Shadows of Doubt
Devin was so engrossed in his laptop computer he didn't notice any one until everyone was standing directly over him. "Hi Devin it's me Ken we have a class together. I showed you the way to Mr. Koshkosh's class remember?" "Devin quickly closed his lap top and looked up at everyone. "Yes, what is it you want?" Devin's voice was laced with annoyance. "We were going to play a game of soccer and my friends and I wanted you to join. That way it would be a even team game." Devin looked up at our group a slightly confused look on his face. "Why are you asking me?" Yolei stepped forward and thrust out her hand, grabbed Devin's hand and then shook it roughly. "Hi I'm Yolei. Welcome to Japan we just want to be friends, of course if you want to be more than a friend that's ok with me." Yolei blushed brightly when she realized what she had just said.
Devin suddenly jumped to his feet and gasped. "Oh no not now!" A huge explosion thundered through the air and everyone turned to where Devin was staring. People were running and screaming in the dirt cloud now in the middle of the park. "HYPER CANNON!" A giant blast of energy shot out of the now settling cloud of dust and blew apart a near by car. "What in the heck?" Kari said stumbling backwards into Devin. With a hard machine like roar a Tankmon burst out of the newly settled dust cloud. "Oh no a Tankmon!" T.K. gasped in horror. "What is he doing here?" The Tankmon turned to them and grinned evilly. "Ha! You can't hide from me. I am Tankmon one of the strongest champion level Digimon known. My sneeze alone is power full enough to level a city block." "I thought that we were done with all of this Digiworld stuff!" Yolei wailed in despair. "It gets worse our Digimon are in the Digiworld!" Ken said turning to Yolei as Tankmon barreled towards them. "Now I've got you!" The Tankmon shouted suddenly veering to sharply to the right just in front of Yolei and Ken.
"Hay he's not going after us." Kari said in a slightly amazed voice. "He's attacking Devin!" Devin ran across the park faster than any of them had ever seen some one run. "HYPER CANNON!" Devin dove out of harms way in mere seconds to spare. "We've got to do something to help him!" Kari cried out at Devin desperately fled from his attacker. "Oh no that Tankmon has Devin cornered at that alley! That's it I can't take it any more I have ta do something!" Yolei cried as she ran towards the attacking Digimon with everyone in tote close behind.
As Yolei ran to the offending Tankmon everyone watched in horror as attacked again. "HYPER CANNON!" Debris flew every direction as the wall of the buildings blew apart in the force of the blast. The Tankmon crowd happily when Devin couldn't be seen after the dust settled. "Ha! That will teach you to mess with the masters plans!" The Tankmon backed out of the alley as Ken and Kari ran in the crumpled alley to search for Devin when a strange laugh echoed down from a fire escape. "Really, I didn't know that was suppose to be scary." "You!" The enraged Tankmon shouted looking up." A strange smile was plastered across Devin's face. "Who has who cornered?" Devin suddenly leped down from his spot on the fire escape to right on the Tankmon's back. Devin quickly bent down and snaped a cord in the Tankmon's neck. Immediately it slumped down and disintegrated causing Devin to drop to the ground where it stood.
"You just destroyed that Digimon with your bare hands!" Yolei gaped in a mix of surprise and horror. "Devin turned to her and gave a hard stare. "I did what I had to. If I didn't do it a lot of innocent people could of gotten hurt." Yolei looked down at the ground an ashamed look on her face. "I'm sorry I didn't mean it that way." "Well, what did you mean then?" Yolei looked up at Devin still looking ashamed of what she was saying. T.K. stepped forward finishing for Yolei. "It's hard enough for a champion level Digimon to defeat a Tankmon let alone a normal kid. What I think she means are you a Digidestend?" Devin's eyes flared suddenly in anger. In one quick movement he grabbed T.K. by the shirt and slammed him into a near by wall. "If you ever call me that again I will kill you! You hear me you little rat?" "Hay I was just asking a simple question you don't have to get all offensive about it!" T.K. grunted as Devin let go of him and he straightened his shirt.
Everyone turned to the sound of approaching sirens. "Oh no the police we have to get out of her." Davis said turning to the others. "I don't think they'd understand what really happened here." "Hay, Devin's gone already!" Yolei said looking around surprised. "I didn't even see him leave." "Well let's follow his example and disappear." T.K. said turning around and running. "T.K.'s right my mother wouldn't like I if I got arrested." Kari ran off in another direction.
By the time Ken got home he was so exhausted he didn't even have the strength to eat his dinner. Instead he just walked to his room and flumped down on his bed. The day continuously played over and over in his head as if he were being forced to watch a tape of old reruns. He couldn't help but think of Devin something about that kid just disturbed Ken to his very soul. Even though his head was still swimming with the day's events he drifted off into a restless sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED….