"Miracles' Secret"

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"So, who was that Digimon that gave you a ride?" JP asked.

Thankfully he didn't mention anything about not knowing Daisuke was a girl since Zoe had explained it to him and he didn't want to invoke the wrath of the Warrior of Hope.

"That was Aquilamon, a Champion level Digimon. A mighty bird and his Blast Ring attack is quite powerful." Bokomon lectured.

"Aquilamon is a friend of Daisuke's." Takuya told them.

Curious about this, JP and Zoe looked over at the girl who had taken off her dark grey sweater, now revealing her female body to the world.

"Oh, really? That's nice." The blonde smiled.

"Yeah and get this. Daisuke used to be on a team of Digidestineds before us." Tommy announced cheerfully.

Koji and Zoe noticed how stiff the mahogany haired girl had grown and she hunched her shoulders.

"What? No way!" JP gasped.

"Oh, now I remember where I heard the name before!" Bokomon exclaimed.

Everyone, including Daisuke, looked at the white Digimon curiously, wondering what he meant.

He pulled his Book out of his pink band around his waist and began flipping through it and opened it up to a page.

"Daisuke Motomiya, partnered to a female V-Mon. Those are very rare. Daisuke was the leader of the second generation of Digidestineds, inheritor of the Crests of Courage and Friendship and the child of Miracles." Bokomon read.

Everyone then moved over to read form the Book and saw an old sketch of a group of six 12 year olds with six different types of Digimon, all of them looking happy as they stood together.

Daisuke was standing in front of the group with a blue and white dragon with a cat shaped body, both smiling and they saw that the child of Miracles had long flowing hair that reached down her back and a pair of circular goggled on her head.

"Ah, there were more girls on that team." Zoe pouted.

There was an even amount of girls and boys and beside each of the six kids there was a mark near them, three only having one mark each while a girl with glasses and a hawk Digimon had two marks that made Zoe stare at them in awe and a boy who looked to be Tommy's age and had an armadillo Digimon had two marks as well which had JP and Tommy staring at them.

But beside Daisuke, there were three marks, two of them catching Takuya and Koji's attention.

"These marks. They're the Crests?" Takuya asked.

"Yes, they are. The original Digidestineds each had one Crest." Bokomon explained.

"Tai was the leader and had the Crest of Courage. He made me the new leader when I first went to the Digital World, met V-Mon and saved Tai's sister from being attacked by a Monochromon." Daisuke spoke up.

Her voice sounded so hollow when she spoke that it made everyone stare at her.

Standing up from the ground and tying her sweater around her waist, she walked over and looked down at the page and gave a sad smile at her old friends.

"Matt had the Crest of Friendship. Sora had the Crest of Love and Mimi had the Crest of Sincerity. Yolei, the girl with the glasses, is the one who inherited them." She explained.

"Izzy had the Crest of Knowledge and Joe had the Crest of Reliability. Cody, the little boy, inherited them. Ken here, we found out he had a Crest of his own. It's the Crest of Kindness. He was my best friend, too." Daisuke said.

Her chocolate eyes were focused on the long haired boy who had a caterpillar Digimon standing in front of him cuddling up to the dragon, Ken giving a shy smile.

"Finally, Kari and TK, they were on the first team, but were young at the time. About Tommy's age. They were placed on the new team." She continued.

Looking up, her eyes met Koji's sapphire ones.

"Kari has the Crest of Light and TK has the Crest of Hope." She announced.

This news made everyone, including Koji, gap and exclaim loudly in shock.

"What? No way!" JP gasped.

"Wait, aren't you and Koji the Warriors of Light and Hope?" Zoe asked.

It was then that Koji fully understood why the mahogany haired girl had gotten angered and tried to strangle her D-Tector when she found out she had the Spirit of Hope.

"Yep. I don't get why though. It just doesn't make sense. I mean, I've been thinking about it a lot and I don't know why I would have the Spirit of Hope." Daisuke said conflict in her eyes.

Hope was something everyone was supposed to have, but she had always been the one who relied on her Courage and Friendship when she went into battle.

Though she never did give up on having hope that she could defeat the enemy and had to instill it in everyone else, including Ken.

"You need to have hope to believe in miracles." Neemon giggled.

This stunned everyone even further as they turned to the yellow Digimon for saying something so wise.

"Where did you learn that?" Bokomon asked.

"My grandma-mon told it to me. What does it mean?" Neemon asked as he tilted his head to the side.

The group all fell to the ground, groaning in disbelief of the way the yellow Digimon acted.

"Hey, Daisuke, I was wondering. What happened to your Digimon? And why did you have Digimon in the first place?" Tommy asked once everyone recovered.

This made the girl grow quiet and depressed, but she pinched her arm to snap herself out of the memories so she wouldn't break down in front of everyone and cry.

They didn't need to be burdened by her show of weakness when they should be focussing on the issue of saving the world.

"Oh, well, you see, back then it was told that the Digidestineds had the power to transfer their energy to the Digimon they were partnered to and formed a bond with to make them digivolve. The Digimon fought the battles and protected their humans." Bokomon explained.

"So, basically the Digidetsineds used to be the cheerleaders for their Digimon who did all the work." Takuya concluded.

"Takuya." The Warrior of Wind scolded with her hands on her hips.

"What? It's what it sounds like to me." Takuya stated in his defence making Zoe shake her head at him.

"So, where is your Digimon? Uh, V-Mon? Is she in the Digital World around here?" JP asked the tanned girl.

"She's dead." Daisuke said hollowly.

Eyes grew wide at that as the humans and Digimon all stared at her in shock.

"Oh. How?" JP asked unsure of how to change the subject and was a bit afraid of prying.

"An evil Digimon named Daemon. He showed up about a month before I came here. He tried to get revenge on us for beating him during Christmas and everyone was badly hurt. V-Mon was able to take him out, but he took her with him." the girl explained as she stared at the ground, her bangs covering her eyes.

A warm breeze blew around the group as they stayed silent, staring at the girl sadly for her loss.

Tommy then ran over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist and buried in head in her stomach making the girl look down at him in confusion.

Lifting his head up, emerald eyes stared up into chocolate both surprised to see tears pooling the other person's eyes.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"I thought you might need a hug. Everyone needs one when they're sad." The Warrior of ice said.

Tears started to slowly trickle down Daisuke's face at his words.

No one had tried to comfort her after V-Mon's death, not TK who knew what it was like to have their partner destroy themselves along with the enemy.

Not Tai who she respected the most out of anyone.

And not even Ken who was her best friend.

Matt had given her a look of sympathy, but that was it.

She had never gotten the proper comfort she needed when V-Mon died.

Falling to her knees, Daisuke pulled Tommy into a hug, silently sobbing while everyone watched, Zoe having tears in her eyes too as she watched the exchange.

Sniffling and whipping away her tears, Daisuke pulled out of the hug and smiled at the nine year old boy.

"Thanks, I needed that. Hey, see. I told ya you could help us out." She teased.

Tommy chuckled at that as his cheeks were tinted pink, proud to have been able to help someone out, especially someone who showed faith in him.

Bokomon pulled a handkerchief out of his waist band and blew his beak into it, feeling just as much emotion from the display as Zoe did and tried not to start blubbering.

Takuya then cleared his throat making everyone look at him.

"Hey, why don't we get going? We still need to get to the Forest Terminal." He smiled.

"Yeah, but how do we get there?" JP asked, happy the tense atmosphere had evened out.

"I may know a way. Come along." Bokomon cleared his throat.

Everyone started walking along through the forest, Neemon humming a cheerful tune as everyone walked in pairs.

Bokomon and Neemon were in the front to lead the group, Takuya was beside Zoe while JP and Tommy walked side by side and finally, Koji and Daisuke were at the back of the group.

The raven turned his head over to the girl beside him and gave her an accusing look and his intense gaze made her look over at him.

"What?" She asked.

"You didn't tell us the full story." He accused.

For some reason, he had started to gain the ability to read her and wasn't sure how or why, but he knew that she was still holding in more pain.

He figured it was the Spirit of Light that could sense something was off through the bond it had with the Spirit of Hope.

"No, I didn't." Daisuke didn't even deny it.

"You'll tell me about it when you feel comfortable, right?" He stated more than asked.

She smiled at that and nodded her head at the Warrior of Light.

"Yeah, but you know, since I spilled my guts, you have to do the same. I mean, having no siblings can't be the only secret you have. Actually, that's not even secret." Daisuke said.

Sighing at this, Koji then stared ahead to make sure no one was listening in on their conversation and saw that everyone was engaged in their own discussions or were just joking around.

Turning back to Daisuke, his sapphire eyes met her chocolate eyes and was stunned to see her eyes had flashed aquamarine and his had flashed scarlet.

He pushed the strange anomaly away though and focused on what he had decided to confess.

"My mom died when I was a baby. I don't even remember her. The only thing I have of hers is her picture. My dad got remarried two years ago. The day we left for the Digital World was their anniversary. I was supposed to pick up flowers for her, but I didn't even want to." Koji frowned.

"You don't like this woman because she's not your mom, huh?" Daisuke picked up.

"What? No, that isn't it." He denied.

"Yeah, it is. You hate the fact that you never got to know your mom and your dad fell in love with someone without your permission." She said.

Koji grew angered, not because it wasn't true, but because she had known exactly what he was feeling and he didn't even know it himself until she explained it.

"How can you be so sure about that?" He asked bitterly.

"People may call me dumb, insensitive and whatever else, but something I'm good at is finding the source of a person's pain. Besides, if I were in your shoes, I'd feel that way too." Daisuke confessed.

Looking over at the girl, he watched as she stared up at the sky, the sun shining down on them and their teammates, making them all glow and heightened their best features.

"So, what would you do?" Koji asked her.

"Well, first thing I would do is go to that flower shop, pick up those flowers and try to accept my stepmother. It might be difficult, but we could become friends first and eventually maybe I could come to love her as my mom." Daisuke smiled cheerfully.

Sapphire eyes went wide at those words and the boy silently thought them over in his mind and smiled in the end.

"It might not be that easy for me." He said.

"Just try. Everyone deserves a chance to prove themselves." Daisuke playfully bumped shoulders with him.

He shook his head in amusement at the girl before he then looked ahead as they continued on after the others, a new sense of hope filled him.

It was then that he understood why his friend, his first friend, had become the new child of Hope.

She inspired it in everyone without even knowing.

To be continued…