No this isn't a return guys, but it's more of an experiment. You see I recently did this chapter as a gift to an old friend, but I thought maybe it wouldn't hurt to update with it and see if how many of the old readers came back and read it. Anyways sorry if this chapter isn't up to par as my other works, but at the time I did this all in 2 nights for 10 hours shifts. Enjoy I guess.

-Dragon Shi formerly known as RayD

Chapter 17: Memories and Shadows

A cool wind blew across the courtyard of Riku's home. The Sakura flowers blooming once more and allowing peddles of the sweet flower to whisk their way among the breeze. Renamon took a deep breath and allowed that sweet aroma to fill her senses as she took up a fighting stance. Her new mate, KasierFlamdramon, stood opposite to her with his helmet, and gauntlets off once more, and only wore his lower half armour, and robe which blew a little in the breeze. He watched her with his calm crimson eyes, his three fingered hands in a defensive position. "Ready?" he said with a smile crossing his dragon face. Renamon smirked and suddenly leaped into the air and lay a kick to Flame's head, but the dragon bent backward missing the blow. However, before he could put up a counterattack, Renamon threw punches to him. He blocked them, and walked back as he could feel the yellow fox's pressure.

"She really wants to win." He thought as he used his tail to grab her ankle. Renamon gasped in surprise as she felt the tug on her ankle and fell to the ground. Flame quickly went for a punch, but Renamon rolled away from it and threw an uppercut to her mate's chin. Flame rubbed his chin, and quickly ducked as she tried for a roundhouse kick to his head. He lifted his hand and caught her ankle and throwing her down to the ground again, which made Renamon lay still breathing heavily. "Well…you certainly gotten better." Renamon said in between breaths. Flame wiped the sweat off his forehead and held a hand out to her. "Yeah, but you are still tough to beat."

Renamon smiled and grabbed his hand, but quickly pulled him hard to the ground and sit on top of him. "I think I win this one." She said smiling.

Flame groaned at his mistake and looked up to see Renamon getting up and smiling down at him. He stood up and brushed the dirt off his shoulders. "That was a bit of a dirty trick Rena."

"Excuse me?" she said walking to him, "You accusing me of cheating?" she said is a cooed tone that caused Flame to smile.

"Yeah, what are you going to do about it?" Flame said folding his arms with a teasing smile. Renamon only walked to Flamedramon in a matter like she was going to punch him for his comment but she stopped and brushed her tail along his snout and kissed him softly, which he gave back as well. Renamon's cheek grew red a little since she never felt this open with someone before, but with Flame it felt right. She looked in his eyes and smiled. "I know what I am going to do. Perhaps I will make myself busy for tonight then, and you can be alone."

Flamedramon sighed, he had planned for them to go out and as their first date as a couple in the park. He had heard there was going to be a full moon for the night, and now it seemed wasted because of his dumb comment. Renamon saw this and thought it was kind of cute and nuzzled him. "I'm kidding, were going out." She said is a sweet voice that made Flamedramon smile.

"I'm going to go inside and shower." Renamon said as she walked away from him, "No peeking on me or anything."

Flame smiled, "I'll be staying out here for a bit. I need to workout a bit so don't worry about me peeking." He added. Renamon smiled and closed the door behind her leaving Flame alone in the courtyard. He sighed as she watched his beautiful fox leave his sight and slowly picked up his mask and gauntlet. As he placed his chest armour on he thought about tonight, and where they should go for dinner. If her could, he would want to take Renamon to one of those fancy restaurants down on main street, but it would be kind of odd for people to see a dragon and a fox walking into one. He sighed once more and placed his gauntlets back onto his hands and twitched the claws to see if they were working.

Meanwhile inside, Renamon grabbed a towel from the closet and strolled down the hallway towards the bathing room. Rika and her family were out shopping so she and Flame had the house to themselves. It would probably be a good time for her and her new love to have another special time together, but still she wanted to wait it out. Even though Rika seemed to accept it she felt in her heart her tamer didn't and was just covering up her discomfort. For now she needed to shower and get ready for her date with Flame. She slide the door open, and walked in, but suddenly notice that she was in darkness.

"What?" she dropped the towels and turned around for the door only to see it close behind her. She growled in her throat at this, and looked around trying to see who had trapped her here, but even with her heightened fox eyes she couldn't see pass the darkness. Her ears picked up a faint clicking sound of claws hitting the floor that seemed to draw closer and closer to her. She got into a fighting stance her claws out as she waited for her. The clicking sounds stopped, leaving only silence around her, she twitched her ears around trying to find any sound around, but nothing except darkness.

"Such a fine young dragon you have now…" a voice said behind her ear.

She quickly turned around to see behind her was a being covered in a full body cape; its lower chin only being visible to her as it stared her down. She jumped back into the air opening up her arms "Diamond Stor-!"

"Please no need for this…" the being said snapping its fingers causing Renamon to fall and hit the ground hard grunting in pain. She tried to stand, but she couldn't move her limbs as they felt like they weight a ton. The being walked over to her and kneeled down near her face. "If you continue this I will kill you, but I would prefer not to."

It snapped its fingers again allowing the tremendous weight you leave Renamon's limbs and she stood up glaring at the dark being seeing the smirk under its hood.

"Who are you and what do you want?" she said staring at it with her cold blue eyes.

It smiled, and folded its arms. "Straight to the point I see. Very well my dear, I am no one. I am a being that does and doesn't exist in the digital plan. And what I want is for you to tell your little dragon friend to know his place."

The voice was odd to hear even for Renamon. She couldn't tell if the voice was male or female since it seemed to come out of it mixed and scrambled. As though there were two beings inside this one. "What do you mean to know his place?"

"My master saw what you did you the BlackFlamedramon, and he finds your new mate to a troublesome being that merits deletion."

Renamon froze for a moment, how could they have known about her and Flame being mates now. Did this thing watch them?

'My dear I know many things about you and your new lover." It said as though answering her question.

She growled underneath her breath wishing she could teach this thing about snooping into her new private life, but relaxed looking at the being. "Then why bring me here then? Why not just delete us as your so called master wants?"

It smiled under its hood, which sent a chill through the air around her.

"My master has more important matters then to appear and kill a single digimon so he has sent me to tell you of an arrangement that you and your mate can have."

"Which is?"

"That KaiserFlamedramon stops any attempts to fulfill the prophecy, and in exchange you and Kaiser will be guaranteed safety from any harm."

"And if we refuse?" Renamon said folding her arms studying it carefully.

The being's smile faded and turned to one of disappointment, "If you refuse then Kaiser, yourself, and everyone you hold close will be deleted."

Renamon growled at this, no one threatened her or anyone she held dear, "We will fight you and your master till the very end you he-" her words her cut short as she felt a grip come around her neck tightening cutting off her air. She grabbed her neck gasping for air as she looked to see the being making a griping gesture towards her neck.

"Do not toy with me or my master young fox. I will promise you it will cost you dearly in the end."

Renamon coughed and tried to fight the grip, but slow felt herself being pulled into the air the being looking at her.

"I will give you a bit more time to decide on my master's proposition so think carefully for when I return I expect an answer."

With a flash of light, Renamon felt the grasp release from her throat and she fell onto the ground gasping. She looked around as she tried to regain her lost air seeing that she was in the bathing room once more. She pulled her self to the wall and leaned back to it still coughing and gasping for air.

Hypnos HQ…

The doors opened as Shibumi and Miss Osman walked into the lobby of HQ. It was hard for her to believe what Shibumi had told her about digimon, another world, and that Wayne was now one of those creatures that she saw on TV when the D-reaper's attacked Japan. Was he one of those hideous creatures that came from that blob? She winched a little, at the thought her little boy looking like that.

It doesn't matter what he looks like…so long his mind is there. she thought to herself.

"Mitch?" Shibumi said causing her to snap out of her thoughts.

"Oh yes?"

"We're here." Shibumi said as he gestured to a door that lead into a room. She slowly walked in; the room was filled with chairs and tables all taken by technicians who seemed to be looking at huge amounts of data on paper and electronic consoles. Shibumi walked in and gently gave cough loud enough for all the techs to look up from their work to see their boss standing beside her.

"Ladies and gentlemen please take a time out, and allow me to introduce Mitch Osman. She had flown a great distance here to see her son so please be kind with her and not overwhelm her with our techno babble." The techs all chuckled and stood up each one greeting Mitch with a shake of her hand.

"It's nice to meet you all." She said with a soft voice, and turned to Shibumi for a moment. "Shibumi, when can I see my son?"

Shibumi nodded, "Kyle has Wayne come into the building yet?"

A young blond tech looked up from his work station, and stood up promptly. "Yes sir, he came in not that long ago. He's in the testing room."

"Good." Shibumi said as he looked over to Mitch her heart racing. She wondered what had happened to her son, but now these men talked about him being here alive and well. Still what had become of her Wayne? Shibumi had metioned that he had been changed into a digimon, but she wasn't sure what to expect.

"Mitch, I'm going to ask Kyle to open this window, and when he does Wayne will be sitting there. It's a one way mirror so he won't see or hear you, but you can of him. Are you ready?"

Mitch hand's shook as her heart raced with worry, but impeding joy. "Yes…I'm ready." She said slowly.

The window slowly opened up with bright lights shining through temporarily blinding her. As her eyes adjusted her started to see a figure emerged from it seeing a four legged creature that sat in the middle of the room. She gasped dropping her newspaper to the ground as she finally was able to see the full detail of her now Raidramon son.

"Wayne…" she said as tears came to her eyes as she touched the window with a hand.

Shibumi slowly laid a hand on her shoulder and singled to Kyle to key the microphone on.

"Wayne, this is Kyle." The blond tech said causing the Raidramon's ears to perk up.

"Oh hi Kyle, how are you?" Wayne said unsteadily, something that Mitch always knew about whenever he was nervous about something.

"I'm fine; I just wanted to ask you about your mom."

"Is she here?" Wayne asked standing on his all four powerful digimon legs.

"Yes, but we haven't shown her anything about you yet." Kyle said softly as he tried to not give any indication of a lie.

"Oh…I guess that's good…" he said sadly sitting down, while keeping his front legs up.

"Why's that Wayne?"

The human turned Raidramon sighed under his breath, "I don't think she wouldn't like what she sees…"

Shibumi looked over to Mitch seeing the tears coming from her eyes as she heard the all too familiar voice that belonged to her son.

"Wayne, if you felt that way why come here to see her?" Kyle asked through the speakers.

Wayne slowly looked up allowing his Raidramon eyes to look over to the window, and sighed softly. "A friend told me…that even though she may not like what she sees, she still needs to know that I am alive and well. She needs to know that...I didn't runaway from her that she is the only thing that I have been thinking about ever since I arrived here." Tears slowly formed in the corner of his black mask as he lay down on the ground, "She needs to know….that even if her son is now a digital creature, that she may even fear me…that I still love her, and I always will."

Mitch slowly touched the window, and looked at the Raidramon. In her hand was a photo of Wayne in his graduation attire after he had finished his college schooling back in the U.K. She glanced at the photo remembering how proud she was that he made it through college. Wayne slowly started to sob, and Mitch turned to Shibumi wiping her tears away. "Mr. Shibumi, please take me to my son." She said.

Shibumi smiled and held his arm out. "Right this way, Mitch." He said as the two made their way out of the room. Kyle smiled and turned the mic off, and sat back in his chair.

Wayne sobbed and cried on the cold floor his paws on top of his muzzle. He didn't want to cry like this, but he was nervous. What if his mother changed her mind? What if she decided to not come to Japan and that was the reason why she wasn't at HQ yet. He sobbed a bit more not noticing the door to the chamber open.

Mitch looked over at Shibumi who nodded and back away allowing her to walk to towards her son freely. She slowly walked up to him as her heart raced in her chest. Wayne still hadn't noticed her as she stopped in front of him and kneeled down to him. His eyes were covered in his paws as he cried and slowly Mitch slowly touched his ear, stroking it, and feeling the warm sensation of it. Wayne looked up and gasped, and stood on his four legs. "Mother…."

Mitch sobbed between her tears, and suddenly wrapped her arms around the large digimon crying in his shoulder. "Oh Wayne…I don't care what you are now." She said stuttering between each sob.

"Mom….I…"

"Wayne…" she said silencing him as she pulled back looking at him in his eyes. "You are my son, and I will always love you no matter what happens. I'm just….so glad that you are alive and well…"

"Mother…" Wayne said softly and rested his head against hers sobbing softly in her arms. "I love you Mother…"

"I love you too Wayne…" she said with a smile and stroked his ears once more. She pulled out a tissue and slowly wiped his eyes slowly admiring how handsome he actually was. He may look like an overpowered dog, but still he looked proud, and strong.

'This will take some time to get use to…" she said smiling once more. "But will…be together to deal with it."

Wayne nodded, "Together mom…will get through this."

With those words spoken and more tears shed Mitch wrapped her now Raidramon son in her arms again hugging him in a loving embrace. Finally mother and son had found one another, and nothing in this world would change that for them.