A/N: Sorry, I had some computer trouble and this chapter got deleted and it took me a while to sit down and finish it. That said, it is done! And I make no apologies for this chapter either. Please read and review! If possible of course.
11.
When they reach the bedroom, their whole bunk is shaking. It sounds like a trembling block tower., only louder. Where is Mom? Taichi's steps are faster and he's jumping back on the bed next to a lump under bright yellow covers that can only be Koromon, shuddering and all things uncomfortable.
"Sick," Taichi says and Hikari has to resist the urge to roll her eyes. She doesn't think a vet can fix a blob monster from a giant egg.
Hikari moves closer, taking tentative steps where her brother takes large ones. Their Koromon, yes theirs, he's in pain, shaking, mouth open and frozen, big eyes even bigger and pure white, like clean plates.
"Koromon," Hikari tries and his feeler ears stand on end, lifting the blankets like tent poles. Taichi moves closer to him and an impulse drags her to yank him away. He almost yelps but she gives him a stern frown and plops him on the ground, now taking a cautious shuffle towards him herself. Her brother's safety comes first!
She hears a screeching noise, like Miko is somehow caught in the VCR and a sleepy voice moments later. "Taichi? Hikari?"
Hikari winces as she turns to look. "Taichi, stall her, stall, stall!"
But Taichi doesn't. His eyes are fixed on the bed, wide. Hikari turns back and her breath freezes in her lungs.
The small lump in their bed has begun to grow, expanding like bread swells in the oven. The blanket rises with the screeching noise and Hikari claps her hands over her ears and totters back. The buzzing has started, a high wail in the depths of her eardrums.
Their bed splinters and their mother's voice shakes. "Taichi? Hikari!" Well, she's up now.
They can't look, if they turn they won't see and then they won't believe. All Hikari manages to do is watch. Their bed shatters like a bunch of toothpicks and marshmellows and before their eyes is a large yellow dinosaur. It blinks green eyes at the room at large, raising giant claws in a motion like a stretch. Hikari pulls Taichi from being hit by a piece of bed. However, as Agumon stomps towards their balcony, Taichi goes to follow.
"So... cool..." he whispers and before she can stop him, he clambers onto what was once Koromon and they are gone, the dinosaur breaking the glass and leaping into the night.
And perhaps it's just because everything is so terrifying, Hikari runs after them and does the same.
