A/N: Thanx again for the reviews... OOoooOOOoooOO more Takumi!...I'm
getting addicted to writing their moments...but don't worry the plot will
stay ever prominent in my writing... I promise I'll keep the Takumi moments
as precious as the storyline! ^_^ R&R!! please!
*Jap. Names vs. English Names*: (I will not be using the acknowledgement of
- i.e.-Izumi-chan...Takuya-kun...etc.)
**(DIGIMON NAMES WILL RESUME AS ENGLISH VERSION)**
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*clears throat*....ok it's getting too mushy....Ahem, Anyways...thank you
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The Pure of Heart: Netherworld Journey {I}
Ode to Erica..."I like it, is all!"..."You can take that TWO WAYS!"
"You--You kissed me." said Takuya, looking a bit disbelieving.
Izumi nodded, suppressing a faint giggle. It seemed he had not taken
in the incident as clearly as she had. Takuya knew his face had turned
quite scarlet from this, it surely felt this way.
"And you didn't even call me crazy for doing so either." Izumi said
looking relieved.
"I--er--uh--I--" Takuya spluttered nervously.
"I little confused, yes. But no, not completely revolted by a 'mature' girl-
-who is supposedly crazy--kissing you." Izumi smirked at Takuya's blanched
expression; she had awakened something quite vague in his memory.
Takuya's mind, instantly responding to her remark, had traced back to
their early days in the Digital World. They had been spared their lives
from falling into a deep hole, once before.
Takuya hazily remembered how it happened but he clearly remembered the
results of being too close to her.
Leaving off from where they fell, Takuya recalled...
Izumi was clinging off of him and rambling on about how thankful she was
for her dear life being saved. It had been an awkward moment afterwards and
Takuya had ended up being thrown to the ground with a number of bruised
areas on his face. They had exchanged a few snide remarks; Takuya calling
her an insignificant girl who was crazy, and Izumi releasing a slew of
comebacks to his immaturity as a little boy. From this memory alone Takuya
stayed timidly silent.
Izumi continued to smile as she shook her head. "For someone whose
awfully hot-headed and quick to come up with a good number of insanity
claims on me...you seem to have gotten easily caught off guard by this
happening."
"You're...You're not crazy." Takuya meekly smiled at her.
"I'm glad." said Izumi, she beamed.
Takuya let his gaze fall to the ground, then slowly ascend to her's once
more. Izumi felt her stomach fluttering relentlessly.
"How...disgustingly...touching..." a hissing boom of a voice
surrounded them.
"K-Kukuthmon!" Izumi gasped and swiftly took hold of Takuya hand. "We have
to run!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" replied Takuya, his heart gave a
frightful jolt as a set of bulging, snake-like eyes appeared in the dark
in front of them.
They were too late, Kukuthmon had clamped her large, scaly claws
around their waists. They struggled and fought to slip out of her grasp
but it was useless, Kukuthmon's grip only sunk deeper. Izumi whimpered.
Kukuthmon leered at both of her captures.
"So you thought I wouldn't find you, did you?" Kukuthmon hissed
viciously, intently glaring her daunting eyes at them.
Izumi made another painful noise. Kukuthmon's advanced menacingly
towards her. Izumi winced and quickly shifted her direction of sight
elsewhere. Kukuthmon heaved an unpleasant cackle, Izumi shuddered to the
feel of a sudden chill rise from her spine.
"STOP IT!" Takuya roared indignantly at Kukuthmon. "What do you want
from us?"
"I seek nothing from you petty humans." Kukuthmon jerked her head
towards Takuya.
"This one," Kukuthmon hissed and directed her attention to Izumi again.
"was supposed to open the Chamber to the Mahonmon...but did not....so now
the whole purpose of your living is quite a dispensable one. You are merely
an interference that I have been sent to...shall I say...receive 'extra'
data from..."
Kukuthmon's mouth had slowly twisted into a wide, malicious smile.
"Hisamemon will be needing all the data she can get, you know....and Lord
Lucemon will be quite pleased with all the data we have collected for him,
as well."
"NO!" Takuya shouted, a searing flush of blood had begun rising to his
head.
"And when I'm done with you two... your little Mahonmon friends will be
next." Kukuthmon sneered and continued to speak as though she had never
heard Takuya's objection. "I need not of a trivial password to open the
Chamber door...I will open it by force!"
"No. Not the Mahonmon, please!" Izumi gasped, her eyes wide and looking
glazed over.
"You have no say in the matter, nor do you have any say with you own
lives!" Kukuthmon's head shook with more derisive laughter, the eel's that
protruded from her head writhed in amusement as well.
Takuya and Izumi exchanged fearful glances. Izumi quickly mouthed a
silent question: 'What do we do?' Takuya just stared back at her, his mind
had come across blank ideas.
"Time has run out, children." Kukuthmon's claws began to crush deeper
into their bodies.
Izumi let out an agonizing cry.
"Izumi!" Takuya wriggled is hand out of Kukuthmon's gripping claw to
reach her.
Then, as if reacting to all the pain and torment Takuya felt, the
Agate Amulet he wore began humming a high-pitched screech. Kukuthmon
staggered to the side, dropping both Takuya and Izumi to the ground, her
claws scrambling to cover her hearing.
"AAAARRRRRGGHHHH! WHAT THE DEVIL--?" cried Kukuthmon, helplessly sprawled
to the darkened ground.
Takuya stood sorely up, the Amulet still humming even more loudly and
yet it did not effect neither Takuya nor Izumi. There came a transcendent
flush of energy to both of their bodies--a strong surge of power. They
stood adjacent to one another for what seemed like an eternity until the
backdrop of the cavern disappeared to reveal a completely white
surrounding.
Takuya's Amulet shot up and hovered between him and Izumi. The Amulet had
then shattered into two separate stones, each deeply coloured in a raven-
black and each floated to either Takuya or Izumi. A gathering Digicode
inside the stones encircled both of them and soon their eyes met and nodded
in sudden understanding.
"Spirit-Samurai Evolution!" they cried in unison.
"Nuskumon!" cried Takuya.
"Yonhamon!" shouted Izumi.
Glimmering in the darkness and standing defiantly over Kukuthmon were
two well-armoured Samurai knights. They were, of course, both Takuya and
Izumi. Takuya's form was of a knight clad in blazingly scarlet armour, his
left hand held a shield bearing the emblem of an engraved dragon and to his
right hand was a fiery blade. Izumi stood--as well as a knight--beside him,
her armour stunningly white, her shield emblazoned with an illustrious
storm-bird and her right hand gripped a long, curved sword. Kukuthmon gaped
at the two in front of her, her face contorted in fear.
"D-Di-Cangmon's W-Warriors?...Nuskumon and Yonhamon?" Kukuthmon
stammered, she still lay trembling to the ground. "B-But it isn't
possible...That must mean...that you are the Promised Ones... Legendary
Warriors--here--in Naraka?"
"That's right and either you surrender or we'll have to take you down-
-forcefully and if possible painfully." Nuskumon said under gritted teeth.
"You must promise to never threaten or ever hurt the Mahonmon!"
Yonhamon glared dangerously at Kukuthmon.
Kukuthmon suddenly narrowed her eyes. "Mistress Hisamemon--has sent
me--to stop your interference and--as I stand unwounded--I shall fight you--
in my Mistress' honour!"
She swiftly got back to her feet in a readied stance. "Medusa's
Strike!"
Kukuthmon's eels had jerked upright and launched two massive orbs of green
gunk at Nuskumon and Yonhamon. Yonhamon leaped into the air, her arm
outstretched and deflected the attack with her sword. The poisonous ooze
had been redirected to hit Kukuthmon's eyes. She shrieked in pain and
staggered back to the ground.
"You--You--" Kukuthmon fiercely wiped her eyes and squinted angrily
at Yonhamon. "Medusa's Strike!"
It was Nuskumon's turn to deflect the attack; his shield being the
weapon of protection.
"AAAARRGHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Kukuthmon shrilly yelled, she had been struck
in the arm this time.
Kukuthmon was persistent however, she lifted herself once more.
Twenty of her gangly, spider-like legs eerily clicked as she circled both
Nuskumon and Yonhamon. She made a swift move to Nuskumon, her arms wrapped
around his neck in a headlock.
"Hisamemon, will not tolerate your meddling plans!" she hissed into
his ear.
Nuskumon clenched his teeth and took hold of Kukuthmon's arms, thrusting
her over his head and onto the ground. At this point, Kukuthmon panted in
exhaustion and swayed her head as she lay sprawled to the ground. She
lifted herself up yet again, this time lunging towards Yonhamon. Yonhamon
used her shield to avert Kukuthmon's fists swinging incessantly towards
her.
Nuskumon's fiery sword had released a smoldering flame--resembling a
three-headed dragon--to Kukuthmon's back. Her body began to fade into a
darkened black, the Digicode revolving around her shadowed form. Soon the
only visible sign of her was a set of blood red eyes, still squinting at
Nuskumon and Yonhamon. A last angst-ridden cry could be heard from
Kukuthmon's fading silhouette, "You have yet to see the evil in
Naraka....you two are doomed...Nagamon will avenge me!"
She had vanished and the two samurai knights had restored back to Takuya
and Izumi.
"Nagamon?" Izumi panted, exasperated.
"I remember...Galen told us....Nagamon...he's another follower of
Hisamemon. He's was a servant just as Kukuthmon was." Takuya reflectively
spoke.
"Speaking of Galen...I hear him calling us." Izumi held the black stone in
her hand.
"Yeah...that's right...But--But how do you hear him, too? I thought I was
the only one who could communicate like that with him." Takuya gaped at
her.
"I don't know." Izumi replied. "He's going to explain to us, come on."
Izumi ran towards the path leading to Di-Cangmon's Chamber as Takuya
followed her from behind.
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A/N: Hmmmm........the plot thickens........I hope you liked this chapter!
MORE TO COME!!!!! ^_^ Please R&R! TAKUMI ROX!!!!!!!!
Note to Erica: Rocheleau Park!!!!
Note to Anime Master ZERO: Hello again ^_^! Ummm...about the fractal code
thing...is that the Japanese term....sorry again...I fixed it!!! ^_^ hope
it's up to everyone's liking!
