Story Title: Across Plains
Chapter Title: Disappearing Into Pillars of Light
Series Title:
Author: Mathais
Rating: K+
Fandom: Digimon
Warnings: Discontinued
Pairings: Tomoki/Suzie
Summary: Two of the youngest kids to set foot in any Digital World have their own secrets with them. Once they are revealed, how will many act to them and the changes they bring?
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters and elements of Digimon.
Notes: This story is AU and uses Japanese Frontier terms and English Tamers terms.
Notes (2010): I don't remember why I had half-English and half-Japanese. I think I stole the concept of talking Spirits from another story too. Oh, and the horrid baby talk should have never appeared in the first place.
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"Wopmon..." A seven-year-old girl was hugging the digimon that was her partner. This girl had on a white shirt was a pink Chinese vest over it. Her small frame had on dark pink pants on the legs and big yellow sneakers on her feet. Her eyes were a chocolate brown, like the hair on her head tied into two small pigtails on the side. Clutched in her arms was a chocolate brown bunny with long floppy ears and pink stripes.
"Suzie..." The tamed bunny digimon tugged at her partner's arm.
"Don't you feel it?" Suzie whispered, the lilt dropping out of her speech as if it were never there.
"Feel what?" Lopmon looked as her tamer intently as no one paid any real attention to them. As it were, everyone was waiting for the Arc; even Rika had come back early with an unconscious Impmon.
"That little sense that something is going to happen." Suzie shook herself since no one was looking. "Something IS going to happen." But I don't know what. She added to herself mentally.
"Are you sure?" Lopmon questioned worriedly.
"I know it." Suzie clutched her pink D-Arc tightly, which made the device give off a spark of light.
"Are you alright Suzie?" A twelve-year-old boy asked her. (Me: Thirteen DOESN'T fit these Tamers.)
"I wus worried wat da whingy won't come." Suzie answered, hastily putting her childish lilt back in her speech.
"Well don't worry. It'll come. Just be careful." Henry replied.
"Wes Wenrya-wii-chan." Suzie used her brother's real name.
"Alright." Henry affectionately ruffled the little girl's hair before walking back to Takato and the other tamers.
I know he means well, Suzie thought mentally, but really. I know how to take care of myself more than you think you know Henry. More than most think. And I have Lopmon.
Suddenly Takato shouted. "There it is!" A bright pink light was heading this way from the sky, but Suzie didn't think it was the Arc.
Momentarily forgetting her childish behavior and her young lilt, Suzie barked an order out. "Move it Takato!"
The rest were stunned as a white beam shot towards the unmoving Takato in column form.
"Takato!" Suzie, though she had a small frame, picked up as much speed as she could before ramming her small form into Takato while time seemed to freeze for the other Tamers and digimon.
"Suzie!" Henry cried as the bright light sucked up Suzie and Lopmon and all three things disappeared.
Renamon, however, was staring intently at the spot where Suzie had vanished. Her heightened spiritual senses saw something around Suzie. That aura... Suzie has been hiding something, but I can't do anything about it now. There was also the fact that Suzie was only mildly afraid of the Digital World when she came unexpectedly. I always thought that it was her naivety, but it isn't that.
"Suzie!" Henry dropped to his knees and actually cried in front of the others.
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A small boy of eight years was currently resting in the camp that his group made. His large bulbous hat was currently lying next to him while his white shirt and yellow shorts made him seem somehow older. Off to the side a little bit, Tomoki let his childish facade and young demeanor slowly fade away from existence as one can see the changes within his eyes. Whoever said that eyes are the windows to the soul, Tomoki thought wryly, was both smart and correct. Gone were the childish innocent eyes, replaced with hard ones that still flashed some of the said innocence, but less.
"Blizzarmon... Do you think that I will ever be able to drop this farce in front of the others?" Tomoki asked his digivice. Tomoki had found out a few nights ago that if he wished hard enough, a holographic image of Blizzarmon or Chakmon would appear on the screen of the D-Scanner, 3-D like, and he could talk to it.
"Depends." Blizzarmon said softly.
Immediately, Chakmon came grinning on the back of Blizzarmon.
"Hey kid. I don't understand why you had this facade in the first place." Chakmon grinned.
"To stop others from bullying me." Tomoki gained little teardrops at the ends of his eyes despite what facade he dropped. For kami's sake, he was nine! "People used to tease me because I seemed so serious. I came here with intent, KNOWING I was going to A Digital World, but I didn't know that I was going to be bullied inside the train." Hastily, he wiped tears away from his eyes. "An old friend told me about the Digital World, so I knew what to expect. So what if I tried to return home the first day? I wasn't expecting such CIVILATION." Tomoki mused. "Those stories were always about vast plains with plenty of small villages. Not these large cities. I guess, I was surprised along belief so that the tears came from believing that I was lied to." Tomoki shook his head. "I got over it though."
Meanwhile, Blizzarmon and Chakmon were listening in silent awe. "Y-Y-You already knew about the Digital World?" Chakmon sputtered.
Tomoki gave a sly glance to the two spirits of ice. "Yes... And I do know about the different quantum plains."
Blizzarmon suddenly started coughing. "How?" Chakmon and Blizzarmon looked deeply into Tomoki's eyes and saw something that they didn't notice before. However, before they could comment, the two spirits disappeared as Takuya, their local gogglehead, called to him. "Tomoki, what's up?"
Slipping his facade and false demeanor back in, Tomoki called back brightly. "I'm fine Takuya-nii-chan! Just a little bit scared."
"Don't worry." Kouichi suddenly appeared next to Tomoki. "It'll be alright."
"I guess Kouichi-san." Tomoki smiled brightly, but his insides were burning with emotion. I feel so uncomfortable around the spirits of darkness! I know that Kouichi has control, but darkness is like a counterbalance... One that I positively feel uncomfortable around!
"So squirt, going to join us for some chow?" The obese oldest kid, Junpei, called.
"In a minute Junpei-san!" Tomoki said. He eats like a baby digimon sometimes...
"Are you sure that you're okay Tomoki?" The only girl, Izumi, went to eye level with Tomoki.
"I'm fine." Tomoki said with an edge to his voice that he himself only barely caught.
"Wouldn't want one of us to break in the middle of a battle." Kouji snorted.
"Kouji!" Takuya glared.
"Fine." Kouji waved a hand in dismissal.
"I'm fine, really!" Tomoki said as he headed toward the bright fire. All six, along with Patamon, Bokomon, and Neemon sat in a circle. A bright golden star shone in the distance.
"Hmmm... I never knew that star existed." Neemon pointed to the golden star. "Zen zen zen." The digimon poked Bokomon.
"Stop it!" Bokomon slapped away Neemon's hand as he consulted his book. "Strange. That star shouldn't exist."
Patamon, however, stared at the sky and then back at Tomoki. Flying slowly, Patamon landed on Tomoki's head.
This is so familiar. Patamon thought. "I feel a strange connection to both you and that star." Patamon whispered into Tomoki's ear.
"What star?" Tomoki's ears perked up.
"That golden one." Takuya pointed to the light that was increasingly getting brighter.
Tomoki's eyes widened. "That's not a star!" He shouted.
"What?" "Nani?" The rest of the group seemed not to register it except for Patamon, whose eyes also widened.
The light seemed to be heading for Takuya! "Takuya-nii-chan!" Tomoki cried as he let his facade drop. Forcefully shoving the older boy out of the way, Tomoki and Patamon were struck with the shining golden light. In a matter of seconds, the human and digimon were captured and the light was hurtling west.
"Tomoki!" The group shouted as they heard a Salamon's cries. After chasing the pillar for a few seconds, they found that the light had disappeared right in front of their very eyes. Before the column of light had vanished, however, the silhouettes of Tomoki, Patamon, and a Salamon were made out.
"Tomoki..." Takuya collapsed and cried as the boy that looked up to him was gone. The boy he had promised himself to protect.
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End Notes (2010): I removed the god-awful framing script that I couldn't stand to see anymore, but that and the line breaks are the only things that have changed, except some grammar errors.
