Written for the Collecting the Legendary Warriors challenge on the DFC. This time I had to find Water. This also ties into Mercuremon/Wormmon's story.
The True Tale part 2
I remember back when he was sweet, my Mercuremon, my darling Wormmon back then. It was endearin', just how shy and timid he had been, even when it annoyed the livin' daylights outta me. We were best friends once, back in school. We had the same faults, same quirks, I mean, we shared the same evolution. I just knew he and I were meant to be together.
Back then, I used to watch Jijimon and Babamon and wonder, could that be us? Could Wormmon and I someday grow up and digivolve into a couple like them? Sure, they fight a lot, but they were oh, so very clearly in love, and that's what I wanted. That's what I thought I had, besides all the fightin' o'course.
And then I digivolved. I digivolved first, and I knew Wormmon was proud of me, I could see it in his eyes. But I also saw embarrassment. He wasn't embarrassed that I digivolved before him, or because he was the last Child in our class, but because I only digivolved when he couldn't. I did it in his defense.
I'd hoped we could move past that. It felt like we did, I'm sure we tried. But I'm what I'm not sure is what happened. I say we drifted apart but that's not the truth, it was more than that. I think... I think Wormmon stopped loving me. We weren't the same, so he quit. I mean, I knew it wouldn't be easy, me being an oversized porcupine and he still a cata-pillar, but I still thought we could be as great as Angewomon and Angemon. Unfortunately for me, all he could see was Agumon and Koromon.
It was a long time before I saw my Wormmon again, and when I did, he was different. He wasn't small and timid anymore, but tall, tough and commanding. He had digivolved, and it changed him. Mercuremon was a hero, the way he always wanted, but he was becomin' a villain. That much was obvious when I watched him extract the Code from the digimon who'd been attackin' me.
I couldn't let him keep goin' that way, so I stuck around. He was losin' himself and I had to remind him who he was. I knew I could could save him, and maybe return to being his sweetheart in the process, it was just too bad that, after I officially joined Cherubimon and became Ranamon... Well, it was too bad I forgot about saving him.
Understandable, seein' as Mercuremon's not the only one who forgot who he was.