Once upon a time, there was a girl born platinum silver hair, but unlike any other person that had a digimon appear when they were born, she didn't get one, her parents fearing persecution if anyone found out tried taming Wild digimon and giving them to their daughter. They would run away with fear since something about her was causing them to be scared of her. She went through several attempts to bond her to a digimon partner with no success at all, her name was Arukeni, and eventually word of mouth about spread to the nearest village, the persecution the family feared started, the villagers accidentally Arukeni's mother trying to scare them by setting the mansion's garden on fire. After the mother was buried, the father swore vengeance, and was stoned to death for his troubles. The daughter would remain alone in the castle for a couple of years, she then meet a girl named Tsubara, who was the same age as she was, and they became very close, Tsubara seemingly vanished without a trace, not know the horrible truth about what her friend will become, Aru forcing herself out of a depression went on with her life.

Digimon Sync episode 11 "The Girl Who Played with Fire"

-4 years ago-

Arukeni jumped from roof to roof, she made a habit of watching the village as they went, despite what they did, she wished them no ill will, since she was a freak, and who would love a freak like her. She heard the sound of bells, and went into a panic, and ran toward the sound, she was at the village temple, where came the sound of people singing, Arukeni began to sing herself. They were singing her mother's favorite song. She did this every day, these are the things that made her life worthwhile, she pulled the hood over her face, and climbed down from roof.

She hid in a pile of hay as passing by villagers walked across the ally she was in, she watched as they went by her, she crawled out when she was sure they were gone, walking to the end of the alley. She looked back and forth to see if anyone was coming "That was close" Arukeni whispered to herself, even though she never was spotted by anyone, she smiled and somersaulted in excitement, she ran from alley to alley avoiding anyone spotting her. Climbing into a tree watching people passing they were dressed in fancier garb than usual "it must be a festival" she now heard singing again, people were singing door to door, she snuck down and into the crowd of singers, and joined with her own voice, it was the Solstice. She had almost forgotten about it, this reminded her of how much she loved this village.

"That voice of yours is beautiful, and oddly familiar" said someone placing their hand on Arukeni's shoulder, which startled, she glanced sideways to see it was Yorda, a former maid of her mansion, She panicked and ran off, Yorda called after confused not knowing why a stranger was so startled about her.

When Arukeni got her family graveyard, she noticed it was snowing; she caught a Snowflake in her mouth, despite nearly being caught it was well worth it. She signed and stopped and made her way to her mother's gravestone, it was the one shaped like an Angewomon, in intricate detail, and it was a beautiful thing to behold but looking at it made her sad, she wanted her mom more than this marble icon on her grave. A stream of tears now flowed down her cheek.

-Present day-

"This is not right I don't want this" Arukenimon now shouting at Tsubara, and keeping her distance from SkullMeramon, who kept edging toward her like a deranged stalker, she had managed to evade him before.

"It's not what you want anymore it's what they deserve that does. I am sorry you don't feel like I do about this, I didn't want to kill a friend now please leave, and let me take care of these parasites" said Tsubara taking a few more pills.

It dawned on Hikaru what those were that Tsubara was taking, "Tsubara is a member of The Kurokami Brigade, she is ingesting digimon data" she said with complete disgust.

In that moment, SkullMeramon caught Arukenimon off guard, he drove his fist into her midsection, she gasped as the air was driven out of her lungs. Arukenimon dropped to her knees.

Tsubara was now glaring in Hikaru instead of Arukenimon "you are seriously stupid, and I am going to kill you for that" she said pointing in Hikaru's direction.

SkullMeramon let Arukenimon fall to her knees, he turned to face Hikaru. he charged at her with Moonmon trying to get to stop him but was swatted away like an insect, and the same went for Sunmon.

Sunmon clinched his jaw, and growled "you are going to burn for that" he said looking with hatred at SkullMeramon, he had no chance in his present form of even putting a dent in his opponents armor.

Moonmon Began to glow, and so did Hikaru's digi chip, and then they were both enveloped by white spheres, which grew bigger than a usual Digivolution, when it dissipated. They both wore scarves emblazoned with the symbol for the digi chip of Kindness, Moonmon was now Lekismon, Lekismon and Hikaru also shared the same mark on their forehead, a blue circle.

You are a Digidestined too" said Tsubara pulling out a digivice, it glowed with a Black aura, "that is weird it never acted like this before, maybe it's telling me I can digivolved to Mega" she raised it into the air, and nothing happened "oh well I can still kill everyone, I repeat get out of my way Arukeni, this is your final warning"

Lekismon charged at SkullMeramon, dodged as it took a swipe at, and came around for another attack, hitting her target dead center of the back. This slightly shook SkullMeramon knocking him a bit forward.

-Outside the catacombs-

Mikuni secured everyone that had been in the catacomb, checking each for vitals seemingly they were all alive even if most of them were pale from being out of the sun for so long, but they were well fed, and healthy, this puzzled her since they were here to fight a monster, she let out a sigh figuring this wouldn't be some sort of heroic battle.

At that moment people started to wake up, Yorda was the first to wake since she seemed like the one that had been in the Catacombs the longest, she let out a long yawn, the same went for the rest who woke after her. Yorda looked around confusedly "Where am I, and who the heck are you?" she said spotting Mikuni.

"Someone had you held Captive in that Catacomb, and pretended to be you, I am the Digidestined, your Savoir Mikuni" Mikuni said, while giving a deep bow. She then walked over and helps Yorda up.

Yorda after being helped up looked Mikuni over confusedly "I thought Digidestined were only Myths and were only in children's books" she said in a tone of unbelieving sarcasm. "and what monster are you talking about?"

"First we are real, we came to your village to fight a monster that had been taking people and we found all the people including yourself that had been taken in that Catacomb. Are you that hard of hearing I said this before" Mikuni said looking exhausted, but actually just mentally.

"Someone pretended to be me, and used my identity to try to gather the entire village here for an unknown reason in these catacombs" said Yorda stopping in mid sentence after spotting the mansion Across from the Catacomb "Why after all these years that I am back here again, and it feels like it was just yesterday that I worked in that very mansion, it's now a rotting corpse of its former grandeur"

Mentally Time was like it was rewinding for Yorda, and the mansion was repairing itself right in front, to her it looked exactly like it did years ago, before brutalized by the Elements and lack of care.

-17 years ago-

Sounds of Cries echoed through the mansion as servants in and out of the main bedroom, the mistress was giving birth. all faces were covered in sweat, and showed signs of Exhaustion, and panic as the birth was taking longer than expected, and they were all worried that it would kill the mistress during the lengthy labour, it was a strange birth since the belly seemed to glow hours into it, several hours went by before Yorda suddenly burst out of the room announcing to the staff that it was a girl. Then mansion burst into cheer, as relief spread through that the whole thing was over.

The rest of the day was that of Celebration, and the servants were given the rest of the day off, except for Yorda who stayed to tend to the mistress, and her new-born daughter, in the room with the child there was nothing but panic still since the child had been born without a digimon partner, Yorda suggested that she could catch a wild digimon and bring it back here, people would kill the child if they know about this.

So Yorda went out and captures easiest tamed digimon she could find, which was a Gummymon, which she managed to tame it in a months, she handed it over to Arukeni, and everything was fine.

But on her ninth birthday, the digimon started acting during the party never to be seen again, which caused backlash from people in the village now knowing that Arukeni was a cursed one.

-Present day-

The memory of the Mansion decayed into what it looked like it today, but the memory was still fresh in Yorda's mind, and suddenly a lot of things made sense, "There isn't a monster, it was Arukeni, how she knocked us out is unknown and for what reason I have to ask her myself" she ran toward Crispen village hoping that Arukeni was still at her house.

-Crispen Village-

"That's it, if I have to kill you all to convince Arukeni I am right then so be it, as I am Digidestined defender of justice, avenger of the wronged" said Tsubara clutching her face tightly with both palms.

SkullMeramon launched himself into Lekismon pinning her against a tree, and then jumped, and then repeated the process a few times, until Arukenimon stepped into its path stopping it from doing it again

"I don't know who you are anymore, I know you are being used, is one life worth all of these people, would it bring back my mom if you murdered all of the people in these including the ones that had nothing to do with it. The Digidestined I read about were never about bloodshed of innocent in pursuit of the guilty "Arukenimon pleaded hoping to talk some sense into her friend, getting her back to the person she remembered. "Do what you must but I will not let you hurt anyone"

Tsubara closed her eyes, the aura seemingly dissipating around, but then it increased tenfold, and SkullMeramon liquefied into a ball, which was gross to look, and when it reshaped into a digimon, it was Boltmon the Mega form SkullMeramon. "Kill them all, I am sorry friend but you wouldn't listen to me, I warned you repeated to leave, I threatened you several times that I would do this, which of you we shall kill first" said Tsubara as she cracked her knuckles. she was then cut off by Boltmon being knocked over by an unseen force. Standing across from Boltmon was Vasantmon, its armor gleaming in the sunlight. Boltmon stood up unharmed from the attack, it had only been taken off guard, The second attack from Vasantmon had no effect at all, and was quickly floored by Boltmon.

Un-phased by the failure of the Second, Mikuni charged, joining her digimon in the battle, as Yorda ran to Arukenimon "I knew it was you" said Yorda hugging her.

"I can't believe Tsubara would try to destroy this village, she caused the Volcano to be unstable, since no one was leaving because of the increased shake I tried to warn everyone but was chased away I decided to bring everyone to a safer location, now she is angry and looking for the people I saved" said Arukeni confusedly sobbing.

"I just realized there is something wrong with this picture, if she is a Digidestined then why hasn't Tsubara wearing some kind of extra garb like he partner" said Takajin making a sudden observation

"if that is a Digidestined, then Gekomon have great taste in music" said Mikuni in a sarcastic tone, as she retreated her battle with Boltmon, which was going no were, every time she attacked it, she and her partner Vasantmon nearly were killed in the process, two champion levels vs a Mega were long odds for survival of the two champions, dodging those Tomahawks made it difficult to get close enough to do anything.

"Why do you have to interfere, I am the Champion of Justice" shouted Tsubara pointing accusingly at Takajin, darkness now radiating off her in sheets. "I will hand out vengeance"

Out of nowhere a thread stops one of Boltmon's attacks; it was Arukenimon "please stop this" she said turning to face Tsubara, which left her open an attack from Boltmon, which knocked her sprawling into a tree.

"So much for friendship huh little spider, I'll deal with you later once I take care of your uppity friends, the ones that brainwashed you into believe justice is not absolute, I'll kill them all in the name of my master " said Boltmon, his voice sounding like it was echoing down a long tunnel. He knocked both Vasantmon and Lakismon down with one attack and was going in for a finishing blow Lakismon, but Arukenimon took the attack instead, she dropped on all fours clutching her side, which was now digitizing.

"What have you done" shout Hikaru looking down at Arukenimon, and now looking with hatred in her eyes at Tsubara.

"No this is your fault, make them suffer for killing my best friend, I want each of them to burn slowly, there is no quick death for any of you" Tsubara screamed, the darkness rolling off her like puffs of smoke, this caused Boltmon to go berserk, and start to melt into some sort of blob monster, he stopped listening to Tsubara and attacked everything in sight.

In the distance the Volcano exploded out of sight and started spewing lava down toward the village of Crispen burning down tree in its wake, Wild digimon scurried to get away from it, some not as lucky as others.

"Finally its coming to burn you all to ashes" said Tsubara laughing insanely; she was oblivious to her digimon partner's metamorphoses, and berserk rampage "kill these annoying kids so they can't interfere, instead of listening to her the blob monster that once was Boltmon grabbed Tsubara and ate her self-destructing into data sparkles soon after.

Hikaru looked around "Where is Arukeni" she said in a panicked tone, and then spotted her in the distance heading toward the now active volcano. She ran to catch up with her.

The ground quaked the closer you got the Volcano, it was making it harder for Arukenimon to stand up, still badly injured from Boltmon's attack on her, she was leaking data as she made her way up. She made her way to where the lava would flow down into the village. That where Hikaru and Takajin caught up to her. "I am a dam, I'll spin my web here, you go up, and drop some rocks down" Arukenimon said pointing at the cliff face.

Takajin and headed toward where she pointed, but Hikaru hesitated for a minute then followed her brother, Mikuni was already waiting for them on the cliff, how she knew to go there was a mystery to them, she might have come up with the same plan, they watched as Arukenimon created the giant web for the dam.

Takajin thought her saw someone in the corner of his eye, he turned to see who it was, and there was no one there, he must have been seeing things. Coronamon, Lekismon, and Vasantmon started attacking the rock of the cliff, sending large rocks tumbling down till the dam was finished,

Arukenimon gave the thumbs up and they all came down, Hikaru ran up and hugged "the people will have to accept you after this, you are a hero" said Hikaru catching her breath.

Arukenimon looked back at the village as she turned back into human form "That has always been my dream to finally be able to normal and be able to be in the village without having to hide who I am, but I am a monster regardless. But just look at me I am a freak of nature, what am I a person or a digimon.

"You are Arukeni, isn't that good enough, being yourself?" Hikaru said placing her hand on Arukeni's shoulder.

The lava was now visible a torrent of fire heading their direction, with a large impact it hit the dam and seemed to be holding, the damn pushed forward from the pressure it wasn't going to hold, Arukeni ran back to it turning back into her digimon form, she latched more webs to stabilize it, but it wasn't working, Arukenimon now bracing herself against putting all her strength into keeping, lava now leaking through taking pieces of Arukenimon with it evaporating it into data. "Goodbye Digidestined and thank you" said Arukenimon before finally being gone.

Hikaru collapsed to her knees screaming "Noooooooo" fresh tears flowing from her eyes, as she stared at the place where Arukenimon had been standing. The dam now held, and quaking now ceased, the mountain stopped it temper tantrum, the village had been saved, Takajin hugged his sister letting her cry on his shoulder.

-The Next day-

There was Funeral for Arukeni, for her act of heroism; the Village was renamed to Arukeni, and a statue of her was placed in the city square with a plaque commemorating the day, Arukeni's mansion was also being restored and was going to be a monument in her honour.

"She finally got her acceptance; I wish she didn't have to die" said Hikaru placing flowers, "she was never a monster, they made her into one"

"The monster was always us, we gave up looking for her even though I knew she was alive I would have protected her even if she was a cursed one, though she wasn't" said Yorda starting to cry again.

"Whoever Corrupted Tsubara was the true monster, Kurokami brigade might have done it but I am not sure about that, Whoever they were will pay for this" said Takajin clinching his right hand into a fist.

The was someone watching the funeral from a distance, a man in grey leather armor, he wore black shades, and a scarf over his face "Paragon to Beautiful Sky, Project Epsilon, The subject went insane, and was killed by her own digimon, tweaking and continuing with the project" he left fading into the shadows. "We are the Light and the Purifying Flame"

-To be Continued-

Will the Digidestined get over the death of Arukenimon, and who was this man, and the project he was working on? To answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!