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A tale of four Children

Chapter 5: Windy night

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"Look! We're almost there!"

Daisuke said pointing to the blue ocean in front of them.

"I can't wait! This desert is so boring! And I really feel bad! It's so hot in there!"

Some wind blew up her hair, giving her a comforting sensation. The wind didn't stop after this light pleasure and kept on blewing, some more each second. Hikari felt herself strange. Strange about that wind.

"Daisuke... stop a second..."

He turned around.

"What's going on?"

"You feel... this wind... I have a weird sensation about it..."

Her purple haired friend closed his eyes to have a better concentration.

"Yeah, I feel something too. But it is very light... I don't know what it means..."

"I think we'll know soon..."

"Huh?"

The wind circled Hikari and leapt her into the air.

"What-"

Before she could ask the question, a blast coming from the sky hit the sand where she was standing before the wind took her. She looked at the skies and saw a flying digimon coming near them.

"Daisuke! Gatomon! Veemon! A digimon is coming to us, and it doesn't look happy!"

Her feet touched the floor, and the wind let go of her.

"Hum, thanks..."

Veemon and Daisuke was already ready to fight, but the invisible strenght pushed them on their left. A fraction of second after, the digimon sent a blast where they were just. It happened so quickly they didn't understand what was going on.

"It's an Airdramon! He's for me!" shouted Veemon.

"You can digivolve?"

"I just have to try!"

The wind pushed Hikari before the Airdramon fired another extremly quick blast at her. Veemon jumped into the air.

"Veemon digivolve to... Flamedramon!"

Red light spreading all over the desert, a flame circled Veemon and he get out much taller than before. Flamedramon landed on the Airdramon's back.

"Come on, Flamedramon! You can do it!" Daisuke shouted. While he was supporting his partner, and while the two digimon were fighting, Hikari and Gatomon were watching and wondering. Wondering about that wind... It was always pushing them out of the way before the Airdramon even prepared his blast. It was like... seeing the future? But the wind couldn't think! The wind couldn't be! The wind was just... some wind!

The Airdramon flew away, and Veemon landed at Daisuke's feet.

"Great, it was fabulous to watch!"

"Thanks Dai."

"Daisuke, Veemon! The wind that helped us getting out of this digimon's blasts, I think it's alive! Its like it is foreseeing the future!"

Daisuke was thoughtful.

"Let's just ask it! Hey, wind, thanks to protect us. But, hum, who are you?"

It sounded silly to talk to nothing. But the wind answered. It blowed a little more and took a kind of a shape in front of them. It became netter. It looked like a human. A human with long hair. But the image faded away and the wind stopped blowing. It was gone. Then something hit Daisuke's head. He snapped his fingers.

"What was that?"

"I think I know. You remember, I told you about that mirror I found behind a waterfall. And what I saw was a grave with something white escaping it. It could be that! The wind is a wandering spirit!"

"The wandering spirit of who?"

"Let's discover it!"

They started to walk again, and soon they entered a small village. They were near the sea, like on his vision in the mirror. Some people were lazily walking by the sandy street, and Daisuke had a bad feeling. Hikari too. They stopped a woman.

"Hi, we're strangers, and we'd like to know where the cimetery is. Can you help us?"

"Sure. Go straight ahead, it's a the end of the village."

"Thanks a lot."

They walked to the cimetery, and Daisuke saw exactly was he had seen in the mirror. There were peope here, looking sad, around a new grave. They got closer. This time, Daisuke didn't saw anything white. But when he was close enough, his stomach started to ache violently. Behind him, Hikari fell, holding her belly.

"It... hurts..." she said, fighting back tears.

"Come on.. we have to see the name of the dead person..."

He helped her on her feet and, supported by their digimon, they approached the grave. The pain grew.

"Inoue Miyako...." whispered Daisuke. Hikari allowed her tears to fall. She felt like her stomach was cut in two. They backed away.

"I know why we feel so much pain. It's because..." he hesitated. But Hikari had to know the truth.

"It's because she was one of us."

"She what?"

"Don't panick now. I'm sure we can do something about it."

Hikari cried harder.

"You mean, Miyako was the sorceress of wind? And she's dead? No, no, no, she can't! We need her!"

"Shhh, she's not dead. We saw her spirit wandering in the desert! She's still here! She's waiting for us to do something!"

"And what are we supposed to do? We can't give life back to a dead girl!"

"I know. But there is something we can do about it. I'm sure. We'll look in my book."

"How can you be so confident?"

"You're admiring me?"

She slapped him on the head.

"We don't have time to bother about it! Let's save Miyako!"

They departed from the village, unaware two eyes were watching them...

A few minutes later, they were sitting at a beach, far enough from the cimetery to stop hurting. Gatomon and Veemon were worrying for their friends and were always at their side, but this time they couldn't help them much, just support them.

"Here's a spell to call a spirit!"

"In who's page?"

Daisuke looked at the end of the spell.

"Blue. Water."

"So I can cast it!"

"It won't be enough. We have to find something for communication with a spirit."

"Yeah."

They continued to read the book, until Hikari looked up.

"Hmm?"

"Something is coming!"

"You're more sensitive than me at this game!"

"Here!" she claimed, pointing to the top of one of the high rocks that surrounded them.

They hear a shriek and a bird-like dark form flew quickly towards them. Its claws sharply hit Hikari's cheek, under her eye, and blood dropped slightly.

"It was a digimon?"

"I think so..." Daisuke was already removing his gloves and burning his fingers, Veemon was by his side, and Gatomon was ready to digivolve, since the sea wasn't far.

"You're ok?"

"Fine. It's nothing." she answered, touching her wound.

"Who's powerful over wind?"

"Earth."

"Damn!"

"And wind is powerful over me! It's up to you!"

"No problem!"

As the shrieking bird was coming back, as fast as the first time, Davis launched it a fire ball and it hit him right in the face. The digimon fell on the sand, and the four other rushed near him.

"You were right, it's a digimon!"

It was a red and white digimon that looked like a big chicken, with a belt around his head. His head was burned. He groaned soflty.

"Hey guy, why did you attack us? We weren't doing anything bad!"

"You were going to disturb my friend's sleep..."

"Your friend's sleep?"

Daisuke wasn't really understanding, but Hikari got the idea.

"Your friend is Miyako, right? You're her digimon partner!"

She smiled triomphantly at the others, and at the digimon. She helped him on his feet.

"You have cute blue eyes, you know?"

The digimon grinned at her.

"I'm a female digimon, you know."

"Oh. So tell us who you are?"

"I'm Hawkmon. I'm the sorceress of Wind's protector. And when I found her, she was sick, very sick. Her family told me she was never going to make it. She used all her powers to try to heal herself but this was no use. She hadn't the healing powers."

"No, it's me..." Hikari said sadly. "I could have arrived sooner, and she wouldn't be dead by now!"

"No, it's not your fault. This is fate. And she told me she was going to die, anyway."

"How did she know?"

"She can foresee the fututre. Sometimes, she has flashes and she sees glimpses of the future. When she concentrates she can have one when she wants."

"It's wonderful!"

"So that explained how she helped us in the desert, against that Airdramon..."

Hawkmon's eyes widened.

"She told me that two days after her death you were going to fight an Airdramon and it would be so fast you would be... badly injured..."

"She helped us by pushing us out of the way!"

Hawkmon's eyes became watery.

"That's my Miyako. So helpful, so kind..."

"So why did you want to attack us?"

"Because I don't want you to perturb her sleep!"

"But we only want to bring her back to life!"

"You can't!"

"We have to!"

"I know... but you have to talk to her first!"

"That's what we were planning to do..."

"So it's okay. I'll watch you talk to her, but nothing more, ok?"

It was already dark and the five chosen were sitting around a fire, Hikari up and ready to cast her spell.

"We are calling a lost soul who wanders in our world. We are calling a lost power to come back to our reality. We are calling a lost voice to speak up here with us." With her watery hand, she put off the fire. Her hair moved. She was coming.

The wind blew more and more on the dark beach and soon they heard a tender voice speaking.

"I always knew you were going to make it!"

"Miyako!" cried Hawkmon, overjoyed.

"Hawkmon! You're there too! I'm glad you're safe and with our friends."

"Our friends? You know us?" Daisuke asked.

"Of course! I've always seen you in my dreams. The funny red haired, the sensitive blue girl, and the... You hadn't found him yet?"

"Who? The fourth children?" (a/n: no, it's not Toji! loool)

"The blue-haired pale boy!"

"No... not yet. But we're here for you, Miyako. We believe there is a way to give you back your body."

"Oh yeah? Tell me!"

"No no! There's no way!" shouted Hawkmon. Silence followed.

"There's a way, but you don't want to tell us." said Hikari. "I wonder why. You can save your friend, your partner!"

Hawkmon sighed.

"Okay, there's a way. But, Miyako, you'll have to suffer like you've never suffered in your life."

"Explain."

"When you'll come back in your body, you'll feel like hundreds of knives are ripping your flesh away. It will be brief, but extremely painful."

"Can't I help her? Can't I make her escape all this pain? It's partially my fault if she's dead."

"What are you saying, Hikari, it's not your fault. It's only fate. And I'm ready to go throught this pain to live again."

"You're sure?"

"I'm sure. I'm so sad here, so dead... I can't stand to watch you live. I want to live!"

Hawkmon sighed.

"Okay. I'll tell you how to..."

"Thanks Hawkmon!"

"I owe you life, my dear friend. Now I got to go. See you soon! And with my real body!"

The wind stopped blowing. She was gone.

Two hours later, under a full moon, Daisuke, Veemon, Gatomon, Hikari and Hawkmon were at the cimetery, around Miyako's body. They had to dig her up, althought they weren't pleased to violate a cimetery. Hikari healed her illness before calling her to her body. And then, Hawkmon chanted a spell and made some strange moves, tears in her eyes, until the wind blew again and entered fully in the dead girl's body. There was a moment of complete silence and fear, but suddenly Miyako came back to life, but with a loud scream.

Hikari was torn apart by this scream and her mind told her: 'don't stay here and be a good-for-nothing! Heal her! Try to do something!'

As Miyako was jerking her head up in pain, still shrieking horribly, her eyes wide open and tears flowing free on her face, Hikari, only listenning to her heart, came closer to Miyako, wrapped her arms around her and held her tightly, allowing all her energy to flow to a body from another. The two girls grew blue and calm, and Hikari smiled as Miyako seemed to stop hurting. She let go of her and fell inconscious on the floor, still smiling.

"Oh my god, Hikari!" Gatomon shouted. She hurried by her side, checked her pulse, and sighed in relief.

"She's alive."

"She gave you all her energy for you not to hurt." said Daisuke while looking at Miyako.

The girl still had a shocked look on her face. She still didn't really understand what was going on here.

"I think I need a little time..." she whispered, falling asleep on her back.

"Girls..." sighed Daisuke.

Hawkmon was looking at her partner with a relieved look. Finally, she was there, and she wouldn't leave her again, no, she wouldn't...

The next day, the two girls were recovering from their night at Miyako's house. Her parents were so happy she was alive they let the three digimon and their partners sleep in their little house. It was around midday and Hikari was waking up. Gatomon was watching over her.

"Kari, are you all right?"

"Yeah, I feel well!" she exclaimed, sitting up. Gatomon clamb on her lap. "Where's Daisuke? And Miyako?"

"Daisuke is out with Veemon. Miyako is up for a few minutes."

Hikari yawned.

"Well, I guess I'd better get up now!"

She was almost standing on her legs when Daisuke rushed in,followed by Miyako. The girl had long lavender hair and sparking brown eyes. She wore a white top that shoved her shoulders and a purple dress.

"Hikari! I- oh, you're awake!"

It was very quick, but Hikari managed to see a worried look from Daisuke turn into a happy and relieved one.

"Yes?" she asked in her sweet voice.

"We're leaving!"

"Already?"

"Yep. With Miyako. She all explained to her family. A ship is waiting for us at the port, two miles away from here. We have to go!"

"Okay. Come on, Gatomon!"

The cat digimon jumped on her shoulder and they followed Daisuke outside, ready for a new adventure.

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Next chapter will be angsty, dark, etc.... and in two parts! see ya!