Me: (walks in wearing a fire-suit) God, I am a terrible person; I didn't update this story in forever.
Calumon: (looks at me strangely) That's true, but what's the outfit for?
Me: I'm expecting a LOT of flames for this chapter, I don't want to get burned.
Calumon: (Worried) Uh.. Will I need one?
Me: Doubt it, it's normally the authors that take the heat for this stuff; now, on with the chapter
Calumon: Dragonborn doesn't own anyone besides Leon Draco and DeathGazimon.
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Dark Ally
Chapter 4: The Start of a Very Long Day
Nonaka Residence (12:20 p.m.)
Renamon rested on the branch of a tree in Rika's backyard, thinking about Guilmon and the strange feeling he brought on in her. She was certain she had felt something like it before, but where and when escaped her. She cursed under her breath and clenched a fist in frustration.
"Everything alright?"
Renamon jumped slightly at the voice, she had been too immersed in her own thoughts to notice the other that had joined her.
"Everything is fine" she said, glancing downward at Hata Seiko, Rika's grandmother.
"Are you sure, you seem preoccupied?" the kind old woman asked
The fox digimon hesitated, she wasn't one that you usually started a conversation with. Then again, Seiko had seen a lot in her years and always did her best to help others. Renamon sighed, she had nothing to lose by doing this so she told the old woman about these feelings of her's. After she had finished , Hata Seiko smiled with a twinkle in her eye.
"This feeling" she said "describe it"
Renamon closed her eyes in thought, searching for the right words.
"It feels uplifting" she finally said "Like my heart flutters yet stops beating at the same time; I know I felt something like it before, but I can't name it.
Seiko smiled, she knew what it was.
"Love" she said softly
Renamon was shocked, so much so that she fell out of the tree; she managed to land on her feet, though, not as gracefully as usual.
"What did you say?" she asked, knowing full well what the response would be.
"It seems to me that you're in love with Guilmon" the old woman said with a smile.
Renamon was too stunned to say anything for a minute.
"But that's... impossible." she finally said
"And why's that?" Seiko asked "Don't think he's your type?" she laughed lightly
"It's no joke" Renamon said seriously, stopping the old woman's chuckles. "Digimon do not interbreed" she continued "Especially not outside their types."
"I'm sorry, I don't understand."
Renamon sighed "There are three types of digimon: Data, Virus, and Vaccine. The three types are incompatible with each other; I'm a Data-type digimon, Guilmon is a virus-type. There is no way it could work." and with that she phased out, leaving Hata Seiko to her own thoughts.
-This whole 'types' thing is so confusing- she thought -I know it's really none of my business, but I hope they do get together; there's not enough love in the world.-
The School (12:26 p.m.)
(A/n: In this story all the Tamers now go to the same school)
Takato was the only student still in the classroom; all the others had gone to lunch but he'd been forced to eat here, his punishment for falling asleep in class. He clenched a fist; it wasn't his fault this stuff was boring, was it. His fist started to glow a faint crimson color and he forced himself to calm down, if he got too angry it would affect Guilmon and then...
-Megidramon-
The goggle head shuddered visibly. He'd promised himself numerous times to prevent that monster from ever coming back; and so far he had, but the thought of 'what if?' had haunted his nightmares for about three months now.
"Hey, Chumly" Kazu's voice sent his sent his depressing train of thought off track; the brown haired Tamer looked up and saw not only his visor wearing friend but Kenta, Henry, Jeri, Ryo, even...
"Rika?" he was surprised she had agreed to come, surely people would talk.
"Don't get any ideas gogglehead, they blackmailed me."
Takato's face took on a blank look.
"I got my hands on a picture of her in a dress" Kenta spoke up "And I told her I'd give it to the school newspaper unless she agreed to come."
"And you lived"
"MarineAngemon has a copy; I told him deliver it if anything happened to me."
"And I'm burning both of them." Rika said
Takato chuckled at his friend's antics before he realized something. "Hey, won't you guys get in trouble if Ms. Asagi comes back?
This time it was Jeri who answered, or rather her puppet. "Ruff, we face evil digimon everyday, we can handle a detention; Ruff, Ruff!"
Takato, Kazu, Kenta, Ryo, and Rika all groaned, they still held out hope she'd get rid of that thing. Henry, on the other hand, chuckled lightly. "You said it." The blue-haired Tamer said with a smile. Their friends smiled knowingly; this was by no means the first time one of these scenes had played out, and, despite either denying it profusely, everyone knew they had a thing for each other. Takato was especially grateful that Jeri had found someone; he had come to think of her as the sister he'd never had, and Henry was the all around best person he knew so the lead Tamer saw it as a match made in heaven.
The happy mood of the impromptu meeting, however, was soon shattered by THE voice of authority among the school. "Well then, if you really feel that way you won't mind staying an hour after school." In the doorway to the classroom, an exasperated look on her face, was the very teacher who'd given Takato his lunchtime detention. Ms. Asagi.
"Aw man, are you serious?" Kazu whined while Kenta slumped into his seat with a moan.
Well used to the not-so-dynamic-duo's antics, the teacher nodded in an tired manner. "I am very serious; and I have quite a few jobs for all of you." With that, Ms. Asagi left the room to arrange the detentions. Feeling like they'd had most of the happiness sucked out of them, the Tamers all flopped down into their seats.
"Well; look at it this way, Digimon Queen" Ryo said. "You get to spend some quality time with the Digimon King. While the spiky haired boy managed to only get a death glare from Rika, Takato had to hold himself back from punching the elder Tamer in the face. Ryo was a decent kid MOST of the time, and Takato was glad to call him his friend. But that smug, 'I'm a gift to all you lesser mortals' attitude of his was enough to irritate a saint. The goggle-headed teen also had a nagging suspicion that his fellow Tamer was going to make a move on Rika on of these days, something that could have dire consequences. He had a sudden and vivid mental image of the twisted hell-dragon that was Megidramon dropping a screaming Ryo into his cavernous maw.
"Am I interrupting something?"
"WHAH!" Takato jumped in fright and fell out of his seat as Renamon appeared behind him. "Do you have to do that?"
The vulpine digimon chose to ignore the question and turned to her Tamer. "Hello, Rika"
"Renamon" The redhead said, returning the greeting. "What brings you here?"
"Our 'friend' from yesterday." Renamon went on to explain about the new Tamer and his Partner. The others were understandably shocked; not only was the youth a new Tamer, he'd actually stood up to Cyberdramon. Even Rika had to admit that the kid was either gutsy or insane. "And he wants you to meet him in the park after school." She finished and the Tamers looked at each other.
"Man, how are we gonna meet him if we've got detentions?" Kazu said and Rika sighed
"As much as I hate to admit it; visor boy has a point"
"Yeah" Takato agreed. There was a long and tense silence that was only shattered when the bell for next period rang. Renamon phased out as the rest of the class slowly trickled in and the Tamers looked at one another. None of them actually spoke, but the consensus was understood; they'd talk about it later.
Hypnos (12:30 p.m.)
Yamaki paced the floor of his office; the sound of his lighter clicking was easily audible, letting everyone know he was getting angry again. The energy spike had yet to be located and the blond man was beginning to think it had just been a glitch in the system.
"You're a bit quick to disappointment, aren't you?"
"Whose there?"
"Who we are is immaterial; it is the why that matters"
"The why?" The leader of Hypnos repeated.
"We are here because your world is in danger of being destroyed."
"So what else is new?" He asked sarcastically.
"This is a threat that will not be easily swayed"
"What are you talking about?"
"A being whose evil spans the dimensions, who yearns for the destruction of all worlds."
"You must protect my chosen Tamer; this being will seek him out for his power"
"If you mean that Leon brat, you can forget it" Yamaki almost shouted. Seconds later, blinding pain ripped through his body and he fell to the floor, writhing in agony.
"Do not try our patience, mortal!"
The voices and the pain vanished and he stood; panting, pale and covered in a cold sweat. -Damn it all!- his mind screamed.
Shinjuku Park (12:34 p.m.)
Guilmon walked through the park, bored out of his mind and trying to find someone to play with. A human couple walked by with the eyes glued to the red dino; he smiled at them and the two humans quickened their pace. The digimon sighed while his bat like ears drooped; you'd think that after the D-reaper and the Parasimon they would have been excepted by humans. Sure; they'd been honored by the mayor of Shinjuku himself, they'd even had a parade in honor of everything that they'd done. But now, less then a year later, some people had begun to express concern or even outright disgust at their presence. Guilmon did his best not to show it, but when someone hates you for being who you are, it hurts.
"Hey, you're one of those digimon; aren't you?"
The digital dino turned toward the voice and immediately recoiled in shock. The one who'd spoken was a nineteen year old girl with raven hair that ran to the small of her back and piercing green eyes that demanded an answer. Flanking her were four boys so close in appearance they could have been brothers. All four were eighteen with the bodies of football linebackers, arms that looked like they could break a two by four without breaking a sweat, and legs that could have kicked a football into next week. Their muscular bodies towered over the girl and any of them could have easily snapped her like a twig; but from the way all of them all of them were hanging on her every word left little doubt as to who was in charge. Guilmon's eyes lingered for a minute on the skull and crossbones that were tattooed on the five necks. "Well?" The girl's tone had become more demand then question.
"Um, yeah." he said, taking a few steps back. His Tamer had told him to avoid kids like this, that they would do bad things to him. What Takato meant by 'bad things', Guilmon had never asked but now it looked like he would find out anyway. The four boys slowly walked around till the digital dino was enclosed in a circle with the girl facing him with a sadistic smile. "Hey, what's going on?!"
The girl gave a laugh that sent a chill up Guilmon's spine. "I'm going to have a little 'fun' with you." The circle started to close in just as the red dino tried to bolt for it. One of the boys grabbed his arm and swung him back into the center where his other limbs were grabbed by the other boys. The girl slowly moved forward until she was less then a foot away from Guilmon.
"Please" The digmon whined and begged "Don't hurt me." He was scared out of his mind at the way the girl kept on smiling. How something that was normally so comforting and welcome was turned into something that was so utterly terrifying by this girl.
Another one of those sinister chuckles emanated from the girl's mouth and Guilmon shuddered in fear. "I already told you," The girl's voice was both seductive and frightening the same time. "I'm going to have a little fun"
"This doesn't seem like fun" It was one of those moments where Guilmon's innocence left him blind to all the things that were wrong in this world. He had no idea what these people were planning, but he knew it wasn't something he was going to like. The dinosaur struggled to break free of the boys that held him, but their muscles held him fast. The girl slid her hands across the digimon's bare chest making him whimper and shake with fright. She took no pity on her victim; indeed, she seemed to be enjoying the fearful whimpers and the tears forming in the creature's golden eyes. Her hands danced intricate circles on his abdomen as they slowly made their way across his stomach, then moved lower into place that Guilmon didn't want touched.
"Get. Your. Filthy. Hands. Off. Him." The five elder teens turned, in the girl's case completely around, to find themselves staring at a golden kitsune less then five feet away. Her ice blue eyes were shining with a furious blaze.
"Or you'll what?" The girl challenged as she made the mistake of approaching the enraged fox. Renamon's answer came in the form of a roundhouse kick that knocked the girl into a nearby tree. Rendering her unconscious in an instant and most likely fracturing a vertebrae or two. The girl's thugs dropped Guilmon, letting the dino collapse to the ground in a shivering heap, and advanced on the fox. The first tried a full out bull rush to tackle her; not an idea that would make his top ten that day. Renamon jumped over the boy like it was nothing and delivered a punishing kick to his back on the way down. He impacted the ground with enough force to both brake his nose and leave him unconscious like his leader. She didn't even bother waiting for the second of the quartet; just dropped him with a solid punch to the stomach and another to the back of the neck. The remaining two circled for a minute eying the digimon with cautious glances. Even they knew it would be best to cut there losses and run, but testosterone and pride prevented them from doing so. They rushed forward from opposites sides, in a vain attempt to double team her. Renamon rolled her eyes and vanished just before the reach her; resulting in the two boys slamming into each other. The kitsune reappeared a few inches back from her original spot and clapped the two heads together cartoon style letting the last of the gang join their fellows on the ground.
As she turned to Guilmon, the tension that a battle always brought on in her slowly ebbed away. Renamon slowly approached the whimpering mass that was her friend. "Guilmon?" She asked as she laid a paw on his shoulder. The dino's whimpering and shaking increased violently as tears formed in his tightly shut eyes. "Relax" She said, gently shushing him. "It's only me."
Guilmon finally opened his eyes. "Renamon" He choked back a sob. "What about..."
"They won't bother you anymore" She said soothingly. Looking the dino over Renamon was relieved to see that he wasn't hurt, just shaken up a little. "I'm going to take you home now." The kitsune stood and, with some difficulty, lifted Guilmon a few inches off the ground allowing her to phase both back to his shed.
Hypnos (12:46 p.m.)
Yamaki stared out his large office window at the city below. They never really knew just how much danger they were actually in. Just four months after the D-Reaper incident life had gone back to normal, and the Parasimon had faded from memory in less then a month. But if what those damned voices had told him was to be believed; then the city was in more danger then ever before.
"Sir" One of the lower level tech burst into his office; most likely pulled off duty for the city scan. "The energy spike" He panted, apparently have run the entire way. "We found it."
Yamaki almost knocked the man over as he ran past him. The blond man felt his heart racing as he sprinted through the corridors and up several flights of stairs. "What do we have!" He shouted upon entering the Ops center.
"Were not sure, sir." Riley answered. "It appears to be similar to similar to the energy a digimon uses to bio-emerge; but it's not digital in nature."
"Where's it headed?" Yamaki barked, hoping he'd get a straight answer this time.
Now it was Daisy's turn to answer, as she typed commands into her keyboard. "Shinjuku park; 1 minute to emergence."
-Not enough time to get a team there- Yamaki thought desperately. -And I can't pull those kids out of school that fast.- He was running out of options. "Try Yugothh" Riley typed in another command and the data destroying program quickly booted up and sought out the targeted energy. It broke apart be fore it even got close.
"20 seconds to emergence"
Yamaki's hand began to click the lighter by itself as his stress level rose. Juggernaut would take a full five minutes to warm up and even then the children's digimon would be at risk for deletion. He was out of options, and time. His eyes looked at the screen displaying the countdown to bio-emergence when an idea hit him. "I've got a call to make." He said in a surprisingly calm voice. Riley and Daisy watched as the head of Hypnos walked slowly out of the Ops center. On screen, the icon representing whatever this was flashed to indicate its emergence.
The Park (12:50 p.m.)
The greyish-white fog of a digital field slowly condensed in the middle of Shinjuku Park. Everyone with any amount of sense stopped what they were doing and made fast tracks for the nearest exit. Everyone that is, except for the news crews. Monster battles always made for big boosts in the ratings so when the few in the area saw the fog the made a mad dash to focus their cameras on the slowly thickening fog.