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Chapter 8
"Past Revealed"
Taichi stirred. For a minute, he thought he was lying in his own bed, back in Japan. He could even smell his mom cooking breakfast. Wait a minute…it wasn't burning! Taichi jerked fully awake. Pain shot up his arm, reminding him of his injury, and of the reality he was in. The Digiworld. Tai sighed and got up, being careful of his wrist…
Tai emerged into the living room, and spotted somebody he didn't know, with short brown hair, making breakfast. Taichi stood there for a moment, staring. The man seemed to sense his presence, and turned towards him.
"Ah, so you're awake Taichi," the young man said. Tai tried to hide his shock. Who was this man? How did he know his name?
"Uh…excuse me sir…Are you a friend of Gennai's?"
The man laughed. "I suppose you could say that. Sit down." Tai did so and started to eat, still unsure of this man. Within half an hour Yamato, Koushiro, Takeru, Jyou, Mimi, and Sora were all seated at the table with Taichi.
"We need to come up with a plan to rescue Kari…" Takeru started.
"Yea, but first we need to talk to Gennai and dig up all we can on Katyamon," Sora added.
"What do you need to know?" the man asked.
"Do you know where Gennai is?" Jyou asked. The man laughed again.
"You're looking at him." The digidestined gasped in surprise.
"Oh! What beauty parlor do you go to?" Mimi asked. The digidestined started laughing with Gennai now. "I'm SERIOUS!" Mimi watched Gennai for a moment, then gave up. "Fine, don't tell me…I'll just have to shop around…"
"Back to Kari though…" Taichi started. Before he could continue, the door slid open and Kari stepped into the room.
"Kari! You're here! You're alright!" Taichi got off his knees and embraced his sister. Kari held her brother tightly, feeling safe with him. When they pulled away from each other, Kari noticed everybody was staring at her…but one set of eyes caught and held hers. His azure eyes showed relief, happiness, and love. She smiled and greeted her fellow digidestined happily. Somehow, she managed to work her way around the table, and slid down onto her knees next to Takeru, after being smothered by hugs from her friends. Takeru hugged her almost as long as Tai did…almost. As they pulled apart she took his hand in hers and squeezed it, to reassure both of them that she really was back…for good.
"So, what separated you from the group Hikari?" Gennai asked. Everybody started talking all at once, explaining to Gennai about being summoned again, meeting Katyamon and Spiralmon, and meeting a short boy with blue hair. Kari remained silent throughout most of this. Then the conversation turned to her. She told how she…and the 'short blue-haired boy' had escaped.
"…And then we showed up here," Kari finished.
"But where is…" Takeru fell silent as the door to the room slid open again. Standing there was 'the short blue-haired boy'. All of the digidestined stopped what they were doing and stared at him, except for Kari, who smiled and looked down. The others exchanged glances, they hadn't even heard him approach…
"Akira, have a seat," Gennai said, breaking the silence. Akira stood there for a minute, then knelt at the table next to Tai.
Shortly after that, when everybody was refreshed and stuffed, they gathered in the living room, and noticed all the furniture had been moved to the edges of the room, except for a soft rug in the middle of the room.
Gennai took this time to introduce them all properly. "Akira, this is Taichi Kamiya, Courage."
Akira smiled and bowed slightly…respectfully. "Konnichi wa," Akira said softly. Gennai went down the row, introducing him to the rest of the digidestined.
"Everyone, this is Akira Masato Samoji. He is also a digidestined, like yourselves. He was originally from Japan, but…" Gennai paused.
"Nani?" Kari prompted.
"Akira should be telling you this…I can fill in some gaps when he's done." With that, all eyes fixed onto Akira. Akira flinched at the sudden attention, and looked down. The past was too painful for him to share. After a moment of silence, Gennai placed his hand on Akira's shoulder.
"Okay, we'll skip the backround. The main point is Akira has been her most of his life and…"
"I wasn't supposed to be…" Akira said quietly, interrupting Gennai.
"Nani? What do you mean Akira?" Kari asked. Akira looked up at them.
"I…wasn't supposed to be a digidestined…I'm not even one now…That's just how…how we interpriate it…" Akira shot a meaningful look at Gennai, then left the room, keeping his head down so they wouldn't see the tears in his eyes.
"What was that all about?" Yamato asked.
"Don't think bad of him…He's had a rough time." All eyes and ears locked onto Gennai once again. "Like I said, Akira has been here, in the digital world, for most of his life. He was approx. 5 years old when he was pulled into the digital world. He remembers little from your world…" Gennai paused, pondering what to say next.
"What about him saying he's not supposed to be here?" Tai asked. "That's not true, is it?"
"Actually, Akira is right. He was never supposed to be dragged into this world…but he was. His friends, Syrien and Keliya, were the digidestined who were supposed to come. He was with them at the time, and they grabbed onto him in fear…therefore, he was pulled through as well. Syrien's crest was Remembrance, and Keliya's was Faith. Back when you all were fighting the Dark Masters, so were they, just from a different angle. You see, Syrien and Keliya were twins… orphan twins. Akira wasn't an orphan, but that's what he claims he is now. He hasn't seen his family since then."
"That's so awful!" Sora exclaimed.
"Yes…the reason Syrien and Keliya were summoned, was because you eight couldn't defeat the Dark Masters on your own. I met with Syrien, Keliya, and Akira when they arrived. You could imagine my surprise when I met three instead of two. I told them what they were up against, but they wanted to help. Most of the time when they went out, Akira tagged along, even though he didn't have a digimon. One day, Syrien and Keliya left Akira behind. They usually told him what they were doing, but they didn't this time…Akira was worried instantly, and went after them. Out in the digiworld, Akira came across a smaller digimon being picked on. He felt sorry for it and chased it's tormenters away. The ferrit-like digimon thanked him and told Akira he'd help find his friends. Akira welcomed the company." Gennai paused, thoughtful.
"When Akira finally caught up to his friends, he was too late. You see, they had gone after three of the Dark Masters you never knew about. There were originally seven: Metal Seadramon, Piedmon, Machinedramon, Puppetmon, Loyamon, Astramon, and Katyamon.
"You mean Katyamon is one of the Dark Masters!?" Tai gasped. Gennai nodded.
"It does make sense Tai," Matt commented. "I knew I recognized the way she messed with our minds…she turned Take against us, and made me think my dad was dead and that I killed him…I didn't buy it 'cuz I saw what she did to Koushiro…"
"So what happened?" Jyou asked.
"Keliya and Syrien were able to beat Loyamon, the weakest of the three…Astramon and Katyamon just vanished after that. The girls never found them. Then they decided they should get to the other Dark Masters, who were messing with you digidestined. They attacked while you all were getting your bearings straight. Unfortionately, they didn't make it….I told them they weren't strong enough to go after them alone…but they wouldn't listen to me. They snuck out in the middle of the night…"
"You mean….?" Sora asked.
"Keliya and Syrien were both killed that day. There digimon died alongside them, and nothing remains of them but their crests. They're crests were shattered." Gennai pulled out a small jar and poured some of the contents onto his hand. "These are the remaints of the crests. It was odd because Syrien and Keliya disappeared with their digimon. These crests are the only proof that they exsisted…besides our memories. Sumamon is the small digimon Akira found, and he sticks around because he and Akira have become close friends."
"Well what about…"
"Enough about that for now. Taichi, come here." Gennai beckoned Tai to him. He instructed Tai to stand holding his crest up with his good arm, and to hold his injured wrist out in front of him, with his digivice clipped to his belt. Under his instruction the other digidestined formed a circle around Tai, in the same position, except they held their digivices in their outstreached hands towards him. Akira entered the room quietly, and started to sit down to watch, but Gennai called him over. Gennai pressed the digivice Akira and Kari had found the other day into Akira's hand. It reacted immediately, shining brightly and beeping.
"N-Nani?" Akira stared at Gennai, his mouth open in shock.
"Akira, it's reacting to you…You are a chosen one…you are a digidestined." Gennai told him Akira was speechless. The two shattered crests started glowing in the small jar. They lifted into the air and started circling Akira. It was like a laser light show….every single piece of the crests looked like tiny prisims. Akira felt something settle around his neck, and looked down. A tag rested there, a brilliant white light filled the air, and then focused into Akira's tag…disappearing into it. Akira picked up his tag and looked at it. The shattered pieces had formed a new crest…his crest.
Tai was one of the first to shake his surprise. He smiled. "You're welcome to join us Akira…if you wish," Tai offered. Slowly, the shock left Akira's face, and a worried look replaced it.
"But…what about Sumamon?"
Gennai smiled. "Sumamon is your digimon Akira…"
Akira smiled, and then threw his arms around Gennai, who was more than a little surprised, and hugged him. After a moment, Akira pulled back and shyly took his place in the circle around Tai.
Gennai whispered a few words, and had the digidestined repeat them. "Nagica…Gentia…Azulane…Madacore!" The words were repeated in unison…it sounded like one loud voice speaking. Each of their crests started glowing brightly. The light of their crests engulfed them, and shot towards Tai, combining into one brilliant white light. All the digidestined shielded their eyes, or turned away. The light dimmed slightly, and then shot up, and formed a pillar. Wind swirled from the light, knocking the digidestined and Gennai back a few feet.
Taichi was seeing stars because of the brightness of the light which surrounded him. He heard a blast of wind, but felt none. A second later, the light disappeared completely. The roar of the wind died as well…Silence filled the room. It took Tai a moment to get his bearings straight, and he realized he was lying on the floor. He sat up, and glanced around. The others were rubbing their eyes, and starting to get to their feet. Tai paused and stared at Akira for a moment. He was just getting to his feet. That was all normal…. What wasn't normal were two pointy blue somethings on top of his head. Tai blinked and whiped his eyes, and looked again. Nothing.
'Man…I must be losing it…' Tai thought.
"Feeling better Taichi?"
Tai looked up, seeing Gennai offering him a hand up. He took it and Gennai helped him to his feet.
"Guess so!" Gennai looked down at Tai's hands. Taichi followed his gaze, and realized Gennai had helped him up by his left hand…the wrist that had been broken was healed…
Authors note: So? You like? PLZ review! It really affects my writing! ~*Akira*~
Disclaimer: I don't own it, don't sue me!
Chapter 8
"Past Revealed"
Taichi stirred. For a minute, he thought he was lying in his own bed, back in Japan. He could even smell his mom cooking breakfast. Wait a minute…it wasn't burning! Taichi jerked fully awake. Pain shot up his arm, reminding him of his injury, and of the reality he was in. The Digiworld. Tai sighed and got up, being careful of his wrist…
Tai emerged into the living room, and spotted somebody he didn't know, with short brown hair, making breakfast. Taichi stood there for a moment, staring. The man seemed to sense his presence, and turned towards him.
"Ah, so you're awake Taichi," the young man said. Tai tried to hide his shock. Who was this man? How did he know his name?
"Uh…excuse me sir…Are you a friend of Gennai's?"
The man laughed. "I suppose you could say that. Sit down." Tai did so and started to eat, still unsure of this man. Within half an hour Yamato, Koushiro, Takeru, Jyou, Mimi, and Sora were all seated at the table with Taichi.
"We need to come up with a plan to rescue Kari…" Takeru started.
"Yea, but first we need to talk to Gennai and dig up all we can on Katyamon," Sora added.
"What do you need to know?" the man asked.
"Do you know where Gennai is?" Jyou asked. The man laughed again.
"You're looking at him." The digidestined gasped in surprise.
"Oh! What beauty parlor do you go to?" Mimi asked. The digidestined started laughing with Gennai now. "I'm SERIOUS!" Mimi watched Gennai for a moment, then gave up. "Fine, don't tell me…I'll just have to shop around…"
"Back to Kari though…" Taichi started. Before he could continue, the door slid open and Kari stepped into the room.
"Kari! You're here! You're alright!" Taichi got off his knees and embraced his sister. Kari held her brother tightly, feeling safe with him. When they pulled away from each other, Kari noticed everybody was staring at her…but one set of eyes caught and held hers. His azure eyes showed relief, happiness, and love. She smiled and greeted her fellow digidestined happily. Somehow, she managed to work her way around the table, and slid down onto her knees next to Takeru, after being smothered by hugs from her friends. Takeru hugged her almost as long as Tai did…almost. As they pulled apart she took his hand in hers and squeezed it, to reassure both of them that she really was back…for good.
"So, what separated you from the group Hikari?" Gennai asked. Everybody started talking all at once, explaining to Gennai about being summoned again, meeting Katyamon and Spiralmon, and meeting a short boy with blue hair. Kari remained silent throughout most of this. Then the conversation turned to her. She told how she…and the 'short blue-haired boy' had escaped.
"…And then we showed up here," Kari finished.
"But where is…" Takeru fell silent as the door to the room slid open again. Standing there was 'the short blue-haired boy'. All of the digidestined stopped what they were doing and stared at him, except for Kari, who smiled and looked down. The others exchanged glances, they hadn't even heard him approach…
"Akira, have a seat," Gennai said, breaking the silence. Akira stood there for a minute, then knelt at the table next to Tai.
Shortly after that, when everybody was refreshed and stuffed, they gathered in the living room, and noticed all the furniture had been moved to the edges of the room, except for a soft rug in the middle of the room.
Gennai took this time to introduce them all properly. "Akira, this is Taichi Kamiya, Courage."
Akira smiled and bowed slightly…respectfully. "Konnichi wa," Akira said softly. Gennai went down the row, introducing him to the rest of the digidestined.
"Everyone, this is Akira Masato Samoji. He is also a digidestined, like yourselves. He was originally from Japan, but…" Gennai paused.
"Nani?" Kari prompted.
"Akira should be telling you this…I can fill in some gaps when he's done." With that, all eyes fixed onto Akira. Akira flinched at the sudden attention, and looked down. The past was too painful for him to share. After a moment of silence, Gennai placed his hand on Akira's shoulder.
"Okay, we'll skip the backround. The main point is Akira has been her most of his life and…"
"I wasn't supposed to be…" Akira said quietly, interrupting Gennai.
"Nani? What do you mean Akira?" Kari asked. Akira looked up at them.
"I…wasn't supposed to be a digidestined…I'm not even one now…That's just how…how we interpriate it…" Akira shot a meaningful look at Gennai, then left the room, keeping his head down so they wouldn't see the tears in his eyes.
"What was that all about?" Yamato asked.
"Don't think bad of him…He's had a rough time." All eyes and ears locked onto Gennai once again. "Like I said, Akira has been here, in the digital world, for most of his life. He was approx. 5 years old when he was pulled into the digital world. He remembers little from your world…" Gennai paused, pondering what to say next.
"What about him saying he's not supposed to be here?" Tai asked. "That's not true, is it?"
"Actually, Akira is right. He was never supposed to be dragged into this world…but he was. His friends, Syrien and Keliya, were the digidestined who were supposed to come. He was with them at the time, and they grabbed onto him in fear…therefore, he was pulled through as well. Syrien's crest was Remembrance, and Keliya's was Faith. Back when you all were fighting the Dark Masters, so were they, just from a different angle. You see, Syrien and Keliya were twins… orphan twins. Akira wasn't an orphan, but that's what he claims he is now. He hasn't seen his family since then."
"That's so awful!" Sora exclaimed.
"Yes…the reason Syrien and Keliya were summoned, was because you eight couldn't defeat the Dark Masters on your own. I met with Syrien, Keliya, and Akira when they arrived. You could imagine my surprise when I met three instead of two. I told them what they were up against, but they wanted to help. Most of the time when they went out, Akira tagged along, even though he didn't have a digimon. One day, Syrien and Keliya left Akira behind. They usually told him what they were doing, but they didn't this time…Akira was worried instantly, and went after them. Out in the digiworld, Akira came across a smaller digimon being picked on. He felt sorry for it and chased it's tormenters away. The ferrit-like digimon thanked him and told Akira he'd help find his friends. Akira welcomed the company." Gennai paused, thoughtful.
"When Akira finally caught up to his friends, he was too late. You see, they had gone after three of the Dark Masters you never knew about. There were originally seven: Metal Seadramon, Piedmon, Machinedramon, Puppetmon, Loyamon, Astramon, and Katyamon.
"You mean Katyamon is one of the Dark Masters!?" Tai gasped. Gennai nodded.
"It does make sense Tai," Matt commented. "I knew I recognized the way she messed with our minds…she turned Take against us, and made me think my dad was dead and that I killed him…I didn't buy it 'cuz I saw what she did to Koushiro…"
"So what happened?" Jyou asked.
"Keliya and Syrien were able to beat Loyamon, the weakest of the three…Astramon and Katyamon just vanished after that. The girls never found them. Then they decided they should get to the other Dark Masters, who were messing with you digidestined. They attacked while you all were getting your bearings straight. Unfortionately, they didn't make it….I told them they weren't strong enough to go after them alone…but they wouldn't listen to me. They snuck out in the middle of the night…"
"You mean….?" Sora asked.
"Keliya and Syrien were both killed that day. There digimon died alongside them, and nothing remains of them but their crests. They're crests were shattered." Gennai pulled out a small jar and poured some of the contents onto his hand. "These are the remaints of the crests. It was odd because Syrien and Keliya disappeared with their digimon. These crests are the only proof that they exsisted…besides our memories. Sumamon is the small digimon Akira found, and he sticks around because he and Akira have become close friends."
"Well what about…"
"Enough about that for now. Taichi, come here." Gennai beckoned Tai to him. He instructed Tai to stand holding his crest up with his good arm, and to hold his injured wrist out in front of him, with his digivice clipped to his belt. Under his instruction the other digidestined formed a circle around Tai, in the same position, except they held their digivices in their outstreached hands towards him. Akira entered the room quietly, and started to sit down to watch, but Gennai called him over. Gennai pressed the digivice Akira and Kari had found the other day into Akira's hand. It reacted immediately, shining brightly and beeping.
"N-Nani?" Akira stared at Gennai, his mouth open in shock.
"Akira, it's reacting to you…You are a chosen one…you are a digidestined." Gennai told him Akira was speechless. The two shattered crests started glowing in the small jar. They lifted into the air and started circling Akira. It was like a laser light show….every single piece of the crests looked like tiny prisims. Akira felt something settle around his neck, and looked down. A tag rested there, a brilliant white light filled the air, and then focused into Akira's tag…disappearing into it. Akira picked up his tag and looked at it. The shattered pieces had formed a new crest…his crest.
Tai was one of the first to shake his surprise. He smiled. "You're welcome to join us Akira…if you wish," Tai offered. Slowly, the shock left Akira's face, and a worried look replaced it.
"But…what about Sumamon?"
Gennai smiled. "Sumamon is your digimon Akira…"
Akira smiled, and then threw his arms around Gennai, who was more than a little surprised, and hugged him. After a moment, Akira pulled back and shyly took his place in the circle around Tai.
Gennai whispered a few words, and had the digidestined repeat them. "Nagica…Gentia…Azulane…Madacore!" The words were repeated in unison…it sounded like one loud voice speaking. Each of their crests started glowing brightly. The light of their crests engulfed them, and shot towards Tai, combining into one brilliant white light. All the digidestined shielded their eyes, or turned away. The light dimmed slightly, and then shot up, and formed a pillar. Wind swirled from the light, knocking the digidestined and Gennai back a few feet.
Taichi was seeing stars because of the brightness of the light which surrounded him. He heard a blast of wind, but felt none. A second later, the light disappeared completely. The roar of the wind died as well…Silence filled the room. It took Tai a moment to get his bearings straight, and he realized he was lying on the floor. He sat up, and glanced around. The others were rubbing their eyes, and starting to get to their feet. Tai paused and stared at Akira for a moment. He was just getting to his feet. That was all normal…. What wasn't normal were two pointy blue somethings on top of his head. Tai blinked and whiped his eyes, and looked again. Nothing.
'Man…I must be losing it…' Tai thought.
"Feeling better Taichi?"
Tai looked up, seeing Gennai offering him a hand up. He took it and Gennai helped him to his feet.
"Guess so!" Gennai looked down at Tai's hands. Taichi followed his gaze, and realized Gennai had helped him up by his left hand…the wrist that had been broken was healed…
Authors note: So? You like? PLZ review! It really affects my writing! ~*Akira*~