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Chapter 12: Friends and Enemies!

The glow faded away from the two figures. Zack just looked on and smiled as he saw them standing there, holding each other with Trione smiling and Kit with a look of What-the-hell on his face. Zack laughed a bit from the site while the others around him looked on at them.

They both stood nearly the same height, Trione just a little shorter. She wore red guantlets and wore a rotating yin-yang around her neck. She was covered in the beautifully soft yellow fur typical to renamon. Kit was about average for a human. Standing at about 5'9" with a medium build that you couldn't really see. He was wearing brown shorts and an orange shirt and about as blonde as...well I won't insult him...anyway...

Trione was the first to recognize the village and said, "Well it's been awhile since I've been here..." then she noticed a familiar energy signature nearby. Curious, as it wasn't renamonic, she looked over and noticed a human standing nearby laughing slightly while looking directly at them. At first she wasn't sure so she called out, "And who are you?"

"Ah come on!" Zack replied chuckling, "Don't tell me you don't recognize ME you two!!"

Trione's ears flicked towards his voice and she smiled now sure of who it was and said quietly to Kitane, "Love, I have someone you'd like to meet...well see again I should say," as she teleported both herself and Kit to Zack.

Zack just looked at the two as the appeared next to him. It had been nearly a year now, but he would recognize Kit easily enough. Trione, though, he had never seen before, but Kit had spent endless occassions explaining what she looked like and Kit apparently hit the nail on the head because she was easily everything he had described and more.

Trione, still smiling released her hold on Kit and stepped forward giving Zack a hug saying, "So, glad we could finally meet, Kit's told me alot about you."

Zack looked at her returning the hug and feeling his arousal start to react, replied quickly, "Yeah the pleasure's mine," returning her smile and quickly releasing the hug to avoid getting caught. "Kit, bro...you looked like you've seen a ghost," he commented trying to take attention off of himself.

Trione smiled as she said, "Yeah the spell does that to you if you're not used to teleporting."

Kit just looked at Trione, then back at Zack and said, "Sup...*lurch* bro....'scuse me....I'm gonna puke..." he stuttered as he threw up.

Zack just looked at him, 'Nice...' he thought shaking his head as both he and Trione started laughing a bit.

Suddenly Auria appeared next to Zack with a loud, "UM HMM!! So Zack are these your friends?" she said looking at him with a glint of playfulness.

Zack looked at her oddly and, catching the hint, "OHH!! Where are my manners! Trione, Kit, this is my partner and mate Auria. Trione you might know her by..." he started to say.

"An'niya! Well well it's a small world after all!" Trione said happily.

"You haven't changed at all Li'ana," Auria replied as the two girls hugged.

Zack just looked between the two, dumbfounded, "Uh....?" was all he managed to say as he pointed from Auria to Trione and back.

Auria, already knowing what her mate was thinking, "We grew up together a long time ago honey. She, Reya and I were the best of friends. But one day her family as well as most of the other renamon just up and left the village one day. I never knew what happened to them,"

Trione pulled away from the hug continuing with, "And it's because of that that I have so much to tell you all," she smiled.

Then almost simultaneously, Tarius, Luke and Reya all appeared around the little group and introductions were continued for a good while.

Roughly half an hour later they had finally moved indoors to Tarius's hut. They were all sitting down enjoying cold water and just general conversation and catching up.

Zack looked around the cabin having moved away to let the girls do their thing. 'Ok we should not all fit in here this well. I know the cabin wasn't large enough for all of us, after all we had just enough room when me and Auria came along, not to mention Luke. And Reya was here before that! So then how the hell is this place holding all of us so well...'

Tarius, having been nearby at the time, overheard the human's thoughts and replied out loud, "It's simple enough. I used a spell I learned a long time ago that allows the house to look the same size but can adjust to fit an enormous amount of people. And it does so instantaneously without anyone noticing. Sound familiar?"

Zack looked at him dumbly for a moment. 'Allows something to stay the same size on the outside but allow for expansion without others realizing it...' then his mind flashed back to Auria swallowing him, and how her mouth just seemed to constantly stretch to take him in...

"Bingo," Tarius said laughing at the human's sudden realization.

"Huh, cool," Zack said aloud.

Zack then turned towards the front doorway heading outside saying, "Hey any of you up for a friendly sparring match?"

Kit looked up from the group of girls, having not left Trione's side, saying, "Sure I'm game!"

Trione looked at Kit, tilting her head to the side, "So you're feeling better then love?"

"Well not really but I figure a good match might help me relax," he grinned at her.

Trione just sighed smiling, "Well have fun. Oh and Zack?"

"Hmm?" Zack replied looking back for a moment.

"Make sure to start off easy," she said smiling again, "He doesn't know what he can do just yet."

"Of course," Zack said, returning the smile with a slight nod.

Then he turned on his heel and headed outside with Kit following close by. After they got far enough away from the hut so that Zack was fairly sure that nothing would happen to it, he dropped into a fighting stance some 5 feet from Kit, right foot forward. Kit in response took a more upright stance with his left foot forward. But Zack knew that Kit could easily stop anything he tried from that stance.

"So you ready to warmup first?" Zack said narrowing his eyes in a competitive glare, still smiling to show his good intentions.

"Heh well do you mind if Dark helps me out? He says he wants a piece of the action,"

"Sure why not?" Zack shrugged slightly, "Now....GO!" he shouted charging Kit at normal human speed.

"A direct attack? Come on Zack! Warmup not basic training..." Kit said shaking his head to the side as he quickly thrusted his front foot forward sideways catching Zack midstep.

Zack, grinning at the basic tactic, pivoted his front foot, using the force of the stop to launch himself up above Kit. He tucked into a front flip and threw out his right leg in a decending heel smash. Kit looked up when he realized Zack had jumped above him and seeing the kick quickly crossed-stepped his front leg over and spinning rapidly, threw a hard right kick into Zack's stomach mid-flip. It connected and hard. Zack recoiled from the kick and slid back about 3 feet.

"Come on bro, that was nothing. I admit the aerial moves were nice but you were waaay to obvious. Dark is even laughing," Kit said smiling as he looked at Zack as he picked himself up off the ground.

Zack turned around, still smiling, and replied, "Well I had to see just how far you're reaction time has come along. Now I can speed things up. And use more...elaborate attacks."

Kit tilted his head at that wondering, 'What is he up to...' when suddenly Zack disappeared.

'What the...?!' he thought.

'Kit! Behind you! Duck!' said Dark.

Unfortunately Kit didn't hear him and Zack reappeared behind Kit and used a simple kick catching Kit in the right bicep. Simultaneously knocking him over, and making Kit grunt in unexpected pain.

Kit looked up to Zack and said, "What the hell bro? When did you figure that little trick out? And why can't I move my arm..."

"You don't know the half of what I can do now bro," Zack laughed a bit, "and as for your arm I hit a central nerve in the bicep. Your muscles won't be moving for another 4 minutes or so."

"Well that was cheap...ok fine you want to play that way? Dark says he's got a surprise for you," Kit smiled and closed his eyes, quickly opening them, startling Zack as they were now red, saying, "TRANSFORM!"

Suddenly, it was like Kit's body was being swallowed in darkness. His power was spiking incredibly and Zack quickly realized that somehow Kit and Dark figured out how to let Dark release himself by transforming Kit's body. Normally that wouldn't be such a bad thing. But Zack had never explained to anyone about who Dark was...and he knew that they, and the village, could all likely feel his presence as it was forming.

'SHIT,' Zack thought. He turned his head to the hut of his father and the village and noticed that Tarius was already sprinting right to them, several other renomon following.

'This is bad...If I don't do something Kit and Dark will be in serious trouble...but what the hell can I do...um...' he looked around and saw that there was nothing aroun that he could use. 'What the hell am I going to do...ugh I'll just have to try to talk my way out of this...oh man this is going to suck...'

With his mind decided, he quickly summoned his strength and digivolved himself to his renomon form. He stood directly between the oncoming renomon and the nearly finished transforming Kit.

Tarius and his group stopped, seeing Zack in his way, he shouted, "IDIOT! Move aside! You know not whom you are protecting!"

"I know who he WAS...he is no longer a threat. If you still believe that he is however, and intend to hurt him, then you will have to go through me," Zack said with a low growl.

The other renomon shouted, "Like you could stop us!" "Stop protecting the Dark One!" "You can't beat all of us!"

Tarius looked to Zack and saw that he would not budge on the matter. "Fine. You leave me no choice son..." he said as he dropped into a fighting stance and charged Zack.

Zack reacted quickly backflipping away from the oncoming Tarius only to realize that he had left Kit wide open.

"Damn! KIT LOOK OUT!"

"DELETION CLAW!!" Tarius roared as his claws glowed red, striking straight at Kit.

There was a tremendous flash of red and black light, so intense that everyone shielded their eyes.

"KIT!" Zack shouted.

"Don't worry Zack, Kit's fine. I got here in time," came a voice that Zack thought sounded familiar.

'Who is that...I'm sure I know that voice,'

As the light quickly faded, everyone looked on with amazement at the two figures at the center. Tarius was frozen mid-strike, his claws still glowing, and on the other side stood not Kit, but the DarkRenomon, holding the claw back with a single claw of his own. His eyes a solid blood red with an intensity that few could match. His fur was black as night and his gauntlets a blood red as well.

Zack sighed in relief, landing on the ground.

"Jeez had me worried Dark."

"Oh come on. Like I would get taken out by something like this," Dark said looking over to Zack. He turned his head back to Tarius, "So will you back off or will I have to force you?"

Before Tarius could reply, Zack butted in saying, "Dark lay off. He is my dad. And you don't exactly have a great history here."

He turned again looking at Zack, groaned and replied, "Whatever..." disappearing and reappearing a few feet behind Zack once more.

Tarius and the others were already stunned at this behavior. The DarkRenomon never listened to another being before, and he had never allowed an attacker to live. But here in this moment he had already proven the renomon wrong about his nature.

"What the hell...?" said one renomon.

"I thought he would kill Tarius..." said another.

"He listened to a human of all things...incredible..."

Dark looked at the group and glared at them. They all gritted their teeth nervously and backed away slightly. All but Tarius.

"So then he's not a threat you claim?" Tarius said to his son.

"Not anymore. He has changed in the last couple of hundred years," Zack said looking Tarius straight in the face.

Tarius looked from Zack to Dark for a moment then closed his eyes in thought.

"Well while he has obviously changed it is not my decision to make. He will have to see the village council in order for them to make that decision."

"So let's head over there now then so we can get this over with. I want to get back to our sparring session," Zack sighed. He knew that this was going to be a pain. He should've kept Dark from coming out but he had no idea that he would physically manifest with Kit's body like that. Oh well.

Suddenly, a tremendous meteor flew directly between the renomon and Zack and Dark. The impact held enough force that it actually knocked everyone to the ground as a voice shouted from above, "You will go nowhere. I will continue this fight."

Zack and the others looked up to see a figure floating in the air. Zack looked more closely and noticed that the figure had wings so that explained the floating. But as he looked on he noticed there was only one black wing. Slightly tattered but somehow strong enough to help keep him stabalized.

'What the hell is going on?' thought Zack.

"You seem powerful. I wonder if by defeating you, I can gain that power," he said as he drew the blade from his hip.

A tremendous blade it was. As long as the figure was, it glinted with an eerie power. He swung the blade from side to side, each swing creating a gust that blew Dark one direction and Tarius's group the other. Both were pushed a good 20 feet away from Zack as the figure began to lower himself down to the ground.

As he came into focus, Zack realized the figure was...human?!

"Who or what the hell are you?!" Zack said incredulous at this human weilding a blade almost twice as menacing now that it was this much closer.

The human's red eyes focused directly on Zack as he snapped his fingers, creating a barrier betwixt himself and Zack and the others.

"Call me Seph. Now...give me your power!" he charged pulling the blade up for a straight on stab as he charged Zack.

'Yeah right, too slow,' thought Zack as he sidestepped avoiding the blade.

Seph, however, expected this and tipped the point of his blade down catching it in the ground and swung around the hilt, throwing a powerful right kick square into Zack's chest.

Zack, having been caught off guard by the reflexes of this stranger, took the full force and flew back slamming into the barrier wall. He heard a sickening crack as he slumped to the ground.

"Ugh..." was all he could groan as he felt behind his head and felt blood slowly starting to flow.

"Alright..." he muttered as he stood up, "Listen here, asshole...I'm going to tell you this once, leave here and never come back or you're going to find out what power really means," Zack growled as he looked up to Seph, his eyes a blood red, matching Seph's almost perfectly.

Seph narrowed his eyes, "Hmm...Is that supposed to scare me?" he flicked his blade lightly out of the ground and caught it midair, the blade suddenly began to glow a dark purple, "It didn't work....TELEPORT SLASH!" he said.

Immediately he disappeared, making Zack widen his eyes for a moment, then in realization, he quickly jumped to the side narrowly avoiding a blade through his heart but not moving fast enough to avoid the blade as it impaled his right shoulder.

His mind screamed in agony from the searing pain. He clenched his teeth so hard he could hear an audible creak from his jaw, and was forced to the ground, pinned by the blade and Seph above him. He looked up at the smiling figure with absolute hatred for this being.

"Auuggh..." he groaned a bit, "you think this means you've won?" Zack began to say, trying to force himself up, when suddenly the blade arcked electricity across his upper body, making him recoil involuntarily from pain.

"Fool, did you think the energy infused in this attack was without purpose? If you even so much as twitch you will suffer from the Arc; a high dosage of energy that I've reformed into lightning. Careful though, each strike will only increase in power," he said with malicious glee.

Zack groaned slightly again, his eyes closed.

"So...apparently...I can't hold back with you...fine...now YOU will die..." Zack said with a clenched jaw as he opened his eyes once more, red as the blood flowing from him. "Rage and Hate, FUEL ME!!" he shouted as suddenly the wound turned black, as darkness ran the length of the blade.

Seph's eyes widened in surprise as he released his sword and jumped back. "What is this? You shouldn't be capable of using any energy or movement...an interesting development I must say," watching as the energy covered his sword in its entirety. He watched as Zack's body suddenly arched up from the ground and pulled itself free of the blade.

Zack was now floating in the air, his hair standing on end, eyes glowing a deathly crimson, as the darkness began to lap at his feet, slowly covering his body. Seph watched on in slight amusement at the sight until the human looked directly into his eyes. In that instant, his eyes widened once more and he turned, throwing up as he felt something he had never felt before...fear...

'What is this human? How is it that he has stricken fear into me from a mere glare?!'

"I..." Zack said as the darkness fully consumed his form, "am no mere human fool..." Then suddenly the darkness began to twist and contort, forming a new figure, one that resembled a renomon. As the darkness began to fade from the form, a black lower leg emerged, followed by the dark crimson thighs of a renomon, and soon followed the rest, it's body seemed as if made of flowing blood, and it's eyes a solid black, depthless and cold.

"Now," growled the renomon, in a voice that reeked of death, "Your fight is with me human."

Seph looked on, rather impressed by the overall change. It was quite obvious that this was no longer the same human he had been fighting. He knew that Zack could transform, but this was not the form he was warned about.

"And just who are you?"

"Why does my name matter?" He growled in response, "I'm going to kill you anyway, but fine, call me...VEN!" Roared the renomon as he disappeared.

Seph looked on and suddenly ducked barely avoiding a clawswipe to his temple and stepped through throwing a hard to the renomon's exposed belly. But upon making contact, his fist went straight through the stomach as the renomon exploded in a small ball of smoke.

Seph's eyes narrowed at that. 'So he's much faster than I anticipated. Or was it a skill...well I can test that easily enough,' He thought as he walked casually to his blade which was still covered in dark energy. He held his hand to his blade and found that the dark energy arcked his slightest attempt to even come near.

"Cute," he said aloud, "you thought that by reversing my own technique you could prevent my regaining my sword? That was foolish," he said as he snapped his fingers, and the blade suddenly was gone. "The blade is made of my own energy, I can easily recreate it." And with that he held his hand to his side and reformed the blade.

Suddenly a red form appeared behind Seph growling, "You left yourself open, HUMAN!!" he growled shoving a claw through the human's chest. A loud and wet cracking and tearing sound echoed in the barrier as blood splattered in front of Seph. Seph's eyes wide in shock, Ven snarled with malicious laughter, until suddenly there was movement to his left, but with his arm through Seph, he couldn't move in time. A whistling of metal moving at speeds unseen by human eyes occurred as Ven's black eyes for the first time opened wide in shock. He looked before him at the attacker and saw none other than Seph, blade at his side, dripping in blood.

"No, it is you who left himself open."

//End Chapter 12: So yeah sorry this took so long guys I was in a HUGE slump for awhile there. Anyway things to come: Has Seph really defeated Ven? Furthermore, what is going to happen with Dark? Who knows...but I can't wait to find out myself.

Next Chapter 13: I'm a Changed Mon!