Chapter Three Prelude To Darkness
"Toots?" Renamon cried as she pulled her hand away from Chaos Impmon. "Get your Digimon away from Renamon before I give you a reason for wearing a cast!" yelled Rika as she approached me with her right arm held up with her hand in a fist. "You don't want to get in a fist fight with my Master!" yelled Chaos Impmon as Rika kept advancing.
"You keep calling him master, why?" asked Henry as he walked up to Chaos Impmon. Chaos Impmon stared at Henry before replying "Doesn't your digimon call you master?" Henry looked at him in shock when Takato walked up and said "no, our digimon partners are our friends." Chaos Impmon looked at Takato and Henry who nodded his head. He then placed his right hand under his chin with his left hand under its elbow. He held that pose for the amount of time it took Rika to reach me.
"You want to fight me Rika?" I asked as Rika walked up to me. She just nodded her head at me. "Guys this is getting out of hand!" exclaimed Ryo as he walked up to Rika and I. "Ryo stay out of this!" I yelled at him. Then I felt a vibration in my pocket I pulled out my cell phone. "Yeah this is Bill what is it Medic? What I can now use my right arm again!"
Rika just stared at me as I began to unravel the bandages from my right arm. Chaos Impmon looked at me as I started. He then turned to Takato and Henry and asked "What's a friend?" The tamers including Rika turned and stared at him when they heard his question. "What you mean you don't know what a friend is?" asked Rika as she looked at him. Chaos Impmon nodded his head and stared at me. Rika following his gaze turned to me and yelled "You keep him as a slave?" I looked at him and said "No, Chaos Impmon is a new species that are unwaveringly loyal to the one they consider their better. They then call that digimon or person their master. I've been trying to get him to stop calling me that since we entered the Digital World, but after two years of trying I gave up and ignore when he calls me that." Henry looked at me and asked "How did you two meet?"
I cringed at the question and Rika stared at me. "What are you hiding from us?" she asked as she walked up to me. Ryo walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder and said "Everyone has a right to keep secrets Rika." She brushed his hand off and kept walking. Chaos Impmon looked at Henry and said "We met in a city Bill called New York. In a back alley three years ago. I had just bio-emerged and was looking for a fight. Bill was the only person there after everyone else fled when I appeared. There were many dead people lying on the ground around him. He stared at me and raised a gun at me, I think he called it a gun. He fired at me knocking me down before he ran up to me with a dagger. When he struck me with the dagger I felt a surge of power flow from him and into me." I looked at him and finished by saying "Then a white light descended and turned my cell phone into a D-Ark."
Rika just stared at me with a cocked eyebrow. "You were a gang member?" Kazu exclaimed as he looked at me. I lifted my left sleeve up to my shoulder revealing a tattoo of triple crowns with swords going through each into a single heart that was in the middle of the circle. "We called ourselves The Knights Royal." "The Knights Royal?" Ryo asked with a skeptical look. "Yeah hard to believe that a white kid was in a gang at the age of fourteen. Well I had no choice because I was fighting to feed my little sister after our father died in a work related accident and our mother left shortly after my sister was born. That's how it was in the slums of New York City. Everyone who joined had someone they were fighting to feed or protect. It was never about the money we made."
Meanwhile in the same New York City slums several people were meeting in an abandoned warehouse. "Jovan why did you call us here?" said a sixteen year old girl with light brown hair and hazel eyes. She wore a T-shirt with a smiley face on it. "Erika it's been three years since our leader disappeared. I see the money he had pilfered helped pay for your operation." Replied a seventeen year old light skinned African American. He stood about 6'7" and had glasses on along with a Helix brand T-shirt. His hair was short and covered by his Yankees hat. "Yeah so what?" Erika replied harshly. She stood about 5'6". "That's a harsh tone to talk about your missing brother in." said a male voice that came from behind them. "Kevin you're here?" Erika asked as a seventeen year old boy stepped into view. "Yeah like I'd miss this meeting." The boy replied, he was about 6'11' had short chestnut colored hair and blue eyes. He had a black shirt with a map of the New York subway system on it.
"Kevin's right for once." Said a female voice from the shadows. "Hey that's mean Christina!" Kevin yelled at the newcomer. She had long light blonde hair that covered her left eye. Her right eye was blue while her left eye was grey. She was about 5'5" and wore a jean jacket vest that covered her black tank top. She unlike the others who were wearing jeans had a knee high skirt on. Jovan looked at her and said "Where's Nic and Roni?" "We're here!" said a male voice. Then a fifteen year old boy and girl stepped into view. The boy had red hair and a leather jacket on. He stood around 4'10" while his sister was about 4'11". They both had jeans on but you could only see the lower legs of Roni's due to the heavy winter jacket she wore. "Why is your sister wearing a heavy winter jacket when it's only fifty degrees out?" Kevin asked. Christina turned and smacked him in the back of his head saying "She's anemic you idiot." "Now, now let's not have any fighting in here." Said a voice from above. "We're here to talk about our new enemy Assassinmon. Now then let the meeting of the remaining Knights Royal begin." Said the voice. Then Magnamon descended to the ground.
To be continued…