Chapter 9: Crest of Sincerity
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON
With everything going on in the digital world Hikari starts to have these scary dreams in which she is dragged to another world against her own will. Gatomon and Takeru try to figure out what is wrong but she keeps insisting everything is alright but they know that something is wrong. The nightmares start to become real and now they are desperately trying to drag her to their world. Takeru senses something is seriously wrong with Hikari when he notices that she is fading out of their world. Takeru then shouts out to her causing her to snap out of it before fainting. Hikari then leaves and gets a feeling like she is being followed. Takeru gets permission to also leave to go check on Hikari when he doesn't find her anywhere. He frantically starts to search for her when he spots her sitting outside and he then runs to go greet her.
She finally tells him what's wrong and also states she is not strong enough to resist anymore. Takeru then finds the courage to tell her how he feels and to let her know that nothing is going to happen to her and when he realizes what he said he gets nervous and takes off. Shortly after that happens Hikari then vanishes to another world and it takes Gatomon, Patamon and Takeru to go find her. Once they get there they realize that they are going to have to act fast or they might lose Hikari. Takeru has Patamon destroy the control spire so Gatomon could digivolve to Angewomon and bring Hikari home. We now find the digidestined in the digital world once again looking for the digiegg of sincerity when they stop for lunch.
"Kari what was it like being pulled to another world against your own will?" Miako asked
"It was not fun but luckily Tk was there to come after me. This wasn't the first time that I have been pulled to that world and I have a feeling that it won't be the last time either." Hikari replied sadly
"Don't worry Kari I won't let anything happen to you." Takeru comforted
"Who does he think he is showing me up in front of the group, TP has a lot of nerves doing that to me?" Daisuke grumbled
"Davis is there something wrong?" Jessica wondered
"No I am just annoyed that Tk is showing me up in front of my girl." Daisuke replied
"Davis why don't you think about something else than what Tk does? I mean I know you like Kari but maybe you might like someone else." Jessica hinted
"What do you mean?" Daisuke questioned
"I mean maybe there is someone who likes you and you don't have to try so hard to impress that person." Jessica mentioned
"Do you know something that I don't because I would like to meet the person and see what she is like?" Daisuke answered
"Davis doesn't realize that Jessica likes him." Hikari whispered to Takeru
"I just hope that Davis gives her a chance." Miako butted in
"I think it would do Davis some good to have his mind on someone else that way he is not competing with Tk over everything that Tk does." Cody mentioned
"What are you guys talking about?" Daisuke wondered
Nothing we were just wondering where the new digiegg was. Miako lied
"Tk; do you think that Davis would like me and start treating me like he does to everyone else?" Jessica asked
"Jessica I don't think it is a matter of him not liking you it is just that he is not able to figure out he wants I see he treats you differently than he treats Kari or Yolie but give him some time he will come around." Takeru encouraged
"Hey guys! I am hungry, if we do not find the digiegg soon then I am going to want to turn it into an omelet." Daisuke complained
"You will do no such thing you do not hear us complaining about being hungry!" Miako yelled
"Oh, you think you are so smart, so why have we not found this digiegg yet?" Daisuke shot back
"Hey guys! I think we will get to find something to eat; there is a restaurant across the lake." Takeru announced
The digidestined all cross the lake only to have Daisuke pull Takeru aside to talk to him.
"Go on ahead. I have to talk to TJ for a moment." Daisuke said
"What is up Davis?" Takeru wondered
"I have a little problem and you are the only one that might be able to help me with it. I cannot go to Kari or Yolie about this being they wouldn't understand and Cody is too young." Daisuke explained
"Davis how can I help?" Takeru asked
"Everyone knows I like Kari and I have no problem expressing how I feel about her but lately I have been feeling shy around Jessica and I am worrying how I look and act around her. What should I do?" Daisuke stated
"Well it seems that you only have a crush on Kari and that you are in love with Jessica. Have you actually talked to Jessica yet?" Takeru replied
"No I don't know what to talk to her about. Every time I try to talk to her I seem like a jerk and I end up running away from her." Daisuke mentioned
"There is nothing to be afraid about I know that she loves soccer and she was the only girl on the guys' soccer team because they didn't have a girls' soccer team. She has lead her team to the state champion ship and won that. Maybe you and Tai should face off against Sora and Jessica being soccer is a common game you all love and maybe you could end up showing each other your signature moves." Takeru suggested
"How is that going to help me with Jessica?" Daisuke questioned
"It is a common interest that you both share; this gives you the opening you need to start to get to know her." Takeru implied
"So you are saying that I should use soccer to get to know her?" Daisuke confirmed
:Yes I will set it up with Tai and Sora to see if they are in then we will ask Jessica about it." Takeru informed
"Tai, Sora
I am thinking of doing a 2 on 2 soccer match tomorrow at the soccer field. Davis likes my friend Jessica and Jessica likes him but right now they are not talking to each other and soccer is a common interest that they both share. I was thinking of doing Tai and Davis VS Sora and Jessica. Please let me know if you 2 are up for the challenge. Tk"
"Tk
You know I am always up for a good game of soccer! I'm in! Tai"
"Tk
Sure I will play, I haven't played soccer lately because of tennis but I am willing to face against Tai for old time sakes. Sora"
"Ok both Tai and Sora is in now let's join the other and fill them in about this match." Takeru suggested
They both join the rest of the digidestined and they all take 3 tables. Takeru and Hikari sat at one table, Miako and Cody at another and Daisuke and Jessica at the last table. Takeru then mentions to Jessica that Daisuke likes soccer to start a conversation between Daisuke and Jessica.
"Hey Jessica do you know Davis is the starter and captain of our school's soccer team?" Takeru mentioned
"Really I love soccer!" Jessica stated
"Yeah, well my friends Tai and Sora are having a soccer match against me and I need someone else to play to make it even and I was wondering if you want to play tomorrow?" Daisuke nervously asked
"Sure! What time and how are the teams going to be broken down?" Jessica wondered
"Well it will be the girls facing off against the Guys around noon if that is fine with you?" Daisuke stated
"No that is fine; I look forward to playing soccer." Jessica said
"Tk did you set this up?" Hikari quietly asked
"Yes it was a common interest that they both shared. There is something about this restaurant that seems familiar like I have been here before but I can't put my finger on it." Takeru informed
"Maybe last time you came here you ordered something bad." Cody suggested
"Excuse me we would like our bill please?" Miako asked
"Your total is 87 digidollars!" Digitamamon stated
"Digidollars we don't have that but if you give me a second we could go get some." Miako informed
"You are trying to skip out on the bill, you are playing me for a fool that is it all of you get to work. You will work off your meals." Digitamamon threatened
"Listen we were not trying to skip out on our bill we were just going to get some digidollars." Miako yelled
"Don't you yell at me you think I don't know what you are planning get out!" Digitamamon argued
"I remember where I have seen this restaurant before it was 4 years ago when the team split up to look for Tai and Kari." Takeru mentioned
"Don't worry about the bill it is on me." Michael informed
"Mimi what are you doing here?" Miako asked
"Koushiro told me that there was a portal in America open so I decided to bring my friend Michael who is also a digidestined but he has the same style digivices that the original digidestined have." Mimi explained
"Mimi, do you mind joining us and catching up?" Hikari questioned
"No I don't I was actually planning on staying in Japan for the weekend my parents are away on a business trip for the weekend anyways." Mimi informed
"So Tk you really have been here before?" Cody wondered
"Yes I have it was on our first adventure in the digital world now when we came the time flowed differently than it does now. Time actually moved faster so one day in the digital world literally less than one second in our world." Takeru stated
"Originally it was only 7 of us who went to the digital world that summer because Kari was home sick and never went to camp." Mimi filled in
"When we first arrived we didn't understand the digital world and how we were supposed to do anything here. We met our partners and one by one we were able to get our partners to digivolve to their champion state." Takeru continued
"Now while they were all having their adventures in the digital world I was home but Devimon which was the first boss we faced somehow used my connection to Tk and haunted me telling me that he was going to destroy Tk and make me suffer. Tk and the others finally were ready to face Devimon but he used Tk to pull me to the digital world. Now Tk was the only one who was not able to get his Digimon partner to digivolve and when he did his Digimon partner sacrificed himself to protect the rest of us." Hikari included
"After the battle with Devimon we were informed that we have to look for some crests. So we went to an underground cavern to find the tags that our crests belonged to and then we made our way to the continent of server where we started to look for the crests. One by one we found the crests dodging an Elvis wanna be in order to find them. Tai found his crest first, and then Jyou, then I found mine. Koushiro and Matt were next to find theirs then Tk and Sora were the last to find their crests. Once Sora received hers Tai was able to get Greymon to properly digivolve to Metal Greymon and defeated Etamon but with the consequence of creating a rift in the digital world which sucked Kari and Tai back home even though we didn't know it." Mimi stated
"We all started to look for Tai and Kari trying to find where they might have went to but soon it became to the point where we started to split up. Sora and Biyomon was the first to leave then Jyou and Gomamon were next. Koushiro, Mimi and their Digimon then went another way leaving Matt and myself. Matt then told me that the others have been gone for a long time and told me that I need to stay strong and don't worry because he was going to go look for the others. Now Matt left me by an amusement park to go look for Tai and the others." Takeru stated
"Now at the time I was a servant to the dark lord Myotismon and I was sent by him to keep an eye on the youngest child for he felt that Tk was the key to finding the 8th digidestined. He also sent one of his servants Demi-Devimon to retrieve the crests from the rest of the children and he thought Tk would have been an easy target knowing he would screw up my mission." Gatomon said
"Tai then returned to the digital world about a month later even though it was about a half hour in our world to inform me that Kari and he returned home and Kari was safe. Demi Devimon then disappeared to get some mushrooms of forgetfulness to make me forget about finding the others. If Agumon didn't have to use the restroom Sora would have never informed Agumon of Demi Devimon's plan to get us to forget. Tokomon then digivolved back into Patamon and took care of Demi Devimon by blasting him into a lake." Takeru informed
"Tai, Agumon, Tk and I then crossed the lake where we ran into Matt and Jyou at this restaurant where Digitamamon and Vegimon were keeping them here as slaves to pay off a meal Jyou had a month ago. Once again Demi Devimon was behind this scheme in order to try to take Matt's crest away from him. Matt accused Jyou of being a bad friend and was about to leave when we came. Digitamamon told Matt that he was not able to leave and he had to continue to work. Matt told him that he quit and that he was going to take Tk and get far away from this restaurant. Digitamamon then had Vegimon grab Tk and start to squeeze the life out of him. Jyou then risked his life by jumping off the roof and tackled Vegimon causing Vegimon to throw Tk in which Tai caught him. Matt got his crest to glow and he defeated Digitamamon and apologized to Jyou and then we split up again to find Koushiro and Mimi." Patamon chimed in
"Once again Demi Devimon failed to get our crests and we all got back together only to find Sora and after Sora finally rejoined the group and that is when Myotismon finally showed his ugly face. Sora got her crest to glow and we all were able to escape him only to have Gatomon and Wizardmon place us under a spell to make us think Tk was with us." Mimi explained
"Myotismon used me to open the gateway to our world where he started to hunt down for Kari. Gatomon and Wizardmon then freed me and Patamon in which we had to lay low until it was time to face Myotismon. I was told to hold onto Kari's crest and Wizardmon then retrieved Kari's digivice in which we prepared for the battle with Myotismon." Takeru stated
"I remember that summer I was one of the kids at the recreation center." Daisuke mentioned
"I also remember that summer; I was on the plane that had to make an emergency landing in the river." Cody added
"That was the summer I saw Gorillamon climbing the Empire State Building at first I thought it was just another ape that escaped from the zoo but I was mistaken." Michael said
"I didn't have the same experiences you have had however I was one of the children sending mass emails during the battle against Diaboromon." Miako informed
"My experiences actually started 4 years before Myotismon. My dad was stationed in Japan and we were living in Heighten View Terrace at the time when we saw Greymon battling a giant bird Digimon Parrotmon. After that my dad sent me to live with my grandmother for that summer because he didn't want me there if there was terrorists." Jessica stated
"Well at one time or another we all had similar encounters with Digimon." Hikari concluded
Suddenly a blast strikes the restaurant causing the children to see what was happening. Michael informed them that Gorillamon was back and he also had a dark spiral around his arm. Michael then used his digivice and had Betamon digivolve into Seadramon while Jessica used her crest to get her Betamon to digivolve into Ice Seadramon. Both of the Digimon then attacked Gorillamon keeping him busy until they were able to remove the dark spiral off of Gorillamon. While this was happening Takeru and Hikari went to look for Digitamamon to see if he was alright. Digitamamon then rolled down the hill in which he started to attack the digidestined. Mimi tried to talk to him but he wouldn't listen and knocked Mimi to the ground. Miako then started to yell at him calling him a phony and he shot back calling her a phony in which she started to confess how she judges boys and how she swore to never do it again without getting to know them first. This caused Mimi's crest to glow and take shape of the digiegg of sincerity. Miako then used the digiegg of sincerity and Shurimon appeared and found the dark spiral in which he destroyed it. They all then return back to the real world to fill in Koushiro of their success.
Later that evening Takeru calls a digidestined meeting in to explain the soccer match and informs the digidestined that there are more digidestined out there then they originally thought. Sora invites Mimi to stay with him while Michael stays at Takeru's place. The next day they all met at the soccer field to watch the match between team Taichi and Daisuke and Team Sora and Jessica. The girls rooted for Sora and Jessica while the guys rooted for Taichi and Daisuke. Takeru refereed the game and it turned out that Sora and Jessica were able to get 10 goals first winning the soccer match then they all had a picnic at the park before saying bye to Mimi and Michael. Koushiro pulled Mimi off to the side and decided that he would ask Mimi out.
"Mimi I know that you live in New York and I live here but I was wondering if you would like to go out with me." Koushiro stammered
"Yes I would like to go out with you, you were the only boy that ignored me and yet I couldn't seem to figure out why I liked you but I do." Mimi said kissing Koushiro on the cheek causing him to go as red as the color of his hair.
While this was going on Daisuke and Jessica also started to talk as well and they became boyfriend and girlfriend as well.
