"Miracles and Destiny"
The Digidestinds were at the beach for vacation, celebrating their recent defeat of Chimeramon and the Emperor turning back to Ken, gaining the crest of Kindness. Yolei Inoue, the child of Love and Sincerity was sunbathing with Poromon a few feet away from the water. Cody Hida the child of Knowledge and Reliability and Upamon were building a sand castle, Upamon praising the youngest child on his work. And last but not least, their leader, the child of Courage, Friendship and Miracles, Davis Motomiya, was laying down on the warm sand watching as a crab scuttled past her, Demiveemon by her side watching with interest. Cody later on sujested that they play volleyball, Upamon volenteering as the ball. Yolei and Davis started first, gently bouncing the round digimon back and forth, the little mon laughing in glee.
Twenty minutes later, Davis's D-terminal started beeping as Cody and Yolei played volleyball. The goggle headed girl smiled and ran to the device, anouncing the message to her friends. Kari Kamiya, the child of Light and TK Taikashi, the child of Hope had gone to New York in America to visit Mimi Tachikawa the original child of Sincerity. The burgandy haired girl answered the call, frowning at the message. "New kid with digimon?" she asked.
"Yay, a new friend!" Chibimon cried, running to his partner's side.
"She said to meet them in Colarado." The child of Miracles said as the others gathered around her.
"Huh?"
"But how are we suppose to get to America? We don't have the money."
"Alright, Yolei, explain to me one more time why we have to stop in three different cities?" Davis asked as they were in an airplane.
"I told you, we're using my uncle's frequent flyer miles. And certain restrictions apply."
"And why do we have to take this paticular taxi company?" Davis asked, groaning as the cab they were in swerved a little, gostelling the teens.
"I have an uncle who lives here in Houston and he has an account with them."
"It's not that bad." Cody said, nervous.
"At least it's free!" Yolei insisted, as the cab swerved again, making the three hold onto their digimon tighter.
"What do you say, guys? Wanna hear some music?" the exstatic taxi driver asked.
"Sure, why not?" Davis asked, hesitant.
"We prefer something on the slow and easy side if you have it." Cody insisted from the back.
"Sure!" the guy yelled, the cab swerving again, turning on some loud country music, humming along. "I'm pretty good, huh?" he asked.
Davis wanted to cry "NO!" and jump out of the cab, but held it in and cuddled Demiveemon closer to her.
The three waved good bye to the airplane that was taking off, Yolei thanking her uncle for flying them to Colarado, Davis nearly crying tears of joy that the nightmare was almost over. After this, she was never gonna look at trains, cabs, planes and such the same way ever again.
"Yolei, no offense, but your uncle's a lousy pilot." Davis stated as she rested against a fence near the side of the road, Demiveemon looking at the farm on the other side, fasinated.
"According to the map, we're about 60 miles from where we're suppose to meet Kari and TK." Cody said. The goggle head came over, her small blue and white partner by her side. Her chocolate colored eyes looked at the map, then met the younger boy's emerald green eyes.
"And how are we suppose to get there?" she asked.
"I've got an uncle who owns some horses around here." the lavender haired girl said, smiling nervously at her her leader's response. And on cue, the burgandy haired girl ran off near the road, complaining about uncles, horses, trains and planes, totally unaware of the truck approaching her.
"It's gotta STOP!" she cried, then was cut off in her yelling as the sound of a truck stopping caught her attention.
"Did somebody say 'stop'?" came the voice of the female driver.
"Come on guys, this is our chance!" Cody said, running to the stopped truck.
"Well, at least my way we weren't stowaways." Yolei joked.
Davis went to go speak to the driver, asking for a ride, and then boarded with the others after they were given the woman's consent. When they closed the door, the truck began moving again. They were surprised to see a blond boy with bright blue eyes who looked about Yolei's age sitting in the back with a strange stuffed animal by his side. Feeling the power of Friendship burn pleasantly in her chest, Davis smiled and got down in front of the American boy, her trusty partner by her side, to greet him.
"Hey, pal, looks like you had the same idea we did." she said pleasantly.
Demiveemon then began sniffing at the stuffed animal, making the two teens look at him confused, before the girl frowned and lightly bopped her mon on the head, chasiting him for being rude. She then appologized to the blond.
"Davish, guess what?" Demiveemon said, stepping in front of the two, his little paw pointing to the stuffed animal.
"He's a digimon."
"A what?" she asked, confussed.
"Uh oh." the now outed digimon said.
"Whoa!" Davis exclaimed standing up, realising that this boy was the new Digidestind that Kari had told them about. The American looked up at the Japanese girl with wide eyes, not understanding her action, or the smiles on all of their faces.
"Hey, he's right!" Yolei said, pointing as she stepped out from behind the child of Miracles.
"Wow, in America, they have digimon by the truck load!" Cody exclaimed.
"Our digimon like each other!" the American, or now known as Willis, said happy.
"And the guy said, I was talking to the duck." his partner, Terriermon said, finnishing his joke, making the other three digimon laugh.
"Ha! You know this is kinda nice being around others for a change." Willis said.
"Yeah, for as long as I can remember, it's been me and Willis, all alone." Terriermon added in.
"But having a digimon makes you a digidestind and we're all part of a team, why are you alone?" Yolei asked, confused as the blond walked up to her.
"Well, let's just say I have my reasons." he said smiling charmingly at her, "Anyway, it's nice meeting someone as cute as you."
Davis rolled her eyes at that as her friend blushed at the compliment. Obviously the guy was charming his way around the question so he wouldn't answer right. She shoved her hands in the pockets of her jeans and walked in front of the two, hoping to wake the child of Love and Sincerity up from her daze.
"Yeah, yeah, back off there blondie."
"What's the matter with you, Davis, did I say something wrong?" he asked teasingly.
"OK, we found this kid, now what do we do?" she asked, brisltling at the tone he used with her .
"She's just worried because she was hoping we'd meet up with Kari and TK by now." Cody said from his place on the ground, smiling.
Davis pouted, folding her arms under her chest, making her breasts perk out a bit, without knowing.
Willis blushed a bit, then went back to his normal facade.
"Well, my family's vacation home is just a couple of towns away from here." Willis said, tearing his eyes away from the cute brunette...red head...(her hair actually looked sort of purple to him) haired girl and looked at the tall girl with round glasses in front of him. "You guys can wait for them there if you want to."
"I better e-mail Kari and TK to tell them where to meet us." she said.
"Where are they coming from?" the American asked.
"From New York."
Willis smiled, and said, hoping to make a certain cute goggle head jealous and riled up;
"Oh, the kids behind the fence. That girl was cute, too!"
Yolei and Cody winced at that, knowing all too well how protective Davis was of the child of Light since she promised her brother she'd look out for her incase she gets sick again like when they were younger. That was frightening.
"That's it, lover-boy, you leave Kari outta this!" Davis yelled, not amussed at all.
Willis looked at her with wide baby blue eyes, noticing how serious she was and felt a little bad about it.
"I'm sorry. Listen, Davis, I wasn't trying to step on anybody's toes. Maybe I should just make a call and get us a lift to my house."
Terriermon groaned, wondering why he hadn't thought of that before.
Willis was on the pay phone talking to his mother to tell her where he was. Apparently the woman fussed over him too much. Davis hung around him, bored.
"Are you an only child, because that could be why your mom worries too much about you." she commented.
"Basically, your kind of a momma's boy, huh?" she asked, sincerly curious.
"SHUT UP!" he yelled at her, making her wince.
"Sorry." She said backing off as he then began to appologize to his mother who thought he had said that to her.
After, Willis called for a pizza to be delivered to his family's vacation house and asked if the driver could pick them up on the way.
"It seems you've done this before." Cody commented after the blond hung up.
"They'll be here in two minutes or it's free." the blond said.
"Willis, you're smart!" said Terriermon.
"It does seem like a good idea." Davis complimented.
Willis looked at the burgandy haired teen, pridefull that she thought he was smart, then smirked.
"Glad you agree, so you're paying then."
"HUH?"
And two minutes later, a truck pulled over, announcing he was their ride. Davis leaned on the back on the pick up, waiting for everyone else to get on, still arguing to the American about before. "Fine, if I'm payin', y'all are paying me back later on." she relented.
"Oh, don't worry, we will." Yolei said, leaning her head on the side of the pick-up.
"So, guess that means we're ready to go!" the child of Miracles grinned.
The truck then started up, and then quickly pulled away, making the goggle head fall on her back, crying out in pain and surprise.
"We'll tell you how the pizza tastes!" Yolei called, waving to the two teens and their partners who were left behind. Willis and Terriermon stared off at the retreating truck as Demiveemon had his jaw wide open and eyes bugged out in disbelief that they were left in the middle of nowhere.
Davis rolled over onto her front, then pushed herself up onto her hands and knees. Huffing, she blew her bangs out of her face. "If that guy thinks he's getting a tip, forget it!" she muttered.
Just then, the wind picked up, making Willis and Terriermon look around, worried as the blond's digivice started beeping and glowed red.
"What is it?" Davis asked.
"Davish!" Demiveemon cried, running towards her.
Just then, a road sign bent and a large, strange looking digimon appeared, crying "DESTROY!" in a voice that was a combination of a adult villan voice and a child-like one, sounding like two completely opposit people were talking.
"Kokomon." Willis said in a daze.
"You know this digimon?" Davis asked running in front of him, shielding the blond as Demiveemon jumped in and digivolved to Veemon.
He charged in and attacked, then quickly jumped out of the way before he was caught by the huge mon.
Terriermon then joined in, by flying Veemon over to Kokomon to attack.
"Watch out for that sign!" Willis and Davis called, then winced as the two flew into the billboard behind the monster, falling to the ground in a daze from the hit.
"Time for plan B." Davis groaned.
Veemon then armour digivolved to Flamedramon: the fire of Courage and attacked the large dog type mon. Davis grabbed Willis's hand as she lead him away from the fight, but were knocked over by the explosion caused by the fire attack from her mon. They got back up and followed at a safe distance.
"You left out one small detail." Davis stated to Willis.
"Who is that...AND WHY IS HE ATTACKING US?" she yelled.
Kokomon blasted Flamdramon with his koko crusher, which were like bullets shooting out of his chest and sent him flying away, and land in a small cratter, reverting back to Veemon.
The American and his digimon ran in front of the large one as he approached to finnish off the blue and white digimon.
"I'm doing what you want. I'm going back." he tried to reason.
Kokomon lost it and tried to attack Willis, but Terriermon pushed him out of the way.
"Willis, use your digivice!" Davis cried, running over.
The blond's digivice then beeped and glowed green.
"I feel strange." Terriermon said, then did an incredible jump in the air, complete with a backwards somersault and digivolved to Gargomon.
"Huh? He's got pants now." Willis said.
Davis deadpanned. The digimon had two chain guns for hands and a belt of amo wrapped around his torso and he's concerned about the fact that the over grown rabbit was wearing pants?
Gargomon faught well and after he blasted Kokomon with his lasers, he left, saying "Go back", and the wind picked up before he disappeared, then settled.
"He put up a good fight, but we won, right?" Davis asked, noticing the blond's somber expression.
"We didn't win anything." he said turning away from her piercing chocolate eyes.
"He wont stop until he gets what he wants."
"What does he want? Maybe I can help."
"Don't ask anymore questions! It's for your own good. The less you know, the better!" he snapped.
Davis looked upset at that and Terriermon noticed and went over to his partner, placing his paw in his hand.
"We're a team now! It's alright to tell them the truth." he chuckled.
Davis looked at them, feeling the friendship and trust radiating from them as a gentle wind blew her hair out of her face.
"Well, the truth is, we don't have a ride." she said.
"No problem. I can handle that." Veemon said, then digivolved into Raidramon: the storm of Friendship.
Davis whooped and gracefully swung herself on her partner's back.
"Somebody call for a ride?" she joked.
"That's cool!" Terriermon said.
"Couldn't you have done that before?" Willis asked.
The three whooped in joy as the half-wolf half-dragon creature leaped over hills and fences, enjoying the scene of the sun setting over the green fields.
Terriermon seemed to be enjoying the ride more than Willis though.
"How do ya stop this thing?" he cried as Davis looked at him, smiling reasuringly as they got closer to the other two Digidestinds, then they slid off as Raidramon de-digivolved.
They were on a nice little stone bridge talking.
"So this Kokomon attacked you? I knew we shouldn't have split up the team!" Yolei cried after the two told them what happened.
Davis scoffed at that.
If the lavender haired girl believed that then she wouldn't have let the truck leave without them.
"Where are your friends, Kari and TK?" Terriermon asked, walking on the side of the bridge, balancing himself with his arms.
"Oh, yeah. They're still not here yet." Yolei mussed, silently counting down to the exploision.
"WHAT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN KARI AND TK AREN'T HERE YET?" Davis screamed.
Everyone was blown back by her angered and worried outburst, some of the digimon falling over.
"Good question. They really should have been here by now." Cody said, holding Upamon.
"If I know Kokomon, your friends aren't coming at all." Willis said as if it was no big deal.
Davis looked at him, having enough with the American.
"That's it, pal!" she said.
"Huh?" he looked at her, shocked.
"Enough secrets." she said calmly, hands on her hips.
"You seem to know an awfull lot about this monster." Cody concluded.
Davis stepped away from the side of the bridge to stand in front of the blond.
"Spill it. How do you two know each other?"
"And more importantly, why is he only attacking you?" Yolei asked, acussingly.
"Because, I created him." he answered, blue eyes shining with guilt.
Terriermon got up from his place beside Veemon, looking surprised that he finally addmitted it to someone.
Everyone was quiet before Davis stepped up again.
"You must be kidding! There's no way you can create a digimon from thin air." she said.
But then she thought back to how Ken made Chimeramon out of the data he'd collected from different digimon, but this was a way different situation.
"I've told you too much already! Kokomon makes everyone who tries to help me disappear. Like I'll bet he did to your friends, TK and Kari!" he said, stressing their names.
"I have to do this by myself. I need to be alone."
"Great, I'll come with you." Davis said, following him into the forest behind the house, not letting him get away that easily, while Terriermon stared on, depressed, wanting to do something.
Nightfall came and the two chosen children still kept walking.
"Willis, we've been walking for hours and you haven't said a thing." Davis said, walking over to the upset blond who vaugely noticed that her hair now looked purple from the night.
"Being a digidestind means you don't have to face things alone."
He looked at her helplessly, then looked at the ground, sighing.
"What are you running away from?"
He frowned, as if debating something, then looked at her, determined.
"'Kay, eight years ago, a digi-egg came out of my computer and it hatched into twin digimon, Terriermon and Kokomon. I finally had someone to play with. My very own pets. And they talked too! It was the best."
He looked over at the lake to their right, gazing out at it in a dream state, as if he was becoming lost in his memories.
"They depended on me. Some times they even did my chores for me. I thought it would be cool to have more of them, so I got this stupid idea of creating a digi-egg on the computer. That's when it all went bad.
Before my digi-egg could hatch, it was attacked by a virus and it mutated into Deaboramon."
Davis inwardly shuddered as she remembered seeing that weird creature on the internet when there was that weird malfunction happening all over the city and the States because of some unidentified virus that had launched misiles from the army four years ago.
"When Tai and the others destroyed him, I thought my bad dream was finally over, but the real nightmare was just begining. The virus somehow tracked me down and dragged Kokomon away from me. And I watched helplessly for four years as he became this terrible monster! And now he's obssesed with chasing me."
"I remember during the battle he said to you, "Go back to the begining". What did he mean?" Davis asked.
"I think he wanted me to come back here to where it all started. But everytime he tries to tell me why, the virus stops him! He can't fight it! I know he won't stop until he's destroyed, but I can't do it! It's my fault, not his!" he exclaimed. Davis walked past him during his speach and banged her head against a tree, tears begining to burn behind her eyes. If it had been her and Veemon, she couldn't do it. Wouldn't have the courage to watch him become a monster and be forced to destroy him. The force of the contact of her head and the tree caused her goggles, that belonged to the original child of Courage, to fall off. She sniffled.
"What's the matter with you?" Willis asked, confussed and surprised.
"Th-that's the s-saddest thing...I-I've ever heard!" she cried.
Willis did not like this. Not one bit! The girl in front of him was a firecracker and happy, always put up a strong front, no matter what. To see her break down because of him, it was unnerving and upsetting. She shouldn't be acting like this. It's was his fault, not hers!
"I'm the one with the problem, not you." he said, calmly, walking up to her.
He bent down to retrieve her favored goggles and held them out to her, smiling.
" Get over it."
She turned around, her tears stopping, a cheerful grin on her cute face, revealing how pretty she was without the goggles.
But then again, they did look cute on her.
"OK!" she said, as if they didn't just have a big dramatic confession.
"That was fast!" Willis chuckled.
"You know what?" the burgandy haired girl said, putting on her goggles. "We're gonna help you!"
"You will?" he said, extatic. "How are you gonna do that?"
"My friend, we're digidestind. We'll find the answer together as a team!"
Even thought he felt like he was soaring at the "friend" thing, he was still clueless about the team thing.
"I've never been on a team. Anything I should know?"
Davis leaned forward, one hand on her hip, the other giving a thumbs up, a playful smile curving her lips.
"A few: No kissing Kari and Yolei, they're off-limits. And make Kari or TK cry, I'll pound you into the ground!"
"Oh, should I be worried?" he teased.
Davis's facial features became serious as she straightened up.
"I was serious about that. They each have an older brother that you do not want to mess with when mad. If you think I'm bad, put Tai Kamiya and Matt Ishida together when their mad and your'e better off digging your own grave."
Willis chuckled nervouslly as he realized that she was way serious and did his best to tuck the information into his memories.
"Willis."
The two turned to see Terriemon was there, wrapped up in a blanket that he was probably sleeping with before he came out to find the two missing teens.
"I don't mean to ease-drop, but I've got really big ears. I know you're going to face Kokomon tomorrow and I wanna be right there with you."
"No way! I couldn't live with myself if something were to happen to you! This is my mistake and I won't risk your safety to correct it!"
The dog-rabbit stepped forward, the brown blanket falling off his head, revealing his concerned face.
"He's my brother!" he insisted.
"I don't care!"
"Willis, I'm not you're pet, I'm your friend. And friends are always there for each other."
The goggle headed teen smiled at the small mon's words, feeling the crest of Friendship spread it's warm, tingly, happy feeling withen her chest.
It seemed as though those words got through to the American, too, as a look of dawning crossed his face, a smile breaking out.
"Well said, you're absolutly right!" Davis praised the bunny as Willis stepped towards his partner and friend.
He kneeled down in front of him, then wrapped him up in the blanket.
"Thanks pal!"
Terriemon giggled and was then picked up as the two Digidestinds walked back to the vacation house to rest up for the final battle tomorrow.
To be continued...