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The Secret of the Silver Cross
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By Kyoko_Jyou
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Authors Note: What you are about to see... err read... is the prologue for my first posted fanfic "Dark Trine". This is possibly the last fanfic I write for a long time as my long summer vacation has finally ended. I'm a College student so I have to regain a few years of my life back before classes start (as opposed to my ritual shedding of age-years every summer). I wonder what happens if I started talking about Digimon on campus...
Anyway, please read and review!
Oh yeah, this one is about Jyou, Koushiro, and Ken. It's screaming with Jyoumi but it tosses Koushiro into the fray as well.
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Disclaimer: I am Jyou's incarnate so I own him. Really, I do! Everything else is owned by Bandai, Toei and probably a bunch of other guys who didn't give me the rights to Digimon for last Christmas.
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Chapter One: Uninvited
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"It's nice of you to come with us Ken..." Jyou said, almost emotionlessly as he looked deeply into the lens of his telescope."
"Well, I'm always looking for sensible conversation."
"I guess Dai is out of the question, huh?" Koushiro joked.
Ken smiled.
It was the clearest of nights above Odaiba where Koushiro and Ken met with Jyou at his house uptown to watch the meteor shower said to happen tonight. Stars stretched up into the endless skies as they each trried to figure out the shapes of the constellations.
It's been three years since that final battle with 'what's-it-mon' and everything seemed to have returned to the natural order of things.
Leaving his telescope for a while, Jyou faced the two, also smiling contently. "Who would ever have guessed we'd actually be close friends?"
"I always had a hunch" Koushiro remarked. "As they say, birds of a feather."
"You insult me!" Ken shrugged, then looked straight at Koushiro who didn't seem to like what he said. Grabbing him on a headlock, Ken tried vigorously to escape his grasp, but to no avail. Koushiro has gotten quite stronger over the last year.
"What exactly do you mean by that Ken?"
"It was a joke, okay!?" Ken replied, choking on his words.
"'Shiro, let him go. We all know he's as much a geek as the two of us..."
"Don't say that pejoratively, Jyou. I prefer the word 'Intellectually Inclined', myself."
The trio lounged on folding chairs on the flat Kido roof where the skies could be seen as far as the eyes could see, without the disturbing obstruction of walls and other buildings.
Suddenly, a knock came from the window they climbed out from.
"Jyou... Jyou?"
Ken opened it, allowing a dishevelled Shin into their company.
"Nii-chan." Jyou greeted him politely.
"Here Jyou, have one." Shin threw him a beer, then tossing his friends a couple also. He then joined in.
"Thanks." Said a grateful Ken.
"No prob'. I pilfered these from the party I've been too last night."
A cold wind rustles over nearby trees.
"So, you kids waiting for the meteorite shower?"
"Yup."
"Yeah."
"Uh huh."
Jyou stood next to Shin while Ken prefered sitting on the beach table. Koushiro was now looking at Jyou's telescope.
"Seems to me your little brother's head and shoulders taller than you now." Ken remarked, eyeing the two. Recently, he's seen Jyou as the brother he lost, somewhat yearning for the relationship he has with Shin.
"Shut your yap, Boy Genius. It's a Kido genetics thing."
Ken crossed his arms. He wonders about the quality of Ichijouchi Genetics. He wonders if Osamu could kick Shin's ass in a fight.
"Uh, where's Shuu?" Koushiro tried to break the tension.
"In the hospital, as usual. He took dad's job while he's at that conference in France."
"Oh."
A silence, followed by the sigh of the cold wind.
Suddenly...
"Hey, look it's starting..."
A fiery streak darted across the heavens.
A streak followed by another... then another... then another...
But there was something terribly wrong...
"I don't think those are meteorites guys..."
"What do you mean?"
"Ever seen a meteorite with feet and wings?"
"What the..."
Jyou and Ken quickly raced for the lens, squashing Izzy in between.
"Hey, those are Vilemon!"
"The heck are they doing here?"
Jyou and Izzy drew their digivices and Ken drew his D3.
"Why do I have the feeling I'm the only Digidestined's sibling without those gadgets?"
"Sorry Shuu. But hey, there's always Jun!"
"The Motomiya girl? Aww, forget it."
Hustling together, they began to contact the others.
"Tai, you gotta come quick. Vilemon are raining down on Odaiba! Bring your Sister!"
"Yamato, you gotta come quick. Vilemon are raining down on Odaiba! Bring your Brother!"
"Sora, you gotta come quick. Vilemon are raining down on Odaiba! Bring your... uh, whatever!"
"Daisuke, you gotta come quick. Vilemon are raining down on Odaiba! Bring your sister. Shin want's to meet her!"
"Hey! Take that back!"
"Miyako! I don't care if it's one o'clock in the morning! Hurry up and get here!"
"Cody's already gone here? Thanks Mrs. Hida!"
"Hi... Mimi... this is Jyou."
"Hi Mimi! It's me, Koushiro!"
"Jyou, Koushiro, why did you wake me up this early in the morning... on a party line?"
"No time to explain. Just come to my house. We have a big problem".
"Hey Jyou, why'd she have to go to your house? She can come to my house!"
"Uh... because we're already here?"
"Oh."
"Anyway, Mimi are you still there?"
"Yeah, okay I'm coming!"
Later that evening...
"What's with the Vilemon?"
"Yeah, Koushiro! Out with the technobabble!"
"I... I'm still cannot concur... I thought the digital world was already free from diabolical leadership..."
"Uh, yeah, just as I thought." Daisuke boasted."
Suddenly, Koushiro's laptop flipped open, revealing a message from Gennai.
"Gennai, you old sonofab*tch! You said we've defeated all the bad guys..."
"Yes you have but..."
"But we haven't destroyed the ultimate source of ultimate evil, yada yada yada, blah blah blah." Koushiro said in snide.
"That is precise."
"Hew, for a moment there, I thought we were actually in trouble." Mimi sighed in relief.
"So, who's this monster and how can we defeat him." Miyako bursted.
"The monster you are about to face is Oblivimon. He is one of the four Unholy Beasts of the Digital World..."
"Un...holy beasts? Are they related, perchance to the Holy Beasts?"
"Yes they are. Only evil."
"Oh. So how the bloody heck do we destroy him if he's a Holy Beast digimon?"
"You must warp digvolve all your Digimon to their Mega Forms with Tai's and Yamato's going one step further... as usual."
Everybody gave a sign of excitement. Wow, new digimon!
"Except for you Jyou, your not part of this one."
"I'm not? What the f*ck?"
"Sorry, your Mega Digimon is just a stupid runty pink thing with a heart dangling from it's neck. Koromon can do better that it can."
"How come? What's wrong with my Digimon?"
"Those are questions I cannot answer now... or ever. Now, any questions?"
Gennai hands him a "Marine Angemon" card.
"This is so unfair!"
"Any questions... from the legitimate Digidestineds."
"If Jyou's staying, I'm staying with him." A voice echoed from the back of the group.
It was Mimi who was on vacation from the States.
"I'm returning a favor, Jyou." Their eyes met solemnly. Koushiro almost felt envy bite into his skin.
"If you must..." Then Gennai urged her to come closer and whispered something into her ears from the monitor to everybody's confusion.
"Don't you ever let Jyou out of your protection if you want to stay alive to see your grandchildren!"
"Do you mean 'Our' as in 'Jyou and mine' or just 'me' as in 'mine'?"
"'Doesn't matter. Anyway, to all the other... legitimate... Digidestined. Destiny awaits... off you go!"
Jyou couldn't stop thinking. What did the other digidestineds have that he doesn't have? More adventures from their last saga three years ago? He was hardly accountable for that. He thought he have proven himself worthy loads of times.
So why can't he be part of it.
Mimi stood beside her.
"Don't think of it Jyou. It's just you and me now... again..."
She smiles.
He does too.
Shin looked at them confused in the backdrop.
The Digidestined get sucked into the digital world once more, disappearing into their next adventure...
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Why not take Jyou with them?
Find out soon on... the Secret of the Silver Cross.
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