Chapter 14
Tai yawned as he woke up—for the second morning in a row—naked. At least this time he expected it. He and Shiva were lying on her bed with the sheets only making it to their waists, leaving their torsos uncovered. He smiled down at the sleeping half demon cuddled into his chest and would have found himself quite relaxed if not for the uncomfortable pressure in his bladder. Unfortunately for him he was rendered immobile until Shiva got off of his left wing. Resigned, he figured he could hold it for a while. He decided to pass the time by lazily tracing the tattoos on Shiva's stomach with his finger.
Shiva began to stir at his touch and eventually squinted up at him.
"Morning," Tai said softly while placing a kiss on her forehead. He didn't know why he did it, but for some reason he felt really sensational around her lately. Definitely different from how he felt about Moira.
"Mmm, morning." She mumbled while snuggling farther into his warm body. After a moment she made a face.
"Ugg- Tai, you are lying on my tail!"
Tai had to smile at this.
"So? You're lying on my wings."
Shiva cracked her eyes open a little and giggled, "Well I guess we're stuck here then."
Tai made a pouty face.
"But... I have to pee..." he whined.
Shiva burst out laughing.
"I'm serious!" he continued, chagrined, "There are consequences to having that kind of stamina!"
The young demoness next to him stifled her giggled and nodded in agreement.
"That was pretty damn good last night." Shiva said truthfully, "By the way, thank you. I needed that."
"The sex?"
"Yea the sex! I can only watch you shower so many times before I jump you!"
"Look whose talking miss I like to shimmy while I'm wet."
Shiva smiled slyly, "You like it."
"You got me there." Tai admitted. He winced as Shiva rolled a bit closer to him, adding more pressure to his abdomen. Shiva rolled her eyes.
"Oh fine then! Go relieve yourself!"
They laid there for a moment in silence. Tai looked expectantly at Shiva.
"Shiva..."
"Yea...?"
"You gotta get off me," he laughed.
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Breakfast that morning was nothing out of the ordinary—besides the fact that Gennai had noticed a boy and a girl coming out of the boy's room and a boy and a girl coming out of the girl's room. He shook his head in mortification at his successors' behavior. It was time... for a talk. Gennai stepped into the kitchen where the four human looking guardians ate their eggs while holding a casual conversation.
"Man, she is a screamer!" Tai laughed and then winced as a scowling Shiva yanked on his ponytail. Griff chortled through a mouthful of eggs, earning him a reproachful look from Angela.
"Hell yeah, I could almost hear her over Angela—and that's saying something."
The boys continued making cracks about their intimate partners howling with laughter, pounding on the table and wiping tears from their eyes.
"If we're lucky they'll choke on their eggs," Angela sniffed disdainfully.
"Hmm," Shiva agreed, "So how was it last night anyways?"
Angela smiled, tuning out the boy's guffaws, "It was pretty good. It seems to get better each time, ya know? How 'bout you two? From what I heard you outlasted us..." She finished this account with raised eyebrows.
"Let's just say there's a big difference between humans and gods." Shiva giggled. Angela's jaw dropped.
"You mean you did... while he was a demi-God?"
"That's not aaaallll," Shiva sang and Angela's eyes got even wider.
"You—you were a demon?"
"Holy shit, no wonder you were at it all night." Angela exclaimed at Shiva's shameless nod.
"Well getting her out of that leather suit probably took up a good portion of that time." Tai interrupted, leaning across the table while Griff laughed.
"Baby we should try it while we're not humans." Angela said casually to Griff.
Griff choked on his eggs. Shiva gave Angela a high five.
"We have to talk." An elderly voice stated from the kitchen doorway. Gennai hobbled in, looking as old as ever and sat down at the table.
Tai pushed his plate away from himself and asked, "Is it about the prophecy? Have you decoded it?"
Gennai fixed them a disapproving glare.
"It's about you sexual activities that you engage in far too often." He replied blandly.
Shiva snorted into her eggs.
"Umm," Angela started unsurely, "I'm not sure what you mean? Are talking about the sex we have?"
"Yes," said Gennai a bit angrily, "I understand you have a relationship but your duties as a guardian are first priority. I do not need you getting sick or pregnant at a time like this. We are bordering a war!"
"Gennai calm down. No one is going to get pregnant." Tai said evenly. Gennai shook his head.
"You don't know that. And this goes for you and Shiva as well."
"I know when I can get pregnant Gennai, I've got it covered." Shiva said in her defense.
"That's all good and well," Gennai replied, "But don't think I don't know what you did to get the prophecy Tai."
Tai blushed and looked down at his lap.
"Gennai, if it will make you feel better we'll try to cut down on the sex." Griff stated.
"Anyway, the war will be over in the next few months," said Angela, "pregnancies take too long to become too much of a problem."
Gennai sighed wearily, "I'm sorry children, but in the digital world a pregnancy would take from three to four months at the most. I've seen them happen at two and a half months."
A shocked silence followed this statement.
"AHHHHH!" Angela screamed, "I can't believe it! Griff! No more sex! Two and a half months? Two and a half? What if I'm pregnant now? What if I just swell up one night and the baby shoots out of me?"
"Uh, cross your legs?" Griff added hopefully. Shiva smacked him upside the head. Tai looked just as lost as Griff did at Angela's sudden support of abstinence.
"Calm down Angela," Tai said, "I'll buy a shit load of condoms when I go to the real world in a few weeks."
"Thanks man," Griff said relieved. Apparently he couldn't handle the thought of no more sex, "Wait, why are you going to the real world?"
"Yeah," Shiva said eyeing him suspiciously, "Why are you going there? You just saw your friends yesterday."
"I'm not going to Japan."
"Well where are you going then?"
Tai rubbed his eyes resignedly, "I told you where I was going last week. I've gone a few times now. Why are you such a space shot?"
"Tell meeeee!" Shiva whined.
"He's going to England," Gennai interrupted, tired of the little game, "to work on negotiations with the wizarding portion of the human world."
A couple months ago, Tai came up with the idea to make alliances with other dimensions of earth. At first Gennai was reluctant, but Tai was extremely insistent on the idea and kept bringing up the point that it could prevent wars between the dimensions should they ever be thrown into coexistence. His idea was to choose a representative from each world to make a pact with. So far he and the other guardians had reached Hell, the dark ocean, the undying lands, and the wizarding world.
"You mean we're going." Tai corrected.
"No, I'm afraid It'll be just you this time Tai," Gennai said with a small smile as he stood up to leave. Tai opened his mouth to protest when he noticed Gennai was leaning heavily on the arm of his chair as he struggled to stand. He had been walking much more hunched over than usual these past few weeks and his hands shook more often than not. He chose to remain silent.
"Can I come with you Tai? Please?" Shiva asked. Tai regarded Shiva for a moment and decided he could use the company.
"Alright, but you have to behave yourself. The person I'm meeting has recently suffered a loss among other things so try to be nice."
"Oh all right," Shiva pouted.
"You're only meeting with one person? I thought it would be some counsel meeting thing. Like with the ministry or something?" Griff asked confusedly.
Tai laughed harshly and replied in a dismissive tone, "Unfortunately their ministry is unstable and not capable to make apt decisions for the period of turmoil which they have recently entered. They have also been cursed with an incompetent and idiotic minister. No, I have found a much more suitable contact for the wizarding world."
Silence ensued for a moment.
"So I take it you don't like the ministry?" Griff asked wearily.
"Nope!" Tai said cheerfully, "You want to come?"
"Uh, no thanks. I've seen enough of England."
"I'll stay with Griff," Angela said uneasily, "He'll need the company."
Tai shrugged, "I'll right. Shiva, don't forget this time."
"Can we stop and see Isha? Please?"
"No, I don't think we'll have time. Maybe some other time."
Shiva sighed. "Oh, alright. You do know I haven't seen him for like a month, right? Do you know what happens when I don't get my regular dose of man candy?"
Griff shook his head at her.
"You're supposed to be making alliances with hell, idiot, not flirting with the guardians of the gates!"
"Well you can't blame me! Look at the man, he's half a millennium old and he still looks like an Abrocombe model!" Shiva cried in her defense.
Griff and Tai gave her unimpressed looks. Shiva looked at Angela for support.
"Well, he is ridiculously good looking-" Griff threw her a sharp look, "but he's also married. And like you said, in actuality he's pretty old, for a half demon that is."
"Actually, he got a divorce," Tai whispered to Griff so Shiva wouldn't hear.
Shiva sighed in defeat, "I still want to ogle him."
"I know Shiva," Angela said sympathetically, "I know."
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"Why aren't you trying to get that damn prophesy back witch?"
Moira slapped a hand to her forehead and moaned. She had been over this a thousand times with her master and it was wearing on her nerves.
"I will, alright!" she snapped. She could feel the beginnings of another migraine pulsing behind her eyes. "I'll send out some legions in the time being."
The fire in front of her roared with indignation.
"It has been weeks since you launched any attack. You are getting weak and lazy."
Moira felt a fiery anger swell in her chest. Her emotions were on overdrive and she was not in the mood to deal with a megalomaniac control freak.
"Listen," she growled, closing her eyes in hopes of holding her temper, "I am going to kill that bitch and then I will destroy the old man and all of his little followers."
The voice seemed to snort in contempt as it stated, "And what about your little lover boy? Surely we can't forget about him? Or are you emotionally attached to this one as well?"
The words were spoken with severe sarcasm. Moira's eyes flashed at the mention of Tai and she snarled, "I will most definitely kill that imposter. He used his connection to Taro against me! H-he manipulated me..." she trailed off as tears welled in her eyes. Taro would have never used her like that. Taro loved her. Tai was not Taro, and she was beginning to see that.
"Stop your blubbering you useless bitch! I told you to deal with the boy as soon as possible and look what happened!"
Moira's head snapped up in alarm.
"What?" she asked, fear in her eyes.
"The prophecy, that's what!"
Tears started to slide down her cheeks. For some reason Moira couldn't stop crying.
"That's all you care about isn't it? That damn prophecy!" she screamed at him as she turned on her heel and strode towards the door.
"Where are you going?" The voice roared at her, seemingly troubled at her behavior.
"To the kitchens!" she screamed back at it before she slammed the door.
The room was silent for a moment.
"What... the hell?"
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True to her word, within the next couple of weeks, Moira launched an attack. It started out with a few virus digimon attacking Primary Village. Angela and Griff volunteered to take care of the issue thinking it was nothing more than a small raid. Oh how wrong they were.
Minutes after they arrived they were ambushed from all sides by several devidramon mixed with a few other types of digimon. Griff held them off for a moment while Angela quickly contacted the coliseum. Shiva, of course came right a way to help them. At the time, unfortunately, Tai was away on the other side of Server Island trying to patch up a rift that broke though the digital world's barrier and was allowing random woodland animals in from the human world (mostly raccoons). Eventually Gennai was able to contact Tai about the attack on Primary Village and he left immediately. He was about a mile away from the scene when something large and black attacked at him from the left.
Tai jumped back and landed in a crouch several feet away as a devimon swung its claws at him. The devimon grabbed a boulder next to it and hurled it at him. Tai launched into the air as the boulder smashed into the ground where he was once positioned. Spreading his wings, Tai soared over the devimon's head and started flying east to where the others were battling. As expected, the devimon followed him. Tai made sure to keep a safe distance from the pursuing aggressor as he searched for his friends. Moments later he spotted them just where the forest ended. Angela and Griff were working together while they constantly deleted the hordes of virus digimon that were attacking the group. To his utter surprise he found Shiva battling with Moira—well battling wouldn't be the appropriate word in this case. More like bitching with her. The two demonic females were standing at least 20 feet away from each other and screaming profanities. Tai slowed down a little as he observed the confrontation in bewilderment and would have forgotten about the devimon behind him if it had not suddenly dived at his unguarded back.
"Woah there!" Tai yelled as he spun out of the way, his long brown hair whipping his face. Before the devimon could turn around for another assault, Tai drew his sword as it began spouting fire, and in one swift motion slashed a giant flame through its back, effectively deleting it. Without a second thought Tai dived down quickly by folding his wings behind him and then expanding them at the end if his descent to soften his landing.
"—goddamn whore—"
"—you're the whore, man stealer—"
"—oh, you're one to talk slut—"
"—bitch—"
"—cunt—"
"—oily skank—"
"—ass wipe—"
Tai looked back at the two women and caught Moira's eye. She froze in mid tirade. Her eyes lusted over for a moment before she caught herself and glared at him. Tai returned the look while trying to suppress the warm feeling that was rising from his chest. Without warning Moira launched herself at Tai, staff raised high. Tai used his sword to block the attack and threw her away from him high into the air. She flipped over his head and landed behind him; she immediately attacked again. She kept charging at him without relenting for the better part of ten minutes. Shiva had long since decided to leave it to them and joined Angela and Griff in taking out devidramon.
Tai grunted as the butt of Moira's staff hit his stomach. He knocked it away with his left arm and slashed at her side with his sword, spinning in the process. Moira just narrowly avoided the weapon. Her eyes widened suddenly and she slowly backed away from Tai.
"What's your problem?" he asked disdainfully, yet he couldn't help but feel concerned about her strange behavior.
Moira threw him a threatened look before a whirlwind of snow swept her up beneath her feet and took her away. Seeing their mistress leave, the few remaining devidramon stopped fighting and flew after her. The guardians made their way toward the TV screen, intent on going home.
"Tai," Shiva said quietly, walking after him, "There was something off about her..."
"What do you mean?"
Shiva just shrugged, "I'm not sure yet.
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"Ugg, I feel so gross," Angela moaned as she rubbed a spot of dirt on her cheek, only to achieve smearing it. Without a word, Griff grabbed her hand and led her to the showers. His walking was slowed with a limp from a devidramon piercing his calf with its talons.
Tai wiped blood out of his eye and looked at Shiva.
"You know what we do now?"
"Um... take a shower?"
"Well yeah, but before that."
"...hug Gennai!"
"yyyyyyyyyyes!"
The two of them snuck through the halls of the coliseum like it was mission impossible until they heard Gennai's unmistakable voice coming from Ace's room. When they peered inside, however, he was no where to be found.
"Gennai?" Tai called out as he stepped into the room, "Oh Gennai—where are you ya sexy bitch?"
Shiva giggled and looked around as well.
"Ace, where's Gennai?" She asked.
"I'm sorry, but he is unavailable at the moment," Ace said neutrally.
"But we just heard him," Tai argued, "He has to be here."
"Just leave it Tai," Shiva sighed as she took his arm and led him out of the room.
Tai looked back into the seemingly empty room and furrowed his brow. Something was definitely wrong.
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Dun, dun dun...
I know I know... where the hell have I been? Severe case of writer's block.
20 million points to whoever can guess who 'Isha' is! You'll find out later for the idiots who can't.
I'm sure everyone knows who Tai's contact for the wizarding world it. Surprise, surprise.
Good new: The next chapter will be out in about a week or two!