Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Demon Child ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Hello anyone who thought this was decent enought to continue reading.

Your rewiews for the prologue made me feel stupid. Don't worry, this is a good thing. After thinking back over my plans, I realized that they were the dumbest thing I could do. What was origionally going to be this fic will be the sequel, and what was going to be the side story will go here. So yes...

I'm typing this in WordPad because MWord got deleted on this computer somehow, so please forgive any spelling mistakes. If anyone would like to run this through SpellCheck and e-mail me the results, I'd be grateful, but please be intelegent about what you let it correct.

Disclaimer: see prologue

'Thinking'
"Talking"
"Agni to Takuya"
"Takuya to Agni"


Takuya sighed as he stared into the campfire. It had been two weeks since he had had to leave his home, and in that time he had developed something of a strange relationship it Agni. It was somewhere between the slave/master type relationship he and been expecting, anfd the type of relantionship one would have with their best friend.

Last week Agni had started to teach Takuya how to control fire, so he wouldn't be defenceless if they were attacked at night, but so fat he hadn't been able to do much. He could control the size of an already existinf fire, to a point, and he could make a cloud of heted air above his hand, but he couldn't actualy generate his own flames or manipulate them the way Agni could.

He sighed again and picked a leaf up off the ground. Cupping it in his hands, he used it as a focus to try to summon a flame. The leaf smoked and shriveled up, but there was no sign of any actual fire.

"Try again. You almost had it that time"

Takuya grinned and reached for another leaf, replying out loud, "Really? Where did I mess up this time?"

"You got a spark, but then your attention wavered and it was extinguished by it's own smoke. What were you thinking that distracted you?"

"I'm woried about what will happen when we reach the next town."

"Why?"

"There is a clan in that town that has made itself famout as a group of demon slayers. They've even gained the favor of Minerva(1)!" Takuya shivered involentarly, "And I've heard that they go out of their way to be crule when they find a demon trying to pass itself off as a human(2)."

"Yes, that could be a problem. Now try again, we shoud be far enough out of town that on one will see you. ...and try concentrating of the feel of the fire itself this time, not just the heat."

Takuya sighed and focused on the leaf in his hand. "Hai, Agni-sama."

Kouji smiled as he steped out into the night air. He love the calm of nighttime after the chaos that clan meeting usualy generated.

Something seemed wrong though. The calm tonight wasn't as relaxing as he was used to, but felt more like the calm-before-the-storm feeling he experenced just before he went out after a demon.

Playing off a hunch, he turned and ran out the town gates, ignoring the respectful bows and 'Minimoto-dono's'(3) from the vilagers who were still awake.

A few miles later Kouji came to a campfire. Still playing off his hunce, he hid behind one of the bushes that littered the area and waited to see what would happen.

"...I mess up this time?"

That was the brown haired boy sitting next to the fire, but who was he talking to? Kouji was about to say something, but the boy started speaking again.

"I'm woried about what will happen when we reach the next town."

A runaway afraid of being recognised?

"There is a clan in that town that has made itself famout as a group of demon slayers. They've even gained the favor of Minerva!"

Kouji narrowed his eyes when he say the boy shiver. It was definately not chilly enough for that to be from the cold.

"And I've heard that they go out of their way to be crule when they find a demon trying to pass itself off as a human."

Kouji's eyes narrowed even more. Why would this buy, who Kouji could tell was completely human, be so afraid of his clan? And who the hell was he talking to?!

"Hai, Agni-sama."

Kouji froze at those words. 'Agni-sama'? This kid worked for the lord of all fire demons? Well that certenly explained why he was so afraid of his clan, and who he was talking to, but why did the part about demons pretending o be human scare him so much?

As if in answer to his question, the boy focused on a leaf he was holding in his hand. A few seconds later, there was a bright flash of light and a wave of heat that even Kouji could feel from his hiding place, and the noy was left holding the remains of what used to be a leaf.

"Are you ok?"

Takuya coughed and waved some smoke out of his face. "Yeah, I'm fine. What just happened?"

"You used about six times as much energy as you needed to and ended up doing something I wasn't going to teach you until you had better control." He paused and said slowly, "Stop practising and go to sleep, someone's watching you."

Takuya stiffened and looked around the area. Not seeing anyone, he took Agni's word for it and, using his pack as a pillow, lay down to sleep. Hihs last thoughts that night were: 'I am so dead!'

(1) Minerva is the Roman version of Athena, goddess of crafts, wisdom, and war. I'm using Minerva because she is less known and there is actualy a Minervamon(Thank you TDP). What? We were studying Greek mythology when I was writing this part!
(2) No, that's not just for the plot. A demon that looks like a human would be able to move around much easier, thus being more of a threat.
(3) According to the Naruto movie, this is and honorific used for samurai. Could someone please clear this up for me?

Looking back over this, I'm hoping my English teacher (yes, I'm in summer schol) never decides to read what I'm writing in my little notebook, or she'd probably castrate me for using both 'he' and 'they' to refer to Tagni(the name sugested for their body by Earthpaw. Thanks for the idea. And to fix the problem he(?) brought up, no that does not mean this is a Yaoi). And yes, she is the kind of Teacher From Hell who would do that.

Just one peice of advice before I go: Never tell you workaholic dad that you get more of a workout playing DDR than doing yard work.

R&R Ja ne!