Hi! Here I am again with another chapter! Well, this time I don't have much to say about it, only that I know it is kind of... quiet and calm in the beginning (you'll understand when you read it), but I wanted to show something calm before things begin to happen as you can already see in this chapter too. I usually make things go too fast, so I am struggling to stopand make things flow better.
A big thanks to KoumiLoccness and Yozo. Thanks for the review guys! A big thanks also to my beta reader, Fox of Magic!
Oh and about the questions I asked last chapter, I'm extending them till next chapter. For now I have one yes to Kenyako, one vote for Taiora and two for Sorato. Thanks to everyone who told me their opinions! And who else is reading this, send your opinion too, being in a review, an anonymous review or PM.
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It was a quiet afternoon at Kamiya's house. The only noise that could be heard coming from there was the sound of television in the living room. A brunette boy was lying on the sofa while he was watching TV with a tired face. Tai yawned before rubbing his eyes and finally sneezing. After muttering how annoying it was getting a cold in the summer, he got up and went to get something in the kitchen for him to eat. Since he was sick and couldn't get out of the house he could take the opportunity to wake up late, couldn't him? So for Tai Kamiya there was no problem in waking up after 1 o' clock PM in a Friday.
When he had sat down again on the couch with an apple in his hand he heard a gasp followed by some loud laughter coming from his sister's room. He blinked surprised for a moment before shaking his head with a smile. "It seems that they are having fun..."
Going now to the room where the noise had come from, we can see a girl with lavender hair looking at a brunette girls that was sitting on her bed.
"Kaaarii! Hurry up! This way we won't be able to buy the tickets! And just with this movie that I want to see so much..." The girl with glasses complained.
The brunette girl, that was now putting her shoes, giggled. "Calm Yolei, I'm ready. Just let me put my shoes." Kari got up from her bed and smiled. "OK, we can go now."
"Yes!" Yolei exclaimed excitedly with a big smile.
"And you two? Are you coming with us?" This question was directed to a white cat and a pink ball with a feather in its head that were lying on Kari's bed.
"I think I'll pass. I'll have to stay in this bag all day and only at the time of the film I would get out of there. So no, I pass." Gatomon said warily while looking at the pink backpack that was on the floor beside the bed.
"Yes, I think I'll wait here too." Poromon muttered looking at the bag on Yolei's shoulder that he knew was completely full (he had to stay there during the path to the house of the Kamiya's).
"Okay then." Yolei shrugged. "It is you who will miss the movie."
"You can say that because you never had to be squeezed into a backpack for several hours..." Gatomon said almost bitterly.
"Okay. But we'll only return after the movie ends and it will only start later. So don't expect us coming back soon," Kari told them and when the two digimon nodded she smiled. "So we're going. Try not to make a big mess here." And with that Kari took the contents of her bag and put everything she would need in a smaller purse. The two said goodbye to their partner and finally left her room.
When they arrived in the living room Kari saw her brother sneezing and coughing. She grimaced. "You really got the flu Tai."
"Yeah..." he replied annoyed." And in the summer! When I could be out there doing something funny!"
"Think of it like this: You will only get stuck here for one day! Then if you feel better you will get out tomorrow! And so you avoid getting worse too." Yolei reasoned.
"Yeah, you're right," he said before coughing again.
"Tai, seriously, take care." Kari asked.
"All right, all right." He waved vaguely. Then he finally noticed that Kari and Yolei were dressed to go out and with bags. "What are you two doing?"
"We'll buy tickets to see a movie that premiered recently. We are going early to buy them so all of us will be able to watch it." His sister said.
"All of us?" He raised an eyebrow inquiringly.
"TK, Davis and Ken are also going with us." Kari answered.
"And Cody?"
"It seems he had an appointment with his mother today." Kari said before rolling her eyes. "Did you hear anything I told you yesterday? I talked about all of this."
Tai smiled sheepishly. "Oh, ha-ha, well, I wasn't feeling very well yesterday so I wasn't really paying attention to anything that happened last night."
Kari nodded, clearly remembering the night. "We better get going then." She stared at Tai. "And take care of yourself properly."
"Okay mom," He said teasingly. "Enjoy the movie!"
"Thanks!" The two girls exclaimed before Kari told him that they had left Gatomon and Poromon in her room and that he should take care of them too. Then they finally left Kari's home.
"What bad luck Tai has, getting the flu in the summer!" Yolei said as they began heading toward the mall.
"I know. And you don't know how much he is complaining about that." Kari nodded. "He's like this since yesterday afternoon when he returned from the soccer game. He is still blaming Izzy, saying he got the flu from him."
"Izzy's also sick?" Yolei asked surprised.
"No, no. I think he was just allergic at that time. But Tai is too stubborn to think about it in this state of bad humor." Kari said.
Yolei suddenly stopped walking. Kari looked confusedly at her friend. "Yolei...?"
"Oh my Gosh!" She exclaimed. "I had completely forgotten!" She then began to rummage through her bag, looking for something.
"Huh?" Was Kari's confused answer.
"Found it!" She said before taking a book from her backpack. She then looked sorrowfully at the book. "I forgot that I had promised Izzy that I was going to return his book to him today." She sighed. "But I wanted so badly to see this movie... Do we have time to go to his house and then go buy the tickets?"
Kari muttered an "oh" finally understanding what Yolei was talking about. "Why don't we do the opposite? If we buy the tickets first and then go to his house I'm sure we'll be able to buy them! Besides, Izzy's house is near there." Kari suggested with a smile.
Yolei's eyes twinkled. "Good idea Kari! I hadn't thought about that!" She put the book back into her backpack and after she thanked Kari several times for the idea and for reminding her she had to return the book, she began to talk excitedly about the movie they would see, clearly anxious to watch it.
Kari just shook her head as she heard her friend talk. It didn't seem that only two days ago she had been so anxious and worried about her brother and Davis' welfare. But after the "incident" with Davis she had finally managed to relax. Nothing had happened since then and now it had been nearly three days since she had had the dream. If something were to happen it would already have happened, right? This thought was what managed to calm Kari, though even then she still felt alert and knew that any small sign that something was wrong would make her return to her previous state.
After that day, TK and Kari decided to keep an eye on the two goggle heads as a precaution. But as it was impossible for Tai to go to the Digital World by himself (the older chosen ones' digivices still couldn't open any portal in computers), the person that they had to be more cautious with was Davis. And they knew that he probably wouldn't go to the Digital World without someone knowing, unless there was good reason. And as far as they know, there's nothing different happening there these days... for the time being at least.
And besides, Kari thought as she realized they were finally getting closer to the mall, we met him in these two days between the visit to the Digital World and today. And even if we don't see him every day he surely will be always accompanied by someone. And I also don't think an attack will happen here in the Real World. Usually, before that happens there has to be a major destabilization in the Digital World...
All these thoughts reminded her of something. While they were all playing with the fresh digimon in Primary Village, right before they stopped to go lunch, she saw TK talking with Ken about something. She was away from him at the time so it was impossible for her to hear what they were talking about, but she knew it was something serious. TK probably hadn't suspected but she saw that he was acting strange since they had returned from the river and Sora had seen them. Did he think about something? Or maybe he knows something I don't...
Kari almost huffed frustrated. She hated the fact that he was hiding something from her. But she would certainly find out what it was. She knew he should have some reason to not have told her that (whatever that is), but this didn't prevented her from getting frustrated at being kept in the dark.
"Hello! Earth to Kari! Are you there?" A voice, accompanied by a hand waving in front of her face, asked.
Kari looked surprised at the hand for a few seconds before turning and looking to see Yolei looking at her, clearly upset.
"Did you hear anything I said Kari?" She asked irritated.
"Sorry, Yolei," Kari mumbled to her friend. "I ended up distracted with my thoughts. What were you talking about?"
Yolei looked at the brunette critically and ignoring her question she said: "Kari, are you okay? You seem a little spacy these days. And now you just stopped walking suddenly!"
Kari looked surprised before turning around and seeing that they were standing in front of a window, inside the mall. When did we get here...?
"I'm fine, really," she replied with a smile. "I just got distracted with some thoughts, but don't worry, they're nothing you have to worry about." At least now...
Yolei looked at her intently for a minute before shrugging. "If you say so..." She smiled broadly. "But then let's go! We're almost there!" And Kari knew immediately that she was referring to the place where they'd buy the tickets.
Kari giggled and they began to walk again and this time Kari participated in the conversation. I can leave these thoughts for later. Even though he hasn't told me anything these days I'm sure he'll tell me if it's something important.
And with that the two continued to talk cheerfully. Well, at least until they heard insistent beeps come from inside their bags. The conversation immediately stopped. The two girls looked at each other and immediately began to seek the source of the noise. They soon found what they were looking for in their bags and took out their D-3 and D-Terminal. Both devices were making noises (and clearly attracting the attention of some people who were passing by them) and when opening the D-Terminal the reason was clear. They had received an SOS message from the Digital World. Only this time it wasn't from one of the older Digidestined partner. This time it was a message from an entire town in the Digital World.
The two exchanged anxious glances before they started running at the same time toward the exit.
"We need to find a computer!" Kari said.
"Izzy's house!" Yolei responded in a rushed tone. "It's the safest and closer place for us to go to the Digital World!"
The two continued to run ignoring the confused looks that people around them gave them. When they finally managed to leave the mall and Kari felt the difference in brightness and the warmth of the streets, she bumped into someone and fell to the ground.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" She and the person cried at the same time. When Kari looked up to see who she had bumped into, she blinked surprised. "D-Davis?"
The younger leader looked surprised for a moment before he cracked a smile. "Kari!" His face the turned embarrassed. "A-ah, I'm sorry for making you fall Kari." And he offered a hand to help her up.
She took his hand and he lifted her. It was then that she noticed the person who was with Davis. "Ken? You're also here?"
Yolei, having heard the Kari's cry, had turned to see what was happening and to her surprise she found two of her friends.
"What are you doing here? Weren't we going to meet in front of the cinema only later?" She asked.
"We were just returning from a soccer game and going to my home. Ken will stay there until the time of the film." Davis answered. "And you? What were you doing running away from the mall?"
This made the two girls remember the reason they were running and immediately their eyes widened. Yolei turned to them.
"Didn't you receive the message on your D-Terminal?"
"What message?" The two asked at the same time, confused.
"An SOS one," was all that Kari had to say before they became alarmed and took their backpacks off their shoulders and started to rummage through them.
"Ah, fresh air!" A voice said from within Davis' backpack. Soon DemiVeemon's head came out and looked at them. "Oh, hi!"
"DemiVeemon," Davis said. "Why didn't you tell me that I had received a message on my D-Terminal?"
"You received one?" The little digimon asked confused. "I heard nothing. Although I was sleeping a while ago..."
"How didn't you hear it?" Davis began to say. "That thing should have beeped loudly enough to wake you up! Are you sure that you didn't-" He kept talking to suddenly be interrupted by Ken.
"Davis." The goggle head boy turned to him. "Do you perhaps have my D-Terminal with you? It disappeared from my backpack." Looking at him you could see his bag open with Minomon's small head in there. In his hand was his black 3-D.
Davis looked at DemiVeemon who 'immersed' into his bag and when he returned he appeared with a blue 3-D and two D-Terminals beeping lightly.
"I swear I heard nothing! And they are almost making no noise!" The blue digimon said in his defense.
Before Davis could answer Yolei said. "That's not important. We have to go now!" And when the girl was ready to run again Kari stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder. "Kari?"
"Gatomon and Poromon are still in my house," the girl muttered while she stared at DemiVeemon and Minomon. Yolei's eyes widened.
"Is your brother at home?" Ken asked. When Kari nodded he continued. "Send a message to him and ask him to tell them to meet us."
"By the way, where were you planning to go?" Davis asked.
"To Izzy's house. It's the closest place to us now." The brunette said before the four started running again. She opened her D-Terminal and began to send a message to Tai.
TO: Tai
Tai, can you tell Gatomon and Poromon to meet us at Izzy's home? Thanks!
FROM: Kari
She didn't have to wait long; soon she received the response.
TO: Kari
I've talked with them. They are on their way. What happened?
FROM: Tai
"They're coming." Kari said to Yolei after sending a rapid response to Tai saying she'd tell him later. Her D-Terminal beeped again and she opened, seeing she had received a message.
"What about TK and Cody?" Ken asked when they stopped to wait for a traffic signal to close and they cross the street.
"TK just sent me a message saying that he met with Cody on the way to their building and that the two will use the computer from his house and find us there." Kari said looking at her D-Terminal shortly before closing it and putting it inside her purse again.
The rest of the way was basically silent, worry hanging over them clearly. One question was going through their heads. What had happened? And why now when all was finally quiet again?
Kari had a bad feeling about this. She just hoped that this time she could be wrong.
"M-Mimi?" Yolei said taken aback. She wasn't expecting that.
The girl in question turned to look at them before smiling happily. "Hi guys!"
They had just entered Izzy's house and when they finally entered the boy's bedroom they had encountered another familiar person already there. And that person was Mimi Tachikawa, one of their digidestined friends that lived in the U.S.
Of course. Kari thought after a moment of confusion. Mimi is spending two weeks at Sora's apartment. I had forgotten that.
"What are you doing here?" Davis said.
Mimi's smiling face disappeared and was replaced by a pout. "I'm trying to talk with Izzy!" When she saw their confused looks she continued. "I wanted to go to the mall today, but Sora said she had something to do, so I decided to call Izzy and ask him to go with me. Only he wasn't answering me, so I decided to come here!" She finished saying while glaring at Izzy.
"Mimi, I already told you, what I'm doing is really important." Izzy looked away from the computer screen and looked at her wearily. "I promise I'll go with you another time, but now I really can't." He then blinked surprised and turned to see that more people besides him and Mimi were in his room. "When did you get here?"
"Right now," Kari said. "Izzy, we need to use your computer for a moment."
"Didn't I just say that I was doing something important?" He asked frustrated.
"But we received an SOS message! We need to go to the Digital World as soon as possible!" Davis exclaimed.
These phrases made Izzy stiffen and Mimi's eyes widen. "Wh-what?"
"We received this message a little while ago," Yolei said showing the message on her D-Terminal to both of them. "Your house was the closest to us, so we came here."
Izzy frowned and muttered something to himself while Mimi pulled her D-Terminal from her purse and looked at it.
"I received nothing." She said catching Izzy's attention. He looked at his device and nodded negatively. "Neither did I." He looked seriously at the four young Digidestined. "Okay, you can use my laptop." And with that he pulled his yellow laptop from the table and opened it on his bed.
"But we still need to wait for-" Yolei's sentence was interrupted by a light tap on the window. Everyone turned at it and saw Gatomon holding Poromon outside the window. Mimi, being nearest to the window, opened it and the two digimon finally managed to get in.
"Just in time!" Yolei said, happy that they could now go straight to the Digital World to help anyone that was in trouble.
"What happened?" Gatomon asked as she approached Kari.
"We received an SOS message," the girl replied, making Gatomon look at Kari worriedly.
"You think it has something to do with it...?" Gatomon whispered to her.
"I don't know, but I sure hope not." She responded in the same tone, their conversation going unnoticed by the other occupants of the room.
Izzy finished typing something on his laptop and a portal to the Digital World appeared on the screen.
"What about T.K and Cody?" He asked.
"They'll meet us there," Ken said. Izzy nodded and left the front of the laptop, he and Mimi giving enough space for them.
"Let's go!" Yolei said. "Digi-Port Open!" And with that four people and their Digimon partners were brought to the Digital World.
