Disclaimer: no, I don't own digimon... I wish I had...
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A tale of four Children
Chapter 2- A sight from the future
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Daisuke and Demiveemon were traveling in the forest for two days when they met a strange house in the middle of the woods.
"How can somebody live here?"
"Maybe there is nobody in there!"
"We're out of food! It would be nice if the crazy one that lives in there could give us a little something!"
They approached the house and knocked at the door. Nobody answered but the door opened up. They two looked at eachother, and entered the house.
"Hey, somebody here?"
Still no answer. The house was in a total mess, and completly broken down. There were holes in the floor, and some little candles that weren't able to burn anymore. It was getting scary.
"Do you think a ghost lives here?"
"It's probable. We should go and see."
Daisuke nodded. Removing one of his gloves, he lit up his fingertips to have a better view of the inside. Then something cracked.
"Here!" called Demiveemon. Daisuke catched up with his friend and saw what he had just seen. There was man in one room. He was wearing some strange clothing and was in a meditating state. His face couldn't be seen.
"Hello?" Daisuke shyly hissed.
No answer.
"Hello?" he asked louder.
This time the man moved his head a little.
"No need to shout out that loud. I can hear."
His voice was deep and a little raspy.
"Sorry man, but you didn't seem to hear."
"What are you doing here and what do you want?"
"Well, we were passing by and we saw this house. We need... food."
It sounded... silly.
The man finally looked up.
"You bother my meditation for -" his shout stopped and his eyes went wide when he saw Daisuke and Demiveemon. They looked at eachother, then at the man.
"What?"
"You're the Child of Fire!"
Daisuke sweatdrop.
"Well, what a celebrity... Everybody seems to know me!"
"You're quite popular in my surroundings."
"Why?"
"Because you're the one who will bring earth, water, fire and wind together!"
"I don't even know why..."
"Me neither. But it doesn't matter. I have something for you."
"Really?"
"Yeah. But you'll have to deserve it."
"That means I'm going to have to do something?"
"Yeah. There is a river nearby, with a waterfall. Find it. There is a hole under the waterfall. Go there, and come back. You'll tell me what you have seen."
"That's all?"
"Yes."
"Can I bring Demiveemon with me?"
"No."
"Ok. See you!"
Careful not to fall in one of the holes, Daisuke came out of the wreck house and stopped at the entrance. He closed his eyes and listened carefully to the world around him. He heard birds chirping, wind in the leaves, some water falling, his stomach groaning- stop! Some water falling? Smiling at himself, he headed towards the sound of water.
He joined a nice and calm river, and followed its clear water until a very abrupt cliff. The water was falling with a lot of noise and meters and meters later it regained its calm appearance. Daisuke looked around, and found nothing to help him going down. He was hardly thinking about how he could descend the water fall when he spotted a big tree floating on the river, ready to fall. It was dangerous, but it appeared to be the only way to get down; so Daisuke quickly jumped on a branch and took a deep breath before sliding with the water down the cliff. He tightened his grip on the tree and tried not to scream when he began falling...
Keeping his calm like he could on his way down, he searched for the cave the man told him about. He was almost flying with high speed, but somewhere he felt he had to go throught the water, and he did, hoping his instinct wouldn't fail him. Closing his eyes, he felt the water washing over him, then he met void. No rock. Before he could open his eyes, he landed hard on a solid ground.
Soaking wet, and a little bruised from his fall, Daisuke slowly got up.
"I hope there is something interesting here..."
He looked around. It was just a cave. A big one. He walked deeper. Rocks, rocks and rocks.
"There's nothing here!"
His voice echoed throught the rocks. Filled with anger.
"Well, I'm going to get out of here and show this man what the Child of Fire can do!"
Fuming with anger, Daisuke tried to figure out how he could get out of here. There was two solutions: one- to have wings, two- to jump and fall in the river.
"Well, I guess I have no choice..."
Sighing, and mumbling, he took a step back, and run in the water. He passed throught it without problem and started to fall again, and landed a few seconds later with a big splash. Luckily for him, he knew how to swim, and managed to swim to one the sides of the river. Catching his breath, he slowly got up, swearing to do something bad to this man - he didn't even know his name.
He climbed the cliff, scratching his hands and legs a lot, and finally made it up to the top. He walked to the house he was coming from, removing his gloves, almost burning. It was like a flame entenred the dark house.
"I see you're back."
"You won't see for long, you bastard! How could you made me do something like that, there was nothing to watch in that darn cave!"
"Do you have eyes?"
This question stopped Daisuke. He had sent him to a one-way trip, and now he dared asking him if he had eyes? His whole body was now flaming. His clothes were special and were protected from this... reaction, so they didn't burn with him.
"I'll ask you a last question before hurting you. What's your name?"
"Iori. Iori Hida. And now, can I tell you a last thing before you finish me off?"
"Go ahead."
"If you kill me, you won't even know why I made you do this."
Daisuke calmed down a bit and stopped glowing. Iori was right.
The meditating man hadn't quit his meditating position since the entire beginning. Then something hit Daisuke's head.
"Where is Demiveemon?"
"He left to get us something to eat. Don't worry, he'll be back before night."
The soft tone Iori now used calmed him completly. He sat down, next to him.
"So, why?"
"You see, I am a medium. I can see things. And I saw that you were going to stumble here with your blue friend requesting for food. I also saw you had great powers. So I decided to ask you something."
"But there was nothing behind the waterfall!"
"That's true. But that was my home before I discover this house."
"You lived in there? But how could you climb up or down?"
"That was the problem. It was getting hurt... or getting hurt."
Daisuke grinned at him, showing scratches, cuts, bruises.
"But what have I done for you?"
Iori lifted his hand for the first time. He touched Daisuke's collar and found a little stone in it.
"You've brought me back some rocks. When you fell on the ground. I hoped water wouldn't clean you all."
"Just for some rocks?"
"Yeah."
"But I-"
"Watch."
Iori placed the little stone in front of him, and returned to his meditation. The little stone lifted up in the air. It stopped and started glowing. Iori glowed too, and the rock became a little bigger. And bigger. And bigger. With a quick gesture Iori lifted his head and his hood went off, reaveling his features. He was young, with dark green eyes and brown hair. He looked so serious Daisuke thought he had never laughed before. The rock took the shape of a ball, but it ended by broking in two. The two pieces fell on the floor, and so did Iori. He had left consciousness. The rocks tranformed into simple dust while Daisuke was waking the medium up.
"What was that?"
"What was what?"
"The rock, and all this stuff!"
"I don't remember... I surely had a premonition. About you. You have to remember what I've just done. It may help you."
"I'll remember."
"Guys! I'm back!"
Demiveemon entered the room, and all the fruits his little back was carrying fell on the floor when he saw Iori without his hood.
"Whoa. I like your eyes."
"Thanks."
"I brought you two food!"
"Good, I'm starving!" annonced Davis while picking up some fruits. "No problems in the forest?"
The digimon shook his head and started to eat, along with Daisuke and Iori.
"So now," Iori started while wiping his mouth, "now you should go to that cave again."
"What?"
"I said: "you should-""
"I heard! But why?"
"You'll see when you'll be there. But you don't have to come back here."
"You say that because you don't want to die, no?"
Iori almost smiled at this sentence.
"No. But you'll see."
"Okay, then. I guess I'll go."
He grabbed his bag and Demiveemon.
"Bye! And hide yourself if I come back!"
He slammed the door behind him, and Iori took back his initial place, meditating about this encounter with the Child of Fire. Yeah, such a child.
Once again Daisuke was standing over the cliff.
"You really jumped on a tree to get down?"
"I did. You see something else?"
"Well, I don't fly..."
"Me neither."
"So I guess we'll have to descend with the next train."
Waiting for some branch to arrive, they sat down on the ground. The blue and white digimon was busy trying to read Daisuke's big book cover when Daisuke stopped him.
"Time to gather your courage, boy..."
A big branch was floating on the water, near the waterfall. Davis grabbed Demiveemon and once again he climbed on the tree. When the fall started, Demiveemon seemed to enjoy it. But it was less enjoyable when they had to go throught the waterfall. Once again, Daisuke jumped at the right time and they were in the cave.
They got up, groaning, and this time there was something to see. There was a big mirror standing there, in the middle of the air. Nothing seemed to restrain it from falling, but it wasn't. Strange. Daisuke felt something special about this mirror. He stood in front of it, watching at his reflection. He removed his two gloves, and his fingers touched the smooth surface. Then the image changed: he wasn't seeing himself anymore. He was seeing a place. He wasn't sure at first, but the image came clearer and he recognized it: a cimetary. There was some people here, gathered around a new grave. They were so sad. There was some little girls and some olders boys, and they were crying. He heard the sea near them. The wind was blowing madly. The image came closer to the grave and Daisuke was about to read the name when something white escaped the grave. Then the mirror became mirror again, and he was now alone with Demiveemon and his reflection.
"Have you seen what I've seen?"
"What are you talking about? You were just admiring yourself in this mirror!"
"No, there was something in there!"
"What do you mean?"
"I saw... a cimetary. Somebody was buried down. It was near the sea, and there was a lot of wind. And... a white thing came off the grave!"
"You mean, a ghost?"
"Why not?"
"You sure you didn't dreamed or something? Had hallucinations?"
"Come on. You can trust me. I really saw this in-"
His answer was cut short when he noticed there was no mirror anymore.
"Where is it?"
"The mirror? There was a mirror here, right?"
"Yeah! I guess it just disappeared..."
"Something magic is behind all this!"
"I know! But I'm limited to fire!"
"Fine. Now, we should get out of here and keep going. We still have to go to Erania, no?"
"You're right, let's go!"
They both jumped out of the cave and landed in the water.
"If we follow this river, it will lead us somewhere, won't it?"
"Good idea."
They dragged themselves out of the cold water. Daisuke, with his burning abilities, dried them, and their journey continued.