Chapter 24: Wiping One Away From Humanity
The next day, Henry was ready to go to school and when he was getting ready to go to school, it was like nothing that had happened the previous night even mattered to Henry anymore. He honestly placed all of that behind him and he really did not care all that much what really happened. Henry placed Terriermon on his shoulder and then Henry walked out of the house and his parents were just trying to decide if they should question what he was doing or not. They still decided in the end that they were going to let things slide this one time.
When Henry was outside and about a third of the way to school, Henry was walking by a empty piece of land. Henry knew that the place was going to be used for construction development and Henry didn't really care about this in reality. But then there was something he saw that really made him stop what he was doing. Even Terriermon started to get a little bit more serious about what was going on.
"Is that a digimon?" Terriermon asked and then Henry looked over and then he saw what Terriermon was talking about and Henry was pretty certain that they were indeed looking at a digimon. Henry was about to try and see what the digimon was but when he looked at them that was when he had stopped. He knew that this was a digimon that he had seen way back in the day when he had first gotten Terriermon. Henry started to shake and Terriermon was wondering what the hell was scaring him so bad until they saw the exact digimon as well.
"Henry, can we just walk away and just head to school?" Terriermon asked and Henry was kind of shocked to see Terriermon not even pretend to be all high in mighty about it. Probably because they knew what this digimon was exactly like and they did not want to take any risks. Henry wanted so badly to do what Terriermon was asking for him to do, but at the same time, he knew that he needed to take this fucking beast down once in for all. Henry grabbed his digivice and he sighed and walked closer to the digimon. The battle that they were going to be taking place in was a fight that Henry knew that he had to do not for only the sake of the city, but for his own personal life since he knew that he would never move forward if he never did this.
The name of this digimon was Gorillamon. The digimon was the first one that Henry had gotten into a fight with. At the time, Henry was a man who had gotten into fights all the time, and he always got into trouble despite the fact that his parents over and over again wanted him to do stuff that wasn't worthy of being in trouble. So basically the exact opposite of what Kazu was like earlier.
In his early years of school, Henry would be sent to the principals office every single week and his parents had been on the verge of just giving up on him until Henry had done something that his parents had considered to be going too far. It was in his fourth grade of school when this had happened. He was just waiting for lunch period since he had wanted to make fun of the new kid really badly. Not only was he the new kid, but there was way that he was walking down the hall way. Henry was able to figure out very fast that he was a faggot.
It was like a triple win. A new student, a faggot, and a guy who was a little bit darker skin. He wasn't black or anything, but he was a very dark white. Sort of like a deeper tan. Despite the fact that New York City had been trying to advance faggot rights, Henry was only ten years old at the time and he did not really know any better and thought that it was just funny as hell to make fun of this guy.
The name of this new student was named Jeff. He had a younger brother who was not in the school, since he was only seven and was still going to the elementary school. There was something about that whole family that made Henry feel sick honestly, but there was something about Jeff's brother that made him feel like there can be at least one exception to this whole rule and that perhaps there was still a little bit of hope for that mentally deranged hell hole. Even though he realized in hindsight that he was the one that was wrong, and not Jeff or his parents or even his brother.
Even though Henry only met the younger brother one time and the younger brother was only seven, Henry could very easily that his brother was not a faggot and was indeed a normal man. So Ken decided that he would spare the brother all the jokes. But Jeff was his target.
During lunch of Jeff's first day at the school, Henry walked up to Jeff and Jeff looked up at him. "Hey you fairy." Henry told Jeff as Jeff looked at him wondering what the hell Henry was talking about. When he made the pieces in his mind, Jeff gulped. He knew exactly what Henry was talking about and he knew that Henry was going to take any chance to expose this. Henry started to ball his fists so he could land a punch that would establish forever who the man in charge was. Jeff started to hold his hands up since he knew what Henry was going to do.
Henry didn't stop though. There was a very open small spot on Jeff's face right on his nose. Henry punched him so hard in the nose that it started to bleed and he feel down to the ground. That was when the principal was going to come on in to stop the matter. Henry knew that he had technically gone too far with it but he honestly did not really give too much of a shit. He was just so excited to prove to that guy who the better one was and he was willing to do it again if he had to. That guy had made him sick and he was not even going to pretend that he had not.
The principal looked over at Henry and he was beyond pissed off this time. "This kid has only been here for one day and you already decided to get into a duel with him. You really don't know when to stop what you have been doing to these people. At least with some of your other targets, they had been around for a few years or months. But this is much too soon. I doubt that he will even want to come to school anymore. In punishment for this you parents and I agreed that you need to do some service in town. We assign you to a older man and you need to take care of him and his family for the next twelve months as a helper to make up for what you did." The principal said and Henry publicly rolled his eyes thinking this eyes thinking that this was just a dumb ass idea.
"Fine, I will do it. If it will make you leave me alone, then I would be willing to do anything honestly." Henry said and he was telling the truth when he had said that. He was sick and tired of this dude just getting in his business all the time and he wanted to go back to tormenting students at his spare time.
"Great. Maybe you do have some hope after all. I better not get my hopes up yet, but you accepting this does make me change my mind a little bit. Okay, so you are going to start today after school and you will be going to the house of a man named Davis Smith. He is eight two years old and he needs to have somebody really watch the house down for him." The principal said and gave Henry the address of Davis. Henry ripped it out of the principals hand and before the principal could say anything, Henry was totally gone from the area and there was nothing he can do about it.
As Henry went to Davis's house that day after school, he was just doing it to get over it. He had no interest in making friends with an ancient and he was honestly thinking that the man did not deserve any help on this at all. But once he reached the address of this guy things started to take a little bit of a change in idea of how to look at things for him.
A girl who was probably the much younger wife of Davis answered the door. Much younger wife or his starting to get relatively decently aged daughter. Henry wasn't sure and honestly Henry didn't really care. When Henry saw Davis sitting in his bed, for a moment, Henry actually did feel bad for the guy and he could tell why this guy was in such bad need of help and care. But he just wanted the daily one hour over with. Henry was told he had to help Davis out from 4-5 every single day for the next twelve months and that if for each day he didn't do it, he would have to do another week extra after the initial sentence was supposed to be over, as a way to motivate him to do it every day.
"What do you want me to do now?" Henry asked and he was just ready to get this over with and when he got his answer, he was just shocked and not really sure what to say. Davis just sat up and told Henry to sit down. Not really thinking too much about it, Henry sat down as Davis asked. He sort of figured that Davis was just going to let him get like two or three minutes to relax before it officially hit four. After all, it was only 3:54, six minutes before he was technically forced to start.
"I have a lot of stuff that I wish to tell the people of the world. When we do our daily meet up, I don't really want to make you do any work. What you did really does not matter in my life in the long run. But I have a life story that I want to explain and you are the only one who has to listen to me. Hopefully you will actually take me seriously and not take me as a joke." There was something to Davis's voice that made Henry stop cold inside and want to take this very seriously.
Besides, three hundred and sixty five days of getting a one hour story from an old man who didn't give a shit what Henry did? It sounded strange but at the same time it did seem like a win deal since he didn't even have to work in these meet ups.
"I was born in June 30 1851, almost one hundred years ago now. Things were much different back then, which I am sure that you are already well aware of. But I am sure that you may not be exactly sure of how the things were actually different." Davis started his story time and when he started his story time, Henry just sat down and listened to Davis give off his one hour speech on how his life was like when he was younger starting from his birth.
The only thing that Henry had to do was write down a perfect transcript of every single meeting that had taken place since Davis said that when he died, or when the full year was finished, he wanted to publish all 365 sessions and thing that Davis said to the public and he had felt like this was going to be able to help expose everything that had come out to the world on what he did, what he didn't do, and how he was going to expect the world to be like in the near future and all that stuff.
This went on for one week before Davis thought that Henry had earned himself a award. "You have done a great job this last week Henry. You are two percent of the way through your sentence. And to celebrate you surviving a full week, trust me, that is something to be very much happy for when you are that age and you are trying to do your own thing, I will be giving you this." Davis said and handed Henry a green device. "Once you return home today, just turn it on and you see will what I have in store for you. You have truly earned it this time."
"Thank you. Can't wait to hear next session." Henry said and then he started to head on home. That was the truth. At first, Ken thought that this was going to be miserable and that this whole thing was going to be a giant waste of time. But with each session, the story that Davis had of his life got more and more exciting and the more that Henry wished to truly hear about the whole thing. With each passing day as well, there was something inside of Henry that was slowly releasing all of the anger that he had built up. Almost like he was actually changing and starting to become a decent person as well. It was something that had to be seen to be believed, but it was still just how things were playing out.
As Henry made it home that night, he took out his device thing that Davis gave him. He pressed the on button and when he did so, the last thing that he had expected to see was the one thing that he did see. He found a giant monster that was a bunny staring right at him. Henry was wondering how this came up and he was really wanting the answers right away, but at the same time he told himself that Davis would probably give him answers on a later session.
"My name is Terriermon. I am your digimon partner. That old man created me for you." Terriermon said and then jumped on Henry's lap. It was scary at first, but seeing the digimon stare at him and have such a happy look on their face got rid of all of that fear and he knew that no matter what had happened, Henry wanted to protect the digimon that Davis had given him. "We are going to be great friends."
Henry felt like he was able to get used to this and he told Terriermon that things were going to be great now that they had met each other. Henry even picked up Terriermon and threw them up in the air a little bit like what he would do when he was playing with his cat. Then he grabbed Terriermon and almost all the hate that was in Henry seemed to go away. Henry knew that no matter what happened, if he could, he would try and keep the thing safe.
Henry had to end his little flash back moment when Gorillamon raised their arm up into the air. Despite not wanting to fight Rika either time so far and despite the fact that Henry would keep against violence for a very long time still after this, he knew that this time was an exception to his personal rule. He was going to take Gorillamon down in their rematch and Henry was going to be able to use this as a way to be able to move forward in his life again.
"Terriermon, we are going to have to take this beast down!" Henry got his point across and he didn't swear while doing so. The casual Henry still seemed to be in him after all. The Henry that knew that swearing was a problem and he knew that he shouldn't do it no matter how pissed he may be. Rika was the exception on that matter. So he had faced two types of exceptions for two different types of things. Henry then went into his pocket and he was getting ready to use his supplies to take down Gorrillamon.
The thing that he found and was ready to use was a card. It was a green card that had something that said "Hyperspeed" on it and Henry took out his device. This was something he knew to do when he was on the rematch despite not doing it earlier. He swiped the card through the digivicie and then when he had done so, he saw Terriermon get really fast and chase right at Gorillamon. Despite not having any real power at all, he saw Terriermon slam right into Gorillamon and made the digimon walk backwards for a moment and Henry knew that perhaps he could really win this battle after all.
It had seemed like Henry was going to actually be able to place this behind him for the rest of his life when he can take Gorillamon down. Once Gorillamon can be destroyed, then perhaps he can start to teach Rika in the ways of what it is like to never fight. He knew that it was going to be a long shot, but he knew that he needed to get the young girl to try and see where he was coming from and what he and Takato were trying to accomplish in their friendship. But before something can really get him to think that he was making true progress on this, there was attack that Gorillamon that ruined everything that Henry had wanted.
Gorillamon threw Terriermon right down on the ground and Terriermon was looking at Henry. Henry grabbed the digimon and he was wondering what could make Gorillamon such a monster. He then started to wonder what made Gorillamon that way, and he was seriously just failing to even think of things. But this this flash backed him to something else that he had related to his past with Davis and all that. This was like a second piece of the puzzle.
It was a few weeks after Davis had given Henry Terriermon. People seemed to notice the changed attitude of Henry throughout those couple of days, wondering what exactly had happened. people started to talk with him a little bit. But Henry had one goal in mind. Something that he shouldn't be forced to do since he should have never gotten himself into the situation in the first place, but now that he was in the situation he should have tried to fix it a long time ago. He was going to try and apologize to Jeff for what he had done earlier.
Henry saw Jeff at the lunch table that was exactly the same as the one where the punch had happened. Henry decided not to remind himself of that situation and he waled up to Jeff and he was taking a breath as he was getting ready for it. "Hey Jeff, I just wanted to say something to you." Henry said and Terriermon was in his back pack, thinking that it would be fun to bring the digimon but at the same time he didn't want anybody to see the digimon either. Jeff stood up and he looked absolutely terrified.
As he saw the guy just walk away as fast as possible, Henry nodded and that was when he had known that the guy did not really trust him quite yet. Henry did not really blame the guy. After all, he probably gave the guy a really fucking bloody nose. So with that, Henry walked off and as he was walking away from the area, he thought that maybe he can start a new friendship with somebody who was not really aware of his past. As he was sitting outside, Terriermon broke their promise buy getting out of Henry's back pack and looking at him curious.
"Why did he run away from you? Does he not like you?" Terriermon asked and Henry thought about that. He realized that Terriermon never knew the truth of why he had been given to him. Henry then looked down at the digimon and thought that maybe he should know the truth after all. But it was something that he really did not want to admit to as it would open up one of the biggest flaws of his character onto the digimon and he was not really sure if the digimon actually wanted to hear that.
"Well, I hit him on the nose and he got really hurt. As a result, I was forced to do some service and the service was to talk to Davis and help him at the house all the time. But I found out Davis just wanted me to listen to his stories a ton and after a week, he gave me you. I am trying to change my public image to start to get myself away from that whole disaster that I had created, and I am honestly regretting what I had done. But it doesn't matter. He doesn't want to talk to me. I need to talk to somebody else." Henry said and then he put Terriermon back in the back pack as he saw something in the distance he wanted to see. It was lunch time, he would just come back in time for class in twenty five minutes.
"Terriermon, I think we are going to be going on a little bit of a road trip." Henry said and he was hoping that nobody noticed the fact that he was going to be ditching the place during lunch for a moment. It really wasn't all that big of a deal and it wasn't like he was going to get in trouble for not being in lunch. That was what he was telling himself at least. It was what he was thinking would be the truth after all.
Henry and Terriermon left the school grounds and walked down to the park where the thing that they saw was. Henry was sort of thinking about how dumb of a choice it was to place the school next to the park where people would be constantly tempted to leave the school grounds, but Henry figured that it had not really been all that big of a problem up to this point in time, so it was more whatever than he had tried to make it out to be in his mind.
However, once in the park Henry was a little bit more shocked at what exactly he was seeing. He thought that he was either going to see a ditching student or figure out that he was actually just imagining things and that nobody was really there at all. But what he saw was a younger version of Gorillamon. Henry placed his back pack down on the ground and unzipped it. Terriermon jumped out of the back pack and Henry was mainly doing this since he wanted to see what Terriermon would think if there was any relation that they had considering the fact that Terriermon and Gorillamon were both digimon. It seemed like a natural thing to be curious about in the ten year old mind set of Henry.
Henry was watching as Terriermon was running on towards Gorillamon and Henry was thinking about how great it was going to be that the two digimon were going to start being friends with each other. Well, that was what Henry was thinking was going to be happening at the very least. In no way was he expecting what had actually happened.
Gorillamon just stared at Terriermon a bit. As he had looked at Terriermon for what seemed like half a minute with having no fucking reaction, Gorillamon slapped Terriermon right in the face and then Terriermon just flew on right to the ground. Henry screamed when he had seen that and then he ran on his way up to Terriermon and grabbed his digimon partner before anything terrible could happen to them. He had not wanted to see Terriermon get hurt but seeing that made him lose all focus that he had.
He stared at Gorillamon and he was at a total loss of what to think. He was just holding onto his digimon and Henry was watching Gorillamon walking up to him. Henry was gulping, hoping that the digimon didn't try and hurt him any further than they had done so far. Gorillamon started to aim their gun down right towards Terriermon and then Henry stood up and started to run Terriermon out of the area, to make sure that there was still a chance for the digimon to be saved.
Henry had run for what seemed like hours even though he knew it was only a couple of minutes to get back to the school. But the fear that he had felt made it feel like it was much longer and much worse. But once he was getting down to the entrance of his school, he saw as Gorillamon was wanting to attack them there but considering just how much damage could be done if they had done so, probably thought it wise not to do that. So Gorillamon vanished away and Henry placed Terriermon back in his back pack. "When we get home, I will tend to you better." Henry said, hoping that Terriermon would forgive him for the pain that he had placed the digimon into.
Henry then zipped up the back pack and he was looking around, hoping very much that nobody had seen what exactly he was doing. He had hoped that the digimon would not get in too much more pain during that period of time. He was just very split in his focus due to the fact that he was trying very hard to focus on school but there was the fear of Gorillamon at the same time and if Terriermon was really going to be safe, so like five or six things all adding up at once.
That was when Henry was done with his flash back and he was thinking about what he was going to do about Gorillamon. He saw Terriermon was very hurt once again, and seeing the pain on the digimon was too much to bear. But at the same time, he knew damn well that destroying this digimon was more important than the pain that Terrimon had felt. He had felt bad that he had ever felt that way on a certain matter, but he was just trying to be a little bit realistic on this. He then stared at his digivice once again, thinking about all of his options.
"Terriermon, I know that this is going to be very hard, but you need to fight harder and destroy them. I will come up with something that we can do." Henry said and he was looking at more of his cards. He saw one that looked really bad but considering his situation, he was willing to take his bets. It was a card that said 'Hyperwing.'
Henry had no idea how he had even gotten this card in the first place, but he knew that this was going to help him out depending on just how well he was able to play it. He swiped the card and Terriermon grew some wings out of their back. Henry read that the affect would only last forty seconds, so he needed to try and do something with them as soon as possible to take Gorillamon down. "Terriermon, kick them in the face." Henry said quietly, hoping that the digimon they were fighting did not hear.
Terrimon flew up and then kicked Gorillamon in the face once with each foot. "Now get them in the chest." Henry gave his next order and then Terriermon flew back and he was keeping close track of all of the seconds and just how much time was left and Terriermon slammed their face into Gorillamon's chest. Gorillamon fell down for a second and then Terriermon flew back to Henry when Henry realized that the affect was going to be wearing down very soon. Terriermon didn't really want to argue with Henry considering the fact that he probably considered the timing much better. Once Terriermon landed, the wings were gone and it seemed like the battle was a victory until Gorillamon started to stand up again and was slowly heading on their way over to Henry and Terriermon. Henry knew that a digivolution had to happen.
Even if Henry wasn't totally against the idea, which he still kind of was, he just had no real idea how he could be able to get the digimon to digivolve since the whole thing behind the one the previous day was due to Renamon attacking them a bunch of times. Henry had no real choice but to sort of counter attack that stuff. Okay, he had plenty of choices, but Terriermon did not really give them those choices at all.
Henry was holding onto his digivice as tightly as possible and he was just trying to find something that can get him what he needed, but at the rate they were going, Gorillamon was going to give him a romping of biblical proportions and there was nothing that Henry was going to be able to do about it. Henry saw Terriermon standing right in front of him as if getting a fighting stance ready. Henry had to admit it was kind of funny watching Terriermon be in such a ready fighting mode, but he just wish that it never had to seriously be considered. Right when Gorillamon raised their arm up and Henry knew that they were going to try and crush the digimon henry was just wanting this to all end.
Henry ended up giving an extremely loud scream that broke the sound barrier of Gorillamon and even the majority of people walking by in the chaotic New York City morning where people were just driving or taking their buses on the way to work. It really was a good sign to show just how loud and how bad that whole scream was. As the scream was going on, Terriermon started to glow as well.
This was the sign that Terriermon was now digivolving. The body that they were turning into was not nearly as worrying the second time. In fact, it was exactly what Henry needed and he was able to respect that this time around, even if he did not want to be in a spot where that was the case. Terriermon had turned into their second form, Gargomon, after about twenty seconds of their body changing shape and looking like it was being abused.
Gargomon held their guns out and they were trying to show Gorillamon that they were not scared to get into a fight with the digimon. Gorillamon was shocked but what they had seen with Gargomon, but they still felt like they had no real reason to think that Gargomon was going to be any real threat. Henry was rubbing the dust off of his digivice and the people in the near by area started to get back to their own business, not really thinking about what had just happened and honestly not really cared. It was at this time when Henry thought about the thing that Davis told him after this whole situation had gone down the first time with Gorillamon.
It was that very day after the whole battle happened, and Henry was doing his daily service to Davis. It had only been a month or so after he had started, and considering the fact that he still had eleven months to go, he was doing his best to just not ditch out on a couple of days or something like that. Besides, he really needed the help of Davis in this case.
"Davis, do you mind if I stay for an extra ten minutes or so?" Henry asked when the daily writing and story session was over. He placed the notebook he was given for the second month down. They agreed to use one for each month, as a sort of twelve volume work. Davis said it was okay for him to stay for a little while longer if he felt the need to stay. Henry sighed and he was taking Terriermon out of the back pack and showing Davis what happened. "I found a digimon named Gorillamon. I thought it would be cool if the two digimon could get to know each other a little bit, but Gorillamon obviously did not agree with the idea. They attacked Terriermon instead and started to really hurt them before I got into the scene and brought them out of the area."
Davis considered what Henry had said, and Davis nodded. He was a little sad to hear that Gargomon had gotten hurt, but at the same time he was able to see that Henry really did not know better and that this time it was not really his fault at all. On many cases, it could have been Henry's fault, but this was not one of those cases at all.
"Henry, you thought that Terriermon should try and get some friends. You made a choice that you thought was valid. Don't beat yourself up for it. The thing that matters if what you do to mend the friendship. What will you do to make sure that Terriermon never gets hurt again? Or are you just going to use this as a chance to make them a tougher fighter?" Davis started and Henry thought about that and he was going to take the path of Terriermon safer. He did not want to see the digimon get involved in any fights after the one that had just taken place.
"I don't really know what I plan to do. I guess that maybe Terriermon and I can just stay out of the business of things that we are not related towards." Henry said and he was hoping that this was an answer that could make Davis satisfied enough. It was the best one that eh was able to come up with on that moment, and one that he wanted to hope would work out.
"Henry, in the end, you just do what you feel is right. Nobody is going to forge this path for you. I will not and I don't want anybody else to do so for you. It is your life that you need to live and as a result, you need to start to do some things that perhaps you will regret in the end. But you might not know what you will regret or what you will end up being proud of until you make these choices." Davis told Henry and Henry considered that. After all, Davis had a lot of experience on this type of stuff, and he was a very good person to speak to on all of this stuff from the stories that he had heard.
"I just don't want to ever see Terriermon ever get hurt again. If I do, I don't really think I can be able to live with that fact ever again. It seems silly, but that is just the truth." Henry said and he was looking at Davis as if to hope that Davis would understand where he was going with that. Davis nodded and then Henry sighed in relief to know that his old mentor knew how he had felt.
"Just know that no matter what and how you may feel about it, nobody can determine your own destiny for you. This is all of this stuff for you. Just focus on what you think will work out for you, and then once you make a choice that you feel like you can be comfortable with, then you go ahead and follow it." Davis told Henry and that was just how Henry was trying to look at it. "I made my own destiny, and I don't think anybody should have made it up for you on that level. This is very much how I feel on this."
As Davis has said this, Henry looked down and he was thinking a lot about what Davis was saying there. There must have been a level of truth to it, but at the same time he didn't really know how anybody else would feel about him making his own path. He would love to try and find his own path, but he felt like nobody was really going to be there for him. That sort of sounds scary for him. Henry nodded and Davis was really happy that the young man felt this way and that he was able to resonate with him on that level at least.
This was when Henry was forced to focus back on the present again. He knew what he was going to make his destiny out to be this time. He held out his left hand and this was when he was going to break his code full one just one time before he would go back to normal and head on to school as if there was nothing that ever happened. "Gargomon, I know that usually I do not act like this way and that I almost never tell you to do this, but you need to give it your all. You need to destroy that Digimon! They are a parasite to this world and destroying this thing will bring peace to me and the other digimon that they have ruined the lives of." Henry said and then he stood back and took a few steps backwards to not get caught up in the action.
Gargomon was really happy to know that Henry was giving them the approval to destroy a digimon and partake in a fight for once. Gargomon placed both of their hands together and then when they had placed both of their hands together Henry was forcing himself to watch this and not force himself out of this.
That was when Gargomon started to fire a ton of bullets all at once. Henry thought that they were firing like sixty bullets in like five seconds, it was like twelve bullets a second. Henry was amazed as he watched the digimon just in the course of six seconds totally destroy Gorillamon. That was when Gorillamon fell down to the ground and then vanished away, only having their gun even be proof of the fact they existed at all.
Henry looked over at Gargomon and he took a very long deep breath. "This was a one time deal. Don't start to think that this is going to happen all the time. Gorillamon was a one time thing that needed to be taken care of." Henry said and then when he had said that, Gargomon remained silent and Henry was hoping that he had gotten the point across and that Gargomon would accept this stuff. But then afterwards, Gargomon started to turn back to Terriermon for the fact that Henry wanted him to do that. But then when Gargomon was starting to return to Terriermon, he turned around to see what was going on in the street.
This was when Terriermon jumped on Henry's arm and then when he was jumping on Henry's arm, he started to get along his way towards school. He knew that he was going to be late and he honestly didn't even care that he was going to be late anymore. He was used to sort of getting late with all of the stuff going on. It was just sort of a fact of life and stuff like that. Henry just sort of hoped that the entire school didn't start to wonder what was wrong with him or something retarded like that over the fact that he has started to show up like a minute or two late or something like that.
The city was getting harder for Henry to really appreciate with every passing day. He just had a strange feeling that this whole thing was going to start to go down the shit hole soon. All of these battles that he had to do and the constant threat of digimon now was making Henry think that there was going to be a terrible big battle coming up or something like that. He was just in no way prepared for something like that.
Terriermon was wanting to talk with Henry and honestly if there was a place where barely anybody was around, they would not feel too bad about this whole thing. Henry didn't want people to be wondering what exactly he was doing talking to some rabbit or something like that. People would think that he was mentally retarded or insane or something like that. Henry was going to be listening to what he had wanted to be told when school was over that day if Terriermon had remembered what was going on.
Terriermon was wishing that the stuff they could tell Henry was related to Takato and Guilmon. They wanted to talk with Henry about the digimon battles and when Guilmon was actually going to digivolve or something like that. Henry was not really sure or didn't really care all that much over the fact that these digimon were going around. Henry just knew that the only thing that would really be sure was that Guilmon would actually digivolve soon and all of that stuff, he just had no real idea where and when it happened. Henry thought when Terriermon would eventually ask him that perhaps it would be a week or so away.
When Terriermon and Henry reached the school, the day had gone one like normal and all of that stuff. Henry was not really too worried about what people were thinking about him being this late and all of that stuff. Henry thought that people only cared for like two to three seconds and the people that do care so much about this stuff need to get a life now and not really wonder what was going on here.
Takato and his friends were just hanging out in their teachers class room during lunch. There was no real reason for this to be done at all. The teacher was gone and she had let them have the room for the time being and all that. Takato was sitting down on a table. "Are you guys wanting to play some rounds of the card game?" Takato had ask and then when he had asked his friends, Kazu laid back and he was placing his hands behind his head and he had smiled a bit. Takato had a good feeling what Kazu was going to say here.
"I know that if we play, I am going to win. We have been playing this game like twenty to thirty times, and you know that I am the best since I have only lost one time out of thirty times." Kazu had said and then the other friends thought about that. Takato knew that Kazu was right, despite how much he did not want to admit that. But despite the fact that Kazu was so good and Takato sort of knew that Kazu was going to win in a landslide, he was thinking that it would be cool to play in a casual way to sort of take their minds off of what was going on lately.
"I don't even have my cards with me right now." Kenta said and he was looking in his back pack and he was wondering what he could potentially find. But then he could not find anything so he just dropped his back pack down to the ground and he sighed thinking that it sucked that he could not play the game. He even wondered what happened. He could have swore that he had brought some cards from the previous days.
Before any of them could ask any questions about the cards, there was a certain girl that walked by. Takato looked up and he saw that Jeri was walking down the hallway. She was doing it in a way that she was obviously trying to find somebody. "Hey Jeri, are you wanting to talk with us?" Takato asked and then when he had asked that, Jeri turned around and she saw Takato and the other two guys. She walked into the room and Takato knew that this was what she was wanting and Takato didn't have to even look for that to be the obvious answer.
"Takato, did you notice Henry when he walked in school today? He looked like he had seen the grim reaper or something like that." Jeri said and Takato stopped what he was going to say to Kazu and Kenta right when he had heard that. He turned around to fully take in the moment when he was looking at Jeri. He genuinely had no real idea what to say to that, but he also knew that he needed to talk to Henry if what she was saying was true. That meant that Yamaki probably talked with him or something like that, and that very idea was enough to scare the shit out of him.
"Kazu and Kenta, just hang out with Jeri for a little while. I think I need to go and talk with Henry for a little while. I think I need to see what is really going on right now." Takato said and then he had left the class room and Kazu was wondering what the hell was going on. When it was pretty clear that Takato was totally out of the area, Kazu looked over at Jeri and he felt like he really needed some better answers to what the hell was going on.
"What was Henry actually like? Did he actually look like he was seeing you know what you said? Or are you just over playing it for the sake of dramatic effect?" Kazu said to Jeri and she held up her hand as if to show her surprise that Kazu was thinking that she was lying. There was no real reason for her to lie and she didn't really know why Kazu would come up with that idea. "I'm sorry, I just feel a little uptight after learning all of these things are actually real after all. It just feels a little hard to really comprehend. I don't really think that anybody can truly blame me for feeling this way."
"I guess that maybe Henry just had to do some action a little bit earlier. I would not really doubt that this is what happened. I would not really worry too much about it. The fact that he is here shows the fact that he had survived the battle and probably doesn't really need us to worry our fucking asses off about it." Kenta said and then he looked outside the window of the school and he was seriously wondering when the hell he was going to get a digimon. He wanted one so badly but he had also known that there was no real reason for him to be the one getting one.
"I guess that you are right. If he truly had a problem going on, he probably would not have shown up at all. But he seems to be having no problem getting to school. I guess I am just not really used to seeing him get late for class or anything like that. I think we can really agree with that at the very least." Jeri said and that was when Kazu nodded. He knew that Jeri was right about that. It was beyond strange to see Henry not show up to class on time. Maybe he just was sleeping in or something.
"I bet maybe he just forgot to turn on the alarm before he went to bed. I doubt that he had any battles going on. It seems too early to have a fight." Kazu said and while it sounded crazy to say, the very fact that this was New York City probably meant that none of the stuff that actually happened would keep up or matter after another hour or so. People just had crazy lives and nobody really cared about stuff that wasn't related to him. He knew that since he was truly one of those people on a lot of cases.
"Henry seems to responsible for that. Maybe Henry really did fight something before he came to school. If Jeri's right, we need to make sure that both Takato and Henry are ready at any moment. But let's not try and force the information out of him if he doesn't really want to tell us. If he feels the need to keep it away from us, then we should respect those wishes." Kenta turned around to see the two of them and he was sitting down on the floor now. Jeri was the only one who was not really sitting at all in that moment.
"Takato will probably get any needed information out of him soon enough. I think we will know the truth in about ten to fifteen minutes. If he doesn't tell us by the end of the day, chances are that it really is none of our business or Henry doesn't really trust us to know." Jeri said and the second part made her feel a little awful. She would not even be sure why she would not be trusted by him in the first place. Considering the fact that she was a friend of Henry and that there was nothing that a friend should do besides be open about all of their thoughts.
"I am more worried about that Rika bitch honestly. She seems fucking crazy. I don't know what her problem is honestly. We barely even know her and she is already trying to kill off both of the digimon that we know. Maybe we should just try and be friends with her, or something like that." Kazu said and he was scratching his chin. He was trying to remember how the hell he even remembered Rika in the first place. It was sort of like off on the side and now it was here, right in front of him and it was pretty important now.
Before the conversation could really be able to continue, a random girl showed up for a moment. They were not really too worried about the girl. It was just what she was doing that was getting them pretty interested. "The dance is on this Saturday this month? Oh shit, I totally forgot about that. The hype of everything going on the last few days has removed that from my brain. I need to go on and ask Peggy soon to join me." Kazu said and the person putting up the poster looked at him and she was wondering what Kazu was even going on about.
"I don't even know what is going on in your guys life, and honestly I don't really care to know. I was just supposed to place this thing up. Just leave me out of it please." The girl said and then she left and then Kazu was staring at the poster for the month dance.
"I just hope that Peggy hasn't been in a bad mood lately. I really don't want to lose the chance to go on a good dance with her. I don't want this relationship to be ruined." Kazu said and Kenta was still trying to get used to the fact that Kazu was even in like any form of a relationship in the first place. He just did not really seem like he could handle something like that. Although to Kazu's defense, he could handle it better than either Takato or Kenta. Which was not really saying much, but it was just the truth.
"Well, is there anything that you are doing that would seem sort of like she would not like you for it?" Jeri said and she rolled her eyes at how badly worded it was. Despite the fact that it wasn't all that well worded, Kazu knew exactly what she had meant. There was the smoking thing, which Peggy sort of vaguely knew about, although she didn't know that he was still doing it behind her back, which would have been the instant killer of their relationship. But he honestly did not really trust the others in the group to know about that.
"There might be some things. But I don't quite know yet. I should talk to her and maybe she will let me in one some of these things." Kazu said and then he headed out of the class room. He was so glad that he knew how to lie well. Anything that he said when he was lying was so well formed and said, that it was like he might as well have been telling the truth after all.
Kenta looked at Jeri, not exactly sure what to think. "Well, Kazu seems to be a little uptight. I wonder what is going on with him to make him so much like that. I bet that there actually is something he is worried about her not liking. Probably just his constant playing of that card game. She probably wants to have more personal company with him that is not really related to some game that she has no idea what the rules are like." Kenta said and Jeri nodded thinking he might be right. As that was going on, Takato and Henry were having their own conversation out in the school park and he was hoping that nobody found this to be any bit strange at school.
"Jeri was telling me how you seem to have some sort of a problem right now. I was wondering if something happened to you and I was wondering if perhaps I could do something to help you out." Takato said and then as he said that to Henry, his friend thought that he should just not get in his business. But at the same time he knew that it wasn't really his fault for being like this. After all, Jeri had mentioned the fact that Henry seemed to be off, and if it weren't for that, then Takato wouldn't have even bothered him. If he wanted to be angry at anybody at all, it should have been at Jeri. But even that was insane and he just couldn't get himself to do it.
"I just need to get things straight. I had a couple of things happen today at the start of the day and it was a little much for me to handle." Henry told Takato and then after he had said that, Takato placed his hand on his chin and he wondered what was making Henry act like this. Was there a duel that he had or was it something else entirely? Henry was going to tell him before he even needed to ask.
"Did you have to fight something this morning? Did you lose the battle?" Takato asked and that was when Henry remained silent for a bit, trying to move on with that whole thing. Takato constantly asking all of these questions was just not really able to do that for him. "Henry, if there is something going on, then you can always tell me." Takato said wondering if Henry really was in the mood to be talking with anybody right now. Henry just thought about if Davis would even want to be exposed.
"So unlike you, who found Guilmon by creating them, something that is really strange. But I was given Terriermon as a gift. And when I was given Terriermon, that was when I first found out what a digimon even was. I know that this may be a bit of a surprise for you, knowing that I didn't have Terriermon first. But the digimon was sort of a reward for me doing a lot of work for the person that gave them to me." Henry said and while Takato was interesting in knowing more and was wondering if he was going to be able to know more, he was not able to help but wondering what the point of being told this actually was, if there was even a point to this.
"When were you given the digimon and who gave it to you?" Takato asked and Henry thought that he deserved to know the truth. Besides, if he had not been told, there could be a chance later on when Davis might show up and not letting him know about the guy who created all digimon and the digital world would and Takato would probably most likely be wondering what the hell was going on the whole meeting.
"I had the digimon for about three years now. I was given the digimon by a old man named Davis. He is a very worn down man, and he needs to take a break for the rest of his life now. I was sent there since back in the day, I used to be sort of a trouble maker. I know that it may sound shocking to you to hear that I used to do some heinous things, but that is just the truth. And then soon enough, I was sent there to help him out and he gave me a digimon." Henry told Takato as Takato had looked like he was really not able to believe what was being told to him. Just something about Henry being a huge trouble maker just did not really seem all that real to him.
"What exactly did you do back in the day that would be considered making trouble?" Takato asked as Henry didn't really want to talk about it. Takato was able to see on the look of Henry's face that this was the case. "Sorry if I am getting into a touchy subject. I won't bother you any further about it if that is what you would like."
"Thank you. I don't mind talking about it, but I don't want anybody to know what I did back in the day. I am trying really hard to place that all behind me, and anything that I can do to do so, I will go out of my way to do." Henry said and Takato felt like he could get where Henry was coming from on that. "I mean I guess if you really want to know, I will let you know later. Just not right now."
Takato nodded and he felt like this was fair of a trade. "Alright, we will talk about it when you feel like you can be able to talk about it without shame." Takato said and then Henry felt like while the conversation was great, they needed to go on and go about their day once again. "We should be heading to class now. The bell is about to ring very soon. I don't want to class to class." Takato said and then he started to head back to the school.
"Thanks for talking to me. Talking to friends does help, even if not in the super obvious way." Henry said and then he began to head on his way to his class room. As they were starting to get on the way to class, Henry was thinking about the friendship that he had with Terriermon as well as Guilmon and even the other humans. He wanted to do the best to make sure that the humans would be safe. Takato and Kazu and Kenta and Jeri were all very good to him on the very times they had seen him. Even Rika won't be too bad once he gives her a chance. Well that was what Henry hoped at the end.
Speaking of Rika, she was just outside of the school after school was done for the day. She was wondering if somebody would actually go on a date with her to the school dance. That would be the one very big thing that he would really desire. Rika was just really happy that those assholes were not trying to get into a fight with her. If they tried to see her again, she will not even bother trying to fight them anymore. She would just want to try and fight somebody else instead of them. But before she could even comprehend this any more, she saw something that made her start to feel a little bit more calm and happy, just looking at this thing.
It was Calumon and they were looking at Rika with a moment of just pure joy and excitement. "Hey you, want to play with me for a little while?" Calumon asked and Rika was thinking about this and then she grabbed the digimon wondering what was going on with Calumon. Rika was wondering what change in perspective she must have been going through in the last few days for her to go from wanting to kill anything to taking at least small digimon a little bit with joy.
"What are you doing in this place right now? You seem to be too innocent to be wasting your brain away on these things. You shouldn't even be focusing on school and you should be going out there and make friends." Rika said and then Calumon was wondering if Rika did not want to talk to them or somethng like that. "Don't get me wrong, it very intriguing to see you and I hope that we can see each other later, but right you this doesn't seem like the best place to go." Rika thought about her school dance and put Calumon on the ground as she said this, starting to feel bad and sad again.
"Hey Rika, do you have a moment?" There was a voice that Rika did not know calling out to her. Rika was wondering how they even knew who Rika was, but then she had to remind herself that this was school and that people probably knew who everybody was no matter what the case may be at the very least by name or something like that. Rika turned around to see what this guy was wanting so bad with her, thinking that this guy was going to be a utter annoyance.
"My name is Kenta. I know that you are friends with Henry and Takato..." Kenta said and Rika rolled her eyes. If this guy, no matter how nice he may seem, knew what the truth was, then he would not really be calling the three of them friends. "I was wondering if maybe we can get to know each other a bit." Kenta said and then he put his hand in both of his pockets and then pulled them out and he was giving her a careful look the entire time. "As you may know, I don't have any of those monsters that you are talking with right now." Kenta said and then he was looking down at Calumon, hoping that the digimon didn't care that he was just talking about them in such a careless way.
Rika nodded and felt that this was true, and that maybe Kenta was actually heading onto something that wasn't so bad after all. "Do you have anybody that you are going to the dance with this weekend?" Kenta asked and he knew that this was really fast and that there was no way in hell Rika would say yes. They probably knew each other for less than ninety seconds and he was already dropping this nuke on her lap. "I don't have anybody who is going with me. I doubt that I am popular enough for that."
"No I am not going with anybody. Everybody I know probably wants nothing to do with me. And yes that is including my so called friends Henry and Takato. I don't know where you came up with the idea of the three off us being friends, that is nowhere even close to being the truth dude." Rika told Kenta and Kenta put both his hands in his pocket and then he started to walk a couple of steps away.
"There is no real reason to not start being friends with them now. They might actually end up really liking it much more than they are wanting to admit it. Just give it a chance. Want to walk home with me? I mean, I am not really walking home with anybody right now." Kenta said and Rika considered that. "I doubt that you want to really walk home alone either. I know that you may have a brute outside, but deep down inside you probably want some friends actually."
Rika sighed in annoyance. Despite how much she had hated to admit it and that she was admitting this to a dude that she met all of two minutes ago, but she knew that Kenta was right. If there was one thing that Kenta was, it was smart. Maybe a little bit too smart. "Fine, I don't like this, and I think that I shouldn't be doing this, but you are right. I know that I would rather be hanging out with somebody over walking home alone. So I will give you a chance to prove yourself." Rika gave in and Kenta smiled and she could not believe the smile that this dude was giving. She then started to walk with him and Calumon was just standing there not really sure what to do or say. Renamon was watching from several feet across the school to make sure that they would not get in the way unless if it was absolutely needed.
"So Kenta, how do you know Takato and Henry? Do they talk nicer with you than they do with me?" Rika was saying, trying her best to not say anything terrible about them since Kenta was their friend and she wanted to at least pretend to care and be nice about them when she was around them. But thankfully with her, Kenta did not really feel or sound like he was one of those kind of men who wanted to hear one thing or another.
"Don't be afraid to tell the truth. You're not talking about me after all. Besides, they are sometimes hard to talk with. I am not really friends with Henry all that much to be honest. I only met him a few times. Takato is the one that I really know well. He talks with me every day and we have known each other for a few years by now." Kenta told the truth and hearing that exact thing from Kenta was what Rika really needed.
"Thank you for being honest with me. To tell you the truth, I don't mind Henry all that much. He barely has said more than ten words to me. Takato is the one that I have a really bad problem with. He punched me when we first met because of my digimon and his." Rika casually admitted that she had a digimon, and she didn't care since not only Kenta was a relatively nice guy, but she just sort of assumed that he already knew about this before. Kenta just was going to play with it and act like none of this was strange, and besides he wanted to give off a good impression with her. One of honestly. Not one of corruption that Kazu was having with Peggy.
"Maybe those two guys do take the whole digimon thing a little bit too seriously. I like the card game and everything and play it but I don't really know if I would treat having a digimon like a religion or anything like that. After all, they are just some creation that humans made." Kenta said and there was a sign of what Rika was talking about in his tone, and Rika was not really too sure what to think about that now.
"If you did have a digimon, what would you be doing with them?" Rika asked a little bit curious and that was when Kenta had to sort of think about that. Despite the fact that he had wanted one really fucking badly and considered multiple times and things in which he had one, he knew that he never really considered what it would be like to own one really all that well. He just thought that it was something that he could never really have, which was a little bit of a defeatist attitude he knew, but at the same time he was just trying to be honest with the whole way of things. If he could have a digimon, like Takato, Rika and Henry, then he would have had one by now. Same thing with Kazu and Jeri.
"Honestly I am not really too sure. I mean if I had one, I guess I would be treating them better than how Takato is doing. Not really all that hard I have to say. Since he is not good at taking care of a digimon at all. I think Kazu would be the worst one though. He only cares really for the fighting and the competition of it. Besides, I think he cares too much over fighting and being the best." Kenta said and he knew that it could be a problem to be like that. Although Rika was sort of like that and she had one no problem.
"I wouldn't really say that he can't have a digimon. He just hasn't gotten the pleasure of getting one. He is basically the male counter part of me. I care a lot about winning as well." Rika said and Kenta nodded.
"At least you are willing to tell the truth. I know people who are very highly competitive and would never even dream to admit it since they know there is a bit of a negative prejudice about that whole thing, and they know better not to pay basic attention to it at all." Kenta said and Rika thought that Kenta was easy to understand and that he was a good guy.
"You know, I think that you are a decent guy. I have not really had to worry about what I have to say around you. I know that this may be a little bit fast since we only have met each other like twenty minutes ago, but do you want to go with me to the dance? You said you didn't have anybody and I don't either. Maybe we can work good with that." Rika said and Kenta was feeling like he was hitting a home run. Takato was with Jeri, or starting to get there, and then Kazu was making progress with Peggy, and Henry was probably already with somebody for all they knew. Nearly everybody was making progress on the young love field.
"Yeah, let's go to the dance." Kenta agreed and that was when Rika felt like there was a little bit of a one second butterfly in her. The idea of having somebody with her to the dance was a lot more of a nice feeling than she could have imagined that it would have been. She thought she wouldn't really care, and yet here she was, thinking that maybe Kenta wasn't a bad dude after all.
"Well, I will see you at the dance Kenta. Nice to meet you. If you see Takato and Henry again, try and get them to behave around me." Rika said and then she headed on inside when they were at her house. Kenta kept both his hands in his pocket and he felt as if there was something with them that really made sense. It was really fast, but it was something that felt right.