~~ Digimon: Reunion Begins! ~~

[kalad1]

Dennis
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Like the others, I had gone to bed, however, it took me a bit longer than them to fall asleep, and I watched as Hotaru and Rei interracted, a small surge of relief flowing through me. Despite what had happened to her, Rei was still just a kid at heart, still human. To be honest, it dulled the edge of the painful guilt just the tiniest bit as well. And with that, I fell into sleep...

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Darkness surrounded me, tearing at my flesh, and voices, some of which were all too familiar chanted ever escalating accusations at me.

"Murderer! Slayer! Destroyer!"

Tears poured down my face, and the light of torches began to appear on the horizon of the darkness.

"Traitor! Fiend! Demon!"

The lights got closer, revealing the faces of many digimon, as well as a few people. Then, in the midst of the pain, I noticed something, someone was missing from the throng of tormenting victims...

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And I suddenly awoke to the louder pounding of an obviously much larger assailant, just in time to see the door burst inward as a Greymon rammed it, enabling the enemy in. Instantly, I pulled out my digivice, and pulled out my weapon.Holding the sword with both of my hands, I was joining the fray, already cleaving into the invading Devil Digimon, splashing gore as I went, recieving a claw slash across my face.

Then, I heard Hotaru begin to say, "Rei don't...." moments before I hear Rei cry out in a scream. Without thinking, I turned to where she was and began running, my vision tunneling, blocking out all distractions. I jumped past the moving Greymon, and continued my run, slashing through the one that'd gotten on top of her the moment I got the chance, cleaving into its head, cleanly through the middle before removing my sword and swinging again, lopping its head off. I didn't let up, beginning to cleave into the other digimon to her left, asking, "Are you okay?" I asked, panting, trying to pull out my sword, holding out one hand to help Rei up.

She began to reach out to it, her relief almost palpable, when a deafening roar rang out and the Greymon's tail slammed into my side, sending me flying, and into the darkness of unconsciousness as I hit the bathroom wall.

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I woke to the sensation of lying on a bed, and glanced around, my eyes adjusting to the light, I was in a room, possibly an inn room, and there was a lot of hustle and bustle coming from outside. I noticed my digivice sitting on a nearby nightstand and grabbed it, sitting up and wincing at the pain a little. I tried to stand, but the pain was a bit much, I was gonna need something to help me.

Looking around the room again, there was a pole of some sort nearby, probably a walking stick or something that someone left behind. Grabbing it, I began using it as a crutch to help me walk. I didn't know why, but I felt there was somewhere I needed to be...

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts
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I stood outside the door to the inn room, waiting for that Dennis guy to wake up. Earlier I noticed that his and mine Digivices were glowing. When it happened to the first two it meant that their spirits were nearby. I left the walking stick in Dennis's room just in case he was too stubborn to lie down. I didn't want to make him angry while he could summon those swords.

He walked out of the room, leaning on the walking stick and ignoring me at first. I stepped in his path and smirked at him. "Going somewhere?" I asked him with interest.

"I need to go somewhere. Don't try to stop me," he said gruffly.

I followed him down the hallway. "Who said I was stopping you? I want to go with you." I took out my glowing Digivice and showed it to him. A 3-D map was being projected from it. "I think both of our spirits are being kept just down the road from here. Now..." I started to circle him. "I can't really defend myself well. Then again, neither can you. How about we help each other with this little quest, hmm?" I batted my eyes innocently.

Hotaru Tajiri
Feeling relaxed
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"Aunt Hotaru! Can I get a necklace?" Rei asked me excitedly while she stared at the jewelry that a Tapirmon was selling.

"Sorry sweetie, I don't have any money. Come here, I have something to show you." She came over to me and I showed her the stick of lip gloss that I was hiding in my backpack. "I know that your mom said no makeup but I think it's okay for you to have this."

Rei gasped and took the lip gloss from my hand. "Thank you so much, Aunt Hotaru!"

I hugged her. "It's no problem. When I get some money we can shop then. We can get you some jewelry and maybe a little blush for your pretty face."

She hugged me again and went back to looking at the various stands. I noticed that one of the girls was wandering off by herself. I nudged Flamedramon. "Could you look after her? I don't think any of us should be going off by ourselves." He nodded and followed her down the path.

I noticed that Agamemnon was still grumbling about his jacket. I stood beside him as he looked at some strange outfits. "You know, you get your old clothes back when you get back to the human world," I told him.

"That's a relief," he said.

I scooted a little closer to him. "Agamemnon...is there another name I could call you by? No offense, but Agamemnon is a little strange to say."

[Gladiator]

(Trying 3rd person)
Agamemnon
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Agamemnon slowly woke up to see everyone standing around both tired and shaken. Though blinded by tired eyes, he could make out that some of them were bleeding and a boy seemed to be badly broken and bloody. Realization slowly drifted into his wearied mind, but he was too tired at the moment to act in anyway. He yawned for a few good seconds before getting his shoes on, and then strolled toward the beaten boy. He placed two fingers on his neck, felt a pulse, and was satisfied.

“Tama Market isn’t far from here,” the one called Gav said to the others. Snap slowly tuned him out as he ventured outside.

Snap whistled softly, “It looks like a dinosaur tore through this city.”

He shook himself a bit as a waking mechanism before he returned to the group. He said nothing for awhile, afraid that anything he said would bring righteous fury down on himself. He had slept through the possibility of dying, and didn’t want to be attacked for his uselessness.

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The thought of how he was so close to unwittingly killing everyone in the party haunted him for most of the trip, but eventually Snap’s cheery persona reasserted itself as their destination began to show itself on the horizon. Stopping to readjust his shoes, he gauged the distance between him and Tama Market.

A brilliant flash of green was all the others could see as Agamemnon blasted off toward the market on his roller blades.

“See ya’ later guys!,” he yelled cheerily, “Yeeeeeeeeha!”

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Agamemnon looked around him at the oddly Agrabah like bazaar that surrounded him. Fruit-stands, wandering launders, people selling the oddest trinkets, so many different little stands.

“With that giant city that….was nearby,” Agamemnon wondered, “How do they support this kind of economy?”

Then again, Agamemnon thought, When has this world made any sense?

Agamemnon stopped at a clothing store to look at their wares. Besides what appeared to be some form of bizarre retro-future clothing, there was little that Snap would have considered buying. Instinctively, he began fingering his jacket, the blasphemous jacket that thought it could replace his old one.

Agamemnon noticed something to his right and turned to see Hotaru.

"You know, you get your old clothes back when you get back to the human world," she told him.

“Well, that’s a relief,” he said, not wanting to admit that he was unintentionally feeling his jacket.

“Agamemnon,” she interrupted his thoughts, and he was unaware that she was now closer to him, “is there another name I could call you by? No offense, but Agamemnon is a little strange to say."

Agamemnon smiled a tad sheepishly, “Well, ‘Snap’ was a nickname that I’m stuck with me now.”

Hotaru returned his smile, “How did you get that for a nickname?”

Agamemnon felt himself go slightly red in embarrassment, but somehow managed to pull off being nonchalant, “Well, some people claim it’s because I have a snappy attitude. While others claim that I change my train of thought in a snap. I think the real reason, however, was when I thought that snapping fingers was cool and I did that nonstop. Of course, I was younger then.”

He failed to mention the fact that he was only a year younger when he thought that was cool.

Feeling in his jean pockets, he finally felt something that would be useful now. They needed to eat, and he was going to need something to contribute.

He pulled out his wallet, checked that it was indeed his original wallet, and checked the contents. To his delight, he had two twenties and a ten dollar bill.

“So,” he said eagerly, “Any idea what Digimon take as currency?”

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Love? Yuck~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]Wrinkling my nose at the sight of Aunt Hotaru and that Agame…what’s his name guy, getting all close and lovey. I quickly scooted away and over to where Andrew was standling, looking over a table. I tried to look interested and glanced up at him, to which he glanced back down at me and I looked straight ahead at the table trying to act interested. “Looking for something?” He asked, I froze up a bit and gulped as I tried to think of a suitable answer. In the mean time he turned around and glanced at Aunt Hotaru and the guy with the long name. “Oh, their getting all lovey dovy over there aren’t they?” He asked.

I glanced up and nodded swiftly. “It’s sick.” I grumbled, to which he bent down and rubbed my hair. “So how much for this?” I asked picking up a bottle that looked like something like lipstick. Grasping into my pocket I pulled out the small wad of money that dad had given me for lunch. Knowing full well that Human money here was like gold to them. Quickly pulling out a few yen I laid it down to the table and walked away as the Digimon’s eyes beamed at the sight of the money.

A quick glance over at Hotaru showed that her, and her new boyfriend of sorts were still talking. I gave a short sigh and knew that, that meant that they would be talking all mushy or secretly mushy for a while. “So want to go off exploring with me?” Andrew asked walking over to my side.

A small smile grew on my face, as I nodded at him. Andrew was nice, nicer than that guy that was trying to steal Hotaru away from me. Why did boys have to always hit on girls? “Hey do you want to come with us?” I called out to a woman who was walking away from a restaurant. Walking up closer I introduced the two of us, to which she introduced herself as Elizabeth. “We’re going off to explore!” I jumped up and down excited at the prospect of being able to explore the one city that I had never been to before.

She shrugged and considered the option for a bit before answering. “Sure why not.” She smiled lightly and joined the two of us as we walked down the street. “So what was with all those monsters last night?” Elizabeth finally asked as the three of us had walked in silence, taking a wide variety of paths and streets in a direction that none of us knew would lead us.

“Some of them were humans, or they looked human, I took the head off of one and it kept coming.” Andrew spoke up; I grimaced at the memory to which both of them took notice. “Lets talk about something else for right now.” He added, I gave out a sigh of relief yet I had no idea what to talk about with the rest of them.

So we returned to walking in silence, that is until we arrived at a gated off area, a long barbed wire fence separated the road, cutting through several buildings. Every few feet there were empty guard towers and searchlights. The fence seemed to be that which should be around a maximum-security prison or something where a lot of bad guys were kept. Inside there were buildings but they all looked run down and falling apart, it was a striking difference from the nicer buildings all around the city. “What is..” Andrew touched the fence only to receive an electrical shock that seemed to burn his hand. “Gah, Ow.” He winced holding his smoking left hand, the skin on it already starting to blister.

“Why would Digimon need a..” My voice trailed off as people, actual humans started to walk out of the buildings to inspect the noise. Some of them were my age, others older, each dressed in dirty clothes. Some you could even see the outline of bones against their skin, all of them looked hungry. “We have to get them out of here.” I gasped making a move to climb the fence only to be restrained by Andrew’s hand.

“This must be where those Digimon hold the humans before they turn them into what we saw.” Elizabeth sighed, as a young boy about my age ran to the fence standing only a few feet away from it. He moved closer and stuck his hand between the barbed wire sections, trying to reach out for mine. I slowly reached forward, my fingers inches away from the electric fence only to be yanked away by Andrew at the last second. “Lets head back, it’s getting late and we need to find a hotel to stay at.” Elizabeth sighed, the two turned and began to walk back, Andrew dragging me along as I struggled to get back, my struggles being to no avail as he was clearly stronger than me. The boy just sat there and watched us, his hand out stretched for help.

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Feeling things
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Snap? That's a cute nickname. I shook my head. What was I thinking? I just met the guy! I snapped back to reality at Snap's question. "Um, they take human money. In fact, it's very valuable to them."

"Maybe I could buy the others some food," Snap offered.

"That would be great. I know I'm hungry." I giggled and blushed a little. I heard a groan behind me and turned to see Rei standing there with Andrew and one of the female Chosen Children. Oh boy. Caught with my hand in the cookie jar. "Hi, Rei."

"We need to find a hotel. It's getting late and we're a little tired," Rei said in an annoyed tone. She turned and started to walk away.

Snap and I stayed where we were. "What's her problem?" Snap asked me.

I shrugged and felt my arm being tugged by Rei. She pulled me away from Snap and practically dragged me to the hotel. "We found something like a prison for humans nearby," she told me as she walked by Andrew.

"Good. We can get them out and..." That got me to thinking. The place would be heavily guarded. And what would happen when we did free the humans? There would be no safe place for them to go. "Never mind. This is a nice hotel. We can take two rooms for the night."

"One for the girls and one for the boys," Rei said hastily.

I was surprised by Rei's sudden change of attitude. "What is wrong with you, young lady?" I asked her with hands on my hips.

She snapped back to her normal self. "Nothing! Let's just get us a room!" She took hold of Andrew's hand and walked to the front desk.

I smirked to myself. Now I sort of knew what was going on. This had happened to Laura when she was younger...twice. And now Rei was going down that same path. But the reason why she was being so cold to me was still unclear.

We got our keys and went to our rooms. I pulled Rei back outside the room as soon as we set down our bags. "I see that you have a new boyfriend."

"Boyfriend? What boyfriend?" Rei asked me innocently.

"Andrew, of course. You seem to really like him." I smiled at her blush. "I just need to warn you about chasing after older boys."

"I'm not chasing after him!" Rei said a little too loudly. Elizabeth poked her head in the doorway and saw that we were safe, then went back inside.

"Even if you're not, he may not feel the same way about you. You're beautiful, nice, and smart but he may be looking for someone his age."

Rei looked away from me toward Andrew's room, looking a little angry. "You and that guy seem to be getting along well, too."

I smiled warmly as I solved the puzzle of Rei's new attitude. "Oh, so that's it. Rei, I really like him. Try to be happy for me."

"What about Johann?" she yelled out.

My smile disappeared. I felt tears well up in my eyes. It was time to tell someone. "Don't tell your mom about this. Me and Johann...we're not as close. He's been really sad about something and has been pushing me away. We might break up." I hugged her. "I'm sorry if you liked him."

[kalad1]

Dennis
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I nodded acceptance to Naomi's suggestion, stating, "It can't hurt, just don't expect me to be real talkative." I then began walking as best I could, not even bothering to wait for Naomi's reply. Using my Digivice to navigate, I began traversing the winding paths of the town. I soon began to lose track of time as we worked our way through the crowds, before running into a group of digimon in an alley, literally bumping into them.

"Hey! Watch what yer do-" A black Agumon in the group began before his eyes widened, replying in a frightened tone, "Er... ah... sorry!"

I watched them run off, practically terrified, before I heard Naomi ask, "What was that all about?"

"Not sure, but I doubt it means anything good. I've been having this odd feeling that we're not alone for some time now, it's rather unsettling." I admitted.

"I haven't felt anything like that..." she stated.

I merely shrugged before continuing my pained walk to the temple, if the digivices were right, it shouldn't have been too much further, then I would have the power I needed. Without that power, I couldn't protect people like Rei and Hotaru. I would have that power, and woe would fall to those who dared to hurt those around me. I would see to that...


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Meanwhile , elsewhere in Tama Market+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The man watched the prisoners below with a grin of sadistic glee, such worms suffering at his feet was a wonderful thing indeed. He turned away from the window, and entered the inner room, an obvious control center, the monitors within showing a metallic female form wrapped in wires and cables. He turned to one of the digimon in control, asking, "Is she done yet?"

"Almost sir, we just need to install the souls into her and AndroLadyDevimon will be complete." the DemiDevimon at the controls stated.

"Good. Upload these identities into her primary target database and deploy her as soon as she's done." the man stated, placing down pictures of the Digidestined, most of them being listed for killing.

"Why's the little girl labeled as a 'capture alive' and why's this guy labeled as 'don't touch'?"

"I have a special interest in those two. Now, if you will excuse me, I must be off to the temple." the man stated as he walked off, laughing to himself in an insane manner.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Back with Dennis and Naomi++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"Well," I began, looking at the temple, "We're here at last."

[Ultimate Charizard]

Hmmm the plot thickens. Looks like 2 of us have been targetted....its always more fun when then villains are NPC's lol.

Gav
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I had split from the group shortly after we had arrived in town. My quick walk through town had lead me by a few familiar faces, i had spent a year living here just after meeting Felomon. A destination much more connected to that event now stood before me. "Theres no place like home" Felomon chuckled as we approached the temple. "Ya know it would have been easier to just show those guys the way here"
"You know were not allowed to do that. The spirits are tied into the same Ancient charachteristics they always have. The Fire Spirit was released by someone brave enough to walk through the flames. The Ice Spirit was released because they had a deep feeling of wanting to protect their friends" Felomon nodded as he had heard all this from the Celestials themselves.
"...and the next two have to have the Intelligence connected to Thunder to find the place and the Reliability of Earth to follow this through" I sighed as i walked up the steps. Greeting the Priestmon that stepped out to meet us. He informed me that the Digidestined wouldnt be long. It would be interesting to find out who these particular spirits had chosen
"Just one thing.." he began with a grin "..If Thunder is Intelligence, then how did you end up with me?"
I ignored his joke and entered the temple.

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]
Elizabeth
.: Dark | F :.



Elizabeth looked at Rei and Andrew as they returned. The sight of the human ranch had disturbed her greatly, although for some reason she felt that darkness had been gripping them.
"Darkness..." Elizabeth said to herself slightly, causing Andrew to look at her with surprise.
"What did you say?" He asked, but Elizabeth shook her head. "Oh, nothing."
Rei had gone off to talk with another of the digidestined, leaving Elizabeth alone with Andrew. During that time Elizabeth had pretty much said nothing to Andrew, probably making him feel slightly awkward.
"So... this world is pretty crazy... huh?" Andrew said again, looking at her and Elizabeth knew it was an attempt to strike some sort of conversation.
"Disturbing is the more the word." Elizabeth said, her voice trailing off as she seemed to gaze up into the sky. She withdrew a sigh and absently tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and then she looked at Andrew again. She could tell he was uncomfortable.
"Look... I'm not good with talking with other people. No one used to talk to me."
With that Elizabeth walked away from Andrew.

Eventually Elizabeth had gone into the hotel with Andrew, Rei, and Rei's friend who turned out to be Hotaru. Rei and Hotaru had gotten a room, along with Andrew and another digidestined. Rei and Hotaru had tried to convince Elizabeth to join their room... but Elizabeth declined and simply got her own. She had heard some noise at one point and she checked upon the two, but then she had returned to her empty room.

Sitting upon the bed, she let out a gentle sigh. Gazing out the window she had a clear view of the city... and she was sure she made out the ranch as well. She frowned, visions of the humans... the feeling she had from them and the comparitive feeling she had with the dark digimon.
"They're connected... but I knew that. However, why do I hear them calling me when they're around? Why me.. why me and no one else?" She said softly, closing her eyes and inhaling softly. It was then that she suddenly clasped her head within her hands and gave a light wincing cry. A splitting and sharp burning sensation flooded her head, but it wasn't just a pain... it was like an invasion of her mind. It was as if something was contacting her but the connection was too strong for her to handle- so strong that it was causing her a huge amount of pain.
Child...child... child... child...
"What...n-n-o..." Elizabeth said to herself, clutching her head as she fell off the bed.
Coming...coming...coming...coming...
Elizabeth writhed in pain, until slowly the sensation began to fade away. The burning within her head slowly faded away until it was an afterthought, and slowly she brought herself back upon the bed. Her forehead was dotted with sweat as she withdrew a deep breath- her heart was pounding fast. A knock on the door and a voice rose, "Are you oka-"
"I'm fine! Go away." Elizabeth said with a breathy yell, herself breathing heavily. She blinked a few times and tried to regain her composure.
"Why... what's happening..." Elizabeth whispered, easing herself more onto the bed as she held her knees to her chest and stared out the window.
"...what's happening.."

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts

It took us an hour to get to the temple but we were finally there. Our Digivices had decided to turn off on us about halfway there but it didn't take me long to find it. How could I miss it? It looked like a freaking Maya temple! "God, I hope we don't get sacrificed in there," I muttered.

I followed the silent Dennis inside. On the walls, ceiling and floor was strange writing and pictures. There was also the staircases leading to an upper and lower floor but the lower one was sealed. "Something tells me we go up first," I told Dennis.

He sighed but let me take the lead. I boldly walked up the stairs, knowing the routine. I touch the statue and get the spirit, encounter some Digimon that wants to kill us, activate the spirit and kick some butt. But when I got up to the room, I saw that I was already in trouble.

Lighting bolts were falling from the ceiling to the floor at an alarming speed. There was no way I would be able to dodge them. I was frozen in place as I watched this bizzare sight and heard the door behind us close. There's got to be a way I can pass them. I can see the spirit on the other side! I looked down at my sneakers to think and figured out something. The floor was covered in big white and yellow tiles. The lightning bolts were only striking the yellow ones.

"What are you doing?" Dennis asked me as I started to walk towards a white tile.

"Getting my spirit," I said with a smirk. "What does it look like?" I sighed in relief as I walked to the next white tile shock-free. The tiles ran in diagonal patterns, making me walk cautiously in a zigzag pattern. After a few minutes I arrived at the statue of a great lioness. I reached up and brushed the side of its face with my fingertips. The statue glowed brightly and the little ball of light that was my spirit traveled down to my Digivice. At that the lightning bolts stopped and the door opened.

"Well then," I said cheerfully. "Let's get your spirit."

[kalad1]

Dennis
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I nodded to Naomi's overly cheerful response, and we headed to the lower passage, which was now open, the light within dim and a foul smell exuding from within. As we descended, it quickly became apparent that it was a crypt, markers listing the names of varied digimon, as well as when and where they died. My face began to pale as I saw the locations and dates. They were markers for all the digimon I'd killed under Lucemon's influence.

I paused a bit, taking in a ragged breath before continuing further, sorrow welling up inside me. I continued to work my way past the graves, before we came to a dead end, a wall with a statue of a knight, an inscription on its shield.

"Grant unto the warrior his weapon." I read it aloud, noticing the the statue's right hand was lacking a sword. Without waiting for Naomi's reaction, I pulled out my digiweapon, setting it in the statue's hand, causing the wall to rise into the ceiling, and a voice to boom out, "Only the Chosen of Earth may enter."

"Guess you'll have to stay here." I stated to Naomi, entering the darkened room, causing the wall to close behind me. I walked further in, coming upon a stone statue of a very familiar figure. Standing before Schwartzmon's statue, I held up my digivice, causing a pulsing brown ball of light to fly from it to my digivice. A quiet voice came from the digivice, "We are reunited, old friend."

"Indeed." I stated, turning on my heel and exiting out the opening wall.

"How'd it go?" Naomi asked, looking a bit creeped out about standing in a crypt.

"I got it, let's get out of here." I stated, hurrying up the stairs.

As we were leaving, however, a disturbingly familiar voice rang out, "Long time no see, Dennis, or should I say, my other half."

I whirled around, seeing someone who looked just like me, my hand going to my digivice, "You... you can't exist!" I stated incredulously.

"But I do, I am Shadow, the evil, corrupt version of you that came from Lucemon's treatment of you."

I swore, stating to Naomi, "Run, find Hotaru and tell her that Shadow's back, and he's got his own body. I'll hold him here."

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew watched as Rei returned to her Aunt. What was such a young girl doing here? Why had the angelic digimon brought her of all people to this place and forced her into the middle of such a horrible situation? There was something about all of these people: Rei, Hotaru, and now Elizabeth who had run away so abruptly.

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He had heard the noises, even through the walls that separated Elizabeth and his rooms. He had gone to her door and knocked, but she had once again retreated to deal with whatever was going on herself. He had almost walked away then, willing to let the girl suffer by herself until he remembered. The boy pushing him away as he had tried to help him, the same boy on the news a day later. He had walked away then and it had happened...

...

"Stop being so damn selfish."

Silence greeted him for a moment, leaving only the sounds of the hotel to keep Andrew company for a moment, the muted sounds of the outside and the soft creaks of the building, before a muted response came from within, "What?"

Andrew leaned against the door frame, looking up at the splintered wood above him, "You're so damn selfish. You think you're the only one with a big problem here and so only you can deal with it. There's a child here who almost got kidnapped by a horde of monsters and had to watch as they were mauled or shot to pieces around her. There's a group of people barely a few miles from here who are being starved and...changed into those things that we're killing. There are people who have been here before and obviously have horrible memories that haunt them and then there are those who don't know why there here. Who don't know why they're forced to run for their lives and shoot the remains of people just so they can survive. So you know what? Yeah, you might have a problem, and yeah it might be something different or worse that what everyone else has, but you're not letting it out, you're not letting people help you even if that help just comes in listening, or watching, or taking a girl for a walk to try to get her mind off of the horrors she's seen. You're not supposed to keep everything to yourself but you are, and for that you're selfish."

The silence was longer this time. Andrew could hear Elizabeth's harsh breath inside the room, could almost feel the pressure and stress or something that was eating away at her. After a moment, he spoke again, "My name's Andrew...what about you?"

He stood waiting, leaning against the frame of the door and counting the knots in the wood above him. He didn't know these people, but their survival depending on remedying that fact..

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.



The return of his voice wasn't what she had wanted... in fact, she had just wanted him to say the hell away from her. She wanted him to leave and to go back to whatever business he had else where. She wasn't his business and she didn't need his help. She didn't want it... she-

But he insisted. Elizabeth's face went blank for a moment as she felt herself go numb completely. She listened to his words and they sank in... and when he was finished and he finally introduced himself, she gave a light sigh. She didn't agree with everything he said perhaps- things of horror to one person were perhaps not of horror to the other. Still, she realized that he probably was not going to go away and that for once in her life, some one wanted to talk to her. Some one wanted to help her... and it was an odd sensation that she was not accustomed to.

Standing up off the bed, Elizabeth slowly walked over to the door and rested her hand upon the handle. Closing her eyes for a brief moment, enhaling a deep breath, she unlocked the door and opened it. There staring straight at her with those strong yet defiant eyes, was Andrew. Elizabeth's face looked to be a bit of a mess... her face was pale from the earlier burning sensation and her forehead had a few droplets of sweat upon her. Inhaling a breath however, once again, she gave a light nod at him. Her deep violet-flecked eyes had come to realize something and although Andrew didn't know what that realization was, he respected that he had changed something.

"My name is Elizabeth." She said softly, her voice deflated a bit... a bit tired as she sighed inwardly. Her voice still had its cool properties about it- resembling somewhat to a flowing river upon the air for it had refreshing properities. Walking away she went and sat down upon the bed again and although she did not say anything... it was quite clear to Andrew that he was being allowed to come inside. He entered slowly, closing the door for privacy as he soon sat down upon the other edge of the bed and looked at her. There were no more words... she knew what the question was. What had happened? Why had she yelled in pain earlier... what was going on. Looking in his eyes, Elizabeth could tell that he honestly wanted to know. She didn't understand why... why he would want to know- why would he really care. Yet, she could sense that they were perhaps linked... having so many things different about them, perhaps opposite, but yet having one connected link. (Little did Elizabeth know this was to be found out later... their ironic destinies.)

"This may sound strange... but... when you fight those digimon- those once human digimon, do you hear voices?" Her eyes looked to Andrew, but his expression turned to confusion as he slowly shook his head. "I didn't think so... no one else hears the voices. I told Flamedramon about it and he seemed disturbed... as if there was something horribley wrong about it. I hear these voices though... a strange calling... from the digimon."

Andrew furrowed his brow as if thinking, but Elizabeth continued. "You know... when those digimon were attacking- both times in and out of the temple... they seemed to be everywhere, right?" Andrew gave a nod and Elizabeth smiled weakly- a fake ironic smile, deepening with sadness. "However... they didn't attack me. It wasn't that I wasn't in the fray... or that I was in the right places, they honestly didn't attack me. When they first came... I was behind all of you. I should have been attacked first and probably killed... but I wasn't."

"I didn't want to tell anyone... the way Flamedramon responded, I just don't think anyone should know or need to know. So you are the first of the digidestined to know... and please, please keep it that way." Elizabeth looked to Andrew for reassurance. "I don't know why I can hear them... but right now it doesn't seem to affect anyone but me. Just a few minutes ago there was a calling that was so strong it caused me to collapse to the floor... and I can just sense a digimon- a powerful digimon... "

Elizabeth sighed and stood up, turning to look at Andrew. "Just don't tell anyone for now. I'll trust you with this knowledge and I trust you to keep it secret." Elizabeth sighed, sitting down on the bed. Tears started to well up in her eyes as she looked at Andrew as he gave a nod to her. Her face suddenly turned to an expression of appreciated sadness as a tear seemed to drop down her cheek.
"You know... I've never had anyone listen to me or worry about me before. Ever since I was little... people seemed to sense some thing about me that I couldn't and so they stayed away. I had no friends... no visits... I didn't really even have a mother. I always have been alone so I'm used to dealing with my own problems all the time... " She sighed, wiping away the tear as if feeling ashamed. "I'm sorry if I seem like a horrible person who locks themselves away from people... but it... it is the only way of life that I know of."




[ Awww... Elizabeth finally cracks! Go sad memories... woot. ]

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts
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I waited while Dennis got his spirit. I inspected the pictures on the walls and noticed that they had dates and places inscribed under them. They're tombs. These dates are when they died. But why are they here?

I looked at more until Dennis came back and then followed him up the stairs. We stopped halfway when we heard a voice. A guy that looked exactly like him walked up to us. I was curious and a little scared but Dennis looked downright terrified. Then the look-a-like told us who he was and I got really scared.

"Run, find Hotaru and tell her that Shadow's back, and he's got his own body. I'll hold him here," Dennis commanded me.

"What the hell..." I started.

"Naomi!" Dennis yelled.

"Are you sure?"

"GO!"

"I'm gone!" I ran up the stairs and didn't stop running until I went back to where the others were. Except they weren't there. "Did you see where the humans went?" I asked one of the Digimon. He pointed to a hotel. I asked the Digimon at the front desk the room number, saying that I was supposed to meet them there. He gave me a key to the Rei and Hotaru's room. By the time I knocked on their door, I was out of breath.

Hotaru opened the door. "What's the matter?" she asked my nearly passed out self.

"Dennis...temple...Shadow," I panted.

She gasped. "Did you say Shadow?" I nodded. "Oh man! Naomi, stay here with Rei! I need to help Dennis!"

I grabbed her arm before she could leave. "What the hell is this Shadow? Is he really part of Dennis?" I asked her.

"Yes. Shadow is what Dennis called himself when he was under Lucemon's control. He did many bad things then."

I suddenly remembered the pictures of the deceased Digimon on the walls. Oh God, that was what the pictures were for! He killed them! I stumbled back so I could lean on the wall. Hotaru started to leave for the temple. I followed her. "You won't know where it is and you need my help!"

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Shocked and Confused ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]We had set down our bags and began to settle down, the day had been long and I just wanted to flop down on my bed and sleep. Yet it seems my Aunt had other plans as she pulled me out of the room. “I see that you have a new boyfriend.” Hotaru teased, eyeing Andrew’s room before turning back toward me, a full smirk on her face.

My mind reeled at the thought, boyfriend? Who was she talking about? I had never had a ‘boyfriend’ before. Wait was this some kind of trick to get her off the hook about being around that one guy? “Boyfriend? What boyfriend?” I stumbled out curiously, my throat caught in shock and surprise. Who was she talking about? I don’t have a boyfriend.

Hotaru leaned closer, prodding my side teasingly. “Andrew of course. You seem to really like him.” She added, my cheeks warmed instantly. I never had a boyfriend before, did Andrew really like me? I reached up and touched the flower in my hair that Andrew had gave me, my cheeks warmed even more at the thought. I was so grown up! I had a boyfriend! “I just need to warn you about chasing after older boys.” Hotaru smiled coyly, going into full aunt mode where she gave me all sorts of advice.

“I’m not chasing after him!” I yelled, stomping my left foot into the ground to drive home the point. Further down the hall Elizabeth poked her head out the door, looked around in shock before shutting it with a slam.

With a sigh she bent down to my side and looked me straight in the eyes. Going into full blown aunt mode. “Even if you’re not, he may not feel the same way about you. You’re beautiful. Nice, and smart, but he may be looking for someone his age.” She warned, I responded with a roll of my eyes. I hated when she got into full aunt mode.

I turned away, not wanting to match my eyes to her’s. She had a way of making me spill my guts when I didn’t want to. Sticking out my lip a bit I decided to turn the tables back on her, with a glare I focused my eyes directly on Hotaru. “You and that guy seem to be getting along well, too.” I smirked, my eyes narrowing into a even deeper glare.

Hotaru took in a deep sigh before her face twisted into a warm smile. Something I never expected. “Oh, so that’s it. Rei, I really like him. Try to be happy for me.” She said warmly, standing up to her full height. I couldn’t take it anymore, I hated it. It felt like all these emotions were boiling over inside of me.

“What about Johann?” I screamed out at the top of my lungs, stomping into the room and slaming the door with as much strength as possible.

Flopping down onto my bed, I could hear Hotaru enter the room slowly, sitting down upon my bed and rubbing my back lightly. “Don’t tell your mom about this: Me and Johann… we’re not as close, he’s been really sad about something and has been pushing me away. We might break up.” She hugged me wrapping her arms around my body and laying her head on my back. “I’m sorry if you liked him.”

Tears threatened to spill over my eyes, I felt like everything was falling apart. Johann was always so nice to me, when ever I saw him he would give me candy and money and treat me like a princess, even taking me out shopping just him and I sometimes. I didn’t want them two to break up, they had to stay together no matter what. “Can’t you just try to stay together?” I asked, flipping over on the bed and looking at her tear stained eyes. I could immediately feel my heart sink, I had never seen her cry like this before. “For me?”

Aunt Hotaru turned around, closing her eyes, I could hear what sounded like sobs welling up in her throat. Slowly I sat up and wrapped my arms around her waste. “Could you..just…try to get to know Snap?” Hotaru asked, her voice sounded as if she were on the edge of breaking down.

I let out a deep sigh and rubbed my head against her back before getting up and placing my chin against her stomach, right below her breasts. “Well, what kind of candy does he have?” I asked with a grin. Instantly I could feel Hotaru envelop me with a hug as we both sat down on the bed, both going from giggling to all out laughing.

After a while we both began to roll around on the bed, Hotaru tickling my stomach as I tried to get away from her. “So, what exactly should I do about a…boyfriend?” I asked, my face red from embarassment and laughing as I lay my head on Hotaru’s stomach, both of us breathing from the tickle session we just finished with.

Hotaru leaned up, propping herself up with a elbow as she looked at me curiously. “Are you asking me for dating tips?” She questioned me, I glanced away embarassed at the fact that she would never let me forget this. “Well, first you should be yourself. Second you should get him a present, to kind of break the ice and to repay him for the flower.” She added listing off things on her fingers.

My head began to swirl at the things that I had to remember, I just kept nodding and trying to remember the things she were saying. Some how I had gotten up and I found myself outside of the hotel walking the street near it, looking at the shops that were beginning to close near dusk. Something to get him that would remind him of me? As the shops began to turn on their lights, I slowly strolled into one, looking at the nicknacks and orniments that seemed to populate the shop.

Moving through a pile of jewelry that had been dropped into a box, I found one that struck my eye. It was a beaded necklace made of several beads of different color ranging from pink to gold. At the middle of the necklace was a small white dove. Obviously influenced from human design it seemed like the artist put a lot of work and research into the necklace. The dove reminded myself of me, I had been caged but my parents had freed me. The last two years had their ups and downs, but now I was here in the Digital World, on my own adventure, flying free for the first time. “This is what Hotaru means, something that will remind him of me.” I gasped, a grin rose to my face as I quickly bought it and ran back to the hotel.

This is the perfect gift, he will love it. I couldn’t keep from grinning, rounding the corner I turned to head to Andrew’s room when something caught my eye. It was Andrew walking out of Elizabeth’s room. Andrew had a bit of a smile on his face as he talked to her from the doorway for a second more before walking away. Elizabeth watched him from the doorway for a second before closing the door. My heart had sank to my feet, below my feet, my heart had to be in the basement of the hotel by now. All the blood had drained from my face in shock. What was he doing in Elizabeth’s room? What if Hotaru was right? What if he was interested in some one his own age? “Hey there, what’s that in your hands?” Andrew asked, approaching me, a smile on his face obviously from his meeting with Elizabeth.

“It’s..It’s nothing.” My mouth moved in shock, my hands quickly moving behind my back to hide the necklace. With strength finally returning to my legs, I quickly moved past Andrew and made my way to the doorway.

“Rei what’s wrong?” Andrew asked. Tears were streaming down my face as the lock finally unlocked to the room. I threw the door open and stepped inside, slamming it shut in Andrew’s face. Reeling from the shock, I threw the necklace against the wall in frustration and slid down the door, hands over my face while the tears and sobs flowed freely.

[Ultimate Charizard]

Gav
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It had taken some time to find i thought to myself as i held the small object in my hand. It was the size and shape of a Credit card, made of some kind of white metal and had a large yellow jewel embedded in the center.
"So this is a Crystal lens?" i said to noone in particular. Seraphimon had told me about them and how they would be great assets to us in the future. How i wasnt quite sure.
I placed it into my pocket and began to head back outside. On my way i heard something i hadnt wanted to hear. At least not yet. The Digital world had a habit of Saving the things you just didnt want it to. The entire world is digital information after all. Shadow was one of those things. He wasnt yet as powerfull as Dennis had been under that Persona but his reputation carried alot of weight here, and even though his power hadnt returned he was still a force to be reckoned with.
"I wondered how long it would take for you to show up!" i called out ahead of me. As i stepped round the corner i could see they were both looking around. Shadow finally saw me and his eyes narrowed. "Guess im not the only one who can sneak up on people"
"This has nothing to do with you" he spat, perhaps you should be more concerned with the Temple Guardians this fool and his little friend released, and never bothered fighting". I turned to glare at Dennis. "Tell me he's lying" i asked. "Nothing showed up, the door opened, we left"
I groaned rubbing my forehead as i heard two loud roars from inside the temple behind us. "If you dont stay and defeat the guardian, no matter how long it takes, it comes after you, and every so often it Digivolves which means....."
"...which means.." Shadow interrupted me "...you have two Champion level Digimon hunting you down!"

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Ok didnt have time for anything long but just to cover a few points.
1: Since Classy and Kalad forgot about the Digimon showing up for a fight then ill bring them in here, as Champions so whoever gets into the fight first can decide what they are. Electric and Earth Champions.
2: The Crytsal Lens will be in effect my Crest. Since im going the old way ill be using that at a later date to Digivolve Felomon, doesnt mean the rest of you dont have Lenses...just migt do something different

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew had to grin at Elizabeth's last statement, "You're not a bad person, I just had to figure out something that I could say that'd make you open up a bit and see? It worked."

Elizabeth was giving him an odd look, not sure whether or not to be angry or thankful. Andrew pressed on, not wanting to give her the chance to pick the latter, "If there is a powerful digimon closet to us, and if it's talking to you, you're going to need to be careful. Who knows? It could be looking for you. Until we find these spirits or whatever it is we're supposed to get, I guess we're pretty vulnerable so keep an eye out. Alright?"

Elizabeth had composed herself by now and stood, ready to let Andrew out of the room and get some sleep herself, "I'll...try. The callings are so strong though...what if they get stronger?"

Andrew followed Elizabeth to the door, pausing before leaving, "Then we'll just have to find who's sending them and make them stop then. We're in this together, all of us though they may not know about the voices"

Opening the door quietly, Andrew turned one last time, "And there is something about you by the way. I -can- sense something. But it's not scary, or evil, or demonic, or anything. It's just.....dark.

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The door slammed in Andrew's face and he could hear Rei's sobs through the wood. His brow furrowed in confusion...what in the world had he done?

Alright...let's think this over. You took Rei for a walk earlier....you gave her a flower too and she seemed to be pretty happy until you leave Elizabeth's room and find her in the hall where she turns ghost white, flings her hands behind her back, and flees into a room...........crap

Andrew spoke through the door, for the second time that night, "Rei, there's nothing going on with Elizabeth and me, she needed some help figuring some stuff out and I happened to be there to help. Is there something we need to talk about?

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Wow, you can't miss this temple either," Hotaru said breathlessly as we reached the temple at full speed.

We entered and went down the stairs back to Dennis and Shadow. There were a few new visitors as well. One of them was, to my relief, Gavin. He looked like he had a headache. Probably because we forgot about the other two newcomers. One was a giant beetle, maybe part stag beetle. The other one looked like a mix between a seal and a turtle. "What kind of Digimon are those? They look stronger than the first ones we battled," I told Hotaru.

She pointed her Digivice at the two and analyzed them. "That's because they aren't Champions. They're Ultimates! MegaKabuterimon and Zudomon!" She took a couple of steps back and quivered a little. "I don't know if I can take them down..."

"Hey! I'm here too, you know!" I said a little angrily. I took another look at the two Ultimates. I couldn't believe that I would've just hung back and watched the fight when I first got to the Digital World. The place just changed people. I was feeling bravery I didn't know I had. My Digivice glowed again. I knew what I had to do. I reached in my pocket and brought it out. "Spirit Evolution!"

I felt a great amount of power as I changed into a spitting image of the lioness statue upstairs. I worked my powerful lower jaw and checked out my canines. "I am Safarimon," I introduced to everyone in a loud, proud voice. "And I will defeat you, Ultimate Digimon!"

"Not without my help," said Hotaru/Polarmon. "Safarimon, don't forget that you are also Naomi."

"I know already!" I yelled in a more Naomi-like voice. "Now let's take down that beetle first. I hate bugs."

"Fine by me. It looks like Zudomon's already preoccupied with Dennis. On the count of three! One...two..."

"Three! Shocking Orb!" I cried out.

"Freeze Orb!" We shot our attacks at the same time in the chest (or thorax, whatever you want to call it) of MegaKabuterimon. He slammed into the wall in a roar of pain, his thorax covered in ice..

"Bum rush the bug!" I yelled in glee. I roared in excitement, shaking the walls of the crypt. We both ran and tackled the big insect into the wall, making a lot of cracks. Polarmon breathed a cool breath into his face, making him calm down a bit. "That's it! Now let's get back and combine our attacks again!"

"Okay!" We both leaped back. I summoned all the electricity in my body and released in a big thunderbolt at the same time Polarmon released another two Freeze Orbs. The three attacks hit MegaKabuterimon and reduced him to floating data.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Sitting alone ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]I ran my hands through my hair, running them over my face, feeling the tears streaming down. The texture of them on my fingers. I closed my eyes and rose, my fingers trembling as I reached out for the door to answer Andrew’s calls. With one small pull I opened the door to stand there in front of him. My lip began to tremble, my hands shaky as I dropped my head; ashamed of how I looked in front of him, how I acted. “Can we talk?” He asked, tipping my face up to look at him.

Fresh tears, this time from fear began to drip down my cheek Andrew moved in and enveloped me with one arm while with the other walked into the room. He moved over to the edge of Hotaru’s bed and sat down, lifting me up and placing me on one knee. “Can.. we talk?” He asked after a few moments of silence. Reaching over he bent down and picked up the necklace that I had thrown down, the one I had bought him. “The dove’s broken her wings.” He sighed picking up the two pieces of wings that were on the floor, which must of broken off when I threw it.

Reaching out with an open hand, he slowly slid the necklace into the palm of my hand, before dropping the two wing pieces on top of it. “I’m sorry, I broke it and it was supposed to be a gift for you, and..” I could feel a catch in my throat as new tears welled up, this night had just gone from bad, to even worse.

Andrew slowly picked up the necklace, holding it and studying it as he twisted it around in his hand. “It’s beautiful but why did you get me something like this?” He asked sitting it back down in my hand.

Now I found myself looking back down at my feet, hanging my head in embarrassment at something was completely childish, it wasn’t something that a mature woman would do, I felt like what I had done was something a child would do to get a boyfriend. I hated being a child. “Well, Aunt Hotaru said I should get you something that would remind you of me, and so that maybe..” My voice trailed off as sweat began to collect all over my body, here was the part where I would have to say that I had a crush on him.

We both sat there in silence for a moment more; before he tilted my head back up to meet his eyes with a smile on his face. “So that I would ask you out?” He questioned, I dropped my head away, scared to death about answering the question. I finally gave a short shrug. It was the only thing that I could possibly do right now.

After a few moments, Andrew reached over and picked up the necklace from my hands and put it around his neck, clipping it in the back and locking it in place. “Maybe we can help this dove get her wings back.” He smiled twirling the broken dove in his fingers. I looked back up at him, a grin rising on my face. Even if he didn’t answer about my feelings, right now it felt like it didn’t matter.

I opened my mouth, only to be cut off with the sound of a body dropping to the corner. Andrew and I both rose and rushed to the door to find Elizabeth in the hallway, grasping her head. “They’re…coming…I can…hear them.” She gasped, her fingernails gripping her head to the point that blood began to drip down her hair. They? They who? I turned and rushed into the bathroom to grab some towels and began to wet them down with water, before rushing back to her.

Andrew quickly grabbed the towels and thanked me, bending down and touching her hair with the towels, dabbing the blood. “Rei, please go grab your digivice and get under the bed.” Andrew said, his voice sounding more like a plea than an order. Not wanting to argue, I turned and ran in the room, searching for where ever I placed my digivice. I glanced over my clothes, the packages, where was it? Glancing over I caught it out of the corner of my eye. It was sitting on the nightstand next to my bed. “Rei” Andrew warned from the hallway, as Elizabeth let out an ear-piercing scream.

Turning in the sound of the scream it almost completely droned out the sound of breaking glass, as the window behind me caved in, creatures leaping through the now open window. Almost in slow motion I could see Andrew and Elizabeth both turn toward the sound in shock while I reached for the Digivice.

Hands, Arms, Claws, they all reached around me, grabbing and ripping at me, pulling me back. With one last thrust I reached forward and grasped the device. “Spirit Evolution!” I screamed, the digivice glowing a deep crimson. I ran the Digivice toward my other hand, preparing to activate the evolution sequence only to have my left arm twisted away. The digivice flew from my hand, as my arm was yanked backwards, twisted around till a sickening crack was heard. A breathless scream flew out of my mouth, my eyes open in shock as pain traveled through my arm and up my body. My broken arm falling limp as I was pulled through the window.

Andrew ran forward, leaving Elizabeth as he ran toward the window, his hand open to grasp me. Yet they were faster, I was pulled through the window and away, faster than a bat of an eye, and I was off. Being dragged through the street of the city toward the temple. My body racked with pain, and tears dripping down my face.

[Gladiator]

Agamemnon "Snap"
-Serendipity-----------------------------------

"Let's see, roughly eight people plus that one guy plus two Digimon," Agamemnon muttered trying to do the math under his breath, "Ten people in all. At home I could get a fast meal for seven bucks a person."

Fast food was a temporary solution to the problem of hunger at best, but he had no other alternative if he was going to feed ten stomachs right away.

"So seventy bucks in all," he frowned, "I don't think I'll have enough. Even with the high purchasing power of my money. I guess I'll have to settle for eight meals and hope the Digimon can fend for themselves.

The line slowly moved up and Agamemnon got in line. He shifted his gaze from left to right to view all the tables and seats and then ahead at the counter.

"Who knew that alternate worlds had their own fast food chain?" he smiled to himself, pleased that, for once, the world should make itself convenient to him.

That look of mild satisfaction was soon wiped-off his face as he heard the shrieking of what he could assume was a girl.

"Dammit!" he yelled, "In the middle of getting everyone a meal, too."

As Agamemnon bent down to readjust his shoes, he could make out the forms of demon Digimon running by the front door. In their midst he could make her out, Hotaru's neice, Rei.

"Hang on, Rei," Snap whispered, "Agamemnon's a'comin."

With roller blades out, Snap bolted out of the door and in the direction of the demons. Pumping his legs hard and trying to ignore his mounting frustration he made for the nearest ramp-like thing he could find.

"Digi-weapon emerge," he yelled in the air as he began to descend on the unsuspecting group of Digimon. With claws in both hands, he landed on top of the rightside of the mob.

Agamemnon let loose a wickid smile, as he straight jabbed his claws into the first demon that rose against him. He successfully ignored the feelings he was having as blood gushed forth from his victim

"Silly demons, you can't start a party without me," he said, "That just makes 'ol Snap angry."
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He doesn't have to succeed, just needed to give him some action.

[Dr.McNinja]

This is going to take some careful maneuvering...she's obviously got a crush on you and you can't just turn your back on her, it'll hurt her too much.

Andrew's thoughts were shattered however when Elizabeth's scream heralded the arrival of the demonic digimon yet again. He was too slow to stop them from taking Rei and as he watched her get dragged down the street he pounded his hand on the windowsill, "Dammit!"

Turning, he returned to Elizabeth who was breathing hard once again, blood from her nails beading her face, "Elizabeth, get your digivice. We can't let them take her and do whatever it is they're going to do to her."

Elizabeth shook her head, "They're too fast and....watch out!"

Andrew turned just in time to avoid the claw's that had lashed out for him. One of the digimon had remained behind and had climbed through the window as he had turned away. Thankfully, Andrew had never put away his weapons and with a quick grab and a sharp crack, he blew the monster back out of the window to land with a sickening crunch on the street below. Rei was out of sight by then, and Andrew let out a defeated sigh, "I can't follow her now, I have no idea how to get around here....damn.."

A hand reached up to grasp the necklace he had put on to soothe Rei. Just moments ago he had been wondering how to let down the young girl without devastating her and now she was gone, taken by the monstrosities they had been running from since they had arrived. Holstering his pistols, he turned once again to Elizabeth whose light cuts had already stopped bleeding, leaving nothing but a few scarlet streaks on her face, "You sensed them coming right?"

Elizabeth nodded shakily, "Right before they got here...yeah."

Andrew nodded excitedly, "Can you still feel them? Could you follow them?"

Shaking her head, Elizabeth sighed, "No, it's not a directional type of thing....plus we wouldn't be able to take all of them on...not even with the others. Not without those spirits things I think."

Andrew could hear the sounds of battle from outside and began to move past Elizabeth, "Well let's make sure we all just survive for now, it sounds like there's more of them."

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]
[font=tahoma]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.



Elizabeth gave a faint nod to Andrew as they heard battling outside. She nervously looked about... seeing how the space in the hotel room was inadequate if they were to get into a fight.
"We should get out of here..." Elizabeth commented, wiping a streak of blood off of her face as she did so. "I think we should head to the temple. That is where many of them are... and if we go there we can get them to help us get Rei." She added, and Andrew gave a nod.

The two of them dashed in the opposite direction and fled down a flight of stairs before exiting outside. There were many digimon about... and Elizabeth winced slightly. For some reason their voices were not causing her pain, not anymore... but she could still feel that faint tingling sensation from them attempting to contact her. One of the larger digimon seemed to move its eyes away from one direction and turn to look directly at Andrew and Elizabeth as they tried to sneak past. The digimon gave a slight growl as it meandered over to them... easily catching up and standing before them.
"Get away!" Andrew yelled definately, but the digimon swiped a paw at Andrew, making him go back several feet.
"Andrew!" Elizabeth yelped, but she looked up to see the large digimon regarding her. It was weird... but for the moment she felt the digimon's eyes upon her, she felt a change. She felt as if something was different... as if this digimon had changed for a moment. Suddenly deciding some thing in its head, a faint 'click' of recognition seemed to go through its head as it reached withone of its claws and it grasped Elizabeth about the waist. Elizabeth gave a shriek as it raised her upwards, but suddenly it gave a cry of pain as Andrew charged in again.
"Not going to happen again!" He said loudly, clenching his teeth together as he swiftly defeated the digimon with a few blows. The digimon dropped Elizabeth swiftly and gave a sharp cry, causing whatever connection the digimon had with Elizabeth to be foiled.

"To the temple!" Elizabeth quickly said, not really understanding anything at the moment but just having one goal in mind. Andrew nodded and the two dashed off.



[ I'm hoping by the time they get there, this 'shadow' business will be done. lol ]

[kalad1]

Dennis
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Shadow smirked at all the events that were happening around us, the guardians, and probably some things that weren't directly visible. But that didn't matter, what mattered was that the very thing that had caused me so much grief, and so many others pain was standing right before me. It was time to end things, I decided, pulling out my digivice.

"You've plauged us and the digital world for FAR too long Shadow! You're dead!" I practically screamed, going through the motions, "Spirit Evolution!"

In a flash, I became the armored knight of the statue, and a small voice echoed in my head Remember, anger will not win the fight.

I nodded to Redeemed Schwartzmon's mental voice, then stated, "Got any tricks to defend yourself, Shadow?"

He smiled, laughing as a sickly irridescent glow surrounded his right hand, "I do indeed! Corrupt Evolution!" His form twisted and altered, becoming a perverse mirror of my own form, his armor bearing spikes and jagged edges where mine had smooth curves, and his sword, curved and serrated. "Think you can stand up to Corrupt Schwartzmon, my other half? But first... AndroLadyDevimon! Go retrieve Target Bravo, take her to the prison!"

With that, a mechanical form appeared, then jetted out through the entrance at a blinding speed. "Target Bravo?" I asked, running forward and slashing downward with my sword.

Blocking it with his own, he replied, chuckling, "That little girl, Rei."

I remained silent, my angry fire turning into frigid ice, the duel turning into a dance, neither one of us stronger than the other. We each blocked and parried the other's attacks, heading back and forth, till I noticed an opening and took it, lunging forward and thrusting into his left side. Almost immediately, I felt my own left side suddely open up into a similar wound, backing off. "What is this?"

"We're bonded closer than you think, You hurt me, you hurt yourself!" He declared before teleporting, "Chaos Shift!"

I looked around wildly, where had he gone... no, it couldn't be...

"Everyone! We need to get to that prison! Rei's in grave danger!" I declared, running out on my own, not waiting for the others.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Remembering ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]“Did you hear? There is a human upstairs.” Wispers were all about in the hot sweltering room that contained the kitchen of Lucemon’s palace. Leaning forward to listen, I passed other humans and digimon, all of them older than me to get more information. A human? Here? How?

“He’s kind of cute.” Another girl giggled finishing up a plate of salad before placing the bowl and the rest of the food onto a dish and thrusting it into my hands. “Take this up to him, he’s in room 14A.” She commanded, I wobbled a bit as I grasped the tray of food, trying to remain on balance with feet that hadn’t had a single day’s rest in months.

I turned and left in silence, that is how it was around here, you didn’t talk to those superiors that were above you, if you did then you would be punished. I hated being punished, it hurt. The punishments were given out through a black orb imbedded into the back all of our necks, if you did something wrong, then the orb would feel hot and then you would just hurt everywhere.

Wincing at the thought of the orb and the punishment it could bring, I just closed my eyes and opened the door to the room. Peeking, with one eye open out of curiosity of what the human looked like, I sat the food down and turned to leave. “Wait.” He called out, rising to his feet, a hand out to try and stop me. “What’s your name?” He asked.

I turned to him, brushing a lock of my messy black hair out of my face. What was a name? Did I have a name? What did he mean by what’s my name? “I’m Satoshi.” He knelt down bringing his face down to eye level with myself. “Sa-to-shi.” He pointed to his chest; his finger turned and touched my chest.

That is what he meant, a name, that is what people called me. “They call me Rei here.” I replied, my words as shaky as my knees. The man smiled, touching his fingers with his tongue and then stroking past my cheek, taking some of the dirt off that covered my face. The back of my neck began to sting, I let out a gasp knowing what would follow, it was the pain, the never-ending pain. Darkness colored my vision, it swarmed and I could feel myself fall. The man, Satoshi, he leaned forward and caught me, taking me and laying me safely to the bed until the pain ended. He had even given me the food that was meant for him. Satoshi…

My eyes shot open, I had been sleeping? Pain radiated up and down my arm bringing a groan to escape my lips. “Daddy.” I moaned, images of Satoshi rescuing me from my captivity filled my mind. “Daddy, save me, save me again.” I whimpered.

A metallic limb petted the side of my face, washing the black hair away. I was in a large area, outside. I could hear the crickets around me; see the stars in the sky. I was in the hotel room with Andrew, and then the Devil Digimon broke in, then, I was here. “Daddy isn’t here to save you.” A sly voice whispered, the voice belonged to a metallic woman. She wore a emotionless black visor over her entire face, her limbs cracked with the sound of grease and metal pressing against each other.

She stepped away and I found myself bound, my arms bounded to a large beam going across my back, my legs bound together on another beam that was going up and down. I was connected to what could pretty much be described as a cross. The woman moved around a large pit and began to work away at a computer screen, while I struggled fruitlessly to get free. “What do you want with me? Why are you doing this?” I called out, trying to pull my bindings free.

The woman turned and glanced at me before turning back, pressing the final buttons as the cross moved toward the pit. “You, young lady, you will be the vessel that holds the spirit of Lucemon.” She replied, as emotionless as her face. The cross-swung down, suspended over the pit. Below I got a look at what was below me, a hole that seemed to just go on and on forever. At the bottom was a dim blue light, could that have been the lock, the lock where mom and dad had sealed Lucemon?

I began to scream, to struggle against my bindings as best as I could. “Help, Aunt Hotaru, Andrew, someone.” I screamed, struggling with all my might. “Some one help.” I pleaded, below the light lurched forward for a second and then died down, a sign that the lock placed around Lucemon was beginning to crack. When it did they would need a body for his data, something to hold his Digital Spirit. I didn’t want to be that body, I couldn’t fathom what kind of horror it would be like to have Lucemon invade and take control of me. All I could do now was close my eyes and beg.

[color=pink]Some one please help

[Gladiator]

Agamemnon
------Failure and the Rage--------------

Agamemnon shredded through another demon when he saw it, the monstrous woman that had managed to take her. The speed at which she was taken was enough to knock Snap to the wall.

"Ow," he muttered, "The things I do as a hero."

As he got up, he realized the situation he was in. A dozen or so now-idyll demon Digimon had him, their enemy surrounded.

Agamemnon swallowed hard as the Digimon surrounded him. Then he forced a smile.

"Gotta run!" he yelled, jetting into the first Digimon who got in his way. A lightweight reptillian made the mistake of being impaled by his claws. Agamemnon threw his arm to the side and de-summoned his left claw, causing the dinosaur to be flung far. With the rest of way clear, Agamemnon was allowed to blast past the opposition.

"Gotta find Hotaru," he muttered under his breath, "Gotta find the others. This is bad."

He turned his head to see what looked like a predatory quail flying behind him that was about half his size.

"You're kidding me," he said out loud, "I killed your dinosaur friend; don't think just because he's your ancestor doesn't mean I can't kick your ass."

The quail thing hovered momentarily, but only to flap rapidly as a spiraling form of energy homed in on him from it.

Agamemnon turned around only to take the force full in the chest, forcing his back to another wall. He was still standing.

Agamemnon gritted his teeth as he tried to focus beyond the pain.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH H!"

He didn't care how he managed to fight through the attack, he only noticed how satisfying it felt as the bird crumpled under his left fist as he punctured the bird with his claw.

"Yeah, Snap ain't useless," he yelled, his fist hitting his chest, "I trump you soulless beasts! Who else wants a piece of this!"

Silence, the alley was suddenly made empty of the Digimon that had previously attacked them. Snap was confused mildly before dismissing whatever notions were in his head.

"Better figure out where that woman took Rei," he muttered, "They'll never let this go if they find that I lost her."
-----------------
I'll never figure out how some of you can type this long.

Eh, I guess my length fits for Snap's erratic state of mind.

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Ready to kick ass
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

We rushed out of the temple and frantically looked around for signs of Rei. Elizabeth found a group of footprints as well as drag tracks. "It looks like they head that way," she told us, pointing towards the edge of town.

I growled and followed the tracks to what looked like a maximum security prison. Humans stood around outside, surrounded by a high fence. Guard Digimon stood outside the fence, ready to attack whatever approached them. "We should be careful," Redeemed Schwartzmon whispered as we hid behind a nearby building.

Forget careful. They have Rei! They will pay for that! Anger burning, I came out of hiding and raised my staff high in the air. "Icicle Storm!" I yelled. Icicles rained from the sky and skewered the guards.

Safarimon ran up to the gate and touched the fence with a paw. Electricity crackled with her touch. "Ooh, it's electrified!" she giggled. She took the wire in her jaws and ripped it out of the pillars. "Okay, where's Rei?"

I frantically looked around at the various humans. None of them looked or smelled like Rei. I felt like I was on the verge of having a heart attack. "She's not out here!" I said breathlessly.

"Then she's in one of the buildings!" R. Schwartzmon said courageously.

My heart raced as I entered the biggest building, covering my ears as the alarm sounded. Guard Digimon poured out to meet us. Safarimon jumped out in front and let loose a roar that knocked them off of their feet. "Safarimon! You stay out here and fight off of the guards!" I commanded.

"Gotcha!"

Meanwhile R. Schwartzmon and I charged in and fought any of the guards that chose not to tangle with Safarimon. We looked in every room until we found a staircase that went downstairs. "Looks like there's a basement," R. Schwartzmon commented as we went down it.

We ended up in a cavern. We went down a hallway and into a large room humming with the sounds of electrical devices. Rei was in the middle of the room, suspended over a pit on a cross. A strange female Digimon was with her. R. Schwartzmon tightened his hold on his sword. "No. We should only get Rei. We can kill the Digimon later," I whispered to him.

We charged in and went straight for Rei. AndroLadyDevimon tried to stand in our way but I jumped up and over her while R. Schwartzmon knocked her out with his sword and ran to the computers. He started pushing buttons and pulling levers until the cross drifted back to the ground.

I ripped off the ropes and took hold of Rei. I held her while she cried into my shoulder. Relief washed over me. She was still alright. I carried her outside, each step getting more difficult to take. I was so exhausted after all of the running and fighting that it was hard to keep transformed. As soon as I got back to the hotel, I set her down and reverted back to my human self. The world around me got dark. So tired...

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Shocked ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]Nudging her and grasping her arm, I tried to wake Aunt Hotaru up. “Wake up Hotaru, wake up.” I cried nudging her before I was taken away by a Digimon. With my strength ever fading, I could only sit and watch, and wince as he reset my bone, and bandaged my arm, placing it in a sling. “Hotaru.” I sighed softly, her sleeping body laying on the bed. Her chest rising and falling with every breath.

Rushing into the room, two others of our group barged in to look around. “There you are.” Dennis side rushing forward and embracing me into his arms, the pressure hurting my weak arm even more. “Everyone was out looking for you.” He added before turning to Gav, who turned on his digivice and broadcasted a message that they had found me.

With a little bit of a struggle, I wiggled my way out of Dennis’ arms and moved back to Hotaru’s side. “I’m okay really, but Hotaru fell asleep.” I sighed, my voice going from jolly with laughter to solemn and quiet.

“Which is where you should be right now, young lady.” Gav spoke up, which caused both Dennis and I to turn in shock. He gave off a goofy grin and shrugged, moving over and tucking Hotaru in with the covers as Snap barged into the room, tripping over the TV table and sending the TV falling to the ground. “Right on time.” Gav sighed, turning and exiting the room.

Dennis moved and rested an arm on my shoulder as Snap moved to Hotaru’s side. I glanced up at him and let out a long sigh through my nose before rising and getting into the second bed. “But I’m not tired.” I moaned, my voice punctuated with a yawn. Dennis gave me one of those looks, before ruffling my hair and tucking me in. He turned and I reached out with my good arm, grabbing his pant leg. “Dennis…you’re not such a bad guy.” I spoke softly, not making eye contact with him.

The room remained completely silent for a few seconds before Dennis stepped away, and put a hand on Snap’s shoulder. “She will be okay, she just needs some sleep.” He said to Snap, his voice almost a whisper. Snap opened his mouth to protest but remained silent, instead standing and leaving the room, turning out the lights on the way out with Dennis.

Twisting around in my bed sheets, I let out a long sigh, this one as loud as I could possibly make it. I didn’t want to be possessed by Lucemon, they said I was the vessel or something. I hated this world, all it brought me was pain and suffering, I hated it, I hated all of it. I just wanted Andrew to hug me and say I wouldn’t be possessed by Lucemon, and that I would be okay. I turned to my side, drifting off to sleep, as I thought about Andrew hugging and holding me.

[color=pink] One Hour Later

Rei rose from her bed, sitting up straight at first, and then ever so slowly stepped onto the floor. With her eyes remaining close she walked to the door and opened it, letting the light of the hallway spill into the room as she walked out into it. Toni passed her in the hallway, yawning lightly as she made her way to the soda machine. “You’re up late.” She remarked, waving a hand over Rei’s still closed eyes. “Sleep walking.” She concluded with a sigh.

She moved to step away, with out warning Rei’s hand shot out, gripping her neck with inhuman strength. Black energy swirled up her arm, snaking toward the Chosen Child of metal’s neck. Rei opened her eyes, blackness swirled around all of the eye, making it almost impossible to see anything but darkness in the eye. With one single push, Rei jerked forward with the black energy, separating Toni’s head and neck from her body. Spraying blood and gore across the wallpaper in the hallway.

Down the hall someone let out a gasp in fright. Rei turned to see Elizabeth and Andrew walking down the hallway, coming in from a late night. With a wave of her hand, energy flashed across the hallway paralyzing both of them. Rei moved forward, first stopping at Andrew to make sure he didn’t remember the scene, before moving on to Elizabeth. “You will do as I say.” She whispered, her voice matching Lucemon’s. She leaned forward and in a breath whispered a command that would remain hidden till later on.

Stepping away she watched as Andrew and Elizabeth moved forward stepping over the dead body of Toni and into their respective rooms. Rei moved back to her own room and laid down, closing her eyes and flinching slightly as Lucemon could feel his control over her body fading. By the next morning they would discover the corpse of their fallen team-mate and realize that none of them was safe.

Bwahaha Mike had never posted, and I wanted Lucemon to have a nice little enterence. Rei wont be possessed when she wakes up, and the next morning we should get moving to the next town, which will be called Tri-Angel City. It wont have any Devil Digimon in it, but it will be a chance for everyone to relax and for relationships and friendships to build.

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrews eyes snapped open. He lay in his bed for a moment, lazily watching the dust motes in the air as they fluttered through the shaft of light streaming in through his window. Why had he woke up so suddenly? He closed his eyes, attempting to let himself drift back into the merciful oblivion of sleep. As soon as his eyes were closed, a horrific flash of blood and death ripped through his mind. With a shout, he sat up abruptly, throwing the sheets he had covering him to the floor. Breathing heavily, his wide eyes filled with fright, he quickly rolled out of bed and dashed to his door. Throwing it open he cried out again, this time in disbelief and disgust. Blood splattered the walls of the hallway, originating from the limp husk that was one of the former digidestined. Andrew had never talked with this particular one, but he had still been one of them and his death was still horrifying. Andrew murmered to himself, "W-what did this? Why didn't they come for us too?"

Closing his eyes again, attempting to block out the image of the horribly mutliated body lying in front of him, Andrew experienced another flash of realization. Opening his eyes he let out a piecing cry, "NO!!"

Doors up and down the hallway burst open as the rest of the digidestined, responding to his cry, looked out of their rooms to see what was happening. One by one they all saw the remains of their comrade and gave their own shouts of disbelief. Andrew, fallen to his knees from the series of horrific realizations, gazed to his left, to where Hotaru and Rei had emerged from their rooms with similar looks of disbelief. As Hotaru pulled Rei towards her to sheild her from the sight, Andrew spoke in a small voice, "Rei.....why? Why did you do this?"

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Horrified
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

My eyes snapped open at the sound of someone screaming. Rei and Naomi also awakened. "What is it now? Please don't tell me that we're under attack again," Naomi groaned as she dragged herself out of bed.

We looked out of our room and screamed. The walls were splattered with blood. Toni's blood. We didn't know her that well but it didn't make it any less horrifying. Rei hid her face in my chest to keep from seeing the sight. "How could this happen?" I asked quietly.

Andrew looked at Rei with a terrified expression on his face. "Rei.....why? Why did you do this?" he asked her in a small voice.

Naomi and I were shocked. "How can you say such a thing? Rei did not do this!" I growled at him.

"But I saw it! I saw her kill Toni!"

"Andrew, look at the kid! Does she look like the type that would kill anybody?" Naomi hissed.

"She must be..."

"Don't finish that sentence!" I yelled. I then looked at Rei who was looking at me with fear and lowered my voice. "You must have had a bad dream! We rescued her from that Digimon and now she's okay! Now we are going to the next city and we will not speak of this again!"

Naomi looked at me with a hint of shock. "Hotaru..." she said softly.

I said nothing else and nudged Rei back in the room, away from her accusers. But there was something in the back of my mind that was nagging me. Something that told me that something was wrong.

Maybe I was in denial about the whole thing.

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew stood up, his eyes narrowing, "Hotaru, stop."

Hotaru finished hustling Rei back into the room and, closing the door, whirled to face Andrew, "You can't seriously believe she did this?!"

Averting his gaze from the body lying on the floor, Andrew nodded, "I can because it happened. It wasn't a dream, dreams don't come when you're awake and they don't lead you directly to a dead body. Rei, or someone who looked just like her, did this and then said something to Elizabeth. I don't know if she knew what she was doing or what bu it was her..."

Hotaru sighed heavily and averted her head to the side and down before responding, "And if it was? Then what?"

Andrew shrugged, "She was captured by those monsters, who knows what they or something else did to her. They work for this Lucemon don't they? And from what I've heard he wouldn't bat an eye at doing something to her."

Inside of the room behind Hotaru, a dark presence murmmered in the recesses of Rei's mind, silent to even its young host, "Damnable Destined of Light, I would have killed him as well had I known then. Now it will be much more difficult...though far from impossible"


(OOC: Andrew being immune was by a suggestion from Roy in case anyone's wondering why (I know I would))

[Gladiator]

Agamemnon

--------Before Toni Died---------

She will be okay, she just needs some sleep.

Snap had wanted to question the tone of Dennis' voice. The way he had touched and spoken to him seemed to imply something to the confused youth.

What am I? Her husband, or something? he thought irritably to himself. It's not like I've known Hotaru long, she's just a friend. Granted, she's the only person he's talked to here, but Snap wasn't the type to make more than one or two friends.

Thinking about Hotaru's state of health made Agamemnon remember the events that had transpired and his failure to save her.

"Hey, Dennis?" Agamemnon said finally, not facing him at all.

"Yeah, Snap?" Dennis responded uneasily.

"You seem to have been there when it happened. What happened to Rei?" he asked nervously, wringing his hands in the process.

"Well, we don't really know," he said in return, "We assumed they wanted her for something important, but we managed to save her. We found her on the cross accompanied by a Digimon known as AndroLadyDevimon. Why do you ask?"

That woman and a cross, Agamemnon thought to himself before turning to Dennis with a fake smile, "Oh, no reason."

--After the Accusations--

Agamemnon stared at the limp, headless body of the girl for a few moments in silence. He didn't scream or shriek or yell, but nonetheless he wanted to do something. Walking up to it, he slowly got down on knee to examine it.

"What are you doing," he heard someone ask him, but ignored it for awhile.

"What was her name," he asked stoically, betraying nothing of his thought or feeling, "Toni, was it?"

The question was rhetorical, Agamemnon didn't need nor want an answer. He looked at the head that was taken off.

"I didn't know her," he said somberly, "I don't know many of you, for that matter. And now she's dead, her life taken before she could truly..."

He could feel himself start to break down inside. He began to wring his hands only to realize something and stopped, and then tried to finger his jacket only to remember it was an imposter. He then decided to give up

"She wasn't the first," he finally said, "Becky had a dear friend once who died, and she took me to her funeral. I didn't know that girl either. I was insensitive then for not knowing that girl, and was a complete ass. Why should I care, she wasn't my friend? But she was Becky's friend. She had plenty of friends. I only had her. I didn't know what it was like to lose anyone that way."

Agamemnon sighed heavily and looked at the hall they were in, slowly being abandoned. He had to ask who it was he was talking to.

He thought back on Andrew's words, the cross, the woman who took Rei from him. The battle between him and the kidnappers.

His failure. Toni's death.

"This might be just as sad," he said.

He brushed the hair out of the severed head's eye.

"I'm sorry," he whispered in hopes no one could hear him, "I knew nothing about you, and yet I made it possible for this to occur."

Staring no more at the head, he wrapped his arms around the body and lifted her up.

"Can someone help me move her," he said out loud with a grievious lilt in his voice, "I don't think she should suffer the indignity of being left here."

[Toxicity]

Name: Daron Wakami
Age: 16
Gender: Boy :3
Look's 1: Daron is what shallow people would consider a wild child. In spite of not really having Armenian blood, his facial structure is rather similar to that of his namesake, System of a Down's Daron Malakian. His eyes are a deep brown with flecks of forest green, and his hair, almost black in color with a few natural bright red hairs, is slightly messy and is kept at shoulder length. With somewhat pale skin, his build is healthy yet slender due to his tall height inherited from his father.
Daron's clothing is what leads people to assume that he is somewhat on the wild side. He is adorned in a black long-sleeved button up shirt with thin grey stripes running vertically, which is over jeans that fit perfectly in spite of being held up by a plainly studded belt. His sneakers are black and dark grey, and around his neck is a chain holding two kanji symbols, a yellow Thunder and light blue Ice, the elements his parents had back in the Digital World.
Look's 2: In spite of not having changed physically, Daron is absolutely appalled by his new clothing, which takes more of a surfer's appearance. He now wears a light blue shirt with darker palm trees on it, khaki shorts with a thin belt of a similar material, and brown flip-flops that are rather uncomfortable to walk in. The only thing that remains, however, is his necklace.
Personality: Daron seems to be close to a remake of his mother. While sometimes appearing cold and cruel, he is actual quite pleasant. Despite this joyous output, though, he is deep down somewhat depressed, stressed, and serious. Often is it that he'll go into a corner to cry, not for fear of appearing weak, but for feeling distant and out of place from the rest of the world, although he has heard from classmates that he is no different than a "bratty emo kid." Many assume that just because he plays the guitar and writes songs and poems, he's much like the "emo" kids of his parents' and grandparents' generations. However, he is quite mature and has a calm look to him, which causes many to look up to him in a time of great worry.
History: Daron has lead quite a normal, boring life. However, he has brought joy to his parents, Jun Wakami and Laura Kimura-Rider, ever since he was born. It seemed that greatness was to come for him due to the fact he had matured quite early. Because of his looks and intelligence, many looked up to him as he was growing up. However, moving to California when he was ten wasn't the problem so much as the fact he and his parents came across his grandmother on his mother's side. She began to terrorize his family in grudge of her losing custody of Laura, as if she was finally beginning to regret ever neglecting her daughter. This caused his mother to go into another great depression, causing Jun and Daron to worry greatly. These family issues have caused great stress in Daron's life, and now he worries if he'll end up as stuck as his mother just because of anxiety.
D-Sense Color: Silvery white base with deep blue rims and buttons.
Element: Water
Weapons: Suprisingly, not the Thunderbolt Staff of his father or a katana like his mother. Daron can materialize a metallic trident painted dark blue with silver droplets. The trident is about half a foot shorter than he is.
Theme Songs(Optional):
System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood (Lyrics)
Black Sabbath - Snowblind (Lyrics)
Tanaka Rie - Ningyo Hime (from Chobits)(Lyrics)
Other: None.

Digimon Spirit:

Name: Zoramon
Type: Fish Man
Virus,Data,Vaccine or Unknown: Vaccine
Looks: For those who have played the Legend of Zelda series enough, Zoramon is simply his namesake in appearance. His build is that of the fanon-named Sea Zora (the race we all know and love from OoT; picture). The only major differences, however, are that spots that are normally dark blue are black, his nose is smaller, and his eyes appear more dark blue than black. Tatooed on his back, however, is the symbol of the Zora race and the goddess Nayru, and at the bottom of the tail-like extension of his head, he bears a tatoo of the kanji symbol for water.
Attacks:
Tsunami ~ Zoramon pulls his hands together, open-palmed, and shoots forth a powerful blast of water.
Triton's Force ~ Zoramon summons his trident, and he rushes or swims forward, stabbing his foe.
Bubble of Nayru ~ This is simply a defensive spell similar to Nayru's Love. Zoramon forms a bubble around himself or an ally, which temporarily causes most physical and wind attacks to bounce back at the foe. Fire and thunder, however can break through the bubble.
Neptune Rain ~ Zoramon raises his trident towards the sky, clouds darkening overhead. This summons a light downpour which will heal allies lightly and somewhat sting foes.
Element: Water

Daron Wakami ~ Mizu no Kodomo

I stood in the hallway, silent. I didn't even dare to sigh just because I was completely appalled. The only person I knew...Toni. Killed. One could've easily considered us the best of friends, but before we had come to this Digital World I had doubted the existance of for so long...we just seemed to fall apart; not talking to each other seemed to do a lot. I watched them argue over who would've easily killed my "friend," and sighed. I just didn't know what to do now. I would've easily taken Toni's place, if death was really meant for me this young. I was clearly too scared for suicide, but now, I knew what I'd have to do.

I almost considered stepping forward towards the rest of the group, but I felt no need to. Did I really belong with them? Stepping backwards, I quietly dashed to a corner in the hallway. Upon arriving there, I fell onto my knees, my legs trembling with shock, fear, confusion, and grief. I lifted my hands up to my face, feeling no better but to sob...sob like my mother. No, I wasn't saying she was bad for crying or anything, but my depression and anxiety nowandays was slowly starting to match hers. Maybe I was just another helpless teenager. Maybe I was no different. Then only thing that I could be accounted for was being among this new group of Chosen Children, like my parents were before me.

Tears clouded my eyes, stress slowly overcoming me. One hand slowly made a fist and punched the wall, a meltdown taking over me. I was feeling weak again. I knew how my mother had always felt now, and I understood why she didn't enjoy feeling like this. I felt just like her; feeling out of place and everything. For now, I felt just so alone...but then, a warm feeling caressed my shoulder. A simple hand resting on me made me stop. Blinded by tears, I really couldn't make out the features of this person...possibly angelic for reaching out to me. I turned, almost as mesmerized as a child, and tried to dry my eyes.

Anybody feel free to continue this. Forgive me for having not posted until now...

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Scared ~*~*~*~*~

With hands in my face, I leaned back against the door, allowing my back to slide down it till I was at the bottom. My stomach hurt, it hurt badly, and it was doing flip-flops. I felt something wet drip down my leg; I reached down and wiped it away before returning my hands to my face. I didn’t kill her, I didn’t kill her, I didn’t kill her. The doorknob began to move, I quickly got up and backed away. The door opened slightly and Aunt Hotaru stuck her head in. “Rei?” Hotaru asked. I dove quickly into the bathroom shutting the door and locking it.

Outside I could hear Hotaru move toward the door, knocking on it lightly as I sat on the floor in the bathroom. “Rei are you okay? You’re bleeding.” She pounded on the door; all I could do was cover my face in fear and humility. How could they believe that I killed someone? How could they do that?

Finally after a few minutes I rose to my feet with shaky legs and looked at myself in the mirror. There was blood on my hands, on my forehead, and on my cheek. My mouth moved awkwardly for a few seconds, as if a puppeteer controlled it. Air finally rushed out of my throat and I let out an ear-piercing scream. The door swung open with Hotaru throwing her shoulder into it.

Rushing over she quickly enveloped me into her arms, hugging me tight for a few minutes. My breath continued to come out ragged, like tearless sobs. “You didn’t do it, you didn’t do it.” She whispered, pulling away and looking over my face as Naomi walked in. She glanced over at me, before pulling away a towel and dampening it with water.

Hotaru took the towel from Naomi and began to dab my face with it, cleaning away the blood. “My stomach hurts a lot.” I moaned, Hotaru let out a short sigh and began to scrub away my hands trying to get the blood off of my fingertips. The white towel was already turning a deep red in color.

The room was silent, I knew both of them were worried that it was her blood, that I had killed them and I was caught with blood on my hands. Maybe I did kill her, maybe I did something horrible, and I just didn’t remember it. How else could I have gotten blood on my hands? Naomi cocked her eye as if she was had thought of something, she turned and walked out of the room, before re-entering a few minutes later with a smile on her face. “It isn’t Toni’s blood.” She smiled, sitting down next to Hotaru and myself, both of us looked at her in shock.

The next few minutes were the weirdest of my life; Naomi and Hotaru explained how I was becoming a woman, and how my mom would be so proud. My head continued to spin; did this mean that I didn’t kill Toni? Eventually we left the bathroom, the sun already rising, streaming rays through the open windows. The three of us got dressed and found our way down to the lobby where everyone else seemed to be, all standing in silence. I kept my head lowered, not wanting to match eye contact with anyone of them. In their eyes I was probably already guilty. Dennis was the first, he walked up and took my hand, holding it tight in a showing that he wasn’t scared of me.

Hotaru turned to everyone, each of their faces solemn. “Lets go to tri-angel.” She spoke up, we each somewhat nodded or agreed in our own way, all of us walking out of the hotel, and down the street. Now only with one less in our group. How long would it be until we were down one less again?

Alright Tri-Angel is a mega-metropolis think like New York. It’s the focal point of the Light and Dark temple, and will be having a parade when we arrive there to celebrate our arrival.

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew glanced at Rei as they walked toward the great city of Tri-Angel. The girl was obviously distraught and Andrew felt some of the guilt from so quickly accusing her. He knew his vision was real, he saw Rei kill Toni, but he also knew Rei as well and knew that she not only wouldn't have killed anyone if she could help it, but also that she didn't have the power in her human form to do such a thing. With a sigh, he diverted his course, leaving Elizabeth with whom he had been discussing the temple they would obviously be heading to next with, and fell into step beside Rei. The girl kept her gaze straight ahead, obviously not looking towards Andrew on purpose. Andrew spoke nonetheless, "You didn't mean to I know."

Rei suddenly gasped and Andrew saw tears forming in her eyes, he continued to speak, "You were captured by those things, and there are powers in this world that are hard to understand. Who knows what they could have done to make you do that."

Rei finally turned to look at Andrew, still fighting back the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes, "What if it happens again?"

Andrew tried to make his smile look genuine, "We can protect you now, they won't risk trying it again when we're all around and aware."

A look of relief washed over Rei's face. Andrew, seeing that he had relieved at least some of the pressure pressing down on the young girl turned to return to his conversation with Elizabeth. Halfway there he stopped and turned, "Rei, catch!"

A flash of silver sparkled in the air before Rei reached out and grabbed the tiny silver wing that Andrew had thrown to her. Andrew smiled, genuinly this time, "Hold that til we figure out how to fix the thing, consider it a good luck charm."

[Bulbasaur4]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.


You think they should kill Rei... you should suggest that... you should... because it would help me.
No. That's a stupid idea. You don't want yourself to be killed... you just want... you want...
OH no my dear... if Rei is killed it matters not. My spirit lives on... Rei should be killed be-
Liar. You want me to tell the others we should get rid of her to save ourselves... because... because then...
- then what my dear? What benefits would I possibly gain?
**<They would turn from you. Then you would be distrusted... and you would be out of his way. Exiled and no problem to him. Then you would be easier to kill.>**
Nonsense! Who are you to butt in-
**<You have no sway over me anymore! I am free and I shall harness the powers that you want to smite!>**
Who... who are you...?
They are nothing... it is just a-
**<I am the one calling. I am the caller... the callers... them... >**



Elizabeth had awoken in her bed with a jump of a start. Her eyes had simply shot open from sleep and she had no grogginess or aura of sleep still upon her. She had not sweat or felt feverish... she simply felt cold. The conversation... it seemed to be so short yet... yet so powerful. ANd now it was morning.

Rising up out of bed, Elizabeth reclothed herself and then swiftly exited her room. It was there that she saw a mass amount of chaos insue. Andrew declare that it was Rei who killed Toni... and then Toni's body being burried outside, and then everyone leaving... Rei having been cleaned up. Frowning, Elizabeth had watched it all yet she felt indifferent. She felt as if that conversation had a hold of her... a great huge claw that was squeezing her soul and her mind. She couldn't shake it... shake those two voices. Neither seemed all that friendly... but the one... the one made her wonder. What did they mean... the power? And why... why would that evil voice want to get rid of Elizabeth? She held no threat... did she?

The group continued to exit and after a while they started to come across Tri-Angel city. It was a huge and vast city... and as they entered it almost seemed as if they were entering a parade. Elizabeth had never seen a parade but she knew what they were and at the sight of them she instantly felt rather conscious of everything. She eyed every digimon and person in the crowd... her violet-flashed eyes filled with a curiousity and yet a bit of perhaps social anxiety. However, soon Elizabeth's eyes flickered over to Andrew. This city had the temples...
Darkness
Yes, Elizabeth instantly knew that her digispirit was here. It was almost rather obvious to her... for she knew, perhaps by instinct or the strong aura that seemed to radiate from the temple to her, that she was darkness. Elizabeth opened her mouth to speak but she watched as Andrew swiftly headed over to her but then turned and flickered back a glimmering flash of silver to Rei. The girl's eyes seemed to widen with happiness as a blush and then a huge grin formed upon her features. Andrew shouted to her and gave a wave, and then he turned and looked to Elizabeth.
"Our temple is here, shall we go?"
Elizabeth gave a slow nod and soon the two of them ducked out of the parade and into the city. They didn't need to ask for directions nor did they get lost, for both of them seemed to understand and feel the temple that was calling to them. The power within it... the strong lull...
"Do you like her?"
Suddenly Elizabeth spoke up, turning her striking eyes to Andrew. They were not bitter nor were they indifferent, but they were filled with a true want. Andrew seemed startled for a moment as he stopped walking and stood still, puzzled as he looked at Elizabeth. Her features perhaps had changed... she was no longer looking like the bitter anti-socialist, but some thing had changed. She seemed... softer, perhaps as if she was vulnerable at this point- some thing that for Elizabeth, was unheard of. But the voices... the past night... perhaps even the talk with him, in a matter of an instant it had changed her. The sum of all things... of all changes had led to one big change. If he saw it... well, that was unknown.
"W-what?" Andrew said startled after a moment, and Elizabeth shook her said with a half-smile that perhaps was not meant to be a smile at all.
"Rei, do you like her?"
"Well of course I-"
"Not like that. I'm sure you can grasp what I mean." More silence insued, before Andrew began to talk once again... the sureness of his voice reaching her ears but yet they staggered- as if he was unsure how to approach this situation. The directness of it was perhaps a bit unnerving, coming from Elizabeth.
"Well... she's nice and cute but... well... she's so young... she's like a little si-" But before he could finish, Elizabeth turned from him for a moment.
"Age should not matter. If you like her, then you do. Age is a mere superficiality which humans these days have thought important when in actuality it is a mere number. The soul does not recognize age and nor does the heart..." She turned back to look at him, her eyes seeming to gleam with a bit more liquid but she held back any true emotion perhaps that she would have perhaps wanted to expell. "She does like you... " her voice trailed off, and then she suddenly seemed to give a nod to herself, turning and beginning to walk towards the temple. "Perhaps it is better that way... with no pain..."




[ Ahhh... angst. Gotta love it. Anyways, I figured that you, Mr. Ninja-man (XD) would continue this. You can do the whole 'light' part of the temple... which if you don't mind, I'd like that to be first. ^_^ ]

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ In Pain ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]The longer we walked the more the pain seemed to build up, sometime when we got to the city entrance, Elizabeth, Andrew, and a few others split up. Leaving just Gav, Hotaru, Myself, Snap, and Dennis. Letting out a short gasp of pain I began to fall behind, lagging behind the group as my hand clutched my stomach. Gav seemed to notice this first and ran back around, rushing to my side. “Are you okay? What’s wrong?” He questioned in an ever-annoying manner. I was hurting, that was what was wrong.

Instead I bit down my tongue, forcing my words back down my throat as I was helped to the bench. My mind trying to find some way to communicate to him what was wrong. “She just has a tummy ache.” Hotaru stepped in, taking my hand and leading me over to a bench along the sidewalk that we were walking upon. The city was huge, buildings towering so high that they seemed to reach past the clouds and out of sight. Every street corner seemed to be a mall with shops and dresses, and other pretty things. “How about you help me get some food.” She suggested to Gav and Snap, the three walked off leaving Dennis and I together.

With a grimace I rubbed my stomach, how could I deal with this every month? “I hope your stomach starts feeling better soon.” Dennis spoke out loud, probably saying the first thing that came to mind. “I could try and see if they have some medicine for stomach problems.” He added, looking across the busy street at a drug store.

I shot him a glare, which only increased the pain. “It’s not a stomach ache.” I growled, fighting back an ever-increasing feeling of rage and anger. Dennis seemed to almost reel back in shock at my sudden outburst. Slowly he moved back forward, still keeping his distance from me on the park bench. “It’s…something embarrassing.” I replied, my tone going lower so that no one else would hear. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Dennis slowly realize what I was talking about, I shot my eyes away in hopes to avoid any further embarrassment.

I lowered my finger to the bench, slowly tracing circles around the wood to keep my mind off of the pain. “Dennis..” I asked slowly, trying to form the words to ask him about what he thought about someone doing something evil. Yet having no control over the evil act when they did it. He glanced over at me, my mouth suddenly felt dry. How could I ask him something like that? Would he judge me? Would he hate me? “Nothing..” I sighed.

The sounds of marching feet and trumpets fell past our ears as Snap, Gav, and Aunt Hotaru returned. On the street across from us a full piece marching band was marching down the street, along with floats, and balloons that looked somewhat like the original digidestined. “It’s Independence Day in the digital world, the day the first digidestined freed the world from Lucemon.” Hotaru explained as we walked to the nearest table with sodas and hamburgers.

The four of us each sat down while Hotaru passed out the food. “Tonight they are supposed to be having some firework show, and carnival.” Snap explained before stuffing some french-fries in his mouth. I did the same and began to gobble down most of the fries and a bit of the burger, even though I really didn’t feel hungry. As we talked about the events, none of us even seemed to notice as Dennis stood up and began walking off as if some unknown force compelled him.

I continued to toy with my straw as Hotaru and Snap each gave each other awkward looks. “You two should go out on a date.” I finally piped up pulling the straw out of the area that I had just lost a tooth. Hotaru seemed to blush and Snap looked at me, eyes wide in shock. “What? She already told me she liked you.” I shrugged, Hotaru’s face becoming redder by the moment. Gav just seemed to lean back in his chair, a smile on his face as he watched the situation play out.

Hotaru quickly removed her straw from her drink and shot a stream of soda out of it, hitting me straight in the face and causing me to giggle slightly. “We need to have a talk later, now go pick up the trash.” Hotaru ordered, I got up with a moan of annoyance and scooped up the empty sodas and wrappers, taking them over to the trash can and depositing them. I glanced back and saw Hotaru and Snap talking, with Gav looking on in mild annoyance. I only could wish that Andrew would ask me out on a date tonight. I mean I was old enough to date right?

With a sigh I made my way back to the seat only to stop half way there. Down the street was a man laying on a bench, a human man! Gav followed my line of sight and got up, reaching the man a few seconds before I did, prodding his side to see if he would wake up. He wasn’t a part of our group, so how did a human man get here? The man rose slowly, a slight awakening moan in his very familiar voice. “SHUN!” I burst out in excitement, jumping up and throwing my arms around his neck. Shun was one of the old Digidestined, one of the ones that had been with my mom and dad and Hotaru the last time around.

“Rei?” Shun asks in shock, pushing back a few strands of hair from my face. “You’ve grown so much.” He smiles, I stick out my tongue and wrinkle my nose in happiness as Gav just stands idly by and watches it all.

I turned and noticed Gav, and then slapped my forehead for being so rude as Shun lowered me back down to the ground. “Shun this is Gav, Gav this is Shun, Shun is a old friend of mine.” I introduced the two, both shook hands and we all began to walk back to the table to tell Hotaru the good news about Shun’s arrival.

As we walked Shun turned and glanced around, taking in the landscape. “Rei? Do you know that boy that is following us?” Shun asked about halfway to the table, all three of us turned and pointed to a red haired boy that was a few stores down, he noticed us looking at him and dived into one of the shops.

Curiosity took the best of me, and even with the pain in my stomach, I decided to walk forward and leave Shun and Gav. “I don’t know, but I am going to find out..” I replied, walking off in the direction of the boy.

[classy_cat18]

Ryan asked me to play the role of the "boy". Here we go!

Flamon
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

She spotted me! I hid behind a rack of clothes and put on a baseball cap as she walked closer to me. If she finds out I'm a Digimon...

"Who are you? Why were you following us?" she demanded.

My knees shook and my heart beat faster as I searched for an excuse. I tried to look away from her but I couldn't. "I...I wasn't following you," I replied lamely.

She walked around the rack, trying to get a better look at me. I did the same thing to avoid her getting a glance at my tail. "My friend saw you following us!" she accused.

We both stopped walking. "I wasn't following all of you. Just...you," I admitted quietly. I looked at her again and practically melted. She was so cute. She gasped and reached for something in her pocket, most likely her digivice. I panicked. "I'm not here to attack you! I'm good! I'm good!"

She returned her hand to her side. "What do you want? Are you human?" she asked curiously as she craned her neck to try to see more of me.

I tucked my tail between my legs. "Yeah, I'm human."

She smiled a little. "You have a weird hairstyle." She reached for my hair. I jerked my head back and accidently shook my cap off. The girl's eyes went wide. "Are those horns?"

I tried to think of another excuse but there was no excuse for having horns. "I was lying. I'm a Digimon. I was afraid that if you knew that...you wouldn't...never mind." I stood in front of her, showing her the rest of me. "I just wanted to say that I thought you looked pretty." I turned to leave, knowing that she wouldn't want to be seen with me.

OOC: For those that don't know, Flamon looks like this.

[Dr.McNinja]

"Age should not matter. If you like her, then you do. Age is a mere superficiality which humans these days have thought important when in actuality it is a mere number. The soul does not recognize age and nor does the heart..." She turned back to look at him, her eyes seeming to gleam with a bit more liquid but she held back any true emotion perhaps that she would have perhaps wanted to expell. "She does like you... " her voice trailed off, and then she suddenly seemed to give a nod to herself, turning and beginning to walk towards the temple. "Perhaps it is better that way... with no pain..."

Andrew hurried to catch up, "Just because something causes pain doesn't mean that something isn't important enough to keep striving for. In the end, maybe the pain makes the result that much better. Rei's nice...but I don't feel enough for her for anything to happen beyond the sibling relationship we have now...that's the feeling I get."

The temple loomed before them, a majestic building of white and black marble, covered in startlingly beautiful arched windows and great spires. Despite being in the center of Tri-Angel, the area was deserted, this being a rather sacred place and the parade drawing away those who would be here anyway. Andrew pushed open the great double doors to reveal the interior of the building.

The inside lived up to the temple's purpose. The floor was a mixture of white and black marble, the shapes and swirls the colors formed circling each other as the entire spiral pattern comverged in the center of the otherwise vast room. Light and shadow seemed to claim certain areas of the room, the light let in from the great windows lighting up great portions of the temple yet seemingly held in place by the dark shadows that claimed the rest of the area. Devoid of any furniture or decoration, the temple seemed all the larger for lack of clutter and the two digidestined's footsteps echoed off the vaulted ceilings.

The two stopped in the center of the room and turned in place, trying to find something, anything, that hinted at what they were to do next. Andrew finally spoke, "Um...open sesame?"

Elizabeth sighed, "Very funny,I doubt tha..."

A sound echoed through the temple, a single note so perfect in pitch that no manmade instrument could have produced it. A great light suddenly burst from the ceiling, directly above the two equidistant, and fell on them with almost palpable force. Feeling as though someone had grabbed her by the back of her clothes, Elizabeth was pulled gently from the light and set down just outside its boundary.

To Andrew however, the light took over his world. He sat in the brightness, surrounded by it, as a voice spoke to him, "Child of Light, why do you ask for this spirit?"

He realized he was being tested, that someone, or something, was measuring who he was and what he deserved. The light seemed to pierce through him, through his very essence, and he knew that he couldn't have lied had he wanted to, "I....I don't know. I don't know most of these people, I don't know what they're fighting, I don't even know what this world is....I don't know why I'm asking for it. I just know that I can't watch people, watch a world suffer and die when I could have done something. I was chosen for this role and as much as I'd rather be home, rather be away from this place, what I want and I what I feel I must do are different. I'm asking for this spirit because, with or without it, I'm going to do what I can...I just know that I won't succeed without the power it will give me."

The presence didn't respond for a long minute, leaving Andrew suspended in the ocean of light. He knew that he hadn't said what had been expected of him, had not stood up and valiantly proclaimed his valor and strength....but what he said had been the truth and that was all he had to give. The minute passed and the voice returned, "Those that have come before you have been braver, stronger, and more convicted....but none have had the pure intentions or the ability to recognize their own duty to others as you have. Take the spirit Chosen Child of Light and do what you must, that is all that is asked of you."

In an instant the light seemed to congeal and erupt around Andrew, bathing him in a rain of sparkling rays even as he felt new power flood into him. The spirit of Light was his. With a smile of renewed vigor he turned to Elizabeth who was viewing him with some amount of trepidation, "You're turn. Don't worry, if they took my confused and befuddled explanation than I'm sure you'll do fine."

[Bulbasaur4]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.




Elizabeth’s eyes widened at Andrew, although she wasn’t sure to what to think. His mannerisms… his way of viewing things… it was all too new for her and yet she found she rather liked it. She liked his nice and calm demeanor, his happy views upon almost everything… it was refreshing and opposite to hers. Well, perhaps not completely opposite… but he helped tweak her views upon many things.
“Right… my turn…” Elizabeth said slowly, glancing about the huge temple. She knew she wouldn’t be able to simply step into a pillar of light and obtain her spirit. Things didn’t work that way… at least, they never did for Elizabeth. Closing her eyes briefly, suddenly a vision of a door came to her mind and when she reopened her eyes, she knew exactly where to look. Turning to her left she saw a slight dent in the almost perfectly-crafted walls, and slowly she walked up to it. Pressing her hand into the indentation, the wall seemed to reel at her touch and it swiftly moved backwards a few inches and then slide into another wall, revealing a very dark passage way. Stepping into it partially, she turned and looked to Andrew.
“Coming?”
He gave a nod and followed as both of them entered a rather narrow and eerily dark tunnel. It seemed to wind like a snake for several minutes in pitch darkness- making it so that the two of them had to feel their way with their hands. Finally however, a slight pale glow of light was ahead and soon the two of themselves found a small oval-like room. It was completely dark in the room except for a small orb that seemed to almost float from the ceiling, casting down only a single ray of pale white light upon a small pedestal. The pedestal was of black marble, and on top of it was a black orb that seemed to almost swirl with an illuminated glow a deep sable and purple of intertwined vines beneath the surface. A call… a strange, dark yet familiar feeling rushed over Elizabeth causing her to shiver as she approached the pedestal. Slowly she reached out and grabbed the orb, and swiftly the orb released a flash of light… or perhaps the opposite of light, as darkness spilled into the room. As swiftly as the darkness spilled into the room, Elizabeth could feel a strange new sensation of power… and a deep roaring darkness engulf her.
“That wasn’t so bad…” Elizabeth said outwardly to Andrew, who seemed to almost say something back when suddenly Elizabeth gave out a shout.
**<Finally, you have arrived. We have been waiting… we have been planning and waiting for this moment… >**

The orb in her hand suddenly seemed to crackle and spark with a brilliant energy of purple. The purple illuminated the room like a dark fire and rapidly the orb vanished but in its place the fire seized Elizabeth’s body. Elizabeth screamed as she felt a burning sensation rip through her mind as a million voices seemed to channel about her body. They were everywhere… and she could not tell heads or tails from anything. The room was already dark but now it felt as if she was in a sensation of twirling… as if the room were spinning out of control. The voices… she could hear them at first, but then she could feel them… the hate, the desire, the lust, the anger… the severe and rampaging sensation of anger.

And revenge.





[ Alright, basically after you see the strange purple-fire aura about her, the darkness suddenly would sort of ‘fog’ the room so you couldn’t see Elizabeth again. Then after a few seconds, the white light would reform and the room would simply be back to normal but without the black orb. You won’t… exactly be getting Elizabeth back, and with your sense of ‘light’ you probably will be able to tell that it wasn’t part of the Temple test. ]

[Dr.McNinja]

(OOC: Alrighty, this'll be short though, just a reaction. Don't know how much you want to show before they leave the temple)

[color=limegreen]The anti-light flooded the room, Andrew could feel it almost pulling at him as if reacting to his innate nature. As quick as it came however, or so it seemed, the darkness faded and left Andrew alone in the room, the dark orb having vanished. Andrew could sense something...something that bothered him like an itch he couldn't reach. He waited. And waited...

and waited

Something wasn't right, he could tell. This wasn't part of the temple's trials. Andrew cried out for Elizabeth, hoping against hope that she had just been taken a bit deeper into the temple but to no avail. He slowly made his way back to the main chamber, calling out for Elizabeth the entire way. In the end however she never answered. Andrew stood at the doors of the temple and looked back one last time before he left to find help, all his new power couldn't do a thing to help him find Elizabeth now. He felt his stomach wrench as he ran from the temple, felt his heart racing. He was losing too many, he was failing everyone around him, he was powerless to stop the evil presence stalking them from taking and killing at will. When he finally made it back to the others, he looked at them with haunted eyes, "Something happened, something took Elizabeth."/color]

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Curious ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]The boy’s shoulders sunk, as did his head. “I was lying, I’m a digimon, I was afraid that if you knew that… you wouldn’t… never mind.” He let the disguise go, letting me see the rest of him. He seemed about my age, and pretty harmless, and kind of cute too. “I just wanted to say that I thought you looked pretty.” He added, my cheeks warmed automatically as he turned to walk away. As he walked I glanced at his feet to see that they were bleeding.

I quickly ran forward and grasped his hand. “Hey wait a second.” I quickly called out, holding his hand. “You’re hurt.” I said, practically dragging him over to a park bench. He sighed and sat down, allowing me to prop his feet up slowly upon my leg. His tail twitching back and forth as I looked at his feet, they were blistered several of them bleeding and opened.

Looking around for something to tie his feet up with, I had nothing, my shirt was too small to be torn. Frowning I rose and walked over to a nearby drug store, buying some gauze, I returned and began to wrap it around his leg with my one good hand. I had seen mom do it several times to me whenever I hurt myself, so I followed the motions she always did. Flamon turned and smiled, wiggling his toes when I finally finished. “You’re skin is really soft.” He whispered, and then covered his mouth in shock. “I’m sorry, I just..” He blurted out.

I blushed, and giggled at his shyness, before helping him up to his feet. “Never seen a human before?” I asked, Flamon shook his head; I leaned forward and held out my hands, allowing him to touch and inspect them. Flamon ran a claw over my hand, it began to tickle and I couldn’t help but laugh. Flamon quickly jerked his hand away in shock and fear. “It’s okay, it just tickles.” I tried to explain, moving forward and touched his face, running it down softly before moving it away.

Flamon closed his eyes a second before opening them, his tail wagging back and forth wildly. I peeked around and glanced at it, Flamon instantly recognized what I was looking at and tried to catch it. “Sorry…it’s…hard…to…catch.” He grunted finally wrapping his paws around the tail and bringing it forward for inspection.

Leaning forward with a careful hand I began to stroke the tail, back and forth I ran my hand over the soft fur. “It feels so soft.” I whispered in amazement, feeling the warmth and softness that seemed to just flow off the tail. “Oh, I wish I had a tail.” I sighed with a hint of giddiness in my voice moving my hand away and allowing for Flamon to return it back behind him.

Slowly he rose back to his feet, wincing in pain from the blisters. “Are you going home?” I asked, remaining on the bench and watching him. It hurt so much to move that sitting here just eased the pain lightly.

A hint of sadness flashed over Flamon’s face before being dashed away by a fake smile. “Yep, it was nice to meet you.” He smiled, walking off slowly and disappearing around the corner. Turning back I glanced over at Hotaru and Snap talking, Gav rose and walked over to me, asking what was wrong.

It was just a feeling I had, I couldn’t place my finger on it, but that sadness I saw on his face, it worried me. “I.. don’t know.” I replied, Gav helping me to my feet. He turned and looked back at Hotaru and Snap, before rolling his eyes. My eyes continued to remain at the corner that Flamon disappeared from.

Gav let out a short sigh. “Want to go follow him?” He asked, turning and pointing to Hotaru and Snap. “Those two are getting all mushy and stuff.” He smiled, this drew a smile from myself and I nodded, Gav leading me down to the corner that Flamon turned. Revealing that the corner was really a alley, filled with trash and a smell that made my nose turn.

My hand clutched Gav’s in shock, was this Flamon’s home? Ahead of me something moved, scampering deeper into the alley. “Flamon?” I asked stepping forward, my foot sinking deep into garbage. No matter what I wasn’t going to let such a nice guy live in something like this.