FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

again i don't own and am not connected in any way to the company that owns the digimon franchise and i don't own the renamon character however shifters and my char. shadow/chad is my idea if you wish to use him or want to use shifters in general please ask me and i would be happy to let you this is part eight enjoy.

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chapter thirty three

I stood in the small glaide surrounded by dark digimon as i held serinity's exuasted and unconcious form in my arms, i was breathing heavily and my vision blurred from the lose of blood from the various scrape cuts and wounds that were bleeding all over my body. My hair was matted to my head from all the sweat and i could feel the heat of the sun burning into my back.

*three days....three days of nothing but fighting and running, i can't take much more of this and serinity is in no condition to even run right now. There's no way i can fly away again after they tore my wing so badly yesterday, and i can't put her down or they'll take her before i can stop them in my current state* i thought to myself as i looked around at the dark digimon who were starting to close in from the tree line.

I moved my right hand away from serinity letting her legs drop down and summoned some of my remaining energy into my hand, i waited until they got about ten feet from me and slammed my fist into the ground and called out my attack, "Dark Spike Wave!" i forced the energy from my hand into the ground and watched as a ring of black spike's sprang up and spread out from me in a circle at lightining speed catching my would be attackers off guard, killing them and turning them into code.

I fell to one knee from the use of my power and breathed heavily from exaustion as i looked around again, my vision blurred badly and got darker before i shook myself and got it going again just in time to see the next wave of dark digimon brake away from the tree line to surround me.

*Not good.....i can't fend off another wave without blacking out*, i felt a dull throbbing start all over my body as the last of the pk started to wear off. *Shit this is just keeps getting worse by the minute, if this keeps up.....*, i pulled my sword free of its sheath and held it before me as the digimon got closer.

I could feel my emotions starting to emerge as i glared at the dark digimon, as i did i heard one of them call out to me.

"Shifter if you give us the sword and the female than we'll make your end quick and painfull!"

I felt my anger surge and looked around for the one who said this, "I will never give in to a bunch of scum sucking pee'ons like you, if you want them than come and pry them from my dead BODY!" i yelled in reply.

Suddenly i felt a pulse of energy run threw my body and felt something creep out of the back of my mind, but it felt strange not like the other times i remember but this time it was something even more it was cold and dark and somehow almost savage, *Damn!, it's happening so soon!?* as that thought ran threw my mind i felt the blade start to grow warmer in my hand.

As the power coursed threw me i pressed serinity close to my chest and felt her warm fur threw the holes in my clothes, just then i heard a voice behind me.

"I was hoping you'd say something like that freak!", "Dark Fist Of The Beast King!".

I felt the attack hit me in the back and went flying forward from the force of it and serinity's unconcious form came free from my grip as i did, i bounced across the ground several times and hit a tree hard and felt one of my bone struts snap like a twig from the impact sending a wave of pain threw my body to blossom in my brain and making my anger flare even more at the fact i had let one of them sneek up on me.

I felt another pulse of power run threw my body as i picked myself up and looked around, as i looked around the glaide my eyes fell on a one armed dark leomon who was holding serinity by the neck with her back against his chest and the look in his eyes told me that he could smell the scent of her heat in the air.

*NO!*, my anger eached a whole new level when i saw him lean in and run his tongue over her face slowly as if tasting her, "no...", this made his ears perk up as he turned to look at me and smiled evily, "What was that shifter?, did you just tell me no?" his grin seemed to grow wider as he reached down to his pants and started fumbling with them.

Suddenly i was being pushed into the ground and i felt someone trying to retch the sword from my hand only to fail because of the death grip i had on it, the dark leomon slowly walked over carrying serinity as he undid his pants and started to work them down.

"I don't think you have much of a say in this matter shifter, and just to prove my point i'm going to take the bitch here and fuck her right in front of you before you die!" he said.

My rage continued to build beyond my control and another pulse of power flooded threw my body tainting my vision red and giving me the sudden need to taste the bastards blood on my tongue, "If you so much as try it i will rip out your heart and make you watch as i eat it before you die"

The digimon only grinned wider at me as he spoke, "no....your going to watch as i have my way with your precious charge before i slit your throat for killing my brother".

With that i saw his dick emerge from his sheath and with each revealed inch my anger climbed closer to the boiling point, But the thing that sent me over the edge was when his dick touched the lips of Serinity's sex.

Suddenly my vision became completely red with rage, "NNNOOO-AAAAAARRRRRR!", i let out my cry of rage and felt my anger break free along with a shockwave of overwhelming power from my body as the dark savage feeling took over completely, i heard screams come from the digimon holding me down then felt something warm and wet splatter me all over.

I saw the look on the dark leomons face turn from triumph to shear terror as i picked myself up off the ground slowly and looked at him, i slowly ran my right hand over a wet spot on my face and pulled it away seeing blood, warm,wet,red,rich, blood.

*Pulse*, *My turn weakling, sit back and watch*

I pulled my scarf away from my face and stuck out my tongue and touched it to my finger and tasted the rich and coppery sweetness as i licked it, i gave the dark Leomon a wicked grin before speaking again and as i did i heard my voice brimming with the strange and awesome power that was coursing threw me urging me to slaugther everything that got in my way and pushing my rational mind deeper into its self until i was only watching.

"Mmmm, tastey", I slowly stalked forward and reached out plucking the female from his grip all the while the look of fear in his eyes deepend, after i put the female down gently i leaned in close to the dark leomon and spoke to him.

"I told you that if you tried it i would make you watch as i ate your heart didn't i, and now that i'm free again i will", i released the claws from my right hand and rammed them into his chest just below his ribcage, i suddenly smelled amonia and realized that he had pissed himself and smiled again as i rammed the rest of my hand inside his chest and grabbed his heart.

I gave it a quick yank and pulled it free from his body and raised it between our faces as it spewed out its fluids, the dark digimon's eye flicked from me to his heart and got wider as i held the still beating lump by two fingers and raised it higher to my mouth.

I ran my tongue over it and pulled it back in smacking my lips before opening my mouth and pushing the lump in and biting down, I felt a large chunk come free in my mouth and chewed on it for a second then swallowed loudly showing the remains to him before i put the rest of it in and finished the job.

"Now you can die knowing i kept my promise", i said as i licked the blood from my lips, he gave out a raspy gasp and i saw blood leak from the corners of his mouth as he turned into code.

I was about to absorb it when suddenly it flew to my blade and sank into it making it glitter wickedly in the sunlight, i just smiled as a feeling of joy and bloodlust filled my mind and looked around at the remaining digimon who were looking at me in horror.

Another wicked smile played over my lips as i looked from one face to another and spoke, "who's next?".

I never gave them the chance to reply as i bolted forward and dove into them slashing and killing anything that was unlucky enough to come to close to me, And with each kill the code was absorbed into the blade in my hand and the feeling of joy and bloodlust became stronger along with the power that coursed threw my body.

Suddenly i felt a stab of pain in my mind and stopped clutching my head in my hands, i fell to my knees and opened my mouth in a silent scream as another pulse of power and pain ran threw me and felt the ground start to shake beneath me as massive waves of power came from my body.

*No....my....power.....is...going to.....*, suddenly i saw a light off to my left and heard something like a song in a strange language and turned to see what was happening.

Through my reddened vision i saw Serinity holding her hands cupped to her chest and chanting slowly as pure white light came from her body, she opened her eyes and looked at me as she took a step closer still chanting and i felt a pressure building in my mind like something was trying to cap off the well of power flowing in me.

When serinity stopped moving she was standing right in front of me chanting and the feeling of pressure was growing almost painfully in my head, she slowly reached out and touched me as she chanted running her fingers gently over my cheek. I felt the pain and pressure grow beyond my control. As the pressure broke free i let out a scream of pain and felt the power wash out of my body and into the area around us and heard the bround rip apart with the sound of cracking rock and ripping earth, suddenly we were falling into a deep dark pit in the ground and as we fell i felt the last of my energy flee my body and take my conciousness with it.

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chapter thirty four

*I failed my mission* i thought as i drifted threw the blackness.

I let myself drift into the blackness that surrounded me and thought about the past few days, i pictured serinity smiling at me and hugging me, *why is she always so nice to me.....*tch*...if it wasn't for the fact that her mother had my stuff i never would have been put in this mess in the first place...but still she's the only one whos ever tried to be nice to me since....*

I pictured serra as she looked at the box that was my computer and flipped it over in her hands, *never should have taken this job in the first place from that freaking taomon*.

I looked around the darkness and saw nothingness surrounding me, *So this is what death is like, fitting for someone like me* i thought to myself. As i drifted i started to remember my first days of being a shifter, i waited for something to happen as the memories filled in around me.

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I was sitting up in bed as tears streamed down my face from the pain my body was going threw from the changes when i heared the door to my small room open and looked up, i saw someone standing in the doorway but it was hard to make out who it was with all the tears in my eyes.

I dove under my pillow and pulled the covers around my body to hide myself from whoever it was that had come in, As i did i heard the creaking of the wooden floor boards as they walked closer then i felt the bed depress as they sat down.

I started to cry harder from the shame of what was happening as they put a hand on my shoulder and gently rubbed it, *please just go away and leave me alone so i can die in piece* i cried out from under the heavy down pillow that was crushed to my head.

the sound of a girls voice came to me threw the pillow *It's ok chad your not going to die your body is just changing thats all*, the person on the bed said to me as they gently strocked my shoulder.

I jerked away from them and curled up under the heavy blanket crying harder, *Then do me a favor and kill me now!* i yelled at the person threw my tears of pain. Suddenly i felt something heavy and warm press around me like someone was trying to hug me and i tried to pull away only to cry out more as the pain in my body intensified, *don't say things like that please, i don't want to see you like this either but theirs nothing i can do to help even though i want to*

I threw off the pillow and sat bolt upright looking at the figure threw my tears and ignoring the pain of my body, *I'm a freak damn it!, i'm turning into one of those shifters we saw on t.v. and now i'm going to be hunted like the rest of them! any minute the hunters are going to come bursting threw that door so they can kill me and i hope they do!!" i wailed at the figure.

The figure suddenly leaned forward and put it's arms around me and pushed my head into their neck as i cried harder, *please don't say stuff like that chad, besides even if they did i wouldn't let them get anywhere near you* the voice said trying to consoul me.

I pushed them away and tried to get out of bed only to fall to the ground as a spasm of pain shot threw my back making me scream out as i felt something rip away from my body before it finally eased some letting me think more clearly, I looked around when i heard a sharp gasp and saw something sticking out from my back as it twitched some.

To my horror i realized the thing was a wing as i touched it, i quickly turned to look at my otherside and saw another one sticking out their as well, *Noooohohoho.....p,p,please just kill me now* i wailed again as i tried to talk threw my sobs of shame and pain.

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I was sitting in the corner of my now bare room with my head burried in my knees crying at what had happened to me, i looked at the door when i heard something move down the hall away from my door which only made me cry harder and put my head back into my knees.

I cried myself to sleep on the floor as i thought about the disgusted looks of my parents when my body started changing.

I woke up some time later looking at a violin as it sat on the floor a few feet away with the bow and a note sitting on top of it, i crawled over to the violin and picked up the note and read it.

*Dear chad,

I know how much you wanted to have your own violin to play so i saved my allowance and got you this to pass the time until you feel you want to come back out to the world.*

I tossed the note aside and reached for the violin sitting on the ground as i got up then i started to study it, the surface was old and the finish was coming off in some areas, their were also chips in the wood but the strings where new and freshly replaced.

I put my changed hands on the instrument and ran my fingers over it feeling the ruff then smooth surface of it, i reached out and wrapped my fingers around the neck of the violin and put it to my neck as i lifted the bow and put it to the strings. I tried to play a few notes but everytime i did either the bow would slip from my awkward fingers or i wouldn't be able to move right and i would hit a sour note and make the violin screech in protest, i started to cry again as i kept trying to play in futility and with each sour note or slip of the bow my tears would increase.

After some time of trying to play i finally threw the violin onto my bed and started to cry again, just then i heard something at the door at looked to see a small slit in the bottom open then a plate was pushed threw and it closed again. I quickly scrambled over to the door and grabbed the plate digging in with my fingers as i shoved it into my mouth and swallowed not even bothering to chew the meager portions i had been given, after i was done i knocked on the slit and watched it open then i pushed the plate out and bent down putting my face by the hole.

*Please can i use the bathroom?*, the only reply was the feeling of the small door as it was slammed into my face from a hard kick. I pulled back and held my now bleeding nose and lip as i backed away from the door and cried again, *why is this happening to me* i whispered to myself as the tears rolled down my cheek.

I finally crawled back over the the bed and got in and proceeded to cry myself to sleep again while clutching the violin to my chest, Some time later i was woken up by a rare sound at my door. The latch rattled then fell quiet as i covered myself in my dark room with the blanket and closed my eyes, hoping that it would be her again but it probably wouldn't instead i invisioned my father walking threw the door with a gun to finally end both our shame.

I heard the door to my room creak open slowly letting the light from the hallway wash over my face blinding me even with my eyes closed, *Please just make it quick* I thought as i closed my eyes tighter in anticapation of what was to come.

Instead of hearing the cocking of a gun i felt someone put their hand on my shoulder and gently shake me, i peeked out from my place under the covers when i heared the girls voice whispering to me.

*Chad...chad get up i've come to get you out of here*

I opened one eye slowly and looked up at the figure of what looked to be a girl with long cat like ears and long hair now standing over my bed, i couldn't see her face because of the light from the hall being so bright.

*But if dad finds out your in here he'll beat you for sure kate please just leave me and gone on, its better this way. Atleast like this no on can see how much of a monster i am*, i told her even as she pulled me up from the bed and to my feet.

She helped me get dressed and pushed me out the door and into the hall quietly leading me threw the house and to the front door which stood open, she told me to stay then left coming back a few minutes later with a large bundle and pushed it in my hands then pushed me out the door and into the warm summer night.

As we got into the yard and passed by a chicken coop i heard her scream in suprise as she was pulled away from me, i quickly turned around to find my father a big bear of a man holding a pitch fork in one hand and the girl who was struggling wildly in the other.

*What are you doing out of your room freak?* he asked me quietly as he stepped out of the shadows of the coop and into the moon light, my eyes flicked back to the strange figure of kate who was still struggling wildly making her hair toss around and block her face from view.

*Please dad let her go...she was only trying to help me, please don't hurt her* i said quietly, he looked down at her and back at me before he spoke again.

*What you mean this freak loveing digimon?, maybe i should just do her a favor and kill her before you do*, with that he let go of her and slapped her across the face making her to the ground and cry out. i watched in horror as he raised the pitch fork high above his head and prepared to strick, i closed my eyes as a sudden rush of rage and fear flooded threw me.

*I SAID LEAVE HER ALONE!* i yelled as a strange rush of energy flooded my mind then was gone, the next thing i heard was a deafening boom as the chicken coop exploded into pieces sending the bodies of the dead birds flying into the air only to land around us along with broked pieces of wood and torn wire and leaving me in shock.

I looked around to see my father groaning on the ground and the catgirl doing the same with a piece of wood resting on her head, i rushed over to her and knelt down pulling the wood away from her and looking at her bloody face as her one good eye opened to look at me.

*get away* she moaned as she looked up with fear and spotted me, i felt the tears streaming down my face as i tried to reach out and apologize to her and see if she was ok.

*Oh gods Kate, i'm so sorry*, suddenly something hit me in the side of the head and sent me sprawling to the ground to rest on my back. As i lay their i saw my father standing over me with his pitch fork pointed at me, he had a crazed look in his eyes as he looked back at me.

Next everything became a blurr as i threw up my hands in an attempt to block the pitch fork and i heard a loud scream of pain then some one yelling at me to run, out of instinct to live i grabbed the bundle that kate had given to me and ran off into the woods all the while i still saw the fear in her eye and heard her words echoing in my head *get away*

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*That was so long ago* i thought to myself as i floated, again i drifted off into the blackness trying to let myself go into oblivion as i thought about the strange figure and how she had treated me.

*On that night she found out i really was a monster just like i knew i was, and it was the begining of my nightmare*

Suddenly i felt something cold and wet pressed to my forehead, i shifted around trying to go back into the darkness but the voice made that impossible as it came floating into my ears pulling me back to that other world.

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chapter thirty five

*Sniffle..."Chad please wake up.....please don't leave me"....sniffle, sob...."please open your eyes and look at me, call me female again do something, anything, just please wake up!", the voice said softly next to my ear.

I shifted around and groaned from the pain that shot up my body and heard the voice gasp, The next thing i felt was a warm tongue licking me in the face as the coldness was taken off of my head.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw serinity pull away to see if i was ok, when she did i saw her muzzle streaked with blood.

A shiver of panic shot threw me as i looked at her,*NO, did i hurt her when.....*.

I looked closer but didn't see any cuts or marks on her that would explain the blood, i reached up and touched my face then pulled my hand back and saw it was red. I let out a sigh of relief i hadn't realized i was holding in and looked around, I saw i was in some kind of chamber that seemed to be lit be some ambiant light source coming from the stone block walls.

It wasn't bright but it was enough to see by, i looked back at Serinity to find that she had tears streaming down her muzzle. Before i could catch myself i reached out with my left hand and brushed away the tears from her face, i caught myself and quickly pulled my hand away.

"What happened, how did we get here?" i asked her as i looked around, my gaze came to rest on the ruins of the cieling and i saw that it was covered over with dirt, rocks and roots.

I looked back at Serinity to find that she was staring at the ground, "Something happened to you Chad....when i came to you were....you were" i could almost see her turn green under her fur as i felt a shiver of panic run up my spine.

I looked away and tried to remember what had happened, suddenly a sharp pain flared in my head making me cry out sharply like something was striking out trying to keep the memories to itself and making me recoil but not without getting a glimpse of what had taken place. I suddenly felt my stomach turn summersualts as the image of what i had done to the Dark Leomon came back to me, I turned away and started retching as the levety of what i had done finally sank in.

When i was done several bloody chunks of meat where laying on the ground before me along with frothy blood vomit and looking at it only served to make me retch again, when i was done with my getting sick i looked away from the bloody mess and wiped away the exess from my mouth.

tried to pull away from her but i found that my left leg was trapped under a large piece of a stone block, when i saw this another shiver of panic started up my spine and i clawed away the stone looking at my prosthetic leg finding it to be heavily damaged.

"NO!....this can't be happening not now!", i quickly looked around and found the make shift sack on the ground with its contents scattered across the floor of the stone chamber. I looked around more and felt my heart stop as my gaze came to rest on the broken bottles of number and pk that littered the area around the briefcase that rested not far from a large puddle of water, i shook my head in disbelief and slowly crawled over to them dragging my limp leg behind me and started clawing threw them trying to find even one bottle that wasn't broke and still had some drugs in it.

with each broken bottled my movements became more feverish and my fear and shock made my body shake, "No.....please....one just one....please let their be just one i can use!" i cried out as i moved to the broken breifcase and started ripping it apart, "anything please even a little!, just let their be some!"

Finally in defeat i let the remanents of the case fall from my grip and felt someone put their arms around me, "Its ok Chad, everything is going to be alright" i heard Serinity coo softly in my ear.

I shook my head slightly as i stared at the ruined case on the ground and felt tears start to fall down my face, "No it won't....what you saw.....when i...i..." my stomach did another flip as the memory came back to me again making me gag. "What you saw...it was only the begining....eventually my....power...will start acting up then the blackouts will come" i reached down and picked up one of the broken bottles and held it in my hand looking it over in the faint light, "this....this was the only way i had.....of keeping "it" under control".

I felt Serinity stiffen against me before she relaxed a little, "what do you mean...it" she asked hesitantly.

I pulled away from her and turned around to look her in the face, "You have to get away from me, now that i don't have my drugs anymore i can't be around anyone or their lives will be in danger"

A sharp pain flared in my head and i heard a faint voice speak, *ahhh, all this time being locked away and you won't even let me have any fun with her?*

I grabbed my head with my left hand and flinched, after the pain was gone i gathered my things and hooked the makeshift bag over my shoulder then using the wall as support i got up and started moving towards the opening in the stone room.

I limped along the many halls of the strange place we had found ourselves in taking note of the pictographs that showed many types of different digimon carved into the walls and cieling.

*I must be in some kind of temple or some thing*, i thought as i tried to hurry as far away from Serinity as i could.

After some hours of limping along the many halls of the temple i finally came to a strange stone door at a three way intersection, i quickly started running my hands over it searching for some way to open it but found none. I searched the walls around the door searching for some kind of trigger to open it but still i found nothing, I finally gave up frustrated and dropped my head against the door closing my eyes.

"Damn it!, why won't it open!?", I said as i slammed my fist against the door in frustration.

"Chad?, what are you doing", I jumped when i heard Serinity's voice and looked at her.

"What are you doing here?!, you have to get away from me!, get as far away as you can before i lose control!", I yelled at her.

She got a pained expression on her face, but didn't say or do anything. I turned back to the door and tried to get it opened again as she stood by and watched me, *I have to get out of here before it's to late!*.

Another stab of pain hit me making me cry out and grab my head as i heard the faint voice speak to me, *heheheheh.....no matter how hard you try you'll never save her.....you can't even save yourself you weakling!.....isn't that why i'm here?....to save you....why don't you rest for a while and let me out so i can have some fun?*

"NO!....."

"Now see here!, what's all this racket?", I jerked around and looked down the hallway behind me and saw what seemed to be a very old man walking with a cane towards us out of the dimly lit hall.

*Someone else is here?!*

Another stab of pain hit me as the voice spoke, *hehehe.....maybe we'll leave this for another time weakling.....the old man doesn't look like he'd be much fun any how*, with that the pain faded away leaving me alone with my own thoughts.

I pressed my back against the stone door and slid down to the ground as a shiver spasmed through my body, i looked back at the old man as he made his way towards us and spoke.

"Stay back old human if you know what's good for you you'll stay as far away from me as possible", I said dully.

I felt Serinity's gaze fall on me again as the old man stopped in his tracks and looked at me, he reached up with his free hand and started stroking his beard as he spoke.

"Is that so young one?, and why would that be?"

I clutched at my shoulders trying to keep myself together as i replied, "to put it simply old man, i can't control my powers, if you don't get out of this place as soon as possible or if i can't get out then i could very well bring this whole place down on us and kill us all"

*If it was only me i wouldn't care, but with them here it wouldn't be right*

"Hmhmhmhm, is that so my young friend and would that be before or after you drop from blood lose here in my home?", I studied the old man for a minute before speaking again.

"It doesn't matter human as long as i'm alive then your in danger, so do everyone a favor and either leave or kill me now and be done with it"

I heard a gasp come from Serinity but i didn't turn to look at her as she spoke to me, "you can't mean that Chad!, what am i going to do about my family and my home!, i still need you to protect me and help me get it all back!" she said in a strained voice.

"It doesn't matter damn it!, i'm no good to anyone with out the number to keep "it" in check so the contract is broken no matter what you say!" i yelled.

"And just what is this "it" you're talking about young one?" the old man asked.

I closed my eye's as i felt the world start to fade out around me and spoke quietly as i waited for it all to fade away forever, "it doesn't matter any more old man, just do me a favor and watch over the female until you can get her out of this place safely and leave me here"

As i spoke the darkness rushed in around me until finally i felt myself slip into its inky black depths and fade away.

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Chapter thirty six

I regretfully awoke some time later to find that i was in a large chamber with blackets covering me and something warm and soft pressing against me, i didn't want to turn and look at who it was because somehow i already new it was Serinity.

As gently as i could i pried myself from her clinging form and got out of the bed looking myself over only to find i was covered in bandages from head to toe and my wing had been taken care of, i slowly got up from the bed so i didn't wake Serinity and my way over to a table in the middle of the room and grabbed my pants putting them on then made my way over to the door and out of the chamber.

I closed the door behind me and looked around, i found myself in a large chamber with several pieces of machinery and an empty glass display case and on the wall there were also some paintings of some humans with some digimon, one of each to each picture and above them a largish plaque stated in old english letters "The digidestined". I walked over to the painting of a young girl with a helmet or something on her head and studied it for a second, the girl was smiling widely and hugging a large pink bird with blue markings on its head crest so i looked down at the plaque on the bottom of the frame and read what it said "Sora and Beumon".

I turned around suddenly when i heard something behind me and saw the old man standing there looking at me with a smile on his face, "Those children where the very first digidestined, true at first they don't look like much but each one in his and her own right was a force to be recond with"

I studied the old man for a second before i spoke, "That's all well and good old man but if i remember correctly they died some years ago in the human world from old age i turned back to the paintings and pointed to the picture of a boy sitting next to what looked to be some kind of lizard with a blue symbol on it's chest and stomach wearing a tiger striped fur of somekind with a horn sticking out of its head.

"Except for that one, Mat i believe, he died in a skurmish killing shifters who were trying to get away from some shift hunters", the old man looked at the floor sadly as if thinking.

"That is true young one, he always was head strong and a little set in his ways", i watched as the old man walked over to the glass display case with a sad look on his face and ran his fingers over the front of it tenderly as if remembering something.

"Still he was one of the digidestined....he was doing only what he thought was right at the time", he turned back to look at me with a smile on his face again.

"But i suppose as a hybrid you would know something about doing what you think is right wouldn't you?", i glared at the old man before speaking.

"I don't have time for a walk down memory lane old man, show me how to get out of here so i can be on my way....for both yours and the females safety"

The old man slowly walked over to me and looked me in the face before hefting up his cane, he lashed out quicker than i could react and cracked me in the top of the head with it, I just looked at the old man as the sting of the hit slowly faded "if you think that little stick is going to do me in with one hit old man then you are sorely mistaken".

The old man just narrowed his eyes at me, "you would do well to listen to your elders young one you could very well learn something from me if you try"

With that the old man turned around and started walking towards a door on the far side of the room and when he reached it he turned back and looked at me, "come young one i have something to show you" then he turned back and started walking again.

I slowly limped after him and followed as he lead me threw some of the intrecately designed pictograph halls until we came to another room, this chamber was far larger than any i had seen so far. The chamber was round like a ball and as i walked in i noticed the part we were walking on didn't fully connect all the way around instead it was more like a bridge that went from one end to the other and in the middle the was a large flat area like a gathering place that was about fifty feet across and carved into the floor was some kind of symbol.

The old man didn't stop walking as i looked around the room, after i was done taking everything in i went after him but as i got to the center of the symbol. It suddenly flared to life and glowed like someone had hit the switch on a blacklight, i looked around at the symbol and just as suddenly fell to my knees holding my head as pain flared in my brain like someone had taken a red hot ice pick and shoved it into my forehead.

The pain was so bad that i couldn't even think, then it felt like someone took another one and shoved it in next to the first with enough force to make my head snap back out of my hands until i was looking at the roof of the chamber. I tried to work my way threw the pain but everytime i moved it only seemed to make it worse so i stayed still as wave after wave washed over me.

As the pain washed over me i saw something strange happened to the stones above me, they started to shift and churn and swirl. unable to move i could only watch what happened above me, slowly something began to form as i watched and soon a featureless face was staring back at me with closed eyes.

Slowly it seemed to drip and stretch from the cieling until it was a few inches from me, then the eyes opened ro reveal blank orbs that seemed to some how peer through me.

I could feel the fear welling up as my body was wracked with another spasm of pain then i heard a soft voice that seemed to echo from the edges of my mind, "I am the oricle of paths, who is it that stand before me?".

Even as i looked into the strange things face i heard the old man talk, "Oricle i bring before you one who is lost, as the guardian of this temple i ask for your help to guide this soul to its proper place"

Slowly the face began to move around until it was looking at my chin then it moved up and away as if it were looking at the old man, "he who is the guardian has ask for guidance for this lost soul, why does the guardian seek help for the lost one?".

Again the old man spoke to the strange ceature, "I beleave him to be important in the coming days, will you do as i ask?"

The strange thing above me said nothing for a minute before speaking again, "i will do this for the guardian, but my help comes at price" suddenly the thing shifted around until it was looking me in the eyes again. As it stared at me i heard something like soft humming start and the pain slowly began to fade, the face slowly began moving around me as if searching for something.

After a while the pain was gone completely but i still couldn't move for some reason as the thing looked me over, finally it moved back and looked me in the face again then it spoke to me.

"This one has many troubles and many paths he has followed and has yet to follow, indeed he is lost guardian but his future is beyond even me to descern. All i can see is the temple of prophacy, and great trials that lay before him in getting their. Newbreed i shall speak to you now so listen well to my words, you who are tormented by your own being shall seek out the temple of prophacy, In this you shall face great trials and many foes but none more dangerous that the one who is marked by hatred for all, they seek the end of everything newbreed and it is your fate your destiny to stop them, your comrades will be few but strong and true to your quest but your fate and your life rests in the hands of one who is blessed by the gods, go forth now newbreed and seek out your destiny"

"I cannot do as you ask" i told the face after i found i was able to move some.

"Newbreed i see your woe's but if you do not take this journey then you will never find the peace that you seek", as i looked at the face it began to change its nose elongated until it was in the form of a muzzle then everything else shifted until i was looking at the face of Serinity then the new face spoke to me in the oricles voice.

"Trust in the heart of she who is pure and you will know that which you have long since forgotten existed newbreed, trust in her and she will be your greatest asset in the coming times for only with her help will you realized your true potential"

"listen well to these my finally words new breed,two souls born shall clash with swords in hand and the worlds will tremble at their might.

One soul filled with darkness the other filled with light, bound by fate they will meet in the place between.

One to seek his salvation the other to wipe the slate clean, if unchallanged the one born of light will destroy all.

But if the innocents pure love should tame the beast within the dark then he shall take up his sword and stand before the gods to usher in the new world".

To Be Continued.......