Onward ninja hamsters! Retrieve the rights to Digimon! Untill they get back, I don not own Digimon.
Spirits of Ages
Chapter 5
"Someone's going to die for this!" Tai yelled. "And in a very painful way!"
"Still sure they should be this loud?" Taichi asked as he covered his ears to drown out the continuous squeaking of his new digimon partner.
"Actually I'd be worried if he was quiet." Gatomon said. She had some experience with digital babies, as she had helped Elecmon after the battle with Legionmon.
The four of them walked into the kitchen, the exception being Tai, who was still in Gatomon's loving dead grip.
"Check it out!" Taichi yelled at his parents. "He or she, not really sure yet, hatched! I'm free again!"
"That's nice dear." Kari said. Gatomon, Patamon and Taichi sat down at the table. Gatomon put the fluffball known as Tai down on the table.
"So…" TK put down his newspaper, which meant that he was interested as well else he'd never put it down. "What is it?"
"No idea." Gatomon admitted. "Never seen one of these before." Patamon added.
Tai was currently studying the two adults in the kitchen. He knew them, he was sure of that.
"Kari?" She had aged a bit but it was really her! He then realised how much time had passed. How much he had missed. 'I didn't even recognise her immediately… How much time has gone by?'
With that thought in mind Tai looked at the other person in the room.
'Let's see… Blonde hair, green eyes, probably wears awful hats…'
Tai's eyes shot open.
"TK! Didn't I tell you to stay away from my sister!!" Tai had said that so many times, even though he had to admit that he liked TK more then any other boys that came after Kari. But it was still his duty as a big brother to kill the man that dared to touch his baby sister.
"DIE!!"
TK, oblivious to the dead threat, lowered his head a bit and studied the squeaking ball of fur. The dog ears were incredibly cute and for some reason he felt like he should poke them. But he decided against it. He was a grown man and able to suppress such strange urges.
'Poke'
Or not.
"I think he likes me." TK said as Tai got even angrier.
"Aaaahh!" With a powerful war squeak Tai launched himself at TK, killer intent visible in his eyes.
TK caught him midair, eyed him strangely before smiling. "It's a feisty one!" Tai proceeded to glare at him. He still hated being called an 'it' even if it was just because they didn't know what gender he was.
"Okay, maybe that's to much excitement for one day." Gatomon said as she crawled onto the table and held her paws out to TK. TK smiled and put the angry ball of fur in her paws.
"Come on little one, I have such a cute thing for you." Gatomon grinned like the Cheshire cat and Tai knew he was in trouble.
'I saved the world three times. I died once for it and got reincarnated for it… and this is how it repays me.'
Tai was currently the proud owner of two pink bows, tied around his ears.
"Aunt Gato!" Taichi whined. "You're making him look to cute!"
"I think she looks nice with them." Gatomon laughed.
"I think you're as good as dead."
The three of them had returned to Taichi's room. Patamon had decided to get away from all the commotion and went for a flight around the block. This meant that he was gone for quite some while. Not because it was a large block, just because he still gets lost every time he leaves the house.
"Now, I believe I owe you a story, right?" Gatomon sat up on the bed. "Indeed." Taichi smiled. He picked Tai up and sat him on his lap. "By the way, I am Taichi, your new partner." He flashed a smile at the fuzzball.
'You're next to go.' Taichi glared. 'Ripping me off like that, cousin or not you're dead.'
"Well as you know, you're named after your uncle." Gatomon started. "He was an idiot through and through." "Hey!" "But also a brave man and I was glad to call him my brother." "Better."
"What's up with him?" Taichi asked. "I think he's tired." Gatomon said. "We'll just make this story a bedtime story for him."
"It isn't even noon yet!" Tai yelled out. "And since when do I need someone to chose my bed time for me?" He glanced down a bit. "Oh right…"
"Let's get this started then." Gatomon tried again. "As I was saying… your uncle was a brave young man. Selfless, caring. Kind of like you, only you pull more pranks then he did."
'Ooh a challenger.' Tai thought.
"This story begins two years after the time where we, along with the new digidestined, saved the world for a second time." She said, remembering the events all to well. "We were celebrating the defeat of MaloMyotismon." That name still created a nameless fear into the very core of her soul.
"Tai was late, as he just had to bring Joe with him." She smiled sadly. "Damn doctor wouldn't show up anywhere if you don't force him to."
Tai listened closely. He had lived this story, so he knew all the details of it. But he had never heard it from their point of view.
"The two of them showed up, unknowingly bringing an uninvited guest with them. ShadowWereGarurumon… The poor thing was possessed by an evil entity so he had no idea of what he did."
Taichi braced himself. He just knew what was going to happen next.
"That digimon just attacked Tai, he didn't even pay attention to us. He just attacked your uncle." She forced back a few tears, the ones that always came up as she though about that dreadful day.
"He stabbed your uncle straight in the heart."
Tai felt his heart clench.
"Joe told us that he was dead immediately...tha-that he didn't suffer."
"How would he know?! It hurt like hell!"
"Agumon, your uncle's digimon partner was deleted as well. In a blink of an eye we lost two important people."
Taichi gulped. For some reason he just couldn't think of anything to say to his aunt, to make her feel better.
"Joe and Gomamon then proceeded to go berserk and crushed ShadowWereGarurumon." Gatomon continued. "As you already know Joe never had many friends. He has us now but before… Tai was one of the first he saw as a true friend."
Taichi made a mental note of to ask Joe about his uncle when he had the time. Which was often as the doctor refused to do his duties most of the time.
"Everything just sped up from then. After the funeral it began to sink in. Tai was gone and he would never come back." She swallowed hard. "Then everything went wrong. Sora and Matt broke up, Izzy became a recluse, Joe developed an alcohol problem and your father fell into a depression "
"A depression? Him?" Taichi's eyes bulged. "No way." His father was an ever cheerful man, always in the mood for a good joke and there to cheer you up when you're down.
Gatomon nodded. "Yes, the same man. He'll never admit it but your uncle was like a brother to him. Also, Mimi had an emotional breakdown. She loved your uncle but she was to shy to tell him."
Taichi's eyebrows rose in surprise. 'Mimi and shy? Never thought that.' His mother's friend was one of the most open people he knew, even if just barely.
"Davis changed as well. He became more serious when it came to the digital world." She chuckled. "But in the real world he was still the biggest idiot I ever met."
Tai laughed. "Damn right about that. Idiot thought I was a dog."
"It took your mother months to get your father to open up a bit. Eventually she managed to drag him to the digital world. More specifically the Primary Village."
"TK actually did cheer up a bit when we got there." A new voice said. Kari stood in the doorway to Taichi's room.
"You want to help tell the rest?" Gatomon offered.
"Don't mind if I do." She admitted as she sat down on the chair at Taichi's desk.
"We arrived at the Primary Village, intend on finding Elecmon, one of your father and Patamon's friends. The four of us were shocked to find some strange and evil looking digimon there."
"Who're you calling strange and evil?!" Tai yelled out. Kari reached out and picked him up. She then proceeded to pet him. "Hey stop that!"
"TK always had a rather short fuse when it comes to dark digimon." Kari continued, ignoring the annoyed squeaks coming from the hairball. "He lashed out immediately at the creature, not even questioning his motives for being there."
Another thing he couldn't see his father do. Taichi was surprised that a man he knew his entire life could act like that. Shows how much you truly know about the ones you love.
"The digimon's name was Lowemon." Kari continued. "He looked truly fearsome, black armor, looked like he could crush you like a bug."
"We fought him. He digivolved" Gatomon continued. "And we got our asses handed to us, big time."
"He was about to kill us when he suddenly just left." Kari added. "We then found out that Agumon, your uncle's digimon, was recycled, so we took him home."
"For a few days nothing happened." Kari said. "Until Davis burned down the school."
Taichi face vaulted. "Davis… as in Davis, leading fire-fighter, Motomiya?"
"The same." Kari smiled. Davis had, for some reason decided that he wasn't cut out to be a chef. More important, he got the urge to start helping people. So that how he ended up as a proud member of the fire-fighters.
"So we all partied down, as they said back then. Davis was our hero." Kari smiled, as she thought of the antics of her friend.
"Around that time Gennai also went missing." Gatomon said. "He disappears from time to time, but this time he was gone. No trace of him left."
"And then some doglike digimon appeared in the real world." Kari said, wringing her hands as she got to the good part of the story.
"Elusive little bugger he was." Patamon, who found his way home rather early, flew through the open window. "Hey my love." He hovered next to the love of his life and gave her a quick peck on the lips. He did only this because his nephew had the nasty habit of gagging every time he saw the two of them kissing.
"I heard the two of you talking from outside." He continued. "Though I'll leave this part of the story to you, as I wasn't around to experience it."
"If I remember correctly…" Kari held her hand to her chin in thought. "Davis was the first one to find the new digimon. He said something about being tricked by its smart mind games when we met up to find it."
"Mind games my ass." Tai said. "I just insulted him, barked, talked, barked and the idiot fell for it."
"So we rounded up a team to find it and send it back to the digital world. Mimi and Sora found him first but he escaped them."
"Damn right. They wanted to neuter me!"
"You know... I truly hated Mimi back then. Well that may be a bit to much but..." Kari added. She didn't really hate her though, she was just angry at her. "She was in love with your uncle. Everyone knew it, except Tai. He never was one to notice such things."
"Then I found the rookie in our own apartment." Gatomon said, getting back to the story. They'd tell Taichi about Mimi's crush later. "He and Koromon, your uncle's digimon's in-training form, claimed that the dog was Tai."
Taichi deadpanned. There was no way in hell that someone could come back as a digimon, right?
"Off course I didn't believe him. And then tried to electrocute him. So he, Koromon and some unknown Patamon flew off."
"Meanwhile me, Joe, Mimi, Sora and Davis were discussing Joe's alcohol problem ." Kari added. "The night before he had claimed he was the queen of England, while wearing a toga and a traffic cone." Kari laughed. She wasn't there to see it but she got the story from Mimi and Sora. Now it was a rather amusing memory. Back then she had truly feared for Joe's safety and those around him.
"I got to drag his drunk ass to the portal." Tai scoffed. "He better didn't start again, else I'll kick him square in the nuts. When I get my limbs back."
Taichi just couldn't imagine old, serious Joe doing that. Alcohol could do strange things to people it seemed. Right then Taichi made a promise to himself to watch out with the stuff, once he was old enough to drink it. (I did the same thing when I was his age. Drink responsibly!) Though he did store the traffic cone suggestion in his idea file.
"And right about then. Joe said: 'I'll stop drinking when I get hit by a meteor.' Around that moment that digimon fell from the sky, onto Joe's head."
"We exchanged some words, threw a few punches and then he digivolved into Lowemon." Gatomon continued the story. "We then proceeded to crush him, causing that strange Patamon to become Baromon."
Taichi held up his hands, signalling her to stop. "Wait, so you're saying that Baromon, the guy who works with Elecmon used to hang out with my uncle?" Now that they mentioned it, Baromon had told him about his uncle a few times… but that was a long time ago.
"The same." Kari said. "And then we saw Tai's face. It was him, my brother." She spoke in a soft voice.
"Okay, now I'm confused." Taichi said. "First that Lowemon attacks you and then he turned out to be my uncle? Then why did he attack you?"
"Actually, they attacked me."
"Actually we attacked him." Kari admitted. "And he was under control by the one who brought him back to life."
"But that part of the story is for another time." Kari said. "If I remember correctly you were supposed to go and see your friends when this one hatched." Kari handed Tai back to her son.
"What? Hey, I am not some pet, you hear me!" Tai yelled angrily, though he knew that they couldn't understand him.
Taichi ran off, with Gatomon in his wake, who on her turn was yelling something about 'it not being good for the baby!'
I wrote this chapter to make a recaps of what happened in the first part, to freshen up my own memory and to write the digidestined's side of the story. Taichi will hear the rest of the story another chapter, perhaps from his own uncle.
By the way, TK is still reading his newspaper. The Apocalyps itself can't keep that man away from his newspaper.
Next time: Tai meets up with his nephew's friends. Poor Tai.
Reviews
Lord Pata: I plan on shocking him even more when he digivolves
Martiny the one and only still: poor Cody. I liked him. And Agumon will show up sooner or later.
CherrygirlUK: Yes. He is. And he hates it!
Super garurumon: He does remember everything but he has no idea of how much time has gone by since he defeated Legionmon.
Depthmon: 'Sees author walking down the street, who then gets crushed by a cow.' Trust me, if Tai was able to, I'd be dead a million times over (Woot! 50!)
Firehedgehog: nice you like it ;)
Takari4ever3012: indeed!
Beth: Indeed they will be. Also: Gatomon does think he's a girl ;) and I knew about Gato being cat. I red it somewhere. And do you mean his rookie form? Then he's a Labrador pup, with a short mane and collar.
Rose: There's going to be a bit in it, though not immediately. But I assure you the two of them will have a happy ending ;)
WolfSummoner93: update is here!
Nick Johnson: okay, question 1: it's a sequel to spirits of destiny, which is an 02/04 cross-over
2: currently there's TK and Kari's house, the school, the hospital and Mars. More will be added later off course.
3: 27 years after the events of 02
4: every character of the main cast, though not all of them have shown up yet. And a few oc's.
5: Kari, TK are 40, Joe is 43, Tai is 42 (though he doesn't know how much time has gone by), Sora, Matt, Izzy and Mimi are 41. The 'new' digidestined are roughly the same age as TK and Kari.
R&R people!