Inori no Asa
Part 1
by Shamanic Nuriko
Sora sighed as she sat down under the blossoming tree. She had been gone for a while. For now, the Digiworld was her place of shelter for now. The grass was her bed, trees as a roof, and the sun, moon, and stars as her light. Her only companion was a child-sized bird with fluffy, pink and purple feathers. The bird chirped, trying to make a merry conversation, but Sora couldn't bring herself to listen.
"Sora, don't you think it's a great day today? The Parrotmon are chirping, the Floramon are making this forest look more colorful, it's all and all great, don't you think?" Biyomon wanted a minute. "Sora, are you listening? Hey Sora!"
Sora snapped out of her thoughts. "Huh? Biyomon, what's wrong?" Sora asked. Biyomon sighed and flapped her wings, frustrated.
"Sora, you seem so spaced out! I'm surprised you haven't tripped or hit a tree!" Biyomon exclaimed. She giggled but stop to see her joking did not cheer up her partner. "Hey, Sora, what are you thinking?" She finally questioned, beginning to worry about her best friend.
Sora smiled at the bird. "It's nothing," she lied. She saw Biyomon get up and begin to pick some berries. Sora sighed and closed her eyes. It all begin with that one incident. She should have done something, but she regretted doing nothing. She thought back to a day ago...
"Are we almost done yet?" Mimi whined, stretching her arms forward. It must have been over 90 degrees in the Digiworld, and Mimi's feet felt as if they were on fire. Worst of all, she was beginning to sweat, and no pond was around in sight.
"I have to agree with Mimi," Palmon coughed out. "My roots are drying out. It doesn't suit me at all," she said, almost acting like Mimi's little sister. "This won't be good if we keep on going."
"Palmon has a point," Tentomon said. Everyone turned to look at the bug.
"Tentomon, you mean Palmon won't look good soon with this heat?" Tai asked.
"No," Izzy defended. "What Tentomon means is that if we keep going, there is a possibility that danger will come, and if it does, our Digimon would be weak from no water and no strength and we'd lose." Everyone couldn't help but wonder how Izzy could still sound like a computer without overheating. Still, no one could argue with is logic and reasoning, except for one.
"Still, if we keep going, we might find some water. So I say let's go!" Tai shouted and began to run. Everyone sighed and watch Agumon follow, as a puppy would do for his master.
"Tai, wait for me" he yelled and followed. The others stayed behind, too tired to move, and so hot, they would go mad. Soon, they heard shouts and calls of glee. They ran, despite the heat, towards the voice and found Tai and Agumon dancing.
"Tai what's with the dancing..." Matt began to ask, but looked ahead and saw a house. "Not again Tai. Remember what happened after the first time we went to a house in this place?" He asked, trying to bring some nostalgia back to the crazy haired leader.
"I do too remember!" He protested as a child would, "But Osharemon said we could stay, and there is a lot of food, soft beds, and a pool!"
"A pool?!" Mimi asked, running to Tai and grabbing his shirt collar. "Lead me to it if you don't want a bad haircut!" she screamed and took out a pair of scissors from her purse.
Mimi let go of Tai as he lead them into the house. Inside, cinnamon filled the air, pictures of beautiful fields and horses. It seemed like something from a fantasy, but it was all real.
"Wow, this place reminds me a bit of my grandmother's house," Joe said, but sniffed the air more. "Still, it needs some smell of soup to really remind me of her house. I remember her making cookies, three types actually," Joe trailed off.
"Lemme guess, one batch would be chocolate chip with walnuts, one batch chocolate chip, and the other batch sugar cookies? And would that be true because you feared of getting an allergic reaction from the nuts or sometimes from the chocolate?" Gomamon joked. He started to laugh hard, but Joe looked surprised.
"Yea, how'd you know?" He asked. Gomamon stopped laughing and stared out his partner.
"...what...?"
A pony came to the children, her skin was as white as a cloud, and her hair seemed to be in the pattern of a jaguar. She wore tall socks around her legs in the same jaguar pattern and a dress to match. She smiled, her eyes, a golden red, and that of a tiger, and the horn on her head, sharp enough to kill if she wanted to. "Welcome, children destined to help the digital world. I am Osharemon," she bowed, presenting herself as a polite and poised Digimon.
"Nice to meet you," Sora presented, bowing too. Osharemon looked at Sora for a moment, and then returned her sight to the others.
"As I promised your loud mouthed friend," which resulted from a scatter of giggles and chuckles to a loud shrill of questions. Soon the shrill hushed and the pony Digimon continued, "I shall grant you some time in staying in my home. You may eat when you like, swim, or sleep. You may stay as long as you like, the longer the better," she smirked and left.
Matt felt something from that Digimon. He especially didn't like the way Osharemon looked at Sora for that time. He knew something bad was going to happen, but hopefully not for a while.
"Matt?" Tk's soft voice waved Matt from his thoughts. "Can we go to the pool now?" TK's innocence and blue eyes made it hard for someone to say no. Matt nodded as they went off...
Sora then began to cry. "It's all my fault," she sobbed. Biyomon dropped the berries she had taken and ran to Sora. She then hugged her friend.
"It's alright Sora, don't worry," Biyomon consoled. Her friend had a lot of blame inside of her. She needed to be away from the others, she needed to do this herself...
Hi! Nuriko here! I hope you liked this first part. This is for my friend, Sora-chan and I hope she likes it, but we'll see soon in the reviews. ^_^ Anyway, no flames or saying it sucks, and no hate letters cuz I ended with a cliffhanger. This was also for Sora-chan, just to make her insane. ^.~* I hope you all liked it! Ja!
Nuriko