Digimon : Different way
Prologue
"Bro you should really start to play soccer again, my team needs a goalkeeper and you are the best I know." Tai tried to convince his friend Makusu, who was storing some stuff inside his locker.
Makusu blushed a little, he was a really shy person and could hardly do anything while being in public and getting pressured.
He had once been in a football club, but his fright had always stopped him from really being a part of the team, he had played with the people there but he had never been befriended with anybody.
He once had to stand in during a match and was injured during the game, which was against Tais team.
He had got hurt during that match and had found himself completely lonely, none of his 'friends' from the soccer club had visited him, the only one who came had been Tai.
He had visited him several and shortly afterwards his family had moved into Tais neighborhood.
Since then they had become good friends and Makusu had been happy, more happy than before .
"Come on Tai, I don´t want to play anymore, I also have no time for it, since I have Kendo training three times a week." Makusu had closed the locker and got ready to leave the school.
Tai sighed, Makusu always said that he felt pain in his shoulder while playing soccer, since his injury.
It seemed like something psychological, since Makusu never had any pain while practicing Kendo, but for Tai couldn't do anything about it.
The two boys now walked out of the school, it only took them a minute to reach their friends, who were already waiting for them outside.
Tai directly started to smile the moment he spotted them, especially the red-haired girl made the smile of the brown haired boy even bigger, while the black-haired Makusu only sighed.
He felt a little out of place, Sora and Tai always acted like a couple but denied to be one, while their other two friends, Matt and Tara were already a offical couple.
Matt had medium length, blond hair, which were nearly as spikey as Tais, and blue eyes, while Tara had long, black hair and grey eyes.
Tara had been an old friend of Makusu, on who he had had an crush, but she and Matt had somehow become a couple, although nobody, except for themselves, knew how this had happened.
Makusu and Tai had already reached their friends when they suddenly heard a scream from behind, a scream they already knew too well .
"Tai , Makusu, guys help me!" a young, 12 year old boy ran towards them, his dark maroon hair making it impossible not to notice him.
The high school they went to was located in the same building complex like the districts middle school, so it was no strange image to see Davis spending time with the older students.
He now stopped running the moment he had reached the older boys, breathing heavily and exhausted, so it was hard to understand him ," Guys I need your help, some older guys want to beat me up."
It was nothing unsual, Makusu and Tai often had to save Davis from other people, who wanted to beat up the younger boy.
"Hey Matt, gonna help us?" Tai now turned to his other friends, who suddenly seemed to be far away, they obviously had walked away a little.
None of their friends really liked to get in these fights, so Tai, Makusu and Davis were complety on their own.
"Dammit." Makusus comment was enough to describe everything and Tai saw why the others had went away.
At least ten boys, between 12 and 16 years old, charged at them or more precise at Davis, who now took cover behind them.
"Run for your life!" they charged out of the schoolyard, nothing would be able to stop the horde that was after them.
'Why again were we hanging out with Davis and why did we protect him?' went through Makusu head while he ran for his life, but he already knew the answer to this and grinned slightly.
" Davis, if this ever happens again, don't you dare come to again !" Tai screamed while running for his life, the young boy was his little sisters best friend and he liked him, too, but this was getting out of hand.
It was the third time this month something like this had happened and every time the horde following them seemed to become bigger.
"You won't get away this time Motomiya, we'll get you and your friends ass." One of the boys following them screamed.
What had Davis done to make these guy so angry, they were like herd of wolfs hunting their prey.
They had been running for several minutes now and were close to breaking down, even Tai was breathing heavily.
They had not noticed that they had lost their followers, until they finally stopped, when Davis was not able to run anymore.
"Are they still following us boss?" Davis panted, completely exhausted and nearly unable to breath , he was nearly on his knees and tried to catch his breath again.
"I think not, but let's get into this side street to catch some breath." the spikey haired brunette replied to his younger friend, while pointing at the place he was talking about.
The three boys entered the street, breaking down right next to a rubbish container, completely exhausted and trying to catch some breath, after they had been running for their life.
Tai now approached the main street again, looking across it, making sure that nobody was following them anymore and letting out a sigh of relief, after seeing that nobody was after them anymore.
"What the hell did you do this time that they all were after you Davis?
There were so many guys after you that even me and Makusu couldn´t stop them, you know that this has to stop right?" Tai now spoke to his younger friend , who only scretched his head ashamed and responding with a little voice
"They were making fun of you and Kari , they made bad jokes about you two and I wanted to make them stop, so punched I their leader in the face , maybe breaking his nose."
Makusu sighed about Davis explanation, the young boy had always tried to be some sort of protector for Kari, just like Tai always was, which was propably event he reason why had started to make fun of them.
Tai had always been very protective over his little sister, Davis was the only boy he let close to her , since he saw him as some sort of little brother, while Kari always admired her big brother like he was some sort of god, just like Davis did.
The maroon-haired boy also looked up to Tai, he had even started to wear goggles like Tai, just to be more like him.
"Beating up everybody who speaks against your friends is no solution Davis, you need to control yourself sometimes, neither me nor Tai can always jump in and save you ass." Makusu now told the younger boy, who seemed a bit beaten down about it, but Tai directly cheered him up :
"But it's still good to know that you stand up to defend my little sister ." the red-haired smiled about the compliment, he also admired Tai ,nearly as much as his best friend Kari did and always tried to impress the spikey-haired teenager.
"But please, don´t do this again while we are short on people, we would have needed Matt do beat the crap out of those assholes ." all boys started to laugh about the comment, having already forgotten about the fact that they had been chassed down just a few minutes ago.
It was nice and Makusu enjoyed such moments a lot, he had never been a part of anything before, this little group of friends he had meant everything to him and made him happy.
They did not notice the light behind them, with their attention still focused on their conversation , until the light suddenly expanded, filling the whole side street and wrapping around the three boys.
It only took a second before the brightness faded again, leaving the the place completely empty of any humans.
Another place, near a forest
Someone was sitting in a tree, watching the sky, seeing two shooting stars, flying directly above him.
"Tai." the little, round creature whisperd expectant, still watching the sky.
It waited, it had been waiting for so long and now his waiting would come to an end.
"How did you get up there ?" his friend asked him annoyed, as he went away, searching for help.
But he didn't care for it right now, Tai was coming, he was sure this time and he incredibly exited.
He had waited for so long, so many years had passed, he didn't even knew who long he had been waiting, but now he was sure, Tai was coming.
At an apartment in Tokyo
Kari was sitting at her desk, doing her homework, when she suddenly raised her head, struck by a strange and unpleasant feeling.
She did not know what it was, but it was something about her brother, who was still not at home , being late already for over two hours, something very strange for him.
"Big brother is ok for sure ." she told herself smiling, before she focused her attention at her work again.
She had been worried about Tai, Davis and Makusu, some bullies had school had charged after them but she was sure that nothing would happen to them, after all her brother always found a way out of these situations.
Back at school
"I'm a bit disappointed in you Matt, why didn't you help them ?" Tara asked her boyfriend with a fake, serious tone and Matt only replied, slightly annoyed
" I've been at the directors office three times this year and every single time it was because I had to help Tai and the others. I just had no nerve for this today."
"Well, at least that won't disturb our plans ." Tara replied, grinning, and Matt also smiled in return.
They had reserved a table at a restaurant and helping the others would for sure have interrupted this plan.
"Maybe I should have ran with the others." Sora mumbled to herself, while her friends were flirting with each other.
She really felt out of place with these two lovebirds around, since none else to talk to was around.
"I'm pretty sure, Tia would have been more than happy if you joined them." Tara replied to her friends mumbling and Soras face was directly as red as her hair.
"I don't know what you're talking about, now have much fun and leave me alone." She mumbled and turned away away, while Tara and Matt despratly tried to suppress their laughter while Sora was still in hearing range.
She was always like that when it came to Tai.
At some secret location in Tokyo
"A gate has opend not far away from our position. Three people have been dragged into it." a mechanical voice announced, gaining the attention of everybody.
"Understood. Bradley I need you and your partner ready to bring those people back , you have 5 minutes for preparations." one of them commanded and the person he had spoken to directly left the room, getting ready for his mission.
"So partner, another mission ?" his companion asked him while he got ready and he replied
"Yeah, just another day like always. Let's hope that nothing happens. Some folks have stranded in the digital world again."
In a forest , far away from Tokyo
"Man, what the hell has happend ? My head hurts like crazy ." Tai groaned, waking up and trying to find out what had happend. At one moment he had been talking with Davis and Makusu in the side street and then he suddenly got uncouncious and waked up here , but where was he ?
The boy looked around him, he was not in the city anymore for sure, since he was surrounded by trees and bushes, it was a forest unknown to him.
Was he still near his home , or maybe even in Tokio, he had no clue ?
Did somebody knock them out and brought them here ? Why the hell should somebody do something like this ?
Unknown place
"Those are special. Take these humans out, they could pose a threat."
They got commanded by their boss and walked out of their cave to capture more humans.
One of them had pretty much fallen on them, so they had knocked him out and were now searching for the others.
"He won't wake up for quite some time, but still stay near the entrance, in case somebody wants to help him." One of them orderd and the other agreed mumbling some insults.
Prologue end.