Digital Fantasy
IMPORTANT STUFF: Digimon does not belong to me, and Squaresoft owns the Final Fantasy series.


A Digimon & Final Fantasy Tactics Fusion

DIGITAL FANTASY: LEGEND OF THE TWELVE DIGI-CRESTS

written by K-chan

Characters of Fate: SQUIRE
"To be the Best"

"OUWE, OUWE!!" he cried, trying to jerk his arm away from the big woman caring for his wounded arm. Her grip on his arm was so strong, he couldn't even budge an inch away. He continued to whine about the pain he was suffering from while she frowned at her pathetic patient. "MY ARM'S BURNIN'!!"

She rolled her eyes as she finished putting the antiseptic on and began to bandaged the wounded arm, which was nothing more of a long cut on the surface. How she wished she didn't have to babysit the young master of the house. The young brunette was nothing but an annoyance all her caretaking life when he always came home with bruises and cuts. "All done," she sighed.

He held his arm carefully as if it was going fall apart any second now and inspected her work, causing her to roll her eyes again. "Daisuke, it was ONLY a scratch," she said.

"Yeah, but I could've BLED to death," he complained, "Or I could get some disease and DIE!" He had already ignored the current injury and was tugging on his hair at the possibility of his death from the morning skirmish.

She let out another weary sigh, standing up with the first aid kit in her grasp. "I'm not planning on playing nurse again today, so take care of yourself." Before she left the room, she turned back to eye him seriously, "It would be best if you stay away from young Master Takaishi."

"Oh fine, Nanna!" he groaned, falling back onto his bed. "But I swear TA's gonna get it tomorrow!!" he said, sounding a bit confused afterwards, "Err, when I have a good plan of how to get back at him..."

Nanna was about to say something, but another desperate cry beckoned her, "NANNAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! I NEED YOUR HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!" She glanced back at Daisuke who was mumbling something to himself and then turned towards the hallway, shaking her head. She needed to retire soon. If she didn't, then the two Motomiya children were going to be the cause of her death--if not, the end of her sanity (which was pretty much the same thing).

"Naaaah, he wouldn't fall for an old trick like that," Daisuke said to no one in particular. He rolled onto his stomach and rested his head over his arms, not able to think of anything for revenge, but soon he was on his back again, blinking at the bright sky out his window. He continued to stare at the empty blue with his mind filled in a blank state. It wasn't too long when his eyes started to droop, but he tried to stay awake, mumbling something about being the best knight in the world and kicking Takeru's butt.

To anyone who knew Daisuke well and if they walked into his room at that moment, they would feel strangely disturbed from his silence. But if they saw him snoring away on his bed seconds later, then they would realize it was just another ordinary day.

The young man was one energetic lad, and it wasn't any surprise when he could just collapse in his bed and sleep like there wasn't a care in the world. As much as they found his presence annoying at times, they had to admire his determination and strength when keeping his lively persona in action. He always seemed in spirit no matter what, especially when he competed against his childhood rival.

No one could ever figure out why the young Motomiya and Takaishi squires pitted against each other when their respective fathers were the best of friends back during their own childhood. It was quite a startling event for both families when they found the boys at the age of six in a mud fight, but everyone laughed it off as their way of friendship.

"Daisuke!" an older girl called with both hands on her hips, frowning at the sleeping form. From her appearance, one could immediately tell that the girl was in some way related to Daisuke. Her hair was of the same reddish-brown color, but at that moment, it was in its 'porcupine' state, sticking out in all directions.

"DAISUKE!" she called louder, reaching her hands out, and shook his body. It wasn't working, so she continued to shake him harder. "GET UP!"

"Go away, Jun," he snorted as if he was still asleep and rolled onto his side, so his back was facing her.

"Fine! You can sleep through dinner!" she said in a huff and headed for the exit, leaving her brother in dreamland.

He must've been very exhausted if he was skipping out on dinner, but then again he probably thought he was still dreaming. But he did eventually wake up even though it was only to relieve himself, and he was immediately back in his warm bed, snoring away till the next morning. For once he woke up on his own, and that nearly startled Nanna when she came into his room to get him up for the new day.

Daisuke sat up in bed, yawning, as he stretched his arms. When his eyes finally noticed Nanna staring wide-eyed at him, he smiled and greeted, "Mornin', Nanna!"

"Well," she finally said, looking somewhat curious, "this is a first. You're actually up early! And here I was about to be ever so kind and let you sleep for another minute." She shook her head, pushing the wonderment of such an event from her mind.

"Haha, very funny," he said, climbing out of bed. He stood still for a moment, looking out his window, and felt odd that not only was it not noon when he woke up but something in his body had dragged him from sleep. He couldn't hurt figure what the bothering feeling was, but it was something about that day that was going to change his life.

Nanna's voice snapped him back to reality. "Hurry up and clean yourself for breakfast," she ordered before disappearing from the doorway.

Minutes later (very short minutes), Daisuke hastily ran down the hallway, trying to tuck in his white shirt into his dark-brown pants, but unfortunately it ended with one side being tucked because he bumped into someone before he could look decently presentable. He fell on his bottom as he heard his sister's scream at the sudden collision, "AAAAAAH, DAI! Watch it!"

He got up, rubbing his precious bottom, and glared at her. "I'm late for breakfast, and it's all your fault!" she complained and then ignored him, heading for the stairs.

At the mention of breakfast again, Daisuke lurched after her. "HEY!! JUN! WAIT UP!! DON'T TAKE MY FOOD!!!" After practically flying down the staircase, he caught up with Jun at the entrance to the dining room and grabbed her arm, pulling her back so he could get through first. The girl wasn't going to give up so easily, and her hands quickly found its way to Daisuke's hair and tugged on it.

"DAI!" she screeched while Daisuke was trying to salvage his hair, "YOU KNOW LADIES SHOULD GO FIRST!!"

"WHAT LADIES?!!" he blurted back, "I DON'T SEE ANY LADIES 'ROUND HERE!!"

While they were arguing and fighting, the pair didn't realize there was an audience watching them: one being the lady of the house and the other was her guest that morning, who happened to be his rival's mother. "Daisuke! Jun!" their mother called, "Mind your manners!" She turned to her guest, shaking her head, "Please pardon their outrageous behaviors, Saria."

The bickering children soon calmed down after being embarrassed in front of a guest and shuffled quietly to their seats while the woman covered her mouth, laughing eloquently. "Oh no, I do not mind at all," she said, still chuckling a bit and hiding her own pain, "If only Takeru could experience such sibling affections." After her comment, Daisuke and Jun exhange glares, knowing well it wasn't any affections.

"Lady Saria, where's TE? Is he still sleeping?" Daisuke asked, wondering why the woman was in his home without her son tagging along. She laughed again at his silly error for her son's nickname, purposely pushing aside her hurting emotions.

"He has taken a trip," she said.

Daisuke and his mother looked at her with surprising expressions. "Oh?" her friend said, "This is so sudden. Takeru didn't mention anything yesterday. Right, Daisuke?" The brunette shook his head in reply, wondering what his rival was up. Was that the funny feeling he got that morning? If Takeru was gone, who would he tease and challenge now? What would he do every day until his friend and rival came back? How long was the trip? What was the purpose of the trip? Was he going out to prove himself as a better squire of the two?

"It was a last minute event," Saria said quietly, shifting uncomfortably in her seat. She didn't want to pursue Takeru's journey to find his brother--after all, it was a family affair. "He's growing up very fast, and an adventure will do him some good."

"Aah, I see," the other woman said, nodding, "Just like his father, experiencing the world. After that horrible war, it is good for him to personally see what the war has done to the land and its people. All of us should not take for granted our comfortable lifestyle and help those in need."

Saria could nod in agreement. "Don't you agree, Daisuke?" the woman asked, turning to her son, but was surprised that he was no longer present in the room. She looked at Jun, who shrugged her shoulders at the questioning glance of the boy's whereabouts, and faced Saria, who was as clueless as her friend. "Daisuke?" she called her son, getting up from her seat.

The three of them then heard footsteps running down the hallway towards the front of the manor. The sound of the door slamming echoed in the house, but a minute later, they heard it open again and an out of breath Daisuke appeared in the entrance way again, nearly scaring his mother,

He was carrying a big satchel of belongs on his back as he said rapidly, "MomI'mGonnaGoOnATripToo! BeBackLater!" After that sentence, his mother couldn't even get in a single word when he dashed off again. The door slammed shut a second time, and they waited, but Daisuke didn't return.
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Oh wow, thank you for all the reviews... ShamanOfTheBabble Serendipity, April, Ian Gainsborough, Sphinx, Rocker_Starlight, Project Detalis, and Izzy... and to others who read but didn't review, that's okay!!! Haha, I enjoyed the reviews, especially ShamanOfTheBabble Serendipity's which made me smile a lot!!

I apologize if the first chapters are short, I'm just laying the background-ish stories for each character before things come together. It actually took me 2-3 weeks to get the first five done before I finally decided to go ahead and post it up. I really didn't expect Daisuke's chapter to be long. (I've tried to make the background chapters at least 3-4 pages (typed). And I hope this chapter lightened the mood a bit... before I throw you back into sadness again...

Anyway 6 more to go...

K-chan =^-^=