A stormtrooper lost in the Digiworld Chapter 10 – House in the forest.
It's me again with a new chapter. Hopefully someone enjoys this story so far… Sorry for any mistakes and stuff like that. Anyway, here we go…
… The sky was cloudy. The morning was rather cold, so it was quite unpleasant for the children to get out of their warm dorm sacks into that cold air. Rika woke up and saw her digimon sleeping near her, and who kept her warm during that cold and no so quiet night. She was about to touch her white fur, when she heard a hissing familiar voice from her back:
"Order your digimon to wake up and prepare yourself for the upcoming trip. We will move on in 15 minutes." She turned and saw that this was Ulairimon, who just stood there, with his sword blade down, like a senitel. His voice was quite disturbing, and Rika didn't really like talking to him because of that.
"Fine, we'll be ready. Renamon, oh Renamon, wake up, sleepyhead!" she said while slightly shaking Renamon. It was not hard to get her up though.
"Good morning, Rika. I'm sorry, I think I have overslept a bit."
"Don't worry, we would have never overslept, that ghost man over there was going to give us some rude awakening. Anyway, we must get going in 15 minutes." she nodded. It took her only 5 minutes to brush her teeth and to get in shape. The others were also prepared shortly…
… A heavy storm came out of nowhere. The powerful wind was very strong, and it was raining from a bucket. Thunder was striking without stopping, and the sound of shrieking thunder was horrible. The wind was able to rip big branches from the trees and throw them around. Because of the water the road turned into a raging river of mud, and forced the travelers to go off the road. But still, even though the trees were pretty thick, it was quite nasty outside in that storm. The drops of water from the skies hit the faces, catching the speed of the wind.
"We must find some sort of shelter!" Takato screamed loud, trying to out-voice the howling wind.
"Where do you think we'll find a shelter, peanut-brain?" Rika asked him harshly. Then Ulairimon came in again, with his dark cloak twisting in the wind in some form of wings, and he hissed loudly:
"I have found some old house nearby. Maybe we can hide there."
"You did? Awesome! Let's go there immediately! You lead the way." Renamon replied, she hated the rain, because it made her soggy. And indeed, they have managed to find an old-looking house in few minutes of walking. It had two floors, the windows were broken long ago, and it looked like it was deserted. It was dark inside, and no one appeared to be taking care of the house for a long time. It just looked deserted, dark, and not welcomed anyone. It was built in gothic style, and was like a basic haunted house from old movies. It gave the creeps to almost anyone, but the storm was getting stronger and there was not much of a choice left to them.
"Um, I think we should knock first…" Takato suggested, and knocked quietly in the door. It was an old solid door, still in good shape and an old metal door – knock. Still, there was no response to this knock Takato just did. This fact annoyed Ulairimon, who disliked the rain also, so he went to the door, knocked a couple of times with his metal fist with such strength that the whole house went shivering, and shrieked loud and horrible:
"Open up! In the name of the Mordor!" this time he gave shivers to everyone else, especially Henry, who was the only one watching the film where this phrase was spoken.
"Just like in the film…" he mumbled to himself. Meanwhile Ulairi, who didn't receive any response to his call, he took out sword of the scabbards, and busted the door down with his leg, even though the door was quite formidable. He went in, with NZ coming close behind. After that the others finally dared to get in out of that raining storm. The house was big, and the furniture was not touched. It was just covered with dusty white sheets, it looked like no one was around for a very long time.
"Talking about a haunted house…" Henry nodded.
"We must check the house for any surprises, just to be sure nothing happens. We must split up in 4 groups, each consisting of one tamer and one digimon."
"Agreed. Let's go, Renamon." Rika said as she went to one of the corridors of the first floor. Two pairs had to check the first floor, and two – the second. There was no light in the house, so for the sake of security each group received a torch, provided by Guilmon. They have split up…
Ulairimon blazed through the house quickly, with his sword glowing ghastly in the dark, which made it look even creepier. He was not afraid of any ghosts, because he was one of them, but he felt some presence when he first approached the house, and he had to find out what it was. And he sensed that he was getting closer. In his ghoulish manner, he checked the half of the second floor, when he suddenly heard something. "What is that sound? It appears to be some … crying?" he thought as he went to the source of the sound. He ended up at the entrance to some room, and prepared his sword. He was sure that there was something there.
"I'm
indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
From the
other side
A terror to behold
Annihilation will be
unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent
had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you're
alive
I'm an indestructible master of war…" he remembered the
phrase from a song, and opened the door. The door has opened slowly,
squeaking loudly, and as it opened, Ulairimon charged in and was
going to cut down anyone inside. He saw something white in the corner
of the room, and was about to make a blow, but suddenly stopped…And
there was a weak scream… What he sensed was not an enemy… It was
a girl, approximately 10 years old, dressed up in glowing white
clothes, with white hair and red eyes. She was sitting in the corner
with her hands in front of her as some pathetic type of shield. She
was scared. "She is neither a human, nor a digimon." Ulairi
thought, as he took away his ghastly blade, and kneeled down.
"Who are you, little girl?" he hissed, but that scared her even more, she started to cry again, though it was not loud. Then, she faded, and fell down. Ulairi first thought that he should dispose of her, but he failed to do so. He failed to raise a sword against such a defenseless being. Yet he killed countless number of digimon in his lifetime, he had a short-circuit this time. He knew what must be done, he failed, yet he tried. "What's happening to me? I hate it…" he thought, while just standing in front of unconsciousness little thing. "Why can't I just slay her? For the first time, I feel… powerless. A curse upon the world! Very well, probably that's a useless death, I'll figure it out later…" he thought again, picked her up and carried her out of the dark stuffy room. Then he contacted NZ, his tamer:
"Master, I have found someone. I'll be in the waiting room. Contact someone to take care of her, my appearance made her go out cold." and went there. The "waiting room" actually was the room next to the door outside, which had a lot of furniture in it, and several couches. While he was going there, the little girl woke up for a minute, but fainted again when she saw the darkness of his appearance once again. When he finally came there, he just put her on a couch, and went to continue his patrol. Meanwhile, NZ was contacting Renamon through the commlink:
"Renamon, can you hear me? I think we found something."
"What did you found? An enemy?" a quick answer came.
"No, apparently it is a child. Renamon, can you come over and watch over her? Ulairimon just made her faint, and I don't think that it will be a better reaction if she'll see me."
"Do you think she will not be scared of me also?"
"I don't know, from my point f view, you have quite a pleasant appearance, but just in case of that take Rika with you also. I am positive that this child will not be scared of Rika."
"Affirmative. We'll be right there." Renamon quickly nodded, and ended transmission. She called Rika to go to the waiting room, and while she was going, a thought has hit her in the head like a brick. "Pleasant appearance… Was that a compliment? Pff, no, of course not. A pure description of myself. Never mind." she thought. Finally, they made it to the waiting room. The girl who was just recently found was still on the couch where Ulairimon left her.
"There she is. We must to look after her, right?" Rika asked.
"Yes, we must." replied Renamon and leaned to the wall, like always. Rika, on the other hand, started to observe the fainted creature. The girl was quite beautiful, with very pale, almost white skin. "No wonder she passed out when he saw our "tall, dark and scary", I almost passed out too, and that' when he was acting perfectly harmless…" Rika managed to think while they have waited for the others. And they came in 5 minutes. First came NZ and reported that nothing suspicious was found, and then Takato and Guilmon, then Ulairimon, who busted through all locked doors in the house, but still found nothing else, and Henry with Terriermon came last. They were curious about whom Ulairimon managed to find. They all just stared at this little white girl for a while, and then Takato asked:
"What should we do with her, when she will awake?"
"Well, I don't know. Any ideas?" Renamon asked. But no one was able to reply, because this strange inhabitant of the house started to awake. She yawned a bit, and opened her big eyes. She saw the children and their digimon, and still was scared a bit.
"Uh, who are you? Am I dead?" she asked with a weak and quiet voice.
"No, don't worry, you are not dead, you are in your house and you are safe. What is your name?" Henry asked calmly. The tone of his voice managed to calm down the frightened girl a bit.
"M…my name is Susan. And you are …"
"My name is Henry, this is Rika and Takato." he pointed at the other children. "And those are our digimon: Terriermon, Renamon and Guilmon. We are their tamers." he added.
"Oh, nice to meet you all. I'm sorry I didn't opened the door, first I didn't heard a knock, and then there was such a powerful knock, that the whole house started to shake, and then there was a terrible voice which screamed: "Open up! In the name of the Mordor!" and I was so scared that I hid in one of the rooms. Then a horrible dark-cloaked figure with a ghostly – white blade came inside and raised his sword… and then I have fainted…" she said quietly and started to cry again.
"Oh, you poor thing. Don't worry, you are safe now."
"I have probably just imagined this dark… dark… Oh no! There he is!" she screamed and crawled to the other side of the couch, trembling with fear. She was really scared, and pointed to the dark corner of the room, where Ulairimon was standing, relying on his blade, and accompanied by his tamer, who's red eye was just looking horrible in the shadows. They were observing everything from that position for some time. Rika took Susan's hand and tried to calm her down:
"Don't worry, you are safe, we just forgot to introduce them. The one who scared you is Ulairimon, and the tall man with the glowing eye standing next to him is his tamer. He doesn't have any name, but we call him NZ. They are with us, they will not harm you."
"Really? I thought the death came for me…" Susan managed to reply. She still was scared, and was shaking like a leaf, while looking with her red eyes in the corner, where Ulairimon was standing. NZ noticed it and gave Ulairimon a signal to leave the room. Ulairimon went outside, and when he did, Susan managed to calm down herself a bit more.
"Don't worry, he will never harm you, he was just looking for any enemies that might have been hiding inside. That's why he was armed with his sword, and that's why he didn't stab you when he found you. He is not such a bad person, just scary, that's all…" Rika was still trying to calm the terrified girl down.
"You must be very brave to have such a creature beside you."
"Well, we got used to it. He's reliable when it comes to battle. We're sorry if we scared you, and Ulairimon is sorry too. It was him who broke through your door though… Anyway, what are you doing here, Susan?" Henry asked patiently.
"I live here. I know I am constructed from some spare parts of data, and that my name is Susan. It's so lonely in here though, you are the first visitors around here."
"Gosh, it must be so lonely around here!" Takato said.
"Yes, it is." Susan replied sorrowfully. Then another hit made the house shaking, and the smell of something burning came in the air. Ulairimon, who was standing outside, ran back in and hissed:
"Get out quick! The lightning just hit the house!"
"We must get out! Come on, Susan!" Rika shouted and grabbed Susan by her hand. They managed to get out of the house just in time, because in few minutes it just crumbled down.
"Oh my, poor Susan…" Henry nodded, as she fell to her knees and started to cry again.
"Where should I go now? My… home is… gone…" she said in frustration. The others were unsure how to reply, and, as usual, Takato came to save the day.
"You can come with us!" he said cheerfully.
"R…really?" Susan replied and whipped her tears.
"Yeah! We all will be your friends from now on. It'll be fine! Oh, and Ulairimon! Promise you won't scare little Susan and that you will not let anything harm her!" Takato demanded.
"You have my word." Ulairimon replied confidently. Then Takato turned to Susan and said:
"See? Now you have the strongest guardian around. He will never let anything bad to happen to you."
"B…but, he still scares me a bit…"
"Don't worry, he is perfectly harmless now. I can assure you that he never raised a finger against any of us." Takato finally managed to calm down this little, shy, and strange girl… The rain was finally over and the sun shined again in the sky. Everyone was happy to see it, and smiled, except Ulairimon, who stepped in the shadow of a tree, and, for obvious reasons, was unable to smile. The group, which was now in the total number of 9 people, continued to go to the point of their destination. It was strange that Susan didn't require any extra luggage, but it was probably because of her semi-digimon nature. In a couple of hours she managed to stop turning around every time, because NZ order his digimon to stay close to her in case of something happens. So Ulairimon was following her. In this time he noticed something strange within himself. Somehow when she was around, his eternal thirst for destruction and vengeance, which was his scope for so many years, started to fade. "Probably something that will fade in time. Nothing unusual." he thought while they were going…
Meanwhile on the other side of the forest, in the residence of Taomon, the commander of the renamon squad was listening to trial that was decided to be the punishment for her failure.
"Now, ex-commander, I have decided what punishment you will receive. You will go, and slay the black digimon which you have encountered. If you will succeed, you will have your title back, and without victory don't even think to come back!" Taomon said heavily.
"I will return with victory, or will die trying." the ex-commander replied and left, without even giving a slight bow before leaving. She knew that she will be destroyed. Yet she accepted her faith…
Two hours later the group found one of their enemies in the middle of the road. She was waiting for them.
"To get back into my clan with pride I must destroy you." the red renamon pointed at Ulairimon. He didn't reply, just drew his sword and prepared to attack. The red digimon, however, tried to attack first, but in vane. She launched one diamond barrage after another. She tried to hit Ulairimon with her paws. She tried everything, but it was futile. Ulairimon evaded them all with ease, and then pronounced heavily:
"Annihilation will be unavoidable." and began to attack. Susan just watched the battle with horror. She understood that the renamon was tasked to attack, and understood that Ulairimon's power can easily put an end to this... The battle was coming to an end. Renamon, who stood behind Rika, remembered her training with him, when he was able to dispatch her countless number of times. "3, 2, 1, 0" Renamon thought, and when she reached zero, red renamon was on the ground, with a blade near her throat.
"Kill me now." red renamon growled.
"With pleasure." Ulairimon replied and was about to pierce his enemy with his ghastly blade, when he felt that someone was holding his hand. He turned around and saw … that little girl in white…
"Why are you holding me?" he hissed angrily, and tried to stab the enemy, but it was futile, his arm was like made of plumber.
"Calm down, this death is unnecessary. If you let her go, she will not be a thread for us anymore, she will just go away." she said quietly, and this time without any fear.
"Scram, you pathetic fox, before I change my mind." he hissed to his enemy and put the sword away. Red renamon and the others were just staring at all this, gaping. It didn't require repeating to her this two times, she got away in a blink of an eye. The others were just staring at this.
"Did we just saw what I think we saw?" Takato asked, with his jaw leveling the floor.
"Yeah, she just managed to convince Ulairimon to show … mercy?" Henry added.
"I think that I must be crazy or something." Rika confirmed. While they were doing that, those two were coming back to them. "He is tall, dark, strong and evil, while she is so … little, white and kind… They are total opposites… Like Yin and Yang… Amazing." Renamon thought, while looking at the symbol on her glove. Those two came in shortly, and the whole group was still staring at Susan. Finally, Rika asked:
"How on Earth have you done it? I mean, you have just stopped our deadliest weapon from killing."
"I don't know. Somehow I felt that I must stop this, so I went to him, and just asked. I could never have held his arm, I am not that strong. I don't know what happened. It was like I was not controlling myself…" she replied. The other "hero" of this misunderstanding was asking himself the same question. "How did this happen? I am supposed to bring death and terror, I should have managed to slay the enemy… Who is that girl? I can't fight when she is near. I will find the explanation for that, and then I will… find a way to deal with this… my walking, living, breathing conscience, something I thought I killed long ago… I will not be stopped next time." Ulairimon was thinking. Meanwhile NZ was thinking about what he just saw. "Next time I'll go with him, to make sure that the enemy won't escape." he thought. "They have spared me? Why? I don't know… I'll never know, but I own my life to that girl… I will never return to my clan now…" Thought the ex-commander of renamon squadron, while hiding in the bushes taking care of the wounds she received. Their unusual trip continued…
There, done. Hopefully I will get another idea of how to continue this nonsense. But as for now, this is all I was able to think of. Ready for flames.