Daisuke was walking along a beach, lost in thought. The beach was surprisingly empty for a nice afternoon day. He frowned as he thought about Ken and Wormmon. He didn't want anything to do with the others right now. They were suffocating and were trying to hook him up with someone else since he lost his boyfriend. He sighed. Ken was the only person for him. They were soul mates.
"Look what I found Wormmon!"
Daisuke blinked as he heard a familiar voice. That sounded just like Ken. He looked in the direction of a hidden cave and entered it. More laughing could be heard and then there was a bright light.
"Come Chosen of Miracles. Kindness waits for you in his new life."
Daisuke gasped for air as he woken up from his dream. Veemon was looking at him with a sad face. Daisuke wiped away a tear as he thought about his recurring dream. "Are you okay?" Veemon asked.
"Yeah...yeah...fine. It was just a dream."
Veemon frowned at him but didn't say anything as Daisuke got out of bed and took a seat at his desk.
Daisuke stared at the small photograph that was near his computer. Three years. It had been three years since his best friend died. He remembered it like it was yesterday. He and the other Chosen Children were fighting Dragomon and Daemon. They were losing and would have died if Ken and Stingmon hadn't sacrifice themselves to save them. Daisuke sighed as he glanced at the inactive D-3. He felt broken when Ken and Stingmon died. No doubt that Veemon felt the same way. He guessed that was why he kept Ken's D-3 and D-Terminal.
"Daisuke?" Daisuke glanced back to his bed to see his partner.
"Are we going to the meeting?" He asked sadly since he already knew the answer. Daisuke sighed again. He hadn't been to a meeting in three years. Why start now? He smiled sadly and shook his head no.
"Sorry dude I can't. I don't think I can sit down and listen to them talk about the Digital World while..." Daisuke trailed off as he thought about his best friend. He can still see Ken's smile when they talk about nothing, his frown when he was worried, his tears when he was upset. He remembered his sad smile when he and Stingmon gave up their lives for them and the blood and screams that followed it. He remembers how Ken's parents couldn't take the loss of their child and ended their lives in turn. He closed his eyes as he remembered not seeing Wormmon's DigiEgg and the words Gennai said that Wormmon will not be reborn without his partner and that he was not sure if a human can be reborn but it was uncertain.
Daisuke opened his eyes as he recalled Gennai's words. He glanced at Veemon and repeated what he remembered. "Do you think it's possible for Ken to be reborn in the Digital World?"
"It's possible, but he might not be human anymore."
"But it is possible right?" Daisuke asked as he put Ken's D-3 in his pocket.
"I guess..." Veemon's eyes widen for a moment. "You think he might be reborn as a digimon or something."
"I'm not sure but if he is we might be able to locate him."
"But you have his D-3." Veemon said as he got off the bed and walked towards his partner.
"True but Ken's D-3 will react to only him and what about the Crest of Kindness. Ken had it on him when he died."
"Which means we can track him through his crest if he was reborn?" Veemon asked with a smile.
"Hopefully." Daisuke turned on his computer and waited for the Digital Gate to appear. He lifts his D-3 and opens the gate, "Digi-Port Open!"
Daisuke blinked as he and Veemon were transported to a beach. He blinked, this beach looked familiar. He and Veemon got up and started to walk down the beach. He pulled out Ken's D-3 and noticed that it turned on. He gasped as he showed it to Veemon. "Look."
Veemon looked at it with surprise when the D-3 showed a pink dot on it. "Is that Ken?"
Daisuke grins. "It better be! Let's go!" Daisuke sprinted down the beach, following the map on the D-3. He stopped as he stumbles into a hidden cave. "Veemon I know this place."
"You do?"
"Yeah. I was here in that dream I kept having. You know the one with me walking on a beach and then I hear a voice telling Wormmon to look at something." Veemon eyes widen as he remembered.
"Are you sure that was a dream?" Daisuke was about to reply when he suddenly heard a familiar voice."
"Look Wormmon!"
Daisuke gasped as he ran inside and followed the voice.
"That looks so nice Ken-chan! I like the different shells you put in that necklace."
"You really think so?"
Daisuke turned the corner and stopped when he came to an underground lake. Daisuke walked around a boulder and smiles softly as he see his boyfriend and Wormmon. Ken was sitting on a boulder in the water and Wormmon was on another boulder next to him. However, he wasn't exactly human anymore. Ken still had the same color hair and eyes, but his hair was longer and was decorated with shells and beads. Ken wasn't wearing any clothing, but that didn't seem to matter since he had a beautiful purple merman tail. On his right shoulder was a pink tattoo of his crest and there was also a tag and crest around his neck.
"A merman?" Daisuke whispered as he glanced at Veemon. Veemon looked shocked and yet close to tears. Daisuke felt his own eyes water as he saw Ken placing the shell necklace down and started making another one. Daisuke looked at Wormmon and noticed that he was the same. The only difference was that he was wearing shell bracelets and had a blue tattoo on his body.
"Ken? Wormmon?" Daisuke didn't realize he said that a little to loud until the two were startled by his voice and stopped what they were doing.
"Did you hear that?" Ken asked as he turned around.
"I think so. Maybe some of the local digimon decided to play at the beach."
"Maybe." Ken said with a small unsure frown. He turned back to the necklace and went back to work, only to stop when he ran out of shells. "Oh no. I'm out of shells." Ken looked at Wormmon as he put the necklace done and jumps into the water with a bag in his hand. "I'm going to get more shells and beads. I'll be right back."
"Okay Ken. Be careful."
"I will." Ken reassures him before going under the water.
After Ken left Wormmon looks in his direction with a smile. "I know you are there Daisuke and Veemon. You can come out now." Daisuke was startled that Wormmon knew he was there, but he did what the digimon asked.
"Hey Wormmon."
"Wormmon!"
Wormmon chuckles at his friend. "It's nice to see you guys again. How did you find us?"
"Ken's D-3 turned on and showed us were you guys were. Plus Daisuke been having dreams about this cave for about two years now." Wormmon blinked at them for a moment as Veemon mentioned the dream.
"That's very odd. Ken-chan and I have been coming here for the past two years now." Wormmon said thoughtfully and paused when Daisuke seemed troubled about something. "Is there something you want to ask Daisuke?"
Daisuke fidgeted nervously. "How is it that Ken...? I mean the tail and being alive and..."
Wormmon sighed when Daisuke's voice trailed off. "When we died some very powerful digimon along with the Will of the Digital World gave me and Ken a second chance. My egg appeared when Ken was reborn. However, as you noticed he's not really human anymore. He's part digimon now."
"Does he remember anything?" Veemon asked, curious that Wormmon seems to remember everything.
Wormmon shook his head. "No. He doesn't remember anything from his previous life."
Daisuke's face fell. "He doesn't remember me?"
"I'm sorry Daisuke. Ken doesn't remember anything, but he does have these feelings that he is missing something in his life."
Daisuke looked at Wormmon sadly at first, but then his face lit up when he heard that Ken had these feelings. Did this mean that he had another chance at love?
"Does Ken have powers then?" Veemon asked.
"He has healing abilities and a natural talent for finding shells and beads and making them into stuff."
"That interesting." Daisuke mused. Daisuke looked at the D-3 that was still in his hand and walked towards the edge of the lake. "Here, Ken will need this." Wormmon smiles as Daisuke tosses the D-3 to him.
"Thanks. I was wondering why Ken didn't have his D-3 when he was reborn. Do you want to stay and talk to him when he gets back?"
Daisuke smiles. "Sure."
