For They Shall Be Filled
By:
Vain (Vainglorious696)
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Vain: Hi. In case you care, the Kaiser is going to be fine. Although Essex has been muttering stuff
about cloning and replicating DNA . . .
Remy:
Didn't you have somet'in ta say, chere?
Vain:
Oh, yeah! I need to know which couple I
should you if any. ATTN READERS: Do you
guys want to see Kensuke, Kenkeru, or no love interest? Please tell me in
R&R. I'll take the majority vote.
Sorry, but there will be no Kenlei. I really meant to
cover that earlier, but I was being distracted by my loveable muses.
Osamu:
Yeah, they're real assess.
Vain:
Hey, you're not my muse! What are you doing here?!
Ken:
Hey, Sam. I hope you weren't talking
about Wormmon and I, though.
Vain:
Who's muse are you?! How did you get
here?
Sam:
Never, otto-chan. I adore you.
Vain:
WHO'S ARE YOU???
Sam:
Is she always like this?
Ken:
Yes.
Vain:
Hey, I'm talking here!
Sam:
You poor things.
Ken:
You get used to it.
Osamu:
Don't worry, Vain, Athena will never miss me.
Vain:
Athena? As in the
Athena? Oh, God . . . THUMP
Sam:
Oh my God! Is she dead?
Ken:
Don't worry we've had this trouble before. I just have to go get Remy and Sinister.
Sam:
Who?
Ken:
It's a comic thing. Don't ask.
Vain:
Remy is that you?
Remy:
Oui. Is it my stunning grace that awoke
you?
Vain:
No, you're breathing on me and had Gumbo for lunch.
Remy:
You are so kind, chere . . .
Vain:
Well, you did, and you don't need to be a bitch about it.
Remy: . . . "Bitch?"
Vain:
Um . . . Rems? Beloved? My first muse and dearest inspiration . . .
why is your face twitching like that? Remy? Remy? Put down the bo staff, sweet. Aaahhh! Wormmon, Help Me!
Wormmon:
(uses his digimon attack) Spinning Thread!
Vain:
Um . . . Wormmon, please let me down.
Remy:
I t'ink ya look good in spider webbing, chere.
Vain:
This isn't funny guys!
Remy:
'Specially stuck ta de ceiling like that!
Vain:
You just wait, Cajun! My fun with you
has only begun!
Ken:
Shouldn't you let her down?
Kaiser:
Shut up, Ken.
Vain:
And you had better wipe that damn smirk off your face, Kaiser!
Kaiser:
Ooh! I'm scared now!
Osamu:
You certainly lead an exciting life, Ken.
Wormmon:
Don't worry, Ken-chan. The web will
dissolve in a few hours. . . . I
think.
Vain:
How can I write like this?!
Sinister:
Dictate.
Vain:
When I get down from here, I swear I'm gonna torture you all!
Remy:
An de difference would be?
Vain:
I hate you.
Remy:
No, ya don'.
Vain:
Yes, I DO.
Remy:
Don'.
Vain:
DO!!
Ken:
*sigh* Here's Part 12. Please R&R
Remy:
Don'.
Ken: . . .
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~And whoever falls on this stone will be broken,
but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.
-Matthew 21: 44
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The Betamon
Village was one of the more recently reconstructed areas of the Digital World
and as Gennai walked through he could still smell the paint drying. The digimon moved and bustled along,
oblivious to the newness of their surroundings and the Guardian's servant idly
wondered how many of them had been reformatted after the fall of the
self-styled Digimon Emperor. He wondered
if the Digidestined had constructed the buildings according to the previous
plan. He wondered if he could really go
through with this.
Gennai knew that
the Digidestined were "expendable." They were easily replaced. His
job, however, as their guardian, as the guardian of the dimensions, was not to
be taken so lightly. The Guardians
could care less for the Chosen Children; it was only the Tag Tamers and the
Travelers who concerned them. So what
was so special about these Japanese kids, then?
They had been
chosen over all other Digidestined—American, African, Philippine, English,
Argentine—to determine the fate of both worlds not once, but now three
times. Ken, TK, and Kari were special
cases. They were all powerful allies
and potential threats to the Guardians' cause, but why were the others
necessary? Tai, Izzy, Matt, Davis,
Cody: all of them were being called upon in some form or another to champion
the cause. The so-called new
Digidestined were required to receive the Blessing. The original children acted as their reference source and would
also be called upon when the time was right. Yet no other Children were called upon to serve as they were. Curious. Perhaps his superiors were becoming fond of their "pets." Or perhaps they were all merely a means to
end that they could neither see nor comprehend.
"Hmph." Gennai snorted without amusement. All this time, and he still cared for
questions with no answers. There were,
of course, answers, but it was highly doubtful that he would ever be privy to
them. He just wished that it didn't
make his job so damn hard . . . And today he was going to have to do probably
the hardest thing he'd ever done.
If the Chosen
passed, they would be safe and everything would be well again. That was what Gennai wanted more than anything
else in any world. He wanted his young
charges to be safe, if only for an instant. But if even one of them failed, there was a risk that everything they
had worked so hard for would come crashing down on top of them. The load was heavy enough to crush
everything. Gennai wanted them to
succeed. He wanted them all to live
happily ever after. But Gennai also had
the sinking feeling that he wouldn't get what he wanted—he didn't really
deserve that much from life.
Human voices
floated through the air and past him and Gennai followed the sound to see the
Digidestined gathered at a table in front of what appeared to be a café. So the Guardians were right. They were meeting here . . . With a twinge
of guilt, the traveler hid himself in enclave of a small red house where he
could still see and hear the Digidestined without being discovered. The children sat in the shade of a canopy
spread outside of a café run by Digi Tomamon. They were gathered around a circular table and apparently waiting for someone. He heard Yolei say the word "Ken" and saw
Kari grow agitated. The servant of the
Guardians frowned and leaned forward. What is this?
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Takeru TK Takaishi
watched Kari with worry. The
brown-haired girl had dark circles forming beneath her eyes and she appeared
paler than normal. When Kari had called
this meeting, TK had been curious, but when he heard that Ken was to be
involved his worry had turned to anxiety. There was something odd about the Ichijouji boy that TK couldn't figure
out, something that drew him to the scary young man.
"So where is Ken
at, anyway?" demanded Yolei in typical Yolei fashion. "Is he even coming?"
"I don't
know." Kari made an odd fluttering
motion with her hands. "He'll come,
though. He's got to come."
"How do you know?"
TK asked with a small frown. "I'm not
so sure Ken will come. I mean, if I got
attacked every time met with someone I'd stop coming. Why should he show?"
"He'll come," said
Kari with an insistent shake of her head.
"Yeah, so lay off,
TP!" snapped Davis protectively.
TK scowled at the
ground and contracted his brows darkly. For some reason, Davis's overprotective
instincts towards Ken were even more irritating than his overprotective
instincts towards Kari. Of course,
Davis was just irritating in general. Still, TK wondered if he would be able to tolerate the shorter boy for
much longer, especially if—no, when—Ken decided to join them.
The blond
stood. "I'm going for a walk."
Kari stopped her
fluttering and looked up sharply. "Whe--"
"Don't
worry." He made a small dismissive
gesture with his hand and offered her a forced half smile. "I just need to stretch my legs. I'll even keep a look out for Ken."
Kari frowned for a
brief instant and then smiled again. "Do
you want company?"
"No; I'm
fine. Besides, I've got Patamon."
"Okay . . . But be
careful."
"Don't worry,"
chirped Patamon as he flew after his partner. "We'll be fine."
Davis watched the
two figures as they vanished into the village. "What got into TJ?"
"Can't you be
serious for five minutes, Davis?" Cody
asked looking irritated.
"What'd I do?!"
"Don't
whine." Yolei adjusted her
glasses. "Besides, am I the only person
who is dying to know what's going on here?"
"Yeah, Kari,"
Davis asked, "What's up?"
"We have to wait
for Ken."
"But I wanna know
now!"
Yolei flipped her
hair out f her face. "Oh, chill out,
Davis."
"Like you should
be talking—"
"Hey, look!"
interrupted Cody. "Who's that?"
The others all turned
to see a tall young human wearing a white cloak and hood fringed with
brown. He walked towards them
confidently, the edges of his cloak flared out around him. The Digidestined stood and stared openly.
Yolei was the
first to find her voice. "What's
another human doing in the Digital World? Is he one of us?"
"Actually,"
replied the mysterious young man, "I don't think that I would exactly qualify
as a human . . . and I'm definitely no Digidestined."
Kari's eyes
narrowed and then widened in recognition. "Gennai?"
"Right again,
Kari!" The man flipped off his hood to
reveal a shock of soft brown hair and a pair of laughing blue eyes set in a
pleasant weathered face. A queue of
hair fell down his back and beneath his robes he wore a black turtleneck. "Hello, children."
Yolei looked from
Kari's grin to Gennai's eyes and blinked in confusion. "Um . . . pardon me for being rude but . . .
who are you?"
Kari slipped up
from the table and went to embrace the new arrival. "This," she explained, "is Gennai. He's an old friend." She
stopped a moment and stared at the older man with narrowed eyes. "Of course, I remember him being a much
older friend back in those days."
Gennai
laughed. "Yes, it's simply amazing what
those new exfoliates can do for the skin."
"Oh, I know you!"
said Davis with the air of one who had just stumbled onto something
spectacular. "Tai told me about
you! You're the little guy with all the
funky riddles, aren't you?"
"Well, that's not
exactly an accurate description, but I guess it'll have to do."
"Yes," said Cody
with a nod. "Izzy told me about you,
too."
Yolei frowned and
then stomped her foot, clenched her fists, and looked up at the sky. "Am I the only one here who doesn't spend
all my time with the older kids?!"
Cody regarded his
friend impassively for a moment. "Chill
out, Yolei."
"Actually,"
responded Gennai, "It's just as well that the you're all so close, because I've
come to give you all a task and you'll probably be needing some of their
experience."
"What do you
mean?" asked Kari.
"We should wait
for Ken and TK before we start. Do you
know where they are?"
"Ken should be on
his way and TK went for a walk."
Cody looked at
Gennai thoughtfully, briefly reminding the traveler of Izzy. His smooth green eyes absorbed the older man
dispassionately. "Are you saying that
this 'task' will involve Ken, too?" The
boy did not look thrilled by the prospect.
Gennai nodded a
bit sadly. "Yes, especially Ken."
Kari stiffened and
felt suddenly cold. "What do you mean?"
"I . . ." he
paused, hesitating. ". . . You are all
in very grave danger."
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ATTN READERS: Do
you guys want to see Kensuke, Kenkeru, or no love interest? Please tell me in a
review. I'll take the majority vote. Sorry, but there will be no Kenlei.
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