OK, I don't own the names Lockheed, Nero, or Perrault, no matter how I revise them to fit my need. I also don't own Digimon, Haneshiro, Haseo, Yosuya or CrystalGatomon.
This takes place about a year after Digital Academy. If you've forgotten, the DATS team moved to the Digital World to live in the mansion at Wanderer's Cape.
Chapter One: Nightmares in the Digital World
Feet pounded on the soft grass. Whose feet, she couldn't tell. Just that she knew her friends were behind her somewhere.
"We have to keep going!" she shouted.
"Jasper's falling behind!" called the voice of someone behind her; his accent lay heavily in the Spanish area.
"My name is Ian!" another voice protested, a younger voice this time.
"Ian, Jasper, what does it matter!? We're almost there!" she shouted back.
They heard a loud thunk sound as several blades caught in the trunks of trees.
"The Dinohumon are here!" shrieked someone, no too far off, but yet not part of the girls group.
"Shrike! Hold up!" she pleaded. She wanted everyone that could get out to get out of this hellhole. Shrike had long legs and a strong heart, but she wasn't really up for the escape plan.
"I can't keep up! Lockheed's falling behind!" Jasper cried.
"No! We can't lose you guys! I can't lose your guys!" the girl protested.
"Get out of here while you can! I'll take care of Jasper and the others until you can get back!" the older boy promised.
"No!" she protested.
THUNK! A massive blade imbedded itself into the trunk of the tree nearby to her. Heart racing, she ushered her friends as far as she could away…
"GAH!!" Cali shouted as she woke up from her horrid nightmare. She curled herself into a ball and began to silently cry.
They didn't make it…Jasper and his brother didn't make it…she cried out in her mind, the aftereffects of her nightmare.
She looked to the two cats curled up together in a basket beside her bed. One was a sleek black with red demon wings, whilst the other was a light purple with white angel wings. Each had a collar-like thing around their necks. The black cat's was a red bandanna that said 'Eat Me' on it; some sort of pun to him. The purple cat's was a long scarf with a small blue jewel embedded into the front of it.
The purple cat stirred.
"Perraulmon?" Cali asked quietly, not wanting to wake the black cat.
"Don't worry, Brother won't wake. He doesn't like the sun." Perrualmon yawned quietly, and she jumped onto Cali's bed.
Cali found herself absently stroking the cat. Perraulmon began to purr lightly.
"I had another nightmare." Cali whispered.
Perrualmon stopped purring. "Which one?" she asked, just as quietly.
"The one with the running…"
Perraulmon placed a comforting white paw on Cali's thigh. "It'll be fine, they'll be here, and they're strong."
"But…I can't really make out any details. Other than the running part." Cali sighed.
"Well, they'll become clearer soon." Perrualmon promised.
"Is anyone up yet?" Cali asked.
"Not that I'm sure of. You know Cali; you've been having those nightmares ever since we collapsed in front of this place. Maybe that Norstein man should check you out, you know, to make sure you're right in the head?" Perraulmon told her.
Cali sighed, and continued stroking Perraulmon's back, right between her wings. Perraulmon's spine shuddered with a massive purr.
"Ah, I like that…" she sighed contentedly.
"I'm going to get some breakfast." Cali told the cat. Perraulmon just sighed and her eyes closed.
Gently removing her hand from Perraulmon's back, she tiptoed to the door and opened it as silently as possible. As she shut it, she rammed straight into Haneshiro.
Haneshiro was about her age, with short brown hair. In his arms was his digimon partner, a cute pink digimon called Tokomon. She had seen Tokomon before, but this one's ears crossed into a 'X' shape.
"Sorry." Haneshiro apologized with a smile.
"I didn't see you there…" Cali told him.
"It's OK, the only reason there's no windows on these doors is because of privacy reasons. No biggie. Oh yeah, and this building's older than some of the Commanders." Haneshiro insisted.
Cali just went on walking. But, she found Haneshiro following her. This made her uncomfortable.
"I hope they have something edible for breakfast this time, Haneshiro!" Tokomon said in his squeaky voice.
"I hear Kidd's cooking today." Haneshiro said.
Cali just went on walking, ignoring the chills that happened when someone was following her sent down her spine.
When they reached the dining room in the massive mansion, a tall wolf was serving something that looked like eggs. The wolf was at least six feet tall and looked vicious. Around his arms was a sort of white tape that she had seen the Norstein man put on injured people before. He also had large black claws, which didn't help with Calis' anxiety.
"This'll be awesome!" Haneshiro said happily. "Yesterday Yoshi tried to cook. That obviously didn't work out." He put his finger in his mouth to simulate his gagging.
Cali chuckled in agreement. The red-haired woman obviously couldn't cook to save her life.
"I hear you, you know!" someone's voice called. It had the hint of nagginess to it, and everyone in the room knew it was Yoshi.
"Please, don't encourage her." The wolf sighed. "Sometimes she's worse than Yosuya when she's mad."
Haneshiro flinched. "You have no idea what it's like to be grounded by her, Kidd!"
"Thank Yggdrasil that you didn't know her before you were born; your mom was a…!" Kidd grumbled the swear word under his breath.
Haneshiro just sighed and pulled out a chair for him and Tokomon. The small digimon opened his cute mouth to reveal layers of massive fangs. The two then dug into the (for once) good breakfast.
"Kidd, you cook awesome! What else do you do?" Haneshiro asked with his mouth full.
"I knit." Kidd said gruffly.
Haneshiro and Tokomon nearly spit out their food in surprise. "You what!!" Tokomon asked, after managing to swallow.
"I knit. Got a problem with that?" Kidd growled angrily.
Haneshiro and Tokomon sweat-dropped in embarrassment and continued eating.
"Here." Kidd was suddenly in front of Cali, holding three plates of eggs. "To go, right?" he asked.
Cali nodded sheepishly, noting that he was really tall compared to her. She took the plates and quickly hurried out of the dining room, and into her own.
Once inside, one of Cali's two window shades was shut, announcing that Nerromon, the black cat, was up.
"Mmmm, eggs." Nerromon said sarcastically. Cali noted that nearly every mew or purr out of his mouth of dripping in sarcasm. "Yggdrasil, keep going on like this and you'll lose all sense of taste."
"Kidd's eggs." Cali said with relief.
"Good!" Perraulmon sighed. "Then these'll be better than yesterdays, won't they?"
Cali shrugged. Honestly, the eggs were all starting to taste the same to her. She set the plates down on her bed, only because when she set them on the hardwood floors Nerromon complained that she was treating them like 'ordinary housecats' instead of digimon.
While watching the two cat digimon eat, Cali picked up a piece of egg with her fingers and ate it.
When they were done, Nerromon licked his chops and looked straight at Cali, making her spine tingle as if she were frozen. That cat had cold red eyes.
"You need therapy." He said simply. "Sister told me about the nightmare, and I say you need to talk to that smart human for therapy."
"Fine, if I do, will it shut you both the hell up?" Cali said, their worrying was snapping her nerves left and right.
"Yes." The two cats said simultaneously.
"You two are twin psychopaths." Cali sighed.
"No, we're just right." Nerromon said smugly.