#event reckoner

“I wonder how long it’s going to take everything to recover once this is over.”

☽♘☾     They need to die.

჻   That is what they said, didn’t they? If our hive lived the other one would die, if the other Hive was destroyed ours would love. That meant our Hive needed to be destroyed to save the other one. Our Hive needed to be destroyed to save her.

░   He couldn’t let her die again. He couldn’t. That was that. It was too much the first time. It drove him to great lengths to get revenge on the murderer. This time, though, if he didn’t do something to stop the destruction of the other Hive... this time he’d be her murder.

♱♱ “Zero you need to stop this! This is going too far!” The necklace called out, Silva being worried about him wanting to stop his actions, but she had none of her usual abilities to do much but at least talk to him and the fact Rei wouldn’t respond was not good to her. “Zero! You can’t do this. This breaks every rule and is pointless..!”

▒   “It has every point. Any reason to save her, is a reason to do it.” Taking out his swords that were sheathed under his jacket he spun them in his hands a few times.

Ice materialized under the boy’s feet as he dragged the limp body of a man across the cracked concrete, making it easier for the smaller figure transport the soldier. Under normal circumstances, Emizel wouldn’t have even considered saving the fool’s life. In an ideal world, his first thoughts would have been of finishing the job and making sure the man’s soul made it safely to the afterlife.

But that wasn’t the case. Death was tasked with saving the lives that were on the brink of death. His role was reversed.

A sound. Emizel dropped the man’s coat, straining his ears against the noise of the distant fighting. It wasn’t another demon; he’d be able to feel it’s powers. He was far from the fighting, taking a less known route to avoid conflict.

Rika Nonaka wasn’t lying when she proclaimed that she was going to end this world in both fire and ice. And since IceDevimon was already digivolved, might as well start with the ice. 

“Now that play time is over,” She started, referring to her encounter with her pathetically weak double. “It’s time for some real fun.” The ruthless redhead and frozen fallen angel digimon wore matching smug looks. Then, with skilled grace, the girl drawn a digimon card from her deck case and her digivice slashing the card through it’s slot. “Digi-Modify. Power activate.” She stated with arrogant confidence.

IceDevimon received a red aura from the modification and yelled out a strong cry. Running her hand through her bangs, Rika nodded. “Go IceDevimon, you know what to do. Freeze everything.” And with that, the ice devil spread it’s wings and flew away, shooting ice beams from it’s eyes and freezing anything that got hit by it. 

Shiranui nodded. 「If at all possible.」 He nudged Emizel with his nose. 「Where are you going to go?」 

“I’m probably going to end up looking for one of my comrades. She’s an angel, so she’ll probably do something stupid like get stabbed while healing someone.” He tested the weight of his scythe in his hands. It was almost ever used,  but it was comforting to have it again.

Most of Shiki’s District was more or less safe from the sudden invasion that was now happening all around Hive City. The mysterious inhabitants that co-exist with the human residents of District Alpha are normally harmless, but even them fought back when they were attacked. The combined effort of both, along with the obvious advantage of the terrain, helped them deal with any intruder easily. It didn’t seem like Shiki would get more action if she staid in one place. And it wasn’t her style to maintain a defensive attitude either. Staying motionless when a rare opportunity like this allowed her to continuously use her skills to the maximum (something that the city’s very mechanics prevented her from doing these past few months) would be a huge waste. 

Therefore, she left her underground district for the upper levels of the city. She spend some time there, getting a better feel for her eyes, her honed reflexes and her somewhat rusty swordsmanship until she decided she had reached her top condition. This was only a prelude to what she was actually planning to do. And soon enough, she found what she was looking for.  “So this is the portal leading to the other city. I don’t know if this is a parallel world or whatever, but at any rate clues to escape this place might exist there.” 

Saying that, she fearlessly strode through the portal to end up in what was supposed to be a different version of the Hive City. The place she was now standing on, barely looked different than where she was but a moment ago, but one could spot one or two differences here and there. Not staying there to admire the foreign scenery, Shiki moved fast. An explosion nearby told her that a battle was taking place. And she was not one to shun away from a fight. Soon enough she reached the origin of the explosion. The smoke there wasn’t enough to hide the gruesome sight of the destroyed bodies that fell victims to it. Probably some kind of bomb. 

‘Tsk, the victims are residents from our side. I have no attachment to that place but..’ She still didn’t enjoy seeing people she had passed by on the road reduced to dead bodies. She took a moment to close their eyes, something totally unlike her usual self. Their blood was now covering her hands. ‘Fear not.’ She thought to herself. ‘I’ll kill as many as them as I can.' And with that she moved to leave there. But her road was now blocked. A young man was in the way. A dangerous looking sword on his hand. Enemy? Ally? Shiki didn’t know. 

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“Renamon, I think we’re safe.” Rika assured her partner as the yellow fox sped through the city. “And I know you’re getting tired.” They have been running for a while, away from a near death experience with an almost mirror image with themselves.

Rika shivered just thinking about the pair. She had almost forgotten about her encounter with IceDevimon and moments ago was too much of a rude awakening. It was scary to see what they were capable of. What she herself was capable of. She tried to tell herself that she was different. She was better. But her words were of no use to reconcile her.

Renamon knew this was bothering her and that’s why she kept running. Maybe physically running might mentally make their memory of the event go away. But that was just wishful thinking and the digimon was indeed losing stamina. “Renamon, please. You need to rest.” Conceding to Rika’s pleas, she paused to a halt and let her partner down before dropping to her knees. Rika mirrored her out of mental fatigue. So there they were, sitting in the middle of the streets like the tuckered weaklings Rika’s double had called them. Which ticked Rika off to the millionth degree, stabbing at her pride like a cold knife. “I am pathetic.”