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Chapter 4 - A Little Bit Of Trouble

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Renanullmon's attacks and behaviors change based on her mood! If she glows red, run away! Well, you should never fight her, but especially not when she glows red! Even her friends don't want to be near her when she's angry!

When she's ice-blue, get ready to dodge! She's sad and wants to be left alone, so she uses ranged attacks to keep you away from her.

When she glows pink, she's at her weakest, but don't be fooled! She goes numb and will do anything to get that feeling back! You'd be surprised about how much hurt she can take! >:3

And purple? Purple? PURMPLE! Well, that's when she's there to have fun! xD (It's evil fun! (watch out, she brought cookies! (chocolate chip's her fav btw lol (i just like parentheses)))

[Edit: three years later, I'm still getting comments on this page of her character sheet! No, I'm not going to redo it. I'm flattered! But also I should not have been allowed unfettered internet access. Please excuse me while I go commit die.]

[Editx2: I don't remember everything what I thought she was supposed to do. If you took sephiroth/ichigo, put them into a blender and also a girl and then something something heartless, nothing, rikumyonetrueluv.[

[I wasn't the most original, okay? It is bullshit that only the cute girl characters die in video games (tifashouldhavediedyesiknowthatslessthematicandkindofdumbbutidontcarethatwasbulkshit). ps - No, I haven't played Chain of Memories and don't plan to play it or any of the other new KH games. Play FF Dissidia if your missing out on your KH fix! :3]

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Mia and Meikitmon watched Renanullmon's purple disappear as the door shut. She knew exactly what Meikitmon was going to say next.

"Come on Mia!" Meikitmon said, standing by the door to the room. "We gotta follow her!"

"I want to stay here for once!" She objected, softly as she yawned. She had learned to get used to being tired, but despite it all, even she needed rest sometimes. The emotional exhaustion and whiplash had sunk inside.

Normally, Mia would have gone in with Meikitmon without hesitation, but she hadn't had any good sleep for days at this point. After all the stress and crying, all she wanted was to lie down on the huge, big, comfy bed.

They could let whatever was going to happen, happen.

Meikitmon hopped all over her. "No! don't sleep!" She cried. "We HAVE to go!" She said dancing all over.

"But I'm so tired!" Mia yawned.

"If you wanna do your own stuff, you gotta be able to make your own decisions! And we can't just sleep now! We HAVE to get your digivice back!" Meikitmon said.

"I dunno…" Mia said.

"Oh come on! When we get it back, I can digivolve and help! We're the STRONGEST! The best! We only lost because they CHEATED," Meikitmon declared.

"That's true…" Mia said, sitting up, but still very much reluctant. "But you gotta be careful."

One of these times, things weren't going to work. It was a worry that sat at the bottom of her belly like that time she drank sour milk when she was six. She didn't throw up, but she certainly didn't feel good.

Meikitmon danced all over, practically bouncing all over the room and the bed.

"Cmon cmon! We will be careful! I won't fight until we get your digivice back and I can evolve! Promise!"

Mia shook her head and stood up, then hopped off the bed. She went to the sink and splashed her face. If you were still tired but couldn't go to sleep yet, stand up, wash your face. That's what she'd learned.

It didn't help.

"Cmon! We gotta hurry! The run will help you stay awake!" Meikitmon was still doing her thing.

Cautiously, Mia opened the door, peeking down the hallway. Even if you knew where everyone was, It never hurt her to be careful.

"We gotta g—" Meikitmon said, her voice going down when she noticed Mia's expression. "—ooo" her voice tapered off into a whisper.

The fallen-over statues all down the hall made for a very funny sight.

Mia was still a zombie. Her head kind of float, whether from the things they had tried to make her like Skyler, or from sleep, she didn't know. It had been on a cold rock floor.

Her stomach rumbled as the duo stepped into the hall, hearing the various crashes and villainous cackles. She didn't remember the last full meal she'd had.

"See! We know exactly where. We just have to be quiet! If she didn't want us to follow behind her, she wouldn't have left a trail!" Meikitmon declared with enthusiasm.

As excited as Meikitmon was, she wouldn't leave Mia's side. That was nice. They could wait a bit longer before going to sleep. They never were safe, they'd learned that together. It wasn't even the same problem each time, something always happened when they stayed behind like they were told.

Mia looked down at Meikitmon and smiled as they picked up pace and the adrenaline began to kick in.

"We just can't go in the same way she does," Mia told Meikitmon

This time was different.

Together, they WOULD NOT fail.

They couldn't.

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It didn't take long for me to find the various kids. I hadn't yet learned the trick to concealing my glow—my character sheet was explicit that I could retract it in certain situations, but I couldn't tell. I sat back in the hallway a bit, peering in from a distance.

"Useless." a Digimon's voice, stereotypically evil spat, angelic light finally dimming under the room.

"Skyler!" two voices shouted in unison, one a digimon's and the other a human boy's.

It was either now or never I guessed, so I began to approach the room. A shimmering light before me and green lines as two ghost-like forms merged together. I caught the back of the resulting metal reaper as it started to cackle. I waved my right hand around, flicking my arm. Willing for it.

If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

Cmon, cmon, cmon, cmon! I thought to myself. A dark light in my three-fingered hand erupted, and boom, there it was.

I grabbed the shimmering, all-too-spikey blade that may or may not look like a giant, edgy key. A key… blade, if you will. Anyway, I bonked it on the back of the head without much fanfare before it could do anything, blasting it into bits and pieces, the energy or whatever the power boost was when digimon absorbed other creatures was called.

"I don't have patience for that," I managed to get out, announcing my entrance.

A rather tall girl with dark hair with cute bell-bottoms and a blue T-shirt, with a backpack went from cheering behind an Angemon. The girl, presumably Madelyn, was holding out her digivice. The determined look dropped for a solid second, before she tightened her jaw and continued to stare me down, a myriad of emotions circling over her face as she evaluated me.

I stepped out, further into the room, and stood tall. I wasn't holding the blade in my hand, its wicked spikes threatening anyone that would draw close. God, it was so dumb.

Moving might provoke them, so instead I just stood in the center, elevated up a few feet, letting the fainted Skyler get tended to by the nerd archetype. Every person and digimon in the room slowly turned to stare at me, including the Kakuna-looking thing with tentacles out its back that had been dancing back and forth in a fight with a bipedal lion. Leomon.

"Sorry I'm late to the party," I said to the Kakuna. "You were all so sure you were going to win that I couldn't help."

Fidgeting at the growing attention, I spun the key-blade in my hand as I realized I didn't actually have a plan of action for handling the protagonists. if I remembered correctly. A kid and his beetle-like partner had been helping Skyler up, both of them also joining the starefest.

"Go on, help the kid," I said, encouraging him.

It was the older girl who broke the humans' silence. "... She has a digivice!"

Two figures slinked in from behind the humans. I would have put my finger-claw things to the bridge of my forehead.

"It looks broken," the nerd said.

"What did you do with Mia!" the girl accused.

"She wanted to be like Skyler!" The Chrysalis digimon declared, a ring on one of its tentacle bits glowing, the rest of the creature beginning to digivolve.

"Leomon!" The boy nearest it said, casually. "Digivolve!"

Found the too-cool-for-school kid. Easy enough. Now, we were missing— A kid ran at me full speed from the sidelines and launched himself at me. And punched me in the jaw.

The punch didn't even hurt. I was simply just… stunned.

Kids did that?

"Let's go, Gaomon!" he said, a manic, almost feral grin. Right, of course the hothead would have a boxing-glove digimon partner. The show always had it like, green lines and stuff, but watching digivolution in this universe was either quite weird, or it just happened differently than I was used to. Or I could be remembering wrong.

It had been at least a decade since I'd seen any digimon-related media. Hm, if I got back home, digimon anime was probably better for the young kid-diet than pokemon. Daniel had said he didn't like the message of Pokemon that it accidentally taught him that "life will pull bullshit to keep you from winning anything."

"Huh. I didn't think humans would actually get in on the game," I said.

"Yeah, and we'll beat your can! You think we're scared of you?!?" He said, the boxing digimon evolving into a form that's still blue and red and on all fours. "Told you guys I can get close!"

If these were the types of characters in the show, then Digimon would be much better at empowering young boys than 99% of other cartoons. Though if I ever had a daughter… I turned back to Madelyn and Angemon. She had assumed a lax posture, hand on hip.

"I take it you're the team leader type then, huh." I said.

"Don't ignore us!" the hothead kid shouted. I ran at the Angemon, and just as he braced for my keyblade, I did the smart thing, and hooked around him, ignoring the digimon entirely. Instead, I went for her backpack. My claws were sharp, and I was faster than a human could react, so I sliced it off her, just barely getting it off her before the Angemon could spear me in the eye-socket, the air whooshing as I dodged out of the way.

Madelyn was forced onto the ground, the blue wolf-thing catching her as she fell to the ground. Unfortunately, there was no announcer or convenient text or characters announcing their evolutions when they, well, evolved. Blue-boxing-quadrupedal-fox-wolf-mon, it was.

"Aaaargh!" The hot head yelled, coming at me with his fist again. I didn't exactly want to tap him with my keyblade, and I wasn't keen on taking a hit from anyone at the moment, though with everyone on the protagonist team focused on other things for a moment, I had a few milliseconds.

So I hopped back over to where Skyler had been dragged away from, including his backpack.

"Gaogamon! Get her before she runs away!" the hothead shouted the second Madelyn started to recover her composure.

"Angemon! Evolve!" She shouted, holding out her digivice.

Oh fuck. Angemon was already a season-ending bad-guy killer. I had already gotten lucky enough so far, and didn't want to test it.

"STOP IT, Guys!"

"Mia!?!" The three boys all shouted in unison.

Mia and Meikitmon strode out from the shadows of the room.

Madelyn didn't miss a beat. "See, I told you she had been corrupted by evil!"

Mia's face was already starting to go red at her sister's accusations, before she took a deep breath, and let the blood clear.

"Nullrenamon is my FRIEND, and she is NOT evil! Not like you, anyway" she spat with all the venom she could muster at her older sister. I glanced down around me, from the little sibling squabble as all the boys just seemed at a loss of what to do. Skyler's bag was right there.

"But she's going to destroy THE WORLD! Baalmon told us that! Clockmon said it!"

"Well, she's nicer to me than you," she said.

"Yeah!" Meikitmon said, rushing by my side. "I wouldn't let anything happen to Mia EVER."

The battle between the Lion digimon and the silver-and-red six-legged thing was continuing all through the argument. That was Skyler's backpack. I was getting really, uncannily lucky. Unfortunately, I was going to have to take the beat, seeing how terribly I had fucked up the first impressions. I cut into and opened madelyn's bag, among snacks and some various notebooks. I found my prize when two digivices fell out. One was purple, the other black.

The two sisters were continuing to argue, so with my foot, I slid the black one over to the nerd tending to Skyler, who just stared at me, as the kid was starting to get up. The castle rumbled as the demon-looking digimon that had been Tsumemon punched through a nearby wall.

"It's his," I said to the nerd.

Boys. Whether plot convenience idiot balls or boys being too stupid to realize when to ignore the girls to finish the job, I seized the opportunity. It was time to go, I had caused enough problems.

I shuffled through Skyler's own backpack, and found the remote I was looking for.

"Well, are you going to go help your buddy fight them? I'm not doing anything right now," I said to the two boys.

"Yeah, let's go help Brad"

"I thought you hated Brad," the nerd said.

"I do, but I can't handle their arguing even more," the hothead said.

"Now that, we can agree on," the nerd said.

"Girls!" They both said as they and their digimon left the room in what could only be described as immense stupidity. I never even got the opportunity to deny the allegations!

Walking up to Mia as the angemon-who-probably-should-have-evolved-but didn't staring me down was a sight. I took a wide berth and handed Mia her digivice, pressed some random buttons on the remote, and a portal opened up around us.

"Fine! Get out of here! Help destroy the world! See if I care!" Madelyn said.

"Stop being such a brat! You're so much older than me!" Mia said, then hmphed through the portal. If I was going to be a good person, I was probably going to try and facilitate their talking it out, but Mia, holding her digivice, walked confidently through the portal.

It closed behind us, and Mia just screamed at the sky.

"Being evil is so much better than being good!" She shouted.

Huh.

Wait.

Was Meikitmon eating a cookie?