A/N- This whole part is written in Yamato's POV (Point of View). Why? Because I want it to be. Power is great on so many levels...^_~

Quote Of the Chapter: "You have trouble with cliffs, don't you?" -Inuyasha

The Titan Series Part 43


I could barely breath from the shock. And somehow I was expected to still be able to swim. He still had to be there...didn't he? 'He probably just didn't want to watch.' I shook my head at that. It didn't make sense. None of it did. And from where I was floating many meters below, it was very unlikely that he would be able to hear me.

"Wasn't that sooooo cool!" Taichi splashed me, obviously oblivious to anything else but himself.

I turned my head slowly to him, completely stunned that he had decided to play around right now. 'Is he really that much in his own world?' I tilted my head as his smile faded and small streams pours from my hair.

"Uhh...You're okay, right?" He narrowed his eyes into mine and then burst into laughter. "It wasn't THAT scary, was it?"

I slapped my forehead in frustration. "You aren't too bright, are you?" I looked back up the cliff and squinted to see if he was in sight yet. He wasn't.

Taichi stared at me for a moment before finally taking the hint and following my gaze. "Uhhh...TK's supposed to be there..Isn't he?" I nodded and looked to Taichi for an idea. "What?!" He turned away from me, swam to the nearby shore, perched on a rock and we mindlessly followed.

"This was YOUR idea! Now YOU can get us out of it!"

He glanced back up the cliff. "I never said YOU had to jump..And I never said you had to leave your brother up there." I looked at him to say something, but he beat me to it. "You know I'm right. Just deal with it."

I sighed. He WAS right. I should have let Taichi catch him, but I didn't. Of couse, I wasn't about to tell him that. "Whatever..What are we supposed to now?"

"FLY!" Taichi laughed and made us all wonder why we ever listen to him at all.

I raised an eyebrow to him and his smile widened. 'Idiocy apparently IS bliss...' I snickered silently at my own thoughts. "Taichi..I'm pretty sure I don't know how to fly."

"You don't?" My eyes shot away from Taichi to the direction of the small voice so fast it could not be seen by a fly. 'What the...' I lowered myself onto my hands and knees to see face to face with the new creature, completely ignoring the sand that stuck to my wet jeans and palms. I tried to smile as you would to a child who you wish to trust you, "What's your name?" The Digimon only laughed and bounced up and down in the same spot. He was completely baby blue, except for the small patches of white near his chest, feet and ears. If I had to compare him to an animal, it would probably be a rabbit with more cat-like ears and minus the bushy tail. His most distinct feature were the small fairy wings that seemed to glow and sparkle like water behind each shoulder blade.

"What's YOUR name?" He sang.

I put my hands on my knees and began to brush the sand from my palms. "I'm Yamato. YA-MA-TO." I stated never leaving his curious gaze.

The Digimon laughed, "That's a funny name!"

I tried not to get angry at him. "Uhh..Yeah...Anyway, I told you my name, so what's yours?"

The Digimon looked up mischievously and grinned playfully, "I'm not telling!" He sang.

"Right..." I sighed. He hopped closer to me and stared straight into my eyes as if he were trying to figure out my entire existence. "What?"

"You really can't fly?"

"Uhh..Can y-" I stopped remembering his wings, "Err..Do you know any HUMANS who can?"

He nodded, "My master can, but he's not here now."

"I figured that.."

"Mmm hmm! He says he needed to get something so he could get something else...He's pretty confusing."

Immediately my mind went to TK's disappearance. "What is he getting?" 'This guy could prove useful..'

He looked towards the sky and thought hard. "I can't remember what the first thing was..." He looked back at me, his eyes now sparkling. "But I remembered what he called the second thing!"

I grinned. 'If it says me or the Digidestined, his master HAS to be the one who took TK!' "And what was THAT?"

His eyes smiled. "Taichi!"

My eyes grew about twice their size in pure shock. My eyes flickered to where Taichi was still perched and he looked about twice as stunned as I had...If that was possible due to all logic's of science. "He wants...Who now?"

"Taichi!" He repeated with the same pride as he had when he could prove his excellent memory. "I dunno why...But Satoshi-sama talked about him a lot...EEP!" The little Digimon clamped both hands over his mouth and I smiled.

"Your master's name is Satoshi?" He looked down and rolled his feet in the sand in shame. "What's he want Taichi for?" I figured I'd get as much as I could out of this guy.

The bunny-like creature shrugged. "Beats me."

"So..." I looked over at Taichi who was narrowing his eyes at the creature as if to seep into his brain and take out the information himself. "Where is this Satoshi?" I turned back to the Digimon and smiled innocently.

"Oh no!" He 'hmph'ed and crossed his small arms, trying his best to look firm. "You're not getting ANY more information out of ME, Yamato!"

"Not even his age?"

"Well...I wouldn't be able to say..." He began to draw small stars in the sand with his toes.

"Oh? Why not?"

"Cause I don't know it..."

"Well..How old does he LOOK?" This should have been a lot easier than he was making it.

"About the same age that he did 10 years ago."

I blinked completely confused. "And spoken in plainly, that would be..."

"He doesn't age." He rolled his eyes to me as if I should have guessed it about an hour before he arrived.

"Is he a ghost?" Hikari asked.

"Aren't ghost's dead and clear and can go through stuff?" I nodded. "Nope. He's not a ghost."

Agumon tilted his head. "Maybe human's don't age in the Digiworld."

"Yeah.." Taichi said, more trying to convince himself than anyone else.

I turned away from Taichi and shook my head trying to lose the thought. I looked back at the Digimon and forced a friendly smile. "Didn't your master tell you anything about why he wanted Taichi?"

The Digimon stopped drawing stars and proceeded to see how flat he could make the sand in front of him. "Umm..I dunno. I think he just wanted to see him."

The thought hit me like a slap to the back of the head, "Is he a Digidestined?"

He stopped fidgeting and tilted his head to me. "A what?"

"A Digidestined." I took my digivice from my pocket and held it up to his curious eyes, "Does he have one of these?"

"Uhhhhh...No.." He never took his gaze off the mysterious object in front of him. "OH!" He perked up, "But Taichi does!"

I sighed and stuffed the digivice back into my pocket. "That helps a lot..."

"I'm glad!" The fur-ball smiled obviously unfamiliar with the term 'sarcasm'.

There was no way to get the message through the little guy's head for the time being. He wasn't going to help us find his master. 'Well..Atleast he's trust worthy I guess...' No, thinking that didn't help, but it was a step up from strangling the little creature in frustration. That's what my mind was telling me anyway.

"If you don't need anything else, I'll be off now!" And with a quick wave he hopped off, not even giving us anytime to respond. We all sat there for a moment in silence staring at the spot where he had just been, possibly expecting him to return in a flash just as he had come before. He didn't.

"That was...odd.." Taichi broke the silence finally.

I nodded in response as I slowly rose to my feet. Was he who we were supposed to be looking for now? This Satoshi guy? Of course he was. He had TK and we had to get him back. It could be like a trade! Taichi for TK! I'm sure Taichi wouldn't mind, right? Right.

"So where to now?" Hikari asked.

Sometimes I think she asks questions just to hear her own voice. It really WAS a stupid question. "To find Satoshi of course!"

Taichi raised an eyebrow at me as if I had just made the most insane comment he had ever heard. "Why would we do that?"

Yes, it was irritating, and yes, I wanted to strangle both the Kamiyas for their stupidity, but I didn't. I should have most likely. But I didn't. "Because he has TK." I answered firmly through grinding teeth. Maybe if I try hard enough I can grow fangs. Or wings. Wings would be good.

"We don't know that, Yamato." He said my name as if he was mother trying to tell her child their dog had died. "It could be a trap. Actually, it probably IS a trap."

Yes, I like the fang idea better now. Maybe if he's dead he'll be able to understand better and his soul will rise from his body and in a very thoughtful voice exclaim, 'Oh yes, Yamato! It all makes perfect sense now! What an idiot I was to ever doubt such instinct!' Of course, that would never happen. So I thought I'd tell him to save the trouble, "You're an idiot, Taichi, you DO know that, right?"

"Excuse me?" Deaf too, apparently.

"You are afraid, and either too dumb to form the words, or too pig-headed to admit it. Pick one." Hmm...Taichi with the head of a pig.

"I'm NOT afraid, Yamato!" Oink, oink. "Just come back to reality and see that there is a much easier way to get TK back."

"Actually, I think this is pretty easy." I motioned to Gabumon and we headed off in the direction the small Digimon had gone.

Taichi throw his hands up in frustration and, of course, all out defeat. "Fine. Let's see how close we can go before a huge beast eats us all whole."

What a fun thing to do!


By Black Cat

To Be Continued... (cue mysterious music here)

A/N: Sorry it's short, but when you start a series after a while of not writing squat, you deserve a little time for your brain to work again. Hope you all liked! Did you? Do you have ANY idea in HELL what is going on? Could be you haven't read the rest of the series, or you have and I'm not very good at writing. Could be... BTW, I hold no grudges towards Taichi nor to pigs. And I doubt Yamato does either, but for all my happy little purposes, he did now. All forms of reviews, flames and death threats are always welcome! Peace out and Ja ne!!!