Disclaimer: Yo I don't own Digimon.
Me: Hey everyone, I'm sorry this story take me so long to get out, but once I start something I don't like to start something else until the other project is finished and that I got a job during the summer that really eats up my time.
Rika (Anger): You!!!
Me (Muttering): Oh great I wonder what I did to tick her off this time?
Rika (Grabbing me by the shirt collar): Listen here you; I'm not going to spend the rest of my life as a red fur ball!
Me: What makes you think I'm going to leave you and your goggle-headed lover as small digimons?
Rika (Blushing a bit): Why? I will tell you why! Because of that other story of yours, that's why!
Me (Sighing angrily): Listen here you nagging ice queen the others people in my other story were transformed, you and Takato are cursed, there's a huge difference if you can't tell.
Takato: Yeah and it's not like he's going to leave us as small defenseless digimons, are you?
Me (Grinning): I wasn't but with Rika pulling her warrior princess act here, I just might leave you two as digimons.
Rika (Looking ready to beat me down): Why you.
Renamon (stirring): UHHHHHHHH.
Everyone (Looking at her wearily):
Takato: Say BlackRenamon you dated Renamon right?
BlackRenamon (nodding)
Takato: Then what's worse, a drunken Renamon or one with a hangover.
BlackRenamon (In panicky voice): Hangover!
Takato (Gulping): I was hopping you weren't going to say that. (Then ran out of the room with the others)
Me (Laughing): Well that's one way of clearing the room.
Shadows of the Past:
Chapter one: Into the shadows
It was a beautiful day in the city of Shinjuku. The sun was out with just a few white puffy clouds traveling among the skies. It was the prefect day for a little fun.
At the Nonaka household a group of teens were passing by when they heard this slash sound coming from behind the house followed by what sound like a male anger toddler's voice," Rika that was cold!"
"Hahaha! Well gogglehead that's what you get when not watching!" a female toddler voice said playfully with just a hint of teasing mixed into it.
The fox digimon Renamon looked over the edged of the roof of the Nonaka's household to see a reddish brown fox with yellow fur being chased by a soaking wet, brown skinned lizard/dinosaur. Renamon allowed a small smile as she watched her tamer Rika Nonaka and Takato Mutaski running around like a couple of little kids. But that smile was short lived as Reamon thought of the person who had cursed her tamer and the tamer of her secret crush Guilmon.
His name was Kai Makino and he's the older brother of Rumiko. It has only been a mouth since that twisted and black-hearted man had put the curse necklaces on both Rika and Takato and it still pains Renamon knowing that she failed in protecting her tamer. But what hurt the most was the fact that Guilmon was also involved in this "family" affair.
Renamon laid her back against the roof and glaze up at the blue sky, keep in her own thoughts about Kai. During the first few day of Takato and Rika's curse, that man had tried everything from black magic to even reviving the devil that haunted Renamon's dream. His name was IceDevimon and he had a soul just as twisted as the man who bright him back from delegation
On the ground, Takato was still chasing Rika, trying to get her back, all under the watchful eye of Rika's grandmother, Seiko Makino and Takato's digimon partner Guilmon.
"Guilmon I want to show you something before you go," Seiko said gently.
Guilmon nodded his head without taking his eyes off of the cursed tamers. In the past mouth Guilmon had gone with an unexpected change. He was now more mature and hardly had any fun anymore. He's spent on his time watching over his tamer.
"Guilmon this is very important," Seiko said. "It could help you sniff out Kai if he's ever near."
Hearing Kai name caused Guilmon to look at the elderly woman with such a gold stare that it slightly startled her. But being the experience spell caster Seiko was, shrugged it off and gestured to a clay candleholder in front of her.
"Watch," she whispered softly and began making small circles with her hands. She did this for about five seconds before she stopped and held her palms over the unlit candle. A faint flash of white came from Seiko's palms and the candle was lit. She then cupped her hands over the smoke coming from the lit flame. The smoke then turned into a ball of pure light. Seiko held it out for Guilmon and said," Now take in a good whiff."
Guilmon curiously leaned in and inhaled deeply. His yellow eyes widen as the smell of fresh fruit nearly overwhelmed him.
"Ow! Smell like fruit!" Guilmon said happily and clapped once.
For that single moment Guilmon was once again the careful soul Renamon had dreamed about for four years. But that was short lived as Guilmon looked at the elder with stern eyes, like he was waiting for something.
Seiko nodded and said," This is white magic in it's purest form. Now this is important, black magic will smell the opposite of this."
Guilmon nodded and returned his eyes to the cursed tamers. Takato had stopped chasing Rika and was laying flat on his stomach to dry himself out. Rika was close to him with a teasing grin on her face.
"Hey Gogglehead better not dry out like last time," she said teasingly.
Takato blushed as he tried his hardest to ignore his follow cursed tamer by flipping onto his back and looking up at the sky. But Rika was feeling a little mischievous today and walked up to her secret crush. She turned around and brushed her fury tail along Takato's nose. Takato's face puckered up as he tried to stop the sneeze that was coming. It came out a second later, causing the young tamer turned dinosaur to scrunch up and Rika to burst out into a fit of giggling.
Well that was it for Takato. He had only been at Rika's house for half-an-hour and so far he had playfully pushed him into her small pond twice and tickled his nose as least three times. So with a blush on his brown scarily skin, he pounce on Rika and the two began one of they wrestling matches.
Seiko watch as her daughter acted like a little kid with a soft chuckle. In the past mouth the elder saw changes in her granddaughter and it was nice seeing Rika just having fun for once. Seiko was watching the cursed tamers when she felt a change in the wind and looked up at the roof just a familiar figure appeared on edge.
"My daughter home already," Seiko said to himself before turning her attention back to her granddaughter and her friend.
On the roof, Renamon had her eyes closed so she could watch her tamer and Takato through her heightened sense. She noticed that Takato was luring her over to the pond that Rika had pushed him into early.
"Don't go there Rik-," But the mental link Renamon shared with her tamer had been broken when Rika was cursed, so the warning never reached her. Renamon heard a slash, followed by Rika's angry threats. Renamon opened her eyes, already knowing that Takato had freaked and is now running for his life from a very anger Rika.
"Do you think they will even grow out of this phase, Rena?" Rumiko asked in a light joke.
Renamon looked behind her and saw Rumiko wearing her dark blue jeans, high tops, and long black sleeve shirt under her late husband's black nylon jacket. She looked at Renamon as she removed sunglasses and smiled softly.
"Hmm," Renamon closed her eyes and tuned in her senses. Rika was still chasing Takato, but Renamon could tell Rika was starting to calm down. Renamon opened her eye and looked at Rumiko and said seriously," When you find a way of breaking that curse."
"Well that's not going to be easy," Rumiko said, becoming serious and turning her eyes to the sky.
Renamon turned her eyes to the sky as she said," I know that. But I wish there was another way to free them from this curse."
Rumiko sigh and said a little depressingly," I wish there was Rena, but only true love can break that curse."
Renamon sigh herself as she fought to take this strange anger that had been threading her since Rika was cursed. So she changed the subject," So how did it go with Yamaki?"
"That guy is just as headstrong as my husband was," Rumiko replied with an irritated sigh.
"So I take it that mean he refused?" Renamon asked, even though she knew the answer.
"Yes," Rumiko asked with irritation in voice, but then grinned like her daughter and began creaking her knuckles. "But I how to guess that man to cooperate."
Renamon looked at her tamer's mother a little strangely. She offended wonder who was worse, Rika or her own mother.
"Um Rumiko why do you call me Rena sometimes?" Renamon asked, deciding to change the subject before Rumiko could get any angrier.
Rumiko stopped creaking her knuckles and looked at the fox in a startled way. She look at Renamon for a few second, thinking what to say. Finally the famous model sighs and looked towards the sky. "To tell the truth Renamon, you remind me of a person who lived with my husband when he's was about Rika's age."
Renamon titled her head to the right slightly, her ears curiously twitching. She had never heard this one before and it was surprising that Rika's father had a friend that was like her.
Rumiko sigh and looked Renamon straight in the eye," She had the most beautiful blonde hair you'll even imagine. She was nearly as graceful as Matt himself and she could match he in a fight. But the most stunning thing I found about her were her crystal blue eyes that always seem solemn, in short a very human like you."
Renamon was stunned but hid it like all of her other emotions. From all the stories Rumiko spins about her late husband, Renamon thought he the prefect fighter. But to learn that there was someone just as good as the shadow fighter was a little startling and almost interesting all at the same time.
"What ever happened to your friend," Renamon asked slowly.
Rumiko sigh and looked at the roof of her house. "To tell the truth, no one knows. She just simply vanish the day, Matt asked my hand in marriage," Rumiko sigh solemnly and stood up. "Well Rena, I got to go. I promise my people I'll be in for one last shoot before the day was done."
Rumiko slipped back on her shades and disappeared in the manger befitting her shadow fighter title. Renamon leaned back against the roof and looked up at the sky with a curious look hidden in her usually stern eyes.
I wonder what they were like? I wonder what the original shadow fighter and his friend were like? Renamon let her thought wonder for a short period before letting them drop and returning her attention to her cursed tamer and her friend.
(...)
The early morning at the Nonaka house was about it usually since Rika became cursed. Renamon was the first one up and was outside, waiting for her sparing partner. Renamon would past the time by doing a few warm up exercises.
Renamon started off with a few claw swings that turned into a sharp uppercut. She then crouched low and jumped high into the air, executing a wide forward flip at the same time. Renamon rebounded off the ground and leapt forward as she did a spinning tail lash. She turned the tail lash into a spinning kick that nearly hit a tree. Renamon ended her warm ups with a couple of jab punches.
Any time Renamon was warming up or fighting a wild digimon she would imagine she's beating the stuffing out of Kai or IceDevimon. She would like nothing more then to tare those two apart slowly. But she pushed those types of thoughts aside. Renamon knew IceDevimon was a powerful digimon and with Kai black magic backing him up, made IceDevimon almost impossible to beat.
Renamon stopped her punching as she felt Rumiko coming. She looked towards the door just as the famous model came with it. She was wearing her normal white martial arts training uniform and had her hair in the style Renamon had became custom too.
Rumiko walked up to Renamon and for a long period of time, they just stared at each other. Then slowly they both got into their usually fighting styles, but they still remained as stall as statues.
The two fighters sized each other up through their stares, both trying to find a weakness in the other's prefect defense. But for anyone who had watched these two experience fighters before would know that they're playing a waiting game to see who would slip up first.
Rumiko was the first to charge and Renamon tensed up to readied herself for anything that may come her way. Rumiko used her shadow fading technique to vanish from sight, but Renamon was prepared for this move and jumped into the air. Rumiko appeared behind the yellow fox, startling her and knocking Renamon towards the ground. Renamon recovered quickly and rebounded off the ground. She executed a back flip kick, getting Rumiko right in the chin. The famous model recovered and managed to land on all fours. Rumiko straightened up as Renamon returned to the ground. They took up their stances again and resume their staring contest.
Renamon was the first one to make the move this time. She phased out and reappeared behind Rumiko. Renamon throw a punch at her opponent and Rumiko ducked. Rumiko goes to elbow Renamon in her low half, but stop just before hitting and backhand Renamon in the stomach. The yellow digimon fox wince slightly as she tried to swift kick Rumiko in the back. Rumiko jumped forward to avoid the kick and kicked Renamon's leg. Renamon last her balance and fall, but managed to catch himself with her hand. The two fighters got up and jumped back, turning to face each other in the process.
Both fighters jumped up and went at each other with a different attack. Rumiko got a knee in gut while Renamon got a fist to her right cheek. Both fighters landed on their back a little hard and stay there for a long period of time, catching their breaths. Rumiko was the first one to sit up, still catching her second wind and Renamon shortly followed, nursing the red mark on her fur.
"Rumiko can I ask you about a move you use?" Renamon asked her tamer's mother without looking at her.
"Yes, what it is Rena?" Rumiko asked as she stood up, bone creaking in the process.
"That move you use when you hit me in the stomach can it be use in a different manger?" Renamon asked as also stood up, showing no sighs of pain what so ever.
Rumiko nodded and said," Yes if fighting a man, you can elbow him in the privates and then you can get him in the gut."
Renamon nodded and said," Yes I thought as much. Well I'm going on my morning tension reliever."
"Well see you later," Rumiko said and waved as Renamon jumped over the fence and ran across rooftops.
Rumiko put her hand to her chest as a trouble look enter the model's eyes. She sighs and went into her house. She slowly made her way to her bedroom and wasn't surprised in the least bit when she saw her mother standing by her door.
"Good morning Mother," Rumiko said and did a small bow.
Seiko returned the bow and looked at her daughter troublingly as she moved out of the way and allow her daughter to enter into her room.
"So when are you planning on starting?" Rumiko asked her mother.
"This afternoon," Seiko replied with sigh.
"I still don't get why you need to do this?" Rumiko as she stepped out of her room, wearing her normal street clothes.
"It was in your husband will," Seiko answered. "But I don't get is how Matt knew about Renamon in the first place."
"Well you know Matt and those feeling he gets sometimes," Rumiko said softly.
"Maybe. Well I most bee going. The spell I'm about to cast isn't a easy one," Seiko said and walked off.
Rumiko watched her mother figure disappeared into the shadows of the hallway and then took out a picture from her jacket pocket. On the picture was a shot of teenage self, her husband, his collage roommate Sho Nonaka and a girl with long blonde hair and attire matching her hair. Rumiko stared at the picture for a few seconds with a gentle smile before pocketing it carefully and left.
(Later)
Rika was lying on her stomach in front of the pond, bored out of her skull. It was just one of the many disadvantages of being stuck in this small ashy red fox body she was in now trapped in.
Rika sigh and looked at her reflection in the pond and then said in a slightly angry tone," Man I man just so bored!!!!"
Another figure joined Rika in the pond's reflection and the red fox bent her neck to look at Renamon wearing one of her small smiles
"Bored are we?" the taller fox asked simply.
Rika turned her head back to the pond and said in a neglect voice," Maybe."
Renamon just smiled more and picked up her cursed tamer. Rika felt uncomfortable about being picked up, but didn't voice it.
"Let see what Guilmon and Takato are doing," Rika's ears twitch at the manage of her secret crush, which caused Renamon to smile a little more.
"Probably just as bored as I am," Rika muttered, hiding a light blush in her fur.
Renamon's smile just grew again at Rika trying to hide er shyness under her touch outsides as she took the rooftops and gracefully raced across them.
(...)
Deep within the house, where wondering eyes have ever been is the doorway leading to the sorceress room. The inside of the room was littered with different items of all kinds. But the thing that sticks out the most is a stone statue about the size of a lamp. The statue itself was just a figureless man, holding something a ball in his hands. At the base of the statue was a growing emblem gem.
Seiko was kneeled in the center of her room, wearing her sorceress gown. Four candles were around her and lit in a different color. The candle in front of the elder was lit in an emblem green and the candle to her left was lit in a crimson red. The candle to her right was lit in a navy blue and the candle in back of her was lit in a simple white.
"Ancient elder of long ago hear my pleas and open the doorway to the past. Allow the lights of this time to join with the shadow of the past and merge with them. Allow the fox creature of this world to enter into the past as another," Seiko chanted in a ghostly voice and then went a soft of sing as her body sway in all directions. She ended her ritual by grabbing her pouch of dust and throwing a hand full into the air. The dust landed on the candle's flames and they jumped a good foot in the air. Seiko cupped her hands in front of her and she took all of the different color flames into her hands. The ball of flames flashed, emblem then crimson, navy and finally white before settling in a mixture of the four colors. The elder sorceress lifted her hands to her roof and the ball of fire left her hand and passed through the roof without leaving any kind of trouble in its wake.
With the only source of light gone, Seiko used the last of her strength and turned on the lights. The elder's face was covered in sweat and her breath was deepened. The spell she just cast was a complex one and it had used much of her strength.
"It done, Matt," Seiko said weakly before getting up and making her way to her bed.
(With Renamon)
Renamon was half way to Guilmon's place when she suddenly stopped and began scanning the area. She felt something in the air but couldn't pinpoint it.
"Renamon something up?" Rika asked, noticing her partner's strange behavior.
"My fur is standing on end and that's only happens when I feel someone who wield magic is close," no sooner were those words out of Renamon's mouth then the air above her began swirling inward. Renamon notice this and looked just in time to see a portal opening. Her first thought that it was Kai attacking again, but she didn't feel the dark presents like she normally would.
"Renamon what's that?" Rika asked with fear raising in her voice.
"I don't know," Renamon replied calmly. "But I don't want to stand around."
Renamon tried to move, but the portal was fully opened now and began drawing in the closest to it. Namely Renamon.
The large yellow furred fox dug her foot claws into the roof, hoping to gain some kind of footing while tightening her grip on her crushed tamer. But the pull so began to strong and Renamon lost her hold. The two foxes were pulled into the portal and it closed up behind them.
Renamon was traveling ring of different colors fires. She felt the flames jump at her body and she began to feel this splitting feeling throughout her entire body. She could feel her body going through a change and fought against the pain that threatened to knock her unconscious.
What's going on Was the first fox's last thought before she slipped into a black world.
(...)
"Here. Here you. Are you okay?" a unfamiliar male voice as she unconscious Renamon.
The fox slowly regain consciousness and opened her eyes slowly. The first thing she saw was a pair of violet eyes staring at her in a concern way. Renamon first thought it was Rika, but as she began more alert, she realized that the eyes belong to a young male. Renamon notice that the man was carrying her unconscious tamer in his left arm and bolt to her feet only to have full onto her butt.
"Hey don't try to move," the man said softly. "I think you took a nasty fall there and you might be a bit out of it."
"Who are you?" Renamon asked in a light young tone that startled the fox. She put her hand to her throat and immediately notice something was off. She looked at her hand and was shocked to see five human figure attached to a human hand. "What's going on?"
The young man carefully walked up the Renamon and held up his free hand as he said gently," It's look like you have a much worse time then I thought. Let me help you up?"
Renamon looked at the hand and saw something that caused her eyes to widen. On the back of the hand was a black lightening bolt.
(...)
Me: Don't worry everyone I promise the lightening bolt thing and the human looking hand will all came into the light in the next chapter, faces of the past.
Rika: Great another one who came up with bad titles.
Me (Glaring): I thought you left.
Rika: I did, but it's fun annoying you.
Me (Sighing): I can never catch a break around here.
Me: Hey everyone, I'm sorry this story take me so long to get out, but once I start something I don't like to start something else until the other project is finished and that I got a job during the summer that really eats up my time.
Rika (Anger): You!!!
Me (Muttering): Oh great I wonder what I did to tick her off this time?
Rika (Grabbing me by the shirt collar): Listen here you; I'm not going to spend the rest of my life as a red fur ball!
Me: What makes you think I'm going to leave you and your goggle-headed lover as small digimons?
Rika (Blushing a bit): Why? I will tell you why! Because of that other story of yours, that's why!
Me (Sighing angrily): Listen here you nagging ice queen the others people in my other story were transformed, you and Takato are cursed, there's a huge difference if you can't tell.
Takato: Yeah and it's not like he's going to leave us as small defenseless digimons, are you?
Me (Grinning): I wasn't but with Rika pulling her warrior princess act here, I just might leave you two as digimons.
Rika (Looking ready to beat me down): Why you.
Renamon (stirring): UHHHHHHHH.
Everyone (Looking at her wearily):
Takato: Say BlackRenamon you dated Renamon right?
BlackRenamon (nodding)
Takato: Then what's worse, a drunken Renamon or one with a hangover.
BlackRenamon (In panicky voice): Hangover!
Takato (Gulping): I was hopping you weren't going to say that. (Then ran out of the room with the others)
Me (Laughing): Well that's one way of clearing the room.
Shadows of the Past:
Chapter one: Into the shadows
It was a beautiful day in the city of Shinjuku. The sun was out with just a few white puffy clouds traveling among the skies. It was the prefect day for a little fun.
At the Nonaka household a group of teens were passing by when they heard this slash sound coming from behind the house followed by what sound like a male anger toddler's voice," Rika that was cold!"
"Hahaha! Well gogglehead that's what you get when not watching!" a female toddler voice said playfully with just a hint of teasing mixed into it.
The fox digimon Renamon looked over the edged of the roof of the Nonaka's household to see a reddish brown fox with yellow fur being chased by a soaking wet, brown skinned lizard/dinosaur. Renamon allowed a small smile as she watched her tamer Rika Nonaka and Takato Mutaski running around like a couple of little kids. But that smile was short lived as Reamon thought of the person who had cursed her tamer and the tamer of her secret crush Guilmon.
His name was Kai Makino and he's the older brother of Rumiko. It has only been a mouth since that twisted and black-hearted man had put the curse necklaces on both Rika and Takato and it still pains Renamon knowing that she failed in protecting her tamer. But what hurt the most was the fact that Guilmon was also involved in this "family" affair.
Renamon laid her back against the roof and glaze up at the blue sky, keep in her own thoughts about Kai. During the first few day of Takato and Rika's curse, that man had tried everything from black magic to even reviving the devil that haunted Renamon's dream. His name was IceDevimon and he had a soul just as twisted as the man who bright him back from delegation
On the ground, Takato was still chasing Rika, trying to get her back, all under the watchful eye of Rika's grandmother, Seiko Makino and Takato's digimon partner Guilmon.
"Guilmon I want to show you something before you go," Seiko said gently.
Guilmon nodded his head without taking his eyes off of the cursed tamers. In the past mouth Guilmon had gone with an unexpected change. He was now more mature and hardly had any fun anymore. He's spent on his time watching over his tamer.
"Guilmon this is very important," Seiko said. "It could help you sniff out Kai if he's ever near."
Hearing Kai name caused Guilmon to look at the elderly woman with such a gold stare that it slightly startled her. But being the experience spell caster Seiko was, shrugged it off and gestured to a clay candleholder in front of her.
"Watch," she whispered softly and began making small circles with her hands. She did this for about five seconds before she stopped and held her palms over the unlit candle. A faint flash of white came from Seiko's palms and the candle was lit. She then cupped her hands over the smoke coming from the lit flame. The smoke then turned into a ball of pure light. Seiko held it out for Guilmon and said," Now take in a good whiff."
Guilmon curiously leaned in and inhaled deeply. His yellow eyes widen as the smell of fresh fruit nearly overwhelmed him.
"Ow! Smell like fruit!" Guilmon said happily and clapped once.
For that single moment Guilmon was once again the careful soul Renamon had dreamed about for four years. But that was short lived as Guilmon looked at the elder with stern eyes, like he was waiting for something.
Seiko nodded and said," This is white magic in it's purest form. Now this is important, black magic will smell the opposite of this."
Guilmon nodded and returned his eyes to the cursed tamers. Takato had stopped chasing Rika and was laying flat on his stomach to dry himself out. Rika was close to him with a teasing grin on her face.
"Hey Gogglehead better not dry out like last time," she said teasingly.
Takato blushed as he tried his hardest to ignore his follow cursed tamer by flipping onto his back and looking up at the sky. But Rika was feeling a little mischievous today and walked up to her secret crush. She turned around and brushed her fury tail along Takato's nose. Takato's face puckered up as he tried to stop the sneeze that was coming. It came out a second later, causing the young tamer turned dinosaur to scrunch up and Rika to burst out into a fit of giggling.
Well that was it for Takato. He had only been at Rika's house for half-an-hour and so far he had playfully pushed him into her small pond twice and tickled his nose as least three times. So with a blush on his brown scarily skin, he pounce on Rika and the two began one of they wrestling matches.
Seiko watch as her daughter acted like a little kid with a soft chuckle. In the past mouth the elder saw changes in her granddaughter and it was nice seeing Rika just having fun for once. Seiko was watching the cursed tamers when she felt a change in the wind and looked up at the roof just a familiar figure appeared on edge.
"My daughter home already," Seiko said to himself before turning her attention back to her granddaughter and her friend.
On the roof, Renamon had her eyes closed so she could watch her tamer and Takato through her heightened sense. She noticed that Takato was luring her over to the pond that Rika had pushed him into early.
"Don't go there Rik-," But the mental link Renamon shared with her tamer had been broken when Rika was cursed, so the warning never reached her. Renamon heard a slash, followed by Rika's angry threats. Renamon opened her eyes, already knowing that Takato had freaked and is now running for his life from a very anger Rika.
"Do you think they will even grow out of this phase, Rena?" Rumiko asked in a light joke.
Renamon looked behind her and saw Rumiko wearing her dark blue jeans, high tops, and long black sleeve shirt under her late husband's black nylon jacket. She looked at Renamon as she removed sunglasses and smiled softly.
"Hmm," Renamon closed her eyes and tuned in her senses. Rika was still chasing Takato, but Renamon could tell Rika was starting to calm down. Renamon opened her eye and looked at Rumiko and said seriously," When you find a way of breaking that curse."
"Well that's not going to be easy," Rumiko said, becoming serious and turning her eyes to the sky.
Renamon turned her eyes to the sky as she said," I know that. But I wish there was another way to free them from this curse."
Rumiko sigh and said a little depressingly," I wish there was Rena, but only true love can break that curse."
Renamon sigh herself as she fought to take this strange anger that had been threading her since Rika was cursed. So she changed the subject," So how did it go with Yamaki?"
"That guy is just as headstrong as my husband was," Rumiko replied with an irritated sigh.
"So I take it that mean he refused?" Renamon asked, even though she knew the answer.
"Yes," Rumiko asked with irritation in voice, but then grinned like her daughter and began creaking her knuckles. "But I how to guess that man to cooperate."
Renamon looked at her tamer's mother a little strangely. She offended wonder who was worse, Rika or her own mother.
"Um Rumiko why do you call me Rena sometimes?" Renamon asked, deciding to change the subject before Rumiko could get any angrier.
Rumiko stopped creaking her knuckles and looked at the fox in a startled way. She look at Renamon for a few second, thinking what to say. Finally the famous model sighs and looked towards the sky. "To tell the truth Renamon, you remind me of a person who lived with my husband when he's was about Rika's age."
Renamon titled her head to the right slightly, her ears curiously twitching. She had never heard this one before and it was surprising that Rika's father had a friend that was like her.
Rumiko sigh and looked Renamon straight in the eye," She had the most beautiful blonde hair you'll even imagine. She was nearly as graceful as Matt himself and she could match he in a fight. But the most stunning thing I found about her were her crystal blue eyes that always seem solemn, in short a very human like you."
Renamon was stunned but hid it like all of her other emotions. From all the stories Rumiko spins about her late husband, Renamon thought he the prefect fighter. But to learn that there was someone just as good as the shadow fighter was a little startling and almost interesting all at the same time.
"What ever happened to your friend," Renamon asked slowly.
Rumiko sigh and looked at the roof of her house. "To tell the truth, no one knows. She just simply vanish the day, Matt asked my hand in marriage," Rumiko sigh solemnly and stood up. "Well Rena, I got to go. I promise my people I'll be in for one last shoot before the day was done."
Rumiko slipped back on her shades and disappeared in the manger befitting her shadow fighter title. Renamon leaned back against the roof and looked up at the sky with a curious look hidden in her usually stern eyes.
I wonder what they were like? I wonder what the original shadow fighter and his friend were like? Renamon let her thought wonder for a short period before letting them drop and returning her attention to her cursed tamer and her friend.
(...)
The early morning at the Nonaka house was about it usually since Rika became cursed. Renamon was the first one up and was outside, waiting for her sparing partner. Renamon would past the time by doing a few warm up exercises.
Renamon started off with a few claw swings that turned into a sharp uppercut. She then crouched low and jumped high into the air, executing a wide forward flip at the same time. Renamon rebounded off the ground and leapt forward as she did a spinning tail lash. She turned the tail lash into a spinning kick that nearly hit a tree. Renamon ended her warm ups with a couple of jab punches.
Any time Renamon was warming up or fighting a wild digimon she would imagine she's beating the stuffing out of Kai or IceDevimon. She would like nothing more then to tare those two apart slowly. But she pushed those types of thoughts aside. Renamon knew IceDevimon was a powerful digimon and with Kai black magic backing him up, made IceDevimon almost impossible to beat.
Renamon stopped her punching as she felt Rumiko coming. She looked towards the door just as the famous model came with it. She was wearing her normal white martial arts training uniform and had her hair in the style Renamon had became custom too.
Rumiko walked up to Renamon and for a long period of time, they just stared at each other. Then slowly they both got into their usually fighting styles, but they still remained as stall as statues.
The two fighters sized each other up through their stares, both trying to find a weakness in the other's prefect defense. But for anyone who had watched these two experience fighters before would know that they're playing a waiting game to see who would slip up first.
Rumiko was the first to charge and Renamon tensed up to readied herself for anything that may come her way. Rumiko used her shadow fading technique to vanish from sight, but Renamon was prepared for this move and jumped into the air. Rumiko appeared behind the yellow fox, startling her and knocking Renamon towards the ground. Renamon recovered quickly and rebounded off the ground. She executed a back flip kick, getting Rumiko right in the chin. The famous model recovered and managed to land on all fours. Rumiko straightened up as Renamon returned to the ground. They took up their stances again and resume their staring contest.
Renamon was the first one to make the move this time. She phased out and reappeared behind Rumiko. Renamon throw a punch at her opponent and Rumiko ducked. Rumiko goes to elbow Renamon in her low half, but stop just before hitting and backhand Renamon in the stomach. The yellow digimon fox wince slightly as she tried to swift kick Rumiko in the back. Rumiko jumped forward to avoid the kick and kicked Renamon's leg. Renamon last her balance and fall, but managed to catch himself with her hand. The two fighters got up and jumped back, turning to face each other in the process.
Both fighters jumped up and went at each other with a different attack. Rumiko got a knee in gut while Renamon got a fist to her right cheek. Both fighters landed on their back a little hard and stay there for a long period of time, catching their breaths. Rumiko was the first one to sit up, still catching her second wind and Renamon shortly followed, nursing the red mark on her fur.
"Rumiko can I ask you about a move you use?" Renamon asked her tamer's mother without looking at her.
"Yes, what it is Rena?" Rumiko asked as she stood up, bone creaking in the process.
"That move you use when you hit me in the stomach can it be use in a different manger?" Renamon asked as also stood up, showing no sighs of pain what so ever.
Rumiko nodded and said," Yes if fighting a man, you can elbow him in the privates and then you can get him in the gut."
Renamon nodded and said," Yes I thought as much. Well I'm going on my morning tension reliever."
"Well see you later," Rumiko said and waved as Renamon jumped over the fence and ran across rooftops.
Rumiko put her hand to her chest as a trouble look enter the model's eyes. She sighs and went into her house. She slowly made her way to her bedroom and wasn't surprised in the least bit when she saw her mother standing by her door.
"Good morning Mother," Rumiko said and did a small bow.
Seiko returned the bow and looked at her daughter troublingly as she moved out of the way and allow her daughter to enter into her room.
"So when are you planning on starting?" Rumiko asked her mother.
"This afternoon," Seiko replied with sigh.
"I still don't get why you need to do this?" Rumiko as she stepped out of her room, wearing her normal street clothes.
"It was in your husband will," Seiko answered. "But I don't get is how Matt knew about Renamon in the first place."
"Well you know Matt and those feeling he gets sometimes," Rumiko said softly.
"Maybe. Well I most bee going. The spell I'm about to cast isn't a easy one," Seiko said and walked off.
Rumiko watched her mother figure disappeared into the shadows of the hallway and then took out a picture from her jacket pocket. On the picture was a shot of teenage self, her husband, his collage roommate Sho Nonaka and a girl with long blonde hair and attire matching her hair. Rumiko stared at the picture for a few seconds with a gentle smile before pocketing it carefully and left.
(Later)
Rika was lying on her stomach in front of the pond, bored out of her skull. It was just one of the many disadvantages of being stuck in this small ashy red fox body she was in now trapped in.
Rika sigh and looked at her reflection in the pond and then said in a slightly angry tone," Man I man just so bored!!!!"
Another figure joined Rika in the pond's reflection and the red fox bent her neck to look at Renamon wearing one of her small smiles
"Bored are we?" the taller fox asked simply.
Rika turned her head back to the pond and said in a neglect voice," Maybe."
Renamon just smiled more and picked up her cursed tamer. Rika felt uncomfortable about being picked up, but didn't voice it.
"Let see what Guilmon and Takato are doing," Rika's ears twitch at the manage of her secret crush, which caused Renamon to smile a little more.
"Probably just as bored as I am," Rika muttered, hiding a light blush in her fur.
Renamon's smile just grew again at Rika trying to hide er shyness under her touch outsides as she took the rooftops and gracefully raced across them.
(...)
Deep within the house, where wondering eyes have ever been is the doorway leading to the sorceress room. The inside of the room was littered with different items of all kinds. But the thing that sticks out the most is a stone statue about the size of a lamp. The statue itself was just a figureless man, holding something a ball in his hands. At the base of the statue was a growing emblem gem.
Seiko was kneeled in the center of her room, wearing her sorceress gown. Four candles were around her and lit in a different color. The candle in front of the elder was lit in an emblem green and the candle to her left was lit in a crimson red. The candle to her right was lit in a navy blue and the candle in back of her was lit in a simple white.
"Ancient elder of long ago hear my pleas and open the doorway to the past. Allow the lights of this time to join with the shadow of the past and merge with them. Allow the fox creature of this world to enter into the past as another," Seiko chanted in a ghostly voice and then went a soft of sing as her body sway in all directions. She ended her ritual by grabbing her pouch of dust and throwing a hand full into the air. The dust landed on the candle's flames and they jumped a good foot in the air. Seiko cupped her hands in front of her and she took all of the different color flames into her hands. The ball of flames flashed, emblem then crimson, navy and finally white before settling in a mixture of the four colors. The elder sorceress lifted her hands to her roof and the ball of fire left her hand and passed through the roof without leaving any kind of trouble in its wake.
With the only source of light gone, Seiko used the last of her strength and turned on the lights. The elder's face was covered in sweat and her breath was deepened. The spell she just cast was a complex one and it had used much of her strength.
"It done, Matt," Seiko said weakly before getting up and making her way to her bed.
(With Renamon)
Renamon was half way to Guilmon's place when she suddenly stopped and began scanning the area. She felt something in the air but couldn't pinpoint it.
"Renamon something up?" Rika asked, noticing her partner's strange behavior.
"My fur is standing on end and that's only happens when I feel someone who wield magic is close," no sooner were those words out of Renamon's mouth then the air above her began swirling inward. Renamon notice this and looked just in time to see a portal opening. Her first thought that it was Kai attacking again, but she didn't feel the dark presents like she normally would.
"Renamon what's that?" Rika asked with fear raising in her voice.
"I don't know," Renamon replied calmly. "But I don't want to stand around."
Renamon tried to move, but the portal was fully opened now and began drawing in the closest to it. Namely Renamon.
The large yellow furred fox dug her foot claws into the roof, hoping to gain some kind of footing while tightening her grip on her crushed tamer. But the pull so began to strong and Renamon lost her hold. The two foxes were pulled into the portal and it closed up behind them.
Renamon was traveling ring of different colors fires. She felt the flames jump at her body and she began to feel this splitting feeling throughout her entire body. She could feel her body going through a change and fought against the pain that threatened to knock her unconscious.
What's going on Was the first fox's last thought before she slipped into a black world.
(...)
"Here. Here you. Are you okay?" a unfamiliar male voice as she unconscious Renamon.
The fox slowly regain consciousness and opened her eyes slowly. The first thing she saw was a pair of violet eyes staring at her in a concern way. Renamon first thought it was Rika, but as she began more alert, she realized that the eyes belong to a young male. Renamon notice that the man was carrying her unconscious tamer in his left arm and bolt to her feet only to have full onto her butt.
"Hey don't try to move," the man said softly. "I think you took a nasty fall there and you might be a bit out of it."
"Who are you?" Renamon asked in a light young tone that startled the fox. She put her hand to her throat and immediately notice something was off. She looked at her hand and was shocked to see five human figure attached to a human hand. "What's going on?"
The young man carefully walked up the Renamon and held up his free hand as he said gently," It's look like you have a much worse time then I thought. Let me help you up?"
Renamon looked at the hand and saw something that caused her eyes to widen. On the back of the hand was a black lightening bolt.
(...)
Me: Don't worry everyone I promise the lightening bolt thing and the human looking hand will all came into the light in the next chapter, faces of the past.
Rika: Great another one who came up with bad titles.
Me (Glaring): I thought you left.
Rika: I did, but it's fun annoying you.
Me (Sighing): I can never catch a break around here.