FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

This is the fourth part of my story if you haven't guessed yet this is the part were i tell you i am in no way connected to the company that owns digimon and i do not own the renamon character and i won't use the name renomon for males also shifters and my character shadow are my idea please don't rip them off just ask and i would be more than happy to let you use them well enjoy the story.

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chapter eight teen

After we started out i realized that i didn't know how far we were going to be going or what areas we would be traveling threw, *I'll have to ask serra or farrith when they stop* i thought to myself.

Even though it took most of the day before they did i kept up a steady pace next to serinity's carriage even though i heard most of the guards saying that i wouldn't be able to, when we stopped however i was barely breathing hard and most of the soldiers were having trouble hiding their fatigue.

After they set up the tents i let serinity out and noticed that her tail was starting to regrow from when i first met her, now instead of being a small nub on her back it had grown to about half the length of my hand.

I tried not to be noticed when i looked at her although i stuck close like her mother asked me too, after the family stretched out and got into the tent i took up a guard position at the entrance of the tent to make sure i could protect her, when the food was brought in i did a quick scan of it but didn't find anything dangerous so i didn't stop them from taking it in.

i heard the three of them talking but i ignored them and kept watch, eventually one of the soldiers brought me some food which i ate but i never left my post, after they ate i stayed back and watched them got to their sleeping tents.

after some time of standing by serinity's tent one of the guards tried to relieve me but i sent him away telling him it was my job, after he left another guard came up to me sounding a bit angry.

"what do you think you're doing shifter?" he asked in a hushed tone.

i just looked at him for a second before answering, "the job i was hired for by serra"

The guard seemed to take offence to this because he glared at me, "it is our job to guard the head family not some mercinaries, so get lost and let my warriors do their jobs"

I just looked at him from my spot in front of the tent, "if it is your job to protect them then how is it i was contracted to save the female renamon from her captures after she had been taken from the palace"

This seemed to piss off the digimon even more because he growled at me and extended his claws, "get away from the princess's tent before i make you shifter"

"No....i was hired for this job by serra not you and to my knowledge i was given no instructions to listen to the palace guards, so if you don't mind leave so i can do my job" i said coldly.

I could almost hear the digimons restraint snap before he jumped at me and swung his claws at my face, i let his claws graze my cheek giving him the first attack then i lashed out with my right hand and grabbed him by the neck and extended my own claws.

before i could even blink more than a dozen swords and spears were pointed at me as i held the digimon by the throat in the air, i ignored them and looked into the digimons eyes speaking coldly enough to put fear into him, "If you interfear with my mission i will not hesitate to code every single one of you, i will not get in your way but i expect the same from you and yours for me.....however if you insist on this course of action......" as i said this i moved my thumb and brushed it across the fur just under his eye.

We stood their like that for a few minutes before the others turned to look at the tent that serra and farrith were staying in then they dropped their weapons and knelt down, the next voice i heard was from farrith, "Shadow if you would be so kind as to put down the captain of the guard i would be happy to listen to any complaints you might have"

I looked over at farrith and studied him before dropping the guard and speaking, "i have no complaints, i only wish to do my job until such time as i am no longer required to do so"

"That is the mission i was given by your mate and i will not let anyone stand in my way", i said as i looked down at the guard captain standing in front of me.

I heard farrith chuckle then spoke to me, "i admire your single minded devotion to fulfilling your mission but i do believe that my mate told you that your place was by the side of our child and nowhere else".

This got a suprise look from both me and the guard standing in front of me.

"But sire you can't be serious about letting this filth protect the princess can you?, he is a shifter and not to be trusted" the renamon said with a bow.

I saw anger flash across farriths face as the guard spoke those words, "if i remember correctly captain it was you and your soldiers that failed to protect my child when she was taken from our home"

Out of the corner of my eye i saw the digimon flinch as farrith continued speaking, "my mate asked me to give you all another chance to prove yourselves however this does not mean that you can question my actions, now if you insist on doing so i would be more than happy to watch the shifter delete you and take your code but i doubt that serra would like that much so i am going to tell you this once DO NOT GET IN THE WAY OF THE SHIFTER AND HIS JOB DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!"

The renamon bowed to farrith," crystal clear sire, please forgive me".

Farrith only shook his head, "I am not the one you need to ask forgiveness from captain"

Farrith pointed at me, "he is"

The renamon jerked his head up and looked at farrith questioningly then looked at me and bowed his head slightly, "I....am sorry....shifter" i could almost see the malice dripping from his words as they rolled off his tongue.

"i do not need your apology only your word that you will not keep me from doing my job in the future", i told him.

I could see the hate in his eyes when he looked up at me then he stalked off into the camp with the rest of his soldiers.

"I don't think you'll make any friends if you keep doing things like that shadow", farrith said making me look back to him.

"I do not require friends farrith, i am only here to complete my mission until you or your wife tell me i am no longer needed" i said.

Farrith walked over to me and looked at my cheek then waved his hand over it, "well atleast you didn't use that strange card to patch up these wounds, it was hell trying to get off those things when they were on your chest"

I looked at farrith then checked the place were the necro patches had been only to find they were no longer their and the wounds were healed, "so you removed them during the time i blacked out?, why would you do something like that?"

Farrith only smiled, "enough questions shadow right now i just wanted to tell you that i don't want you giving your opponents the first shot while you are protecting my daughter am i clear?".

"Very well you are the client"

Farrith nodded then smiled, "good now if you don't mind you are not at your post so i would like you to go inside and keep an eye on serinity ok?"

I looked back at her tent then back at farrith, "and what about her privacy would she not find it disconcerting to see me in her tent with her when she wakes up?".

Farrith gave me a hard stare before speaking again, "i do believe that your client just gave you an order mercinary now if you don't mind please take your post".

with that he walked back into his tent without so much as a glance back at me, *these digimon are very strange, every time i think i have them figured out they do something to throw me off*

I shook my head then turned around and headed inside the tent, it was dark inside so i turned on my infrared vision and looked around until i found a spot on the opposit side of the tent to watch serinity.

I took up my new position and sat down on the ground looking at the pile of furs that made up her bed, for some reason i could smell a strange scent in the air as it filled the tent.

It smelled musty and sweet but i couldn't put my finger on what it was even though it seemed so familier, the more i smelled of the strange aroma the more my mind began to fog up and the more aroused i became then it hit me the way she's been acting towards me, the fact that she's been able to effect me so much with her touch everything fell into place.

*Shit this is going to be harder than i thought it would.......she's in heat*

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chapter nineteen

I spent the rest of the night in a state of half sleep with my sensors on full scan hoping that it would pick up any movement that she made so i could get out if she started waking up.

luckily it worked because in the early morning time my sensors picked up her movement and i woke up and left before she saw me then i waited for her to get ready while i waited for her outside the tent.

When she came out she started to walk to the tree line and i knew she was going to used the bathroom so i followed her to the edge and stopped then i released two bats from my body and sent them to patrol after her so i wouldn't be in her way.

When she came back i took the bats back into my body and walked behind her as we made our way back to the camp, i followed her till we got to the eating tent and stopped outside.

As i waited for them to finish eating i got some glares from the guards as they went about their work, this time no one brought me any food.

After they were done eating the head family went back to their carriages and i took my spot by the renamons like i had the day before, this is until serra caught my eye and motioned for me to get in with her daughter.

reluctantly i climbed in and sat down across from her, all the while she stared at me.

"Did you get anything to eat this morning chad?", serinity ask quietly.

"No" i said as i looked out the window.

She reached behind her and brought out something wrapped in cloth and held it out to me, i looked at her then down at the thing she was offering.

"It's food....go ahead take it"

i reached out and slowly took the food from her and felt my hand come into contact with hers, immediatly i felt my heart beat rise and quickly pulled away looking at her.

She smiled at me as i unwrapped the food and looked down at it, it looked like bread that had been baked with berries in it.

"Go ahead....." she told me.

I pulled down my scarf and took a bite, it was sweet and tasted like cherries.

"Do you like it?"

I looked at her and saw a strange look in her eyes, "yes"

My answer seemed to make her happy, suddenly the carriage jerked forward and started moving slowly then started picking up speed.

I looked out the window as it did and saw the landscape start passing by, i still didn't know how long we were going to be traveling so i decided to ask serinity.

"How long is the trip to your home going to take?", she looked at me and blinked in suprise.

"It should only take two or three days depending on how often we stop, why do you ask?"

I scanned the forrest out the window as it past by, "there is to great a risk of being attacked out here".

To my suprise she just smiled at me, "if we are attacked then the guards will take care of it so there is nothing to be worried about"

I looked at her as i took another bite of the food, "i'm not worried about being attacked i can take care of most threats by myself, i am however curious as to why your parents are able to get so close to me without setting off my sensors"

the renamon looked at me questioningly, "your sensors?, what do you mean?".

I pointed to my right eye, "i have sensors that detect the presence of digimon that come within a certain distance of me and my eye shows me data on them like type, power, attacks and so forth but every time it comes to your parents i cannot detect them for some reason"

I took another bite of the food as she seemed to think about what i had told her, "it must be that their magick is hiding them from your machine, i doubt that if they didn't want to be detected they would show up".

I though about that as i ate and watched the world go by the window, it went on like this for most of the day even after we stopped for lunch and got going again.

but all the while i was fighting my bodies instict to jump on her and claim her in a fit of heat induced lust, *I have to fight it, if i don't then nothing good will come from it*

To take my mind off the urges my body was having i started doing diagnostics on all of my mods and prosthetics making sure they were in top form, eventualy i noticed she was getting tired and watched as she went to sleep.

She shifted around some and the scent of her heat filled the carriage making it even harder for me to keep my mind off of her, i watched her as she lay down and curled up on the bench she was sitting on.

After i was sure she wouldn't wake up i pulled off my boot then rolled up my pant leg and hit the button to release the small compartment in my left leg, i checked the bottles and saw that i only had a days worth of number before i had to change out again.

i closed my compartment and fixed my clothing and sat back in my seat watching the female sleep, she moaned some and tossed a bit in her sleep but i didn't think much of it until she started running her hands over her body.

Eventualy one of her hands found its way between her legs and disappeared and the other went to her breast which were concealed beneath the big puff of furr around her neck, the smell of her heat seemed to explode within the confines of the little carriage as i watched her hand move back and forth between her legs making it almost impossible not to get up and claim her.

I watched her with almost frightening focus as she masturbated in front of me then the worst thing possible happened, she shifted around on the bench and moved her leg revealing herself to me.

I watched unable to take my eyes away as her finger slipped into her sex slowly then withdrew showing me that it was coated in her juices, i could feel myself growing hard as she pushed her finger back in slowly.

I grabbed my shoulder with my right hand and squeezed trying to keep from doing anything stupid as i watched her pace increase, the scent of her and the site of her juices on her hand mixed with the squelshing sounds coming from her pussy tuanted me and pushed my restraints.

i only squeezed my shoulder harder as she moved her finger even faster into her body, soon i heard her start moaning something in her sleep but thanks to the smell of her heat and the fog in my brain i barely noticed it, soon she started breathing faster and her fur became matted with sweat and her moaning became longer.

My eyes were rivited to her as she gasped then arched her backed and let out a whimpered growl then she collapsed panting on the bench, After the spectical was over her hand slipped from between her legs and slid over the edge of the bench to hang in the air.

I looked at it as her juices glistend in the light and filled the carriage with her scent nearly driving me to the breaking point, to my great relief the carriage stopped then and i got out quickly and took a deep breath of fresh air trying to calm down and let my raging hardon disapate.

The next sound i heard almost made me jump until i realized that it was serra talking to me, "are you feeling well shadow?, you are sweating" she sniffed the air and looked at me "and you smell of blood".

I looked at my shoulder and realized that i was still squeezing tightly so i let go and dropped my hand down only to feel warm blood slide down from the wound i had given myself, "i am going to have to go against your orders to travel with your child in the carriage serra, i doubt my own restraint and do not think it a wise course of action for me to be so close in her condition"

Serra looked at me questioningly, "and what condition is that shadow".

I looked around to make sure that none of the guards were listening in then looked back at serra, "your child is in heat serra, and i find it hard to restrain myself in such close quarters with her".

Serra's face went blank as she looked at me then a small smile spread across her lips, "i see....please take whatever actions you see fit shadow but i would like you to stay as close as possible to her if you can".

*Strange she didn't react as i thought she would....maybe they're ploting something but what*

I nodded and looked around and saw it was getting close to sunset then i turned to look at her again, "how much longer until we reach our destination?"

Serra looked around then back at me, "we made good time today so we should reach the palace by sunset tomorrow" she stepped closer to me and put her hand on my shoulder making me jerk back in reflex.

"let me take care of that for you", she said as she closed her eyes.

Suddenly i felt a warming sensation in my shoulder and a soft bluish light came from the sakuyamons hand, as i watched i felt the wound in my shoulder close then the light faded and she pulled away from me.

"Thank you serra but you do not have to do those things", i told her.

Serra just smiled at me, "it is nothing besides i doubt you would want to be around serinity with a fresh wound in her condition shadow, who knows how it would effect her actions"

I looked threw the opened door of the carriage at her child then looked back at her, "i doubt that it would effect her to much as it is but i do not wish to press my luck from now on".

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chapter twenty

I waited outside the door of the carriage until she got up and followed her around making sure to keep atleast a good five to ten feet between us until she went to eat with her parents, i stayed outside until they were finished then watched as they went their seperate was to sleep.

I waited about an hour before walking into into the tent so i could be sure that she was asleep but when i walked in and looked around i saw her close her eyes, *next time i wait two hours before coming in* i thought to myself as i found a place to sit down and watched her.

I waited for a while before she finally started breathing deeply then i switched out my empty bottle for a full one, after that i turned my sensors up to max and drifted off to a state of half sleep.

I drifted in and out of sleep most of the night and even though i was on the other side of the room from her i still suffered from the effects of her heat, the whole time i kept seeing her masturbating in the carriage or kissing me and each time i felt something urging me to try and get closer to her.

I snapped awake some time in the early morning gasping as the dream began to fade and looked around, i didn't see anything out of place so i got up and exited the tent and looked around.

The birds were chirping in the forrest as i looked around, i noticed that most of the guards were sleeping by a smoldering fire pit and the ones that weren't were standing guard around the camp.

after my look around i went into the tree line and relieved myself then walked back and into the tent and sat in a chair next to the entrance of the tent and looked outside, i sat like that for several hours until i felt something touch my shoulder.

"what are you doing?" serinity asked.

"watching for threats"

*trying to figure out what you mon are getting from me being here* i though silenlty.

"anything so far?"

"nothing yet", *on both problems*

Suddenly i felt something rub against my ear, the one taomon had hit with his spear brush but i didn't move.

I could smell the scent of her heat as it wrapped around me and invaded my senses, it was almost like it was calling to me, taunting me with its presence and the feeling of her fur on my skin sent jolts of electricity threw my body making it hard to think straight.

I moved forward in the chair and rested my arms on legs as i looked out threw the tent screen pulling away from her, *what is happening to me....it has been little more than a week since i have rutted with ladydevimon, so why is this female having such an effect on me?*.

I heard her sigh deeply and walk away from me then start rummaging around for something in the small dresser behind me, i didn't move when i heard it stop.

I felt her tug on my hair and looked back to find her holding a brush and running it threw my hair slowly, i went back to watching outside as she combed my hair.

Fifteen minutes after she started i felt her pull on my hair making me sit back in my seat, i said nothing as she continued messing with my hair then i felt her pull it tightly back then she fumbled with something and released me.

After she was done she walked around me and i felt her now fully regrown tail brush my face as she walked out of the tent, i sat their for a few minutes more before finally standing up and picking the small hand mirror on top of the tiny dresser up i held it before me to see what she had done.

What i saw was me looking back, i noticed that my hair was now brushed neatly and pulled back against my head and held there with what looked to be a thin black silk ribbon tied in a small bow, it held all of my hair back save for my long bangs which hung down the sides of my face.

I put the mirror back down and walked outside, looking around i saw that the guards who had been asleep where waking up and starting to break down the camp.

i walked over to the eating tent and took up my post at the entrance, when they had finished eating the family walked out of the tent but the female renamon paused for a second and pressed a small bundle into the palm of my left hand.

i closed my fingers around it and followed after her as we made our way to the carriage's, i opened the door and checked inside before letting her in then stepped back and watched as she climbed inside.

she turned back to look at me expectantly but i closed the door and walked up to the front and climbed onto the seat then the roof where i sat down and looked forward, eventually they got the final tent broke down and loaded and we started off on our journey again.

I ate the food in the small bundle that she had given me all threwout the morning as we bumped along the ground, i kept a sharp eye open for any threats but found none.

*their are around thirty renamon surrounding the family i doubt any digimon in their right mind would be stupid enough to take on so many strong rookie types*

It went on like this for most of the day as the caravan made its way threw the fields surrounded by mountains, they did stop for a short lunch but it didn't last more than twenty minutes then we were on our way again.

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chapter twenty one

As sunset came we crested a large hill between two mountains, the driver looked back at me as we did.

"Behold shifter the greatest site you will ever see, the great palace of the nightmare soldiers home of the head family"

I looked forward over the large valley that spread out before me, what i saw would have taken most peoples breath away.

It looked like someone had taken the imperial japanese palace straight out of a picture and set it into the digital world, as i looked closer i saw what looked to be a town spreading out from the front gates for a good two or three miles and running around in the streets were digimon going about their daily lives, to me they just looked like ants scurrying franticly around.

I gave no reaction to the site mainly because my mind was on other things, like why the renamon named serinity had requested me as a bodyguard and why her parents had agreed to it.

And what reason they had for even picking me as a bodyguard in the first place, *they still have yet to reveal their true intent for me, i should try and listen in on some conversations if i get the chance*

As we pulled into the town many of the digimon running around stopped and stared at me as i rode on top of the carriage that held their princess, i ignored the glares and snide comments that were said under their breaths as we pulled up to the great gates of the palace.

As we got closer they swung open to admit us and we rode slowly on threw, after we stopped inside i jumped down and grabbed my violin and hurried back over to the carriage as the door opened.

I helped serinity out while looking around for any kind of threat, after the three had disembarked i fell in behind them a good five feet behind making sure to keep some distance between me and the guards.

After we got inside the palace farrith and serra stopped and turned to me, "Shadow we welcome you to our home"

I bowed, "i thank you for having me"

As i rose up i saw a smirk on farriths face as he looked me over, "shadow as my daughters bodyguard i would like you to carry a weapon so you can better protect her"

He looked off to one side and a rather large female kyubimon walked over and stood beside him looking me over as he spoke, "this is Se'nara she is in charge of all the guards if you would like a rank to address her by i guess general would be fitting, she will show you to the armory so you may pick from any weapon we have".

I bowed to the new digimon as a show of respect but never took my eyes off of her face, after the introductions the two sakuyamon left with there child and i started following the kyubimon threw the many halls of the large palace until we came to a seperate building with about ten guards surrounding it.

As we approched the guards stood to attention at their posts, the doors opened as we got closer and we stepped in.

I looked around taking note of the many strange sets of armor and the racks filled with glaves, halbreds, crossbows, and many different styles of japanese looking swords.

as i looked around i took note of the fact that none of these weapons would fit me muchless fit my hands.

"shifter....this is the armory you may chose any weapon you like from within its walls"

I walked past the kyubimon and took stock of every weapon that was assembled, i ran my hands over the handles but kept walking as i looked around.

I looked back at the kyubimon, "these weapons will not work for me, they are to small and will not fit my hands"

The digimon just gave me a toothy grin as she spoke, "these are kitsune weapons shifter they have strong magicks running threw them, i am sure that you will find one that calls to you.....that is if you really are a warrior as your manorismn says you are"

I looked at her for a minute before finally closing my eyes and listening to the room, it took several minutes before i noticed anything.

It started off as a tiny sound at first like a blade slicing threw the wind, i listened harder and the sound seemed to grow in volume.

I moved my feet and walked threw the room listening as the sound change direction and adjusted accordingly, after a few minutes it sounded like someone was swinging a blade right next to my ear so i turned and opened my eyes.

what met my gaze was a blade as black as night that looked like it had been carved out of obsidian, i reached up and ran the fingers of my left hand over the length of it and found it to be as smooth as glass with no ruff spots. as i continued to touch it the blade seemed to grow warm but the strange energy coming from the blade itself was almost as cold as ice, it was an odd sensation that felt good but at the same time sent a chill down my spine.

I carefully pulled the blade from the rack and tested its weight and balance, it felt good in my hand like it was made for me, when i held the sword up to look at it it seemed to glitter in the lamp light as if welcoming me.

I ran my fingers over the hilt and felt something strange, a seem was running down the length of it. I pushed on one side and felt a small click as half the blade jumped forward from the rest, i grabbed one half of it with my other hand and pulled gently the blades seperated easily in my grip and i now held two blades.

Both of them seemed to glitter happily at my touch, i took a couple of practice swings with the blades it felt like they were a part of me, as i swung the blades in the air i brought them together into one in a single motion and thrust forward at the same time.

The handle itself didn't budge but the blade seemed to grow as i lunged into a gaint katana like sword i pulled back quickly and the blade sank back into the hilt as i twirled the sword in a flurish around me and came to a stop in a middle guard position with one leg slightly bent before me and the other straight back behind me.

As i stood their i heard se'nara wisper something, it sounded like "the prophecy"

I slowly let the blade drop down and stood up straight then turned to look at the digimon standing behind me, what i saw in her eyes was something like a mix of sheer terror and reverance as she looked from me to the blade and back again.

"I will take this one se'nara"

She nodded dumbly and i turned to walk from the armory.

"shifter wait!"

I turned and looked back at her as she slowly walked forward, "that blade....it has a dark history in the kitsune tribe, none save the members of the head family have ever been able to touch it much less wield that blade and even they could not handle it's power for more than a few minutes before succumbing to madness"

I looked her in the eyes for a minute then looked at the blade, "when i hold this sword it feels like i am holding a piece of the place i have spent most of my life wandering threw, but to me it is just a weapon nothing more".

I looked back to the kyubimon, "tell me what is the name your clan has given this sword?".

She seemed to hesitate as she looked at the ground, "it is call the shadows fang".

I looked at the blade in my hand, *shadows fang, it is a good name*

As i thought that it felt like the sword grew warmer in my hand, i looked around quickly and found a scabbard and picked it up then slide the sword into it and hooked it to my hip.

"come i have work to do"

"Shifter"

i looked at back at se'nara and studied her as she spoke.

"that blade it is cursed, i do not know of its purpose in the world but even the seers agree that it is a powerfull weapon ment for some great warrior, be catious shifter or you may find that the blades power is to much for even you to handle. and i doubt that you would want the kind of fate that befell those who tried to take its power before you"

I stared at her blankly, "i care not for the machinations of the thing you people call fate, my life consists of one thing and one thing alone the completion of my mission and that mission right now is to guard your princess and any who get in my way or try to keep me from doing that mission will be dealt with accordingly".

I looked down at the blade that now hung from my hip, "and any who dare to bring harm to my charge while that is my mission will not live to see the next sunrise"

With that i strolled off threw the armory towards the doors, i felt the kyubimons eyes on me the entire way.

As i walked se'nara walked up beside me, "for your sake shifter i hope you can handle the power of that blade because if you can't then dark times may lay ahead of you darker than any you have faced before".

"Do not think to tell me of darkness se'nara, i have walked that path for to long not to know its many traps and pitfalls"

I could feel the digimons gaze sweep my body before she spoke, "for everyones sake i hope you do know of them shifter, in the mean time guard yourself well and keep to your mission"

With that she quickend her pace and got in front of me, i followed after her as she lead me threw the halls of the palace until she came to a stop before a set of double doors much like the ones at the taomons house in kitsune valley.

Se'nara bowed at the door and spoke, "princess the shifter has returned with me as your father ordered"

A few seconds later the doors slid open and serinity looked at se'nara then motioned for her to rise, as she did both of them looked at me.

"Did you get a weapon from the armory like my father asked shadow?"

I reached down and put my hand on the sword at my hip to show her.

As her eyes fell on it i saw something flash across her face before she looked at me and nodded, "good your things are inside if you would like please go and check on them while i talk with se'nara"

She stepped aside and i walked into the room and looked around, my trunk was sitting by a the wall next to another door.

I quickly stepped over to it and pulled my computer off the top and set it on the floor next to me, i opened the trunk and pulled out the breifcase along with my cards and checked them over to make sure that nothing was damaged.

After i was sure they were ok i took the recorder out of my coat and put it on the ground then started inspecting the other equipment in my trunk, i checked over everything in my trunk pulling out each piece of tech and looking it over then after i was done i put each piece back in its proper place and put my compter and cards back into the trunk.

All they while i tried to listen in on the two as they talked but all i could get were pieces, "He has the......*gasp*......think he could be the......if he is then....move quickly....but what....be....very well"

I opened the briefcase and replaced my used bottles with new ones, after that was done i closed it and put it in my trunk with everything else.

I got up and looked around then walked over to the door and saw that se'nara and serinity were just finishing their talk and se'nara was staring to walk away, "Se'nara i need you to do something for me before you leave".

Se'nara turned back to look at me as she stopped, "What do you want shifter?"

I pulled the two nullifiers from my coat and showed then to her, "i need you to take these to a datamon or andromon and have atleast twenty of them made".

Se'nara eyed the nullifiers before walking back over to me and sniffing them, "i will see what i can do shifter"

She took the two nullifiers in her teeth and turned walking away, i watched her until after she turned a corner down the hall and disappeared.

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twenty two

I sat on the railing of the balcony in serinity's room looking out at the sun as it finished setting, i watched as the reds faded to darker colors and finally as the light vanished i watched the stars slowly come into view.

*this is the way of the world, eventually even the light gives way to darkness*

I felt a cold wind hit me and looked down at the courtyard, it was empty except for a few soldiers posted at the gate. I felt serinity come closer and look at me but i ignored her until i got down and walked past her into the room, after i got inside i picked up my violin case and sat down in a chair and rested it on my lap.

I opened the case and looked inside at the violin and noted the strings were sliced in half, i immediatly reached into the pouch in the lid and pulled out a full set of strings and pulled the violin free.

i felt serinity walk up behind me and look over my shoulder before she spoke, "What happened did it get damaged on the trip here?"

I pulled the broken strings free and pulled the new ones out of the packages before i spoke, "most likely it was the renamon in charge of the guards on the trip, i did not let his soldiers take my place on guard duty and he did not agree with the fact that a shifter was doing his job"

"So that is why you didn't get anything to eat on the trip here"

"Most likely.....it seemed to me that his soldiers were more interested in seeing how far they could go before i would either quit from hunger or if i would leave my post to find my own, than doing their own job"

I started threading the new strings to the violin as she spoke, "so tell me why is it that you never asked for food ?"

"I can go for days with out food and do to my being part digimon i can survive longer with out it then humans but i still need to eat for energy"

She walked around to the otherside of me and sat down on the seat acroos from me looking me over, "how long can you go without food?"

"the longest i have ever gone with out food was nine days and ten nights"

"do you think you could have gone longer than that?"

I finished putting the last string in place and pulled my bow out of its compartment before speaking, "i do not know most of the time i drank water to keep myself strong enough to survive from one day to the next"

She looked at me silently as i lifted the violin and rested it in the crook of my neck and tested the sound of the strings, i stopped and did some fine tuning then did it again. The violin produced a soft mellow tone so i went to the next string, she stayed silent as i went from string to string testing and tuning and testing some more.

When i was satisfied with it i stood up and walked over to the balcony again, i looked out over the palace walls and started to play. As i did i closed my eyes and let myself get wrapped in the sound of the music, i could feel her eyes on my back as i played but i ignored her and went on letting everything around me fade away. Soon the only thing left was the sound of the violin as it filled the air with its sorrowfull wails, after an hour of playing i stopped and turned around.

I saw her sitting in the chair and noticed that she was crying again, i studied her for a bit and felt the strange urge to comfort her. I crushed the strange urge down and walked over to the chair and sat down looking at her, as i did she wiped away her tears and looked at me.

"You know you show more emotion than you think you do"

I raised an eyebrow and studied her for a second, "explain"

"Even if you don't know it you bare yourself to the worlds when you play, for me when i listen to you play i can hear your inner most feelings come threw the music" she paused for a minute before she continued.

"You have suffered so much in your life, seen thing that most would never hope to see, been force to do things that most would never consider because of what you are, and because of that you have been forced to make the hard choices in life.....choices that no one should be forced to make"

I held up my hand and stopped her, "you are naive female, this is the life of every shifter. We are not welcomed by anyone because of what we are, where ever we go we are shut off from contact with everyone but our own kind and those who think themselves outcasts and even we cannot stay together for too long before the shift hunters come for our lives. In the end we are forced live the life of nomads wandering from place to place, we are not wanted for anything except so people can use us to go threw the walls. This is the lesson every shifter learns when the are forced into the world".

"But don't you miss your dam and sire?, have you ever tried to go back to them?"

I looked her over trying to figure out what she was getting at, "no"

a look of sadness came over her face as she looked at me, "why not?".

a memory flashed threw my mind of the day my changes came upon me, and the look of horror on the faces of the people who i called my parents at one time.

"those humans made their choice the day i was....born, this is the enevitable

truth of shifter life. No family can stand the site of a shifter child after the changes come, even the humans who gave birth to me were only able to keep me around for a few days after the changes"

"what do you mean born?, were you not always so?"

I shook my head and closed my eyes trying to block the memry from coming up again along with the ones that would follow, "no female at one time i looked human but a shifter is born from a human child....we do not know why or how it happens but it does, That is why we travel so widely threw out the ring....so we can find those shuned by both human and digimon and teach them how to stay alive. after we teach them what we know we leave them to their own devices if they survive then they grow stronger, if not then then they will most likely be killed on the steps of their human parents homes thanks to some one calling the shift hunters"

"Don't the parents morn for the lose of their child?" she asked.

I got up and walked over to my trunk and opened it, i looked threw my things until i found what i was looking for. A small monitor with a seperate power pack and a connector cable, i stood up and walked back over to my chair and started hooking everything together then i got up and moved a flower pot off its table and the table over by the chair then set the monitor and power pack up on it.

I looked at serinity as i pushed the cable into the jack in my head, "i have shown this to three shifter children that i have come across in my travels, it shows the truth about the humans who have shifter children. This will give you everything you need to know about us female but i warn you it is not for those of weak constitution"

I moved my chair so i too could see the screen then i started by bringing up the files in my personel computer and putting them on screen, several rows of video files popped up and i opened the first one then made it play.

immediatly the view of a happy family celebrating a birthday came up, i felt serinity look at me so i turned to her "say nothing and watch the truth of shifters unfold before your eyes female, it will be the first and only real look you get into the birth of a shifter".

I turned back and looked at the video as it played and watched as everyone on screen scattered and hid behind something, the person holding the camera hid behind the corner of the house and peeked out with the camera then a male voice came from the speakers, "this is my baby girls seventh birthday and we've planned a suprise party for her, all we're waiting on is for my wife to bring her home from school which she should be pulling into the driveway any minute now".

Just them the sound of two car doors closing came threw the speakers, and the faint voices of a little girl argueing with her mother could just be made out. A few minutes later a pretty blonde girl came into the shot from the other side of the house followed by her mother who was smiling and guiding the girl into the center of the back yard.

"Can i look now mommy please?" the man holding the camera quickly walked over till he was standing in front of the girl, then the mom motioned to the others and started counting down on her fingers from three. After the countdown was done everyone who had been hiding jumped out and yelled suprise just as the blindfold was taken off.

from there on it showed different shots of the girl playing happily with her friends and eating cake and opening presents and all her friends were standing around her and laughing and playing, not long after the games started the girl put her hands to her mouth and started screaming, the man holding the camera ran over to the little girl and set the camcorder on a table facing the girl. At this point she was on hers knees rocking back and forth crying from the unseen ailement, "whats the matter sweety, do you have a sore tooth?"

The little girl shook her head and mumbled something then looked at her father, "it hurts daddy please make it stop.....it hurts so much" she had tears in her eyes as she spoke, the man put his hands on the little girl and made her look at him.

"It's going to be ok baby just show me what hurts and daddy will try his best to make the hurting stop ok?" the little girl nodded and slowly brought her hands down revealing giant teeth that had sprouted from her lower jaw, then her skin started to turn green and her eyes turned red.

But what terrified the man the most and made him react was when the girls jaw seemed to grow to freakish praportions giving her the resemblance of an ogremon, she started to scream from the pain of the changes and called for her mom and dad for help but they had already moved out of the shot.

For the next fifteen minutes we watched as the girl went threw the changes in front of the camera all the while she screamed for her parents who never came, finally she started to settle down but she still cried as she tried to get up off the ground.

By the time her "birth" was complete and she came back into full view of the lens she had changed dramaticly now instead of the cute little girl there was only a shifter with half her body turned boney and green and her giant jaws and sharp tusks gleaming in the afternoon light, the human parts of her face that remained were nothing more than the quarter part of her head were the left eye was and her long blonde hair.

To Be Continued.......