Hola, welcome to the fourth chapter of Hybrid Theory, I am your host Hartman227! Here with me is my brother Vulpe who is going to help me do a few things now and then. So don't be surprised if you hear from him instead of me, he might have to publish my stuff when he puts me in the hospital after sparring in the arena, back in the woods so no one sees us fighting, all night long!

Vulpe: don't worry! I won't hurt you that bad. I just need to keep my skills sharp for the upcoming chapter and the fight that will come soon after.

Me: Vulpe no spoilers! But yes there is a fight coming soon *shoots Vulpe an unappreciative look* but you are just going to have to find out when, where, and what happens during the fight for yourself by reading on! So here is chapter 4!

Chapter 4 A Lover's Embrace

POV: Andrew

Woke up in the morning still in my clothes from last night, a pair of red cargo pants, my red hoodie, and my faded print t-shirt, the only thing that was missing was my socks and my pair of silver encrusted combat boots. Which were now against the wall at the bottom of the bedside table that held the stand for my arm guards.

The entire day after that incident was just packing. I decided to take my favorite clothes. A pair of black faded print Affliction Jeans, a tribal print Fleece, a black hoodie with gold print around the hood, four different tribal print t-shirts, and three pairs of Black yin-yang printed cargo pants my colors of course for the yin-yang silver and red, as well as my pillow with a silk pillowcase. With the clothes spread out all over my bed, I started to pack them into my duffel bag. I quickly remembered I had to take the armguards and my newly acquired Zanpakuto, which was now hanging on my wall in its sheath.

I grabbed both and put them in a separate duffel bag and picked them both up and started down the hallway towards my brother's old room (which he was currently staying in). He was lying on his bed, awake, but just staring at the ceiling. He usually did this when he was thinking about something important or when he was nervous.

I decided not to bother him and kept walking down the stairs. As soon as I got to the bottom the phone rang. "Kitsune residence, Andrew speaking." I said as I answered the phone "hi, is Vulpe there?" a feminine voice responded over the phone. "Yeah he's in his room right now I will get him for you." I put the phone down and put my duffel bags down and ran up the stairs until I got to Vulpe's room, and he already had the phone off the hook and talking to her. "Damn it I forgot about his ears." I said as I remembered that he was more Renamon than human so he had a heightened sense of hearing.

I walked back down the stairs and I grabbed the duffel bags and walked out the front door. My dad was already at the car loading up the stuff we had packed already. I walked over and dropped the bags in the bed of the truck and my dad smiled at me and said "you know we are going back to kitsune valley after we get set at Vulpe's house right?" I looked at him astonished as I heard that I was going back to the place my father was from. "Really, what's it like there anyway? I mean I've heard rumors that it was one of the most beautiful places in the digital world but I never imagined I would be going there for myself." He just smiled even more and told me "It is one of the most beautiful places in the digital world, incredible place it is, now would be the time when the cherry trees are in full bloom, and the weather is perfect to walk around the town and get to know the place, or do some shopping, Your mother's favorite thing to do. I would bring a camera if I were you it is really a sight to behold your first time being there." He closed up the back of the bed and started to walk inside the house to get Vulpe. I followed him in, to get my camera, and see what mom was doing. I got to my room and dug through my piles of things I've accumulated over the years and found my digital camera.

I walked out of my room and walked down the hallway to my parent's room and found my mom on the bed with a photo album on her lap, she was so involved in the pictures that she did not even notice me come in. Then again I had picked up from my father and brother to walk near silently so it's not a surprise that she did not hear me come in the door. My foot caught a squeaky part of the floor and my mom was instantly jolted out of the picture and to my presence. She smiled as soon as she noticed it was me standing in front of her. She said "Come on over and sit down, I have a picture of you when you were little when we took our first trip to kitsune valley." I quickly made my way over to the bed and sat down next to her and looked on at the picture she was talking about. I was startled to find out that she was telling the truth and that I was sitting on top of my father's shoulders and he was standing next to a sakuyamon ,the queen I was told. I said "wow, is that the queen he is standing next to?" "Yes, yes it is, she was one of your father's oldest friends." She smiled as she spoke. "Well," she said as she got up "we better not keep your father waiting on us." "yeah lets go" I responded quickly as I stood with her and made my way out the bedroom door and down the stairs to find my father and brother making a few sandwiches, five to be exact, "wait your making five sandwiches? There are only four of us here." As I finished the sentence I heard footsteps coming from the bathroom walking down the hall.

"Blaize I did not know you were coming on this trip with us!" I said as soon as I saw his face. "You kidding I would not miss this for the life of me!" As he walked over to us he had a big smile on his face and sat down on one of the stools that we had at the counter island. My dad slid him a sandwich and he smiled and said "Turkey with lettuce, tomato, and mayo right?" "Wow good memory!" Blaize exclaimed taking a mouthful out of the sandwich. We just sat, and ate, in almost silence if it weren't for Vulpe cracking a bad joke every once and a while, you know the really bad jokes that are so bad that you just have to laugh at them.

So after we finished eating we all jumped in our respective cars and drove to the airport. We arrived about 30 minutes before our flight boarded. It gave us enough time to get through security and to the gate with 5 minutes to spare. We just talked for a while. This time gave me a chance to talk to Vulpe about the zanpakuto and its abilities. I discovered that I just needed to call its name and it would transform into its second stage and become more powerful. Finally it was time to board and we moved quickly and got to the first row of seats, I got an aisle seat because I don't like seeing the world pass by through the window.

We took off soon after everyone was seated. On the way I pulled out my silk pillow and put it behind me, the stewardess came by and asked if I would like to get a pair of headphones to watch Little Nicky, one of my personal favorite Adam Sandler movies, and a drink. I said I would like to watch the movie and I would take a mountain dew, my favorite. She brought me my drink and I sat back and watched the movie. Shortly after I found myself thinking about the fight I was just in. I thought about the fact I had severely injured someone who was intoxicated, but he was asking for it, no one fucks with my family. If found myself thinking smiling to myself. It worried me though that if he held a grudge than something bad would happen. I knew that my future held something important but I did not know what.

Soon I found myself asleep, and dreaming, about a figure that was standing in a dark room, there was a table, a light, and me in a chair. I looked around and I picked the figure out of the darkness, and as soon as I did a feminine voice came from the darkness and seemed to echo around the room. She seemed to fade into the darkness as I lost track of her, she said "That man whose arm you broke, right now he is telling the police a story you won't like and never happened. He will attack you and you need to be ready for this. Someone close to you will either live or die, it is up to you to determine which it is, and there is a very fine line between the two. If you're not careful you will lose that person." She finished as the room faded from existence, and as I fell, I woke up in a cold sweat, and we were starting our descent to Tokyo.

I rubbed my eyes as Vulpe said Andrew "hey look out the window. You can see the entire city from here." I sighed as I looked over and was amazed when the beauty of the city. I was speechless and was just waiting to land, still looking out of the window on a plane makes me sick, but I was going to be fine. We landed and we were met by Vulpe's mate Jyt (pronunciation-Jet) we got into the Black SUV and drove to his house. It was in the Shinjuku District, near a park, so I thought I would just go chill in a tree for a while. When we got there I unpacked quickly, took my sword, and arm guards. I strapped the sword to my back and the guards on my arms and told Vulpe where I was going and phased out of the room. (Ability I had picked up from my father's side of the family). I appeared in the middle of the park, there was an old stone building in the clearing, I decided to just climb into a tree and sit for a while.

When I had gotten up into the trees, I decided to just rest for a while. I needed to think about the dream, and the incident back home. I sat for about an hour when I heard some commotion down below me. When I looked down I saw a large red lizard like creature and a guy with goggles on his head running around like idiots, as well as a yellow figure standing against a tree watching them. Next to her was a girl about the same age as the guy, I would say about 16. They had not noticed me until I came out of the tree. But, one did notice me which caused me to come out of the tree, the yellow figure. As she noticed me, she stepped out into the clearing and took a fighting stance and said "come on out! I know your there don't make me hurt you!" As she spoke I noticed she looked like Blaize, she was a Renamon, and I grabbed the sword and strapped to my back and jumped down.

The other three gasped as they saw me, I guess it was the fact that they had not noticed I was there. The first one to speak was the girl, who instantly swiped a card through a device she had strapped to her belt. "Digimodify! Power blade activate!" I heard as I watched a broadsword materialize out of nowhere and land in the Renamon's hands. I sighed as I drew my zanpakuto and called its name, "Haiburiddokitsune!" I shouted as the blade turned into a more dazzling form. The blade its self was now black in color, with flames engraved up the length of the blade and kept its pommel. The blade had grown to about 6 ½ feet in length and was a straight Broadsword and was as light as a feather. She stared me down, and I returned the stare and we just stood there until she made a move she charged and swung to my left, I blocked it easily and countered with the pommel, I did not want to injure her too badly. When she was on the ground she waited for me to strike, I tapped her on the shoulder and said "need a hand" and held my hand out with a smile on my face.

She took my hand and gasped when she saw the guards and thought out loud "where did he get those only Renamon get those." I answered her question by taking off the hoodie and guards allowing them to see my silver fur. They all gasped again and I said laughing "will you please stop gasping before someone feints from lack of oxygen!" they stopped gasping and walked toward me and the red lizard asked me "why do you smell so weird, not human or digimon, but kind of both?" I answered "my father is a Renamon and my mother is human. You see they met when my mother was kidnapped and taken to the digital world by a myotismon and my father killed the myotismon and took her as a prize but fell in love with her and they conceived my brother first. He took after my father and I kind of got both of the genes, as you can plainly see." The Renamon looked shocked but the others just nodded their heads nervously.

"What that is not possible! How could a Renamon fall in love with a human? This is a disgrace of all the Renamon left in the digital world!" and with that I got increasingly angry with every word and suddenly felt the urge to put my arm guards back on, once I did I materialized a chest piece and greaves, (armored pants) also digitine in nature pure digitine. With blades coming out of the shoulders, shins, and the elbows and wrists there are spikes. The blades are removable, and they are sharp enough to cut a human in half but I don't have to use the full extent of the power of the armor. Just the fear element, because when I materialized the armor, it turned black as night, and red as blood. I grew large hooked claws and my voice dropped 2 octaves. When I spoke it was like the devil himself. With my newly acquired voice I said "that's my father you're talking about, and I will not stand for it, I have my honor and I will defend my father's at all cost." The Renamon took a fighting stance and asked "what the hell are you?" "Me? I'm just the spawn of a Black Renamon." A look of fear crossed her face as she dropped her stance and looked away. "I am sorry I did not know that" "Enough I don't want you to respect me because of whom my father is. But who I am, my father is a good person and is no different than any other Renamon, except he is feared because of the color of his fur." I said looking into her sky blue eyes, now clouded with either fear or some other emotion that she did not even realize she had.

At once my anger subsided and my armor dissipated. And she started to cry, the girl, boy and lizard ran to her. I walked over and she looked up at me with tears streaming down her face. I wiped a tear from her cheek and helped her up and said "You are too beautiful to cry. You are making me feel bad, please stop crying." She seemed startled at my change of heart and smiled and hugged me and said "I am sorry for the things I said, just the thought that a human and a digimon scared me at first, but I am willing to compromise." Then she switched to a flirty tone and said "as long as I get to be next to you when we meet your parents and brother." Barely letting me out of the embrace she had me in. I smiled to myself as I realized "wow I have my father's charm for women." I said, "ok, I need to know your names if you will be coming home with me." "Well you already know Renamon" said the girl, "Please call me Jade." Renamon interrupted. "Ok, you already know jade, my name is Rika, that boy over there with the goggles on his head is named Takato, my boyfriend, and the red lizard is Guilmon, Takato's digimon." "nice to meet you all, now come on its getting late and my parent will be wondering where I am so we better start walking now if we want to make it back for dinner." Jade nodded and started walking with me, my arm around her, and Rika leaning her head on Takato's shoulders, with guilmon in the back of the pack, we walked home.

Well don't I have a way with women, don't I Vulpe?

Vulpe: yeah well, I met Jyt in a more romantic way.

AWW, that's because you're no good in a fight! HA!

Vulpe: oh yeah well, Try this!

*he pounces on me and holds my arms and legs down, as Jade comes in the room*

Jade: what are you doing to my soon-to be Boyfriend!

Vulpe: He's my brother we were fighting, and he said I am no good in a fight. I plan to prove him wrong.

Me: I already saved your sorry ass once, you said so yourself!

Vulpe: be quiet down there *hits me in the head with his tail*

Me: Cheap shot! Well anyway time to say good bye and thanks to all the readers!

Jade: make sure to review! We need to get more reviews, anonymous reviews accepted, same with flames! Now get off of my boyfriend *tackles Vulpe*

Vulpe: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!