A Brand New Start to a Brand New Day, Open

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The slick and oily light of morning slid through the battered window of a one room apartment, falling across the lumpy form a of slumbering person. A mop of messy and sticking up black hair peaked out from under the dingy blank, the white tips framing a tired and sleepy looking face. Eyelids fluttered in dream as the boy slept away the morning after a long night of doing dishes.

On the floor were various clothes strewn about, one which was moving. An eerily spidery leg peaked out from under the the shirt before being followed by a bug like creature. It scurried across the messily strewn ground with determination set in its slit like red eyes. Easily it scurried up the blanket hanging off the bed and onto the boy, its stinger like tail twitching.

One would think, just by appearance that it was preparing to harm or maim the boy but as it moved onto the boy's shoulder it carefully leaned down and nuzzled its face against his, purring lowly in his ear.

The silky soft hide and the quiet noise was enough and the boy's eyes opened, his body slowly coming to full awareness. "Hey..."he murmured softly, a gentle hand coming around to stroke the collared creature,"Morning Darshan... You hungry?"

Another soft murmur and Darshan quickly scuttled down off his tamer, watching as the boy sat up and stretched, yawning widely.

Darshan had watched this boy for many months now and had come to some sort of unspoken agreement with him. Kinsei, as he usaully went, cared for him and he in turn protected Kinsei. It was a comfortable cycle and a difficult one to become sidetracked from.

The only disturbance of this daily routine was Sonji, Kinsei's other protector. The other personality was ruthless and vicious and the Arkadimon had decided the he was simply an unorthodox and unofficial guardian.

He continued to watch with silent bemusement, vaguely knowing that already Kinsei and Sonji's conversations had started up.

'It's staring at you again...'

The voice was annoyed and tired in Kinsei's mind, echoing from the darkest part of the boy's concious. The boy's lips twisted a bit before he finally answered.

'He's always staring, Sonji. Get over it...'

A snort echoed for a reply and Kinsei felt a niggling feeling of aggrivation from "Sonji." It didn't surprise the more innocent of the pair. Kinsei's other personality hadn't been happy with the odd creature since the day it arrived. Said something about it was dangerous and monsterous and that it needed to be put down.

He blocked out Sonji's rageful rant and scratched his side as he bent down to the minifridge and pulled out left overs from last night. He carried the boxes of rice and shrimp over to Darshan with silent resignation, making sure to grab the usual bowl he always used on the way by.

Lightly, he began to shove the food out into the dish befor pulling away and starting to finish the rest off with chopsticks. He watched as the little creature scuttled over and snuffled at the food. Hungrily Darshan began to devour the shrimp and rice, manners never having been high on his priority list.

Instead he concentrated more on watching and protecting Kinsei, somehow the idea programmed deep with in his brain. It didn't look like it would ever move from there either as he finished the food with a lick of his lips.

His red eyes went back to watching Kinsei who delicately picked out each piece of shrimp he could find. The Arkadimon always thought it was odd how much of a picky eater his tamer could be but never said anything about it. Really, he never said anything at all, speech being a waste of energy and time.

So lost in his thought he hardly noticed when Kinsei dumped the last of the rice into his bowl until the tamer stood and started going about his morning routine, starting at relieving his tiny human bladder and ending at getting his coat on and slipping the digimon into it.

Keeping himself busy, Darshan started in on the rice and finished by the time Kinsei was brushing out his wet hair and pulling on his coat.

"Com'on, Darshan,"he said, with a smile,"I don't want to leave you here all by yourself." Gently he scooped up his... well.. he supposed he could say "pet" and slid him gently under his coat. Moving to the door, he stopped to grab the odd like device his "pet" originally came out of, slipping it into his pants pocket.

Quickly he moved through the already busling kitchen and out the side door, heading out to town.

'Where are we going again?'

Sonji's lazy voice broke into Kinsei quiet mind like a rock through a window and the boy gave a slight annoyed noise.

'Well, for starters, a few easy to make meals would be nice to feed to Darshan... Not only that but I know DATs had other creatures like him in there. I saw them... We need information...'

'And where do you plan on getting it?'

Kinsei hesitated in answering. He didn't really know where he was going to get this information. Afterall it would be suicide to just walk up to DATs to look for it...

'I'm hoping that the information will eventually come to me...'

All he recieved was another snort.

[Black Snow]

The cold morning air nipped at Taiki as he waited for his prey to make a move. He’d been waiting outside the restaurant for hours with his eyes glued to his digivice’s monitor waiting for the blip on the radar to move. Nothing, no movement at all. He’d have to wait longer, and patience really wasn’t Taiki’s Forte.

Taiki’s current mission was to confirm a rumor that a tamer had been sited in this area, and that was all he was supposed to do. No fighting or engaging the enemy. Technically Taiki had already confirmed that a tamer was in this area and worked at the restaurant but he really wasn’t one for orders, besides he needed to confirm the identity of the tamer before DATS could do anything. It was Taiki’s plan to do more than that though. He intended to force the tamer to reveal his digimon and fight Taiki. Of course in the report he handed in it would explain that the tamer had some how know he was being followed and attacked Taiki.

“ Taiki, I have spotted a suspisous individual exiting the building” Hachi’s voice said from the digivice. Along with his voice the digivice now displayed an aerial view of a person exiting the restaurant from the backdoor. Quickly Taiki panned back to the radar screen which showed the red dot moving towards Taiki’s position. “It’s our guy. Return to me when I stop him.” Taiki said in reply, adrenaline already starting to pump into his veins.” Yes my lord.” Hachi gave usual response to orders.

The man had black hair with white tips and seemed to be deep in though as he walked towards Taiki. Taiki didn’t know what might be hidden within the confines of the man’s coat but he was pretty sure that he didn’t carry a gun, after all this was Japan. The man was closing in and this was Taiki’s chance. Taiki stepped out of the shadows he’d been hiding in.

“I believe we need to talk.” Taiki said with a smile as he drew his revolver with his right hand and leveled it at the man’s chest. With his other hand he showed his Badge that had DATS written on it in big letters. “Oh but before that how about you show me your digimon?” Taiki said with a grin on his face as Hachi, the Fanbeemon, buzzed down beside him.

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"I believe we need to talk."

Kinsei paused in his steps and looked up at the new comer only to have fear flood him. A gun was pointed at him and there was a DATs bagde in his face. A feeling of vertigo suddenly swept over him and he was sure he was fixing to fall flat on his face. Sonji's voice echoed in his head.

'Run!!!'

He didn't stop to answer the man nor did he answer his other personality. No question about digimon was raised. All he knew was that DATs had caught up to him and he wasn't going to stand by and get caught.

He whipped around and bolted, a slick, sick, and painful knot welling in his stomach. Under his coat he could hear Darshan hissing and growling, feel him shifting and crawling until he was on his chest and able to peak around at their attacker. Slitted red eyes watched with growing anger and ferocity and the scorpion daggered tail twitched with anticipation, the young digimon already positive that this would end in battle.

His eyes traveled back up to his owner's face and could see it in his eyes that two forces were clashing, good and evil, sun and moon, both vying for control over one body, one sky, one continent.

The arguement echoed, bounced and roared off Kinsei's mind and the clashing of dark and light claws was frightening as he fought off Sonji's hold.

'Idiot, we're going to have to fight using Darshan!'

A dark tendril struck, penning down a beast of light.

'We can't! Darshan's just a baby. I can tell! We'll lose!'

The beast roared and broke free, slashing a gash into the black monster.

'Not if you just give me control!'

The wound healed instantly and the monster charged the beast, the pair merging into a flow of black and white. They swirled together viciously, pulling, pushing, biting, clawing.

'No!'

It was too late. The dark monster exploded and so did the white across Kinsei's hair. Black turned to white and slowly, a cool gleam came to the now snow white eyes. At the corner Sonji twirled on his heal, white eyes glaring and black tips fluttering in the sudden wind.

"You want to fight us then com'on."

His voice was sharp and smirk could be heard in it. On his chest Darshan looked back at the tamer, examining every inch and coming to conclusion after conclusion. He was hasty, impatient, disobidient. That could be his down fall...

[Black Snow]

At the site of his badge the man’s eyes had widened in fear till they resembled those a deer caught in the headlights of an approaching car. Then just as a frightened animal would he bolted.

“They always want to run.” Taiki said with a chuckle pointing his gun at the retreating figure. This might be a bit hard to explain, Taiki though to himself. With that thought in mind he holstered the gun and sprinted after the man.

The man hadn’t made it too far before something about him began to change. First his hair changed from black to white and then he stopped running and faced them.

“If you want to fight us C’mon” The white haired man shouted at Taiki, the rage evident on his face.

While the sudden shift in personality from a startled deer to an enraged beast was quite intriguing to Taiki the man’s digimon was quite the let down. The thing was tiny and resembled a leech with spidery legs as it clung to the man’s chest. It could only be an infant digimon, a weakling.

“Your infant digimon is somewhat of a let down but I’ll accept your challenge.” Taiki said his confidence that this would be an easy win evident in his voice. ”Hachi!” Taiki said in a commanding voice. “Yes my lord. Gear Stinger!” Hachi replied launching a torrent of small needle like hairs at the man and his infant digimon.

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'Move!'

Sonji didn't need Kinsei to tell him though and was already shifting to the left, turning his body and dodging the attack. Darshan snarled and screeched angrily at the sudden movement, his dislike for the sharp motions made through vocals. The darker personality's hand cut his complaints short as he ripped Darshan from the confines of his shirt.

Darshan's slit eyes widened as he was thrown at the bee before narrowing again. Suddenly his stinger struck, thrashing out at the bee, growing in size and velocity. Unknown to them both how lethal the attack could be.

Inside shared skull, Kinsei was raving.

'You bastard! You threw him into dangers harm!! You threw him!'

Heavy sadness waded its way through the small, well lit side of their brain that Kinsei retreated to when Sonji took control. There the sweeter persona stood, tears rolling down his face.

'I'll never forgive you if he dies!'

'As if that's any horrible punishment.'

'Sonji-'

The angry snarl was cut off as Sonji put up a blockade to keep out Kinsei's angry annoying voice.

[Black Snow]

The man caught Hachi off guard by launching the small spidery digimon at him. The little devil took this opportune moment to strike out at Hatchi with its stinger. If Hachi had been slower the attack might have made a direct hit but he wasn’t and the attack only gave Hachi a nasty scratch.

Ha it’s only a flesh wound, Hachi thought to himself with more than a bit of smugness. Then suddenly it hit him like a brick wall. An overwhelming feeling of fatigue and weariness that weigh him down and made his wing beats sluggish. Hachi had to struggle with all his might to remain a child and not revert to baby form.

“ Tiaki, We have a problem.”Hachi said in a weary tired voice. “ The little one seems to have drained my energy and I can barely stay a child.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll get you back up to speed with a card.” Taiki said as he reached for his card holster only to find it missing “ Shit.” He exclaimed as a memory came back to him.

“ You won’t be needing this on this mission.” One of Taiki’s superiors told Taiki as he relieved him of his cards. “This is only a reconnaissance mission. So cards that boost your attack are useless.” He said emphasizing this statement by waving the pack of cards in front of him.

Suddenly a voice brought Taiki back to reality. “Taiki!” Hachi said in despair as he devolved from his child form. His dark black stripes disappeared and his body grew smaller till he was about the size of a football. His tiny wings beating furiously just to keep his small yellow body in the air.

“We’ll have to withdraw for now.” Taiki said , bitterness dripping form his voice like poison from a snake’s fangs. Grabbing Hachi, he drew his gun and fired off several rounds in the man’s direction to perturb him from following as they made their escape.

I’ll get you for humiliating me like this, Taiki swore.

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Darshan was falling now and despite all the impassiveness in the world, he was still growing terrified of the inevitable fall and splat on concrete. He jammed his eyes closed, waiting, waiting.

It never came and in fact he was caught in gentle arms. His red eyes opened and he stared up at black eyes and black hair. Kinsei had returned, Sonji relinquishing his hold on the body as soon as their attacker fled. The baby digimon gave a purr before absorbing the energy he'd gotten off the fanbeemon, using it to further power himself up. If he'd gotten just a bit more he was sure he'd been able to digivolve...

His thoughts were cut off as Kinsei shot, breaking into a frenzied run to escape the area. Fear generated the young man now as he fled the scene, dashing through shocked spectators in a hurried and frightened attempt at getting away from the area.

'Thanks to your little friend we'll have to move again...'

'I know... I've been saving up money from washing dishes and we have enough to rent a hotel room...'

'For how long though, you twit? How long will those savings last while you're trying to feed yourself and this little monster who eats a thousand times his weight?'

A flinch briefly danced across Kinsei's face as he slowed to a walk. He was now a good three or four blocks from the site and was closer to his destination.

In his arms, he felt Darshan shift back into his coat, escaping the cold air and a sick feeling came to his stomach. Sonji was right. The money wouldn't last more than a week if he kept having to buy more groceries to feed Darshan... And what happens if the little guy decided to have a growth spurt? How was he to hide him then?

[Black Snow]

“I’ll find him for sure.” Taiki muttered to himself as he scanned a report on his computer. The only light in his small apartment room came from the computer and its eerie glow only partially illuminated the room. If it had been possible to view the rest of the room a mess that had never been seen before by the likes of man would have been revealed. The dreadful state of the room was a result of Taiki’s new obsession with finding the man that had defeated him so easily.

Hachi sat in the dark and looked on with worry at his master. He had stopped taking care of himself to look through countless documents and reports in the hopes of finding the man he sought. Hachi was worried that if this kept up his master would get sick and die. Yet there was no talking to him. It was like he had shut himself off from the world.

The higher-ups had been worried when Taiki had shown up with his devolved partner and they had right to worry. Taiki had begun to babble saying such things as “How could this happen?”. The problem was that the arrogant self centered part of him was in shock from being trounced so badly from such a weak digimon. The superiors were worried about him and had given him three weeks vacation in the hopes that it would help him recover. Yet Taiki had elected to stay holed up in his room. The three more days and Taiki’s three weeks would be up.

Suddenly the mad typing that Taiki had bee nmaking stop and he sat there staring. “ Master are you alright?” Hachi asked in a worried tone. At this Taiki began to laugh hysterically. “ I’ve found him! I’ve found him!” He said over and over as he looked at the screen.

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Kinsei's location had become a worn down old hotel. It was cheaply rented out and the rooms were drafty but it served its purpose. As for work, he'd continued to wash dishes every night but had taken to carrying Darshan everywhere he went out of fear that the lack luster maid who cleaned up the rooms would find him.

The young man pushed open the wobbly door and entered, looking wary and tired. He slowly unzipped his coat and began to pull it off, revealing the Arkadimon In-training clinging to his shirt like a child to their mother. The little one was noticeably asleep, having fallen into slumber after Kinsei had fed him a handful of scraps.

The tamer lightly stroked the top of his digimon's head causing the slit red eyes to open. A little tired purr was the reply he recieved before Darshan began to crawl up his front and onto his shoulder, face starting to nuzzle lovingly against his cheek.

'Time to go to bed, brat. We need to go scrounge up some groceries after paying the hotel bill.'

'I know... What are the chances that he found us again though? That guy with the gun...'

'Low... You covered your tracks pretty well... And you've been taking back roads to work...'

'I hope your right...'

Kinsei slowly walked to his bed and crawled on top of it, allowing Darshan to drop from his shoulder. He'd noted his digimon was more of a night person and often enough was his alarm clock for the morning. He watched as the digimon scampered down onto the floor and sat down in front of the hotel door, red eyes never leaving the wood.

He'd watched the demon do this every night now and was vaguely curious of why would he do this? Was he nervous about gun man too?

[Black Snow]

A sleek silver car pulled up to the old worn down hotel. The nice car got quite a few looks from the shabby, rag clothed individuals that slunk in the shadows. Their interest was limited to thinking of the money that could be made from selling it off. These thoughts were soon quieted when they saw the man that exited.

His physical features weren’t all that intimidating. In fact he didn’t look that different from the average Japanese male. No it was something else entirely. AS he had bent down to grab something from the car the long jacket he was wearing had draped to the side and revealed a large revolver strapped to his side. None of them were interested in messing with an armed man.

Taiki walked slowly up to the beaten and battered doors of the hotel. The brass handles were so badly corroded it was hard to tell that they’d been metal at all . The greenish flecks on the surface felt weird to Taiki as he opened the door. These things were trivial to Taiki though. He was here for revenge, not scenery.

A large fat woman sat at the front desk eating so sort of pastry as she watched television on an old tv set. “What cha want?” She asked through her pastry. “ I’m sorry to bother you madam but I’m here to arrest one of your guests.” Taiki said as politly as he could as he showed his badge. “Which one?” The fat woman said with a bored look on her face.

“Hey, you in there open up! I need to speak with you!“ The fat woman shouted at the door of the fugitive’s room. Taiki was standing behind her his hand already beginning to undo the clasp on his gun.

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Kinsei heard her voice and felt his heart sink. He hated talking to her. She tended to send dougnut flying all over him...

Slowly he pushed himself off the creaky bed, shuffling tiredly across the scratchy carpet. He stopped, half way, however, spying Darshan's tense stance and hearing a low rumbling growl. Instantly becoming nervous, he paused to pick up a thick phone book before continuing to the door.

'Oh yes, Kinsei.'

Sonji's voice cut in, full of sarcasm.

'A phone book will be really useful if there's a knife or gun.'

There was a picture of Sonji rolling his white eyes and Kinsei began to fidget with the book. He knew that it would be no help but it had at least eased his anxiety towards the situation.

'Shut up...'

The command was given just as he creaked the door open to look at her. "Yes ma'am?"he asked politely, the hair on the back of his neck standing on end. Darshan had climbed up his shirt and was breathing on the skin there.

His black eyes looked about her face before drifting over and falling on someone. A guest. Instantly Kinsei's face paled and the bottom of his stomach dropped out. Slowly he pulled the door back just enough to get enough momentum to slam it hard in the pair's face.

His fingers began to fumble awkwardly at the lock quickly, managing to get the ratty thing done up before turning and running from it. His form stopped in the center of the room and he quickly began to look for an escape, heart pounding and tears filling his eyes.

He didn't want to go back to DATs. He'd already been there and done that and didn't plan on doing it again.

[Black Snow]

Taiki’s face stung with pain as he began to laugh hysterically. “ You think a door will stop me! Fool! You can run all you like but you can’t hide your self from me.” With that statement Taiki reach for the tiger striped digivice at his belt.

“ Hey what’s goin’ on?” The fat lady as with tears in her eyes as she grabbed at his arm. ”Get off me you tub of lard!” Taiki yelled in disgust as he lashed out at the fat woman causing her to fall on her enormous rear. “Stay there you walking whale.” Taiki sneered at her, his personality completely different than what it used to be .

Turning back to the door, Taiki pressed a button on the digivice. Suddenly a bright blindly light was emitted by it, forcing the fat one to shield her eyes. The light began to condense, forming a long round rod of light. One end of the rod of light then flattened itself out and then slanted inwards. The final result was a long spear of light with Taiki’s digivice hanging off the nonbladed end.

“ I haven’t had to use this in forever.” Taiki exclaimed with a smile giving the spear a test swing. Finding it satisfactory Taiki gave a mighty swing at the door with the spear. The door burst into splinters under the spear’s power.

“ Any last words before I kill you?” Taiki said with a grin as he stepped through the decimated doorway.

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Kinsei had turned and blocked his face as the splinters barelled towards Darshan. They hit his arms and hands, scuffing them up and knicking gashes into them. He slowly lowered them and looked at Taiki with fearful black eyes, a single tear rolling down his cheek.

This was it. He was going to die at the hands of some psycho?

"Why are you trying to kill me?"he stammered, backing up slowly. Darshan crawled over his shoulder and glared, growling lowly at the crazed tamer, stinger ready. His own tamer had hit a wall and was there trembling, his second personality barely registering through the fear.

'Idiot! Its fight or flight and you can't do flight. Get fighting! Stop freezing up like a coward!'

Sonji suddenly shoved his way into control and snarled at man. "Back off, ass wipe,"he hissed, white hair bristling and white eyes dangerous. Unlike Kinsei, Sonji would fight any way that presented itself, whether that included clawing of the eyes or kicking of the groin. He was a survivor not a pacifier.

[Black Snow]

“Back off Asswipe.” The more violent of the personalities said. By this time Taiki had figured out that there was more than one person in that body. It was the only logical explanation to his sudden mood swings. It was this side that Taiki had the bone to pick wit. It was this side that had decided to throw that monster of a digimon at his. It was this one that Taiki would get the most pleasure out of killing.


“Do you think you have a chance to win this fight?” Taiki said laughing his mind already on the many gruesome tortures he wanted to apply to this man. I guess I’ll have to settle for impaling him, Taiki thought to himself in disappointment. “ I hope your ready to die” Taiki sneered as he readied his weapon.


A battle cry escaped Taiki’s lips as he charged, the lance aimed firmly at the others chest. Taiki’s momentum was great enough that whether he hit the guy or not he’d carry over into the next room, destroying the wall.

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Sonji tensed ready to bound out of the way, white eyes narrowed and growl rumbling from his chest. He wasn't gonna die to this guy and smirked cruelly, standing to move-

Only he never had to.

A familar scorpion tail shot out and deflected the weapon, sending it crashing away. Darshan snarled, mouth opening wide to show off sharp, deadly looking teeth. While the personality in control wasn't his tamer it was still his tamer's body and he wouldn't lose what was Kinsei's.

It impressed Sonji, however, and he stood, grinning. "I admit, I still hate you, rat face, but you're useful,"he said with a snicker before charging at Taiki. He planned to ram right into this bastard.

((I'm sorry if my post constituted as G-moding. ><))