So... Late once again, sorry. I have no excuse, it was all because I was too lazy to begin writing. However, I liked this chapter, so I hope you will like it too.
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IV: Deep Thinking
Yeah, that was kind of awkward. You see, we didn't get out of the station in time, and the police got and interrogated us. We said that we came to wait for a friend who would arrive on the next train, aaand got interrogated too. They didn't even call our parents, since we didn't have anything to do with whatever the police had been called there for (sure, we didn't), and we could leave in about an hour.
"So, what was all that about?" asked Tommy, who apparently hadn't met Kumamon yet.
"What do you mean?" I asked back, deciding to play dumb for a while.
Tommy gave me an 'Are you kidding me?' look. "I mean the four police cars and the policemen asking you questions like a machine gun about what were you doing there."
"Well, they came because someone had called them, but I'm not really sure about what. Anyways, we didn't have anything to do with it, did we Zoe?" I winked to Zoe without Tommy realizing it.
"Em, of course. We were just waiting for you, that's why they asked you if you knew us, to make sure about that." She explained with an innocent smile.
Tommy didn't look very convinced."Hmmm... Is there something you aren't telling me? Are you sure you don't know what happened there?"
I did as if I were thinking really hard."Well, now that you mention it, I did hear something about a light from the cops... Maybe there was a fire, there were burn marks all over the place."
"Wouldn't you have noticed it if there had been a fire?" Tsk, he got me there, I'm not too good at this, I'm sure Flamon would have made up a much more convincing story.
He got you there, you suck at this. You shoud have let me make up the story. Toldya.
It doesn't really matter, I was just having some fun.
"Takuya, if you were going to say such an obvious lie, you could have just asked me to make something up." Said Zoe.
"So you do know what happened!" Exclaimed Tommy, with an slightly upset voice.
"I guess that's enough." I decided we already had our fun with Tommy,"Yep, we know exactly what happened, we were just having a fun. We'll tell you later, when we arrive at, eh, umm... Where are we going?" I asked Zoe. I hadn't really thought about that.
Zoe shook her head."I don't really care, I guess your house would be a good place."
"Yeah, my house will do."
Wow, taking the lady to your house already? Are you sure you aren't going a bit too fast?
Wha-Why-You-How could you think that! Are you crazy? Who do you take me for? Besides, Tommy is with us!
Of course, I forgot about Tommy... Does that mean that without Tommy, you-
Cut it out!
"Hey, what's wrong with him? He doesn't respond." Asked Tommy to Zoe, a hint of worry in his voice.
Zoe just chuckled,"He does that. Don't worry, he'll be back among the living in no time."
"Huh? were we talking about?" I want to make it clear that I did know what we were talking about, it was kind of a retorical question.
Obviously, Tommy didn't seem to had realized that."We were talking about going to your house so you two could tell me that big secret of yours." Tommy looked thoughtful."Your house isn't exactly near mine, neither is yours." Tommy said turning to Zoe,"I should go home already, my parents must be expecting me, I don't want them to worry." Tommy, always thinking about others, if it had been me, I'd simply beg for forgiveness once my parents gave me the mandatorial lecture about punctuality.
"You're right." Zoe said,"Maybe we should just tell him here, I shouldn't be late either."
Well, if Zoe said so, I couldn't opose them, althought I wanted to surprise Tommy; you know, Flamon appearing all of sudden in a burst of flames, that's always cool.
"Well, it's two against one so I guess I'l just show you my new cellphone." I reached to my pocket, while Tommy gave me a sceptical look.
"A new cellphone, seriously? How could that be related with the police being in the... sta...tion..." Tommy just stared, and stared, and kept staring at my digivice.
It's curious, Zoe did more or less the same. I wonder if that would have been my reaction if the same happened to me.
Yeah, you should try to do the same thing with the others, specially with Kouji, a flabbergasted Kouji is not something you see everyday.
Not a bad idea, not a bad idea... Oh look! I think Tommy is about to do something, I hope he doesn't tackle me to the ground like Zoe did.
After all, that's reserved for her only, isn't it? I could only sigh. Seriously, he couldn't let one pass; not exactly the attitude you'd expect for the Legendary Warrior of Fire.
Tommy first reaction was trembling. Yes, trembling, uncontrolably. Then, a smile formed on his face, one of those smiles that seem impossible to hold back. The last one was kind of unexpected; he pinched himself. That made me wonder if he had had dreams about this, I had.
"Then... We are going back?" Tommy asked, clearly trying to stop the tears from reaching his eyes. Tommy had made clear a long time ago that he wouldn't cry anymore, and he had been doing a good job.
"Well, not this time." Zoe answered. Tommy looked disconcerted. "It's more like the other way around. Instead of us going to the Digital World, the digimon come here."
"Why would digimon come to our world?" That was a good question, in fact, I couldn't think why it hadn't occurred to me. Why did these guys come here? DarkTyrannomon seemed to have ended up here by accident, but that Ogremon... He came here with a reason, and he knew who I was, he even had leackeys!
"Tommy's right, why would they? That last guy came here on purpose, we'll have to think about that later..." I said, voicing my doubts.
"So you don't know?" Tommy asked.
"Not really, but the point is some digimon have been appearing around, and none of them had good intentions." Said Zoe.
"Except the good old Legendary Warriors, of course." I added.
"Huh? They're here? As in, not being spirits?" Tommy's face showed confusion once more.
"Yes, and they can disappear in and out your head. In fact, Agunimon, who's now in his rookie form, Flamon; is right now inside my head making sarcastic remarks."
"Inside your head?" He asked.
"Yeah, it's weird. But you'll see, Kazemon already found Zoe, so I don't think it'll take long for Kumamon to find you." That seemed to cheer him up, even moreso than he already was.
"And how do we fight with them if they're not spirits?" Exactly what I asked Flamon when he appeared.
"I'd love to explain everything to you, but I think I'll leave that to Zoe here, since my house is that way." I noted. We had already reached the point were we parted ways (wow Takuya, that sounds so fancy).
"Sure, I'll tell everything else to Tommy, see you later Takuya." Said Zoe.
"Bye Takuya." Tommy waved as he walked away.
"C'ya."And I took the street that lead to my house.
And there was I, in what I had dubbed 'automatic Takuya', while my mother lectured me. First about my lateness, and then about what happened at school. Aparently, she had received a phonecall from school about the evacuation (of course, they didn't tell her about the giant, black, digital dinosaur, but they told her about the whole evacuating the school thing, and me not being within the presentt students), and she was not happy with it, and when I say 'not happy', I mean 'breathing fire and oozing fear-waves in all directions". Luckily for me, she bought the 'I went the wrong way story', something that, on second thought, was kind of painful, did she really think I could get lost in my own school like that? It took me a little bit to realize she was finished, and I was dismissed.
I heated the dinner in the microwave and went to my room, locking the door behind me. I sighed; today had been a long day, not a bad day, not at all, just long, long and tiring. Two fights in one day, and having been out of action for more than three years (I mean heated battles with vicious digimon, not little fights with random bullies), I was pretty sure I was going to be sore the next day.
Yep, probably you will, but not as bad as it would be if you had fought as a human.
No shit Sherlock. And please, get outta my head for a while, it's stil kinda disturbing.
"Okay, but just because I'm feeling generous." Flamon said as he appeared on my bed.
"Oh, that's so nice of you." I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm. "Just try to keep your voice down. I have some homework, and I don't want my mother thinking I talk to myself or have split personality or something like that." I said as I sat in front of my desk and opened one of those cursed textbooks.
"Don't worry, I'll be quiet, I'be ehmmm... doing Legendary Warrior stuff." I was pretty sure he wouldn't be doing that, but since he was quiet, I just focused on my homework.
About forty minutes later, I was almost done with my homework, and Flamon hadn't made a sound, (which was kind of weird, since he always seemed to be a bit hyper except when he gets all serious and Legendary Warrior), of course this was too good to last.
"WHAAAAA!" Yep, too good to last. I turned around to find Flamon, looking with a completely flabbergasted expression at... one of my Death Note tomes. Seriously.
"Takuya, is something wrong?" I heard my mother's voice from downstairs.
"No mum! I was just surprised with, ahm, somehting." Yes I know, I'm a genius.
I didn't see or hear it, but I'm sure my mother sighed and put her hand on her face before saying this."Well Takuya, just keep it quiet, I don't want the neighbours complaining."
"Sure mum, don't worry." I sighed.
I turned to Flamon one second later."What the heck do you think you are doing! I told you to be quiet!"
"It wasn't my fault! Look, here, L just left Light completely defeated, just with a 'I'm L'." Flamon defended himself, not with a very good argument, but well, he tried.
"I know, I've read it. And it's Koichi's, so be careful with it. Geez, why do I have to be the responsible one here? You're a freaking Legendary Warrior, for goodness sake! When you appeared in class you were so much more... reliable, I guess." I complained.
"That's because that was important." He stated. "I can be vey serious and legendary if I want to. Don't you remember the times when I appeared to you when I was a spirit, as Agunimon I mean." He had a point there, back then he did his job and acted all great being of legend-like.
"Does that mean you Legendary Warriors just pull the serious façade when it's important and then spend the time reading manga?" I asked, with an amused voice. I cracked a smile, I couldn't help it. I was picturing the ten warriors laying around in a living room, reading manga. The most disturbing aspects of this picture were Lobomon, reading Bobobobo-Bobobo, and laughing his ass off, and Ranamon, crying over a shoujo manga... with Mercurimon right next to her crying over the very same shoujo manga. But let's leave the wonderful world of my demented mind and continue with my conversation with Flamon.
"Oh, that'd be good, but no, not really." Flamon said,"First, because it's hard to find manga in the Digital World, and second, because most of the other guys are a bit boring. The only ones who relax now and then are Kumamon, Arbormon, and Loewemon once we get him to loosen up a bit." Didn't really expect him to answer that one.
Suddenly, Flamon's expression turned into one of realization, and he got that rarely seen expression of his afterwards."But we should talk about the digimon that appeared today." He began, this time dead serious. "Neither me or the angels expected them to begin appearing this quickly, the rifts appear to be growing at a faster rate than they predicted. Besides, someone seems to be using them for some kind of purpose, it's possible that that same person is the one who began creating these rifts, put that's only a theory." Flamon said.
I nodded."Yeah, I thought so too. Ogremon came here with a reason, but I don't think he was acting on his own."
"Exactly. That guy wasn't bright enough to have planned attacking this world. He was acting under someones command, but who?" Flamon closed his eyes, with a focused expression, in deep thought.
There had to be someone behind Ogremon's attack, maybe even behind the apparition of this rifts, but we couldn't reach any conclusion with the little information we had.
"Maybe we should wait. It's not like we can do much else, and worring won't lead us anywhere." I said.
Flamon sighed, and opened his eyes, his expression lightened up a little."Yeah, you're right. No use thinking about it too much. And now... Let's see what Kira does!" He said as he fetched the tome.
I sighed."Seriously, you have split personality... I'm off to bed don't wake me up. Tomorrow's Saturday, and I don't want to waste the extra sleeping time."
"Sure, don't worry." Flamon said absently while reading.
It took me several hours to fall asleep, maybe because of everything tha had happened, maybe because I already took a nap sooner, or maybe because Flamon wouldn't stop reading until a couple of hours later, but finally, once my mind sttled, I was able to sleep, unaware of the events that would take place the next day.
The next morning...
I was woken up by my growling stomach, begging for something to eat, acompanied by a subtle, but succulent scent coming from downstairs.
Mmmm... Food...
My mind was too numb to think anything more complex, so I went downstairs, said good morning to my mother, and kind of absorbed the food in matter of seconds. Afterwards, still acting automatically, I went to my room to get dressed. T-shirt, jeans, underwear, digivice, cap... Then it hit me, digivice! That's right, this was the third day of my second digital adventure.
Took you a while. Ten whole minutes, impressive. Flamon announced.
And how come you didn't say anything?
No reason, it's just more fun that way.
Whatever. We're leaving now, I want to talk to Tommy.
I opened my rooms door, and began walking downstairs.
You know, maybe you should wait a second before going out.
Why would I?
Well, I might not know a lot about fashion, but I'm pretty sure underwear is supposed to go under the other clothes.
&%$$=)/%$·$%&Ç+ç()/%$&! Was more or less my answer.
And so, after getting dressed once again, just in the right order this time, I headed to Tommy's house, it wasn't supposed to take too long, around twenty minutes; of curse, lately things didn't come out as they were supposed to.
I walked through the streets of Jiyuugaoka. Tommy was kind of lucky, he lived in Shibuya, near the station, he wouldn't arrive late when called by a powerful entity from another world, I'm pretty sure he didn't. Since it was Saturday, and Jiyuugaoka has never been particulary busy, there was almost no people, which was a good thing, 'cause people tell me I always bump into everyone around me.
Flamon, did you have any ideas about who could be using the rifts?
Nah, there shouldn't be anyone with any reasons to do so that I know of. However, the Digital World is big, and I mean reaaaaally big. Once you think you've seen it all it surprises you once again, so don't trust me too much about this.
Really? I thought we saw most of it, and you must been around for a while, and the angels too, there's no way you've missed something important like this.
Flamon smiled smugly, which was weird, since he was in my mind. Although I appreciate the fact that you've realized the extent of my knowledge and wisdom, the Digital World is old, and there are a lot of things in it no one remembers, old things, powerful things, dangerous things... And new things too; the Digital World changes constantly, without giving up anything it had before.
Humble as always, I see. Guess the only thing we can do is wait, but I would like a little break; we had two fights yesterday, and I'm still not used to it. I'm almost not sore at all though, it's weird. I hope we can get a little rest and leave the fighting for later.
Right then, the Universe, playing it's favourite game, 'Prove Takuya Wrong', made it's move.
The sound of some people screaming and something loud made me turn around. A bridge that allowed people to cross from one pavement to the other without walking through the road crashed down under a giant green claw, luckily there was no one over or under the bridged, but many cars had to stop all of sudden, causing minor accidents here and there.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!"
AN: Well, it's done, I'm really sorry for making you wait, but I was a bit blocked, I decided to leave what I had planned for this chapter for the next one, and this one was kind of a filler. I had to rewrite almost completely twice, and I still don't really like it. Next chapter should come out faster, but so did this one, but it'll definitely be better, I hope. I hope you liked this one.
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