World Travellers Reunited…
Chapter 12: Afternoon: Part 1.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Hypnos."I guess we are friends. Yes, Calumon, we are friends." Yamaki replied, the flicking of his lighter stopped. The only sound coming from it when it clattered to the floor as the room was lit up by a bright light, blinding everyone in the vicinity.
"Riley! Stop the goddamn light somehow!" Yamaki roared.
"I can't see anything, how am I supposed to do anything?" She called back from her chair.
"YAY!" Calumon cheered louder than ever as the light faded.
A small ball of light dropped to the floor and changed shape into one that Yamaki knew all too well. It was completely white, body, buttons, ring, strap. All of it, and he had a feeling of who owned it. Calumon ran over a picked it up in his hands, he looked it over for a second and flew up to Riley but shook his head and flew back to Yamaki. The blonde haired man looked as Calumon's mouth twisted into a massive smile. He thrust the D-Arc forward into the man's hand and sat on his shoulder.
"You've got to be kidding me…" He sighed.
"Nope! I want you to be my forever friend!" Calumon said.
"You mean Tamer?" Yamaki corrected but the little Digimon just shook his head.
"Nope! We'll call it forever friends!" He squealed.
"Awwwwwwww!" Riley and Tally both said in unison, both girls quietened at a glare from Yamaki, even though he had his sunglasses on, they knew the fiery rage that burned behind them in those sky blue eyes of his.
'I'm not letting you off that easy Yamaki.' Riley thought with a grin.
"There's one thing that I don't get, you were created to house the Catalyst and that was it. I didn't think that you could have a Tamer or anything?" Yamaki asked himself more than the little Digimon. 'Looks like Takato doesn't have the most childish Digimon. Never thought I'd ever get one, let alone Calumon…' He sighed.
"That's where you're wrong, bub. When the sovereign's took the Catalyst out of creampuff, they even had the courtesy to turn him into a proper Digimon. It would just take the power of having a Tamer to unlock his evolutions. Never thought it'd be you ya up-tight government sack." Someone said from the doorway.
"How did you get in here Impmon?" Yamaki growled, astounded that Digimon kept getting into a government facility unnoticed.
"That babe at the front counter let me on through." He replied, snapping his fingers and hovering a fireball above his hands.
"I'll have a chat with her later, so what do I do as a damn Tamer anyway…" Yamaki muttered picking his lighter up off of the floor and starting to flick it opened and closed again.
"You spend most of your time watching how they do things an' you're askin' what to do? I thought you was smarter than that." Impmon teased.
"And what is it with you Digimon appearing at the most convenient times in a conversation anyway?" Tally asked the purple imp.
"What can I say? We have a sense of dramatics." Impmon smirked.
"The Tamers aren't going to be told about this until I am ready. Is that understood?" Yamaki bellowed. Riley and Tally nodded in agreement, the two girls not wanting to get on their bosses' bad side.
'Doesn't mean I can't use it against him.' Riley mused.
"I'll repeat myself one more time for you Calumon, we're playing a game and whoever can hold out from telling the Tamers the longest, wins." Yamaki stated, Calumon's emerald eyes grew wider in amazement as he thought about it.
"I'm gonna win by never telling them, ever!" He cheered, ears expanding to their full wingspan.
"That's the spirit!" Yamaki smirked. "I suppose I should learn how to use those infernal cards then… I will have to contact all the Tamers and find out who has time but can also keep a secret… Tally, scan for all the Digivice signals please." Yamaki commanded.
"Yes sir! Scanning now…" Tally paused as she waited for the results of the scan to come through. "I've got twenty three signals coming through sir, including one from this building which would be yours…"
"How are there so many!? Those kids better have a damned good reason for this! Who is the closest to Hypnos at this moment?" Yamaki barked.
"That would be Takato and Rika sir, their signals are just over in the park." Riley replied, typing away at her keyboard so Yamaki could see where they both were.
"Get Rika on the phone." He commanded.
"Yes sir." The red haired woman replied.
Shinjuku Park."You know what? It's nice to finally have…" Takato started to say before Rika's phone started to go off in her pocket, ringing to the tune of 'Into the Nothing' by Breaking Benjamin. Takato knew the band fairly well, he used to listen to them continuously until he became sick of them which thankfully hadn't happened yet. "It's fine, take it." He said, Rika obliging and answering the call.
"Hello?" She greeted in an annoyed tone, obviously disappointed that she had been rung when she was finally able to be alone with her boyfriend.
"Hey Yamaki… Uggh… Why…? Fine, we'll be right there." She sighed as she hung up the phone and placed it back in her pocket. "Yamaki picked up on a total of twenty three Digivice signals." She explained to her puzzled gogglehead.
"Wait…" Takato said, looking up to the sky for a moment. "Even with all the DigiDestined it should only be twenty two Digivices… Is there a Tamer we don't know about, like how we didn't know about Yamaru?" He asked.
"Who knows? It looks like he has some explaining then too. Let's just get this over with…" Rika sighed, Takato helping her to her feet as they walked off towards Hypnos hand in hand with Guilmon by Takato's side and Renamon following along in the shadows.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Hypnos."Now, would you mind explaining why there are twenty three signals in total now?" Yamaki asked, or rather commanded.
"Well today we were taken to the Digital World where Azulongmon told us that Ryo had been sent to turn Zhuquiaomon back into a Digiegg to rid him of these things called Dark Spores, which were making him evil. Ryo succeeded and because our quadrant was left un-guarded, Azulongmon had no option but to merge our two worlds. We now sort of exist in the same universe as the DigiDestined. And that's the short version…" Takato trailed off, wanting to get this over with as quick as was humanly possible.
"So we live alongside them, in the same world?" Impmon echoed.
"That's what he just said isn't it?" Rika asked.
"I have a feeling that there's something you aren't telling me…" Yamaki noted, he also saw the grave look on Takato's face when he said that.
"What happened Takato, you don't ever get that look about you normally." Yamaki said.
"I.. Well..." He tried to find the right words to explain just exactly what had happened in Azulongmon's story without revealing too much about Ryo's past, he just felt that Yamaki didn't need to know that.
"Gogglehead got angry and turned into another monster that could've killed us all. But before you get mad or anything, it wasn't his fault at all… His voice seemed stranger, deeper, filled with more hate and malevolence…" Rika noted, Yamaki nodded his head and walked over to his computer chair, he slumped down into it and looked at the two Tamers before him.
"I don't know why, but I believe you. It's strange but I do…" Yamaki sighed.
"Now I have a couple of questions for you. When Azulongmon told us about how he was going to merge the worlds, he mentioned that anyone who wasn't a Tamer or DigiDestined wouldn't even realize, so I want to know how you realized." Rika asked heatedly. Takato's face lit up with sudden realization and he cast a glare to Yamaki.
"It's you…" Takato gasped.
"What are you talking about?" Yamaki asked.
"With all the Tamers and DigiDestined signals, there should've only been twenty two unless there was one more we didn't know about. Only Tamers and DigiDestined would remember about the merging worlds. You're the twenty third signal!" Takato exclaimed to even Rika's surprise. That's when it was noticed, a pure white D-Arc clipped onto his pants waistband that was hidden by his jacket when he was standing up.
Yamaki sighed and nodded his head slowly. "That's also why I called you two here. I need someone that can keep a secret for a while and teach me to use the cards at the same time. Naturally Rika was the obvious choice." He explained.
"Hey! I could've taught you how to use cards!" Takato complained but was apparently ignored.
"Why would you want it kept a secret though?" Rika became curios, why would you want to keep having a Digimon secret?
"Because of whom his partner is!" Riley called out from her chair, Yamaki sighing once again.
"Who's your partner?" Takato asked, Yamaki pulled his D-Arc up so the Tamers could see what his partner was seeing. "Ventilation shafts?" Takato yelped in surprise when a grate crashed down behind him even though he saw it being pushed by a little purple paw on screen. The view on screen scanned the room and spotted Rika, promptly taking off towards her, Takato turned around and saw Calumon running to Rika as fast as his little legs would carry him. Rika realized who it was at that point too.
"You're partner is Calumon? I suppose it can't be as weird a combination as Henry and Terriermon…" Rika noted.
"I can see why you would want to keep it a secret. If Tahu, Kazu or Terriermon found out…" Takato whistled at the prospect of how quickly the three would've died with laughter.
BEEP BEEP BEEP!"We can never catch a break…" Takato sighed.
"We'll just teach you like we did with Davis. You'll have to battle whatever it is that's appeared and if you get into trouble then goggles and I will save you." Rika stated, leading the way outside with Renamon by her side, the vulpine Digimon having just appeared by her side.
"It must be higher than a rookie so Calumon might have some trouble, Guilmon's gone viral." Takato noted how his Digimon's eyes had dilated and he was growling in a low tone as they made their way out with Yamaki and Calumon.
"So what do we do?" Riley asked, not knowing what she should do seeing as though her boss had just walked out without giving her orders.
"Relax for once in our lives!" Tally exclaimed as she lowered her chair to the ground so she could get out.
Bio-emergence site – West Shinjuku Streets."They're everywhere…" Yamaki stated, looking about him and seeing a bunch of green slimeballs move about. "What the hell are they?"
"They're Numemon. They always come in numbers and like to fling Digi-sludge everywhere. They're also a champion level like I expected so little Calumon is going to have trouble on his own." Takato noted, the Digimon didn't seem to be hostile in any way but that was partly to the fact that they hadn't noticed the Tamers yet.
"Do you even have any attacks?" Yamaki asked Calumon who seemed to think for a minute before shaking his head. "Then how do we do this?" Yamaki sighed in frustration, he would be flicking his lighter right about now if he hadn't left it on his desk back at Hypnos.
"Try some modify cards, here's a few good ones that'll give the little guy some powerful attacks. Just swipe 'em through and let the magic happen." Rika explained.
"Let's use this one!" Calumon pointed to a card with a picture of a SnowAgumon on it, Yamaki picked it out and placed the others in his pocket. He raised the card to his D-Arc and swiped the card through, it cackled with energy as the Digivice scanned the cards data.
"DIGI-MODIFY! SnowAgumon's Frozen Wind, activate!" Yamaki said the words naturally without even realizing it at first. Calumon jumped off of his shoulder and opened his mouth out wide, releasing a gust of blue wind out and freezing a few of the slimy Digimon solid. The other Numemon now noticed their attackers for the first time and started hurling plink sludge at them in great amounts.
"It's all icky!" Calumon hollered.
"Swipe another card Yamaki!" Takao called out, the man picked a card out of his pocket at random and swiped it through.
"DIGI-MODIGY! Digivolution, activate!"
"Calumon, Digivolve to…The little Digimon was encased in a white data sphere that grew slightly taller. Inside Calumon was now the size of the regular ten year old, his arms and legs grew longer with the Catalyst symbol still emblazoned on his forehead. The purple that used to only cover his hands ran up to his elbows and the tips of his feet split in two to make two pointed toes on each purple foot. His ears grew smaller while White and purple wings appeared on his back.
Calurumon!""Woah, I didn't know he could Digivolve…" Takato gasped, Rika was speechless.
"He's taller now." Yamaki noted. "You ready Calurumon?" He asked, the little Digimon taking on a look of childish determination.
"He doesn't seem as afraid anymore either." Rika stated as the little Digimon took off into the air and gathered a small ball of light in his hand. He held it out in front of him, letting small beams of light fly from the ball of energy.
"Shining Beam!"Each attack hit a Numemon spot on and soon the fairy had erased them all and begun to absorb data for the first time in his existence. "It t-t-tickles!" He giggled, his blonde haired Tamer smirking at his childishness.
"Did I do good?" He asked, raising his hand to his mouth as he did when he was Calumon.
"You did." Yamaki nodded receiving a hug from the Digimon. He picked Calurumon up into his arms like a father would his child and Guilmon decided to point that matter out to Yamaki's disappointment.
"Yamaki looks like Calumon's daddy!" Guilmon cheered, Yamaki's eyes widened behind his glasses and was thankful that they were hidden as the Digital Field began to lower around them, taking all the sludge with it back to the Digital World.
"Today's been quite the day, I'm going back to Hypnos, and you two enjoy your afternoon. Oh, and thank you for your help too." Yamaki thanked the kids and walked off holding his Digimon in his arms, the emerald-eyed fairy looking up to him excitedly.
"Did not expect Yamaki of all people to ever become a Tamer. I expected Mrs Asaji to become one before him." Takato confessed, as Rika laughed and walked off towards the park once again.
"Stupid gogglehead." She chuckled.
"Why do you still call me that even though we're… you know…" Takato said nervously.
"Dating? Just say it goggles, it's not that hard. And I guess it's just like a pet name for you now." She admitted, grabbing his hand as they continued on their walk.
"Oh… Can I have a pet name for you?" Takato asked. Rika looked surprised for a moment as a look of contemplation crossed her face.
"What did you have in mind? And if you mention Wildcat or any of those other stupid names that Ryo calls me then you're dead." She said, Takato chuckled in response.
"I wasn't going to suggest any of them, truthfully I didn't have anything, and I wasn't expecting you to say yes. Guess I'll have to think then." The goggled boy replied.
"Don't hurt yourself…" Rika mumbled.
"My mum says that to my dad all the time. I wonder why?" Takato spaced out for a moment as he thought of possible reasons why, Rika sighed and just decided that she should enjoy her time with him as much as she could, something would eventually happen and they would have to go and deal with it once again.
Black Ocean World."But, we can't die! We won't, we'll just change it!" Lilithmon was still in denial about what Lucemon had told her before.
"That's what I was trying to do, I thought that if I could perhaps kill one of them, then events might change. I didn't count on how strong the Omnimon actually was." Lucemon grumbled.
"Where's Barbamon? Does he know about this?" The black haired woman asked.
"No, Barbamon took off quite some time ago. Said he wasn't coming back until he had found out every last part of the prophecy." The fallen angel replied.
"We will change events. We are the strongest Digimon of our kind!"
"It's nice to see some optimism but we can only hope for the best when it all starts to unfold. Right now we have a more important task to complete." 'I refuse to die, I plan to take my leave as soon as I can travel dimensions…' Lucemon mused, the topic of revenge taking over his mind.
"You're right. I'll gather the others…" Lilithmon sighed, she turned to walk off, her elegant indigo dress flowing behind her as she paced.
"It is almost time, Legendary Tamer." Lucemon warned the air in front of him.
End Chapter 12.
These next few chapters are going to be shorter so I can go into a bit more detail about people's views on what happens during their afternoon. A big event is planned for the end of this book so keep up and don't miss out. Tragedies, love and comfort all to come! I stayed up for a few nights deciding on how I would make Calumon look when he evolved and what kinds of attacks he would have. I also tried to figure out what kind of personality he would have in relation to each form and decided to keep his childishness in it for most of them. It's just not him with that fun loving attitude. And I don't have anything to do with Breaking Benjamin either, besides liking the band obviously. Stay Tuned! –DW96