A Digimon Frontier Fanfic
By Sakura Martinez (a.k.a Haru Glory)
A/N:
Well, it took longer for me to upload this since I was pretty much busy what with the new semester of classes coming up, plus the fact that I have been having headache-attacks quite frequently for the past few days. So I would like to extend my apologies to everybody who have been reading and awaiting the update of this fanfic.
Anyhow, I do not wish to make you guys wait much longer, so here is the next installment for the Rabbit on the Moon. Enjoy!
The Rabbit on the Moon
In the Cold, Iron Box
Her head was spinning, and she felt very groggy forcing her eyes to adjust to the dimness of wherever it was she was currently at.
She remembered full well what had happened.
"That stupid Takuya." She thought to herself, as her sight began to return to normal, little by little. "I bet he set his mind of wandering around again when he should have been focused on protecting me."
She wanted to put the blame on someone, and who better to put the blame on but on Takuya. She wanted to blame him for the fact that she was weak – unable to stand up for herself and depending on others too much. She wanted to change the feeling of being a burden to others into a feeling of annoyance at someone other than herself.
"He could have noticed someone creeping from behind." She continued to speak to herself.
It came as a surprise to her when someone suddenly spoke back to her.
"Well, you could have noticed that too." Came the voice.
Izumi looked around in search of the owner of the said voice. As she did so, she noticed just where she was, as she sees it, being locked up.
The place wasn't anything special. It was just a dark, damp, square-shaped room with a large, solid, iron door on one side and another small window on the other. On the corner, she saw who it was that spoke to her.
He had a short, messy, light-brown colored hair and the same color of eyes. He wore a cape, underneath, she could see him wearing some sort of worn-out armor with many scratch marks on it and a pair of boots to match his outfit. Just by looking at said outfit, Izumi guessed that he was some-sort of warrior.
"I'm glad that you've already regained consciousness," the boy continued. "I was worried when they suddenly threw you in here. I would have checked to see if you are alright, if it weren't for these shackles."
At the mention of the said item, Izumi saw that the young boy was being bound by iron chains around his ankles. Her eyes widened, as she could not believe what she saw and wondered that who could possibly do this to someone so young.
She was about to go over to him when she felt that she too was being bound by the same iron chains on her own ankle.
"I couldn't begin to imagine why they would bring a girl into this place." The boy went on. "I can't help but wonder what you could have done to aggravate those people."
"I could say the same to you…uh…"
"Tomoki." The boy said introducing himself. "My name's Tomoki Himi, and you are?"
Izumi thought for a minute before giving her fake name. She couldn't afford anyone else knowing. "Megumi. Megumi Minamoto."
"Minamoto?" Tomoki asked. "That sound's familiar."
Silence.
"So, do you know where we are?" Izumi asked a couple of minutes later.
Tomoki nodded and replied. "I don't know what they call this place, but it's the dungeon being run by people under the banner of the Western Commander."
At the sudden mention of Takuya's father, Izumi could not help but feel surprised. And she did not bother to hide it.
"What's wrong, Miss Megumi?" Tomoki asked.
"The Western Commander, Kanbara?" she asked although she knew what the answer would be.
"Yes." Came the reply. "Tell me, Miss Megumi, why did they lock you up in here?"
"Why don't you tell me yours first before I tell you mine." She said. "I can't suddenly talk about myself without knowing anything about who I am talking about first. Besides, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but what you may have done may be something worst."
Tomoki looked at her for a couple of seconds before laughing. When his laughter died down, he began to tell her who he is. Izumi could see in his voice that he had been locked up for a while now with no other company but himself, it was so obvious that he was excited about having someone to converse with.
"Like I've said before, Miss Megumi, my name is Tomoki Himi. I am from Frost Village, a small, icy, village found on the far northern reaches from Frontiria." He began. "Our village, if I may say so, is quite hidden from the rest of the world up until recently, when these so-called Knights of Fronteria under the banner of the Western Corps suddenly showed up saying that Frost Village would, from that moment on, be under their jurisdiction."
"Are you saying that the King's Knights are taking over villages?" Izumi asked, shocked of what she had just heard.
"Not all the knights, from what our resistance learned, only the Western Corps are taking up control of small villages, and they are doing so under the orders of the King himself." Tomoki replied. "It's like they are searching for something."
"So, how did you end up here?" Izumi asked.
"Well, I was one of the people who got caught after fighting off the Knights." Tomoki replied. "When we were all captured, you could not believe how crowded this place was. But then along came that order from the higher-ups saying all rebels must die as traitors."
"Are you saying they killed of your companions?"
Tomoki nodded. "I was about to be executed too, but I guess my 'lucky charm' saved me from that fate."
"Lucky Charm?" Izumi asked trying to hide the fact that she did not believe in such things. "What are you talking about?"
At the question and with a grin plastered on his dirty face, Tomoki showed her a symbol etched on his right forearm. As he showed it to her, the said symbol began to glow in a light-green color.
"That's…" she gasped.
"I don't know what this is for, but when that Commander saw it, he suddenly changed his mind executing me and instead returned me here and bound me to the wall."
"Tell me," Izumi suddenly said as he remembered the mark on Takuya's back. "can you use some sort of magic or something?"
"Magic?" Tomoki asked, wide eyed. "How did you know about that, no one knows about me being able to do something."
"Well, I know of a couple of people who have the same kind of symbol on their body as you do." She replied as she remembered Takuya, and of course, the same symbol in her body. "One of them can cast flame, you see, so, I wondered if you can do the same."
Tomoki seem to have nothing to say for quite a while, his eyes were gazing out to the opposite direction where the cold, iron doors were. He was thinking, and Izumi waited patiently, her curiosity as to what those symbols were getting the better of her. After all, she has a symbol on her body as well, so, in a way, she has every right to know about them.
She thought that if Tomoki was not going to open up to her about it, then, she could press Takuya for an answer later on…that is, if she could find a way to escape from there.
She was suddenly pulled back from her thoughts when a sudden chill filled the room and Tomoki spoke.
"Well, my 'power', if you would mind me saying, is the complete opposite from that friend of yours." He stated. "If that person can heat things up, I can cool them down."
Izumi stared in awe at Tomoki whose hands were suddenly enveloped by a light blue aura that seem to glisten as if there were some snow twirling around them.
"At the moment, making this place cold is what I can do thanks to these chains which seem to drain me of my ability to take my powers up a notch." He continued to explain. "If it weren't for these stupid things I would have freed us both by now."
"Well, that explains it." Izumi said, her heart sinking for she hoped that they could get themselves out with his ability.
"So, you still haven't answered my question as to what a lady such as yourself would be doing here."
"I guess I can say that it's probably because these guys want something from a family member." Izumi replied, giving as little information as she could. "I wish I could tell you more, but, I can't for a number of reasons."
"Well, it's alright, I guess." Came the younger one's reply. "I just hope that people would rescue you as soon as they can, the knights here are pretty rough…especially on women."
Izumi could not help but feel fear in her heart. She knew that the others were probably searching for her, worried sick about her well-being. She could not help but wonder if Kouji gave Takuya the lecture of a lifetime with not paying much attention to the mission at hand or something like that – in the back of her mind she hoped that he did thinking that Takuya needs to be thought a lesson, but somehow her heart does not agree and instead is arguing that it wasn't his fault at all.
She mentally shook her head. Why was she feeling this way to somebody other than the boy in her dreams? She didn't like it one bit.
Tomoki watched her silently. His senses telling him that the person with him in that cell was not telling him the whole truth behind the story, but despite it, he could not help but sympathize with her.
"She has her reasons, though…I guess." He thought to himself.
He began to search his memory as to why the surname "Minamoto" sounds vaguely familiar, like he has heard of it somewhere before or have met whoever owned this surname before.
Hours flew by and silence filled the boxed caged where the two 'children' were being kept, locked and chained. Over the hours, Izumi could not help but wonder why she too was chained the same fashion as Tomoki. She saw the relevance of it when it comes to the young boy, but to her…she did not.
She could do nothing even if there were no shackles that bound her feet, the best she could do was make as much noise as she can, pounding on that cursed door hoping for someone to hear them and set them free – a hope that seems so farfetched knowing that dungeons like these were most likely placed around a wide, desolate area.
She was not a threat to these people who have kidnapped her, she was just, after all, a normal person.
A clank suddenly came from the iron door as it screeched open revealing three people who soon entered the cell but did not bother to close it afterwards.
Two of them wore the same outfit as those people who attacked Izumi and her companions down at the oasis, and these two halted in front of the door, standing side by side as if guarding the cell doors – it was protocol, despite the fact that there really was no way either she or Tomoki could possibly go past that point.
The third person however, wore a different kind of armor. It was blue in color with golden edges. He did not wear any helmet unlike his men, but instead wore a metal mask hiding his face from all, his eyes were the only ones visible as he wore it on his face.
The masked man looked around the cell, his eyes scanning every direction before resting unto Tomoki.
"I see you still haven't given up on using that strange power of yours boy." Came a gruff voice from underneath the mask.
Tomoki stared back into the cold eyes of this mysterious person, his eyes filled with anger. "What's it to you. If I didn't know any better I'd say you're pretty jealous that you didn't end up with some kind of power yourself."
"Why would I be jealous? I have everything I could possibly want, including freedom. Not only that, but I am not without power, as you may already have witnessed back at your hometown."
"By power you mean having those dogs of yours follow every order you give and by freedom, do you mean having to be a dog yourself, following orders?" Tomoki retorted.
His words earned him a powerful punch on the ribs that sent him curling on the floor.
"What do you think you're doing!" Izumi shouted. "Is preying on those who can't fight back what you people are only good at?"
The masked man whirled around to face Izumi. His eyes never averting from her gaze as she stared right back at him with all resentment a person could possibly emit.
It seemed like the staring contest was to last forever when a sudden explosion shook the whole fort up.
"What the hell was that?" Exclaimed one of the knights guarding the door.
Just then, another knight came running up towards the masked man. This knight whispered something to his ear that made him turn around and leave.
But before he did so, he looked back at Izumi and told Tomoki that they would continue the discussion later.
Not long after that, Izumi and Tomoki could both hear shouting and fighting from the distant as well as a couple more explosions. Both of them could not help but wonder what was going on.
Soon after, the explosion sounded as if it was coming closer and closer. The two of them wondered if it would hit the cell that they were being kept upon as they hoped and prayed that it won't.
"Could this get any worse?" Izumi wondered.
Suddenly, Tomoki spoke.
"I guess if we were to escape now would be the appropriate time."
"Escape?" Izumi asked. "How would we do that when we are still chained here."
"Well, I could just freeze the chains off of us." Tomoki said, which only surprised and confused the young woman even more.
"What are you talking about? You said that with those on you can't use the full potential of your power."
"Well, I may have lied about that just a little bit." Tomoki said. "I had the feeling that they were listening in to our conversation, so I had to make it so that it would seem that we are incapable of escaping. Besides, to escape I don't necessarily need to have to use all of my power, just a fraction would do."
"I still don't understand any of this." Izumi stated, then added. "Well, whatever, just do your stuff and get us out of here."
"Roger that." Came the reply.
Soon, a cold wind began to blow freezing off everything that was metallic in substance, including the chains that bound both Izumi and Tomoki. Within seconds, the chains covered with ice began to crack and soon after was destroyed setting both the Warrior and the Lady free.
"Now, all we have to do is get away from here." Tomoki said.
"Right." Agreed Izumi.
And with that, they began to head towards the direction of the chaos as they both concluded that it would be easier to escape through the commotion rather than away from it.
To be continued…
A/N:
It was quite longer than I have originally set out to do, but I'd have to say that it turned out pretty well. I have to tell you guys that with my classes starting tomorrow, I would probably only be able to update the story once every week. I would, however, try to update as frequent as I could, if I could, I have a lot of courses to attend to this semester compared to a couple of semesters back.
Anyway, enough about that. I would like to know what you guys think about this chapter. I've began to feel discourage about continuing this fanfic with the small amount of reviews coming in, a single new review would help a lot in me continuing this fanfic, that way, I would know that there are still people who are actually reading this one. So, I really hope to hear from you all, so please review.
Well, that's all I can say for now. Until next time, this is Sakura Martinez saying "PEACE" and signing out! Ja ne!