Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 7 - Journey Through the Darkness ❯ Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Sora came in from the living room and sat at the kitchen table after throwing out some bandages. "I changed his bandages but they're still going to need a lot of time before they're healed," she said. Tai sat across from her at the table watching Kelryn trying to make coffee. She was up and walking around despite her left ankle being very badly sprained and numerous bruises all over her. It had been a week since they lost their digimon and child.

"I can't tell which one of you two got it worse," Tai said. Sora hit him. "Sorry, I was just saying."

"It's alright Tai," Kelryn said sitting. "You four have been a lot of help."

"You forget how to count," said Relaina looking around the doorway.

"I don't count anyone who won't tell us anything. All we know is your name is 'Relaina' because Kovin muttered it." Kelryn said. "And even then you haven't confirmed it or told us a bloody thing!"

"I told you, I'm just here to help. Not my place to tell the story, it's Kovin's," she said.

"He's asleep twenty-three hours a day and says nothing when awake," Tai said.

"Not my fault," she countered.

"Get out of my house." Kelryn said.

"What?"

"Get out of my house then. You're no longer welcome." Relaina was about to counter when Kovin came in the kitchen. He looked like hell. The three bullet wounds and innumerable cuts, scraps and gashes everywhere on his chest and back from the fight were still visible. Wearing a shirt was too painful to his was confined to a pair of loose fitting shorts. They all watched, curious about what his actions would be. He was slow like he got up too early despite being asleep almost constantly for the week. Kovin poured a cup of coffee and sat down beside Tai, opposite Kelryn. He took a sip of the coffee and looked up at Relaina standing behind Kelryn. He spit out his coffee and jumped up.

"You!" He yelled.

"Me? Where?" Relaina looked around the room quickly. Kovin circled the table and everyone expected them to start fighting immediately, but instead he hugged her.

"It's been too long," he said.

"If I had come last week it would have been too long, now is just painfully inconvenient," she said. "Do I still have to leave?"

"What?"

"Kelryn just said I had to leave." He looked at Kelryn.

"It's alright. This is Relaina Alexander and old," he looked at Relaina and paused for a second, "friend of mine." Relaina crossed her arms in mock insult.

"Friend? Just a friend?" She asked looking hurt.

"I agree," said Kelryn. "Just a friend?"

"She used to be a watcher until she became digidestined," Kovin said. "Obviously she had to get away. We just kind of stumbled into each other and were running around the continent picking fights and generally building her digimon's skill and power. When she felt like she wanted to re-infiltrate the watchers we said goodbye. Just friends."

"There was that night in Las Vegas. And San Francisco, and New York, and Halifax, and Toronto," Relaina said.

"Not helping." Kovin whispered.

"Damn you two got around. And you went to a lot of cities too," Tai said, snickering.

"How many times were there?" Kelryn asked.

Please do not answer. Kovin thought.

"Ninety-three times across eighty-two nights," Relaina said, very proud that she could stir up this much trouble. Tai and Sora's jaws dropped while Kelryn's teeth could be heard grinding.

"Ninety-two," Kovin corrected her.

"Oh yeah, that one time I was pretty much on my own wasn't I?" Relaina asked, smiling and reminiscing. Kovin went and got another cup of coffee and sat back down.

"You bastard," Kelryn said.

"Look, you shot me in the chest and left me for dead. I didn't exactly feel a lot of loyalty to you." Kovin said.

"You could have told me," she said.

"And what would that have accomplished other than pissing you off?" Kovin asked. Kelryn didn't have an honest answer for that. Relaina got herself a chair from the living room and joined them at the table.

"I assume you guys would like some questions answered now that we're all friends," Relaina leaned over and kissed Kelryn on the check and promptly got slapped. "I guess we are friends, she already knows I like it rough." Tai and Sora were snickering at her. "So the million dollar question is: 'why have the rouge digidestined started forming into groups?', yes?" No one answered. "The answer is simple, and it's because of you guys. The Guardians were a little too good at their job, and it only took a while for them to start figuring out about strength in numbers."

"Great," Tai said. "The bigger our group gets the bigger they get until it's just two massive groups fighting."

"That's not the half of it, goggle-boy. There is a rouge group of watchers who want to use the digimon in experiments to develop weapons and alternate energy sources. They broke away from the main group while Kovin was keeping them busy killing you guys," she said pointing at Tai and Sora. If Kovin hadn't distracted the watchers, this rouge group would have died in its infancy. This rouge group then needed an army of sorts to travel around and do jobs. The rouge digidestined population was perfect. They used one or two at first but when they started forming into groups they were able to militarise all of them. Those who didn't get on board were killed after they had experimented their digimon to death. Now they wanted two mega-capable digimon to play with. They also want to see what happens to the child of two digidestined. Did you two know that you were the first digidestined ever to stop killing each other long enough to have a child?"

"Actually we did," Kovin said.

"So let me get this strait," Kelryn said. "If Kovin hadn't attacked them, the rouge watchers wouldn't have started, and if he hadn't changed sides, they would have died in their infancy. Right?"

"That's about right, yes." Relaina said.

"So all this is your fault," Kelryn said to Kovin.

"Yep. Damn I'm cool eh?" He finished his second cup of coffee and went to get a third. "Wait a minute. I started that killing spree because you shot me, and I stopped because you showed up and started screwing with my head. So, this is all," he flicked Kelryn in the nose, "your fault. They say behind every good man there's a woman, well behind this psycho-killer of a man we have the queen-bitch of the universe." Kovin and Relaina both bowed to Kelryn in unison. Relaina put a doughnut on Kelryn's head.

"Your highness." Kelryn snapped up and punched Relaina in the jaw before throwing the doughnut at her.

"So how do you know all this?" Sora asked.

"Well, when I infiltrated the watchers as a rouge digidestined I had made several rouge friends. Actual friends, not the kind of friends Kovin and I are. I mean were. So I had a beautiful cross section of knowledge on digidestined movements combined with all the watcher's knowledge. When the rouge group split away I offered to go undercover with them. Even though I kind of stated it, being Alexis' muse. So I had knowledge of the rouge watcher activities, and I was playing them off the real watchers, who I also had knowledge of. And I was playing them both of the rouge digidestined feeding both sides false information. And when I tried to break up a fight I found my digivice looked like this." She pulled out her D3. "And I like to drive some misinformation to the normal humans as a human."

"I'm counting five games you're playing at once," Sora said. Tai looked up from counting on his fingers.

"I hope you can keep that strait," he said. Relaina wiped a spot of blood off her nose.

"You'll pay for that," she said.

"Any time," Kelryn said.

"The reason I'm here is that I feel more loyalty to Kovin than any of my five groups. So I'm here to help you get your son and digimon back. As you can tell from your digivices they're alive. But they won't be for long. I know of several bases, but I'm not privy to the knowledge about which they're in. If your ready," she drew one of Kovin's katanas. "We'll leave today."

"Where is Wyrvenmon?" Kovin asked. Relaina sighed heavily.

"She's in the park hunting squirrels."