"The Evolution"

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Eyes fluttering open, Davey glanced around her in surprise when she saw that instead of being in her bedroom, she was standing in the middle of a jungle.

"Where the heck am I?" She whispered in confusion.

The lush green of the leaves and grass made her feel comforted as she walked through the steamy jungle, taking in the smell of the plants and the sounds of the animals who had made the jungle their home.

Climbing over a log, the girl grinned as she continued venturing off into the jungle and wasn't all that bothered by the heat.

Just as she was about to continue walking, she was stopped by the sound of a growl.

Pausing, she turned around to see something white running through the foliage.

Curious, Davey chased after the animal that had caught her attention.

"Hey, wait up!" She called.

Racing through the jungle, she jumped over large tree roots and rocks that were in her way as she tried to keep up with the creature that was hiding itself in the greenery.

Arriving in an area that had tall grass that blocked her view, Davey pushed it aside to reveal a lake filled with clear water that sparkled from the sunlight that shone down on the surface through the trees.

What made her freeze in place and stare in awe was the creature that jumped down from the trees and landed across the lake from her to lap up the water.

It was a tiger.

The animal she had been following was a tiger, only it didn't have the normal orange colored fur and green eyes that all tigers had.

This one had snow white fur and silvery blue eyes.

Enraptured by the sight of the beautiful beast, Davey kneeled to hide as she watched the white tiger drink from the lake.

Feeling curious, the girl walked on her hands and feet as she slowly crawled closer to the beast as quietly as she could.

Her right foot accidentally kicked a pebble that then landed in the water with a small splosh sound which made the girl freeze.

Ears twitching, the tiger raised her massive head and turned her gaze over towards the human whom she had sensed was watching her.

"Um, hi?" Davey gave a nervous grin.

Tilted her head to the side in contemplation, the tiger watched the human with her round blue eyes.

Seeing that the feline wasn't going to attack her, Davey slowly stood up and noticed that the tiger followed her movements.

"So... Do you know what I'm doing here or what?" She asked.

The tiger remained silent as she continued to stare at the girl which was beginning to unnerve her.

Feeling awkward, the girl sighed as she then began backing away from the lake.

"Guess I'll just...be on my way." She said.

As she turned around to walk away, the tiger let out a rumbling noise from her chest as she then lowered her body into a crouch as she got ready to move.

Pushing the grass out of her way, Davey continued her walk through the jungle and went back to enjoying the sight of the foliage around her as the scent of multiple plants invaded her sences.

"Okay, now how do I get out of here?" The girl mused.

While she was musing over her next move, the sound of heavy footsteps made the girl narrow her eyes curiously as she turned around to see what was making the noise.

"Hello?" She called.

As she said this, the white tiger jumped out of the grass and sailed towards the girl which made her cry out in shock.

Instead of feeling the pain of large claws and fangs ripping into her, Davey was surprised when the tiger was covered in blue light and merged with her body.

A blinding heat surged through her body as Davey groaned in pain before her eyes then snapped open.

Choking out a gasp of surprise, Davey jolted out of bed.

Breathing heavily, the girl glanced around and took in the familiar sight of her room and heard the sound of Veemon snoring which made her calm down.

Eyes roaming around the room still, she saw that her blinds were still open which revealed the inky night sky to her.

Releasing a breath of relief, Davey slid back down in her bed and burried herself in her warm blanket.

"Man, what a weird dream." She said.

Lifting her arms above her head, she began to stretch and made a happy rumbling noise in her chest as she did so.

As she did so, the girl then began to realize something.

Her back no longer hurt and her head wasn't pounding anymore.

Blinking at this in surprise, Davey then smiled as she got up out of bed.

"Man, I feel great!" She exclaimed as she stood on her tippy toes and stretched out her body.

Hearing his human's voice, Veemon's floppy ears twitched as he raised his head to look over at the girl who was bending her body into different forms as she worked out the tiredness she usually felt from waking up.

All of the pain and stiffness that she had felt hours earlier was now gone and her body felt even stronger than it originally was and she felt amazing!

Her father was right after all.

"Davey, are you feeling any better?" Veemon asked as he rubbed at his eyes.

"Yeah, I'm awesome!" She grinned big.

At the sound of the happiness in her tone, Veemon looked over at his human and smiled at her through the darkness.

"I'm happy to hear that you're not feeling sick anymore. I was really worried." The dragon said.

"Yeah, to be honest, I was pretty scared too. I thought something was really wrong with me." Davey said as she walked over to where the light switch was.

"But, as it turns out, I'm perfectly fine!" She smiled brightly.

That made Veemon smile too as he jumped off of the bed and landed on the floor.

"That's great! I don't like it when you're not feeling well. It makes me sad." He said.

Humming at his words, Davey then flicked the light switch on and the room was bathed in the pale yellow light of the bulb up on the ceiling.

Seeing his human clearly, Veemon's smile turned into a look of surprise when he noted the differences in her.

Sitting on the sides of her head were two large cat ears that were covered in white fur and the ends were tipped in pale black.

Peeking out from under her skirt was a long white tail that had pale black stripes wrapping around it.

"Um, Davey..." Veemon croaked.

Twirling around, Davey showed off her flawless face that had zero impurities on it while her Bambi eyes seemed to have gained a more narrow shape to them.

Her eyelashes were also longer and thicker than they once were before.

There were also rings of blue around her pupils which seemed to suit her very well.

As for the rest of her body, she wasn't as thin as she used to be.

Her hips and thighs looked more muscular than before while her legs were longer and she seemed to have grown by a few centimeters.

"What's wrong, Vee?" Davey asked.

"You, um, look really different." He said lamely.

Raising an eyebrow at that vague answer, Davey shrugged.

"Whatever. Now, come on. I smell something cooking and I'm straving!" Davey grinned as she felt her stomach rumbling for the delicious meat she could smell.

Nose twitching, she could also pick up the scent of caramel coated brownies which got her excited.

"O-Okay." Veemon nodded.

Satisfied with the answer, Davey opened her door and almost skipped out of her room as she made her way over to the kitchen where her parents and sister were.

Jun was setting the table while Kei and Serenity carried the food over.

"Hey, what're we eating?" Davey asked with a peppy tone.

"Well, look who finally woke up." Jun teased, although there was a bit of relief in her tone.

She must have been told what had happened when she got home and got worried.

Turning her chocolate brown eyes over to her younger sister, Jun's teasing smile left her as she stared in astonishment at the younger girl.

Noticing their oldest daughter's silence, Serenity and Kei looked over to see what had caused it.

Kei smirked at the sight of his daughter as he began to wonder how his twin sister was going to react when she heard about this.

Serenity, on the other hand, was mentally cooing over how adorable her little girl looked.

"Why are you all staring at me like that?" Davey asked as she frowned in confusion at her family.

Shaking her head, Jun glanced over at her parents as she wondered how to respond to that.

"Um, Davey, have you looked in a mirror?" She asked.

Blinking her brown-blue eyes at that, Davey glanced around at her parents and sister in confusion as they all stared at her.

"Uh, no. Why?" She asked as Veemon walked out of the bedroom.

"You-You should probably go look in the mirror." Jun told her.

She didn't think Davey would believe her if she told her about her new appearance.

Quirking an eyebrow at that, Davey then started to walk over to the bathroom.

"Okay then." She said with a confused expression.

Once the girl stepped into the bathroom, the rest of the Motomiya family all exchanged looks as they wondered how she was going to react to what she was going to see.

Stepping inside the bathroom, Davey turned the light on and turned her attention over to the mirror as she stared at her own reflection.

What she saw caused her to shout in surprise.

"What is this?!" She cried.

Reaching up to touch the two cat ears on top of her head, Davey noted that they were very soft and felt warm like the Kamiya family's pet cat Miko's ears.

Hoping that they were fake, Davey started to tug on them to see if they would come off, but she only managed to cause some discomfort for herself.

"Oh, they're real! I have cat ears and they're real!" She moaned.

Veemon then walked into the bathroom and stared up at his distressed human as she fretted over the strange changes to her body.

Looking into the mirror once again to see what other changed had happened, Davey whined when she saw the blue rings in her eyes that stood out against the brown.

"And my eyes! What happened to my eyes?" She exclaimed.

"Actually, I think your eyes look pretty like that." Veemon told her with a sincere grin on his face.

Releasing a weak laugh at that, Davey glanced over at the Digimon and smiled at him.

"Thanks, I guess." She muttered.

Seeing something moving from behind her, she looked down and yelped in surprise when she saw the long tail swaying around.

"A tail! I have a tail! I grew a tail!" Davey whimpered as she grabbed at the sikly soft tail.

She stared at it with frightened eyes, now aware of why her spine had hurt so badly all day and what that bump on her tailbone was.

Her tailbone was growing longer and her skin was stretching around the bone to become a tail.

"What's wrong with having a tail?" Veemon asked as he twitched his own tail.

"Nothing if you're an animal or a Digimon! But it's not normal for people to have them!" Davey exclaimed.

Remembering what her father had said earlier that day before she had gone to sleep, Davey glared as she then stormed out of the bathroom with Veemon at her heels.

Jun, Serenity and Kei were all sitting at the table as they waited for Davey to come join them so they could eat dinner together.

"Dad! What is happening to me?" She yelled.

Head lifting up, Kei looked over at his daughter to see that she was glaring at him and two fangs were poking out from her lips.

"Davinia, calm down." Kei told her as he raised a hand in a placating manner.

"Calm down?! I've been in pain all day long and then I have a freaky dream about a tiger jumping inside my body, and then I wake up to see I have...a tiger tail and ears! How do you expect me to calm down?!" Davey ranted as she waved her arms around in her frustration.

"Wow, I am so glad this didn't happen to me." Jun said as she reached over to pick up her drink.

"Not funny, Jun!" Davey yelled at her.

"Girls, no arguing." Serenity scolded.

Not at all bothered by what was going on, Kei kept his full attention on his angered daughter who was also terribly confused and scared by what was happening to her.

"Davinia, please, sit down and eat. I'll explain everything to you while we have dinner." He promised.

Glaring at her father, Davey picked her Digimon partner up before she then marched over to the table and plopped down in her seat.

Nodding in satisfaction, Kei started filling his plate with a steak, some mashed potatoes, carrots and green beans as he began talking.

"What's happening to you is completely natural. You were born with something called an x gene. Hundreds of other people have it, but it affects them in different ways. You know those people who claim to be psychic or can see ghosts? Those people are born with an x gene. They're also known as mutants." Kei explained.

Everyone listened intently to the man as they filled their plates with the food that was made and began eating.

"Now, there are also many different types of mutants. There are the psychics who all have mental based abilities. Then there are the elementals who can control one or more of the elements or can even control the weather. There's also teleporters, shape shifters and many other kinds." Kei continued.

Staring his daughter in the eye, Kei noticed how her anger seemed to have eased up as she listened to his story with complete awe and interest.

"The breed you are, Davinia, is a feral." He said.

At the word 'feral' Davey's tiger ears twitched.

"What's a feral?" Veemon asked.

"Ferals are mutants who are born with animal DNA. The females tend to look more like animals than the males though. Or, at least, that's what my mother said." Kei grinned.

"So, our grandmother is a feral mutant too?" Jun asked as she blinked her large chocolate brown eyes at her father.

"Yes. My mother, Aiya, is a fox feral. She became one when she was 13 years old. Only a year older than you are, Davinia." Kei said.

Taking these words in, Davey stared down at her food with her multi-colored eyes.

She wasn't sure how to respond to this new evolution her body was now going through.

Emotionally she felt troubled by the secrets that her father had kept about his family from her, but physically she felt amazing and so powerfull.

Tail swaying behind her, Davey began to wonder how these new developments would now effect her life.

Seeing how silent her younger sister had become, Jun decided to speak next.

"Are you a feral too?" She asked their father.

"No, he's not." Davey stated.

This made everyone turn their gaze onto the tiger feral who was slowing chewing on a piece of steak.

Narrowing her eyes at that, Jun gave the younger redhead a questioning look.

"How do you know that?" Jun questioned.

"Because she can sense it." Kei answered for Davey.

Everyone turned their attention back over to the man as he gave a small grin.

"Ferals can sense each other out. It's those animal instincts." He explained.

"Can they also smell people? Because earlier today when TK walked up behind me, I knew who he was just by scent. I did not know boys could smell so sweet." Davey brought up.

That event had confused her, much like everything else had, but now that she knew what was going on with her body it made sense.

"Yes, you can now sniff people out by smelling their natural scents." Kei said.

When his sisters had done that to him when they played hide and seek as children it always frustrated him because he saw it as a form of cheating.

"Their natural scents?" Jun questioned.

"It means the scent you were born with. Your real scent. Not the scent of the shampoo, body wash or perfume that you wear. It's a real scent that distinguishes you and makes you stand out from others." Serenity explained.

Nodding at that in interest, Jun glanced over at her sister who was now eating her food with the same vigor she had this morning.

"So, just out of curiosity, what do I really smell like?" Jun asked with her eyes on her sister.

"Like raspberries!" Veemon chirped.

This made the two sisters look down at the blue dragon as he ate his own share from the plate sat in front of him and Davey.

Curious to see if he was right, Davey sniffed at the air around her sister and was able to pick up the scent of raspberries that was hidden under the floral perfume she wore and the hair oil she used.

She could also detect an undertone of vanilla.

"He's right." She confirmed.

"Huh. I smell like raspberries. That I can live with. But how did you know that, Veemon?" Jun smiled at the blue dragon.

"I've always had a strong nose." Veemon grinned.

Thinking back to a year ago, Davey remembered the first time she and the younger DigiDestineds had left their Digimon in the computer room during school that day.

Before she could even open the door, DemiVeemon had sniffed her out and said 'Smells like Davey'.

She had forgotten about that.

"So, what do I smell like?" Davey asked him.

Turning his head so he was facing his human, Veemon gave her a brilliant smile.

"Like cherries!" He sang.

Well, cherries and amber, that was her actual scent.

This made the girl laugh as she shook her head in amusement while Jun smirked at the duo of Courage and Friendship.

"Aw, isn't that sweet!" Jun cooed as she reached over to pet her sister's adorable tiger ears.

"Hey, no touching the ears!" Davey squeaked as she covered her ears with her hands so her sister wouldn't touch them.

That action made the magenta haired teen pout as their parents exchanged amused looks.

It seemed as though Davey was going to cope fine with her evolution, but she still had much to learn about her new powers that would slowly awaken.

Kei could have told Davey everything that entailed being a feral, but he thought it would be best for her to experience it all on her own as she grew older.

(After dinner...)

Sitting on her window sill, Davey stared out into the night life of Odaiba and she used her new advanced eyesight to watch the people walking around on the streets.

Once dinner was over, she had changed out of her uniform and put on her pajamas which were a yellow tank top with matching shorts.

Veemon was snoozing on her lap as she pet his back, her fingers delicately running along the tiny spikes that trailed down his spine.

Smiling down at the sleeping Digimon, who was snoring loud enough to wake the dead, Davey turned her head back over to the window to stare up at the night sky.

Usually she wasn't able to see the stars very well because of the city lights, but now that her eyes had advanced because of her mutation, she could see them clearly.

Hearing her D-Terminal beeping, Davey glanced over to her desk where the silver device and her D-3 were both located.

Scooping Veemon up in her arms, the girl walked over to her desk to grab her D-Terminal and flipped it open to view a message from TK.

'Hey, just checking in to see how you're feeling. Have there been any changes? Call me.' She read.

Biting her bottom lip, Davey tried to think of how to explain what had happened to her to TK.

How was she going to explain this situation to the rest of her friends?

'I'm feeling WAY better than I did before. Don't worry about it, TA. See you later!' She typed in.

With that done, Davey walked over to her bed and crawled down under the covers with Veemon cuddled to her chest as she settled down to go to sleep.

To be continued...