A/N: It has been a long crucial 3 years since I last updated. I will continue to write again, so next chapter may be up in two or three weeks. the more comments I get the better!
Disclamer: I don't own Digimon!
Chapter 4: Forbidden.
Sora didn't know what to do at this point. She looked around once more to see anything out of the ordinary.
Yamato stared at her odd movements. "What is it? What's going on?"
People ran towards the nearest exits screaming with panic. A group of people started to run towards their direction.
"Stay close to me Sora!" Yamato said as he pulled her behind her to protect her from harm's way, both shopping bags and cold treats were abandon on the floor.
This is my chance!
The frantic crowd charged closer to the couple, they bumped and pushed them towards a wall. Sora broke loose from Yamato's grip, losing his sight from the rampaging crowd, and ran off to the nearest bathroom she could find. From the distance he could hear Yamato repeatedly yelling her name.
She hid in one of the bathroom stalls, praying to the Fairy Spirits that the monster didn't find her there. She closed the door and closed her eyes to concentrate and search for the right voice she needed. 'Mimi! I need your help!'
Mimi's voiced replied, 'Where are you? Are you okay? '
'I'm fine, there is not a lot to explain; there is another attack in the Downtown Mall. I will distract the creature until you and Hikari arrive, meet me in the rooftop of the building.'
'Sora! Don't do anything drastically!'
'Don't worry; I'll leave some of the action for you as well.'
'That's now what I mean! I-'
Before Mimi could finish her sentence, Sora interrupted her by shutting down their connection. Time was short and arguing with Mimi would not get them anywhere to finishing the job. Her job right now was to distract the beast before the rest of the girls came to help her.
She ran off towards the screaming crowds to find the source of the panic. The building had already been empty but the shrieks of desperation still rang in Sora's ears. On her way through an empty corridor, she bumped across a security guard. Like the rest of the anxious individuals, he was scared out of his bones. "Ma'am, I'm sorry but you have no access to this hall, it's dangerous," He whimpered, trying his best to show a courageous face.
"I have to get through! My little sister and her friend are in there!" Lied Sora, "I have to go and help them!"
"We are doing our best to retrieve your friends. Law enforcements are on their way to assist."
A crash came from behind followed by and loud roar.
"What the hell was that?" Cried the security guard, he cowardly started to step backwards, the loud noise had frighten him and he was intimidated of what may appeared.
The red-head swiftly turned around and saw a long shadow coming from the hall. She had to transform quickly but without the girls it was useless.
A piercing shout came from the security guard as the creature made its appearance.
The beast was different from the previous monster they had battle. It was smaller and ugly looking; his fur was black and had long sharp teeth and claws, his eyes were a gray color and he was a few inches taller than Sora.
The guard took his taser gun out.
"Don't hurt him!" Sora protested.
"Are you mad lady? Be more concern about yourself! It could hurt us!" He stepped forwards, shaking as he held his weapon with both hands towards the animal.
With one hard sweep from its hand, the creature had knocked the gun off. The guard backed down ready to make a sprint for his dear life.
Sora raised her hand pressing her palm against the back of the guard and whispered, "Somnum."
The guard's eyes began to droop, his body collapsed on the ground. Sora quickly picked him up and took him to a nearest abandon store to lay him down.
The beast drilled its cold, gray eyes to Sora and growled running in a tremendous speed towards the fairy. Sora eyes widen of astonishment on how fast this creature was. The hall was empty and out of people's sight. Her wings spread out and on the tick of time she escaped its claws. She flew and the beast followed with its great speed.
Luckily, she found the stairs that she was looking for. They lead her up a floor and then to a nearby door where she flung open and closed it immediately after she had reached the ground.
The animal furiously hit the door.
"Contego!" Sora's palm had released a spell, the door gleamed as a glossy substance spread down the door to the ground.
"This will keep you out for a while until the rest come back."
'Where are you guys?' She thought, looking desperately around for any movement. The sky was still blue and the puffy clouds moved slowly sideways. She looked up and saw two spots coming down approaching closer to her destination. It was them. Their bodies became visible the closer they got, they soon landed on their feet, softly to the ground.
"We're here." They huffed.
"About time!" Sora claimed. They quickly apologize and with their triangle position, together they yelled in unison, "Ada Metamorphis!"
The bright gleam surrounded the girls and soon they were on their Fairy Armor.
The spell that was cast on the door and finally worn off, the door hinges bolted out along with the door falling down with a loud thud. A long, skinny hand grabbed the side of the entrance. The creature approached, showing his deadly sharp teeth.
"Ew! How ugly! Someone needs a big make-over!" Mimi repulsively said.
"Mimi, knock it off!" Hikari responded to her comment.
"Careful girls, it has an incredible speed." Sora warned.
Soon enough the monster ran towards them, showing off its supernatural, talented speed. Hikari and Mimi flew upwards to avoid his quick attacks. Sora jumped towards the upcoming beast, lunged and rolled to the ground. She quickly got up facing the nasty creature.
"Sora! Use your weapon!" yelled Mimi from above.
Sora nodded as a response, she took her flat palm out and shouted. "Advoco Telum!" A long silver sword sprouted from a glowing light coming from her palm. Sora grabbed her sword, her stance on a fighting position; she looked at the beast for a moment, preparing for its second attack.
From above, Mimi and Hikari assisted by throwing stunning spells at the creature, but they would miss every hit they threw. The beast was just too fast.
Sora sprinted away from the beast movements but every time, the beast would follow. It was impossible to get away from its fast, sharp attacks.
The duo from above continued to throw powerful charms to knock him out but not killing it.
"It's not working!" one of them yelled.
The creature rushed to Sora as fast as the wind was blowing, almost as if it was flying. Sora blocked his sharp claws with her sword. One move after another she counterattacked them, until it did an uppercut slash, knocking out Sora's sword. Undefended, she paced backwards to think of another plan, however the creature had thrown another attack on the fairy knocking her down to the ground. The beast sprinted and attacked again ready to throw a deadly blow. Sora covered her face with her right arm, as if it was going to help her out, she soon would be chopped into pieces. The attack approached and blocked it off with the armor Sora was embedded around her arm. The monster gave out a loud howl of horrible pain. The fairy looked down at her arm, her twisted golden armor binding it; she had forgotten that the strong substance was as hard as a diamond and indestructible. She kissed it with gratitude and whispered a 'thank you' to it.
Mimi and Hikari dropped to the ground, landing on their feet. Both Fairies had their weapons out; Hikari with her staff and Mimi with her sword.
"You are not cute at all!" Mimi discriminated to the beast, "You really need to calm down that attitude of yours, is not going to get you anywhere."
The creature looked around and saw them land; it had found its new targets.
"Crap! It's on to us!" Mimi grabbed her sword tightly.
"Yeah, Mimi, if you would have just kept your comments to yourself then we wouldn't be its next meal!" Hikari yelled at the pink-headed fairy.
Its first attack was towards Hikari, she had time enough to block it but the hit was too strong sending her sliding down the ground, she rolled like a rag doll and fell unconscious.
"Hikari!" The other two fairies cried in unison.
Sora hurried to grab her sword, "Mimi! We have to slow it down! It's too fast!"
Mimi was disturbed, she couldn't concentrate property, she saw Hikari's body lying on the ground, and fear ran down Mimi's body, she couldn't move nor speak.
"Mimi, knock out of it! The sooner we fight this creature the faster we can help her; I need your help right now! What's the enchantment?"
"I-I don't know the enchantment!" She managed to utter, "I can't remember!" She was shaking a little. She grabbed her head as if trying to control it from insanity.
Time was running out and Sora had to think of something fast. The creature stared at them from the other side of the roof. It growled loudly, sniffing the air as if trying to find an aroma. Sora looked at the creature's behavior. That was it, she finally understood. How come she didn't see it sooner?
Sora ran towards Mimi grabbing her shoulders, Mimi snapped out of it and looked into Sora's ruby eyes. "I got an idea! Sort of. But I need you to pulled through and help me. We can do this."
Mimi managed to spread a smile, "Right. Thank you Sora."
Sora pulled away she ran to one side of the roof, "Mimi, go to that side!" she directed with her finger, pointing to her right. Mimi did what she was told and went towards her position.
"Funtis!"
A long rope emerged from Sora's palm, she tossed the other end to Mimi, and she grabbed it.
"When I say now, you pull the rope, got it?"
Mimi gave a thumbs-up as her answer.
Sora made a low whistle; the beast turned and ran towards it.
"Here he comes! Wait…wait for it," The beast ran fast it was almost a blur, "Now!" The two fairies pulled the rope, the beast had tripped, landing hard on its face making a loud thud. The rope magically wrapped around it like a giant snake, he growled and struggled.
"Somnun." Chanted Sora, the beast went down to its slumber. Mimi gave Sora a sphere she had brought with her and ran to where Hikari was injured. She lifted her head gently, grabbed her hand to feel her pulse, "She's okay!" Mimi called out, with a tone of relief.
Out of nowhere and on time, Jyou had arrived. He looked at the monster and gave a little small shriek, loud enough for him to hear it.
"Jyou! Get your Medic-Ass here and come help her!" Jyou dashed towards them and started to nurse Hikari with his Palm Majik he was able to restore the damage in her body. "She just needs some rest now,"
From far, Sora could see them chatting, she turned around and stared at the creature while it slept. Who in the grounds wanted to destroy and cause havoc to this world? Other grounds had blamed Gennai for the appearances of these beasts. That he made be the one behind it all. Sora got angry at the thought of others blaming him. He was her mentor ever since she was a little girl, he had taught her to fight and to prepare her for one day, she will be a Warrior Fairy, and she would make her parents proud. Nothing made sense, and it was her job to stop and find the source of the mastermind behind all this.
He couldn't be the culprit, he just couldn't be…
Sora had her training clothes on, a sword on her hand, a young Gennai stood in front of her, facing her with a warm smile. Sora huffed, her chest puffing in and out. She yelled and charged for another attack.
Gennai blocked the attacks one by one using just one hand while the other was behind his back, Sora forcefully clashed her sword against his making loud clanging noises.
The two brawling fighters were outside the fighting field practicing sword sparring.
Gennai moved backwards blocking every attack he was thrown at, Sora couldn't manage to disarm him. Gennai prevented another attack and with one blow with his sword he knocked out Sora's sword from her hand. The Sword flew and landed on the ground, its sharp point piercing the dirt.
"Let's take a break."
Both sat on a small bench, Gennai grabbed a wooden canteen handing it to Sora, she said thanks taking a long sip, water dripping down her sides of her mouth.
Gennai looked attentively and laughed softly, Sora looked at him quickly, "What's so funny?"
He lightly shook his head, "Nothing." He motioned his head towards her clothes hinting to Sora that she had water all over her shirt. "Now you are refreshed"
Sora frowned at her wet clothes but then she let out a loud laugh.
"You're getting better, Sora." Gennai said, taking a sip from his own canteen.
"Really?" Sora's eyes widen with excitement," You really think so?"
"Of course! You train harder than anyone; you are one of my best students."
"Who's your most talented student?" she curiously asked.
"Do you really want to know?" He cautioned.
Sora nodded, hoping it was her.
"Well, I guess you can keep it a secret, Taichi is one of the most talented and soon he will be the Head of these Grounds."
Sora frowned at the Taichi's name. She wanted to be the best one.
"Stupid Taichi," she murmured.
"Why stupid may I ask?"
"It's not fair!" She got up looking at the teacher, "He's always the best! He's always this and that!"
"What's wrong, Sora? Why all of the sudden this kind of behavior. You know, you didn't always hated Taichi, remember?"
Sora's head dropped. Gennai was right, things just changed between them and now she didn't want anything to do with him. Gennai's hand fell on Sora's, Sora looked up to him, his small eyes beamed at her, "Sora, hatred towards others will not solve anything, you have to accept the facts that things aren't always going to stay the same, we can't bring back things that were taken away from us, or beloved people. We are a strong, honest nation; it is our duty to protect our citizens. One day you will be a strong warrior and your duty will fall upon protection our Ground. It's your pride and hating your soon-to-be-king, will not bring you peace to yourself. Sooner or later you will have to realize you have to take that hatred out, it is not good and it can devour us alive".
Sora nodded, she will try to not hate Taichi,'bushy-head' too much.
"We should continue our lesson, young one." He got up grabbing his weapon. Sora ran towards her fallen weapon to retrieve it, she gave one last look at Gennai and said, "Thank you Sensei, I'm sorry for my stubbornness, you were always there when I need you and I thank you for teaching me."
He smiled swinging his sword into a circular motion, putting one hand behind his back, and firming his body with a ready stance. "That's why I'm here."
"Sora?"
"Hmm?"
"I said, if you have the sphere." Sora didn't know when Jyou arrived to her side, she was so lost in her thoughts he didn't see him approaching her. Sora had forgotten she was holding the sphere on her hand, she looked at it and saw that her knuckles had turned white from all the pressure she put on the crystal ball. She stared at it one last time before she handed it to Jyou; he took it, taking charge, and began the enchantments, the beast rose from the ground, turning into a miniature figure trapped inside the magical ball.
"How were you able to slow it down?" Jyou looked at the creature inside the ball, "these are rare and hard to capture."
Sora smiled, "It was blind; it was relying on his sense of smell and hearing."
"Ah," he nodded.
"Now, you tell me, how are you able to do it by yourself?" Sora asked, wondering why the three fairies had to change formations to capture the beast as a group, while Jyou would just simply capture it with no formation.
Jyou chuckled, "I've been a slave to studies for years, I've mastered harder Majik than any of you ladies, you just don't have the power like I do." He hubristic said, his head cocked upwards, eyes close and chest puffed.
Sora raised a brow, "Right, I'm pretty sure Taichi gave you an ancient scroll of Majik."
Jyou automatically blushed, stuttering, "Th-tha-that's- No! I had to spend nights mastering that scroll! If you knew how hard it was!"
"Oh, Jyou, you're full of it." She laughed patting him on the shoulder, "Were glad you're with us to rely on."
Jyou blushed.
Sora had forgotten she still was wearing her armor, both Mimi and Sora chanted "Ada Imere." Both had returned to their regular clothes, Jyou did the spell on Hikari, who was still unconscious, her clothes had also changed.
"We have to get back home, "said Mimi urgently, she had Hikari resting on her arms lying motionless like a sleeping beauty. If Takeru saw her like this he would fall in love with her, Mimi thought to herself.
"Yeah," Sora agreed, "Crap! I forgot about Yamato!" She hit her head with her palm at the thought of leaving the blond by himself. She looked at Mimi with pleading eyes as if telling her she had to go back to at least explain something to him.
"Yamato?" questioned Jyou turning his attention to Sora, fixing his glasses as if they were crooked, (even though they were perfectly in balance on his nose), and examining Sora like she was an interesting creature.
"Yes, Yamato and I were hanging around the mall, and he bought me some shious," she said lifting her leg and pointing her shoes to Jyou. Mimi gave a squeal.
"Those are cute," she chirped.
"You mean, 'shoes'?" Jyou corrected her, raising a long eyebrow.
"Right, that's what I said." Sora defended, "But, yeah, we were hanging out eating some cold treats when I ran off leaving him alone."
"Well its best if you just leave him," Jyou said taking his glasses off and pretending to clean the invisible smudge on them.
Sora looked at the Med with suspicious eyes, "What are you trying to say?" Sora retorted bitterly.
Of all the times Jyou cowardly walked away from Sora, this was the first time he face her with great seriousness.
"What I'm trying to say is, you should not meddle with humans, Sora. You should know better! Or have you forgotten our rules. Humans and Fairies can't co-exist with each other, we can't mix our blood with theirs; it's too risky. As I recall Sora, your task comes first above anything else."
Sora looked appalled; she had never seen Jyou so bright with courage before, he was able to stand up to her with no regret of fright. He knew perfectly well not to make Sora mad, but at this point he had to be serious. She also couldn't stand the fact that he was right about everything he had said.
"I apologize, Sora if I sound like a complete jerk, but this human you are seeing, he has no business with you, or any of you! You have to stop this relationship."
Sora laughed, "Jyou, calm down, it's nothing serious, we were just…he was just showing me around." Sora was on the break point of crying with fury. She was being treated like a little girl. "It's nothing more!"
"Well if it's nothing more, then it has to end before something starts, we can't risk ourselves being around humans, if they find out they could expose us and we will be the next freak show. Finish it before it leads on," He cautiously said to Sora, pointing a serious finger at her, "I have warned you. Now I must go, I have to report today's attack to the Leader, good day ladies."
Before Sora could think of something else to say to change Jyou's mind, he had disappear in thin air.
She looked at the spot where he had disappeared.
"It's not fair, Mimi."
Mimi, who was in the background the whole time listening to the duo's argument, she stepped towards Sora, Hikari still on her arms.
"I'm sorry," was the only thing she could say.
Sora sighed, she didn't know what to say, all she wanted to do was wrapped her self in her fairy wings like a cocoon and stay in solitude for the next hundred years.
"Oh well," she solemnly said, "we should just go."
"Wait a minute, Sora," Mimi said, attempting to put a smile on Sora's face. She had a mischievous smile, "the day is not over," Mimi smirked.
She was right, the sun was close to leaving the day and shades of oranges started to spread across the heavens. Sora managed to bring her face up and saw Mimi grinning.
"What Jyou doesn't know, won't hurt him, it will be our dirty little secret." She winked at her, "Now you should go, he's probably still looking for you."
Sora hugged her friend from the side and running off, "Thanks Mimi!" she went down the trail of stairs, while Mimi looked back and with one spring she was off to the sky.
Sora ran into the abandon and half destroy stores, trying to find Yamato. At this rate I will never find him.
She stopped to concentrate on finding his voice. She listened to deeper sound waves, a specific voice. It started as a muffled tone and then it grew louder. "Where are you? Sora! Sora!"
"He's that way!" She bolted to her left where other stores were deserted and no people were present.
"Yamato!"
A tall figured from the distance was standing hands close to his mouth ready to shout her name again. He heard her call him once more and turned to see her running towards him. He too darted, approaching her. He grabbed her shoulders and looked into her ruby eyes. "I'm glad you are okay!" He said, trying hard to control his eager move to hug her, he didn't want her to scare her off if he was too fast.
"I'm sorry, I got trampled and lost you in the crowd," she lied looking at his beautiful whirls of blue tint.
"It's okay, I'm just glad you are okay."
Sora brought up a pearly smile, her eyes gleaming. "You know, you still own me a whole day of sightseeing." He grabbed his arms pulling him to the nearest emergency exit; she hurried before anyone else saw them.
Outside, Sora could hear the loud sirens of cop cars, firefighters gathered and onlookers were standing with terror and curiosity. Reporters had arrived on prompt. They had no idea that the violet combat was over thanks to the fairies.
The couple made their way to the car and drove off before anyone could stop them, Yamato decided to take them somewhere quiet and calm, away from the horrible havoc that was caused in the mall, the park.
They got out from the vehicle and started to walk down a path that lead them to a small playground, it was already abandon. And the only sound they could hear was the creaks of the swing as the wind pushed them lightly. They sat down on the swings pushing themselves with a suave rhythm.
"Sorry about all this happening again," Yamato apologized, "it seems like every time I make an attempt to get close to you something happens, like yesterday and now today."
Sora's hands grabbed hold of the chains from the swim and pushed herself a little further, she didn't know what to tell him, she wanted to say, I'm sorry but you and I can't be because we are so different and I'm a fairy. But she couldn't find the courage to say it.
"It's okay; a lot of things have come about, let's just drop it and enjoy the rest of the day." Yamato watched as she swayed herself almost flying. For a while she stayed above the ground, swinging, it felt much better than just flying, it was relaxing. Sora stopped slowly until she was on level with the ground and looked at Yamato.
What was with this human, she just met him yesterday and yet she couldn't help herself know that she wanted to know about him but knew the dangerous of getting close to him. It's not like he was in love with the man, he was just a peculiar person in her opinion, and why did he wanted to get to know her? There were more than a million human females in this country and yet he decided to call it keeps.
"So, tell me where you are from?" He finally said, breaking the silence and Sora's pensive comments.
Sora didn't' want go into that subject. "I have to apologize to you in advance, but I can't tell you that. All I can tell you is that where I am, it's a faraway place, hidden away."
"Well then, tell me about you?"
"That I can't tell you either."
"Okay, well how about if I talk about myself," Yamato said, I don't think she trusts me. I will soon make her see she can. It will take a little time. "My brother and I live together with our roommate Koushiro, I'm 23. I'm on band called The Teenage Wolves. I still don't know what I want to do with my life. My parents are divorced and for a while, I lived with my father until I moved out…"
He continued on, when he mention his father his voice sounded far and distance, Sora caught that and made a note of herself to not ask about him. He barely talk about his mother, all she knew was that she was a writer and Takeru lived with her until he also decided to move out with Yamato.
They continued to swing softly and talking mostly about Yamato, as she heard him talk she learned so much about him, and to her surprised, he wasn't what she thought he would be, another selfish, ignorant, hard-headed, male.
Yamato finally got up, stretching his muscles, He looked up to the sky and smile, he turned to Sora and offered his hand to her, for a few milliseconds she looked at it then heartedly she took it. He led her to an oak tree that was the pride and heart of the town. He sat down on the grassy ground and patted it, motioning Sora to sit next to him; she took the hint and sat down looking up at the many bright eyes that sparkled on the night sky.
"It's so beautiful, "she whispered in awe, "It reminds me of home."
"How?"
She looked at Yamato for a moment, it seem longer than a second, she felt in them, those cerulean pools, she snapped and smile, "I guess there is no harm in telling you; I was little, it was many years ago, so long ago, I would sit in the middle with my parents watching the many stars, my father would point out our many great fair-uh fair warriors who fought many wars." She laid on the grass feeling more comfortable around it; she felt the grass tickling her skin. She crossed her arms on her stomach.
"Sounds nice," Yamato answered, his body resting next to hers, "Your parents probably miss you."
"I miss them too; I would have loved to share this moment with them."
"You can, you should invite them over."
Sora smiled feeling a small sting in her heart, "If only…"
"What do you mean?" Yamato curiously asked.
"It's impossible."
"Why?" Yamato was trying his hardest to make it possible.
"Well, it can't happen, both of my parents are dead."
This time Yamato didn't have anything to say, he regretted saying or mentioning such subject.
"I'm so sorry."
"Its okay, Yamato, It happened a long time ago."
"Sora, you make it sound like it happened decades ago!"
Sora smirked, she was glad it was dark and Yamato couldn't see the grin on her face, if you only knew.
They continued to lay in silence watching the twinkling stars. Yamato ranted enthusiastically about the constellations, the mysteries of the galaxy, the moon…
She could see the eager on his voice. This human loved the outer space.
Time flew and they decided it was time to head back home. The ride home was quiet followed by some small talk about hobbies mostly coming from Yamato and Sora would be careful of what she said.
They reached their destination and headed to the third floor. Yamato followed Sora, taking her to her door. Sora turned to face him.
"Thanks for today, I'm sorry for earlier."
"No harm, I wish our unfortunate of events would lead to something better." He stiffed, blushing a little. Sora raised an eyebrow wonder what could had make it better when their afternoon was already great.
"I guess it's a shame," she said, grabbing her keys and inserting in inside the lock, "It's also a shame you wasted so much for those gorgeous shoes, they are probably gone." She successfully opened the door and looked back at Yamato. She smiled as he leaned closer to Sora; she slowly stepped inside and sweetly said, "Goodnight, Blondie."
She closed the door, leaving Yamato hanging; He could only grinned while he walked back to his own apartment.
Inside, Sora walked down the hall that led to the girl's room, she softly knocked and heard a muffled, 'come in.' Mimi was sitting down on a chair that was next to Hikari's bed. Hikari laid on the bed wide awake. Sora made her way in and sat on the end of the bed.
"How are you feeling, Hikari?"
"I feel much better! Mimi was with me the whole time, even after I came about,"
Sora turned to Mimi and saw that her eyes were puffy and red.
"Were you crying?"
Mimi released a soft sniff, grabbing a tissue and blowing her nose. "No!" It's those darn allergies!"
Sora looked at the floor where Mimi was sitting; white, used tissues were surrounding Mimi's feet.
Hikari laughed. "You are such a bad liar! After I woke up, she broke down to tears. She launched on to me, hugging me tightly, I almost suffocated. I told her if she didn't let go I would passed out again. She did, getting a hold of herself, and then she began to cry non-stop again, ranting on how worried she was."
Sora let out a laugh, "Oh Mimi. I can see why you worry, Hikari, you're like our little sister. Our blood may not be related but we care about each other, like sister should. We were so worried about you."
Mimi let out another cry, tears ran down her rosy cheeks, she flung herself to Hikari crying and uttering gibberish words to Hikari.
"Its okay, Mimi," Hikari caressed the back of her hair, "Don't cry."
Sora stood up and hugged her two friends, giving each a kiss on the forehead. Mimi calmed after a while and returned to her chair, she sniffed and muttered something about being low on tea and she should got and brew some more. She picked the tray from the night stand and left the room.
"How did you manage to make her stop crying earlier?" Sora asked leaning to Hikari.
Hikari sat straighter, making herself more comfortable, "I asked about you."
Sora's brows furrowed in confusion.
"She automatically stopped, brushing her tears away and said you went off to finish your date with Yamato-kun, she would not stop talking." She winked at the red-head as she saw Sora's cheeks turned crimson. Her false attempt to hide it was not enough to convince Hikari.
"It wasn't a date!" Sora defended.
"Right," Hikari giggled.
"It wasn't, I swear!" We went to the park and gazed up at the stars, that's it!"
"Alright, alright! I believe you!"
"And that's going to be it, no more getting together with him."
Hikari frowned, "Why?"
Sora explained what Jyou had said to her earlier that day, how any of them were not allowed to see them anymore, or get involved with any human.
Hikari's eyes drooped, "He's right, but it's not like we fell in love with them, there is nothing wrong with making friends, they could be helpful in the near future."
"Right, they could. Let's just promise that we won't fall in love with them."
"Would it be necessary to wear a promise bracelet?"
Sora's eyes narrowed looking down at her own bracelet on her wrist. "No, just a pinky swear," They brought up their smallest fingers and hooked them together. Sora gave Hikari a kiss on the cheek and left her room.
On her way out she saw Mimi with a tray a jar on the middle.
"You're off to bed?" She asked stopping in midway.
"Yeah," Sora yawned, "I'm tired."
"Alrighty, sweet dreams."
"You too, Good Night."
Sora closed the door behind her, she changed to her night gown and headed to her bed, but before falling asleep she brought scenes from today's event with Yamato. She knew well that she wasn't in love with the human, but no one ever told her having a crush was forbidden.
Jyou sat on the chair facing the desk in the office. Taichi sat on his big comfy chair looking at some papers Jyou had handed him that previous day. The leader looked dumbfounded at the pieces of information he had on his hands. He looked at the parchment on his right, then on his left making "mhmm…" noises in between. He then stared hard on the other papers on the desk; the poor desk was filled with papers, maps, and battle plans that spread out.
"Are you having a little trouble there sir?" Jyou asked looking at how red Taichi's face was from concentrating so hard on the papers.
Taichi chuckled, "Me, ha-ha, of course not! Just trying to comprehend the facts," he put the notes away with the rest of the untidy clutter of papers. A loud growled came from below Taichi's body, he nervously grinned as he rubbed the back of his bushy hair.
"I guess I can't concentrate well with an empty stomach," He said rubbing his stomach. "Let's get some food!" He enthusiastically suggested getting up from his desk and motioning to Jyou to follow him. They left the Head's office and walked towards a corridor that led down to a pair of stairs, which led to the nearest kitchen. When Taichi became the leader, his first order of command was to put his office near the kitchen for any case scenario. Besides, he, himself, said he couldn't work without any food shoved down his stomach.
Jyou let out a breath of frustration, "I can't believe you are thinking of food when we have a crisis at hand, Taichi."
Taichi gasped feeling offended, "Not having food inside your stomach is a crisis itself!"
"Oh boy."
"Come on, man, relax a little you're tenser than me, and I have a lot in my plate. Now tell me about the report." They walked down the pair of wooden stairs.
"You didn't read them?"
"Eh, I might have gotten through some parts."
Jyou squint his eyes with suspicion; Taichi felt his hot glare, "Okay, I just read some parts… Alright! I lied, I didn't read the report."
"I knew it."
"Now that I admitted my lack of reading and made a complete fool of myself can you just please tell me the report! It's much easier if you just tell me."
Jyou exhaled and started his report," We received two attacks this week, both coming down from Downtown."
They arrived to the kitchens, the wooden walls were smooth; the stove was an ancient furnace with coil as its heating source. The kitchens were big and long wooden tables stood in the middle.
"Two attacks after the other," continued Jyou, "after the fairies arrived to the human world. I find it curious that both attacks came from Downtown."
"That could be our first clue, investigating Downtown."
"Alright, I'll make a note of that. Now the first creature had a guard as if it was protected from someone, this proves that a fairy is behind this, it's a power only fairies use."
Taichi rampage the fridge to find something edible of his liking, he had finally found it.
"The fairies, however, were able to break the protection it had and at the end taking him out. On the second attack, from what little I got, the fairies fought the other creature on the top of a building. The creature was blind, from what Sora knew, Hikari got hurt on the progress, but she's okay!" He quickly added on seeing Taichi's worried face as he almost dropped the piece of meat and almost chocking on it. "She's okay, she needs a lot of rest." Jyou explained patting Taichi's back. He swallowed hard, "that thing went through the wrong tube. I'm glad my sister is fine, how about Sora, how is she doing?"
Jyou stared for a moment and thought of her and what she said about this Yamato boy. He didn't feel right snitching to Taichi that Sora was seeing a human while she was to betrothed with the Leader.
"She's…doing great as expected from Sora!"
Taichi smiled at the response, "What was her reaction when you put the promise bracelet on."
"Oh… she wasn't very keen on the idea of you not telling her what it was."
He grinned, eating another piece of meat. After he was content of food, they left the kitchens and headed back to the office.
"I know it was selfish of my part to do it but I had to make sure she wouldn't break her word, as far as I know, she might elope with a human."
Jyou nervously laughed, "Ha-ha!" Right? A human! It's forbidden! How funny!"
Taichi raised his brow, "Okay, it wasn't that funny."
Jyou automatically stopped and bowed, "I'm sorry." He excused himself and left.
Taichi groaned at the immense paper work he had to do "I'll have to pay a visit to my sister soon, and my lovely fiancée. Of course, right after I'm done with all this crap."