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THE GUARDIANS SHADOW

CH 11

Thanks to the...no...my black Renamon, the Dokugumon had escaped. But escaped to where? I knew that now that we'd lost the element of surprise, it would prove nearly ten times harder to kill that spider, because not only did it know that I was hunting it, but it knew I was a hunter and a digimon tamer as well. My secrets were now out in the open, and it knew them all.

The ball was now in it's court as it now had the home field advantage. First, I didn't know where the heart of this things nest was. Second, it knew this area very well from what I was told. Third, it could sneak up on us and catch us in its web before we could even say goodbye. Put all three things together, and you had a sure fire death coming if I continued this hunt.

But, being a hunter also meant that we never gave up a hunt once it'd been started. So taking a long sigh I pulled out the GPS unit and started looking at the terrain. "Tamer...um Hunter. What are you doing!? We have to give chaise to that Dokugumon." I slowly turned and scowled at the Renamon.

"Shut it." I turned the rest of the way around. "What do you think I'm doing...Renamon!? Just looking at the scenery." I showed her the GPS. "For your information. I'm gathering information on the terrain of this area." She cocked her head to the side. "Since you blew that surprise for the Dokugumon. I have to find where it's nest is, and find a way that we can regain that element of surprise."

That's when the Renamon did something I wasn't expecting. She placed both her paws on the sides of her hips, threw back her head, and started laughing. Then just as she started, she stopped and looked me dead in the eye. "You stupid human. Do you really think it's that simple?" I slowly raised one of my eyebrows. "You humans don't stand a chance against us. We digimon fight one another. Not the other way around." She turned her back to me. "If you did fight against us, then we'd..."

She didn't get the chance to finish that sentence as I snuck up behind her, took her left arm, twisted it behind her back, then with my right took out my dagger and placed it to her throat. "ACK!" Was her only reply as I pulled her arm a little further up her back.

"Don't...you...EVER make fun of the hunters." But just as I had her in a pin, she used her abilities to teleport/jump out of the hold and stand a few steps away.

"Well for a hunter, I have to admit that that was pretty good." I pointed my knife at her. "But don't think for a second that that trick will work on me a second time."

With a quick flick of my wrist, I turned was then holding the blade upside-down. Then sheathed the blade in it's sheath that was on the back of my belt. "So you want to get some action, is that it?"

"No, that's not it." She said as she walked over and poked me in the chest. "You've humiliated me not once but twice. Do you really think that I'm going to allow you to do that to me again."

I couldn't help but smile and chuckle a little. "As they say, ‘Third times the charm." She snarled at me then took a false swipe at me, which I was easily able to dodge. "I'd love to stand here and prove why we Hunters are able to do what we do, but I've got a Digimon that's terrorizing the local area to take care of." I walked over to the bike, broke down the gun, stowed it away in the saddlebags at the back of the bike, swung my leg over the side of the bike and started it when my foot came down, then revved the engine a few times.

"Tammmmeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr." She growled at me. "Don't you dare..." But she didn't get the chance to finish over the sound of the engine being thrown into the first gear and me and the bike speeding off with dirt flinging into the air, as I headed in the direction that the Dokugumon fled.

‘It's times like these that I'm glad I installed off road suspension in this thing.' I thought as the bike bounced around and over several ground hazards and avoided several trees. As I followed the GPS's directions that were displayed in my glasses, to the center of the spiders lair. That's when I started noticing it was starting to get darker and darker the further into the forest I went. Not to mention, but colder and a little damp as well.

‘This almost reminds me of The Hobbit.' (Author: The first movie before the Lord of the Rings.) ‘When Bilbo went through that forest with the spiders. How nostalgic.' I thought as I laughed.

"You better" Pant. "not be" Pant. "Laughing at" Pant, wheeze. "Me. Hunter!" I heard. Taking a quick look over my shoulder when I saw that it was clear for a while, I saw the black Renamon running alongside my bike. A nice sheen of sweat was covering her body as she tried to keep up with my bike. I faced forward and slowed down a little.

"I might not have been, but now..." Snicker. "Seeing you so out of shape and sweating so much..." Snicker. "Oh forget it." I slowed down a little more. "We've got bigger problems then fighting with each other. Jump on." With that the Renamon jumped onto the back of my bike and dug her claws into my sides as she road side saddle/seat.

I winced as her claws dug into my skin, nearly breaking the skin. "That's for talking down to me." She then released her hand/paw on my right hip and up slapped the side of my head. "That one's for leaving me behind like that." I could feel her place her right hand/paw back on my hip but take the other off and reach around to probably pinch me in some way. "And this one's for...YIKES!" Now wanting to let her get away with hurting me again I kicked the engine into the next gear and leapt forward while swerving around a tree, nearly throwing her off the back of the bike.

"If your quite done with your pathetic attempts to get me back, we've got a job to do." I yelled back to her as I swerved around another tree.

For the next ten minutes or so we sped through the forest on our way to the spiders hiding place. Just then Renamon forced me to lean off to one side, making me make the bike swerve. "That was close. I really thought that you were going to duck down and let that spiders thread hit me."

‘A spiders thread?' I looked around the area, but I couldn't see much due to due to the lack of light. Let alone the one stray thread that she was talking about. ‘If she hadn't done what she did...' An image of me hitting an invisible wall while my bike would continue out from under me flashed in my mind and I quickly slowed the bike down to about 10mph. ‘Can't let that happen again.'

At a much slower speed I was able to make out a lot more of the threads that I'd/we'd been saved from. Throughout this area there were stray threads that dangled down from the canopy of the forest. ‘No doubt to trap un-expecting pray. Better be a little more careful through here.' Eventually I had to stop the bike entirely as the threads had grown to thick to travel any faster then a walk.

Renamon stepped off the bike and looked around. "We must be..." She didn't get a chance to talk any more as I quickly covered her mouth with my hand. I quickly got off my bike and leaned towards her, then whispered in her ear.

"You need to keep your mouth shut. Even the slightest noise could alert that spider to our presence." She grabbed my hand and threw it off her mouth.

"Do you really think that after the fact that your machine makes more noise than I could even shout, that she wouldn't notice us coming." She pushed me away from her. "And furthermore, she isn't around right now."

After taking a few steps back from her throwing me off my balance, I looked around the area. ‘How did she know if that giant spider was around?' Just as if fate wanted to laugh at us, she quickly froze up and looked off to the West.

"She's coming." Renamon looked over her shoulder at me then grabbed me by the front of my shirt. "And this time. We use one of my plans." This time she leaned up against me and whispered into my ear.

(A few minutes later, different perspective)

The vibrations in the web had been wiggling for quite some time, and at the current rate of her pace, she'd find out what had disturbed her web in a few moments. Through the network of her webs, the direction she was heading was that of the stray threaded area. That are was used to catch aimless wondering pray. So she continued through the canopy of the tree network and licked her lips in thought of the meal to come.

"And what do we have here? A helpless little fly has fallen pray to my Poison Thread." The spider quickly moved along it's thread to it's helpless pray, then let itself down from the canopy by a single thread upside-down. (Author: Ever seen the Spiderman movies? Ya, spidey hanging upside down) It stopped with it's head level with the pray.

There hung the Hunter hanging unconscious. The spiders thread wrapped tightly around his left arm with him suspended in the air by it, with his head hanging limply while the thread smoked around his left coat sleeve. His bike lay on it's side a little distance away with it's back tire still spinning. "I would have never guessed that one of my stray strands, would actually catch one of the fabled Hunters." The spider let out an evil cackle. "You hunters are all talk and no action."

The hunter flinched a little and with all his strength he lifted his shaking head up to look up at the spider. "It seems that I got here just in time. You still have some strength left to actually lift your head." The Dokugumon put one of it's legs under his chin and lifted his chin up a little more. "If your going to look at me, then I might be just inclined to help you a little. Seeing as I'm going to be the last thing you ever see." The overly large spider grinned to him and licked it's lips.

"D...dam...damn...y...damn you to..." The hunter didn't get a chance to finish what he was going to weakly say as the spider started laughing hysterically.

"How the mighty have fallen. What in the world do you think you can accomplish in your weakened state." The hunter started laughing which caught the spider off guard. "Wait a minute. What are you laughing about." The Hunter continued to laugh, but now he was laughing harder. "Wait a minute..." The spider's eyes went wide. "Where's that Digimon of yours?"

"BLACK DIAMOND STORM!"

The Dokugumon slowly looked over it's side to where it heard the voice from the Renamon. She was suspended in mid air, just as if hanging by a rope, curled up in the fetal position in the air. The look in her face was either one of great glee or sadistic hysteria.

Now, I'd seen Renamon Diamond Storms in the past. Hell, I'd been on the receiving end of one or two. This one seemed darker...no...just plain wrong. When I'd been on the receiving end the Diamond Storm, the diamonds were like light that had taken on actual form and scattered around the Renamon then shot at me. This time the light was...well, the lack there of. Some people say that black isn't really a color, it's actually the lack...of...color and this is what her attack looked like.

For a split second it looked like a black wall was in front of her, then the wall shattered into a million pieces, she threw out her limbs scattering the black diamonds all over, then they all shot forward colliding and embedding themselves into the hide of the Dokugumon.

The spider let out a squeal of pain then completely turned to look at the falling digital monster. "You bitch. I'll delete you piece by piece." But the overly grown spider didn't get the chance to retaliate as the digital fox disappeared, using it's teleporting ability. The spider looked around for the Renamon, but couldn't see where It'd disappeared to.

"BANG!" A shot rang out, echoing off the many trees. Time seemed to slow down as the shot slowly spun through the air, tearing into the side of the Dokugumons abdomen, tearing through everything within, then exploding out the other end. Leaving a nice hole in the things backside.

It took a moment for the pain to register in the spiders mind, but when it did... The Dokugumon let out such a wail of pain that would curl your toes. The Dokugumon turned and looked towards where the shot came from and could only catch the Hunter with a long gun in his hands, as he turned to hide himself behind a tree. "What the fuck. Weren't you just..." The spider turned around and looked to where the Hunter was supposed to be hanging from, only to see a jacket with the web still wrapped around the sleeve.

"How the hell...?"

"BLACK DIAMOND STORM!" Came the voice of the Renamon again.

This time the Dokugumon wasn't going to be hit by those black shards and quickly turned to face her opponent. "Not so fast cupcake. VENOM BLAST!" She opened her mouth wide and shot out a purple fog that you couldn't see through. The fog shot forward at an unbelievable speed that hit the suspended Renamon. The Renamon groaned as it was hit by the fog, then fell back to the ground.

A small click was heard then a three or four round burst shot out of the Hunters gun as he peppered the spiders underside from the side of the tree he'd been hiding behind. The spider wailed out again as the rounds pierced the skin, but didn't pass through and out the spiders hide. Since the multiple shots that had hit/penetrated their mark, the spider couldn't hold on to the string it was currently holding onto and dropped to the ground.

The spider landed with a large thump on it's stomach, and then began to thrash around. As it thrashed around, the shot that went through the abdomen started to squirt out a clear like liquid from the top, but the one underneath it just started to pool. Though whatever the liquid touched, smoke rose up from the area touched. It was just like when acid eats away at something.

Eventually the spider grew to weak to move and just watched as both the Hunter and the Renamon came out from behind some trees and made their way over to her. The hunter ejected the spent cartridge then slammed a new one home, while the Renamon with it's fur a little singed, cracked it's knuckles on each of it's three fingered hands/paws.

"Well you said that you wanted this things data. So I guess that means that you have the honor of killing it since it was your plan that brought it down." Said the hunter as he trained his gun on the spiders head.

"My pleasure." Said the Renamon as it crouched down and prepared to launch itself into the air for it's signature attack, but stopped when the spider started laughing hysterically.

"You think you've won." More laughter as she started to leak her clear blood out of her mouth.

"Well you are the one who's bleeding out of the mouth, wreathing on the forest floor, and about to die. Then I'd say, yes I think we've won." Said the Renamon.

"How naïve." She laughed once but then changed into a blood splattering cough. "I may be done for, but that means nothing in the long run." She laughed/coughed again.

The hunter walked forward and placed the barrel to her forehead then chambered a round. "Tell me and I'll ease your passing."

More clear blood leaked out of her mouth as she laughed again. "My master is coming, and the two of you will not stand a chance a...against..." Her eyes slowly started to glaze over as the last few beats of her dark heart softly and slowly beat it's last. With it's last beat she thrashed wildly around until she ended up on her back in a curled up position.

(Switch perspective)

The two of us looked at each other. "This thing must have been just a pawn." I said to the Renamon as she walked over and kicked the things head a few times, as if to check if the thing was truly dead.

"You may have been right. Though that leaves the question..." The Renamon said but was interrupted as I said.

"Who is this master? And what was this Dokugumon's purpose here?" Just then the Dokugumon exploded twice into small bits of data. The explosions were so quick that they looked like one, but the two contained two different types of data. The first was the data that contained what the Dokugumon looked like, while the other contained the power. The first quickly disappeared into my pouch to use as a Digi-modify card, while the other quickly flowed into Renamon. Increasing the total amount of data that she currently had, and bringing her that much closer to be able to Digivolve.