THE CREST OF ORIGIN PART 2
Author's Notes: Welcome back! I wanted to write this as soon as possible because I just can't let it stay in my pc rotting for months. It's not fully fleshed out yet but what I wanted to do was create a way that the chapter could produce answers to some minor issues from The Crest of Origin. Plus, I added something just to make it a little bit more comical (I apologize if that's not what you were expecting from it). I tried my best and I hope you guys like it.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon.
CHAPTER 1
Hikari laid there on her bed thinking of what she saw that evening.
'Origin's crest,' she thought. 'What's Taichi hiding from us?'
There was a knock on her door.
"Who is it?" she said.
"It's Taichi. Listen, I have soccer practice today. Mom and Dad are out so stay safe okay?"
"Okay!" she replied. Taichi started walking away from her bedroom door. The moment she heard their main door close, she grabbed her laptop and emailed Koushiro.
To: Koushiro
Koushiro I have some news. Origin's crest is back and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. Please email me as soon as possible.
A few minutes later, she heard the doorbell ring. She opened it only to find that not only was Koushiro there, but also Sora, Yamato, Takeru and Jou.
"I contacted Yamato and he said the three of them were available. I bumped into Jou as I was heading towards your apartment." he said.
"I had some spare time so I thought why not." Jou scratched his head.
When they were comfortably seated, Hikari told them what happened the other night. They listened to her story and when she finished, Sora was the first to speak.
"What do you think it means? I remember when we got back home from the digital world his crest vanished."
"And he never really wore the wristband a lot after that." Yamato said thinking about those times he actually got to see Taichi around school.
"But… maybe you were just seeing things Hikari?" Takeru said. Hikari looked at him in disbelief but still asked why would he think of that politely.
"After all that happened in the digital world, I don't think it's just Taichi who's had the trouble of coping. Maybe, we also still haven't let the situation sink in that much."
Hikari looked away. It was true that the events that have transpired during those times weren't the most pleasant she had ever experienced but they had worse. Thinking that Takeru wasn't starting to believe in her story she tried to defend herself.
"We witnessed things worse than this. I saw the dark ocean, we battled with so many enemies, we had struggles as well… why would this be anything different?"
"It is… considering we saw Taichi die twice." Takeru replied. Hikari twitched and didn't say anything.
"H-hey now… we shouldn't really talk about this unless we're all together." Sora said trying to keep the two from starting a fight.
That was when they noticed that the main door had been open the whole time and that someone just closed it. They all turned their heads only to see a stoic looking Taichi enter the living room.
"Taichi!" Hikari yelped as she stood up and looked at her brother. "I thought you had soccer practice?"
"Practice was cancelled…"
"I-is that so?" Hikari said in an embarrassed yet nervous tone.
"Why are you all so keen on talking about me without my knowledge of it?" Taichi asked. Yamato was the first one to speak.
"It's not like that… we just heard from Hikari that you had-" Yamato was cut off by Hikari.
"Origin's crest… you still have it. I saw Taichi."
He sighed and looked at everyone.
"I'm planning the meeting now. Let's meet up next week… all of us. And Hikari," he raised his left hand to reveal a clean pulse area that suddenly glowed and traced Origin's crest before it vanished again. "You're right."
He went inside his room and locked the door. The others were left in the living room with baffled faces.
The next few days were filled with mixed feelings. Hikari and Takeru were with each other as they started asking Daisuke and the other digidestineds if their available.
"Did something happen?" Daisuke asked.
"Not really. Taichi wanted all of us to meet next Sunday." Hikari said.
"If it's Taichi then count me in! I still have a lot of questions to ask him. Should I call Ken too?" He said smiling at them.
Hikari nodded and thanked Daisuke. After they finished, Takeru and Hikari walked home together.
"Listen… Hikari about yesterday."
"hmm?"
"I'm really sorry for talking to you like that."
"Takeru…" she turned to look at him. Hikari was holding her bicycle as they spoke.
"You just seemed to down… I shouldn't have said something like that." he showed try guilt on his expression. Hikari smiled at Takeru as she held his hands.
"Hey, it's okay. I was a little in the wrong too. Guess we're even." her sweet smile made Takeru smile back.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Hikari said as she rode her bicycle towards the other direction away from where Takeru was. Takeru waved goodbye before walking home.
"Taichi…" spoke Yamato.
"I wonder if he's angry at us?" Sora asked. She and Yamato were in a café eating cake slices.
"Of course he is!" Yamato said raising his voice. Sora just looked at Yamato.
"Ah… sorry about that." he bowed his head as a form of apology.
"It's okay, nothing to worry about. I'm happy he's planning on discussing with us though," she sipped some of her soda and continued speaking. "I kind of missed talking to him."
"The same goes for me. Usually he'd be in the cafeteria annoying me but he never does that anymore." Yamato said.
"hmmm?" Sora looked at her boyfriend with a cheeky grin as he drank some water. "Does that mean you actually liked getting annoyed by Taichi?"
Yamato stopped drinking midway and started choking. When he got his composure back, he looked at Sora who was stifling a grin.
"Where did that come from?" Yamato looked at his girlfriend annoyingly but stopped when he realized that… she was right.
After their class the next day, Yamato walked to Taichi before he could leave the classroom.
"We need to talk." He said. Taichi just continued placing his notebook inside his bag.
"We can talk during the weekend…" he stood up only to get stopped by Yamato once more. They looked at each other; one annoyingly while the other a tad bit more stern.
"I can't wait for the weekend. Taichi, you need to stop acting like this." Everyone had left the room by then. It was only Taichi and Yamato inside.
"It never bothered you when you can do it whenever you had the chance didn't it?" Yamato's eye twitched as he backed away. That was the time a soccer mate of Taichi walked in on their conversation.
"Yo, captain! The coach wants to practice a little early today. Think you can come?"
"Yeah sure. Let me just get my things before I go there."
Taichi stood up completely ignoring the blonde boy behind him and closed the classroom door. Yamato stood there as if unable to move. He didn't know whether he was angry at Taichi or annoyed at how his friend now acted. It was only for a couple more days… he can't wait that long; but he knows it's the only way to finally get the answers to the questions he's had ever since the event with Origin ended. With that, he walked out of the classroom and headed straight for the cafeteria.
During their practice, Taichi hadn't been fully aware of what happened.
"Oh boss!" said one of his team mates.
"What is it?" Taichi said.
"Something bothering you?"
"Not really, why?"
"That boy you were with earlier, he was a friend right? Why do you seem like you don't want to talk to him?"
Taichi gulped down his water and spoke.
"It's not really something I like talking about. Shall we continue?" said Taichi who ran towards the field once more. The person then got a phone call from a classmate.
"Koushiro? Oh yeah… no… he doesn't seem to want to talk about it."
"I see… well thanks for trying anyways." Koushiro was about to hang out when the guy on the other line spoke.
"I think he knew the moment I spoke about it. I respect Taichi very much Koushiro and," he took a deep breath. "From what I've seen, he doesn't seem to be angry…" he then hung up.
The next few days were uneventful and then time came that they would all meet up. They all met at a park near Taichi's school. He was already there with Hikari when they arrived.
"Taichi!" Daisuke waved at him. Taichi waved back.
When they were all collected in front of the swings, Taichi took a long deep breath and said, "First thing's first, I'm sorry…"
"Taichi…" Yamato said.
"I know I've been distant these past few weeks and I am truly sorry for how I acted to everyone…"
"It's okay Taichi… we kind of thought you were not talking to us because of Origin. We should apologize too." Sora said.
Daisuke nodded, "We really didn't think that you were being cold towards us…"
Taichi looks at Yamato who had a smug look on his face.
"Oh no… don't look at me like that Taichi," he said. "I'm pissed yeah but I know you have your reasons… besides… we really were at fault here too." Yamao said and smiled.
"We just wanted to know if you're okay." Hikari said. Taichi looked at everyone with a guilty face. He remembered the last discussion they had before he got pierced in the heart. They had those same faces… he thought.
He nodded to all of them and cleared his throat.
"Okay… I guess it's time to answer the questions you've had for a month so… let me have it." Taichi said as he looked at everyone. Hikari was the first one to talk and said, "Why do you still have Origin's crest?"
Taichi moved his left hand towards everyone and showed his pulse area. Origin's crest glowed the same and then vanished instantly.
"Origin gave it to me. Something like a final gift." Taichi said.
"Does it have something special about it?" Koushiro asked.
"Now that you mentioned it… I never really thought that it had any special abilities. Except that I could control its visibility."
"Hmm… maybe we could try it out."
"Well maybe not today Koushiro." Miyako said.
"Any who… Taichi, what were you doing for the past month?" Yamato asked.
Taichi looked at him seriously. Yamato knew it was something he had not been meaning to talk about any time soon but now, Taichi should finally have to talk about it.
"I was looking for people." Taichi said.
"People? What do you mean people?" Iori and Ken asked at the same time.
"The Original Digidestineds."
Everyone gasped. The last time they ever discussed the Original Digidestineds was with Gennai. They never really asked him about who they were or what they were like. The one's who knew Taichi before he died… Hikari wanted to know more.
"Did you find them Taichi?" she asked. Taichi shook his head and looked at the swing.
"I travelled around Japan for a whole month before I gave up."
"Did they tell you where they lived?" Daisuke asked and Taichi nodded.
"I remember they told me where they lived but I guess it's been 9 years after all since I met them."
Everyone fell silent. Wind swept around them followed by the motion of the trees. Then Koushiro got an idea.
"I can't believe I haven't thought of this!" Koushiro took out his laptop and started typing. Taichi looked at Koushiro curiously when he saw Daisuke eyeing him.
"Did I do something wrong Daisuke?" he asked.
"No… but… I was thinking that… err… since you played soccer with us before you might want to again? I just thought that you were really happy back then and… uhh…" Daisuke didn't seem to want to finish the sentence but everyone knew what was on his mind. Taichi looked at Daisuke and messed up his hair.
"Sure, why not? It was a fun game and I bet you two trained even harder than before." He let out a grin that made everyone, especially Daisuke, happy.
"Aha!" Koushiro cheered. He walked towards Taichi and showed him his computer screen. Taichi gasped.
"It's a tracking program I created a few days ago. It can find out the locations of different digidestineds located in Japan. I didn't have the chance to test it out yet so I thought this would be the best time!" Taichi beamed with excitement.
"Koushiro this is brilliant!" he yelled. Everyone walked towards the laptop to observe as Koushiro explained how it worked.
"I could test it out right now before we start finding your friends Taichi."
"How?" Hikari asked.
"Well, if you search Taichi Yagami on the server, then anyone with that name that has been connected to the digiworld will appear here. Like this…" Koushiro started typing on his computer and in an instant, an orange dot appeared in the exact location where Taichi was at that moment.
"Brilliant Koushiro!" Jou said as he jumped for joy. But his phone started ringing and he checked it out.
"Hello? Uh-huh… EH!? Okay, Okay!" Jou hung up.
"Something wrong Jou?" Iori asked walking towards the oldest among all of them.
"Looks like I have to go to my cram school later. I guess I won't be able to continue this chat."
"It's okay, we understand. We should be heading home soon too anyways." Sora said.
"Really sorry." Jou replied.
"Ah… has anyone seen Mimi?" Taichi asked. Everyone but Hikari looked at each other.
"Mimi? Didn't she return to America after summer break?" Miyako replied.
"I wish she did… but her father is going to work here for two years so she's going to be staying with them in their new apartment." Taichi said as he held his neck.
"Oh yeah that always annoyed me, I never really knew where Mimi stayed during summer." Sora said.
"Now that you mention it, she never really said anything. Did she get her own apartment?" Jou replied.
"No that wouldn't be good considering she's only here for two months." Yamato said.
"Then where did she stay?" Koushiro asked.
"Oh didn't I tell you guys?" Taichi said as Hikari was stifling a grin. "She was living at our home during the summer."
The silence returned once more.
"H-h-h-hold on T-t-taichi… D-did I hear y-you correctly? D-did you j-j-just say that M-m-m-mimi was staying in with y-y-you?" Jou said faintly as he slowly walked towards Taichi and held him by the shoulders.
"Yeah… was that bad?" he said casually.
"What's wrong with that? She had no place to stay in so I let her live with us."
"Taichi…" Jou said, still holding Taichi's shoulders. "Do you mean to say that Mimi actually agreed to this?"
"Yeah…" Jou seemed to grow weaker by the second.
"What's with the face Jou!?" Taichi said looking a little terrified.
"A lady… you just let a lady sleep in your home."
Taichi tilted his head and then had a thought.
"Oh it's okay Jou, she was sleeping in Hikari's room."
Jou's face turned red as steam started coming out from his nose. Yamato and the others were still shocked but chuckled at what Taichi said.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT TAICHI!"
"Oh? I come late and you're already talking about me?" Mimi said as she walked towards them. Sora smiled as she ran towards her.
"Mimi!" Sora said as she hugged her. Jou, now looking more like a zombie, turned to look at Mimi. Mimi felt her spine tingle and she backed away.
"Wh-what's wrong with Jou?" she asked. Taichi just hit his head with the palm of his hand. Jou started walking wobbly towards her. Mimi felt even more terrified.
"Mimi… did you really stay at Taichi's during the summer?" Jou said.
"What!? You didn't believe me?" Taichi said comically in disbelief.
Mimi nodded as she hid behind Sora murmuring akuma….
"You could have stayed with Sora… that would have been reasonable…" Jou started mumbling on his own.
"Eh? Why add me into this?" Sora said surprised by the comment.
"B-because you're often alone right? Plus… you two are often closer to each other than her and Taichi." Jou said trying to explain himself. "What do you mean by that Jou?" Taichi said on the sidelines.
Taichi looked annoyed but Mimi just stared at Jou as if trying to find a way to exorcise him.
"Y-yeah… but Yamato usually visits once in a while so…"
"But that's it… It's okay because he's your boyfri-" Jou paused. Everyone looked at Taichi and Mimi.
"Could it be that…" Jou pointed at Taichi. "You two are…" he continued now pointing at Mimi. Mimi's face started to turn cherry red. She saw Taichi clench a fist and knew what was coming next.
"Yeah… me and Mimi are dating." he said as Jou collapsed comically on the ground with what looked like his soul coming out from his mouth.
END OF CHAPTER ONE
