It All Comes Down To This
Unexpected Visitors
DF103: FIRST UPDATE THIS YEAR! I've waited and waited and I can't hold onto this fic any longer. In all honesty, I had this chapter done last…October, I think. It's written on my online journal saying that I was going to post it sometime last year, but I had to wait. Yesh. Besides that, my writing skills have…changed. I've been writing more of my original fics on FP. Anyway, introduce the chapter, someone…these people have waited too long.
Immature DF103: We don't own Ashley, Amber, Digimon, and (I think) 2 other characters, which will appear in this chapter…and…DF103 does own herself (you'll see), Jason, and Richard. Now enjoy chapter two!
DF103: BTW! You all said it not really but now comes the truth about Jason! not really, again -.-;; just read…
Riley, Kody, and Richard sauntered down the hospital corridor towards the exit of the building. Everyone else gathered their belongings and followed the same path.
"We're just going to leave without saying anything?" Kazu asked, with his jacket in his hand.
"They know we have other things to tend to. Don't worry about it," Henry replied.
Kazu shrugged and put his jacket on. He ran to catch up with the others.
From the windows at the front of the building, the sun's rays slowly crept into the room where the reception desk was. The automatic doors slid open and a rush of the cool, early winter's breeze blew into the building.
"Mm…feels great out today," commented Jeri, as she took a deep breath, and turned to Jason, wrapping her arms around his arm. "Don't you think?"
"Uh-huh," Jason answered. He looked around and saw all the people walking around the streets. It was nearly 6:30, yet the whole city was as lively as it was at night. "This city never sleeps, does it?"
"Of course not. You're always sleeping till like 10:00 in the morning to notice," Jeri giggled.
Kazu and Kenta walked behind them, with jealousy, raging in their eyes when Jeri rested her head on Jason's shoulder. "How would she know when he wakes up?"
"Okay, so tell me this. Why does the new guy get a girl, and yet, we've lived here forever and we're still without a girl?" Kazu asked. "We're in our twenties. Everyone says you're supposed to have fun, but how can anyone have fun without a girl?"
"I don't know…" Kenta answered.
"Technically, they're not going out. They're just really close to each other," Takato answered, from behind them. "Besides, your days will come."
Kazu raised an eyebrow and looked at Ashley, who walked alongside Takato. "And, you." Kazu pointed at Takato, turning around and walking backwards.
"What?" Takato asked, looking both ways to make sure Kazu was actually pointing to him. "What did I do?"
"If you didn't break up with Jeri, that wouldn't be possible," Kazu said, pointing to the two, over his shoulder. He thought for a moment, before he whispered, "Of course, if Jeri had actually killed herself, none of this would be possible either. Or we can just get rid of Jason. That's always another possibility."
"Kazu, that's just cruel!" Henry snapped. "That remark is going to come back and hit you on the head."
"Um, Kazu…" Alice whispered.
"I can't believe you would say something like that," Amber murmured.
"I wouldn't believe it, if anyone said it," Ashley commented.
"Well, it's true…" Kazu whined.
"What's true?" Jeri asked, removing her head off Jason's shoulder and turning to the rest of the group.
"Oh, nothing," Kazu said in a singsong tone.
"Kazu, you should really watch where you're going," Alice noted, indistinctly pointing out in front of her.
Kazu laughed before he turned around and ran into a pole. He drew in a large breath before partially screaming with his mouth shut. "Aieee…" Kazu's hands covered his face, trying not to cry out in pain.
"Smart move, Kazu," Ashley noted, sarcastically.
"What goes around comes around. No offense, but you deserved that," Henry said, laughingly.
Kazu gave Henry a death glare through his fingers. He removed his hands from his face; he had a distinct red mark where he hit himself and a little bit of blood dribbled down from his nose. "And you didn't warn me ahead of time because…?"
"Once again, I was left unheard…" Alice muttered.
"You shouldn't even be walking backwards in the first place," Amber replied, repressing her laughs. "Take responsibility for your actions."
"Whatever," Kazu answered back, sniffling. He opened the door and let everyone into the cozy restaurant. The warm air caressed their faces from the cold atmosphere.
After a moment's search, they spotted Richard, Riley, and Kody, sitting at a large table near the windows. Kazu ran straight into the bathroom to clean up his nose, while the rest sat down, placing their jackets on the backs of the chairs. They all picked up the menus and glanced at the food selections.
"What happened to him?" Riley asked, taking a sip of her cup of coffee, holding her cup with both hands, fingers intertwined, propped up by her elbows.
"Ran into a light pole," Jeri replied, smiling at the image she got in her head.
Riley chuckled and Richard burst out into laughter. "Kazu is funny!" Richard yelled out.
Kazu walked out of the bathroom and heard Richard's comment. He smiled and laughed along with him. His nose was slightly red and inflamed. Slowly, his hand made its way to his nose, still throbbing in pain. "A lesson well-learned. NEVER walk backwards."
"Good to know you're still learning something, even when you're out of school, Kazu," Riley responded.
Kazu looked at the menu, along with everyone else, covering his face so no one would see his nose. A waitress, wearing a skirt and a blouse and holding a tray, bounced over to the group's table.
"Okay Ms., you got the omelet." She placed a plate of omelet and hash browns, in front of Riley. "And, you got the pancakes, cutie," she smiled and placed a plated stacked with pancakes in front of Richard. She grabbed a small bottle of syrup from an empty table and set it beside the plate of pancakes.
"Thank you," Riley mentioned, before eating. The server smiled.
The waitress looked at the others and tilted her head. "What can I get all of you, this morning?"
"Water, with extra ice," Kazu requested, in a nasal tone. "And, I'll take a bowl of Miso soup."
A few snickers were heard from a group of people nearby. The waitress giggled taking a glance at Kazu, over the menu he had in front of him. He sneered, trying to avoid the wandering eyes of all the people sitting around him.
"Just get the rest of us a cup of coffee and a plate of eggs and hash browns," Henry answered for the rest, putting Kazu out of his misery from embarrassment.
"Okay," the waitress answered in a perky tone. She walked back with her hair 'swishing' from side to side. The group put their menus back on the rack, on top of the table.
"She's awfully perky this early in the morning," Kenta said, taking off his glasses and rubbing his eye.
"…And observant," Kazu added. A burst of laughter came from Jeri. He glared. "It's no use. No matter how much I try to hide it, people will still notice."
"Gosh, Kazu. You're so touchy today," Alice noted.
"I woke up really early, and I'm still cranky so lay off," Kazu retorted.
"All because of his nose being as red as Jason's eye," Henry added. There were scattered laughs.
"Yeah…" Jason affirmed. He paused and processed what Henry just said. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. My eye is not red," Jason proclaimed. "What made you think their both red?" The light chuckles stopped.
"Not both of them. Just the left one," Ashley replied. "It IS supposed to be red…right?"
"No, it's hazel-ish brown. Colored contact. You must be mistaken."
"Wait a minute! You're telling us that your eyes are blue and brown, where as your eyes tell us otherwise," Kenta said, pointing to both of Jason's eyes. "That one's blue. And, the other one is definitely red."
Everyone, Amber especially, looked at his eye and verified that it was indeed a demonic scarlet color. 'There is something very wrong with him. Something's not right,' Amber thought, somewhat glaring at Jason.
"Jason, it's been that color since the day I met you," Jeri mentioned.
"When was the last time you looked in the mirror?" Alice asked.
Jason had a doubtful look plastered on his face. His eyes narrowed in suspicion. "This is some kind of joke, isn't it? You're all in on it."
"Dude, go look for yourself. I might've run into a pole, but my vision is still A-okay," Kazu suggested.
"You know what? I think I will go see for myself," Jason said in a cocky manner. He stormed into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. "A mirror reflects the truth. Show me the truth, you piece of glass." He gazed intently into the mirror, first his right eye, which was blue, and the other one, which was…a shade of gray. "What the hell!"
Henry walked into the bathroom and saw Jason shatter the mirror with his fist, the pieces each falling to the ground with a smash. Jason fell to his knees and halted Henry. "Stay…away…from…me." He confusedly looked at all the pieces on the floor with broadened eyes
"Jason, what's this about?" Henry asked, stepping back and kneeling down. "What's wrong?"
"Stop with the nice guy act!" Jason exclaimed. He huffed and pointed to the partially shattered mirror. "The mirror lied to me. My left eye—it's gray."
Henry raised an eyebrow. 'Did he just say the mirror lied to him? Since when did mirrors…talk?' He looked down at Jason's fist, bloody with pieces of glass protruding from his skin. "Jason, you're bleeding. You should get it cleaned up."
Jason looked at his fist. Gray. Gray running from his elbow to his fist when he brought it up to his face. He touched it with his other hand and felt the runny texture rubbing his fingers together in the substance. Looking at it, he licked his finger, and tasted the warm, metallic substance, which he now recognized as blood. Henry looked skeptical.
"Why?" Jason whispered, again looking all over the floor with a bemused expression. He looked up at Henry. "I don't see it. The red. It's not there."
Henry shifted over towards Jason and examined his bloody hand and his left eye. "Jason. I think you're colorblind."
Jason looked up, perplexed, then enraged. "Are you saying that my perfect vision which I was born with, has gone defective on me? Are you!" Jason yelled out. He pushed Henry over. "Don't tell me that." Jason's veins started to pop out as he clenched his fists, blood running down his arm, and spreading across the floor.
While the two were in the bathroom, everyone else already got their food and was eating. They heard the noise in the bathroom, but simply thought it was another person breaking a plate in the kitchen. As for the indistinguishable yelling, they concluded that someone was getting fired in the back office.
Richard was already done and was watching everyone talk and eat. He was observing them through his glass of orange juice. Gradually, the half-empty cup of juice made ripples, the silverware clattered, and the ground rumbled. Very distant screams were heard and the floor shook as something large stomped around. Richard was startled and Kody began to cry.
"What's going on?" Richard cried out.
"Um…guys. I hate to say it, but this seems extremely familiar…" Takato said, looking out the window.
"What's happening? What do you mean this seems 'extremely familiar?'" Ashley asked, looking around, hearing all the things fall off the walls.
"Is this one of those earthquakes?" Amber asked in a panicky tone.
"No. Not all," Riley answered, as she gazed out the window, watching the trees vibrate. "It's big." She tried to calm Kody down as his wails grew louder.
"I want to know what's going!" Amber yelled out.
Richard clung to Riley's arm. Riley glanced at Takato and nodded. "They're back." The diners who sat behind Takato saw his D-arc flashing through his pocket. They gasped and evacuated the building.
"We're going to go. We'll meet you guys over there." Kazu and Kenta ran out the restaurant and disappeared within the crowds of awestruck people who were gazing out somewhere near the park. Jeri and Alice exchanged glances before looking at Ashley and Amber.
"What?" Ashley looked puzzled. "I have no idea what's going, and you two look like you're bothered by something. That worries me."
"Would someone tell us what's going on!" Amber exclaimed.
"Jeri, Alice, you have to go. Find somewhere safe. Riley. You, Kody, and Richard should do the same." They all nodded and ran out. Takato took out his D-arc and showed it to the two mystified girls. The red arrows spun around on the screen, pulsating. They finally stopped and pointed to the park. "Digimon."
"Oh no."
Henry burst out of the bathroom, glancing back every once in a while to see if Jason was following him. His gray shirt had a little bit of Jason's blood, smudged on it. He got back to the group and panted. "He's gone berserk!" A cacophonous crash was heard. Henry looked back and saw Jason crawl out of the bathroom, clutching his head with his bloody arm.
"What happened to you?" Amber asked, not expecting Henry to come back with blood on his shirt.
"Nothing bad…" Henry replied before he turned his attention to a loud beeping sound coming from Takato.
Takato's D-arc went crazy again before it pointed to Jason. Henry saw what it was doing. "What's wrong with your digivice?"
"I-I don't know. Take yours out."
Henry took his out of his pocket and it first pointed to the park, then to Jason. Ashley and Amber did the same, showing the similar results. Then, all the digivices beeped and went haywire, before they all went blank.
"What the hell?" Takato yelled out. He ran his hand through his hair in confusion. A knock came from the window. The four of them whipped around and saw Renamon, Guilmon, Monodramon, Terriermon, Patamon, and Gatomon.
A muffled, "Hurry up" was heard from the digimon as they headed for the park.
Takato looked back at his digivice and shook it. Nothing. He thought nothing of it and stuffed it in his pocket. "Let's go!" Takato yelled out, racing out the door.
The other three jogged to the door, passing by the bathrooms. They saw Jason curled up in a fetal position. Amber and Ashley were about to go, before they noticed Henry, still standing in front of the bathroom door. The stall doors were knocked down and all the other mirrors were on the floor in pieces.
"Come on, Henry," Amber yelled out, opening the door.
Henry looked back at the two girls, and then to Jason again. He sighed and grabbed Jason's arm. Jason groaned. "It's sometimes good to act nice," Henry whispered in his ear, before he dragged him out the restroom door. "Now, get up. I'd hate to drag you all the way to the park." Jason looked sedated, his body, limp. Henry helped him up and assisted him in walking.
"What are you doing?" Amber scowled. "Something happened between the two of you in there and you're still willing to help him?"
"Mm—yeah. If I learned anything from life up to now, it would have to be that everyone deserves a second chance. What happened in the there was nothing," Henry explained, looking back at the restrooms. He continued walking. "Now, we have to go help Takato, Kazu, and Kenta."
Meanwhile, Takato had been following the digimon, looking for the wild one that was on the loose somewhere around the park. The brunet constantly waited for his digivice's assistance, but it did him no good. "The digimon isn't that big then, I'm guessing," he mumbled to himself, after wandering the park grounds for a while. "I wonder where Kazu and Kenta went off to." He turned around and expected Henry, Ashley, and Amber shortly behind him. "And, where are those three?"
The digimon paused and examined the vicinity, looking for any signs of the untamed beast. There were no signs at all, and the noises seemed to have died down. "What's going on here?" Takato asked, noticing the abnormal silence.
"Maybe it decided to go back home!" Terriermon yelled out, excitedly. A disgruntled growl was heard. "Or not."
"It came from over there." Gatomon pointed to the direction and they all spread out to search some more.
Loud, scratchy beeps rang out from Takato's hand. The digivice displayed the direction of where the wild digimon was located. "It's about time." He and the digimon followed the pointer, which guided them to a ravaged area of the park; trees were knocked down and clouds of dust were everywhere. Within the shroud, they saw a pair of illuminated, red eyes, and then a glimmer of what looked like a sword.
"It's Musyamon!" Guilmon cried out.
"No way!" Takato exclaimed. He attempted to bypass the dust, but couldn't see the digimon. "It can't be him. We creamed him—I saw his data disappear—he's not supposed to be here! He's not supposed to come back!"
A grunt was heard before the trees in front of Takato plunged down with a swipe of the digimon's sword. The dust churned in his face and blurred his vision. He took a step back while attempting to fan some of the light dust away, to keep his eyes from watering and to avoid coughing.
"Takato!" Henry yelled out, running up to him, after sitting Jason down under a tree. Amber and Ashley trailed behind him. The digimon reunited with their tamers and waited for the dirt to settle. "Did you see the digimon yet?"
"No, but Guilmon said it's Musyamon."
"How's that possible? We finished it off that one time almost thirteen years ago."
"That's what I said…" Takato mentioned, before hearing the digimon approaching. The dry leaves and twigs crunched under each step it took.
"Well, we're about to find out if it's really him." Henry pointed to the silhouette that approached the group. "Get ready…"
The digimon rustled through the shrubbery until it made contact with the four tamers and the digimon. It turned out to be a distorted version of Musyamon, lacking some of his armor and looking stronger and twice as much bigger, since the last time Takato and Henry saw it. Amber and Ashley's eyes were widened with a disconcerting feeling within them. They held their D-arcs up to the digimon to identify it, but it never registered.
"Who is this guy?" Ashley asked.
"We don't know, but we're not going to wait to find out," Takato commented, sending Guilmon to battle the Musyamon doppelganger. Takato swiped a digivolution card through his D-arc and Guilmon digivolved to Growlmon. "Go get him, Growlmon!"
"First time we get to actually fight a digimon in years, and Takato goes ahead and takes care of it. I guess we're not needed here." Henry observed Guilmon and Musyamon throwing attack after attack at each other, neither of them making a successful hit. "Eh, what do you think, Terriermon, should we help Guilmon and Takato?"
"Yeah! I shouldn't miss out on the fun!" Terriermon got in his fighting stance, ready to run into the battle. "I'm ready when you are."
"Right." Henry took out his digivolution card and swiped it through his digivice. Terriermon glowed before morphing into a different shape and transforming into Gargomon.
Before attacking, Gargomon snuck around, behind the enemy so that it wouldn't evade the attack. Growlmon held back an attack, waiting for Gargomon to get in place. Renamon appeared above the wild one also awaiting Gargomon's gesture. Gargomon was ready and was waiting for Renamon's cue to attack. Monodramon, Gatomon, and Patamon watched the three of them, as Musyamon's watchful eye never left Growlmon's.
"Boom bubble," Patamon said, releasing a large amount of bubbles from its mouth. Musyamon's body turned to Patamon, the other two digimon and the two tamers.
"Uh-oh," Amber whispered, taking a slow step back. The unidentified look-alike pointed his sword at the petrified Patamon.
"Now!" Renamon yelled out, plunging down towards the enemy. Renamon grasped the enemy's arms causing it to drop its sword with a clang. Musyamon grunted, trying to get out of Renamon's firm grip. "Hurry and attack."
"Pyro Blaster!"
"Bunny Pummel!"
The two attacks advanced towards the digimon. Renamon disappeared a fraction of a second before the two attacks converged. The digimon howled and its data dispersed into the air; the tiny sparkles staying airborne before they disappeared.
Ashley and Amber were mesmerized by what they saw. Henry and Takato, on the other hand had disturbed expressions on their faces. "Is it just me, or did that seem just a tad bit too easy?" Henry asked, with his hand elevated gesturing the 'tad bit' amount with his fingers.
"I agree." Takato looked at the digimon.
"What are you talking about, Takato? We're just stronger. That's why we beat Musyamon!" Growlmon said, raising his arms with joy.
"Yeah, you can't just underestimate our powers like that, Henry," Gargomon added.
Renamon joined the group. "I'd have to say, for a champion digimon that was the weakest I've ever fought and I'm only in my rookie level."
"So, there is something to it. What's going on here?" Henry pondered.
"Don't keep yourself wondering about something that has already happened. It's gone, right?" Amber asked, with Patamon on her head.
"I guess so…"
"You know so. Just go ahead and say it," Patamon noted.
"Uh, yeah."
"This is weird. That thing looked like Musyamon, almost identical. Why is it back?" Takato asked, sitting down on a fallen tree.
"We should check in with Yamaki sometime to see what's up. If it were anyone, Yamaki would probably know something about this," Henry said, staring at his digivice, which was once again blank, apparently defunct for the while. "Maybe he'll know what's wrong with our digivices, too."
"Yeah…"
"Do you think there'll be more?" Ashley asked, "Because we can always help, you know."
"Let's hope not, but if there are—" Takato began before he was interrupted by Kazu and Kenta.
"We're here!" Kazu yelled, waving his arms frantically, as the two and their digimon jumped over the shrubs.
"You two got here a little too late," Renamon mentioned.
"The digivices were screwed up!" Kazu complained. "We couldn't locate you guys or the digimon."
"Yeah well, they didn't even need us," Gatomon added, "so you wouldn't have done anything even if you were here."
"Aw! Just when I thought I could help out," Kenta whined. "I wish there is another digimon so we could fight for once!" Kenta kicked the grass.
The ground began to shake again. The leaves each fell off the trees and Monodramon fell over. "Now, you've done it, Kenta! I bet this a big digimon!" Kazu yelled out, hanging onto a tree.
"I didn't mean it!" Kenta cried back.
A few feet in front of the whole group, an enormous, blinding, white light appeared on the ground, and from it, emerged a blue and white, wingless, miniature, plane-like machine, a little smaller than an average car.
"That's no digimon," Henry commented, as the machine ran over a few trees. Kenta sighed, and wiped his brow.
When the contraption stopped, the group looked at its entirety. "This looks similar to the ark." Takato walked up to it and ran his hand along the hot surface. "When we were thirteen, we rode something like this back here from the Digital World," Takato explained, to Ashley and Amber.
The machine didn't have any windows or doors, or at least none that the tamers could see. A trail of mechanical parts was seen behind the machine near the engine like apparatus.
"If that's the ark, wouldn't there be people in there?" Henry asked, crossing his arms. "And if that really is an ark, whoever is in there won't be able to go anywhere with the condition its in."
Guilmon sniffed around the ark. "I smell digimon."
The front part of the machine steamed, making a loud hissing sound, startling Guilmon. Feminine screams were heard from the inside, before a hatch opened with smoke rushing out. The tamers and their digimon hid in the bushes as they heard coughs and saw them tumble out of what they now established as an ark. The three were lying on the ground catching some fresh air.
"I still think you made a wrong turn," a girl with dark brown, almost black, hair and tanned skin said, while gasping for air. She wore a lavender colored shirt and bellbottoms. The tamers were surprised that they could speak Japanese.
"No, I didn't for the hundredth time! I swear. A wild digimon signal was coming from this place," a girl with shoulder length black hair answered, muffled because she was in a prone position. She had a lighter skin tone than the other girl, and wore a black hat, worn backwards, with a dark blue shirt and baggy blue jeans.
The third one managed to get up and examined the ark. "Stop fighting, you two. The ark…umm…isn't okay…" she said, slowly. She had short, dark brown hair, wearing titanium-framed glasses, with a blue shirt on and pants. She fixed her glasses, hopelessly looking at the damaged ark.
"This isn't good. This is NOT good!" a dog-like digimon said, pacing around. "What are we going to do, Amanda?"
"I don't know," the girl with the glasses, said.
"Well, we can all blame it on, Sarah!" the girl with the bellbottoms on exclaimed. She dusted herself off, and looked around for her digimon. "Do you know where Ranamon is?"
"No, I don't know where Ranamon is…and, it's not my fault!" the black-haired girl yelled, still sprawled out on the ground with her face down. A red and white digimon poked her back.
"Yeah, it is." She continued looking for her digimon, peeking into the ark every once in a while.
"No…"
"Okay, since you insisted the 'wild' digimon was here, tell us where it is. Better yet, tell us exactly where we are, 'Sherlock.'"
The girl with the hat got up, and glared at the girl with the lavender shirt, before walking around the vicinity. The tamers stayed in their hiding places, hoping not to get caught. "Well, I can't tell with all these trees."
"At least you can say there was a digimon here, based on the way the trees are scattered," the girl with the glasses replied.
The girl with the hat began climb a tree.
"Don't fall," the girl with the glasses, advised. She watched her friend venture up into the tree.
"Hope you fall!" the other girl said, laughingly.
"Thanks for the support. Really appreciate it, Tomoyo," the girl in the tree said, sarcastically.
"No problem."
She got to the treetop and saw many tall buildings and a lot of people on the streets, but nowhere near them. She examined the place some more until she saw a road sign written in Japanese. "I think we're in Japan." She slowly climbed back down, before she spotted Patamon. She screamed and slid off the tree, landing on her back with a loud 'THUD.'
"Sarah!" the red and white digimon exclaimed running over to her.
The other two girls sweat-dropped. "She'll never change…"
The girl curled up in pain, and pointed in a certain direction, where she saw Patamon. "A digimon over there. Go look, Tomoyo."
"Really?" Tomoyo walked over, and vigilantly looked over the bushes. "This isn't one of your jokes, is it?" She saw everyone hiding, and jumped back. "Holy crap!"
Takato stood up first. "Uh, hi," he said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Sorry to startle you. We didn't mean to," Amber said, apologetically.
There was an awkward pause. "¿Cómo?" The group was confused. "Hmm. You look like adults…but you sure don't act like 'em, especially when you're hiding in the bushes," Tomoyo said, incredulously.
"Eh…guess you're right…that was a childish act," Henry replied, hesitantly.
"So…" Tomoyo started. "You have digimon?"
"Yeah. And, we can see that you do, too," Ashley commented, gesturing to the three digimon behind Tomoyo.
"Yeah. I'm Tomoyo Higarashi, by the way."
"I'm Takato Matsuki," Takato said, then pointing to each person. "This is Ashley Okuja. Amber Kamisaka. Henry Wong. Kenta Kitagawa. And, Kazu Shioda."
"Nice to meet you all," Tomoyo answered. She turned around and waved her uninjured friend over. "This is Amanda Nevaeh (pronounced Nev-Ay-Uh). The one on the ground is Sarah Rutherford."
"Rutherford?" Amber gulped.
"Um, yeah. Why? Do you know a Rutherford?" Amanda asked, suspiciously.
Henry forgot about Jason. He turned around to glance at Jason, but he wasn't there. He whipped around, looking for him, and found him right next to him, looking at Sarah.
"Yeah…him," Ashley replied pointing to Jason.
"Jason?" Amanda and Tomoyo shrieked. "He's changed a lot…" Amanda whispered to Tomoyo, looking cautiously at him.
"He's even creepier than before," Tomoyo whispered back, grimacing at the sight of him. Jason walked over towards Sarah.
"You two know him?" Amber asked interested in what they had to say about him.
"Unfortunately…" Tomoyo replied.
"We didn't just know him. We've known him since forever!" Amanda exaggerated, then lowering her voice again down to a whisper. "He's such a pervert. Disturbed from the day we met him. He ran around in the nude once, chasing other girls when he was ten."
"He what?" the group shouted out, their eyes just about bulging out of their sockets.
"Shh…he'll hear you…" Amanda shushed, putting a finger over her lips.
"Could we just not talk about that? Just remembering what happened gives me the chills," Tomoyo said, rubbing her arms, as if a cold breeze blew.
"I don't think I would want to know…" Terriermon grimaced.
With disturbed looks on their faces, they looked back at Jason, standing over the black-haired girl.
Jason looked at the digimon, and then observed the girl, lying on her side. He grabbed her by her shirt and picked her up, which caused her to half-open her eyes. His eyebrows perked up, as he recognized who it was. "Haven't seen you in a long time." He studied her look, and then saw how many inches she was off the ground from where he held her up. "You're still short…"
At this time, she was aware of what was going on. "Jason?" she kicked him where it'd hurt any guy. He let go of her and leaned against a tree, biting down on his lip, hand over his manhood. Sarah grabbed her digimon and ran over to her friends.
The guys winced imagining the pain Jason felt, whereas the girls snickered. "Jeez. The first time I see you in a while and you kick me."
"I bet you missed having that done to you, huh? You're welcome in advance, by the way," Sarah retorted.
"For what?" Jason asked, bent over in pain.
"For being the same perverted jerk, you've always been," replied Sarah, sticking her tongue out at Jason.
"You haven't changed at all yourself…still the same Lil Sarah, I knew…unfortunately."
"What did he just call you?" Kazu asked.
"Oh, just a nickname I had," Sarah replied. "Wait…who're you?"
"They're tamers," Tomoyo answered, introducing each of them. "Takato, Henry, Amber, Ashley, Kazu, and Kenta."
"Ah," Sarah said, taking her hat off, and putting it on her digimon. "Yeah, I'm supposedly his younger sister."
The group blinked. They looked at Jason's American look and compared it to Sarah's oriental look.
"She was adopted…" Amanda said, before they questioned.
"Oh…"
Jason sat down and looked at the conversing group. He took a dirt clod and threw it, aiming for Amanda, Tomoyo, or Sarah. Instead, it hit the red and white digimon.
"Ouch," it said, rubbing its back.
"What's wrong, Elecmon?" Sarah asked. Elecmon pointed to Jason, who was smirking. "Can you get anymore immature?"
"Uh-oh…there's gonna be a fight…" Tomoyo whispered. Elecmon crawled back into the ark, not wanting to hear the yells.
"I don't think so…" Jason answered. "I didn't think you would have one of those digimon things hanging around you too, since you're so violent."
"That's not true! I'm not as mean as I used to be. Jeez!" Sarah yelled out, looking back at the people, she just met. She smirked. "Why isn't your girlfriend here, hmm? I don't see her anywhere…" Jason's grin disappeared. "She left you, didn't she? What'd you do? Have another relationship with someone else?"
"Look, shut up, okay! It's none of your business." Jason got up and left.
"Hmm…bye!" Sarah waved. "I actually liked his girlfriend, too. How sad."
"And…how many years younger are you to him?" Amber asked, recognizing the display of immaturity between the two of them.
"A month and two days actually," Sarah replied. Elecmon came out of the ark, carrying a gray digivice. "Oh, I forgot that was in there."
"You forget a lot of things…" Tomoyo noted. Amanda nodded.
"Don't we all?" Henry asked.
Ranamon and Labramon looked at the inactive digivice on their tamers belt.
"It looks broken," Ranamon said, looking at Tomoyo's digivice.
Elecmon shook the digivice in its hand. It, too, was inactive. "Yup, I think it's broken."
"You've got to be kidding," Tomoyo said, checking up on her digivice. "Again!"
"Your digivices are screwed up, too, huh?" Takato asked.
"I think we should pay Yamaki a visit today," Henry suggested. "Maybe he and his crew can help fix the digivices and your ark, as well."
"You think so…?" Amanda asked, looking back at the ark.
"Of course. Yamaki is the king of this kind of stuff," Ashley replied.
"That's good," Amanda replied.
"Hmm, I'm curious. Why did you come here in the first place? Are you chasing some digimon or something?" Renamon asked.
"Well, yeah, kinda." The three newcomers exchanged hesitant looks. "We're chasing some…thing."
"Oh, do tell," said Monodramon, sitting down on his haunches.
DF103: Thank you. Actually, a million 'thank you's' to the reviewers and readers. Thank you Kari-123 for recommending one of my fics to someone. Hopefully, by the time I post, I'll post the next chapter a lot sooner. I have other fics too but this and NTADBLTS seemed to be the most 'in demand.' I prolly lost some readers for not updating, but I've been getting new readers too. Amazing how the system works. Anyway, thanks again. Till next time, L8terZ.
