Battle of the Shikigami
I don't own Digimon.
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Spell Attacks"
-D Scene change and time change
K-O Different point of view
:-L Flash back
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Chapter 7
K-O Sora
She was sleeping when Mimi barged into the room and began shaking her awake so they can go visit the park where Ranma's soccer team was currently going to be playing at. She's not the only one who's annoyed about the rude wakening for her partner Shikigami Gentaru snarls and glares at Mimi for disturbing his rest, though within minutes Shing's slapping the back of Gentaru's head.
"Don't snarl at my partner!" Shing announces and Gentaru replies, "I'll snarl and glare at her as long as she keeps waking me up at these ridiculous times!" The two Shikigami start another staring contest between them as Mimi tries to convince her to dress up in the cloths that she's picking out for her.
She gently but firmly puts down the cloths Mimi keeps trying to have her dress in. While she hadn't mind Mimi picking out some cloths for her, back when they were teens, she's slowly becoming highly annoyed with this habit of Mimi's. It's kind of odd how unlike the others that had attended the meeting that Mimi and herself indeed up becoming sisters, twins even.
'Kari, Takato, and Tai make it seem so… so easy, being siblings. Though Tai did often complain about how Takato never did seem to enjoy soccer or about how Kari had trouble with Takato and Tai meddling with her love life… Still, they seem to handle it without resorting to nit picking at each other.' She wonders to herself as she finishes adjusting the hem of her red T-shirt.
She glances at Mimi to study what the Digidestine of Sincerity, currently her 'twin' is wearing a long sleeve green shirt with a company logo on the front. Instead of wearing a pair of jeans, Mimi's wearing a pair of black pants with another set of pockets by her knees with black and blue runners. What raises her eyebrow was the fact that on Mimi's forehead was a pair of teal sunglasses.
"So, are the others going to met us there or is it just going to be Akio, you, and me?" She asks Mimi since she has forgotten who's included in this outing they've had planned for about a month. "Yea, but Riku's also coming too, though Keiji and Sen have family things to attend. I think Riku mentioned that he's spending the night at Keiji's house tonight." Mimi replies and she nods as she remembers that it had been last minute thing that Joe and Takato had planned for tonight.
Soon she's putting on her dull red ball cap and then glances over to where the two Shikigami were positioned in the room. "So, are you two coming with us or are you two going out to explore on your own?" She asks the two and Shing says, "I'll come with you, though I think grumpy want's to go back to hibernating." Her partner shots Shing a sharp glare and gets to his feet.
"Well, I might as well come along in order to keep Shing from trying to steal the soccer ball while it's in play." Gentaru declares and the monkey Shikigami crossing his arms behind his head and turning away from Gentaru in a huff. "It was just that one time, one time! Can't you forget about it?" Shing exclaims with his flexible tail twitching angrily behind him. Gentaru snorts loudly before saying, "Oh yes, it was just a one time thing but the kids are still talking about the 'ghost' that attempted to play."
She smiles slightly, though she does agree with what her partner had said since the incident had been caught by at least four families who were taping the game. It even aired on the news that evening to boot, their just lucky that the Shikigami's can't be seen by non-partnered beings, though it most likely revealed to the partners out there that there's a bonded pair in this town and that someone was partnered with a monkey Shikigami.
As she heads towards the door, she pauses and glances at her partner, Gentaru for a moment before continuing out of her room with them following her. She watches as Shing slides down the hand rail, he does a flip before landing on his feet with his hands up in the air. Gentaru scoffs, "Show off."
"We're leaving now, Otoosan!" Mimi shouts once she's done putting on her white runners. "Just be cautious, Suchin-chan! Keep an eye on your sister, Phailin-chan!" Their father calls out. "I'll try." She replies before exiting out of the house through the front door.
"You'd think he doesn't trust me." Mimi says with a cute pout on her face with her arms cross in front of her chest. "I wonder why." She muses with a slight grin on her face and Gentaru adds, "I can't wait to see how this plays out in your teen years."
Mimi and her exchange amused looks at that before Shing bolts pass them as the monkey shouts, "Last one there is a turtle's shell!" Before she could say anything, Mimi turns and bolts after her partner. She glances in bewilderment at Gentaru, the bear shrugs and she sighs. They follow at a walk, it's likely that Mimi and Shing will make it there before them even if they tried they wouldn't have caught up since they had too much of a head start on them.
"You know, I should look into getting a nickname." She muses out loud as they make it about thirty feet from the house. "Oh? And just what kind of nick name you'd think would work for you?" Gentaru asks and she just shrugs. "Don't know exactly but Phailin's just a mouthful to say is all." She tells her partner.
K-O Izzy
He watches as his partner, Kotaru, creates water spheres with water from the small fountain that has come to become their meeting point for when they're hooking up in the park. The salamander Shikigami pauses and glances around the area to make sure that nobody was looking in their direction and within seconds, Kotaru causes the tiny water spheres to freeze and they drop from their two centimetres height into the water's surface. Kotaru glances at him and he sighs as he moves closer to the edge of the fountain.
It seems that Kotaru wants him to get some practice in while they're waiting for the others. He murmurs softly, "Bubble." The spot in the water where he's looking seems to be boiling as steady streams of air bubbles break the surface of the water. He stops focusing on that spot and within seconds the bubbling subsides.
He straightens and with his right hand, he holds his index finger a few millimetres above the water's surface. "Bubble." He says in much firmer voice and a small bubble filled with water forms under his finger's shadow. Kotaru hisses his approval. He then slowly moves his finger from the water's surface with the tiny sphere of water following a second or two after that.
He continues to concentrate at the task at hand, unlike what Kotaru's other lessons, this one was about control then brute force since it doesn't involve him manipulating large quantities of water. He slowly rotates his wrist and hand so that they're under the tiny water sphere. He smiles slightly as he says, "Duplicate."
The tiny sphere shimmers slightly and a mist begins to form around the sphere until it's hidden from view. When the mist clears there's now three tiny water spheres hovering over his hand. Kotaru makes a soft hissing of approval and he then begins to move his hand so that when he releases his magic from supporting this spell, it won't hit his hand and cause it to become wet.
"Akio-kun! Kotaru!" Mimi and Shing shout out with Mimi calling his name and Shing Kotaru's name. Startling him so much that as he looks away he feels the water within those three spheres hit his right hand. He sighs and looks back at his hand. "Hello Suchin-chan. How are you this morning?" He asks, returning the greeting as he wipes his right hand on his shirt.
Mimi embraces him once she's near enough while Shing puts Kotaru into a head lock for a few seconds before Kotaru smacks the energetic primate on the shoulder with his tail. "Ouch!" Shing exclaims as the monkey lets go of his partner's head and attempts to pout as Mimi begins to examine the monkey's shoulder.
It's not long before Sora and her partner Gentaru arrive; he smiles slightly as he notices that she's wearing the shirt he gotten for her two days before. "Hey." Sora says warmly and he nods in her direction before glancing around in hopes of spotting Joe arriving with his partner, Anji.
"Is Riku here yet?" Mimi asks as she begins to scan the surrounding park. "No, but then, he's got a bit of a way to walk too." He points out and Sora nods in agreement.
"So, has the soccer game started up yet?" Mimi asks him and he replies, "They're still waiting for the other team to show." It's not long before they chat about a few things, like the new arcade that's in the mall and about the fact that in about two weeks' time, school will end. They brought up what they might do for Joe, Yolei, and his coming birthdays and even talked about the up coming tourist season that will most likely be arriving in force by the time school's done.
Just as the rival team show up is when Joe arrives with one of Anji's five tails around his waist. Sora and him exchange looks as Mimi races to her boyfriend. "Are you ok, Riku-kun?" Mimi asks in a worried voice. "Last night was… kind of… rough." Anji answers and Joe nods his head, he notices the bangs under Joe's eyes as well as the fact that Joe's eyes are blood shot.
It's not long before Mimi manages to pull Joe away from not just Anji but also them as well. She drags her boyfriend towards a secluded stand of trees, leaving Shing and Anji to hang out with Sora, Kotaru, Gentaru, and himself. They glance at the solo female Shikigami and the fox sighs. "His mom had a break down last night in front of two strange teens, of which one of them is certainly bonded with a Shikigami. It proved to be a very long night, last night." Anji informs them and he felt a pang of worry and guilt in his mid section. Joe's his best friend and he hadn't been there for him.
"I hope he's going to be ok…" Sora says, her statement hanging in the air between them all.
K-O Yolei
"Hia ya!" She shouts as she throws a punch. Then she pulls it back and spins on the balls of her feet and kicks the air with her right foot. "Ha!" She shouts, so it continued for about five more minutes before her grandmother calls a halt to her practice session.
'I don't know how Henry did this.' She muses to herself as she walks to where her maternal grandmother was standing. 'But then, Cody's just as into kendo as Henry is into his martial arts. Not much of a difference is there?' She adds silently to herself as she waits for her visiting grandmother to address her.
It had certainly came as a surprise when she learnt that she's expected to begin taking karate about three days after she arrived here, in this world, in this body. It seems that before she arrived, it had been decided that she'd follow in her mother's family tradition of learning either kendo or karate. So that's the reason for this visit, it's to see how far she's progressed in her karate as well as to spend some quality time with her grandma Yuka.
Grandma Yuka nods thoughtfully at her as she says, "You're training is coming along nicely." She relaxes slightly and it's not long before her newest grandmother gives her a hug. "Now that the assessment is over, hurry and change so we can go shopping." Her grandma says and she grins as she nods her head. "I shall, Obaachan!" She says before racing back into the house to go change her cloths.
Soon she changes out of her Karate gi and tosses it into the cloths basket. She then puts on a purple long sleeve shirt with white flames on the right sleeve with a company logo on top of a white flame. She puts on a pair of dark blue jeans. She puts on a necklace that contains a gem of fire essence that she created under Danjou's training session; Danjou seemed highly pleased when she created and had told her to wear it proudly to show her skill.
Soon enough she's done and heads out of her room. She joins up with her grandma out front, by her grandmother's car. It's not long before they're off to the local mall for a shopping trip. She did wonder where Danjou was but figures that the leopard Shikigami was prowling about the neighbourhood; after all, Danjou is a feline.
K-O Takato
He glances around the tea house; it seems the place was owned by a great uncle of his. He has to admit, the place is impressive as it has dim lighting, soft relaxing music, and soothing darkish colouring. The few bits of art work were either brown or dark grey faceless statues that look slender since they're curvy and don't seem to have any real corners.
"Uncle Fusao!" His mom says when a slightly aged man with salt and pepper hair approaches them while they're sitting at their table, his mom's drinking green tea and he's drinking apple cider. "Ah, my favourite niece, and this can't be Keiji-kun! He's too tall!" His great uncle Fusao jokingly says before ruffling his spiky red hair. He gives the elderly man a slightly dirty look, which must have looked cute since great-uncle Fusao looks amused and ruffles his hair again.
It's not long before his great uncle joins his mother and himself at the table, the two grown ups chatting away about family matters like who's hired which cousin and who's graduating from which college, so forth and so forth. He tones it out as they gossip about such things when they mentioned something about a distant cousin's occupation of dog breeding.
When he finishes off his cider, a teenage cousin comes to replace it, taking the previously used mug away. It's not long before the same thing happens to his mom's green tea and his great uncle's orange tea. He glances around to the customers that were in the tea house. He's just so bored…
It's not long before they're done chatting and they're done visiting his great uncle. His uncle refuses to accept money for their drinks, claiming that they're his guests and therefore, it's on the house. It's around four o'clock, so they headed to the park to pick up Joe for the sleep over.
He exits out of the car when they arrive by the entrance and he heads towards the usual meeting point, which was a small fountain. He's not disappointed and finds most of the group sitting around it, practicing water magic. He doesn't disturb the group since he's kind of interested in how far they're progressing. He's not surprise to notice about seven to nine tiny water spheres hovering under Izzy's hand, after all, Izzy's partner's element is primary water. Mimi's got at least four tiny water spheres hovering in the air, with Joe having about six, and Sora having about three water spheres.
Within minutes of him arriving, the tiny spheres of water return to the fountain's water supply. "Hey you guys." He calls out once the water spheres were gone, which relieves him since it means it's unlikely that he'll get wet. "Hey Keiji-kun! How was your family thing?" Mimi asks, Joe moves to pick up his overnight bag.
He smiles as he answers, "It was boring, all Okaasan and my uncle talked about were family things, like who hired which cousin and such." It's not long before Joe and him were waving by to the others, it seems that Anji has decided to spend the night at Mimi and Sora's place, it seems that Anji doesn't like the prospect of hanging around with his partner, Yukio without the other Shikigami to back her up.
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He woke to Yukio nudging him in the side. He blinks a few times, it takes him a few minutes to remember where he is and who Yukio was. "What's wrong?" He asks between yawns. "Your friend." The Shikigami says in a flat tone.
It takes him another minute to realise that the kirin was talking about Joe and not about Henry or TK. It takes him a few seconds before he manages to move his tired body. He shivers as he feels the cold air that's circulating throughout the house. 'Must be the air conditioner.' He muses as he tip toes towards Joe, the only part of his feet that were touching the floor were the part with the toes.
He finds Joe currently rolling about the futon with sheets getting wrapped around parts of his body. It takes a few minutes before he realises just what Joe's nightmare is based on. He kneels down on the floor and begins to shake Joe in hopes of waking him. He puts his hand over Joe's mouth to keep Joe form shouting out.
"Riku, Riku! Calm down, you were having a bad dream." He says in a harsh whisper. It takes Joe a few moments to calm himself and he removes his hand from his mouth. "Want to talk about it?" He asks after a few minutes, Joe sits up and is staring down at his hands.
"It's just that… they didn't recognize me, at all." Joe tells him. He nods in sympathy. "Yea, I've had that happen to me a few times. It's going to be strange, you know, when the time comes. Just think about this way, at least you have us to support ya. I mean, Suchin and you are… you fit together." He says and Joe smiles softly at the mention of Mimi's latest name.
"I feel better, thanks… Keiji." Joe says and he nods. Joe once more settles down and he walks back to his futon. It takes a few minutes before he falls back asleep.
To Readers:
Ok, so I'm taking suggestions for Sora's nick name and by the next chapter I'll have the results of said choice names, so if you got a name you want to be used, you better either send me a private messenger or review.
The Word List:
Otoosan – Father
Okaasan - Mother
Obaachan – Grandma
Chan - a term of affection and often is found at the end of a girl's name
Kun – a term of affection and often is found at the end of a boy's name
To Be Continued…
