A/N - Sorry this took so long to write. Writers block along with finals, work, friends, etc. Anyway, there are going to be errors in this because I was so tired when I typed it. Im the type who writes it then types it. So try to enjoy it anyway! R + R!
Looking Back
Chapter 8
We had been traveling for two days. Our supplies were growing scarce and if almost felt like the old times - when we had first come to the digital world. Tai was pushing me and Matt to our limit and I knew something had to be said.
Ever since Gennai's death we had all remained silent. When I had woken up from the blackness I found a silent Tai and Matt, glaring at each other. Tai simply told me that we were planning on traveling to find the others. That had been the extent of the conversation between us humans.
Biyomon wanted to talk so much - because we were still catching up - se we talked about what we had both been doing over the last couple of years. I knew Tai and Matt were listening - because Tai was always in front of me and Matt was always behind. I really wanted to talk with them both - but they were both keeping silent.
I really wanted to talk to Matt. I had felt comforted in his arms those moments before everything had started. And I was hurting so much inside. But he seemed to keep his distance from me and I knew he no longer loved me. So I kept my distance from him.
I didn't know what Tai's problem was. I thought he had gotten over this whole dominance phase when Davis had taken over the new digidestined - but maybe I was wrong. I was so tired by this time that I could not take it anymore and I decided to break the silence.
"OKAY TAI! Enough is enough. We can't keep going at this pace. Besides - we don't even know what direction the others went in."
Tai turned around and look at me with those big brown eyes and I understood what was wrong. I smiled, "She's fine Tai. Tk is an adult now, she is an adult now. When are you going to let her grow up?"
Matt walked forward and hit him on the shoulder playfully, "Yeah man, she is bring protected by a miniature version of both you and me - she couldn't be safer. Besides, w e have a job of our own to do." He grinned at me and I simply frowned at him.
"Yamato Ishida - I am not just some job for you to do. This whole prophecy thing is crap anyway. I can take care of myself. I've certainly done okay so far..."
Tai grinned, catching onto Matt's goading. "Well someone up above apparently doesn't think your very capable and assigned us - big strapping me - to guard your little life. Lucky for you that you just so happen to be friends with such handsome guys."
I laughed. I fell on the ground and just laughed because I knew Tai really thought that. I mean sure they were both cute - but their ego's were still so big it made me hysterical. When I was able to control myself again I looked up to see Tai glaring at me and Matt trying not to grin.
I got up and winked at Tai, "That's what you get."
I started to walk away and I heard Tai mumble, "She used to be a lot nicer;" before he started after me.
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It was night and it was a beautiful one at that. The type where as kids we would look at the sky and just dream about the future. We had no idea how things were going to turn out - we just wanted to dream.
Our digimon had already gone to sleep - and I was cleaning up the left-over food. I walked away from the campsite and found a plain where the forest let off and I could see the stars perfectly. I lay down and put my hands behind my head and stared up at the sky.
I hoped everyone was alright. I was completely caught up in my own thoughts until I heard a twig snap and I looked up and saw Matt in the clearing.
"Sorry about that, Sora. I didn't mean to interrupt you."
"No, it's okay. Tai asleep?"
"Yeah - he's out like a light. Snoring up a storm." Matt sat down with me.
We sat in silence - just looking at the stars for a good while and he broke the silence. "Sora, what was it that got us out of there. One minute I was burning the next we were with Tai. Is that some of these powers that you are supposed to have?"
I sighed, "Oh Matt, I don't honestly know. I know it came from me - but I don't know how it came about. Otherwise I would just transport us to the others. I think it's something I'm going to have to work on."
"Well don't hurt yourself. That took a lot of your energy just to do what you did and I don't want you getting hurt in the process."
I smiled at him and thought quietly to myself. Looking back up at the starts I said, " I miss him already, Matt." I couldn't stop the tears as they slid down my face. I was in his arms in a second. I don't know if it was him bringing me to him or me going to him. Probably a little bit of both. I fell asleep that way - comforted in his arms as he calmed me down.
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"Wake up you two." Tai said to Matt and Sora. "We've got to get a move on sometime today."
Matt woke and looked down to see Sora in his arms. He smiled at her as she blushed and quickly got up. Matt just glared at Tai as Tai grinned and shrugged. They got situated and Tai set the pace as usual.
They were idly chatting when Tai got pretty far ahead of Sora and Matt. Matt thought that Tai was being irresponsible, when he noticed Tai was stopped. He looked closer and saw why. Tai was in front of them dangling on a ledge.
"Tai, STAY STILL!" Matt yelled as they both started running. Just as they all got up to where Tai was, Tai slipped and fell. Agumon tried to catching him but was too late. Matt's heart quit beating as he saw his best friend plummet towards the bottom of a cliff.
Just as he was about to hit a flash of read went about Tai and suddenly he was standing in front of Matt. Matt blinked, as did Agumon, Gabumon, and Biyomon and Tai started to leap for joy. "I'm alive! But how?"
Matt looked at him and then turned to Sora just in time to see her about to fall over.
"Sora!" Biyomon yelled as she tried to support her friend. Matt was there in a flash, scooping her up in his arms. She smiled up at him and his heart melted.
"I did it again. I just envisioned m love for Tai and he was saved."
Tai was standing with Matt and leaned to kiss her forehead. "Thanks Sor - I owe ya one."
Matt felt a small pang of jealousy but was glad his best friend was alive. He put Sora down when he was sure she could stand. He stared at the love of his life and said, "That's what Gennai meant about the love in your heart. You concentrated on that love to get us out of there and just hot to save Tai. That's the key."
Tai looked at them, confused as usual. Matt explained to him what they had been talking about the night before.
"I think that you need to only use the powers in case of an emergency." Matt ended
"Yeah, he's right."
Sora looked at them all, "But I may be able to get us to the others."
"At what risk though?" Matt said and received a glare from Sora.
As she was about to say something, Tai's digivice started to beep. "It's the others!" Tai said checking his digivice.
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"So Gennai is dead?" Jo said while holding and comforting a crying Mimi. We had to run and join up with Joe, Izzy, Mimi, and their digimon. Tai now stood with his arms crossed leaning against a tree. Izzy was standing near him. Matt and I sat together on a log across from Mimi and Joe.
I had just related the events at the house to the others. Tai patted Izzy on the shoulder and said, "The time to deal with this grief is not now. We shall have to put this behind us - like before. Right before Gennai died he told us that you knew more about this evil. What is it exactly?"
Izzy looked at us and pulled out his laptop. a silver one now. He started typing but when Tai cleared his throat Izzy looked up sheepishly and grinned. I smiled back at him and said, "Please tell us about it."
Izzy cleared his throat. "Well you all remember how there were four." He stopped for effect and went on, "Well they were guardians - but in the digital world there had to be something to bring balance to that power. Well, after Owikawa sacrificed himself some of this power went to the balance. But the evil spirits decided to make more of that energy and formed as the four elements. Earth - the power to move and bury, earth is the weakest. Then wind - the power to suffocate. Water - the power to drown. And fire - the strongest, the power to burn the flesh."
I shivered remembering the charred remains of Gennai and Matt instinctively put an arm around me. I smiled at him and felt grateful for his support. Mimi said frantically, "Why did you use those violent ways to describe the elements?"
Izzy swallowed, That's what the rest of the prophecy says."
Matt responded, "So what do the girls have to do with it all?"
"Supposedly they will have the power to stop these four new evils and right the wrongs they create. But each girl has a certain power to defeat these evil beings."
"I thought they would have the power through us," Biyomon stated, " I didn't know they would have to battle it on their own."
"Well it says, 'For every evil one shall overcome.' I guess that means each girl will have to defeat an evil on her own."
"What! I can't do it on my own!" Mimi yelled.
Joe rubbed her back, "You will have us there to support you, sweetie. Don't worry."
I got up, " I guess it doesn't say which of us would face what evil."
"No Sora, I'm sorry." I smiled and turned away.
"Well," Tai said, " I saw the first thing we do is find Kari, Tk and the others. Then we attack, together, as one. That is where we are the strongest."
"I agree." Joe said. He was no longer the fragile boy that he once ways. His love for Mimi had changed both him and her.
I looked at Mimi and said, "Well I for one would like to know more about these powers of ours. I mean I'm starting to control it, but how do we grasp it all?"
"Essentially all it says is to concentrate on your crest. Like you did when saving the others."
I nodded but I was still not happy with it all. I decided I needed some time to think - but I didn't feel safe going somewhere alone. So I motioned for Matt to follow me and we walked away. I noticed Mimi and Joe going in the opposite direction. Matt took me by the hand and led me towards the stream nearby. It was a beautiful sight - the stream by the meadow.
I looked at him, "You know, all this death and destruction always takes away from the actual beauty of this world. I forget how wondrous it was when it was peaceful."
He looked at me and leaned forward. "Sora, you are the beatiful one here ..."
His face drew closer and closer to mine. I closed my eyes as he closed the gap between us. I felt the kiss coming, it feeling like so long ago and ...
"MIMI!" A scream broke the moment. I looked at Matt and then I was running towards where the scream had come from. We both started running through the trees. When I came to a hault I saw a huge figure, much like the one of fire - but this one was covered in oozing mud.
In one hand it held the shrieking form of Mimi. Joe and Izzy were there trying to beat it to let Mimi down. Tai was there too, but when he saw us he ran up and sighed, " Good, your safe."
It was then that Joe punched into the mud and his arm got stuck.
"LET ME GO!" Mimi yelled.
Izzy was in a similar predicament as Joe by this time, as were all of their digimon. The three of us ran up with our digimon and started to try and pull them out.
It seemed hopeless when I got an idea. "Mimi! You've got to focus on the power of your crest now. Think about sincerity. I'll use mine too. Now concentrate on as much dirt as you possibly can. Not mud, but dirt. The rest of you - pull when I give the signal."
"Okay Sora." Mimi yelled back at me.
I started to concentrate on my love for my friends and felt the glow again. I felt, rather than saw, Mimi concentrating on her crest. Then I pictured a desert.
"NOW! I pulled on Joe as I used all the force of my powers to bring as much dirt as possible to the monster. Mimi was glowing and doing the same. A huge sandstorm came in and enveloped us and I felt Joe come free. I fell to the ground and layed there until the sand cleared. When I looked up I saw the monster, but he was frozen solid - hardened clay.
Mimi had fallen to the ground and was covered in dirt. We all were. Joe rushed over to Mimi and held her crying form. Tai grinned at me. "Great Job, Sora."
Matt rushed over to me and helped me up. I was a little unsteady. Then he pulled me into his arms. "Your going to be the death of me. Your too pale, do you need to sit down?"
I grinned, "Im covered in dirt Matt."
"But .."
"I'm fine." I leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks though."
A crunching noise started right then and we all backed away form the newly formed statue as it began to crack into millions of pieces and fall to the ground. After a few moments a mist escaped the rubble and went into the sky.
As the dust settled we looked around again and saw six new faces among us. "Looks like you guys went through something pretty simliar to us." Ken said.
"Yeah, looks like it." came from Cody
Yolie grinned, "We're here! You guys look terrible!"
I grinned.
Looking Back
Chapter 8
We had been traveling for two days. Our supplies were growing scarce and if almost felt like the old times - when we had first come to the digital world. Tai was pushing me and Matt to our limit and I knew something had to be said.
Ever since Gennai's death we had all remained silent. When I had woken up from the blackness I found a silent Tai and Matt, glaring at each other. Tai simply told me that we were planning on traveling to find the others. That had been the extent of the conversation between us humans.
Biyomon wanted to talk so much - because we were still catching up - se we talked about what we had both been doing over the last couple of years. I knew Tai and Matt were listening - because Tai was always in front of me and Matt was always behind. I really wanted to talk with them both - but they were both keeping silent.
I really wanted to talk to Matt. I had felt comforted in his arms those moments before everything had started. And I was hurting so much inside. But he seemed to keep his distance from me and I knew he no longer loved me. So I kept my distance from him.
I didn't know what Tai's problem was. I thought he had gotten over this whole dominance phase when Davis had taken over the new digidestined - but maybe I was wrong. I was so tired by this time that I could not take it anymore and I decided to break the silence.
"OKAY TAI! Enough is enough. We can't keep going at this pace. Besides - we don't even know what direction the others went in."
Tai turned around and look at me with those big brown eyes and I understood what was wrong. I smiled, "She's fine Tai. Tk is an adult now, she is an adult now. When are you going to let her grow up?"
Matt walked forward and hit him on the shoulder playfully, "Yeah man, she is bring protected by a miniature version of both you and me - she couldn't be safer. Besides, w e have a job of our own to do." He grinned at me and I simply frowned at him.
"Yamato Ishida - I am not just some job for you to do. This whole prophecy thing is crap anyway. I can take care of myself. I've certainly done okay so far..."
Tai grinned, catching onto Matt's goading. "Well someone up above apparently doesn't think your very capable and assigned us - big strapping me - to guard your little life. Lucky for you that you just so happen to be friends with such handsome guys."
I laughed. I fell on the ground and just laughed because I knew Tai really thought that. I mean sure they were both cute - but their ego's were still so big it made me hysterical. When I was able to control myself again I looked up to see Tai glaring at me and Matt trying not to grin.
I got up and winked at Tai, "That's what you get."
I started to walk away and I heard Tai mumble, "She used to be a lot nicer;" before he started after me.
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It was night and it was a beautiful one at that. The type where as kids we would look at the sky and just dream about the future. We had no idea how things were going to turn out - we just wanted to dream.
Our digimon had already gone to sleep - and I was cleaning up the left-over food. I walked away from the campsite and found a plain where the forest let off and I could see the stars perfectly. I lay down and put my hands behind my head and stared up at the sky.
I hoped everyone was alright. I was completely caught up in my own thoughts until I heard a twig snap and I looked up and saw Matt in the clearing.
"Sorry about that, Sora. I didn't mean to interrupt you."
"No, it's okay. Tai asleep?"
"Yeah - he's out like a light. Snoring up a storm." Matt sat down with me.
We sat in silence - just looking at the stars for a good while and he broke the silence. "Sora, what was it that got us out of there. One minute I was burning the next we were with Tai. Is that some of these powers that you are supposed to have?"
I sighed, "Oh Matt, I don't honestly know. I know it came from me - but I don't know how it came about. Otherwise I would just transport us to the others. I think it's something I'm going to have to work on."
"Well don't hurt yourself. That took a lot of your energy just to do what you did and I don't want you getting hurt in the process."
I smiled at him and thought quietly to myself. Looking back up at the starts I said, " I miss him already, Matt." I couldn't stop the tears as they slid down my face. I was in his arms in a second. I don't know if it was him bringing me to him or me going to him. Probably a little bit of both. I fell asleep that way - comforted in his arms as he calmed me down.
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"Wake up you two." Tai said to Matt and Sora. "We've got to get a move on sometime today."
Matt woke and looked down to see Sora in his arms. He smiled at her as she blushed and quickly got up. Matt just glared at Tai as Tai grinned and shrugged. They got situated and Tai set the pace as usual.
They were idly chatting when Tai got pretty far ahead of Sora and Matt. Matt thought that Tai was being irresponsible, when he noticed Tai was stopped. He looked closer and saw why. Tai was in front of them dangling on a ledge.
"Tai, STAY STILL!" Matt yelled as they both started running. Just as they all got up to where Tai was, Tai slipped and fell. Agumon tried to catching him but was too late. Matt's heart quit beating as he saw his best friend plummet towards the bottom of a cliff.
Just as he was about to hit a flash of read went about Tai and suddenly he was standing in front of Matt. Matt blinked, as did Agumon, Gabumon, and Biyomon and Tai started to leap for joy. "I'm alive! But how?"
Matt looked at him and then turned to Sora just in time to see her about to fall over.
"Sora!" Biyomon yelled as she tried to support her friend. Matt was there in a flash, scooping her up in his arms. She smiled up at him and his heart melted.
"I did it again. I just envisioned m love for Tai and he was saved."
Tai was standing with Matt and leaned to kiss her forehead. "Thanks Sor - I owe ya one."
Matt felt a small pang of jealousy but was glad his best friend was alive. He put Sora down when he was sure she could stand. He stared at the love of his life and said, "That's what Gennai meant about the love in your heart. You concentrated on that love to get us out of there and just hot to save Tai. That's the key."
Tai looked at them, confused as usual. Matt explained to him what they had been talking about the night before.
"I think that you need to only use the powers in case of an emergency." Matt ended
"Yeah, he's right."
Sora looked at them all, "But I may be able to get us to the others."
"At what risk though?" Matt said and received a glare from Sora.
As she was about to say something, Tai's digivice started to beep. "It's the others!" Tai said checking his digivice.
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"So Gennai is dead?" Jo said while holding and comforting a crying Mimi. We had to run and join up with Joe, Izzy, Mimi, and their digimon. Tai now stood with his arms crossed leaning against a tree. Izzy was standing near him. Matt and I sat together on a log across from Mimi and Joe.
I had just related the events at the house to the others. Tai patted Izzy on the shoulder and said, "The time to deal with this grief is not now. We shall have to put this behind us - like before. Right before Gennai died he told us that you knew more about this evil. What is it exactly?"
Izzy looked at us and pulled out his laptop. a silver one now. He started typing but when Tai cleared his throat Izzy looked up sheepishly and grinned. I smiled back at him and said, "Please tell us about it."
Izzy cleared his throat. "Well you all remember how there were four." He stopped for effect and went on, "Well they were guardians - but in the digital world there had to be something to bring balance to that power. Well, after Owikawa sacrificed himself some of this power went to the balance. But the evil spirits decided to make more of that energy and formed as the four elements. Earth - the power to move and bury, earth is the weakest. Then wind - the power to suffocate. Water - the power to drown. And fire - the strongest, the power to burn the flesh."
I shivered remembering the charred remains of Gennai and Matt instinctively put an arm around me. I smiled at him and felt grateful for his support. Mimi said frantically, "Why did you use those violent ways to describe the elements?"
Izzy swallowed, That's what the rest of the prophecy says."
Matt responded, "So what do the girls have to do with it all?"
"Supposedly they will have the power to stop these four new evils and right the wrongs they create. But each girl has a certain power to defeat these evil beings."
"I thought they would have the power through us," Biyomon stated, " I didn't know they would have to battle it on their own."
"Well it says, 'For every evil one shall overcome.' I guess that means each girl will have to defeat an evil on her own."
"What! I can't do it on my own!" Mimi yelled.
Joe rubbed her back, "You will have us there to support you, sweetie. Don't worry."
I got up, " I guess it doesn't say which of us would face what evil."
"No Sora, I'm sorry." I smiled and turned away.
"Well," Tai said, " I saw the first thing we do is find Kari, Tk and the others. Then we attack, together, as one. That is where we are the strongest."
"I agree." Joe said. He was no longer the fragile boy that he once ways. His love for Mimi had changed both him and her.
I looked at Mimi and said, "Well I for one would like to know more about these powers of ours. I mean I'm starting to control it, but how do we grasp it all?"
"Essentially all it says is to concentrate on your crest. Like you did when saving the others."
I nodded but I was still not happy with it all. I decided I needed some time to think - but I didn't feel safe going somewhere alone. So I motioned for Matt to follow me and we walked away. I noticed Mimi and Joe going in the opposite direction. Matt took me by the hand and led me towards the stream nearby. It was a beautiful sight - the stream by the meadow.
I looked at him, "You know, all this death and destruction always takes away from the actual beauty of this world. I forget how wondrous it was when it was peaceful."
He looked at me and leaned forward. "Sora, you are the beatiful one here ..."
His face drew closer and closer to mine. I closed my eyes as he closed the gap between us. I felt the kiss coming, it feeling like so long ago and ...
"MIMI!" A scream broke the moment. I looked at Matt and then I was running towards where the scream had come from. We both started running through the trees. When I came to a hault I saw a huge figure, much like the one of fire - but this one was covered in oozing mud.
In one hand it held the shrieking form of Mimi. Joe and Izzy were there trying to beat it to let Mimi down. Tai was there too, but when he saw us he ran up and sighed, " Good, your safe."
It was then that Joe punched into the mud and his arm got stuck.
"LET ME GO!" Mimi yelled.
Izzy was in a similar predicament as Joe by this time, as were all of their digimon. The three of us ran up with our digimon and started to try and pull them out.
It seemed hopeless when I got an idea. "Mimi! You've got to focus on the power of your crest now. Think about sincerity. I'll use mine too. Now concentrate on as much dirt as you possibly can. Not mud, but dirt. The rest of you - pull when I give the signal."
"Okay Sora." Mimi yelled back at me.
I started to concentrate on my love for my friends and felt the glow again. I felt, rather than saw, Mimi concentrating on her crest. Then I pictured a desert.
"NOW! I pulled on Joe as I used all the force of my powers to bring as much dirt as possible to the monster. Mimi was glowing and doing the same. A huge sandstorm came in and enveloped us and I felt Joe come free. I fell to the ground and layed there until the sand cleared. When I looked up I saw the monster, but he was frozen solid - hardened clay.
Mimi had fallen to the ground and was covered in dirt. We all were. Joe rushed over to Mimi and held her crying form. Tai grinned at me. "Great Job, Sora."
Matt rushed over to me and helped me up. I was a little unsteady. Then he pulled me into his arms. "Your going to be the death of me. Your too pale, do you need to sit down?"
I grinned, "Im covered in dirt Matt."
"But .."
"I'm fine." I leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks though."
A crunching noise started right then and we all backed away form the newly formed statue as it began to crack into millions of pieces and fall to the ground. After a few moments a mist escaped the rubble and went into the sky.
As the dust settled we looked around again and saw six new faces among us. "Looks like you guys went through something pretty simliar to us." Ken said.
"Yeah, looks like it." came from Cody
Yolie grinned, "We're here! You guys look terrible!"
I grinned.
