-!-Chapter One-!-

The ultimate ten year old

-Ten years later-

A furry orange-gold furred demi-human fox was lying back on the ground. She was wearing a somewhat loose dark green tank top the sleeves of which were too large for her small shoulders and slumped to the sides when she was standing. On her chest was a navy blue symbol. The bottoms of the sleeves were beginning to fray as were the bottoms of her shorts that were as long as her thighs. Strands of red-orange fur littered her face and blocked her eyesight, if the sky blue oculars had been open. A light blue almost crystalline chain was fastened around her neck and a clear almost glass like pendant filled with a purple liquid was resting next to her face. Her furry conic ears seemed to be relaxed though they twitched with each sound they heard.

Light foot steps of another odd creature crept up behind the fox. This one was also a female, though she was a demi-human wolf. She had silver fur with random strands of black fur. She wore Denim shorts that came down to her knees as well. She wore a looser earthen toned shirt with a navy blue symbol the same as the fox’s. White tresses obediently stayed behind her pointed fur coated ears that were tipped in white.

The wolf smirked and crouched down next to the fox’s head, causing her ears to twitch more. The wolf opened her mouth to shout loudly, but managed a muffle of groaning pain instead. She looked behind her to see in dismay that her silver wolf tail was being pulled by a clawed orange hand.

“Ah, I thought you were asleep, Digi.”

The fox, now known to be Digi, snickered and stood up, showing that she was only four feet in height. “Yeah Kiara, you were going to give me a nice wake up call to I beat, and kill my ears, again.” Her two orange tails tipped in silver twitched at the thought and she rubbed her ears, “You’ve managed to do that four times in the past month.”

“And its my fault you have sensitive ears because...?”

“Not your fault, but its your fault that you keep yelling in them. If you do that again I think my ear drums are going to burst.”

“Yeah, well they’ll burst alright when you two get to Nimogari’s class late for the third day in a row.”

Digi and Kiara jumped and turned to face a male who appeared to be Kiara’s brother or relative of sorts for his physical features seemed to be almost exactly like hers, save for his hair was black and his ears were tipped in black as well. He wore a pair of loose fitting black pants kept up with a scarlet sash. He wore a black jacket with a symbol the same as Digi’s and Kiara’s on its back. Hanging from one of his belt loops to a pocket was a silver chain.

“Kei! What are you doing here? Don’t you have a class?”

“The teacher was sick and there wasn’t a substitute...but I would suggest you get yourself to Nimogari’s class before he breaks a blood vessel.”

Digi and Kiara nodded and ran off towards their class, which conveniently was located on the opposite side of the school campus. Miraculously, they made it one second before class stared, albeit they were very out of breath.

Hours it seemed, later, they were let out of the boring mathematics class. They groaned because they had gotten so much work and had forgotten their books at the dorm so they couldn’t have done any of the large load in class.

“I just don’t get why a gaurdian would have to still go to school.” Kiara said as she stretched in the daylight as they went back to the large dormitory belonging to the other “guardians”.

“Heh, yeah, besides, you’re nineteen now, you should be out of school, I don’t see why you’re still forced to go.”

“Me neither...I wonder if we’ll get a good case today, vacation’s over now so we should be getting a case today or tomorrow.”

“Yeah, when I get my case Oniku will probably see to it I get the toughest of the lot. I don’t know what he has against me.”

“Nor do I...but when he dies Kei’ll take over so you might get it easier.”

“Heh, that is if he dies, he’s already over lived our life span by twenty years, I’m starting to think he’s immortal. And besides, Kei might make it worse. Your brother seems to think I need to train when I’m not doing a case or school work.”

“Yeah, true enough.”

Now let it be said, sixteen years ago there had been a project to create the ultimate fighter that wouldn’t care about anything and have no emotions, but things were screwed around with horribly by nature and the messed up product was Digi. She was released six years after the accident and had been given a memory after Kei had discovered her in the room she had been “born” in. She never remembered the incident and only remembered herself as a normal sixteen year who had by misfortune lost her parents when she was six. Kiara didn’t remember anything to do with the project except that she had been told that the experiment had died after the lab had taken a direct hit from an ion storm.

Kei, his father, and Oniku, the leader of the Shudo guardians, remembered the incident clearly and knew Digi. Kei thought it best to train Digi to be the fighter she had been created to be. His father thought he should be somewhat like Digi’s father figure for he was the scientist that had created her after all. Oniku hated and despised Digi, for he had ordered the project to start and was highly vexed that it had blown up in his face.

Now, on with the story. Digi pulled a small electric blue card out of her pocket and slid it through a machine. A door with the same strange symbol lighted in the center of it in neon purple opened and let the two into their pigsty of a dorm room. Papers were scattered all over the black tiled floor. In the corner was a desk with several scratches on the front and dent marks from Digi’s claws from when she impatiently tapped the desk top.

In the corner opposite the desk was a bed covered in dark blues and purples. In the corner diagonal from the desk was a bed covered in earthen tones. The walls were the same dull gray color they had been since the girls had been given the room. A window covered by a shade the same hue as the wall was the only source of natural light for the room.

On the corner of the desk that was in the corner of the wall was a small piece of machinery on it with a slot on the opposite corner was a machine with a tall pyramid on top of it with a sharp point.

Digi flipped the lights on partial brightness and stared at the mess on the floor. “Kiara, you really need to take care of your papers better.” Digi nodded to a neat, but tall stack of papers, “like I do.”

“Hey, its only because you have telekinetic powers.”

Digi shrugged and blinked as her ears twitched to a familiar electronic whir. “It seems you are once again correct for the timing of our case...we get it today.” She turned to face the machine in the corner, a small metal ball fell out of the slot and rolled on the desk until it hit the textbook on it. Digi walked over to the desk and picked the ball up and pulled the pyramid off the other machine and placed the metal orb into the slot that was revealed. She placed the pyramid back into place and leaned on the desk, tapping her fingers and destroying the desk even further.

After a few moments a holographic image popped up from the tip of the pyramid. It was a virtual globe. A voice filled the room, “Digi, Kiara, you’re case this time is a team effort. Your mission is on the small planet of this system, a large population of level five viruses has shown up. Our sources also point to a colony of the gunmen near the capital city of the planet. Your job is to get rid of the gun men at least and hopefully destroy the viral population on the planet. You have as long as you need to do this, but you can’t allow the city to be damaged in any what way.”

Digi and Kiara exchanged a look, that said “this is going to be fun.” They walked out of the room and Digi looked the door and tossed the card under the door. They walked down to the first floor of the building and went to the back room. Digi pulled out her electric blue katana and sheath while Kiara pulled out her more conventional katana and sheath.