Castle of Ending, Part 1 – A New Home
Author's Note: I read the first few parts of Medieval Digimon War (I don't remember who it's by, but at least the first few parts are awesome) a little while ago. It and a dream I had the longest time ago inspired me. I combined the two, and this was the end result. I think this is an original idea, though.
Everyone who is impatiently waiting for part 2 of "Is the End Near, Tai?"; you may have to wait quite a while. I am out of ideas, and it, being one of my sequels, will take much longer to be written, as I am searching for the loopholes I know I left, and I am STRETCHING it to last over 6 parts. So, here's the deal. You let me finish this, Castle of Ending, and then I'll go back to that, sometime near January 31. K-O? Why don't you read this while you wait?
AND… This involves Taiora, Mimiato, and Takari. If you don't like these, go ahead and flame me, I don't mind. I am going to start a flame collection of all my flames, and store them for later, in case the power goes out and we have no heat!
This takes place about 3 years after season 2. I know almost nothing about Season 2, so if I put a season 2 person out of character, it's not my fault!
Anyway, now that you've read my (excessive) note collection, you can read the fic!
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Joe left his college building, thinking about how glad he was to have followed his own trail and become a writer for the plot of video games. He left Advanced BASIC Programming to go to his next class when a purplish-blue portal sucked him and his books in…
Matt, Sora, and Tai were in the "Study Buddies" hall, which you could enter and talk about anything as long as people thought you were doing homework, when the bell rang for Gym. They SLOWLY gathered their books and stepped out, when a purplish-blue portal dragged them in…
Mimi was at Gym, sitting out because she'd broken her toe, when the bell rang for her, too. She fell out of her chair, stood up, and walked out, when a purplish-blue portal pulled her inside, followed by Izzy, who was 4 feet behind her…
TK and Daisuke were arguing over Kari as they walked to Science, with Kari and Yolei behind them, when the portal grabbed them…
Iori was watching football at home, because he had a bad cold when he was also lifted into the portal…
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With a thump, 11 people landed in a room. Mimi winced when her toe hit the ground.
They glanced at each other, and knew where they were. They were back in Digiworld, in Gennai's house.
Gennai was missing. The Digimon were also nowhere in sight. They were alone. Scared for Gennai, the Digimon, and themselves, they were silent. Tai broke the silence.
"Guys, you know, we ought to do something."
Izzy nodded grimly. "I'd be typing away for a theory, but… I'm no longer allowed to bring my computer to school or they'll confiscate it."
Daisuke glanced around. "Well, we can't just sit here. What if whatever got Gennai and the Digimon…"
"Right." Joe replied. "As oldest of all of us, I propose we get OUT of here!"
Mimi shook her head. "For one thing, I have a broken toe, and walking for more than a minute straight hurts BAD. And I think it might be more dangerous to leave than to stay, guys." She'd matured a lot since she'd moved back to Japan.
Yolei nodded. "We don't have our Digimon, so we can't fight back."
The argument continued for about half an hour. It was almost funny, the way it progressed. The arguments were nowhere near logical 9 out of 10 times!
Kari's eyes began to glow. She was being possessed again! Everyone crowded around her. Then, Kari's voice began to speak in a very un-Kari-like manner. "You must not leave here. You'll be killed. Stay where inside the lake, so you won't get hurt. I don't have any more time…" Kari shuddered and fell down to her knees, her eyes shut.
Tai shook Kari. Kari's eyes opened slowly. "What?" she asked, speaking like she had when she was 7. "Oh." she replied to her own question. "So what do we do?"
"Stay." Iori replied.
Tai and Daisuke began discussing a plan. They had to force their way through Gennai's passwords (he had at least 78, Izzy had figured out 77). Then, they'd use it to find out about what had been going on up to the last entry. It all rested on Izzy's computer skills and everyone's ability to speak "Gennai Cryptic" (which had been given to the way Gennai spoke by TK).
Izzy walked up to the keyboard and switched it on, then he started typing in the passwords from a list. The first 10 seemed to make a sentence. "Hello, everyone, my, name, just, happens, to, be, this:, Gennai."
The passwords continued to be typed in. After 4 hours, Izzy finally finished. There had been 100 passwords. Izzy was tired. They were all tired. It was 1-o-clock in the morning, and all anyone wanted was to go to sleep. Tai volunteered to take first watch. He was exhausted, too, but he knew that, as original leader, he had to do SOMETHING.
Tai woke up Matt at 2. Tai was no longer tired, and wanted to talk to Matt while he did watch. "Hey, Matt… Can we talk during watch?"
"Sure, maybe if it's interesting it'll keep me awake." Matt replied, leaning against the door from the outside.
"Matt, since you claim to be the expert on love, I've got a question. Say one of my friends liked somebody, but they were afraid to ask because they didn't want to ruin the friendship if she said no. What should my friend do?"
Matt laughed. "Well, first of all… This 'friend' of yours should get some guts and talk to this girl, because I am sure that the girl will like the 'friend' of yours, and by the way, I'm not as stupid as you think, I know what you really mean, and yes, Sora likes you 'that way'."
Tai blinked. "How the…"
"I've had 5 girlfriends, and I too learned the art of having an imaginary friend that just so happened to have the same problems I do. Currently, this imaginary friend thinks it is a good idea for me to take my own advice…"
"What?"
"Hey, just because I'm the expert on girls doesn't mean I need practice." Matt snickered.
Tai grinned. "Well, your advice… I'll sleep on it, if I can ever get to sleep." Tai lay down on the hard floor and managed to doze off.
Matt knew he had to wake up Sora for the next watch. He toyed with the idea of talking about Tai's "love life" with her. He threw the idea away. Sora would never believe him, and besides, it would be funny to listen in on the conversation they had when and if Tai got some guts.
He shook Sora up and lay down on the hard, cold floor. He wondered about Gennai's house. It had looked small, but did Gennai have a basement? Maybe Gennai had a bedroom… Anything, even hard carpet, was better than marble.
They say the darkest hour is just before dawn. In this case, it was true. It was so dark that it was pointless to keep watch. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face, much less a creature 40 feet away. So, they slept until light shone into the room, through the window.
They all got up, some faster than others, except Iori, who had a fever and needed to sleep it off. Sora was told to work with the computer that morning. She found Gennai's diary.
"October 22, 2002
"A new evil Digimon, Serpantmon, has been born. He has no master, that is a relief. I must keep track of him, though. He may only be a Rookie Digimon, but he will be a threat if he digivolves. To young Digimon, he is already a serious threat. He already has a killing record. I must call the Destined Ones' Digimon here. They will be his next targets.
"January 31, 2003
"Serpantmon has digivolved to Cobramon, a Mega form. I am worried. Will the Resistance be able to hold him off? Like I have said thousands of times before, safety is a thing of the past.
"January 1, 2004
"I have set the Digidestined to arrive in a month. I hope that they can come in time. We must keep strong. Biyomon and Palmon have been able to reach the Mega level without their Digidestined. Agumon and Gabumon have been able to for a long time but refused, but they will now."
That was the last entry.
It had been February 1st yesterday.
Sora turned around slowly to her friends, to break the news.
"We might be too late."
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Are the Digidestined too late to save their friends? Did Gennai possess Kari? Do I know, or care? Find out more questions, and maybe answers to these, in Part 2 of Castle of Endings!
