"The Dark Heart of Friendship"
Davis was pacing now, feeling awful that she was stuck down there, unable to help her friends while they were stuck in the belly of the Beast, separated from each other, possibly going through some mind torture that Sakkakumon came up with, the sick fiend.
"Davis, dear, I understand that you are worried for your friends, but do stop pacing. It isn't going to solve anything." Bokomon advised as he and Neemon sat down watching her.
"I'm sorry, but I'm freaking. It's just something that I go through." She said smiling apologetically at her two digimon friends.
'I hate you!" someone's voice echoed making her gasp and look up at an orb, seeing one of them glow, Tommy's profile being outlined in it.
She pulled out her D-tector and started pushing buttons again, trying to get in contact with one of them, then she saw the outlined forms of all of her friends and brothers in different orbs.
"Do you feel like we're being watched? I dunno. I feel like we're being watched." Neemon said suddenly as he stared at the Beast of Metal.
"I swear, do you ever actually listen to yourself?" Bokomon asked.
"Boy look at him go! Hi!' Neemon said waving as the orb Tommy was in showed a clear picture of him in some weird land with dark skies with a volcanic landscape and he was running away from something.
"There's no time to stand there and wave." Bokomon said.
"Somebody help me!" Tommy cried out before tripping.
"T, get up! You have to stand up and fight! You can do it!" Davis yelled up at the orb, hoping that by some miracle, she could hear him.
The orb faded out and the symbol of Light appeared on the screen of her D-tector and she knew that Koji was now in trouble, locked in a fight with someone or something at the moment.
It wasn't Duskmon, thankfully.
She would be able to sense the Warrior of Darkness' presence if he was near or further off from them, but they were safe for the moment.
She saw an orb show Lobomon was facing off with a man bird beast called Karatenmon and she prayed that the Warrior of Light would win his battle.
"Come on, Wolf Boy." She whispered holding her D-tector, which was unknowingly transmitting the message to him.
"You can do this, I believe in you. I know you can do it. Just remember what you're fighting for. The ones you love, your friends and the safety of the Digital World. Be true to yourself." She said, the message being transmitted to all of her friends and her brother.
Davis felt a small tug in her heart and looked up, seeing Lobomon suffering an attack from Karatenmon that was quite painful.
"I need to go help them!" she said as tears formed in her eyes.
"Davis, I know you do, but you can't. They need to escape on their own." Bokomon said as he walked over and pat her shoulder, trying to comfort her.
"Once inside those portals, they need to face their fears, what makes them all weak and beat them so that they may escape. This is something that they need to face alone." He said.
"But what about me?!" she asked as tears fell, falling onto the ground and small flowers began growing from her teardrops that were a pure white color.
"Why wasn't I dragged in like the others? Sakkakumon could have taken me in there with him, but he didn't. Why?" she asked looking at him.
"I'm not sure. But…do you really have some demons you need to battle inside you like the others? You always seem so strong that it seems hard to believe." He said with a sad look at the girl.
"Why do I always have to be strong?! I try so hard to be strong and independent just like my cousin Jun is." She said as an image of the pink haired girl appeared in her mind.
"She's an only child and doesn't have any older siblings to help her out or any younger siblings to protect. I try to be like her when I see her being strong for herself, but I know she hurts inside when she doesn't have anyone around her. She only recently just got a new friend that she could put her trust in and the same thing happened to me. I never had any really close friends since I came here." Davis said.
Bokomon and Neemon had a hard time believing that.
She was always so open and friendly, loving, sincere and sweet.
How could she have not made any friends when she was in her world?
Bokomon figured that she would be the type of child that would be loved by everyone and wanted around all the time, but it seemed like he was wrong about that.
There was really more to Daisuke Davis Kanbara than she let on.
"Davis, why didn't you have any friends?" Neemon asked innocently.
She took in a breath and looked at them both.
"The other kids thought I was weird. I mean, I don't exactly sound like a kids my age, do I? I sound so much older than them and they all think that I think I'm more superior than them, which I don't. I never thought any of that." She said.
The faces of all the kids glaring at her whenever she spoke her mind or used words that weren't used at their literary level were in her mind.
"Not to mention I wasn't really girly like the other girls that loved being pampered. I was the one that would always play sports and wasn't afraid to get down and dirty to get the job done. People also thought I was weird for always wearing dark colors and would wonder if it was because I was depressed about something." She continued.
"Oh and let's not forget my favorite flaw. My name. I love it, but the girls all think it's weird to have a boy's name. They have no originality. They are all the same, talking about dolls, hair, dresses, ect. Takuya and Shinya were my only friends. I would also go to Odaiba and hang out with Jun and she was fine with it, showing me off to her friend and her family, who had a daughter that was only a year older than me." She said and smiled a bit as she remembered the lavender haired girl who seemed to be different just like her.
She was the type that preferred to be on the computer rather than go out with others kids her age.
"And then there's also my hair. It's not really a normal color that most people have. Where I come from, kids all had blonde, brown or black hair, so they thought it was weird that I had hair like this. My mom has the same color and says that she had to deal with it when she moved to Shibuya 15 years ago and met my dad, who was the first one to accept her, despite her strange hair." She said.
In Odaiba, everyone had weird natural hair colors.
She saw people who had green hair, blue hair, purple hair, vibrant red hair, dark red that was a match for her own, lavender, magenta.
She felt more at peace in that town and remembered seeing a girl with pretty orange hair playing on a guys' soccer team and she was accepted by them and wished that she could feel that acceptance too.
"It looks as though even you have your fair share of problems, my dear." Bokomon said.
Davis shook her head and smiled at them, the pain that were once held in them faded away and they became clear and happy like they always were, the flame in her eyes burning brighter than ever.
"Yeah, but talking this all out helps me. I don't really care what the others had to say. They never made an effort to get to know me and I just either clung to my brothers or went off on my own. I should really try to get along with them all better. I know that one day I will meet some kids that will accept me with open arms like my friends here did." She said smiling up at the sky.
Suddenly, she thought back to the night she and the others were in the TV tree forest and she saw a tree that had the image of that boy that reminded her of her brother and the girl that looked like she could be her long lost sister.
Then she thought about that boy at the bazaar, Ken and his digimon friend Wormmon and the older boy Ryo.
Why would she think about them all of a sudden?
Ken and his small group she could understand, she did meet them here in the Digital World and he seemed like someone she could get along with and maybe get him to open up a bit from the shy nature of his, but what about those two strangers?
Why would she think about them?
Davis was brought out of her thoughts when she saw Tommy had become Kumamon and was battling a four armed, three headed fire digimon namred Asuramon.
"Come on, Tommy! You can do it! Go! Go! Go!" Davis cheered jumping around; Neemon joining her in the cheer leading, thinking it was fun.
Just then, the orb that Koji had been in dimmed and was dark, like someone had turned out the lights.
"Who went away?" Bokomon asked.
"It was Koji. But why…why isn't he here right now?" Davis asked as she looked around.
"Perhaps he didn't learn anything. He merely moved on to a new level." The chicken explained.
The young female Warrior shook her head and then focused on Kumamon's fight and saw that he was now Korikkakumon and was winning his fight, so she went on to cheering him on.
He then purified the evil digimon and took the fractal code.
The rob Tommy was in shot out a white light and the young male Warrior came out and went over to where Davis, Bokomon and Neemon were.
"Tommy!" the three cheered as they ran over, happy to see him.
"Boy, am I glad to see you guys. You'll never believe what happened." Tommy said as Davis tackled him to the ground in a hug, the two eight year olds laughing in joy.
"Oh, I bet ya we will. I'm just happy that you're safe." Davis said as she pulled away with a bright smile on her face.
"Yeah. Thanks for believing in me, D. You're a great friend. I heard what you said before from the D-tector. It really helped me think a bit. Plus, I was able to figure out about what my older brother, Yutaka, had been trying to teach me and I'm stronger now because of it." Tommy said with a smile.
"Please do start at the beginning." Bokomon said.
"I'm confused." Neemon said tilting his head to the side.
The two youngest Warriors laughed at that.
TBC