Chapter 5 An Unfortunate Reaction
Hey, I'm back and better than ever! That little fight with Vulpe ended well, Jade put him in a headlock and he gave up when he could not move any further. Now he is just messing with me about having my girlfriend come to save me.
Vulpe: Yeah you needed your girlfriend to come save you, what a wimp!
Me: She is not my girlfriend!
Jade: I just feel safe next to him. He is a strong fighter and an even better friend. Is there something wrong with me defending a friend?
Jyt: Yeah! Is there something wrong with women fighting?
Me: Oh god here we go!
Vulpe: not what I meant… RUUN! *Vulpe phases out of the room*
Jade: wow, wimp. Anyway here is Andrew's next chapter
Me: enjoy!
I do not own digimon or bleach, and I owe my writing techniques to Renaki, XxXdragonmanXxX, and miscellaneous writers I have seen all over the web. The idea of a hybrid was found from Robert Donahue's story. Go read their stuff!
As we walked home, I started to learn that Jade and Rika were very close friends now, and that she used to be a cold heartless girl who treated Jade like crap. After a traumatic experience she turned and she and Jade became almost like a mother daughter pair. Her grandmother passed away and her mom is in a mental institution for almost overdosing on diet pills. So jade is her legal guardian until her mom comes out of the mental institution.
I was thinking about my life and how it was growing up with a Renamon as a parent, I think that rika has a better chance of being accepted by her peers with a digimon parent, than I did. In America digimon are treated as animals, but by some as third class citizens at best. There is a lot of prejudice toward us, but you know you just got to keep on going.
"So is it true?" I heard snapping out of my trance to see rika looking at me with a questioning look on her face. "Is what true?" I asked, "Is your father really a Black Renamon?" she asked as if I was an idiot. "Yeah it's true, and my brother is a mate to royalty, the princess of kitsune valley, Jyt." With this Jade stopped and just stared at the disappearing sun. "What's wrong mom?" Rika asked with a sense of urgency in her voice. "Nothing just I feel like I need to see this person." "Ok well let's keep walking then." I said as I realized what Rika just addressed Jade as mom.
We continued walking until we got to the front porch in which I stopped knocked on the door and waited with the group. I heard feint footsteps coming toward the door, had to be a Renamon, and nothing else could make so little noise. The door opened to reveal my father standing in the door way, "we were wondering when you would be back we already have dinner cooking." He said as he took notice to the group standing with me. "Hello my name is Shade and who are you? Excuse my bluntness but I need to know who I am letting into my son's house." He said in a respectful tone, "My name is Rika. This is my boyfriend Takato, his digimon Guilmon. Last but not least, this my step-mother Jade." He started to smile and said "Nice to meet you all. Come in we have enough food for all of you."
We walked inside and I leaned my sword against the door, but kept my arm guards on, just for effect and plus they just look so damn cool! "Well welcome to my brothers house. I said as we walked down the hall to the dining room." "Wow this is much nicer than the stone building I am staying in with Rika." She answered to my statement. "Wait what? What are you talking about? You mean to tell me you are staying in that 20x10 building in the park? With rika?" I asked astonished. "Yes we are staying in that building. We make do with what we have." With that we walked into the dining room and instantly Jade stopped and said, almost yelled, "Jyt? Is that you?" Jyt looked over at us and stood then ran to Jade and hugged her with all her strength. "Jade! I haven't seen you since you left for the real world!" "Wait what's going on? How do you two know each other?" "Jades my sister!" Jyt yelled. My mouth hit the floor when I heard this, "wow that means that Jade's royalty, and she is living in a 20x10 stone building in a park? While supporting a teenager?" "What? That's just not right, you are staying with us." Vulpe said. "now just deciding where to put you, my family is staying in the guest rooms, but there is a futon in the basement, and the couches in the living room, or you could double up in the rooms." Listing out options for the pair of girls.
Jade looked at me and said "well I will stay with Andrew and Rika where do you want to stay?" Rika waited for about a minute considering her options, and finally asked "does the basement have a lock on the door?" "No but we do have a study down there with a double bolted door, and a plasma screen and another futon." My brother said "Taken" Said rika literally immediately when he finished. With that I asked "So what's for dinner?" "Beef tenderloin" said my brother. I smiled and said "I will go check on it" as I stood and walked to the sliding glass door. I opened it and walked out. I was immediately hit by the delicious aroma of the cooking meat. I licked my lips, and opened the lid of the grill. It was starting to brown and would soon be ready. I noticed three tinfoil rapped sets of 10 red potatoes that were cut into slices, not all the way through, with pepper, garlic salt, and season all on them. A recipe I picked up from a friend, John, I shook my head as I remembered my old human friend who disappeared 9 years ago in the September 11th attacks on the world trade center. A tear ran down my face as I remembered losing my friend and burying an empty coffin, no one could find his body.
I was so deep in my memories that I did not even hear the door open. Jade walked through the door and walked up behind me and grabbed me into an embrace from behind and I nearly jumped out of my skin. I tried to turn but I already knew who was standing behind me, "Jade" I said wiping the tears from my eyes, "when did you come out?" "Oh just long enough time to see you crying and walk over and hug you, by the way why were you crying when I came out?" She asked as she released me and we sat down in one of the chairs, she was on my lap. I began to recount what happened to my friend John, "well 10 years ago, in America, a terrorist group attacked the world trade center, where my friend John was, he was visiting New York and went to see the place. He got separated from his parents and disappeared into the building and the crowds. When the first plane hit, everyone ran screaming, except for john's parents, who were looking frantically for him. They never found him, and left as soon as the second plane hit. After the second plane hit, I remember watching the news broadcast of people just jumping out of the windows, the smoke coming from inside the building, the screaming. When the building collapsed no one found John's body among the rubble." I looked over to Jade who now had her head on my shoulder, crying. "I'm sorry if this story made you upset, if you would like I will stop." I said "no, finish please I want to know you, your past, and your pain better." I nodded my head and continued, "We had a burial, but john's body was not present. We were forced to bury an empty pine box, in an unmarked grave. He was my best friend, and I lost him when I was 6 years old. The next few years were hell, living with the constant remarks about my fur, bone structure, and clothes. One day, I was about to get into a fight with a few bullies. They were 2 years older than me, and I was out numbered. I saw a yellow flash," I said a smile appearing over my face "and I heard the screams of the bullies as they turned tail and ran. I looked up to see a friendly looking Renamon staring at me. I told him my name and he told me his, Blaize. We became the best of friends. Now that friendship holds strong as ever and now I have you." She blushed and said "That was the nicest thing anyone of the opposite sex has ever said to me, thank you. For what you said and for telling me that story even though it hurt."
"I was glad to tell you, you are a great friend and I don't know what I would do if I saw you get hurt. I swear on my life that I will not let anyone hurt you. Not a single finger will touch you as long as I am here by your side." She just smiled and said "Come on watch the food, I'm hungry and if you let it burn I think your brother will have a stroke. He looks like he is dying of hunger." I looked in to see Vulpe holding his belly with an uncomfortable look on his face. I laughed and sniffed the air and said "the meat and potatoes are done." Jade got up and I walked over to the grill and picked up all the food and put it on the platter and took it inside. Vulpe's face instantly lit up and we all rushed to the dining room. The seating went like this, the head of the table was Shade (dad), to his right was Mary (mom), and to her right was Vulpe, his right Jyt, Her right Takato. The other side, on my dad's left was me, my left Jade, to her right Rika, and at the end was Guilmon.
We sat and talked, except for Blaize, Rika, Takato, Guilmon, and Jade. We were talking mainly about past family holidays, experiences, trauma all the normal catching up talk. I noticed the silence at the other end of the table and turned to Jade and started to ask her about the adventures she had had here in Japan, and the digital world, particularly Kitsune Valley. She started at the beginning when she came to Japan and all the way to the D-Reaper. Then Rika piped up and told about her Grandmother's sickness and passing and started to tear up, Jade finished the story with the funeral, and went on to the deep depression of Rika's mother and her ending up in the mental institution. "Then Rika was almost placed in a foster home. I could not bear the tears that I saw every night from her, and I decided to reveal my presence to the world and become her legal guardian. I was helped by Yamaki from Hypnos and he pushed my papers through quickly and I became her Mom." She looked down at Rika who now had stopped crying and was looking up at her Digital Vixen mother. I smiled at the sight, and said "well Vulpe bought dinner, I bought Desert." I stood up as the group looked at me with speculation. I walked into the kitchen and opened the freezer and pulled out a cake that I had bought while I was going to the park, I passed an ice-cream shop and saw this cake in the freezer.
I walked into the Dining room with the plates, forks, and cake in hand. I put the plates and forks down and the cake down last, the Cake had Yellow foxes running the perimeter of the cake a yin-yang symbol in the center. (Perfect for a family of Renamon) Everyone gazed in amazement and I said well are you going to just look or are you going to take a piece. Dad was the first to cut the pieces and give them to each of the group. We ate the cake in about 10 minutes and everyone had smiles from ear to ear on their faces. "Well I don't think I am the only one, but I am tired and am going to go to bed." Jyt said standing. We all looked at the clock to see it was about 7:45 and instantly Takato and guilmon yawned in unison and my father stood and said "come on I will take you home". They nodded in appreciation and my father grabbed their shoulders and asked "what is your address?" they told him and they were gone. Everyone else in the room looked at each other and we went to our respective rooms. Except rika who asked "Mom, can I sleep in your, and Andrew's room tonight, new house and all?" I smiled and looked to Jade who was looking at me as if asking permission. I nodded and Jade turned to Rika and said "Sure, come on we need to get to bed." Rika smiled and walked to the stairs. We looked at each other and sighed. We followed in suit, when I got to our room, Jade and Rika settled in quickly. I decided to take a shower, and grabbed a towel, my tribal print t-shirt and my Lounge pants from my dresser and left the room. After my shower I came in and noticed that Rika took Jade's bed so she ended up sleeping on the floor. I shook my head and walked over and picked up Jade and laid her on my bed, moved the blankets over her and a faint smile appeared on her face. I climbed on top of the blankets and rolled over and went to sleep.
POV change: Jade
My eyes opened and I noticed I was on something soft and I felt something around my waist. I looked down to see two Silver furred arms draped around my waist. I looked back to see Andrew with his body pulled so close to mine. I smiled and decided to lie there for a little longer. I noticed how safe and good I felt laying there next to him, and after a few minutes I looked at the clock. It was only 5:30 I looked over at Rika and saw she was still sleeping, smiled and phased out of the room and downstairs to see my sister making an amazing breakfast, Bacon, eggs, Pancakes, and All kinds of Juice and coffee. I said "nice to see you pursued you culinary dreams Jyt." She damn near jumped out of her fur. She turned and said "God Damn it. Jade how many times have I told you don't sneak up on me like that. Why are you up so early? You used to sleep till noon in the palace." "Well I usually train in the mornings but I decided to take a break today." A smile crept across my face as I remembered just laying there in Andrew's arms. Jyt saw me smiling and asked "ok why are you so happy this morning?" "Well, when I went to sleep last night I was laying on the floor, when I woke up this morning, I was in Andrew's bed under the blankets. Andrew was next to me and had his arms draped over my waist. I just felt so safe and so good just laying there. And last night he told me that he would never let anything hurt me or Rika. Jyt, I think I am in love but I don't know if he could love me back." I said dropping my head a little at the end. "Well when you first met what how did you act and what did you do?" she asked me with a caring voice "I attacked him." I replied. "Oh shit that is not a good way to start a relationship, then what happened?" "He pulled his sword and I charged him with my own sword and he parried it and hit me with the pommel of the sword. I waited for the final blow that never came, I just felt a tap on the shoulder and I stood up and asked him what he was. He told me that he was the spawn of a human and a Renamon, and I insulted his father. He materialized digitine armor from his arm guards, and his voice dropped about 2 octaves. He spoke as if the Devil was speaking through him." She just looked on in amazement as I continued, "He said that his father was a black Renamon and that he wanted respect for him not for who his father was." When I finished the story, she was amazed, she said after about a minute "you know he could have just finished the fight right then, he was tapped into his Black Renamon side. He was very unstable and likely to kill anything in the immediate vicinity. But his normal, sane, human side took over again and he spared your life. I would be willing to bet that it was out of love that he spared your life." I smiled at the thought and thanked her and walked up to take a shower. I grabbed the shampoo and towel from the things that we had gathered from our previous home and walked into the bathroom. I turned on the shower to hot let the water heat up. I took off my arm guards, and stepped in. the water felt so good, and I just let my body enjoy the heat and the water.
POV change: Rika
My eyes opened to the sound of running water, I stood slowly and started toward the door. I got to the bathroom door and heard the faintest sound of moaning. I recognized the voice, it was Jade. (I think of her as just my friend, and digimon partner at times like this because it seems weird to think of her as my mom when I hear or walk in on her masturbating.) I sighed and walked downstairs. On the way down I started to smell cooking bacon. I smiled at the familiar aroma and walked in the kitchen. I saw my Aunt Jyt standing in the kitchen and I said "wow that smells good, what did you do to get that smell?" My aunt turned around and smiled at me and said "Hello to you Rika, and to answer your question, I add cinnamon to the pancakes, salt to the bacon and eggs, as well as a little bit of either Jack or cheddar cheese to the eggs." I smiled and said as I walked out of the kitchen and into the living room "that sounds good, tell me when to wake the rest of our screwed up family." "What do you mean?" my aunt asked. "well your sister was sleeping in the same bed as your husband's brother, I don't want to know if they did anything, now she is up enjoying her shower, I heard commotion from Shade and Mary's room, Blaize started crying out in what seemed like pleasure, and I don't want to know if I heard another noise from your room." With that she blushed heavily enough to be seen through her fur. "You know what," I continued "Scratch that, we just have a sex crazed family." I finished with a smile.
After about 15 minutes, Jyt told me to go wake up everyone. By this time the water stopped running and people started stirring. I got up and walked upstairs and went into my mom's room. She was drying off and her fur was sticking right to her skin. I sighed and walked in, she turned around and you could see right down to her exposed breasts and vagina. I sighed again and walked to the dresser that Andrew used and grabbed a tribal print t-shirt and cargo pants. My mom grabbed her own underwear, she did not usually need it but when going to special occasions, she dressed up. I gave the clothes to her and she got dressed. The cargo pants did not fit right away so I found d thin black and gold tribal belt that went with the shirt, gave it to her, and I told her to be downstairs for breakfast in about 5 minutes.
The rest of the family was less of a naked experience and half-way normal. I walked back to my room that I shared and saw that Andrew was already up, barely awake after yesterdays small ordeal. He was getting a little help from Jade with his clothes, he got dressed but Jade helped him get the clothes out of the drawer and threw them to him. He slowly got up and went to his duffel bag and pulled out a monster energy drink and chugged it in about 30 seconds flat. Andrew walked over to jade, put his arm around her and they started walking out of the room towards me, I said "just in time for breakfast come on you two." Jade smiled and supported Andrew on his way down the stairs. I walked to the table and pulled out two chairs and sat in mine. The food was spread all over the table. The aroma was driving me crazy. Finally Jade and Andrew sat down and everyone was here. Blaize asked Andrew "Hey dude why are you so tired? I've never seen you so wiped out. I looked over to Andrew for his response. Andrew rubbed his eyes and said "last night I could not sleep so I went out with some of my cash and went to any mall that was still open. I went in and bought some stuff, first I bought this," he reached into his pocket and pulled out a long narrow box. He handed it to Jade and she took and opened it carefully. When she saw what was inside she gasped and nearly jumped into his lap and hugged him with all her strength. "This is beautiful! Where did you find this?" she asked "I found it at a jewelry shop in one of the malls around here. It reminded me of you so I bought it for you." He replied. She took the object out of the box and let the light from the windows hit the stone so perfectly. It was a pendent with a jade base yin-yang symbol on it, with black and regular diamonds used for the white and black parts, with a white gold chain. She put it on immediately. "I also got something from a leather working store." He said as he pulled out a brown cardboard box and handed it to jade. She took it and opened it, she smiled and pulled out two green dyed leather arm guards that resembled her old ones, except for the fact they were green, and leather, from the box and replaced her old ones with the new ones.
She smiled and turned to Andrew and said "thank you Andrew, how do I look?" "You look great, even more beautiful than before." He replied with a smile. She leaned in and kissed him on the cheek and said "thanks for the gifts, but that is for what you said." He smiled as he seemed to get more energy from that monster he drank. With that out of the way we all ate quietly except for the occasional "MMMMMMMMM!" from the entire table. When we were finished Mary offered to do the dishes, and before we could reply, she had already started picking up the plates and other dishes and taking them to the sink.
POV change: Andrew
"Well I guess we could either walk around town or we could go relax in Shinjuku Park." I said thinking out loud. Everyone voted for the park, it would be nice to get out of the house. We asked my mom if she wanted to go but she said she would rather just relax inside today. We nodded and I grabbed my sword, arm guards, and my black and red tennis shoes. We all left the house together and walked down the street towards the park. I walked with jade's head on my shoulder and rika called Takato to meet us there. Shade walked in front, followed by Jyt and Vulpe and Blaize. We were in the back. When we got to the park we found Takato and guilmon waiting for us. I felt amazing without the hoodie, my fur kept me plenty warm and I was happy with my friends and family. My dad found a nice spot under a tree to sit in, Takato and rika sat in the tree my father was sitting under, and Blaize played with Guilmon, despite his age, he is very immature at times, but that's why I like him so much. Vulpe and Jyt were lying over by the edge of the clearing and jade and I walked over to another tree and sat down together. She was the first to speak "You know you did not have to get me these gifts." "I know," I said, "but I wanted to. You are very special to me and I want to treat you like it." She smiled and moved closer. I turned my head to her and looked her into her beautiful eyes that I first fell in love with. I smiled as our lips moved ever closer. Right at the last minute she turned her head and said nervously "I can't do it I just can't do it. I just need time to think." With that she faded into the shadows, I sighed and picked up my sword, yelled its name and the sword came to life. I decided to practice my techniques and fighting skills. I walked over to another clearing and just stood there for a minute, trying to find something to fight with. I found nothing so I just walked to a tree and stood in my usual fighting stance and struck the trunk with my sword. It cut clean through, the tree fell toward me! In my head I heard a voice say "Flash step!" I repeated what I heard quietly and instantly I was across the clearing. I heard the tree hit the ground, and as I looked back I saw my father running toward the fallen tree. I realized that he could not see me and I walked farther out into the clearing. He finally reached me and asked me "what happened?" I replied calmly "I was practicing with my sword and cut the tree in half with one slash. The tree fell toward me and I said 'flash step' and was across the clearing away from the tree." "Well you should be more careful you don't know what power you now hold." He said and with that he went back to the tree he was sitting under.
POV change: Jade
I was just running I don't know where I just had to think. Tears streaming down my face as I ran, my fur stuck to my face from the tears. I jumped into a tree and just sat there. I had been sitting for about two minutes before I heard a large crash. I looked in the direction of the noise and it was the clearing my friends were. My heart ached and I feared the worst. I ran back as fast as my legs could carry me fearing what I would see. When I entered the clearing everything was exactly as I left it. I wondered what the noise was and I looked over to see Andrew with an axe chopping a downed tree to smaller pieces. I sighed in relief and walked over to him. "Was that you who made that crash?" He looked up at me and said "yeah. I swung my sword and cut cleanly through the trunk." He held a stern face and a strong look but in his eyes I could see I really hurt him. He turned back to the tree and kept chopping. He was holding back tears as he chipped away at the tree. I hung my head and walked away. I sat against a tree on the far side of the clearing. I looked around and saw Rika looking at me from the tree. She jumped down and walked across to me and sat next to me and asked, "So what's the deal with you and Andrew? I thought you liked him." I sighed and said, "I do, but I just could not bring myself to the point that I would kiss him. I mean I met him what a day ago? So I know he likes me, but I don't know if only the Renamon side likes me for a breeding tool or if he really loves me." Rika looked into my eyes and said "Jade, have you seen the way he looks at you? I have and I know he does not see you as a breeding tool and that he genuinely loves you with every fiber of his being." I thought about it for a moment before I responded. "Rika I don't know if you're right but I do know that I love him back. So I think I have some things to think about." "I'm glad I could help mom, and you know I think he might make a good step dad." She said. I froze at the thought of my step-daughter deciding who I was going to marry, and giving me approval before I even considered it. But it's not like that never came to mind. The moment I saw him I knew that there was something special about him. But I could not tell what. "Excuse me I need some time alone." With that Rika got up and left me to my thoughts.
POV change: Andrew
I was fighting to keep my emotions bottled up. I could not let them see me like this and I was just going to keep chopping wood so I could make something from the splinters. I usually carve as much as possible, but you know it takes a while to get the wood, sharpen the knife and actually carve it. But now I had my sword, blades on the armor or just a knife that I would have to look for. So I was going to carve as much as possible, maybe use the fire pit out back at Vulpe's house. I just kept working, I was so tired, but I couldn't stop. Not now, not until that rejection was out of my head.
About an hour later my arms gave out and I decided to take a break. I got up and walked away quickly so that I could get a little bit of a break so where no one would find me, I did not want to be around other people right now. I started running as soon as the adrenalin kicked in, I ran as hard, and as far as my legs would carry me. Finally my legs gave out near a small lake. I sat next to the lake for a while. Suddenly I noticed a kind of fog rolling in really fast. I looked around and I could not see anything. My eyes panned left and right for any sign of movement. I felt a sharp pain in my back and I fell to the ground. I got up quickly and reached for my sword, but I had left it back at the clearing. "Crap, I am fairly defenseless now." I thought out loud. "Yes you are human. Now you will die!" I heard from behind me before I phased about thirty meters to my left. I turned to face my assailant. It was a kuwagamon, a giant flying beetle. He turned quickly to face me and charged again, I rolled out of the way and jumped and hoped that I could use my dad's attacks. I shouted "Diamond Storm!" and nothing happened. I hit the ground hard, and got up slowly. He laughed as he said "stupid human! That attack belongs to a Renamon! You will die and I will own this world! No one will survive my killing spree your family will he first." my blood boiled and my arm guards glowed and started to turn into the armor. My legs grew to the form of a Renamon and my fangs started to come in, the armor was finished and by the time my body had finished growing the kuwagamon had shielded his eyes to keep from being blinded. I took a deep breath and said, "You will hurt no one, evil one. I will feast on you data and you will not leave this forest." The kuwagamon looked stunned at the fact that a human stood before him just moments before and now this armored black Renamon stood before him. He snapped out of his trance as soon as I threw a blade at him and cut one of his arms off. He howled in pain as the blade returned to its place on my shoulder. "You will listen when I address you bitch!" I said. He growled and charged I jumped and tried to get the blade off of my shoulder again but he caught me by my shoulder with his jaws. I yelled out in pain as he rammed me in the ground and jabbed me in the thigh with his claws. I took my blades from my legs and jammed them into his chest. He holed as the blades extended and pierced his digital heart. He fell to the left and dissolved into data. I had just absorbed the first bit of data as the data absorption process took me off my feet and knocked me out cold. I reverted to my human form and blacked out.
POV change: Jade
I was thinking about how much I seemed to hurt Andrew and how I should apologize to him for it. But my thoughts were cut short as a scream erupted from the other side of the clearing from where Andrew was chopping wood. I got up and started to run over to the side I heard the scream come from. When I got there Andrew was gone and there was the axe and sword leaning on a tree. It was marked probably so Andrew could find his way back. I thought to myself that he was starting to cut into trees so he could find his way back. His instincts were kicking in and he did not even know it, there was a biomerged digimon in the area. I sprinted to where my instincts were telling me the digimon was. I finally found the spot and I started to look around until I came across a body lying on the ground. I ran to the body. It was Andrew, he had a bad wound in his leg and blood was seeping from the open wound. I looked at his body to look for any other wounds and tears came to my eyes as I saw a jaw mark on his shoulder from a kuwagamon. I felt like this was my fault. If I had not turned and ran from him then he would not have started chopping the wood to try to mask the emotional pain he was experiencing. He never would have left the group and looked for solitude. He never would have been attacked if I had just been more open to a relationship with him. I cried as I put more pressure on the wounds. He was human, but part Renamon so his healing abilities should be faster than a normal human's. But I did not know when this would heal, so I gently picked him up and whispered into his ear "don't worry Andrew, I won't drop you, everything will be fine." I started running back the way I came until I reached the clearing. I was greeted by a startled father and brother. They gasped as they saw Andrew in my arms. Shade instantly ran to me and looked over his body seeing the blood seeping out of the wounds. Vulpe asked me "who did this? I am going to skin them alive!" "Andrew already did that! It was a kuwagamon, a big one from the nasty bite he gave Andrew." Jade said as she started to tear up, "and it's all my fault. If I had just been open to a relationship with him then maybe this never would have happened." I started to sob into my hands. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Andrew reaching up to me and said "it's not your fault, it's no one's fault. I went off, I did this to myself. Don't feel bad for me, just help me back up after I fall." And with that he blacked out again and his hand slid off my shoulder and down my arm. I took what he said to heart and stood back up, still carrying him and said "I will take him to the hospital. They will know what to do. Stuff like this happens a lot more here than in America." They nodded as I phased out.
POV: Vulpe
"Dad? How are we going to tell mom?" I said as we started to leave with Takato, Rika, and guilmon. We had to carry Rika and Takato. Jyt and Guilmon were still awake enough to walk on their own, and Blaize had gone home early because he got the urge to play Call of Duty Black Ops on my Xbox, I told him it was fine. "Well, I guess that we will just have to come out with it and say Andrew was attacked by a digimon and is in the hospital." I looked down at rika who I was carrying in my arms. She was smiling and had her head on my shoulder. I smiled and kept walking. We got to the house after about 5 minutes. Mom was waiting on the couch, by now it was about 7:45ish. It was during the summer so the sun was going down. We walked in the door and were greeted by mom with a kiss. She noticed that the group was short 2 people and dad was carrying Andrew's sword. She asked "where are Andrew and Jade?" Dad and I exchanged nervous glances and he said "honey, Andrew was attacked by a wild kuwagamon and is in the hospital." She fell down on the couch and looked as if she had been shot. He told me to go put rika and Takato and guilmon in Andrew's room. Then call Takato's parents and tell them that they were sleeping here tonight.
I took Rika and Takato and put them on the bed and cot, guilmon slept next to Takato on the floor. I walked out of the room and down the stairs to the living room. Dad had calmed mom down enough that he could tell her that she should get some rest and could come to see Andrew tomorrow morning. He turned to me and said "Vulpe you stay here with your mother. She needs to sleep. I will go to the hospital to sit there with Jade." I nodded and took my mother's hand and led her up the stairs and took her to her room and went to my room. I watched some TV for a while because I could not sleep knowing that my brother was in the hospital and in danger of dying.
POV change: Jade
I appeared in the waiting room, scaring a few people, and ran to the receptionist and said "my friend got into a fight with a digimon and got hurt pretty badly. He has a broken tibia and two large wounds on his leg and shoulder." She looked up at the end and gasped at what she saw. She stood and told me to follow her. We walked through a set of double doors and went into a vacant room down the hall. I laid Andrew down on the hospital bed and she called the doctor as she cleaned the wounds. The doctor walked in and started to say "what is the proble…" he was cut short and ran to the bed and asked how this happened. I told him the story and he nodded as he heard the story. He quickly bandaged the wounds as I was telling the story. He hooked him up to a bunch of machines and an IV. After about another minute the doctor left and said "if his condition changes hit the button on the wall". I just sat there for about 3 minutes alone. I just sat there and cried a little bit. I stopped as soon as I heard a knock at the door. I turned around in time to see a black figure walk through the door and close it behind him. It took me a second to recognize his face, it was just shade. I relaxed and told him everything the doctor said and did. He nodded and sat down next to me. We sat in silence for about 10 minutes before I asked him "how did you end up having a romantic relationship with a human?" He just smiled and said "what you're not realizing is that when you love someone you will do anything for that person and you can never love another person the same way. I fell in love with her body, but then I started to love her for her. Not just what she is for." I nodded in approval and understanding. He just put his paw on my shoulder and said "you will know what I mean soon enough. I've seen the way you look at Andrew and I've seen how he looks back at you. I see nothing but pure love, but in your eyes shine your confusion. You don't know how your mother will take it when she finds out you've married a human." I looked at him and asked "how did you know that?" he rolled his eyes and said "I'm a black Renamon! I know more than you could ever comprehend." I smiled and said "thank you for everything you are doing for me and rika." He smiled back at me and said "as long as you love my son and he loves you, you are like a daughter to me." I smiled at the thought and said. "I never knew my father, he died in a war." He pulled me into a hug and said "I'm sorry for your loss but I love you like a daughter, you have a family who loves you for who you are." I hugged him back and whispered "thank you Shade." He replied "call me dad".