A Fading Hope chapter 9

A Fading Hope: Chapter Nine: Darkness of the Past
Song : Someday ( from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Song-
Someday, when we are wiser
When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray someday we may yet
Live to live and let live
Someday, life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
And greed will not pay
Godspeed, this bright millenia
On it's way, let it come someday
Someday our fight will be won, and
We'll stand in the sun, in
That bright afternoon
'Til then, on days when the sun
Is gone, we'll hang on
If we wish upon the Moon
Godspeed this bright millenia
Let it come
If we wish upon the moon
One day, someday....soon

So I really like this song, because it's Alan Menken, the guy behind all that is gold in Disney music. In my humble opinion, that is, but seriously. Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback, Tangled, Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Enchanted, the guy's brilliant. Also, because the version I first head was Celtic Woman, and I love Celtic Woman. I picked this song because it's about fighting, not war and bloodshed fighting, but fighting against the inevitable, fighting for something so *good* and so *right*. It's about hanging on and not giving up, and that's what our characters are doing now. They're in it now, no matter the cost, they're going to battle and hold on and hope for the best.
Poor ducks, they don't have a clue whats coming.
It's also part of the Code.

Story.
Like I said, I wrote this in about 24 hours- I had a two page outline, I knew what was going to happen, of course, but specific dialog and phrasing- and some new bits that came out of nowhere- were all new. I will most likely never do that again. It was hard on my poor fingers, because that ended up being my longest chapter and nearly 6000 words.
I had fun writing it, though. It started out as a filler chapter, one I'd planned in because certain things needed to happen for the rest of the story to happen like it should, and I wasn't really looking forward to it. I'm really no hand at battles or action, I prefer the more emotional and character based aspects of my stories, and try to write minimal battles. This story, though, and this chapter, called for me to step up. I ended up having fun, though the earlier drafts( written and re-written over a course of minuts/ hours, not days) were not what one would hope. they were bare and spares and dull. I think I did a fair job of the battle scenes by the end, though.

One of my favorite scenes was a " hey, I should focus on characters" scene,  Cody's. It was short, and I had some serious fun with his grandpa's advice. No, Grandpa knows nothing about Cody's Secret life as a Digidestined, or the crests, but wow, wasn't that advice just so close to home? I think I might have Cody exclaim over that later, at least in a deleted scene. Or perhaps not. I'm amused, and frankly, that's all I need. Another favorite bit was davis's. Davis has long been my least favorite character, but by adapting him, slightly, to this story- making him grow up a bit, as the danger is a bit more "real" and trauma inducing- I'm growing to like him. I also finally feel, after two years + messing with Digimon fanfiction, like I've got a grip on his character.

Onward. I have lots of things to say because Holy duck with a typewriter it was a long chapter.


The dreams. You may remember what I said about the Dreams NOT being visions or prophetic. Guess what? I so did not lie. T.K.'S aren't prophetic, it's just him being a scared boy, for all his courage, and a traumatic past. I've had dreams, slightly off, of real events.(by slightly off I mean Suddenly Dragons.) It's partly that he's sensitive to dark, and his subconscious picked up on, but it's not specifically a warning of what's to come.
Kari's on the other hand, are. Hey, there's precedent for her being possessed by the Digital World Spirit Thingie( I promise I know words) and in my little fic universe it's established that the DWST talks to her( and as of the end of this chapter, has possessed her again.) so yeah. 
So, Kari. Having dreams. And what was it that the DWST said to her last time? 

Be brave, Little oneBeware, Light one.Pathways are forming, Light Child. Past is becoming the future.
You must be brave, and choose the brightest path, with the deepest shadows.

So yeah. You know me, that can't be good, because really, I warned you this would be darker and what's darker that " the deepest shadows" GASP could those be the shadows in the dreams?
Live in fear. Oh, live in fear.

I should get the next chapter up around Halloween.