Hikari woke up and prepared to go to school. After she had taken a shower and got dressed, she woke up Tai and joined Tailmon at the dinner table for breakfast. The day was seemingly normal. She walked to school, and her a couple of her classes. Her mind often drifted to Mimi and her relationship with Zero. There was something about him that she absolutely hated, and that was the fact that despite being the Digidestined of darkness, she couldn't hate him. She hated him because she couldn't hate him. He had done nothing wrong, and her first instinct was to trust him. He was nice, and new to all of this, and had helped save MetalGreymon and Patamon, yet she couldn't get over him having the crest of darkness. It also troubled her how Daisuke and Miyako had sided with him so quickly. She envied how he had bonded with them so much over the past days, more so then she had in the months and years of knowing them. She often thought whether they, Daisuke and Miyako, were right about Zero, but when she voiced her opinion to T.K. He said that they couldn't trust someone like him, and they had more experience with darkness then Miyako and Daisuke had, and knew the dangers of it. This only made her feel more torn. She had even asked Cody about it, but all he said was that he was undecided.
Currently, Hikari was in math class. There was less then a minute of it left, and everyone was packing their things. The clock struck ten and everyone filled out of the classrooms. Hikari made her way down the hall. She was so lost in her thoughts and doubts, that she didn't pay attention to where she was going and bumped into someone, making them drop all their books.
"Oh! Sorry" She said quickly. Without even looking up, she bent to pick up the books from the floor. It was only when she realized the books weren't on the ground yet that she looked up.
And then she screamed.
"AHHH!" she jumped back in shock. The world around her had completely stopped and had been encompassed in white light. The human she had bumped into wasn't an exception and the large human shaped mass of light frightened her to no end. Looking down, she realized that the books were frozen in mid air. Everyone around her was covered by the same kind of light. Her eyes trailed off the crowd of kids to the walls and to the single large clock hanging on them.
The second hand had stopped. They were all frozen in time.
The first person Hikari thought of wasn't a person, but a digimon. Tailmon to be precise, and dropping all her things, she hurried to the school entrance. From their, she made her way to a large tree outside the computer lab, Tailmons favorite napping place. When she got their, she was relieved to Tailmon, safe and sound sleeping on a branch.
"Tailmon!" She yelled up. It took exactly one second for Tailmon to jolt up, wide awake and alert by the sound of Hikaris scream.
She jumped down and landed in front of Hikari.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Just look around"
For the first time, Tailmon took notice of her surroundings. Everything was pure white and frozen. Even the tree she was sleeping on was frozen.
"What happened?" Tailmon climbed onto Hikaris shoulder "Did we get transported to the digiworld or something? But it looks like the school and everything"
"I don't know what happened. One second everything was fine, the next and, well this" She gestured to the space around her.
"Is anyone else, uh still moving?"
"I can answer that"
Hikari twirled around and faced the newcomer.
It was a girl. She wore all white jeans and a silk long sleeved shirt. Her startling caramel eyes stared deep into Hikari, and her dark blue hair flowed down.
"Who are you?" Hikari asked.
"I'm Mika. I met your friend Zero. He is your friend right?"
"Well" Hikari paused "Its kind of complicated"
"Oh trust me, I know what that's like. You being the child of light, him being the child of darkness. Its often confusing when both holders meet up. Especially with what you've experienced through your journey in the digital world"
"How did you know that!?" Hikari asked shocked.
"Can I hold Cleo?"
"What?"
Tailmons ears perked up a bit. The only person who called her Cleo was Kai, and she already thought he was a nut job. A smart nut job that may be telling the truth about everything, but a nut job nevertheless.
"I want to hold Cleo, though I guess you call her Tailmon. I just haven't seen her in a long time, and I've missed her"
"I'm sorry" Tailmon said, "But I don't know you, and you haven't explained how you know about us"
"That's right, you don't remember me" Mika sighed "Where do I begin?" She mused. After thinking for a couple of seconds, she said "I know so much about you, because I was the last Digidestined of Light"
"Your the original Digidestined that Genai told us about" Hikari said.
"No. I'm not the first one, the first Digidestined was born in the nineteen hundreds. I was born around fifty years ago, though the original Digidestined were born in the same century as me, there a difference of around forty years"
"That makes no sense" Tailmon said.
"Simply put, I'm a ghost. I was the last person to have your crest"
"How is that possible, Genai made the crest for us personally"
"No honey" Mika said "Genai made the crest to trick you, the crest of light and darkness were around well before Genai. As was the other crest he allegedly made"
"Why should we trust you?" Tailmon asked.
"How can I prove that I was the Digidestined of light?"
"Digivolve me" This answer surprised both Hikari and Mika.
"Tailmon?"
"If she really was the Digidestined of light, then she should be able to use your crest right?"
"I guess."
"Then lets do it. If she can use it, then we trust her"
Mika smiled at Hikari, and Hikari gave in. "Fine. You get one chance" She said taking out her crest.
She handed Mika her crest.
"You ready Cleo?"
"My names-"
Tailmon was interrupted by the crest unleashing waves of light. Her body resonated with the crest, and started to morph and take shape. The energy of the crest was taken into Tailmons body, and she changed into the shape of a humanoid women. When the light faded, the women was wearing white feathered boots, and a white tight like cloth wrapped around her left leg and waist. The same cloth wrapped around the corners of her stomach and covered her breast. They were also protected by a golden bra like chest plate. pink ribbons wrapped around her body. She had white long gloves, one of which was feathered and opened up into a boy when she attacked. She also wore a helmet much like Angemons and she had blond long straight hair.
"Angewomon!" Hikari yelled in surprise.
Angewomon looked at herself, and then at the crest in Mikas hands.
"You digivolved me!"
"Do you trust me now?"
Both Hikari and Angewomon stood speechless.
"Listen" Mika began "I know this is a lot to take in, but Genais been lying to you. You kids weren't brought to the digital world to fight darkness, you were sent there to help it"
"What?"
"Kids like you and Zero and the other Digidestined are special. You have the capacity to get past things and achieve things that most adults can't, and even most digimon can't. You were brought to the digital world to achieve peace and to direct it into a bright future. Not to fight amongst your selves"
"But, how can we get peace if the forces of darkness are working against us"
"Your thinking about it wrong. Is darkness working against you? Or is the Kaiser working against you? Its true that these people and Digimon use darkness to get what they want, but don't you do the same"
"No we don't, we use these powers to protect others"
"I want you to remember that" Mika said smiling "Remember that you use light, that you use digimon and their powers to protect others"
"Light and Darkness, did anyone ever ask what they wanted? If they could talk, what do you think they'd say?"
"Your sounding like my ELA teacher"
Mika smiled before saying "They don't want to always be conflicting. Whenever theirs a power struggle, its not light who tries to overtake darkness, its not darkness trying to overtake light, Its the humans and digimon using these forces to fight what they believe is good or bad. If Light represents good, and dark represents evil, then why are there digimon like Wizardmon, a virus dark type digimon who has many dark type attacks, help others. Why is it that a light type digimon like Digitamamon can work for the Dark Masters at one point"
"Those were different. Digitamamons good, he just had a lapse of judgement back then. And Wizardmon wasn't like other dark types"
"No they aren't different. You need to listen to me when I say, Light and Darkness are mere opposites. They can be good, they can be bad. Zeros good, the Kaisers bad"
"Do you understand?"
"I know what your saying but"
"Its hard to believe, I know. But think back to Zero, he never did anything to hurt you. In fact, he helped you and he's been using his power for good. You should trust him"
"But everyone else-"
"Forget about everyone else, they're not you Hikari"
"Now I don't have a lot of time, so let me explain this to you. Tailmon has been the partner to the Digidestined of light, since the crest was created. Kinda, ask Kai for all the details. Anyway, last time I fought with Tailmon, we got hurt. I died and Tailmon was reverted back to data. Now this is important, Genai found Tailmons data and erased her memories of me. You need to let Zero digivolve Tailmon. Then everything will be clear"
"You want me to let Zero dark digivolve Tailmon?!"
"It wouldn't be a dark digivolution, but it will be a forced one. You said you would trust me, so trust me now. If you can't bring yourself to let him do it, then save it for a time when your In trouble. If there's ever an enemy you can't beat, have Zero digivolve Tailmon, and she'll remember everything, and gain all the power she lost. I promise she won't get hurt"
"Promise?"
"I just said I did" Mika laughed "Now do a dead girl a favor"
"Be friends with Zero"
Mika smiled at Hikari and Angewomon, before turning around to leave.
"Wait where are you going?"
"Don't worry" Mika threw the crest behind her. Hikari caught it an looked up to see Mika gone.
"I will always be with you" Mikas soft whisper was heard by Hikari, and, with her crest in her hands, the world around her came back to life, and she was right back in that hallway facing the boy she bumped into.
"Its ok Hikari" The boy said.
He picked up his books and said "Wanna walk with me to science"
Hikari looked at him for a second before saying "Sure Zero, I'd love to"
AN: And that's another chapter done. I think this might be a bit confusing, so feel welcomed to ask any questions, I'll answer them.