Children of the Legend
By: Kari Minamoto
Author's Note: Don't hate me for not updating! I have been super busy! In August I had 3 books left to read for school and then straight into my AP, Honors, and Advanced classes. This is just to give you an idea of my schedule this year. I also have SATs and ACTs next month. Also all my college applications need to be done by November 1st. I'm really busy like I said so I do not know when another update will be. Please enjoy CotL Chapter 20!
Disclaimer: Don't own digimon. I just have an overactive imagination.
Chapter 20- Duskmon Dilemma
The line was dead. There was no other explanation. Koji fumbled for the light switch and flicked it up and down. Nothing happened. The only problem was that he could see lights on across the street even through the blinding rain. It didn't make any sense for one house to loose power.
Koji stumbled toward the direction he believed was the kitchen. It took him about five minutes and a couple stubbed toes to get there and then to find the flashlight behind the cleaning supplies in a cabinet. He flipped it on and the room glowed welcomingly. Needless to say, it was very welcoming to the Warrior of Light.
He moved quietly but quickly toward his room while trying to ignore the throbbing pain in his toe. Koji went up the stairs and closed the door of his room as soon as he got there and started worrying about something more important than his toe. Duskmon was back and he must still be after the light.
Koji went over to his bookcase and was about to pick up his cell phone, which had been placed there after the adventures tonight, to notify the others. All of a sudden someone grabbed him and turned him around. This caused the flashlight to fall to the ground and the light to go out.
A cold hand was covering his mouth and through the darkness he could see blood red eyes and knew it was Duskmon. Koji instinctively tried to pull the hand off his face but knew it was useless. He was a powerful digimon, and in human form Koji was exactly that, human. Duskmon's hand felt almost like death itself, cold and clammy.
"Don't make a sound or I'll kill you," Duskmon whispered.
He did not need a loud voice or anymore words than that to make himself understood. Koji was frightened. He had not really been afraid of Duskmon until now. Even in the digital world Koji knew there was a connection. Once he knew it was Koichi, it was almost impossible for Duskmon to prevail. Koji was determined to save his brother. Nothing else had mattered.
This wasn't Koichi. This wasn't his brother. Duskmon was heartless and cold, Koichi was kind and thoughtful. No piece of his brother was there. They were completely separate entities now.
Koji heard the sword unsheathed from his arm and closed his eyes. He waited for the blade to come, but something was wrong. He hadn't been killed yet. The teen opened his eyes and tried to stall for time as Duskmon's hand had come off his mouth knowing the boy wouldn't scream.
"Why do you fight for the darkness?" Koji asked him.
"Because Darkness must destroy the light so that I can be at peace. Light kills the darkness," was the simple reply. "Therefore I must kill you."
"Light and Dark can live in harmony, now go away and leave the two of us alone," Koji said with anger.
He set the blade and readied for the attack. Koji quickly tried to think of what was on the bookshelf that might be useful in a situation like this. He wouldn't be able to reach the cell phone in time. He only had seconds. Koji fumbled for anything behind him that might be useful. His hand landed on the other necklace. It felt warm to the touch.
On instinct the boy took it and placed it in front of him. It began to glow a bright purple. Duskmon began wincing in pain before the light became too much for him and dissipated into the shadows.
The lights came back on the instant he was gone. Koji slumped against the desk and fell to the floor with the necklace still in hand.
Koji heard his father snore one room over and looked down at the necklace.
"What the heck is this thing?"
Kari thought she was an insomniac. There was no way she could sleep or get to sleep. She tossed in bed again and saw T.K. sleeping peacefully next to her.
Deciding sleep was not going to come to her she got out of bed and pulled on a soft pink bathrobe over her satin purple nightgown.
Kari had never been able to sleep, even when she was little. She always seemed to see things in her dreams. Before Tai went to the digital world, Myotismon, the new digidestined they all appeared in dreams. Whenever the digital world was involved she seemed to have a dream about it.
Kari headed for the fridge and started looking for something eat. Not finding anything in there she opened the freezer and settled on Chocolate Choloate Chip ice cream- something almost any woman could not resist.
Putting a huge scoop into a bowl she opened the screen on the veranda and sat down on the wicker lounge when she had read a great many books over the summer.
Kari kicked up and took the bowl of ice cream in her lap and lost her appetite before the spoon reached her mouth.
"No way, Myotismon's carriage," Kari whispered as it flew across the rainy sky.
Myotismon was on a hunt for his missing crony, his strongest one at that. The one that seemed to have a mind of his own. Myotismon felt he had no control over the warrior of darkness.
"Demidevimon! Make it go faster!" he yelled at the bat-like creature.
"Yes your lordship," he replied with passion. "You heard him. Faster!" He called to the digimon who was driving.
"Me smash you when me get chance," the digimon with an absurdly long nose grumbled.
As soon as the carriage sped up Myotismon thought he saw something. A glowing red something.
"Stop the carriage!" Myotismon said and jumped out of the coach while it was in midair. For an evil digimon he gracefully landed on the ground in front of the digimon he was looking for.
"Duskmon! When have you been!" Myotismon yelled taking the evil warrior by the neck as the rain drenched the two.
The warrior of darkness did not respond at first.
"I was visiting someone," he replied calmly.
"Who! Did you find one!" Myotismon said loosening his grip.
"Yes," he replied.
"Who?" Myotismon said eagerly.
"I cannot say," he solemnly replied.
"Why can't you!" Myotismon screamed punching the brick wall next to him leaving a dent.
"I can't," the warrior of darkness replied calmly.
"Why!" Myotismon screamed his pale face dangerously close to becoming red.
"Because of the human I have a connection, though an unwanted connection, with," he told his master with no emotion.
Myotismon was puzzled. His flunkie was being controlled like a pet. Like those digi-brats he wanted dead.
Myotismon turned around his cape flapping in the wind.
"I don't care what you have to do, get rid if this…connection, even if you have to kill the human," Myotismon said and walked off into the mist that was being created by the rain when it hit the warm pavement.
Duskmon just looked up to the darkened sky, preferring that way. When the light came back out he would have to hide in the shadows again. Between the light zapping power from the darkness, he was not at full strength because of the idiotic boy he could not kill!
"I wish it was that easy," Duskmon said to himself before slinking into the shadows.
Takuya wasn't an early riser.
No, he absolutely hated mornings. Mornings meant another day of school, another day of Shinya, and another day of unpredictability. Well, actually the unpredictability wasn't that bad, school was though.
One thing he hated was getting up earlier than he had to. He was never in a good mood if anyone disturbed his sleep before the alarm clock did. Not to mention the half a dozen alarm clocks that had suffered Takuya tantrums as his mother called them. Therefore, anyone can think of Takuya's reaction when his cell phone went off in the wee hours the morning.
Takuya still half in slumber reached for the phone on the brown table by his bed. He was currently tangled in his fire-themed bedding, and once his hand found the phone, Takuya hit the end call button.
'Now I have to try and get back to sleep,' Takuya thought while snuggling into his covers again.
As soon as he was starting to drift once more, the phone began ringing again. Takuya wasn't happy now. He got up and grabbed his phone. Shinya sometimes thought the phone would end up through the wall and in his room when Takuya got this angry at his telephone.
"What! It's early let me sleep already!" Takuya cried into the phone.
"It's Koji," the voice on the other end told him steadily.
"Huh, Koji, is something wrong?" Takuya asked worriedly knowing Koji would not call early in the morning for no reason.
"Duskmon's here," he replied.
"What he can't be! I mean Koichi's okay right?" Takuya said now sitting on the edge of his bed.
"I think he is. He had the doctor call me with a message that Duskmon was back. I was about to call everyone when I felt a presence behind me and it was him. He grabbed me and I really thought he was going to kill me," Koji told him so calmly that Takuya was amazed.
It was not everyday that a deranged digimon that was somewhat related to you tried to kill you.
"So you're okay?" Takuya asked unsure of how to react.
"Yeah, but I'm more worried about Koichi, what if Duskmon goes after him," Koji said concern in his voice. "Also bring that necklace thing to school tomorrow; there is something weird about them."
Takuya could not figure out what Koji was thinking. Of course they were different. They came with the spirits! Then he also remembered what he had done earlier that day, when he met the man with the chocolate eyes. The man named Tai Kamiya.
"Heh, heh, heh," Takuya giggled uncertainly and started playing with a loose thread on his comforter, "er, are you sure you want them tomorrow?"
"Yes…Why did you loose them?" Koji asked suspiciously.
Takuya could feel the icy glare even with Koji across town. Even though Koji was not there, he began to sweat.
"No, not exactly. See I met this guy, I got a name though. And I…gave…them… to him," Takuya said feeling Koji's temper rising on the other end.
"You did what!" Koji yelled, but not load enough to wake anyone.
"Don't worry I'll get them back next week when I see him again," Takuya said wincing.
"You better or we'll be four short," Koji stated.
"Huh, how did it become four? My two, Zoe's, and…" Takuya was cut off.
"One of mine that mom made me give the doctor since he was interested in it," Koji said some spite in the words.
"So you lost one too," Takuya said a little smugly.
"Like I said Mom made me. I'll see tomorrow in school. Good morning," Koji said and abruptly hung up the phone.
'Good morning, o yeah,' Takuya thought while looking at the digital clock next to his bed. It was four in the morning.
He was going to have to get up in a few hours, exhausted.
Takuya did not really think about that he turned off the cell phone, snuggled under the covers, and went to bed for just a little longer.
To be continued…
I'm sorry once again for no updates for a while. I'm going to try to get into a pattern of at least a chapter a month. It will be pretty messed up until I'm done with college applications. Once again I apologize. Please read and review! Thank you! (I'm sorry it's so short! I wanted to update!)