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I do own my story and my own characters.
(A/N: Okay, first off I have to say that this is the second part of a series I was doing but have decided not to put that other one up, because I was not proud of it. But I can explain a few important things: Firstly they were all around 18, 19 years old, and Davis fell in love with a girl, Galataia who was once a Digidestined but died in the digital world, and was made a guardian like Genni. After a long argument they (the Light Masters) made her mortal again and left her to be with Davis. (Her real name is Hunter). Cody and Yolei were dating (I know, I usually like Kenlei (Yolei and Ken) together but for this they couldn't), Kari and TK were dating. Ken fell in love with Avi, who he met one night and they opened up to each other, hard for both of them (Avi had quite a dark side too). They got married and had a child (all the couples). The reason Ken is a singer is because after a fight with Avi, he sang to her, the song they first made love to and Matt heard him and suggested he become a singer. Oh, yeah, I don't get the dubbed version here, but from what I have read and seen off the net, I get a few things/differences in the two types, so if I use both and mix the two, sorry.)
1 "The End of the End"
Ken's luver
NictheCatBurglar@Hotmail.com
'It's funny you know, you always know this day is coming, the day you loose, but you never really think today will be that day, not for a minute. The pain is less now, or more, I'm not sure, it's all over my body and I can't define it's place anymore. It burns, it stings, it numbs and it's dull, where I don't know, I just know that's how it feels, I think. It's indescribable really. The brains' a funny thing you know, it remembers a lot of things, like taste and smell, and things like that, but it doesn't remember pain.
It pushes on me again, and I can't scream, my voice is all screamed out, has been for a while now. I heard something else crack, my ribs maybe? I know there are several that are broken. Could have been an arm, like I said the pain is everywhere. I hope this isn't the way she felt when she was near the end. The doctors told me it was instant, that she didn't suffer any pain. They were probably lying.
AHHHH! Why does it squeeze so tight? I can't even tell you what it is that's killing me, I don't remember if it's human, or Digimon, male or female. And it doesn't help to look up 'cause all I see is my blue-black hair in front of my eyes.
They tried you know, to save me. I heard them screaming, but something stopped them, made them watch as I was picked up and crushed like a little clump of dirt.
I loved her so much, I didn't think that I could have lived without her, Avi, my wife, but I had to live for my sweet little girl. Oh God! What will happen to her? She doesn't have anyone, but me. She is just becoming a woman, her mother would have been so proud. It's hard to think that fifteen years ago she was a tiny little baby, and now she…AHHHHHHHHHH! The pain! I think I'm bleeding, I can taste it, and it tasted bitter. Is blood supposed to taste bitter?
I'm sorry, I can't keep a straight thought, I'm trying to hold on for her, for them, but I've brought you in at the end of the movie, I should go back…
'There we stood in the digital would. We shouldn't really be there, I mean technically, only children should be there, but we were, after all we are the Digidestined. We loved to come here, all of us. It gave us a chance to get away from people and fans. We became a really famous rock band, Davis, Hunter, Avi and I. Matt said we had talent and so went for it. When Avi died I the car crash, Faye was the only thing that kept me alive. Her and I would come to the digital would and sit on the beach, gazing up at the stars. Her mother had mentioned the sky here, looked like a big piece of cloth like a canopy with holes in it. We would just sit and talk for hours, Faye and I. We wrote a song for Avi, her and I. It was a big hit, but that's not why we wrote it. She taught me to express myself through music; Avi did, that's how we got most of our good songs.
I'm sorry, I'm trailing off the subject. I don't think I will be able to fill you in after all, the others will have to.
It's getting dark now, I think I am on the ground, the pain has stopped, no, it hasn't stopped, it just isn't getting worse. I think whatever it is, stopped and put me down. I don't know what it wanted from me. The Spore maybe? I just know it picked me up and started to toss me about like a cat toy. We came here, it was almost an hour ago and the place was dark and dead, like an ash-heap, or mine-dump. All the Digimon were dead, gone, not ours, they were all right, they had been with us. That is until a few minutes ago, or hour, time is fuzzy. I wasn't too upset when Stingmon died, because I knew in my heart that he would be reconfigured, just like the others. Now I'm not too sure.
My little girl, what will she do? I want to hang on but I'm slipping, I know I am, but the pain gets less, every second. It's dark, I'm sure I have my eyes open, but it's so dark…the others will fill you in, I'm sure…Faye…'
Ken lay on the ground, his bruised and broken body, lay unmoving. Davis and the others ran to him after being released by the cruel and evil, dark overlord, Rasputen, one of the new Dark Master's minions let them go and vanished. It was he, Rasputen, who had turned the digital would to dust. For some reason, he didn't want to cover it in darkness, no, he wanted to destroy it, leave it decimated. They gathered by his body, the last time they would see his blue eyes, is when they rolled up into his head. No words were spoken, only tears could speak for them. A huge blue transparent shield vanished along with Rasputen, and a tall, thin girl, with long dark brown, almost black hair, ran towards the body. Davis grabbed her before she got too close, but she fought him so hard he had to let her go. She dropped to the gray ash beneath her, her legs unable to support her weight, after seeing the body. Her face was blank, no tears, nothing. She whispered one word, "Papa."
The other teenagers that were in the shield, another girl and two boys slowly joined them. They looked around; they had not only lost Ken today, but so much more. The ash-like appearance started to fade and black started to take its place. They looked for a port, Davis carried Ken's lifeless body through and that was the last they would ever see of the digital would and their Digimon.
-A week later-
Davis although he had aged, and well at that, he still had that air about him that screamed 'Davis'. He was angry, crunching a newspaper between his two hands, then growling he dumped it in the trash. It rumpled open to the front page, displaying a large black headline, "Caged Freedom looses it's second member", with a photo of Ken underneath it.
"Why do they keep on printing that stuff!?" he grunted as he sat down at the breakfast table.
Hunter moved towards him slowly, then sat across from him. "The public deserves to know." She said quietly.
"I know, it's just, it's been a while now, I thought it would have, lessened a bit. I hate the way Faye keeps bumping into all this press."
"How is she?"
"I just checked on her, she was still sleeping."
Hunter looked up, "But she does want to go to school today right?"
"That's what she told me."
Interrupting them, a typical teenage boy of about sixteen, dressed in boxer shorts and a baggy T-shirt, dragged himself into the kitchen. He yawned and peered into the fridge.
Hunter looked at him, with a raised eyebrow; "Breakfast is on the table, if you opened your eyes in the morning, you would have seen that."
He spun around, his brown hair, hanging in his eyes, looked at his mother, "Oh, thanks." And he plonked himself down on a chair and helped himself.
Another figure appeared in the room. She wore boxer shorts too, and a small black tank top, her dark brown hair, pulled into a bun-type, half ponytail. She sat down, wordlessly at the table and stared at the eggs, bacon and toast that lay in front of her.
"Morning Faye." Davis quietly said.
She looked at him, "Morning."
"Are you sure you want to go to school today dear?" inquired Hinter.
She picked up a piece of toast and nodded.
"I can't understand why anyone would want to go to school!" Kido, Davis' son, mumbled.
Faye whipped her head in his direction and narrowed her eyes, "You wouldn't understand!" she stood up, "Excuse me." And moved towards the spare room, in the huge house, and closed the door.
"Kido!" Davis growled.
He shrugged, "What?"
Faye sat slowly on her bed and took a hesitant bite out of her toast. She didn't want to eat, she didn't feel hungry, but she knew if she didn't, she would feel horrible for the rest of the day. She looked up at the silver urn, with the crest of Kindness on it. She sighed heavily, "Spring break was torture, I'm glad school is starting again, it gives me something else to think of you know."
She put the toast down and went to her closet, staring at her clothes; she noticed a pretty, simple black dress. She breathed and closed her eyes as a memory came to her. It was only four days ago that she had said good-bye to her father. Everyone was there, Matt, Tai, Davis, Kari, everyone. She didn't cry. It was a nice service, and when it was over, she was taken back here. She hadn't been back to her home after that day in the digital world. Hunter picked up her clothes and other important things that she needed from the house.
She shook her head, opened her eyes and pulled out her blue jeans, with a large black, studded belt, with a short purple top, with spaghetti string straps.
After a quick look in the mirror to see if she was presentable, she grabbed her sling-over bag and headed out the door into the living area.
She waited a few minutes and then glanced at her watch. "Kido! We are going to be late! The Hover-rail leaves in ten minutes!"
The boy rushed out his room, his baggy, open shirt, flying behind him, along with his bag. "I'm ready!"
"'Bout time."
At the school, many students rushed to their classes, others chatted to friends and most were at their lockers. Faye and Kido walked towards their lockers, which were near each other. A few people in Faye' classes, came up to her and apologized for her loss. The bell rung and she quietly thanked the higher powers.
On their way to homeroom, two other teens raced up to join them. The same boy and girl from the digital world. "Kidd-o!" shouted the boy.
Kido spun around, fuming, "It's Kido! Kido, the 'I' is like a 'y'! When will you stop calling me that, JT?"
"Sorreeyy!" JT replied, his lavender hair framed a mischievous look on his face.
"Don't you have a class now JT?" Inquired the girl, Katie. Her hair was blond and cut very short, close to how her mother, Kari had it when she was younger.
"Oh, yeah!" and he ran off. JT was the youngest of the group, he had just turned 13 and he took after his mother, Yolei, mostly, but had his father, Cody's smarts.
Katie leaned over to Kido, "How is she doing?" She eyed Faye, as she asked, thinking that she couldn't hear her. Kido shrugged.
"I'm doing fine, Katie, you could just ask." Faye replied without turning around.
"Sorry." Katie blushed, and her blue eyes twinkled.
Faye had to admit that Katie wasn't her favorite person in the world, but she was apart of the group and she accepted it. The main thing that got on Faye's nerves, was how sickly sweet Katie was. She batted baby blues of hers and everyone just bowed down to her. She was always trying to make people feel better, but she just seemed to make things worse for Faye. Kido liked Katie, for a while, Faye had the suspicion that he had a crush on her, but he admitted he didn't and just said that she was a good friend, but there was no way that he would date her.
Faye and Kido had been friends since they were babies, they all had been, but those two were so much closer. It was only recently that they had begun to part, become distant.
They used to talk to each other all the time, now they fought more often than they would care to count.
Katie and JT were the closest. They got on well with each other.
Faye had her head down, in her notebook as usual, scribbling things down, with a black pen. Kido leaned over and asked, "What's that?"
She shut the book with force and hissed, "Non of your business."
The bell rung and she was the first out of the class. Kido watched after her, seething.
"Kido," Katie soothed, "She is just angry about her dad, not at you."
"Yeah, well, she doesn't have to be so rude!"
It was break time and all the students moved to the large, green field. Faye found a large tree to sit under and the group followed. "Man, I thought computer science would never end!" Kido sighed.
"History was a drag!" JT added.
Katie pulled out a thick book. She showed it to the boys, "My dad has another book out soon, this is the first copy!"
"Cool, another book on their adventures in the digital world!" Kido exclaimed.
"It's odd that everyone knows, you know, and now it's gone." Katie rambled on without thinking. Then she stopped; their attention was at Faye. She sat unfazed, gazing at the sky.
It was an odd sight to see, but the group flickered and disappeared.
TK was at his desk, remembering the horrible events of the week before. He rubbed his forehead and sighed.
"There had been no warning of any of it." He said to himself, or mostly to the computer screen, which took down every word he uttered.
"We had just come to the digital world for our usual time away, when we found the place decimated. Everything was gone. Reduced to dust and ash. We couldn't believe it. It was the worst thing we had ever seen. We fought, of course we fought, but our Digimon were gone, so easily. Dead. We will never see them again and it makes me angry and sad, and…" He sighed again, "He was huge, the Dark Master, Rasputen, a name that you want to spit out. After destroying our Digimon, he eyed Ken out and grabbed him. He extracted the spore from him and used it to finish off the destruction of the digital world. Then while we were forced to watch, he crushed him with his bare hands. The screams made our blood freeze in our veins. We couldn't do anything, nothing, at all. I will never forget the look and screams from Faye that day. She too was forced to watch her father die a brutal death. That's when I knew this was truly a monster.
The four teenagers appeared in what looked like an empty room with no lights on. They were in complete darkness. It was pointless looking around them, because they could not see a centimeter in front of them. A voice boomed and they jumped. "Sorry to take you out of school, but this is important." The voice said.
"I know that voice!" Katie announced.
"It's Genni voice!" JT confirmed.
"It can't be! He's dead! We saw him die!" Kido snapped.
"No, they are right, it is me." The voice came again, this time getting closer. They turned and for the first time, saw something standing before them.
"You are needed. It is time."
"Time? Time for what?" asked Katie.
"You can, you have to restore the digital world."
"But how? We don't know where it is now, and besides it's gone and dead." Kido sighed.
"It is and that's why you have to bring it to life again. You are in it now."
"But…" JT caught his breath, "This is just darkness."
"Yes, the digital world is now like a deleted program, gone, but you have to re-write it so-to-speak."
"This is all fine and stellar, but how do we do that, and why are you alive, not that I'm not glad to see you, it's just that…" Faye trailed off.
"I'm alive because my essence was not destroyed, so I could restore myself. It is a complicated process to start this all again, but I'm sure you can do it, you after all, the Chosen Children."
"Chosen Children?" Katie inquired.
"Yes, that day of destruction was written in the prophecy, and you were chosen to right the wrongs. You were born with special gifts, or abilities, it was your destiny…"
"I don't believe in destiny." Faye blurted out; "I don't like the idea that I am not in control of my life. Sorry to go all Neo from the Matrix on your ass, but that's how I feel."
They all gave her a blank stare. "Matrix?" Kido asked confused.
"Only like one of the best classic movies, ever! You haven't seen it?" Faye asked bewildered.
"It's old and on those large DVD disks, like no body has one of those anymore, not for years." Katie replied.
Faye rolled her eyes.
"Anyway," Genni continued, "Weather you believe in it or not, that is not the point, but you have to find your rings in order to awaken your powers, and then awaken the digital world."
"Rings?" JT asked.
"You each have one in the real world somewhere, you have to find it."
"And how do we do that?" Faye folded her arms.
"You will think of something." And Genni was gone again, like he was never there. The groups too, disappeared and were back into the real world, under the tree.
The bell rung and they stood, non-moving. All except Faye. She noticed them not moving and asked them, "Why are you guys just standing there? WE have class."
"How can you even think about going to class after what we just found out?" JT exclaimed.
"Easily, like this." Faye turned and started walking towards the school. Kido ran up to her side.
"We have to go look for the rings, you heard what Genni said…"
"Yeah, I did," Faye replied without stopping, "but we have classes too, so it will have to wait."
"Wait?! How can you just be so casual? This is the digital world! We have to save it!"
Faye stopped dead and turned to him; "Maybe I don't want to." Then she started walking again. Kido stared blank for a few seconds and then joined her.
"What do you mean?"
She stopped again, and the others caught up, "It's just, maybe I don't want to get caught up in all that. It killed my father Kido, I don't want anyone else to get hurt, so maybe it is better if it just stayed deleted."
They gasped, "That is so selfish!" Katie yelled.
"Whatever." Faye brushed past them and moved towards class.
After school, they met at the gates. "Right, now can we go look for the rings?" Urged Kido.
"You can do what you like, I'm going to the library to study." Faye replied.
"Why are you being so stubborn?" Katie asked.
"Because I have better things to do."
Kido and the others watched after her.
Kido wandered into thought about her, 'She has always been so strong and stubborn. I used to admire her for that; nothing could get her to back off something important. She's fearless too. I mean really. She didn't have to tell me, I could see it in her eyes. She's not afraid of death, not since her mother died. The only thing she feared after that was loosing her father. Now, nothing. I mean it. I mean, if you don't fear death what else is there? Because technically every fear is connecting to dying. Like being afraid of spiders, being bitten, the poison and death. Or fear of enclosed spaces, you're afraid you will run out of air, suffocate, resulting in death. No she doesn't fear anything, not death, nothing. I watch her as she crosses the road, not looking out for cars, not caring, just crossing. She walks and the cars go past her. Sometimes I think she wishes for death.'
Kido turned to the others; "Well we should at least look for ours."
On her way to the library, Faye found herself distracted by the thought of that stupid ring. And she had noticed that she had gone in completely the wrong direction. She had ended up near the huge park, the one she loved to go to when she needed to think. It was in a large transparent dome, much like a bio-dome. It had all sorts of sections; one area was like a large Zen garden, where people went for inspiration. Her and her mother used to go there to write songs.
There was one thing that fascinated her about the place. It was the one area where it was so cold, and always got snow, but in the middle, it was too hot to go near. And every now and then a small flame would shoot out the ground. Like a small volcano. She sat staring at it for a while, when her gaze was drawn to something else. Something shiny. She looked closer and noticed it was a ring. She frowned and leaned in, careful no to burn herself, and picked up the small, silver ring. She studied it and noticed the large stone I the middle change from blue to red when she moved it from side to side. "Typical, you only find things when you aren't looking for them." She slipped the ring onto her finger to her hand to her arm and further still. She shuddered and got up. "Hmm." She mumbled to her self and headed for her temporary home with Davis, Hunter and Kido. The sun was setting and they would be worried about her.
She wandered along the street, her shadow long behind her, thinking. About the ring, about what Genni had said, about everything. She was interrupted when her watch started beeping. She looked down at her wrist and pressed one of the three small buttons on the silver watch. The numbers indicating the time faded and an image of Kido appeared on the round watch face. "Where are you?" he asked.
"I'm on my way back."
"Oh, good. My parents would get worried if you missed dinner. Did you um…look for the ring?"
"No. I'll be there soon, bye." She pressed the button in the middle and the watch went back to the time. She hadn't lied, it was true, she hadn't looked for the ring, it found her. She just didn't feel like telling him about it right now.
She opened the door and went straight to her room. She took off the ring and placed it under her pillow. When she heard her name being called for dinner, she left the room and didn't go near the subject of the rings.
-Muse chat-
Ken: You killed me??
Nic: Yup, sorry.
Ken: But, *sob* I thought I was your favorite character!
Nic: You are Ken-chan! But there is a saying, "You hurt the one you love" and I love you a lot. Besides, you have a few guest spots in this story, so don't worry.
Ken: Really? Whoo hoo!
Kaiser: Insect.
Nic: You shut up! I don't have any use for you…yet. *Evil grin*
Ken & Wormmon: Uh oh.
(Nic is me the author by the way, but you're smart so I bet you got that.) ^-^
(A/N: TK and JT should technically be T.K and J.T. but it is just a pain to type that so, I don't. Also, this story is almost finished, (one or two more chapters to go), I started it last year. So you won't have to wait long for it.)
(A/N: Okay, first off I have to say that this is the second part of a series I was doing but have decided not to put that other one up, because I was not proud of it. But I can explain a few important things: Firstly they were all around 18, 19 years old, and Davis fell in love with a girl, Galataia who was once a Digidestined but died in the digital world, and was made a guardian like Genni. After a long argument they (the Light Masters) made her mortal again and left her to be with Davis. (Her real name is Hunter). Cody and Yolei were dating (I know, I usually like Kenlei (Yolei and Ken) together but for this they couldn't), Kari and TK were dating. Ken fell in love with Avi, who he met one night and they opened up to each other, hard for both of them (Avi had quite a dark side too). They got married and had a child (all the couples). The reason Ken is a singer is because after a fight with Avi, he sang to her, the song they first made love to and Matt heard him and suggested he become a singer. Oh, yeah, I don't get the dubbed version here, but from what I have read and seen off the net, I get a few things/differences in the two types, so if I use both and mix the two, sorry.)
1 "The End of the End"
Ken's luver
NictheCatBurglar@Hotmail.com
'It's funny you know, you always know this day is coming, the day you loose, but you never really think today will be that day, not for a minute. The pain is less now, or more, I'm not sure, it's all over my body and I can't define it's place anymore. It burns, it stings, it numbs and it's dull, where I don't know, I just know that's how it feels, I think. It's indescribable really. The brains' a funny thing you know, it remembers a lot of things, like taste and smell, and things like that, but it doesn't remember pain.
It pushes on me again, and I can't scream, my voice is all screamed out, has been for a while now. I heard something else crack, my ribs maybe? I know there are several that are broken. Could have been an arm, like I said the pain is everywhere. I hope this isn't the way she felt when she was near the end. The doctors told me it was instant, that she didn't suffer any pain. They were probably lying.
AHHHH! Why does it squeeze so tight? I can't even tell you what it is that's killing me, I don't remember if it's human, or Digimon, male or female. And it doesn't help to look up 'cause all I see is my blue-black hair in front of my eyes.
They tried you know, to save me. I heard them screaming, but something stopped them, made them watch as I was picked up and crushed like a little clump of dirt.
I loved her so much, I didn't think that I could have lived without her, Avi, my wife, but I had to live for my sweet little girl. Oh God! What will happen to her? She doesn't have anyone, but me. She is just becoming a woman, her mother would have been so proud. It's hard to think that fifteen years ago she was a tiny little baby, and now she…AHHHHHHHHHH! The pain! I think I'm bleeding, I can taste it, and it tasted bitter. Is blood supposed to taste bitter?
I'm sorry, I can't keep a straight thought, I'm trying to hold on for her, for them, but I've brought you in at the end of the movie, I should go back…
'There we stood in the digital would. We shouldn't really be there, I mean technically, only children should be there, but we were, after all we are the Digidestined. We loved to come here, all of us. It gave us a chance to get away from people and fans. We became a really famous rock band, Davis, Hunter, Avi and I. Matt said we had talent and so went for it. When Avi died I the car crash, Faye was the only thing that kept me alive. Her and I would come to the digital would and sit on the beach, gazing up at the stars. Her mother had mentioned the sky here, looked like a big piece of cloth like a canopy with holes in it. We would just sit and talk for hours, Faye and I. We wrote a song for Avi, her and I. It was a big hit, but that's not why we wrote it. She taught me to express myself through music; Avi did, that's how we got most of our good songs.
I'm sorry, I'm trailing off the subject. I don't think I will be able to fill you in after all, the others will have to.
It's getting dark now, I think I am on the ground, the pain has stopped, no, it hasn't stopped, it just isn't getting worse. I think whatever it is, stopped and put me down. I don't know what it wanted from me. The Spore maybe? I just know it picked me up and started to toss me about like a cat toy. We came here, it was almost an hour ago and the place was dark and dead, like an ash-heap, or mine-dump. All the Digimon were dead, gone, not ours, they were all right, they had been with us. That is until a few minutes ago, or hour, time is fuzzy. I wasn't too upset when Stingmon died, because I knew in my heart that he would be reconfigured, just like the others. Now I'm not too sure.
My little girl, what will she do? I want to hang on but I'm slipping, I know I am, but the pain gets less, every second. It's dark, I'm sure I have my eyes open, but it's so dark…the others will fill you in, I'm sure…Faye…'
Ken lay on the ground, his bruised and broken body, lay unmoving. Davis and the others ran to him after being released by the cruel and evil, dark overlord, Rasputen, one of the new Dark Master's minions let them go and vanished. It was he, Rasputen, who had turned the digital would to dust. For some reason, he didn't want to cover it in darkness, no, he wanted to destroy it, leave it decimated. They gathered by his body, the last time they would see his blue eyes, is when they rolled up into his head. No words were spoken, only tears could speak for them. A huge blue transparent shield vanished along with Rasputen, and a tall, thin girl, with long dark brown, almost black hair, ran towards the body. Davis grabbed her before she got too close, but she fought him so hard he had to let her go. She dropped to the gray ash beneath her, her legs unable to support her weight, after seeing the body. Her face was blank, no tears, nothing. She whispered one word, "Papa."
The other teenagers that were in the shield, another girl and two boys slowly joined them. They looked around; they had not only lost Ken today, but so much more. The ash-like appearance started to fade and black started to take its place. They looked for a port, Davis carried Ken's lifeless body through and that was the last they would ever see of the digital would and their Digimon.
-A week later-
Davis although he had aged, and well at that, he still had that air about him that screamed 'Davis'. He was angry, crunching a newspaper between his two hands, then growling he dumped it in the trash. It rumpled open to the front page, displaying a large black headline, "Caged Freedom looses it's second member", with a photo of Ken underneath it.
"Why do they keep on printing that stuff!?" he grunted as he sat down at the breakfast table.
Hunter moved towards him slowly, then sat across from him. "The public deserves to know." She said quietly.
"I know, it's just, it's been a while now, I thought it would have, lessened a bit. I hate the way Faye keeps bumping into all this press."
"How is she?"
"I just checked on her, she was still sleeping."
Hunter looked up, "But she does want to go to school today right?"
"That's what she told me."
Interrupting them, a typical teenage boy of about sixteen, dressed in boxer shorts and a baggy T-shirt, dragged himself into the kitchen. He yawned and peered into the fridge.
Hunter looked at him, with a raised eyebrow; "Breakfast is on the table, if you opened your eyes in the morning, you would have seen that."
He spun around, his brown hair, hanging in his eyes, looked at his mother, "Oh, thanks." And he plonked himself down on a chair and helped himself.
Another figure appeared in the room. She wore boxer shorts too, and a small black tank top, her dark brown hair, pulled into a bun-type, half ponytail. She sat down, wordlessly at the table and stared at the eggs, bacon and toast that lay in front of her.
"Morning Faye." Davis quietly said.
She looked at him, "Morning."
"Are you sure you want to go to school today dear?" inquired Hinter.
She picked up a piece of toast and nodded.
"I can't understand why anyone would want to go to school!" Kido, Davis' son, mumbled.
Faye whipped her head in his direction and narrowed her eyes, "You wouldn't understand!" she stood up, "Excuse me." And moved towards the spare room, in the huge house, and closed the door.
"Kido!" Davis growled.
He shrugged, "What?"
Faye sat slowly on her bed and took a hesitant bite out of her toast. She didn't want to eat, she didn't feel hungry, but she knew if she didn't, she would feel horrible for the rest of the day. She looked up at the silver urn, with the crest of Kindness on it. She sighed heavily, "Spring break was torture, I'm glad school is starting again, it gives me something else to think of you know."
She put the toast down and went to her closet, staring at her clothes; she noticed a pretty, simple black dress. She breathed and closed her eyes as a memory came to her. It was only four days ago that she had said good-bye to her father. Everyone was there, Matt, Tai, Davis, Kari, everyone. She didn't cry. It was a nice service, and when it was over, she was taken back here. She hadn't been back to her home after that day in the digital world. Hunter picked up her clothes and other important things that she needed from the house.
She shook her head, opened her eyes and pulled out her blue jeans, with a large black, studded belt, with a short purple top, with spaghetti string straps.
After a quick look in the mirror to see if she was presentable, she grabbed her sling-over bag and headed out the door into the living area.
She waited a few minutes and then glanced at her watch. "Kido! We are going to be late! The Hover-rail leaves in ten minutes!"
The boy rushed out his room, his baggy, open shirt, flying behind him, along with his bag. "I'm ready!"
"'Bout time."
At the school, many students rushed to their classes, others chatted to friends and most were at their lockers. Faye and Kido walked towards their lockers, which were near each other. A few people in Faye' classes, came up to her and apologized for her loss. The bell rung and she quietly thanked the higher powers.
On their way to homeroom, two other teens raced up to join them. The same boy and girl from the digital world. "Kidd-o!" shouted the boy.
Kido spun around, fuming, "It's Kido! Kido, the 'I' is like a 'y'! When will you stop calling me that, JT?"
"Sorreeyy!" JT replied, his lavender hair framed a mischievous look on his face.
"Don't you have a class now JT?" Inquired the girl, Katie. Her hair was blond and cut very short, close to how her mother, Kari had it when she was younger.
"Oh, yeah!" and he ran off. JT was the youngest of the group, he had just turned 13 and he took after his mother, Yolei, mostly, but had his father, Cody's smarts.
Katie leaned over to Kido, "How is she doing?" She eyed Faye, as she asked, thinking that she couldn't hear her. Kido shrugged.
"I'm doing fine, Katie, you could just ask." Faye replied without turning around.
"Sorry." Katie blushed, and her blue eyes twinkled.
Faye had to admit that Katie wasn't her favorite person in the world, but she was apart of the group and she accepted it. The main thing that got on Faye's nerves, was how sickly sweet Katie was. She batted baby blues of hers and everyone just bowed down to her. She was always trying to make people feel better, but she just seemed to make things worse for Faye. Kido liked Katie, for a while, Faye had the suspicion that he had a crush on her, but he admitted he didn't and just said that she was a good friend, but there was no way that he would date her.
Faye and Kido had been friends since they were babies, they all had been, but those two were so much closer. It was only recently that they had begun to part, become distant.
They used to talk to each other all the time, now they fought more often than they would care to count.
Katie and JT were the closest. They got on well with each other.
Faye had her head down, in her notebook as usual, scribbling things down, with a black pen. Kido leaned over and asked, "What's that?"
She shut the book with force and hissed, "Non of your business."
The bell rung and she was the first out of the class. Kido watched after her, seething.
"Kido," Katie soothed, "She is just angry about her dad, not at you."
"Yeah, well, she doesn't have to be so rude!"
It was break time and all the students moved to the large, green field. Faye found a large tree to sit under and the group followed. "Man, I thought computer science would never end!" Kido sighed.
"History was a drag!" JT added.
Katie pulled out a thick book. She showed it to the boys, "My dad has another book out soon, this is the first copy!"
"Cool, another book on their adventures in the digital world!" Kido exclaimed.
"It's odd that everyone knows, you know, and now it's gone." Katie rambled on without thinking. Then she stopped; their attention was at Faye. She sat unfazed, gazing at the sky.
It was an odd sight to see, but the group flickered and disappeared.
TK was at his desk, remembering the horrible events of the week before. He rubbed his forehead and sighed.
"There had been no warning of any of it." He said to himself, or mostly to the computer screen, which took down every word he uttered.
"We had just come to the digital world for our usual time away, when we found the place decimated. Everything was gone. Reduced to dust and ash. We couldn't believe it. It was the worst thing we had ever seen. We fought, of course we fought, but our Digimon were gone, so easily. Dead. We will never see them again and it makes me angry and sad, and…" He sighed again, "He was huge, the Dark Master, Rasputen, a name that you want to spit out. After destroying our Digimon, he eyed Ken out and grabbed him. He extracted the spore from him and used it to finish off the destruction of the digital world. Then while we were forced to watch, he crushed him with his bare hands. The screams made our blood freeze in our veins. We couldn't do anything, nothing, at all. I will never forget the look and screams from Faye that day. She too was forced to watch her father die a brutal death. That's when I knew this was truly a monster.
The four teenagers appeared in what looked like an empty room with no lights on. They were in complete darkness. It was pointless looking around them, because they could not see a centimeter in front of them. A voice boomed and they jumped. "Sorry to take you out of school, but this is important." The voice said.
"I know that voice!" Katie announced.
"It's Genni voice!" JT confirmed.
"It can't be! He's dead! We saw him die!" Kido snapped.
"No, they are right, it is me." The voice came again, this time getting closer. They turned and for the first time, saw something standing before them.
"You are needed. It is time."
"Time? Time for what?" asked Katie.
"You can, you have to restore the digital world."
"But how? We don't know where it is now, and besides it's gone and dead." Kido sighed.
"It is and that's why you have to bring it to life again. You are in it now."
"But…" JT caught his breath, "This is just darkness."
"Yes, the digital world is now like a deleted program, gone, but you have to re-write it so-to-speak."
"This is all fine and stellar, but how do we do that, and why are you alive, not that I'm not glad to see you, it's just that…" Faye trailed off.
"I'm alive because my essence was not destroyed, so I could restore myself. It is a complicated process to start this all again, but I'm sure you can do it, you after all, the Chosen Children."
"Chosen Children?" Katie inquired.
"Yes, that day of destruction was written in the prophecy, and you were chosen to right the wrongs. You were born with special gifts, or abilities, it was your destiny…"
"I don't believe in destiny." Faye blurted out; "I don't like the idea that I am not in control of my life. Sorry to go all Neo from the Matrix on your ass, but that's how I feel."
They all gave her a blank stare. "Matrix?" Kido asked confused.
"Only like one of the best classic movies, ever! You haven't seen it?" Faye asked bewildered.
"It's old and on those large DVD disks, like no body has one of those anymore, not for years." Katie replied.
Faye rolled her eyes.
"Anyway," Genni continued, "Weather you believe in it or not, that is not the point, but you have to find your rings in order to awaken your powers, and then awaken the digital world."
"Rings?" JT asked.
"You each have one in the real world somewhere, you have to find it."
"And how do we do that?" Faye folded her arms.
"You will think of something." And Genni was gone again, like he was never there. The groups too, disappeared and were back into the real world, under the tree.
The bell rung and they stood, non-moving. All except Faye. She noticed them not moving and asked them, "Why are you guys just standing there? WE have class."
"How can you even think about going to class after what we just found out?" JT exclaimed.
"Easily, like this." Faye turned and started walking towards the school. Kido ran up to her side.
"We have to go look for the rings, you heard what Genni said…"
"Yeah, I did," Faye replied without stopping, "but we have classes too, so it will have to wait."
"Wait?! How can you just be so casual? This is the digital world! We have to save it!"
Faye stopped dead and turned to him; "Maybe I don't want to." Then she started walking again. Kido stared blank for a few seconds and then joined her.
"What do you mean?"
She stopped again, and the others caught up, "It's just, maybe I don't want to get caught up in all that. It killed my father Kido, I don't want anyone else to get hurt, so maybe it is better if it just stayed deleted."
They gasped, "That is so selfish!" Katie yelled.
"Whatever." Faye brushed past them and moved towards class.
After school, they met at the gates. "Right, now can we go look for the rings?" Urged Kido.
"You can do what you like, I'm going to the library to study." Faye replied.
"Why are you being so stubborn?" Katie asked.
"Because I have better things to do."
Kido and the others watched after her.
Kido wandered into thought about her, 'She has always been so strong and stubborn. I used to admire her for that; nothing could get her to back off something important. She's fearless too. I mean really. She didn't have to tell me, I could see it in her eyes. She's not afraid of death, not since her mother died. The only thing she feared after that was loosing her father. Now, nothing. I mean it. I mean, if you don't fear death what else is there? Because technically every fear is connecting to dying. Like being afraid of spiders, being bitten, the poison and death. Or fear of enclosed spaces, you're afraid you will run out of air, suffocate, resulting in death. No she doesn't fear anything, not death, nothing. I watch her as she crosses the road, not looking out for cars, not caring, just crossing. She walks and the cars go past her. Sometimes I think she wishes for death.'
Kido turned to the others; "Well we should at least look for ours."
On her way to the library, Faye found herself distracted by the thought of that stupid ring. And she had noticed that she had gone in completely the wrong direction. She had ended up near the huge park, the one she loved to go to when she needed to think. It was in a large transparent dome, much like a bio-dome. It had all sorts of sections; one area was like a large Zen garden, where people went for inspiration. Her and her mother used to go there to write songs.
There was one thing that fascinated her about the place. It was the one area where it was so cold, and always got snow, but in the middle, it was too hot to go near. And every now and then a small flame would shoot out the ground. Like a small volcano. She sat staring at it for a while, when her gaze was drawn to something else. Something shiny. She looked closer and noticed it was a ring. She frowned and leaned in, careful no to burn herself, and picked up the small, silver ring. She studied it and noticed the large stone I the middle change from blue to red when she moved it from side to side. "Typical, you only find things when you aren't looking for them." She slipped the ring onto her finger to her hand to her arm and further still. She shuddered and got up. "Hmm." She mumbled to her self and headed for her temporary home with Davis, Hunter and Kido. The sun was setting and they would be worried about her.
She wandered along the street, her shadow long behind her, thinking. About the ring, about what Genni had said, about everything. She was interrupted when her watch started beeping. She looked down at her wrist and pressed one of the three small buttons on the silver watch. The numbers indicating the time faded and an image of Kido appeared on the round watch face. "Where are you?" he asked.
"I'm on my way back."
"Oh, good. My parents would get worried if you missed dinner. Did you um…look for the ring?"
"No. I'll be there soon, bye." She pressed the button in the middle and the watch went back to the time. She hadn't lied, it was true, she hadn't looked for the ring, it found her. She just didn't feel like telling him about it right now.
She opened the door and went straight to her room. She took off the ring and placed it under her pillow. When she heard her name being called for dinner, she left the room and didn't go near the subject of the rings.
-Muse chat-
Ken: You killed me??
Nic: Yup, sorry.
Ken: But, *sob* I thought I was your favorite character!
Nic: You are Ken-chan! But there is a saying, "You hurt the one you love" and I love you a lot. Besides, you have a few guest spots in this story, so don't worry.
Ken: Really? Whoo hoo!
Kaiser: Insect.
Nic: You shut up! I don't have any use for you…yet. *Evil grin*
Ken & Wormmon: Uh oh.
(Nic is me the author by the way, but you're smart so I bet you got that.) ^-^
(A/N: TK and JT should technically be T.K and J.T. but it is just a pain to type that so, I don't. Also, this story is almost finished, (one or two more chapters to go), I started it last year. So you won't have to wait long for it.)