Finding Hope

By Firehedgehog

Chapter Four

Impmon glared at the world around him, once Rika's mother saw him she had taken him on a massive shopping trip. He now had a whole bunch of clothing that made him look 'super cute', he was not happy.

He was pretty much living at the girls house now, she found this situation very funny... her mother brought her on those shopping trips also.

"You can stop laughing now Rika, or I'll tell your mother what happpened to that frilly pink dress she bought last week," he said glaring at the pony tailed girl, that stopped her laughing and she glared at the cursed Digimon.

"That's blackmail Impmon, if you do that I'll make you pay," she sneered at him, this quickly caused a staring contest and Renamon who was watching nearby could almost swear she saw lightning between them.

"Rika, we must go or we will be late for meeting the others," the fox Digimon said appearing between them, the two gave a startled yell and quickly fell on there bottoms there hearts beating fast from surprise.

"Renamon, why did you do that?" Rika asked her partner, Renamon gave her tamer a grin and vanished. Laughter followed, apparently the situation had been funny.

"Revenge plans?" Impmon asked the tamer, she nodded. Since he had become trapped in his cursed form for awhile they had found certain things out, they both were good at playing practical jokes.

"We'll set everything up for Renamon tonight, have any ideas?" she asked him, he gave an evil grin and soon the two were laughing evilly.

"Rika, didn't you say you and Iori were meeting your friends at the park?" a voice asked, Impmon turned and was surprised to see Rika's grandmother... one of the few people the girl respected and didn't sass to much.

"Thanks grandma, bye," Rika said and she grabbed his gloved hand, the next thing he knew was that they were running to the park.

"You just had to introduce me as Iori didn't you, you just had to name me after the kid in the Digimon adventure 02 series," he muttered as they ran, she glared at him and he shut up.

'I can't believe she chose that name to introduce me to her family, sure I needed a place to stay.. but why did she have to chose that name' Impmon thought as he ran, they were almost at the park when he felt a chill run down his back. Frowning he turned to look back, for a split second he thought he saw a blond man... but it must of been his imagination.

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Yamake frowned as he saw one of the foolish children, the ones who were fighting the bio-emerging Digimon... didn't they realize that it wasn't a game like the card game or show.

'Wait a sec, who's that with her' he thought, he looked around his hidden spot to get a better look. Yamakes heart almost skipped a beat when he saw the young child, it looked like his long dead little brother. Yet for one second when the child turned he saw that it had green eyes not blue, it wasn't his brother but it was a good resemblance.

'What would I do anyway if it was, anyway Raimu is dead and that child is too young to be him anyway' Yamake thought, and then he felt anger for he knew that those stupid children must be bringing in another innocent into there game.

Not knowing what else to do he followed, if anything else he had to stop that child from getting involved with Digimon... it was at least one thing he could do for this Raimu look alike.

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Calumon gave a happy cheer as he saw Impmon, the cheerful white Digimon found that playing with Impmon was fun. But he didn't understand why the tamers reacted so strange when Impmon taught him those words, he wondered what cuss meant anyway.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiii!" he said in his happiest voice, he then gave a happy laugh and hugged the human version of Impmon.

"Hey what about our deal, I teach you those words and you don't bug me," Impmon growled pulling the the white Digimon away from him, his glaring was interrupted when he noticed the looks directed at him.

"Errr... why are you looking at me like that?" he asked nervously, the tamers groaned and gave up.

"What, wasn't he suppose to teach me those words?" Calumon asked bewildered, the cute Digimon looked at Impmon who was also looking confused.

"No... we didn't know he was the one to teach you, those aren't nice words," Henry said, Impmon blinked and then blinked again.

"If I'm not suppose to say them then why do people say them, and why did anyone ever make them up?" Impmon asked, Calumon giggled and began to ask questions also finding that asking questions were fun.

The tamers meeting with there Digimon was interrupted abruptly when a shadow fell across the ground in front of them, they all looked for the owner of the shadow and froze. Standing there was a man in a business suit they were all getting use to, he had golden blond hair framing a slim face and wore black sunglasses.

'Yamaki' was there one thought.

Impmon looked at the blond human adult with a frown, unknown to him he pulled Calumon closer to himself and then passed him to Rika. The man glared at those gathered and looked ready to spit at the Digimon, he felt rage knowing that he was actually a Digimon and this man hated his kind.

"You children are playing a dangerous game and this isn't a game, let the grownups take care of the Digimon... or I might destroy your Digimon first," Yamaki said with a snarl, Impmon stopped himself from leaping at the human knowing that if Yamaki found out what he was he didn't have his powers to defend himself.

"We know it isn't a game, and if you would look closer you should see that your making the messes and we have to clean up your mistakes," a voice said, Impmon eyes opened wide, or would of if he was in control of his body at the moment.

'That was my voice but it wasn't me, why can't I control myself' he thought in a panic, he was trapped in the human form for awhile and he didn't want to loose his body again.

Yamaki stared at the black haired child in shock, as soon as he had been trying to make them stop playing there game the little child had spoken. It wasn't like any conversation he had before, what shocked him the most was that the child's eyes had changed to a blue colour when he began to speak.

"What do you mean?" he demanded, the child looked at him sadly and shook his head.

"You mess with something far greater then you understand, you cannot defeat it. But you are making it worse, the foolish plan your about to do is even worse and will put both worlds in peril," the child said, Yamaki took a step back... he felt as if he was in a powerful presence of some greater power. Somehow something was using the child, and it didn't feel evil... it was a warning to him.

"How do you know what I'm about to do," he snarled, the child smiled sadly at him and took something out of the child's bandana. To his surprise it was a device and he recognized it, it was of the same type of 'digivice' the so called tamers had.

"This is a D-Arc, it alone has more power then your Juggernaught. Do not take my warning lightly Yamaki for ignoring it cause innocents death, humans and Digimons fate hang in the balance. The true enemy you cannot see but it is coming, you cannot destroy it... yet a child's innocence may change what destiny holds," the child said, as Yamaki watched the child walked up to him and he found himself leaning down so he was face to face.

"Don't let grief and anger rule you as it has done so far, would your brother want to know you if he saw you destroy life even if it came into existence another way," the child whispered, the next thing Yamaki knew was that the child had walked back to the other children and passed out.

'How did he know about my brother, and who was speaking through the child' he thought confused, he saw that the children and Digimon were also confused but were making sure that the child was okay.

'Wait a minute, what's in my hand?' he thought, opening the palm of his hand he saw that the child had somehow put the digivice into it.

He wondered how that had happened, but knew that what ever sprit had used the child had done it. Turning it over to the backside his eyes widened, he felt tears come to his eyes as he read the words somehow engraved in it by some power.

'Raimu and Impmon

Tamer and Partner forever

Friends for eternity'

Yamaki felt his throat tighten in sadness, this digivice he knew had belonged to his long dead brother. He held it to his heart, he had to think things out.

'I must find this Impmon also, he could tell me about my brother' he thought sadly, feeling broken he got up and started the long walk back to his home.

TBC