EPISODE 4: Who Can Save Him Now?
"Davis! Are you ok? Stupid question! Think, Keika, think!" she yelled at herself. He was all covered in ash.
God, please don't let that ash be his skin! prayed Keika.
Everyone else was only seconds behind Keika. Davis opened his eyes and wheezed. He looked around at everyone, and then his eyes fell on Keika and he smiled.
"Hey.sweetie," he said, and Keika started crying, "what's all this about?"
Keika sniffled and said "You got hit by Meramon! How do you feel?"
"Pretty.awful.actually. Man.I sound like.that kid.in 'The Out.siders"!" he said.
"Here, I brought a first aid kit!" said Joe.
"Joe, I need you here! The rest of you, cheer on your Digimon! They need all the help they can get!" said Keika.
"Right!" said Mimi, and they all ran back to "the sidelines" and cheered for their Digimon.
"The burns are pretty bad," said Joe. "All we can do now is put on some topical ointment and gauze. When his skin begins to heal, then we can do more. Lightly blow off the ashes. See if you can tell if they are.his or just from the attack." Keika blew off the ashes on Davis and his clothes started to disintegrate.
"Oh!" she said in sudden surprise, "can we get a towel or something?"
"Sure!" laughed Joe as he handed her a towel. She put it.well.you can guess where she put it and resumed the removing of the ash. In fact, it was not his skin, as you will be relieved to know, but only his clothes and a coating that lasted from the attack. Keika looked back at the battle to see who was winning, and she could tell it looked grim.
Modified like that Meramon's gotta be a Mega! You have to have faith! she told herself.
"Keika! Concentrate! I need you to focus!" Joe said.
"Oh, right," she replied.
"Oh, LORD!" she said. At one place near his ribs it was burned clear through the skin, and you could see the not-to-distant outline of his ribcage.
"Don't panic!" Joe assured her. "You have got to stay calm! We can fix him, okay? We can fix him!"
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"I'm sure," he told her.
"Okay, then let's do this!" she said. They basically clean him up as best they could, and then put topical burn ointment all over him. Keika spread some of the ointment, but Joe did most of it, seeing as how Keika is a girl. They put peroxide in his wound on the rib cage, and he squirmed. Keika comforted him while Joe bandaged him.
"Is.it.almost.over?" asked Davis, still short of breath.
"Yeah. Just hang in there. We gotcha covered!" said Keika with a smile, trying not to let her worry show.
"We need to find some place here in the Digital World that we can take him so he can recuperate," said Joe. Keika looked over at the battle. It still didn't look too good for the Digidestined. Many Digimon were still on the sidelines, and Raidramon looked on the verge of it. The other Digidestined were rabidly cheering on their Digimon, but with no one to cheer for Raidramon, he almost lost the will to fight. Keika ran to the fight and screamed
"All RIGHT Raidramon! Come on! You can do it!!!!!!"
His head swiveled towards her, and if you can believe that Raidramon's ultra-concentrated face could smile, it did. He grinned at Keika, and then yelled
"BLUE THUNDER!!!!!!!!" and lit loose an attack with all of his might behind it. It hit the Modified Meramon head on, and it looked like it hurt! The Meramon groaned.
"Come on, everyone! Put all you power into Raidramon! He can do it!" said Ken.
Every Digimon, even the benched rookies, put all their power towards Raidramon, and immediately De-Digivolved.
"BLUE THUNDER!" yelled Raidramon, and lit loose an attack that shone so bright, everyone covered his or her eyes. When everyone looked up, the Meramon was nowhere to be found. Everyone rejoiced! While everyone else was preoccupied with the battle, Joe managed somehow, as he always does, to make a makeshift stretcher. Davis was on it, half-asleep, but no longer groaning. Keika and Demiveemon walked over to him and sat down on the ground next to him. Keika ruffled the hair on his head, which remarkably stayed intact. He smiled at her, and then coughed.
"Oh, I'm sorry! Are you okay?" she said, alarmed.
"That's okay.and not really.but I'm getting better!" he said, always the optimist.
"Your phrases in-between wheezes are getting longer!" said Keika joking.
"Yeah," he coughed.
"Tentomon!" said Izzy.
"What!"
"Go with a few other Digimon and find a stable shelter for us in which the residents will willingly accept us, or there are no residents, okay?"
"Sure!"
"I'll go!" said Agumon.
"Me too!" said Biymon.
"And me!" said Gomamon.
"Don't forget about me!" said Armadillomon.
"Gomamon, I need you to stay here and help me take care of Davis," said Joe.
"MAN!" said Gomamon,
"That's okay, Gomamon. I'll fill your spot!" said Gatomon. Yes, that's right, Gatomon! Everyone turned at the immediate recognition of her voice, and saw TK, Kari, and that girl Yolei introduced them to.
"How'd-what-I'm lost! What is she doing here?" asked Matt, pointing at Kami.
"She's Digidestined, too! Show 'em your Digivice, Kams!" said TK.
Keika and Mimi mouthed "Kams?" at each other and shrugged. Kami pulled out a silver Digivice, and sure enough, the group was stunned!
"Now I'm really lost!" said Matt sitting down and holding his head in his hands.
"What's your Digimon?" asked Sora.
"Oh, I don't have one yet," answered Kami. Keika walked over to Tai.
"What's wrong, Tai?" she asked.
"Oh, it's nothing really," he answered quietly.
"Are you sure?" she asked with a grin, trying to pry it out of him.
"Well, no. But I'll be okay," he said.
"Well, do you want to talk about it?" asked Keika.
"Uh, yeah, I guess," said Tai.
"When?" asked Keika.
"Wel-"
"Keika, Davis is asking for you!" said Demiveemon. She ran over.
"Hey, sweetie," she said.
"Hey. How are you?" he asked.
"I'm fine! I'm more worried about you!" she said, laughing.
"Just checking," he said with a smile that revealed his teeth, still covered in ashes. Keika laughed, and Davis inquired as to what.
"Your teeth, silly! They're all covered in ash!"
"Oh! Can you get it off?"
"Sure," she said, and wet the corner of her shirt and began to clean off his teeth. They began to squeak when they were clean, and they both laughed.
"Great! Now I have to gouge out my eyes!" said TK.
"Why's that?" asked Kami.
"I just witnessed a 'cutesy' moment between my best friend and my cousin!" he whined.
"Oh, you're just jealous cuz you have no girlfriend to speak of!" said Keika. TK laughed nervously while Kami thought
No girlfriend!?! Man, I love Japan!!!
"But there might be one in the works," whispered Davis to Keika, pointing at Kami who was staring at TK with, in old-people talk, googlie eyes, as Kari was near doing the same. Just then, Agumon, Biyomon, and Gatomon ran back up and said that they had found a place to stay. The people there would gladly take them in. Guess who it was!! Go on, guess! If you guessed Shogungeckomon, you won, well, nothing!
"All right! We can do karaoke!" was Mimi's initial thought. They started walking over there and Keika taught them a few songs that they used to sing at her old church.
Raise Him
Oh, ya gotta raise Him
Praise Him
Get togetha now
Sing it
SHOUT IT
He's the reason that I'm stand-in', jammin'
He's the reason that I put put my hands togetha
5, 6, 7, 8
Everything that breathes
HUH!
Come on now and praise the Lord!
Everlasting
Blessed be the Lord our God if Israel
From everlasting
To everlasting!
Blessed be the Lord our God or Israel
From everlasting
To everlasting!
And all of the people say Amen!
(AMEN! HUH!)
And all people say Amen!
(AMEN! HUH!)
And all of the people say Amen!
(AMEN!)
Praise the Lord!
And a bunch of other great songs like that! Oh! And let's not forget Davis' favorite, the easiest song in the world to remember!
I Wanna Dance In the River, Yeah
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
The river, yeah!
(start fast hard rock guitar)
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
The river, yeah!
Wasn't that great!?! Well, anyway! Back to the story!
"I wanna dance in the river, yeah!" said Davis, in a regular voice, still lying down on Joe's makeshift stretcher.
"You know, you actually sing pretty good," said Keika.
"Maybe compared to you!" joked Matt.
"I have a question," said Kari.
"Yeah," said Keika.
"No offense, but how did you sing for a band with that voice?" she asked.
"I'm not sure. I sing when I sing," answered Keika.
"Maybe she had a puck-rock band and she just screamed the lyrics," said Tai to Matt.
"Maybe," he said.
"Hey! I can see Shogungeckomon's place from here!" said Ken.
"Awesome!" said Yolei.
"Let's move!" said Cody.
"Is he in there tight, Joe?" asked Keika, as the others ran towards Shogungeckomon's palace.
"Well, yeah. I guess so, why?" he said. Keika grabbed the rails, or whatever you call the little thingys on the stretcher that the paramedics hold, and ran off with him down the hill toward the palace.
"Wait! Not that secure!" yelled Joe.
"Wait for us!" yelled Demiveemon and Demijubimon.
"Aye yai yai!" muttered Joe.
"Hey, slowpoke! Come on!" yelled Gomamon, skidding down the shallow hill. Joe took off running to find that Davis had miraculously stayed attached to the stretcher and he and Keika were catching up to the others, even Tai, the track star! Demijubimon had Digivolved to Jubimon and had ahold of a rope tied to Davis' stretcher pulling it while flying. Veemon was holding another and running with it.
"That's what I call a team effort!" said TK to Kami as Keika and the rest passed them.
"Would ya look at that!" said Matt, looking back at his cousin and her strange mush team.
"What?" said Sora, trying desperately to keep up with Tai, with no avail.
"It's the whole Motley Crew!" he said, laughing.
"You mean Motley Crue or motley crew?" asked Sora. Matt just sighed and ket on running, passing Sora, and nearly running into the wall of Shogungeckomon's fortress.
"Matt, meet the wall!" laughed Yolei. Her, Ken, Keika, Davis, Tai, and now Matt had finished. Close behind were TK and Kami, with Kari close at their heels. Mimi was not far behind, and then Cody and Izzy with Joe stumbling right behind. Everyone's -mons were right beside them, with the exception of Patamon, who was smart enough to fly and beat TK there. Izzy knocked on the door and it was answered by a Geckomon.
"How can I help you?" he asked, somewhat downtrodden.
"Don't you recognize us?" asked Mimi. The Geckomon looked up and smiled a smile of true joy.
"Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It's you, it's you! It's really you!" he said jumping up and down.
"What's wrong?" asked Yolei.
"Is Shogungeckomon asleep again?" laughed Matt.
"Worse," said the Geckomon.
"What is it?" asked Kari, shoving through Kami to stand next to TK.
"Well, you guys remember the black gears and black rings and black spirals, right?" he asked.
"How could we forget," said Joe.
"Well, we found something kind of like that on Shogungeckomon, only it doesn't seem to be controlling him. It's just there," he said.
"Well, then that's a good thing!" said Tai.
"Not necessarily," said Izzy, "at least when all the black devices were on Digimon, we knew what they were there for. Now we have no clue."
"Riiiiiiiiiiight," said Tai, pretending to understand.
"Can you guys help us?" asked the Geckomon.
"Sure! Why not?" said Kami.
"That's real sweet, Kami, but you know nothing about the Digiworld," said Kari.
"I know what TK told me," she said.
"That was a five minute walk!" she said.
"Well, I know a little bit," she replied.
"ONLY A LITTLR BIT!!!!!!" said Kari, exasperated.
"O-o-kay. Maybe I don't know that much about the Digital World, but you don't have to get up in my face and scream like that!" spat Kami.
"Kami, it's okay," said Keika, holding back Kari from trying to get at Kami. "I went through the same thing with Sora my first time here. My bet is she's jealous. TK obviously at least kinda likes you, and she doesn't like that." TK blushed and laughed nervously, twiddling his thumbs with a red face when Kari glared at him, then back at Kami.
"And Kari," started Keika, "you've gotta put your differences aside. So what, Kami doesn't know that much about the Digital World. 72 hours ago, neither did I. You've got to teach her. So don't complain until you do something about it."
"Okay," mumbled Kari.
"Everything okay with you guys? We haven't heard much from you lately," said Tai, talking to the Digimon, who were all fast asleep at their Digidestined's feet!
"Guess that answers your question!" laughed Matt.
"Well, you guys better go ahead and come on in. It's almost like we're never safe from them," said the Geckomon.
"Them being." trailed off Kami.
"The Dark Uprising," said the Geckomon.
"Let's just get inside. It's getting dark anyway!" said Yolei. And with that, all 28 of them went inside with their escort. He led them into a large common room, with a few hallways branching off this way and that. The doors on the halls were numerous and painted all different colors. The colors were blue, purple, silver, green, pink, yellow, red, and gray. The purple, silver, pink, and red were on one hall, and the blue, green, yellow and gray on another. In between the purple, silver, pink, and red doors were plain wooden doors, with the crests of sincerity and love emblazoned on them. Between the blue, green, yellow, and gray doors were plain wooden doors with the crests of courage, friendship, knowledge, and reliability on them. Seeing a common pattern? The Geckomon sat them down in the middle of the room, and even though it was August in the real world, in this part of the Digiworld, it was November, so there were various fireplaces lit throughout the structure. The whole room was painted in a swirl of orange and white, like an orange CremeSaver. There were windows here and there, with velvet drapes of scarlet. Wood wasn't painted over, but stained to a rich mahogany. (SIDE NOTE - In case you haven't noticed, I'm in a descriptive mood today! Just wanted to share that with ya!)
"You all can just sit down in here," said a Geckomon, referring to the large common room.
"Finally! Rest!" cried an exasperated Davis.
"What are you complaining for? You've had people carry you across the Digital World!" said Keika.
"Oh, yeah! I did, didn't I!" he said, being forgetful as usual.
"I like ya anyways!" Keika said in a southern belle voice. (Hard to imagine, huh? Voices are one of Keika's specialties!) The group laughed at Keika's voice.
"Well, if we stay here for the might, then where do we sleep?" asked Ken.
Then, the Geckomon explained to them how the doors, if you were dense enough to not catch it before, were color-coded for the more recent Digidestined's Digivices. For the older ones, the crest was branded on their doors.
"Why put the boys and girls in separate halls, though?" asked TK.
"Yeah, don't you think we're mature enough to handle it?" asked Davis.
"Some of you are, and others are not, Davis," he replied. The group laughed.
"At least you tried!" Matt told TK and Davis as he patted them on the back.
"Well, since our Digimon are all tired out, I think all of us should get to bed," said Kami.
"Good idea!" agreed TK, much to Kari's dismay. The Digidestined all seemed to grunt in unison as they attempted to pick up their Digimon. They retreated to their rooms, all except Keika, who told the others she was going to stay up and watch over Davis.
"My guardian angel," he said.
"Don't get too carried away with flattery," she said. "I'm only doing this because Joe looked tired."
"Admit it!" he said in almost an accusing tone. "You love me!"
"Don't you think that's taking things a little fast?" she asked as she sat on the corner of his bed.
"For some people, yes. But we got together about an hour after we met! You forget that!" he said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." she trailed off.
All of a sudden, Davis sat up in bed bringing his face just inches from Keika's.
"You're crazy for me! Simply wild about me!" he said again, in the same agitating voice.
"Do you honestly want me to wake up Joe and have him and his whiney self taking care of you all night?" asked Keika. Davis stuck out his bottom lip and it began to quiver. Obviously it was a joke.
"Pwease don't weave me hewe aww awone! PWEEEEEEEESE!" he whined. Keika laughed and said.
"Okay, okay! Just don't stick out you bottom lip like that! With all the little burns on your face you like a kid in a third-world country!" she laughed.
"Please, make a donation to 'The 'WorldWide Davis Distribution.' You're help is needed by Davises everywhere!" he said. Keika laughed and fed him some chicken-noodle soup brought in by a Geckomon.
"I wonder if this is real chicken." he said.
"Where they get a real chicken in the Digital World?" asked Keika.
*****KAMI'S ROOM*****
"Well, what do I do now?" Kami thought aloud. "I'll go drop in on Yolei I guess."
As she opened the door, she found TK outside with his hand raised like he was about to knock. When he saw her there, he blushed and laughed nervously.
"Uh, h-hi! Hi Kami! Are-are you doing, uh, okay?" he stammered.
"Yeah, um, fine!" she said.
"Uh, okay. Just thought I'd check on a few people. Um, thanks for your, uh, cooperation!" he said, walking backwards and ramming into the wall opposite Kami's door. Consequently, it was Kari's door, opened when she heard TK talking. Kari made a noise that sounded like an angry sigh, and stormed off to find the bathroom.
*****DAVIS AND KEIKA*****
"Ya know," said Keika, "the versatility of the human body never ceases to amaze! You just got clobbered by a flow of digital lava a few hours ago, and you're here now.with me."
"You know," he said with a smile, "and I know, though, hey, that rhymes, that I'm gonna be fine."
"Serenade me again," she said grinning from ear to ear. His smile turned to a frown.
"I told you I don't do serenades!" he said.
"But you did before!"
"Hey! Don't' take advantage of my near-death experience! That was a one- time thing!"
"Okay. I won't make you then!" she said, angry. She got up out of the room and slammed the door. He dropped his head back on to the pillow and sighed, when Keika came running back in the door.
"I can't stay mad at you!" she said. She sat on the side of his bed, leaned over, and kissed him. TK walked in. Davis and Keika looked at him, and separated quickly. He sat down in-between them and looked at Keika.
"Help me!" he said, and then put his head on her shoulder.
"Okay," said Keika, looking at Davis for help, "what about?"
"It's, well, um," he said. His mind wandered for a minute, then he said
"Okay, Davis! You know some about girls, right?"
"Uh, I think I find that I know less and less every day," he answered, still stunned by Keika's sudden and unprovoked kiss.
"Well, there's this girl that I like. I don't know if she likes me, but I think that she might. Then there's this other girl. I know she likes me. I don't really like her as more than a friend, but I think if I told her that it would crush her. What do I do?"
"Names!" said Keika.
"Yeah, man! Give us names!" said Davis.
"I can't! This is an anonymous service, right?" he cried.
"Shhhhhhh! Do you want girl #1 to know? Elaborate please," said Keika.
"I barley met the first one. She's sweet and fun and funny and all that. I've known girl #2 for almost my whole life. She's a little ditzy, but she's nice. She's my brother's best friend's sister! What do I do!"
"I say risk it with #1!" said Davis.
"I totally agree. If you're going to say yes to a girl out of pity, then you might as well shoot her down from the beginning!" explained Keika.
"Thanks guys! I really appreciated that! And, um, sorry for 'walking in' on you guys. I'll leave you alone now," he said as he walked out the door.
"It was Kami," they said in unison.
"Now, you serenade me!" said Davis.
"What do you want to hear?" she asked.
"How about, whatever you want to sing!" he said.
"I don't want another heartbreak
I don't need another turn to cry
I don't wanna learn the hard way
Baby, hello, oh no, goodbye!
But ya got me like a rocket
Shooting straight across the sky!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah impossible
This kiss this kiss!
Unstoppable
This kiss this kiss!
Cinderella said to Snow White
How does love get so off course?
All I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse!
Ride me off into the sunset
Baby, I'm forever yours!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah unthinkable!
This kiss this kiss
Unsinkable
This kiss this kiss!
You can kiss me in the moonlight
On the rooftop under the sky!
You can kiss me with the windows open
While the rain comes pouring' inside!
Kiss me in sweet slow motion
Let's let everything slide!
You got me floating!
You got me flying!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah subliminal!
This kiss this kiss
It's criminal!
This kiss this kiss!" she sang. Davis sat there in awe.
Man! She didn't sing this good on "I Wanna Dance in the River, Yeah'!
She just grinned and kinda blushed.
"Well, um, gosh, I,"
"It was awful, wasn't it?" she asked,
"Oh, schnikes, no! That was, whoa! That was whoa!"
"Thanks! That's the first time I've ever gotten a compliment on my voice!" she said.
"Has no one ever heard you before?" he asked.
"Well, not really," she said.
"I'm gonna call each of the others and get them to listen to your voice, okay?" he asked.
"Well, it's kinda late. I need to get back to my room and get some sleep. I dread what the others would think if I was here and stayed all night!" she said.
"Let 'em think what they want to! I'll call a Geckomon and get them to bring over your pj's," he said as he dialed the phone. In a few minutes, the Geckomon brought in a purple tank top with a glittery lightning bolt on it, and a purple pair of boxer shorts with stars all over them. She changed in the bathroom, came back in and lay down on the bed. She had her arm across his chest and he pretty much just lay there. Keika had the exact same dream about Davis getting hurt and no one could help him, but this time she knew how to. It also ended with them falling asleep in each other's arms!
"Davis! Are you ok? Stupid question! Think, Keika, think!" she yelled at herself. He was all covered in ash.
God, please don't let that ash be his skin! prayed Keika.
Everyone else was only seconds behind Keika. Davis opened his eyes and wheezed. He looked around at everyone, and then his eyes fell on Keika and he smiled.
"Hey.sweetie," he said, and Keika started crying, "what's all this about?"
Keika sniffled and said "You got hit by Meramon! How do you feel?"
"Pretty.awful.actually. Man.I sound like.that kid.in 'The Out.siders"!" he said.
"Here, I brought a first aid kit!" said Joe.
"Joe, I need you here! The rest of you, cheer on your Digimon! They need all the help they can get!" said Keika.
"Right!" said Mimi, and they all ran back to "the sidelines" and cheered for their Digimon.
"The burns are pretty bad," said Joe. "All we can do now is put on some topical ointment and gauze. When his skin begins to heal, then we can do more. Lightly blow off the ashes. See if you can tell if they are.his or just from the attack." Keika blew off the ashes on Davis and his clothes started to disintegrate.
"Oh!" she said in sudden surprise, "can we get a towel or something?"
"Sure!" laughed Joe as he handed her a towel. She put it.well.you can guess where she put it and resumed the removing of the ash. In fact, it was not his skin, as you will be relieved to know, but only his clothes and a coating that lasted from the attack. Keika looked back at the battle to see who was winning, and she could tell it looked grim.
Modified like that Meramon's gotta be a Mega! You have to have faith! she told herself.
"Keika! Concentrate! I need you to focus!" Joe said.
"Oh, right," she replied.
"Oh, LORD!" she said. At one place near his ribs it was burned clear through the skin, and you could see the not-to-distant outline of his ribcage.
"Don't panic!" Joe assured her. "You have got to stay calm! We can fix him, okay? We can fix him!"
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"I'm sure," he told her.
"Okay, then let's do this!" she said. They basically clean him up as best they could, and then put topical burn ointment all over him. Keika spread some of the ointment, but Joe did most of it, seeing as how Keika is a girl. They put peroxide in his wound on the rib cage, and he squirmed. Keika comforted him while Joe bandaged him.
"Is.it.almost.over?" asked Davis, still short of breath.
"Yeah. Just hang in there. We gotcha covered!" said Keika with a smile, trying not to let her worry show.
"We need to find some place here in the Digital World that we can take him so he can recuperate," said Joe. Keika looked over at the battle. It still didn't look too good for the Digidestined. Many Digimon were still on the sidelines, and Raidramon looked on the verge of it. The other Digidestined were rabidly cheering on their Digimon, but with no one to cheer for Raidramon, he almost lost the will to fight. Keika ran to the fight and screamed
"All RIGHT Raidramon! Come on! You can do it!!!!!!"
His head swiveled towards her, and if you can believe that Raidramon's ultra-concentrated face could smile, it did. He grinned at Keika, and then yelled
"BLUE THUNDER!!!!!!!!" and lit loose an attack with all of his might behind it. It hit the Modified Meramon head on, and it looked like it hurt! The Meramon groaned.
"Come on, everyone! Put all you power into Raidramon! He can do it!" said Ken.
Every Digimon, even the benched rookies, put all their power towards Raidramon, and immediately De-Digivolved.
"BLUE THUNDER!" yelled Raidramon, and lit loose an attack that shone so bright, everyone covered his or her eyes. When everyone looked up, the Meramon was nowhere to be found. Everyone rejoiced! While everyone else was preoccupied with the battle, Joe managed somehow, as he always does, to make a makeshift stretcher. Davis was on it, half-asleep, but no longer groaning. Keika and Demiveemon walked over to him and sat down on the ground next to him. Keika ruffled the hair on his head, which remarkably stayed intact. He smiled at her, and then coughed.
"Oh, I'm sorry! Are you okay?" she said, alarmed.
"That's okay.and not really.but I'm getting better!" he said, always the optimist.
"Your phrases in-between wheezes are getting longer!" said Keika joking.
"Yeah," he coughed.
"Tentomon!" said Izzy.
"What!"
"Go with a few other Digimon and find a stable shelter for us in which the residents will willingly accept us, or there are no residents, okay?"
"Sure!"
"I'll go!" said Agumon.
"Me too!" said Biymon.
"And me!" said Gomamon.
"Don't forget about me!" said Armadillomon.
"Gomamon, I need you to stay here and help me take care of Davis," said Joe.
"MAN!" said Gomamon,
"That's okay, Gomamon. I'll fill your spot!" said Gatomon. Yes, that's right, Gatomon! Everyone turned at the immediate recognition of her voice, and saw TK, Kari, and that girl Yolei introduced them to.
"How'd-what-I'm lost! What is she doing here?" asked Matt, pointing at Kami.
"She's Digidestined, too! Show 'em your Digivice, Kams!" said TK.
Keika and Mimi mouthed "Kams?" at each other and shrugged. Kami pulled out a silver Digivice, and sure enough, the group was stunned!
"Now I'm really lost!" said Matt sitting down and holding his head in his hands.
"What's your Digimon?" asked Sora.
"Oh, I don't have one yet," answered Kami. Keika walked over to Tai.
"What's wrong, Tai?" she asked.
"Oh, it's nothing really," he answered quietly.
"Are you sure?" she asked with a grin, trying to pry it out of him.
"Well, no. But I'll be okay," he said.
"Well, do you want to talk about it?" asked Keika.
"Uh, yeah, I guess," said Tai.
"When?" asked Keika.
"Wel-"
"Keika, Davis is asking for you!" said Demiveemon. She ran over.
"Hey, sweetie," she said.
"Hey. How are you?" he asked.
"I'm fine! I'm more worried about you!" she said, laughing.
"Just checking," he said with a smile that revealed his teeth, still covered in ashes. Keika laughed, and Davis inquired as to what.
"Your teeth, silly! They're all covered in ash!"
"Oh! Can you get it off?"
"Sure," she said, and wet the corner of her shirt and began to clean off his teeth. They began to squeak when they were clean, and they both laughed.
"Great! Now I have to gouge out my eyes!" said TK.
"Why's that?" asked Kami.
"I just witnessed a 'cutesy' moment between my best friend and my cousin!" he whined.
"Oh, you're just jealous cuz you have no girlfriend to speak of!" said Keika. TK laughed nervously while Kami thought
No girlfriend!?! Man, I love Japan!!!
"But there might be one in the works," whispered Davis to Keika, pointing at Kami who was staring at TK with, in old-people talk, googlie eyes, as Kari was near doing the same. Just then, Agumon, Biyomon, and Gatomon ran back up and said that they had found a place to stay. The people there would gladly take them in. Guess who it was!! Go on, guess! If you guessed Shogungeckomon, you won, well, nothing!
"All right! We can do karaoke!" was Mimi's initial thought. They started walking over there and Keika taught them a few songs that they used to sing at her old church.
Raise Him
Oh, ya gotta raise Him
Praise Him
Get togetha now
Sing it
SHOUT IT
He's the reason that I'm stand-in', jammin'
He's the reason that I put put my hands togetha
5, 6, 7, 8
Everything that breathes
HUH!
Come on now and praise the Lord!
Everlasting
Blessed be the Lord our God if Israel
From everlasting
To everlasting!
Blessed be the Lord our God or Israel
From everlasting
To everlasting!
And all of the people say Amen!
(AMEN! HUH!)
And all people say Amen!
(AMEN! HUH!)
And all of the people say Amen!
(AMEN!)
Praise the Lord!
And a bunch of other great songs like that! Oh! And let's not forget Davis' favorite, the easiest song in the world to remember!
I Wanna Dance In the River, Yeah
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
The river, yeah!
(start fast hard rock guitar)
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
I wanna dance in the river, yeah!
The river, yeah!
Wasn't that great!?! Well, anyway! Back to the story!
"I wanna dance in the river, yeah!" said Davis, in a regular voice, still lying down on Joe's makeshift stretcher.
"You know, you actually sing pretty good," said Keika.
"Maybe compared to you!" joked Matt.
"I have a question," said Kari.
"Yeah," said Keika.
"No offense, but how did you sing for a band with that voice?" she asked.
"I'm not sure. I sing when I sing," answered Keika.
"Maybe she had a puck-rock band and she just screamed the lyrics," said Tai to Matt.
"Maybe," he said.
"Hey! I can see Shogungeckomon's place from here!" said Ken.
"Awesome!" said Yolei.
"Let's move!" said Cody.
"Is he in there tight, Joe?" asked Keika, as the others ran towards Shogungeckomon's palace.
"Well, yeah. I guess so, why?" he said. Keika grabbed the rails, or whatever you call the little thingys on the stretcher that the paramedics hold, and ran off with him down the hill toward the palace.
"Wait! Not that secure!" yelled Joe.
"Wait for us!" yelled Demiveemon and Demijubimon.
"Aye yai yai!" muttered Joe.
"Hey, slowpoke! Come on!" yelled Gomamon, skidding down the shallow hill. Joe took off running to find that Davis had miraculously stayed attached to the stretcher and he and Keika were catching up to the others, even Tai, the track star! Demijubimon had Digivolved to Jubimon and had ahold of a rope tied to Davis' stretcher pulling it while flying. Veemon was holding another and running with it.
"That's what I call a team effort!" said TK to Kami as Keika and the rest passed them.
"Would ya look at that!" said Matt, looking back at his cousin and her strange mush team.
"What?" said Sora, trying desperately to keep up with Tai, with no avail.
"It's the whole Motley Crew!" he said, laughing.
"You mean Motley Crue or motley crew?" asked Sora. Matt just sighed and ket on running, passing Sora, and nearly running into the wall of Shogungeckomon's fortress.
"Matt, meet the wall!" laughed Yolei. Her, Ken, Keika, Davis, Tai, and now Matt had finished. Close behind were TK and Kami, with Kari close at their heels. Mimi was not far behind, and then Cody and Izzy with Joe stumbling right behind. Everyone's -mons were right beside them, with the exception of Patamon, who was smart enough to fly and beat TK there. Izzy knocked on the door and it was answered by a Geckomon.
"How can I help you?" he asked, somewhat downtrodden.
"Don't you recognize us?" asked Mimi. The Geckomon looked up and smiled a smile of true joy.
"Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It's you, it's you! It's really you!" he said jumping up and down.
"What's wrong?" asked Yolei.
"Is Shogungeckomon asleep again?" laughed Matt.
"Worse," said the Geckomon.
"What is it?" asked Kari, shoving through Kami to stand next to TK.
"Well, you guys remember the black gears and black rings and black spirals, right?" he asked.
"How could we forget," said Joe.
"Well, we found something kind of like that on Shogungeckomon, only it doesn't seem to be controlling him. It's just there," he said.
"Well, then that's a good thing!" said Tai.
"Not necessarily," said Izzy, "at least when all the black devices were on Digimon, we knew what they were there for. Now we have no clue."
"Riiiiiiiiiiight," said Tai, pretending to understand.
"Can you guys help us?" asked the Geckomon.
"Sure! Why not?" said Kami.
"That's real sweet, Kami, but you know nothing about the Digiworld," said Kari.
"I know what TK told me," she said.
"That was a five minute walk!" she said.
"Well, I know a little bit," she replied.
"ONLY A LITTLR BIT!!!!!!" said Kari, exasperated.
"O-o-kay. Maybe I don't know that much about the Digital World, but you don't have to get up in my face and scream like that!" spat Kami.
"Kami, it's okay," said Keika, holding back Kari from trying to get at Kami. "I went through the same thing with Sora my first time here. My bet is she's jealous. TK obviously at least kinda likes you, and she doesn't like that." TK blushed and laughed nervously, twiddling his thumbs with a red face when Kari glared at him, then back at Kami.
"And Kari," started Keika, "you've gotta put your differences aside. So what, Kami doesn't know that much about the Digital World. 72 hours ago, neither did I. You've got to teach her. So don't complain until you do something about it."
"Okay," mumbled Kari.
"Everything okay with you guys? We haven't heard much from you lately," said Tai, talking to the Digimon, who were all fast asleep at their Digidestined's feet!
"Guess that answers your question!" laughed Matt.
"Well, you guys better go ahead and come on in. It's almost like we're never safe from them," said the Geckomon.
"Them being." trailed off Kami.
"The Dark Uprising," said the Geckomon.
"Let's just get inside. It's getting dark anyway!" said Yolei. And with that, all 28 of them went inside with their escort. He led them into a large common room, with a few hallways branching off this way and that. The doors on the halls were numerous and painted all different colors. The colors were blue, purple, silver, green, pink, yellow, red, and gray. The purple, silver, pink, and red were on one hall, and the blue, green, yellow and gray on another. In between the purple, silver, pink, and red doors were plain wooden doors, with the crests of sincerity and love emblazoned on them. Between the blue, green, yellow, and gray doors were plain wooden doors with the crests of courage, friendship, knowledge, and reliability on them. Seeing a common pattern? The Geckomon sat them down in the middle of the room, and even though it was August in the real world, in this part of the Digiworld, it was November, so there were various fireplaces lit throughout the structure. The whole room was painted in a swirl of orange and white, like an orange CremeSaver. There were windows here and there, with velvet drapes of scarlet. Wood wasn't painted over, but stained to a rich mahogany. (SIDE NOTE - In case you haven't noticed, I'm in a descriptive mood today! Just wanted to share that with ya!)
"You all can just sit down in here," said a Geckomon, referring to the large common room.
"Finally! Rest!" cried an exasperated Davis.
"What are you complaining for? You've had people carry you across the Digital World!" said Keika.
"Oh, yeah! I did, didn't I!" he said, being forgetful as usual.
"I like ya anyways!" Keika said in a southern belle voice. (Hard to imagine, huh? Voices are one of Keika's specialties!) The group laughed at Keika's voice.
"Well, if we stay here for the might, then where do we sleep?" asked Ken.
Then, the Geckomon explained to them how the doors, if you were dense enough to not catch it before, were color-coded for the more recent Digidestined's Digivices. For the older ones, the crest was branded on their doors.
"Why put the boys and girls in separate halls, though?" asked TK.
"Yeah, don't you think we're mature enough to handle it?" asked Davis.
"Some of you are, and others are not, Davis," he replied. The group laughed.
"At least you tried!" Matt told TK and Davis as he patted them on the back.
"Well, since our Digimon are all tired out, I think all of us should get to bed," said Kami.
"Good idea!" agreed TK, much to Kari's dismay. The Digidestined all seemed to grunt in unison as they attempted to pick up their Digimon. They retreated to their rooms, all except Keika, who told the others she was going to stay up and watch over Davis.
"My guardian angel," he said.
"Don't get too carried away with flattery," she said. "I'm only doing this because Joe looked tired."
"Admit it!" he said in almost an accusing tone. "You love me!"
"Don't you think that's taking things a little fast?" she asked as she sat on the corner of his bed.
"For some people, yes. But we got together about an hour after we met! You forget that!" he said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." she trailed off.
All of a sudden, Davis sat up in bed bringing his face just inches from Keika's.
"You're crazy for me! Simply wild about me!" he said again, in the same agitating voice.
"Do you honestly want me to wake up Joe and have him and his whiney self taking care of you all night?" asked Keika. Davis stuck out his bottom lip and it began to quiver. Obviously it was a joke.
"Pwease don't weave me hewe aww awone! PWEEEEEEEESE!" he whined. Keika laughed and said.
"Okay, okay! Just don't stick out you bottom lip like that! With all the little burns on your face you like a kid in a third-world country!" she laughed.
"Please, make a donation to 'The 'WorldWide Davis Distribution.' You're help is needed by Davises everywhere!" he said. Keika laughed and fed him some chicken-noodle soup brought in by a Geckomon.
"I wonder if this is real chicken." he said.
"Where they get a real chicken in the Digital World?" asked Keika.
*****KAMI'S ROOM*****
"Well, what do I do now?" Kami thought aloud. "I'll go drop in on Yolei I guess."
As she opened the door, she found TK outside with his hand raised like he was about to knock. When he saw her there, he blushed and laughed nervously.
"Uh, h-hi! Hi Kami! Are-are you doing, uh, okay?" he stammered.
"Yeah, um, fine!" she said.
"Uh, okay. Just thought I'd check on a few people. Um, thanks for your, uh, cooperation!" he said, walking backwards and ramming into the wall opposite Kami's door. Consequently, it was Kari's door, opened when she heard TK talking. Kari made a noise that sounded like an angry sigh, and stormed off to find the bathroom.
*****DAVIS AND KEIKA*****
"Ya know," said Keika, "the versatility of the human body never ceases to amaze! You just got clobbered by a flow of digital lava a few hours ago, and you're here now.with me."
"You know," he said with a smile, "and I know, though, hey, that rhymes, that I'm gonna be fine."
"Serenade me again," she said grinning from ear to ear. His smile turned to a frown.
"I told you I don't do serenades!" he said.
"But you did before!"
"Hey! Don't' take advantage of my near-death experience! That was a one- time thing!"
"Okay. I won't make you then!" she said, angry. She got up out of the room and slammed the door. He dropped his head back on to the pillow and sighed, when Keika came running back in the door.
"I can't stay mad at you!" she said. She sat on the side of his bed, leaned over, and kissed him. TK walked in. Davis and Keika looked at him, and separated quickly. He sat down in-between them and looked at Keika.
"Help me!" he said, and then put his head on her shoulder.
"Okay," said Keika, looking at Davis for help, "what about?"
"It's, well, um," he said. His mind wandered for a minute, then he said
"Okay, Davis! You know some about girls, right?"
"Uh, I think I find that I know less and less every day," he answered, still stunned by Keika's sudden and unprovoked kiss.
"Well, there's this girl that I like. I don't know if she likes me, but I think that she might. Then there's this other girl. I know she likes me. I don't really like her as more than a friend, but I think if I told her that it would crush her. What do I do?"
"Names!" said Keika.
"Yeah, man! Give us names!" said Davis.
"I can't! This is an anonymous service, right?" he cried.
"Shhhhhhh! Do you want girl #1 to know? Elaborate please," said Keika.
"I barley met the first one. She's sweet and fun and funny and all that. I've known girl #2 for almost my whole life. She's a little ditzy, but she's nice. She's my brother's best friend's sister! What do I do!"
"I say risk it with #1!" said Davis.
"I totally agree. If you're going to say yes to a girl out of pity, then you might as well shoot her down from the beginning!" explained Keika.
"Thanks guys! I really appreciated that! And, um, sorry for 'walking in' on you guys. I'll leave you alone now," he said as he walked out the door.
"It was Kami," they said in unison.
"Now, you serenade me!" said Davis.
"What do you want to hear?" she asked.
"How about, whatever you want to sing!" he said.
"I don't want another heartbreak
I don't need another turn to cry
I don't wanna learn the hard way
Baby, hello, oh no, goodbye!
But ya got me like a rocket
Shooting straight across the sky!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah impossible
This kiss this kiss!
Unstoppable
This kiss this kiss!
Cinderella said to Snow White
How does love get so off course?
All I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse!
Ride me off into the sunset
Baby, I'm forever yours!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah unthinkable!
This kiss this kiss
Unsinkable
This kiss this kiss!
You can kiss me in the moonlight
On the rooftop under the sky!
You can kiss me with the windows open
While the rain comes pouring' inside!
Kiss me in sweet slow motion
Let's let everything slide!
You got me floating!
You got me flying!
It's the way you love me!
It's a feeling like this!
It's centrifugal motion!
It's perpetual bliss!
It's that pivotal moment!
It's ah subliminal!
This kiss this kiss
It's criminal!
This kiss this kiss!" she sang. Davis sat there in awe.
Man! She didn't sing this good on "I Wanna Dance in the River, Yeah'!
She just grinned and kinda blushed.
"Well, um, gosh, I,"
"It was awful, wasn't it?" she asked,
"Oh, schnikes, no! That was, whoa! That was whoa!"
"Thanks! That's the first time I've ever gotten a compliment on my voice!" she said.
"Has no one ever heard you before?" he asked.
"Well, not really," she said.
"I'm gonna call each of the others and get them to listen to your voice, okay?" he asked.
"Well, it's kinda late. I need to get back to my room and get some sleep. I dread what the others would think if I was here and stayed all night!" she said.
"Let 'em think what they want to! I'll call a Geckomon and get them to bring over your pj's," he said as he dialed the phone. In a few minutes, the Geckomon brought in a purple tank top with a glittery lightning bolt on it, and a purple pair of boxer shorts with stars all over them. She changed in the bathroom, came back in and lay down on the bed. She had her arm across his chest and he pretty much just lay there. Keika had the exact same dream about Davis getting hurt and no one could help him, but this time she knew how to. It also ended with them falling asleep in each other's arms!
