"Prepare for the Fireworks"

Should Dai have a love interest? This is something I've been wondering since I wrote the first chapter. I've been thinking about maybe using Ryo or Willis, but I'm not sure who to use.

A few days later there were more attacks in New York, so the tree Digidestinds there had to take care of it and XV-Crystalmon purified each digimon before they were sent back to the Digital World through a portal.

Dai was now sitting on a bench at the park, V-Crystalmon watching over her from the tree tops as usual.

Dai was just drinking a peach smoothie while she watched some kids that were a few years younger than her playing soccer and felt a sense of longer, wishing she was back home playing a game with Tai and Ken.

She watched as a boy, who was smaller than the others tried to get the ball, but tripped and fell down on his face and she winched, remembering how that was once her a few years ago.

Dai had wanted to be on the soccer team and worked hard for that dream to come true, but most people laughed whenever he would fall down and make a mistake.

There were many times that the child of Miracles wanted to run away and cry, but instead, just laughed it off and went back to playing.

She watched as if in a trance as the little brown haired boy pushed himself up as the bigger boys laughed and he just laughed along with them, not wanting to show if he was hurt.

She smiled as he went back into the game, not wanting to give up just because of a mistake and a small embarrassing scene, just like Dai had done back then.

She remembered that plenty of people told her to give up, but didn't listen to them.

And then one day the Motomiya family moved to Odaiba and Dai was the new kid, feeling a little insecure and shy around the other kids, but then Kari had come up to him and extended a hand of friendship, making the burgundy haired boy feel like he belonged.

Then Kari had shown Dai where the big kids were playing soccer and he wanted to join them all, but Kari was worried and said that he could get hurt.

He said he didn't care about that because he wanted to play and be on the team.

The captain of the team had heard what the boy said, so he came over and played a small game with Dai and was impressed with what he saw and decided to take the boy under his wing.

Dai had later learned that he was Kari's big brother Tai and had spent a lot of time playing soccer with him and had looked up to the older male as a role model and Tai was happy to be seen as that by the boy.

But there was a moment in time where Tai and Kari both seemed to stray away from Dai and he felt a little scared that he would lose his two friends, so he tried all he could to make them pay attention to him and he was sad to say that it may have made him turn into a bit of an obnoxious jerk over time.

Dai later put the pieces together and figured that it may have had something to do with what had happened after Tai had come back from camp and Kari was also acting different after that.

When Dai became a Digidestind, he learned that it was because the Digital World had changed both of his friends and they were completely different people from the ones he knew and he wanted to try and cling desperately to what he once had.

Dai continued to watch the game go on, enjoying the day.

Her D-terminal went off so she checked it and saw that she had a message from Mimi to meet her at the café in a few minutes, so she got up and walked off, V-Crystalmon following from the tree tops and telephone poles.

All the while, neither was aware of the strange black and purple cat watching them from the top of a tree on the other side of the soccer field.

Dai was soon at the café and saw Mimi sitting there with Michael.

She went over and pulled out a chair, sitting on the other side of the couple.

"Hey guys. So what's up?" she asked.

"Oh, there's a fair coming up in a few days. It's really fun. There are rides, games, fireworks. It's a bunch of fun." Mimi said with a smile and dreamy look in her eyes as she reminisced of her first time going to the fair.

"There are also food stands that serve foods from different countries. And people are required to wear costumes to this event, so the digimon can come too." Michael said.

"Dude, that sounds awesome! I'd love to go to that." Dai said, her eyes sparkling as she imagined all the fun that they would have.

The couple smiled at her as they discussed costume ideas for the fair and where they would gather the material to make them.

Dai even talked to Ken about it and he said it sounded like a lot of fun and wished he could come up to New York and join in, but the Digidestinds were all going to the Digital World to see if they can gather any more information on what Kalonamon was planning.

So Dai and Mimi worked on their costumes, Mimi's mom also helping them out since Dai wasn't good with sowing.

Thankfully, the costumes were done in time for the fair.

Mimi's parents were both involved with the fair.

Her dad was selling the tickets for the rides and her mom was selling the food from the Japanese culture part of the fair.

Mimi was dressed up as Lilymon and Palmon was excited by the costume, commenting on how life like it looked.

Michael was going in an old costume from one of his dad's movies and Betamon had to wear a collar with a leash so people thought that he was a dog dressed up for the fair too.

Finally, Dai was going dressed as a werewolf, only it was styled to look different from the horror movies.

She was dressed in a pair of ripped black pants that had silver chains attached to the waist, a sleeveless black top that showed off about five inches of her flat stomach, a blue and white wolf tail and a mask that was half of a wolf's face that had the blue and white fluffy ears and a snout and eyeholes so she could see.

She also had on a pair of blue ballet flats and blue gloves that had black stripes that were similar to the ones that Garurumon had.

All in all, she looked like a female version of WereGarurumon and they all thought she looked really cool.

Mimi's mom snapped a bunch of pictures of them all as a group and then Mimi took some with the Digidestinds and their digimon when the folks were gone.

They all went off to the fair, Dai and V-Crystalmon looking around at everything and everyone in fascination at the costumes that the people from various ages were wearing, the bright lights from all of the rides and the exotic smells of the food.

The duo went on nearly every ride, screaming their heads off from the monster like roller coaster that had wicked swerves and loops and played a bunch of games, winning plenty of prizes, but wound up giving them to some of the younger kids who couldn't win anything.

Dai had walked by a stand that was selling jewelry, shirts, hats and such and saw a pendant that had a mark on it that was similar to the Crest of Kindness and made her think of Ken, so she bought it and decided to give it to him when she went back home.

Hours had gone by and the duo was meeting up with the couple and their partners so they could get some food to eat before they went off to find the perfect place to watch the fireworks.

Dai had decided to get food from the Japanese both since she really missed the food from home.

"Oh, hello, Dai." Mimi's mom greeted when the girl walked up to her booth.

"How are you enjoying the fair?" she asked.

"It's sweet. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun." Dai said honestly.

"I'm so glad to hear that. Mimi enjoyed it the first time she came here. She kept wishing for her other friends to be here to enjoy it with her." The woman said.

"Yeah, I can relate." Dai said thinking how much more fun it would be if the others were here with her too.

"Anyway, enjoy!" Mimi's mom said handing the girl two plates of ramen and the girl thanked her before she left with V-Crystalmon to go find Mimi and Michael.

The couple were already sitting at a table a few feet away from them, the pinkette enjoying an Indian style cuisine while the blonde at an Italian style cuisine.

They all shared their food, talking about how they had spent their day, the two older Digidestinds happy that the younger had a great time.

All the while, BlackGatomon was watching them from his place on top of an ice cream stand, a camera in hand as he took some pictures of the three humans and their partners.

"Hey, how's everything going?" someone asked him.
His spared a glance behind him to see Impmon was there, watching the group.

"Fine. All they have been doing was just enjoying themselves. The digimon also have no need to hide because of the humans dressing up in these costumes." BlackGatomon said.

Impmon nodded as he watched the Champion look over in the direction of the white dragon with a longing look in his gold eyes.

BlackGatomon was the only digimon that was working under Kalonamon uncorrupted because he was in fact the dark angel's younger brother and had vowed to stay by his side no matter what.

The black cat had become very interested in V-Crystalmon because he had never seen a digimon like her before and was intent on finding out what she was capable of.

He soon after found himself to be watching the white dragon more than the others and had been shocked when he found that he was infatuated by the young Rookie.

He really didn't want to have to destroy the beauty, but he would have to if his brother told him to do so.

BlackGatomon sighed in regret.

He finally finds a special female that has a lure on him and she was his enemy.

Fate certainly had a suck sense of humour.

"I'll…leave ya to it then." Impmon said confused about the black cat's behaviour before he left.

BlackGatomon merely grunted in response and went back to observing the group.

"Come on, let's go. The fireworks are going to start soon." Michael said standing up and the girls followed him.

They threw away their empty plates and then went over to go on the ferris wheel where they would have a great view of the fireworks in the night sky, BlackGatomon following them discreetly.

Dai and V-Crystal were sitting together with Betamon and Palmon was with the happy couple, who were sharing a few kisses in their cart.

In a few minutes, there was a boom and an explosion of green light lit up the sky and the ride stopped, with the Digidestinds at the top where they would get the best view of the lights.

BlackGatomon watched in interest as the colors lit up the sky and wondered how the humans were able to pull off such a spectacular.

"This has been a great day." Dai said as she leaned back and watched as a blue and orange firework both went off at the same time.

"Yep. I've never had so much fun before in such a long time. It's too bad Wormmon wasn't here. He would love this." V-Crystalmon said as a green, pink and white firework went off with a loud boom.

Mimi was cuddled up to Michael as they both watched, Palmon watching in awe and also using her partner's camera to take pictures of the sight before them.

The day of the fair had finally come to an end and everyone had, just for a moment, let themselves relax and enjoy the time of peace.