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Spirits of destiny

Chapter 14

"Oh he's so cute!" Mimi yelled as she pulled Tai in a hug.

"Mimi be careful. He could bite you." Sora warned her even though she thought the same about the pup.

"Oh loosen up Sora, it's just a puppy. He won't bite." Mimi said as she put Tai on her lap.

She studied the pup. It had a beautiful black coat of fur and a golden collar around his neck. Mimi was a bit disappointed when she saw this.

"He's got a collar, so somebody owns him." Mimi said a bit sad. "To bad, I've always wanted a puppy."

'Nobody owns me.' Tai thought angrily. He growled a bit. As Loewemon digimon would avoid him when he growled. As this rookie…

Mimi and Sora laughed at the attempts to growl from the pup. It sounded more like a whimper.

"Hey Mimi, I've got an evil idea." Sora said with a mischievous look on her face.

'Oh dear.' Tai thought as he feared what she was gonna say.

"You should keep him anyway. It's possible that someone just left him here."

"How could anyone leave this cute dog alone?" Mimi said as she realized what Sora was doing: she was just looking for an excuse to keep the pup.

"Come on Mimi, just keep him. This little one needs a lot of love." The same mischievous smile on her face. "Besides it'll take your mind of Tai."

Mimi's smile faded a bit.

Tai stopped struggling to get away and paid attention to what was going to happen now.

Mimi knew it was true, she needed something to keep her mind from Tai. She knew that eventually it would kill her to keep feeling remorse for not telling him.

"Fine I'll keep him. But only if you stop complaining about me and Tai." Mimi gave in to her friend's attempts.

"All right! Welcome to the team little one!" Sora rubbed Tai's head, messing up his hair in the process.

'Oh crap!' Tai thought. 'I didn't really plan on becoming Mimi's pet, even though the attention would be nice and the petting isn't so bad either.' He thought as Mimi started to rub his back.

'Wait, since when do I think like that?!?' Tai realized. 'Maybe it has something to do with being a rookie or being a dog type digimon. Yeah that's probably it.'

"So…How are you going to call him?" Sora asked a bit curious.

"I don't know yet. Heck I'm not even sure if it's a boy or a girl."

'Not good.'

Mimi picked up the struggling pup and held him up.

"It's a boy." Mimi laughed a bit. If Tai's face weren't covered with fur he would be as red as a Tyrannomon.

"So what are you gonna name him?" Sora asked her again.

"Still don't know but he's got to be taken to the vet soon for his injections and later to get 'fixed'."

'Oh god no!' Tai whimpered a bit.

"You hear that boy?" Sora said to Tai as Mimi handed him to her. "You're gonna get neutered!"

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!" This was to much for Tai. He struggled his way out of Sora's hands.

"I'm getting the hell out of here!!"

He ran as if the devil himself was chasing him towards the exit of the park, where a laughing Patamon and a big brown dog were waiting for him.

They all quickly ran in a random direction.

Meanwhile Mimi and Sora sat on the bench, a bit shocked by what had just happened.

"Mimi?"

"Yes?"

"Did that puppy just talk?"

"More like screamed."

Mimi was shocked. Not just by a talking and screaming dog. His voice. It sounded...

Like Tai's.

She knew that couldn't be true. Tai was gone. But still…

She probably just imagined it. Even though there was this one little voice in the back of her head that screamed that she heard Tai's voice from when they first entered the Digital World.

Mimi quickly banished that voice. She stood up from the bench.

"We've got to find that Digimon. Who knows what he's up to." Mimi said to her still stunned friend.

"You're right but we need to get our Digimon first. Then we'll look for him and send him back."

Mimi ran one way and Sora the other.

She quickly arrived at home. As she entered the her room she saw Palmon sitting on her desk.

"I thought you'd come back soon." Palmon said as she turned her attention towards the brown-haired girl.

"Yolei send you a mail, which I umm accidentally opened." Palmon tried her best not to look suspicious.

"We'll talk about this later. First things first." She pushed Palmon out from in front the screen and opened her mailbox.

You have 0 new messages.

Mimi quickly clicked the newest open one.

Hey Mimi

We've got a problem here. A Digimon has entered this world. According to Davis he can teleport. But be careful: it's just a rookie so don't overdo it. Just send him back.

Signed: Yolei

Mimi quickly shut the computer off again. She checked for her digivice and picked up her laptop.

She hardly ever used it, only to send Digimon back to their world sometimes. And since Izzy didn't bother to show up anymore and Ken's was broken she had to bring her own.

"You ready?" Palmon nodded. They quickly headed back to the park where Sora and Biyomon were waiting for them.

"Did you get the same message from Yolei?" Sora nodded.

"She said we would have to be careful since it's a rookie. So you two."

She directed her attention to the two digimon standing there. "Don't delete him. I doubt that he's evil or anything. But we should be careful anyway"

"Don't worry, we'll be careful." Both digimon said.

"Still we should find the others first. I send them a message to meet at Kari's appartement."

"Why's that? We can easily handle him." Biyomon interrupted. "There's safety in numbers." Sora responded. She didn't want a repeat of two months ago.

The quartet left to find their fellow digidestined.

Meanwhile a digital dog, a weird flying creature and a regular dog stopped to catch their breath.

"Okay 'pant' that was not 'pant' cool." Tai had a bit trouble breathing. He had never ran that hard. But no one had ever threatened to do 'that' to him.

"You should have seen the look on your face Taimon with those two girls petting you. I wish I brought a camera!" Patamon nearly fell over from laughing.

"Yeah yeah very funny." Tai said sarcastically. "Let's just get to my apartment and get this over with."

They walked of in a familiar direction. None of them said anything for a while. Except for the occasional bark from the dog that was still following them. Every once in awhile he gently bit at Patamon's ears. This amused Tai since it annoyed Patamon.

"Hey Taimon." Patamon broke the silence. "What does 'being fixed' mean? You're not broken or anything, are you?"

Tai blushed a bit at this question. "How did you even hear about that?"

"Big ears Taimon, they're not just for flying."

Tai swallowed as he thought of an excuse. "I'll tell you when you're older."

"You're no fun." Patamon pouted.

Tai chuckled at this. 'Neither is getting fixed.'

They finally arrived at his appartement.

Patamon could believe what he saw. "Damn Taimon, you live HERE? This place is huge!"

"Actually a lot of people live here. My family just rents a place here. That is if they're still here." That thought had crossed his mind once or twice. What if his family didn't live here anymore. How would he ever find them if they had left this place?

Tai sighed. "Here goes nothing." He ran towards the door separating the staircase from the outside.

There was just one problem again. The door was locked and he still didn't have any opposable thumbs nor was he high enough to reach the door.

"I'm afraid that the two of you can't come up with me. The door's locked. So you two have to wait here."

"What?! That's not fair!" Patamon exclaimed.

"I'm sorry but you can't get in this way."

"Then I'll just fly up there."

"Okay okay, you can fly up there but you can't come in with me. I have to do this alone."

Tai faded away into smoke and easily slipped under the door. He returned to his corporal form.

Patamon flew up a bit so he could follow Tai from the outside. He tried to gain some altitude when he heard an annoyed scream.

"Taimon you okay?" Patamon asked fearing that something had happened to his friend.

"My tail is stuck! Again!!" Patamon just dropped out of the sky like a rock. He just could stop laughing. The dog that had been following him since the park ran up to him and started licking his face again.

"Stop that." Patamon pushed the much larger dog away. "I'm loose now, I'm going up." He heard Tai yell from the other side of the door.

Patamon took off again.

Tai ran up the stairs. One thing was for sure: he didn't like stairs anymore. Not that he ever did. Normally he'd just take the elevator, but he couldn't even reach the buttons so that was out of option.

As he was halfway he heard a dog bark and someone opened the door below. The person then came rushing up the stairs.

Tai quickly dissolved into smoke and waited for whoever it was to pass.

Kari came running past him, quickly ascending the stairway.

She stopped for a second as she saw the smoke but paid it no further attention. She had to get Gatomon. She, Davis, Joe Mimi and Sora had to find that digimon before he started wrecking the place. There was no one else that responded to Yolei's messages. And since Joe had a major hangover he wouldn't be of much use.

As Tai heard the door above him close he returned to his real form. As he continued his climbing he thought why Kari was in such a hurry. He quickly realized that she was looking for him as well and went to pick up Gatomon.

A few minutes later Tai had reached his floor. Only a bit more till home. And since Kari just ran past him meant his family still lived here.

As he came to his old front door doubt started to grow again. Did he really want to burden his family with his miraculous resurrection? Maybe he shouldn't have…

No.

He had to show he was alive.

He looked up at his door.

'Kamiya residence'

Tai took a deep breath and stepped towards the door.

Evil cliffhanger!!! (I'm so evil.)

By the way I'm starting to work on a new fic though I don't know what yet: either a Harry Potter fanfic about werewolves or a Digimon-Avatar crossover.

Happy New Year!!