Stories are just stories, right? Demons don't exist in real life, nor do shape shifters.
Who am I kidding? They exist just as much as I believe in my own existence.
Well, let me start from the beginning. Maybe then you'll understand what I am talking about…
It all began when summer vacation started. Eager to get a head start on my vacation and a nice tan to boot, I headed off to the digital world. Of course, I took Agumon along… I would never leave my best friend alone in the human world, left to hold his own against Gatomon. I still laugh at how he is still bullied around by a cat… but then again, I don't have much room to talk either. That story is for another time perhaps. .
Once in the digital world eager for a nice break, instead of relaxing, I find myself on another mission to fix up the digital world. Don't get me wrong, I love to help out my second home and all, but can't the creatures who are bent on destruction and taking over the world take a break? It's not asking for much really. But that's not how life works of course. The good should be balanced out with the evil, unfortunately.
Anyways, going to the digital world at that moment in time was not the smartest thing to do. Izzy, conveniently forgetting to fix my computer that day, didn't remind me that it needed to be fixed, and I went to the digital world through my computer. Luckily I ended up in the digital world and not elsewhere. Finding myself on a sandy beach, I started looking for Agumon. Unfortunately, leaving my digivice in the real world was a bad idea because my little dinosaur friend was nowhere to be found. Running away from a couple of hungry digimon, and some of Mother Nature's deadly weapons, I made it just in time to be rescued by Piximon. Unfortunately, on the way to safety, I was attacked by an unknown entity and almost bled to death. Luckily, Piximon was able to take me to Gennai's house fast enough.
Once in Gennai's home, he hooked me up to a revitalizing machine. In no time, I was back to normal and pleasantly surprised to see Sora and Kari by my side. It was defiantly a pleasure seeing Sora; once she started dating Matt, we didn't have as much time to hang out anymore. Not that I was bitter about it or anything! Of course not… It is unfortunate that I took so long to let her know how I feel and when I finally do get around to expressing my undying love to her, she just gets up and moves on. But looking back, I guess it is partially my fault. A person can only wait so long for someone before they give up.
I digress a lot. Sorry about that. Once better, the rest of my close friends visited for some quality time in the digital world. Takeru and Kari actually looked very comfortable together, surprisingly. Does this mean Matt and I am going to be brothers-in-law? That should be fun, especially if Sora is my girlfriend… (Note the mild sarcasm.)
Back to the topic on hand. Once better, I found that the rest of the original digidestined came to visit me, and I was grateful for that. It meant a lot to me, knowing that my friends were behind me no matter what. I just hope that they're behind me when they hear about my quote-end quote 'problem.' Meanwhile, at Gennai's house, I decided to catch up on some rest while the rest of the digidestined searched the digital world for Agumon. But before we could do that, we decided to head back to the real world to collect some supplies and a change of clothes. Unfortunately, other things came up and soon it was only Sora and myself who left to look for Agumon once again. God I love that girl. The sheer amount of selfless things she does for others never seizes to amaze me. Well, it ended up that Agumon was with the Yokomon. Then the changes started to happen.
A demon of a digimon attacked us once Agumon was safe beside me and suddenly, my eyes turned red, and a sudden thirst for blood seized my veins. The monster aimed an attack at me but unfortunately I could not dodge it in time and took the full force of it. But somehow, I did not even notice what had happened. Only when Sora pointed it out, watching in fascination as my body repaired itself, did I realize something was very wrong with me.
Soon, I had sharp pains flashing through my head, my eyes turned red on and off, my sense of hearing became sharper, and I was having flashes of pain throughout my body. Sora and I decided to head back to the real world as soon as possible and looked for a computer. Unfortunately, as soon as we spotted a computer, it disappeared from view, as we were transported to a different part of the digital world. We soon found out later that it was the doing of an evil digimon, bent on taking over the digital world one small piece at a time by slowly sucking the life out of the planet.
A short while later, I soon realized that red eyes and sharp hearing was not the extent of my powers. I realized I had wings… beautiful, soft, velvety, white wings, if I do say so myself. Somehow, Yamato knew of my being in the digital world and came to see what was going on. He found me in this half transformed state and the feral beast inside of me had a vendetta to settle with him. Unfortunately, the darker half of me attacked an innocent human, which had no way of protecting himself. Luckily, Yamato was able to escape before the beast took complete control over my body and mind.
Sora, the only one who could truly satisfy the beast inside of me, suddenly appeared after Yamato took his leave, and I felt myself calming down just by the mere presence of the auburn haired beauty. I felt myself slip into the realm of the unconscious, and it was here that I met my other half… my 'inner digimon,' if you would like to call it so. It was, at first, grotesque to look at, but I guess one has to acquire a taste for its beauty. Once in the right state of mind, I explained everything that had occurred till this point to Sora, desperately wanting another person's opinion on this matter. I am truly proud of how she took everything in stride. If our places were switched, I would have run away like there was no tomorrow. Then I would have probably realized I should be helping my friend in need, and then come back, but Sora stuck by my side this whole time and for that I am truly grateful.
A while later, we ran into some trouble and found that shade like creatures from the depths of the digital world did the bidding of the evil digimon, who provided them with unimaginable power, more so than what they should normally have. I reacted as any other protective digimon would, wanting to protect its friends, and called on my darker side to provide me with the powers to kill the dark digimon that threatened my friends. We ran and made it back to the real world in one piece. Not wanting to let my mind wander onto what was currently happening with me, I decided to focus my energy on finding Izzy and getting my computer fixed. Once that was done, settling in to a daily routine was hard… especially when my thoughts kept drifting back to what was going on inside me. But once I realized there were certain perks about having these, abilities, (such as hearing Yamato and Sora breaking up… one of the better days that I've had), I started adjusting to these powers and they to me.
Sora and I, soon after, started becoming a little more playful with each other once she broke it off with Matt. Anyways, we headed back to Gennai's house for some well deserved information about what exactly was going on in the digital world. After dinner there, Piximon gave a surprise visit, but unfortunately he was there to train me. Though, because of his perfect timing, we were able to safely escape death by the hands of the evil digimon's minions. Of course I did not find out of this attack on Gennai's house until a couple days after I had left. Luckily, Gennai was fine but the same could not be said about his house.
Training with Piximon was hard, and still is. Though I have to say the first few days were very brutal. Since I could not control my digimon powers at will, they appeared and disappeared whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately though, the digimon side of me only cared if Sora was in danger, and not my human half. How selfish of that bastard. Of course, we understand one another now so it is all fine and dandy.
Clearing his throat from his long-winded retelling of the events past, leaving out some parts of his story that he thought were unnecessary for his audience to know, Taichi looked over at Gennai to gauge his reaction. Of course the old digimon had his eyes half way open, like he usually does and looked like he was asleep while standing upright, but the tension in his body indicated anything but that.
"Hum. I see," he muttered while pacing back and forth on the sandy beach. "I shall try to find out all that I can about this new force that has come to reside in the depths of the digital world. I do know however that he has brought back all those champion and ultimate level digimon that you had fought and defeated, back to life again. You said he controlled 'shades'?" Gennai asked, turning his attention back to the boy in front of him.
"Yes… that's what I think they were, or at least that is what I am calling them for now, because they are as strong or stronger than the normal digimon that they take the form of, and they have red eyes. I think that is what one can use to tell them apart from any other digimon in the digital world. They have purely red eyes, no iris'," Taichi informed the older digimon.
Nodding, Gennai finally said, "Well, thank you for keeping me up to date with this information. I will get back to you as soon as I can about what else is going on around the digital world. Since it is not a good idea for you two to leave Piximon's hide out, I will take a look around." Taichi nodded and in a puff of air, Gennai disappeared.
"How does he do that?" Agumon asked a few minutes later, breaking the awkward silence that had settled over the current residents at Piximon's house.
o.O.o.O.o.O
Kari, Takeru, Ken and Cody found themselves inside Piximon's humble abode, bright and early in the morning a couple of days after Gennai provided Piximon with a surprise visit. Walking into the large coliseum area, they found Piximon zooming back and forth, yelling orders out to various digimon.
"No, no, no! That goes into the weapons room!" Piximon yelled as a small, squeamish digimon ran by carrying a couple of spears in its arms. "Oh, digidestined! Come in, come in," Piximon greeted as he flew over to the group of four. "Can you watch these digimon for a few minutes while I go and wake up Taichi and Sora?"
"Wake them up? What time is it right now?" Takeru asked as he glanced at his digivice. It flashed 6:00 AM.
"Well, I shall be back in a few minutes with those two," Piximon said as he flew off up into the coliseum. The small digimon flew into the room without knocking, figuring the two older digidestined would be fast asleep. He was greeted with the same sight that he had seen the past week and a half that they had been with him. All four occupants were fast asleep without a care in the world. I'm even starting to feel a little guilty for waking them up this early every day. Bah, I'm getting too soft. Shaking out his 'soft' thoughts, he immediately went to the task of waking up the four of them.
"Wake up!" Piximon yelled as he brought some symbols with him this time. He banged them together a couple of times before seeing the brown haired boy groaning in protest as he cracked his eyes open.
Tai's hand shot out even before Piximon could react and squeezed the pink ball of fur within his grasp. Piximon's eyes bulged slightly as he found himself gasping for air. "What do you think you're doing young man?" Piximon wheezed out while glaring into the bright red eyes that glared back at him.
"Leave us be," Taichi growled out before he tossed Piximon against the wall, settling himself back underneath the comforters. The noise being produced by the two 'digimon' soon woke up the red haired girl peacefully sleeping next to her boyfriend and she cracked her eyes open with a groan of protest.
"What's going on," she asked as she saw Piximon picking himself up off the ground.
"You have no right to treat your trainer that way!" Piximon yelled out, with his staff pointed in the brown haired boy's direction. He just got a grunt in response.
"Tai, what did you do?" Sora asked as she untangled herself from his grip. He opened his eyes and stared at her for a few seconds before answering.
His voice was a few octaves lower than it normally was, making Sora's heart leap into her throat and shivers run through her body. "He interrupted a digimon's sleep, and one does not appreciate it when their sleep is interrupted," he growled out as his red eyes shot daggers into the pink fur ball. "Of course, you are well aware of that, seeing as you are a digimon yourself, Piximon. Now, unless my mate or my friends are dying or in danger, please do not disturb me until I am full and ready to start training," Taichi grounded out as he got comfortable under the covers once again. Sora's eyes widened at the new side of Tai, and she was shocked into silence.
'He called me his mate…' was all she could focus on, as it repeated itself over and over in her head like a broken record. Piximon gave a grunt of disapproval and flew out of the room muttering curses under his breath. Sora felt herself being tugged back down as her back was pulled hard against Tai's chest. "Tai," she started, as she tried to turn around. He just growled and buried his face in her auburn locks. She was finally able to manage turning around so that she was facing him and was about to give him a piece of her mind, when his blood red eyes shot open and her body was once again pushed up against his.
"This actually feels better than the other side, if I do say so myself," Tai chuckled, his voice deep and husky as he stared straight into Sora's lighter eyes.
"Tai stop playing around and get ready. And you should not be treating Piximon that way! He's spending more time and effort than he needs to be, to train you. You should at least show him some courtesy," Sora reprimanded.
"A digimon does what a digimon has got to do," he smirked. "And why should I care of those beneath me?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow. "Everyone else besides my mate," he started as he pinched her butt lightly while grinning, "and family, can get screwed over for all I care. If they aren't any use to me, why bother?" he finished with an air of arrogance.
He could suddenly feel the waves of anger radiating off of the auburn haired girl next to him. "Is that what you seriously think!?" she growled out. "This isn't the human side of Tai talking, is it? You digimon only think about yourselves and your family jewels!" she spat out as she wrenched herself from his grip and stood up, glaring at the digimon inside of Tai. "When Taichi finally decides to wake up and teach you some manners, then come and find me. Until then…" she trailed off as she stomped towards the bathroom to get ready for a day of training.
'You idiot! What the fuck did you do??' the human side of Tai finally thought as he saw Sora marching into the bathroom with a look at that could kill aimed towards him.
'You're finally awake I see. Just giving her a piece of what I thought and how digimon see the world… or at least most of us,' his dark side informed him.
'What did you say?' Tai demanded.
'Okay, I was a little tired when I ranted a bit… so sue me. I wasn't in the proper frame of mind to think about what I said. I just told her I didn't really care about anyone else except for her… granted those pesky little human friends of yours mean nothing to me right now because I do not know them, and that same idea basically applies for the rest of the digital world as well. Unlike you, I do not have a hero complex. Sorry to disappoint,' the beast said with a small smirk.
'Did you tell her that in those exact words?' Tai asked. He received a no in reply and gave a frustrated sigh. 'Great. Let me handle this from now on since you totally messed this up. Be happy that she knew it was you talking and not me, you insensitive jerk!' Tai barked as he took over his body. The beast did not respond.
After a couple minutes of contemplating on what to do, Tai decided to pull himself out of bed and stumbled over to the bathroom door. "Sora…" he started, but was cut off by her curt reply.
"I don't want to talk to you right now Tai. Just give me, as well as yourself some space right now, and I will talk to you after training today about this," she stated over the sound of the rushing water.
"Fine…" he trailed off as he slumped against the wall next to the bathroom door. He heard the shower water coming to a slow drip as it was turned off and a rustling of clothes. A few minutes later, Sora walked out of the bathroom fully dressed and ready for training as she headed towards the door. Piximon then took that moment to show up in the room once again, ready to blow off some steam.
Piximon looked towards the bed and stopped short, wondering where Tai and Sora went, until he spotted Sora in front of him, and Tai slumped against the wall. Once Tai saw Piximon, he decided to apologize immediately.
"Piximon, I am sorry about the way I reacted earlier this morning. I wasn't myself, and I am truly sorry for any of the trouble my digimon side may have caused you," the brown haired boy said genuinely. At his apology, Piximon calmed down considerably. Unfortunately it did no good with Sora and her temper.
"Well, I just wanted to inform you two that your friends are downstairs waiting for the two of you," Piximon announced, his wings fluttering frantically behind him.
Sora gasped and then exclaimed, "that's right! Takeru, Kari and Ken were supposed to visit us sometime this week. I completely forgot," she rushed out as she made her way to the door. "It's them downstairs, isn't it?" she asked Piximon before she made a fool of herself downstairs. Piximon nodded before politely asking Tai to get ready for training and then flew out the door.
Tai grumbled and got off the floor and went into the bathroom to change, but on his way to the bathroom, he grabbed Sora's arm as she brushed past him and without turning to face her, he said, "Look, I know you don't want to talk to me right now, but I'm sorry. We'll talk about this later though. Okay?" He made it sound more like a command than a question as he dropped her arm and walked on. After changing, he caught up with Sora and Piximon in the ground floor of the coliseum and saw them greeting their old friends.
Tai walked up behind Sora and greeted the three teenagers as well and then turned towards Piximon when the little digimon announced that it was time to start training. Tai nodded as he was in no mood to deal with formalities and greetings this early in the morning, seeing as he had just gotten up. He did notice though, that Kari and Takeru were holding hands and looked pretty close to each other. He gave a small smile to himself, nodded towards Piximon, and started to jog laps around the ring, while Biyomon and Agumon were battling on the field. The other digimon (Gatomon, Patamon, and Wormmon) also looked interested in battling with each other and decided to join in. There was soon a five-way battle going on as the champion level digimon battled each other to the brink of exhaustion, each of their human partners cheering them on.
A good two hours later, once the digimon could no longer go on, and Agumon was pronounced the winner by a few seconds, mainly because he warp-digivolved, Sora and Tai began their training. "What are we to do, Piximon?" Sora asked as she walked out into the middle of the field. Piximon conjured up a staff and a sword and handed Sora the staff.
"You two are to train with these today, and cannot use any other sources except for these weapons and your fists," he announced as he tossed Tai the sword. "I have trained you two to battle with other weapons but those times both of you had the same weapons. Now you will have to figure out how to defend against someone using a different weapon. Both of you know how one can use a staff or a sword, so you should be able to defend adequately," Piximon commented as he flew off to the side. "Now start!"
Sora took up a crouching stance with the tip of the staff on the ground in front of her. Once she heard Piximon give the signal, she charged straight ahead, with a slight smirk to her face when she saw the paniced look on Tai's face. "What's wrong Tai?" she questioned with a hint of a snobbish attitude. "Try to keep up," she asked sweetly as she pulled back and brought her staff back down upon the brown haired boy as he quickly jumped out of the way. The impact of the staff upon the hard ground of the colisium brought about a big dust cloud. Sora jumped away as she let her eyes readjust. Unfortunately for Tai, he was caught right in the middle of the cloud and his eyes started to burn from the dust particles.
Tai let out a growl of frustration as he waited for the cloud to clear. 'Fine, if she wants to play this way, I'll go along with it until she listens to me,' he thought with finality. He grinned slightly as he let his eyes turn red for a few seconds, allowing him to see through the dust cloud to spot the lithe body of his girlfriend a few yards away from him. "Found you," he whispered to himself as he lifted his sword and ran towards the unsuspecting auburn haired girl. He snuck up behind her and when he was close enough to her without being detected, he whispered, "Looking for me?"
Sora felt herself shiver as she felt Tai's hot breath on the back of her neck as he whispered to her. She growled softly and she swiftly turned around, staff ready to sink into his skin. 'At least this is a theraputic way to release my anger…' Sora chuckled to herself. She saw Tai leap away as the staff barely made contact with his white shirt. Sora's grip tightened on the staff as she pulled it back towards her and crouched down again, facing Tai as she glared at him.
The two teenagers stared at eachother, neither of them moving. Everyone inside the arena as well as the spectators could feel the tension between the two of them, as sparks flew between them- figuratively speaking of course. Piximon could sense that this battle was not another one of their playful battles where they would help eachother develop their technique and show mercy if one of them was tired. 'Maybe this was not a good idea,' he thought to himself as he watched on.
Sora stared into Tai's red eyes, glaring at him. "You have an unfair advantage over me!" she whispered out furiously.
"You're pissed off, and I don't want to get killed! Nor do I want to hurt you!" Tai told her quickly, as he held his hands up in front of him. She just huffed in response. "Are we going to have to do this every time we get into a fight? I don't think I want to get on your bad side again, then," Tai said as he let out a nervous chuckle. She just gave him an angry look.
"Too late!" she yelled as she hit Tai in the solar plexus with the butt of the staff. He grunted as he felt onto his knees. His sword slipped out of his hands as they wrapped themselves around his mid section. To his horror, Sora did not stop there but continued to attack. She piereced the ground with the tip of her staff, the blade cleanly sinking into the ground right next to his head. Tai's red eyes widened as he immediately rolled away from the staff.
"Woman!-" Tai rolled away from the staff again. "You're crazy! Stop-" He was interrupted again as he had to doge another blow. "-this madness right now!" he said in a rush. He rolled away once more before jumping to his feet and running away from her as fast as he could. As he ran away, he could feel the digimon side of him getting aroused. The beast in him chuckled as he quietly commented, 'she is the perfect mate for me. Of course this would not be much of a challenge if I could take control, but alas, your human friends are here, and are unaware of my presence.'
Tai groaned and snidely replied, 'can you think any louder???' as Sora came running up behind him with his sword in one hand and her staff in another. "Oh shit!" he shouted out before darting around to the other side of the arena. He could hear Kari, Takeru and Ken laughing at him, thinking that Sora and Tai were playing around. Little did they know that Sora was out for blood, just to cool down her temper.
'Stop this nonsense running this instant! She has to know who's boss and learn to listen! All of this useless brooding and staying angry is futile and will only waste more time when we could have had this sorted out by now!' the beast roared as it took over Tai's body and made him stop running and turn around to face the fiery red haired girl.
The beast's red eyes narrowed and his hands came up before him just as Sora was a few feet away from him. Anticipating her moves, the digimon in control grabbed Sora's wrists putting a stop to her movements. She frantically tried to pull back but a growl from him stopped her movements. A few seconds later however, Sora's fury took up residence once again as she started kicking her legs. The beast dodged them with ease as he maneuvered Sora over to the far end of the arena, where the 'spectators' could not hear them.
"Sora, stop your useless attempts to get out. It will not work," the digimon in human form, commanded as his red eyes pierced through Sora's own eyes. His voice was soft, yet commanding, his low tones caressing Sora as she seized all movement. He could hear her panting loud and clear, even when standing an arms length away from her, even though she tried to conceal it discreetly. Tai snorted softly as he muttered, "you humans and attempting to look composed, when it's obvious you cannot keep up." He raised an eyebrow at her when she glared at him, allowing herself to breathe normally again. She took in gulp after gulp of air as her chest expanded and contracted to its full capacity. "Though," he paused for effect. "- With you, it just makes you look cute," the beast whispered into her ear as he leaned in, his breath tickling the side of Sora's neck.
"Look. The main reason I took over was to knock some sense into you," the beast explained but was cut off when Sora yelled, "Excuse me?!?"
"Yes. You being angry and holding a grudge for more than a minute is useless and stupid when you can obviously save more time by listening to my apology instead," the beast said as he looked straight into his mate's eyes. "I am sorry for what I said earlier. I was tired and not thinking properly, but I understand that it is not a valid excuse for what I spoke. You have to understand that to a digimon, the only things that it cares about are kin first and foremost. But that will have to change seeing as I am in the human world and will have to care not only about my family, but… friends as well," the beast sighed as he stumbled over the word friend and his voice quieted down to a whisper at the end.
Sora's eyes softened as she looked upon Taichi's sullen face and realized it must have been very hard for a digimon, with such a big ego- who had gotten his way these past few weeks, to apologize to her in such a manner. Sora cracked a small smile as she easily pulled her hands out from his, dropped her weapons onto the ground and wrapped her arms around his waist. She closed her eyes and rested her head against his sweaty and damp chest and whispered, "I forgive you. And I am sorry for acting crazy like this… though it did give us a good workout…" she laughed. She felt Tai's chest rumble along with her chuckles and she lifted her face from him and looked over his shoulder to see their friends coming around to the other side of the arena where they were standing.
"I think we've been standing here a little too long," Sora said as she pointed towards her friends running towards them. Tai nodded in agreement. "You'd better let your human side take over." The beast retreated immediately; his eyes turned brown, his voice became softer and shallow, but along with that came the exhaustion unfortunately, as he half collapsed on top of his girlfriend. As their friends came over to them, asking what happened, having to make an excuse off the top of her head, she told them that Tai had twisted his ankle and as leaning on her for support and they had to stop their sparring match earlier than planned.
The beast in Tai growled furiously, demanding that Tai take a stand and show them that he did not take a beating that easily… well maybe if it was only from his family, but he would never show weakness in front of others who were weaker than him. 'Oh, shut up. You always did talk too much!' Tai yelled back as he leaned back against Sora, pretending to limp to the corner of the arena, making up the story as he went along.
o.O.o.O.o.O
After a long day of entertaining their friends, Tai and Sora were finally able to rest in peace towards the end of the day. Walking up to their room, finally back on talking terms, Taichi finally broached the subject of his transformation.
"So when do you think I should tell the rest of our friends about my transformation?" the brown haired boy asked. "I have already seen Yamato's reaction to my digimon form, and let's just say his reaction wasn't pretty… he practically ran the other way," Tai pouted as Sora wrapped her arm around his upper arm in reassurance.
"I think it will be okay, I didn't freak out when I saw you," Sora mentioned. Tai shot her a pointed look in response. "Okay… well, I sort of did freak out at first, but I understood and saw what was happening to you first hand. And at that point, I think I was more scared for you than of you. You were…- are my best friend and I couldn't let my best friend suffer in pain by himself, no matter what he was going through," she finished, giving Tai a big smile. The brown haired boy smiled back and just pulled his girlfriend closer to him as they made it to their room door. Changing quickly, they climbed under the covers hoping for a full nights rest, knowing that Piximon would push them harder than ever the following morning because they slacked off earlier that day.
o.O.o.O.o.O
Training continued like normal; Taichi continued to train with Sora in weaponry and endurance, as well as physically fighting with Agumon, Biyomon and 'the shades' as they decided to call the possessed digimon. The digimon developed in strength and power just as much as their human partners had. Taichi was also able to easily call upon his digimon powers and understood his digimon side a little more. As the beast and human understood each other more and more as the days passed by, their minds came closer to merging into one. There were still a few issues that they did not agree on, and until they understood each other completely, they would not be entirely in-synch.
A few weeks had passed the two love birds and their digimon in a blur; soon came the day the digidestined, new and old were meeting in the digital world to get down to business and take care of the evil penetrating this world. There was still about a month left of their summer vacation before everyone was off to college and Tai and Sora were eager to finish their mission and get back to the real world to enjoy the rest of summer with their family and friends.
The four occupants in the room woke up bright and early, surprisingly without the help of the small, pink digimon. Piximon was pleasantly surprised to see everyone up and ready by the time he came in, trumpets blazing.
"Oh! You all are ready! Good. You must finally be used to rising at this hour," he mentioned; his last comment was aimed at Tai.
"Well, today's the day the digidestined come together here, and I'm a little nervous about how they will react to seeing my digimon side… I've already experienced first hand how Yamato reacted when he saw me, and I'm afraid the rest of my friends may react the same way," Taichi revealed, a pained expression on his face.
"I don't think you should worry about them so much, Tai. We're your friends and we'd never leave your side. If they are truly your friends, they'd accept you and your digimon side," Sora explained. Tai nodded in response and hoped that Sora was right.
Taking a deep breath, Taichi walked past his girlfriend and the digimon and headed down to the kitchens to get a proper breakfast and bracing himself for the rest of the day.
o.O.o.O.o.O
A/N: I know this isn't the longest chapter, and I've finally gotten this story updated after such a long time, but school is getting really busy for me and I'm taking summer classes, which is no fun. So the time I do have to write is very little, so please bare with me through the unfortunately long waits and keep on reading and reviewing! I really appreciate the reviews I'm getting, and that is the only thing currently that's keeping me writing, without leaving this story.
I have not read over and checked this chapter for any errors, so if you do see any, let me know. I will be going back over this chapter and fixing it later, but I wanted to post a chapter up as soon as possible, to make up for lost time.
I've finally moved this story along now towards the end, and I'm hoping there may be less than five chapters towards the end. I felt like I've dragged the story on a bit too long, and that was leading me to a writer's block…
So please review and let me know what you thought… after such a long time…. And I hope you will stick with me till the end of this long journey!