strange. Do you think that above ground is already flooded?"
Rain smiled, "Why don't we find out for ourselves?"
"Um.. What if we were to get caught?"
"Look David, everyone stays away from the entrance because they're afraid. Trust me, I walk by there every day and never see anybody watching or even stay there for more than 5 minutes so what in your right mind makes you think that we're going to get caught?"
"You said people walk by there."
"Yeah, but they don't stay for long. If anyone asks, we'll just say we're fixing a leak."
"Hmm. Sounds like a full proof plan but, how do we get back underground?"
"Same way we got out." She said, as if it were the obvious answer.
"Huh?" David looked confused.
"The door!" Rain said, smacking her forehead, sometimes he was so dense, but she loved him anyway. In a way, she liked his stupidity. But she knew that sometimes he would do it on purpose.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. But, can we get some sleep first. I'd rather not be tired when I do a lot of work." Said David, yawning.
"Yeah, I suppose, even though you already slept for 5 hours. I haven't so I guess it's okay if we both get some rest at the same time." She said.
Rain got up from her chair and went to the bed. David waited a little bit before going to bed. He was thinking things over. He remembered the day when the whole storm started. The thing that he remembered more than ever was his letter. He had just gotten home and there it was on the table with his name on it. Curious, he had opened it after he'd put his school bag down. It was from an anonymous person:
Beware of what you keep inside.
Pretty soon there will be nothing to hide.
Day or night it matters not.
The Rain will fall without a stop.
He could never understand what it meant at all. He had been thinking and hadn't seen the time pass, about an hour had passed and Rain was sound asleep. He went over to the other side of the bed and crawled in next to her. He looked at her. She was on her side, facing him, no expression on her lovely face. He laid on his back, but soon moved to his side, facing her. He moved closer to her and then pulled her in a loving embrace when he saw her shiver slightly. He fell asleep almost immediately. The top of her head was near his shoulder. She opened her eyes and she had known what was going on when it was happening, but she had let it. She smiled and then went back to sleep, laying an arm across his chest and resting her head on his smooth shoulder falling into peaceful oblivion, wrapped in his warm, strong embrace. No nightmares could have possibly claimed either of the youths dreams that night.
Until.
David woke up before Rain, although he didn't really know if it was morning or not. They hadn't seen the sun in months, never telling when dawn or dusk started or ended. He got up and headed into the small bathroom they had off to the side of the larger bedroom to relieve his bladder.
Rain walked through the foggy mists swirling around her. 'Where am I?' She thought as she turned, looking around. As she turned fully, facing the opposite way, she saw something in the slight distance ahead of her between the fog. She walked towards it, feeling more and more uneasy as she approached, noticing something, looking like a person laying under the huge stone tablet. Running towards the body, she realized as she got closer that the person looked familiar. She ran faster, not noticing the light drizzle starting to poor down on her. She finally reached the person, dread paralyzing her as her fears were confirmed. She dropped to her knees, her newly shed tears mingling with the cold, unyeilding rain. With trembling hands she caressed the pale, freezing skin of his cheek. "Why?" She whispered to no one. 'Why him? Why not me?' She asked herself over and over as she let her sobs take over, hugging David's dead, bloodied body to herself. Something seemed to call to her, whispering a sweet sing song poem she couldn't seem to catch the words of, just begging her to look up.
Her eyes travelled up the age-eroded stone, landing on the scrawling words of the deadly, sweet poetry written in blood. His blood. She clutched David's lifeless body closer as she read them out loud in the same choked whisper:
Beware of what you keep inside,
Pretty soon there will be nothing to hide
Day or night, it matters not
The Rain will fall without a stop
Rain screamed as she was shaken awake. She pushed the arms away. They only tightened around her though as she struggled. "Shhh. It's okay Rain. I'm here." David soothed. He had come back from the bathroom to find Rain tossing, turning and crying out in her sleep. "D-David? You're okay!" She exclaimed, wrapping her arms around his neck and sobbing into his shoulder. She shuddered in his embrace as her sobbing subsided and she hiccoughed a few times.
"It's time to go sweetie. C'mon, let's go." David said softly, not noticing his slip up. He pulled her up with him. David grabbed his dagger and slipped it into his boot before taking her hand and making a run for the doorway to the upperworld. They reached it in a matter of minutes. Rain stopped David, "David, wait, I have to tell you something." "Okay, hurry up." He trailed off as the sound of footsteps became evident. "David, I-I just wanted to say that I." She started. The footsteps got louder, the unknown person getting closer. " We have to go, tell me when we get up there. Right now, we have to hurry." He whispered and pushed the heavy, iron hatch open, rain pelting them as they made their way to the surface. The droplets feeling like shards of icy, jagged glass on their pale skin.
They broke to sea level. As they shut the hatch again, a dark shadow fell over them. The Shadow Reaper closed in on the unfortunate travellers, his scythe blade gleaming a deadly silver as he approached them. He reached out towards the terrified girl, standing next to the boy. He could feel their hidden feelings for each other. An ivory white finger traced over Rain's jawbone softly. She shuddered as if it was cold to the touch and in a way it was, for he was so lonely after losing his only love to death, never revealing his own feelings until it was too late. "Tell herrrr.." He said in a low, soothing tone just above a whisper. The loneliness and pain evident in the old shadows voice. "What, who are you?" David asked, stepping away and pulling Rain with him. "N-No, David, listen to him." Rain whispered. "Tell herrr what you ffffeeelll for herrr or ssshhheee will nnneverr knowww." The Shadow replied coldly, knowing that this would have to end in blood in order for the mortal to understand. "Why should I listen to you? Who." David was cut off as the Reaper's scythe sliced through the flesh of his abdomen. Rain screamed. "NOOO, David!!" She fell to her knees, tears trekking down her sun-deprived cheeks. Her hands trying to catch David's lifeblood from pouring out of him.
A cold hand touched her shoulder gently. "Talk to himmm girrrl, he willll die." The same soothing voice chilled her as it spoke. She leaned forward over David, brushing his rain-soaked bangs out of his face. "D-David, I-I tried to t-tell you. You should have listened to him." She said, holding in the worst of her tears. His eyes fluttered open "I-I am so. s-sorry, Rain. I-I lo-ve you. I'm.sorry I w-won't be able. to stay w-with you." He said, his breaths soft and shaky, each of them causing more pain than the last. Rain leaned forward and kissed his shaky lips softly. "I love you to, my sweet David. I'm coming soon." She said, her eyes clouding over with her tears as she reached for the long, sharp daggar in David's boot. She couldn't live with the burden of knowing that David had died for his love of her. She raised it and drove it deep into her heart feeling her love lessen the pain. She let the bloodied blade slide from her hands, laying close to David as she felt herself weakening, her life's blood washing away in the last of the rain. And as the sun finally broke the long-shadowed horizon, two lovers died in the first rays, wrapped forever in each others arms. For all eternity. The shadow receaded, soon to return.
To be continued.
So how'd ya'll like this chapter? Huh, huh? Send reviews if you wanna find out what Amy finds behind the door. And is this mysterious tale of love repeat itself? Wanna find out? Review. ();D this was from Angel and Rain.
