Chapter 6: Return Trip
"The digital world has really weird constellations. They all look like
different things." Kari said, pointing to one that looked slightly
like the crest of Light. T.K nodded. Neither of the children could
sleep after the battle, so they decided to sit next to a tree and go
star watching.
"So where are Merla and Tristan going to stay? They can't very well go
on living in the digital world." T.K asked. Kari turned her head and
looked at the other child. "They can come to my house for a while until
we can figure out something. I'm sure my parents and Tai wouldn't mind."
She suggested. "Okay. Hey look, that's the crest of Purity." T.K said,
pointing to another constellation.
At some point T.K had slipped his hand into Kari's, but she didn't mind
in the slightest. The crests of Purity and Truth had reverted to Light
and Hope after the battle. Merla, Tristan and the digimon were snoozing
about 30 metres away from the pair. "Long day, huh." T.K said. "Yeah."
Kari replied. After a while of peacefully watching and thinking, T.K and Kari
fell asleep.
*****
Wizardmon opened his eyes to see a bright morning sun. "Must be almost
time for breakfast." He said, floating off his uncomfortable position
on the ground. The digimon flew for a while until he came to a
river. Landing, he took off his hat and splashed water over his
face. "Coelamon, you around or about?" Wizardmon asked. A silver
metallic head popped out of the water.
"I heard about the battle for the Destiny Stones. Your meddling in
something really important here."
"Yeah, I know. So, what have you been up to?"
"The usual, swim about, catch some fish, hear the latest rumours. I met
Joe's Gomamon today."
"Really? I've got all the way to my Mega form, Archonmon. You should
have seen me, I thrashed Unholymon and Z.K."
"Save your boasting, a friend of mine caught the entire thing on waterproof
tape. So what are you doing around the river at this time of the morning?"
"Just looking for some clean river water. Looking for a little fish
to cook as well."
"Help yourself, just don't go fishing while I'm still about. See you
later Wizardmon!"
Coelamon ended the conversation, swimming off into the
distance. Wizardmon waved after him, waiting until he was far
away. "Magical Game!" The digimon cried. The attack hit the water,
causing the river to glow yellow. Then a enormous salmon flew out,
landing in Wizardmon's palm. Wizardmon stuck the fish in his hat,
then pulled it out. The salmon became completely filleted. Wizardmon
layed his prize on the hard ground and put on his hat. "Thunder Ball!"
He shouted, frying the fish to perfection. "Breakfast is served."
Wizardmon muttered, picking the salmon up and flying back towards the
others.
*****
"Super Shocker!" Tentomon cried. A bunch of ripe bananas landed in Izzy's
hand. "Okay everyone, take a banana and we'll continue searching for T.K
and Kari." He said. Everyone was glad to obey, munching on their small
breakfast as they walked. Izzy took the lead, with Mimi and Tai following
in single file behind him. Izzy stopped suddenly. Mimi moved next to him
and stopped as well. "What is it?" Tai asked. "We found them." Mimi said.
Kari was sleeping peacefully, snuggled under T.K's arm. Tai looked at
them for a moment. "Ummm.. Okay." Tai said, attempting not to go into
over-protective brother mode. "Hey T.K, Kari, wake up." Izzy
called. The two of them gradually opened their eyes. Then they jumped
apart and blushed when they realised who was standing over them.
"Guess Tyriel was right." T.K managed to say. "Kari? T.K? We need to
talk." Tai said.
*****
After hearing the whole story of the what's, where's and why's of the
two children's escape and travelling, and having fried fish, Tai
treated the two younger digidestined to a long lecture, mainly
consisting of talking about their age. Then they started looking for a
way out of the digiworld. It took the three older digidestined a while
to accept Merla into the group, but they did in the end.
"Hey Tai, you think it will be okay if Tristan and Merla stay at our
house for a while? Besides, they can come see that movie you were
talking about." Kari asked her brother. Tai nodded reluctantly. He
turned around and faced Izzy. "Hey Koushirou, when are you going to
finish trying to open the digiport?" Tai asked.
"I'm almost finished." Izzy replied, typing furiously on his pineapple
laptop. Then he suddenly stood up. "Okay, there we go. Everybody say
goodbye to your digimon, we are going home." The child said. All the
digidestined did as he said, knowing that they would eventually see
each other again. "Everybody hold your digivices to the screen." Izzy
instructed.
"Okay. Digiport open!" The child shouted at his laptop. In one
instant, the digidestined found themselves in the park again, right on
the ice-skating ring. Tristan and Merla both look fascinated, having been
away from their home world for 2 years. "We.. we're back." Tristan said
in amazement.