Chapter 2: Innocent Light and New Problems From the Digital World

It had been a week since the encounter with the man in the trench coat and Rias's group Takato kept a close eye on the people he saw at the park. Akeno Himejima was the girl with the long ponytail, and Koneko Toujou was the small white haired girl. He also learned that Rias was the president of the Occult Research Club and Akeno and Koneko were members along with a blonde boy named Yuuto Kiba so Takato figured he might have been told about what happened, he would give him the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise it appeared that Issei had joined the club he chalked it up to Rias keeping him under control so he wouldn't talk about what he saw. Takato was working at the bakery after school, he couldn't find any good places for Gigimon so he had to resign to keeping Gigimon in the apartment above the bakery he just had to make sure to take him out whenever he could so that he wouldn't get bored.'I wonder what Rias knows about that winged man and why she got so touchy when she talked with me' "excuse me" Takato's thoughts were interrupted by someone talking to him he looked up to see Akeno and Koneko walking towards him Koneko had an uninterested look in her eyes but he noticed her eyes glance at the cookies in the glass case on the counter 'so a sweet eater' he looks at Akeno who is also looking at the glass case but she is browsing through

"How much are the cookies" she asked

"About 50 yen for one cookie 500 yen for a dozen and 550 yen for a baker's dozen" Takato replied Akeno took a thinking pose.

"I'll take a baker's dozen cookies please"

"Sure"

"So, I've seen you at the school what year are you"

"Second and your Akeno right I've heard about you from some of the other second years and some of the third years"

"Oh, hopefully they are all good things"she replied.

Takato smiled "they were in fact some of them said and I quote ""Akeno sempai is one of the prettiest girls in the school"" or "" I wish Akeno sempai was my sister."" Akeno laughed at that "here's your baker's dozen that will be 550 yen" Akeno payed him while he handed her the small box of cookies. As they started walking out Takato felt his phone vibrate He took it out and saw it was from Henry another on of his friends and it had the urgent icon next to it telling them that it had something to do with digimon. Takato frowned at that.

"Mom, Dad I'm going to take a quick break"

"Okay Takato" his mom shouted back from the kitchen he went out the back and answered the phone.

"Hello this is Takato"

"Takato it's Henry I called to let you know that you got to watch out over there you remember that Icedevimon that kidnapped Rika"

"Yeah"

"Well there are others like him I had to fight a Myotismon that wanted me to become his tamer and apparently the leader of their group is coming after you so be careful."

"Thanks for the heads up Henry"

"No problem. Talk to ya later"

"Yeah later" Takato hung up the phone not noticing the red bat watching him and went back inside.

The next day Takato was on his way to the school when he nearly ran into Rias again.

"Hi"

"Oh hello Takato right"

"Yeah and your Rias right. I ran into you the first day of school, well first day for me."

"Right want to walk together?"

"Sure"

Takato and Rias started walking to the school on the way there Rias was thinking 'what are you hiding Takato Matsuki' later that day Takato was on his way home, he decided to walk through the park see if there was any spots for him to put Gigimon or places to hide just incase he had to make a quick escape from someone. As he was walking he got the feeling he was being watched he looked around.

"Anyone there" he asked he heard what sounded like singing "la la la la" it was starting to freak him out he looked up only to have something purple, white, and fuzzy land on his face.

"Eskimo kisses"

"Damnit Calumon. Stop eating peanut butter!" the fuzzy object was Calumon a digimon that used to be an artifact called the Catalyst or the light of digivolution he was considered the one that gave digimon the power to digivolve, he was also very annoying sometimes but they all put up with him the only tamers that enjoyed being around Calumon were Suzie, Ai, and Mako the three youngest tamers in their group.

"What are you doing here Calumon shouldn't you be back in Shinjuku?"

"Well I wanted to come see you, you disappeared and no one told me where you went until Kazu said something about a bakery here and I thought, maybe they know where Takato is, his parents own a bakery so maybe other bakeries would know where you were at." Takato didn't know how to react to that logic. He pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Okay you're coming with me and we are going to have Rika or Henry to have their parents come and pick you up I'm pretty sure that Rika's mom should be coming through here soon because of a shoot." Takato said Rika's mom was a model and usually traveled so he wouldn't be surprised if one of her flights landed in Kouh for a bit before heading to Shinjuku.

"Why? Don't you want me around?" Calumon asked with a kicked puppy look.

"It's not that things seem a bit dangerous around here I don't want you to get hurt I'm the only one here right now so I can't split my attention between you and whatever is happening here in the city. You understand?" Takato asked trying to cheer up the floating creampuff.

"Yeah *sniff* I think so"

"Okay now let's go home I might be able to get you some cream puffs." That cheered up the childlike digimon right up

"Let's go for it" Calumon shouted before flying off.

"Hey get back here" Takato shouted chasing after him.

Once they left the clearing a shadow came out from behind a tree it was the man in the trench coat.

"Soon brat real soon I will pay you back for stopping me"

The man didn't see the mist above him or the figure that rushed out of the mist.

'That must be the boy the boss wanted me to test. He doesn't even look like an appetizer.'

The figure thought. Takato went to bed that night not knowing that in just a few days his life was going to get really interesting… Again.