Warnings: Blood, DigiEggs, violence, stupidity, kind cab drivers, kind doctors, extremely light depression.

She ducked, panting as she leaned against the tree, eyes darting around. What the fuck was this thing?

She'd been hanging out with Takato- her friend and possibly more than friend of a month- when she'd gotten a text saying they needed a hand with the last of the Towers. She'd told him it was an emergency and took off like a bat out of hell. Then before she could find her friends this…thing…attacked her.

Her arms tightened around the DigiEgg. It was Veemon…He'd tried so hard, and she felt so weak because of this…

She gasped, rolling away as the tree she'd been against was ripped apart by claws, back connecting with rock harshly. She was trapped, she wasn't going to get out of this alive. She felt her right arm break and bit her lip, trying to ignore the sharp throb, and the new gash from the same rock. Daisuke curled in a ball, covering Veemon's egg protectively, though it'd do no good, as the beast charged up another attack…

…Nothing. She cracked her eyes open, staring in shock. Where did it go? She stood, looking around frantically, trying to see if it just wanted to play with her more before it killed her. But it wasn't there? Screw it, she needed to get away before it came back, or something found her. It wouldn't do for Arukenimon to come across her like this, she wouldn't hesitate to kill her.

The ER nurse didn't ask questions, as she filled out the paperwork, got the x-ray, and then setting her in a room and telling her to wait, a doctor would be in as soon as possible. Possible was three minutes later, because a doctor walked into the room about then.

"Alright, Motomiya-san." He began as he picked up where the nurse had stopped- she'd only cleaned her arm and gave her a few pain pills- beginning to merely wrap it firmly. "It's not too bad. The laceration was a little deep, just shy of showing bone, and you have a hair-line fracture in your arm, though not completely. You merely need to keep any and all weight off of it and be careful when you sleep and in the shower." He said with a kind voice. He was an old man, "May I ask what happened?"

She nodded, "I was walking around the beach not far from here, the one with all the rocks. I lost my balance and slipped, one of the rocks from above me fell and hit me." It was closer to the truth without telling the truth. Telling him she was chased and almost killed by a giant Digimon she'd never even heard of wouldn't go over well. She wouldn't have time to say 'Hello Crazy Bin' before she was put in a straight jacket.

He glanced up at her as he finished, "I see." He sat back, making a few notes. "Well, Motomiya-san, I hope you tell me what really happened if I see you in here again, but I won't make you. Here's a prescription for some pills, and please, be more careful. It'd be a waste of that pretty face of yours, and I'm sure someone out there would be mighty upset." He teased, standing and making sure she didn't wobble or anything as she did.

She blushed a bit. "A-Arigato. I'll be more careful…"

"Morinozuka." He offered, walking to the ER door. "Can you get home on your own? We have people here that could take you."

She smiled, "No, I'll be fine, Morinozuka-sama." She answered, carefully bowing in respect. Those pain killers really did their jobs, "I have enough to get a taxi."

He nodded, "Then a safe journey to you, and have a good day."

"You too, Doctor." It was simple to hail a taxi, and she was glad her phone was unharmed. "Hey, Mom."

"Hey sweety. What's up, weren't you supposed to be out with that Takato boy?" Her mother asked.

"I um, I got a message from Kari earlier today, they needed some help, ya know? This is this thing attacked me, I basically broke and cut open my arm- hey it's fine, I just got out of the ER, I'm fine, not dying or anything, ok?"

"Oh, my baby girl! Your not telling me everything, are you."

Daisuke glanced at the beg in her lap. "No…" Her voice broke, though she didn't cry. "No, I'm not. Don't, don't worry about feeding Veemon for a while ok?"

Her mother was silent for a few moments. "How'd it happen, baby?" Her mother, TK had once told her mother about when Angemon became a DigiEgg, so she had probably guessed, her mom was good at that.

"Protecting me."

"Come home, ok? I'll let your friends know, do you want me to get them here?"

"No, Mama."

"Alright, well be careful, and hurry home."

"Yes ma'am."

She hung up and sighed, head sagging against the window. "You got some problems kid?"

She glanced up at the cab driver. "Heh, problems don't cover it, Mister."

He chuckled, "You know, I remember them Digimon that showed up years ago, it was a sight, eh? You mixed up with them?"

She blinked a little. "Yea, kinda, of course normally I'm fighting them, not watching."

"You one of them people I seen before, the ones with them Digimon friends?"

"Yep."

"Well good luck to ya, girly. So far you lot have done a damn good job keeping us normal people safe." He gave her a toothy grin as he pulled over. "I thinks we owe you people lots. I can't do much girly, but this rides free, and whenever you needs ta get somewhere fast, you call and ask for Bobby. Me, I was one of them street racers in the US, and I still do it every now and then."

She gave him a thankful look. "I'll keep that in mind, Bobby-san. Thank you, for the free ride." She said as she got out, nodding to him.

He waved it off. "Not a problem, girly. What's yer name, so I know it's you?"

"Daisuke. Motomiya Daisuke."

"I'll remember you, girly. See you round." He waved a bit as he drove off.

She couldn't help a quiet giggle as she turned to go in. Nice guy, and she might take him up on his offer. In any case, she needed to go in before the sky's bottom fell out and it started raining.

The moment she walked in her door, her mother was checking her over, before declaring she'd go get more bandages and the prescription, telling her that dinner was on the table and that Jun and her Father had gone to visit her grandmother.

She sighed, ignoring the food and settling n the couch, casting the bag off Veemon's egg and staring at it. It was blue, with swirls of gold and silver and black dancing around on it, almost like the flickering fingers of fire.

She squeezed her eyes closed, mind summoning the image of that beast against her will. It was huge, scales of red and white, a hazard like symbol on it's chest, hair a white color, armor covering it. It was dragon like, and it's red eye were slit pupils. And it stared at her in feral triumph, triumph of what she didn't know.

She jumped, blinking in shock as her phone rang the song 'Don't Say Lazy' by Yoko Hikasa playing. She answered it automatically, "Hello?"

"Daisuke, you ran off in a hurry, was everything alright?" Takato? She'd utterly forgot about him, and her mom didn't have his number.

"Ah, hai, it was fine. I on the other hand was an idiot. Fell and a rock got me on my arm, broke it and gouged me. But I'm fine otherwise." She wondered if her lie sounded as hollow to him as it did her. She wasn't fine, not at all.

"You got it taken care of then?" He asked, voice alerting her that he knew she wasn't telling him everything. Damn him for reading her like an open book.

"Hai. I just have to keep weight off of it and change the bandages regularly and take some pain medication. I'm fine, promise."

"Sou ka, well be more careful, will you?" He asked, a crash sounding on his end, "Rika! Stop throwing Kenta into my stuff!" A faint 'he started it!' sounded on his end.

"Yea, I'll be more careful, Takato. Looks like you need to go."

"Oh, err yea, kind of. Look, I'll talk to you tomorrow, ok?"

"Sure thing." She hung up, hearing another crash and muffled yelp as she did so. She sighed, entering her room and laying down, the egg on her nightstand. She stared at it, before looking out the window at the cloudy night sky.

She drifted to sleep, but not before her eyes flashed red, pupils forming a hazard sign, before returning to normal.