Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, if I did, I'd be a very rich 16 year old.
A/N: Good day all, It was requested of me to write Chapter 7 of this story, unfortunately, when it came to my turn, a certain unnamed Authoress became rather upset with me, due to my inability to write this chapter in less than a day. I apologize to all of you who got rather impatient with me, but, I must point out, I have to juggle 3 days a week of school, 3 days a week of work, and keeping at least a semi-decent social life, leaving about one day a week to squeeze in study and everything else.
I may go way out with the chapter, so bear with me, please.
God, I can write all this crap, but not the story, damn… listening to all different music at the moment, so, if the story keeps changing tones, don't blame me, blame the music.
Chapter 7
By lexa000 (a.k.a. AJCook19882004)
After meeting up and explaining all that had occurred, the Digi-destined all headed home, agreeing to meet the next day at Takuya's house.
As he was walking home with Kouji, Takuya decided to ask him something.
"Do you want to stay at my house tonight, I mean, Mum won't mind and all, besides you're coming over tomorrow anyway, so it would be easier if you just stayed the night." Takuya asked, sounding rather hopeful.
"Ok then, if you want, I'll just borrow some of your clothes for tomorrow. If that's alright with you?" Kouji replied.
"Yeah, sure, not a problem, they should fit you." Takuya, happy as ever, pulled Kouji into a tight hug and ran the rest of the way home, with Kouji close behind.
As they reached Takuya's place, his mother greeted them as they entered the door.
"Hey Mum… ah, would Kouji be able to stay over the night" Takuya asked, sounding excited
"I guess it would be alright, it just means that there won't be any leftovers in the morning for you to have for lunch." His mother replied.
"Oh, and while we're on the topic of having friends here… do you mind if Kouichi, Tomoki, Izumi, and Junpei come over tomorrow?" He asked a little hesitantly.
"Heh… What's the occasion?" She asked
"No occasion, just a bit of a get together…" He said, not wanting to let loose the adventure in the digital world they had all shared five years ago.
"Hmm, I'm not sure, that's quite a few people for just a bit of a get together… are you sure there's nothing else going on?" She asked, sounding a little suspicious of her son.
"No, I'm telling you, there's nothing else going on, just a few good friends getting together during the holidays, nothing more, nothing less." Takuya bordered on yelling, something he very rarely did with his mother, she knew he was hiding something, the way he became all defensive when she poked, but she knew, when he was like this, she wasn't going to get anything out of him, besides, she didn't want to make a scene of it while Kouji was there.
"Fine then, do what you want, just don't make a mess, and if you do, make sure it's clean before I get home." Takuya's mother said exasperatedly, ending the conversation.
"Fine, I won't make a mess, ok." At this point, Takuya stormed off up to his room, mumbling under his breath, his mother looked to Kouji, hoping he might be able to shed some light on the situation, but, Kouji just shrugged.
"Nice to see you again Mrs. Kanbara." Kouji said, a little shocked after what had just happened.
"Thank you, nice to see you again, too. Dinner will be a little while yet, Takuya should have calmed down a bit by then, he normally does." Takuya's mother said.
"I've never seen Takuya act like that with you before." Kouji exclaimed.
"It doesn't happen often, but it does happen, generally if he's had a rough day, it happened a lot soon after his father passed away, I guess when things are a little too stressful for him he just snaps like that." Takuya's mother sounded upset as she continued on. "I just wish I knew what was bothering him, he was so happy a few days ago, it was the fifth anniversary for you two the other day, wasn't it?"
"Yeah… I wish I knew what was upsetting him too"
That said, Kouji headed upstairs to Takuya's room, as he opened the door he saw Takuya lying face down on his bed, his whole body shaking. Kouji walked up to the bed and put a hand on Takuya's shoulder, he stopped crying and looked up at his koi, reached up and gave him a hug.
"Takuya, I think it might do you a lot of good if we told your mother about five years ago, it's obviously taking its toll on you keeping it from her." Kouji offered.
"I'm not sure I should, I think it would be a bit too much of a shock for her, besides, we should talk to the others about this first." Takuya sighed, it was really hard keeping it from her, lying to his mother day in and day out wasn't how he wanted to live, god knows he wanted to tell her, but how, it would come as a real shock any way he put it.
"I'll sort it out with the others, don't you worry about that, you just think about how you're going to tell her, if you want me there for support, I'll be there." Kouji was sure that the others would agree to Takuya telling his mother, especially seeing as how it was taking so much out of him trying to hide it.
"Ok then, I'll think about it."
"Ok, I'll go call the others and sort it out with them."
As Kouji left the room Takuya started thinking 'is this the best thing to do, telling mum about the digital world? She might think I'm losing it…'
About half an hour later Takuya's mother called the two down for dinner, as he was going downstairs he was still thinking about how he was going to tell her, he was so lost in thought he missed the last few steps on the stairs. All that was heard was "oh shit" and a loud thud as Takuya took a slight shortcut to the bottom floor of the house. Kouji came running out to the lounge room to see what happened, and cracked up laughing upon seeing the large heap at the bottom of the stairs, then went over to help that said heap up off the floor. They all ate diner in silence, with the occasional glance between Takuya and Kouji. As they all finished dinner they took their plates into the kitchen and Takuya helped his mother wash up, during which he apologized for earlier. After that was finished Takuya went and joined Kouji out in the lounge room and had quiet talk with each other.
"Did you talk to the others?" Takuya asked.
"Yes, I've talked to the others, they all agreed it would be the best thing to do." Kouji replied.
There was a long pause from Takuya, he seemed to be thinking something over.
"Ok then, here goes, I want you there, I'm not going to be able to do this by myself."
Takuya walked out to the kitchen and a moment later came back into the lounge room with his mother in tow.
Takuya took a seat on the couch beside Kouji and his mother took one of the singles.
Takuya drew a deep breath. "I wanted to tell you what's been bothering me of late, about five years ago, half a year before Dad died, I got a message on my mobile phone, it said to go to Shibuya station. This was on Shinya's birthday, remember, I'd gone and run out of the house that morning. Well, when I got to the train station at Shibuya I hopped into the lift and it started going down, but it didn't stop at the ground floor, it kept going down. I first met Kouji in that lift. When it stopped, we both got out and we were in a sort of underground cavern with trains heading out in all directions.
Takuya continued to tell his mother about the Digital World with a little help from Kouji.
Late in the night Takuya and Kouji finished telling the bulk of what had happened during their time in the Digital World, Takuya's Mum just sat there, slowly looking more and more dumbfounded as what the two were saying sunk in.
"So, what you two are saying, is that, five years ago, you were all whisked away to another world, where you could turn into these Digimon, and your fought this really big evil one and saved the day." She said, sounding a little disbelieving.
"Yeah, pretty much, there were a few other things happen along the way, but otherwise, yeah, that's about it." Takuya said.
"You don't believe us, do you?" Kouji asked.
"Well, you have to admit, its not the most believable story in the world, is it?"
"Well no, but you have to believe us, we're telling the truth, honest." Kouji said, panicking a little. 'She won't believe us, if she doesn't believe us, what is Takuya going to do?'
Next thing Kouji knew, Takuya was standing holding his D-Tector out with a determined look on his face.
"Takuya! No! You don't know what could happen if you tried to evolve outside the Digital World!" Kouji yelled, trying to stop Takuya from doing what he was about to do.
There was a crackling sound as sparks appeared around Takuya's hand. Takuya's eyes turned a fiery red. All of a sudden a blinding light shone from Takuya's hand, the light spread up his arm and all over his body.
Once the light cleared, to the surprise of Kouji and the shock of Takuya's mother, stood Flamon.
"Oh, so that's what would happen. Obviously there isn't enough data around for the spirit to absorb to produce a higher level Digimon… I have no idea what I just said." Kouji reasoned. (A/N: just my explanation, people can use the idea in later chapters if they wish.)
"W-wha-what happened? Takuya, i-is that you? What h-happened to you?" Takuya's mother stammered.
"Yep, its me, not the me I was expecting, but me all the same." Takuya said, sounding just a little bit proud.
"B-but how? It's impossible."
"No it isn't, I just did it didn't I?"
As explanations went on so did the night. Eventually Takuya yawned rather a large yawn, letting everyone know he was tired. They all went to bed and when Takuya and Kouji woke the next morning (I'll let you guys imagine as to what they did it Takuya's room) Takuya's mother had already left for work. There was a knock on the door, and Takuya slowly hopped out of bed and headed downstairs to answer the door. As he opened the door he realized he was still Flamon and sighed in relief when he saw it was only Junpei, Tomoki, Kouichi and Izumi. Takuya invited them in and headed upstairs to wake his koi.
A few minutes later Kouji followed a rather content looking Flamon downstairs. After they all grabbed a bight to eat, they headed for the train station, Takuya wearing a large trench-coat with a hood so as not to scare anyone. As the headed down to the Cavernous station the lights in the elevator flickered once or twice. Takuya noticed there was a piece of paper in the pocket of the coat. It read;
Dear Takuya
I
understand that you have to do this, and I will be there to help you
with any problems afterwards. Just remember, I am always here, you
don't need to hide anything from me. Good luck.
Mum.
Takuya smiled, and put the note back in the pocket.
They stepped out of the elevator once it reached the bottom, there in the cavern was one solitary Trailmon, Jet black. They all boarded the Trailmon and asked if it could take them to the Digital World, without a sound the Trailmon started moving off.
About half an hour into the ride the Trailmon came to a grinding halt, all that could be heard was Manically Evil laughter.
To Be Continued…
